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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1937
Page
10
A nostalgic tale recalls making gingerbread and cloth dolls with spare materials for children during Christmas. Mrs Hulda Carlson turns scraps into families of dolls, creating real joy and memory rather than profit, as customers value the love and shared traditions in the window display and in homes.
The American Manufacturers platform for 1938 calls repeal of unfair labor relations laws and burdensome taxes, urging government restraint on price, wage and hour regulation and focus on private initiative for jobs. It condemns child labor and sweatshops, advocates merit in employment and broader markets with fair tax policy and research to create new products and jobs.
Japanese forces broke through several gates of Nanking’s wall and moved toward full occupation. Chinese resistance held in suburbs and towns, but defense waned. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his wife reportedly escaped by airplane amid expectations of a fall.
William E. Dodd resigns as ambassador to Germany amid his disapproval of Nazi policies and German friction. Hugh R. Wilson, currently assistant secretary of state, expected to take the Berlin post. Semobert Wam of Louisville is ambassador to Britain.
United States Steel announces creation of United States Steel Corporation of Delaware to oversee several subsidiaries. The new firm will start January 1 with nominal capital, led by president Benjamin F. Fairless. Capital stock is held by United States Steel of New Jersey, with Pittsburgh as management HQ. Myron C. Taylor says it completes the corporation’s vast restructuring plan.
President Green of the AFL predicts real violence between rival labor bodies if no settlement is reached. He warns that the AFL will arm and strike back against the CIO raiding group. Meanwhile sixty members of the United Auto Workers are arrested at Ford Motor Co gates for distributing literature in a restricted area under Dearborn mayoral orders.
Three months after Andrew W. Mellon dies the United States Board of Tax Appeals unanimously clears him of income tax fraud. The board severs the fraud charges and, in a tight eight to seven decision, reduces the government’s claim on Mellon's 1931 income from 3,075,000 to about 750,000.
Dalhart Texas recounts how the XIT brand was born when Chicago investors built the Texas capitol. Barbecue Campbell chose a brand after Ab Blocker sketched it with a boot heel, shaping a symbol famed across the cattle region. Old-timers now meet yearly to swap tales of Barbecue Campbell and the era.
Captain Angus Walters of the Bluenose criticizes the new generation for preferring leisure to bank fishing. He cites automobiles radios and dance music drawing youths from the sea, threatening Nova Scotia’s fishing future with a shortage of willing young men.
Three University of Missouri coeds appeared on the Columbus campus wearing dog collars with brass studs name plates and locks prompting campus chatter about fashion and acceptable attire.
A collage of scenes on New York streets and venues. A quarter of beef dragged toward a basement nightclub. a big black cat near John D. Rockefeller Jr. residence. a limousine driver waiting on Fifth Avenue. newsboys playing cards. a restaurant with East Indian fare and 24 hour perfume. a crowd gathering for a free radio playhouse. Gertrude Lawrence at Plymouth Theatre. chatter about Gilbert Miller and Charles C Miller. leather goods stores pushing going out of business sales.
Queens University Belfast students uncover a 100-foot megalithic burial cairn at Ballybriest County Derry revealing two burial chambers. Over 100 late Stone Age pottery pieces and flint implements were found, with one chamber intact and the other wall collapsed after ancient removal of standing stones.
Santa Clara University astronomer Dr. Albert J. Newlin of the Richard Memorial Observatory predicts a wet and severe winter based on four pronounced sunspot groups across scattered solar regions. The sunspot theory linking solar activity to weather was first advanced by Father J. S. Ricard, S. J.
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