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Thursday, September 13, 1934 TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON Paße 2 News Review of Current Events the World Over 8. Five banks Insured by the FDIO have failed. A Federal home loan bank system loans are far below capacity because of faults now being corrected. A flneeAsian Cities UEY LONG’S plans to control the H primary In Louisiana were curbed by two Injunctions Issued by a federal and a state court, but his exposure of the administration of New Orleans by Mayor Walmsley and his friends went on unhindered. Also the “dictator ship” laws passed by the senator’s leg islature became binding and put nn end to much of the gay life In New Orleans, for the “old regular” machine which has ruled the city for years © by Wester» Newepaper Union. was helpless. Governor Allen, Long's P R E S ID E N T ROOSEVELT took a Paterson (N. J.) district and with henchman, has full power to enforce * hand in the textile strike by ap mills closing in other sections, the silk the new laws through the state police industry was approximately 80 per cent or the militia. Dissemination of horse pointing a board of inquiry. The mem bera he named are Gov. John G. Wlgant shut down. Schweitzer disclosed that race news being now unlawful, the of New Hampshire, many unions In other industries, not publications specializing In such Infor Marion Smith of At ably the Amalgamated Clothing W ork mation planned to leave the city. lanta. Ga., and Ray ers, were offering materia! aid to the EIC H S FU E H R E lt H IT L E R of Ger mond V. Ingersoll, strikers and supplying organizers. many renewed his warfare on The belief of the strikers that the borough president of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. government would indirectly finance Jews and also de<^ared ail other ele Smith is an attorney their walkout by placing them on the ments opposing his regime must be and the son of ihe late relief lists was only partially justified suppressed. The chancellor, address Senator Hoke Smith. by Relief Administrator Hopkins. He lng the annual convention of the Nazi This board was ap said the government took no sides in party In Nuremberg, made a slashing pointed on the recom the matter and that relief would be attack against “Jewish Influence" on given to strikers as to other Individ German life. He was cheered fre mendation of the na uals when it appeared they were des quently during bis Impassioned ad tional labor relations John G. W lgant dress. clarifying again his antl-Jewlsh, titute. board and Its duties Pan-German piitlosophy of political were thus outlined: RA was dealt a severe blow when and social science as the essence of L To inquire into the general char the Retail Coal Code authority his national-socialistic doctrines for acter and extent of the complaints of resigned in a body In protest against ruling Germanic races. workers in the cotton textile, wool, the way the NRA is handling the code. Earlier, a proclamation by him was rayon, silk and allied Industries. The seven members, who were the rul read to the delegates, warning that 2. Inquire into problems confronting ing body under the Blue Eagle for 80, those who dared oppose the Nazi state the employers in said industries. 000 retail coal dealers, are: Roderick under his rule would be ruthlessly 3. Consider ways and means of meet Stephens, New York, chairman; Milton dealt with, and outlining his achieve ing said problems and complaints. E. Robinson, J r , Chicago, vice chair ments as head of the third relch. 4. Exercise In connection with said man ; Clarence V. Beck. SL Louis; W il Combined with Hitler's attack on Industries powers authorized to be con liam A. Clark, Boston; Charles M. the Jews came a bitter denunciation ferred by the first section of public Farrar, Raleigh, N. C .; Edward B. of those “sensation-hungry corre resolution 44. Jacobs, Reading. P a.; and John Mc- spondents Interested bnly In external 5. On request of the parties to labor Lachlan, Pullman, I1L Their resigna symptoms.” H itler declared they were dispute, act as a board of voluntary tion was due to the NRA’s claim responsible for a misconception of arbitration or select a person or agency that it can revise any code at any Germany abroad. Insisted that Nazism for voluntary arbitration. time without giving notice to the in was here to stay, and added violence The President directed that the board dustry involved. and revolutions were ended. should report to him, through the sec retary of labor, not later than Octo IG H T thousand, seven hundred em D USSIA'S ambition to be given a ber L ployees of the Aluminum Company I ' seat as a permanent member of Starting Immediately after Labor of America, who had been on strike for the League of Nations council, favored day, the strike spread rapidly and with a month, were ordered by their union to by France and Great Britain, is op in a short time about 336.000 workers return to their Jobs when an agreement posed by Switzerland, whose delegates had quit their Jobs. This would Indi ending the walkout was signed. Both have been Instructed to vote “no" cate the walkout was approximately the company and the workers accepted when the question comes up. Turkey 60 per cent effective over the entire concessions through the efforts of Fred has applied for a nonpayment seat In cotton, woolen and silk Industry, which Keightly, labor department conciliator. the council, stating she seeks the place normally employs In the neighborhood of China, whose term is expiring. of 650,000 workers. FTE R Upton Sinclair, ex-Sociallst Leaders of the strike claimed that who obtained the Democratic nom ECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE 450,000 had quit at that time and that ination for governor of California, had W ALLACE thinks It may be neces more were joining the walkout dally. called on President Roosevelt at Hyde sary to guarantee the price of corn Predictions of violence were fulfilled, Park, be Jubilantly as fodder In order to keep available sup for there were bloody riots around the serted that his plan to plies on farms in the drouth area for mills in New England. Georgia. North “End Poverty in Cali relief purposes. The farm adminis Carolina and South Carolina, and sev fornia” was Identical tration is to set up an office In Kansas eral deaths resulted. In the southern with the New DeaL City for the purpose of making a sur states the National Guard was mob T h e n he w e n t to vey and locating all types of animal W a s h 1 n g t o n and ilized. feed. The office also will assist county sought the support of drouth committees In arranging pools administration 1 e a d- EORGE A. SLOAN, president of of Individual farmers to make pur ers for his campaign. chases. The government will not buy Cotton Textile Institute, who at Mr. R o o s e v e l t had any feed Itself for distribution. first claimed that two-thirds of the said nothing publicly workers had refused to concerning Mr. Sin ECAUSE of his unwavering opposi later admitted that he clair, but S e n a t o r was wrong and said: tion to what he considered the ex James Hamilton Lewis of Hlinols, “This thing Is getting travagant exi*enditures of the govern chairman of the Democratic senatorial ment and to its Inflationary monetary worse by the hour.’’ campaign committee, made some pun policies, Lewis Doug He added that the re gent comments about the California las has resigned as di ports he had received nominations. rector of the budget showed that additional “There has been no California Dem He had l o n g b e e n mills were closing, and ocratic nomination for governor," Sen said: fighting against cer ator Lewis mid. "The nomination was tain of the adminis “I am deeply dis made by Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Mich tration's policies, with tressed to learn that igan, Kansas and Nebraska Repub out a v a il The two- blood has been shed licans who had moved to southern Cal year budget plan with In Georgia. These sad ifornia. It was Republicans from Its prospective deficit events make it plain these states who nominated Mr. Sin of seven billion dol that the forces unleashed by the strike clair, not the Democrats nor the Re lars, presented to con- leaders are now out of their control. publicans of California. This gentle g r e s s last January, "This Is no longer to be viewed as man's nomination can be charged to did not have his ap Lewis Douglas the ordinary Industrial warfare which that class of Republicans In Los An proval; nor had the billion dollar defi the term ‘strike’ Implies in America. geles as a general protest against con ciency appropriation bill and the I t is not a matter of leaving work and ditions. schemes for the purchase of gold and of peaceful picketing. “Senator Johnson came out for the “The strike cal) was an appeal for whole of the Roosevelt policies, and silver. It was said his resignation was confidence. The appeal was denied by was nominated by all parties. We finally brought about by the announce ment of Secretary Morgenthau that a vast majority of our workers. rank him as a Democrat the so-called profit of two billion eight "Now lawless bands of misled people, "President Roosevelt Is not being hundred million dollars resulting from thousands in number, move across wide disturbed by any presumption that he the devaluation of the gold dollar areas, against whole communities, Is endorsing the Individual views of would be used to curtail the public smash mill doors, drag men and women Candidate Sinclair. The President in debt-Incurred by the New DeaL Since from work they wish to perform, and fa c t expects very shortly before the currency is ultimately to be Issued threaten with violence all who do not congressional elections to make an ad against this “profit," and since there Is yield. This is an assault on fundamen dress to America, In which he will ex only about five billion dollars of cur tal American rights." press the Roosevelt policy and wherein rency now in circulation, the Morgen Francis J. Gorman, director of the the real democracy he represents of thau plan contemplates a 50 per cent strike, announced that he would not fers remedies which prevent the radi Inflation. revoke the strike call until the employ calism of Socialism and the destruction The President appointed as acting ers had accepted these demands: of Communism. budget director Daniel W. Bell, a per 1. Recognition of the United Textile “We under the name of democracy manent employee of the treasury. It Workers. can never advocate or endorse a sys was understood In Washington that 2. Reduction of working hours to 30 tem which appropriates and confiscates there would be a general rearrange per week. honest property, whether It be the ment In the Treasury department which 3. Machine load limit and wage wealth of the millionaires or the week would concentrate all fiscal powers In scale yet to be determined. ly wages of millions of tollers.” the hands of Secretary Morgenthau. 4. Promise by the companies not to Several officials who are not in full interfere with union activities. ONALD RICHBERG, secretary of sympathy with the New Deal will be 5. Provision for a mediation board the executive council, made an weeded out. within the industry to adjust disputes other report to the President on the New Deal efforts to relieve financial between employer and employee. FTER five days of deliberation, pressure, showing the government has 6. Promise by the workers and em the high council of the Salvation ployers that there shall be no strikes loaned more than seven billion dollars Army, sitting In London, elected Com nor lockouts during the life of the to save businesses and homes. Here mander Evangeline Booth general of are the high lights of his report: the army. Thus the supreme command agreement 1. RFC actually has disbursed >5,- of the organization la returned to the 7. An understanding by both parties Booth family after a break of five on the length of time the agreement 853.000,000. 2. The Home Owners’ Loan corpora years. Miss Booth, who Is slxty-elght ■hall ba effective. Frank Schweitzer, general secretary tion has advanced 11,299,445,000, end years old. Is the only daughter of Gen. of the American Federation of Silk ing a real estate panic and saving tha William Booth, founder of the army. Workers, announced that with the homes of 432,000 families from fore For thirty years she has been at the head of the army la America. walkout of 17,000 silk workers la the closure. President Names Board to Investigate Growing Textile Strike— Senator Lewis Says Democrats Don’t Support Sinclair’s Socialistic Views. By EDW ARD W. PICKARD F R N E A S G B D A Milking a Rubber Tree Near Singapore. Prepared by National O o o e ra p h la S ociety. W a s h in g to n , D . C . - W X U S orv lc a H R EE cities of Asia that have figured prominently In former England-to-Australla flights will be on the route of the Ixtndon Melbourne race which will take pliy«-© In October. They are Baghdad, Alla habad and Singapore. Baghdad Is near the Persian fron tier, hard by the traditional site of old Eden, man’s birthplace. Here on the classic soil of Babylon. Nineveh, and Opls once flourished the pick of the human race; here was the center of the world’s wealth, power, and clvi lizatlon. And hack to this ancient re gion modern men nre turning, to re claim Its lost areas, open Its mines and oil deposits— to restore the Garden of Eden! From the deck of a Tigris steamer Baghdad looms up boldly, Its splendid skyline of domes and minarets remind ing one of some “midway” of World's fa ir memory. An odd pontoon bridge connects the two parts of the city, sep arated by the yellow Tigris. On the west bank Is the old town, enclosed by date and orange groves. From here the new Baghdad-Mosul railway starts on Its long run across the trackless desert. East of the river, on the Persian side. Is “new" Baghdad, with Its government offices, barracks, consulates, prisons, etc. Beyond, as far as the eye can reach in every direction, stretches the vast, fla t treeless, empty plain of Mesopo tamia—a region once more populous than Belgium. Not the Baghdad of All Baba. A great wall encircles Baghdad Flat-roofed, huddled Moorish houses, many almost windowless and each sur rounding its own open court, are a dis tinct feature of the older parts of the city. On these flat roofs Arabs spend the summer nights with tom toms, flutes, water-pipes, and dancing wom en. Facing the river, removed from the Arab town, are built the Imimslng foreign consulates, mercantile offices and the sumptuous homes of rich Jews, Armenians, Greeks, and Syrians —the men who made New Bnghdad. But the Baghdad of All Baba's day with the splendor of Aladdin's en chanted age, is gone forever. The palaces, the mosques, and minarets are mostly In ruins. Even the tomb of lovely Lady Zobeide, favorite wife of Harun-al-Rashid. Is tumbled down and decayed. It Is Into modern monuments to New Baghdad— Into roads, bridges, public buildings, irrigation works army organization, dredging the Tigris, etc.— that the prominent citizens put their money. Modern Baghdad Is In safe bands now; no dissipated royalty guards Its gates. Sober, clear-headed men, drilled in the best schools of modern Europe, able to hold their own anywhere, ad minister Its affairs. As late as 1830 the Tigris overflowed Its banks, swept through Baghdad, and drowned 15,000 people In one night. Allahabad Attracts Millions. Normally, Allahabad. India, is a city of 175,000 people. It lies in the V- shaped region between the Jumna and Ganges rivers, at the meeting place of the two streams. It Is this location that draws huge crowds to the town annually; and, at twelve-year Inter vals, tremendous hordes. Both the Jumna and the Ganges are sacred streams, and their meeting place la doubly sacred. The mystical Indian mind finds still a third reason for hull ness: It la believed by the pilgrims that the Saraswatl, a river which la swallowed up by the sands southwest of the Punjab, emerges at the Junction ©otnt of the Jumna and Ganges. T Both the Ganges and the Jumna nre coffee-colored stream«, heavily laden with silt. At low water In late winter a large expanse of dusty sand la ex posed below the Allahabad fort which stands on the bluff overlooking the confluence. It Is on this beach that the millions of pilgrims assembled re cently. The Indian police have their hands full during the great religious fair or Kumhh Mela. All vehicles are ex cluded from the river plain, and all efforts concentrated on maintaining or der among the multitude of men. wom en. and children that move about In the dust, slip on the wet clay near the stream banka, and attain merit by bathing in the murky wnters. A torrid sun beats down, and to screen its rays little shelters of rushes have been erected on the sands. Under these sit all manner of people wearing a minimum of clothing. Among them are holy men, their bodies smeared with gray coats of ashes. Groups of Idols are set up that the faithful mny contribute coin*. Among the crowds go men carrying waterskins, sprinkling the water In an effort to lay the dust that millions of bare feet stir up. Allahabad Is old. In the enclosure of the fort Is a pillar erected by Asoka, the great Buddhist king, during the Third century B. C It may have been moved to the spot later, however, so it is not conclusive evidence that a town existed on the site of Allahabad during Asoka's reign. The first town known to history on this site was I ’rayng, about which a Chinese travel er wrote In 700 A. D. The Hindus still call the town Prayag, “the place of sacrifice.” It received the name by which It Is now known to the world from Its Mohammedan conquerors in 1575. Singapore a Great Free Port. Singapore Is an island 27 miles long by 14 wide and just misses being the southernmost point of the continent of Asia by a half mile water chunnel. It Is at the funnel point of the Strait of Malacca which extends between the Malay peninsula and the island of Sumatra. Little more than a hundred yours ago the island, owned by the sultan of Johore on the nearby mninlund, was a deserted Jungle snve for a little fish ing village. Ships in the China trade passed It by as they passed many an other Jungle shore; the only porta of call In that region of the world were those on the Dutch Islands of Su matra and Java. But these ports took a big toll in fees, and Sir Stamford Raffles, an official of the East India company, began to dream of a free British port that would facilitate trade. In 1819 he obtained the seem- ingly worthless Islnnd of Singapore for his company for a small fee. De velopments soon proved him a proph et, for within two years the little trad ing center he established had a popu lation of 10,000. It was 1822 before the British government consented to take an Interest in the place. In the little more than a hundred yeurs since it was founded, the jungle of Singapore has given place to a huge city of close to 400,(XX) population, car rying on trade normally valued at a billion dollars annually—one of the metropolises of the British empire. Its quays and anchorages serve thou sands of craft of all sorts and sizes, from the picturesque, graceful Malay sampans and the stodgy Chinese Junks to the fam iliar freighters of the West, and what Kipling asserts are tha “lady-llke” liners. They build up Sing apore’s shipping to the tremendous te- tai of 17,006,000 tons yearly. A « 4 4 *
