Thursday, September 13, 1934
TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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