Page 2
L 'O R three days P re m ie r M ussolini
• o f Ita ly conferred in Home w ith
Baron K o nstan tin von N eurath, fo r
eign m in is te r of G erm any. Then un
o ffic ia l com m unique was issued in
d ica ting th a t the two countries were
determ ined to prevent the creation
of a co m m un ist state in western
Europe, holding “ a com plete p a ra l
Dirigible Hindenburg Destroyed by Explosion, Two Score lelism o f v ie w s " on this and other
subjects. It was added that the Ita l
Persons Perishing— Economists and Spenders
ian and G erm an governm ents w ill
i “ continue to fo llo w a concordat pol
Continue Their Battle in Washington.
icy on a ll m a jo r questions.”
I t was understood in Rome that,
By E D W A R D W . P IC K A R D
though
M ussolini and H itle r were
© W e s te rn N e w s p a p e r U n ion .
eager to w o rk fo r peace w ith B rita in
N E o f the m a jo r tragedies of o f Hopkins* hands. K in g said his and F rance, they were prepared to
take open p a rt in the Spanish w a r
aeronautical h isto ry occurred purpose was to abolish the WPA.
when the big G erm an d irig ib le
In the house economy received a if other m eans fa il to pre ven t the
H indenburg exploded and fe ll in a w allop on the head when the re establishm ent o f a regim e sym pa
blazing m ass a t the landing field fo re sta tion b ill was passed, 171 to th e tic to soviet Russia.
in L ake hu rst, N. J. A t th is w ritin g 153. T his m easure would app ro priate
The Ita lia n p a rlia m e n t passed
the exact num ber of dead is un $2.500,000 a nn ua lly fo r governm ent M u sso lin i’s natio na l defense budget
known, but it p robably is m ore than aid to fa rm e rs who w ish to tu rn c a rry in g $289,300,000 fo r 1937-38. Ad
fo rty .
p a rt of th e ir fa rm s into woodlands. m ira l C ava gn ari, und ersecretary for
A m e rica n passengers who in the I t was fought by a bloc led by the navy, told the deputies the Ita lia n
e a rly rep o rts w ere unaccounted fo r R epresentative J. J. Cochran of M is navy " fro m now on m ust be an
and p resum ably k ille d w ere: B u rtis souri, D em ocrat. “ I t has a w o rth ocean going n a v y " ra th e r than one
Dolan, C hicago: M r. and M rs. John w h ile objective , but it is one of confined to the M editerranean. Gen
Pannes, New Y o rk C ity ; M o ritz those expensive m easures w hich we e ra l P a ria n i, fo r the w a r d e p a rt
Feibusch, Lincoln. N eb.; E dw ard can d efe r passing fo r a w h ile u n til m ent, said Ita ly was ta k in g no
Douglas, New Y o rk ; Jam es Young the budget is in balance,” declared chances concerning p rotection of her
and B irg e r B rin ck. addresses not Cochran.
fro n tie rs . The governm ent, he said,
given.
intended to b u ild up in the Ita lia n
The a irsh ip , ju s t a rriv e d fro m Eu D E W IL D E R E D m em bers o f con- peninsula an a rm y w hich would be
gress w ere s till fu rth e r dazed able to p aralyze an enem y's ad
rope on its firs t tra n s a tla n tic tr ip
o f the ye ar, was about to land when when they learned th a t the a d m in vances and “ w in the w a r in the
th e re was an explosion to w ard the is tra tio n was m oving to o btain ap shortest possible tim e .”
stern. In s ta n tly flames broke out p ro va l o f the F lo rid a ship canal
and ran the length o f the ship. The p ro je c t w hich w ill c a ll fo r $197,- \ 1 R S . W A L L IS SIMPSON w a s
ta il sagged firs t, then the nose 000,000. T his was revealed w h e n
granted an absolute decree
crashed down and the s p lit sections S ecretary o f the N avy Swanson sent o f d ivo rce in London, and w ith in
telescoped as they fe ll. A few of to the house riv e rs and harbors a few hours E d w ard, duke of W ind
the 44 passengers and some m em co m m itte e a le tte r u rg in g th a t the
sor, was on his way
bers of the crew w’ere able to ju m p canal scheme be approved. I t was
fro m St. W olfgang,
to safety, but m any o f the others assumed he would not have done
A u s tria , to v is it his
aboard hadn’t a chance fo r th e ir th is w ith o u t the app ro val o f the
fiancee a t the Cha
lives. The navy men o f the ground President. M r. Swanson argued that
teau de Cande near
cre w h e ro ica lly plunged into the the canal would be o f value d urin g
jijSL
Tours, F rance. The
fla m in g w reckage and dragged out w a r fo r the shipm ent o f m a te ria ls .
fo rm e r king of G reat
T estim ony labeled “ c o n fid e n tia l”
B rita in had b e e n
those v ic tim s who could be reached.
w a itin g im p a tie n tly ,
The scream s and crie s o f in ju re d was also heard by the com m ittee
baggage packed, for
in agony w ere “ te rrib le ,” the h ard fro m Gen. Charles. P. S u m m e ra ll,
w ord th a t W allis
ened sailors and m a rin e s who did re tire d c h ie f of s ta ff o f the a rm y ,
was e n tire ly free,
the rescue w o rk reported. The cloth and R ear A d m ira l F re d e ric B. Bas
and he lost no tim e
ing was com p le te ly burned off one sett, re tire d . Both declared th a t the
canal would serve as “ a m ost im M rs. Simpson when his o lic ito rs
m an.
An explosion o f the No. 2 gas p orta n t eiem ent of the natio na l de telephoned h im fro m London.
I t took o nly 25 seconds to m ake
ce ll to w ard the stern o f the ship fense in tim e of w a r.”
w’as named as the cause o f the dis-
R epresentative B e ite r of New absolute the decree nisi w hich M rs.
aster by State A via tio n C om m is Y o rk, D em ocrat, ca lle d upon the Simpson obtained last O ctober 27.
sioner G ill Robb W ilson, who called budget bureau to m ake known its The k in g ’s p ro c to r had been satis
the b la st “ strange.”
stand on the F lo rid a canal question. fied w ith the la d y 's behavior in the
in te rv a l, and S ir Boyd M e rrim a n ,
Some a uth o ritie s scouted the the
president
o f the divo rce co urt, per
o ry th a t the explosion could have tp R E Q U E N T reports have been
been caused by the ig n itio n of hy * heard in W ashington th a t gov sonally g ranted the decree along
drogen inside the gas cells. They ernm ent employees, in clu d in g some w ith a lot o f others.
The date fo r the wedding of the
said a m ix tu re of 20 per cent free high o fficials, took advantage o I
a ir w ith hydrogen would be neces
th e ir "in s id e ” k n o w l duke of W indsor and M rs. Simpson
has not yet been announced, but it
s a ry to cause an explosion, in d ic a t
edge th a t the a tto r
in g the firs t blast m ust have oc
ney general was go p robably w ill be in the week begin
cu rred outside one o f the gas cells.
ing to file s u it to dis ning M ay 24. E d w a rd was w illin g
solve
the A lu m in u m to w a it u n til a ll the coronation h ul
A e ron au tical experts said the only
Com pany o f A m e ri- ’ labaloo was over fo r he did not
w ay they could explain an explo
wish to annoy his ro y a l b ro th e r lr
ca by s e llin g t h e
sion inside the ship w ould be that
any way.
com
m
on
stock
short,
fre e hydrogen had in some w ay es
thereby m a kin g im
caped and was ly in g in the stern of
S F U E H R E R A D O L F H IT -
mense profits. Just I D ' L E E IC i i H was
the ship w here it was a ccid en ta lly
in fo rm e d by Pope Pius
the day before the
ignited.
X I th a t the Rom an C atholic church
suit was filed P res
Capt. E rn est Lehm ann, who p ilo t
ident Roosevelt is m ust be free to fu lfill its m ission in
ed the H indenburg last ye ar, was Rep. Rogers
G erm any. T his re p ly to the G erm an
sued h i s
o rd e r
aboard it on this fa ta l tr ip , but its
ch urch note, w hich its e lf was a re
com m ander was Capt. W illia m against stock speculation by em p ly to the pope's p re -E aste r ency
Pruss, ju s t prom oted to the post. ployees of the governm ent.
c lic a l accusing the G erm an govern
A tten tion of congress was called
He is a veteran in w o rkin g d ir ig i
m ent of v io la tin g the 1933 church-
to the m a tte r when R epresentative
bles.
state concordat, was delivered by
E d ith Nourse Rogers o f M assachu
C ardin al Eugenio P a ce lli to the Ger
setts,
R
epublican,
demanded
an
in
I_J OW to economize by cu ttin g
m an am bassador to the holy see,
dow n
governm ent expendi vestigation.
Diego von Bergen.
“ I hold no b rie f fo r the A lu m in u m
tures, as the President has dem and
The note was ra th e r m oderate in
C
om
pany
o
f
A
m
e
ric
a
,”
M
rs.
Rogers
ed, and at the same tim e to continue
tone, but insisted th a t economic
w ith such huge ex told the house. “ I know nothing pressure m ust not be b ro ug ht to
about the in s titu tio n , but I am very
penditures as t h e
bear against C atholics in G e rm a n y ;
b illio n and a h a l f anxious to know why the comm on th a t C atholic schools and the Cath
dollars M r. Roose stock of th is huge e n te rp ris in g c o r o lic press should not be ham pered.
v e lt asked fo r re lie f poration should decline o ver 300 per
is a puzzle th a t con cent m ore than s im ila r in d u s tria l L ' L E V E N unions o f the Federated
gress doesn’t know stocks in the period ju s t p rio r to an
M otion P ic tu re C ra fts, w ith
how to solve. H a rry nouncem ent o f the gove rn m e nt’s about 6,000 m em bers, w ent on s trik e
suit.
—
n Hopkins,
W o rk s
in H ollyw ood, C a lif., and the great
“ To the 825,000 employees of the
i'W 1
■ Progress
adm inis-
film in d u s try there was in serious
governm ent t h e
P re s id e n t’s an
/ ■ tra to r and m ost ac-
d iffic u ltie s . The s trik e rs counted
com plished spender nouncem ent was a m ost c z a ris tic h e a vily on co-operation by the Screen
o rd e r,” M rs. Rogers declared. “ I
„
, „
. . o f the a d m in istra -
A c to rs ’ g uild, but th a t body, w hich
“
L Hopkins tion, took a hand in
believe the m oney paid to federal has 5,600 m em bers, delayed action
employees
is
ju
s
t
as
m
uch
th
e
ir
the discussion, te llin g a house appro
u n til it could confer w ith the pro
p ria tio n subcom m ittee th a t unem m oney to do w ith as they please as ducers. The g u ild a lre a d y had pre
ploym ent is a perm anent problem , is the m oney paid to any employee sented a n u m b e r of dem ands re g a rd
th a t the governm ent should be pre w o rk in g at any job in any place in ing w o rk in g conditions and hours
pared to support seven m illio n job the U nited States.”
and o v e rtim e pay.
B u t governm ent employees, she
less persons a t a ll tim es, and con
F ifte e n of the larg e st hotels in San
added,
c
e
rta
in
ly
ought
not
to
have
sequently th a t congress m u st ap
F rancisco were p ra c tic a lly tied up I
p ro p ria te the b illio n and a h a lf fo r the advantage of knowledge w ith by a s trik e of 3,500 em ployees. The
r e lie f instead of cu ttin g the sum held fro m the public.
s trik e rs were given the a c tiv e sup
down to a b illio n .
p o rt of 13 unions. They insisted th a t
A m e ric a n
women hotel owners had refused to agree
Both D em ocrats and Republicans 'T ' W E L V E
reached w h a t some people con- i tc p re fe re n tia l h irin g and a five day
on the co m m itte e protested, and
C h a irm a n W oodrum of V irg in ia told sider a social c lim a x when they week fo r clerks, although other
H opkins he would use e very endeav w ere received by K in g George and groups of hotel employees had been
o r to have the a p p ro p ria tio n re Queen E liza b e th of G rea t B rita in awarded such conditions.
duced by at least a th ird . He ch al a t the firs t c o u rt of the new reign. 1
fa v o re d
m atro n s
a nd, C O M E of the m ost desperate fight-
lenged the figures and argum ents These
been c a re fu lly
su bm itted by Hopkins, contending debutantes h a d
ing of the Spanish c iv il w a r was
th a t if the extravagance o f the w ork coached at the A m e rica n embassy ta k in g place in the stru g g le fo r B il
r e lie f p rin cip le and the padding of and were presented by M rs. R obert bao between the s tu rd y Basques and
re lie f ro lls w ith undeserving cases W. B ingham , w ife o f the A m e rican Gen. E m ilio M o la ’s veterans, re p u t
w ere e lim in a ted and the states re am bassador. They w ere:
edly m o s tly Ita lia n s and G erm ans.
E leanora Bowdoin o f A iken, S. The insurgents had prom ised not
quire d to assume a g re a te r share of
the burden the cost to the federal C .; M rs. George Tem ple Bowdoin ol to bomb the center of the c ity but
governm ent would not exceed one New Y o rk C ity ; C atherine M . M a bom barded its environs heavily
her of L in c o ln , N eb.; M rs. George fro m the land and the a ir. B y fierce
b illio n .
Senator W illia m H. K in g of U tah, W. N orton J r., of L o u is v ille ; M rs. attacks they broke through the
D em ocrat, not only disagrees w ith John P e rrin of Boston; A n n e Basque lines on the Bay o f Biscay
H opkins as to the am ount needed Schenck o f New Y o rk C ity ; Vesta coast, reaching B ilb a o ’s seaports at
Culberson o f C hicago; the m outh of the N ervion riv e r.
fo r re lie f, b u t isn’t satisfied w ith the P u tnam
w ay the a d m in istra to r has been M rs. F . Vernon F oster o f W e s t
D isre ga rd ing the protests of Gen
conducting the w ork. He introduced Orange, N. J .; L y d ia F u lle r o f Bos e ra l F ranco, F ascist c h ie fta in , the
resolutions in the senate c a llin g fo r to n ; M rs. D ozier L . G a rd ne r of B ritis h and F rench governm ents
an inve stiga tion of the w orks prog P h ila d e lp h ia ; M rs. B yro n H illia rd undertook to rem ove fro m Bilbao
ress a d m in istra tio n and ta kin g the o f L o u is v ille , and M rs. J u lia H enry a la rg e num ber of wom en and c h il
fu tu r e sDending of re lie f money out of P hiladelphia.
dren.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Thursday, May 13, 1^37
TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON
NEWS NOTES OF
THE NORTHWEST
A
B rief Summary of Event«
o f S p e c i a l I n t e t e s t to
O re g o n , W ashington and
Id ah o C om m unities.
a b o u t
Humane Fox Hunting.
BOISE, Ida.— WPA crew«, among
(lielr iniiltlfnrioua operations last
yenr, tre a te d more th an 4000 acre«
for plant disease mid rid th e state
of 4714 pests.
I*OHTI,ANI), Or«*.— Approximately
2.520 Oregon wage earn ers or th e tr
estates a re expeced to filo claims
du rin g 1937 for lump sum o r death
benefits w ith tho B ureau of Federal
Old-Age B enefits, Jam es E. Poeblea,
P ortland Field R epresentative, has
announced.
CLARK FORK, Ida.— A library,
sponsored by tho WPA and NYA will
bo opened hero soon. Mrs. Resale
I, . Teague will bo senior librarian,
and Miss Mary I.oulse Clifford will
he Junior assistan t. Coour d ’Alene
lias ihm ated ISO hooks, and 800 »’111
be received from a traveling library.
OROFINO, I<la.— T he first lease
for sheep grazing of th e C learw ater
Protective association a re a on C an
yon creek was signed last week by
J. II Dobbins of E n terp rise. Ore.
T he association Is anticipating ap
proxim ately 50.000 head of sheep
th is year. Several contracts aw ait
signatures.
SOI T il REND. W a sh — D istribu
tion of 300 pheasant eggs was be
ing made today by County Agent T.
R. Cole to 11 boys In two 4-II clubs
nt Mill Creek and South Rend. The
ei;-s will he hatched nnd reared to
ten weeks age nnd then tu rn ed over
to the sta te cam e departm ent for
liberation In Pacific county.
KENNEW ICK, W ash.— Most of
th e land In the Kennew ick highlands
under the Kennewick Irrigation com
pany's canal has been sold within
th e last tw o years, with the m ajor
ity of buyers Im m igrants from the
d routh areas.
The tendency Is
tow ard diversified farm ing on larger
acreage, replacing th e sm all-tract
farm .
MONTES ANO, W ash.— Exam iners
will begin n to u r of G rays H arbor
county schools next week to conduct
standardized tests In the first, sec
ond, third and eighth grades. It Is
announced by Mrs. Adelo Allen Oli
ver. county superintendent. Eighth
grade tests will be the basis for pro
motion to high school, replacing the
old-tim e sta te eighth grade exam
inations.
DAVE.NI’ORT, W ash. — Gordon
Bonser recently l ad a narrow escape
from death when a “ tre e clim ber”
woodsaw he was using on a tree
flew hack, ripping his hnck badly.
T he youth w alked half a mile nlong
a fte r the accident beforo finding a
c a r to bring him to D avenport for
medical tre a tm e n t by Dr. J. II. I’oyn-
te r. The wound required 28 stitch
es to close, hut was not deep.
NEWBERG, Ore.— A w edding ring
lo st nearly 21 years has been re-
urned to Its ow ner because W. E.
Mulkey chose th e rig h t place to dig
some flshworm s. In 191(5 Mrs. O.
J. McCoy, lost her w edding ring
w hile w orking In h er garden.
A
few days ago Mulkey, a brother
of Mrs. E lnora SIckafoose, who
now owns the property, found
th e rin g w hile digging b ait In
th e back-yard. The nam e of the
ow ner was engraved on th e inside
and the ring was prom ptly returned
to Mrs. McCoy, who Is still a resi
d en t or this city.
ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—
In Englond it hus been de
cided that fox-hunting is hu
mane. This opinion err.unutes
from the hunters. The foxes
have not been heurd from on
the subject.
S
M aybe you d o n 't know it, but
there's a lot of fox-hunting among
us, especially down
south. Being but a
lot of stubborn non
conform ists, south
erners do not follow
the h is to ric rules. A
p a rty a t large w ear
ing
a red coat,
w hite panties and
high boots would be
m istaken fo r a re f
ugee fro m a circu s
band. And anybody
blow ing a horn as
he gulloped across
h ill and dale would be set down as
an insane fish p eddler; and if you
shouted “ View, halloo! T a n tiv y ,
ta n tiv y ! Yolcks, y o ic k s !" or w ords
to that effect, they’d th in k you w ere
a new kind of hog-caller.
Down there th ey've chased the
fox u n til he’s wise. The foxes have
learned th a t the hounds c a n 't fo l
low tr a il on a paved highw uy and
so q u it the th icke t fo r the concrete
when the chase is on. A fox has
been s ittin g in the m id d le o f the big
road listening to the bew ildered
pack.
On second thought m aybe B re r
Fox isn’t so sm a rt, a fte r a ll—not
w ith autom obile tra ffic w hat it is.
’Tis a hard choice.
• • •
«
»
Courageous Republicans.
J HO, besides the w rite r, can re
call when the D em ocrats held
th e ir ju b ila tio n ra llie s the n ig h t be
fore a presidential election and the
Republicans the n ig ht u fte r the re
turns w ere in, when they had some
thing to ju b ila te over? Now the s it
uation is ju s t the other w ay around.
The L ite ra ry Digest poll was p ra c
tic a lly the only thing the R epubli
cans had to celebrate d u rin g the en
tire fa ll season o f 1936.
S till, we m ust give th a t d im in
ished but g a lla n t band c re d it fo r
courage.
Here, in an off-year,
th e y ’ re s p irite d ly planning against
the next congressional cam paign.
• • •
(
English Recruiting.
‘T H E
E nglish are s till having
trouble inducing young fellow s
to jo in the colors. F irs t, the gov
e rnm ent trie d to increase e n lis t
m ents by givin g every re c ru it a g id
dy new blue u n ifo rm , absolutely free
of charge, and s till the lads re
fused. So now, as an appeal w hich,
'tis believed, no tru e B ritis h e r can
w ithstand, the m ilita ry a u th o ritie s
announce that, herea fte r. T om m y
A tkin s w ill have tim e off fo r a fte r
noon tea.
This m ay be a new notion fo r
peacetim e, but, d urin g the great
w ar, the custom was m aintained
even up at the fro n t. M any a tim e
I ’ve seen a ll ranks, fro m the b rig a
diers on down, knocking off fo r tea.
H owever, t h i s
d id n 't m ilita te
^ g a in s t his m a je s ty ’s forces, be
cause, at the same hour, the G er
m ans, over on th e ir side o f the line,
w ere having coffee—o r w ha t the
G erm ans m istake fo r coffee. And
the F rench took advantage o f the
lu ll to catch up w ith tlje ir bookkeep
ing on w hat the allies owed them
fo r dam age to p ro p e rty, ground
rent,
use of trenches, b ille tin g
space, wear and tear, etc., etc.
• • •
i i i : i : i : B ! i : i w decrease
OLYMPIA, W ash.— W ashington’s
The Job of Censorship.
wild game and predatory anim als are
C A N E reason why m oving p ictures
Increasing and Its fur-hearing ani
are so clean is because some
m als grow ing few er In num ber, a of the people who censor them have
com parison of th e 1935 and 1936
such d ir ty m inds.
To the very
game census re p o rts of the U. S. pure e verythin g is so im p ure , is it
forest service reveals. W ith the ex not? T h a t’s w hy some of us th in k
ception of elk and black bear, all the w eigh! of popular opinion, ra th -
game anim als showed Increases d u r i er than the jud gm e nt of n a rro w -
) brained o fficial judges in various
ing 1936.
“ Nose counting” showed an esti states, should decide w ha t should
and w hat should not be depicted.
m ated 8230 porcupine compared to
7700 In 1935. In th e fur-bearing Anyhow, there are so m any m ovies
class only skunks and racoons In w hich, s lig h tly amending the old
ballad, are more to be pitied than
creased.
censored.
FUTURE FARMERS ELECT
Sponsors ot radio program s also
CORVALLIS, Ore.— Jam es McAl lean over backw ard to be p ru dish ly
iste r of E nterprise was elected presi proper. But w itho ut let or hindrance
den t of the Oregon F u tu re Farm ers the speaking stage, m onth by
m onth, grows fouler and filth ie r.
of America a t th e business session
of the annual convention here last Suggestive lines once created a
shock in the audience m ind. The
week.
lines no longer suggest—they come
O ther officers elected were Robert
rig h t out and speak the nastiness.
Lundy, M yrtle P oint, vice-president;
Sauce fo r the goose isn’ t sauce fo r
Howard Conner, H enlry, secretary;
the gander, ’twould seem—or m a y
Phil H einom an, Amity, treasurer
be, a fte r the refo rm e rs got through
and Jack Koch, Salem , reporter.
saucing radio and screen, there
Instructors nam ed to the executive
wasn’ t any le ft over fo r the so-
com m ittee were Alfred Loy, E n ter
called le g itim a te stage.
prise; Ralph M organ, Salem, and W-
IR V IN S. COBB
S. C arpenter, G rants Pass.
©— WNU Service.
I
F
i
ì