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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1936)
T 1 H E B O N N E V I L — L — E — B — A *^ M C H R O N I C I- E ~ EH I l),\Y, Review of the History - Making E vents oi TWO ~ ^ member of the League of Nations. out of WPA earnings; granting of The convention grants complete funds to farmers desiring to keep liberty to merchant marine pas small livestock herds for the pur © Western Newspaper Union. sage through the straits in peace chase of feed and subsistence to its executive board, spreads news be repaid by work on W PA proj time and wartime, even with Tur Bloody Civil W a r key at war, provided the com m er “ endangering the state interest.” ects; loans and grants to owners Rages in Spain cial vessels do not assist the fight 2. Prohibition of review by the IV IL war, desperate and bloody, courts of police measures of a po of large scale cattle enterprises to ing powers. cover the cost of shipping animals broke out in Spain, and though litical The Russian navy is granted com nature, including those to other states for feeding. the government in Madrid declared aimed at the right of assembly, plete freedom in peacetime to leave it was in control of the situation, the press, and free speech. and enter the Black sea through such news as got the straits, but nations outside will 3. Prohibition of Jewish ritual Doings of Towsendites through the censor be subjected to limitations on pas slaughtering for food purposes. in Their Convention ship indicated that 4. Imposition of three month pro N ALLIANCE between Dr. sage of fighting ships through the the struggle was by tective custody on persons declared Francis E. Townsend, Father channel. no means ended. On to be “ endangering the public Charles E. Coughlin and Rev. During wartime belligerents will one side w ere the Gerald L. K. Smith in the interests be prohibited from using the straits peace,” Fascists and royal Thus the city’ s constitution is of a third party was unless acting for the league or un ists led by Gen. virtually set aside, and the Poles announced at the der the obligations of a regional Francisco Franco; Townsendite conven pact of which Turkey was a signa especially, having extensive eco jxl the other were nomic interests there, are indig tion in Cleveland, tory. .the loyal troops and nant. The League of Nations, attended by 12,000 the workers, Com which holds a protectorate over followers of the Army to Get Many N ew munists and Social- _ _ Danzig, may be called on to act . > ; tv California d o c t o r ists. The r e b e l s L * Companys. Fast Fighting Planes in the matter. Of course there is K ; who advocates pen started the game in Spanish Moroc talk of Poland resorting to arms, ERFECTED plans of the War sions of $200 per co and the Canaries and were soon but this is not likely a t present department for procurement of month for every in control there. Then Franco, who airplanes provide for the acquisi person over sixty. • 4» ®nly> forty'-ehree years old but .a tion of 60 new fast fighting planes In an address be Nanking Troops Take dynamic character, crossed over to every month during the rest of fore the convention. A lgecira a ,. followed by the Foreign Control of Canton this year. This has been made pos EVO LT of the Cantonese Dr. Townsend p alher Coughlin bit sible by the smooth functioning of Legion and a lot of Moors, Moroc against the Nanking govern terly denounced the present admin a new purchasing plan started by cans and black African troops. A ft ment has collapsed and latest re istration and President Roosevelt Harry H. Woodring, assistant sec er a sharp battle at La Linea, close ports say government troops have and called upon the delegates to to G ihralian these contingents be retary of war. entered Canton and taken over follow Dr. Townsend in endorsing gan a march northward toward Se- Before the end of tne year, 500 T,yille and C adiz., There was severe maintenance of peace and order. the candidacy of William Lemke new planes will be ready for ac fighting in San Sebastian, where There was no opposition and the for the presidency on the Union tion, officials said. Plans have been ticket the Am erican embassy is located city was quiet made for the purchase of more Chen Chi-tang, the Cantc- war Lemke himself appeared before in summer, and in other border than 600 planes of vari ms types towns. M alaga was reported to be lord, deserted his followers and fled the convention before it adjourned to Hongkong on a gunboat There and made a speech in which he in 1937. in flames. . Commanders of the rebels assert was a scramble to find Chen’s al pledged himself to “ stand four ed their' atfh was to “ save the re leged silver hoard, said to amount square behind the old age pension Attempt to Kill King and denounced the Edward of England public,” to keep order and to de to many million dollars, but much movement” stroy the Marxists. In Barcelona of it is believed to be deposited in present administration as “ nation HE attempted assassination of al lunacy.” The delegates applaud their attack was directed especially foreign banks. King Edward V III of England The Nanking government gains ed the first statement, but other in London brought great alarm to against Luis Companys, president of the Catalonian parliament, who possession of Kwantung province’ s wise were rather apathetic toward the English speaking world. The was said to be besieged in his of- fleet of more than 300 fighting the Union party leader. Doctor attempt was made planes, and also of extensive arm Townsend made no plea for him but ' fiées. * * * " •• ■ ' near Hyde Park Jose M aria G il Robles, leader aments. These latter include quan merely urged his followers to con and the monarch’ s o f the Catholic C. E. D. A. (Con tities of heavy artillery, field ar centrate on the election of senators life was saved by a federation of Autonomous Right tillery and machine guns, nearly and congressmen. woman bystander Parties) fled to Biarritz, France. half a million rifles, numbers of Father Coughlin’s attack on who grappled with An.-aviator who escaped the rebels anti-aircraft guns, tanks, the south President Roosevelt drew fire from the would-be assas in Morocco declared G il Robles had west’ s navy, two arsenals and one various sources. Bishop Michael sin and wrested a airplane factory. instigated the re v o lt Gallagher of Detroit, as he sailed pistol from him. , Prem ier Santiago Casares Qui- for a visit to the Vatican, admit The king was re roga resigned in favor of Diego Hot and D ry Spell Broken ted he had “ chided” the priest for turning to Bucking Martinez-Barrio, speaker of parlia- using “ language that was a little ham palace from by Rains and Cool W inds - jogent, but the latter held the office too strong” but denied he had dis Hyde Park, where E L IE F for the drouth stricken oply a few hours. Then Jose Giral, horseback he regions in the Middle West ciplined him or that he would re King Edward on form er minister of marine, formed port on the affair to the Vatican. had presented new colors to six came with rains in many sections a cabinet with General Pozas, who Earler the New Deal had been battalions of the Grenadier. Cold and cooling winds that sent the has the support of both the power temperature down the target of both Dr. Townsend stream and Scots guards. ful Civil Guard and Republican ele and Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, now toward normal. In Paris, the celebration of ments of the army, as minister of leader of the late Huey Long’s France’s national holiday, Bastille However, it was too war. late to save the share-the-wealth movement day, saw the Champs Elysees a The rebels sent word to the gov-* Townsendite candidates who scene of rioting with rightists and crops in ma ny em m ent that u nless it capitulated states, and prices must run on the Democratic ticket leftists in combat with each other they * wottld‘ 'b om b Madrid from of foodstuffs con planned a pro-Rcosevelt demon and the police. The disorders be planes. « * r • ■ tinued to advance. stration. Pro-Roosevelt delegations gan when leftists were returning The farmers began representing 11 states signed a res from their own parade in the east • Olympic Torch Started to receive aid from olution urging that no “ merger or ern section of the city. Seeing red to Berlin Games the government in fusion” with a third party be made. flags borne in the procession, the the form of cash, A tactical victory was won by the rightists greeted their opponents I N O L Y M P IA , Greece, scene of and no one could New Deal forces in the election of with cries of “ Soviets everyw here.” the first Olympic games, a torch Dr. Tugwell deny that they need- Willis Mahoney, Townsendite Dem v Was lighted by the rays of the sun ocratic candidate for senator from and a Greek runner seized it and ed this help. Lewis and O th e rs Are sfairted it on a 12-day relay to the Loss of life throughout the United Oregon, as chairman of the resolu Summoned for Trial sports” field in Berlin where the State: from the unprecedented heat tions committee. IM M E D IA T E splitting of the Olympic flame is to be lighted on wave exceeded 3,850, an all-time American Federation of Labor Atfgdst 1. ‘ F ive thousand distin- high. Communist Campaign to into two rival groups wag averted ‘ gufshett’ persons were selected to Agronomists in Minnesota, N e by the action of the Fedeiation’ s carry the torch, these including braska, Iowa, Illinois and Ohio ex Open on August 5 King Boris of Bulgaria, King P e pressed apprehension over the out ^M ATIO N AL campaign headquar executive council in voting to bring ters of the Communist party to trial on August 3, the union ter Cf Jflgo§lavia, and a long list look for the corn crop unless gen ' u f -princes, statesmen and sports eral rains should develop rapidly. h ve been opened in New York city leaders led by John L. Lew is on men»» -On the last leg it was to It Completing a tour of the drouth and it is announced that Earl charges of “ dual unionism.” be borne- by S. Loues of Greece, areas, Secretary of Agriculture» Browder, candidate for President, had been reported earlier that the - winner o f the marathon in the Wallace declared the nation need will start his speechmaking in Den council had voted to suspend the games- o f 1896. A hundred thou have no fears of a food shortage, ver on Augus. 5. From there he 12 unions grouped as the Com m it sand -Hitler youths will accompany and assailed those “ who have tried goes to Salt Lake City, Los Ange tee for Industrial Unionization. > Loues i n - a triumphal parade to for their own purposes to scare les, San Francisco, Portia id, Ore., The council’ s action was looked the stadium, * the consumers about food scarci Seattle, Butte, Bismarck and Min upon as a peace move in the crisis F iv e thousand torches to carry ty.” He added: “ There is no ex neapolis. All his speeches will be that threatens open warfare in the the flame were donated by the cuse for substantial increases in broadcast. labor m ovem ent It was precipi Krupp works, so each oi the bear food prices now.” James W. Ford, colored, the tated by the drive to organize 500,- e r * , w ill reta in .one as a souvenir. Arriving at Bismarck, N. D., to Communist party’s candidate for 000 workers in the steel industry help co-ordinate drouth relief en vice president, will open his tour into one big industrial union by terprises, Rexford G. Tugwell, re August 5 with an appearance in John L. Lewis, president of the N azi Decrees in Danzig settlement administrator, was in Scranton, Pa. United Mine Workers and his fol Crush--Opposition lowers. formed that approximate!; 60,000 T TNLESS ■ the protests of Poland farm fam ilies in the state were Turkey Given Right to The charges against the Lewis Vi effec^vg, all .opposition to among the needy. A conference group include “ competition as a „ N azi Rovyej^ iq the F ree City of of state and federal officials in Bis- Rearm the Dardanelles rival ^organization with the A. F. Danzi^ is due to be crushed. Dr. pjarck developed a three fold plan PLIGHT signatories to the Lau- sanne post-war treaty have c* h " ; (orienting an insurrection ^Arthur^K arl ^Gr^iser, president of for the relief of dwellers in the des granted to Turkey the right to re within the Federation; violation of the p a rizig senate, which is con olated areas of the Dakotas, west contracts they have entered into trolled b y Nazis, has issued ad ern Minnesota, eastern Montana m ilitarize the Dardanelles, and with the Federation when granted they, with Turkey, have signed a m inistrative decrees ordering: and Wyoming. These included: their charters. , 1. Dissolution of any organization Immediate advancement of mon convention covering the matter. While the council deliberated the whose members, with knowledge of ey to needy families, repayable Only Japan made slight reserva fate of the so-called “ insurgent” tions because it is no longer unions, Mr. Lewis denounced both By E D W A R D W. PI CKARD C A P R T R a m »ai. the steel industry tion, declaring: lhe “ Neither the Amerlr* tion of Labor nor the ate*] ?**** can stop the organua workers in our organizing* * for the millions ^ I «1 ers who have been denied J *0ri to organize and who ^ ^ I scorned by the i n d u s t r i a l , 1 Henry Ford Has Vision Concerning Foods p jE N R Y FORD, approach«, ll 1 1 «eventy - third birthda. ^ visioned the eventual dJ £ * farm animals as a * w orld’ s food and predicted that the grains and other crops will largely be substituted for them. “ We can. I be lieve, get a more plentiful supply 0f food cheaper and better.” he said, “ by processing the products of the soli instead of asking H«ryF*rt cows and chickens *o do it for a In the future farm animal» of kinds will decline in Humbert Vi won’ t need them. The farm »me* will go. but the farm wiil oecotna larger.” Business, according to the industrialist, is “ doing all right" He criticized governmental inter ference with private busine»t "pu ticularly through the attempt of» tem ational bankers to control »1 business.” He haid, “ the financier* only idea is to get in and mala money. They are not much inter ested in production at lower costs The better you can make a thug and the cheaper you can seD it, the larger will be your product» and the higher the wages you cu pay.” Former Navy Officer Accused as a Spy HE arrest of former Lieut Commander John S. Farnsworth of the United States navy ot i charge that he had sold confides* tial naval data to a Japanese of ficer marked what observer* be* lieved was the beginning of i roundup of persons suspected of supplying navy secrets to foreign powers. D eclaring that he had obtained nothing of importance from the navy and gave nothing to the Jap anese that “ could not have beet obtained, in the public library in Washington,” Farnsworth at M pleaded not guilty to the charge» Farnsworth is charged with tak ing from the Navy department and later selling it to the Japanese go* em m ent, a book entitled Service of Information and Genera- Security.” The book is naval tactics and according to officials, u rated as “ confidential" It was claimed that Farnswo technical training in the na would make it possible for m* piece together information PlC up from form er fellow officers. T on L . P. Ayers Predicts Big Business Im provem en t tht P R E D IC T IN G that 193 « will be I best business year since “ possibly since 1929,” Colone ard P. Ayers, economist « ^ ^ land, declared that statists «¡b- im portant business had s 0 ,, stantial and “ healthy inC ^ since the first of this y «8*» ^ drouth and other difficu not affected increases in ment, markets and secU . changes, the economist st » ^ “ More steel has been prod c ^ the first half of than ^ 1932,” he pointed out. ^ factor in the ot business has been we em ploym ent among 20od» worker, making making d u r a b ^ »s l fac- workers W orkers in the durable tories suffer most t r o m w . ^ shut-downs, but such ^ thii the case in the flrst„ h yea r and oi last year. 1936 increased
