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5 V I I- h E 1 ) A >1 P l l l t O M » THE R O N N K - ........ " - 1 • A K i l ST., R pvîaw nf the, History-Making Events of the World By E D W A R D W. PI CKARD © Western Newspaper Union. allotment of $22.742.034 by P*«j- ident Roosevelt. It includes projects in 37 states, and the larg est of these is a courthouse for New York city to cost the govern ment $4.835.000. The average al lotment is only $64,323. Secretary Ickes, PWA admin- istrator, said that, in addition to 45 per cent donation, PW A will lend $2,142,000 to help comnvuiities de fray their 55 per cent share of the cost. President Roosevelt has or dered that all projects “ be com menced by October 1, 1936, reach a peak by the end of the year and be completed by October 1, 1937. it was - predicted ance and — . . . they , Olympic Games Formally would proceed to find the defend Opened in Berlin ants guilty “ in absentia” and to ITH spectacular ceremony the suspend the unions in the Lewis Olympic Games were official group. This would be the greatest ly opened in Berlin when a grace split in the ranks of American or ful runner bearing the Olympic ganized labor since the federation flame that had been was formed fifty years ago. It started from Greece would mean the loss of about one- dashed into the sta third of the federation’s member dium, lowered the ship. silver torch before Previous to the meeting of the Reichsfuehrer Hit council President William Green in ler and kindled the an impassioned speech accused sacred Are in a Lewis and his followers of substi great cresset. Then tuting “ jungle law” for democracy came the formal in their efforts to organize the steel Re-Arming of Helgoland parade of the ath industry. He said he was prepared Admitted by Germans letes of fifty na to make any personal sacrifice, NOFFICIALLY, Germany ad tions, nattily uni- even to resigning his office, to mits that she is re-fortifying Adolf Hitler formed and m arch bring about peace and “ bind up Helgoland, the Gibraltar of the ing with precision while guns the wounds.” North sea which was demilitarized boomed and bands blared. Some As for the oft-repeated charge of by the treaty of Versailles. The of the foreign groups gave the Hit the CIO unions that the A. F. of L. report that the Nazis were taking ler salute as they passed by the leadership had failed to organize this action was brought up in the chancellor. Others did not. Among the unorganized, Green asserted English house of commons and the latter were the Americans, who that you couldn't “ move human Foreign Secretary Eden said the placed their straw hats on their left beings like sacks of salt or pounds government did not intend to deal breasts and marched by with eyes of sugar.” separately with the question, hop right Nor was the American flag ing for a fresh effort for European dipped before the fuehrer, the ex peace “ in which Germany would planation being that this was done Col. Roosevelt W illing to play a full part.” He hinted that only before the President The Run for Governor EW YORK Republicans are Great Britain would let the affair American contingent was greeted to nominate a candidate for pass without comment as one of by an outburst of whistling which Germany’s “ minor affronts.” It the knowing declared meant “ the governor at their party convention was believed France would take raspberry.” But on the whole the in September, and CoL Theodore the same stand. Roosevelt has said affair was decidedly successful. W U N In the first day’ s contests the United States started things with a rush. Jesse Owens, Ohio State’s colored star, broke the Olympic and world records in winning his heat in the 100-meter dash; and Johnson, who is from California, set a new Olympic record of 2.03 meters. In some other events the Americans did well, and in yet others they were eliminated. In the 100 meter finals Owens won and Metcalfe of Chicago was second. Helen Stephens of Missouri, in winning two heats of the women’s 100 meter event, broke the world record both times. By a vote of 36 to 27 Tokyo won the Olympic games for 1940, Finland being the losing bidder. The Amer icans, South America and the Brit ish empire were virtually solid for Japan, which offered a transporta tion subsidy of about $485,000 to off set costs of traveling in the Far E ast The Finns urged that the games be returned to a Spartan simplicity. New Locarno Pact May Give Europe Security HILE the nations of Europe were worrying over the Span ish rebellion and the danger that it might bring about open rupture among the Fascist and anti-Fascist governments of the continent, steps were taken to assure peace. Ger many and Italy accepted the invi tation of Great Britain, France and Belgium to participate in a con ference this fall from which it is hoped another and better Locarno pact will emerge. No date for the conference has been set, but it was expected to be held either just before or soon after the meeting of the league of na tions assembly in Geneva in Sep tember. Both Germany and Italy stressed the need that it be preceded by careful diplomatic negotiations. Britain’ s parliament adjourned after hearing a government asser tion that the prospective Locarno talks would ease the tense Euro pean situation. W Lewis and Allies Absent When A. F. of L. Council Meets OHN L. LEWIS, head of the Unit J ed Mine Workers, and his 11 as sociates on the Committee for In dustrial Organization, m ade good their promise not to be present when the executive council of the American Federation of Labor met to try them on charges o f “ insur rection.” - The council m em bers were plainly angered by this defi in a letter that was made public that he is willing to ac cept that honor if || the party to de sires. Colonel Roosevelt, n o w forty-eight years old, was the Republican can didate for governor in 1924 and was de feated by Alfred E. C°l. Roosevelt Smith. Since then he has been governor of Puerto Rico and gov ernor-general of the Philippines. London Papers Fined for Contempt of Court newspapers were taught L ONDON a severe lesson in fair dealing, in connection with the case of George McMahon who was arrest ed for menacing King Edward with a revolver recently. The Daily Ex press and the Evening News edi tors and their respective proprie tors, Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere, were fined $2,500 each for contempt of court because the papers printed articles calling Mc Mahon’ s act an attempt on the king’s life, the attorney general Government Crop Report stating that it was not yet proved Shows Drouth Damage to be an attempted assassination. HE WEEKLY crop report and A movie distributing agency was weather summary of the De fined $250 on the same charge. partment of Agriculture revealed that the drouth and high tempera ture were playing havoc with the Zioncheck Does Not Seek corn crop in most of the leading Re-election to Congress producing states. In some sections EREAFTER Washington will there will not even be fodder and have to get along without the over a much larger area no grain excitement provided by the antics will be obtained this year. There of Marion A. Zioncheck of Seattle, were good rains, however, in parts Wash. That eccentric—to put it of the central and eastern areas mildly—gentleman has announced and improvement was noted there that he is not a candidate for re- in both corn and pasturage. election, because of his mother’s The present drouth in Iowa, the ill health, and says he wants to be department said, has caused great America’ s forgotten man. Zion er damage to corn than that of check has settled down to private 1934. The summary reported al law practice. most complete destruction of the crop in two southern and two west ern tiers of counties, with serious Progress of Revolution damage in some other sections. in Spanish Republic Threshing of winter wheat re /~JEN. FRANCISCO FRANCO’S vealed expected yields, the report rebel forces in Spain, accord said, but spring wheat conditions ing to late reports, were pressing were termed disappointing. the government troops seriously m and winning some Mishaps Befall T w o : bloody encounters. ^ This despite the American Senators claims of Madrid S E N A T O R VIC DONAHEY of that the Fascists ° Ohio, while fishing in Chesa T had been checked, peake bay, was struck by light jf The rebel columns ning, and painfully but not danger advancing on the ously injured. The bolt hit and I capital from the split the mast of his launch, ran along the rail and burned the south were reported senator’s hands badly to be threatening Another senator, Robert Rey communications be- nolds of North Carolina, was Gen. Franco *™een Madrid and among a group of tourists who t h e eastern sea- were robbed by bandits near Tax- coast at Valencia and Alicante, co, Mexico. The victims lost their chief sources of the government’ s Leaders of the money, watches and jewelry but food supplies. were not otherwise abused. insurgents claimed they held Huel va, important seaport, and all the territory between Seville and the Smaller Scale Projects Portuguese border. The loyalists in New P V /A Program directed a strong attack on Sara C^MPHASIS is placed on smaller •*-' scale projects to be completed gossa but advices from the front speedily, in the third building pro reaching Perpignan, France, said were ambushed gram of the public works admin / ebels m a narrow canyon istration, which was opened by the * and lost perhaps 2,000 killed Gen T H eral Caballero com m anded the in surgents in that action. General Franco has been quoted as saying the revolution, when suc cessful, will result in a m ilitary dictatorship for the time being. The government, now a red d ic tatorship, has taken possession of all church property and assumed control of all industry and agricul ture. It also has confiscated the merchant marine to form a defense fleet. The loyalists were encour aged by victories in and around San Sabastian. Fascist Italy has been accused of aiding the Spanish rebels, and it is asserted a number of Italian bombing planes were sent to them in Morocco. The leftist French government naturally is in sym pa thy with the Madrid governm ent and Frenchmenr unarmed, have been given permission to cross the border to aid in putting down the rebellion. German and Russian sympathies, also, are ranged on opposite sides, and all this caused fears that a general war might re sult France called on all other nations to preserve neutrality, and Spain warned Italy and Germany to keep hands off. Day by day the struggle in Spain became bloodier and m ore ruth less. Summary executions of pris oners were common on both sides and these deaths Were probably as numerous as those in battle. The government planes showered bom bs on the rebel strongholds, virtually destroying many towns; and the Fascist bombers engaged in des perate fights with loyal warships. Puerto Rico Nationalists Are Found Guilty P EDRO AL3IZU CAMPOS, leader of the Puerto R ico Nationalist party, and seven of his associates were found guilty at San Juan of a conspiracy to overthrow the United ; States government in the island by force and were sentenced by F ed eral Judge R. A. Cooper to prison terms ranging from two to six years. In the first trial of these men the jury had disagreed. The defense attorneys gave notice of appeal. The case originated in a clash be tween Nationalists and police last October in which several persons were slain. Following this, CoL E. Francis Riggs, chief of insular po lice, was murdered, presum ably in revenge for the killing of National ists in the October fight Louis Blériot, Famous Aviation Pioneer, Dies T OUIS BLÉRIOT of France, one L / of the pioneers and early he roes of aviation, died in Paris of a heart attack at the age of sixty- four. He it was who startled the world in 1909 by first flying across the English channel, a feat as dar ing then as was the solo flight of Lindbergh across the Atlantic ocean in 1927. Blériot was an engineer and invented the auto mobile searchlight President Roosevelt’s Vacation Is Ended ROOSEVELT ended P RESIDENT his 437 mile cruise when his yacht docked at Cam pobello island, New Brunswick, where he has a summer home. Mr. Roosevelt remained at C am p obello only two days and then took a special train to Quebec, where he visited with Lord Tweeds- muir, governor general of Canada. Immediately after this meeting, Mr. Roosevelt took train for his summer residence in Hyde Park, N. Y., and there began mapping the plans for his cam paign for re- election. Half a dozen leaaers of the Democratic party, including National Chairman Jam es A. F a r ley, were summoned into con fer ence with their chief. The P res ident also obtained from Secretary Wallace and Chester Davis a report on drouth need*. condition* and relief FranV Knox N otify oI His Nomination RACIN G an enthusiastic that completely flued . Chicago stadium. Col. Frank , received from Senator Stet,r --------- ■ Oregon the offi- notification of nomination for vice Presidency the Republicanr ty. National r man John Ha introduced the ator, who briefly but l >y and with his tomary el Col. Knox Colonel stepped forward deliver his speech of accep*- he was greeted by a roar i plause that continued for minutes. His fellow citizen glad to express their gra for the honor done him, thousands from outside Chi were no less warm in their r elation of the candidate. In streets surrounding the sta was another vast throng of who were unable to get into building. Unlike Governor Landon, Co Knox devoted much of his it‘ r to the alleged failure of the R: velt administration which, he I had the most glorious opporfc in the history of the nation but1 nored its responsibility, failed its job and defaulted in its gations. “ From the day that it ~ flee,” he declared, "it ent on a series of hysterical ments on the economic life of burdened people. At a time universal co-operation was a sity it initiated a campaign abuse and vilification of bc men. At a time when the cn the country should have strengthened it inaugurated a cy of credit adulteration and rency experiment that demor* foreign trade and frightened m estic finance. It set up a Sl ot regimentation of industry reduced production and pre» re-employment. By coercion of gress it forced the passage form measures so recklessly that they hamstrung the revival enterprise and paralyzed the newal of investment It “i*1- a regimentation of agriculture destroyed food and reduced n» markets and increased the living and multiplied the of relief. “ At a time when private was struggling desperately new start it set up govern® enterprise to compete wi business. At a time when the den of taxation was already to bear it embarked on * 1» • ■quandcring public At creasing the WCIgh* ° ndo- time when united effort and® good-w ill would have recovery it promoted a, red and class strife. when returning business was ending depression ^ cam paign to terrorize busing subjugate the bank*. ^ when confidence in ^ government was vi g lished a spoils sysfem‘ tcffl « when the economic ^ worn and cmaC1^ations UP*1 m ajor surgical opera * industrial body to ^ inside. It ad°Ptef _ a. nd forced philosophy o f scarj 1 j:stressed P< upon a hungry and distress ••No one can define the w or even describe it J * , * what it means. ¡ness, * control over \ o c ^ loCal f local bank cred*.’ . , 0f work over local condlt,0" Simentati<* leads to federal s# ind the labor, the Amcrican d hom e of every and pf It leads to p r i c e ™ ^ ty . tion control by federal ^
