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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
—
.
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,
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 ^