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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1936)
TW O THF HONNI \ It** 1 H n i r u ito \ h I.R m , u '"'ih ; Review of the History-Making Events oí the \V or attitude of the executive council, that will be one thing If It »hows n By E D W A R D W. P I C K A R D @ Western Newspaper Union. oeltlon to give n m M m il *>* the fixed pi inciples of the C 1 O . over-age ships and for the begin “New Imperialist W ar” that Will be another thing.” ning of construction m 193< of two Mr. Lewis didn’ t *ay »<> explicitly, Coming. Says Vcroshilof? battleships. The capital ships are to but "another thing” will be a war HAT a new "im perialistic" war be built only in the event battle fur diminution of American libor. is coining soon was the opinion ships replacement construction is expressed by Soviet Defense Com commenced by Great Britain or missar Klementi E. Voroshiloft in Japan, the other signatories to the Wage Increase* and an address at the London treaty of 1930. Dividends Declared 19th annual celebra The secretary emphasized the AJOR producer» of »teel, led tion of the Russian need for auxiliary vessels, which by the Carnegie Illinois Steel revolution, and h e service and supply combat vessels, corporation, la r g o t subs diary o f declared R u s s i a as necessary to the maximum effi United States Steel, and the Colum would be ready to ciency of the fleet. Present auxiliary- bia Steel company, v.e*t coast mem defend itself vessels are old and unfit and should ber of the same group, announced adequately in t h e be replaced with modern craft, tic- wage increases averaging 10 per conflict said. ! cent and in s me cases running as "The worst ene Chief of Staff Malm Craig report high as 25 |x-r cent, which will add mies of the toilers ed to Secretary of War Woodring about $80.000,000 a year to the in- —imperialists of ev S L I k L -.* that the army -n the second year | dustry’ s payroll In most instances ery shade and de- .. ... _ of its five year rebuilding program the increases were to take effect Noroshilor nomination — a r e had gained ground toward its ob November 16 According to compi continuing frenzied preparations for jective—a defense establishment up lations of the American Iron and new pillage and usurpations,” Voro- to the minimum needs of the na Steel institute they will affect 526.- shiloil said, "and the implacable tion. 700 employees throughout the coun enemies are preparing to attack "Our military establishment ;s of try. Russia. Committees acting f >r employees "The soviet union is firmly deter a type that—conforming strictly to mined that its Red army be our national policy—is designed f r at more than a cb :>-it plants rejected prepared to rout the enemy on what defense and is unsuitable for ag ! the offer, demanding higher pay. ever territory they may dare to gression." Craig said. "This fact ' Negotiations in these cases are may rait be clearly understo d by theref ire continued. appear. "While defending the cause of our people. Our establishment is of , Directors of numerous big cor- peace, the soviet government is a character exclusively its own, es ' poralions authorized special divi- working ceaselessly to strengthen its sentially distinct from the military 1 (lends to stockholders and wage bon defense power. Never will the en establishments maintained abroad uses to Workers that w-ill release emies and incendiaries of war suc and now in the course of vast expan | many millions of dollars. This is ceed in crossing the sacred and in sion.” in pursuance of the [policy of avoid violate borders of the land of the ing So far as possible the stiff levies soviets. Ship Workers’ Strike imposed on undistributed profits un "The people of the U. S. S. R. der the revenue act of 1936; and May Be Settled now are more than prepared to also, in most cases, in recognition f E l. rd deliver a crushing blow at all who ' I 'HROUGH the elT -r of improved business. may dare to encroach on the in •*• F. McGrady. assistant secre dependence, wealth and honor of tary of labor and the department’ s chief conciliator, the sti ,k«- of mari our state.” Edmund E. Day Elected time workers that tied up a large part President of Cornell Spanish Government CORNELL university of Ithaca. N of the shipping on Flees From Madrid ■* Y . is to have a new president in the Pacific. Atlantic H ILE the Fascist insurgents and Gulf coasts may . the person of Dr Edmund E. Day, were smashing the»r way into be settled amicably 1 an internationally known social Madrid and hurling shells among b e - scientist and economist. He will as- Negotiations its chief buildings, the Socialist gov tween the shipown sume office June 30 next on the re ernment of Spain, headed by Prem ers and the u n i o n tirement of Dr. Livingston Farrand. ier Fancisco Largo Caballero, fled leaders w e r e re Doctor Day. who Is 53 years old, is from the capital and set itself up V . sumed in San Fran a graduate of Dartmouth and has in Valencia on the Mediterranean cisco, and in Wash- taught there and at Harvard and the coast. The capture of Madrid by r r „ _ . mgton. Secretary University of Michigan. He is best , , h e known to the educational world as the rebels seemed certain and this, E . F. M cGradyj it was believed, would be followed was hopeful that a just agreement the director for the social sciences by recognition of the Fascist gov would be reached. of the Rockefeller Foundat.on and ernment by several powers, includ On the Pacific coast the strikers director for general education of ing Portugal and Italy and perhaps had already consented to ease the the general education board. Germany. The first nation to ac plight of stranded passeng'-rs and cord this recognition was the Cen release perishable cargoes. The joint tral American republic of Salvador. strike committee recommended that Roosevelt’s Victory at It is not to be assumed that their membership return strike this would end the civil war, im bound vessels to home ports. This Polls Unprecedented (i \ \ ^ E L IK E your New IV al poll- mediately or soon. Caballero, it was promised relief for 600 stranded pas ’ * eies and have r inplctc con reported, believed the loyalists sengers and 900 strikers in Honolulu could best continue the struggle as well as for hundreds of m ari fidence in your administration. Go from the south, and it was claimed time men idle in Atlantic and gulf as far as you like.” That in effect was they had strong concentrations at ports. the message sent to Valencia, Cartegena, Alicante and Rear Admiral Harry G. Hamlet Franklin D e l a n o Albacete. Moreover, there were in of the federal maritime commission Roosevelt by more dications that they would soon re had been compelled to postpone then twenty - six ceive open aid from Russia and per twice his fact finding inquiry but million American haps France. Leon Blum, the finally got it started. men a n d women French premier, told a Socialist when they voted to meeting that he was ready to scrap continue h i rn in the non-intervention pact and help Princess Juliana Will Be Caballero if Great Eritain would the Presidency for join in such action. This caused Married on January 7 another four years. y consternation a m o n g the British I T WAS officially announced in Am- It was the most tre *■ sterdam that Crown Princess Juli mendous victory ev statesmen. President Fighting in the suburbs of Madrid ana of the Netherlands and Prince er scored by a Pres Roosevelt was continuous and bloody. The Bernhard zu Lippe-Beist rfeld will idential candidate casualties on both sides were heavy, be married on January 7. There will since the days of James Monroe, and the Fascist bombardment by he ;i c*v ‘l ceremony in the town hall for Mr. Roosevelt captured the 523 artillery and planes killed and of The Hague followed by a church electoral votes of 46 states. Only wounded hundreds in the center of ceremony in the cathedral of St. Maine and Vermont, with five and the city. The Socialist defenders had James. three electoral votes respectively, been ordered to hold their posts were won by Landon and Knox, the regardless of losses, and they Republican candidates. Their pop Peace Move in Labor fought bravely and stubbornly. ular vote, when all returns arc in, Federation Fails and tabulated, may be sixteen and rp OR a day or two it seemed that a half million. Navy and Army Growth 1 the two factions in the American The amazing New Deal landslide Noted in Reports Federation of Labor might get to is looked upon by most unbiased E C R E T A R Y of the N avy Claude gether before the convention open Swanson, who it is believed may ing in Tampa on November 16. But observers not as a Democratic party retire from the cabinet, made his plans for a conference betwe'-n victory, but a personal triumph for annual report to the President show President William Green and John President Roosevelt, an expression ing that the navy had made con L. Lewis, leader of the C. I. O., fell of confidence in him and a recogni siderable progress in its program to through when the former said he tion of the improvement in the coun build up to full treaty strength. had no power to reinstate the sus try's business and industry It was At the end of the 1936 fiscal year pended unions. Lewis and his chief so overwhelming that the President last June 30, the secretary said, supporters held a two day meeting may well consider he has been g iv the navy had under construction 79 in Pittsburgh, after which he said: en carte blanche to do as he pleases m carrying his policies on to vessels. Further, the 1937 appropri "The convention will determine ations act provided for the building the future of the C. I o. If it their logical ends. What he may of 18 vessels as replacements for supports the arbitrary and insolent please to do depends largely on pending decisions by Uic Supreme T M C W S Court of Out United States on New Dr.» 1 leg Islalion. President Itiiosevelt, moreover, will have at his command a c«>n gress more heavily Democratic than were the last two. for the lm gering of the Republican* that they could capture enough seat* to enable them, in conjunction with conservative Ih-mocruta, to put up effective resistance to New D e a l measures, were not realized Tile New Deal m ajority In the nrw sen ate will be about five to one, and in the house It will be almost four to one. The few Republicans will be permitted to take part in debit", but when it comes to a vote the congress will be virtually a one party affair. Incidentally, John N Garner, who was scarcely mentioned during th<- h e c t i c campaign, was re elected Vice president and w i l l preside over t h e senate again. He took no real part in the battle. Just rid ing along with h i s chief Among the well- known Republican senators unseated by the upheaval are Daniel O. Hastings John V. of Delaware. I-cstcr h zrn rr J D i c k i n s o n of Iowa. Jesse II Metcalf of Hi !i- : : !( 1» rt D l •• rev -f V. rning The one gain by that party was the Massachusetts seat won by Henry Cabot l*odgr II. grandi n of the noted senator He succeeded in defeating Guv. James M Curley, Democratic boss of the state The Michigan scat of the late James Couzens was won by Representative Prentiss M Brown, who beat For mer Gov. W M Brucker William E. Borah of Idaho, Arthur Capper or Kansas and Charles L McNary of Oregon, all listed as Republicans, were re-elected, and so was George Norris of Nebraska who ran thr> year ns on Indejx-ndent with the ap proval of Mr Roosevelt Minnesota Democrats meekly accepted the wrecking of their state ticket by New Deal orders and helped elect Ernest Lundcen. Farm er Laboritc. to the senate New Hampshire, the only state in which the Presidential vote was at all close, sends a Re publican to the senate in the ja-rson of Gov. H. Styles Bridges. Other governors who won in senate con tests were Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island, who defeated Sen ator Ifrtc a K ; Clyda l Barring i f Iowa, victor over Senator Dickin son, and Ed C. Johnson of Colo rndo, who defeated Raymond L. Sautcr. .i‘ - v r ^ ;■ (,v Hear,. * » • Wt.tS the head of the K ln ”. P-'lward’, Firtt : m Thro* r|d parliamentary ' - *'>d. "!*r.rd parUm, 1 " ’■ traditional cerea, la ' ( t ,_y'1 1 1' '• > .t r- .v.fc ■ »el ytt bent. 1 ; "i K m m r,v ’ ’ r rr. narch readi^ ’ ........ •; beg.--,., s aft [ ' «*' r> °f Ihr Prr/*- '• '■ri r‘ •' M * '.- ! f Miiiue to t* >,v f '•* ntinues to be based«; *h i Hi l i e l a - j j - j f J \i;j He li*jfc up in '.urn hu government's w 1' ■ ■ i hr f.y .«-«a •*:th other natksu thnJ league, f, r j* , ff Jt •'»* » ' eff >rts" to boilii, Carno treaty and to ntnf ** ■ ’ ' hn y. -j > signed L«st March Fr..'.re a i the United The government. hr S w ill call an imperial i next Mar. and agl • • - .It [: |i t In- cr< *ned empemr. V ■ Vi : at i (W i't IliifTT. c •• pat - d by two other i ! 1 i iter Fears Gcnsafj Wi l l A'tack Franc« j iy ' ' :v * ' 'i a : Mt • • I ’ ft k <n Fru^ Gcrn.any. so he urfrt chamber -if deputies army committee the immediate fortifies- tion of the Belgian and Swiss frontiers .-»rid Uie speeding up of manufacture of Be _ _ t- 1 / tec to rec -mmend an appropriation of 300.000.fj00 francs to f.,rt.fy the borders with another "Msg- f ' ■ ■ ! ' ' tl* "¡-"1 b *'* derground passages .'--ry physical tra all Frenchmen. begianK j | f <-.»•• Ven. *'** F ’iJ Daladicr as an aid to buT . i- rench army- , •j ■ r t. ui.b'T of pr .. ti ■ army, he assert«- ^ Farley Resumes Place as incr. . ed in the last le* Postmaster General from 106,000 to 144 W- -----—— a |AM ES A F A R L E Y . H II ig t r ot l ” the triumphant Roosevelt i m London Gangs Terrontt | paign, resumed his office of post master general, attending the first T w - in East End post-election meeting of the cabin taking sdw w jfj et. He said he would serve out his C l i I.Dc-al im r< ' ' ' 3 term but rfused to comment on ' t , predictions that he would not be in I- tv.vcll Sil ' the next cabinet. Mr. Farley is about to leave for a short vacation in Ireland. I lf mel2 £ isd L The Democratic national chair ' 1 I « ft txV man, commenting on the election, called attention to his exact f o r e cast that Roosevelt would carry . every state except Maine and Ver mont, and added; "W e would have ' i r mgrapidlj- J ^ carried Maine if we had put forth .•ml the same effort there as we did in » . -! ' '" „ M M - « 1 the September election.” \ ' >’ 11 1,1 , t„ obtainr tia,. areh aslen W ^“ J Most Governorships Are Won by Democrats A T LEAST 25 slates elected Dem * * ocratic governors, and the num ber may be 27. In only three were the Republican nominees winners. William Langer, independent, won the governorship of North Dakota from which he was ousted some time ago. Elmer Benson, Farmer- Laborite, was victorious in Minne sota, and Philip F. La Follette. Pro gressive, in Wisconsin. New York rc-eleclcd Gov. Herbert Lehman, R oosevelt May Mak* to Buenos ^ 'rei ___ ..o.nFNT roo |