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T H E B O N N E V I L L E DAM C H R O N IC L E
Review o f the History - Making Events of
FRIDAY, JANUARY
the
iïü,
1987
World
not ask the courts to call non-ex
istent powers into being, but we
have a right to expect that con
to a general public works program,
ceded powers or those legitimately
Deadlock Continues in
excluding
the
Florida
ship
canal
implied shall be made effective in
General Motors Strike
and the Passamaquoddy tide har
struments for the common good.
OV.
FRANK
MURPHY
of
Mich
G igan abandoned, at least for nessing project: 482 millions for ag
"The process of our democracy
ric
u
ltu
ra
l
relief
and
soil
conserva
must
not be imperiled by the denial
the present, his efforts to end the tion; 835 millions for social secur
of
essential
powers of free govern
deadlock between the General Mo ity, and 316 millions for recovery
ment.”
tors corporation and
New Minnesota Governor
Sketching the program for his sec
the striking m em and The relief.
Gives Supreme Court Slap
message revealed that Mr.
ond term, the President said legis
bers of the United Roosevelt
INNESOTA'S new governor, lation he desired at this time in
to curtail relief
Automobile Work expenditures planned
Elmer A. Benson, in his in cluded extension of the RFC, of his
sharply
from
the
1936-
ers, but Jam es F. 37 levels. But he found available
augural address took a hard slap power
at to devalue the dollar and of
Dewey, conciliator funds insufficient for the rest of
the
Supreme
court.
Said
he:
other
New Deal authorizations about
for the Department the current fiscal year and asked
"I
recommend
that
you
petition
to
expire,
deficiency appropria
of Labor, remained congress to appropriate $790,000,000
congress
to
submit
a
constitutional
tions,
and
extension
of the neutrality
in Detroit, still hope immediately, of which $650,000,000
amendment
which
would
remove
law
to
apply
to
the
Spanish civil
ful of bringing about is to be expended for recovery and
from the Supreme court its assumed war. Conceding that NRA had
a peace conference. relief between February 1 and June
power to declare unconstitutional “tried to do too much,” he contin
William S. Knudsen, 30 when the 1937 fiscal year ends.
laws passed by congress pertaining ued: "The statute of NRA has be *n
vice presi
William S. executive
to child labor, regulating working outlawed. The problems have not.
dent of General Mo
Knudsen tors,
conditions in industry and agri They are still with us.”
France
Ready
to
Occupy
thus stated the
cultural
and industrial production,
corporation’s position:
Spanish
Morocco
providing
security against old age,
"General Motors corporation rep
RANCE,
according
to
reliable
re
unemployment
and sickness and so James Roosevelt Will Be
F
resentatives immediately u p o n
ports,
is
all
set
to
occupy
Span
cial legislation generally.
White House Secretary
evacuation of its plants by employ ish Morocco, and expects the full
"Progressive America stands T WAS announced at the White
ees engaged in sit down strikes will co-operation of Great Britain. The
helpless to enact needed social and
House that President Roosevelt's
meet with representatives of the French had sent to
economic
reforms
while
a
reaction
eldest
son, James, will become a
union, but to accept the union’s General F r a n c o ,
ary
Supreme
court
has
usurped
au
full
fledged
White House secretary
conditions would have placed Gen head of the Spanish
Crown
Princess
Juliana
tocratic
powers
never
intended
by
and
draw
a
salary
of $ 10,000 a year
eral Motors in the position of con Fascists, one protest
Married in The Hague
the fram ers of the Constitution.”
after
June
1.
Until
the beginning
doning their illegal actions. We can against the alleged
PRINCESS JULIANA of
of
the
new
fiscal
year,
Jam es will
C ROWN
not condone illegal occupation of admission to Moroc
the
Netherlands
and
Prince
act
as
secretary
but
will
be on the
our plants.”
co of G e r m a n
Red
Revolt
Reported
in
Bernhard
zu
Lippe-Biesterfeld
were
public
pay
roll
as
administrative
of
The union conditions, as set forth troops, and t h e n
made
man
and
wife
at
The
Hague,
Two
Chinese
Provinces
ficer
drawing
$7,500.
by President Homer Martin, were: sent another before
and all the Dutch people rejoiced S UBMISSION, conviction and par At the elevation of James to the
"We are willing to agree to with taking drastic ac
exceedingly.
There were two cere
don of Marshal Shang Hsueh- secretaryship, Assistant W h i t e
drawal if negotiations are opened tion. If they do
monies,
a
civil
one
conducted
by
Chiang
Kai-shek of China, appar House Secretaries Stephen T. Early
immediately with an agreem ent that move, it will be
the
burgomaster
in
the
town
hall
ently
hasn’t
ended the trouble start and Marvin M. McIntyre will also
all plants rem ain closed, without nominally in behalf
a religious one in St. James ed by him. Dispatches from Sianfu become
full secretaries.
movement of equipment or resum p of the sultan of Mo Gen. Franco and
The tall, plump bride wore said a m ajority of Chang’s former
tion of activities until a national set rocco and because of violation of a church.
robe over her wedding dress Manchurian army, numbering 250,-
tlement is effected, and with a fur the Franco-Spanish treaty of 1912. and silver
Bernhard
in the full dress 000 troops, has joined red troops of Neutrality Resolution
ther agreement that all activities France has 100,000 men in her Mo uniform of the was
Blue
Hussars.
Shensi and Kansu provinces in open Applied to Spain’s War
such as circulation of petitions, or roccan army and could easily and Before the wedding
there
had
HE senate and house met the
revolt
the central govern
ganizing of vigilante activities, speedily occupy most of the Spanish been a series of disturbing incidents, ment to against
day before the President ad
establish
a
vast
communist
threatening or coercing of employ zone, which the Fascists control. including "insults” to the Nazi flag empire in northwest China.
them and organized, with
ees, be immediately stopped."
Support by the British presumably of Germany and protests by Reichs- Reliable sources said that be Mr. dressed
Garner
of course as president
About a thousand men, engaged would come from the British fleet fuehrer Hitler. But apologies and tween 5,000 and 10,000 persons were of the former,
and
in the sit down strikes, were thus in the Strait of Gibraltar and possi explanations cleared everything up killed during the Shensi rebellion j Speaker Bankhead
holding up negotiations for settle bly from troops to replace French and Hitler sent to Queen Wilhel-
while Chiang was held captive, and ! again ruling over
m ent of the controversy which al forces taken from the German bor mina
a
cordial
telegram
of
congrat
the
Sianfu authorities feared a re- | the lower chamber.
ready had thrown out of work near der.
ulations
on
the
marriage
of
her
only
newal of the slaughter there. Sand The one m atter of
ly 100,000 employees of the corpora Franco sent a conciliatory reply daughter.
bag barricades and trench fortifica interest in this pro
tion.
to Paris.
The
only
other
wedding
permit
tions
were constructed around the ceeding was the se
General Motors officials received At a reception to diplomats Chan ted in Holland on that day was that
lection of Sam Ray
city.
telegram s from a number of Ameri cellor Hitler talked with the French of "the other Juliana,” a peasant
burn
of Texas as
can Federation of Labor units urg ambassador to Berlin and assured girl who was born at the same hour
m
ajority
leader of
ing no recognition of the United Au him that Germany had no intention on the same day as the crown prin Landon to Build Country
the
house.
He had
tomobile Workers as sole bargain of attempting to seize Spanish Mo cess.
Home
Near
Topeka
beaten
John
J. O’
ing agency for the motor car fac rocco.
LF
M.
LANDON
retired
from
Connor
of
New
York
tory workers. They were assured Berlin has indignantly denied the
Sam
public
office,
turning
over
the
in
the
caucus,
hav Rayburn
the corporation would not back presence of German troops in Span Kidnaped Boy Found Slain
governorship of Kansas to Walter ing the potent back
down on this point.
Near
Everett,
Wash.
ish
Morocco,
asserting
they
are
min
A.
Huxman,
a Democrat. He let ing of Vice President Garner and
Making the situation more diffi ing men and properly are arm ed for ^EN-year-old Charles Mattson, it be kne *vn that
he had purchased presumably of Mr. Roosevelt. Of
cult, the strikers in Flint engaged in self protection. High Commissioner
two
suburban
tracts
totaling 160 the total of 16 new senators only
kidnaped
from
his
home
in
Ta
a wild, riotous battle with the Beigbeder of Spanish Morocco also coma, Wash., Dec. 27 and held for acres west of Topeka and
will build two were absent, Clyde L. Herring
guards and city police that lasted avers there are no foreign troops ransom, was found beaten to death there a house of colonial type
of Iowa and William H. Smathers
for hours and resulted in the injury in his territory. To a correspond in snow covered woods near Ev he and Mrs. Landon and their where
chil
of New Jersey, both Democrats.
of dozens of men. The local offi ent he said: "You can declare no erett. The body was nude and cru dren will reside. Until the place Two
Republican senators were
cers restrained themselves adm ir soldier, German, Italian, or even elly battered. State and city police is completed they will make their sworn new
in, H. Styles Bridges of New
ably though armed with machine Japanese—for they will soon invent and department of justice agents, home with Mrs. Landon’s mother, Hampshire
and Henry Cabot Lodge
guns, and the state police were hur news of Japanese landing — has who had been held back to give the Mrs. S. E. Cobb, in Topeka.
of
Massachusetts.
ried to the scene to aid them. Gov
our frontiers.”
lad’s father a chance to pay the
Immediately after the President’s
ernor Murphy and other state offi crossed
ransom
and
save
his
son,
immedi
At
G
ibraltar
there
was
a
report
address
had been delivered on Wed
cials also went to Flint.
that 3,000 Japanese volunteers were ately began an intensive manhunt, Supreme Court Rebuked
nesday,
both house and senate hur
but
their
clews
were
few
and
poor.
by
the
President
expected
to
land
at
Cadiz
and
Jerez
ried
with
the neutrality resolution
Congress Receives Budget
HINLY veiled but unmistakable applying specifically to the civil war
de la Frontera to join Franco's
Message of President
troops in a final assault on Madrid. Death of Admiral Gleaves,
was President Roosevelt’s re in Spain. The senate adopted it
TATING that he expects to bal Tokio said the story was fantastic. World War Figure
buke to the Supreme court in his quickly by unanimous vote, but
ance the national budget and be G reat Britain, angered by the air
annual
message on the state of the there were parliam entary delays in
d m ir a l a l b e r t g l e a v e s ,
gin reducing the national debt in bombing of her embassy In Madrid,
Union. Standing tri the house, and meanwhile the
S. N., retired, died at his
1939, President Roosevelt submit filed protest. Some of her most home U. near
umphant
before the freighter Mar Cantábrico managed
Philadelphia at the age
ted to congress a budget for the 1938 powerful warships were added to of seventy-nine
lopsidcdly
D e m o- to get away from New York with
years, thus ending
fiscal year. This, he said, balanced the fleet at Gibraltar. The British a career that carried
cratic
senate
and Robert Cuse’s cargo of airplanes
through
conditionally except for statutory government forbade citizens to en two wars and won for him
house
in
joint
ses
debt retirem ent—meaning that if list in Spain, and continued its ef from five nations. During him the honors
sion, the chief exec Leon Trotzky Arrives
his conditions are met the gross def forts to persuade other nations to war Admiral Gleaves was World
utive
said:
com
icit for the fiscal year beginning stop the sending of volunteers to that mander of the American cruiser
“T h e U n i t e d in Mexico City
July 1 would not be more than country. France agreed to intro and transport force and thereafter
ÎON TROTZKY. the exiled Rus
States of America,
$401,515,000, compared with $2,652,- duce
sian Communist who is such a
within itself, must
legislation to that effect, but was known as "the man who took
652,774 in the current fiscal year Germany
thorn
in the flesh of Dictator Stalin,
continue
the
task
of
Italy were still cling them over and brought them back.”
and $4,763,841,642 in the 1936 fiscal ing to their and
making democracy has reached his new haven in Mexi
conditions
and
allegedly
year, which ended last June 30.
co City. Arriving at Tampico from
continuing to give aid to the Franco Maritime Commission to
President succeed.
But the President warned the na forces.
Norway
and his wife were put
"In
that
task
the
Roosevelt legislative branch aboard a he heavily
tion that conditional budget balance
Dispose of Ships
guarded train in a
in the next fiscal year and complete
A
NNOUNCEMENT
is
made
by
special
car
and
carried
to the cap
of
our
government
will,
I
am
confi
balance in the following year de Program for Recovery
* the United States Maritime dent, continue to meet the demands ital.
pended on industry's co-operation in of Brookings Institute
commission that it will dispose of of democracy whether they relate to To newspaper men Trotzky ex
hiring more persons from relief I N ONE of its periodic analyses of four shipping lines by June 29 next. the curbing of abuses, the extension pressed the belief that there was a
rolls. All estimates were dependent
the economic situation the Brook They now operate 36 vessels in di of help to those who need help, or "75 per cent chance” that war
upon continued economic improve ings institute, non-partisan research rect competition with private Amer the better balancing of our inter would break out soon in Europe. He
ment.
foundation, summarizes proposals ican shipping.
also said Mexico could be assured
dependent economies.
The President estim ated that fed for "a consistent program of fur The lines and the routes they "So, too, the executive branch of he would not violate conditions un
eral revenue in the next fiscal year ther recovery,” the seven points of serve are: Cosmopolitan Shipping the government must move forward der which he was granted asylum
will increase by $1.475.466,378 be which are, briefly:
Company. Inc., operating the Amer in this task and. at the same time. j there. The conditions were "abso
cause of better business and higher Re-establishment of a balanced ican France line serving French provide better management for ad lute nonintervention in Mexican pol
taxes. He did not propose new taxes federal budget.
ports; the Southgate-Nelsin Corpo ministrative action of all kinds.
itics and abstention from anything
but opposed the. reduction of any Continuance of the present policy ration operating the American "The judicial branch also is asked which might endanger friendly rela
taxes now in effect.
of maintaining a fixed price of gold Hampton Roads—-Yankee and Ori by the people to do its part in m ak tions between this government and
The message allotted 451 millions and the establishment through in ole luies serving Germany and the ing democracy successful. We do any other country.”
By E D W © A Western
R D Newspaper
W. Union.
PICKARD
ternational co-operation of a system
of stable foreign exchange.
Extension of the reciprocal trade
agreements “as the most practical
means of reducing artificial barriers
to commerce and reopening the
channels of international trade.”
Preservation of the "generally
favorable ratio of prices and wage
rates.”
Maintenance of prevailing hours
of labor "as the only means of
meeting the production require
ments involved in restoring dur
ing the next few years the stand
ards of living of the laboring masses
and promoting the economic ad
vancement of the nation as a
whole.”
Elimination of private and public
industrial practices "which tend to
restrict output or to prevent the in
crease of productive efficiency.”
"Shifting of the emphasis in agri
cultural policy from restricted out
put and rising prices to the abun
dant furnishings of the supplies of
raw materials and foodstuffs re
quired by gradually expanding m ar
kets.”
United Kingdom; the Roosevelt
Steamship Company, Inc., operat
ing the American pioneer line serv
ing Australia, India and the far
east, and C. H. Sprague & Son, Inc.,
operating the American -Republics
line serving the east coast of South
America.
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