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FRID A Y , A PR IL 2, 19JÎ7 THE B O N N E V I L L E DAM C H R O N I C L E TW O Review o f the History - Making Events o f the W orld By sit-down strike is the most ominous victims were blasted out of their thing in our national life today, bad shoes. He noticed no burns. President Roosevelt, hearing at for the government and in the long Warm Springs about the horrible Washington that President Roose run worse for labor. The Democratic senate whip, Sen disaster, was most distressed and velt might intervene to settle ator James Hamilton Lewis of Illi urged the Red Cross “ and all of the the dispute. Under the voluntary plan, taxes nois, vehemently criticized sit-down government agencies” to stand by starting at 2:5 per cent on both tactics of labor and demanded in and render every assistance possi employers’ payrolls and employees’ vestigation by congress. “ Is the ble. Albert Evans, flood disaster wages would increase gradually to United States a government?” Lew head in Little Rock, Ark., and his “ Every form of com staff rushed to the stricken Texas 3.5 per cent on each in 1949. The is asked. management-labor understanding merce is being torn apart under town, and all communities within provides that both would back the the name of controversy between reach gave aid to the extent of their plan in congress. It would supersede employer and employee, leading to capacity. The blast smashed to bits the the 1935 retirement legislation now the danger of national riots.” main structure of the educational under court attack by the roads. plant that was termed the largest Pope Accuses Germany of rural school in America and the Detroit Is Threatened Violating the Concordat richest in the world. D OPE PIUS XI, in a strong papal W ith General Strike About 740 children and 38 teachers ECAUSE the Detroit police, di * letter to the Catholic congrega were in the building at the time and rected by Mayor Frank Couzens tions of Germany, accused the Nazi nearly all who were not killed out and Police Commissioner Pickert government of violating the concor right were injured. Of the latter it put an end to a number of the dat with the Vatican which was con was believed many would not re cluded in July, 1933, and of foster cover. smaller s i t d o w n ing anti-Christian movements. If the strikes in that city terms of the concordat were not by raiding and ar La Guardia-Hitler Row kept, said the pope, “ that is not resting the strikers, the fault of the church. The other Makes Mr. Hull Tired Homer M a r t i n , side made unfair interpretation of HAT controversy between May president of the the concordat, evaded its provi or La Guardia of New York and United Automobile sions, undermined its content, and the German Nazis degenerated into Workers, threatened finally more or less openly violated a riot of abusiveness on both sides. to call a general its stipulations and the unwritten German Ambassador Luther again strike in all the auto law governing its actions.” asked and received an apology from plants there except Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler’ s news Secretary Hull after La Guardia had those of General paper Voelkischer Beobachter, in called Reichsfuehrer Hitler “ satis- Motors. Governor an editorial interpreted as an an faktionfahig” —a man without hon "I don’ t believe Murphy swer to the pastoral letter, implied or. And Mr. Hull politely expressed Mr. Martin would be so unwise as to call out on gen the concordat might be cancelled by his weariness with the whole squab ble. In Berlin Ambassador Dodd eral strike men who have just been the reich. “ At the conclusion of the concord was telling Foreign Minister Neu through six years of suffering due tA depression and loss of work,” at, the state could not know how rath that the anti-American cam Mayor Couzens said. “ It would the church would later interpret its paign in the German press should provisions,” said the newspaper, de be stopped, and both those diplomats be unfortunate for him to do so.” The mayor added that the police claring that “ even an agreement were pictured as ready to call it would continue to evict strikers with the holy see has not sacro all off. from plants and stores held by oth sanct, untouchable and eternal val ers than employees at the places. ue.” Amelia Earhart’s Flight The eight Chrysler plants were Stopped by Crack-Up still held by the sitdowners, and Spanish Loyalists W in on m e l i a e a r h a r t ’ s giobe-en- everyone was waiting anxiously for Guadalajara Front circling flight ended, for the Gov. Frank Murphy to determine what action the state government OPANISH government forces were present, at Honolulu when she would take to enforce the law. Evic ^ victorious in some heavy fight cracked up her $80,000 “ laboratory plane” at the take tion and arrest of the strikers had ing on the Guadalajara front north off for Howland is east of Madrid, their chief gain been ordered by Circuit Judge land. By q u i c k Campbell, whose order to get out being the capital of Brihuega, thinking and action was defied by the workers, but the headquarters of the insurgents. The she saved her life sheriff said he couldn’ t act further latter, however, scored in the Uni and those of Capt. versity City quarter of the capital, until he was given a sufficient force Harry Manning and and on the southern front were pre- of deputies. Fred J. Noonan, her Governor Murphy had declared prring to attack Pozoblanco, the navigators, but the that constituted authority must be key to mercury, lead, sulphur and plane was so badly obeyed, but he explained his failure coal mining territory. damaged that it had Paris claimed to have information to act promptly by saying that to be shipped back “ blind adherence to a legalistic phil that Germans had supervised and to the Los Angeles osophy will surely lead to eventual helped a line of fortifications along Amelia factory for repairs. frustration of the democratic ideal the Spanish Moroccan coast that Earhart The daring aviatrix of true freedom.” threatens British control of the sailed immediately for San Francis The committee named by the gov Strait of Gibraltar. co, asserting that she would resume ernor to devise ways of disposing the flight as soon as possible. of future labor disputes was busy School Disaster Cause As the big plane rushed down the formulating legislation; and Mr. runway for the take-off it swayed Murphy held frequent consultations Not Yet Certain with James F. Dewey, federal con O EVERAL investigations into the badly, the right tire burst afnd the ciliator. Also he was in communi ^ terrible explosion that destroyed ship went out of control. The left the fine London Community school undercarriage buckled and the left cation with Washington. in east Texas and killed nearly 500 wing slashed into the ground. The pupils and teachers were under ship then spun to the right, crashed Sitdown Strikes Debated way, but at this writing the cause down on its right wing, and the right by the Senate of the disaster has not been deter motor snapped off the right wheel. ^ENATORS indulged in an indig- mined. The most plausible theory Miss Earhart quickly cut the igni ^ nant debate concerning the sit- was formed when D. L. Clark, field tion switches, so there was no fire, down strike and there were de foreman for the near-by Parade Oil and no one was injured. mands for a congressional investi company, testified that the school The first leg of the flight, from gation of this new had been using “ wet” gas from the Oakland to Honolulu, had been weapon of l a b o r . pipe lines of the company. This is made successfully and in record Majority L e a d e r a residue gas rich in butane, a high time, but an inspection revealed Joe Robinson said: ly explosive compound of carbon that the propellor bearings of the “ Manifestly the sit- and hydrogen, and it is considered plane were almost dry when she down strike is un too dangerous for home use. Clark landed. A motor expert there said lawful. It is not said he first learned the school was Miss Earhart might have been within the rights of using the gas when he was notified forced down between Honolulu and any individual or that Superintendent W. C. Shaw of Howland island had this not been group of individuals the school wanted it shut off. School discovered. to seize or retain employees said the change from ^ possession of prop "d ry” to “ wet” ’ gas was made French Woman’s Bullet erty to the exclusion only a month ago on order of the Sen. Robinson of the employer for school board chairman. That gen Stirs Mussolini Scandal a d e l in e l a f e r r i e r e , a the purpose of enforcing demands tleman said the company knew of beautiful Parisienne, stirred against the employer.” the use of the gas. However, he added, it was diffi Information elicited from wit up a pretty scandal when she shot cult for the federal government to nesses indicated definitely that the and slightly wounded Count Charles do anything in the matter until the crushing explosion in the school de Chambrun, former French am The young Supreme court has passed on the house had its origin in the air space bassador to Italy. validity of the Wagner-Connery between the floor of the one-story woman asserted the count had labor relations act. wing of the structure and the caused her to lose the love of a “ great Italian” man of state whose Senator Van Nuys of Indiana, ground. Democrat, and others protested John Murrell, one time Army foot affections she had won in recent in against this seeming effort to place ball player and all-American full terviews. She has made many trips on the Supreme court the blame back, now an oil engineer, described to Rome, where she was received in for the epidemic of sitdown strikes. what he saw after the explosion. diplomatic society, and is known to Senator Johnson of California He said many bodies were blown have been granted several inter gave a “ general warning” that the into the yard and that most of the views by Premier Benito Mussolini. E D W A R D W. P I C K A R D © Western Newspaper Union. Chief Justice Hughes Opposes Court Plan HIEF JUSTICE CHARLES E. HUGHES created something of a sensation by sending to the senate judiciary committee a letter declar ing that an increase in the number of Su preme court jus tices, as proposed by President Roose velt, “ would not pro mote the efficiency of the court.” He added: “ It is believed that it would impair that efficiency so long as the court acts as a * Chief Justice unit. “ There would be Hughes more judges to hear, more judges to confer, more judges to discuss, more judges to be con vinced and to decide. The present number of justices is thought to be large enough so far as the prompt, adequate and efficient conduct of the work of the court is concerned.” Mr. Hughes said his letter was approved by Justices Van Devanter and Brandeis. He made it clear that he was commenting on an in crease from the standpoint of ef ficiency and “ apart from any ques tion of policy,” which he said, “ I do not discuss.” Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, Democrat, was the first opposition witness called before the committee, and he started in by reading Mr. Hughes’ letter. Be fore entering the committee room he said he believed the adminis tration would eventually accept a compromise plan. He advocates a constitutional amendment, permit ting congress, by two-thirds ma jority, to override Supreme court in validation of acts of congress, pro vided a national election had in tervened between invalidation and overriding. “ The administration will compro mise, don’ t worry,” Wheeler said. “ They can’t get more than thirty- five senate votes for the President’ s plan. Public opinion, which swerved toward them for a while, is now swinging heavily against them.” Edward S. Corwin, professor of constitutional law at Princeton, was heard by the senate committee in support of the President’ s bill and he got along very nicely until Sen ator Burke, leader of the opposition, called his attention to a speech the professor made a year ago and a book he wrote 25 years ago, in both of which he expressed views quite different from those he seemingly now holds. Then Senator Tom Con- nally took a hand in the questioning: “ Now you say the court is biased. You want to add six new justices who will be biased in the other di rection, don’ t you?” Prbfessor Corwin evaded a direct answer for some time, but Senator Connally demanded to know whether he did not support the President's plan for this purpose. “ Well, that is one of the reasons,” the witness said. The American Federation of La bor, like its opponent, the C. I. O., has favored the President’ s court plan, though rather mildly, but President William Green, when he appeared before the senate commit tee, was even less emphatic in his approval of it. He denied that the court as now constituted “ has as sumed dictatorial power or that its members have not the mental ca pacity or the necessary learning.” C Treasury Objects to the Railway Pension Plan 'T 'H E new railway pension plan agreed upon by railroad man agement and labor doesn’ t meet with the approval of the Treasury department, which says its taxes on employers and employees are too low to meet pension outlays. If the income fails to level up with outgo, say treasury officials, the differ ence would come out of general gov ernment funds. It was predicted in B T m A M Paris papers did not mention Mus solini, but the London Daily Mirror did not hesitate to say that he was the “ great Italian” involved. Communism Condemned by Pope Pius OPE PIUS in a long encyclical condemned communism as “ the ruin of family and society” and called on Christian employers ev erywhere to combat it by recogniz ing "the inalienable rights of the working man.” He accused the com munists of having played upon the susceptibility of the working classes with promises of alleviation of “ many undeniable abuses.” P Eccles Sees Danger in Inflationary Prices ARRINER S. ECCLES, chair man of the Federal Reserve board, started something when he issued a warning against the dan gers in inflationary price rises, which are due, he says, chiefly to foreign armament demands, strikes and monopo listic practices by certain groups in both industry and organized labor. He argued for continu ance of low interest rates but said the budget should be Eccles balanced and taxes on incomes and profits should be raised, if neces sary, “ to sustain the volume of re lief and at the same time bring the budget into balance and permit the paring down of public debt as private debt expands.” The federal reserve system, said Mr. Eccles, “ is powerful to main tain a stable economy unless other essential nonmonetary factors nec essary to stability are brought into line either by private interests or by the government.” This statement, presumably made with the approval of Secretary Mor- genthau and the knowledge of Pres ident Roosevelt, aroused a lot of talk in Washington and the adminis tration leaders were discussing taxes and receipts. Generally they agreed that there will be no exten sive tax change—merely a resolu tion in June extending for one year $400,000,000 in “ nuisance” levies. It may be the Eccles warning will serve to curb the demands of vari ous department heads and congress men for more huge appropriations. M Famous Napoleon Born Under Flag of France For centuries before Napoleon’ s birth Corsica was under the domi nation of Genoa. King Henry II of France had in the Sixteenth centu ry (1553 to 1556) attempted its con quest, but a few years later it was handed back to the Genoese repub lic. In May, 1769, after the Corsi can patriots under Paoli had forced out the Genoese, only to be followed by a French invasion, the island became a French possession. A few months later Napoleon was born, a French citizen. His own father had been a follower and friend of Paoli, had declared against France and had fought for Corsican independ ence. The Story-Life of Napoleon says: “ Some 300 Corsicans, determined never to wear the yoke of t h e French, gathered around their gen eral-in-chief and sailed away on an exile to England. Signora Buona parte’ s husband was eager to go with them. But for the objections of the wife, who was to be a mother again in three months, London and not Ajaccio would have been the birthplace of Napoleen and he would have become perhaps a Brit ish soldier. Yielding to her coun sels, the husband took the lead in making peace with the French com mander.” Napoleon himself wrote “ I was born while my country was dying;” also “ I will never forgive my father, who was Paoli’ s adjutant, for having concurred in the union of Corsica with France.” —Detroit News.