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Fill DAY, JUNE 18, 1037 Review o f the History - Making Events o f the W orld By E D W A R D W. PICKARD © Western Newspaper Union. Duke and Wally Married by England’s Rebel Parson ««T BECAME the hand of God and * am carrying out God’ s will,” the Rev. R. Anderson Jardine, the “ poor man’ s parson,” told his Dar lington congregation at Durham, Eng land, upon his re turn from Chateau de Cande, in Monts, France. There he had married Ed ward, duke of Wind sor, and Mrs. Wallis Warfield, in the re ligious ceremony of the Church of Eng land, despite the dic- Duchess turn of the church of Windsoi that t h e history making couple be denied the rites. Married earlier in the same day in a civil ceremony performed by the mayor of Monts, the Duke and “ Wally” left on their honeymoon and are now at Wasserleonburg cas tle in lower Austria. Sixteer principal guests were present in the chateau when Mayor Merciei, pronouncing the English names with difficulty, and speaking in French, performed the civil ceremony and pronounced the duke and Wallis man and wife. Vicar Jardine, who had volunteered his services, recited the solemn reli gious rites as prescribed by the church, the duke placed the ring on the duchess’ fourth finger, and they knelt on white silk cushions while the minister prayed. Through out the entire service the famous organist, Marcel Dupre, played soft ly. The duchess, who cannot be called "her royal highness,” wore a gown of Wallis blue and the corre spondents privileged to be present were agreed that she was a beau tiful, gracious and serene woman. The Chateau de Cande, owned by Mr and Mrs. Charles Bedaux of New York, was lavishly decorated with flowers Wedding presents were numerous, of course, and some of the richest were sent by members of the British royal fam ily. Downing Street, determined that the popularity of the former king, heightened by the pathos of his role of “ under dog,” should not damage the prestige of the Crown and the church, asked newspapers to clamp down on publicity con cerning the rebel vicar. The post master general ordered all stamps bearing the likeness of Edward de stroyed. Not a foot of the special films or newsreels taken at Monts will be permitted to show in the United Kingdom. Long-Lost Airliner Found on Utah Mountainside N December 15, 1936, Pilot S. J. Samson, operating a Western Air Express liner from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, with four passen gers, co - pilot and stewardess aboard, reported by his radio to the caretaker of the airport at Milford, Utah, and asked that his position be checked. His voice was never again heard. Now after nearly six months the wreckage of the air plane has been found high in the Wasatch mountains, 25 miles south east of Salt Lake City and 35 miles off the regular airline course. So shattered was the plane that the largest single piece of debris was a part of a propeller. Bodies of all aboard were buried 25 to 50 feet in the drifts of snow. With a rich jewelry shipment re ported to have been aboard the ship, a guard was placed around the wreckage and given orders to “ shoot on sight” until the wreck should be recovered; four souvenir- hunters were shot at three times. Ronald Dyche, of the national for est service, who aided in the long search, revealed how close the air travelers came to escaping death. “ If they had just been flying 25 feet higher,” he said, “ they might have O made it over the peak and possibly reached safety." Four men, natives of the moun tainous region, accidentally discov ered the lost plane; they announced that they would seek to share a $1,- 000 reward posted by Western Air Express. Congress May Be at It Until Winter’s Snow Flies the election returns of R EADING of an overwhelming Democratic landslide last November, Charles Michelson, publicity director of the Democratic national committee, said: “ We will regret this.” The great party majorities in both houses now show signs of splitting into regional and economic blocs, which is exactly what he was afraid of. Biggest wedge in forcing t h e split among the party ranks was, of course, the President’ s bill for the reorganization of the Supreme court. This led a long list of bills, many of them expected to evoke heated con troversies in congress, which threat ened to postpone adjournment to mid - winter. Indeed, it w a s believed by some that if part of the program were not postponed, this session would run continuously into the next, beginning in January. Besides the Court bill, there are to be acted upon measures for the establishment of wage and hour standards for interstate industries, the curtailment of tax dodging, re organization of the executive branch of the government, helping farm tenants, conservation of soil, water power resources and housing. Tax-Dodging Investigated by Congressional Body dodging by wealthy men and T AX women, excoriated by President Roosevelt in a special message, is going to be investigated speedily by a joint committee of congress. The reso lution for the in quiry was intro duced in the senate by Senator Pat Har rison of Mississippi, chairman of the fi nance committee; and in the house by Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the Sen. Harrison ways and means committee. The in vestigation is designed both to focus public attention on the extent of the alleged tax evasion and to provide congress with information neces sary for the drafting of corrective legislation. Congress, Under Pressure, Passes Work Relief Bill film executive, shot and killed him self two months after their wedding. At the time of her death she was being seen frequently in the com pany of suave William Powell. F. D. R. Asks for Seven More Projects Like TVA PR ESID E N T ROOSEVELT sent a message to congress asking for legislation creating seven regional power authorities patterned after the TVA. He proposed the country be divided into these regions: The Atlantic seaboard. The Great Lakes-Ohio valley. The Tennessee and Cumberland river basins. The Missouri and the Red River of the North basins. The Arksnsas, Red and Rio Grande river basins. The basins of the Colorado and other rivers flowing into the Pacific south of the California-Oregon state line. The Columbia river basin. *■ II Duce Shows von Blomberg His Mediterranean Strength British and Frenchnews- C ERTAIN papers of late have seen fit to “ pooh-pooh” the naval strength of II Duce in the Mediterranean. It is not altogether i m - possible that this de precation may have made Adolf Hitler a little uneasy about his alliance with the Italians. So Premier Mussolini i n v i t e d Field Marshal Wer ner von Bomberg down to the b l u e southern ocean to see for himself. More than 70 sub marines were massed as the feature of a mock combat off Naples. The grand fleet of 150 warships sum moned for the maneuvers went through their exercieses at a mini mum speed of 30 miles an hour. The German registered delight continually as II Duce pointed out to him every phase of the sham battle. Italian officers boasted: “ On ly Fascist Italy can mobilize so many underwater craft at a mo ment’ s notice.” The day before, Galeazzo Ciano, Italy’ s foreign minister, had in formed the British ambassador, Sir Eric Drummond, that Italy accept ed in principle all points in the British proposals to assure the safe ty of international naval patrols off Spain. It was understood that the Nazis had tendered the same ap proval. The three main points of the Brit ish proposal were: That both Span ish belligerents be required to give formal solemn assurances that they will respect international patrol ships; that safety zones for patrol ships be established at certain speci fied ports of the two belligerent parties; and that the four naval powers engaged in patrol duties consult each other on measures to be taken if any of their patrol ships should be attacked. The Italians and Nazis wanted the third point to per mit any ship attacked to retaliate at once. But they weren’ t insistent. A DMINISTRATION leaders, from the President down, "turned the heat” on the rebellious mem bers of the house, and the latter sul lenly gave in and passed the billion and a half dollar work relief bill about as Mr. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins wanted it. One after an other the restrictive amendments earmarking $505,000,000 of the total for projects of a solid type, flood control and highways, which had John D. Rockefeller Leaves been adopted in committee of the Granddaughter His Estate whole, were called up again and OHN D. ROCKEFELLER, who voted down by substantial majori died May 23, left his residuary ties. The final vote by which the estate, estimated at $25,000,000 in measure was sent on to the senate trust for his granddaughter, Mrs. was 323 to 44. Margaret Strong De Cuevas, her two young children, Elizabeth and John, and the Rockefeller Institute Jean Harlow, Blond for Medical Research. The will was Actress, Dies at 26 filed in the Westchester county sur EAN HARLOW, one of the most rogate's court at White Plains, N. Y. glamorous characters in life to Mrs. De Cuevas lives in Lake- millions of Americans, died of wood. N. J., and Paris. She mar uremic poisoning in Hollywood. The ried the Marquis George De Cuevas impetuous actress who started the in 1927, and is the daughter of the platinum blonde craze was o n l y deceased Bessie Rockefeller Strong, twenty - six, but she had known whose husband, Dr. Charles August tragedy. Born Harlean Carpentier us Strong, is a former professor of in Kansas City, she came to the psychology at the University of Chi movie capital in 1927. She had been cago, heavily endowed with Rock twice divorced and once widowed. efeller money. He now lives in Italy. Her second husband, Paul Bern, According to the final codicil, J J of America, Inc., was organized with a reported 7,000 members signed in two days, as an answer to attempts of C. I. O.’ s United Auto mobile Workers’ Union to unionize Ford. Byrd W. Scott, a Ford ma chinist for 20 years, explained: “ The Ten Priests Arrested as F. B. A. was started by myself, Nazis Open Fight on Church John B. McDowell, Benjamin Love EN Roman Catholic priests and a number of Ford employees were arrested as the dissention who have worked for the company between the Nazi government and from ten to twenty years. The or the church was fanned to a white ganization was formed because we heat, culminating in several fights in wanted an independent labor organ Munich. Priests replied spiritedly ization, not one affiliated with any to charges of immorality within national union.” their ranks—charges made by Min ister of Propaganda Goebbels in re ply to a verbal attack upon the New Cabinet Seekg Peace Nazis by Cardinal Mundelein of Chi Among Japanese Factions cago. e n e r a l h a y a s h i ’S semimiii- Hitler, in a speech at Regensburg, tary government of Japan was declared: “ It is not God who di forced to resign by the m ajor politi vides us, but human beings. The cal parties, and Emperor Hirohito Almighty has blessed our work; summoned Prince therefore, it cannot be destroyed.” Fumimaro Konoe, Priests read their congregations president of the the answer they had drafted to the house of peers, to immorality charges. It declared form a new cabinet. that of 25,635 priests in Germany This the prince pro only 58 are involved in immorality ceeded to do, and charges, or “ less than of 1 per he was meeting with cent, or one priest in every 500.” a l m o s t complete success in finding men who would ac Four Men and a Dog Left cept office. Tempo for Year at North Pole rarily he had trouble OUR men and a dog were left on in getting a finance *>rince Konoe an ice floe near the north pole minister. The new government in when the four airplanes of the Soviet cludes representatives of the big union’ s polar expedition took off Seiyukai and Minseito parties and from the basecamp to return to is considered, therefore, a national Rudolph’ s island, 560 miles from coalition cabinet. Presumably it is the pole. They will remain a year committed to a large army and on the ice floe to add to Russian navy, a strong foreign policy and scientific knowledge of the “ birth drastic administrative reforms. place of the weather.” The four humans the planes left behind are Ivan Papinin, veteran Court Puts Off Power Arctic explorer and leader of the Case Until Fall Session groups; Ernest Krenkel, radio op D E F O R E adjourning to October erator, who went with Byrd to the the Supreme court overruled a Antarctic in 1929; Pyotr Shirsov, hy government request that it refuse to dro-biologist, and Eugene Federov, review litigation challenging the magnetologist. They live in a hut constitutionality of federal financing lined with specially constructed fur of municipal power plants. By con and eiderdown and eat specially senting to pass on the controversy, concentrated foods. the court deferred a final verdict in the case until next fall, after argu C. I. O. Considers Organization ments are heard. The Department of Justice con of Civil Service Workers tended this would postpone the em OHN L. LEWIS, whose Commit ployment of many thousands of tee for Industrial Organization men. Officials of the Public Works might have been expected to retal administration declared the court's iate against the drive recently action means that “ at least another opened against it by six months” will elapse before ques William Green and tions affecting the release of $51,- the American Fed 000,000 for fifty-four public power eration of Labor, projects are settled. admitted that C. I. Italian warships were ordered to O. may enter the stop and search any Russian ves field of civil service. sels suspected of carrying war sup The move, which plies to Spanish loyalists, and the has been discussed German fleet in Spanish waters was by Lewis and his as re-inforced. German War Minister sociates for several Von Blomberg went to Rome to con weeks, would be in fer with Premier Mussolini and it direct opposition to was believed they were laying plans two established A. John L. Lewis for concerted action in support of F. of L. unions. General Blanco’ s siege of Bilbao. The new C. I. O. union would in Great Britain submitted to clude all types of government work France, Germany and Italy a three- ers outside of the military and semi point plan designed to restore military departments. Its potential friendly relations in dealing with the membership lies between 2,000,000 Spanish situation and to induce Ger and 3,000,000. many and Italy to return to the non Meanwhile there was plenty of intervention committee. The plan action elsewhere on the labor front. provides guaranties against further In Chicago, the Chicago Federation interference with nonintervention of Labor, an A. F. of L. associate, patrol ships. ousted 27 local unions, comprising Gen. Emlio Mola, director of the a membership of 20,000 to 30,000, Bilbao campaign and the most ca charging that they had been active pable of the rebel commanders, was in behalf of C. I. O. killed in the crash of an airplane in Also in Chicago, Mayor Edward which he was flying to Valladolid. J. Kelly ordered the plant of the Franco thereupon split the com Republic Steel corporation evacuat mand of his northern forces between ed. The company, in the throes General Davila, who will operate of a C. I. O. strike, was housing against Bilbao, and General Sali- non-striking employees in the plant, quet, who will command on the Ma that their work might continue; drid front. such housing of employees is forbid den by city ordinance. It was at the Secretary Ickes Is Sick Republic plant that seven strikers were killed and 90 wounded when in Naval Hospital ECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR they attacked police on guard a short HAROLD L. ICKES was taken time ago. It was reported that two who took part in the strikers’ attack to the Naval hospital in Washington admitted their group had been or to be treated for an intestinal dis ganized on a military basis, and had order. Physicians said he probably been drilled in practice for the drive would be absent from his office for several weeks, a protracted rest for two days before it was made. In Detroit, the Ford Brotherhood being imperative. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., falls heir to the personal effects of America’s first billionaire, who wanted to live to be one hundred and missed it by two years, dying at ninety-eight. T G F J S
