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TWO THE B O N N E V I L L E DAM CHRONI CL E N ews R eview o f Current E vents CONGRESS READY TO QUIT Senate Shelves Court, Farm Bills . . . Spanish Conflict Reaches Crisis .. . Fighting Continues in North China loyalist cause apparently rested on of the plant and set upon the pick resisting this, the most vicious at ets. Police tried to break up the tack the rebels had yet made. Gen. fighting, relying chiefly on their tear Francisco Franco’ s army, under his gas guns. One striker was killed personal supervision, was making when a moving automobile, which advances, but at such loss of men was being stoned, got out of con trol and ran berserk through a that the cost might be too great. picket line. Insurgents stormed loyalist en In Buffalo there was a serious trenchments directly in the face of point blank machine guns. Losses food shortage because of a strike were so terrible that thousands of of 1,000 wholesale grocery truck wounded lay without food or water drivers and 1,000 butchers at four among thousands already dead and meat packing plants. As C. I. O. decaying in the hot sun. Infantry, and A. F. of L. unionists co-operated tanks, cavalry and artillery were in their demand for closed shops, supplemented by airplane bombers. residents of the city were forced to In one salient 250,000 men were motor to the country for butter, fighting, including the cream of both eggs and vegetables. — * — armies. The loyalist position was admittedly the most serious of 'Joe' Robinson's Successor the whole war, and upon the govern HE Democratic state committee ment’ s ability to withhold against of Arkansas nominated Gov. the attack rested the fate of the Carl E. Bailey to be the late Joseph best units in its army. It was re T. Robinson’ s successor as United ported that 20,000 Italian troops States senator. He is had joined the rebels for the battle. forty-two years old. While the Madrid conflict was in Traditionally, hav full sway, the insurgents sprang a ing been nominated surprise air attack on Barcelona. by the state commit In the early dawn advance planes tee, Bailey is “ as dropped flares which lighted up the good as elected,” city. Then came additional planes, but he may be op dropping bombs on the easy target posed in the elec and turning machine guns on citi tions which he will zens who attempted to flee. At least call himself, Sep- 65 persons were killed and 150 in j „ tember 14, by a Re- jured. publican or by other Gov. Bailey Democrats running as independents. Rosser Venable, Low Interest for Farmers who opposed Robinson in the 1936 Y A vote of 71 to 19, the senate primary, had indicated that if Bai overrode the President’s veto of ley were nominated he would run in a bill extending for a year low inter opposition. The state Republican est rates on loans to farmers. It committee was reported seeking an was a defeat even more crushing opponent for the governor. than the recommission of the court bill, and made the bill a law with out the President’ s signature, for A Year of Reclamation the house had previously passed it p p l i c a t i o n s for grants under by a two-thirds majority over Mr. last year’ s agricultural conser Roosevelt’ s veto. vation program covered 283,000,000 Senator Barkley made a half acres—two-thirds of the country’ s hearted attempt to stave off the crop land—and represented an esti overwhelming vote, and the defeat mated 4,000,000 farmers, H. R. Tol was accepted by many observers as ley, agricultural adjustment admin an expression of resentment over istrator, reported. Nearly 31,000,000 Barkley’ s having been elected ma acres were diverted from crops jority leader instead of Sen. Pat which deplete the soil; 53,000,000 Harriiiscp of Mississippi. acres received the benefit of soil building practices. Conservation payments for the Barkley, 38; Harrison, 37 year totaled $32,323,303.11, benefit EN. WILLIAM H. DIETERICH and rental payments $235,744,264.42. of Illinois changed his mind at Total expenditures by AAA during the last minute and today Alben W. 1936 were $357,338,617.30, including Barkley, hard-fisted, blustering sen administrating expenditures and liq ator from Kentucky, uidation of obligations outstanding is the majority lead when the Supreme court held sec er of the United tions of the original AAA unconsti States senate, suc tutional. ceeding the late Jos eph T. Robinson of Arkansas. The vote De Valera Is Re-elecfed was 38 for Barkley F HIS party, Fianna Fail, can to 37 for Sen. Pat keep in power that long, Eamon Harrison of Missis de Valera will be president of the sippi. executive council of the Irish Free The conservative State for another five years. He ... n . Democrats in the Vice President senate had been ag. was elected to the nation’ s highest Garner sured of 38 votes, office by a vote of 82 to 52 in the dail eireann (parliament). De Val enough to elect Harrison, on the era, in favor of severing all ties eve of the secret election. But that with Great Britain, won even the night Dieterich, apparently under vote of the labor group, which does pressure from the Democratic party organization in Illinois, begged Har not endorse his party. It was believed that De Valera rison to release his pledged vote, in would go ahead with legislation nec order that the President’ s personal essary to implement the new consti choice might head the party in the tution approved in the plebiscite of senate. July I. He would in that case set The slim victory by no means patched the obvious party rift. Even up a senate and elect a president the administration admitted that the by popular vote, as the constitution President’s Supreme court bill was provides. If De Valera is elected virtually dead even then. Vice Pres president, to serve seven years, po ident Garner visited Sen. Burton K. litical experts say he will virtually Wheeler of Montana, leader of the disappear from politics and his opposition forces, and invited the party will break up. opposition to write its own bill. T ■ Sen. Harrison (right) congratulates Sen. Barkley. lu l W , ftlckjoJuL * SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK © Western Newspaper Union. 'Aw, Let's G o Homel' Supreme court bill recom W ITH mitted to the senate judiciary committee, a new substitute bill for reform of only the lower courts due to be reported out of the commit tee, and a new senate majority lead er selected to take the late Senator Robinson’ s place, the overwhelming sentiment of the members of the seventy-fifth congress was to pack up their bags and get as far away from Washington as possible. Even measures which President Roosevelt had insisted bear the "must” label were being shoved aside with dispatch, as Vice Presi dent Garner sought to heal the party wounds inflicted during the bitter court battle and salvage as much of the President’ s legislation as he could. The first to be buried was the new AAA and "ever-nor- mal granary” bill; the senate agri culture committee shelved it until the next session. The committee authorized James P. Pope, Idaho Democrat and co-sponsor of the bill, to prepare a senate resolution to lay the plans for regional hearings on a comprehensive farm program during the remainder of the sum mer and report back in January. It seemed certain that the Presi dent’ s legislation for governmental reorganization would be left over until next session when the record of three months’ hearings by the joint congressional committee was made public. It was revealed that committee members have not even come close to agreement on any of the main points involved. Majority Leader Barkley said that the White House still wanted the wages and hours bill, the Wagner low-cost housing bill and a judiciary bill passed, as well as legislation to plug tax loopholes. The Wagner bill, meanwhile, was reported out of committee, and it was expected the senate would act upon it quickly. It would set up a federal housing au thority with power to issue $700,- 000,000 in bonds over three years to make loans for "low-cost” hous ing construction. 'Glory Be to Godl' for weeks, the scheme to D YING add to the number of justices of the Supreme court finally choked its last gasp and left this world. On a roll-call vote the United States senate voted to recommit the Rob inson substitute for the President's original bill to the judiciary com mittee. The vote was 70 to 20. the most crushing defeat the Presi dent's legislation has yet suffered at the hands of a house of congress. In an agreement made at a ses sion of the judiciary committee ear lier, it had been decided to let the opposition senators write their own bill, an innocuous measure for "ju dicial reform” not dealing in any way with the Supreme court. Sena tor Barkley, the new majority lead er, attempted to save the Presi dent’s face by having the bill left on the calendar, but he never had a chance. When the roll-call came, even Senators' Ashurst of Arizona and Minton of Indiana, two of the Supreme court bill’ s chief support ers, voted to recommit. “ Glory be to G od!” said Sen. Hi ram Johnson (Rep.. Calif.) when the results of the roll call were made known. The applause that bellowed forth from the senators and gallery alike left no doubt that the veteran from California had voiced the sentiments of the great majority. Is This the Beginning? JAPAN brought airplanes into A S action for the first time since the new Sino-Japanese crisis devel oped, and threw all available strength into a campaign against the Chinese Twenty-ninth army in North China, it was feared that the expected long Japanese military of fensive had begun. While it was dif ficult to assimilate many conflicting and confusing reports, there was good ground for the belief that all attempts at a truce had failed, for a while at least The Japanese airmen rained bombs upon Chinese military bar racks around Peiping, and pressed infantry and artillery attacks along the Peiping-Tientsin railway and the highway to the sea. Entrance of 200 Japanese marines into the Chinese Chapei district of Shanghai sent 20,- 000 men, women and children fleeing into the international settlement in search of protection. It was ru mored a Chinese mob had killed a Japanese sailor, provoking Japa nese reprisal. Meanwhile the threat of real war continued to hover as the Chinese army refused to leave positions in and near Peiping, in what Japan considered violation of the Tientsin peace agreement U B A S I Football Couldn't Save It 40 Hurt in Strike Riot the independent A LTHOUGH steel plants were back at work, there was still plenty of discord along the labor front Forty per sons were injured in a wild riot among pickets of the Steel Workers’ Organizing committee (affiliated with C. I. O.), loyal workers and police at the Corrigan-McKinney plant of the Republic Steel corpora Madrid's Moat of Blood tion in Cleveland. HE Spanish government was de A mob of strikers hurled rocks fending Madrid against the in from a hillside upon cars of em surgent forces in the most terrible ployees parked In the valley about battle of the entire civil war and the plant Loyal workers attempted the most important. It couldn’ t last; to drive the strikers away, and at it was too furious. The whole one time 500 of them rushed out T J even the excellence and pop N OT ularity of Edward Patrick (Slip) Madigan’ s football teams could save little St. Mary’ s college at Oakland, Calif., from the auction block. It was "knocked down” to its security holders for $411,150— the only bid—after it had failed to pay interest on its bonded indebted ness of $1,370,500 since 1934. When Madigan came to St. Mary’s from Notre Dame in 1921 it had 71 stu dents. His football teams made it famous and built the enrollment up to 700. It was indicated he will re main as coach, at a reported sal ary of $7,000 a year and 10 per cent of the gate receipts. Receipts last year were $174,671. FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1987 Jap$ Maul U. S. Women upon two American A SSAULT women by sentries in the Japa nese embassy in Peiping brought vigorous protests, both orally and in writing, from the United States embassy. The two women, Mrs. Helen R. Jones of Detroit and Miss Carol Lathrop of Washington, D. C.f were walking through the embassy when sentries charged them from behind sandbag barricades. While one sentry kicked Miss Lathrop in the side, another held off Mrs. Jones with the flat of his bayonet. When the women were released they were roughly shoved, Mrs. Jones being forcefully kicked from behind. __ ★ __ Static W recked Hindenburg spectacular crash of the T HE Zeppelin Hindenburg, killing 36 at Lakehurst, N. J., last May 6, was probably caused by an unseen spark of static electricity which jumped from the atmosphere to the frame of the dirigible. At least this is the theory of the board of inquiry which investigated the accident and re ported to Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper. The experts considered every other possible cause—fire, sabotage, brush discharge of electricity from sharp points on the ship, broken propeller blade, radio transmitter spark, lightning and structural fail ure—and decided that their theory most nearly fitted the circura* stances attending the disaster. A Citizen Takes His Pen blow to the Presi C RUSHING dent’s court program, delivered at the time it hurt most, was a let ter written by Gov. Herbert H. Leh man of New York to Sen. Robert F. Wag ner of that state. The letter, m a d e p u b l i c , revealed Governor Lehman’ s opinion "as a citizen of the state of New York” that the bill would be “ contra ry” to the "inter ests” of the people of.the state. “ Its en Gov. Lehman actment,” the gov ernor wrote, “ would create a greatly dangerous prece dent which could be availed of by future less well-intentioned admin istrations for the purpose of oppres sion or for the curtailment of the constitutional rights of our citi zens.” ‘Drake’s Folly” Brought Forth the Great Oil Era It was the Drake well—"Drake’ s folly” —drilled in 1859, that really was responsible for the beginning of the great oil era. Advancing prices of rock oil and a growing knowl edge of petroleum and its uses in the production of kerosene, paraffin and lubricants, were developing a widespread interest in petroleum in America, and on Oil Creek, Pa., where oil seepages occurred, E. L. Drake, superintendent of the Sen eca Oil company property, assem bled his drilling equipment After boring 33 feet, the drill fell into a crevice that made the total depth of the well 69 fe e t The next day, observes a writer in the Washington Star, that well was nearly filled with oil. There ensued the first race for leases and wild speculation in oil properties. By 1865 drilling had be gun its march "from Manitoulin is land to Alabama and from Mis souri to central New York.” The early years of the Twentieth century were marked by great ad vances in oil-field development, in petroleum technology, in the appli cation of petroleum in the arts, war fare and commerce, and in geologic methods of discovering oil fields. This black gold grew to be the sec ond largest industry in the country, and in production, transportation, refining and marketing, some $12,- 000,000,000 being invested in the United States. In one year, 1934, Italy produced as much oil as this country produced in half an hour. V t
