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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.
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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.
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Sen. Harrison (right) congratulates Sen. Barkley.
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
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'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
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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
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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.
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Static W recked Hindenburg
spectacular crash of the
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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.
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