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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON Review of the History-Making Events of the World ---------------------------- By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Western Newspaper Union. Deadlock Continues in General Motors Strike OV. FRANK MURPHY of Mich G igan abandoned, at least for the present, his efforts to end the deadlock between the General Mo tors corporation and the striking mem bers of the United Automobile Work ers, but James F. Dewey, conciliator for the Department of Labor, remained in Detroit, still hope ful of bringing about a peace conference. William S. Knudsen, executive vice presi dent of General Mo tors, thus stated the corporation’s position: "General Motors corporation rep resentatives immediately upon evacuation of its plants by employ ees engaged in sit down strikes will meet with representatives of the union, but to accept the union's conditions would have placed Gen eral Motors in the position of con doning their illegal actions. We can not condone illegal occupation of our plants." The union conditions, as set forth by President Homer Martin, were: "We are willing to agree to with drawal if negotiations are opened immediately with an agreement that all plants remain closed, without movement of equipment or resump tion of activities until a national set tlement is effected, and with a fur ther agreement that all activities such as circulation of petitions, or ganizing of vigilante activities, threatening or coercing of employ ees, be immediately stopped." About a thousand men, engaged In the sit down strikes, were thus holding up negotiations for settle ment of the controversy which al ready had thrown out of work near ly 100,000 employees of the corpora tion. General Motors officials received telegrams from a number of Ameri can Federation of Labor units urg ing no recognition of the United Au tomobile Workers as sole bargain ing agency for the motor car fac tory workers. They were assured the corporation would not back down on this point. Making the situation more diffi cult, the strikers in Flint engaged in a wild, riotous battle with the guards and city police that lasted for hours and resulted in the injury of dozens of men. The local offi cers restrained themselves admir ably though armed with macnine guns, and the state police were hur ried to the scene to aid them. Gov ernor Murphy and other state offi cials also went to Flint. Congress Receives Budget Message of President TATING that he expects to bal ance the national budget and be gin reducing the national debt in 1939, President Roosevelt submit ted to congress a budget for the 1938 fiscal year. This, he said, balanced conditionally except for statutory debt retirement—meaning that if his conditions are met the gross def icit for the fiscal year beginning July 1 would not be more than $401,515,000. compared with $2,652,- 652,774 in the current fiscal year and $4,763,841,642 in the 1936 fiscal year, which ended last June 30. But the President warned the na tion that conditional budget balance in the next fiscal year and complete balance in the following year de pended on industry's co-operation in hiring more persons from relief rolls. All estimates were dependent upon continued economic improve ment. The President estimated that fed eral revenue in the next fiscal year will increase by $1,475,466,378 be cause of better business and higher taxes. He did not propose new taxes but opposed the reduction of any taxes now in effect. The message allotted 451 millions S to a general public works program, excluding the Florida ship canal and the Passamaquoddy tide har nessing project; 482 millions for ag- riculatural relief and soil conserva tion; 835 millions for social secur ity, and 316 millions for recovery and relief. The message revealed that Mr. Roosevelt planned to curtail relief expenditures sharply from the 1936- 37 levels. But he found available funds insufficient for the rest of the current fiscal year and asked congress to appropriate $790,000,000 immediately, of which $650,000,000 is to be expended for recovery and relief between February 1 and June 30 when the 1937 fiscal year ends. France Ready to Occupy Spanish Morocco RANCE, according to reliable re F ish ' ports, is all set to occupy Span Morocco, and expects the full co-operation of Great Britain. The French had sent to General Franco, head of the Spanish Fascists, one protest against the alleged admission to Moroc co of German troops, and then sent another before taking drastic ac tion. If they do move, it will be nominally in behalf of the sultan of Mo rocco and because of violation of the Franco-Spanish treaty of 1912. France has 100,000 men in her Mo roccan army and could easily and speedily occupy most of the Spanish zone, which the Fascists control. Support by the British presumably would come from the British fleet in the Strait of Gibraltar and possi bly from troops to replace French forces taken from the German bor der. Franco sent a conciliatory reply to Paris. At a reception to diplomats Chan cellor Hitler talked with the French ambassador to Berlin and assured him that Germany had no intention of attempting to seize Spanish Mo rocco. Berlin has indignantly denied the presence of German troops in Span ish Morocco, asserting they are min ing men and properly are armed for self protection. High Commissioner Beigbeder of Spanish Morocco also avers there are no foreign troops in his territory. To a correspond ent he said: "You can declare no soldier, German, Italian, or even Japanese—for they will soon invent news of Japanese landing — has crossed our frontiers.” At Gibraltar there was a report that 3,000 Japanese volunteers were expected to land at Cadiz and Jerez de la Frontera to join Franco’s troops in a final assault on Madrid. Tokio said the story was fantastic. Great Britain, angered by the air bombing of her embassy in Madrid, filed protest. Some of her most powerful warships were added to the fleet at Gibraltar. The British government forbade citizens to en list in Spain, and continued its ef forts to persuade other nations to stop the sending of volunteers to that country. France agreed to intro duce legislation to that effect, but Germany and Italy W’ere still cling ing to their conditions and allegedly continuing to give aid to the Franco forces. <•----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------- 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 mar kets." Crown Princess Juliana Married in The Hague CROWN PRINCESS JULIANA of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld were made man and wife at The Hague, and all the Dutch people rejoiced exceedingly. There were two cere monies, a civil one conducted by the burgomaster in the town hall and a religious one in St. James church. The tall, plump bride wore a silver robe over her wedding dress and Bernhard was in the full dress uniform of the Blue Hussars. Before the wedding there had been a series of disturbing incidents, including "insults” to the Nazi flag of Germany and protests by Reichs- fuehrer Hitler. But apologies and explanations cleared everything up and Hitler sent to Queen Wilhel mina a cordial telegram of congrat ulations on the marriage of her only daughter. The only other wedding permit ted in Holland on that day was that of "the other Juliana,” a peasant girl who was born at the same hour on the same day as the crown prin- cess. Kidnaped Boy Found Slain Near Everett, Wash. EN-year-old Charles Mattson, T kidnaped from his home in Ta coma, Wash., Dec. 27 and held for ransom, was found beaten to death in snow covered woods near Ev erett. The body was nude and cru elly battered. State and city police and department of justice agents, who had been held back to give the lad's father a chance to pay the ransom and save his son, immedi ately began an intensive manhunt, but their clews were few and poor. Death of Admiral Gleaves, World War Figure dmiral albert gleaves , U. S. N., retired, died at his A home near Philadelphia at the age of seventy-nine years, thus ending a career that carried him through two wars and won for him honors from five nations. During the World war Admiral Gleaves was com mander of the American cruiser and transport force and thereafter was known as "the man who took them over and brought them back.” Maritime Commission to Dispose of Ships A NNOUNCEMENT is made by ** the United States Maritime commission that it will dispose of IN ONE of its periodic analyses of four shipping lines by June 29 next the economic situation the Brook They now operate 36 vessels in di ings institute, non-partisan research rect competition with private Amer foundation, summarizes proposals ican shipping. for “a consistent program of fur The lines and the routes they ther recovery,” the seven points of serve are: Cosmopolitan Shipping Company. Inc., operating the Amer which are. briefly: Re-establishment of a balanced ican France line serving French ports; the Southgate-Nelsin Corpo federal budget. Continuance of the present policy ration operating the American of maintaining a fixed price of gold Hampton Roads—Yankee and Ori and the establishment through in ole lines serving Germany and the Program for Recovery of Brookings Institute 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 4 Son, Inc., operating the American Republics line serving the east coast of South America. New Minnesota Governor Gives Supreme Court Slap MINNESOTA’S new governor, Elmer A. Benson, in his in augural address took a hard slap at the Supreme court. Said he: "I recommend that you petition congress to submit a constitutional amendment which would remove from the Supreme court its assumed power to declare unconstitutional laws passed by congress pertaining to child labor, regulating working conditions in industry and agri cultural and industrial production, providing security against old age, unemployment and sickness and so cial legislation generally. “Progressive America stands helpless to enact needed social and economic reforms while a reaction ary Supreme court has usurped au tocratic powers never intended by the framers of the Constitution.” ■■ not ask the courts to call non-ex istent powers into being, but we have a right to expect that con ceded powers or those legitimately implied shall be made effective in struments for the common good. “The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free govern ment.” Sketching the program for his sec ond term, the President said legis lation he desired at this time in cluded extension of the RFC, of his power to devalue the dollar and of other New Deal authorizations about to expire, deficiency appropria tions, and extension of the neutrality law to apply to the Spanish civil war. Conceding that NRA had “tried to do too much,” he contin ued: “The statute of NRA has bezn outlawed. The problems have not They are still with us.” James Roosevelt Will Be White House Secretary T WAS announced at the White I eldest House that President Roosevelt’s son, James, will become a full fledged White House secretary and draw a salary of $10,000 a year after June 1. Until the beginning of the new fiscal year, James will act as secretary but will be on the Red Revolt Reported in public pay roll as administrative of Two Chinese Provinces ficer drawing $7,500. UBMISSION, conviction and par At the elevation of James to the don of Marshal Shang Hsueh- secretaryship. Assistant White Chiang Kai-shek of China, appar House Secretaries Stephen T. Early ently hasn’t ended the trouble start and Marvin M. McIntyre will also ed by him. Dispatches from Sianfu become full secretaries. said a majority of Chang’s former Manchurian army, numbering 250,- 000 troops, has joined red troops of Neutrality Resolution Shensi and Kansu provinces in open Applied to Spain’s War HE senate and house met the revolt against the central govern day before the President ad ment to establish a vast communist dressed them and organized, with empire in northwest China. Reliable sources said that be Mr. Garner of course as president tween 5,000 and 10,000 persons were of the former, and killed during the Shensi rebellion Speaker Bankhead while Chiang was held captive, and again ruling over the Sianfu authorities feared a re the lower chamber. newal of the slaughter there. Sand The one matter of bag barricades and trench fortifica interest in this pro tions were constructed around the ceeding was the se lection of Sam Ray city. bum of Texas as majority leader of Landon to Build Country the house. He had Home Near Topeka beaten John J. O' LF M. LANDON retired from Connor of New York Sam public office, turning over the in the caucus, hav Rayburn governorship of Kansas to Walter ing the potent back- A. Huxman, a Democrat. He let ing of Vice President Gamer and it be known that he had purchased presumably of Mr. Roosevelt. Of two suburban tracts totaling 160 the total of 16 new senators only acres west of Topeka and will build two were absent, Clyde L. Herring there a house of colonial type where of Iowa and William H. Smathers he and Mrs. Landon and their chil of New Jersey, both Democrats. dren will reside. Until the place Two new Republican senators were is completed they will make their sworn in, H. Styles Bridges of New home with Mrs. Landon's mother, Hampshire and Henry Cabot Lodge Mrs. S. E. Cobb, in Topeka. of Massachusetts. Immediately after the President’s address had been delivered on Wed Supreme Court Rebuked nesday, both house and senate hur by the President ried with the neutrality resolution HINLY veiled but unmistakable applying specifically to the civil war was President Roosevelt’s re- in Spain. The senate adopted it buke to the Supreme court in his quickly by unanimous vote, but annual message on the state of the there were parliamentary delays in Union. Standing tri the house, and meanwhile the umphant before the freighter Mar Cantabrico managed lopsidedly D e m o- to get away from New York with cratic senate and Robert Cuse’s cargo of airplanes house in joint ses sion. the chief exec Leon Trotzky Arrives utive said: "The United in Mexico City SON TROTZKY, the exiled Rus States of America, sian Communist who is such a within itself, must continue the task of thorn in the flesh of Dictator Stalin, making democracy has reached his new haven in Mexi co City. Arriving at Tampico from succeed. President "In that task the Norway he and his wife were put Roosevelt legislative branch aboard a heavily guarded train in a of our government will, I am confi special car and carried to the cap dent, continue to meet the demands ital. of democracy whether they relate to To newspaper men Trotzky ex the curbing of abuses, the extension pressed the belief that there was a of help to those who need help, or "75 per cent chance” that war the better balancing of our inter would break out soon in Europe. He dependent economies. also said Mexico could be assured "So, too, the executive branch of he would not violate conditions un the government must move forward der which he was granted asylum in this task and, at the same time, there. The conditions were "abso provide better management for ad lute nonintervention in Mexican pol ministrative action of all kinds. itics and abstention from anything "The judicial branch also is asked which might endanger friendly rela by the people to do its part in mak tions between this government and ing democracy successful We do any other country.” S T A T L
