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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON administration for both economic and political reasons. Secretary Perkins announced in Washington that she had named a federal committee on apprentice training to become a permanent Davis Heads American Delegation to Brussels . . . agency in the Labor department. Its she said, is "to provide a Trying for Labor Peace . . . Special Session purpose, sufficient number of highly skilled workers to supply the country’s growing needs and to guarantee a thorough trade preparation for ap prentices.” News Review of Current Events FAR EAST CONFERENCE Straus Heads Housing NTATHAN STRAUS of New York ’ city was named administrator of the $526,000,000 federal housing program by President Roosevelt. He is the son of the late Nathan Straus, philanthropist, and has been connected with the housing work in New York. His appointment was considered a victory for Senator Wagner over Secretary Ickes who wanted Howard Gray of the PWA named. Arkansas Picks Miller TOE ROBINSON’S successor as senator from Arkansas will be Congressman John E. Miller, Demo crat, for he defeated Gov. Carl G. Bailey in the special election by an impressive majority. The Republi cans had no candidate. Miller has been a rather lukewarm supporter of the New Deal in congress. New Budget Figures Secretary of the Navy Swanson pinning a special congressional medal RESIDENT ROOSEVELT found on Admiral Richard E. Byrd for the contribution he, with other members his estimate of $418.000,000 as the of the second Byrd antarctic expedition, which ended in 1935, made to sci ence. The other members of the expedition received similar awards. probable deficit for 1938 fiscal year Looking on are Admiral William Leahy, center, and William C. Haines, was much too low. So he gave out new budget figures putting the prob- meteorologist. aBle deficit at nearly 700 millions. And it admittedly will be much greater unless the executive and congress achieve very considerable economies. P SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK <© Western Newspaper Union. Davis Sent to Brussels ORMAN H. DAVIS is on his way to Brussels, Belgium, as head of the American delegation to a con ference of the signatories of the nine - power treaty which, the optimists hope, will put an end to the warfare be tween Japan and China. More realis tic observers of the course of events have no such expec tation, for the pact has no "teeth" and the conferees can do little except talk. Norman II. Associated with Davis Mr. Davis, the ad ministration’s roving ambassador, are Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck and Pierrepont Moffat as advisers. Rob ert T. Pell is the press officer and C. E. Bohlen is secretary of the delegation. Before sailing for Europe the dele gates received instructions from President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull, but these were not revealed to the public. The invitation to the conference was issued by the Belgian govern ment "at the request of the British government and with the approval of the government of the United States." China and Japan are both signatories to the treaty. The for mer accepted the invitation to the Brussels meeting, but it was be lieved Japan would not be repre sented there. Tokyo has maintained the policy that the Sino-Japanese troubles must be settled without the intervention of other nations. N Why the Stock Slump? XyZHO or what is responsible for ’ ’ the decided slump in the stock market is a moot question. In his recent "fireside chat" the President intimated that Wall Street was to blame for its own troubles and be littled the effect proposed legislation would have on the markets and gen eral business. Winthrop W Aldrich, president of the Chase National bank, largest bank in the country, doesn’t agree with Mr. Roosevelt in this. He says Wall Street is honest, and lays the blame for the adverse market situ ation on the doorstep of the admin- Divorce Rule Stands istration and particularly the securi /"’’HURCH laws against remarriage ties and exchange commission. '-l of divorced persons by Episco pal clergymen stand unchanged for at least three years. Proposed lib Airliner Wrecked; 19 Dead eralization of the rule was defeated MASHING against Hayden peak, by the house of deputies of the in the Uinta mountains of Utah, church at the general convention in a big transcontinental airliner of Cincinnati. The deputies voted to the United Air Lines was totally continue for another three years the wrecked and its passengers and commission on marriage and di crew, numbering 19 persons, were vorce. killed. The debris was sighted by The defeated proposal would have scout planes some 10,000 feet up the permitted bishops to allow Episco mountainside, but efforts of rescue pal clergymen to solemnize mar parties to reach the scene were riage of persons, who were divorced hampered by heavy snow. for any cause, after study of each case. S Labor Peace Parley in the American Fed L EADERS eration of Labor and the C. I. O. gathered in Washington for a con ference designed to end the warfare between those divi sions of organized labor in America. Some of them thought the negotia tions might result in an early settlement of their disputes or at least a truce Neither President Green nor John L. Lewis ventured any prediction as to the outcome of the de Secy.Perkins liberations. Some students of labor politics were inclined to think peace was not yet in sight and could not be brought about without the remov al of Green from the A. F. of L. presidency and the elimination of Lewis from consideration for that post. Their suggestion was that peace might be negotiated eventual ly by replacing Green with some such labor figure as Charles P. How ard, president of the International Typographical union, or Edward F. McGrady, former assistant secre tary of labor and now Radio Cor poration labor relations chief, and by giving industrial union groups stronger representation in shaping the federation’s policies. President Roosevelt displayed ac tive interest in the labor controversy and received Secretary of Labor Perkins at his Hyde Park home, where tor three hours they dis cussed the subject The restoration of harmony in labor's ranks is con sidered of great importance to the Brady Gang Wiped Out of the big "mobs" of bank L AST robbers and murderers, the Brady gang was wiped out in a gun battle with federal agents at Bangor. Maine. Al Brady, the leader, and Clarence Shaffer, Jr., his lieutenant, were killed; and James Dalhover was wounded and captured. The outlaws were recognized by a clerk in a sporting goods store and the G-men were summoned. Dalhover was to be taken to Indiana to stand trial for the murder of a state po liceman, one of four killings attrib uted to the gang. He made a full confession, and search began for persons who had been aiding them. The gangsters’ capture was be lieved to have nipped a potential New England crime wave. Floor plans of two banks were found in Dalhover's possession with maps of nearby roads. Pale$+ine Terrori$m military authorities took B RITISH stern measures to suppress the violence in Palestine, but appar- ently without success. The Arabs continued their attacks on the Jew ish people and buildings and in Jerusalem began using bombs. Gen. A. P. Wavell. commander ot the 10.000 British troops in Pales tine. ordered the homes of Arab terrorists burned, following the de struction of Kalandia airport, near Lydda. with an estimated loss of $50.000. Sixty persons were arrested for breaking the twenty-four hour cur few which amounts to virtual mar tial law. If this sort of thing keeps up. Great Britain is likely to make Pâl Britain would ask for withdrawal ot estine a crown colony instead ot a five men from the insurgent side to every man called out of govern mandate. ment ranks. This ratio was worked out, it was stated, on the British Big Battle at Shanghai belief that 100,000 foreigners are HANGHAI was witnessing the fighting with insurgents and only fiercest battle of the Sino-Jap- Sino 20,000 for the central government. anese war. Land and air forces of While the diplomats were jockey both sides were fighting furiously ing the Spanish loyalists started one and the casualties were piling up of the fiercest battles of the war, hour by hour. The Chinese were attacking the insurgents in the Zara making a great counter-offensive for goza sector with troops, tanks a.id which they had massed men and air bombers. About 400.000 men on guns about the city. The Japanese both sides were involved. were ready for the attack, and des On the Biscayan front in the north perately battled to turn back their west Franco’s forces shifted their foes. Observers described the hand attack from the mountains to the to-hand fighting as that of madmen, coastal plain and captured some especially in the Chinese quarter. strategic points. A big fleet of Chinese airplanes Mussolini’s newspaper, 11 Popolo was sent down the Yangtse and d’Italia, referring to President bombs were showered on the Jap Roosevelt’s arraignment of aggres anese warships along the Japanese sor nations as his "Chicago Sermon- occupied shore of the Whangpoo. ette,” pointed to United States arms An American navy radio man, J. shipments which it said reached P. McMichael of Connorsville, Ind., Spain through Russia. was slightly wounded by Japanese The paper reproduced the Presi shrapnel as he stood on the signal dent’s more striking condemnatory deck of the United States cruiser remarks in an article entitled Augusta between Admiral Harry E. "American Flowerets.” Yarnell, commander-in-chief, and Capt R. F. McConnell, chief of staff. American navy authorities "Lindy" Still American immediately entered a protest and O UMORS that Col. Charles A the Japanese commander expressed Lindbergh was planning to be his regret. come a British subject seem to be false, for he has just accepted a Special Session Called five year renewal ot his commission /’’’ONGRESS was called in ex in the United States army air corps. ' traordinary session to start No Army officers expressed the belief vember 15. and immediately after privately he would not have re ward President Roosevelt explained newed his air corps tie if he in tended changing his allegiance. The in a “fireside chat" airman has retained his military over the radio the status since his graduation in 1925 necessity for this as from the air corps flying school at he sees it. Report Kelly field, Texas. ing cheerfully on his western trip, he out lined the legislative Mine Disaster program which he OAL gas exploded in the Mulga declared the Amer mine in Alabama 12 miles from ican people need to Birmingham, and the lives of 33 promote prosperity. miners were snuffed out Five hun These are the five dred men were at work in the mine measures he said at the time, but fortunately the ex President should be passed plosion was four miles from the en Roosevelt without delay: trance. The blast was the first Crop production control to “build since the operation of the mine was an all-weather farm program so taken over by the Woodward Iron that in the long run prices will be company, large producers of mer more stable.” chant iron in Birmingham. How Wage and hour standards to ever, 56 men had been killed at “make millions of our lowest paid Mulga in former years. workers actual buyers of billions of dollars of industrial and farm prod ucts.” Labor Hits Labor Board Regional planning to conserve nat EVERE condemnation of the fed ural resources, prevent floods and eral labor relations board was produce electric power for general voiced in a resolution adopted by use. the American Federation of Labor Government reorganization to pro in the Denver convention. It was vide "Twentieth century machin presented by John P. Frey, head of ery” to make the "democratic proc the metal trades department and ess work more efficiently.” charged that the board was acting Stronger antitrust laws in further "without warrant or authority” in ance of "a low price policy which interfering in disputes between the encourages the widest possible con A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. and was sumption." violating “the spirit and specific in Chairman O'Connor of the house tent of the labor relations act, with rules committee predicted the house decided advantage" to the C. I O. would pass a farm bill in the first affiliates ^nd damage to the A. F of week of the session and then take L. ; that the board has sought to "de up the wage and hour measure. stroy the validity of contracts ’ be Some Democratic leaders said the tween bona fide trade unions and labor bill, which was passed by the employers and that such actions senate in the last session but held were taken "in some instances with up in the house rules committee, full knowledge of the facts in would probably be the only one of volved"; that the board, in direct the five measures to get through contravention of the meaning of the congress in the special session. law. has repeatedly "denied em Even that is strongly opposed by ployees the right of designating the southern Democrats and has been bargaining unit and the right of se condemned by the American F ed- lecting representatives of their own eration of Labor. choosing with full freedom.” Frey in his speech asked that Ed win F Smith be removed from the Italy Will Cooperate board and that three regional direc ANGER of a European war as a tors be dismissed. result of the Spanish civil con flict was measurably lessened when Mussolini yielded to the firm repre U. S. Consul Murdered sentations of Great Britain and T THEODORE MARRINER, France. Count Dino Grandi told •J American consul general at Bei the nonintervention subcommittee in rut. Syria, was assassinated by an London that Italy would accept the Armenian who had been refused a proposal for withdrawal of a cer visa for travel to the United States. tain number of volunteers from The murderer was arrested and the Spain, provided it applied to both police said he admitted having act sides equally, and gave assurance ed for personal vengeance only. of his country's "loyal and firm Marriner. who was forty-five years desire to co-operate." How many old and a bachelor, was considered volunteers should be withdrawn and one of the most valuable men in our whether belligerent rights should be diplomatic service, which he entered granted to Generalissimo Franco as third secretary of the American were questions still to be decided legation at Stockholm. At one time by the committee. he was chief of the western Europe It was said in London that Great section of the State department. S C S D