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Show News Review of Current Events TAMMANY HALL ROUTED La Guardia and Dewey Winners in New York . . . Detroit Rejects Candidates Backed by the C.I.O. SW IV. PicJcttcd SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK C Westtm Ntwspapcr Union, i British Are Enraged JAPAN end Italy have been vigorously vig-orously twisting the tail of the British lion, and it they, keep it up. that mighty beast may be stirred to action. Within a few days five British Brit-ish soldiers were killed and a number num-ber wounded by Japanese shells in the fighting at Shanghai. The English Eng-lish therecharged the killings were deliberate, in retaliation for the aid the British gave a "suicide battalion" battal-ion" of Chinese in escaping from a warehouse in Chapei, the native quarter, to the international settle- La Guardia's Victory TAMMANY HALL went down to inglorious defeat in the New York municipal election. Its mayoralty mayor-alty candidate, Jeremiah T. Maho- ment. The British and Japanese admirals had a hot dispute over the right of the former to prevent the passage of Japanese launches up Soochow creek. Soon after the Japanese began shelling the residential area of the settlement and an outpost where English soldiers were quartered was destroyed. Continuous shelling of Shanghai by the invaders endangered endan-gered the British and American lines on the border of the international interna-tional settlement and shells fell close to the American warship Augusta, Au-gusta, Admiral Yarnell's flagship. Japan is angry over the alleged : 1 ney, who was supported sup-ported also by Jim Farley and Senator Wagner, was thoroughly thor-oughly whipped by Fiorello H. La Guardia, Guar-dia, candidate of the fusionists, the Republicans Re-publicans and the young American Labor La-bor party. LaGuar-dia, LaGuar-dia, the first "reform" "re-form" mavor ever T.E.Dewey re.elccted m New York, piled up a majority of 454.425. The Republicans hailed the result as a great victory for their party, and it was. But it also put the Labor La-bor party in the position of holding the balance of power in future elections elec-tions in the metropolis. Second in interest only to the mayoralty vote was the fact that Thomas E. Dewey, the young man "LITTLE FLOWER" WINS Fiorello La Guardia, who licked Tammany and was re-elected mayor of New York, in a striking pose as be addressed voters. help Britain is giving China in the warfare and there is a movement in Tokio to break diplomatic relations rela-tions with London. This is urged by the "council on the current situation," situa-tion," an unofficial body composed of high army officers, political leaders and other influential persons. per-sons. The council adopted a resolution reso-lution warning that unless Britain "reconsiders its improper attitude" Japan may be forced to take certain cer-tain steps of "grave determination" against Britain, despite the "deep friendship" existing between the two countries for the last sixty years. Japanese troops invaded a part of the international settlement guarded by American marines and seized a Chinese junk loaded with rice. General Beaumont, commandant comman-dant of marines, immediately entered en-tered a protest and the Japanese apologized but the marines did not consider the incident closed because the Japs didn't return the' junk. The British government was not expected to take any action that would further anger Japan lest it should endanger the success of the parley in Brussels., But wise observers ob-servers do not believe the nine-power nine-power treaty conference will have any definite results. who smashed organized crime and the rackets in New York, was elected elect-ed district attorney, defeating Harold Har-old W. Hastings, the Tammany nominee. nom-inee. Dewey, who is only thirty-five years old, promises reform in the methods of the office, and his record gives assurance these will be carried car-ried out. The Republicans regained, control of the New York state assembly and of many upstate cities. veloped by friendship, fair play, and recriprocal confidence. If Japan and China are to co-operate' it must be as friends and not as enemies. The problems underlying Chinese-Japanese relations must be solved on a basis that is fair to each and acceptable ac-ceptable to both." Eden for England and Delbos for France seconded these sentiments. The Italian representatives made it clear Italy would not stand for any coercive measures against Japan. China was represented by Dr. Wellington Koo who Said: "We desire de-sire peace, but we know that we cannot can-not obtain it in the presence of Japanese aggression. So long as aggression ag-gression persists we are determined to continue our resistance. It is not peace at any price that will render justice to China or to the credit of civilization." C.I.O. Loses in Detroit 'TPHE first important venture of the C. I. O. in politics turned out disastrously for the Lewis organization. organiza-tion. Patrick H. O'Brien, its mayoralty may-oralty candidate, declared on the stump that "labor must seize the reins of government in Detroit and every other American city." Whereupon Where-upon the Detroit electors arose in their wrath and swept O'Brien and. the C. I. O. out of the picture. Richard Rich-ard W. Reading, conservative candidate can-didate backed by the A. F. of L., won the office by a majority of 10G,-907 10G,-907 votes. In addition, all the five C. I. O. backed candidates for the common council were decisively whipped. In New Jersey Senator A. Harry Moore, Democrat, was elected governor gov-ernor over Lester H. Clee, Republican, Republi-can, but only by virtue of a big majority ma-jority in Hudson county. Moore has held the office twice before. It was the first time in the state's history that a governor has won a third term. The state constitution prohibits pro-hibits a consecutive re-election but Moore was elected in 1925 and again in 1931, each time for a three-year term. A committee was named to send an appeal to Japan to open peace negotiations with China, and Germany Ger-many was asked to recons;der her refusal to take part in the conference. confer-ence. Labor Hits Duke's Tour n ESOLUTIONS denouncing the American tour of the duke and duchess of Windsor as a "slumming trip professing to study labor" were More "Piracy" TTALY'S latest twist of the lion's tail came in the form of the bombing and sinking of the British steamer Jean Weems in the Mediterranean Medi-terranean by a "pirate" airplane. The London Daily Herald's Barcelona Barce-lona correspondent reported that the Spanish loyalist government asserted as-serted that the plane bore markings showing that it was piloted by Bruno Mussolini, son of the Italian premier. The pilot gave the freighter's crew only five minutes to take to lifeboats life-boats and then sank the Weems with bombs. The British battle cruiser Hood was sent at full speed from Palma, Majorca, to Barcelona to investigate investi-gate the attack. In parliament the critics of the government, led by David Lloyd George, demanded a stronger British Brit-ish Mediterranean policy. Lloyd George flayed the government for bolstering up the international committee com-mittee on nonintervention in Spain, whose history after 14 months he denounced de-nounced as "discreditable and dishonorable." adopted by the Baltimore Bal-timore Federation of Labor, and approved ap-proved by President Green of the A. F. of L. They attacked Charles Bedeaux, the duke's friend, as sponsor of the '"stretch out system." sys-tem." Officials of the Committee for In- i James M. Curley. who has been three times mayor of Boston and once governor of Massachusetts, i tried again for the mayoralty, but was defeated by Maurice J. Tobin, . like Curley a Democrat. Philadelphia went Democratic, as did Pittsburgh, which re-elected Mayor Cornelius Scully. Borah Talks Plainly WHILE Republican national committeemen were gathering in Chicago for an important meeting, meet-ing, Senator Borah of Idaho jumped Morocco Uprisings. XTATIONALIST uprisings in French Morocco, which have been giving the French government a lot of trouble, are blamed on agents of "a foreign totalitarian power," meaning Italy. The disorders, mainly main-ly in Casablanca, Fez and Medina, were quelled by troops, mostly Senegalese Sen-egalese legionnaires, and hundreds of arrests were made. The nationalists plotted to set up an independent Arab state with Moulay Allal El Fassi as king. Budget Conference WHILE members of congress were beginning to move toward to-ward Washington for the extraordinary extraordi-nary session, President Roosevelt into print with a vigorous denunciation denuncia-tion of the plan, favored fa-vored by Hoover and Chairman Hamilton, Ham-ilton, to hold a midterm mid-term Republican convention next spring, for the formulation form-ulation of party policies. pol-icies. , "We have heard a ereat deal about nisi. V s fa , dustrial Organiza- Duchess ' tion, while refusing Windsor to be quoted, said the attitude of their organization on the Bedeaux system was "well known." Official and social Washington, which had been in doubt as to what to do about the distinguished visi-tors, visi-tors, was relieved when Sir Ronald Lindsay, British ambassador, announced an-nounced he would give a state dinner din-ner for the royal couple, as he termed them, the day after their arrival. Immediately thereafter it was made known that President Roosevelt would entertain the duke and duchess at luncheon in the White House. The duke's talk on arrival was to be broadcast over all major networks, net-works, but the British Broadcasting company announced it would not pick up Windsor's remarks for re-broadcasting re-broadcasting in England. Bedeaux said the duke while in the United States would observe these sixteen heavy industries: Heavy machinery, light machinery, machin-ery, heavy chemical work, oil refining, refin-ing, textiles, tobacco, steel, rubber, either coal or metallic ore mining, automobile manufacturing, prepared foods, meat packing, logging, timber ! sorting plus lumber milling, pulp and paper production and vegetable i and fruit packing. f I in his Hyde Park home was busy planning means of carrying on the government gov-ernment program. Especially was he interested in the budget, and related financial matters, and to advise on this he called in Marri-ner Marri-ner S. Eccles, head usurpation and die- Senator ornh tatorship in recent years," said Borah. "There could be no greater great-er exhibition of usurpation or dictatorship dic-tatorship in politics than .for a few accredited men undertaking to fix the principles and policies for 17 million voters without ever having consulted the voters or received their indorsement in any way. "The Republican party is in its present plight largely because leaders lead-ers of the party too long neglected to take counsel of the voters. Leaders Lead-ers acted upon the theory that the voters would be led or cudgeled along the road pointed out by the leaders." Almost Recognition OREAT BRITAIN decided to lot Franco, Spanish insurgent chief, send consuls to England, and to send official agents to the part of Spain he controls. This, it was said in official circles, did not imply recognition of Franco, but British Laborites thought it did, and consequently conse-quently assailed the government. Anyhow, it was apparent Britain believed be-lieved Franco was right when he said in Burgos "the war is won." Wallace Plan Attacked CECRETARY WALLACE'S "ever J normal granary" plan is "politically "politi-cally inexpedient, economically unsound, un-sound, and fundamentally unworkable," unwork-able," according to the Cash Grain association of Chicago which submitted sub-mitted a brief to a senate subcommittee sub-committee at a hearing in Spring, field, 111. M. S. Eccles federal reserve system. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau and Budget Director Bell alrcady were th and all listened closely to Mr Ec' cles' talk concerning current busi-ness busi-ness conditions and the stock mar ket situation. It was decided by the President that the Commodity Credit corpora-tion corpora-tion should provide $85,000,000 for the corn loans, obtaining the money from the RFC and repaying the alter agency when congress makes the necessary appropriations. Officials of the Agriculture department depart-ment gave corn growers assurance that the government will loan 50 cents a bushel on the large 1937 crop. The loans will be made according ac-cording to current plans, on field corn testing 14.5 per cent moisture content or less. The 50 cent nt will be reduced on corn cont in n more moisture. Brussels Conference FORMAL opening of the Far East peace conference in Brussels brought out speeches by the chief delegates of America, Britain, France, Italy and Russia. Davis for the United States denounced resort re-sort to armed force as a means of settling international disputes, and urged Japan and China to seek, a settlement of their conflict "by peaceful processes." He continued: "We believe that co-operation between Japan and China Chi-na is essential to the best interests of those two countries and to peace throughout the world. We believe that such co-operation must be de- |
