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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH I Xeits Review of Current Events Japanese Turn Tide BOMB AMERICAN LINER Chinese Wound 7 on Dollar Ship . . . Britain Protests Shooting of Envoy to China . . Unions Gird for Ford i&L Jti' n tr s ' i Jn Picked THE W. SUMMARIZES WORLD'S WEEK A Wtsttra Wnsajspsi TaJsa. International Crises Political students in Washington find themselves in Hat 'Em quandary concern Cuetting ing the objectives of the New Deal .administration because of a series of late developments. Frankly, most students of politics have to confess their inability to fathom the various developments of recent weeks or to measure their significance. I have written, heretofore, about ,the wide open split in the Demo- cratic party and about the presiden tial moves to heal that split but, instead of the new developments be fog of a kind designed to heal wounds, they appear superficially at least to be doing directly the opposite thing. Confessing my own in ability to understand the political strategy, if there be strategy, let me merely call attention to such things as: The recent radio speech by Senator Guffey, Pennsylvania, Demo crat, which thoroughly read out of the party such able men as Sena tors Wheeler of Montana, Burke of Nebraska and O'Mahoney of Wyo ming. The speech of Postmaster Gen which he controls, any and all Democrats who are unwilling to be one hundred per cent for the theories of economics and social reform which the New Dealers countenance. If that be true, and I repeat it is only an assumption, then the President evidently is hoping to create a class party, a radical party which can be made to include such outfits as the John L. Lewis followd ing, the communists and nitwits who are opposed to the principle of individual employment, the accumulation of personal belongings and even the idea of owning homes by individuals, free from debt. On the other hand I cannot convince myself that Mr. Roosevelt would make a political mistake of this gravity. For it would be a mistake in two ways, namely, a virtual destruction of the Democratic party and the blighting of any hope the President may have for being elected a third time. It is these combinations that make the whole situation so difficult to understand. It may be that one result will be, that Senator Wheeler or Senator Burke may find himself in a political situation where one or the other will be forced to seek the Demo eral Farley before the Young Demo- cratic Presidential nomination in crats at their Indiana meeting, stat 1940. It is now that quite apparent ing that there will be no reprisals the split in the party is going to against those Democrats who have cause a violent explosion in the next seen fit or now see fit to object to Democratic national convention. parts of President Roosevelt's New There is no way to avoid it. It may Deal program. be added in the same breath that The harmony dinner of Mr. Roosevelt can so into that con- Democratic senators at a Washing- vention and force his own renomi- ton hotel after the election of Sena- nation because surely the Farley tor Berkley of Kentucky as Demomachine cannot be discratic leader of the senate, and the political unless dispute absence of President Roosevelt lodged to the the factional rank and file of Dem spreads from that meeting. ocrats throughout the country. This The renewal by President Roose- is to say that, having control of the velt of his criticism of "Economic party machine, Mr. can Farley Royalists" in his speech in celebra- muster the election of enough dele tion of the birth of Virginia Dare, to the party's national conventhe first white child born in Amer- gates tion to assure the Roosevelt nomi ica, at Manteo, N. C. nation, especially since Mr. Roose The speech of Senator Guffey in velt demanded and obtained the reNew York declaring without equiv- peal of the age-ol- d Democratic rule ocation that the Committee for In- that required a vote of dustrial Organization, headed by of all the sitting delegates before John L. Lewis, should provide a the convention nominates a candi nucleus for an American Labor par- date. ty. This party should have among With further reference to Senator its objectives the political destruc- Guffey, Senator Barkley told the tion of any one who fails to carry senate during 'the violent Wheeler through the New Deal policies or attack that Sena who opposes a program designed to tor Guffey had tendered his resig make the court structure of the nation as chairman of the DemUnited States subservient to the ocratic senatorial committee a week President. previously. Senator Barkley's StateThere are other phases, other cir- ment, however, was not accepted cumstances that might be included generally; it did not have the ring in this list, but those enumerated to make it convincing, nor did it serve to show the confusion that appear to be anything more than an They present to me a attempt by Senator Barkley to save prevails. wholly nonunderstandable and Senator Guffey's face. hauling and filling breathing hot and cold without a It may well be that the rupture in change of face. Democratic harmony will turn out Washington. and observers 1 half-bake- so-call- two-thir- Burke-O'Mahone- There has been nothing of a purely political nature create quite so much of a stir in p a iong tjme as did uurrey Catuet Stir the radio speech of Senator Guffey in which he called for defeat of all those who opposed the President's plan to reorganize the Supreme court or the United States by adding to it six justices of the President's own choosing. It was in this speech that Senator Guffey. singled out Senators Wheeler, Burke and O'Mahoney for destruction. He did this because these three senators led the fight against the President's plan to pack the Supreme court. Senator Wheeler and Senator Burke conducted the fight on the floor of the senate; Senator O'Mahoney wrote the devastating report by which the senate judiciary committee advised the senate to kill the court packing bill. Senator Guffey's speech was made at night. When the senate convened at noon the following day. Senator Wheeler took the floor and delivered one of the most vicious speeches of which he is known to be capable. It was excelled in bitterness only by the attack which came from Senator Burke. Senator O'Mahoney likewise made sure that the senate record revealed the feeling of those who were convinced the President had made a vital mistake in proposing the court reorganization. I have heard these questions asked many times: What can the ' President gain by mf the making Senator Wtiatt or any Answer? Guffey man of his type a spokesman for the administration? Further, can the President afford politically to strike at the very heart of the Democratic party by permitting even secretly the political destruction of such brilliant men as Wheeler, Burke and O'Mahoney? The answer to those questions, as far as I can see it, or as far as I have been able to gather opinions on the point, must inevitably lead in the direction of a party purge. By that I mean, the President and his closest New Deal advisers must be seeking to drive out of the Democratic party, the machinery of ds y May Be Big It sue to be a great issue as early as the 1938 congressional and e sena-Ther- f NE grave international crisis followed another in the new war. Britain was still awaiting reply to her protest over the wounding of His Majesty's am bassador to China by a Japanese airman when four airplanes, identi fied as Chinese, swooped down upon the American liner, President Hoover, flagship of the Dollar line, drop ping bombs which wounded seven persons aboard. The President Hoover, having de posited a load of refugees in Ma nila, was nearing Shanghai to pick up another load when the bombs struck, tearing 25 holes in the ship above the water line. The ship immediately notified Admiral Harry E Yarnell, commander of the Ameri can fleet, who took command of all American shipping in the emergen cy. He ordered the President Hoov er to continue to Japan, and radioed other vessels that they must not enter "hostile" waters off the Woo- sung and Yangtze lightships. It was only a few days before the Presi dent Lincoln, another Dollar liner, had had to run a gauntlet of artil lery fire to get ISO American refu gees on their way to Manila More spectacular, but only because of the importance of the per son it involved, was the shooting or sir Hughe Montgomery Knatch British ambassador to China With several of his attaches, Sir Hughe sped along a Chinese road near Shanghai to attend a confer ence with British foreign service officials. His conveyance and one which accompanied it flew the union jack. But a Japanese airplane swooped down and began to pour machine-gu- n fire into the car. One of the bullets pierced the body of the ambassador, grazing his spine He was rushed 50 miles to Country hospital where an operation was performed and blood transfusions were given. Sir Hughe was the highest rank ing British official in China, where Great Britain has enormous inter ests at stake. He was attacked by a Japanese airplane which did not even have the right of a belligerent since no war had been declared while his car was flying the British colors. The last comparable inci dent in China was at the time of the Boxer rebellion in 1900, when the German ambassador Von Ket- tler was shot and killed in Peiping xiruam s note to Tokyo was couched in stringent terms. It said, Sino-Japar.e- se bull-Hugess- in part: "The pica, should it be advanced, that the" flags carried on the cars were too small to be visible is irrelevant. There would have been no justification for the attack even had the cars carried no flags at all. "The foreign and even the diplomatic status of the occupants is also irrelevant. The real issue is that they were noncombatants . . . "Such events are inseparable from the practice as illegal as it is inhuman of failing to draw that clear distinction between combatants and noncombatants in the conduct of hostilities which international law no less than the conscience of mankind has always enjoined. "His majesty's government must therefore request: "FIRST A formal apology to be conveyed by the Japanese government to his majesty's government; "SECOND-Suita- ble punishment for those responsible for the attack; "THIRD An assurance by the Japanese authorities that necessary measures will be taken to prevent recurrence of events of such a char- torial elections. are a num- ber of senators who opposed the court packing bill and, therefore, fall within the Guffey castigation, who will be up for next year. If the Guffey attack is followed up at all in the state organizations, those Democrats who opposed the President's will necessarily must defend themselves. The only way they can defend their course of action is by a counter attack on the President and those policies of his which the candidate for the senate opposed. I predicate my prediction of continuation of the row in 1938 on the statement made by Senator O'Mahoney in answer to the Guffey radio tirade. In acter." that statement of position, Senator Tokyo's reply was temporarily O'Mahoney stated, to quote a single withheld, pending a complete in- paragraph: vestigation. "I would rather walk out of the door of this chamber and never return, than to surrender any honest Trouble Ahead for Ford convictions I have. I say to you, JOHN L. LEWIS' magic touch a compromise between senators of the United States, so long as I am in this body I shall warring factions of the United Autoraise my voice and cast my vote as mobile Workers of America suffimy conscience dictates and nobody, cient to permit the election of but that failed to cover up the whether he comes from Pennsylvania or from New York or any fierce dissension in the C. I. O. afother state, can tell me or the peo- filiate's Milwaukee convention. Several times only a fortunately-time- d ple of my state what I should or should not do." adjournment saved a day's Contrast that statement with the meeting from breaking up in a riot. following declaration by Senator The clasnes were between the "pro- Guffey in his radio speech: gressive" faction of the union, headI was elected to the United ed by President Homer Martin, and States senate in 1934 because I as- the "unity" faction, containing most sured the voters of Pennsylvania of the "left" members, who opthat it was my intention to support posed Martin's program. In the loyally and without wavering the end, the Lewis compromise forced Martin to retain several unity group program oi me uniet Executive." And in calling attention to that officers he had apparently been anx- statement oi subservience. Sen tor ious 10 aepose. new oincers added Burke of Nebraska declared : were, nowever, chiefly adherents of Pennsylvania may want that Martin, and it was believed his fackind of representation in the senate tion still held control of the execuand, if they do, God bless them, let tive board. them have it; but to me it would Of chief importance in the convenseem that if the senate is to have tion war the decision to go ahead that kind of representation, it might with the campaign to organize the as well have a parrot in a casp in of the Ford Motor comthe secretary's office and bring it employees A tax of $1 per mempany. special in when the senator's name is called ber, which would bring in a net of and have him say, 'Yes, Mr. Rooselike $400,000, was voted velt, count me for that, too.' That something for the purpose. Lewis predicted, is not my idea of what a senator "Some day Henry Ford is going to snould do." be 60 very tired he will be willing e Weitern Newspaper Union. o.Ti-:er- ' ; s, CUCCEEDING in landing thou- sands of reinforcements from its transport ships, the Japanese appeared ready, to turn the tide of ground battle in the undeclared war in China, while their navy threw a blockade around 800 miles of the Chinese seacoast from Shanghai in South China. nearly Only at terrific cost were the reinforcements getting ashore. Many entire landing parties were blown to bits as they attempted to take shore positions under a blaze of machine gun fire and in the face of artillery shells and land mine explosions. More than a quarter of a million men were reported engaged in the fighting along a front stretching from Shanghai northwestward to Tientsin, Peiping, Nankow rnd Chang pei, deep in Chahar provir.ee and north to the Great Wall. At the northern end of the front the Mongol troops of pro-Japane- Prince Teh battled combined Chinese regular and communist armies. Japanese reported the capture of Kalgan, capital of Chahar, sowiiillss Chorus my mirror for hours admiring my beauty. I suppose you'd call that vanity? Friend No imagination. Bad Enough j j ; ! "Didn't you say your dog's bark was worse than his bite?" "Yes." "Then for goodness' sake don't let him bark. He's just bitten me." A Bare Hope said little Mary, "Mother," "they are going to teach us do- mestic - Something Else Girl I stand in front of silence at school now." "Don't you mean domestic science?" inquired her mother. Then the father interrupted: "Possibly our little girl means what she is saying." shutting off Chinese communication with Mongolia, while the routed Chinese forces broke through the stubborn Chinese defenses at Nankow pass and penetrated the Great Wall. They were reported to have in escaping narrowly a strategic Chinese maneuver which would have trapped 30,000 Japanese troops south and west of Peiping. Chinese positions south of Peiping were dominated by the SMOTHERED suc-cee- ed Wounded by Japanese airmen, Sir Hatha Montgomery Knatchboll-Hngesse- n Is center of strained inand mechternational relations. anized Japanese army, which captured the commanding high land. to accord to his employees the Andrew W. Mellon Is Dead rights that are due them." Both Lewis and Martin roundly A NDREW W. MELLON, reputed-l- y flayed William Green, president of one of the four richest men "His idea was to settle the matthe American Federation of Labor, in the United States and secretary ter by sending in a draft." in speeches. Lewis upbraided him of the treasury in three cabinets, "What did you do?" for allegedly aiding the General Mo died of uremia and bronchial pneu"Put a damper on it and cut it tors corporation while C. I. O. strike monia at the home of his off." was in progress last winter. Martin at Southampton, N. Y. He was ridiculed Green's abhorrence of the eighty-tw- o years old. Unfair Tactics strike. "I don't see why a Two fishermen sitting on a Shortly before his death he had man who has been on a fulfilled the ambition of his life by bridge, their lines in the water, strike as long as Bill Green should giving to the nation what he termed made a bet as to which wouH find fault with the automobile work- the "nucleus" of one of the finest art catch the first fish. One of them ers," he said. collections in the world. The colgot a bite, and got so excited that The convention approved a raise lection he gave was valued at he fell off the bridge. in officials' salaries which steps up Excavation is now under "Oh, well," said the other, "if the total payroll of officers from way for a $15,000,000 building to you're going to dive for them, the $15,000 to $80,000. Martin's salary house the collection in Washington. bet's off!" was increased from $3,000 to $5,000. All but $180,000 of the great Mel lon fortune was willed to the A. W. Said a police court defendant: Mellon educational and charitable "I was not committing an assaclt. Death Strikes Noncombatants I was merely emphasizing the war in China trust. The statement of the attor THE undeclared to mean death or in ney who announced the terms of the facts of the ease." But perhaps jury to hundreds of noncombatants will said: "The deed creating this be pot too much punch into it? as the Japanese continued to bomb trust provides that its funds shall be High Time densely populated native city areas. applied exclusively to religious, A frequenter of one of our Three hundred civilians were killed charitable and educational uses and seashores noticed a and several hundred wounded as purposes. It already has distributman who went bathing every day bombs fell on Shanghai's CharJei dis ed millions of dollars during its exwith a straw hat on his head. Uptrict. Two hundred houses were set istence." The $180,000 went to secretaries and employees. Mellon's on inquiring the use of this seemin flames. A Chinese communique said that two children received no bequests. ingly superfluous piece of headThe will explained they had already gear, he received the 20 Japanese bombers raided Nan reply: "You see, I'm not a very good king, the central government capi- been adequately provided for. swimmer, and when my hat betal, bringing death to 100, including gins to float I know I'm out of my many women ana cnnaren, ana Planes Land Without Eves wounding 400 more. Bombs fell on A T OAKLAND, CALIF., civilian depth." the National School for Orphans, the x and army fliers proved that air Down a Peg National Central university and the transport planes can now be landed The film critic was unimpressed under conditions which prevent the Tzesheng hospital. n Nearly 400 miles inland from pilot from gaining the slightest by the actor playing the Shanghai, at Nanchang, capital of glimpse of the ground. Using only role. In his review he wrote: "His idea of how a n Kiangsi province, it was reported a radio beam for "eyes," pilots should be played was to throw Japanese bombers had killed or made 100 perfect "blind" landings out his chest three inches and folwounded 300 Chinese noncombat at the airport there with a Boeing Z47-low it slowly across the screen." of ants. now on used the plane, type In an effort to hit the South sta several of the nation's commercial tion at Nantao, ancient walled-air lines. YOU CAN THROW CARDS The cockpit windows were covShanghai settlement neighboring the French concession, Japanese ered with metal screens to prevent bombers killed 200 and wounded 400 their sneaking so much as a peek IN HIS FACE civilians. at the field. Many pilots flew the ship and, although some of them ONCE TOO OFTEN never operated that type of had for Ethiopia? Puppet King plane before, not a single landing Mussolini captured was made outside the have those awful WHEN (or runWHEN youwhen did he?) it was freyour nerve way. are all on edge don't take It cm quently said that he would never be So successful were the tests, the on the man you love. able to control it, much less develop Your husband can't possibly bureau of air commerce, army, it, for the Ethiopian tribes are wild know how you feel for the simple and commercial airlines repreason that be is a man. and terrible. Apparently he is now navy resentatives that the present agreed A wife may ba coming to the same conclusion and system would be adopted for the no wife at all if she nags her is about to turn for help to of all seven days out of every country as a whole. The system, month. people! the former emperor, Haile which makes it to bring a possible For three generation!! one woman Selassie. hai told another how to go "smilisafely to earth, even through It is known that the Italian gov ship 's ng through" with Lydla S. snow, rain, fog or dust, was called ernment has made certain overtures Vegetable Compound. It authorities the most dramatic by helps Nature tone up the system, to Great Britain to determine how thing of its kind since the first flight thus lessening the discomforts from she feels about the "Conquering of the Wright brothers. the functioaal disorders which Lion of Judah" ascending his throne women must endure in the threo ordeals of life: 1. Turning frost once more, but strictly as a puppet Falls to Franco girlhood to womanhood, I. Prepfor whom II Duce would pull the Santander aring for motherhood. 8. AppC PAIN'S civil strings. Britain is said to be willing roaching "middle age." one drew war to a nearer step Don't be a of the because Italian wife; take LYDIA K. PINEHAM'S threat along her Mediterranean life close as Gen. Francisco Franco's VEGETABLE COMPOUND t of the Santanarmy captured city line. Go "Smiling Through.' outlast der, important government France, too, has been approached on the northern coast. As the on the matter. Frenchmen own the post WNU-- W 3637 troops filed in to occupy insurgent important railroad from Addis Aba- the was apparent that the reit city, ba to Djibuti, but one of the pringovernment army of 50,000 cipal stockholders in the French cor- maining SALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY men was in the hills southporation is Haile Selassie, and the east of thetrapped in an area 15 miles city Italians refuse to recognize his VotOut lobby Is delightally sir It is believed that if the square. the last of the twelve ings. cooled dariag t&e stunner moatks During days French agree to the puppet mon- of Franco's furious Radio tor Every Room thrusts, the archy the validity of the emperor's city's streets had run red 200 Room-2- 00 Bmtht with the shares will not be questioned. Then blood of anarchists' as victims, France will be able to buy them. hunger and terrorism crazed The fly in the ointment is that thirst, the populace. Haile Selassie will have none of this. civilians were By the thousands fleeing by sea the He will rest his fate entirely with the to France. Every availway only League of Nations, of which Ethiopia able craft was put into service; hunis still a member. Meanwhile the dreds even attempted a getaway in continual raids by native tribesmen, rowboats, canoes, dories and other still faithful to their emperor, leave small craft, some of them using imno Italian life safe in the African provised sails made from sheets. HOTEL country, and are making II Duce's "colonization" a joke. Railroad Strike Threatens )NLY successful mediation by Louis Retains Championship the United States government Bates S1.SO to $3.00 '"POMMY FARR, the Welsh fighter as a chance to prevent a appeared Th Hotel Temple Sonars has a whom all the "smart guys" nation-wid- e strike of 350,000 railroad highly desirable, friendly for 'Joe Louis, workers as railroad thought was a set-uwill always find Itimmae-nlat- e, world's heavyweight champion, flatly refused the 20 representatives supremely eomforuble, and incent per pay thoroughly agreeable. Yon can therefgave the "Brown Bomber" the sur- crease demanded ore understand why this hotel iai the five" by "big of his life in New BICULY RECOMMENDED prise York, when railroad he stayed 15 rounds. 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