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Show K P 'o ' Til IN News Review of Currenl Evenls the World Over (.id ' 0 !, r I. , : i toil, By EDWARD ttfitrni I Europe's fnr most utiles with experts m d t tuiil'Ji r. d jn ii e i r y I i j 1, t M t a only M uni In I.oke i,vlufp oT Strega, lie It.iy. nt n i on IsoNt tons i Sir John Simon, rp resenting Omit 1'rlt aln were wH'Ing to inrry out flint nalloi.'M mill! iry obligations under th In irim tipity hut bulbed at furtli' r t tin in nil nt In ronUm-etu- i rs Am how, t,iy Ini I ( rnmli d to pn tor Into i'i new agreements wllh cut thp consent of parliament, nlih Ii cannot he consulted until afti-- the afT i r Faster hull Irpmler Hamlin lay. Korean Mlulstpr I nvul of France sought to jierMiiiole England to line up wllh uml Russia rather than with Germany, ami they , ns one uigumtnt a new proto-tdomutual assistant e part they hifl ami 1 I cellor lilt N I big a, thill k i ii w a urn ,t h n i ii v f g i' op, and r of In ( a'holl " is s 0 riu ny nn e tin's br- the fr, ll.imeni iry ' t two ini-n- fol lm fiolow ".''UI1IS ranging up to fm) are nl leged to have hen pil'd In Involving false wltncs-i- s or passing of an iippil, ii,t who In, I failed In Ms test of know ledge of the gov iriiiiicnt or his ahii.ty to apeak English. "It Is alleg, d lh it f, es ringing t from $:( 51.21 si woie levied In cases Involving fruudii:, nr or a! tired Ininlfeat records, wheie It was desirable to obtain a re, ord that would aafegiurd nn alien from I'l T, deep phvsirul J.u ksoii dust storms, the worst of si rles, swept over Kansas, Color tdo, Oklahoma, New Mexleo and Texas, completing the virtual ruin of the wheat crop and causing great losses and suffering among live stock. Si bools and shops were closed, airplanes grounded nml train Rnd hns soiled tiles disrupted Some regions were being abandoned by all Inhabit, mts A delegation of senators and rep resentatlves from four of the strhk en slates ealbd on President Roo-e- ve.t and asked him to cm mirk fl.TojkMijMHi for a land program for the next two ytnis. He did not Indicate what amount would he allocated, but was said by the ibde gntlon to have given assurame that he would permit the expenditure of all the money that was neoes o e sary. thp rubber vvoikers In the pi. mts of Akron, oh 0, ready to quit their Jobs, the Amei ban Feder itluu of I abor pledged It feelf to Mnance the strike, vvhnh President Green declared would he a crucial attempt hy organized la hor to force on Industry the col leetlve bargaining provisions of the NRA. He announced his organlza tlon would "suppoit the rubber workers of Akron for as time as may he necess iry." Green dellnitely m irked out the tire strike as a test of labor's aid! ity to make good on the promises held out to It hy the New Heal The national labor relations hoard, he pointed out, had ordered the big tire companies, Goodyear, Goodrich, and Firestone, to allow their vvoikers to elect representatives for col leetlve bargaining. The companies have refused and labor now takes Into Its own hinds the enforcement of the NEE It dectsloi.. Green ar gned. Tire mnnuf.it Hirers, on the other side, recognize the threatened strike as a key move lu the New Heal program for regimentation of labor and Industry and are fighting hack Eire stone expected to go before the Ids trlct of CVdunihln Supreme court and ask a permanent Injuth tlon against tbe Mill! and NK mod tiling la Its labor situation. WITH THE n V 'STM VS I ER GENERAL JAMES A. FARI EV went to New York to study the polltleul and leg'sla tlve situation there, and It was de dared by local Iemocratlc th repre-sent.atlv- I ' Announcement . Ensue:' . . 1 , ')'" ! , ' 1 -- i .1 1 1 v h t ti e San t.1,11 m nt (hi mile n ,1 in .mi ' m nt r Hi' vv 11 R ' it ,i,l - ' i'll It WI '01 ' i'll ,st thr e ' s ii gi st and Ion ,,g ot 'h o' I m - 1. a r i m r.it.' 'll.ol.t , , 1, a tii' in tl Iv I.u In ' o h ir iis m- ,! g om long ns bridge, t If by -- a it vo a s siot 's iv nt th" z n a I w h depends If by tt Oil bridge y and r v 1 o''h Mi t 'I , iia in the '1 n Ren tin' "InJn t I" al" it the (iiddi (.lie you'll ! h o' in n o li"so m n the 4 Jin ' ri Ne mid It the w io- s "ip tan hug suspt w hose T 0 not io, m ike them he Ingl i st and largest brld e to.viis ever printed !" bet high er than tin, the George Washington brl lg across the II id'on r ver In either ise It Is Impossible to talk about these brn'gi s without dealing In supeilativcs for enih h is in one way or another exiee led all previous n ords ns to size and, taken together the two pmjocts establish a record which pr"b ably will not he evieded for (ciiturn s Tluv are man nude marvels on a smle so tolossal as almost to defy deserip'mn The stiti-tu- s alone me lutpos ng enough but to mike them linilcrat iml ih'e to anvone who Is not an engineer It Is neiessary to give some sir Ii comp u .sons felon v In -t d -1 -- I tbi vv - I denied nor Re He has been so; for Inet ee t!" s li g ' st an i k I e, " ef t' e 11 t u, e" e r s gn inuy te so J at M" t I 't o. co 1 1 I e N e.v re 1 r I vv ,s u vi,- h ' Hit I'1 O' ii' h a (, He t s e ; i e 1 one-fourt- h un-ce- n. fr -- ! oar l''i:iors f"r ume to l' lrs fr 'm the sur'nce of the r i.ewn, UMig tlie ji.vs (,f imge damshell Id i to do the excavating. E t h ca s s nf e J,,:,!.rM-;- l"'r i e- s IT f, - c - I ) ( t 'U-s- w " C.,s.er ()f tiU.p step, held together bv an air nade the caisson Into p! n e and an d n ",cT, m. to.vc in ne l.tw.en lin ' an ug ! c ut ' l t " ", to tt,N n r i e e v I p' d t th i , , , , i r I . i ' 1 - h'i i h i .t as1 It t' tl N n I nL t H' mg e e ip-- o ' s w , r, 'P out ih ' h' the wiM I ' II box .I th, an ns to tt I tl m k to till " " S'l t h- s ' s Cl1) i C'c, o' e they i i r Is oh os'-f.- on t 1 " I ei g a , J o' ' in ia en a , IE'' on I w e 1 8 Hudson. It Is a combimition suspnision bridge between Rincon hill In Sail I ranciscu and Yerha Ruena island out In the midd'e of the hay nml a cantilever bridge between the Island and Oak land. Yeiba Ruena Island will he crossed through the largest vehicular tunnel In the woild, the Imre being 7d feet wide and Tk feet high. The Ray budge proper, lmlmlmg the Island crossing, will he appioxlmately four and one half miles long but its total length fiom the end of tlie western approach to the end of the eastern nppioieh will be eight and miles long. The bridge will he a double deck structure vvHli six lanes of automobile trallic on Hie upper deck and three lanes of trucks, plus two inttrurbati trai ks on the lower dek. The building of (his bridge Involved some of he most diihiult eng peering problems ever at Umpted by man Never before Ins a bridge betn real ed above piers width were sunk by the laissoii method from the surface of the water down through both mud and wafer to rock hot bun, sight Nevir be'ore have stispen Mon towers reired themselves ("lilted hy their own loot stiaj.," one might say) until their hollow seel fr inn's rose TUT feet above the wa ti r and tlu.r cuu rete bases sank In some cases ;.T feet hi low water level. No otlur In Idge yet built has called for so many p era, Tl in number. In fait, It was the bthtf more tlnn half a centuiy that lack of )d"iiate foimlations in the hay for piers, as wed as the piqu s ihility of stretching a span fri in Tuba Rut na to ban I'ratn isco, would pre vent the iv from being br.dgpj. Rut In RdJO a stuvty of t,e bottom of the bty, directed by slate eigneer. revened a high ridge of bed rock (veiling between San trine co and the island wheh would provide a foundation nt higher levels than surrounding bedrock and make a p'lct'cihle route. The water along this roue Is fr, m TO to 10T f0. t deep an I bedrock ca fiom M) to 2nd feet b, low the mud on the bottom of the hav bo the most feerlm s I rohlem was the work I'""w tie water level and the building of the :.ve major j lore bitween t!,e Island and San Irimiseo. Remise f the depth of the water md the mud ' s md hogs" as underwater labor ers are oiled who woik in pressure chambers o away the mud to the rock bottom, could ,:mM 11u of the problem was In ciivn method which I ii 'to s' 10 feet high, 10 feet wile That was the total excava Gate bridge. that will be used In It were barrels in the old ' U''I these barrels were stacked one on top of another, they would make a pile 110 ml'es to high Or, put it another way. If all this eon Crete were used to lay a sidewalk you an two of xeiir friends could vvn'k abreast on that side walk all the way from San Frunuseo to New York, for It would be live feet wide an 3 mi Iifiles long. You've been on top of a 22 story bu'ld'ng'1 Renumber how small the people looke on the street down below? If you drive your aa'om fid aeross the Golden Gate bridge In ).,7 nml look down at the people In the bo it pass g unde' the h 'ge, they'll leek Just as sma.l. Am! speaking of automobiles over tie six lane railway of the br! Ige there c "! p isS fe'tng ef autome'd'cs re idling fro a tie tv- -, ne t t'e Mixlcm bor ler a, id w ng at to r He ,f 2J in 'es an hour. (s,ii,- I'oe t r a S 111 ij n't n von H'lve lo hv ! trathc congesti, n. d iioa't " no i" liter h i.v in i"y a t One t, un - s on ' e hi ',0 H o T ef the two c iios w !i s b ,tii g yo i dr m H g n e ee i u h en,, Is 1, ' f , v know ') span. Im.agite a tunnel anil 2t! miles long tbm tor 'he Golden If n'l the cement to be delivered In v t h nnuts of is ip. It's not nearly so long ns the other one but because It's the worlds largest suspension hi idge. they hid to do a lot of digging and building to support the tremendous weight of Us 4 J)) foot (thats more than three quarters of a mile, you , P. , , R11-.- , of m In building the Sin Er im Ison Oukl md P,u bridge they me using .TotHkinoO hoard fei t of lu in to r. lo you know how ninth that Is? Hell It's enough to build ,'!imm jp room houses, or all the houses In a town of loots) piuple. Have you ever seen the uty hall In I os An In I'd'ng In Sin rrancisco or geles, or the the I. C. Smith hull bug In Seittle? The con Crete and stc'l In this hiidge would make Mo Bitch buildings as any of those three. It would probably he ditlicult for you to vis utilize IS, .Too tons of cable wires. I.iit If you're told Hut the cable wire used In thp bridge Is long enough, If laid end to end, to emirole the earth nearly three tiims you'll get Some Idea of how much wire Is going Into that bridge. And the cable wire Is only a small part of the metal that s being used The structural steel, reinlore ami cable wire necessary for the bridge lug st, " lie entire steel output I"r "''"I of the United states In the year EG,". Tou've seen 00 storv skvserapets? Well, ea h Individ 'al tower of the bridge, standing mote than Tim) feet high from the base of Its pier on the floor of the hay to Its tip, represents a con sttualen job the equivalent of buili a sky Scraper. So much for the San Francisco Oakland llay bridge Now for some comparative figures on the colossus which will span the famous Goldtn Gate tlrough vvhkh rushed the gold mad uigo (hf" ICT l wni to ro, k ' r.ace I , RR0DUC dOM w" Another problem was the two nnle suspea between San Francisco and Yeiba Buena Had been deemed Impossible. So the upon two suspens.on spans in in tlie middle of the luy toagg pier. It is 197 feet long (nearly 66 yards 92 feet wide and rises 90S feet from the bottom of the bay, nearly twice as large as h'ggest skyscraper In San I'rancisco. State two spans are anchored to this, they actually against each other. The Fan rancisco ac age is a huge mass of couch te containr; 'MO cubic yards of cement. StMO TE In.spinnlng the cables tho entire 70 000 3 i on mu CO, 815 g of cable are pulled In place by shuttle v which run over the towers ail the way diffen Nan Francisco to the couch te center anch SpfiC on the west suspension bri ige and from AiOIEMP center anchorage to Yerha Emma on the is suspension bridge. Spinning tlie cables far tlie most protracted job on tlie bridge will require a year. Each pine of wire cable is approximately two n des long. A' of 34,908 strands must be d.awn over the your kldn pension towers. Each cable will exert a p, ght and : it XK) its 18,000, anchorage pounds against giess, bur i'rancisco and Yerha IRiena is'and. hint urina Ju&t as the building of tin1 Ray bridge hes; feel sents knotty problems to he s 'veil, so d ..use 1 Thousands building of the Golden Gate Im Ige lir.ngiiE heulties never before eneoimt '"d in such t T are prai :t loan' Pi Ik Outstanding among these were tlie great druggists. of the suspension span, mme tl in twice tha the difficult! any previously attempted ai tost tower the a for foundation erecting the south span because of t e depth of water and the swirling of the tile In the ocean waters at the Golden Gate. Eut 1,200 feet offshore at a d pth of lW an adequate foundation fornnimn was ered although the water here h constantly Indent because of the sex t n mile an hour out through which constantly sxveeps In (.olden Gate. At times breakers 20 feet crash oxer this point. First it was necestafi level off the site for this pier hy blasting over an area of approximated an acre water, after which the rock ua3 dredged carried out and dumped In the sea. Construction of the pier, the first ever attea ed In the open ocean swept hy the tides, made possible only by tlie emtioa of concrete fender, 750 feet la never the pier site, an original Idea sfcU In built fore tried. This fender is be g First a huge steel box Is low t red into pis it V the bottom, after which It is b dted to adjo coo, in boxes by deep-se- a "tteDr. p divers, wot king darkness. Then concrete is poured into the its until Gradually the structure is built up rim Is fifteen feet above high water. Ths wall of the fender is omitted above eis sunt until the enormous caisson, to be for filled w ith concrete for tlie p'or Itself, is into place inside the fender. Then the wi will be completed, and the Im, biers t inside quiet xxater unaffected by tide-in which to complete tlie pur. 1he serve as a permanent protect!" i to the p !he bridge is completed. d' oD s0 Meantime, the Marin tower, c ple'ed above the water line, was r!rf program, Its slender steel con 'O In the i, foundation of concrete, etn' lie tower is of cellular sic cenviructta1 a, of chain inside being a xeritable la' j j,e lost hi which exen tlie difigner i the h"uT his (harts. Steel ladders e. tl. hi to ,i of chambers from the foun 'ho tower, 710 feet high. s P'"1 Hie twin anchorage v a of the world's bi ,c ne enormous solid colon t thoy ' '0 tons i.ich, so cons' t'e c g. tint solid rock when iV ,, 5 he ealde pull at each a a r ids, but tlie anciioi.ue n? h' 'hi Sint to support two v i en tlie e piers and 'I ci, putting pylons for the t w tl 'bs: 1 -- as these. A- - u nu h's ci 1,1 1 U imn a o' the e lh t an h d vv a Mr i c c ns ch Hr mclonal Y e 1 the position and 30 per cent completed. Across waters of the Golden Gate can be seen the completed Marin tower standing 750 feet above the water The hills In the background belong to Marin county. This tower Is located at Lime point. 3. The Golden Gate bridge as It will look when completed in 1937. San Francisco and the metropolitan area in the background. 4. The last leg on the Marin tower, looking up to its great height of 750 feet. The steel supports at its side are for sidewalks which will be 250 feet above the water. 1 felorv terv at'i.kel reu nlng tfis Franc sco side) this picture shows: construction of pylons S 1 and S 2; south pier and fender wall completed 1,125 feet from the shore at Fort point; Sin Francsco tower construction, now 280 feet abeve the water with about 8,000 tons of steel In 1 a d J o n r n rn e 11 1 of Mr Kir congress. ley nolhor nfirned I , leulers be would re vt tire from the n Inet soon a'ior the f . nr ti mid NEW I i I mzlg a o the o id of ' I resident 11 r h I Ger-manls- 01 rt I I $t,Nsii,-fMi.oo- ,j to the rob h an tlna miv yit bo the rosiilt. for the popnl I'lmi o' the or ilty Is more than !l por . n all lilt the az s weiedoiM'ol In ihe.r ilttoni,t to iv the giound work for the suppression of all mli er poll li at parties and the est ih llshmeiit of a dh tutorship I'nvim ably their next Mop will he to vote for a change lri the ( roe City's cm atitutlon nml to ask the I enguo of Nations, which administers the Itv through a commissioner, to perm t a piehls, Ite on return to the rel, h This was opetdy dismissed bv I ml Joseph Goebhels Gorman prop ig m da mlnistit, during the Imt 'am piilgn In Imizlg carried nn by the Nnz.iS. Iolaml was ennged hv the violent nictlio Is of the Hitlerites In the campaign mid demmd an apol 'I lie wlmle ad nr ogv from Herlin end ingereil the new friendship be tween Roland and Geiminv, mid probably tills was not mourned by the other nations of Europe. deportation or procure citizenship status by Showing Ids legtl minds slon at the port of New Vork fur permanent rt si lem e." INRV I !ovv the Saar oih In good d w r s II t t his o' v o' untnil tanned and u, mill glv e tin ly -t ir .Viz s io d t 01, lo por ei I of II I ,1 but ' , 1, vi, ' git tie thirds ran lot the si its tl it nUIHKN'T i t i i to I! "i ' the - ) I It a - s his ll "MX nun her of employees and f ,r crlm ii.! pro-- i i litmus It w u estl in it, d t' it a ring of bribe takers and fitrs had leielvid as mu, h as a ip,, Jon dol ars from persons HI, p illy en'ering the country v pr -- T M I ()N. v In a", ril ii f, a ir.oinpt il ji, tw -i rood, d 'not moil through t and a di-- p iy of the Nazi air hu Pnr-rag- h- ' , P Ii t ' g' II Just slgne with Russia Imnler condition, was landed at Mussolini, solemn nml pesslmlsile, vllle, Hit, tiy the destroyer and stalled Jiiimlliil mutters for Italy with the I in tiled a t el y for help of Fulilii Suvlch, tiridersern?-tarNew York, to at He hiol a! of foreign aTiIrs reu'ly wariail the wurhl Hint the Is- tend the fuueial of sue uf war or peine prohahly could his couMii, Harren I c!auo R o h h I n s, not to- aet tied at StreMi Of Course, the chief (ucs!hn Was after wlihh lie re the attitude of other nation toward turned to Hashing ton. A b o a r d his the coimtunt'y growing Ran train the of the relch under Hitler, Sped n rend and the tlrst concrete prohlctn taken 1 up was h ranee's appeal to tho through the wink relief of Nations against GerHrr Hopkins many's repudiation of the military bill as It was final clauses of the Versailles treaty. ly passed by both houses of con Mussolini and MacHonald were Ingress, called for pen and Ink and clined to accept Hitler's rearmament apt, ended his signature to the larg If there could he an agreement est appropriation incisure ever engainst further military expansion, acted hy congress. There w ere some features of It, ngieed upon In the but Flamlln stood In opposition. The Italians urged a three power senate and house onfei once, wlilili alliance for protection agiltmt tier l.e did not like, but be said those many, hut I. upland objected and who had studied It roi oiiiuicnded Its France was uncertain. All three approval The I'resblcnt nt once signed two nations rather fuvored the rearmament of Austria, R.tigiiria and Hun- allocations from the amount approgary, and the Inuiuho pact which priated '1 he llrat was $1 J.'JloiHNNl Italy especially has been promoting. to the administrator of the Federal Relief administration, Kmergcncv I t'SSOI.INI'S pessimistic frame In order that r lief might not stop of mind was Illustrated by an The second was $ 10 ontHKsi for con announcement In bis newspaper, tlnuiitlon of the ouieigeniy conser vatlon work. Fopolo d Italia, that Italy would In Washington the R, 'publicans "unmen arms under keep (ioo.ooo and Some others discussed with (Its til the horizon Is well cleared, and Satisfaction the probability that modern them all give weapons." I.. Hopkins, relief admlnlstr.i Harry Moth the Italians and the French Is tor, would be the President's chief re com hue'll that (iernmny assistant In carrying out the vast the troubles maliciously stirring up woik relief program. AfIn mu them that confront them rica with the purpose of weakening N' 11IS Mist post vacation confer their position In Kurope. This matdice with i ongresslon tl lenders, ter waa discussed privately by some Roosevelt dlsi eg irdcl of the participants lu the Fires.i Iresldent their fears of a prolonged session meeting. and Insisted on emnluietif of Ins legislative program. Especially he new mutual assistance wants leg slatbui dealing with exreached by t ranee tension of the NRV, social security, and Russia was at first supposed to utilities holding companies, exten-lobe merely an agreement on sancof federal over bunktions to be taken against an ag- ing, alilp subsidyauthority read lustment and debeen once has the latter gressor extension of Ipl.ivHlooo In nuitermined by the Iauigue of Nations. sance taxes. Fut l'arls correspondents assert Enter the President conferred that It Is In effect a military alli- with Senator Joe Robinson, who ance such as Russia lead becu urg- said both of them felt that very sating u France and that In certain isfactory progress Is being made. cases the signatories will determine 'Io the Mr. Roosefor themsehei who Is the aggres- velt saidcorrespondents be hosd to have the sor without watting for word from work relief program at Its hy Geneva. Tbs agreement Is. of the middle of November, atpeak which course, directed primarily against time 3,rsk tvm unemployed should be It la believed lu larls at work under Its terms Germany. He In that Russia will soon concluils aim (Heated this program would he carliar alliance with three hoslovakla ried out ns far as possible by existand tho Hattie atatts, thus com- ing He will governmental agencies a Gersteel around pleting ring set k to avoid moving workers from 'a land frontiers. The agree- one area to man) ami will take ment Is still subject to alteration care of as another, white many collar" final the and Soviet anj approval, workers as possible. docs not discuss It. press The social security hdl flnnly was Ilcat Russia still seeks "to mainon the Mist o' the house predated tain and strengthen tho general of There were representatives. peace" was shown by tho signing several blocs against it In Its form of a Itusso German trade trea'y as reported These Included which Is believed will greatly inwho want higher unemcrease the volume of Russia s or and oil nge piv meets; ployment ders In tho relch. Under tills sc members from the poorer sates, cord the Soviet will Increase purwho want He federal chases In (lermauv bv 2ntv.iV si in) to bear the eml-- e cost government of the pro oho ivh marks (about a bankgram, w''h the s'ntes rrMeved of co'so-tltilies It'd bv the ing any con" Impon and the conservI outsit e Rank anj IVs'oief Gese'l-Schnf- t atives, who nr" opis'sed to t 0 "gov and the Iresd or hui k to ernnu nt going Into t'u t'sc-.imgrant It port ere, M's f..r an aver bus.ness" mi! ex i Hu; a p iy ro'l age term of five years, The erei'ts tax dm g e i'"pri .mom will bear Int. rest at rata of tho red -' n k p 2 1! .1 t, a IT,"! cent The R is- -' in irt'e fie i g t Ih no I. e N an to tlon Is her, by tll JMV M, a "1 a New , , h , ' ;' for prdirs wl'h i.o-- u ,n a'-"a w a ss II - w s a rn a. " t ' Er, first ee and I)S ' was mi !e by Me f r ,n 2, v, "e t! it It h ' t ot e ef H., t s"ng c, UDCovire! extoi-J-fra 'a In the the ", ei.r" , i 1!" hit e I , V" " n, e C. lmm'graion an! nn'iira'I t1 n In I ii j ervlce from 102,! to ET1. anj steps and U.'s1 gi.'n be ore beR g sc it er taken for the ousting of to Ot a an. te t I n r Surtliiry in r, I ( ", a r ON Ull r n - i n i w , I r w wits iiniiru n lint It watt of r i nil mi'i-- r e x p I or n I or v " mi n t'ure, mnl no ili fi .ults wi re iillp r I iii p px.pi ii ! Mli.Nii r It ii in H n y Mm I tninil I m1 I I tt i ii w cl I, up, fiirmais aii'l a n. i i ll, 'i ion r WN i pi I llo o !l a r, i PICKARD W. C,, h, i ! n lor of Hirer Nations Confer at cresa Roo-el- t, Busy W ith Woik Relief Program, Prods Congress. Prime Mini-ter- s I'iersidfiit y n n. n - i . M IN,, I I rt t 1 Ii! YSON l 1C Bin 10 oi a sn Id U circumfere-aroun- i - i " i J blot'-weig- ht , f- i i , I by W estem Nvrt a |