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Show rebels continued their bombing of Madrid by a.rplanes, and on the land wire ra idly facing their way toward the capital. Their vanguard, at this writing, was within four miles of the u'y and their artillery was preparing to dr. p shells in its center. The left wing of General Vaielu's army was on Tremendous Victory of President Roosevelt Gives Iliin a hill dominating the Cuatro Vien- tos airport. It was apparent that Electoral Vote of 523 to o for Landon Cona decisive battle for possession of Madrid would soon begin, and obgress More Strongly Democratic. servers had little d iubt of the sue- cess of the insurgents However, the loyal militia were ruhing to the W. By front to meet the attackers, and estern Newspaper I'nion the citizens, though greatly E LIKE your New Deal poli Dickinson, and Ed C. Johnson of alarmed, displayed excellent disconL. cies and have complete Colorado, who defeated Raymond cipline. fidence in your administration. Go So liter. The international committee for as (ar as you like. the Among Republican nonintervention acquitted soviet many That in effect was men, bars of the house of repreRussia of nearly all the G rmnn the message sent to sentatives who failed of charges that it had broken the- comFranklin Delano were Isaac Iiachraih of New pact by providing the Spanish loyalRoosevelt by more Jersey. Chester Bolton of Ohio and ists with munitions milthan twenty-fivMrs. Florence P. Kahn of Califorlion American men nia. George II Tinkham of MasZHANGS of young toughs in tn--'doand women when sachusetts and Bertrand H Snell taking advantage (.1 Uthey voted to con- - of New Yolk, minority leader, re- npolitical unrest marked by the rows tmue him in the tained their seats. The new house Oswald between Sir Mosley's fasPresidency for an- will have five woman members, one Comother four years It fewer than in the last session. cists and the Socialists and been terrorizing the have munists, tre-4 was , the most Oregon elected its fir't woman repof the metropolis inhabited mendous victory resentative, Nan Wood Iloneyman, parts ever scored by a Democrat and close friend of the chiefly by Jews. Houses and shops occupied by Jews have been stoned candiPresidential Roosevelt family. and pillaged and Jews are insulted date since the days of James Monand attacked on the streets. roe, for Mr. Roosevelt captured the c A T LEAST 25 states elected The cost of insurance against 523 electoral votes of 40 states'. governors, and the num- damage due to riots in the east Only Maine and Vermont, with five and three electoral votes respective- ber may be 27. In only three were end is rising rapidly. Many traders who have not prely, were won by Landon and Knox, the Republican nominees winners. and shopkeepers the Republican candidates. Their William Langer, independent, won viously been insured against these risks are hastening to obtain cover. the governorship of North Dakpopular vote, when all returns are ota. Elmer Benson, Farmer- - Labor-lte- , in, and tabulated, may be fifteen was victorious m Minnesota, and DOWN in Teru they have their and a half million. methods of handling polit-ieF. LaFollette, Progressive, Philip The amazing New Deal landslide in matters. In the recent elections Wisconsin. New York is looked upon by most unbiased Gov. Herbert Lehman, but he ran Dr. Luis Antonio Eguiguren, nomobservers not as a Democratic party behind far President Roosevelt. inee of the Social Democratic party, victory, but a personal triumph for Gov. had a plurality over the three other of Illinois, DemHorner Henry President Roosevelt, an expression also won. but his vote, too. presidential candidates. But his canocrat, of confidence in him and a recogniwas far less than that fur the head didacy was not favored by the existtion of the improvement in the couof the ticket. ing government, so the constitutent ntrys business and industry. It was assembly, by a vote of 58 to 17, so overwhelming that the President declared the votes cast fur Eguilenvwell consider he has been PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, may guren and the Social Democratic given carte blanche to do as he ing Hyde Park for Washington candidates for vice president, senpleases in carrying his policies on to try to balance the budget, as ators and deputies were invalid. to their logical ends. What he may he said, authorized the announceplease to do depends largely on ment that on November 17 he thousand pending decisions by the Supreme would start on a cruise on the war- THIRTY-SEVEon the Pacific Court of the United States on New ship Indianapolis for a rest of imabout four weeks, and that it was coast went on strike, and Deal legislation. to the trouble the spread mediately he to Buenos might go President Roosevelt, moreover, possible Gulf and Atlantic Aires. Argentina, to open the will have at his command a concoasts. In the west Deon conference peace gress more heavily Democratic than 150 about vessels 1. He may also visit Rio were the last two, for the lingering cember were tied up in ports de Janeiro. hopes of the Republicans that they and others heading could capture enough seats to enTAMES A. FARLEY, manager of that way faced able them, in conjunction with conwalkouts by their the triumphant Roosevelt camservative Democrats, to put up efcrews on arrival. In fective resistance to New Deal paign, resumed his office of postNew York members master general, attending the first of the International measures, were not realized. The New Deal majority in the new senmeeting of the cabinet. S e a m e union ate will be about five to one, and He said he would serve out his term voted a ns sit down" but to refused in the house it will be almost four comment on predicstrike in defiance of to one. The few Republicans will tions that he would not be in the their national offi- - Mayor Koss be permitted to take part in debate, next cabinet. Mr. Farley is about cers, and maritime workers in but when it comes to a vote the to leave for a short vacation in Houston and Port Arthur, Texas, Ireland. y congress will be virtually a their jobs and picketed The Democratic national chair- quit affair. the waterfront. Federal officials Governor Landon and Colonel man, commenting on the election, were trying hard to settle the disKnox, his running mate, accepted called attention to his exact foreputes between the unions and shiptheir defeat gracefully and sent to cast that Roosevelt would carry ping companies, chief of which reMr. Roosevelt congratulatory tele- every state except Maine and Ver- late to control of the hiring halls, grams promising to support, as good mont, and added: We would have wage increases and shorter hours. Americans, his efforts for the wel- carried Maine if we had put forth Assistant Secretary of Labor E. F. fare of the country. The President the same effort there as we did in McGrady was in San Francisco and the September election. intimated the government might inresponded with wires expressing his confidence that all us Americans tervene. will now pull together for the comWhen any group, whether bankrEFENSE MINISTER EDOUARD mon good. DALADIER sees a possibility ers, employers or labor, take action The Republican party, despite its of a swift attack on France by endangering the welfare of the naterrific drubbing, is not dead. Its Germany, so he urged upon the tion they are assuming a position that the government must challenge national organization is intact and chamber of deputies to protect the state and the people, it, and such organizations as the army committee the immediate fortificaMcGrady said. American Liberty league, the Senfortion of the Belgian "The free flow of water-borntinels of America and the VolunSwiss and frontiers eign and interstate commerce has teers, will continue their efforts to become paralyzed. This will involve keep the ship of state on an even keel and tile speeding up of manufacture of directly or indirectly the lives of the and headed in the right direction. citizens of the whole nation. He William Lemke, candidate of the war materials. San Francisco had the added disasked committhe Union party, failed to carry a state to recommend of a strike of 1,000 warehousetress tee and his popular vote was not iman appropriation of men who demanded higher wages, to was but he pressive; and Mayor Angelo Rossi was mus-ter- u 500.000,000 francs to congress from North Dakota on the the his forces to meet both this borders fortify Republican ticket. Mag-ino- t and the maritime strike. He trouble with another Incidentally, John N. Garner, who violent warfare along the hue of steel expected was scarcely mentioned during the and concrete pill boxes" and un- waterfront and said he would take hectic campaign, gmgMy the necessary steps to protect pubderground passages. was vice lic interests. The police set up head" for Obligatory physical training president and willjfs all Frenchmen, at the quarters in the Ferry building. beginning e sen-atpreside over the of eighteen, was proposed by Admiral Harry G. Hamlet, as a age again. He took Daladier as an aid to building up member of the federal maritime no real part in the $ the French army. commission, opened a battle, just riding of professional troops hearing in San Francisco. The number along with his chief. in the army, he asserted, has been Among the increased in the last few months SECRETARY OF STATE HULL Republican fiom lOti.OOO to 144,000. and seven other Americans were unseated senators named by President Roosevelt as by the upheaval are I 'ING EDWARD VIII. making his the United States delegates in the Daniel O. Hastings 1 conferfirst parliamentary appearance forthcoming of Delaware, Lester since he succeeded to the throne of ence in Buenos A1 res for the main- J. Dickinson of Iowa, Jesse H. Metcalf of Rhode England, opened parliament with tenance of peace. The conference is Island and Robert D. Carey of Wyo- all the traditional ceremony. His to open on December 1, and the ming. The one gain by that party throne stood alone in the house of American delegation is on its way was the Massachusetts seat won lords and beside it rest'd the crown now to the Argentine capital. Mr. by Henry Cabot Lodge II. grandson which lias not vet been placed on Hull's colleagues are: Sumner Welles, assistant secreof the noted senator. He succeeded his head. Robed in crimson and in defeating Gov. James M. Cuilev, g dd. the monarch read his address tary of state in charge of Latin Democratic buss of the state. The to the nation, beginning with his .American alTairs; Alexander W. Michigan seat of the late James allii inntion of the Piotestant faith. Weddell, ambassador to Argentina; Couzcns was won by Representative "My relations with foit n;n powers Adolf A. Berle Jr., chamberlain of Prentiss M. Brown, who bent For- continue to be friendly, he said. New York city; Alexander F. WhitThe policy of the government conney, president of the Brotherhood of mer Gov. W. M. Brucker. William E. Borah of Idaho, Arthur Capper tinues to be bu'id on membership in Railroad Trainmen; Charles G. Fenwick. professor of political science. of Kansas and Charles L. MeNary the League of Nations He took up in turn the points of Bryn Mawr college; Michael F of Oregon, all listed as Republicans, Doyle, Philadelphia lawyer, and and so was George his government's were proposed proNorris of Nebraska who ran this gram. It would, he promised, woik Mrs. Elsie F. Musser, Salt Lake year as an independent with the with other nations through the city, member of the Utah state senate. approval of Mr. Roosevelt. Min- league, for peace. It would pernesota Democrats meekly accepted sist in t (Toils to build a new LoJAMES A. MOLLISON, the wrecking of their state ticket carno tieaty and to extend the aviator, established a by New Deal orders and helped naval armaments limitations treaty signed last Mirch ov Britain, new speed record for elect Ernest Lundecn, Farmer to the senate. New Hamp- France, and the United .States. Bights when he landed at Croydon The govennent, he announced, an port, near London, 13 hours and shire, the only state in which the Presidential ote was at all close, will call an impel nil cm ferenee in 17 mini. 'os after he had left Harbor sends a Republican to the sen ite London next May, and that after Grace. Newfoundland, i.i his Amerin the person of Gov. H. Styles his coronation he would go to India ican Bcllanea monopi.me Dorolhv to eas' The prtwous fastest U"-t Bridges. Other governors who won to be Clowned empetor. Mrs. Wallis hm ('son, the king's crossing was r do in 1932 by Arne in senate contests were Theodire ih nu 'eat ha 1 ' ii' ut i'i II h mi s, 5 ) minut' Francis Green of Rhode Island, who An i neon fiicn i. 1; i m L. the being ac- tr ni Haibr Giace to Londonderrx diplomats' Senator g.illiiy, Metcalf; Clyde defeaed lu land. Herring of Iowa, ictor over Senator companied by two other women. BANISH News Review of Current Events the World Over EDWARD PICKARD v - e ? Dem-ocrati- post-electio- n one-part- e !f fact-findin- well-know- n o n C.rT. trans-atlanli- 1 c -- Jedediah Smith, the Real Pathfinder ELMO SCOTT WATSON from the E DISCOVERED the central route By he was the first Rocky mountains to the Pacific; of Nevada, the state future the white man to cross to south and from ncth Utah first to traverse to from east to west; he was the first American enter California by the overland mute, thus white its future change of masters; he was the first OllllVlc4 ft 41 a te t man to scale the Hipjh Sierras and the first to explore cific slope from San Diego to Vancouver. He opened the first gateway through the mountains, the South of the world, in that spring ol Pass, later to be thieaded by 1822. There lie joined the famous unr umbered thousands of home Ashley - Henry expedition which and proposed to go up the Missouri seekers and from it he was to make four and tap the rich fur resources one far to the of its headwaters and its tributtrails, to the one northwest, aries and by doing so he became far north, on far to the west, one far to associated men whose with the southwest. He was the herald names would loom large in the of the Western American empire, future history of the Old West-G- en. the makers of which would folWilliam II. zVshiey, Maj. low his trails and settle in farms Andrew Henry, William L. Suband tewns and cities from the lette, Jim Beckwourth, Hugh mountains to the sea. And all Glass, and Thomas Fitzpatrick this he accomplished during his of the Broken Hand). short life of only thirty - three (Fitz He Becomes a Iluntei. years! Smith was engaged as hunter Jedediah Strong Smith was his name and not unfittingly has he for the expedition and although been called the American Ulys- that relieved him of the ardous ses. But nearly a century was task of helping drag the they to elapse before a Homer should keelboat ("cordelling, arise to tell the tale of his wan- called it) up the Big Muddy, his derings and sing the glory of his duties exposed him constantly to achievement. In the meantime, attack from either supposedly another and lesser man, following friendly or openly hostile Indians. the trail which he had blazed, However, he successfully avoided Pathwould be hailed as the those dangers during the trip up finder. John C. Fremont was the river as he did similar danthe man but, by every rule of gers that winter when he was simple justice, that title belongs hunter for the post which Major to Jedediah Strong Smith. Henry had established at the mouth of the Yellowstone. JEDEDIAH STRONG SMITH Young Diah won his spurs as Considering the importance of Smith in the history of the fur an Indian fighter during the at- in Darien. Certainly he thought ers had little regard for pefc extack by the Ankaras (or Rees) trade and of drawn had boundaries. which vision of the They encamps the party ploration, it seems strange that on Ashleys the Umpqua river. There,! won the high him through suffering and danHe also next of this a of year. biography publication white man to cross day while Smith was away,) by being ger, the first giant of the Old West should regard of that leaderwho the continent from the bank of Indians fell on the campaah volunhave been so long delayed. But one of the two men to the California tually wiped it out. Only twoa the it was not until this year that teered for the task of traversing shore.Mississippi escaped. The Indians tod; to d miles danger-fille300 the get Now lay the second gate open, entire outfit and that rich k help from Major Henry on the Yellowstone. As a result, he be- the high road charted; westward furs. came a captain of the company the course of empire saw its way. Smith came back to find tip of trappers who joined with Col. In the young Yankee hunter, sitgone. One of the maui thing Henry Leavenworth in his puni- ting his horse on the rim of the had escaped joined him then tive expedition against the Rees world, lay the end of hope for the two headed farther nort: and he also became one of Ash- England, or for Russia to take Fort Vancouver. There, stnn for Spain to regain it, leys most trusted captains andin California, ly enough, the good Dr. 1 or for Mexico to keep its slender the conduct of the trapping Loughlin greeted them wc. trading business which that ener- hold. the Hudson's Bajtr although His Odyssey Begins. getic leader carried on during pany frowned on invasions if the next three years in the So Jedediah Smith came to the fur empire. McLoughlin sent Rocky Mountains. end of his first remarkable jourparties and made the Ini time Smith ney. But it was only the beginDuring disgorge the loot they had tained in the massacre widened his acquaintance among ning of others, even more rethe trappers and fur traders who markable in many respects. camp. Then he paid Smith were already famous or would When he arrived in San Diego for the lot. become famous later such men the Spanish authorities looked The other refugee from as Jim Bridger, Joe Meek, Mil-to- n with considerable suspicion on camp reached the fort and, Sublette and Moses this invader who might be com- March of 1829, Smith and ("Black) Harris. And the re- ing to spy out their fair country, two companions set out up westwardmarkable thing is that such men for those Columbia to drop over the dm as these prized the friendship pushing Americans who had so and make his way back JOE MEEK and acknowledged the right to recently extended their domain mountains where his cop leadership of this slender, beard- from the Mississippi river to the was operating. He joined th him of such a portrait less Yankee. He became crest of the Rockies. this time in Pierre's Hole i has been available and the com- their young leader in still another sense After at there the three partnersin t spending some time plete story of the real Pathfind- in 1826 when Ashley, who had San where he united for the first time Diego, purchased er told by an authority on the made a modest fortune out of Smith his men led years. The followingwellye& subject. He is Maurice S. Sulli- the fur business in three years, supplies, sats still beaver and Jackson, good seeking to find them on lette van, whose Jedediah Smith, decided to retire. So he sold his streams. fromU returns with their Failing Trader and Trail Breaker was stock of goods, his company and the San Joaquin and the Merced trade, decided to retire and published recently by the Press everything he owned in the mounrivers, he pushed on to the Stan- the Santa Fe trade. of the Pioneers, Inc. of New tains to Smith, William Sub- islaus. Then he turned his eyes York. The Fatal Decision. lette and David E. Jackson. eastward where the Sierra NeThis book is based upon a copy diThe new firm immediately vada range lifted its snow-cappe- d Loading their wagons of Smith's diary w'hich Sullivan vided up the duties of the busi- peaks toward the sky. Leaving packs of furs, Smith, J" a unearthed after search lasting ness. Smith became the finder of most of his and Sublette headed for St on the Stanmany years. He found it in the new fur trails, Sublette was in islaus, Smith party two with passing out of dominance companpossession of a remote branch of charge of field operations and ions, seven horses and two nark Smiths family and with it was Jackson was in of the mules set out to scale the range. a map of the Pathfinders travels. company business.charge As a finder For eight they fougni me Yankee Fioneers. of new fur country Smith im- snowdrifts days and finally emerged Smith was born in the little vil- mediately set off upon his amaz- on the eastern side. lage of Jericho, N. Y. on January ing wanderings. He started west But out of the Salt Lake basin with Nevadaahead of them was the 6, 1799, of a line of tall, vigorous, desert, worse even than 15 men. They passed the Great stern, God - fearing Yankees the Mojave. For 20 days they Lake southwest-warSalt and headed d who had "reared successive genmarched across that inferno and for California. This route erations in Massachusetts, New by the time they had finally cone Hampshire and Connecticut . . . took them across the blazing quered it they had eaten all of desert and the hardships their and pushed their way westward horses but one. d and southwestward, conquering which they suffered on this jour- and with hunger, they mangaunt were But terrific. as went. land He was ney the they won aged to reach the summer renthey the sixth of 14 children, all of dezvous of the trappers on Bear whom had their schooling under lake, near the present Lakewood, a Connecticut schoolmaster bearUtah. ing the impressive name of TiThe Pathfinder Instinct. tus Gordon Simons. T gold-hunter- 75-fo- ot trans-Missou- ri up-riv- er e this od land-hungr- In full-leng- th en m Mo-jab- Sun-bake- Vespasian westward urge struck young Diah Smith early. One factor in it was his reading an account of the explorations of Lewis and Clark. At the age of he was hunting and twenty-ontrapping near the Rock river rapids in Illinois and in the spring of 1822 he strode into St. Louis bearing a rifle and a pack. The contents of that pack are interesting. It consisted of a few provisions, keepsakes and several books, including a Bible, a collection of Wesleyan hymns, Evidences of Christianity, an English translation of Rollins Ancient History and the Lewis and Clark book. In the years to come he would be associated with some of the roughest characters in the history of America Smith had traveled a great cirover country never before by white men. But his unerrpathfinder instinct had led straight to his goal. Undaunted by the experiences he had been through, he set out again after only a shoit rest, this time with 19 men and two Indian women. This time, the Spanish, fearing no good of Smith's explorations, had incited the Indians against him and at the Mojave beset his small party. Tenvillages of his men were killed, the two squaws carried off to captivity. All his The cle trod ing him e belongings were lost. With the remnants of his party he reached California. To make matters worse, the Spaniards clapped Smith in jail at San Jose and later moved him to Monterey. But he finally succeeded in getting his freedom by signing a paper that he would leave the JIM BRIDGER through safely and from a mountain top trappers and fur traders, who Jedediah Smith looked far, feared neither God nor man, nor far away to the horizon. The land had reverence for either. But ended, there was water, and an some quality in the island in a vast ocean. What young Yan- thoughts passed through the country immediately. kee would so impress them that mind of Diah Smith as he North he headed gazed they would gladly acknowledge upon this wonder we can only for oOO miles to with his party the American him as their leader and willingly conjecture. He may have ork Beaver here were thought plentifollow him through untold hardof the Greeks, of whom he had ful. The trans were ships and dangers. read, a ho after long wandering ing rich c,it( hes and adaily yieldsmall forThe Odyssey of Jedediah Smith came joj fully at last to the tune m fuis v. a s e being gathered. sea. He may have thought began in St. Louis, then as for Into Oicgon, Butish territory, many years later the fur capital cf Balboa, silent, upon a peak the party went, far these fur trad psalm-singin- g, Bible-carryi- Lu-xm- DR. JOHN Mo fur trade, which hadA all independence.fatal out, this was a concedefar as Smith was of 11 the spring van out of Independent V ,s headed for Santa men ing in May his a selves entenng the of country between mer p and the Cimarron known by the Mexca... Jornada (the journ it mjd implication that death. of a journey was just what it . Smith. day After three Smith rode ahead At last he found iiof the $ in the dry wash w a As he drank, 3 a; Comanche India. Dian him. Young the peace sign their intention wa under the stnhbmS f i 4 his Comanche?, ,tie American Ho can.e to ( Pathfinder. P1 to,. , ' on May 27, lfLl. estern ' rtv1 |