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Show ITAH THE PAY: Netrtt U. S. Iterieir of Current Events WAR ON TWO CONTINENTS Japanese Bomb Tientsin . . . Fearful Battle Rages Near Madrid . . . Congress Wants to Pack Up and Go Home r ' 'jw; a? fJ 2 V ' i 0 o I U-- ", Japanese soldiers cremate their dead at Fen;;taL If MurtJuL WTVicJoinA Western Newspaper Unioa. China 1 whether it had been officially declared or not Japanese bombers roomed over the city of Tientsin, raining death and destruction, and endangering thousands of citizens of the United States and other foreign countries. The air attack was N ppons retaliation for a Chinese army drive which nearly drove the Japanese out of their North Chinn stronghold. Chinese troops declared that thousands of non combatant men, women and children were killed or Injured by the airmen. The bombers left holocaust In their wake. Flames engulfed Tientsins principal buildings, the central railway station, the militia headquarters, the famed Nunkai university, and the Chinkiang international bridge connecting the Chinese city to the foreign concessions. In the latter, inhabitants who were not concerned at all with the war were forced to seek what safety they could In cellars which provided little shelter from the exploding bombs. Chinese and Japunese soldiers fought in the streets, with entrenchments In some places only 100 feet apart. Three Chinese armies, operating suddenly and swiftly along a front between Taku (Tientsins seaport) and Peiping, conducted the attack which incurred the wrath of the Japanese military command They drove the Japanese away from the three key railroad stations and entered the Japanese concession. Japan immediately responded with her air attack, concentrating upon the heavily populated Chinese section of Tientsin. Infantry attacked the Chinese barricades in several parts of the city. Japanese artillery went Into action, and drew lusty response from the enemy, winch sent shell after shell hurtling into the heart of the Japanese concession. Many soldiers on both sides were killed. From Peiping the Chinese Twenty-ninth army was driven back 80 miles to the west, until not a Chinese soldier was left In the city or , its environs. Gen Sung commander, resigned, turning over Ids post as chairman of the r political council to Gen. a subordinate diChang vision commander. densely-populate- d hand-to-han- e Cheh-yuan- Hopei-Chatia- Tsu-chun- Madrids Moat of Blood 'T'HE Spanish governm mt was de- fending Madnd against the in surgent forces in the most terrible battle of the enttie civil wur and the most Important. It couldnt last, it was too furious The whole loyalist cnu--apparently rested un resisting tins, the most vicious attack the rebels had yet made Gen Francisco Francos army, under Ins personal supervision, was making advances, but ut such loss of men that the cost might be too great Insurgents stormed loyalist entrenchments directly m the face of point blank machine guns. Losses were so terrible that thousands of wounded lay without foist or water among thousands already dead and decaying m the hot sun Infantry, tanks, cavalry and artillery were Supplemented bv airplane bombers In one salient 250,000 men were fighting, including the cream of both armies. The loyalist posdion was admittedly the most serious of the whole war, and upon the government's nbility to withhold against the attack rested the fate of the best units in its army. It was reported that 20,000 Italian troops had joined the rebels for the battle Each side claimed the losses of the other had been greatest. Insurgents reported that the government sahent had cost 300 fighting planes and 30,000 casualties The government declared that Franco had lost at least 100 planes to its 20 or 30, had lost 20.000 to 2.1 000 men, and had consumed $11 000,000 worth of war materials. Gen Franco's ot! er armies were busy, t to Whde the Madrid conflict was In full sway, the insurgents sprang a surprise a.r attack on rarrek,na In the early dawn advance planes dropped flares which lighted up the city. Then came additional planes dropping bombs on the easy target and turning machine guns on citizens who attempted to tlee. At least 65 persons were killed and 150 injured. The rebels In the East were reported to have driven across the Terucl Cuenca border and to have seriously threatened the loyalist , the highway between Madrid and Valencia. life-line- Whaddya Say We Scram?1 3 court bill WITH Supreme to the senate judiciary committee, a new substitute bill for reform of only the lower courts due to be reported out of the committee, and a new senate majority lender selected to take the late Senator Robinson's place, the overwhelming sentiment of the members of the seventy-fiftcongress was to pack up their bags and get as far away from Washington as possible. Even measures which President Roosevelt had insisted bear the must label wete being shoved aside with dispatch, as Vice President Garner sought to heal the party wounds inflicted during the bitter court battle and salvage as much of the Presidents legislation as he could. The first to be buried was the new AAA and granary" bill; the senate agriculture committee shelved it until the next session. The committee authorized James P. Pope, Idaho of the bill, Democrat and to prepare a senate resolution to lay the plans for regional hearings on a comprehensive farm program during the remainder of the summer and report back in January. It seemed certain that the Presidents legislation for governmental reorganization would be left over until next session when the record of three months' hearings by the Joint congressional committee was made public. It was revealed that committee members have not even come close to agreement ixi any of the main points involved. Majority Leader Rarkley said that the White House still wanted the wages and hours bill, the Wagner t housing bill and a Judiciary bill passed, as well as legislation The Wagner to plug tax loopholes. bill, meanwhile, was reported out of committee, and it was expected the senate would act upon it quickly. 1 1 1 g e r, - I Long Beach, Cali. Thus was a lied another for the organization of another to the lor?, Ion J hst of frea club. Duung a hot debate which have queer cerand fun club .n the senate he referred to the tain western senators as sons of Americans helped give a reputation for being the wheieupon wild jackasses, V hite Bear, earth. gruup of citizens in of Wild greatest jonnra Sons the formed Mmn., For despite t: fact that we Jac kasscs club, with a chatter have thouv nJs upon thou- membership of 200 end the firm on sands of clubs, societies, as- Club for lie Men. Two yeais rum thousands of men all over tee United States joined the Nv ghtxhyrt Club of America a gesture which would prove their masculinity. For, according to L. M. (Doc) Davis, a newspaper man who founded the club, only weak men wear pawear jamas; the real Furthermore, he nightshirts asserted, No man wears pajamas willingly. He does it because hes individual whose a wife thinks theyre fashionable. Did George Washington, Abraham Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt sleep in pajamas? I never met the first two, but I was on a Mississippi river boat one night when the inimitable Teddy, then President, led a nightshirt parade over all the decks. It was this incident which gave him the idea for organizing his Nyghtshyrt Club of America. Similarly, another slight incident resulted in the organization of the Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters George. It came about back in 1916 when George W. Dulany, Jr., then a resident of Clinton, Iowa, but now a Chicago banker, was taking a a-- his n hen-peck- 60 Hurt in Strike Riot the independent steel plants were back at work, there was still plenty of discord along the labor front. Sixty persons were injured in a wild riot among pickets of the Steel Workers Organizing committee (affiliated with C. I. O ), loyal workers and police at the Corrigan-McKinneplant of the Republic Steel corporation in Cleveland. A mob of strikers hurled rocks from a hillside upon cars of employees parked in tiie valley about the plant. Loyal workers attempted to drive the strikers away, and at one time 500 of them rushed out of the plant and set upon the pickets. Police tried to break up the fighting, relying chiefly on their tens gas guns. One striker was killed when a moving automobile, which was being stoned, got out of con- trol and ran berserk through a picket line. In Buffalo there was a serious food shortage because of a strike of 1,000 wholesale grocery truck drivers and 1.000 butchers at four meat packing plants. As C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unionists in their demand for closed shops, residents of the city were forced to motor to ttie country for butter, eggs and vegetables. ,v;,3 jx t- i G. lhis captiom desired direc. Hpre you sce charterIhtch Hikers associaoustcd thumbing from hlkcr. The organization students ol Long Dead junior college, - amendment provid- Ing that the six new positions should be to Elliott, given Franklin, Jr., and John Roosevelt, sons of the President; Mrs. Anna B oe A LTHOUGH braying for fair fainter. the for treatment A somewhat similar club, so far as the zoological implication 'S concerned, was organized at St. SoPaul, Minn., in 1934 when the at formed was Giraffes of ciety the second annual convention of the American Newspaper Guild. The previous year a group of working newspaper men had met in Washington to organize the guild as a step toward obtaining better wages and working conditions. In doing this they felt that they had stuck their necks out so the organization at St. Paul of the Society of Giraffes, composed of men who had taken the decisive step the previous year, was the logical aftermath. Lloyd White of the Cleveland Press was elected Supreme Tall Giraffe; G. B. Wollan of the St. Paul News, Grand Old Giraffe, and provision of the was made in the society for a Grand Keeper of Knocks. Aviations Contribution. While mentioning clubs which have some association, by name, at least, with birds or animals, there should be included in the list the Quiet Birdmen, composed of men who served as aviators during the World war, and the Caterpillar club, made up of aviators who have, at least once, had to bail out of their disabled planes in a parachute. A parachute, you know, is made of silk which is woven by caterpillars, hence the name of this club. Today its membership is near the 1,000 mark. At least three different places Chicago, Manchester, N. H., and Coney Island, N. Y. have Polar purpose of by-la- y Drafted OUR important provisions were I? A contained in the new court reform bill repotted out of the senate judiciary committee, but none of them involved any changes in or additions to the personnel of the Supreme court The new bill provides for: la i Direct apeals to the Sunreme court from decisions in the distnct couits involving the constitutionality of fedetal statutes. tb In'etvention bv the Department of Justice in all suits involving the validity of federal statutes. ic) Trial of all suits to enjoin the operation of federal statutes by a court of three judges one judge from the circuit court of apeals und two district judges. d' Reassignment of district court judges by the senior circuit judge of each circuit, wherever additional help nny be needed to relieve congested dockets Judges sitt.ng away from home would receive $10 a day additional pay A Year of Reclamation PLICATIONS (or giants under last year's 'cultural conservation program covered 233.000 0J0 s acres of the ccuntrv 5 crop land and repuosontod an 4 000 000 farmers. H R Tolley, agricultural adjustment administrator. reported. Nearly 31.000.000 acres were diverted from crops which deple'e the sod; 53 000,000 aens received the benefit of soil, build, ng practices. Conservation payments for the year totaled $32,323,303 11, benefit and rental payments $235,744,264 42. Total expenditures by AAA during 1936 were $357,338,617 30, including administrating expenditures and liquidation of obligations outstanding when the Supreme court held sections of the original AAA A 4 two-third- Ambition in Bloom CONGRESSMAN SOL BLOOM of who, it is said (by Congressman Bloom), is the "spittin' image of George Washington, and once posed for a bust labeled The Father of His Country. sponsored a brief bill in the lower hoiue, but unfortunately (for Congressman Bloom) it was rejected in fact it never even came to a vote. It i rovided that a bo, k be given, at the g v ernmeuts expense, to each naturalized citizen with h s citizenship papers The book, exhibited in the house, is a hindsome r, all done up' in blue ard g, The cover contains, m Urge letters, the inscription' The Story of the Constitution, by S'd Bloom. Copyright, by Sol Blot m " - and Sistie and Buz-zi- e It Dali, his grandchildren. failed to carry. Democrat Ross Collins of Missis-sip- i ofTered an amendment that would provide a new secretary for The each member of congress. President may need additional secHow about the retaries, he said. overworked members of congress? We need extra help also. If the bill became law, it would raise the total of the Presidents $10,000-a-yea- r secretaries to nine, for he already has three James Roosevelt, Stephen Early and Marvin McIntyre. low-cos- Bill R (hutda ture v,h. women du automobi.e. are the dra v.iun a lu ck o tion was e o it.. c mennbers o the it a ton dcmin daughter; "ever-nor-m- New Court Pure fpF'-TL- SCOTT WATSON a pic-appeared m many newspapers and men of young lure proup an luRS bcUvcen which sped EI-M- O IJy sociations and other organizations fi ati rnal, social, poPack the White House1 litical, civic, business, sciena roll call vote of 200 to tific, profi hii.nl, patriotic WITH the house of representaand honorary apparently tives voted to give President Rooseof them arent enough there velt six new secretaries at $10 000 a to satisfy te longing of the year each. The de- bate on the bill promajority of our citizens for And thats voked some quaint belonging. comment. Republiwhere the freak and fun can Dewey Short of clubs con.e in Missouri offered an SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK China Skies Rain Fire 'TUiERE w.is war in Worth NEW CLUB A START LETS Weighs Embargo THE conflict in North China AS blazed Into open, if undeclared, warfare, the United States prepared to declare that a state (if war existed between China and Japan and to place an embargo upon the shipment of arms to the two countries, under the neutrality act. The President, who has the power to declare that a state of war exists, kept in close touch with affairs In the Far Fast, assisted by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Proclamation of an embargo prohibits the sale of arms, ammunitions and Implements of war to the It forbids countries. belligerent loans or the extension of credit to either of them, and makes It illegal for Americans to travel upon the ships of the belligerents. Secretary Hull said that conferences had been held among embassy attaches, commanders of foreign troops in Icif ing and others, to lay plans fur removing Americans and other foreign nationals from the danger zone. It was reported that there were 223 United States military personnel and dependents and 403 American civilians registered in Tientsin, in addition to 750 An erican officers and men. Football Couldn't Save It ' af-f- a j He eligible for membership in the National Socittm Fellows. John (Sky) Dunlap of the Santa Ana (Calif.)' h six feet, seven inches tall, claims to be the worlds tallest r Pretty Edith Gallop is pictured checking up on his claim an association of men who, by their sworn word, pumped a pipe organ in a church or chapel at some time in their youth. Founded in 1926 by Chet Shafer of Three Rivers, Wis., who is Grand Diapason of the order, it is, according to its founder, a n, non - coupon - clipi-pin- g, non - discriminatory, non-ski- d group which complacently admits its Its principal aim is a serious to perpetuate the memories one of our decadent but honorable profession and to save for posterity some permanent evidence of the important part the pumper played in the musical and ecclesiastical progress of the ages. Its secondary aims are to encourage the singing of old hymns at Sunday night gatherings and to prove that every successful man did not earn his first dollar selling newspapers but by pumping an organ. By a skillful juggling of its fiscal years and the comparatively simple trick of holding from three to fifteen annual conventions in one, the guild recently was able to celebrate its anniversary. Its officers are named for the various stops on the organ. For instance, Benjamin Franklin Affleck of the Portland Cement association of Chicago succeeded the late Julius Rosenwald of Sears Roebuck and Company as Grand Quin. Its roster of members includes the names of some of Americas citizens, including Will Havs, czar of the movies; Arthur Pound, the historian, and the late United States wooden-golde- best-know- n n Senator ' Membership certificate of the Ancient, Honorable and Mystic Order of Lapa Lapa, composed of sailors in the American navy who have served in Asiatic waters. The only qualification for membership in this order is that the applicant humbly acknowledge that he is a poor fish. train. He turned his head several times when he heard some one call a porter George! trip on a I am going to form a society for the prevention of calling porters George, Dulany announced. zs a joke, he sent out membership cards to friends who bore the same first name as his. To his surprise, they were delighted and helped enroll new members. In a short time the society was gt owing at the rate of 1,500 members a year until today moie than 30,000 Georges are enrolled. George Washington and Admiral George Dewey are the patron saints of the society; George Ade is its poet laureate, and George M. Cohan its official song writer. Various other notables have at one time or another held office in the organization. Among them were Georges Clemenceau as French charge daffaires; George Cardinal Mundelein, William, chaplain; and George (''Babe") At this Ruth, sergeant-at-armtime George H. Moses, former United States senator from New Hampshire, is president. Dulanys little joke has cost him between $5,000 and $6,000 during the last 20 years but he says hes had that much fun out of it. It has a serious side, too, he asserts Porters dislike being called George and as a matter of fact it is their right name less than 3 per cent of the time. A survey once made by the Pullman company showed that only 362 of the 12,558 porters in its employ s. XTOT even the excellence and pop-iulanty of Edward Patrick football teams (Slip) Madigans could save little St. Mary's college at Oakland. Calif, from the suction block It was knocked down to its security holders for $411,150 the only bid after it had failed to pay interest on its bonded indebtedness of $1,370, 5(H) since 1934, When Madig.m came to St. Mary s from Notre Dame in 1921 it had 71 stu-- i dents. His football teams enade it famous and bu.lt the enrollment up to 700 It was indicated he will remain as coach, at a reported sal-- , rv of $7. P00 a year and 10 per cent of the gate receipts Receipts last year were $174 671 v-- that name. Senator Moses bo; e is not only president cf the S P. C. S C. P. G , but h was once directly responsible Couzens of Michigan. The Fossils. Another organization which lists on its membership rolls the names of many distinguished citizens is the Fossils, composed of men who were actively engaged in Bear clubs whose members glory in breaking the ice m rivers or lakes or other bodies of water in the dead of winter and taking a bath Bt th Milwaukee, Wis., and Quarry vile, Pa., have Ground Hug clubs, although the purposes of the two are different. The Milwaukee Ground Hog Cii,b v as oi ganized in a barber on shop February 2, 1908, when L. L Runkel, seating himself in the chirr to get a sha e, said he wanted a good one because it was his bnthdny. In an adjoining chair , sat R. P. Fairbairn, a railroad man That s strange because it s my birthday, too, he exclaimed. So they began counting up the number of their friends who were born on February 2 Groundhog day, c Hied them up on the telephone and summoned hem to a dinner at a hotel where the Groundhog club was organized. The club has no constitution, s or dues. Recalling Boyhcod Thrills. And then there is the C F A which stands for Circus Fans of America and the n principal for membership is proof that the applicant, as a boy earned his way into the circus bv carrying water for the Th.s organization was elephant founded by Kae Knecht an Indiana vw.paper cartoonist. Although t ex,,ts primarily for fun. it has We serious purpose of hclpm quali-ficatio- 1 bitCEgsWa,d b,Ser tne C. F A is not t the mo cempoied of men vvho B-.- ViUiIu of I s o: mer arl Tnere s the cigar. Pumpers, amateur journalism prior to Founded as the National Amateur Press association, among its incorporators were such men as Thomas A. Edison, James M. Beck, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, Senator George H. Moses, Josephus Daniels and Frederick E. Ives, inventor of the e engraving process. In 1904, when many of its members had grown they decided that the Fossils would be a more appropriate name. The aims of this group, in addition to perpetuating old friendships, is to keep alive the memory of those years by occasional reunions; to defray the maintenance expense of a library in which printed relics of their earlier literary efforts are now bound, indexed and stored, and 1390. half-ton- gray-heade- r more tall you tional Society can join of Lor.g f; known as the Sa otherwise association. It was skPhil E. Zimmerman d '4 Kan., when he was commissioner. In travel'; that state he found few hci beds long enough for then of its guests who, like hat, -j more than six Jeet tall gan urging the hotel p:y to install 7 14 foot beds ax: Sci -- that campaign grew the Si of Long Fellows. Some of the objectives; club are to get longer or. shirts with longer tails,! sox, higher awnings, s$ ceilings, bigger seats hie betw and more rows, restaurant tables not necessitate tall guestsn them up wuth their kneesas man berths in which Cg sleep without doubling q ? leg-roo- jackknives. Incidentally, i ciety, which now numHj thousand members in a3 the United States, has c several of those objective Knights of Sb Gleaming If there isnt any hairc head you can become i of the Gleaming Skull ma Head Ciub of America, t started away batk in Paul Meads, a New J York took a photograph ol n headed men seated oa S of John Beldens store! i Village, Conn. A copy the B into fell photograph John Rodemeyer, a man in Greenwich, immediately had the Cffi-- fc ganizing a new club, eafD d is the now has more than 1, M bers, many of whom at annual banquet stirrcf-o- n Knight gives a s some such subject -Tonics Which ers Sell to Before ending this art' must necessarily be the quate listing of all fun clubs that havebeeD are in existence in tins mention should be ch bald-heade- Bald-He- Bald-Heade- d Liars Club of Burling-whi- achieved has -- nown by spons0? the tellers is the We Maine, Norway, Then there lisher Fred S. Sanboft club boJ ing its own otherwise to benefit by community of fellowship and loyalty in their old friendships as youthful I printers. The Old G. Wash Press. Drawing its membership from much the same field of activity is the Ancient and Honorable Order of G. Wash. Pullers, a society founded by a trade publication at the suggestion of Harry C. Webster, an old Missouri "print. Its members include hundreds of country publishers and a number of city newspaper men who are proud to say that they got their start in newspaper work at the lever of an old G. Wash. It isnt necessary, however, to have engaged in some particular occupation or profession to become eligible for membership in these freak and fun c.ubs. For instance, if you are a white person, either male or omale, six feet and one inch or seof IpHWHUWIl "UliJdlUjjUIH Emblem of the BH of Am01 members can loafing call it), whittling toB'.J whatever needs Also worthy but this chronicle. here. If y0.dWn should be tSU1 yourself. 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