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Show THE BULLETIN Neutrality Act Signed by the President JWU By Edward W. Pickard Vwfrrn Uninn CONGRESS completed action of the new neutrality measure just in time, for the old one expired on April 30. The draft of the act was sent by airplane to the President and he signed it aboard his yacht in the Gulf of Mexico. He also issued two proclamations, one prohibiting the shipment of arms, ammunition, and implements of war to belligerents in Spain, and the other adding certain articles of war to the proscribed list. would not curtail operations at any Mrs. Simpsons Divorce of the nine big studios and ventured Is Made Absolute the opinion that the dispute could be Senate Committee Against fRS. WALLIS SIMPSON was settled in a reasonable and sensible Supreme Court Bill A an absolute decree granted divorce in London, and within a few hours Edward, duke of Windsor, was on his way from St. Wolfgang, Austria, to visit his fiancee at the Chateau deCande near Tours, France. The former king of Great Britain had been waiting impatiently, baggage packed, for word that Wallis was entirely free, and he lost no time Mrs. Simpson when his solicitors telephoned him from London. It took only 25 seconds to make absolute the decree nisi which Mrs. Simpson obtained last October 27. The king's proctor had been satisfied with the ladys behaviour in the interval, and Sir Boyd Merriman, president of the divorce court, personally granted the decree along with a lot of others The date for the wedding of the duke of Windsor and Mrs. Simpson has not yet been announced, but it probably will be in the week beginning May 24. Edward was willing to wait until all the coronation hullabaloo was over for he did not wish to annoy his royal brother in any way. tf .. London Getting Ready for the Coronation PROM all quarters of the earth men and women of much, little or no importance were flocking to London for the coronation; the diplomats were trying on their new knee breeches; the peeresses were buying wigs to make their coronets fit more comfortably; the officials, troops and horses were being rehearsed in their parts; the proprietors of parade seats were desperately trying to dispose of them at cut prices; and hotel managers and tradesmen of all sorts were preparing to make lots of money out of this thoroughly commercialized affair. It was said by steamship officials in New York that hundreds of Americans booked for the coronation had cancelled their passages, but despite this ft was certain London would be thronged with visitors. One most disturbing feature was the strike of the London busmen. It disrupted traffic just when the city .was filling up with visitors, and those persons as well as hundreds of thousands of residents of the city and its suburbs were compelled to get about as best they could. New Constitution for Ireland Is Published L" AMON DE VALERA, president of the Irish Free State, made public his proposed new constitution for that state which Is to be ratified or rejected at general elections and a plebiscite probably late fat June. The docu- ment declares all of Ireland, its islands and territorial seas, included in the national territory, and "Eire, ancient name for Ireland, is designated the official name. Ireland is declared a "sovereign and independent democratic state, and no mention is made of Great Britain. The president is to be elected by direct vote for a seven year term. The Roman Catholic church is given special recognition, but other churches also are recognized and freedom of conscience and practice of religion is guaranteed. Titles of nobility are prohibited. Support of home life is pledged, and the constitution declares no law shall be enacted providing for the grant of a dissolution of marriage. Divorce in other states under civil laws would not be recognized in Ireland. Ulster, the northern part of Ireland which does not belong to the Free State, received the proposed constitution cooly, evincing no desire to unite with the Free State. "We definitely prefer our position as citizens of the United Kingdom," said the Ulster commerce minister, John Milne Barbour, and this seemed to be the prevailing sentiment. manner. He claimed that no more than 1,500 of the Hollywood movie industrys 40,000 employees were in' volved in the points at issue, am observed that no questions of wages or hours had been put forth by the striking unions. The film companies have indicate their unwillingness to settle the issue of the closed shop and union recognition until they know what demands in the matters of wages and hours may be made by their workers. Fifteen of the largest hotels in San Francisco were practically tied up by a strike of 3,500 employees. The strikers were given the active support of 13 unions. They insisted that hotel owners had refused to agree to preferential hiring and a five day week for clerks, although other groups of hotel employees had been awarded such conditions. The 15 hotels involved were the Alexander Hamilton, Bellevue, Cathedral hotel apartments, Clift Sir Francis Drake, El Cortez, Fairmont, Mark Hopkins, Palace, Plaza Whitcomb, William Taylor, S t Francis, Gaylord, and Steward. . Moscow-Volg- a Canal Is Opened by Stalin Af AY day was fittingly chosen A1 for the opening of the Moscow-Volg- a canal, one of the greatest physical undertakings of the soviet Russian govern- ment For four years 200,000 prisoners have been working on the project, these including not only Russians, but also Finns, Letts, Estonians, Poles, and Ukranians. Many of them were political prisoners. Josef Stalin, dictator of the soviet union, and President M. I. Kalinin were the chief figures at the official celebration of the opening of the canal. This waterway, part of the plan to make Moscow actually a seaport, is 90 miles long, has eleven locks, twelve large dams, and utilizes eight large lakes and man-mareservoirs. The canal begins on the Volga seventy miles below the city of Kalinin (formerly Tver), where a large dam c and station have been constructed. The lake formed there has been named the Moscow sea and is ninety miles long with an area of 205 square miles. de hydro-electri- Basques and Rebels Fight Fiercely Near Bilbao COME of the most desperate fight- ing of the Spanish civil war was taking place in the struggle for Bilbao between the sturdy Basques and Gen. Emilio Molas veterans, reputedly mostly Italians and Germans. The insurgents had promised not to bomb the center of the city but bombarded its environs heavily from the land and the air. By fierce attacks they broke through the Basque lines on the Bay of Biscay coast, reaching Bilbaos seaports at the mouth of the Nervion river. Disregarding the protests of General Franco. Fascist chieftain, the British and French governments undertook to remove from Bilbao a large number of women and children. These refugees were taken away by merchant vessels while British warships guarded outside Spanish waters. Franco maintained Bilbao was a military objective and that neutral nations had no right to evacuate the civil population as this would lift a burden from the Basques and permit them to concentrate on the defense of the city. A NNOUNCEMENT of their 1 tion on the Presidents Spanish Onion Peddlers Epis Story Is Recounted YORK. As an onion peddler, Juan March used to tie up his daily He' earnings in his shirt-tai- l. pretty nearly had Spain that way, too, at the start of his war against the republic, which he bankrolls and more or less per- sonally conducts from Rome, where, according to today's dis- patches, he is now in residence, Foreign correspondents put the finger on Mr. March as the main financial spark plug of the NEW j posl-- 1 Su- j j D ESISTING all efforts of the A'- would-b- e economists, the majority in the house passed the War department appropriation bill carrying 416,400,000 for the fiscal year 1938. This is the largest army bill ever passed in times of peace. As passed the measure carries ncreases in the pay of the army totaling $5,861,000; clothing and equipage, $5,500,000; military post construction, $5,400,000; ordnance service and supplies, $5,800,000, and National Guard, $1,600,000. pie bill provides more than two millions for the acquisition of land at Mitchcl field, N. Y.; Kelly field, Tex.; at Tacoma, Wash., and at West Point, N. Y. Big Strike Is Started in Hollywood Movie Plants p1 LEVEN unions of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts, with about 6,000 members, went on strike in Hollywood, Calif., and the great film industry there was in serious apan'g Military Bloc difficulties. The strikers counted )efeated in Elections heavilyon by the Screen SENJURO HAYASI1I Actors guild, but that body, which PREMIER and the army bine that suphas 5,600 members, delayed action his regime lost out in the until it could confer with the pro- ported Japanese parliamentary elections. ducers. The guild already had pre- The candidates of the Minscito and sented a number of demands regardboth Sciyukai parties, ing working conditions and hours won about 400 of the 466 seats and overtime pay. in the new house of representatives. Pat Casey, labor relations expert Despite this defeat, General Haya-slor the producers, said the strike refused to resign. hi with-certa- its '- , . ! Sep-whic- h j eer i fifty-seve- n, A Low-Dow- P old-tim- i d j1" i w, j hell-ho- le Var Department Bill Is liggest Since War Time The Wrong Train preme court bill by three more By FLOYD GIBBONS Democratic members of the senate OU know, boys and girls, hope is a wonderful thing, and I'u judiciary committee 1 be doggoned if I know what the human race would do seemingly made it in that body when to look seems blackest the it out that When it. you things would report the measure adversely hope that keeps you haven't a chance to pull through then to the senate. The things begin to straighten y0U going until your luck turns or ' line up at this writout. themselves ing is 10 to 8 against life saved and a has Im going to tell you about one Hope many the bilL The three life it saved, today. The life of a man who got himself into a horrible sitwho openly joined uation just by taking the wrong train. the opposition were The man is Joe Seitsinger of Chicago. .One evening late In Senators J. C. OIn the '- -r 1907, Joe was standing on the platform of November, Mahoney of Wyothe railroad in the little town of Tyrone, Okla., waiting srt'ju ming, Pat McCar-re- n :. for cold night and Joe shivered and pulled Ms a was a train. of Nevada and coat tigk':. a. out Mm aa he paced np and down that platform. Carl Hatch of New Mexico. With them in opposition are King of It Wasnt the Local Train. Utah, Van Nuys of Indiana, Burke Joe '..as waiting for No. 1 the local but it was late that evening. of Nebraska, Connally of Texas, Unknown to Joe, it had been sidetracked to let No. 3 the limited pass Austin of Vermont, Borah of Idaho yaua wais, auu I1 it. At last a train came in sight and began to slow down. al-, and Steiwer of Oregon. Those com- - couldnt read or write a word That must be the local, Joe thought. The other trains never stopped 1.1 4W Ciffnintf hie nkiMA a mitted for the measure are Ashurst lull VI at little stations like Tyrone. The engine came up to the depot platform, of Arizona, Neely of West Virginia, moving very slowly, a string of cars along behind. Logan of Kentucky, Dieterich of IlThe vestibule doors of the cars were still closed, but Joe thought the linois, Pittman of Nevada and Nortrain would stop in a few seconds and then those doors would open. ris of Nebraska. McGill of Kansas To save himself a walk down the platform, he swung aboard one of and Hughes of Delaware, still nonthe cars, standing on the little ledge that protruded from below the committal, were counted as being closed door, and at the same time, grabbing the two hand holds on on the administration side: either side. The committee agreed to begin But the train didnt come to a stop. Instead, it rolled right voting on the bill and on proposed on past the station platform and began to pick up speed! amendments on May 18. Thats when Joe should have acted. He knew right away that he had made a mistake realized that he had hopped on the Golden State House Majority Refuses Limited instead of the local. to Practice Economy "I should have jumped from the train right there, he says, "but I was waiting for a better place to do it We were gliding over switches VfHILE Democratic leaders in and spur tracks at the moment and I was afraid I might trip on them and congress were disputing over turn an ankle. various proposals for achieving the economy demanded by the PresiGoing Too Fast for Joe to Jump. dent, the house without a quiver Yes, Joe might even have broken a leg if hed jumped there and got passed the second deficiency bill, his feet tangled up with those switches and spurs. But what he did carrying $79,200,000. The Demodo nearly earned him a broken neck! By the time the train came to crats called it an economy measure a suitable spot in which to jump, it was going so fast that Joe didnt DARE because the appropriations were 19 - jump. Inside of two minutes it had picked up its full 'j' them in the dark ping off the miles at the rate of sixty or more an hour.speed and was dip- millions less than the amounts sonally explored asked by the department heads. But of the moon, say current news acAnd there Joe hung, digging his toes into a little ledge more 15 of those 19 millions represented counts, and could smell his way in- than an inch wide, on a bitter cold night, while the wind torehardly at him and merely a reduction in the,30 million to any of them blindfolded. The money rolled in. In the post--: appropriation asked by the bureau of internal revenue for the refund- war years, Senor March was back ing of processing taxes collected un- in Spain, investing many millions der the agricultural adjustment act. in vast areas of land which made The saving, it was pointed out, was him one of Spains most imposing more a deferred "economy in that grandees, traveling with an entour-- 1 the 15 millions will be included in age of generals and flunkies in His- - j the next budget. pana limousines. His was the build- up of Primo de Rivera as dictator. President Goes Fishing Quite a few years before the overthrow of Alfonso, the drive for the in Gulf of Mexico of big land holdings was CENATORS, representatives, de-- break-u- p partment heads, and almost ev- gaining momentum, and Senor eryone else in Washington official- March, combating it, became the dom were worrying themselves over most powerful and resourceful conexpenditure reductions, taxes, ris- tender for fascism in Spain. The republic jailed him for eighting prices and falling revenues, and Supreme court reformation. But een months. Details of his release President Roosevelt was gaily sail- are obscure, but, when the jail doors ing the waters of the Gulf of Mexi- swung outward, the real troubies.of co, angling for tarpon. He was on the republic began. According to His Plight Was Well Nigh Hopeless. the Presidential yacht Potomac, dispatches of last August and to threatened wrench him loose. He pressed his face to the glass dooi he boarded at New Orleans; tember, Senor March's bank in his vessel was escorted by three de - Palma, on Majorca, was the fin an-- ' ut he couldn t rap on it The wind was so strong that he didnt dar one of the hand holds, 8 stroyers, the Moffett, the Schenk ' cial mainspring of revolution, and and the Decatur. At Galveston Sec- - Palma was the entrepot not only yelled yelled at the top of his voice but the train was making so much noise end the wind whipped Ms voice away so retary Marvin McIntyre set up a fas that no ons heard Mm. temporary White House, and Mr. Joe began wondering if he could hang on until the train reache Roosevelt planned to land at that Hooker, the next station, a few miles away. Then, with a sickeninj city when he got through fishing. sensation in the pit of Ms stomach he realized that this train didn the bridge since he peddled onions, net stop was Dalhart, Tex., ninety milei Hamilton Fish Moves to BEYND Hooker. And he knew darned good and well that he couk at there but, probably Amend Our Gold Policy an onion or a cannon peddled never bang on that long. isnt ''PIIIS is the outstanding finan-- around the Mediterranean that he Hope Was All lie Had Left. cial blunder of the New Deal, doesn't know about. The of the air on my concussion he says, "was forcing mi said Representative Hamilton Fish back against the rear hand hold. It wasbody, bitter cold. I envied every per of New York, Republican, speaking son on that train whether it was a baby in a comfortable n on Kipling. of the administraberth, or i on the rods beneath the train. bum VAN REDERIC F. DE WATER, tions policy of ac- F Joe s plight was pretty well nigh hopeless but a good reporter who became an hopelessness doesn cumulating gold at a guy from hoping. And hope was all Joe had stop e into the left now. He be $35 an ounce, or author, snapped gan hoping the train would,v for some reason, stop at Hooker. when routine . saw he that Kipling twice the nearly The rolled on. Now it was around loose in Vermont. just a mile outside of Hookei cost of production. story af J j!Tng .int. ,town- - 11 Passed Hooker without even slot Mr. Fish thereupon IIis Published account of why Kip-- j introduced a resolu- - hng left America, after his thunder- - If8 dThpnaTlv Pd rBht.aIonS toward Guymon, the next station on tl " hT",S Strain would stop at Guymon. tion forbidding the inS row with his brother-in-laii was a looks like hope, but it gave Joe sometMng to the Freudian to the to key purTreasury live for. j dislike for this chase any more poet's impassioned son?,e PreMy rough country in the twenty miles betwee gold from foreign country. ym he There wer That his in memoirs couple of high trestle, passage countries at more for a fel.ow fays' dandy places my position to commit suicide if he weren the about Canhallowed of peace than $25 an ounce. to minded stick it out and see the natural outcome of the adventure. "The American taxpayers, de- ada and the just over an t div? oB ot y trestles. Hope was still with hin to seems line invisible some clared Mr. Fish, under the ruinrequire him the train telling might stop. And Joe played along, even though h ous gold policy of the President and such explanation. His rancor, in knew was a doggone liar and it would be a miracle if that trai the secretary of the Treasury, have this connection, always has suggest- stoppedHope anywhere between there and Dalhart. become the angels of Europe, and ed some most unhappy experience Then Came the Miracle. are now engaged in helping to fi- here. Mr. Van De Water fills us and is the still in, after bands were getting stiff with the cold and he was havin nance these countries in their mad story good Jof' armament race. All of the nations forty years. One can be more char- difficulty hanging on around the curves. He knew that when they passe of the world including Soviet Russia itable toward Kipling, after iearn- - Guymon he wou.dn't be able to play that game of hope much longei have naturally unloaded their gold ing of his troubles with the report- - Soon his numbed hands would let go and hed just drop off. They were approaching Guymon now, and Joe figured his time t upon us at exorbitant profits, which, sra earth was just about up. The train was roaring down on the static if we tried to sell back, we probwhen suddenly, the miracle happened. ably could not get 50 cents on the The brakes began to grind tha train began to slow down dollar. and up ahead Joe could see a red light and the arm of a semaThis insane and costly gold polphore set at the stop' signal. icy is almost on a par with the high ;hcy stopped ct the depot, and several men ran out to take Jc financing of John Law's Mississippi down from his insecure perch. bubble. The American people have I was stiff as a board," lie says. been turned into milch cows, to be My eyes were full of cinders ar ce 85 coal. I was frozen,. I was taken into the milked by every foreign country. depot, thawc New York university and Columbia,1 ut, questioned, and complimeiv'ed on my luck. When I asked: Whi made showed her me a message. Someone at Hooker ha William Gillette, Veteran p. Mr. Van De Water was a reporter and editor on several New York seen me and wired ahead." Actor, Passes Away "Ha.n ?een hanging on front steps righ ILLIAM GILLETTE, the vet- - nrwspapers and later a New York hand side fifth coach of Goidcn Limited. Stop her. eran actor who became fa- literary critic. WNU Service. mous in the role of Sherlock Holmes He is the author of seventeen novand is remembered also for his good els and a vast deal of critical writContinental Glaciers Celebration Honors Tortoise work in Secret Service" and other ing, taking time out fur fishing with Continental glaciers are ice sheets Natives recently held a celebr plays, died in Hartford, Conn., at the slightest provocation. lie has of enormous extent, covering thou- tion in honor of a tortoise preser the age of eighty-ona summer home in Vermont and sands of square miles. The great ed 160 years ago John G. Pollard, chairman of the thats how he came to run down the ice sheet cf by Captain Coc to the paramount chief of tl 500,000 Greenland, board of appeals of the Veterans Kipling story. square miles in extent, and the one Friendly islands and still administration and former governor enjoyir t) ConnolMit.d Nrwi Features. at the South Tole are the only two life on the WNU Servica. of tt of Virginia, passed away in n palace grounds fully deserving of this classification. Queen of Tonga island. of bronchial pneumonia. i j I i e. Wash-ngto- |