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Show Neirs Hevietc of Current Events SAMOAN CLIPPER IS LOST Captain Musick and Six Others Die as Flying Boat Is Destroyed Near Pago Pago, Samoa i X X " ' i f- ' H s y " v j L ' - : -A - 1 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right, shakes hands with the speaker of the house, William B. Bankhead of Alabama, left, as Vice President John Nance Garner looks on, at the Jackson Day dinner in Washington. A r SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Big Flying Boat Destroyed SAMOAN CLIPPER, huge flying boat of the Pan-American Airways, Air-ways, fell into the Pacific ocean near Samoa, carrying the seven k ; - . . --::-:; J Capt. Edwin C. Musick members of the crewto their deaths. There were no passengers, pas-sengers, for the ship was makig one of its pioneering flights on the newly established estab-lished route across the Pacific. It was on the way from Pago Pago harbor, American Samoa, to Auckland, New Zealand, Zea-land, and had turned back toward Pago Jfago because oi an ou ieaK. presumably pre-sumably it was dumping gasoline to facilitate landing and the fuel exploded, ex-ploded, destroying the plane. First in the list of victims was Capt. Edwin C. Musick, considered the most experienced ocean flyer in the world and chief pilot of the Pacific Pa-cific division of Pan-American. He was one of the most conservative of flyers and officials of the company com-pany said he and his flight crew were entirely blameless for the disaster. Those who perished with Musick were First Officer Cecil G. Sellers, Junior Flight Officer Paul S. Brunk, F. J. MacLean, J. W. Stickrod, J. A. Brooks and J. T. Findlay. Plane Crashes in Rockies ONE of Northwest Airlines' new Lockheed Zephyr passenger planes, flying from Seattle to Chicago, Chi-cago, struck a snow-covered peak of the Rocky mountains near Boze-man, Boze-man, Mont., and was smashed and burned. All aboard, including eight passengers and two pilots, were killed, their charred bodies being found by a party that made its way through a raging blizzard to the scene of the accident. Officials of the company could not explain the disaster but said all ships of the new type were grounded pending investigation. Blow for La Follette WISCONSIN'S Supreme court gave a smashing blow to the La Follette program for public ownership own-ership of utilities when it declared the Wisconsin development authority author-ity act unconstitutional, being an illegal il-legal delegation of the state's sovereign sov-ereign governmental power to a private pri-vate corporation. By knocking out the WDA the court also sounded the death knell for the Wisconsin agricultural authority au-thority act, court attaches said. Budget Message Summary MORE vitally important than his annual message on the state of the nation was President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's budget message to congress. In it he forecast a deficit of $1,088,-129,600 $1,088,-129,600 for the current fiscal year which ends on June 30, and a deficit of $949,606,000 for the 1939 fiscal year. There was no promise that the budget would be balanced in the near future, the national revenue estimates es-timates being reduced because of the depression. Nearly a billion dollars was asked by the President for national defense de-fense because of "world conditions over which this nation has no control," con-trol," and more may be called for soon for the same purpose. Summarized, the President's budget statement said: Revenues for the next fiscal year will total $5,919,400,000, a decrease of $401,070,000 from the present fiscal fis-cal year. jxpenditures, exclusive of debt retirements, will total $0,890,000,000, a decrease of $539,000,000 from the present fiscal year. National defense appropriations will total $991,300,000, an increase of $34,300,000. Later the President may ask for additional funds to construct several extra naval vessels. Relief expenditures for the next fiscal year will total roughly $1,138,- 304,000, a decrease of $841,356,000 from the present fiscal year. The deficit will be financed through Social Security and other trust funds and not through public borrowing. The deficit estimate for the fiscal year which ends June 30 has been raised from $695,000,000 to $1,088,-100,000, $1,088,-100,000, because of the business recession. re-cession. Expenditures for new highways, new rivers and harbors projects, new public buildings, new reclamation recla-mation projects and other new public pub-lic works will be reduced sharply. The public debt will reach a record rec-ord high of $38,528,200,000 on June 30, 1939. -fc More G.O.P. Programs T5ERTRAND SNELL, minority leader in the house, and Col. Frank Knox, Republican candidate for the vice presidency in 1936, have r t; : -vil .si . : Frank Knox set forth programs for the G. O. P. and other opponents of the New Deal. Mr. Snell in a radio ra-dio address proposed pro-posed to restore confidence to the investing in-vesting public and revive business activity ac-tivity by stopping wasteful expenditures, expendi-tures, balancing the budget and liquidat ing Roosevelt social and economic experiments that he said have inspired in-spired distrust of the government and fears of the destruction of the capitalist system. Colonel Knox, speaking at a dinner din-ner in Cleveland, declared that the Republican party must turn away from the high protective tariff, which it has championed for decades, dec-ades, and recognize that the time has come to reduce tariffs to meet changing conditions. "Protect wage standards, yes!" he said. "Continue to protect monopoly, mo-nopoly, no!" War Vote Plan Killed O EPRESENTATIVE LOUIS LUD- LOW'S war referendum resolution resolu-tion will not be acted on at present, for the house, by a vote of 209 to 188, left it in committee for the remainder of the session. This was a victory for the administration admin-istration forces and was brought about after President Roosevelt himself had taken a hand in the controversy. Through a letter to Speaker Bankhead the President had warned congress that adoption of the resolution would hamper any chief executive in the conduct of foreign for-eign relations and would lead other nations to believe they could violate American rights with impunity. Jackson Day Feasts pjEMOCRATS who partook of Jackson day banquets in various vari-ous large cities paid about $250,000 into the purse of the party's national na-tional committee. At the dinner in Washington President Roosevelt pleaded with the nation to understand under-stand that his administration believes be-lieves it is helping and not hurting business by the drive against monopolistic mo-nopolistic practices. His talk was rather conciliatory. He promised a fight, but he called it a cheerful fight on his part, against a mere handful of the total business men and bankers and industrialists who can bo expected to "fight to the last ditch to retain such autocratic control over the industry and the finances of the country as they now possess." At the New York banquet Jim Farley staged the debut of Robert II. Jackson, assistant attorney general, gen-eral, as a candidate for the governorship governor-ship of the Empire state. The young lawyer, who has attracted public attention at-tention recently by attacks on big business, was the principal speaker. At a luncheon party he admitted ho would be the Democratic nominee for governor "if the party wants me." Civil War in C.I.O. JOHN L. LEWIS, head of the C. I O., and David Dubinsky, who has been one of his chief lieutenants, lieuten-ants, seem to have reached the parting part-ing of the ways and have been lambasting lam-basting each other in public without with-out restraint. Dubinsky, chief of the big International Ladies' Garment Gar-ment Workers' union, addressing 1,200 members of his executive boards, said Lewis was to blame for the collapse of peace negotiations between the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L., and declared no one man had a mortgage on the labor movement. He also denounced the infiltration of Communists into the C. I. O. To this Lewis retorted with what Dubinsky called wisecracks, and the latter said: "I venture to say that, without distinction as to group or formation, the laboring masses of America are hungering and praying pray-ing for peace and it is my belief, Mr. Lewis' wisecracking to the contrary con-trary notwithstanding, that they will not be denied such peace for long." Two More for Franco CHIEF officials of Austria and Hungary, after a conference with Italian Foreign Minister Ciano, announced their governments would recognize the Spanish regime of Gen. Francisco Franco. The two powers, linked with Italy by the Rome pact, expressed sympathy sym-pathy with the Rome-Berlin axis and a determination to fight Communist Com-munist propaganda, but did not follow fol-low Italy into the anti-Communist pact with Germany and Japan. Japanese Too Arrogant GREAT BRITAIN'S government, according to dispatches from London, has finally been driven by Jananpse arroeance at Shanghai to - Neville Chamberlain the point of resistance. resist-ance. The invaders have been demanding demand-ing full control of the captured city, to the virtual exclusion of other foreign interests, in-terests, and their troops there have treated British policemen po-licemen in the international inter-national settlement very roughly. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has taken personal command of a British program designed to curb the Japanese expansion of power, and is keeping Washington and Paris fully informed of his plans and actions. Also he has been in frequent telephonic conversation with Foreign Minister Eden, vacationing vaca-tioning at Cannes. A high government official in London Lon-don said Chamberlain had resolved "not to stand for Japanese use of military superiority in the present emergency to force concessions in Shanghai." It was made plain that Britain would act only in harmony with the United States and France. That the Japanese are not afraid of Great Britain was indicated by a statement by Rear Admiral Tanet-suga Tanet-suga Sosa, retired, maintaining that it would be easy for the Japanese navy to reduce the British strongholds strong-holds at Hongkong and Singapore before the British main fleet could get there. Sosa said the only thing that could save Britain was to draw the United States into the war. -K Naval Building Race FRANCE'S reply to the recent an-nouncement an-nouncement that Italy would build two 35,000 ton battleships is the decision to construct two battleships battle-ships of 42.000 tons each, exceeded in size only by the British battle cruiser Hood. The navy committee of the chamber of deputies was preparing pre-paring to ask Minister of Finance Georges Bonnet to supplement the 1938 naval budget by 2,000,000,000 francs from the sorely pressed treasury to keep ahead of Mussolini's Musso-lini's forces at sea. Marriage Mills Stopped T NDIANA'S notorious marriage mills were given a death blow when the State Supreme court upheld up-held a statute enacted 86 years ago forbidding county clerks to issue marriage licenses to women who are not residents of the county In which the license is issued. The decision was hailed by officials of-ficials of states that have raised their marital standards by enacting hygienic laws regulating issuance of marriage licenses. Civil Service Lags pONGRESS was told by the civil service commission that its failure fail-ure to place employees of newly created cre-ated government agencies was becoming be-coming "a matter of grave public concern." In its annual report the commission commis-sion said there was no important extension ex-tension of the civil service during the fiscal year of 1937. "Wholesale exemptions such as have been permitted In the last year must cease if the merit system is to prevail," the commission said. -k Wheeler Hits I.C.C. C EN ATOR BURTON K. WHEEL- ER ot Montana, chairman of tho senate railroad finance Investigating Investigat-ing committee, charged In a statement state-ment that the interstate commerce commission Is using "trick rabbits" in solving carrier problems. Wheeler's Ire was aroused by con-ditions con-ditions surrounding n loan of $6,000,000 by the RFC to tho Erie railroad and nn $8,000,000 HFC loan to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. |