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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over! Tremendous Victory of President Roosevelt Gives Him Electoral Vote of 523 to 8 for Landon Congress Con-gress More Strongly Democratic. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. "7E LIKE your New Deal po11" V V cies and have complete confidence con-fidence in your administration. Go as far as you like." That in effect was the message sent to Franklin Delano Roosevelt by more than twenty-five million mil-lion American men and women when they voted to continue con-tinue him in the Presidency for another an-other four years. It was the most tremendous tre-mendous victory SPANISH rebel continued their bombing of Madrid by airplanes, and on the land were rapidly forcing forc-ing their way toward the capital Their vanguard, at this writing, was within four miles of the city and their artillery was preparing to drop shells In Its center. The left wing of General Varela's army was on a hill dominating the Cuatro Vicn-tos Vicn-tos airport. It was apparent that a decisive battle for possession of Madrid would soon begin, and observers ob-servers had little doubt of the success suc-cess of the insurgents. However, the loyal militia were rushing to the front to meet the attackers, and the citizens, though greatly alarmed, displayed excellent discipline. dis-cipline. The International committee for nonintervention acquitted soviet Russia of nearly all the German charges that it had broken the compact com-pact by providing the Spanish loyalists loyal-ists with munitions. GANGS of young toughs in London, Lon-don, taking advantage of the political unrest marked by the rows between Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascists Fas-cists and the Socialists and Communists, Com-munists, have been terrorizing the parts of the metropolis inhabited chiefly by Jews. Houses and shops occupied by Jews have been stoned anii pillaged and Jews are insulted and attacked on the streets. The cost of insurance against damage due to riots in the east end is rising rapidly. Many traders and shopkeepers who have not previously pre-viously been insured against these risks are hastening to obtain cover. DOWN in Feru they have their own methods of handling political polit-ical matters. In the recent elections Dr. Luis Antonio Eguiguren, nominee nom-inee of the Social Democratic party, had a plurality over the three other presidential candidates. But his candidacy can-didacy was not favored by the existing exist-ing government, so the constitutent assembly, by a vote of 58 to 17, declared the votes cast for Eguiguren Egui-guren and the Social Democratic candidates for vice president, senators sen-ators and deputies were invalid. THIRTY-SEVEN thousand maritime mari-time workers on the Pacific coast went on strike, and immediately im-mediately the trouble spread to the President ever scored by a Roosevelt Presidential candidate candi-date since the days of James Monroe, Mon-roe, for Mr. Roosevelt captured the 523 electoral votes of 46 states. Only Maine and Vermont, with five and three electoral votes respectively, respective-ly, were won by Landon and Knox, the Republican candidates. Their popular vote, when all returns are in, and tabulated, may be fifteen and a half million. The amazing New Deal landslide is looked upon by most unbiased observers not as a Democratic party victory, but a personal triumph for President Roosevelt, an expression of confidence in him and a recognition recogni-tion of the improvement in the country's coun-try's business and industry. It was so overwhelming that the President may well consider he has been given carte blanche to do as he pleases in carrying his policies on to their logical ends. What he may please to do depends largely on pending decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States on New Deal legislation. Dickinson, and Ed C. Johnson of Colorado, who defeated Raymond L. Sauter. Among the many Republican members of the house of representatives repre-sentatives who failed of re-election were Isaac Bachrach of New Jersey, Chester Bolton of Ohio and Mrs. Florence P. Kahn of California. Califor-nia. George H. Tinkham of Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts and Bertrand H. Snell of New York, minority leader, retained re-tained their seats. The new house will have five woman members, one fewer than in the last session. Oregon elected its first woman representative, rep-resentative, Nan Wood Honeyman, Democrat and close friend of the Roosevelt family. AT LEAST 25 states elected Democratic Dem-ocratic governors, and the number num-ber may be 27. In only three were the Republican nominees winners. William Langer, Independent, won the governorship of North Dakota. Dak-ota. Elmer Benson. Farmer- Labor-ite, Labor-ite, was victorious in Minnesota, and Philip F. LaFollette, Progressive, in Wisconsin. New York re-elected Gov. Herbert Lehman, but he ran far behind President Roosevelt. I Gov. Henry Horner of Illinois, Democrat, Dem-ocrat, also won, but his vote, too, was far less than that for the head of the ticket PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, leaving leav-ing Hyde Park for Washington to "try to balance the budget," as he said, authorized the announcement announce-ment that on November 17 he would start on a cruise on the warship war-ship Indianapolis for a rest of about four weeks, and that it was possible he might go to Buenod Aires, Argentina, to open the Pan-American Pan-American peace conference on December De-cember 1. He may also visit Rio de Janeiro. JAMES A. FARLEY, manager of the triumphant Roosevelt campaign, cam-paign, resumed his office of postmaster post-master general, attending the first post-election meeting of the cabinet He said he would serve out his term but refused to comment on predictions predic-tions that he would not be in the next cabinet. Mr. Farley is about to leave for a short vacation in Ireland. The Democratic national chairman, chair-man, commenting on the election, called attention to his exact forecast fore-cast that Roosevelt would carry every state except Maine and Vermont, Ver-mont, and added: "We would have carried Maine if we had put forth the same efTort there as we did in the September election." DEFENSE MINISTER EDOUARD DALADIER sees a possibility of a swift attack on France by Germany, so he urged upon the ! Gulf and Atlantic coasts. In the west about 150 vessels were tied up in ports and others heading that way faced walkouts 5iy their crews on arrival. In New York members of the International Seamen's union voted a "sit d wn" President Roosevelt moreover, will have at his command a congress con-gress more heavily Democratic than were the last two, for the lingering hopes of the Republicans that they could capture enough seats to enable en-able them, in conjunction with conservative con-servative Democrats, to put up effective ef-fective resistance to New Deal measures,, were not realized. The New Deal majority in the new senate sen-ate will be about five to one, and In the house it will be almost four to one. The few Republicans will be permitted to take part in debate, but when it comes to a vote the congress will .be virtually a one-party one-party affair. Governor Landon and Colonel Knox, his running mate, accepted their defeat gracefully and sent to Mr. Roosevelt congratulatory telegrams tele-grams promising to support, as good Americans, his efforts for the welfare wel-fare of the country. The President responded with wires expressing his confidence that "all us Americans will now pull together for the common com-mon good." The Republican party, despite its terrific drubbing, is not dead. Its national organization is intact and it and such organizations as the American Liberty league, the Sentinels Sen-tinels of America and the Volunteers, Volun-teers, will continue their efforts to keep the ship of state on an even keel and headed in the right direction. William Lemke, candidate of the Union party, failed to carry a state and his popular vote was not Impressive; Im-pressive; but he was re-elected to congress from North Dakota on the Republican ticket Incidentally, John N. Garner, who was scarcely mentioned during the chamber of deputies army committee the immediate fortification fortifica-tion of the Belgian and Swiss frontiers and the speeding up of manufacture of war materials. He asked the committee commit-tee to recommend an appropriation of 500,000,000 francs to fortify the borders hectic campaign, was re-elected vice president and will preside over the senate sen-ate again. He took no real part in the battle, just riding along with his chief. Among the well-known well-known Republican senators unseated by the upheaval are S i strike in defiance of . their national offl- Mayor Rossl cers, and maritime workers in Houston and Port Arthur, Texas, quit their jobs and picketed the waterfront. Federal officials were trying hard to settle the disputes dis-putes between the unions and shipping ship-ping companies, chief of which relate re-late to control of the hiring halls, wage increases and shorter hours. Assistant Secretary of Labor E. F. McGrady was in San Francisco and ii.timated the government might intervene. in-tervene. "When any group, whether bankers, bank-ers, employers or labor, take action endangering the welfare of the nation na-tion they are assuming a position that the government must challenge to protect the state and the people," McGrady said. "The free flow of water-borne foreign for-eign and interstate commerce has become paralyzed. This will involve directly or indirectly the lives of the citizens of the whole nation." San Francisco had the added distress dis-tress of a strike of 1,000 warehousemen warehouse-men who demanded higher wages, and Mayor Angelo Rossi was mus-terirfg mus-terirfg his forces to meet both this trouble and the maritime strike. He expected violent warfare along the waterfront and said he would take the necessary steps to protect public pub-lic interests. The police set up headquarters head-quarters in the Ferry building. Admiral Harry G. Hamlet, as a member of the federal maritime commission, opened a fact-finding hearing in San Francisco, SECRETARY OF STATE HULL and seven other Americans were named by President Roosevelt as the United States delegates in the forthcoming inter-American conference confer-ence in Buenos Aires for the maintenance main-tenance of peace. The conference is to open on December 1, and the American delegation is on its way now to the Argentine capital Mr. Hull's colleagues are: Sumner Welles, assistant secretary secre-tary of state in charge of Latin American affairs; Alexander W. Wcddell, ambassador to Argentina; Adolf A. Berle Jr., chamberlain of New York city; Alexander F. Whitney, Whit-ney, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; Charles G. Fen-wick, Fen-wick, professor of political science, Bryn Mawr college; Michael F. Doyle, PhiladelDhia lawyer, and Mrs. Eisie F. Musser, Salt Lake city, member of the. Utah state senate. CAPT. JAMES A. MOLLISON, English aviator, established a new speed record for trans-atlantic flights when he landed at Croydon airport near London, 13 hours and 17 minutes after he had left Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. Lx his American Amer-ican Bellanca monoplane Dorothy. The previous fastest west to east crossing was made in 1932 by Ame- lia Earhart in 14 hours, 54 minutes from Harbor Grace to Londonderry Ireland. with another "Mag- Edouard inot line" of steel Dandier and concrete "pill boxes" and underground un-derground passages. Obligatory physical training for all Frenchmen, beginning at the age of eighteen, was proposed by Daladier as an aid to building up the French army. The number of professional troops in the army, he asserted, has been increased in the last few months from 106,000 to 144,000. J'ING EDWARD VIII, making his first parliamentary appearance since he succeeded to the throne of England, opened parliament with all the traditional ceremony. His throne stood alone in the house of lords and beside it rest?d the crown which has not yet been placed on his head. Robed in crimson and gold, the monarch read his address to the nation, beginning with his affirmation of the Protestant faith. "My relations with foreign powers continue to be friendly," he said. "The policy of the government continues con-tinues to be based on membership in the League of Nations." He took up in turn the points of his government's proposed program. pro-gram. It would, he promised, work with other nations through the league, for peace. It would "persist "per-sist in efforts" to build a new Locarno Lo-carno treaty and to extend the naval armaments limitations treaty signed last March by Britain, France, and the United States. The government, he announced, will call an imperial conference in London next May, and that after his coronation he would go to India to be crowned emperor. Mrs. Wallis Simpson, the king's American friend, had a choice seat in the diplomats' gallery, being accompanied ac-companied by two other women. Daniel O. Hastings of Delaware, Lester Jhn w' J. Dickinson of Garner Iowa, Jesse H. Mctcalf of Rhode Island and Robert D. Carey of Wyoming. Wyo-ming. The one gain by that party was the Massachusetts seat won by Henry Cabot Lodge II, grandson of the noted senator. He succeeded in defeating Gov. James M. Curley, Democratic boss of the state. The Michigan seat of the late James Couzens was won by Representative Prentiss M. Brown, who beat Former For-mer Gov. W. M. Brucker. William E. Borah of Idaho, Arthur Capper of Kansas and Charles L. McNary of Oregon, all listed as Republicans, were re-elected; and so was George Norris of Nebraska who ran this year as an independent with the approval of Mr. Roosevelt Minnesota Min-nesota Democrats meekly accepted the wrecking of their state ticket by New Deal orders and helped elect Ernest Lundeen, Farmer-La-borite, to the senate. New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, the only state in which the Presidential vote was at all close, sends a Republican to the senate in the person of Gov. H. Styles Bridges. Other governors who won in senate contests were Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island, who defeated Senator Metcalf; Clyde L. Herring of Iowa, victor over Senator |