| Show Nef tw of f n Events FASCISTS BALK PARLEYS Break with Soviet Feared Americans in Shanghai I Demand Protection aBig a Big Jap Push Still to Come 4 a t te e r x r I 9 Back from yachting trip the President sLown with son James seems cheerful enough despite troubles of Yanks In Tar East Cast nn n UI J 1 V SU SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WORLD'S WEEK 4 Western Union Russian Note Nofe Italy FURTHER r comi evidence of ot the com com- complete L i plate accord of ot th the two great treat Fas Gist cIst governments was revealed when Germany joined Italy In refusing to tobe tobe tobe be represented at the Nyon Switzer Switzerland land conference to end piracy on the Mediterranean The Th Nazis gave the tho same samo sam excuses as Italy Th That tt the th action of ot Soviet Russia in accusing Italian submarines of ot sinking two Russian merchant ships and demanding mandine dc-mandine de- de demanding manding full tun Indemnity made rm Im Impartial partial conclusions of ot the parley Im Impossible im- im impossible impossible possible and that the whole affair might better be bo Ironed out by the committee for tor non Intervention in inthe inthe inthe the Spanish civil war So heated were the differences be between the Italians and the Russians it was feared th the Incident might lead to a break In diplomatic reh- reh rehI I if not to actual armed con eon conflict filet Great Grent Britain Russia and France went right ahead with their plans for the conference British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was in instructed instructed n however to make no pro proposals proposals proposals would tend to divide the Mediterranean powers power Into Fas Fas- Fascist Fascist Fascist cist and anti ant Fascist groups It was believed he would could propose that merchant mer merchant merchant chant ships be allowed a naval convoy con convoy convoy voy through the danger zones Britain one of ot the chief sufferers from the submarine attacks on ship shipping shipping ping was embarrassed shortly be torn be-torn fore the th conference was to begin when a Spanish insurgent cruiser Italy is known to be aiding nidine the in- in insurgents insurgents commandeered a British merchantman off oft Palermo Sicily and confiscated her cargo of Rus Rus- Russian Russian sian oil oU consigned to the Spanish loyalist government iC k Yanks in Far East Kick AMERICANS AMERICANS in Shanghai constantly constantly con l- l In danger of their lives cabled Washington demanding the protection of ot United States ships The American Chamber of ot Corn Com Commerce merce In the war torn city Asked Secretary of State Hull for tor immedi immediate immediate immediate ate clarification of the th State de- de departments de department s stand Some of ot them were bitter toward President noose Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt volt velt who from his yacht had told newspaper men that Americans inthe in inthe inthe the war zone would remain there at their own risk No deadline for tor i had yet been set and ond when hen rumors rumor spread that the United States flagship Au Augusta usta was mak make making ing ready to leave Yangtze waters panic spread among among the Yanks in Shanghai Many business men with lifetime savings invested there vIgorously urged the President to adopt adapt a foreign policy polley with a strong front and 1 the American flag waving waving waving ing One veteran Yank resident cir clr circulated a petition demanding that the President get off oft his yacht acht get on his feet and get some guts above them American missionaries and busl busi business business ness men protested that the Unit United ed cd States St tes position in the Far Est was largely the result of ot their life Ufe s work and insisted on a mo moc moe e steadfast stead steadfast steadfast fast attitude to keep the American stake in China The State depart department department meat ment replied that there thereas v as as as a 1 broad distinction between een getting out O of the theline theline theline line of fire ire and relinquishing privileges privileges leges established over the years Vice In many Chinese ports lorts were ordered to leave their posts iC k Opposition Surprises Nippon JAPANESE naval guns and bomb bombers ors ers carried the th war COO miles south of Shanghai when hen they at attacked attacked tacked the th port of ot Amoy houses a 8 huge ese Chinese fort and arsenal arsenal ar- ar arenal senal enal opposite the Island of For For- Formosa Formosa Formosa mosa Their bombs carried little effect and nd th the shore artillery chased the warships completely disabling Brie cne The battle was but thirty miles mUes from Hong Uong Kong recently recent ravished by a typhoon i Elsewhere along the th far flung front the tho Japanese were tore meeting with opposition the caliber of ol which they had not expected Along the Woosung front Chinese In eluding dueling cs German trained divi j 8 rII Jl Ions were wera successful In holding back 60 sos It wa was said to be th the severest opposition the Japs have met since tince they fought flux Ala in fn 1904 Japanese aerial bombardments continued In the th Chapel and districts of at Shanghai The Th continued peril ot of the tho International settlement and the French concession spurred the American British and French con consuls sul to demand of ol both the and Chinese Chines that their forc forces s be withdrawn from that vicinity Scores of ot noncombatants were dally being killed and ond wounded there ther by falling talling bombs and shells she s But Japans Japan's long awaited big push had not yet materialized It was believed large reinforcements were being awaited The Chinese man power was beginning to tell against the Inferior interior numbers number of the Japanese One of ot the wars war's most sensational military coups occurred In the rocky hills west of ot when 4 Japanese troops were reported wiped out by the Chinese in ambush The Japanese line was said to have been driven back five miles mUes by the terrific onslaught and Japanese commanders were reported more worried worded than ever over the success of their Invasion In this sector Another of ot the war s great grent hor hor- horrors horrors I was perpetrated when the Jap- Jap Japanese Japanese Jap-anes Jap anese bombed a refugee train 30 miles south of ot Shanghai killing and wounding noncombatants Chinese bombers efforts at a t reprisal were Ineffective Only in the northern province ot of Chahal did the th Japanese make 1 real eal progress There they captured the capital city of Kalgan A commis commission slon sion of ot prominent Mongols and Chinese many of ot them known to be associated with the Japanese army was setting up a new popular pop popular war ular autonomous government under un under del der Japanese control iC k Plague Upon a Plague JOliN I I Iman OIIN L LEWIS fire eating ch man of the Committee tor for In Industrial Industrial Industrial Organization let fly are a re rebuke buke at President Roosevelt for tor Jm m Y f t plied piled on campaign prom prom- promises and hinted at atthe the possibility of a a third party In the tt aR 1 8 j elections of 1940 In In 11 t ta 4 a radio speech he hep heI p- p L J declared S It It ill behooves i t one who has supped t J Jeg at labor s table andA and kiI A 4 who has bas been shel she I in labor s shouse sJohn sJ J John oha I 1 Le Len Lett is house to curse with equal fervor and line fine impartiality both labor and Its adversaries when they become locked in deadly em embrace embrace embrace brace This was regarded as an answer to the plague on both i your our houses which which President Roosevelt called down on extremists of both bath sides inthe in inthe inthe the little steel strike In his campaign cam for re election h he had supped at labor s table to the extent of ofa ofa ofa a half halt million dollar contribution to the Democratic national committee by the C I 0 Lewis Lev-is suggested that it would be bea bea bea a wise wite move for labor and agrIculture agriculture ture to wage their battles together politically Labor has suffered just as our farm population has suffered he said from from a viciously unequal dis- dis distribution dis distribution of the national Income The exploitation of ot both classes of WI w has been the source ot of panic and depression and upon the economic welfare elfare of ot both r rests the th best assurance of a ft sound and per per- permanent permanent manent prosperity Bale BaIo Cotton Crop CropT THE FliE T HE fifth largest cotton crop yield d L in the nations nation's history was tore fore forecast tore cast cast by the Department of ot tune tura which estimated a 1937 crop ot of 16 bales The cotton crop September 1 I was ciS 75 per cent of at nor nor- normal normal normal mal indicating an average yIeld per acre of ot 22 5 pounds Chinese Wont Won't Cooperate JAPAN TAPAN S aim in the th undeclared war is to make China submit once and tor for all aU to her will the th Japanese government virtually ad admitted admitted through its iti foreign minister Koki The seriousness of Japans Japan's Intentions were vere obviated when Emperor Hirohito departing from precedent referred to the con con- conflict conflict In detail In a public statement from the th throne and when it was revealed that Nippon is preparing more appropriations tor for her already heavy war v chest Hirota blamed the Chinese central government for the present fighting because it refuses to co co operate with Japan in maintaining peace in eastern Asia Ada Japanese military action against China he h said aid was taken to make Impossible impoSible the recurrence re- re recurrence re recurrence currence of ot the th current hostilities Japan he said laid has no other ob- ob objective objective ob than to see Ice tc a B happy and tranquil North China and Sino Japanese Jap Jap- Jap anese relations so o adjusted as to enable us to put into practice our policy I Since Sine China Ignoring our true I motive mobilized her vast armies against us w NO can do no other than to counter by force torce of ot arms The Th emperor in addressing the houses of ot parliament greatly Im Impressed pressed hh hla hi subjects with a review ot of the tho war arriving at much th the same samo ame conclusions as Hirota had The session of ot parliament was called to consider the tho th appropriation ot of for tor the th campaigns in China raising railing the tho total of ot the th na nation tion s war chest to Dodd and Hull Disagree BY TRY THE time this is s printed Vil lam Ham E Dodd may no longer be Untied UnIted States ambassador to Ger Germany Ger- Ger Germany many In an Interview he lie vigorously rr M opposed any Ameri Amerita ta can representation F at the Nazi party if y l r a 1 congress In i 1 berg Secretary of oft o t M 44 Stat State Cordell Hull Huli I r rA A refused to comment upon upon Dodd s atti a g tude but announced that the United r Stat States would be rep rap rep t f e S 11 W terence resented which at the con will willAI Ambassador assado celebrate Hitler BlUer s W Sv sW E C Dodd rule by Prentiss Gil- Gil Gilbert Gilbert bert American charge d affaires in BerlIn Secretary Hull explained that the action was being taken merely as a friendly gesture to the tho Nazi govern government intent with whom he hp said the United States is In complete diplomatic ac- ac accord accord ac accord cord Diplomatic reports have indicated in that Dodd now vacationing here had made himself unpopular in Berlin because of ot criticism of ot the government s policies Rumor Ru Rumor mot mor had it that he ho might not re return re- re return turn to his post po t tiC iC c McGrady Quits Labor Post EDWARD F McGRADY assist assist- assistant assistant assist s ant secretary of ot labor and chief strike trouble shooter of ot Mme Fran Frances Frances ces Perkins department resigned to devote his talents to radio He left his 9 a year job to take the post of executive vice president In charge of at Industrial relations with the Radio Corporation of America at a n salary variously estimated at from 15 to 50 In a letter to McGrady McCrady President President President dent Roosevelt expressed deep regret re- re regret re regret gret and added Your efforts to maintain harmonious labor rela rela- relations relations relations have always been in the public Interest and in fairness to workers and i management McGrady had been one of the fed fed- federal federal fed federal eral mediators who failed tailed tr tC achieve a settlement of the C I 0 strike against Little Steel In In hi his new po pa his services will be available to the government upon call it was reported iC 4 Hitler Stand by Japan A DOLF HITLER in a manifesto ADOLF to the German nation offered to stand by both Italy and Japan In a defensive fight against bolshevism bolshevism lit He d cl cl arged that the 1 tit two o ma major jor jar wars now going on the the Sino Japanese and the the Spanish civil oars ars were ere the result of ot attempts to spread communism The s speech was read to the Nazi party congress in Nuremberg while he sat on the platform plat plat- platform platform form It could not have been better timed in view of the current friction between Italy and Soviet Russia over submarine piracy in the Medi l Germany and Italy's community ol of Interests have emerged in re recent r re- re recent cent months he said more and mor an element in the defense of Europe against chaotic imbecility Ills His manifesto continued Our anti communistic agreement WIth Tapan serves the same fundamental mission to to stand together In de de- de defense de tense of world civilization It Itil il Postage Stamp War and Nicaragua were ere ereon H HONDURAS on the verge of ot running up the curtain on their own little show in honor honer of Mus Idars the god of ot v all var-all ar ar allover over a postage stamp Nicaragua issued a stamp bearing a map which showed em an m area along the Honduras Honduras ras boundary as territory In dis dispute dis- dis dispute dispute Hondurans claimed it was an aaront to their sovereignty citing the Spanish award which both sides ides accepted in 1908 1006 and which was supposed to have hav settled the territory question Hondurans were w y ere further incensed ed when Nicaraguan radio speakers hinted the Honduran army couldn t lick a n postage stamp and proposed sending troops Into that country facilities guardhouse fire tire stations and quarters for officers and non non non- noncoms non non-coms coms More than men are working on the base now and this number will be Increased to 1000 1 when construction Is In full swing ac- ac according ac according cording to Major Arthur W Park Parker Parker er em in charge of the work Three Concrete Runways RUD For test flying there will be a large completely equipped air airdrome air air- drome with three concrete runways each 4 feet long and feet wide Leveling the field Involves the movement of a million cubic yards 0 of soil sou When finished and In public service service service ice the depot will provide employ employ- employment employment employment ment for about civilian mechanIcs mechanics mechanics Ics and a good sized staff stall of office workers Its military force will con con- consist consist consist of from 25 to 40 officers and enlisted men menThe menThe menThe The outstanding feature of ot this great base will be the building which will house the engineering shop and the repair rep dock It will willbe willbe willbe be fret fet long by feet t Ide or approximately three city blocks long and two blocks wide covering nearly 13 acres Although it will be only one story high it will require 5 tons of structural steel Its three main doorways will be b feet wide by 50 feet high The doors will bo be opened and closed by powerful elec elect electric electric motors Surmounting the vast structure will be a 90 foot flying control tower Within this 13 acre plant III be berow berow row row on row of aeronautical ma machinery mn- mn machinery |
