Show News Review of Current Events the World Over League of Nations Assembly Scats Seats Ethiopians Etl Amer American ican jean Legion Elects Colmery Japa Commander Commander nese Marines l Occupy I Part art of Shanghai By EDWARD EDW ARD W PICKARD C CI Western N p p r SELASSIE couldn't HAILE i-i i the Italians In the Ethiopian war r but th the fugitive emperor won son on the tho battle batUe of o Geneva and put Benito Mus Mus- Mussolini nose out of I joInt After an ex- ex ex citing debate the League of o Nations assembly voted 39 t 4 to seat leat eat the Ethiopian delegation tion lion now headed by yf the Arner Amer M Ican advIser The Thu 4 negative votes vere ere cast by Hungary AustrIa and Albania all under the thumb of Italy and Ecuador Ethi EthI- EthIopia Ethiopia opia opla Portugal and four our other coun coun- countries countries coun- coun countries tries retrained refrained from voting RathE-r RathE surprisingly Guat Britain and France espoused the cause of Ethi Ethiopia opla opia though It had been thought they considered the operation co-operation co of Italy In th the league of ot more Importance importance tance than justice to the th African realm The heated debate was vies v dosed closed when Capt Anthony Eden Eden foreign minister sold said aid Enough ot of this nonsense I There never has been any sufficient ground b unseat the th Ethiopian delegation The credentials committee in rec roe recommending the action taken said it applied to th the present session only It IL report asserted that certain doc doc- documents documents doc doc- documents which had been received by bythe bythe the members alleged that governmental authority has been set lIet up in 10 sections of ot Ethiopia not occupied occupied pied by the Italians Stating Seating of ot the Ethiopians made it that no Italian delegation would attend this session cession and it was believed by many that Mussolini ni might night withdraw formally from the league It was waa a n victory not only for tor Ethiopia but also for lor the th smaller mailer European powers whIch felt that league leacue submission to Italy WOuld be b disastrous to their own security Sir Samuel Hoare bare lord of the British admiralty added to Italian against Great Britain by declaring in London that the British intended to maintain their supremacy acy Boy acy In th the Mediterranean and nd would modernize and consolidate their na- na na sal al 1 salutary military and air defenses be- be between be between tween Gibraltar and the Suez co- co conal ca en canal ad nal In the light of recent experience experience ence eeoc Malta he be saId would re remain re- re remain main math the first and principal base of the British fleet in the an and would be strengthened to meet conditions Work on Cyprus a 8 a military naval and air base is being hurried to make that Island a to Malta Sir Samuel asserted that the development of Italian air power has not endangered gored the British position in the VETERANS T of two tv gren great t con con- V filets the World war and the CIvil war held their ann annual un I con con- conventions conventions the American Legion meeting In Cleve Cleve- Cleveland land Jand and the Grand Army of the lie In The The legion glon elected A Harry Barry W Colmery j ja a lawyer of Topeka Kin Ken Kan as its national nation 4 I al commander and awarded next years year's convention to New NewYork NewYork Tew York city Mayor La Guardia person- person personally personally ally ld l d the th Gotham harry W delegation in the big Colmer Colmery parade This delegation included au Impressive display of ol police and fire flIe department bands motorcycle squads quads and mounted officers In its business sessions the legion adopted a resolution asking the United States government to with withdraw draw its recognition of soviet Rus Rus- Russia flus- flus Russia sia ste Other resolutions approved called for a 00 DO per cent reduction in immigration quotas and deportation deportation tion of all aliens who are arc Its communists or afflicted WIth I the Third the remo removal al a from public relief rolls of aliens who have hav not applied tor for citizen cItizen- citizenship ship universal ap application of the tho fingerprinting system In this coun coun- country couri- couri country try and an Investigation of used in disseminating subversive doctrines Harry E Ransom of Milwaukee was elected head bead of the 40 and ad 8 fun fun making subsidiary of the legion i iThe The legion band championshIp was won by the Musicians No 94 of St Louis Mo second place went to Frankl Franklin post band of 0 and third to Musi Musi- Musicians Musicians clans post of Los Angeles The Edison post drum and bugle corps of Chicago won the drum corps tournament OnI Only about aine Hundred bundred survivors survivors ors of ot the Union army were able to attend the G A A R It encampment arid many believe It will be the last to be held beld Th aged headed by Ole Oley Nelson telson elson of Iowa lawa the national commander began their proceedings with a Benica sen lea in Wash Wash- cathedral The route of their parade was wu six aix blocks on Tania Pennal vania avenue the scene acene of ct the grand grandt t view of the th Union armies before belore f President Andrew Johnson seventy seventy one one years ago C H Williams Rubo Buho of Pitts Pittsburgh Pittsburgh burgh who run ran away from home 72 12 years oars ago to join the Union army when be he was only a lad of fifteen today was unanimously elected to tobe tobe tobe be commander In 10 chief and end Madl son Madl-son son Wis VIs wa was named as the tha en encampment en- en encampment encampment city for 1037 A ASSERTIONS made b by William Hearst and other op- op opponents opponents op opponents of the New Deal that the tha the President passively accepts accept support of the tho Corn Com I w-i w have hav got Ii f funder under under Mr Roose velta skin skiD kin A state statement ment l ue through Stephen 1 1 Early his se ere tar Y lL said uld aid J My has bas been called d to a aC c eel e r tam tain tam notorious 74 Yi newspaper owner to tomake tomake i make It appear that the n-the W Rc R Hearst Dearst the President pas pas- accepts the support of aLien organizations hostile to the tho Ameri Amen American American can form ot o government Such articles are conceived in malice and born of political spite They y are ore deliberately framed to give a false falsa Impression In other words to frame the American people The Tue President does docs not aol want and does doeg not V welcome elcome the vote vota or sup sup- support port tup-port port of any individual or group croup tal tak taking ing orders from alien sources This Thia simple fact Js is i of ot course obvious ob obvious obvious The American people will Trill not permit their attention to be bo diverted from reil rell issues to fake issues whIch no patriotic honorable de decent do- do docent docent cent would purposely inject into American affairs Mr Hearst who was waa in irs Amster Amster- Amsterdam Amsterdam Amsterdam dam promptly replied by cable saying in part The President haL hai Issued a state state-ment state state- statement meat ment through a secretary lIe Ha has not hod had the frankness to ray flay to whom he be refers in the statement I think I am justified in as- as assuming as assuming suming Burning that I am the object of the statement and that I may cour cour- courteously cour- cour courteously courteously endeavor to correct Mr Roosevelt's misstatements and to set him right Let L t m me say that I have hav not stated at any time whether the PresIdent I willingly or unwillingly received the I Karl Socialists i ithe support of ot the Marx the Frankfurter radicals communists communists and anarchists the tha Tugwell bolsheviks and the rev which constitute the bulko bulk bulkot ot of his following I I I have sImply limply said and shown that he be does receive the support ot of these enemies of the American system tern tem of government and that he has done his bis best to deserve the support or of all nil such disturbing and mid destructive Uve tive elements I I i I FOUR OUR Chinese gunmen In Shang Shanga a ha hal hili killed one Japanese marine and wounded two others oU and with withIn withIn within In a few minutes n a Japanese land land- landing landing trig ing party moro snore than U 2000 strong had hod occupied much of the cw cwI I section of the international Battle Battlement I ment mont The naval navel com corn comI commander commander mander declared martial law In InI I I that area end and troops stopped buses bUes and street cars in the tha search for forthe forthe the slayers Tanks armored cars light artillery and machine gun squads poured through tho the streets and on into Chard Chapel the Chinese dig dis- district dis district that was the th ne of ot furious fighting between the Japanese and the Chinese Nineteenth route army in 1032 1932 Stirling Fessenden American chairman ot or the international settle settlement ment was warned by Japanese ot of- of of to protect their nationals and the hite Russian volunteer regi meat and special police polica in jn the quarter were mobilized Shigeru K Japanese am am- ambassador ambassador ambassador to China who was In Nan king conferring with Chang Chun Chinese e foreign minister on the oth other er recent anti antt J Incidents at v and to break oft off the discussion discus discussion stan sion and return to Shanghai Because o in and Japanese marines already had bad been landed In those cities clUes I Transports bearing reinforcements I arrived t from Japan members ct cZ tho the marl mari maritime time marl THREE 1 time commission authorized in inthe Inthe Inthe the closing days of the last congress were appointed by President Roosevelt Roose Roose- Roosevelt veil velt They are ar Rear Admiral l Henry lien Hen ry fY A Wiley U S N retired Rear Admiral Harry G 0 Hamlet coast coastguard coastguard coastguard guard George Landick Jr chief of ot the section of ct the pro pro- procurement procurement division of the Treasur Treasury department The commission will administer the ship subsidy measure act ct as a regulatory body In conduct of o ci men mer merchant chant marine attains affaIrs and operate generally In the nature of ol the Inter inter- Interstate interstate state commerce commission I OM OM 1 K It SMITH of St Louts Mo TOM i was elected president of the American Banker flankers association at atthe atthe a athe the convention in San Francisco Orval Adams Mains of Salt Lake City was advanced to th the first vice presidency cy though It was said suld this thiv was wu op op- op opposed opposed posed by some ome because of his pro pro- pronounced pronounced anti New Del Deil convictions The executive council will select the meeting place for or the tho 1037 con con- Mexico City was the only one to make a bid for th choice Resolutions reported by the tb corn com committee and adopted called on gov gov- governmental divisions divisions national national stat state and local local to to bring their expendI- expendI expendItures expenditures tures more nor definitely under control and return to balanced budgets and an recommended that chartering of o new Tea banks be b limited rigidly to the tho tb economic needs of th the nation CHIEFS of police of tho the United C v 1 States and Canada attending I the convention of their international association tion In Kansas City drew drewI I this picture of the typical Amen Ameri- Ameri American can criminal of ot 1030 1936 A lazy vain moderately educated educated educated I ed city youth whose whoso parents have hav separated shielding his laziness and an inferiority complex behind a false bravado that leads him into crime motivated by a desire to t tImp Imp Impress ess the the th girl friend with i a 1 flashy appearance of wealth Chief William J 7 Quinn of San Sar said the lars write large majority of the tha 6 C inmates of ot San Quentin prison are ar under twenty four tour years of age and that 93 03 per cent of ot them therm themI I come from broken homes I Canada according to Chief Constable Con Can Constable i stable George Smith of WInnipeg i does not differ from the th United States in respect to Its young thIef thle problem He H said Kids Kids start tart in is at seventeen or eighteen stealing cars for tor joy oy rides These criminologists believe the thc th time to rehabilitate the th youthful criminal is lis Immediately after his hia first offense i IS c LA FOLLETTE S sea sen S Li ate committee on civil liberties investIgating the activities of strike strikebreakers breakers was told that a preacher was hired as a spy py girls did under under- undercover undercover undercover cover work picketers were scalded by live steam and strikers were by secretly strung wires on company property Wit Witnesses nesses flosses testified also that men who direct crews of ex cx convicts pan pan- panhandlers handlers and sluggers take a small fortune annually from industry to combat labor unrest The Inquiry is designed to aid in inthe Inthe the preparation of legislation de demanded do- do demanded by organized labor leaders to eliminate agencies which special special- specialIze specialize ize In strike breaking It is not In Indicated indicated indicated that evidence will be heard on the th other side of ot the question question- question tha the violent practices often otten adopted by strikers and their sympathizers EORGE P JONES ut of Minne Minne- Minnesota Minne J GCORGE G sota gota who hs been serving as asa asa asa a special assistant to the attorney general of ot th the United States Since 1934 has been made judge ot of the federal district COl coi It for the Virgin Islands This 1 is a recess appointment appoint appointment ment by President Roosevelt and Is subject to confirmation confirma i tion tim by the senate Mr Jones Jonca planned to leave tor for St StThomas StThomas Thomas about Octo October October StI I ber 1 lIe He succeeds Judge Albert C C 0 F I 1 I Levitt of Connecticut who resigned August 1 I because as he ho alleged the Department of the Intel lor in In- In with the proc processes of his court The oath of office was admin admin- administered administered to Mr 1 Jones In Washington by br Ugo Carusi executive to Attorney General Gentral Gen ll Cummings In Inthe Inthe inthe the presence of Mr 1 Cummings and anda n a number of oth r SEVERAL S EVERAL columns of Sp Spanish Fascist and Moorish legion names noires were ere reported to be making a drive toward toss to ard Madrid under the direction ot of General I Franca and the th loyalists were ere ere fan i fall fail falling ing log back at the the- rate of five miles mUes aday a aday day The rebel garrison of the Alcazar In Toledo was still holding out though the government forces after d n part of the tha th old fortress made attacks with gasoline The defenders lost hea heavily but tut the ors 1 ept up their deadly ma machine machine machin chine gun fire tire and repulsed the charges of ot the tho loyalists The American State ordered the embassy in Madrid cd and warned arned all Americans I sUll in the capital that they re reI remained remained I at their own risk The consulate at also was as as closed and th the consul took refuge In Gi Cl i Diplomats of 13 nations who had gone to Jean de Luz France rejected the th Spanish go gov- gov gov government v- v vi i s 5 demand that they return i ito to Madrid I SPECULATION c 0 PECULATION concerning what I- I part Al AI Smith would take ako in iD inthe inthe i the Presidential campaign 1 seems to tobe tobe tob be settled by the news ness that he will deliver several anti Roosevelt addresses ad addresses ad- ad addresses dresses the first probably in Carne Came CarnegIe Carnegie gie hall In to New York in October Re He Is reported to be b making out his I own program and planning talks I also in Massachusetts and New 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