Show News Review of f Current ent Events the World Over Bleakley and Lehman to Fight Tight for New York Gover Gover- Communist Communist Candidate Browder Jailed in Terre Haute France France France Devalues the Franc W PICKARD By EDWARD c 0 Western W t n Newspaper Union U lon T n REPUBLICANS and Democrats I ot of New York state net In con con- convention at Albany and Syracuse re reo re- their state tick tickets selected ets eta and started on ahot a ahot ahot hot campaign The Republicans entered the tight fight rider a anew anew anew new leader for or they name named William F a Bleakley of t 4 Yonkers supreme co court u r t justice for fort t the b e governorship T The be fifty year two year two old jurist prepared to resign from the William F bench b e n c h b and take Bleakley command at once CoL Ralph K K Robertson of Buffalo Buffalo falo was nominated for tor lieutenant governor Nathan D Perlman of New York city for attorney general and nd John A May Gloversville for comptroller The convention at Its evening sea aes- aes slon alon lon beard Col Frank Knox lie Re- Republican Re Republican publican vice presidential candi candI- candIdate candidate date In a strong attack on the New DeaL The Democrats re nominated Gov Herbert erbert IL Lehman and his hia can can- candidacy candidacy candidacy was warmly espoused by President Roosevelt who went to Syracuse to deliver his first speech u an avowed candidate The Pres Pres- President PresIdent President ident took occasion to deny again that he seeks Communist support and ond alleged that Issue was a 0 red herring berrIng dragged across the tho trail by his opponents FRANK RANK KNOX President Roosvelt noose loose velt volt and Al At Smith all aU on the theair theair air the same evening provided a apolitical apolitical political feast for or radio listeners Colonel Knox speaking at Pitts Pitts- Pittsburgh Pittsburgh burgh reiterated and substantiated his former assertion that New peal Deal financial policies were wera imperilling savings accounts and Insurance pol pot policies Soles Mr Roosevelt not so 10 elo elo- elo eloquent eloquent quent as usual defended the spend spend- spending Lag ing policies of his administration He adminIstration lie He too spoke at Pittsburgh The high spot of the evening came at atthe atthe atthe the close of Al At Smiths Smith's address to toa toa a women's organization in la New NewYork NewYork NewYork York city lie He had been treating of the New Deal and its leaders with blUn biting sarcasm and wound up with the dramatic declaration I 1 firmly believe that the remedy for all aU the ills lis that we wa are suffer suffer- suffering lag ing from today Is the election of Alfred Allred M Landon Landora Whereupon arose a shout that tha t lit literally lit lit- literally echoed throughout the land EARL CARL fARL BROWDER Communist party nominee for the Presidency PresIdency Presidency dency achieved the distinction of being the first Presidential candi candI- candIdate candidate candidate date to be sailed jailed since Eugene V Debs was Incarcerated during the World oar Browder was scheduled to make malre a campaign address over the radio from Terre Haute Ind d but when he arrived In that city he was ioU v as nabbed by Chief of Police lames James C C Yates and put in the tho hoosegow on charges of vagrancy and for tor investigation investigation- Held with him were Seymour Walden and Wale Wal Waldo Wal- Wal Waldo do Frank both of New York City Chari a secretary of the IndIana Communist party and An Andrew An- An Andrew Andrew drew Remes of Indianapolis All AU were released the next day Chief Yates who had bad the back back- backing ing lag of Mayor Samuel 0 nG er erand and the Terre Haute Merchants as association said neither Browder nor normy AnY other Communist would bet be permitted to air their party doc doe doctrines doctrines trines over the local radio station but David J I Bt of ot ChIcago Browder s attorney slipped Into the broadcasting booth and delivered the speech his principal had bad pre pre- prepared prepared pre pre- prepared pared hUe Yates fumed outside the locked door JUST JUST as the maritime unions tritons onu on the I l acl c coast were about toSo to toco togo go co on a strike that would ha o ha o tied up the great shipping industry the trouble was vas as a averted alerted by the signing of a fifteen day truce between the employers and the workers and the nominal extension for tor sixty days of contracts negotiated after the strike of 1931 1031 The truce provides that maritime unions at the expiration of the pe pa pe period October r IS lIS would either agree to arbitration o of Issues involving wages and hours which are ore not set let tIed tied or relations with employers would be broken completely The negotiations handled principally principally pally by the Department of Labors Labor ace trouble shooter Edward Ed F Mc Grady Me-Grady Grady will continue during the fit day teen day period of peace IN UN WHAT was said by court at to be the first important ruling anywhere on numerous suits filed by packing companies and otters against government collee- collee collection collection tion Uon of the windfall tax tax Judge Robert C C Baltzell of the Un U n i t e d district court at Indianapolis overruled the government s a motion to dismiss a suit for an injunction flied filed by Kingan an and Company meat packers The company seeks leeks to enjoin fed fed- federal eral ual government officials from rom cal cal- col i letting a 2 92 50 windfall tax levied In the revenue act of 1030 1036 to I toI recover processing taxes assessed under the AAA AM but later ruled invalid by the Supreme court Judge laurel said that he found various unusual circumstances creating a doubt as to the possibility of the packing company's having adequate te remedy at law in s a o 0 m e eother eother other court Because of this he saId It t is s Imperative for tor or his court to grant the packing company the right to sue in federal court The decision is said to be directing but not controlling in other 0 the r similar cases in the district Dismissal of the Injunction suit was sought by the government on the ground there is fa no authority inlaw in inlaw inlaw law tor for restraining Ing collection of a tax A flIed filed by the national L a labor Jabor relations board offer the Supreme court five new opportunities opportunities ties Ues to pass on the constitutionality of the tha Wagner labor relations court The board asked the high tribunal to review rulings ruling in a case involve Involving ing tag the Jones Jonea lu Laughlin Steel corporation cor cor- corporation corporation of Pittsburgh two involving involving ing lug the Trailer company of Canton Ohio and two affecting the Friedman Harry Marks Clothing Cloth lag ing company New York The labor relations board lost all five cases in lower courts Tf FRANCE n RANCE at last came to the con con elusion that it could no long support the franc and Premier Leon Bums Bum's government d decided to tod abandon the gold d standard and de- de devaluate devaluate de devaluate valuate the franc tor to r h between 4 and 5 S s cents The Tho Nether Nether- Netherlands Netherlands lands Latvia and andt t t immedi immediately a t determined to tot follow tollow sul suit To save t the world from a currency war the United States Great Britain and France Leon Blum entered into intI a gen I tI men agreement The exact nature of ot this agreement was not notI I revealed but the United states j promised to employ its 2 U I stabilization fund to head bead off the feared struggle Certain it is fa that each tach of 01 the three nations reo re- reserves re reserves serves the right to depart from the pact if f and when its own Interests require such a course An expected outcome ot or the now genera drop drop- dropping dropping dropping ping of the gold standard may be an international conference for tor stabilization stabilization 1 of world currencies This probably would be held beld In Washing Washing- Washington Washington Washington ton Blum called a 6 special sessIon of the tha French parliament to tc pass the necessary legislation and his plan was given Iven grudging approval by the finance committee of the I chamber of deputies Its Ita adoption by the chamber where the tha pop pop popular ular front has a 1 big majority was easy but a tight fight developed in the senate The dangerous political situation ended when Uio the senate lien a te passed a substitute measure to revalue the French currency but denied the gov government gov- gov governments a 8 original request for tor full power to control price ris ris-a ris a The government approved the substItute bill withdrawing its opposition to tos s e n ate a t e objections to particular clauses clauca in th tha original measure The price fixing problem was w a s solved in this way Nay After d devaluation devaluation tion Uon the government may be given the right to control prices for six months by Issuing decrees These decrees however must be oe sub sub- submitted submitted to the national economic council for ratification From the Chicago Journal of I Commerce Is taken this plain state state- statement statement ment as to what Franco FrancQ s I action means to the ordinary American citizen Reducing the amount of ot gold old represented by one franc will mean that the average American will be beable beable able to travel cheaper Ii lu trance I than for the last two ears cars French wines wine should be cheaper in this I country and women should be able to buy French perfume for tor less That should be true of nearly every everything thing else hat that France exports totne to toe tJ United States unless States unless this coun country oun try hikes the tariff on French ex exports ports or French prices room oon out of proportion to devaluation Ii 11 directly direct directly ly 11 franc devaluation nay may keep Americans from war as the alt ait a t maybe may mayb maybe b be a wedge foi fOl currency stabilization stabilization tion the world over and more broth brotherly erly relations between all aU nations Out don t lose any sleep over It ft un- un unI unless un unless I less Jess you are getting an Income from i someone in France In that hat case I since it will take more francs to buy dollars your income Inome will be cut Ev Ev- Everyone Everyone should have an interest in developing sound foreign trade and it if franc devaluation Marts the ball rolling in the right direction the eventual hope for development is free tree foreign exchange move mose- movements mo c- c ments Its It's necessary for one coun coun- country's country's coun- coun country's try's money to be negotiable in all capitals of the world if it trade is to treaty freely That That's the big goal Ill government wound up Its TilE 1 affairs for the tha first quarter of the Ule 1937 1957 fiscal year with a deficit of about compared with a deficit of more than for tor forthe I the same period last year Receipts in the July 1 Sept 28 period were corn com pared with last lut year while expenditures were 1633 1635 1 BOO against 1 Gen Gen- General General General eral expenditures were 1 with i this year compared last Jast Recovery and relief expenditures ex- ex expenditures amounted to compared with I Income tax collections for Sep Sep- September September will amount to about against last year and for the first quarter of ot this lye y e a r approximately with Miscellaneous laneous internal revenue netted the government In the July September 1 September 28 period as compared with last year The public debt at the end of the month stood at 33 com com- compared pared with 29 on the same date last year rf EN FRANCISCO FRANCO FRANCOS S G GEN J 7 furious Spanish F Fascists a s c 1 t I reached the ancient city of Toledo and drove out the government troops with shell s m and bayonet The rebels rebell fought their x c t tL L r way way through strong ww and as they i iw reached the center of ot the city therea there te a was wal a great shout i- i iG G from the Alcazar Out j Out of that battered t citadel rushed the thea a t tr r a g C g e d d battered V Vand and and halt half starved ca Cadets ca- ca who had with Gen GeD Franco stood tood R a terrific siege for tor almost ten weeks This heroic garrison joined the insurgents in charging the defenders de defenders de- de fenders tenders and finally the SocIalist troops scattered and fled ded southward south southward ward over the Tagus river Their way to Madrid was blocked by columns Fascist bombing planes made severa sev several era eral destructive raids on Bilbao killing a large number of the citi clU citizens zens zoos smashing mashing innumerable build buildings lags and damaging two warships in fa fathe inthe inthe the harbor barbor The enraged govern government government meat ment sympathizers demanded that Fascist hostages held in the city be executed in reprisal and finally a 8 amob amob mob of anarchist amazons swarmed aboard a vessel on 00 which many hostages were kept and brutally slaughtered of them after put put- putting putting ting them to the torture The say save savage age women were on their way to a aprison prison pr lon to kill 60 80 woman hostages hostage when they were dispersed by civil guards That the Spanish government reo re- realizes its precarious situa situation ion is I evi evi- evidenced evidenced by Its Ita proclamation ordering Madrid to prepare for tor a siege fol fol- I fol-I followed followed lowed by a manifesto calling on ev ev- everyone everyone women as well as men men to toI I rally to the de defense of ot the capital capitalI I POLAND POLAND S government began the confiscation of the lands of the I nobility and large estate holders by byI I seizing 60 00 acres iron front tax in- in indebted indebted indebted properties The land willbe will willbe be divided among amoni the peasantry ThIs is s the first fust step in carrying outa out I IR R a radical project that has bee been n shelved for tor ten years Jules Jutes Poniatowski minister of ag agriculture bad had a hard bard fight before the president and cabinet Indorsed I the decree Much pressure was wasI w a s I brought to bear on the government and confiscations were reduced al- al almost al almost most 50 per cent from the amounts suggested by the minister More than one third of the seques seques- sequestrated sequestrated land is In east Galicia the remainder in the east and south of Poland dispatches say the Chinese Government las tas as reject reject- rejected rejected ed the latest demands of Japan and countered with a list of ot demands of Its own that include recovery f 1 and a halt baIt to in- in increases increases In Increases creases of Japanese troop troops In North ChIna Negotiations between Jap Jap- Japanese Japanese anese Ambassador Shigeru Kawa- Kawa KawaI goo Kawa-goo goo and Chinese ForeIgn Min Minister lter Chang Chun were at a standstill I The government through Its embassies Informed all the pow pow- powers powers powers ers of the seriousness of the tion lion and the proba of inter inter-i inter inter- international national complications unless Japan I was checked H 1011 ranking officers of the navy L 1 1 and army and many federal officials were present at the funeral of Rear Admiral William S Sims in Washington and his interment with full militar honors in Arling Arling- Arlington Arlington ton national cemetery The war wartime tune time commander of Americas America's naval na- na naval na naval val forces in European waters dIed suddenly in Boston of heart attack at- at attack at attack tack During his long sears ears of servIce service service ice he was a severe critic of ot naval matters and he be was given creditor credIt for developing gunnery In the navy to a high point of excellence TAJ A MAJ GEN FRANK PARKER y l v who ho won fame for his dis- dis distinguished distinguished dis distinguished service in the World war |