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Show I ; IVcirs Ilevivtr of C::i'rcnt Events WAR ON TWO CONTINENTS I Japanese Bomb Tientsin . . . Fearful Battle Rages Near Madrid . . . Congress Wants to Pack Up and Go Home ; .... " : r x ! - , - v . . f ' - , - - - i Japanese soldiers cremate their dead at Fengtal. SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. China Skies Rain Fire 'TpHERE was war in North China whether it had been officially declared or not. Japanese bombers zoomed over the densely-populated city of Tientsin, raining death and destruction, and endangering thousands thou-sands of citizens of the United States and other foreign countries. The air attack was Nippon's retaliation for a Chinese army drive which nearly drove the Japanese out of their North China stronghold. Chinese troops declared that "thousands of non-combatant men, women and children were killed or injured" by the airmen. The bombers left holocaust in their wake. Flames engulfed Tientsin's Tient-sin's principal buildings, the central cen-tral railway station, the militia headquarters, the famed Nankai university, uni-versity, and the Chinkiang international interna-tional bridge connecting the Chinese city to the foreign concessions. In the latter, inhabitants who were not concerned at all with the war were forced to seek what safety they could in cellars which provided little lit-tle shelter from the exploding bombs. Chinese and Japanese soldiers sol-diers fought hand-to-hand in the streets, with entrenchments in some places only 100 feet apart. Three Chinese armies, operating suddenly and swiftly along a 95-mile front between Taku (Tientsin's seaport) sea-port) and Peiping, conducted the attack at-tack which incurred the wrath of the Japanese military command. They drove the Japanese away from the three key railroad stations and entered en-tered the Japanese concession. Japan immediately responded with her air attack, concentrating upon the heavily populated Chinese section of Tientsin. Infantry attacked at-tacked the Chinese barricades in several parts of the city. Japanese artillery went into action, and drew lusty response from the enemy, which sent shell after shell hurtling into the heart of the Japanese concession. con-cession. Many soldiers on both sides were killed. From Peiping the Chinese Twenty-ninth army was driven back 80 miles to the west, until not a Chinese Chi-nese soldier was left in the city or its environs. Gen. Sung Cheh-yuan, commander, resigned, turning over his post as chairman of the Hopei-Chahar Hopei-Chahar political council to Gen. Chang Tsu-chung, a subordinate division di-vision commander. Madrid's Moat of Blood TPHE Spanish government was de-J- fending Madrid against the insurgent in-surgent forces in the most terrible battle of the entire civil war and the most important. It couldn't last; it was too furious. The whole loyalist cause apparently rested on resisting this, the most vicious attack at-tack the rebels had yet made. Gen. Francisco Franco's army, under his personal supervision, was making advances, but at such loss of men that the cost might be too great. Insurgents stormed loyalist entrenchments en-trenchments directly in the face of point blank machine guns. Losses were so terrible that thousands of wounded lay without food or water among thousands already dead and decaying in the hot sun. Infantry, tanks, cavalry and artillery were supplemented by airplane bombers. In one salient 250,000 men were fighting, including the cream of both armies. The loyalist position was admittedly the most serious of the whole war, and upon the government's govern-ment's ability to withhold against the attack rested the fate of the best units in its army. It was reported re-ported that 20,000 Italian troops had joined the rebels for the battle. Each side claimed the losses of the other had been greatest. Insurgents Insur-gents reported that the government salient had cost 300 fighting planes and 30,000 casualties. The government govern-ment declared that Franco had lost at least 100 planes to its 20 or 30, had lost 20,000 to 25.000 men, and had consumed $15,000,000 worth of war materials. Gen. Franco's other armies were busy, too. While the Madrid conflict was in full sway, the insurgents sprang a surprise air attack on Barcelona. In the early dawn advance planes dropped flares which lighted up the city. Then came additional planes, dropping bombs on the easy target and turning machine guns on citizens citi-zens who attempted to flee. At least 65 persons were killed and 150 injured. in-jured. The rebels in the East were reported re-ported to have driven across the Teruel-Cuenca border and to have seriously threatened the loyalist "life-line," the highway between Madrid and Valencia. -K 'Whacfd'ya Say We Scram?" WITH Supreme court bill recommitted recom-mitted to the senate judiciary committee, a new substitute bill for reform of only the lower courts due to be reported out of the committee, commit-tee, and a new senate majority leader lead-er selected to take the late Senator Robinson's place, the overwhelming sentiment of the members of the seventy-fifth congress was to pack up their bags and get as far away from Washington as possible. Even measures which President Roosevelt had insisted bear the "must" label were being shoved aside with dispatch, as Vice President Presi-dent Garner sought to heal the party wounds inflicted during the bitter court battle and salvage as much of the President's legislation as he could. The first to be buried was the new AAA and "ever-normal granary" bill; the senate agriculture agri-culture committee shelved it until the next session. The committee authorized James P. Pope, Idaho Democrat and co-sponsor'of the bill, to prepare a senate resolution to lay the plans for regional hearings on a comprehensive farm program during the remainder of the summer sum-mer and report back in January. It seemed certain that the President's Presi-dent's legislation for governmental reorganization would be left over until next session when the record of three months' hearings by the joint congressional committee was made public. It was revealed that committee members have not even come close to agreement on any of the main points involved. Majority Leader Barkley said that the White House still wanted the wages and hours bill, the Wagner low-cost housing bill and a judiciary bill passed, as well as legislation to plug tax loopholes. The Wagner bill, meanwhile, was reported out of committee, and it was expected the-senate the-senate would act upon it quickly.- ' -L. C New Court Bill Drafted fh E?OUR important provisions we;Jer contained in the new court "r fa. form" bill reported out of the senaT 0 judiciary committee, but none oc them involved any changes in or additions to the personnel of the Supreme Su-preme court. The new bill provides for: (a) Direct apeals to the Supreme court from decisions in the district courts involving the constitutionality constitutional-ity of federal statutes. (b) Intervention by the Department Depart-ment of Justice in all suits involving involv-ing the validity of federal statutes. (c) Trial of all suits to enjoin the operation of federal statutes by a court of three judges one judge from the circuit court of apeals and two district judges. (d) Reassignment of district court judges by the senior circuit judge of each circuit, wherever additional help may be needed to relieve congested con-gested dockets. Judges sitting away from home would receive $10 a day additional pay. -K Ambition in Bloom CONGRESSMAN SOL BLOOM of New York, who, it is said (by Congressman Bloom), is the "spittin' image" of George Washington, Wash-ington, and once posed for a bust labeled "The Father of His Country," Coun-try," sponsored a brief bill in the lower house, but unfortunately (for Congressman Bloom) it was rejected reject-ed in fact it never even came to a vote. It provided that a book be given, at the government's expense, to each naturalized citizen with his citizenship cit-izenship papers. The book, exhibited exhibit-ed in the house, is a handsome affair, af-fair, all done up in blue and gold. The cover contains, in large letters, the inscription: "The Story of the Constitution, by Sol Bloom. Copyright, Copy-right, by Sol Bloom." U. S. Weighs Embargo AS THE conflict in North China blazed into open, if undeclared, warfare, the United States prepared to declare that a state of war existed ex-isted between China and Japan and to place an embargo upon the shipment ship-ment of arms to the two countries, under the neutrality act. The President, Pres-ident, who has the power to declare to at a state of war exists, kept in . close touch with affairs in the Far East, assisted by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Proclamation of an embargo prohibits pro-hibits the sale of arms, ammunitions ammuni-tions and implements of war to the belligerent countries. It forbids loans or the extension of credit to either of them, and makes it illegal for Americans to travel upon the ships of the belligerents. Secretary Hull said that conferences confer-ences had been held among embassy em-bassy attaches, commanders of foreign for-eign troops in Peiping and others, to lay plans for removing Americans Amer-icans and other foreign nationals from the danger zone. It was reported that there were 223 United States military personnel and dependents and 403 American civilians registered in Tientsin, in addition to 750 American officers and men. Tack the White House WITH a roll call vote of 260 to 88, the house of representatives representa-tives voted to give President Roosevelt Roose-velt six new secretaries at $10,000 a h i i L r - year each. The de- bate on the bill provoked pro-voked some quaint s comment. Republican Republi-can Dewey Short of k Missouri offered an amendment provid-i provid-i ing that the six new positions should be given to Elliott, , Franklin, Jr., and I John Roosevelt, sons oi me rresi-Elliott rresi-Elliott dent. Mrs Anria Roosevelt Boettiger, , his daughter; and "Sistie" and "Buz-zie" "Buz-zie" Dall, his grandchildren. It failed to carry. Democrat Ross Collins of Missis-sipi Missis-sipi offered an amendment- that would provide a new secretary for each member of congress. "The President may need additional secretaries," sec-retaries," he said. "How about the overworked members of congress? We need extra help also." If the bill became law. It would raise the total of the President's $10,000-a-year secretaries to nine, for he already has three James Roosevelt, Stephen Early and Marvin Mar-vin Mclntyre. -K 60 Hurt in Strike Riot A LTHOUGH the independent steel plants were back at work, there was still plenty of discord along the labor front. Sixty persons per-sons were injured in a wild riot among pickets of the Steel Workers' Organizing committee (affiliated with C. I. O.), loyal workers and police at the Corrigan-McKinney plant of the Republic Steel corporation corpora-tion in Cleveland. A mob of strikers hurled rocks from a hillside upon cars of employees em-ployees parked in the valley about the plant. Loyal workers attempted to drive the strikers away, and at one time 500 of them rushed out of the plant and set upon the pickets. pick-ets. Police tried to break up the fighting, relying chiefly on their teaj gas guns. One striker was killed when a moving automobile, which was being stoned, got out of control con-trol and ran berserk through a picket line. rj""t.,'"T1"i"""was a serious department of the Interior r ENERAL LAND OFFICE at - eniz, Arizona, June 30, 1937. of! OTICE is hereby given that L,u irietta Higley of St. George Dc h, who, on June 1, 1937, made hk' mestead Entry, Sec. 2289 pi- TiS., No. 075738, for SE.U eggsHi. Township ,.38.-" A Year of Reclamation A PPLICATIONS for grants under 1 1 last year's agricultural conservation conser-vation program covered 283,000,000 acres two-thirds of the country's crop land and represented an estimated esti-mated 4,000,000 farmers, H. R. Tol-ley, Tol-ley, agricultural adjustment administrator, admin-istrator, reported. Nearly 31,000,000 acres were diverted from crops which deplete the soil; 53,000,000 acres received the benefit of soili building practices. Conservation payments for the year totaled $32,323,303.11, benefit and rental payments $235,744,264.42. Total expenditures by AAA during 1936 were $357,338,617.30, including administrating expenditures and liquidation liq-uidation of obligations outstanding when the Supreme court held sections sec-tions of the original AAA unconsti tutional. Football Couldn't Save It XJOT even the excellence and pop- ularity of Edward Patrick (Slip) Madigan's football teams could save little St. Mary's college at Oakland, Calif., from the auction block. It was "knocked down" to its security holders for $4U iso the only bid-after it had failed to pay interest on its bonded indebted ness of $1,370,500 since 1934, When Madigan came to St. Marys from Notre Dame in 1921 it had 71 stu dents. His football teams fnade it famous and built the enrollment ud to 700. It was indicated he will re .main as coach, at a reported salary sal-ary of $7,000 a year and 10 per cent of the gate receipts. Receipts last year were $174,671. |
