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Show News Review of Currenl Events the World Over I J j r I ' i L I . - HirnlriiLur I)r-tro cd Ly I. x ! j -It j n. Two .Snort; 1'fr-on-! I't ri -Lin - I - tn j rn i -t s and Sjit-nJ-rvi ('ontinin- Their Iiattlo in W a-ln'nton. Ii y EDWARD V. PICKARD ..f u n.:,;t iw-ri.s a ' ' .o-ri,i,.j:.'.' jl K.r.ory (jcc'.m-'i v. -.. ri I: e b. C--rr:.:in li.r.J ole ll.t.-l-O. .r-4 l.,.;.-l fi-U in a t-1 ti.t.A n. 1 i at :.t l.i;.!.. -.a t-'-.'A in I. .1 .(, J. A', tb.1 v.c.:.:.i t i . : t .i'.t r. .:: .'.--r of d.-j'i 13 uri-I. uri-I. .'.',.'..' 1 , 1, .t it ,r.:, illy n ii.'jre ti.an , f.r.y. A 'i.i-r:':.'in f, 1 . -.-.' .;.-r J v.l'.o in tl'.i e.irly ri-i,or'..i v..-rtr u.'..iccoui.'i:ii f r ,-il'I i-n- ii.'i. ,ii,ly k.llt.-'J v.i-re: Ii ir'-.i ImI.i.'i, C'l. r Mr. utol Mii. John 1 I'.ir.i.i-i, ."..-.v V.ik C'.'.y; .'.r,r,'.z fr.l,.;-...-b, !.:i.fo:n. ."'b.; KJ.'urJ IJ'.ii.l., i, Yor'.; J.iii.i'S Yu'ir.-I and l;.iri'-r Ilr.i.i ad he .-es not fe'.Vi-.'l. I Tiie air .hi;,, ja .t arrived from Eu-ri..e Eu-ri..e on its lir.t tr.iri:it!.ii;tic trip of the year, was about to land when there was an explosion toward the stern. In.-itati'ly llames broke out and ran the length of the ship. The tad sailed first, then the nose era ihed down and the s 1 ; I i t sections telescoped as they fell. A few cf the 44 passengers and some member! mem-ber! of the cre'.v were able to jump to safety, but many of the others aboard hadn't a chance for their lives. The navy men of the ground crew heroically plunged into the flaming wreckage and dragged out those victims who could be reached. The screams and cries of injured In agony were "terrible," the hardened hard-ened sailors and marines who did the rescue work reported. The clothing cloth-ing was completely burned olT one man. Another, blown through the envelope, was found moaning near the smashed airship. The survivors and rescue workers work-ers told of the terrific heat which followed the explosion and the surge of fire. An explosion of the No. 2 gns cell toward the stern of the ship was named as the cause of the disaster dis-aster by State Aviation Commissioner Commis-sioner Gill Robb Wilson, who called the blast "strange." Some authorities scouted the theory the-ory that the explosion could have been caused by the ignition of hydrogen hy-drogen inside the gas cells. They said a mixture of 20 per cent free air with hydrogen would be necessary neces-sary to cause an explosion, indicat ing the first blast must have occurred oc-curred outside one of the gas cells. Aeronautical experts said the only way they could explain an explosion explo-sion inside the ship would be that free hydrogen had in some way escaped es-caped and was lying in the stern of the ship where it was accidentally ignited. Capt. Ernest Lehmann, who piloted pilot-ed the Hindenburg last year, was aboard it on this fatal trip, but its commander was Capt. William Pruss, just promoted to the post. He is a veteran in working dirigibles. dirigi-bles. ILT OW to economize by cutting down government expenditures, expendi-tures, as the President has demanded, demand-ed, and at the same time to continue I" with such huge expenditures ex-penditures as the billion and a h a 1 f dollars Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt asked for relief is a puzzle that congress con-gress doesn't know how to solve. Harry Hopkins, Works Progress administrator adminis-trator and most accomplished ac-complished spender of the administra- II. L. Hopkins tion ,ook a hand in the discussion, telling a house appropriation appro-priation subcommittee that unemployment unem-ployment is a permanent problem, that 4he government should be prepared pre-pared to support seven million jobless job-less persons at all times, and consequently con-sequently that congress must appropriate ap-propriate the billion and a half for relief instead of cutting the sum down to a billion. Both Democrats and Republicans on the committee protested, and Chairman Weodrum of Virginia told Hopkins he would use every endeavor endeav-or to have the appropriation reduced re-duced by at least a third. He challenged chal-lenged the figures and arguments submitted by Hepki:u. contending that if the extravagance cf the work relief principle and the padding cf relief re'.'.s with undeserving cases were eliminated and the states required re-quired to assume a greater share cf the burden the cest to the federal government would not exceed one billion. Senator William H. King cf Utah. Democrat, net only disagrees with 'Hopkins as to the amount needed for relief, but isn't satisfied with the way the administrator has been conducting the work. He introduced resolutions in the senate calling for sn investigation of the works progress prog-ress administration and taking the future spending of relief money cut of Hopkins' hands. King said his purpose was to abolish the WFA. In the house economy received a wallop cn the head when the reforestation re-forestation bill was passed. 171 to SHoCO.CM annually for government aid to fo.rmers who wish to turn I; was fought by a t'.cc led by 1 I .- r r.'.- J. J. C'-c'.ran f '. s-.iiri. iJ-rr.Lc.-at. "It ha! a worth v.h.ie ci.,ec.:ve. t-t it is ere cf th'.-ie ex;.er:,ve mea-rrrS v.h.oh v.e can defer .ji.r.J f.r a while ur.t.l t.'.e b.. io.'-t la m balance," declared C'.cr.r j.n. I) .-I',', ll.DflP.ED rr.vrr.hers cf con- r'-s were st.ll farther daze.i v.r.en tr ey learned that the admin-i'r,i'..ori admin-i'r,i'..ori was moving to obtain approval ap-proval of tr.e f'h.r.da ship Carral pn.j.. it wh.ch w.U call far S 117.-f.O.Ou). 117.-f.O.Ou). This was revealed when Secretary of trie Navy Swar.son sent to the house r.vers and harbors corriroi'.tee a letter urging that the canal scheme be approved. It was assumed he would not have done this without the approval of the President. Mr. Swanson argued that the canal would be of value during war fur the shipment of materials. Testimony labeled "confidential" was also heard by the committee from Gen. Charles. P. Summerall, retired chief of staff of the army, and Rear Admiral Frederic B. Bas-sett, Bas-sett, retired. Both declared that the canal would serve as "a most important im-portant element of the national defense in time of war." Representative Beiter of New York, Democrat, called upon the budget bureau to make known its stand on the Florida canal question. r" REQUENT reports have been heard in Washington that government gov-ernment employees, including some high officials, took advantage of 1: 1 f 1 - x In -1 1 Lc' ..... -i.i...-.- J their inside knowledge knowl-edge that the attorney attor-ney general was going go-ing to file suit to dissolve dis-solve the Aluminum Company of America Ameri-ca by selling the common stock short, thereby making immense im-mense profits. Just the day before the suit was filed Pres ident Roosevelt is-Rep. is-Rep. Rogers sued his Qrder against stock speculation by employees em-ployees of the government, but it came too late. Attention of congress was called to the matter when Representative I Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, Republican, demanded an investigation. in-vestigation. "I hold no brief for the Aluminum Company of America," Mrs. Rogers told the house. "I know nothing about the institution, but I am very anxious to know why the common stock of this huge enterprising corporation cor-poration should decline over 300 per cent more than similar industrial stocks in the period just prior to announcement an-nouncement of the governments suit. "To the 825.000 employees of the government the President's announcement an-nouncement was a most czaristic order," Mrs. Rogers declared. 'T believe the money paid to federal employees is just as much their money to do with as they please as is the money paid to any employee working at any job in any place m the United States." But government employees, she added, certainly ought not to have the advantage of knowledge withheld with-held from the public. TWELVE American women reached what some people consider con-sider a social climax when thev were received by King George and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain at the first court of the new reign. These favored matrons and debutantes had been carefully coached at the American embassy and were presented by Mrs. Robert W. Bingham, wife of the American ambassador. They were: Eleanor Bowdoin of Aiken. S. C. ; Mrs. George Temple Bowdoin of New York City; Catherine M. Ma-her Ma-her of Lincoln, Neb.; Mrs. George W. Norton Jr., of Louisville: Mrs. John Perrin of Boston: Anne Schenck of New York City: Vesta Putnam Culberson cf Chicago; Mrs. F. Vernon Foster of West Crange. N. J. : Lydia Fuller of Boston: Bos-ton: Mrs. Dozier L. Gardner of Philadelphia ; Mrs. Byron Hiiliard of Louisville, and Mrs. Julia Henry of Philadelphia. n RIME MINISTER STANLEY 1 BALDWIN, soon to retire, made an eloquent plea to the people of Great Britain not to mar the coronation corona-tion festivities and endanger the safety of democracy by engaging in industrial strife. He was moved to this by a threatened strike in the coal fields and by the danger that the trolley employees of London would go cut in sympathy with the striking bus men. Said Mr. Baldwin: "I appeal to the handful cf men j cn whom rests the responsibility of peace cr war to give the best present pres-ent to the country thai could be given at this moment, to do the one I all who love this country, and that is to rend and dissipate this dark |