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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over in the Current News Persons and irnrs distin-DRINKWATER, guished British poet, novel. st and playwright, died suddenly of a heart attack in his sleep at his home in London. He was only years old and seemed in normal heai'.h J JOHN fifty-fou- T f in H ' r Driikwaters historical plays were widely known in the United States, Sj'anidi War Bringing Italy, France and Great Britain Intu Conflict Lewis Ends Chrysler Sitdown Strike Martin Warns Ilenrv Ford. EDWARD Western By y W. Newspaper Ctuon. civil war is becoming to u war hr I ween it exi-nF and tariff fought on Spanish Italy fill, and tioth those nations are t rated ami enraged, while Great i I.ntain anxiously f- I strives to avert an a open breath. Italy, too, is now furious TAIN S t y ?' PICKARD against tin British berau.se Is n g i s h h'Uinti'll new.spnpcl her with tlie fact 1 that Italian volunteers Were defeated by French volunteers in recent victories won bv the loyalists northeast of Madrid. Count Ditto Grandi, Italian ambassador to London, told the subcommittee of tin international committee on nonintervention that he would not discuss the withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain and that not a single Italian fighting in the Spanish war would be ordered home until the conflict ended. France's response was quick and Foreign Minister Yvon startling Delhi, s proposed to British Ambassador Sir George Clerk that France and Britain assume a naval blockade of Spain to keep Italian troops from land.ng to Join the fascists. The British and French governments thereupon agreed, with full knowledge of other European powers within the non intervention committee. on "all points of a program to make completely rllective and decided it was imperative to prevent, even by force, any further Italian landings. No decision was readied to send worships at once fur this purpose. In Home the belief was expressed that if France appealed to the League of Nations against alleged dispatch of Italian troops to Spain, Europe would come near to war. A spokesman for the government angrily repeated the official denial that Italy had sent any volunteers to Spain since February 20. when the international agreement for was reached. The Indignant outburst by Grandi followed closely on a speech which Premier Mussolini delivered in Rome. Alluding to the I.eague of Nations' sanctions against Italy during the Ethiopian war, of which England was the chief promoter, II Duce shouted: "It has been said that the Italian people forget easily. Error! Error! On the contrary, the Italian people have a tenacious memory and know how to bide their time. We waited 40 years to avenge Adowa, but we succeeded." Mussolini had just returned from a visit to Libya. Italys North Africa coiony. and on that trip he made a patent bid for Italian leadership of tlie Moslem world. This, and his intention to build a naval base on the Red sea which would challenge British control of tlie Indian ocean are irritating Great Britain, which is not yet ready to eheck Mussolini by a display of armed force. Site will be ready, however, before very long, for she is expending vast sums on her fleets and naval establishments. Germany is not taking active part in those international spats just now. but is awaiting developments. Hitler is absorbed in his domestic difficulties and tiic threatened break with tiie Vatican. HANS LUTHER is soon to be as German ambassador to Washington by Dr. Hans Heinrich DieckholT, a veteran diplomat who is now secretary of state for foreign allairs. He was counsellor of the embassy in Washington from 1922 to 1926 and has been a staunch friend of Americans. Dieck-hofis described as belonging to the "Ribbentrop group in German afof Joafairs. and is a brother-in-lachim von Ribbentrop, German ambassador to London. DR. for the governor, as well as fur the corporation which had declared it would not negotiate while the men held its plants. Mr. Chrysler also lias asserted the company would riot enter into any agreement recognizing any one group as sole bargaining agency for all employees. it seems likely that this Michigan case wall put an end to the epidemic of sitdown strikes. Most of the smaller strikes in the Detroit area have been settled, and in Chicago ani elscwhen; vigorous action by the authorities has brought sitdowners to their senses. President Roosevelt had steadily refused to take a public stand concerning this new weapon adopted especially by the I.ewis labor group, but finally yielded to file pleas of his lieutenants so far as to agree to hold a conference on the matter on tiis return to Washington from Warm Springs. Secretary of Labor Perkins has shown a partiality for the sitdown strike, and various New Dealers have defended it; but others in tiie administration, like Secretary of Commerce Roper, have condemned it. And in tlie senate and the house it has been attacked by Democrats and Republicans alike. THE big moss meeting of workers held in Detroit, Homer Martin, president of the United addressed Automobile Workers, himself to Henry Ford, saying: Henry, you cant stop the labor movement. You cant keep your workers from joining the labor movement even if you have a fink (company sympathizer) at every other post in your factory. The best tiling for you to do, Henry, is to get ready to do business with your organized workers." Mr. Ford is on record as saying that his company will continue to make cars as long as a single man will continue to work for it: and in reply to Martins threat, Harry Bennett, Ford chief of personnel, says: "What Martin calls organized labor is not going to run the Ford Motor company. For every man in this (tlie Ford Rouge plant) that might decide he wants to follow Martin and take part in a sitdown strike there are at least five who want their Job and dont want a strike. The Rouge plant employs 87,000 men. The minimum wage is $6 a day, or 75 cents an hour for the eight hour working day. The plant operates five days a week, with tlie exception of the blast furnaces which must be kept going seven days a week. TN 1 Amelia earharts flight ended, giobe-en- - for the present, at Honolulu when she cracked up her $80,090 "laboratory plane" at the take- off for Howland is land. By quick thinking and action she saved her life and those of Capt Harry Manning and F red J. Noonan, her navigators, but th plane was so badly damaged that it had to te shipped back to the Los Angeles factory for repairs. The daring aviatrix sailed immediately for San Francis co, asserting that she would resume the flight as sxn as possible. As the big plane rushed down the it swayed runway for the takc-ot- l badly, the right tire burst and the ship went out of control. The left undercarriage buckled and tlie left wing slashed into ttie ground. The ship then spun to the right, crashed down on its right wing, and the right motor snapped o!T the right wheel. Miss Farhart quickly cut the ignition switches, so there was no fire, and no one was injured. 'T'EN passengers, of Gov. UNDER file persuasion Murphy of Michigan, John L. Lewis, head of the C. I. O., and Walter P. Chrysler, chairman of Die Chrysler mo- tor corporation. were brought together in more or less peaceful conference at the state capitol in Lansing. The immediate result was an agreement that the sit down strikers should evacuate the eight Chrysler plants i n Detroit, and that the corporation should not resume production during the period of negotiations. Six thousand strikers had field possession of the plants since March li in defiance of Court orders and the governor, as ip the case of the General Motors strike, had been extremely reluctant to authorize forceful methods of enforcing the law. He had. however, insisted tint the men must obey tlie law and court orders, and the concussion by Lewis was a victory 6 11 r c; in 1 two pilots and a stewardess were killed when a big Transcontinental and Western airliner crashed near Pittsburgh. No Tiie one survived tiie disaster. plane, from New York for Chicago, had been awaiting a chance to land at the Pittsburgh airport, circling around, and suddenly fell from a height of only about 200 feet Presumably the motor failed. A AN RALPH E. CHURCH of Illinois raised a storm in the house by making a , tierce attack on Adolph J. also of Illinois and dean of the house. S.ib.ith is chairman of the committee to investigate real estate bondholders reorganizations, and Church accused him of questionSnb-ath- able practices. demanding in particular an explanation coneertiTg benefits reaped by the Chicago law firm of Sabath. Perlman. Goodman & Rein as a result of Sabatii s activities. Democratic leaders rushed to tiie defense of Sabath. and fin i!!y stopped Church's attack by forcing adjournment. Sabath was furious and promised a reply at length. 1 'A TO "l "" particularly "Abraham Lincoln." and "Robert E. Lee." He had just completed a motion picture for the coronation of King George VI of which he was both author and prothe ducer. The film deals with king and his people from the time of Queen Victoria to the present. English Mock CW cupfuls flour teaspoonful salt V cupful boiling cupful butter V. cupful butter la cupful sugar 1 cupful ,, 2 eggs 2 teaspoonfuls cream 1 teaspoonful vanilla lli fresh-grate- Salem, 111., a chartered carrying a roller skating troupe from St. Louis to Cincinnati crashed into a bridge abutment, overturned and burned. Of the 23 occupants, 19 were killed outright and another died in a hospital. The accident, listed as one of the worst ever occurring on an Illinois highway, was caused by the explosion of a tire. N' EAR bus CHARLES CHIEF JUSTICE created Make a rich pie flour, salt, t butter and the boiliS ut cu.t in rounds, tms with it. ,,J SL? butter, - h well add the sugar and welll! cream and vanilla Fo coconut, fill the lined! bake in a moderate ov? delicate brown, and they These may be top whipped cream when E. something of a sensation by sending to the senate judiciary committee a letter declaring that an increase in the number of Su-- : prerne court justices, as proposed by President Roose-velt, would not pro-- ; mote the efficiency Ve of the court. added: "It is believed that j it would impair that efficiency so long as the court acts as a unit. There wouid be more judge3 to hear, more judges to confer, more judges to discuss, more judges to be con vinced and to decide. The present number of justices is thought to be large enough so far as tlie prompt, adequate and efficient conduct of the work of tlie court is concerned." Mr. Hughes said his letter was approved by Justices Van Devantei and Brandcis. He made it cleai that he was commenting on an in crease from the standpoint of ef flcicncy and "apart from any ques tion of policy," which he said, I do not discuss. Senator Burton K. Wheeler ol Montana, Democrat, was the first opposition witness called before the committee, and he started :n by Be reading Mr. Hughes' fore entering the committee room he said he believed tlie admints tration would eventually accept a compromise plan. He advocates a constitutional amendment, permit s ma ting congress, by jority, to override Supreme court in validation of acts of congress, provided a national election had intervened between invalidation and overriding. "The administration will compro mise, dont worry, Wheeler said "They cant get more than thirty-fivsenate votes for the President's plan. Public opinion, which swerved toward them for a while, is now swinging heavily against them." Prominent among the witnesses for the opposition to the Presidents plan was Raymond Moley, former head of the "brain trust and now professor of public law at Columbia university. He was outspoken in de nouncing some of the Supreme court's decisions and favored the amendment method. He told the committee we might as well not have a constitution at all as to pack the Supreme court for the purpose of securing favorable judicial con struction. Carried to its logical con elusion, he said, the President's proposal will mean "destruction of file Constitution." President H. W. Dodds of Prince ton; Dr. Theodore Graebner of St Louts, prominent Lutheran leader, and representatives of the National Grange, oldest nonpartisan organization of farmers, also appeared before the committee to argue against the bill. cool. Copyrtght-WND- Keep your body free of act ed waste, take Dr. Pie!w ant Pellets. 60 Pellets ! : 5 1 Chief Jj. t.ce Hughes, who court as prop, sed by President lohnson (lefD and John L. Lewis 3 -- Bust of Grover Cleveland is and Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase. 1 of justices of the Supreme recently declared that an increase in the number court of Hu6h the the eflic.ency Roosevelt would not promote meeting in New York. shown as they listened to speeches at an unveiled for Hall of Fame by his grandson, Thomas Grover Cleveland (left), 2-- Gen. anti-Naz- investigations into the explosion that destroyed the fine London Community school in east Texas and killed nearly 500 pupils and teachers were under way, but at this writing tlie cause of the disaster has not been determined. The most plausible theory was formed when D. L. Clark, field foreman for the near-bParade Oil company, testified that the school had been using wet'' gas from the pipe lines of the company. This is a residue gas rich in butane, a highly explosive compound of carbon and hydrogen, and it is considered too dangerous for home use. Clark said he first learned the school was using the gas when he was notified that Superintendent W. C. Shaw of tlie school wanted it shut oil. School employees said tlie change from to wet"' gas was made dry only a month ago on order of tiie school board chairman. That gentleman said the company knew of the use of the gas. CPANISH rnment forces wore victorious in some heavy light itig on the Guadalajara front north cast of Madrid, their chief gam file being capital of headquarters of the insurgents Thr latter, however, scored in the Um versdy City quarter of tlie capital and on the southern front were pre ring to attaci Pozoblaneo. the key to mercury, .ead, sulphur and coal mining territory. Pans claimed to have information that Germans had supervised and manned a line of fortifications along tiie Spanish Moroccan coast tha threatens British control of thr Strait of G.braltar. 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