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Show PROGRESSIVE iVrns fprirr Declared cr Not, It 8 War of Current Eronis Shelves Wages Dodges Most of 'Must' Legislation . . . and Hours Bill . . . Shell Hits U. S. Flagship in China breathing pell! Members of 75th congress, happy in adjournment at last, file out of the Capitol In Washington. IV. ftudcjaJLcl SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK WHltni Mtwipapcf Ualsa. Is Outl VEN if there were more than a few threats of Wait'll 1 get you after school," the nation's lawmakers were happy as schoolboys at the end of the term, as the first sescongress sion of the Seventy-fift- h came to a close at last. The senafairly tors and representatives, bogged down with months of wrangling. much of it futile, through the intolerable Washington summer, were glad of release, even if such release carried the Implication that there might be a special session in October. But the legislators left the Capitol in the realization that the session just ended will probably become known less for what it did than what it did not do. Four out at five of President measmust Roosevelt's major ures it did not pass; the fifth it passed only with reservations which put a new complexion upon it. Congress did not pass the wages and hours bill After being passed by the senate in unacceptable form, with the understanding that it would be improved in the house, the bill was still buried with the house rules committee when the bell rang. Congress did not pass the new crop control bill which includes Sec- Hoorayl School E this was less than for the 1936 session, which included $2,237,000,000 for the soldiers bonus. taled $0,389,488,893; $946,-910,3- Guffey's Unholy Three on the President's SINCE the fight plan began in the senate, it has become more and more obvious that a serious split impends in the Democratic party ranks. It was not a secret that certain of the senators and representatives were marked for extinction, fish fries and harmony dinners notwithstanding. But few expected the bombshell that broke when Sen. Joseph F. GufIn a radio fey of Pennsylvania. speech Just before the end of the session, openly named Senators OMahoney of Texas, Burke of Nebraska and Wheeler of Montana as senators who would not return-tWashington after the next elections. Burke summed up reply of the three attacked when he said that if Guffey's statement were true we might Just as well forget about Jefferson Island and harmony dinners and get ready for a real battle. Wheeler, on the senate floor, said that if the "Democratic bosses . . . want to drive us out of the Democratic party they win not have any difficulty in doing so. I say to (Guffey) that if you nominate you Wallace's retary or granary project It was agreed your governor of Pennsylvania that this legislation be brought up yourself for President of the United will not have to drive during the first week of the January States, you us out session or the special session. It did not pass the President's deAdmiral Yarnell Protests sired legislation for of the executive department It did SAM was brought nearer JJNCLE ever vote the White House six new secto the unofficial war retaries, though. in North China when a shell exIt did not pass the proposal to ploded on the deck of the Augusta, increase the membership of the Su flagship of the United States Asit, preme court by six Justices, who atic fleet, killing Freddie John would apparently be selected with a a seaman, and wounding 18 view to insuring the constitutionothers of the crew. The ship was ality of New Deal measures. By a lying at anchor in the Whangpoo rivvote of 70 to 20 it permitted a suber in the heart of the International stitute measure, which would have Settlement of Shanghai It was imadded the Justices one at a time, possible to determine whether the to die a natural death in committee. hell had been fired by the Chinese In addition to failing to enact this or Japanese, legislation demanded by the chief Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, comexecutive, congress defeated the mander of the fleet, warned the govNorris bill to create seven little ernments of both nations and the crop insurance shellfire over American and against TVA's, foreign bill, proposing a revolving fund of The President and the The senate failed to warships. $100,000,000. State department were inclined to ratify the sanitary convention with leave diplomatic overtures to the the restricArgentina, modifying naval and diplomatic offimilitary, tions on imports of meat and live cers in China. The President destock. clared that under the circumstances However, congress did: accidents such as the one which Pass the Wagner housing beset the Augusta were bound to bill, but with restrictions on the unit occur. cost which will, it is charged, make the program virtually unavailable fur New York and other large cities Premier Sees Long War which constitute the principal slum PREMIER FUM1MARO KONOE problems. The $526,000,000 measure in Tokyo that there was on the President's must list. would be no settlement of the unPass a sugar quota which may be declared war until Japan had punvetoed by the President He threatished" the Chinese army. He adened to veto such a bill if it limited mitted that he believed the fighting the output of Puerto Rico and Hawould be of long duration. waii to 126.000 and 29.000 short tons The Japanese foreign office was annually, and it does Just that. said to have rejected a British plan Extend the neutrality law to pro- to establish a neutral zone in Shanghibit the shipment of arms, amhai. A spokesman said the Chinese munition and implements of war to soldiers must withdraw far enough belligerents or extension of credit to beyond the limits of the demilitarithem. zed zone of 1932 to make an attack Pass the Gulley act creating a impossible. The government's aim commission to (lx prices and control was expressed as a desire to restore the marketing of bituminous coal. amicable relations between Japan $1,500,000,000 for and China, but to chastise the ChiAppropriate work relief in the current fiscal nese militarists. year. Pass a bill to outlaw personal Franco Batters 'Iron Ring' holding companies and other alleged means of tax evasion. LOYALIST Spain's second iron Passed a reform bill for the lower the one around Sancourts, designed to speed appeals to tander on the northern coast is the Supreme court and permit the proving no more invulnerable than Department of Justice to intervene its first the fortifications about Bit In cases involving the constitutionbao. Rebels have broken through ality of a statute. it besieging the hungry city and Ratified the Buenos Aires "peace bombarding its fortifications with treaties, which include a consultaartillery. General Franco's forces tive pact for common course of ac- have captured several Important tion when war anywhere threatens neighboring towns in Villacarriedo, the American republics. considered an important sector. Extended the CCC three years. In communique the national deThe President had asked that it be fense ministry at Valencia admitted made permanent. that the government had met defeat Passed a farm tenancy bill to in the fighting about Santander, but help share croppers buy their own claimed the victory had cost the Infarms. This provides for the ex- surgents heavily In men. It also penditure of $10,000,000 the first claimed that an Italian sergeant, year. $25,000,000 the second year taken prisoner, reported that four and $50,000,000 in succeeding years. Italian divisions were fighting with Appropriations for the session to the rebels on the Santander front. ever-norm- Fal-gou- low-co- st 13,200 Volts Hit Painter and He Rather Liked It war" of 1932 was a movie sham battle compared with what's going on over there now. The city of 3,500,000 inhabitants and its environs are a scene of destruction, terror, flames and death on a mass scale the horror of which is unthinkable. Thousands upon thousands of civilians lie dead, dying and wounded, and the toll Increases day after day. No estimate has even been attempted to determine the amount of casualties among the Chinese and Japanese fighting forces. Indeed such an estimate today might be woefully inadequate tomorrow, for reports tell of whole brigades being shot or blown to bite in a single encounter. Square mile after square mile, especially in the native Chapel district, has been gutted by fires that rise in the wake of bombs and artillery shells. Millions of men, women and children face slower, even more terrible death by hunger, for who is to bring supplies from the outlying farm fields while the whole area is under terrific fire? Even in the International Settlement life is fleeting, insecure, for bombs and shells drop there, too. And with 1,000,000 refugees inside to be fed, shops are rapidly locking their doors to protect their wares SHANGHAI'S O CONGRESS ENDS SESSION A second-rat- DONT FORGET OS e When you need anything in the line of Hear Howard Scott on TECHNOCRACY Oct. 3 TE neat and attractive C UN O C It A T LITERATURE Literature on Technocracy iPRIN TING. may be obtained First South at II West I SUBSCRIBE AT ONCE You Must Help in the Fight For Justice One year $1.50 6 Months $1.00. Rates : 3 Months 50c. -.- $25.00 SUBSCRIPTION LIFE Fill in the following for self or friend. Editor Progressive Opinion: Please send Enclosed find Paper to I from rioters. As this is written, the Chinese land forces, outnumbering the Japanese four to one, are forcing the invaders slowly back to the Whang- You poo in fierce ground fighting. Wheth- er expected Japanese reinforcements will be able to turn the tide of battle is problematical At the same climbing the stairs of Chinese soldiers. In the great aerial battle of the war, the Chinese scored a decisive victory, successfully turning back cores of Japanese bombers and fighting planes. The Nanking government reported that it had brought down 46 Japanese planes in the first ten days of the fighting, including 30 giant bombers, said to cost $150,000 with a handy each. Under the continual threat of bombs, and with fires raging on all ides, the governing council of the Leota Tomatoes, 3 for 25c Hills Coflee, 1 lb - - - 27c Lima BEANS, California Lrg,2 for 19c bed- room extension telephone. It costs International Settlement admitted that it was unable to care for its own ward road jail one of the world's largest Plans were being made to turn loose the 7,000 inmates, which included murderers, thieves and narcotie addicts. The Japanese were reported attempting to land 50,000 fresh troops as reinforcements for the ground forces being pounded by the Chinese. Let these Low PRICES guide you and them come straight to the Store can save time Japanese warships half the entire Japanese fleet must be in the Whangpoo are showering exploding shells upon huge concentrations Phone your Order Toda; Call Was. 8464 less than 2c a day. Utah Consumers Call our business office or order from any employee 860 South Main Street Question Black's Eligibility THE senste confirmed the Presi- - nomination of Sen. Hugo L. Black of Alabama to the Supreme court 63 to 15, but only after a bitter fight following which the mi- LOCAL ITEMS the The local section of nority protested that the confirma- tecnocrat organization meets tion had been railroaded through. Monday evenings in the County Six Democrats and ten RepubliBlack. The Commissioners Dem voted room in the cans against ocratic insurgents, led by Edward O D R. Burke (Neb.) and Royal S. Copeland (N. Y.) based their objections principally upon charges that he was associated with the Ku Klux Klan, and therefore unfitted to sit with the high tribunal for reasons of racial and religious prejudice. The Republicans, notably William E. Borah (Idaho), argued that he could not legally become a member of the court. That hia eligibility might be tested before the court Itself was a possibility when Attorney Albert Levitt, former special assistant to Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, filed a plea for leave to pray an order for Black to show affirmatively why he should be permitted to serve as an associate justice. He raised the same legal question ai the Republican minority had: 1. That Black could not become a justice because during his term as a senator the Sumners retirement act was passed, permitting justices to retire at full pay. The Constitution provides that no member of congress shall be appointed to an office which waa created or the emolument of which was increased during his membership in congress. 2. That no vacancy existed on the Supreme court anyway, aince Justice Willis Van Devanter had only retired, not resigned, and may still be called for judicial service by the chief justice. It was expected that the Black appointment would become political (odder in the next campaign. Hint of a Third Party? JOHN L. LEWIS, chairman of the for Industrial Organization, added hia condemnation of Seventy-fift- h congress to that of William Green, president of the American Federation at Labor, for not passing the wage-hou- r bill Lewis threatened to lead his followers out of the Democratic party unless it "delivered on campaign promises. Leaders, he said, must either reitore sufficient party discipline to permit government to function under their guidance or confess that their party is not the vehicle by which the people of the country may progress to a solution of their pressing social problem." Lewi had juit received another disappointment when tha New York shipyard strike of a C. L O. affiliate Incollapsed after nlna weeks. surgents took command of approx- the jCity County Building Mondays at 8 P. M. The Salt Lake local of The Workers Alliance holds public meetings on the North Lawn of the City County Building on Tuesday evenings other than the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. Henry C. Jorgensen, of the Liquor Control Board will address the Open Forum at the Council Chamber of the City and County building, on Sunday Evening Aug. 29 at 8 P. M. His subject will be The Problem of Liquor Control in Utah, as it may effect youth. State Townsend Club No 1 meets every Tuesday evening at 255 East Broadway at 8 oclock and dance every Fridayevening, at th? same place. High class music the public is welcome. mjraramrairaiooginn Allred Sorensen, lrogres ive JEWELER Jewelry, Watch, Kodak Repairing East 2nd. Sooth 83 Yean In Salt Lake TS VER W,LL,AM BYRON COPY 816HT-WIL- We can serve you better than ever imately 2,000 members of tha Industrial Union of Marina and Shipbuilding Workers and voted to return to work immediately. saving Smith's life as hs toppled to Graei Halle Sand Dunes the ground. Grass has halted the march of the Fellow workmen summoned an and dunes snd made safe six miles Charlie Smith, a painter, let ambulance. At the hospital the only of railway which the New Zealand volts of electricity shoot through shock injury found other than government is building to connect his body, and he lived to tell shout was small burn on one hand. Christchurch with the seaport of writes an Unitit, Smith described the sensation of the Plcton, about 200 miles to the north. Amarillo, Texas, ed Press correspondent. electric charge The track runs for six miles through floating." Smith was on a ladder painting I felt like I was taking little and hills formed by the easterly a transformer when the ladder tilt- ride," he said. "I seemed to ba winds blowing over the Pacific. ed, throwing him against a wire floating around In tha sir trying to White the roadbed was built to carrying many times enough kill find a pises to light The sensation tha sand drifted a cron It being and burled circum-atsncsa man under ordinary f. was not uncomfortable, but rather the work of the engineers. Marram The Udder feU, however, pleasant; aa If I wers flying. frail solved tha problem. 13.-2- OPINION SHOE REPAIRING Right Thinking Brings Good Results When you think of having your Shoes Repaired TIIINK 0. X. SHOE SHOP Jobs at Moderate Prices 414 So. 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