| Show weekly news gigantic military blus bluff I 1 game focuses attention on europe by joseph So W foreign seldom had the world ean seen such furious shadow boxing in france motor busses burned up the roads carrying troops to the frontier in a maneuver that made frenchmen recall gen joseph simon taxicab roundup of 1914 1014 prem premier er edouard da ad er IS cabinet which a fortnight ajo ago had shuddered at the idea of a longer work week now con descended meekly and paris looked to eng land as a frightened child looks to its mother back to london rushed german ambassador sir nevile henderson enderson II back too rushed vacationing cabinet members in the morning prime minister neville chamberlain walked his wife around st james park as it nothing had happened but by afternoon his cabinet was immersed in gloom echoing puzzled britaina Brit ains thoughts the isolationist dally daily mall cried the brit ish public are disquieted rumors of all sorts go round but from official sources people hear nothing it Is time that the british public were frankly told what Is happening much would mr chamberlain have paid to know what was happening cause of this international fussing was adolf hitler who even then was doing some fussing of his own two days before En glands sir john simon had warned germany to keep its hands off little czechoslovakia on pain of war with great britain but adolf hitler answered this bluff with a new bluff preparing to keep his reserves under arms until mid october flying from one frontier to the next dictator hitler proudly surveyed the war machine that all europe tears fears he will soon point at czechoslovakia for more than a month britaina Brit ains viscount runciman has struggled to arbitrate differences between czechoslovakia oslo and her rebellious subjects pro nazi germans living in the region which fronts greater germany while ahil adolf hillers Hit lers official newspapers whip up nazi resentment against czechoslovakia Sude tens themselves have been doing their best to stir up trouble their leader konrad henlein Henl eln has obeyed herr hitler by refusing all mediation et forts by viscount runciman or czechoslovakian government since germany would quite likely gobble up the Sude tens it if given gl venan fan opportunity great britain has strongly protested konrad heinleins Hen leins tast demand lor for autonomy last week after sitting calmly through these protests Sude tens pointed an admiring finger at En glands autonomy arrangement with ireland eire while viscount Ru runciman nelman blushed they asked why a similar arrangement could not be made between czechoslovakia and themselves after a weeks bluffing the end was not yet in sight for his part fuehrer hitler bluffed that he wanted di 1 complete autonomy lor for sude tens 2 repudiation of czech alliances with france russia poland 3 czech aggression non pact with germany 4 czech customs union with germany though europe was littering badly the disinterested observer could count noses and find adolf hitler forlornly friendless lined against him were france britain russia czechoslovakia silent but presumably favoring the czechs czecho were rumania jugo even his best friend benito mussolini warned he would not intervene in the squabble P politics last month south carolinians were treated to the unique political show that thai no other state can boast since law demands it three democrats running for U S senatorial nomination traveled together stayed tit at the same hotels denounced each other dally daily from the same platforms these men were edwn D cotton ed smith who has stayed a south carolina senator 30 years by championing 0 M k U SN N KICI SOUTH CAROLINA SMITH southern womanhood was vindicated three stock issues white supremacy the price ot of cotton southern womanhood under franklin roose reese belts party leadership he has been an 80 per cent new dealer opposing wage hour and government reorganization measures for his luke fluke warm warin new idealism Deall Deal ism sm cotton ed smiths smith defeat was a asked ed last month by franklin roosevelt gov olin D johnson strapping 41 year old world war veteran who had franklin Roosevel ts blessing his chief campaign argument was that cotton ed once remarked a man could live in south carolina on 50 cents a day actually governor johnson misconstrued his opponents speech in the senate opposing the wage hour bill he really meant that south carolinians could live cheaper than new englanders state senator edgar brown once governor johnsons colleague in the state democratic organization controlled by highway commissioner ben sawyer two days before the election he and threw his support to senator smith after weathering this stormy battle as best they could south carolinians marched dutifully to the polls and sent cotton ed smith back to the senate that night standing under a statue of wade hampton the south carolina governor who ended and negro domination senator smith donned his red shirts uniform equivalent to the old ku klux klan and intoned n no man dares to come into south carolina and try to dictate to the sons of those men who held high the hands of gen robert E lee and wade Hampto nl 0 A haven for old folks california periodically gives birth to pension ideas Townsend ism arose there so did upton Sin clairs E P I 1 C end poverty in california this years pension plan came from sheridan downey a san francisco lawyer awyer who would pay 30 each T thursday rady to every californian who is jobless or over 50 downey pension would be paid in script legal for taxes or goods pensioners would stamp their warrants every week with 2 per cent of their face value purchasing stamps with real money at each years end every 1 warrant would bear in stamps the state would redeem it for 1 from the stamp fund and re 7 11 V tz N t CALI FORNIAS mcadoo hell get 30 every thursday tire it on this platform sheridan downey ran tor for democratic senatorial nomination against 74 year old william gibbs mcadoo incumbent last july franklin roosevelt spent three days with senator mcadoo asked californians to reelect re elect dimand c ensured censured candidate down eys ays campaign as utopian same saine day as south carolina defeated franklin Roosevel ts candidate abe see above californians also exercised their franchise all ali day they voted and at los angeles the excitement rose to fever pitch A short sharp earthquake was felt by midnight the president heard about Ws hs second defeat of the day candidate downey downe was nominated next day Cali fornias supreme court met to decide the legality of 1130 30 every thursday aviation once a captain in the russian czars azars guards Alexan alexander derP de sev ersky came to the U S when he found himself an exile established a name tor himself designing speed planes his latest ship a low wing single motored military pursuit plane which aviatrix Avla trix jacqueline cochran hoped to fly in this years bendix races to test his new ship flew from new york to los angeles in 10 hours 3 minutes 7 seconds bettering by almost 1 hours the mark set in 1933 by roscoe boscoe turner carrying a remarkable load of fuel in its wing to wing tanks the ship can cruise miles would be ba a logical convoy for new U S flying fortresses that cruise miles miscellany fifteen years ago in 1023 an earthquake killed japanese in yokohama Yo kahama night before this years anniversary sentimental yo ka hamans retired planned to spend the next day in mourning at midnight there was a high wind at a typhoon struck collapsing houses grounding steamers flooding streets pushing on to tokyo the typhoon killed hundreds thus was an earthquakes anniversary observed I 1 labor since coming to the U S from australia allen alien harry bridges has become john lewis chief C 1 I 0 a aide ide among pacific coast maritime workers last month the un amerl committee ot rep martin dies dem texas produced interesting charges about harry bridges the charges 1 that he Is a member of the communist party having been seen paying a 2 assessment and mem main barship dues 2 that he is more interested in advancing communism than the interests ot of his bis maritime MADAME SECRETARY PERKINS shirley temple vs harry bridges workers 3 that he once said to hell with the president ot of the united states 4 that he claims more power behind him than the U S government 5 that secretary of labor frances perkins had more than enough evidence to deport him harry bridges deportation was blocked last april pending a court ruling which does not forbid aliens to belong to the communist party or any other party except one which teaches overthrow of 01 the gov emment of the united states but armed with his evidence chairman dies demanded that secretary perkins resume deportation action against harry bridges next day came the answer it is not usual for the legislative branch to attempt to usurp the functions and duties of the administrative branch I 1 cannot accept your analysis and evaluation of the evidence as it appears to have been made without sufficient knowledge of the law perhaps it is fortunate that shirley temple was born bom an american citizen and that we wd will not have to debat ethe issue raised by the preposterous post erous revelations of your committee in regard to this innocent and likeable child plainly madame secretary perkins did not intend to deport harry bridges and representative dies could do nothing about it crime crim e at philadelphian Phila delphias county prison convicts went on a hunger strike three mornings later 25 ers were led to the one story stary alon klondike building with its row of tiny cells each 3 feet long by 4 feet wide into each cell whose doors are solid id except tor for a slot whose walls are lined with disproportionately large radiators guards tossed tour four or five prisoners then they turned on the heat by noon the convicts were suffering by nightfall they fought tor for the privilege of sucking air through the door slot by midnight they prayed on their knees for guards to turn oft off the steam or shoot them by next morning they cried insanely and clawed at their own parboiled flesh by evening most of them lay senseless but the heat was not turned off until next morning when guards inspected their victims four were dead into this modern black hole of calcutta walked coroner charles M hersch to arrest tour four guards charging them with homicide prison superintendent perin william B mills said the men had died from injuries received fighting among themselves but coroner hersch thought otherwise As his investigation began involving not only prison authorities but all philadelphia officialdom as well he threatened before I 1 am finished everyone responsible for this revolting situation will be puni dished navy pet ambition of every navy Is a fleet second to none never in U S naval history has a chief of operations voiced absolute contentment with his equipment last year as war scare was just beginning to sprout see FOREIGN congress approved a huge naval building program to squelch its navys growing inferiority complex last week in the seventy fifth anniversary niver sary issue of the army and navy Jo journal admiral william 11 leahy made a remarkable statement the new building program will give the united states tor for the first time a homogeneous fleet well balanced and equipped with modern weapons and machinery but naval satisfaction prove proved d short lived though the U S now has 18 capital ships 8 aircraft carriers 18 heavy cruisers 28 light cruisers destroyers and 58 56 submarines plans were rushed to ask congress tor for 18 more ships to in a construction po program gram |
