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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Spanl.-li War bringing Italy, France and Great Britain Into Conflict Lewis Ends Chrysler Sitdown Strike Martin Warns Henry Ford. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Ncwiparjcr Union. SPAIN'S civil war Is becoming to a (i-L-at extent a war between Italy and France fought on Spanish Boil, and both those nations are ex-r,,,,,.,.,,..,. ex-r,,,,,.,.,,..,. ; asperated and en-; en-; raged, while Great t f "' ' j Britain anxiously 7 ' strives to avert an 44 : rj0n breach. Italy, j '-" -. too, is now furious , ' I against the British 4 .'.-"- because English -'; i . .. J newspapers taunted - : J her with the fact r that Italian volun- I 'j'n leers were defeated .A"'M by French Volun-Dino Volun-Dino Grandl ,L.er3 )n recent vic. torifs won by the loyalists northeast of Madrid. Count Dino Grandi, Italian Ital-ian ambassador to London, told the subcommittee of the International committee on nonintervention that ho 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 startling. Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos proposed to British Ambassador Ambas-sador Sir George Clerk that France and Britain assume a naval blockade block-ade of Spain to keep Italian troops from landing to join the fascists. The British and French governments govern-ments thereupon agreed, with full knowledge of other European powers pow-ers within the non-intervention committee, com-mittee, on "all points" of a program to make non-intervention completely complete-ly effective and decided it was imperative im-perative to prevent, even by force, any further Italian landings. No decision de-cision was reached to send warships war-ships at once for this purpose. In Rome 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 an-grily repeated the official denial that Italy had sent any volunteers to Spain since February 20, when the international agreement for non-intervention was reached. The indignant outburst by Grandi followed closely on a speech which Premier Mussolini delivered in Rome. Alluding to the League of Nations' sanctions against Italy during dur-ing the Ethiopian war, of which England was the chief promotor, 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, Italy's North Africa Afri-ca colony, and on that trip he made a patent bid for Italian leadership of the Moslem world. This, and his intention to build a naval base on the Red sea which would challenge British control of the Indian ocean are irritating Great Britain, which is not yet ready to check Mussolini by a display of armed force. She will be ready, however, before very long, for she is expending vast sums on her fleets and naval establishments. establish-ments. Germany is not taking active part in these international spats just now, but is awaiting developments. Hitler is absorbed in his domestic difficulties and the threatened break with the Vatican. DR. HANS LUTHER is soon to be replaced as German ambassador ambassa-dor to Washington by Dr. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff, a veteran diplomat dip-lomat who is now secretary of state for foreign affairs. He was counsellor counsel-lor of the embassy in Washington from 1922 to 1926 and has been a staunch friend of Americans. Dieckhoff Dieck-hoff is described as belonging to the "Ribbentrop group" in German affairs, af-fairs, and is a brother-in-law of Joachim Joa-chim von Ribbentrop, German ambassador am-bassador to London. UNDER the persuasion of Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan, John L. Lewis, head of the C. I. O., and Walter P. Chrysler, chairman of the Chrysler mo- , - i tor corporation, w ere N0 brought together in NVV N X I more or less peace- 1 ful conference at the I state capitol in Lan- v sing. The immediate 5- ,-- result was an agree- f ment that the sit- : CX I down strikers should ' ' ' evacuate the eight i- , Chrysler plants 1 n x s 4 Detroit, and that the corporation should Governor not resume produc- Murphy tion during the period of negotiations. nego-tiations. Six thousand strikers had held possession of the plants since March 8 in defiance of court orders or-ders and the governor, as in the case of the General Motors strike, had been extremely reluctant to authorize forceful methods cf enforcing en-forcing the law. He had. however, insisted that the men must obey the law and court orders, and the concession by Lewis was a victory for the governor, as well as for the corporation which had declared it would not negotiate while the men held its plants. Mr. Chrysler also has asserted the company would not enter into any agreement recognizing recogniz-ing any one group as sole bargaining bargain-ing agency for all employees. It seems likely that this Michigan case will put an end to the epidemic of sitdown strikes. Most of the smaller small-er strikes in the Detroit area have been settled, and in Chicago and elsewhere vigorous action by the authorities has brought sitdowners to their senses. President Roosevelt had steadily refused to take a public stand concerning con-cerning this new weapon adopted especially by the Lewis labor group, but finally yielded to the pleas of his lieutenants so far as to agree to hold a conference on the matter on his 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 the administration, like Secretary of Commerce Roper, have condemned con-demned it. And in the senate and the house it has been attacked by Democrats and Republicans alike. IN THE big mass meeting of workers held in Detroit, Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers, addressed himself to Henry Ford, saying: "Henry, you can't stop the labor movement. You can't 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 thing for you to do, Henry, is to get ready to do business with your organized or-ganized 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 Martin's threat, Harry Bennett, Ford chiel of personnel, says: "What Martin calls 'organized labor' la-bor' is not going to run the Ford Motor company. For every man in this (the 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 don't 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 op-erates five days a week, with the exception of the blast furnaces which must be kept going seven days a week. AMELIA EARHART'S globe-encircling flight ended, for the present, at Honolulu when she cracked up her $80,000 "laboratory . r-wn plane" at the take- . X. I off for Howland is-I is-I x v 1 land. By quick thinking and action v x N she saved her life wn v and those of Capt. - I Harry Manning and f N ' Fred J. Noonan, her s s navigators, but the s plane was so badly I XN damaged that it had ' to be shipped back to the Los Angeles Amelia factory for repairs. Earhart The daring aviatrix sailed immediately for San Francisco, Francis-co, asserting that she would resume the flight as soon as possible. As the big plar.e rushed down the runway for the take-off it swayed badly, the right tire burst and the ship went out of control. The left undercarriage buckled and the left wing slashed into the ground. The ship then spun to the right, crashed down on its right wing, and the right motor snapped off the right wheel. Miss arhart quickly cut the ignition igni-tion switches, so there was no fire, and no one was injured. TEN passengers, two pilots and a stewardess were killed when a big Transcontinental and Western airliner crashed near Pittsburgh. No one survived the disaster. The 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 Pre-sumably the motor failed. CONGRESSMAN RALPH E. CHURCH of Illinois raised a storm in the house by making a fierce attack on Adolph J. Sab-ath. Sab-ath. also of Illinois and dean of the house. Sabath is chairman of the committee to investigate real estate bondholders' reorganizations, and Church accused him of "questionable "question-able practices," demanding in particular par-ticular an explanation concerning benefits reaped by the Chicago law firm of Sabath, Perlman. Goodman & Rein as a result of Sabath's activities. ac-tivities. "democratic leaders rushed to the defense of Sabath, and finally stopped Church's attack by forcing adjournment. Sabath was furious and promised a reply at length. JOHN DRINK WATER, distinguished distin-guished British poet, novelist and playwright, died suddenly of a heart j attack in his sleep at his home in ; London. He was only fifty-four years j old and seemed in normal health, j DrLnkwater's historical plays were widely known in the United States, 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 producer. pro-ducer. The film deals with "the king and his people" from the time ' of Queen Victoria to the present, I XT EAR Salem, 111., a chartered bus 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, high-way, was caused by the explosion of a tire. CHIEF JUSTICE CHARLES E. HUGHES created something of a sensation by sending to the senate judiciary committee a letter declar-m declar-m ing that an increase p-j . in the number of Su- i .; preme court jus- 6 : tices, as proposed j - y by President Roose- ' velt, "would not pro- mote the efficiency ' of the court." He added: ' 1 "It is believed that ; . , it would impair that - ' j efficiency so long as k. & the court acts as a Chief Justice unit- Hughes "There would be more judges to hear, more judges to confer, more judges to discuss, more judges to be convinced con-vinced and to decide. The present number of justices is thought to be large enough so far as the prompt, adequate and efficient conduct of the work of the court is concerned." Mr. Hughes said his letter was approved by Justices Van Devanter ar.d Brandeis. He made it clear that he was commenting on an increase in-crease from the standpoint of efficiency ef-ficiency and "apart from any question ques-tion of policy," which he said, "I do not discuss." Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, Democrat, was the first opposition witness called before the committee, and he started in by reading Mr. Hughes' letter. Before Be-fore entering the committee room he said he believed the administration adminis-tration would eventually accept a compromise plan. He advocates a constitutional amendment, permitting permit-ting congress, by two-thirds majority, ma-jority, to override Supreme court invalidation in-validation of acts of congress, provided pro-vided a national election had intervened in-tervened between invalidation and overriding. "The administration will compromise, compro-mise, don't worry," Wheeler said. "They can't get more than thirty-five thirty-five senate 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 President's plan was Raymond Moley, former head of the "brain trust" and now professor of public law at Columbia university. He was outspoken in denouncing 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 construction. con-struction. Carried to its logical conclusion, con-clusion, he said, the President's proposal pro-posal will mean "destruction of the Constitution." President H. W. Dodds of Princeton; Prince-ton; Dr. Theodore Graebner of St. Louis, prominent Lutheran leader, and representatives of the National Grange, oldest nonpartisan organization organi-zation of farmers, also appeared before be-fore the committee to argue against the bilL SEVERAL investigations into the terrible 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 the cause of the disaster has not been determined. deter-mined. The most plausible theory was formed when D. L. Clark, field foreman for the near-by Parade 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 high-ly 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 the school wanted it shut off. School employees said the change from "dry" to "wet"' gas was made only a month ago on order of the school board chairman. That gentleman gen-tleman said the company knew of the use of the gas. SPANISH government forces were victorious in some heavy fighting fight-ing on the Guadalajara front northeast north-east of Madrid, their chief gain being the capital of Brihuega. headquarters of the insurgents. The latter, however, scored in the University Uni-versity City quarter of the capital, and on the southern front were pre-prring pre-prring to attack Pozoblanco, the key to mercury, lead, sulphur and coal mining territory. Paris claimed to have information that Germans had supervised and manned a line of fortifications along the Spanish Moroccan coast thai threatens British control of the Strait of Gibraltar. |