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Show SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Earle Beats C.I.O. Man THE desperate primary battle among the Pennsylvania Democrats Demo-crats resulted in complete victory lor Gov. George H. Earle and his . . - state machine and iv ' ' v equally complete (8-'w defeat for the Duf-i Duf-i . fey-Lewis-C. I. O. faction, whose can-j can-j didates all the way i down from senator I ! and governor to mi- I "--. nor county olTices, , xf were routed. Earle n won e sena''orsl"P f T" T' "1 nomination over L. W't ,,,J,vJ Mayor wnson 0f Gov. Earle Philadelphia. Charles Alvin Jones, Pittsburgh lawyer, law-yer, captured the gubernatorial nomination, beating Thomas Kennedy, Ken-nedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, who was on the Duffey-Lewis ticket. Jim Farley, national committee chairman, had projected himself into in-to the hot fight tiy advising the compromise choice of Earle and Kennedy, but the governor indignantly indig-nantly told him it was none of his business, and the voters gave him a swat on the head by rejecting his advice. Republicans were elated because the returns showed a ground swell back toward G. O. P. conservatism. The Republican total vote exceeded exceed-ed the Democratic vote, and this fact, together with the graft and bribery charges that enlivened the campaign of the Democrats, led the Republican leaders to hope the Keystone Key-stone state would return to the Republican Re-publican fold in November. Judge Arthur James won a smashing smash-ing victory over Gifford Pinchot, twice governor, for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, and this was another swat at John L. Lewis, for he was reported ready to back Pinchot if Kennedy lost. Senator James J. Davis was renominated by a heavy majority. Both Senator Guffey and Lewis appear to have lost their claims to political leadership. Lewis had boasted that he controlled 800,000 C. I. O. votes in Pennsylvania, but the best he could do was 520,000. Earle, though he came out on top, was considered to have lost prestige greatly by the accusations of misrule mis-rule made against his administration. administra-tion. His presidential aspirations were believed wrecked. The C. I. O. has lost other political polit-ical fights, but none so important as this. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor La-bor called the vote a complete "repudiation "re-pudiation of the C. I. O. leadership." leader-ship." He added: "It now has become abundantly clear that no candidate who bears the C. I. O. brand can be elected to high office in this country. The primaries proved the C. I. O. is a political liability, not a political power." Japanese Take Suchow TOKYO gave out word that the Japanese forces had captured virtually all of Suchow, the important impor-tant rail junction city in Central China. The assault force fought its way through a hail of Chinese fire and there was furious hand-to-hand fighting in the streets. Then other forces stormed the walls from other sides of the city. A foreign office spokesman said Japan would now push on to Hankow, Han-kow, the capture of which is regarded re-garded as necessary from a strategic strate-gic standpoint. Some 200.000 Chinese troops were said by the Japanese to be trapped in the Lunghni zone, but it was likely like-ly many of them would be able to escape. K.D.R. Going toSouth America ANNOUNCEMENT was made at the White House that President Kocsevelt is planning an extended trip to South America this summer. It is expected he will leave from an eastern port aboard a cruiser, pass through the Panama canal and spend a month along the west coast of South America, going as far as Santiago, Chile, and stopping at the capitals en route. On his return the President probably will disembark disem-bark on our west coast and sweep across the country on a special train, making speeches. Following a brief trip to Annapolis Annapo-lis to see the boat races between Harvard and the Naval academy, Mr. Roosevelt inspected the model community project at Arthurdale, W. Va. In the middle of June he will go to Massachusetts for the wedding of his son John and Miss Anne Clark. Daladier Defies Italy XJEGOTIATIONS for a Franco-' Franco-' Italian accord came to an impasse im-passe because Italy sought to break up France's alliance with Russia. fTOmii'sra Premier Daladier I " was angered and to ! N 4 j " 1 newspaper men he declared thatFrance H would defend her I frontiers against s ,,'SI "all attempts at vio-;i vio-;i lence, whatever the i circumstances." I ii,V J Tne direct cause t J of a break in the 1 'J conversations was t" ,. shipment of arms M. Daladier through France tQ loyalist Spain. Shorn of diplomatic diplo-matic technicalities, Italy seems to have demanded that France choose between Italy and Russia. Should she choose Russia, disrupting Britain's Brit-ain's plans for a general European Euro-pean settlement, Britain might leave France to her own devices and proceed pro-ceed to reach an agreement with Germany. Slattery Has West's Job O ESIGNATION of Charles West as undersecretary of the interior inte-rior was accepted by President Roosevelt, and Harry Slattery of North Carolina was immediately named in his place. The retirement of West marks a complete victory for Secretary Ickes in their long feud. Only recently Ickes dismissed all but one of West's office assistants and then turned the office over to Assistant Secretary Ebert K. Burlew. Their feud began when the President named West to the post without consulting Ickes. . White House Secretary Steve Early Ear-ly announced the President was looking about for another post for West. Woman Ambassador? "pHERE is a good chance that the - United States will be represented at Moscow by a woman, for Mrs. Charles C. Broy is under consideration considera-tion for the post of . . American ambassa-dor ambassa-dor to Soviet Russia, fi which Joseph E. -hi Davies recently re- Vi S?"Vji linquished to be- fa come ambassador to M ji Belgium. Mrs.! ' ,? Broy, who is a V 4 Texan by birth, is the wife of an Amer- ! ' ican foreign service , -x, officer and the wid- i-ow i-ow of Representa- Mrs c C- B tive Thomas U. Sis-son Sis-son of Mississippi. She was recom-. mended for the ambassadorship by the chairmen of the foreign relations rela-tions and foreign affairs committees of congress, and has the backing of many prominent members of congress. con-gress. If appointed and confirmed, she will be the first American woman wom-an to be an ambassador. Mrs. Broy was officially presented present-ed to Secretary of State Hull by Senator Key Pittman, but the secretary secre-tary has known her personally for 16 years. Jersey Inquiry Ordered CHARGES that free speech and other civil liberties have been suppressed in the Jersey City domain do-main of Mayor Frank Hague resulted result-ed in Justice department orders for a "thorough investigation" of the situation there. Attorney General Homer Cum-mings, Cum-mings, announcing the inquiry, said it was prompted by newspaper reports re-ports and complaints received from many persons. It would be directed, direct-ed, he said, at determining whether any one in Jersey City has been deprived of civil rights guaranteed by federal law. Red Tape Study 'TPHERE have been frequent com-plaints com-plaints that the government is requiring the filing of too many reports re-ports and the filling out of too many questionnaires by business. Now the President has ordered a study of these red tape demands by the central statistical board, asking Chairman Rice to see if it would be possible to consolidate the factfinding fact-finding activities of the various departments. de-partments. Plane Crash Kills Nine NINE persons were killed in the crash of a luxury air liner on a mountainside not far from Los Angeles. An-geles. The plane was being taken to St. Paul for delivery to the Northwest North-west Air lines, and it appeared the disaster was due to the desire of the pilot to save a few minutes by taking a shortcut route instead of keeping to the beam directed route through the mountains. Ministers Are Recalled PJIPLOMATIC relations between Great Britain and Mexico were broken because of the dispute over Mexico's action in expropriating for-mi for-mi .in'iiiwimmi, t eign oil properties. I .wwi President Lazaro Kt TT J Cardenas of Mexico H - , took the initiative by ft i recaUinS Prime- Vil- I la Miche1, Mexico f -4 i minister at London, r.'vS,.- and ordering the t- $r4 closing of the lega-l lega-l XV3 tion indefinitely. The f ' ?fV British government r ,8?" promptly directed ki..,,,,,.,.,.,. Minister 0wen sti President Cair 0'Mlley to Cardenas leave Mexic) tQ. gether with his staff, the legation being put in charge of Cdnsul Gen. J. Dalton Murray. While the suspension of relations is a direct outgrowth of the oil seizure, sei-zure, the immediate cause of Cardenas' Carde-nas' action was what he considered Britain's "insolent" methods in demanding de-manding a claims annuity of $85,-000, $85,-000, due since January 1 for damages dam-ages to British interests in a revolution revo-lution years ago. Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay handed a check for the amount to Minister O'Malley. told him of the recall of Minister Michel, and said: "May I be allowed, al-lowed, however, to call your excellency's excel-lency's attention to the fact that not even powerful states with ample re-, sources at their disposal can boast of having fulfilled their monetary obligations." Jobless Number 7,845,016 TN ONE of the final summaries of the unemployment census Director Direc-tor Biggers reports that the total number of registered unemployed in the United States is 7,845,016; and 61.3 per cent of the jobless are either ei-ther under 25 or over 45 years of age. Of those registering, 5,833,401 said they were totally without employment em-ployment and 2,011,615 said they had emergency jobs such as the Works Progress administration, National Youth administration, Civilian Conservation Con-servation corps, and others. The census was taken in November. Hanes in Treasury Post PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT nomi-nated nomi-nated John W. Hanes, who has been a member of the securities and exchange commission less thnn five months, to be 'sw?k assistant secretary ; 1 of the treasury. h j It is likely that. before the end of i M 1938, Mr. Hanes will s - 4 succeed Roswel Ma- gill as under-secre- f if tary of the treasury. " ' 1 Mr. Magill, who is 1 on leave from Co- k 1' 3 lumbia university, is f I j anxious to return to fe"2j his old position, it is J- W- Hanes reported. Mr. Hanes may not assume his new duties until the reorganization of the New York Stock exchange is completed. He will be the first New Deal assistant secretary of the treasury who has been identified with Wall Street investment banking. bank-ing. When selected for the SEC he was a partner in the firm of C. D. Barney & Co. With his wide knowledge of the securities business, the new appointee ap-pointee will be of value to the treasury, treas-ury, which faces important refinancing refinanc-ing operations in the near future. League Censures Japan FAR. V. K. WELLINGTON KOO, U Chinese delegate to the League of Nations, had better luck in the Geneva sessions than did Haile Selassie, Se-lassie, once emperor of Ethiopia, or Del Mayo of Spain. The council finished its business by adopting a resolution condemning Japan for its course in China and urging number num-ber nations to give direct aid to China. |