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Show News Review of Current ! Events the World Over Senator Couzens Defeated in Michigan Primaries Maine Recaptured by Republicans Notable Gathering Gath-ering of Savants at Harvard Tercentenary. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. REPUBLICANS were highly gratified grat-ified by the results of the Michigan Michi-gan primary election for two reasons: rea-sons: First, because three out of five persons who went to the polls asked for Republican Republi-can ballots; second, because Senator James Couzens, a Republican who has openly declared that he is supporting President Roosevelt for re-election, lost his fight for re-nomination. re-nomination. Couzens, Couz-ens, one of the f S : ben. Couzens wealthiest members of the senate, was badly defeated by former Gov. Wilbur M. Brucker, and there is more than a suspicion that he knew his fate beforehand. Brucker, who is only forty-two years old, has been in public life for almost twenty twen-ty years. The Republicans re-nominated Frank D. Fitzgerald for the governorship. On the Democratic side Representative Repre-sentative Prentiss M. Brown won the senatorial nomination against Louis B. Ward who was supported by Father Coughlin. For governor they chose Frank Murphy, high commissioner to the Philippines and former mayor of Detroit. Both Murphy Mur-phy and his defeated opponent, George Welsh, campaigned as Roosevelt supporters. In the New Hampshire primaries Gov. H. Styles Bridges won the Republican Re-publican senatorial nomination, ending end-ing the effort of former Senator George H. Moses to stage a comeback. come-back. The Democrats put up Representative Rep-resentative William N. Rogers. Nominees for governor are Maj. Francis P. Murphy, Republican, and Amos N. Blandin, Democrat. Massachusetts will have for senator sena-tor either Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Republican, or James M. Curley, now governor, Democrat. John W. Haigis, Republican, and Charles F. Hurley, Democrat, were nominated for the governorship. The gubernatorial nominees in Wisconsin are: Gov. Philip La Fol-lette. Fol-lette. Progressive; Alexander Wiley, Wi-ley, Republican, and Arthur W. Lueck, Democrat MAINK, the "barometer" state, is back in the Republican column at least so far as its state ticket is concerned. The G. O. P. captured the United States senator-ship, senator-ship, the governorship and three congressional seats. Senator Wallace Wal-lace H. White, Republican, defeated Gov. Louis J. Brann, who sought to unseat him. Lewis O. Barrows, Republican, won the governorship by a substantial majority over F. Harold Dubord, Democrat. The vote cast broke all records for size and interest in the election was intense. The state had been visited by both President Roosevelt, as he returned from his vacation cruise, and Gov. Alf M. Landon, the Republican Presidential nomi-Bee, nomi-Bee, who made speeches there only a few days ago. Colonel Knox, vice presidential candidate on the Republican Re-publican ticket, also had canvassed the state. Brann, who was elected governor in 1932 and re-elected two years later, was the first Democrat to hold that office in Maine and was personally popular. White was elected senator in 1930 after ten years in the house of representatives. representa-tives. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE has approved the new $10,000,000 seed corn loan program pro-gram of the AAA. The government will advance farmers two types of loans on seed corn storei on the farm. Advances of $1.75 a bushel will be made to farmers on 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 bushels of selected corn. The government will have the option of buying this corn at $3.50 a bushel up to April 1, 1937. The second type of loan permits advances of 55 cents a bushel on "good quality and properly stored cribbed corn which can be sorted for seed at a later date." On the latter type of loan the government retains the right to purchase the collateral at $1.50 a bushel until April 1 next. It is understood the Reconstruction Reconstruc-tion Finance corporation has agreed to advance up to $10,000,000 under the loan program. The loans will be made to farmers through the Commodity Credit corporation. The interest rate on the new loans will be 4 per cent, the same as was in effect under the old corn loan program. FEDERAL government help In controlling their business has been asked by two large sections of the tobacco industry. The Retail Tobacco Dealers of America, Inc., representing about 300,000 retailers of tobacco prod-ucti, prod-ucti, requested the federal trade commission to authorize a trade practice conference with a view for formulating rules for the elimination elim-ination of unfair methods of competition compe-tition and trade abuses. Representatives from nine tobac co producing states wound up a two-day two-day conference in Washington with a request addressed to the agricultural agricul-tural adjustment administration to draft a model production control bill. ' I vO THE sixty-sixth annual con-- gress of the American Prison association, held in Chicago, was presented a report from the committee com-mittee on crime prevention in which it was stated that the tactics of a certain class of lawyers in defending defend-ing persons charged with crime have the effect of encouraging criminals crim-inals to repeat their offenses. The committee declared that 75 per cent of the prisoners now in penal institutions insti-tutions in this country had been "literally faced about into a career ca-reer of crime" by their experiences with defense attorneys. The coaching of the attorney tended to help the defendant find an alibi for his misdeeds and a sedative sed-ative for his conscience, according accord-ing to the report, when public welfare wel-fare should have guided the lawyer to conduct "which would quicken the sensibilities of the prisoner and awaken him to his own misdeeds." The committee recommended more scientific methods in preventing prevent-ing and combating crime and it estimated esti-mated that the country's annual crime cost is $15,000,000,000 "one-fourth "one-fourth of the national income; half of the war debt." FOR the first time in seven years the United States is to have a squadron in European Atlantic waters. wa-ters. It is known as "Squadron 40-temporary" 40-temporary" and Rear Admiral Arthur Ar-thur P. Fairfield was named as its commander. Admiral Fairfield hoisted his flag aboard the light cruiser Raleigh at the Norfolk navy yard and sailed for Gibraltar. At first the squadron will consist of the flagship Raleigh, the destroyers Kane and Hatfield and the coast guard cutter Cayuga, but navy officials of-ficials expected its strength would be increased soon. The Hatfield, Kane and Cayuga had been on emergency duty in Spanish waters since the outbreak of the Spanish revolt until they were withdrawn to nearby neutral ports following the attempted bombing of the Kane by an unknown plane off Cadiz last August 30. IT IS pleasant to turn from war and politics and read of the doings do-ings at Cambridge, Mass., where Harvard university is celebrating J. B. Conant I the tercentenary of its founding. In i Sanders theater was held the academic reception for 554 colleges and learned societies -in every state of the union and in forty foreign countries, and all of them wearing the caps, gowns and hoods signifying their various de grees of scholarship. President James B. Conant greeted greet-ed the guests, accepted their credentials cre-dentials and delivered a simple address of welcome. He noted that the assembly was an impressive demonstration of the solidarity of the academic world, and saw in the greetings of the delegates "the continued con-tinued aspiration of mankind toward a universal fellowship based on human hu-man reason." Responding on behalf of the delegates, dele-gates, Prof. Elie Cartan of the University Uni-versity of Paris paid tribute to Harvard's Har-vard's contributions to education and declared that "no barrier, political, po-litical, religious or social, should be erected to stop the search for truth." When the delegates were called up in the order of the age of the institutions they represented, first to respond was Prof. Saleh Hashem Attia of Al-Azhar university of Cairo, Cai-ro, founded in 790. Then came the next oldest, the Regia university, Neglie Stuni Bologna, founded in the Tenth century, and represented by Prof. Carrado Gini. Third was the University of Paris, founded in the Eleventh century, whose representative repre-sentative was Dr. Cartan. Oxford, Cambridge and all the others followed, fol-lowed, down to the youngest represented, repre-sented, the Academia Sinica of Nanking, Nan-king, China. World famous educators, scientists scien-tists and men of letters, including ten Nobel prize winners, were among those who attended the reception. re-ception. FRANCE'S famous polar explorer, explor-er, Dr. Jean Charcot, and 59 of the crew of 60 aboard the exploration explora-tion ship Pourquoi Pas were drowned when the vessel foundered in a gale off the Iceland coast. One petty officer swam ashore and told of the tragedy. Charcot led two expeditions ex-peditions to the Antarctic and a region re-gion there is named for him, Char-cotland. Char-cotland. In 1925, when one of Roald Amundsen's north polar expeditions was missing, Charcot searched the east coast of Greenland in the Pourquoi Pour-quoi Pas. pOPE PIUS XI may be physically 1 weak, as recent reports say, but age and illness have not lessened the vigor of his opinions and his ' 7 I'ope Fius XI way of expressing them. In greeting and blessing some five hundred Spanish Span-ish refugees who were received at Castel Gandolfo, the holy father took occasion oc-casion to denounce strongly the "mad" forces of Communism Commu-nism which, he declared, de-clared, menaced, in Spain and else where, "the very foundations of all order, all culture and all civilization." civiliza-tion." He urged the constituted authorities of all nations to oppose "these great evils with every remedy reme-dy and barrier that is possible" and prophesied that there will be utter chaos if "those who have a duty in the matter do not hasten to repair the breach if, indeed, it is not already al-ready too late." The pope spoke especially of the situation in Spain, but said the crisis there is "a school in which the most serious lesson is being taught to Europe and to the whole world to a world now at last wholly steeped, ensnared and threatened by subversive propaganda, and more especially to a Europe battered bat-tered and shaken to its very foundation." founda-tion." For forty minutes the pontiff spoke passionately, his voice at times broken with emotion, and his address was transmitted by radio to all the civilized world. Reichsfuehrer Hitler, too, took another hard whack at the Communists Com-munists at a ceremonial tribute to the World war dead in Nuremberg. Before 120,000 uniformed Nazis and 50,000 others he boasted of Germany's Ger-many's armed strength and shouted: "Our old enemy, bolshevism, Is vanquished within Germany, but still active around her borders. But let no one be deceived. We are ready at any hour. We all have one wish to maintain peace but with it goes one firm decision: Never to surrender Germany to that enemy we have come to know so well." If Hitler, as some think, tries to lead the coming five-power Locarno conference into forming an anti-Soviet anti-Soviet alliance, he will be firmly opposed by France. Foreign Minister Min-ister Yvon Delbcs says so, and declares de-clares France will under no circumstances circum-stances abandon her military pact with Soviet Russia. According to Pravda, authoritative authorita-tive newspaper of Moscow, Hitler plans to attack and partition Czechoslovakia Czecho-slovakia before he embarks on a war against the Soviet union. Benito Mussolini and his cabinet appropriated large sums .o build up Italy's army, navy and air forces to greater strength and planned to carry on vigorously the campaign for self-sufficiency in raw materials. It looked as if the dove of peace was preparing to leave Europe, and as relations between Japan and China grew more strained every day, she probably will have to take refuge on the western continent. THE Spanish rebels scored their greatest victory to date when they captured San Sebastian, capital cap-ital of Guipuzcoa province and famous fa-mous Bay of Biscay resort. Santa Barabara fort, dominating the city, was first taken and the city's war council then decided to abandon the place, despite the opposition of the anarchists. The more conservative Basque nationals prevented the reds from burning the city, only a paper factory and two residences being destroyed, and Iht defending forces retreated toward Bilbao, accompanied accompa-nied by thousands of civilians and foreigners. Insurgent troops, commanded com-manded by Col. Jose Beorlegui, marched in and were ceremoniously ceremonious-ly reviewed, and the bishop of Pamplona Pam-plona officiated at a thanksgiving service. The municipal governor, Antonio Ortega, and his staff boarded a yacht to go to new headquarters at Zumaya, about 15 miles west of San Sebastian. The new line of defense was established at Orio, about halfway to Zumaya. Government spokesmen claimed considerable victories in the Tala-vera Tala-vera sector southwest of Madrid and not far from the Portuguese border. OUR navy's intelligence department depart-ment has discovered that a recent small fire on the cruiser Indianapolis while she was being overhauled in the New York navy yard was caused by the driving of phonograph needles and nails into in-to an electric cable; and other suspected sus-pected sabotage on war vessels is being investigated. The work on the cruiser was being done by civilian employees and Capt. Charles A. Dunn, industrial manager of the yard, said the placing of the nails in the cables was "undoubtedly" "undoubted-ly" a deliberate attempt to damage the cruiser. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AGRICUL-TURE WALLACE is arranging a series of community meetings of farmers for the purpose of laying out the "agricultural conservation program" for next year. He said the AAA planned the meetings in the farm areas in order to discuss crop insurance and possible maximum max-imum limits of benefit payments to each farm. He explained the program aimed at providing "greater "great-er abundance for the average American home," and should "help to check soil erosion, improve fertility, fer-tility, encourage better land use and maintain farm income." |