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Show iVcfrs Review of Current Events STEEL GOES BACK TO WORK Two-Thirds of Idle Have Returned . . . Riots Kill Two In Aluminum Strike . . . Siege of Madrid Gets Setback SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK C Western Newspaper Union. C.I.O. Steel Grip Loosens THE grip of the C. I. O. continued con-tinued to loosen in the steel strike as three big independent steel corporations Republic, Bethlehem and Youngstown Sheet & Tube reported more than two-thirds of their idle mill hands had returned to work. This covered plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Inland, the fourth of the steel independents, announced that it was operating with its normal nor-mal force of 13,000 in Indiana since it and the Steel Workers' Organizing Organiz-ing Committee signed a compact with the state labor commission. Steel production in the Youngstown, Ohio, area, one of the principal scenes of strike violence, climbed to 76 per cent of capacity, 3 per centage points above the operating figure before the start of the strike. Strike Riot Kills Two ONE striker and one policeman were killed and twenty men were injured at an aluminum plant in Alcoa, Term., when rioting broke out as 3,000 strikers started a back-to-work movement The plant, belonging be-longing to the Aluminum Company of America, had been closed since May 18, when the strike was called by the Aluminum Workers of America, Amer-ica, an affiliate of the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor. Difference in wages paid at Alcoa and at the company's com-pany's plant in New Kensington, Pa., was the issue in the strike. State troops were on hand, but Adjt.-Gen. R. O. Smith, in charge, said that they were there merely to protect rights, and no martial law had been declared. Lewis Scans the Sea JOHN L. LEWIS sought to expand J the scope of his Committee for Industrial Organization by invading the maritime industry. With Harry Bridges, west coast longshoremen's leader, he sought to unify scattered maritime unions, in one big industrial indus-trial organization dominated by the C. I. O. The American Federation of Labor already has two strong unions in the maritime field, so this action brings Lewis into another point of friction with William Green's organization. or-ganization. The nation has 250,000 marine and coastal workers. 'Compromise' Takes Bow CENATOR M. M. LOGAN, Dem- ocrat, of Kentucky, presented the "compromise" version of the President's Pres-ident's Supreme court dill to the senate, apparently g-, with the blessings of f '-' vi Majority Leader! - A Joseph T. Robinson f and the chief execu- jf, v i tive. In form an aMu-! amendment to and ff U ' substitute for the old hfW - f , j Ashurst administra- If"' 3 tion bill, the new P .,,. j draft authorizes ap- I ., : pointment of one t ''" . -A new justice to t h e court each year for Sen. Robinson every justice remaining on the court after reaching the age of seventy-five seventy-five years. Under its provisions the President would be permitted to name one new justice this year (besides (be-sides filling the vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Willis Van Devanter) and assure him of at least one new appointment to the court in each remaining year of his present term of office. All of the ap pointments would hinge on the decision de-cision of justices seventy-five or older on retirement The opposition immediately charged that the new bill was as offensive as the old one. Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, said: "The compromise is not going to get through. The new bill is just as objectionable as the old, because it seeks to pack the Supreme court just like the original bill did." Sen. Edward R. Burke, Democrat, Nebraska, Neb-raska, said the 43 senators would vote against any kind of measure that would increase the Supreme court. Some of the other provisions of the new bill were: Authority for 20 additional appointments ap-pointments to lower courts in the event that judges over seventy fail to retire. The old bill would have permitted 50 new appointments appoint-ments altogether. Speedy intervention by the government gov-ernment in cases involving constitutionality consti-tutionality of federal laws, and speedy appeal to the Supreme court. Rebels Fall from Madrid SPANISH rebel forces which took Bilbao after the city's first successful suc-cessful siege are still finding Madrid a tough nut to crack. In a two-day battle the loyalist forces broke throui:h the siege lines about the city, capltred the village-, of Villa-rieuva Villa-rieuva (ie la Canada and Ilruuello, and threatened Pi cut the besirjlinj; rebels ofT from their main forces. ',,) nearly nu'-ce v.Iul was the attempt at-tempt to rout the rebel fores that tin' latter were furred ,'iduiit lio'.v troops might have to be v.'ithdl a'.vn fry i M 8. -SSa;msss5ew-V: ,.isf ........ a Amelia: Lost in the Pacific. from other fronts, delaying temporarily tempo-rarily the drive on Santander, next rebel objective on the Biscayan coast. Meanwhile, the fall of Bilbao was expected to add 150,000 refugees to the constant stream pouring into loyalist Valencia. Although some of the refugees remained in France, where they were first taken, the vast majority preferred to go to Catalonia, Catalo-nia, where the government takes care of them at its own expense. Nearly 1,500,000 have arrived in Valencia Va-lencia since the start of the war and 300,000 have remained there. Bingham's 4th of July T OBERT WORTH BINGHAM, United States ambassador to London, bectme the third prominent promi-nent American to bring down the fury of Nazi Germany's officialdom and press when, in an Independence day speech before the American society in that city, he declared Uncle Un-cle Sam had been forced by the dictator dic-tator countries to join Britain in an armament race. Mayor LaGuardia of New York and Cardinal Munde-lein Munde-lein of Chicago had been other recent re-cent Nazi targets. The ambassador was quoted as saying: "There must be some (of the dictatorships) who realize that they have imposed upon the British commonwealth and the United States an armaments race. "We did everything in our power to avert it, but it is a race, and the British and ourselves must inevitably inevita-bly win. I admit the strongest argument ar-gument that can be made for dictatorshipsthey dic-tatorshipsthey offer a better method meth-od of preparing for war. But I am sure that democracies provide a better way to finish a war." The Nazis charged that the ambassador am-bassador had insulted Germany and Italy with his "arrogance and ignorance." ig-norance." Voclkischer Beobachtcr. the official newspaper, added: "If there is any talk of defense, then we should speak of defensp against the arrogant and teacher-like attitude atti-tude of the defenders of western ideals." Navy Hunts for Amelia TOUR ships of the United States navy, with attendant airplanes; two ships of the Japanese navy, and a British freighter scoured the vast wastes of the South Pacific in an effort to find and rescue Amelia Earhart Putnam, America's No. 1 woman flyer, and her navigator, navi-gator, Fred Noonan. The pair had been forced down before completing complet-ing the 2,570-mile hop from New Guinea to Howland island, a "leg" of their 'round-the-world flight. Signals received from the hapless flyers were so weak that it was impossible to tell whether they were afloat at sea or marooned on some tiny island, and as the days passed it became doubtful that many of the radio messages which served as clues for the searchers were from the two at all. Storms over the area of the sea in which they were believed lost hampered searchers and minimized possibilities possibili-ties of a rescue. So alarmed was the world at the loss of Amelia and her companion, the United States even sent out the giant aircraft carrier Lexington with 98 planes aboard, which, it was said, could explore an area of 30.000 square miles in five or six hours. . Mae West Tells All T T SEEMS Mae West, buxom blonde cinema menace DIIJ marry mar-ry Frank Wallace in Milwaukee on April 11, 1011, after all. After stoutly stout-ly denying the marriage which aroused the whole nation when it was revealed in 133.ri, she did tin about-face and confessed it, although al-though denying she had ever lived with the vaudeville player as his wife. Her admission was necessitated necessitat-ed when she answered Wallace's suit for declaratory relief in a Los Angeles court. Nation Finds More Jobs VJKAHI.Y ;i:..nilll.ll(l( persons ,,,-e L now employed in lion a i:ricul-tural i:ricul-tural pursuits. Hie federal reserve board has announced. This is only I. (Kill. (1(1(1 or l.MIO.OOII shy of (he average av-erage in l!i:'!l and ll.r.lMI.IKHI 0, II . 01 10, -Hull mure than in March, i:i.::i. Uncle Sam Checks Up UNCLE SAM wound up the 1937 fiscal year with a net deficit of $2,707,347,110, or about $150,000,000 more than President Roosevelt estimated esti-mated last April, according to the report of the United States Treasury. Treas-ury. The gross national public debt climbed to a total of $36,424,613,732 as of June 30, it was shown. Receipts for the period just closed were the largest in 16 years, amounting to $5,293,840,236, compared com-pared with $4,115,956,615 for the 1936-37 year and about $70,000,000 in excess of estimates. Expenditures were $8,105,158,547, including $103,-933,250 $103,-933,250 for debt retirement originally origi-nally planned for that period but carried over into the current year. Completion of the debt retirement retire-ment program as previously contemplated con-templated would have called for the expenditure of $404,525,000, which would have placed the gross deficit above the $3,000,000,000 mark. In the 1936-37 period, recovery and relief costs were more than $400,-000,000 $400,-000,000 below the total for the year before, amounting to $2,846,462,932 against $3,290,927,869. Reliable authorities around the capitol said that as soon as all appropriation ap-propriation bills for the 1938 fiscal year were cleared, the President would direct the heads of all government govern-ment departments to impound 10 per cent of their appropriations, exclusive ex-clusive of fixed charges, in an attempt at-tempt to balance the budget Experts Ex-perts said that a maximum of $400,-000,000 $400,-000,000 could be saved in that way. The prospective net deficit for 1938 was estimated at $400,000,000. Ford Tests Labor Board THE national labor relations board is receiving its most exacting ex-acting test in the hearings at Detroit De-troit on the United Automobile Workers' union complaint that the Ford Motor company is guilty of unfair labor practices. The U. A. W. U. is a C. I. O. affiliate; Ford is opposed to the unions. It was expected that the hearings might take a long time and may eventually reach the United States Supreme court After the hearings in Detroit a board examiner will draw up "intermediate findings" and send them to the NLRB in Washington, accompanied by a transcript of the evidence and briefs of both sides. The board will then either order the Ford Motor company com-pany to "cease and desist" its unfair un-fair practices or dismiss the union's j charges. Appeal may be taken to ; the United States circuit court of appeals, which has the power of I enforcement which NLRB lacks. The case may reach the Supreme court if the Constitution is involved. One of the allegedly unfair practices to which the U. A. W. A. objects is distribution of anti-union literature by the Ford company to its em- ployees. The company charges that ! a denial of this would violate con- 1 stitutional guaranties of free speech and a free press. Mediators Blame Steel THE federal mediation board named by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, which reached a deadlock and gave up in its efTorts to help the C. I. O.-amliated Steel Workers Organizing Committee and the independent steel corporations solve their difficulties, laid the blame for its failure at the door of the steel concerns. "We cannot but believe that the bitterness and suspicion which sep-parate sep-parate the two sides would be allayed al-layed by a man-to-man discussion around the conference table between the heads of the four companies and the union representatives, and the only present possible hope of settlement lies in such a meeting," the board's report said. On the board were Charles P. Taft, chairman; Lloyd K. Garrison and Edward F. McGrady. Isolates Paralysis Germ WHAT the medical profession i considers a major step In the conquest of infantile paralysis was j taken when Dr. Edward Carl Rose-now Rose-now announced to 100 physicians, surgeons and medical research workers In Glcndale, Calif., that he had Isolated the germ which causes it. Dr. Rosenow Is professor of experimental ex-perimental bacteriology at the Mayo foundation in Rochester, Minn. Work with spinal fluid taken from nurses who had contracted the disease dis-ease at the Los Angeles general hospital In 19.14 enabled him to isolate iso-late the micro-organism. Dr. Rosenow said that now the germ has been Isolated steps must be taken to develop a serum similar sim-ilar to the serums used In fighting other ravaging contagious diseases. Triple Split for Palestine TALF..STh'E would be split Into 1 three parts and British mandate man-date over the whole country ended, according to suggestions made by the royal commission (in Palestine and delivered to the British government. govern-ment. The commission was formed n year ago to Ihul some way of putting put-ting an end to Arab-Jewish riots. Under the new plan, about two-thirds two-thirds of Palestine would be converted con-verted into an Arab slate nnd about one-third into a Jewish stale. A small territory. Including the holy rilies of .lerusii leni, Bethlehem and Na.areth, and a corridor to tlm sea, would be given to Crc. it Britain Brit-ain as a permanent mandate. It is claimed that the plan would re-move re-move the Arabs from Jewish domination, dom-ination, give the Jews a home and protect Christ ian shrines. |