Show by E edward ward W pickard 0 union shipping Is crippled by maritime strike HIRTY SEVEN thousand mari time workers on oil the pacific coast went on strike and im immediately the trouble spread to the gulf an and d atlantic coasts in the west about vessels were tied up in ports and others heading that way faced walk outs by t their it e I 1 r crews on arrival in new york members of the international S e a m e ns union voted a sit down strike in defiance of their national off mayor flayer rossi cers and maritime workers in houston and port arthur texas quit their jobs and picketed the waterfront federal officials were trying hard to settle the disputes between the unions and shipping companies chief of which relate to control of the luring hiring halls wage increases and shorter hours assistant secretary of labor E F mcgrady mccrady was in san francisco and intimated the government might intervene ter vene when any group whether bankers employers or labor take action endangering the welfare of the nation they are assuming a position that the government must challenge challene t to protect the state and the people mcgrady said the free flow of water borne foreign and interstate commerce has become paralyzed this will involve directly or indirectly the lives of tile the citizens of the whole nation san francisco had the added distress of a strike of 1000 warehousemen m en who demanded higher wages and mayor angelo rossi ross was mustering his forces to meet both this trouble and the maritime strike he expected violent warfare along the waterfront and said he would take the necessary steps to protect public interests the police st set up headquarters in the ferry building and strung their own telephone wires to every pier it etwas was reported in san fra francisco encisco that coast ship owners were considering a plan to ask the united sta states tes navy to put safety crews aboard western merchant ships left un manned admiral harry G hamlet as a member of the federal maritime commission opened a fact finding hearing in san francisco summoning the ship owners to present their case first the seven striking unions and their allies were to be heard later the maritime commission had previously ordered peremptorily that the strike be delayed until it could hold t the h e hearing but the unions declined to submit to this dictation To baby derby ends in a muddle WHEN HEN charles vance millar died ten years ago leaving a will in which was bequeathed to the toronto woman who gave birth to the greatest number of children in the ensuing decade it was considered a sardonic joke the baby derby is over and it still is a joke or at least a sad muddle six women are tied for the prize each claiming nine registered babies and eight others have filed claims with the executors of the will two relatives of millar announced they would contest the will and the ontario government was ready to intervene with legislation that would keep the lawyers who planned legal actions in behalf of various claimants from getting most of the money mussolini says italis policy Is armed peace t ito UR policy is one of peace with v everybody but it will be an armed peace such was the flat flat statement of premier mussolini of italy in a speech at milan which was carried by radio th ro ugh out the world it was addressed to all nations but especially to great britain whose superiority in the tha th a mediterranean II 11 duce boldly challenged he ap premier pealed to the british mussolini massolini TI to c come 0 ni e to t some me agreement with rome as to italis rights and interests in this area warning that failure to do so might mean war if the ille mediterranean is for others a high road said mussolini for u us s italians it is life we have said a thoi thousand sand times and I 1 repeat we do noV intend to menace this road we do not intend to interrupt it but wi wa say on the other hand our rights and vital interests must be respected lie he saw the league of nations shipwrecked by wilson ideology P which he be asserted was the philosophy hil inspiring the illusion of disarmament the league must reform or perish so far as italy is concerned the league may perish lie he asserted in london it was said that recognition tion of italis sovereignty over ethiopia could come only through league of nations procedure so far as england is concerned foreign office comment was that no matter what might be the portent of so linis speech britain would not change her mediterranean policy madrid Is bombed by insurgent planes D raids by rebel bomb ring iv ing planes were made on madrid and its suburbs and scores of persons mainly women and children were killed there was fierce and desperate fighting northeast of the capital and the government forces were driven back toward the city the defense lines were reorganized organ iKid however south of madrid and on the road to toledo and the government commanders were preparing for a sweeping new offensive the fascists tool took bruncke after a bloody figi fig having already y captured three other towns in that th at region and came within seventeen miles of madrid hoare warns russia not to meddle in england I 1 T N THE house of commons depre 1 senta tives of the british government declared that nonintervention in spain must be preserved to prevent chaos in europe and then sir samuel uel hoare first lord of the admiralty uttered a stern warning to soviet russia not to interfere fer 1 e with affairs in england it is almost always disastrous to interfere in the affairs of other coun sir samuel m el tries sir samuel declared addressing il are a west end meeting 1 I commend that observation to agents of the they will find that the more they interfere in the domestic affairs of this country the worse it will react against their activities sir samuel added on no account must we interfere in business which does not concern us it is necessary to say that and say it most clearly in view vi sw of the very curious vacillating attitude adopted by the labor party toward the civil war in spain the admiralty first lord referred to the complete face of the labor party in resolutely supporting the tha governments policy of hands off spain at the party congress recently and then shifting to demands that the government permit british sale of arms to spain mollison sets a record in atlantic flight CAPT CAPT JAMES A MOLLISON english aviator established a new speed record for transatlantic trans atlantic flights when he landed at croydon airport near london 13 hours and 17 minutes after he had left harbor grace newfoundland in his american bellanca monoplane dorothy the previous fastest west to east crossing was made in 1932 by amelia earhart in 14 hours 54 minutes from harbor grace to londonderry ireland nazi four year program launched by goering GEN EN HERMANN WILHELM GOERING german minister of air and now the director of the nazi foury four y year ar economic scheme to make the reich independent of the rest of the world in raw materials launched his program at a great nazi rally in berlin we shall hack finger after finger off the foreign hand clutching at germanys germanas Germ anys throat r within the next four gen gourm goering y years he declared outlining his plans goering said no german had starved nor would starve the high seas aca s fishing fleet will be increased he asserted so the people can eat fish when meat is not available whale fishing will be developed for the margarine it can produce he promised goering urged all germans to follow the example of adolf hitler who he said eats neither meat nor butter the audience yelled with delight when the robust goering told them he had lost 22 pounds by eating less butter germany would prefer the old system of international exchange of wares but this now is impossible in a mad world so germany will build her factories produce her own synthetic rubber and her own substitutes utes for cotton and other materials for which she now must spend millions of dollars yearly the general declared roosevelt names eight for peace conference SECRETARY C OF STATE HULL BULL and seven other americans were vvera named by president roosevelt as the united states delegates in the forthcoming inter american conference in buenos alre alres s for the maintenance of peace the conference is to open on oil december 1 and the american delegation is on its way now to the argentine capital mr hulls colleagues are arc sumner welles assistant secretary of state in charge of latin american affairs alexander W weddell ambassador to argentina adolf A berle jr chamberlain of new york city alexander F whitney president of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen charles G fenwick professor of political sciences science bryn mawr college michael F doyle philadelphia lawyer and mrs elsie F musser salt lake city member of tile the utah state stale senate mrs wally simpson Is granted divorce proceedings p proceedings ROCE EDINGS lasting nineteen minutes in the court of assizes at ipswich ipswitch england sufficed to give marital freedom to mrs wally simpson justice sir anthony alake heard neatly arranged evidence of the infidelity 0 of f ernest simpson who 11 was not represented and gruffly gave a 14 decree nisi to the attractive ameri american can 4 woman who h has as been and is the close friend of xing edward mrs M simpson wV VIII for six months she will be on probation technically chaperoned at all times and if her behavior satisfies the kings proctor she will vill be unqualifiedly free april 27 to mar marry ry again whether or not her new husband if she takes one will be king edward is a question that only time and the two persons most directly concerned can determine mrs simpson returned from aps to her london residence on i cumberland terrace regents park and there told interviewers that she was angered and humiliated by the international sensation her divorce has caused she said she might go abroad for a time but that she would never return to the united states I 1 lorado tatt taft noted sculptor dies L T ORADO TAFT of chicago gen lt l t brally recognized as the foremost american sculptor of this period died at the age of seventy six after an illness of eight days ile e knew his demise was impending and worked hard almost to the last in the endeavor to complete several commissions mr taft was a graduate of the university of illinois and studied in the ecole des beaux arts in paris ile he did many important pieces of sculpture and also was continually active in enlarging public knowledge and appreciation of art trade balance unfavorable for nine months eap exp EXPORTS ORTS of manufactured goods and raw materials exceeded imports into the united states during september by more than four million dollars according I 1 1 I 1 it to a report released by secretary of commerce roper but the how flow the other way was so strong during t the h e 41 previous three months that the country suffered an unfavorable balance of trade during the first nine months of secretary the year amounting roper to this is is in contrast with a favorable balance of in the corresponding period of 1935 roper minimized the situation declaring that heavy exports of raw cotton tobacco and automobiles would probably bring the trade balance more into line with previous years pressed for further explanation roper insisted that our government as such does not compete with other governments in the selling of goods and this was the province of private business on reciprocal trade agreements lie he was mum wed like to end the year with a favorable trade balance naturally lie he said but we are arc going through a period of study and readjustment in world trade census bureau guess Is population UNCLE SAMS nephews and nieces now number according to the estimate of dl director rec william L austin of the bureau of census the new n sw figure as of july 1 represented an increase of or per cent since july Is 1 1935 it was based on the number of births and deaths during the year ending june 30 1330 1936 and the excess of immigration over emigration I 1 the bureau of agricultural economics also has been doing some soma population estimating it says the back to the farm movement of the depression years has halted and that the farm population remained practically stationary during 1935 being at the end of that year this figure the bureau says was only slightly greater than I 1 in 1920 and somewhat less than in 1910 |