| Show news N aws review of current events the world over spanish war bringing 0 italy fiance and great britain into LI conflict lewis ends chrysler strike J martin warns henry ford by EDWARD W PICKARD western newspaper un on SPAIN is PAIN S civil war is becoming to a great extent a war between italy and france fought on spanish soil and both those nations are ex aspe rated and en raged while great britain anxiously strives to avert an open breach italy too is now furious against the british because english newspapers taunted her with the fact that italian volun were defeated by french volun dino grandi in recent nic tones tories won by the loyalists northeast of madrid count dino grandi italian ambassador to london told the subcommittee of the international committee on non intervention that he would not dis cuss the withdrawal of foreign vol from frog n 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 ambas sir george clerk that france and britain assume a naval block ade of spam to keep italian troops from landing to join the fascists the british and french govern ments thereupon agreed with full knowledge of other european pow ers within the non intervention corn com buttee on all points of a program to make non intervention complete ly effective and decided it was im operative pera tive to prevent even by force any further italian landings no decision was reached to send 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 sp spam ain europe would come near to war A spokesman for the government an repeated the official denial that italy had sent any volunteers to spain since february 20 when the international agreement for non in tion 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 dur ing the ethiopian war of which england was the chief promoter 11 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 adoba but we succeeded mussolini had just returned from a visit to libya italy s north aari 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 establish ments germany is not taking active part in ul these international spats just now but is awaiting developments hitler is absorbed in his domestic difficulties and the threatened break with the vatican D T R HANS LUTHER is soon to be replaced as german dor to washington by dr hans heinrich dieckhoff a veteran dip lomat who is now secretary of state fo foreign affairs he was counsel lor of the tie embassy in washington from 1922 to 1926 and has been a staunch friend of americans dieck hoff is described as belonging to the group in german af fairs and is a brothed in law of joa chim von german am cassador bas to london U the persuasion of gov frank murphy of michigan john L lewis head cf f the C 1 I 0 and walter P chrysler chairman of the chrysler mo A tor corporation corp cration were brought together in more or less peace ful conference at the state capitol in lan sing the immediate result was an agree anent that the sit down strikers should evacuate the eight chrysler plants in i n detroit and that the corporation should G Gover governor 1101 not resume pro urphy during the period of ne six thousand strikers had held possession of the plants since march 8 in defiance of court orders and the governor as in the case of the general motors strike had been extremely reluctant to authorize forceful methods of en forcing the law he had however insisted that the men must obey the law and court orders and the S 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 recognize rec ing any one group as sole bargain mg ing agency for all employees it seems likely that this michigan case will put an end to the epidemic of strikes most of the sma small ll 11 er strikes in the detroit area ha have ve been settled and in chicago and elsewhere vigorous action by the authorities has brought sit downers to their senses president roosevelt had steadily refused to take a public stand con cerling 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 strike and various new dealers have defended it but others in the administration like secretary of commerce roper have con damned it and in the senate and the house it has been attacked by democrats and republicans alike IN TN 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 hae 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 or 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 chief of personnel says what martin calls organized 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 sit clown strike there are at least five who want their job and don t want a strike the rouge plant employs 87 men the minimum wage is 6 a day or 75 cents an hour for the eight hour working day the plant op aerates five days a week with the exception of the blast furnaces fur races which must be kept going seven days a week A MELIA EARHART S globe en alx lx circling flight ended for the present at honolulu when she cracked up her 80 laboratory r 7 plane at the take off for howland is 7 land by quick thinking and action she saved her life and those of capt harry manning and fred J noonan her navigators but the plane was so badly damaged that it had to be shipped back to the los angele amelia a for factory repairs earhart the daring aviatrix sailed immediately for san francis co asserting that ahe he would resume the flight as soon as possible As the big plane rushed down the runway for the takeoff 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 pun to the right crashed down on its right wing and the right motor snapped off the right wheel miss earhart qu akly cut the igni tion switches so there was no fire and no one was injured T TEN EN passengers two pilots and a stewardess were killed when a big transcontinental and western airliner crashed near pittsburgh no one cur survived ur the disaster the plane from new york for chicago had been awaiting a chance to land at the pittsburgh airport ciral ng around and suddenly fell from a height of only about feet pre surn ably the motor failed congressman C ON congressman RALPH R A L P H E CHURCH of illino s raised a storm in the house by making a fierce attack on adolph J 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 question able practices demanding in par nicular an explanation concerning benefits reaped by the chicago law firm of sabath perlman goodman rein as a of sabath s ac tivi ties 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 0 H N drinkwater distin british poet novelist and playwright died suddenly of a heart attack in his sleep at his home in london he was only fifty four years old and seemed in normal health drinkwater Dnn kwater s historical plays were widely known in the united states particularly abraham lincoln an and d kobert robert E lee he had just completed a motion picture for the coronation of king george VI of which he was both author and pro ducer the film deals with the king and his people from the time of queen victoria to the present NEAR nn EAR salem III a chartered 1 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 high way was caused by the explosion of a tire t CHIEF chief JUSTICE CHARLES E HUGHES created something of a sensation by sending to the senate judiciary committee a letter beclar ing that an increase in the number of su sill preme court jus us tices cices as proposed by president roose velt would not promote the efficiency of the court he added it is believed that it would impair that efficiency so long as the court acts as a chief justice unit hughes there would be more judge to hear more judges to confer more judges to discuss more judges to be con vinced and to decide the present number of 0 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 app by justices van devanter and brandeis he made it clear that he was commenting on an in crease from the standpoint of ef and apart from any ques tion of policy which he said I 1 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 entering the committee room he said he believed the adminis would eventually accept a compromise plan he advocates a constitutional amendment permit ting congress by wo thirds ma jonty to override supreme court in validation of acts of congress provided a national election had in ter between invalidation and overriding the administration will compromise don t worry wheeler sa d they c n t get more than thirty five senate votes for the president presidents s plan public opinion which swerved toward them for a while is now swinging heavily against them m prominent among the witnesses for the opposition to the president presidents s plan was raymond moley former head of the brain trust and now professor of public law at columbia university he was outspoken in de bouncing noun cing 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 con st ruction carried to its log cal con clus aclus on he said the president presidents s pro dosal will mean destruction of the constitution president H W dodds of prince ton dr theodore graebner of st louis prominent lutheran leader and representatives of the national grange oldest nonpartisan organization of farmers also appeared 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 pupils and teachers were under way but at this writing the cause of the disaster has not been deter mined the most plaus ble theory was formed when ahen D L dark clark field foreman for the near by parade oil company testified that the school had been using wet gaa ga from the pipe lines of the company this is a res due gas rich in butane a high ly explosive compound of carbon and hydrogen and it is considered too dangerous for home use dark 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 aid the change from dri to wet gas was made only a month ago on order of the school board chairman that gen tieman said the company knew of the use of the gas government forces were u victor ous in some heavy fight ing on the guadal jara front north east of madrid their ch ef ga n being the capture of brihuega headquarters of the insurgents the latter however scored in the uni hersity city quarter of the capital and on the southern front were pre paring to attack pozoblanco Pozo blanco the key to mercury lead sulphur and coal mining territory pans paris claimed to have information that germans had supervised and manned a line of fortifications along the spanish moroccan coast that threatens british control cont tol of the strait of gibraltar |
