Show review of WAR ON TWO continents japanese bomb fearful battle rages near madrid congress wants to pack up and go home cd 19 I 1 gw japanese soldiers cremate their dead at fantai A wuie we summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK e western newspaper union china skies rain fire THERE HERE was war in north china Tw whether hether it had been officially declared or not japanese bombers zoomed over the densely populated city of raining death and destruction and endangering thou sands of citizens of the united states and other foreign countries the air attack was nippon s retaliation for a chinese army drive which nearly drove the japanese out of their north china stronghold chinese troops declared t that hat thousands of non combatant noncombatant men women and children were killed or injured by the airmen the bombers left holocaust in their wake flames engulfed tient sms sin s principal buildings the cen aral railway station the militia headquarters the famed dankai urn uni hersity and the Chin kiang internal dional bridge connecting the chinese city to the foreign concessions in the latter inhabitants who were not concerned at all with the war were forced to seek what safety they could in cellars which provided lit tie tle shelter from the exploding bombs chinese and japanese sol diers fought hand to hand in the streets with entrenchments in some places only feet apart three chinese armies operating suddenly and swiftly along a 95 mile front between taku s sea port and neiping conducted the at tack which incurred the wrath of the japanese military command they drove the japanese away from the three key railroad stations and en the japanese concession japan immediately responded with her air attack concentrating upon the heavily populated chinese section of infantry at tacked the chinese barricades in several parts of the city japanese artillery went into action and drew lusty response from the enemy which sent shell after shell hurtling into the heart of the japanese con cession many soldiers on both sides were killed from neiping the chinese awen ty ninth army was driven back 80 miles to the west until not a chi nese soldier was left in the city or its environs gen sung cheh yuan commander resigned turning over his post as chairman of the hopel political council to gen chang tsu chung a subordinate di vision commander K moat of blood trending Tf P HE spanish government was de fending ending madrid against the in forces in the most terrible battle of the entire civil war and the most important it couldn coulden t last it was too furious the whole loyalist cause apparently rested on resisting this the most vicious at tack the rebels had yet made gen francisco franco s army under his personal supervision was making advances but at such loss of men that the cost might be too great insurgents stormed loyalist en trench ments directly in the face of point blank machine guns losses were so terrible that thousands of wounded lay without food or water among thousands already dead and decaying in the hot sun infantry tanks cavalry and artillery were supplemented by airplane bombers in one salient men were fighting including the cream of both armies the loyalist position was admittedly the most serious of the whole war and upon the govern ment ments s ability to withhold aga against ast the attack rested the fate of the best units in its army it was re ported that 20 italian troops had joined the rebels for the battle each side claimed the losses of the other had been greatest ansur gents reported that the government salient had cost fighting planes and 30 casualties the govern ment declared that franco had lost at least planes to its 20 or 30 had lost 20 to 25 men and had consumed 15 worth of war materials gen franco s other armies were busy too while the madrid conflict was in full sway the insurgents sprang a surprise air attack on barcelona in the early dawn advance planes dropped flares which lighted up the city then came additional planes dropping bombs on the easy target and turning machine guns on citi zens who attempted to flee at least 65 persons were killed and in aured the rebels in the east were re ported to have driven across the teruel cuenca border and to have seriously threatened the loyalist I 1 life line the highway between madrid and valencia say we scram W T ITH supreme court bill becom to the senate judiciary committee a new substitute bill for reform of only the lower courts due to be reported out of the commit tee and a new senate majority lead er selected to take the late senator robinson s place the overwhelming sentiment of the members of the seventy fifth congress was to pack up their bags and get as far away from washington as possible even measures which president roosevelt had insisted bear the must label were being shoved aside with dispatch as vice dent garner sought to heal the party wounds inflicted during the bitter court battle and salvage as much of the president presidents s legislation as he could the first to be buried was the new AAA and ever nor mal granary bill the senate agn agri culture committee shelved it until the next session the committee authorized james P pope idaho democrat and co sponsor of the bill to prepare a senate resolution to lay the plans for regional hearings on a comprehensive farm program during the remainder of the sum mer and report back in january it seemed certain that the dent s legislation for governmental reorganization would be left over until next session when the record of three months hearings by the joint congressional committee was made public it was revealed that committee members have not even come close to agreement on any of the main points involved majority leader barkley said that the white house still wanted the wages and hours bill the wagner low cost housing bill and a judiciary bill passed as well as legislation to plug tax loopholes the wagner bill meanwhile was reported out of committee and it was expected the senate would act upon it quickly new court bill drafted FOUR COUR important provisions were contained in the new court re form bill reported out of the senate judiciary committee but none of them involved any changes in or additions to the personnel of the su preme court the new bill provides for a direct appeals to the supreme court from decisions in the district courts involving the constitutional ity of federal statutes b intervention by the depart ment of justice in all suits ing the validity of federal statutes c trial of all suits to enjoin the operation of federal feder al statutes by a court of three judges one judge from the circuit court of appeals and two district judges d reassignment of district court judges by the senior circuit judge of each circuit wherever additional help may be needed to relieve con dockets judges sitting away from home would receive 10 a day additional pay 4 t ambition in bloom congressman pON C ON GRESSMAN SOL SQL BLOOM of new york who it is said by congressman bloom is the spitting image of george wash ington and once posed for a bust labeled the father of his coun try sponsored a brief bill in the lower house but unfortunately for congressman bloom it was reject ed in fact it never even came to a note ote it provided that a book be given at the government s expense to each naturalized citizen with his cit iz enship papers the book exhibit ed in the house is a handsome af fair all done up in blue and gold the cover contains in large letters the inscription the story of the constitution by sol bloom copy right by sol bloom U S weighs embargo S THE conflict in north china ablated ia blazed into open if undeclared warfare the united states prepared to declare that a state of war ex x isted between china and japan and to place an embargo upon the ship ment of arms to the two countries under the neutrality act the pres ident who has the power to declare that a state of war exists kept in close touch with affairs in the far east assisted by secretary of state cordell hull proclamation of an embargo prohibits the sale of arms ammini eions and implements of war to the belligerent countries it forbids loans or the extension of credit to either of them and makes it illegal for americans to travel upon the ships of the belligerents secretary hull said that confer ances had been held among em bassy attaches commanders of for eign troops in neiping and others to lay plans for removing amer leans and other foreign nationals from the danger zone it was reported that there were united states military person nel and dependents and amen ameri can civilians registered in in addition to american officers and men pack f the he white house 7 ITH a roll call vote of to 88 the house of re presenta tives voted to give president roose velt six new secretaries at 10 a year each the de bate on the bill pro yoked some quaint comment republic can dewey short of missouri offered an amendment provid ing that the ole six new positions should be given to elliott franklin jr and tl john roose roosevelt v elt sons of the elliott dent mrs A anna n n a roosevelt boettiger his daughter and distie and B buz it zie dall his grandchildren it failed to carry democrat ross collins of sippi offered an amendment that would provide a new secretary for each member of congress the president may need additional sec ret reianes aries he said I 1 how about the overworked members of congress we need extra help also if the bill became law it would raise the total of the president presidents s 10 a year secretaries to nine for he already has three james roosevelt stephen early and marvin in mcintyre 60 hurt in strike riot i ALTHOUGH A the independent L lx X steel plants were back at work there was still plenty of discord along the labor front sixty persons were injured in a wild not riot among pickets of the steel workers organizing committee affiliated with C 1 I 0 loyal workers and police at the corrigan mckinney plant of the republic steel corpora tion in cleveland A mob of strikers hurled rocks from a hillside upon cars of em parked in the valley about the plant loyal workers attempted to drive the strikers away and at one time of them rushed out of the plant and set upon the pick ets police tried to break up the fighting relying chiefly on their tear gas guns one striker was killed when a moving automobile which was being stoned got out of con arol and ran berserk through a picket line in buffalo there was a serious food shortage because of a strike of 1000 wholesale grocery truck drivers and 1000 1 butchers at four meat packing plants As C 1 I 0 and A F of L unionists operated cooperated co in their demand for closed shops residents of the city were forced to motor to the country for butter eggs and vegetables JK c A year of reclamation alast applications for grants under last year s agricultural conser program covered acres two thirds of the country s crop land and represented an esti mated 4 farmers H R tol ley agricultural adjustment admin intrator reported nearly 31 acres were diverted from crops which deplete the soil 53 acres received the benefit of sol soil building practices conservation payments for the year totaled 32 11 benefit and rental payments 42 total expenditures by AAA during 1936 were 30 including administrating expenditures and liquidation ui of obligations outstanding when the supreme court held sections of the original AAA unconstitutional tut ional it football save it OT evin even the excellence and pop Nu 11 larity of edward patrick slip madigan s football teams could save little st mary s college at oakland calif from the auction block it was knocked down to its security holders for the only bid after it had failed to pay interest on its bonded indebtedness of 1 since 1934 when madigan came to st mary s from notre dame in 1921 it had 71 students his football teams made it famous and built the enrollment up to it was indicated he will remain as coach at a reported salary of 7 a year and ten per cent of the gate receipts receipts last year were |