Show weekly news review new dealers win and lose girdler storms strike quiz politics in idaho republicans were bubl lant in ohio they were hopeful ua in arkansas where they never had a chance republicans went about their workaday tasks and forgot pol itice but as homeward bound frank lin roosevelt looked at rapidly mounting primary returns from his 48 states last week he must have wondered whether his next congress would be any more coherent than the last his purge had partially failed because iowa s gillette missouri s dark clark and nevada s mccarran were sure of re election reelection but with a few exceptions his wheel horses were sure to be back in washington next winter to most observers it looked like congress would again be a hodge hodgepodge podge of multi colored cal thought without party lines judiciously timed the national emergency council councils s report on con editions in the south was released t SENATOR POPE idaho had its own purge just as the president marched through georgia to crack down on sen walter F george the bitter tongued new deal foe whom he hopes will be defeated by lawrence camp but franklin roosevelt had to march around south carolina on his way back to washington be cause sen cotton ed smith was almost certain to be mated regardless of presidential wishes severest blow to new dualism last week came when sen james pope in and out administration supporter was defeated for mation by rep D worth dark clark conservative democrat but idaho s republican primary vote was small indicating that many a G 0 P had voted the democratic ticket to oust pope in arkansas new dealer hattie W caraway was mated to the senate and will be elected next no vember in ohio franklin roose velt s classmate at harvard sen robert J bulkley was given the democratic nomination over gov martin L davey arch foe of the C 1 I 0 ohio s senatorial race will be interesting because bulkley wi will I 1 face robert A taft a former dent s son in m the final election labor republic steel corporation corporations s tom W girdler has never been soft spoken last week he stormed washington and in one fell swoop denounced 1 john L lewis C I 1 0 for violence and intimidation 2 the national labor relations board for abridging freedom of speech and 3 sen robert M la follette s civil liberties committee for keeping its work one sided behind these blasts was last year s little steel strike ready for release was an N L R B de casion finding republic guilty of unfair labor practices in the lit tie tle steel fiasco ready too were orders for republic to reinstate 5 C 1 I 0 strikers and to dis establish alleged company dominac ed unions that republic objected is to state the case mildly in its page brief were exceptions what little steel most wanted was a chance to state its opinion of C I 1 0 a chance the labor board seemed unwilling to offer thun dered the report we contend the national labor relations act as construed in this connection is unconstitutional as abridging free dom of speech next day tom girdler carried his fight to the civil liberties commit tee chAl climaxing axing a three week probe of last summer s bitter labor strife flaring up before senator lafal lette s quiet relentless cross exam nation he proved no humble wit ness denied was the right fo 6 read a statement criticizing the commit tee s work as one sided and de daring claring it would be only fair to probe C 1 I 0 s records to show what was being done with a 1500 1 steel workers fund domestic Dm estic last month a saturday evening post article by alva johnson esti mated son james roosevelt s an nual insurance business at to 2 a year in itself not a very definite guess last week to rival collier s Ini agazine went jimmy roosevelt Roosevel ts s income tax returns for the past five years showing total an nual income ranging from 21 H to 49 the five year total said son james in comment I 1 got into places I 1 never would have if it I 1 wasn gasn t the son of the president but son or no son I 1 got tossed out a lot too countered alva johnson his figures show that his net income would have been more than 60 last year except that he split it to avoid higher tax brackets aviation last week at floyd bennett field ended the first nonstop non stop berlin to new york flight down from ram rain drenched skies dropped germany s 24 passenger monoplane branden burg carrying a crew of four in rec ord time of 24 hours 57 minutes 0 because tiny canton and ender bury islands are perfect mid pacific stopping off places for transoceanic planes the U S asserted its claim last march by planting colonists on each great britain protested acx ious to guard her thus far indevel aped pacific air rights last week came as novel a settlement as dip komats have ever seen canton and enderbury will be owned and devel aped jointly as U S british avia tion bases CI ime in the early chicago s gang warfare was so bad that many an out of town visitor wired ahead for police protection but scarface al capone finally went to alcatraz and A century of progress exposition helped make the town decent last week peaceful chicago wondered it if it woula again have gun trouble checking their records police found six underworld murders since bookie harry minor was shot down june 29 four others had been re ported the previous 12 months but while al capone and bugs moran fought a bootlegging war chicago s current massacre apparently has roots in labor warfare five vie vic tims have been union workers two were aides of an alderman foreign the japanese say hill has fallen lallen into their hands they lie 1 pet peter kleam lieutenant of ol in fantry in the soviet army am now with my division dit ision in the trenches on the hul hill which is safe in our hands I 1 can see the japanese trenches only yards away the yellow bandits are plastering our positions aith machine gun fire seated at their radios one night last week the whole of russia s soviet union heard machine gun and rifle fire along the distant front where siberia Manchu kuo and korea converge next day heavy soviet artillery pounded the whole four mile front LITVINOFF he ile crossed swords and won japan and russia were continuing their five year secret war which broke into international headlines july 11 throughout the day cannons boomed fiercely all doubt about soviet artillery accuracy was adissi only one or two sighting shots preceded each direct hit if they had held hill the night before japan s soldiers now retreated under the heaviest bom bar dment since the world war still more disturbing were reports that russia was building new defenses on nearby bay where ties were sure to break out next night the fight continued but at 11 0 clock in the morning bugles sounded from either trench and om inous silence filled the shell torn air then it was apparent the war was over thus temporarily at least ended a skirmish of diplomatic wits in far away MOSCOW foreign minis ter maxim litvinoff had crossed verbal swords with ambassador mamora Shiga mitsu for two solid weeks finally besting him terms of truce 1 firing would stop and troops would remain at their pres ent fronts 2 all other points at issue would be negotiated between the two nations japan had sued first for peace had surrendered to maxim lit s insistence that the cation commission carry two japa nese and two russians rather than three men each from japan russia anti apan dominated Manchu kuo people when sweden s eligible prince bertil visited new york last month he wined one night at a fashionable manhattan night club with friends one friend was blonde and buxom lesley hyde ripley lauded in next morning mornings s papers for drinking milk instead of champagne if lesley ripley drank milk to save money her father spent much more than her savings on his daughter daughters s debut last week A seldom fallible sign of U S business trend is the amount in vested by socialite fathers on their daughters coming out parties when franklyn hutton staged bar bara s debut money ran free throughout the U I 1 S depression 0 LESLEY HYDE RIPLEY she acas launched for debutantes fared not so well but when henry B H ripley spent at least 50 to launch lesley in the social swim it appeared that re cession must surely be over one thousand guests be sported themselves in a 25 ballroom added to the ripley mansion they washed down supper and breakfast with champagne for a total outlay of 10 they danced and the pipers earned 7 decorations nicked the family purse for 5 but unlike many such parties the ripley roman holiday was bought it and paid for within M 2 hours 0 samuel insull once monarch of a 4 utilities empire died in a pans paris subway station july 17 clutching a five cent commutation n ticket last week his will was filed in chicago s probate court sam uel insull s estate not in excess of 1000 1 business in 1934 administrator hugh johnson organized a consumer goods industries committee to make periodic forecasts on U S trade winds last week came its most recent report trade winds are blowing well said 20 major execl tives will blow even better in the autumn excerpts from typical re plies from la lammont amont dupont since july 1 we have operated 5 per cent above standard business has im proved about 15 per cent from general foods clarence francis we believe the last half of the year particularly the last quarter will give a fairly good ac count of itself miscellany A fortnight had passed since how land spencer sold to father divine his acre estate across the hud son from neighbor franklin roose velt but not until last week did fa ther divine s personal army of cher I 1 and seraphime serap hims make a tour of inspection led by the man they call can god 2 black and white cultists plied up the river from har lem in a side wheel excursion boat stopping first at a newly acquired heaven near milton N Y over a table piled high with cold chicken and steaming corn har lem s self appointed messiah told his rapt audience As his close neighbors we are not going to disgrace the president we aim to grace him by our pres ence peace everybody peace 1 answered a thousand throats next day as father divine made his personal inspection at crum el bow eleanor roosevelt hopped in her car across the river headed for nearby poughkeepsie if inquiring reporters thought she would talk about her new neighbors the first lady outfoxed them father divine she parried what estate oh you mean that place across the river that s been sold 0 june 30 found the average U S citizen with 49 67 in his pocket by july 31 said the U S treasury de apartment part ment last week the figure fi gure had dropped to 49 57 throughout america john public checked his bank account tried to figure where he had lost 10 cents in 31 days 0 one night last week handsome i wealthy mr and mrs william townsend adlee retired at their monroe N Y estate sometime later a handyman smelled smoke down from a second story window jumped nurse lillian henyon with the adlees 21 month old infant As firemen watched helpless the flaming house collapsed and the baby became an orphan |