Show news review of current events the world 0 over v e r suspension of ten unions voted by federation council many oil men alen indicted for conspiracy Alet metaxas axas dictator of greece by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper paPer union UNLESS john L lewis and his hi associates in the committee for foi industrial organization repent anc and cease their rebellious activities before september 5 the ten unions they head will be under suspension from the american federation ot of labor such was the verdict ol of t the h e f federations ede rations executive council which passed on the charges of john P 21 frey president of A the metal trades J P frey division that the CIO was fomenting insurrection end and rebellion david dubinsky head of the garment workers cast the only vote against the suspension order lewis having definitely set himself against any peace overtures it appeared that the suspension certainly would be put into effect the next move will be up to the tampa convention in the fall which will be asked to vote the expulsion ot of the refractory unions the ten unions accused by mr frey and found guilty are amalgamated clothing workers sidney hillman president oil field gas well and refinery workers harvey fremming president mine mill and smelter workers thomas H brown president ladies garment workers david dubinsky president textile workers thomas F mcmahon president flat glass workers glen mccabe president iron steel and tin workers aa M F tighe president automobile workers hom homer e r martin president 1 rubber workers S H dalrymple president action on the international typographical union whose president ic C P howard is secretary of the CIO and the united hat cap and millinery workers part of whom are not associated with the th CIO was deferred the suspended unions have a membership of about gene lone million or nearly one third of the total in the federation the council stated this is the first attempt ever i made during the existence of the A F of L covering a period of 1 more than 50 years to set up a dual movement within if etwas it was the opinion of the execl ilive council that it could not condone the setting up of a rival organ within the officially recognized family of organized labor lor jor tolerate and countenance it without bout sacrificing its self respect or I 1 making an unconditional surrender to a minority group composed of members embers In who are in open rebellion ito to democratic procedure and majority bority jo rity rule as exemplified at the late convention of the A F of L lewis characterized the councils faction action as one of incredible and crass stupidity and said that it P was dictated by personal selfish 5 and and frantic fear j OIX passengers and two pilots idere were instantly killed when a big 0 lockheed electra plane of the chi icaco cago and southern airlines crashed ja la few minutes after taking off from ithe airport of st louis mo at athis this writing there is no explanation ifor for the disaster the plane was vas al anost new and the weather not bad though skies were overcast 1 y the plane was vas bound from new orleans r leans tor for chicago and div five e of the 11 victims victims were residents of the latter 0 city one of the dead was vernon humlie a veteran pilot and husband pi f phoebe a noted flyer by the government isay 1 with conspiracy to violate the laanti trust law by combining to dom egnate the purchasing of oil in the OT e x a s louisiana and oklahoma fields arnd 1 and to fix prices of ap gasoline 0 gasoline in the mid lit aidle west 58 8 per ions 23 petroleum concerns 1 and three 4 CA c publishing compa tollies hies were indicted ob I 1 by a federal grand jury in madison madison wis among the prominent defend avants are edward G III II 11 MI dawes nis ol of chicago president of 5 arthe the standard oil company ot of indi adi cigna IL itna henry M dawes of evanston president of the pure oil com a ispano s f P a ny and many officials of stand goard oil pure on oil deep rock so icona vacuum and various other oil j ilon 11 concerns cerns and their subsidiaries alj allo ailo 10 in the list are warren C platt plait gaal cleveland publisher of the national ti onal petroleum news and platts 10 Dil gram his two publications and 5 00 he he chiago journal of commerce u the he indictment charged that the I 1 A oil companies formed S bools in the east cast texas and mid go continent konti nent fields for the purpose of list ur chasins chasin gasoline at artificially high prices from independent producers and in furtherance of such a scheme were members of associations which included the independents further it was charged that independent refiners refinery re finers to aid the plan ha had d curtailed their production of gasoline this said mr platt plait is exactly what the oil companies did with the approval of secretary of the interior harold L ickes administrator of the petroleum code when efforts were being made to limit the production of gasoline prevent the flow of excess quota oil into market channels and rals raise e prices in that turbulent industry the governments charge turns on whether a practice legally started and carried on under the recent petroleum code was continued in illegal manner after the was killed by the united states supreme preme e court mr platt said expert crop statisticians estil mate that as a result of the record breaking drouth this years corn cr crop op will be reduced to bushels which would be the smallest yield since 1881 except for the disastrous drouth year of 1934 in that year total production was but the acreage was smaller than it is this season argentine farmers are expected to profit to the e extent of or more as a result of the keen competition for corn between the united states and europe which has recently lifted prices about 17 cents per bushel in the buenos aires market 13 PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT was JL r visibly aroused by republican charges that the new dealers were seeking to reap political profit from the drouth conditions at his press conference he broke with the usual rule by permitting himself to be directly quoted as saying it is a great disservice to the proper administration of any government erdmen t to link up human misery with partisan politics THERE HERE is another dictator dictatorship in TEu europe rope this time in greece gen john metaxas premier announced bounced that a general strike fost e r e d by cornn communists SV T N was likely I 1 to lead to serious POT 1 V disturbances so s 0 n with the approval of king george III II 11 he declared martial law dissolved parliament li postponed elections indefinitely and mobilized all workers in essential services such as gen metaxas railways in order that called to the colors they would be directly under government control strong guards were mounted at power stations gas works and other vital points and all soldiers and police not on guard duty were held in barracks ready for action metaxas promised the enforcement of an eight hour day a minimum wage and a social insurance system he remodeled the cabinet taking for himself the army navy air and foreign affairs portfolios dispatches to bucharest said there had been clashes in the northern provinces of greece between workers and the military forces fighting for posses asio sion n of the passes in the guadarrama mountains north of madrid was going on between the government forces and the rebel troops loyalist soldiers were hurried to that region and madrid claimed some victories however the on of the range were said to be within sight of the capital and in position for a vigorous advance the rebels scored in the south by landing 2000 moroccan troops from ceuta ceata alter after a lively sea and air fight in which two loyalist warships were driven off the loyalists were also rep reported arted to have met defeat near avila losing men and some tanks and trucks on the twentieth day of the rebellion the government announced it had captured the provinces of catalonia valencia murcia t malaga ciudad real guadalajara badajos badajoz and the northern resort city of san sebastian fascist italy has been accused of aiding the spanish rebels and it is asserted a number of 0 italian bombing planes were sent to them in morocco the leftist french government naturally is in sympathy with the madrid government and frenchmen unarmed have been given permission to cross the border to aid in putting down the rebellion german and russian russia sympathies also are ranged on opposite sides and all this caused fears that a general war might result france called on all other nations to preserve neutrality and spain warned italy and germany i to keep hands os off HENRY W KEYES ol of SENATOR new hampshire has announced that he is not a candidate for reelection by the republicans preferring to retire from active participation in public affairs the re publicans public ans therefore will choose between former senator george H moses and gov H styles bridges both of whom have announced their candidacy for the nomination kansas republicans senator arthur capper and the democrats picked omar ketchum of topeka in kentucky the demo brats senator IA al logan whose republican opponent in november will be robert H lucas marion A the eccentric congressman from seattle reconsidered his bis decision to retire and announced that at the request of his mother he would be a candidate to succeed himself to show the people that I 1 am neither crazy nor foolish IN TN THE first few days of the i olympic games in berlin the american track team piled up such an imposing number of points that it appeared certain none of the rival teams could catch up jesse owens of ohio state university lead his mates in this victorious march winning three championships in the moter meter and meter runs and the broad jump in the longer dash he lowered the world and olympic marks ken carpenter ol of california won the discus throw with a new olympic record of meters and gordon dunn also ol of california was second earl me meadows ad of texas was first in the pole vault with a new olympic mark and points were won by various other american athletes among the women contestants helen stephens of missouri d distinguished asti herself by breaking the world record in two heats of the meter dash NEW YORK republicans are to nominate a candidate for or governor at their party convention in september and col theodore roosevelt has said in a letter that was wa m a e e public that gj he is willin willing to accept that ivnor honor if the party so desires I 1 q Z it I 1 colonel roosevelt 1 n now 0 w forty eight years old was the republican can c a n didace for governor in 1924 and was defeated by alfred E col roosevelt smith since then he has been governor of puerto rico and gov arnor general of the philippines A VOLUNTARY cut of iri ill the debts of distressed farmers was reported by by the resettlement administration the debts it s said aid were scaled down by creditors through the work of voluntary farm debt committees in bringing farmers and their creditors together in a ne neutral atmosphere during the ten months ended june 30 expenses of seeking debt readjustments taken from a fund provided by president roosevelt sept I 1 last year amounted to I 1 per cent of the total amount of 0 debts involved the administration said so far of the allocated had been expended D DECLARING that it will indorse no candidate of party in the presidential campaign the american liberty league states the league is neither an adjunct nor an ally of the republican party it is not an adjunct of the democratic party even though many of its principles harmonize with the excellent platform adopted by that party in 1932 and proclaimed as da a covenant with the people to be faithfully kept certainly the league is not an adjunct of the new deal party which for the moment has usurped control of the party of jefferson jackson cleveland and wilson it has not and will not contribute to any campaign fund WHILE the nations of europe were worrying over the spanish rebellion and the danger that it might bring about open rupture among amon the fascist and anti fascist governments of the continent steps were taken to assure peace germany and italy accepted the invitation of grea britain france and belgium to participate in a conference this fall fail from which it is hoped another and better loc locarno pact will emerge no date for the conference has been set but it was expected to be held either cither just before or soon after the meeting of the league of nations assembly in geneva in september PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS leader of the puerto rico nationalist party and seven of his associates were found guilty at san juan ot of a conspiracy to overthrow the U united t d states state 5 g government 0 ver arn e n t in the island islan T b by force and were sentenced by federal judge R A cooper to prison terms ranging from two t to six years in the first trial of th these ese men the jury had disagreed the case originated in a clash between nationalists and police last october in which several persons were slain following this col E francis riggs chief of insular police was murdered presumably in revenge for the killing of nationalists in the october fight |