Show news review of current events the world 0 over ver 1 bleakley BIeak lcy and celiman to fight for new york governorship communist candidate browder jailed in terre haute france devalues the franc by EDWARD W PICKARD E western newspaper union and democrats republicans of new york state met in convention at albany and syracuse respectively ively selected their state tickets and started on a hot campain campaign n the republicans ent entered erect the fight under a i new leader for they named william F B I 1 e a k I 1 e y of 01 yonkers supreme court just justice ce tor for t the b e goal governorship the fifty two year old jurist prepared a to resign from the william F bench and take bleakley eakley Cl command at once col ralph K robertson of buffalo was nominated tor for lieutenant governor nathan D perlman of new york city for attorney general and john A may gloversville Glovers ville for comptroller the convention at its evening session heard col frank knox I 1 republican vice presidential candidate in a strong attack or 01 the new deal the democrats nominated re gov herbert gherbert H lehman and his candidacy I 1 was warmly espoused by president roosevelt who went to 2 syracuse to deliver his first speech i as an avowed candidate the president took occasion to deny again t that he seeks communist support 0 and alleged that issue was a red j herring dragged across the trail aby by his opponents A FRANK KNOX president roosevelt and al smith all on the air the same evening provided a political feast for radio listeners a colonel knox speaking at pitts i burgh reiterated and substantiated chis t his former assertion that new deal 1 financial policies were imperilling impe rilling a i savings accounts and insurance pol iches mr roosevelt not so elou quent as usual defended the spend aing ing policies of his administration he too spoke at pittsburgh the g high spot of the evening ca came me at athe the close of al smiths address to r a organization in new york city he had been treating of j the new deal and its leaders with biting sarcasm and wound up with the dramatic declaration 1 I firmly believe that the remedy C lor for all the ills that we are suffer ong I 1 ing from today is the election of L alfred III landon ji 1 whereupon arose a shout that liti brally echoed throughout the land I 1 jj CARE ARE BROWDER communist party nominee for the i dency achieved the distinction of I being the first presidential candidate bdate 1 to be j jailed ailed since eugene V 4 ideas debs was incarcerated during the world war browder was scheduled aito jito to make a campaign address over the radio from terre haute ind td y abut but when he arrived in that city ahe he was nabbed by chief of police james ijames C yates and put in the hoosegow boose gow on charges of vagrancy and for investigation held with him were vere seymour walden and wal W al udo frank both of new york city charles Stadt feldt secretary of the indiana communist party and an adrew remes of indianapolis all yere were released the next day 11 j chief yates who had the back aling of mayor samuel 0 beecher the terre haute merchants as said neither browder nor I 1 any other communist would be tin permitted to air their party doc brines trines over the local radio station L 4 jut ut david J bentall of chicago ht Browders attorney slipped into the 00 broadcasting booth and delivered inthe speech his principal had pre roared while yates turned fumed outside ethe locked door brei lif as the maritime unions on jr the pacific coast were about to og g on a strike that would have tied ba ciup p the great shipping industry the 4 t trouble was averted by the signing le leot kif a fifteen day truce between the employers and the workers and the tio minal extension for sixty bays c ays of JO working contracts negotiated after othe strike of 1934 the truce provides that maritime at th expiration of the pe hod october 15 would either agree 10 1 to arbitration of issues involving wages and hours which are not set or relations with employers r of would be broken braken completely od ital the negotiations liand led iB D pally by the department of labors ir r race ace troubleshooter trouble shooter edward F mc 10 will ue during the afif ilaf iristeen teen day period of peace sf WHAT was said by court at te baches to be the first important anywhere on numerous suits gfred by packing companies and against government cellec of the windfall tax judge li Robert C baltzell of the united states district court at indianapolis fa fl overruled overruled ver ruled the governments motion vin TO dismiss a suit lor for an injunction lie titled by kingan and company meat trackers ackers If iThe the company seeks to enjoin fed asral ral government officials from col fro electing a windfall tax levied in the revenue act of 1936 to recover processing taxes previously assessed under the AAA but later ruled invalid by the supreme court judge baltzell said that he found various unusual circumstances creating a doubt as to the possibility of the packing companas comp anys having adequate remedy at law in some other court because of this he said it is imperative for his court to giant gant g ant the packing company the right to sue in federal court the decision is said to be directing but not controlling in 0 other t h e r similar cases in the district dismissal of the injunction suit was sought by the government on the ground there is no authority in law law for restraining collection of a tax A A filed by the national labor relations board offer the supreme court five new op opportunities to pass on the constitutionality or of the wagner labor relations court the board asked the high tribunal to review rulings in a case involving the jones laughlin steel corporation po ration of pittsburgh two involving the freehauf Freu hauf trailer company of canton ohio and two affecting the friedman harry marks clothing company new york the labor relations board lost all five cases in lower courts F RANCE PRANCE at last came to the con elusion that it could no longer support the franc and premier leon blums government decided to abandon the gold standard and devaluate the franc to between wi and 5 cents the netherlands latvia and switzerland immediately determined to follow suit to save the world from a currency war the united states great britain and france entered into a gen leon blum clemens tl emens agreement the exact nature of this agreement was not revealed but the united states promised to employ its stabilization fund to head off the feared struggle certain it is that each of the three nations reserves the right to depart from the pact if and when its own interests require such a course an expected outcome of ane now general dropping of the gold standard may be an international conference for stabilization of world currencies this might be held in washington blum called a special session ol of the french parliament tr pass tle necessary legislation and his plan was given grudging approval by the finance committee of the chamber of deputies its adoption by the chamber where the popular front has a big majority was easy but a fight developed in the senate the dangerous political situation ended when the senate passed a substitute measure to revalue the french currency but denied the governments I 1 ern ments original request for full power to control price rises the government approved the substitute bill withdrawing its opposition to senate objections to particular clauses in the original measure the price fixing problem was solved in this way after devaluation the government may be given the right to control prices for six months by issuing decrees these decrees however must be submitted to the national economic council tor for ratification from the chicago journal ol of commerce is taken this plain statement as to what frances action means to the ordinary american citizen reducing the amount amoni it ol of gold represented presented ic bv one franc will wil mean that the average american will be able to travel cheaper in france than for the last two years french wines should be cheaper in this country and women should be able to buy french per perfume Lune for less that should be true of 0 nearly every thing elst that france exports to the united states unless this coun try hikes the tariff on french ex ports or french prices boom out ot 01 proportion to devaluation indirectly franc devaluation may keep americans from war as the act may be a wedge for currency stabilize liza lion the world over and more broth erly relations between all rations but dont lose any sleep over i unless you are petting betting an income from someone in france in that case since it will take more francs to buy dollars your income will be cut everyone should have an interest in developing sound foreign trade and it if franc devaluation starts the ball rolling in the right direction the eventual hope for development is free foreign exchange movements its necessary for one coun arys money to be negotiable in all capitals ot of the world if trade is to flow freely the big goal T THE HE government wound up its affairs for the first quarter of the 1937 fiscal year with a deficit of a bout about compared with a deficit of more than for the ho sad same sadie ie period last year receipts in the july 1 sept 28 23 period were compared with last year while expenditures were against general expenditures were this year cow compared pared with last recovery and relief expenditures tures amounted to compared with income tax collections for september will amount to about against last year and tor for the first quarter of this y year c a r approximately compared with miscellaneous internal revenue netted the government in the july 1 september 28 23 period as compared with last year the public debt at the end of the month stood it at compared with on the same date last year G EN FRANCISCO FRANCOS VJ furious spanish fascists reached the ancient city of toledo and drove out the government troops with shell and bayonet the rebels fought their vay through strong defense and as they reached the center of the city there was a great short from the alcazar out of that batte battered red citadel rushed the r ragged a g g e d battered and half starved ca dats who had with gen franco stood a terrific siege for almost ten weeks this heroic garrison joined the insurgents in charging the defenders and finally the socialist troops scattered and fled southward over the tagus river their way to madrid was blocked by francos columns fascist bombing planes made several destructive raids on bilbao killing a large number of the citizens smashing innumerable buildings and damaging two warships in in the harbor the enraged enra gec govern rr nr ent sympathizers demanded that fascist hostages held in the city e executed in reprisal and finally a mob of anarchist amazons swarmed aboard a vessel on many hostages were kept and brutally slaughtered of them otter oter putting them to the torture the savage women were on their way to a prison to kill 60 woman hostages when they were dispersed by civil guards that the spanish government realizes its precarious situation is evidenced by its proclamation ordering madrid to prepare for a sie siege gel followed by a mani manifesto lesto calling on everyone women as well as men to rally to the defense of the capital delands government began the confiscation of the lands of the nobility and large estate holders by seizing acres from tax tax in indebted properties the land will bs be divided among the peasantry this is the first step in carrying out a radical project that has been shelved for ten years jules poniatowski of a agriculture 9 ri had a hard fight before the president and cabinet the decree much pressure was brought to bear on the government and confiscations were reduced almost 50 per cent from the amounts suggested by the minister more than one third of the seques grated land is in east galicia the remainder in the east and south of poland IS dispatches say the k chinese government has rejected I 1 the latest demands of japan and countered with a list of demands of its own that include recovery of Manchu kuo and a halt to increases of japanese troops I 1 ii north china negotiations between japanese ambassador shigeru kawagoe and chinese foreign minister chang chun were at a standstill the government through its embassies informed all the powers of the seriousness of the situation and the probability of international complications unless japan was checked H LI rank rankin ranking in officers of the navy and army and many federal officials were present at the funeral of rear admiral william P S sims in washington and his interment with full military honors in arlin arlington national cemetery the war tirrie time commander of americas nava forces in european waters died suddenly in boston of a heart attack during his long years of service he was a severe critic of naval matters and he was given credit for developing gunnery in the navy to a high point of excellence na AJ GEN FRANK PARKER ia who won fame for his distinguished service in the world war has retired after forty six years in the army and becomes vice president and general manager of a chicago chain of department stores general parker was graduated from west point served through the spanish american war and was commander of the first division of the A E F in the world war he was cited twice for gallantry gallanar in action was awarded the distinguished service medal and was promoted to the rank of major general since the war he has commanded two of the f four 0 u r tactical armies of the file united states |