Show we news w s review of current events the world worldon over ver dirigible hi hindenburg nd enburg destroyed by explosion two score persons perishing economists and spenders continue their battle in washington by EDWARD W PICKARD Q western newspaper union 0 ONE NE ol of the major tragedies of aeronautical history occurred wil when en the big german dirigible hindenburg exploded and fell in a blazing mass at the landing field in lakehurst N J at this writing the exact number of dead is unknown but it probably is more than forty american passengers who in the early reports were unaccounted for and presumably killed were burtis dolan chicago mr and mrs john pannes new york city moritz feibusch lincoln neb edward douglas new york james young and birger brinck addresses not given the airship just arrived from europe on its first transatlantic trip of the year was about to land when there was an explosion toward the stern instantly flames broke out and ran the length of the ship the tail sagged first then the nose crashed down and the split sections telescoped as they fell A few of the 44 passengers and some members of the crew wore were able to jump to safety but many of the others aboard a chance for their lives the navy men of the ground crew heroically plunged into the gaming flaming wreckage and dragged out those victims who could be reached the screams and cries of injured in agony were terrible the hardened sailors and marines who did the rescue work reported the clothing was completely burned off one man another blown biown through the tha envelope was found moaning near the smashed airship the survivors and rescue workers told of the terrific heat which followed the explosion and the surge of fire an explosion of the no 2 gas cell toward the stern of the ship was named as the cause of the disaster by state aviation commissioner gill robb wilson who called the blast strange some authorities scouted the theory that the explosion could have been caused by the ignition of by hydrogen inside the gas cells they said a mixture of 20 per cent free air with hydrogen would be feces sary eary cause an the first blast must have occurred outside one of the gas cells aeronautical experts said the only way vay they could explain an explosion sion inside the ship would be that free hydrogen had in some way escaped and was lying in the stern of the ship where it was accidentally ignited capt ernest lehmann who piloted the hindenburg last year was aboard it on this fatal trip but its commander was capt william pruss just promoted to the post he is a veteran in working derigi bles fi f H I OW to lo economize by cutting d down 0 w n government expenditures as the president has demanded and at the same time to continue with such huge expenditures tures as the t he billion and a h a if 1 f dollars mr roosevelt asked for relief i is a puzzle that congress know how to solve harry hopkins works progress administrator and most accomplished complis hed spender of the administration U H L hopkins took a hand in the discussion telling a house appropriation pria tion subcommittee that unemployment is a permanent problem that the government should be prepared to support seven million jobless persons at all times and consequently that congress must appropriate prop the billion and a half for relief instead of cutting the sum urn u flown down to a billion both democrats and republicans on the committee protested and chairman woodrum of virginia told hopkins he would use every endeavor to have the appropriation reduced by at least a third he challenged the figures and arguments submitted by hopkins contending that it the extravagance of the work relief principle and the padding of relief rolls with undeserving cases were eliminated and the states required to assume a greater share of the burden the cost to the federal government would not exceed one billion senator william H king of utah democrat not only disagrees with hopkins as to the amount needed for relief but satish satisfied led with the way the administrator has been on ducting the work he introduced resolutions in the senate calling for an investigation of the works progress administration and taking the future spending of relief money out of hopkins Hop hins hands bands king said his purpose was to abolish the in the house economy received a wallop on the head when the reforestation bill was passed to this measure would appropriate annually for government aid to farmers who wish to t turn urn part art of their farms into woodlands woodland it it was fought by a bloc led by representative J J cochran of missouri democrat it has a worth while objective but it is one of those expensive measures which we can defer passing for a while until the budget is in balance declared cochran DEWIL DERED members of con agress gress were still further dazed when they learned that the administration was moving to obtain approval of the florida ship canal project which will call for this was revealed w when hen secretary of the navy swanson sent to the house rivers and harbors committee a letter urging that the canal scheme be approved it was assumed he fie would not have done this without the approval of the mhd president mr swanson argued that the canal would be of value during war for the shipment of materials testimony labeled confidential was also heard by the he committee from gen charles P summerall retired chief of start staff of the army and rear admiral frederic B bassett retired both declared that the canal would serve as a most important element of the national defense in time of war representative beiter of new york democrat called upon the budget bureau to make known its stand on the florida canal question aheard frequent reports have been heard in washington that government employees including some high officials took advantage of their inside knowledge 77 z that the attorney general was going to file suit to dissolve the aluminum company of america by selling t the h e common stock short thereby making hn immense profits just B i the day before the 11 J suit was filed pres 1 l AJ ident roosevelt is is rep kep rogers sued his order against stock speculation by employees of the government but it came too late attention of congress was called to the matter when representative edith nourse rogers of massachusetts republican demanded an investigation vesti gation 1 I hold no brief for the aluminum company of america mrs rogers told the house 1 I know nothing about the institution but I 1 am very anxious to know why the common stock of this huge enterprising corporation po ration should decline over per cent more than similar industrial stocks in the period just prior to announcement no of the governments suit to the employees of the government the presidents announcement nouri no was a most order mrs rogers declared 1 I believe the money paid to federal employees is just as much their money to dewith as tiley they please as is the money paid to any employee working at any job in any place in the united states but government employees she added certainly ought not to have the advantage of knowledge withheld from the public T TWELVE WELVE american women reached what some people consider a social climax when they were received by king george and queen elizabeth of great britain at the first court of the new reign these fa v 0 r e d matrons matrona and debutantes had been carefully coached at the american embassy and were presented by mrs robert W bingham wife of the american ambassador they were eleanora bowdoin of aiken S C mrs george temple bowdoin of new york city catherine M maher of lincoln neb mrs george W norton jr of louisville mrs john perrin of boston anne schenck of new york city vesta putnam culberson of chicago mrs F vernon foster of W west e s t orange N J lydia fuller of boston mrs dozier L gardner 0 of f philadelphia mrs byron hilliard of louisville ond and mrs julia henry of philadelphia p RIME MINISTER STANLEY 4 Y L 1 BALDWIN soon to retire made an eloquent plea to the people of great britain not to mar the coronation festivities and endanger the safety of democracy by engaging in industrial strife he was moved to this by a threatened strike in the coal fields and by the danger that the trolley employees of londen lond would go out tn in sympathy with the striking bus men said mr baldwin 1 I appeal to the handful of men me n on whom rests the responsibility of peace or war to give the best present to the country that could be given at this moment to do the one thing that would rejoice the hearts of all who love this country and that is to rend and dissipate this dark cloud gathered over us and show ti the people e ople of the world that this ze democracy at least can still practice the art of peace in world strife f OR three days premier mussolini bof 4 of italy conferred in rome with baron Xon konstantin stantin von neurath foreign minister of germany then a an n official was issued indicating i n di that the two countries were determined to prevent the creation of a communist state in western europe holding a complete parallelism of views on this and other subjects it was added that the ital hal inn an and german governments will continue to follow a concordat policy on all major questions it was understood in rom that though mussolini and hitler were eager to work for peace with britain and france they were prepared to take open part in the spanish war if other means fail to prevent the establishment of a regime sympathetic to soviet russia the italian parliament passed national defense budget carrying for 1937 38 admiral cavagnari undersecretary for the navy told the deputies the italian navy from now on must be an ocean going navy rather than one confined to the mediterranean general for the war depart ment said italy was taking no chances concerning protection of her frontiers the government he said intended to build up in the italian peninsula an army which would be able to paralyze an advances and win the war in the shortest possible time MRS WALLIS SIMPSON w was as ia granted an absolute decree of divorce in london and within a few hours edward duke of windsor i was on his way from st wolfgang austria to visit his fiancee at the chateau 4 de cande near tours france the ip Z pik former king of great britain had been b e e n 4 waiting impatiently baggage packed tor for 46 f ag si word that wallis was entirely free 1 and he lost no time mrs airs simpson when en his solicitors telephoned him from london it took only 25 seconds to make absolute the decree nisi which mrs simpson obtained last october 27 the kings proctor had been satisfied with the ladys behavior in the interval and sir boyd merriman president of the divorce court personally granted the decree along with a lot of others the date for the wedding of the duke of windsor and mrs Si simpson has not yet been announced but it probably will be in the week beginning may 24 edward was willing to wait until all the coronation hullabaloo was over for he did not wish to annoy his royal brother in any way R 0 ADOLF HIT LER was informed by pope pius XI that the roman catholic church must bs be free to fulfill its mission in in germany this reply to the german church note which itself was a reply to the popes pre easter enc encyclical Y accusing the german government of violating the 1833 1933 church state concordat was delivered by cardinal eugenio eugenic pacelli to the german ambassador to the holy see diego von bergen the note was rather moderate in tone but insisted that economic pressure must not be baroug brought ht to bear against catholics in germany that C catholic tho c schools and the catholic press should not be hampered amp ered emotion ELEVEN LEVEN unions of the federated motion picture crafts with about members went on strike in hollywood calif and the great film industry there was in serious difficulties the strikes strikers counted heavily on operation cooperation co by the screen I 1 actors guild but that body which has members delayed action until it could confer with the producers d s the guild already had presented a number of demands regarding working conditions and hours and overtime pay fifteen of the largest hotels in san francisco were practically tied up by a strike of employees tho the strikers were given the active support of 13 unions they insisted that hotel owners had refused to agree tc preferential hiring and a five day week for clerks although other groups of hotel employees had been awarded such conditions SOME of the most desperate fighting of the spanish civil war was taking place in the struggle for bilbao bao between the sturdy basques and gen emilio molas veterans reputedly mostly italians and germans the insurgents had promised riot not to bomb the center of the city but bombarded its environs heavily from the land and ana the air by fierce attacks they broke through the basque lines on the bay of biscay coast reaching seaports at the mouth of the mervion river disregarding the protests ot of general franco fascist chieftain the british and french governments undertook to remove from bilbao a large number of women and children all efforts of the RESISTING R woud be economists the majority in the house passed tho the wor war department part ment appropriation bill carrying for the fiscal year 1938 this is the largest army bill ever passed in times of peace As passed the measure carries increases in the pay of the army totaling clothing and equipage equiha c military post construction ordnance service and supplies and national guard |