Show news review of current events F D R EYEING THIRD TERM belief he Is grows in capital state troops act for peace in strikes mediation board hits ana snags gs 4 4 u 1 1 I 1 I 1 IV A vl I 1 X ea 41 V W az being human at bar on island where president roosevelt humanized humanize ds relations between the white house and majority members of congress senators key pittman left of nevada and john n H overton of 0 louisiana humanizing the majority S MAJORITY members of congress A AS m met et on jefferson island in chesapeake bay with president roosevelt to have th their air relations with the chief executive humanized humanize cl to t O the he belief in washington I 1 circles that the president is willing V to accept a third term expanded t 0 the greatest proportions it haryet known the spark which touched off oe the latest cloakroom whisperings of a third president term was the dec roosevelt la ration by gov G 0 v george H earle earie of pennsylvania that he would give unqualified and final support to a roosevelt for president movement in 1940 further reports had it that john L lewis chairman of the committee for industrial organization and leader of the sit down strikes that have swept the nation was working toward the same end the president has only indirectly disavowed such an ambition he said at his victory dinner my great ambition on january 20 1941 is to turn over this desk and chair in the white house to my successor whoever he may be with the assurance that I 1 am at the same time turning over to him as president a nation intact a nation at peace a nation prosperous I 1 I 1 I 1 the humanizing on jefferson island was interpreted as attempts to salvage the new deal programs which have been getting a mild kicking around in congress S of late 9 through heart to heart talks between mr roosevelt and his supporters in the capitol several pieces of attempted legislation t most notably the presidents supreme court bill have apparently created a split between the conservatives and liberals in the democratic party the presidents continued silence throughout the C 1 I oi CIA strikes has been a factor too democratic members of congress are puzzled to decide whether the president is unwittingly bringing about the split or is doing so deliberately with an eye to freezing out the conservatives and creating a completely liberal party they would also like to know whether he is silently supporting john L lewis or is simply giving the C 1 I 0 leader plenty of rope with which to hang himself K states patrol strike areas As A S NATIONAL guardsmen guardsman guards men or arx dered out by gov martin L davey arrived on the scene to protect the public peace in ohio cities where C 1 I 0 steel strikes have caused bloodshed and threatened more violence dwindled temporarily at least to the throwing of a few stones and choice epithets at warren troops dispersed pickets and allowed loyal workmen to move in and out of the republic steel plants A general strike which the C 1 I 0 had ordered and claimed to be 40 to 70 per cent effective was recalled after a day with the threat the next time our men are called out it will be on even a larger scale at youngstown the strikers were celebrating the order by which several hundred state troops were forcing the four plants of republic and the youngstown sheet tube company to remain closed then gov davey reversed his order commanding troops to keep the plants open shortly before the arrival of the troops in youngstown two C 1 I 0 strikers had been killed and 25 persons injured as strikers and local police fought for hours in front of a republic plant bethlehem steels plant at johnstown pa was closed and kept closed for several days by pennsylvania state police under instructions from governor earle martial low law was finally lifted any eastward movement of the sit down strikes was given something of a setback when strikers in the apex hosiery company plant at philadelphia w were e r e forced t 0 evacuate under a federal court eviction order during the seven weeks the sit downers had occupied the plant they had wrought damage to machinery and books totaling according to company officials nazi fleet moves on valencia F TOR OR the second time germany and italy withdrew from the four power nonintervention intervention non patrol of spain asserting that by this act their freedom of action was restored hitler immediately ordered the strongest units of the nazi fleet to valencia the loyalist capital the while assuring great britain he would commit no rash act britain in turn let it be known through her ambassador at berlin that she would regard any hostile act against again t the spanish government most seri seriously the reason for the fascist nations withdrawal was that great britain britain and france had refused to join them in a naval demonstration at valencia to protest the alleged loyalist submarine attack against the german cruiser leipzig on may 18 13 germany and italy who support the rebels were assigned to patrol the eastern or loyalist coast of sp aidy under the four power patrol agreement although they have quit cooperating with the patrol their ships remain in the patrolled waters tc hopkins slices rolls W WORKS PROGRESS administrator HARRY L HOPKINS is busy rimming names off the rolls to shave the total to by mid ju july ay the cut was to be effected simply through not replacing men who found jobs in private industry and by combing the lists for in officials emphasized the need for economy by comparing the estimated spent in 1937 with the approved by congress for relief in fiscal 1938 1933 miss perkins names three chand PHE HE federal government took a hand in the settlement of the dispute between john L lewis committee for industrial organization and the big independent s steel t e e I 1 companies as the mediation board of three appointed by secretary of labor frances E perkins sat in cleveland to hear the cases of both sides the governments move w was a s prompted as the steel strikes al af secy perkins plants in several states threatened new 0 outbreaks ut of violence which might be beyond the p powers of local or even state governments to control As the mediators began their task of effecting a compromise a dozen persons had been killed in strike riots and scores more injured since the strike against republic betl bethlehem je youngstown sheet tube and inland started may 26 Eigi eighty Ity five thousand workers already had lost approximately in wages charles P taft II 11 cincinnati lawyer son of the former president and chief justice and a member of the brain trust of governor landoas Lan dons presidential campaign was named chairman of the mediation board appointed to sit with him were lloyd K X garrison former president of the national labor relations board and edward F mcgrady assistant secretary of labor and a former A F of L 0 organizer under samuel gompers the mediation board had a job cut out for it it was to conduct an investigation of the strikes and the grievances of both sides then make recommendations for a settlement it has power to act as arbitrator only if both sides request it to do so the first stumbling block it encountered was the refusal of tom girdler chairman of republic to sit in the same room with C 1 I 0 representatives french premier pulls FACED abed with one of 0 those financial crises all too frequent in recent french history premier loon leon blum asked the senate for powers which would m make a k e him financial dictator of france for about bout six weeks he did not 4 4 believe it possible 1 to bring order into the treasury without 0 30 o drastic a measure when it was refused he and the 20 members 0 of his cabinet resigned he had served days of his second year as premier blum premier of france something of a modern modem record president albert lebrun designated camille camilla chautemps radical socialist and a former premier to attempt the formation of a new cabinet A successor to blum was not immediately in sight the popular front government was one of the bulwarks bulwa of leftist tendencies in europe as opposed to extreme fascism and openly expressed its sympathy for the spanish loyalists its passing is extremely important in international affairs the mall mail mu must sf go through fat FEDERAL warrants were issued at cleveland for six C 1 I 0 leaders in the strike at youngstown and warren charging them with preventing delivery of the united states mails to loyal employees of the steel company plants there their names were not revealed the order for the obtaining of th the e warrant was given by attorney gen eral homer S cummings after he had looked over testimony te stimon y at the senate post office committees hearing charges have been made that C 1 I 0 leaders were censoring the mail in ohio cities and refusing to permit delivery of parcel post packages containing food clothing and other irregular articles for workers in the plants all AH mail that the post office department part ment sees fit to attempt to deliver must be deli delivered verell if said cummings this did not conflict with the post office departments refusal to deliver packages to the plants but sought to prosecute persons who would prevent the delivery of mail the department had okayed oklyed 1 bilbao falls at last Ba capital of the spanish loy IJ lists fell before an attacking force for the first time in history it had withstood man many y sieges dating from medieval ages in the bombing and shelling which broke the iron ring of defense the loyalists had so steadfastly maintained the city al 0 was literally torn to shreds and the death toll which included many women and gen franco children was enormous but as the fascists moved in parading jubilantly to to take possession of the city for gen francisco franco not a shot was fired the last defenders had fled toward santander 45 miles to the west the basques were estimated to have used men in defending bilbao were either killed or wounded louis Is champ by K 0 JE T ae LOUIS the brown bomber J from detroit became heavyweight boxing champion of the world when he knocked out champion james J braddock of new york in the eighth round of a scheduled 15 round bout at chicago A total paid attendance of saw the furious battle in which the young golden gloves graduate came back to win after being knocked down himself in the first round r the tax parade AS S A congressional committee al opened hearings on tax evasion and avoidance by wealthy citizens secretary of the treasury was amon among the first to testify ile he said the nation was losing hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue through uch much tactics then the n his undersecretary under secretary roswell magill suggested three changes in the present tax laws that depletion reductions be eliminated that community property provisions now in effect in in some states be circumvented and that higher levies be put upon the american earned incomes of oc nonresident aliens the first names mentioned in the hearings were connected with the practice of forming foreign corporations to which individual incomes are transferred a scheme which treasury officials said was usually within the letter of the law among the first names w were ere philip de ronde former president of the hibernia trust company of new york now paraguayan consul in new york jules S bache new york banker jacob schick ex army officer and electric razor inventor and charle laughton motion picture actor barrie bames s last curtain S C IR JAMES M BARRIE BARBIE novelist v and playwright whose whimsical pen gave to the world many important works of literature including peter pan the little minister Minis terp dear brutus and what every eiery woman knows died of bronchial pneumonia in london he was sev enty seven years old 0 western newspaper union |