Show ivcich of current E events cents FLIGHT AROUND EARTH howard hughes and companions set new record of 91 hours japan cancels 1940 olympics R rig president roosevelt addressing louisville citizens from the platform of his special train urging them to support senator barkley for the senator is at the presidents left and mayor of louisville at his right OM ad wo AL ga y summarizes tiie THE WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union hughes great flight HOWARD ta HUGHES and his crew JL a of four completed their remarkable flight around the world when they landed at floyd bennett airport new york 3 days 19 hours and 17 minutes after starting from that place they had covered m miles iles and made six stops for refueling at P paris a r i s moscow 0 amsk m s k sk fairbanks and minneapolis i I 1 nea polls they cut more howard than an three days off hughes the record made by wiley post in 1933 but hughes said after landing that he still considered posts solo flight was the most remarkable job of flying ever done on the hop across the atlantic the time made by lindbergh was nearly halved with hughes wealthy sportsman and aviator who financed and organized the flight were harry connor and thomas thurlow navigators richard stoddart radio operator and ed lund flight engineer hughes himself was at the controls au all the time but said the robot pilot did au all the flying except the takeoffs and landings much credit also was given the automatic navigator loaned by the army air corps the chief perils encountered were on the flight to paris because they had barely enough fuel to reach le bourget airport and the trip over siberia where they had to go to an altitude of feet and accumulated much ice radio communication with the land was maintained most of the time except for six hours before minneapolis was reached during that period their transmitter was out of commission the monoplane named new york worlds fair 1940 was welcomed at new york by mayor la guardia and grover whalen and a tremendous crowd the weary fliers soon got to bed but next day the metropolis gave them one of its customary ticker tape receptions with a parade the wives of stoddart connor and thurlow were at the airport to meet their husbands katherine hepburn the movie star bade hughes glod by when he started and welcomed him back in hollywood it is rumored they are engaged or possibly secretly married another woman deeply interested in the flight was miss elinore hoagland of new york fiancee of ed lund deficit to be 4 billions JN N REVISED budget estimates for 1 the current fiscal year given out in washington the president forecast a net federal deficit of an increase of over last years deficit and more than he had estimated in january for the 12 months ending next june 30 the deficit which will increase the gross public debt by will be financed the president indicated by a reduction of in the working balance 0 of f the treas general fund by the use of in special issues of government obligations and by in new federal financing the gross deficit was estimated at in which is included tor for debt retirement the business slump which grew sharper after roosevelt submitted his budget estimates to congress last january was blamed by him for the inaccuracies of his forecasts 4 japan cancels olympics JAPAN evidently thinks the war in china is not near its end the tokyo government has cancelled the olympic games of 1940 dropping au all plans to be the host of the worlds athletes the announcement made by marquis koichi ki kido do public welfare minister surprised even the japanese organizing committee and the members of that body declared the games would be held whether or not the government supports them in tokyo it was said the governments action was due to the cost of financing the games and to military leaders opposition to a growth groth of nationalism among the japanese pe people ople though the government lacks money and materials for the necessary sports structures it had prepared to contribute toward the cost and only a few days ago 40 men for the japanese football team were selected and started training count michimasa member of the international olympic committee said japan might bid for the 1948 games 1 I hope japan can bid then he said apparently it is impossible to io bid even for the 1944 games the cancellation was inevitable under the present circumstances it was expected the international ommittee committee would meet soon to de ermine the next move london and Helsing fors finland were mentioned as possible sites for the 1940 g games ames senator e thomas wms wins VICTORY of senator elmer thomas of oklahoma in his fight for by the democrats was hailed by the new dealers as a direct result of the campaign speaking tour of president roosevelt the president told the okla homans what a help the senator had 1 14 been to him and how much he had done for the state and he gave some swipes to thomas rivals governor sen thomas marland and representative senta tive gomer smith so the oklahomans Okla homans picked thomas by a good majority for governor they named leon C philips much to the disappointment of alfalfa bill murray in the course of his trip across the country mr roosevelt in his capacity of head of the democratic party first boosted the cause of senator barkley of kentucky his staunch supporter and cleverly avoided hitting too hard at governor happy chandler who seeks Bark leys seat in arkansas mr roosevelt found time to say kind words about senator hattie caraway passing through colorado and nevada he avoided politics in his talks for senators alva adams and pai pat mccarren both of whom have opposed some of his chief policies are mighty strong in their states both of them boarded his train but their reception was decidedly cool the president delivered the on only ly set speech on his program at the san francisco worlds fair administration building he then reviewed the united states battle fleet of 66 vessels and spent several hours aboard the cruiser houston next day he spent in yosemite national park after three days in california the president boarded the houston at san diego and went to the galapagos islands for some fishing thence he was to pass through the panama canal and come back home by way of the southeastern states van nuys nominated OPPONENTS 0 of senator frederick van nuys of indiana accepted defeat with wry faces they had intended that he should be 0 purged for his fights against new deal measures but realized his threatened independent candidacy would split the party in the state wide open and also would injure the presidential aspirations of paul V mcnutt so governor townsend invited the senator to present his name to the state convention and other candidates withdrew van nuys was then perfunctorily without anyone saying a good thing about him wheat loan basis WALLACE announced SECRETARY the government loans to wheat raisers they will average 59 to 60 cents a bushel only farmers cooperating in AAA crop control who have not exceeded their soil depleting acreage allotment by more than 5 per cent will be eligible to the loans for which the has provided million dollars do ars ander under the loan plan the wheat farmer stands to win much and to lose nothing it if he is able to L sell his wheat eventually for more than the loan he will sell and pay ou off the loan if the farmer Is unable to get more for his wheat than the loan rate he can default payment of the loan and let the government take his wheat H aid conditional PUBLIC works administration of which harold ickes is head withdrew the outright allotments of about for power projects that would have competed with privately owned facilities and substituted conditional loans and grants for 21 of the projects this action followed upon publication of the fact that the had approved loans and grants totaling for 54 duplicating public power plants and that the private companies affected had not been given opportunity to sell their plants at a reasonable price new air board meets i EMBERS of the new civil aero T ia authority got together in washington and prepared to take up their work edward J noble presided as chairman other members are harllee branch second assistant postmaster general vice chairman G grant mason pan american airways official robert hinckley director for far western states and oswald ryan of anderson ind general counsel for the federal power commis commission sion clinton M hester assistant treasury general counsel has been assigned the independent administrative position he is responsible to the president the board is responsible to congress du pont font and raskob hit THE THE united states board of tax appeals ruled that pierre S du pont font and john J raskob must pay back federal taxes of upward of the board held that a series of transactions by which dupont of the wilmington dynasty and raskob former chairman of the democratic national nation al committee sold each other large blocks of stock could not be considered eligible for purposes of tax reduction Ras kobs share of the payment will be between and and duponts will be at least canton bombed again bechina of canton great south china port was resumed by the japanese airmen and in three successive ces sive days hundreds of civilians civill ans were killed by the warplanes war planes uncounted numbers were driven to abandon their homes in one of the boldest moves in the war powerful chinese guerilla contingents landed secretly on namao island off they claimed to have recaptured a considerable sid erable part of the island which had been taken by the japanese justice cardozo dies B ENJAMIN DENJAMIN N CARDOZO asso J chate justice of the united states supreme court died at port chester N Y of a chronic heart ailment that had kept him from work on the bench since last december he was sixty eight years old descended from 0 spanish jews who came to america in 1750 he was born in new york city and educated at columbia university he sen son wagner was appointed to the supreme court by president hoover in 1932 and an d lined up with the liberal minority his scholarship and hard work won the highest respect chief justice hughes informed of cardozos Cardo zos death in italy said it is an irreparable loss to the court and the nation he was a jurist of the highest rank and noble spirit probably president roosevelt will not appoint cardozos Cardo zos successor before fall fail for the court is in recess until october but speculation as to his choice began immediately the name most frequently heard in the discussions in washington was that of sen robert wagner of new york one of the presidents chief lieutenants in the field of social legislation other new yorkers mentioned are ferdinand pecora and samuel state supreme court justices and solicitor general robert H jackson the far west I 1 is not now represented on the court TVA inquiry opens investigation investigation of the activities 1 of the TVA by a congressional joint committee was opened in knoxville tenn with chairman vie vic Donal donahey hey presiding after an executive session the investigators started on an inspection tour of the projects involved public hearings he in knoxville were next ext n on thi the pro gram and donahey said these would continue 1 until we run out i of money |