Show news review of current carrent Clr rent events STEEL GOES BACK TO W WORK ORK two thirds of idle have returned riots kill two in aluminum strike siege of madrid gets setback A y summarizes THE WORL WORLDS WEEK ad western newspaper union CIO steel grip loosens THE TH grip of the C I 1 L 0 continued to loosen in the steel stee 1 strike as three big independent steel corporations republic bethlehem and youngstown sheet tube reported more than two thirds of their idle miu mill hands had returned to work this covered plants in ohio and pennsylvania inland the fourth of the steel independents announced that it was operating with its normal force of in indiana since it and the steel workers organ organizing az i committee signed a compact with the state labor commission steel production in the youngstown ohio area one of the principal scenes of strike violence climbed to 76 per cent of capacity 3 per points above the operating figure before the start of the strike t strike riot kills two ONE striker and one policeman were killed and twenty men were injured at an aluminum plant in alcoa tenn when rioting broke out as strikers started a back to work movement the plant belonging to the aluminum company of america had been closed since may 18 when the strike was called by y the aluminum workers ica ica an affiliate of the american federation of labor difference in wages paid at alcoa and at the com banys plant in new kensington pa was the issue in the strike state troops were on hand but gen R 0 smith in charge said that they were there merely to protect rights and no martial law had been declared lewis scans the sea JOHN L LEWIS sought to expand the scope of his committee for industrial organization by invading the maritime industry with harry Brid bridges gei west coast longshore mens leader he sought to unify scattered maritime unions in one big industrial organization 0 dominated by the C I 1 0 0 the american federation of labor already has two strong unions in the maritime field so this action brings lewis into another point of friction with william greens of or the nation has marine and coastal workers compromise takes bow SENATOR M M LOGAN democrat of kentucky presented the compromise version of the presidents supreme court bill to the senate apparently with the blessings of majority L leader e a d e r joseph T robinson and the chief executive in form an amendment to and substitute for the old ashurst administration bill the n new e w draft authorizes appointment of one new justice to the t h e court each year for Sen Robinson every justice remaining on the court after reaching the age of seventy five years under its provisions the president would be permitted to name one new justice this year besides filling the vacancy left by the retirement of justice willis V van an devanter and assure him of at least east one new appointment to the court in each remaining year of his present term of office all of the appointments point ments would hinge on the decision of justices seventy five or older on retirement the opposition immediately charged that the new bill was as offensive as the old one sen burton K wheeler democrat montana said the compromise is not going to get through the new bill is just as objectionable as the old because it seeks to pack the supreme court just like the original bill did sen edward R burke democrat nebraska said the 43 senators would vote against any kind of measure that would increase the supreme court some of the other provisions of the new bill were authority for 20 additional appointments point ments to lower courts in the event that judges over seventy fail to retire the old bill would have permitted dermitt ed 50 new appointments altogether speedy intervention b by y the government in cases indol involving ving constitutionality of federal laws and speedy appeal to the supreme co court urt rebels fall from madrid rebel forces which took bilbao after the city cites a first successful siege are still finding madrid a tough nut to crack in a two day battle the loyalist forces broke through the siege lines about the city captured the villages of de la canada and brunette and threatened to cut the besieging rebels oft off from their main forces so nearly success successful ful was the attempt to rout the rebel forces that the latter were forced to admit new troops might have to be withdraw withdrawn 1 rp amelia lost in the pacific from other fronts delaying temporarily the drive on santander next rebel objective on the coast meanwhile the fall of bilbao was expected to add refugees to the constant stream pouring into loyalist valencia although some of the refugees remained in france where they were first taken the vast majority preferred to go to catalonia nia where the government takes care of them at its own expense nearly have arrived in valencia since the start of the war and have remained there ginghams Bing hams ath of july R ROBERT OBERT WORTH BINGHAM united states ambassador to london became the third prominent american to bring down the fury of nazi germanys germanas Germ anys officialdom and press when in an independence day speech before the american society in that city he declared uncle sam had been forced by the dictator countries to join britain in an armament race mayor laguardia of new york and cardinal mundelein of chicago had been other recent nazi targets the ambassador was quoted as saying there must be some of the dictatorships who realize that they have imposed upon the british commonwealth and the united states an armaments race we did everything in our power to abert it but it is a race and the british and ourselves must inevitably win I 1 admit the strongest arguments that can be made for dictatorships ships they offer a better method of preparing for war but I 1 am sure that democracies provide a better way to finish a war the nazis charged that the ambassador bas had insulted germany and italy with his arrogance and ignorance Voel kischer I 1 the official newspaper added it if there is any talk of defense then we should speak of defense against the arrogant and teacher like attitude of the defenders of western ideals navy hunts for amelia FOUR POUR ships ship S of the united states navy with attendant airplanes two ships of the japanese navy and a british freighter scoured the vast wastes of the south pacific in an effort eff ort to find and rescue amelia earhart putnam americas no I 1 woman flyer and her navigator fred noonan the pair had been forced down before com ing the 2570 mue mile hop from new guinea to rowland howland island a leg of their round the world flight signals received from the hap hapless less flyers were so weak that it was impossible to tell whether they were afloat at sea or marooned on some tiny island and as the days passed it became doubtful that many of the radio messages which served as clues for the searchers were from the two at all storms over the area of the sea in which the they Y w were e r e believed lost hampered searchers and minimized possibilities of a rescue so alarmed alar med was the world at the loss of amelia and her companion the united states even sent out the giant aircraft carrier lexington with 98 planes aboard which it was said could explore an area of square miles in five or six hours mae west tells all IT T T SEEMS mae west buxom blonde cinema menace DID marry frank wallace in milwaukee on april 11 1911 after all after stoutly denying the marriage which aro aroused used the whole nation when it was revealed in 1935 she did an about face and confessed it although denying she had ever lived li ved with the vaudeville player as his bif wife e her admission was lecessi necessitated tat when she answered wallaces suit for declaratory relief in a los angeles court nation finds more jobs N A EARLY persons are now employed in non agrical tural pursuits the federal board has announced this reserve is only 1000 or 1500 oo 0 shy of the av in in 1929 and to more than in march 1933 ancl a S sam checks up SAM wound up the 1937 UNCLE fiscal year with a net deficit ot of or about more than president roo roosevelt sevelt estimated m abed last april according to the report of the united states treas uly the gross national public debt climbed to a total of as of june 30 30 it was shown receipts for tl the ie period just closed were the largest in 16 years amounting 1 to compared with 15 for the 1936 37 year and about in excess of estimates expenditures were including for debt re retirement ti rement originally planned for that period but carried over into the current year completion of the debt retirement program as previously contemplated tem plated would have called for the expenditure of which I 1 would have placed the gross deficit above the mark in the 1936 37 period recovery and relief costs were more than below the total for the year before amounting to against reliable authorities around the capitol said that as soon as all appropriation bills for the 1938 fiscal year were cleared the president would direct the heads of all government departments to impound 10 per cent of their appropriations eions exclusive of fixed charges in in an attempt to balance the budget experts said that a maximum of could be saved in that way the prospective net deficit for 1938 was estimated at t ford tests labor board T THE HE national labor relations board is receiving its most exacting test in the hearings bearings at detroit on the united automobile workers union complaint that the ford motor company is guilty of unfair labor practices the U A W U is a C 1 I 0 affiliate ford is opposed to the unions it was expected that the hearings might take a long time and may eventually reach the united states supreme court after the hearings i in detroit a board examiner will draw up intermediate findings and send them to the NLRB in washington accompanied by a transcript of the evidence and briefs of both sides the board will then either order the ford motor corn com piny to cease and desist its unfair practices or dismiss the unions charges appeal may be taken to the united states circuit court of appeals which has the power of enforcement which NLRB lacks the case may reach the supreme court if the constitution is involved one of the allegedly unfair practices to which the U A W A objects is is i distribution of antiunion anti union literature by the ford company to its employees plo the company charges that a denial of this would violate constitutional guaranties guarantees guaran ties of free speech and a free press or mediators blame steel THE HE federal mediation board trimmed named by secretary of labor frances perkins which reached a deadlock and gave up in its efforts to help the C I 1 O affiliated steel workers organizing committee and the independent steel corporations solve their difficulties laid the blame for its failure at the door of the steel concerns we cannot but believe that the bitterness and suspicion which sep parate the two sides would be allayed by a man to man discussion around the conference table betge between en the heads of the four companies and the union re representatives presenta tives and that the only present possible hope of settlement lies in such a meeting the boards report said on the board were charles P taft chairman lloyd K garrison and edward F mcgrady isolates paralysis germ HAT the medical profession VT considers a major step in the conquest of infantile paralysis was taken when dr edward carl rosenow announced to physicians surgeons ons and medical research workers in glendale calif that he had isolated the germ which causes it dr rosenow is professor of experimental peri mental bacteriology at t the Is e mayo foundation in rochester minn work with spinal fluid taken from nurses who had contracted the disease at the los angeles general hospital in 1934 enabled him to isolate the microorganism micro organism dr rosenow said that now the germ has been isolated steps must be taken to develop a serum simbar to the serums used in fighting other ravaging contagious diseases triple split for palestine P PALESTINE ALF STINE would be split into L three parts and british mandate over the whole country ended according to suggestions made by the royal commission on palestine and delivered to the british government the commission was formed a year ago to find some way of putting an end to arab jewish riots under the new plan about two thirds of palestine would be converted into an arab state and about one third into a jewish state A small territory including the holy cities of jerusalem bethlehem and nazareth and a corridor to the sea would be given to great britain a in as a permanent mandate it is claimed that the plan would remove the arabs from jewish domination give the jews a home and protect christian shrines |