| Show ma r of current events medics eles herlett NO LABOR PEACE E YET A F of L and C 1 I 0 reject each other s proposals parley attend japs drive draye back chinese will not 40 J Q AV w the news camera man took his life in his hands to secure this excellent photograph of japanese mopping up operations in the chapel district of 0 shanghai mopping lopping A up ap is the military euphemistic term for tamping stamping out ont whatever life is left after the artillery bombardment has done its work laut ly v y summarizes THE WORL WORLDS WEEK C 0 western newspaper Neus paper won labor parley deadlock of the american federation L LEADERS of labor and the C 1 I 0 get anywhere in their peace conference in washington so they adjourned temporarily tempora pora rily and some of them said safa the parley might not be resumed george M AR harrison head of the fedaration fed ration delegation V R said that unless the C 1 I 0 attitude 0 changed there was no prospect of peace both sides had philip y almurray made off offers ers but these were scornfully rejected by the opponents the A F of L proposed that the fate of the C 1 I 0 affiliates organized since the split be decided at an immediate conference between representatives of organizations chartered by the A F of L and organizations chartered by the C I 1 0 and which may be in conflict with each other for the purpose of bringing about an adjustment to bring the membership into the A F of L on terms and conditions mutually agreeable this clause of the fedaration fed ration proposal brought a denunciation from philip murray chairman of the ten man C 1 I 0 peace committee who asserted that it asked desertion and betrayal of these unions the C 1 I 0 proposal was that its unions should return to the federation and that a new autonomous department part ment should be created to be known as the C 1 I 0 to have complete and sole jurisdiction over its policies and operations this plan represented no concessions john L lewis called murray and others into a strategy meeting to consider whether a new proposal for a truce should be offered by the C 1 I 0 james dewey labor department conciliator and senator george L berry of tennessee were busy trying to find a way to peace the position of president roosevelt was unknown but it was believed he would continue his hands off policy 41 i japs smash chinese JAPAN TAPAN officially declined the in vi tation to the hl nine me power treaty conference in brussels and her forces went ahead fast in their operations erat ions in china they had been checked by a desperate stand of the chinese defenders of shanghai but launched a new offensive that forced the chinese to abandon chapel the native section and tall fall back t to 0 a new line to the west of the international settlement there they entrenched with their backs to the bogochow creek on the other side of which were the united states marines these american troops had orders from admiral yarnell to shoot at any planes attacking them or at non combatants the british troops in shanghai had similar orders and the international national al tension wa was s brought nearer to the breaking point when a ja japanese P tank fired on a british infantry detachment of which brig ge gen n A P D telfer british commander in chief was a member A few days before a japanese ma chine gunner in a plane had killed a british soldier in refusing to send a delegate to brussels the japanese government said the conference W was as inspired by the 69 league of nations and would put serious obstacles in the path ot 01 the conflict just and proper solution of the japs mobbed in frisco FIVE eminent japanese citizens cit az ens sent out on a good will m mission assion to the world arrived at san francisco and were at once besieged on their steamship by a howling mob which struggled with the police for two hours the demonstration was sponsor sponsored ed by the district council of the maritime federation tf the pacific comprised of seagoing unions affiliated with the committee for industrial organization but about a third of the e crowd was comprised of chinese who streamed out from the cites vast chinatown to vent v ent their rage at things and persons japanese help for stock market E EVER VER since the slump in the stock market began the government has been urged to do something about it finally the administration yielded to the demands and the federal reserve board of governors reduced margin requirements on stock purchases from 55 to 40 per cent and imposed a 50 per cent margin on short sales the new requirements went into effect november I 1 and are not retroactive no official explanation was given for the boards action but it was understood der stood that it was designed to adjust the margin requirements to current stock market conditions imposition of the increased margin requirements on short sales was an innovation from the boards standpoint a stock exchange rule requiring only 10 point protection protect 1 on on short sales it was understood d that before arriving at its decision the reserve board consulted with the securities and exchange commission many brokers were doubtful that this action would stabilize the market but the immediate eff effect act was to give stock prices a start upward H K yardstick for power P PRESIDENT 1 RESIDENT ROOSEVELT in conference with J D ross administrator of the bonneville dam project on the columbia river established the yardstick rate rat by b which the charges of privately owned utilities for electric c current are to be judged the formula is to pay operating charges amortize the federal investment in power generation generate gene rati on in 40 years ars and provide a net return of 3 per cent for the present the formula is to ap apply P ly only to the bonneville project but ross recommended that the same principle be followed with respect to power from the TVA and an d other government plants ar miss roche quits treasury MISS JOSEPHINE ROCHE first woman man to be an alsista assistant nt secretary of the treasury has ha I 1 resigned that post and cretu returns ans to the presidency of the rocky mountain fuel company of denver the position will be left unfilled for the administration hopes she will resume it later she was appointed by president pr es roosevelt three years a ago go and has been in in charge of the treas treasures treasury ls public health and other tivi ties welfare activities to retire TS TWENTY WENTY years of public service is enough for sell senator ator r rederick frederick e ste awer of oregon 0 regon republican has antoune announced I 1 that he will not seek he reelection election re next year but will to the practice of law return was the r keynoter of the republican republica national ri convention of 1938 1936 bold talk EARLY a million italians gath in rome to celebrate celebrated the anniversary 0 of the fascist fifteenth synte eternal city and the march on mussli bolshevism heard mussolini declare that must be driven out of europe primarily that t the rope meaning gr rebels must win wm the spanish civil i the invited guests was war ar among 1 a delegation deieso from nazi germany and nd for their benefit il II duce assert assert must ed d vigorously that germany obtain tain colonies peacefully or other wise the T he motto of the sixteenth fas cist year is peace shouted musso lini ni there has been much use and abuse of this word by the bleating of the so called reactionary democracies but when it comes sour of those who from our lips the lips have fought and who arc ready to fight again this word attains its real solemn original human definition because to obtain a durable lasting peace it is necessary to eliminate bolshevism from europe it is necessary that some absurd clauses of the treaties of peace be revised it is necessary that great peoples like the ger german man people have again the place to which they are entitled and which they once had under the african sun the presence of the official nazi delegation led by rudolph hess deputy leader of the party demonstrated the ever closer political po lital bond uniting the two people mussolini said T chautemps gives warning IF TF THE necessity arises france 1 is prepared and ready to employ force in defense of her vital interests att at the he same time she offers peace to all nations that will prove by their acts their desire to keep their engagements gage ments loyally gm such was the 4 I 1 warning evidently vi ma directed especially to italy and germany man which premier camille chautemps uttered before a congress of AI Chautemps the central federation of his radical socialist party 1 I hope especially in the grievous affair of spain this pacific prudent and courageous action will succeed in cutting short the violations of justice which cannot be renewed without constraining france and britain to renew their liberty ot of action chautemps said the premiers declaration recalled french insistence that unless the nonintervention committee soon pulled foreign troops out of spain france would open her frontier to aid the spanish government francos progress generalissimo generalissimo F FRANCO R A N C 0 having completed his conquest of gijon and the rest of the loyalist territory in northwest spain began moving his insurgent forces eastward to the aragon front where his officers said the decisive offensive of the war would be begun the loyalist government moved from valencia to barcelona windsor talks of trip THE HE duke of windsor speaking tat jat a dinner of the anglo ameri can press association in paris said that he wanted to make it clear that in any journey I 1 have undertaken or ma may Y plan in the future I 1 do so as a completely independent observer without political considerations of any sort or kind and entirely on my own initiative he added that 1 I am a very happily married man but my wife and I 1 are neither content nor willing to lead a purely inactive life of leisure we hope and feel that in due course the experience we gain from our travels will enable us if given fair treatment to make some contributions as private individuals to solving of some of the vital problems that beset the world today noted edi editor t or dead D reath EATH chose a shining mark when it removed george horace lorimer retired editor ot of the saturday evening post he succumbed numbed to pneumonia at his home in in wyncote Wyn cote pa honorary pall bearers at his funeral included former president herbert he hoover over and other men distinguished in public life mr lorimer became beca me editor in chief of 0 t the he saturday evening post in 1899 9 and developed it from an obscure ure weekly to its high position in its field ecuador coup destat GEN Q EN ALBERTO ENRIQUEZ war minister of ecuador an and officers ic ers of the army executed a coup d which forced brov provisional visional president federico paez to resign and leave the country enriquez Enriqu cz at once assumed power as supreme chief with a cabinet composed largely of army officers he decreed the establishment of a popular tribunal to deal with w ith persons accused of tampering 9 with public funds and announced a national political purge the people accepted the change of government quietly T john roosevelt olt to wed M T RS IS F RANCEs FRANCES HAVEN CLARK of boston announced that her daut daughter liter anne lindsay dark clark and john roosevelt youngest of son the president dent will be married in na h almass ant at mass next ext june shortly after mr harvard rov elt is gra graduated from |
