Show ul erea iff 01 ivar neica ller jerr TAMMANY HALL ROUTED new york in laguardia guardia and dewey winners la CIO the backed by ates candid candidates detroit R rejects W summarizes ARIM THE WORLDS WEEK C western union la clardia s victory TAMMANY AM MANY HALL went down to T 1 inglorious inel orious defeat in the new york municipal municipal election its mayor alty candidate ney ahm who lah T was maho sup ported also by jim parley farley and senator wagner was thoroughly whipped by fiorello H la guardia ww candidate of the fusionists the republicans public ans and the young american lar lac bor party laguardia the first r reform mayor ever T E dewey reelected re elected in new a majority of york piled up the republicans hailed the result for their party great victory as a and it was but it also put the labor party in the position of holding the balance of power in future elections in the metropolis second in interest only to the mayoralty vote was the fact thit that thomas E dewey the young roan man who smashed organized crime and the rackets in new york was elected district attorney defeating harold W hastings the tammany nominee dewey who is only thirty five years old promises reform in the methods of the office and his record gives assurance these will be carried out the republicans regained control of the new york state assembly and of many upstate cities ar CIO loses in detroit THE HE first important venture of the C 1 I 0 in politics turned out disastrously for the lewis organization patrick H obrien its mayoralty candidate declared on the stump that labor must seize the reins of government in detroit and every other american city whereupon the detroit electors arose in their wrath and swept obrien and the C 1 I 0 out of the picture richard W reading conservative candidate backed by the A F of L won the office by a majority of votes in addition au all the five C 1 I 0 backed candidates for the common council were decisively whipped in new jersey senator A harry moore democrat was elected governor over lester H clee republican but only by virtue of a big majority in hudson county moore has held the office offic twice before it was the first time in the states history that a governor has won a third term the state constitution prohibits a consecutive reelection election re but moore was elected in 1925 and again in 1931 each time for a three year term james M curley who has been three times mayor of boston and once governor of massachusetts tried again for the mayoralty but was defeated by maurice J tobin like curley a democrat philadelphia went democratic as did pittsburgh which elected reelected re mayor cornelius scully borah talks plainy plainly WHILE republican national committeemen were gathering in chicago for an important meeting senator borah of idaho jumped into print with a vigorous denunciation of the plan favored by hoover and chairman hamilton to hold a midterm republican con convention bention n next e x t I 1 spring tor for the formulation of party policies iches we hwe heard a great deal about usurpation and die dic Senator Borah tutorship ship in recent years said borah there could be no greater exhibition of usurpation or dictatorship ship in politics than for a few accredited men undertaking to fix the principles and policies for I 1 17 7 million voters without ever havin having 9 consulted the voters or received their in any way the republican party is in its present t plight large largely y because leaders of the party parly too ion long neglected to take counsel of the voters voters leaders acted upon the theory that t the he vot voters ers would be ba led or cude cudeck cud geed cJ along the road pointed out by the leaders bruscas bruscos Bru Brus sros coS Confer conference crice FORMAL FORMAL opening of the far east peace conference in brussels brought out speeches by th the e chief delegates of america britain france italy and russia davis for the united states denounced resort to armed force as a means of settling international disputes and urged japan and ch china i na to seek a settlement of their conflict by bv peaceful processes ses he continued we believe that coop operation cooperation co op between ja japan P an and china is essential to the b best c st interests or of those two cou countries atries and to peace throng throughout hout the world we believe th that at such CO operation cooperation must be de 4 15 ni 1 LITTLE FLOWER WINS fiorello la guardia who licked tammany and was reelected re elected mayor of new york in a striking pose as he be addressed voters by friendship fair play and confidence if japan and china are to operate cooperate co it must be as friends and not as enemies the problems underlying chinese chine se japa nese relations must be solved on a basis that is fair to each and acceptable cep table to both eden for england and delbos tor for france seconded these sent sentiments imenes the italian re representatives presen natives made it clear I 1 taly italy would not stand tor for any coercive measures against japan china was represented by dr wellington koo who said we desire pence peace but we know that we cannot obtain it in the presence of japanese aggression so long as aggression gres sion persists we are determined to continue our resistance it is not peace at any price that will render justice to china or to the credit of civilization A committee was named to send an appeal to japan to open peace negotiations with china and germany was asked to reconsider her refusal to take part in the conference labor hits dukes tour R resolutions resolutions denouncing the american tour of the duke and duchess of windsor as a slumming trip professing to study labor were adopted by the baltimore s federation of labor and approved by president green of the A F of L they attacked charles bedeaux the dukes friend as sponsor r of the 40 stretch out system officials of the committee for in du duchess of tion while refusing windsor to be quoted said the attitude of their organization on the bedeaux system was well known official and social washington which had been in doubt as to what to do about the distinguished visitors was relieved when sir ronald lindsay british ambassador announced he would give a state dinner for the royal couple as he termed them the day after their arrival immediately thereafter it was made known that president roosevelt would entertain the duke and duchess at luncheon in the white house the dukes talk on arrival was to be broadcast over all major networks but the british broadcasting company announced it would not pick up windsors Wind sors remarks for re broadcasting in england bedeaux said the duke while ahil e in the united states would observe these sixteen heavy industries heavy machinery light machinery heavy chemical work oil refining textiles tobacco steel rubber either coal or metallic ore mining automobile manufacturing p prepared foods meat packing logging timber sorting plus lumber milling pulp and paper production and vegetable and fruit packing K almost A M ost G REAT BRITAIN decided to let franco spanish 1 insurgent ansur cent chief so send r A consuls to en england ga and and to send offlie official ial agents to the part of spain he controls this it was said in official circles did not imply reco recognition brition of franco but british laborites labovites Lab orites thought thong h t it did and consequently assa assailed ailed the gove government rement anyhow it was apparent britain believed franco was right when he said in burgos the war is won walace plan attacked SECRETARY WALLACES WALLACE J ever normal granary plan p an is politically inexpedient economically un sound and f fundamentally unda mentally unworkable according to the cash grair association of chicago which submitted a brief to a senate sub committee tee at a hearing in spring field ill british are enraged E and italy have been vigorously APAN JAPAN J twisting the tail of the british lion and it if they keep it up beast may be stirred to that mighty action within a few days five brit and a num killed ish soldiers were her ber wounded by japanese shells in in the fighting at shanghai the eng 1 lish there charged the killings were deliberate in retaliation for the aid the british Britis ii gave a suicide battalion of chinese in escaping from a warehouse in chapel the native quarter to the international settlement the british and japanese admirals had a hot dispute over the right of the former to prevent the passage of japanese launches up creek soon after the japanese began shelling the residential area of the settlement and art an outpost where english soldiers were quartered was destroyed continuous shelling of shanghai by the invaders endangered the british and american lines on the border of the international settlement and shells fell close to the american warship augusta admiral Yar nells flagship japan is angry over the alleged help britain is giving china in the warfare and there is a movement in tokio to break diplomatic relations with london this is urged by the council on the current situation an unofficial body composed VIL of high army officers political leaders and other influential persons the council adopted a resolution warning that unless britain reconsiders its improper attitude japan may be forced to take certain steps of grave determination against britain despite the deep friendship existing between the two countries for the last sixty years japanese troops invaded a part of the international settlement guarded by american marines and seized a chinese junk loaded with rice general beaumont commandant of marines immediately entered a protest and the japanese apologized but the marines did not consider the incident closed because the japs return the junk the british government was not expected to take ary any action that would further anger japan lest it should endanger the success of the parley in brussels but wise observers do not believe the nine power treaty conference will have any definite results more piracy latest twist of the lions tail came in the form of the bombing and sinking of the british steamer jean weems in the mediterranean by a pirate airplane the london daily heralds barcelona correspondent reported that the spanish loyalist government as that the plane bore rn markings ekings showing that it bruno was piloted by by mum mussolini son of the italian premier the pilot gave the freighters crew only five minutes to take to lifeboats and then sank the weems with bombs the british battle cruiser hood was sent at full speed from palma majorca to barcelona to investigate the attack in parliament the critics of the government led by david lloyd george demanded a stronger british mediterranean policy lloyd george flayed clayed the government for bolstering up the international committee on nonintervention in spain whose history after 14 months he denounced as discreditable and dishonorable morocco uprisings ffrench rationalist uprisings in french morocco which have been giving the french government a lot of trouble are blamed on agents of a foreign totalitarian power meaning italy the disorders ma mainly in in casablanca fez and medina were quelled by troops mostly se senegalese n legionnaires and hundreds of arrests were made the nationalists plotted to set u up P an independent arab state w with t h moulay albal el fassi as king budget conference WHILE HILE members of congress were beginning to move toward washington tor for the extraordinary session president dent roosevelt roosevel t in his hyde park home was bu busy sy planning means of ak carrying on the government program A especially was he 2 interested in th the e budget and related financial matters and to advise on this he called in marriner r S eccles head of the federal reserve ni al S eccles system treasury secre secretary ary and budget director bell already were there and all listened closely to mr eccles talk concerning current business conditions and the stock market situation it was decided by the president that the commodity credit corporation should provide 35 for the corn c orn loans obtaining the money from the and repaying the latter agency when congress makes the necessary appropriations officials of the agriculture department gave corn growers assurance that the government will loan 50 cents a bushel on the large 1937 crop the loans will be made ac according to current plans on field corn testing 14 5 per cent moisture content or r less les s the 50 will be reduced C cent e nt rate on corn containing more moisture |