Show review of current events CHARGES FILM MONOPOLY government sues big movie producing companies and officers to break control X t n P d 4 vincent meyer farmer of johnson county kansas received the first crop insurance policy issued by the federal crop insurance corporation lett left to right in the picture above are donald meyer mrs meyer rita james joseph and vincent meyer roy hoy M green of the washington bureau ot of the corporation and roy turner johnson county bureau superintendent in F IF Is W V summarizes THE worta WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper New paper union film companies sued T undertaking to break up what the government alleges is a great moving picture monopoly attorney general cummings started a civil antitrust anti trust suit against 8 major motion picture producing companies 25 subsidiary or assoni associated companies and officers or directors in an effort to divorce production distribution and exhibition hibi tion phases of L the cinema industry the suit was filed atty ally gen in the federal dis cummings net court for t the he southern district of new york federal judge henry W goddard signed an order for the service of subpoenas on all the defendants directing that each appear before the court in new york within 20 days after being served the government is seeking an equity decree thurman W arnold assistant attorney general announced noun ced requiring the companies to divest themselves of ownership of theaters or of production and distribution trib ution facilities the suit named paramount pictures inc loews inc irving trust company new york as trustee in bankruptcy for radio keith orphe urn um corporation warner brothers pictures inc twentieth century fox film corporation columbia pictures corporation unive universal asal corporation po ration and united artists corporation mr arnold said that allegedly monopolistic nopo listic power exerted by the defendants fend ants has a tendency to drive independent theaters out of business or to compel them to sell to the producer owned theater chains on the batters lat terms asserting the companies control about 65 per cent of all pictures produced from the selection of the story to the final showing at the theater mr arnold added the actual control of the product is even greater than would appear from this figure because from 80 to 90 per cent of the quality feature films upon which exhibitors are dependent for successful operation are produced or distributed by the eight major companies mr arnold alleged that independent theaters are subject to numerous oppressive discriminations d mina eions such as block booking high rentals and the imposition of preferred playing times first death clause case A arx A under the utility holding company act the federal securities commission began its first action to simplify a major utility holding company system chairman william 0 douglas announced that a hearing would be held in washington august 8 to determine what steps the utilities power light corporation should take to limit operations to a single integrated public utility system the commission will consider whether the company should be required to rid itself of interest in any or all of its 45 subsidiaries i douglas said the commissions action a c was being taken under tinder section of the holding company act the so called death sentence section utilities power light with headquarters in chicago has subsidiaries si in midwestern mid western an and d northeastern states the company is being reorganized reorganize d under section n 77 B of the bandru bankruptcy atcy act I 1 russia vs japan SOVIET J russia and japan over a disputed territory at the junction of Manchu kuo siberia and korea were openly threatening each other maxim litvinov soviet foreign commissar in confer ence with japanese ambassador Shigemi tzu in moscow told the latter that russian troops would not be withdrawn from the area in question that the territory was a part of siberia and that japan would be held responsible for the consequences if the present calm there is disturbed the two statesmen used violent language and the situation was considered decidedly delicate pick a back flies files sea M MERCURY the top part of the novel british back pick a seaplane separated from maia the lower and heavier part about a thousand feet above foynes ireland and then sped across the north atlantic making the crossing at moderate speed and without mishap passing over botwood Bot wood newfoundland the pilot flew on miles further to montreal alighting on the st lawrence after refueling the plane completed its flight at new york the flying time from foynes to montreal was 20 hours and 20 mm minutes madden Is accused J T WARREN MADDEN chairman I 1 of the national labor relations board was charged with secretly conferring in washington last december with C 1 I 0 officials concerning the weirton Steel company hearing at steubenville Steu benville ohio the charges almost broke up a hear hearing ing of the board the three members of the board were considering the appeal of clyde A armstrong chief counsel for the steel company who was barred from the weirton hearing by examiner edward grandison smith attorney E P F reed acting for armstrong made these charges that C 1 I 0 organizer kenneth coe active in the weirton hearing went to washington last december conferred secretly with madden and then returned for another coffer conference with lee pressman chief counsel of the C 1 I 0 that another C 1 I 0 follower an armed constable served subpoenas for the labor board while requests by weirton lawyers for subpoenas were ignored for weeks that donald wakefield smith junior or member of the labor board attended the weirton hearing last november 18 and made disparaging remarks about counsel armstrong during the taking of evidence strike brings martial law KRASCHEL of iowa declared martial law in newton home of the maytag washing machine company whose plant was kept closed by C 1 I 0 pickets despite efforts of nearly half the employees to return to work national guardsmen guardsman Guards men with armored cars and machine guns occupied the area but before they got there the two labor factions had a bloody street battle in which many were injured in north chicago pickets of the steel workers organizing committee affiliated with C 1 I 0 who had been keeping employees from returning to a hardware plant in defiance of court orders were routed by deputy sheriffs with tear gas ten of the pickets were found guilty guilt Y of contempt of court charles P howard dies C fa P HOWARD president of the international typographical union and s secretary e of the C I 1 0 died in his sleep at colorado springs colo he was fifty eight years old howard was defeated for re reelection election in a referendum last may by C M baker of san francisco and would have gone out of office ce september 1 I 1 owen wister author of the vi virginian r and other novels died at his summer home in north kingston kiest on R L I 1 at the age of seventy eight british monarchs in paris pan KING GEORGE VI and queen elizabeth of england went to paris for a state visit of four days and this was regarded as a vitally important event politically apparently it was undertaken to let the dictator countries know that great britain and france would continue to stand firmly as allies britaina Brit ains foreign secretary viscount halifax the french premier edouard deladier Da ladier and foreign minister georges bonnet held political talks to discuss the world situation during the visit to demonstrate the strength france can lend the common cause with great britain the french paraded men and their latest war machines before george and president lebrun this military display outdid that put on in rome for hitler and it was significant that places in the revie reviewing wing stand were reserved for the german and italian military attaches after the review the royal visitors were sumptuously entertained at the palace of versailles CIO proposes a purge MORE T ORE than 40 members of con alvi gress are marked for C 1 I 0 opposition in the fall elections by a blacklist formulated by john L lewis and given out by E L oliver executive vice vice president of labors nonpartisan league the political agency of the committee for i industrial organization oliver said the opposition to those t named was based chiefly on their stand on the wage hour bill lie he indi john L lewis bated it merely was a coincidence that almost without exception those marked for defeat also fought mr Roosevel ts government reorganization arid and supreme court packing bills among the democratic rules committee members marked for opposition were rep E E cox of georgia opponent of administration policies in the house rep howard W smith of virginia against whom james roosevelt and thomas G tommy the cork corcoran have put up a young radical william E dodd jr and rep lawrence lewis of colorado chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee included in the lewis blacklist are senators tydings of maryland adams of colorado and lonergan of connecticut wheat allotment H LJ R TOLLEY AAA to tor r announced at a national wheat ifert allotment for fall and spring planting of not more than 55 acres the minimum allowable under the act the action which came as the result of the bushel yield forecast for this year on a e seeded acre acreage age of c came ame in the form of an order signed by it L wilson acting H R tolley secretary of agriculture state allot allotments ments for 1939 compared with 1933 and average acreage of wheat land in the major grain producing states include pennsylvania acres compared with in 1928 and for the period oklahoma and texas and illinois and indiana and iowa and michigan and minnesota and missouri and nebraska and ohio 2415 and 2225 south dakota and wisconsin and california and colorado 1846 and idaho and kansas and montana and 4 north dakota and oregon and washington and sn sneak e ak flight over ocean D rOU couglas GLAS P CORRIGAN a young airplane motor expert from california get permission miss ion from the air commerce bureau to fly across the atlantic so he started off secretly from floyd bennett field new york and landed at baldonnel Bal donnel ireland 28 hours and an 1 13 minutes later the remarkable feature of the flight was that it was made in a rickety old single motored curtiss robin plane that was not equipped with navigation instruments radio or OF the ordinary safety devices corrigan did not I 1 even carry a parachute having neither flight permit landing papers nor passport corrigan corriga n la I 1 he IT E had n intended Y declared cared in dublin that intended to fly back to california but set his magnetic maine tic compass wrong and flew in the opposite direction ris his was the sixth sax west east s solo flight across the atlantic in t the h e opposite pasi te direction on only mollison and beryl markham have been sue cess ful |