| Show weekly news review new dealers win and lose girdler storms strike quiz quis politics in idaho republicans were jubilant in ohio they were hopeful in arkansas where they never had a chance republicans went about their workaday tasks and forgot politics but as homeward bound franklin roosevelt looked at rapidly mounting primary returns from his 48 tates states last week he must have wondered whether his next congress would be any more coherent than the last his purge had partially failed because iolas gillette massouris Mis souris dark clark and nevadas mccarran were sure of reelection election re but with a few exceptions his wheel horses were vere suie to be back in washington next winter to most observers it looked like congress would again be a hodgepodge hodge podge of multicolored multi colored political thought without party lines judiciously timed the national emergency councils report on conditions in the south was released z 4 SENATOR POPE idaho had its oun purge just as the president marched through georgia to crack down on sen walter F george the bitter tongued new deal foe whom he hopes will be defeated by lawrence camp but F franklin roosevelt had to march around south carolina on his way back to washington because c a use sen cotton ed smith was almost certain to be regardless of presidential wishes severest blow to new dualism last week came when sen james pope in and out administration supporter was defeated for by rep D worth dark clark conservative democrat but republican primary vote was small indicating that many a G 0 P had voted the democratic ticket to oust pope in arkansas new dealer hattie W caraway was to the senate and will be elected next november in ohio franklin roose belts classmate at harvard sen robert J bulkley was given the democratic nomination over gov martin L davey arch foe of the C 1 I 0 chios senatorial race will be interesting because bulkley will face robert A taft a former presidents son in the final election labor republic steel corporations tom W girdler has never been soft spoken last week he stormed washington and in one fell swoop denounced 1 john L lewis C I 1 0 for violence and intimidation 2 the national labor relations board for abridging freedom of f speech and 3 sen robert M la Fol lettes civil liberties committee for keeping its work one sided behind these blasts was last years year Ps little steel strike ready for release was an N L R B d decision finding republic guilty of unfair labor practices in the little steel fiasco ready too were orders for republic to reinstate 5 C 1 I 0 strikers and to disestablish eta establish blish alleged company dominac ed u unions n ions that republic objected is to state the case mildly in its page brief were exceptions what little steel most wanted was a chance to state its opinion of C 1 I 0 a chance the labor board seemed unwilling to offer thundered the report we contend the national labor relations act as construed in this connection is unconstitutional as abridging freedom of speech next day tom girdler carried his fight to the civil liberties committee climaxing a three week probe of last summers bitter labor strife flaring up before senator lafal lettes quiet relentless cross exam he proved no humble witness denied was the right to read a statement criticizing the committees work as one sided and de daring claring it would be only tair fair to probe C I 1 0 s records to show what was being done with a steel workers fund domestic om estic last month a saturday evening post article by alva johnson estimated son james Roosevel ts annual insurance business at to a year in itself not a very definite guess last week to rival colliers magazine went jimmy Roosevel ts income tax returns for the past five years showing total annual income ranging from 10 to the five year total 1 said son james in comment 1 I got into places I 1 never would ibave have if I 1 the son of the president but son or no son I 1 got tossed out a lot too countered alva johnson his figures show that his net income would have been more than last year except that he split it to avoid higher tax brackets aviation last week at floyd bennett field ended the first nonstop non stop berlin to new york flight down from rain drenched skies dropped germanys germanas Germ anys 24 passenger monoplane brandenburg carrying a crew of four in record time of 24 hours 57 minutes 0 because tiny canton and enderbury islands are perfect mid pacific stopping off places for transoceanic planes the U S asserted its claim last march by planting colonists on each great britain protested anxious to guard her thus far undeveloped pacific air rights last week came as novel a settlement as diplomats have ever seen canton and enderbury will be owned and developed jointly as U S british aviation bases crime in the early Chi cagos gang warfare was so bad that many an out of town visitor wired ahead tor for police protection but scarface AMI al capone finally went to alcatraz and A century of progress exposition helped make the town decent last week peaceful chicago wondered if it would again have gun trouble checking their records police found six underworld murders since bookie harry minor was shot down june 29 four others had been reported the previous 12 months but while al capone and bugs moran fought a bootlegging war Chi cagos current massacre apparently has roots in labor warfare five vie victims have been union workers two were aides of an alderman foreign foreia it the japanese say hill has fallen into their hands they lie 1 peter kikiloi itch kleim lieutenant of infantry in the soviet army am now my dit division ision in the trenches on the hill chich is safe in our hands I 1 can see the japanese trenches only carets arasi amay ou ny the yellow bandits are plastering our positions with machine gun fire seated at their radios one night last week the whole of dussias Rus sias soviet union heard machine gun a and nd rifle fire along the distant front where siberia Manchu kuo and korea converge next day heavy soviet artillery pounded the whole four mile front MAXIM LITVINOFF lie ile crossed swords and icon japan and russia were continuing their five year secret war which broke into international headlines july 11 throughout the day cannons boomed fiercely all doubt about soviet artillery accuracy was dissipated only one or two sighting shots preceded each direct hit it if they had held hill the night before japans soldiers now retreated under the heaviest bombardment bar dment since the world war still more disturbing were reports that russia was building new defenses on nearby bay where hostilities were sure to break out next night the fight continued but at 11 in the morning bugles sounded from either trench and ominous in ous silence filled the shell torn air then it was apparent the war was over thus temporarily at least ended a skirmish of diplomatic wits in tar far away moscow foreign minister maxim litvinoff had crossed verbal swords with amb ambassador asbador mamora Shiga mitsu for two solid weeks finally bestin besting 9 him te terms of truce 1 firing would stop and troops would remain at their present fronts 2 all other points at issue would be negotiated between the two nations japan had sued first for peace had surrendered to maxim lit vi in insistence si stence that the cation commission carry two japanese and two russians rather than three men each from japan russia I 1 and anal japan apan dominated Manchu kuo people when Sw edens eligible prince bertil visited new york last month he wined one night at a fashionable manhattan night club with friends one friend was blonde and buxom lesley hyde ripley lauded in next mornings papers for drinking milk instead of champagne if lesley ripley drank milk to save money her father spent much more tha than her savings on his daughters debut debu t last week A seldom fallible sign of U S business trend is the amount in invested by socialite fathers on their daughters coming out parties when franklyn hutton staged barbaras debut money ran free throughout the U S depression ali 00 4 4 I 1 Z f t LESLEY HYDE RIPLEY she aas launched for debutantes fared not so well but when henry B H ripley spent at least to launch lesley in the social swim it appeared that recession must surely be over one thousand guests be sported themselves in a ballroom added to the ripley mansion they washed down supper and breakfast with champagne for a total outlay of they danced and the pipers earned decorations nicked the family purse for but unlike many such parties the ripley roman holiday was bought and paid for within 24 hours 0 samuel insull once monarch of a utilities empire died in a paris subway station july 17 clutching a five cent commutation ticket last week his will was filed 49 Chlo chicago agas probate court samuel instills In estate not in ex excess cess of 1000 Busi business riess in 1934 administrator hugh johnson organized a consumer goods industries committee to make periodic forecasts on U S trade winds last week came its most recent report trade winds are blowing well said 20 major executives will blow even better in the autumn excerpts from typical replies from lammont dupont since july 1 we have operated 5 per cent above standard business has improved about 15 per cent from general foods clarence francis we believe the last half of the year particularly the last quarter will give a fairly good account of itself miscellany A fortnight had passed since howland spencer spence sold to father divine his acre estate across the hudson neighbor franklin roosevelt but not until last week did father divines personal army of cherubim S and seraphime serap hims make a tour of inspection led by the man they call god 2500 black and white cultists plied up the river from harlem in a side wheel excursion boat stopping first at a newly acquired heaven near milton N Y over a table piled high with cold chicken and steaming corn har lems self appointed messiah told his rapt audience As his close neighbors we are not going to disgrace the president we aim to grace him by our presence peace everybody peace answered a thousand throats next day as father divine made his personal inspection at crum elbow dow eleanor roosevelt hopped in her car across the river headed for nearby poughkeepsie if inquiring reporters thought she would talk about her new neighbors the first lady outfoxed out foxed them father divine she parried what estate oh you mean that place across the river b been een sold 0 june 30 found the average U S citizen with in his pocket by july 31 said the U S treasury department part ment last week the figure had dropped to ahr throughout america john public checked his bank account tried to figure where he had lost 10 cents in 31 days 9 0 one night last week hands handsome ome wealthy mr and mrs william townsend adlee retired at their monroe N Y estate sometime later a handyman smelled smoke down from a second story window lumped jumped nurse lillian henyon with the adlees 21 infant As firemen watched helpless the flaming house collapsed and the baby became an orphan |
