Show LABOR ambitions according to william green president of the american federation of labor his arch rival john L lewis desires to be president of the united states speaking before 1500 delegates to the pennsylvania A F of L convention green charged that lewis was trying to form a third party so that he could become its presidential candidate speaking in west virginia last month lewis stated that unless the democrats selected candidates acceptable cep table to the common people and to labor he would advocate a convention for every U S citizen in greens pennsylvania address he was cheered when he said he lewis says the president is no good nobody in the democratic party is any good he cant find anybody that measures up so he looks around and says im the man green asserted that A F of L would refuse to affiliate with any third party move MAY DAY contrasts thousands of americas rural villages and towns regard may day as a time of traditional fun and frolic for U S children but in the major cities of the world the day takes on a varying hue it is usually a day for fok the voice of labor to be heard this year even that voice was quieted for laborers listened to still another voice that of military might around the world may day 1940 style sounded like this stockholm addressing a gathering of swedish citizens premier albin hansson told the world that sweden was determined ter mined to defend her neutrality with all our power he pleaded for swedish people to cooperate fully with the government in in every way to meet the present international situation both the allies a and nd germa premier ny have ag yg assured hansson sweden that her neutrality will be respected but lately the nation has undertaken broad military precautions berlin adolf hillers Hit lers party deputy rudolf hess declared to a group of workers that the germ german n people were engaged in this years may day celebration with the certainty of victory as never before he ridiculed all allied hopes for germanys germanas Germ anys internal collapse moscow always impressive on may day dussias Rus sias parade this year lived up to tradition as thousands of troops filed by the tomb of len lenin in joseph stalin stood for hours on the reviewing stand as his might was revealed before him in the nev er ending line of soldiers members of the american diplomatic corps were among the thousands of spectators who watched the ceremonies and heard the speakers declare that capitalistic governments and the soviet were steadily growing further apart miscellany C 41 old glory was lowered in little america overnight it will stay lowered for four months until august 28 23 when the sun will reappear in the antarctic regions C A report from manila philippine islands indicated that a wave of head hunting was under way in the interior of the nueva eija eija province three homesteaders were said to have been be headed the wild tribesmen are fighting encroachment croach ment upon their ancestral hunting grounds by farmers C L winds ot of intensity swept across the central united states taking a toll of at least 12 lives in illinois missouri and arkansas A cloudburst in east texas caused thousands of dollars worth of property dar damage nae as at least six persons were ki lulled 1 ed in the area fl 41 george al colian cohan wrote over there when the boys were going across to get the kaiser the war left plenty of headaches but the veteran actor got a gold medal for his song the other day from president roosevelt it had been voted by coneless con eress |