Show news review of current events the world over suspension ol of ten unions voted by federation council many oil men alen indicted for conspiracy Alet metaxas axas dictator of greece by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 tern newspaper union U UNLESS john L lewis and his associates in the committee for industrial organization repent and cease their rebellious activities before september 5 the ten unions they head will be under suspension from the american Arhe rican federation of labor such was the verdict of t the h e federations executive council which passed on the harges barges of john P frey president of the metal trades J P frey division that the CIO was fomenting insurrection and rebellion david dubinsky head of the garment workers cast the only vote against the suspension order lewis having definitely set himself against any peace overtures it appeared that the suspension certainly would be put into eff effect act the next move will be up to the tampa convention in the fall fail which will be asked to vote the expulsion of the refractory unions the ten unions accused by mr air frey and found guilty are amalgamated clothing workers kers sidney hillman president oil field gas well and refinery workers harvey fremming president mine mill and smelter workers thomas H brown president ladies garment workers david dubinsky president textile workers thomas F mcmahon president flat glass workers glen mccabe president iron steel and tin workers M F tighe president automobile workers horn homer e r martin president rubber workers S H dalrymple president action on the international typographical union whose president C P howard is secretary of the CIO and the united hat cap and millinery workers part of whom are not associated with the CIO was deferred the suspended ux u ions have a membership of about one million mi Illon or nearly one third of the total in the federation the council stated this is the first attempt ever made during the existence of the A F of L covering a period of more than SO 50 years to set up a dual movement within it was the opinion of the executive council that it could not condone the setting up of a rival organization within the officially recognized family of organized labor or tolerate and countenance it without sacrificing its self respect or making an unconditional surrender to a minority group composed of members who are in open rebellion to democratic procedure and majority rule as exemplified at the late convention of the A F of L lewis characterized the councils action as one of incredible and crass stupidity and said that it was dictated by personal selfishness and frantic fear SIX passengers passenger and two p pilots lots were instantly killed when a big lockheed electra plane of the chicago and southern airlines crashed a few minutes after taking off from the airport of st louis mo at this writing 1 there is no explanation for the di disaster s aster the plane was al new weather not bad though skies were overcast the plane was bound from new orleans for chicago and five of the victims were residents of the latter city one of the dead was vernon a veteran pilot and husband of phoebe a noted flyer CHARGED by the government with conspiracy to violate the antitrust anti trust law by combining to dominate the purchasing of oil in the texas T e x a s louisiana and oklahoma fields and to fix prices of gasoline in the middle e west 58 persons 23 petroleum concerns and three publishing companies were indicted t by a federal grand jury in madison wis among the A prominent defendants are edward G ui M dawes of chicago president of the standard oil company of indiana henry M dawes of evanston ill president of the pure oil company and many officials of standard oil pure oil deep rock so cony vacuum and various other oil concerns and their subsidiaries also in the list are warren C platt of cleveland publisher of the national petroleum news and platts bilgram Oil gram his two publications and the chicago journal of commerce the indictment charged that the defendant oil companies formed pools in the east texas and mid continent fields for the purpose of purchasing gasoline at artificially high prices from independent producers and in furtherance of such a scheme were members of associations which included the independents inde pen further it was charged that independent refiners refinery re finers to aid the plan had curtailed their production n of gasoline this said mr platt is exactly what the oil companies did with the approval of secretary of the interior harold L ickes administrator of the NHA petrol eurg code when efforts were being made to limit the production of gasoline pre prevent venit the flow of excess quota oil into market channels and raise prices in that turbulent industry the governments charge turns on whether a practice legally st started art and carried on under the recent petroleum code was continued in illegal manner after the was killed by the united states supreme court mr platt said E crop statisticians esti mate that as a result of the record breaking drouth this years corn crop will be reduced to bushels which would be the smallest yield since 1881 except for the disastrous drouth year of 1934 in that year total production was but the acreage w was as smaller than it is this season argentine farmers are expected to profit to the extent of or more as a result of the keen competition for corn between the united states and europe which has recently lifted prices about 17 cents per bushel in the buenos aires market PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was 1 visibly aroused by republican charges that the new dealers were seeking to reap from the drouth conditions at his press conference he broke with the usual rule by permitting himself to be directly quoted as saying it is a great disservice to the proper administration of any government to link up human misery with partisan politics T THERE HERE is another dictator dictatorship c in n europe this time in greece gen john metaxas premier announced that a general strike fost e r e d by communists was likely to lead to serious disturbances so s 0 with the approval of king george 11 II he declared martial law dissolved parliament li postponed elections indefinitely and mobilized all workers in essential services such as gen n Alet Metaxas m axas railways in order that called to the colors they would be directly under government control strong guards were mounted at power stations gas works and other vital points and all soldiers and police not on guard duty were held in barracks ready for action metaxas promised the enforcement of an eight hour day a minimum wage and a social insurance system he remodeled the cabnet cabinet taking for himself the army navy air and foreign affairs portfolios dispatches to bucharest said there had been clashes in the northern provinces of greece between workers and the military forces D DESPERATE fighting for possession of the passes in the guadarrama mountains north of madrid was going on between the government forces and the rebel troops loyalist soldiers were hurried to that region and madrid claimed some victories however the fascists on the northern side of the range were said to be b c within sight of the capital and in position for a vigorous advance the rebels scored in the south by landing 2000 moroccan troops from ceuta ceata after a lively sea and air fight in which two loyalist warships were driven off the loyalists were also reported to have met defeat near avila losing men and some tanks and trucks on the twentieth day of the rebellion the government announced it had captured the provinces of catalonia valencia murcia malaga ciudad real guadalajara badajoz badajos and the northern resort city of san sebastian fascist italy has been accused of aiding the spanish rebels and it is asserted a number of italian bombing planes were sent to them in morocco the leftist french government naturally is in sympathy with the madrid government and frenchmen unarmed have been given permission to cross the border to aid in putting down the rebellion german and russian sympathies also are ranged on opposite sides and all this caused fears that a general war might result france called on all other nations to preserve neutrality and spain warned italy and germany to keep hands off X HENRY W KEYES ot of SENATOR new hampshire has announced that he Is not a candidate for reelection e 1 by the republicans preferring to retire from active participation p aaion in public affairs the republicans public ans therefore will choose between former senator george H moses and gov H styles bridges both of whom have announced their candidacy for the nomination kansas republicans senator arthur capper and the democrats picked omar dinar ketchum of topeka in kentucky the democrats senator r M I 1 M logan whose republican opponent in november will be robert H lucas marion A the eccentric congressman from seattle reconsidered his decision to retire and announced that at the request of his mother he would be a candidate to succeed himself to show the people that I 1 am neither crazy nor foolish IN TN ZHE THE first few days of the olympic games in berlin the american track team piled up such an imposing number of points that it appeared certain none of the rival teams could catch up jesse owens of ohio state uni university hersity lead his mates in this victorious march winning three championships in the meter and meter runs and the broad jump in the longer dash he lowered the world and olympic marks ken carpenter of california won the discus throw with a new olympic record of meters and gordon dunn also of california was second earl meadows of texas wat was first in the pole vault with a new olympic mark and points were won by various other american athletes among the women contestants helen stephens of missouri distinguished herself by breaking the world record intro in two heats of the meter dash NEW YORK K republicans are to nominate a cand candidate bdate for governor at their party convention in september and col theodore roosevelt has said in a letter that was maee m a e e public that he is willing to accept that honor it if the party so desires colonel roosevelt n no 0 w forty eight years old was the republican can c a n didace for governor in 1924 and was defeated by alfred E col roosevelt smith since then he has been governor of puerto rico and gov arnor general of the philippines A VOLUNTARY cut of rl in the debts of distressed farmers was reported by the resettlement administration the debts it said were scaled down by creditors through the work of voluntary farm debt committees in bringing farmers and their creditors together in a neutral atmosphere during the ten months ended june 30 expenses of seeking debt readjustments taken from a fund provided by president roosevelt sept 1 last year amounted to 1 per cent of the total amount of debts involved the administration said so far of the allocated had been expended adno declaring pE CLARING that it will indorse no candidate of party in the presidential campaign the american liberty league states the league is neither an adjunct nor anielly of the republican party it is not an adjunct of the democratic party even though many of its principles harmonize with the excellent platform adopted by that party in 1932 and proclaimed as a covenant with the people to be faithfully kept certainly the league is not an adjunct of the new deal party the moment usurped control of the party of jefferson jackson cleveland and wilson it has not and will not contribute to any campaign fund W HILE the nations of europe were worrying over the spanish rebellion and the danger that it might bring about open rupture among the fascist and anti fascist governments of the continent steps were taken to assure peace germany and italy accepted the invitation of grea britain france and belgium to participate in a conference this fall from which it is hoped another and better locarno pact will emerge no date foi the conference has been set but it was expected to be held either just before or soon after the meeting of the league of nations assembly in geneva in september DEDRO PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS leader I 1 of the puerto rico nationalist party and sc seven ven of his associates were found guilty at san juan of a conspiracy to overthrow the united states government in the island by force and were sentenced by federal judge R A cooper to prison terms ranging from two tr to six years in the first trial tria I 1 of these men the jury had disagreed the case originated in a clash be tween nationalists and police 1 last october in which several persons were vere slain following this col E francis riggs chief of insular po lice was murdered presumably in ii revenge for the killing of nationalists in the october fight |