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Show Ncits ItcvicMV of Current Events SAMOAN CLIPPER IS LOST Captain Musiclc and Six Others Die as Flying Boat Is Destroyed Near Pago Pago, Samoa Civil War in C.I.O. JOHN L. LEWIS, head of the C. " I. O., and David Dubinsky, who has been one of his chief lieutenants, lieuten-ants, seem to have reached the parting part-ing of the ways and have been lambasting lam-basting each other in public without with-out restraint. Dubinsky, chief of the big International Ladies' Garment Gar-ment Workers' union, addressing 1,200 members of his executive boards, said Lewis was to blame for the collapse of peace negotiations between the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L., and declared novone man had a mortgage on the labor movement. He also denounced the infiltration of Communists into the C. I. O. To this Lewis retorted with what Dubinsky called wisecracks, and the latter said: "I venture to say that, without distinction as to group or formation, the laboring masses of America are hungering and praying pray-ing for peace and it is my belief, Mr. Lewis' wisecracking to the contrary con-trary notwithstanding, that they will not be denied such peace for long." Two More for Franco "HIEF officials of Austria and Hungary, after a conference with Italian Foreign Minister Ciano, announced their governments would recognize the Spanish regime of Gen. Francisco Franco. The two powers, linked with Italy by the Rome pact, expressed sympathy sym-pathy with the Rome-Berlin axis and a determination to fight Communist Com-munist propaganda, but did not follow fol-low Italy into the anti-Communist t x v x " - " " ,s " ' " - 4 x ' 1 I sl iv -':- 1 L- 7 ; 1 I x A r ' , , 1 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right, shakes hands with the speaker of the house, William B. Bankbead of Alabama, left, as Vice President John Nance Garner looks on, at the Jackson Day dinner in Washington. SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Big Flying Boat Destroyed SAMOAN CLIPPER, huge flying boat of the Pan-American Airways, Air-ways, fell Into the Pacific ocean near Samoa, carrying the seven pact wun Lrermany and Japan. Japanese Too Arrogant REAT BRITAIN'S government, according to dispatches from London, has finally been driven by Japanese arrogance at Shanghai to i " : -W; members 01 uie crew to their deaths. There were no passengers, pas-sengers, for the ship was makig one of its pioneering flights on the newly established estab-lished route across the Pacific. It was on the way from Pago Pago harbor, American Samoa, to Auckland. New Zea- the point of resistance. resist-ance. The invaders have been demanding demand-ing full control of the captured city, to the virtual exclusion of other foreign Interests, In-terests, and their troops there have treated British policemen po-licemen in the international inter-national settlement 304,000, a decrease of $841,356,000 from the present fiscal year. The deficit will be financed through Social Security and other trust funds and not through public borrowing. The deficit estimate for the fiscal year which ends June 30 has been raised from $695,000,000 to $1,088,-100,000, $1,088,-100,000, because of the business recession. re-cession. Expenditures for new highways, new rivers and harbors projects, new public buildings, new reclamation recla-mation projects and other new public pub-lic works will be reduced sharply. The public debt will reach a record rec-ord hifih of $38,528,200,000 on June 30, 1939. More G.O.P. Programs jT ERTRAND SNELL, minority leader In the house, and Col. Frank Knox, Republican candidate for the vice presidency In 193G, have Capt. Edwin C. Musick land, and had turned back toward Pago Neville Chamberlain very roughly. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain ; ' i set forth programs for the G. O. P. and other opponents of the New Deal. Mr. Snell in a radio ra-dio address proposed pro-posed to restore confidence to the investing in-vesting public and revive business activity ac-tivity by stopping wasteful expendi- Frank Knox hnrlfnt nnrt linlliflnt- Pago because of an oil leak. Presumably Pre-sumably it was dumping gasoline to facilitate landing and the fuel exploded, ex-ploded, destroying the plane. First in the list of victims was Capt. Edwin C. Musick, considered the most experienced ocean flyer in the world and chief pilot of the Pacific Pa-cific division of Pan-American. He was one of the most conservative of flyers and officials of the company com-pany said he and his flight crew were entirely blameless for the disaster. Those who perished with Musick were First Officer Cecil G. Sellers, Junior Flight Officer Paul S. Trunk, F. J. MacLean, J. W. Stickrod, J. A. Brooks and J. T. Findlay. Plane Crashes in Rockies ONE of Northwest Airlines' new Lockheed Zephyr passenger planes, flying from Seattle to Chicago, Chi-cago, struck a snow-covered peak 'if the Rocky mountains near Bo.e-man, Bo.e-man, Mont, and was smashed and burned. All aboard, including eight passengers and two pilots, were killed, their charred bodies being found by a party that made its way through a raging blizzard to the scene of the accident. Officials of the company could not explain the disaster but said all ships of the new type were grounded pending investigation. Blow for La Follctte WISCONSIN'S Supremo court gave a smashing blow to the La Follctte program for public ownership own-ership of utilities when it declared the Wisconsin development authority author-ity act unconstitutional, being an illegal il-legal delegation of the state's sovereign sov-ereign governmental power to a private pri-vate corporation. By knocking out the WDA the court also sounded the death knell for the Wisconsin agricultural authority au-thority act, court attaches said. -k Ing Roosevelt social and economic experiments that he said have inspired in-spired distrust of the government and fenrs of the destruction of the capitalist system. Colonel Knox, speaking at a dinner din-ner in Cleveland, declared that the Republican parly must turn away from the hij;h protective tariff, which it has championed for decades, dec-ades, and recognize that the time has come to reduce tariffs to meet changing conditions. "Protect wage standards, yes!" he said. "Continue to protect monopoly, mo-nopoly, no!" has taken personal command of a British program designed to curb the Japanese expansion of power, and is keeping Washington and Paris fully informed of his plans and actions. Also he has been In frequent telephonic conversation with Foreign Minister Eden, vacationing vaca-tioning at Cannes. A high government official in London Lon-don said Chamberlain had resolved "not to stand for Japanese use of military superiority in the present emergency to force concessions in Shanghai." It was made plain that Britain would act only in harmony with the United States and France. That Uie Japanese are not afraid of Great Britain was indicated by a statement by Rear Admiral Tanet-suga Tanet-suga Sosa, retired, maintaining that it would be easy for the Japanese navy to reduce the British strongholds strong-holds at Hongkong and Singapore before the British main fleet could get there. Sosa said the only thing that could save Britain was to draw the United States into the war. Naval Building Race FRANCE'S reply to the recent announcement an-nouncement that Italy would build two 35.000 ton battleships is the decision to construct two battleships battle-ships of 42.000 tons each, exceeded in size only by the British battle cruiser Hood. The navy committee of the chamber of deputies was preparing pre-paring to nsk Minister of Finance Georges Bonnet to supplement the 1938 naval budget by 2,000,000.000 francs from the sorely pressed treasury to keep ahead of Mussolini's Musso-lini's forces at sea. Marriago Mills Stopped INDIANA'S notorious marriago mills were given a death blow when the State Supreme court upheld up-held a statute enacted 86 years ago forbidding county clerks to issuo marriage licenses to women who are not residents of the county in which the license Is Issued. Tho decision was hailed by officials of-ficials of slates that havo raised their marital standards by enacting hygienic laws regulating issuanco of marriago licenses. Civil Servico Lags CONGRESS was told by the civil service commission that its failure fail-ure to place employees of newly created cre-ated government agencies was becoming be-coming "n matter of grave public concern." In its annual report tho commission commis-sion said there was no Important extension ex-tension of tho civil servico during tho fiscal year of 1937. "Wholesalo exemptions such ns havo been permitted hi tho last year must cease If tho merit system is to prevail," tho commission said. Whoclcr Hits I.C.C. CKNATOU BUIITON K. WHEF.L-Kll WHEF.L-Kll of Montana, chairman of tho Bcnalo rullrnml Ihumco investigating investigat-ing cominillee, charged In n Blate-nienl Blate-nienl that tho Inlcrstalo coinmorco commission Is using "trick rabbits" In nolving currier problems. Wheeler's Ire was nroused by conditions con-ditions Kui'i'imniling n loan of $11,(11111,0110 by the H KC to tho Frio railroad nnd an $11.00(1,1)00 HFC lonn to tho 1 t:i Ml mora nod Ohio riillroud. r." War Vote Plan Killed KPH F.SENTATIVE LOUIS LUD- LOW'S war referendum resolution resolu-tion will not be acted on at present, for the house, by a vote of 209 to ll'.fl, left it In committee for the remainder of the session. This was a victory for the admin-Istralum admin-Istralum forces and was brought about nfler President Roosevelt himself had taken a hand in the controversy. Through a letter to Speaker Iiankhcad the President had warned congress that adoption of the resolution would hamper any chief executive in the conduct of foreign for-eign relations and would lead other nations to believe they could violate American rights with Impunity. Jackson Day Foasts rKMOCRATS who partook of Jackson day banquets In various vari-ous large cities paid about $2.r0,000 into the purse of tho party's national na-tional committee. At the dinner In Washington President Roosevelt pleaded with tho nation to understand under-stand that his administration believes be-lieves It Is helping and not hurting business by tho drive against monopolistic mo-nopolistic practices. His talk was rather conciliatory. Ho promised a fight, but ho called It a cheerful light on his part, ngainst a mere handful of the total business men and bankers and industrialists who can be expected to "fight to the last ditch to retain such autocratic control over the Industry nnd tho finances of the country ns they now possess." At the New York banquet Jim Furley staged the debut of Robert II. Jackson, nsslslant attorney general, gen-eral, as a candidate for the govcrnor-aliip govcrnor-aliip of tho Empire state. Tho young lawyer, who has attracted public attention at-tention recently by attacks on big business, wan Ihc principal speaker. At a luncheon pal ly he ailmillcil lie would bo thu Democratic nominee for governor "If thu parly wants mu." Budget Message Summary MORE vitally important than his annual message on the state of the nation was President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's budget message to congress.' In it he forecast a deficit of $1,0HU,. 129,000 for the current fiscal year which ends on June 30, and a deficit of $!H9,(iOO,000 for tho 193!) fiscal year. There was no promise that the budget would be balanced in the near future, the national revenue estimates es-timates being reduced because of the depression. Nearly a billion dollars was asked by tho President for national defense de-fense because of "world conditions over which this nation has no control," con-trol," and more may be called for soon for tho same purpose. Summarized, the President's budget statement said: Revenues for the next fiscal year will total $5,010,100,01)0, a decrease of $101,070,000 from the present fiscal fis-cal year. Expenditures, exclusive of debt retirement.), will total .f,(i,ll9(!,OIIO,(ll(), a decrease of $.r,:il),(i00,0l)0 from the present fiscal year. National defense appropriations will total $!l!ll,300,000, an Increase of $31, :!()(),()()(). Later the President may ask for additional funds to construct several extra naval vessels. Relief expenditures for the next fiscal year will total roughly $l,l3ll,- |