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Show IVews Review of Current Events SIno-Japanese Crisis JUST after a verbal agreement between Chinese and Japanese military commanders had appeared to have prevented an impending renewal re-newal of the Sino-Japanese war, the Japanese government officially announced an-nounced that heavy concentration of Chinese troops had been made at Peiping, constituting a direct act 'of aggression against Japan. At the same time the Nanking government claimed that 17 Japanese Japa-nese troop trair-S, carrying 30,000 soldiers, were en route to North China from Corea and Manchukuo. Earlier, 12,000 Japanese troops were said to have arrived in North China to supplement the regular garrison of 7,000. At Tientsin, Gen. Sung Cheh-Yuan, chairman of the Hopei-Chahar political council and commander of the Chinese forces in North China, had complied verbally with the Japanese Jap-anese ultimatum for peace, although al-though he refused to sign anything. In a talk with Lieut. -Gen. Kiyoshi Katsuki, the Japanese commander, he apologized for the clash between Japanese troops and the Chinese Twenty-ninth army at Lukowkiao July 7, the incident which perpetrated perpe-trated the new crisis, and expressed the regrets of the Hopei-Chahar council. He said that he would dismiss dis-miss several of his officers as a punishment. Gen. Sung assured the Japanese he would evacuate the area west of Peiping, and would do his utmost to suppress communism and anti- SENATE KILLS COURT BILL Votes 70 to 20 to Recommit . . . Elect Barkley New Majority Leader . . Spanish War Enters Second Year , r '"a - " ,;- k", -1 r"'A -,v c: A v V --f",? ) l - . e -v -4 r , - - i A ;'-:v A,, A-"- f -Vv- :' - , - ... Senator Harrison (right) Congratulates Senator Barkley. NV SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. in the federal tax laws. Congress was all for quick adjournment, the President was told. The possibility possibil-ity of adjourning congress, then recalling re-calling it in special session in the late fall, with committees continuing continu-ing to function in the Interim, was then discussed, but what agreement had been reached was not announced. an-nounced. A Citizen Takes His Pen CRUSHING blow to the Presi- ' dent's court program, delivered at the time it hurt most, was a letter let-ter written by Gov. Herbert H. Leh- Japanese activities. Part of the agreement was that both Chinese and Japanese troops should be withdrawn from the walled city of Wanpingshien, suburb of Peiping. But Chinese troops refused re-fused to withdraw when, they alleged, al-leged, it became certain the Japanese Japa-nese had no intention of withdrawing, withdraw-ing, either. In the midst of many conflicting and confusing reports the outcome of any truce was problematical problem-atical to say the least. Europe Short on Grain EUROPE began to worry about the possibilities of a hungry winter as early threshing indicated a serious grain shortage. Germany's shortage was estimated estimat-ed at 3,000,000 tons. The deficit will be met partly with increased consumption con-sumption of potatoes and sugar beets, and partly with cheap, plentiful plenti-ful corn from southeastern Europe. It is expected, even so, that Germany Ger-many will have to buy 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 tons from other foreign countries. Experts estimated that the German harvest for 1937 would be 10 to 20 per cent below the average aver-age for the years 1930-35. Poland, from which Germany has been able to buy grain in the past, will not be able to sell any this year, while Hungarian, Rumanian and Jugoslavian Ju-goslavian crops will be smaller than last year, because of drouth. It was believed that if the current drouth continued the farmers of Great Britain would likewise suffer; rainfall in the past month has been about one-fifth normal. Of the Baltic countries only Lithuania, Lithu-ania, it is believed, will have a crop equal to her needs. Crops suffered badly in Latvia, Esthonia and Fin- mMAAAl a: ill, man of New York to I Sen. Robert F. Wag-i Wag-i ner of that state. The letter, made public, revealed Governor Lehman's opinion "as a citizen of the state of New York" that the bill would be "contrary" "contra-ry" to the "interests" "inter-ests" of the people of the state. "Its enactment," en-actment," the governor gov-ernor wrote, "would 'Glory Be to God!' TA YING for weeks, the scheme to add to the number of justices of the Supreme court finally choked its last gasp and left this world. On a roll-call vote the United States senate voted to recommit the Robinson Rob-inson substitute for the President's original bill to the judiciary committee. com-mittee. The vote was 70 to 20, the most crushing defeat the President's legislation has yet suffered at the hands of a house of congress. In an agreement made at a session ses-sion of the judiciary committee earlier, ear-lier, it had been decided to let the opposition senators write their own bill, an innocuous measure for "judicial "ju-dicial reform" not dealing in any way with the Supreme court. Senator Sena-tor Barkley, the new majority leader, lead-er, attempted to save the President's Presi-dent's face by having the bill left on the calendar, but he never had a chance. When the roll-call came, even Senators Ashurst of Arizona and Minton of Indiana, two of the Supreme court bill's chief supporters, support-ers, voted to recommit. "Glory be to God!" said Sen. Hiram Hi-ram Johnson (Rep., Calif.) when the results of the roll call were made known. The applause that bellowed forth from the senators and gallery alike left no doubt that the veteran from California had voiced the sentiments of the great majority. Low Interest for Farmers BY A vote of 71 to 19, the senate overrode the President's veto of a bill extending for a year low interest inter-est rates on loans to farmers. It was a defeat even more crushing than the recommission of the court bill, and made the bill a law without with-out the President's signature, for the house had previously passed it by a two-thirds majority over Mr. Roosevelt's veto. Senator Barkley made a halfhearted half-hearted attempt to stave off the overwhelming vote, and the defeat was accepted by many observers as an expression of resentment over Barkley's having been elected majority ma-jority leader instead of Sen. Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Gov. Lehman create a greatly dangerous precedent prece-dent which could be availed of by future less well-intentioned administrations admin-istrations for the purpose of oppression oppres-sion or for the curtailment of the constitutional rights of our citizens." citi-zens." Bloody Anniversary ' I ''HE Spanish civil war entered land. Only Spain, in all Europe, with an increase of 15 per cent over last year's grain harvest, appears ap-pears likely to enjoy a wcll-filloJ bread basket. De Valera Is Re-elected TF HIS party. Fianna Fail, can keep in power that long, Enmon de Valera will be president of the executive council of the Irish Free State for another five years. lie was elected to the nation's highest office by a vote of 82 to 52 in the dail eirennn (parliament). De Valera, Va-lera, in favor of severing all ties with Great Britain, won even the vote of the labor group, which does - its second year. For the populations popu-lations of rebel cities, the occasion was one for joyous celebration, with fiestas, bull fights and concerts the order of the day. Gen. Francisco Franco, commander of the insurgent insur-gent forces, publicly proclaimed it a "year of triumph." He ordered that all communications and public documents for the next twelve months be dated as of "the second year of triumph." In the Erst "year of triumph," more than a million persons, including includ-ing women and children, were killed. The insurgents claim to have taken 34 of the 50 provincial capitals capi-tals of the country, and all of its not endorse his party. It was believed that De Valem would go ahead with legislation necessary nec-essary to implement the new constitution con-stitution approved in the plebiscite Barkley, 33; Harrison, 37 S;EN. WILLIAM H. DIETERICH . of Illinois changed his mind at the last minute and today Alben W. Barkley, hard-fisted, blustering sen- f y a A ' "4 Ai ' - ' i i- y , A ator from Kentucky, is the majority leader lead-er of the United States senate, succeeding suc-ceeding the late Joseph Jos-eph T. Robinson of Arkansas. The vote was 38 for Barkley to 37 for Sen. Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Missis-sippi. The conservative Democrats in the senate had been assured as-sured of 38 voles. Viccl'rcsidcnt Garner colonies. They have captured six of the eleven cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants: Seville, Malaga, Bilbao, Saragossa, Cordoba and Granada. The rebels lost little time In attempting at-tempting to regain their losses around Madrid. Franco unleashed the full power of his main army of 1G0.000 in a drive to recapture Bru-ncte Bru-ncte and other suburbs of the loyalist loy-alist stronghold; they were met by at least 250,000 defending government govern-ment troops. Every weapon of war except gas was used. There was hand-to-hand fighting in the trenches and the greatest use of artillery since the World war as the fiercest battle of the Spanish conflict raged. The battle was opened by as spectacular spec-tacular an aerial fight as the world has seen in years; insurgents were reported to have lost 27 planes against only four for the loyalists. If there were any definite gains made in a week's fighting, they were probably on the side of the insurgents, insur-gents, observers reported, although the government estimated the rebels reb-els had lost 10,000 men. Japs Maul U. S. Women ASSAULT upon two American women by sentries In the Japanese Jap-anese embassy in Peiping brought vigorous protests, both orally and in writing, from Hie United Slates embassy. The two women, Mrs. Helen It. Jones of Detroit and Miss Carol I.al.hrop oT Wasliinglon, D. C, wro walking through the embassy when sentries charred them from behind windbag ba ri'ieades. While one Ki'iil.ry kicked Mi::s I ,a tlinip in llic- ::i'l', anolliiT held oil' Mrs. Junes will! tin; Hal. of hi:: bayonet. When the Women WIT" -ee:r:ed Ihey were rnndily i.lieved, Mrs, Jnnei -being furrefnlly kiii.ed from behind. of July 1. He would in that case set up a senate and elect a president by popular vote, as the constitution provides. If De Valera is elected president, to serve seven years, po litical experts say he will virtual!) disappear from politics and h party will break up. Static Wrecked Hindenburc 'TpHE spectacular crash of tin Zeppelin Ilincleuburg, killing X at Lnkehurst, N. J., last May 6, war probably caused by an unseen spark of static electricity which jumped from the atmosphere to the frame oJ the dirigible. At least this is th theory of tho board of inquiry which investigated the accident and reported re-ported to Secretary of Commcrci Daniel C. Roper. The experts considered every other oth-er possible cause fire, sabotage, brush discharge of electricity from sharp points on the ship, broken propeller blade, radio transmitter spark lightning and structural failure fail-ure and decided that their theory most nearly fitted the circuit stances attending the disaster. Inventor of Wireless Dies GUGL1ELMO MARCONI, who ol-tend ol-tend the 1 ives of nil of us when he Invented the wireless, died suddenly of n heart attack at bis homo in Itiime. He was sixly-lbree years old, bad been in good health and was planning the const riiel ion of n new radii) slalion in Hie Vatlear at the lime of bis death, l'remloi Mussolini paid hoinai.e lo lb,- ,;real inventor, kissing the dead man', forehead in reverence. ' enough to elect Harrison, orf the eve of the secret election. But that night Dieterich, apparently under pressure from the Democratic party organization in Illinois, begged Harrison Har-rison to release his pledged vote, in order that the President's choice might head the party in the senate. The slim victory by no means patched the obvious party rift. Even the administration admitted that the President's Supreme court bill was virtually dead, even then. Vice President Garner visited Sen. Burton Bur-ton K. Wheeler of Montana, leader of the opposition forces, and invited the opposition, which it was believed be-lieved had enough votes to recommit recom-mit the substitute bill to the judiciary judici-ary committer.., to draft a new bill. President Roosevelt then told Senators Sen-ators Harkley and Harrison at the While House that four measures "must" be passed before the January Janu-ary session: The minimum wage, maximum hours ami child labor bill; the ne-,7 AAA and ever-noriiial granary bill; tin; Wagner bousing bill, and legislation to phi; loophole:) |