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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Serious LaLor TrouLles in Many States Moley "Warn3 the Administration Municipal Bankruptcy Act I3 HelJ Invalid. By EDWARD W. PICKARD W at urn Newspaper Union. EDWARD VI n is going to be crowned kins of England at Westminster Abbey- on May 'J7, 1937, the privy council having selected that (late and the monarch having approved It. So the duke of Norfolk, Nor-folk, earl marshal of England, put on his scarlet uniform and, accompanied accom-panied by three kings of arms, heralds, her-alds, pursuivants and trumpeters in gorgeous attire, went to St. James' palace, Trafalgar square. Temple Bar and the lioyal exchange and proclaimed the coronation date. A court of claims was appointed to determine who shall perform the services at the crowning, and it will be busy with this Job for several sev-eral months. themselves In financial straits to effect ef-fect a composition, with the approval approv-al of two-thirds of the bondholders or other creditors, whereby the indebtedness in-debtedness could be readjusted, scaled down, or, as Mr. Justice Mc-Keynolds Mc-Keynolds put It, "repudiated." LEON BLUM, elderly and rather fragile leader of the French Socialists, So-cialists, will soon be premier of his country, and he Is going to have a hnril flmo Hplntr Tin S d to the expectations of all the leftists, who are making a national hero of ulm. The other day hundreds of thousands thou-sands of French reds and pinks marched behind Blum or stood cheeringon the side- linaa anil nlthiroo THE United States treasury will undertake the biggest peacetime borrowing operation In the nation's history, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau disclosed in an olliclal announcement revealing that $2,-050,754,-110 of government securities will be offered the middle of June. This financing calls for an even billion-dollars of new money. In addition addi-tion to the $1,050,75-1,416 required to meet maturing obligations. "PRANK O. LOWDEN of niinols " will be the choice of the Republican Re-publican convention for President If he will accept the nomination." FACTORIES and farms in 15 states, in all parts of the Union, were affected by labor troubles which Intermediaries were trying in vain to settle. Leaders of organized labor claimed that from 30,000 to 4.'j,()O0 strikers already were out, but employers challenged the union claims that the strikes were effective. ef-fective. Workers In six plants of Remington Reming-ton Rand, Inc., were out on strike lifter uidon leaders ordered a walkout walk-out at Syracuse, N. Y. They Bald 0,000 workers In the company's New York, Ohio and Connecticut plants were Involved. Company officials' offi-cials' asserted there were 4,200 affected. af-fected. Six thousand barbers In lower Manhattan, New York, were ordered or-dered to Join 3,000 others in a strike which had spread over a wide area of Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn. .triking seamen in New York were said to number 7,000 and there was u good deal of trouble over their efforts to picket the piers and the house of Mayor La Guardia. Two hundred olllce workers and company police in Portsmouth, Ohio, were besieged in the strike-closed strike-closed plant of the Wheeling Steel corporation; nnd in Akron, Ohio, employees of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company were arrested arrest-ed for violating an anti-riot law. In other states the union leaders thus estimated the number on strike: Arkansas Three thousand tenant ten-ant farmers. California One thousand celery field workers. Oregon and Washington Seven thousand loggers. Wisconsin Twenty-five hundred Leon Blum of the leader were carried in the ranks or sold by hawkers in the crowds. This was on the occasion of the traditional memorial me-morial ceremony in Pere Lachaise cemetery for the Marxist martyrs of the Paris Commune in 1S7L M. Blum is said to be watching closely his publicity in the United States since his speech in which he intimated a desire to agree with Washington on the elimination of war debt discussions. He is hoping to be able to obtain loans from New York bankers. The Johnson law is naturally an Insurmountable obstacle to France's obtaining any kind of credit in America, but as the Paris Midi pointed out Blum went out of his way to declare that France has not forgotten the war debt and fully expects to bring It up for discussion some time In the future. I - ' j 1 - j fident prediction of a political observer who is usually well Informed and close to sources of national na-tional party news. He declared there was a steadily growing demand from many parts of the Union for the K,.., nomination of the Frank O. former governor of Lowden Illinois, who always has been popular with farmers and whose qualities of statesmanship are recognized generally throughout through-out the country. Mr. Lowden Is vigorous vig-orous and hale, and he Is always actively Interested in the welfare of his state and nation, especially in the problems of the agriculturist. workers in various Industries. Minnesota About 500 millwrights, ! fur and cereal workers. Indiana About 175 In various Industries. In-dustries. Iowa One hundred employees of the Burch Biscuit company in Des Moines. South Dakota Three hundred butchers at Morrell packing plant, Sioux Falls. Nebraska One hundred highway workers. Texas Sixty-two power plant workers at El Paso. Vermont Two hundred marble workers near Rutland. CONGRESSMAN TINKHAM of Massachusetts is one of those Republicans who think the chances of their party for victory In November No-vember would be enhanced If a coalition of disaffected Democrats were formed and the ticket shared with them. "The country is facing as great a crisis as It faced in the Civil war," he said. "This involves the very character of the government of the United States. The question is. 'Are the government and the institutions in-stitutions of the United States to remnin American or become European Euro-pean or Asiatic?' "This crisis Is so great that it should eliminate all party lines, and the Republicans should nominate nom-inate as Vice President a Democrat. Demo-crat. I suggest that they nominate Alfred E. Smith." ITALIANS celebrated the anniversary, anniver-sary, of their country's entrance into the World war with Imposing ceremonies that Included the promotion promo-tion of more than half a million boys and girls in the organizations of young Fascists. Premier Mussolini Musso-lini presided over the "graduation," and after reviewing a great military parade, the Duce told the shouting crowds : "The spectacle of the force of youth exhibited this morning on the anniversary of our Intervention in the World war, the first phase of the Fascist revolution, has been magnificent and a warning at the same time. We are preparing the young armies of tomorrow for defense de-fense of the empire. Since they are animated by the Fascist spirit they will be invincible. This is the law of the revolution. This is the supreme su-preme will of the whole Italian people." peo-ple." While his conqueror was thus engaged, en-gaged, Haile Selassie, deposed emperor em-peror of Ethiopia, was embarking at HaifaPalestine, for England, on the British destroyer Capetown. Two sons and a daughter accompanied accom-panied him, but former Empress Menen remained at Jerusalem. The exiled monarch, after a visit in England, Eng-land, intends to go to Paris, hoping to stiffen French resistance to Italy in the League of Nations. He may succeed in this, for the incoming Socialists regime in France will endeavor en-deavor to restore the league's prestige. RAYMOND MOLEY, who used to be considered the chief of the "brain trust," fears that his friend rresklent Roosevelt may be de- stroyed politically ' x v V by the radicals within the Democratic Demo-cratic party who at the same time would "destroy moderation and the very system j which he attempt-! attempt-! ed to Improve." In j a speech before the National Economy SENATOR ROBINSON'S resolution resolu-tion authorizing the continuance continu-ance of the Florida ship canal and the Passamaquoddy tide harnessing projects was favorably reported by the senate commerce committee after Mr. Robinson had told the members the administration wanted want-ed the schemes kept alive as work relief measures THE office of transportation coordinator, co-ordinator, held by Joseph B. Eastman, is due to expire on June 16, but Senator Wheeler of Mon- Senator Vandenberg of Michigan warned the majority leaders they had better not bring the resolution up in the senate if they really wanted adjournment by June 6, for he had 21 amendments to offer, and each one would lead to prolonged debate. Robinson's resolution authorizes the President to appoint two boards of three engineers each to examine and make reports upon surveys that have already been made of the two projects. They would have to report to the President by June 20 of this year. tana had ready for introduction a resolution res-olution extending it for two years, and President Roosevelt Roose-velt was on record as approving some of Its activities. It was reported in Washington that railway management manage-ment and labor. I league in New Raymond York, Doctor Moley Moley said he saw confronting con-fronting the Roosevelt administration administra-tion these dangers: 1. That federal relief agencies will be turned into political machines ma-chines to perpetuate the rule of state and local politicians. 2. The tendency, "all too prevalent preva-lent in this congress, to engage in muckraking, marauding expeditions which destroy the liberty of all of the people while they seek to restrain re-strain the abuses of a few. These orgies of public castigation . . . may be means of furthering Individual political ambitions, they may be build-ups for those with Presidential Presi-dential hankerings, but so far as the public interest is concerned they are simply sound and fury." 3. The tendency "of those in charge of the New Deal to overemphasize over-emphasize adherence to the belief in the philosophy of the movement and to minimize the importance of complete technical administration." administra-tion." Doctor Moley defended capital-Ism capital-Ism ; declared that already there has been a wide distribution of D RESIDENT ROOSEVELT starts 1 on his trip to Arkansas, Texas and Indiana on June S, and he told the correspondents It would not be a political tour. His speeches, he said, would be historical, dealing with early days in the three states. He has no slightest intention of stealing steal-ing the show from the Republican national convention. Mr. Roosevelt planned this trip some time ago so that he might take a cruise along the Maine coast in June with his sons. both of which have opposed some of J' B' Eastma" Eastman's doings In the past, might unite in an effort to block extension of the office, but Eastman said he had heard "nothing substantial" on that line, Eastman announced last February he would exercise his powers to compel railroads in 11 cities to carry car-ry out terminal unifications as economy and efficiency moves. He withheld the orders at the suggestion sugges-tion of President Roosevelt, however, how-ever, to permit rail management and labor to agree on some plan of protection pro-tection for employees thrown out of work in such consolidations. wealth in this country, and warned the average man that he eventually must pay the mounting bills for relief that he Is the "missionary being fattened for a cannibalistic feast." A RABS of Palestine, rebelling f- against British protection of Jewish immigration, are causing Britain a lot of trouble. English soldiers fought real battles with the Arabs in several localities, and Jews throughout the Holy Land were arming themselves in self-defense. Casualties In the fighting were few, but the situation was so serious that Sir Arthur Wauchope, British high commissioner, asked the government for more troops. A mandatory curfew was put in force throughout Palestine. British women and children were evacuated evacuat-ed from Nnblus, In Samaria, where Britisa troops engaged a strong force of Arabs In a furious battle. The Arabs cut telephone lines between Nablus and Jerusalem. ON JUNE 15 the bonus baby bonds will be mailed to 45,000 post offices from Washington and from the eleven federal reserve centers. cen-ters. Final plans for delivering the bonds to the veterans were announced an-nounced by Postmaster General Farley, who predicted that payment on a great majority of them would be made within one week. Mail carriers have been given instructions in-structions to "go out of their way wherever necessary with a view to j effecting delivery," Farley said. The j bond packets must be delivered to , the veteran in person, and not to another person or firm at the veteran's vet-eran's address. FIVE justices of the United States Supreme court held Invalid the municipal bankruptcy act of 1034. declaring it to be an unwarranted invasion of state sovereignty. Four Justices disseuted, these being Chief Justice Hughes and Justices Stone, Brandels and Cardozo. The major-Uy major-Uy opinion was written by Justice James C. McReynolds. The case was brought by bondholders of a water improvement district in Texas. The municipal bankruptcy act was designed to permit cities and other political subdivisions which found |
