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Show I WVoklv cws He view ' New Dealers Win and Lose; Girdler Storms Strikeuhj People ,1it,ible Prince When Sweden's month BertU visited New Vork last m he wined one night at a fasn Manhattan '"m LeSl6y P fnaSr for drinking milk SS'i'Kp-gn.. U Lesley rssrhrdaShter-s debut last week. . tt S A seldom-fallible sign of U. S. business trend is the .mom. n vested by socialite father on their daughters' "coming out Paief When Franklyn Hutton staged Bar hara's debut, money ran tree throughout the U. S. Depression Politics In Idaho, Republicans were jubilant. jubi-lant. In Ohio, they were hopeful. In Arkansas, where they never had a chance, Republicans went about their workaday tasks and forgot politics. pol-itics. But as homeward-bound Franklin Frank-lin Roosevelt looked at rapidly mounting primary returns from his 43 states last week he must have wondered whether his next congress would be any more coherent than the last. His "purge" had partially failed because Iowa's Gillette, Missouri's Clark and Nevada's McCarran were sure of re-election. But with a few exceptions his wheelhorses were sure to be back in Washington next winter. To most observers it looked like congress would again be a hodge-podge of multi-colored political politi-cal thought without party lines. Judiciously timed, the national emergency council's report on conditions con-ditions in the South was released ' fSs&s ; w -si s!': " W& iSsasiSfS I" w4' 1 smwmWmim iiim k I1 vV A j v-4 3 to $49,167. The five-year total: $172,-978 $172,-978 03 Said Son James in comment: "I got into places I never would have if I wasn't the son of the President. But son or no son, I got tossed out a lot, too." Countered Alva Johnson: "His figures show that his net income would have been more than $60,000 last year except that he split it . . . to avoid higher tax brackets. Aviation Last week at Floyd Bennett field ended the first non-stop Berlin to New York flight. Down from ram drenched skies dropped Germany s 24-passenger monoplane, Brandenburg, Branden-burg, carrying a crew of four in record rec-ord time of 24 hours, 57 minutes. Because tiny Canton and Ender-bury Ender-bury islands are perfect mid-Pacific stopping-off places for transoceanic planes, the U. S. asserted its claim last march by planting colonists ort each. Great Britain protested, anxious anx-ious to guard her thus-far undeveloped undevel-oped Pacific air rights. Last week came as novel a settlement as diplomats dip-lomats have ever seen. Canton and Enderbury will be owned and developed devel-oped jointly as U. 3.-British aviation avia-tion bases. Crime In the early 1930s, Chicago's gang warfare was so bad that many an out-of-town visitor wired ahead for police protection. But Scarface Al Capone finally went to Alcatraz and A Century of Progress exposition helped make the town decent. Last week peaceful Chicago wondered if it would again have gun trouble. Checking their records, police found six underworld murders since Bookie Harry Minor was shot down June 29. Four others had been reported re-ported the previous 12 months. But while Al Capone and "Bugs" Moran fought a bootlegging war, Chicago's current" massacre apparently has roots in labor warfare. Five victims vic-tims have been union workers, two were aides of an alderman. Foreign "The Japanese say Changkueng hill has fallen into their hands. They lie. I, Peter Mikilovitch Klejm, lieutenant of infantry in the Soviet army, am now with my division in the trenches on the hill which is safe in our hands. I can see the Japanese trenches only 200 yards away.. The yellow bandits are plastering our positions with machine gun fire." Seated at their radios one night last week, the whole of Russia's Soviet Union heard machine gun and rifle fire along the distant Changkufeng front where Siberia, Manchukuo and Korea converge. Next day heavy Soviet artillery pounded the whole four-mile front. LESLEY HYDE RIPLEY She was launched for $50,000. I SENATOR POPE Idaho had its own "purge." 1 1 n - J W I "I debutantes fared not so well. But when Henry B. H. Ripley spent at least $50,000 to launch Lesley in the social swim, it appeared that Recession Re-cession must surely be over. One thousand guests besported themselves in a $25,000 ballroom added to the Ripley mansion. They washed down supper and breakfast with champagne for a total outlay of $10,000. They danced, and the pipers earned $7,500. Decorations nicked the family purse for $5,000. But unlike many such parties, the Ripley Roman Holiday was bought and paid for within 24 hours. Samuel Insull, once monarch of a $4,000,000,000 utilities empire, died in a Paris subway station July 17, clutching a five-cent commutation ticket. Last week his-will was filed in Chicago's probate court. Samuel Sam-uel Insull's estate: "Not in excess of $1,000." Business In 1934, NRA Administrator Hugh Johnson organized a consumer goods industries committee to make periodic forecasts on U. S. trade winds. Last week came its most recent report. Trade winds are blowing well, said 20 major executives, execu-tives, will blow even better in the autumn. Excerpts from typical replies: re-plies: From Lammont duPont: "Since July 1 we have operated 5 per cent above standard. Business has improved im-proved about 15 per cent." From General Foods' Clarence Francis: "We believe the last half of the year particularly the last quarter will give a fairly good account ac-count of itself." Miscellany A fortnight had passed since How-land How-land Spencer sold to Father Divine his 500-acre estate across the Hudson Hud-son from Neighbor Franklin Roosevelt. Roose-velt. But not until last week did Father Fa-ther Divine's personal army of cher-ubims cher-ubims and seraphims make a tour of inspection. Led by the man they call "God," 2,500 black and white cultists plied up the river from Harlem Har-lem in a sidewheel excursion boat, stopping first at a newly acquired "Heaven" near Milton, N. Y. Over a table piled high with cold chicken and steaming corn, Harlem's Har-lem's self-appointed messiah told his rapt audience: "As his close neighbors we are not going to disgrace the President We aim to grace him by our presl ence. Peace, everybody " throPatlCe!" SnSWered 8' th Next day, as Father Divine made his personal inspection at Crum Elbow, El-bow, Eleanor Roosevelt hopped in her car across the river, headed for nearby Poughkeepsie. If inZ reporters thought she would talk about her new neighbors, the First Lady outfoxed them. "Father Divine?" '"What estate? Sh, yofmeS place(acros, the river that's June 30 found the average U S Partment last week IT" dropped to $49 5V ThSrrhhaCl One night last week hm wealthy' Mr handsomc, Townse'nd Adlce rctS' T Monroe, N. Y. estate 9 U,dr later a handyman smell Smcllme Down from a second Smok-Jumped Smok-Jumped Nurse LU An t7 W,,,dow the Adlces' 21-m0n.h "j0 ,yon wi" firemen watcheT h fn? W'Unt As i"g house coIh JeH !' ihC ttam-became ttam-became an o pl , d Md 1110 "aby MAXIM LITVINOFF He crossed swords and won. just as the President marched through Georgia to i-ack down on Sen. Walter F. George, the bitter-tongued bitter-tongued New Deal foe whom he hopes will be defeated by Lawrence Camp. But Franklin Roosevelt had to march around South Carolina on his way back to Washington, because be-cause Sen. "Cotton Ed" Smith was almost certain to be renominated regardless of Presidential wishes. Severest blow to New Dealism last week came when Sen. James Pope, in-and-out administration supporter, was defeated for renomination by Rep. D. Worth Clark, conservative Democrat. But Idaho's Republican primary vote was small, indicating that many a G. O. P. had voted the Democratic ticket to oust Pope. In Arkansas, New Dealer Hattie W. Caraway was renominated to the senate and will be elected next November. No-vember. In Ohio, Franklin Roosevelt's Roose-velt's classmate at Harvard Sen. Robert J. Bulkley was given the Democratic nomination over Gov. Martin L. Davey, arch foe of the C. I. O. Ohio's senatorial race will be interesting because Bulkley will face Robert A. Taft, a former President's Presi-dent's son, in the final election. Labor Republic Steel corporation's Tom W. Girdler has never been soft-spoken. soft-spoken. Last week he stormed Washington, and in one fell swoop denounced (1) John L. Lewis' C. I. O. for "violence and intimidation"; (2) the National Labor Relations board for "abridging freedom of speech," and (3) Sen. Robert M. La-Follette's La-Follette's civil liberties committee for keeping its work "one-sided." Behind these blasts was last year's Little Steel strike. Ready for release was an N. L. R. B. decision de-cision finding Republic guilty of "unfair labor practices" in the Little Lit-tle Steel fiasco. Ready, too, were orders for Republic to reinstate 5,000 C. I. O. strikers, and to disestablish dis-establish alleged company-dominated unions. That Republic objected, is to state the case mildly. In its 136-page brief were 616 exceptions. What Little Steel most wanted was a chance to state its opinion of C. I. O., a chance the labor board seemed unwilling to offer. Thundered Thun-dered the report: "We contend the National Labor Relations act, as construed ... in this connection, is unconstitutional as abridging freedom free-dom of speech." Next day Tom Girdler carried his fight to the civil liberties committee, commit-tee, climaxing a three-week probe of last summer's bitter labor strife. Flaring up before Senator LaFol-lette's LaFol-lette's quiet, relentless cross-examination, he proved no humble witness. wit-ness. Denied was the right to read a statement criticizing the committee's commit-tee's work as "one-sided," and declaring de-claring it would be only fair to probe C. I. O.'s records to show what was being done with a $1,500,000 steel workers' fund. Domestic Last month a Saturday Evening Post article by Alva Johnson estimated esti-mated Son James Roosevelt's annual an-nual insurance business at $250,000 to $2,000,000 a year, in itself not a very definite guess. Last week to rival Collier's magazine went Jimmy Roosevelt's income tax returns for the past five years, showing the annual an-nual income ranging from $21,714 Japan and Russia were continuing their five-year "secret war" which broke into international headlines July 11. Throughout the day cannons boomed fiercely. All doubt about Soviet artillery accuracy was dissipated. dissi-pated. Only one or two sighting shots preceded each direct hit. If they had held Changkufeng hill the night before, Japan's soldiers now retreated under the heaviest bombardment bom-bardment since the World war. Still more disturbing were reports that Russia was building new defenses on nearby Possiet bay where hostilities hostili-ties were sure to break out. Next night the fight continued, but at 11 o'clock in the morning bugles sounded from either trench and ominous om-inous silence filled tht shell-torn air Then it was apparent the war was over. Thus, temporarily at least, ended a skirmish of diplomatic wits in far away Moscow. Foreign Minister Minis-ter Maxim ' Litvinoff had crossed verbal swords with Ambassador 1 Mamora Shigamitsu for two solid weeks, finally besting him. Terms of truce: (1) Firing would stop and troops would remain at their pres ent fronts; (2) AH other points at issue would be negotiated between the two nations. Japan had sued first for peace had surrendered to Maxim Lit' vinoffs insistence that the redemar cation commission carry two Jana nese and two Russians, rather than three men each from Japan, Russia and Japan-dominated Manchukuo |