Show news review of current carrent events A YEAR OF WAR IN SPAIN I 1 killed but on it goes robinsons death perils court plan poor harvest worries euro europe k joe robinson rallies the democratic national convention y summarizes THE WORL WORLDS WEEK C western newspaper union bloody anniversary tits THE HE spanish civil war entered its second year for the populations ot of rebel cities 4 the occasion was one for joyous celebration with fiestas bull fights and concerts the order of the day gen francisco franco commander ot of the insurgent f forces 0 r c e s publicly proclaimed it a year ot of triumph 1 he ordered gen franco that all communications and public documents tor for the next twelve months be dated as ot of the second year ot of triumph in the first year of triumph more than a million persons including women and children were killed the insurgents claim to have taken 34 of the 50 provincial capitals of the country and all ol of its colonies they have captured six of the eleven cities of more than inhabitants seville malaga bilbao saragossa cordoba and granada As the rebels celebrated the eve of the wars first anniversary the loyalists marked the occasion by opening a new offensive in northern spain for the first time in months they sent out squadrons of planes to harass the insurgents near santander they made advances along the aragon front and forced the rebels to send reinforcements to the area about albarracin airplanes also caused some damage to insurgent ns urgent forces holding siege to madrid the rebels lost little time in attempting to regain their losses around madrid franco unleashed the full power of his main army of in a drive to recapture bru nete and other suburbs of the loyalist stronghold they were met by at least defending government 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 an aerial fight as the world has seen in years insurgents were reported to have lost 27 planes against only four for the loyalists ar falls face to baffle bof WHEN HEN sen joseph T robinson of arkansas dropped dead of a heart attack in his apartment across from the united states capitol the presidents plan plan for securing P y IZ 1 71 l new appointments 1 I to the supreme court bench even in its amended form died jwj with him that is the belief m av of close observers in wa washington sh ington F for 0 r joe robinson was the presidents tower of strength in the legislative branch of senator the government he harrlson harrison had served the democratic party well in the senate since 1913 and as the majority leader in the upper house since 1932 joe robinsons job it was to keep a smooth balance between the conservative serva tive democrats largely of the south and the more radical me members of the party from the north and west so BO that the objectives 0 of f the new deal could be turned out ol of the legislative mill while the senate was adjourned tor for robinsons funeral adminis tra tion leaders sought to rally support so the court bill could be passed even without the late senators leadership but the opposition forces were equally determined to take advantage of the psychological aspect ot of the senate following robinsons death the desire to effect a peace finish the sessions business and get away from the capital the forces opposed to the bill believe that when the issue came up again they would be successful in re committing the substitute bill to the judiciary committee an effective way of killing it the indica tion of opposition greater than had bad been expected in the house ot of representatives was another factor pointing to the eventual fall of the bill another battle was not long in getting under way to decide who the new majority leader of the senate should be conservative democrats were anxious to wrest a measure of control from the white house by backing sen pat harrison of mississippi who has been faithful to the president but is fundamentally conservative the more radical senators backed alben W barkley of kentucky democratic national convention keynoter who had been Robin robinsons sores assistant as floor leader europe short on grain E EUROPE began to worry about the possibilities ol of a hungry winter as early threshing indicated a serious grain shortage germanys germanas Germ anys shortage was estimated at tons the deficit will be met partly with increased consumption of potatoes and sugar beets and partly with cheap plentiful corn from southeastern europe it Is expected even so that germany will have to buy to tons from other foreign countries experts estimated that the german harvest tor for 1937 would be 10 to 20 per cent below the average 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 ju go crops will be smaller than last year because of drouth it was believed that it if the current drouth continued the farmers of great britain would likewise suffer rainfall in the he past month has been about one fifth normal of the baltic countries only lithuania it is beh believed eved will have a crop equal to her needs crops suffered badly in latvia Esth esthonia onla and finland only spain in all europe with an increase of 15 per cent over last years grain harvest appears likely to enjoy a well filled bread basket sino japanese crisis i after a verbal agreement between chinese and japanese military commanders had appeared to have prevented an impending renewal of the sino japanese war the japanese government officially announced that heavy concentration of chinese troops had been made at neiping Pei ping constituting a direct act of aggression against japan at the same time the na aking government claimed that 17 japanese troop trains tr airs carrying soldiers were en route to north china from corea and Manchu kuo earlier japanese troops were said to have arrived in north china to supplement the regular garrison of at gen sung cheh yu an chairman of the political council and commander of the chinese forces in north china had complied verbally with the japanese ultimatum for peace although he refused to sign anything in a talk with gen kiyoshi katsuki Katsu kl the japanese commander he apologized tor for the clash between japanese troops and the chinese twenty ninth army at Lukow kiao july 7 the incident which perpetrated the new crisis and expressed the regrets of 0 the council he said that he would dismiss several of his bis officers as a punishment gen sung assured the japanese he would evacuate the area west of neiping Pei ping and would do his utmost to suppress communism and anti japanese activities gen chiang kai shek dictator of china had not yet formally replied to the japanese ultimatum inventor of wireless dies G GUGLIELMO MARCONI who altered the lives of all of us when he invented the wireless died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in rome ile he was sixty three years old had been in good health and was planning the construction of a new radio station in the vatican at the time of his death see new golden age ARE on the threshold ol 01 tremendous economic and social changes that will be brough by the development of 0 epochal inventions vent vet ions just emerging into public view from a report ol of scientists and engineers of 0 the national resources committee made public by president roosevelt the utilization ot of these inventions said the report will make tor for a period ot of great prosperity in which labor displaced by recent technological improvements will be abs absorbed by new industries and other activities activities the inventions listed in the lne report were mechanical cotton picker air conditioning plastics creation ot of new materials and substances by chemical and other processes photoelectric photo electric cell tor for automatic control ot of mechanisms cellulose products synthetic rubber prefabricated houses television automobile trailer gasoline produced from coal steep flight aircraft and tray agriculture growth ot of food plants in chemically chemic aUy t treated water the report said in part the question whether there cirill be a large amount ot of unemployment during the next period ot of business prosperity rests only in part on the introduction of new nev inventions and more efficient industrial techniques the other important elements are changes in the composition ot of the count rys production such as appreciable changes in the proportion which service activities constitute of the total the growth ot of population changes in th the demands for or goods and services shift in markets migration of industry hiring age policies of industries and other factors mrs Roosevel effs ts taxes 1 WHEN HEN representative hamilton fish rep N Y sought to demonstrate the unfairness of the tax evasion investigation committee he demanded that the committee ij investigate the income of the wife of the president from r radio a d I 1 0 broadcasts charging that she was not paying a cent of income taxes upon those earnings she had turned over to the american luau friends x service rep kep fish committee a philadelphia charity kept 1 per broadcast tor for herself and paid nothing whatever from her radio earnings to the government assistant attorney general robert H jackson replied for her explaining pla ining to chairman doughton ot of the congressional committee that the bureau of internal revenue had advised mrs roosevelt she need pay no tax on the receipts from the broadcast he declared the responsibility lity is not that of mrs roosevllt roosevelt but that of myself and others who were treasury officials at the time ir security for EARLY workers are NEARLY enow now covered by the unemployment compensation laws of the 48 states hawaii the district of 0 columbia and alaska the social security board estimates when the social security act became effective august 14 1935 it was expected only about would be covered most of the state laws specify that funds shall be made up only out of contributions by employers eight require employees to contribute and the district ot of columbia adds a government contribution to those of employees and employers wisconsin where the state law was operating before the security act was passed is already P paying abing aying benefits twenty two more states will start january 1 the last to start payments will be georgia and montana in july 1939 4 upper silesia still puzzle breached BEFORE a new accord could be reached the 15 year old geneva convention designed to reconcile the interests of both poland and germany in upper silesia expired upper silesia was once part of both germany and poland the people ot of the two sections have since that time mingled freely with one another carrying on a live commerce unhindered over the boundary lines set by the league of nations the diplomatic difficulties occurred when no solution was forthcoming tor for the problem of what to do with the poles who wanted to remain in the german section and the germans who wanted to remain in the polish section K miles in one copl WITH athe ITH the world still thrilling to the recent flight of three russian av aviators gators from moscow to the united states via the north pole three more russians did it again completing the longest nonstop non stop flight in history after flying miles from the russian capital pilot michael gromov copilot co pilot andrel andrei Yu and navigator sergel danilin made a forced landing in a cow pasture near san jacinto calif A leaking gasoline line had exhausted their fuel supply as they battled heavy togs fogs which hung over the west coast region their flying time was esti mat edat 62 hours and 17 minu minutes tes the fliers spent the next few days day reaping the rewards of their accod as they were honored at many celebrations |