Show airs N t arrs review of current events PAR FAR EAST conference davis heads american delegation to brussels trying for labor peace special session w V 4 A 1 I I 1 XA R g ail s i N q I 1 wi 0 secretary of the navy swinson swanson pinning a special congressional medi medal on in admiral richard E byrd for the contribution he be with other members of if the second byrd antarctic expedition which ended in 1935 made to science sc ace the other members of the expedition received similar awards award looking on are admiral william leahy center and william C haines meteorologist id v summarizes ZES THE WORLDS WEEK ab e western newspaper Newt paper union davis sent to brussels ORMAN H DAVIS is on his way nto NORMAN to brussels belgium as head of the american delegation to a conference fer erice of the signatories signa tories of the nine nine power treaty which the optimists hope will put an end t to the warfare between japan and china more rea realistic lis observers of the course of events have no such expectation i 31 11 for the pact has no teeth and A the conferees can do M little except talk norman H associated with davis mr davis the administrations roving ambassador are dr stanley K hornbeck and pierrepont moffat as advisers robert T pell is the press officer and C E bohlen is secretary of the delegation before sailing for europe the delegates received instructions from president roosevelt and secretary of state hull but these were not revealed to the public the invitation to the conference was issued by the belgian government at the request of the british government and with the approval of the government of the united states china and japan are both signatories signa tories to the treaty the tor for mer accepted the invitation to the I 1 brussels meeting but it was believed japan would not be represented there tokyo has maintained the policy that the sino japanese troubles must be settled without the intervention of other nations PL why the stock slump W WHO HO or what Is responsible tor for the decided slump in the stock market is a moot question in his recent fireside chat the president intimated that wall street was to blame for its own troubles and belittled the effect proposed legislation would have on the markets and general business winthrop W aldrich president of the chase national bank largest bank in the country agree with mr roosevelt in this he says wall street is honest and lays the blame tor for the adverse market situation on the doorstep ot of the admin adain and particularly the securities and exchange commission airliner wrecked 19 dead SMASHING against hayden peak kj in the uinta mountains of utah a big transcontinental airliner ot of the united air lines was totally wrecked and its passengers and crew numbering 19 persons were killed the debris was sighted by scout planes some feet up the mountainside but efforts of rescue parties to reach the scene were hampered by heavy snow labor peace parley in the american fe federation d L LEADERS of labor and the C 1 I 0 gathered in washington for a conference designed to end the warfare between those divi of organized I 1 labor in america some of them thought the negolia A eions might result in 1 an early settlement k of their disputes or at least a truce neither president deni green nor john L lewis ventured any prediction as to the outcome of the de Secy Perkins liberations libe rations some students of labor politics were inclined to think peace was not yet in sight and could not be brought about without the removal of green from the A F of L presidency and the elimination of lewis from consideration tor for that post their suggestion was that peace might be negotiated eventually by replacing green with some such labor figure as charles P howard president of the international typographical union or edward F mcgrady former assistant secretary ot of labor and now radio corporation po ration labor relations chief and by giving industrial union groups stronger representation in shaping the federations policies president roosevelt displayed active interest in the labor controversy and received secretary of labor perkins at his hyde park home where for three hours they discussed the subject the restoration of harmony in labors ranks is considered of great importance to the administration for both economic and political reasons secretary perkins announced in washington that she had named a federal committee on apprentice training to become a permanent agency in the labor department its purpose she said is to provide a sufficient number of highly skilled workers to supply the count rys growing needs and to guar guarantee antee a thorough trade preparation for apprentices t straus heads housing MATHAN ATHAN STRAUS of new york city was named administrator of of the federal housing program by president roosevelt he is the son of the late nathan straus philanthropist and has been connected with the housing work in new york his appointment was considered a victory tor for senator wagner over secretary ickes who wanted howard gray of the named arkansas picks miller i TOE OE ROBINSONS successor as senator from arkansas will be congressman john E miller democrat for he defeated gov carl G bailey in the special election by an impressive majority the republicans had no candidate miller has been a rather lukewarm supporter of the new deal in congress new budget figures p PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT found his estimate of as the probable deficit for 1938 fiscal year was much too low so he gave out new budget figures putting the probable deficit at nearly millions and it admittedly will be much greater unless the executive and congress achieve very considerable economies V divorce rule stands CHURCH CHURCH laws against remarriage VJ of divorced persons by episcopal clergymen stand unchanged for at least three years proposed liberalization of the rule was defeated by the house of deputies of the church at the general convention in cincinnati the deputies voted to continue for another three years the commission on marriage and divorce the defeated proposal would have permitted bishops to allow episcopal clergymen to solemnize marriage of persons who were divorced tor for any cause after study of each case brady gang wiped out L LAST AST of the big mobs of bank robbers and murderers the brady gang was wiped out in a gun battle with federal agents at bangor maine al brady the leader and clarence shatter shaffer jr his lieutenant were killed and james dalhover was wounded and captured the outlaws were recognized by a clerk in a sporting goods store and the G men were summoned dalhover was to be taken to indiana to stand trial for the murder of a state policeman li ceman one of four killings attributed to the gang he made a full confession and search began tor for persons who had been aiding them the gangsters capture was believed to have nipped a potential new england crime wave floor plans of two banks were found in Dal hovers possession with maps of nearby roads palestine terrorism BRITISH astern military authorities took stern measures to suppress the violence in palestine but apparently without success the arabs continued their attacks on the jewish 1 people and buildings and in jerusalem began using bombs gen A P wavell commander of 0 the british troops in palestine ordered the homes of arab terrorists burned following the destruction st of kalandis Ka landia airport near lydda with an estimated loss of sixty persons were arrested tor for breaking the twenty four hour curfew which amounts to virtual martial law it if this sort of thing keeps up great britain is likely to make palestine a crown colony instead of 0 a mandate big battle at af shanghai SHANGHAI was witnessing the 1 J fiercest battle of the sino sine jap anese war land and air forces of both sides were lighting fighting furiously and the casual casualties es were piling up hour by hour the chinese were making a great counteroffensive counter offensive for which they had massed men and guns about the city the japanese were ready tor for the attack and desperately pera tely battled to turn back their foes observers described the hand to hand fighting as that of madmen especially in the chinese quarter A big fleet of chinese airplanes was sent down the yingtse and bombs were showered on the japanese warships along the japanese occupied shore of the Whang poo an american navy radio man J P mcmichael of connorsville Connors ville ind was slightly wounded by japanese shrapnel as he stood on the signal deck of the united states cruiser augusta between admiral harry E yarnell commander in chiet chief and capt capic R F mcconnell McCon neU chief of staff american navy authorities immediately entered a protest and the japanese commander expressed his regret 4 special session called C was called in iii ex tra ordinary session to start november 15 and immediately afterward president roosevelt explained in a fireside chat over the radio the nece necessity for this as he be sees it reporting cheerfully on his western trip he out lined the legislative program which he declared the american people need to promote prosperity these are the five measures he said should be passed president without delay roosevelt crop production control to build an all weather farm program so that in the long run prices will be more stable wage and hour standards to make millions of our lowest paid workers actual buyers of billions of dollars of industrial and farm products 11 regional planning to conserve natural resources prevent floods and produce electric power tor for general use I 1 i government reorganization to provide twentieth century machinery to make the democratic process work more efficiently stronger antitrust laws in furtherance of a low price policy which encourages the widest possible consumption chairman oconnor of the house rules committee predicted the house would pass a farm bill in the first week of the session and then take up the wage and hour measure some democratic leaders said the labor bill which was passed by the senate in the last session but held up in the house rules committee would probably be the only one of the five measures to get through congress in the special session even that is strongly opposed by southern democrats and has been condemned by the american federation of labor italy will cooperate ANGER of a european war as a D DANGER result of the spanish clail conflict was measurably lessened when mussolini yielded to the firm representations of great britain and france count dino grandl grand told the nonintervention subcommittee in london that italy would accept the proposal for withdrawal of a certain number of volunteers from spain provided it applied to both sides equally and gave assurance of his count rys loyal and firm desire to operate cooperate co how many volunteers should be withdrawn and whether belligerent rights should be granted to generalissimo franco were questions still to be decided by the committee it was said in london that great britain would ask tor for withdrawal of five men from the insurgent side to a every man called out of govern ment ranks this ratio was worked out it was stated on the british belief that fr foreigners eigners are fighting with insurgents and for the central government 1 I while the diplomats were locky ing the spanish loyalists started one of the fiercest battles of the war attacking the insurgents in the zaragoza sector with troops tanks and aad air bombers about men on both sides were involved CS on the front in the nora norya west francos forces shifted their attack from the mountains to the coastal plain and captured some strategic points newspaper 11 II ditalia dl talia referring to president Roosevel ts arraignment of aggressor nations as his chicago sermon ette pointed to united states arms shipments which it said reached spain through russia the paper reproduced the presidents more striking condemnatory remarks in an article entitled american flowerets Flow erets lindy still american RUMORS U MORS that col charles A lv lindbergh was planning to become a british subject seem t to 0 t false for he has just accepted sj five year renewal of his commission 1 in the united states army air corps army officers expressed the belief privately he would not have renewed his bis air corps tie if he intended changing his allegiance the airman has retained his military status since his graduation in 1925 from the air corps flying school at kelly field texas K mine disaster C COAL OAL gas exploded in the mulga mine in alabama 12 miles from birmingham and the lives of 33 mine miners rs were snuffed out five hundred men were at work in the mine at the time but fortunately the explosion was tour four miles from the entrance the blast was the first since the operation of the mine was taken over by the woodward iron company large producers of merchant iron in birmingham however 56 men had been killed at mulga in former years ar H labor hits labor board EVERE condemnation of the federal S SEVERE labor relations board was voiced in a resolution adopted by the american federation of labor in the denver convention it was presented by john P frey head of the metal trades department and charged that the board was acting without warrant or authority in interfering in disputes between the A F of L and the C 1 L 0 and was violating the spirit and specific intent of the labor relations act with decided advantage to the C 1 I 0 affiliates and damage to the A F of L that the board has sought to destroy the validity of contracts between bona fide trade unions and employers and that such actions were taken ansome in some instances with full knowledge of the facts involved vol ved that the board in direct contravention of the meaning of the law has repeatedly denied employees the right of designating the bargaining unit and the right of selecting representatives of their own choosing with full freedom frey in his speech asked that edwin F smith be removed from the board and that three regional diorec forsbe dismissed U S consul murdered ait i T THEODORE MARRINER american consul general at beirut syria was assassinated by an armenian who had been refused a visa tor for travel to the united states the murderer was arrested and the police said he admitted having acted tor for personal vengeance only marriner who was forty five years old and a bachelor was considered one of the most valuable men in our diplomatic service which he entered as third secretary of the american legation at stockholm at one time he was chief of the western europe section of the state department |