Show news deview of current events OTHA BEATEN iowa democrats nominate guy gillette for senate despite efforts of new dealers to eliminate him P 4 Z scene near the french spanish border where bombing planes supposedly from francos forces invaded france to attack the railroad that aries supplies from toulouse to the loyalists in barcelona sald SW 0 A W ld f summarizes THE TWP WORLDS WEEK 6 0 western newspaper union loses in iowa THA iowa representative OTHA 0 favored by the roosevelt administration for the democratic senatorial nomination was defeated in the pr primaries maries running far ahead of him was senator guy M gillette Gi Uette who had been marked for elimination because he voted against the i court pa packing aking bill gillette supporters s said a I 1 d president roosevelt m a i n bained neutrality in otha the y contest but had received the approval of harry hopkins administrator and of james roosevelt the presidents son and secretary also thomas G corcoran the presidents political adviser was known to have worked for cause or perhaps it should be put against gillette flette Gf gillette sought tor for the senate on a platform of loyalty to president roosevelt but said he would retain the right to judge each new deal proposal on its individual merits it if he is reelected elected re he was one of the foes of the presidents court reform plan but supported the reorganization bill and other admin adain measures labor split as usual in this contest president green of the A F of L favored the of ette on his labor record the ewette a a 0 groups especially in the counties ties along the mississippi river were strong tor for in the republican side ot of the primary former senator L J dickinson uncompromising foe of the new deal defeated representative lloyd thurston planes from spain raid france INE war planes flew across the 1 pyrenees Pyre nees frontier into france two successive days and scattered bombs near towns about 15 miles within the french border creating a panic flight of the inhabitants and calling for stern protests by the government electric power lines were blasted and the tracks of the trans pyrenees railroad from lu louse se to barcelona were dam iea the second raid was stopped naji antiaircraft anti aircraft battery at ur the government spoke of the planes as of unknown nationality but it was publicly presumed they came from francos condor legion gion of planes manned by germans premier edouard deladier Da ladier ladler ordered french aviators to begin a systematic patrol of the french border and bring down any foreign planes crossing the spanish frontier into france frances military forces along the frontier were immediately reinforced francos general staff at burgos issued a statement that no rebel planes had been in the air near the french border adding that all their activity had been confined to the south barcelona parallel in paris it was believed franco was opposed to the bombing of civilians but could not control t the he actions of his german and italian helpers labor riot in moscow CROM ROM riga that rather ungelia able ble source of news concerning russia comes the information that there was a bloody riot at the josef stalin automobile works in moscow workers barricaded barricades barrica ded the streets demolished moli shed machinery and set fire to the factory and then fought with troops the soviet secret police and the city fire department were called out and crushed the revolt with machine guns and hand grenades the number of dead and injured was kept a secret by moscow authorities more than persons were arrested 1 11 canton made a shambles UT UTTERLY TERLY ignoring ampha emphatic tic protests by the united states and great britain against the bombing of civilians the japanese continued their dally daily raids on an the great city of canton southern china port their squadrons of planes rained death on the city ruthlessly until it was a veritable shambles probably as many as persons were killed and the wounded were much more numerous sumner the attacks welles were directed main ly at government buildings railway stations and power plants the purpose being to destroy cantons usefulness as a gateway for chinese war supplies in spain also there was no cessation ol of the air attacks by francos forces on loyalist cities and towns americas condemnation of the bombing ot of civilians was contained in a statement by undersecretary of state sumner welles which was issued with the approval of president roosevelt it asserted that the american public considers such warfare barbarous and appealed for an immediate end of the practice in china and spain britain officially protested against the bombings and asked the united states to cooper co oper ate in the formation ot of a neutral commission to decide whether the objectives of spanish rebel air raids on loyalist territory have any military character about the same time secretary ot of state hull in a speech at nashville tenn expressed the hope ot of the united states tor for disarmament and the humanizing ot of war summaries of this address were broadcast throughout europe by radio 1 ak lewis bans labor survey P PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT is go ing to send a commission to england to study the british trade union act at a press conference he said any suggestions that he had in view the modification of our labor relations law were cockeyed but john lewis was suspicious and wrote to secretary of labor perkins that th at he would permit no members of the C 1 I 0 to serve on the mission the british trades union act enacted after the british general strike of 1926 prohibits general strikes collective bargaining is legalized gali zed but some forms of sympathetic strikes and strikes which inflict undue hardship on the public are banned K senate passes priming bill bypassed BY Y A vote of 60 to 10 the senate passed the presidents pump priming bill and sent it back to the house bouse after which it went to conference seven republicans and three democrats were recorded against the measure the opponents of the spending lending program lost jevery j every attempt to earmark the funds or impose other restrictions strict ions by very close sen senator tor hatch votes the senate rejected two proposals to forbid political activities by employees in emergency agencies one of these was offered by sen carl M hatch of new mexico it would have insulated officials and administrative employees from politics either in connection with primaries general elections or national conventions it would have prohibited public utterances such as the one recently made by administrator harry L hopkins in dorsing the candidacy of rep otha D of iowa against sen guy M gillette smart republican politicians were not sorry this was defeated tor for it left in their hands a potent weapon for the fall fail campaign K freud flees from vienna S FREUD the famous 0 father of psychoanalysis has fled bed from vienna to london and later w will ill come to new york he carried with him manuscripts and books comprising his life work indicating di he did not plan to return official nazi organ Voel kischer in reporting his departure did not mention his name but referred to the freudian psychoanalytic school as a pornographic no jewish specialty thomas egged in newark N NORMAN ORMAN THOMAS leader of the socialist party undertook to make a speech in newark N J a at t a socialist rally and was pelted belted with rotten eggs by a crowd ot of a hundred rowdies many of whom wore war veterans caps the mob and the socialists fought with fists and clubs and police rescued thomas he charged that the opposition forces were mobilized through the influence of mayor frank hague ot of jersey city IF new food act passed W a record vote the house passed the new pure food and drug bill the senate had passed a similar measure and the differences were to be reconciled in conference the act brings drugs therapeutic devices and foods under regulation ot of the department of agriculture it prohibits alteration or misbranding ot of cosmetics 94 foods and drugs requires adequate tests of products before they are placed on the market provides for license restrictions to control bacterial contamination of foods requires warning labels on habit form ing drugs and provides for factory inspection hulls st lawrence plan P presumably by direction of r the president secretary of state hull submitted to canada a new P proposal for development of the st lawrence seaway i asking that it be considered as a basis for a new treaty which would be a revision and amplification fi of the treaty of 1932 that the senate refused to ratify in 1934 that pact under the terms of the hull plan can ada would obtain sec huu hull without cost a corn com plated st lawrence deep waterway ready tor for power development and also other valuable concessions the united states would obtain the privilege of building the seaway at its own expense increased power development at niagara falls and the recognition by canada of american sovereignty over lake michigan immediate and vociferous opposition to the plan broke out in congress both democrats and republicans characterizing it as a scheme to buy the support of the dominion for a gigantic water power development planned by the new york state power authority hulls plan provides that the united states shall develop the international rapids section of the st lawrence river at an estimated cost of million dollars this was denounced by senator wagner of new york senator copeland also of new york announced he was against the seaway project 1000 per cent he called it an an all british canal sen key pittman chairman of the senate foreign relations committee having jurisdiction of treaties said the new proposals would not have a chance of ratification unless materially modified senators and representatives from the middle west were especially aroused senator dark clark of missouri pointed out that the treaty would permit diversion of only 1500 cubic feet of water per second into the chicago drainage canal he said the mississippi river must receive more water than that from the canal in order to fill a nine foot channel reform bill shelved PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ac i cepter the advice of congressional leaders and consented to the shelving of his bill for reorganization of the executive government this was announced with the approval of the president by senator barkley at the same time it was made known that the administration would attempt to get the measure through congress early in the 1939 session sen hiram johnson of california said the opponents of the bill would be ready to resume their battle against year K big fund for highways L legislation legislation EGI authorizing new federal highway expenditures 0 of f for the fiscal years 1940 and 1941 won final congressional approval when the senate adopted a conference report previously accepted by the house also authorized was the expenditure of of old unused appropriations wallace slapped again STERNLY chastising secretary of ky k y agriculture henry A wallace and solicitor general robert H jackson for making assertions that were unwarranted and wholly unfounded the united states supreme court rejected the governments petition for a rehearing of the kansas city stockyards stock yards rate case twice before the court had rebuked wallace in the stockyards stock yards case and had set aside his order fixing maximum rates which commission men might charge for services because the court said they had been denied a fun full fair and open hearing bearing justice hugo black who was the lone dissenter when the case was decided in april ran true to form again being the only member of the court to dissent 1 ak twenty more federal judges RESIDENT ROOSEVELT signed P PRESIDENT the liln b ill creating 20 additional fed eral era judges throughout the country the measure is the largest judgeship bill passed since 1921 five additional circuit court of appeals judges at a year each and 15 additional district judges at a year each are ara authorized by the act K dean mumford dies rean EAN HERBERT W MUMFORD dof of the university of illinois is dead following an automobile accident and the country loses one of its best agricultural educators and marketing experts mumford was a product of michigan in 1901 he became professor of animal husbandry in the university at champaign then he was made dean of the college of agriculture and director of the agricultural experiment station and extension service he was sixty seven years old at the time of his death another recovery plan 7 A abandonment BANDON MENT of experiments aby x by the government and ado adoption of an industrial program based on experience was advocated by charles R hook president of the national association of manufacturers before a meeting of the chicago association of commerce A return to sound economic reasoning and a common sense diagnosis is the sure solution to the problems ot of america today mr hook said emphasizing that industry hasa has a definite program for industrial re covery mr hook who is president of american rolling mill company outlined three cardinal points including revision of the wagner act ack revision of the tax structure and banishment of existing and threatened government competition with private enterprise remove these thesa causes of tear fear and uncertainty mr hook said and private savings will rush back into the channels of private productive enterprise we specifically urge amend ments to the wagner act to correct its one sided character to enforce responsibility on labor organizations to separate the functions ot of tact fact finding prosecution and judicial cial decision and establish c bial administration by the national labor relations board 1 defies harry hopkins ICTOR A CHRISTGAU minne V VICTOR sota administrator quarreled continually with gov elmer benson and the farmer labor par ty leaders in that state so harry hopkins national head of the notified him he was ousted christgau refused to quit his position contending that only president roosevelt who appointed him had power power to dismiss him sweepstakes winners OIS ROUSSEL a french bred horse won the english derby at epsom downs and four sweep stakes ticket holders in the united states won each scottish union second won each for 11 united states ticket holders pasch the favorite finished third returning each to seven ticket holders in the united states |