Show r news review deview of current events shall V U 0 S pay your doctor professional opinion divided divide by edward TV Pi pickard ekard J k M v V k RS k 3 A st A S PRESIDENT IRVING ABELL EDITOR MORRIS MORKIS FISHBEIN domestic modem medicines biggest problem is the middle class too pro prosperous S tor for relief too poor to pay its doctor bills although 80 per cen cent t of the nation favors government care tor for those who cannot pay the potent american medical association has constantly frowned on U S subsidy in chicago A A M A s headquarters 30 physicians have been expelled since 1920 tor for operating low cost clinics and advertising their services throughout america de ridden medics have twiddled their thumbs while ithe nation suffered from poor health what makes the situation more desperate is that acute illness is much more prevalent in the low income bracket than among those who can pay last november a self appointed committee of doctors revolted against A M A s high ethical standards and took the stump favoring socialized medicine their proposals all previously rejected by A M A included local state and federal subsidy for public health work hospitalization research and education for six months an interested public has been forming opinions two weeks ago president Roosevel ts national health conference met at washington under able josephine roche former head of U S health activities as assistant secretary of the treasury though they listened attentively to the roche koche program for an a year medical program delegates soon broke into two camps from mayo clinics dr hugh cabot leader of the revolting group came i a charge that the practice of medicine is medieval in parts of the U S lashed back A M A s general manager olin west 1 I dont know whether the medical profession Is any more proud of cabot than he is of the medical profession added fiery dr morris fishbein editor of A M A a journal medical care is not the most important problem before the people of the united states I 1 medical and dental care must always be subservient to the need tor for food fuel clothing shelter and a job last week A M A found itself in an uncomfortable position in washington assistant attorney general thurman arnold announced that A M A will be prosecuted as a monopoly under the federal antitrust laws accused of violating the law by boycotting low cost clinics specific grounds for the suit involved the group health association of the district of columbia organized last year by 2500 government employees trust buster arnold charged A M A and the medical society of the district ot of columbia had attempted to prevent the gro group up health association from operating by cold shouldering doctors group health association physicians he said had been 11 excluded from washington hospitals 2 threatened with expulsion from the association and 3 made unwelcome at consultations with other doctors As A M A prepared its counterattack thurman arnold predicted the suit would have far reaching consequences on one of our most pressing problems three hundred self styled angels and cherubs moved through the village of highland N Y a few days ago and established divine deal heaven on the hudson river banks while faithful love miss st luke and ruth victory cried peace their benefactor explained why the angelic assistants a ssi stants of father divine negro cultist should occupy one of the majestic hudsons Hud sons most majestic estates henry hudson himself named a bend in the river crum elbow but not until two years ago did anyone dispute rich howland spencers claim that crum elbow applied only to the west bank then says spencer neighborly franklin delano roosevelt across the river appropriated the name crum elbow for his own estate the title was shifted by the department of interiors committee on geographical names admittedly vengeful spencer sold his estate to father divines followers for As divine deal heaven moved in across the river from new deal headquarters franklin Roosevel ts housekeepers could hear spiritual chants drifting from old crum elbow to new crum elbow chuckled spencer its going to be a wonderful experiment peri ment that father divines a great man his philosophy is terrific hes going to farm this place and show that his philosophy can triumph over the presidents Pe peace acel answered faithful love and miss st luke aviation la in portland ore one day last week major howard C french of the U S air reserve corps posed tor for his picture being dragged into a plane bound tor for san francisco the pretense was that major french feared flying next day he be headed west over the pacific in pan americans hawaiian clipper bound for manila some 2500 miles later the ship landed in honolulu and took oft off for midway island 1380 miles away next stop was wake island and next came guam when the 26 ton clipper took off for manila major french must have thought his fears were in vain but a few hours later the clippers radio went dead after hall a day of anxious waiting pan american admitted the ship must be down at sea out from manila went the army transport meigs and by dawn next day heavy war warships shipp were plowing the sea to reach the planes last reported positions finally in a spot where the water stood fathoms deep the meigs struck a significant oil slick that indicated the HaAra hawaiian ilan clipper had plummeted into the sea aboard had been six passengers nine crew members major frenchs franchs Frenc hs tears fears had not been in vain capt hans bertram of the german air service became the first pers person an to circumnavigate the world b by y commercial plane last week when he landed in berlin after a three weeks absence unnoticed on his eastward trip until he reached manhattan bertram crossed the atlantic as third pilot on germanys germanas Germ anys catapult plane foreign already weary of hostilities in china japan wondered last week if she had a second war to fight in isolated ma Marichu chukuro kuo where 75 year old russo chinese boundary markers have long since been lost soviet and jap troops were making much ado over a disputed hill near the village of first hostilities occurred july 11 but not until Is last S t week did the conflict blossom into full fledged warfare three clashes were reported in three days As might be expected both moscow and tokyo claimed victory and moscow sent a vigorous protest which japan rejected in the next skirmish manchu kuan detachments occupied russian territory two and a half miles deep west of lake khassan while soviet troops fled leaving 50 dead next day moscow answered with airplanes bombing railways near tokyo claimed five ships were downed and russia did its best to minimize the incidents to some it looked like war politics during pennsylvanian Pennsyl re recent cent fiery primary campaign charges were made that gov george H earles forces had extorted money from state contractors and employees and sold legislation when a dauphin county grand jury was called to investigate vesti gate the charges governor earle sprang to action summoned his rubber stamp legislature and ground out four bills to block the quiz one of them appointed a special legislative committee which would supersede the grand jury and conduct its own investigation two days later the dauphin county court blocked this ambitious plan by impounding all evidence in the case and prohibiting the grand jurys jury Is witnesses from appearing before the legislative committee calvin coolidge had already said 1 I do not choose to run but in 1928 a wary senate frowned on third presidential terms with a resolution branding it unwise unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions last week rebellious sen rush D holt D W va announced he would introduce a similar resolution in the senate next winter to curb any ideas franklin roosevelt may now entertain such a resolution would be no more influential than the senate which passes it though most observers thought it would make democratic convention think twice before sending the president back for a third term labor last week the national labor relations board sent conciliators conciliatory concilia tors to newton iowa where a well behaved washing machine strike has occupied 1500 maytag employees since may 9 As federal peacemakers peace makers prepared to call a parley between corn com pany officials and C 1 I 0 depre senta tives iolas gov nels G kraschel got on his high horse to maj gen mathew tinley in charge of national guardsmen guardsman guards men at newton the governor sent word that the labor board must not convene informed of the ultimatum trial ex aciner madison hill reported to washington and decided decided not to fight the iowa national guard single hand ed lawyers agreed governor kras chelas troopers are supreme so ion long 9 as the martial law goes unchallenged what he wants ants said the governor is a settlement of differences between maytag and C 1 I 0 without the labor boards meddling sports IS although jerome hanna dean had cost the chicago cubs each time they used him this year owner phillip K wrigley thought last week his investment was at least establishing tab lishing some sort of record purchased from the st louis cardinals for dizzy dean had pitched only five games but had won them all most important however was his mark of only earned runs per nine inning game considering that jim turner led the JEROME HANNA DEAN it ft was teas just one of those days 9 national league last year with runs against him per game and lefty gomez paced the american league with dizzy deans record appeared spectacular indeed chicago was just complimenting itself on this feat when dizzy dean took the mound against philadelphia first inning saw the bases loaded with a single double and a walk third inning saw a harmless single fourth inning saw chuck kleins over the tence fence homer fifth inning saw two doubles before dizzy went to the shower with larry french finishing for the cubs philadelphia won 54 5 4 it was just one of those days said dean people politely spurning cash count kurt haugwitz signed formal separation papers in london with his wife the former barbara hutton to count kurt goes control over lance the couples two year old child who will be raised as a danish gentleman next day countess barbara was reported pining once more tor for the american citizenship iz she renounced last year married a little more than one year En glands duke of windsor and his wife the furmer former wallis warfield only a few weeks ajo ago found a home in Aus ancient mittersill Mitter sill estate last week as workmen were busy renovating renova ting the twelfth century castle tor for september I 1 occupancy fire of undetermined origin burned it to the ground notified at their temporary chateau on the riviera En glands former king and his wife were expected to start house hunt ing once more this week celebrating his seventy fifth birthday anniversary in detroit automobile magnate henry ford spoke tor for theoress the press Fordi sms 1 the trouble is that we think the future is tomorrow it if it come to morrow we are not interested 21 2 there is nothing ahead tor for thil country but prosperity 3 bust ness is all mixed up with utterly false elements meanwhile it washington the national labor rela lions board found the ford motoi company guilty of wagner act viola tion by spying and discrimination at its buffalo N Y plant e douglas las corrigan who left nevi nea york flying to california and endea up by mistake in ireland took s boat for home and announced lit h was afraid of being seasick it ir washington U S department 01 01 commerce officials radioed the homing aviator news of his penalty toi foi an unauthorized transatlantic flight the penalty A six day suspension of cornigans Cor rigans commercial pilot certificate conveniently arranged while he is on shipboard at indianapolis john pierpont morgan III had his appendix removed after being rushed from a nearby farm where he had bad beep pitching hay incognito to notified ol 01 jack morgans real identity neighboring farmers formers said the twenty one year old youth seemed to be a willing hand but a little green His miscellany cellany at dayton ohio seventy one year i 12 old jeanette reber taylor sought her birth registration to apply for old age pension clerks thumbed back through musty registration volumes found Jear Je fette adette taylor was no I 1 registrant in no I 1 volume guilty of squandering his cifes mone money y guilty of murdering two women at elmont N Y last january john reo confessed his crimes to his sweetheart mrs florence bermond Ter mond last week his wife mamie visited john reo at sing sing where he awaits death august 15 upshot was camies letter to new yorks gov herbert lehman IM U there could be a way I 1 would gladly die in his place could it be made possible southampton england turned out last week to welcome two luxury liners arriving the same day ger banys sleek bremen ran aground entering the harbor finally got off with the aid of tugs A few minutes later the queen mary caught by wind and tide almost split a long wa wooden oden jetty e at denver thousands of bees came from nowhere to settle on the swank brown palace hotel covering one side up to the seventh story after a tour four hour battle by employees produced only swollen noses somebody called mrs sarah jackson denver bee catcher systematically locating three queen bees mrs jackson soon had the entire swarm safely packed away religion while russia boasted she had solved the jewish issue by simply barring all exiles pope pius XI last week spoke his mind about italis campaign tor for racial purity branding premier recently announced drive a disgraceful imitation of nazi germany the pontiff reopened an old conflict between church and state next day 11 II duce celebrated his fifty fifth birthday anniversary niver sary by answering to say that fascism has imitated anyone or anything is simply absurd on the question of race we will shoot straight 11 service |