Show WEEKLY V W NEWS REVIEW r failure of 0 dem turge purged gives G GOP 0 O P neav ivea fears politics acs ics if franklin roosevelt ever planned to purge his democratic party of undesirables he now knows the purge has tailed failed on the presidential black list may have been iolas gillette Gi Uette nevadas mccarran colorados adams and massouris Mis souris clark by last week these new deal haters baters were either re nominated omina ted or assured of winning their state primaries at the expense of administration favorites news of purge failure has recently sent the most dour conservative into ecstasies for once it appears franklin frankl in Roosevel ts domination over the party is at ebb tide but last week a few foes began thinking instead of effervescing I 1 Is purge failure helping untangle badly twisted united states political lines decidedly the contrary Is purge failure eliminating franklin Roos roosevelt roosebelt eielt as a third probably not originally the purge idea sought to transform the democratic party parity into ar an instrument of coherent liberalism eral ism implying formation of an equally coherent conservative party on the ather side but when congress convenes venes next winter the united states will see instead a hodgepodge of multicolored multi colored v political thought from which little but bickering fl cabb can be e expected deeply tanned from his 20 day fishing trip i to 0 tropical pacific waters franklin roosevelt was back in his 48 states last week still mum about third term rumors that have kept n newsmen e busy since he left of all rumors most thought ing was that purge failure robs the president of party control robs him also of the right to name a successor in 1940 not willing to be robbed enthusiastic new dealer roosevelt would rather run himself than pass the mantle to a less ardent new dea dealer ler labor the nasty word communism hung like a spectre last week before the eyes of C 1 I 0 mogul john L lewis at detroit and los angeles his henchmen were having trouble ex preacher homer martin who heads members of the C I 1 0 united automobile workers I 1 found marked tor for liau liquidation ida by the four vice presidents he recently found guilty of consorting with communists their charge that martin himself has been consorting with president jay lovestone of the independent communist labor league to bewildered C 1 I 0 workers it appeared that U A W s trouble was vas simply a fight between stalinist communists and lovestone commit communists each willing to fight tor for their own beliefs no matter how many unions are destroyed standing on the sidelines at detroit awaiting the opportune moment was A F of L s francis dillon who headed the U A W when it was a respectable labor federation affiliate meanwhile ai at los angeles tour four C L 1 0 unions voted to withdraw from radical harry bridges industrial union council charging he had brought the body under communist control domestic that that pennsylvanian Pennsyl sen james J davis has been more successful with U S moose than his tennessee valley authority investigating committee was admitted last week from washington to knoxville in the heart of tar far flung power empire the committee has dug tor for facts rumors and figures to establish why ousted TVA administrator arthur morgan raised such a hullabaloo last winter the committees aim said davis was to find the deal real true yardstick cost of power and the total amount of money going into TVA development last week after spending more than half the appropriation chairman davis decided 85 per cent of his rummaging was concerned with uninteresting auditing and accounting named to investigate for the investigating committee was a private investigator M C conick whose personal headache TVA now becomes kentucky blue grass politics was red hot as kentucky prepared to choose a democratic senator at jackson former sheriff lee combs and his brother attended a rally for or their own faction then walked brazenly into a rally ot of opposition forces when the smoke cleared Lee Combs was shot dead A few minutes later his father organized kinfolk kinsfolk to search for william combs who was no relative but the alleged slayer said police chief A S lizmore Siz more im a 6 republican R so im not on J ALBEN BARKLEY it 19 was surely a fine day either side they were all bet up from cM 11 two days later kentucky W went ent to the polls at versailles gov A B happy chandler muttered down the hatch as he chivalrously voted for his opponent majority leader alben W barkley at paducah alben barkley deposited his ballot glanced at the skies and predicted a record vote by midnight it appeared that happy chandler should have voted for himself dear alben with presidential blessing was and political theorists tried to figure out what it meant sports several weeks ago a young chicago broker fred bet his partner halt half ii a plantation he play holes of golf from dawn to dusk without going over 95 on any 18 holes partner J smith ferebee took him up starting out one morning last week by nightfall all holes were played at an average of 86 strokes per 18 holes boles next day broker ferebee still golf hungry played again 0 in 1933 Det oits roiti american league tigers finished five places down disgusted manager walter 0 briggs purchased gordon stanley mickey cochrane from philadel chias athletics installed him as manager in 1934 the tigers won their pennant in 1935 went on to a world championship next two years they finished second to new yorks invincible yankees hit in the head by a baseball last mid season mickey cochrane has never since worn a catchers mask but managed the hapless tigers during their current unlucky season one day last week detroit dropped a 14 8 game to red sox five minutes later mickey coch rane was dismissed religion on the next day when they heard that jesus was coming took i branches of palm trees and went w wt forth 1 to meet him and cried hosanna hosannah Hos annas blessed is the king of israel that corneth in the name of the lord thus wrote st john in biblical days since then his words have been unchanged but last week american clergymen began studying the bible as rewritten under adolph hillers Hit lers direction to conform with germanys germanas Germ anys nazi ideology said the Nazi fled fied st john then they took green branches went to meet him and cried HEIL to him that comes in the name of god HEIL to thee thou shall be our king eliminated are all references to sin heaven and the Hebrew prophets for the nazi heaven is now to be found in germany alone a each weeks news brings a new crop af pf of nazi fascist moves against the downtrodden je jew last weeks crop A i included the following moves and counter moves 1 I first comedian eddie cantor then the jewie jewish war veterans ot of the united slates urged auto magnate henry ford to repudiate a germs german n award conferred on his seventy fifth With birthday day 2 I benito mussolini continued his drive to the nation started a monthly magazine to propagate new fascist race theories i 3 in germany court decree denied jewish sounding names to aryan children i reason heason the question of what names may be given german children belongs to the sphere of public law f 4 great britaina Brit ains C commission om mission on i partition of palestine was reported planning to reduce jerrys national home there thus shutting off offa sanctuary for refugees in the holy land aviation since its birth shortly after the world war U S commercial aviation has been bounced back and forth by a dozen government agencies has suffered from repudiated agreements and constantly changing administration worst blow was the governments repudiation of airmail contracts five years ago an experiment that ended in headaches for all last winter congress established a civil aeronautics authority to manage commercial aviation permanently manent ly and sensibly its job to administer air mail contracts supervise commercial air lin lines es and private fliers and study aviation safety last week the new authority took over its job two weeks before the act goes into effect As chairman elmer J noble of greenwich conn walked into his office for the first time he hoped to regulate aviation as successfully as another pol icy forming board the interstate commerce commission has supervised railroading people at callander ont olivia deonnes Di onnes famous five children tailed failed to appear before their daily tourist audience dr roy datoe dafoe who has guided the tour four year old quintuplets quintuple ts since birth reported they suffered from upset stomachs next day dionne worried publicly over emilie who had taken no nourishment tor for 24 hours two days after former cinema actress pearl white died in paris warner oland ot of charlie chan tame fame succumbed in in his native sweden of bronchial pneumonia at hammond la governor richard W leche poured coffee served sandwiches to pickets surrounding a box factory foreign since 1931 when japan marched into manchuria tokyo and moscow have been on the brink of war last week they appeared to be fighting two wars in one at the isolated russion korean frontier nobody knew who was winning in the other being waged in the moscow office of sov soviet let foreign minister maxim litvinoff it appeared that russia had the upper hand amidst a barrage ot of incidents and curt boies notes asias two powers were attempting to settle ownership of a shell pocked cocked hill near the village of russia jap hostilities in this sec tor date back to 1931 when japan marched into manchuria and looked longingly at land patrolled by rus sias autonomous siberian army but not until mid july this year did the five year secret war break into I 1 the open since then both powers have attacked and counter attacked tor for days on end moving troops artillery and planes to little already tired ot of one war see below japan was anxious to avoid another finally ambassador mamoru at moscow received word koopen to open peace negotiations last week it appeared proud stubborn japan japa n would have to eat crow it she wanted peace e with prouder more stubborn russia muttering that the time has come to tei terminate minate these endless incidents Forel foreign gri minister litvinoff matched proposals with an even better set 1 immediate cessation ot of hostilities tili ties with mutual withdrawal withdraw behind a fixed line 2 that line to be determined by the russ china treaty ot of june 26 1888 1886 ia 3 appointment of a bilateral commission two russians one Manchu kuan one jap to negotiate for re demarcation of the line on basis of the 1886 treaty while japan boasted after two weeks that 1500 russ soldiers had been killed and wounded against on her own side two tattered soviet deserters walked into her siberian camp to air their grievances against moscow they deserted because their fathers well to do kulak farmers had been heavily taxed heavily oppressed in the soviet drive for collective agriculture our slogan is defend the fatherland of liberty one said but how can we soldiers defend such a system when the cows i MAXIM LITVINOFF the time has come horses and even their barns are taken away to japan it looked tike like dussias Rus sias poor siberian administration was her ally 9 last week weary japanese troops were still more than miles down the flooded yangtze river from their goal long since deserted by the chinese government while defending troops claimed the invaders had been repelled in battle after battle crafty japs were evidently resorting to brains instead of brawn to capture another part of china in the past manchuria and peking governments were undermined by palm rubbing tokyo agents and disgruntled chinese officials result in each case has been a puppet state completely divorced from china last week at peaceful canton only a few miles from britaina Brit ains hongtong Hong kong came reports of secret negotiations to sway south china from the central government promising to prevent recurrence ot of disastrous bombings which left canton a bloody shambles last month jap agents would set up an independent government closely allied I 1 to tokyo meanwhile japan refused to stop jl 1 her bombing attacks on canton for two successive days last week war planes swooped down with their cargoes of death finally striking within witha yards ot of the foreign settlement where thousands had taken refuge next day cantons catholic cathedral was as struck while hundreds cow ered in terror within Sp ains ebro river ran red last week as generalissimo francisco franco opened the wars most intensive aerial and artillery bombardment bar dment to date to the east where stubborn loyalists have been holding out for months general vin cente rojos bojos army finally buckled fl fled ed in terror to the river and swam tor for the opposite bank under machine gun fire trapped like rats survivors struggled to the opposite shore finally fleeing back in the night to enco anteri and mired roads which generalissimo franco had arranged by breaking g dains to the north in all I 1 government troops perished and 2000 were seized miscellany back to london last week from darkest africa came came Missi missionary onari john harris witha with a strange tale his story la in land lives ra senan believed to be years old yet still in good health and boasting all but one tooth he has hai a son more than years old and a daughter 18 16 for one thing 1936 will be remembered as the year america deserted its circus tradition last month at scranton pa ringling brothers biggest show on earth folded its tents in the night and headed tor for winter quarters in bloomington ill cole brothers also folded lesser groups have partially withstood the shock but circus tans fans stuck out their chins last week preparing to fight rain recession and labor at madl madison wis the circus fans association of america assigned a subcommittee to help save an institution typically american when an automobile and a ship collide its news last week such news was made in buffalo N Y where an intoxicated motorist plunged through the fence on a waterfront ter front street landing on the deck of an anchored U S coast guard vessel twenty thousand bathers at new yorks rockaway beach sought relief from sticky weather last week in the distance were unimportant A rumblings gs of thunder suddenly the air was splintered by a bolt of lightning that zigzagged feet down the beach killing three felling hundreds next day investigators wondered it if a huge steel bridge passing almost immediately over the beach might have drawn the freak bolt when she was first launched eng lands proud queen mary was also queen of the atlantic then came the french normandie to set a westward passage record of 3 days 22 hours 52 minutes last week her powerful engines chum churn edthe queen mary to a new record clipping I 1 hour 14 minutes off them the norman dies mark fondled like the museum piece it is douglas wrong way corri corn gans transatlantic airplane was unloaded in manhattan last week VE 0 at new york babe ruth took time out from coaching the brooklyn dodgers i to give his adopted daughter julia a pint of blood suffering from of the neck julia was improved imp noved next day |