Show weekly news review house committee finds A 0 isms iams rampant in U so S W la bine domestic last year chicago times report er john metcalfe joined fritz kuhns german american bund traveled miles attending bund meetings then resigned to write a startling expose for his paper direct result was a house corn com 4 cittee on un american activities which met last week under texas s martin dies after three days of probing un americanism reared its colorful head everywhere from C 1 I 0 headquarters to gl glamorous am orous holly wood ex bundsman metcalfe told how fritz kuhn organized ger j man inan americans under instructions from adolf hitler how in return kiihn was given a whip hand over germanys germanas Germ anys ambassador to the U S he told of Chi cagos silver shirts t organized to smash communism ex bundsman peter gissibl told how nazi spies consorted with ger man americans how the red bed star line fixed it so spies could slip back home when they got in trou brou ble but it was american federa tion of labors john P frey frei who tossed in the biggest bombshell and paused caused C I 1 0 s john johh L lewis to snort nort with rage is one thing but metal tradesman frey promised to identity identify several national C 1 L 0 officers as communists would he mention john lewis how could I 1 avoid it replied mr frey the frey disclosures had barely started before committee investigator edward sullivan hurried into washington from california anxious to reveal how C 1 I 0 s harry bridges americas most famous alien attended top fraction meetings of the communist party and received aid from officials of the U S labor department while patriotic citizens were trying to have him deported tor for his communistic activities continued investigator sullivan witnesses can be produced who can name the day when an official of the immigration service contacted harry bridges and called him to his office where he read a confidential letter of instructions on his future behavior written by an outstanding official of the labor department that communist bridges is financed by hollywood cinema stars was mr sullivans next charge armed with this evidence supported by unionist frey whose accusations john lewis seemed unwilling to answer the dies committee prepared to remain in washington two more weeks in new york they will pick up more tasty rumors then move west across the nation to smell out communism a la hollywood foreign many years ago germanys germanas Germ anys great bismarck tooled fooled his opponents by telling the truth knowing they would not believe last week when adolf hitler called reserves to the colors tor for war games with a million regular soldiers all europe became jittery but in berlin there was scoffing if germany planned anything but peaceful moves she would have assembled her giant war machine secretly remembering bismarck answering too that secret mobilization on such a giant scale would be impossible berlins nervous diplomatic corps sped the news back home to paris london and prague there these things happened 1 in prague En glands lord runciman has spent a fortnight mediating differences between loyal czechs czecho and their disgruntled fellow countrymen germans su betens want autonomy eventual annexation by germany was it possible that germanys germanas Germ anys mobilization foreshadowed foreshadower fore shadowed a quick annexation move As premier milan hodza rejected a demand for autonomy all czechoslovakia became wor V k K 4 A F OF L IS JOHN FREY investigator DIES see col one they were obliged to discuss john lewis ried and lord runciman wished he were back home 2 in paris where the government has also been having trouble with mussolini french frontiers along germany and italy were virtually locked next interior minister albert sarraut sarratt re enforced his counter spying service against germany 3 in london prime minister neville chamberlain forgot his catarrh and returned from scotland since germany recently closed its fortified zones to all military men britaina Brit ains war office warned its officers to get special certificates to avoid trouble during travels in germany chief dynamite in germanys germanas Germ anys maneuvers lay in the possibility of an incident that would topple Eu ropes delicately balanced peace structure a when japan and russia signed a truce in their month old undeclared war on the siberian border only the most optimistic observer could predict lasting peace As a re demarcation commission prepared last week to settle the boundary dispute two incidents threatened once more to send rus sias bear charging up bullet pocked cocked hill on isolated sag hallen halien island half russian half jap soviet guards fired on a touring member of the japanese parliament next day troops took advantage of the truce advanced meters up hill while russian guns bristled since wisdom was the better part of valor the japs immediately retreated last year generalissimo jose miaja was christened savior of madrid when his forces withstood a terrific rebel drive last week as advancing rebel troops reached the border of southerly ciudad real province long a loyalist stronghold savior miaja holed himself in at valencia boasted 1 I say to you as I 1 said to madrid that your streets will never see the enemy unless it is a vanquished enemy rebel armies he said had fallen tor for bait had rushed off to protect other sectors while valencia seized the opportunity port unity to girdle itself with steel fortifications 0 in central china japanese planes rained bombs on stubborn bankow killing civilians but hardly had tokyo received this good news than trouble broke out in shanghai supposedly captured 10 months ago occasion was the first annever anniversary sary of japans initial attack on shanghai an event every loyal chinaman thought worth celebrating up over native housetops in the international settlement fluttered chinese flags in Poo tung industrial area across the Whang poo riv er guerrilla warriors attacked at midnight they seized hungtao a airdrome ir site of the original shanghai incident when pistol waving japanese authorities ties invaded the settlement demanding that chinese flags be furled they met resistance from french and american troops at troubles end an even dozen japanese bad boys were sent scooting home next day tokyo protested claiming detention of a japanese officer was illegal people last month anne lindsay dark clark married son john roosevelt Hoo sevelt who a fortnight ago took an 18 a week job in the boston department store of late democrat edward filene last week anne Roosevel ts sister sally who has sung her way to nominal fame in a night club said she would marry george xavier of new york 9 wed only two weeks to his telephone operator sweetheart from gore bay ont 21 year old auto heir daniel C dodge was honeymooning on Manito ulin island off lake durons georgian bay one afternoon as he rummaged around the garage with his wife and mr and mrs lloyd bryant a stick of dynamite exploded completely shattered was dodges left arm hi his face torn his bis eyes blinded rushed off by boat to a distant hospital by his badly injured friends dodge suffered excruciating agony finally he stood up swayed jumped into the water drowned next day bryant was not expected to live e twenty years ago the world feared capt jacob von Wl egland german world war ace who shot down 22 allied planes last week the flying dutchman was discovered in new york digging ditches in uncle sams army for 57 a month aviation transatlantic commercial air supremacy has long since been willed by public consent to U S and great britain though until last year neither nation did anything to justify the publics approval A few weeks ago nazi germany sent its nordstern Nord stern and Nord meer catapulting apul ting from the azores to new york and back placing a new nation in the race for atlantic air supremacy pre macy last week adolt adolf hillers Hit lers birdmen birdeen did something still better nonstop non stop from berlin to new york in 24 hours 56 minutes came the 26 passenger brandenburg two days later brandenburg was again in berlin making her return trip in the record time of 19 hours 55 minutes no longer a secret is hillers Hit lers ambition to make not london not paris but berlin the european starting point for transatlantic flights 0 down from the clouds east ot of mexico city plummeted an airliner first a crash then flames and 11 were dead down from fogbound fog tog bound skies into germanys germanas Germ anys black forest came a czechoslovak liner bound from prague to paris sixteen died down to their deaths oft off glands En coast went six crew members of a royal air force flying boat bringing to the total fatalities I 1 in 11 that tha t service this year thus in 12 hours in mexico england and germany 33 lives were snuffed out politics dearer than anything else to franklin roosevelt Hoo sevelt is his bis legislative program blocked last session not by a republican minority but by anti new deal democrats no silent sufferer mr roosevelt decided long ago that congress needed new blood to replace opponents of his reorganization bill wage hour bill and lesser measures this years primaries offered an opportunity by last week his purge program was not a success but neither had new dualism suffered many losses in elections thus far bound to break the impasse mr roosevelt decided to stake his political future on his tremendous personal popularity in the south fortnight ago at barnesville Barnes ville ga he bluntly read out of the party sen walter F george who sat scowling in the audience see p picture i last week 60 year old senator george took up the challenge and set out to beat new dealer lawrence camp in georgias primary september 14 stalking next into south carolina the president intimated that senator D cotton ed smith would be unwelcome at washington next Z W GEORGIAS GEORGE he had reason to scowl winter intimated also that south carolinians should send in his place gov olin D johnson next the chief used social se cur itys third birthday to place a blessing on Ma rylands new deal representative david J lewis who seeks the seat now held by senator millard tydings back in washington news of the mouths purge gave political commentators menta tors enough hard bard tack to chew aliew on until election day what franklin roosevelt wanted was complete domination of congress insuring passage of his legislative program thus would he be able to dictate his 1940 successor dispelling the third term bugaboo science in new york one night last month dr charles federer of hayden planetarium set up his telescope on the lawn suddenly northeastward from over new jersey he spied a rushing flaming ball go going too fast for a burning airplane agen then it disappeared behind manhattans Manhat tans sky scrapers not 10 minutes later the P planetarium was deluged with telephone calls new york connecticut c ut vermont and rhode island had seen it off last week to hunt the cosmi cys waif went dr H H nininger who in 1935 did a needle in the haystack act by locating rem remains airis of a meteor that flashed across six southern states best bet was was that thit manhat tans meteor cameto came to eartle in vermont when and if he finds it the debris will be searched for more novel elements like tro ilife e often found in meteors but never in earthly materials most mete meteors org though they leave a brilliant glow are re no bigger than a grain of sand sports jhc broker J smith ferebee played holes of golf gola Chicago in last fortnight it looked like a new marathon tad fad would start rivaling marathon dancing surpassing the toughest flagpole sitter last week at st john i ind 23 year yea rold r old charles grant sta started r ted playing golf at dawn by ia 3 p m he had covered holes by sundown his worst 18 hole round the tenth scoring 81 crime one morning last fall 18 year yar old paul dwyer of south paris me was wasl arrested in north arlington N J stuffed in the trunk of his automobile was the corpse of james G littlefield elderly country doctor stuffed in the back seat was that of dr Little fields wife paul dwyer went to prison under life sentence for double murder then he changed his story said dwyer francis carroll a former deputy sheriff had improper re relations lations with his daughter barbara awyers sweetheart when dr littlefield learned of this carroll killed him later he killed the doctors wife fear of carroll caused dwyer to admit both murders last week these horrible accusations were settled francis carroll was convicted sent to prison lor for life it appeared likely that sallow faced paul dwyer would be pardoned though he might still be charged with guilty knowledge of the slayings slay ings meanwhile barbara carroll received offers to appear in a boston night club miscellany from san Francis cos golden G gate ate exposition grounds last week came orders that publicity on the 1939 fair must show more fair buildings fewer fair maidens result was a new bit of publicity something fair officials had not expected up and down in front of the administration building paraded the most beautiful picket line in america their placards were out on a 21 limb we want a legacy leg acy 16 last fortnight britaina Brit ains proud queen mary made a westward atlantic passage in 3 days 21 hours 48 minutes clipping better than an hour from the record dof of her rival frances normandie last week queen mary steamed east from new york made the crossing in 3 days 20 hours 42 minutes to beat another normandie record said a proud officer this is the lions turn to roar a last june 1 a big malamute malamate mala mute dog went hunting with his master off alanskas frozen bering strait lingering off shore to gobble seal meat the beast was carried to sea on an ice floe last week more than two months later the master again went hunting this time with father bernard R hubbard alaskan missionary sio nary on lonely point hope miles away the dog bounded up he had cruised the entire distance on a cake of ice had thrived on seal meat |