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JVetrs Review of Current Events
CONGRESS READY TO QUIT
Senate Shelves Court, Farm Bills ... Spanish Conflict
Reaches Crisis ... Fighting Continues in North China
Sen. Harrison (right) congratulates Sen. Barkley.
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* N ' SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
© Western Newspaper Union.
'Aw, Let's Go Home!'
■f I TITH Supreme court b n l recom
» * mitted to the senate judiciary
committee, a new substitute bill for
reform of only the lower courts due
to be reported out of the commit
tee. and a new senate majority lead
er selected to take the late Senator
Robinson's place, the overwhelming
sentiment of the members of the
seventy-fifth congress was to pack
up their bags and get as far away
from Washington as possible.
Even measures which President
Roosevelt had insisted bear the
“must’' label were being shoved
aside with dispatch, as Vice Presi
dent Garner sought to heal the
party wounds inflicted during the
bitter court battle and salvage as
much of the President’s legislation
as he could. The first to be buried
was the new AAA and “ever-nor
mal granary” bill; the senate agri
culture committee shelved it until
the next session. The committee
authorized James P. Pope, Idaho
Democrat and co-sponsor of the bill,
to prepare a senate resolution to
lay the plans for regional hearings
on a comprehensive farm program
during the remainder of the sum
mer and report back in January.
It seemed certain that the Presi
dent’s legislation for governmental
reorganization would be left over
until next session when the record
of three months’ hearings by the
joint congressional committee was
made public. It was revealed that
committee members have not even
come close to agreement on any of
the main points involved.
Majority Leader Barkley said that
the White House still wanted the
wages and hours bill, the Wagner
low-cost housing bill and a judiciary
bill passed, as well as legislation
to plug tax loopholes. The Wagner
bill, meanwhile, was reported out of
committee, and it was expected the
senate would act upon it quickly. It
would set up a federal housing au
thority with power to issue $700,-
000.000 in bonds over three years
to make loans for “low-cost” hous
ing construction.
— * —
'Glory Be to God!'
TA YING for weeks, the scheme to
add to the number of justices
of the Supreme court finally choked
its last gasp and left this world. On
a roll-call vote the United States
senate voted to recommit the Rob
inson substitute for the President’s
original bill to the judiciary com
mittee. The vote was 70 to 20. the
most crushing defeat the Presi
dent’s legislation has yet suffered
at the hands of a house of congress.
In an agreement made at a ses
sion of the judiciary committee ear
lier, it had been decided to let the
opposition senators write their own
bill, an innocuous measure for “ju
dicial reform” not dealing in any
way with the Supreme court. Sena
tor Barkley, the new majority lead
er. attempted to save the Presi
dent’s face by having the bill left on
the calendar, but he never had a
chance. When the roll-call came,
even Senators Ashurst of Arizona
and Minton of Indiana, two of the
Supreme court bill’s chief support
ers. voted to recommit.
“Glory be to God!” said Sen. Hi
ram Johnson (Rep., Calif.) when
the results of the roll call were
made known. The applause that
bellowed forth from the senators
and gallery alike left no doubt that
the veteran from California had
voiced the sentiments of the great
majority.
— ★ —
Madrid's Moat of Blood
'■pHE Spanish government was de
fending Madrid against the in
surgent forces in the most terrible
battle of the entire civil war and
the most important. It couldn’t last;
it was too furious. The whole
loyalist cause apparently rested on
resisting this, the most vicious at
tack the rebels had yet made. Gen.
Francisco Franco's army, under his
J personal supervision, was making
advances, but at such loss of men
that the cost might be too great.
Insurgents stormed loyalist en
trenchments directly in the face o i
point blank machine guns. Losses
were so terrible that thousands oi
wounded lay without food or water
among thousands already dead and
decaying in the hot sun. Infantry,
tanks, cavalry and artillery were
supplemented by airplane bombers.
In one salient 250,000 men were
fighting, including the cream of both
armies. The loyalist position was
admittedly the most serious of
the whole war. and upon the govern
ment’s ability to withhold against
the attack rested the fate of the
best units in its army. It was re
ported that 20.000 Italian troops
had joined the rebels for the battle.
While the Madrid conflict was in
full sway, the insurgents sprang a
surprise air attack on Barcelona.
In the early dawn advance planes
dropped flares which lighted up the
city. Then came additional planes,
dropping bombs on the easy target
and turning machine guns on citi
zens who attempted to flee. At least
65 persons were killed and 150 in
jured.
Is This the Beginning?
A S JAPAN brought airplanes into
action for the first time since
the new Sino-Japanese crisis devel
oped, and threw all available
strength into a campaign against
the Chinese Twenty-ninth army in
North China, it was feared that the
expected long Japanese military of
fensive had begun. While it was dif
ficult to assimilate many conflicting
and confusing reports, there was
good ground for the belief that all
attempts at a truce had failed, for
a while at least.
The Japanese airmen rained
bombs upon Chinese military bar
racks around Peiping, and pressed
infantry and artillery attacks along
the Peiping-Tientsin railway and the
highway to the sea. Entrance of 200
Japanese marines into the Chinese
Chapei district of Shanghai sent 20,-
000 men, women and children fleeing
into the international settlement in
search of protection. It was ru
mored a Chinese mob had killed a
Japanese sailor, provoking Japa
nese reprisal.
Meanwhile the threat of real war
continued to hover as the Chinese
army refused to leave positions in
and near Peiping, in what Japan
considered violation of the Tientsin
peace agreement.
Barkley, 38; Harrison, 37
SEN. WILLIAM H. DIETERICH
of Illinois changed his mind at
the last minute and today Alben W.
Barkley, hard-fisted, blustering sen
ator from Kentucky,
eph T- Robinson of
• Jg’: was 38 for Barkley
Democrats in the
V.cePres.dent senate had been ag .
Garner sured of 38 votes,
enough to elect Harrison, on the
eve of the secret election. But that
night Dieterich, apparently under
pressure from the Democratic party
organization in Illinois, begged Har
rison to release his pledged vote, in
order that the President’s personal
choice might head the party in the
senate.
The slim victory by no means
patched the obvious party rift. Even
the administration admitted that the
President’s Supreme court bill was
virtually dead even then. Vice Pres
ident Garner visited Sen. Burton K.
Wheeler of Montana, leader of the
opposition forces, and invited the
ODDOsition to write its own bill.
40 Hurt in Strike Riot
A LTHOUGH the independent
steel plants were back at work,
there was still plenty of discord
along the labor front. Forty per
sons were injured in a wild riot
among pickets of the Steel Workers’
Organizing committee (affiliated
with C. I. O), loyal workers and
police at the Corrigan-McKinney
plant of the Republic Steel corpora
tion in Cleveland.
A mob of strikers hurled rocks
from a hillside upon cars of em
ployees parked in the valley about
the plant. Loyal workers attempted
to drive the strikers away, and at
one time 500 of them rushed out
of the plant and set upon the pick
ets. Police tried to break up the
fighting, relying chiefly on their tear
gas guns. One striker was killed
when a moving automobile, which
was being stoned, got out of con
trol and ran berserk through a
picket line.
In Buffalo there was a serious
food shortage because of a strike
of 1,000 wholesale grocery truck
drivers and 1,000 butchers at four
meat packing plants. As C. I. O.
and A. F. of L. unionists co-operated
in their demand for closed shops,
residents of the city were forced to
motor to the country for butter,
eggs and vegetables.
— * —
'Joe' Robinson's Successor
THE Democratic state committee
of Arkansas nominated Gov.
Carl E. Bailey to be the late Joseph
T. Robinson’s successor as United
States senator. He is
forty-two years old. &
Traditionally, hav- ™
ing been nominated "
by the state commit
tee, Bailey is “as tt*” afcji
good as elected,” *
but he may be op- j \ K A
posed in the elec- L ~&jj
tions which he will IL.
call himself, Sep
tember 14, by a Re- | JBt t
I publican or by other * ‘ *
i Democrats running Gov. Bailey
ias independents. Rosser Venable,
; who opposed Robinson in the 1936
| primary, had indicated that if Bai
| ley were nominated he would run in
! opposition. The state Republican
committee was reported seeking an
opponent for the governor.
Low Interest for Farmers
T> Y A vote of 71 to 19. the senate
i overrode the President's veto of
a bill extending for a year low inter
est rates on loans to farmers. It
was a defeat even more crushing
than the recommission of the court
bill, and made the bill a law with
out the President’s signature, for
the house had previously passed it
by a two-thirds majority over Mr.
Roosevelt’s veto.
Senator Barkley made a half
hearted attempt to stave off the
overwhelming vote, and the defeat
was accepted by many observers as
an expression of resentment over
Barkley’s having been elected ma
jority leader instead of Sen. Pal
Harrison of Mississippi.
— * —
A Year of Reclamation
I A PPLICATIONS for grants under
| last year’s agricultural conser
i vation program covered 283,000,000
acres—two-thirds of the country’s
crop land—and represented an esti
mated 4,000,000 farmers, H. R. Tol
ley. agricultural adjustment admin
istrator, reported. Nearly 31,000,000
acres were diverted from crops
which deplete the soil; 53,000,000
acres received the benefit of soil
building practices.
Conservation payments for the
year totaled $32,323,303.11, benefit
and rental payments $235,744,264.42.
Total expenditures by AAA during
1936 were $357,338,617.30, including
administrating expenditures and liq
uidation of obligations outstanding
when the Supreme court held sec
tions of the original AAA
tutional.
De Valera Is Re-elected
IF HIS party, Fianna Fail, can
keep in power that long, Eamon
de Valera will be president of the
executive council of the Irish Free
State for another five years. He
was elected to the nation’s highest
office by a vote of 82 to 52 in the
dail eireann (parliament). De Val
era, in favor of severing all ties
with Great Britain, won even the
vote of the labor group, which does
not endorse his party.
It was believed that De Valera
would go ahead with legislation nec
essary to implement the new consti
tution approved in the plebiscite of
July 1. He would in that case set
up a senate and elect a president
by popular vote, as the constitution
provides. If De Valera is elected
president, to serve seven years, po
litical experts say he will virtually
disappear from politics and his
party will break up.
Football Couldn't Save It
XTOT even the excellence and pop
ularity of Edward Patrick
(Slip) Madigan’s football teams
could save little St. Mary’s college
at Oakland, Calif., from the auction
block. It was “knocked down” to
its security holders for $411,150 —
the only bid —after it had failed to
pay interest on its bonded indebted
ness of $1,370,500 since 1934. When
Madigan came to St. Mary’s from
Notre Dame in 1921 it had 71 stu
dents. His football teams made it
famous and built the enrollment up
to 700. It was indicated he will re
main as coach, at a reported sal
ary of $7,000 a year and 10 per cent
of the gate receipts. Receipts last
year were 5174.671.
THE COOLIDGE EXAMINER
Matching Lace Trims Silk Sheers
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
\] O MATTER how much your
taste and the general tenor
of your life may call for practical
tailored and sportsy-type clothes,
there come big moments when
none other than a really and truly
dress-up dress will answer to oc
casion. If anything more apropos
can be found than either of the
stunning models pictured in the
way of dressiest-dress gowns that
tune graciously to afternoon func
tions, garden parties and such, pray
tell, where is it?
The illustration presents exactly
the type of dresses we have in
mind. Here you see two gowns that
are one hundred per cent voguish.
They are modem up to the instant,
and they are fascinating in regard
to nicety of detail and they carry
that air of sartorial elegance which
every woman of discriminating
taste covets. Make it yourself, have
it made, or buy it ready made as
you will, a dress of the type of ei
ther of these handsome frocks will
give you endless satisfaction, for
no matter what comes up in the
way of social affairs, unless extreme
formality demands ultra full-dress
attire, gowns such as pictured class
their wearers as among the those
present in the best dressed group.
This gesture of dyeing lace in exact
match to the silk sheer it trims is
proving a most exciting venture to
designers in that it invites such
free play of imagination. Then, too,
the lace being the identical color
enhances the dress without making
MANY COLORS SEEN
IN COATS FOR FALL
Coats of many colors have been
featured so extensively in Paris
that they are expected to be early
fall fashion successes in this coun
try. All of these coats are very
brief and are made of elegant fab
rics or of ribbons, thus indicating
their place with evening dresses.
One French designer has intro
duced a little jacket made of two
inch velvet ribbon sewn together
in vertical strips, the ribbon
combining shades of apple green,
old blue, chamois, pink which has
a blue cast and an orchid-purple.
This is worn over a gown of black
Chantilly lace. Another jacket is
made of red and blue grosgrain
ribbon interlaced to suggest a wov
en pattern.
One-Piece Dress of Blue
Linen for Morning Wear
For morning w’ear Schiaparelli
makes a on«-piece dress of pale blue
linen in a coarse, rough weave. It
is worn with a jacket of flame-col
ored linen made with short cap
sleeves. The matching hat of blue
linen is made halo fashion, to be
worn on the back of the head, and is
trimmed with a small band of flow
ers.
Pale green linen in a rough weave
is used for a two-piece summer suit,
made on strictly tailored lines. The
blouse fs in rose pink crepe made
with a high neck and short sleeves.
Matching Hats and Heels
Popular for Sportswear
Matching headdresses and heels
are providing a gala touch to sim
ple summer outfits worn by attrac
tive young spectators at smart Mid
western country clubs. Dusty pink
frocks combined with beige turbans
and ostrich skin pumps with beige
colored built-up heels are a popu
lar combination. On many of the
smartest white ensembles, effective
accents are furnished by paisley
print headbands and heels.
it look too fussy or overdone—gives
it the exclusive accent that many
covet but few attain.
Current collections include both
dark and light sheers with match- j
ing lace trims. A costume done in j
monotone color scheme of either
the very fashionable spruce green I
or beetroot red would be outstand
ing. Grays in the pastel shades are
greatly stressed, also rose-beige.
As to swank styling the redingote
theme prevails since it offers such
excellent opportunity to introduce
border effects with lace insertions
after the manner showTi in the
charming dress to the left in the
picture. This redingote gown is a
most fetching style for the cocktail
hour. It is made of gray silk mar
quisette tastefully embellished with
insets of matching lace. The huge
red straw open-crowned hat worn
with it plays up in dramatic con
trast to the demure gray of the
dress. It is flower-trimmed and has
black streamers that tie under the
chin.
The other young woman seeks
and finds midsummer coolness in a
gown of beguiling rose-glow silk
marquisette trimmed with insets of
matching lace. The tiny self-fabric
buttons add to the choiceness of
this dress. Short sleeves and short
gloves also do their bit toward giv
ing smart style accent. The modish
poke bonnet is a blue straw with
violet and old rose velvet ribbon
trim.
© Western Newspaper Union.
SMART SHEER WOOL
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
-:r ;
The midseason dress problem
when it is too warm to wear this
and too cool to wear that need no
longer set any woman into a worry
and flurry for the answer has been
found in the new sheer wools that
are the very thing to don at the
first hint of autumn’s approach.
Pictured is a stunning dress that
will bridge from summer to fall
perfectly. This distinctive tailored
frock combines sheerest wool weave
in attractive dusty rose coloring
with chic accent of snowy pique.
Pleated-in sleeves and an intriguing
pleated skirt convey early style
messages. Note the high crown in
her smart fall felt. As the new sea
son advances crowns keep going
higher and higher.
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
! STAR j
| DUST |
* JMovie • Radio *
★ ★
★★★By VIRGINIA VALE***
Everything goes in cy
cles in motion pictures,
and just now the Russian cy
cle threatens to monopolize
the screen. No less than three
of the most fascinating screen
sirens are currently holding
forth in the midst of Russian
magnificence.
There is Marlene Dietrich with
Robert Donat in “Without Armor”
for instance. Miss Dietrich and Rob
ert Donat make a thrilling roman
tic pair. Another of the Russian
cycle is “The Emperor’s Candle
sticks” in which Luise Rainer and
William Powell appear as rival spies
of Russia and Poland. Last, but by
no means least, particularly for
music lovers, is “Two Who Dared”
with Anna Sten, who has been too
long absent from our screens.
At last George Raft is out of seclu
sion and he is so relieved. For
...... months he has had
lo g 0 w *thout a hair
cut for his role in
“Souls at Sea” and
'tffi--' to his eternal dis-
' comfiture his shoul
’ * der-length hair was
] daily waved with a
w curling iron. He
~r didn’t dare face the
' mugs who are his
best friends looking
like that. The day
George the picture was fin-
Itaft ished he celebrated
with a very tight haircut and
smeared on the vaseline lavishly.
Ever since a court forced Mae West
to break down and admit that she
really was married twenty-six
years ago to one Frank Wallace,
she has been in seclusion. Couldn’t
stand having people stare at her
intently looking for wrinkles, while
they counted on their fingers—eight
een and twenty-six make forty-four.
In those odd moments when they
are not discussing Mae West's age,
Hollywoodians are raving over the
beautiful newcomer, Zorina, who
is under contract to Sam Goldwyn.
She is an enchanting young woman
about nineteen years old. Born in
Norway, not far from the Arctic
Circle, she went to school in Berlin,
joined the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe
company when she was visiting in
Mexico City, and because of her
two years association with this
troupe now has a slight Russian
accent.
Rudy Vallee spends many of his
evenings nowadays at a night club
in New York where his friend Jackie
Osterman is making a comeback
after a long stretch of hard luck.
Vallee is a great story teller, and
one of his favorites concerns Jack
Benny. Vallee whole-heartedly ad
mires the drastic way in which Jack
Benny treated a hostile vaudeville
audience years ago. Benny came
out on one side of the stage merrily
saying “Hello folks” only to face a
bunch of tough-looking ruffians who
glowered at him. Continuing right
on across the stage, he exited from
the stage saying “Good-by folks”
and walked right on out of the
theater never to return.
Martha Raye made the hit of her
life and smashed all box-office rec
ords making personal appearances
at the Paramount theater in New
York recently. The audience simply
could not get enough of her. They
surged down to the footlights when
her act was over, shot questions at
her, begged her to sing one more
song, and then just stood and yelled
when her voice threatened to give
out.
Frankie Masters, NBC star and
band maestro says “it pays to work
your way through
started out to earn
his way through the
commerce school at £
the band. Soon the 1. M
band became more II
profitable than com- Ifgk
merce and he had mS- r
engagements at ho
te 1 s and leading Frankie
night clubs in Chi- Masters
cago and other big
cities. Frankie is starred with Ed
die Guest on the “It Can Be Done”
program.
ODDS AND ENDS—There is a fan
in Grand Rapids, Mich., who writes
Gene Autry a sixteen-page letter of
criticism and comment every time a
new picture of his is shown. He not
only reads every line appreciatively,
he tries to correct all those faults in
his next picture ... Everyone is marvel
ing at Connie Bennett’s good sports
manship in letting Roland Young get
most of the laughs in her first comedy
“ Topper .” . . . Paul Muni has been
proclaimed the best of all screen actors
by all who have seen “The Life of
Emile Zola.” And Muni says this is
the very last biographical picture he
will make. He doesn’t want to make
any more pictures for a long time.
© Western Newspaper Union.
'Way Back When
By JEANNE
JOSEF STALIN STUDIED FOR
THE PRIESTHOOD
WITH what blindness do we at
tempt to guide our children’s
footsteps in life, so often forcing
on them an ambition of our own!
It might be laughable were it not
so seriously in opposition to the
man’s own desires, but Josef Stalin
was forced to attend the Tiflis Greek
Orthodox seminary, because his
mother wanted him to be a priest.
Young Stalin, legally named Josef
Vissarionovitch Djygashvili, did not
want to be a priest.
Born in 1879, Josef was educated
in the village school of Gori, Rus
sia. In his young days he was a
fighter who bore many a black eye,
and he w r as somewhat of a bully,
although he always displayed intel
ligence and character. At the sem
inary, he led the other students in
plotting against the authorities, and
local railway workers met jn his
room. Eventually, he was dis
missed in disgrace. At the age of
seventeen, he joined the under
ground dock workers of Batum in
a riot and when the terrorist Bol
sheviks were formed became active
in their movement. While attend
ing a Bolshevik party conference in
Stockholm, in 1905, he met Lenin
for the first time.
Josef Stalin was arrested a half
a dozen times, and exiled from Rus
sia the last time. He changed his
name regularly and returned again
and again. With Lenin and Trotsky,
he took over the government of Rus
sia in October, 1917. After Lenin
died in 1924, Stalin supporters ex
iled Trotsky and through ruthless
executions made Stalin dictator.
Josef Stalin’s life is hardly the
kind of biography you would ex
pect from a boy who studied for
the priesthood.
• • •
JOAN CRAWFORD WAS A
TELEPHONE OPERATOR
JOAN CRAWFORD’S life Is an
example of a girl who had tal
ent, ambition and enthusiasm, but
who might never have risen beyond
an ordinary occupation without the
necessary confidence to keep try
ing.
Joan Crawford was born about
1907 in San Antonio, Texas, daugh
ter of a theater manager. Most of
her play hours were spent playing
“show,” and she danced her way
through many struggling years be
fore a real opportunity came her
way. At fourteen, Joan went to
work as a telephone operator in
Lawton, Okla. Then, she was sent
to a convent in Kansas City, where
she had to earn her way by acting
as a kitchen maid and waiting on
tables. After leaving college. Joan
Crawford found a job in a Kansas
City department store as a stock
girl at $lO per week, working dur
ing the day and practicing dancing
at night.
Finally a theatrical agent found a
| job for Joan in a show which failed
a month later, leaving her stranded
300 miles from home. Courageous
ly, she found job after job in cab
arets and night clubs in Chicago,
Detroit, and New York. She was
working in a Shubert shew, “In
nocent Eyes,” when a Metro-Gold
wyn-Mayer executive saw her and
1 signed her for pictures.
| Think of the troubles this girl had,
, the disappointments and struggles.
, Born in the atmosphere of show
’ business, she was inspired from the
j time she could first toddle to find a
place for herself in that glamorous
life. Then, circumstances' took a
! hand and forced her into occupa
’ tions that were far more on the side
of drudgery than glamour. She
| plugged lines into a switch-board,
washed dishes, swept floors, car
! ried heavy trays, wrapped pack
i ages. But through it all, she kept
her confidence in herself.
© —WNU Service.