SPAIN FO LLQV,_ P_0 LIT IC S L.'l . - SUNOCO MONDAY, Oct. 1£, 19,^6 In Spain this Columbus day was unique. For the first time in centuries m there was no observance of the anniversary. For the Spanish have always made it even more a national holiday than we in spite of the fact that they've long since spent the gold of the Indies. In Madrid, October Twelve us wily is the day of the big horse race of the year. And in audition to the horse race naturally, a corrida, an afternoon of bull fighting. But they weren’t fighting bulls around Madrid today. Almost at the gates of the city Rebels and Government troops struggled x ferociously - man to man. With the Fascist army virtually at the city limits the Left Wing government issued a proclamation. The authoulties asked the people for once to forgo their holiday, to cut out the merry-making and get ready for air raids. I seems obvious that the Government is almost an Its last legs. To the West the Rebels are only fourteen miles off; to the Southwest, eighteen; to the South, on the Toledo-Madrid Highway, only twenty. The loyal forces have only two hopes to sustain them. Nature supplied one in the shape of a heavy fog SPAIN FOLLOW POLITICS - 2 in one spot, heavy rains elsewhere which held up Rebel troops and supply trains. The second hope of* the Grovermnent is Moscow. If the Soviet will denounce the neutrality agreement and sell the Spanish Government arms and supplies they figure that they have a chance. (^Russia today got into direct telephone communication with Madrid. The first message from Moscow was good news. The Russ iana. fund to aid th the Spanish cause has reached more than five million dollars. Also the sex fourth ship—load of supplies is on its way to Spanish waters.And there^by the way is a situation that bodes no good to the |i± peace of Europe POLITICS While /iL ^ :*Ace^e^;ra^iriS the discovery he two major presidential candidates were I III discussing what had happened to. Governor Landon on his A- way to Cleveland^ and President Roosevelt in,Denver, exchanged compliments of a left handed nature* Governor Landon took ill the opportunity of a stop in Ohio to answer the President's Wz-dfiJeCMef aT^T3hHwu*«lli Omaha speech. ©»* statements I m made xsiot Saturday night said Mr, Landon were more calculated to deceive than to enlighten, Mr, Roosevelt he said^claims that agricultural exports are increasing5.' The faetSy d^cTar^the Governor^ show that exports actually have declined. And he explains: "The Government reports the export of Nineteen Thirty-Three in term* of the old dollar. On the other hand it reports last A year’s exports in terms of the fifty-nine cent dollar." Mr. Landon went on to quote a lot of figures to substantiate his point. The Kansas Governor also made light of the President’s claim that the recent agreement with France and Great Britain will benefit America. The President speaking from the terrace of the POLITICS - 2 Colorado State Capitol in Denver, told the West in particular and the country in general that v/e have turned the corner around which prosperity was lurking and have found it. And called for three cheers and a tiger for the benefits which the West has received, from New Deal measures. This will be the v/armest week of the presidential campaign. Both candidates are at it hammer and tongs. Mr. Landon is on his way to Columbus, Cleveland and thence to Detroit, -^ut it seems that President Roosevelt will have the last word in Ohio. When he leaves Denver he v.ill invade Kansas. After that in easy stages he will follow in the steps of his Republican rival and will be speaking to the voters of Ohio, three days after they have heard what Alf Landon has to say. Meanwhile in other parts of the country it looks as though Columbus Day might become an occasion for political uproar even phsical riots. Columbus Circle in New York was expected to be a ticklish point. Naturally, Christopher Colombo day is an especially exciting event in cities where people of Italian blood are numerous. POLITICS - 3 And of course they*s» C*J^ split up into Fascist and anti-Fascist^with animosities running even higher than in Italy* since no anti-Fascists are permitted In sunny "It"• This made the New York police nervous. Grovernor Lehman had been invited to address a celebration in, Columbus Circle the hub of Manhattan* He ^accepted the invitation several weeks ago. But at the last moment word came ,that he had been urged not to appear since the gathering might develop into a riot. That word however turned out to be quite inaccurate. The meeting was held, the Governor appeared, three hundred of between Communists and Fascists. The sight of a Communist is enough to make a New York copper’s club itch. I don’t know eves drawn.f»Governor Lehman made his speech extoling Golumbo and his famous voyage in Fourteen Ninety-Two, extoling the virtues of all American citizens of Italian birth and their New York tOElZRnrt were there to prevent trouble,^fights whether they were disappointed omigg but not a club had to be trouble, not even a black eye. SUP. COUBT It has been a long time since we hea:-d from the Supreme Court. Today the august tribunal chose a date that was a holiday for most of us — chose today to hand down several decisions, one of them of considerable importance. It concerned the law passed by the New York Legislature, establishing minimum wages for women. Four months ago, by a five to four verdict, the Justices turned thumbs down on it, said it was unconstitutional. This ruling, caused, as you will remember, an uproar at the time. Whereupon the Attorney General of New York State asked the court to re­ consider. The states of Illinois and Massachusetts joined New York inVhis plea. But now the^iine judicial gentlemen stand pat. What it has said, it has said. However, the State of Washington has a similar wage for women law. That one too was attacked, on the ground that it was unconstitutional. The State Supreme Court out there on Puget Sound upheld it, declared it was all right. The Seattle employer who brought the case has appealed and the Supreme Cour’^ of the United States consents to hear that appeal. So there will be a third ruling on mimimum wages for wromen. And it remains to be SUPREME COURT - £ seen whether it will make any difference. Another ruling handed dov/ntoday by the nine Justices means a good deal to the New Deal. They today promised a new decision on the gold policy of the Administration. A contract, rather oddly worded and called for payment in terms of gold, it became the subject of a lav/suit. Now^is an appeal in this lit­ igation that the Court has consented to hear. When President Roosevelt's devaluation of the dollar and calling in of all gold certificates first came before the high Court, those measures were upheld. However, there was one phase of the situation upon which the Court did not pass at that time. - 3 = ^£tw*> o pinli That opinion upheld In general A terms the power of the government to. outlaw payments In gold on public and private obligations. The case brought up today involve^! a minor phase of the gold problem. S& was a private contract between a paper company and a power company, in Massachusetts. This contract stipulated that the paper company was to pay gold of a weight and fineness equal to fifteen hundred dollars of gold at the time of the contract. The power company contended that it should be paid in currency sufficient to px purchase fifteen hundred dollars1 worth of gold. The First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the power company must accept fifteen hundred dollars in currency dollars. Ana thatTs the wtem point which the United States Supreme Court^ consider Another ruling.concerned Congressman John Hoeppel of A California. Some time ago, you will remember, he got a prison sentence for selling appointments to west Point, ^-e appealed, but the , Supreme Court refuses to hear his case. SUP, COURT - 4 'Ihe Court also will review the Hew DealT s Neutrality Resolution. That's one which gave the President power to stop the sale of arms to belligerent countries. The moment he signed the bill,President Roosevelt imposed an embargo on arms to Bolivia and Paraguay, which were then at war. Some business concerns defied the resolution and were indicted on a charge of attempting to sell arms to Bolivia. The Federal Court in New York quashed the indictment, saying the resolution was uncon­ stitutional, The government appealed, and the Supreme Court consents to hear the appeal. So there's a case that is of international significance. O In the first year of the Independence of the Filipinos, they have been ravaged by one of the worst typhoons in the history of the islands. Early reports of the calamity we-e, if anything, under-estimated. The death list, tonight has risen to several hundred — over three hundred — and hundreds are missing; probably swept away by flood waters that followed in the wake of the big wind. In one city alone, eighty-two bodies were recovered from the flood. A large part of that town, a place with a population of fifteen hundred people, is under water. With all this come the usual stories of people marooned in tree tops and on the roofs of their houses. As many of those houses are but spidery built huts, their plight is precarious. And, there seems to be no sign of the typhoon abating. We learn that Pan-American Airline officials have been obliged again to postpone the first return journey of the Hawaii CLIPPER — east bound to San Francisco. So, nature takes its part in that round-the-world air race between three newspaper reporters. Bud Ikins of the NEW TYPHOON - S YORK WORLD TELEGRAM and Scripps-Howard papers has been in Manila ever since Saturday ready to go at a moment’s notice. He ex­ pected to take Off in the Hawaii CLIPPER first, yesterday, and then this afternoon. He was way ahead of his rivals, Leo Kieran of the NEW YORK TIMES and North American Newspaper Alliance, and Dorothy Kilgailen of the NEW YO”K JOURNAL and International News Service. And he’s still ahead of them. But if that typhoon lasts much longer,they’11 have a chance to catch up. As fo~ Bud, when he reached Manila, he established an extraordinary recordj fourteen thousand six hundred and ninety- five miles at an average flying speed of a hundred and ninety- five miles an hour. And on Saturday he was a good five thousand miles ahead of his competitors. Ekins was ail set to take off at two o’clock Eastern Standard Time this afternoon. -Put just as he v/as about to climb aboard, weather reports came from Guam, indicating that the typhoon was rampaging up that way. RACE quite : itting that an Italian should have von the tig race on ^ se SS ^ day. Of course it doesn*t astonish anybody cuch. I&zio Kuvolari, tne stocky black hairec little ariver froia Musso-inif s country fiilft shed the Vanderbilt Cup Face Biles ahead nearest .. ................. 5 rival. vIt*s interesting to recall that-thirty year ago, when M the Vanderbilt Cup Race was run on the^Motor Parkway, another Italian was also the favorite of the speed fans. In Nineteen six f they shouted for the great Lancia. And today they were yelling their; If heads off for Suvolari, ‘7^ vv <2 His time was four hours, KXirJiy^xxi thirty-two A f I minutes, forty-four and fcur-tenths seconds. The Frenchman, Y7VSL£fc-£ Jean Wiaille, driving a Dugatti, came in second, but not a close second. The third man was .Nuvolarirs team-mate. Count Antonio Brivio. v__ _ L ^ w The race was never in doubt. People thought the new Roosevelt Race-way on Long island would prove a tortuous and dangerous course, .but, on the contrary, the drivers j . ou.nd i i a it easy. Suvclari's success, barring road accidents, w I RACE - £ X. -zLJt' tTF=**<*T*** after the first few minutes.' After the first fifteen /V ---- - ijs laps of that four mile course, he lead by a clear mile. 3* q / /t became obvious that only motor trouble.or collision could defeat bini. He was so far ahead that on the twenty-sixth round he stopped for oil and gas. Thereupon nis team-mate. Count Brivio, went into the lead. Nuvolari was soon back on the track, and it took him only two more laps to •regain his lead. And what a cheering that got him from the crowdl So, except for those two rounds, Nuvolari led all the way Alas, for our countrymen, they didn't seem to be in the running at all. As^3Terihaver, s ©sn^. t^ot one of them placed. They figured principally in the mishaps, which weren’t serious. Wilbur Shaw of Indiajpolis crashed his car in the third lap. And in the fifth. Chet Miller of Detroit narrowly escaped a bad smash-up. His car ®as jumped but he wasn’t hurt badly. Nuvolari is a favorite wherever he goes. His driving stvle is modeled on thap of his great countryman^ Uancia. He’s a showman, a spectacular fellow, takes the most sensational RACE - 3 kind of risks, xwo yeai‘S ago, his Alfa^omeo skidded in a thousand mil9 race over ItalyTs hills and dales, Nuvolari suffered a broken thigh. One month later, his thigh in a plaster cast, he was lifted into his racer and drove it as furiously as ever to win. As late ago as this spring, .while he was practicing over the Grand Prix at Tripoli, in Africa, he blew a front tire at a hundred and sixty miles an hour,* The smash threw him a clear and hundred yards through the air. He ‘dented his skill^the surgeons diagnosed it as a concussion. But concussions mean nothing to Suvolari. Surge&ns or no surgeons, he left his hospital cot next morning and drove a new car in the race. Xtccfc Thatfs the kind of fellow who won the sixty thousand dollar Vanderbilt Cup event oat.Columbus Day, Nineteen A- A Thirty-Six. ENDING Now to paraphrase a most famous song:- In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbo he set sailo And since I see my time Is up And bO LONG UNTIL TOMOEflOVv