PftM-AMERICM > ^u^deyib^i ^ (This afternoon aviation history was made when a great f clipper plane took off from the sea base at Port Washington, Long Island. The DIXIE CLIPPER making the first flight on the regular passenger schedule of the Pan-American Trans—Atlantic service.^The great clipper flying boats made a number of survey ^ flights to and from Europe - also a trans-Atlantic voyage with newspaper passengers aboard as a press preview. Now - the first regular passenger list on the twenty-two hour schedule to Europe. Tonight sixteen men and women passengers are in the sky, speeding across the ocean. Among them is Mrs. Clara Adams, "first-flighters." one of the nations top-ranking ftx3L Mrs. Clara Adams iv ™ began as a first—fllghter when she was a girl, in Nineteen Fourteen. Later she bought the first ticket ever sold for a trans—Atlantic journey through the sky and was aboard the GRAF ZEPPELIN in Nineteen Twenty-Eight. In Nineteen Thirty-One, she was aboard the giant German plane, the DO-X, on its maiden flight. She flew in the CHINA CLIPPER on its first passenger voyage across the Pacific. is an anniversary of another pan - americah - 2 sort in trans-Atlantic travel. Seventy—five years ago, the S.S. WASHINGTON, the first steamer of the French Line to carry passengers and mall across the Atlantic, reached New York after a fourteen day voyage. Since that day, French liners have made no fewer than eight thousand crossings. And since Nineteen Hundred alone, they have carried five million passengers. MONEY There fS=**5* still one chance for President Roosevelt to win the fight in Congress to retain his power to devalue the dollar.) Th«* was achieved after a warn struggle^ on the floor of the House.^, There were anxious moments. The administration leaders worked^tBgfrh^gfid iiftlt^to xiep their followers in line and sweep back the wave of opposition led by the Republicans. The outcome was a victory for the White House, though it may be only r a temporary one. 1 The House voted, ^fsend that money bill to conference with the Senate A •v The vote^was two hundred and sixteer A to a hundred and sixty-four. The opposition tried to talk it down but the House leaders clapped on the gag and shut off debate. In that conference between the House and the Senate^ will come the most desperate fight of all. will be the last chance Yte^o ^ h for the Roosevelt p«r£$s«»*- to change the provisions voted by the ^ A F7B-.W. Senators last Monday, the vote that deprived^trla^of his power to devalue the dollar any further. There was one bit of comedy in the course of the short debate. It was an exchange of compliments between Democrat 4-+- and Rpoublican leader Joe Martin, also McCormack of Massachusetts and Rep of Massachusetts. Joe Martin had called the Democratic ■ I I I: Representative to order. Thereupon McCormack admitted the point and apropos of nothing, declared that /leader Joe Martin would if > make a good candidate for President of the(Be public an Party.11 With that, every Republican in the House chimed in with cheer of approval. Then said Democrat McCormacks "I mean it. Joe Martin, who was blushing violently, retorted with a question;- "Will you vote for me?" There is no record of any reply to that. SILVER The action of the Senate in raising the prize of domestic silver has the Treasury worried. Secretary Morgenthau and his men have been afraid that foreign countries might dump large quantities of their silver in this country. So yesterday they reduced the price for foreign silver from forty-three to forty cents an ounce. Today, they made a further reduction, cut it down to thirty-eight and a half cents an ounce. Irnriaedallyy JTst half the price the Senators decreed for the purchase of silver mined in the United States. RREAP strike It looks as though there would be a lot of people tar B&eZxnet without bread tomorrow - The bakery truck drivers went on strike, fourteen hundred of them* wwHt^started with a bangy A bang on the head of a driver who refused to strike and trjed to make his deliveries. Pickets not only beat him up but crippled his motor. So, unless the ladies of Boston learn to make their own bread, which I am told is more or less of a lost art, a lot of breakfast tables will be breadless. Io that you might say, along with the late Queen sttarie Antoinette, "Why don’t they eat cake?” The answer to that is that most of the cake nowadays comes along with the bread, wrapped in cellophane.packages* /<- A. SMITH The whereabouts of Dr* ^ames Monroe Smith, Ex—^resident of Louisiana State, now begins to interest the police of Canada. There* s a report from Memphis that a man and woman resembling Dr* and Mrs. Smith were seen at the railway station at Memphis, Tennessee, Monday morning , who Bougftyt ickets for Detroit. A A would indicate that they*re on their way to Canada, Nevertheless, no cop has yet his hand on the shoulder of Dr. Smith, with grim words, "You're under arrestl" ^ A Down in Louisiana, the story goes into even higher figures than before, The amount bkanow believed to be missing from the funds of the University is one million, two hundred thousand dollars - one million two hundred thousand OWrt£(;, into th< the wheat pit. Like other notables who have come to became smitten with the js grief, that versatile college President A that he could corner wheat. an adventure that has toppled over several great fortunes TfiUId About five years ago, an armored car was heM up in Brooklyn in most sensational fashion. The robbers got away clean, and carried with them four hundred and twenty—seven thousand, nine hundred and fifty dollars in cash. still ranks as the largest cash robbery ttssa**#®* every pulled off. Today, a* New York, began the trial of the men accused of that whopping crime. The principal witness for the prosecutor was a gunman who confessed. And the testimony he gave made eyes pop open in that courtroom* He said the holding up of that armored car was so easy that it was, in his own words, "like money from home." It was planned for months in advance and there were seven men in the conspiracy. A half a million dollar hold-up>A"easy as money from home!" FIGHT There was a traffic jam in downtown New York this morning. Six thousand people were all trying to get into the offices of the New York Boxing Commission. They wanted to see Joe Louis and TwO-tonTony Galento weigh in. The ceremony of weighing showed Galento to be just thirty-three pounds heavier than the champion. His weight^wra two hundred and thirty-three and three-quarters; Joe Louis just two hundred and three-quarters. The fighters exchanged no flowery compliments, merely nodded and said, ^hello” in frosty tones. Whatever happens at the Yankee Stadium at ten o1 clock ---- to win* gome, of that optimism is based on the much touted report that the fat boy from Jersey has a high tonight, this fight will be notable in one respect. Itfs the result of the most amazing ballyhoo and build-up in the history of the prize-ring. A year ago people were laughing at the mere thought of Louis climbing into a r tig *Ith the tough, crude tubby little fellow from New Jersey. But today there areleven si- y —^ £7 mmropeww people who say that Tony, the fellow who trains on beer^ A 1 scorn for Marquis of Queensberry rules. They say the town of •m FIGHT - 2 MarbTgfaead.* Massachusetts, was named, after Tony and that in several ‘Tlt-Js- tfjr/A. /d fights^ has been one of his chief assets* Louis, they claim, may hit an awful wall©p with his fist* But a man who gets a crack in the jaw from Tony's head stays cracked. However, people on that side of the fence are in a conspicuous minority. The latest bulletin, by the wsy, is that Mr. Galento passed the afternoon preparing^for his fight by serving beer to customers i LUCE "rs“ fzr^ rr” *-«<*«-. .owt, A ^ne entire press of Paris has brought action against Luca Tor libel. The plaintiff is ^ organization called the Syndicate of* -i-v, r> ynaicate of the Parisien Press, an association of newspaper publishers in Paris. The reason for this lawsuit is a little piece published m TIME, in the issue of May Eighth^^^ntain|Hhe following statement.- nThe Paris press has long been the sewer of world Journalism. Few are the Parisian news men who cannot be bought and rare is the newspaper unwilling to be subsidized. Tte way some prominent Paris newspapers have handled their German *news» recently suggests that slush funds from the Third Reich are also being passed around,” the syndicate asks five million For all of that Francs, damagea fanndr^drinnd—thir^y^rirwx^^n^rul This news broke just as/^^ Luce hfiTHO'T’f’ arrived in Paris^ from New fork. But the action won* t come to trial until October Tenth.^In addition to that complaint LOCE - 2 "by the syndicate, certain individual newspapers will bring actions on their own account against Luce. They111 all be tried together* There’s a suit that ought to provide some fireworks I The feeling among the French today was decidedly alarmist. People in official circles of the French capital are convinced that Hitler is about to spring something at Danzig. Premier Daladier called a secret meeting of parliamentary leaders, tte told them that 1 B i ji w the French general staff has positive information that German soldiers from East Prussia have been pouring into Danzig. Itfs a known secret in Paris that Daladier is genuinely alarmed, convinced that a crisis is inevitable. One of the embassies in Paris has confidential information from Berlin that the Fuehrer has all his plans laid for grabbing Danzig. It will be done from the inside, not from the outside. Hence the filtering of four thousand officers and men into that historic Free City. ^ K III /i i - v - ^ . _ '~tCcr v 'v\. ’tf ^ x X j ^ 7 -•'wt I q G ^ v. i CHURCHILL Europe another pari ^ —^-^another peFi0d of jittei Every little indication that points to preparations for war is seized upon and emphasized. Everybo^remember^fhat European wars usually start in August, after the harvests are in. by the- ' ~™-..uon.z , consider war certain,^"but if one were to consider only the Germar/ preparations and the tone cf the German-government-controlled- press and speeches of party leaders there could gs be no conclusion but that the worst would happen qui%» soon.^^ oontdnuedj^rglzmnst mn i iilijgy I-thtnli wc must ttH"1 tonsldei August and h- in ’yhi^h temygiT^ir Europa- -wiu—become west severa^.__l^am—jg>^eftt4re -acgord-with -tho- Pp^aefe-Eyeater that we~ are in a period of-danger more acute diij> aora ^inrian riii]T W tn II 0 ~T IIM I VhritfnT HE-. g&en-eharghiijL-sdl^-farthe**'■ nOur position this year ti is different in one important respecttfgQm whet itnwas^^la3^^ ynu>>M And irp^»»rp>»H-ngT»-ga "This year no means of retreat are open because w^e didn’t guarantee Czechoslovakia^^^ n22L we tiave BERLIN But from Berlin comes a dispatch that may be a harbinger of peace. Hitler*s foreign office tonight received a note from the British.g^ffrifrufc^t'; It' way Qn answer to Hitler’s aggressive act when he denounced the naval limitation treaty. This British note actually turns the other cheek, holds out an offer of friendship,^an offer with substantial benefits behind it. His Majesty's government is willing to cooperate with Germany, help the Reich become more prosperous and develop her trade. ^That^r^aM^ sounds like^. | fer1^ gfcaly^a-treipfgl gesture. With real cooperation from Britain, Hitler could vmmXisf* push his country on to the increase ——'^"C? of export trade which he has been saying was absolutely- essential ^ A to the lifeblood of the Reich. At the same time, the Chamberlain government rejects the claxm of the Germans that the British are encircling them in Europe. Britain points out that her guarantees to eastern European countries mean that the only condition under »hlch Britain would fight Germany would be an act of aggression by Hitler, an attack on another country. TTENTSIN Uncle Sam takes the same stand as the kv-erver- British. Our Consul-General at Shanghai^mformed the Japanese that American ships will not leave Wenchow and Foochow. And he repeated what Admiral Yarnell told them two days ago. Americans have treaty rights at those ports. If anything happens to American citizens, the Japanese will be held responsible and no disclaim will be recognized. _ ^TtCoJb-t^ ia ^4 argum ent with Japan over Tientsin may be settled- Prime Minister Chamberlain intimated ^ A- House of Commons. He told -&s» Parliament that the Japanese government has consented to start discussions at Tokyo for a peaceful solution of that Tientsin incident^ And Chamberlain also indicated that he was prepared to yield an important point to the Japanese. He would consent to make the British concession at Tientsin neutral. He al^o'told the Commons that^t^Japanese^r^val authorities had asked ail foreign ^ips to getmtft Qf Wenchow Foochow, before poon on Thursday. To tbat/the British haveXid emphatically "No.B PRIMCESSBS There were swimming races at the famous Bath Club in a . ^ London today, swimming races for children. Among the competitors were two j?oythe Princess Elizabeth and the Princess Margaret Rose won a prize. A A Maybe the British empire will have a swimming champion for its queen one of these days#—* ^ (5^ •w-^o -b&l ^ ^ ~ g- K - -tweo Sp