NAVY PLaNES M v,'. --'si.: k JL uaj 6J , <*5 The worst airplane disaster in the history of the United States Navy occurred under the most spectacular circumstances. It happened last evening, but the news was not given out by the Navy Department until today .iKcff the coast of California, the fleet was staging maneuvres. Every 'warship of the Pacific squadrons was playing its part in the sham battle - ninety-three in all. Far and wide across the sea, in strategic array, with the mighty column of dreadnoughts as the foeusaA power - the fleet was in the middle of a raaneuvre of naval battle Flights of war planes were taking off from the ships, winging away to scout the^enemy. The catastrophe occurred in the very heart of the giant armada - «Twas plainly visible from the decks of the dreadnoughts. Nearest to it was U.S.S. PENNSYLVANIA, flagship of Admiral Bloch, the new Commander-In-Chief of the fleet. Shadows of evening were cooling on, and a rain squall was blowing — a flurry of wind and.downpour. That, they s^y, A was the couse. Two great bombers appeared in the rainy dimness. NAVY ?LArjlFo - ? tv.o of those new swift^s^ giants, considered the most powerful fighting planes in tne world. They were manned with full crews, seven men in each. And^ they collided in mid air} l&wp Crashed together at full speed! One burst into flames, and plunged hissing into the sea. The other, hopelessly stricken, went '£ur*jfl1 ng down. Men escaped from it in parachutes. Several pirf« chutes flashed open and drift>wr down. The bomber hit the 'water, and was broken to pieces by the impact. Instantly, the vast battle maneuvre changed completely - as ships broke fighting formation, and steamed to the rescue. Then all through the night, brilliant beams of searchlights were focused on the area where the two planes fell - an all-night search, The result of it is given out today. Of the fourteen men in the two planes, eleven were lost - including the pilots. Three men saved, petty officers who took to their parachutes from the £ , bomber that j.id^n#% burn. Mere maneuvres, a sham battle - but mtraic warfare has its costualties too. NAVY Here are some high lights from Admiral Leahy1s continued testimony in Washington* At the Congressional Committee hearing on Naval affairs^he* was asked about the possibility of the United Ltates being invaded by an Asiatic power — meaning -Japan of course. Aryen'-^f—9neh—nn—A--?i:ttt-itr-^?oTrer-~haci''"a f 1 bo- eu r ~owa-,— The Admiral replied with the words — "extremely nazardous.11 hven if Japan were K2|H2dii.y to ec^ual us on the sea, it would be exceedingly hazardous for her to attempt to land troops on our Pacific Coast — across thousands of miles of ocean. admiral Leahy was questioned about President uooseveltf s quarantine speech in Chicago — when he talked about the idea Had of quarantining aggressor nations — meaning, naval blockade. the Navy thereupon started figuring out a plan for a possible quarantine, bleckade against ^ apan? it The Admiral said no, xhxt with an outright denial The proceedings brought up the name — Panay. That — the in connection with.secret Navy code book. Was the Navy code book A missing from the Panay — the question was asked? NAVY —A- The Admiral answered No. ’’We recovered all papers on board the Panay at the time it sank," he said. 7T —of- Mavctl tea> tiX4-edr—that:r-i^»»tfly—:fe-giat±cr^r>ower—t^-g^ia-~posses&i^n^^» KihOastl -TMil ’ oono». a CHINA A bomb crashed In Shanghai today, exploding in a building that houses British and American publications, like the American owned EVENING POST and the British magazine called ORIENTAL AFFAIRS. Also - the United Press has its offices in that bulging. A hand-grenade was tossed Into the hallway just outside the United Press, and blasted things up quite a r bit. A Chinese coolie was injured, the only casualty. Shanghai is wondering - why should terrorists bomb that American and British building? or’.Hli'J In Wing ^pain today the order was given out — no bon’ding of civilian population. A little while ago the Barcelona government was talking about — an eye for an eye, stern reprisals for the terrific Franco air att cks on cities. Later on Barcelona proposed to Franco that both sides agree not to bomb the cities. That got no response. Nevertheless today the Left Wingers ordered planes to do their bombing on the battlefront, and let cities alone Melodrama and mystery broke loose In London today, in one of the most spectacular spy sensations. A trial in the Bow Street Vjith four Englishmen accused of the most dangerous espionage plot uncovered in years. Theip leader, a man named Glading. All four ol them were at one time employees of the Woolwich Arsenal near London, OTWErgtf the great* secret factor^«« of British armament. They are accused of having had in their possession plans of a n*n fourteen Inch nrvel gun, a blueprint of the fuse of a nev, type of bomb, and a document pertaining to an anti-tank pistol.*7^ Gladi ng is said to have photographed a recently devised bomb for attacking submarines. iWhon arrcn 4<c we?*-ca-rry-f a pcaagMuag ba&BapMM^gaji ***- ov*r o^^rr 'am a i i 1 nri i vft# . In his flat they found papers pertaining to new British aircraft design. And he had a textbook telling all about a new British explosive so secret that official orders concerning it read litce this:- "Not to be communicated to the press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty’s service." That does sound like Esps espionage in a big and dangerous way. But romance comes in the person of - Mlss "X''- ^2he's ^ chief witness against the four spy suspects on trlaiyShe's a member of the British Military intelligence,^ /engaged in counter-espionage activitiesytrsti*Slender, pretty f ^ and blonde, the appeared in court smartly dressed with a long fur flung over ner shoulder. Completely mysterious ^ Miss X. Today the counsel for the defense demanded her name, but tine presiding justice refused to allow it to be spoken. So she's Just jl I ss X, the beautiful blonde spy. w.ny*.. a l,,n.i how in tot n T^4-g»t.v ■ Qn» ^ aua a r.. t »i ry~4f»—4 UtQ^a.. .■ | • ) 1 iy i ! i»j —nni1 rnti .. Ilij - 'to 5T,g>c~nTit thr-STr?-*• nnw.^. ..hat nation^ That's also a secret - v/as not allowed to appear In the testimony. But it's >ulte an open secret, becau-e Visa X testified that her first activity in eounter- espiona;'/ was to « join -n organization called "Friends of the Soviet anion." There she made the acquaintance of Gladinr, the leader of the four English Soviet enthusiasts, ho verc employed in the Woolwich Arsenal. G ; 1 ng intro iuced her to a man named Peters - an l+rtdo _Aus_tr 1 aWorld War he was e capt? in of Russian cavalry, knich sojnds rather complicated. This paradoxical gentleman introduced her to a .nan and .i fe by the 70od old Enrllsh nr.me of Stevens. But Mr. and Mrs. Stevens spoke /Off French, 1 nd Miss X found th’*t their home w.s In Moscow. LAAS Sti 11 _no£C. compl ic?* ted j Miss X testified today thnb^he Joined up with all of these dubious people in a spy plot on behalf of a certain \ M tm , fore’ gn po er, atvyhelped the French-speaking Stevens of Moscow to photograph the plan of a fourteen V.r.xiix inch naval gun - a deep secret, although really not important. It wouldn’t do much harm for a cert'in foreign power to find out about It. «;iss X, doing her counter-esplon ge, was not lefei ng out anything of vital value. That’s v-here the testimony ended in London today. With more to come blonde spy. about the doings of Miss X, the bo utiful M I/■. 1... L ihe ill tf-l honeymoon brt 1 'c- at Kin .era Falls continues to ur * trouble - there-• s a le^ol threi t today, with the mention of* ci*l :i. rr 1 <rof-e■ ’u11oa, -I f* ? " 1 i— 1 —thr* vr^y tfiet rolglity* **•%.**♦—»-^,n n* ^ne« *• ?»j «'■■*** a*.-1 y^^ -n'1 ^rn-i-T— ■ t - to ■ .■■ Hif—piv**y. ■>.«-.. **,^»*» *"*■* --r' y * ? ■. ■■ " ,-*l'rr * 1 * ■' t .ni ot! n<.tn . wmr > —#•—4,^» ' /-i** ;> ! ' • ’ 1 rlCJ'Uij- fLIr,"T4X'‘T ?*W r ttfl till* Urn nm» «. ^yp. j<tW| uti.H ^v—. The Can-dian author l tie., today ic un that the ovnerr of th< fallen bridge must re r v th‘ perilous rect? r*. F«ilurt to do. rb was described by the ; ^torney 0 n- r 1 of Onti io ?• 1 tn these words:- ?*An off n un '* r th* Crlmiiw 1 Code ,n Th* off nr* consists of the gr:>.Y‘ st t‘n: of bri y ni lc* j-m denser to the Queenstown ^01 Plant, -hich 4 n r just io n str< m - • fifty million ollrr structure. That puts the bridge-owninf company in a tough spot. « ■- i» ti# 'Cl']1!11 —^ 0ii' 1 nrfr tt * 'T*'Ml* b ------1-------- 1W|.' UI.MIJ tS'^’h^- -errrs- Aw.4 ^ fee . N I AG Aim —L— They're starting in to clear away the wreckage, having a deuce of a tine. They've thrown a wooden walk across the ice, with the idea of having workmen gKixkhje cut the steel structure with acetylene torches. First rip it into four sections, and then slice these into smaller ulecesy^ so the steel can be removed bit by oit. out the workmen on their wooden walk couldn't make any progress today. It!s raining and thawing at Niagara, Ice melting. Their position became' so dangerous that they had to quit the job and scurry ashore, Dangerous is right — for today ther• was a further sa^iui collapse. Partly supported by the ice and trie ice® melting^, the ar*KMflix section of fallen bridge on the nmeriean side tumbled ov r and jtBRBtsdxdsKH slid down into th river. >■ nd they wau*® afraid that thaw wil L cause the entire structure to stark to the oottom — 175 feet deep. There it would lie like a sunken dam, to build up an ice jam when a freeze comes. i/JTO On frozen Lr.ie St.Clair, in Michigan, searcaers found an ominous sign tod; y. They coime to a hole in the ice, and leading up to it were the tracks of an automobile. The hole oas just about big enough to have swallowed an auto. were it e an'hi le there reports of four persons missing. They had left Dickinson Island, for the mainland, in their car, driving on the ice. The story of catastrophe ends swiftly - the searcaers reached down into the hole with grappling irons, and there they found the automobile on the bottom of the lake, beneath sixty feet of water. ItTs an old warning - be careful about walking or skating on the ice. Todayfs moral is - be doubly careful about driving your car on the ice. FAULTY Atk ony autnor, • nl tell you seventy-fivthousr nd jorler: is ninety b! : : -v nc- mmrm&m on r, IT _ iT ~T tti itfl Kn^J? ^ v hof s the giant of the liter- ry art ,th? t1 s getting it? -ay, Jim Farley. Vvhat kind of opus is^ he writing? jiVLyiTj^. epic poem or tree else chi philosophy? No - the Postmaster Generrl is writing his memoirs. The news puklishersx iky>PKto-ay is that the publishers are plunking down seventy-five thousand dollars for the manuscript The vord "memoirs1' me-ns ''memories.” «ell, maybe Jim can remember seventy-five thousand dollars* w<>rth. In addition he'll also get royalties, •hich shoul’ make him an economic royalist. Today a. chorus o"' authors will rise and sing - I ..ert Jiml So:ue d;iyb ago, there v.as a. greeting to the Left V.ing governiaentof Spain, signed by a formidable list of congressmen A and senators. It was published with a headline interpretation - the all these leading lights ol‘ government of the United States expresstheir support of the Left Wing cause. Today there’s a repercussion - tvo senators demand that their names be removed from the document. They are Senators Brown of Michigan and herring of Iowa. They explain that v.hen they signed the greeting they didnft understand that their action would be interpreted as a declaration In favor of the Left Wingers. It was all a mistake, so now they want to duck out of the whole affair ■.....................................................i __________ 1 - 4 During the months to come, at an Increasing rate - wef re due to hear discussions of presidential possibilities. 1nere’s a mention today, mention of a personality about whom some -eoplt have been saying - ambition is to be president. The scene^wwi a meeting of the United 'line V.orkers in Dashing ton. The speaker - a miner, Lieutenant-Governor Frank flay as FvCf of Colorado. Reminding us - that almost anybodyin Colorado is likely to have worked in the gold mine . T did, A Today, the Lieutenant-Go\ nor told the union miners - "Some day we'll have one of our members in the White House." Then he went on, coming to the point. "We have such a candidate, such a man," he deelimed. "I don1! know whether he wants to run or not - but we have a man competent to fill the position in John L. Lewis!" Two thousand delegates received that with cheers Well, tne Lieutenant-Governor doesn't know whether John Lewis wants to run or not. :/i&ny people would like to find out, would like to know - what sort of amb i tion lurks in that C. 1.0.Chief with the llfushy eyebrows and th. deep, roaring voice. BUSINESS ^Llttl^businecc had another big row today. But,, at leasts they got some resolutions passed, amid, an uproar. The assemblage oi mi no:1 inrust r1 .;-l i s is, in a lively rumpus, voted their proposals for curing the business recession. Amid shouting, they demanded th- t the government do something to make it easier for small vusln^SE concerns to r t capital. In the pandemonium,they called for the repeal or the modifiestion of various New Deal laws - the Ws aer Act, the Securities and Exchange Act, and the taxes on capital g*ins and undistributed surpluses. To the tune of loud h w 1! r.r, the resolutions were hooded over to ? committer , which is to p *L them 'nto shape to be.taken to the White House - probably tomorrow. The ructions tod-y were caused by two business men who e^n be aptly Called - the forgotten meu ni the chairman. No, he v * sn11 chairman in the strict sense f the word, but I’m calling him that, and you’ll see the reasorTwhy, forgotten man was one nObei't Tfc omp 1 e 1,fltiiTT fu j '^T-ttan-■ taari, ^started reading off a proposal demanding that the government create more f.P.A. Jobs, The other business men didn't like this at all BUSINESS - r °howled him down, ^hereupon the forgotten man in an^ry indignation, ripped to pieces the typewritten pages from which he was reading. was This-iively action, so the newspaper cameramen swarmed forward with a flashing of bulbs, getting pictures. They l*\ the cnairman, though he wrsnH. demanded that the little business mjri listen to Forgotten '.1'an Kaenspler and his WP^ rroposal. That ev^ :ed anot ier wili outbre >dr of hooting. A couple of guards rui aed to make broti r Shafer sit down, de was rui te willing, and down he sat. but the chair won't there, he missed it. And down he sat on the floor with a resounding bump. So you see why I insist on calling him the chairman - for the lack of the chair. again, amid loud cries of "Throw him outi’ ^hoy d.do^t wont to remember^ him. And throw him out they did, A couple o: guards Philadelphian ry mod Shafer, vhc^I'm calling seioeci him and bounced him right ^ he stayed forgotten. This time r \ And once again that chairman intervened. He didnrt stand up, however. Having found a chair he was anchored to it. He sat there smoking a cigar and display' eg a sign in his hat - a si'n that aroused renewed anger oP the little business man, "Throv: him outlf1 the chorus rang out again. And they did,. A )'ildn’ t get him out of the chair. ^ couple o ?seized him, chair nnd all, and carried him out, as he sat-planted^ 'Mxa^ s.rMkin a cigar. .atC.TT^v^U'Hlrar.L^rr&ft’' wcX&mza3&9XBBBe£^SSXk n A. the chairman ‘j u-i"' vW »