vv.p.A, i \ < f % f- That W s P. a , strike seems to be getting nowhere so far as —. j—y ( J / .. any solution of the argument is concerned. There was a statement A by William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, which was quite unexpected. The A.F, of L. repudiates that strike, will take no responsibility for it. Nevertheless, said Green, •W: the strikes on W.P.A. projects express the state of mind of the workers^ entirely spontaneous. Not one of them was. ordered by the American Federation of Labor, and Green explains^ on behave of his organisation:- "We fully realise that the remedy lies with Congress rather than through strikes." That's what he said to the head of some hundred and three member unions of the American Federation. And he repeated his pledge, the backing of everyone of the four million members of the Federation to &press am Congress •fcfogTrrwpmi to repeal those provisions of the Relief Bill which cut down the hourly rates of pay of W.P.A. workers. In Mew fork four thousand, seven hundred and eighty-four W.P.A. strikers have been fired, taken off the rolls. Pink slips were mailed to them today, to notify them. And as the law now stands, they've cut themselves off from any chance of getting 2 v>»p• a . “ relief money. They are not eligible for relief work. what s' And ^he A0ting-Administrator in New York, declared that in his district more than eighteen thousand mechanics were working, seven hundred and seventy more than were on the job yesterday. Those figures were disputed by strike leaders. The W.P.A. officials claim that in Maryland, Maine and Connecticut, there is not a single man on strike, and that at Chicago, only twenty-eight thousand out of a total of a hundred and seventy-seven thousand. The condition is still serious in Minneapolis and St.Paul, but in Detroit men are going back to their jobs, and in Massachusetts only a few have walked out. The national leader of theWorkers1 Alliance, the union of W.P.A. workers, uttered a strong threat today. #e spoke a warning that if Commissioner Harrington insists on firing strikers who have been five days off the Job, there’ll be a new wave of Q+--p-i bv the end of next month. That new wave, said this union leaderf wlll ^e the present wail-out look like a tea party. STRIKE / A At Pontiac, Michigan, troops of the state police mere A patrolling the entrances to the General Motors Fisher Body Plant, Tnah-waSB in answer to the disturbances and threats of the last two days. This morning the state eop# were on the job, armed A. with tear gas, and every man who wanted to go to work was allowed to enter the plant. The Company said two hundred and twenty men were on tie job today; the M jlx ± b Union said there were only twenty-seven. Nevertheless, the Union called off its picket line early this morning. There is to be another attempt at conciliation. The General Motors Corporation stands by its guns, it will not deal with either faction of the Union until some established authority has decided which is the union, the A.F. of L. faction or the C.I.O KENTUCKY But the strike troubles in Michigan were a tea party compared to the upheaval in Harlan County, Kentucky. The score wounded, two pickets shot,^another ©ne clubbed with the butt of a rifle. That was at one coal mine. But at another point one miner was killed, five wounded with bullets, and several others clubbed. The firing started when a picket tried to yank off the trolley of an electric coal car. Governor Happy Chandler of Kentucky blames it all on the president of that district of the United Mine Workers of America. He says the violence was instigated by an incendiary speech that this union leader made last Sunday. Before that, says Governor Chandler, everything was quiet. So he’s going to ask the grand „ — „ -- - A neutrality President Roosevelt has not given up the fight to have his own way on neutrality. Re won*! taite yesterday’s decision by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee lying down. The word from the White Rouse today is that he is preparing a special message to Congress. He will ask for a newr law defining neutrality and he wants it at this session. He has urged the Democratic leaders inCongress to bring all possible pressure to bear on Congressmen. iUlD UEUThaLITY A bulletin that just came in from Wasiaington reports that i!r» Roosevelt will send his message within the next forty-eight hoursj 11!* H -isi a forceful, downright one. It is expected that the President will say to the Senators, in effect:- "The blame will be on your heads if your action or failure to act endaggers the peace of the nation,*1 BUND The State of New Jersey now has two laws against the German--America Bund® On© of them was passed earlier this year* But on Independence Day the Bund had a big parade at its New Jersey camp, celebrated the Fourth by marching behind Swastika banners. Then it was discovered that the law against this sort of thing had no teeth in it. It forbade people to hoi# such parades but said nothing about punishment. So another law has now passed the Jersey Legislature and any people who disooey this one will go to prison for as much as three years and pay a fine of anywhere from two hundred to five thousand dollars. That1 s what you get A, for ^wearing a foreign uniform for purposes of subversive intent in New Jersey.” lAT^y ^ * The bill had already been passed by the lower house and went through the New Jersey Senate today though many of the Senators didn't like it. Some of them spoke caustically about the attitude of intolerance of so-called hundred per cent Americans. Nevertheless, they voted for it. JeiBuy usrrl &e-he a TYROL The Fascist govermnent of Italy now proposes to fe-fegic even A But Americans out of the Tyrol, ^there^ nothing our diplomats can do about it, since the order of expulsion applies to everybody. In such a case, no one government can protest, especially as the Italians declare that it is done for reasons of a political and military character. And because of the actions of certain foreigners* In other words, some people have been observing the large movements of troops and military supplies from Italy across the Brenner Pass into austraMfr. TheyTve reported these troop maneuvres^and are therefore spies** in the eyes of the Italians. te inference drawn in\Paris i ' s that Mb^solini reenforcing his\defense linex against pirplan constructing a Mag^Lnot Line of\his own, alon* the Alps. \ \ noticeaBl e that th\s expulsioi comes iramediate^.y after th^ recent dis British \ rength. So is believed that the me visioi tack by French bombers on the \ tionsfactories at Turi TYROL - 2 Tha5! order of expulsion will be a hardship to a good many foreigners. A large part of the district from which they are^,fetsteed &&& is a favorite tourist region. Many foreigners, including The moral seems to be that you take your chances nowadays if you buy land^any^herer^i^sid« ^he' g^od- Over this episode arises a whole flock of rumors. One , for instance, is that Mussolini is trying not to let people know how strong an influence Hitler is getting in Italy, Another rumor concerns a German naval base dn the Adriatic. Of course Mussolini now has Trieste and Pola, which used to be Austrian naval strongholds* ^The German Fuehrer undoubtedly wants some outlet to the Adriatic. The Nazis suggested tnat they be allowed to lease or otnerwise get hold of a naval base in Jugoslavia. But the Duce is believed to have turned that idea down emphatically. Instead^ ofcih®*, so the story runs, he's willing to give Hitler certain rights at Triesti} though keeping the port and the Gulf A strictly kWUItalian control. A GRAHDI There’s a lot of guessing going on about the recall of A ulus sol ini * s Ambassador, Dino Grand.i# from - l^idon^ Indeed, it is hinted in some quarters that the Duce called Dino back because he was becoming too popular in London, too much inclined to see ------ * ^Z v L c A , eye-to-eye with the British government; Msm did not approve of the Fascist tactics in accusing Great Britain of trying to encircle the Rome-Berlin Axis. It is also made to appear that the new ambassador whom Rome will send to the court of St. James’s will be one not likely to become pro-British. The betting is that the man who is now Ambassador to Hitler at Berlin will be sent to London. Of course all this guessing is unofficial and off the record. The official reason for recall is that the Duce needs K Grandi to replace his Minister of Justice who has just resigned. There, again, the off-the-record gossip hints at a disappointment for Grand!. J%^would have liked to go to Washington where he had _ __ _ _ , ^ , a grand time and made quite a hit, BRIDGES Tempers were strained and harsh words flew back and forth in San Francisco at the Bridges deportation hearing. The lawyers for the Australian.let loose their fireworks at Major Milner, the chief witness for the government. Miss Carol King, chief counsel for Bridges, sutatitt demanded that Milner be cited for contempt on a charge of perjury. The government counsel retorted by charging Miss King with grandstand play, saying that any such action would make the federal courts laugh and that the charge against Milner is utterly absurd. Milner.had admitted that he gave false testimony at a But>. trial at Pat land. JEfeJOi he explained that he was acting as an intelligence officer for the Oregon National Guard, While he was investigating the Communists in the northwest. And he said he gave false testimony to win the confidence of the Communists and get their secrets. whether that meant that he considered himself free to tell a falsehood during these proceedings. And Milner replied: "Ro I’ ijl free to tell all I know.” The examiner at this Bridges hearing asked Milner MLI-hOR meteor that appeared over Lake Erie gave store than a free fireworKs snow to tne people of four states and part of Canada. Some of the folks who saw- it were terrified^ tho' ght it was a real visit from -Ears* One of them described it as shooting down out of the western sky with great big red flames pouring out of it. It was seen over all of Ohio, part of Pennsylvania, upper New York, and Michigan. In fact people in Detroit thought that it crashed into the earth near Mt. Clemens. An astronomer at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland said that it seemed to have come to earth up in Canada. There, is no definite report to that effect, and, as the astronomers tell us, itfs hard to tell about meteors, the distances are so deceptive. i - : CQrJJNiTii,KF£IT & In a small unobtrusive house in Vtoodbury, New Jersey, the Secret Service agents of Uncle Sam made a raid late yesterday. They found in that modest home in the^modest Jersey town, a complete counterfeiting plant, a laboratory for the making of phoney United States bills. All this doesn’t sound particularly startling. But the people who operated this counterfeit laboratory were a sixty-five year old woman and her son. FIRE ^another one of those harrowing stories scoot flames tearing madly throughout' a large terror-stricken region _ csr w4_A^wvii>-e_n, in tne west, ho summer passes without of those calamities. mile an hour wind, 4® driving people from their homes, destroying /V houses, property, crops, livestock* Ten thousand acres of land in the Black Hills is being ravaged by a fire that spreads from tree-top to tree-top. The front line of men fighting the flames is only fifteen miles west of Rapid City, South Dakota, ^ A c T y \£. Kt South Dakota tfe&fc a conflagration whopped up by a fifty and already hot ashes are falling on the city streets. SAFETY Here are figures from Washington which nave an aptimistic message. They tend to show that we are driving our motor cars more carefully in the United States. That’s a movement that particularly interests my sponsors, the Sun Oil Company, These figures show that in Nineteen-Thirty-Eight the death rate from automobile accidents took a sharp drop. They fell from thirty point seven per hundred thousand in Nineteen Thirty-Seven to twenty-four point nine hundred thousand. The state with the lowest death rate was Rhode Island, highest — Nevada safety Here are figures from Washington which have an optimistic message. They tend to show that we are driving our motor cars more carefully in the United States. ThatT s a movement that particularly Interests my sponsors, the Sun Oil Company* These figures show that in MineteenThirty-Eight the death rate from automobile accidents took a sharp drop. They fell from thirty point seven per Jiiindred thousand in nineteen Thirty-Seven to twenty-four point nine per hundred thousand. The state with the lowest death rate was Rhode Island ft evada, yafro in Minota—i improvemeri't -was shown::- -si NIiME OLD 4£N I hadn’t intended to say anything about that ball game at Fenway Park in Boston today3 the game where the WINE OLD MEN were to play against a team led by the Governor of Massachusetts. Clem McCarthy and Bill Stern were both there doing a play-by-play broadcast. But, so many telephone calls have come in, asking how the game turned out that I ’ 11 give the gist of a wire that Just came from those four stars of the Nine Old Men, Colonel Stoopnagle, Paul Webb, Homorist Ted Shane, and Former Heavyweight Champion of the World Eddie Eagan. They say the game was stopped in the sixth inning with the Nine Old Men leading by a score of eight to three. Stoop­ nagle pitched until he was relieved by Walter Johnson, who, by the way, was supported in the outfield by two of Smokey Joe Wood’s sons. Sounds like youth to the rescue of the Nine Old Men. CRIPPLE _nj?ee years ago, a gentleman of Lt. Cieaens, Licmigan, named Howard F. Hatzenbuhler, had an almost tragic accident. Re fell from a tree, broke his back, and although he "wasn’t killed, the lower half of his body was paralyzed. His wife and children took over his business and kept things going. But the paralyzed victim had a dull time lying in bed, with nothing to do. 2^ took up radio in a big way, became an accomplished ham, and A joined a group of amateur high frequency operators. One of the members of that group was a doctor of Indianapolis. Last summer that doctor gave a dinner to the members of his group, xwaixkkw including the paralytic. In that way t he physician had a chance to examine his crippled friend and told him, "Your case isn’t hopeless.” Today Hatzenbuhler is in the hospital, recovering from an operation at Indianapolis, and his Station, %8RGV, is crackling with bulletins telling his friends how he’s getting on* MESSAGE At Omahaj Nebraska, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar 'Wiggenjost had a falling out on. tne Fourth of July. The husband is known to his friends and to Helen, the wife of his bosom, as "Wiggie." For a week Wiggle did his utmost to g€t back into Helen’s good A graces. But the lady was obdurate. V a T^-^^ Yesterday he had an inspiration, tte hired an aviator, a smoke writer, to fly high in the air above Omaha. And in letters several miles long the aviator spelled out a message not only to c*. z^Le Helen but to most of Nebraska* "Wiggle loves Helen." a ; And did that make the course of true love run smooth once more? The betting is still open on that question. Helen admits that love has never been told that way before. But at latest reports Helen was still giving Wiggle the i cij v\ru^ W -f^p MESSAGE T At Oman a, Nebraska f Mr* and Mrs. Oscar Vviggen j ost bad a falling out on the Fourth of July. The husband is known to his friends and to Helen, the wife of his bosom, as "Wiggle For a week Wiggle did his utmost to back into Helen's good A.. X graces. But the lady was obdurate. Yesterday he had an inspiration. He hired an aviator, I a smoke writer, to fly high in the air above Omaha. And in letters several miles Ipng the aviator spelled out a message not only to Helen but to most of Nebraska, tirert "Wiggle loves Helen." A And did that make the course of true love run smooth in h once more? The betting is still open on that question, Helen | admits that love has never been told that way before. But at latest reports Helen was still giving Wiggle the