SPAIV L, /. ^ ^>4 The Spanish Civil war goes into its fifth week and leaves us pondering whether anything will be left of the country or its population by the time it’s all over. The appalling death roll, the destruction of property, are almost beyond belief. As reports pour in it seems as though those who don’t perish on the fielo of battle will die before firing squads. This doesn't take into a count those who are summarily shot down or impaled on bayonets in house—to—house manhunts. Indeed, by far the greater number are believed to have been wiped out in this fashion. According to a rough estimate, eight thousand have perished in the open fighting, twelve thousand executed or just plain slaughtered. The list of wounded is believed to exceed fo rtee^ thousand. ^Once again the black flag was hoisted over the prison in Madrid. To the Spaniards that spelled only one thing. Tv/o prominent rebel generals condemne<' to death on Sunday, shot to death today. In return for that the rebels exacted the bloodiest kind of reprisals. A newspaper man from SPAIN - 2 Portugal made a guess that in the wholesale executions by the rebels at Badakoz no fewer than one thousand five hundred Loyalist prisoners were annihilated by the firing squads.^ ^ We hear tragic word pictures of women swathed in black, wandering tearfully through the streets to identify the bodies of their executed menfolk. Before they died, they were given consolation by priests who had been fighting in^ the rebel ranks. The Priests dropped their weapons, put on their cassocks, and administered the last rites of the Church. There’s an ironic touch in another piece of news from Badajoz. It was captured by General Francisco Franco, largely with the aid of his Foreign Legion from Morocco — and largely with the aid of Moorish regiments. It took the Christians almost eight hundred years to throw the Moors out of Spain. And now in the year of our Lord 1S36, back they come, led fcy a Christian General, fighting In a cause supported by most of the prelates and priests of the Christian Church in Spain. Like another Moorish conquest. The latest reports are of a fierce battle racing in the province of which Badakoz SPAIN - Z is an important city. But even the bloodiest civil war could not keep the Spanish away from their national pastime. With the rebels hammering at their gaVs, the fighting Madrllanos laid aside their guns and for three hours they flocked to the Plaza de Torros, the great bullfight arena of Spain. There they sat, twenty thousand strong, shouting "Bravol" Particularly when the-'r favorite, El Estuoiante, stepped into the ring and faced the foam-flecked bull. Women and men alike, in tattered regimentals or overalls, grimy and worn from days of fighting, shouted and cheered the toreadors, while seven bulls perished. Usually the boxes on the shady side are filled with immaculate, well—groomed aristocrats, ladies with those exquisite Spanish shawls covering their Paris dresses and with their tall tortoise shell combs. Yesterday those boxes were filled with muddy soldiers and maids. After the corrida was over, they picked up their guns and back they went to the battlefront. The general Spanish situation tonight is this: the rebels advancing on all fronts. The Fascist Rebels. ADD SPAIN The bombing of the town in France pours oil over the troubled fires of the European situation* A place called Biratou near the Spanish frontier was the target for explosives -IF dropped from a plane*'''And today France is again divided into two camps, squabbling over the origin of that bomber* French Conservatives and Fascists say it was a Spanish Government plane* The Radicals and Communists naturally maintain that it came from the Spanish Fascisti. Premier Blunts government has the job of investigating and trying to decide which it was. I^Meanwhile from both sides the government is lx urged to take A action. SPORES It’s difficult to decide which has been the more interesting news from the Olympics in Berlin - the records or the rows. Just as we had almost forgotten what was done to Eleanor Holm Jarrett, the former backstroke champion, we hearj( the somewhat startling iniormation that Jesse Owens, the brown bullet from Ohio State University, has also been suspended. Vt<7v0 there seems to be a certain technicality in the situation. Avery Brundage, head of the Olympic Committee says, f,I did not suspend Owens.” Nevertheless the fact seems to be that Owens is suspended. Mr. Brundage explains this with the words, “If he doesn’t keep the engagement made for him to run in Sweden he automatically suspends himself according to the rules of the Amateur Athletic Union.” It seems obvious that Owens Is not going to run in Sweden since at the present moment he’s in London. Says he, ”1 need a rest. I’ve been running practically all year.” Ana he adds, !Ilt to that. T r-Vi n in four meets since then, four meets In one week since seems to me Itve done my part for the A.A.U. in Berlin. In addition SPORTS - 2 JesSe 3 aincr> Tarry Snyder, had even sharper commencs to make. Said he, "There's monkey business in this viiole affair. The A.A.u. is trying to run the Olympics on stzK strictly business lines and take over college athletics into the bargain. Somebody* s making money somewhere. They’re trying to grab all they can and the boys can't even afford to buy a souvenir of the trip." if Coach Snyder draws a doleful picture of the plight of some of the Is' athletes. He said, "The Boys can't even afford a sightseeing trip. Some have to remain here until August 26th because the trip to Czecho-Slovakia has been cancelled. So they have to sit around the hotel without any moneyT^Jesse Owens himself admitted that fcE± he had to cable home for eocpense money. -^But he's spent all that. Mr. Brundage and other officials of the A.A.U. declare that the suspension of Owens will prevent him from running in college track meets. But college men at home say that isn't so. Owens's University, Ohio State, belongs to the Big Ten Conference. And the Big Ten is not affiliated with the A.A.U. controversies ail these suspensions and fflDntxrJTOrEEys ought to make \/^ SPORTS - 2 RETAKE wm Jf sse s trainer, Larry Snyder, had even sharper comments to make. Said he, "There's monkey business in this whole affair. The A.A.u. is trying to run the Olympics on siss strictly business lines and take over college athletics into the bargain. Somebody*s making money somewhere. They’re trying to grab all they can and the boys can't even afford to buy a souvenir of the trip." ""ff Coach Snyder draws a doleful picture of the plight of some of the athletes. He said, "The Boys can't even afford a sightseeing trip. Some have to remain here until August 26th because the trip to | Czecho-Slovakia has been cancelled. So they have to sit around the hotel without any money.” i^Jpsse Owens himseli admitted that SKfc that the suspension of Owens will prevent him from running in college track meets. But college men at home say that Isn't so. Owens's University, Ohio State, belongs to the Big Ten Conference. And the Big Ten is not affiliated with the A.A.U. controversies all these suspensions and aiintxxcvexrEjrs ought to make SPOETS - 3 Tor some interesting discussions when Mr. Avery Brundage returns to America with his athletes. BUSINESS It’s been too hot to talk or think much about business. But a statement issued on the subject from Washington calls foi some attention. By the end of the year American industry will oe out of the red, writing down the results of its labors in black ink for the first time in seven yearsl^^hat1 s the word kjiut L ones from Uncle Sam's Department ofConunerce. It is Xfcfcx to be observed that this is a nrediction rather A than a record. If we keep going for the last five months of the year as we ran along for the first seven, what comes in will balance what goes out. That's the estimate of the Commerce Department's figure sharks, We reached the top, u j 11 u v ui'yinray in-1928. For that year the ex income of American business and industry was eighty-one bi 11 ions»tfri p ty ■ In 1932 we sank 4teto the cellar with thirty-nine billions, been going up steadily .r -- <■ n.i-n ^The figures have^kEEHJigraKXXii every year since 1932; last year they reached fifty-l&fofbillions# r;Lil :nri and, says the Denartment, by the end of 1936 we ought to climb to sixty.bi-Hi^. At that BUSINESS - 2 X figure, income v/ill equal outgo. l\The Department experts calculate that a business is in the red when it pays out more in wages, dividends, interest and so forth, than it takes in. i ‘X to [^ftXfcC^J^been going on for seven year-But-at.■ to -aa- ciid tey fehc end this year. \ SJixDEB Out in Ohio therets a unique railroad. It*s called the Pioneer and Fayette^ I I'-t-s imovm in transportation circles ab the one-man road. One man, Earl S* Snyder, has been for years its President, Engineer, licket Agent, General Passenger Agent, Conductor, Master Mechanic, and Call Boy. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday hefs a hardware merchant. On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday he*s President, Engineer and so forth, of the Pioneer and Fayette. He*s been running it all these years with the help of one assistant, who fires the locomotive, cleans the windows and sJCKRjrt sweeps out the coach. This is a banner week in the history of that singular line. It has just obtained a new lease of life from the Reconstructic finance Corporation. The road runs between pioneer and Fayette, towns in Ohio, thirteen miles apart. Everything went smoothly n the p. & ran into hard times. Pi i / until 1955. Then the ^ ^ I r wfti ofr ' a c4verfii ..f.fonolr A, A L^lllagr1 SNYDER - £ Then the locomotive broke down. It cost nine hundred dollars on the installment plan to get a new one. On top of that came the succession of hot dry summers, which meant no carloads of hay for the one man road to haul. Then the new nine hundred dollar locomotive broke down. Chief Mechanic Snyder couldn't fix it so President Snyder had to ask for help. The Interstate Commerce Commission this time has come to his rescue and authorized him to sell seven thousand dollars worth of Trust certificates to buy new equipment, including another locomotive. So President, Conductor, and Chief Engineer Snyder now can continue singing the classic song, "I’ve Been Working on the Railroad." STRAW VOTE The pre-election pastime of conducting straw votes continues unabated. The really striking feature of the second lap of the Farm Journal balloting is the increasing strength of the Union party’s candidate, Mr. Lemke. He started in the race much later than Mr. Landon and Mu Roosevelt, so the votes for him represent only three weeks of balloting as compared with more than eight weeks for the candidates of the older parties. And Lemke seems to be particularly strong in such agricultural states as I<'wa, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin., The final figures among farmers of 20 states give Landon 57,047 --- Roosevelt 29,828. BASEBALL I suppose that as rr.anager of the team that was the victim of the unexpected event, I might give an authorative version of that triple play thatfs been in the news today — the astonishing stunt that was achieved yesterday in the soft ball game between President Roosevelt’s team of White House Correspo:dents and the Quaker Hill Debtors and Creditors. It was a exceeo.ingly Roosevelt:an affair. The President had two sons and a son-in-law in. the Correspondent’s line-up, while his daughter Mrs. Anna Dali Boettinger was the umpire for basesT—supported by Sis^tie and Buzzie. The President himself was the correspondent's manager, and Sec. of the Treasury as their cheer leader. In the Fifth Inning things looked tough fo the White House aggregation. Our Debrots and Creditors put on a burst of hitting and fi.led the bases, with none out. It was a situation for Casey at the Bat, —and sure enough there he was. ”K. C.” strode to the plate swinging a mighty bat — "K. C.'1 Hogate, our heaviest hitter, three hundred pounds heavy, publisher- of the Wall Street Journal, which is a heavy financial newspaper. The $ White House pitcher. Fox Movietone Cameraman Davis pale and ... .. ______________________________________________ " __ ........ BASEBALL - 2 grim grooved the ball. Casey took a ponderous swing, smaked It square on the nose, a low-line drive. The baserunners — including yours truly on second—started tearing around the paths but that line drive went squarely into the hands of Shortstop Frank Thompson of the Inte-national News Service. He c aught at his shoe-tops, whirled and heaved it to Third Baseman Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., who touched third and whipped the ball tc Second Baseman Phil Pea-1 of the Universal News Service. He touched second and forced me. And that made it a triple play — with Franklin Roosevelt Jr., the pivot man, the President’s daughter the umpire who called the decision, the President, the master-minding manager', A big Roosevelt day-- especially with long-legged John pulling down everything in left f^eld. The V/hite House boys reaped the triple play glory, but we won the game. Entirely trivial — but a picture of the President of the United States on a day off. / GR4FT A Professor of Semitics at the University of Pennsylvania has just finished translating some tablets, fourteen of them. These fourteen slabs made of clay are evidently part of the municipal records of the ancient Assyrian city of Nuzi. Their date, according to the professors, was some two hundred years before Moses. The g ’ st of those records as translatef is that the-^e GBAPT p. v.as a terrific scandal in the rich Assyrian city of Buzi some thirty-five hundred years ago. The villain of the piece was the Mayor of Buzi. Mayor Kushshiharbe, for that was his name, is shown up as a racketeer of- thejnost modern type. He was not content with taking bribes, i&x He swiped the property of the citizens. He even kidnapped their, persons. That puts the late Kushshiharbe in a class with Alvin Karpis and other celebrities of our day. He diverted the water of private citizens to irrigate his own gardens. He used the labor gangs from the public camps, the CCC of his day, to cultivate his own grounds and put up buildings for him. To make iira it still worse he swiped timber which was the property of the King, fahou ha tha l "it" seems he wen-fa” There was a public investigation. The Judge Samuel Beabury of the city of Nuzi in Mesopotamia brought to light a list of malefactions on the part of Mayor K±xh Kushshiharbe and his gang that makes the ** America as innocent as Sunday schools. To-be-eut'Oy .AAvi-**- , For the f! ransom of a private citizen1s wife he accepted sheep and a GRAFT - 5 few pounds of lead. For the brother of '.nother victim the ransom price was one pig. Kushshibarbe after the Kush 5500 years ago. The same yesterday as it is today and SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.