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Lewis Rebukes President Roosevelt
Italy Charged Waging Open War Mediterranean
Mrs. Olive Borcia, Kidnapped Returned Her Home
SPAIN CHARGES ITALY W ITH
WAGING OPEN WAR LOYALIST
SHIP IN THE MEDITERR ANEAN
(By The Associated Press)
GENEVA. Sept. 3—The fear of
a major international clash in
the Mediterranean arose after
another mysterious attack on a
freighter, the 14th within the last
three weeks and Spain’s formal
protest to the League of Nations
that Italy’s Navy was waging an
□pen war on Loyalist ships.
Great Britain’s first reaction to
the lastest Mediterranean incid
ent was to cancel the sailing of
the third destroyer flotilla for the
far east. Britain will keep three
flotillas in the Mediterranean to
track down “pirates” who have
attacked British and other for
eign vessels, believed carrying
contraband cargoes to Spain. The
British cabinet was expected to
discuss the situation at an emer
gency session this week.
French warships have also been
I given orders to protect French
vessels in the Mediterranean and
on the high seas trade routes
near Spain.
Shipping owners of other Eu- j
ropean nations have also demand
ed protection from their respect-!
ive navies. Spain’s note to thej
League declared that “the whole,
Mediterranean from Marseilles'
and Barcelona to the Dardanelles
must be considered a zone in
which at any moment an inci-1
dent may occur which might pro
duce a general conflagration." j
Spain charged Italy with “fla- j
grant aggression against thej
Spanish republic." Alleged that
Italian warships were responsible
for the sinking of four Spanish
merchant ships and said that the
Italian destroyer Sattik sank the
steamship Compeador near Cape
Bon with a loss of 12 lives.
Demand Hostile
Forces Remove
Intnatl. Vicinity
(By The Associated Presst
SHANGHAI, Sept. 4 —Ameri
can, British and French consul
generals demanded that the Chin
ese land forces and Japanese war
ships withdraw from the vicinity
of the internationail settlement
and the Frnch concession, which
are haven for thousand of for
eigners, which had been splatter
ed by artillery Are.
Germany Adopts
New Obit Notice
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Sept. 3—-A new type
of death notice expressing wor- j
ship of Adolf Hitler and nation
alism in being used in the Ger- ]
man press. In place of the cus
tomary phrase announcing a per
son died with belief in God fer
vent Nazis use, “died in belief
in Adoltf Hitler, died in belief
in Germany’s future” and the
like.
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PE N AND SWORD. The one-year-old Spanish civil war
settles down to a grim business. These two veteran government
soldiers carry fountain pens along with bayonets, and when war
pauses they write the folks back home. It is a dug-out on the Madrid
front. . . _
;
Longshoremen
Are W orking but
Not Teamsters
(By Tne Associated Press)
SAN' FRANCISCO, Sept. 4
Thousands of longshoremen re
ported for work unmindful of the
jurisdictional dispute that threat
ened to force them into idleness.
Teamsters, whose rumbling trucks
are a fajniliar part of the water
front picture, kept scrupulously
away from the city’s fifty-three
major piers.
Cargoes piled up in warehous
es, except that which was load, t
by longshoremen directly into
cars of the state-owned Belt Line
Railroad.
Britain Rushes
Warships Into
Mediterranean
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON. Sept. 3—'British na
val reinforcements sped into the
Western Mediterranean Thursday'
with guns ready to thunder
Great Britain’s answer to myster
ious submarine attacks on Brit- j
ish ships. The cabinet decision
for more warships in the trouble
zone off Spain was made with the
full concurrence of France. Both I
nations also agreed on Franee’s
suggestion to bring the issue be- j
fore the League of Nations Coun
cil at Geneva next week.
Public opinion in both nations
inflamed by newspaper reports
and official intimations that It
aly is responsible for the increas
ingly frequent raids on neutral
merchantmen and warships was
believed nearing the Limit of its
patience.
Congress Provide
$500,000 Relief of
US Cit. Shanghai:
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Sept. 3— The
threat of hunger and disease in
war torn Shanghai caused the
State department to study means
of protecting U. S. citizens there.
Secretary of State Hull said a
five hundred thousand dollar
appropriation made by Congress
last week would be allocated for
relief and refugee assistance af
ter consular officials in China con
ferred with Red Cross adminis
trations.
Kidnapped Ionian
Is Returned Home
(By The Associated Press)
ELKHORN, Wisconsin, Sept. 4
Mrs. Olive Borcia who has
been missing since Thursday and
reported by officers as kidnapped,
was returned to her mother’s
summer home, near collapse but
unharmed.
Mrs. James Goudie, her mother
said she had driven two blocks
in her car when another auto
mobile forced her to the side.
She was unable to give a clear
account of what happened but
sa,a that two young men blind
folded her and forced her in
to their car. She did not know
whether any time was spent in
the car or any other place nor
did she know whether the five
thousand dollars, which her hus
band John Borcia. said was de
manded. had been paid. The po
lice are investigating.
On September 27
Nome Ceases Be
Port Of Entry
(Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—Pres
ident Roosevelt issued the order
terminating the status of Nome
as a port of entry, effective Sep
tember 27. Customs officials said
designations of ports of entry
were usually terminated when
business did not justify their con
tinuing.
Offers To Form
Foreign Legion
Service in China
(By The Associated Press)
VANCOUVER, B. C. Sept. 3—
A colorful soldier of fortune of
fered his services yesterday to
organize a foreign legion for duty
with China in the Sino-Japanese
undeclared war. He is Colonel
Jack Leckie. The colonel’s most
recent adventure was the devel
opment of gold mines on the west
coast of Vancouver Island. He an
nounced that he would seek of
ficial sanction for his foreign le- j
gion from the Chinese consulate
at Ottawa.
The former soldier and pros- ■
pector intimated that the propos
ed military expedition might be
financed by the powerful Chin- j
ese Beneficient Association.
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JOHN L LEWIS OF CIO RKBl KES
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT \S V
FVIR WEATHER FRIEND LABOR
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—John
L. Lewis rebuked President Roo
sevelt as a fair weather friend,
when labor served notice on the
administration, that the CIO pre
pared to look e.sewhere for its
political allies. In a rad;..' speech
last night, in a bristling tone, he
declared that the CIO enrolled
three million seven hundred'
. ght, a thousand members and
brought up 'he new deal ques
tion of decid.ng vhether the CIO
and Democrat;.- Party g- separ
i ate ways.
Bared thus at Roosevelt he said
"It ill behooves one who has sup
ped at labor's table and who has
| been sheltered in labor’s house
! to curse with equal fervor and
fine impartiality both labor and
[its adversaries when they be
come locked in deadly embrace.”
i
He also ur^ed . farmers and
labor to unite and it Ls the lead
|ing belief that he may be hint
ing at a third party.
Number Tourists
Alaska This Sea
son Is New High
c
(By The Associated Tress)
KETCHIKAN. Sept. 4 —More
than fourteen thousand tourists
in what may be an all time rec
ord visited Alaska via steamer,
yacht and airplanes, is the find
ing of a survey compiled by the
Ketchikan Chronicle. The list
ins did not include the travel of
Alaskans, government employees
and commercial travelers.
The number was a six percent
increase over last year. July was
the heaviest month with rive
thousand five hundred ten trav
el rs.
Head Seversky
j
Corporation In
Airplane Crash
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK. Sept. 3— Major
Alexander P. de Seversky, air
craft designer and head of the
Seversky Aircraft Corporation
cracked up Wednesday in his
high speed, low wing monoplane
while landing at Floyd Bennett
Field. He escaped unhurt from
•.he plane which burst into flam
11 said the accident will can
cel his participation in the Ben
in's. cross country race from Los
An gelas.
FUEHRER FRITZ.
Some 8,000 members of the German-Amerlcan bund, shouting lone
and loud “heils,” opened a summer camp near Andover, N. I. They
were addressed by Frits Kuhn (above), “Bund Fuehrer.” who said
It wasn’t a Nasi camp hut that members sympathised with Hitler.^