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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1938
Page
2
Western Union digest notes a revived market and credit thaw under new banking rules. Roosevelt urges public support for his reform program while admitting faults and praising Congress for future-oriented actions. British reports mix Franco air refusals with new ship bombings in Valencia and Alicante.
The President praised liberal leadership and urged intervention in state campaigns to defeat conservatives. Senators Burke and King condemned the interference and warned against meddling in party primaries. Observers say Roosevelt widened the party rift and endorsed the purge led by Corcoran and Cohen.
Reports from London claim loyalist forces threatened to bomb Italian and German cities if Franco stopped air raids. Italian officials say such acts would be treated as war, while the rumors were denied. the spread may have caused concern.
Swedes and Americans of Swedish descent gathered in Wilmington Delaware to mark 300 years since the first Swedish Finnish landing in America. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf was ill, with Prince Bertil attending. A monument to the landing site was presented by Prince Bertil and accepted by President Roosevelt then given to Governor Richard McMullen. The four day celebration spanned Delaware New Jersey and Pennsylvania with Crown Princess Louise present at a lawn party.
In Tokyo, British and French envoys warned that any occupation of Hainan would trigger Franco British action. The island near French and British trade lanes was bombed by Japanese planes. Germany recalls advisers to the Chinese army amid fears of new German support for Japan.
Douglas Hyde was installed as Ireland's first president at Dublin Castle in Gaelic ceremony. Prime Minister De Valera praised the new leader's lawful election and dedication to Ireland, while American Minister John Cudahy attended among foreign officials. Hyde, a poet historian and educator, is Protestant and seen as a bridge to union between Roman Catholic Ireland and Protestant Northern Ireland.
MPETUS receives naval expansion funding totaling 27.883 million dollars for enlargements extensions and remodeling of navy facilities. 113 projects approved by Roosevelt will begin by August 15 including power plant improvements foundry work high frequency radio station fleet moorings turret facilities shipyard upgrades water storage and storage buildings among others.
The Public Works Administration headed by Secretary Ickes released two lists covering 590 projects nationwide with a total cost of 148 million dollars. More lists were planned to reach a 2 billion dollar construction push to create jobs and stimulate industry. PWA grants cover 45 percent of costs and loans 55 percent, with the remainder supplied by applicants.
French thinker Charles Maurras, after 250 days in jail for alleged incitement against Italy sanctions and anti democratic editorials, is named a Nobel laureate by a Paris academy committee. The feature outlines his prolific writing and sharp persona alongside a side note on Olympic ethics debates touching Avery Brundage and Bill Bingham.
Rep. Hamilton Fish of New York faces a challenge from Rep. Fish urging removal of National Chairman John Hamilton. Fish claims GOP gains would rise if Hamilton stays, while leaders Rep. Joe Martin and Sen. John Townsend push for full fund control. Bertrand Snell says he will retire and not seek re election this fall.
The President appointed a mixed group of men and women to a special commission to study British labor disputes law and Swedish labor relations. Members include Lloyd K. Garrison Robert Watt Gerald Swope Henry I Harriman William H Davis Anna M Rosenberg Charles R Hook Marion Dickerman and William Ellison Chalmers.
Louis of Detroit knocked out Max Schmeling in New York in under one round. The German was carried by towel and later diagnosed with a broken vertebra from a kidney blow. Eighty thousand spectators witnessed the shortest heavyweight title bout in history. Louis claimed 40 percent of the gate and Schmeling 20 percent.
Two pilots escaped death after their planes crashed near Durban South Africa and both fell onto telephone wires. They survived the incident and were rescued by bystanders and emergency crews.
In Washington North Carolina a high school aged team runs the Washington Field museum a full institution in the AAM style. From tent days in 1923 the Bughouse Laboratory grew through community help to a park site with WPA labor and a director Miss Mary Shelburne. Curators- youths from local schools- oversee natural history early Americana and a developing zoo.
Herbert D. Mendenhall of Tallahassee described Florida’s rough frontier towns where phosphate mining fueled early boom days. Dunnellon, as a pioneer town for hard rock phosphate, was ruled by frontier law with pistols in every hand and weekly coroner’s inquests for weekend fatalities.
Dr. Hanna Rydh of Upsala University asserts Sweden has been inhabited by Nordics since the Stone Age. She notes the oldest Swedish skull dates to 6000–8000 B C and shows the long narrow Nordic shape, with limited Central European migration.
Dr Edmund Jacobson of the Laboratory for Clinical Physiology Chicago told psychologists at the Midwestern Psychological Association meeting that sleep onset can involve full muscle relaxation in limbs but jaw muscles may stay tense. He cited measurable activity in lip and jaw muscles even as other muscles relax.
Archaeological work in England reveals why Rome did not Romanize barbarian Britain. Dr. R. E. M. Wheeler argues Rome introduced urban life centered on trade, but native towns resisted. Britannia retained bucolic rural life and local crafts, leading to a fragile Romano-British city system that collapsed within a century.
Dr. E N Goddard of the United States Geological Survey reports that molten rock masses rose to the surface long ago destroying earths oldest records near Jimtown Colorado. Fragments of younger rocks found within the intruded mass show varying degrees of alteration and even dissolution into the melt. The discovery illustrates the rock cycle with melting sediment deposition and reformation.
Chicago report describes mud jacking as a cheap efficient repair for sunken concrete pavement. John W. Poulter of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, notes the method pumps mud and cement beneath slabs to lift and level settling roadbeds.
More than 100000 acres of wild forested lands are set aside as a permanent moose refuge in East Prussia near Koenigsburg. The area has never been cultivated and timber cutting is rare. Regulations ban fires and shooting. visitors may not leave roads without a special permit.
The ninth year of the Trojan War opens with the Greeks besieging Troy on Asia Minor shores. Achilles sulks after Agamemnon claims a slave girl. Helen's beauty sparks a quarrel among Greek princes who vow to defend her, Paris steals Helen, and Ulysses feigns madness to avoid the quest.
The Mind and the Odyssey were performed every four years at Athens in the classical era. Homer is the traditional poet of these works and has no life apart from his poetry. Classical Greeks translated, wrote lives, taught, and analyzed his poems in ancient language.
The tale chronicles the siege of Troy with Iphigenia offering, Patroclus death, Achilles return in armor, and the climactic duel as Hector falls. Priam pleads for Hector’s body while gods influence the mortal conflict in this classical saga.
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