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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1936
Page
2
In a broad survey from Brisbane, the piece notes riots in Spain and Paris, labor and class conflicts, and debates over US power policy. It highlights Schwab's optimism on labor, steam-turbine aviation experiments in Russia, and Mussolini's air power. It ends with a call for safe driving education.
The Townsend pension plan investigation opens in the House with eight member committee led by J. Jasper Bell and includes John H. Toland and Samuel L. Collins. It aims to probe Townsend and Clements salaries and the plan’s vast following, amid charges of politically motivated action. President Roosevelt attended funeral ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery for a high official, underscoring national interest.
General Johnson Hagood is removed from command of the Eighth Corps area and ordered to Fort Sam Houston and home after urging Congress to use WPA funds for army housing. The chief of staff Maj. Gen. Malin Craig signs the order by the president’s directive.
The scene centers on two prominent figures, Albert Cabell Ritchie and Henry L. Roosevelt, targeted after notable public careers. Ritchie, Maryland governor for four terms, opposed national prohibition and sought the Democratic nomination in 1932, later attacking New Deal policies. Roosevelt, fifth in his family to serve as assistant secretary of the navy, acted as secretary during Swanson's illness and remained influential in naval affairs.
President Roosevelt went to Philadelphia to receive Temple University’s honorary Doctor of Jurisprudence. He spoke on education and freedom of inquiry, then went to Cambridge to see his son John join Harvard’s Fly club. Back in Hyde Park he urged Christian and Jewish unity and religious understanding.
Washington reports the Cope land ship subsidy bill may be dropped as the White House refuses to press for passage. Senator Cope land, whose commerce committee backed the bill, is irritated and may withdraw it while rival measures and opposition from Senator Black of Alabama emerge. Shipping interests warn of continued paralysis in foreign trade construction and Navy reliance on own auxiliaries.
APT ANTHONY EDEN warned in the British House of Commons that another world war is imminent. He urged a system of collective security embracing all nations under unchallenged authority to avert conflict and rejected encirclement as a policy. He noted sanctions on Italy aim to hasten war resolution but dodged a firm oil embargo commitment.
In San Juan the assassination of B. Francis a Puerto Rico police chief and a district chief triggers calls for reform. Gov Winship backs a full inquiry and revival of capital punishment. Nationalists claim revenge for the Rio Pedros massacre as two gunmen are killed during questioning.
Ames Landis, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, spoke at Princeton alumni events and warned that stock market speculation is rising. He proposed three government measures: tighten bank and brokerage credit, strengthen antimanipulation laws, and educate the public about prudent investing. He urged scrutiny of officer and director manipulation to protect corporate responsibility.
The Senate passed a one year extension of the embargo on arms ammunition and implements of war and a ban on loans to belligerents. Senator Nye was away from Washington and rushed to vote but arrived too late to offer amendments.
Brig. Gen. William Mitchell a famed World War I air commander dies of heart attack and influenza at age fifty seven in a New York hospital. He led American air forces in France and later urged a separate aviation department, facing court martial over air policy.
Elections of delegates to the national conventions are under way in several states. In New York Representative Fish backed Borah for the Republican nomination but failed to unseat key old guard figures as the state committee named delegates. Tammany outlined its Democratic delegates led by Alfred D. Oe will and others from Smith and Staten Island.
Washington observers note Congress reenacted neutrality for a year but dodged a lasting stance while Europe shifts. France England and likely Russia align, Mussolini with Hitler, Italy on a new side, prompting fears of wider conflict and a need for a Western Hemisphere pact to deter aggression.
Indian practice among northern communities links a newborn’s name to the first object the mother notices after birth. This naming custom reflects cultural ties and regional traditions across families.
A concise reflection urging focused self study and embracing individuality. It emphasizes learning one definite thing and performing definite work, while letting go of the urge to master all. It counsels contentment with personal limits and resigning to what one is not with grace.
An old advertisement claims a three days cough signals danger and promotes Creomulsion with a guarantee refund if not satisfied after the first battle, urging readers to buy now.
The fragment reflects a musing on life direction noting that concern for one's path arrives in middle age. It reads as a philosophical aside rather than a reportable event with identifiable people or organizations.
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