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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1937
Page
2
A ranting column flags concerns about non citizens on relief and lax immigration laws, argues for voluntary registration of undesirables, mocks parole boards, and ridicules prison policy. It also satirizes Nazi influence in Germany and promotes Alben Barkley as a potential 1940 presidential candidate.
Davis leads the American delegation to a Brussels conference of nine power treaty signatories amid doubts the pact will end Sino Japanese hostilities. Advisers include Hornbeck and Moffat. Pell handles press and Bohlen serves as secretary. Roosevelt and Hull issued non public instructions before departure. Belgium hosts with British approval. ATHAN STRAUS named administrator of the federal housing program. victory for Senator Wagner over Ickes in the selection.
Congressman John E. Miller, Democrat, succeeds Arkansas senator by defeating Governor Carl G. Bailey in a special election. Republicans had no candidate. Miller has been a lukewarm supporter of the New Deal in Congress.
A transcontinental United Air Lines airliner crashed in the Uinta mountains Utah killing 19 aboard. Debris was seen by scout planes at about 10 000 feet and rescue efforts were hindered by heavy snow.
President Roosevelt outlined five emergency bills in a fireside radio address to start November 15. The program includes crop production control, wage and hour standards, regional planning, government reorganization and stronger antitrust laws. House predicts farm bill first week, wage measure later amid Southern opposition.
In Washington the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations convened to seek a truce in their long running split. Roosevelt and Secretary Perkins discussed the issue at Hyde Park, with Perkins naming a federal committee to establish a permanent apprentice training agency in the Labor Department to grow skilled workers.
The piece contrasts President Roosevelt’s claim that markets caused by themselves with Winthrop W. Aldrich of Chase National Bank attributing fault to the administration and the securities and exchange commission. It notes a revised 1938 deficit estimate growing from 418 million to about 700 million and warns of bigger shortfalls without economies.
The general convention in Cincinnati upheld church law barring remarriage for divorced persons by Episcopal clergymen. The house of deputies voted to extend the commission on marriage and divorce for three more years. A proposed liberalization would have let bishops approve marriages for any divorced person after case study, but it was defeated.
Federal agents killed leader Al Brady and lieutenant Clarence Shaffer Jr in Bangor Maine. Wounded captive James Calhover confessed. Dalhover to be sent to Indiana for murder, aid network sought, and bank plans found. Authorities believe the capture halts a potential New England crime wave.
A gas explosion at the Mulga mine near Birmingham, Alabama, claimed 33 miners' lives as 500 workers were present. The blast occurred four miles from the entrance. The mine had recently been operated by Woodward Iron company, a major Birmingham iron producer. In prior years Mulga had 56 fatalities.
Rumors that Col Charles A Lindbergh planned to become a British subject appear unfounded as he accepts a five year renewal of his commission in the United States Army Air Corps. Officers privately doubt he would renew if he planned allegiance change. Lindbergh has held his military status since graduating in 1925 from the Kelly Field flying school in Texas.
British military authorities intensify measures to quell Arab attacks in Palestine. General A P Wavell orders burning of Arab terrorist homes after the Kalandia airport destruction near Lydda. Sixty arrests follow a 24 hour curfew, as Britons face possible crown colony status if unrest continues.
The Sino-Japanese war rages as Land and air forces clash near Shanghai. Chinese counter-offensive mobilizes troops and artillery around the city while Japanese forces resist. Aerial bombers target ships along the Whangpoo river as fighting intensifies hour by hour.
Western Newspaper Union columnist argues for a strong conservative minority in 1938 to balance Roosevelt New Deal policies. He calls for a principled platform, budget balancing,削 elimination of unneeded federal agencies, debt reform, and restraint in government expansion.
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