Cement Trust Set to Mulct U.S. of $15,000,000; farley, Tammany, U.S. Steel Linked in Deal
Cement Trust Set to Mulct U.S. of $15,000,000; farley, Tammany, U.S. Steel Linked in Deal Jefferson Memorial Looms As New Teapot Dome Scandal Capital's Parks Wrecked, Flood Menace Raised By...
...Grovel Needed The stock of the United States Gypsum Corporation, forty-one per cent of it water, is in two classes...
...Project Menaces City Vigorous protest was made against the great and unnecessary-expense thus involved...
...When they pointed out that this prom**w*8 just another fake, they were told that the ">«ss would really beautify the parks...
...support is assured because of the cut, amounting to millions, the duPonts...
...The Darrow Review Board, I may remind you, found that the Cement business in this country was virtually in the hands of a great, powerful, ruthless, ably directed combination with ramifications far and wide and formidable backing, formidable connections...
...The man that had pushed the bill through Congress was made the head of the Commission...
...And the projection of the filled-in space fnto tile Tidal Basin would gravely interfere with the control of the periodic floods in the Potomac River...
...Is there any corporation that might profit from such an enormous safe of Cement as is involved here ? Any corporation perhaps with a penchant for mixing in politics and having a strong political position...
...Eden speaks to the National Association of Manufacturers in New York City shortly and goes with the blessings of none other than Lord Halifax...
...Hastings' election is interpreted as a sign of the policy planned by the G.O.P...
...charges of collusive bidding about Cement j**>faraets came to be rife concerning companies that "•"a nominal existence but a concentrated steerage...
...Before this outburst of protest and reason, even the rubberest of rubber-stamp Congressmen awoke to the fact that what impended was a national scandal of the first magnitude and the design was changed...
...The fight will come over the final determination of the change and how much power should be handed the President under o revised neutrality law...
...The effort of defense attorneys George Dix and Charles PhilipbaT to brush away evidence of real, however bungling and fruitless, Nasi espionage by their clients, Hoffman nod Voss, by nhafjjir confessions obtained by O-enon Tuttou, thus failed...
...This is* a curious story...
...Duce Asks Colonies, Balks Tory Policy Sadden Demand for French Colonies Effects Cham* oeHain Plans far Fear-Power Pact—Strains Pronan Italian Negotiations — Spain Seen as Victim of Dafadfer's "Strang Mgn" Government Special to The Sew Leader • BRUSSELS.—While the world kept its eyes on this week's struggle between the organized Left in France and the big> business Daladier clique, Nazi 'Germany, speaking through its financial wizard, Hjalmar Schacht, took advantage of the excitement abroad to openly acknowledge its economic war Otthe Unfted States and Great Britain—a challenge which wns immediately picked up by a fright-' ened Tory cabinet Competent observers believe that this was the reason for the selection of Anthony Eden as an emissary of good will to the United States...
...The Amerikadeutscher Nationalverband —with headquarters at 178 East 85th Street in New York City— plans to circulate 10,000,000 copies of a petition throughout the United States urging inclusion of the "white Gentile" clause in the Constitution...
...for the next Congressional Session...
...It owns and operates 4 steamships 1 motor ship 2 steam togs 4 steam lighters 4 barges Its president is Mr...
...The Iowa Farmer-Labor candidates for governor, Wallace M. Short, Sioux City editor, polled 4,495 votes...
...It appeared that on that same morning a florist or nursery man had called at the White House and offered to plant trees, and on the basis of that offer, the President had decided that the protests- were "fiii» flam...
...Sewell Lee Avery of Chicago...
...General Motors, the plane corporations and Big Steel will pocket...
...Shortly after present -conferences wind up in Washington the administration will launch a program of shifting the assignment of military and naval attaches in order to double the number now working in Latin-American countries...
...Against this hideous vandalism, the residents rose ¦PW**st...
...In 1985 the preferred stock of the actopus earned 23 cents a share...
...provided, however, that the signature . . . shall in turn be certified to by the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs...
...Rumor has it that the State Department fools that France cannot be kept out of the totalitarian orbit and that with Germany dominating Europe and the Far East, Japan controlling the Orient, and Britain warning over her far-flung empire, these must be a drastic change in this country's foreign policy...
...Experienced sbservers believe that this new threat, more than all the demonstrations combined, may convince the Roosevelt administration to ift the embargo on Spain...
...There are other way* tf ja* up the ante more diplomatic ttaj publicly humiliating intuualnte'1 "friends...
...I commend it to the careful attention of all Americans, ud particularly to those that still try to think Big Business can co-exist with democracy, or Big Business can ever keep its dirty -Sirs from the throat of government...
...T $2,000,000 Distortion from the beginning of the sordid story, two things apparent...
...With 7,000 sites available that would require no Cement filling, ruin no park, destroy no trees, block no flood control...
...Next it was asserted that while many cherry trees would have to be cut down, the life of such trees was only thirty years, these had been planted thirty years ago, they were dying and would have to be removed anyway...
...B Duce, following through on bit Policy of imitating his Berlin eelleague, has launched a drive for Nice, Savoia, Tunisia, and ens Corsica...
...The Northwest Expanded Metal Company...
...Steel Linked in Deal Jefferson Memorial Looms As New Teapot Dome Scandal Capital's Parks Wrecked, Flood Menace Raised By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL Exclusive to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.—The shadow that fell across the administration of President Harding was Teapot Dome...
...The shadow that is beginning to loom across the administration of President Roosevelt is a cement mill—and something else...
...And it controls by stock ownership the Canadian Gypsum Company...
...the Berkshire Hills Lime Company...
...Daladier, if he had not had the British prime minister's support, would not have fought the French Labor and Socialist movements and set up the troops against them...
...In the meantime the government proceeds with its plans to raise the lumber of enlisted men in the regllar army from 165,000 to 400,000 md step up the production of fightng planes from 320 to 1,000 a nonth until the army has some ),280 planes and the navy 3,000...
...Cement (concrete...
...On Its actual capitalization the common stock paid last year nearly 20 per cent...
...Pope also enjoys the dose personal friendship of Mr...
...Industrialists Stiffen Tories But Schacht's declaration in Berlin early this week revealed that Hitler contemplates a closed Nasi market in Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and the rest of Southern Europe...
...Being "¦wit the citizen's means to make his will effect«»»> their complaints were ignored and the fraud •wt on...
...But Major L'Enfant died in 1826 and at that time the site was at the bottom of the Potomac River and nobody had dreamed that it would ever be anywhere else...
...the residents objected to the menace of •"•¦a shovels and axe-gangs in their parks, they *¦* assured that no flowers nor shrubbery would g ¦jured...
...The split, though numerically insignificant, created confusion among the voters and the FarmerLabor vote fell from its 1936 high of 80,000...
...W^^O^hfe What had always been admired TOM^^JP^ beauty spots came to look like torn battle fields...
...Ohio...
...All of the lather are from farm districts...
...Other Sites Plentiful When this was made known, engineers said that the completed structure instead of costing $3,000,000 would probably cost $15,000,000—five times that sum...
...The original estimate as...
...we needed it in our business and could no longer keep house without it...
...When at the last stage of this performance, President Roosevelt had full power to stop it...
...While II Duce has given his friend Chamberlain a token withdrawal of 10,000 troops from Spain so that the English premier might have an excuse for his pact with Italy, the fascist dictator still has 90,000 men fighting for Franco...
...The administration attitude on foreign affairs, coupled with 'the rearmament drive,'will probably keep other drawn-out bottles off the floor of both houses this next session...
...All for Cement...
...the Communists, who are willing to chuck everything to "deiend" the Soviet Union...
...A design was drawn for a hug* sprawling marble —and Cement—mausoleum...
...tactics during the next six months...
...Pacific Gas Light and Coke Company...
...Stately trees of fifty years Isaacs Farley growth, flowers and flower beds, t* grass plots, blossoming shrub¦¦ytj'* result of many years of training, were ™*wly destroyed and the space they had occuped filled with huge splotches and dreary wastes « Cement—and asphalt...
...This would involve the destruction of the banks of flowering cherry trees that border the Basin...
...It is still too early to «*¦» mine just what II Dace hM «pto uniformed sleeve and why tation against France eafae Ja* four weeks before ChamberJatttJS* rives...
...Although the State Department has refused to answer questions, it is now possible to state authoritatively that one such effort was made through the Department, which secretly inquired in Moscow during the summer concerning Miss Buerger...
...Protests Cause Change If you will believe me, the original intention of the Commission, under the guidance of Boylan of Tammany, was to fill in this Basin with Cement (concrete) and' then erect the Memorial upon the base thus created...
...G.O.P...
...WISCONSIN SOCIALISTS ELECT II ASSEHBLYHEN Special te The New Leader KENOSHA, Wis...
...The Foreign Minister hopes that Eden, popular in the United States because of the ex-minister's anti-German attitude, will bring home as much bacon as did Lord Runeiman some years ago...
...So the work of destruction begins in Potomac Park and one industry is cheered with the prospect of certain sales at great profit...
...York City district embracing what used to be called Hell's Kitchen, a typical Tammany politician, almost illiterate, who talked out of the side of his mouth and used atrociousgrammar...
...Just before the case's and, Matthews, a prosecutor of spies during the World War, in urging Judge Knox to direct the jury to deliberate Glaser's fate further, declared he had taken the case, when asked to do ao by the court, out of a sense of duty, and that he had continued only because profoundly convinced Glaaer was innocent...
...Sliver Shirts, and Reverend Wlnrod Seen Uniting Behind Pelley as Fritz Knhn Choice...
...Nation Ready for "M" as F.D.R...
...Revision Soon To meet the G.O.P...
...Generoso Pope...
...And asphalt...
...Of this company, the president and director Is a distinguished Mr...
...f^»f "Rehabilitation" quickly reV «p F vealed itself as woeful wreckage...
...There was imminent and crying need for an Airport, said eminent authority...
...The Canary Islands are only some 12 to 15 hours from South America or Washington, D. C., by air, the Azores only 8 to 9 hours from the same points...
...eantime, there had come from some source J**r revealed a project for a national memorial to "JWnas Jefferson to take the shape of a kind of "aple or marble house or huge stone—and Cement ^•hrine...
...Pope was reported to have been strongly in favor of both measures...
...Since the gentleman from Delaware voted, for a prevailing wage on relief work, urged return of relief to the states, fought the Black 30-hour week, the A.A.A., the N.R.A., the C.W.A., the adherence to the World Court and all workrelief measures, it takes no Washington Commentator to predict accurately the G.O.P...
...Tney grew so flagrant that President Roosevelt was obhged to interfere, to take the whole business "jwer the intimate direction of the Treasury Departand to order that all bidders must certify that uThr engaged in no collusion—a well-meant fual«jy, but pointedly illuminating what was going on...
...Continental Chicago Corporation...
...tent, the New Dealers went quietly on their way' in the capital fighting proposed W.P.A...
...we had illimitable areas to choose from...
...A military and naval mission has already been formed to be sent to Colombia, the country immediately south of the Panama Canal, which has good reason to remember another President Roosevelt, who in 1903 fomented the revolt which gave the Panama strip to this country...
...The most important Cement producer in the United States is the Universal Atlas Cement Company, operating nine'plants at different points and owning huge lime quarries...
...About the seven miles of Cement pillars, the ninety feet of Cement filling, the acres of Cement to be spilled at Gravelly Point and the rest...
...The document would be valid if it met requirements stated in paragraph 15 of the Real Property low of New York...
...Boylan had occasion to defend his scheme before a Committee of Congress, his performance caused his hearers to wonder how he had managed to Learn that Thomas Jefferson «yer existed...
...And interlocking perhaps with such influences as have customarily been able to get what they want out of public affairs...
...Cement business was good in those years—whereever there was a government job or a park to be despoiled...
...So strongly was this urged that even President Roosevelt came to believe it and repeated the assertion in a newspaper statement...
...now has four definite trends dominating it—one identified with Leon Jouhaux, which fears Fascism more than war and is ready to risk it to save French democracy...
...And what is Gravelly Point ? A spot on the Potomac River, a large part of it under water, so that an immense area would have to be dredged and filled...
...He was one John J. Boylan, a representative in Con-( gress from a New...
...The government also failed to discuss on summation the 1 ¦sterna tions of B. A. Matthews, attorney for Glaser, that its star witness, the self-proclaimed "Nasi spy", G. G. Rumrich, had a Stalinist background connected with the Robinson-Rub«ns-GPU affair...
...MMMHtatioiT A La Cement -?|to«^-ei&'of MS5, a bilT erf undisclosW origm ^MPPgtly slipped through Congress appropriating CJBWWrto 'rehabilitate" these small parks...
...According to this, certification could be made by any Soviet official "authorized to take acknowledgments, oaths or affirmations, under the seal of his office...
...towns in seventeen states...
...In 1935 the common stock earned $2,16 a share...
...Chamberlain's point in going t» Rome, aside from seeing more of the fascist world before he's Wt again by the gout, was to rente** normal relations between Fran** and Italy and to get II Due* *» prevail on Hitler to ease up an tk* Jews so that the Anglo-Reich T»sprochement can actually mate*i*lize...
...Tnrren nevertheless, emerged a sorry mesa...
...in his ' hands the power to compel another to be chosen...
...ywu they found that the substitution of Cement *r lilacs was the sum of the beautification intended, •"*y were told that the destroyed shrubbery would ¦ replanted...
...Forty-five gooi and available sites were offered and advocated, all cn dry...
...That is to say, the Steel Trust, the Beef Trust, the Power Trust, the endless ramifications of a great mail order house, au influential daily newspaper, great banks and financial interests, and the power that for twenty-two years has kept Mooney and Billings in jail, against all right and justice...
...and lining up forces for the attempted revision of American foreign policy...
...By VICTOR RIESEL Rearmament is in the air and, whether you agree with the administration's - program, advanced as a counter to Nazi Germany's worldwide offensive, or yon denounce it as the groundwork for wartime regimentation, the problem of national defense will be-this government's most absorbing activity during 1939...
...The common paid in 1934 5V« per cent...
...Italy's Stand Uncertcfc Mussolini is now bending ewry energy desperately to outmaneow Hitler and cut himself some abet of Africa and Spain before Bis northern neighbor decides on » Fascist divorce...
...Iowa was the only state in which Gov...
...When this purpose was made known, a howl went up from the astonished and indignant populace and even persons not interested in preserving the beauties of Washington pointed out that the scheme was crazy, since, it would require millions of tons of Cement and cost the product of a mint...
...Advanced air bases, laval patrols and coast fortificaions are to be constructed in cooperation with U. S. experts...
...Mysterious forces defeated them all and managed to have Gravelly Point chosen instead...
...Until he took up the Jefferson Memorial enterprise, he had served in Congress without the slightest distinction, confining his activities to the drawing of his salary and the .care of his district fences...
...flouted...
...And now, what shall we conclude about all this...
...When the time comes, the Silver Shirts will use guns, not votes, here in America...
...Since 1928—panic year—it has absorbed the following companies, with others: M. A. Reeb Corporation, Buffalo, N- Y. Maguire Gypsum Corporation, Oakland, N T. The Pressed Steel Company, WSrren...
...Fays Heavily All the profits of Universal Atlas are poured into United States Steel...
...Later, he was president of the General Builders Supply Company, a position now said to be filled by a relative...
...Farley is an old-time New York politician of the Tammany type...
...he^f1-6 WaS 3 general assent that Jefferson should P honored but not the least popular desire anywhere ™*t the honoring should be along these fantastic •^"•Nevertheless, Congress passed an act creating Pe Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission with the usual appropriation for preliminary expenses...
...Kt present, American manufactur>rs are supplying foreign governrients, Nazis and fascists included, irith some 700 to 1,000 planes a rear, many of which have been lsed to bomb Chinese and Spanish :ivilians...
...Pope is also president, treasurer, director nod chief owner of II Progrcsso Iteliano...
...He served without fee or even recompense for expenditures...
...Cement, for instance...
...The parks were ruined but the two million dollars *«* spent and slid gracefully into the till and bal*** sheet of Cement...
...When Chamberlain visits Rome in January lie's have to choose between tyf appeasement policy or losing ni»W on France — not even fat Tory' prime minister can work eat a scheme to save both, unlets tkere't some settlement with Spain as tkf prize of war going to the Italians...
...That the cabinet o»c*r in whose hands lies the greatest patronage should be also chairman of the Democratic National Committee was regarded as scandalous when it was announced...
...G.O.P...
...To get the least enHfft«nrnent about them was difficult...
...In the last hurried days of the last Congress ,a bill was slipped through approving the design of the Memorial (but never the proposed site) and appropriating $500,000 to begin work upon it The next turn out of the box was a storythat Congress bad approved the site and that therefore further complaint on that score was useless...
...Although the strike was smashed it should be noted that nearly 2,000,000 men answered Jouhaux's call and more would have come out if the military requisition trick hadn't been invoked...
...How had the President learned of this new phase of the issue...
...Hardly a few months old, the German-American National Alliance has worked out a virulent anti-Semitic program to "Save America," "Buy Gentile," and revise the Constitution to permit only "white Gentiles" to hold office...
...the Defender groups...
...The demonstration in the Italian Chamber of Deputies can be interpreted only as new internatmal blackmail—this time with D Doee doing the dirty work...
...There's no doubt that the British Tory Parliamentary leaders are frightened...
...Because— It would be necessary to dig down ninety feet through that silt before any basis could be found upon which to lay a stone...
...3 Defendants Guilty in 48-Day N.Y...
...A subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, that overshadowing colossus, which once undertook openly to elect a man of its choice President of this Re public...
...Mr- Farley was once an active salesman for the United States Gypsum Corporation...
...F.D.R...
...This practice is aimed at' compromise with the "independent democrats" in Congress...
...Spy Trial Tnrren Linked to O.dnP.U...
...If plans of the American Nazifascist clique materialize, there'll be a swastika on the presidential ballot ia 1940...
...His selection to be Postmaster General was without explanation on any ground of fitness or ability...
...Controls Votes Mr...
...Armour 4 Company, leading pecking house, and in many other enterprises...
...Some powerful influence was con•*Jwd behind the project and it was supported and "k?ded with lies...
...The price for calling this off wiB probably be paid by the French, at British insistence, despite thesidk in Quai dOrsay headquarters tfit France would fight first...
...The idea is to make deals on the appointments by naming one ardent pro-Roosevelt man and one lukewarm New Dealer to avoid friction in both houses...
...Also, he is president and director of II BoUetino dells Serra, an evening Italian daily and of the Corriere d'America...
...The projects may be run by some form of non-p artisan administration through a board...
...Roy Zachary, field man for the Silver Shirts, continues his antiSemitic, pro-fascist activity despite the continued beatings he receives in towns where an aroused citizenry resents his incitement to racial hatred...
...Now plans have been completed to make all locks and dams bombproof...
...MUSSOLINI STILL HAS 90,000 TROOPS IN SPAIN LONDON...
...in 1087 10 per cent...
...The thing went through, Congress appropriated $9,000,000 to start the dredging and filling —with Cement—and the project is now under way, the President having approved of it...
...And fill no Cement coffers...
...Help your friends keep informed on the current scent)— Subscribe for them to The New Leader...
...Chamberlain now is playing the good old British game of double cross...
...DES MOINES.—Iowa'S National Progressive candidate for Governor, John F. Wirds, for whom both Governor Philip LaFollette and Senator Robert M. LaFollette made campaign speeches, received only 699 votes in the entire state, a canvass of the unofficial electio'n returns Orevealed this week...
...the Silver Shirts...
...A week earlier, in Minneapolis, Zachary launched a new racket— the collection of 10 cents weekly dues from Minnesota members to "pay the way for the creation of a national Christian Party" which, in collaboration with the other fascist groups, will sponsor William Dudley-Pelley of Asheville, North Carolina, leader of the Silver Shirts, for president of the United States...
...Promises Mow Trees President Roosevelt refused to interfere, approved of the project and called the opposition to it "film flam" He said that 1,000 new.trees would be planted to take the places of the 90 that would be destroyed and thus the city's asset of such things would be increased and not diminished...
...teaehers' secretary Delma's gronp.wkidi is uncompromisingly pacifist...
...Docks on G-Man ¦ The prosecution, in summing up, failed to try to refute testimony that Turrou was of Ruesion origin and acquainted with the O.GJ\U...
...Proceedings Rnpesed Man as Liar, Adyoataror, and Pan—r Psychopathic Case...
...Seven miles of Cement pillars for just one item...
...In the meantime naval chiefs are becoming perturbed over the Nazi development of air and fuel bases on the Spanish insurgentheld Canary Islands...
...Senator King of Utah pointedly exposed its evils . The engineers warned that to place this obstruction in the river would gravely increase the flood peril that menaces a part of Washington every spring and make efficient flood control more difficult or impossible...
...No Tory cabinet could stand up against the wrath of the British industrialists who have been losing money in Spain and now are threatened with complete collapse in Central Europe...
...in 1936 11 per cent...
...a Northern Trust Company, a great banking hove of Chicago...
...I offer one more specimen of the style of "salesmanship"—for Cement—that was at work...
...Pushes Arms Drive Mobilixafion Day Plans Complete to Last Detailed Industrial Contracts...
...Indignant complainants at Mr...
...Filled with what...
...Instead of choosing such a site, the Memorial Commission, headed by the unlettered Boylan, chose the Tidal Basin...
...Is there any greet corporation engaged in producing and sening—at a profit gttat quantities of these materials, and possibly having political sad other rfirroential cermeethms...
...Steps Against Collusion **hen I was on the Darrow Review Board in (the Board that investigated monopolies under J***), we found that the greater part of the j*»ent business in the United States was absorbed j™» a Trust that while it continued the nominal ]*»tence of many companies, in reality controlled them all...
...Sana...
...Boerger might, for the benefit of a grandchild, dispose of property, including an automobile and a piano, stored in New York in the imprisoned girl's name...
...Candidates, however, may be nominated by petition...
...Boylan asserted that the site was chosen because it was the carrying out of the original plan of Major L'Enfant, the famous French engineer that laid out the city...
...it is only ¦Basse that they are American citizens...
...LaFolleflte's New Party Gets 669 Votes Throughout Iowa Special to The New Leader...
...Canada, too, is concentrating on lerial defense o* the grounds that 'the historic barricades of water md ice no longer protect the dominion...
...No resident and ~s*m^ no Public body had asked that an additional cent be expended upon /- j/j them...
...Coming on the heels of Moscow hints that a scheduled "demonstration trial involving foreign Communists" will include GPU-man Robinson-Rubens, is detailed data concerning a recent U. S. government attempt to contact Rubens' wife, held in Butirky Prison, Moscow, for eleven months...
...The government's silence on this point is widely seen as establishing that it is on weak ground when it comes to the Robinson-Rubeni-RumnchTurrou combination...
...NPA organizers from Wisconsin persuaded o few Farmer-La bo rites to desert their party for his...
...Now the United States is getting a dose of what France and Britain have received in exchange for sabotage of the Loyalist Government...
...Washington is surrounded with open spaces...
...Next sand and gravel for the concrete...
...It has great wealth, great power, great connections, great interlocking, and in the last few years has been raking off msrveiously great profit...
...the* he was once :n a psychopeAtfc ward...
...With France - under P*ia<a»» thumb, the French premier **** deal with Spain as he *IH5 With France ready to Italy before Fascist voluata*** •** withdrawn, the stage woaMLy* for Chamberlain's lorig-ca*afc»« Four-Power Pact...
...From 1935 to ,1937, inclusive, the price of Steel Common rose from 27 to 48...
...It has 26 branch offices, one being in the City of Washington...
...Shrieked Zachary in Gross Park Hall: "They used bullets instead of ballots in Germany, and they are using bullets in Spain...
...It was like the protests against Park Ruin and Tree Destruction...
...Well, for example, what materials will be required" in these operations...
...It would mean that hundreds of graceful and colorful cherry trees that had adorned the park must be cut down...
...And then more Cement...
...hundreds of Washington women, with members of the Board of Trade and many other civic bodies, earnestly petitioned him to exercise that power and prevent the desecration...
...The Farnum Cheshire Lime Sales Company...
...Policy Already lagan Isolationists will pot op as strenuous a battle for the Ludlow amendment as they will against giving President Hooeovott the power to swing the United States into world politics by enabling him...
...in 1987 it earned $26.31...
...He is greatly esteemed in Tammany Hall, where he has much influence that has never been to his detriment in the contract line and where his stack of useful votes is never overlooked...
...Strongly in favor...
...A minimum of about 16^00, representing 2% of the total vote, was necessary to qualify for a permanent place on the ballot...
...Divided sentiment in the French Federation of Labor accounted for the failure of hundreds of thousands to stop work last Wednesday...
...The Farndno Cheshire Lime Company...
...French Seen YieleHaq But the crushing of the Prenea general strike and the emergence of Daladier as a new "streng man" will settle nothing for the British except to increase the Anglophobia amongst French workingraen...
...AfWespceod Orooninatioa It owns properties in fifty-four cities and...
...The Department wag asked last April by Mrs...
...The jury hung for almost a day on the question of the guilt of Erie GUaser, U. S. Army private, against whom the government made its weakest case, finally convicted him with a recommendation for mercy...
...Some 200 military and naval officers met in Washington this week, in the first conference of its kind this country has known, to organize the War Department machinery for effective activity on Mobilization Day...
...In his home state, where the Farmer-Labor wing of the Progressives is hostile to the program and procedure of his national party venture, the Wisconsin governor avoided reference to the NPA during his recent unsuccessful campaign...
...under a revised noiatiellly act, to declare an embargo against aggressor nations while permitting those attacked to porohons arms end food here...
...One such journey is well remembered...
...Also when the neutrality act was whisked so mysteriously through Congress and the handy, useful embargo on arms to the Spanish go*si umSOt, which has proved the greatest of all boons to.the other bandits that are assassinating democracy' in Spain...
...For an airport there must be a clear field to afford landing space...
...Occasionally he visits Washington...
...Money of the Airports Another chapter of history, almost startling in its repetition of the essential features of Park Ruin and Ninety Feet of Cement, is the story of the Washington Air Port, just coming to an end...
...Nazi Bases Disturbing The Nazis menace France from the Pyrenees air deports in Fascist Spain, and threaten Britain with big gun bombardments from concrete emplacements above Gibraltar...
...Forty-one per cent of it being mads up of stock dividends and representing no investment...
...A hint from Moscow as to the availability of this method of certification would haw been enough to check diplomatically the Department's effort to send' ar American into the prison...
...Instead of filling in all of the Tidal Basin, it now would be necessary to fill but a part...
...Cement (concrete), lime, plaster, sand, gravel, metal lathing, metal reinforcing rods, caissons, asphalt for walks and drives...
...And what is the Universal Atlas Cement Co...
...Instantly, one is reminded of toe United States Gvpeum Company, a remarkable institution with a history and growth and prosperity well worth rotating on its own account...
...Roy Zochary Active Behind this drive are the revitalized Ku Klux Klan...
...the leading Italian daily newspaper of the United States...
...Bund Set to Run Candidate For President Ku Klux Klan...
...candidate is more to their liking...
...As this was the first any one had heard of any suggestion that new trees would be planted, great astonishment followed and an anxious inquiry...
...1 «f Remembering thaf* the long struggle to defend Washington agsinst Cement and Pork tot heV al. wevs tile subtle, sinister opposition of an occult political influence, the belief is common in the erty now that the mystery I have SodjanSO here and that has alarmed end oppressed the residents is not without its adequate explanation...
...The Chicago Mil...
...F. G. Boerger of Coconut Grove, Florida, the girl's mother, to get Miss Boerger's notarized signature on a power of attorney drawn by a Florida lawyer in order that Mrs...
...Then Mr...
...State Bank and Trust Company, Evanston, til...
...Fight to Revise Foreign Policy Looms for 1939 Congress By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader...
...In a time of general "depression...
...The election of three of these was revealed for the first time this week...
...The preferred pays regularly 7 per cent dividends...
...Fertile last three years the surpassing mystery of Washington has been Cement...
...Montgomery, Ward ft Company...
...The proposed plan would give the United States one of the most potent diplomatic weapons in history since it would act to close this nation's vast stores of raw and finished war materials to powers which the President would designate as aggressors or belligerents in any given war...
...Pope is a man of large means, having made his fortune in the sand and gravel business, in which he enjoyed large and fruitful government contracts...
...But inquiry showed that the life of the trees was 150 to 200 years, none was dying, none would have to be removed...
...All the citizens' associations, sixty-four in number, all the commercial bodies, the Hotel Keepers' Association, The Federation of Women's Clubs, the D.A.R., innumerable clubs, societies and fraternities, entered their emphatic objection...
...Before the library Committee of the House of Representatives, engineers testified that $3,000.000 was but a preface to the real expense, if ths mad intention were pursued to place the1 Memorial upon the cozy silt of the contemplated site...
...Zachary, who is rapidly becoming America's meet publicised and most frequently beaten fascist, then urged his listeners to store ammunition in their homes, hinting that thousands of Fascists would appear in Chicago on the "proper day" when the time came to turn out the "Jew Deal...
...When at a later date, Mr...
...officials to go easy on public statements and according to authentic reports is ready to liquidate present W.P.A...
...Cherry Trees Defended But now it was discovered that the new position would still involve the barbarism that had most stirred the popular resentment...
...By HERBERT SOLOW All three defendants in the Nasi spy trial in New York were convicted this week after a trial that stretched over 48 days...
...er all these operations hung a strange air of *» furtfVe and the secret...
...Agents of the newly organized, Fritz Kuhn-led, German-American National Alliance are touring the country contacting all fascist organizations, from the North Carolina Silver Shirts to the Washington Christian Social Party, in an effort to set up the framework of a national sponsoring group for a fascist candidate during the next presidential campaign...
...When this sum was compared with the total cost that was emerging from this fog of bunk and deception it seemed merely comical...
...in 1937 ft earned $8.01 a share...
...This was revealed in documented figures obtained by Loyalists working ha rebel territory, and using information Obtained from official insurgent sources...
...During the past month he has been driven from at least six towns and has held large meetings in Chicago, where he urged his audience to "kick out all the Jew-Communists from the trade unions...
...chief in Moscow in 1921...
...This gives him virtual control of the Italian press in New York, one of the largest Italian cities in the world—with an immense Italian vote...
...Residents of Washington have no votes...
...LaFollette'* personal party was launched in Iowa, against the advice of farm and labor leaders, when the Iowa Farmer-Labor Party declined to change its name to National Progressive as demanded by the Wisconsin governor...
...cuts, ferreting out plans aimed at clipping the wings of'the W.P.A...
...The administration of the Post Office Department since he became its head' has been chiefly Conspicuous for the wreckage, so far as it could be Wrecked, of the Civil Service system built up through fifty years and more of agitation and effort, eel for a deterioration of the public service...
...He came to use his influence in behalf of his native lend when Italy was threatened with "sanctions" because of her little adventure in banditry in Ethiopia...
...according to rumor, Father Coughlin...
...The C.G.T...
...And those ninety feet would be fined—with what...
...generated by the shadowy and mystic backers of the scheme, was $3,000,.000...
...Work iegins shortly for a series of air >ases in Victoria on the West 'oast an* Halifax and Nova-Scotia j in the East Coast...
...The United States Steel, composed of 174 other companies, stretching out into every corner of the country, monopolizing not only steel but many other products, with 270,000 employees, a $452,000,000 pay roll, an army of emissaries—and many friends in Congress...
...Wfc action became known, some astonish'¦¦^wpfprodnced...
...Is there any corporation specializing in these commodities that might find in an increased demand for the concrete, into which they enter, a delectable source of profit ? Well, one thinks at once of the Colonial Sand and Gravel Company, long a featuring factor in certain construction work in New York—end elsewhere...
...and Assistant Secretary Rene Beta's clique, which does not expect Fa»cism in France and fears any more which might embroil the country in war with Germany and Italy...
...They might as well have talked against a cyclone...
...each man will be instructed to cooperate with the local war departments by handing over advance knowledge of United States naval, military, and aviation technical secrets and developments...
...The Jumbo Plaster and Cement Company...
...And structural iron...
...The Toronto Asphalt Roofing Manufacturing Co...
...The progressive groups—what's left of them in both houses—will support the program because of vigorous anti-fascist sentiment while the New Dealers will back the administration—and Roosevelt has always been a big navy and army enthusiast...
...Cement, vast quantities of Cement...
...James A. Farley, Postmaster General of the United States, chairman of the National Democratic Committee, vote-getter-in -ordinary See the Democratic Party and Chief Dispenser of patronage to eager and astute congressmen...
...W.P.A...
...firm land where no filling would be reouireri...
...Protect Canal Ever sines the PrefiMenfc inspected the Panama Canal* oV his way home from a Pacific fishing trip, the Central-American strip has been a beehive of new men, anti-aircraft guns, planes and warships—enough to guard the 50raile strip from any combined attack...
...But Congress had never approved the site and at :m time the President spoke he had stil...
...Appointments to vacant government posts are being delayed for the purpose of announcing two or more simultaneously...
...that he- had a checkered background, including tares mothers, a multitude of names, sad n mixed-up military record...
...Chamberlain has split France off from her Central European allies, leaving the French isolated, hated by the Germans and help in contempt by the Italians...
...t It produces in great quantities, end sells—for profit—Hme, plaster, Cement, metal accessories, some asphalt...
...Its annual production capacity is more than twenty million tons of cement...
...Airy public works project that called for Cement, any public work into which Cement could be infected, went through with neatness and despatch, usually with the signs unmistakable of mighty pressure, sometimes with disastrous result* upon public interests, always with•at friction...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—With the big show of the week in the G.O.P...
...The Reich is now in a position to strike at the entire eastern coast of both North and South America from the newly built air fields and naval stations on the , Portugues Azores and Spanish Canary Islands off the Coast of northern Africa, just above the Sahara desert...
...What is a flood among friends of Cement...
...11 Socialist Assemblymen and possibly 12, were elected in this state on the Progressive ticket, final tabulation of election returns indicate...
...The Tories have been counting on tying up with the Reich to dominate all Europe and free of responsibility to France, exploit the Balkan...
...But unpleas*W stories "arose of pork, of politics, of manipula*P *nd finally of collusion bidding, particularly in "Wtjon of Cement...
...The documents cite specific figures for the various branches of the Italian army in Spain, and name eight generals, Guassardo, Piazzoni, Manca, Favagrossa, Gambara, Bernasconi, and Vetardi, as II Duce's chiefs in rebel territory...
...In the course of these sinister maneuvers the mm8 parks «f Washington, once the pride of the IBnSsnt aad tae joy of the visitor, came near to he ruined...
...The parks needed no "rehabilitanaS;* 'ftey needed nothing except that intelligent care fifthem should be continued...
...Avery is also a director in * The United States Steel Corporation: The Chicago Great Western Railroad: The Chicago Daily News...
...The Memorial would stand, not in the middle but at one side...
...The Federal Gypsum Company...
...It would annihilate a feature of beautiful Washington that had become nationally famous and a national asset...
...and Lumber Company...
...Ton oulbon dollars worth of Cement before a stone could be laid...
...They besieged the Interior Department, Mfer whose care the parks are supposed to be...
...Lime, plaster, metal lathing, metal BjWOSnoruw asphalt would also be in great demand because So speaK plainly, public opinion had been successful...
...Reverend Winrod, fascist Kansas pastor...
...There were in Washington 7,000 available sites any one of which would have been seemly and appropriate...
...threat the administration is warning all W.P.A...
...Military Missions Set Up In the hope that the LatinAmerican countries will forgive and forget previous treatment at the hands of U. S. government officials and industrialists the administration haus enlarged its military missions in Argentina and Brazil, rehabilitated a naval mission in Peru and set up advisory boards in Guatemala and Haiti, with Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, prize oil country, and every Central-American nation...
...The Russian government, after a delay, refused permission...
...Complete even to the "M-Day" contract blanks which will line-up 10,000 plants within a few hours, the War Department plans are ready for action, of which there will be plenty since every Congressional bloc will support additional arms expenditures...
...The grounds given for forbidding the desired notarization visit ore officially unconfirmed, but it is reliably reported that the Russians were able to point out that, under the statutes of New York where the property in question is located, it would be possible to arrange a liquidation by means of a document executed without notarization by any American official...
...And he is an influential man...
...In compliance, the Department undertook to ask Soviet permission to send an agent to see Miss Boerger and notarize her signature...
...A recount now going on in the West Allis election district, where a Socialist is the Progressive candidate, may give the Socialist Party its twelfth representative in the State legislature...
...LaFollette chose to test sentiment for his new party...
...But when the design was placed upon the plot of Potomac Park (the site by the side of the Tidal Basin), at once it was apparent that hundreds of trees would have to be sacrificed...
...But liP****** other plans—and it aaf***^™*: Chamberlain's appeasement powj will cost France plenty...
...Boylan's office were suavely assured that no cherry nor other tree would be sacrificed in carrying out the design...
...The same materials, however, would be available to the "innocent" nation, probably under the neutrality act's present "cash and carry" provisions...
...the White Knight outfit, and dozens of other vigilante and fascist organizations, all of which will be found lined up behind a pro-fascist nominee in 1940, unless the G.O.P...
...The Lime Plant of the Idaho Lfane Company...
...Those presidential advisors breaking ground for such powers have already gained a point in the recall of Ambassador Wilson from Berlin, and the warning to II Duce implied in the conversations between the President and Ambassador Phillips in Georgia in the company of Wilson...
...Five hundred thousand dollars had been appropriated to start the work...
...in 1935 5*4 per cent...
...NaziAir Threat Seen in NewCanary Island Basts...
...Swings Right On the domestic front the publicity from the Capital wag monopolized by the Republicans who this week dropped their attempt to,parade some "new liberalism" and swung back to the traditions of the silent Calvin Coolidge and apple-President Herbert Hoover by naming ex-Senator Hastings of Delaware to the executive committee of the Republican National Committee...
...executives to offset Congressional interest in an investigation of that agency...
Vol. 21 • December 1938 • No. 49
