September 23, 1935
The Cardinals were routed, 12-0, by the Pirates at Sportsman's Park. The loss dropped the Cards to 93-55. They were 3-1/2 games out with six games left to play. Ed Heusser started the game for the Cardinals. He finished the 1935 season with a 5-5- record and an ERA of 2.92.
The Senators were downed, 5-1, by the Yankees at Griffith Stadium. The loss brought a three game winning streak to an end. Earl Whitehill was on the mound for the Nats. Lefty Gomez got the start for the Yankees. Gomez was to finish the season with a 12-15 mark and a 3.18 ERA.
In today's issue of Time, the lead international story was the continuing crisis between Italy and Ethiopia. British Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare delivered an impassioned defense of collective security to the League of Nations at Geneva:
Though he never varied from his flat, toneless delivery, Sir Samuel at one point fairly electrified the Assembly when he raised his hand above his head and thrice slapped the tribune loudly as he repeated words and phrases, then struck a final slap for further emphasis. Said he: "Britain stands (slap!) for steady collective resistance (slap!) to all acts of unprovoked aggression (slap!). Steady collective resistance to all acts of unprovoked aggression (slap!)."
The Ethiopian government announced the Emperor's willingness to "accept any reasonable suggestion in the spirit of high conciliation by which he is moved." Time reported that, while delivering his speech, the Ethiopian delegate "visibly quaked with nervousness."
Mussolini, however, was in no mood to compromise:
"The [Italian] Cabinet examined in what circumstances Italy's continued membership in the League would be rendered impossible. The Cabinet, after having learned that around the Italo-Ethiopian controversy are gathering all the forces of foreign antiFascism, feels it is its duty to reconfirm in the most explicit manner that the Italo-Ethiopian problem does not admit of compromise solution after the huge efforts and sacrifices made by Italy. . . . From a military viewpoint our preparations in East Africa proceed with greater intensity."
In addition to Britain, other states also expressed their opposition to Italian aggression:
Fidelity to the Covenant was pledged by Haiti whose black delegate declared: "The colored peoples of the world are watching. The period of colonial wars is closed." Into line fell Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free State, the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, & Yugoslavia), Belgium, The Netherlands, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Portugal, Panama, China, the Scandinavian & Baltic States, Poland and Soviet Russia whose roly-poly Foreign Commissar "Maxie" Litvinoff spoke in English and re-employed Sam Hoare's words to say that in supporting the League Russia will be "second to none." No nation offered to be first.
Notwithstanding the widespread opposition to Italian aggression, Britain and France seemed resigned to war.
[T]he British and French Governments . . . "are now agreed that nothing done at Geneva can prevent Premier Mussolini's war machine from being launched at the heart of Ethiopia. When this happens the League of Nations' procedure must take a predestined course . . . culminating eventually in a decision to apply sanctions to the aggressor state. . . . The pressure to be applied shall be economic."
In other international news, Mexico was rocked by an armed attack on its legislature.
From the doorways and from the galleries gunmen previously stationed there ripped out revolvers, sent a fusillade of shots zinging through the air. Most of the windows were blown out. Seventeen bullets crashed through the press box from which reporters tumbled to safety. When the smoke cleared away Deputy Manuel Martinez Valadez of Jalisco lay dead on the floor. Deputy Luis Mendez, who died next day, and two other deputies were wounded. Fifty shots were fired. It was the third fatal battle in Mexico's Congress since 1924.
The Mexican government blamed a group of right wing deputies opposed to the program of President Lazaro Cardenas. Seventeen deputies suspected of involvement in the attack were expelled from the Chamber of Deputies.
In domestic news, the State Attorney of Florida concluded his investigation into the deaths of hundreds of war veterans in the Labor Day hurricane. These men were Bonus Army marchers who had been sent by the Government to work camps in Florida to help construct the Key West highway. Although veterans officials pleaded to have the men evacuated before the storm hit, a train sent to fetch the men was blown off the tracks en route. In its September 16th issue Time described what happened to the veterans:
At Camp Three, where 243 veterans were enrolled, the men ran for the mess hall. When the roof blew off they scattered over the railway embankment. The water began rising and the men began praying. Suddenly a terrific blast ripped up the tracks as a tidal wave struck. The ex-soldiers were swept into the mangrove swamp where many were battered to death, or out to sea where they drowned. Seventy saved their lives by hanging on to a tank car full of water—"Good old No. 3390."
When the Red Cross, the American Legion, the National Guard and the Coast Guard finally got into the devastated Keys over the broken bridges and wrecked roads, they found signs of slaughter worse than war. Bodies were in trees, floating in the creeks, bogged in the mud. While jittery veterans dug in the sand for hot bottles of beer, relief forces began to collect and count the corpses. The first thing President Roosevelt did after ordering out necessary aid was to promise burials with full military honors for the dead veterans. But the Florida Keys last week was no place for such ceremonies. To prevent plague the bodies were bundled onto drays, wrapped in oiled rags, boxed, burned.
Nothing but praise for all concerned came from the Dixie disaster. Ashore things were different. With smoke from the funeral pyres drifting lazily along the flat horizon of his State, stocky Governor Dave Sholtz of Florida quoted an estimate of the fatalities as 1,000, demanded to know why the veterans were not moved out before the hurricane hit, sourly declared that there was "great carelessness somewhere."
Sound familiar? Not everyone was mollified by the State Attorney's report which concluded that government officials were not to blame for the catastrophe:
Indignant, too, was Author Ernest Hemingway of Key West. After reporting the carnage in last week's New Masses, he passionately apostrophized one of the dead: "You're dead now, brother, but who left you there in the hurricane months on the Keys where a thousand men died before you in the hurricane months when they were building the road that's now washed out? Who left you there? And what's the punishment for manslaughter now?"
In happier news, it was a good week for movies. among the new releases reviewed by Time were The Thirty Nine Steps, Big Broadcast of 1936, Broadway Melody of 1936 and The Goose and the Gander.
Here's bit of what Time had to say about Big Broadcast:
a collection of specialty acts by radio entertainers, might have been much more satisfactory if its producers had not insisted on incorporating them into a story. Any narrative framework designed to include Amos 'n' Andy, Ray Noble, Ethel Merman, Henry Wadsworth, Lyda Roberti, Burns & Allen, Sir Guy Standing, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears, Wendy Barrie, Bing Crosby, the Vienna Choir Boys and Bill Robinson could scarcely be distinguished for its spontaneity.
Of the moments when The Big Broadcast offers its audience some respite from the story the most enjoyable are those in which Bill Robinson demonstrates that he is still the ablest tap-dancer in the world, Bing Crosby sings I Wished on the Moon and Ethel Merman cavorts with a chorus of elephants to a tune called It's the Animal in Me.
Lyda Roberti had starred in the stage version of Roberta. Ginger Rogers is doing a Roberti imitation or homage in the film, particularly in her version of "I'll Be Hard to Handle."
The Senators were downed, 5-1, by the Yankees at Griffith Stadium. The loss brought a three game winning streak to an end. Earl Whitehill was on the mound for the Nats. Lefty Gomez got the start for the Yankees. Gomez was to finish the season with a 12-15 mark and a 3.18 ERA.
In today's issue of Time, the lead international story was the continuing crisis between Italy and Ethiopia. British Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare delivered an impassioned defense of collective security to the League of Nations at Geneva:
Though he never varied from his flat, toneless delivery, Sir Samuel at one point fairly electrified the Assembly when he raised his hand above his head and thrice slapped the tribune loudly as he repeated words and phrases, then struck a final slap for further emphasis. Said he: "Britain stands (slap!) for steady collective resistance (slap!) to all acts of unprovoked aggression (slap!). Steady collective resistance to all acts of unprovoked aggression (slap!)."
The Ethiopian government announced the Emperor's willingness to "accept any reasonable suggestion in the spirit of high conciliation by which he is moved." Time reported that, while delivering his speech, the Ethiopian delegate "visibly quaked with nervousness."
Mussolini, however, was in no mood to compromise:
"The [Italian] Cabinet examined in what circumstances Italy's continued membership in the League would be rendered impossible. The Cabinet, after having learned that around the Italo-Ethiopian controversy are gathering all the forces of foreign antiFascism, feels it is its duty to reconfirm in the most explicit manner that the Italo-Ethiopian problem does not admit of compromise solution after the huge efforts and sacrifices made by Italy. . . . From a military viewpoint our preparations in East Africa proceed with greater intensity."
In addition to Britain, other states also expressed their opposition to Italian aggression:
Fidelity to the Covenant was pledged by Haiti whose black delegate declared: "The colored peoples of the world are watching. The period of colonial wars is closed." Into line fell Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free State, the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, & Yugoslavia), Belgium, The Netherlands, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Portugal, Panama, China, the Scandinavian & Baltic States, Poland and Soviet Russia whose roly-poly Foreign Commissar "Maxie" Litvinoff spoke in English and re-employed Sam Hoare's words to say that in supporting the League Russia will be "second to none." No nation offered to be first.
Notwithstanding the widespread opposition to Italian aggression, Britain and France seemed resigned to war.
[T]he British and French Governments . . . "are now agreed that nothing done at Geneva can prevent Premier Mussolini's war machine from being launched at the heart of Ethiopia. When this happens the League of Nations' procedure must take a predestined course . . . culminating eventually in a decision to apply sanctions to the aggressor state. . . . The pressure to be applied shall be economic."
In other international news, Mexico was rocked by an armed attack on its legislature.
From the doorways and from the galleries gunmen previously stationed there ripped out revolvers, sent a fusillade of shots zinging through the air. Most of the windows were blown out. Seventeen bullets crashed through the press box from which reporters tumbled to safety. When the smoke cleared away Deputy Manuel Martinez Valadez of Jalisco lay dead on the floor. Deputy Luis Mendez, who died next day, and two other deputies were wounded. Fifty shots were fired. It was the third fatal battle in Mexico's Congress since 1924.
The Mexican government blamed a group of right wing deputies opposed to the program of President Lazaro Cardenas. Seventeen deputies suspected of involvement in the attack were expelled from the Chamber of Deputies.
In domestic news, the State Attorney of Florida concluded his investigation into the deaths of hundreds of war veterans in the Labor Day hurricane. These men were Bonus Army marchers who had been sent by the Government to work camps in Florida to help construct the Key West highway. Although veterans officials pleaded to have the men evacuated before the storm hit, a train sent to fetch the men was blown off the tracks en route. In its September 16th issue Time described what happened to the veterans:
At Camp Three, where 243 veterans were enrolled, the men ran for the mess hall. When the roof blew off they scattered over the railway embankment. The water began rising and the men began praying. Suddenly a terrific blast ripped up the tracks as a tidal wave struck. The ex-soldiers were swept into the mangrove swamp where many were battered to death, or out to sea where they drowned. Seventy saved their lives by hanging on to a tank car full of water—"Good old No. 3390."
When the Red Cross, the American Legion, the National Guard and the Coast Guard finally got into the devastated Keys over the broken bridges and wrecked roads, they found signs of slaughter worse than war. Bodies were in trees, floating in the creeks, bogged in the mud. While jittery veterans dug in the sand for hot bottles of beer, relief forces began to collect and count the corpses. The first thing President Roosevelt did after ordering out necessary aid was to promise burials with full military honors for the dead veterans. But the Florida Keys last week was no place for such ceremonies. To prevent plague the bodies were bundled onto drays, wrapped in oiled rags, boxed, burned.
Nothing but praise for all concerned came from the Dixie disaster. Ashore things were different. With smoke from the funeral pyres drifting lazily along the flat horizon of his State, stocky Governor Dave Sholtz of Florida quoted an estimate of the fatalities as 1,000, demanded to know why the veterans were not moved out before the hurricane hit, sourly declared that there was "great carelessness somewhere."
Sound familiar? Not everyone was mollified by the State Attorney's report which concluded that government officials were not to blame for the catastrophe:
Indignant, too, was Author Ernest Hemingway of Key West. After reporting the carnage in last week's New Masses, he passionately apostrophized one of the dead: "You're dead now, brother, but who left you there in the hurricane months on the Keys where a thousand men died before you in the hurricane months when they were building the road that's now washed out? Who left you there? And what's the punishment for manslaughter now?"
In happier news, it was a good week for movies. among the new releases reviewed by Time were The Thirty Nine Steps, Big Broadcast of 1936, Broadway Melody of 1936 and The Goose and the Gander.
Here's bit of what Time had to say about Big Broadcast:
a collection of specialty acts by radio entertainers, might have been much more satisfactory if its producers had not insisted on incorporating them into a story. Any narrative framework designed to include Amos 'n' Andy, Ray Noble, Ethel Merman, Henry Wadsworth, Lyda Roberti, Burns & Allen, Sir Guy Standing, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears, Wendy Barrie, Bing Crosby, the Vienna Choir Boys and Bill Robinson could scarcely be distinguished for its spontaneity.
Of the moments when The Big Broadcast offers its audience some respite from the story the most enjoyable are those in which Bill Robinson demonstrates that he is still the ablest tap-dancer in the world, Bing Crosby sings I Wished on the Moon and Ethel Merman cavorts with a chorus of elephants to a tune called It's the Animal in Me.
Lyda Roberti had starred in the stage version of Roberta. Ginger Rogers is doing a Roberti imitation or homage in the film, particularly in her version of "I'll Be Hard to Handle."
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