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)r NEWS PARADE Commentary on the HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS - By Peter Randal Hindenburg Bursts Afire Landing At Lakehurst Forty-one Die in Disaster -- Sixty-four Survivors Are Counted --=' Spectators Horrified as Giant Airship Bursts into Flames 300 Feet from Ground, Emergency Call Brings Ambulances Racing To the Scene.- I LABOR MARCHES ' There was a touch of summer in the air. Perky little suits and hats fobbed along Yonge Street as their / I owners attended to the usual Sat- j furday morning shopping. The last I strokes of twelve rolled heavily from ..." •[; the City Hall tower and men in new i uniforms swarmed down University | iXyenue. Quiet little knots of peo- i pie linked into a procession, each ! recognizing his neighbor by the little red ribbon of organized labor. Work- j men, factory hands, shopgirls all ' formed part of Toronto's annual ! May Day Parade. There were "speeches in Queen's Park and, the evening newspapers reported all quiet on the labor front. But was all quiet ? There are those who sense a subtle difference in this year's labor parade. They say it was better organized, larger, while many of the banners carried the letters C. i 1.0. Mr. Hepburn is one of those said to have sensed the difference. A conference was held with the leader of the Conservative opposition and the subject of discussion binged on the possible formation of a coalition government to face this new force in the land. The Honourable Earl [Rowe is said to have had hurried conferences with Mr. Bennett, who. Was about to sail for the Coronation, Coronation, and other members of the Conservative Conservative campaign division and the answer, if there was any, was no. It may well be that the powers had reason to think seriously. Federal Federal authorities estimate a C.I.O: membership in Canada before the end of the present year. Organizers are even now at work in five industries industries including the automobile indus- * try, the rubber industry, the mining industry, the textile industry arid the steel industry. Danger signals have begun to fly all over the industrial map of Eastern Canada. Settlement bf the General Motors strike at Osh- awa, though not a C.I.O. victory, was jfar from a definite defeat and the readiness with which the auxiliary divisions of the industry have signed agreements based on the terms of the jOshawa peace pact is ample evidence f the new found power of this organization. organization. Will labor be satisfied with the meeting of its industrial demands? Sfhe actions of government leaders iand . the opinions of many leading .Canadians seem to foreshadow the entry of a new and stronger,' labor party into politics. FLOODS AT HOME But Western Ontario had more to worry about than mere economic unrest unrest in the past week. The forces of nature rebelled, and the strongest government can do little against rivers rivers which rise twenty-eight feet above their normal levels in the bourse of a single night. A train | was wrecked, houses were dashes to I pieces, dams and bridges were swept : away. Five people lost their lives, ten thousand were driven from their | homes and the repair bill is variously I estimated at from $3,500,000 to $5,- Î $00,000. Chairman E, V. Buchanan | of the London Public Utilities Com mission says it will be "a year before - the damage to the city water system j has been repaired. So high has been j the loss that a plebiscite on a proposed proposed addition to Victoria Hospital, long a cherished project, has her a dropped. According to insurance . companies, few people carried flood ■ insurance. For years , they have thought of Ontario as a haven of security security out of which they might peep at the devastation of flood, famine and dust storms so characteristic of the -United States of the Middle iW est. Now it is a different story. Many are suddenly realizing that these visitations are not acts of God but the results of civilized greed. If Canada has been spared until now, it is only because our capacity has : not allowed us to keep up with our American contemporaries. Too many forests t have been cut down. Too many .swamps have been drained. Home system of water storage must be devised to take the place of these ; natural distributors. Already engineers engineers are studying the possibilities of j Controlling the rivers of Western Ontario Ontario and it is to be hoped that the S isults will bear fruit in something ore concrete than academic discus- ! Son. j -- r --v > ]• B--4 BLOCKADE RUNNER Things are happening so swiftly, in Great Britain that it seems almost too much for one government to handle. Many think it is too much and that the present government leaves a good deal to be desired. For instance there is a very indefinite British foreign policy in regard to Spain, For weeks British freighters were forced to lay with rotting cargoes cargoes in French ports while thousands of civilians starved in beleagued Bilbao. Bilbao. It wasn't the British navy that took the situation into its own hands, in an attempt to break the blockade of the insurgent Spanish fleet, but Captain David (Potato) Jones of the Seven Seas Spray. With typical bulldog bulldog determination, Potato Jones defied defied the blockade, helped a little it must be admitted, by the presence of a great British battlecruiser which rolled, as if by accident, into the Spanish line of fire. Other food ships have followed the example of the Seven Seas Spray and the blockade is ended, General Franco is said to be plenty angry about it and back in London, Potato Jones is the hero of the hour. TAX HEADACHES: HERE There were a great many headaches headaches last week and it wasn't only the stock market. Income tax returns had to be filed. To most of us, a few dollars would look like prosper ity but one London, Ontario, man had so much of it that it cost him $4,- 000,000 in government tribute. An Irishman would say that it almost pays to be poor. HUMANITY TAKES A HAND The storm signals are up at Bilbao and the pilots of several Eureopean ships of state are wondering just what will happen next. Last week, the insurgents massacred 800 civilians civilians at the aficient Basque capital of Guernica, The operation was carried out, it is charged by Loyalists, by German planes and directed by German German officers. Great Britain and France have determined that such a death shall not come to the 300,000 civilians, mostly women and children, now in Bilbao. Ignoring the protests of General Franco, arrangements have been completed for their evacuation evacuation to places of safety on French and British soil. On the heels of this action comes word that Hitler, and Mussolini intend to ignore demands demands that they withdraw their troops from Spain. POMP and circumstance The writ in Spain must take a back seat to tfee great Coronation pageant to take place in London next week. From faf off India, fabulous princes are even now on their way to the centre of the Empire. But the common common people of India will not be there. They are protesting against the new constitution imposed upon them by British diplomacy or lack of it. From every Empire country, in tact from the whole world people continue the movement toward London. Great plans have been made for their reception. reception. Hotels are booked to capacity. capacity. Seats along the coronation route are selling as high as $200. The parks will be thrown upen the night before the big event for those who want to sleep on the ground. All. in all, Great Britain expects to make approximately $30,000,000 out of the big show. But behind the scenes things are not moving as smoothly as they might. 25,000 busmen busmen have seized upon the opportunity opportunity to strike for a seven and a half hour day knowing that their demands must be met before the Coronation if traffic is not to become hopelessly jammed. The strike is now on and no settlement in sight. A KING--RETIRED In a sleepy little courtroom at Ipswich, Ipswich, a job lot of divorces were made final this week. Workmen were hammering hammering on Coronation decorations outside as the famous divorce case of Simpson was finally closed. It was distinguished from many others of its kind only by a different cypher. A young man in St. Wolfgang, Austria Austria hastily packed his bags and began began a dash across Europe. It was soon ended at the Chateau de Cande in France. They say Edward smiled for the first time in months. Wedding Wedding plans are in the air and the Empire Empire awaiting the crowning of his brother can but wish him the happi- nes which he gave so much to obtain. obtain. Will Be Necessary To Employ Women. "Flyingest .Female" " Averages 10,000 Air Miles a Month SALT LAKE CITY, -- The United States' 'ïlyingest female" (she averages averages 10,000 air miles a month) says there's a new field for women in aviation aviation -- in the executive department. Brown-eyed dark-haired Helen Stan bury, director of the United Air Lines Women's Traffic Division, said airlines are going to have to employ more women in order to serve properly properly the increasing numbers of feminine feminine passengers. She explained. Eight years ago only two per cent of the airline pasengers were women. Now one-third of those who fly are women. LAKEHURST,, N. J.-- The huge German dirigible Hindenburg, with ninety-nine persons aboard, exploded with a terrific roar and burst into flames Thursday night as she nosed down to her mooring mast on the sandy landing field of the United States Naval Air Station. Several members of the passenger list and a few of the crew were known to have escaped by jumping from the flaming fabric of the great, ship. Others were dragged from the wreckage by the rescuers. Hospitals for miles around were filled with the injured. Official sources listed among the survivors the new commander of the big ship, Captain ■ Max Pruss, and the veteran skipper, Captain Ernst Lehmann, Lehmann, who commanded it on ten trips between the United States and Germany Germany last year. Another of the crew, a Captain Stampf, also was listed as a survivor. Lehmann was badly injured. Spectators Appalled Spectators shrieked and screamed as the explosion, apparently in the stern of the envelope, shattered the ship, and she collapsed, falling in burning wreckage to the ground. A few minutes previous the pas- Take Off That Hat In New York or You May Be Arrested NEW YORK, -- Magistrate Michael Michael A. Ford ruled last week that a citizen citizen who declines to remove his hat in a bar or restaurant when a lady is present is guilty of disorderly conduct. conduct. John J. Price manager of a Second Avenue establishment complained ■against the brothers Phillips -- Thomas Thomas and James. It seems there were women present and Thomas took off his hat while James remained covered. covered. When Price asked James to remove his hat, be said James declined. Thomas then invited Price out in the street. A disturbance resulted and a policemen was called. Magistrate Ford said he thought it was "disorderly conduct when a diner refused to remove his hat in a restaurant restaurant or any other place where ladies are present." The brothers Phillips received suspended suspended sentence. sengers had lined the sloping observation observation windows of the dirigible, waving waving and shouting to those on the ground. Their cries rang out as the ship plunged. The ground crew of sailors, which had been standing by to help land the ship, scattered before the explosion. One sailor later said he saw three bodies removed from the stern of the ship, all burned beyond recognition. Even after the first stunning explosion explosion sent the ship crashing, additional additional blasts continued to rend the Hindenburg's silvery bulk. Spectators Spectators sobbed hysterically at the abrupt disaster in which the Hindenburg ended her maiden 1937 trip to America. America. Eighteen trips had been planned planned this year. Army trucks and ambulances rushed rushed to succor those who escaped with their lives. The body of a woman, presumably ■ a passenger, was picked up from the landing field. Within a few minutes after the explosion the billowing flames that mushroomed, out immediately, the twisted metal framework of the dirigible sprawled on the ground. More than an hour after the explosion, explosion, at 6.20 p.m., E.S.T., the wreckage was still blazing, with a huge black cloud of smoke visible in the darkness of the airfield. It was one of the worst disasters in the history of lighter-than-air craft, and the first time since the World War that Germany's dirigibles have failed to survive wind, weather and fire. Two stewards and a little cabin boy, who refused to give their names, escaped. They said the explosion came from the stem of the ship, and they saved themselves by jumping from the windows. Watchers near the mooring tower said the ship was only a few hundred feet from the ground, and passengers were laughing and waving from the observation windows when the bomb- like explosion sent, out clouds of red arid black, billowing smoke. An official announcement listed twenty of forty-four passengers and forty-four out of the sixty-one meir bers of the crew as having survived the Hindenburg disaster, leaving a total of forty-one unaccounted for and presumably dead. Twenty-four bodies were counted in two places, thirteen were at the x naval hospital and eleven in the great hangar itself. Giant German Dirigible Crashing in Flames at Lakehurst First photo to reach Canada of the latest dirigible disaster shows the Zeppelin Hindenburg telescoping on its nose in a splash of flaming flaming wreckage, with flames shooting from the tail of the giant airship in her meteoric dive ami blazing debris, shooting high into t .e air above as the blast rips her -apart. --Courtesy of the Globe and Mail.