Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-03-12

a. etat OF Z thousand soldiers led BY
a group Of young fascist" o6iceru who
thought the Okada government was
h%ampering the military progress Of the
nation. So far as can be judged at this
distance, the net results Of the upris-
Ing we're: Admiral visc0unt Makoto
Saito. former premier and lord keeper
OF the prIvy seal; Korekiyo Takahashi,
minister Of finance, and Gen. Jotsro
watanabe, chief Of military education.
we're assasslnated by the rebels. Pre-
mier Okada escaped death, his brother
in-law being mistaken for him and
slain. The mutineers, threatened by
loyal troops and the feet. obeyed an
edlct by Emperor Hirohlto and sur
rendered. OF their % leaders, two CON-
mitted suicide.
The immediate concern Of Emperor
HirohitO and his advisers was the selec-
tion OF a man for premier who could
form II new government that would
satisfy the various parties. First Prince
Fumimaro konoye, young president Of
the house Of peers. was asked to un-
dertake this task, but he declined on
the ground Of poor health. Then the
choice OF the emperor fell upon K0ki
Hlrota. a moderate who Is well known
In both the United States and Russia.
Hirota at once began picking out his
ministers, saying: my cabinet will be
composed Of young. able statesmen"
Hlrota's selection was taken to mean
that the emperor has determined to
proceed with the modernization of the
country, and to exercise his power to
rule instead Of permitting himself to be
the exalted agent Of military overlords.
MAJ. GEN, WILLIAM WEIGEL,
lNl retired, one OF the army's most
reliable commanders, died In the army
hospital on Governors island at the
age Of seventy-two. He served A
years, through Indian campaigns, In
the Spanish-American war and In the
Philippines. and went to France In
the World war as a captain. He was
rapidly promoted through grades, to
brigadier general on August Is, 1917,
and to major general on August 8,
1918, when he was given command
of the Eighty-elghth division, a new
national army unit which he trained
and took overseas. Previously he had
commanded the Fifty-sixth brigade.
T~wenty-elghth division, a Pennsylvania
outfit, at Chateau -Thierry.
MORE than 10000 workers In H.
1Vl 600 buildings In New York city
were called out on strike by James
]. Bambrick, president Of the Building
Service Employees International union.
and the sky-scrapers from the Battery
to Washington Heights we're badly
crippled. Elevator men stopped their
cars, furnace men banked their fires
and scrubwomen threw down their
mops. and all marched out Of the
buildings and formed picket lines.
There was some scattered fighting be-
tween the pickets and men hastily
hired to take their places.
Since the strike affected not only
office buildings but lnnumerable apart
ment buildings also. the occupants of
the latter we're deprived Of heat and
telephone connections, and In many
cases sick persons were marooned
without food supplies. This lead
Mayor La Guardia to call the city
health officials into conference, and
to declare a civic emergency and order
Health Commissioner Rice to see that
fires were stocked and that trips neces
sary to health of the tenants and care
Of the sick were made In all residence
buildings of more than six floors.
IMMEDIATELY after President
1 Roosevelt signed the new soil con-
serv~ation-farm relief act passed to take
the place Of the invalidated AAA, Ad-
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