（5月28日）1912 President Gomez Protests

NEW YORK — A telegram from Havana states that President Gomez yesterday [May 27] telegraphed to Mr. Taft protesting against the possibility of United States intervention in Cuba. This is the outcome of a Note which the United States Minister handed to Senor Gomez, stating that the United States had ordered a gunboat to proceed to Nipe Bay and a strong naval concentration at Key West, in anticipation of eventualities. Senor Gomez adds that Cuba is doing her utmost on the uprising, and has already restored order everywhere except in the Province of Oriente.

1937 Mrs. Roosevelt Lauds Women

WASHINGTON — Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was praised for her sense of humor and Miss Josephine Roche, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and president of the powerful Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, was called “America’s Business Woman No. 1” by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt in a radio talk to the women of Washington last night [May 26]. Mrs. Roosevelt set up Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of the United States Mint, as a model of efficiency.

1962 Jouhaud Slated to Die

PARIS — President Charles de Gaulle has decided that former Air Force Gen. Edmond Jouhaud will die, probably before a firing squad, unless there is an immediate, marked reduction in Secret Army Organization (OAS) terrorism in Algeria. This was stated on authority by high French government sources yesterday [May 26], who added that the latest legal maneuvres by Jouhaud’s lawyers to obtain a retrial for the No. 2 man in the OAS command would be dealt with this week.

（5月26日）1912 Convention to Be Contentious

NEW YORK — The indications being that neither Mr. Taft nor Mr. Roosevelt will have a majority of the delegates in the National Convention, the Chicago meeting is likely to be one of the most spectacular conventions in the history of this country. Mr. Ormsby McHarg, who has charge of Mr. Roosevelt’s contests before the Republican National Committee, asserts that Senator Root will not be permitted to preside as temporary chairman of the Convention if Mr. Roosevelt can prevent it. This makes it evident that the question of the temporary chairmanship will present the first test of strength between the opposing forces. The President has 488 delegates or 52 less than a majority. Mr. Roosevelt has 424, needing 116 to win the nomination. As there remain but 60 delegates to be chosen, the only way left to Mr. Roosevelt apparently is to take delegates from the Taft column.

1937 France Cancels Chapel Offer

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum began to rearrange its cloisters of medieval art at Fort Tryon Park today [May 25] in sad acceptance of the French government’s decision that they never would house the famous flamboyant Gothic Chapel of St. Hubert as a gift to John D. Rockefeller Jr. Negotiations to bring the little church to America had been canceled by France. The decision marks the victory of the peasants of the tiny village of Chauvirey-le-Châtel, in the Haute-Saône, over the determination of the French Parliament to repay Mr. Rockefeller for his restoration of the Rheims Cathedral, Versailles Palace and the chateau at Fontainebleau, with the gift of the rare fifteenth-century chapel for the collection of medieval architecture he is sponsoring at the Metropolitan. When, last November, negotiations for the removal had reached the point where a surveyor was sent to take measurements of the church, the blue-bloused, wooden-shod peasants of Chauvirey-le-Châtel rose up in rebellion and mounted guard over St. Hubert’s. It was, they explained, their only treasure and their sole claim to distinction.

Chapel of St. Hubert

1962 Exodus to Hong Kong Slows

HONG KONG — The flow of refugees from Communist China to Hong Kong has dropped drastically and is returning to normal, a government spokesman said today [May 25]. Residents along the British side of the frontier said armed patrols were guarding the Chinese side of the barbed wire fence. Border sources said they had heard no shooting and that all appeared to be orderly and quiet at the main crossing points. The spokesman said British Army units which had been assisting police patrols in capturing the refugees for return to the Communist mainland had been withdrawn. In the last few weeks about 4,900 refugees a day had streamed across the border but police announced early today that less than 2,000 refugees had been rounded up in the last 24 hours. Reports from the border said the Communist frontier town of Shumchun was packed with would-be and deported refugees.

（5月25日）1912 London Transport Strike Begins

LONDON — The great transport strike in London began yesterday [May 24]. Work at the docks still went on in a small way, as the Port Authority’s men remained at duty, but things generally were at a standstill and grew worse hourly. Many ships are delayed, unable to discharge cargo. There are said to be 150 in this plight, with a tonnage of more than 1,000,000. On five of these there are stated to be 500,000 carcasses of meat. The value of the daily import of meat into the port of London amount to £30,000 and that of perishable foodstuffs other than meat to another £30,000. The stoppage of these, says the “Standard,” must cause enormous distress among the poor.

plight(通例悪い)状態, 苦境, 窮状,
carcass (内臓をとった食用獣の)胴体.

1937 Justices Uphold Social Security Act

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court of the United States liquidated its accounts with the Roosevelt Administration today [May 24] by upholding the constitutionality of the two major provisions of the Social Security act, the last item of important New Deal legislation before the tribunal. The unemployment compensation provision of the act, at present affecting 18,500,000 workers in forty-three states and the District of Columbia, was validated by a vote of 5 to 4, while the old-age annuities, affecting 27,000,000 employees and 2,000,000 employers were upheld by a vote of 7 to 2. The justices also gave their approval to the Alabama unemployment insurance law, the vote being 5 to 4.
annuity年金

1962 U.S. Astronaut Missing for 39 Minutes

CAPE CANAVERAL — American astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter rocketed around the earth three times today [May 24] and then gave the world an anxious 39 minutes during which his spaceship was missing at sea. In that half hour, Lt. Comdr. Carpenter gave them radio silence and heartache as his capsule plunged from space to sea. However, after landing 200 miles from his assigned target area and floating for nearly three hours on a liferaft, he was picked up safely by a Navy helicopter. “We are relieved, and very proud of your trip.” Those were the words President Kennedy spoke to Lt. Comdr. M. Scott Carpenter tonight over the telephone from the White House.