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fews Review of Current Events the World Over’S? v--. I BRE'C MB*. Jroubles of the Automobile and Coal Industries—Bishop Cannon's Trial Begins—Working on the New Tax Measurer* who went at Hlaml flatted Prealdeot Rooaefdt aboard his fate* tloo jacht Noormahal off pan Oaj, Bahamas, and listened to some tall atorlaa. Bat thej were not coa- flneed that Elliott Roosefelt was ml»^ ! taken when he said his father wasn’t V; hafing any luck In angling. The Pres ident bad nothing to say concerning public affairs. « By EDWARD W. PICKARD T ABOR conditions in the Detroit area, mostly affecting the automo bile Industry, regained In chaotic con dition, despite the partly successful efforts of forernaent mediators. The strike at the plant of the Motor Prod ucts corporation, which bad caused a shutdown of the factory of the Hud son Motor company, was settled when Edward P. McOrndy, assistant to Gen. Hugh Johnson, laid before the strHc- srs terms that had been accepted by the corporation. The workers agreed to the terms, which called for a 10 per cent Increase In pay and arbitration of disputes over piece work pay rates. This-ensbled-the Hudson 4>lant to re open. The 1,700 employees of the Camp bell, Wyant & Cannon foundry at Mus kegon, Mich., struck. The concern makes castings for automobile build ers. The 4,600 employees of the Nash Mtrrorcompnnjrst+Hwer^^nstrikeat Kenosha, Wis. The Mechanics Educational Society of America, an organlwttlon of tool and die makers, had roted to strike unless executives of Jobbing plants met their demands for a 20 per cent pay Increase and 86-hour week. There was a strike by 800 employees of the Detrolt-MIchlgan Stove com pany who demanded a 20 per cent wage Increase, and pickets attacked men who approached the plant to Work; Industrial plants In Connecticut were Involved In numerous strikes and labor disputes. The attitude of the workers -was -expressed "by 4 - John - & Egtttr, secretary of tile ^ Cwmecttcut Federation of Labor, who said: “No company should declare any dividends until the 1920 wage level Is restored.” new «nd higher levies upon the Amer ican people,” said Majority leader Joseph W. Byrns, Democrat. Tennes see, of the house. The house Democrats see the danger of raising all income taxes In an elec tion year; and, besides, they aro a bit tired of being forced to accept senate alterations of legislation on which the house already has ex- pressed itself.' ~ —1 T HAT MaJ. Gen. Benjamin D. Fou- lois, chief of the air corps, and oth ers acted In “violation of the law” In connection with the proposed purchase of $7,500,000 worth of army airplanes, la the conclusion of a sub- committee of the bouse military affairs committee that has been Investigating the matter. The subcom mittee also found that Harry H. Wood ring, assistant secretary of war, had attempted to assure competitive bidding for the air planes and thereby comply with the law and the Intent of congress. * The transaction In question dates back to the first of the year. Army officers, asking a public works allot ment, to buy, airplanes, -made.- arraftge L IVE stock producers and govern ment officials wUI gather In Chi cago ^Aprll 126 and work out a program for the relief of western cattlemen made possible by President Roosevelt’s action In signing the bill making cat* tie a basic commodity. Jills was an nounced in Denver by F. E. Mollln, secretary of the American National Live Stock association ^fter he heard from Cli ester C. Davis, head of tha Agricultural - Adjustment administra tion. Mollln said It was expected the cat tlemen will urge that the quickest re- llef can be obtained througfi~^puf- chases by tfye government of beef for distribution among the needy and for the purchase of diseased cattle to be used for fertilizer. He added that cattlemen generally will ask that no general signup for reducing produc- v Gen. Foulois rnents to purchase them from special companies without competitive bids. T HREE Republican senators, War- ren R. Austin of VermohtrJames J. A DMINISTRATOR JOHNSON’S or der to the bituminous coal indus try to put into effect a seven-hour day and new minimum wage rates was bitterly attacked by southern coal pro ducers at a code revision bearing in Washington, . EspecIflllj.jipJectlonable to the Alabama, Tennessee and Ken tucky operators was the reduction In wage differentials accorded southern coal flcldn C HICAGO business leaders are unan imously opposed to the Wagner labor disputes hill, George W. Young, president of the Chicago Association of Commerce, told a senate committee. Mr. Young said the real purpose of the act was to force unionization of business and Industry under authority of federal law. Workers could do longer bargain through self-organlza tlon of Individually, but would be compelled to bargain only through onion labor organizations, whether that represented their real choice or not, be pointed out B EFORE the criminal court In Washington Bishop James Can non, Jr., of the Methodist Church South, and Miss Ada L. Burroughs of Richmond, his aid In the anti A1 Smith campaign of 1928, were finally arraigned to answer to charges of having violated the corrupt practices act. If convicted they would face a possible term of two years In prison or a fine of $10,000 or both. The specific charge Is that Bishop Cannon onlv gn soo of the $65,300 contribution made by Edwin C. Jameson of New York to the anti- Smith movement was reported by the antl-Smlth Democrats’ headquarters committee. Doctor Cannon was chair man of this group and Miss Rur roughs treasurer. It was Indicated that the defense would contend that Miss Burroughs did not have to report the $48,000 In question, arguing that It was spent within the confines of Virginia by the state antl-Smlth committee. .One of the first government wit neases was Rev. Arthur J. Barton. Baptist minister of Wilmington. N. C., and co-organlzer with Doctor Cannon of the Asheville meeting. ««COAK the rich” forces were de^ ^ feated when the senate rejected an amendment to the revenue bill by Senator I a Follette, Wisconsin Repub llcan, for s big Increase In surtax rates. The vete was 47 to 36. The party lineup showed 25 Democrats, 10 Re publicans and one Farmer-Laborlte for the amendment, with 80 Democrats and 17 Republicans against it * SKA* rVKSPlTE the. opposition of the house leaders and the doubt of. Its approval by the President, Sena tor Couzens persisted In his effort to put through his amendment to the tax biH telling for a fiat 10 per cent Increase In aO Income tax returns. Chairman Pat Harrison of the senate finance committee had approved It as an emergenecy measure and showed •• disposition to reconsider. Under the Ooosens proposal, a per- no subject to a normal tax of $100 M bis 1864 iMMBt would pay $110i “Nothing has arisen since the Presi dent left the Capital, so far as I can as# to Justify the hnpteltloa of these ducement and Incentive to private operators to develop aeronautical in dustry through competition, according to an announcement by the three sen ators. “The amendment attempts to assure the future status of the air mail op- erators and remove uncertainty and Insecurity. In order to encourage long time planning.” a statement read. “It Is beyond question that commercial aviation Is vital to our national secur ity. and already has become an essen tial service for the business of our country.” __ The air mall Industry Is In danger, Senator Austin declared, of being Sefc back to the chaotic conditions of five years ago unless the amendment Is adopted. O FFICIALS of the. Public Works administration were elated by a report received from the F. W. Dodge coriMiratlon which Indicated a pro nounced spring Increase In Job-creat ing building activity In which the fed eral public works program was a lead ing factor. Reporting on the volume of con tracts awarded In March for both pub licly and privately financed building in the 37 states east of the Rocky mountains, the Dodge corporation In formed the PWA that $179,163,000 of contracts were awarded last month compared with $96,716,000 In Febru ary. Publicly financed building ac counted for $126,210,000 of the March total, and privately financed building for $52,953,000. ‘ The Sli’O.’-’l0.000 of publicly financed work contracted for last month is about five times the amount contract ed for In March of 1933 and nearly three times the amount contracted In March of 1932, according to the report. The bureau of foreign and domes tic commerce of the Department of Commerce announced that rapid prog ress was being made In assembling detailed statistics on the physical con- BRISBANE THIS WEEK Strangling With Taxes \ Go S*f Alaska A 74-Year-Old Heart Iceland’s Old Volcano ' The Supreme court decides that government has the power to tax a thing out of existence. This decision came with approval of a 15-centa-a- pound tax on oleomargarine. The pur pose of that tax la to make It impos sible to manufacture oleomargarine profitably, and thus Compel people to eat butter, whether they can afford it or not r • ... / doubtless that Is wise. In fact, it must be wise, since the Supreme court says so. But some day, when we have, as we shall have, one thousand million people in the United Stales, and lack" room for so many cows,vlt may be de sirable to have a good substitute for butter, and we may regret today’s hostile taxation. m / National Topic* Interpreted by William Brackett tlon be tried at first, and that any processing tax which may be levied be postponed until September 1 at the earliest and be spread out over as long a period as possible. EPRESENTATIVE PRENTISS M. BROW>r or~£ffehlgan, PemOrrat and member of the banking-and cur rency committee, prepared a new bill to- provide relief for depositors In closed banks and for state banks that arernot members of the federal reserve system. Mr. Brown said his plan would provide that a proper govern ment agency shall: “First, purchase of all depositors in all banks of the country their claims against* such Institutions or their re- of Pennsylvania, and W. War ren Barbour of New Jersey, Introduced In the senate an amendment to the air mall act which would compel the restoration of the canceled contracts to private operators until fraud. If any, be proved. The amendment also fixes future compensation for the carrying of the malls to two mills per pound mile plus a subsidy rrsfiiny provided fof ^ the purpose of creating financial In- ^ COV ery program, the cetrerg^ conservators, liquidating wis- tees, or other similar officials at face value up to $2,500—taking an assign ment of the proportionate Interest of the depositor- in the available assets of sucb tnatltutlona. “Second, loan to any depositor de siring It 75 per cent of the balance of his claim up to $10,000, or any part thereof. “Third, loan him 5 per cent of any remaining balance of his claim.’’ See Alaska, and-at the same time the whole United States. Go through the Panama canal on a big boat and see what men can do when they use a nation’s power. Or travel hy rail, studying the cities of the coun try, er take your car. which goes everywhere, and stops where—you choose, or fly, and see th> world from above. See Alaska, a magnificent empire far away In the northwest See what Seward bought for the United States for $7,260,000. A purchase that was called “Seward’s folly.” They took small change like $7,200,000 seriously in those days. But It was profitable “folly.” Alaska has yielded $419,791,- 000 In gold, more than fifty times Alaska’s cost alone. The “Juneau Empire.” which ought to know, esti mates that Alaska has been worth to the United States $2.500,000,000, after subtracting the cost price.—The-eelf- Washlngton.—Congress Is toewing | my Informants, The question that Is •very sign ef wanting te be good boys I before the administration and leaders -and girls and play I of the Democratic party Is; what Is Now Rmady ball with President the attitude to be toward the progres- to Bo Good Roosevelt It ail- slves and other Insurgents. It Is geared when con- I knows, of course, that there are mem- gress decided to slap the President In bers of the house and sehate, elected the face by overriding his veto of the as Democrats, who have no saore right veterans’ compensation and govern- to call themselves Democrats than ment employees’ salary question, that somes Of the radical, group ef the at laqt there wae a definite: and far- minority can claim to be Republicans, reaching breach. Many persons here They are Insurgents There Is ne thought the President had a recalclt- other proper-, label. They have set, rant bunch on his hands and that do not and will not stand, hitched to there would be plenty of trouble dur- any program for any great length of ing the rest of the session. Such is I timer not the case, however, and, although President Roosevelt and “Big Jim" there will be differences arising, the Farley know full well that the Demo- .remainder of the session will show erats most have the help of the se- few cases in which the wishes of the called progressives and the radicals President will be absolutely disre- | in some parts of the country. This Is especially true In the Middle West. The reason for this sudden change I But the administration cannot tura is simple. An election campaign con- against ths militant and fighting young fronts all of the members of the house Democrats who have fallen Into line and 35 members of the senate. As the solidly behind Roosevelt and the New thing has been explained to me by Deal. If it snubs them, “It scorns numerous representatives and sens- the steps by which It did ascend” and tor*, th*y wara in-a pnntirai RittifrHon | that Is never good politics. Tha where they felt they would rather, slap the President than the veterans. The President can scold or spank t^iem, It Is explained, but the veterans have votes that are a good deal rougher younger group of Democrats tike credit for the smashing victory ef 1932 and Mr. Roosevelt cannot Ignera their clamoring for recognition. Like a ghostly shadow across the than pay for Alaska. than a spanking by the Chief Executive, pa th, however, floats the forms and from the standpoint of politics. Now j faces of numerous powerful men whs that the potential candidates can go j broke away from Hoover and sup- before the veterans of their respective ported the Roosevelt candidacy. The districts and point with pride or some- Roosevelt blessing already has been thing to a vote to restore the compen- | hftgtnwpd upon Senator- Hiram John- sation, the campaigning members feel son, a Californian, who was elected as they are sitting in a good seat They a Republican but who supported Mr. are ready te be good. Roosevelt’s candidacy. Senator Johd- I am told that Democratic leaders son la up for election this year. On hr the house ami-senate have had^tn* J the other hand, there Is young Bob. alone wUI more numerable visits since the vet vote T La Follette, of Wisconsin. Surely, he from members of their party who was a liberal all the way. ABe sup- wanted to assure the administration ported Mr. Roosevelt as against Mr. In his poem beginning “Dear friend, that they are “regular” again and will Hoover. But Young Bob has had no nRANK WALKER, chairman of the ".President’s , national emergency -council, jmade annouDcement. .of the thon art lost.” Heine reminds his friend that fnersten haben lange arme (“princes have long arms”). Samuel Insult of Chicago learns that Uncle Sam has long arms also, and caw reach out-far to get what he t in their home bailiwick, they will talk financing of housing projects all over the country with federal funds. New homes are to be built; old homes are to be re- J p a 1 r e d, remodeled, spruced up. Mort gages are to be given on generous terms, with interest low and payment permitted Frank Walker over jq an( j 20 years. All of the activities of the govern- revfxiit t kx rl A A iHto illvTllL ran ttrvl W ItvtfXMxJg " OUClt vxato subsistence homestead plan, the Home Owners’ Loan corporation, the home loan bank board, the farm credit ad ministration, the Department of Agri culture’s program of new bousing for farmers—are to be co-ordinated a single authority. There Is both an emergency and a permanent program In the scheme, and the temporary program aa contem plated will be a rousing campaign, with citizens, real estate men, build ing contractors, union leaders, and laborers all being exhorted to Join In a patriotic movement toward the restora tion of the still slumbering construc tion Industry. 'T'O 1 tic PREVENT extreme demoraliza tion in the Industry and not to cre ate an artificial shortage, la the Intent of the production control proposals submitted to*the dairy Industry by the farm administration, administrators asserted In an appeal for national sup port for the plan. It Is proposed that , dairymen limit their output to conform with sales quotas to be allotted under the pro- pram. For their co-operation they would be paid benefits derived from collection of an estimated $165,000,000 In processing taxes, $15,000,000 of which would be earmarked for even distribution among three supplemental relief plans. Involving tuberculosis dltion of homes, which are expected eradication, purchase of surplos milk to be of value In federal and local undernourished city children projects for renovation and slum- I an< * transfer of good cows to poor wrta v - ' ' —Mr Insull thought himself safe on his chartered Greek tramp steamer, riding at anchor under the walls of Istanbul, on the little strip of water that separates Europe from Asia. But Uncle Sam reached out hia long arm. and Mr. Insull Is arrested by the Turk ish government, and unless the Chi cago utilities magnate Is able to per form some new wonder, his arrest probably means the last active chap ter In hla career. Mr. Instill is seventy-four years old, a man of intense pride, nourished and Increased by success, through years of unquestioned domination. It will ver stay that way. Having obtained what they thought they had to have to In sure their re-election, they will now vote according to direction once more. Then, when they start speech making loudly and long about supporting the President In one speectr and Ur the next, if It be in a strongly organized veterans’ area, they will shout about their friendship for the former sol diers, sailors and marines- From which it ought to be apparent that the whole thing was Just a part ef the great game of politics. — such blessing from the administration. Indeed, “Big Jim" Farley has strongly Intimated that he wants to see consln elect Charles Broughten, a ular Democrat And so It goes. nounced settlement of the labor con troversy between the Wolman Not automobile Industry Real Neutral th . e A ™ erl « B Federation of Labor, and proposed creation of a board te adjudicate the questions, every ene here thought naturally enough that he i Democratic bolters could not have •verridden the President by them selves, and that fact would select a representative of the Industry and one of labor, with the third man being neutral. The nat ural conehislon was that the third Jaet Playing gave the Republicans member of the board would have ne Polities an apporinnlty to ties with either capital or labor. Thera play politics as well, was much surprise, therefore, when The Republicans In the house and sen- he named Dr. Leo Wolman^ of Coins*- ate saw a chance to embarrass the 1 bla university. New York* as the neu- Presldent They pudged the Demo- I tral member. From what I can gather crats from every angle' to override the around Washington, the appointment veto and Joined with the bolters on of Doctor Wolman was a bit disap- Notblng Is safe, nothing sure. In the TOte j uat b^aage r would put the pointing to those who wanted a real be hard tor s heart severity-f old to stand the strain that will be pat upon him. gland. 150 miles east of Reykjavik, there stood s calm mountain known to - have been a bad volcano in Us younger years, called Skeldararjoekull Clrka, s thick cap of Ice covering the summit, every sign of reformed old age. Inhabitants of Nupsstad village, cloee by the peak. In Skaptafellsbysla, felt certain that Skeldararjoekull Clrka’s wild oats had all been sown. They had net The old volcano has blown the Ice cap Into cracked IcA slid 7 with light ning flashes and roarings Is In violent eruption Some Ice-capped old men have act ed as foolishly, and as unexpectedly. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gives $2,000,000 for a research laboratory that will be open to the scholars of the world. If anyone says, “Haought te spend bis money in America^” re mind him that Rockefeller-'Statidard Oil money has been made all over\the globe, not only here In America. Tpu will find Rockefeller oil cans used household utensils In the farthest cori ners of China. clearance. farms. w::, 1 ILLIAM WALLACE McDOWELL Butte, Mont., the new Amer ican minister to the Irish Free State,, collapsed and died of heart disease during a banquet In his honor given by President Eamon De Valera In Dublin castle. Mr. McDowell was re sponding to congratulatory speeches when he fell back Into his Chair and expired almost Instantly. He was six ty-seven years old and had seemed to. be In excellent health. D EATH In extraordinary form came to more than fifty Inhabitants of two fishing hamlets on the Kordals fjord on the west coast of Norway. A cliff weighing thousands of tons crashed Into the fjord In the night and hnge waves swept over the vil lages, drowning many of the people. Most of the frail cottages were utter ly wrecked and boats were tossed high upon the land. The villagers for lunate enough to escape were without food and clothing until steamers from Aalesund and other nearby points brought relief to themT^The scene of this disaster Is ftunillar to soany American tourists. T HE house of representatives got busy suddenly, suspended Its rules and granted quick approval to three Important bills dealing with widely di vergent subjects. They were; The administration sugar bill—sub ject of heated controversy for months I —which slid through to final approval I without even a record vote. It In cludes sugar aa a basic commodity un der the AAA, quotas domestic pro duction of sugar beets and cane, and gives Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, power to quota Imports of Qiban and ! Insular sugar. , The so-called Johnson bill, prohibit ing foreign nations which ara til do- fault on private or national obligations In this country from floating their so- curlties in the American market The measure Is the upshot of a senatorial Investigation several years ago Into tha nature ef foreign borrewings In the United SUtee. A resolution ordering A federal pow er commission Inquiry into niton charged tor electric energy by private power companies throughput the cow, try. Washington,, re ports six bodies, two women, four men, found bound, gagged, beaten, shot to death in a house ransacked by thieves. The crime wave hangs on, with pro hibition, its foster-mother. gone. Twe hundred thousand gathered In Rome to cheer Pope Pius at the end of a solemn ceremony establishing and confirming miracles performed by 7 Don Giovanni Bosco, enrolling hls name In the calendar of saints. A humble priest ^Tm-in In budget, was to be short-lived. I Sid « that time thet It -<mld be took the side of the miserable and poor so violently thst he narrowly es caped being confined In an Insane asy lum as a lunatic. The old struggle between “the shell that pierces steel armor and the armor tp stop any shell” Is decided for tho momest In favor of the shell Shef field, England, announces a shell that will pierce a plate of (ho Roughest ar mor of the thickness of that shell’s gun caliber and ge on nine mtlec farther. Such shells, weighing nearly a ton. ara expensive, but In war money ceases to be important. A Ktas FMtarM SradlMt* Utt- WXU Sanrte* / Democratic leaders on a hot spot and | neutral to sit as a member of th* would be offensive to the President J board. Frankly, the President did not meet legitimate expectations in the Wolman "appointment, except, of course, among those who sympathized wholly with labor’s contention Is the controversy. Doctor Wolman’s knowledge of la bor questions cannot be denied. He has demonstrated hls ability and hls capacity to understand the problems. *The objection that I hear, however, does not run to that phase of hls ability. Doctor Wolman has been a* sociated directly or indirectly with William Green, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, for many years. However he may desire to be impartial, however basically honest he is, the thought In many places In Washington Is u that Doctor Wolmaa cannot be neutral as that word Is ac cepted by the general ppbllc. He Is human and he has sentiment. Those two factors make It appear to many observers that the settlement of the |,automobile-labor controversy amounts to nothing more than a postponement. It will flare up again, but probably will not.take place until after the mld- dle_nf June when the President will not have s law-id effect that will per mit him to license the industry. * * * The week’s best laugh: Federal Home Loan board regulations require that applicants for loans submit with their applications, first, a “close up" photograph of the property and, sec ond, a “street scene” Hiat will show a little of adjoining property. These photographs have the purpose and the value, of course, of providing a gen eral knowledge of where the money goes. But the headquarters office of the loan system was not quite prepared fpr two photographs which It received in connection with one application that came from a colored man In a little southern town. In complying with the requirement that a “close up” photo- That Is the way the game of politics Is played. If one looks back over the records during the Coolidge and Hoover administrations, plenty of In stances ara shown where the Demo crats, then in the minority, Joined the bolting Republicans and so-called pro gressives in votes that were embarrass ing to the President As a matter of fact there still Is some doubt In the minds of many ob servers here whether Mr. Roosevelt had-sdund reason for hls veto. He charged that the bill, as passed before the veto, would add $228,000,000 to the regular budget of the government. That la true. But I cannot help re calling that there are two budgets, now. One of them Is the regular bud get and the other, many time larger, is for emergency expenditures. At least some of those Democrats, who broke with the President on the ques tion, are asking why the government has to ent down on its regular budget while it expands and "throws money away like water” from the emergency budget. It does cause one to pause and think about It. la other words, the thought of those is: why is It such a crime to md about one-fourth of a billion dollars the way congressmen want to spend It when the administration Is •pending some five er six billions the way It wants to spend that tre mendous sum. ^ - ^ r Further, I cannot help recalling that, when the economy act was passe# during the extra session last spring,* I reported to yon that the curtail ment of expenditures for veterans and tor. several other purposes under the given back In piecea. Two acts of con gress since have restored a total of 75 per cent of the amount taken away from the veterans, and the last act of congress restored one-third of 15 pel cent pay cut to (he government workers and will give them another be submitted, the applicant one-third beginning July J. * •• • Thera la trouble brewing tor Presi dent Roosevelt la another political di rection. It is not n overlooked the fact that It was of the property and sent In s picture of him self, a photograph that disclosed too wrinkles and gray hair of hls age as as two exceptionally large eyes. For the street scene, the applicant had Mora Trouble ,direct result of tho J himself photographed In his best bib Brewing •verriAng his and tucker, namely, hla lodge uniform. rate. That fact doea And be waa riding a bicyelo along tho appear to have aoeeatsated tho dlffl- street culties, however, accerdtag to most of | •Sr w< ■'4