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Show SEVEN BILLION PLAN President Proposes Hugo Spending and Loans Program . . . Demands United Recovery Action V v Because a federal statute prohibits taking of a foreign vote in the United States or its territorial waters, the crew of the German liner Hansa voted on the question of Austrian "anschluss" with Germany while the ship was in mid-ocean en route to New York. Here is the scene in the public room of the liner during the balloting. Seated is Purser Karl eplein, who registered reg-istered the voters. Of the crew, 330 voted "jab."; six voted "nein," and one vote was voided. SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Lend and Spend Plan CONGRESS was asked by Presi- 1 dent Roosevelt to authorize the spending and lending of a grand total of seven billion dollars in a i special message m ! which he set forth ' his new program I for recovery and re- lief. Ignoring the ! expressions of vari-! vari-! ous leaders in oppo-l oppo-l sition to such vast j expenditures, Mr. Roosevelt said: "Our capacity is limited only by our .. . ability to work to- President T,n,,( ,. gether. . What is Roosevelt , . . ... needed is the will. "The time has come to bring that will into action with every driving force at our command. And I am determined to do my share." The President declared that the will to co-operate places "on all of us the duty of self-restraint," and that "there can be no dictatorship by an individual, or by a group in this nation save through division fostered by hate. Such division there must never be." Three groups of measures were proposed. The first involves mainly main-ly additional appropriations for the coming fiscal year, as follows: One billion two hundred and fifty million dollars for the Works Progress Prog-ress administration; $175,000,000 for the Farm Security administration; $75,000,000 for the National Youth administration; $50,000,000 for the Civilian Conservation corps, and the SI, 500. 000 already made available avail-able to the Reconstruction Corporation Corpo-ration for lending to business enterprises. enter-prises. In a second group of measures Mr. Roosevelt asked: Three hundred million dollars for immediate expansion of the housing and slum-clearance work of the United States Housing, authority; $1,450,000,000 for public works loans and grants; an additional $100. COO, -000 for public roads; an additional $37,000,000 for flood control and reclamation re-clamation projects already authorized autho-rized and an additional $25,000,000 for federal buildings. A third group listed by the Chief Executive referred to private credit. cred-it. It involved destcrilization of $1,400,000,000 of gold and a reduction reduc-tion by the Federal Reserve board of member bank reserve requirements require-ments which would add another $750,000,000 to the credit resources of the nation's banks. With these actions Mr. Roosevelt coupled a simplification of Security commission commis-sion regulations to expedite small-business small-business financing. Congressmen Vexed AXTHILE committees of the sen-" sen-" ' ate and house were still trying try-ing to reconcile the widely differing versions of the tax bill passed by the two houses, President Presi-dent Roosevelt sent to the chairmen a long letter urging retention of the tax on undistributed profits, which had been eliminated by the senate. Many members of con- k; : ;res3 thought the Chief Executive bcn- arr.son Aas intimating that he would veto he bill if this feature were omitted. That would leave in effect the present pres-ent law carrying a severe tax which ia3 been widely attacked as one of he causes of the prevailing busi-icss busi-icss depression. The Intervention by Mr. Rod;;c-elt Rod;;c-elt at this time and in this manner was considered unprecedented and aroused many expressions nf amazement and Indignation, especially espe-cially among the senate conferees. Senator Pat Harrison, their leader and the chairman of the senate finance committee, obviously displeased, dis-pleased, said: "The President is entitled to his views. Of course, he accords to every one else the same right to .theirs. "The views expressed in his letter do not coincide with the sentiment expressed by the overwhelming majority of the senate. My views are well known and need not be repeated again in detail. "The senate conferees will insist in conference on the amendments adopted in the senate. "I believe that the repealing of the undistributed profits tax and the modifications of the capital gains tax, as adopted by the senate, will help business." At the close of his letter the President Pres-ident said: "The repeal of the undistributed profits tax and the reduction of the tax on capital gains to a fraction of the tax on other forms of income strike at the root of fundamental principles of taxation. "Business will be helped, not hurt, by these suggestions." New French Government DURANCE has a new government headed by Edouard Daladier who succeeded Leon Blum as premier after the fall of Blum's Popular Front. Daladier's cabinet is the first wholly nonrevolu-tionist nonrevolu-tionist one since the leftist landslide of 1936. Not one of his ministers is even pink, and there are several outright conservatives. con-servatives. Most significant of his selections se-lections is Georges uonnet, iormer am-Georges am-Georges bassador to the Bonnet United statcSi a3 foreign minister. His choice for this key post means synchronization of French foreign policy with that of Great Britain, the opening of negotiations nego-tiations with Mussolini and complete abandonment of the Spanish republic repub-lic in its war with Franco's insurgents. insur-gents. Blum was thrown out because he asked broad powers to rule by decree, de-cree, but the parliament acceded to a similar demand by Daladier, and then adjourned until May 1, leaving Daladier with practically dictatorial powers to deal with the nation's financial and economic problems. The new premier started immediately imme-diately on efforts to end the wave of strikes, which were really based on political motives. First he obtained a settlement of the strikes in the nationalized aviation factories, offering of-fering a pay increase in exchange for longer hours. He then promulgated promul-gated by decree a law making a secret ballot obligatory in every factory where conflicts arise. If a majority of the workers decide for a strike, they must evacuate the factory, which then would be "neutralized" "neu-tralized" pending arbitration. If, however, the strike is rejected by a majority, the armed forces of the nation will be at the disposal of the employers to keep the plant operating. op-erating. Horner Is Winner OV. HENRY HORNER won his second great victory over the Chicago Kclly-Nash machine in the Illinois Democratic primaries. Almost Al-most all his candidates were nominated, nom-inated, and the governor appears to be now in complete control of the party in his state. His co-boss is State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney of Chicago. The triumph of Horner attracted nation-wide attention. It even led to a proposal that he he the Democratic Demo-cratic party for President In 1 il ID. This bormilet was launched in congress con-gress by Representative L. V. Arnold, Ar-nold, Democrat, of Illinois, Jcnes Ready to Loan JESSE JONES, chairman of the RFC, now has $1,500,000,000 to lend to business men, states and cities, and he asked the bankers of the nation to turn over to his corporation cor-poration the loan applications they cannot meet. "The security put up by borrowers borrow-ers must be reasonable," he declared, de-clared, "but naturally we expect to make loans which the banks consider consid-er slow, frozen or unliquid." Jones said he expected the loans would make capital investments more attractive and would also forestall sacrifice disposals of surplus sur-plus stocks. In his insistence on "reasonable" security, however, he warned that "we're not going to lend all the money in the country." No Peace for Labor ANY lingering hopes that the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization would end their civil war were dispelled by John L. Lewis' Lew-is' announcement that the C. I. O. was to be made a permanent organization, or-ganization, probably under another name. To bring this about a convention con-vention of the 39 Lewis unions will be held in the fall. The time and place were left to a committee consisting con-sisting of Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman, newly elected vice chairman chair-man of C. I. O. The heads of the C. I. O. unions, hearing congress might adjourn by May 14, adopted a resolution declaring de-claring "that our 4,000,000 members will necessarily have to consider it a dereliction of duty and betrayal of labor for congress to agree to adjourn prior to enactment of a complete legislative recovery program." Wheat Allotments HP HE agricultural adjustment ad-ministration ad-ministration announced it had allotted 62,500,000 acres to 42 wheat producing states under the 1938 farm program. Individual acreage allotments will be based on planting and diversion during the past ten years. Farmers who comply with acreage acre-age allotments will receive benefit payments of 12 cents a bushel for the average yield on the allotted acreage. A penalty tax of 90 cents a bushel on acreage in excess of allotments will be deducted from any benefit payments due farmers. This year, the AAA said, no deductions de-ductions will be made for exceeding wheat allotments if co-operating farmers reduce other soil depleting crops so as not to exceed the total soil-depleting allotment for his farm. Acreage allotments for principal wheat producing states included: Iowa, 456,037; Kansas. 12,519.879; Minnesota, 1.609.218; Nebraska, I 3,446.075; North Dakota, 9,431,355; I South Dakota, 3,345.403. Will Defend Peace PAN-AMERICAN day was marked J by an address by President Roosevelt, Roose-velt, broadcast throughout the world, in which he warned all nations that tiie peoples of the American republics repub-lics will not permit aggressor nations to threaten the pence of this hemisphere. hemi-sphere. All of them, he asserted, are firmly resolved to maintain peace, though this might entail sacrificeseven sac-rificeseven the sacrifice of life. He reiterated this country's "good neighbor" policy in its relations with Central and South American countries and cited this hemisphere's hemi-sphere's successful "demonstration that tiie rule of justice and law can be substitu'.cd for the rulo ; force." Hitler's Big Victory EWER than 465.000 Germans and Austrians had the courage to vote "no" in the plebiscite on Germany's annexation of Austria. Nearly 49.- v i . - j uuu.uuu qualilied voters vot-ers went to the polls and gave their approval ap-proval of the "anschluss." "an-schluss." and thus Adolf Hitler scored a tremendous victory, vic-tory, greater than even his lieutenants had expected. "This is the proudest proud-est hour of my life," , , ,. .,, said the I- uehrer Adolf Hitler , , , . , when told of the vote, and the Nazi leaders all were Jubilant, and with reason. They said the demonstration of German unity showed it was time to liberate "our Sudeten German friends In Czechoslovakia" and that they were ready to obey Hitler's orders blindly. blind-ly. It was forecast in Berlin that Hitler Hit-ler would proceed at once to expand and modernize the Austrian army and strengthen Austria's frontier defenses. de-fenses. And Vienna believed the anti-Jewish program would bo intensified. in-tensified. Orvillo Wright Honored ORE than 200 of America's leading figures in aeronautics gathered in Detroit on the invitation invita-tion of Hem-y and Eilsel Ford to pay tribute to Orvillo Wright, first man ever to fly an airplane. The celebration, dedicating the newly restored group of Wright buildings at Ford's Greenwich Village, Vil-lage, was in honor of Oi ville Wright and in memory of his brother, Wilbur, Wil-bur, who died in 1912. Dedication of the Wright home and bicycle shop in which the first successful man caiiying airplane was built wa.i the chief rtrent of the day. |