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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Weir's Conflict With National Lahor Board Johnson Plans Realignment of Code Authorities Insull's Son and Others Indicted in Indiana. By EDWARD W. PICKARD WHAT nctlon. If nny the NHA ml tlie niitlonal l.-ihor boiird would tiil; In tlit; :;iKfi of the Wnlr-tnn Wnlr-tnn Sii':l cinii:iriy wns mirovc.-ilcil E. T. Weir y the amhormi-s. K. T. Wi'ir, chfilr-ru.'in chfilr-ru.'in of the hourd of the coiiiimny. main-talnccl main-talnccl that lie wns loyal to the I'rcsl-(Icnt'H I'rcsl-(Icnt'H rec'ovory pro KT'iini hut lusisttMl that the labor hoard had no rl'ht to coerce or ahro- (jate the election of employee!)' reire-Bentiitlves reire-Bentiitlves that was throughout the world. ITe also reported re-ported that, In line with the administration's ad-ministration's economy program, he had brought about dra.stic reorganization reorgan-ization In his department and had cut expenditures '28.8 per cent corn-pared corn-pared with those of the previous year. Secretary Wallace reported the VSSi farm Income at $rt,I00,XJ0,(XX, against $."i,M.'!,0(JO,(K)() last year; exclusive ex-clusive of $:;iX),0OO,()()O In crop reduction re-duction benefits to he paid by the government before the end of the year. "'H of the encouraging signs of the times Is the decision of the Van Swearlngcn railroads to purchase pur-chase $2."i,0O0,00O worth of rolling stock, this being the biggest order for equipment authorized In many years. The purchases will be linanced by the PWA. The railroads will buy the equipment with the proceeds of 4 per cent fifteen-year trust certificates sold to the government. govern-ment. In this wliy the government will ohtuin security for its loan without with-out receiving as collateral bonds or other evidences of mortgaged Indebtedness. In-debtedness. By contrast, the RFC demands bonds as security where possible. The roads are the Chesapeake Ches-apeake and Ohio, the Nickel Plate and the Erie. "MIAND jury Investigation of the affairs of the Northern Indiana Public Service company resulted In the returning of indictments at the prospect of havlrs? the government govern-ment furnish funds with which th-:r products can be bought, Stfphan T. Karly, secretary to the Fres!d-::t. said in an ollicial eip!a:.aiijn of the order. TpIl;l-7r'S supreme reKg.-ns an.J civil ruler, the dalai lama, died In Lhasa, and a Ili-ngal correspondent correspond-ent says It Is reported he was poisoned. poi-soned. This powerful priest was regarded by Uuddhlst Asia us the reincarnation of a long dead Huddha and was worshiped as a deity. In his sixty years he had many adventures. When the British opened up Tibet In lttOl he fled to Mongolia. Five years later he returned re-turned to Lhasa but was quickly driven out by the Chinese and took' refuge in India. In V.H2 the Tibetans Tib-etans ousted the Chinese and established estab-lished their Independence and the dalal lama went back and resumed his dace as ruler of the country. A I-EJA.VrmO I.KRROUX Is pre-tnier pre-tnier of Spain again, having succeeded Diego Martinez Barrios, who was made vice president of the new cabinet and minister of war. Lerroux said he was "pleased" with the ministry he had got together to-gether and that Its formation of members of the left, the right and the center parties was compatible with the complexion of the new parliament, which Is dominated by conservatives. A PPOINTMENT of niroshl Salto as the new Japanese ambassador ambassa-dor to the United States was confirmed con-firmed by the cabinet In Tokyo. The foreign office there cabled instructions in-structions for him to proceed at once to Washington from The Hague, where he has been serving as minister to the Netherlands. J3EACE, for the time being, has come to the Gran Cliaco, for Paraguay and Bolivia agreed to a truce and their warfare in the jungle region was stopped. This was arranged by the League of Nations Na-tions commission with the backing of the delegates to the Pan-Ameri-" can conference In Montevideo. Negotiations Ne-gotiations for a permanent settlement settle-ment of tlje long conflict were proceeding pro-ceeding 1n the Uruguayan capital. Secretary of State Hull was given much of the credit for bringing about the armistice. FRENCH police broke up what they asserted was an international internation-al espionage ring and arrested ten persons as spies. Among them are Robert Switz and bis wife of East Orange, N. J. The authorities said the gang was working for no particular par-ticular nation. TWO of America's most popular and widely read novelists died on the same day in New York. Louis Joseph Vance, author of many tales of mystery, was found dead in a blazing arm chair in his apartment, the fire having apparently been set by a dropped cigarette. Robert W. Chambers, writer of best sellers for nearly forty years and noted especially espe-cially for his novels of American history, passed away after an operation oper-ation for an intestinal disorder from which he had suffered for several months. TOM HEFLIN of Alabama, who, used to entertain the senate and the country with his long diatribes against those who, he alleged, were Samuel Insull, Jr. , Crown Point, Ind., I against Samuel In-' In-' sull, Jr., and other odicials of the company, com-pany, Including Morse Dell Plain, its president. It Is charged that the company's treasury was looted for the benefit of Insull holding companies. The report of the grand jury included these accusations: held at the Weirton plant. The successful suc-cessful candidates were hand picked, and ho were those who were defeated, de-feated, all being "company men." Members of the workers union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, did not np-pcar np-pcar on the ballots. Uidon representatives repre-sentatives charged that workers were threatened with loss of their Jobs If they didn't vote, and said many of the men deliberately upoiled their ballots. There were ugly threats that If the government did not net the workers would begin to "take things apart." "We are putting our faith In President Roosevelt and the NRA," nald one of the union leaders. "They've promised to see this case through. Well, If they don't then we'll be forced to take things Into our own hands. Because we're going go-ing to win this light." Thomas 10. Mlllsnp, assistant to President Williams, said the only way the government would be allowed al-lowed to enter the matter was on the strength of a court order. "We are for the NHA," he said, "but there are some parts of the recovery law which frankly we do not like. It's no secret that Weirton Weir-ton Steel Is opposed to a closed shop, which Is what the labor provisions pro-visions of the net mean. Nor Is it any secret that wo do not intend to recognize the Amalgamated." He still Insisted that the "company "com-pany union" was not a company union un-ion at all but an association of employees' em-ployees' representatives chosen by free and untnunmeled ballot by the workers. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, NRA administrator, ad-ministrator, refused to comment on published reports that President William Green of the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor will demand a clear cut statement from the recovery administration ad-ministration and the national labor board outlawing company financed unions. Green said that on September 20 he had filed many aflidavits with the recovery authorities charging that corporations In every section of the country were violating the NRA labor provision by company union activities. He charged no action ac-tion had been taken against these corporations. C liNFJ! AL JOHNSON has mapped - out n new alignment of code authorities In order to provide more effective representation of consumers' consum-ers' Interests. His plan Is to place on every code authority one NRA representative selected by the administrator. ad-ministrator. This representative will he assisted by two "advisors," one drawn from the ranks of lnbor, and nominated by the labor advisory board of NRA, and the other to be nominated by the consumers advisory ad-visory board. An important part of Johnson's annoujicement was that he proposes to give the NRA representatives on each code authority a veto power over any of the actions the authority author-ity may elect to take. In other words. In the "self government" gov-ernment" of each industry, which the general has often discussed as his aim, a code authority may decide de-cide to take some step with respect to prices, or production, or wages. If it suits the NRA representative, it will be put into effect; otherwise he can veto the action. The administrator nlso announced the appointment of Leon Henderson Hender-son of the Russell Sage foundation, New York, and S. J. Schlink, a director di-rector of the Consumers' Research bureau, as special assistants In the consumers division of the NRA. He emphasized that Mrs. Mary Rumsey, society woman who heads the consumers con-sumers advisory board, would retain re-tain her present post. VTEARLY reports . of Secretary 1 Roper of the Commerce department depart-ment and Secretary Wallace of agnculture were of a nature to cheer up President Roosevelt and all the supporters of his policies. Mr. Roper submitted facts and fig-tire fig-tire showing that considerable progress toward business recovery had been made in the United States as a result of decisive action by the government, and that there were definite signs of a business revival Thomas Heflin persecuting him on religious grounds, plans a come-back to Washington in the capacity of a member of the lower low-er house. He was beaten for the senate sen-ate in 1930 by John A. Bankhead and was virtually read out of the Democratic Demo-cratic party the year before by the state executive corn- That a bookkeeping error of $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 was purposely made to deceive de-ceive the Indiana public service commission and justify high rates for service. That huge expense account for certain odicials, covering trips to California and Atlantic City and the sending of vast quantities of flowers to hotels, were an unjustified unjusti-fied charge against Northern Indiana In-diana Public Service. That properties, in many Instances In-stances worthless and without exception ex-ception worth far less than the value charged, were transferred to the treasury of Northern Indiana through a system of interlocking directorates. di-rectorates. This was done, the report re-port declared, to "milk Northern Indiana In-diana Public Service of surplus earnings." That the funds and assets of the operating company are still being "constantly depleted by the domination domina-tion of Midland Utilites and other parent organizations of the Insull group." The Investigation was given its start when Howard W. Duncan, former for-mer assistant treasurer of Northern North-ern Indiana, confessed he had embezzled em-bezzled $132,000 of the company's money and lost It on the race horses. Duncan pleaded guilty to the theft of $1,500. He offered to tell the Inside story of the Insull high finance and was allowed to do so. The investigators then followed fol-lowed out the lines he laid down for them to follow. npHE government of Greece noti-Bed noti-Bed Samuel Insull that he would have to leave that country when his residence permit expired on December Decem-ber 31, but when the American fugitive fu-gitive pleaded illness he was granted grant-ed an extension of the permit to January 31. Insull has no consular con-sular status as an American citizen, his passport having been revoked. Where he can go with safety is a puzzle, for the United States has extradition treaties with all countries coun-tries bordering Greece and presumably presum-ably he would be nabbed as soon as he entered any of them. The government In Washington has Instituted proceedings to collect col-lect from Insull, his wife and his son $221,000 In income taxes. WHEN President Roosevelt's pet project in the Tennessee valley val-ley is far enough advanced to manufacture man-ufacture electric power it is going to produce a lot of it, and consumers consum-ers will be needed. So, to create a market for this euergy, the President Presi-dent has set up a million dollar mortgage loan corporation, using public works funds, and directed it to finance electric appliance purchases pur-chases in the Tennessee region. Cheap credit will be extended to all home owners and residents within the Tennessee Valley Authority area for this purpose. Manufacturers of electrical household house-hold f;ods are enthusiastic over mittee because he took the stump against Alfred E. Smith in 192S. Now Tom announces that he is a primary candidate for congressman from the Fifth district because he thinks the Democratic party is weak in debating ability. He says he will "help the President to obtain legislation that will take the control con-trol of the money supply out of the hands of those who produce panics every ten or twelve years." Mr. Heflin is concededly an able debater, but he may find the lower house less patient with his lengthy speeches concerning himself and his persecution complex than was the senate. CHARGES against William G. Donne, Illinois manager of the Home Owners' Loan corporation, resulted in the acceptance of his resignation by the corporation board, after he had been heard In Washington. Various accusations of fraud and favoritism were made against Donne, who was backed by the Illinois Democratic organization. organiza-tion. It was predicted his removal would have a serious political Care-back Care-back in the state. COLONEL AND MRS. LINDBERGH LIND-BERGH ended their long flying tour of foreign lands when they arrived ar-rived at Miami, Fla., from the Dominican Do-minican republic. They took off soon after for New York. Their trip took them twice across the Atlantic At-lantic ocean, and to four continents and thirty nations. . 1933, Western Newspsper Union. |