news of current events CONGRESS ADJOURNS huge relief and priming bill and wage hour measure enacted during closing days day s of session aw 5 V F I 1 le N al A PP P P A X 3 K M 1 ip here japanese soldiers with flexed bayonets are seen rushing a chinese position in a part of suchow which the japanese artillery had reduced to naming flaming ruins there as elsewhere the defenders practically destroyed the city before retreating A n y N P arf 1 I I 1 y imza W y summarizes cl THE TT TR WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union congress session ends 1 RUE HE seventy fifth congress brought its labors to a close and adjourned thanked by president roosevelt for or the constructive legislation it had enacted in its one special and two regular sessions this congress set a peace time record by appropriating more than 2 20 0 billion dollars almost at the last moment the 3 million dollar relief and pump priming bill was enacted in into to law the house accepted a senate amendment boosting the appropriation for administrative expenses of the rural electrification administration from to agreement was reached on the million dollar second deficiency bill when the senate concurred in the action of the house in knocking out to nir chase additional land tor for the lake tahoe national park and for forestry i both senate and house over the presidents veto the bill continuing the 3 per cent rate on federal land bank loans on farm mortgages scores of bills of varying degrees of importance were lost in the contusion confusion of the last hours of the session among them was t the he bill authorizing federal law enforcement officers kotap to tap wires to get evidence of violations of law the relief and pump priming law as enacted includes one billion million dollars tor for the works progress administration tor for a period of eight months beginning july 1 million dollars for the farm security administration 1 75 million on dollars for the national youth administration and million dollars for the public works administration it authorizes the to lend up to million dollars from the sale of securities pledged tor for previous loans it increases the lending limit of the united states housing authority for low cost housing from million to million millio n dollars it appropriates million dollars dollar for additional price adjustment subsidies to farmers 41 senators to aid van nuys FREDERICK REDERICK VAN NUYS senior senator from indiana Is going to run tor for reelection re election as an independent because he was read out of thi the democratic party I 1 tor for opposing the supreme court and government r reorganization e 0 r bills now 11 democratic senators have hav e come forward to support him and will speak in his campaign they are bennett champ dark clark missouri senator burton K wheeler Wheel sr van nuys montana josiah W bailey north carolina royal S copeland new york ilay harry flood byrd virginia joseph C wyoming edward R burke nebraska tom connally texas peter G gerry rhode island MR all lard E tydings maryland and guy M gillette iowa joining with them are two republican senators william E borah ol of idaho and arthur it IL vandenburg of michigan wage bill now law WAGE AGE HOUR legislation key stone of the presidents I 1 social reform program was put through congress in modified form just before adjournment the conference committee compromise was accepted by the house to 89 69 A bout about half tho the republican members gave in and voted for the measure but 48 ot of them and 41 democrats were recorded against it this act approved by organized labor and generally opposed by big business is designed to establish a 40 cent minimum hourly wage and a 40 hour maximum work week in interstate industries in seven years it will achieve the goal by easy stages beginning with a 25 cent wage and a 44 hour week in affected industries the first year and graduating to 30 cents and 40 hours in three years thereafter quasi public industrial boards dominated by a federal administrator will fix the 40 40 scale according to sectional economic conditions and in conformance with the major concession to the south will exempt industries which can drove prove the scales will work an economic hardship child labor under fourteen years of age is outlawed except in seasonal and other specified industries specific exemption is provided tor for farm workers processors in the area of production executives administrative and professional help local recalling employees seamen air transport workers seasonal indus tries employees of weekly or semiweekly papers whose circulation Is less than those whose hours are regulated by the motor carrier act those under wage agreements handlers of perishable goods and those represented by a collective bargaining agency I 1 lewis twice rebuffed TWICE WICE in the last days of the session john L lewis C 1 I 0 chieftain virtually ordered congress to pass the amendment to the j walsh healy govern fc ment contracts bill so corporations that refused to obey NLRB orders could be blacklisted both times lewis was re buff buffed ed when speaker F bankhead refused to permit suspension of the rules to bring the bill up in the 4 house the rules JL L Lewis ommittee 0 of f t the h e house was overwhelmingly against this action lewis and some of his C 1 I 0 lieutenants had boldly marched into the speakers office to make their demand and lewis had summoned congressmen before him in the room this arrogance arousing extreme resentment when he had been turned down a second time lewis was enraged and threatened rep reprisal resal at the polls calling reporters from the press gallery he said to them the action of the rules committee is 13 cowardly and pusillanimous in a short time congress will adjourn and amny ny of the members will return to their districts seeking seek ing support as friends of labor we want to know how good 6 a friend they are before we give them our support great floods in in china POURING through broken dikes A the waters of the yellow river inundated many hundreds of square miles in central china in the first two or three days of the great flood it was estimated chinese were drowned and several times as many rendered homeless millions of others were threatened by the swirling waters the fate of thousands of japanese soldiers in the area was not known but it was thought many of them must have perished tar far from the war and flood fronts the shanghai municipal council officially fici ally declared cholera to be epidemic tn in shanghai in the cites hospitals there were cases 73 of them originating in foreign ad ministered areas areas in the yangtze river valley japanese continued their drive by land and by gunboat against bankow finland pays caero ERO muster minister from finland appeared in the state department on june 15 and proudly announced that finland was paying its debt installment due that day and had deposited with the federal reserve bank in new york john Pele hungarian minister announced his government had paid 1 per cent on account against its postwar post war debt the def defaulting a tilting nations were as usual belgium Czech czechoslovakia oslo akia estonia france great britain italy latvia lithuania poland rumania and jugo john roosevelt weds I 1 TN N A little old stone church at na hant mass john roosevelt youngest son of president and mrs roosevelt an and d anne anna lindsay clark were m made ade man and wife alter after the ceremony there was a re reception cep in the old nahant jahant club and the young couple then started on a honeymoon trip to bermuda there they were to stay at the estate of vincent astor railway aid postponed WHEN ithen the leaders of the senate v v and house made up their minds to adjourn congress not later than june 15 they went to the white house and told the president the proposed legislation to expedite the reorganization of railroads would have to be postponed to the next session they agreed however to put through two other railway measures one permits loans to railroads without interstate commerce commission certification the other establishes a special unemployment insurance system for rail workers I 1 healing party rifts drifts THOUGH HOUGH it was believed tommy corcoran and his eliminating committee would continue the ef forts to purge the democratic party ot of opponents of administration policies the president himself undertook to repair some of the breaks eaks in the party ranks for instance he invited senator gulette gillette victor in the iowa primary to the white house where they took os off their coats ate luncheon gov achman er and according to reports planned common action against the republican enemy in november also it was disclosed mr roose velt had sent word to the ne new york democrats that the re nomina tion of governor lehman would be acceptable to him he has not liked lehman since the go governor came out against the court packing bill there had been a plan to run leh man for senator and wagner foi governor but this switch presumably pre surn Is now out our slump worst A A to the monthly bul A letin of the federal reserve board the present business depression Is more severe in the united states than in any other industrial country in the world the manufacture of war materials in other countries was pointed out however as one of the principal supports to business activity many other industries showing almost as poor results as in the united states jape japan an s demands rejected A A MERICAN warships will remain in the yangtze river and will go to any place where americans are in danger this despite the demands ol of japan naval officials ol of japan asked that all foreign warships leave the yangtze river area between juhu and Kiu Klu kiang klang because the invaders were about to start an offensive tow toward ard bankow provisional chinese capital but admi admiral ral harry eparnell EYa EY roell arnell narry arry yarnell commander of the united states asiatic fleet rejected the demand sharply further more he ha at once planned an inspection spec tion trip up the yangtze and through the war zone and he did not ask japans permission these three principles ol of american naval operations in asiatic waters were set forch by admiral yarnell to in his note to the japanese the united states navy will retain complete freedom of movement on the yangtze Yang tze and will proceed to any place where americans are in danger the american command will not change the color of its warships which are painted white to conform to any color scheme suggested by the japanese the united states does not regard the warning of japanese naval officials relative to the yangtze as relieving the japanese in the slightest degree of responsibility for damage or injury to united states warships eight army flyers die EIGHT anute IGHT army airmen from chanute field in illinois were caught in a storm lost ono wing of 0 their big bom bomber berand and crashed in a farm field near delavan ill all of them were killed and the tanks burst into flame three of the victims were commissioned officers