Show ww W sum summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 west rn newspaper union hulls st lawrence plan athe presumably by direction of the president secretary lofstate of state hull submitted to canada a new proposal for or development of the st lawrence seaway asking that it be considered as a basis 1 I for or a new treaty reaty which wo would uld be a revision and ampil 1 1 fl cation of the treaty of 1932 that the senate refused to ratify in 1934 under the 44 terms of the hull M plan canada would 4 obtain without cost secretary hull a completed st lawrence deep waterway ready for power development and als also 0 other valuable concessions the united stats states would obtain the privilege of building the seaway at its own expense increased power development at niagara falls and the recognition tion by canada of american sovereignty over lake michigan immediate and vociferous opposition to the plan broke out in copt co gress both democrats and leans characterizing it as a scheme to buy the support of the dominion for a gigantic water power development planned by the new york state power authority from the state department leaked Wor information mation that not even canada was expected to approve the proposed treaty canadian officials have repeatedly doubted whether recovery from the depression would be promoted by spending millions million on a waterway for which there is not sufficient commerce and for development of surplus water power for which there is no demand hulls plan provides that the united sta states tes shall develop the tha In international ierna rapids section of the st lawrence river at an estimated cost of million dollars this was dea denounced by senator wagner of new york senator copeland also of new york announced he was against the seaway project laoo 1000 per cent ile he called it an all british canal senator key pluman pittman chairman of the senate foreign relations committee having jurisdiction of treaties said the new proposals would not have a chance of ratification fi unless materially modified senators and representatives from the middle west were especially aroused senator dark clark of missouri pointed out that the treaty would permit diversion of only 1500 cubic feet of water per second into the chicago drainage canal he said the mississippi river must receive more water than that from the canal in hi order to fill a nine toot foot channel I 1 represent Re representative presen dative claude parsons Parson of illinois was even more emphatic in disapproval this proposed treaty he said Is about the worst mistake secretary hull ever made under the terms of his proposal to set up an international commission for the great lakes st lawrence basin canada would be given control over our all american lake michigan furthermore the treaty would prohibit any further diversion of water from lake michigan at chicago of more than 1500 cubic feet per second the illinois and mississippi rivers must have at least cs to insure a dependable waterway wallace slapped again STERNLY chastising secretary of U agriculture henry A wallace and solicitor general robert H I 1 i jackson for making assertions that were unwarranted and wholly unfounded the united states supreme court rejected the governments petition for a rehearing of the kansas city stockyards stock yards rate case twice before the court had rebuked wallace in the stockyards stock yards caso case and had set aside his order fixing maximum rates fates which commis commas I 1 lion men might charge for services because the court said they had been denied a full fair and open hearing by secretary wallace justice hugo black who was the lone dissenter when the case was decided in april ran true to form again aga in being the only member of oi the court to dissent now food act passed W WITHOUT a record vote the house the passed new pure food and drug bill the senate had passed a similar measure and the differences were to be reconciled in conference the act brings drugs therapeutic devices and foods under regulation of the department of agriculture it prohibits alteration or misbranding branding of cosmetics 94 foods and drugs requires adequate tests of products before they are placed on the market provides for license restrictions to control bacterial contamination of foods requires warning labels on habit form ing drugs and provides for factory inspection 7 reform bill shelved ap RESIDENT ROOSEVELT act ac i k cepter the advice of congressional leaders and consented to the shelving of his bill for reorganization of the executive government this was announced with the approval of the president by senator barkley at the same time it was made known that the administration would attempt to get the measure through congress early in the 1939 session sen hiram johnson of california said the opponents of the bill would be ready to res resume ume their battle against it next year tax bill unsigned but law F TOR OR the first time since he entered the white house president roosevelt permitted an act of congress to become law without his signature he took this course with the tax revision bill in order to emphasize his objection to those unwise parts of the bill which removed all but the ik skeleton eleton of the undistributed profits tax and drastically modified the levies upon capital gains president ent 3 The he president an roosevelt 0 v it bounced his action in a speech delivered to mountain families of the now deal sponsored rehabilitation community of arthur dale W va at the graduation exercises of 13 high school students his words however were carried to the nation by radio networks 1 I call the definite attention of the american people said mr roosevelt to those unwise parts pars of the bill I 1 have talked to you about today one of them which may re tax avoidance and of concentrated investment power which we had begun to end and the other a definite abandonment of a principle of tax policy long ago accepted as part of our american system the president declared that he had no objection to removing any obstacles to little business which might be contained in the revenue laws but he reiterated the administrations trat ions determination not to allow the use of corporate forms to avoid what v hat it considers legitimate tax bur dens mr roosevelt made plain that he hoped for a future revision of the revenue laws in ih line with the objectives he seeks such revisions he said should be designed to enczur age new investment and the entry of private capital into new fields I 1 big fund for highways L legislation E authorizing new federal highway expenditures of for the fiscal years 1940 and 1941 won final congressional approval when the senate adopted a conference report previously accepted by the house also authorized was the expenditure of of old unused appropriations another recovery plan A A abandonment BANDON MENT of experiments by the government and adoption of an industrial program based on experience was advocated by charles B R hook president of the national association oi of manufacturers before a meeting of the chicago association of commerce A return to sound economic reasoning and a common sense sensa diagnosis Is the sure solution to the problems of america today mr hook said emphasizing that industry has a definite program for industrial recovery mr hook who is president of american rolling mill company outlined three cardinal points in chiding mv islon of the wagner act revision of the tax structure and banishment of existing and ahr threatened government competition with private enterprise remove these causes off of tear ear and uncertainty mr hook said and private savings will rush back into the channels of private productive enterprise we specifically urge amendments to the wagner act to correct its one sided character to enforce responsibility on labor organizations to separate the functions of fact fac t finding prosecution and judicial decision and establish impartial administration by the national labor relations board twenty more federal judges P PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT signed the bill creating 20 additional federal judges throughout the country the measure Is the largest judgeship bill passed by congress since 1921 five additional circuit court of appeals judges at a year each and 13 15 additional district judges at a year each are auth authorized authorize oriz ed by the act strike back at morgan T testifying before the joint congressional committee of investigation vesti gation david E lilienthal Lil lenthal an and d harcourt Hare ourt morgan directors of the tennessee valley authority accused dr arthur E morgan their ousted colleague with trying to sabotage the legal defense v in a court case involving the constitutionality tiona lity of the authority tho rity they said too that he had engaged in a campaign of dissent and D david vid E obstruction lil Lili lilienthal euthal these charges together with a general denial of arthur Mo morgans rians accusations against themselves constituted in the main their defense statements referring to the trial last winter of the suit of 18 private utility concerns against the TVA lilienthal said it is a record which suggests that he was seeking to find a way to obtain a decision against his own agency it is a record of tampering with prospective witnesses tor for the government and of obstructing and harassing counsel and witnesses in the very heat of the trial of a crucial constitutional case concerning the berry marble claims lilienthal said any assertion that we harcourt Hare ourt morgan and himself by word or attitude encouraged any one to pull punches on berrys barrys claims is an outright falsehood there was absolutely no evidence upon which any charge of fraud could have been based there were only rumors and suspicions dean mumford dies D DEAN EAN HERBERT W MUMFORD of the university of illinois Is dead following an automobile accident and the country loses one of its best agricultural educators and mn marketing experts mumford was wa a product of michigan in 1801 1901 he became professor of animal husbandry in the university at champaign then hd ha was made dean of the college of agriculture and director of the agricultural experiment station and extension service he was sixty seven years old at the time of his death sweepstakes winners B DOIS OIS ROUSSEL a french bred horse won the english derby at epsom downs and tour four sweepstakes ticket holders in the united states van won each scottish union second won each for 11 united states ticket holders pasch the favorite finished third returning each to seven ticket holders in the united states 1 k defies harry hopkins VICTOR ICTOR A CHRISTGAU minna blinne sola administrator quarreled continually with gov elmer benson and the farmer labor party leaders in that state so harry hopkins national head of the notified him he was ousted carlst gau refused to quit his position contending that only president roosevelt who appointed him had power to dismiss him war pensions boosted pa RESIDENT ROOSEVELT signed 1 a bill to increase the pensions of 0 certain soldiers sailors and nurses who served in the spanish war philippine insurrection or china relief expedition the act provides a 60 6 monthly pension tor for veterans sixty five years old who served at least 80 90 days and to those who served less than 90 00 days and were discharged tor for disability incurred in service |