Show TN news aws review of current events the world over johnson hurrying industrial groups into federal control president forms an executive council london economic conference nears recess by EDWARD W PICKARD S purred on bv by president roose u velt though stimulus was scarcely necess en hugh S johnson industria industrial Indu recovery adminis let it be known that he intended to get the principal in du groups under federal control as speedily as possible he and the president desire that the indus tries come in volun tartly but if they do not riot the general Is ready to hold arbi arary hearings and u hugh S johnan johnson then Bs fix the wage wa rates and working hours for the recalcitrant trades these enforced regulations will apply until the industries present their own codes if it Is necessary to adopt arbitrary codes these will be based on data gathered by the administrations sta cal expert dr alexander sachs who ha almeady prepared a setup codifying various leading industries according to a number of conditions they haie hane been rated according to wage scales existing in various years chiefly the boom year of 1929 and charts have been prepared showing how tar far cuts in working hours must be made to restore a mass of employ ment equal to pre depress on days with these data doctor sachs has shown conclusions as to how much each industry ought to pay in mini mint mum wales wages how many employees it ought to absorb from the army of idle and how many hours those em ought to work every week two important codes received were those for the lumber and steel indus tries the former pegged wages so low and working hours so long that general johnson said they are wholly unacceptable and will in no case be approved A public hearing on this ode lode was set for july 20 in submitting the code john D tennant representing the lumber men declared it would result in a substantial in crease in the number of employees and that it would increase pay rolls by more than in the month of august alone the most extraordinary thing abbit the lumber code Is that it would set up an emergency national commit tee to be appointed by the 27 asso clatious clat lons ions applying for the code wh ch eb would hae hane the strongest of autocrat ic power to the point of exerting ab solute control over the entire indus try the cotton textile code was ap proved by the president and went into effect FOR OR the purpose of co ord bating the amany many new functions and new bu bri beaus created since march 4 the prest dent has created a super cabinet called the executive council similar to the supreme war council of world war days besides the president and his cabinet the members are the diorec tor of the budget lewis W douglas the federal relief adminis administrator tr ator harry L hopi ins the chairman of the reconstruction finance corporation J H tones the governor of the farm credit administration henry morgen thau than jr the chairman of the board of the home horne owners farm corpora afon william F stevenson the ad of the industrial recovery act gen hugh S johnson the admin intrator of agricultural adjustment george peek the chairman of the board of the tennessee valley authority arthur E morgan the federal rail road coordinator joseph B eastman and the director of the civilian con sen atlon corp sRobert fechner frank C khier treasurer of the national democratic committee was wis appointed secretary of the council during the summer and perhaps long er the regular tuesday cabinet meet ing is to be superseded by a meeting of the council or ahr IN interior S SECRETARY ICKES in his capacity as public works administrator and his assist ants are mighty busy these days for government departments states and municipalities are scrambling for shares of the which Is to be spent under the public works program of the administration the proposed federal projects were given first consideration and a long list of them was approved by mr ickes and submitted to the president applina tion from states and municipalities came next many of them having pre been approved by the recon st ruction finance corporation and passed on to mr ickes an add additional dional 20 of the allocated for public road gifts to the states was approved when the allotments for ohio massachusetts and utah received the final indorse ments of secretary ickes and secie tary of agriculture wallace with nith the already assigned to new york state this action means a total of 48 already donated as an outright grant from tl e federal treas ury for road building under the alf al lot mert massachusetts gets or A air ft waa t 01 x JU ohio and utah 4 08 and iowa by their dele I 1 gates in state conventions ratified the repeal of the eighteenth amend ment the votes being unanimous in both cases they were the tenth and eleventh states to take this action to wipe out prohibition citizens of oklahoma went to the polls and enthusiastically voted for the legalization of 3 32 2 beer by a ma bority of about 2 to 1 in oklahoma city the people made a rush for sixty carloads of beer that were waiting in the railroad yards for distribution but gov alfalfa bill murray called out the rational national guard and kept the cars closed until next day after which okia olla homa boma dry for or 26 years slaked its thirst racketeering is to be wiped out if the federal government can do it and its agencies throng throughout gh out the country are uniting in a drive to bring about this end such was the state ment made by senator copeland of new ew york chairman of the senite senate committee on crime after he had called on president roosevelt and attorney general cummings the first phase of the campaign he added will be re search and the mapping of lines of co operation for the present the work centers in three leading cities yew new york chicago and detroit where it Is directed respectively by senators copeland murphy of iowa and van denberg of michigan manufacture and transportation of guns will be one of the first tasks tackled by the committee it was in dilated copeland urged a program which would require all manufacture ers of guns to be licensed all guns numbered all dealers licensed and all purchasers examined tor for permits indications in london were that I 1 1 the economic 1 conference might con dinue until the end of july and then recess until september or october the steering commit tee favored this course it also decided that one monetary should d escuss international commercial indebted ness war debts ex eluded and that an other should deal with th the questions of cen tr il banking and sil all ver nearly all the neville work is being done by chamberlain subcommittees restricting strict ing the conference program was a complete victory for the gold bloc nations in addressing the house of commons on the governments policy neville chamberlain chancellor of the ex chequer said there is no doubt that the avowed policies of this country and the united states are closely par albel to one another whereupon the house cheered enthusiastically mr chamberlain continued it is the declared intention of the government to pursue by all means in their power any measures which they think will tend toward rais rats ng price levels which we believe to be the first essential step toward ery I 1 also agree that this country should hould not depend wholly upon what Is done in conjunction with other countries but that we should do what wha we can to help ourselves that is what we have been doing and we have met with a considerable meas ure of success sterling figures of corn com mod ties having risen from the first of the year no less than thin 8 per cent we have real really at last begun to see signs that show unmistakably that improvement is not a fleeting one that it has a solid foundation and may be expected to continue chicagoans especially those of italian birth or descent were eagerly awaiting the arrival at A oen cen tury of progress of gen italo balbo and his fleet of 24 ital an royal force seaplanes the air 41 armada was delayed several days at beyk javil iceland by un favorable weather con dillons and then despite continuing calm 41 that made it difficult to get the huge planes in the air it took off 4 for Cirt cartwright wright labra gen balbo dor this being the fourth and probably most perilous stage of the 7 mile flight to chi cago the route thence as laid out in ad advance ance was to shediac new brunswick miles montreal que bee 80 miles and chicago 1000 miles preparations were made by the ex position officials in chicago and the city authorities to give the italian fly ers a great reception and to entertain them lavishly during their stay A land ng place for the planes was ar ranged near the municipal pier and another on lake genera geneva in case the lake take was too rough t ye tl 0 of jimmy mal mattern t te n amer alcan lean aviator alive but injured in siberia was cause for rejoicing for sixteen days after be he crashed in the northern wilds he was barely able to keep alive and then he was picked up by eskimos and taken to the village of anadye the soviet government was active in the efforts to rescue the flier and reports from said a russian aviator expected to take him from anadye to nome H kt col charles A lindbergh Is still one of the country a most popular figures Is made evident by the general interest taken in the route mapping flight he Is making over the northern air course to europe mrs I 1 ind bergh her husband husbands s v rival in popularity Is with him not as a pas but as radio operator and assistant pilot of their big A monoplane their plans were to fly across labrador col cot lendbergh 9 h greenland and iceland and perhaps on to denmark they had no fixed route or stopping places and did not know when they would return the lind berghs trip started from new york and the first stop was near rockland me ale where they were forced down by fog when the air cleared they went on to halifax and after an overnight stop proceeded northward on the way to greenland stopping en route at st johns new brunswick the plane was provided with new pon and instruments and the motor had been speeded up considerably SWANSON Is deter S mined to build the navy up to treaty limits and his department has been allotted of the pub he tic works money the navy a con st ruction program it Is estimated will create more than man weeks of work and will result in the modernization of the fleet bids on seventeen of the authorized vessels will be opened in a few days the remaining fifteen vessels will be con strutted ted speedily in government navy yards the fiscal year 1933 end DURING ding ing july 1 the people of the unit ed states paid an additional in federal taxes this being because the new levies more than offset the decline in wealth due to the depression internal revenue collections for the year were about 1 the yield increased in 31 states and dropped in the other 19 most of the drop in income taxes had been in corporation returns which showed a decline of 35 per cent last year corporations income yielded only of federal taxes last year compared with the year before returns from bals where here the rate increases were heaviest dropped from a year ago to last year Pg PRESIDENT RESIDENT granted ranted a full pardon to francis has H shoemaker congressman from min alin desota who served a year in leaven worth penitentiary penitent liry before his election to congress he ile was convicted in 1930 of sending libelous and defamatory matter through the malls to a political enemy the president also pardoned owen lamb whom shoe ma maker ker met in prison and took to wa washington wahington hington as his secretary lamb was convicted of abstracting money from a national bank of the republican party L LEADERS determined that the G 0 P shall not die dle or eien sleep are actively ng I 1 for the elections of 1934 1034 and profess the belief that they can regain much of the ground lost in 1932 under the per SO s al a 1 direction of arverett sanders chairman of the na lional committee a series of regional meetings Is b being e I 1 n g held the latest bein being in ct CI icaco where na dional committeemen everett and a few others sanders from eight central states gathered their proceedings were not made public but it was learned that they are banking on the mistakes made by the democratic administration and are expecting more of them to be made in the future la ter there will be sim lar meetings in western cities mr sanders said in chicago that three conferences in the east had div en assurance of better times ahead for the party provided enough hard work was done he said the attitude of national headquarters Is one of looking forward and not backward nonpartisan observers are inclined to think that at present no headway can be made on the basis of opposition to the roosevelt policies at least not be before f ore they hae hane been given a fair chance to succeed or fail fall NE THOUSAND veterans of the 0 ONE rainbow division celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of the battle of champagne sur mer with a three days reunion in chicago including a fete at A century of progress exposition in the list of those who addressed the former solders sold ers were maj gen douglas mcarthur chief of staff stair of the united states army gen charles p summerall former chief of staff maj gen george E leach former major of minneapolis col william P screws of alabama maj gen matthew A tinley of hiowt and cot wililam J donovan of new york a 1933 western newspaper union |