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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over William Crecn Says Labor Must Force Week; Cen. Johnson and Business Leaders Discuss Future of the NRA. 30-Ho- Dy EDWARD W. PICKARD Is served on the nation NOTICE I lie 30 hour work week will le forced on Industry, by organ- ized labor by Thursday, May 10. THE TIMES NEWS. NEPHI. UTAH PAGE TWO the use of widespread strikes, u necessary. This Is the dictum of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and It causes con- sternation In the as administration well a grave alarm In the country generally. Green. In his day address to William Green May workers, says the New Denl has failed to remedy the unemployment situation, since ttwre are still more than ten millions without Jobs. The SOhour week, he says. Is the only remedy available since If all Industries not yet under codes are brought under them, the resulting will not give work to these millions. Just before Oreen Issued this Statement, President Roosevelt hnd apparently declined to support the Connery bill legislating a week for all Industry; and General Johnson has recently abandoned as not feasible the plan for forcing a JO per cent reduction In working hours. 30-ho- REPRESENTATIVE BERTRAND eral commission and a cessation of federal subsidies for Inland waterways. Another $2,000,000,000 for public works In order to help the laggard heavy Industries. Relaxation of the present rigid security act and a softening of the pending stock exchange bill. Approval by congress of the President's tariff bargaining plans as a means to reviving foreign trade. Abandonment by the administration of Its demand that Industry cut Its working hours 10 per cent and raise Its pay rolls 10 per cent. Control of bituminous coal production by a system of quotas and penalty taxes on overproduction. a few hours before General had spoken In high praise of the bituminous coal settlement. Federal District Judge Charles I. Dawson In Iulsvllle held unconstitutional the code arranged for that Industry, as applied to local business, and granted a temporary Injunction restraining the government from forcing the code upon unwilling operators In western Kentucky, The operators, who claim to have $50,000,000 Invested In the mines, chiefly In Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Union and Webster counties, protested vigorously when the code recently was formulated providing for $4.00 a day for seven hours work. Prior to that the scale was $4 for eight hours work. Most of their mines were shut down more than a month ago. T L'ST J Johnson minority lender In the house, snys the period of emergency Is over, so he and the rest of the Republican leaders feel free now to demand that the emergency laws and bureaus be dispensed with. An amazing phnse of the conthe senate committee on troversy over the New Deal thus WHEN and elections opened of comes to light The opponents the hearings on the demands that the administration virtually concede Senators Huey P. Long and his po that President Roosevelt and his ad- litical :: '.iJ4 WIW.'WawJjH-follower, visers have won their fight against Overton H. John northat the depression and declare of Louisiana be demal conditions have been restored of their or are at hand. P.ut the President prived the political and the other New Dealers deny seats, groups that have that the battle Is over and assert been seeking espemust measures that their recovery to oust the be continued In force. At the same cially remained time they Insist that they are not "klngflsh" In the background to American systhe change seeking and left it to the tem to sfate socialism, collectivism, women of Louicommunism, fascism, and that what siana to take the Mrs. they are accomplishing Is "evolulead In the fight. tion, not revolution." Hammond These women are Thus a most peculiar situation In headed by Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hampolitics Is created, and the man In mond, who has been indefatigable the street Is waiting Interestedly to in the compaign against Long and see how It will be handled In the his crew. coming campaign. The women were represented as counsel by Gen. Samuel T. Ansell, all from business of LEADERS the wartime Judge advocate gencountry gathered eral, whoacting has pending against Long meet In Washington for the annual a suit for libel. His opening stateing of the United States Chamber ment dispelled the Idea that Long's of Commerce, and opponents would be satisfied to let natumlly the topic Overton remain in the senate If the was for discussion "kingfish" were thrown out. the NRA, concern"We expect to prove," said Gening which varying eral Ansell, "the charge that there views were offered. was fraud In the 1932 Louisiana President Henry I. primaries sufficient to vitiate the Harriman declared election of Senator Overton ; that that Industry Is Senator- Overton was an active willing to accept perpetrator of that fraud; that the President's sugSenators Overton and Long were gestion of a permadesigners and instigators of that nent NRA If modifraud." fications and re Gen. Johnson strictions are placed on the broad authority granted Mr. Roosevelt WILLIAM H. WOODIX, who Roosevelt's first during the emergency last year. of the treasury, has On the other hand, Silas H. secretary to the away, passed succumbing former chamhead of the Strawn, that forced his ber, attacked what he termed the throat affection abandonment of a scheme of gov- resignation from the cabinet last the counernment which has made "us hap- December. a In his death business man of the loses try more and than prosperous any pier He called for, a highest type and a gentleman who other nation." three-wa- y action by Mr. Roosevelt : had the respect and affection of all who knew him. He became presiBalancing of all governmental dent of the American Car and budgets, a definite announcement company In 1916, and also that there will be no more requests Foundry was president of the American Lo for emergency legislation and "no comotive company. Ilis Interests more tinkering with the dollar," and were varied, for he was musician, a revision of. the securities act and composer, art lover and student of legislation, government as well as leader In Inproposed At a dinner Gen. Hugh S. John dustry. He was long a personal son was the chief guest and after friend of Mr. Roosevelt and, though his address he submitted to an In a was one of the first Republican, quisition on the present and prosselections for the President's cab pective policies of the NRA. Asked inet and worked hard so long as his directly If the principles embodied healtn permitted. In the recovery act were to be permanent, he replied : IT'XACTLY 30 years from the day "If there has been any good demAdmiral Dewey destroyed the onstrated by the recovery act, it Spanish fleet in Manila bay, the leg to will live and it ought live; If islature of the Philippines accepted there has been any bad It will die the new offer of the United States and It ought to die." for the independence of the islands Admitting that there has been a ns embodied in the Tydlngs-McDufliact. lapse In public Interest and Under the terms of the measure lasin, the general said a new campaign to make the nation Blue the Filipinos will obtain complete . Eagle conscious was being mapped. Independence in During the He also admitted that the controvIntervening years a commonwealth ersy between labor and industry Is government, to be set up probably becoming more acute. He expressed next year, will govern the Islands. the opinion that the ideal relationWith acceptance of the act the ship between labor and manageFilipinos ceased to be nationals of ment had been worked out in the the United States and became sub bituminous coal Industry. ject to the rigid immigration laws Generally, the member of the Only 50 may enter this countrv chamber of commerce agreed that yeariy. The status of an estimated the first year under the NRA had 00,000 Filipinos in the United States economic brought Improvement. as well as the International status Some of their suggestions for speed- of the entire island population dur ing the recovery program were: Ing tlie transition period remains in of all land, water, doubt, due to. the wording of the and air transportation under a fed measure. stock-exchang- e e t AJORITY of the and minority report Inveattgution Into Dr. A. Wirt's "red ulul" alone were made to the bun, and they were Just hut bud been exnected. The majority of the committee held that Wirt's charges were mil rue and that bis foiiJifiiiiiiiim ut the famous dinner party did not uiuke the state ment be bud attributed to them. Representatives McGugln and Lehl-bacthe Republican minority members of the com mi t tee, characterized the Investigation a a "repudi ation of all precedent" and Indica tive of Intentions to "suppress all Information" which might directly Involve the brain trust ' William Scenes and Persons in the Current News Well all I BEVERLY HILLS Is Just what I read in the papers, or what I overhear when folks finally get me stopped talking for a minute. Had soma fun out here at old h, know tgages Raneho senate by acclamation the conference renort on the 19.J4 revenue measure, which provides for an Increase In taxes of $417,000,000. The Cousseni amendment for a 10 per cent increase In Income tax, which the house rejected, was cut out. (first and I jo! E.N the administration's bill for reduction of cotton production was under consideration Its argued In vain that it would work grievous injustice to thousands of tenant farmers and "croppers" in the South. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace now finds this prediction was well founded, his Information coming from Dr. Calvin B. Hooker of Duke university whom he requested to make an Investigation. Mr. Wallace now plans the establishment of a compliance board to inquire Into complaints of tenants. At the same time the enforcement of cotton reduction contracts will be tightened to prevent farm owners from ousting tenant farmers and farm workers because of the reduced amount of production. - sec- ond mortgage Ranch) a couple of Sundays ago. O. O. Mclntlre and Irvln Cobb, and Will Hayes. Bill Hayes wife. and Odd's wife and Irvln's daughter, (and a bright one too) and tbls elderly aunt of Odd's I was telling you about last week and Mrs. BUlie Burke Zeigfeld. Well to kinder make O. O. and Irvln feel like Paducah, Kentucky, sah, and Galopolis, Ohio, we hitched up a team of big grey mules to a three-seatehack, I took the ribbons, and Cobb said, "There is where you should have been all these years telling those Jokes to a span of grey mules." Well never mind what the Chamber of Commerce says, this is at heart a dry mountainous country. I have some dirt roads around our patch, but they are so Imbedded up against the mountains side that I really have yet to see anybody derive any great enjoyment out of driving around em. Take those four Hunter boys that broke the endurance record in planes. I took them around there in a Ford, and if they had bad parachutes they would have "Balled Out" on the second turn. We drove up on a kind of a high lookout Its our local Pikes Peak. Must be at least 400 feet above sea level. (But I have never known the Pacific to be level, never when I was on it.) I pointed out Catalina Island, or where I had seen it the day when there was no fog. I pointed distant screen stars homes out. I Just had heard they lived within a mile of wilere I pointed, but there was no place for anyone to argue with a driver. Then I turned my mules down hill and toward the barn. Like a real old stage coacb driver I reached for my side brake. I throwed her on, but she had Jarred loose and she dident connect with the wheel. She had been an awful nice hack In "Atmosphere" tied out in a Western street in a movie scene but she was a lltle rusty on mountain work. Well when the brakes dident work she commenced going up on these old mules heels, those single-tree- s 11 port outside of Berlin, Chancellor Hitler defiantly denied Germany's war guilt and declared the relch has He been a victim of the war. warned the world again that Germany no longer was willing to accept discrimination against her by the former allied powers, and declared that day of "spineless submission" was at an end. rAEAD" for more than a year, the Austrian parliament came to life long enough to approve, by a vote of 74 to 2, the new Constitution and a mass of laws decreed by Chancellor Dollfuss since March 3, 1033. The new Constitution abolishes parliaments and also does away with trial by Jury. of May 6, George V began the twenty-fiftyear of his reign as king of Great Britain, Ireland and the British dominions beyond the sea and emperor of India. By his own choice the anniversary was not observed by especial ceremonies, but preparations are already under wny for a celebration of his silver Jubilee in 1935 that will rival that of Queen Victoria's golden Jubilee In 1887. In his 24 years on the throne George has earned the high esteem of the the world and has proved himself a real leader and, In the minds of the British, all that a king should be. He la democratic, human and progressive and a genuine sportsman, but upholds with dignity the traditions of the court h that the forces of the Department of Justice are In- adequate to cope with the gangsters, and will ask congress for about In excess of the $28,700,778 authorized the department for the fiscal year 1035. Next year's appropriation is the lowest granted the Justice department since the war. With the additional money the attorney general contemplates purchasing for the division's agents a fleet of high powered automobiles, a few armored cars and ample guns Likewise the and ammunition. force of investigators will be added to, and there is a possibility that the division's 24 field offices will be increased. believe nr. ' t dill-centl- y i J- - 4 1 1 te i ,., 2-- f, . - ' arc w ""' aJiA-I- 1 Rt. Rev. Stephen Donobue who was consecrated as Catholic auxiliary bishop of New York. Cardinal 2 First dress parade of the year at Annapolis Naval academy, before the board of t1 Hayes officiating. ltore. 3 Mother, children and the family cow being transported across the Penobscot river to safety during the serious floods In Maine. Jack Has a Day Ashore in Panama I t&ss, , h wij 7? i 4 ) I- - : mm, While the United States fleet was at Panama on its way from the Pacific to the Atlantic the sailors were given welcome shore leave and thronged the cities. A party is here seen leaving one of the ships. JAVELIN THROWER Organizing Fourth Internationale IIP c wmmxhmn f c authority there to - gang, as has been done before. The ring. It is said, has been operating In Chicago, New York. John J. St Louis. Kansas McLaughlin City and other cities. One of the first men taken into custody was John J. McLaughlin, formerly a state legislator and a political boss In Chicago, suspected of being a leader In the disposal of the "hot money." The specific charge against him Is conspiracy In the kidnaping of Edward Bremer, St Paul banker, for whose release a ransom of $200.(X)0 was paid. The federal agents were searching for William Elmer Mead, a notorious crook, who Is thought to have directed the kidnapers. McLaughlin confessed that he had handled some of the P.remer ransom money, and his son was arrested with part of It In his pocket C ty Western Nowppr rjnlou. V V- but rylne to get others before they are put .in (j I 'A & 3 ,,5, "''4X- A. yt p they great ring of crooks for the handling of money derived from kidnaplngs. bank rob-- , berles and swindles. ' " ' They already have jt- x arrested a number " 1) y commenced popping em on the hina legs, and they commenced to hit quite a nice gentle loap. Cobb is in the very rear seat, and cant do the coaching that I figured be would be able to aid me with. He is leaning In toward the mountain side at an angle that must a been about horizontal. Mclntire aint on this excursion, or he would a busted a spat, but his wife Is, and this 82 x f aunt is sitting up with old v k 14 oywC Casey Jones Rogers, and having the time of her life. A mighty narrow road, a real drop down side into a deep canyon, down hill, mules picking up momentum here and there. Sounds kinder komical now, but not so hot at the time. I got an awful good boy with me. Buddy Sterling, and I kinder suspicioned when we started out that we might need a pick-uman, so he was along on a Ralston Le Gore of North Caro-In- a hurled the Javelin better than good horse. Will H. Hayes was along and also inyone else at the Penn relay meet an outrider, but Bill could only n Philadelphia, and so won that shout encouragement in a case like ivent that. He could have cut anyDRAFTED AS MAYOR thing he wanted too out of the x scene if it had been in a movie, K GENERAL FEDERAL agentsa 'si am. year-youn- ATTORNEY 4ru d SPEAKING to about two million at the Templohof air- JUST before midnight -- Uno E Dos Mor- THE 17 1931 j j j had be muscular. Buddy passed us like a streak and picked em up. Had to reach over one's neck and bull dog the second one too. We got stopped and lost three customers, Mrs. Rogers, wife of the driver of course, Mrs. Zeig- feld, who had never seen anything that wild in the Follies, and Mr. Cobb. Said he dident mind staying in, but he dident like to see the ladles walk down the hill alone as no telling what leading man might attack em. We hobbled one hind wheel to the body and went on down in enjoyment. The old Aunt Mrs. Hayes, and Mclntlre and Mrs. Brody, Irv's daughter. I had another, (about a ten acre patch) that I wanted to Bhow em, but I couldent seem to get anybody interested. Well it was a flop. I dident have time to point out a thing, I couldent gi.e em a plot of ground and throwed in the mules. Still the thing wasent as bad as it could have been. I got some horses that if those old single trees started to hit em on the shins, I believe we would have had some real fun. I got the brake Hxed now, and am looking for new suckers. ffi 1934. McNngkt Sydualr. Im. 9 M "A car In every garage and two fur coats for every scrub lady" Is the platform outlined by Arne Swabeck, organizer In New York for Leon Trotzky's Fourth Internationale. His organization has branches In all American Industrial centers and differs from the Communistic party only In Its policy of international rather than national socialism. "Everything will work out" he snys, "after the government has seized the factories, railroads, steamships, stores and banks." Iowa Farmers Get Corn-Ho- g Money r 1 1 A III' : r 1 . I W The men of Washington, Ark., too busy to bold office, called on the women to run the town, and Urs. Charlean Moss Williams was Jrafted as mayor, though she is years old and a grandmotn-r- . She said that with her compete set of women officials, she "do a little bouse cleaning." be-Ji- g 1 " sixty-- five Tobacco in a Cigar The average cigar contains about ten times as much tobacco ns an cigarette, according to one ireighlcg test , - ' A ' - j Iowa farmers receiving their government checks as part of their reimbursement under the corn-ho- g curtailment program of the AAA, |