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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Tennessee Valley authority by nineteen utility companies has put an end to efforts to form a public-privat- e power transmission pool. President Roosevelt declared in a letter written to federal power exand private company officials perts Mass Evac- that the Disastrous Flood Moves Down the Mississippi utility action in securing the injunction, precludes a joint Moves Perkins to uation Prepared Secretary transmission facility arrangement, and makes it advisable to discontinCompel General Motors Strike Parley. ue" any conferences planned to gain that end. W. The injunction which drew Mr. By 6 Western Newspaper Unina. Roosevelt's Are halted the TV A from new construction or from soGRADUALLY the terrible flood leadei of the senate, she asked the liciting additional customers for its bill of a subsided, prompt valley empowerpassage but the yellow torrents were pour- ing her department to subpoena per- power. ing down the lower Mississippi and sons and papers in connection with the nation was moinvestigations of strikes. To the 1 ARL RADEK, noted soviet Rus-sia- n journalist, and . 18 other bilized to save the press Miss Perkins said that once men more or less prominent in the sYp. had this power she would sumpeople there. By dimon Sloan to a meeting with Lewis affairs of Russia, went to trial as rection of the Presin Washington; but she was not conspirators against ident and Gen. Malthe Stalin regime sure she could compel him to negoin Craig, chief of and the soviet state, tiate a strike settlement. the army staff, and all freely conmade all preparaSloan had posted in all General fessed their guilt. Motors plants a denial that the cortions for the evacuThey readily told ation of all inhabiporation was responsible for the the details of the breakdown of negotiations and was tants along the rivamazing plot and aser between Cairo, our moral shirking responsibilserted that the ex111., and New Orities." He reiterated his refusal to iled Leon Trotzky leans. The details treat with the union so long as was its chief mover. for this mass movethe strikers held the plants, Radek described the ment were worked out to the last and continued with a promise to scheme by which point by commanding officers in the employees: the plotters hoped to We shall demand that your region and thousands of motor overthrow Stalin and bring back a trucks and railroad flat cars were rights and our rights be protected modified capitalism to Russia. It incollected. Headquarters for the against a small minority who have evacuation were set up at Jackson, seized certain plants and are hold- volved the wrecking of the nations system and the bringing Miss. ing them as ransom to enforce their railway of war on Russia by Japan about Lieut. Col, Eugene Reybold, dis- demands. and Germany. Japan was to be trict engineer at Memphis, ordered I say to you once more, have no the maritime provinces in the prompt delivery of 5,000,000 bur- fear. Do not be misled. General given Asia and Germany was to be persandlap sacks for the erection of Motors will never let you down. You mitted to grab the Ukraine. But bag bulwarks, 15 cars of lumber, 210 will not have to pay tribute for the Radek added that the conspirators outboard motorboats, 300 small privilege of working in a General would result in a war the hoped 300 and life jackets, 1,500 Motors plant." boats, new revolution in Russia and that lanterns. Sloan contends that more than thereafter those territories could be The secretary of war authorized M. employees have exregained. I am guilty of all the the use of not only regular army 100,000 G. to return to work. charges, said the once powerful a desire pressed troops but also members of the editor. Civilian Conservation corps, the Lewis scoffs at this claim but will the holding of Gregori Sokcrinikoff, former soviet National Guard, and the Red Cross. not countenance an election to determine whether his ambassador to England, declared General Craig said that if the bilneche knew as early as 1932 of a plot lion dollar levee system, erected unions command the majority to constitute them the sole to assassinate Stalin, and admitted after the great 1927 flood, failed to essary collective bargaining agency. The he was guilty of plotting to betray hold, about the same area affected federal labor relations board could the Soviet union to Germany and then would be inundated. Many Vladimir Romm, former thousands of people already had order such an election but it has Japan. correspondent of been removed from homes along the not intervened, and probably will Washington of Moscow, though not yet on not. Mississippi, but cities like Memphis Murphy of Michigan trial, was put on the stand and and Vicksburg, being on high hadGovernor not modified his refusal to per- testified that he knew of the were believed to be safe. ground, staplot, that he carried letters At New Orleans river experts re- mit the National Guardsmen in from, Radek to the exiled Leon utilized in to tioned be Flint fused to admit danger of a super-floo- d out a judicial order that Trotzky and that he agreed to bealong the lower reaches of the carrying come Trotzky's undercover inn the plants be vacated by the river. But Secretary of War Woodformant. strikers. ring in Washington had reports Scores of persons implicated by from engineers which said the the confessions of the defendants A em-of 'T'HE strike 7,100 levee system on the lower Missishave been arrested. Among them Is ployees of the sippi probably would not be able Glass company ended with ap- M. A. G. Beloborodoff, the veteran to withstand the present flood when Bolshevist who ordered the execuproval by the union committee and tion of Czar Nicholas and his famit reaches its crest. of a wage agreeofficials company At this writing the effects of the ment ily. giving a flat flood may be thus summarized: The prosecutor asked death for increase in all plants of the comHomeless, nearly a million. Dead, A was all the defendants. pany. Leon Trotzky. rom his haven in probably more than 500, including signed.-- , 200 in Louisville. Damage, conservMexico City, sent out a specific deThe agreement provides for ap- nial of the atively estimated at more than charges that he was pointment of a committee of five to head of the conspiracy. investigate wage rates of the PittsCongress hurried through a defiPlate Glass company with burgh D RESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to of 0 $790,000,-00ciency appropriation view to establishing uniformity of the senate the name of James which the President promised inflat glass A. Farley as postmaster general for would be made available for flood rates throughout the another term, and the senate relief; and the American Red Cross, dustry. promptly confirmed working at high speed, was raising 4 AYBE it was just a promotion the nomination. It is a fund of $10,000,000 to which the stunt for the book, but Senator believed Mr. Farley people of the entire country contributed liberally. Supplies of food, Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, will not long remain in the senate a mem be7' of the drinking water, clothing and medi- Democrat, introduced a resolution calling cabinet, for he wants cines were poured into the stricken to return to private for an investigation areas. of the truth or falsi- work. He told reportPortsCincinnati, Louisville, of scurrilous ers in New York ty mouth, Frankfort and Evansville made that he was looking charges were the worst sufferers; but every for more than a job the against Supreme city, town and village along the as a salesman. Old in Court "Nine Ohio and its tributaries shared in If I should return Men, a volume authe disaster. Fires broke out in the to private life. the contwo thored by Mill Creek district of Cincinnati and ductors of a Wash- postmaster general said, I would destroyed property valued at $1,500,-00- 0 ington gossip col- like an opportunity to build up an before the flames could be conumn. In offering the equity in a business, so I would trolled. Throughout the entire reresolution Guffey have something more than just a gion transportation was crippled, for security for my family. a made bitter attack salary pure water and fuel supplies were on the I Lave had reveral offers alSupreme Court, saying: shut off or greatly reduced, and but they haven't been just The President of the United ready, outbreaks of typhoid and pneumonia what I would want." were threatened. In Louisville the States, with his characteristic franklight and power plant was forced ness and courage, has opened for IF REICHSFUEHRER HITLER debate the most troublesome prob- 1 will to shut down. with other nations lem which we must solve if we are in the interest of In Frankfort, Ky., the state repeace. Fiance will formatory was flooded and the pris- to continue a democracy. help Germany to overcome her presThat problem is whether the ent oners were removed to other economic difficulties. Such was quarters with the aid of troops. The Supreme court will permit congress, the offer made by Premier Blum convicts took advantage of the the legislative branch of our gov- in an address at Lyons. Blum, howemergency to start a riot and about ernment, which was equally trusted ever, warned the Nazis that France a dozen were killed. All of southern with the Supreme court by the cannot and will not with Indiana was placed under martial framers of the Constitution, to per- Germany or economically politically law by Governor Townsend. form its duties in making democrawhile the possibility continues to cy workable and effective." exist that this help may be some FORTY THOUSAND employees of The senate heard Guffey's speech turned against the country General Motors returned to part in silence and referred his resolu- day which gave it. time work in reopened plants in tion to the judiciary committee. He expressed opposition to Hitlers Michigan and Indiana, and were unof making bilateral pacts, policy molested by the A RTIFIC1AL scarcity of farm and added: I believe I am practicstrikers. But the products is abandoned as a pol- ing realism when I declare we do deadlock was not icy for the time being by Secretary not wish to separate French security of Agriculture Wallace. He said in from European peace. broken, and the strikers con- Washington that the two drouth German officials were pleased tinued to occupy the years of 1934 and 1938 have brought by Blum's speech and said his good had more thought on farm production by intentions could not be doubted. plants they Presi- consumers and farmers than ever 'kidnaped. dent Alfred P. Sloan before. While a year or two of norGermany, for Jr., of General Mo- mal weather would tumble wheat HAMBURG, free city, has lost tors had refused the prices, if full acreage is planted, the its freedom. Reichsfuchrcr Hitler invitation of Secre- time has come for a lifting of the and his cabinet have decreed that tary of Labor Per- restrictions, he said. it shall be known henceforth as Irt the year immediately ahead, Hansa City Hamburg and kins to meet John L. placed Lewis, chief of the I feel that farmers should think under contrai of Col. Gen. Hermann while the of to consumtheir strikers primarily Wilhelm Goering in his striking unions, duty as were still in forcible possession of ers, Wallace said. I think that in commissar for the newcapacity four year plants, and President Roosevelt the coming year it is wise for us plan for self sufficiency, together ominously termed this refusal "a to produce as much as we can. We with Rudolf Hess, deputy leader of very unfortunate decision on his should, of course, divert a certain the Nazi party; Wilhelm Frick, part, intimating, also, that there amount of corn and cotton acreage minister of interior, and Count Ludwas a prospect of labor legislation to soil conserving crops, because wig Schwerin von Krosigk, minister unfavorable to the corporation and that will make for greater long time of finance. to employers generally. The cabinet also took away the productivity of our farm land. But for the most part, let's fill freedom of Luebeck and incorporatSloan persisting in his attitude. Secretary Perkins started a move up the storage bins this year. It is ed the city with Prussia, and the for legislation that would compel good policy to vary the plans for same fate was decreed for Eutin, him to meet Lewis. In identical storage of crops in the soil accord- Cuxhavcn and Birkenfcld. Wilhclms-have- n letters to Speaker' Bankhead and ing to the state of supplies in the is absorbed by Oldenburg Senator Joe Robinson, majority granary above the ground. province. EDWARD PICKARD sit-do- anti-Stalini- st six-we- Libbey-Owens-Fo- ur $400,-000,00- te sit-do- Ask Me Another O A General W Syndicate WKL Serri. Which famous musician National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart In what country i Sliest 3. In what presidential yeVr Is it that the vociferously the gold Democrats put , u Washington. The arrival ofcomthe have we and valid picture yet the of a :n the field? first robin is only sign New Deal agency fading to 4 What is meant by ing of spring. It of a for functions the very does not bring perform Danger ice created. 5. What is spring weather. which it was Signs contended r Nevertheless, we I mentioned earlier some of the Americans watch for signs all our and portents that are visible sevsigns been have lives and lately there in the labor situa- eral of them in national affairs that Down One of the Sf tion. are worthy of notice. of most Strikes important in time a been never has There is .the sigthese our countrys history, as far as I the sit down type of have been able to discover, when nificance offind strike. I conmafiy informed aulabor the tension surrounding to the sit down who thorities refer ditions has been as dangerous as it lais right now. I do not believe any- strike as a key point in present bor problems. results the what one can forecast It is something new in this counare going to be; what all of these strikes and factional fights in or- try. It is a program of striking in which labor is entirely passive but ganized labor mean and I am convinced that they represent some- by which it usurps the rights of ownworkers simply stay in thing much deeper than just dis- ership. The satisfaction with wages or growing the plants, offering no trouble and most part avoiding destrucfor pains of expanding business. In tive the tactics. But it is the fact that other words, there are many students of national affairs who are they remain in the plants, the propof their employers, that is caus-in- g attempting to analyze current labor erty considerable worry in governconditions as signs of new times. ment circles. I whom have Most observers with The reason why this phase of discussed the present labor probtroustrike tactics is creating concern these that are hopeful lems, bles mean only continued increases lies in the fact that it amounts to in the demand for labor. That is, the seizure of private property by they want to accept these signs as individuals who have no right or indicative of a returning and sound warrant in law. It would be the prosperity in commerce and indus- same thing as far as legal rights try. Yet, none of them is quite sure. are concerned if a group of strikers There are too many ifs and too went to your home or mine and many uncertainties for anyone to announced they expected to stay attempt a complete diagnosis of the there. There is no difference in the two situations. While the efcircumstances. Some weeks ago I ventured the fect on you or me would be less opinion hi these columns that the important to the country as a whole, rift in organized labor between Wil- it remains as a fact that our rights liam Green as head of the Ameri- would be violated in exactly the can Federation of Labor and John same manner as rights of corporaL. Lewis as sponsor of the indus- tions were violated, say, in the Gentrial union idea, likely would result eral Motors strike. After all, you in serious trouble for the labor un- and I are merely units of the great ions themselves. I was unable to mass of people that make up the report then that which I can write United States of America. Now, it at this time, namely, that the takes no great stretch of the imagischism in organized labor appears nation to recognize that if union certain to set back the cause of labor establishes its ability to ocorganized labor many years. In- cupy the property of others and fixes deed, it seems that the split, tan- that as a precedent, then where are gled as it is with partisan politics, the rights of any person who owns may prove to be the uncharted rock property. It matters not whether in union labors course and its ship it is a small cottage, a farm home or a great industrial plant the right may founder on it. to own property, guaranteed to us But the situation is fraught with by the Constitution of the United graver possibilities, I am sure. States, Is virtually nullified. One of the rights of American citThere are ele- . G rave ments and izenship is a right to own propences at work in erty. It is a principle that has the labor situation grown to be sacred with us since today that easily could lead to riots the Boston tea party! Yet, it is and bloodshed. From riots and being challenged and thus far the bloodshed it is only a step to revo- federal government has made no lution of a political sort. move to break it up. As long as None here knows exactly what employers organize and tread on lathe administrations labor policies bor with a steel boot, just so long are beyond the exaggerated prom- the workers are entitled to organize ises made during the last Presi- to combat mistreatment from busidential campaign. Of course, Pres- ness. But it does not seem to me to ident Roosevelt and the bulk of his be a right of labor to actually take New Deal spokesmen are exceedprivate property. To that extent I ingly friendly, overfriendly some be- cannot feel very kindly toward those lieve, to organized labor. The New strikers at present asserting such a Dealers had organized labor with right use of the sit down them in the last campaign. Now, strike.through however, it is made to appear that Now, there are reasons why the the support of labor in the cam- federal government has not acted. is more or emless paign proving If troops were sent into private facto the administration barrassing which has just started on its second tories to drive out the sit down strikers, one can readily see what a four-yea- r term. riot would result. But if the federal Some of the critics of the administration are outspoken in their government fails to enforce this inright, it is not doing its statements that Mr. Roosevelt is herent sworn duty to the rest of the people. to to trying dodge, trying avoid, get- And it was only a few weeks ago ting mixed up too deeply in labor's that Mr. Roosevelt again took the problems. Some of his subordinates oath of office as President, swearing have been active but the President has stayed out of the picture just to enforce as well as defend the as far as he could and as long as Constitution. Then, another phase of the situahe could. I am inclined to believe that these tion is being discussed. The Wagassertions that Mr. Roosevelt is ner law says employers must negoafraid to take leadership too fre- tiate collectively with the majorquently in labors problems are un- ity organization of employees and fair to the President. They amount it decrees further that the labor reto a statement that he lacks cour- lations board shall determine which age which is not true. On the con- is the majority organization; that it can decide this question on evitrary, there are many who believe dence or order an election among with me that Mr. Roosevelt senses developments yet to arise in the la employees. None can tell usually bor situation and he is, therefore, whether union or company organizabeing cautious as to is steps thus tion employees are in the majority in some of these strikes, so the early in what threatens to be labor relations board has kept out of national labor crisis. On the other hand, it is difficult to them. Taking this labor situation as explain why the national labor relations board has been so nearly qui- whole, I believe I am justified in escent through such strikes as the saying, as I said earlier, that it plate glass and portions of the auto- portends a crisis. Preaching of class hatred has been the main occupamobile workers. If there ever was a situation tion of certain elements in the last made to order for use of the agency three or four years and now those set up under the Wagner elements are reaping what they law, that situation was to be found sowed. The tragedy of it all ii in the two strikes just mentioned. that the rest of us have to re The board did so little in those cir- the same reward. C Western Newspaper Union. cumstances that its existence can be said to hare been forgotten. It Wisdom Teeth amounted to a dead letter insofar Such appellations as wisdom as the law itself is concerned. In to indicate the third molars some quarters one can hear discus- teeth sion to the effect that sponsors of or "eye teeth to describe the ca teeth are the carryover froir the national labor relations act and nine the Middle ages to our own tiini board were unwilling to have that of the relationship generally Bv agency and the law receive a real ceptcd between tooth and wisdon I time. test at this have been un- tooth able to confirm this thought at all Health and eye, says Hygcia, Magazine. . opulence? 6 7. On which side were the fcu g Brians in the World war? 8. What is a micrometer? Answers 1. Beethoven. He became nn deaf and composed his Fifth W phony during bombardment Austerlitz, 1805. 2. Ireland. S. 1896. 4. Service done only whet ing watched. 5. Wealth. 6. Samson. 7. That of Germany. 8. A device for making measurements. h. smtU Keep your body free of accumulated waste, take Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. 60 Pellets 30 cento. Adv. 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