A news review of current events WASTE ASSAILED senators lodge and davis make vigorous minority y report on oh unemployment and relief U loan contracts totaling for four cities covering not more than 90 per cent of the cost of proposed slum clearance and low rent housing blousing bo using were approved by president roosevelt upon the recommendation of nathan straus administrator of the housing authority these will provide approximately family dwelling units for over slum dwellers the photograph shows senator robert wagner of new york watching mr straus sign the loan contracts A we f hf fumA V NA summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK X 0 western newspaper union i lo 10 lodge d ge and dails strike ENRY CABOT LODGE JR 0 of HENRY massachusetts and james J davis of pennsylvania made a minority report of the senate committee on unemployment and relief in which they vigorously attacked administration business and relief policies and condemned the majority report for failure to investigate alleged waste in the W P A administration j the two republic sena senator to lodge can senators demanded that administration leaders stop making extravagant utterances in which whole classes of people are insulted and nameless individuals divi duals are lambasted lam basted over the ra dio instead of being prosecuted in the courts they then offered these further suggestions for immediate action 1 repeal of the undistributed profits tax and modification of the capital gains tax as proposed in the senate tax bill and general tax reduction wherever possible 2 encourage that which is good to in business q 3 stop congress from wasting its time lime over consideration of such schemes as the supreme court enlargement lar gement bill and the government reorganization bill and allow the legislators to concentrate on the relief and unemployment problem 4 eliminate tax exempt securities and reduce unnecessary and burdensome social security taxes 5 A true unemployment census should be taken to serve as a basis for or scientific treatment of the question of wages and hours on a national scale 8 0 end executive discretion in tarin tariff matters and return to congress the control of the currency 7 reorganization of the agencies of unemployment and relief 8 initiation of a new inquiry into the relief problem during which all persons who have constructive crit of the operations of the pres ent unemployment relfe system would be heard IN wallace Is rebuked Q SECRETARY OF agriculture WALLACE was rebuked for star chamber methods by the supreme court in a decision reversing his order of june 14 1933 fixing maximum rates to be charged by marketing agencies at the kansas city stockyards stock yards the courts opinion written by chief justice hughes reverses a decree of a three judge district court in kansas city upholding the order on the ground that the commission men were denied a fair and open hearing and that secretary wallace accepted the findings of the government prosecutors without even reading the evidence in other decisions the supreme court upheld the municipal bankruptcy act of 1937 and the 1923 filled milk act which bars interstate shipment of milk to which other oils or fats have been added end tax exemptions P 5 legislation was asked of congress by president roosevelt to remove tax exemptions on income from all future government bonds federal state and local and on all government salaries in his special message the president said existing exemptions resulted from judicial decisions and could be eliminated by a short and simple statute which he felt the courts would uphold mr roosevelt said tax exemptions through the ownership of government securities have operated against the fair or effective collection of progressive surtaxes sur taxes indeed I 1 think it is fair to say that these exemptions have violated the spirit of the tax law itself by actually giving a greater advantage to those with large incomes than to those with small incomes the same principles of just taxation apply to tax exemptions of official salaries the federal government does not now levy income taxes on the hundreds of thousands of state county and municipal em plo nor do the states under existing decisions levy income taxes on the salaries of the hundreds of thousands of federal employees plo justice in a great democracy should treat those who earn their livelihood from government in the same way as it treats those who earn their livelihood in private employ s wont deal with hitler F CRENCH RENCH PREMIER let it be known that his government will not enter into any four power european treaty that includes nazi germany jn in consequence it was understood in paris prime minister chamberlain of great britain had given up that plan for the present deladier Da ladier and foreign minister bonnet went to london and discussed anglo british relations and other matters relating to the peace of europe henlein warns czechs czecho K 17 HENLEIN leader of i czechoslovakian sude ten germans warned the government of war internally or from the outside in a militant speech which quarters close to the government believed bore the approval of fuehrer adolf hitler henlein openly proclaimed that german is the guiding principle of his Sude tens and demanded that czechoslovakian foreign policies be revised immediately as regards germany he warned the prague government against placing reliance in its military alliances with france and soviet russia and frankly asserted that czechoslovakia must cease resisting germanys germanas Germ anys ambitions toward the east an emergency meeting of the cabinet council was called to consider the grave situation created by hen leins demands in budapest hungarians Hung arians de minded banded the dismemberment of czechoslovakia at a rally of the hungarian revision league for annual wage guarantee wing WHILE HILE henry ford was lunching at the white house by invitation vi of president roosevelt the officials of his company were considering si a plan tor for the guarantee of an annual minimum wage offered by the ford brotherhood of 40 america an independent labor organization iza tion establishment of such a plan has not before been asked but it has been advocated by mr roosevelt and henry ford Q gov pank frank murphy of michigan the brotherhoods brothe goal Is at least 1500 a year for every hourly rate worker in the mammoth river rouge plant of the ford motor company in De dearborn arboin where it claims a membership of during peik peak production periods the factory has nearly employees william S mcdowell ST sr brotherhood attorney said that in return tor for the proposed wage guarantee F B A members would sign an agreement that each would purchase a new car from the company every two years at the same price at which they are sold to dealers K anglo irish agreement MINISTER EAMON DE PRIME VALERA of ireland and prime minister neville chamberlain of great britain met again in london and signed an agreement that brings to a close the six year tariff and trade war between the two countries the quarrel began when ireland refused to pay england land tithes amounting to the agreement leaves for later settlement the question of incorporation of north ireland or ulster into the irish republic this now seems possible of accomplishment tor for both parties in ireland have nominated tor for first president of the state un der the new constitution dr dougas hyde a protestant hyde Is the count rys most distinguished gaelic scholar he is the son ot of a former protestant rector in county ros common and is seventy eight years old one in seven on relief Tp WELVE million american work ers are totally unemployed more than persons or one seventh of the population of the country are receiving public a assistance from the federal state or local governments from 1933 to 1937 inclusive the federal and state governments have Y spent for or work relief and other forms of public assistance these tar far from rr y cheerful f figures agur es hopkins H were in a preliminary pre liml report of the senate committee on relief and unemployment submitted by chairman byrnes at the time the report came cam e in harry hopkins administrator was telling the house appropriations committee holding hearings on the administrations recovery relief program that the proposed relief appropriation would enable to be added to federal aid rolls bringing the total number to persons this money he said would last only tor for the first seven months of the coming fiscal year the senate committee report in general absolved the from charges of graft waste and inefficiency but in some respects it sharply criticized the administrations relief policies to the discomfiture of administration leaders the committee recommended that the senates revenue bill repealing the undistributed prot prof its tax and modifying the capital gains tax be adopted as a major ai aid d to economic recovery retention of those taxes is in the house bill backed by president roosevelt mine blast kills kills 45 emine EXPLOSION of dust in a coal mine on keen mountain 12 miles from grundy va buried the night force of 45 men under thousands of tons of slate and rock wrecked the equipment and filled up the passages to the drifts hundreds of rescuers worked frantically for 20 hours and finally recovered the bodies of the victims not one of the gang survived the mine was opened only last november and was considered one of the most modern and safest in the united states hard fighting in china JAPANS reorganized forces in shantung province were forcing the chinese back steadily despite desperate resistance the invaders even crossed the border into kiang su province tor for the first time the defenders claimed the japanese suffered a severe setback north of chwang they also asserted they had recaptured 15 important towns in shansi honan and provinces for production MEMBERS M EMBERS of the national farm far m chemurgic Che murgie council holding their fourth annual meeting in omaha challenged the view of president roosevelt that the count rys economic troubles are due to overproduction there need be no limits said wheeler mcmillen editor of country home and president of the council in his opening address to the wealth we can produce freeing farmers from the narrowness of food and export markets the soil can be enabled to produce houses for the ill housed and the innumerable desires of a great tree free people the processes of production can create the purchasing power for consumption in no other way than by the creation of wealth can there be wealth I 1 tor for all cans calls not upon govern government mente but on the triple powers of agriculture industry and science we reject the cowardly counsels of national poverty and pessimism we propose to apply science and capital and labor to the soil and its products challenge to americans is a chal lege to share in wealth by creating wealth AF of L follows CIO lea A AMERICAN MERICAN federation OF ax LABOR following the ei example ample of the rival C 1 I 0 entered politics on a national scale by forming an organization to back selected candidates tor for public office the action emphasizing anew the split between the two labor associations indicated that the labor vote will be divided in many state primaries at and november congressional elections turkey quake kills ROM ankara turkey comes flews news that an earthquake in anatolia killed at least persons and destroyed many villages whole families were buried under mountainous debris and some p sons were e rendered ho homeless me 13 underground x rumblings iak gs were accompanied by intermittent shocks over a wide area of western asia bordering the aegean sea and especially about Kir and orum I 1 T i TVA investigators HEN sen james J davis bof WHEN of pennsylvania republican consented to serve on the joint congressional committee to investigate the tennessee valley authority that group was complete senator bridges of Z new hampshire author of the resolution calling for the inquiry was left off V the committee contrary to precedent the other senators named by vice president garner sen donahey are vic donahey of ohio fred H brown of new hampshire H H schwartz of wyoming democrats and lynn frazier of north dakota radical republican house members are J M mead of new york W J driver of arkansas R ewing thomason of texas democrats C A wolverton of new jersey and T A jenkins of ohio republicans it was presumed that senator donahey would be chairman of the committee he is not marked as prejudiced either way in the matter in the senate he is almost never heard investigators were to be put in the field as soon as possible and after congress adjourns the joint committee will hold public hearings probably in knoxville tenn and in ini aas r tal washington ts a to I 1 wr help for utilities PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT now is 1 planning to extend government aid to the public utilities which have suffered severely from government competition this was learned after he had conferred with chairman jones and douglas and hanes of the SEC the purpose is to aid the utilities in financing new con construction st ruction through the lending program employment of now idle workers is the aim dr townsend pardoned D R FRANCES E TOWNSEND 1 carrying a pair of socks and a typewriter arrived at the jail in in washington ready to serve his 30 day term for contempt of congress Q u nan and become a martyr but the old age pension planner was informed that president roosevelt had pardoned him the pardon was issued upon the urgent request of representative senta tive C jasper bell chairman of the investigating committee before which doctor townsend ra fused to testify