Show news neau heried deview 0 of current events ANGLO ITALIAN PACT treaty for friendship in which france may join Roosevel ts spending plan starts big battle baffle Z A emergency rationing of troops by airplane and parachute was suc cess fully accomplished in texas by the army air corps during maneuvers this picture shows metal food container for personnel rations bale of hay and a pound sack of oats with parachutes attached ready to be loaded on the bomb racks of the martin bomber seen in background A F summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union move toward peace EVILLE chamberlains NEVILLE adream dream of security for peace in europe through amicable arrangements of the democratic governments with the dictators may yet be realized anyhow consummation of the ideal was brought nearer when lord perth british ambassador to rome home and italian foreign minister ciano signed the treaty of friendship which had been under negotiation for weeks the pact is designed to end the long feud between the two nations and it is probable france will join in after negotiations with mussolini already suggested by foreign minister bonnet the british prime minister of course hopes that later hitler can be brought into the group and that there will be formed a london paris rome berlin quadrangle in place of the berlin rome home axis temporarily the treaty provides tor for friendly relations between britain and italy in the mediterranean and the near east but it does not go into full effect until such date as the two governments together shall determine in other words italy must first have withdrawn its troops from spain and britain must have recognized italis conquest of ethiopia the former MA may be delayed until france has won final victory the latter depends upon permission from the league of nations council which has been asked by chamberlain in essence the treaty is a promise by each side not to attempt to change the status quo in the mediterranean or red sea areas nor to injure each others interests there in any way italy is to reduce her forces in libya to peace time strength and will adhere to the london naval treaty limiting the size of warships the suez canal is to be open to all nations equally in war or peace italy will abide by the international nonintervention committees ruling on volunteers in the spanish war and in case to withdraw from spain entirely when the war is ended italy declares it has no territorial or political aims and seeks no t privileged economic position in spain the balearic islands spanish morocco or spanish possessions overseas political leaders in berlin did not minimize the importance of the anglo italian pact but insisted that the berlin rome axis was not weakened they were awaiting somewhat anxiously the visit of premier deladier Da ladier and foreign minister bonnet to london scheduled for late in april april there were no indications in london or paris that britain and france were ready yet to deal with hitler but it was rumored that poland might join them and italy in a tour four power pact ready for battle B BIG IG spenders and little spenders lined up rapidly for the congressional fight over president roose belts program for pump priming and relief for which he asked congress to provide nearly s seven billion dollars of the total sum 4 wt billions would be used tor for i spending and ae lending nd to speed recovery from the present business depression the house appropriations corn com senator cittee began hear Van denber 9 ings gg on the e dents proposals and administration leaders in both branches of congress laid plans to expedite the passage of the necessary legislation still hoping for adjournment by may 14 sam rayburn said all were agreed on handling the legislation as an omnibus bill he was confident it would go through the house quickly and also confident of the defeat of attempts to earmark the recovery funds to assure congressional control over them opponents of the pump priming led off with vigorous radio addresses by chairman john hamilton of the republican national committee and senator of michigan hamilton came to the conclusion that the president and the new deal are far more interested in priming the polls than in priming the pumps of industry said the plan whatever its temporary benefit would work a long run disaster the priming plan said means trying to spend the country into better times on borrowed money trying to buy prosperity in his message to congress and in a radio talk to the nation the president proposed three groups of measures the first involves mainly additional dit ional appropriations tor for the coming fiscal year as follows one billion two hundred and fifty million dollars for the works progress administration for the farm security administration for the national youth administration for the civilian conservation corps and the already made available to the reconstruction corporation for lending to business enterprises in a second group of measures mr roosevelt asked three hundred million dollars for immediate expansion of the housing and slum clearance work of the united states slates housing authority for public works loans and grants an additional for public roads an additional for flood control and reclamation cla mation projects already authorized and an additional for federal buildings A third group listed by the chief executive referred to private credit it involved of of gold and a reduction by the federal reserve board of member bank reserve requirements which would add another to the credit resources of the nations banks with these actions mr roosevelt coupled a simplification of security commission regulations dr townsend pardoned D DR R FRANCES E TOWNSEND carrying a pair of socks and a typewriter arrived at the jail in washington ready to serve his thirty day term for contempt of congress 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 C jasper bell chairman of the investigating committee before which dr townsend refused to testify 1 19 benes grants amnesty P PRESIDENT RESIDENT BENES of czecho k slovakia contributed toward his count rys inner tranquility and the peace of central europe by proclaiming an easter amnesty tor for about political offenders most of them agitators tor for german and other minorities excluded were germans who have fled abroad benes also made a radio address in which he said his government was ready to meet any situation arising from the troubled state of europe but was ready also to go as far as any of its neighbors in establishing good relations he denied german charges that czechoslovakia oslo is ii going communist 1 three new saints POPE OPE PIUS took part in elaborate easter r ceremonies in st peters church rome and bestowed his blessing on an immense throng gathered before the basilica he also formally canonized three new saints these being andrea bobola of poland salvador de horta of spain and giovanni leonard of italy in jerusalem british troops and police kept order among christians jews and moslems for all of whom easter was a holy day orville wright honored ORE than of americas pleading L 1 leading figures in aeronautics gathered in detroit on the invitation of henry and edsel ford to pay tribute to orville wright first man ever to fly an airplane the celebration dedicating the newly restored group of wright buildings at fords greenwich village was in honor of orville wright and in memory of his brother wilbur who died in 1912 dedication of the wright home and bicycle shop in which the first successful man carrying airplane was built was the chief event of the day wont accept pay cut 1 WHILE XI X I congress and various V government agencies were trying to find a way to save hard pressed railways from bankruptcy the association of american railroads represented by president john J pelley and railway labor represented by george M harrison president of the railway labor executives association conferred in vain over the desire of the managers to reduce the pay of the workers the latter rejected the idea with scorn and defied a threat by management representatives that railroads will invoke the railroad mediation act to enforce consideration of pay cuts wage cuts are out of the question harrison said 1 I never heard of such a silly thing in my life management is trying to reduce buying power at the same time president roosevelt is poi pouring iring out 4 billion dollars in an attempt to increase buying power they arent going to get one cent from us all there is to that barcelona in peril SPANISH S insurgents having reached the mediterranean at the port of vinaroz Vin aroz spread north and south along the coast and effectively cut off catalonia from the rest of loyalist spain veteran spanish and italian idallan troops led by gen garcia valino and gen miguel aranda blasted their way into vina roz in a single day of severe combat and valino then started a northward drive on tortosa where important coastal highways converge francos next great objective was barcelona his forces were beginning a new movement against that city from the west and his naval and air fleets left their bases to cooperate after barcelona falls as it seems likely to do valencia will be attacked and then franco plans a final eff effort ort to take madrid mayor dore Is dead Q spectacular mayor john jjohn W dore died after a long illness he had failed of re nomina tion in the recent primaries dore was a brilliant lawyer and a fighting executive he was allied cally with dave beck labor leader will defend peace PAN AMERICAN day was marked by an address by president roosevelt broadcast throughout the world in which he warned all nations that the peoples of the american republics will not permit aggressor nations to threaten the peace of this hemisphere all of them he asserted are firmly resolved to maintain peace tho though ug gh this might entail sacrifices even the sacrifice of life he reiterated this count rys good neighbor policy in its relations with central and south american countries and cited this hem hemispheres I 1 successful demonstration that the rule of justice and law can be substituted for the rule of force horner Is winner GOV OV HENRY HORNER won his second great victory over the illinois democratic primaries almost all his candidates were nominated and the governor appears to be now in complete control of the party in his state his co boss is states attorney thomas J courtney of chicago the triumph of horner attracted nationwide nation wide attention it even led to a proposal that he be the democratic party tor for president in 1940 this was launched in congress by representative L F arnold democrat of illinois no peace for labor ANY NY lingering hopes that the american federation of labor and the committee for industrial organization would end their civil war were dispelled by john L lewis announcement that the C 1 I 0 was to be made a permanent organization probably under another name to bring this about a con bention of the 39 lewis unions will be held in the fall the time and place were left to a committee consisting of philip murray and sidney hillman newly elected vice chairman of C 1 I 0 the heads of the C I 1 L 0 unions hearing congress might adjourn by may 14 adopted a resolution declaring that our members will necessarily have to consider it a dereliction of duty and betrayal of labor tor for congress to agree to adjourn prior to enactment of a complete legislative recovery program jones ready to loan JESSE ESSE JONES chairman of the now has to lend to business men states and cities and he asked the bankers of the nation to turn over to his corporation the loan applications they cannot meet the security put up by borrowers must be reasonable he declared but naturally we expect to make loans which the banks consider slow frozen or jones said he be expected the loans would make capital investments more attractive and would also forestall sacrifice disposals of surplus stocks in his insistence on reasonable security however he warned that were not going to lend all the money in the country al 1 wheat allotments ephe HE agricultural adjustment administration announced it had allotted acres to 42 wheat producing states under the 1938 farm program individual acreage allotments will be based on planting and diversion during the past ten years farmers who comply with acreage allotments will receive benefit payments of 12 cents a bushel for the average yield on the allotted acreage A penalty tax of SO 90 cents a bushel on acreage in excess of allotments will be deducted from any benefit payments due farmers this year the AAA said no deductions duct ions will be made for exceeding wheat allotments if operating cooperating co farmers reduce other soil depleting crops so as not to exceed the total soil depleting allotment for his bis farm acreage allotments for principal wheat producing states included iowa kansas minnesota nebraska north dakota south dakota 11 1 9 congressmen vexed HILE committees of the sen wate ate and house were still trying to reconcile the widely differing versions of the tax bill passed by the two houses resident president roosevelt sent to the chairmen a long letter urging retention ot of the tax on tributes trl tri buted profits which had been eliminated by the senate many members of congress thought the chief executive was inti anti sen ila harrison r r mating ag yg that he would veto the bill it if this feature were omitted that would leave in effect the present law carrying a severe tax which has been widely attacked as one of the causes of the prevailing business depression the intervention by mr roosevelt at this time and in this manner was considered unprecedented and aroused many expressions of amazement and indignation especially among the senate conferees senator pat harrison their leader and the chairman of the senate finance committee obviously displeased said the senate conferees will insist in conference on the amendments adopted in the senate 1 I believe that the repealing of the undistributed profits tax and the modifications of the capital gains tax as adopted by the senate will help business I 1 |