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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN News Review of Current Events the World Over Congress Quits, Having Done Most Things the President Presi-dent Asked Steel Strike Postponed Roosevelt's Daughter in Nevada, Presumably for Divorce. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C by WaaUrn Nwijper Villon. AKTKIl several days of hectic work, pushing through the last measure labeled "must" by the ad ministration and a host of other tills demanded hy various members, mem-bers, the Seventy -third congress closed Its second session. The meusures passed during this session ses-sion Include some of the basic laws of the New Deal and considerable elaboration and modification of laws passed last year In addition to the regular appropriation bills and a normal amount of necessary routine legislation. As In the first session, President Roosevelt was In full control, though the legislators displayed a more critical attitude and a tendency tenden-cy to give proposed legislation closer scrutiny before giving It their approval This could not be attributed attrib-uted to tewwntnr of the President's Presi-dent's Influence or of the confidence confi-dence In him. but rather to the fact that the members of congress didn't wish longer to he lnbeled as "yes men." On the whole Mr. Roosevelt succeeded In getting what he asked" nd In preventing what tie did not want Several measures that had the hacking of the administration failed of passage. These Included the oil hill, ardently desired by Secretary Sec-retary lekes; the pure food and drug bill, which never enme to a vote ; the ratification of the St. Lawrence Law-rence waterway treaty; and a series of amendments amplifying and clarifying the powers of the AAA. In Its closing hours the congress rpent money like water, Indulging In what Congressman Britten of Chicago called "an orgy of spending spend-ing such as never has been known In the history of the world during peace times." The last of the major bills disposed of were: The deficiency appropriation bill, allotting the President more than two billion three hundred million dollars for relief and other emergency emer-gency purposes. The one billion dollar housing bill to promote the revival of the building trades and of the durable goods Industries. The Frazler bill for relief of farm mortgagors. " The bill amending banking legislation. leg-islation. The railway labor bill Earl J. Forbeck WILLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federation of tabor, succeeded where President Roosevelt Administrator Johnson and all others had failed. He a p- peared before the delegates of the steel workers unions un-ions at Pittsburgh and persuaded them at least to postpone their threatened strike. The plan which he offered, and which may lead to a permanent per-manent settlement of the controversy. In brief provides: Establishment of a three-man board by the President to adjudicate adjudi-cate and mediate all violations of code on matters of discrimination against employees. To Insure the right of workers to organize, empowering the board to hold and supervise Industrial elections elec-tions for collective bargaining representatives. rep-resentatives. All grievances or complaints would he referred to the board for final decision. If acceptable to labor, capital, and the federal government the strike would be called off permanently. perma-nently. This wns a modification of the plan offered by the administration and violently opposed by the more radical delegates. Leaders of the "rank and file" steel workers, Including Karl J. Forbcck and other chiefs of local unions, were especially bitter In their attitude toward fieneral Johnson, John-son, and were still eager for a strike, but they were outnumbered end the (irecn plan w as adopted as a IiikIs for further negotiations. The union lenders went to Wash liiKton for a final decision They carried authority to call the strike If the peace plan were rejected hy the government or the steel operators. IN A formal letter, accompanied by a long explanation, the code authority of the cleaners and dyers has notified the President that It has withdrawn Its consent to the code. The reason assigned for this action 'Is that Administrator Johnson, John-son, acting by authority of the President, Pres-ident, suspended the minimum price and other fair trade practice provisions pro-visions of the code while leaving In effect all other provisions, Including thoae establishing minimum wage and maximum hours of labor. The cleaners and dyers say that with opejratltig coats greatly In-created In-created by the labor provisions It is impossible to make a profit unless un-less a minimum price Is established estab-lished and enforced. In its apiH'iided explanation the code authority challenged the validity va-lidity of tills action by General Johnson, continuing: "We cannot believe that yon would knowingly countenance a reckless disregard of repeated promises prom-ises and assurances given to authorized author-ized representatives of the trade by the administrator personally within two weeks of the date on which he played a major role in their breach." The code was consented to, says the memorandum, "on the express understanding" that the minimum price and other trade practice provisions pro-visions "were absolutely necessary if members of the trade were to comply with other provisions of the code, Including the limitations on maximum hours and minimum wages of labor." The suspension of the minimum price provision Is pronounced "a deprivation of the primary benefit of the code to members of the trade, leaving them only the burdens." The memorandum states that 07 per cent of the 11,000 plant owners and 175,000 to 200,000 retail shops are able and willing to comply with the price and other trade practice provisions If there Is "reasonable co-operation on the part of the government gov-ernment In enforcing compliance on the other 3 per cent. There Is virtually vir-tually complete compliance In 132 of the 312 districts." vr7 v 3Mw Js-3fc4BMahAJ Gen. Fouloia SECRETARY OF WAR DERN and President Roosevelt have received re-ceived a unanimous report from a house Investigating committee de manding that MaJ. Gen. Benjamin D. Fouloia be removed re-moved as chief of the army air crops "without delay." The report a c-cused c-cused the general of "dishonesty," "gross mlicon-ducL" mlicon-ducL" "Inefficiency." "unreliability." "Incompetency," "In-competency," and "m 1 s management." After praising the "young men" who fly army planes under Fouloia' direction, the report concluded : "We find it necessary to report that we are most firmly convinced, from the evidence and records submitted, sub-mitted, that before any substantial progress in the upbuilding of the morale and material of the army air corps can be attained, MaJ. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulols must be relieved re-lieved from his position as chief of the air corps." The report referred to "certain violations and evasions of law and army regulations by, also the gross misconduct and Inefficiency of," General Gen-eral Foulois "and other executive officers under his command." Particular Par-ticular exception was taken to the fact that army airplanes had been bought by negotiation Instead of after competitive bidding. Striking back at the committee for its secret hearings, Foulois challenged chal-lenged his accusers to a meeting In open court. "I consider that the accusations are most unfair and unjust," he said In a stotomenf, "and I am ready and willing at any time to meet my accusers In open court." ANOTHER divorce In the Roosevelt Roose-velt family Is Impending. Mrs. Anna Pall, the daughter of the President, has taken up residence In Nevada with the .evuun vi 1 1 ii uir MM imm evident though not laJsfiJ-yet laJsfiJ-yet declared pur Vt m'Z"-pose m'Z"-pose of seeking ,iJ V family. The I i have not been 11 pose or Keeking legal separation from her husband. Curtis Dull, New York broker. The news was no sur prise to friends of the Halls living together for a year, Anna and their two children, "Slstle" and "ll"zy.ie. the White House. For the tlx months she must remain re-main In Nevada Mrs. Pall has selected se-lected a log cabin on the shore of Lake Talioe, some fifteen miles from lfie house where her brother, Elliott, lived a year ago, when he and the former Elizabeth homier of Philadelphia Phila-delphia were divorced. Mrs. Anna Dall residing In T AIY ASTOK, the American born member of the P.ritish parliament", parlia-ment", has (lone a lot of blight things and noiite stupid ones, v in the latter category comes her action In Plymouth at a ceremony In memory of Sir Francis Drake. She grabbed from a midshipman of the American battleship Wyoming a wine-flllcd goblet and threw the wine Into the river, saying: "I cannot can-not understand why men will leave home for this beastly stuff." 'WUf If yMl' jj.in'.'i"Tnmniiiiujiin PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT went , 1 up to New Haven, Conn., for the Yale commencement and was presented pre-sented with the highest honor the university can bestow, the. degree of doctor of laws. After the ceremony cere-mony he attended a luncheon of alumni and took occasion to Challenge Chal-lenge the critics of his New Deal and especially those who make fun of the "bruin trust." "It Is true," he told his hearers, and there was obvious In his voice a note of defiance, "that today, more than ever before In our public life, we are calling on the teaching profession pro-fession for assistance In our government. gov-ernment. There have been certain ribald comments and some laughter laugh-ter about the use of bruins In the national government, but It seems to me a pretty good practice. "It Is a practice that will continue." con-tinue." he added firmly. And the professors around him started the vigorous applause which followed. Later on he evoked further applause ap-plause when he said: I couldn't tell you the party affiliations of the majority of people holding responsible respon-sible positions In Washington, and It Is a mighty good thing I cannot" That evening Mr. Roosevelt boarded board-ed the presidential yacht Sequoia and proceeded slowly to New London, Lon-don, Conn., to witness the boat races between Harvard and Yale. His son, Franklin, Jr, was one of the Harvard freshman crew. After the regatta the President motored to the family- home at If jrde Park, N. Y., to remain over the week end. CHANCELLOR HITLER has been receiving some hard knocks recently. re-cently. Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen delivered himself of a vigor- - - am H(am f- th 1 1 more radical tx- h ."""'Vj nerlmenta of the Nazi regime, and Its "excesses and arrogance." Alluding Allud-ing to the pagan revival. Von Pupen said : "Germans must not exclude themselves from the society of Christian Chris-tian nations." The speech, delivered at Marburg, was kept M Count Nadolny out of the German press but the German people read It In Swiss papers, pa-pers, and then learned that President Presi-dent Paul von Hlndenburg had sent Von Papen a telegram of congrat-1 V i lb (Slorp ITS 158th BIRTH DAY What flowar it thii that flraah morn, Ih huai from Haaven to freshly bom? With burning rtar and flemiao, band It kidle ell the lunset land: O tall m what fa MM imy be 4 li thii the flower of liberty? It It the banner of the frea. The (tarry flower of liberty. Oliver Wendall Holme. The Fourth Recalls Wars of the Past Immediately after this incident Count Rudolf Nadolny announced his resignation as German ambassador ambas-sador to Russia. This was the first defection from Nazi government ranks since Dr. Alfred Hugenberg resigned as minister of agriculture and economics In June, 1933. Na-dolny's Na-dolny's resignation Is attributed to his failure to persuade Chancellor Hitler to accept Russia's proposal for a non aggression pact count Is a close personal friend of President Von Hlndenburg. Late dispatches from Berlin say : Hitler has rejected Von Papen's offer of-fer to resign and has made a temporary tem-porary truce with him. Both of them arranged to confer with the President at Neudetk, but not at the same time. FIE Fourth of July has occupied oc-cupied an honored place on our calendar for a long time, and the temptation tempta-tion grows to regard It as a perfunctory gesture In honor of an ancient deed. Yet there was never greater need of realizing how dependent those old victories are npon present-day courage. The battle bat-tle to preserve the freedom won In revolution Is a battle that never ends. Independence day recalls to us with what difficulty and suffering suf-fering our freedom was first obtained ob-tained and of how constantly It has .he j been endangered both by domestic ana Dy foreign ices. The freedom which we proclaimed oa that first glorious Fourth cannot can-not last if we do not tend It any more than a plant can grow without water and sunlight. In domestic affairs restrictions upon personal freedom have grown to a dangerous height In foreign fields we are still inclined to assume that because be-cause we have a primary material Interest aa well aa a strong moral belief In peace as a guarantor ef freedom the Interests and the morality mo-rality of others Impel them along the same path. With a modesty which would be commendable under un-der other circumstances, many of us underestimate the Importance ef America to civilization and the need for a national Insurance equivalent equiv-alent to all that we have at atake In the continued maintenance of peace. The Fourth of July Is a valuable valu-able occasion, Indeed, If It carries our minds through the War of the Revolution, the Civil war and the wars or near-wars which we have had with Great Britain, Trance, Germany and Spain. It renews our present teat for liberty. May 1t remind re-mind us that one neither gets nor keeps something for nothing in this world and that even such a priceless price-less thing as freedom drifts away or la snatched away unless a community com-munity is constantly vigilant I New York Herald Tribune. Introduced Daclaratioa On June 7, 1770, Richard Henry Lee Introduced In the Continental congress a resolution declaring the United Colonies to be free and Independent, In-dependent, and dissolving all political polit-ical connections with Great Britain. The resolution which waa seconded by John Ada ms, was put aside for the time, and a committee was appointed ap-pointed to prepare a declaration to the aame effect as the resolution. On July 2, Lee's resolution waa passed and, on July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence prepared pre-pared by Jefferson was adopted. COLLUSIVE bids on city supplies and contracts are ended by the recognition, by the NRA admlnls-1 tratlon, that NRA code regulations ! are unworkable In dealings with municipal and other governmental agencies. An executive order has been Issued exempting contractors, manufacturers and merchants from the most Important of the code restrictions re-strictions In all transactions with federal, state or city or other subdivisions sub-divisions of government. It was published after thousands of cities had protested against Increases in operating costs occasioned by ttie NRA. iltllflllf Iff Itlllltlllllllflllllfllllltlllfll LAND OF THE LOYAL FREE TAHAN was obviously pleased re-'ccntly re-'ccntly when the American fleet was moved from the Pacific to the Atlantic, but It will not he so glad to hear that the fleet Is to return to the Pacific about November 1, when all Its maneuvers have been completed. com-pleted. Presumably there will be an attempt, 'In passing through the Panama canal, to break the 47-hour 47-hour record made In the spring. Secretary Swanson says the navy's construction program will be pushed ahead with $40,000,000 obtained ob-tained from the public works administration. ad-ministration. Six new submarines and fourteen destroyers will use up most of this sum. About $5,.ri0u,000 will he spent on airplanes. A TERRIBLE marine tragedy was narrowly averted when the Gorman liner Dresden, carrying 1,000 holiday passengers, struck a rock In a Norwegian fjord and was run aground. Fortunately only four persons were drowned, though a hundred of the panic stricken j passengers leniK'd overboard. j HENRIK SHIPSTEAD won re-j nomination In Minnesota as the' Farmer-Labor candidate for the; United States senate. He will he' opposed at the polls hy Concress-, man F.lnar lloldale, Democrat, and N. J. Holmberg, Republican. The Farmer Laborites also rcjjijjuliiuted Gov. Floyd 15. Olson. BEGINNING July 1, the air mall postage will be kIx cents an ounce, flat. The old rate was eight cents the first ounce and 13 cents for each additional ounce. The reduction re-duction was announced hy the Post Ofllce department BRISBANE THIS WEEK In the Age of Billions Old Bill Did Not Know More Land? What For? If Suddenly Rich, What? Congress number seventy-three goea borne after appropriating for variegated spending between six thousand eight hundred million and seven thousand million dollars. No congress ever appropriated to much In peace times. in addition to spending about seven thousand million dollars, this congress guaranteed approximately seven thousand millions more In home mortgages and farm bond and set up a two thousand million "stabilization fund." We are living in the era of-"Ml-llons." With congress gone home, President Presi-dent Roosevelt la lord of all he surveys, sur-veys, which la ao great change. He waa pretty much that before the adjournment We bare no dictator In the United States, and shall not have one unless something strange and unusual happens, but the President Pres-ident baa aa much of a dictator's power aa he chooaea to use. -Congress, -with unimportant exceptions, ex-ceptions, obeyed orders while In session, ses-sion, and the country will look to the President now to Initiate and put through whatever he chooses. That situation probably does not suit him. It Involves great responsibility. respon-sibility. "Old BIH," dead in London, was a carrier pigeon. He carried messages mes-sages during the first year of the big war from British army and air forces in France and Belgium back to London, and lost a leg. Brought back to England by an invalid soldier, sol-dier, he enjoyed life for many years, and now has laudatory "obituary notices" in English papers. "Old BUI" flew back and forth in the big war and lost a leg without ever knowing why be was flying or why he had to loae that leg. But "Old Bill" was no more Ignorant Ig-norant than a majority of the soldiers sol-diers over whose heads he flew on errands that he did not understand. sat 1 . 1 m v r TttKH j j BrBviDtadiaNawToifcTkM l I II jj j j iiiiiiiimiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiii JjJJ gm I TAXD of Might uf Mercy; fc V 1 I A Horn of men born fret; jgj ' I ' I I One again ir pledge, now, 1 f I I I I Loyalty to thee: f I I I : From thy raaj and mountains, I From thy tea and plains, V I mmmmmmmm Rally u.e to $ent thee j U hen thy need ordains; 1 land of Might and Mercy; L A I Home of men born free; 4 y- r We .tAv ions proclaim, now, ft k XWZ7 I I Land of holy memories, f ft3 I Land of hallowed dreamt, Dealhlpss every star that WWl Y j From thy banner glcums S y Endless be our homage tgi V To the legions who fc aX Died, in outh and courage, g- A v lA ' T m,.l !.. nM... .... V Q Y Land of holy memories, J v I 1 ! Land of hallowed dreams, HVtX-" W Deathless as a star, thy v V? X Flag triumphant gleams! S Vy VtpU V Radiant hind of Morning; to , f lOJ lVV y I f 1 , , V Wl rkv W I Tho' thy foes be mighty; N WT R , f, I Be they far or near ; M v , U J A If, . t here th banner lend. us. M A 1 AM I There shall tyrants fear. V . J J WW iiUST' ? A Jill l Lm i p r p, 1 -7 rrtp. J I ' ; 1, .mm.J ' syygsa; i A member of the British house ef commons suggests that, failing cash payment, we might accept something some-thing in the way of territory. The British will not give np any territory terri-tory if they can hold on to It which they can easily do In this case. And apart from that, what good would it do us to acquire more territory ter-ritory and bare some foolish congressman con-gressman Insist on giving It swayf We could not possibly get from the British anything aa valuable as the Philippines, and we are doing our oest to get rid of them. What would you do if you suddenly sud-denly found yourself quite rich, with s prospect of "easy riches" to come? Mr. Max Baer, new holder of the heavyweight prize-fighting championship, according to the New York Evening Journal, bought himself him-self thirty-five new suits of clothes, "in tan, gray and pastel shades." There was a great crowd waiting outside the tailor shop to cheer him, and he wrote his autograph on a one-dollar bill for a young girt Fame Is a wonderful thing. The young "Count of Paris," who might be king ef France If the French people suddenly lost their wits, believes that he, so far as be knows a direct descendant of Hugh Capet, will soon be called to tho French throne. He says: "You would be astonished if you could know how weary France la of the present regime," The young pretender to the throne might be surprised If be could know how weary France waa of her kings before- she got rid of them, and how fortunate he Is that the common sense of the French will keep him talking, not reigning. President Roosevelt, in a letter 1 sent to West Virginia, expresses satisfaction with the achievements of NRA. "We have spread employment, we have raised pay, and we are not through yet "It is a notable record of recovery. recov-ery. It has led the way for other nations, and has produced widespread wide-spread and, I believe, permanent results. re-sults. Certainly we have a right to cetebrate this anniversary." Washington Singer, whose father Invented a sewing machine, left a fortune of $5,534,800 in England, where he raced his horses. The British goverument takes an "es- tate duty" of about two million dol-' dol-' lars from the heirs. At that rate, It does not take long for vast accumulations ac-cumulations to melt away, especially espe-cially as "the bigger the estate, the higher the percentage taken." Our government has borrowed the Idea, made necessary by a strange fac ulty for spending developed by ,ppH- The big, dangerous steel strike Is for the time averted, thanks to the President's wise unobtrusive mediations, media-tions, and thanks especially to the wise advice given to the men by William Oreen, president of the American Federation of Labor. Klna rtura SrndlaaAa, las. WNU Sarvtae BEVEItl.v uT!7V know is just hat I, 'S Pers. and .i.9 ... nl J -w mi "Oil, (or J bjij 1 think 1 Cob j Of lb. his stories In It. y0 1 wonderful storiei art made him so widely kW were many, many of Um,j course he went 00 to v& J and to a still greate, nJ bis short stories of aU sorter think the old Q stories are dearer toiinJ uuj. 1 uope 1 aont job that this one is good enow can ai various tlmei keetx acter golns. for the m..1 HQ, . I. . .... - , - mere, us just oeing abli. spirit of the character. You know Cobb hlmielJ movies now. Hal Roicl5 ducer, (of which there B J far sighted) sees tb -J billties of.Cobj oa thetcnJ see how ho can fall, O hanging around witbltrM the director a'id all af g "Sot", and he is the mot. j Ing man I have heard iaaJ Or niaby farther tbantilQ Interesting I ever heard, ui! ail have to bu storiei eitaec.1 tory, 1 Here was an old tilt on the walls of my boai movie, Its laid about lSHj was of Rohen E. Lee Ui generals, and I would at about any on? of en ani ' would go. just rattling a ploits of each one. Kot dldent know whether at making it up or uot,thenn a one on the picture that it old boy Ford is no clod a ' anybodya history, audita a smart educated felloe c movie outfit. In all Undid was greatly interested IB,! was Forrest. He wutktt cavalry general any tvr duced. Somebol; asked Coi; rest was a West Point su! said he never went toatrrst couldent hardly read or trtJ Cobb told of going, dnriaji in England with Jobs McCcj the great cartoonist of t5a TriDune. 1 tuy ere in tajf were taken to see Lord I "Bobs". Right over anionf if tures was one of StoneviS whom both Cobb and It; praised as the greatest sr America, if D ot In corli Cobb and McCutrheon tst, and told Lord Roberta tbat proud that he :iad Jackios; among his favorite wtfj Then Cobb told him thenar Jackson had ainayi villi, two books, tho Bible and ftj of Napoleon. it lierti said two fine books, if you onlyht? books I don't know of abe3r; tion, but If 1 was golnf ! would rather hue the Bihlesf on war. by Jackson, tbfl Napoleon. The Herman! B son, his battles are 1 ' books." Cobb eays hii six at live battles with M h armies, in tho valley, standing tact:, s of any only had IS rinusand id and any on" f the otberi were over 40 i'1 0 Cobb has ;: some r1 encea back of the Unci. mans first a You remember those pxc i.iu war stories w read of his i the Saturday Evening Tost. They were cir first long detailed de-tailed news of the war. Ho h-" had a great an I varied experience, experi-ence, backed up by a fund 'f knowledge, mm ,J amass of boo .cadlBI, And on top of all tJJ-J tho best report-rs of W j In his first mei 9h0, "J an Old river boat J his fa. her wa. md boats. 1 had b en to P J eral times, tnt 1 I'he itu", j , Cumber so much wad r the Ohio, and not far off th savs In the ear get In town oars. If Irvln linn v it al nice mw . j i! MiSllW'J da.vi without n nroun. thin nlcliiro f 13 " . ... . .. .,.v l:l ft""" U11U ..IS. W f' Ford, the uwc -.,... ,0,1 the about Irish wans J English for von j- Ingly as Cobb can the , nv nart Ford l Malno. (Li 1934. M '" |