Show news re va ew of current events the world over recovery wet A ct blue ea eale eagle 0 le Be becomes coines the national bird code making araking 0 continues president plans war on Kidnap ino and racketeering by EDWARD W PICKARD B brur LUI eagles of NTA NIRA by the hundred thousand are flying all over tho the united states innumerable men and ft omen jobless for long are going bad back to work short er hours and higher pay nrc are being instilled installed in factories 1 shops and offices av I american commerce and industry Is fust fast being regimented president roosevelt and his whole administration are pushing forward in the recovery campaign de H 8 johnson edly following out the presidents pro gram gen hugh S johnson national recovery administrator his has drafted citizens to ID all the states to lead the great drive nine members were ap pointed on each of 48 state recovery boards and seven members were named for service on district rp re covery boards for the recently made codes the telegraphic notice sent each of the former by general john son was president roosevelt has drafted you as one of the nine members or of the state stale recovery board for the state of us explained in bulletin no 3 of july 20 ile he has requested you to volunteer your services without compensation pensa tion in tills this great drive for national rehabilitation As a member of this board your duties will be to get every patriotic american citizen employer and consumer to operate cooperate co in this program please wire acceptance immediately and you will receive further instructions the advisory board for public works Is doing its part in the re employment campaign by dealing out further large sums from the public works fund its head secretary of interior ickes announced allotments totaling for one state and five federal broj acts added to allotments already made brought the total thus far earmarked out of the three billion three hundred million dollar fund to IG the state project to be financed by the government was beneal I 1 of I 1 th the largest allotment sixty three abe million dollars secretary ickes announced lii is allotted for construction at af the grand coulee dam in the columbia river basin the state of washington Is to un dermake the darn dam project it is understood thirty per cent of the total cost or represents a direct outright gift by the federal goern government ment the remainder Is to be loaned to the state at low interest Inte resl rates over a longtime long time period the upper mississippi 0 9 foot channel project already approved by president dept roosevelt was allotted this Is a federal project to be undertaken under the governments rivers and harbors program another of the public works fund was earmarked for the caspar alcova reclamation project in wyoming for many years the pet scheme of senator john B kendrick lck of wyoming the federal forest service was allotted the coast and geodetic survey and the vey representatives of the oil coal steel and many other industries were ere busily trying to agree on their codes in washington in each there were factions with conflicting ideas and it as not easy to reconcile thern them this was especially true of the oil men among them were many ad vacates of federal regulation of petroleum prices but they were told by administrator johnson that he would not recommend to the president any price fixing until the effect of production control has been determined formation mation of the coal code was complicated by the riotous strike in the mining zone of southwestern penn pennsyl vania thirty thousand miners were out and governor called out state troops to control the situation Itu atlon after a quarrel with a sherl sheriff fr the national coal association controlled by bontin oon ionized unionized operators asked ad johnson to look into the trouble in the strike region and he designated edward F mcgrady McOra dy labor adviser to N R A to investigate the situation IN I 1 N L BOTH the coal and steel code discussions cus there was controversy over the open shop versus unions the steel men took the open shop clause out of their proposed code to facilitate settlement but they declared plainly that they would stand for the present systems of employees councils lo in the industry to carry on collective bargaining mr johnson salil said he would not approve any code that does R p t not provide for ad cou councils nells on ln the old issue of liow how collective Shoil sli ild ld lie carried out the administrator reiterated that N 1 I n R A provides for collective bargaining through employees chosen by the lie workers robert nobort P lamont lament former secretary of commerce and now president of the american iron and steel institute which represents 98 per cent of the count rys producers of pig iron and steel ingots ingols was the chief spokesman for the iron and steel ludu stry at the hearings william green president of the A F V L challenged various sections of the offered code especially the minimum mi wage and maximum hours provisions secretary of labor perkins who had heen been making a tour of the pennsylvania stool steel mills wanted the wage rates altered especially criticizing the 25 and 27 cents minimum hourly rate set up for the southern and birmingham districts shortly afterwards mr lamont lament announced the industry bad agreed to raise the minimum pay in those two districts to 30 cents an hour poth both green and miss perkins urged that the 40 hour week would not bring about sufficient re employment in the industry defending the proposed code mr lamont said it Is estimated that on the basis of a CO 00 per cent rate of operations and n 40 hour week substantially all the 38 employees who were not receiving work july 1 1033 1913 would be given employment on less than a 40 hour week the industry positively could not operate the mills and meet any demands on them in excess of present production the code establishes a minimum rate of 40 cents an hour for common labor in the pittsburgh youngstown north ohio canton massillon cleveland detroit toledo chicago and colorado districts this rate Is only 9 per cent less than the highest base rate paid during the last 11 years where living costs were above the present level P PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT conten lulng his vacation at his home la in nade park IN Y called into conference there assistant secretary of state raymond moley and discussed w with I 1 t b him a plin plan to put all the force of the federal government into a campaign to wipe k out the two great evils of and racketeering professor moley was then relieved temporarily from his departmental D duties and placed at raymond moley motey the head ot of a special B survey to determine where and how the federal power can best be used as a weapon against the criminal tie ile Is well fitted for tills this work for he Is an expert criminologist was an adviser to the new york crime commissioner and Is the author of numerous surveys of crime notably lo in ohio and missouri As for racketeering both the pres ident and moley see in the new re covery act the authority which the federal government has heretofore lacked to intervene in criminal cases In involving business conduct until now unless a criminal act infringed upon soule some specific federal statute such as one of the postal laws or the internal revenue revenue act or it a law based on interstate commerce the federal govern ment had no means of jurisdiction in the past the antl anti trust laws have lire prevented vented the smaller industries and business units from banding together such a condition provided a fertile field for the racketeers for illegal combinations and for violence the national recovery act however provides directly for the abrogation atlon rf of the antl anti trust laws in cases where they interfere with the working of the recovery program industry and business a are r e forced into trade agreements the federal government sanctions and imposes those agreements and any at in viol violation atlon of such agreements or tending to destroy tile the effect of the recovery act Is made a crime against the president Is s counting on a super police force wod mod aled in a general way on En glands scotland yard the postal regulations tile the income tax law and the recently enacted statute recent instances of are familiar to all newspaper readers the snatchers snatch ers have received large sums for the release of their victims in several cases the relatives of john J oconnell jr of albany N Y paid for his freedom and the ransom of charles F ur urschel schell mil ml lion alre oil operator of oklahoma city Is sald bald to have been S LORD who as man C aging editor of the new york sun still for nearly a quarter of a century was admired and loved by two of newspaper men died at the age of beij ht three years in his home in garden city N Y the boss as one of his reporters once wrote was never known in all the years of his managing editorship to utter an kind word won to any man on the inper no matter how humble ills his station arsu p s shown by the civilian conservation corps are deemed so satisfactory by the administration that plans are arc being made to continue the experiment for another six months orders are to be sent out tor for the re enlistment or of all those who desire to go on with the work enlistment Is on a six months basil the first hitch bitch expires in november there are at present men in the corps including former service men the forestry army la Is located to in 1438 1433 camps in all parts of the country the cost to the government Is approximately a month steary SENATOR nurr P LONGS arbitrary rule in louisiana was seriously threatened when district judge A C odonnell began an open court investigation into the election of last fall in which longs gang Is alleged to have resorted to fraud in order to win the judge ordered fifteen election commissioners arrested on charges of certifying to fane false returns brought before him and he granted peri permission to district attorney stanley to examine ballot boxes in open court governor 0 K X allen alien a long henchman benchman in trying to halt the investigation had decla declared red new orleans under harilal martial law but revoked the order after eight soldiers had been detailed to guard the grand jury the latter body appeared to be dominated by the long crowd the united states senate committee announced it planned to resume its investigation of louisiana elections within two months the times plea pica called upon president roosevelt to take note of political racketeering in louisiana and not to overlook it in his war on gangsters POLITICS and sugar are making the cuban situation very difficult for the administration in washington and for ambassador sumner welles though it was announced J that the political situation on the island was clearing up and though president machado issued an amnesty proclamation the troubles res there are continuing the cuban people are in distress the school teachers in havana J have been demonstrate 0 ii Sumner amner welles Welle ing because they y are not paid and the veterans of the war of independence undertook to hold a parade to call attention to their inability to collect their pensions the old soldiers were attacked by police and seNe severely rely beaten right under the eyes of mr welles and it was reported the ambassador would demand that machado revamp his cabinet and dismiss gen alberto herrera ner rera the cause of much of the recent disturbance the cuban ambassador in washington Is persistently demanding a larger import quota for cuban sugar this and this alone would make the island fairly prosperous and would lead to the subsidence of the political disorders at present the sugar conference has tentatively set cubas sugar exports to the united states at short tons of raw and only tons of 0 refined ordinarily united states importation por tation of cuban refined sugar Is about half a million tons TUB apprehension of war between the united states and japan entertained by not a few americans Is 13 apparently felt in japan also despite official denials the army and navy heads beads of or the island empire have just submitted to the finance ministry estimates tini ates for the 1934 35 defense expenditures tures larger than any in previous history and 45 per cent greater than the appropriation for the current year these estimates included ISO yen at current exchange rates for new naval construction and yen for modernization of capital ships the navy ministry asked for the fiscal year beginning next april I 1 the sum of yen which Is 1 30 0 per cent more than the estimates of 1921 22 the largest previous eftim estimates ates for the sea forces the combined japanese fleet began preparations for maneuvers several hundred miles southeast of boklo in which the major problem will be a battle with a hypothetical enemy this will be preceded by a tour four day defense 0 of f the tokio district against a sham aerial attack from the sea the little old republic in athe ANDORRA the pyrenees Pyre nees underwent a bloodless revolution and the young people won the right of franchise confined to the heads of 01 families the re were supported by the state council and the authority of An dorras two co princes princea was defied these co princes are the bishop of urge in spain and the head of the F reach french state as represented by the prefect of perpignan their joint suzerainty has existed since 1278 1273 they were told the An dorrans insisted on being a free people and that their jobs henceforth would be merely decorative resident president lebrun of france evidently lid did not relish this flouting of his authority the french customs authorities ties imposed an embargo on all andorran exports to france thus ruining at one fell swoop the little nations must most thriving industry which la smuggling on the first time since 1912 eng FOR lands tennis team has possession of the historic davis cup the island ers won the trophy by defeating the french players at dauteuil auteuil in tile the challenge round france had held the my cup for aix years 0 1933 western newspaper union |