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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Recovery Act Blue Eagle Becomes the National Bird Code Making Continues President Plans War on Kidnaping and Racketeering. By EDWARD W. PICKARD BLUE eagles of NRA by the hundred thousand are flying all over the United States; Innumerable men and women, jobless for long, are going s?"V;' back t0 w01'k s"prt' Jy er hours and higher ' . pay are being in- stalled in factories, i: ..s-. : 4' shops and offices, f :a gj? American commerce ! - ' s and Industry is fast I' - m.- I being regimented. t President Roosevelt ! -!?iaV ' and his whole ad-Is ad-Is ministration are push-ik push-ik inS forward in the re-., re-., , . covery campaign de-H. de-H. 8. Johnson . ., terminedly. Following out the President's program, pro-gram, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery administrator, has "drafted" citizens in all the states to lead the great drive. Nine members were appointed ap-pointed on each of 4S state "recovery boards," and seven members were named for service on 26 district "recovery "re-covery boards" for the recently made codes. The telegraphic notice sent each of the former by General John-eon John-eon was: "President Roosevelt has drafted you as one of the nine members of the state recovery board for the state of ... as explained in bulletin No. 3 of July 20. He has requested you to volunteer your services without compensation com-pensation In this great drive for national na-tional rehabilitation. As a member of this board your duties will be to get every patriotic American citizen, employer, em-ployer, and consumer to co-operate In this program. Please wire acceptance Immediately and you will receive further fur-ther instructions." The advisory board for public works Is doing Its part in the re-employment campaign by dealing out further large gums from the public works fund. Its head, Secretary of Interior Ickes. announced an-nounced allotments totaling $11S,2$2,-000 $11S,2$2,-000 for one state and five federal proj ects. Added to allotments already made, brought the total thus far earmarked ear-marked out of the three billion three hundred million dollar fund to S1.05S,-106.201. S1.05S,-106.201. The state project to be financed by the government was beneficiary of the largest allotment. Sixty-three million dollars. Secretary Ickes announced, is allotted for construction af the Grand Coulee dam In the Columbia river basin. The state of Washington is to undertake un-dertake the dam project, it is understood. under-stood. Thirty per cent of the S03.0oO,. 000 total cost, or $18,000,000 represents a direct outright gift by the federal government. The remainder Is to be loaned to the state, at low Interest rates over a long-time period. The upper Mississippi 9-foot channel project, already approved by President Roosevelt, was allotted Sll.500.0ii0. This Is a federal project to be undertaken under-taken under the government's rivers and harbors program. Another $22,700,000 of the public works fund was earmarked for the Caspar-Alcova reclamation project In Wyoming, for many years the put scheme of Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming. The federal forest service was allotted allot-ted $15,22,745; the coast and geodetic survey S2.600.000, and the geologic surrey sur-rey $2,500,000. T EPRESENTATIVES of the oil. coal, steel and many other industries indus-tries were busily trying to agree on their codes In Washington. In each there were factions with conflicting Ideas, and it was not easy to reconcile them. This was especially true of the oil men. Among them were many advocates ad-vocates of federal regulation of, petroleum pe-troleum prices, but they were told by Administrator Johnson that he would cot recommend to the President any price fixing until the effect of production produc-tion control has been determined. Formation of the coal code was complicated com-plicated by the riotous strike In the mining zone of southwestern Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. Thirty thousand miners were out and Governor Plnchot culled out state troops to control the sliuntion after a quarrel with a sheriff. The National Coal association, controlled by nonunloniz.ed operators, asked Ad mlnistrator Johnson to look Into the trouble In the strike region, and he designated Edward F. McGrndy, labor adviser to N. It. A., to Investigate the situation. IN P.OTII the coal and steel code discussions dis-cussions there was controversy over the open shop versus unions. The ste'd men look the open shop clause out of their proposed code to facilitate set- '., tlernent hut they de- VI clnrod plainly that J they would stand for 1 the present systems i ;v t of employees' councils A In the Industry to ! - ; carry fin rnller-tjve j , bargaining. 1 Mr. Johnson paid be '$ would not approve i'j,w ativ code th;it floes not provide for ad- R' P' L;,mon, vlsory councils, fin (Iks old l"-nio of how collective bnrgaiiili.g-i should be carried out, the administrator reiterated reiter-ated that N. I. R. A. provides for collective col-lective bargaining through employees chosen by the workers. Robert P. Lament, former secretary of commerce and now president of the Americon Iron and Steel Institute, which represents OS per cent of the country's producers of pig iron and steel ingots, was the chief spokesman for the iron and steel iudustry at the hearings. William Green, president of the A. F L., challenged various sections sec-tions of the offered code, especially the minimum wage and maximum hours provisions. Secretary of Labor Perkins, who had been making a tour of the Pennsylvania steel mills, wanted the wage rates altered, especially criticizing criti-cizing the 25 and 27 cents minimum hourly rate set up for the southern and Birmingham districts. Shortly afterwards Mr. Lamont announced an-nounced the Industry had agreed to raise trie minimum pay In those two districts to 30 cents an hour. 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 60 per cent rate of operations and a 40 hour week, substantially all the 49.73S employees who were not receiving re-ceiving work July 1, 1033. 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, Cleve-land, Detroit-Toledo, Chicago and Colorado Col-orado 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." PRESIDENT ROOSRYEI.T. eontin-' eontin-' uing his vacation at his home In Hyde Park. N. Y.. called Into conference confer-ence there Assistant Secretary of ja. ""5 State Raymond Moley '.,'-' ; and discussed with j? ; v' ij him a plan to put all ; :.j the force of the fed s' I eral government Into f a campaign to wipe ff? .1 011t two great (1 ev''s of kidnaping and I I i racketeering. Profos- -v- ' - sor M"h'y was then p, "" ' re!'eved temporarily t N-. JLi from his departmental . , duties and placed at Raymond ,. . , Moley a 'sI'L'clnl survey to determine where and how the federal power ran best be used as a weapon against the criminal. He Is well fitted for this work, for he Is an expert criminologist, was an adviser to the New York crime 1 commissioner and Is the author of numerous nu-merous surveys of crime, notably Id Ohio and Missouri. As for racketeering, both the President Pres-ident and Moley see In the new recovery re-covery act the authority, which the federal government has heretofore lacked, to Intervene In criminal cases Involving business conduct, Until now, unless a criminal net Infringer upon some specific federal statute, such as one of the postal laws or the Internal revenue act or a law based on Interstate Inter-state commerce, the federal government govern-ment had no means of Jurisdiction. In the past the anti-trust laws have prevented the smaller Industries ami business units from handing 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 of the anti trust laws In cases where tliey Interfere with the working of the recovery re-covery program. Industry nnd business busi-ness are forced Into trade agreements. The federal government sanctions nnd Imposes those agreements and any art In violation of such agreements or tending to destroy the efTect of the recovery act Is made a crime. Against kidnaping, the President Is counting on a super police force mod eled In a general way on England's Scotland Yard, the postal regulations, the Income tax law. nnd the recently enacted kidnnplng statute. Recent Instances' of kidnaping are familiar to all newspaper readers. The "snatchers" have received large sums for the release of their victims In several cases. The relatives of John .1. O'Connell. Jr.. of Albany, N. Y., paid S 10,000 for his freedom, and the ransom of Charles F. Ursolicl, millionaire mil-lionaire oil operator of Oklahoma City. Is said to have been $200,000. CIIKSTFIt S. LORD, who as man aging editor of the New York Sun for nearly a quarter of n century w.'u ndiiiired anil loved by two generaliorn of newspaper men. died nl the n;;e of eighty-three years. In his homo n Garden City, N. Y. The "P.oss." as on ii of his reporters rune wrote, "was never known In all the yearn of ,fi inn nagl ng rlllrirshl to niter an unkind un-kind worrl In -my man on tin; paper, no matter how humble his station." O ESULTS shown by the civilian conservation corps are deemed so satisfactory by the administration that plans are being made to continue the experiment for another six months. Orders are to be sent out for the re-enlistment re-enlistment of all those who desire to go on with the work. Enlistment is on a sis months basis. The first "hitch" expires in November. Novem-ber. There are at present 310.575 men in the corps, including 25,000 former service men. The forestry army is located in 1.43S camps in all parts of the country. The cost to the government govern-ment is approximately $20,000,000 a month. SENATOR IIUEY P. LONG'S arbitrary arbi-trary rule in Louisiana was seriously seri-ously threatened when District Judge A. C. O'Donneil began an open court investigation into the election of last fall in which Long's gang is alleged to have resorted to fraud in order to win. The judge ordered fifteen election elec-tion commissioners, arrested on charges of certifying to false returns, brought before him ; nnd he granted permission permis-sion to District Attorney Stanley to examine ballot boxes in open court. Governor O. K. Allen, a Long henchman, hench-man, in trying to halt the Investigation, Investiga-tion, had declared New Orleans under martial law, but revoked the order after eight soldiers' had been detailed to guard the grand jury. The la.ter body anpeared 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-Picayune 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. rr-ie . Though It was an-Lyf an-Lyf Vf-'Vrj nnunced that the po-j po-j .y. - utical situation on the ' J Island was clearing up, and though Presi-' Presi-' dent Macharlo issued "SET an amnesty proclania-t proclania-t tion. the troubles there are continuing. The jj , Cuban people are In " distress, the school i'.a"'"' teachers In Havana r. ... have been demonstrat- Sumner Welles . . , log because they 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 severely beaten, ri'ht under ths eyes of Mr. Welles, and It was reported report-ed the ambassador would demand Hint Mnchado revamp his cabinet and dismiss dis-miss Gen. Alberto Herrera. the cause of much of the recent disturbance. The Cuban ambassador In Washington Washing-ton Is persistently demanding a larger Import quota for Cuban sugar. This anil tlris alone would make the island fairly prosperous nnd would lead to the subsidence of the political disorders. disor-ders. At present the sugar conference has tentatively set Cuba's sugar exports to the United States nt 1.7rto.noO short tons of raw ami only IIO.oini tons of refined. Ordinarily I'nlted States lm-portation lm-portation of Cuban refined sugar Is about half a million tons. THE apprehension of war between the United States nnd Japan, entertainer en-tertainer by not a few Americans. Is apparently felt In Japan also, despite official denials. The army nnd navy heads of the I sin nil empire have Just submitted to the finance ministry estimates es-timates for the l!'3i .'i5 defense expenditures ex-penditures larger than any In previous previ-ous history and 45 per cent greater than the appropriation for the current year. These estimates Included IsO.. 0(10.000 yen (.5n,to(.OtiO nt current exchange ex-change rates) for new naval construction construc-tion ami 75.ooO.OoO yen (?21.ik'i.Ooo) for modernization of cnpllal ships. The nnvy ministry nsker for the flsvnl year beginning next April 1 the sum of i;si,0(ifp.fi(Nl yen (SliMi. pKl.ooO), which Is 30 per cent more than the es-tlmntes es-tlmntes of 1021-22. the largest previous previ-ous estlmntes for the sea forces. The combiner Japanese fleet began preparations fur maneuvers several hundred miles southeast of Tokio. In which the major problem will be a battle with a hypothetical enemy. This will be preceded by n four day defense of the Toklo distriet ngainst a sham aerial attack from the sea. ANDORRA, the little old republic In the Pyrenees, underwent a blond-less blond-less revolution nnd the young penple won the right of frnnchlse. hitherto confined to the bends of families. The revolters were supported hv the state council, anil the authority of Andorra's two coprlnces wns defied. These co-prlni-cs nre the bishop of Urge In Spain nnd the bond of tin' French slate as represented by tbe prefect of Perplgnan. Their Joint suzerainty hns existed since 127H. Tliey were told the Andorrans Insisted on being n free people and that their John henceforth would he merely decorative. President l.ehrun of I'rnnce evidently evident-ly did not relish this flouting of his authority. The French customs authorities au-thorities Imposed an embargo on nil Andorran exports to I-'ranee. thus ruining ruin-ing at one fell swoop the Uttln nit-lion's nit-lion's most thriving Industry, which Is smuggling. IjVllt the first lime since 1PI2 :,,g land's tennis team has posse-. slmt of I lie historic I mvlM cup. Tlie Mnnd era won the trophy by defeating tin' French players at Autoull In Hi,. , hai longe round. France bad ImM the i n;i for Hi J years. . 1H33, W'-l'lll ",'"i- -1 1 1' j r 1 '"I "M. |