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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Tuwr-U Confirmed Ly Senate Despite Bitter Attacks Darrow Board Assails Johnson President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's Plans for Social Regeneration. Ey EDWARD W. PICKARD by U'oMtern Newspaper Cnljn. RKX'KOrtD Cil'T TUGWELL'S np-pcarance np-pcarance before the senate agriculture ag-riculture r 1 1 r j 1 1 1 1 ( to he quiz7."d ay to his fitness fur the position of .. , undersecretary of floriculture was ratlier farcical, even though It ljrout;ht on some heated encounters niuonR the members of the committee. The senators fiire'l their own views freely, hut learned nlmost nothing concerning those of Mr. Tuff- presslon of small biisinepseg or consumers. con-sumers. lli-.siiles suasfsting the removal of Johnson, the board demanded outright that two other o!!ic:ials of tlie NKA be fired for misconduct. One Is an assistant deputy administrator admin-istrator and the other Is an employee em-ployee of the lumber code authority, author-ity, but the report suppressed both their names. SENATOR AUTHOR ROBINSON of Indiana, who was renominated renom-inated by the Republicans, will be opposed at the polls next fall by Sherman Mlnton, the selection of the Democratic state convention. Mr. Mlnton, a World war veteran, .is now public counselor for the public pub-lic service commission of the state. His nomination was a victory for Governor McNutt over the faction led by R. Karl I'eters, former state chairman, who sought the nomination nomina-tion for himself. TN THE Democratic run-off prl- mary In Alabama former Gov. Ribb Graves won the nomination for governor and goes back to the executive ex-ecutive office which he held from January, 1027, to January, 1928. Judge James E. Horton, who presided pre-sided in the second trial of Hey-wood Hey-wood Patterson, one of the nine negro ne-gro defendants In the "Scottsboro case," and then set aside a jury verdict of death, ran more than 2,500 behind A. A. Griffith of Cullman. Cull-man. George Huddleston of Birmingham Bir-mingham retained his seat as congressman con-gressman from the Ninth district, but Congressman Miles C. Allgood of the Fifth district was beaten by Maj. Joe Starnes. IMMEDIATE relief from distress and recovery of business prosperity pros-perity fall far short of President Roosevelt's plan for regeneration of the nation. This was revealed in his special message to congress which told of the plans and recommen d a t io n s he would submit to the next congress. He asked for no present legislation, but gave notice of the social experl- R. Q. Tugwell we 1Q dl(1 tt,n them he believed the Constitution was flexible enough to take care of finy necessary economic changes; that he was opposed to the adoption adop-tion of Soviet planning by America, and that he thought his experience on his father's farm and his research re-search (jimmied him for the position posi-tion to which the President had appointed ap-pointed him. Finally the committee commit-tee reported the nomination favorably, favor-ably, the only two opposing votes being those of "Cotton Ed" Smith of Soulh Carolina and Henry D. Hatfield of West Virginia. The action of the committee assured as-sured Tugwell's confirmation by the senate, but the debate on the floor was unexpectedly long and the attacks at-tacks on Tugwell were outspoken. Senator Schall of Minnesota, for Instance, In-stance, said: "Agriculture demands and already has. experiment stations dealing in actual crops, live stock, and markets.. mar-kets.. It wants no 'bold experiments In collectivism' by a self-styled philosopher phi-losopher who functions like a three-card three-card nionle sharp who jumps upon a box with three shells and a pea and who entertains the public with his cry, 'Now you see it and now you don't. Who Is the next gent?' "Tugwell's general denial, and his specific denials, in the light of his associates In the field of political writing, are absolutely worthless. They are an Insult to an intelligent jury. lie insults the United States senate in order to gain a high office from which he can preach 'collectivism' 'collec-tivism' as a substitute for American Ameri-can institutions and the Constitution." Constitu-tion." WHILE the delegates of the steel workers' union were gathering In Pittsburgh to vote on the threatened strike, President Roosevelt and his advisers brought forward a plan for an emergency law designed to avert the walkout. It was admittedly a temporary expedient ex-pedient to give the President an effective ef-fective agency for the consideration considera-tion of industrial disputes arising during the life of the NRA. Under the new bill's terms, boards selected by the President would be empowered to order and conduct an election, by a secret ballot, to determine "by what person or persons per-sons or organizations" employees may desire to be represented in negotiations ne-gotiations under the collective bargaining bar-gaining features of the national recovery re-covery act. The proposed board also would have the authority to order production produc-tion of pertinent documents and witnesses to give testimony under oath, and their orders would be enforceable en-forceable by any United States court of competent jurisdiction, similar to like privileges enjoyed by the federal trade commission. Vested with authority to prescribe their own rules and regulations, the boards would be armed with a penalty clause in the new law, setting $1,000 fine or a year imprisonment, impris-onment, or both, for violation of their decrees. IN ITS second report to the President Presi-dent the national recovery review re-view board, headed by Clarence Darrow, loosed another blast at Administrator Ad-ministrator Johnson and In effect recommended his removal as head of the NRA. The board said Johnson John-son had given the recovery program an un-American and dictatorial tinge that handicapped it In the war on depression ; that he has arbitrarily decreed life and death for ""Vustries, and that by arbi-ar arbi-ar modifications of codes he has helped big business concerns to oppress op-press their smaller competitors. "The rule of the military commander com-mander is totally unsuited to the genius, habits, traditions, or psychology psy-chology of the American people, and wholly ineffectual In meeting the present national crisis," the board concluded. The second Darrow report covered cov-ered the retuil dry goods, warehousing, ware-housing, lumber, cement, retail food, boot and shoe, electrical manufacturing, man-ufacturing, bedding, petroleum, coffee, cof-fee, plumbing fixtures, embroidery, and lead pencil codes. Complaints against the warehousing, electrical manufacturing, and embroidery codes were dismissed as without foundation. But In the other codes the board claimed to find op ments he proposes President to begin next wln. Roosevelt (.er The message discussed the three factors of housing, land and resource re-source planning and old age and unemployment Insurance. Expressing satisfaction over progress prog-ress in relieving industry, agriculture, agricul-ture, and unemployment, the President, Presi-dent, asserting his right to chart social reforms, declared, "It Is childish to speak of recovery first and reconstruction afterward." Taking up the housing problem, he said millions of dollars had already al-ready been provided to improve living liv-ing conditions, and voiced the hope that with passage of his housing program private capital would be stimulated to widen the scope of home building. Discussing planned control of the land, he declared that hundreds of thousands of families now live "where there Is no reasonable prospect pros-pect of a living in the years to come." Sounding the failure of the government gov-ernment thus far to create a "national "na-tional policy" for the development of land and water resources, Mr. Roosevelt indicated his intention of providing such a policy, and for the transferring to new lands of "those people who cannot make a living In their present positions." Outlining his view on providing security against unemployment and old age, Mr. Roosevelt said he was seeking a "sound means" which he could recommend to provide an Immediate Im-mediate safeguard against these "hazards and vicissitudes of life." MAX BAER of California brought the world's heavyweight title back to America by soundly whipping whip-ping Primo Camera, the huge Italian, Ital-ian, in New York. The fight was the most exciting one seen in this country for a long time. Scheduled Sched-uled for fifteen rounds, It ended In the eleventh when the referee declared de-clared a technical knockout and awarded the victory to Baer. Car-nera Car-nera was game to the end. Thirteen Thir-teen times he went to the canvas, yet he was advancing against the retreating Baer during the greater part of the contest. SEVEN persons met a tragic death when an American Air Lines plane, flying from Newark to Buffalo, Buf-falo, crashed in the Catskills. 12 miles north of Livingston Manor and was burned. The victims were H. H. Tinsley of New York, W. A. Bader, W. A. Cass and H. C. Cop-pins, Cop-pins, all of Buffalo,- passengers; Clyde Holbrook and John Barron, Jr., pilots, and Miss Margaret Huckeby, stewardess, all of Chicago. |