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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Nye's Committee Offers Drastic War-Profit Bill Austria Aus-tria Decides to Enlarge Its Army Progress of European Peace Negotiations. By EDWARD W. PICKARD i). Western N'ewipaper Union. SK.VATOR GERALD P. NYE'S munitions committee, which has Rient seven months Investigating the doings of the manufacturers of , arms and armament, arma-ment, reported to the senate Its measure meas-ure designed to take the profits out of war and provide for the conscription of Industry In the event of another armed conflict Involving In-volving the United States. The bill Is Senator Nye g,v,ng tQ th(J preg. Ident In war time powers that are practically dictatorial, permitting . him not only to fix prices but also to license all Industry and control raw materials. It also has taxation taxa-tion features that will arouse considerable con-siderable opposition. It would raise Individual Income taxes to 6 per cent In wartime, levy surtaxes up to 0-1 per cent on Incomes In excess of $10,000, and seize profits of corporations corpor-ations In excess of 6 per cent return re-turn on Invested capital. I The Nye bill gives the President very broad powers to fix prices of commodities, to license Industry, to enjoin profiteering and to prevent the hoarding of goods. It provides for the drafting of Industrial leaders, lead-ers, who would be permitted to remain re-main with their companies, subjected subject-ed to military law and given rank and compensation not exceeding that of a brigadier general. Meanwhile the house military af-. af-. fairs committee reported the Mc-' Mc-' j Swain bill, similar to the senate . measure but without the tax features. fea-tures. This lack made the more rad- leal members angry but when they tried to amend the bill they were routed, 25S to 71. The Nye senate committee, after reporting Its bill, continued Its Inquiry. In-quiry. It heard a rather sensational sensation-al bit of evidence to the efTect that Itoger S. McGrath, an insurance company agent who was1 described is a friend of the President's son James, had sought successfully to obtain two naval building contracts foT the Bath Iron Works up in Maine. FOLLOWING the example set by Hitler, Austria has decided to disregard the limitations on Its military mili-tary strength set by the treaty of St. Germain and to increase Its armed forces Immediately. The official of-ficial communique Issued by Chancellor Chan-cellor Kurt Scluischnigg did not say liow big the army would be or whether conscription would be restored. re-stored. The annual spring parade of the army at the Ringstrasse in Vienna was revived, and the troops 'appeared in fine new uniforms. It Is believed Hungary and Bulgaria Bul-garia soon will ask permission to increase in-crease their armies and re-introduce conscription. SOVIET Russia is ready to line up with Great Britain, France nnd Italy in promoting the general European security pact which Is the basis of England s plan for peace. This was brought out by the visit to Moscow of Capt Anthony Eden, British lord privy seal, and his conferences with Dictator Josef Stalin Sta-lin and Maxim Lit-vlnov, Lit-vlnov, Soviet foreign for-eign commissar. Ac- 4:ri M. Litvinov communique given the press, these statesmen "were of the opinion that In the present international in-ternational situation it is more than ever necessary to pursue the endeavor en-deavor to promote the building up of a system of collective security In Europe as contemplated In the Anglo-French communique of the third of February, and In conformity with the principles of the League of Nations." It was made clear that Germany and Poland would be welcome to enter the arrangement, but that It would go ahead even without them. Captain Eden then went on to Warsaw to talk things over with the Poles; and even as he was departing depart-ing from Moscow the Soviet press launched another fierce attack on Germany. Michael Tukhachevsky, vice commissar for defense, In an article in the newspaper Pravda, declared Germany would have an army of S-10,000 by the summer, exceeding ex-ceeding the French army by 40 per cent and almost equaling the Soviet army in size. He charged Hitler with 'nulling France to sleep" with anti-Soviet war talk in the hope France would not realize her own peril. Tukhachevsky's view that Germany Ger-many contemplates attacking France was supported by an authorized article in the weekly Journal de Moscou which asserted the leaders of the relch realized "the excep tional risk to which Germany would subject herself by Invasion of the tremendous territories of the U. S. S. It. a country possessing powerful power-ful armaments and unlimited opportunities oppor-tunities for Improving and Increasing Increas-ing these armaments" "It Is almost probable," the Journal Jour-nal said, "that under certain circumstances cir-cumstances flitler will prefer other fields of aggression, and an Intensified Intensi-fied revision of the map of Europe will be started not in the east but In the west" PREMIER MUSSOLINI Is highly skeptical of the success of efforts to persuade Germany to enter into general peace plans for Europe. In his newspaper, Popolo d'ltnlia, appeared ap-peared an editorial, probably written writ-ten by 11 duee himself, warning his fellow countrymen that no miraculous mirac-ulous results may be expected from the conference of foreign ministers In Stresa. It asserted that the western west-ern European powers '.'must stabilize stabil-ize their line of common action against several eventualities which can be foreseen, and they must take definite responsibility." It then charged that the French and British are impeding Mussolini's wish to take action against Hitler because of their preoccupation about their own internal policy. Premier Flandin and Foreign Minister Laval of France were reported re-ported to have devised a vast, new, flexible plan to organize the peace of the continent within the framework frame-work of the League of Nations. tfROM Tokyo there came a state-ment state-ment indicating that Japan would give at least moral support to the European powers that are seeking agreements to counteract coun-teract Hitler's move for the re-armament of Germany. It was given out by Eiji Amau, the frequent ly quoted spokes man for the foreign office. He said Japan will hold aloof from the European Eu-ropean crisis and that there would be no far eastern Lo- tlJI Mmau carno pact, but that "we cannot-think cannot-think of any alliance with Germany." Ger-many." Tokyo, asserted Amau, is ready to discuss with Russia some degree of demilitarization of the eastern frontiers. DOLAND appears to have decided to play a lone hand in the European Eu-ropean embroglio, though she remains re-mains friendly to Germany. It is reported re-ported that Captain Eden's visit to Warsaw was as disappointing as was that of Sir John Simon to Berlin. Ber-lin. The Polish government Is determined de-termined to sign no pact that would commit the nation to fight for Russia Rus-sia against Germany or for Germany against Russia and France, neither will it permit either German or Russian troops to be transported across Poland. The Polish statesmen states-men say they will sign a series of bilateral pacts, and will go as far as any other aation In parallel disarmament dis-armament They assert that they have no alliance with Germany, though their mutual troubles have been settled for the next ten years, and that the alliance with France still holds good. FOREIGN nations that discriminate discrimi-nate against American imports have been warned by President Roosevelt that they must discontinue discon-tinue that practice under penalty of economic reprisals by the United States. In a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau the President Pres-ident outlined his foreign trade policy pol-icy and disclosed the fact that the administration Is considering denouncing de-nouncing existing trade pacts with Germany, Italy, Portugal and Denmark Den-mark because of discrimination. He proclaimed the new Belgian-American reciprocal trade agreement, and also decreed that, pending the conclusion con-clusion of negotiations for new pacts now In progress, the reduced duties and other concessions granted grant-ed Belgium will be extended to Canada, Can-ada, Spain, The Netherlands, Switzerland Switz-erland and LIchtenstein for six months. THROUGH the efforts of Donald Richberg, chairman of the NIRB, an agreement was reached by the bituminous coal operators and the United Mine Workers, whereby the prevailing coal code Is extended to June 16 and a threatened strike of about half a million miners averted. The present wages and hours of work are continued. President Lewis of the miners Insisted the union had not yielded to the operators; op-erators; but the fact remained that If It had not eonsented to the agreement agree-ment Mr. Richberg could and would have extended the code by executive execu-tive order. WHEN the Illinois legislature, at the behest of Governor Horner and the federal administration, administra-tion, passed a state recovery act the New Dealers hailed this as an example that all states should follow. fol-low. Now County Judge Homer W. Hall at Lloomington has held that the act is unconstitutional. Ha also declared the national automobile automo-bile code Inoperative as applied t Illinois. Under the state recovery act, the Judge remarked, an unlawful delegation dele-gation of the authority of the state legislature has brought about a situation whereby violations of the state act can be prosecuted by tin state only through the sanction and by the authority of the federal director di-rector of codes. "Delegated authority may not be redelegated," the Judge said. "Authority "Au-thority delegated by the people to the legislature permitting the making mak-ing of laws may not be redelegated by the legislature to communities, bureaus, code authorities or executives, execu-tives, allowing these agencies to make rules with the effect of laws, the violation of which makes the Individual amenable to the criminal statutes." BETING alleged directions from the yacht on which 'resident Roosevelt was fishing In Florida waters, wa-ters, the majority in the house refused re-fused to accept the restrictions injected in-jected In the work relief bill and sent It back to conference to have these features removed. The restrictions objectionable to the administration were those requiring re-quiring senate confirmation of administrative ad-ministrative officers of the program and that in loans and grants to states at least one-third of the money should be expended for direct di-rect labor. The latter requirement, according to Secretary Ickes and others, would result in the exclusion exclu-sion of rural electrification, slum clearance and similar projects. Defending the move to send the bill back to conference, Buchanan of Georgia said : "The President is assuming responsibility. All we ask is to give him a bill that he can work on in shifting from dole to employment." In replying to Buchanan, Representative Repre-sentative Robert Bacon (Rep., N. Y.) contended that the labor provision pro-vision was needed in order to "kick out pet local projects" and afford as much direct relief of unemployment unemploy-ment as possible. "Congress has reached a pretty low ebb," declared Minority Leader Bertrand Snell (Rep., N. Y.), "when it can't even pass on a conference report without receiving orders from the Chief Executive." DEBATE on the Copeland-Tugwell food, drug, cosmetic and advertising ad-vertising bill was lively in the senate, sen-ate, and the opposition was led by a Democrat, Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina, who urged the retention re-tention of the present food and drug law with such amendments as changed conditions require. "I understand the Department of Agriculture was created to foster agriculture and not to govern advertising," ad-vertising," Senator Bailey said. "It is inconceivable to me that it should take charge of medicine, cosmetics, and advertising. There might be an argument that the department has made such great triumphs in agriculture agri-culture that it is seeking new worlds to conquer. But I believe that If some one should make that boast, I should agree that it had exceeded Samson in the slaughter of pigs, but had fallen far short of doing as good work in the matter of cotton as has the boll weevil." oCORES of agents of the Depart- ujeut ol justices uivisiou 01 investigation in-vestigation were carrying on a concentrated con-centrated search for three men now listed as the worst "public enemies" at large, according to Chief J. Edgar Ed-gar Hoover. The three are; Alvin Karpis, twenty-five, a leader In the notorious Barker-Earpis kidnap and bank robbery gang; Raymond Hamilton, Ham-ilton, twenty-two, killer who broke jail while awaiting execution; and Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., twenty-eight twenty-eight kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, wealthy young society matron of Louisville, Ky. ONE of America's leading sculptors, sculp-tors, Augustus Lukeman, died in New York at the age of sixty-four sixty-four years. After Borglum was ousted by the Confederate memorial committee in 1925, Lukeman took over the work of carving the huge memorial on the face of Stone mountain In Georgia, completing it in 1928. He was chief of sculptors at the World's fair in Chicago. DELGIUM'S new deal program, - derived from President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's policies, was launched by the young premier, Paul Van Zeeland, and he was given an overwhelming vote of confidence by the senate and chamber of deputies. The effect of going off the gold standard already al-ready is being felt, for prices of food staples are going up. The government govern-ment warned traders that any undue un-due increases in prices would be punished severely. Premier Van Zeeland said : "I am a keen admirer of President Presi-dent Roosevelt, who obtained essential essen-tial results mainly in allowing his country to work in peace. He certainly cer-tainly committed errors. Had he based his program of economic expansion ex-pansion upon gold the world crisis would be ended now. But I apply those Rooseveltian measures to Bel-glum Bel-glum which I consider good." |
