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Show Mews Review of Current Events the World Over Spfaker Rainey's Death Starts Race for His Position Prominent Men Organize Liberty League to Combat Radicalism. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C tX Western Newspaper Union. HKN'l'.Y T. KA r.SK Y, Teteran congress man from Illinois and Hpeiiker of the douse, (Mini unei-Ijectedlj unei-Ijectedlj la t St. Louis hospital where he wax he- l j " - : llovcd to he reeov- ering from an at- : tack of bronchial j pneumonia. T h e tin riK'd la te cause of i hlH diMith was an- J jrlna iiectorl.i. Mr. Itiiiney, who was within a day of be- 1 n g seventy-four j years ohl, was first eiecu'u 10 congress Henry T- In VM2, and he Fiainey nerved continuously continuous-ly with the exrepl inn of one term, lining defeated In the Harding landslide land-slide of 1 !)(). lie was elected to the speakership when John Nance darner hecaine Vice president Ills control over the house during the sessions of last year and this year, while the President's program was lielng put through, was gentle hut ho linn (hat the legislators were kept well In line. Mr. Kniney devoted much of his flervlco In Washington to efforts to Improve the condition of the farmers, farm-ers, fur he held that farm prosperity prosper-ity was essential In any program for national well being. He also was a student of tariff and fiscal uhjects. As a Democrat he was always a "regular." He was the aulhor of the tariff commission law and of much other Important legislation. legis-lation. Mrs. Ralney acted as her hus-fuuid's hus-fuuid's secretary for years and Is ko well acquainted with congressional congres-sional work that the Democrats may select her as the candidate to complete his term as representative from the Twentieth Illinois ilis trlet. Mr. Itaincy was burled In his lioi.no town, Ctirrollton, after services serv-ices which were attended by President Presi-dent Itoosevelt and many other notable persons. OPliAKER' RAINEfS death will result In a spirited contest among a number of men who are ambitious to succeed him. First in tllfi line of Kiipfoo. slon, so to speak, ! is Representative Joseph W. I'.yrns -of Tennessee, who bus been serving as majority floor leader and who Is head of the Democratic Demo-cratic national congressional com-Jiilttee. com-Jiilttee. President Stiliwevelt- lo crnl(r 1 " "V " j SUM.! iwwv tun ia vuiii to take no part In Joseph W. the race, but the Byrns more liberal of the New Dealers In the house are known to favor Sam Rayburn of Texas. Weil informed in-formed observers believe Byrns will tie elected speaker and Rayburn tloor leader. Other aspirants for the speakership are John 13. Rankin of Mississippi, who has announced his candidacy; Wllliaru B. Banldiead of Manama, nnd John J. O'Connor of New York. Mr. Byrns has been a member of the house continuously since his election to the Sixty-first congress. His work as floor leader, In con-Junction con-Junction with Rainey's rule as speaker, was not especially pleasing pleas-ing to the New Dealers, for some months during the last session, but before adjournment most of the misunderstandings were cleared up. In any case, the administration seldom Interferes In the selection of the leaders of congress, not wishing wish-ing to incur the enmity of powerful power-ful members of the party. y) TURNING from his swift trip to attend the funeral of Mr. rtaiuey, the President went directly tadc to Washington Instead of go-l"sr go-l"sr to his Hyde Park home. This change In plan was due. It was said, to the development of a bitter bit-ter dispute between Gen. Hugh S. Johnson on one side and Donald liiehberg, Mr. Roosevelt's chief Industrial In-dustrial adviser, and Secretary of Labor Perkins on the other, over the new structure to be given the NRA. The issue, it was disclosed, is whether there shall be a board of control In authoritative management manage-ment of the NRA or a board which shall be more advisory In power, leaving the real control still In the hands of the administrator and his deputies. It was expected Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt would take command of the situation and determine definitely what shall be done with the recovery recov-ery administration. General Johnson has said that, at the request of the President he will remain with the N'RA after its reorganization, re-organization, and presumably he will be chairman of the board. ORGANIZED labor scored a victory vic-tory over Recovery Administrator Adminis-trator Johnson when the national Vb-v relations board ordered John Donovan, former president of the MtA union, dismissed by Johnson for "Inefficiency," reinstated to his position with the labor advisory hoard. "The agencies which are administering adminis-tering the law sliould la their own dealings uphold its purposes," the hoard said In its decision, giving a veiled reproof to Johnson for what It Implied was a violation of section sec-tion 7a of the NRA. With rather bad grace the NRA accepted the rebuke and permitted Donovan to return to his Job. Johnson John-son himself had nothing to say about It, hut Dr. Gustav Peck. iJonovnn's Immediate superior, Issued Is-sued a .statement ii. which he sniffed at the board's decision and warned Donovan that he would have to "toe the mark." Soon after this the NRA announced an-nounced that It does not regard Itself It-self as obliged to withdraw the Blue Eagle In cases where the national labor relations board has found companies guilty of violation of section 7A of the national Industrial Indus-trial recovery act and of subsequent failure to obey the Instructions of the board. The labor hoard has recommended recommend-ed withdrawal of the Blue Eagle to the NRA compliance board In all cases where companies have disobeyed dis-obeyed its Instructions to reinstate rein-state discharged employees. The decision of the NRA will remove teeth from decisions by the board, since it may now hear cases, make decisions, and find that no pen-allies pen-allies are Inflicted for disobeying Its orders. OOTTON garment code amend-V-J ments reducing the working hours nnd giving workers a wage Increase have been signed by the President. The amendments, which affect plants in 42 states, are of far-reaching far-reaching Importance. Sidney Hillman, labor advisory board member and Amalgamated Clothing union head, termed signing sign-ing of the order "the most far-reaching far-reaching move NRA has yet made to increase employment." It was hoped that this order would avert the threatened strike of the garment gar-ment workers. TWO prominent Democrats, two Republicans almost equally prominent, prom-inent, and one leading industrialist, all of them of conservative tenden- cies, nave united to organize the American Amer-ican Liberty league dedicated to a war on radicalism in the Uuited States. The five founders of the league are: Alfred E. S m i t h, Democratic Presidential Presi-dential candidate in 102S; John W. Da- t jf Mi vis, jemocratic Presidential candi- Jouett date in 11)24; Na- Shouse than L. Miller, Republican ex-governor of New York ; James W. Wads-worth, Wads-worth, Republican congressman from New York, former senator and Presidential possibility for 193G; and Irenee Du Pont, manufacturer, who supported Smith in 1923 and Roosevelt in 1032. They believe the league membership will grow into the millions and that It will become an Important element in the national nation-al life. For president of the organization the founders selected Jouett Shouse, former chairman of the Democratic national committee and president of the Association Against the Prohibition Pro-hibition Amendment until repeal was accomplished. In a statement Mr. Shouse set forth the purposes of the league as follows: "It Is a nonpartisan organization, formed, as stated in its charter, 'to defend nnd uphold the Constitution of the Uuited States nnd to gather and disseminate information that (1) will teach the necessity of respect re-spect for the rights of persons nnd property as fundamental to every successful form of government, and (2) will tench the duty of government govern-ment to encourage and protect Individual In-dividual and group Initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save, and acquire property, prop-erty, and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when acquired.' " To Interviewers Mr. Shouse declared de-clared the league was not antl-Roosevelt, antl-Roosevelt, but It seemed clear that It will be opposed to most of the major purposes of the New Deal and the radical professors of the brain trust, ne said he had visited the President and informed him fully of the purposes of the league, hut he would not tell what Mr. Roosevelt's reaction had been. Mr. Shouse disclosed that the organization or-ganization will have a board of national na-tional directors, composed of outstanding out-standing men and women from every state of the nation, and that from this group will be selected an executive committee of about eighteen eight-een members. Tnn strike of truck drivers In Minneapolis was ended when the men and their employers accepted ac-cepted a compromise agreement, and martial law in the city was discontinued, dis-continued, business therefore speeding speed-ing buck to normal conditions. The peace plan devised by federal representatives, rep-resentatives, provided that ail employees em-ployees on strike be returned to their Jobs without discrimination and on basis of seniority. It Included Includ-ed an agreement to hod an election within ten days In each of the lOj Hrms Involved to determine whether wheth-er their employees want the drivers' union or other representatives to act for them In collective bargaining, bargain-ing, and a pledge of the 100 firms to pay for at least one year not less than 50 cents an hour to drivers and 40 cents to helpers, platform men and Inside workers, tiiese wages to remain In effect unless changed by agreement or arbitration. arbitra-tion. WILLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federation of Labor, says he hopes the general strike of textile Industry workers f f ' if -r- will be averted ; but I he announces at I the same time that I the federation in- 1 dorses the strike I and will co-operate , fully with the olll-cers olll-cers and members I of the United Tex- 1 tile Workers' or- i ganlzatlon. He ap- 1 pointed federation committees to as-William as-William Green slst Uie textile workers and announced that he would draft trained organizers and strike specialists from other unions to assist the textile union. George A. Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile institute and chairman chair-man of the cotton textile code authority, au-thority, said the threatened strike is not Justified by the facts established estab-lished by Impartial government economists. Challenging the wage increase demand de-mand of the United Textile Workers Work-ers of America, Mr. Sloan declared that "as a result of three basic wage provisions In the code the hourly wages paid In March. 19;4. show an Increase of 7 per cent as compared with March, 1933, when there was no code. "All of this has meant a substantial sub-stantial increase in manufacturing costs," Mr. Sloan said, "and the research re-search and planning division of the NRA found, after a comprehensive investigation last June, that 'under existing conditions there is no factual fac-tual or statistical basis for any general increase in cotton textile code wage rates.' " I IEUT. COL. MARIO HERNAN-DEZ HERNAN-DEZ organized a plot to overthrow over-throw the government of President Mendieta of Cuba and establish a military dictatorship, but the authorities au-thorities got wind of it and frustrated frus-trated the conspiracy, In which a considerable part of the army was involved. Col. Fulgencio Batista, head of the army, said that Major Benltez and some soldiers were sent lu tmesL iiernanuez anu tnai eigni men of the detachment were killed. Hernandez tried to shoot Benltez but was himself shot in the head and neck. The official report said Hernandez was being rushed toward to-ward Havana in an automobile and that tlie car upset, the prisoner being be-ing killed, though the others in the car were uninjured. MaJ. Angel Echevarria, commandant command-ant of Fourth infantry at Camp Columbia, and Capt. Augustin Erice, chief of the signal corps, conspirators conspira-tors with Hernandez, were captured cap-tured later and a summary court-martial court-martial sentenced them to death. EIGHTY-EIGHT Soviet citizens are now under arrest In Man-chukuo, Man-chukuo, charged with plotting against Manchukuo and Japan and sabotaging Japanese military trains. The Russian government, through Acting Consul General Rayvid at Harbin, has presented to the foreign for-eign office of Manchukuo a demand for an explanation of the arrests and insists on prompt measures for the release of the prisoners. "The arrests were made without documents, accompanied by searches of the apartments and the offices of Soviet employees of the Chinese Eastern railway which have not been explained," Rayvid said. The Japanese allege that some of the prisoners confessed to an attack at-tack on the Japanese military intelligence intel-ligence office at Suifenho (Pogran-Ichnaya), (Pogran-Ichnaya), to sending Manchurian and Corean communists Into the territory, to wreck trains carrying Japanese troops and munitions toward to-ward the frontier, and to creating general disturbanees along the eastern east-ern line. Probably before long will come the news that the Japanese have seized the Chinese Easterr railway, and that may very well result In war between Japan and Russia. BROOKLYN was the scene of one of the smartest crimes of recent re-cent times. A gang of bandits with machine guns held up an armored money truck, snatched $427,000 and fled in automobiles which were afterward aft-erward abandoned for speed boats that carried the robbers and their loot out to sea. Their plans were so carefully laid and carried out with such precision that the forces of the law were at a loss for the time being. Though all avenue3 of escape by land and water were closely guarded, little or no tract of the bandits could be obtained. |