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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Roosevelt Addresses American Legion Convention Con-vention in Chicago Direct Federal Aid for the Needy Is Planned. By EDWARD W. PICKARD PRESIDENT KOOSEYELT made a hurried trip to Chicago and delivered a stirring speech at the opening session of the American Le- gion convention. Wildly cheered by vast throngs of citizens on his arrival ar-rival in the city the President sped to the Stadium and before SCOOO veterans vet-erans made his appeal ap-peal for full support sup-port of his efforts to bring about na tional recovery, and President for nationaj nity Roosevelt t0 ensure national safety and credit Mr. Roosevelt said In part : 'Industry cannot be restored, people peo-ple cannot be put back to work, banks cannot be kept open, human suffering cannot be cared for, If the government Itself Is bankrupt We realize now that the great human values, not for you alone, but for all American citizens, rest upon the unimpaired credit of the United States. "It was because of this that we nr.derfe.nfc in t-ifce the national treasury out of the red and put It Into the black. And in the doing of It we laid down two principles which directly affected benefits to veterans to you, and to the veterans of otter wars. "The first principle, following Inevitably In-evitably from the obligation of citizens citi-zens to bear arms, is that the government gov-ernment has a responsibility for and toward those who suffered injury or contracted disease while serving In Its defense. "The second principle Is that no person, because he wore a uniform, mnst thereafter be placed in a special spe-cial class of beneficiaries over and above all other citizens. The fact ef wearing a uniform does not mean that he can demand from the government gov-ernment a benefit which no other citizen receives. It does not mean that because a person served In the defense of his country, performed a basic obligation of citizenship, he should receive a pension from his government because of a disability incurred after his service had terminated, termi-nated, and not connected with that service. "It does mean, however, that those who were injured in or as a result of their service, are entitled to receive adequate and generous compensation for their disabilities. It does mean that generous care shall be extended to the dependents of those who died In or as a result of service to their country. "To carry out these principles, the people of this country can and will pay In taxes the sums which it Is necessary to raise. To carry out these principles will not bankrupt bank-rupt your government nor throw its bookkeeping Into the red." "N HIS way to Chicago Presi-dent Presi-dent Roosevelt came to final decision as to direct federal aid for the Jobless during the coming win ter, assuming that the plan would be speedily worked out In co-operation with Secretary of Agriculture W a 1-lace 1-lace and George Teek. agricultural adjustment administrator. admin-istrator. The action ac-tion to be taken will practically establish es-tablish the dele In n -- i ! Li c J the United States. Harry L, The immediate oh- Hopkins Ject of course is to avert suffering. But the plan has the secondary purpose pur-pose of the utilization of the great surpluses of food, fuel and clothing. cloth-ing. Those things will be purchased pur-chased by the government with the fund not yet allocated, and congress con-gress uill he asked to appropriate more If necessary. The announcement announce-ment by Stephen Early, the President's Presi-dent's secretary, said In part: "The president announced he has Instructed Harry I,. Hopkins, federal fed-eral relief administrator, to take the leadership In prompt organization organiza-tion of a non-profit corporation, of which Mr. Hopkins Is to become chairman, for the purpose of Inlying Inly-ing the necessities of life and distributing dis-tributing them among the needy unemployed. . . . "In order to assure speed and effectiveness ef-fectiveness In the movement of huge supplies, the President has directed not only that the corporation corpora-tion be equipped with adequate funds, but also that It should be given wide powers In the purchas Ing and distribution of surplus foods and other commodities. "The 'resident believes the corporation cor-poration can be organized quickly and In ouch manner as to become the best ngent for decisive action In the emergency. "Mr. H"pl:iho has canvasser! with the President the relief Munition In the country ns a whole. T lie President Presi-dent In convinced that In ninny states relief allowances now made by state and municipal authorities are far from adequate and must be substantially increased as rapidly as possible. 'The President asserted that while farmers' buying power has Increased In-creased to an encouraging degree, agricultural prices still remain substantially sub-stantially below the level needed to hasten the country on the road to economic recovery. "The new effort worked out by Mr. Hopkins and Secretary Wallace to make maximum use of surpluses that have been burdening the commodity com-modity markets, Is part of Intensified Intensi-fied plans to raise farm prices to economic levels. The agricultural administration's efforts to control production of surpluses too great to be used are to be continued. . . . "The corporation will have powers pow-ers to purchase directly from farmers, farm-ers, whenever desirable, in such a way as to carry out the purposes of the agricultural adjustment act" fHICAGO was In the posses-' posses-' sion of the American Legion and the veterans had a joyous time in their convention and all its ESSO IN ww . . ' W J k - I .V A ciated doings and especially at the World's Fair. The Forty and Eight fun-making organization organ-ization of the Le- , gion, held Its torchlight torch-light parade the opening night, and the following day the Legion staged one of the greatest parades ever seen Edward A. jQ ms CPuritrT. For yes many hours the "boys" marched down Michigan avenue, ave-nue, through Soldier field and bacE through Grant park to the disbanding disband-ing point. In the line were about six hundred musical organizations and drill teams. In its serious sessions the Legion convention elected Edward A. Hayes of Decatur, 111, national commander, command-er, and adopted various resolutions that supported the policies of the Roosevelt administration. Mr. Hayes, a past commander of the Illinois Illi-nois department had a great deal to do with the formation of the "four-front" proogram designed to conciliate differences between the Legion and the national administration administra-tion concerning expenditures for veterans' relief. pG ELBERT POI.I.FrsS, chan-' chan-' cellor of Austria, barely escaped death at the bands of an assassin in Vienna. One Rudolf Dertil, a re cent arrival from Styria, fired twice at the little statesman, states-man, one bullet hitting hit-ting him in the arm and the other glancing from a coat button. Naturally Nat-urally the authorities authori-ties immediately declared de-clared this was part of a Nazi plot but thov were unable to show that Dertil Chancellor was a Nazi. Any- Dollfus. how, the attempt on his life strengthened the chancellor's position posi-tion and made him a hero in the eyes of the public, Dollfuss plans the establishment of a state that Is a compromise between be-tween Fascism and democracy, and this does not suit many of his friends, notably Prince Slarhem-berg, Slarhem-berg, leader of the heimwehr. The prince wants Italian Fascism for Austria, hut he was forced to postpone post-pone action until the chancellor should recover from his wound. "GRIFFITH park forest preserve at Ix'S Angeles was the scene of a terrible holocaust In which at least men met death and the victims may have numbered fifty or more. The men, relief roll workers, work-ers, had been ordered to put out a small brush fire and In their Ignorance Igno-rance of proper methods starteil a hack fire that tra I many of them In a ravine. At least that was one explanation. Another theory nas that the fatal conllagratlon was started by n carelessly thrown cigarette. ciga-rette. The flames swept through the woods, dried out by n long spell of hot weather, and the panic-stricken men lost all sense of direction In the dense smoke. Two hundred or more were taken I hospitals badly burned or suffering from suffocation. suf-focation. INTENT on gaining from theNRA the greatest possible advantage for organized labor, the American Federation of Labor opened Its annual convention In Washington. In B preliminary statement I'resl dent (ireen said that the enact uiont of the national recovery net the, federal ion had increased Its membership by 1.ii.iio the ,,t:,l being now approximately joint. into. Nailed to the ninsthoad of the federation, Mr. (ireen mid. Is the slogan: "Organize the unorganized In the mass production industries," with a membership of 10,000,000 as the next goal, and after that 2,-000,000, 2,-000,000, "which will bring the majority ma-jority of Americans genuinely and actually within the trade union family." Among the Important pronouncements pronounce-ments of policy and recommendations recommenda-tions for action placed before the delegates by the executive council were : i 1. The 30-hour week of five days' work, six hours a day. 2. Increase of minimum wages provided in the codes. 3. Increase of wages for skilled workers, as well as unskilled. 4. Representation of labor In every stage of code making. 5. Public works must be speeded up to supply work this winter to large masses of Idle, 6. Congress, upon convening, must provide adequate relief appropriations. appropria-tions. 7. The surplus agricultural products prod-ucts must be made available for distribution dis-tribution to the unemployed. S. Taxation for relief must be provided pro-vided by fair contributions from higher Incomes and surplus profits. 9. Labor must have relief from excessively stringent federal economy econ-omy measures. DISCUSSIONS of the British war debt to tie United States were opened in Washington and, much to the surprise of the public, were ,.'&"jeslJ turned over to the Treasury department depart-ment by Secretary of State Hull, the announcement b e-ing e-ing that the matter was being treated as purely a financial finan-cial problem. The administration designated des-ignated Dean Ache-son, Ache-son, undersecretary of the treasurv, to Dean Acheson hande s ,n the affair, and he was aided by Frederick Livesey, who is an associate asso-ciate economic adviser of the State department For the British government gov-ernment appeared Sir Frederick Leith-Ross and T. K, Rowley. The question at issue was: How much. If at all, shall the United States ; reduce the British war debt funded fund-ed in V?23 for JLOOO.OOO? AMERICAN intervention in Cuba1 was brought appreciably nearer near-er by a bloody all-day battle that took place between the oOO recalcitrant recal-citrant army and navy officers who had been beleaguered In the Na tional hotel and the troops of President Pres-ident Gran. The hotel was bombarded bom-barded until late afternoon with rifles, machine guns and cannon I and the government said IS of the j officers were killed and 17 wound- j ed which probably was an under- i estimate. The losses among the ' soldiers were officially stated to be 9 killed and 27 wounded. Correspondents Corre-spondents said the total dead In ' the day's fighting numbered at j least 44. Among the non-contest-- ants killed was Robert I.otspeieh, 1 an American, assistant manager In j Havana for Swift & Co. When the hotel, which Is owned and managed by Americans, was i practically wrecked by shell fire, j the officers surrendered. As they i emerged under a white flag, unarmed un-armed and under guard of soldiers, j they were again attacked and a i nnmber of them massacred. Apart- i ment buildings near the hotel. In i which many Americans resided, were frequently hit by machine gun bullets and shells from the Cuban cruiser Patria. NTEW York Is now enjoying a j ' three-cornered race for the i mayoralty, for Joseph V. MoKee de- 1 elded to be an Independent candl 1 date against Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, the Democratic Demo-cratic nominee, and Florello H. La Guardia, the fusion fu-sion candidate. In his announcement, Mr. McKee said : "I refused to enter en-ter the Democratic primaries because. I i'- t 1. '' I k ' v Li I felt tlmt to do fo . J. V. McKee would murk mo na a too of tlio mnrlilne, nnd th;it would prevent my (loins the joh Hint must lie done to restore our clly povernmen I. "There Is no renl fusion In this rnmpnisn. The fo r.'illed fusion ! Mfindjtrri benrer la na ohjorllonnhlo to the Folid element of our llojnib-lirnn llojnib-lirnn citizenry na he la to the rnt nriny of IVmornita who nro dia- pusled with nuirliine politics. The' present M.'ind.'inl hciirer of the nl- leered fusion la n poor compromise ' by n faction of would he bosses." Ui:f;iMA fell Into nne for repeal of the r.ij;htecnth ti mendment. The wets won by something like 2' to 1. Fifteen of the Hk aunties ; went dry. na did the cities of Ian-ville Ian-ville nnd Undford. The oh pomin-Ion pomin-Ion was the thirty-soeond state enrolled en-rolled n'a Inst prohibit ion. py:,vni took two .n known nc- u res In the world of sports. W. i ("Younc") Strihlinc. Ceorn hner win) bad been n contender for the hrnvywciirM title. wn fatally fatal-ly Injured In nn nutotuobiln nerl-(b'lit. nerl-(b'lit. falling to recoer nfler the n input at inn of one leg. William K Week, president of the Chicago Nn-tional Nn-tional League liasehnll club, filed of leueot -ythnetnla. |
