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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President A.sks fur Shorter Hours and Higher Wages; INK A Penalty Provisions Will Re Invoked; Desperate Dillinger Escapes From Jail. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C KV'KK A I. tnousiiud members of Ihe emli! authorities gathered In CoriHlltiitlon hull, Washington, at the cull of the I'reslilent to revl.se and -itrennthen NHA Industrial a'riMMni'iit.s. The opening session was formal and rather stately, with the members of the cabinet, other Midi government ollirlals and many senators atid congressmen present. I'.efore this assembly came Mr. Itoosevelt to tell not so much what had been accomplished In the last twelvemonth as what he hoped for in the near future. lie warned the Industrial leaders that "the government govern-ment cannot forever continue to absorb ab-sorb the whole burden of unemployment.", unemploy-ment.", lie called for greater protection pro-tection of small business, terming the code authority "the keeper of your,fyiall Industrial brother." Ilrlelly summarized, tills Is what Mr. Itoosevelt proposed: Wage Increases and shortening of hours to bolster consuming power nnd 'spread employment. Greater Adherence ny the people to the ISlue ICagle symbol to make all "play the game." Oimljmied enforcement of the anti trust laws to retain competition and prevent monopoly. Slrhj adherence by employers to the hfw allowing free choice by employees em-ployees ' of representatives to do their collective bargaining. I'ermanent reorganization of the economic and social structure along the lines, already started. General Johnson. NItA administrator, adminis-trator, wound up the code authority sessions with the blunt announcement announce-ment that the Hlue Ragle rules were to be tightened up and the assertion': asser-tion': "I have been too gentle. 'You ain't seen nothing yet.'" Urging the jouiimi musts to piny ine game rair-ly, rair-ly, the 'general uttered three warnings. warn-ings. ' One was that under specific orders from the President the NHA was reorganizing to enforce the penai sections of the act; the second, sec-ond, that the country faces this spring "the worst epidemic of sfri'ios In our history because of 11-', 11-', Interposition of employers In ': matter of company unions; the 1 i. that, with the recent Supreme i , t decision uphohilng the" New York state emergency milk law, the administration has dropped all hesitation, hesi-tation, nnd Is ready to use the powers pow-ers of the Industrial law to the limit lim-it if opposition forces It." To draft his new plan for making more Jobs. Johnson asked the code authorities of the heavy goods Industries In-dustries and of the consumer groups to select twelve men each. President Roosevelt, said the ad ministrntor, has approved the plan for putting teeth In the NJiA. The President himself Intimated that he would ask congress to extend the time limit on the licensing provisions of the NRA. The act gives authority author-ity to the President to place any industry under license and to revoke re-voke the license of any concern In the Industry, thereby compelling It to shut down. This authority to license li-cense expires next June under the terms of the recovery act which granted It for one year only, whereas where-as the life of the act was limited to two years. COMPLETION of President Roose- velfs first year in the White House called forth a chorus of laudation lauda-tion and of hostile criticism from his admirers and his opponents. The least that can be said Is that it has been a year of excitement ex-citement and action, ac-tion, of bold experimentation experi-mentation in methods meth-ods of government, and of the spelling spell-ing of vast sums of money In the fur- President era n ce of the Roosevelt Pdent s determination deter-mination to establish estab-lish a New Deal that amounts to a sc -in revolution. itr. Roosevelt himself, in a brief address on the occasion of the Installing In-stalling of Dr. J. M. Gray as chan-. chan-. c?llor of the American university in Washington, said "one of the most salient features of the salient year in our American life has been the amazing and universal increase iu the Interest" of the people In the subject of government. The joint congressional Republican Republic-an campaign committee took occasion occa-sion to Issue a statement declaring that the administration ends Its first year "with many platform pledges untried and practically abandoned, with policies unshaped and conflicting, with its monetary program bewilderingly uncertain a situation baffling enough to prove a hindrance to a return to pros-, pros-, .. ferity." Replying for the supporters of the administration. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, nominally a Republican, said : "It Is not necessary to agree with all that has been done in every conceivable con-ceivable particular, but unfair and unjust would be the Individual who would not emphatically concede that with au enlightened audacity the President has acted, and has accomplished amazing results. "It Is a sorry policy that now saya to lliO.ixjO.iKXJ people that nothing noth-ing has been done that is right and that the President has brought them no relief, and the future holds for them no hope. "We are better, and our country Is belter, and other people are better, bet-ter, and our times are belter for what the President has done during dur-ing the past year." J ECISLATION to restore the air ' mail to commercial operators will speedily be started through congress at the InsUnee of the I President, lie sent letters to Chairman Chair-man McKellur of the senate post ollice committee. Chairman Meade of the house postal cummlttee and Chairman Black of the special sen ate committee investigating the air mail, in which he outlined his plan for new temporary contracts and the eventuul regulation of air mail rates and routes by the Interstate commerce committee. The new policy will be for contracts con-tracts to be let for not more than three years "on full, open and fair competitive bidding, with a limitation limita-tion of the rates of compensation above which no contract will be awarded." The legislation carrying the program pro-gram into effect, Senator McKellar indicated, will fix the limit of compensation com-pensation mentioned by the President Presi-dent far below the prevailing 40 cents per mile. The figure, the senator said, may be as low as 25 cents. Six months hpforo tha th.n uuicc jtai contract expires, according to Pres-dient Pres-dient Roosevelt's suggestion, the question of the public convenience and necessity of the various routes and tlie question of maximum rate of pay would be submitted to the ICC. Under this plan transportation transporta-tion of the mails by air would be placed under substantially the same regulation as that of the railroads. JOHN DIIJ.INGER. fmitient lanV J rohhp.r; gang leader and alleged mtt.oerer. who was captured WifH great eclat in Arizona and conveyed Vv li ;: .-:r-v. ?. : i B v to Indiana for trail, became irked by confinement In the "escape-proof" jail at Crown Point. So he made a pistol out of a piece of wood and the handle han-dle of a safety razor, cowed the guards and deputies and locked them in John Dillinger Ce"S,'. bt!lined tw0 machine guns from the jail armory and a pistol from a guard, took Sheriff Lillian Holley's car from the garage and drove away with a negro murderer. They took one deputy sheriff and a garage attendant at-tendant as hostages but released them near Peotone. 111., nnd then vanished. It was believed Dillinger Dillin-ger was hidden somewhere in the vicinity of Chicago. The law authorities au-thorities of the Middle West were all searching for him, and all officers offi-cers had orders to kill him at sight. Sheriff Holley's car was found abandoned on a street In Chicago. inis escape or tne desperado was one of the boldest performances of his career, and It is amazing to consider con-sider how it could have been successfully suc-cessfully carried out, in view of Dillinger's record. Perhaps some sympathy is due the woman sheriff, Mrs. Holley, who was given that office of-fice after the death of her husband. Terribly depressed by the fiasco, she made the futile gesture of strapping an automatic about her waist and setting out to find Dillinger. Dil-linger. Mrs. Holley declared she would not resign her office, but steps were taken to force her out by court action. ac-tion. Two of her deputies were arrested, ar-rested, charged with aiding and abetting the escape. The Investigations and recriminations recrimin-ations in Lake county are nnfor- tunately mixed up with local politics. poli-tics. f)ESPITE the protests of the "lit-tie "lit-tie navy" group, the senate by a vote of 65 to IS approved the administration's ad-ministration's naval replacement bill authorizing the construction of a 15.2(K)-ton aircraft carrier, approximately approx-imately 65 destroyers totaling fin.200 tons, some 20 submarines totaling R5.5o0 tons and the airplanes (from 650 to 1.25(1) required to complete the fleet's air equipment. Planned to cover a five-year period, peri-od, the replacement program will cost approximately S 175.000.000 jn all for the projected vessels, and $05,000,000 more if the maximum number of planes are built. Enactment of the measure assures the United States of a navy as strong as Is allowed under the London Lon-don agreement that was signed in 1030. A S WAS predicted recently, the President appointed Judge Florence Allen of Ohio to the federal fed-eral Circuit Court of Appeals bench She Is the first woman to be made a federal Judge. Since siie was admitted ad-mitted to the bar twenty years ago her legal career In Ohio has been notable. In 1022 she was elected to the Supreme court of that state. The president also appointed Mrs. Rernlce Pyke of Cleveland as collector col-lector of customs there, and Frank P. Corrigan. likewise of Cleveland, to be minister to El Salvador. TWO more vacancies In the Democratic Dem-ocratic national committee are announced as a result of the President's Pres-ident's belief that national committeemen commit-teemen should not practice law before be-fore government departments or hold party and government positions at the same time. Arthur F. Mullen of Omaha, who was floor manager for Mr. Roosevelt in the Chicago convention nnd who Is counsel for Public Works projects involving some $15,000,000, resigned from the national committee; and Ills action was followed two days later by the resignation of Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, of Wyoming, director of the mint, who quit the committee with reluctance. At this writing the only prominent holdouts remaining nre Postmaster General Farley, who Is chairman of the national committee and also of the New York Democratic Demo-cratic committee, nnd William A. Julian of Ohio, treasurer of the United States. Mr. Mullen, it Is rumored, may turn up as an opponent of Gov. Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska In the forthcoming race for the United Unit-ed States senatorslilp. SENATOR SIMEON D. FESS of Ohio Is one of the most voluble of the administration's critics, and he found opportunity for another r - - energetic attack when the senate was considering Senator Tom Connelly's Con-nelly's bill to include in-clude cattle among the basic commodities commodi-ties subject to farm adjustment control. The provision for an appropriation of $200,000,000 was the . . special point of as-Senator as-Senator Fess ,,. sault by Fess, Mc- Nary of Oregon, Dickinson of Iowa, and Carey of Wyoming and Vanden-berg Vanden-berg of Michigan, all of whom agreed that the Agricultural Adjustment Ad-justment program has been a complete com-plete failure. The Democrats, with the exception of Connnlly, made no reply to the verbal barrage. The Ohio senator said that hog prices liad fallen Instead of rising, that tiie; prices of farm commodi-.ttS commodi-.ttS pot tinder the. ftAA.lmd In many cases risen; faster and higher than ; the so-called basic commodities. "That sort of thing Is nauseating to any decent person who wants business to be done in a business way," he said, alluding to the hog buying program. "It's time to stop this foolish experimentation, time to take the heavy hand of government govern-ment off business and let business recover." Senator Vandenberg and Senator Sen-ator McNary could not understand why $200,000,000 were required for cattle when only $100,000,000 were asked in the original bill covering six commodities. They suggested that benefits were to be paid before a processing tax was levied and that perhaps no processing tax was intended to be levied on cattle. Senator Counally fumed, but could not answer their queries. "I think I can answer," Senator Dickinson finally put In. "The AAA has obligated itself for $S55,000,-000 $S55,000,-000 in benefits; an additional $831,-! 000,000 are called for 1935. Yet treasury receipts show only $203,. uoo.ouo received from processing taxes." "In other words, a potential deficit def-icit at the present time of mora than $600,000,000," remarked Senator Sena-tor Vandenberg. CHICAGO'S most sensational mur-der mur-der trial In recent years resulted result-ed in the conviction of the elderly Dr. Alice Wyuekoop who was charged with killing her daughter-in-law, Rheta, presumably to get the insurance on her life. The jury fixed her penalty at 25 years in the penitentiary, which amounts to a life sentence. The first hearing hear-ing of the case resulted in a mistrial mis-trial because the defendant was too ill for its continuance. Doctor Wynekoop, a member of a family of physicians, had practiced medicine in Chicago for many years and her crime astounded her numerous nu-merous friends. ,RS. FRANKLIN D. rtOOSE-VELT, rtOOSE-VELT, accompanied by Assistant Assist-ant Secretary of the Treasury Tug-well Tug-well and others, took an aerial trhp to the Caribbean islands, the special spe-cial purpose of which was to visit Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. From Miami they flew via Cuba to Port Au Prince, Haiti, and Kan Pedro in the Dominican republic, and thence to San Juan and St! Thomas. The last named town gave the First Lady a gay welcome. She made a brief study of social anj economic conditions there and tooV part in the dedication of a hospital hos-pital building named "The Anna Eleanor building" in her honor. After a hop to St. Croix, also in the Virgin Islands, the party returned to San Juan. by Western Newspaper Union. |
