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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Deaths of Army Pilots Emharrass the Administration President's Plans for Continued Relief Emperor of Manchukuo Crowned. By EDWARD W. PICKARD DK AT MS of five army aviators kill-( iu operations connected with the carrying of the air mail have supplied the Republicans with . A F ; i y . ammunition for attacking at-tacking the administration admin-istration that they are not neglecting. President Roosevelt himself is distressed by the casualties, and it is believed his supporters will hasten to offer in congress a bill giving giv-ing the air mall contracts uhlh lu J. A. Farley private companies. Tostmaster General Farley lias had to shoulder the greater share of the blame, if blame there Is, and though he lias steadily defended the cancellation can-cellation of the contracts, he probably prob-ably would be glad to see the army air corps relieved of Its new task. There is no question as to the courage cour-age and ability of the army flyers, but It Is evident they have not had the peculiar training to fit them for carrying the mails, and their airplanes air-planes are not suitable for the work. Of course, the weather has been against them, but little attention is paid to that fact by those who are making political capital out of the deaths of the five. Mr. Farley, appearing before the senate committee investigating air mull affairs, declared that no one deplored the fatalities more than he, but that the Post Oflice department depart-ment had felt it must cancel the contracts and had acted on the basis of the law and the conditions under which It had found the contracts con-tracts had been made. lie assured the committee that as rapidly as possible the department would work out a new policy in the public interest inter-est with respect to the air mail and would take into account the interests inter-ests of the operators. The postmaster general had been summoned especially to confront his predecessor, Walter F. Brown, and to consent to Mr. Brown's repeating repeat-ing a remark he said Mr. Farley had made to him about Senator Hugo L. Black, chairman of the committee. This was: "He's just a publicity hound. But don't tell anybody I said so, because I've got to get along with him." Mr. Farley Immediately denied that he had said any such thing, and, scarlet faced, be departed for New York amid roars of laughter. His denial was necessary, doubtless, doubt-less, but It didn't seem to Impress anyone. Speaker Eainey says the army air corps is inefficient and poorly trained, and for this he blames the three previous Republican administrations. admin-istrations. He Indicated he would support a resolution already approved ap-proved by the house rules committee commit-tee calling for investigation of War department methods. Maj. Gen. Ben Foulois, chief of the Army Air corps, defended his men warmly. T T OW the President proposes to - -- carry on the relief program was revealed at a press conference. In addition to continuation of the CWA 'Jn cities, relief of distressed families fam-ilies In rural regions is to be placed on a new basis, and the government Is to undertake the transportation of entire communities from non-operating coal mine localities and Similar centers of unemployment to lie subsistence homestead colonies which are being created with $25,-000,000 $25,-000,000 of public works funds. In rural regions families in distress dis-tress are to be helped to raise enough food for subsistence and to get part time employment In industries indus-tries and on road building and other oth-er public works. Communities of miners, out of work because of the closing down of coal mines, the President calls "stranded populations." They were Jeft stranded when work gave out and there is no prospect of a resumption re-sumption of mine operations. In most cases the mines have been exhausted. ex-hausted. The President said the undertaking un-dertaking would be to move an appreciable ap-preciable number of such families to localities where they can maintain main-tain themselves on small tracts of land with incidental industrial employment em-ployment which Is the subsistence homestead idea now being tried out at Reedsvllle, W. Va. Concerning that Reedsvllle plant, a pet of Mrs. Roosevelt's, it is interesting in-teresting to read that the house refused by a margin of 103 votes to approve the construction and operation op-eration there of a factory to make post office furniture. The project was denounced as "a plunge into state socialism." PRESIDENT KOOSEVELT in a special message asked congress to create a new federal commission to regulate the wire, cable and radio communications systems. He proposed that 'he new commission take over the duties of the federal m-lio commission and the functions of the Interstate Commerce commis sion which deal with telegraph and telephone regulation. Mr. Roosevelt said the new body should be given "full power to investigate in-vestigate and study the business of existing companies and make recommendations rec-ommendations to the congress for additional legislation at the next session." This means that If the President's desires are carried out, as they undoubtedly un-doubtedly will be, the question of communications mergers will go over for determination next year. Senator Schall of Minnesota, Republican, Re-publican, was aroused to strong protest against the proposed commission, com-mission, asserting that it meant the newspapers would be subjected to censorship by the administration and that "not one word of the skullduggery skull-duggery committed In Washington could reach the people of the United States." THERE are signs indicating that the administration is going to modify Its stand and that of Its predecessors concerning the war debts. Some Republicans in the senate tried to put through a resolution reso-lution offered by Robinson of Indiana In-diana asking the President, If not Incompatible with public interest, to inform the senate by what agreements agree-ments he had accepted token payments pay-ments from Great Britain, Italy and Czechoslovakia and had recognized them as not in default. It also asked what steps, if any, have been taken to Induce defaulting nations to pay; whether any understandings have been reached concerning revision re-vision ; and whether any assurances have been given linking debt payments pay-ments with tariff concessions. The Democratic leadership in the senate succeeded in having the resolution reso-lution sidetracked' into the foreign relations committee. Senator Robinson Robin-son of Arkansas made a speech openly referring to the necessity for some further concessions on the part of the United States if any further payments are to be obtained, but he denied that negotiations looking to revision had taken place yet. The vote on the motion to commit com-mit the resolution showed there has been a considerable change from the opinion held in the senate in December, 1931, when the Hoover moratorium resolution was passed successfully only after it had been amended to Include a reservation reiterating congress' unalterable opposition op-position to revision or cancellation of the debts. THREE export-import banks are to be set up to help American exporters to finance shipments abroad, and George N. Peek announced, an-nounced, after a White House conference, con-ference, that he would be the head of these institutions. The banks will all be owned by the government. govern-ment. One will deal with Russian business, one with Cuban, and the third with credits for all other foreign for-eign countries. THERE'S a new emperor in the world and a new dynasty has been founded. By direction of Japan, Ja-pan, Henry Pu-yl, who In his Infan- cy was the boy emperor" of China, and who has been the chief executive of Manchukuo, has been enthroned as emperor of that puppet state. The young man he is twenty-eight assumed as-sumed the name of Kang Teh, which u e i u g imerpi eieu Emperor js ..tranquillity and Kang Teh vjrtue. He probably proba-bly is virtuous, but the tranquillity is problematical in view of the way Japan and Russia are snarling at each other, for if those nations go to war' the scene of the conflict will be the newly established empire em-pire which used to be Manchuria. Great preparations were made for the coronation ceremony, buf Henry's Japanese sponsors were so apprehensive of attempts on his life that the public was not admitted to the rites in Hsinking, the capital. The emperor rode the five miles from the palace to the "altar of heaven" in an American bulletproof bullet-proof automobile and the route was protected by barbed wire stockades and lined with thousands of troops. For every three Manchuknan soldiers sol-diers in the lines there was one Japanese Jap-anese soldier, and also there were swarms of secret police. Simultaneously with the elevation of the new ruler, his invalid wife, Yuen Hun, was vested with the dignities dig-nities of queenhood, although her health precluded her participation in the ceremonies. JAPAN and Soviet Russia are now quarreling over military airplane flights over each other's territory, ter-ritory, and have exchanged sharp notes of protest. Though the situation situa-tion seems to be tense, an official spokesman for Japan denied that hostilities are imminent. "The world need not be afraid that Russia and Japan are on the verge of war," he said. "All of these protests and the noisy fuss are a good sign that the danger of war Is far away. When both sides are silent, look out." OUTWEIGIIED by SO pounds and with ten Inches less reach, Tommy Loughran was unable to capture the heavyweight title from Primo Camera In the fight at Miami, Fla. The Philadelphia boy fought gamely and more skillfully than the giant Italian, but lost the decision in. eleven of the fifteen rounds. SECRETARY OF WAR DERN, probably following the Ideas of Genera MacArthur, chief of staff, told the military affairs committee of the house that he was decidedly opposed to congressional plans for an Independent and greatly enlarged en-larged air corps. He was arguing against two bills introduced by the committee providing for the purchase pur-chase of 4.3S4 military airplanes and for the separation of the army air corps from the jurisdiction of the general staff, and the granting to officers and enlisted men of the air corps special compensation and rank. Mr. Dern held that the air corps was only a co-ordinate part of the army, that Its flying officers and men were not heroes of glory any more than the infantry and the artillery, ar-tillery, that the whole army organization or-ganization must proceed in balance and that the air corps has had more than its rightful share of progress in recent years. NRA and the Ford Motor company com-pany are tangling up in another fight. The company was charged by workers with having refused to bar- gain collectively with their representatives repre-sentatives at the Edgewater (N. J.) and Chester (Pa.) plants, and William H. Davis, national compliance director, direc-tor, arranged to hear both sides at a meeting In Washington. Wash-ington. Secretary rienry Fora compaDy sent Davis a long letter denying the concern had violated any provision of the automobile code of the national recovery re-covery act, and refusing to send a representative to the meeting. The NRA thereupon notified President Edsel Ford that it would investigate investi-gate the charges "without his cooperation." co-operation." The automobile industry was disturbed dis-turbed by widespread labor troubles and the threat of a general walkout walk-out Difficulties over union organization organ-ization and demands for pay increases in-creases are at the bottom of al the row. At Milwaukee, Wis., 1,200 employees em-ployees of the Seaman Body corporation cor-poration voted to go on strike In sympathy with the walkout of 1,200 workers In the Racine division of the Nash Motor company. UNDER the management of Gen. Hugh Johnson, the NRA opened a series of public hearings In Washington, Wash-ington, open to all individuals and organizations that wanted to present pre-sent suggestions or complaints concerning con-cerning policies or administration of the NRA codes. The possible benefits bene-fits from such hearings appeared to be lessened by the restrictions decreed de-creed by General Johnson. He ruled that all speakers should be considered consid-ered as "witnesses"; that only facts might be presented, and that no argument would be permitted. General Johnson opened the proceedings pro-ceedings By admitting NKA had many faults that he hoped would be corrected. Then came the flood of complaints, starting with those of small business men who assert the codes have operated against them and in favor of the large concerns. Mrs. Pinchot, wife of the governor of Pennsylvania, unexpectedly appeared ap-peared and declared the government had been defeated by the "steel trust," and she was supported by Edward F. McGrady. assistant secretary sec-retary of labor. Mrs. Pinchot said that in the cases of the big steel companies the workers had been betrayed by the NRA, and she made a bitter personal attack on General Gener-al Johnson. Next day the cause of labor was brought more prominently prominent-ly to the front by Mr. McGrady and others who declared employers had been evading the code .'ovisions at the expense of their employees. ONCE more the tariff comes up as a leading Issue, for the President has sent to congress a request re-quest for new powers permitting him to fix the tariff within wide limits. lim-its. The legislation he asks is designed de-signed to expand trade and would give the Chief Executive authority to shift the tariff up or down by as much as 50 per cent so that reciprocal reci-procal tariff treaties with other nations na-tions may be negotiated. Furthermore, Further-more, these treaties would not have to be confirmed by the senate, and the tariff commission would not be consulted. The new authority would be limited to three years and no article could be placed on the free list or removed from It. It was predicted pre-dicted that many Republicans and some Democrats would oppose thn scheme, but that It would get through congress after long debate. by Western Newspaper Union. |