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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President's Veto of Appropriation Bill Overridden by Both Houses; Farley Forces Shakeup in Air Companies; Com-panies; "Brain Trust" to Be Investigated. By EDWARD W. PICKARD T) It i:s I HKNT nOOSKVELT'S leadership received Its tlrst important im-portant setback when the senate, following similar action by the f 1 house, overrode his veto of the Independent Inde-pendent ofllces ap-projrl;it!on ap-projrl;it!on bill currying cur-rying the veterans' and federal pay provisions. The vote In the senate was 03 to 27, or threo more - than the required two-thirds. two-thirds. In the house the vote was over-President over-President whelming, 310 to Roosevelt 72 a Dmr(,In of B- more than the necessary two-thirds. The bill Is now a law, and Its passage pas-sage Is of high significance, as It throws the budget' estimates out of kilter and adds greatly to the tax burden of the people. But of more Importance Is the evident fact that the President has lost his firm grip on congress. Fear of reprisals by war veteran voters In the coming elections proved a greater fear with many Democratic senators than the displeasure of the President. Restoring two-thirds of n 13 per cent pay cut voted for a million government employees. Including military and naval personnel, In the economy act last summer, the bill also greatly liberalizes compensation compensa-tion and pensions to veterans of the World and Spanish-American wars. The bill will cost the government an additional $210,000,000 annually. It eliminates retroactively as of February 1, 1034, one-third of the federal employees' pay cut and an additional third on July 1. The cost to the government under the provision will be $20,000,000 for the period from February 1 to July 1, and $1211,000,000 annually thereafter. there-after. While the President by executive order has restored many veterans to the compensation and hospitalization hospital-ization rolls, congress made mandatory man-datory awards estimated to cost the government about $S4,000,000 annually and an additional $21,000,-000 $21,000,-000 for the rest of the present fiscal year. The Increased amounts for government gov-ernment workers and veterans will come from the general revenues of the government. r A FTER weeks of exhausting ne-gotlations ne-gotlations the threatened strike In the automobile industry was averted when President Roosevelt secured an agreement between executives ex-ecutives and labor leaders. Representation Repre-sentation for all employees In dealing deal-ing with management was established, estab-lished, and safeguards were extended extend-ed to all unions against Intimidation Intimida-tion or Interference. "It is my hope," said the President, Presi-dent, "that this system may develop Into a kind of works council In industry in-dustry In which all groups of employees, em-ployees, whatever may be their choice or organization of form of representation, may participate In Joint conference with their employers." employ-ers." He hailed this as basis for a more comprehensive, adequate and equitable equi-table system of relations than ever has existed In a large Industry. The agreement avoids the licensing licens-ing of the automobile Industry, which labor threatened to invoke If there was no agreement The American Federation of Labor Is not recognized as such by Industry except ex-cept when its affiliates have the necessary votes on the collective bargaining bar-gaining committee. One of the provisions of the agreement agree-ment was that the NRA should set up a board responsible to the President, Presi-dent, to sit In Detroit and pass upon all questions of representation, discharge, and discrimination. Decision De-cision of the board Is to be final upon all concerned. Three men will serve on the board, one representing represent-ing labor, one Industry, the third being neutral. WEARY from the strain of close application to the affairs of state, President Roosevelt departed for a short vacation aboard Vincent Vin-cent Aster's yacht. lie headed for the warm climes of southern waters wa-ters to fish and relax for a week. It was an unprecedented move for the Executive to leave Washington while congress is in session, but with the same spirit of a year ago when he set out on the same yacht before taking the Presidential reins, the President greeted his cronies aboard ship and waved his hat to a rousing farewell from the folks on the dock at Jacksonville, Fla., where he boarded the yacht. With carefree happiness he posed for -the photographers and joshed the newspaper men. He chatted eagerly with his eldest son, James, who Joined him here for the cruise. For the next week or more the President will be fishing and swimming, swim-ming, away from the heavy cares of oiiice. He intends to return to Washington within the ten day con stitutional limit required for consideration con-sideration of any legislation passed by congress. r.N THE foreword of his fortb.com-Ing fortb.com-Ing new book, "On Our Way," President Roosevelt says If his administration ad-ministration "Is a revolution, it is a peaceful one, achieved without violence, vi-olence, without the overthrow of the purpose of established law and without the denial of Just treatment to any Individual or class." The proofs of the foreword, given out by the publishers, the John Day company, read: "Some people have called our new policy 'fascism.' It Is not fascism because Its Inspiration springs from the muss of the people peo-ple themselves rather than from a class or a group or a marching army. Moreover, It Is being achieved without a change in fundamental republican method. We have kept the faith with, and In, our traditional tradition-al political institutions. "Some people have called it 'communism'; 'com-munism'; it is not that, either. It Is not a driving regimentation founded upon the plans of a perpetuating per-petuating directorate which subordinates subor-dinates the making of laws and the processes of the courts to the orders or-ders of the executives. Neither does It manifest Itself In the total elimination of any class or In the abolition of private property. "If it is a revolution, It Is a peaceful peace-ful one, achieved without violence, without the overthrow of the purposes pur-poses of established law and without with-out the denial of Just treatment to any individual or class." PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Monday Mon-day called on congress to pass legislation with "teeth In it" for the control of the nation's stock and commodity exchanges. He asked that the tnw be so severe se-vere "that speculation, even as it exists today, will of necessity be drastically curtailed." His demand was made in a letter to Senator Duncan D. Fletcher (Dem., Fla.) and Representative Sam Rayburn (Dem.. Texas). Charging the exchanges with organizing or-ganizing one of the most determined deter-mined lobbies which has fought any of his legislation, the President said that the country would not be satisfied satis-fied unless the exchange control message is drastic. People generally, gener-ally, the President said, blame the speculation on exchanges for the 1929 artificial boom and the resulting result-ing slump. The President threw his full weight behind the controversial margin restriction sections of the bill. Outlining the type of law he wants, he said: "The two principal objectives are, as I see it, first, the requirement require-ment of what is known as margin so high that speculation, even as it exists today, will of necessity be drastically curtailed, and, second, that the government be given such definite powers of supervision over exchanges that the government itself it-self will be able to correct abuses which may arise In the future." piIARGES made by Dr. William A. Wirt, superintendent of schools at Gary, Ind., that some of President Roosevelt's advisers want- ed to lead the government gov-ernment into communism com-munism are to be Investigated by a committee of the house of representatives. represent-atives. Doctor Wirt will be called before be-fore this committee to name the man or men who told him that President . r-, M, ..! Roosevelt is merely Dr.W.A.Wirt the ..Kerensby of this revolution" and that the radicals radi-cals within the administration are seeking to foster a revolution by prolonging the misery and destitution destitu-tion in this country. Republicans members in the house were determined that the inquiry will not be confined to the Wirt allegations al-legations alone, despite an apparent appar-ent desire on the part of the Democratic Dem-ocratic leaders to narrow the investigation's inves-tigation's scope. Democratic members of the house were making an effort to confine the inquiry to the allegations made by the Gary educator alone. Under pressure from Republicans, however, how-ever, it was agreed by the Democratic Demo-cratic leaders that the men named by Doctor Wirt will have to be called. The entire matter is being treated treat-ed as a joke by members of the so-called so-called "brain trust. "v.They' " declare de-clare that Doctor Wirt has been made the victim of a practical joke by a mischievous member of the radical group. There were several sev-eral different stories current as to the origin of the Wirt allegations, one version having it that the Gary educator mistook a newspaper man in New York for an ollicial of the administration. T.VENTY-F1VE thousand school ' children In German cities will ! be separated from their parents and , sent to the country for a year by order of the Prussian state. This Is In line with the Nazi pol- J Icy of "reconciliation of urban and rural population" which will be fos-; tered by sending every town child to the country for a year. The 2.VX will compose the first trial batch. The year In the country will be financed partly by the state of : Prussia and party by school organizations. organ-izations. BCK again at the scene of his triumphs tri-umphs and his failure, after being be-ing a fugitive for IS months, Martin Mar-tin Insull, brother of Samuel Insull, Is in Chicago to answer a charge of embezzlement from the treasury of the Middle West Utilities. Insull arrived in Chicago where he had lived for more than 40 years an alien, technically excluded from the United States but paroled to Lieutenant Johnson until the . charges against him are disposed of. j Uls arrival ended a sensational trip from Toronto, with the most ex- i traordinary entry of an alien Into I the United States ever recorded In ! the busy Detroit immigration office. A COMPLETE shakeup in com-mercial com-mercial air lines, using the return re-turn of the air mail to private lines as a bait, is being forced by Post- 1 master General Farley. Thirty officials of-ficials In private aviation companies must be forced out of office, the whole air mail structure is to be rebuilt, and all the old companies com-panies carrying malls must reorganize reor-ganize if they wish to share in federal J. A. Farley ar majj subsidies In the future. Both Republican and Democratic members of congress assailed the new order, denouncing the terms as too drastic. Steps for the return of the air mail to private lines were launched Immediately by advertising for bids on 15 routes, comprising 17,820 miles. None of the companies which had their previous contracts canceled can-celed will be allowed to bid unless they completely reorganize and drop all officials suspected of fraud or collusion in past bidding. The new bids will be for three months only, but may be extended for another six months If necessary. They are intended to provide private flying of the mails pending the settlement of a permanent air mail policy by congress. A new system for computing rates which are to be paid for carrying car-rying the mails was announced. The new rates will be based on the average load carried per mile over the route during the month. THE number of individuals living on farms reached a record peak of 32,509,000 on January 1. The bureau of agricultural economics, eco-nomics, in a new study of farm population, attributed the increase principally to an excess of births over deaths, since more people left farms for cities, In 1933 in a continuation con-tinuation of the farm exodus of the past "decade, than went from cities to farms. Persons who moved to farms last yea;' were 951,000, while 1,178,000 moved away. The farm-bound movement involved in-volved 1,544,000 persons in 1932 while those moving away numbered 1,011,000. The bureau based its estimates on data gathered on 146,817 farms in all parts of the country. MONTHS of political unrest In Estonia, Baltic nation of 1,121,-000 1,121,-000 inhabitants, have culminated in a dictatorship, according to advices from Tallinn, the capital. Gen. Johan Laidoner, commander In chief of the Estonian army, and known as "Estonia's George Washington," Wash-ington," has assumed supreme authority au-thority with the agreement of the president and parliament. D ETENTION of the restrictions imposed on immigration by the present laws was recommended by a committee of 48 men and women appointed several months ago by Secretary Perkins to study the problem. prob-lem. Only minor relaxations were suggested. sug-gested. The committee urged proper prop-er provision for reuniting families separated by Immigration and providing pro-viding asylum for refugees from political po-litical and racial persecution within with-in the immigration quotas. Relentless war on aliens who commit com-mit crimes and on the racketeer and gangster was recommended. The committee proposed, however, that provision be made so illegal entrants en-trants who have proved themselves desirable citizens could legalize their residence. It opposed deportation deporta-tion of aliens brought to this country coun-try as children but who have never qualified for citizenship. A PLAN for the complete freedom V of the Philippines In 1945 or soon thereafter was written upon the statute books when President Roosevelt signed the McDuffle-Tid-ings bill. The Philippine legislature legisla-ture must accept the measure by October 1. Representatives from the islands present in Washington I declare that it would be accepted by the legislature on May 1. by Western Newspaper Union. |