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Show CONGRESS ADJOURNS Huge Relief and Priming Bill and Wage-Hour Measure Enacted During Closing Days of Session Here Japanese soldiers with fixed bayonets are seen rushing a Chinese position in a part of Suchow which the Japanese artillery had reduced to flaming ruins. There, as elsewhere, the defenders practically destroyed the city before retreating. SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Congress Session Ends THE Seventy fifth congress brought its labors to a close and adjourned, thanked by President Roosevelt for the constructive legislation legis-lation it had enacted. In its one special and two regular sessions this congress set a peace time record rec-ord by appropriating more than 20 billion dollars. Almost at the last moment the 34 million dollar relief and pump priming bill was enacted into law. Tne house accepted a senate amendment boosting the appropriation appropri-ation for administrative expenses of the Rural Electrification administration adminis-tration from $500,000 to $750,000. Agreement was reached on the 300 million dollar second deficiency bill when the senate concurred in the action of the house in knocking knock-ing out $325,000 to purchase additional addi-tional land for the Lake Tahoe National Na-tional park and $1,300,000 for forestry. for-estry. Both senate and house repassed over the President's veto the bill continuing the 3V4 per cent rate on federal land bank loans on farm mortgages. Scores of bills of varying degrees of importance were lost in the confusion con-fusion of the last hours of the session. ses-sion. Among them was the bill authorizing federal law enforcement officers to tap wires to get evidence of violations of law. The relief and pump priming law as enacted includes one billion 425 million dollars for the Works Progress Prog-ress administration for a period of eight months, beginning July 1; 175 million dollars for the Farm Security Secur-ity administration; 75 million dollars dol-lars for the National Youth administration, admin-istration, and 965 million dollars for the Public Works administration. It authorizes the PWA to lend up to 400 million dollars from the sale of securities pledged for previous PWA loans. It increases the lending limit of the United States Housing authority au-thority for low cost housing from 500 million to 800 million dollars. It appropriates 212 million dollars for additional "price adjustment" subsidies to farmers. Senators to Aid Van Nuys FREDERICK VAN NUYS, senior senator from Indiana, is going to run for re-election as an independent independ-ent because he was read out of the t A i Democratic party I for opposing the Su- preme court and i government reorganization reor-ganization bills, i Now 11 Democratic ; senators have come ! forward to support i him and will speak I in his campaign. They are: Bennett Champ -.I - , HIT! i a r k , missoun; Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Van Nuys Montana; Josiah W. Bailey, North Carolina; Royal S. Copeland, New York; Harry Flood Byrd, Virginia; Joseph C. O'Maho-ney, O'Maho-ney, Wyoming; Edward R. Burke, Nebraska; Tom Connally, Texas; Peter G. Gerry, Rhode Island; Millard Mil-lard E. Tydings, Maryland, and Guy M. Gillette, Iowa. Joining with them are two Republican Repub-lican senators, William E. Borah of Idaho and Arthur H. Vandenburg of Michigan. Wage Bill Now Law WAGE-HOUR legislation, keystone key-stone of the President's social so-cial reform program, was put through congress in modified form just before adjournment. The conference con-ference committee compromise was accepted by the house 2!)0 to (10. About half the Republican members mem-bers nave in and voted for the measure, meas-ure, but 48 of them and 41 Democrats Demo-crats were recorded against It. This act, approved by organized ' labor and generally opposed by big business, is designed to establish a 40 cent minimum hourly wage and a 40 hour maximum work week in interstate industries in seven years. It will achieve the goal by easy stages, beginning with a 25 cent wage and a 44 hour week in affected industries the first year and graduating gradu-ating to 30 cents and 40 hours in three years. Thereafter quasi-public industrial boards dominated by a federal administrator, ad-ministrator, will fix the 40-40 scale according to sectional economic conditions, and, in conformance with the major concession to the South, will exempt industries which can prove the scales will work an economic hardship. Child labor under fourteen years of age is outlawed, except in seasonal season-al and other specified industries. Specific exemption is provided for farm workers, processors in the area of production, executives, administrative adminis-trative and professional help, local retailing employees, seamen, air transport workers, seasonal industries, indus-tries, employees of weekly or semi-weekly semi-weekly papers whose circulation is less than 3,000, those whose hours are regulated by the motor carrier act those under wage agreements, handlers of perishable goods and those represented by a collective bargaining agency. Lewis Twice Rebuffed TPWICE in the last days of the ses- sion John L. Lewis, C. I. O. chieftain, virtually ordered congress con-gress to pass the amendment to the i: V - - -A Ai..k Waish-Healy government govern-ment contracts bill so corporations that refused to obey NLRB orders could be blacklisted. Both times Lewis was rebuffed re-buffed when Speaker Speak-er Bankhead refused to permit suspension of the rules to bring the bill up in the nouse. i n e rules J.L.Lewis committee of the house was overwhelmingly against this action. Lewis and some of his C. I. O. lieutenants had boldly marched into the speaker's office to make their demand, and Lewis had summoned congressmen before him in the room, this arrogance arousing extreme ex-treme resentment. When he had been turned down a second time Lewis was enraged and threatened reprisal at the polls. Calling reporters re-porters from the press gallery, he said to them: "The action of the rules committee commit-tee is cowardly and pusillanimous. "In a short time congress will adjourn, ad-journ, and many of the members will return to their districts seeking support as friends of labor. We want to know how good a friend they are before we give them our support." Great Floods in China nOURING through broken dikes, the waters of the Yellow river inundated many hundreds of square miles in central China. In the first two or three days of the great flood It was estimated 150,000 Chinese were drowned and several times as many rendered homeless. Millions of others were threatened by the swirling waters. The fate of thousands thou-sands of Japanese soldiers in the area was not known but it was thought many of them must have perished. Far from the war and flood fronts, the Shanghai municipal council officially of-ficially declared cholera to be epidemic epi-demic In Shanghai. In the city's hospitals there were 1113 cases, 73 of them originating in foreign-administered areas. In the Yangtze river valley Japanese Japa-nese continued their drive by land and by gunboat against Hankow. Finland Pays IERO JARNFELT, minister from Finland, appeared in the state department on June 15 and proudly announced that Finland was paying its debt installment due that day and had deposited $161,935 with the federal reserve bank in New York. John Pelenyi, Hungarian minister, announced his government had paid 1 per cent on account against its post-war debt. The defaulting nations were, as usual: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Es-tonia, France, Great Britain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania Ruma-nia and Jugo-Slavia. John Roosevelt Weds TN A little old stone church at Na-A Na-A hant, Mass., John Roosevelt, youngest son of President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Anne Lindsay Clark were made man and wife. After the ceremony there was a reception recep-tion in the old Nahant club, and the young couple then started on a honeymoon trip to Bermuda. There they were to stay at the estate of Vincent Astor. Railway Aid Postponed WHEN the leaders of the senate and house made up their minds to adjourn congress not later than June 15, they went to the White-House White-House and told the President the proposed legislation to expedite the reorganization of railroads would have to be postponed to the next session. They agreed, however, to put through two other railway measures. One permits RFC loans to railroads without interstate commerce com-merce commission certification. The other establishes a special unemployment un-employment insurance system for rail workers. Healing Party Rifts THOUGH it was believed Tommy Corcoran and his "eliminating committee" would continue the efforts ef-forts to "purge" the Democratic of administration policies, the President Presi-dent himself undertook under-took to repair some of the breaks in the party ranks. For instance, in-stance, he invited Senator Gillette, victor vic-tor in the Iowa primary, pri-mary, to the White House where they took off their coats, ate luncheon togeth- Gov- Lehman er and, according to reports, planned common action against the Republican enemy in November. Also, it was disclosed, Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt had sent word to the New York Democrats that the renomina-tion renomina-tion of Governor Lehman would be acceptable to him. He has not liked Lehman since the governor came out against the court packing bill There had been a plan to run Lehman Leh-man for senator and Wagner foi governor, but this switch presumably presum-ably is now out. Our Slump Worst A CCORDING to the monthly bul-letin bul-letin of the federal reserve board, the present business depression depres-sion is more severe in the United States than in any other industrial country in the world. The manufacture of war materials materi-als in other countries was pointed out, however, as one of the principal prin-cipal supports to business activity, many other industries showing almost al-most as poor results as in the United Unit-ed States. Japan's Demands Rejected A MERICAN warships will remain hi the Yangtze river and will go to any place where Americans are in danger. This despite the de- mands of Japan. Naval officials ot Japan asked that all foreign warships leave the Yangtze river area between Wuhu and Kiukiang because the invaders invad-ers were about to start an offensive toward Hankow, provisional Chinese . . . , capital, uut Admi-Admiral Admi-Admiral ral Harry E. Yarnell, Harry Yarnell commandcr of tho United States Asiatic fleet, rejected the demand sharply. Furthermore, Further-more, he at once planned an inspection in-spection trip up the Yangtze and through the war zone, and he did not ask Japan's permission. These three "principles" of American Amer-ican naval operations in Asiatic waters wa-ters were set forth by Admiral Yarnell Yar-nell in his note to the Japanese: The United States navy will retain re-tain complete freedom of movement on the Yangtze, and will proceed to any place where Americans are in danger. The American command will not change the color ot its warships, which arc painted white, to conform to any color scheme suggested by the Japanese. The United States does not regard the warning of Japanese naval officials of-ficials relative to the Yangtze as relieving re-lieving the Japanese "in the slightest slight-est degree" of responsibility for damage or injury to United States warships. Eight Army Flyers Die piGHT army airmen from Cha-nulc Cha-nulc field in Illinois were caught in a storm, lost one wing of their big bomber and crashed in n farm Hold near Delavan, III. All of them were killed ami the tanks burst into llame. Three of the victims were commissioned ollicers. I |