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Show SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Hull's St. Lawrence Plan PRESUMABLY by direction of the President, Secretary of State Hull submitted to Canada a new proposal for development of the St. Lawrence seawav. asking that it be considered as a basis ba-sis for a new treaty : which would be a : revision and ampli- fication of the treaty ! of 1932 that the sen- ate refused to ratify in 1934. Under the terms of the Hull plan Canada would Secretary Hull a compieted St. Lawrence Law-rence deep waterway, ready for power development, and also other valuable concessions. The United States would obtain the privilege of building the seaway at its own expense, increased power development develop-ment at Niagara Falls, and the recognition rec-ognition by Canada of American sovereignty over Lake Michigan. Immediate and vociferous opposition opposi-tion to the plan broke out in congress, con-gress, both Democrats and Republicans Repub-licans characterizing it as a scheme to buy the support of the Dominion for a gigantic water power development devel-opment planned by the New York state power authority. From the State department leaked information that not even Canada was expected to approve the proposed pro-posed treaty. Canadian officials have repeatedly doubted whether recovery re-covery from the depression would be promoted by spending millions on a waterway for which there is not sufficient commerce and for development develop-ment of surplus water power for which there is no demand. Hull's plan provides that the United Unit-ed States shall develop the international interna-tional rapids section of the St. Lawrence Law-rence river at an estimated cost of 400 million dollars. This was denounced de-nounced by Senator Wagner of New York. Senator Copeland, also of New York, announced he was against the seaway project "1,000 per cent." He called it "an all-British all-British canal." Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the senate foreigi relations committee com-mittee having jurisdiction of treaties, said the new proposals would not have a chance of ratification rati-fication unless materially modified. Senators and representatives from the Middle West were especially aroused. Senator Clark of Missouri pointed out that the treaty would permit diversion of only 1,500 cubic feet of water per second into the Chicago drainage canal. He said the Mississippi river must receive more water than that from the canal in order to fill a nine-foot channel. Representative Claude Parsons of Illinois was even more emphatic in disapproval. "This proposed treaty," he said, "is about the worst mistake Secretary Hull ever made. Under the terms of his proposal to set up an international commission for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin, Canada would be given control con-trol over our all-American Lake Michigan. "Furthermore, the treaty would prohibit any further diversion of water wa-ter from Lake Michigan at Chicago of more than 1,500 cubic feet per second. The Illinois and Mississippi rivers must have at least 5,000 c.f.s. to insure a dependable waterway." Wallace Slapped Again CTERNLY chastising Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and Solicitor General Robert II. Jackson for making assertions that were unwarranted and wholly unfounded, un-founded, the United States Supreme court rejected the government's petition pe-tition for a rehearing of the Kansas City stockyards rate case. Twice before the court had rebuked re-buked Wallace in the stockyards case and had set aside his order fixing fix-ing maximum rates which commission commis-sion men might charge for services because, the court said, they had been denied a full, fair, and open hearing by Secretary Wallace. Justice Hugo Black, who was the lone dissenter when the case was decided in April, ran true to form, again being the only member of the court to dissent. New Food Act Passed VyiTHOUT a record vote the " ' house passed the new pure food and drug bill. The senate had passed a similar measure and the differences were to be reconciled in conference. The act brings drugs, therapeutic devices, and foods under un-der regulation of the Department of Agriculture. It prohibits alteration altera-tion or misbranding of cosmetics, 94 foods and drugs, requires adequate ade-quate tests of products before they are placed on the market, provides for license restrictions to control bacterial contamination of foods, requires re-quires warning labels on habit-forming drugs, and provides for factory inspection. Reform Bill Shelved PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ac-A ac-A cepted the advice of congressional congression-al leaders and consented to the shelving of his bill for reorganization reorganiza-tion of the executive government. This was announced with the approval ap-proval of the President by Senator Barkley. At the same time it was made known that the administration administra-tion would attempt to get the measure meas-ure through congress early in the 1939 session. Sen. Hiram Johnson of California said the opponents of the bill would be ready to resume their battle against it next year. Tax Bill Unsigned But Law C)R the first time since he entered ' the White House, President Roosevelt Roose-velt permitted an act of congress to become law without his signature. 1 with the tax revision ' bill in order to em-' em-' phasize his objection to "those unwise parts of the bill" which removed all but the skeleton of I the undistributed profits tax and dras- Stically modified the . levies upon capital gums. President The presidcnt an. Roosevelt nounced hi3 action in a speech delivered to 148 mountain families of the New Deal-sponsored rehabilitation community of Arthur-dale, Arthur-dale, W. Va., at the graduation exercises exer-cises of 13 high school students. His words, however, were carried to the nation by radio networks. "I call the definite attention of the American people," said Mr. Roosevelt, Roose-velt, "to those unwise parts of the bill I have talked to you about todayone to-dayone of them which may restore re-store in the future certain forms of tax avoidance, and of concentrated investment power, which we had begun to end, and the other a definite defi-nite abandonment of a principle of tax policy long ago accepted as part of our American system." The President declared that he had no objection to removing any obstacles to little business which might be contained In the revenue laws but he reiterated the administration's adminis-tration's determination not to allow the use of corporate forms to avoid what it considers legitimate tax burdens. bur-dens. Mr. Roosevelt made plain that ho hoped for a future revision of the revenue laws in line with the objectives objec-tives he seeks. Such revisions, he said, should be designed to encourage encour-age new Investment and the entry of private capital into new fields. Big Fund for Highways T EGISLATION authorizing new federal highway expenditures of $357,400,000 for the fiscal years 1910 and 1941 won final congressional approval ap-proval when tlio senate adopted a conference report previously accepted accept-ed by the house. Also authorized was the expenditure of $150,000,000 of old, unused appropriations. Another Recovery Plan A BANDONMENT of experiments by the government and adoption adop-tion of an industrial program based on experience was advocated by Charles R. Hook, president of the National Association of Manufacturers Manufactur-ers before a meeting of the Chicago Association of Commerce. "A return re-turn to sound economic reasoning and a common sense diagnosis is the sure solution to the problems of America today," Mr. Hook said. Emphasizing that industry has a definite program for industrial recovery, re-covery, Mr. Hook, who is president of American Rolling Mill company, outlined three cardinal points, including in-cluding revision of the Wagner act, revision of the tax structure and banishment ban-ishment of existing and threatened government competition with private pri-vate enterprise. "Remove these causes of fear and uncertainty," Mr. Hook said, "and private savings will rush back into the channels of private pri-vate productive enterprise. "We specifically urge amendments amend-ments to the Wagner act to correct its one-sided character, to enforce responsibility on labor organizations, organiza-tions, to separate the functions of fact finding, prosecution and judicial judi-cial decision, and establish impartial impar-tial administration by the national labor relations board." Twenty More Federal Judges PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT signed the bill creating 20 additional federal fed-eral judges throughout the country. The measure is the largest judgeship judge-ship bill passed by congress since 1921. Five additional Circuit Court of Appeals judges at $12,500 a year each and 15 additional district judges at $10,000 a year each are authorized by the act. Strike Back at Morgan "pESTIFYrNG before the joint - congressional committee of investigation, in-vestigation, David E. Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan, directors of the Tennessee Valley authority, accused Dr. Arthur E.' Morgan, Mor-gan, their ousted colleague, with trying try-ing to sabotage the TVA's legal defense in a court case involving in-volving the constitutionality constitu-tionality of the authority. au-thority. They said, too, that he had en- gaged in a cam- paign of dissent and David E. obstruction. Lilienthal These charges, together with a general denial of Arthur Morgan's accusations against themselves, constituted in the main their defense statements. Referring to the trial last winter of the suit of 18 private utility concerns against the TVA, Lilienthal Lilien-thal said: "It is a record which suggests that he was seeking to find a way to obtain a Judicial decjsion against his own agency. It is a record of tampering with prospective prospec-tive witnesses for the government and of obstructing and harassing counsel and witnesses in the very heat of the trial of a crucial constitutional con-stitutional case." Concerning the Berry marble claims, Lilienthal said: "Any assertion as-sertion that we (Harcourt Morgan and himself) by word or attitude encouraged any one to pull punches on Berry's claims is an outright falsehood. There was absolutely no evidence upon which any charge of fraud could have been based; there were only rumors and suspicions." Dean Mumford Dies r EAN HERBERT W. MUMFORD of the University of Illinois is dead, following an automobile accident, acci-dent, and the country loses one of its best agricultural educators and marketing experts. Mumford wa a product of Michigan. In 1901 he became professor of animal husbandry hus-bandry in the university at Champaign. Cham-paign. Then he was made dean of the college of agriculture and director di-rector of the agricultural experiment experi-ment station and extension service. He was sixty-seven years old at the time of his death. Sweepstakes Winners poiS ROUSSEL, a French bred horse, won the English Derby at Epsom Downs, and four sweepstakes sweep-stakes ticket holders in the United Slates won $150,000 each. Scottish Union, second, won $75,000 each for 11 United States ticket holders. Pasch, the favorite, finished third, returning $50,000 each to seven ticket tick-et holders in the United Stales. Defies Harry Hopkins "yiCTOR A. CHRISTGAU, Minnc- sota WPA administrator, quarreled quar-reled continually with Gov. Elmer Benson and the Farmer-Labor party leaders In that state. So Harry Hopkins, Hop-kins, national head of the WPA, notified him he was ousted. Christ-gau Christ-gau refused to quit his position, contending con-tending that only President Roosevelt, Roose-velt, who appointed him, had power to dismiss him. War Pensions Boosted nitESIDKNT ROOSEVELT signed n bill to Increase the pensions of certain soldiers, sailors and nurses who served In the Spanish war, Philippine Phil-ippine Insurrection or China relief expedition. Tlio net provides a $"0 monthly pension for veterans slxty-fivo years old who served nt least 1)0 days and to thoso who served less than 90 days and were discharged for disability dis-ability Incurred In service. |