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Show THE SALINA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH by the civilian corps are deemed so satisfactory by the administration that plans are being made to continue the experiment for another six months. Orders are to be sent out for the reenlistment of all those who desire to RESULTS shown News Review of Current Events the World Over go on with the work. Enlistment is on a six months basis. The first hitch" expires in November. There are at present 310,575 men in the corps, including 25,000 former Recovery Act Blue Eagle Becomes the National Bird Code Making Continues President Plans War on Kidnaping and Racketeering. service men. The forestry army is located In 1,438 camps In all parts of the country. The cost to the government is approximately $20,000,000. a month.. By EDWARD W. PICKARD NRA by the hundred are flying all over the United States; Innumerable men and women, jobless for long, are 'going BLUE envies of back to work ; shorter hours and higher pay are being installed In factories, shops and offices. commerce American and Industry is fast being regimented. Roosevelt President and his whole administration are pushing forward in the recovery campaign determinedly. Following out the President's, pro gram, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery administrator, has drafted citizens in all the states to lead tho great drive. Nine members were ap pointed on each of 48 state recovery and seven members were boards, named for service on 20 district recovery hoards for the recently made codes. The telegraphic notice sent each of the former by General John- son lective bargaining through employees chosen by the workers. Robert P. Lamont, former secretary' of commerce and now president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, which represents 98 per cent of the countrys producers of pig Iron and steel ingots, was the chief spokesman for the iron and steel iudustry at the hearings. William Green, president of the A. F. L, challenged various sections of the offered code, especially the minimum wage and maximum hours provisions. Secretary of Labor Perkins, who had been making a tour of the Pennsylvania 'steel mills, wanted the wage rates altered, especially criticizing the 25 and 27 cents minimum hourly rate set up for the .smullcrn and Birmingham districts. Shortly afterwards Mr. Lamont announced the Industry had agreed to raise the'' minimum pay in those-twdistricts to 30 cents an hour. ' Both .Green and Miss Perkins urged that the 40 hour week would not bring about sufficient In tlue . industry. was: President Roosevelt has drafted you as one of the nine members of the state recovery board for the state of . . ' as explained in bulletin No. 3 . of July 20. He has requested you to volunteer your services without compensation in this great drive for national rehabilitation. As a member of this board your duties will be to get every patriotic American citizen, emin ployer, and consumer to this program. Please wire acceptance immediately and you will receive fur- ther instructions. The advisory board for public works Is doing Its part in the campaign by dealing out further laige sums from the public works fund. Rs head, Secretary of Interior Ickes, announced allotments totaling $118,2S2,-00for one state and five federal pro ects. Added to allotments already made, brought the total thus far earmarked out of the three billion three hundred million dollar fund to $1,038,- 100,201. The state project to be financed by the government was beneficiary of the million largest allotment. Sixty-thre- e dollars. Secretary Ickes announced, is allotted for construction af the Grand Coulee dam In the Columbia river basin. The state of Washington Is to un dertake the dam project, It Is understood. Thirty per cent of the $03,000, 000 total cost, or $18,900,000 represents a direct outright gift by the federal government The remainder Is to be loaned to the state, at low Interest rates over a long-timperiod. The upper Mississippi 9 foot channel project, nlrendy approved by President Roosevelt, was allotted $11,500,000. This Is a federal project to be undertaken under the governments rivers and harbors program. Another $22,700,000 of the public works fund was earmarked for the Caspar-AIcov- a reclamation project In Wyoming, for many years the pet scheme of Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming. The federal forest service was allotted $15,2S2,745; the coast and geodetic survey $2,000,000, and the geologic sure vey $2,500,000. T EPRESENTATIVES of the oil, coal, steel and many other Industries were busily trying to agree on their codes In Washington. In each there were factions with conflicting Ideas, and It was not easy to reconcile them. This was especially true of the oil men. Among them were many advocates of federal regulation of petroleum prices, but they were told by Administrator Johnson that he would not recommend to the President any price fixing until the effect of production control has been determined. Formation of the coal code was complicated by the riotous strike in the mining zone of southwestern Pennsylvania. Thirty thousand miners were out and Governor Iinchot called out state troops to control the situation after a qunrrel with a sheriff. The National Coal association, controlled by nonunionized operators, asked Ad minlstrator Johnson to look into the trouble in the strike region, and he designated Edward F. McGrady. labor adviser to N. R. A., to Investigate the situation. IN BOTH the carried out, .the administrator reiterated that N I. R. A. provides for col- coal and steel code dis- cussions there was controversy over the open shop versus unions. The steel men took the open shop clause out of their proposed code to facilitate settlement but they declared that plainly they would stand for the present systems of employees councils in the Industry to on collective carry bargaining. Mr. Johnson said he would not approve any code that does not provide for advisory councils. On the old issue of how collective bargainings should be Defending the proposed code, .Mr. ' Lamont said: . It Is estimated that on the basis of a CO per cent rate of operations and a 40 hour week, substantially all the .49,738 employees who were not receiving work July' 1, 1933, would be On less than a 40 given employment hour week t.he Industry positively could not' operate the mills and meet any demands on them in excess of present production. The code establishes a minimum rate of 40 cents a'n hour for common labor In the Pittsburgh. Youngstown, north Ohio, Canton. Massillon, Cleveland, Detroit Toledo, Chicago and Colorado districts. This rate Is only 9 per cent less than the highest base rate paid during the Inst 11 years, where living costs were above the present level." DUESIDENT ROOSEVELT, contin-- ' uing his vacation at his home In Hyde Park. N. Y., called Into conference there Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley and discussed with him a plan to put ail the force of the federal government into a campaign to wipe out the two great evils of kidnaping and Profesracketeering. sor Moley was then relieved temporarily from his departmental duties and placed at the head of a special survey to determine where and how the federal power can best be used as a weapon against the criminal. He Is well fitted for this work, for he Is an expert criminologist, was an adviser to the New York crime commissioner and Is the author of numerous surveys of crime, notably In Ohio and Missouri. As for racketeering, both the President and Moley see In the new recovery act the authority, which the federal government has heretofore lacked, to Intervene In criminal cases Involving business conduct. Until now, unless a criminal act Infringed upon some specific federal statute, such as one of the postal laws or the Internal revenue act or a law based on- Interstate commerce, the federal government had no means of Jurisdiction. In the past the anti trust laws have prevented the smaller industries and business units from banding together. Such a condition provided a fertile field for the racketeers, for illegal combinations, and for violence. The national recovery act. however, provides directly for the abrogation ef the anti trust laws In cases where they Interfere with the working of the recovery program. Industry and bush ness are forced Into trade agreements. The federal government sanctions and imposes those agreements and any act in violation ' of such agreements or tending to destroy the effect of the recovery act is made a crime. Against kidnaping, the President is counting on a suiter police force mod eled In a general way on England's Scotland Yard, the postal regulations, the Income tax law, and the recently enacted kidnnping statute. Recent instances of kidnaping are familiar to all newspaper readers. The "snatchers- - have received large sums for the release of their victims In several cases. The relatives of John J. OConnell, Jr., of Albany. N. Y., paid $W1,000 for his freedom, and the ransom of Charles F Ursehel. millionaire oil operator of Oklahoma City, Is said to have been $200,000. - "''HESTER S. LORD, who as man aging editor of the New York Sun for nearly a quarter of a century was admired and loved by two generations of newspaper men. died at the age of eighty-thre- e years, in his home in Garden City, N. Y. The Boss." as one of his reporters once wrote, was never known In all the years of his managing editorship to utter an un kind word to any mnn on the paper, no matter how humble his station. SENATOR HUEY P. LONGS in Ixtuisiana was seriously threatened when District Judge A. C. ODonnell began an open court Investigation into the. election of last fall in which Long's gang is alleged to have resorted to fraud In order to win. The Judge, ordered fifteen elec-- ' tion commissioners, arrested on charges of certifying to false returns, brought before him-- and he granted permission to District Attorney Stanley to examine ballot boxes In open court. 1 Machine gun unit of the Pennsylvania, state troops called out. to quell mine strike disorder near Grindstone. Governor V K. Alleh, a Long heneh-- . 2 President Roosevelt Issuing to William E. Morris of Texds the first check of the billion dollars- - (o be distributed In' to man. halt the investigatrying Gen. John F.. GRyan,' selected by fusion leaders as the tion. had declared. New Orleans under among cotton growers. 3 Maj: candidate for ' ' ' ' martial law, but revoked the order mayor of New 'York. after eight soldiers had. been detailed to guard the- - grand jury. body appeared to be dominated by the . Long crowd. The United States senate committee announced it planned to resume Its. investigation of Louisiana elections e within .two months. The called upon President Roosevelt to take note of political racketeering in IxMiisbrna and not to overlook it in his war on gangsters. ; y The-latte- .... r English Women Join Mosley Blackshirt Ranks Tlmes-Iiea-yun- POLITICS and sugar are making the Cuban situation very difficult for the administration ' In Washington, and for Ambassador Sumner Wellds. Though' R was announced that the situation on the island was clearing up, and though President Machado Issued an amnesty proclamation, the troubles there are continuing. The Cuban people are In distress, the schoal teachers navana' In have been demonstrating because they are not paid, and the veterans of the war of Independence undertook to hold a parade to call attention to their Inability to collect their pensions. The old soldiers were attacked by police and severely beaten, right under the eyes of Mr. Welles, .and It was reported the ambassador would demand that Machado revanlp his cabinet and dismiss Gen. Alberto Herrera, the cause of much of the recent disturbance. The Cuban ambassador In Washington Is persistently demanding a larger import quota for Cuban sugar. This and this alone would make the Island fairly prosperous And Would lead to the subsidence of the political disor- Kir Oswald Mosley, Britains titled Fascist founder and leader, staged a large pafade-througthe streets of west end section and surprised street spectators, when 'a detachment .of women in full blackshirt uniform . . appearance in the parade. GETS TREASURY POST. Gov. Pollard Weds His Secretary . ders, At present the sugar conference has tentatively set Cubas sugar exports to the' United States at 1,700,000 short tons of raw and only 110,000 tons of refined. Qrdlnarily United States Im- portation of Cuban refined sugar is about half a million tons. , ' 'HE apprehension of war between the United States and Japan, enfew Americans, Is tertained by not apparently felt in Japan also,, despite official denials. The army and navy heads of the Island empire have just submitted to the finance ministry estimates for the 1934-3defense expenditures larger than any In previous history and 45 per cent greater than the appropriation for the current year. These estimates included Mrs. Marion Glass Banister of yen ($50,400,000 at current exVa., sister of Senator CarLynchburg, new for naval construcchange rates) ter was appointed by Presiwho Glass, tion and 75,000.000 yen ($21,000,000) dent Roosevelt to the position of asfor modernization of capital ships. The navy ministry asked for the sistant secretary of the United States fiscal year beginning next April 1 the treasury. It is the first time that one of her sex has held such a high office sum of OSO, 000.000 yen ($190,400,000), which is 30 per cent more than the es- in the Treasury department. timates of 1921 22, the largest previACCUSED MAYOR ous estimates for the sea forces. The combined Japanese fleet began preparations for maneuvers several hundred miles southeast of Tokio, In which the major problem will be a battle with a hypothetical enemy. This wiU be preceded by a four-dadefense of the Tokio district against a sham aerial attack from the sea. 5 Gov. John Garland Pollard of Virginia and his secretary, Violet Eliza- beth McDougall'who were married in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The governor's first wife died more than a year ago. .' . ; Henry Ford on Seventieth Birthday . ANDORRA, the little old republic In underwent a bloodand the young people of franchise, hitherto bends of families. The supported by the state less revolution the right confined to the re offers were council, and the authority of Andorra's two co princes was defied. These coprinces are the bishop of Urgel in Spain and the head of the French state as represented hy the prefect of Perpignan. Their joint suzerainty has existed since 1273. They were told the Andorrans Insisted on being a free people and that their Jobs henceforth would be merely decorative. President Lebrun of France evidently did not relish this flouting of his authority. The French customs authorities imposed an embargo on all Andorran exports to France, thus ruining at one fell swoop the little nations most thriving Industry, which Is smuggling. won first time 1912 FOR the tennis team since has possession of the historic Davis cup. The islanders won the trophy by defeating the French players at Auteuil In the challenge round France had held the cup for six years. ffi. 1933, Western Newspaper L'nlo Ill run this city from a police cell if necessary," said Mayor William J. Swolxula, Jaunty chief executive of Racine, Wis., who was arrested and ctiarged with accepting a bribe to give a gambling syndicate control of the city. He is also alleged to have attempted to bribe the chief of police. Seemi Logical The umbrella I bought from you Is not much good. How is that, sir? "1 left It in a restaurant yesterday, and It was still there today," Henry Ford photographed in Detroit in company of some of his engineers on his seventieth birthday. He celebrated the day by giving his associates pho-- . tographs of themselves in conference with him. International Air Mail There Is air mail service to most countries of the world from the Unit ed States, the mail being forwarded by air to the port of steamship departure. then by steamship to London or to France or the Netherlands, then by air to destination. The United States Post Office department maintains air mail routes to all countries of Central and South America and th4 West Indies, as well as Canada and Mexico. National Song Popularized To make the national anthem more popular, King George requested that the music be rearranged. The work has been completed by Capt. II. E. Adkins of the Military Musical academy, and is being published. There is no alteration in the harmony. Tiie principal change is in the tempo, and there is a rearrangement of the instrumental parts. Better playing of the national song Is expected to result |