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Show PROGRESSIVE OPINION Ilerieir ot Current Events NAVY EXPANSION IS PUSHED eira with President's Defense Program Congress Gets Busy . . . Complaints of "little Business" Are Heard E&lunuuL IV J&icJuUcd SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Wanna JUwmsw Unto. May Split Labor Vote WILLIAM GREEN, president of Federation at Labor, threatened to split organized labors vote in the 1838 congressional elections by asking for the withdrawal of all federation support far labor's league. Charging that the league was a ventriloquist's dummy for the Comp mittee for Industrial Organization," Green recommended that the federation's executive council order all affiliates to withdraw and cease Non-Partls- financial contributions. Such action, it was believed, may effectively split labor's vote in the 1838 elections, when all congressmen, 22 senators and many state officials face campaigns. In Washington John L. Lewis declared that thousands of workers now face desperate need, and even Rush Defense Plan Bill tot no LEADERS in congreaa carrying forward the National defense program which President Roosevelt had offered in a special message. Legislation to authorize the expenditure of $800,000,000 in naval construc- February. anti-aircra- ft ment That congress provide for better establishment of an enlisted reserve tor the army. That congress legislate to prevent e and to profiteering in equalize the burdens at possible Nazis Extol Hitler the NAZI Germay celebrated at Chancellor Charles Blech, assumed comStates fleet, sucHepburn. The transfer was made at San Pedro, Admiral Claade shown above, has mand of the United ceeding Admiral Calif. seating Increasing hazards to their successful operations. Congress and the administration already are busy with steps to correct these alleged abuses. Big Business Scared Again big business and MEANWHILE war. generally was Among his recommendations the discussing with considerable apprePresident also Included appropria- hension the declaration by the Prestions for experimental smaller ves- ident that industry must reduce sels; for army ammunition and for prices and at the same time keep the manufacture of army equip- wages up. An immediate result ment was the crash at prices on the stock Opposition to the bill in the house exchanges, the decline reaching as was expected to come from certain high as 754 points. Commodities members from the middle western declined in sympathy with stocks. states. Tinkham of Massachusetts If industries reduce wages this also didn't like the program, saying winter and spring, the President It was one of offense, not defense, said at his press conference, they and that the President was prepar- will be deliberately encouraging the ing to get the United States into the withholding of buying they will be League of Nations. fostering a downward spiral and Senators Vandenberg of Michigan they will make it necessary for and Frazier of North Dakota de- their government to consider other manded that Mr. Roosevelt make means of creating purchasing powpublic the foreign policy he expects er. follow to behind increased Many congressmen. Democrats as well as Republicans, tods issue with Mr. Roosevelt's logic and ecowar-tim- New Fleet Commander Charles Admiral claude new commander of nomics, pointing out that industries lack the resources to keep wages up on a falling market because their funds have been depleted by the undistributed profits tax. the United States fleet, assumed Me duties at San Pedro, Calif., replacing Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn. In the colorful ceremonies Admiral Row Over Coal Prices Bloch made a brief address, saying: I wish to emphasize to the of- MINIMUM prices for coal and regulations fixed by ficers and men of the fleet that our the national bituminous coal comonly justification for being is to be mission have aroused a storm of ready to fight. complaints. Resentment was espeWe have fine ships and, knowing cially strong in Illinois, which, you men as I do, I know that you will continue your bard work and though ranking third among soft coal producing states, is not repreunselfish devotion to duty so that on the commission. our navy always will be ready and sented Six coal companies started court second to none." action in Chicago to restrain enforcement of the price schedule, and U.S. Avoids Entanglement Chicago itself contemplated similar of Great action. The cities of Rochester, N. Representatives Russia in Y.; Cleveland, Ohio; and St. Louis, Mo., complained of high and unfair the League of Nations council meeting in Geneva were ready to adopt coal rates and appealed to the courts to suspend the commission's a resolution to aid China by sending her war munitions, but awaited orders. the of the United States. The scheme was proposed to Washington informally, and was Democrat in Stiewer s Seat as informally rejected after PresiGOV. CHARLES MARTIN of Alfred Even appointed dent Roosevelt had conferred with Reames of Salem to serve out the Secretary Hull and others. Mr. Hull indicated our policy, would not be unexpired 11 months of the term of Sen. Frederick Stiewer, who rechanged and that America would take no leadership in aiding China. signed to enter private law practice. Mr. Reames, a lawyer n years old, thus becomes the Turn of Little Business first Democratic senator from OreCALLED to Washington from all gon since 1821. He is chairman of of the country by Secrethe executive committee of the tary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, Democratic state central commitsome 500 representatives of little tee. He will not seek to succeed business undertook himself in the senate. to formulate a recovery program for John Roosevelt Wedding Plan submission to Pressixty-seve- ident Roosevelt. Mr. Roper and his assistant, Draper, tods part in the preliminary discussions, and since the President could not receive all of them a small committee was named to take tyeir proposals to the White House. According to reports from the capital the President desires legislation for federal financing of small industries to stimulate business. This would require the creation of a new government agency unless the power were granted to the Reconstruction Finance corporation. Three chief complaints of the small business men are: The undivided profits tax has prevented them from accumulating a rainy day" surplus. The capital gains and losses tax has frozen capital and prevented the encouragement of new enterprises. Monopolistic practices are pre- - Ernest Darwin Aerial Gateway Once Isolated Seaport Darwin, Australia's far northern tropical town, was once Just an isolated little seaport, used mainly by pearlers, but with the inauguration of a regular mail and passenger plane service from England, it has become one of the most Important cities in the commonwealth. It Is the first point in Australia touched by these air liners, and is aew recognized as the aerial gate Is ROOSEVELT, youngest son President, and Anne Lindsay Clark are to be married in Nahant, Mass., on June 18. The groom's brother Franklin will be his best man. Rev. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton school, who has officiated at the weddings of all the President's sons as well as that of the bride's parents, and RL Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, will officiate. Following a a lx weeks honeymoon the couple will live in a Brookline apartment, as young Roosevelt expects to work in a Boston advertising agency. JOHN anniversary Adolf Hitler's rule with parades, concerts and orations. Hitlers major accomplishments were described as: Elimination of unemployment, abolition of Versailles Treaty restrictions, putting Germany in a position to drive Jews out of the economic as well as social and political life, suppression of opposition political parties, and breaking Germanys isolation by alp liances with Italy and Japan and friendship with Yugoslavia, Poland, Rumania and Hungary. Still facing the Nazi regime are the questions of possible colonial expansion, improvement of foreign relations and reaching peaceful relations with the Catholic and Protestant Confessional churches. Jackson Gets Reed s Place jackson, assistant Robert h.general, was nominat- ed by the President to be solicitor general at the United States. He succeeds Stanley Reed, whose appointment to the Supreme court was confirmed by the senate. Jackson has been much in the headlines lately because of his speeches attacking business and his avowed intention to seek the governorship of Controls Canned Music Federation of American THE will control the output of canned music (music recorded by mechanical means for broadcast) in nearly 588 radio stations in the country in a new contract between the musicians and the principal recording companies, the chain radio broadcasting companies, and the independent affiliates. way to the country. The only Important port on Australia's lonely northern coast, it has become doubly important as a naval and air force base. The coast guard patrol has its headquarters there. Darwin has other claims to fame. It was the hopping-of- f place to s such flyers as ir Charles Kingford Smith, Jimmy Molllson and Jean Batten, in their g dashes from Australia to England. It is a typical outpost of the tropics. world-famou- record-breakin- OU would naturally think of the man operating the tractor as a farmer. And he is a farmer, but hes also an increasingly important figure in the industrial world, not only as a j consumer but as a producer. He's engaged in hoeing up a field of soy beans which later, after passing through various factory processes, you'll be using in the form of paint and varnish, soap linoleum and scores of other products. Consumers Information points out that 81 million pounds of soy bean oil, a comparatively new crop for American farm-e- ra was produced in one recent year. Of this amount. 2 million pounds went into the soap kettles, 5 million into linoleum and 12 million into Catsup, the new paint and varnish. This brand who market for American farmers, are now growing a large number of industrial as well as food products, has been developed, like many others, through the vast research programs undertaken by American industry, whose laboratories have added untold millions to the national wealth and also thousands of jobs to American workers. at a saving to ' i cans-li. S3 1-- 2s Lrg can, only CAKE TIME- - LOG CABIN SYRUP i Co-operati- on IN MERCHANDISING ; Interstate Cooperalive.ffa8.4648 Fire- - and Auto - Insurance in highest rated Stock Cos. 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To members at the following Furnace Lump Doomed senators voted against to invoke the cloture the purpose of choking off rule the filibuster against the bill, and the measure which the southerners were fighting so determinedly was thus doomed to failure. Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, who had supported the bill and voted for cloture, imFIFTY-ON- Cardwell Market Corner of Third Avenue and Ax'tralia Celebrates anti-lynchi- Union IlQeam President'g Birthday presidential and presidential campaigns, as well as in the days when he was assistant secretary of the navy. After the dinner Mr. Roosevelt made a brief radio address in connection with the birthday balls being given all over the nation to raise funds to combat infantile paralysis. Way Del Maize, New York. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was old on Sunday, January 20. He and Mrs. Roosevelt decided to have the birthday dinner the evening before, and twenty guests were invited, among them being members of the Cuff Link club, wearing gold cuff links which Mr. Roosevelt gave them to commemorate their experiences in vice the Co-o- p PRICE & QUTLITY starvation, despite the President's promise to let no willing worker starve. In a letter urging all affiliates of his Committee for Industrial Organization to notify congress that immediate action is needed to provide 3,000,000 work relief jobs for the unemployed, Lewis added: The administration has taken upon lf this obligation, and the workers of America expect it to fulfill its promise. tion was introduced Immediately in both the house and senate, and steps were taken to provide the require-- i additional ments of the army. 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