| Show www 4 wW y nv S summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK a western newspaper union wage hour compromise C conferees EES of senate and house who were trying to draft a compromise wage hour bill that both bodies would accept defied threats of a filibuster by southerners and agreed on wage and hour provisions which met some of the south erners demands but left them still dissatisfied and angry overriding protests that the wago wage scale scala agreed upon will reestablish establish re the outlawed national recovery administration the conferees adopted provisions colling calling for establishment of a 25 cents per hour minimum wage for or the first year and increasing to 30 cents in the tha second year establishment of industrial boards and an administrator to fix wages between 30 cents and the ultimate goal of 40 coals cents during the next five years providing for a flat 40 cent minimum after seven years unless an industry gave adequate proof that such a rate was unsound economically and would substantially cur tall employment opportunities establishment of a maximum work week of 44 hours during the first year reducing to 42 hours in the second year and to 40 hours thereafter the work week would not apply where union contracts already in effect permit hours in excess of the maximum fixed in the bill plan relief politics quiz H HARRY ARRY HOPKINS head of the asserted that the of senator gillette by iowa democrats showed that his vast organization was not playing politics but prominent democratic senators are not so sure this is 1 true or will be true during the re remainder of the year ten of them signed a resolution introduced by millard E tydings of maryland senator ator calling for the Td tydings ings appointment of a senatorial committo tee tec of three investigate any charges of politics in relief that may arise during the 1038 1033 election campaign the resolution made no reference to tho the iowa primary in which hopkins backed otha the loser the ten signers of the resolution including both supporters and critics of the roosevelt administration were besides tydings adams of a f colorado bulkley of ohio burke of nebraska george of georgia Geor gli gerry of rhode island hatch of new mexico king of utah U tah mcadoo of california Call fornia and wagner of now york senator hatch said he would try again at the next session to impose restrictions on participation by relief workers in party conventions or other political poU activities P IK house 0 ests jenks ARTHUR A B JENKS republican who had served 18 months of his term as representative from new hampshire was unseated by tho the house and replaced by b y alphonse roy noy democrat who was declared defeated in the 1036 1030 election the vote to oust jenks was to when it was announced all the republicans public ans progressives Progress ives and form farm or cr and some democrats marched out in a body as a gesture of protest this action by the house was ap taken to uld tho the campaign ot of senator fred brown brawn of new hampshire ila for roy has a large following among the french population of manchester N H wheat allotment check 1 Feul representatives of the uarl cultural tural adjustment administration began checking farmer fanner participation in the AAA program to determine 1939 ecat allotments in tho the ten north central states the check also will determine eligibility of farms tor for wheat loans and tor for premiums on farms arms covered by crop in su surn ronce nce officials of the AAA in washington indicated that rates for loans on the forthcoming wheat crop may range from 60 to 60 80 cents a bushel depending on grade and distance from markets authorized under the now new farm law to set the rates between 52 and 75 per cent of a variety price which government economists hayo have placed at a bushel the am bt dais said tho the base rate the amount to be paid on a standard grade of wheat at a definite market would bo be close to 60 cents a bushel loan rates will be lower loher with the distance from central markets AAA spokesmen indicating that the loan rate in western kansas for example might be as low as 40 or 45 cents a bushel the AAA Is hoping officials said that growers would not approve rates which would tend to retard exports by pegging prices above aboa 0 those in world markets the aim of the loan they pointed out Is to help farmers withhold surplus wheat to proven prevent t upsetting of prices loses in iowa 0 OTHA THA iowa re presenta uve tive favored bv the noo roosevelt sevelt administration for the dem democratic socratic senatorial nomination we was i defeated defeated in the pd primaries marles running far ahead of him was senator guy M gillette Gl Uette who had been marked for elimination t I 1 on bee because a use he voted against the I 1 court packing bill Is bluette supporters s said a I 1 d president roosevelt noo sevelt m main a in talked bained neutrality in the contest but otha had received the approval of harry 11 administrator and of james roosevelt the presidents son and secretary also thomas G corcoran the dents political adviser was known to have worked for cause or perhaps it should be put against bluette Gl Uette gillette sought for the senate on a platform of loyalty to president roosevelt but said he would retain the right to judge each new deal propos proposal pl on its individual merits it if he Is elected reelected re he was one of the foes of tho the presidents court reform plan but supported the reorganization bill and other administration measures in the republican side of the primary former senator L J dick inson uncompromising foe of the new deal defeated representative lloyd thurston f huge navy plane planned T ephe house appropriations corn com kittee included in the second deficiency fici ency bill an additional billion dollars for construction of the worlds largest military plane and the navy department Is now ready to go ahead with the construction of the monster ter which may m ey weigh 60 50 tons the original model will cost upward of rear admiral arthur 13 cook chief of the bureau of aeronautics said the now new plane would exceed considerably the mile range needed for a nonstop round trip from san francisco to honolulu the plane will be partly armored and will carry a crew of 10 to 14 men it Is expected to be the forerunner of a squadron of 15 or more in the next few years for rivers and an harbors T u TN approval was given by the senate to the rivers and harbors bill but provisions giving the war department sole sola jurisdiction over water developments were eliminated these projects were left under inder u the control of the federal feder al power commission the senate accepted tin an amendment by senator norris of nebraska exempting the tennessee Tean essee valley authority from the jurisdiction of the secretary of war boy dead ITTLE james hallcy dailey cash five L LITTLE years old who was waa from his homo home in princeton fla was found dead by federal agents his body lying in a clump of palmetto tho the which his father had paid for tho the lads ransom was recovered J E edgar Il hoover head of the G men who hod bad taken charge of the case announced that franklin pierce mccall twenty one a truck driver was under arrest and had admitted writing the three tarco ransom notes and collecting the money portland nd hotel strike MARCHING pickets and bewildered stair guests marked a strike which drew draw 1250 employees from work in eight of the largest hotels of portland ore ora at tho the opening of the annual rose nose festival elevator operators switchboard girls bel bellhops chops dining room and kitchen employees clerks chambermaids ber maids and porters all joined joine d the walkout to force union re recognition from employers no hotels were closed and all attempted to keep up a semblance a of service canton made a shambles T ignoring emphatic pro tests by the united states and great britain against the bombing of civilians the japanese continued their dally daily raids on the great city of 0 canton southern china port their squadrons of planes rained death on the city ruthlessly until it was a veritable shambles probably as many as 5 persons were ere killed and the wounded were much more nu amner the e attacks welles w elles were pg directed main ly at government buildings railway stations and power plants tho the purpose being to destroy cantons usefulness as a gateway for chinese war supplies in spain also there was no cessation of the air attacks by francos forces on loyalist cities and towns americas condemnation of the bombing ot of civilians was contained in a statement by undersecretary ol 01 state sumner wailes which was issued with the approval approval of president roosevelt it asserted that the american public considers such warfare barbarous and appealed tor for an immediate end of the practice in china and spain britain officially protested against the bombings and asked tho the united states to cooper co oper ate in the formation of a neutral commission to decide whether the objectives of spanish rebel air raids on loyalist territory have any military character about the same time secretary ol of state hull in a speech at nashville tenn expressed the hope of the united states for disarmament and the humanizing of war summaries of this address were broadcast throughout europe by radio propagandist register pa PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT signed 1 a b bill ill to force propagandists tor for nazi communist and other to called un american groups in the united states to fo register with the secretary of state the measure was drafted on recommendation of a special congressional committee inquiring into foreign propaganda activities in the united states and passed unanimously by both houses the bill was said to be regarded as far reaching and important by the white house it carries a penalty of 1000 fine or two years impels or both for violations bonate passes priming bill BY bypassed Y A vote of CO 60 to 10 the senate passed the tha presidents pump priming bill and sent bent it back to the house bouse after which it went to conference seven republicans and three demo crate were recorded against the measure the opponents of th tho 0 spending lending program lost every attempt to a earmark the funds or impose other othe r restrictions strict ions by very close votes the senatore senate re or hatch alan ejected two proposals to forbid political activities ac tivit as by employees in emergency agencies one of these was we offered by sen carl M hatch of new mexico it would have ha ve insulated officials and administrative employees from politics politico either in connection with primaries general elections or national conventions it would have prohibited public utterances such as the one recently made by administrator harry barry L hopkins in dorsing the candidacy of rep otha D of iowa against sen guy M gillette smart republican politicians were not sorry this was defeated for it left in their hands a potent weapon for the tall fall campaign lewis lewi s bans labor survey PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 1100 SEVELT Is go ing to send a commission to england to study the british trade un ion act at a press conference he said any suggestions that he had in view the modification of our labor relations law were cockeyed but john lewis was suspicious and wrote to secretary of labor per kins that he would permit no members of the C 1 I 0 to serve on the mission |
