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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Lobbying and Virgin Islands Investigations Develop Lively Scraps House "Rebels" Are Tame Concerning TVA Amendments. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. ipiFTY thousand dollars whs npproprl- iitf.'d by tlie house for Investigation by the rules committee of lobbying for and against bills affecting utilities inter- . i 111 bV A ests. Representative Itankln of Mississippi declared that Representative Repre-sentative O'Connor of New York, chairman of the committee, was unfit to conduct the Inquiry because he was antagonistic to the administration. O'Connor, rising to reply, was given an fwfitlnn hv the house. signed five days before your press release re-lease was issued." TPO PROVIDE quick employment and - end the dole, the entire four-billion-dollar works-relief fund must be expended ex-pended within the next twelve months. Such was the flat statement of President Presi-dent Roosevelt to the state TWA directors, direc-tors, who were gathered in Washington for a two day conference. After discussing dis-cussing the. old PWA program, the President said: "You are now an Important Im-portant part of an even greater effort one to be made during the next year which will provide quick employment, so that we can attain, If possible, the goal we have set within this year 1935. Before the year Is ended we will end the dole we have been paying to employable em-ployable persons during the last two years. In other words, we must give useful work to three and one-half million mil-lion people and I believe we are going to do it. "In order to do It, of course, we are faced by a problem of arithmetic which is comparatively simple. We have four billion dollars and three and one-half million people to put to work with It. That means we have to average av-erage things up. It means that we have on the average about $1,140 per man year. "That has to Include the cost of the material, so that the four billion dollars dol-lars Includes not only the amount we pay the men but also the cost of the material. It Is a perfectly simple arithmetical problem we have to work out an average that will come within the sum of money divided by the number num-ber of people we have to put to work. "You know, of course, that we have spent a great deal of money during the last two years, but we find now not only that there are additional funds at our disposal but also that the need of permanent work all over the United States Is not yet ended. We find that the deeper we go into it the more opportunities op-portunities we have to do constructive work in almost every community in the country." STANDING atop a cannon, Benito Mussolini told 15,000 Black Shirt volunteers and the world as well that in the matter of Ethiopia "We have de- T.G.Corcoran an( prom,se( . ,. vestlgatlon would be thorough and Impartial. Im-partial. Already the committee bad begun Its work, the first witness being Representative Repre-sentative Brewster of Maine, who declared de-clared Thomas G. Corcoran New Deal lawyer, had tried to force him to vote for the "death sentence" provision in the utilities bill by threats of stopping stop-ping work on the Pns;;amaqioddy project. Corcoran was then put on the stand and denied the main features of Brewster's story, whereupon the Maine congressman shouted. "You're a liar." Corcoran explained with facility his activities in behalf of the utilities measure. He said he was assigned to help with the original drafting of the bill "through a direct request from the President." Senators Wheeler and Ray-burn, Ray-burn, he said, asked him to help bring about passage of the bill. The senate committee on audit and controls reported favorably on a resolution reso-lution calling for a $."0,000 appropriation appropria-tion to Investigate lobbying in connection connec-tion with all legislation at this session, and the resolution was adopted by the senate. pBRHAPS It was the summer heat In Washington ; perhaps there was a lot of pressure from the direction of the White House. Anyhow, the backbones back-bones of the house Democrats, recently recent-ly so stiff against "dictation" by the administration, weakened most noticeably notice-ably when the house took up the redrafting re-drafting of the Tennessee Valley authority au-thority act. Nearly all the recent "rebels" among the Democrats fell Into line and the bill was shorn of every major provision that was objectionable to the President. These amendments were approved : To delete a clause saying the TVA must sell power or chemicals at not less than cost after July 1, 1937. To let the TVA operate without absolute ab-solute control by the comptroller genera gen-era over its expenditures. To delete a section preventing the agency from constructing power lines paralleling existing private ones. To let the authority decide whether private interests may build dams or appurtenant works on the Tennessee river or tributaries. This victory greatly heartened the administration forces, and they pressed forward to try for another in the conference on the utilities bill. Also In the senate they carried on a determined deter-mined fight for the amendments broadening broad-ening the powers of the AAA. Senators Sena-tors Borah and Byrd were the chief opponents of the New Dealers in this latter battle. rNE of the hottest scraps of the year developed between Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Senator Tyd-ings Tyd-ings of Maryland over the Inquiry into COMPTROLLER GENERAL M'CAUL, doesn't care where the chips fall when he starts hewing. He has just given an opinion that ruins the President's Pres-ident's plan to require bidders on government gov-ernment contracts to bind themselves to abide by any future legislation providing pro-viding fur minimum wages and maximum maxi-mum hours of labor in employment on siK-h contracts. A proviso to this effect ef-fect was being exacted of bidders. Mr. McCarl holds that the proviso may be viewed as a "request" only and a bid could not be rejected because be-cause the person making it refused to subscribe to this principle. The plan was advanced from the procurement division of the treasury, which proposed that the government replace the requirement for code compliance com-pliance on all government bidders, knocked out when the recovery act was voided by the Supreme court. 'TP HOUGH the naval treaties of Washington and London have been abrogated by Japan, the American government gov-ernment still keeps its eye on the maximum max-imum permitted for our navy by 1942 and is making a determined effort to reach it, much to the delight of the "big navy" men and to citizens generally gen-erally who believe in adequate preparedness. pre-paredness. Secretary of the Navy Claude Swan-son Swan-son has announced that a ship construction con-struction program has been decided upon which calls for the construction construc-tion of 12 destroyers and six submarines. sub-marines. These are in addition to the 15 destroyers and six submarines for which bids have been advertised and will be opened next month. The airplane building program calls for 555 new planes during the current fiscal year. Of these, 282 will be replacement re-placement planes for those now in service and 273 will be new craft. Two airplane carriers and six cruisers now under construction and scheduled for completion In 1937 are to house some of the new planes. FLOODS in several eastern states, following torrential rains, took about three score lives and did vast property damage. The Finger lakes and Catskill mountain regions in New York suffered most severely. The deaths there numbered forty, and thousands thou-sands were rendered homeless. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman announced an immediate im-mediate allocation of $300,000 for use in rehabilitation. "JOBODY who knew Ray Long well was surprised to hear that formerly former-ly famous magazine editor had committed com-mitted suicide at his California home. In late years he had not been very successful in business, his most recent ventures being In the field of scenario writing. He was not one to put up with adversity very long, and it was characteristic of him to take the easy way out, of suicide. CRITICS of the President's program have made up their minds that he is deliberately building up a "crisis" which will provide excuse for a demand de-mand for constitutional amendments in the campaign of 1936. Their conviction con-viction was strengthened by Mr. Roosevelt's Roose-velt's letter to Congressman Samuel B. Hill, chairman of the Interstate commerce subcommittee, urging the passage of the Guffey coal bill regardless regard-less of doubts as to Its constitutionality. constitution-ality. President Roosevelt followed the suggestion sug-gestion of Attorney General Cummlngs that the legislation should be put through congress because "the situation situa-tion is so urgent," and that the question ques-tion of constitutionality should be left up to the courts. The President, admitting that coal mining is in itself an intrastate transaction, trans-action, nevertheless wrote that the final test of the validity of the Guffey bill would depend upon whether production pro-duction conditions directly affect, promote, pro-mote, or obstruct Interstate commerce. The Supreme court. In the Schechter NRA case, quoted a previous opinion that mining, manufacturing, and other forms of production were as local In their character as the production of crops, and hence beyond the reach of congress. THE secretary of the treasury appeared ap-peared before the house ways and means committee which was trying to formulate the new tax bill wanted by the administration, and declared that, depending on the rates of taxation adopted, the measure might bring in as much as $1,000,000,000 a year or as little as $11S,000,000 annually. As the representative of the administration, administra-tion, the young secretary declined to advise as to the rates, though the Republican Re-publican members of the committee tried to pin him down to details. The legislation outlined by the President includes taxation of Inheritances and gifts, higher surtaxes on million dollar incomes and graduated Income taxes on corporations. Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, Ore-gon, Republican leader, predicted that congress either would recess and reconvene re-convene In the fall or would put off enactment of the tax bill until the session ses-sion beginning January 3 next. OUR army lost an able and distinguished distin-guished officer in the death of Maj. Gen. Stuart Ueintzelman at the army and navy hospital in Hot Springs, Ark. The grandson and son of army officers, General Heintzelman was graduated from West Point in 1S99. After service in the Philippines and China he was sent to France as an observer, ob-server, and when America entered the war he held higli staff assignments. He won the D. S. M. and was decorated by France and Italy. From the Inception Incep-tion of the CCC General Heintzelman was in charge of federal reclamation projects in Missouri until last Feb ruary, when he was given command of tha Seventh corns area. elded upon a struggle In which we as a government and a people will not turn back. The decision is irretrievable." Unless Emperor Haile Selassie gets right down on his knees to II Duce, the war In his dominion will begin in Septem- HrF TTrlion t-Vta rainv W. P. George season eDOs No one expects the "king of kings" to submit tamely, so other nations are advising their nationals in Ethiopia to get out of the country. William Perry George, the American charge d'affaires at Addis Ad-dis Ababa, was authorized by the State department to advise American citizens to leave, or take whatever other steps he deemed necessary to protect their safety. Mr. George transmitted to the emperor em-peror the rather curt reply of the American government to his majesty's appeal for aid in stopping Italy. Sec retary of State Hull, writing by authority au-thority of the President, told the emperor em-peror the United States was "loath to believe" the two countries actually will engage in warfare as they are both signatories of the Kellogg pact. The note also pointed out that the arbitra- the administration of Gov. Paul M. Pearson in the Virgin islands. The secretary accused the senator of "whitewashing" "white-washing" a witness before the Tydings committee ; and the senator retorted by advising the secretary to "confine yourself to the duties for which tion proceedings might arrive at a satisfactory sat-isfactory decision. The chances that war might be averted by the arbitrators seemed slight. Those gentlemen met again at Scheveningen and their session was disrupted by the Italian representatives representa-tives when a spokesman for Ethiopia set forth the fact that Ualual, scene of the bloody clash last December, Is well within the Ethiopian border. Emperor Haile Selassie made another an-other attempt to get international action ac-tion by calling for a meeting of the League of Nations council to thresh out the dispute with Italy. At the same time the emperor appealed to the world for fair play and protested to five European powers against their refusal re-fusal to permit the shipment of arms and munitions to Ethiopia. It was said in Geneva the league council probably prob-ably would be called into session within with-in a few weeks. The protest about arms shipments was not likely to do Ethiopia any good. Indeed, it was said Great P.ritain had provisionally joined the nations banning such transactions. "VJIKOLA TESLA, famed scientist, ' celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday birth-day in New York city by giving out the news of three astonishing developments develop-ments in the sciences. They are: A new method and apparatus for transmitting mechanical energy over any terrestial distance. Passage of an induction current with a varying llux one way only through a circuit without use of a commutator. Proof, after observation of cosmic rays, that many of the propositions of relativity are false. you have been ap- , pointed." Both of Sec y lckes them were thoroughly angry and Tydings Tyd-ings in a letter accused Ickes of seeking seek-ing "cheap publicity." Federal Judge T. Webber Wilson of the Virgin islands had given testimony that exasperated Ickes and the secretary sec-retary demanded that the judge be removed re-moved from ollice for "ollicial misconduct." miscon-duct." Then Ickes wrote to Tydings a letter carrying his charge of "whitewashing" "white-washing" and saying of the Judge's testimony: "There was no cross-examination to test his truthfulness, and if any statement ever needed such a test, It was his." Judge Wilson had told the committee commit-tee that there had been "administrative "administra-tive interference" with his court and that Morris Ernst, counsel for the Civil Liberties union, while a guest of Governor Pearson, had threatened to put him "on the spot" in the press unless he granted a rehearing to a government employee accused of theft. Tydings accused Secretary Ickes of "gross deceit upon the American people'' peo-ple'' by staling In an Interior department depart-ment press release that Paul C. Vales, adminisl r.il ive assistant of. Pearson, had been discharged, when "you know and I know liial Mr. Yat's had re- |