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Show By EdvrarSW. Pickard ' Wester Uewipaper Uirion Death of J. N. Willys, Motor Magnate and Diplomat JOHN N. WILLYS, long prominent In the automobile industry and ambassador to Poland for two years In the Boover administration, died In New York at the age of sixty-one. sixty-one. Be had been 111 since last May when he suffered a heart attack. at-tack. Mr. Willys, forced into business busi-ness at eighteen by the death of his father, made bis first fortune in selling bicycles. In 1908 he took t ogress Session Ends; , ' mg's Lone Filibuster I1 ONGRESS ended its session at ; midnight Monday after the ' ck hands had been moved back ' u timoa tha house hilarious that Russia would prevent Communists Com-munists under its control from interfering in-terfering with the internal affairs of this country, and In Mr. Bullitt's note these pledges are quoted in full, with the assertion that they have been flagrantly violated. The American note called attention atten-tion to the recent meeting in Moscow Mos-cow of the Communist International Interna-tional where the speakers discussed dis-cussed openly the plans for subversive sub-versive Red action in the Cnlted States. The chief American delegates dele-gates to this congress were Earl Browder and William Z. Foster, present and past heads respectively of the Communist party In the United States; Gil Green and Sam Darcy. Ambassador Bullitt sent to Washington daily reports on such of the doings of the congress as he was permitted to know, and after his final report he was in- over the Overland Automobile company, com-pany, which was about to go Into the hands of a receiver, and organized organ-ized the Willys-Overland company at Indianapolis. Later he purchased pur-chased the Pope-Toledo company at Toledo, Ohio, and moved the Willys-Overland Willys-Overland plant there. Be sold his automobile holdings to a syndicate In 1929, the deal involving several million dollars. Thomas Alva Edison, Jr., eldest son of the famous inventor, died suddenly in Springfield, Mass. He was head of the research engineering engineer-ing department of the Edison plant at West Orange, N. J. Roosevelt Talk to Youth Answered by Snell IN BIS radio address to the convention con-vention of Young Democrats clubs In Milwaukee President Roosevelt Roose-velt insisted that he was not speaking with refreshment, song and rustic antics, an-tics, the senate furious fu-rious because Buey Long of Louisiana had conducted a lone filibuster for seven hours and talked to death the third deficiency appropriation ap-propriation bill. This measure carried car-ried $93,000,000 tax with any political motive but wassay-ng wassay-ng "precisely word for word what I would say were I addressing a convention con-vention of the youth of the Republican party." B e Justified Justi-fied the New Deal as an intervention by government to structed to lodge the protest Recognition of the Soviet government govern-ment was, and still is, severely criticized crit-icized by various elements In the United States, notably organized labor; la-bor; and the friendly relations established es-tablished by the Roosevelt administration admin-istration never have "paid out" In the way of Increased business with Russia because the Soviet government govern-ment demanded extraordinary credits cred-its In exchange for orders. So perhaps per-haps our administration will not be too sorry If there is a rupture of relations. Winsnt Made Head of the Social Security Board JOHN G. WINANT, former governor gov-ernor of New Hampshire and a Republican, has been appointed chairman of the social security board, the body that will direct the part of the New Deal of which the President is proudest proud-est and which he declares is one of the outstanding social so-cial reforms in the history of the government gov-ernment Mr. Wi-nant's Wi-nant's two associ- protect and aid common men in the complex scheme of modern exist- ence, and asserted its aim was not socialism, but regulated individualism. individual-ism. Championing a philosophy of change, the President said that "rules are not necessarily sacred principles are. The methods of the old order are not as some would have you believe, above the challenge chal-lenge of youth. "To the American youth of all parties I submit a message of confidence confi-dence unite and challenge." Under the auspices of the Republican Repub-lican National committee. Representative Repre-sentative Bertrand B. Snell of New York spoke over the radio in direct di-rect reply to the President's ap peal to youth for both parties are making strenuous endeavors to cap ture the allegiance of the young men and women. Mr. Snell argued that a change In the Constitution abolishing rights of individual citl zens would place "those who pos sess the power, the wealth and the cunning" in control of the govern ment "Surely the youth of America," he said, "are not prepared to endorse any administration which Is seeking to bring about such a condition." Guffey Coal Control Bill Is Forced Through LEGISLATIVE action in both house and senate was fast and furious during the closing days of the session. White House pressure cr.j nator Long to pay pensions to i aged, retirement pay to rail-j rail-j id workers and money for crip-i crip-i id children. The Kingfish defeated all efforts ti4j silence him and was adamant to ias that he was cutting off funds ac' humanitarian purposes. He was in1 iisting that the house be forced sc vote on the cotton and wheat to! in amendments to the bill which senate had inserted but which w' ; lower chamber had rejected. A u npromise had been reached be-, be-, een the administration and the Wl't c of cotton state senators by J1; tich the cotton raisers were to t government loans of 10 cents a Kj und, and the wheat farmers rel ire left out Long would not re ind for the elimination of the ri lendments thus arranged. f The Democratic leaders were P raid that if submitted to the be, use government loans not only afT- wheat and cotton but on other Tii mmodities would be voted at a 1 3t of upward of $2,000,000,000. ta They determined to let the appro-f!?; appro-f!?; iation bill fail rather than sub-Vj sub-Vj t to Long's terms, although Rob- ion stated that information from 5 controller general's office In- :ated there would be no avail-; avail-; le funds for the social security In' ogram unless the deficiency meas-ti; meas-ti; e were passed. tl Most congressional authorities iril Id that failure of the $103,000,000 ci ird deficiency bill may delay oped op-ed ation until January of the bulk ol New Deal legislation enacted al e last two months of congress. It ovided funds for many purposes sides those mentioned above, jjj The compromise cotton plan was f ) cepted reluctantly by the AAA, d many of the southern senators a, sre dissatisfied with It The sen-ti sen-ti ors from the wheat states were cl' sgruntled because the wheat loan licy was completely abandoned. fa :pt. 12 Is Deadline for "j'orks Relief Applications nj i PPLICATIONS for money from n V the four billion dollar works re-o:if re-o:if fund must be in by Septem-si,r Septem-si,r 12, according to an executive L der Issued by the President. In dition, he directed all agencies el ieral, state or municipal to be Prepared either to ask for bids or gin works operations by October 2: The President has set November w; as the date for putting his works ogram Into high gear and taking nJl the unemployed off the relief th-'ls. The new orders. Issued to the t' ads of all departments and emer-en emer-en ncy agencies, were regarded as tw,jves to realize that goal, ncle Sam Warns Russia idf He Keep Its Pledges Lo FRIENDLY diplomatic relations V between the United States and issia, established In November, ''SS, will not longer be maintained t. . .. . . ates on the board J. G. Winant are t0 be Artnur j. Altmeyer of Wisconsin, who has been serving as an assistant secretary secre-tary of labor, and Vincent Morgan Miles of Fort Smith, Ark., an attorney at-torney who has been associated with the Public Works administration. administra-tion. Each is to receive an annual salary of $10,000. In sending his nominations to the senate the President stipulated that Winant will serve six years, Altmeyer Alt-meyer will serve four years and Miles one year. All appointments date from last August 13 when the social security bill reached the White House. As chairman of the new national labor relations board, operating under un-der the Wagner act, the President named Joseph Madden, a Pittsburgh attorney. The other members appointed ap-pointed are John M. Carmody of New York and Edwin S. Smith of Massachusetts. J. D. Ross was nominated as a member of the securities se-curities and exchange commission, a job that it bad been thought would be given to Benjamin Cohen, co-author of the utilities bill . Mussolini Says Italy Will Fight Sanctions GREAT BRITAIN, having ordered or-dered a concentration of naval strength in the Mediterranean for the purpose of protecting the Suez canal In case war breaks out between be-tween Ita?y and Ethiopia, followed this up or sending 1,000 troops to reinforce the garrison on the island was freely used ; fil ibusters were start ed and stopped : senators and rep re sentatives, hot and bothered, were In dined to be quarrelsome. quar-relsome. But con gress had Its or ders and it wanted to go home, so the administration pro o-rnTTi In crPnPrnl wfls Senator pushed through. Guffey Cne of the mog controversial measures on the pro gram, the Guffey coal bill, had been driven through the house by ordert from above and threats of a strike, and when It was taken up by the senate every effort to kill it, by eliminating the tax feature, was defeated. de-feated. The house gave op the fight against the "death sentence" in the utilities bill and Instructed Its conferees to accept a "compromise" that was pretty much one-sided This means that all holding companies com-panies beyond the second degree are to be sentenced to death by the SEC promptly after January 1, 1938. Even a holding company In the second degree would not escape es-cape unless its operations were confined to a single Integrated system sys-tem within a state or within con-tipiinna con-tipiinna states. iiess tne soviet vernment mends ,1 ways and keeps I solemn pledges ' prevent Com-elunist Com-elunist organlza-raons organlza-raons on Its soil or 3ider its control -Jom plotting to erthrow the gov- rnment of the I alted States. This of Malta. Immediately thereafter Premier Mussolini, In an Interview in the London Daily Mail, made this portentous declaration: "It should be realized without the possibility of misunderstanding that whoever applies sanctions (penalties for treaty violations), against Italy will be met by the armed hostility of our country." The duce added that if the League of Nations voted sanctions against Italy, his country would at once leave the league. In reply to a direct question whether there Is the slightest possibility possi-bility of his changing his attitude, Mussolini replied in the negative, saying "none at all unless Ethiopia Ethi-opia gives In." Opening up of the vast Ethiopian Interior, he said, would benefit "all civilized states." Colonization of Ethiopia by Italy would "completely "complete-ly fulfill all colonial aspirations of Italy." Halle Selassie expects that his capital city, Addis Ababa, will be bombed by Italian airplanes when hostilities begin. Therefore he has given the population explicit directions direc-tions for complete evacuation of the city as soon as there is Indications Indica-tions of a coming air raid. The people will be warned by cannon shots and sirens and will flee to the open fields and scatter. The Ethiopian Ethi-opian troops were feverishly digging dig-ging trenches along the Italian frontiers. Ias the warning .nded to N. N. AB""dor .restinsky, assist- Bullitt jit foreign affairs commissar of e U. S. S. R., by Ambassador j Illiam C. Bullitt in Moscow, whose !te was written by direction of e Department of State in Wash-igton. Wash-igton. The language of the note : 'as not quite so blunt as the above, ; it it did not mince words and Its ipiications were not to be doubt-1 doubt-1 !L It said the United States "an- j 'cipates the most serious conse-ji conse-ji lences If the government of the 1 t ;nion of Soviet Socialist Repub-: Repub-: ::s is unwilling, or unable, to take : .jpropriate measures to prevent jirther acts In disregard of the sol- Inn pledges given it by the gov- "nment of the United States." I (It was thought in Washington J Vat Russia's reply might be de-j de-j lyed until the return of Foreign I bmmissar Maxim Litvlnov, who j 'as In Geneva helping deal with lie Italo-Ethiopian crisis. It was Jltvinov who personally gave to jrestdent Roosevelt the pledges Both senate and house adopted a resolution making mandatory the embargo on munitions shipments to both belligerents in case of war. This was what the administration did not want, claiming it would tie the hands of the Executive so that he could exert no influence toward averting war. Texas Is Voted Into the Wet State Column TEXAS has been dry for 16 years, but its voters have finally decided, de-cided, in referendum, that it shall join the wet column. The repeal amendment approved by a majority major-ity of about 5 to 4, makes provision for a system of local option somewhat some-what similar to that In effect before be-fore the state went dry in 1919. A constitutional amendment for old age pensions also was adopted by an overwhelming margin. |
