Show P 0 0 P 7 ay W A k d 1 v summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union ono one in on relief TWELVE WELVE million american workers are totally unemployed more than persons or one seventh of the population of the country are receiving public assistance from the federal state or local U governments from 1933 6 to 1037 inclusive the federal and state governments have spent tor for work relief and other r forms of public assistance these far from harry hairy 11 akins cheerful figures figure s were in a preliminary report of the senate committee on relief and unemployment submitted by chairman dyrnes byrnes at the time the report came in harry hopkins administrator was telling the house appropriations committee holding hearings on the administrations recovery relief program that uie the proposed relief appropriation would enable to be added to federal old rolls bringing the total number to persons this money he said would last only for the first seven months of the coming fiscal year he refused to estimate how much would be needed thereafter the senate committee report in general absolved the from charges of graft waste and abid inefficiency but in some respects it sharply criticized the administrations relief policies to the discomfiture of ad administration min istra leaders the committee recommended that the senates senate s revenue bill repealing the undistributed profits tax and modifying th the 6 capital gains tax be adopted as a major amabor aid to economic recovery retention of those taxes Is in the house bill backed by president roosevelt ono spending bill passed a record vote the WITHOUT house passed the first of the new spending bills appropriating tor for the department of agriculture during the next fiscal year of the total sum millions are tor for the building of new roads this being one of the presidents pump priming suggestions help for utilities PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ROOSEVEL T now I 1 Is 9 1 planning to extend government aid to the tha public utilities which have suffered severely from government competition this was learned after he had conferred with chairman jones and douglas and hanes of the SEC the purpose is to aid the utilities in financing new construction through the lending program employment of now idle workers Is the aim AF of L L follows CIO lead A AMERICAN MERICAN federation OF LADOR LABOR following the example of the rival C 1 I 0 entered politics on a national scale by fori forming ming an organization to back selected candidates for public office oance the action emphasizing anew the split between the two labor associations indicated that the labor vote will be divided in many state primaries and november congressional elections fight in pennsylvania D emochs of pennsylvania are split wide open over the campaign for the may primaries and gov george earle earlc Is in the middle of the hot fight ile he is seeking the nomination tor for senator mayor fall n of philadelphia supported by senator guffey and joh johi L ts Is opposing him wilson charged that earle had borrowed large argo sums from M it mccloskey contractor and co leader odthe of the democratic tion and chairman green of the republican state committee promptly demanded that earle resign or face impeachment the governor admitted financial dealings with mccloskey but said his debt had been reduced to earle declared guffey was wag trying to wreck the state party organization so he con can control the pennsyl vanla vania delegation to the democratic national convention in 1940 and team up with southern democrats to get the nomination for vice president hitler reviews army Reb HITLER celebrated rated his forty ninth birthday by reviewing his new pan german army and it developed that he and his military leaders are expecting that open warfare will be the form of future conflicts the tro troops that marched along unter den L linden ors n led by ark an austrian battalion that had not yet learned the goose step were equipped tor for mobile fighting and armed with a new machine gun in the parade were tanks of medium size and armored cars with iab radio it was announced in vienna that a warrant had been issued for the arrest of archduke otto pretender to the austrian throne A berlin newspaper said the austrian properties of the Haps burgs had been confiscated fisca ted members ot of the german amerlean american bund held a meeting in new on hillers Hit lers birthday which developed into a riot seven men wearing american legion cars caps were severely beaten by storm troopers in uniform J W hill national secretary of the bund asked a c congressional on investigation of the activities aties ot of representative dickstein of new york who he said predicted there would be bloodshed if the meeting were held TVA investigators HEN sen james J davis WHEN of pennsylvania republican consented to servo serve on the joint congressional committee to investigate wa the tennessee val I 1 ley authority that group was complete senator bridges of new hampshire author of the resolution calling for the inquiry was left off the committee contrary to pieced precedent ent the other senators named by vice pros pres ident garner a are I 1 sen donahey on ey vic donahey of ohio fred 11 brown of new hampshire 11 11 schwartz of wyoming democrats liem and lynn frazier of north dakota radical republican house members are J M mead of new york W J driver of arkansas R ewing thomason of texas a s democrats C A wolverton of new jersey and T A jenkins of ohio republicans it was presumed that senator donahey would be chairman of the committee he is not marked as prejudiced either cither way in the matter in the senate he Is almost never heard investigators were to be put in the field as soon as possible and after congress adjourns the joint committee will hold public hearings probably in knoxville tenn and in washington turkey quake kills ibrom ROM ankara turkey comes flews 1 news that an earthquake in anatolia killed at least persons and des destroyed troyed many villages whole fai families nilles were buried under mountainous debris and some persons were rendered homeless terrific underground rumblings gs were yere accompanied by intermittent shocks over a wide area of western asid asia bordering the aegean sea and especially about Kir and orum I 1 anglo italian treaty NEVILLE EVILLE chamberlains dream of security tor for peace in europe through amicable arrangements 0 of f the democratic governments w with alth the dictators may yet be realized anyhow consummation of the deal was brought nearer when lord perth british ambassador to rome and italian foreign minister clano ciano signed the treaty ot of friendship which had been under negotiation for weeks the pact Is designed to end the long f feud between the two nations and it Is probable france will join in after negotiations with mussolini already suggested by foreign minister bonnet the british prime minister of course hopes that later hitler can be brought into the group and that there will be formed a london paris rome berlin quadrangle in place of the berlin rome axis temporarily the treaty provides for friendly relations between britain and italy in the mediterranean and the near east but it does not go into full effect until 1 such date as the two governments together shall determine in other words italy must first have withdrawn its troops from spain and britain must have recognized italis conquest of ethiopia the former may be delayed until france has won final victory the latter depends upon permission from the league of 0 nations council which has been asked by chamberlain in essence the treaty isa is a promise by each side not to attempt to change the status quo in the mediterranean or red sea areas nor to injure each others interests there in any way italy is to reduce her forces in libya to peace time strength and will adhere to the london naval treaty limiting the size of warships the suez canal Is to be open to all nations equally in war or peace italy will abide by the international nonintervention committees ruling on volunteers in the spanish war and in case to withdraw from spat spain n entirely when the war is ended italy declares it has no territorial or political alms and seeks no privileged economic position in spain the balearic islands spanish morocco or spanish possessions overseas political leaders in berlin did not minimize the importance of the anglo italian pact but insisted that the berlin rome axis was not weakened ened they opre awaiting somewhat anxiously the visit of premier deladier Da ladier ladler and foreign minister bonnet to london scheduled for late in april there were no indications in london or paris that britain arid and france were ready yet to deal with hitler but it was rumored that poland might loin them and italy in a four power pact 1 ak plot against carol foiled EMBERS of the iron guard of M MEMBERS rumania formed a big conspiracy to seize king carol and proclaim a fascist state but the authorities got wind Z of it and corneliu Cornel lu codreanu leader of the iron guard and 01 1500 of his followers were thrown into jail A black list was found in iron guard headquarters police said containing the names of 2000 rumanian leaders king carol arol who g were g to be ar rested once codreanu was in power huge quantities of arms and munitions also were seized in parts paris it was believed the plot was a development of the efforts ot of nazi germany to win a hold in rumania dr Townie townsend nd pardoned D DR R FRANCES E TOWNSEND carrying a pair of socks sock and a typewriter arrived at the jail in washington ready to serve his thirty day term for contempt of congress and become a martyr but the old age pension planner was informed that president roosevelt rooseve it had pardoned him the pardon was aias issued upon the urgent request of representative C jasper bell chairman of the investigating committee before which dr townsend refused to testify barcelona in peril S SPANISH insurgents having ro reached a ched the mediterranean at the port of vinaroz Vin aroz arox spread north and south along the coast and effectively cut oft ob catalonia from th the erest rest of loyalist loyall st spain veteran spanish and italian troops led by gen garcia varno valino and gen miguel h aranda blasted their way into vina roz in a single day of severe combat and then started a northward drive on tortosa gen where important coastal highways converge francos next great objective was barcelona his forces were beginning a new movement against that city from the west and his naval and air fleets left their bases to cooperate mayor dore Is dead sjohn spectacular mayor john W dore died after a long illness he had failed afre of re nomina tion in the recent primaries dore was a brilliant lawyer and a fighting executive lie he was allied cally with dave beck labor leadar |