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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Asks for Shorter Hours and Higher Wages; NIIA Penalty Provisions Will Be Invoked; Desperate Dillinger Escapes From Jail. By EDWARD W. PICKARD OKVKItAL thousand members of tlie code authorities gathered In Con-miintlrin Con-miintlrin hall, Washington, at the call of the 'resident to revise and Mri-iigMien NRA Industrial agree-iin-iiis. The opening session was formal for-mal and rather stately, with the members mem-bers of the cabinet, other high govern-uieiit govern-uieiit ollleials and many senators and ccin-i'rssrnen present. Ilefore this as-Sfinlily as-Sfinlily came Mr. Uoosevelt to tell not ko much what had been accomplished In the last twelvemonth as what he Imped for In the near future. He warned the Industrial leaders that "Hie government cannot forever continue con-tinue to absorb the whole burden of unemployment." He called for greater great-er protection of small business, terming term-ing the code authority "the keeper of J-onr small Industrial brother." '.riedy summarized, this Is what Mr. Jtoo.si-velt proposed: Wage Increases and shortening of Lours to bolster consuming power and spread employment. (In-ater ndherence by the people to the Itlue Eagle symbol to make all "pla.v the game." Continued enforcement of the antitrust anti-trust laws to retain competition and juevent monopoly. Strict adherence by employers to the law allowing free choice by employees u representatives to do their collective Inrgulnlng. I'ermnnent reorganization of the economic and social structure along Ihe lines already started. Ceneral Johnson, NRA administrator, administra-tor, wound up the code authority ses-Hons ses-Hons with the blunt announcement that the Blue Eagle rules were to be tightened up and the assertion : "I have been too gentle. 'You ain't seen nothing yet." " Urging the Industrialists Industrial-ists to play the game fairly, the general gen-eral uttered three warnings. One was that under specific orders from the President the NRA was reorganizing to enforce the penal sections of the net; the second, . that the country Itaces this spring "the worst epidemic Df strikes In our history because of Illegal Interposition of employers In the jnatter of company unions; the third, that, with the recent Supreme court 'decision upholding the New York state emergency milk lnw, the administration administra-tion has dropped all hesitation, and Is ready to use the powers of the Industrial Indus-trial law to the limit If opposition iforces It. To draft his new plan for making wore Jobs, Johnson asked the code authorities of the heavy goods Industries Indus-tries and of the consumer groups to Belect twelve men each. President Roosevelt, said the administrator, admin-istrator, has approved the plan for putting put-ting teeth In the NRA. The President himself Intimated that he would ask congress to extend the time limit on the licensing provisions of the NRA. The act gives authority to the President to place any Industry tinder license and to revoke the license bf any concern In the Industry, thereby compelling It to shut down. This authority au-thority to license expires next June under the terms of the recovery act Which granted it for one year only, whereas the life of the net was limited to two years. COMPLETION of President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's first year in the White House called forth a chorus of laudation lauda-tion and of hostile criticism from his rs-'- - admirers and his op-p op-p N ponents. The least xj that can be said is i that It has been a fJjS l( year of excitement x 1 and action, of bold -j experimentation in methods of govern- I ment, and of the Vv s spending of vast sums i l : 0f money in the fur-IX fur-IX CT! 3 i therance of the Pres-ident's Pres-ident's determination President tQ establish a New , Roosevelt Dea, that amounts t0 a social revolution. Mr. Roosevelt himself, in a brief address on the occasion of the installing install-ing of Dr. J. M. Gray as chancellor of the American university In Washington, Washing-ton, said "one of the most salient features fea-tures of the salient year in our American Amer-ican life has been the amazing and universal increase in the interest" of the people in the subject of government. govern-ment. The joint congressional Republican campaign committee took occasion to Issue a statement declaring that the administration ends its first year "with many platform pledges untried and practically abandoned, with policies unshaped and conflicting, with its monetary program bewilderingly uncertain un-certain a situation baffling enough to prove a hindrance to a return to prosperity." .Replying for the supporters of the administration. Senator Iliram Johnson John-son of California, nominally a Republican, Repub-lican, said: "It Is not necessary to agree with all that has been done in every conceivable con-ceivable particular, but unfair and unjust un-just would be the individual who would not emphatically concede that with an enlightened audacity the President has acted, and has accomplished accom-plished amazing results. "It is a sorry policy that now says to 120.000.000 people that nothing has been done that Is right and that the President has brought them no relief, and the future holds for them no hope. "We are better, and our country Is better, and our people are better, and our times are better for what the President has done during the past year." T EGISI.ATION to restore the air uiall to commercial operators will speedily be started through congress at the instance of the 1'resldeut. He sent letters to Chairman McKellar of the senate post ollice committee. Chairman Chair-man Mead of the house postal committee com-mittee and Chairman Black of the special senate committee Investigating the air mall, In which he outlined his plan for new temporary contracts and the eventual regulation of air mail rates and routes by the Interstate commerce committee. The new policy will be for contracts to be let for not more than three years "on full, open and fair competitive competi-tive bidding, with a limitation of the rates of compensation above which no contract will be awarded." The legislation carrying the program pro-gram Into effect, Senator McKellar Indicated, In-dicated, will fix the limit of compensation compensa-tion mentioned by the President far below the prevailing 40 cents per mile. The figure, the senator said, may be as low as 25 cents. Six months before the three year contract expires, according to President Presi-dent Roosevelt's suggestion, the question ques-tion of the public convenience and necessity ne-cessity of the various routes and the question of maximum rate of pay would be submitted to the ICC. Under this plan transportation of the mails by air would be placed under substantially the same regulation as that of the railroads. JOHN DILLINGER, eminent bank " robber, gang leader and alleged murderer, who was captured with great eclat in Arizona and conveyed to In- r-,;...,.,.:-;;'---'' dinna for trial, be- t-'Sfy'' """V came irked by con- LfJ'VS'V finement in the "es- -Xls cape-proof" jail at f Crown Point. So he ':!.-W5::fe;'::::; made a pistol out of lyi'Vij--"?1 a Piece "' wood and '::!?!??? : the handle of a safety j i razor, cowed the guards and deputies k ' S ,j and locked them In m W cells, obtained two . , .,,," machine guns from John DMIinger ,he jai, Rrmory fl pistol from a guard, took Sheriff Lillian Lil-lian Holley's car from the garage and drove away with a negro murderer. They took one deputy sheriff and a garage attendant as hostages but released re-leased them near Peotone, 111., and then vanished. It was believed Dillinger Dillin-ger was hidden somewhere In the vicinity of Chicago. The law authorities authori-ties of the Middle West were all searching for him, and all officers had orders to kill him at sight. Sheriff Holley's car was found abandoned aban-doned on a street in Chicago. This escape of the desperado ' was one of the boldest performances of his pnrwr rind ft is nmn7infy tn onnooton a iiuiviv.i how it could have been successfully carried out, in view of Dillinger's record. Perhaps some sympathy Is due the woman sheriff, Mrs. Holley, who was given that office after the death of her husband. Terribly depressed de-pressed by the fiasco, she made the futile gesture of strapping an automatic auto-matic about her waist and setting out to find Dillinger. Mrs. Holley declared she would not resign her ollice, but steps were taken to force her out by court action. Two of her deputies were arrested, charged with aiding and abetting the escape. The investigations and recrimmina-tions recrimmina-tions in Lake county are unfortunately unfortunate-ly mixed up with local politics. pvESPITE the protests of the "little navy" group, the senate by a vote of 65 to 18 approved the administration's administra-tion's naval replacement bill authorizing authoriz-ing the construction of a 15,200 ton aircraft air-craft carrier, approximately 05 destroyers de-stroyers totaling 99,200 tons, some 29 submarines totaling 35,530 tons and the airplanes (from 650 to 1,250) required re-quired to complete the fleet's air equipment. equip-ment. Planned to cover a five-year period, the replacement program will cost approximately ap-proximately $475,000,000 In all for the projected vessels, and S95,000,000 more if the maximum number of planes are built. Enactment of the measure assures the United States of a navy as strong as Is allowed under the London agreement agree-ment of 1930. AS WAS predicted recently, the President appointed Judge Florence Flor-ence Allen of Ohio to the federal Circuit Court of Appeals bench. She is the first woman to be made a federal fed-eral judge. Since she was admitted to the bar twenty years ago her legal career in Ohio has been notable. In 1922 she was elected to the Supremg court of that state. The President also appointed Mrs. Bernice Tyke of Cleveland as collector collec-tor of customs there, and Frank P. Corrigan, likewise of Cleveland, to be minister to El Salvador. ' I 'WO more vacancies In the Demo-cratlc Demo-cratlc national committee are announced an-nounced as a result of the President's belief that national committeemen should not practice law before government govern-ment departments or hold party and government positions at the same time. Arthur F. Mullen of Omaha, who was floor manager for Mr. Roosevelt in the Chicago convention and who Is counsel for Public Works projects Involving some $15,000,000. resigned from the national committee; and his action was followed two days later by the resignation of Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, of Wyoming, director of the mint, who quit the committee with reluctance. At this writing the only prominent holdouts remaining are Postmaster General Farley, who Is chairman of the national committee and also of the New York Democratic committee, and William A. Julian of Ohio, treasurer of the United States. Mr. Mullen, It Is rumored, may turn up as an opponent of Gov. Charles W. Lryan of Nebraska In the forthcoming race for the United States senator-ship. senator-ship. CENATOR SIMEON D. FESS of Ohio is one of the most voluble of the administration's critics, and he found opportunity for another ener-wnnnjuw ener-wnnnjuw .,.im getic attack when the s J senate was conslder- -i 1 ing Senator Tom Con- Daily's bill to Include i fl cattle among the ba- f. &jta sic commodities sub-y sub-y Ject to farm adjust- , $ ment control. The ' w I provision for an ap- A I propriatlon of $200,- ' S 000'000 was the spe" i JLsA cial point of assault by Fess, McNary of Senator Fess 0reg0Qi Dlcklngon ol Iowa, and Carey of Wyoming and Van-denberg Van-denberg of Michigan, all of whom agreed that the Agricultural Adjustment Adjust-ment program has been a complete failure. The Democrats, with the exception excep-tion of Connally, made no reply to the verbal barrage. The Ohio senator said that hog prices had fallen Instead of rising, that the prices of farm commodities not under the AAA had In many easel risen faster and higher than the so-called so-called basic commodities. "That sort of thing is nauseating to any decent person who wants business to be done in a business way," he said, alluding to the hog buying program. "It's time to stop this foolish experimentation, experi-mentation, time to take the heavy hand of government off business and let business recover." Senator Vandenberg and Senatoi McNary could not understand why $200,000,000 were required for cattls when only $100,000,000 were asked in the original bill covering six commodities. com-modities. They suggested that benefits were to be paid before a processing tax was levied and that perhaps no processing tax was intended to be levied on cattle. cat-tle. Senator Connally fumed, but could not answer their queries. "I think I can answer," Senatoi Dickinson finally put in. "The AAA has obligated itself for $S55,000,000 in benefits; an additional $S31,000,000 are called for 1935. Yet treasury receipts re-ceipts show only $203,000,000 received from processing taxes." "In other words, a potential deficit at the present time of more than $600,-000,000," $600,-000,000," remarked Senator Vandenberg. Vanden-berg. ( HICAGO'S most sensational mur- der trial in recent years resulted in the conviction of the elderly Dr. Alice Wynekoop who was charged with killing her daughter-in-law, Rheta, presumably to get the Insurance on her life. The jury fixed her penalty at 25 years in the penitentiary, which amounts to a life sentence. The first hearing of the case resulted in a mistrial mis-trial because the defendant was too ill for its continuance. Doctor Wynekoop, a member of a family of physicians, had practiced medicine In Chicago for many years and her crime astounded her numerous numer-ous friends. CONSTITUTIONALITY of the Fletcher-Rayburn stock regulation bill, which the President expects congress con-gress to pass at this session, is challenged chal-lenged by the New York stock exchange. ex-change. This action is taken as notice that if the measure is enacted Its validity will be tested in the courts. The position of the exchange is that the mere declaration by congress that "transactions in securities as commonly com-monly conducted upon securities exchanges ex-changes are effected with a national public interest" does not make this so as a matter of law. Such transactions transac-tions as "commonly conducted" are not transactions In interstate commerce, com-merce, according to the lawyers for the exchange, and congress, they declare, de-clare, "cannot by legislative fiat ascribe as-cribe to them legal characteristics which they do not otherwise possess." MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, accompanied by Assistant Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury Tugwell and others, took an aerial trip to the Caribbean Carib-bean islands, the special purpose of which was to visit Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. From Miami they flew via Cuba to Port Au Prince, Haiti, and San Pedro in the Dominican republic, and thence to San Juan and St Thomas. The last named town gave the First Lady a gay welcome. She made a brief study of social and economic conditions there and took part in the dedication of a hospital building named -"The Anna Eleanor building" in her honor. After a hop to St. Croix, also in the Virgin Islands, Is-lands, the party returned to San Juan, where Mrs. Roosevelt was quite elaborately elab-orately entertained. 3 hv Western Newio&w Union. |