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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President's Memorial Day Address at Gettysburg Major Labor Disputes Trouble Administration Attempt to Assassinate Ambassador Caffery in Havana. By EDWARD W. PICKARD by Western Newspaper Union. Ii:i'OnE a vnst multitude of pnr-' pnr-' vmx gathered at Gettysburg bnltle-fn-lil ! 'rcshlont Itoosevelt delivered a Memorial Me-morial iluy address that was In effect a f. . vigorous attack on ' ' - critics of his plans for ?8 ' national recovery. In- p . . troduced by Governor I ' I'incliot as "the first '', "v citizen of the world," - Mr. Itoosevelt first ' i p,'li(1 p'1110"1 tribute j - to the men of the f ;,, j North and South who ! " J fought bravely on L- J" Sk . 2 that historic field, and described how the President se(.tolls 0f the nation Roosevelt lia(J bpon w(lIJod int0 one, its unity being aided by foreign wars, until now all sectionalism has disappeared. lie continued: "We are all brothers now in a new understanding. The grain farmers of (lie West do not set themselves up for pix'Tercnce If we seel; at the same time tn help the cotton farmers of the Smith; nor do the tobacco growers complain of discrimination if, at the same lime, we help the cattle men of the plains and mountains. "In our planning to lift industry to normal prosperity the farmer upholds our efforts. And as we give the farmer farm-er a long sought equality the city worker understands and helps. All of us share in whatever good comes to the average man. We know that we all have a stake a partnership in the government of our country. "Today we have many means of knowing each other means that have sounded the doom of sectionalism. It is, I think, as I survey the picture from every angle, a simple fact that the chief hindrance to progress comes from three elements which, thank God, grow less in importance with the growth of a clearer understanding of our purposes on the part of the overwhelming over-whelming majority. "These groups are those who seek to stir up political animosity or to build political advantage by the distortion dis-tortion of facts; those who, by declining declin-ing to follow the rules of the game, seek to gain an unfair advantage over those who live up to the rules; and those few who still, because they have never been willing to take an interest In their fellow Americans, dwell inside of their own narrow spheres and still represent the selfishness of sectionalism sectional-ism which has no place in our national life." GOING from Gettysburg to New York, the President embarked on the cruiser Indianapolis, put out to sea and reviewed the American fleet, which, as assistant secretary of the navy, he helped to command during the World war and in which he maintains main-tains the warmest interest. With him were Secretary Swanson and Josephus Daniels, the war time navy secretary. There were some other distinguished guests, but members of congress tried In vain to get aboard. The Indianapolis was anchored about a mile from Ambrose lightship, and SS fighting ships passed proudly In review. The Pennsylvania, flying the four-starred flag of Admiral David A. Sellers, commander of the fleet, led the parade and then, with the Louisville, Louis-ville, turned out of line and anchored near the Indianapolis. It was an imposing im-posing spectacle, such as had not been witnessed since the early days of President Pres-ident Coolidge's administration. AT THE annual exercises at the United States Naval academy 4G3 midshipmen were graduated. A total of 332 were commissioned ensigns in V the navy, 25 lieutenants In the marine corps, one lieutenant in the Philippine scouts and 105 will resign. UNDER the present administration the navy is doing quite well, but the army feels that it is neglected. Secretary of War Dern and Newton D. Baker, who held the portfolio during dur-ing the war, appeared before the house military affairs committee and urged the passage of the Thompson bill, which would Increase the strength of the army to 165,000 enlisted men and 14.003 officers. That the present regular regu-lar army is inadequate in the face of present disturbed world conditions was declared by both gentlemen. The American army as now manned would not simultaneously protect our outlying possessions, train civilians, and repel "any sudden invaders," Secretary Sec-retary Dern insisted. A more satisfactory satisfac-tory army would cost the nation Sn3,-000, Sn3,-000, 000 annually, he said in explaining that he had not suggested an increase to President Roosevelt because of the President's desire to balance the budget. bud-get. "With the rest of the world armed to death, I don't see how we can afford to be disarmed," Mr. Dern told the committee. Our present army has but 11S.0JO me'i and PMiriO officers. Mr. l'.:iker could not "imagine an I'.riay less than live times tiie present s'xe of ours haviii:: the slightest effect (.u the i;:Tl;:t'.v policy of any other nalio'i" i if co.irs-,'. h- (I:il not advo-c;:le advo-c;:le any s-ic'i ricreas ; in. -.;tn four divisions, one In each section of the country, with a fifth fixe to train civilians, ci-vilians, would suliice. THOUGH administration leaders have asserted that labor troubles are to be expected In a time of recovery recov-ery and that they are not alarmed by the strikes that are now in effect or are threatened for the near future, it was evident in Washington that these optimists were disturbed by the prospect pros-pect of general strikes in the cotton textile and steel industries. It was believed President Itoosevelt would have to intervene in the effort to bring about peace. I'requent conferences of officials were without result. As General Johnson refused to change the order permitting cotton mills to reduce their output by 25 per cent for twelve weeks, the United Textile Tex-tile Workers of America summoned all colton mill employees to quit their machines, ma-chines, and it was predicted that 300,- 000 would respond. The workers claim the reduction would amount to 25 per cent cut in their wages, and say they will not stand for this. They also demand de-mand a 30-hour week with no reduction reduc-tion of pay. Fighting for recognition of non-company non-company unions, a point on which the steel masters will not yield, the Amalgamated Amal-gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers announced that a general strike would be called in mid-June unless un-less Its members win the right to choose spokesmen freely for collective bargaining. The union leaders, who contend the collective bargaining guaranty in the NRA has been violated by employers, asked : "Is the American Iron and Steel institute in-stitute more powerful than the President Presi-dent of the United States?" ENDEAVORING to learn what small business throughout the country thinks about the NRA, the national industrial in-dustrial conference board has been conducting a survey that has not brought definite results. Tabulating these results as best it can, the board states it found that 34.4 per cent favored fa-vored the NRA as a whole; another 12. S per cent favored it with some reservations; 36 per cent were definitely definite-ly opposed to it, while 6.4 per cent could not see that it made much difference. dif-ference. "'UBA is now entirely freed from United States suzerainty, through a treaty which was signed at the State department by plenipotentiaries of both countries and ratified by the senate. sen-ate. The pact abrogates the Piatt amendment providing for the maintenance mainte-nance of the independence and territorial terri-torial and financial integrity of the island republic and authorizing the United States to intervene therein for the protection of the country and the preservation of order. In the new treaty the United States retains the lease of Guantanamo as a naval base. The people of Cuba rejoiced exceedingly ex-ceedingly over the abrogation of the ' Piatt amendment, and President Men-dieta Men-dieta declared a three days national holiday. EJTAVANA police learned that there -1 was a plot to assassinate Jefferson Jeffer-son Caffery, American ambassador to Cuba, and to destroy American prop- ' Js??s!" er':y on tne island. ' f ' , ,Vf' 5 They took extraordi- s 1 nary precautions to 1 'A protect Mr. ""Caffery, I j; but despite the pres.-w, pres.-w, ence of soldiers at 1" i the entrance to his i j home some unidenti- 1 m fied assailants drove f - by in a car and poured i." " ta a stream of bullets I'SnijLl from sawed-off shot guns just at the time J. Caffery JIr Caffery ; usually leaves for the yacht club. He was not injured but one of the soldiers was grievously wounded, his right leg being be-ing torn off by an explosive bullet. Mr. Caffery went on to the yacht club calmly and refused to say who he thought the assassins might be. Cuban government officials were greatly excited by the attempt on the ambassador's life, and there was an inclination to blame the Communists, but leaders of that party denied their followers had anything to do with it. In recent demonstrations the radicals have attacked Mr. Caffery in their speeches. Presumably the sole purpose pur-pose is to stir up trouble between the governments of the United States and Cuba. DELEGATES from the five New England states. New York and Pennsylvania have signed a solemn pact for the protection of women and minors in industry, which has been under negotiation for several years. The compact, which must be ratified rati-fied by the legislatures of the several states, contemplates minimum standards stand-ards of wages for women and minors and contains a provision that "no employer shall pay a woman -or a minor an unfair or oppressive wage." State boards are to be set up with authority to Investigate pay rolls and require compliance. CHARGES are made by the house agriculture committee that joint stock land banks have been using federal fed-eral funds made available under the lLCi farm loan act to buy in their own bonds at 35 cents on the dollar while pressing foreclosures on their debtors. The committee approved the Fulmer bill to authorize farmers who have obtained ob-tained loans from Joint stock land banks to buy on the open market joint stock land hank bonds, tendering same to the joint stock land banks in payment pay-ment of their indebtedness. The bill would also enable farmers to repurchase repur-chase their lands that have been previously pre-viously foreclosed if said kinds are still in the possession of these banks. Q TATEa.MEN from many nations met in Geneva and reopened the sessions of the disarmament conference, with a full realization of the fact that their failure may mean the renewal of war in Europe in the not far future, and possibly the end of the League of Nations. Such hope as they had of breaking the impasse seemed to rest on the plan which Foreign Commissar Lit-vinov Lit-vinov of Russia said he was ready to offer. It was believed lie would concentrate con-centrate on a policy of political security secur-ity as a basis for disarmament. Norman Nor-man II. Davis, American ambassador-at-large, presented the views of President Presi-dent Roosevelt, urging an accord emphasizing em-phasizing supervision of arms and a more rigid control of the international interna-tional trallic in arms. Louis Ilarthou, foreign minister of France, showed no Inclination to yield to the German demands for rearmament. rearma-ment. The French are said to believe Hitler is due soon to run up against domestic troubles that will tie his hands; they will continue to promote their defensive alliances until the Gorman chancellor gives in, and just now are counting on a pact of mutual assistance with Russia and the little eutente which will be signed if, as expected, Russia enters the League of Nations. Premier Mussolini of Italy, in a speech before the chamber of deputies, said that disarmament talk was foolish fool-ish and in so many words suggested that .war was the only way out of the economic adversities that beset Italy and Europe generally. THE Irish Free State took another step toward becoming a republic when the dail eireann passed a bill abolishing the senate. After this action ac-tion had been taken , j President Eamon de s iA Valera said: "We ta'. J want England to get k'j? out. We do not want ' 1 to have anything to jfji do with Britain. If V "VjI there is to be any ft,-s, form of association, it must be in the com- ",,;'""' mon interest of both. y x We must be the L' .iCTld judges of whether it is to our advantage Eamon de or not." Va,era No definite plan was mentioned, and none is expected to be put forward before be-fore March, 1935, when abolition of the senate will become effective. Until that date any action of the dail would have to have senate approval. EXEMPTION of the service industries indus-tries from some of the fair trade practices of NRA codes was authorized by President Roosevelt in an executive order. The exemption does not apply to minimum wages and maximum working hours, child labor or collective collec-tive bargaining. The order empowers Administrator Johnson to cease attempting at-tempting to enforce open price systems, sys-tems, price fixing and other devices on hundreds of thousands of cleaners, dyers dy-ers and pressers, barber shops, beauty shops and the like. Mr. Roosevelt in his statement said that "a trial period of some months has shown that, while most industries, after organization for this work and a little experience with it, can secure uniform national results, there are others oth-ers in which a greater degree of autonomous au-tonomous local self-government Is desirable." de-sirable." Among these are "some but not all" of the service industries, the statement added. Enforcement of the cleaners and dyers' dy-ers' code has been especially troublesome, trouble-some, accounting for more than half of the blue eagle removals. Under the executive order, fair trade practice provisions for a service industry indus-try in a given area may be provided when So per cent of the industry in the area agrees to them and they are approved by the NRA. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT signed the joint resolution of congress empowering em-powering him to stop arms shipments destined for countries at war, and immediately im-mediately proclaimed an embargo against shipments of arms or munitions muni-tions from the United States to Bolivia and Paraguay. His action was the first of its kind in American history. Because of existing treaties he could not forbid actual shipment of arms hut he did prohibit their sale In the United States to the warring countries. coun-tries. Costa Durels, Bolivian representative representa-tive in Geneva, before an open session ses-sion of the League of Nations council invoked Article 13, the arbitration clnuse of the league covenant, as a basis for settling the conflict with Paraguay. If his demand Is granted the dispute will automatically go to the World's Court of Permanent Justice Jus-tice for settlement. Durels said an arms embargo would mean the "finish" of Bolivia. CODOS and Rossi, French dyers who hold the distance record, sought to better thir mark by making a nonstop non-stop flight from Paris to California. They got across the Atlantic ocean all right, but a weakness of one wing of their big monoplane developed and they were forced to land at New York. |