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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Johnson Ilurrying Industrial Groups Into Federal Control; President Forms an Executive Council; London Economic Conference Nears Recess. By EDVARD W. PICKARD C PURRED on by President Roose- velt though ' stimulus was scarcely necess:; 'Jen. Hugh S. Johnson, industria. recovery adminis- -j,. trator, let It be known 'CtK tnat he intended to get the principal in- I dustrial groups under t federal control as f speedily as possible. I I He and the President I desire that the indus- I wi. s tries come In volun- v i n tarily, but if they do kXsj not, the general Is Ik dLtaJi ready to hold arbi- u . trarv hearings and Hugh S. . , . then fix the wage Johnson . , . , rates and working hours for the recalcitrant trades. These enforced regulations will apply until the industries present their own codes. If it Is necessary to adopt arbitrary codes, these will be based on data gathered by the administration's statistical sta-tistical expert. Dr. Alexander Sachs, who has already prepared a setup codifying various leading industries according to a number of conditions. They have been rated according to wage scales existing In various years, chiefly the boom year of 1929, and charts have been prepared showing how far cuts in working hours must be made to restore a mass of employment employ-ment equal to predepression days. With these data Doctor Sachs has shown conclusions as to how much each industry ought to pay in minimum mini-mum wages, how many employees It ought to absorb from the army of Idle, and how many hours those employees em-ployees ought to work every week. Two Important codes received were those for the lumber and steel Industries. Indus-tries. The former pegged wages so low and working hours so long that General Johnson said: "They are wholly unacceptable and will. In no case, be approved." A public hearing on this code was set for July 20. In submitting the code. John D. Tennant, representing the lumber men. declared It would result in "a substantial Increase" In-crease" In the number of employees, and that It would Increase pay rolls by more than JlO.OnO.OOO In the month of August alone. The most extraordinary thing about the lumber code Is that it would set up "an emergency national committee." commit-tee." to be appointed by the 27 associations asso-ciations applying for the code, which would have the strongest of autocratic autocrat-ic power, to the point of exerting absolute ab-solute control over the entire industry. indus-try. The cotton textile code was approved ap-proved by the PreIdont and went Into effect. FOR the purpose of co-ordinating the many new functions and new bureaus bu-reaus created since March 4. the President Presi-dent has created a super-cabinet, called the "executive council," similar to the supreme war council of World war days. Besides the President and his cabinet, the members are: The director direc-tor of the budget, Iwis V. Douglas: the federal relief administrator. Harry L. Hopkins; the chairman of the He-construction He-construction Finance corporation, J. II. Jones; the governor of the farm credit administration. Henry Morgen-thau, Morgen-thau, Jr.; the chairman of the board of the Home Owners' Farm corporation. corpora-tion. William F. Stevenson; the administrator ad-ministrator of the Industrial recovery act. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson; the administrator admin-istrator of agricultural adjustment. George Peek ; the chairman of the board of the Tennessee valley authority, Arthur E. Morgan; the federal railroad rail-road co-ordlnator, Joseph B. Eastman, and the director of the civilian conservation con-servation corps. Robert Feehnor. Frank C. Walker, treasurer of the National Democratic committee, was appointed secretary of the council. During the summer and perhaps longer long-er the regular Tuesday cabinet meeting meet-ing Is to be superseded by a meeting of the council. SKCRETAItY OF THE INTERIOR K'KF.S, In his capacity as public works administrator, and bis assistants assist-ants are mighty busy Ihese days, for government departments, states and municipalities nre scrambling for shares of the S.V.OO.Ono.OOO which Is to be spent tinder the public works program of the administration. The proposed federal projects were given first consideration, nnd n long list of them was approved by Mr. Ickes and submitted to the President. Application Applica-tion from states nnd municipalities came next, many of them having previously pre-viously been approved by the Itccen structlon Finance corporation ami passed on to Mr. Ickes. An additional ?2'1.27f'., 100 of the jr i(Ki.(K)0,0'Ki allocated for public road gifts to the mates was approved when (lie allotments for Ohio, Massachusei i s, nnd Utah received the final Indorsements Indorse-ments of Secretary likes and Secretary Secre-tary of Agriculture Wallace, with the jr'..'!::'.l''l already as :i:;ne. f .,.. Yorlt state. Mils netinti means a tnlal of $ l.OiC.r.dl already donated an outri:-lit grant from the federal Ipvas. m; for pod building. Under the a left Massa'lill e;ts gels T'l.M'V,- 100. Ohio ?15,4S4,502, and Utah ?4,-194.70S. ?4,-194.70S. ILLINOIS and Iowa, by their delegates dele-gates in state conventions, ratified the repeal of the Eighteenth amendment, amend-ment, the votes being unanimous in both cases. They were the tenth and eleventh states to take this action to wipe out prohibition. Citizens of Oklahoma went to the polls and enthusiastically voted for the legalization of 3.2 beer by a majority ma-jority of about 2 to 1. In Oklahoma City the people made a rush for sixty carloads of beer that were waiting In the railroad yards for distribution, but Gov. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray called out the National Guard and kept the cars closed until next day. after which Oklahoma, Okla-homa, dry for 20 years, slaked Its thirst. D ACKETEERING is to be wiped out If the federal government can do it and Its agencies throughout the country are uniting in a drive to bring about this end. Such was the statement state-ment made by Senator Copeland of New York, chairman of the senate committee on crime, after he had called on President Roosevelt and Attorney General Cummings. The first phase of the campaign, he added, will be research re-search and the mapping of lines of cooperation. co-operation. For the present the work cenrers in three leading cities. New York. Chicago and Detroit, where it Is directed, respectively, by Senators Copeland. Murphy of Iowa and Yan-denberg Yan-denberg of Michigan. Manufacture nnd transportation of guns will be one of the first tasks tackled by the committee. It was Indicated. In-dicated. Copeland urged a program which would require all manufacturers manufactur-ers of guns to be licensed, all guns numbered, all dealers licensed, and all purchasers exandned for permits. INDICATIONS in London were that 1 the economic conference might continue con-tinue until the etui of July and then recess until September or October. The steering commit-f commit-f .'. y .. ' tee favored this f , ' - ' course. It also decided f : that one monetary f s'lbcommlsslon should . ' discuss Internationa i ' Z'Ts , X commercial Indohted-1 Indohted-1 ' i ness (war debts pi- ; eluded), and that an- ; other should deal with - - A ) the questions of cen-j cen-j tral bnr.klng and silver. sil-ver. Nearly all the Neville work ls Mj's ()v Chamberlain , ,,. . , subcommittees. Restricting Re-stricting the con'erence program was a complete victory for the gold bloc nat ions. In addressing the bouse of commons on the government's policy, Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, ex-chequer, said: "There Is no doubt that the avowed policies of this country nnd (he United States nre closely parallel par-allel to one another," whereupon the house cheered enthusiastically. Mr. Chamberlain continued : "It Is the declared Intention of the government to pursue by nil means In their power any measures which they think will lend toward raising price levels, which we believe to be the first essential step toward recovery. recov-ery. "I nlso agree that this country should not depend wholly upon what Is done In conjunction with other countries, but that we should do what we can to help ourselves. That Is what we have been doing nnd we have met with n considerable measure meas-ure of success, sterling figures of commodities com-modities having risen from the first of the year no less than 8 per cent. "We have really nt last begun to see signs that show unmistakably that Improvement Is not n fleeting one. that It has a solid foundation and may be expected to continue." "MIICAGOANS, especially fhoso of Italian birth or descent, were eagerly awaiting the arrival nt A Century Cen-tury of Progress of Gen. Halo P.albo nnd his fleet or 21 r . .. Italian royal force fc 1V seaplanes. The air L'' '"' -armada was delayed I p-Tr-,y'.' several days nt Ileyk- y :') ', Javll;, Iceland, by un- f "Y f favorable weather con- ' 'vfr' dltlons, and then, de- $ spite continuing calm . , -f t'i that made It difficult ' ' if to get (he huge planes Jf In the air, ll took oft . for Curl wrigbt, Lnbra- ' dor. this being the Gen- Bi,lbo fourth ami probably most perilous stage of the 7.100 mile Might to Chicago. Chi-cago. Thi. route thence ns laid out In advance was. fo Shcdlnc, New I'.runsw bit, MHI miles; Montreal, (,uo-bee, (,uo-bee, 87(1 miles, and ('hb:ago, 1,ikki miles. Preparations were made hy (he exposition ex-position ollleials In Chicago and ilm city nut horil ii's o give the Italian fly. ors a great reception and to culorliiin Iheni Invi'dily during their stay. A landing plaee for the planes was arranged ar-ranged near the iimnirlpal pier, and anoilier on take Geneva In case the lal.e was tor) oll;;li. INDIN'G of Jimmy Mattern, AmefT-ican AmefT-ican aviator, alive but injured in Siberia, was cause for rejoicing. For sixteen days after he crashed in the northern wilds he was barely able to keep alive, and then he was picked up by Eskimos and taken to the village of Anadyr. The Soviet government was active in the efforts to rescue the flyer, and reports from Khabarovsk said a Russian aviator expected to take him from Anadyr to Nome. THAT Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is still one of the country's most popular figures Is made evident by the general Interest taken In the route-mapping route-mapping flight he is making over the .Vjt- H'- northern air course to j? -"jfy Europe. Mrs. Lind-j Lind-j bergh. her husband's ' 1 riva' in popularity. Is ' s-s 1 with him not as a pas-I pas-I v I senger but as radio v operator and assistant . j pilot of their big I -trA m0D0Plane- Their plans were to fly . , ,, ,, across Labrador, Col. Lindbergh nreenlamJ and Ic6. land, and perhaps on to Denmark. They had no Cxed route or stopping places and did not know when they would return. The Lindberghs' trip started from New York and the first stop was near Rockland. Me., where they were forced down by fog. When the air cleared they went on to Halifax, and after an overnight stop, proceeded northward on the way to Greenland, stopping en route at St. Johns, New Brunswick. The plane was provided with new pontoons pon-toons nnd instruments and the motor had been speeded up considerably. SECRETARY SWANSON is determined deter-mined to build the navy up to treaty limits, and his department has been allotted S2aS.000.O00 of the public pub-lic works money. The navy's construction con-struction program. It Is estimated, will create more than 2.4.10,000 "man weeks" of work, and will result In the modernization of the fleet. Bids on seventeen of the authorized vessels will be opened In a few days. The remaining re-maining fifteen vessels will be constructed con-structed speedily in government navy yards. pURING the fiscal year lCm, end-' end-' Ing July 1. the people of the United Unit-ed States paid an additional $02,000,-e"0 $02,000,-e"0 In federal taxes, this being because the new levies more than offset the decline de-cline In wealth due to the depression. Internal revenue collections for the year were about JI.nio;ori.OYl. The yield Increased In 31 states and dropped In the other 10. Most of the drop In Income taxes bad been In corporation returns which showed a decline of 35 per cent last year. Corporations' Income yielded only S"!5,i0.fii0 of federal taxes last year, compared with ?Oi,C" ).( i the . year before. Returns from Individuals, Individ-uals, where the rate Increases were heaviest, dropped from $ 127.CV.n. ) a year ago to $:'.,"il,0.','"0 last year. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has granted a full pardon to Francis II. Shoemaker, congressman from Minnesota, Min-nesota, who served a year in Leavenworth Leaven-worth penitentiary before his election to congress. He was convicted In lOoO of sending libelous and defamatory matter through the mails, to a political po-litical enemy. The President also pardoned Owen Lamb, whom Shoemaker Shoe-maker met in prison ami took to Washington ns his secretary. Lamb was convicted of abstracting money from a national bank. IFADERS of the Republican party, - determined that the G. O. P. shall not die or even sleep, nre actively planning for the elections of 1031 and profess the belief that p- -:J i .. y vm- they can regain much i of the ground lost In '.-'J 1 lli.'i'J. Under the per- L j s o n a I direction of t i Everett S n n d e r s, r j chairman of the na- , ) I ; tlonal committee, a , ': -. j j series of r e g I o n n I ' meetings Is being; " " j j held, the latest being i " jj In Chicago where nil- j ( tional committeemen Everett nnd n few others , , , Sanders from eight central states gathered. Their proceedings j were not made public, but It was ' learned that they are banking on the "mistakes" niade hy the Democratic i administration and nre expecting more of them to be made In the future. La- j ter there will be similar meetings In western cities. Mr. Sanders said In Chicago that three conferences In the Fast bad glv- i en assurance of better times ahead j for the party, provided enough hard ; work was done. He said the attitude of national headquarters Is one of looking forward and not backward. Nonpartisan observers nre Inclined to think that at present no headway can be made on the basis of opposition to the Roosevelt policies at least not before they have been given n fair chance to succeed or fall. OVF. THOUSAND veterans of the Kalnbow division celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of the battle of Champagne surMer w ith a three days reunion In Chicago Including n fete nt A Century of Progress exposition. In the list of those who nddressed the former soldiers were Ma. Gen. Douglas McArlhur, chief of siaff of fhe United Slates army; Gen. Charles I' Siimnierall. former chief of staff; Ma.l. Gen. George F,. Leach, former ma.or of Minneapolis; Col. William I'. Screws of Alabama; Ma.l Gen. Matthew A. 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