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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Death's o? Army Pilots Embarrass the Administration President's Plans for Continued Relief Emperor of Manchukuo Crowned. By EDWARD W. PICKARD DEATHS of five army aviators killed in operations connected with the carrying of the air mail have supplied the Republicans with ammu- j Y '.zi K """-HI the administration that they are not neglecting. neg-lecting. President Roosevelt himself is distressed by the casualties, cas-ualties, and It is believed be-lieved his supporters will hasten to offer in congress a bill giving the air mall contracts back to private com- p a n I e s. postmaster J. A. Farley Generai Fariey has had to shoulder the greater share of the blame, if blame there Is, and though he has steadily defended the cancellation of the contracts, he probably prob-ably would be glad to see the army air corps relieved of Its new task. There Is no question as to the courage and ability of the army dyers, but it is vident they have not had the peculiar training to fit them for carrying the mails, and their airplanes are not suitable for the work. Of course, the weather has been against them, but little attention is paid to that fact by those who are making political capital out of the deaths of the five. Mr. Farley, appearing before the senate sen-ate committee investigating air mail affairs, declared that no one deplored the fatalities more than he, but that the Post Office department had felt it must cancel the contracts and had acted on the basis of the law and the conditions under which it found the contracts had been made. He assured the committee that as rapidly as possible pos-sible the department would work out a new policy in the public interest with respect to the air mail and would take Into account the interests of the operators. oper-ators. The postmaster general had been summoned especially to confront his predecessor, Walter F. Brown, and to consent to Mr. Brown's repeating a remark re-mark he said Mr. Farley had made to him about Senator Hugo L. Black, chairman of the committee. This was : "He's just a publicity hound. But don't tell anybody I said so, because I've got to get along with him." Mr. Farley Immediately denied that he had said any such thing, and, scarlet faced, he departed for New York aniM roars of laughter. His denial de-nial was necessary, doubtless, but It . didn't seem to impress anyone. Speaker Rainey says the army air corps is inefficient and poorly trained, and for this he blames the three previous pre-vious Republican administrations. He indicated he would support a resolution resolu-tion already approved by the house rules committee calling for Investigation Investiga-tion of War department methods. MaJ. Gen. Ben Foulois, chief of the Army Air corps, defended his men warmly. IUTOW the President proposes to car- ry on the relief program was revealed re-vealed at a press conference. In addition ad-dition to continuation of the CWA in cities, relief of distressed families in rural regions is to he placed on a new basis, and the government is to undertake the transportation of entire communities from non-operating coal mine localities and similar centers of unemployment to the subsistence homestead colonies which are being created with $23,000,000 of public works funds. In rural regions families In distress are to be helped to raise enough food for subsistence and to get part time employment in Industries and on road building and other public works. Communities of miners, out of work because of the closing down of coal mines, the President calls "stranded populations." They were left stranded when work gave out and there Is no prospect of a resumption of mine operations. op-erations. In most cases the mines have been exhausted. The President snld the undertaking would be to move an appreciable number of such families fam-ilies to localities where they can maintain main-tain themselves on small tracts of land with Incidental industrial employment, employ-ment, which is the subsistence homestead home-stead Idea now being tried out at Reedsville, W. Va. Concerning that Reedsville plant, a pet of Mrs. Roosevelt's, it is interesting interest-ing to read that the house refused by a margin of 103 votes to approve the construction and operation there of a factory to make post ofllce furniture. The project was denounced as "a plunge Into state socialism." PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT in a spe- clal message asked congress to create cre-ate a new federal commission to regulate regu-late the wire, cable and radio communications com-munications systems. He proposed that the new commission take over the duties of the federal radio commission and the functions of the Interstate Commerce commission which deal with telegraph and telephone regulation. Mr. Roosevelt said the new body should he given "full power to Investigate Inves-tigate and study the business of existing exist-ing companies and make recommendations recommenda-tions to the congress for additional legislation at the next session." This means that if the President's desires are carried out, as they undoubtedly un-doubtedly will be, the question of com munications mergers will go over for determination next year. Senator Schall of Minnesota, Republican, Repub-lican, was aroused to strong protest against the proposed commission, asserting as-serting that it meant the newspapers would be subjected to censorship by the administration and that "not one word of the skullduggery committed in Washington could reach the people of the United States." THERE are signs Indicating that the administration is going to modify mod-ify its stand and that of its predecessors predeces-sors concerning the war debts. Some Republicans in the senate tried to put through a resolution offered by Robinson Rob-inson of Indiana asking the President, if not Incompatible with public interest, inter-est, to Inform the senate by what agreements he had accepted token payments pay-ments from Great Britain, Italy and Czechoslovakia and had recognized them as not in default. It also asked what steps, if any, have been taken to induce defaulting nations to pay; whether any understandings have been reached concerning revision; and whether any assurances have been given linking debt payments with tariff concessions. The Democratic leadership in the senate succeeded in having the resolution reso-lution sidetracked into the foreign relations re-lations committee. Senator Robinson of Arkansas made a speech openly referring re-ferring to the necessity for some further fur-ther concessions on the part of the United States if any further payments are to be obtained, but he denied that negotiations looking to revision had taken place yet. The vote on the motion to commit the resolution showed there has been a considerable change from the opinion opin-ion held in the senate in December, 1931, when the Hoover moratorium resolution was passed successfully only after it had been amended to Include In-clude a reservation reiterating congress' con-gress' unalterable opposition to revision re-vision or cancellation of the debts. THREE export-Import banks are to be set up to help American exporters ex-porters to finance shipments abroad, and George N. Peek announced, after a White House conference, that he would be the head of these institutions. institu-tions. The banks will all be owned by the government. One will deal with Russian business, one with Cuban, and the third with credits for all other foreign countries. THERE'S a new emperor in the world and a new dynasty has been founded. By direction of Japan, Henry Pu-yl, who in his infancy was the "boy emperor" of China, and who has been the chief executive of Manchukuo, has been enthroned as emperor of that puppet state. The young man he is twenty-eight assumed as-sumed the name of Kang Teh, which being be-ing Interpreted Is "tranquillity and vir- r, tue." He probably is Emperor , . . . ' . virtuous, but the Kang Ten tranquillity Ig prob. lematlcal in view of the way Japan and Russia are snarling at each other, for If those nations go to war the scene of the conflict will be the newly established empire which used to be Manchuria. Great preparations were made for the coronation ceremony, but Henry's Japanese sponsors were so apprehensive apprehen-sive of attempts on his life that the public was not admitted to the rites in Hsinking, the capital. The emperor rode the five miles from the palace to the "altar of heaven" in an American Ameri-can bullet-proof automobile and the route was protected by barbed wire stockades and lined with thousands of troops. For every three Manchukuan soldiers in the lines there was one Japanese soldier, and also there were swarms of secret police. Simultaneously with the elevation of the new ruler, his invalid wife, Yuen Hua, was vested with the dignities dig-nities of queenhood, although her health precluded her participation In the ceremonies. JAPAN and soviet Russia are now quarreling over military airplane flights over each other's territory, and have exchanged sharp notes of protest pro-test Though the situation seems to be tense, an official spokesman for Japan denied thnt hostilities are Imminent. Im-minent. "The world need not be afraid that Russia and Japan are on the verge of war," he said. "All of these protests pro-tests and the noisy fuss are a good sign that the danger of war Is far away. When both sides are silent, look out" OUTWEIGHED by S6 pounds and with ten Inches less reach. Tommy Tom-my Loughran was unable to capture the heavyweight title from Prlmo Car-nera Car-nera In the fight at Miami, Fla. The Philadelphia boy fought gamely and more skillfully than the giant Italian, but lost the decision In eleven of the fifteen rounds. SECRETARY OF WAR DERN, probably prob-ably following the Ideas of General Gener-al MacArthur, chief of Btaff, told the military affairs committee of the house that he was decidedly opposed to congressional con-gressional plans for an Independent and greatly enlarged air corps. He was arguing against two bills Introduced Intro-duced by the committee providing for the purchase of 4.3S4 military airplanes air-planes and for the separation of the army air corps from the jurisdiction of the general staff, and the granting to officers and enlisted men of the air corps special compensation and rank. Mr. Dern held that the air corps was only a co-ordinate part of the army, that its flying officers and men were not heroes of glory any more than the Infantry and the artillery, that the whole army organization must proceed in balance and that the air corps has had more than its rightful share of progress in recent years. ONCE more the tariff comes up as a leading issue, for the President has sent to congress a request for new powers permitting him to fix the tariff within wide limits. The legislation he asks Is designed to expand trade and would give the Chief Executive authority author-ity to shift the tariff up or down by as much as 50 per cent so that reciprocal reci-procal tariff treaties with other nations na-tions may be negotiated. Furthermore, these treaties would not have to be confirmed by the senate, and the tariff commission would not be consulted. The new authority would be limited to three years and no article could be placed on the free list or removed from it. It was predicted that many Republicans and some Democrats would oppose the scheme, but that it would get through congress after long debate. UNDER the management of Gen. Hugh Johnson, the NRA opened a series of public hearings in Washington, Washing-ton, open to all individuals and organizations or-ganizations that wanted to present suggestions or complaints concerning policies or administration of the NRA codes. The possible benefits from such hearings appeared to be lessened by the restrictions decreed by General Johnson. He ruled that all speakers should be considered as "witnesses" ; that only facts might be presented, and that no argument would be permitted. per-mitted. General Johnson opened the proceedings proceed-ings by admitting NRA had many faults that he hoped would be corrected. correct-ed. Then came the flood of complaints, starting with those of small business men who assert the codes have operated oper-ated against them and In favor of the large concerns. Mrs. Pinchot, wife of pectedly appeared and declared the government had been defeated by the "steel trust," and she was supported by Edward F. McGrady, assistant secretary sec-retary of labor. Mrs. Pinchot said that in the cases of the big steel companies com-panies the workers had been betrayed by the NRA, and she made a bitter personal attack on General Johnson. Next day the cause of labor was brought more prominently to the front by Mr. McGrady and others who declared de-clared employers had been evading the code provisions at the expense of their employees. IpNGLAND Is proverbially lenient with agitators of all kinds, but when thousands of unemployed from all parts of the country marched into London and were reinforced by other thousands of the idle in the metropolis and hordes of Communists, the police took steps to prevent dangerous outbreaks. out-breaks. The throng held meetings in Hyde Park and 3,000 Scotland Yard men were on hand to keep them curbed, while the entire police force was mobilized at its stations. At first only two men were arrested, for making seditious speeches. They were Tom Mann, veteran Communist, and Harry Pillitt, of the same ilk. An icy rain helped the authorities to preserve order or-der during the great mass meetings in the park, but serious trouble was anticipated late in the week. The demonstrators wanted to call on Prime Minister MacDonald, but he refused re-fused to receive them, explaining that the house of commons was handling the unemployment situation. The marchers were protesting against the condition of the unemployed generally and also against certain features of the bill before parliament Their orators ora-tors attacked members of the royal family but were careful not to mention the king. They sang the "Internationale" "Interna-tionale" and were dominated by the Communists. NRA and the Ford Motor company are tangling up In another fight The company was charged by workers with having refused to bargain collec- tively with their representatives rep-resentatives at the Edgewater, N. J., and Chester, Pa., plants, and William H. Davis, national compliance director, arranged to hear the arguments of both sides at a meeting meet-ing in Washington. Secretary Craig of the Ford company sent Davis a long letter Henry Ford denying the concern had violated any provision of the automobile auto-mobile code or the national recovery act, and refusing to send a representative repre-sentative to the meeting. The NRA thereupon notified President Edsel Ford that it would investigate the charges "without his co-operation." The automobile industry was disturbed dis-turbed by widespread labor troubles and the threat of a general walkout. Difficulties over union organization and demands for pay increases are at the. bottom of all the row. bv Western 'ewslapr Coioa. |