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Show SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Spending Is a Stop-Gap pECLARING the New Deal's ob-jective ob-jective is to give wages for real work and that he is opposed to the outright dole for bare existence, r-: .amur President Roosevelt jg f !i sal! ln a press con- ; j ference that he is t i still looking for a ;;v : : J, wy permanent solution fi t, ,. "' 'tj of the unemployment '- f ?$ problem. He made Xa3U.; il clear that he did , :, !-- . not believe relief or l A public works afford-f afford-f f " , ed anything more lw-w i than a stP-SaP remedy for a little President understood disloca-Roosevclt disloca-Roosevclt tiQn of tte ..,ation.s economic and industrial life. In fact, he said, no country in the world had as yet worked out a method for dealing with the most acute unemployment unem-ployment situation in the history of the world. He noted that public works expenditures ex-penditures had worked better in Sweden than in this country, because be-cause the Swedish government had been able in recent prosperous years to put on heavy taxes and pay off its borrowings. He said the Swedish method was being given close study. The President warned that the prosperity which vast outlays out-lays for rearmament appeared to have brought to European nations was unsound. When the munitions plants close down, he predicted, the nations of Europe will find themselves them-selves weaker in an economic sense than ever before. No nation, he argued, could spend its way back to prosperity by laying out vast sums in unproductive goods like weapons of war. All federal spending agencies received re-ceived instructions to launch the big spending push July 1, Mr. Roosevelt said. Funds will pour out through the Works Progress administration, ad-ministration, the Public Works administration, ad-ministration, the Civilian Conservation Conser-vation corps and the Reconstruction Finance corporation. Aubrey Williams Scolded AUBREY WILLIAMS, deputy WPA administrator, aroused the indignation of many citizens, especially of opponents of the administration, ad-ministration, when v s he advised organ- N n - - j ized relief enrollees at a meeting in New i York to keep the x J Roosevelt adminis- h:.' tration in power and to elect 100 per cent -3 Roosevelt Demo- 1 crats to office. He 5 j even incurred a V A A mild rebuke from the senate committee commit-tee created to inves- Aubrey tigate senatorial Williams campaign fund expenditures and the use of public money to influence voters. The committee pronounced Williams' Wil-liams' speech "unfortunate" because be-cause of his position in the relief organization and uttered a warning against attempts by the spenders of the government's relief and pump priming billions to influence the votes of beneficiaries. Williams sent a letter to the committee com-mittee claiming there was no political po-litical intent in his speech and asserting as-serting he had been misquoted. Farmers Oust a Union FIVE hundred angry farmers invaded in-vaded the Richland Co-operative creamery at Richland Center, Wis., to which they sell their milk, and drove out seven employees of a teamsters' union. They then forced the remaining employees to sign statements that they would not join a labor organization, and established estab-lished a picket line to keep out union members and organizers. The demonstration was the climax cli-max of five months' resistance by the co-operative's directors, mem bers and patrons against the organization or-ganization of the plant by the American Amer-ican Federation of Labor teamsters' union. At the insistence of the national na-tional labor relations board, the creamery had just agreed to accept the union as a bargaining agent and not to oppose recognition further. N. S. Clark, Milwaukee regional director di-rector of the labor board, had agreed to withdraw charges of unfair un-fair labor practices against the company. Clark said later that all offers toward a compromise with the creamery had been withdrawn. The farmers who took part in the demonstration dem-onstration had outlawed themselves, he said, and declared he would ask the Washington office of the labor board to prosecute them. Indiana G.O.P. Picks Willis D AYMOND E. WILLIS of Angola, f- Ind., a newspaper publisher and veteran political leader, was nomi nated for the senate by the state Republican convention in Indianapolis. Indianapo-lis. Willis was named on the third ballot, defeating four rivals among whom was James E. Watson, former for-mer senator. The nominee, who is sixty-two years old, has been the active editor edi-tor and publisher of his weekly paper, pa-per, the Angola Republican, since its establishment in 1898. He is president of the Steuben Publishing company, and, with another editor at its head, publishes the Angola Herald, a Democratic organ. Fish Attacks Hamilton tTEATED discussion over imme-A imme-A -1 diate control of campaign funds among members of the Republican national executive committee, meeting meet-ing in Washington, . gave Rep. Hamilton tf Fish of New York . x '4 j an opportunity to re- new his fight on f National Chairman John Hamilton. V whose removal he I demanded. , With Hamilton out " of power, Fish said. Kj the Republicans A i would win 10 senate seats and 100 house ReP- F,sh seats. With Hamilton at the helm, he warned, Republican gains would be reduced by half. Rep. Joe Martin of Massachusetts and Sen. John Townsend of Delaware, Dela-ware, chairmen, respectively, of the house and senate G. O. P. campaign committees, have demanded allotment allot-ment of funds from the national committee and exclusive control of their expenditure. Hamilton has resisted re-sisted these demands. Representative Bertrand Snell of New York, Republican leader in the house, told the committee that he intended to retire from public life and would not seek re-election this fall. Italy Checks Franco yiRGINIO GAYDA, noted editor ' and spokesman for the Fascist regime in Italy, declared that Italy had advised Franco, leader of the Spanish insurgents, to use "moderation" "modera-tion" in his efforts to prevent British Brit-ish and other foreign ships from bringing supplies to government Spain. Gayda said, however, that Italy approved the bombing of vessels ves-sels carrying contraband, but disclaimed dis-claimed any Italian responsibility therefor. Representations by the earl of Perth, British ambassador to Rome, had opened the way to an agreement agree-ment to end the bombings. Mussolini Musso-lini was reported as ready to act only to spare Prime Minister Chamberlain Cham-berlain from embarrassment. London dispatches said Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany had agreed to split the cost of withdrawing with-drawing foreign troops from Spain. Russia reft'sed to pay a full share of the expense, estimated at 10 million mil-lion dollars. Signs of Compromise ' I ""HERE are distinct indications of compromise and co-operation in the American picture, and hopes for restored prosperity are somewhat revived. The stock market has become be-come unusually active, and private enterprise is awakening. Unfreezing of three billions in stored-up credit is expected to result from new banking bank-ing regulations ordered by the President. Pres-ident. Thousands of contracts for approved projects to cost almost $500,000,000 have been sent to all parts of the country by the Public Works administration. Mr. Roosevelt, in his latest radio address to the nation, said: "In simple frankness and in simple honesty, hon-esty, I need all the help I can get," and it seems that the people are ready to give that help if the administration will do its part. Notable in the President's talk was the admission that mistakes have been made not only by his opponents op-ponents and by industry and labor, but also by government leaders. He sharply attacked reactionaries in business, blaming them for much of the current depression. Asserting his continued belief in individual enterprise and the profit motive, he criticized the recent congress con-gress for failing to enact his program pro-gram for government reorganization reorganiza-tion and legislation to aid the financially finan-cially depressed railroad industry. At the same time, however, he said the legislators "achieved more for the future good of the country than any congress between the end of the World war and the spring of 1933." Wants Liberals Elected ATOST of the President's radio speech was frankly political. He declared himself the leader of the liberals and held that, as such, it was his privilege to intervene in state primary and election campaigns cam-paigns for the purpose of insuring the defeat of those whom he characterized char-acterized as conservatives, the opponents oppo-nents of his policies. This aroused the indignation of many Democratic statesmen like Senators Burke of Nebraska and King of Utah. Senator King asserted the President Presi-dent should not use the great advantage advan-tage he has in controlling the purse strings of the huge spending program. pro-gram. "People who have fought for the Democratic party for a great many years do not like interference in their state affairs by outsiders," he said. "I do not believe the President should meddle in the primary pri-mary elections of the Democratic party or any other party." General opinion was that Mr-Roosevelt Mr-Roosevelt had widened the split in the Democratic party and by his words had placed the stamp of his approval on the attempted "purge" directed by Corcoran, Cohen and others of his advisers. For Naval Expansion IMPETUS was given the naval ex- pansion program with PWA allotments al-lotments of $27,883,000 for the enlargement, en-largement, extension and remodeling remodel-ing of existing plants and facilities of the navy department. With orders for full speed ahead the navy department said that 113 projects, approved by Mr. Roosevelt, Roose-velt, will be under way by August 15. Among the projects are power plant improvements, foundry building, build-ing, high frequency radio station. Beet moorings, turret assembly facilities, fa-cilities, improvements to ship building build-ing ways, structural assembly, electric elec-tric and sheet metal shops, water storage, railroad tracks, noncommissioned noncom-missioned officers' quarters, storage buildings and other improvements. Mustn't Seize Hainan THE British and French envoys in Tokyo warned Japan that any occupation of Hainan, Chinese island off the south coast of China, would be met by joint Franco-British action. ac-tion. The island, which lies near French and British trade routes, was bombed by Japanese flyers. Germany is recalling the Germans who have been acting as advisers to the Chinese army, and diplomats believe be-lieve Germany may now give active aid to Japan. Swedes Celebrate A MERICANS of Swedish descent by the thousand and many from Sweden gathered at Wilmington. Wilming-ton. Del., for the celebration of the 300th anniversary of ;;, -....;.yr'...-: the landing in Amer ' ' ica of the first 5: S Swedes and Finns " 1 From the old coun ?V try came Crown ; ss ' Prince Gustaf Adolf " 1 with a large party , but he was confined Jf to his suite on the f2, e liner Kungsholm by -' - J illness. His place . I was taken by his ' x son. Prince Bertil. Prince Bertil The principal event of the opening ceremony was the presentation of a monument erected by Sweden on the landing site. The presentation was made by Prince Bertil and accepted ac-cepted by President Roosevelt. Then the President presented the monument to Gov. Richard McMul-len McMul-len for the state of Delaware. After the monument ceremony there was a lawn party attended by Crown Princess Louise. The celebration was continued for four days in Delaware, New Jersev and Pennsylvania, parts of which states were embraced in the New Sweden founded in 1638 by a com pany of 150 Swedes and Finns sen', to America by Gustafus Adolphus |