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Show IV. Picked ' M SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK C Western Newspaper Union. F.D.R.'s Program Wrecked HAVING accomplished practically practical-ly nothing during five weeks of wrangling, at a cost of about a million mil-lion and a half dollars, congress ad- . . . 5 - w ' - K . I J k 4. . . . a.- icePresident Garner journed for the holidays. holi-days. Tne President's Presi-dent's five - point legislative program was left almost a total to-tal wreck, not one of the measures he aiked for having been finally enacted and one of them having been absolutely abso-lutely defeated. As the time fir quitting approached Mr. Roosevelt en lied vice President Gamer to the V.Tute House to help devise a plan of salvage. sal-vage. With the veteran went Speaker Speak-er Eankhead and Senator Barklcy and Representative Sam Rayburn. majority leaders of the senate and house. The topic of discussion was what should be done with the debris of the administration program and i how much shou:d be demanded of j congress in the next session. Just before adjournment the senate sen-ate passed the housing bill, which the house had already approved. But it was necessary to sf-n- t'.e measure to conference, so final en actment was delayed. Crop control bills were passed by both senate and house, but they d.f-fered d.f-fered widely and early final enactment enact-ment was impossible because the joint conference between committees commit-tees of the two houses to reconcile the measures could not get into action ac-tion before January. Chairman O'Connor of the house rules committee said that a good deal actually was accorrtplished during dur-ing the special session in the way of "spade work" which would enable the law makers to get along faster with their work m the regular January Jan-uary session. This was especially true concerning revision of the tax laws. Wage-Hour Bill Killed WHEN the bill for regulation of wages and hours, approved by the senate in August, came up for action in the house the President suffered one of his greatest legislative legis-lative defeats. Southern Democrats and the Republican minority combined com-bined to send the measure back to the labor committee, which meant its definite defeat. This bill, which would have set up an administrator with dictatorial powers over labor and business management, was considered con-sidered only second in importance to the farm bill. It had the support of the C. I. O., so John Lewis shared in the defeat. The A. F. of L. had offered a substitute which was rejected, re-jected, as President Green hod ex-jected ex-jected it would be. No action was taken on the Presi-Jent's Presi-Jent's other "must" measures, vhich were for revision of antitrust anti-trust laws, regional planning and federal government reorganization. Cummings Accuses Judge CONOR fr:SS was asked by Attorney Attor-ney General Cummings to in-estigale in-estigale the conduct of United -itaU-s District Judge Ferdinand inigT of Milwaukee in connection with the latter's discharge of b grand jury which was investigating Lhe automobile finance Industry. In a letter in Chairman Sumner of the house Judiciary committee Cummings charged that Oeiger's conduct was "so obstructive to the ddrninlKlralion of justice that I could not justify a failure to bring it to your knowledge." Geiger, presiding over the Eastern East-ern Wisconsin federal district, discharged dis-charged the grand jury without permitting per-mitting it to report after a three months' investigation into the activities ac-tivities of three companies, which. Cummings said, were "identified in interest" with General Motors corporation. cor-poration. Ford Motor company and Chrysler corporation. Cummings charged that the grand jury was prepared to return indictments indict-ments when it was dismissed. Panay Incident X"HILE Washington was awnit-' awnit-' ing a formal reply from Tokyo To-kyo to the American notes concerning con-cerning the murderous at lark by Japanese airmen and machine gunners gun-ners on the U. S gunboat Panay. it was reported tha: Hirohito. emperor of Japan, had taken personal charge of the matter If 'rue this would be a se vcre blow to the all-powerful all-powerful military and naval factions in the Japanese gov- - V j ; 1 '"J Iliroliito ernmrni wnicn nave Deen doing about as they chose. It would be an astonishing development in another an-other way. for hitherto the "Sun of Heaven" has always held himself aloof from such concerns. The Japanese cabinet was called In extraordinary ex-traordinary session to discuss the Panay incident and determine what reply should be mode to Lhe American Amer-ican protests. Washington's second note was especially es-pecially sharply worded because of the revelation that the Panay and the boats carrying Its dead and wounded to shore were fired upon by machine gunners In Japanese army boats. In Washington it was revealed that conversations were in progress prog-ress among the American. British and French governments looking to joint to protect their nationals from Japanese attacks and to bring about peace in the Far Fast. Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Minister Eden told the British house of commons that Britain seeks a settlement of nil world grievances without war but that "we arc not forgetful of the duty to protect British interests." Alt Landon, as head of the Republican Re-publican party, telegraphed President Presi-dent Roosevelt his pledge of support of his policy in dealing with Japan, and in accepting it tho President took occasion to condemn on isolationist isola-tionist attitude and to assert that "we owe some measure of co-operation and even leadership in maintaining main-taining standards of conduct helpful to the ultimate goal of general peace." This was especially pleasing to the British cabinet. Fran! B. Kellogg Passes RANK B. KEI.LOGG, eminent statesman and diplomat, died ot his home in St. Paul, Minn., at tho age of eighty-one yearn. During his long public service he was United States senator, st-cre t a ry of stale, ambassador to Great Britain nod member of the world court. Internationally Inter-nationally he was best known as coauthor co-author (tf the Krllngg fir land pact by which 04 nations were pledged to settle their dispute without resort to war. For this Mr. Kellogg was awarded Uie Nobel peace pne for 1U2U. UMllties Conference AFTER a third conference with heads of utility operating companies, com-panies, the President felt that good progress was being made toward r.n understanding. In his press conference confer-ence it was disclosed that he and the men he conferred with all ap- proved of the "prudent investment" ; theory of valuation of utility prop- j erties outlined by Justice Brandeis 13 years ago. That theory is: ! "The term prudent investment is not used in a critical sense. There should not be excluded from, the findings of the base, investments which, under ordinary circumstances, circum-stances, would be deemed reasonable. reason-able. The term is applied for the purpose of excluding what might be fouTd to be dishonest or obviously wa.rteful or imprudent expenditures. Every investment may be assumed ! to have been made in the exercise ', of reasonable judgment, unless the j contrary is shown." Mr. Roosevelt suggested at the ; press conference that the fear. I which all agree is responsible for the current depression, is not fear ' of administration but is a psycholo- gy of fear being fostered by news- papers for purposes which are a . mystery to him and to the country. ! ft Labor Peace Parley Ends ' I AHERE will be no early peace be-A be-A tween the American Federation j of Labor and the C. I. O. The ne- gotiations in Washington came to j a sudden end when the federation's ' representatives refused to consider anything but unconditional surrender sur-render of the Lewis forces, which the C. I. O. men scornfully rejected, j The strategy of Green and his ! lieutenants was dictated by informs- j tion that the C. I. O. was on the I verge of bankruptcy, that its ranks were torn by dissension over the communist element and that mere were numerous desertions. Ambassador Bingham Dies ROBERT WORTH BINGHAM. American ambassador to Great i Britain, died In Johns Hopkins hospital. hos-pital. Baltimore, of a rare abdominal abdom-inal ailment. He was sixty-six years of age and already had submitted his resignation because of ill health. Mr. Buigham was one of President Roosevelt's first diplomatic appointees. ap-pointees. Previously he had gained considerable fame as a newspaper ! publisher in Louisville. Ky. H:s ! body was taken to that city for ' burial and lay in state in the Ken- t tucky capitol in Frankfort. King George and Queen Elizabeth cf ' Great Britain cabled a message cf j condolence. Another notable death was that of Gen. Erich Von LudcndoriT. German j commander in the World war. at Munich. He won internatirnal fame as Vcn Hmdenburg's chief of st,i!T on both the eastern and vies tern fronts and then was made ch:-f quartermaster general of the German Ger-man army. Just before the v.,ir ended he quarreled with the k.n.vr and was dismissed from his piot In his later years the cnib:tVrc.i oM warrior attacked all factions in Germany, timugh friendly relations with the HoheocKerns were reestablish'.' re-establish'.' d on rus seventieth birthday. birth-day. Var Vote Plan Blocked APPOSITION of President Roos0- 1 velt and Secretary of State Hu'l was believed to have rfTectually i blocked the proposal of Representative Representa-tive Louis Ludlow fur submission of a constitutional amendment requiring requir-ing a popular referendum before the declaration of war except in case of invasion of the country. Ludlow obtained the necessary 213 signatures to force the house to consider con-sider the plan during the regular session, but no one expects its approval ap-proval in the near future. Wire Tapping Banned I iiE Supreme court ruled the 1934 communications act prohibits use in federal criminal proceedings of evidence obtained by wire-tapping. The decision, delivered by Justice Jus-tice Roberts, reversed a ruling by the second Circuit court of appeals : upholding the government's use of i such evidence in obtaining convic- tion of four men on a charge of smuggling alcohol into New York. Justices Sutherland and Mcliey-nulds Mcliey-nulds dissented. Frank To Help G.O.P. pR. GLENN FRANK, forme S president of the University ot Wisconsin, was selected to be chairman chair-man of a committee to draft a new charter for the Republican party. He said he probably would accept this Job of formulating the party's policies, and National Chairman Hamilton said the committee would be an absolutely independent agency of the party. Many members mem-bers of the committee have been named by tho executive committee commit-tee of the national committee, Frank Is identified with tho liberal wing of the G. C). P., but he is not friendly with tle La Follettes of Wisconsin, since they forced him out of his post at the university. Spanish Loyalist Victory SPANISH government forces won n decided victory by capturing Teruel, the key point of tho rebel salient Into loyalist territory LIT) miles east of Madrid. Tho place had been besieged for seven days nnd losses were heavy on both sides. Madrid hailed this as the greatest loyalist victory of the whole wnr. It tends to check Franco's movement move-ment toward the coast betwren Valencia Va-lencia and Barcelona. |