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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Sudden Dealli of Speaker Byrns- Home Hails Badoglio hilc London Cheers Ilaile Selas-ie Rural Ilouswives of World Convene. By EDWARD W. PICKARD , Vo.-tt--rn Nftv.-.si.Li.i'-r Union. DKATJf, fiinlilt-n iiikI uiioxpof-'tftl, t-itum to Joseph Wellington I'.yrns, .spi-jikcr (if tlio house of n-p-ri'SriiNitivcs, ninl put nn end t) a iioliibiV ciireer. '1 Ik? veteran Tennessee '(inrt'.ssm;in s u f-fered f-fered u heart attack, at-tack, followed by n cerebral h e in o r-rhae, r-rhae, and passed away within a few hours In his apartment apart-ment In the -Mayflower hotel, Washington. Wash-ington. For 27 yearn Mr. I'.yrns had represented rep-resented the "Iler- Viceroy Badoglio T ": - ! L. - A J. W. Byrns mltnge district" of Tennessee In the lionso, and he was elected speaker speak-er when tile Seventy-fourth congress convened In January, 1035. ITe was a master of parliamentary strategy and no fair-minded a presiding oM-eer oM-eer that all, even his political opponents, op-ponents, praised and admired him, liefore becoming speaker he served long years on the appropriations committee, as member and chairman, chair-man, and he also was leader of the Democratic majority and chairman of the Democratic congressional - ' - campaign committee. Grief for Mr. Byrns' death was general and sincere In Washington otllcialdoin. "I am shocked beyond all Imagination," said Itepresenta-tlve Itepresenta-tlve Iiertrand II. Snell of New York, the minority leader. "It is a terrible terri-ble thing. It Is an almost Irreparable Irrepara-ble loss." Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, Ar-kansas, the majority leader, after expressing his own sense of loss, added: "His work during the session ses-sion has been very difficult and trying. try-ing. He was a great speaker." President Roosevelt, In a statement state-ment from the White House expressed ex-pressed well the high esteem in which Mr. Byrns was held. Said he : "Fearless, incorruptible, unselfish, with a high sense of justice, wise in counsel, broad of vision, calm in adversity, ad-versity, and modest in victory, he served his state and the nation with fidelity, honor, and great usefulness. I personally mourn the passing of a steadfast friend of many years." Impressive funeral services were held in the chamber of the house, the President, members of the cabinet cab-inet and numerous diplomats being present In addition to all members of congress. The body was then taken to Nashville, Tenn., for burial, and Mr. Roosevelt accompanied the special congressional committee there. The house elected William B. Bankhead of Alabama speaker for the remainder of the session. The death of Speaker Byrns followed fol-lowed closely that of another well-known well-known congressman, A. Piatt Andrew An-drew of Massachusetts, a Republican. Republic-an. He died of influenza at his home In Gloucester at the age of sixty-three. sixty-three. Mr. Andrew, who taught eco- i nomies at Harvard more than thirty years ago, was director of the mint for a few months under President Taft and then was assistant secretary secre-tary of the treasury. He was elected elect-ed "to congress in 1921, and supported support-ed much of President Roosevelt's early legislation. MARSHAL PIETRO BADOGLIO, conqueror of Ethiopia and now viceroy of that part of the reconstituted reconsti-tuted "Roman empire," returned to HP , U-wW f I L..J V- . .iS the Eternal City in triumph and was vociferously w e 1-comed 1-comed as a hero. Sixty thousand Romans Ro-mans welcomed him as he stepped from his train, and Premier Pre-mier Mussolini modestly mod-estly waited in the background until they had shouted their greetings to the veteran warrior. war-rior. Then II Duce came forward and kissed the viceroy on both cheeks and the higher ranking rank-ing Fascist military leaders paid homage. With the premier and the picked troops forming the escort of honor were the entire cabinet. Several Sev-eral days later a great military review re-view was held. The other side of the picture was seen in London, where Haile Selassie, Selas-sie, the deposed emperor of Ethiopia, Ethi-opia, arrived in tears and sadness, though he was given an ovation by the cheering thousands that had seldom sel-dom been accorded to visitors to England. Eng-land. Many of the Londoners carried car-ried Ethiopian flags or scarlet banners ban-ners reading "Welcome to the Emperor." Em-peror." With the white sympathizers sympathiz-ers were many African chiefs in native na-tive robes, Somalis, negroes, Hindus, Chinese, and colored people from all parts of the world. There was an outburst of wild cheering when Selassie, bareheaded and wearing a long cape, stepped from his private sleeping car and was greeted by many notables, including in-cluding O. C. Harvey, private secretary secre-tary of Anthony Eden, British for eign secretary. Harvey was the lone representative ,f the British government. gov-ernment. Selassie received three addresses welcoming "his imperial majesty, Ilaile Selassie" frmn representatives representa-tives of the Ethiopian association, the Friends of Ethiopia, and the Pan-African federation, wishing "Ethiopia's speedy return to independence inde-pendence with the rightful emperor leading his people toward light and peace." The former emperor smiled sadly. "God grant it may be so," he whispered. whis-pered. TISS CLARA DUTTON NOTES, -l-'-! sixty-six, director of the American Amer-ican Red Cross nursing service, died In Washington a few minutes after she was stricken while driving to work in her car. Miss Noyes was assistant director of the American Red Cross nursing service during the World war. She also had been superintendent of nurses at the Bellevue and allied hospitals In New York. Cyrus nail McCormick, whose father fa-ther developed the farm reaper and who himself helped organize the International In-ternational Harvester company and was its president for 33 years, died at his home in Lake Forest, HI., at the age of seventy-seven years. He was noted as a progressive business man, liberal with his employees and always Interested actively In public welfare movements. He was rated as one of the wealthiest men in America and gave millions of dollars dol-lars to educational and charitable organizations. RURAL housewives from many countries began their third triennial tri-ennial conference in Washington with Mrs. Alfred Watt of panada . :.... ''w ,4 Mrs. Alfred Watt presiding. Their first meeting was held in 1930 in Vienna, Vi-enna, and the second sec-ond in Stockholm three years later. Secretaries Hull and Wallace and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the President, extended ex-tended greetings to the visitors, but beyond be-yond that there were no set speeches and little formality. Instead, In-stead, the farm wives held "exchange "ex-change of experience" sessions, viewed elaborate exhibits of rural needlework and crafts of organized countrywomen of the participating nations, and attended "open houses" held by all branches of the federal government in which countrywomen are particularly interested. In exchanging experiences the women learned, among other things, that: English groups have stimulated a remunerative revival of quilting to supplement the family income. Australian countrywomen maintain main-tain seaside homes for convalescents. convales-cents. Canada's Federated Women's Wom-en's institute promotes clubs for rural youth and combats maternal and infant mortality. By conducting evening classes for young girls Danish countrywomen have helped to check their migration migra-tion to town to seek factory work. The East Africa Women's league visits native women in prisons and hospitals and provides "information to prospective white settlers. JUST as the ."popular front" in France was taking over the government gov-ernment the country was distracted by strikes that spread rapidly to almost al-most all industrial centers and involved in-volved all manner of trades. The workers demanded higher wages, a 40-hour week and a closed shop, and they went out by the hundred-thousand though they knew they were causing great embarrassment to their own leaders. In many cases the strikers took possession of the closed plants In Spain the syndicalists tied up various industries by strikes that Involved about 250.000 workers and that were marked by several murders mur-ders and other outrages. Augusto Barcia, minister of state, said the government planned to outlaw the syndicalists If they persisted in disobeying dis-obeying orders from the ministries of labor and the interior. THE Department of Agriculture recommended to the senate that the administration of the Taylor grazing act, affecting 80,000,000 acres of range land, be transferred to its control from the Department of the Interior. Secretary- Ickes retorted re-torted with the accusation that the Agricultural department had hindered hin-dered his program to rehabilitate western grazing lands. He said Secretary Sec-retary Wallace's department has insisted in-sisted upon havinf so many CCC camps for the forestry service that the Interior department could not get enough CCC help to administer elliciently the Taylor act. IN A report just made public the business advisory council proposes pro-poses a simplified basis for industrial indus-trial self-regulation through the medium me-dium of voluntary joint agreements on unfair trade practices enforc-able enforc-able by the federal trade commission. commis-sion. The report was prepared by the council's committee on unfair trade practices of which Lincoln l-'ilene of I'ostnn Is chairman. Outstanding among the committee's commit-tee's proposals were sugu'es; inns that each branch of an industry, such as wholesale, retail, and manufacturing, manu-facturing, police the activities of each other through confidential reports re-ports to the federal trade commission commis-sion and that no attempt be made to Include trade practice and labor la-bor provisions in the same agreement. agree-ment. J II. THOMAS, until recently British colonial secretary, was found responsible by a special government gov-ernment tribunal for the leak in budget secrets which enabled some of his friends to profit largely through insurance against tax raises. Final disposition of the case was left to the house of commons. Thomas, once an engine wiper and later a powerful figure in organized labor and politics, termed the tribune's trib-une's verdict "cruel." He said: "My own conscience is clear. I repeat re-peat what I previously stated upon oath: that I made no disclosures of budget secrets to anybody." CATHOLICS the world over celebrated cele-brated the seventy-ninth birthday birth-day of Pope Pius XI, and the pontiff pon-tiff himself marked the day by at- V i v J- Pope Pius XI tending a solemn mass in St. Peter's in the presence of 40,000 pilgrims who went to Rome especially espe-cially for the occasion. occa-sion. These were mainly members of the Catholic Action organization which PiuxXIfoundednnd to them he spoke for nearly an hour. He denounced Com munism, as he has done on other occasions, and declared the Catholic press was one of the best forces In combating the Communists. It was evident to all observers the pope's age is beginning to tell on him and that he found the long ceremony very much of a strain. That the pope's health Is causing some concern also in Vatican circles cir-cles was shown by the fact that the plans that were originally made for the pope to bless the crowd gathered gath-ered In St. Peter's square from the outer balcoDy of the Basilica were abandoned at the last minute. It was also significant that a small bed shielded by red velvet curtains had been placed immediately behind the papal throne with two priests in constant attendance against the possibility that the pontiff might not have strength to reach the end of the function. THE senate by a vote of 02 to 14 passed the deficiency bill carrying car-rying $2,375,000,000, of which sum $1,425,000,000 is handed to the President Pres-ident to spend as he pleases for "relief and work relief." As passed by the house, the measure turned the entire amount of relief money over to WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins. Three Democratic senators voted against the bill Tydings of Maryland, Mary-land, Bulkley of Ohio and Byrd of Virginia. By the senate amendment, the bill authorizes the President to order a restudy of reports on the $200,-000,000 $200,-000,000 Florida ship canal and allocate allo-cate another $10,000,000 to carry on work upon it during the coming fiscal fis-cal year. NEW YORK state's law providing minimum wages for women and minors was declared unconstitutional unconsti-tutional by the United States Supreme Su-preme court on the ground that it conflicts with the fourteenth amendment amend-ment by violating freedom of contract. con-tract. The decision, written by Justice Jus-tice Butler, was concurred in by Justices Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland and Roberts. Chief Justice Jus-tice Hughes and Justices Stone, Brandeis and Cardozo dissented. THE so-called industrial mobilization mobiliz-ation plan of the War department, depart-ment, providing for a military dictatorship dic-tatorship over labor, capital and Industry, In-dustry, as well as censorship of the press In wartime, was severely condemned con-demned in a report to the senate by the munitions committee. The committee objected particularly particu-larly to the proposed conscription of labor as being dangerous to democracy. XTINE of the richest unions in the 1 ' American Federation of Labor, having more than a million members, mem-bers, probably will be suspended soon by the federation's executive council, and at the next convention they will be expelled If the council can command the necessary two-thirds two-thirds majority. Thus will come to a crisis the Internecine contest between be-tween the craft unionists led by President William Green and the Industrial In-dustrial unionists, who follow John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers. Lewis' group of unions includes 400.000 miners, Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, David Da-vid Dublinsky's International Ladies' Garment union, the oil workers, typographers, flat glass workers, hat. cap. and millinery workers, and textile workers. |