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Show fews Review of Current (' Events the World Over lobbying and Virgin Islands Investigations Develop v Lively Scraps House "Rebels" Are Tame - Concerning TVA Amendments. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. FIFTY thousand dollars was appropriated ap-propriated by the house for investigation in-vestigation by the rules committee commit-tee of lobbying for and against bills 111 T. G. Corcoran affecting utilities interests. Representative Repre-sentative Rankin of Mississippi declared that Representative Representa-tive O'Connor of New York, chairman chair-man of the committee, com-mittee, was unfit to conduct the Inquiry because he was antagonistic an-tagonistic to the administration. O'Connor, rising to reply, was given an ovation by the house, and promised the investigation investi-gation would be thorough and impartial. im-partial. Already, the committee has begun be-gun its work, the first witness being be-ing Representative Brewster of Maine, who declared Thomas G. Corcoran, New Deal lawyer, had tried to force him to vote for the "death sentence" provision in the utilities bill by threats of stopping stop-ping work on the Passamaquoddy project. Corcoran was then put on the stand and denied the main features fea-tures of Brewster's story, whereupon where-upon the Maine congressman shouted, shout-ed, "You're a liar." Corcoran explained ex-plained with facility his activities In behalf of the utilities measure. He said he was assigned to help with the original drafting of the bill "through a direct request from """the-President." Senators Wheeler and Rayburn, he said, asked him to help bring about passage of the bill. The senate committee on audit and controls reported favorably on a resolution calling for a $50,000 appropriation to investigate lobbying lobby-ing In connection with all legislation legisla-tion at this session, and the resolution resolu-tion was adopted by the senate. pBRHAPS it was the summer heat in Washington ; perhaps there was a lot of pressure from the direction of the White" House. Anyhow, the backbones of the house Democrats, recently so stiff 7a"gainst "dictation" by the administration, adminis-tration, weakened most noticeably when the house took up the redrafting re-drafting of the Tennessee Valley authority act. Nearly all the recent re-cent "rebels" among the Democrats Demo-crats fell Into line and the bill was shorn of every major provision that was objectionable to the President. Pres-ident. These amendments were approved ap-proved : To delete a clause saying the TVA must sell power or chemicals at not less than cost, after July 1, 1937. To let the TVA operate without absolute control by the comptroller general over its expenditures. To delete a section preventing the agency from constructing power pow-er lines paralleling existing private pri-vate ones. To let the authority decide whether private interests may build dams or appurtenant works on the Tennessee river or tributaries. This victory greatly heartened the administration forces, and they pressed forward to try for another In the conference on the utilities bill. Also In the senate they carried on a determined fight for the amendments broadening the powers of the AAA. Senators Borah and Byrd were the chief opponents of the New Dealers in this latter battle. ONE of the hottest scraps of the year developed between Secretary Sec-retary of the Interior Ickes and Senator T.vdings of Maryland over the inquiry into the administration of Gov. Paul M. Pearson Pear-son In the Virgin Islands. The secretary secre-tary accused the senator of "whitewashing" "white-washing" a witness before the Tydlngs committee ; and the Senator retorted by advising the secretary secre-tary to "confine yourself to the I Sec'y Ickes D duties for which you have been appointed." ap-pointed." Both of them were thoroughly thor-oughly angry and T.vdings in a letter let-ter accused Ickes of seeking "cheap publicity." Federal Judge T. Webber Wilson of the Virgin islands had given testimony tes-timony that exasperated Ickes and the secretary demanded that the Judge be removed from office for "official misconduct." Then Ickes wrote T.vdings a letter carrying his tharge of "whitewashing" and saying say-ing of the judge's testimony: "There was no cross-examination to tesr his truthfulness, and If any ' statement ever needed such a test, it was his." Jinlire Wilson had told the committee com-mittee that there had been "administrative "admin-istrative interference" with his court :;i .1 that Morris l'rnst. counsel coun-sel for rl e Civil Liberties union, while a guest of Governor Pearson, had threatened to put him "on the spot" in the press unless he granted a rehearing to a government employee em-ployee accused of theft Tydings accused Secretary Ickes of "gross deceit upon the American people" by stating in an Interior department de-partment press release that Paul C. Yates, administrative assistant of Pearson, had been discharged, when "you know and I know that Mr. Yates had resigned five days before your press release was issued." "pO PROVIDE quick employment and end the dole, the entire four-billion-dollar works-relief fund must be expended within the next twelve months. Such was the flat statement state-ment of President Roosevelt to the state PWA directors, who were gathered in Washington for a two-day two-day conference. After discussing the old PWA program, the President said : "You are now an important part of an even greater effort one to be made during the next year which will provide quick employment, employ-ment, so that we can attain, If possible, pos-sible, the goal we have set within this year 1935. Before the year is ended we will end the dole we have been paying to employable persons during the last two years. In other words, we must give useful work to three and one-half million people and I believe we are going to do It. "In order to do it, of course, we are faced by a problem of arithmetic which Is comparatively simple. We have four billion dollars and three and one-half million people to put to worjv with it. That means we have to average things up. It means that we have on the average about $1,140 per man year. "That has .to include the cost of the material, so that the four billion dollars includes not only the amount we pay the men but also the cost of the material. It Is a perfectly simple arithmetical problem we have to work out an average that will come within the sum of money divided by the number of people we have to put to work. "You know, of course, that we have spent a great deal of money during the last two years, but we find now not only that there are additional ad-ditional funds at our disposal but also that the need of permanent work all over the United States Is not yet ended. We find that the deeper we go Into it the more opportunities op-portunities we have to do constructive construc-tive work In almost every community commu-nity in the country." STANDING atop a cannon. Benito Mussolini told 15.000 Black Shirt volunteers and the world as well that in the matter of Ethiopia. rV I j 1 W. P. George "We have decided upon a struggle in which we as a government gov-ernment and a people peo-ple will not turn back. The decision is irretrievable." Unless Emperor Hnile Selassie gets right down on his knees to II Duce. the war in his dominion do-minion will begin in .September when the rainy season ends. No one expects ex-pects the "king of kings" to submit tamely, so other nations are advising ad-vising their nationals in Ethiopia to get out of the country. William Perry George, the American charge d'affaires at Addis Ahaha, was authorized au-thorized by the State department to advise American citizens to leave, or take whatever other steps he deemed necessary to protect their safety. Nearly all these Americans are connected with Seventh Day Adventist and United Presbyterian missions. Mr. George transmitted to the emperor the rather curt reply of the American government to - his majesty's appeal for aid In stopping Italy. Secretary of State Hull, writing by authority of t lie Presi dent, told the emperor the United Stales was "loath to believe" the two countries actually will engage in warfare as they are both signatories signa-tories of the Kellogg pact The note also pointed out that the arbitration arbi-tration proceedings might arrive at a satisfactory decision. The chances that war might be averted by the arbitrators seemed slight- Those gentlemen met again at Scheveningen and their session was disrupted by the Italian repre sentatives when a spokesman for Ethiopia set forth the fact that Ualnal, scene of the bloody clash last December, is well within the Ethiopian border. Emperor Haile Sola.sie made another an-other attempt to get International action by calling for a meeting of the League of Nations council to thresh out the dispute with Italy. At the same time the emperor ap-praled ap-praled to the world for fair play and protested tn live European powers pow-ers acaint tiirir n-fnsal to permit per-mit tile slitj-tncnt of arms and munitions mu-nitions to E: hioj -ia. j CO M P T It O L L K It GENERAL M'CARL doesn't care where the chips fall when he starts hewing. He lias just given an opinion that ruins the President's plan to require re-quire bidders on government con tracts to bind themselves to abide by any future legislation providing provid-ing for minimum wages and maximum maxi-mum hours of labor in employment on such contracts. A proviso to this effect was being exacted of bidders. Mr. McCarl holds that the proviso may be viewed as a "request" only and a bid could not be rejected because be-cause the person making it refused to subscribe to this principle. The plan was advanced from the procurement division of the treasury, treas-ury, which proposed that the government gov-ernment replace the requirement for code compliance on all govern ment bidders, knocked out when the recovery act was voided by the Supreme Su-preme court. THOUGH the -naval treaties of Washington and London have been abrogated by Japan, the American government still keeps Its eye on the maximum permitted for our navy by 1942 and Is making a determined effort to reach It, much to the delight of the "big navy" men and to citizens generally gen-erally who believe in adequate preparation. pre-paration. Secretary of the Navy Claude Swanson has announced that a ship construction program has been decided upon which calls for the construction of 12 destroyers and six submarines. These are in addition addi-tion to the 15 destroyers and six-submarines six-submarines for which bids have been advertised and will be opened next month. The airplane building program calls for 555 new planes during the i current fiscal year. Of these, 2S2 will be replacement planes for those now in service and 273 will be new craft. Two airplane carriers car-riers and six cruisers now under construction and scheduled for completion In 1937 are to house some of the new planes. CLOODS In several eastern states. " following torrential rains, took about three score lives and did vast property damage. The Finger lakes and Catskill mountain regions In New York suffered most severely. The deaths there numbered forty, and thousands were rendered homeless. home-less. Gov. Herbert L. Lehman announced an-nounced an immediate allocation -of $300,000 for use in rehabilita- ' tion. XTOBODY who knew Ray Long ' well was surprised to hear that formerly famous magazine editor had committed suicide at his California Cal-ifornia home. In late years he had not been very successful In business, his most recent ventures being in the field of scenario writing. writ-ing. He was not one to put up with adversity very long, and it was characteristic of him to take the easy way out, of suicide. OLD JACOB S. COXEY of Mas-silon, Mas-silon, Ohio, Is again on his way toward the White House, having been nominated for President by acclamation by a national Farmer-Labor Farmer-Labor convention in Omaha. To be sure there were only a few delegates, dele-gates, and some of them bolted ; and the convention, which was to have lasted five days, had only one session. But It was a regular affair. Leslie Erickson of Minneapolis was ' chosen to be "General" Coxey's running mate. The platform includes in-cludes a lot of things, among them being planks for sharing the wealth, inflation and' technocracy. NIKOLA TESLA, famed scientist, sci-entist, celebrated, his seventy-ninth seventy-ninth birthday in New York by giving out tile news of three astonishing aston-ishing developments in the sciences. sci-ences. They are: A new method and apparatus for transmitting mechanical energy over any terrestrial distance. Passage of an induction current with a varying flux one way only through a circuit without use of a commutator. Proof, after observation of cosmic cos-mic rays, that many of the propositions proposi-tions of relativity are false. CRITICS of the President's pro gram have made up their minds that he is deliberately building up a "crisis" which will provide excuse for - demand for con.stitution.-tl amendments in the campaign of I'.lt'fi. Their conviction was strength ened oy Mr. Koosevelt's letter to Congressman Samuel B. Hill, chair man of the Interstate commerce subcommittee, urging the passage of the GulTey coal bill regardless of doubts as to its constitutionality President Roosevelt followed the suggestion of Attorney General Cummlngs that the legislation should be put through congress he cause "the situation Is so urgent." and that the question of constitutionality constitu-tionality should be left up to the courts. OUH army lost an ahle and dls tingnlshed Ollicer In the death ot MaJ Gen. Stuart Heintzeltnan at the army and navy hospital :n Hot Springs, Ark. The grandson and son of army ollirers, Gent-rat lleintzclman was graduated from West Point in ISti'.l. After s.rvi.-c in he Philippines and China he was sent to France as an o'isetver. ate! when America entered the war tie( held tiiL-h stall assiL'titM.'iM.s t f - j won the D S. M and was decorat ed tiy France and Italy. I |