Show news review of current events the world over president roosevelt addresses american let legion oon convention in chica chicago o direct federal aid for the needy Is planned by EDWARD V W PICKARD PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT made a hurried trip to chicago and delivered a stirring speech at the opening session of ahe the american legion convention ven tion wildly cheered by vast throngs of citizens on his bis arrival in the city the president sped to the stadium and before veterans made his appeal for full support of his efforts to bring about national recovery and for national unity to ensure national safety president and credit mr air noose roosevelt velt said in part industry cannot be restored people cannot be put back to work banks cannot be kept open human suffering cannot be cared for it if the government itself Is bankrupt we realize vow now that the great human values not for you alone but for all american citizens rest upon the unimpaired credit of the united states it was because of this that we undertook to take the national treasure treasury out of the red and put it into the black and in the doing of it we laid down two principles which directly affected benefits to veterans to you and to the veterans of other oilier wars the first principle following inevitably evit ably from the obligation of citizens to bear arms is that the government has a responsibility for and toward those who suffered injury or contracted disease while serving in its defense the second principle Is that no person because lie he wore a uniform wust must thereafter be placed in a special class of beneficiaries over aud and above all other citizens the fact of wearing a uniform does not mean that he be can demand from the government a benefit which no other citizen receives it does not mean that because a person served in the defense of ills his couL country itry performed a basic obal obligation gation of citizenship zen zens ship bip he should receive a pension from his government because of a disability incurred after its his service had terminated and not connected with that service it does mean however that those who were injured in or as a result of their service ore are entitled to receive adequate and generous compensation for their disabilities it does melin mean that generous care shall be extended tor to the dependents of those who died in or as a result of service to their country to carry out these principles the people of this country can and will pay in taxes the sums which it Is bec essary to raise to carry out these principles will not bankrupt your government nor throw its bookkeeping into the red in closing the president said you who wore the uniform you who served you who took the oath of allegiance to the american legion you who he support the ideals deals of american citizenship I 1 have called to the colors again As your commander in chief and your comrade I 1 am confident that you will respond 0 ON N nis HIS way to chicago president roosevelt came to final decision as 63 to direct federal aid for the jobless during the coming winter assuming that the plan would be speedily worked out in CO operation cooperation F with secretary of agriculture ri wallace and george peck agricultural adjustment administrator the action to be taken will 41 practically establish ata A the dole in the united states the immediate a object of course Is to avert suffering harry L but the plan has the hopkins secondary purpose of the utilization 0 fuel and clothing these things will be purchased by the government with the MO of the public works fund not let allocated and congress will be asked to appropriate more if 1 necessary the announcement by stephen early the presidents secretary said in part the president announced he lias has instructed harry L hopkins federal relief administrator to take the leadership in prompt organization of a nonprofit corporation of which mr air hopkins Is to become chairman for the purpose of buying the necessities of life and distributing them among the needy unemployed in order to assure speed and effectiveness ti veness in the movement of huge hug ge supplies the president lids has directed not only that the corporation be equipped with adequate funds but also that it should be given wide powers in the purchasing and distribution of surplus foods and other commodities tile the president believes the corporation can be organized quickly and in such manner as 03 to become the best agent for decisive action in the emergency mr hopkins has canvassed with the president the relief situation in the country as 03 a whole the president Is convinced that in many states relief allowances now made by state and municipal authorities are tar far from adequate and must be substantially increased as rapidly as possible the president asserted that while farmers buying power has increased to an encouraging degree agricultural prices still remain substantially below the level needed to hasten the country on the road to economic recovery the new effort worked out by mr air hopkins and secretary wallace to make maximum use of surpluses that have been bee burdening the commodity TS markets is part of intensified plans to raise farm prices to economic levels the agricultural administrations efforts to control production of surpluses too great to be used are to be continued the corporation will have powers to purchase directly from farmers whenever desirable in such a way as 01 to carry out the purposes of the agricultural adjustment act C CHICAGO was in the possession 0 of f the american legion and tile the veterans had a joyous time it in their convention and all its associated doings and especially at the worlds fair ali T h e forty and el eight ditl organization of the legion held field its torchlight parade the opening night and the following day the legion staged one of the 40 greatest parades ever 4 seen in this count country rv W for many hours the boys marched down edward A michigan avenue hayes through soldier f field and back through grant park to the disbanding point in the line were about six hundred musical organizations and drill tennis teams count adalbert de chambrun a general in the french army brought the greetings of its ills country and french veterans to the legion convention ven tion and italy was represented by gu guglielmo Alar marconi cont the inventor of wireless telegraphy in its serious sessions the legion convention elected edward A hayes of decatur ill national commander and adopted various resolutions that supported the policies of the roosevelt administration mr air hayes a past commander of the illinois department had a great deal to do with the formulation of the four point program designed to conciliate differences between the legion and the national administration con concerning concertin cernin expenditures PC tures for veterans relief CEnT DOLLFUSS chancellor E ENGEL of austria barely escaped death at the hands of an assassin in vienna one rudolf dertil a recent arrival from shyria fired twice at the little littie statesman one bullet hitting him in the arm and the other glancing from a coat button naturally th the e authorities immediately declared this was part of a nazi plot but they were unable to show that dertil was a nazi anyhow the attempt on his chancellor life strengthened the Doli dollfuss fuss chancellors position and made him a hero in the ebes ejes of the public dollfuss plans the establishment of a state that is a compromise between fascism and democracy and this does not suit many of his friends notably prince Star emberg hemberg leader of the the prince wants italian fascism for austria but lie he was forced to postpone action until the chancellor should recover from his wound G GRIFFITH park forest preserve at los angeles was the scene of a terrible holocaust in which at least at 27 men met death and the victims may have numbered fifty or more ilie men relief roll workers had been ordered to put oui out a small brush fire and in their ignorance of proper methods started a back fire that trapped many of them in a ravine at least that was one explanation another theory was nas that the fatal conflagration was started by a carelessly thrown cigarette the lames flames swept through the woods dried out by a long spell of hot weather and the panic stricken men lost all sense of direction in the dense smoke two hundred or more were taken to hospitals badly burned or suffering from suffocation neath DEATH took look two well known if figures 9 A in the world of sports L L young stribling georgia boxer who had been a contender for the heavyweight title was fatally injured in an automobile accident falling failing to recover after the amputation of one leg william L president of the chicago national league baseball club died of discussions ot of the british war L debt to the united states were opened in washington and much to the surprise ot of tile the public were turned over to the treasury department by secretary ot of state slate hull the announcement being made that the matter was b being e I 1 n g treated as purely a financial problem the administration designated dean acheson undersecretary ot of the treasury to handle n L its 18 part in the affair dean acheson and lie was aided by frederick livesey who ho Is an associate economic adviser of 0 the state department for the british government appeared sir frederick leithross and T K bewley the question at issue was how much it if at all shall the united states reduce the british war debt funded in 1923 for A A MERICAN intervention in cuba arx w was as brought appreciably nearer by a bloody allday all 11 day battle that took place between the BOO recalcitrant army and navy officers who had been be in the national hotel atilt and the troops of president grau grail the hotel was bombarded until late afternoon with machine guns and cannon and the government said 18 of the officers were killed and 17 wounded which probably was an un underestimate the losses among the soldiers were officially stated to be 9 killed billed and 27 wounded correspondents said the total dead in the days fighting numbered at least 44 among the non con te stants killed was robert lotspeich Lots an american assistant manager in havana for swift co when the hotel which Is owned and managed by americans was practically I 1 wrecked by shell fire the officers surrendered As they emerged under a white flag unarmed and under guard of soldiers they were again attacked and a number of them them massacred apartment buildings near the hotel in which many americans resl resided ded were frequently hit by machine gun bullets and shells from the cuban cruiser patria on gaining from the I 1 INTENT the greatest possible advantage tor for organized labor the american federation of labor opened its annual convention in washington in a preliminary statement president green said that since tile the enactment of the national recovery act the federation had increased its membership by COO the total being now approximately nailed to the masthead of the federation mr air green said is the slogan organize the unorganized in the mass production industries with a membership of as the next nest goal and after that which will bring the majority of americans genuinely and actually within the trade union family among the important pronouncements of policy and recommendations for action placed before the delegates by the executive council were 1 the 30 hour week of five days welk six hours a day 2 increase of minimum wages provided in the codes 3 increase of wages for skilled workers as well as unskilled 4 representation of labor in every stage of code making 5 public works must mast be speeded up to su supply aply work this winter to large masses of the idle 6 congress upon convening must provide adequate relief appropriations 7 the surplus agricultural products must be made available for distribution to tile the unemployed S taxation for relief must be provided by fair contributions from higher incomes and surplus profits 0 9 labor must have relief from excessively ces stringent federal economy measures EW york Is now enjoying a three N NEW cornered race tor for the mayoralty for joseph V mckee decided to ile be an all independent candidate against major john patrick obrien the democratic nominee and florello II 11 la guardia the fusion candidate in his announcement mr air mckee said 1 I refused to enter the democratic primaries beca because use I 1 felt that to do so would marar me as a tool of the machine find and that J V mckee would prevent my do ing the job that must be done to restore our city government there Is no real fusion in this campaign the so eo called fusion standard bearer Is as objectionable to the solid element of our republican citizenry as he Is to the vast army of democrats who are disgusted with machine politics the present standard bearer of the alleged fusion Is a poor compromise by a faction of 0 would be bosses IRGINIA tell fell into line tor for repeat repeal VIRGINIA bof of the eighteenth amendment the wets won by something like ilke 2 to 1 fifteen of the counties went dry as did the cities of danville and radford the old dominion was the thirty second state enrolled against prohibition ISABELLA G R E K X N W A Y M MRS close friend of mrs roosevelt was elected to con congress ress in a special election in arizona to fill the seat ir s bated by lewis douglas now nl di rector of the budget nominated by the democrats she easily defeated the fill republican and socialist candidates ca 1933 western Neww newspaper paper union |