Show news review of current events the world over president calls on labor and capital to pull together progress of national recovery arias presents the complaints of panama by EDWARD W PICKARD s before the fine line memorial 1 to samuel gompers in washington which he helped to dedicate prest lent dent roosevelt may well have wished that that wise re and ate leader of organ iced labor were alive today to help in the battle for national recovery during the world war gompers aided tremendously in bringing the workers and employers of the united states er to pull in bar william green bess and d the prest dent in his address called on them to set get together again in the present emergency at the presidents side stood wll wil ilam green who succeeded mr ur gom pers as president of the american federation of labor and who Is doing bis ills best to carry out the policies of or his big predecessor mr air green turned to mr wr roosevelt and said I 1 tender the assurance of the devotion and loyalty of the officers and members of the american federation of labor to you as the chief executive of our nation and to the united states Is in his address the president sa said d in the fields of organized labor there are problems just as there were in ili the spring of 1917 quest questions lons of jurisdiction which have to be settled quickly and effectively in order to pre vent the slowing up of the general program there are the perfectly natural problems leme of selfish individuals who seek personal gain by running counter to the calm judgment of sound leader ship there are bot hotheads heads who think that results can be obtained by noise or violence there are insidious voices beeking to instill methods or prin aples which are wholly foreign to the american form of democratic govern ment merit on the part of employers there are some who shudder at anything new there are some a decreasing number I 1 believe who think in terms of dollars and cents instead of in terms of hu man lives there are some who them selves would prefer government bv a privileged class instead of by majority rule but it Is clear that the sum of the objectors on both sides cuts a verv mall small figure in the total of employers and employees alike who are going along wholeheartedly in the war against depression gen hugh S johnson ARA adrain admin intrator appeared before the conven tion of the american federation of labor and ardently urged the union men to cease their strikes to put full faith in the and to enter into real partnership with industry and the government he ile strenuously defend ed the recovery program Fl FROM ROM the newspapers and also from letters etters the president has been brought to a realization of the huge salaries eal arles paid to stars of the movie world and to certain of the moving picture directors he ile called general johnson Toh on the telephone and directed him to take the matter up find out whether these salaries are conecion con cons scion clon able and do whatever should be done to level them down johnson turned the inquiry over to sol A NIU moile movie administrator dispatches received from hollywood said the film industry was nervous over the matter tearing fearing the investigation would reveal secrets concerning salaries that have been kept hidden during the depres elon slon k S SO GREAT has become the pressure from senators sepa tors and congressmen to obtain jobs tor for their friends on the tennessee valley project that dr ar thur E morgan chair man of the TVA has k announced that every employee even the common laborers will be selected by civil service tests the ex k aminat lons he said would be along the same lines as those 71 given prospective navy department em dr A E mor do I 1 really not blame members of gan qa congress for the situation he ex there are so many people desperately in need of work that the senators cena tors and representatives them selves are hard pressed doctor morgan said that administrative costs of the project would be reduced materially through direct civil service action which would release for other work a large staff that had to be maintained to care for more than 1000 dally daily applications for jobs first of all doctor morgan remarked few persons know that we are out of politics by law secondly if the government goes in to business it has got to go into it in a bustnes businesslike like way he ile pointed out that stories of the ambitious public works program for the tennessee valley had attracted a floating population from all parts of the country imposing a heavy relief burden on already harassed comma he added that tennessee val 1 A i i A L iu A ley residents were being given the preference on laboring jobs T theodoer nr a res taura beur of gary ind has achieved fume or notoriety as the first bindl vidual to lose his blue eagle on or ders from administrator johnson his emblem was taken away because he allegedly was not abiding by the president defit s employment reemployment re agreement which he had signed with this as a start general johnson or dered various other persons and firms to turn in their blue eagles one grocer in knoxville tenn voluntarily surrendered his insignia declaring that the code was a failure so far as his business was concerned da ry farmers from all parts of the country gathered in chicago and threatened to bolt the recovery pro gram because the firm farm adjustment ad ministration has failed to enforce the provisions of its tride agreements tor for the city milk markets SOMETHING S went wrong on a transcontinental passenger plane of the united air lines as it was over chesterton ind on the way from new tork york to chicago there was a terrific explosion the tali tail broke off the big plane whirled down a thou sand feet to ground on a farm and burst into flames seven persons in eluding four passengers two tuo pilots and the stewardess perished united ar air lines unes officials pointed out that ohp th accident was the first fata fatal one on its passenger service in seven years in which millions of air miles were traveled PANAMA has serious and seemingly justified grievances against the united states and Har harmodio arias president of the isthmian republic Is in washington to lay them before pres ident roosevelt he ile and his fellow I 1 ana feel the eco existence of their country depends on the results of his mission panama has several problems in deed but the most important concerns L its charge that the Har harmotto united states Is us arias ing certain canal zone privileges to compete unfairly with native business on the isthmus the zone for instance pays no duties on goods imported from the united states and panama does this con dicion has become especially irksome since the legalization of beer for the canal zone commissaries and the army and navy posts established a string of beer gardens which under sell the native places and capture much of the zone payrolls A similar situation exists with oth er products than beer panamanians maintain they point to the sale of such luxuries as doulton china and silk as a violation of the original treaty of 1903 with the united states in which it was agreed that only ac necessities for american em plovers would be imported and sold by the canal zone another matter brought up by pres ident Iden arias Is the question of th the large elarge number of west indians imported to the canal zone for work by the unit ed states government and who hare have since been d sch arged because of econ omy bray and have gone over to the cities and towns of panama they are without work and are being taken care of by the panamanian govern ment senor arias wants our con gress to appropriate funds to send these people back home and this has already been recommended by gov julian L schley of the zone C continuing the trend toward gov eminent price fixing the president has created a new agency whose fune tion will be to obtain and maintain higher prices or r commod ties it Is called the commodity cred t corpora tion has an initial capital of subscribed by the government and will lend funds of the reconstruction finance corporation to producers which the cannot do legally the first undertaking of the new agency will ill be to establish and main tain a price of between 10 and 15 cents a pound on cotton through loans of government funds to cotton farmers to enable them to hold this year s crop on the farms for higher prices oth er commodities not yet announced will be taken in hand later the loans to producers are to be secured by the commodities SENATOR JAMES JA IES J DVIS DAVIS of 0 pennsylvania director general of the loyal order of moose Is at last freed of charges of violating the fed era oral lottery law in connection with the charity balls conducted by the order A jury in new tork york found davis and theodore G miller of au rora III not guilty after a rl trial last ing nearly four weeks ITH florida now on the list 33 WITH states have voted for repeal of the eighteenth amendment and only three thre more emore states are needed to put an end to national prohibition florida went wet by a vote of approximately 4 to I 1 LA ts la eacia a 11 OPE tor for some success in the dis HOPE Harm armament ament conference was re though it was still rather faint the hope was based on the fact that both germany and I 1 ranee rance were becom ing more specific in their demands the government in berlin issued an official statement respecting reports published abroad declaring it Is completely false to say germany demands arms equal ty with I 1 trance ran ce after five stanley years 13 germany de baldwin fiands after five years only the further disarmament of other countries As to weapons for training purposes all discrimination must now cease but germany does not demand the same number of weapons as others possess france represented by premier balad er replied to the german statements by repeating its plan tor for a four year trial period during which all armies would be bound not to a figment armaments followed by destruction of offensive weapons deladier Da ladier ladler said no one contests germany s right to live the life of a great power no one thinks of humiliating germany the british were growing impatient over the deadlock and stanley bald win lord president of the council and probably the country s foremost states man uttered a stern warning in an address at birmingham when I 1 speak of a disarmament convention he said I 1 do not mean disarmament on the part of this coun try and not on the part of any other I 1 mean a limitation of armaments that is a real limitation if a convention Is signed the na don which breikss it will have no friend in this civilized world CHANC C FLIOR OR S govern ment has put an end to the free dom of the press in germany A new law drafted by minister of Pro pagan da goebbels declares editors and members of editorial staffs of pers periodicals and news agencies must uphold unreservedly the right ile 1 s of the present dregent regime it holds newspapers no longer are to be organs of free opinions but must be cl ceased classed with the radio thea and schools as public institutions spiritually influencing th the nation the decree establishing the first six sections of the law was followed by one prescribing the death penalty or al fifteen years imprisonment for anyone who imports or dessem injates periodicals classed as treason able THE HE united states and eight other nations have protested to the ger man government because of attacks on their nationals by nazis who never are punished for the assaults apolo agles from berlin are declared insaf thirty americans have been assaulted since april 12 usually be cause they did not salute the nazi flag 0 OP F SUPREME importance to japan Is the que question aion of improving its relations with the united states ac cording to V discount kikujiro ishu who r has returned to tokyo from the economic conference in london the viscount who formerly was ambas to washington declared he was shocked to find his people talking of war with the united states to think of such a thing thin he said st was not only ridic ridle viscount ishii alous but t tragic ishii advocated an arbitration pact between the united states and japan he ile said he Is convinced there Is to am pie grounds at present for such an agreement which would guarantee peace at a time when militarists and jingoists are making the best of the war fear to advance their own ends Forel foreign gri minister hirota it Is be lieveld favors such a pact with amer lea ica but war minister sadao araki indicated he would put a stop to all such peace moves and that the army would force the cabinet to pursue an isolation policy publication in moscow of charges publication that japan Is plotting to seize the russian controlled chinese eastern railroad in manchuria and of docu ments merits allegedly supporting the acau lations brought relations between japan and russia to the breaking point the japanese deny the tale in toto and are very angry but observers in tokyo do not believe the govern ment Is ready to go to war just yet an armed conflict with the soviet union may come before long however and the prospect is worrying the league of nations leaders in geneva SIX latin american republics have signed at rio de janeiro a pact outlawing aggressive war forbidding forcible acquisition of territory and setting up machinery for conciliation complementing the kellogg briand pact the signatory nations are ar gentina brazil chile mexico uru urn guay and paraguay philadelphia HI LADELPHIA police pollee broke up what they say was a plan of the khaki shirts of america to march on washington and install president roosevelt as a dictator under a fas cist government the leader art J smith was not apprehended and his aids now accuse him of decamping with about 25 or of the organizations bation s funds when the headquarters of the shirts was raided a collection of small arms and other weapons was found the whole scheme seemed so extravagant that the authorities in washington were not perturbed 1933 western newspaper union 1 |