Show news review of current events the world over deaths of 0 army pilots embarrass the administration presidents plans for continued relief emperor of Manchu Luo crowned by EDWARD W PICKARD D DEATHS of five army aviators killed in operations connected with the carrying of the air mall mail have supplied the republicans with ammu mitlon for attacking the administration that they are not neg beg electing president roosevelt himself Is distressed by the casualties and it Is believed his supporters will I 1 asten to offer in congress a bill giving the air mail contracts back to private corn com p a n I 1 e s postmaster J A F arley general parley farley has had to shoulder the greater share of the blame if blame there Is and though he has steadily defended the cancellation of the contracts be he ably would be glad to see the army air corps relieved of its new task there Is no question as to the courage and ability of the army flyers but it la Is evident they have not had the peculiar training to fit them tor for carrying the malls and their airplanes are not suitable for the work of course the weather has been against them but little attention Is paid to that fact by those who are making political capital out of the deaths of the five mr parley appearing before the sen ate committee investigating air mall mail affairs declared that no one deplored the fatalities more than he but that the post office department had felt it must cancel the contracts and had acted on the basis of the law and the conditions under which it found the contracts had been made he assured the committee that as rapidly as pos sible the department do p artmont would work out a new policy in the public interest with respect to the air mail mall and would take into account the interests of the oper acors the postmaster general had bad been summoned especially to confront his predecessor walter F brown and to consent to mr brown s repeating a re mark he said mr parley had made to him about senator hugo L black chairman of the committee this was hes ile 9 just a publicity hound but don t tell anybody I 1 said so because I 1 ve got to get along with him mr parley dimmed abely denied that he be had said any such thing and scarlet faced he departed for new york amad roars of laughter his denial was necessary doubtless but it t seem to impress anyone speaker rainey says the army air corps Is inefficient and poorly trained and for th s he blames the three pre republican administrations he indicated he would support a resola tion already approved by the house rules committee calling for In tion of war department methods maj gen ben chief of the army air corps defended his men warmly HOW OW the president proposes to car ry on the relief program was re healed at a press conference in ad ditlof to continuation of the in cities relief of distressed families in rural m regions 1 I ons Is to be placed on a new has s and the government Is to undertake the transportation of entire communities from non operating coal mine localities and similar centers of unemployment to the subsistence homestead colonies which are being created with of public works funds in rural reg ons fam lies in distress are to be helped to raise enough food for subsistence and to get part time employment in industries and on road building and other c works community Comm unit es of miners out of work because of the clos ng down of coal mines the pres dent calls stranded populations they were left stranded when work gave out and there Is no prospect of a resumption of mine op erat ons in most cases the mines have been exhausted the president said the undertaking would be to move an appreciable ap prec lable number of such fam hies illes to local ties where they can main tain themselves on small tracts of land with incidental industrial employ ment which Is the s sibs ibs stence homestead idea now being tried out at reedsville Reeds ville W na a concerning that reedsville Reeds ville plant a pet of mrs roosevelt s it Is interest ing to read that the house refused by a margin of votes to approve the construction and operation there of a factory to make post office turn furn ture the project was denounced as a plunge into state social sm pe PRESIDENT resident in a spec al message asked congress to ere ate a new federal commission to regu late the wire cable and radio corn com systems lie ile proposed that the new commiss on take over the duties of the federal rad 0 commission and the functions of the interstate commerce comm ss on oil which deal with tel graph and telephone regulation mr roosevelt said the new body should be given full power to hinves digate and study the business of exist ing companies and make male recommend a eions to the congress for additional legislation at the next sess on this means that if the president presidents s desires are carried out as they un will be the question of corn com mergers will go over for determination next year senator schall of minnesota ilcin was aroused to strong protest against t tl e proposed commission as sorting that it meant the newspapers would be subjected to censorship by the administration and that not one word of the skullduggery committed in washington could reach the people of the united states THERE athe HERB are signs indicating that the administration Is going to mod afy its stand and that of its sors concerning the war debts some republicans in the senate tried to put through a resolution offered by robinson of indiana asking the president if not incompatible with public inter est to inform the senate by what agreements he had accepted token pay ments from great britain italy and czechoslovakia and had recognized them as not in default it also ai ed what steps if any have been taken to induce defaulting nations to pay whether any understandings have been reached concerning revision and an d whether any assurances have been given linking debt payments with tariff concessions the democratic leadership in the senate succeeded in having the resolution sidetracked into the foreign relations committee senator robinson of arkansas made a speech openly referring to the necessity for some fur ther concessions on the part of the united states if any further payments are to be obtained but be he denied that negotiations looking to revision had taken place yet the vote on tl e motion to commit the resolution showed there has been a considerable change from the ion held in the senate in december 1931 when the hoover moratorium resolution was passed successfully only after it had been amended to in elude a reservation reiterating con gress unalterable opposition to revision or cancellation of the debts T THREE export import banks are to be set up to help american ex porters to finance shipments abroad and george N peek peck announced after a white house conference that be he would be the head of these eions the banks will all be owned by the government one will deal with russian business one with cuban and the third with credits for all other foreign countries THERE S a new emperor in the world and a new dynasty has been founded by direction of japan henry pu who in his infancy was the boy emperor of china and who has been the chief executive of Manchu kuo has been enthroned as emperor of that puppet state the young man he 44 Is twenty eight as fumed the name of kang hang teh which being interpreted Is tranquillity and vir emperor tue he ile probably Is virtuous but the kang teh tranquillity Is problematical lema in view of the way japan and russia are snarling at each other for if those nations go to war the scene of the conflict will be the newly be I 1 Y established empire which used towle to be manchuria great preparations were made for the coronation ceremony but henrys japanese sponsors were so ap preben sive of attempts on his I 1 fe that the public was not admitted to the rites tn in Il hsinming Hs inking the cli capital pital the emperor rode the five miles from the palace to the altar of heaven in an ameri amerl can bullet proof automobile and the route was protected by barbed wire stool ades and I 1 ned with thousands of troops for every three Manchu buan kuan sold ers in the lines there was one japanese sold er and also there were sN swarms arms of secret police pollee simultaneously with the elevation of the new ruler his inval enval d wife yueh hua was vested with the d 9 of although her health precluded her participation in the ceremonies JAPAN and soviet russia are now quarreling over military airplane flights over each others territory and have excean exchanged ed sl arp notes of pro test though thong h the situation seems to be tense an official spokesman for japan denied that hostilities are im eminent the world need not be afraid that russia and japan are on the verge of war he said all of these pro tests and the noisy fuss are a good sign that the danger of war Is far away when both sides are silent look out 0 outweighed by 88 86 pounds and arid with ten inches less reach tom my loughran was unable to capture the heavyweight title from prime primo car nera in the fight at miami fia fla the philadelphia boy fought damply and more skillfully than the giant italian but lost the decision in eleven of the fifteen rounds S SECRETARY OF WAR DERN probably following the ideas of gener geller al macarthur chief of staff told the military affairs committee of the house that he was decidedly opposed to con gress gressional lonal plans for an independent and greatly enlarged air corps ile was arguing against two bills introduced by the committee providing for the purchase of military air planes and for the separation of the army air corps from the jurisdiction of the general staff and the granting to officers and enlisted men of the air corps special compensation and rank mr air dern held that the air corps was only a ordinate coordinate part of the army that its flying off officers leers and men were not heroes of glory any more than the infantry and the artillery that the whole army organization must proceed in balance and that the air corps has had bad more than its rightful share of progress in recent years NCE more the tariff comes up as a 0 ace lead ng issue for the president has sent to congress a request tor for new powers permitting him to fix the tariff within wide limits the legislation he asks Is designed to expand trade and would give the chief executive author ity to shift the tariff up or down by as much as 50 per cent so that reel tariff treaties with other na lions may be negotiated furthermore these ties would not have to be confirmed ba b the senate and the tariff commission would not be consulted the new authority would be limited to three years and no article could be placed on the free list or removed from it it was predicted that many republicans and some democrats would oppose the scheme but that it would get through congress after long debate U the management of gen hugh johnson the opened a series of public hearings in washing ton open to all individuals and or that wanted to present suggestions or complaints concerning policies or administration of the codes the possible benefits from such hearings appeared to be lessened by the restrictions decreed by general johnson he ruled that all speakers should be considered as witnesses that only facts might be presented and that no argument would be per bitted general johnson opened the proceed ings by admitting had many faults that he hoped would be correct ed then came the flood of complaints starting with those of small business men who assert the codes have oper abed against them and in favor of the large concerns mrs pinchot wife of the governor of pennsylvania anex appeared appe ired and declared the government had been defeated by the steel trust and she was supported by adward F mcgra mcgrady dy assistant sec see detary Y of labor mrs pinchot said that in the cases of the big stee steel corn com pinies tt ti e workers had been betrayed betre by the and she made a bitter personal attack on general johnsen johnson next day the cause of labor was brought more prominently to the front by mr mcgrady and others who de dared employers had been evading the code provisions at the expense of their employees eulth Is proverbially lenient with agitators of all kinds but when thousands of unemployed from all parts of the country marched into london and were reinforced by other thousands of the idle in the metropolis and hordes of communists the police pollee took to prevent dangerous out breaks the throng held meetings in hyde park and scotland yard men were on hand to keep them curbed w while bile the entire police force was ma mobilized blitzed at its stations at A first only two men were arrested for making seditious speeches they were tom mann veteran communist and harry gillitt of the same ilk an icy ley rain helped the authorities to preserve or der during the great miss mass meetings in the park but serious trouble was anticipated late in the week the demonstrators wanted to call on prime minister macdonald but he refused to receive them explaining that the house of commons was handling the unemployment situation the marchers were ere protesting against the condition of the unemployed generally ind and also against certain features of the bill before parliament their era ora tors attacked members of the royal family but were careful not to mention the king they sang the internal t t onale and were dominated by the communists ra and the ford motor company N are tangling up in another fight the company was charged by workers with having refused to bargain callec with their rep at the edgewater N J and chester pa plants and william II 11 davis national compliance director arranged to hear the arguments of both sides at a meet ing in washington secretary craig of the ford company sent davis a long letter henry ford denying the concern had violated any provision of the automobile code or the national recovery act and refusing to send a representative senta tive to the meeting the thereupon notified president adsel ford that it would investigate the charges without his operation cooperation the automobile industry was dis by widespread labor troubles and the threat of a genera general walkout difficulties over union organization and demands for pay increases are at the bottom of all the row db by b western newspaper onion union |