Show news review of current events the world over raineys death starts race for his position prominent men alen organize liberty league to combat radicalism by EDWARD W PICKARD a by NN estern newspaper union ENRY T RAINEY veteran con H HENRY gressman from illinois and speak er of the house died unexpectedly tn in a st louis hospital where he was be llevad to be recover ing from an attach attack of bronchial pneumonia the dimmed ate cause of his death was an gina pectoris ls mr balney rainey who was with ina in a day of being seven ty four years old was first elected to con 4 gress in 1902 and he served s e r v e d continuously with the exception of henry T one term being derainey feared in the harding landslide of 1820 1920 he ile was elected to the when john nance garner became vice I 1 lee president ills control over the house during the ses of last year and this year while the presidents program was being put through was gentle but so firm that the legislators were kept well in line mr rainey devoted much of his service in washington to efforts to im prove the condition of the farmers for he held that farm prosperity was essential in any program for national well beng lie ile also was a student of tariff and fiscal subjects As a demo crat he was always a regular he was the author of the tariff commis sion slon law and of much other imbor tant legislation legi mrs rainey acted as her husbands secretary for years and Is so well ac re quainter quain ted with congressional work that the democrats may select her as the candidate to complete his term as rep from the twentieth illinois district mr rainey was bulled in his big home town carrollton after services which were attended by I 1 resident eit elt and many other notable persons S death will result SPEAKER S in a spirited contest among a number of men who are ambitious to succeed him first in the line of sue cession so to speak Is representative joseph F W byrns of ten bessee who has been serving as majority floor leader and who Is head of the democratic national con gressional gress lonal committee president poosevelt roosevelt Is going to take no part in the race but the more liberal of the joseph W new dealers are byrns known to favor sam rayburn of texas well informed ob servers believe byrns will be elected speaker and rayburn floor leader other aspirants for the are john E rankin of api ppl who has announced his candidacy william B bankhead of alabama and john J 0 connor of new york mr byrns has been a member of the house continuously since his election to the sixty first congress his work as floor leader in conjunction with rainey s rule as speaker was not es pec specially ally lally pleasing to athe he new dealers for some months during the last ses slon sion but before adjournment most of the misunderstand were cleared up in any case the administration seldom interferes in the selection of the leaders of congress not wishing to incur the enmity of pow powerful erf ua mem bers of the party ET from his swift trip to battend attend the funeral of mr rainey the president went directly back to washington instead of going to his hi de park home this change in plan was due it was said to the development of a bitter dispute between gen hugh S johnson on one side and don aid ald R chberg mr Roosevel elt ts s chief in du adviser and secretary of la bor perkins on the other over the new structure to be given the the issue it was disclosed Is cheth er there shall be a board of control in authoritative management of the NUA or a board which shall be more advisory in power leaving the real control still in the hands of the ad and his deputies it was expected mr roosevelt would take command of the situation and deter mine definitely what shall be done with the recovery administration labor scored a victory 0 ORGANIZED oner recovery administrator johnson when the national labor rela eions board john donovan former pres dent of the union dismissed by johnson tor for cy reinstated to his position with the labor advisory board the agencies which are adminis bering the law should in their own dealings uphold its purposes the board said in its decision giving a veiled reproof to johnson for what it empl ed was a violation of section aa of the with rather bad grace the NI A ac re cepter the rebuke and permitted don ovan to 0 return to his job johnson himself had nothing to say about it but tr dr gustav peck reel donovan s im lin mediate superior issued a statement in which he sniffed at the board s de cislon and warned donovan that he would have to toe the mark soon after this the announced that it does not regard itself as obliged to withdraw the blue eagle in cases where the national labor rela eions board has found companies gul guilty ity of violation of section aa of the na lional industrial recovery act and of subsequent failure to obey the instruct alons of the board the labor board has recommended d withdrawal of the blue eagle to the thee compliance board in all cases where companies have disobeyed its instructions to reinstate discharged employees the decision by the will remove teeth from decisions by the board since it may now hear cases make decisions and find that no penalties are inflicted for disobey ing its orders COTTON COTTON garment code amendments reducing the working hours and giving workers a wage increase have been signed by the president the amendments which affect plants in 42 states are of far reaching importance sidney hallman man labor advisory board member and amalgamated clothing union head termed signing of the order the most far reaching move has yet made to increase employment it was hoped that this order would avert the threatened strike of the garment workers WO 1 prominent democrats two re TWO tp publicans almost equally prominent and one lead ng industrialist all of them of conservative tendencies have united to organize the american liberty league dedicated to a war on radicalism in the united states the five founders of the league are al fred G D smith demo ratio cratic presidential candidate in 1028 1928 john W davis dem L socratic presidential candidate in 1924 jouett nathan L miller be re shouse can ex governor of new york james W orth republican publican Be congressman from new york former senator and presidential possie lity for 1938 1930 irenee du font pont manufacturer who supported smith in 1928 and roosevelt Boo sevelt in 1932 they be lieve the league mea bersh p will grow into the mill ons and that it will become an important element in the national life for president of the organization the founders selected jouett shouse for mer chairman of the democratic na lional committee and president of the association against the prohibition amendment until repeal was accod polished in a statement mr shouse set forth the purposes of the league as follows it Is a organization formed as stated in its charter to defend and uphold the constitution of the united states and to gather and d minate information that 1 will teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every successful form of government and 2 will teach the duty of government to encourage and protect individual and group initiative and enterprise to foster the right to work earn save and acquire property and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when ac re quiren to interviewers mr shouse declared the league was not anti roosevelt Boo sevelt but it seemed clear that it will be opposed to most of the major purposes of the new deal and the radical professors of the brain trust he said he had visited the president and informed him fully of the purposes of the league but he would not tell what mr boose roose velt 8 reaction had been N THE nature e of a reply to the for I 1 IN matlon mation of the american liberty league was a speech delivered in washington by secretary of commerce daniel 0 roper he ile denied that the profit motive in american life has been or Is to be abolished by the new deal asserting that it seeks only to abolish certain profit abuses such much as profits on watered stocks and dis proportionate salaries private enterprise said mr roper is getting back upon its own feet and more and more is exerting its in illative Itla tive and is able to relieve the fed eral oral government of responsibilities which under normal conditions belong to business pardon my repeating again that the roosevelt Boo sevelt administration Is squarely behind this principle it believes in just profits tor for management and capt tal and an equitable return to labor for its rightful rewards in the eco processes no thinking business man desires to have the old order restored lie he does desire and Is entitled to have the new order characterized by a better control against economic cataclysms and b by the freedom to exercise his initiative in planning for the future of his bu business Iness in the light of an equit able profit s stem HE strike of truck drivers in min THE s u was as ended when the men and their employers accepted a corn com promise agreement and martial law in the city was d business thereafter speeding ng back to normal conditions the peace plan devised by federal representatives provided that all employ ees on str ke be returned to their jobs without discrimination and on basis of seniority it included an agreement to hold an election within ten das dabs in each of the firms in evolved to determine whether their em want the drivers union or other representatives to act for them in collective bargaining and a pledge of the firms to pay for at least one year not less than 50 cents an hour to drivers and 40 cents to help ers platform men and inside wor workers lers W GREEN president of the american federal federation ton ot of la bor says he hopes the general strike of textile industry workers will be an averted arted but he an bounces at the same time that the federa tion indorses the strike and will co operate fully with the officers and member members of the united textile workers organization ile appointed federa tion committees to as the textile work ers and announced Willi william green arn draft that he would trained organizers and strike special ests from other unions to assist the textile union george A sloan president ot of the cotton textile institute and chairman of the cotton textile code authority said the threatened strike Is not justi justl fied by the facts established by im partial government economists challenging the wage increase de mand of the united textile workers of america mr sloan declared that as a result of three basic wage pro visions in the code the hourly wages paid in march 1934 show an increase of 7 per cent as compared with march 1933 when there was no code all of this has meant a substantial increase in manufacturing costs mr sloan said and the research and plan ning division of the found after a comprehensive investigation last june that under existing conditions there Is no factual or statistical basia basis for any general increase in cotton tex tile code wage rates ates mr sloan estimated the present number of worl ers at work in some 1200 mills in the cotton industry at T COI COT MARIO 10 HERNANDEZ HERNANDE z IJ I J organized a plot to overthrow the government of president mendieta Mend leta of cuba and establish a military dictator ship but the authorities got wind of it and frustrated the conspiracy in which a considerable part of the army was involved col fulgencio Fulgen clo batista head of the army said that major benitez and some soldiers were sent to arrest hernandez and that eight men of the detachment were killed hernandez tried to shoot benitez but was himself shot in the head and neck the official report said hernandez was being rushed toward havana in an automobile and that the car upset the prisoner being killed though the oth ers in the car were uninjured maj angel echevarria commandant of fourth infantry at camp columbia and capt augustin erice chief of the signal corps conspirators with her bandez were captured later and a summary court martial sentenced them to death four thousand troops in pinar del rio are confined to barracks under arrest and a thorough reorganization of the entire high command of the cuban army Is in full swing about civilians have also been arrested as parties to the conspiracy charged with carrying messages to military plotters EIGHT soviet citizens are EIGHTY enow now under arrest in Manchu kuo charged with plotting against man chukuro and japan and sabotaging japanese military trains athe rhe russian government through acting consul general at harbin has pre pro dented to the foreign office of man chukuro a demand for an explanation of the arrests and insists on prompt measures for the release ot of the prisoners the arrests were made without documents accompanied by searches of the apartments and offices of soviet employees of the chinese eastern rail way which have not been explained said the japanese allege that some of the prisoners confessed to an attack on the japanese military intelligence office at to sending manchurian Manc hurlan and corean co corn in into the territory to wreck ing trains carrying japanese troops and munitions toward the frontier and to creating general disturbances along the eastern line probably before long will com come e the news that the japanese have seized the chinese eastern railway and that may very well result in war between japan and russia I 1 Y A vote of about 10 to 1 the peo 13 1 BY 3 pie of germany decided that chancellor adolf hitler s action in assum ing the powers of president was all right the result of the plebiscite was yes 38 no 4 2134 invalid though the yes votes were several million less than in the november plebiscite on the withdrawal from the league of na eions the nazis are satisfied and hit ler appears to be safely fixed as the country s ruler tor for the rest of his life his ills power as chancellor leader ie Is greater than that of any other dicta dictator t or |