Show news review of current events the world over eastman foresees government ownership and operation of railways progress of presidents money bill american recognition for mendieta By B EDWARD W PICKARD WHEN the railroad problem of the united states Is soiled soloed it will be found that the solution Is govern ment ownership and operation in the opinion of joseph B eastman federal coordinator of trans t r a n s port por atlon tation the slon Is set forth in his first report made to the interstate corn com merce commission and transmitted to dent roosevelt Koo sevelt vice president garner and speaker kalney rainey mr air eastman aaa says the g so J B eastman lution he foresees would not be inconsistent with our theory of government explaining thai that when governments acquire private property tl ey normally pay more than it is worth mr air east man reaches the conclusion that the remedy should not be applied to rail roads now because the country Is not financially in a condition to stand the strain of an acquisition of these great properties the coordinator co having set up what he wishes to be the objective of future national railroad policy then proceeds to make recommendations within the limits of existing laws law s he Is decidedly skeptical of the prince plan for consolidation of the roads for his assistant william B poland has made stud es that sl ow the economies under this scheme would be less than one third of the original estimates most significant ot of the recommend a eions on consolidations Is that pro tor for compulsory consolidations should be given a trial provided that tl ill e comm commission sion and the co find the prop proposed obed mergers to be in the pi pt hire interest mr lastman throws the we of his approval behind a method of compulsory consolidation through exchange of securities with out the use of cash execution of such a method which the co ordinal r s legal assistant leslie craven bel eves can be accomplished would accelerate the merging of eastern railroads into the four systems previously agreed upon mr air eastman says that re tion of railroads now bankrupt should be effected as speedily as practicable and in a manner which will result in a very material reduction in fixed charges he lie cills attention to the fact that some of the most successful reorganizations in railroad history took place in the midst of financial depressions pres wall street theory has been that reorganizations should be postponed as long as possible many of the railroads vital vit a lems can be dealt with ad adequately equa tely by the carr ers themselves but there Is as yet insufficient organization and leadership in the industry for effee five operation cooperation in such under tak ings in s it Is quite poss ble mr air cist east man believes that a study of these problems will pave the way to a much use of motor vehicles as an ad junet to railroad ce and to a revamp ng and sin of the freight rate structure ME 1 Is quite satis kj factory to the un ted states as pres dent of cuba in view of the fact that he has the backing of a majority of the cuban people and apparently Is ca pable of restoring or der in the island feo so I 1 resident roosevelt poosevelt w 4 informed the d plo 4 matic envoys of the other latin ameri american can countr es whom he had summoned to the wh te house louse the fres pres dent virtually in cited the other no ni eions to take the same caries carlos course but made it mend eta clear that his mind was made up any way next day jefferson caffery act ing for the un ted led states gov gon ex eminent went to the state department in ila vana vans and handed to secretory Secret try of state cosine cosme de tie la torr ente a document no tidying the cubans that the united states was ready to resume d plo matic ons the cubans went w id joy i oy and the 21 gun salute from tl e Anie american warship wyoming in the harbor was answered by salutes from tl e forts mr caffery w 11 be our ambassador 0 cuba and man alan e el marq iez sterling will be the cuban ambassador to washington recognition of the mendieta alen Men fleta lieta reg me came from practically ill other na eions president roosevelt plans to do sev eral favors to cuba that thit sho ild mat mal e mend eta solid with his people the warships in cuban waters will be w th drawn the hatt I 1 latt amend amendment nent to the cuban constitution permitting the united states to intervene tenene tn in cuban affairs to maintain law and order will be junked and congress will be asked to give cuba a big preferential re hie t on in the amer can an sugar tariff sugar raising is the island islands s chief in austry and for five years it has been in a severe slump and the resulting depression haq ha caused much of the po lotical bauce PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ROOSEVEL TS S money bill went through the house with a rush the vote being to 40 sixty eight republicans joined the obedient democrats in supporting the measure james R claiborne of Mis souil and george B terrell of texas were the only democrats recorded in the neg active the senate received the bill 11 and re berred it to the banking and currency committee which held a heiring that was lively while it lasted prof george warren author of the dollar depreciation and gold purchase pro gram explained to the committee the theory of commodity price regulation by manipulation of the currency then taking up consideration of the measure the committee heard the vig orous objections of senators glass gore and mcadoo to several features of the bill notably the proposed seiz selz ure of the federal reserve bank gold and the granting of unlimited financial power to the secretary of the treasury it was confidently predicted by the administration leaders that the bill would be put through the senate un changed but stubborn fights lights over varl ous proposed amendments were tain fain the vote on a plan to limit the use of the stabilization fund was expected to be close advocates of the of silver who are fairly numerous in the sen ate prepared prep ired a compromise silver plan to be offered as an amendment to the devaluation measure P LANS of the american legion to 1 ask congress for more I 1 beral treat ment of veterans have stirred up a row in washington the legion Is 1 urging enactment ena estment of a four point program to cost 80 a year gen frank T hines administrator of the veterans bu reau thought this fig ure was too low esti estl mating the cost at a considerably higl er total ahe legion representatives d e dared the government gen en F T estimates were erro H nes es leous and by infer ence accused general hines of ul ill tenor motives and jack lack of integrity in a tetter better to edward A hayes corn com mander of the legion hines denounced the criticism of his estimates as wholly uncalled for and said the legion s own rehabilitation committee had admitted they were more nearly correct than its own estimates mean ahlie the president bad had an bounced new modifications of his ex ec autive regulations concerning pay ments to disabled war veterans the changes adding more than 21 annually there were intimations at the white house that mr roosevelt would seek to persuade the demo brats in congress not to go beyond this liberalization GI art and favoritism have been rife in the use of funds ac cording to the numerous complaints that hive been received by I 1 res dent roosevelt and administrator harry L hopkins and aud and t of the bool s has been ordered in many localities the unfortunate state of affairs was as ad fitted by the president who thus forestalled the revelation of the facts by congress onal committees or re cin organizations at the same time he nude it plain thit that he was stand ng firmly behind mr air hopkins the ousting of whom was tentatively planned by a group of house demo brats more alin tl in 4 persons were given jobs by the and mr roosevelt Is ing for an of to carry on the work to mav 1 but he insists that the organ brition be abandoned on that date accord ng to his pravio is plan protests against th s course in con gress and all over the count country ry have been numero is and loud it is now cons dered I 1 11 I 1 ely that after may 1 continued employment for more than 2 of the worl ers will be found in seasonal seis onal employment public worl 9 and a revival of ind astry senators nye and borah who have been attar ing the NTA on the ground that its codes fostered konopol es and tended to ruin small bus ness con cerns won a concession from admin ts johnson the general agreed to the estial slimp ashment rit of a boord of out stand ng cit yens to wh ch eb man and aind oti of er b men can bring the r complaints of ruinous oper atlon of the codes all the code authorities hive been s summoned ned to meet W ri washington iviry 15 to consider code re visions THAT recovery outlays can be end ed by june 30 1935 19 is the belief of the I 1 resident and he gave expression to this when he announced his ap of the b 11 extending the I 1 fe of the reconstruct on finance rin ince corr ra tion lion tor for an ther beir he benj ned jesse jones chi amin of tl ti e P P C not to withdraw more thi 10 from the tre s q rv in the ap t ti I 1 year except vi tl 1 r r I 1 r lonal approval i iv D developments developments in japan indicate that the military clique Is losing out and that foreign minister bou hoki hirota will be able to carry out his plans to establish more friendly rela eions with the united states gen sadao araki who had been minister of war since december 1931 and who conducted the campaign agal against ast china has resigned ostensibly because of III health and has been succeeded by gen denjuro haya cokl hirota shi last october arau araki declared in an interview that if people believe the foreign policy toward the united states will change they are absolutely wrong it was then predicted that there would be a split in the cabinet and this appears to have come with the less warlike ministers led by hirota having the upper hand hirota told the diet at its opening that japan fervently desires ameri amerl can friendship and added that no question exists between japan and the united states that Is intrinsically difficult of solution conaton HUFY P LONG of lou illana sustained another severe blow in the new orleans democratic mayoral primary which Is equivalent to an election the Ring fish s candi a n d 1 date john klorer was soundly beaten by T semmes balms ley the present in cubert cu bent and now one of longs bitterest foes there was a third candidate and walmsley did not obtain a clear major ity but klorer an T semmes bounced that he Wair risley would a a not force a run a off primary ills chief issue in the race was a drastic reduction in elec trie rates in new orleans and as the present city administration has prom ased to bring this about klorer said he would take it at its word the campaign for the nomination was exe exceedingly ee stormy with pros pacts of violence that did not develop when the day came walmsley and long in their speeches denounced each other without reserve and the mayor promised to follow the senator to washington if necessary and give him a good thris thrashing hing having won the fight at the polls he be probably will amandon this project though he and his organization hive have pledged them selves to exterminate huey from public life j OHN 11 mccooey for almost a quarter of a century the big tarn tam many boss of brooklyn died of heart disease and his demise probably means the end of Tamm tammany anys s domi nation of the democratic party in new york at least for a time it was expected that a leader satisfactory to the supporters of president roosevelt would be selected to succeed mccooey another once notable political leader passed away when adward J brun dage of chicago committed suicide presumably because of financial trou brou bles highly respected as a lawyer and a man he formerly was prominent in the republican party in illinois and had been attorney general of the state SCAR DE PRIEST of chicago the 0 OSCAR only negro in congress injected the race question into the house of representatives to the great distress of speaker rainey and the other democratic e leaders louis morris secretary to mr de priest and his son i aa were refused service in the grill of the house restaurant the manager in a n a g e r informing them that this was in accordance with his orders from representative lindsay 0 oscar de warren of north car priest olina democrat chair man of the committee on accounts which d erects the affairs of the rant mr de priest hearing of this was exceedingly wroth and arid insisted on demand ng a special investigation to determine by whit authority the corn com cittee controls and manages the con d act of the house restaurant and by whit authority at a hority said committee or any member thereof issued and enforced roles rules or instructions whereby any cit izen of the un ted states Is bated on account of race col or or creed arl VINSON chairman of the C CRL house naval affairs committee an bounced that h 8 committee was about to introduce a b 11 authorizing a ao 00 0 five ear ship construction pro gram and assistant secretary of the bavy henry L roosevelt gave out word that the president would throw the full support of the administration beh nd leg designed to bring the navy up to treaty strength the house appropriations committee recommended a fund of 3 0 for restoring the creat I 1 ilses naval station to its former status as the navy s ma jor jr inter infer or training post information about the L bartt quake in india leids to the belief tl at it was the greatest rea test disaster tint thit cour try ever suffered that the loss oss of life was as alp ai pilling illing is shown by the he tit n ent of the najih of if 1 at tf tie e leid there alone n limbered 0 K H an en neer was q jated as h i ving dp de hrpa after a 9 sarvey that hp he n PS eq f h th 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