Show news review of current events the world over world court adherence proposal sidetracked in the senate presidents social security plan arouses storm of discussion fc by EDWARD W PICKARD j 0 by western newspaper union ot of the world R ratification court proto protocol colb received a set tick back when senator hiram johnson Jo linson republican california bitterly de bounced such ac tion as a back door entry to the league of nations and senate leaders rather than risk an immediate vote delayed definite action senator john 1 son s attach came ltv i IH OD on the e heels of a special message to sen hiram the g senate gang from om johnson president R roosevelt 0 0 s e who asked for early ratification of the protocols it was the most determined movement yet made to f put the united states into the court 11 johnson supported his opening at tack on the court by offering four embarrassing reservations to the resolution of ratification I 1 prohibit the court from enter ii talal kalning jurisdiction on an any v question relating wholly or in part to in affairs 2 permit recourse to the court L only by agreement through general or special treaties between the par ties in dispute 3 prohibit the court and the league of nations from trying to as sume jurisdiction on any question f which depends upon or relates to ft the monroe doctrine 4 declare the united states by joining loining the court assumes no oble di 1 gallons abrou through h johnson s action these questions must be voted upon be fore a final vote can be reached on the resolution of adherence although the question has been sidetracked for a time it will be 14 brouil t up soon it Is said and i senator robinson democratic lead er has stated that he was confident of ratification when the final test comes 5 T pun HE third phase of testimony presented by the state in the trial of bruno richard hauptmann charged with the murder of col cot t charles A lindbergh a son has begun light eight hand writing experts colled called by the prosecution have corn com plated their testimony each beclar in ln that in his opinion the dour es ex carpenter was wa author of the ran eom som notes and the state now moves on to the story of finding the tiny corpse in a shallow grave in the woods near hope veil vell N J two months and twelve days after the on the night of march 1 1932 1032 rol following lowing this the etory story of how hauptmann was cap aured last september through iden of one of the gold certify cates which made up the ransom will be told obviously wearied by the lengthy technicalities of the handwriting experts the jury had difficulty diff culty in following the testimony even hauptmann admitted that he had not rot been listening to the experts eight men who have qualified with the court as experts have declared that hauptmann penned the ransom notes dotes photographic en large ments of the notes and of list s admitted writings have been shown in the court and each peculiarity of each character has been carefully gone over defense lawyers have fought each scrap of testimony bit by bit an attempt h is been made to show that some one might have forged hauptmann a handwriting in an er ef fort to throw suspicion on him but this has been vigorously refuted by witnesses who have been firm in their assertions that only the pris oner could have been the author an attempt to forest ill 1 efforts of the defense to pin the crime on isador fisch furrier who dald in germany is being made by new Js J jersey officials binl us r risch isch iu brother of isador his wife czerna his sister hannah and risch s nurse minne alinne have been brought from germany to testify 1 I ankus has asserted his belief that his brother Is not guilty HE will be returned to T I 1 eru ern any on march 1 a special committee of the league of nations 9 has decided the proposal will be r submitted to berlin at once opposition to this proposal Is expect ed since the retch originally de banded the basin basins s return formal ly on or before rebr iary jary 15 13 another difficulty arises over frances demand that article 42 of A the ler versailles sailles treaty establishing a one should be ap up piled plied to the this would ban nazi storm troops and brown shirts from the terr lory tory after its return co compliance nillance with this deman I 1 wo id be an admission from germany vat the ir br an shirts are a aerni military organization and this perlin has long denied in corn com putting her military strength 44 0 germany won an overal elmin elming victory in the plebiscite held to determine the wishes of the innab imants of the rich basin as to the future status of that territory the complete bott as announced by the commission was wab for return to germany for annexation to I 1 ranee rance 2 2124 and to return to pres ent status under league of nations control their margin marg aln of victory exceeded the hopes of even the most optimistic nazi leaders opposition forces terrorized by fear of reprisals immediately pre pared to leave the a as soon as departure of foreign troops removes assurance of protection it hasteen has been estimated that more than jews left their homes within the first two days after the election some of them preparing to locate in lux embourg and others leaving for palestine love of the fatherland won over antipathy entla buhy to hitler principles in influencing the voters the landers in voting to return to retch rule exchange their personal and political liberties for the reg menta tion of a dictatorship with its curb on the press tree free speech and andl vi dualism the plebiscite was conducted un tin der the direction of geoffrey knot kp appointed pointed president by the league of nations to administer the affairs aff airs of the turbulent region while the vote was abeln being talen tal en repercussions of events which will immediately follow the sair vote are awaited with uneasiness in world capitals A spokesman for the italian government expressed hope that transfer of the territory terri tor y to germany would take place 1 im med mediately lately fears were also es ex pressed that exuberance over the victorious vote would lead nazi supporters to excesses elsewhere signs signo of a renewal of na activity in aus tria are being watched closely by italy HE most far flung innovation athe the new deal has p proposed thus far the social security plan proposed by president roosevelt has aroused a storm of discussion admin adherents greeted the scheme with wild entrust aam while the op pos tion led by sen ator borah idaho has voiced vigorous criticisms all business in congress has been sidetracked to per pre president s ld e nt mit dimmed ate ac roo roosevelt s e V elt tion on the proposed measure public hear have already been started in the senate finance committee and the house ways and means committee has postponed consideration of the bonus bill to work on the security plan this Is being done at the presidents behest the plan provides flexible but compulsory anem insurance under a fed eral state system restricted to workers and financed by a 3 per cent tax on pay rolls after janu ary 1 1918 19 the government will aid in bearing the administration costs and the treasury will handle the fund ninety per cent of the pay roll tax ts Is to be refunded to employers emp losers who contributed to state unemployment plans A maximum of 15 a week of compensation to begin four weeks after the worker loses his job and to last for not more than sixteen beeks Is contemplated the second part of the plan pro vides for old age pensions the gov eminent Is to operate cooperate with the states and pay a baxt maximum tr um of 30 a month to persons over sixty five the national government Is also to aid states in formulating a plin plan for persons under sixty five which will be financed jointly by employ er and employee through a pay roll tax the funds to be handled by the federal government the amount of pen pensions dons to be a percentage of the employee employees s wage with non manual employees receiving more than 2 a month to be exempt from the plan the third section of the scheme provides for appropriations to give better facilities to c iring for moth ers and dependent and crippled children and the foerth fo irth section would furnish larger appropriations tor for p health aid investigation and research cost of the entire program to the federal government will be next year and S in succeeding years ye irs the cost to the states will be 7 00 next year and in succeeding years some idea of the of the plan may be ga ned tied from the re port of the presidents cabinet which said reserves for old age pensions must be maintained after some years at 15 GENERAL grates revision of air mall mail rates to prevent possible de st ruction of commercial aviation has been recommended by the bu reau of air mill mail of the interstate commerce commission an invest gallon gation conducted by the bureau dis closes that most of the routes are being operated at substantial losses and rate increases were recommend ed on 19 routes rates on one route would remain unchanged and 11 others would be decreased the proposed new increases range up from nine cents per mile for poundage not to exceed pounds per mile while the reductions ranged as high as 13 5 centi cents per mile operation losses of 1757 were shown in tables submit t ted ed by the 31 existing operating companies and it was pointed out that the industry would be bendan if the contractors were force 1 to continue operating at bremen doua dons losses ND of the most spectacular 0 OKD prison breaks in history was effected when four convicts in the san quentin calif state prison ov overpowered er powered two guards slugged the warden unconscious six hostages including four mem mern bers hers of the state prison board and fled in a state owned automobile the felons were captured two hours later 54 miles from the prison after a running gun fight with prison guards and posses one of the con viets was wounded as were two of the hostages trouble has been expected at san quentin where some 6 pris boners are housed in space designed for only 3 unrest has been evident for some time especially since it became necessary to put more than one man in eich each cell only guards have been regu barly employed HE final fate of the seems T THE to be up to the president R reports e from the capital say the na dional industrial recovery board successor to gen hugh johnson who asserts Is as extinct as the dodo has avoided a dl di Z recommend a tion that the insel aution be made per manent since this ax was evidently done with the approval i of the president t the future of the donald gg blue gg eagle seems g to be somewhat clouded the board of which don aid ald Rl chberg Is chairman in pointed out three possible courses which the president can follow the first course would be to make per manent but in simplified form un der this plan every industry would have to go under a code fixl fixing wage and hour limits and biting child labor trade practice provision would be entirely volun tiry tary in rare cases where price fixing flying Is employed the government not the industry would fix the price the second course would be to extend the as it now stands but for a limited period unless legislation of this kind Is enact ed the act will expire automatically on june 16 the third course would amend and extend the most members of the board it Is said prefer the permanent plan which would broaden the govern ment ments regulation of business no industry Indi stry would escape the wage and hour code today miny many indus tries among them the telephone telegraph and tobacco industries are not under trade codes since these have not been able to agree on terms the present law permits the president to impose a code only when an industry refuses to sib mit voluntarily such as in the case of the cotton garment industry are not at all sure the president wants a permanent code several uncertainties have made it difficult diff cult for the president to decide one of which Is the status of lection aa the collective bar gaining clause WO principals of the barber TWO karpis kidnap mob fell before the guns of federal agents as the campaign against outlaws continued with unabated vigor fred barker thirty two and his mother kate barker fifty five fell in spectacular defense of their ok lawaha hideout after a six hour battle bittle ma barker often called the brains of the bremer hid naping died with a machine gun in her hand her son fell pierced by 14 bullets agents dimmed abely started a search for other members of the ga gang ng whom they believed to be bid ing in tampa A A of important issues await the lei lea ie je of nations as it convenes at geneva on its fit birthday five major dis will come before the body ot of which the plebiscite involving as it does the d tion of the fu fn ture national nil allegiance of that rich territory has of course the imme d ate interest other decisions which await ac tion of the e inci ide the dis between iraq and persia over alleged border norder violations by the lat tat ter the bor barier ter conflict bet veen italy and the greek con plaint that greek minorities in albania are being deprived of their gaiarin teed rights and the extended war in the chaco boreal borgal between bo livia and paraguay |