Show news N lews review of current events the world over lobbying and virgin b islands investigations develop lively scraps house rebels are tame concerning TVA amendments A by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper un on FIFTY thousand dollars was ap abed by the house for invest investigate igat ton by the rules committee of lobbying foi for and against bills affecting utilities inter ests representative rankin of mississippi declared that representative senta tive 0 connor oconnor of new york chaim in of the committee nas as 4 unfit to conduct the inquiry because he was antagonistic to the admin t 11 ll n 0 connor crisli g to reply was given an ovation by the ho 1 f I T G corcoran and promised the lu la vesti gation would be thorough thoro ih and im partial already the committee had bp n its work the first witness being I 1 ol 01 f rp senta tentative tIve brewster of main wl al ie le dared thomas G corcor n new lawyer had tried to fercl h in to lute ote for the death sentence in the utilities bill by threats of top ping work on the pa oddy project corcoran v u 14 i t n the stand and denied ti tie e main fi ft tures of brewster s story whereupon tl ti e maine congressman shouted you re a liar ilar corcoran explained with mth 1 his J activities in behalf of ti tie e utilities measure lie ile said he was assigned to help with the orl ori original sinal inal drafting of the bill through a direct est from the president senators wheeler and ray burn he said asbed asked him to help bring about passage of the bill the senate committee on audit and controls reported favorably on a reso lution calling for a oa 00 tion to investigate lobbying in connection with all legislation at this session and the resolution was adopted by the senate pin perhaps it was has the summer heat beat 1 in washington perhaps there was a lot ot pressure from the direction of the white house anyhow the back bones of the house democrats recent ly IY so stiff against d elation by the admin strat on weale weakened ried most noticeably when the house tool up the re drafting of the tennessee valley au dhority act nearly all the recent rebels among the democrats fell into line and the bill was shorn of every major provision that was objectionable to the president these amendments ere ai ar proved to delete a clause saying the TVA must sell power or chemicals at not less than cost after july 1 1937 to let the TVA operate without ab solute control by the comptroller gen eral era over its expenditures to delete a section preventing the tho agency from constructing power po wernes lines paralleling existing private ones to let the authority decide whether private interests may build dams 0 or r appurtenant works on the tennessee river or tributaries this victory greatly heartened the administration forces and they pressed forward to try for another in the conference on the utilities bill also alsa in the senate they carried on a deter mined fight for the amendments broad ening the powers of the AAA sena tors borah and byrd were the chief opponents of the new dealers in jhb latter battle 0 CNE NE of the hottest scraps of the th year developed between secretary of the interior ickes and senator ings of maryland over the inquiry into the administration of GOT gov paul M pearson in the virgin islands the secretary accused the senator of white washing a witness f before the tydings I 1 ay committee and the senator retorted by advising the secretary to confine yourself to the duties for which you have been appointed both of secy ickes them were thoroughly angry and ings in a letter accused ickes of seek ing cheap publicity federal judge T webber wilson of the virgin islands had given testimony that exasperated ickes and the sec see detary demanded that the judge be re moved from office for official alcon miscon duct then ickes wrote to tydings a letter carrying his charge of white washing and saying of the judges judge S testimony there was no cross ex amIn atlon to test his truthfulness and it if any statement ever needed such a test it was his judge wilson had told the commit tee that there had been adminis tra five interference with his court and that morris ernst counsel for the civil liberties union while a guest of governor pearson had threatened to put him on the spot in the press unless he granted gran teci a rehearing to a government employee accused of theft aydn s accused secretary acles id es of gross deceit upon the american peo pie by stating in an interior depart anent press release thit that paul C yates admin stathe assistant of pearson hid been d sri arged when ou know and I 1 k i tl at air lates ancs had re signed five fhe days before your pres re lease e ase nas issued tend po 0 PROVIDE quick employment and end the dole the entire four billion dollar works relief fund must be ex within the next gwehe months such was the flat statement of dent roosevelt to the state diree tors who were gathered in washington for a two day conference after d s cussing the old program the president said you are now an im part of an even eden greater effort one to be made d iring the nest next year which will provide quick employment so that we can attain if possible the goal we have set within this year 1935 before the year Is ended we will end the dole we have been paving to em plo provable able vable persons during the last two years in other words we must give useful w ork to three and one half mil lion people and I 1 believe we are going to do it in order to do it of course we are faced by a problem of arithmetic which Is comparatively simple we have four bill on dollars and three and one half million people to put to work with it that means we have to av things up it means that we have on the average about 1140 per man year that has to include the cost of the material so that the four billion dol dot lars includes not only the amount we pay the men but also the cost of the material it Is a perfectly simple arithmetical problem we have to work out an average that will come within the sum of money d vided by the num ber her of people we have to put to work you know of course that we xe have spent a great deal of money during the last two years but we find now not only that there are add lional funds at our disposal but also that the need of permanent work all over the united states Is not yet ended we find that the deeper we go into it the more op fortun t es we have to do constructive work in almost every community in the country S atop a cannon benito mussolini told black shirt volunteers and the world as well that in the matter of ethiopia we have decided upon a struggle in which we as a 1 government and a people will not turn back the decision Is irretrievable unless emperor m p e halle selassie gets right down on bis his knees to II 11 duce the war in his dominion will begin in septem ber her when the rainy w p george ator season ends no one expects the king of kings to submit tamely so other nations are advising their nationals in ethiopia to get out of the country william perry george the american charge daff alres at ad dis ababa was authorized by the state department to advise american citizens to leave or take whatever other steps he deemed necessary to protect their safety mr air george transmitted to the em geror the rather curt reply of the american government to his majesty tys s appeal for aid in stopping italy sec see detary of state hull writing by au an of the president told the em geror the united states was loath to believe the two countr es actually will engage in warfare as they are both signatories ot of the kellogg pact the note also pointed out that the albitr i tion proceed might arrive at a sat Is factory decision the chances that war might be averted by the arbitrators beeme slight those gentlemen met again at scheveningen and their session was disrupted by the italian re presenta lives tives when a spokesman tor for ethiopia set forth the fact that scene of the bloody clash last december is I 1 well within the ethiopian border emperor haile hafle selassie Se lassle made an other attempt to get internal Int ernat onal ac tion by calling for a meeting of the league of nations council to t thresh out the dispute with italy at the same time the emperor appealed to the world for fair play and protested to five european powers against their re fasal to permit the shipment of arms and munitions to ethiopia it was said in geneva the league council ably would be called into sess oa on with in a few weeks the protest about arms shipments was not ilk likely ely to do eth opia opla any good indeed it was said great britain had provisionally joined the nations banning such transactions IROLA TESLA famed scientist celebrated his seventy ninth birth day in new tork york city elty by giving out the news of three astonishing aston isling ing develop ments in the sciences they are A new method and apparatus for transmitting transmits tran ng mechanical energy over any terrestrial terr estial d stance passage of an induction current with a varying flux one way only through a cibeu t without use of a proof after observation of cosmic rays that many of the propositions of are false COMI OMI GENERAL M CARL t care where the chips fall when he starts hewing he has just given an opinion that ruins the pres ident s plan to require b adders on gov contracts to bind themselves to abide by any future legislation providing for minimum wages and maxi mum hours of labor in employment on such contracts A proviso to this ef feet was being exacted of bidders mr mccarl holds that the proviso may be viewed as a request only and a bid could not be rejected because the person mak ng it refused to subscribe to this principle the plan was advanced from the procurement division of the treasury which proposed that the government replace the requirement for code corn com on all government gov bidders knocked out when the recovery act was voided by the supreme court bhough pH HOUGH OUGH the naval treaties of washington and london have been abrogated by japan the american gov still keeps its eye on the max icum permitted tor for our navy by 1942 and Is making a determined effort to reach it much to the delight of the big T navy men and to citizens gen brally who bellene in adequate preparedness pa redness secretary of the navy claude swan son has announced that a ship con program has been decided upon which calls for the construe tion of 12 destroyers and six sub marines these are in addition to the 15 destroyers and six submarines tor for which bids have been advertised and voll be opened next month the airplane building program calls for new planes during the current fiscal year of these will be re placement planes for those now in service and 23 will be new craft two carriers and six cruisers now under construction and scheduled for completion in 1937 are to house some of the sew new planes in several eastern states FLOODS following torrential rains took about three score lives ives and did vast property damage the finger lakes and catskill mountain regions in new york suffered most severely the deaths there numbered forty and thou sands were rendered homeless gov herbert H lehman announced an im mediate allocation of for use in rehabilitation awas who knew ray long well was surprised to hear bear that former ly famous magazine editor had corn bitted suicide at his california home in late years he had not been very successful in business his most recent ventures being in the field of scenario writing he was not one to put up with adversity very long and it was characteristic of him to take the easy way out of suicide C CRITICS of the presidents program have made up their minds that he Is deliberately building up a crisis which will provide excuse for a de mand for constitutional amendments in the campaign of 1936 their con diction was strengthened by mr roose reese belts letter to congressman samuel B hill chairman of the interstate commerce subcommittee urging tho passage of the guffey coal bill regard less of doubts as to its constitution aliby president roosevelt followed the sug su of attorney general cummins hat that the legislation should be put abrou through h congress because the situa tion Is so urgent and taht the ques tion of constitutionality should be left up to the courts the pres dent admitting that coal mining Is in itself an intrastate trans action nevertheless wrote that the final test of the validity of the guffey bill would depend upon whether pro auction conditions directly affect promote or obstruct interstate commerce fhe supreme court in the anra case quoted a pre previous ilous opinion that mining manufacturing and other forms of production were as local in their character as the production of crops and hence beyond the reach of congress speared THE HE secretary of the treasury ap feared before the house ways and means committee which was trying to formulate the new tax bill wanted by the administration and declared that depending on the rates of taxation adopted the measure might bring in as much as 1000 a year or as little as annually As the representative of the tion the young secretary declined to advise as to the rates though the republican members of the committee tried to pin him down to details the legislation outlined by the president includes taxation of inheritances and gifts higher surtaxes on million dollar incomes and graduated income taxes on corporations senator charles 14 mcnary of oregon can leader predicted that congress either would recess and reconvene in the fall or would put off enactment of the tax bill until the ses slon ston beginning january 3 next 0 OUR UR army lost an able and distin gulshen officer in the death of maj gen stuart heintzelman at the army and navy hospital in hot springs ark the grandson and son of army officers general heintzelman was graduated from west point tn in 1899 after service in the philippines and china he was sent to prance france as an on ob server and when america entered the war he held high staff assignments he won the D S M and was decorated by france and italy from the incel tion of the CCO general heintzelman was in charge of federal reclamation projects in missouri until last feb auary when he was given command of thu seventh carls area i i itaas s t att iia L adams |