Show news review of current events the world over senate committee defies president and on extension roosevelt lists must bills and business 0 opposes p poses them by EDWARD W PICKARD C A V estern newspaper un on TS REGARDING the wishes of pres D disregarding ident roosevelt the finance corn com cittee of the senate adopted and re ported for passage a simple resolution continuing the nation al recovery act until P april 1 1936 and at the same time making these provisions I 1 no price fixing s shall hall be permitted or sanctioned in codes except in those re t lating to mineral or natural resources which now have price fixing provisions donald 2 no trade en Hi chberg gagg in a intrastate commerce shall be eligible for a code 3 the president Is given specified time in wh ch eh to review present codes to carry out the conditions laid down la in the first two exceptions to the resolution both president dent roosevelt and don aid bead head of the had urged the passage of a new two year bill which would set up a stricter dictatorship over business and indus try the senate finance committee however would not consent to this and instead pa parsed sed the resolution which was drawn up by senator dark clark of missouri and approved by chairman pat rat harrison twelve senators first called at the white house and the president teemed willing to accept the continuing resolution until mr air rich berg came in and protested urgently whereupon mr Roose roosevelt Neit turned it down the committee then tool the action noted by a vote of 16 to 3 de tying both the president and rich berg senator harrlson harrison said he had no doubt the senate would adopt the res alution with little debate H II 11 I I optimism marked the fireside A chat which president roosevelt delivered over the radio to the people of america which people he be said are as a whole feeling a lot better a lot mor mort cheerful than for many many bears i ears he ile asserted we are ow already on the aj march toward recovery and told how he be means to promote the return to normal conditions with his works relief pr program he ile promised to put to work three and a half pres dent million persons now roosevelt on the relief rolls and to press for en of legislation he considers nee essary for carrying on shenew the new deal only once did mr roosevelt allude to such critics of his administration as senator long father rather coughlin Coughl ln and governor talmadge he ile said the overwhelming majority of peo pie in this country know how to sitt sift the wheat from the chaff in what they hear bear and what they read they know that the process of the constructive rebuilding of america cannot be done in a day or a year but that it Is being done in spite of a few who seek to con fuse them and to profit by their con fusion these six fundamental principles gald said the president must guide the work relief program projects must be useful most of the money must go for labor a considerable proportion of the costs must be returned to the treasury only those projects which can employ persons on rel et ef will be ap proved and projects will be approved in a given area in proportion to the unemployed in that area EGI which the president L said in his radio talk should be enacted by congress dimmed abely in eluded the old age and unemployment insurance bill the extension bill the public utility holding company bill the transportation control bill and the banking bill here he comes into conflict again with the views of business leaders of the country the national association of manufacturers has just issued its economic analysis of conditions which says recovery Is within our grasp and that the nation Is closer to break ing the back of the depression than at any time for years but asks that in order to stimulate business the ad ministration and congress temporarily tempora ril v shelve as disturbing such legislation as unemployment insurance the omni bus banking bill the utility holding company bill the 30 hour work week the wagner labor disputes bill the guf fey bituminous coal measure and pro posed changes in railroad laws of tied up capital the analysis sald said this surveys indicate mat close to 20 in expenditures which would give employment to men for two years Is pent up in the field of factory expansion renovation and rehabilitation alone the release of this flow of private capital by removing political tain dainties ties would dwarf the billions ap by congress tor for relief and make male unnecessary the expenditure of much of the taxpayers money this document was given out as the members of the united states cham chain ber her of Com commerce mere were gathering in 11 ashIngton for their twenty third an nual convention and naturally ratu rally their speakers endorsed it and attacked much of the proposed legislation men honed as unwarranted intrusion of the government into business before it adjourned the chamber adopted resolutions condemning don of utility holding companies opposing the banking bill asking for relaxation and axtens on of tl e instead of the administration bill and postponing for further study the question of social security henry I 1 harriman Harrl man who has been president of the organization for three years retired from thit that office in favor of harper sibley of Po rochester chester N Y H JOW OW the new dealers propose to redistribute wealth by double tax atlon of large estates is revealed by secretary of the treasury in a letter to senator 4 pat harrlson harrison chair I 1 man of the senate fl 01 nance committee mr air outi nes a anesla plan of imposing in herl tance taxes an 1 also retaining the ex asting estate taxes as berting this Is in line with our fundamental t objectives that th s would result in the sec secretary ret ary dissolution ot large the morg Sen e thau properties secre tary recognizes for he to prevent the necessity of hasty liquidation of large es in order lo 10 pay the tax it might be provi provide dei 1 that inheritance taxes be payable in a convenient number of ants the plan as outi ned by mr morgen thau than is to impose graduated inheritance taxes on estates with rates fol follo lowin those of the present income tax rates which approximate CO 60 per cent on in comes of a million dollars or more a the he present estate taxes have a max icum of 60 per cent over ten million dollars thus there would first be a tax of 60 per cent upon the estate or gift and then another tax of 60 per cent to be paid by those inheriting or receiving it this would amount to a combined rate of 85 per cent on an estate ol 01 one hundred million dollars if all this money were handed ha out to the poorer people even huey long might be satisfied ICINGS department of S SECRETARY the interior has now been cIeNa elevated ted to the level of the state treasury and agriculture departments for congress has granted one of harolds harold s dearest wishes and given him an under underscore secre tary whose salary Is to be 10 a year this was a senate amendment to the interior department appropriation bill and was accepted by the house to 99 only after considerable pros pres sure had been applied by the adminis many of the house democrats have asserted that mr ickes snubbed them and they would have liked noth ing better than to adm nister a rebuke to him by defeating the amendment but the party leaders drove them into line A ARIZONA S victory over the govern ment in the parker dam case ruled on by the supreme court alarmed the new dealers for the safety of some of their other big projects of the same nature the court decided that secretary ickes as public works ad was without authority to dam navigable rivers unless specifically ordered by congress and that the law creating the had not listed any such specific projects as the parker dam the same applies to many huge reclamation projects that have received funds and it Is not kely lely that suits will be brought to stop some of them mr air ickes said congress would be asked to authorize specifically the construction of the parker dam F FEDERAL judges woodward wil kerson and lindley of chicago are not going to be impeached for the house subcommittee investigating equity and bankruptcy receiverships and practices reported the evidence taken did not warrant such action the report said that in several in stances conduct prejudicial to the dignity of the federal judiciary was disclosed but that substantial improve ments had been made both in the rules of the court and in the law ap to the administrator of re and bankruptcy litigation C CHAIRMAN JOHN J M SWAIN of the houe mil tary affairs commit tee sent to the I 1 resident a letter of apology for disclosure of defense pla plans ns outlined in sessions of the committee and assumed full res ability for the unfortunate unfortunate incident mcswain was rebuked by sletter letter from the president for the publication in a house document of possible defense plans aganet aga ast canada and british and french islands in the atlantic and the caribbean in the event of war brig gens r al andrews and charles E kilbourne hilbourne had outlined the program before a secret meeting of the corn com cittee LA I 1 VAI of france an ani ambassador in of russia finally fixed up the mutual ass stance pact between the two coin countries tries in a way nay acceptable to both and it was nas signed in paris NI laval then prepared pre lared ared to leave for moscow planning to stop in warsaw en route it would eem that laval had his way with the treaty for it nates military action of the two powers to the procedure of tl e league of ia eions to provisions of the locarno pact and also to the franco polish alii ance all of that probably pio bably would keep france out of war even eien if russia were attacked in pails it was taken for granted that a secret military conven tion supplementing the pact would soon be signed fixing the methods of mutual assistance GETTING ETTING a new transcontinental rec sord ord for transport tian sport ships a test plane flew from burbank calif to new lork in 11 hours and 5 in what Is more important tor for all but about one hundred miles it was ivas con trolled by a robot pilot D IV tom linson the pilot was accompanied by harold snead an expert on radio beam flying and peter navigation en engineer leer tomlinson had the controls to for r only three brief anten intervals als over the san bernardino range at durango colo where a snowstorm was and at the landing at floyd rloyd ben nett held the plane reached its great est cruising speed of miles an hour over the allegheny mountains are going to have haie the op 1 of deciding whether the r state shall remain dry or fall into line with most other states and repeal the tion law the legislature has voted to submit the question to popular action under the resol adopted the vote would be held nest next august 24 regulation would be left to the legis lature and at the general election in 1936 a vote would be taken on a man batory state monopoly over sales of hard liquor local option would be preserved under both straight repeal and the monopoly under the straight repeal plan wh ch eh also would bar the return of the open saloon GERMANY f N ERMANY S latest breach of the treaty of versailles the building of submarines Is stirring up a lot of angry talk in great britain france and italy the english are especially y disturbed for they remember only too vividly how near the germans came to starving them during the war b by y the destruction of shipping by the nn un deasea boats anglo german conversa eions on naval restriction were to have been held in london the second week in may and toese these may now be called oft off or at least leat postponed the french are less vexed because they think the development may force a show showdown down on the whole status of the german navy and hillers demind demand for at least 35 per cent of the british ton nage age and approximate parity with wit h that of france naval experts in paris said the disclosure might well wei prove of inestimable benefit for mill mil tary france in awa awakening lenIng naval bri tain fain to the dangers of hillers arma ments policy information obtained by the powers was that germany already had under construction a number of 20 ton sub marines and planned a large fleet of them spokesmen for the german gov eminent denied that any were being built yet but at the same time ad emitted that submarines were being eing b considered in connection with plans tor for rebuilding the navy listened to senator long H HAVING of louisiana and other orators who do not like the administration and its new 1 ew deal and also have little love for the G 0 P the national farmers hoi hol iday association in session at des iowa decided that a third national political party should be formed milo reno national president of the asso elation had a lively L encounter with a group of alleged communists milo reno during a business ses sion slon they sought adoption of nf a resolution calling for legislation for re lief ilef without debts production credit without strings and immediate re peal of the AAA reno denounced them as wall street racketeers and henchmen of soviet russia you can t talk you can t argue don t try to get the floor I 1 m running this meeting reno said sit down and shut up get out before we get really mad R D republicans of nine midwestern lx states who met at excelsior springs mo alo decided that the grass roots conference of leaders of the party should be held in springfield tl e date to be fixed later though it probably will be early in june the purpose of this gathering will be the rejuvenation of the party and the launching of a campaign to restore popular government POLICE folice of havana apparently are I 1 well ell on the way to solution of the mystery of the fire which destroyed the ward liner morro castle and other recent marine disasters they have ar rested three men all natives of cata cat a lan ian province in spain and say that they found on their persons letters of instruction concerning the destruction of the steamship magallanes of the spanish line which was soon due in havana tle tl e documents according to the authorities ordered the acau accused S ed to take necessary action to precipitate a disaster similar to that of the morro castle the police say the prisoners are re well known anarchists |