Show news review of current f events the world over veto of bonus bill by house upheld by senate fold boosts wages hitler s peace program by EDWARD W PICKARD A estern newspaper un on S OETTING ETTING a new precedent f lies i es deni dent u Roose roosevelt Nelt acted as h own mes and personally returned tc to speaker barne the patman bonus measure with mith I 1 is dis 11 approval before a a joint sess on of the house and senate ano and crowded galleries the VW V chief executive read his veto message an able and well ordered document in wh mh eh ch he set forth his condic tion that the welfare I 1 of the as well as the f iture welfare pres res dent of the g veterans wholly roosevelt justifies my disapprove al at of this measure asserting that an able bodied citizen even though he wore a uniform should not be accord ed treatment different from that of other citizens he said the veteran who is disabled 0 oves ves his cond tion to the war the health y veteran who is unemployed oves oes 16 I 1 la troubles to the depression any at tempt to mingle the two problems Is to confuse our efforts mr roosevelt s stern hirning against the dangers of inflation inmei ent in the measure was mas listened to in silence though there was mild ap lause at other times all his argir ment was in vain so far as the house was concerned for as he left the chamber there were quick demands for a vote and by the time he had reached the white house the representatives had o overridden his veto and again passed tl e bill by a vote of to 98 in the affirmative were democrats 64 republicans 7 progressives and 3 farmer laborites those voting to sustain the veto were CO 60 democrats and 38 republicans the re passed bill was laid before the senate by vice president garner and senator thomas insisted on the reading of the veto message in that body action was postponed for one day because a lot of the senators wanted to make male speeches the debate in the senate was lo 10 long and perfervid and quite un unnecessary necess ar y because the result of the vote had bad been a certainty for several days fifty tour four senators voted to override the veto but 40 supported the president and only 32 were needed to kill the measure three members had switched over from their stand when the bill was first passed th v were pittman ot of nevada pope of idaho and coolidge ot of massachusetts all democrats the only absentee was norbeck of south dakota dennis chavez the new sen ator from new mexico caused a sur prise by voting to uphold the veto ONUS advocates and baere rj were prepared for further action in various ways one plan was the in tro of a bill to draw 2 to pay the bonus from the worl wort relief appropriation out of which the 11 president resident has already approved the allocation of about for immediate work projects other measures as riders to navy or legisla tive appropriation bills were being drafted so there was a prospect of a great tangle in the administrations legislative program TN N ITS annual statement the ford motor company discloses that it made a gain of 3 in 1934 1034 over the previous year to a total of just before these figures were made public the company announced that the minimum dally daily wage of its employees would be raised from 0 o a day to 8 6 add ng 2 a mo month nth to the pay roll the ford and lincoln plants in detroit and all other cities share in this revis on of the wage scale henry ford began boosting the wage ecale scale back in 1914 and in answer to adverse criticism of economists he made the pay increases a policy of his company he lie put the minimum wage at 0 6 in 1919 1019 and ten years later raised it to 7 where it remained until the end of 1931 with the depression it fell back to 4 but in march 1934 a raise to 5 was made the company s announcement says the ford motor company has paid its workmen a total of over and above what the company need to have paid had it followed the general wage scale ISS JANE ADDAMS first citizen M MISS of chicago ily tamed famed as a social worker and peace advocate has gone to her reward and arid her pass ing Is deeply mourned by the many thousands of poor and unfortunate per sons for whom she had made life more endurable she started her real life work world in 1889 among the ital ana ans and other foreigners on chicago s west side founding hull house which grew into the most famous social settlement in america later her activities were extended to the amelioration of sweat shop conditions the child labor lem and then to the matter of inter national peace during the war she was made president of the women s in ter national peace conference at the hague and she interviewed the officials ot of virtually every one of the bel balliger belll lIger ger ei t nat ons three times s she he presided atthe at the of the interi congress of women and sl e w wis is aiom pi OB anent in many hun an tartan in m ve e meats ments but it Is as the abeid b ead of hull lull house and the tireless trier d of the poor and underprivileged that I 1 e er r mem ory will live longest OV maptin L DIVEY of ohio GOV withdrew the mariant wan ant char g ng federal pel rel ef bf ad i aitor harry hopkins with crimin it I 1 bel co 0 o the ad in ni strato vias was able to v sit cleveland and mil e a speech w m phout being ar rested the governor over nor sad thit that all the objects objectives cs which so hive he been sl bi ed and no f g od p rp se can be dived by carrying cari ying on guenella warfare arst of the list of projects to be te FIRST Funder undertaken talen under the works re rel ef program Is the tidal power scheme and there Is a lot of grumbling because it k wis placed at the head of the line by the president himself this project was once turned down as un 3 economic by secretary ickes the assertion being that it would cost too much in corn com parison with the re turns that ml might abt be expected would take tale major fleming too long for comple tion and was in a region where so much work relief was not needed but mr roosevelt whose campobello sum mer cottage Is near the location of the proposed dam darn site Is said to be personally interested in the project believing it will bring new industries to the area anyhow tl it is big maine project is to go ahead and maj philip B fleming of the array army engineers corps corps has been chosen to take charge of the construe tion major fleming has been serving in the for some time but has been released for this eastport East port work N ADDITION to the I 1 IN project calling for 10 about a b ilion doll dollars irs in work rel ef allot ments were given verbal approval by the president these I 1 abing been favor ably passed by on by the allotment board included in this program are exten extensive lve ahers and harbor works throughout the country and a integrated works program for wisconsin the latter was planned by senator la follette and la s brother governor la follette and approved by the administration these initial allotments will put a lot of men to work worl in a short time for the plans for many of the projects al at ready are complete mr roosevelt pointed out that 25 to 50 per cent of the work relief funds to be spent in the various states would go out through mandatory allotments to such units as the CCO highway construction and grade crossing elmington elmi el aminat naton on funds for these expenditures were earmarked in the bill IN IN AN executive order the president it established pay rates under the 4 work relief measure dividing the country into four sections in set ting regional wages pay will rane from 19 a month for unskilled labor ers in the bouth south to 94 a month for professional and technical workers in the east the wages will be from 20 to SO 80 per cent below the prevailing wage rate structure throughout the country D HITLER ap spearing Rp lv earing before the reichstag out lined a 13 point program for disarm ament and the improvement of inter national relations and did it so well it cannot well be ignored by the other nations of europe he ile again rejected the resolution of the league of nations council condemning him for the re arming of germany but sa d germany might return to the league if that body divorced itself from the principles of the versailles treaty and from the psychology of victors and vanquished ani ant after germany Is granted full equality rights extending to all tune eions and privileges in international life to the great satisfaction of great britain hitler prom sed to respect the territorial clauses of the versailles treaty which he said could not be modified by unilateral action he ile de blared germany was willing to s agn non aggression pacts with all her neigh bors hors except lithuania and to agree to an arms embargo if others would do the same also the retch Is ready to sign an a r convention supplementing the locarno pact maj gen walter yon von Pel chenau dl di rector of the ministry of defense an bounced that under tl e pew conscription decrees the classes of 1914 and 1915 germany germanys s war babies would be called up for medical examinations starting june 1 the able men of the class of 1914 will be called to the col org ors november 1 for the army and air force the class of 1915 is to be con scripted for the labor service at the same time EN othiol I 1 U A in a note to the I 1 eague of gioi s council def ed the italian var war pre ons and gave naming warning tl it s sie ie ft ild yield neither to dat on 11 nor or to viol violence nee apt capt anthony aden ind I 1 lierre berre la lava a trie I 1 ir van to I 1 ler enu built i it B bir ir n al at i I 1 atall italien in de e efte ite to ap ac ea e t a g ft of exi excl is e privileges leaps lees in I 1 th oan in ex eh chare are tor for ai ng n the ie gies fice mj keel keei n I 1 i un ted front ti it L i 1 01 u e il ll e states wen men in cene geneva a h b ga to I 1 leltie el t N e tl ere wa no tio v ty of stopp ng mu s alm u af ric n advent ire lie ernp R avern s vern nent Is deci gedly against greit I 1 r flin cenin that thit tie ih ire prom ting tl e sh ch an ei t of war materials to I 1 11 t i I 1 a tt 0 r ioli ih br tish bornal lind I 1 n i er r fiille e has j i t b gt t a large fleet of bomb n u I 1 1 I 1 i es from I 1 I 1 u kev some of which va were ere s id to the turl by british farms M kni UN of the I 1 ac tie fleet 1 m were ere mirre I 1 by it ir other fatal a r plane ace dent A absei se it me ine pi pl ingel inge I 1 into the ocean 40 1 niles illes south of midway is land and the six a en bera hers of its crew were lost the victims were lie it harry I 1 irger I 1 aut charles J kelly kiriti n chief machinists mate I 1 0 I 1 itts cl let pad rad oman C at derry first firt mach mah fists s mate P J I 1 coteau and third machinists machinist s mate Q A chirpe EN loft R of new york S kj and crosser of ohio offered in the senate and house identical ra broad libor pension bills drafted in a nay way to meet the object eions of the S iprema court to the lav lay it declared unconstitutional dennis denials chavez was brocht into tl e senate to be sworn ha n as successor to the late bronson cutting of pt new mexico six liberal mem mern bers hers s bently walked out of the chain ber in protest against the efforts that had been made to unseat mr cutting those who participated in this un action were senators hiram johnson california william E borah idaho george norris nebraska and gerald P nye north dakota I 1 republican independents and robert al La lafollette wisconsin pro gresslee gress gres lve sive and henrik min desota I 1 armer laborite R p S immense airplane the 1 maxim gorky corky largest land plane in the world was destroyed desti oyed when it collided with a small training plane oer a moscow suburb collapsed at a height of 2000 feet and fell in ruins all on board 48 in number were killed as was the pilot of the small plane the victims were mostly eng engi and workers of the central aero dynamic institute and members of their heir families who were being talen taken for a plea pleasure ure ride ECI ET hearings bearings were opened by the house military affairs commit tee to investigate charges that the tennessee valley authority already has squandered 1000 1 OW of government money in questionable awards of contracts for dynamite and pow der and through other irregularities arthur E morgan head ot of the TVA and his two fellow directors david lil anthal and har court A morgan were S summoned u before the A E mor morgan g an committee the charges are contained in an audit of the TVA made by comptroller general J R mccarl some of the irregularities he claims to have un covered are the awarding without competitive bidding of a contract which obligated the government for an indefinite sum of money estimated at overpayments of an original pal con tract by as much as per cent award ng of contracts in contravene con traven tion of law to farms which were not the low bidders with one contract go ing s to a bidder who was seventh from low failure to require one large con tractor to post performance bond and at the same time the payment of fees to this contractor in advance despite a legal prohibition against advance pay ments merits solicitation of bids by telephone or circulars among a certain group of vate business houses or in other lr ir regular ways the TVA directors were said to be prepared to dis disprove proe the worst of the charges and to be ready to make some disclosures of their own the inquiry came as the tra tion was m as arving to get the house corn com nl natte tte to report favorably the bill recently passed by the senate provid ing more money for the f VA and en barging its scope of operations H OUSE leaders were hurrying to ward passage the administration administrations s amendments to the AAA act ing the powers of that organization the demand of opponents for long de bate being denied it was certain this measure would arouse controversy in the senate jobbers and retailers of foodstuffs of whom there are about in the country are much disturbed by these proposed amendments for the measure extends to them the processing taxes now imposed on food manufacturers makes them subject to regulations not yet specified and requires that each one be licensed by the AAA prince frederil Freder lk of denmark CROWN and princess ingrid of sweden were married in stockholm in the presence of a brilliant assemblage A week of activities preceded the cere mony attracting great throngs to the swedish capital |