Show review of Curr current erst events BUSINESS WILL BE AIDED president approves suggestions of the advisory council CIO blamed for west coast losses 4 drags wolf and foolish bear aged members ot of the ancient water buster clan cian of north dakota s gros ventre indians are shown being greeted by the great white father president roosevelt whom th they ey visited on a trip which they hope will bring a merciful ram rain to end the long drouth in their parched country the indians were on their way to the foundation of the museum of the american indian where george G heye was to return to them a sacred bundle a I 1 medicine they believe will make their lands fertile again since the loss of the bundle in 1907 their country is slowly turning into desert due to lack of rain e summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union business at white house cofty members of the bus business ness advisory council of the depart ment of commerce all of them leaders of the nation s business and industry went to the white house for a long conference with the president and told him what they believed to be responsible for the current recession then they promised to operate cooperate with him in combating the slump on condition that he made clear the course he intends to follow the business men specified that necessities to aid in the struggle were limitation to wage hour legis lation a truce with public utilities no general purge of holding corn com banies and no further tinkering with the currency to these suggestions mr roose velt gave his approval others were heard by him without comment W averill the council s chair man issued a statement which em ern braced the views of his colleagues and which was read to mr roose veil the statement said re employ reemploy ment in private industry is the ariti cal problem now before the country and that uncertainties that exist in the hearts of men must be aradi bated we wish to record with you our faith in the efficacy of the prin caples of democracy and yet our grave concern over the possible far reaching effects of our present sit bation the statement concluded tolerance and understanding must be used by all sections and interests I 1 in n the country at the conclusion of the confer ence the president announced that he will seek the formulation of a definite policy designed to end the depression and create a framework for steady functioning of the nation s economic life through the appoint ment of a group representative of all the interests within the country the group would consist of as many as twenty five or as few as five or six persons who would be charged with the task of sifting over all proposals to aid business and unsnarling all conflicts existing among the various interests with a view toward perfecting an adminis and legislative policy for business K huge loss laid to CIO I 1 0 F CROM ROM the lips of mayor J K 1 carson of portland ore the sen sell ate s joint committee on commerce and labor learned that the activities of the I 1 0 and harry bridges its leader in that re gion have cost the people there more than a billion dol lars in the last three years this was due to u strikes and man marl time bridges cannot even vote in this 01 country said may or carson yet he harry ry bridges exercises more power over the m maritime industry of the pacific c coast than all the ship owners and all the seamen combined bridges who came from austra ha ila is not naturalized he is a corn com eunist and his deportation has been requested by the inspectors of the bureau of immigration and natural but issuance of a war rant has been prevented b by y S secre acre tary of labor frances perkins mayor carson said the shipping and fruit industries of the west coast had suffered not only because of maritime strikes but also because of tie ups caused by the longshore men s unions which are controlled by bridges the fruit industry is endangered by the present attitude of maritime labor mayor carson said the continued disruption of deliveries has resulted in a lack of confidence in our ability to fulfill orders caus ing us to lose our european mar bets to argentina and south africa C choice of reed liked of stanley formen breed 11 reed of kentucky solicitor general as associate justice of the supreme court met with general approval and it was predicted in wash ington that he would be speedily con firmed by the sen ate with little or no opposition republicans and democrats a alike I 1 I 1 k e were quick to praise t the h e kentuckian who while a de fender of many new stanley F pi deal measures has reed ee deputa acquired a tion for being realistic and a liberal with moderate tendencies senator ashurst chairman of the judiciary committee named a sub committee which approved the nom mation after a public hearing mr reed who will fill the va cancy caused by the retirement of justice george sutherland is fifty three years old and has never be b e fore been on the bench in 1929 herbert hoover then president made him general counsel of the federal farm board later he was shifted to the same capacity in the reconstruction finance corporation he retained his post at the outset of the present administration then president roosevelt picked him for solicitor general to defend the new deal cases before the su preme court of these he won 11 and lost 2 stalin chocks the purge OT a single bit of legislative i work was accomplished by the first session of the new parliament in soviet russia but there was a lot of speech making and external enemies s especially japan were de bounced and defied dictator josef stalin through the central committee ordered an end to the mass expulsion of Com communist munis t party members which has usually been followed by deah banishment or loss of jobs pravda the communist party newspaper indicated satisfaction with the results of the purge but assailed rotten leaders who played into the enemy s hands un der the mask of false vigilance agents of aasc sm sought to break up and oust from the ranks our bolshevist personnel pravda said king weds FAROUK king of egypt was mar 1 ned ried in cairo to miss fanda farida zul zui fikar as cannon boomed a salute the city was thronged with natives but they had no glimpse of the bride because the mos em clergy were in control and would not per mit ml t her even to be present at the ceremony they did however con sent to a semi public reception aft berwar erward d in the abdine palace at which the seventeen year old queen made an appearance tragedy dy in canada that destroyed the college of 1 the sacred heart at st ily acanthe not far from quebec result ed in the death of at least 47 per sons and the injury of many others the victims included members of the teaching staff as well as stu dents fourteen drums 0 0 gasoline housed in the four story structure contributed to the speed with which the fire roared through the building security fund shy expenditures under the social security and railroad retire ment acts were more up to january 1 1938 than was re by the treasury from taxes imposed to finance these programs the treasury said this condition would not hold permanently and that the social security taxes were being used primarily to build up a reserve for old age pensions which began operating the first of the year A great portion of the expendi expends tures was used in grants to states to set up social security machin ery ro ross ss was slam slain S CORE another for J edgar hoover and his G men they have so solved ived the mysterious case of the of charles ross elderly retired manufacturer in chicago last september arrested the kidnap er and obtained his confession that he killed both ross and his own con federate after getting 50 ran som money from mrs ross the murderer peter anders was taken at santa anita race track near los angeles where he had been passing some of the ransom money through the pan pari ma ina chines full details of his confession were not at once made public every tenth worker idle S statistics released by secretary of labor perkins showed that ev ery tenth worker in the country is without employment her findings were disclosed as the senate anem and relief committee called state and local relief admin istra tors to testify on increased de mands for aid during the recession approximately 1162 persons filed unemployment compensation claims for benefits during the first week of january when 21 states and the district of columbia began this new plan the secretary report ed mexican high tariff Fb FOR OR the purpose of leveling the balance alance on international pay ments mexico has just put into effect virtually prohibitive tariff rates on items considered to be lux unes uries no details regarding the amounts and nature of the new rates were revealed but the finance depart ment indicated that mexico desired to abolish the importation of almost everything except machinery the new rates will chiefly affect united states exporters who al ready have complained of recent in creases in mexico s tariff schedule secretary of state hull has said that the increases were contrary to the plan of removing trade barriers as advocated at the inter american peace conference at buenos aires in 1936 chautemps in again F RANCE S latest governmental crisis e ended with the return ol 01 camille chautemps to the post ol 01 premier he and his popular front cabinet h had a d re signed because of financial and labor troubles several old timers tried in vain to form a new gov and chau temps emps was again called on for the wk job ob his ills new cabinet was much like the former one and I 1 it A was believed belleve d it camille would o 0 not need the chautemps support of the corn com eighteen of the twenty ministers were radical socialists chautemps was drawing up plans for extensive social reforms continuation of france s vast armament program seemed as what with foreign minister yvon delbos and defense minister edouard DeI deladier adier retaining their posts in the new cabinet more woe for jews 0 S government headed rby rv by premier octavian G goga og a i so anti semitic that thousands is and s 0 of jews are seeking means of escape from the country jewish commit tees visited foreign consulates in bucharest to ask about the pos sibil ity of emigration to brazil echio pia pla madagascar mexico or aus aralia one of the vastest moves of the government is the issuance of orders that make virtually imps sible the intermarriage of jews and gentiles all alien jews not engaged in farming were given 30 days in which to quit ecuador under a decree by the provi provisional siona I 1 military government of col alberto eriquez hundreds of jews permitted to colonize in ecuador to escape persecution in central europe entered business in stead of agriculture as the govern ment had expected them to do the decree said c tax changes planned C CHAIRMAN DOUGHTON and his house ways and means commit tee began hearings on proposals for 63 changes in the revenue laws which would exempt small corpora eions constituting 90 per cent of american business under the vided profits levy and grant large enterprises only part of the relief demanded from harsh rates these changes were formulated by fred vinson s subcommittee which in a long report defended them as fair and predicted they would stimulate business without re the federal revenue |