| Show news review of current events the world over veto of bonus bill overridden by house upheld by senate ford boosts wages hitler s peace pro program ram by EDWARD W PICKARD Q 1 western newspaper union SETTING EUTING it a new prece precedent dentt president roosevelt acted as his own messenger and personally returned to speaker byrne the patman bonus measure with ills disapproval before a joint session of the house and senate and crowded galleries tile the chief executive read his veto message an able able and well ordered document in which he set forth ills his conviction f that the welfare of the nation as well as the future welfare president pr I 1 en of f the veterans wholly roosevelt ro s velt justifies my disapproval of this measure asserting that an able bodied citizen even though he wore a uniform should not dot be accorded treatment different from that of other citizens he said the veteran who Is disabled owes Ws condition to the war the healthy leteran Te teran who Is unemployed owes ills his troubles to the depression any attempt to mingle the two problems Is to confuse our efforts mr Roosevel ts stern warning against the dangers of inflation inherent in the measure was listened to in allence though there was mild ap ganss at other times all his argument was in vain so far as the house was concerned for as he left the chamber there were quick demands for a vote tote and by the time he had reached the white house the representatives ahad bad overridden his veto and again passed the bill by a vote of to 93 lin the affirmative were democrats 64 republicans 7 progressives Progress ives and 3 farmer labovites laborites those voting to eustale the veto were CO 60 democrats and 38 republicans the re passed bill was laid before ithe senate by vice president garner and senator thomas insisted on the reading of the veto message in that body action was postponed tor for one day because a lot of the senators wanted to make speeches the debate in the senate was long and perfervid and quite unnecessary because the result of the vote had been a certainty for several days fifty 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 ilver over from their stand when the bill was first passed they were pittman ot of nevada pope of idaho and coolidge ot of massachusetts all democrats the only absentee was norbeck of south dennis chavez the new senator from new mexico caused a surprise by voting to uphold the veto I 1 bonus advocates and were prepared for further action jn various ways one plan was the in of a bill to draw to pay the bonus from the work reuel appropriation out of which the president has already approved the allocation of about for immediate work projects other measures as riders to navy or le legislative tive appropriation bill bills were being dratted so there was a prospect of a great tangle in the administrations legislative program JN TN ITS annual statement the ford motor company discloses that it made a gain of in 1931 1934 over the previous year to a total of just before these figures were made public the company announced that ignat the minimum dally daily wage of its employees would be raised from sa 5 a iday to 0 adding a month to the pay roll the ford and lincoln plants in detroit and all other cities share in this revL revision slon of the wage scale henry ford began boosting the wage bcalel back in 1914 and in answer to adverse criticism of economists he made the pay increases a polley policy of his bis company ue he put the minimum wage at 0 in 1919 1019 and ten years later raised it to 7 where it remained until the end of 1931 1031 with the depression it fell back to 4 but in march 1934 a raise to 5 was maile made the companas comp anys announcement bays the ford motor company has paid its workmen a total of over and above what the company need deed to have paid had it followed the general wage scale ISS JANE ADDAMS first citizen M MISS of chicago tamed famed ea as a social worker and peace advocate ba has gone to her reward aud and her passing Is deeply mourned by the many thousands of 0 poor and unfortunate persons tor for whom she had made life more endurable she started her real life work in 1889 among the It italians allans and other foreigners on Chi cagos west side aide founding null hull house which grew into the most famous social settlement in america later her activities were extended to the amelioration of sweatshop conditions the child lifbor len lem and then to tho the matto of ant national peace during th war ghe was made president of the w m anikis international ter pence peace con conference ferenc at the hague and site she inter interviewed dewed the officials of virtually every one of the balliger ent nations three times she presided at the sessions of the international congress of women and she was prominent in many humanitarian movements but it Is as the head of hull house and the tireless friend alend of the poor and underprivileged that her memory will live longest OV MARTIN L DAVEY of ohio GOV withdrew the warrant charging federal relief administrator harry hopkins with criminal libel so the administrator was able to visit cleveland and make a speech without being arrested the governor said that all the objectives which were sought have been accomplished and no good purpose can be served by carrying on guerilla warfare of the list of projects to be F FIRST under undertaken tal en under the works relief program Is the tidal I 1 power scheme and there Is a lot of grumbling because it was placed place d a at t the head of the line 11 by the president it himself this project was once turned down as un economic by secretary ickes the assertion being that it would cost too much in comparison with the returns that taught be expected would take too long for comple major fler ing 9 tion and was in a region where so much work relief was not needed but mr roosevelt whose campobello summer cottage Is near the location of the proposed dam site Is said to be personally interested in the project believing it will bring new industries to the area anyhow this big maine project Is 13 to go ahead and maj philip B D fleming flemin of the army engineers corps has been chosen to take charge of the construction 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 or about a billion dollars in work relief allotments were given verbal approval by the president these having been favorably passed by on by the allotment board included to in this pr program are extensive rivers and harbor works throughout the country anil and a integrated works program for wisconsin the latter was planned by senator la follette and his brother governor la follette and approved by the administration these initial allotments will put a lot of men to work in a short time for the plans for many of the projects already 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 highway construction and grade crossing elimination funds for these expenditures were earmarked in the bill N AN executive order the president I 1 IN established pay rates under the sa work relief measure dividing the country into tour four sections in setting regional nages pay will range from 19 a month tor for unskilled laborers in the south to 94 04 a month for professional and technical workers in the east the wages will be from 20 to 30 per cent below the prevailing wage rate structure throughout the country D HITLER ap repeating Rp lv eatIng before the reichstag outlined a 13 point program for disarmament and the improvement of international relations and did it so well it cannot well be ignored by the other nations of europe lie ile again rejected the resolution of the league of notions nations council condemning him film tor for the re arming of germany but said 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 and after germany Is granted full equality rights extending to all functions and privileges in international life to the great satisfaction of great britain hitler promised to respect the territorial clauses of the versailles treaty which he said could not be modified by unilateral action ue he declared germany was willing to sign aggression non pacts with all her neighbors except lithuania and to agree to an arms embargo it if others would do the same also the belch la Is ready to sign an air convention supplementing the locarno pact maj gen walter von nel chenau director of the ministry of defense announced that under the new conscription decrees the classes of 1914 and 1910 1915 germanys germanas Germ anys war bables babies would be called up tor for medical examinations starting june 1 the able men of the class of 1014 will be called to 10 the colors november 1 tor for the army and air force the class of 1015 la Is to bo be conscripted tor for the labor service at the same time r ilA in a note to the league 0 of nations council defied the italian nar preparations and gave warning that she would yield neither cr to intimidation nor to violence capt anthony eden and pierre layal laval tried lit in vain to persuade baron italian delegate to accept B R gift of exclusive economic privileges in Ethl opla i in exchange for saving the leagues face and keeping a united front in europe the states men in geneva began to believe there was no way of stopping african adventure tile the rome goern go eminent Is decidedly exasperated great britain charging that the brit mi are promoting the shipment of war materials to ethiopia Ethl opla through british Soma liland emperor halle selassie Sc lassle has just bought a large fleet of bombing planes from turkey some of which wore were sold to the turks by british firms MANEUVERS M of the pacific neel fleet were marred by another fatal air plane accident A seaplane plunged into tile the ocean 40 miles south of midway Is land and the six members of its crew crevy were lost the vict victims lius were harry charles charlee J kelly aviation chief machinists mate r 11 C litts chief radioman C al dorry derry first mate P J 1 protean and third machinists mate male Q A sharpe S SENATOR WAGNER of new york and representative crosser ot ohio offered to in the senate and house hous identical railroad labor pension bills bill drafted in a way anny to meet the objections of the supreme court to the law it declared unconstitutional WHEN aa LIEN dennis chavez was brought into the senate to be sworn in as successor to the late bronson cutting of new mexico six liberal members bers silently walked out of the chamber in protest against the efforts that had been made to unseat mr cutting those who nho participated in this unprecedented action were senators hiram johnson california william E borah idaho george norris nebraska and gerald P nye north dakota republican independents and robert al lafollette wisconsin progressive gres sive and henrik min MID desota farmer laborite D immense airplane the rv mallm gorky corky largest land plane in the world was destroyed when it collided with a small training plate over 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 email plane the victims were vere mostly engineers and workers of the central aero dynamic institute and members of their families who were being taken for a pleasure ride S SECRET ECRET hearings bearings were opened by the house military affairs committee to investigate charges that the tennessee valley authority already has squandered 1000 of government money in ID questionable awards of contracts for dynamite and powder and through other irregularities arthur E morgan head ol of the TVA and his two fellow directors david lilienthal and marcourt harcourt A morgan were summoned before the A E morgan committee the charges are contained in an audit of the TVA made by comptroller general J K R mccarl some of the irregularities he claims to have uncovered are the awarding without competitive bidding of a contract which obligated the government for an indefinite sum slim of money estimated esti maled at Oer payments of an original con COD tract by as much as per cent awarding of contracts in contravene con traven tion of law to firms which were not the low bidders with one contract go ing to a bidder who was seventh from low failure to require one large con COD tractor to post performance bond and at the same time the payment of fea fe to this contractor in advance despite a legal prohibition against advance payments solicitation of bids by telephone or circulars firc ulars among a certain group of vate business houses or in other ir regular ways the TVA directors were said to tie be prepared to disprove the worst of the charges and to be ready to make some disclosures of their own the inquiry came as tile the admInIs tra lion was trying to get tile house corn com cittee to report favorably the bill recently passed by the senate providing more money for the TVA and en lar ing its scope of operations H LJ ous OCSE leaders were hurrying to ward passage the administrations amendments an to the AAA net act enlarge ing the powers of that organization the demand of opponents for long de bate being denied it was certain measure would arouse controversy lit in the senate jobbers and retailers 0 ol 01 foodstuffs of whom there are abou in the country are much dis by bv these proposed amendments amendment for the measure extends to them the processing taxes now imposed on floi manufacturers makes them subject to regulations not yet specified and re quires that each one be ba licensed 03 the AAA prince F federik of denvarl C and printess ingrid of sweden anere ere married in stockholm in the presence of a brilliant assemblage A week of activities preceded the cere mony attracting great throngs to the k swedish i |
