Show news review of current events the world over fi presidents way of ending virgin islands row arouses criticism senator black probes for truth about utilities cigar box ii by EDWARD W PICKARD Q western ne newspaper shaper unon union HAT row over the administration bof THAT of the virgin islands was so unpleasant that president roosevelt felt impelled to settle it himself so he removed from office the two chief battlers gov paul il 11 pearson and judge T webber wilson had other jobs found for them and nominated as pearsons successor lawrence W cramer who was sen ing as lieutenant gohei governor gov einor nor of st croix island confirmation of this appointment L lw l W cramer was not dot immediate the senate committee inesti gating the islands affairs was slow in making up its mind about cramer crainer aal from rom st SL thomas came the news that the foes of the pearson administration there together with a delegation delps atlon from bt 81 croix wore were protesting ig rigorously orous ly against the presidents selection of a mew dew governor the emancipator opposition piper paper cald bald editorially the islanders would about as soon have bate pearson for under cramer no change of policy can be expected poor and unknown as the humble people of the virgin islands may be they are entitled to an example of honor and courage from the president of the american republic the disposal of pearson and wilson also aroused criticism in washington the former had bad been attacked steadily by pat harrison arrison II of mississippi and other democratic senators but secretary of the interior ickes had defended him warmly so lie was given a job under ickes being made assistant director of housing in the at a year a place not previously filled in order to provide a job for judge wilson a former congressman from mississippi and a of senator harrlson a woman was forced off the federal parole board attorney general cummungs requested and obtained the resignation of dr arny amy A stannard a psychiatrist who has been in the government service 12 years with a civil service status and had been a member of the parole board since 1030 wilson was sworn in as her successor since wilsons Wil sons qualifications tor for the place appeared to be chiefly political observers in washington noted sadly that the parole board was getting back into political hands W HAT was waa to in the cigar box wrapped in a newspaper that ts what senator hugo clack black c halman chairman of the senate lobby committee wanted to know before the committee for questioning was john NV carpenter oydall of dallas president of the texas power and light company ue ile admitted freely that he and other utility men had hotel conferences dinners and a t trip r lp P down chesapeake b bay I 1 Y with congressmen dur senator black the fight over t the h e wheeler rayburn bill and that he himself had centered his efforts on texas congressmen but of the mysterious box he could or would tell nothing clothing black probed and probed and finally asked do you still say that in the morn trig ng of the day before the vote on the utilities bill death sentence you give a congressman a box bos wrapped up la in a newspaper carpenter replied quietly 1 I don dont it khlok I 1 did unless it was a few clears senate and house bouse conferees met to consider the utility control bill but there were small ismall signs that they could i let get together and one session ended abruptly in a real row two adain admin lobbyists hobbyists benjamin cohen cohea and nd dozler dozier A de vane were brought linto into the executive session by senators wheeler and barkley arid and though rep george huddleston pro tested their continued presence was insisted upon whereupon the fiery alabama congressman and his fell fellows aws from the house walked out and broke up cp the meeting cohen Is generally given iven credit tor for writing the measure after leaving the committee room biddleston Budd leston said bald flatly dally that the house 1 1 conferees woud wand not recede from the position that the death sentence must laust be eliminated OPPONENTS 0 of the AAA amendments designed to strengthen the powers ot of secretary of agriculture wallace decided to let the basic act 2 0 go o up to the supreme court so the ad ministration bill was passed by the senate enate with only 15 adverse votes voles both republican and conservative f democratic foes 0 of the AAA are conf fluent that the supreme court will hold s the basic act unconstitutional and an early arly test best Is assured by a senate i OA suits to recover processing taxes that have not been passed on to producers or consumers one of the major purposes of the amendments was to close the courts a but the senate rejected this scheme by 3 a vote of 41 io to 23 As a result the hoosack sack mills case in which the noa Z y ton circuit courts of appeals held the AAA unconstitutional will not be thrown out and the highest tribunal will have a chance to pass upon it amid so much adverse criticism the action of the midwest All divest farm far na leaders gathered in chicago must have been soothing to mr wallace allace resolutions were passed praising the secretary and bongi esslonia essl onil leaders for their efforts in behalf of agricultural equality the farm fann leaders urged senate approval for tile commodity exchange bill passed by the house and asked re estable establishment intent of the pacific northwest wheat export under tinder the AAA to present wheat surpluses in that area from competing with midwest wheat and other oilier grains the meeting voiced opposition to tile the plans for co ardi nation suggesting far farmers would profit more by competition among carriers P federal control of the liquor business is proofed ded for in a bill which was passed by the house and sent to the senate with prospects of early adoption by that body the meas ule uie which creates within the treasury a new dew agency to be known as the federal alcohol administration was asked by the president to replace the FACA killed by the supreme courts decision mr roosevelt wanted the new ag gency agency to be an independent office but the house decided otherwise I 1 IMMEDIATE convocation of the league of nations council to deal with the italo ethiopian question was demanded by haile selassie Se lassle emperor of ethiopia on his big behalf the demand was telegraphed to the league secretariat at geneva by hawaryat ethiopian Ethl minister to F france rance and delegate to the league lie ile insisted that the council proceed to the examination z of the situation t under article XV of emperor emper halle the league covenant set Selas sla ethiopia invoking this article because of the threat to her independence from italy british dispatches said prime minister stanley baldwin and leading members of his cabinet were believed to favor full league action if other nations agreed as a last resort to avert the threatened conflict diplomatic quarters t er a in london beard that the british government probably would alter its policy and permit the export of arms amis to ethiopia the emperors new minister there IV C martin had a conference at the foreign office and came ou out t smiling happily but saying nothing previously mr air martin had admitted that ethiopia was wag short not only of arms but also of money at the moment we haie hae very little money he be said 1 I am doing all that is possible to raise loans in london but thus far I 1 have not met with a great measure of success P PARTIAL ARTIAL investigation of the milk industry by the federal trade uku commission was said to have revealed deplorable plo rable conditions and the administration asked for to continue the inquiry the senate committee in considering the deficiency dell clency appropriation bill cut out that item altogether but when the measure came before the senate duffy of wisconsin moved an amendment adding the sum risked asked after a hot debate this was approved by a vote of 51 to IS 18 and the bill was then passed the numerous senate amendments had added a total of more than SO to the house measure so the bill was sent to conference on FARMERS in the middle west ready to harvest their crops found they get hands to do the work the idle men ordinarily counted on for this were on the relief rolls and declined offers of farm labor for two reasons ea the wages paid by the farmers were e less than the sums recel Ned from from the relief organization or tor for government works and if the men once went off the dole they feared they would have have trouble getting back there when the harvest was over the situation was desperate and emergency relief commissions were urged to take action this they did in the states affected and it was announced the revolt was under tinder control the illinois commission stopped all relief works in the rural areas until after harvest in kansas persons refusing any temporary employment were removed from the relief rolls in nebraska 20 26 counties were cut off from federal relief allotments and in 15 others the allotments were cut in half in nearly a score of iowa counties officials denied relief and able bodied men on relief rolls were admonished to accept employment in the harvest fields lit in north dakota all but projects were halted and the hi state ad announced unit that as soon as the harvest was over the new works progress administration would take eare are of unemployable a 3 arster C DAVIS AAA administrator C CHESTER and his fellow officials were shocked when they were this classified real estate advertisement ti in the globe of 0 joplin mo dat dandy 1 ily way to make money pay buy lit this Is 13 acres for hog raising sign up with the government to not raise say WO hogs it will pay you 1000 that will pay tor for the acres and have some loft left its preposterous exploded mr davis dails its at least preliminary to fraud its deliberate misrepresentation and not in any way possible I 1 shall be begin in an investigation at once dat determination of the nazis to p put an end to political bacholl catholicism in germany and their consequent drive against catholic youth organizations may bring on results more serious even than has the nazi antl semitism general goering Go cring head of the secret police va ar gave out a warning to catholic priests to be careful in ID their corn coin ments from the pulpit and franz guertner gaertner minister of justice is sued red a decree threatening franz prosecution for G guertner u ertner any y priest violating goering goei ings s injunction throughout the country generally the catholic clergy w was is cautious but in freiburg caden baden where the goering order had not been published before Sun sunday dily the priests read in their pulpits a letter from the episcopate calling the nazi action a N lo lation of the concordat with tile the vatican to tills this charge the nazis reply that the catholics were the first to viol violate ate the concordat by making attacks on the hitler youth movement in their parish capeis this new purge by the nazis includes bludes a renewed crusade agaI against lIbL the tile jews and dissolution of the steel hel mets veterans organization in varl ous provinces the jews are helpless and it if julius stretcher Str elcher has his way will be oil all driven out of berlin or segregated gre gated in ghettos but the steel nel liel mets whose chief Is minister of labor franz selete are likely to cause the hitler government a lot of trouble the organizations weekly paper Is using language that Is not often heard in germany these days and selete Is demanding the reason tor for suppression of the local divisions LA GUARDIA of new york M MAYOR has created an international incident all by himself ne he backed up license commissioner paul moss in his refusal to license one mr K to work in the metropolis as a massage operator because he Is 13 a german the german diplomatic officials were preparing to complain compla lD to the state department part ment that the city was violating the german american coin commercial treaty of 1925 1025 but mr la guardia 3 declared the treaty Is 13 null and vold void because germany has discriminated a against american citizens of jewish origin ile he indicated that not even the state department can force him to back do n this order shall be carried out until such time as we are directed to do otherwise by the courts he said the german question also threatened to come up in the senate for senator king of utah said he would ask an I 1 investigation n vesti gation to determine whether the united states would be warra warranted cited in severing diplomatic relations with germany I 1 HAT wholly un american procedure the general strike was tried out by organized labor in indiana and the inhabitants of terre haute were deprived of all food supplies the local authorities of vigo county called on the governor for help and mr mcnutt promptly ordered 14 companies of the national guard to the scone scene brig gen wray de prez in command promised the merchants who had been bullied into shutting their shops would be given protection and said his first endeavor would be to restore the will milk and ice service this had been cut off even from hospitals the general strike was called by 48 unions without warning because e labor leaders had bad been unable to reach an agreement with the columbian enameling and stamping company some GOO of that concerns employees went on strike in march and the plant was closed down but the union leaders thought it was about to be reopened by strikebreakers conciliatory conciliators Concilia Concilla tors from the department of labor arrived and within 48 hours the general strike collapsed and was called off by tile the union officials in charge the strike at tile the stamping company however continued in effect aud and several times the troops were forced to use tear gas bombs to disperse riotous w mobs abs terre haute merchants estimated that the two days strike cost them at least half a million dollars the state spent probably in maintaining order by use of tile the troops the state stat federation of labor asserted the sym pathy walkout was unauthorized all their rebellious III IE DROPPING the democrats of thi house did the admInIs tra tion wished in considering the s social 0 cia 1 security bill as altered by the senate the conferees had settled all tilt dlf gerences feren cea ces after two weeks of hard work but one of the amendments they ne ac cepter was that permitting private privat pension systems to function under tin the measure the majority members ol of the house were informed that priest dent roosevelt was opposed to this si el they refused to accept it the senan would not permit the elimination ol 01 0 the amendment so back to conference con ferenci went the bill |