Show news review of current events the world over presidents program pro 0 rani driven through C congress 0 before adjournment mussolini refuses to abandon his projected conquest of ethiopia by EDWARD W pinkard PICKARD 0 western newspaper union action in both house L legislative and senate was rast fast and furious dri luring dg the closing days of the session white house pressure was freely use used filibusters were start ed and stopped senators and represents tives hot and both ered wore were inclined to be quarrelsome but T congress had its or ders and it wanted to go home so tile the ad ministration program in general was I through one of the mo mot most t S senator controversial measures guffey on that program the guffey coal bill had lion been lio n driven through the house by orders from above and threats of a strike nn anil I when it was aas taken up by the senite senate every effort to kill it fly by the tax tai feature was real dur ing the debate senator walter F george of georgia democrat create created n 1 sensation by denouncing the bill in these words outside of political circles it Is questionable whether there are live five reputable lawyers in the united states who would declare this measure con however Ilo vever that Is not the worst feature of the bill the worst feature Is the defect and infirmity in the legislative program that we are developing this nation cannot remain free and happy if we are to legislate for groups and beyond all of that if groups are to legislate for themselves the end of things Is 13 not very far distant that Is the situation we have confronting us and to this kind of program the democratic party Is willing to commit itself senator george was assailing the proposal to set up district boards in the coal industry which would make their own laws as to trade practices and regulate wages and hours allocate tonnages ton nages and fix prices with regard only for their own interests tills this Is the type of absolutism from which we revolted to establish this republic he be declared the house gave up the fight against again t the death sentence in the utilities bill arid instructed conferees to accept a compromise that was pretty much one sided this means that all holding companies beyond the second degree are to be sentenced to death by the SEC promptly after january 1 2 1938 even a holding company in the second degree would not escape unless its operations were confined to a single integrated system within a state or within contiguous states both senate and house adopted a resolution making mandatory the embargo on munitions shipments to both belligerents in case of war this was what the administration did not want claiming it would tie lie the hands of the executive so that lie he could exert no influence toward averting war senate and house accepted the conferees report on the bill increasing the powers of TVA and legalizing that blodys past actions and it was sent to the white house the senate passed without a record vote the railway bankruptcy amendments recommended by co joseph B eastman LZ ISEman which are designed to prohibit minorities from blocking reorganization plans Is determined to conquer M MUSSOLINI ethiopia and all europe Is trembling 11 II duce evidently feels that lils bis personal persona prestige Is at stake and to him that means the continuation 0 of the fascist regime anthony eden and pierre laval offered italy what would amount to a mandate over halle Selas sies realm but that was no not t enough so the trl power conference in parts was declared adjourned jour Jou ned rued the friend premier ship between 1 rance mussolini and italy ay iy must be ruptured greot great britain will insist on action by the league of NI ina eions council when it meets september 4 there Is no reason to believe that the council will do more than it did in the case of japans seizure of manchuria but it seemingly will till be forced to denounce italis action and that would be enough to induce mus to withdraw his country from rom the league it if and when italy defies the league that pretentious body previously defied successfully by japan and germany will amount to little after baron pompel had submitted the anglo french proposition to mussolini and had received the duces reply he be told eden and laval that his master would be satisfied with nothing less than annexation of Ethl ethiopia opla in whole or in part laval was furious and directly accused mussolini of breaking a personal promise made to him when ho he visited rome eden abruptly brought the conference io to a close hurrying back to london captain eden took part in conferences held by prime minister stanley baldwin and the members of his bis cabinet together with various former ministers opposition leaders and public men not in office the sIn tation was admittedly tense and tile the advice of such men as lloyd george lord cecil and winston churchill wa was sought by the govern mant sir samuel hoare foreign orelan secretary also called in represent representatives athes of nil all the self governing dominions it IL was understood tile british bovein ment would be prepared fully to honor its obligations under the lie league of nations covenant these In including chiding tile the denouncing or a nation that flint attacks another member of the league or of course the air in london was full of of war hut but officials gave assurance that great arltain would move with the greatest cin caution tion paris heard hear unconfirmed reports that was trin trying to ne negotiate a secret collita military Y alliance alli nee ince alth hitler if such a pact Is s signed ned it will nill greatly increase the chances of another general european Hur war kI kiril UIL IS 13 demo sciatic representative fry m indiana amused the lie house to wild ild cheering by a downright doNin right attack or on tom corcoran the white house lob li bist mst atho ho has been charged with nith to ing to intimidate congress men chal ledged the house lobby committee to summon corcoran again and r ques question tion him about his reported dealing in utility issues on the new york stock c exchange X market at the T G corcoran same time he labored for legislation against utilities at washington the indiana representative thus brought out into tile the open the rumors whispered about the capitol that administration lobbyists hobbyists were profiting secretly by stock market deals in securities curi ties Eles affected by legislation for which they wore were exerting tremendous efforts corcoran once admitted to a committee that he be had been a stock market plunger and had made and lost a small fortune in view of this admission told the house the rules committee investigating lobbying should summon corcoran and question him as to whether he Is now in the market IN with ith reference to utility stock the president Is biln bringing ging GRADUALLY all the alphabetical units of the new do deal al directly under his control by bringing them under the budget and accounting act thirteen of them already have been treated thus by executive order and more will follow soon they are required to submit to the budget bureau estimates covering expenditures and to go on a month to month spending basis at first the heads of these various administrations resented this and blamed secretary Morgen thuu but when they learned that the president was strong for the plan they quietly gave in than troops of all M branches of the armed service go got t well vell started in the great war maneuvers in northern new york which were organized and directed 41 by maj gen dennis E nolan the regular army men ot of the first area and the national guardsmen guardsman Guards men of new england new york and new jersey participated and in muddy fields tangled pine forests t 0 r e s t s backwoods roads they had a series of engage maj gen nolan ments troops appos ing troops under conditions closely simulating mu lating real wai warfare maifare fare an interesting feature was the use of a big fleet of taxicabs from new york city pine camp just south of the thousand islands region was the center of operations actions ranking high officers or of the army and military attaches of foreign nations observed the maneuvers during the opening days the awen ty seventh new york division commanded by maj gen william N haskell was pitted to in the eastern portion or nf the square mile maneuver area against the forty third new england commanded by maj gen morris IS 11 payne in the western portion of the changing terrain the forty fourth new jersey and new york division commanded by maj gen john J torrey opposed the twenty stith sixth massachusetts division divis lori J TAPAN APAN has been offended by our navy on various occasions especially by the staging of fleet maneu maneuvers ers at hawaii and the alaskan coast now the sensitive islanders should be pleased for assistant secretary of the navy henry L I 1 has announced that the fleet maneuvers of 1938 1930 will be held at the panama pana ma canal and on the western coast of central america mr roosevelt and the navy high command asserted not very convincingly that them the shift was waa not made in response to unofficial japanese criticism N ONE of those sudden governmental IN upsets frequent in latin america president jose M velasco ibarra of ecuador was thrown out of office an and antonio pons former premier was put in his place it all came about because ibarra tried to make himself a dictator and imprisoned the leaders of the opposition the senate objected and ibarra closed congress then the army got into action ibarra was vas arrested by col aleanor soils inspector general the political prisoners were released release and rons pons was installed as president ILL ROGERS and wiley wilcy post Wc WILL crushed rushed to den death hi in alaska when their plaze plane fell not far from point darrow were brought back to the states slates for burial burbal by joe crosson their intimate friend in an airplane and all their countrymen stood figuratively alth ith bared and bowed heads as tile the broken bodies bailles were laid to rest none was too great and none too lowly to pay tribute in words and action to those two fine americans one a beloved comeal in humorist and philosopher the other a leader among the worlds aviators they died as a s they had ihei adventuring gallantly anil and the world Is the poorer for their passing ROOSEVEL TS cotton P textile committee submitted to him certain recommendations to better the industry and he passed them on to congress for future action secretary of commerce daniel roper heads the committee and the other members are secretary or of labor perkins sm secretary of agriculture wallace and secretary of state null hull the I 1 he report proposed that L a friendly agreement be sought with japan to secretary limit the export of roper textiles to this country the committee found that although the japanese imports have been small the american market has been disturbed with a resultant depression in the industry here A continuance bf tile the labor standards provided under the code was suggested to this end it was recommended that the government supplement such voluntary efforts as are being made by administrative and legislative measures which may be feasible to aid workers the committee recommended against discontinuance of the cotton processing tax during the existing economic emergency as reflected by existing price disparities it held that the tax increases the pur purchasing chasing power of farmers and thus benefits workers in the cotton textile industry the governments cotton loan policy was found to be primarily important to the textile industry through its possible stabilizing effect various technical recommendations were made by the report but the proposition of representatives of the industry that the government virtually subsidize cotton textile exports by an allowance of 7 cents per pound was disapproved members of the senate M I 1 and house committees that are investigating the doing of lobbyists hobbyists started out the week with the deter j to find out ont why marvin hyacin tyre secretary to the president lawrence W robert jr assistant secretary of the treasury and amon 0 carter of fort worth publisher and friend of the roosevelt family were 1 13 all found in the apartment at the shoreham Shore ham harn hotel of 0 bernard B robinson of chicago chief lobbyist of the associated gas and electric company mr robinson himself also was there and it was wag said when the door was opened at the knock of 0 the sergeant at arms of the senate a scene of revelry was disclosed for a day or two the news of this affair was not sent out from washington by the news associations reportedly because of the efforts of mr carter to have bare it suppressed entirely this too some of the investigators want explained republican members of the house committee also said they would insist on the interrogation of undersecretary of the interior charles west and emil burja executive director of the democratic cr atac national committee west Is re the presidents lobb lobbyist and hurja acts in a similar capacity for postmaster general parley farley and both of them were involved with tom corcoran la in the utilities death sentence lobbying that started the whole inquiry HEN charles S risk the rhode island lawyer who defeated the new deal candidate tor for congress recently entered the house on the arm of representative bertrand H snell republican leader and was escorted to the speakers rostrum to take the oath he was vociferously greeted by the republicans as a hero whose victory they thought presaged great things for the party next year mr risk bisk took his bis seat on his thirty eighth birthday LOYD B OLSON governor of 0 FLOYD minnesota on his way to washington stopped in chicago long enough to tell reporters that he intended to be a candidate for the united states senate in 1936 this was interpreted as meaning that bluit he would contest the ro re of thomas 1 0 mcball Sc liall t blind republican governor olsia ia a farmer laborite |