Show news review of current events the world over world court adherence proposal sidetracked in senate presidents social security plan arouses storm of discussion by EDWARD W PICKARD Q by bir western storn newspaper union ratification of the world court R ratification protocols received a setback when senator hiram johnson republican can california bitterly denounced such action as a back door entry to the league of nations and senate leaders rather than risk an immediate at e vote delayed dell nite action senator johnsons attack came on the heels of in special message to tire senate from president roosevelt who asked for sen hiram early y ratification of johnson the y protocols it was the most determined movement yet made to put the united states into the court other senators it Is said were ready to follow johnsons Jolin sons lead particularly ticul arly senator borah ion ions g time foe of the court johnson supported his opening attack on the court by offering four embarrass barr assing ug reservations to the resolution of ratification 1 prohibit the court from entertaining on any question relating wholly or in part to its internal affairs 2 permit recourse to the court only by agreement through general or special treaties between the parties la in dispute 3 prohibit the court and the league of nations from trying to assume jurisdiction is on any question which depends upon or relates to the monroe doctrine 4 declare the united states by joining coining the court assumes no obligations through johnsons action these questions must be voted upon before a final vote can be reached on the resolution of adherence although the question lias has been sidetracked tor for a time it will be brought up soon it Is said and senator robinson democratic leader lias bas stated that he was confident of ratification when the final test comes T THE ne third phase of testimony presented by the state in the trial of bruno richard charged with the murder of col charles A Lind berghs son has begun right eight handwriting experts called by the prosecution have completed their testimony each declaring that in ills opinion the dour carpenter escarpenter es ex was author of the ransom notes and the state now moves on to the story of finding the tiny corpse in a shallow grave la in the woods near N J two months and twelve days after the on the night of march 1 1932 following this the story of how haupt roann mann was captured last september through identification of one of the gold certificates which made up the ransom will be told eight men who have qualified with the court as experts have declared that hauptmann penned the ransom notes cotes photographic enlargements of the notes and of admitted writings have been shown in the courts court and each peculiarity of each character lias has been carefully gone over defense lawyers have fought each scrap of testimony bit by bit an attempt has been made to show that some one might have forged manns handwriting in an effort to throw suspicion on him but tills has hag been vigorously refuted by witnesses who have been firm in their assertions that only the prisoner could have been the author an attempt to forestall efforts of the defense to pin the crime on isador fisch furrier who died in germany Is leang made by new jersey officials binkus fisch brother of isador ills his wife czerna his sister hannah and rischa nurse minne have been brought from germany to testify pinkus has asserted his belief that his brother Is not guilty amany THE ne will be returned to germany on march 1 a special committee of the league of nations has decided the proposal will be submitted to berlin at once opposition to this afia proposal Is e expected since the originally demanded the basins return formally on or before february 15 another difficulty arises over frances demand that article 42 0 of the versailles treaty establishing a demili zone should be applied to the this would ban nazi storm troops and brown browa shirts from the territory after its return compliance of this demand would be an admission from germany that the file brown shirts are a semi military organization and this his berlin has long denied in computing her military strength germany won at an overwhelming aern helming victory in the plebiscite held to determine the wishes of the inhabitants of the aldi basin is as to the future status of lit tint thit teril tory thu the complete om vote rs Is by the file was tor lur juturna to germany for anti ration to lu I 1 lalive 1124 and rid to lo i clurn to present status under league of no nations control their margin of victory exceeded the hopes of even the most optimistic nazi leaders love of the father fatherland tand won over antipathy to principles to in influencing fluen cing the voters the Sa arlanders in voting to return to retch rule exchange their personal and political liberties for the re regimentation of a dictatorship with its curb on the press free speech and individualism G GENERAL REVISION of air mail rates to present possible destruction of commercial aviation has been recommended by the bureau of nir air mail of the interstate commerce commission an investigation conducted by the bureau discloses that most of the routes are being operated at substantial stan Vial losses and rate increases were recommended on 19 routes rates on one route would rem remain ain unchanged and 11 others would be decreased it if the recommendations are carried out the proposed new increases range up from nine cents per mile for poundage not to exceed pounds per mile while the reductions ranged as high as cents per mile operation losses of 1757 were shown in tables submitted by the 31 existing operating companies and it was pointed out that the industry would be endangered if the contractors were forced to continue operating at tremendous losses THE HE most far flung innovation the new deal has proposed thus far the social security plan proposed by president roosevelt has aroused a storm of discussion sl administration abher ants greeted the scheme with wild enthusiasm thusia sm while the opposition led by senator borah idaho has voiced vigorous criticisms all business in congress has been side M tracked to permit im mediate action on the president proposed measure roosevelt public hearings have already been started in the senate finance committee and the house ways anil and means committee has postponed consideration of the bonus bill to work on the i he security plan this Is being done at the presidents behest the plan provides fl aible but compulsory mew insurance under a federal state system restricted to workers and financed by a 3 per cent tax on pay rolls arter january 1 1938 the government eronie nt will aid in bearing administration costs and the tren treasury sury will handle bandle the fund ninety per cent of the pay roll mil tax Is to be refunded to employers ho contributed to state un employ ment plans A maximum of 15 a week of compensation to begin four weeks after the worker loses his job and to last for not more than sixteen weeks Is contemplated the second part of the plan provides for old age pensions the government Is to operate cooperate co with the states and pay a maximum of 0 oa 00 o a month to persons over fave ave the national government Is also to aid states in formulating a plan for persons under sixty sisty uve fire which will be financed jointly by employer and employee through a pay roll tax the funds to be handled by the federal government the amount of pensions to be a percentage of the employees wage with non manual employees receiving more than a month to be exempt from the plan the third section of the scheme provides for appropriations to glie ghe better facilities to caring for mothers and dependent and crippled children and the fourth section would furnish larger appropriations for public health aid investigation and research cost of the entire program to the federal government will be next nest year and in succeeding years the cost to the states will be next year and in succeeding years some idea of the size of the plan amny be gained from the report of the presidents call cab inet which said reserves for old age pensions must be maintained after some years at ONE of oe the most spectacular prison breaks in history was effected when tour four convicts in the san quentin calif state prison overpowered oer powered two guards slugged the warden unconscious six hostages including four members of the tate tote s prison board and fled in a state owned automobile the felons were captured two hours later 54 miles from the prison after a running gun fl fight ht ath prison guards and posses one of the convicts was wounded as acre two of the hostages trouble has been expected at san quentan Quent ln where some prisoners iare are housed in space designed lest tied for only unrest has been evident for isome some time especially since it became necessary to put more titan than one man mail in each cell only guards have been regularly employed E ON of life of the recon a finance corporation for two years will be asked informed congressmen el the authority to make loans expires expire on J january 31 it la is rumored that the extension will include a proviso permitting the president to put the organization out of business by proclaiming the emergency ended at the conclusion of one year the extension plan may also carry a section doubling the length of tinne time for maturity of loans the may make the present limit Is ove five sears it Is also said that tho the r may be permitted to extend instead of renew existing loans providing value of security Is unchanged T lar final fate of N TRA seems to bo be up to the president reports from the capital say the national ind industrial estrial recovery board successor to gen hugh johnson johns on who asserts la Is as 0 extinct as the dodo has avoided a direct recommendation that the institution be b e made permanent since 1 tills this was vas evidently done with the at approval L of the president the future of the blue eagle seems to be somewhat clouded donald the board g of which anaw donald is chairman pointed out three possible courses which the president can follow the first course would be to mak melce e permanent but in simplified form under tills this plan every industry would have to go under a code fixing wage and hour limits and prohibiting child labor trade practice provisions would be entirely voluntary in rare cases where price filing Is employed the government not the industry would fix the price the second course would be to extend the as it now cow stands but for a limited period unless legislation of this kind Is enacted the act will expire automatically on june 10 16 the third course would amend and extend the most members of the board it Is 13 said prefer the permanent plan which would broaden the governments regulation of business no industry would escape the wage and hour codes today many industries amon among them the telephone hoDe telegraph and tobacco industries are not under trade codes since these have not been able to agree on terms the present law permits the president to impose a code only when iben an industry refuses to submit voluntarily such as in the case of the cotton garment industry observers are not at all sure the president wants a permanent code several uncertainties have made it difficult for the president to decide one ot of which Is the status of section aa the collective bargaining clause A A NUMBER of important issues ls await the league of nations as it convenes at geneva on its fifteenth birthday five major disputes will come before the body of which the plebiscite involving as it does the disposition of the future national allegiance of that rich territory holds most immediate interest other decisions which await action of the league include the dispute between iraq and persia over alleged border violations by the latter the border conflict between italy and etalo ethiopia pla the greek cem complaint plaint that greek minorities in albania are being deprived of their guaranteed rights and the long war in the chaco boreal between bolivia and paraguay F legislation to be put through the house of representatives was completed as the independent offices appropriation bill was passed in virtually the same form as recommended by the appropriations committee the amount for the securities and exchange change es commission was increased to 2000 OW efforts of representative blanton of texas to r leduca e duca the for the home loan bank bank board and of representative taber new york to cut down the appropriation for the federal communications commission were defeated signs of gathering storms were seen however as representative rayburn democrat texas chairman of the house interstate commerce committee declared on the floor that he would not support a bill to place production of oil under government control emergency legislation to supplant control measures invalidated by the recent decision of the united states supreme court will undoubtedly be proposed and rayburne Ray burns declaration Is seen as an indication that opposition may develop WEDEN apparently has found a S SWEDEN way to beat the depression king gustave in his annual message to parliament li reported that solution of the problem of unemployment appears near the budget la Is balanced without new taxes having been imposed or new loans floated and the national debt will be reduced this year only GO CO kroner about has been asked for unemployment relief as compared to IG kroner last year conditions among corn I 1 IMPROVED belt farmers are indicated by a federal report which shows a gain of or more than 3 30 cents a bushel for each bor borrower roer has been realized by farmers in 10 states aho who availed themselves of the government 45 cent corn loans only slightly more than of the remains unpaid about bushels are under seal under the new GS 65 c ent cent price report states |