Show news review of current events the world 0 over ver presidents business conference already showing results R F C considers loans court establishes Roosevel ts right to remove mayor walker by EDWARD W PICKARD IF r rno prosperity can be restored by the united efforts of individuals the business and industrial conference in washington Washing tor should have marked results the men who participated pledged themselves to work along these lines to spread employment k by shortening the hours of each worker to stimulate capital expenditures by industry to expand employment and repair and replace henry hi ment work on the robinson railroads to stimulate howe home improvement and repair to assist home owners in carrying their mortgage burdens to make credit affirmatively useful by making it available to those entitled to it the central committee named to carr out this program Is headed by henry 11 robinson of los lob an angeles geles a white haired banker and lawyer who has been one of president hoovers closest friends and unofficial advisers and who has previously served the public in various capacities notably as a member of the commission that formulated the dawes plan it Is said in washington that mr robinson may booi be known as the colonel house of the hoover administration of the subcommittees committees sub named at the conference the first to get into action was that on sp spreading employment its chairman walter C teagle president of the standard oil company of new jersey sald said the committee intends to educate industry to do the most convenient than thing to be worked out from the various methods already devised and operated by dearly companies throughout the country which rep reported opted to the unemployment relief organization in ID the course of its study of the program and its application to industry dispatches received in washington fron from all parts of the country andl indicated that the conference already was baing ba ing an effect on the revival of industry and the news from banks was especially cheerful W MELLON ambassador ador ANDREW to england and former secretary of the treasury had a long talk with the president and on emerging from the white house said he believed the current advance in stock prices was justified and would be maintained mr I 1 mellons lons reputation as a financial wizard has been considerably lessened but there are still many who think his judgment is sound C NOI NORMAN nIAN governor M MONTAGU of the bank of england came over to this country recently as prof clarence skinner ostensibly to spend a cation la iia in maine but it was not long before he was in new york consulting with some of our leading bankers and then it was officially admitted in washington that he be would see or communicate with ogden L mills secretary of the treasury in the minds of many this made it certain that the main object of mr normans visit was vas to discuss war debts it also probably had to do with britaina Brit ains return to the gold standard in 1933 this being dependent on the settlement of the war debts and reparations and the lowering of world tariff barriers HOOVER and budget P director J clawson roup have begun preparation on of the budget for the 1934 1034 fiscal year which starts july 1 next cabinet members and all heads of ia independent establishments have submitted their estimates and mr roup has begun hearings on them whether the budget will be larger or smaller than the one submitted to congress for the current fiscal year 1 Is 15 5 not yet known but probably it will seey adams be larger the naval general board completed its new building program and laid it before secretary charles F adams whether or not lie he would submit it to the president with a recommendation that it be offered to cong congress vesi in december was not to be decided until secretary adams had bad consulted with a number of ranking admirals it was understood the general board program included a one year installment of the vinson ten year brogi program am it starting work on the seventeenth 8 inch gun cruiser permitted under the london treaty anil and already authorized other parts of the program presumably call tor for the laying down of two cruisers one airplane carrier and additional airplanes and submarines S irema COURT JUSTICE JUSTIC ELLIS EELLIs J staley at albany ruled lu in the walker case that governor roosevelt had the authority to sit to in judgment on the mayor and that the courts court B could not nor interfere in the executive acts ets of the governor however lie he also ruled that court action might be taken after the governor hns fins given his decision on the walker ouster charges provided the mayors three constitutional defenses had been violated these safeguards the court said were that the mayor must have been given a fair trial by the governor A fair trial staley explained gave the mayor the right to cross examine the witnesses it on v vi hose testimony the charges against him were based that the removal was only for cause and tor for a cause relating to some net act or omission which amounts to cial misconduct or violation of public trust or one that involves moral turpitude that the act or neglect justifying the removal must have occurred during the term which the officer Is serving the trial of the ma mayor vor was resumed by governor roosevelt on friday haling baling been postponed until then because of the death of a brother of mr walker U F late returns from the dem runoff run ron off olt primary upset present figures ma ferguson will be governor of texas again at this writing she has a rather slight lead over gov ross S sterling the vote had veered and swayed from the incumbent to mrs ferguson in such dramatic manner that A F henning head ot of the texas election bureau declined to forecast either the possible outcome out corne of the race or the probable total vote The returns were still to be canvassed by the county committees and then by the state committee gjersee GJ GOVERNORS day at new jersey ersey was taken by franklin U D roosebelt Roo as the occasion for his first campaign speech on the prohibition question and what he said to his listeners was highly pleasing to the wet et democrats some of the republican leaders on the other hand called it old stuff and ludicrous and it did not have the approval of the prohibitionists after speaking a good word for genuine temperance mr roosevelt dealt with the tax burden that prohibition hibi tion has brought declaring the only business in the country that was not helping to support the government goern ment was in a real sense being supported by this government describing the republican platform as long indirect insincere and false the governor compared its stand on prohibition repeal with the concise sincerity of our own platform the democratic party squarely met the issue said the governor while the republican administration attempted to evade and confuse the issue NE after another the state conventions 0 ONE vent ions of the american Amerl caa legion are disregarding the advice of the leaders of the legion and adopting resolutions calling tor for immediate payment of 4 the veterans bonus in full the meeting of A the new york legion in brooklyn was en livened by an almost violent demonstration against F trubee davison assistant secretary of war for uv aviation and now an as pliant tor for the republican nomination for F trubee governor of new davison york mr davison Dav lson defending the federal administration for the use of force in expelling the bonus army from wa washington sh charged that many members of the B E F in the national capital were tramps and hoodlums possessing fake military discharges that were produced by a com communist st owned diploma will mill ills fils speech was frequently interrupted by loud jeers and boos and cries of put pat him out and finally it was necessary to call the police reserves to restore order uree major conditions on which tit THREE it will make loans tor for self diqui dating prefects pr elects were announced by the reconstruction finance corporation bourd board the applicant must pr prove ove that his project Is self liquidating he be must prove that it Is adequately secured by good collateral and be must be able to give the board complete information on all phases of the project among the minor conditions are the barring of convict labor limitation of labor to SO hours a and giving preference to war veterans with depend ants when the applicants gathered in the corporations offices los an angeles eles was near the head of the line asking to carry to the city the he water and power made available by the boulder darn dam new york wanted ox for a bridge across the hudson to weehawken Wee hawken and tor for the bridge baldee NATIONAL air races at cleveland were almost disrupted at the start because the aviators learned arneil le that the prizes for closed events had been reduced to 28 per cent of their advertised value but the flyers finally gave cave in ID and consented to go ahead ahapa d with the contest james G hayzlip former army flyer woo won the bendix dash ansh from burbank Burban lc calif to cleveland in 8 hours 19 minutes elapsed time ile he then continued to new york lork establishing a new transcontinental record of 10 hours 19 minutes TOWA OWA farmers engaged Inthe in the strike 1 for higher prices were being investigated by a grand jury in council bluffs which was instructed to inquire into wilful obstruction of highways destruction 64 st of property and intimidation of truck drivers the holiday movement started by C P savery and other leaders meanwhile was losing its peaceful aspect find and there were con filets between the pick ets and sheriffs pos C P savery sees at various points generally the oie officers had the best of it but not always near dishing cushing la ia a force of fifty deputies that undertook to escort rive truckloads truck loads of hogs was attacked by hundreds of farmers armed with lead pipes and sticks and eleven deputies were injured the aroused sheriff declared the picket lines would be broken it Is noteworthy that many of the members of the late bonus army have entered the fray oa the side of the striking farmers was confronted with one beof ENGLAND of the worst strikes of recent years when more than cotton weavers in lancashire quit work because of a wage cut and working conditions dit ions lons while most of the mills were toned to close some continued with depleted stairs staffs and others which made private arrangements with the workers operated at full capacity the leaders of the weavers union estimate that the walkout was two thirds effective on the first day and believe it will spread to all the mills A direct appeal to king george to intervene through the government in ID the dispute was sent to balmoral by joe compton a former laborite member of parliament who wields great influence in the will mill district it appears likely that the conductors and drivers of london busses would strike soon because of wage reductions duct ions and changes in working conditions ordered by the london general omnibus company ERMANY was tremendously excited gaited GERMANY when its parliament met for adolf bitler had decided that his bis 1 10 nazi members should not dot support the von government at the last moment the chancellor had luncheon with diftler and in their discussion the breach between them was w widened ened von then went quickly to neudeck where president von aln denburg was resting on his estate and received from him authority to dissolve the reichstag at al his discretion giving him almost dictatorial powers the aged president told the chancellor he was at liberty to take this step it if the reichstag tried to io vote no confidence in von lapens government and its S reconstruction program which seemed a certainty this would give the chancellors regime at least three months further life the entire german press len features tures the neudeck confab as of historic moment there is no doubt that von enjoys the presidents full confidence an and d the chancellor will not yield even to a nazi centrist combination unless the president can be shown that such a coalition would set up a presidential and not a party cabinet and that it would offer a con crete program of action acceptable to the majority of the reichstag and at least ap n good or better than von lapens Pa pens clara seventy five year old communist presided over the opening session of the reichstag being entitled to that prerogative by being the oldest member she demanded the impeachment peach ment of the president and calif net act in a long speech the national socialists behaved with dignity and with the aid of the catholic centrists Centris ts nationalists and bavarian peoples party they elected as speaker hermann william goering one of lieutenants goering decIn declared red be would act impartially but would stand for nothing derogatory to the national honor AST will of mrs edith rockefeller L LAST mccormick daughter of john D rockefeller signed by her just three weeks before her death was filed tor for probate in chicago edwin krenn the austrian architect who was mrs rockefellers Rocke fellers close friend and business associate Is the principal beneficiary being bequeathed five twelfths of the estate to her daughter muriel fl hubbard she left one third of the estate to her daughter mathilde oser one sixth and to her son fowler mccormick one twelfth edward A dato date kreins partner in a real estate firm has announced that before mrs mccormick died krenn signed an agreement with dato by which be waived all claims to the estate as well as his interest in the firm of kreun krenn dato date and accepted to in lieu thereof a guarantee of 2000 a month income tor for life the estate was once estimated to have a value of but it has bag been greatly depleted a 2932 11 western newspaper 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