Show ineas 11 ilia review of current events the world over budget adget director douglas passing on public works broj P 1 eats industrial codes more alore jobs and higher wages prohibition repeal wins again by EDWARD W PICKARD S or OF TUR tun INTERIOR t ICKES in his capacity as public ihrk works administrator has been so bett tt by the demands of bureaus and politicians for big slices of the at his disposal that he was constrained to to issue a warning that the program with its huge fund was not it grab bag then after consultation sul sult tation atlon with his advisory board lie be decided that all projects must be sent seat to the hewl s W budget bureau for douglas 8 radical paring down thus lewis W douglas director of the budget emerged as the man relied on oil to cut out the unwise unes genital and graft tainted schemes and to submit for board action only the worthy projects politicians had been flipping into the lists proposals for construction of post ofil offices ces but secretary ickes had forbidden their inclusion and in this was supported by president roosevelt ickes insists that each project provide a maximum of work that it perform a necessary social service fer vice and that it not be a recurring item belonging properly in an annual appropriation bill IVE MILLION business men of the FIVE united states are asked by president roosevelt to accept voluntarily ahat Is 19 called the presidents re employment agreement which Is de elgner to restore employment and raise purchasing power through increased wages every business and trade and every conceivable type of worker are included in this pact which Is the master code that G len gen hugh S johnson national recovery administrator and his aids worked out the employers are asked to adopt for five months beginning august 1 minimum wage nod and maximum hour scales for their workers to agree not to levy profiteering prices to abolish child labor and to obey various other regulations the hours of work fixed are 40 per week for the so called white collar employees and 35 hours for industrial workers the wages proposed are 40 cents tin an hour for industrial workers or tu 14 per week except in cases where employees in the same class of work were paid less than that rate on july 35 1020 1029 and then the 1929 rate Is to be applied but in no case shall it be less than 30 cents an hour for the white collar workers the wage scales are fixed according to populations of the cities la in which they work in cities of more than population the minimum rate Is set fit 15 per week in cities between and the rate Is 1450 between 2500 and tit nt 14 in towns of 0 less than 2500 population nil all wages shall be increased by 20 tier per cent except that the maximum required shall not be more than 12 per na v eek it if regular industry codes are signed before or during daring the five month period they will supersede the emergency ones employers are given until september I 1 to come under the plan and if they have not signed at that date the president made known that lie will exert the powers he possesses tinder the national industrial ry act and compel industries to accept codes which he be will lay down arbitrarily according administrator JOHNSON according to washington correspondents Is a big propaganda agency on behalf of the industrial control administration ile he has called on luch euch veterans in the game as charles michelson Ml chelson publicity man for the democratic national committee frank it wilson charles F r horner and others who were leaders in the liberty loan drives bruce mcnamee SIc Namee williana william V lawson heber blankenhorn and various other skilled publicity men primarily im artly it was indicated the new organization Is intended to win favor for the proposed master code mentioned above of labor surveys reported ported by secretary arances Irac ces show that during june workers returned to jobs in factories of the united states and others found work in fac turin industries and in agriculture railroads and other industries pot not included in the surreys said secretary perkins showed a isi significant increase tn in employment gains of 0 7 per cent in factory employment and per cent in factor pay rolls made june jobe the third con month in which both employment and earnings have increased secretary perkins accompanied the report ho however weer with a warning against optimism and specula tive live production A gal gain in 1 a month Por normally mally marked luark fd by a onal decline was heartening the bile declared but the she pointed to tile llie long climb still ahead before tile the country can regain the 1020 level itrel taken as the base by the bureau in figuring its ilg employment and pay roll indices sensational breaks in the prices S sensational of all grains accompanied by similar swift declines in the prices of 0 stocks led to action by the big grain exchanges the chicago board ot of trade stopped future trading to for r at least a day and issued this rule effective until further notice there shall be no trading during any day at prices more than 8 cents above or below the average closing price of the preceding business day in wheat or rye or 6 5 cents in corn or 4 cents in oats like action was taken by other boards of trade all of 0 them curbing trading in privileges WO states in the past regarded as being dry as the proverbial bone and the first in the solid south to rote on the question of ratifying the prohibition repeal amendment were won quite easily by the wets alabama went on record as favoring repeal by a vote of nearly two to one and arkansas voted about three to one for repeal then came tennessee and though returns from the mountain regions were slow the were assured of another victory oregon followed and her vote in support of repeal meant that twenty states were in that column with none yet opposing postmaster general F parley arley who was interesting himself especially in the votes in southern states said he be was convinced that the eighteenth amendment would be out of the constitution before christmas and from the way things are going he may well be right although only thirty five states je have either voted or arranged to vote on repeal by november 7 action Is pending in several others which may bring the total number voting to more than the required thirty six gout REAT PEAT interest was shown through out the country la in the marital affairs of elliott roosevelt second son of the president the young mans wife mrs elizabeth donner dodder roosevelt obtained a divorce irom from him at minden nov nev on a cross bill charging mental cruelty aich was uncontested and he be immediately took an airplane to chicago where lie met miss ruth goo googins ins of fort worth texas and her elliott mother rumors that roosevelt elliott and ruth were soon to be married were only halfheartedly denied to the chicago reporters mr roosebelt Roo cIt said lie he was there to meet his sister mrs curtis dall and to visit the century of progress exposition im not going to spend any time answering anything personal he warned it if im asked Is it so ril ill say eay nothing until I 1 get ready to announce it ill certainly let all of you know it if I 1 ever decide to marry again miss googins first met the presidents son at fort worth in march while he was a guest of the southwestern vI exposition EX ITALO balno and his 05 GEN companions on the mass flight irom from italy to chicago left the W worlds fair city after several days ot of c continuous entertainment that was limited only by the endurance of the aviators they flew directly to new york and after a rest were convened in army planes to washington to pay their respects to president roosevelt calbos balbos plans called for return to italy by way of newfoundland going to either ireland or the azores depending on the weather italy and premier mussolini may well be proud of this exploit 0 of f their flyers and all must be highly gratified by the honors heaped on calbo balbo iian was mourning in america tand THERE and lithuania when it was learned that capt stephen darius and stanley gisenas of chicago had crashed and perished in eastern germany on their flight to kaunas the lithuanian capital the bodies were found in a forest and were taken to kaunas where the government gave them a state burial AS A S THE rather futile world economic I 1 X conference in london drew toward its close it was announced that a subcommittee had adopted part of senator key Pitt ritt mans resolution for the rehabilitation of sliver silver agreeing upon increased use of tile the metal in subsidiary col coinage nage the questions ns of regulating the world output of silver and of its use ns as a part of the central banks metal coverage were postponed senator pittman said he was quite satisfied what it means lie said Is this all governments agree to cea cease se debasement or melting of silver coins except india and spain and they agree to limit the amount they will sell we shall get back to where silver was before the world war R n of about lv ty of 0 the principal cou countries met in amsterdam nolland holland at the call of samuel el new york attorney for the purpose of extending the boycott against german roods goods and ot of appealing to the league of nations against the alleged anti jewish atrocities perpetrated by the nazis in germany explaining the conference and its pur samuel roses poses mr said that a boycott bo lott already was started in many countries but that its lt effects had bad been cushioned by a decision to use up german stocks already on hand with exhaustion of these stocks he said bald german manufacturers will begin to feel the full force of worldwide sentiment against repression of the jews the appeal to the league of nations probably will be based on two counts violation of the labor clauses of the treaty of versailles in excluding jews from german labor unions and persecution of the jews as all a minority people said he was working in close collaboration with the british jewish committee headed beaded by lord melchert Mel chett C chancellor HITLER in his efforts to speed up industry industrial lal recovery in germany has created an organization known as the general council for industry which Is to assist the government with its advice and practical experience in solving the unemployment problem among the industrial leaders who consented to serve on this council are dr otto fischer Fl president of the central association of german bankers dr at albert bert director general of the united steel trust dr fritz thyssen rhineland coal and iron producer karl friedrich von siemens head of the electrical company which bears his name baron kurt von ton schroeder president of the german chamber of commerce and a noted banker of cologne vincent krogmann mayor of hamburg amburg II and one of the german delegates to the economic conference at london dr krupp von bohlen und halbach albach IT head of the krupp firm and dr robert ley the problem for the germans Is acute for the unemployed there number about five million men and german exports for the first six months of the year showed an alarming de crease the government Is promulgating new laws designed to help bustness business men who give increased employment citizens who give contracts for repairs and improvements to their buildings will be entitled to a 10 per cent reduction in their income and corporation po por ration atlon taxes 1 it the increased bill for wages equals tile cost of the materials newly formed business undertakings will go tax free if they deal in new manufacturing processes or bring to the market original products acts provided that no competition Is given to existing firms of 0 the benevolent and Ni MEMBERS protective order of elks meeting in convention in milwaukee received a message of good nill from president roosevelt and elected walter r of seattle I 1 their grand exalted ruler mr meter Is a graduate of tile university of nebraska a former corporation 1 counsel of seattle and 0 t Is the author of a book called the heart of gov david of florida put walter F him in nomination meier and was himself elect ed grand esteemed lea leading ling knight judge james fitzgerald of 0 omaha Omah awas wa chosen grand esteemed loyal knight leland OCalla glian of 0 louisville grand tiler fiber and B E L safford of santa re fe grand inner guard As the last act of Ms his regime be fore yielding place to the new grand exalted ruler floyd E I 1 thompson of 0 ne ill III named circuit judge clayton avan F van pelt of fond dulac wis ala to a five fire year term in the hie grand crand forum of the national lodge the supreme court of the order GILBERT N HAUGEN who depre jows iowa in congress continuously for 34 years and was retired by the democratic landslide last fall died at his home in northwood after an illness of several months ile he was born of norwegian parentage in wisconsin 71 years ago always prom anent as an advocate of the farmer mr haugen in late lears was chairman of the house committee on agriculture and had much to do with formulating formula all farm legislation up to the advent of the Roose roosebelt Nelt administration TF r tim till orders of the third inter I 1 nati nationals onale are obeyed there will be a lot of red disturbance on august 1 which moscow scow will celebrate as antiwar anti war day communist agitators recently arrested in riga and possessed copies of a general letter of instructions addressed to communist parties abroad from the executive committee of the the letter ordered a one day strike street demonstrations and general disorders on tho the day named large numbers of reds serving time in baltic prisons have been ordered to go on a hunger strike on august I 1 and to present demands for prison reforms one of which Is for permission to have radios enabling them to listen to moscow pro it 1 wS astruc trUC |