Show news review of current events the world over president roosevelt addresses american legion 0 convert conven tion lion in chica chicago 0 o direct federal aid for the needy Is planned by EDWARD W PICKARD ROOSEVELT made a P PRESIDENT hurried trip to chicago and delivered a stirring speech at the opening session easlon of the american legion con vent lon wildly cheered by vast throngs of citizens on his arrival in the city the president sped to the stadium and before veterans made his appeal for full support of his efforts to bring about national recovery and for national unity to ensure national safety president Preal dent and credit sir mr roose doose roosevelt velt said gald in part industry cannot be restored people cannot be put back to work banks cannot be kept open human suffering cannot be cared for if the government itself Is bankrupt we realism realise now that the great human values not for you alone but for all american citizens rest upon the unimpaired credit of the united states it was because of this that we undertook to take the n national treasury out of the red and put it into the black and in the doing of it we laid down two principles which directly affected benefits to veterans to you and to the veterans of other wars the first principle following in from the obligation of catl tens lens to bear arms Is that the government has a responsibility tor for and toward those who suffered injury or contracted disease while serving in its defense the second principle ts Is that no person because he be wore a uniform must thereafter be placed in a special class of beneficiaries over and above all other citizens the tact fact of wearing a uniform does not mean that he be can demand from the government a benefit which no other citizen receives it does not mean that because a person served in the defense of his big cou country performed a basic obligation of citi zenshin len zen ship he be should receive a pension from his government because of a disability incurred after his service had terminated and not connected with that service it does mean however that those who were injured la in or as a result of their service are entitled to receive adequate and generous compensation for their disabilities it does mean that generous care shall be extended to the dependents of those who died in or as a result of 0 service to their country to carry out these principles the people of 0 this country can and will pay in taxes the sums which it Is bec essary to raise to carry out these principles will not bankrupt your government nor throw its bookkeeping into the red in closing the president said you who wore the uniform you who served you who took the oath of allegiance to the american legion you who support the ideals of 0 american citizenship I 1 have called to the colors again As your commander in chief and your comrade I 1 am confident that you will respond 0 ON N HIS way to chicago president poosevelt came to final decision as to direct federal aid for the jobless during the coming winter assuming that the plan would be speedily worked out in co operation cooperation with secretary of agriculture ri wallace and george peek agricultural adjustment administrator the action to be taken will practically establish 1 the dole in the united states tile the luerne object of course Is to avert suffering harry L but the plan has the hopkins secondary econ dary purpose of 0 the utilization of the great surpluses of food fuel and clothing these things will be purchased by the government with the of the public works fund not cot yet allocated and congress will be asked to appropriate more if necessary the announcement by stephen early the presidents secretary said la in part the president announced he has instructed harry L L hopkins federal relief administrator to take the leaders leader phlp in prompt organization of a nonprofit corporation of which air hopking Is to become chairman for the purpose of buying the necessities of life and distributing them among the needy unemployed in order to assure speed and effectiveness ti veness in the movement of huge supplies the president itts has directed not only that the corporation be equipped with adequate funds but also that it should be given wide powers in the purchasing and distribution of surplus foods and other commodities the president believes the corporation can be organized quickly and in tuch such manner as ti 0 become the best gent agent tor for decisive action in the emergency sir mr hopkins has canvassed with the president the relief situation in the country as a whole the president la Is convinced that in many states relief allowances now made by state and municipal authorities are far from adequate and must be substantially increased as rapidly as possible the president defit asserted that while farmers buying power has increased to an encouraging degree agricultural prices still remain substantially below the level needed to hasten the country on the road to economic recovery the new effort worked out by mr hopkins and secretary wallace to make maximum use of surpluses that lave have been burdening the commodity markets Is part of intensified plans to raise farm prices to economic levels the agricultural administrations administration efforts to control production of surpluses too great to be used are to be continued the corporation will have powers to lo purchase directly from farmers vh whenever enever desirable in such a way as to carry out the purposes of the agricultural adjustment act was in the possession of C CHICAGO the american legion and the veterans had a joyous aloyous time in their convention and all its associated doings and especially at the worlds fair the forty and eight full organization of the legion held its M an I 1 torchlight parade the opening night and the following day the legion staged one of the greatest parades ever seen in this country many hours the boys marched down edward A michigan a avenue v n u e hayes through soldier field and back through grant park to tile the disbanding point in the line were about six hundred musical organizations and drill teams count adalbert de chambrun a general in the french army brought the greetings of his country and 40 legat french veterans to the legion n rent lon tion and italy was represented by guglielmo marconi marcon the inventor I 1 of wireless telegraphy in Us its serious sessions the legion convention elected edward A naves hayes of decatur ill national commander and adopted various resolutions that supported the policies of the roosevelt administration sir mr hayes a past commander of the illinois department had a great deal to do with the formulation of the tour four point pro gram designed to conciliate differences between the legion and the national administration concerning expenditures tures for veterans relief DOLLFUSS chancellor elor of austria barely escaped death at the hands of an assassin to in vienna one rudolf dertil a recent arrival from shyria emr fired twice at the ailt little statesman one bullet r hitting him in the arm and the other glancing from a coat button naturally the authorities immediately declared this was part of a nazi plot but they were unable to show that dertil was a nazi anyhow chancellor the attempt on ills his dollfuss life strengthened the chancellors position and made him a hero in the eyes of the public dollfuss plans the establishment of a state that Is a compromise between fascism and democracy and this does not suit many of his friends notably prince Star hemberg leader of the helm wehr the prince wants atall italian an fascism for austria but he was forced to postpone action until the chancellor should recover from his bis wound park forest preserve at GRIFFITH glos los angeles was the scene of a terrible holocaust in which at least 24 27 men net met death and the victims may have numbered fifty or more the men relief roll workers had been ordered to put out a small brush fire and in their ignorance of proper methods started a back fire that trapped many of them in a ravine at least that was one explanation another theory was that the fatal conflagration was wag started by a carelessly thrown cigarette the flames swept through gli the woods dried out by a long spell of hot weather and the panic stricken men lost all sense of direction in the dense smoke two hundred or more were taken to hospitals badly burned or suffering from suffocation rath took two well known figures D DEATH in the world of sports W 4 youtie young stribling georgia bover boer who had been a contender for the heavyweight title was fatally injured in an automobile accident fulling failing to recover after the amputation of one leg william L president of the chicago national league baseball club died of discussions of the war discussions debt to the united states were opened in washington and much to the surprise ot of the public were turned T over to the treasury department by secretary of 0 state hull bull aw the announcement being made that the matter was being treated as purely a financial problem the administration designated dean acheson undersecretary ot of the treasury to handle its part in the affair dean cheson acheson and he was g aided by frederick LI vho aho Is an asso elate economic adviser of the state department for the british government appeared sir frederick belth ross koss and T K bewley the question at issue was now how much it if at all shall the united states reduce the british war debt funded in 1023 for MERICAN intervention in cuba A AMERICAN was brought asprec appreciably bably nearer by a bloody allday all day battle that took place between the WO BOO recalcitrant army and navy officers who had been be league red in the national hotel and the troops of president grau the hotel botel was bombarded until late afternoon with rifles miles machine guns and cannon and the government said 18 ot of the officers were killed and 17 wounded which probably was an underestimate the losses among the soldiers were officially stated to be 9 killed and 27 wounded correspondents said the total dead in the days fighting numbered at least 44 among the non con te to stants killed was robert lotspeich Lots an american assistant manager in havana for swift co when tile the hotel which abich Is owned and managed by americans was war practically wrecked by shell fire the officers surrendered As they emerged under a white flag unarmed and under guard of soldiers they were again attacked and a number of them massacred apartment buildings near the hotel in which many americans resided were frequently hit by machine gun bullets and shells from the cuban cruiser patria INTENT on gaining from the NHA the greatest possible advantage tor for organized labor the american federation of labor opened its annual convention in washington in a preliminary statement president green said that since the enactment of the national recovery act the federation had increased its membership by 1000 W the total being now approximately nailed to the masthead of the feder atlon mr air green said Is the slogan organize the unorganized in the mass production industries with a membership of as the next goal and itter after that which will bring the majority of americans genuinely and actually within the trade union family among the important pronouncements of policy and recommendations for action placed before the delegates by y the executive council were 1 the 30 hour week of five days work six hours a day 2 increase of minimum wages provided in the codes 3 increase of wages for skilled workers as well as unskilled 4 representation of labor in every stage of code making 5 public works must be speeded up to supply work this winter to largi large masses of the idle 6 congress upon convening must provide adequate relief appropriations 7 the surplus agricultural products must be made available for distribution to the unemployed 8 taxation for relief must be provided by fair contributions from higher incomes and surplus profits 9 labor must have relief from excessively ces stringent federal economy measures york Is n now ow enjo enjoying vin a three NEW corn cornered ered race for the mayoralty mayoral ty for joseph V mckee decided to be an independent candidate against mayor john patrick obrien len the democratic nominee t and florello fiorello 11 II la guardia the fusion candidate in his fits announcement air mckee said 1 I refused to enter the democratic primaries because I 1 felt that to do so would to mark art me as a tool too of the machine and that J V mckee mck would prevent my do ing the job that must be done to restore our city government there Is no real fusion in this campaign the so called fusion standard rd bearer Is as objectionable to the solid element of our republican citizenry as he Is to the vast army of democrats who are disgusted with machine politics the present standard bearer of the alleged fusion Is a poor compromise by a faction of would be bosses IRGINIA fell into line for repeal bof VIRGINIA of the eighteenth amendment the wets won by something like 2 2 to 1 fifteen of the counties went dry as did the cities of danville and radford the old dominion was the thirty second bdate enrolled against prohibition its ISABELLA G R E E N IV A Y M MRS close friend of mrs airs roosevelt cl was elected to congress in a special election in arizona to fill the seat vs v bated by lewis W douglas now di rector of the budget nominated by bv the democrats she easily defeated the republican and socialist candidates C 1933 western newspaper union |