Show news review of current events the world over weirs conflict with national labor board johnson plans realignment of code authorities lu son and others indicted in indiana by EDWARD W PICKARD WHAT athe HAT action if any the and the national labor board would take in the ease case of the weirton steel company was unrevealed by the authorities ties les EL T weir Y chairman of the board I 1 V of the company maintained that he was loyal to the presta presidents ir recovery program k 4 but insisted that the labor board had no right to coerce or al abrogate the election ot of employees representatives senta tives that was held at the weirton M E T weir air plant the successful candidates were hand picked and so go were those who were defeated all being company men members of the workers union the amalgamated association of iron steel and tin workers did riot not appear on the ballots union representatives es charged that workers were threatened with loss of their jobs it if they vote and said many of the men deliberately spoiled their ballots there were ugly threats that if the government did not act the workers would begin to take things apart we are putting our faith in president roosevelt and the said one of the union leaders promised to see this case through well it if they dont then well be forced to take things into our own hands because were going to win this light fight thomas E assistant to president williams said the only way the government would be allowed to enter the matter was on the strength of a court order we are for the NKA 11 he said but there are some parts of the recovery law which frankly we do not like its no DO secret that weirton steel la Is opposed to a closed bhoj which Is what the labor provisions of the act mean nor Is it any secret that we do not intend to recognize the amalgamated he still insisted that the company union was not a company union at all but an association ot of employees representatives chosen by free and untrammeled ballot by the work workers era gen hugh S johnson adain admin intrator refused to comment on published reports that president william green of the american federation of labor will demand a clear cut statement from the recovery administration and the national labor board outlawing company financed unions green said that on september 20 he had filed many affidavits with the recovery authorities charging that corporations in every section of the country were violating the labor provision by company union activities ue he charged no action had been taken against these corporations gout GENERAL JOHNSON has mapped out a new alignment of code authorities thorl ties in order to provide more effective representation of consumers interests his plan Is to place on every code authority one representative selected by the administrator this representative will be assisted by two advisors one drawn from the ranks of labor and nominated by the labor advisory bourd baird of and the other to be nominated by the consumers advisory board an important part of johnsons John announcement no was that he proposes to give the representatives on each code authority a veto power over any of the actions the authority may elect to take in other words in the self government ern ment of each industry which the general has often discussed as his aim a code authority may decide to take some step with respect to prices or production or wages it if it suits the represent representative atre ft will be at put into effect otherwise he e can veto the action the administrator also announced the appo appointment of leon henderson of the russell sage foundation new york and S J a director of the consumers research bureau bureaus as special assistants in the consumers division of the lie ile emphasized that mrs mary rumsey Ru rosey society woman who heads beads the consumers advisory board would retain her present post 0 ONE NE of the encouraging slang signs of the times la Is the deci ilou blou of the van swearingen railroads to purchase ts worth of rolling stock this being the biggest order for equipment authorized in many years the pur champs will be financed by the the railroads will buy the equipment with the proceeds of 4 per cent fifteen benr equipment trust certificates sold to the government in this way the will obtain security for its loan without receiving as col literal bunds or other evidences of mortgaged indebtedness by contrast the demands bonds as security here possible the roads roada are the and ohio the nackle plate and the erle y 1 EARLY reports of hf secretary roper of the commerce department and secretary tx wallace of agriculture were of a nature to cheer up president roosevelt Koo sevelt and all the supporters of his policies tit mr roper koper submitted facts and figures showing that considerable sid erable progress toward business busl ness recovery had been made in the united states as a result of decisive action by the government and that there were definite signs of a business revival throughout the world he also reported that in line with the administrations economy program he had bad brought brouil it about drastic reorganization in his department and had cut expenditures tures per cent compared with those of the previous year secretary wallace reported the 1933 farm income at against last year exclusive of in crop reduction benefits to be paid by the alie government before the end of 0 the year G giand AND jury investigation ot of the affairs of the northern indiana public service company resulted in the returning of indictments at crown R point ind against samuel insult insull jr aw and other officials of the company including morse dell plain its president it Is t charged that the com y W banys treasury was SSI looted tor for the benefit abey ai ey of insult sull holding com si y panics the report of as w A aai 1 the grand ax jury ia in eluded these S sa uel T eions insull instill jr jp that a bookkeeping error of was purposely made to deceive uie the indiana public service commission and justify high rates for service that huge expense accounts tor for certain officials covering trips to california I 1 and atlantic city and the sending of vast quantities of flowers to hotels were an unjustified charge against northern indiana public service that properties in many instances worthless and without exception worth far less than the value charged were transferred to the treasury of northern indiana through a system of 0 interlocking directorates direct orates this was done the report declared to milk northern indiana public service of surplus earnings that the funds and assets of the operating company are still being constantly depleted by the domination of midland utilities and other parent organizations ot of the insult insull group the investigation was given its start when boward W duncan former assistant si stant alif treasurer ot of northern indiana confessed he be had embezzled of the companas comp anys money and lost it on the race horses duncan pleaded guilty to the theft ot of 1500 li 00 ile he offered to tell the inside story of 0 the insult insull high hl gh finance and was allowed allowe d to do so the investigators then fo followed I 1 out the lines he laid down tor for them to follow jsamuel LIE government of greece notified oil t samuel insult insull that he would ba have ve to leave that country when tits ills residence permit expired on december 31 but when the american fugitive pleaded illness be was granted an extension of the permit to january 31 insult insull has no consular status as an american citizen his passport having been re aked where he can go with safety Is a puzzle for the united states lias has extradition treaties with all countries bordering on greece and presumably he would be nabbed in any of then them the government in washington has instituted proceedings to collect from insult insull his wife and tits his son 2210 in income taxes WHEN HEN president Roosevel ts pet project in the tennessee valley Is tar far enough advanced to electric power it Is going to produce a lot of it and consumers consumers will he be ceeil ed so to create a market for 1116 energy the president has set up a million dollar mortgage loan corpora tion lion using public works funds and directed it to finance electric appliance purchases in the tennessee region cheap credit will be extended to nil all home owners and residents within the tennessee valley authority area for this purpose manufacturers of electrical hous hold goods are enthusiastic over the prospect of having bating the government furnish funds with which their products can tie be bought stephen T early secretary to the president deia said in an otric official lal explanation of the order truler IBETS supreme religious and civil ruler the dalal lama died in lhasa und and a bengal correspondent says it is reported he was poisoned this po powerful erful priest was regarded by buddhist asia as the rehi carnation of a long dead buddha and was worshiped as a delty deity in his sixty years he had many adventures when the british opened up tibet in 1904 1901 he fled to to mongolia live five years later lie he returned to lhasa but was q arlen out by the chinese and took refuge in india in 1912 1012 the Tibe tibetans tans the chinese and established thir th ir rind the dalal lama went hick back and his place as ruler of the country HEN the tha day for or war debt payments WHEN to the united states came around the expected happened france poland belgium hungary and estonia made no payments payment whatever finland as it did last june paid in full token payments were made by uve five nations as follows great britain 71 of ital italy y to czechoslovakia ot of lithuania of and latvia of so in all uncle sam received or approximately one seventeenth of the 1529 due that day from eleven E european Korn ur nations there Is now overdue on the funded debts 0 ONE VE foreign nation has undertaken to bring suit against a state of the union before the supreme court of the united states the first instance of 0 the kind in history the principality of monaco seeks through its amerlean american attorneys permission to sue ue the state of mississippi for payment ot of principal and interest on worth of bonds defaulted in 1841 1941 it was explained by the esque consulate in new york that monaco Is 18 em powered ered as a sovereign sove relga state to sue one of the united states a privilege not accorded to in individuals dividu 1 s and that the bonds were given the principality by three descendants of original investors who had finally been convinced that so far as private holders were concerned the delta state was going to continue too proud to pay Is premier amler ALEJANDRO of spain again having haling succeeded diego martinez barrios who was made vice president of the new cabinet and minister of war larroux said he was pleased with the ministry ho he had got together and that its lt formation of members of the left the right and the center parties was compatible with the complexion of the new parliament which Is dominated by conservatives serva tives appointment ot of hiroshi salto as athe appointment the new japanese ambassador to the united states was confirmed by the cabinet in tokyo the foreign office there cabled instructions tor for him to proceed at once to washington from the hague where he has been serving as minister to the netherlands ato PEACE for the time being has come coma to the gran chaco for paraguay and bolivia agreed to a tr truce uce and their warfare in the jungle region was wa stopped this was arranged by the league of nations commission with the backing of 0 the delegates to the pan american conference in montevideo negotiations for a permanent settlement of the long conflict were proceeding la in the uruguayan capital secretary of state hull was given much of the credit for bringing about the armistice FRENCH Fasser RENCH police broke up what they asserted ted was as an international espionage ring and arrested ten persons persona as spies among them are robert switz and his wife of fast east orange N J the authorities said the gang was working for no particular nation ml poli HEFLIN of alabama who 1 I L used to entertain the senate and the country with his long diatribes a against those vino he alleged were persecuting him blin on re I 1 V bous grounds plans a comeback come back to washington in the capacity 1 of a member of the lower house ile he was bes beaten ten for the senate in 1030 1930 by john A bankhead Cank Dank head liend and was virtu virtually illy read out of 0 the democratic party the year before by the 4 state executive com T thoma ho mas cittee because he e flin tool took the stump against alfred I 1 E smith in 1928 now tom announces that lie he is a primary candidate for congressman from the fifth district because he thinks the democratic party Is weak in debating ability ile he says he will help the president to obtain legislation that will take the control of the money supply out of the hands bands of those who produce panics every eiery ten or twelve years mr heflin Is concededly an able debater lint but lie he way may find the lower house less patient with nith his lengthy lengal 1 y speeches eche concerning himself and h hla 1 persecution complex than was the senate T TWO wit of ALner americas leas popular and widely read novelists died on the tha bluie day in new boik louis doseph lo aph value author of many tales of mystery was found dead in a blazing arm aria chair in tits his apartment the fire having apparently been set by a dropped alga cigarette robert W chambers writer of best sellers tot rot nearly dearly forty years arid and noted especially for tits his novels ot of american history passed away after an operation for an intestinal disorder front from which he had bad suffered fer several months C against william G donne illinois Illi manager of the home owners loan corporation resulted in the acceptance of his resignation by the corporation board after he had been heard in washington various accusations of fraud and favoritism were wera made against dionne who mho was backed by the illinois democratic or organization anaza it was as predicted his removal would hase a serious political in the sante C ANU AND MRS LIND BERGLI v 1 ended their long flying tour of foreign lands vb when en they arrived at miami fla from the dominican republic they took off soon after for new york trip took then them twice across the atlantic ocean and to four continents bod and thirty nations 95 0 1933 western News newspaper akl |