Show news L W s review of current events the world over president asks for shorter hours and higher wages penalty provisions will be invoked despe desperate rate dillinger Di escapes from jail by EDWARD W PICKARD SEVERAL EVERAL thousand members of the u code authorities gathered in constitution ution hau hall washington at the call or lot the president to revise and strengthen industrial agreements the opening session was formal and rather stately with the members of the cabinet other high government edt officials and many senators and congressmen present before this assembly came mr roosevelt to tell not so eo much what had been accomplished in the last twelvemonth as what he hoped for in the near future he warned the industrial leaders that the government cannot forever continue to absorb the whole burden of unemployment he called tor for greater protection of small business terming the code authority the keeper of your small industrial brother briefly summarized this Is what mr roosevelt proposed wage increases and shortening of hours bours to bolster consuming power and spread employment greater adherence by the people to the blue eagle symbol to make all play the game continued enforcement of the antitrust laws to retain competition and prevent monopoly strict adherence by employers to the law allowing free choice by employees of representatives to do their collective bargaining permanent reorganization of the economic and social structure along the lines already started general johnson administrator wound up the code authority with the blunt announcement that the blue eagle rules were to be tightened up and the assertion 1 I have bare been too gentle you aint seen nothing yet 1 urging the industrialists to play the game fairly the general uttered three warnings one was that under specific orders from the president the was reorganizing to enforce the penal sections of the act the second that the country faces this spring the worst epidemic of strikes in our history because of illegal interposition of employers in the matter ot of company unions the third that with the recent supreme court decision upholding the new york state emergency milk law the administration has dropped all hesitation and Is ready to use the powers of the industrial law to the limit it if opposition forces it to draft his new plan for making more jobs johnson asked the code coda authorities of the heavy goods industries and of the consumer groups to select twelve men each president roosevelt said the administrator has approved th the eplan plan tor for putting teeth to in the the president himself intimated that he would ask congress to extend the time limit on the licensing provisions of the the act gives authority to the president to place any industry under license se and to revoke the license of any concern in the industry thereby compelling it to shut down this authority to license expires next june under the terms of the recovery act which granted it for one year only whereas the life of the act was limited to two years of president roose completion C belts first year in the white house called forth a chorus of laudation and of hostile criticism from his admirers and his opponents the least that can be said Is that it has been a year of excitement and action of bold experimentation to methods of government and of the spending of vast sums of money in the furtherance of the presidents determination president to Q establish a new roosevelt deal pg that y amounts to a social revolution mr roosevelt himself in a brief address on the occasion of the installing of dr daj J M gray as chancellor of the american university in washington said one of the most salient features of the salient year in our amerlean american life has been the amazing and universal increase in the interest of the people in the subject of government the joint congressional republican campaign committee took occasion to issue a statement declaring that the administration ends its first year with many platform pledges untried and practically abandoned with policies unshaped and conflicting with its monetary program bewilderingly uncertain a situation baffling enough hindrance to a return to to prove a prosperity replying for the supporters of the administration senator allram johnson of CaU california fornia nominally a republican said it Is not necessary to agree with all that has been done in every conceivable but unfair and unjust cei cel vable particular would be the individual who would not dot emphatically concede that audacity the enlightened with an president has bag acted and has accomplished amazing results it Is 11 a sorry policy that now says to people that nothing has been done that Is right and that the president has brought them no relief and the future holds tor for them no hope we are better and our country la Is better and our people are better and our times are better for what the president has done during the past year L T legislation EGI to restore the air mall mail to commercial operators will speedily be started through congress at the instance of the president ile he sent letters to chairman mckellar Uc Kellar of the senate post office committee chairman mead head of the house postal committee and chairman black of the special senate committee investigating the air mall mail in which he be outlined his plan for new temporary contracts and the eventual regulation of air mall mail rates and routes by the interstate commerce committee the new policy will be tor for contracts to be let for not more than three years on full open and fair competitive bidding with a limitation of the rates of compensation above which no contract will be awarded the legislation carrying the program into effect senator mckellar indicated dica ted will fix the limit of compensation mentioned by the president tar far below the prevailing 40 cents per mile the figure the senator said may be as low as 25 cents six months before the three year contract expires according to president Roosevel ts suggestion the question of the public convenience and necessity of the various routes and the question of maximum rate of pay would be submitted to the ICO under this plan transportation of the malls by air would be placed under substantially the same regulation as that of the railroads i tonn OUN DILLINGER eminent bank J robber leader gang and alleged murderer who was captured with great in arizona and conveyed to indiana for trial became irked by confinement in the es cape proof jail at crown point so he be made a pistol out of a piece of wood and the handle of a safety razor cowed the guards and deputies and locked them in 4 1 cells obtained two machine guns from john dillinger the jail armory and a 4 pistol from a guard took sheriff lillian lililan colleys Hol leys car from the garage and drove away with a negro murderer they took one deputy sheriff and a garage attendant as hostages but released them near peotone peptone Pe otone ill III and then vanished it was believed dillinger was hidden somewhere in the vicinity of chicago the law authorities of the middle west were all searching for him and all officers had orders to kill 1111 him at sight sheriff colleys Hol leys car was found abandoned on a street in chicago this escape of the desperado was one of the boldest performances of his career and it Is amazing to consider how it could have been successfully carried out in view of Dil lingers record perhaps some sympathy Is due the woman sheriff mrs holley who was given that office after the death of her husband gerrib terribly ly depressed by the flasco fiasco she made the futile gesture of 0 strapping an automatic about her waist and setting out to find er mrs holley declared she would not resign her office but steps were taken to force her out by court action two of her deputies were arrested charged with aiding and abetting the escape the investigations ans and lions in lake county are unfortunate unfortunately mixed up tip with local politics DESPITE deavy ESPITE the protests of the little navy group the senate by a vote of 05 to 18 approved the administrations days naval replacement bill authorizing the construction of a ton aircraft carrier approximately 65 destroyers st totaling tons some 29 20 submarines totaling tons and the airplanes from MO to 1250 required to complete the fleets air equipment planned to cover a five year period the replacement program will cost approximately tn in all for the projected vessels and more it if the maximum number of planes are built enactment of the measure assures the united states of a navy as strong as to Is allowed under the london agreement of 1930 0 S WAS predicted recently the A AS president appointed judge florence allen alien of ohio to the federal circuit court of appeals bench she Is the first woman to be made a federal judge since she was admitted to the bar twenty years ago her legal career in ohio has been notable in 1922 she was elected to the supreme court of that state the president also appointed sirs mrs bernice of cleveland as collector of customs there and frank P corrigan Ilkew likewise lse of cleveland to be minister to el salvador TWO wo more vacancies la in the democratic national committee are je j e announced as a result of the presidents president belief that national committeemen should not practice law before government departments or hold party and government positions at the same came time arthur F mullen of omaha who was wa floor manager for mr roosevelt in the chicago convention and who Is counsel for public works work projects involving some ome resigned from the national committee and his bis action was followed two days later by the resignation of mrs nellie tayloe ross of wyoming director of the mint who quit the committee with reluctance at this writing the only prominent holdouts foldouts hol douts remaining are postmaster general farley who Is chairman of 0 the national committee and also of the new york democratic committee and william A julian of ohio treasurer of the united states mr mullen it Is rumored may turn up op as an opponent of gov charles W bryan of nebraska in the forthcoming race tor for the united states S SENATOR SIMEON D FESS ot of ohio Is one of the most voluble of the administrations critics and he found opportunity tor for another energetic attack when the senate was considering senator tom con dallys bill to include cattle among the basle basic commodities subject to farm adjustment control the tha provision for an appropriation of was the special point of assault by fess mcnary ot of senator few fess oregon g dickinson of iowa and carey of wyoming and of michigan all of whom agreed that the agricultural adjust ment program has been a complete failure the democrats with the exception of connally made no reply to th verbal barrage the ohio senator said gald that hot prices had fallen instead of rising that the prices of farm commodities not under the AAA had bad in many easel cases risen faster and higher than the so 0 o called basic commodities that sort of thing Is nauseating to any decent person who wants business busl nesi to be done la in a business way he said alluding to the hog buying program its time to stop this foolish experimentation time to take the heavy hand of government oft off business anil let business recover senator and mcnary could not understand why 2 were required for cattle when only were asked lc iv the original bill covering six commodities modi ties they suggested that benefits were to be paid before a processing tax was wa levied and that perhaps no processing tax was intended to be levied on cat tle tie senator connally fumed bul could not answer their queries 1 I think I 1 can answer senator dickinson finally put in the AAA AA A has obligated itself for in benefits an additional are called for 1935 yet treasury receipts show only received from processing taxes in other words a potential deficit at the present time of more than p remarked senator C most sensational murder trial in recent years resulted in the conviction of the elderly dr alice v who ho was charged with killing her daughter in law rheta presumably to get the insurance on her life the jury fixed her penalty at 25 years in the penitentiary which amounts to a life sentence the first hearing of the case resulted in a mistrial because the defendant was too ill tor for its continuance doctor a member of a family of physicians had practiced medicine in chicago for many years and her crime astounded her numerous friends of the C constitutionality fietcher rayburn stock regulation bill which the president expects con press gress to pass at this session Is challenged by the new york stock exchange this action Is taken as notice that it if the measure Is enacted its validity will be tested in the courts the position of the exchange la is that the mere declaration by congress that transactions in securities as commonly conducted upon securities exchanges are effected with a national public interest does not make thin so as a matter of law such transactions as commonly conducted are not transactions in interstate commerce according to the lawyers for the exchange and congress they declare cannot by legislative flat fiat ascribe to them legal characteristics which they do not otherwise possess FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT MRS accompanied by assistant secretary of the treasury tugwell and others took an aerial trip to the caribbean islands the special purpose of which was to visit puerto rico and the virgin islands from miami they flew via cuba to port au prince haiti and san pedro in the dominican republic and thence to san juan and st thomas the last named town gave the first lady a gay welcome she made a brief study of social and economic conditions there and took part in the dedication of a hospital building named the anna eleanor building in her honor after a hop to st SL croix also in the virgin islands the party returned to san juan where mrs roosevelt was quite elaborately entertained IQ br naw imma dads us AL |