Show news R review aview of current events the wo world ad over senate committee defies president and b on extension roosevelt lists must bills and business opposes them by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union the wishes of president D disregarding roosevelt the un finance ince committee of the senate adopted and reported for or passage a simple resolution continuing dg the national recovery act until april 1 1936 and at the same time making these provisions 1 no price fixing shall be permitted or sanctioned in codet codes except in those relating to mineral or natural resources which now lime price fixing provisions donald 0 no g trade en go g e d in intrastate commerce shall be eligible for a code 3 the president is given specified time in which to review present codes to carry out the conditions laid down in the lie first two exceptions to the resolution both president roosevelt and donald head of the had urged the passage of a new two year bill which would set up a stricter dictatorship over business and industry tile the senate finance committee however would not consent to tills this and instead passed tile the resolution which was drawn up by senator dark clark of missouri and approved by chairman pat harrison twelve senators first called at the white house and the president willing to accept the continuing resolution until tit mr came in and protested urgently whereupon sir mr roosevelt turned it dox down n the committee then took the action noted by a vote of 0 16 to 3 defying both the president and senator harrison said he had n no 0 doubt the senate would adopt the resolution with little debate H FT optimism marked the fireside aa chat which president Roo roosevelt delivered over the radio to the people of america which people be said are as a whole reeling feeling a lot better a lot more cheerful than for many many sears ne he asserted we are already on the unmistakable march toward recovery and told how he be means to promote the return to normal conditions with his bis works relief relict program lie he promised to put to president work three and a halt half million persons now roosevelt on the relief rolls and to press for enactment of legislation be considers necessary for carrying on the new deal only once did mr roosevelt allude to such critics of his administration as senator long fattier father coughlin and Goer governor nor talmadge ile he said the rhe overwhelm overwhelming ilig majority of 0 people in this country know liow how to sift the wheat from froia the chair chaff in what they hear and what they read they know that the process of the constructive re building of america connot cannot be done to la a day or a bear ear but that it Is being done in spite of a few w v ho seek to confuse them and to profit by their confusion these six fundamental principles said ald the hie president must guide the work relief program projects must be useful most of the money must 91 for labor a considerable proportion of the costs must be returned to the treasury only those projects nelch can employ persons on relief will le be at approved and projects will be approved in a given area lo in proportion to tile the unemployed in that area N which the president L legislation said in his radio talk should be enacted by congress immediately included the old age and unemployment insurance bill the extension bill the public utility holding company bill the transportation control bill and the banking bill here he comes into conflict again with the lews of business leaders of the country the national association of manufacturers has just issued it its economic analysis of conditions con dillons which says recovery Is hithon our grasp and that the nation Is closer to breaking the back of the depression than at any time for years but asks that in order to stimulate business the administration and congress temporarily shelve as disturbing such legislation as ae unemployment insurance the omnibus banking bill the utility holding company bill the 1 week the wagner labor disputes bill the guf fey bituminous coal measure and proposed changes in railroad laus of tied up capital the analysis said this surveys indicate that close to in expenditures which would give ghe employment to tuen men for two years Is pent up in th tha field of factory expansion renovation and rehabilitation alone the release of this flow of private capital by political uncertainties ta tain ties would dwarf the billions appropriated by congress for relief still and make unnecessary the expenditure of touch much of the taxpayers nion unni 3 this document vins UHS glen out as the in gilr of tile the united states stales chow her of commerce were gather gathering I 1 in washington for their twenty third annual convention and naturally ratu rally their speakers endorsed it and attacked much of the proposed legislation mery men tinned as un unwarranted intrusion of the government into business before it adjourned the chamber adopted resolutions condemning abolition of utility holding companies opposing the banking bill asking for relaxation and extension of the instead of the administration bill and postponing for further study the question of social security henry 1 I imin who has been president of the lie organization for three bears ears retired from that office lo in favor of harper sibley of rochester N T Y HOW OW the new kew dealers propose to redistribute wealth by double taxation of large estates Is revealed by secretary of the treasury in a letter to senator rw vat pat harrison lson chair man of the senate fl fi notice nance committee mr outlines a plan of imposing in taxes and also retaining the existing estate taxes asserting tills this Is in line with our fundamental objectives that this would result I 1 in n the se cr re ary dissolution ot large mo MoS e thau 13 ties the properties secre tary recognizes for he be says to present the necessity of hasty liquidation of large properties in order to pay the tax it might be provided that inheritance taxes be payable in ID a convenient number of installments the plan as outlined by mr Is to impose graduated inheritance taxes on estates with rates following those of the present income tax las rates which approximate GO CO per cent on incomes of a million dollars or more the present estate taxes hae a maximum of GO CO per cent over ten million dollars thus there would first be a tax of CO per cent upon the estate or gift and then another tax of GO CO per cent to be paid by those inheriting or re belving it tills this would amount to a combined rate of 85 per cent on 01 an estate of one hundred million dollars if all this money were handed banded out to the poorer people even huey L long olig might be satisfied ICKES department of S SECRETARY the Inter interior lor tills has now cow been elevated to the level of the state treasury and agriculture departments for congress lins has granted one of harolds dearest wishes and given him an undersecretary whose salary Is to be it a year this was vias a senate amendment to the interior department appropriation bill and was as accepted by the house bouse to 92 02 only after considerable pressure biad ila been applied by tile the adminis many of the house democrats have asserted that mr air ickes snubbed them and they would have hake liked nothing better than to administer a rebuke to him film by defeating the amendment but tile the pirty party leaders droe them into line ament ItI ZONAS victory over the government in the parker dam case ruled on oil by the supreme court alarmed the new dealers for the safety of some of their other big projects acts of the same nature the court decided that secretary ickes as public administrator was vias without authority to dam navigable rivers unless specifically ordered by congress and that it the law creating tile the IWA had not listed any such specific projects as tile the data dam tile the same applies to many huge acclamation projects that have received IWA funds and it Is riot not unlikely that suits will be brought to hiop some of then them mr air ickes said congress would be asked to authorize specifically the of the parker dam F FEDERAL judges Woo woodward duard wll wil kelson and lindley of chicago are not going to be for the house subcommittee investigating equity and bankruptcy find and practices the evidence el dence taken did riot not warrant such action the said that in several instances Con conduct luet prejudicial to the dignity of the federal judiciary was disclosed but that substantial improvements had been made both in ID the rules of the court and in tile the I 1 law it w a applicable P to the administrator of re ce herships and bankruptcy litigation C CHAIRMAN JOHN J of tile house military affairs committee sent to the president a letter 4 of f apology for disclosure of defense plana outlined in bes sessions of the committee and assumed full response res ability for tile the unfortunate incident mcswain was wag rebuked by letter from the president for the publication tinn in it house document of possible defense plans against canado canada and and french islands in the atlantic and the caribbean in the event of war brig gens alena F at An andrews drevis and diaries charles 1 R lul lumbourne bourne had outlined the program before a secret meeting of the coni com cittee F FOREIGN MINISTER LA VAL of 0 france and ambassador of russia finally fixed up the mutual assistance pact between the two countries in a way acceptable to both and it was signed in paris M laval then prepared to len leave e for moscow planning to stop in warsaw en route it would seem that laval had hla his way with the treaty tor for it subordinates military action of the two powers to the procedure of the league of nations to provisions of the locarno pact and also to the franco polish alliance all of that probably would keep keel france out of war even if russia P were attacked in paris it was taken for granted that a secret military convention tio supplementing tile the pact would would soon soo n be signed ened ii fixing the methods of mutual assistance a new transcontinental record I jord for transport ships a test plane flew fleir from burbank calif to new york in 11 hours and 5 minutes what Is more important tor for all but about one hundred miles it was controlled by a robot pilot D W tom allison the pilot was accompanied by harold snead an expert on radio beam flying and ater peter navigation engineer tomlinson had the controls for only three brief intervals over the san bernardino Bei Dei nardino range at durango colo where a snowstorm was encountered and at the landing at floyd bennett field the plane reached its greatest cruising speed of miles an hour over the allegheny mountains TEXANS are going to have the op of deciding whether their state shall remain dry or fall fail into line will most other states and repeal the prohibition law the legislature has voted to submit the question to popular action under the resolution adopted the vote rote would be held next august 24 regulation would be loft left to the legislature and at the general genera election in 1030 a vote would be taken on a mandatory state monopoly over oer sales of hard liquor local option would be preserved under both straight repeal and the monopoly under the straight repeal plan which also would bar the return of the open saloon f GERMANYS N latest breach of the treaty of versailles the building of submarines Is stirring up a lot of angry talk in great britain france and italy the english pre are especially disturbed for they remember only too vividly how neat near the germans came to starving them during the war by the destruction of shipping by the undersea boats anglo german conversations on naval restriction were to have been held in london the second week in may and these m may ay now be called off or at least postponed tile the french are less exea because they think the development may force a showdown on the whole status of the german navy and hillers Hit lers demand for at least 35 per cent of the british tonnage and approximate parity with that of france naval experts in paris said the disclosure might well prove of inestimable benefit tor for military france in awakening naval britain to the dangers of hillers Hit lers armaments policy information obtained by the powers was that germany already had bad under construction a number of ton submarines and planned a large fleet of them spokesmen for the german government denied that any were being built yet but at the some same time admitted that submarines were being considered in connection with plans for rebuilding the navy hof HAVING listened to senator lo 10 long ng of louisiana and other orators who do not like the administration and its new deal and also have little love for the G 0 1 P the national farmers holiday association in session at des moines lown iowa decided that a third national political party should be formed milo reno national president of the association cl cia tion atlon had bad a lively encounter with a group of alleged communists milo reno during a business sea session they sought adoption nt it a resolution calli calling tig for legislation for relief vilt without hout debts production credit without strings and immediate re peal of the AAA reno denounced them as wall street racie racketeers and henchmen of soviet russia you cant talk you cant argue dont try to get tile the floor im running tills this meeting reno sold said sit down and abut up get out before we get really mud mail D republicans of nine LX states who vibo met at excelsior springs mo decided that the grass roots conference of leaders of the party should be held in aprin sprin springfield field III the date to be fixed kiei later though it probably will be early in june the purpose of this gathering will be the rejuvenation of tile party and the launching of a campaign to restore popular government hicl II ack cl of havana apparently are awell well on tile the way to solution of tile tho mystery of the fire which destroyed the ward liner morro castle and other recent marine disasters its asters they have arrested three men all natives of coto C itu tart lan province in spain and say gay that they found on their persons persona letters of instruction concerning the destruction of the alie steamship magallanes Mag allanea of the spanish joe hue which was as soon boon due la in havana ilie documents according to the authorities ordered the hie accused to take necessary action to precipitate a disaster slin ilir to that of tile the morro castle the police say bay the are well viell know u |