Show news review of current events the world over presidents residents resi denes program driven through congress before adjournment Alus mussolini refuses to abandon his projected conquest of ethiopia by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union action in both house legislative and senate was fast and ana furious during the closing days of the session white house pressure was freely used filibusters were started and stopped senators and representatives represent la hot and bothered were inclined to 1 be quarrelsome but M oie I 1 i congress had its orders and it wanted an to I 1 0 go home so th the le adi 4 ministration tj program in general was pushed through one of the most senator e or controversial measures gu gey affey on that program the gufrey gaffey coal bill had been driven through the house by orders from above and threats of a strike and t when it was taken up by the senate every effort to kill it by the tax feature was defeated during the debate senator walter P ceorge of georgia democrat created a sensation by denouncing the hill bill in these words outside of political circles circle it Is questionable whether there ure ste fire reputable lawyers in the united states who would declare this measure constitutional Ho however weer that hint lq 1 not the worst feature of the bill the worst feature is the defect and infirmity in it the lie legislative program thit that we are ld developing el this nation cannot remain free and happy it if we are to legislate for groups and beyond all of that it if groups aie to legislate for themselves tile the end of things Is not very tory far distant that Is the situation we have confronting us and to this kind of program the democratic party Is willing to commit itself Itsel fl 1 senator george was assailing the proposal to set up district boards in the coal industry would make their own laws as to trade practices and regulate wages and hours allocate tonnages ton nages and fly fis prices with regard recard only for their own interests this Is the type of absolutism from which we revolted to establish this republic he declared the house gave up the fight against the death sentence in the utilities III bill and instructed conferees to accept a compromise that was pretty much one sided this means that all holding companies beyond the second degree are to be sentenced to death by the SEC promptly after january 1 2 1038 1933 even a holding company in the second degree would not escape unless its operations were confined to a single integrated system within a state or within contiguous states both senate and house adopted a resolution making mandatory the embargo bar 0 o on munitions shipments to both belligerents in case of war this was what the administration did not want claiming it would tie tic the hands bands of the executive so that he could exert no influence toward averting war senate and house accepted the conferees report on the bill bil I 1 increasing the powers of TVA and legalizing that blodys past actions and it was sent to the white house the senate passed without a record vote the railway bankruptcy amendments recommended by coordinator co joseph 13 eastman which are designed to prohibit minorities from blocking reorganization plans M MUSSOLINI Is determined to conquer ethiopia and all europe Is trembling 11 II duce evidently feels that his personal prestige Is at stake and to him that means the continuation of the fascist regime anthony eden and andri pierre erre laval offered lwy italy what would amount to a mandate over nalle halle Selas sies realm but that was n not 0 t enough so the trl power conference in ID paris was declared ad p premier bremier journea jour ned the friend hip between france mussolini J nd italy y must be ruptured great britain win will insist on action by the league of nations council when it meets september 4 there Is no reason to believe that the council will do more than it did in the case of japans seizure of manchuria but it seemingly will be forced to denounce italis action and that would be enough to induce mus bollal to withdraw his big country from the league it if and when italy defies the league that pretentious body previously defied successfully by japan and d germany will amount to little after earon baron pompel alois had submitted the anglo french proposition to mussolini and had received the duces reply he told eden and laval that his master would be satisfied with nothing less than annexation of ethiopia in whole or in part laval was furious and directly accused mussolini ot of break breaking ng a personal promice made to him when he visited rome eden abruptly brought the conference to a close hurrying bacic to london captain eden took part in conferences held by prime minister stanley baldwin and the members of his cabinet together with various former ministers opposition leaders and public men not in office tile was admittedly tense and the advice of such men as lloyd george lord cecil and winston churchill was sought by the government sir S hoare foreign secretary also called in representatives or of nil all the self governing dominions it was understood the british government would be prepared fully to honor ats obligations under the league of nations covenant these including the denouncing of a nation that attacks another member of the league or of course tile the air in london was wag full of rumors of war but officials gave assurance that great britain would move with the greatest caution paris heard unconfirmed reports that mussolini was trying to negotiate a secret military alliance with hitler if such a pact Is signed sig ned it will greatly increase the chances of another general european war SAMUEL is AMUEL B PETTEN democratic representative from indiana aroused the house to wild cheering by a downright attack on tom corcoran the white house lobbyist who has been charged with tryl trying ng to intimidate congress men betten ill challenged the house lobby committee to summon N 4 corcoran again and question him about his reported dealing in ut utility I 1 lity issues on tile the new york stock exchange 6 ri market at the T G corcoran cor tora same time he be labored for legislation against utilities at washington the indiana representative thus brought out into the open the rumors whispered about the capitol that administration lobbyists hobbyists vere profiting ng secretly by stock market deals I 1 in securities cur curi ties affected by legislation for I 1 which they were exerting tremendous efforts corcoran once admitted to a committee that he had been a stock market plunger and had bad made and lost a small fortune in view of this admission petten gall told the house the rules committee investigating lobbying should sum summon mon corcoran and question him as to whether he is now in tile the market with reference to utility stock GRADUALLY the president Is bringing all the alphabetical units of the yew new deal directly under his control by bringing them under the budget and accounting act thirteen of them already have been treated thus by executive acu ecu five order and more will follow soon they are required to submit to the budget bureau estimates covering expenditures and to go on a month to month spending basis at first the i heads of these various administrations resented this and blamed secretary but when they learned that the president was strong for the plan they quietly gave in MORE Mb ORE than troops of all branches ranches of the armed service got at w well ell started in the great war man maneuvers eu ve rs in northern new york which were organized organ bed and directed by maj gen dennis E nolan the regular army men of the first area and the national guardsmen guardsman Guards men of new eng england land new york and new jersey participated and in muddy fields tan tangled led pine forests backwoods roads they had a series of r i engage ments troops appos ing troops under conditions closely simulating mu lating real warfare an interesting feature was the use of a big fleet of taxicabs tail cabs from new york city pine camp just south of the lie thousand islands region was the center of operations ranking high officers of the army and military attaches of foreign nations observed the maneuvers during the opening days the awen ty seventh new york division commanded by maj gen william N haskell was pitted in the eastern portion of the square mile maneuver area against the forty third new engl england division commanded by maj gen morris moras B D rayne payne in the western portion of the changing terrain the forty fourth now new jersey and new york division commanded by maj gen john J toffey opposed the twenty sixth massachusetts division boil TAPAN APAN has been offended by our navy on various occasions especially by the staging of fleet maneuvers maneu veis at hawaii and the alaskan coast now the sensitive islanders should be pleased for assistant secretary of the navy henry L roosevelt has announced that the fleet maneuvers of 1036 will be held at the panama canal and on the western coast of central america mr roosevelt and the navy davy high 11 colu command mand asserted not ery cry convincingly that the shift was not made in response to unofficial japanese criticism N ONE of those sudden sull cn governmental IN upsets frequent in latin america president jose M velasco ibarra of ecuador was thrown put out of office and antonio pons former premier was put in his place it all came about because ibarra tried to make himself a dictator and imprisoned the lenders leaders of f the opposition the senate objected and ibarra abarra closed congress then the army got into action ibarra was arrested by col nicanor solis soils inspector general the political prisoners were released and rons PODS was installed as president Wc WILL ILL ROGERS and wiley post crushed rushed to death in alaska when their plane fell not tar from point harrow barrow were ere brought back to the states for burial by joe crosson their intimate friend in an airplane and all their countrymen stood figuratively with bared and bowed heads as the broken bodies were laid to rest none was too great and none too lowly to pay tribute in words and action to those abose two fine americans one a beloved come co medlin dinn humorist and philos opher tile the other a leader among the worlds aviators they tile died A as they had lived adventuring gallantly an and the world Is tile the poorer for their passing RESIDENT ROOSEVEL TS cotton P textile committee submitted to him certain recommendations to better the industry and lie passed them on to congress tor for future notion action secretary of corn com P 1 N merce daniel roper heads the committee and the other mem mcm bers are secretary of labor perkins secretary of agriculture 1 wallace and secretary of state hull the report proposed that a friendly agreement be sought with japan to secretary limit the export of textiles to this coun roper try the committee found that although the japanese imports have been small the american market has been disturbed with a resultant depression in the industry here A continuance of the labor standards provided under the nita code was suggested to this end it was recommended that the government supplement such voluntary efforts as are being made by administrative and legislative measures which may be feasible to aid workers the committee recommended against discontinuance of the cotton processing tax during the existing economic emergency as reflected by existing price disparities it held that the tax increases the purchasing power of farmers and thus benefits workers in the cotton textile industry the governments cotton loan joan policy was found to be primarily important to the textile industry through its pcs possible sible stabilizing effect various technical recommendations were made by the report but the proposition of representatives of the industry that the government virtually subsidize cotton textile exports by an allowance of 7 cents per pound was disapproved MINORITY mand members of the senate and house committees that are investigating the doing of 0 lobbyists hobbyists started out the week with the determination mID mi to find out why mariln tyre secretary to the president lawrence W robert jr assistant secretary of the treasury and amon G carter of fort worth publisher and friend of the roosevelt family were y all found in the apartment i r at the shoreham Shore ham B B Robins cn hotel of bernard B robinson of chicago chief lobbyist of the associated gas and electric company mr robinson himself also was there and it was said when the door was opened at the knock of the geant at arms of the senate a scene of revelry was disclosed for a day or two the news of tills this affair was not sent out from washington by the news associations reportedly because of the efforts of mr carter to have it suppressed entirely this too same some of the investigators want explained republican members of the house committee also said they rhey would insist on the interrogation of undersecretary of the interior charles west and emil hurja executive director of the democratic cratic national committee west Is reputedly the presidents lobbyist and hurla acts in a capacity for postmaster general farley and both of them were involved with tom corcorn corcoran in the utilities death sentence lobbying that started the whole in wr WHEN BEN charles S risk the rhode island lawyer who boho defeated tile the new deal candidate for congress re bently entered the house on the arm of representative bertrand fl snell republican leader and was esco escorted fled to the speakers rostrum to take the oath he be was vociferously greeted by the republicans as a hero whose victory they thought presa presaged ged greal things for the party next year mr air risk took his seat on his thirty eigher birthday FLOTD B OLSON ollion governor 0 JL minnesota on his way to wash ington stopped to in chicago long enough to tell reporters that he intended to be a candidate for the united states senate in 1938 19 36 this was interpreted Inter as meaning that he would contest the reelection election re of thomas D schall the blind republican governor olson Is a ranner laborite |