Show news review of current events WAGE BILL IS PASSED southern democrats lose hot hof fight in the house secretary detary ickes Is married in dublin P S 6 aio 14 here is an armored car detachment of czechoslovakian up to date army which was sent to the frontier to meet the threats of aggression by fuehrer hillers Hit lers troops that were massed on their side of the border id W y S summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 6 0 western newspaper union house passes wage hour bill representative MARY NORTONS representative wage hour bill finally got through the house by a vote of to 97 despite fierce opposition of the southern democrats it was sent on to the senate which has passed a widely diff differing ering measure 00 and where opposition blocs were reported forming to carry on a filibuster the southerners fought tor for differentials s I 1 ala favoring their isa industries and were rep hep nor norton on ged aided by a few republicans republic public ans who called the biu bill a vote catcher that would throw millions out of work the measure establishes rigid wage hour standards for certain classes of workers in all industries operating in interstate commerce regardless of prevailing sectional scales it fixes an initial wage of 25 cents an hour which steps up to 40 cents an hour in three years and a 44 hour week graduating to 40 in two years t J A coalition of farm state representatives senta tives and the southern democrats put over a drastic amendment offered by mrs norton exempting thousands of employees engaged in the processing of agricultural commodities modi ties from the provisions of the measure other amendments exempt retail establishments in intrastate commerce the entire fishing industry and employees of rural weekly and semiweekly semi weekly newspapers with less than circulation the shipment in commerce of goods produced with the aid of child labor is prohibited but child actors are exempt from this provision when the fight ended mrs norton chairman of the labor committee was cheered and hugged by the victorious administration democrats morgan charges deceit Y ded H R ARTHUR E MORGAN oust ot 1 ed chief of TVA was the first witness heard by the congressional committee inquiring into the affairs of the authority in straightforward fashion he told his side of the story charging his fellow directors with dishonest management he explained he did not mean david lilienthal and harcourt morgan took bribes or stole money but that they deceived the president congress and the public that they covered up important facts tending to throw doubt on the advisability of the governments ern ments huge social experiment reported a false electric power yardstick and were subservient to political and other special interests he accused lilienthal flatly of deceit in leading the public to believe that the financial accounts of the communities buying power from the TVA include all the costs of the service they render to the public dr morgan discussed in great detail the celebrated berry marble case involving sen george L berry tennessee democrat boss hines arrested JAMES TAMES J HINES most powerful leader of tammany hall and chief dispenser of federal patronage in new york was arrested on charges arising from the million dollar a year policy game racket in that city he surrendered in the office of district attorney thomas E U dewey hard hitting young prosecutor of manhattans Manhat tans multitudinous rackets and was released in bonds of lewis backs barkley JOHN L LEWS LEWIS C 1 I 0 chieftain u has asked labor to support sen albert alben W barkley of kentucky in tile primaries august 8 6 1 in n his capacity as chairman of labors nonpartisan league lewis said of barkley ey he is recognized as one of the nations leading statesmen liberal in his viewpoint and operative cooperative co in his attitude toward legislation in the interests of labor and the common people harry hopkins administrator found occasion to say a good word in favor of rep otha of iowa who is seeking to take the democratic senatorial nomination away from senator gillette for this hopkins was denounced by senators who were demanding that the relief appropriations be earmarked so they cannot be used for political purposes ickes weds in dublin HAROLD H AROLD L ICKES secretary of the interior and administrator put one over on all but his closest friends he sailed secretly from new york to ireland and in dublin was quietly married to miss jane dahlman of milwaukee twenty five years old and a clerk in his department mr ickes who is sixty four years old I 1 ost lost his first wife nearly three years go in harold ickes an automobile accident in the southwest the new mrs ickes red haired and pretty is a niece of john cudahy american minister to ireland and sister of mrs wilmarth ickes of winnetka ill widow of mr ick ickes ces stepson step son Mini minister ste r cudahy did not attend the wedding but was represented by S J shattuck an of the legation the couple left dublin by automobile for a brief honeymoon trip mr ickes cabled friends in washington that he would return there in a week and would be at home on his estate near olney md 11 plane crash kills ten T TEN EN persons died when a twin motored plane of the united air lines bound from new york for chicago crashed and burned south of cleveland ohio the victims included seven passengers two pilots and the stewardess officials of the air line said their information indicated the pilot was forced to make a landing because of engine trouble and that the ship did not lot catch fire until it struck japan apan demands apology now it is the turn of japan to 1 demand an apology from great britain the tokyo government felt it was gravely insulted b by y a statement attributed to R A butler parliamentary of the british foreign office that japanese marines had shot many chinese war prisoners and civilians when they captured the port of amoy tokyo demanded that the british government speedily give satisfaction for this slur on japans honor the japanese announced in shanghai that they had at last gained complete control of the mile bukow railway an and d expected to resume operations linking pel pei ping and shanghai early in july Y two taxation decisions IN TN TWO far reaching decisions the united states supreme court further narrowed the field of recipe reciprocal e intergovernmental tax immen immunity I 1 the rulings continued the trend in the direction of president roose belts theory that the federal and state governments can tax the salaries of each others employees and the income of each others securities without a constitutional amendment in a decision delivered by b y justice stone the court upheld levying of federal income taxes on employees of the port of new york authority in a decision delivered by justice roberts the court upheld federal federa admission taxes on tickets to football games conducted by the university system of georgia must re hire sit sif strikers THE HE national labor relations aboard board ordered the kuehne manufacturing fac turing company flora ill to reinstate with back pay american federation of labor sit down strikers it was the third major sit aown decision but the first involving an A F of L union the labor board refused to answer 74 questions put to it by the ford motor company sn in united states circuit court at C ovington covington ky the board particularly resented being asked whether thomas corcoran benjamin V cohen john L lewis or homer martin were consulted in arriving at an order charging the ford company with violating the wagner labor act too late for wheat quotas WALLACE said that SECRETARY under the new crop control law it is too late to invoke marketing quotas on this years indicated bumper wheat crop he explained that the law authorized quotas this year only in the event congress appropriated funds by may 15 for d parity payments provided in the new legislation martin loses in oregon GOV GO OV CHARLES H MARTIN of oregon regon the veteran soldier who has been fighting against the C 1 I 0 and other radicals was beaten for in the democratic primary by henry hess who had the backing of labor unions and of secretary of the interior ickes charles A sprague was nominated for governor by the republicans and they believe they have a good chance to win in the fau fail elections for the democrats there as in pennsylvania were badly split war narrowly averted GERMAN and czech troops by the thousands were massed on the frontier between the two countries president benes belies of czechoslovakia 4 and his cabinet k rf 1 decided to call reserves to the colors poland assembled armed forces close to the TN I 1 slovakia border hungary was reported to be taking 1 certain military measures france was ready to defend her ally president against nazi benes belles aggression and there was assurance that great britain and russia would come to the aid of france if she were attacked without provocation no wonder the governments of europe were desperately worried jy v such a critical condition hitler must have realized that the time was not ripe for aggressive action against the czechs czecho for german authorities in berlin solemnly assured dr vojtech mastny czech minister to berlin and the czech military that germany planned no military expedition 2 against czechoslovakia this eased the situation somewhat but the british cabinet continued to urge benes and anahis his government to make all possible concessions to hitler concerning the demands of the su aeten german minority it was believed the fuehrer would ultimately ly get about everything he wants from the czechs czecho without a fight dr milan hodza premier of czechoslovakia and konrad henlein leader of the german party were brought together I 1 in n peace talks in prague henlein was reported to have said he believe much progress in that line could be made until the government had recalled the reservists who had been mobilized the czechs czecho informed the french a and nd british governments they are willing to become a central european switzerland in which all r races aces of the polyglot republic will have equal rights however they them insist on further guarantees against german aggression to compensate for weakening their defense in paris it was reported that the french government asked that the united states associate itself with france and britain in their efforts to keep hitler from attacking czech oslo and that reply through ambassador bullitt was a reft refusal isal to mix in the row this was denied by mr bullitt I 1 FL italy warns france ITALY ITALY intimated it would keep out of the nazi czech quarrel but mussolini broke off the friendship talks with france and warned that contin continued aed french acquits acquiescence cence in the shipment of arms to govern ment alent spain would not be tolerated the duce declared that unless trance france ceases aiding transmission ot of soviet and czech arms to barcelona italy and germany may be forced to increase their assistance to the insurgents this naturally aUy wo would ul d endanger the new anglo ital ian agreement predestination Is out GENERAL assembly of the presbyterian presby by terian terlan church in th the united states in in session at t berid merid meriden miss voted to to omit it from fro the confession of faith these t two imbor tant sections by the decree of god iod for f the manifestation nation of his glory glory some men and angels are predestined unto everlasting life and others fore ordained ordal ned to everlasting death and their umber number is so certain and nn B c definite that lt it cannot be either increased or diminished 02 |