Show news review of current carrent events NEW SEAWAY PROPOSAL secretary hulls st lawrence plan arouses strong opposition in congress wallace again Rebuff rebuffed eQ A I 1 r ll 11 I 1 A r 71 Z I 1 ik 1 1 11 1 4 1 1 1 yIo f I 1 t 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 7 11 I 1 I 1 S k 1 i 1 1 1 I 1 I I 1 1 ill A 1 I 1 tl t I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 4 I 1 1 I r I 1 1 I 1 4 6 I 1 s 1 I 1 11 1 I 1 I 1 k 1 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 aa P 0 1 1 ill ii ii I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 I I 1 I 1 t I 1 I 1 1 Is W 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ff I 1 V 4 4 1 A 4 J 11 1 I I 1 1 11 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 d I 1 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 r I 1 v 1 I 1 11 I 1 1 1 4 ill I 1 1 I 1 V 1 I I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 1 0 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 P 11 I 1 i I I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 11 I 1 1 1 3 1 I 1 I 1 1 i adolpho echagaray Echa aray jaray Somo bano commander of the mexican federal troops engaged in suppressing the revolt in san luis state led by saturnino cedillo Is here seen right giving orders to two of his officers aw I 1 iv y C summarizes T M THE WORLDS WEEK 0 we western tern union hulls st lawrence plan presumably by direction of the president secretary of state hull submitted to canada a new proposal for development of the st lawrence seaway asking tha it be I 1 considered as a basis 1 I for a new treaty I 1 I 1 1 I 1 which would be a I 1 revision and amplification i I 1 jj 1 I 1 11 fi of the tr treaty eaty k of 1932 that the senate I 1 1 1 b refused to ratify I 1 1 in 1934 under the I 1 terms of the hull 1 plan canada would I 1 1 obtain without cost S secretary crebar y it hull H a completed st lawrence deep waterway ready for power development and also other valuable concessions the united states would obtain the privilege of building the seaway at its own expense increased power development at niagara falls and the recognition tion by canada of 0 american sovereignty over lake michigan immediate and vociferous opposition to the plan broke out in congress both democrats and republicans characterizing it as a scheme to buy the support of the dominion for a gigantic water power devel planned by the state power authority from the state department leaked information that not even canada was expected to approve the pro posed treaty canadian officials have repeatedly doubted whether recovery from the depression would be promoted by spending millions on a waterway tor for which there is not sufficient commerce and for development of surplus water power for which there is no demand hulls plan provides that the united states shall develop the international rapids section ot of the st lawrence river at an estimated cost ot of million dollars this was denounced by senator wagner of new york senator copeland also of new york announced he was against the seaway project 1000 per cent he called it an all british canal senator key pittman chairman of the senate foreign relations committee having jurisdiction of treaties said the new proposals would not have a chance of ratification fi unless materially modi modified fled senators and representatives from the middle west were especially aroused senator dark clark of missouri pointed out that the treaty would permit diversion of only 1500 cubic feet of water per second into the chicago drainage canal he said the mississippi river must receive more water than that from the canal in order to fill a nine foot channel representative claude parsons of illinois was even more emphatic in disapproval this proposed treaty he said is about the worst mistake secretary hull ever made under the terms of his proposal to set up an international c commission om I 1 n I 1 as 1 on for the great lakes st lawrence basin canada would be given control over our alla all A merican american lake michigan furthermore the treaty would prohibit any further diversion of water from lake michigan at chicago of more than 1500 cubic feet per second the illinois and mississippi rivers must have at least cs to insure a dependable waterway wallace slapped again S STERNLY chastising secretary of 0 agriculture henry A wallace and solicitor general robert bobert H jackson tor for making assertions that were unwarranted and wholly unfounded the united states supreme court rejected the governments petition for a rehearing of the kansas city stockyards stock yards rate case twill before the court had rebuked wallace in the stockyards stock yards case and had set aside his orda order fixing maximum rates which commission men might charge tor for services bica because se the court sa said id they had been denied a full fair and ojen open I 1 I 1 hearing bearing by secretary wallace justice hugo black who was the lone dissenter when the C case a 0 was decided in april ran true t to 0 for form m again being the only member of the court to dissent 11 1 new food act passed W a record vote the house passed the new pure food and drug bill the senate had passed a similar measure and the differences were to be reconciled in conference the act brings drugs therapeutic devices and foods under regulation of the department of agriculture it prohibits alteration or misbranding of cosmetics 94 foods and drugs requires adequate tests of products before they are placed on the market provides for license restrictions to control bacterial contamination of foods requires warning labels on habit forming drugs and provides for factory inspection reform bill shelved PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT ac 1 cepter the advice of congressional leaders and consented to the shelving of his bill for jeorga reorganization iza of the executive government this was announced with the approval of the president by senator barkley at the same time iwas it was made known that the adamini administration tra would attempt to get the m measure aas through congress early in the 1939 session sen hiram johnson of california said the opponents of the bill would be ready to resume their battle against it next year I 1 IN tax bill unsigned but law FOR VOR the first time since he entered L the white house president roosevelt permitted an act of congress to become law without his signa signature ture he took this c course urse reo with the tax vision revision I 1 I 1 bill in order to emphasize I 1 I 1 11 his objection I 1 11 to those unwise parts of the bill which removed all I 1 but the skeleton of I 1 the undistributed I 1 I 1 profits tax and drastically 11 modified the I 1 levies upon capital gains Fres president ident the president an roosevelt ounces his action in a speech delivered to moun mountaha mount tah aih families of the new deal sponsored rehabilitation community of arth arthur ur dale W va at the graduation exercises of 13 high school students his words however were carried to the nation by radio networks I 1 call the definite attention of the american people said mr roosevelt to those unwise parts of the bill I 1 have talked to you about to day one of them which may restore in the future certain forms of tax avoidance and of concentrated investment power which we had begun to end and the other a nite abandonment ot of a principle 0 of I 1 j ta fax x policy long ago accepted as par part t of our american system the president declared that he had no objection to removing any obstacles to little business which might be contained in the revenue laws but ne e reiterated the administrations trat ions determination not to allow the use of corporate forms to avoid what it considers legitimate tax burdens mr roosevelt made plain that he hoped for a future revision of the revenue laws in line with the objectives he seeks such revisions he said should be designed to encourage new investment and the entry of private capital into new fields big fund for highways L legislation legislation EGI authorizing new federal highway expenditures of for the fiscal years 1940 and 1941 won final congressional approval when the senate adopted a conference report previously accepted by the house als also 0 authorized was the he expenditure of of old unused appropriations another recovery plan ABANDONMENT A abandonment BANDON MENT of experiments by b the government and adoption of an industrial program based on experience was advocated by charles R hook president of the national association of manufacturers manufacturer er before a a meeting of oatho the chicago ass association n of commerce A return to sound economic reasoning and a common sense diagnosis is the sure solution to the problems of america today mr hook said emphasizing that industry astry has a definite program for industrial recovery mr hook who is president of american rolling MM mill company outlined three cardinal points including revision of the wagner act revision of the tax structure and banishment of existing and threatened government competition with t private enterprise remove demov e these causes of fear and uncertainty mr hook said and private savings will rush back into the channels of private productive enterprise we specifically urge amendments to the wagner act t to correct its one sided character t to 0 enforce responsibility on labor organizations to separate the functions of tact fact finding prosecution and judicial cial decision and establish impartial administration by the national labor relations board 1 twenty more federal judges P PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT signed the bill creating 20 additional f federal judges throughout the country the measure is the largest judgeship bill passed by congress since 1921 five additional circuit court of appeals judges at a year each and 15 additional district judges at a year each are authorized by the act k strike back at morgan gan T testifying before the joint congressional committee of investigation instigation ve vesti sti gation david E lilienthal and harcourt morgan directors of the tennessee valley authority accused dr arthur E B mor mon I 1 1 Z gan their ousted I 1 I 1 I 1 A colleague with trying I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 to sabotage the I 1 11 legal defense I 1 I 1 1 in a court ca case se involving I 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 vo iving the constitutionality I 1 4 1 tiona lity of the a au u dhority tho rity they said 4 too that he had engaged I 1 J in a campaign of dissent and david E obstruction lilienthal these charges together with a general denial of arthur morgans morgan a accusations against themselves constituted in the main their defense statements referring to the trial last winter of the suit of 18 private utility concerns against the TVA lillen thal thai said it is a record which suggests that he was seeking to find a way to obtain a judicial decision against his own agency it is a record of tampering with prospective witnesses for the government and of obstructing and harassing counsel and witnesses in the very heat of the trial of a crucial constitutional case concerning the berry marble claims lilienthal said any assertion that we harcourt morgan and himself by word or attitude encouraged any one to pull punches on berrys barrys claims is an outright falsehood there was abdol absolutely no evidence upon which any charge cha irge of fraud could have been based there were only rumors and busl suspicions IF dean mumford dies dof DEAN EAN HERBERT W MUMFORD of the university of illinois is dead following an automobile accident and the country loses one of its best agricultural educators and marketing experts mumford was a product of michigan in 1901 he became professor of animal husbandry in the university at champaign then he was made dean of the college of agriculture and director of the agricultural experiment station and extension service he was sixty seven years old at the time of his death 1 I sweepstakes winners DOIS OIS ROUSSEL a french bred L horse won the english derby at epsom downs and four sweepstakes ticket holders in the united states won each scottish union second won each tor for 11 united states ticket holders pasch the favorite finished third returning each to seven ticket holders in the united states il defies harry hopkins ICTOR A CHRISTGAU minnesota V VICTOR administrator quarreled continually with gov elmer benson and the farmer labor party leaders in that state so harry hopkins national head of the notified him he was ousted christgau refused to quit his position contending that only president roosevelt who appointed him had power to dismiss him ha 1 war pensions boosted PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT signed 1 a bill to increase the pensions of 0 certain so soldiers sailors and nurses who served in the spanish war philippine insurrection or china relief expedition the act provides a 80 60 monthly pension for veterans sixty five years old who served at least 90 days and to those who served less than go 90 days and were discharged for dis ability incurred in service |