Show tow W V 1 summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK a western newspaper union wage hour compromise C CONFEREES of senate and house VJ who were trying to draft a compromise wage hour bill that both bodies would accept defied threats ot of a filibuster by southerners and agreed on wage and hour provisions which met some of the southerners demands but left them still dissatisfied and angry overriding protests that the wage scale agreed upon will reestablish establish re the outlawed national recovery administration the conferees adopted provisions calling for establishment of a 25 cents per hour minimum wage for the first year and increasing to 30 cents in the second year establishment of industrial boards and an administrator to fly fix wages wage between 30 cents and the ultimate goal ot of 40 cents during the next five years providing for a flat 40 cent minimum after seven years unless an industry gave adequate proof that such a rate was unsound economically and would sub substantially ly curtail employment appo opportunities tun aties establishment of a maximum work week ot of 44 hours during the first year reducing to 42 hours in the second year and to 40 hours thereafter the work week would not apply where union contracts already in effect permit hours in excess of the max maximum icum fixed in the bill plan relief politics quiz ARRY HOPKINS head of the asserted uie the of senator gillette by iowa democrats showed that his vast organization was not playing politics but bu prominent demo cratic senators are not so sure this is true or will be true during the remainder of the year ten of them signed a resolution intro ly i deuced by millard E wa tydings ol of mary y se ator land ladd calling for the gs appointment of a senatorial committee of three to investigate any charges of politics in relief that may arise during the 1938 election campaign the resolution made no reference to the iowa primary in which hopkins backed otha the lo 10 loser er the ten signers of the resolution including both supporters and critics of the roosevelt administration were besides tydings adams of colorado bulkley of ohio burke of nebraska george of georgia gerry of rhode island hatch of new mexico king of utah mcadoo of california and wagner of new york senator hatch said he would try again at the next session to impose restrictions on participation by relief workers in party conventions or other political activities 41 y house ousts busts jenks S B JENKS republican A ARTHUR who had served 18 months of his term tem as representative from new hampshire was unseated by the house and replaced by alphonse roy democrat who was declared defeated in the 1936 election the vote to oust jenks was to when it was announced all the republicans public ans progressives Progress ives and farm er and some democrats marched out in a body as a gesture of protest this action by the house was apparently patently ly taken to aid the campaign of senator fred brown of new hampshire for roy has a large following among the french population of manchester N NH H wheat allotment check FIELD FIELD representatives of the agricultural adjustment aan administration ginistra began checking farmer participation in the AAA program to de termine 1938 1939 wheat allotments in the ten north central states the check also i will j determine eligibility of farms tor for wheat loans and for or premiums m alums lums on ort farms arms covered by crop insurance su officials of the AAA in washington indicated that rates for loans on the e forthcoming wheat crop may ran range g e from 60 to 86 cents a bushel depending on grade and distance from ma markets F authorized under the new farm law to set the rates between 52 and 75 per cent of a variety price which government economists have placed at a bushel the officials said the base rate the amount to be paid on a standard grade of wheat at a definite market would he be close to 60 cents a bushel loan rates will be lower with the distance from central markets AAA spokesmen indicating that the loan rate in western kansas for example might be as low as 40 or 45 cents a bushel i the AAA is hoping officials said that growers would not approve rates which would tend to re retard tard exports by pegging prices above those in world markets the aim of the loan they pointed out is to help farmers withhold surplus wheat to prevent upsetting of prices loses in iowa 0 OTHA THA iowa re presenta tive favored by the Roos roosevelt eyel t administration for the democratic democrat tic senatorial nomination was defeated in the primaries running tar far ahead of him was senator guy M gillette Gi Uette who had been marked for elimination because he voted against the court packing bill gillette supporters s said a I 1 d president preside it roosevelt m maintained a I 1 n neutrality in the contest but otha had received the ab approval of harry hopkins administrator and of james roosevelt the presidents son and secretary also thomas G corcoran the presidents political adviser was known to have worked for cause or perhaps it should be put against gillette gillette sought for the senate on a platform of loyalty to president roosevelt but s said a ld he would retain the right to judge each new deal proposal on its individual mer merits I 1 ts it if h he e is reelected re elected he was one of the foes of the presidents presidents court reform plan but supported the reorganization bill and other aan administration measures in the republican side of the primary pr former senator L 1 dickinson uncompromising foe of the new deal defeated representative lloyd thurston huge navy plane planned T THE HE house appropriations corn com included in the second deficiency fici ency bill in an additional billion dollars tor for construction of the worlds largest military plane and the navy department Is now ready to go ahead with the construction of the monster which may weigh 50 tons ions the oil original ginal model will cost upward of rear admiral arthur B cook chief of the bureau ot of aeronautics said the new plane would exceed considerably the mile range needed lee ded tor for a nonstop round trip rom san francisco to honolulu the che plane will be partly armored md and will carry a crew of 10 to 14 ion it Is ii expected to be the tore fore runner inner of of 15 or more i the next few years or rivers and harbors unanimous approval was given u by the senate to the 0 rivers ivers and harbors bill but provisions giving the war department sole lole jurisdiction over water were eliminated these were left under the control f the federal power commission the senate accepted an amend nent nt by senator norris of nebraska tempting thi the tennessee va valley H ey authority from the jurisdiction of the secretary of war |