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Show Nats Itcviat of Current Events CONGRESS CALLED BACK President Calls for Crop Control Measure and the Regulation of Labor's Wages and Hours j. , . o ..... a . . . . . . .v . -,:': :.:.v.v.:.: : : ... : -: ' : : 1 v - J' ' JJ May Meet In Brussels 1LJ0W far President Roosevelt is willing to go in the effort to stop Japan in China is what other powers, especially Great Britain, are eager to know. The people oJ the United States also would like to be informed in that matter. The British statesmen wish America to take the lead, and also they would lUce the suggested conference of the aine-power treaty signatories to be held in Washington. This latter suggestion sug-gestion is definitely opposed in our capital, and so it was believed Brussels might be selected as the meeting place. Mr. Roosevelt, who conferred with Secretary of State Hull, Undersecretary Undersecre-tary Sumner Welles and Norman Davis, his roving ambassador, was represented as being strongly averse to taking a solitary lead in the action to check the Japanese. Apparently he preferred that the "quarantining" of nations guilty of "international lawlessness" which he proposed in his Chicago speech should be limited to a united international inter-national moral stand. In his radio talk the President alluded al-luded to the conflict in China rather rath-er vaguely, reiterating that "America "Amer-ica hates war" and stating that the United States is going to co-operate with the other signatories to the nine-power treaty in an effort to find a "solution of the present situation in China." He did not tell just what he proposes to do, but assured his listeners that he could be trusted to do the right thing. The National Council for Prevention Preven-tion of War, representing a part of the extreme peace sentiment in the United States, announced that its annual meeting had declared for immediate im-mediate invocation of the neutrality law which the President has not seen fit to put in operation. Italy Supports Japanese THERE was considerable doubt whether Italy would take part in the Pacific treaty conference, but it was assumed that if it did, it Hull, Davis and Welles Going to Confer With President. SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Special Session Called OONGRESS was called in ex-traordinary ex-traordinary session to start November No-vember 15, and immediately afterward after-ward President Roosevelt explained I1., ' ."JWI.,. k m a hresiae cnat over the radio the necessity for this as he sees it. Reporting Report-ing cheerfully on his western trip, he outlined out-lined the legislative program which he declared the American Amer-ican people need to promote prosperity. These are the five measures he said should be passed without delay: 1 C.I.O. Upholds Contracts TN A tumultuous session at Atlantic 1 City 150 leaders of the C. I. O. routed a "left wing" movement and went on record in favor of a policy condemning "quickie" strikes, supporting sup-porting the sanctity of collective bargaining contracts and pledging co-operation in safeguarding the operation op-eration of these agreements. The delegates also condemned recent re-cent decisions by the national labor board as being contrary to the provisions pro-visions of the Wagner-Connery act by which the board was created and approved a four-point federal legislative legis-lative program. This program called for a wages-and-hours bill, licensing of all industries operating in interstate inter-state commerce, appropriation of sufficient WPA and PWA funds to provide jobs for every American worker, and expansion of the social security act. No Peace for Labor VW'AR between the rival factions ' in American organized labor is not going to cease in the near future. The C. I. 0. leaders gathered in would defend the course pursued by Japan in China and would do what it could to frustrate the designs of the other conferees. This was assured by the message conveyed con-veyed to the Tokyo government by Gia-cinto Gia-cinto Auriti, Italian ambassador to Japan. Ja-pan. According to a Jananpsp npu.'i President Roosevelt Giacinto Auriti agency, Auriti promised Kensuke Horinouchi, Japanese vice foreign minister, that "Italy will never spare general support to Japan." if? r i, i . Atlantic City for their first "war council," and John L. Lewis, their chief, revealed plans for setting up a permanent dual organization. He condemned the suspension sus-pension of the C. I. O. unions from the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor as "cowardly" and Japan Denies Violations JN A formal reply to the charges of treaty violation the Tokyo foreign for-eign office flatly denied responsibility responsibili-ty for the Sino-Japancse conflict and asserted that China, not Japan, had violated the treaties. The anti-Japanese attitude and the mobilizing of Chinese troops, said the statement, forced Japan to take military action, ac-tion, entirely in self-defense. Japnn disclaimed any desire to annex ! parts of Chinese territory, and ae- j clared the accusing nations misun- I derstand the situation. Court Upholds Black ?OR the present, at any rate, " Hugo L. Black's scat on the Supreme Su-preme court bench is secure. The court refused to permit Albert Crop production control to "build an all-weather farm program so that in the long run prices will be more stable." Wage and hour standards to "make millions of our lowest paid workers actual buyers of billions of dollars of industrial and farm products." prod-ucts." Regional planning to conserve natural nat-ural resources, prevent floods and produce electric power for general use. Government reorganization to provide pro-vide "Twentieth century machinery" machin-ery" to make the "democratic process proc-ess work more efficiently." Stronger antitrust laws in furtherance fur-therance of "a low price policy which encourages the widest possible pos-sible consumption." Chairman O'Connor of the house rules committee predicted the house would pass a farm bill in the first week of the session and then take up the wage and hour measure. Some Democratic leaders said the labor bill, which was passed by the senate in the last session but held up in the house rules committee, would probably be the only one of the five measures to get through congress in the special session. Even that is strongly opposed by southern Democrats and has been condemned by the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor. John L. Lewis "contemptible" and said those unions considered themselves now out of the federation and awaited any further action by the federation federa-tion with complete indifference. Big Battle at Shanghai CSANGHAI was witnessing the fiercest battle of the Sino-Jap-anese war. Land and air forces of both sides were fighting furiously and the casualties were piling up hour by hour. The Chinese were making a great counter-offensive for which they had massed men and guns about the city. The Japanese were ready for the attack, and desperately des-perately battled to turn back their foes. Observers described the hand-to-hand fighting as that of madmen, especially in the Chinese quarter. A big fleet of Chinese airplanes vas sent dovn the Yangt.se and bombs were showered on the Japanese Jap-anese warships along the Japanese-occupied Japanese-occupied shore of the Whangpoo. An American navy radio man, J. P. McMichael of Connorsvillo, Ind., was slightly vounded by Japanese shrapnel as he stood on the signal deck of the United States cruiser Augusta between Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, commander-in-chief, and Capt. R. F. McConnell, chief of stan. American navy authorities immediately entered a protest and the Japanese commander expressed his regret. Levitt, former federal judge in the Virgin Islands, and Patrick Henry Kelly of Boston to contest the legality le-gality of Black's appointment. The ruling was announced by Chief Justice Jus-tice Hughes, who said the two men did not have sufficient interest in the litigation. Ogden Mills Dies OGDEN L. MILLS, who succeed-ed succeed-ed Andrew Mellon as secretary of the treasury and for years was a leader in the Republican party, died of heart disease at his home in Now York. Besides being a llnancier. Mr. Mills was an able lawyer and business busi-ness man and had a fine record as a member of congress, lie served in the army through the World war. Divorce Rule Stands CHURCH laws against romarriacc of divorced persons by Episcopal Episco-pal clergymen stand unchanged for at least three years. Proposed liberalization lib-eralization of the rule was defeated by the house of deputies of the church at the general convention in Cincinnati. The deputies voted to continue for another three years the commission on marriage and divorce, di-vorce, but the question probably will Labor Hits Labor Board CSVERE condemnation of the fed-eral fed-eral labor relations board was voiced in a resolution adopted by the American Federation of Labor in the Denver convention. It was presented by John P. Frey, head of the metal trades department and cljarged that the board was acting act-ing "without a warrant or authority" author-ity" in interfering in disputes between be-tween the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. and was violating "the spirit and specific intent of the labor relations act, with decided advantage" to the C. I. O. affiliates and damage to the A. F. of L. ; that the board has sought to "destroy the validity of contracts" between bona fide trade unions and employers and that such actions were taken "in some instances in-stances with full knowledge of the facts involved"; that the board, in direct contravention of the meaning mean-ing of the lav, has repeatedly "denied "de-nied employees the right of designating desig-nating the bargaining unit and the right of selecting representatives of their own choosing with full freedom." free-dom." Frey in his speech asked that Edwin Ed-win F. Smith be removed from the board and that three regional directors direc-tors be dismissed. The convention udopted a resolution resolu-tion opposing the pending wage and hours bill, and one calling for a boycott boy-cott on all Japanese products. Authority was voted the executive board to expel finally the ten C. I. (). uiiionfl under suspension, and President Presi-dent Green announced plarm for the attack on the rival organization in several great fields. The first vig-oroui vig-oroui blow vill be struck on the Pacific coast in a drive to organize workers in the cannery mid agri-C'lltural agri-C'lltural field. The necoml battle ground vill be among the white collar workers generally Brady Gang Wiped Out T AST of the big "mobs" of bank - robbers and murderers, the Brady gang vas wiped out in a gun battle with federal agents at Bangor, Maine. Al Brady, the leader, and Clarence Shaffer, Jr., his lieutenant, were killed; and James Dalhovor was vounded and captured. The outlaws were recognized by a clerk in a sporting good:! store and the G-men ware summoned. Dalhover vas to be taken to Indiana to stand trial for the murder of a slate policeman, po-liceman, one of four killings attrih-uterl attrih-uterl to the gang, lie made u full confession, and search began for persons who had been aiding them. The gangsters' capture was believed be-lieved to have nipped u potential New England crime wave. Floor plans of two banks were found In iJalhover's possession with maps of nearby roads. not come up again for a long time. The defeated proposal would have permitted bishops to allow Episcopal Episco-pal clergymen to solemnize marriage mar-riage of persons, who were divorced for any cause, after study of each case. U. S. Consul Murdered T Til EO DORK MA RHINE II, J American consul general at Beirut, Bei-rut, Syria, was assassinated hy an Armenian who had been refused a visa for travel to the United Stales. The murderer was arrested and the police said he admitted having acted act-ed for personal vengeance only. Marriner, who was forty-five years old and u bachelor, was considered one of the most valuable men In our diplomatic service, which he entered as third secretary of the American legation at Stockholm. At one time he was chief of the western Europe section f the Slate departmont. |