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Show Xews Review of Current Even ts GREEN SHAPES WAGE BILL Dictates House Amendments. ..Thousands Flee China, Expecting War . . . Housing Measure Stirs Up Senate r SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. U. S. Keeps Naval Pace INDICATIONS were that both the United States and Great Britain would embark upon unusually large peacetime naval building programs in 1938. Britain, according to reports in London, will lay the keels for from three to five battleships, six or seven cruisers and a proportionate quota of destroyers, submarines and smaller craft, to surpass the 1937 total of 664,000 tons, a peacetime record. It was also reported that personnel would be increased ultimately ulti-mately by 125,000. With the placing of additional 1937 contracts, Britain will soon have 110 vessels under construction. These will include: 5 battleships of 35,000 tons, 5 aircraft carriers, 8 cruisers of 9,000 to 10,000 tons, 5 cruisers of 8,000 tons, 7 cruisers of 5,300 tons, 16 superdestroyers of 1,650 tons, 18 submarines of from 540 to 1,520 tons, 12 sloops and 10 motor, torpedo boats. Armament of the five new battleships battle-ships will include 10 or 12 new type Where Was John Lewis? VlflLLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federation of Labor, emerged as the administration's administra-tion's favorite son In matters affecting affect-ing labor as he was permitted virtually vir-tually to write his own amendments to the house version of the wages and hours bill. The senate had passed the bill, 56 to 23, only after President Roosevelt had called Green to the White House and persuaded per-suaded him to give lukewarm approval ap-proval to the measure, with the un- - - s - ' lipiiiii 1 ilBillll iSSfiiSSSiiifWig 0msimmtm;imM ummMsmi$ A. F. of L's WILLIAM GREEN . . . leaves White House with a smile. 14-inch guns, 12 to 16 4- or 4.7-inch anti-aircraft guns and numerous light machine guns. Upper' deck armor will be specially strengthened strength-ened against airplane bombs and bridges and turrets will be gasproof. gas-proof. Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of American naval operations and acting secretary of Uncle Sam's navy, na-vy, said in Washington that congress con-gress will be asked to provide funds for the construction of two battleships battle-ships and two cruisers in the 1938 fiscal year. The admiral inferred in a press conference that the United States expects to keep pace with other nations which are planning plan-ning extensive naval building. The four new ships will cost $170,000,000 and will be ready in 1942. Construction Construc-tion is about to begin on two other battleships, which will cost approximately approx-imately $60,000,000. 14 Lost in Flying Boat TT WAS believed 14 persons were lost in the Caribbean sea when the Santa Maria, luxurious new flying fly-ing boat of the Pan American-Grace airways, crashed 20 miles off Cristobal, in the Canal Zone, after nearly completing a scheduled flight from Guayaquil, Ecuador. Last radio reports from the pilot Flee from the Rising Sun VXTAR was still officially unde-V unde-V clared, but all signs indicated that Japan was making ready to prosecute a long-term conflict in derstanding that the house would amend it. Southern Democrats in the senate, led by Pat Harrison of Mississippi, bitterly opposed the bill, but their motion to recommit it to committee was defeated, 48 to 36. The same vigorous opposition was expected from Dixie's representatives in the house labor committee, but the "Green amendments" (so called because be-cause of the federation president's complete domination of the committee commit-tee meeting) patched up the essential essen-tial differences. The bill, as passed by the senate, would create a labor standards board empowered to set minimum wages up to 40 cents an hour and maximum work weeks down to 40 hours. The house committee had intended to extend the limits to permit per-mit the board to set wages at 70 cents and hours as low as 35. Under Un-der Green's influence the house committee com-mittee decided to accept the senate provisions on this part of the measure, meas-ure, but- the scope of the board was greatly curtailed by an amendment which would permit it to deal only with employers who maintain "sweatshops" and "starvation wages" through fake collective bar-. bar-. gaining agencies. The "Green amendments" in brief are: 1. Board jurisdiction over wages and hours in any industry only if it finds that collective bargaining agreements do not cover a sufficient number of employees or facilities for collective bargaining are ineffective. inef-fective. 2. Acceptance of wage-hour standards stand-ards established by collective bargaining bar-gaining in any occupation as prima facie evidence of appropriate standards stand-ards in that occupation. 3. Board cannot alter wage-hour standards already prevailing in occupation oc-cupation in community considered, or establish classification in any community which affects adversely adverse-ly the prevailing standard in the same or other communities. 4. Industries are protected against prison-made goods. 5. "Label provision" of original act is eliminated to protect industry indus-try from what is considered a nuisance. iNortn unma and that the Chinese were everywhere preparing to withstand with-stand the advance of the Japanese army. Steady streams of refugees pouring out of the area while they had the chance revealed the opinion of masses of people that a great war was inevitable. Gen. Chiang Kai-shek indicated he was trying to spiral down to the surface of the sea in a torrential rainstorm. Two United States submarines, cruising the area in the hope of picking up some survivors, found part of the airliner's air-liner's shipment of mail, an engine casing, a few other parts and a bucket of ice cream floating in the water. It was feared the pilot, copilot, co-pilot, steward and 11 passengers, mostly Americans, were locked in the cabin and lying on the bottom of the sea,, which at the point the wreckage was found reaches a depth of 1,000 feet. Wedge to Split Loyalists A S THE battle of Madrid con-tinued con-tinued to rage, Gen. Francisco Franco's eastern army was driving an ever-widening wedge into the territory ter-ritory near the junction of Teruel, Cuenca and Valencia provinces 100 Tokyo was hurrying soldiers to the front. In the Fengtai-Lukouchiao district southwest of Peiping, 30,000 veteran Japanese troops massed for an attack at-tack upon five divisions of China's central government army, numbering number-ing approximately 60,000. Including the remnants of the twenty-ninth army, driven from Peiping by the Japanese, there were said to be 100,000 Chinese. Both sides were well equipped with airplanes. Further evidence of Japan's expectation ex-pectation of real war were the sweeping changes in military personnel per-sonnel made after a conference between be-tween Premier Konoye and Emperor Emper-or Hirohito. Four new division commanders com-manders were named, as well as a new commander for the island of 6. Government work is removed from the board's control and placed under the Walsh-Healey act. Chairman Mary T. Norton (D., N. J.) of the labor committee indicated indicat-ed the bill would be brought up in the house under a special rule and speedily passed. $700,000,000 for Housing U AVING disposed of wages and hours legislation, the senate took up the Wagner-Steagall low-cost low-cost housing bill. This would au- miles east of Madrid. His object is to impose a barrier between Madrid Ma-drid and the loyalist government's capital at Valencia. Government forces ail along the line of advance were reported surrendering sur-rendering or fleeing. Insurgents claimed to have captured large numbers num-bers of automobiles and supplies of arms, munitions and clothing. Latest news from the Madrid front indicated that a rebel attack in the Usera sector southeast of the city had been repulsed by machine gunners gun-ners and dynamiters. El Caudillo Is the Boss INSURGENT Spain has a "head man" and also has a name for him now. In Germany things are bossed by "Der Fuehrer," and Italians Ital-ians scurry to obey "II Duce." Now Rebel Spain has dubbed Gen. Francisco Franco "El Caudillo." Throughout the realm on walls and fences are signs bearing the motto, "Homcnaje el Caudillo" "Obey the leader." And the people salute him by raising the right arm. Franco's followers are protesting that he is not a fascist, but he has never announced just what form of Formosa. It was regarded as significant sig-nificant that all of the new appointees ap-pointees were soldiers with extensive exten-sive experience in China. The government gov-ernment was attempting to push through an appropriation of $115,-000.000 $115,-000.000 for operations in North China. In a desperate effort to stem the invaders, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, dictator dic-tator of China and commander of the Chinese army, summoned into conference at Nanking, national capital, the warlords and governors of important provinces. Plans were made to throw hundreds of thousands thou-sands of soldiers at the Japanese. The provincial rulers apparently were only too anxious. Chow En-lai, En-lai, representing 100,000 communist troops, said his men were willing to become an advance guard for the major Chinese offensive. Nationwide Nation-wide military conscription was being be-ing conducted apace. Japanese newspapers reported that a resolution to sever all relations re-lations with Japan was before the Chinese political council for consideration. consid-eration. The fear that gripped Nanking Nan-king was illustrated by the government's govern-ment's publication of warnings against giving away military se- , itionze the flotation of a $700,000,000 bond issue by a United States housing hous-ing authority. To meet operating expenses ex-penses of the program's pro-gram's first year, $26,000,000 would be appropriated immediately. imme-diately. The proposed pro-posed bond issue was cut from $1,- OOO.OOO.OflO as a cnm. Sen. Wagner promise with the Treasury department, depart-ment, which objected to so high a figure. The bill would aid low-cost hous- lng projects in two ways. It would make loans to the full amount of contracted projects, aiding the repayment re-payment of the loans by direct grants if the sponsors kept rents sufficiently suf-ficiently low; or it would make direct di-rect grants not to exceed 25 per cent of the cost of a project. Under this latter method, the President would be authorized to make an additional ad-ditional 15 per cent grant from relief re-lief funds, to be used only for the employment of labor. Sponsors would be required to contribute at least 20 per cent of the cost The housing authority would also be permitted to spend $25,000,000 on demonstration projects to illustrate to cominunities the benefits of eliminating elimi-nating slums and providing adequate ade-quate housing at low cost. The projects proj-ects would be sold "as soon ns practical" to local housing agencies. Over the protest of administration leaders, including Senator Wagner and Majority Leader Barkley, the senate adopted an amendment by Harry F. Byrd CD., Va.) limiting the cost of the housing projects to $4,000 a family or $1,000 a room. Wagner objected, principally on the grounds that this would not be sufficient suf-ficient for projects In New York city, where It Is believed much of the money will be spent. crets, and the warnings which were given government officials to get their families out into the hinterlands hinter-lands where they might be safe from enemy bombers. Civilians in China needed no warning. Thousands upon thousands were lined up at the railroad stations sta-tions in Shanghai and In Nanking; many were women carrying children child-ren and what belongings they could not bear to leave behind. Thousands Thou-sands of Japanese civilians in China packed the docks awaiting ships which would carry them safely back to their homeland. As columns of Japanese soldiers pressed forward to meet advancing troops from Nanking, there was no doubt that hostilities would continue con-tinue to spread southward. It was expected a real battle would ensue when the two columns came within striking distance. Russia protested vigorously to tho Japanese embassy in Nanking against the "pillaging of the Russian consulate in Tientsin by White Russian Rus-sian ruffians assisted by Japanese." The Japanese denied that any of their countrymen were implicated and ridiculed the idea that the Japanese Jap-anese planned any future attacks against Russian consulates. government he will propose for the nation. There is said to be a scheme afoot to shape it along the lines of Portugal's corporative government. Since he openly declared on July 19 that he believes the restoration of a monarchy is vital to cohesion of Spain, it is believed that this is what he will eventually effect. Prince Juan, third son of the former King Alfonso XIII, is the likely candidate for the crown. Women Hear War Cry ")NE of China's chief agitators for war was Mmc. Chiang Kai-shek, Kai-shek, Wcllcsley-cducated wife of the dictator. She urged women to fight Japan "according to their ability," citing the fashion In which the women wom-en of Spain are occupying the fighting fight-ing lines. "In the World war the women of every country gave their best," she declared. "The women of China are no less patriotic or capable of physical phys-ical endurance. "China is facing the gravest crisis in Its history. This means we must sncriflco many of our soldiers, masses of our Innocent people much of the nation's wealth and see ruthlessly destroyed tho results, of our reconstruction.' |