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Show News Review of Current ' Events the World Over President Hoorveit in Inaugural Addrrss Pledges Aid for Forty Million Undor-Pri vileged Secretary Perkins Tries to Break Motor Strike Deadlock. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. T Os-ymlpalj, beautifully worded -'anr r. loqueritly voiced. That seorns -if! be a fair description of the second inaugural address of JOSEPH E. DA VIES, our new ambassador am-bassador to Russia, arrived in ! Moscow and at once declared: "It is a.'r.azi:.! Russia is o:.e of the most ict.-res'.ir.g countries in the ' world." Then tie and his party of . ten moved Into Spasso house, the o;!':cial residence of the ambassador, and prepared for a lively social j season. I The envoy's group was preceded : to the capital by another party of almost al-most equal size, including maids, chauffeurs, other house servants, a personal physician, Commander N. W. Bunkley of the United States navy, and others. Mr. Davies said he intended to entertain extensively but not on the lavish plan previous reports had intimated. F EPRESENTATIVES of five rail-way rail-way brotherhoods who have been in conference in Chicago decided de-cided to demand a 20 per cent raise in wages for the members of those unions, numbering about 250,-000. 250,-000. These are employees in the train service classification conductors, conduc-tors, engineers, firemen, trainmen and switchmen. Based on the October, 1936, pay roll statistics issued by the interstate inter-state commerce commission, a 20 per cent pay raise for these workers work-ers would require an increase of 116 million dollars in the annual pay rolls of the country's railroads. The total pay roll for 251,598 train service employees last October was $48,623,261. RUMORS were current in Washington Wash-ington that Dr. Arthur E. Morgan Mor-gan would soon resign as chairman of the Tennessee Valley authority 1 v. n .yimkmw"", , b ranklin Delano Roosevelt. Standing ' bareheaded on the capitol portico in a . cold, pelting rain, : he took the oath of j office administered by black robed Chief Justice Hughes, and then, in ringing words carried by radio to Any time the President sends for us we'll be there." Lewis' position was strengthened by the settlement of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass company strike and increased in-creased prospects that Libbey-Owens-Ford glass workers would return to their jobs. His strategy has been to curtail General Motors production, and interfere with its principal competitors, Ford and Chrysler, as little as possible. Resumption Re-sumption of production by glass manufacturers would permit Ford and Chrysler to produce at full speed while sit-down strikers keep General Motors plants inoperative. CONGRESS did not wait for the inauguration to rush through the bill asked by the President extending ex-tending for two and one-half years his power to control the two billion dollar stabilization fund and to devalue the dollar. Senator Van-denberg Van-denberg and Representative Snell, minority leaders, made futile efforts ef-forts to amend the measure so that it would call on the secretary of the treasury to submit to congress a complete audit and report upon the operations of the fund after the expiration date in 1939. The fund originated three years ago at the time of the 40 per cent debasement of the dollar. Gold holdings of private individuals, banks and the reserve banks commandeered com-mandeered by the Treasury, were "revalued". Each ounce of gold formerly valued officially at $20.67 an ounce was arbitrarily raised to $35 an ounce. This resulted in a two billion, 800 million dollar "profit" for the Treasury. The odd 800 millions was immediately imme-diately diverted to the Treasury's general account to cover federal expenditures. Two billions were allocated al-located for use as a "stabilization" "stabiliza-tion" fund. New legislation was passed authorizing the secretary of the treasury to use the stabilization stabiliza-tion fund to manipulate the value of the dollar in foreign exchange transactions, to purchase silver and gold and to rig the quotations on United States government securities in the market. DISPATCHES from Vatican city said the condition of Pope Pius XI was steadily growing worse. He was suffering excruciating pain, as the result of his long and bitter disagreement dis-agreement with Director Di-rector David Lilien-thal Lilien-thal over TVA policies. poli-cies. Both the gentlemen gen-tlemen were in the capital and it appeared ap-peared they had laid their cases before be-fore President Roosevelt for his decision as to which 11 Ifiiiisii the ends of the I-r.-sulcn earth he pledaed Roosevelt hjs administration to carry on Its fight for the social security and material prosperity and happiness of the entire people of the United States. In effect, he promised that the federal government govern-ment would bring about a better life for one-third of the nation now underprivileged, and that the program pro-gram of planned economy would be continued. For forty millions who are not getting their share of the nation's material benefits the government will provide homes, food, clothing, education, recreation and increased incomes. The President's listeners interpreted inter-preted some of his phrases as a challenge to the Supreme court, as when he said: "Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships relation-ships increase, so power to govern them also must increase power to stop evil; power to do good. The essential democracy of our nation and the safety of our people depend not upon the absence of power but upon lodging it with those whom the people can change or continue at stated intervals through an honest hon-est and free system of elections. The constitution of 1787 did not make our democracy impotent. "In fact, in these last four years, we have made the exercise of all power more democratic; for we have begun to bring private autocratic auto-cratic powers into their proper subordination sub-ordination to the public's government. govern-ment. The legend that they were invincible above and beyond the processes of democracy has been shattered. They have been challenged chal-lenged and beaten." Before the inauguration ceremonies, cere-monies, Mr. Roosevelt and members mem-bers of his family attended a special service in St. John's Episcopal church. After delivering his address the President reviewed the military parade from a cupola built in front of the White House. In addition to the soldiers, sailors and marines, samples of the Civilian Conservation Conserva-tion corps and of the National Youth administration were in the line, as were the governors of 46 states with their staffs. SECRETARY OF LABOR FRANCES FRAN-CES PERKINS herself undertook the difficult task of breaking the renewed deadlock in the General especially in the right leg. The pontiff, pon-tiff, rowever, insisted insist-ed on conducting some of the business of his office, telling Archbishop Castigli-oni Castigli-oni he was determined deter-mined to work a s long as breath remained re-mained in his body. The pope was Motors strike, but at this writing she had not made much progress. Governor Murphy of Michigan, Michi-gan, who went to Washington for the inauguration, helped her, arranging arrang-ing separate meetings meet-ings with John L. Lewis, C. I. O. lead- should be the lead- A- E- MorgarJ er. Lilienthal, who was formerly Wisconsin utilities commissioner under Gov. Phil La Follette,' favors unrelenting warfare war-fare on private utility interests. Doctor Morgan, on the other hand, doesn't want a "fight to a finish" but, rather, a co-operative effort to pool public and private electricity electric-ity in the Southeast in order to end TVA's legal war with the private interests. The chairman, however, stood almost alone among those who are shaping the administration's power policy. He issued a statement state-ment to the press setting forth his views but it didn't arouse much sympathy in high circles. Decision in the controversy is necessary nec-essary soon for the first big contract con-tract between TVA and private utility util-ity interests expires February 3 and the question of renewal must be settled set-tled before then. Drafting of a national power policy pol-icy was asked by the President of a committee headed by Secretary of the Interior Ickes. He said that this policy, once established, would apply to all existing projects and to new power developments as they are completed. HOWARD HUGHES, wealthy manufacturer, motion picture producer and amateur aviator, set a new record for the flight from Burbank, Calif., to New York 7 hours 28 minutes, 25 seconds. It was an astonishing performance. Hughes' average speed for 2,490 miles over what he calls a "modified "modi-fied great circle course" was 332 miles per hour. This achievement is the greatest sustained speed flight ever made. The flight was made without a stop, the cruising altitude being about 14,000 feet, and the motor of the plane could not be allowed to operate at full throttle for more than a small fraction of the time. The top speed reached was 380 miles an hour. BRITAIN'S plan to bar from Spain volunteers from other nations na-tions met with a big setback when Russia refused to adopt prohibitive measures. Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov handed to Ambassador Ambas-sador Chilston a note saying: "The Soviet government, although it presently does not practice the dispatch of volunteer detachments, does not consider it expedient to adopt unilateral prohibitive measures." meas-ures." Explaining the refusal, Litvinov continued: "I consider it necessary to point out that in the Soviet government's gov-ernment's opinion unilateral, prohibitive pro-hibitive measures on the part of seme participants in the London committee (on nonintervention) while other participants not only are free from obligations, but continue con-tinue sending military divisions to Spain, will not only fail to accomplish accom-plish the desired aim but will result in intervention." AN ARMY communique issued in Tokio announced the conviction and sentencing of seven former army officers and eight civilians for their part in the Tokio military revolt of last February 26. The communique said the conspirators planned a nation-wide uprising of militarist, ultra-patriotic elements. The special court martial sentenced sen-tenced Maj. Gen. Ryu Saito and CapL Saburo Sugenami to fhe years in prison, Lieut. Col. Sakicm Mitusi to three years, and four oJier ex-officers ex-officers and eight civilians to shorter terms. greatly distressed to hear of the death of Fope Flus Bishop M. J. Gallagher of Detroit, the superior of Father Charles Coughlin, "radio priest." Bishop Gallagher made a visit to the Vatican Vati-can about six months ago. ' I HE conflict between fascism - and communism in the Old World grows more intense day by day, and the German Nazi leaders insist every nation must espouse one side or the other. Air Minister Goering declares England especially should align herself with Germany and Italy, but Foreign Minister Eden in a speech before parliament virtually handed back to Germany the question of Europe's fate. "We cannot cure the world by pacts or treaties," said he, "or by political creeds, no matter what they be." He demanded to know whether Germany Ger-many intended to use the "manifold "mani-fold gifts of her people to restore confidence to a world sick of antagonism," an-tagonism," or "to the sharpening of international antagonism and a policy pol-icy of even greater economic isolation." isola-tion." German officials called Eden's speech "untimely;" and Ulrich von Hassel, German ambassador to Italy, speaking in Cologne, described the "axis of Rome-Berlin" as a "central pivot around which the whole of Europe revolves." "Germany and Italy," he said, "are destined to fight the false doctrines doc-trines of the east (Russia) and surmount sur-mount western capitalism. Germany and Italy are neither east nor west, but the center, and Europe will be able to keep in harmony only if they remain the strong central axis." ax-is." It was said in Berlin that a mixed German-Japanese commission has been named to carry out provisions of the Berlin-Tokio anti-communist agreement of last November. Over in Japan Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita opened the parliament parlia-ment with a speech in which he declared communism was to blame for the political troubles of the world. He defended the German-Japanese pact as directed only against communism com-munism and not intended to foment dispute with world powers. He advocated ad-vocated that all colonial possessions of all nations be opened to free trade. Sloan of the motor Secretary , t, . . Perkins corporation. But his efforts to bring these two gentlemen gentle-men together seemed futile. Lewis Lew-is summoned Homer Martin, head of the striking union, and John Brophy, C. I. O. lieutenant, from Detroit and conferred with them on "strategy". All the union leaders lead-ers appeared supremely confident, and Lewis insisted the demand that the union be recognized as the sole bargaining agency must be conceded conced-ed if there were to be any strike settlement negotiations. Secretary Perkins, after talking with both sides, went directly to the White House. She said she was "keeping the President informed" of developments. The belief was general that it would be necessary to invoke the personal aid of Mr. Roosevelt to bring about a peaceful peace-ful settlement. Lewis brought about the temporary tempo-rary suspension of negotiations by a statement he gave the press. With brutal frankness he said: "We have advised the secretary of labor that the 'economic royalists' royal-ists' and the du Ponts and Mr. Sloan are among them used their money to try to drive Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt out of the White House. "Labor rallied to the President's support when they attacked him. "These same economic royalists now have their fangs in labor, and labor now expects the government to suppc-t ;bor ir its legal and logical objectives." This was too much for Sloan, who started for home with the remark: "We find it useless to attempt any further negotiations in Washington. |