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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Johnson Hurrying Industrial Croups Into Federal Control President Forms an Executive Council London Economic Conference xSears Recess. By EDWARD W. PICKARD route thence as laid out In advance was, to Shedlac, New Brunswick, SiX) miles; Montreal, Quebec, 870 miles, and Chicago, 1.0. V miles. Preparations were made by the exposition officials in Chicago and the city authorities to give the Italian Ital-ian flyers a great reception and to entertain them lavishly during their stay. A landing place for the planes was arranged near the municipal mu-nicipal pier, and another on Lake Geneva in case the lake was too rough. THAT Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is still one of the country's most popular figures is made evident by the general interest taken in the SPURRED on by President Rooseveltthough Roose-veltthough the stimulus was Hcnrcely necessary fieri. Hugh S. Johnson, Industrial recovery admln- i - 1 - " yi route- mapping, flight he Is making over the northern air course to Europe. Eu-rope. Mrs. Lindbergh, Lind-bergh, her husband's hus-band's rival in popularity, pop-ularity, is with him, not as a passenger, but as a radio operator op-erator and assistant assist-ant pilot of their r " " Istrator, let It be known that he Intended In-tended to get the principal industrial groups under feeler feel-er a 1 control as speedily as possible, pos-sible, lie and the President desire that the Industries come In voluntarily, but if they do not, 3.'i0,l0l already assigned to New York state, this action meaiis a total to-tal of $ IS.fiW.noi already donated as an outright grant from ttie federal fed-eral treasury for road building. Under Un-der the allotments Massachusetts gets $;,.VJ7,100, Ohio $15,481,G'.J2, and Utah S1,1L1,70S. ILLINOIS and Iowa, by their del- egates in state conventions, rati-lled rati-lled the repeal of the Eighteenth amendment, the votes being unanimous unani-mous in botli cases. They were the tenth and eleventh states to take this action to wipe out prohibition. prohi-bition. Citizens of Oklahoma went to the polls and enthusiastically voted for the legalization of 3.2 beer by a majority ma-jority of about 2 to 1. In Oklahoma City the people made a rush for sixty carloads of beer that were waiting In the railroad yards for distribution, but Gov. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray called out the National Guard and kept the cars closed until un-til next flay, after which Oklahoma, dry for 20 years, slaked its thirst. INDICATIONS In London were 1 that the economic conference might continue until the end of July and then recess until Septem- ber or October. The steering committee com-mittee favored this course. It also decided de-cided that one monetary subcom-mission subcom-mission should discuss dis-cuss international commercial indebtedness indebt-edness (war- debts excluded), and that another should 01. Lindbergh . . Their plans were to fly across Labrador, Greenland and Iceland, and perhaps on to Denmark. They had no fixed route or stopping places and did not know when they would return. The Lindberghs' trip started from 1 New York, and the first stop was near Rockland, Me., where they were forced down by fog. When the air cleared they went on to Halifax, and after an overnight stop, proceeded northward on the way to Greenland, stopping en route at St. Johns, New Brunswick. The plane was provided with new pontoons and instruments and the motor had been speeded up considerably. POINDING of Jimmy Mattern, American aviator, alive but injured in-jured in Siberia, was cause for rejoicing. re-joicing. For sixteen days after he crashed in the northern wilds he was barely able to keep alive, and then he was picked up by Eskimos and taken to the village of Anadyr. The Soviet government was active In the efforts to rescue the flyer, and reports from Khabarovsk said a Russian aviator expected to take hira from Anadyr to Nome. DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has r granted a full pardon to Francis H. Shoemaker, congressman from Minnesota, who served a year in Leavenworth penitentiary before his election to congress. He was convicted con-victed in 1930 of sending libelous and defamatory matter through the mails, to a political enemy. The President also pardoned Owen Lamb, whom Shoemaker met in prison and took to Washington as his secretary. Lamb was convicted of abstracting money from a national na-tional bank. TOURING the fiscal year 1933, end- ing July 1, the people of the United States paid an additional 862,000,000 in federal taxes, this being be-ing because the new levies more than offset the decline in wealth due to the depression. Internal revenue rev-enue collections for the year were about $1,616,000,000. The yield increased in-creased In 31 states and dropped in the other states. Most of the drop in income taxes had been in corporation' returns which showed a decline of 35 per cent last year. Corporations' income in-come yielded only $395,000,000 of federal taxes last year, compared with $630,000,000 the year before. Returns from individuals where Ultra Ult-ra te increases were heaviest, dropped from $427,000,000 a year ago to $351,-000,000 $351,-000,000 last year. T EADERS of the Republican ' ' party, determined that the G. 0. P. shall not die or even sleep, are actively planning for the elections . the general Is ready , uah S- to hold arbitrary Johnson , , . ., hearings and then fix the wage rates and working hours for the recalcitrant trades. These enforced regulations will apply ap-ply until the Industries present their own codes. If It Is necessary to adopt arbitrary arbi-trary codes, these will be based on data gathered by the administration's administra-tion's statistical expert, Dr. Alexander Alex-ander Sachs, who has already prepared pre-pared a setup codifying various leading Industries according to a number of conditions. They have been rated according to wage scales existing In various years, chiefly the ' boom year of 1929, and charts have been prepared showing how far cuts in working hours must be made to restore a mass of employment equal to predepression days. With these data Doctor Sachs has shown conclusions as to how much each industry ought to pay in minimum mini-mum wages, how many employees it ought to absorb from the army of Idle, and how many hours those employees ought to work every week. Two Important codes received were those of the lumber and steel Industries. The former pegged wages so low and working hours so long that General Johnson said : "They are wholly unacceptable and will, in no case, be approved." A public hearing on this code was set for July 20. In submitting the code, John D. Teunant, representing the lumber men, declared it would result re-sult in "a substantial increase" in the number of employees, and that It would increase pay rolls by more than $10,000,000 in the month of August Au-gust alone. The most extraordinary thing nbout the lumber code is that it would set up "an emergency national na-tional committee," to be appointed by the 27 associations applying for the code, which would have the strongest of autocratic power, to ' the point of exerting absolute control con-trol over the entire Industry. The cotton textile code was approved ap-proved by the President and went into effect. TTOR the purpose of co-ordinating the many new functrons and new bureaus created since March 4, the President has created a super-cabinet, called the "executive council," similar to the supreme war council m of World war days. Besides the President and his cabinet the members mem-bers are: The director of the budget, bud-get, Lewis W. Douglas; the federal relief administrator, Harry L. Hopkins Hop-kins ; the chairman of the Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance corporation, J. H. Jones; the governor of the farm credit administration, Henry Mor-genthau, Mor-genthau, Jr.; the chairman of the board of the Home Owners' Farm corporation, William F. Stevenson ; the administrator of the Industrial recovery act. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson; John-son; the administrator of agricultural agricul-tural adjustment, George Peek ; the chairman of the board of the Tennessee Ten-nessee valley authority, Arthur E. Morgan ; the federal railroad co-or-dinator, Joseph B. Eastman, and the director of the civilian conservation corps, Robert Fechner. Frank C. Walker, treasurer of the National Democratic committee, was appointed secretary of the council. During the summer and perhaps kmger the regular Tuesday cabinet meeting is to be superseded by a meeting of the council. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR ICKF.S. In his capacity as public pub-lic works administrator, and his assistants as-sistants are mighty busy these days, for government departments, states and municipalities are scrambling scram-bling for shares of the $3,300,-000,000 $3,300,-000,000 which is to be spent under un-der the public works program of the administration. The proposed federal projects were given first consideration, and a long list of them was approved by Mr. Ickes and submitted to the President Application Ap-plication from states and municipalities municipal-ities came next, many of them having hav-ing previously been approved by the Reconstruction Finance corporation. An additional $26,276,400 of the S-KX1.000.000 allocated for public road gifts to the states was approved ap-proved when the allotments for Ohio, Massachusetts and Utah received re-ceived the final indorsement of Secretary Ickes and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. With the $22,- deal witn tne ques-Neville ques-Neville tiong of centra Chamberla.n bankIng and siIver- Nearly all the work is being done by subcommittees. Restricting the conference program was a complete victory for the gold bloc nations. In addressing the house of commons com-mons on the government's policy, Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, said : "There is no doubt that the avowed policies of this country and the United States are closely parallel to one another," anoth-er," whereupon the house cheered enthusiastically. Mr. Chamberlain continued : "It Is the declared intention of the government to pursue by all means in their power any measures meas-ures which they think will tend toward raising price levels, which we believe to be the first essential I step toward recovery. "I also agree that this country should not depend wholly upon what is done in conjunction with other countries, but that we should do what we can to help ourselves. That Is what we have been doing and we have met with a considerable consider-able measure of success, sterling figures of commodities having risen from the first of the year no less than 8 per cent. "We have really at last begun to see signs that show unmistakably that improvement Is not a fleeting one, that it has a solid foundation and may be expected to continue." O ACKETEERING is to be wiped out if the federal government can do it and its agencies throughout through-out the country are uniting in a drive to bring about this end. Such was the statement made by Senator Sen-ator Copeland of New York, chairman chair-man of the senate committee on crime, after he had called on President Presi-dent Roosevelt and Attorney General Gen-eral Cummings. The first phase of the campaign, he added, will be research and the mapping of lines of co-operation. For the present the work centers in three leading cities. New York, Chicago and Detroit, De-troit, where it is directed, respectively, respect-ively, by Senators Copeland, Murphy Mur-phy of Iowa and Vandenberg of Michigan. Manufacture and transportation of guns will be one of the first tasks tackled by the committee, it was Indicated. Copeland urged a program which would require all manufacturers of guns to be licensed, li-censed, and all purchasers examined exam-ined for permits. HICAGOANS, especially those of Italian birth or descent, were eagerly awaiting the arrival at A Century of Progress of Gen. or 1934 and profess the belief that they can regain much of the ground lost in 1932. Under the personal per-sonal direction of Everett Sanders, chairman of the national na-tional committee, a series of regional meetings Is being held, the latest be- f ft l ' s ' , v v v. ing in C h i c a g o, Everett where national com- r" j mitteemen and a Sanders few ethers from eight central states gathered. Their proceedings were not made public, but it was learned that they are banking on the "mistakes" "mis-takes" made by the Democratic administration ad-ministration and are expecting more of them to be made in the future. Later there will be similar meetings in Kansas City, Denver and on the Pacific coast. Mr. Sanders said in Chicago that three conferences in the East had given assurance of better times ahead for the party. QNE THOUSAND veterans of the Rainbow division celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of the battle bat-tle of Champagne-sur-Mer with a three-days reunion in Chicago including in-cluding a fete at A Century of Progress Prog-ress exposition. In the list of those who addressed the former soldiers were Maj. Gen. Douglas McArtlmr. chief of staff of the United States army; Gen. Chanes P. Summeral!. former chief of staff; Maj. Gen. George E. Leach, former mayor of Minneapolis; Col. William P. Screws of Alabama ; Maj. Gen. Matthew A Tinley of Iowa, and Col. William J Donovan of New York. . 1933. Western Xewsoaoer Union. Italo Balbo and his fleet of 24 Italian Ital-ian royal force seaplanes. sea-planes. The air armada ar-mada was delaved several days at Reykjavik, Iceland, by unfavorable weather conditions, and then, despite continuing calm that made it diffi- - N N V ' : I' I X cult to c:et the hue planes in the air, Gen' Balbo it took off for Cartwright, Labrador, Labra-dor, this being the fourth and probably prob-ably most perilous stage of the 7,100 mile flight to Chicago. The |