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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Kidnaped Louisville Woman Ransomed for $30,000 Jugoslavia's Murdered King Buried Collective Bargaining Plan of General Motors. By EDWARD W. PICKARD by W.itrn Newapaper Union. REPUBLICAN senatorial eandl- 1 dates in five states have la-curred la-curred the displeasure of organ- ! Ize-d labor, and President Green of the American Federation of Labor has called on the members to work 1 for the defeat of tho.se men In the j November elections. The five ar Senators Reed of Pennsylvania, Walcott of Connecticut. Hatfield of West Virginia and Fess of Ohio, all seeking re-election, and George ' M. Bourn uin. Republican nominee in Montana. Circular letters signed by Green j review the records in congress of Reed, Walcott, Fess and Hatfield. They say the candidates voted j against the oO-hour-work bill, for j reduction of federal salaries, for I the sales tax and for confirmation of Judge John J. Parker of North i Carolina to the Supreme court aft- '. er he had upheld what union men ! call the "yellow dog" contract be- j tween employers and workers. j ORGANIZED labor doesn't like i S. Clay Williams, chairman of j the new national industrial recov- ery board recently appointed by ! IOL'l.HVILLIO'S sensational kid -v imping case came to a climax with the return of the victim, Mrs. Berry V. Stoll, to her home. The ' ' T. H. Robin-son, Robin-son, Jr. young society matron ma-tron had been held captive for six days In Indianapolis by Thomas II. Robln-Bon, Robln-Bon, Jr., a maniac who had twice been confined In Insane asylums. She was treated rather roughly but not really Injured, and was set free after Mr. Stoll paid $50,000 ran- W4 x ..' X 4 ";xi "; ' xx2 S. Clay Williams President R o o a e-. e-. velt. At the San i Francisco conven-i conven-i tion of the Amerl-i Amerl-i can Federation of Labor, a resolution was adopted demanding de-manding an investigation investi-gation of Mr. Williams' Wil-liams' attitude 88 vice chairman of the board of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco To-bacco company of Winston-Salem, N. Premier Doumergue's French cab-Inei cab-Inei was considerably changed as a result of the tragedy In Marseilles. Albert Surraut. minister of the interior, in-terior, and Henri Cheron, minister of justice, resigned and were re placed respectively by Paul Mareh-andeau Mareh-andeau and Henri I.emery, Pierre Laval was made minister of foreign affair to succeed Harthon and tils place as minister of colonies was given to Louis Rollin. FRANCE lost another of her elder statesmen in the death of Raymond Ray-mond Polncare. who was president from 1!)13 to 1020 and returned later to public service as premier. It was during that period that he seized the Kuhr In an effort to compel com-pel Germany to pay the war reparations repara-tions to France. Polncare was born In Lorraine, and that fact explained In part his unrelenting tttitude toward to-ward Germany In dealing with postwar post-war problems. Entering political life In 1887. he was mixed up In many prominent "affairs" and made a record rec-ord as an Intense patriot and a liberal lib-eral republican. In 1926, when he was called out of retirement, he succeeded suc-ceeded In saving the country from Its disastrous financial state. Polncare was seventy-four years old when he died, and had been In poor health for some years. SECRETARY OF STATE HULL Is vexed by what he calls the "Indefensible practice" of certain countries In boosting tariffs or other oth-er restrictions to obtain concessions by reducing them again in negotiations negotia-tions with the United States for trade agreements. He made a statement state-ment about it, Intimating that under un-der such conditions there may be a failure of negotiations. ; Although no nation was named, Germany has begun a program of controlled imports and has denounced de-nounced its most-favored-nation treaty with the United States, and France Is increasing tariffs. FIRST shot In the coming contest between the automobile manufacturers manufac-turers and the American Federation of Labor was fired by the General 0., the charge being that he was opposed op-posed to trade unions and to collective col-lective bargaining with them. The federation's executive council instructed in-structed President William Green to present the matter to Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt on his return to Washington, and he promised to do so. Incidentally, Inci-dentally, It should be recorded that Mr. Green was re-elected president without opposition. It Is not considered likely that the federation will get far with Its fight on Mr. Williams. He was de liberately selected for membership on the board because his conservatism conserva-tism will be a foil to the comparative compara-tive radicalism of other members, especially Sidney Hillman and Leon C. Marshall. The other two members, mem-bers, Arthur D. Whiteside, bead of Dun and Rradstreet, and Walton Halo, Hamilton, are rated as moderately mod-erately conservative. The new board is hard at work on the problems which beset the NRA. It has devised methods for quicker transaction of business and has strengthened the subordinate executive personnel, and. in the matter mat-ter of enforcement, it has agreed not to interfere In labor disputes, these being relegated to Secretary Perkins and the labor relat!ons board. V P. Sloan, Jr. Motors corporation In the form of an offer to its 130,000 employees of It3 own plan for collective col-lective bargaining. In a letter sent to every worker President Pres-ident Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., said : "We of the General Motors recognize 'collective bargaining' bargain-ing' as a construe- mini. Robinson (led with all but I'jOO of this sum and a countrywide country-wide hunt for him was begun. His wife and father were arrested, charged with complicity In the kidnaping. kid-naping. Mrs. Robinson, however, was said to have protected Mrs. Stoll to the best of her ability and It was she who returned the abducted ab-ducted woman to her relatives, abandoning her crazy husband. In Detroit one Edward Llckwala, a youth with a police record, was arrested for attempting to extort t-I.OOO from Edsel Ford under threats of death. He was promptly Indicted by a federal grand jury, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to serve ten years In the Leavenworth Leaven-worth penitentiary. WITH overpowering pomp and ceremony Alexander I, assassinated assas-sinated king of Jugoslavia, was laid to rest with his fathers, the founders of the Karageorgevltch dynasty. dy-nasty. Nearly every nation on earth was represented at the funeral fun-eral rites. King Boris of P.ulgarla and King Carol of Rumania were there, as was President Lebrun of France. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy was represented by the duke of Spoleto, and Chancellor Hitler of Germany by Gen. Hermann William Wil-liam Goering, premier of Prussia, who flew from Berlin. England gent Prince George, now duke of Kent Other notables present were Prince Cyril of Bulgaria, a delegation dele-gation from Poland, Foreign Minister Minis-ter D. Mnximos of Greece, Foreign Minister Dr. Tevfik Rustu Bey of Turkey, Foreign Minister Dr. Ed-nard Ed-nard Benes of Czechoslovakia, Foreign For-eign Minister Nicholas Titulescu of Rumania, Prince Nicholas of Rumania, Ru-mania, and Undersecretary of Justice Jus-tice Karl Karwinsky of Austria. Belgrade was thronged with many thousands of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. One entire village of 900 peasants arrived from Herzegovina, a picturesque crowd many of whom had sworn not to shave for three months In token of their grief. For two days Alexander's body lay In state in the palace while the people passed by the bier. Then It was removed to the cathedral for requiem high mass, after which there was a two mile procession to the railway station. From there the body was conveyed to Topolo, 53 miles from the capital, and interred in-terred In the family mausoleum. FRENCH police having caught three of the companions of "Kalemen," really Tschernocem-Bky, Tschernocem-Bky, who slew Alexander and Louis Barthou In Marseilles, the authorities authori-ties of half a dozen countries were making progress in unravelling the assassination plot. From the confessions of those captured and from the investigations investiga-tions of the police of France and Belgrade It was learned that Kale-men Kale-men was a notorious Macedonian terrorist named Valda Georgeff Tschernocemskz who killed 'wo Bulgarian political leaders several years ago. He and his associates In the plot were directed In their murderous work by a mysterious "master mind." and the authorities assert this man, whom the assas-glns assas-glns knew as "the doctor," controlled con-trolled the activities of several distinct dis-tinct terrorist bands that were Ignorant Ig-norant of one another's moves. Dr. Ante Pavelic, described as the leader of the Croatian terrorists, terror-ists, and Eugent Kvaternik, his aid. were arrested In Turin, Italy, just as Alexander was being burled In Jugoslavia. Kvaternik was known as the "delegate" and was supposed sup-posed to have acted as liaison man for Pavelic, making contact with the Marseilles assassins. The police had hunted them throughout Europe. Kvaternik was trailed as far as the village of Etaples In France, where the trail was lost. Pavelic, however, was known to be in Italy, and the search turned there, on the theory that the two would get together. Continental police were still hunting hunt-ing for Maria Vjoudroch, blond siren, si-ren, who is supposed to have smuggled smug-gled into France the murder weapons, weap-ons, and Gustav rerchec, alleged to have conducted the Croatian exile ex-ile "murder farm" at Janka Bufta, Hungary, where the assassins held target practice- TO THE White House correspondents correspond-ents President Roosevelt said that a federal housing program with a great many ramifications undoubtedly un-doubtedly would be submitted to the next congress and also would constitute an important part cf the administration's future relief policy. The President expressed approval of the latest undertaking of the Federal Emergency Relief administration, admin-istration, which is to develop small communities of from 100 to 500 families. The families are taken off the direct relief rolls and moved into small houses, where they are Intended to become self-supporting on communal farms provided by the government ALL the members of the German cabinet took the oath of loyalty loyal-ty to Chancellor Hitler at their first fall meeting, and then Dr. Hans Helnrich Lammers, chief of the chancellery office, announced that "Adolf Hitler Is fuehrer for life." He added that the Weimar constitution no longer exists. Many laws were decreed by the cabinet to carry on Hitler's policies. These included laws reducing the tax burdens bur-dens of the big families and the cost of tax administration, laws reorganizing re-organizing co-operative associations and "purifying the auctioneers' trade," laws altering bankruptcy sales, reorganizing the traffic In grain "to enable the National Grain company to control grain even when the harvest Is reduced." tlve step forward, both for the employees em-ployees and the management. Regardless Re-gardless of any obligations that may exist -ve propose not jnly to continue con-tinue the idea, buf to develop it." The plan, which actually is already al-ready In effect, was designed to meet all requirements of section 7A of the national Industrial recovery act. Though the company In Its communication did not mention the A. F. of L., it declared that "membership "mem-bership in a labor union or other type of labor or employee organization organiza-tion does not In Itself establish the right of any such union or other organization or-ganization to represent employees in collective bargaining negotiations. Representatives for such purpose must have been specifically chosen by the employees they ire to represent rep-resent and the fact of such choice must be established." Employees must be given complete com-plete freedom In setting up collective collec-tive bargaining organizations and choosing representatives, the company com-pany declared. The management may, however, assist any employee organization lu plans for employees' mutual benefit, provided that In the determination of the right of employees to participate partici-pate in the benefits there is no discrimination dis-crimination by management on the ground of affiliation with any labor organization. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT went to Williamsburg, Va., and took part In the ceremonies attendant on the inauguration of John Stewart Bryan as president of the old College Col-lege of William and Mary. In return re-turn for his courtesy Mr. Roosevelt was given the honorary degree of doctor of laws. The same honor was conferred on Gov. George C. Peery. The exercises were conducted con-ducted In the reconstructed main building of the college, designed by Sir Christopher Wren. On the same day took place the formal rededication of Duke of Gloucester street, the city's main thoroughfare, which has been restored re-stored nearly to Its original appearance ap-pearance as the last major construction con-struction project of the restoration of colonial Williamsburg. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., financial backer of the restoration which already has cost approximately SI 5.000,000, was among the distinguished visitors present, along with cabinet members, mem-bers, congressmen, diplomats and educators. SENATOR JAMES F. BYRNES of South Carolina, chairman of the senatorial campaign expenditures expendi-tures committee, announced that an Investigation would be conducted In Pennsylvania as a result of reports re-ports that the Republicant are spending a large amount of money. Reports reaching the committee, according to Byrnes' statement, are that Republican expenditures for the May 15 primary were much larger than the amount filed with the secretary of the commonwealth of Penrsylvania. Senator David A. Reed filed expenditures of $215,000 and his unsuccessful opponent for the nomination, Gov. Gifford Pin-chot, Pin-chot, filed expenditures of $182,000, Joseph Guffey. the successful Democratic Demo-cratic candidate for the nomination, admitted STG.000 in the filing. CHINA'S Nationalist government has retaliated against the silver policy of the United States by imposing im-posing a 10 per cent tax On all silver sil-ver exports from China. This action followed upon receipt of the American Ameri-can reply to a recent note from China pleading for United States co-operation in maintaining silver prices and halting the drain of silver sil-ver from China. |