Show acers of LITTLE BUSINESS HEARD five hundred formulate program while big business gets another swat from president 1 V 4 0 senator allen alien J ellender of louisiana Is here seen in action as he be established a record for long talking in the senate at least in modern times limes jEri engaged in the filibuster against the anti lynching bill this su successor c of huey long spoke for 27 hours and 45 minutes and he confined himself strictly to his views on the he measure sr s a W r pi rl f r y v summarizes aff api THE TT WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union turn of little business to washington from all C CALLED parts of the country by secretary of commerce daniel C roper some representatives of little y business undertook to formulate a recovery program for submission to president roosevelt mr air R roper oper and his assistant si stant ernest draper took part in i the preliminary dis zy cushions cus and since s the president could B jr not receive all of them a small com secretary 0 cittee was named roper to take their proposals to the white house according to reports from the I 1 capital the president desires legislation for federal financing of small industries to stimulate business this would require the creation of a new nev government agency unless the power were granted to the reconstruction st finance corporation three chief complaints of the small business men are the undivided profits tax has prevented them from accumulating a rainy day surplus the capital gains and losses tax has frozen capital and prevented the encouragement of new enterprises monopolistic practices are presenting increasing hazards to their successful operations congress and the administration already are busy with steps to correct these alleged abuses big business scared again M big business and the country generally was discussing with considerable apprehension the declaration by the president that industry must reduce prices and at the same time keep wages up an immediate result was the crash of prices on the stock exchanges the decline reaching as high as 7 points commodities declined in sympathy with stocks it if industries reduce wages this winter and spring the president said at his press conference they I 1 will be deliberately encouraging the withholding of buying they w will be fostering a downward spiral and they will make it necessary for their p government to consider other means of creating purchasing power A many P I 1 any congressmen de democrats as well as republicans took issue with mr Roosevel ts logic and economics pointing out that industries r lack the resources to keep wages up on a falling market because their funds have been depleted by the undistributed profits tax in his bis statement the president said 1 I am opposed to wage reductions because the markets of american industry depend on the purchasing power of our working population and if we want to restore prosperity we must increase not decrease that purchasing power those in charge of a well managed and solvent industry should no more consider casting the burden of a temporary business recession upon their workers than upon their bondholders bond holders to cast such burden on the bondholders bond holders is financial bankruptcy to cast such burden on its 1 r workers is not only oraly moral bankruptcy but the bankruptcy of sound business judgment y lynch bill doomed d FIFTY ONE senators voted against a motion to invoke the cloture rule nile for the purpose of choking off the filibuster against the anti lynch ing ig bill and the measure which tho the sout southerners berners were fighting so betl was thus doomed to lailure failure majority leader alben W barkley of kentucky who had supported the bill and voted for cloture immediately served notice that the senate had made it impossible tor for the bill to be passed and that it must be displaced promptly by other legislation miners for third term MINERS from three states at la 11 tending the convention of the united mine aline workers of america in in washington presented eight resolutions urging that president roosevelt be drafted for a third term in the white house echoing the description of mr air roosevelt by john L lewis as the only president who has given the common people a square deal the third term resolutions were submitted by unions from royal pa avella pa new salem pa uniontown Union town ky rivesville Rives ville W va everett ville W va scottsdale W va and lochgelly Loch gelly W va in response to innumerable demands that the C 1 I 0 6 make peace with the A F of L lewis proposed that his organization march into the A F of L february 1 and that units be granted charters president green of the fede federation ratio n which was in convention in miami said this was just the same old proposition and would merely transfer the conflict into the midst of the federation the building trades department of the federation enlisted in a campaign to develop on a national basis a build america plan started by the cleveland building trades council A committee was named to operate cooperate co with real estate men manufacturers and distributors of building materials to promote definite housing projects V resigns REDERICK resigned fas FREDERICK as senator from oregon in order to enter the private practice of law in washington and portland ore was keynoter of the last republican national convention and has been a steady opponent of the new deal jackson gets reed s place OBERT H JACKSON assistant ROBERT Rat attorney torney general was nominated by the president to be solicitor general of the united states he succeeds stanley reed whose appointment to the supreme court was confirmed by the senate jackson has been much in the headlines lately because of his speeches attacking business and his avowed intention to seek the governorship of new york I 1 niagara bridge falls falls view bridge at N na THE JL agara falls from which many thousands of honeymooners have looked at the cataract was crushed by a terrific ice jam in the river and fell into the gorge in a great mass of twisted steel the bridge had been closed to traffic a few hours earlier so there was no loss of life jap slaps american diplomat OHN ALLISON third secretary J J ot of the american embassy in was slapped in the face by a japanese sentry when he tried to enter a house occupied by japanese troops Alli alliso sons ns protests brought an apology from the japanese officer in command of the unit involved an official japanese announcement no said allison adopted an insolent attitude and criticized the japanese army the japanese embassy in shanghai ordered all commercial firms there regardless of 0 na nationality tiona litY to give the japanese con censor sor copies of their code books |