Show A r 9 P F sytski Sy tSui W Lck jaul y summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 3 western newspaper union s program of 0 S SENATOR michigan wait lor for the leaders of the republican ican party to formulate a program on which to battle the demo 1 brats he broke out with a ten point program designed to give honest business a chance to create stable prosperity his ten points i were 1 an end to tal governmental ern mental hymns of hate and bitter senator attacks on business Vanden bere men g 2 progress as rapidly as possible toward a balanced budget 3 amendment or repeal of the surplus and capital gains taxes and substitution of incentive taxation tor for punitive taxation 4 amendment of the social security act to eliminate the needless drain upon the resources of commerce and labor 5 revision of the wagner labor law to make for greater certainty in long range industrial planning 6 abandonment of the so called wage hour bill and substitution substitute ion of legislation to protect states from the importation of goods produced by substandard labor 7 repeal of many of 0 the presidents emergency powers in order to tree free business from executive despotism which is at war with every tenet of the american system 8 reasonable and practical farm a relief without bureaucratic controls processing taxes or price pegging but with benefits tor for soil conservation practices financing of exportable surpluses and return of the domestic market to the producer 9 foreign policies that will keep america out of war through pursuing an insulating neutrality y rather than sanctions 10 frank abandonment of all constitutional anti activities and intrigues which shatter democratic faith K peace talk with utilities artion restriction restriction ESTRICT ION of the construction and expansion activities of the privately owned public utilities being recognized as an important factor actor in the current business recession president roosevelt began a series of conferences with the heads of these concerns he seemed to be in a conciliatory frame of mind and sought to lessen the utilities tear fear of the effect of government policies but without making any concessions his first caller was wendell wilkie president of the commonwealth southern corpora corporation and next day he talked with floyd carlisle of the niagara hudson power corporation though he appeared amiable the president at the same time was sending to various congressional committees and federal agencies a report by the new york state power authority whacking friends and agents of the private utilities for propaganda against public power development it presented figures to show the government could produce water power at a much lower cost than private utilities could produce power by steam plants it was understood mr wilkie submitted bitted these points that there is a general tear fear throughout the country of government competition and interference with private utilities which can be subdued only by concrete reassurance from the administration that money for private expansion purposes and re financing to obtain lower interest rates which in turn would be reflected in lower power rates is hard to obtain that the government had a right to sell power from its dams but a basis tor for marketing it could be found without frightening the whole industry that the prudent investment method of determining the rate base might well be used tor for determining values to be added hereafter and that it could be studied as a means of finding present value that in any case no system ot of valuation does or should bring about the highly watered capitalization which the president condemned in a number of examples which he cited at a recent press conference ft chino ahmo jap japanese anese war J armies were slowed up 1 by rain and mud in their advance up the yingtse valley but as there seemed no likelihood that the chinese line ot of defense would hold the nationalist government moved out of scattering its departments among a number of cities american ambassador johnson and his staff moved to bankow the japanese commanders in S shanghai 11 took over full control of most of the city and its customs office they demanded that the international tern ter national settlement and french concessions officials hand over the cites tour four leading citizens as hostages most prominent ot of these thes ewas was T V soong brother in law ol of dictator chiang kai shek the far east conference in brussels unable to accomplish anything to end the chino japanese conflict was on the point of final adjournment c after french throne ament ALARM LARM of the french government over the plotting of the or hooded ones that led to the arrest of many rightists and the raiding of 1 hidden stores of weapons and ammunition was far from baseless evidently there was a real conspiracy to overthrow the republic and set up a dictatorship and eventually a restored monarchy ta the ke government announced due de guise however that the plot had been wrecked from his place of exile in be belgium gium the due de gul guise se pretender to the t throne hrone of france issued a manifesto announcing he had decided to try to regain the throne have the moral courage not to abdicate before present difficulties the manifesto appealed to frenchmen do not permit in a moment of abandon dictatorship of any kind to impose itself certain of my ability to assure your happiness I 1 have decided to the throne of my fathers france then again will reassume assume rc her mission in the world and again will find peace unity and prosperity through a union of the people with a titular defender king if windsor wins libel suit HE duke of windsor won his T THE libel suit against the author and publisher of the book coronation comments and in a settlement out of court received a substantial sum said to be from them which money he gave to charity lord chief justice hewart commented that the libels appeared almost to invite a thorough and efficient horsewhipping horse whipping green opposes labor bill ILLIAM GREEN president of athe WILLIAM the A F of L practically broke with the administration by denouncing the pending wage and hour bill as unacceptable to labor and demanding that it be sent back to committee for revision green assailed the national labor relations board and declared it no longer is sate safe to permit a government board of that kind to administer laws governing labor relations with employers after labor racketeers FOR tour four months eliot ness nesa the young safety director of 0 cleveland cleveand ohio has been investigating labor racketeering in cleveland especially ally in the building trades and then aa he made a report of his findings that resulted 11 in a special session of the cuya hogs hoga county grand jury to hear the NN stories of scores of business men who allegedly have been terrorized by labor 6 union officials ness said these men were eliot ness prompted to volunteer their information because ot of the security ot of fared them and the knowledge that many others were prepared to testily testify in addition to protests from business no s 9 men that they were being shaken down ness also had numerous complaints from rank and file union men that their leaders had obtained dictatorial control ot of the unions and had used it tor for racketeering purposes this resulted in hundreds ot of men being thrown out ot of work impeded legitimate business and kept hundreds ot or thousands 0 of dollars in new industries out 0 of the city the ness report was said to have stated governors ask tax repeal GOVERNORS G ot of the six new england states in conference in boston adopted resolutions severely criticizing the tax and tariff policies of the administration they demanded repeal of the capital gains tax and the tax on undistributed corporate profits and denounced the pending reciprocal trade agreement with czechoslovakia as imperiling impe riling the jobs of 0 thousands of 0 american citizens the governors who took this action were lewis 0 barrows republican maine F P murphy murph Y R republican e new Hamp hampshire sampshi shi e george D aiken republican vermont harles charles F hurley democrat massachusetts wilbur L cross democrat connecticut and rrbert robert E quinn democrat rhode island trade treaty with britain TN IN washington and london it IL 1 was officially announced that the united states and great britain had agreed to negotiate a reciprocal trade treaty which has been sought by secretary of state hull ever since he started his reciprocal bom program in 1934 the negotiations are expected to begin before the close of the year american administration officials bec lieve such a pact seer may y lead to a com mercial union of all english speak ing peoples and will be a po powerful influence in preserving world peace london looks upon it as an instrument ment to form a front which all nations may enter later on conditions ot of most favored nations reciprocity pro city and therefore as an indirect reply to the new german italian japanese alliance principles said to be already agreed upon provide that great britain would receive reduced american tariffs on textiles and coal in return she would grant the united states lower tariffs on foodstuffs certain raw materials iron and steel and other essentials of a rearmament program immediate opposition to the proposed pact developed among the statesmen in washington senator james hamilton lewis of illinois democratic whip protested against any british accord until the english pay off their defaulted war debt to the united states he called the proposed pact trade treason senator henry cabot lodge massachusetts republican ser served v e d notice he would sponsor a resolution halting negotiation of all new trade treaties until congress can deter determine mine whether they are arc responsible for the current business recession representative allen alien treadway massachusetts republican denounced the proposed treaty as certain to prove disastrous to american business he warned it would throw more americans out of their JO jobs b S rand Is acquitted J TAMES AMES H RAND JR president J of remington rand inc and pearl L bergoff of new york were found not guilty 0 of violation of the byrnes act by a jury in the united S states district court in new haven conn the verdict was a blow at the alie governments first attempt to enforce the act which forbids the transi transportation or tation of strikebreakers ees across state lines with the intent ot of interfering with peaceful picketing adof another her judge wanted SENATOR MINTURN of indiana introduced a bill authorizing the tha president to appoint an additional judge to the united states state s circuit court of appeals at chicago that court has jurisdiction over the seventh circuit wisconsin illinois and indiana and has had one vacancy since the retirement of judge samuel alschuler last year doth both senators lewis and Dic dieterich ot of illinois said they had no candi dato dati tor for tha place ap |