Show news review of current events JAPS TAKE OVER may return manchu emperor amendments umit limit housing bill hillgreen BilL greed Green dictates W wage age hour measure A 0 P ON I 1 we y v summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK a 0 western newspaper union pe ining gets protection 44 sparing A OUGH is pre ax paring to wage a destructive war do not be afraid the japanese army will protect you leaflets containing these words fluttered from the skies to come to rest in the hands bands of resi i dents of the ancient chinese c capital ap ital j neiping Pei ping As the airplanes which spread the news hummed amed overhead a brigade of japanese emperor soldiers in com kang teh mand and of ma maj gen Tor ashimo kawabe marched through the city taking g possession of it in the name of tokyo what would be the result of the new japanese domination apparently begun by maj gen kawabe was a matter for speculation chinese residents long since convinced that the inevitable would happen took it calmly enough some of them voiced their belief that the former boy emperor of china tsuan tung henry pu yi since 1934 emperor kang teh of Manchu kuo would return to his throne in neiping Pei ping he would then rule over north china as well as Manchu kuo as a puppet for whom japan would pull the strings japanese control was extended in when the japanese co commissioner of the chinese salt administration announced he had taken over the administrations district this includes the salt fields with production valued at more than a year and formerly a government monopoly c where was john L L lewis I 1 LLIAM GREEN president of W VV the american federation of labor emerged as the administrations favorite son in matters affecting labor as he was permitted virtually to write his own amendments to the house version of the wages and hours bill the senate had passed the bill 56 to 23 only after president roosevelt had called green to the white house and persuaded him to give lukewarm approval to the measure with the understanding der that the house bouse would amend it southern democrats in the senate led by pat harrison of mississippi 4 bitterly opposed the bill but their motion to recommit it to committee was defeated 48 to 36 the same vigorous opposition was expected from didies representatives in the house labor committee but the green amendments so called because of the federation presidents complete domination of the committee meeting patched up the essential differences the bill as passed by the senate would create a labor standards board empowered to set minimum wages up to 40 cents an hour and maximum work weeks down to 40 hours the house committee had intended to extend the limits to permit the board to set wages at 70 cents and hours as low as 35 under greens influence the house committee decided to accept the senate provisions on this part of the measure but the scope of the board was greatly curtailed by an amendment which would permit it to deal only with employers who maintain sweatshops a and n d starvation wages through take fake collective bargaining agencies the green amendments in brief are 1 board jurisdiction over wages and nd hours in any industry only it it Y X MY 5 S I 1 7 5 tv A F of Ls WILLIAM GREEN leaves white house with a smile finds that collective bargaining agreements do not cover a sufficient number of employees or facilities for collective bargaining are ineffective fec tive 2 acceptance of wage hour standards established by collective bargaining in any occupation as prima facie evidence of appropriate standards in that occupation 3 board cannot alter wage hour standards already prevailing in occupation cu in community considered or establish classification in any community which affects adversely the prevailing standards in the same mameor or other communities 4 industries are protected against prison made goods 5 label provision of original act is eliminated to protect industry f from rom what is considered a nuisance 6 government work is removed from the boards control and placed under the walsh healey act chairman mary T norton D N J of the labor committee indicated the bill would be brought up in the house under a special rule and speedily passed new yorks share cut ROBERT KOBERT F WAGNERS S SENATOR dem N Y housing bill was passed by the senate 64 to 16 but the senator scarcely recognized it when his fellows were done with it IL senator wagner and other administration leaders struggled frantically to defeat an amendment by harry F byrd dem va limiting the cost of housing projects to 1000 a room or a family unit result of the struggle the upper house which originally passed the amend ment 40 to 39 defeated a motion to reconsider by 44 to 39 the bill originally called for expenditures tures up to 1500 a room or a family unit opponents conceded that the byrd amendment would prohibit the building of the type of houses senator wagner had in mind in new york city but contended that was enough to spend tor for housing one family persons of extremely low income could not pay the rent anyway they argued some senators charged that the wagner bill was designed to afford the bulk of the housing appropriation to new york this was prevented by the adoption of an amendment by millard miniard E tydings dem md which limited the share of any one state to 20 per cent tris would permit new york no more than of the in loans and no more than a year of the proposed in rent subsidies senator tydings also obtained adoption of ark an amendment which would require local housing project sponsors to pay 5 per cent of the total cost and 5 per cent of the rental subsidies IL senate OK s court reform LL that was left of the administrations ALL Aist sweeping court reform proposals passed the senate in an hour without a record vote this was the procedural reform bill tor for the lower federal courts it was in the nature of a substitute tor for the simmers bill in the house of representatives senta tives and went back to the house for what was expected to be a peaceable conference vice president garner whipped the measure through even though senators G guffey dem pa and lewis dem ill loudly protested that they wanted to go on record as opposed to it the bill as summarized by sen warren warre n R austin rep vt who wrote most of it included provision making it the duty of the district court in any constitutional suit between private citizens to notify the department of justice that upon a showing by the attorney general that the united states had a probable interest the government would be made a party to the suit permission for the senior circuit judge to reassign district judges that circuit for the purpose of clearing congested dockets it if necessary a judge may be transferred from one circuit to another permission tor for direct appeal to the supreme court if 30 day notice is given from any decision of a district court against the constitutionality tiona lity of an act requirement that all suits for injunction against the operation of federal statutes to be heard by a three judge court including at least one circuit court of appeals judge memorial for will rogers THE HE memory of will rogers americas ricas lately beloved gum chewing philosopher will be en shrines in fitting manner near his claremore okla home after the president signs a bill which has now been passed byboth by both houses of coni con i gress it appropriates for a memorial to will the state of oklahoma also will be required to furi fur i nish mrs rogers will donate the site tor for the building architects will compete for the right to design it while nothing has been definitely de aided as yet it is held probable the demor memorial ial will be a museum of indian life rogers was part indian cutting madrid from sea SLOWLY but determinedly gen francisco francos rebels are pressing their campaign to cut madrid off from valencia and the sea latest advances of well mo and mechanized troops following up coordinated co attacks brought the insurgents near to the capture of Salva canete which is only 30 miles from cuenca cuenca is the provincial capital and from it emanate most of the roads upon which the loyalist government is depending to keep open the traffic between its two most important cities at teruel another vital point in the line of advance franco was reported as having built an air base with underground hangars for 50 planes which the rebels were using to harass the government lines meanwhile other nations were on the point of being involved again there was a riot among rebel troops at toledo and italian soldiers were alleged to have aided in quelling the uprising four merchant ships one british one italian one french and one greek were attacked in the mediterranean by three mystery planes great britain blamed the rebels and demanded an answer to its protest italy blamed the red loyalists the loy alises blamed the rebels the rebels blamed the loyalists there were lots of talk and back talk and nobody got anywhere seek unemployed count F 17 OR four years congress has r failed to order any serious at tempt at finding out just how serious the unemployment problem is now the senate has passed a bill sponsored by hugo D black dem ala which directs the president with funds from the 1937 relief appropriation to order a census of the unemployed and partially unemployed on or before april r rl 1938 senators byrnes lodge dark clark and others objected that the bill was inadequate but permitted its passage on the unanimous consent calendar what will be included in the questionnaire tion is under the terms of the black measure to be determined by the secretary of commerce the secretary of labor the works progress administrator the chairman of the social security board the chairman of the central statistical board and the director of the census harry L hopkins repeatedly has told the president that an unemployment census would be useless administration opponents have charged that he only wished to exaggerate the unemployment problem see little hope for peace Teace S MORE and more thousands of AS japanese soldiers poured into north china the foreign office held little hope that a real war could be averted r xv i officials there believed that japans next objective would be the railroad from neiping into sui yuan and that she would seek to drive all chinese troops out of until 4 she could take possession of the imbor rhiana aang tant city ot of calgan kalgan san kal kai I 1 shek hek along the railways ya which radiate from neiping japanese and chinese forces were approaching each other there were said to be japanese well equipped and organized and comparatively inefficient chinese between the neiping line and the yellow river were chinese troops half of them controlled by the national government and south of the yellow river were more it was reported that it if the chinese dictator gen chiang kal kai shek wanted to fight he could throw men including his crack german trained divisions into the field still there was no indication from that the central government would declare war upon japan rather than letting her have what she wanted just as she took what she wanted in manchuria and dehol a few years ago U S keeps naval pace I 1 indications indications were that both the united states and great britain would embark upon unusually large peacetime naval building programs in 1938 britain according to reports in london will lay the keels tor for from three to five battleships six or seven cruisers and a proportionate quota of destroyers submarines and smaller craft to surpass the 1937 total of tons a peacetime record it was also reported that personnel would be yi 1 creased ultimately by with the placing of additional 1937 contracts britain will soon have vessels under construction these will include 5 battleships of tons 5 aircraft carriers 8 cruisers of and tons 5 cruisers of tons 7 cruisers of tons 16 super destroyers of 1650 tons 18 submarines of from to 1520 0 tons 12 sloops and 10 motor torpedo boats armament of the five new battleships will include 10 or 12 new type 14 inch guns 12 to 16 4 or 47 inch antiaircraft anti aircraft guns and numerous light machine guns upper deck armor will be specially strengthened against airplane bombs and bridges and turrets will be admiral william D leahy chief of american naval operations and acting secret secretary kry of uncle sams navy said in washington that congress will be asked to provide funds tor for the construction of ships and two cruisers in the 1938 fiscal foscal year the admiral inferred in a press conference that the united states expects to keep pace with other nations which are planning extensive naval building the four our new ships will cost and will be ready in 1942 Corli Kuc tion Is about to begin on tw er r battleships which will cost a ay ox irately 14 lost in flying boat IT T WAS believed 14 persons were lost in the caribbean sea when the santa maria luxurious new flying boat of the pan american grace airways crashed 20 miles off cristobal in the canal zone after nearly completing a scheduled flight from guayaquil ayaquil Gu ecuador last radio reports from the pilot indicated he was trying to spiral down to the surface of the sea deain in a torrential rainstorm two united states submarines cruising the area in the hope of picking up some survivors found part of the airliners shipment of mail an engine casing a few other par parts ts t a bucket of ice cream floasin floating 9 ae e water it was feared the pilots pilot copilot steward and 11 passengers mostly americans were locked in the cabin and lying on the bottom of the sea which at the point the wreckage was found reaches a depth of 1000 feet |