Show Nel news lacis review of current events HUGE LOANS ON WHEAT bumper crop makes these and acreage reductions probable vage age hour bill to be passed A PW 01 Z g V aw congresswoman mary T norton of new jersey chairman of the labor committee affixes her signature the first one to the petition which was signed by other house bouse members to force house bouse consideration of the revised wage hour bill with mrs norton are left to right cong congressmen gressmen R J welch of california J burrwood daly of pennsylvania arthur healey bealey of massachusetts and edward curley of new york A 9 6 P wo V y ISIA summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 6 western newspaper union wheat loan program ONLY 0 a major crop disaster like a nationwide nation wide drouth can prevent the united states from ha having v the largest supply of wheat this summer in the coun arys history consequently the department part ment of agriculture is preparing to announce a huge wheat loan program designed to prevent prices from falling to extremely low levels under the new crop control act loans are mandatory 0 TT sec wallace allace if ye the 1938 yield exceeds domestic needs and estimated export needs which are put at about bushels at the same time secretary wallace as head of the AAA was contemplating tem plating the prospect of asking the wheat growers of america to make the heaviest reduction in plantings ever proposed this reduction may be as much as per cent growers who this season planted approximately 80 acres would be asked to reduce their operations to about acres the smallest since before the world war allotments then would be acres less than tor for 1938 government estimates place the crop at between and bushels the winter wheat estimate is between and bushels while the spring wheat crop is expected to reach bushels added to this will be a carryover carry over of bushels or more from last years crop of bush els the total supply is expected to reach an hll all time high of approximately bushels in addition to the loan program secretary wallace will move to bolster the market through the new government crop insurance program already a campaign is under way to sign up farmers tor for wheat insurance the insurance pro program grard Is expected to remove about bushels of wheat from the market through farmer payments of premiums on 1939 wheat insurance the government will store this wheat in elevators for future indemnity payments to insured farmers barme rs officials of the AAA expect that reduction of acreage will stir up protests from wheat growers similar to the current revolt in the corn belt and among the cotton and tobacco farmers of the south concessions already have been made to the southerners and the AAA people said some minor adjustments in corn acreage allotments were planned the revolt in the middle west however was growing steadily under the leadership of the corn belt liberty league now incorporated in illinois when and if wheat acreage allotments are made farmers can comply with or ignore them but only those who comply will be eligible for maximum federal benefit payments and wheat loans crop report barf birthday aday ON 0 N THE day it issued its may crop report the department ot of agriculture celebrated the seventy fifth anniversary of the government crop reporting service the names of the oldest living crop reporters were inscribed on a roll of honor and the ceremonies were witnessed by a group of veterans of the service who were invited to washington by secretary wallace the crop reporting service was started in may 1863 by isaac newton first commissioner of agriculture appointed by president lincoln in 1862 the first report was prepared on the basis of reports from 2000 farmers in 21 states today reports are based on returns from voluntary reporters president returns upturned PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT re turned to washington from his ten day fishing trip not only brown and well but highly elated there was reason for his elation for the political tide in the capi capital tal had turned in his favor the successful revival of the wage hour bill in the house demonstrated the waning opposition among southern democrats following closely on the of senator pepper of florida who defeated congressman wilcox an opponent of the roosevelt bills to enlarge the supreme court to reorganize the executive government and to control wages and hours of labor the pump priming bill seemed assured of passage with only some earmarking of funds to which the administration has no serious objection mr roosevelt resumed work by calling secretary hull to the white house presumably to discuss the nye resolution to lift the arms embargo against spain he then held a legislative conference with vice president garner speaker bankhead majority leaders barkley and rayburn and others it was believed they considered resumption of the drive for enactment of parts of the presidents program that have been defeated or delayed deal of the dictators N THE absence of official state ments the foreign correspondents were forced to guess at the results of the meeting of er hitler and mussolini in rome they felt certain that the friendship between the two dictators was strengthened that hitler assured 11 II duce germany would not try to absorb the german minority in south tyrol and that mussolini promised italy would not interfere with the nazi plans affecting the germans in czechoslovakia mussolini was believed to have received from hitler recognition of italis economic and political ical interest in central europe and a promise the italian port of trie trieste ste would not lose all its austrian traffic as a consequence of austian Aus absorption by germany for six days hitler was lavishly entertained with feasts and with naval military and aviation displays that revealed the armed power of italy in an astonishing manner he then went to florence to view that cites art and architectural treasures and returned to berlin apparently satisfied that the berlin rome axis had not been weakened by the anglo italian peace accord wage hour bill to pass ahouse WHEN HEN members of the house of representatives signed the petition to discharge the rules committee from consideration of the administrations wage hour bill it became virtually certain the measure would be passed by the house on may 23 chairman mary T norton of the I 1 house labor committee and other proponents of the bill predicted dic ed I 1 it t also would be approved by the maryt mary T senate but admit norton n gedly gy it faces a bitter fight there tor for the southern senators are angered by the omission of differentials favoring the south there is a chance that they can organize a filibuster and prevent passage before congress adjourns opposition in the house crumbled suddenly and there was a veritable stampede to sign the petition forcing the measure to a vote mrs norton was first to put her name on the paper and other members rushed forward to get on an the band wagon the signers were divided by parties as follows democrats 23 republicans 8 progressives Progress ives and 5 parmer farmer labovites laborites in its present form the bill provides tor for minimum wages of 25 cents an hour to be raised to A 40 0 cents an hour over a three year period and maximum hours of 44 a week to be reduced to 40 hours in two years it would be administered by the labor department and enforced by the justice department it carries no differentials between the different sections of the country labor board foiled THE HE federal circuit court of appeals in covington ky in an amended order forbade the national labor relations board to with draw its records from the court in the boards decision against the ford motor company the court previously had permitted the board to withdraw its petition for an enforcement order against the company the board was trying to avoid judicial investigation ot of its procedure the inland steel company was informed that the board would set aside its order to inland to deal with the C 1 I 0 this was resisted by the company as the ford company had resisted in its case davies to belgium OSEPH DAVIES wealthy lawyer JOSEPH was nominated ambassador to belgium by president roosevelt davies will be transferred from moscow which he and his wile wife mrs marjorie post hutton davies found boring because of the lack of social life among the soviets chinese make gains JAPANS hold on north china was endangered by the aggressive action tio n of chinese guerilla armies that were concentrating con cent rating near neiping 77 and Pao palting ting former F capital of hope province savage fighting in that area was reported as gen chu teh leader of the chinese communist eighth route army smashed the lines of the invaders mel the japanese claimed to have degen ge chu T teh 11 feared ed a large chinese force that attempted to cut off chow an important supply base for japanese fighters the japanese government has invoked parts of the general mobilization law and foreign minister koki kok hirota called on the japanese people to prepare tor for possible extreme personal financial sacrifices to achieve victory in the chinese war he added that no optimistic view of the future is warranted big navy bill passed PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVEL TS 1 11 naval expansion bill was passed by the senate by a vote of 56 to 28 the measure empowers this g government ov to surpass the rearmament programs of other nations with construction st of the most powerful warships ever floated however it precludes the possibility of the united states precipitating a race of super warships by limiting the size of future battleships to treaty specifications of tons unless it Is determined ter mined foreign powers are building in excess of treaty cestr restrictions actions in the latter event the united states will be authorized to construct super of tons armed with deadly 18 inch guns tax system study asked THE HE national association of man contending the present federal state and local tax structure is a tremendous burden on the national economy asked congress to inaugurate a study aimed at its simplification much can be done to simplify and ordinate coordinate co our system of taxation said a statement by the associations board of diric directors tors it was transmitted to congress by C R hook association president I 1 U S a debtor nation I 1 IT T IS popularly believed and frequently asserted in political quarters or by those engaged primarily in foreign trade that the united states is on balance a creditor country and that because of this tact fact our tariffs should be reduced in order to make it possible for foreigners to pay their current bills to us the facts as currently available from department of commerce studies tell a different story and show that tor for several years when all the current items are appropriately considered and analyzed the united states has been in it a debtor rather than in a creditor po it intangible items are excluded our commodity balance of trade in eluding the net silver and gold imports during the past three years has indicated in this brief period of time an aggregate unfavorable o balance of approximately primary results ip R RETURNS from tour four stat sta primaries were hailed by democratic leaders as national party in dor of president Roosevel ts program but republicans rejoiced over an apparent G 0 P plurality in south dakota the florida victory of sen claude pepper new dealer in a three cornered race on top of new deal victories in alabama and indiana drew this statement from democratic national chairman james A farley these primary elections show definitely that in spite of the screaming propaganda by the successors to the liberty league and the spokesmen of the liberty league policies there exists no falling off in president Roosevel ts pr e sti and that the nation approves approve es legislation the president has a abw d bated in alabama the only significant occurrence was defeat of former sen tom heflin tor for the house in his old home district ireland elects dr hyde D DR R DOUGLAS HYDE has been made the first president of ireland the former irish free state he was invited to take the post by the two largest parties and being unopposed w was as declared elected by acclamation and at once inaugurated for a seven year term beginning june 1 though chosen to be head of a predominantly roman catholic state hyde is a protestant he D douglas as H hyde e is seventy ay eight years old and one of the leading champions of the use of gaelic the old irish language he is a retired university professor and has written a number of books the inauguration of the president was marked by the release of six prominent political prisoners the only republicans still held in jau jail senate mileage grab abut ITH a mighty chorus of of ayes at v but no telltale tell tale record vote the united states senate put over a congressional mileage grab by another voice vote the senate refused re used to restrict the payment of the mileage 20 cents a mile to members who actually went to and from their homes between the s sr cial session ending december 21 Q a the regular session beginning january 3 senator borah tried in vain to prevent the grab which he denounced as a disgrace franc Is devalued trounced HE french government an bounced that the franc was devalued and stabilized at francs to the dollar and to the pound officially the act was called de facto stabilization this was believed to mean the franc would be allowed to fluctuate above this level but would be held by the equalization fund from tailing falling below it in conformity with premier edouard Dala diers pledge to the nation aranco franco r restores jesuits e GS generalissimo generalissimo FRANC r spanish rebel cabinet order ordessa a re establishment of the society of jesus in the territory controlled by the insurgents this act set aside a government edict which more than six years ago dissolved the spanish jesuits and confiscated their property estimated at more than 30 |