Show news iveas T deview aarah 0 of current events blacklisted BY LEWIS more than forty democratic congressmen marked ae e for opposition by his political agency 4 Q sa k 4 Y 1 I 1 alfa W ak k V 4 A fe IN p X li P A vincent meyer farmer of johnson county kansas received the first crop insurance policy issued by the federal crop insurance corporation left to right in the picture above are donald meyer mrs meyer rita james joseph and vincent meyer roy al green of the washington bureau of the corporation and roy turner johnson county bureau superintendent in A 0 P n F F W V NA TUP summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union CIO proposes a purge M ORE than 40 members of congress are marked for C 1 I 0 opposition in the fall elections by a blacklist formulated by john L lewis and given out by E L oliver executive vice president of labors nonpartisan league the 0 political agency of the committee for j industrial as tion oliver said the opposition to those named was based j chiefly on their stand on the wage john L lewis hour bill he indicated it merely was a coincidence that almost without exception those marked for defeat also fought mr Roosevel ts government reorganization and supreme court packing bills ten of the fourteen members of the house rules committee which blocked consideration of the wage hour measure for many months were named on the blacklist chairman john J oconnor was not included but oliver said he was not in favor with the league among the democratic rules committee members marked for opposition were rep E E cox of georgia opponent of administration policies in the house rep howard W smith of virginia against whom james roosevelt and thomas G tommy the cork corcoran have put up a young radical william E dodd jr and rep lawrence lewis of colorado chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee the other democratic members marked for the purge were representatives senta tives william J driver ot of arkansas J bayard dark clark of north carolina and martin dies ot of texas ou all tour four republican committee 1 l members were on the blacklist blackly is t they are joseph W martin ot of massachusetts carl E mapes ot of michigan J will taylor ot of tennessee and donald H mclean ot of new jersey included in the lewis blacklist are senators tydings of maryland adams ot of colorado and lonergan ot of connecticut among the democratic representatives senta tives marked for opposition are hatton W ot of texas A P lamneck ot of ohio leo ot of illinois R L doughton ot of north carolina H B ot of alabama C F lea of california fred cummings of colorado C I 1 white of idaho R L de rouen of louisiana john rankin and will whittington of mississippi H B coffee of nebraska sam of tennessee J 1 I mansfield fritz lanahan and al H west of texas S 0 bland of virginia and joe smith of west virginia sneak flight over ocean P CORRIGAN a ayoung young airplane motor expert from california get permission from the air commerce bureau to fly across the atlantic so he started off secretly from floyd bennett field new york and landed at baldonnel Bal donnel ireland 28 hours and 13 minutes later the remarkable feature of the flight was that it was made in a rickety old single motored curtiss robin plane that was not equipped with navigation instruments radio or the ordinary safety devices corrigan did not even carry a parachute having neither flight permit landing papers nor passport corrigan laughingly declared in dublin that he had intended to fly back to california but set his magnetic compass wrong and flew in the opposite direction his was the sixth west east solo flight across the atlantic in the opposite direction only mollison and beryl markham have been successful cess ful veteran flyers said cornigans Cor rigans feat was accomplished against odds of to 1 he himself told the people in dublin it was just dumb luck that I 1 got here american minister john cudahy took care of the aviator at the lega tion it was decided that the adventurer should return to this side by boat IF british monarchs in paris K ING GEORGE VI and queen lv elizabeth of england went to paris for a state visit ot of four days and this was regarded as a vitally important event politically apparently it was undertaken to let the dictator countries know that great britain and france would continue to stand firmly as allies britaina Brit ains foreign secretary viscount halifax the french premier edouard deladier Da ladier and foreign minister georges bonnet held political talks to discuss the world situation during the visit every precaution to insure the safety of the visiting monarchs was taken by the french fully police reserve officers and soldiers being mobilized to look after them queen marie dies QUEEN MARIE of DRu rumania manla who had been ill tor for a year died at her summer residence at bucharest mourned by the entire nation king carol her son was at her bedside as she passed away marie was an english princess granddaughter of victoria when she married ferdinand who ascended the rumanian throne in 1914 she attained international prominence by her activities and led rumania to enter the world war on the side of the allies in 1926 queen marie made a spectacular five weeks tour of the united states japan cancels olympics JAPAN APAN evidently thinks the war in china is not near its end the tokyo government has cancelled the olympic games of 1940 dropping all plans to be the host of the worlds athletes in tokyo it was said the governments action was due to the cost of financing the games and to military leaders opposition to a growth of nationalism among the japanese people it was expected the international committee would meet soon to determine the next move london and Helsing tors fors finland were mentioned as possible sites for the I 1 1940 games wheat allotment H HR R TOLLEY AAA s tor announced a national wheat allotment for tall fail and spring planting of not more than acres the mini T mum allowable un 1 der the act 1 j the action which 1 came as the result J of the VF bushel yield forecast forecast for this year on a J seeded acreage of came in the form of an order signed by M L wilson acting H R tolley secretary of agriculture details to cover the state allotments on this 30 per cent reduction basis are expected to result in protests in winter wheat areas where the seeding will get under way this fall despite the minimum loan of 59 to 60 cents a bushel announced by the AAA in hope that a sizable part of the 1938 crop will be kept on the farms the acreage allotment provided for in the agricultural adjustment act of 1938 puts into effect one more I 1 phase of the general AAA wheat program tolley said both this acreage allotment and the wheat loan are a part of the ever normal granary program loans in years of surplus help farmers hold over their surplus tor for years of shortage acreage allotments keep the surplus within bounds and help maintain prices and income of farmers this acreage allotment contemplates maintaining adequate supplies in this country for domestic consumption for our usual share of the world export trade and for adequate reserves equal to 30 per cent of a normal years domestic consumption and exports the order placed the total available supply tor for the current marketing year at bushels and the normal supply level as provided for in the farm act at insull dies in paris AMUEL INSULL onetime one time chief S SAMUEL of an american public utilities empire valued at many millions ol of dollars fell dead in the subway in paris france mrs insull instill the lormer former gladys wallis of the stage was there with him and she took the body to london tor for burial insult insull came to the united states from england when twenty years ol of age after working for a time with thomas A edison he went to chi cago and began building up his great financial structure in 1932 his personal fortune was estimated at and he owned or controlled various big electric and gas companies then the depression came and insull engaged in a struggle with eastern capitalists who sought possession of his properties the great crash ensued in wh which I 1 ch the insults and thousands of others lost enormous sums insull fled to europe and was indic indicted tedon on mail fraud charges he was arrested at istanbul turkey and brought back for trial but was acquitted despite his financial mistakes and misfortunes insull was admittedly one of the ablest organizers of public utilities the world has known much of the financing of the corporations in his control was accomplished through holding companies and investors tor for many years profited handsomely by hi his s success he was a patron of the arts and deeply interested in agriculture wage hour chief HILE in california president roosevelt announced the appointment of elmer F andrews industrial du commissioner of new cork york 11 state to be administrator of the new wage hour law this selection was a disappointment to the southerners who had hoped a resident of their region 4 would be named andrews who is forty eight years old lives in flush ing with his wife EF Andrews and three ag children graduated from rensselaer polytechnic institute in 1915 as a civil engineer he built railroads in cuba and factories in new york worked for compensation rating groups planned civic improvements tor for the queensborough Queens borough chamber of commerce and piloted army planes during the world war As indest industrial rial commissioner he was largely responsible for new yorks little wagner act the state minimum wage law for women extension of unemployment insurance and work mens compensation he opposed wage differentials in the federal wage bill although this feature was enacted into law primaries to bo be probed S SENATOR SHEPPARDS senate campaign committee voted unanimously to investigate charges of misuse of federal and state funds in the democratic primaries in kentucky and pennsylvania the committee also disclosed that it has been conducting an inquiry into similar charges in tennessee the social security board also has ordered an investigation in kentucky into charges by senator barkley that state social security agents are playing politics with pension checks van nuys nominated of sen frederick 0 OPPONENTS van nuys of indiana accepted defeat with wry faces they had intended that he should be purged tor for his fights against new deal measures but realized his threatened independent candidacy would split the party in the state wide open and also would injure the presidential aspirations of paul V mcnutt so governor townsend invited the senator to present hi his s name to the state convention and other candidates withdrew van nuys was then perfunctorily without anyone saying a good tiling thing about him new A air ir board meets M AT EMBERS of the new civil aero authority got together in washington and prepared to take up their work edward J noble presided as chairman other members are harllee branch second assistant postmaster general vice chairman G grant mason pan american airways official robert hinckley d director ir ec to r for tar far western states and oswald ryan of anderson ind general counsel tor for the federal power commis commission sion clinton M hester assistant treasury general counsel has been assigned the independent administrative position he is responsible to the president the board Is cespon sible sib e to congress deficit to be 4 billions I 1 TN N REVISED budget estimates tor for 1 the current fiscal year given out in washington the president forecast a net federal deficit of an increase of over last years deficit and more than he had estimated in january for the 12 months ending next june 30 the deficit which will increase the gross public debt by will be financed the president indicated by a reduction of in the working balance of the treas general fund by the use of in special issues of government obligations and by in new federal f financing inanc the gross deficit was estimated at in which is included for debt retirement the business slump which grew sharper after roosevelt submitted his budget estimates to congress last january was blamed by him for the inaccuracies of his forecasts I 1 IF canton bombed again bechina of canton great south china port was resumed by the japanese airmen and in three successive days hundreds of civilians were killed by the warplanes war planes uncounted numbers were driven to abandon their homes in one of the boldest moves in the war powerful chinese guerilla contingents landed secretly on namoa island off they claimed to have recaptured a considerable sid erable part of the island which had been taken by the japanese hughes great flight H U OWARD HUGHES and his crew of tour four completed their remarkable flight around the world when they landed at floyd bennett airport new york 3 days 19 hours and 17 minutes after starting from that place they had covered miles and made six stops tor for refueling at P paris a r I 1 s moscow amsk sk fairbanks jair banks and minneapolis they cut more howard howar than an three days oft off hughes the e record made by wiley post in 1933 but hughes said after landing that he still considered posts solo flight was the most remarkable job of flying ever done on the hop across the atlantic the time made by lindbergh was near ly ay with hughes wealthy sportsman and aviator who financed and organized the flight were harry connor and thomas thurlow navigators richard stoddart radio operator and ed lund flight engineer hughes himself was at the controls all the time but said the robot pilot did all the flying except the takeoffs and landings much credit also was given the automatic navigator loaned by the army air corps britain buys planes I 1 IR KINGSLEY WOOD british S SIR minister for air ordered 1000 spitfire fighting planes from viscount nuffield cuffield Nu ffield leading automobile manufacturer who is building a mass production aircraft plant at birmingham the curtiss wright and wright aeronautical corporations announced in new york the british air ministry had purchased wright cyclone engines to be installed in reconnaissance planes one of the largest orders ever placed with an american aircraft concern |