Paet Two News Review < Events tli William Green Says Labor Heavy Goods Indnsti Wage Ii Rv EDWARD NOTI<"F is served on the nation that the 10-hour work week will be forced on industry, by organized labor by the use of widespread strikes, if necessary. This is the dictum of William I Green, president of the American Federation of latbor. and it 1 cai!?p< consternation fl& i iii the adminlstnition j as well as prave A alarm in the country ^fl generally. Green, in his May day address a r instructions on what to do with them. (General Johnson was informed of the situation and sent two of his trusted lieutenants to Flarriman to Investigate and endeavor to pacify the angry merchants. THAT a general wage increase at this time will hinder rather than aid in national economic recovery is the contention of the heavy goods industries. set forth in a report to General Johnson by George H. Houston, chairman of the durable goods industries committee. The report reasserts faith in the company union, approves of emergency price fixing and attacks the Wagner bill as encouraging industrial strife. A platform of "satisfactory employer-employee relationship" is offered, containing these three planks: "A wage scale which compensates the worker fairly and generously within the ability of the employer to pay. The establishment of safe and satisfactory working conations. "Confidence mr ic la affected by factors other than planks one and two? The Cheroke< of Current Le World 0\ er lust Force 30-Hour Week? -ies Against General lcrease. W. PICKARD better houies, better educational facilities and all that goes to make up a healthful and happy community life." Elsewhere the national labor board, unmentioned specifically, was never| liiriw, wptroowl. The ccsslttce added: "It is our firm conviction that all subsequent procedure in connection with the handling of disputes should be kept within the jurisdiction of the NRA. "The entire recovery program contemplates the co-operation of industry under codes with the NRA." O 'TH the United States and Great Britain made reply to Japan's claim to sole authority to maintain peace in eastern Asia, and Foreign Minister Koki Iiirota answered both with the assurance that Japan intended to observe the terms of the ninepower treaty and to maintain the open door in China. The British note was rather mild and Ilirota's reply was held satisfactory by Sir John Simon, secretary for foreign affairs. But Secretary Hull's statement was sharper being in effect that the United States did not propose to consult with Japan before extending assistance. financial or otherwise, to China so long as such assistance was not in violation of existing treaties. It was reported in Tokyo that Hlrota was satisfied with the British attitude but was creatlv oonrerneil nv??r Mr Hull's note, which was a flat rejection of the Japanese claim concerning the maintenance of peace in China. Mr. Hull issued a lengthy exposition of the American government's position in the matter. WITH unexpected celerity the railway executives and rail union chiefs reached an accord In the wage dispute, and the danger of a strike was averted for another year. At the instance of President Roosevelt hut without government Interference they worked out their own settlement after the federal negotiators had failed to get results and Co-ordinator Joseph B. Eastman had withdrawn as mediator. Under the arrangement decided upon the 10 i>er cent wage cut which has prevailed in the railroads during the last two years is to be gradually wiped out in the next twelve months. Two and a half per cent of the existing wage cut is to be restored July 1, another 2'j per cent on January 1. and the remaining 5 per cent on April 1. 103T>. In other words, instead of a 10 per cent cut rail workers will have only a 71* per cent cut prevailing between July 1 and January 1. a 5 per cent cut prevailing between January 1 and April 1, and full pay restoration after April 1. When Informed of the settlement Mr. Roosevelt said: "I am very glad that the railroads and their employees have been able to settle their wage dispute by mutual agreement. The country should be, and will be. grateful to them for this HUniieltlATi rtf U'hat r?? I .??> ***< veloped into a troublesome controversy. 1 congratulate both sides on the wisdom and restraint which they have exhibited. They have set a good example." CxEI>EItAL agents believe they have " uncovered a great ring of crooks for the handling of money derived from kidnapings. bank robberies and swindles. They already have arrested a ^ | number of men and are hurrying to get . others before they ypVJJJ- are put out of the way by members ot Mni t,ie gang, as has been Vs done before. The ring, ^ . it is said, has beer gjk^ * - V, operating in Chicago, ~ ^ New York. St. Louis. Kansas City and otbJohn J. er cjties^ one of the McLaughlin ^rst men jntc custody was John J. Mclaughlin, for ruerly a state legislator and a political boss in Chicago, suspected of being s leader in the disposal of the "hot money." The si?eciftc charge again si him is conspiracy in the kidnaping ol Edward Bremer. St. Panl hanker, foi whose release a ransom of $200.00( was paid. The federal agents wen diligently searching for William Eimei Mead, a notorious crook, who h thought to have directed the kidnap ers. McLaughlin confessed that he hat handled some of the Bremer ranson money, and his son was arrested wit! nsrt of It In bis pocket The Bremer investigation revealed that, a abort time before the kidnap - 2 Scout, MumFv, N. C., Fi ing, Martin Wnnderlich. a St- Paul and Jefferson City (Mo.) contractor, was swindled out of at least $50,000. according to the operatives, by Mead and his gang, by the old-fashioned horse racing act. It was said Wonderlich obtained the money from Rremer. and this convinced the gang that Breiner won hi be a promising ki ln;:p victim. T* tHILE the pursuit >: John l> nVV ger and his felloe outlaws - as being carried on?\vi::.> cess at this writing?three felons made a sensational escape from the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus. Armed with a smuggled automatic pis>l. they terrorized IS officials and guards, collected a shotgun, a gas g-t?. and a ritle. climbed over the wa n.1 tied in an automobile that was- side. Itandall Norvelr. a err: k. . er, and another Convict, gotouiyyoi HI the Southern Illinois peniter riary a: Chester by crawling i:.r ,*li a sew.-r. crossed the Mississippi : a r v: stole a motogfeea? <' re> 1 Illinois, where for the y disappeared. PRESIDENT ItOc>Si:Vi:i T > r* to the attacks on IPxt' rd C,\:y T .. well, which wore renewed by -pp nents of the admitiistnrh-n atter the ____ 3 s.-r- .> !-- ' W v secretiiry . f acrfculD -r R. G. Tfflwell ing noreased from $7,500 to $10,000 a year. A new assistant secretary can i w be appointed who will relieve Mr. W i . e and Mr. Tugwell of some ron aer. from assistant secretary to i:r lersecretary of the treasury, which portion had been vacant since Ravi; Moley stepped out. The higher personnel of that department is now being placed on a permanent basis for the first time since Henry M-rgenthau, Jr.. became its head. VICTORY in the conference was won by the senate high tax bh c. for the house conferees accepted virtual ly all the senate increases in estate and gift taxes, the capital sb k and excess profits taxes and liberal com promises over Income-tax publicity and consolidated returns. The conference agreement was complete except for the Couxens amend ment. adding 10 per cent to all individ ual income-tax returns next year. The house was to take a separate vote on this, and it was believed the senate would not insist on it if it were rejected by the house. With the revenue bill thus disposed of, the senate finance committee began public hearings on the administration's reciprocal tariff bill, which the house has passed. << n EAD" for more than a year, the ? ** Austrian parliament came to life long enough to approve, by a vote 1 of 74 to 2. the new Constitution and a mass of laws decreed by Chancellor Dollfuss since March S. 1933. The new J Constitution abolishes parliaments and also does away with trial by jury. ITALY'S legislature doesn't amount to much any more, but King Victor Emmanuel opened its session with a noteworthy speech praising the work , of the Fascist regime. Especially interesting was his long statement concerning the necessity of increasing , Italy's armed forces to the extent that the country's pocket hook_ would stand. "We sincerely and ardently desire , for Italy and Europe the longest pos, sible period of peace." he declared amid thunderous cheers, "but the i?est guarantee of this peace is the efficiency j of our armed forces. GEN. HUGH L. SCOTT, former chief of the army and one of the , last survivors of the great Indian fight' ers. died at the age of eighty years in Walter Reid hospital, Washington. I Through all his last years. Scott continued vigorously his researches and writings on the Indian sign languages which he had mastered during his ; years on the plains. In 1930 he was commissioned by the library of con. gress to compile a record for all time of this curious mode of expression. ' DASSAGE through the Panama canal * of the American fleet of 111 vessels, on the way from the Pacific to the At. lantlc, was carried out successfully, but not In the hoped-for 24 hours. The time consumed was almost double that, wblcb led the Tokyo press to declare the movement was a Tallure." The delay was caused by a heavy rain. a* Nmptpcr Union. riday, May 11. 1934 Howe About: Silerius' Third Wife Minding Your Business American Waste v Be.. Syndicate ?WX1T Service. | By ED HOWE SO FAR is my reading goes no one ; ever more candidly, intelligently . r fairly discussed the relations of j married couples than Silerius, who !i i near the time of the most famous J < a:rage on women recorded in history: i it > uflfered hy S.ibine women who I wore carried off hy invading soldiers. [ S authorities claim Silerius him- ! sod was a general ;ti the conquering ar: y concerned, and * at a screaming j s ie woman ?:i? al Uls . lent as his part of ti e loot. \s near as can he ncd from the v:.jue history ..f that Time this woman. so violently crtnrt(>'l became the , th'.rd wife of Sh-rns; and although j carried fr-cn her own o. :ntry to a : strange one by a conqueror, with no 1 other prelim in "try * n being suddenly seized by rough invaders, she was so i capable in 1 king after her own in- ; terests that her abduct. later married ; her: indeed, she became prominent | and respected in tie :r.1 citable city 1 in which her husband lived. Id his memoirs Silerius gives the im- j pre*>: n that his third wife pleased 1 him more than any of the others, to \ two of whom he was married with ' elaborate ceremonies, and after very ' sentimental courtship. In writing of his experience;; with women, Silerius I tells in a rather amusing way of the i gentle and cunning arts his third wife exercised in bending him to her will. I and I get the impression that she loved him more sincerely than any of the wives he acquired in a more conventional way. I What part of your attention do you give to your own business? Say you ic. farmer. What per cent of your enthusiasm goes to your business, and what per cent to politics, vacations, clubs, automobiling. radio, moving pictures. welfare work, social affairs? Many a good business has been wrecked by its head man neglecting it for other things. It Is charged that one of the most notable of American commercial enterprises Is on the rocks because its head. In receipt of an enormous salary, neglected it for outside activities. The same principle applies to those occupying fifteen, twenty or forty-dol!ar-a-week Jobs. Very few Americans mind their own business. A doctor connected with the government says that 71 per cent of the hospital cases now being cared for by the government were not cases that in any way could be traced to the great war; that the Veterans' Disability act was the greatest steal ever put over on the American people. Here is another startling illustration of the waste and dishonesty in American public affairs; in this case, in relieving twenty-nine men honestly entitled to relief, the politicians, rolieved seventy-one not entitled to it. The figures hold in everything else in American public affairs. 1 have no doubt that for every twenty-nine dollars the government necessarily spends | In Its operation seventy-one dollars are wantonly and villainously wasted. The only way for the government to i properly balance the budget is to cut t off 71 per cent of taxes already levied, ! and wasted. Instead of adding new J burdens. I do not know just when, but some of these days I intend to confess 1 am as tired of my writing as others are. and no lomror hnin ? _a__ ?. " iv me coat tans of the drunken world In attempts to better it. And in my final notice I think 1 shall pay the people who have dismissed me a good many compliments. Millions of them are admirable. My final message to them will be: "Keep the few good things you have accomplished. and try to accomplish a few more. All the comforts and pleasures we have came as a result of men succeeding in doing a little better." When 1 know what women expect of men. I am willing to grant it. Just how much attention from men do women decide Is proper? I have heen in doubt at times. . . . There is In my town a woman who Is very strict: she promptly resents The slightest familiarity from men. and frequently talks indignantly of their boldness. One day 1 learned, from the private talk of the women, that a friend of mine had squeezed her hand, and that she was very mad about it. Later. \ when I was in her company, the name . of the bold wretch came up. and 1 felt that she would vigorously denounce . him. She didn t know 1 had heard of the affront offered her. but I was cerj tain she would express a very unfavorable opinion, knowing she was very strict. . - And this was what she said: "He Is ths most entertaining man I ever met in my Ufe." CONFESSES HAVIN6 I KIDNAPING RANSOM I Chicago&n Is Trapped iD B the Bremer Case. R Chicago.?With tlie confession ot I John J. (Boss) McLaughlin that he 9 had handled $r?3.000 of the -S-00,000 9 ransom paid for the release of Kdward E c;. Bremer, St. Paul banker, who was E kidnaped last January, federal author- E ities in Chicago moved for the speedy jfl removal of McLaughlin anil three other ifi pljatora - l'auL I The federal grand Jury in St. Paul H was asked to return indictments eharg. P ing the four with participating in the S| kidnaping of Bremer. jji In the meanwhile federal rentz were searching for two men who are I supposed to have participated in the actual kidnaping of Brei er. Then men are Arthur (Doc) Barker and Al\ in Kaipis, ex-convicis from VKiahoma and members of John Dillinger's band of outlaws, who have been sought as the kidnapers for several months. The federal warrants in which McLaughlin and the three other men in custody are charged with conspiracy to obtain money in the Bremer kidnaping also name a John Doe and Richard Roe. who are believed to be Barker and 32 Karpis. | The announcement that McLaughlin, ex-legislator and former Democratic politician of considerable influence. 7 had confessed to handling part of the % ransom money was made by Melvin | Purvis, chief of the Department of Justice agents in the Chicago area. At the same time Mr. Purvis revealed that Philip Delaney, thirty-four years old. said to have been until recently a bar- 5 tender in a loop hotel, was arrested 1 with McLaughlin. , The other two men held by the government are William Vidler and Mc! Laughlin's son, John McLaughlin. Jr. When Vidler was arrested, S2.G00 of the marked ransom money was found I in his possession. Young McLaughlin 1 hnrl Anl.. ecr. *1 i "? <.? i"?r rnusvui money in a safe deposit bos. according to McI Laughlin'8 attorney. Federal agents said that they did not believe McLaughlin or any of the ! three other men participated in the i actual kidnaping of Bremer. Dr. W. H. Welch, Famous Pathologist, Is Dead Baltimore, Md.?Dr. William H. Welch, the eighty-four y?':ir"M path* ologist, died at the Johns Hopkins : hospital. As first professor of pathology in [ the John Hopkins Medical school. Doc| tor Welch brought to the United States I from the laboratories of Koch and j Pasteur the new science of bacteriol1 ogy. He discovered. Isolated, and lent I his name to the bacillus that generates ! hydrogen gas in wounds, usually producing death. He also made many discoveries hearing on malaria, dysentery, rickets, diabetes, diphtheria, intestinal poisons, influenza, fungus poisoning and chloroform poisoning. Roosevelt Reviews U. S. Fleets on May 31 New York. ? President Roosevelt will review the combined Atlantic and Pacific fleets of the United States navy from the deck of the light cruiser Indianapolis at noon May 31, the Third naval district announces. With the President aboard the Indianapolis will be Claude A. Swanson. secretary of the navy, and a small party of guests. The fleets will remain in New York until June 17. | Iowa Chick Dealer Told to Raise Prices Cedar Rapids. Iowa.?In a letter ! from George R. Smith, investigator tor i the nntionnl nnmmoi-