LUE eagles of NRA by the hundred
thousand are flying all over the
United States: innumerable men and
women, jobless for long, are going
: wee. back to work: short.
er hours and higher
pay are being in
stalled in factories.
shops and offices
American commerce
and industry is fast
being regimented.
President Roosevelt
and his whole ad
ministration are push-
ing forward in the re
covery campaign de
MH. 8 Johnsop terminedly.
Following out the President's pro
gram, Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, national
recovery administrator, has “drafted”
citizens in all the states to lead the
great drive. Nine members were ap
pointed on each of 48 state “recovery
boards,” and seven members were
named for service on 2G district “re
covery boards” for the recently made
codes, The telegraphic notice sent
each of the former by General John
son
“President Roosevelt has
you as one of the nine members of the
state recovery board for the state of
‘ us explained in bulletin No. 3
of July 20. He has requested you to
volunteer your services without com
pensation in this great for na-
tional rehabilitation. As a member of
this board your duties will be to get
every patriotic American citizen, em
ployer, and consumer to co-operate in
this program. Please wire acceptance
immediately and you will receive fur
ther instruétions.”
The advisory board for public
is doing its part in the re-employment
campaign by dealing out further large
sums from the public works fund. Its
head, Secretary of Interior Ickes, an
nounced allotments totaling $118.282,
000 for one state federal proj
ects, Added to already
made, brought the total thus far ear
marked out of lion three
hundred million dollar funtl to $1,038,
166.201.
The state project to be financed by
the government was beneficiary of the
largest allotment, Sixty-three milli
dollars, Secretary Ickes announced,
allotted for construction af the Grand
Coulee dam In the Columbia river
basin.
The state of Washington is to un
dertake the dam project, it is under
stood. Thirty per cent of the $63,000,
000 total cost, or $18,900,000 represents
a direct outright gift by the federal
government. The remainder is to be
lonned to the state, at interest
rates over a long-time period.
The upper Mississippi 9-foot channel
project, already approved by President
Roosevelt, was allotted $11.500.000.
This Is a federal project to be under
taken under the government's rivers
and harbors program.
Another $22700000 of the public
works fund was earmarked for the
Caspar-Alcova reclamation project In
Wyoming, for many years the pet
scheme of Senator John B. Kendrick
of Wyoming.
The federal forest service was allot.
ted $15,282,745; the coast and geodetic
survey $2,600,000, and the geologic sur
vey $£2.500,000.
was:
drafted
drive
te
WOrks
and five
allotments
the three bil
low
EPRESENTATIVES of the oll,
coal, steel and many other indus
tries were busily trying to agree on
their codes in Washington. In each
there were factions with conflicting
ideas, and It was not easy to reconcile
them. This was especially true of the
oll men. Among them were many ad
vocates of federal regulation of pe
troleum prices, but they were told by
Administrator Johnson that he would
not recommend to the President any
price fixing until the effect of produc
tion control has been determined,
Formation of the coal code was com-
plicated by the riotous strike In the
mining zone of southwestern Pennsyl
vania, Thirty thousand miners were
out and Governor Pinchot called out
state troops to control the situatien
after a quarrel with a sheriff, The
National Coal association, controlled
by nonunionized operators, asked Ad
ministrator Johnson to look into the
trouble in the strike region, and he
designated Edward F. McGrady, labor
adviser to N. R. A, to investigate the
situation,
BP BOTH the conl and steel code dis.
cussions there was controversy over
the open shop versus unions. The
steel men took the open shop clause
out of their proposed
code to facilitate set.
tlement but they de.
eclared plainly that
they would stand for
the present systems
of employees’ councils
fn the industry to
carry on collective
bargaining.
Mr, Johnson sald he
would not approve :
any code that does
not provide for ad R. P. Lamont
visory councils. On the old issue of
how collective hargainings should be
carried out, the administrator relter.
ated that N. I. R. A; provides for col-
lective bargaining through employees
chosen by the workers,
tobert P. Lamont, former secretary
of commerce and now president of
the American Iron and Steel Institute,
which represents 08 per cent of the
country’s producers of pig iron and
steel ingots, was the chief spokesman
for the iron and steel ludustry at the
hearings. William Green, president of
the A. F. L., challenged various sec.
tions of the offered code, especially
provisions. Secretary of Labor Perkins,
who had been making a tour of the
Pennsylvania steel mills, wanted the
wage rates altered, especially criti
cizing the 25 and 27 cents minimum
hourly rate set up for the southern
and Birmingham distriets,
Shortly afterwards Mr. Lamont an-
nounced the Industry had agreed to
raise the minimum pay in those two
districts to 30 cents an hour.
Joth Green and Miss Perkins urged
that the 40 hour week would not bring
ahout sufficient re-employment in the
Industry,
Defending
Lamont sald:
“It is estimated that on
of a 60 per cent rate of
and a 40 hour week, substantially all
the proposed code, Mr.
the basis
operations
the 49.738 employees who were not re
ceiving work July 1, 1833. would be
given employment, On less than a 40
hour week industry positively
could not operate the mills and
any demands on them In excess
present production,
“The code
rate of 40 cents an hour for common
labor In the Pittsburgh, Youngstown,
north Ohio, Canton, Massillon, Cleve
land, Detrolt-Toledo, Chicago and Col-
districts. This rate is only 8
than the highest
during the last 11
i
CORBIS were a
"
the
meet
of
establishes a
orado
per cent
rate paid
where living
present level
less hase
YEAR,
5
WIV the
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. contin
ning his vacation at his home in
Hyde Park. N. Y.. called into confer
ence there Assistant of
State Raymond Moley
and with
him a plan to put all
the force of the fed.
eral government |
a campaign to wi
out the two great
evils of kidnaping and
racketeering. Profes
sor Moley was then
relieved temporarily
from his departmental
duties and placed at
the head of a special
survey to determine
where and how the federal power can
best be used as a weapon against the
criminal. He Is well
work, for he 1s an expert eriminologist,
was an adviser to the New York crime
commissioner and is the author of nu-
merous surveys of crime, notably ia
Ohio and Missourl,
As for racketeering, both the Pres
ident and Moley see in the new re
covery act the authority, which the
federal government has heretofore
lacked, to intervene In criminal cases
Involving business conduct. Until now,
unless a eriminal act infringed upon
some specific federal statute, such as
one of the postal laws or the internal
revenue act or a law based on inter
state commerce, the federal govern
ment had no means of jurisdiction.
In the past the anti-trust laws have
prevented the smaller industries and
business units from banding together,
Such a condition provided a fertile
field for the racketeers, for (llegal
combinations, and for violence.
The national recovery act, however,
provides directly for the abrogation of
the anti-trust laws in cases where they
Interfere with the working of the re
covery program. Industry and busi
ness are forced into trade agreements.
The federal government sanctions and
imposes those agreements and any act
in violation of such agreements or
tending to destroy the effect of the
recovery act Is made a crime.
Against kidnaping, the President is
counting on a super police force mod
eled In a general way on England's
Scotland Yard, the postal regulations,
the income tax law, and the recently
enacted kidnaping statute,
Recent instances of kidnaping are
familiar to all newspaper readers.
The “snatchers” have received large
sums for the release of their victims
in several cases. The relatives of
John J. O'Connell, Jr, of Albany, N.
Y.. paid $40,000 for his freedom, and
the ransom of Charles F. Urschel, mil
lionaire oll operator of Oklahoma City,
is said to have been $200,000.
HESTER 8 LORD, who as man-
aging editor of the New York Sun
for nearly a quarter of a century was
admired and loved by two generations
of newspaper men, died at the age of
eighty-three years, in his home In
Garden City, N. Y. The “Boss.” as
one of his reporters once wrote, “was
never known in all the years of his
managing editorship to utter an un
kind word to any man on the paper,
no matter how humble his station”
Secretary
discussed
nto
Raymond
Moley
RESULTS shown by the civilian
conservation corps are deemed
go satisfactory by the administration
that plans are belng made to continue
the experiment for another six months,
Orders are to be sent out for the re.
enlistment of all those who desire to
go on with the work,
Enlistment is on a six months basis,
The first “hitch” expires in Novem
ber. There are at present 310.575 men
In the corps, including 25.000 former
service men. The forestry army Is
located In 1,438 camps In all parts of
the country. The cost to the govern-
ment Is approximately $20,000,000 a
month,
HUEY P.
rule in Louisiana
LONG'S arhl-
was seri
ENATOR
J trary
A. C. O'Donnell began an open court
fall in which Long's gang
to have resorted to fraud
win, The judge ordered fifteen
tion commissioners, arrested on charges
of certifying to false returns, brought
granted
Attorney Stanley
in
Allen, a Long hench
the investiga.
in order to
elec
before him: and he
sion to District
examine ballot
Governor OO, K
man, In trying to halt
boxes open
martial law, but revoked the
to guard the grand jury. The Ia
Long crowd.
planned to resume
of louisiana elections
The Times Plea-
Roosevelt
announced It
investigation
within two months,
yune called upon President
to take note of "political racketeering”
in Louisiana and not to overlook it in
his “war on gangsters”
and sugar are making the
very difficult for
in Washingtor
Ambassador Sumner Welles
Though it was an
that
ical situation on the
was
up, and though Presi
dent
an amnesty proclama.
tion, the troubles there
are The
Cuban people are In
distress, the school
teachers In Havana
have been demonstrat.
poLITicS
Cuban situation
the administration
and for
nounced the po-
iit
island
clearing
Machado Issued
continuing.
Sumner Welles |
ing because they
the veterans o
not
war { independence
attention to their
thelr pensions. The
icked by 0
3 right under the
eyes of Mr ‘elles, and It was report.
ed the ambassador would demand that
Machado revamp his cabinet and dis
Herrera, the cause
the recent disturban
The C ambassador In Washi:
ton Is persistently demandin reer
import qu Cuban r. This
and this would make the island
falrly prosperous and lead to
the subsidence of the political disor.
ders,
At present the sugar conference has
tentatively set Coba's sugar exports to
the United States at 1.700.000 short
tons of raw and only 110.000 tons of
refined. Ordinarily United States im.
portation of Cuban refined sugar Is
about half a million tons,
undertook to
id a
lee
miss Gen, Al
ich of
shan
ta or
alone
would
HE apprehension of war between
the United States and Japan. en-
tertnined by not a few Americans, is
apparently felt In Japan also, despite
official denials. The army and navy
heads of the island empire have just
submitted to the finance ministry es-
timates for the 1804.35 defense ex
penditures larger than any in previ
ous history and 45 per cent greater
than the appropriation for the current
year, These estimates Included 180,
000,000 yen ($50.400000 at current ex.
change rates) for new naval construc
tion and 75.000000 yen (221,000,000)
for modernization of capital ships
The navy ministry asked
sum of 680,000000 ven (£100.400.000),
which is 30 per cent more than the es
timates of 021-22, the largest previ
ous estimates for the sea forces
The combined Japanese fleet began
preparations for maneuvers several
hundred miles southeast of Tokio, In
which the major problem will be a
battle with a hypothetical enemy. This
will be preceded by a four-day defense
of the Tokio district against a sham
aerial attack from the sea.
NDORRA, the little old republic In
the Pyrenees, underwent a blood.
less revolution and the young people
won the right of franchise, hitherto
confined to the heads of families, The
revolters were supported by the state
council, and the authority of Andorra's
two co-princes was defled. These co
princes are the bishop of Urgel in
Spain and the head of the French
of Perpignan.
the Andorrans insisted on being a free
people and that their jobs henceforth
‘would be merely decorative,
President Lebrun of France evident.
ly did not relish this flouting of his
authority. The French customs au.
thorities imposed an embargo on all
Andorran exports to France, thus ruin.
ing at one fell swoop the little na.
tion's most thriving industry, which
is smuggling,
OR the first time since 1012 Eng
land's tennis team has possession
of the historic Davig enp. The island
ers won the trophy by defeating the
French players at Auteuil in the chat
for six years.
© 1913, Westerns Newspaper Union.
Washington. —Things have happened
here In Washington at such a rate re.
cently that most
Treat Separately of us have been
With Nations wholly oblivious
to the existence
and the subsequent death of the world.
wide economic conference in London,
and the aftermath of those
True, there never could have been any-
{ thing come of the conference for the
simple selfishness ruled that
meeting as it rules every other meet.
ing of representatives of different peo-
ples. But it appears from this vantage
point that our government Is now
ready to embark on a new course, one
which It could hardly have tackled
had the London conference never been
held. So at the London confer.
ence resulted In clarifying the general
situation from our own standpoint.
You have the signs of moves
by our government in the last month
in guarded announcements to the ef.
fect that Department of State's experts
were surveying the possibilities of
trade treaties with many nations
They are called bl-lateral treaties and
affect, of course, only the two nations
entering into the compact. While the
London was going on, it
would not have been a gesture of hope
for success In that gathering had the
United States at the same time moved
openly to arrange treaties
with nations partic ting In those dis
That
neverthe
sessions,
reason
least
seen
conference
individual
cussions,
done,
fort is no
(dd States is seeking to do in
with
He has had a night of confidential con
versation with President Roosevelt, He
is ready to go al
charged the President
with new plan
quently, in the next few months we are
ead, indeed,
by
to pro
the of action, Cons
likely to hear much about agreements
between the United States and various
other nations bs
1
will be removed
betler und
Borat
ot ned 3
There
free flow ¢
from the
ny barriers to
i!
hese days, aside
low level of purchasing power
resulting from the depression, that one
pee possibilities of results
the situ
can
Yet
ation Secreta
great
fx observers here
View
Hull has a har
fish, or thelr people
t
to
Nations are se
They
are
nrotect thelr
obviously are
uniess they
u nn
up anything
gain something else Ro there is to be
trading ; there will have to be trading
and the United States will have to
give In somewhere with every na-
tion In the treaty negotiations,
For Instance, If a new trade treaty
were to negotiated with France
it appears that France certainly would
have to agree to remove limitations on
certain kinds of imports from the
States, They are called
quotas They prescribe that onl
many thousand pounds say, of Am
fean wheat can be imported
France, In turn, no doubt. France
will demand that the United States es
tablish a lower tariff duty on some
rommodities which that nation hereto
fore has shipped here In large quant.
tes,
be
into
. - .
ut to get back to the London con
ference: 1 reeall having written in
these columns nt
Plans Another the outset of those
sessions that Pres.
Road :
ident lonsevelt
was In a highly advantageons position
when he promoted the meeting of some
64 nations. Whether he expected the
widely advertised conference was go
ing to fall, as a great many persons
believed, by entering whole-heartedly
into It, sending a large American dele
gation to participate and doing the
other things that gave the appearance
of sincerity, he maneuvered at the
very same time to build another road
which this country can follow. When
the London conferenec was called, the
powers on an International basis or
whether we were to become an In.
tensely nationalistic country, There.
fore, while Mr. Roosevelt on the one
proposals Into the conference for an
international understanding, he was
on the other hand driving legislation
like the farm adjustment act. highly
nationalistic In character, through
CONEross,
While every ounce of energy is be
ing used fo stabilize American erop
production within the limits of our
own needs and while every effort is
being utilized to create a manufactur.
Ing structure self-sustaining within
our own Hmits, the President now ls
seeking to fortify those acts and
strengthen our position by treaties
with individual nations on trade rela.
tions. In other words, he is complet.
Ing the picture of nationalism,
Whether his program is to develop
successfully is quite another tter
He has rejoined what | belleve is the
majority of the American publig In the
view that the United States cannot
ever act Jointly with most of the world
powers. Conditions and traditions
Lheretofare have made It Impossible
be illustrated better than the position
which the senate took with respect to
the Versailles treaty after the World
war, The same thought seems still
to be dominant, for the proposal that
court has been pending In the senste
so long that it is approaching de
terioration, The Roosevelt theory, as
thus far unfolded, fails to give the Im-
pression of for the United
States such as always was favored by
former Senator James A. Reed of Mis.
sourl, and the late Henry
Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, accord-
ing to the views I hear In Washington
discussions, but it is not far from that
position,
isolation
Senator
* . .
The administration is going ahead
to bring about reduction of the wheat
whether we call
Cutting
Wheat Acreage
lation or not, and
it is going to see that only so much is
produced as will be neded for use in
this country. It may seem that the
wheat reduction program is rather far
afield from the London conference, bu
let that Wal-
the
on the
conference ad.
Deg
us remember Sacretary
ade the announcement that
bee
ndon
of the
wonld employed
artment of
¥ get In mo.
¢
f
Linent p
& on the sec.
just poss
ich had been
in
ob-
ble,
ions
the
his nor-
xt year
of cold
cents a
ri
um which the gov
tux.
Wallace
i much
AcCresce } § to reduced
in the 2.2303 nties in 42 states where
wheat is n » than a crop such
as on that “strip diteh™
The maximum that is 20
per cent of a farmer's average acreage
over the past five years, but my infor.
mation indicates the reduction will be
considerably t im.
a processing
Secretary
i= about ready to announce how
the ave be
side
acrogs the
will be out
less than the maxim
* *
of
If all
duce their
the farn
acreage,
Ors agree to re
the cash paid out
this fall and next
Farmers to Get spring will total
$136,000.000, an
$136,000,000 addition to the
purchasing power of the wheat conn.
ties that cannot be ignored Under
the contract which the farmers will be
asked te sign, they will receive an
initial payment on their allotment of
20 cents a bushel as early this fall as
county wheat production control asso-
ciations can be organized and the In
dividual allotmenis completed
second payment, constituting the re
mainder of the sum due, will he paid
the farmers next spring when they
will be asked to submit proof that they
have reduced the acreage as agreed In
their contract,
The secretary's allotment
was broken down into allotments for
County control associations will
supplied with the total estimated to be
produced in their respective counties,
and the Department of Agriculture ex.
pressed the hope that farmers would
not grow impatient if they were un-
areas immodiately,
done as fast as It is humanly possible
to do it,
next year, the government calculators
factor. But they had to make a guess
on one thing, the weather,
sumed that the weather was going to
be “normal”
would be a normal crop.
they figured the weather conditions
would be such as to produce a crop
equivalent to the average of the last
five years. | have been unable to
learn what the allotment plan contem-
plates in event there should be a wide.
spread drought or how the acreage
would be treated if there happened to
be a bumper crop.
. 5»
The government divided up the 458.
000,000 bushels which it figured should
be grown next year on the basis of
the percentage each of ‘the 42 states
had grown of the total erop In the
Inst five years. The total of bushels
to be produced next year appears to
be about 65 per cent of the average
amount of the crop in the Inst five
years,
© 1938. Western Newspiper Union,
‘How IBrokelnto
The Movies
Copyright by Hal C. Herman
By MARION DAVIES
6s BREAKING into the movies” is 8
magic phrase that implies some
thing akin to pugilism,
diately associate those words
pushing one's way through guarded
doors, jumping over studio fences or
resorting to all manner of tricks to
gain the inner sanctum sanctorum of
the film Industry.
People lmme
with
I imag
Is hidden or forgotten behin
den emergence of
into picture prominence thro oh
ticularly
picture,
All
erashing”
anyone {if
BOIne one person
8 par-
played part g
well iven
the fencexlimbing,
would be of
the
wasnt present to
gide the in
experience or
keep the person *
gate” Moviedom,
In most at
the stage,
Cases, least, experience
on often many years. has
preceded a person's advent into
screen prominence, Stars don't “break”
into the limelight casually.
It Is a hard, hard road, with a
world of experience that me rely puts
the player at the threshold
there he or she may fall.
Even
My own path to the screen was no
bed but 1 bit
it was worth the try
of roses, feel every of
I made
fifteen
musical i
Joined the Ziegfeld
Wh oe
work
posing
ists o
my stage debut
as a dancer in
comedy
son Fi
Haskell
Pri to
Coflin
fer “mods
| education, espe-
it gives a person
walking
"ollies a8 more
part was offered
other musical comedy.
not difficult for me, but tried
| to ring 1 that place was
in the silent This realization
fired the pictures—more as
an experiment than a pr
pro
me in “Oh, Boy
Dancing
when 1
an-
Was
realized my
me to try
fession,
My first contra i n inde.
| pendent company,
ance being in “Runaway Romany.”
| The Selznick Select company then be-
| gan star me in such features as
“Cecelin of the Pink Roses™ After
two years [ signed with Cosmopolita
Pictures, starring in “When Knight
hood Was In Flower,” “Little Old New
York,” “Janice Meredith” “Yolanda”
and “Lights of Old Broadway.”
i et rye n
initial appear
to
And finally, 1 have decided that light
humorous roles are best suited to me
such as “Tillie the Toller” and “The
Fair Coed,” which I appeared in under
My advice to all who wish to enter
motion pictures—or “break into the
movies” is to come well fortified with
stage experience, if possible. It will
prove very valuable
WNU Service
of Roles on the Stage
Una Merkel, which happens to be
her right name, was born in Coving-
traveled extensively with her parents.
She completed her high school course
in Philadelphia and entered a dramatic
pearance in “Two by Two.” Following
this she played in “The Poor Nut”
“Pigs” "Two Girls Wanted.” and the
lead opposite Lynn Overman In “The
Gossipy Sex.”
It was really Miss Merkel's work in
support of Helen Hayes in “Coquette”
that attracted attention to her. Jo
seph M. Schenck, president of United
Artists, saw her In “Coquette,” later
watched her In “Salt Water” and tele.
phoned Mr. Golden to say that he
would like her for a picture. She
made her cinematic bow in the Ann
Rutledge role In D. W, Griffith's “Abra-
ham Lincoln,” and she has been In
screen work ever since, which adds
up to a little more than three years,
Some of the flims she has appeared
in during that time are “Six Cylinder
Love,” “The Bat Whispers “Daddy
Long legs” “Wicked” “Dont Bet on
Women,” “The Impatient Malden
“Man Wanted,” “Private Lives” “Red
Headed Woman" and “Huddle.”
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