, BESPITE the fact that President Roosevelt phoned personally to a number eof senators of both parties seeking to persuade them to vote for ratification of the St Lawrence waterway treaty, the pact was defeated in the sen- ate by a vote of 40 to 42. Thus the affirma- tive vote was far be low the required two- thirds of those voting. Party lines were dis. regarded. Twenty-two Democrats voted against ratification, along with 20 Repub- licans. In favor of the pact were 31 Democrats, 14 Republicans and 1 Farmer-Laborite, Mr. Roosevelt, it was sald in Wash- ington, was décidedly vexed by this defeat of a major administration measure, and he began preparations to resubmit the treaty at a future session of congress. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, Democratic whip of the senate and one of the leading op- ponents of the rejected treaty, pre- dicted that Canada would soon offer the United States a substitute treaty, This may be true, but dispatches re- veal that in Montreal, at least, the de- feat of the pact was hailed with joy because business men there think the project too expensive to be unde en at this time. The President's warn- ing that would, on its Initiative, build an all-Canadian water- way seems to be met by this from Montreal. Chicago and the are blamed by Mr, rejection of doubt that their the proposed restrict! of water from Lake i 5 Senator Lewis Canada news Mississipg Roosevelt the treaty, and there is arguments amount, according to Senator Lewis and other Middle West senators, would be wholly inadequate to maintain nav- gation in the Mississippl waterway The Atlantic senators, were almost solidly If the treaty | clauses concerning the sovereignty Lake Michigan and the Ch di- version may I but Senator Lewis sald: “So far as I am concerned ~and I believe 1 speak also for sev. eral others—I shall not be with a mere but mand that internationalization of Michigan and the limits sanitary geaboard agai 8 resubmitted, CAgo be omitted : i is satisfied omission, shall de- Lake the be litation of district diversion shall specifically renounced by Canada.” ENATOR WAGNER of New York, chairman of the national labor board, has put forth a warning that unless “misconstruction” and “evasion” of the collective bargaining provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act are checked “we may expect to witness a vast swelling of Industrial unrest with the coming of spring.” Secretary of Labor Perkins joined with Wagner and other witnesses be fore the board In urging the passage of Wagner's bill which wonld a permanent labor board and outlaw employer influence over the organiza- tion of employees. Representatives of the American Federation of Labor demand that employers be forced to recognize the unions and predict gen. eral strikes especially in the automo. bile Industry unless prompt action is taken fo satisfy the men. Create Y DIRECTION of the President, all alr mail operations by the army air corps were suspended by Mal. Gen. Jenjamin DD. Foulols, chief of the corps, and the draft. ing of a new sched. ule that would insure greater safety for the flyers was begun, When the news reached him of the deaths of the ninth and tenth army mall carriers within three weeks Mr. Roosevelt sent out word: “The continuation of deaths in the army alr corps Gen. B. D, must stop.” He or Foulols dered that the carrying of alr mall cease except “on such routes, under such weather conditions and under such equipment and personnel conditions as will Insure, as far as the utmost care can provide, against constant recur. rence of fatal accidents.” General Foulols, Brig. Gen. Oscar Westover, chief of alr mall operations, and various Post Office department officials bullt a revised “safety” route with the transcontinental line from Néwark to San Francisco as the main line, other routes feeding Into It. The intention was to reduce the number of trips on all schedules and to permis less night flying, Colonel Lindbergh aroused interest by visiting Washington for two days and conferring with Secretary of War Dern. Soon after the secretary named the colonel, Orville Wright and Clar. ence Chamberlain on a committee to investignte the army carrying of the alr mail Lindbergh, however, declined to serve on the committee, repeating in his let. ter to Secretary Dern his severe con domnation of the plan to have the ee oe army carry the alr mall. Mr. Dern urged him to reconsider. Meanwhile, the colonel appeared before the senate post office committee to testify con- cerning permanent alr mall legislation, General Foulois has been working on a plan by which army flyers could Join with commercial pilots in recelv- ing training. The step follows a sug- gestion by Mr. Roosevelt that “because military lessons have been taught us during the last few weeks” army avl- ators should train with those who “later on will fly the mall” in “night flying, blind flying and instrument flying.” WO hundred and thirty-one Demo- cratic members of the house kicked over the traces and, with the ald of 50 Republicans, passed the Patman bill calling for the Immediate pavment of the veterans' bonus with greenbacks. The President has repeatedly ex- pressed his opposition to the measure and Indicated that he would veto it If it got through congress, [ts passage by the senate was unlikely. There were only two reasonable ex planations for the revolt of the Dem- ocrats. One was put In words by Rep- resentative John Y. Brown of Ken tucky, & Democrat, who was in oppo sition. He sald: “You are buying veterans’ votes. You are holding out this piece of bait to get veterans’ votes this summer, There Is not a mar the who ever become house here and vote litical welfare.” The other explan r of the Democt “rubber ition was are resent stan that slenme and away from been put CONgress on an o i dictation and, as one of { them vote as their neces direct IX A new revolt tion policy the addir nore than erans’ benefits and governn ling S00 x (0) the federal outlays year, However, this we for the : house involves approximately veternns as compared with the ture of the veterans the 000,000 called for under amendment adopted by senate, Briefly sum ¥ t ure as sent to conf 1. That all Spanish-Am veternng be , the hous erence provid restored pension rolls on a basis of 70 per cent of what they received prior to the economy bill 2. That all World eonnected disabilities enactment of last session. war veterans with service be re stored to the roils on a full 3. That World ¢ presumptive disabilities be returned to the rolls a 75 per cent basis, In i it eliminates pensions for officers, pensions for the widows of the men lost In alrship disasters, and knocks out the so-called Borah amendment limiting the resto ration of the federal pay cut to per sons receiving less than $6000 a year. war veterans emergency SAMUEL INSULL, deporta- J tion was ordered by the Greek gov. ernment, his ticket and his train selected by the offic , vanished from his residence In A ns between midnight and morning, and for hours the police of the country were fran tically searching for him, Then It was announced that the fugitive had been arrested aboard the Greek freighter Meotis, which had been pursued by a torpedo boat destroyer. [Insull was bound for Kessy, Egypt, near Alex. andria, and presumably was heading for either Persia or Afghanistan, The Athens police learned from the Insull household nothing of the way in which Insull escaped from the city. They thought he was aided by “inter. national erooks™ The Greek government decided that Mra, Insull was an undesirable resi. dent and should be ejected from the country. whose bought ALTER J. CUMMINGS, chair. man of the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust company of Chicago, Is the new treasurer of the Demo cratic party. The place was first of. fered to John 8. Cohen, Atlanta pub. lisher, but he rejected it. Mr. Cum- mings’ first task will be the raising of funds with which to help along the election of Democratic senators and congressmen this fall. Supposedly he will also raise the money for the next Presidential campaign, N JULY 1 the University of 11 nols will have a new president In the person of Arthur Cutts Willard, now dean of the college of engineering in the university. Mr. Willard, who Is fifty-five years old, Is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech. nology and Is Internationally known as an authority on heating and ven. tiation, HE gunbont Fulton, known as the “grief ship” of the American navy, caught fire during a storm off the China const and had to he abandoned, The crew of 187 officers and men was rescued by two British vessels and taken to Hongkong. Only three men were Injured. state Commerce commission Joined In recommending to legislation that will place under “the guiding hand of government control” the transportation agencies that use the highways and waterways of the country, Their report, which was sub- mitted to the President, declares that regulation of motor and water trans. portation Is necessary “if a threaten- ing chaos Is to be transformed into order.” Such regulation, they said, should be concentrated in the Inter- state Commerce commission, i In proposing changes in the inter. state commerce act, the co-ordinator and the commission recommend liber. alization of the long and short haul clause forbidding a rallroad to charge have CONEress except on the com- mission. This clause is held by middle west. ern interests to have damaged substantially by preventing traffic mov. ing by rail to the Pacific const, and its repeal is now being sought, ECRETARY OF COMMERCE RG 7 PER obtained the approval of Pres. ident Roosevelt for a new program for the Awmerlean merchant he will submit to permission from subsidizing marine RTESSR, which con action for alleged eva- federal income tax law ordered by Attorney General Cummings to be brought immediately Andrew Ww. h former RIMINAL slon of the was against S40 re treasury partner of New. y D. Baker; Thomas S. Lamont, son of the noted financier t W. Lamont and a Andrew W, Mellon iand nan « to result, Ca other » of Hn were the department's tax statement he denie ito pav his proper ine taxes and said that In the paid more than of rates, He ¢ ney generals action as “politics of the He “1 feel very strongly that before the of the United charge of this any other proper notice in by law of wn to assess addition. inst twenty E0000 000 | years n this form 38 acterized the attor. crudest sort.” continued : “ attorney general should bring = ngainst me 1, should be given manner provided ernment’s intent! ~tales kind like citizen, the the gov. meet way. ed an opportunity to charges In the customary in all the ad have never known in which such unfair and action has been taken™ Over in London, where Jimmy Walk er is sojourning, the former playboy mayor said he w that the authorities were only doing my vears of experience in the tax laws |] of a single instance arbitrary ninistration of 1&8 not surprised, their an opportunity to vindicate his charae- ter, By order of the President a new in come tax procedure was put in force, designed to break ligent” evasion of taxes. All tax re turns which the government suspects of embodying willful evasion will up so-called “neg § ¢ sults] 1 : suihi AU tion of possible fraud, was almost destroyed by an explosion sulting conflagration, at least 150 persons were killed. NE of Japan's new torpedo boats, the Tomornrn, of 027 tons, was wrecked mysteriously off the Sasebo naval base and It was believed most of her crew of 118 men were lost The vessel was completed only February 20 last and was a new type, carrying the heaviest armament ever given a ship of its size. It was considered a triumph of Japanese naval architec. fure. Several others of the same type are under construction, ARRY PIERPONT, one of John Dillinger’s gang, was convicted at Lima, Ohlo, of the murder of Sheriff Jess Sarber in a jail raid in which Dil linger was set free by his comrades, and was sentenced to death In the electric chair. The commander of the Ohio National Guard took every pre. caution to prevent the rescue of Pler. pont by his resourceful chief, for Dil linger was still at large, presumably in or near Chicago. At Crown Polret, Ind, a special grand jury began Investigating the eagy escape of Dillinger, a special prosecutor having been named to con duet the Inquiry. At present only two men, Deputy Sheriff Ernest Blunk and Turnkey Sam Cahoon, have been ac. cused of aiding Dillinger In his jail break, Y A vote of 15 to 8 a District of Columbia grand jury refused to re turn Indictments in its investigation of an alleged conspiracy to defraud the government on War department contracts, Secretary Dern was highly pleased with what he called a vindi cation of the department, © by Western Newspaper Union. Washington.—As 1 look back on events that transpired when President Roosevelt took office New Deal a year ago, it is “Digging In” striking to note the similarity of action then and In the two weeks subsequent to the opening of his second year In The “New Deal” opened its events that were comparable, In my opinion, with those of the historie week of 18052, And as Deal” was all-embracing as re- the “New struc. ture, Just so were which 1 am reporting linked with the very fundamentals of our In dividual and national exi We became dark days of ROCIO the definitely events now Stenee. accustomed, the World war ing about this army or in” to hold the ground appears to me that the fact with relation to ti Now (ing in process i I = Deal's second t developments there was The : ft "crack was not wages further. down” Johnson his statements as and wo syave Roos 2 I »d righ he 8; was Mr. rds of protest boll of the meeting where wake whether the industries represen conference with General are willing or able to do as clared was necessary, Washington Is convinced Roosevelt meant exactly w when he solemnly declared: “One thing is very certain, back.” every that We are The President was equally un his assertion that the recovery, embodied In move forward, Industry can well take notice of that, If Wash- ington opinion may be taken as a cri. The President holds that the recovery and that without a balance, here can be no permanent good times, So it Is the proposition that Mr. Roose. velt has determined to go on, that a majority of the highest court In the land has found one of his basic ideas, to be In accordance with the Consti- tution, and he bas a congress that 1a thus far under his control for enact. ment of the bulk of his New Deal leg- islation, The effect? As far as I know, there is no person of super-intelligenc® now living, and that would be the only human being capable of foretelling what the results wil be. The changes made under the New Deal are brand new, different than anything econ omists have ever seen, and time alone will reveal which of them holds the things that fit our country’s normal iife. Politically, It is quite apparent what the effect will be. Every mother's son in the Democratic party in congress is going back to his bailiwick to seek re-election under the Roosevelt bane ner, as distinguished from the old Democratic flag. Espousing Roose velt’'s program will be popular in the bulk of the districts, and the Repub lean opposition will just as obviously have to be prediented on Issues built up against what the present adninis tration has done, Is doing or proposes to do, . sn The “big navy” bill is a five-year proposition, It contemplates that the American navy will “Big Navy” be expanded by the construction of suf. Program ficient ships of the various types to place the totals just inside the limitation of the lLgndon and Washington treaties by which tonnage was limited, So, according to naval authorities, our government will 100 new destroyers and submarines aircraft carrier, the airplane's mother ship. We have nearly all of heavier gunboats now that are per mitted under the arms the treaties mentioned, strength respecting destroyers and sub marines Is far below the total that is allowed, Before the it Included duces profiteering on Jobs, to some extent. I have a hunch that the big shipbuilding corporations will find a way to get around part of limitation of senate the bill, that ro construction passed an amendment not be able to gain the profits out of the construction work that 2 otherwise obtain. Succinctly, the pro- vision requires that no contractor can Edin more than 10 per cent profit for his risk and ment of such a rule {8 not as simple It sounds, It “eost-plus” cost-ply investment, but enforce. will be recalled that contracts construe Lind of wai (ind of wag mbher of workers they the the » wher ir 10 per batt would offset S000, Over at Russia war minis other day, on their to stay : border. It national Loviet feline nying BOOMs the new state set up by Japan out of territory taken from China, and the Japanese apparently didn’t want the - . . Now, concerning General Johnson's demands on industry, it certainly can be sald that his theme song, as they say of the movies, burdened with Johnson's Warning was a threat, not succeed without public support” general, Yet, he had previously said the code supervision, that they were the same time, “we can'tsucceed without public support to warn non-compliers that under specific orders from President Roosevelt we are reorganizing to en- force the penal sections of the re covery act,” The administrator went on to that he had been “too gentle” feels, apparently, that he has not eracked down sufficiently hard, Se, he ig going to see that more employ- mont is made by compelling industry to take on more workers, and the whole import of his attitude appears to this observer as being one that will enforce that employment whether the particular industry needs the added workers, or whether it can pay them if it hires them, or whether it will bankrupt the firm If it obeys. From this position, it appears to many with whom I have talked that General Johnson has put Industry right be. tween the devil and the deep blue sea, and there la little choice left. The general obviously was moved to go the distance he did by the definite character of Mr. Roosevelt's assertions which were that “we are not going back,” and the recovery principles are here to stay. All of which Is very strong language. It is different language than the American nation ever has heard from Washing. say He @ by Western Newspaper Union, Cleaning Cistern, Ready for Spring | Suction Attachment to Pump Will Remove Sediment, Save Water. By BE W ing Lehimann, Departs ‘ WRU Bervics Soft water is both a labor save | & money saver for the ho | need not be lost or was i to clean out the clster | ready for the spring ra i To be sure it | clean the cistern thorougl for the home may be before the is col rains reasonably | soft water supply | lected during However, if the i full of water, the problem | becomes a difficult $ the water is needed and the early spring cistern is one, Under such circums essary to use the be removed accumuiati the having a pun shaped suctio tom of the bottom Heated Water Tre Kills Disease in Se ¢ gatrmiont atment may be cut earlier their digestibill well as increasin protein. While ty percentage method of han promising | and provides an excellent feed, it has not gone far enough to be & factor In dairy farm The silo is still In extensive New methods {| may cause something ¢ take its place but this will be some time in the future.~Hoard's Dairyman, iS very } + operations use ise to | Weed Seeds Have Long Life | In pointing out the longevity and vi- tality of weed seeds, the University of California agricultural extension serv ice warns that planting clean seeds will aid In getting crops free from weeds, but If ever there were weeds | on the ground, the practice cannot pre vent them from sprouting and growing. ! Morning glory, smartweed, broad. leaved dock, red clover, jimson weed, black nightingale, plaintain, ragweed | and curled lambsquarter seeds will live for thirty years, and then grow. Reed canary grass, pursianc, black mustard, sugar beet, burdock and Oan- ada thistle will live for twenty years. i Grading Laws Ohio now has a new grading law re | quiring grade named on the container, the weight or numerical count, and the growers’ name and address. Many Ohio fruit growers have been working under government regulations for a number of years and will have little difficyity In adjusting themselves to the labeling operatione. Those who bave not kept abreast of the times will tind hardship in these new require ments of Ohio law. ~Ohio Farmer, Test Seed Corn Testing seed corn will be a profit able pastime this spring on many farms where seed was not well dried out before the cold weather. Corn which contains 25 to 30 per cent mols. ture Is likely to have Its germination seriously uced at temperatures of oper fh mn At four to eight de grees above mero the germ may even be killed when the moisture has been reduced to 15 to 20 per cont. It Is hardly safe to plant such corn with out running germination tests
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