y ~ By EDWARD W. PICKARD RADUALLY “the terrible flood in the Ohio valley subsided, but the yellow torrents were pour- ing down the lower Mississippi and the nation was mo- . , bilized to save the people there. By di- rection of the Pres- ident and Gen. Mal- in Craig, chief of staff, the army made all prepara- tions for the evacu- ation of all inhabi- tants along the riv- er between Cairo, Ill., and New Or- leans. The details for this mass move- ment were worked out to the last point by commanding officers in the region and thousands of motor trucks and railroad flat cars were collected. Headquarters for the evacuation were set up at Jackson, Miss. Lieut. Col. Eugene Reybold, dis- trict engineer at Memphis, ordered the prompt delivery of 5,000,000 bur- lap sacks for the erection of sand- bag bulwarks, 15 cars of lumber, 210 outboard motorboats, 300 small boats, 300 life jackets, and 1,500 lanterns. The secretary General Malin Craig of war authorized the use of not only regular army troops but also members of the Civilian Conservation corps, the National Guard, and the Red Cross. General Craig said that if the bil- lion dollar levee system, erected after the great 1927 flocd, failed to hold, about the same area affected then would be inundated. Many thousands of people already had been removed from homes along the Mississippi, but cities like Memphis and Vicksburg, being on high ground, were believed to be safe. At New Orleans river experts re- fused to admit danger of a super- flood along the lower reaches of the river. But Secretary of War Wi ring Washington had reports from which said the levee system on the lower Missis- sippi probably would not be able to withstand the present flood when it reaches its crest. At this writing the effects of the flood may be thus summarized: Homeless, nearly a million. Dead, probably more than 500, including 200 in Louisville. Damage, conserv- atively estimated at more than $400,- 000,000. Congress hurried through a defi- ciency appropriation of $£790,000,- 000 which the President promised would be made available for flood relief; and the American Red Cross, working at high speed, a fund of $10,000,000 to which the people of the entire country con- tributed liberally. Supplies of food, drinking water, clothing and medi- od- in engineers areas. Cincinnati, Louisville, mouth, Frankfort were the worst sufferers; city, town and Ohio and its tributaries shared the Mill Creek district of Cincinnati and destroyed property valued at $1,500,- 000 before the flames could be con- trolled. Throughout the entire re- gion transportation was crippled, pure water and fuel supplies were shut off or greatly reduced, and outbreaks of typhoid and pneumonia were threatened. In Louisville the light and power plant was forced to shut down. In Frankfort, Ky., the state re- formatory was flooded and the pris- oners were removed to other quarters with the aid of troops. The convicts took advantage of the emergency to start a riot and about a dozen were killed. All of southern Indiana was placed under martial law by Governor Townsend. ORTY THOUSAND employees of General Motors returned to part time work in reopened plants in Michigan and Indiana, and were un- molested by the strikers. But the deadlock was not broken, and the sit- down strikers con- tinued to occupy the plants they had “kidnaped.” Presi- dent Alfred P. Sloan Jr., of General Mo- tors had refused the invitation of Secre- tary of Labor Per- kins to meet John L. Lewis, chief of the striking unions, while the strikers were still in forcible possession of plants, and President Roosevelt ominously termed this. refusal “a very unfortunate decision on his part,” intimating, also, that there was a prospect of labor legislation unfavorable to the corporation and to employers generally. Sloan persisting in his attitude, Secretary Perkins started a move for legislation that would compel him to meet Lewis. In identical letters to Speaker Bankhead and Senator Joe Robinson, majority A. P. Sloan leader of the senate, she asked the prompt passage of a bill empower- ing her department to subpoena per- sons and papers in connection with investigations of strikes. To the press Miss Perkins said that once she had this power she would sum- mon Sloan to a meeting with Lewis in Washington; but she was not sure she could compel him to nego- tiate a strike settlement. Sloan had posted in all General Motors plants a denial that the cor- poration was responsible for the breakdown of negotiations and was “shirking our moral responsibil- ities.” He reiterated his refusal to treat with the union so long as the sit-down strikers held the plants, and continued with a promise to employees: “We shall demand that your rights and our rights be protected” against “a small minority who have seized certain plants and are hold- ing them as ransom to enforce their demands. “1 say to you once more, have no fear. Do not be misled. General Motors will never let you down. You will not have to pay tribute for the privilege of working in a General Motors plant.” Sloan contends that more than 100,000 G. M. employees have ex- pressed a desire to return to work. Lewis scoffs at this claim but will not countenance the holding of an election to determine whether his unions command the majority nec- essary to constitute them the sole collective bargaining agency. The federal labor relations board could order such an election but it has not intervened, and probably will not. Governor Murphy of Michigan had not modified his refusal to per- mit the National Guardsmen sta- tioned in Flint to be utilized in carrying out a judicial order that the plants be vacated by the sit- down strikers. HE six-week strike of 7,100 em- ployees of the Libbey-Owens- Ford Glass company ended with ap- proval by the union committee and company officials of a wage agree- ment giving a flat eight-cent-an-hour increase in all plants of the pany A one-year-contract signed. The agreement provides for ap- pointment investigate wage rates of the Pitts- burgh Plate Glass company with a view to establishing uniformity rates thre dustry. AYBE it was just a promotion stunt for the book, but Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, Democrat, a resolution calling for an investigation of the truth or faisi- ty of scurrilous charges made against the Supreme Court in Men," thored- by ductors of a Wash- ington he resolution Guffey saying: “The President of States, with his characteristic frank- to continue a democracy. “That problem is—whether the Supreme court will permit congress, the legislative branch of our gov- ernment, which was equally trusted with the Supreme court by the framers of the Constitution, to per- form its duties in making democra- cy workable and effective.” The senate heard Guffey’s speech in silence and referred his resolu- tion to the judiciary committee. A RTIFICIAL scarcity of farm products is abandoned as a pol- icy for the time being by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. He said in Washington that the two drouth years of 1934 and 1936 have brought more thought on farm production by consumers and farmers than ever before. While a year or two of nor- mal weather would tumble wheat prices, if full acreage is planted, the time has come for a lifting of the restrictions, he said. “In the year immediately ahead, 1 feel that farmers should think primarily of their duty to consum- ers,” Wallace said. “I think that in the coming year it is wise for us to produce as much as we can. We should, of course, divert a certain amount of corn and cotton acreage to soil conserving crops, because that will make for greater long time productivity of our farm land. “But for the most part, let's fill up the storage bins this year. It is good policy to vary the plans for storage of crops pan 1 the soil ing to the pon granary above ( BTAINING of a sweeping fed- ~ eral injunction against the Tennessee Valley authority by nine- teen utility companies has put an end to efforts to form private power transmission pool. President Roosevelt declared in a letter written to federal power ex- perts and private company officials the injunction, transmission facility arrangement, ue gain that end. The Roosevelt's fire halted the liciting additional customers for its power. ARL RADEK, noted soviet Rus- sian journalist, and 16 other men more or less prominent in the affairs of Russia, went to trial as conspirators against the Stalin regime and the soviet state, and all freely con- fessed their guilt. They readily told the details of the amazing plot and as- serted that the ex- iled Leon Trotzky was its chief mover, Radek described the : scheme b which Karl Radek the a Bop to overthrow Stalin and bring back a modified capitalism to Russia. It in- volved the wrecking of the nation's railway system and the bringing about of war on Russia by Japan and Germany. Japan was to be given the maritime provinces in Asia and Germany was to be per- mitted to grab the Ukraine. But Radek added that the conspirators hoped the war would result in a new revolution in Russia and that thereafter those territories could be regained. “I am guilty of all the charges,” said the once powerful editor. Gregori Sokolnikof!, former soviet ambassador to England, declared he knew as early as 1832 of a plot to assassinate Stalin, and admitted he was guilty of plotting to betray the Soviet union to Germany and Japan. Vladimir Romm, former Washington correspondent of Iz- vestia of Moscow, though not yet on trial, was put on the stand and testified that he knew of the anti- Stalinist plot, that he carried letters from Radek to the exiled Leon Trotzky and that he agreed to be- come Trotzky's undercover in- formant. Scores of persons implicated by the confessions the defendants have been arrested. Among them is M. A. G. Beloborodoff, the veteran Bolshevist who ordered the execu- tion of Czar Nicholas and his fam- ily. The prosecutor all the defendants. Leon Trotzky, from his haven in Mexico City, sent out a specific de- of the charges that he was head of the conspiracy. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to the senate the name of James A. Farley as postmaster general for another term, and ths senate promptly confirmed the nomination. It is of asked death for a ember of the cabinet, for he wants to return to private work. He told report- ers in New York that he was looking for more than a job as a salesman. “If I should return to private life,” the J. A. Farley “1 would like an opportunity to build up an in a business, so I would have something more than just a salary for security for my family. “l Lave had several offers al- but they haven't been just F REICHSFUEHRER HITLER will co-operate with other nations ent economic difficulties. Such was the offer made by Premier Blum in an address at Lyons. Blum, how- ever, warned the Nazis that France cannot and will not co-operate with Germany economically or politically “while the possibility continues to exist that this help may be some day turned against the country which gave it.” policy of making bilateral pacts, and added: *‘I believe I am practic- from European peace.” German officials were pleased by Blum's speech and said his good intentions could not be doubted. J AMBURG, Germany, for cen- turies a ‘‘free city,” has lost its freedom. Reichsfuehrer Hitler and his cabinet have decreed that it shall be known henceforth as Hansa City Hamburg and placed under control of Col. Gen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering in his capacity as plan for self - the Nazi party; Wilhelm Frick, of finance. freedom of Luebeck and incorporat- ed the city with Prussia, and the same fate was decreed for Eutin, Cuxhaven and Birkenfeld. Wilhelms- haven is absorbed by Oldenburg province. CENTRE HALL, PA. National Topics Interpreted Washington,—The arrival of the ing of spring. It does not bring spring weather. Nevertheless, we Americans watch for signs all our lives and lately there have been sev- Danger Signs are worthy of notice. There never has been a our country's history, as far as I have been able to discover, when the tension surrounding labor con- as it is right now. 1 do not believe any- one can forecast what the results are going to be; what all of these strikes and factional fights in or- time In thing much deeper than just dis- satisfaction with wages or growing pains of expanding business. In other words, there are many stu- dents of national affairs who attempting to analyze current labor conditions as signs of new times. " Most observers with whom I have discussed the present labor prob- lems, are hopeful that these trou- bles me an only 1 creases are cont they "want to accep indicative of a returning prospe rit Y in commerce try. det none of the The are too many ‘ifs and aby uncertainties for anyone attempt a complete diagnosis of the circumstances. Some weeks ago 1 ventu opinion in these rift in organized la liam Green as head of can Federation of Labor L. Lewis as Spot nsor of the trial union idea, likely would in serious trouble for the lab ions themse I was re port then that whi at his time, namely, schism in organized certain to organized labor deed it seems gled as it is Wy prove t in uni ion Jade and sot and n is quite sur too 1 VO red the columns that the Wil- 1eri- and Jol ndus- result ir un- 10 bor between the An Ives. unable set » But graver pos: the situations ibilitie Grave Possibilities today that easil and bloodsh bloodshed it is only a step to revo- | lution of a political sort None knows exactly what ion's labor policies are beyond the exaggerated prom ises made during the dential cam pai gn. Of co urs ident Roosev elt and the bul Deal spokesmen are y friendly overl; iendly som lieve, to organized labor. The N Dealers had organized labor wit! them in the Jast campaign. Now, however, it is made to ap De: ar that | the support * labor in the cam- paign is proving more or less em- barrassing to the adm which has just started on four-year term. Some of the critics of the istration are outspoken ir statements that Mr. Roosevelt is trying to dodge, trying to avoid, get- ting mixed up too deeply in labor's problems. Some of his subordinates have been active but the President has stayed out of the picture just as far as he could and as long as he could. I am inclined to believe that these | assertions that Mr. Roosevelt is afraid to take leadership too fre- quently in labor's problems are un- fair to the President. They amount to a statement that he lacks cour- age—which is not true. On the con- trary, there are many who believe with me that Mr. Roosevelt senses developments yet to arise in the la- bor situation and he is, therefore, being cautious as to is steps thus in what threatens to be a here New ite is second On the other hand, it is difficult to tions board has been so nearly qui- escent through such strikes as the If there ever was a situation made to order for use of the agency set yp under the so-called Wagner that situation was to be found in the two strikes just mentioned. The board did so little in those cir- be said to have been forgotten. It amounted to a dead letter insofar In some quarters one can hear discus- board were unwilling to have that test at this time. I have been un- able to confirm this thought at all one sees indicate there is some truth in the rumor that too much of a burden should not be unloaded on the board for its first real test. Business interests never have be- lieved the law to be constitutional. The New Dealers, however, have contended vociferously that it is valid and yet we have the picture of a New Deal agency failing to perform the very functions for which it was created. > » *. I mentioned earlier some of the signs and portents that are visible . in the labor situa- “Sit Down’ tion. One of the Strikes most important of these is the sig- nificance of the “sit down" type of strike. 1 find many informed au- thorities who refer to the “sit down” strike as a key point in present la- bor problems. It is something new in this coun- try. It is a program of striking in which labor is, entirely passive but by which it usurps the rights of own- ership. The workers simply stay in the plants, offering no trouble and for the most part avoiding Sestruc. tive tactics. But it is the fact that they remain in the plants, the prop- erty of their employers, that is caus- ing iderable govern- ment circl The strike lies in the se cons worry in why this phase of creating concern individ indiv warrant in san 10 thin gE a % are concerned went far if a group of strikers mine and to stay to your home they expe There is no difference ir two situations. While the on you or me would be important to the country as a whol it remains as a fact that our would be lated hing same manner as rights lated strike or announced ted there. the fect in tinme y x HONS were vic eral Motors thers s and fixes i pin where are / person who owns elher is ade no long as government m break it up. As employers organize and tread on la- bor with a steel boot, just so long workers rganize ment from busi- But it does not seem to me to be a right of labor to actully take private property. To that extent I cannot feel very ki ndly t toward those strikers at prese nt asserting such a right through use of the “sit down" strike. Now, federal to are entitled to o trea there sons why the 3 is are governmer If troops were sent into private fac- tories to drive out the *'sit down" strikers, one can readily see what a Jut if government fails to enforce this in- herent right, it is not doing its sworn duty to the rest of the people. And it was only a few weeks ago that Mr. Roosevelt again took the oath of office as President, swearing to enforce as well as defend the Constitution. Then, another phase of the situa- The Wag- ner law says em \ployers must nego- tiate collectively ‘‘with the major- ity"’ organization of employees and it decrees further that the labor re- lations board shall determine which is the majority organization; that it can decide this question on evi- dence or order an election among employees. None can tell usually whether union or company organiza- tion employees are in the major- ity in some of these strikes, rea $ 4 ‘ has not actie : the federal them. | | | | | Ill-temper costs business more Don't map out a big program minute as you go along. It counts up amazingly. Solitude may induce lonesome- ness, but it was La Bruyere who said, “All our misfortunes come from our inability to be alone.” Who finds a friend has found a gem; who is a friend is a diadem. You are doing pretty well if are just. You are doing than pretty well. Self-Reliance and Self-Conceit There is as much difference be- ween self-reliance and self-con- is between the and south poles—all the in the world! A long day of hard physical la- bor brings greater peace of mind than any philosophy. We travel to jar our you more nortt difference out of. 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But see that what you get is labeled “Genuine Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia.” ALSO IN TABLET FORM: Earh tiny tablet fe the equivalent of 8 tenEpoon- ful of pomuine Phillips" Milk of Magnesia. MILK OF MAGNESIA PHILLIPS’ Modest Heroes Most of the heroes who get no publicity daen’t want it. DISCOVERED Way to Relieve Coughs yw I'T"8 BY relieving both the irritated tissues of the throat end breschial tuber, One set of § dients in FOL LEYS HONEY Ry TAR qu relieves I backing, coughing 1 1 . and soothes irritated throat linings $0 a from coughing. A Ancthit set actually enters oe ood, reaches the hed, Srunchial bi : phan. Conk nv cough dow 10% ood saying, as I said earlier, that it tion of certain elements in the last sowed. The tragedy of it all the same reward. © Western Newspaper Union. Wisdom Teeth Such appeilations as tooth and eye, says Hygeia, the Health Magazine. Sleep Talk May Be Legal Words spoken in sleep are not evidence of a fact or a condition of the mind, yet, says Collier's Weekly, some courts of the United Sates have ruled that such testimo- admissible. ny is sponds recovery, it with OTEYe "HONEY & TAR. It gives quick relief and speeded-up recovery, IF used when retirin relieves smarting scald ing sticky eyes by ROMAN EYE BALSAM
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