NE of the major tragedies of aeronautical history occurred when the big German dirigible Hindenburg exploded and fell in a blazing mass at the landing field in Lakehurst, N. J. At this writing the exact number of dead is un- known, but it probably is more than forty. American passengers who in the early reports were unaccounted for and presumably killed were: Burtis Dolan, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. John Pannes, New York City; Moritz Feibusch, Lincoln, Neb.: Edward Douglas, New York; James Young and Birger Brinck, addresses not given, The airship, just arrived from Eu- rope on its first transatlantic trip of the year, was about to land when there was an explosion toward the stern. Instantly flames broke out and ran the length of the ship. The tail sagged first, then the nose crashed down and the split sections telescoped as they fell. A few of the 44 passengers and some mem- bers of the crew were able to jump to safety, but many of the others aboard hadn't a chance for their lives. The navy men of the ground crew heroically plunged into the flaming wreckage and dragged out those victims who could be reached. The screams and cries of injured in agony were “terrible,” the hard- ened sailors and marines who did the rescue work reported. The cloth- ing was completely burned off one man. Another, blown through the envelope, was found moaning near the smashed airship. The survivors and of fire An explosion of the No. 2 gas cell toward the stern of the ship was named as the cause of the dis- aster by State Aviation Commis- sioner Gill Robb Wilson, who called the blast ‘‘strange.” Some authorities scouted the the- ory that the explosion could have been caused by the ignition of hy- drogen inside the gas cells. They said a mixture of 20 per cent free air with hydrogen would be neces- sary to cause an explosion, indicat- ing the first blast must have oc- curred outside one of the gas cells. Aeronautical experts said the only way they could explain an explo- sion inside the ship would be that free hydrogen had in some way es- caped and was lying in the stern of the ship where it was accidentally ignited. Capt. Ernest Lehmann, who pilot- ed the Hindenburg last year, was aboard it on this fatal trip, but its commander was Capt. William Pruss, just promoted to the post. He is a veteran in working dirigi- bles. H OW to economize by cutting down government expendi- tures, as the President has demand- ed, and at the same time to continue g ; with such huge ex- penditures as the billion and a half dollars Mr. Roose- velt asked for relief is a puzzle that con- gress doesn't know how to solve. Harry Hopkins, Works Progress adminis- trator and most ac- complished spender of the administra- tion, took a hand in the discussion, telling a house appro- priation subcommittee that unem- ployment is a permanent problem, that the government should be pre- pared to support seven million job- less persons at all times, and con- sequently that congress must ap- propriate the billion and a half for relief instead of cutting the sum down to a billion. Both Democrats and Republicans on the committee protested, and Chairman Woodrum of Virginia told Hopkins he would use every endeav- or to have the appropriation re- duced by at least a third. He chal- ienged the figures and arguments submitted by Hopkins, contending that if the extravagance of the work relief principle and the padding of relief rolls with undeserving cases were eliminated and the states re- quired to assume a greater share of the burden the cost to the federal government would not exceed one billion. Senator William H. King of Utah, Democrat, not only disagrees with Hopkins as to the amount needed for relief, but isn’t satisfied with the way the administrator has been conducting the work. He introduced resolutions in the senate calling for an investigation of the works prog- ress administration and taking the future spending of relief money out of Hopkins’ hands. King said his purpose was to abolish the WPA, In the house economy received a wallop on the head when the re- forestation bill was passed, 171 to 153. This measure would appropriate $2,500,000 annually for government aid to farmers who wish to turn part of their farms into woodlands. It was fought by a bloc led by H. L. Hopki Representative J. J. Cochran of Mis- souri, Democrat. “It has a worth while objective, but it is one of those expensive measures which we can defer passing for a while until the budget is in balance,” declared Cochran. EWILDERED members of con- gress were still further dazed when they learned that the admin- istration was moving to obtain ap- proval of the Florida ship canal project which will call for $197. 000,000, This was revealed when Secretary of the Navy Swanson sent to the house rivers and harbors committee a letter urging that the canal scheme be approved. It was assumed he would not have done this without the approval of the President. Mr. Swanson argued that the canal would be of value during war for the shipment of materials. Testimony labeled ‘‘confidential”’ was also heard by the committee from Gen. Charles. P. Summerall, retired chief of staff of the army, and Rear Admiral Frederic B. Bas- sett, retired. Both declared that the canal would serve as “a most im- portant element of the national de- fense in time of war.” Representative Beiter of New York, Democrat, called upon the budget bureau to make known its stand on the Florida canal question. REQUENT reports have been heard in Washington that gov- ernment employees, including some high officials, took advantage of their “inside’’ knowl- edge that the attor- ney general was go- ing to file suit to dis- solve the Aluminum Company of Ameri- ca by selling the common stock short, thereby making im- mense profits. Just the day before the suit was filed Pres- ident Roosevelt is- sued his order against stock speculation by em- ployees of the government, but it came too late. Attention of congress was called to the matter when Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachu- setts, Republican, demanded an in- vestigation. “I hold no brief for the Aluminum Company of America,” Mrs. Rogers told the house. ‘I know nothing about the institution, but I am very anxious to know why the common stock of this huge enterprising cor- poration should decline over 300 per cent more than similar industrial stocks in the period just prior to an- nouncement of the government's suit, “To the 825,000 employees of the government the President's an- nouncement was a most czaristic order,” Mrs. Rogers declared. “1 believe the money paid to federal employees is just as much their money to do with as they please as is the money paid to any employee working at any job in any place in the United States.” But government employees, she added, certainly ought not to have the advantage of knowledge with- held from the public. $ | i —did Rep. Rogers WELVE American women reached what some people con- sider a social climax when they were received by King George and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain at the first court of the new reign. These favored matrons and debutantes had been carefully coached at the American embassy and were presented by Mrs. Robert W. Bingham, wife of the American ambassador. They were: Eleanora Bowdoin of Aiken, S. C.; Mrs. George Temple Bowdoin of New York City; Catherine M. Ma- her of Lincoln, Neb.; Mrs. George W. Norton Jr., of Louisville: Mrs. John Perrin of Boston; Anne Schenck of New York City; Vesta Putnam Culberson of Chicago; Mrs. F. Vernon Foster of West Orange, N. J.; Lydia Fuller of Bos- ton; Mrs. Dozier IL. Gardner of Philadelphia; Mrs. Byron Hilliard of Louisville, and Mrs, Julia Henry of Philadelphia. P RIME MINISTER STANLEY BALDWIN, soon to retire, made an eloquent plea to the people of Great Britain not to mar the corona- OR three days Premier Mussolini of Italy conferred in Rome with Baron Konstantin von Neurath, for- eign minister of Germany. Then an official communique was issued in- dicating that the two countries were determined to prevent the creation of a communist state in western Europe, holding “a complete paral- lelism of views’ on this and other subjects. It was added that the Ital- ian and German governments will ‘““continue to follow a concordat pol- icy on all major questions.” It was understood in Rome that, though Mussolini and Hitler were eager to work for peace with Britain and France, they were prepared to take open part in the Spanish war if other means fail to prevent the establishment of a regime sympa- thetic to soviet Russia, The Italian parliament passed Mussolini's national defense budget the navy, told the deputies the Italian navy ment, chances concerning protection of her intended to build up in the Italian “ vances and shortest possible time.” ] RS. WALLIS SIMPSON was i granted an absolute decree of divorce in London, and within a few hours Edward, duke of Wind- ; + Sor, was on his way from St. Wolfgang, Austria, to visit his flancee at the Cha- teau de Cande near Tours, France. The former king of Great Britain had been waiting impatiently, baggage packed, for word that Wallis was entirely free, and he lost no time when his colicitors telephoned him from London. It took only 25 seconds to make absolute the decree nisi which Mrs. Simpson obtained last October 27. The king's proctor had been satis- fied with the lady's behavior in the interval, and Sir Boyd Merriman, president of the divorce court, per- sonally granted the decree along with a lot of others. The date for the wedding of the duke of Windsor and Mrs. Simpson has not yet been announced, but it probably will be in the week begin- ning May 24. Edward was willing to wait until all the coronation hul- labaloo was over for he did not wish to annoy his royal brother in any way. Mrs. Simpson EICHSFUEHRER ADOLF HIT. LER was informed by Pope Pius XI that the Roman Catholic church must be free to fulfill its mission in Germany. This reply to the German church note, which itself was a re- ply to the pope's pre-Easter ency- clical accusing the German govern- state concordat, was delivered by Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli to the Ger- man ambassador to the holy see, Diego von Bergen. The note was rather moderate in tone, but insisted that Motion Picture Crafts, difficulties. Actors’ guild, but that body, which ducers. The guild already had pre- and overtime pay. strikers were given the active sup- port of 13 unions. They insisted that hotel owners had refused to agree to preferential hiring and a five day week for clerks, groups of hotel employees had been awarded such conditions, SOME of the most desperate fight- taking place in the struggle for Bil- bao between the sturdy Basques and Gen. Emilio Mola's veterans, reput- edly mostly Italians and Germans. The insurgents had promised not to bomb the center of the city but bombarded its environs heavily from the land and the air, By fierce attacks they broke through Basque lines on the Bay of Biscay coast, reaching Bilbao’s seaports at the mouth of the Nervion river. Disregarding the protests of Gen- eral Franco, Fascist chieftain, the British and French governments undertook to remove from Bilbao a large number of women and chil dren. R ESISTING all efforts of the wouid-be economists, the major- HY in the hous pasied He waz 4s. partment appropr carrying $416,400,000 for the fiscal year 1938. This is the largest army bill ever passed in times of peace, As passed the measure d by William National Preas Bullding Se —— Washington.—Congress lately has passed and President Roosevelt has . just signed the Coal Will Guffey-Vinson coal Be Higher bill. It is, there- fore, a law. And presently, as a result of the pas- sage of this legislation, you and 1 and every other person who uses soft coal will be paying higher The increase in price that will re- to be open to criticism. There are many who believe that in passing the Guffey-Vinson bill (and it was done under the lash of administra- taken a step which is very close to, It is an action 80 near to the policies of fascism in Italy that close students of the Mus- cern any distinction. Let us see what the Guffey-Vinson law does. It permits all soft coal producers in the United States to organize as in a monopoly under government control. True, the gov- ernment is supposed under the law to fix the price of soft coal but actu- ally the law is going to work out so that the producers and the mine un- ions will establish the prices, sub- ject to the approval of a govern- ment commission. It will work out this way because the law has actually legalized the right of the producers to agree on the fact that those prices are based on the production costs in regional areas. United States shall be divided into 23 regions or sections States coal commission is empow- ered to prescribe the prices, both gions may be sold. In ner, the law guarantees that the soft labor costs enter directly into pro- duction costs—indeed, they consti tute a8 major factor—it becomes plain that whatever wages labor de- mands obtains the level of the production costs and the result is a change in the selling price to the consuming public Thus, when John L Lewis, presi dent of the United Mine Workers of America and head of the C. 1. O determines are not being paid su wages, he an increase from the mine owners. The mine owners or producers, now that the has the new costs and influences that the m workers ficiently high ine demands 3 law passed, simply submit alternative but to approve an in- crease in the selling price. In conse- every bucketful going into your stove and every shovelful that goes into the tax that has been legalized by law. So, we see the bulk of the coal in- competition into the form of a mo- nopoly under government control. If that can be described otherwise than as fascism, I am ignorant of what constitutes fascism. - * . There remains the question the law promoted by - Senator Guffey of Question Pennsylvania and Validity R e p r e sentative Vinson of Ken- It will be remembered that the Supreme court once threw out the original Guffey-Vinson law. It threw mous decision of the court when it The labor pro- visions alone were discussed in the litigation at that time. But in the current Guffey-Vinson law, those ob- ted. There is no way to discover whether the Supreme court will find the monopolistic practice authorized in the current legisiation to be im- proper except the hunch that such a declaration of policy by the con- gress is not in conflict with the con- stitution directly. Some members of the congress opposed the Guffey-Vinson bill be- cause they believed it to be uncon- stitutional. There were so few of those, however, that the house of representatives debated the bill only a day and a half and the sen- ate debated it only a few hours. - - * Some sections of the soft coal in- dustry objected to the bill but they were quickly re- Backed gigned to the in. tangible fact that the division of sentiment among coal producers was that there is wide range of costs the among Bruckart Washington, D. C. able under open competition, to sell at lower prices than many of their competitors. There is another sec- tion of the mining industry where out a living return. will gain exorbitant profit. be all for this law because of the heavy returns they can make. Such, however, is not the case. Thus mine owners pretty generally, would pre- fer taking their chances in open competition because they can make a larger profit through a heavy vol- ume of sales at lower prices than under the new scheme whereby the high cost mines are bound to get a share of the business, Proponents of the law contend that there is an obligation to the owners of the high cost mine or to the workers they employ. But what, 1 ask, is the user of coal going to do about it? What has he to say and how can he say it? explain that interests of the con- suming public are to be protected through the office of a consumers’ council. That is, there is a govern- ment official who is supposed to look after and protect your rights and mine against excessive prices. It may work out satisfactorily. 1 be- lieve, however, that the odds are { heavy against any of us rec eiving | any benefits in this direction. * . * A few days after President Roose- velit signed the Guffey-Vinson law, : Attorney General Strike Cummings came at Trusts farth with a letter urging congress to revise and tighten the anti-trust law. He said that monopoly was grow- | ing in the United States and that small businesses were being driven to the wall by the inroads of great masses of capital There is evidence that capital is | massing. We need not look any fur- ther for proof of this than the Guf- fey-Vinson law itself which permits capital to work together—the only hindrance being that which is sub- | jected somewhat to the influence of organized labor under the Gufifey- Vinson law. The result is exactly | capital takes place under private arrangement or under government supervision such as is legalized in the Guffey Vinson law. This situation impresses being a bit incongruous to be a circumstance where the administration is trying to run in two directions at one and the same time. It is further exaggerated by the fact that the President lately has spoken with emphasis about the rapid increase in retail prices. Yet, besides raising wages for labor, the only tangible result that I can see me as er prices for all of us to pay. always to increase prices. against monopoly and the Attorney vent monopoly. force higher prices and good for to force higher prices? » No Stock Gambling worker engage in ernment may ployee’s qualifications for retention or advancement, the commission in securities or commodities. 1 have heard be a sound order. ever, that gives rise to other thoughts about it, use the confidential information which he obtains officially as the basis for stock speculation. On the other hand, is it not questionable whether a government should try to tell any of its employees that they cannot invest their surplus earnings in securities as a means of increasing their income? The President said that “bona fide in- vestments” are all right but the question for which I have not been able to find an answer is “how can it be determined whether the pur chase of a few shares of stock is speculation or bona fide invest ment?" That brings up of necessity the difficulties of enforcement. It also brings to the forefront a real dan- ger. That danger is not as remote as it seems. 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