WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON himself somewhat of hero several months made tional Britain in Race to Get Army Ready the mand, youngsters sent the oldsters back to their club chairs. army out in the current news. Hore-Belisha for the There was no hint of Jewish Mr. war post. just then certain optinrists among them were trying to tool into the German orbit, and there vengeance. That didn’t come off, and the new war secretary started a whirlwind army clean-up and all-around reconditioning cam- paign, to the satisfaction of all hands. Seventy-nine-year-old Sir Ian Hamilton, who had been in command at the Dardanelles, said, “Thank God we are under a proper soldier and will not be shot sitting down.” He has spent a lot of time badger- ing his elders, and still has many of them to work on, as he is only forty-three. When, a brash young Ox- onian, he ran for his opponent tagged nonentity of the col- lege bench.'”” He nailed this on his mast-head, spoofed the opposition cleverly, and romped in. Clever at Badgering His Elders parliament, him as ‘‘the war, then a major, a reporter on a London newspaper, with conveni- ent underground pipelines to the front page and the headlines. He became financial secretary of the treasury in 1932 and later minister of transportation, He is a demon for detail and has swarmed all over England, in- specting equipment, barracks and army kitchens. He is of medium stature, round- headed, with roached, graying hair, unmarried and given to night for- ays, checking this or that detail of the military establishment. * * * T LEAST six times in the past 150 years, the Rothschilds have been counted out, and they have always come back—like John Bar- leycorn and Old King Cotton. Now the arrest of Bar- Old Stuff to Bank Family on Louis von Rothschild is .re- ported from Vienna. The era which founded their dynasty was disquiet- ingly like this one. The Romanoffs, and the Hapsburgs, Matternich and Disraeli and all the other kings, conquerors and statesmen came to terms with them. Baron Louis is the head of the house. The catastrophic fall of the Creditanstalt bank of Vienna in 1931 was supposed to have wrecked them, A few weeks later, they were shoveling money into American securities, and, it was reported, snagging a stray million here and there by a fast overseas play on francs, an old family custom. Louis and his brother, Alphonse, were living in regal splendor when the Creditanstalt Deer Parks failed. They had and Castles great estates and Faded Away maginificent art gallaries, shooting lodges, a huge Franz Lehar chorus of retainers, deer parks and a brace of medieval castles. Much of these holdings slipped away, as Louis, with somewhat less than the usual family zest and acumen in finan- Conquerors philosophy and the arts. It is 132 years since Napoleon, after Austerlitz, made mince-meat of the Holy Roman empire and even more ruthlessly dismembered Aus- tria. Nathan, James and Solomon von Rothschild, sons of Mayer Ans- elm, founder of the line, not oniy saved their holdings, but extended their dominions to the remotest cor- ner of Europe. These vast ramifications of their fortune, one of the largest in the history of the world, were in land, steel, coal, manufacto- ries and munitions, and, in later decades, in oil and hydroelectric power. Libraries have been written about them, one notable record being Zo- la's “L’Argent.”” Their continental money matrix has been a stabilizer at times. It is possible that the Vienna jail door clangs the end of a dynasty and an epoch—but not quite certain. History will tell. © News Features, sages he received. Billion and a Half Wanted ARRY HOPKINS, chief of the WPA, and Aubrey Williams, his deputy, had a conference with erward the word that Mr. Roosevelt contemplated offer- ing congress a pub- lic works program calling for 000,000 to end the re- cession and revital- ize business. According plan this money would be raised by federal bond issues, and would be lent to states and cities without interest for periods as long 50 years; and it would be repayable in small amounts annually. The President, it was understood, plans tg push housing and slum clearance projects, his immediate desire being to stimulate heavy industries. to the Harry Hopkins as Williams has said a much greater emergency relief fund than is avail able would soon be needed if the new thousands of unemployed were to be cared for by the government. Jesse Jones, whose Reconstruc- tion Finance corporation has been authorized by congress to lend a billion and a half to almost anyone as Jones pleases and pretty much on his own terms, advised business men he would consider their loan applications individually. “The main thing this act does for busi- ness men,’ said Jones, “is to per- mit them to get loans from us for longer terms.” ifn Kill Reorganization Bill T SIX o'clock on the evening of April 8 the President lost his fight for the passage of his government reorganization bill. The house of representatives voted 204 to 196 to send the bill back to committee, thus shelving it for this session of congress at least. 88 Republicans, 6 Progressives and 2 Farmer-Laborites joined to carry the motion, which sent the bill back Voting against recommital were 191 Democrats, 2 Progressives, Farmer-Laborites. Not one Repub- lican voted to save the bill. The bill, among other things, would have authorized the Presi- dent, by executive order, to trans- fer, regroup, co-ordinate, consoli- date, or abolish any of the 135 bu- reaus, agencies, and divisions of government. Certain empted. Closing pleas, delivered in dra- matic fashion by Speaker William B. Bankhead and Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, failed to swing enough votes to save the measure. The two leaders placed the issue squarely on the President. against the bill was a vote of lack White House, they said. In opposition to all this organized effort were Representative John J. O'Connor, New York Democrat, chairman of the rules committee, a group of other Democratic leaders and the solid Republican minority. They argued that the nation was fearful of the bill's implications. At a period in history when dictators abroad were growing increasingly arrogant, the congress should refrain from passing a measure which seemed to pave the way for a dic- tatorship in the asserted. The voting on the mot commit, offered by Representative John Taber (R., N. Y started shortly after 6 p. m. As it progressed the tension was great. The vote was tied again and There was | tumult when member had 8s, they to re- again. the last . "n " Railway "Court" Proposal How to save the important rail wa { bankruptcy was the conferences at the White of deep study by the ys {rom subject of House and President, sidy, ating a special unit with judicial or quasi-judicial powers to speed up nt reorganization of the car- riers and solve other of their prob- lems. The unit may take the form of a special court or a board within the interstate commerce commis- sion. It is suggested that congress rovide that appeal from the unit's decisions be federal cir- ad aly direct to cuit of appeal. The creation of the unit was rec- in a report the Presi ordered prepared and which was made by three members of the interstate commerce commission These were Chairman Walter M. W | Splawn, J. B. Eastman and C. F. Mahaffie Other things recommended were the establishment of a transporta- tion board to study co-ordination and elimination of unnecessary duplica- tion; the facilitation of loans; mod- ification of the bankruptcy act to aid reorganization proceedings, and means for accomplishing consolida- tions. courts dent nnn "Help Business” Measure V HAT Sen. Pat Harrison called the ‘‘help business’ measure, being the revenue bill as rewritten by his senate finance committee, was submitted to the senate. | Though Harrison said he expected | its speedy passage, others believed | be necessary. Sen. Charles McNary of Oregon, minority leader promised to support the bill, saying, I think it is a great | improvement over the house ver- ision. I am in favor of speeding | its passage to help business.” earns | Plan to Defend Czechs OSEPH PAUL-BONCOUR, French foreign minister, has devised a | plan for an alliance linking Soviet Russia, Poland, Jugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia with France for the spe- cific purpose of pro- tecting the Czechs from aggression on the part of Nazi Germany. The French ambassa- dors to Moscow and Warsaw and the ministers to Prague iba and Bucharest, who had been summoned Joseph to Paris, were in- Paul-Boneour g¢r:0ted by Paul Boncour to sound out the govern- ments to which they were accredit- ed regarding the proposal. Efforts to bring about agreement between the government of Czecho- slovakia and Konrad Henlein's Su- deten German or Nazi broke down when Premier Hodza rejected the Nazi demands for elections among the nation’s 3,500,000 Ger- mans to determine whether they should gain autonomy. Victory for C.1.O. NLAND STEEL corporation was ordered by the national labor re- lations board to deal with the Steel | Workers’ Organizing committee, an { affiliate of the C, 1. O., and to sign a wage and hour contract if an agreement is reached. The compa- ny is expected to test the order in court, but if it complies the C. 1. O. union will have won by labor board action what it lost in a long and bitterly fought strike last summer. The company at that time said it would deal with the Lewis union but would not sign a contract. It con- tended this was not required by the Wagner act and said it considered the S. W. O. C. and the C. 1. O. “irresponsible.” “An employer is not privileged to deny collective bargaining to the representatives of his employees merely because he views the repre- | sentatives as irresponsible,” the | board held. “And the alleged irre- | sponsibility is likewise irrelevant in | determining whether he must em- | body understandings in a written agreement.” 2, | { | New Wage-Hour Bill EP. MARY NORTON of New | Jersey, chairman of the house { labor committee, promised some time ago to bring in a new wage- hour bill that she thought would get through Congress and meet with the approval of the President. A sub- committee of her group formulated a measure and she called the full com. mittee to consider it. Prolonged debate in the committee was predicted, and the bill then would require approval by a hostile » where a small group of southerners killed the previous bill This new t is ignores the for wage er living Rep. Norton 1 ules com It demands of South Is to offset low- costs; and it is far from the desires of the two great grou I ures of the meas- a compromise the differentia 1 independent five- ild be it, subject to fix and ad- our stand- ard the 40-40 goal ap- uld fix wage rates >» pay for each al industries more average go below increase the {It could not fi) rates cents first year nor however, » by a fi cent ve cents every vear level is attained. d could not set maxi- 48 per at the beginning and would instructed to reduce them grad- ually to the 40 goal Apparently as a “vote getting" device the sub-committee exempted agricultural, railroad and y other workers and restricted the bill operating in interstate commerce It changed the original so that appeals from board orders can be taken to federal district courts instead of circuit courts of appeals, and provided that the board must report to congress an- nually. The President also could ask the agency for reports and data. more than week be seasonal, to industries measure aosmnasecffsen Bigger Dreadnaughts NITED STATES and Great Brit ain advised each other that they would invoke the escalator clause of the London naval treaty and would . ws build dreadnaughts larger than 35,000 tons. The British also notified Germany and Soviet Russia of their decision. Both nations based their action on Ja- pan's refusal to dis- close her naval con- struction plans. France, third sig- i natory to the treaty, Senator Clark oad she we oid continue to auhere to the 35,000-ton limitation *‘so long as no continental power departs from that standard.” Opponents of the administration's “big navy’ program are rather nu- merous in congress, though prob- ably in the minority. One of the most consistent of them is Senator Clark of Missouri. Commenting on concerning battleships, he said: “It is just the preliminary announce- ment of a world-wide naval build- ing race.” sine Loyalist Spain Split PANISH insurgents are, at this writing, near the accomplish- ment of Franco's great objective, the splitting of the territory held by the loyalists in the eastern part of the country. They captured the ancient city of Lerida, known as the key to Catalonia. Further south the rebels were al- most to Tortosa and their vanguard was actually within sight of the Mediterranean sea. All along the Catalonia front the government troops fought desper- ately, but it seemed their struggle was bopeless and observers be Heved the war was nearing its In the battles in eastern Spain, it LETTER comes from a read- er enclosing rough sketches of stitches from a silk patchwork quilt. 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