The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-07-06

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Russia. The nego- :sSs s. 1883
tiations opened by S
Smith Wildman M S.ssss M
Brookhart, now Of
the American agri-
cultural administra- pa.;. eL,,-.k;
ton, are being
watched eagerly, and 1t is asserted
that his cotton selling scheme is q
camouflage for q secret deal with
Boris Skvirski, chief of the Amtorg
In New York, concerning large cred
its for purchases of American grain.
Skvirski, 1t is said, has received in
structions to do everything possible
to purchase grain with a minimum
Of publicity since Russia has decid-
ed to keep the tragic news Of the
present famine hidden from the
world.
According to Latvian and Es-
tonian diplomats stationed at Mos
COW, Russia has cotton enough to
export but not enough to operate
her own mills and while Moscow is
willing to take anything the United
States will sell her on credit, the
nations chief need is grain.
THANCELLOR HITLER Of Ger
~ many delivered a decisive blow
to the nationalist followers Of DR..
Alfred Hugenberg, minister Of agri-
culture and economics. when he dis
solved their fighting units through
out the reich. The police, assist
ed by Nazi storm troops, raided the
headquarters of the nationalist fight
ers in all the cities and made many
arrests. It was then officially an
nOunced that these units would
hereafter be forbidden. The Steel
Helmet war veterans organization
in the Dusseldorf district also was
suppressed
Though Chancellor Dollfuss Of
Austria protested to want nothing
but peace with the German Nazis,
he has issued a decree outlawing
their party and all affiliated organ
izations In Austria.
Hitler's new trustees of labor"
are assuming dictatorial control Of
the factories of Germany and 1t is
announced they are ''above all par
ties and interests and are respon-
sible only to the state and its high
est leader, Hitler"
TEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON, adj
~ ministrator for the Industrial
recovery administration, held a
press conference in Washington and
told in vigorous language what he
and his assistants hope to accom-
plish. In part he said:
'The emergency phase Of this Job
is to try to get people back to work.
That's what's worrying everybody,
that's what's the trouble with every
thing. And we've got to shorten the
week and pay living wage for the
shorter week.
How It's going to work out,
where it's going, don't want to say.
There's been too much promising
all along through this depression.
aThe industries want to do the
Job as much as we do. I don't de-
tect any Stacking. I think it's GO
ing to work and put several million
men back to work this summer. May
be a snag somewhere along the line,
we may stub our toes, but we're 60
ing to make q stab at It."
The cotton industry was the first
to move toward placing itself under
government control. Its proposed
code, praised by Johnson, calls for
maximum work week Of 40 hours
and minimum wage scale of SO
q week in the South and Sill in the
North. This represents a 80 per
cent wage advance and a reduction
of 20 per cent In working hours.
~ L. BODENHAMER, former ma
NJ tional commander of the
American Legion, lit cigarette in
an oil field near Henderson, Texas,
an explosion of gas ensued, and
within a few hours Mr.. Bodenhamer
was dead of burns. He was one OF
the most prominent citizens Of Ar
kansas.
THE navy formally accepted the
= Macon and the great airship was
commissioned at Akron and left for
Lakehurst, N. j. 1t will go to the
naval air station at Sunnyvale,
Calf, probably In August.
@. 1893. Western Newspaper Union.