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Chapter Two OBER -FACED Franklin D. Roosevelt, placing hand on Bible for his second Presidential oath Wednesday, was carrying on the tradition or constitutional democracy started 148 years ago by George Washington. Facing Chief Justice Hughes, he accenled pledge "to support and defend the constitution." But the words he spoke in the next few minutes indicated he would carry on also the 4-year-old New Deal tradition of breaking precedents. Prime object: The abolition of poverty. The i a a i itself broke precedent.

It was held Jan. 20 under the "lame duck" amendment instead of March 4 as heretofore. Yet an estimated 200.000 i a a i fans braved the cold, driving rain that spoiled the Roosevelt "weather luck." Rich Alan To Poor Ulan Recovery and reform were the major goals of Roosevelt's turbulent lirsl administration. Continued recovery and reform were his solemn promises for the second. The man who was born i a silver spoon in his mouth, the man with a background of material wealth, the man of Groton and Harvard, vowed to carry on the flght for America's underprivileged.

"The challenge to democracy," said the President, "are millions of families trving to live on income so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by clay. Calling for the cooperation of citizens of "cool heads and warm hearts" to strive for a nation incorrupted by ''cancers of injustice," he virtually committed himself to a continuing program for redistribution of wealth. Those who thought the New Deal had reached a resting place and that the second Roosevelt administration would be devoted to consolidating advances found little support for the theory in the speech. Ready For Battle The President started his second term apparently as healthy as in J933. A little fuller of face and whiter at the temples than 4 years ago, he is clear of.

eye, still bronzed irom his South American trip and trim of waistline for a man who will be 55 Jan. 30. Physicians say his digestion is perfect and he cats scrambled eggs with relish as often as Mrs. Roosevelt will let him. Daily he swims in the White House pool, reads late, retires about i i and awakens at 8:30 or limes he's still the blithe old 1: -jvell.

But beneath his capital kv.cr smile, observers see a more i man On the eve of the inauguration, the cnvhelmingly Democratic gress extended i June 30, the President's emergency power to revalue the gold dollar and to wield S2.000.000.000 stabilization fund in the international cuirency poker game. Minority attempts to abolish i the gold power and require an accounting of stabilization operations crushed by an impressive demonstration of Democratic party strength. Fnrity Or Else In early days uf the New Deal, -pre-war parity" for farmers on they have to pay compared those they receive was set up as a goal for the administration's farm policy. This agricultural de- a experts ligured farm price relationships: were back virtually to they were in 1900-14. Tlic was hardly out before a Wallace served notice that i necessary to keep produce prices 'hey should be.

he will swing a club given him by con- arci-s. With this derived from a i a tariffs, he bought 300.000 doy.cns of low-priced eggs, which i be fed to families on relief. But egg prices look another drop as hens'kcpt a i under the influence of a false sp.ing. The spotlight was on the oi' supreme court by Sherman Minion. ardent man from Indiana.

After hour's confer; IKV i the President. i i reporters that Roosevelt oians a congressional leaders confer soon on legislation af- lecling the supreme court and the en- i indicia! system. The senate a ext i to RFC despite the one- man of Senator Byrd Va.) v. ho Ins criticized some oi the President's reorganization plan The WORLD This WEEK By The Associated Preis AT WAR: This German and American are comrades in fhe international column at Madrid. (See IN OFFICE: F.

D. R. seems graver than in 1933, just as healthy. (See "Chapter ON STRIKE: Soma of the idle hands which sent peacemakers on hurried trips again this week. (See At Home Mayor F.

H. LaGaardia, New York: "A T-bone steak and German fried potatoes is one of the best preventatives of crime." John D. M. Hamilton: The He publican parly must take cognizance of the fact it has lost the pulse and the personal contact of large groups of the electorate. Or Not To Sell The first big contract for sale of electricity from the Tennessee Vul- Laboi Cddly Enough Nasty Old Habit A Washington Stale college expert blames week-end kis.sins for the prevalence of Monday i And Buffalo's a commissioner would ban all kissing in i a affecled Twin Problems Al Alsjusk, a wat.

burn to Mrs. i 2 monlh.s after its i brother. The iirsl. i premature, is alive healthy, the was stillborn. In Lowell, twin performed a caesarian operation uii George A.

Ryan i. wlv gave i i i Never So Surprised About i time Krunk. i a a 'if Madrid. arrived in Scdro Wonley, for surprise visit lo hi.s hitler, Mr.s. J.

llutchens, she in-rived in Madrid her hrnlhiT. So i hoy tried a non-sur- reunion on a ground in In. iey project, President Roosevelt's primary power expires Feb. 3. The question of renewing that contract set off a major New Deal controversy this week on the whole issue of government competition with private utilities.

Two men in the thick of it were Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, chairman of TV and energetic young David E. I Lilienthal, a director. Morgan, famed i 58-year-cId president of Anlioch college a Yellow Springs, drafted drainage laws and did reclamation work for a dozen states before taking the TVA job, Lilienthal, a Harvard man and a lawyer now 37 years old, revamped the Wisconsin utilities commission a few years ago for the LaFolleltea.

Last September, the i called a conference of power officials who considered a system by which TVA and private utilities in the south would pool power to supply low-cost without crushing the utilities. Since election, many predicted the trend would be reversed and TVA would follow Lilienthal on a "finish fight" invasion of cities with L-hcap government power supplies. The showdown seemed near this week when Lilienthal called at the While House and Morgan rushed from i Lo Washington. There he issued a ilalcment proposing a national truce i i the private power in tores Is. Apparently i wa.s up to the President to choose a course.

But instead of accepting Morgan's statement as a swan song or calling for vigorous TVA expansion, he named a coiriinH- tee headed by Secretary Ickes to form a power policy applicable to all government projects. Lilicnthal's reported position that the. utilities should demonstrate good a i by abandoning i i against TVA. His position against power "pooling" 1 was backed by Senator Norris. Nebraska Independent and father of TVA, who planned lo a ihe whole controversy to the liucr of the senate.

Second Fiddles Overshadowed by congress, legislatures now in session in more than naif the states are considering momentous matters--and that doesn't "count taxes and expenses. In the south, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee solons study prohibition repeal proposals, while Arkansas considers i up Ihe dry law bars again. Capita" punishment is an issue in at least 7 states and child labor amendment will be up for ratification in more than a dozen. Eleven approvals are still needed Broad social welfare programs have been advanced in Minnesota, Farmer- stronghold; in Pennsylvania, where the first Democratic legislature in 91 years is in session, and other states. With Nebraska's pioneer one- house legislature ii.

action, New Jersey is considering a unicameral proposal, Arkansas has turned one down, But problems of death and taxes haven't discouraged unusual bills. One in Massaciiusci 1 would set a uniform height for bumpers, to facilitate pushing. An Iowa measure would bar persons under 20 from movies in which divorced actors play. And a question before the Montana house is who will be "admiral" of the Flatbush lake fleet." Old Man River, Again Just a year after the big that laid groundwork for last spring's floods, torrents burst on the midwest. For the second lime in 10 months and the second lime in history, the Ohio was at flood stage all along its i)3Q miles.

But allliofgh hundreds of thousands of acres were ilooded in Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Ar- kaiibai, Kentucky. 1 jnnessce and other stales, a levees broke and of persons were driven from I i homes, initial loss of life was slight. Tiic reason apparently was twofold. First, in the a i (here was no flood as created havoc last March.

Second, as the waters rose steadily during a 72-hour rain in the Ohio valley, residents were warned well i.i advance. The high water mark neared last year's levels in many dis- Iricts. but not at Pittsburgh, center of the disaster- Fines It's going lo cost studeuis at ihe University of Oklahoma lo flunk For each semester-hour in which they a i hereafter, Ihe charge will be S3. That amounts to about SI2.000 a semester. But President W.

D. explainer 1 the money isn't the i His hope merely is a i llic fines i get the students to pass. New Deal: First Down, 4 To Go The inaugural address of President Roosevelt promised that the New Deal would carry on. This is what it did in the first 4 years-New laws purged Ihe nation's banking system and provided greater protection for the investor. The dollar was devalued and a 52,000.000,000 stabilization fund established.

The 18th amendment was repealed. The AAA tried to control crop production and restore farmers' buying power. Then, after a court reversal, the soil conservation and domestic allotment act was set up with the same objectives. In CCC camps. 350,000 needy young men helped conserve national resources.

The Tennessee Valley Authority started the nation's first unified regional development. Emergency relief, civil works and public works administrations were established to relieve suffering from unemployment and to "prime the punip." NRA tried to belter working condition, widen employment and curb unfair trade practices. It was killed by the supreme court. Old age pension and unemployment pension systems were started. A i a negotiated reciprocal trade treaties with 15 foreign nations.

Federal financial agencies went to the relief of home and farm owners. Labor Monkeywrench People Abroad Overall Money C. C. An unemployed 63-year-old grandfather, C. C.

Fleming, of Chelan, who hadn't seen so much money since he quit cotton planting in 1215, had no (rouble spending $200 thrust upon him by a contest thatstart- ed the first actual attempt to put theTownsendold age pension plan to work. "Mother, rich," he yelled, and spent just like that I i church, S3 for Townsend club duos and S3 for a permanent wave for His first budget included groceries S50, rent 320, fuel and i S2(i. dentist S60, clothes S35. Each of the tagged bills overall money someone called it--is being taxed 2 cents on every transaction in Chelan for 30 days. With the proceeds, sponsors hope to provide funds for more pensions.

Menuhin Back The 2-soason retirement announced in 1930 for Violinist Yehudi Menuhin was lo be not only a period of rest buL a period for the public to forget the blond, floppy-haired child prodigy and make ready for the adult virtuoso. But this week came word that Yehudi, 20 years old Thursday, would break into his sabbatical year v. ilh a radio broadcast Sunday evening. Born in America of a i a parents, Yehudi lives in California, Japan And The Joneses Democracy or fascism was described as the mam issue before the Japanese parliament convening this week. And a i America, strangely enough, ployed an indirect parl in the drama.

This was broughl out when Secretary Swanson indicated the United States might install 16- instead of 14-inch guns aboard its two new battleships unless Japan agrees lo new naval limitations al- ready accepted by England, America, France and Italy. Interpreting Swanson's disclosure as a sign of "crofs aggressiveness, a a expressed concern, laid the keel of a 10.000-ton floating arsenal. Thai keel is just one item in price Japan is paying to keep up i Joneses on the high seas. Her new budget, largest in the nation's got Ji.pay; incrcascjDf A few hundred sitdown strikers did more than stall the machinery of two Fisher body plants at Flint. Mich- They hailed peace machinery on which 140,000 workers of General Motors corporation had pinned hopes for settlement of the biggest U.S.

labor stalemate. These few might have marched out i colors flying last Sunday as arranged by Governor Murphy. Gibers at Detroit had done so and been greeted by wives and friends as returned heroes. Flint was next but at the last minute Union Chief Homer Martin accused General Motors of a "double cross." That scaled the fate oi" peace negotiations arranged for Monday by Governor Murphy. Said William S.

Knudscn of General Motors: The corporation was innocent of any breach of faith and would carry on no negotiations as long as the sildowncrs remained. Thus the -situation was right back where it started. Second in command officials of union labor and G.M.C. moved into llic background. Highcrups and Governor Murphy moved negotiations from Michigan to Washington where Ihe President could keep in close touch.

There gathered John L. Lewis, chairman of Council for Industrial Organization, President Alfred P. Sloan, of General Motors and Secretory Perkins. Trade observers were predicting a of new cars i i 15 or 20 days. Workers had lost 510,000,000 in wages the company $3,000,000 in pn.lils.

Just as the President in Waslung- Inn was promising a continued drive for recovery, Ihe 98-day strike of fi.OOO employes at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass company ended. Workers Home Of The TVA 'Yardstick' I i i i a (inKinrr-rs, Nev, Wednesday Suturdiiy Pi undent's birthday. i i i i a Keichiilag. York. CITIES BUYING TVA POWER.

listory. has caused an inflationary I i insisting on the closed shop rise in retail prices-IO to 30 per cent or chcckoll of union dues, this month. And price increases necessitated an exchange control system that has brought Japan's entire import trade to a standstill. The determination of Ihe militarists to see that Japan can face any other armed power on land or sea was a major factor in thrusting thc- fascist issue upon parliament. If the members turn down the budget, the militarists might dissolve the assembly and rule by decree.

Along with shipping and automobiles, plate glass bad been the major industry affected by labor trouble. This settlement opened the way for a quick undcrslandini; also between the Libbcy-Owens-Fnrd glass company and i'ts striking employes. Meantime, a i of the 5 railroad brotherhoods decided to ask for a 20 per cent wage increase for all I unions. For Le Shah, Un Chat An American witii a "grand sense: of humor" landed an oil concession covering 200,000 square miles in Persia this week while the shah of Persia was taking a violent dislike to French humor directed at his own royal person. As a U.

S- diplomat, the American, Charles C. Hart, once wrote a solemn report on "The Need of Exercise" which made official tongues click in this country and abroad. Resigned from diplomatic service, he was a chief negotiator in the oil deal which gave the Amiranian Oil Co. rights involving construction of a pipe line. This company is controlled bv Ihe Seaboard Oil interests which recently got a concession in nearby Afghanistan.

The shah's ire, aroused by a joke in a French magazine, led to the sud- den a of his minister from Paris. The joke was a pun on (lie words ''shnir' and ''cnal," or cat, which sound alike in French. Crossed Wires Nazi Kultur The. Tennessee a power project is Hie lia.sic a in a controversy over U. S.

competition with private imllMrv. r.sv,- On the German education system, once a world leader in liberal learning, a i a i is being imposed. Lads i distinguished records in i youth movement i lie trained free in Aclnlf Hitler schools, where i receive special in- in leadership and a i ideals i they a ready i i i or labur service. Out of llii.s esp i a (rained group i cmcige Ihe fii'hiri: leaders of a i a i-ialism. i i liicorics .1 11 have separnlcil llic TVA leani- inales.

A K. Morean (lop' anil I i i i a f.V(v Sword Play A HEAVY man but light on his feet, General Hermann Goering, second in command o.f the German Reich, pranced through a sabre contest at Rome with muscular, Bcn- Ho Mustiulini. Then llic two fa.sci.sl. chiefs, i other's swordsmanship, talked oi er a sabre-rattling announcement for showdown between communism frisci.sm. Said GocrinR: a and France must choose sidci for llic inevitable struggle.

That was a bid for renewal of the pact, Mussolini's prize system for guarantee of the pence of Europe by Germany, Italy, England and France. The reaction in London was i and effective. The younn BnLi.sh foreign minister, A scjucldiccl any hopes a Britain would leave its middlc-of-lhc-road position. Instead uf resting on England, he said, the responsibility for nonce in Europe rests squarely on Germany. Months Of His a i was so uiH'ompromis- i inn that Italy its idea for 1 a -l-power-pact almost before it had been formulated.

The; net result of. the widely-touted Guerintf-Musso- lini conversations scorned to bo a strengthening of the a i i alliance between a and Itnly. Out of I week's i a i maneuvers, one fact aroiic: There is scarcely any hope for a quick ban on war aid lo Spain. The Spaniards themselves rejected such a proposal by the non-intervention committee. Portugal turned thumbs down on it.

Russia said sha liked the idea but couldn't act because of fascist activities. France was in the same fix. The high cost of helping General Franco (S5 per day per man) was curtailing German aid. The Spanish war meantime entered its seventh month. Loyalists, despite effective resistance to General Franco's fascists, were torn by internal dissension.

The latest conflict i i the socialist- communist-synriicnlist-left, republican coalition was between two communist groups. One included the followers of Trotzky, the other the adherents of the present Russian rc- yime. Already syndicalists and socialists have clashed. Victories For All In the actual fighting, there were major features. The fascists, an army of 20,000 Spaniards and foreigners under General Gonzalo Queipo do Llano, drovft eastward along the southern coast towards the important seaport, Malaga.

There, a fascist bomb destroyed tha unoccupied U. S. consulate, the first one wrecked in Spain. At Madrid loyalists also aided by volunteers pressed the ighting in the first part of the week. They've gained some of the territory ost alony the strategic road lo El Escorial.

Then in University City on the outskirts of Madrid, they trapped a )and of fascists on the upper floor of he Clinic hospital. Finally, they got momentary possession of the geo- jraphical center of Spain, a hilltop I miles south of Madrid. World In Brief Karl Radek, famed Russian commentator. and 16 others wtre called trial Saturday in Moscow for pubic treason in connection with the Trotzky plots" which have resulted 17 executions already. A new Irade agreement between Canada and Great Britain was an- lounced at Ottawa.

U. S. Steel announced a 560,000,000 xpansion program. Fire blame' 1 on a feud between ugglers roasted more than 100 to on speeding Chinese train. Big tobacco companies boosted cigarette prices 15 cents a thousand.

Foreign missionaries, including 12 Americans, escaped from Sianfu, Chinese revolt center. Elaine Barric sued John Barrymore for divorce; Ann Harding wed Orchestra Mnesiro Werner Janssen. Deaths. Robert, D. Carey 53, former Republican a I Chnvcnno, Wyo.

The Moil Rev. Michael J. Gallagher, 70, a i bishop of Detroit. Fliqht Speed, And Luxury Wiry Hmvai'cl Hughes, a 32-year- old millionaire oil producer, climbed wearily from his "winged bullet" Newark airlield and shook his head. "I i know as fast as that," he confessed.

The plane lie dc- and i in his own factory at Burbank. had spanned the i in 7 hours. minutes, 2a seconds, a i a long-dis- lance speed records. i part of his roaring i (lie stratosphere, hi' had oil unconsciousness from lack uf oxygen. but aviation editi'i's tins week a oilier a i a I one i i i ship, a S150.00U "baby clipper." i K.

Vander- i oil' ('rum i a i Beach, on a i American cruise. Equipped i bar, kitchen, lounge and facilities, for 3, Ihe i was i a i a against engine Added on I i a commercial On i New York-Chicago i Air Lines a tin: first of a lied of SI 001) exlra-faiv ships. The new planes have places for Mi, of 21. perm i i a space, more com- a chairs', larg.T galleys. Pas- senger.s eat a meals from i a i a a have a i i i bridge, i i i a i i The c-Mni fare is.