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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1938
Page
2
The House approved the President's three billion dollar relief bill by 328 to 70, sending it to the Senate amid a turbulent session. Provisions include 2.519 billion direct appropriations and 0.635 billion for additional authorizations, plus 100 million added for rural electrification. The debate centered on debt-limit exemptions and farm relief amendments.
Reports claimed Secretary Hull would resign over President Roosevelt praising the Italo British pact. Japan seized Amoy in South China with foreigners safe. US and British ships to protect nationals. Lunghai rail line pressure and Suchow raid noted. 1938 revenue act patched by conferees sent to White House with 19 percent max rate for large corps and 16 percent minimum if earnings are distributed, plus a 2 percent credit.
Freeroads of the nation and the Railway Express Agency served formal notice to chairmen of rail brotherhoods of a 15 percent pay cut effective July 1. Carriers aim to trim annual payroll by 250 million dollars affecting about 925000 railroad workers. Railway Labor Executives respond with a vow to fight the action with every resource.
Texas ordered oil wells shut on Saturdays and Sundays reducing output by 16 percent. Oklahoma mandated May cuts of 81 000 barrels per day, lowering production to 405 000 barrels. Governor E W Marland hailed the action as preventing federal regulation and proving states can manage their own affairs.
The Federal Housing Administration begins insuring farm mortgages under Steward McDonald. Amendments to the national housing act allow insured loans for farms with new or repaired farm buildings, requiring at least 15 percent of funds spent on materials and labor. Eligible borrowers include farmers, tenants, and prospective buyers through approved institutions. Loan-to-value limits: 90 percent for $5,400 or less, 80–90 percent for $5,400 to $8,600, and 80 percent for over $8,600.
The Agriculture Department plans a mandatory loan program under a new crop control act to stabilize wheat prices. Secretary Wallace weighs drastic acreage reductions, with 1938 yield estimates and export needs around 740 million bushels, aiming for a total supply near 1.1 billion bushels alongside a new crop insurance push.
Hahn 218 house members signed to discharge rules committee on the wage-hour bill. Norton and supporters expect Senate approval, though Southern senators oppose the lack of regional differentials. The bill sets minimum wages of 25 cents rising to 40 cents in three years and a 44 hour week down to 40 in two years, administered by Labor and enforced by Justice.
Foreign correspondents, lacking official statements, speculated on the Rome meeting between Hitler and Mussolini. They urged that the friendship between the dictators strengthened, with nerves over South Tyrol, Sudeten Germans, and Trieste.
OSEPH DAVIES, a wealthy lawyer, nominated by President Roosevelt to be ambassador to Belgium. Davies will leave Moscow where he and his wife Mrs Marjorie Post Hutton Davies found social life lacking among the Soviets.
In the Kansas City Stockyards case the Supreme Court overturned Secretary Wallace's rate orders, ruling that the hearing denied the stockyards a fair opportunity to present their side. The ruling targets legislative courts and signals limits on agencies like the labor relations board and Agriculture, warning against unchecked executive power.
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