The Archive · 1938

YOUTH DIES UNDER 'BUS WHEELS

Cyclist Killed Near Home in Weihaiwei Road Almost at very doorstep, Dien Shen-yoong, 16-year-old resident of 975, Weihaiwei Road, was yesterday afternoon under a No, 14 "bus of the China General bus Company.

youth was riding a bicycle, on an errand for his father, when the Joe He suffered injuries which accident occurred, at about 2.30

prüved fatal almost immediately.

tatements of the driver and con-of the "bus concerned were the police at the Chengtu Mr. Roosevelt cited the objectives of the Governments public utility programme as exemplifying the type of corrective action sought. He declared the same type of regional or local control of financing which he sought for the utilities industry was also desired for other businesses.

The President estimated that ownership of four per cent. of the $13,- 000,000,000 utility industry in the United States assured certain security holders of control of the entire industry.

"Herë is a 96 inch dog," the President said, "being wagged by a four inch tail."

Mr. Roosevelt said he believed only a "mere handful of businessmen will be in on the fight...in which there will be no compromise with evil—and no let up until the inevitable day of victory."

Sectionalism and class-consciousness, the President said, could not be tolerated if the Democratic Party was to progress. The statement was taken as a veiled reference to intraparty dissension which resulted in the pigeonholing of the wages and hours pill at the recent special ses-sich gf Congress.

r. Roosevelt said his message to Congress this week had it to make clear that the Administration "seeks to curb only the abuses of and privilège by sima The objectives of the Adminisiration, He" said, were being obscured by efforts to make the attack on the "small minority" appear to be an attack "upon the exploited majority itself."

"Barrage of Speeches"

Following the Presidents odd, Democrats throughout the nation laid down a barrage of speeches; the theme song-et which was that some business practices were harmful to the general welfare and therefore would have to be changed.

The Secretary of Interiot, Mr. Harold Ickes, who has hech active in the Admifistration's attack or Big Business, told a large gathering. at the Nashville, Tenn. Jackson Day dinner that over-privileged bustiiessmen were "singing the hymn of hate becatise the President dares to champion the cause of ihe under: privilegéd."

Striking a slightly morë conciliatory tone than in his recent speeches calling for corrective legislation, Mr. R. H. Jackson, Assistant Attorney General, suggested that the "Amer-tean' Government and business each need badly all the goodwill and ability the other has for their mutual protection against a selfish minority reckless enough to destroy both". Mr. Jackson, who recently opened the Government's attack on Big Business, spoke before the Democratic dinner in New York.

The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Henry Wallace, appealed for the finited support of agriculture, labour and capital for the welfare of the nation, Mr. Wallace appeared before the Jackson Day diners at Des Moines, Iowa, the capital of his native state—United Press.

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