Show news I 1 I 1 vw s review of current events the world over st lawrence waterway treaty rejected by senate despite presidents efforts revamping of air mail in v progress house passes bonus bill by EDWARD W PICKARD D the fact that president roosevelt phoned personally to a number of senators of both parties seeking to persuade them to vote for ratification of the st lawrence waterway treaty the pact was wa defeated in the senate by a vote ot of 46 to ta 2 thus the affirmative vote was far below the required two thirds ot of those voting party lines were ills r regarded twenty two democrats voted a against g a I 1 n a t ratification senator fi lewis along with 20 elcans in favor ot of the pact were 31 democrats 14 republicans and 1 farmer laborite mr roosevelt it was said in washington was decidedly vexed by this defeat of 0 a major administration measure and he began preparations to resubmit the treaty at a future session of congress senator james hamilton IIa mllton lewis of illinois democratic whip of tho the senate and one of the leading opponents of the rejected treaty predicted that canada would soon offer the united states a substitute treaty this may be true but dispatches reveal that in montreal at least the defeat of the pact was balled with joy because business men there think the project too expensive to be undertaken at this time the presidents warning that canada would on its own initiative build an all canadian waterway afy seems to be met by this news from montreal chicago and the mississippi valley are re blamed by sir mr roosevelt for the rejection of the treaty and there Is no doubt that their arguments against the proposed restriction of diversion of water from lake michigan to 1500 cubic feet a second were potent this amount according to senator lewis and other middle west senators would be wholly inadequate to maintain navigation in ha the mississippi waterway the atlantic seaboard senators too were almost solidly against the treaty it the treaty Is resubmitted the clauses concerning the sovereignty of lake michigan and the chicago diversion may be omitted but senator lewis said so far as I 1 am concerned and I 1 believe I 1 speak also for several others I 1 shall not be satisfied with wath a mere acro omission but shall demand that internationalization of lake michigan and the limitation of the sanitary district diversion shall be specifically renounced by canada S SENATOR WAGNER of new york chairman of the national labor board has put forth a warning that unless misconstruction and evasion of the collective bargaining provisions of the national industrial recovery act are checked we may expect to witness a vast tast swelling of industrial unrest with the coming of spring secretary of labor perkins joined with wagner and other witnesses before the board in urging the passage of wagners magners Wag ners bill which would create a permanent labor board and outlaw employer influence over the organization of employees representatives ot of the american federation of labor demand that employers be forced to recognize the unions and predict general strikes especially in the automobile industry unless prompt action Is taken to satisfy the men Y DIRECTION of the president all BY bair air mail operations by the army air corps were suspended by maj gen benjamin D Poil foulois lols chief of the corps and the drafting of a new schedule that would insure greater safety for the flyers was begun when the news reached him of the deaths of the ninth and tenth army mall mail carriers carrl cra within three weeks mr roosevelt J tent sent out word the continuation of deaths in the army air corps gen BD must top stop ile he or foulois dered that the carrying of air mall mail cease except on such routes under such ach weather conditions and under such equipment and personnel conditions as will insure as far as the utmost care can provide against constant recurrence of fatal accidents accident general Fou foulois lols brig gen oscar westover chief of air mall mail operations and various post office department officials built a revised safety route with the transcontinental trans continental line from newark to san francisco as the main line other routes feeding into it the intention was to reduce the number of trips on all schedules and to permit less night flying colonel lindbergh aroused interest by visiting washington for two days and conferring with secretary of war dern soon after the secretary named the colonel orville wright and clarence chamberlain on a committee to investigate the army carrying of the air mall lindbergh however declined to serve on the committee repeating in his letter to secretary dern hla his severe bevere condemnation dem nation of the dlan to hivo hava th the army carry the air mall mail mr dern urged him to reconsider meanwhile the colonel appeared before the senate post office committee to testify ca concerning n permanent air mall mail legislation general foulois has been working on a plan by which army flyers could join with commercial pilots in ing training the step follows a suggestion by sir mr roosevelt that because military lessons have been taught us during the last few weeks army aviators should train with those who later on will fly the mail in night flying blind flying and instrument flying TWO va hundred and thirty one demo cratic members ot of the house kicked over the traces arid and with the aid of 59 republicans passed the patman bill calling for the immediate payment of the veterans bonus with greenbacks green backs the president has repeatedly expressed his opposition to the measure and indicated that he would veto it it if it got through congress its passage by the senate was unlikely there were only two reasonable explanations pla nations tor for the revolt of the democrats one ona was put in words by representative john Y brown of kentucky a democrat who was in opposition ile he said you are buying veterans votes you are holding out this piece of bait to get veterans votes this summer there Is not a man in the house who believes this bill will ever become a law and yet you sit here and vote for it for your own political welfare the other explanation was that many of the democrats are resentful of the rubber stamp label that has been put on congress and welcomed an opportunity to break away from dictation and as one of them said vote as their consciences directed I 1 TN N A new revolt against tion policy the house insisted on adding more than 1 in veterans benefits and government pay to the federal outlays in the next fiscal year however this was a compromise tor for the amendment adopted by the house involves a total annual expenditure of approximately for veterans as compared with the called for under the veterans amendment adopted by the senate briefly summarized the house measure as sent to conference provides 1 that all span spanish ish american war veterans be restored to the pension rolls on a basis of 75 per cent of what they received prior to enactment of the economy bill last session 2 that all world war veterans with service connected disabilities be restored to the rolls on a full basis 3 that world war veterans with presumptive disabilities be returned to the rolls on a 75 per cent basis in addition it eliminates pensions tor for emergency officers pensions tor for the widows of the men lost in airship disasters and knocks out the so called borah amendment limiting the restoration of the federal pay cut to persons receiving less than a year AMUEL INSULL whose deportation S SAMUEL was ordered by the greek government ern ment his big ticket bought and his train selected by the vanished from his big residence in athens between midnight and morning and tor for hours the police of the country were frantically searching tor for him then it was announced that the fugitive had been arrested aboard the greek freighter which had been pursued by a torpedo boat destroyer insult insull was bound for kessy egypt near alexandria and presumably was heading for either persia or afghanistan the athens police learned from the insult insull household nothing of the way in which insull escaped from the city they thought lie he was aided by international crooks the greek government decided that mrs insult was an undesirable resident d ent and should to be elected ejected from the country ALTER J CUMMINGS chairman WALTER of the continental illinois bank and trust company of chicago Is the new treasurer of the democratic party the place was first offered to john S cohen atlanta publisher but he be rejected it mr air cum clogs first task will be the raising of funds with which to help sion along 9 the election of democratic senators and congressmen this fall supposedly ho he will also raise the money tor for the next presidential campaign nn ON JULY I 1 the university of illinois 1 will have a new president in the person of arthur cutts willard now flow dean of the college of engineering in the university mr willard who la Is fifty five years old Is a graduate of tho the massachusetts institute of technology nolo y and la Is internationally known as a an authority on heating and ventilation ti hiie THE gunboat fulton known as the A grief ship of the american navy caught tire fire during a storm off the china coast and had to be abandoned the crew of officers and men was waa rescued by two british vessels and taken to Hong hongtong kong only three men JOSEPH isern B D and the interstate commerce commission have sed JI joined 11 in recommending to congress legislation that will place under onder the guiding hand band of government control the transportation agencies that use nse the highways and waterways of 0 the tha country their reports report which was submitted to the president declares that regulation of motor and water transportation por tation Is necessary it if a threatening chaos chao Is to be transformed into order such regulation they said should be concentrated in the interstate commerce commission in proposing changes in the interstate commerce act the coordinator co and the commission recommend liberalization aliza tion of the long and short abort haul clause forbidding a railroad to charge I 1 less es S tor for a longer than a shorter haul except on permission from the commission this clause to Is held by middle midd ae western interests to have damaged them substantially by preventing traffic moving by rall rail to the pacific coasts coast and its repeal Is now being sought 0 OF F COMM COMMERCE F ROPER SECRETARY obtained the approval ot of president roosevelt tor for a new program for subsidizing the american merchant marine which he be will submit to congress ItI MINAL action tor for alleged evasion C CRIMINAL of the federal income tax law was wa ordered by attorney general cummings to be brought immediately against andrew W mellon former secretary F aft of the treasury and one of the worlds wealthiest men T 14 sidlow of cleveland law partner of newton D baker thomas 3 lamont lament son of the noted finan financier cler thomas W lamont lament and a member of the J P morgan banking house andrew w and james J walker mellon on former mayor of new york mr cummings announced that the tha department of justice had bad conducted a secret investigation of the tax affairs of these four men and had turned the information gathered over to united states attorneys in new york cleveland and pittsburgh grand jury action in each of those cities wa was expected to result cases against more than a score of other men were being prepared by the departments tax division mr mellon was quick to place his case before the people in a long statement he denied ever having failed to pay his proper income taxes and said that in the last twenty years he had paid more mor than ethan in this form of rates ue he characterized the attorney ey generals action as politics of the tha crudest sort lie ile continued 1 I feel very strongly that before the tha attorney general of the united states should bring a charge of this kind against me 1 I like any other citizen should be given proper notice in the tha manner provided by law of the governments ern ments intention to assess additional taxes and should have been afforded an opportunity to meet such charges in tho the customary way in all my years of experience in the administration of the tax laws I 1 have never known of a single instance in which such unfair and arbitrary action has been taken over in london where jimmy walker Is sojourning sojo the former playboy mayor said he was not surprised that the authorities were only doing their duty and that he even welcomed it as aa an opportunity to vindicate his character by order of the president ident a new income tax procedure was put in force designed to break up so called negligent evasion of taxes all tax returns which the government suspects suspect a of embodying willful evasion will be ba referred to grand juries for investigation of possible fraud A LIBERTAD most important seaport L LA of the republic of salvador was almost destroyed by an explosion of dynamite on the docks and the resulting sul ting conflagration it was believed at least persons were killed 0 ONE NE of japans new torpedo boats the Tomoz uru of tons nan wrecked mysteriously off the aasebo naval base and it was believed most of her crew of men were lost the tha vessel was completed only february 28 26 last and was a new type carrying the heaviest armament ever given a ship of its size it was considered a triumph of japanese naval architecture several others of the same type are under construction ARRY PIERPONT one of john H HARRY Dil lingers gang was convicted at lima ohio of the murder of sheriff jess sarber barber in a jail raid in which dil unger linger was set free by his comrades and was sentenced to death in the electric chair the commander of the tha ohio national guard took ev every cry precaution to prevent the rescue of pier pont by his resourceful chief for D all linger was still at large presumably in or near chicago at crown point ind a special grand jury began investigating the easy escape of dillinger a special prosecutor having been named to conduct the inquiry at present only two men deputy sheriff ernest beunk and turnkey sam cahoon have been accused of aiding dillinger in his bis jail break Y A vote of 15 to 8 a district of BT columbia grand jury refused to return indictments in its investigation of an alleged conspiracy to defraud tho the government on war department contracts secretary dern was wa highly pleased with what ho be called ft a vindication of tha deportment |