Show news review of current events the world over ove r congressional quizzers Quiz stir dr townsend to wrath laudon landon has bi big bunch of delegates guffey coal act declared invalid by EDWARD W PICKARD a western newspaper union FOR OR two days dr francis E townsend replied mildly to the questions of the house committee investigating the lie activities ot of the organic org organization aniz aaion behind the alio old age pension movement which the doc doctor t 0 r started then t lie li e california lost his patience suddenly refused to on an any more nonsensical q queries u e r I 1 e s spoke ot of thickhead thick head ed congressmen denounced the committee ee for its unfriendly attitude and asserted dr F E t the it e administration towns townsend rid was a hostile force behind the inquiry lie ile declared lie he would form a third patty baity after the november elections finally doctor townsend told the committee 1 I am retiring from this sort of inquisition and I 1 do not propose to come back except under arrest and I 1 do refuse absolutely to mike make any further statement rc regarding arding this movement to till this committee commit t ce escorted by gerald K smith former adherent ot of cluey long e and another man the californian it lied e ol 01 from washington to baltimore the committee decided to ask the house to cite him for contempt when he be was as questioned regarding lar large p sums contributed by townsend club members the physician said the contributors had faith in him and that we need millions to promote a movement of this kind and we will get them nia testimony developed that doctor townsend his brother walter townsend ind and gilmour young own the assets of the townsend organization estimated now at about and that townsend club members have no property right in them doctor townsend testified he has received about in salary dividends from the townsend weekly and expenses but now had only about and his wife about to show tor for their efforts OV ALP ALF LANDON captured nearly G GOV all the new jersey delegates to the national convention defeating senator borah about 4 to 1 I la in the popular vote this victory gave the kansan a total of more than 1 00 votes to start with at cleveland and his manager john IIa Ila mllton claimed he would have at least of the votes necessary to nominate and would win on the second or third ballot the statement by herbert hoover taking himself out of consideration for the nomination Is generally judged to have helped landon with sir mr hoover out oat of the picture it will be to hold california texas and other potentially ally coover votes away from landon james A farley postmaster general and also democratic national chairman told the michigan democratic convention he believed the republican presidential nominee will ivill be the governor ot of a typical prairie state and that his election if he won would be a perilous experiment parley farley criticized the man be did not name as devold devoid of experience in national affairs and predicted that it if he Is the republican standard bearer even kansas will not be in the roosevelt doubtful col column u nin 0 of the railroad C constitutionality retirement system was contested before the district of columbia supreme court by attorneys representing the class 1 I railroads and lesser railway enterprises the lawyers argued that the pension law and a tax law enacted at the same time are together substantially the some same as the ua unconstitutional constitutional railroad retirement act of 1931 1934 the two separate acts one providing pensions idd and the other taxing the income of railroads and employees were passed last year after the supreme court ruled unconstitutional tile the 1034 1934 law in which a levy and a pension system were combined the government contended that the alleged relation between tile the two mo acts could not be proved and that the railroads were suing in effect to enjoin collection of a tax such a suit the government contended was barred by federal law the government further defended its railroad retirement system as an exercise of its constitutional power to provide for the common deloose delease of action on the postponement patman robinson chain store bill until next session was urged on the house rules committee lu in a letter from six po powerful erful form organizations charging the bin bill would restrict operations erat crat ions of farm co operatives tIves by pre enelog eatlo them from receiving wholesale wholes jle the letter warned also that higher consumer prices would result niKl ment the alie measure at al beady pi passed by tile the se trite pirn ills price allons by lo 10 lii cu biners I 1 alir it letter haq vi signed by relt I 1 all it ille Alli erlean palo I 1 li 1 adel tile the illi ini 11 1 national cooperative co operative council the national operative cooperative co milk producers federation era tion tile farmers national grain association and the northwestern farmers union legislative committee OF WA WAR it DERN allocated SECRETARY nearly for river and harbor improvement projects throughout the country that had been recommended by the engineering corps of this sum IN will III be used for entirely new waterway and port lm while will be employed in maintaining existing river and harbor fiel facilities lides SIX X members of the supreme c ourt court of the united S states tates ruled that the guffey act to control the bituminous acal industry industry Is invalid and another of the new peal deal experiments peri ments goes into the discard this Is the act which dent delit roosevelt arg urged ged s c congress to pass notwithstanding doubts of its however reasonable five justices erland buffer van devanter r cReynolds SI and roberts Il joined sen gu guffey in the majority ton ion which invalidated the whole act justices cardozo brandeis Brande ii a and nd stone joined in a dissenting opinion in which they upheld the act chief justice hughes held in a separate opinion that the act was constitutional with respect to the marketing provisions but unconstitutional with respect to the labor regulations the court in the majority opinion held that there is no authority in the constitution for the control of the coal industry attempted in the guffey act the act was not valid either under the commerce clause or the welfare clause senator guffey of pennsylvania author of the act lost little time in introducing a substitute measure concentrating on price fixing and omitting the labor provisions which were outlawed by the supreme court john L lewis head bead of the united mine workers declared that organization would join I 1 in requesting congress to enact the b bill I 1 11 at once lie he thought tile the measure would operate to maln maintain talo the equilibrium of tile the coal industry pending further study of of the industry A plea to all coal operators to support the new bill was made by charles oneill legislative chairman of the national conference of bituminous coal producers some congressional leaders however thought it unlikely that the new curfey bill could be passed at this session ERBERT 11 LEHMAN announced announce H HERBERT suddenly in albany that he would not be a candidate for a third term as go governor vernor of new york saying 1 I feel the t time 1 in e has c ome come when I 1 may ask release 1 ease from the cares and responsibilities of the governorship put nut leaders of the democratic party including president roosevelt national C chairman h a I 1 r in a n james A parley farley and senators wagner and copeland undertook to persuade sir mr lehman lebman gov lehman to run for or reelection they all agreed that ills his retirement would be a loss to the state an and the party and that he should be dratted drafted the immediate political result of tile the 9 governors over nors surprise action vaa as that new york again became a doubtful sta state te for the presidential campaign in the minds of many politicians T the e morale of republican leaders in the state improved and democrats b began egan speculating tin as to which of a group of the ine or more candidates could be groomed tor for tile gubernatorial nom nomination lila this fall if lehman persisted lu in ills his determination rejoicing marked the inaugural gau GENERAL ural of dr lill maguel guel mariauo gomez gome as president of cuba the first elected by the people since gerardo Ala machado chado the alie new executive a lawyer and revolutionary leader who tins has twice been mayor of hav havana ana took the oath of odice in the ball bait room of the presidents inan mansion slon in the presence of foreign and cuban officials the guns of cabanas fortress across the harbor tired fired a twenty one gun salute and on the signal all public buildings were illuminated lumina ted and thousands of 0 merry makers began parading tile lie streets president gomez appeared on a bal couy and told tile the shouting throngs thrones that he would do ills best to maintain a constitutional by ill lip P cubans and for the benefit and Inte intent ln tent iet of all cubans in ills first t to I 1 congress cun con giess lie he ill 1110 P I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 II 11 I 1 I 1 tint n t rights lip be arsini td afung ills hf lii iw ii niile tIrI Ice ij 10 zill gilr liliie ipes ices for fir nil ellk ii ail vi III 1 bieni dinv to ori or I il to ty rt illi 11 21 1 I i ii lir ine 1 J EITHER great britain nor france ahas NEITHER has any intention of paying the installments on the american war debt due june 1 15 11 and 11 almost certainly tal all tile the other debtor nations except finland will follow the example of 0 the two big ones and again default british foreign minister eden talked about the debts with leon blum who probably will be premier of france soon but there was no indication that either one was planning to make a payment blum told the american club in paris lie hoped the war debt misunderstanding might be cleared up but he was just trying to be pleasant to the people of both america and france without spending any money of course tile the debtor nations would like to have the issue cleared up for as long on ns as they are arc in default they are subject to the restrictions of the johnson act which makes it unlawful for tiny any person in the united states to purchase or sell the bonds securities or other obligations of 0 any foreign government or it to 0 make any loans to such a government while that government is in default in payment of its obligations to the united states ENITO MUSSOLINI advised prince avon von Star hemberg of austria not to start any domestic trouble because he was ousted from the cabinet by chancellor and when the prince returned refill tied to vienna the cabinet fixed things up neatly by decreeing that the country should have three fuehr fuchre ers rs the unofficial dictator becomes national leader of the fatherland front eduard door von barenfeld Baren Daren fels the new vice chancellor Is national commander of the front mil itla and continues as sports leader and head of the norther hood protective association AT IONS ill that it are especially hard N up might consider the method said to be employed by r rumania tu mania A bucharest newspaper asserts that government employees have hae been paid largely la in counterfeit money vast quantities of bogus lei pieces bai having ing been issued in sealed bags by the ministry of finance that ministry then announced that tile the count counterfeit erelt coins would not be re deemed and that persons who passed them would be prosecuted LIE resettlement administration theader THE headed by resford guy tugwell was as declared by the district of columbia court of 0 appeals to be clearly unconstitutional delegation of power in a case involving a model com w unity project in somerset county new jersey going beyond ahe be issue before them the justices ot of the appeals court called the entire relief appropriations act ot of 1935 D into question the act was invalid one anc hence RA was invalid according to the court legally hovi however ever none of the rest 0 of the act will be affected by the decision because the other multitudinous activities of the new deal under the appropriation were not before the court 11 ANTON alleged leader der DR of ashl bl the croatian terrorist organization and accused as one of the master mInd sIn of king alexander ot of in marseilles sel se illes lIes has been set free by the italian authorities released with mill him was his lieutenant eugene kvaternik the two terear were arrested at turin in october 1934 soon after the he murder of alexander but the french authorities thorl ties who were dr working on the case were never permitted to question them and an italian tribunal refused the request of the french government for their ext extradition radl to france for trial JOSO bosn LUIS TEJADA SORZANO was forced to resign the presidency of bolivia by a junta of army officers and socialists who staged stag ged a bloodless bl oodles s coup in ln la paz col G german erman busch acting chief of the general army staff leader of the coup will ill be at the head of the government until col david toro hero of the war with paraguay returns from the chaco when toro tore will be installed as president NEWS that japan was greatly v enlarging her force in north china led the state department in washington to announce that tile the position of the united states Is the same as that outlined last december by secretary hull of firming its support of the nine power pact that guarantees chinas cainas territorial rit orial integrity at that time sir air hull bull said this his country has a binding talta faith in the fundamental principles of its traditional polley policy this government adheres to the provisions of the treaties to which it Is a party and continues to bespeak respect by all na ca eions for tile lons of treaties solemnly entered into for the purpose of bacill facilitating tating and regulating to reciprocal and common advantage at the state department it was said that the reaffirm reaffirmation atlon of support of the nine power pact does not dot wean mean that the administration will abandon its polley policy of declining to take the initiative ive in any attempt to curb japan for violations i of the pact this was attempted by h v henry L secretary or of sute state in the hoover ad adminta mints tuition hillh tile hie gain of nothing but J 0 pa nes ill will alts SA R A 1 E lano ROOSEVELT lazed another of the president fell ailio 1 in I at wt it in new yolk some ens iii 1114 Is inid c U at hyde park ili fill tin impacted alp and cracked I 1 lnier mic kiil light of the injuries inn mt mi 1 1 elt as gravely con I 1 lie ile tile witt with I 1 IK ii fliri |