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Show TIIE LEHI SUN, LEIII, UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over Senate Extends Skeletonized NRA Despite Long's Extraordinary Filibuster Grass' Roots Meet Offers a Creed for the Republicans. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C Wctura Newipaptr Union. SENATOR HUEY LONG, the Lou-islarn Lou-islarn Klngflsh, made a tremen-4oo8 tremen-4oo8 effort to keep the senate from adopting the resolution extending the skeletonized NBA until next April, but failed. Advocating Ad-vocating an amendment amend-ment offered by Senator Sen-ator Gore, which would have required senate confirmation of all executive officials offi-cials drawing more than 14,000 a year, thus disrupting the natronaze machine. Senator Unfl Huey Parted on a filibuster. For nearly 16 hours, with occasional help from Senators Schall and McCarren, he kept the upper house in session, pouring forth a continuous stream of dls-Mnru dls-Mnru that runeed from the neces sity of pteservlng the Constitution w lu country, mobi m me ue.e- .ate, 1 vise-like grip of a vast bureaucratic form of government which Is destroying de-stroying individual initiative and regimenting the American people." THOUSANDS of Republicans from ten states of the Middle West gathered in Springfield, III, for the "grass roots" conference and, In the shadow of the tomb of Abraham Lincoln, who saved the Union, solemnly solemn-ly determined to save the "indestructible "indestruc-tible states" from what they consider an assault on their constitutional rights. The gathering gather-ing was considered so important that it attracted political observers from all . ; i - " i f , Frank O. Lowden down to recipes for fried oysters and pot-Hkker. He attacked the President and the administration generally, called the NRA "the national na-tional racketeers' association," told stories about his uncle, read from tha Bible and Victor Ilugo, stalked about the chamber waving his arms and croaking as his rolce weakened, and now and then took a bite of cheese and a sup of cold coffee. All In all, nuey put on a show that kept not only the senators but a big crowd of visitors op all night lie was continually heckled by his angry an-gry fellow solons but always had a smashing retort. At last the senate broke down the filibuster, rejected the Gore amendment and passed the extension exten-sion resolution by a vote of 41 to 18. One change, to tighten tip the antitrust laws, suggested by Borah, was made, so the resolution was sent back to the house for concurrence. concur-rence. In its final form It continues the recovery administration without codes but with authority for voluntary volun-tary agreements among business men dealing only with collective "bargaining, minimum wages, maximum maxi-mum hours, abolition of child labor and prohibition of trade practices outlawed by statute. The house had previously adopted adopt-ed the resolution by a vote of 201 to 121, only a few Democrats standing stand-ing with the Republicans against It. PLANS for spending the $4,000,-DOO.OOO $4,000,-DOO.OOO work-relief fund are coming com-ing to the fore rapidly and numerously. numer-ously. Representative Mitchell (Dem., Tenn.) has Introduced a bill tequlring the President to use $1,-000.000,000 $1,-000.000,000 to help the durable goods Industries. By Its terms factories supplying machinery and materials would be reimbursed for losses directly di-rectly attributable to hiring new men. Mr. Mitchell thinks his plan would aid in the production of ?S0,-000,000,000 ?S0,-000,000,000 worth of durable goods needed by private Industry. The War department filed a re-Quest re-Quest for $17.071,3S8 to finance the construction of SO army bases In Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California Cali-fornia and Kansas. The Labor de- gates were young men eager for the battle, but with them were many white-haired leaders of former frays whose enthusiasm and patriotism have survived the years. After a pilgrimage to, the New Salem State park where the scenes of Lincoln's youth have been reconstructed, recon-structed, the delegates assembled in the fair grounds Coliseum and were welcomed by George W. Bunn of Springfield, general chairman of the local committee. Harrison E. Spongier Spon-gier of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was installed in-stalled as temporary chairman and made a speech in which President Roosevelt was pilloried for all manner man-ner of political and governmental sins, from killing six million pigs and breaking campaign pledges to violating the Constitution and attempting at-tempting to set up a dictatorship. Mr. Spangler then Introduced the orator of the day, Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois and former for-mer aspirant for the Republican Presidential nomination. Mr. Lowden, breaking a political silence of seven years, vigorously denounced President Roosevelt's proposal to change the Constitution to fit the New Deal and argued at length for maintenance of the bill of rights unimpaired. TS THE "platform" 1 adopted by the grass roots conference these governmental policies were advocated advo-cated : 1. The immediate adoption of a policy of economy and thrift In government gov-ernment with due allowance for essential relief expenditures as opposed op-posed to the present spending policy pol-icy of waste and extravagance. 2. The prompt attainment of a balanced budget, not by the nils- leading method of double bookkeeping, bookkeep-ing, but by the honest method of bringing the expenses of the government gov-ernment within the limits of its Income, 8. A sound currency based on gold and definitely stabilized oy congress so that Individual enterprise enter-prise may have confidence in the future value of the dollar. In terms of which every man's plans for his present or future must necessarily be made. 4. The Immediate withdrawal or JAPA.I Is moving swiftly to ob-fnln ob-fnln the control over north China which evidently is ber main objective at present New demands were presented to the Chinese gov ernment at Nanking, and when some of these were declared unacceptable the Japanese troops and officials be gan moving Into Pelplng and Tient sin and all the area between the Great Wall and the Yellow river. The Chinese officials, being help less, moved out and the branches of the Kuomlntang or People's party were closed. The central council in Nanking, though accepting accept-ing some of the Japanese demands, could see nothing but trouble ahead and Instructed Gen. Ho Ylng-chlng, Ylng-chlng, the war minister, to prepare for eventualities. WARFARE fcetween Paraguay and Bolivia in the Gran Cha-co, Cha-co, which has been going on for three years, came to an end after representatives of the two nations signed an armistice agreement in Buenos Aires. The truce was the result of conferences between representatives rep-resentatives of Paraguay, Bolivia and six neutral nations the United Unit-ed States, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile and Uruguay. An attempt will now be made to settle the disputes by direct negotiations. If these fall the World court at The Hague will be called on to render judgment The war In the Jungle has cost about 100,000 lives. THE British government It Is believed, has accepted in prln clple the German demand for restoration re-storation of the German navy up to 85 per cent of the British strength. This is exceedingly Irri tating to France, and Premier La val Is likely to send a note to all signatories to the Washington treaty protesting against the revision re-vision of the multilateral treaties by bilateral agreements, and pro posing a new naval conference, Including In-cluding Germany this time, to re vise the Washington and London ratios all around. O EINSDORF, a German town 62 miles southwest of Berlin, was virtually destroyed by the blowing up of a great munitions plant and the ensuing fires. Because of rigid censorship it was impossible to learn the number of casualties. Nazi officials admitted there were 52 dead, 79 Injured seriously and 300 slightly hurt GREAT BRITAIN'S attitude toward to-ward the crisis in east Africa has enraged all of Fascist Italy and the attacks on England in the Italian Ital-ian press became so bitter that Mus sollnl had to order that they be toned down a little, though it was denied in Rome that the British had made any diplomatic protest II Duce, however, continues his .out spoken denunciation of the British course. In a speech at Cagliart, the capital of Sardinia, he defied his European critics who have requested re-quested him to deal less harshly with the Ethiopians, and attacked the British without going to the trouble of hiding his words behind diplomatic formulas. "We will Imitate to the letter those who taught us this lesson," he sh uted, referring to British colonizing coloniz-ing methods which his press has been "exposing." "They have demonstrated demon-strated that when they were creating creat-ing an empire and defending It they never took Into consideration world opinion. "We have got old, and we have got new accounts to settle with Ethiopia, and we will se'ttle them. We will pay no attention to what Is said In foreign countries. We exclusively are the Judges of our & I ' j - ; Arthur Briabane THIS WEEK Paroles and Ransom Vincent Astor's Hotel Mussolini Is So Blunt The Brain Bath Waley, the Weyerhaeuser kid naper, caught after he sent his wife, like a true gangster coward, cow-ard, to change ransom bills for him, has this record : He had been arrested six times, begin-nlng begin-nlng at eighteen, and sentenced to terms in prison that would have kept him In prison for 75 years if parole boards had allowed It He was repeatedly released until at last, thoroughly trained In crime and convinced, probably, , as he might well be, that American Justice Jus-tice Is a mere Joke, he went to Tacoma and planned there the "snatch," as criminals call it, of the Weyerhaeuser child. Highway patrolmen in the western west-ern states did admirable work cooperating co-operating with the "G-men." The western highway patrolmen are real policemen. Mr. Vincent Astor of New York has bought In and will operate the St Regis hotel on Fifth avenue. built originally with Astor money, now repurchased for 55,090,000. An Astor running a hotel Is nothing noth-ing new. You need not be very, very old to remember the gray granite gran-ite "Astor House," a block long, opposite op-posite the City Hall on lower Broadway, Broad-way, where they had roast ' beef such as you find nowhere now. Before prosperous Americans learned to be really "aristocratic" with yachts, race horses and divorces, di-vorces, they thought owning a hotel and putting your name on It was almost aristocratic. The Astor House and the Brevoort House In New York, and the Palmer House In Chicago, the Coates House in .Kansas City, a thousand others prove It Scenes and Persons in the Curr ft; 'f f . - ? vil ''";" ; 'IkL-. tmmmmmmm. .mi in ijupi J 'rfWft r mm T J JP&L ...- 1 Jobless cripples marching to the New York city hall to demand employment 2 View ittt. Mi the fair grounds at Springfield, 111., where the "grass roots" Republican conference of the Midiii. Waa Will O JLrcutitti u x oicuait vi oomujjiuu, uio ucn iixinzLiai ULCUIULW VL U1Q DuFinerS NEW ARCIIBISnOP partment asked for $400,000 for re- government from competition with J own Interests and the guarantors of search designed to aid the United States employment service in selecting se-lecting and placing workers on relief re-lief Jobs and in private Industry. The department said It would use this money to carry on studies tn Chicago, Baltimore, Newark and 11 other cities not yet selected. TAXES totaling $475,000,000 would go out of existence before be-fore July 81 If not extended, so a resolution continuing them two years was being hurried through the house In accord with the wish of the President Among them are the S cent postage and the 1-cent-a-falloa federal gasoline charge. A second resolution was being prepared pre-pared to plug loopholes in existing tax laws and to adjust present rates found te be unconscionable or unproductive, THE American Federation of Labor La-bor more than tny other group except the old brain trust bemoans the death of NRA. and Its attorneys re busy drafting a bill designed to take Its place la a measure. This measure proposes to put under federal fed-eral license all concerns engaged In Interstate commerce or handling goods destined for such commerce. Those companies would be exemp-ted exemp-ted from the operations of the antitrust an-titrust laws but would be required to agree to hours of labor and work- lng conditions detervjined by a federal fed-eral commission. private industry, 6. The maintenance of the vitality vital-ity and free growth of American Industry through the preservation of the competitive system protected against monopoly by the vigorous enforcement of anti-trust laws, so that small businesses may be preserved pre-served and the door of equal opportunity oppor-tunity kept open to all. 6. The rigid enforcement of all laws, civil and criminal, to prevent and punish dishonest or unfair practices In business. Industry, and finance. T. National recognition of the needs of agriculture. Agriculture Is a .fundamental Industry ef the United States. 8. Work for the workers. With men out of work, as now, the capital capi-tal structure ef the nation is not only being impaired but undermined. 8. The breaking down of arbitrary restrictions that throttle world commerce, com-merce, such as quotas and exchange restrictions. 10. Continued protection te farm and home ownership, and continued provision. In co-operation with state and local governments, for those that are tn need until private enterprise en-terprise absorbs the present army of the unemployed. Senator Robinson, majority leader lead-er of the senate, speaking before the Arkansas Pharmaceutical association, asso-ciation, said of this: "The only constructive suggestion our future." Actually, Mussolini's plans for war with Ethiopia are not very popular pop-ular in Italy, but British Interference Interfer-ence Is Increasing his support dally. The reconstructed British cabinet Is much worried over the situation and believes the war cannot now be stopped. WASHINGTON swarmed with Shriners for a week, and they enjoyed themselves In their characteristic char-acteristic ways. Leonard P. Steuart of that city was advanced automatically auto-matically to the position of Imperial potentate, and A. G. Arvold of Far go, N. was given the coveted outer guard office, first step toward the top. The conclave of 1930 will be held In Seattle, opening July 14. "Mussolini annoys England; he talks so plainly no diplomatic beating beat-ing about the bush. Bluntly he says to old Britannia: "When you were building up your empire, killing off the Boers to grab South Africa, taking tak-ing India from the pot-bellied rajahs, ra-jahs, gathering In everything that was not tied down, you did not care tuppence what the world thought about you. Now It is my turn to gather In territory, maybe Ethiopia, and I care less than half of tuppence tup-pence what you think about It So mind your own business, please." Important to the human race is news of the "brain bath," which, ac cording to physicians gathered at a convention of the American and Canadian medical associations, literally lit-erally "washes the brain," freeing it from the poison of diseases such as Infantile paralysis' St Vitus' dance, sleeping sickness and some kinds of spinal meningitis. A solution of salt and water Is In jected Into the vein at thl ankle. After it has gone through the circulation cir-culation and washed out the brain, it Is withdrawn with its collected poisons through a needle inserted In the lower end of the spine. MAX BAER lost the weight rhamnlonshlD heavy- of the world, being defeated by James J, Braddock at Long Island City in a 15-round tattle. There were no knockdowns and neither man was badly punished, but the referee and Judges unanimously decided that Braddock was the winner on points. Baer'a chances were Injured by number of unintentional fouls. tWO of the kidnapers of young X ueorge eyernaeuser or laco- nia Harmon M. Waley and his wife Margaret were arrested tn Salt Lake City, where the woman was passing J JO bills tnat were pTt of the ransom money. A third made In addition to those which are SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAI1 J embraced tn the Roosevelt admin- J ember of the gang, William Ma-may Ma-may not be a receptive candl- I Istratlon policies Is the often re-1 han. an ex-convlct was belne nunt- 4ate for the Presidential nomination peated demand for the balancing of ed In the vicinity of Butte. Mont, jiext year, tut anyhow his friends the budget The budget cannot be in which he was forced to abandon to Idaho have grabbed his hat and Immediately balanced onless the a stolen automobile that contained thrown it Into the ring. They are various forms of relief now being $15,000 of the sum paid for release organizing "Borah -for-President" carried on be abandoned. This can- of the boy. Waley and his wife, clubs all over tie state. Ralph not be done Just now without dan- heavily Ironed, were subjected to a Brashears of Boise, one of the lead- ger to Billions ef our people who grueling examination by governors govern-ors uti Mr Borah I the man to have yet been unable to obtain em- meat agents and confessed their .-ZanHni our peop! toon b Payment" I part la the crtm Newsdom, written for newspaper men, says It has questioned all editors ed-itors and publishers that amount to anything, and finds them "overwhelmingly "over-whelmingly certain that radical movements are of no serious trend." The discovery will comfort many. but it is well to be cautious. There Is always a possibility of underesti mating what looks like "radicalism of no Importance. China, because she cannot do oth erwlse, yields In full to Japan's de mands. This Is the news from Tientsin, and It happens because the 400,000,000 Chinese are not pre pared for war, whereas the 00,000,' 000 Japanese are prepared. "Yielding" probably will not save China from another heavy loss of territory. It Is predicted that the young Chinese emperor, Japan's fig-nrehead fig-nrehead In Manchukuo, will be moved over and back to the old Im perlal palace, there to sit again as the Japanese Imperial dummy. "What's in a name?" Some young Republicans want the old Republican Repub-lican party to change its name from "Republican party" to "Constitutional "Constitu-tional party." Long ago, when the New York Herald, since dead, re duced Its price, the late Joseph Pulitzer wrote In a short editorial "The trouble Is not with your price. It Is with your newspaper. Change that" The trouble with the Republican )arty Is not with Its name. A dangerous strike Is called off tn Toledo, workmen wisely deciding to deliberate before going ahead with a strike that might have thrown tecs of thousands oit of work, C. ClBfl rtnr Srdit la WXU Service. I It JV'f - ' 2 Portrait of Msgr. Arthur Hlnsley who has been made archbishop of Westminster to succeed the late Cardinal Bourne. Midwest Opens 1936 Campaign First shots In the 1936 campaign were fired by SflOO Mid-West Republicans Re-publicans 'gathered at Springfield, 111., In a "grass roots" conference, which they think sounded the keynote key-note of the G. O. P. 1936 fight for the Presidency. 3 "Save the Constitution and democratic dem-ocratic government In America," was the pervading theme from the opening keynote of Frank O. Lowden, Low-den, former governor of Illinois. With this as a basis, the delegates declared they have formulated an expression of Midwest thought At Excelsior Springs," Mo., James Roosevelt, son of the President, departed from a prepared address to charge that the Republican party is dead and that the Springfield convention con-vention "Is looking for the body." The Republicans are seeking to raise a false Issue in the Constitution, Constitu-tion, Roosevelt said. Republican leaders,- however, assert as-sert that the Constitution will be the leading Issue of the Presidential campaign, and that New Deal principles prin-ciples will be repudiated by the voters. Only time can tell which Is right SETS WORLD RECOM 9 ? I W mtm. Helen Stenhens. twestr-resr track star of Fulton, Mo, rucf at Kansas City, bettered bj tenths of a second the world meter dash record for women by Stella Walsh. She ran the tance in 11.6 seconds. Children of "Pioneers" Already Play Baseball Living in a wilderness does not fleter the future Babe Ruths and Dizzy Deans from playing the grand old game of baseball No sooner had their pioneer fathers and mothers erected the tent city of Palmer In Alaska than the children of the group had laid out a diamond and began to play baseball. The. chil dren are part of the party of pio neers who recently went to the fertile Matannska valley In Alaska where they will seek to establish new homes. The government is financing them in their move from unproductive farms to the north country. Not all of Alaska is the dreary Arctic region one usually fU -llmoto 11 not ' fMOfrinAB I lit? LilUl"w different from that to onr iorj states, and since B1U came from this section of tfc j try, they should suffer W ;. hardships. RenortiftjW indicate that these f fJ ready begun breaking soU j new crops. Honor Men of the Armed Service ' " ym 1 1 iitii.nii.wwi.nii i miHuuuMMh Willi. T ; - 1 VJ . -i." : , . - .! - j u y- v - ' - ,r j -or 'I ' f Midshipman L. L. Shook. Jr. (left), was the top honor man of the graduating class at the United States Naval academy at Annapolis; and Cadet John D. Bristor of Passaic, N. J. (right), headed this year's graduating gradu-ating class at West Point Padre of the Rose' Rev. Father George vj ner of South Barbara, C1U ( i - V J S. V I Jat4' tip ' lii not vtii-cUCi50 UUrS UUl I U1KU aTK nHri 41T 1110 nBrlT Of HIO- I r I mannpred little mtt u. 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