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Show .· Midvale, Utah, Friday, Sept. 20, 1935 THE UTE SENTINEL PAGE TWO Review of the History -Mali.i ng Events of Last Weeli. Assassination of Senator Long Stirs the Nation-Great Britain Ready to Take Sanctions Against ltalylckes Versus Hopkins. By EDWARD W. PICKARD e Weatera Newspaper Uaioa. P. H UEY senator LONG, United States and political dictator of Louisiana, is dead, the victim of an assassin's bullet. As be passell through a corridor of tbe state-house "ln Baton Rouge, where the legislature was passing more laws to solidIfy hl9 control over the state, he was shot once through the body by Dr. Carl A. Weiss, Jr., :>f Baton Rouge, one of tbe "KtngHuey P. Long fish's" political op. ponents. The assassin was Immediately shot to death by the senator's ever present bodyi,uards. The wrgeons and physicians worked unceaf.llngl:J to save Long, but bis strength steadily waned and shortly after 4 o'clock Tuesday morning, about 30 hours after the shooting, he passed away. Long's body Jay in state in the rotun·da of the Capitol building while many thousands passed by tbP bier. The Impressive funeral services were held on the front terrace and the dead senator was Interred in a sunken garden of the CarJitol grounds. Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, the young minister who deserted a rich parish In Shreveport to follow Long, was the only speaker at the funeral. The only music was the song, "Every Mao a King, .. played in minor key and dirge time by the State University band. Though the man who kllled Long was known as one of bls political toes, the real story of the assassination was shrouded In uncerEarl Christenberry, sectainty. retary of the late senator, decl!ired that Long was murdered as a result of a conspiracy; that a number of his enemies formed a ..jury of death," and that Doctor Weiss was selected by lot to fire the fatal bullet. To those who are famlllar with the conditions In Louisiana this story does not sound especially fantastic. What wlli become of Long's ••empire" Is a question that agitates all his followers, and all the people of the state as well. For the present, lt seemed likely, the members of the Long machine wlll sink their personal ambitions and try to bold the organization Intact. It will be difficult for them to decide on a successor to the .. Klngfish" as their leader. Gov. 0. K. Allen Is considered too mild and peaceloving. Seymour Weiss-no rela· tlve to the assassin-treasurer of the Long organization, Is the strongest man In the lot, but he has always drawn back from holding public position. Allen A. Ellender, spes ker of the house, may be thP man flnally selected, thongb Lieut. Gov. .Tames A. Noe Is to the fore. Political leaders of all parties expressed their deep regret for the assassination of Senator Long. His devoted followers In Louisiana and elsewhere mourned his death. Be had been one of the picturesque figures In Amerlca'9 political life. creating Innumerable enemies but persistent to advocating his Ideas which appeared fantastic to most citizens. A Democrat, he had broken with the administration and often bitterly attacked President Rc,osevelt and the New Dealers. It was the belief of many that he Intended to become the Presldentl.IJ.l nominee of a third party comprisIng his own ..9hare the wealth" crowd and various other groups dissatisfied with the policies of the of the Greek R ESTORATION nearer and coming monarchy Is presuni8..blr F ".nner King George w1fJ oe the man to occupy the throne. Premier Tsaldarls has put himself on record as fa vorlng the restoration, and Pre91dent Zalmls has Indicated he will be wllllng to resign to make room for a king. Tsaldarls said In bls statement: ..I attribute the nervous tension at present existing In public ranks and the army to general anxiety concerning the question of a constitution. I consider democratic royalty as the natural regime of Greece and ask the people to vote for lt in the Impending plebiscite." tacitly consented to M USSOLINI the appointment of a commit· tee of five nations by the League of Nations council to handle the ItaloEthloplan em brogllo, and after prote9t agreed that Great Britain and France should be among the members of that body. The other members are Spain, Turkey .1.n<l Poland. Senor Salvador de Madarlaga of Spain Is the chairman, and he and his as- Salvador de Madarlaga soclates at once began the task assigned them. Each country Is represented by its chief delegate, beln~ hesldes 1\ladarlaga, Eden of England, Laval of France, Ru9tu Arras of Turkey ant: Josef Beck of Poland. Soon after the assern bly of the league opened Its session, Sir Samuel Hoare, British foreign secretary, electrified the gathering by an outspoken warning to Italy and France. He declared Great Britain recognized Italy's need for expansion and raw materials but would not admit these could not be obtained peaceably. Pounding the tribune, he said: "Britain stands for steady collective resistance to all acts of unprovoked aggression... He paused, struck the tribune again, and repented quietlpy: "Steady collective resistance to all acts of unprovoked aggression." Sir Samuel more than intimated that Great Britain was prepared to take sanctions against Italy In case of aggression provided all the other members of the league shared the rlsk; and lf not, then England was prepared to Isolate her.self trom the continent. 'l'his seemed to put It Uli to Premier r...aval of France, to choose between the friendship of Britain and that of Italy. Laval meanwhile was trying to persuade Mussolinl to accept another plan he had devised and postponed his speecb to the as· sembly. Representatives of the Netherlands and Sweden were the first to support Hoare's position announcIng their countries would fulfill all obligations Including collective penalties If any member became a victim of aggression. In two speechet. In Rome Mussollnl gave Indication that be would not be diverted from hls purpose to conquer Ethiopia. Though In one he said "the Itall!ln people want peace provided It Is 'accompanied by justice,'' In the other he declared '•we shall march straight on.'' The Ethiopian government annou~d that "telegrams from the northern frontier sho~ that the Italians are mak· lng Important troorJ movements on the Ethiopian and Erltrenn frontier. ln<licnt~n~ an enrly offpn In> Accepting the advice of .1Is "brain won her mtutary freedom and attrust,'' which includes Everett A. tacking the .. Fourteen Points" of Colson of the United States, Em- Woodrow Wilson on which the Ver. peror Balle Selassie Instructed his sallies treaty was built. representatives In Geneva to reject all solutions thus far ofrered by the WENT to war on foot, and we're joining the papowers for settlin~ the quarrel with Italy. Theae ar£ a tripartite man- rade the same way,'' declared about date over Ethiopia, as suggested by 150 of the grizzled veterans who atFrance, with the League of Nations tended the annual encampment of guaranteeing Ethiopia's Independ· the Grand Army of the Republlc territorial Integrity; In Grand Rapids, Mich. So these ence and France's proposal for an Italian pro- sturdy old men marched In the big tectorate similar to that of the Brit- parade while the rest, numbering Ish In Iraq, and an International po- some 250, rode In automobiles. Here llee force similar to the one that were all that remained of the hunoccupied the Saar before Its restor- dreds of thousands who answed the ation to Germany. call to the colors In Civil war days, save for a few who were kept at HREE men who made independ- home by extreme age and illness. ent Investigation of the deaths Some of the states had no repreof 256· war veterans in the F'lorida sentatives In the line, but their flags hurricane reported they found no were carried nevertheless. From evidence Indicating culpable negll- other states there were but one or gence on the part of any persons. two. It was a pathetic but inspirThey were States Attorney G. A. Ing procession, watched by thou\Vorley of Miami, Aubrey Wl1llams, sands whose eyes were dimmed by representing Federal Rellef Admin- tears and escorted by Sons of VetIstrator Hopkins. and Col. George erans, American Legionnaires and E. !jams of the veterans' bureau, Veterans of the Spanish war. Oley Nelson, ninety-one, of Slater, representing President Roosevelt. as This finding was denounced Iowa, was elected commander-inby .Tames E. Van chief, to succeed Albert E. Stacey "~hitewash" Zandt, eommander-ln-chief of the of Elbridge, N. Y. In a session of Veterans of Foreign Wars; John the organization the proposed reJ. Skillman, commander of the union at Gettysburg next year with .Miami chapter of the same organi- the Confederate veterans was diszation, and other representatives or cussed, and Commander Stacey Van Zandt's made it plain that the affair would veterans' societies. statement called on President not be held under the official ausRoosevelt to ignore the official re- pices of the Grand Army. port and take action against "ofEGAL attuck on the Guffe~v ficials guilty of negligence." "If there officials had heeded the soft coal act has been opened storm warnings or had been In the by 16 coal companies operating in least fam!liar with seasonal climat- Harlan county, Kentucl~y. ln Federic conditions, the tragedy could al court at Louisville. They brought have been averted, all witnesses suit for Injunction against its enforcement, charging thnt it violates agree," Van Zandt declared. The commander's statement con- the federal Constitution to these ways: tinued: official reports,' 1. It vlolateu the fifth amend" '\Vhltewash though they may be, bear false tes- ment, which forbids tnking propertimony when eye witnesses, surviv- ty without due process of law. 2. It violated the tenth amendors, and trained news gatherers are unanimous In the opinion that ment, which reserves to the states, there was gross negligence on the or to the people, all rlghts not part of properly constituted offi- granted the federal government or forbidden the states. cials." 3. It attempts to delegate legislative power. UBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRA4. The section levying a 15 per TOR ICKES and \Vork Progress cent tax on all coal production, Administrator Hopkins got into such with a 90 per cent refund to proa quarrel over the spending of the ducers submitted to the code' pro$4,000.000,000 fuod vided by the act, Is ..an unconstituthat the President tional attempt on the part of conhad to call them to gress, under the guise of taxa Uon, Hyde Park. togethto punish those producers of bituer with the third minous coal who are unwilling and neutral member to surrender tbelr constitutional ot the triumvirate-rights." Frank G. \Valker, 5. Congress has no jurisdiction the director of the over and no power to legislate upon national emergency certain matters covered by the act councll and admlnor the code. •strator of applicaThe companies declared they tions. Others called to Harry Hopklna would refuse to submit to the act and the code It authorizes. the Important works-relief parley InFormer Federal Judge Charles 1. cluded Daniel Bell, director of the Dawson filed the action as counsel budget; Oharles \Vest, under-secre- tor the plaintiffs. Judge Dawson tary of Interior; Corrington Gill, recently left the bench to re-enter a9Slstaut of Hopkins; Fred Iron- private law practice after declaring sides, administrative assistant of unconstitutional the NRA, the slum Walker; and Col. Horatio Hackett, clearance condemna tlon proceedchief of housing In the public works Ings, the taxes Imposed by the Kerradministration. Smith tobacco act, and other New Mr. Roosevelt was determined to Deal measures. have peace, and told those present that the prime necessity at this EACTION of .American business time Is to make jobs quickly, aland financial men to P1·esident ways keeping In mind the Idea of Roosevelt's latest publlc statement turning workers back to private ln- that his basic prograltl has reached du!Jtry as business warrants. This substantial completion and industry looked like a victory for Hopkins, wlll have a breathing spell ran the who favors quick jots, over Ickes, gamut between mild bope and downchampion of permanent public right onllelief. Tbose wbo permit· works. The President has declared ted themselves to be quoted were that he hopes 3,500,000 perscns can generally extremely cautious in be removed from tht.. relief rolls and their expressions, but there was usuput to work by th(! first of Novem- ally a vein of skepticism In their ber. remarks. Wall Street brokers were gladdened by a spurt of trading at higher prices, but bankers were enof thousands on HOUSANDS thusiaJtlc Germans gathered to more than doubtful, and economists Nuremberg for the convention of Insisting that a balanced budget, the • 'azl party and to them Relchs which wasn't mentioned In thP fuehrPr Hitler i suert a pro<'htmn· President's lett~r to Roy HowarJ, "WE T L P R T Ollhll~h(>r, WA~ fl nrlmP TPOntc:ttP Silas Strawn, former president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, said: "Business men generally will say that the Improvement In some lfnes of business has been In spite of, rather than because of, the activities of the administration." Poltlclans regarded the letter as 1\lr. Roosevelt's opening of his campaign for re-election, and praised or decried It according to their party affiliations. Frank Knox of the Chicago Dally News, a potential candidate for the Republican Pres· identlal nomination, called 1t "'just another promise" and set forth the many campaign promises which 1\lr. Roosevelt has failed to keep. Senator Black of Alabama said the statement was "a wonderfully clear explanation of his program, Its original alms and Its execution. It should be a call to those engaged In business to co-operate ln further national progress." UNIVERSITY ot Michigan Is rejoicing over a gift of $5,000,000 for enlargement of Its graduate school. 'l'he money Is donated by the Horance H. and Mary A. Rackham fund, based on the bulk of the estate of the late Horance H. Rackham, Detroit philanthropist. One million dollars will be spent to purchase a square block of land adjoining the present campus and for a new building. The remainder will be employed as an endowment. The Income will be used to promote By th~ terms of the research. agreement the school will be known as the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies. "The purpose of the gift is twofold," Dr. :Marlt S. Knnpp, director of the fund, said. ''First, to create a memorial, and, secondly, to place the university on a firmer foundation as one of the greater universities in this country. It wllJ provide means for original research, funds for which have been lacking.'' EDWARD L. DOHENY, one of the wea1thies- of America's oll magnates, died I·. Los Angeles at the age of seventy-nine years, after a long tllness. His oil lntere9ts were malnly in California and Mexico. In 1924 Doheny and his old friend, Albert B. Fall, secretary of the Interior :under Harding, were involved In the Investigation of the go¥ernment's leasing of the Elk Hills naval oil reserve In California to Doheny for exploitation. Doheny was twice tried and twice acquitted, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government and of giving a tribe of $100,000 to FalL The latter, however, was found guilty of taking a bribe and went to nrison. Hans Ambassador G ERMAN Luther called on Secretary of State Hull and entered formal pretest against the language used by Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky of New York In dismissing charges against five persons arrested tor tearing the Nazi fiag from the liner Bremen In July. Tbe magistrate justified the action of the rioters on the ground that the display of the flag carried, In their minds, "the same sini!Jter Implications of a pirate ship, sailing defiantly Into the harbor of a nation, one of whose ships It had just scuttled. with the black fiag of piracy proudly flying aloft." Judge Brodsky also characterized the Nazi state as "an atavistic throwback to pre-medieval, ·If not barbaric, social and political condl· tlons." Ambassador Luther, who was ~ct lng on lnstructlon9 from Bel'Jin, must have known that Secretary HuH couldn't do much about lt. having no control over a city mag· lstrate. However, .l\Ir. Bull tried to mollify an angered Germany by Intimating to Governor Lehman ot New York that an apology from BrodskY wnq fn orrlPr. Patronize the firms and individuals who advertise in their local newspaper. It is evidence of their loyalty to your community, your home, your school and your welfare. • |