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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Tornadoes Kill Hundreds in Southern States 'An Insurgent Insur-gent House Killed the Manufacturers' Sales Tax Provision of the Tax Bill By EDWARD W. PICKARD C PKING tornadoes that swept across live southern states took a toll oC more than three hundred lives and caused property damage that will not be estimated for a long time. Other hundreds of persons were injured and a great many were rendered homeless. Alabama was the worst sufferer, the deaths In that state reaching a total of at least 240. Thirty-five were killed in Georgia, eighteen In Tennessee and two each iD South Carolina and Kentucky. Ken-tucky. As communications were broken brok-en down over wide areas the lists may be enlarged later. To acid to the distress dis-tress a wave of unseasonably cold weather came, and farmers In the regions re-gions hardest hit faced the pmspe-t of a p'anting season without Implements Imple-ments live stock or shelter. The National Guard was called to the relief work In Alabama and lenls. cots and blankets were hurriedly distributed dis-tributed to the sufferers, while welfare agencies collected food and clol hing. Gov. B. M. Miller formally called on the people of the slate to contribute to the relief of those In the storm areas and the Red Cross, of course, was on the job promptly. AN INSURGENT house killed the $000,000,000 general manufacturers' sales tax provisions of the billion dollar tax bill In one of the most spectacular spectac-ular sessions in years. It marked the revolt " "43 of both Democrats and Republicans from jr party leadership. isw The sales tax sec- tion was knocked out t 1 of the bill by a vote , of 223 to 153. Wild )f tST cheering by , the anci-i anci-i y sales tax forces greet- " "0 ed the announcement. mSkaA Having adopted . amendments boosting dfa " the IndividuaJ income and estate taxes and having restored "double taxation" on companies with plants abroad all estimated to yield around .$100,000,-000 .$100,000,-000 In revenue In 1933 the house immediately im-mediately took steps to raise the $500,-000,000 $500,-000,000 necessary to fill the hole in the bill caused by killing of the sales tax. In throwing out the sales tax section, sec-tion, the house under lash of insurgent insurg-ent Republicans and Democrats, led by Representative La Guardia (Rep.) of New York, and Representative Doughton (Dem.) of North Carolina, bowled over the regular leaders of both parties and overturned the program pro-gram of its ways and means committee. commit-tee. As a result of the action of the house in wrecking the tax bill, congress con-gress probably will have to adjourn, over the Republican and Democratic national conventions in June, returning return-ing in session to complete the legislative legisla-tive program, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, . Democratic senate leader, said. Majority leader Henry T. Rainey (Dem., 111.) said after adjournment: "The house has rejected the Democratic Demo-cratic bill and now is compelled to turn to the Republican bill proposed by the treasury in order to balance the budget. It will be necessary to provide for more than $500,000,000 of revenue to take the place of the sales tax." MAYOR FRANK MURPHY, of Detroit, De-troit, announced last Thursday his plans to have the city of Detroit stop paying interest on the $-100,0OOrK)0 debts owed by the city. The announcement announce-ment was made following a long telephone tele-phone conversation with Senator James Couzens, who was said to have' approved ap-proved the plan. OVER on the senate side there had grown a group known as the "ten per centers" who, under the leadership of McKcIlar of Tennessee, undertook to do things in the way of government economy. This group Is already so larpe that It dominates the senate and on Tuesday that body by a vote of 50 to 2!1 sent back to the committee on appropriations the $12-1.000,000 state, justice, labor and commerce appropriation appropri-ation bill for a mandatory cut of 10 per cent. Chairman Jones of the committee, who opposed the move, said he would take this as a mandate to make similar cuts In nil the supply bills. Senator McKellar thought It would result In a saving of at least $25,000,000 to the government. Appropriations Ap-propriations for Interest on the public debt or payments to war veterans, which together amounts to more than $1,000,000,000. alone are to be exempted. ex-empted. rjOES of prohibition In the senate T are following the example set by the wets In the house and paving the way to obtain a record vote, and the dry senators say they can have It. On behalf of the wets Senator Tvdings of Maryland offered a motion to discharge dis-charge the Judiciary committee from further consideration of resolutions for repeal or amendment of the Kislu-eenth Kislu-eenth amendment, and In support" .if this he presented a petition signed hv twenty-four members. Wishing to gu, thcrs a chance to sign, Mr. Ty.::; said he would not press his motion until March 31. Under the senate rules the petition Is unnecessary. Senator Sen-ator Watson of Indiana, the Republican Repub-lican leader, signed it with the understanding under-standing that this did not commit him to a wet position. The other signers were twelve Republicans and eleven Democrats. REPRESENTATIVE ROYAL C. Johnson of South Dakota, a Republican Re-publican who used to be a dry, went to the White House the other day to discuss legislative matters with President Pres-ident Hoover, and in the course of then -i. v s conversation he told ' 1 the CJIief Executive fr'J& SS!;i he believed the peo -j pie had a right to an- I other vote on the pro- fTJ hibition it u e s t I o n. " v J Leaving the confer t J e n c e, Mr Johnson f said to the corre- s J spondents that less '"?&fA than 2: per cent of the voters of , he cum- R c Johnson try had had an opportunity oppor-tunity to register their views on the national wet and dry question. He said that census bureau officials had told him that 20,000.000 Americans had readied voting age since the Eighteenth Eight-eenth amendment was adopted. "Iu addition," Mr. Johnson said, "there are the 4,000,000 veterans of the World war who did not have a chance to vote on prohibition. The women never hnve had an opportunity to express their views through the ballot. bal-lot. This is a democracy and the people peo-ple of this country are entitled to a referendum on prohibition." The Johnson expression of opinion came at a time when renewed pressure pres-sure Is being brought on the White House by wet Republican leaders to Influence President Hoover to agree to the insertion of a wet plank in the Republican platform. HOPE for the safe return of Colonel Lindbergh's kidnaped baby revived re-vived with the entry into the case of H. Wallace Caldwell of Chicago, a real estate man and member of the board of education. He made several hasty trips to Hopewell to confer with the colonel and,, while refusing to make public his plans, told the press: "I possessed such information as I believed be-lieved would be of value, and I turned it over to the family. The situation is extremely critical and I desire to give every possible assistance." Mr. Caldwell was believed to fee acting for the "Secret Six," anti-crime group of Chicago, but this he would not admit. He is a wealthy man and Is interested in crime solution In an amateur way, and was thought to have obtained his informataon concerning con-cerning the Lindbergh case by chance. JW. DULANTY, high commissioner for the Irish Free State in London, notified J. H. Thomas, British' secretary secre-tary for the dominions, that President Presi-dent Eamon de Va-r""taj Va-r""taj ,era intends to abol-i abol-i - ish the oath of allegl-j allegl-j tlj ance to King George, which is taken by l o members of the Irish jijfSV !V parliament, believing - V J the Irish people made A. ' thls "'""latory by I LV'j their vote at the re- ccnt election. Mr. i !V J Thomas told parlia-t parlia-t ment ne hnd "graTe information" from President the Free state but De Valera djd nQt present the details. Instead he went to Buckingham Bucking-ham palace and conferred with the king for forty minutes and then joined the cabinet which took up the matter. Mr. Thomas then returned to the house of commons and announced that the government was determined that the Free State should not abolish the oath of allegiance, nnd had sent word to Dublin making the British standpoint stand-point "clear beyond the possibility of a doubt." He said the same stand was taken regarding the land annuities. annui-ties. President De Valera had declared he would also abolish the land annuities, which amount to about $10,150,000 and on which Ireland now owes, the British Brit-ish government S3SO.000.000. These annuities consist of money advanced by the British government to enable Irish farmers to buy holdings from landlords on a 60 year purchase scheme. ADOLF HITLER wasn't being given much chance in his attempt to win the German Presidency from Paul von Hindenhurg. He was refused the privilege of broadcasting his speeches, and then thirty Nazi newspapers and periodicals were prohibited from publishing pub-lishing because, it was alleged, they were endangering the republic by their attacks on the government. They had printed Ililler's proclamation denouncing denounc-ing the raids made by the Prussian police po-lice on 100 Nazi offices. Political feel-Ins feel-Ins In Germany was running high and the coarse taken by t he government w.-is not winning it any more friends, j PEACE prospects In the Orient grew brighter during the week, though there was a chance there would be turther fighting before an agreement was reached by Japan and China. Parleys Par-leys were proceeding quite nicely when Gen. Chiang. Kuang-nal, representing repre-senting the Chinese government, walked out of. the conference insulted because the Japanese representative was Gen. Kenkichi Uyeda, his inferior in rank, Instead of Gen. Yoshinorl Shirakawa. The Interruption was believed be-lieved to be only temporary and the negotiators, including neutral foreign diplomats, continued hopeful. However, it was reported that the Japanese, instead of preparing to withdraw with-draw from the Shanghai area, were digging new trenches and erecting new barbed-wire entanglements, and there was complaint of the acts of their scouting planes. For their part, the Japanese accused the Chinese of trying try-ing to advance into the zone of occupation, occu-pation, and said they were prepared to take strong measures to prevent this. The revolt in the new Manchurian state was growing daily in strength and there were many fights between Japanese troops and the Chinese whom they call bandits. The latter are under un-der command of Tsing Hai, war lord of Kirin province on the Soviet border who captured the city of Fu Yu. THAT the power question will be a major Issue in the Presidential campaign Is the substance of a declaration dec-laration signed by fifteen senators and twenty-two representatives, and they assert that the "power trust" is trying try-ing to influence the selection of candidates. can-didates. The statement, with the names of the signers, appeared on the frontispiece frontis-piece of a booklet issued by Judson King, director of the National Popular Government league, giving an analysis of the power stands of Presidential candidates. The signers included Senators Johnson, John-son, Norris, Nye, Frazier, Brookhart, Cutting and Howell, Republicans; Walsh of Montana, Wheeler, McKellar, McKel-lar, Costigan, Dill, Gore and Long, Democrats, and Shipstead, Farmer-Labor. Farmer-Labor. The analysis of the Presidential candidates, can-didates, which was not included In the section endorsed by the legislators, described President Hoover as a "power-trust President"; classed Governor Ritchie of Maryland and Newton D. Baker as also on the "power trust" side, termed Alfred E. Smith as on middle ground and listed Speaker Gur-ner Gur-ner and Franklin D. Roosevelt on the "public interest" side. IOWA'S Republican convention elected elect-ed twenty-five Hoover delegates to the national convention and pledged the support of the Republicans of the state to the President. Elsewhere in the Middle West the anti-Hoover Republicans Re-publicans were more active. In Illinois Illi-nois they were preparing to put up slates of candidates for delegates who will oppose the candidacy of Mr. Hoover Hoo-ver or of any man who is not in favor of repeal of the Eighteenth amendment amend-ment and of the reduction of cost of government so as to lower taxes. The leadership of this group, especially In Chicago, however, is not of a character char-acter to enhance their chances of success. suc-cess. DISPATCHES from Washington said it was learned thera that the La Follettes were planning to enter en-ter Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska Ne-braska in the Wisconsin Republican primaries of April 5. Neither they nor Norris believes for a moment the Nebraskan can win the nomination, but the La Follettes seek to have a delegation that will not vote for the President's renomination. This was the strategy they followed in 192S. Franklin D. Roosevelt won a big victory vic-tory in the Georgia Presidential preference pref-erence primaries, defeating by a vote of 10 to 1 Judge G. H. Howard of Atlanta, At-lanta, who ran for Speaker John N. Garner. TWO house committees, those on appropriations ap-propriations and on economy, are taking great interest In the movement to close up or curtail the activities of surplus shore properties of the navy. Seven stations now are under congressional con-gressional fire. Whether they are closed or placed on a less expensive basis depends largely upon the question ques-tion of whether the congressional desire de-sire for economy Is stronger than its desire to cling to Its pork barrel stations sta-tions and yards. The properties under discussion Include: In-clude: The Boston navy yard, the Charleston navy yard, the Portsmouth (N. H.) navy yard, the naval stations at Key West and New Orleans, the ammunition am-munition depot at Baldwin, L. I., and the Newport naval training station. It Is estimated that curtailing activities activ-ities at these stations eventually would result in annual savings amounting amount-ing to several million dollars. THAT troublesome old question of American adherence to the World court Is up again before our senators. In a letter to the senate foreign relations re-lations committee Secretary of State Stimson said he believes the revised protocol for American adherence "fully "ful-ly accepts" the senate's reservation against advisory jurisdiction by the court. When this was read to the committee commit-tee by Chairman Borah there was a storm of debate, and It was decided to ask Mr. Stimson to appear for qios-tioning. qios-tioning. Senator Johnson of California, Cali-fornia, who is one of the hottest opponents op-ponents of the World court, said Mr. Stimson's statement was at variance with what he has said heretofore. (S, 1232. W astern Newspaper Unloa.) |