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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Lucas Trlrs to Oust Senator Norris From Republican J 'arty Borah Thinks Special Session Will L5e Necessary. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ' 'A ERADICATION of Senator George W. Norris from the Republican in rty Is (Icmn nih-i hy Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Republican Re-publican national Committee Com-mittee In a scathing statement which Is said to have the tacit Hliprovnl of tlic White House. In return, the R. H. Luoaa independent Republican Republi-can senators Insist thut the national committee oust .Mr. I.ucas. Chairman Foss of the committee has declared for a hands-olf policy, hut a showdown Is demanded hy Senator Howell of Nebraska Ne-braska and others, and there Is I" prospect a lively party quarrel that may very well emharrass the Republicans Repub-licans greatly. All this is the outcome of the discovery by the Nye campaign fund committee that I.ucas financed a campaign against the re-election of Norris. I.ucas has freely admitted the facts and defends his action by the assertion that the Nebraska senator Is not really a Republican and lias no right to be classed as such. "To accept office at the hands of this party and then viciously oppose Its policies, principles and leadership, brings an intolerable situation and one which must be eradicated. If the party is to live," says Mr. Lucas. "Such conduct by Senator Norris has been revolting and until the leaders lead-ers of the Republican party not only fall to support but give their active opposition to men like Senator Norris, Nor-ris, they are not doing their full duly to the parly which has come down to us from Lincoln." After telling how lie privately contributed con-tributed three pieces of literature to the nntl-Norris campaign, Lu-iis goes on to relate In detail the many ways In which Norris has displayed his "party treachery" and "ingratitude" by opposing the administrations and policies of Presidents Coolidge and Hoover, all of which Is a part of history his-tory though heretofore oflichilly Ignored Ig-nored by Republican party chieftains. Convened by an emcrgeucy call by Chairman Nye, the senate committee discovered further that the $1,000 which Lucas borrowed to pay for the anti-Norrls propaganda and for which he gave his personal note was guaranteed guar-anteed by a $-10,000 special account of (he Republican national committee In the Commercial National bank In Washington. This was in the nature of a counter attack against Lucas and was reinforced by statements made by Norris and Senator Cutting of New Mexico. The Nebraskan openly charged that Lucas had sworn to a falsehood when he testified before the committee that the money he paid was his own private fund. Cutting defended defend-ed Norris and attacked the national committee. Then up stepped Representative Wood of Indiana on behalf of Lucas and 'caved a 'urf a brick at Senator Norris; whereupon Senator Brookhart of Iowa, finding It wasn't a private tight, shied a dornick at Secretary Mellon and called Lucas "au insignificant insig-nificant wart." There were Indications that President Presi-dent Hoover and the other party leaders lead-ers would Ignore, officially, the entire quarrel, which would perhaps be the safest course If not the bravest. WHETHER or not I.ucas wins out In his light on Norris. It Is now thought doubtful that he will be made chairman to succeed Senator Fess. The man now most prominently m e n-tioned n-tioned for the place is Ray Benjamin of San Francisco, a close SS. ..v-x. friend of President R Benjamin. Hoover. Several weeks ago Mr. Benjamin had several conferences with the President. Then he went home and cleared up his private affairs and returned to Washington Wash-ington for an Indefinite stay. When questioned concerning the report that he was to be given the chairmanship, he said he was in the capital to realize real-ize an old desire to open law offices there, and added: "1 will do anything I can. however, for my party." Mr. Benjamin has had an extensive legal career and has been active in politics In California. He was regional director for the national committee for the west coast section In the Republican Re-publican campaign of 1020. COLONEL ARTHUR WOODS, chairman of the President's emergency committee on unemployment, unemploy-ment, believes the $110,000,000 public works law enacted hy congress and signed by Mr. Hoover, will have a big effect In reducing unemployment and stimulating purchases. In an Interview In-terview the colonel said : "With tli is additional opportunity and with the co operation of ail federal fed-eral branches together with the help of state and local authorities, we hould soou witness a materia! re sult In the absorption of unemployed and In (he stimulation of purchases of building materials which will be Involved. "All branches of state and municipal governments throughout the country are working together to slash the red tape w hich is impeding their own public pub-lic works projects. The result will be that a great program of public works will be pushed forward Into production produc-tion and jobs created to help meet the present emergency." Colonel Woods Issued another warning warn-ing to unemployed men to stay In their home communities and not wander about aimlessly seeking work. Jobless transients, he said, are causing serious problems In ninny communities which, while organized to care for their own destitute, cannot be taxed hy outsiders, Woods also called on farmers throughout through-out the country to co-operate in giving whatever work possible to unemployed men. Senator Wagner of New York says that as soon as congress convenes after aft-er the holiday recess he will Introduce a resolution calling for a study of the public and private unemployment systems sys-tems here and abroad, and also a bill proposing federal and state co-operation In the maintenance of such a system. I I J C ENATOR BORAH doesn't want anyone any-one to think he would conduct a filibuster in congress after the holidays, hol-idays, but he believes there Is so much Important Im-portant legislation to be disposed of that a special session immediately imme-diately after March 4 will be necessary and . . , should he called hv Senator Borah the President. It was his persuasion that brought about the special session in the spring 1029. Legislation Leg-islation which the Idaho solon considers consid-ers of pressing importance Includes power and railroad measures, the anti-injunction anti-injunction bill, the motor bus bill, further unemployment relief and, perhaps per-haps chief of all, the export debenture farm relief scheme. In the closing hours before congress recessed for the holidays Mr. Borah led other senators in a hot attack on the federal farm board's wheat operations. opera-tions. Chairman Alexander Legge of the board, being asked what he thought of Borah's charge that the board in buying wheat Is merely postponing post-poning "the day of reckoning" that will come when It sells, replied : "Please don't ask me to discuss cyclones. cy-clones. Tou know the definition of a cyclone something made of hot air which runs amuck and usually is destructive." de-structive." He went on, however, to defend the board's policy in some detail. de-tail. Mr. Legge also paid his respects to John Simpson of Oklahoma City, new president of the Farmers' union, who was quoted as asserting the board is "deliberately" holding down wheat and cotton prices, and citing a senator sena-tor as authority. "You can say to Mr. Simpson that any man making that statement, whether in public ofiice or not, is an unmitigated liar, and say it with my compliments," the chairman said. "Such a statement has never been made by any member of the board or anyone else in authority. The absurdity absurd-ity of It is proved by the fact that wheat still Is sinking in the world market. Today Chicago wheat Is some 16 cents above the Liverpool close, and, adding a similar amount for transportation, our wheat is 30 to 32 cents above the world parity." 7"ERMONT will hold a special elee- tion on March 31 to choose a successor suc-cessor to the late United States Senator Sen-ator Frank L. Greene. Until then the seat will be filled by Frank C Partridge Part-ridge of Proctor, who has been appointed ap-pointed by Gov. John E. Weeks. Mr. Partridge, who Is sixty-five years old, is a Republican and a business man and lawyer. CAMERON M O R rison. the new senator from " North Carolina, was scarce ly In his seat before he totally wrecked an ancient . tradition of the upper house hy arising and making a speech. Of course he should have sat silent for at least a few ' : i 14 k A l ; weeks, but the attack made hy Senator F- R- McINinch Walsh of Montana on Frank R. Mc-Ninch Mc-Ninch of North Carolina, one of the President's nominees for the federal power commission, was more than he could endure without retort. He spoke eloquently and warmly for twenty minutes, min-utes, starting out with the declaration: declara-tion: "I would scorn to stand in this body and hear this noble man traduced tra-duced by anybody," and when he was all through he mildly expressed his regret that he "had to trespass upon the attention of this body In almost the hour of my entrance." Mr. McNin.-h, the speaker explained, never received nor handled a nickel of any power company's money. True enough, he was an anti-Smith Democrat Demo-crat in 1928, and he, Morrison, as a regular, took the stump against him, but that did not make him a Republican. Re-publican. FAILURES of relatively small banks of the country were rather numerous, numer-ous, and on Tuesday the Chelsea Bank and Trust company of New York city was closed after runs on its main olliee and six branches. The bank had more than 40.IXX1 depositors and gross deposits de-posits as of November 14 of $23,923,-000. $23,923,-000. The deposits had shrunk in the last few weeks to around $10,000,1)00, it was said. The rims were attributed by officials of the bank to unfounded and malicious ma-licious rumors for which Communists, among others, were held responsible. Investigation of the rumors were begun be-gun by Hie state's attorney general, District Attorney Crane and the police department, and two men were arrested ar-rested charged with circulating false rumors. S THERE was considerable con-siderable surprise In Great Britain when it was announced the other day that Viscount Vis-count Wlllingdon, now governor - general of Canada, had been appointed ap-pointed viceroy of India In-dia to succeed Lord Irwin when the latter retires in March, 1931. , There had been niucn LordWilNngdon tnk lQ Ue eff(fct Hmt Prime Minister Ramsay MueDonald probably would be given the rich plum. Lord Willingdon, who is sixty-four sixty-four years of age, was governor of Bombay from 1913 to 1919 and of Madras from 1919 to 1924, earning a name for a conciliatory attitude. He has been governor-general of Canada since 1020. OF GREAT importance In the economic eco-nomic affairs of northern Europe was the signing by six nations of a convention binding them not to raise existing tariff rates or introduce new ones without consulting one another. This was done at a conference in Oslo, Norway, called to enforce "liberal principles in commercial policy." The six nations are Norway, Sweden, Holland, Hol-land, Belgium, Denmark and Luxemburg. Luxem-burg. The signatories also agreed to consider con-sider the application of the principle which was the basis of the treaty to "other arrangements likewise calculated calculat-ed to favor international trade." DICTATOR Stalin, in the process of "cleaning house" In the Soviet regime, has now got rid of Alexis Rykov. Recently thai gentleman was re moved from his high position as president of the council of people's commissars, which corresponds to premier In other gov- Alexls RykQV ernments. The . other day by action of the central commit tee and central control commission of the Communist party he was deprived of membership in the important political po-litical bureau. It was a part of Stalin's Sta-lin's plan to get rid of all the right-wing right-wing leaders and was followed immediately imme-diately by the dismissal of Tomsky as vice chairman af the supreme economic econom-ic council. Both Rykov and Tomsky had long opposed Stalin's industrialization industriali-zation program, and though they recanted re-canted publicly last summer during the party congress, this did not save them. Rykov was absent from recent Soviet celebrations in Moscow, and it was explained that he had gone South "for his health." That was the way Trotzky went. Only one right winger of prominence promi-nence remains in a high post. He is Nicholas Bucharin, a member of the central committee and also of the supreme su-preme economic council. The general expectation is that he, too, will be dropped eventually, thus leaving Stalin's Stal-in's ideas supreme. PRESIDENT HOOVER'S Christmas present to Warren T. MeCray, former for-mer governor of Indiana, was a full pardon restoring him to full civil rights. MeCray served three years and four months of a ten year sentence to Atla'nta penitentiary for use of the mails to defraud in connection with the sale of worthless cattle paper. He was paroled hy President Coolidge in August, 1927. REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES B. Timberlake of Colorado, seventy-five seventy-five years old and wealthy, and Mrs. Roberta Wood Elliott, a thirty-five-year-old widow who has been working as a waitress, were married In Washington Wash-ington by Rev. Dr. J. S. Montgomery, chaplain of the house. They started on a honeymoon trip to North Carolina, Caro-lina, the bride's home, aud a cruise in southern waters. NOTABLES who died during the week Included Gerrit J. Diekema, American minister to The Hague; Vintila Bratiann, Rumania's foremost statesman and bitter opponent of King Csrol; Charles K. Harris, writer of "After the Ball" and many other popular pop-ular songs; Claude A. C. Jennings, editor edi-tor In chief of the Toronto Mail and Empire; Flo Irwin, veteran actress, and Sir narry Perry Robinson, an eminent English journalist. (c;. I G 3 0. Western Newspaper Union.) |