Show news review of current eve events ants the world over borah loses ohio primary inary house defeats frazier lemac inflation bill Tu wells report on his resettlement administration by EDWARD W PICKARD a western newspaper union WILLIAM BORAH banked S SENATOR heavily on success in the ohio presidential preference primary but the republicans of that state turned him down decisively in favor of their favorite son robert A taft son of the late president tatt taft of the 52 delegates to the cleveland convention borah captured only live five the others including the delegates at large being taft men the winning del iC ega gatlon tion will be virtually be senator borah cause it will vote for tart only on the first ballot mr borah did not take this defeat calmly lie he gave out ont a statement la in washington accusing the republican organization leaders of manipulating ting the votes of colored citizens against him by promising the passage of federal antl anti legislation which he has opposed as unconstitutional the idalio idaho senator added the republican party ill go into the campaign laying great stress upon constitutional integrity and the preservation er of state rights the men who are anre in control of the party and who will likely be in control of tie the convention will write its platform and name its candidate have already demonstrated that they care nothing about constitutional integrity or the preservation of state rights that their talk on this subject Is hypocritical and intellectually dishonest ohio democrats polled about votes in the primary nearly more than the republicans and they expressed their preference for mr roosevelt over col henry brecken ridge to the tune of 16 to 1 they also gov GOT martin L davey who will be opposed by john W bricker republican in november west virginia also held primaries and there borah and roosevelt won easily over nominal opposition the states republican delegation however will go to the convention uninstructed it la Is interesting to note that one of chios delegates at cleveland will be allce alice roosevelt longworth daughter of T R and a spectator at many previous conventions WE E ARE not going to have any currency inflation at least before next session ot of congress the frazier lemke farm mortgage refinance ing bill dragged out of committee by a petition signed by house members and then hotly debated for a day was defeated by the decisive vote of to the bill called for the printing of three billion dollars tor for its financing the petition signers I 1 included eluded the democrats and before the vote every one of them was told by pat boland of pennsylvania the party whip that the president want the measure passed at this time and that if the member voted for the bill it would be just too bad for him besides tills this potent or argument ament the democratic leaders induced president william green of the american federation eder ede atlon ration of labor to intervene and he called together the federations executive council and had bad it write a letter saying it was opposed to the bill because of the inflation feature this was read to the house by speaker byrns and undoubtedly affected the vote though some members resented being told what to do by mr green there was relief in the white house when it was announced the president would riot not have to veto such a measure in an election year president ROOSEVELT was sup posed to have abandoned for the present the florida ship canal and tidal power projects for which the house refused to appropriate further funds but senator robinson of arkansas was called to the white house for a conference and returned to the house bouse to introduce a resolution authorizing the president to appoint engineering boards of review for the two schemes the boards would present their findings by june 29 and it if favorable the president would have hare authorization to set aside for the canal and for out of available relief money N NEWTON EWTON D BAKER and de dear an acheson counsel for five power powei companies that are trying to block the th governments municipal power pro gram cram met with defeat in the district of columbia supreme court when the they sought to subpoena correspondence be tween president roosevelt and secre tary ickes jerome frank a new deal attorney stated that the president bad directed that his bis privilege of testimonial immunity be asserted in the case and chief justice wheat refused to issue the subpoena IF F THE house concurs in senate action the title of harold L ickes will be changed from secretary of the interior to secretary or of conservation A bill making the change was passed by the senate at the instance of senator lewis of illinois two years ago when mr ickes was at the height of his power he wanted the title altered to secretary of conservation and works and hoped that many of the ag agencies eccles of the department of 0 agriculture would be transferred to Ms his department but secretary wallace objected strenuously and lately so much has been taken ou out t of mr ickes hands that senator lewis cut his bill to the one paragraph making the change of title and leaving oft off and works PROGRESS ADMINIS HARRY HOPKINS issued an order to state directors instructing them not to employ armed guards not to spy on workers and not to blacklist workers who organize the order was issued following a conference with victor F r ridder new york city administrator who employed a detachment of guards to protect his office offee against antl anti demonstrations which str ridder asserts were stirred up by communists opposition in the senate finance committee to the corporate profits tax in the administrations SS was so strong that both democrats and r republicans sought for some compromise treasury officials were heard in favor of the measure as passed by the house but former treasury officials and various business and industrial leaders speaking in opposition were seemingly more persuasive senator tom connally of texas put forward a plan he be thought all might agree upon it would retain the 15 per cent corporation income tax and repeal only the capital stock and excess profits taxes instead of repe repealing aling all corporation taxes as proposed in the house bill in addition it would superimpose a graduated tax on undistributed earnings exempting the first 20 0 per cent on the amount retained the house bill reaches a maximum 0 of f 42 per cent of the total income it if none Is distributed senator byrd of virginia another 0 of the democrats opposed to the house bouse bill showed in a letter to secretary that 11 of the largest corporations in the country would pay no taxes under the roosevelt bill to a senate resolution artion responding rexford tugwell made a report on the activities of the resettlement administration of which he Is the head lie ile showed that it has employees on the administration pay roll and has been allotted to spend 0 of this amount the report stated has been spent and a total of obligated learing leaping unan cumbered cambered cumb ered R G tugwell up to april 15 according to the reports report the resettlement administration had bad taken options on acres of land of which options on acres costing had bad become legal commitments As of slay may 1 the report said persons including on the pay roll were employed in connection with the land acquisition program the report stated that a recent survey indicated that the purchase of approximately acres of land would be needed to block in and round out the existing projects and to establish a minimum number of new projects of 33 subsistence homestead 1 projects construction has been comp completed feted on 18 Is in progress on 11 and it final dal plans have been drafted for 4 the report lists four suburban housing projects financed from a allocation tor for this purpose they are in berwyn md bound brook N J milwaukee and cincinnati on rural rehabilitation the report says the RA has cared for wore more than families for its rehabilitation advances to andl individual vidual clients the administration will expend through june so 30 there were more than workers employed on projects financed by the organization durl during D 9 april the report states adding that the peak Is expected to be reached during the summer with workers BECAUSE the league of 0 nations council would not immediately recognize italis annexation of ethiopia and the creation of the new roman empire premier mussolini recalled his representatives from geneva and before long italy may quit the league entirely at present it Is merely not paling in its activities the council had adopted a new resolution virtually condemning again italis aggression in ID east africa and then adjourned until june 15 previously baron pompel aloisi chief of the italian delegation had bad walked out ot of a session of the council because wolde mariam ethiopian represents representative was permitted to take a seat and present a plea from U emperor emperor ualle halle selassie LOK KURT chancellor CHANCEL C NIGG of austria has long been at outs cuts with the vice chancellor prince ernst yon von Star hemberg and now he be has got rid of that active young man and Is practically the sole dictor dictator of 0 the country this was accomplished by the resignation of the cabinet and its reconstruction immediately with von Star emberg hemberg left out Is hot cot only chancellor but also minister of defense and foreign minister von Star bemberg had antagonized by insisting on keeping up ills his own private army the and abd also by his friendliness toward mussolini and hla big general fascist sympathies path pa thies leg ANUEL AZANA was advanced M MANUEL from the premiership to the presidency of spain by almost unanimous vote of the electors gathered in the crystal palace at Sl madrid adrid ile he succeeds niceto alcala zamora who was removed X from office on a charge of malfeasance after the leftist victory in the recent elections azana fifty six years old la Is a lawyer ora tor and playwright and Is regarded as the most astute politician manuel in spain to the notification azana fi committee he be said spain may rest assured that I 1 will be loyal to the principles of democracy and that the welfare of the nation will be my constant concern the immense dirigible dirl i hindenburg able carrying persons mall and freight made the flight from fried to lakehurst N J in 61 hours and 57 minutes and was welcomed by thousands of americans including II 11 walton moore of the state department who brought the greetings and con congratulations of president roosevelt filbee three days later the airship started brick back to her new base at frank furt on maln the dirigible was in the command of capt ernst lehmann but he received far less attention here than did dr hugo eckener the veteran skipper of zeppelins zeppelina Zepp elins eckener in bad with the nazis at home was permitted to be board aboard the ship as an adviser ile he and captain lehmann went to washington together while the ship was being groomed for the return flight to call on president roosevelt and other officials and return their greetings on the return night flight the hindenburg traveled brawled trae led swiftly reaching frankfurt on main maln 48 hours and IS 18 minutes after the depa departure arture from lakehurst the hindenburg la Is to make ten commercial transatlantic trans atlantic trips this summer ARK TRAMMELL AMMELL Tn veteran united estates PARK states senator from florida and a staunch supporter of all new deal measures died in washington of a cerebral hemorrhage which followed an attack of influenza though III he be tried to remain on the senate floor long enough to vote for a proposal to include 11 in the war department appropriation bill for continuation of the florida ship canal this effort probably cost him his big life OME two thousand delegates were S SOME present when the annual convention of the american red cross was waa opened in chicago by admiral cary T grayson the national chairman speakers at early sessions included mayor ed kelly and ralph christian schoolboy of birmingham ala representing the junior ret red cross mrs elizabeth n H vaughan a nurse of st louis was waa awarded the florence nightingale med iced al for her long record of nursing service dr thomas parton parran jr the new surgeon general of the united states public health service was present and made a speech and talks were delivered by robert E bondy director of 0 national disaster relief and others who directed activities in the flood and storm areas ICKES supporters S SECRETARY were easily defeated by the harry dopkins llop klos forces in the house bouse tight fight as to whether the public works administration should share in the handling of next years relief funds but it was understood the tend feud would be revived in the senate under the leadership of senator hayden of arizona democrat and a member of the appropriations committee the house bouse majority voted according to the wishes of the administration on the relief bill which Is a measure carr carrying ving la 12 i ow to finance the works progress administration after july 1 I in addition to the relief appropriation the bill carries sl for the social security program for the tennessee valley authority 0 for continuing the communications commissions telephone inquiry and various new and deficiency deli elency amounts for other agencies the most important amendment permitted to be added to the bill by the ibe house bouse leaders was one submitted by representative william P connery providing that the prevailing wage la in communities be paid to workers ickes signified his bis acceptance of defeat in the battle for funds by ordering an immediate cut of 25 per cent in personnel to in washington and throughout the country this affects 2000 persons PASHA leader MUSTAPHA of the or nationalist party in egypt has bag become premier and formed a new government to la which lie he holds also the post of mini aln asier 8 ter 0 of f the I 1 Im nt eilor wasef austia Is his foreign ml nl ilter and ani gen tian all ll 11 fally la 13 of war nod and marine |