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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Victory in Rhode Eland Election Elate1? the Republicans Guffey Coal Rill Undergoes Changes Black's Probers Enrage Hurley. mm snij. Ual-- tO h power the !fi 11 to ai.t I !! li n U Hit t Ii-- i in n. in tl in requite ' !!. w i.'- t - of a. timl maximum tio'ir M,ii,-I.iriltil ms ti.it'!. nu lor government ion trails, 'I'li. it me.ixi re !i,n Seen r ii X 'inns; eil to the n j n n I lie I. si. IlejoiMn n n s wen- pl'epar in to fight the tiill ns number all ot pn plnn tor vale imfii-- li y. They point out Unit It luls nbmi! cveiy nnlnsiry in U.e con ii ry, sin- e It not only iipp! to eorpmiil "t.s nj; to tlie guv eminent (nit e'iiends 11K0 to Mate am) Ini at projects wholly or partly filial uni by fc'lma) tuinls. - t By RITtT.I.ICAN t EDWARD Western tlir..iigli-n- t s wen- - W. PICKARD Newspaper Ur ..on. C inunc' e!y touirtcricil - probatiy too inui Ii ku-- by In tht result of the by the Mist ill- -' i t of Rhode Is!. net. Walsh, Tumi and aided in ity ( ki nts. Ir v wik uld. arc ntt"rm-vd"iie lor llo util i t Clin lies It s k, an Mol ilc F. teriiiiui'd oppoimnt of tlie New Inal, defeated Antonio ,, I'rlni'e, leniocral, h? votes, ri ft in iis tlie seat In cungre-which rriineis H. Condon. I lemocra t. resignl to go on the .Suite Siipieine fniirt. 'I lie reversal was so dm that the Itepiilillemis hulled It as a Indication that President for ie Xtoosevelt would he eleetion net year. Representative !!. II. Snell of New York, minority le.olei, made u Keeh nlnuit it lit the house In which he .said : "l'lils Is the first time the people of Hiiy part of (he country have had HI) oppominlly to pass on the reek less and extravagant expenditures of the ndinliiialniUen. They have passed upon It In a very decisive manner. The election shows the people are beginning to think. T he handwriting Is on the wall. From now on we will witness similar rejections hy the citizenry of the New Deal program. Other Republican congressmen spoke In slmllnr vein, hut John J. O'Connor, New York Tammany Democrat, countered with the assertion that there was a split In the Democratic purty In the Rhode Island district ; while Tom Ulanton of Texas shouted shame on Iilnxle Islnnd because It had asked more federal aid than almost any other state. Anti-NeDeni Democratic senators, like Gerry, llyrd and Tydlngs, agreed the election was significant, hut from the White House there was no comment. Fortner Senator Fess of Ohio with surprising frankness expressed tlie belief that the (!. (). 1. would have to wait until IDlt) to elect a President. Voicing the opinion of many, I the veteran campaigner said: dont see Imw the strongest Republican without nil that money next your can heat the weakest Demis oral with nearly $5,(Kki, is mi.pm ut Ills disposal. fleur Mens 1 Ik.it the home ways ami mein-- , (ommlttee would prodio'e so en I. rely iie.v me.isiue to replace Pc (li.lTey h luminous coal tr.il Ili.nr th.it the m mi Doimlitoa revealed lommlttee ti.i t adopted a number of amendments ditegned to loing toe measure within i onstitutmnai lim Its and to meet objections that it would (User min. ile agam-- t seine coal distrlets. The committee still atom 14 to II aga,n-- t the lull, hovv ever. The President was said to have llitormed the Democratic mem hers that he was agree. ihlo to any changes they might wish to mike provided the main ohjei lives ol the measure were mninlMned. According to current report, the changes agreed upon In tin com mlttee Imdmled: Llimination of the section foiled-dinCommerce mill the Iidur-tutmission to Issue certificates of convenience and necessity for operato hiilminou tion of railroads in. nes without prior approval hy the bituminous coal commission. Ikstiihlishment of a consumers counsel to safeguard tlie Interests of consumers. Addition of a provision for hearings to determine whether the method of llxlng prices was working to tlio detriment of any district Reduction from nine to live In the number of commlsaion memlters, and the addition of a stipulation that none shall have uny outside connections. Reduction from 25 to Hi per cent In the amount of the tax assessed against mine operators. Reduction from !0 to IK) per cent In the amount of credit allowed the producers who abide hy the code. i- fIOLENTLY attacked sides ami nowhere with enthusiasm, the new tax t It e I e s through sliure-the-wealt- h In KIFRI.K'A NS of the ten Mid western stales that puitlcipnted the Grass Roots coutetenee In Springfield, Ilk, have made the Grass Roots movement a perm auxiliary of the parly. 11 ir Hson K. Spengler of Iowa Is Its chairman, Mrs. Leslie Wheeler of Illinois the vice chairman, and Jo Ferguson of Oklahoma, the secretary. Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky, not represented at the Springfield meeting, have been Invited to Join In the movement. OKNATOR Hl'GO P.T.ACK of Ala-k- J hatnn may bring out a lot of fact In Ms Impifry Into lobbying, bnt his way of conducting the InIs not vestigation winning him ntiy credit. The house has all along felt that he was trying' to bully It Into ae ceptlug the utilities bill "death sen tenoe clause and has been corre resentppondlngly ful. Various witnesses before the P. J. senate committed Hurley have felt, seeming ly with reason, that they were being treated unfairly. One of these wit noses who com plained bitterly was Patrick J. Hurley, secretary of war In the Hoover administration. He tcstitlcd that he had received $100,000 from the Associated Gas and Fleet rlc system In the Inst three years, but Insisted he was paid for legal advice only and hnd done no lobbying. Hurley was not permitted to read a prepared statement, and Mack's inter- jections and questions so angered th witness that he rose to his feet and shouted: "Everyone knows all you gentlemen are good prosecutors! Of course, you don't know what it Is to be fair or just. You try to put words Into a witness mouth. Your questions are all on the type ct Why dont you stop beating your wife? query." Joseph P. Tumulty, who was secretary to President Wilson, also was put on the stand and was not treated so roughly. He, too, admitted receiving considerable sums from utility concerns, and like Hurley tie denied that lie had done any lobby-luTumulty testified that he paid former Senator George II. Mom-(R'P ), N. IL, $5,IKK) and would pay another $2,500 to John Walsh, a brother of the late Senator Thomas 3. Waisb (Detn.), Mont. Moses and g s Piesidents bill never s was put the house because great tlott of the adminl-- 1 ra . majority and also because the are congressmen tired out and eager to go home. Rep resuiiiaiive Trea way. Republican, of k.1 TV from all del ended 1 M u s s a e li ii set t s, made a last ellort against the measure with a resolution to send it hack to the committee, hut this was eas defeated. passed hy the house, the bill Is not quite what the Piesidei.t asked for. Ilrlelly siimman.ed. It lly As Increases (axes on Individual l. I.v ed hy the dt a'l O'M.i Senator J. hoi.ey o! Uyotu tig thinks the ohjee I, vox of that i oiitr.ipt.oii, high labor t, tel irds aid fair compel it uui, can and for that purpose lie tie reali-cd- , this drawn up u measure lor the regulation of all national commerce N' i'i to tie of M: . . -- III ensilig husilu X. Tin senator, who Is a lawyer, ciitclully uvoided the plnase interstate riiiiiiiierce." lie proposed to define eonmiert e iimorjg the states In the language of the lending d dMons of the Supreme court. The lull creates a licensing system for businesses engaged in cum meno Mining the .slates and pro voles a national iticoi poratinn law. The fedio.il trade commission, the governments business policeman In MIA and the agency the days to which the New Deal turned after NRA codes wen- - outlawed, wou'd he the keystone of the new dan. U'Mahuney's lull would lin reuse its membership from hve to nine, with three commissioners representing utnl employees, three employers, three the general public. -- hy wa rnl ngs lljalimir Schaclit and other sane Germans, some of the Nazi leaders Insist on pushing to Nf hyTVDr. ITT I ST A N D N( 5 further extiemes the war on Jews and Catholics. For Instance, Paul Jo seph Goebhcls, min Istcr of propaganda. In a Rpeech at lessen announced drastic action against state helm all of the Nazi Jews Catho- ene-nilc- s lics, the foreign press and the Stahl war veterans. He predicted these important developments: 1. Suppression of the Catholic press and ititensilication of the Nazi campaign against all Catholic opponents of the third 2. Nationwide dissolution of the Stahlhcim. Ah ollicltil ban In near futur-oinnrriuges between Jews und Aryans. 3. C'NGLAND ami France were still trying to Hnd the way to avert a war between Italy and Fthiopia. hut Ptemier Mussolini of Italy was sTi skeptical that lie ordeied 75,00.1 more men to tin colors. Hy the first of October he will have a mil Haile Solas lion men In uniform. sic, the Klhiopinn emperor, was re ported to have sanctioned Hie con ecnlration of liO.iKHl of his troops on Italys east African frontiers. The chiefs. It is said, are finding it In ereasingly dilliotill to restrain their warriors from overt acts that would over $50,000, substitutes a graduated corporation Income tax precipitate warfare. for the present Hat levy, puls new taxes on Inheritances and gifts In addition to those already home by estates and gifts. Imposes new taxes of ft to 10 per cent on ''excess profits of corporations. It Is designed to raise revenue estimated at between $250,000,000 and $270.tK)0,H)0. Its warmest friend couldn't explain how this would bring about what the President calls wider distribution of wealth," or In the way of balancing the budget. The measure was handed on to the senate with dubious prospects It was expected the senate flnnnie committee would study It for nlmut a week, and In the meanwhile the conservative Republicans anil not a few Democrats were preparing to fight It. Senator W. W. Harbour of New Jersey, Republican, fired an opening gun with n statement In which he said: Votes, and votes alone, are the objective of this half linked measure." Declaring the hill "has no relation to making Income meet outgo, hut Is Intended to accomplish some weird social objective." Harbour continued : Wbnt this bill actually aftemots Is to climb noon (lint hard rld'ten steed. Sliare-lhand fide Wealth, him awav while the demagogues who have pressed him sorelv In the past are looking In the other direction. "The bill should he laid awav tin III the next session of congress when the budget for the ensuing Then. In year will be presented. the light of carefully nporooHated federal moneys, we con determine how much revenue will be needed to operate. Taxes can be levied detlherntelv ns a true revenue measure nv other program Is not good business find Is not good government One ehaoge mode hv the house (ten Inst the Presidents wishes In vohed corporations glffs to ehar t'es. Mr. Roosevelt was flrrnlv against letting eorooroMons deduct from their taxable Income any L.ff to charity- Jut ns tiroi'v thp house voted to lot them deduct up to ft per cent of their Incomes. ANADA. the the other day. king eleven-year-ol- nearly lost Ills throne A wider irend plot was formed under the leadership of notieommlssloned ollleers of the regular nrtttv to overthrow the government. The loyalists uncovered It and effectually smashed It. The plotters Intended to seize Hnd kill their superior nllicers and ott-- f the regency council that rules the SUDDEN death put an end to the of Nathan P. Hryati of Jacksonville. Fla., presiding Judge of the Pniled States Circuit Com t of Appeals, Fifth Jiidclal circuit Judge Hr.van. who was sixtv-threyears old, was formerly United States senator from Florida, Frank H. I!ltchcnk. publisher of the Dally Citizen of Tucson, Ariz.. succumbed to pneumonia after gev eral months of 111 health. Promi nrnt In Republican party politics all his mature life, Mr. Illleheock man aged Taft Presidential campaign In 1D0S bulb before Hnd after the con ventlon and was postmaster general In the Tart cabinet. For years he was actively Interested la the prog ross of aviation. f - TDK LOUIS, negro pnglHst of De troll who hopes some day to he - the heavyweight of the world, advanced another step to ward that goal by defeating "King Levluskv In the first round of a scheduled ten round bout In Chicago. Levtnsky was knocked down four times In little more than two minute, and (lie referee then gave the fight to Joe on a technical knockout. Louis and Max Iner, for tner ch,amnion, have signed for a bailie la champion September. O VMlTd, INSULLS nnn al pen -- z sion of ?21,Ono has been re stored by vote of the director of the util f!tcompnnies which he headed, and he a so about S!3.2Ti to cover pavment.x accruing since the begin nlng of Iasi year when pnvmentx were suspended by the cv;innlea. - month ho h Atm r a M wete bu.ing with eve.'--- ' astronomer h ol Kngli.--h a womlcrl ill new P V- - ope and ex with It had made tlocries in (very trnordinary dis planet of our solar systi in ; had covered planets In other solar systems; had obtained a distinct view of objects in the moon, fully equal to that which the unaided eye commands of terrestrial objects at the dis tanee of 100 yards; had affirmatively settled the question whether this satellite he Inhabited, and by what order of beings; had firmly established new theory of cometary phenomena; and had solved or corrected nearly every leading problem of mathematical astronomy. It was an American newspaper, the New York Sun, which made this astounding revilalioti. The Sun had been founded by Hetijaiuin H. Day in 1S33 as tlie first of the penny newspapers in the United Slates. (in August 21, l'Yi, the second page of the Sun carried this small news Item: C1. 1. LSI I VI. DlSCOYEKIKS-TT- ie Kdinbnrgh Courant says We have Just learnt from an eminent publisher In this city that Sir John Iletsihel tit the (ape of Good Dope, has made Soiiu- astronoma al dis hy eoverles of the most wonderful means of an Immense telescope of Mi cnt.iely new principle."1 It was true that Sir John Frederick William llerschel, tlie greatest nicer of his lime, had gone to South Afiien in an observatory January, is.! I. and near Cape Town to complete the tint telescopic survey ever attempted of the whole surface ol thp visible heavens, km that much of the story was true. On August 25 three columns of the lir-- t page of the Sun were devoted to in tilth lo whali up GRUAT pen red under a modest headline of ASTRONOMICAL Id SCO V KR1 US Lately Made c At the hy Sir John llerschel, I.L.D. F R.S. This article was credited Cape of Good Hope. to the Supplement to the lMiniuirgh Journal of Science." It was true that there had once been an Kditdmrgh Journal of Science hut the readers of the Sun did not know that R had suspended publication sevcial years previously This first article was devoted almost entirely to a discussion of the importance of Sir Johns He laid "paused several hours bediscoveries. fore he commenced his observations, that lie might prepare his own mind for discoveries which he knew would fill the minds of my rinds of Ills fellow men with astonishment. And well might lie pause! From the hour the first human pair opened their eyes to the glories of the blue firmament nbove them, there has been no accession to human knowledge at all comparable In sublime Interest to that which he has been the honored agent In supplying. Well might he pause! He was about to become the sole de pository of wondrous secrets which hnd been Itld from the eyes of all men that had lived since the birth of time." All of which was an excellent build-uto wlu-- t the Interest of the Suns readers In what was to follow. Hut It did not give any definite Inlormatlon about the astronomers dixceveries so there was nothing for Its readers to get ex cited about yet. Hut on August 20 thp Sun print cd four columns of vivid description of what was to be seen on the moon. The astronomers - reported : "In the shade of thp woods on the southeastern side we beheld continuous herds of brown quadrupeds, having all the external cliaractei ,s tics of the bison, but more diminutive than m.v pedos of the bus genus In our nutut.il Its tail was like that of our Ims grumei,-- ; hut In Its horns, the hump on i;x s M.i tiers, the depth of Its dewlap, and the length of Its shaggy hair, It closely resembled the species to which we have compared It. "It had, however, one widely distinctive fea ture, which we afterward found comm, n p, nearly every lunar quadruped we have dmeov ; y namely, a remarkable e over the eyes, crossing the whole hreu ith (,f p0 forehend and milled to the ears. We lould perceive this hairy veil, shaped like the upper front outline of the known to the ladies as Mary ym-eof y,,,,s cap, lifted and lowered by means of the car- jt immediately occurred to the acute r llerschel that this was a providential contrivance to protect the eyes of the nnlmnl from the extremes of light and dnrkno-- s to whl, i, .,11 t P Inhabitants of our side of the moon are odically subjected." On that day the moon story In the Sen hoon,,-tlitalk of New York, Hut more was to r,i M for the next day's account introduced tlie s v readers to new regions of the moon the bond mountains, (he Lake of Iv.,;h. or extit et volcanoes and luxurious fores' , ,, by open plains "in which wave! an verdure, and which wore prnlu I",. use of North America." Of amr tl or "nine species of man a ha -- u i iy semi-circula- r erv-d- fle-h- a ih, rc-u e -- , i I Hut the Suns readers were w tilting ovlpaiia. eagerly to know If there was human life on the distant planet, and on August 2s that curiosity was sit, -- bed. The astronomers were looking upon the cliffs and crags of a new part of the MeTiie I,i t ului-- l gazing upon the m we were h U'M with merit to pensive four fimhs of birds with a slow, even motion from the dill-- on the western side- - and !u ut lulf of Hie first alight it mu the plain from our canvas, hut of all party had p the ctkeis we had a perfectly and view. They averaged four feet Iri heigh', were covered, except on the f.lie, with short ami glox-- y copper colored hair, and had of a thin membrane, without "tigs cempMsc-hair, lying snugly upon their backs, from the tup "f the shoulders to the calves of the legs. 1 he face, which was of a yellowish was a dght in.prov ement upon that of tinorangutan, in ,t g innrp open and intelligent in its cxpie-sioand having a nun Ii greater exThe mouth, however, was panse of very prominent, though somewhat rel.evod hy a thiol; In ard upon the lower jaw, and hy lips far more tinman than those of any species of the Simia genus . . . These creatines were evidently ; engaged in cenvei.-atio- n their gesticulation, mure partaularly the varied action of the hands and aims, appeared impassioned and emphatic, "e heme iiueried that they were rational being-, am, rdth mgli not so high an order as others which we discovered the next month on the shores of the Hay of Rainbows, that they were capable of producing works of art and con trivniiee We scientifically denominated them the vespertiiln homo, or ; and they are doubtless innocent and happy creatures. The Suns circulation to 15,000 to lG.oun, to ixoom-- o;, t0 JO.30O. tlie Tar-es- t of any daily in the world. Its press had to run P) hours a day to turn out enough papers to meet the den. ami. The next Installment 11,000 words was prime l n n,e threecomprising succeeding days. In it was revealed the discovery of the great Temple of the luidt of polished sapphire, with a roof some yellow metal, supported by columns TO feet high and six feet In diameter. In the o. the temple a new set of man bats was Movered then one night, when the nstron o.ners finished well;, they ntglectfully left the n mnng the eastern horizon. The risln-su- n burned a h ie t", iln -- ; f ct quite of the opinion that this was tin moral which the writer had In viti readers, however, coiiatrue the itsz elaborate satire upon the monstrous hr of the iKilitical press of the country ous genera and species of its party the bine goat with the single horn, a as it is in connection with the royal t Kngland, many persons fancy they prt characteristics of a notorious supervising editor of one of our This notorious forete ing papers. James Gordon Dennett, horn In Scon: hnd shocked not only the conservative York but some of his journalistic we by the sensationalism of his Herald. over J sylvan form tiled ef 11 foreigue-th- The Moon Hoax had the curiota spoiling a promising tale hy a tnandsl become one of America's greatest vrrito Allen Doe had started a fanciful tale t d fc' nature under tlie title of "Hans PluT when he found that he could add tejl the minute and authentic account of llerschel," he tore up the second Into Ids story. In later ycnis he took ticking to pieces the Suns moon wrote: That the public were misled, even stant, merely proves the gross ignonotr 10 or 12 years ago, was so prevalent a notnical topics. And yet it was, on1 the greatest hit in the way of scK imSD merely popular sensation ever oti America in similar fiction either From the epoch of the hoax, the Sun sto unmitigated splendor. Its success irt Iished the penny system throughout tM and (through the Sun) conscqucntlJBl fob debted to the genius of Mr. Locke tlie most important steps ever yet ta1 pathway of human progress. If Poe's estimate is correct, Adams Locke is deserving of better obscurity Into which ids name when occasionally his famous hoaib Ile was born September 22, 1S00, t Somersetshire, England, and he vtstn of John Locke, the famous English Locke was educated by his private tutors until he was ninetMtW entered Cambridge. As a student to gan his writing os a contributor P111 oilier and Imperial Magazine coming Interested in tin experiment U(t circumference tried byEnf1" n (hamher, and ruined part racy which was being Atlantic. tin obs, i ,,tory. Wnc, the the dmage was rethe London Republican to sPreal or:rj,,,,vifciwe-anof tlie new democracy. Hut It 8ot an AlilltMR.il Devoting himself to literature ,ia echoes Of It next established a periodical cal'e w had tnJ tinu tmr'to1.r!pVl',"'p'th0 SiU S clrc,1,1)copia. In tlie meantime he articles were when the after 8,1 fnb-Cornucopia J resolved to seek his fortune in done In 1S52, n, (da-g- o a accompanied by tils ,v'fe to W . in, even In Killnlmrgh, the came to New York and went 1 . I;::;, William Watson Weld) of tlie X the and Enquirer. While covering And thin re of a religious fakir named A ' : rei lu ler on the New Prophet," Locke became acquaints named l int, met u min II. Day, the founder of the the r",u'1 Adams Finding that Locke was writeaseri .l! Mdeu-n' there, Day hired him to 11 h , 's 'f the Sun ron- - stories on the religion fakir fjt i, nii a result Webb discharged 1'in , a js the side" for the lowly pinny ri'3' f(t! -- t i" fit n3r.j,!( ou and Locke was glad to P" i ovv, 1 w ote tl.a' sto, an editorial writer on the Sun of h, i,g , 1,01 After the Matthias trial ende Pi n savol freDn I'e'j''4 f.r Of . ?ork ne Commeice iin a dull time for tlie New Hd tin1 10 yy as a hoax. Ulla,, Locke went to Pay with n Plant" t.ey s tc.;v i' IV. something" and Day read rOMlU I ,t M:i C star writer proposed. The e, hovv ' i " of n century ago, perhaps " y 11 . on s hut al story certainly hoax of all time and irl1p - n. loti-loud- . ... man-bat- Lear tals Home Horne as Wall; time h v , - i22lfi",V,"llll','raW S - z? cr.-r- ' ' 1:t-'lnr- i i.U : 1 fh-.- l ' -- I m-- t i : W . on - ''io: di- ,, g tiM -i u- -s w ido It so d go" na i' is : v eon, me It firmly - the cheap newspaper In tl" cans, who enjoy the benefits, n .i.p 'university of tin- people, , been raifi ,, romemher ora dams Loc! - NewvrJP'1 l'w put lor as a polio and bad g e 'ersi' Into his sbal Nio ha- - tiift I)DJ .. rrM y |