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Show THE iNews Review of Current Events the World Over Congressmen Hurrying Willi Tax and Relief Programs Black's Committee Wins a Decision Distracting Rivalries in European Diplomacy. SMmiFIELI) SENTINELMTTHFIELDjJJTA NORRIS' bill creating a Valley authority to apply the TVA experiment to 22 states la not approved hy the National Grange, which thinks It would be absurd to bring new land Into cultivation by Irrislid gation while farmers are for letting their land lie fallow. Fred H. Brenoknian. legislative representabefore a tive of the Grunge, agriculture subcommittee and said Iho organization also objected to huge dams the proHisal to throughout the Mississippi valley for powthe production of er. He favored a scientific program of soil ciuiKervatloii but Insisted upon a illstliictlnn between conservation and reclamation, lie also advocated a scientific flood control program, but disHood control and tinguished c i tower development Like previous witnesses. Including eleclrleul engineers und Morris L. Cooke, the New Deal's rural electrification administrator, Mr. Rrenckinun Informed the committee thut flood control cun lie accomplished only by constructing little dams fur up In the lieudwuters. B W. PICKARD Ntiitr i'uluR CONGRESS settled down to earnest would clear the wny for early adjournment, tlm two chief mutters under consideration being tuxea son em In Ethiopia be taken up by tlie League of NntlnnH anil that peace between Italy and Ethinegotiation opia be ovoued quickly to forestall Iieino-eratl- e relief. and any attempt by I'reinicr Mussolini to members of the sign a settlement which might rise n house ways and means from rulna of Halle Selawdo's committee worked In empire. Foreign Secretary Eden session to Indicated tlie British were dclennlned executive to make pence progress "before we draw up the new revenue men sure which leuve ticncva. Britain reserving lta they export will yield decision an to what to do next If tbla about ITHHmtssi In conciliation effort failed. Tlie cunrlllation committee of tlie additional tuxes during tlie next year. Tlie mileague waa making little nr no prng-res und In ICome Miiaaollnl told hla stayed nority mcmlM-rascabinet that Ktliloplu'a armies should scornfully away, serting tlielr presence and would he "totally annihilated." wns useless lieeniise Ilia own forces, meanwhile, were movtlie preparation of the measure wns ing rapidly toward Desaye nnd Addis ' Urprrsriiliillve A. Aim Im. Utterly partisan. was Lamnnek of Ohio, licinocrnf. France wns reverting to her forInsistent on Ills plan to ratoe mer pulley of letting Italy go ahead hy a flat Ill to 22 cr rent lax on with Its African rnnquPHt, devoting her ntlenilnn mainly to Germany and cencorporation Income. To prmlurc more nnd bring his plan nciirly tral Euroie. The Iirltlah continued to up to the money requirement outlined treat all that In a conciliatory way, l.anineelc which disgusted tlie French. I render Roosevelt, by President would rcpcnl Die present exemption Knrraut handed In Ills government's of corporation dividends fenn the nor- reply to the Hitler settlement promal Inrome tax rale, nil Unit, he waa posals, submitting In return Us own in agreement with tlie conindllee pro- plan. This demanded that Germany gram. keep "bunds off" (lie rest of Europe Harry I. Hopkins, head of the WPA, for So years, renouncing her apparent piieared lierore a sulicnniinittce of the Intentions of action against Austria, bouse npproirl:illons cnmnilHee, also Danzig and Meniel, and claims for in execiillve session, to urge compli- colonies. It submitted a French peace ance with President Roosevelt's re- plan based on collective neeurlty" quest for an additional billion and a with regional niutnul assistance parts half to flnance relief In the 11X17 fiscal backed hy an International army diyear. Vurlous committee members at rected by a commission working once demanded that Sir. Hopkins tell through the league. what had been done with the granted lust year. He wns FEDERAL money totaling Bald to have promised to do his best be spent In the next four to satisfy them, bat Chnlrmnn J. P. years on low-corent and alum clearBuchanan wnruud the minority mem- ance construction projects, provided bers that "this Is not to be mude Into the administrations an Investlgntlon." bill. Introduced by Senator Robert F. Wagner of New PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, happy wound up hla fishYork, Is passed by ing cruise In the Rahumas and recongress. Mr. Wagner turned to Washington. lie landed at hopes It will be put Fort Lauderdale and boarded hla speduring tlie through cial train at once, being accompanied present session. for a time by Governor Sholts of The measure Is s Florida and James A. Moffett who may c om p r o m 1 s e of the be appointed assistant secretary of the many proposals made navy to succeed the late Henry Rooseby the varloue relief Setr. Wegner in(j housing agencies velt Governor McNutt of Indiana, possible keynoter of the Democratic of the New Deal and waa drafted convention, went up from Miami to after a aeries of conferences with President Roosevelt It would cregreet the President On tlie way to Washington Mr. ate another bureau, with five direcItooscvrlt stopped for half a day at tors, Including ' the secretary of the Warm Springs, Ga to look at hla Interior 'In hla ex officio capacity, refarm and take a awlm In the resort ceiving $10,0(10 snlarles: The authority would be empowered pool, passing through part of the region .devastated by the recent torna- to make grants not to exceed 49 per does, lie received reports from eyewit- rent of the total cost and loans for nesses along the route: the remainder to any public housing agency for the acquisition of hind and the construction of SENATOR BLACK'S lobby a considerable victory In bousing projects. The loans would the District of Columbia Supreme court be repayable over a period not to ex.when Chief Justice Wheat refused to ceed CO years, at such rates of Interest as the authority decreed. enjoin the committee from using the telegrams from and to WilFLYING through a fog on Its way liam U. Meant which a Transcontinental hud been seized. The and Western Air liner went far out Judge held that the of Its course, plowed through tbe forcourt hud no Jurisdicest seven miles southeast of Union tion over the commitCity, Ta., and smashed Into a granite tee, nnd said he could wall on Chestnut Ridge. Nine pasnot see that the freesengers and the two pilots were killed. dom of the press was Tlie stewardess. Miss Nellie Granger, in any wny Involved. managed to drag one man and the " Said hla honor: ole woman passenger from the flamBlack Senator "I have not been In- ing wrerkage, bound np their wounds, formed yet of any case In which any ran four miles to a farmhouse from court has assumed to dictate to a com- which she telephoned to Pittsburgh mittee of the senate what It should do the news of the disaster, and then and what It should not da, and I do returned to the scene to care for the not feel that I hare any right to Inau- surr Ivors until a rescue party could gurate any such principle as that." arrive. The pilots were flying on a Elisha Hanson, counsel for Mr. radio beam, and it was believed their llcnrst, announced that he would ap- radio apparatus failed. At this writ peal from the decision, nnd It was Ing there la no other explanation. certain that the case would ultimately be taken before tlie United States SuSOMETHING Innew In Spanish history preme court. Madrid. Tlie pnrlU' Its investigation, the ment, by a vote of 23S to li, ousted Continuing Black committee heard the testimony Nlceto Alcala Zamora from the otllce of Fred G. Clark of New York, na- of president of the republic. This actional commander of the Crusaders. tion, accomplished by a coalition of Mr. Clark denied that the organization Socialists, Communists, Left Repubbad erer engaged In lobbying, anil de- licans and teu minor groups, was taken clared Hint it had assailed the meth- on a Socialist motion that the presiods of lobbyists In a national radio dent had acted Illegally In dissolving broadcast. the last parliament before tlie elections Senator P.taek endeavored to show und that therefore he should he that the Crusaders, the American Libfrom otllce. Rack of this moerty league, the Sentinels of the Re- tion. however, lay radical sentiment public, the Soul hern Committee to Up- that Zamora, In using Ills power achold the Constitution, the American cording to personnt whim, has the progress of the "republican Taxpayers' league, the National Economy league, and similar organizations revolution." opimsed to the New Deal were sup Diego Martinez Barrio, speaker of ;vorted largely hy the same small group parliament, was made temporary pre of wealthy industrialists. One of his Ident to serve until elections are held. investigators put In a list of contrlb , nlors to two or more of the groii)s haa rejected China's named. Mr. Clark obtained permission RUSSIA Monthe sovlet-Oute- r to Include In the record a list of hun- golian mutual assistance pact, but asdreds of small contributors, who sent serted the treaty does not signify any In sums ranging from II up In reterritorial claim by tlie Soviet union over China or Outer Mongolia. The sponse to the radio program. Russians believe that Japan plans to adventure set up puppet stales In North China MUSSOLINI'S African Rhineland doings and Inner Mongolia and then to seize and future lutentlons, tangled togeth- Outer Mongolia. Tbe Manchukuo government gave er, have created a situation that seemed to Inperil the formal friend- out details of a bloody battlo between ship between Great Britain and Manchukuans and Outer Mongolians France. The British were Insisting that Id which the letter were repulsed, s six bomblivs planes and some tanks Italy be curbed, that bar use of pol Ethl-npln- i. I. J . coii.-tru- et By EDWARD Wmln One More Destroyer Is Launched apiM-are- hydro-electri- fc TRUCK COMBS TREE SENATOR . . 4,800,-000,0- homing low-ren- t" . ham-Itcrc- los-1n- c hydro-electri- members of the la Alliance, In convention Washington, marched to the White House to demand continuation of the Works Progress administration, but neither President Roosevelt nor atiy of Ills secretaries wns there to receive tlielr petition. The men were orderly nnd the police did not molest them. WPA Administrator Hopkins also was absent from hla otllce, but hla assistant, Aubrey Williams: received the delegation. David Lasser, natlonnl chairman of the organization, told Williams the group hnd been promisor food and FIVE hundred This automobile truck slipped Its brakes In Seattle, Wash., and after running wild through a busy street, bank and plunged down s climbed tbe nearest tree. No one was Injured, and even the truck and tree were undamaged. Tlie accident did not happen April 1. either. View ol the launching pf the new lSiO-todestroyer leader Raich at the Bethlehem shipbuilding plant nt Fore River, Mass. This 372 root wnrsldp, one ot four ol a new development in navy vessels built, nr building, was named for Rear Admiral George Real Raich, Mexican and Civil war naral hero, and of Wilmington, Del. waa sponsored by Ids granddaughter. Miss Gertrude Btili-The nrmniiipii! of the Raich will Include a torpedo tube, nnd five inch guns. n h Colorados New Art Center Nears Completion shelter during tlielr staj jpl Washington and transportation a siielr homes. Williams said thnj, under a regulation promulgated February 2 no federal Binds could be donated for conventions of the unemployed unless congress made a specific appropriation fur that purpose. DUE to the Insistence of Sraatoi for pnbllclty on large AAA benefit payments, Secretary 'Wallace has begun telling about them. He made a partial report, withholding the namea of recipients This revealed wltb three exceptions. that the largest cotton rental benefit 123,747 for 1034, went to a payment, Mississippi company headed by Oscar Johnston, an AAA official. . Among the largest cotton payment recipients In 1933 were the Mississippi state penitentiary, which received $43,200 for controlling production on lta cotton acreage, and 2500 to tbe Arkansas state prison. itself into a court, the the Impeachment trial of Federal Judge Hoisted, L. Ritter of Florida the twelfth auch ease In 137 years. It was believed the trial would last at least one week. The defendant was represented by Carl T. Hoffman of Miami and Frank R. Walsh and of Washington New York. Tbs prose- Resolving cution was In charge of Representatives of Texas, Summers Hobbs of Alabama, and Ierklns of New Jersey, who presented tbe charges. Originally approximately (X) witnesses were summoned for tbe trial, bnt 20 were excused because of withdrawal by the prosecution of two specifications In article seven charging Judge Ritter acted Improperly In electric rate and banking proceedings. Judge Ritter Is ebarged In seven Impeachment articles voted by tbe house with allowing A. L. Rankin, a former law partner, exorbitant receivership fees, with "corrnptly" receiving 4,900 from Rankin, with violating the Judicial code In practicing law while on the bench, and with evasion of taxes on part of his 1029 and 1930 Incomes. In a 12,000-worreply, Ritter denied all of the charges, ne asserted none of the actions cited had "brought Ills court Into scandal and disrepute" or "destroyed public confidence In the administration ot Justice" In that court TORNADOES tore across Georgia, Arkansas, and Tennessee, leaving death and destruction In their wake. Abont 400 lersons were killed and hundreds of others Injured, and the property losses ran up Into the millions. The Uttle city of Tupelo. Miss., suffered the most, with nearly 200 on the death list and more than a hundred homes smashed Into kindling wood. A few hours Inter another tornado struck Gainesville, Ga., and In three minutes had nearly mim'd the business section of the town and killed more than ir0 persons. In fires that followed the storm the bodlea of many victims were burned beyond recognition. The mining communities cear Columbia, Tetin., to the north and east of Tupelo, counted seven dead. Red Bay, eastward In Alabama, lost five lives to the merciless wind. Nearby ltoonevllle. Miss., bad four killed and Batesvllle. Ark suffered one death. INactiondecision of A concerning View ot the nuiln entrance of the Colorado Springs new art center, being constructed at an approximate cost of When finished. It will be one of the few free art centers In this country, accessible to the general public is well as to student! of Colorado colleges. MXI.UUU. Wins Title of Miss Exposition .w DOG ADOPTS LAWYER Betty York Selected Anions Batliins Beauties Hetty York of Santa Monica, Calif., who, as winner of the Spring Bathing Beauty contest at the California Pacific International exposition at San Diego, was chosen as Miss Exposition of 1930. Horses Again in Demand, Spring Sales Indicate St. Francis, Kan. Spring sales are proving the formers are using more horses and mules. There was a time when the tractor reigned supreme. In a sale of 70 head of horses nnd moles held In St. Francis the average price for the 70 head of anlmnla wn The law permitted a dog to adopt a 80. A mare, weighing man In Berkeley, Calif. "Arno," most1.400 pounds, brought 100. In view German Shepherd, officially received of this Increased demand farmers an t ly stockmen are paying more attention to guardianship papers for E. D. Walsh, attorney, in unusual proceedings before the breeding of horses and mules. Police Judge Oliver Youngs, Fleet Chief of Staff Hands Out Boxing Trophies a specific the Securities Exchange commission the United Stntra Supreme court ruled against the SEC. and In lta pronouift'euicnt It uttered a significant warning against the exercise of arbitrary power by governmental agencies. Especially censured were the "fishing excursions." often undertaken by commissions and congressional com mlttees. Rear Admiral Jaime o. Richardson. U. S N. chief of r, to whom he had Just presented championship artterwe ght ; Ernie Krhauh. U 8. 8. Colorado. mlddlwrteS-IS- . Admiral Richardwiti : Dub Bowen. U. S. 8. Pen.ncola. kMwdght, Jacobs. U. S s Alinlr. bantamweight. l,"wn wl,h hoxtng champions of the navy UM' U' tender Altalr. Grayer n D,,,,Mn' weight; A lei Pepin, U. S. 8. Mississippi, featherweight; Bob IWit-heev- |
