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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Bloody Socialist Revolt in Austria Imperiling All Europe Senate Sentences MacCraeken to Jail Permanent PWA Program Taking Shape. By EDWARD W. PICKARD TS AUSTRIA again to be the start-' start-' liig mint ut a grunt European Hr't That was the question that wan worrying the nations uf the ! , ft J J, ... .111 world as the civil warfare between the Austrian government gov-ernment and the .Socialists .So-cialists proceeded. On the side lines, watching events closely und biding their time, were Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, France Just reeov- .. , ,, cring rrom us own Maj. Emll Fey ,nlernal row and the rather frlglitened members of the little entente. Great Britain, determined de-termined that Germany and Austria Aus-tria shall not be united, was warning warn-ing Hitler to keep his hands oft. Soviet Russia would like to put a .linger In the pie but Is fully occupied occu-pied with the threat of wur with Japan. Vice Chancellor Eudl Fey and Prince Ernst von Starbemberg of Austria were determined that the Socialists should be driven out or exterminated and the country made wholly Fascist, and Chancellor Doll-fuss Doll-fuss was going along with them. The revolt of the Socialists was evidently carefully planned and the rebels were well armed and capably led. I! ut at this writing they had won no victory of moment and their strongholds In Vienna, mainly the-huge the-huge communist apartment buildings, build-ings, had been smashed by the government gov-ernment artillery. In Llnz, Gratz, Steyr and other centers the results were the same. After several days of fighting, In which two or three thousand persons were killed and many more wounded, Dollfuss gave the Socialists five hours In which to lay down their arms on promise of pardon except for the chief leaders. This brought Insufficient response, and the government troops went Into action again in the suburbs to which the rebels had been driven. The latter met the attack stoutly, especially In the section just across the gnat Kelchsbridge where they were occupying big buildings and trenches. Major Fey was In charge of the operations In and about VI-tnnii, VI-tnnii, and Prince von Starbemberg was iu command at Llnz and Steyr. Though the German government was not openly mixed In the mess, the official Nazi newspapers were egging on the Austrian clallsts. Hitler and his comrades claim that a majority of the Austrian voters are Nazis and prophecy that the time Is near when Dollfuss will fall and the Austrian Nazis will be In control. The whole tone of comment com-ment In the German press expressed sympathy with the "misled" workers work-ers of Austria, and the League of Nations and Its members were warned not to Interfere in the struggle. Reports originating In Paris said 7C.0O0 Italian troops had been massed at strategic points along the Austrian frontier and that they and the Fascist frontier guard were ready for any eventuality. The Italian Ital-ian government officials said this troop movement had been going on for some time and was only part of a fundamental change in Italian military policy. London correspondents dug up a story, from an Austrian source, to the effect that the Austrian Socialists Social-ists obtained the arms with which they had been fighting from Czechoslovakia, Czecho-slovakia, either from the Czech government gov-ernment direct or with Its conniv ance. A railroad from Prague to the south runs through a part of Austria, and the story goes that trains loaded with arms and ammunition ammu-nition consigned lo some place In Czechoslovakia were emptied of their cargoes somewhere between Gemundt and Pressburg. It Is also alleged that arras have been shipped up the Danube from Tressburg to Vienna or nearby points and smuggled ashore. Czechoslovakia doesn't at all like the Idea of being surrounded by Fascist Fas-cist countries and has been encouraging encourag-ing democratic movements against both the German and Austrian dictatorships. dic-tatorships. Frague Is full of refugee Socialists. TEN days (n jail was the sentence sen-tence pronounced by the senate on William P. MacCraeken for having hav-ing tampered with correspondence in his files after the files had been subpoenaed by the special committee Investigating airman air-man contracts. The same punishment was awarded L. H. Brittin, vice president presi-dent of Northwest Airways. Two other oth-er defendants were I5a. ... TTiLi acquitted. MacCraeken Mac-Craeken already Gen. Westover had been fined $100 by the District Supreme court for misrepresentation misrepresenta-tion In obtaining a writ of habeas corpus before actually being arrest ed. fie was given time by the senate sen-ate to perfect an appeal from Its verdict. The army went ahead rapidly In Its preparations for carrying the air mails afler the cancellation of contracts con-tracts by Postmaster General Farley. Far-ley. Headquarters for this service were opened In Washington and put under the command of Brig. Gen. Oscar Westover by Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur, chief of staff. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's telegram tele-gram to the President protesting against the summary cancellation of contracts led Postmaster General Farley to make public his report to Chairman Black's Investigating committee com-mittee Justifying his action. In this Farley made sensational charges that the government had been defrauded de-frauded to the extent of $4G,S00,000 In the letting and operation of air-mall air-mall contracts. He asserted that his predecessor, Walter F. Brown, had Joined In and directed a conspiracy by which competition was smothered smoth-ered and all contracts were awarded award-ed by secret agreement to certain favored air lines. SECRETARIES ICKES, WALLACE, WAL-LACE, Dern and Perkins were named by the President as a committee com-mittee to draw up definite plans for his permanent public works program. pro-gram. This Is Intended to effect great economic and social changes and will cost probably more than half a billion dollars yearly. Mr. Roosevelt and his advisers take It for granted that even after business has achieved recovery there will be from three to five million persons still unemployed and that they must be cared for by something like the Civil Works administration. This new project as now conceived con-ceived includes these major undertakings under-takings : Methodical development of waterways, water-ways, water power, flood control, soil erosion preventives, reforestation, reforesta-tion, and other public works. On these works employment would be furnished In the manner of the present pres-ent CCC and CWA. Decentralization of Industry through establishment of small Industries In-dustries in rural regions to enable people to make a living partly by fanning and partly by factory employment. em-ployment. A start in this direction Is now being made in the subsistence subsist-ence homesteads, for which twenty-five twenty-five millions of recovery funds have been allocated. Government purchase of submar-glnal submar-glnal lands unfit for cultivation, which would be added to the public pub-lic domain and devoted to forest development. For this purpose twenty-five millions already have been allotted. 'TpHE Civil Works administration obtained from congress an appropriation ap-propriation of $50,000,000 for its immediate im-mediate uses and its workers, mini- b e r i n g 3,SOO,000 persons, received their pay. But at the same time Administrator Ad-ministrator Harry Hopkins began the task of cutting down the forces, ordering or-dering reduction of from 50 to 90 per cent. He directed that work cease on all federal civil .. al"ry projects not on fed-Hopkins fed-Hopkins eraJ or other put lie property. By Hopkins' plan of cutting down the total number of employees about 10 per cent a week, me aiLiiy win ue vllLUUliy OUl of existence by May 1. The largest force affected by the nonpublic property order is In the public health service. Hopkins ordered or-dered It to stop malaria control efforts ef-forts employing 20,779 men, rural sanitation using 32.010 and the sealing seal-ing of mines by 6,571 workers to prevent water acidity in the Ohio valley. pOL. HORATIO B. HACKETT of. 1 Chicago was appointed director of the housing division of the Public Pub-lic Works administration by Secretary Secre-tary of the Interior Ickes. He succeeds suc-ceeds Robert D. Kohn, a New York architect, who has held the position for the last nine months. Selection of Colonel Hackett, a member of the Chicago architectural architectur-al firm of Holabird & Root, was regarded re-garded In Washington as a move to speed up the federal housing corporation. cor-poration. Given $100,000,000 of public pub-lic works money for low cost housing hous-ing developments, it has spont vjry little. DREMTER TSAI.DARIS of Greece 1 doesn't accept the verdict of several sev-eral government physicians, that Samuel Insuil Is well enough to stand deportation without danger to his life. Tsaldaris said it would be "murder" to compel the fugitive American to travel in his present physical condition, so he will be permitted to remain in Greece until un-til his health improves. As Insuil is seventy-four years old and has clever advisers in Athens, his ex tradition may not be obtained for a long time If ever. MELVIN A. TRATLOR, president presi-dent of the First National bank of Chicago and one of the country's leading financiers, died at his home of pneumonia after fighting fight-ing the disease bravely for several weeks. Mr. Traylor was born In a log cabin in Kentucky 55 years ago and made his way to leadership in business by sheer ability. He also became prominent enough In politics poli-tics to be considered favorably for the Democratic nomination for President Pres-ident In 1D.'S2. Chicago and the country coun-try sustained a considerable loss in his death. JAPAN'S new ambassador to Washington, Hirosi Salto, presented pre-sented his credentials to President Roosevelt, and the two gentlemen exchanged assurances of friendship friend-ship and mutual confidence between their countries. Saito said he was sure that "whatever question, either political or economic, may arise between our two countries, can and will be amicably am-icably composed in a spirit of friendship and mutual confidence the spirit that has characterized our relations ever since Japan made, at the Instance of the United States, her formal entry into the family of nations." "I share fully," the President said In reply, "the view which you have expressed that all questions which may arise between our two countries coun-tries will be resolved in a spirit of friendship and mutual confidence. You will find this government devoted de-voted now as In the past to the principle prin-ciple of maintaining peace In the Pacific region as elsewhere and ready to co-operate cordially and sympathetically with your government govern-ment in all of the many lines of endeavor en-deavor which are possible In pursuance pur-suance of and toward making prevail pre-vail that principle. It Is our constant con-stant desire that, by co-operation, all the countries of the Pacific region re-gion may continue to enjoy peace and may attain conditions of abiding abid-ing prosperity." INDEPENDENTS and insurgents in congress have long advocated an amendment to the Constitution providing for direct election of the President, and at last the first step toward this change has been taken. Senator George W. Norris' resolution resolu-tion proposing the amendment was approved by the senate judiciary committee, with only Senator Stephens Steph-ens of Mississippi voting In the negative. Should the amendment be written Into the federal Constitution it would abolish the present system by which citizens vote for Presidential electors Instead of for the candidates candi-dates themselves. Under the amendment amend-ment the names of Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates would be written on the ballots and the votes cast directly for them. The amendment would also do away with the present system by which a state's whole electoral vote (equal to Its representation in both houses of congress) is cast for the candidate receiving a plurality of votes cast within the state. Instead In-stead a state's electoral vote would be pro-rated according to the proportion pro-portion of the entire vote which each candidate received. GOVERNORS of all the states have received from the administration admin-istration a draft of a model state recovery law which would make all national codes of fair competition automatically effective within the states. It would remove the threatening threat-ening possibility of a constitutional barrier to the enforcement of those codes among concerns that do not deal In Interstate commerce. The model law would authorize the state governor to consent to the utilization of state and local officers offi-cers by the President of the United States "in effectuating the policies of the national industrial recovery act." A violation of a code would be made a misdemeanor in the state with a penalty of $500 a day for each offense. D EPRESENTATIVES of business groups in Washington said they were fairly well satisfied with the new revenue bill which was brought before the house, though there were some objectionable provisions pro-visions which they hoped might be removed by the senate finance committee com-mittee later. The bill now represents repre-sents a compromise between the recommendations of the Hill subcommittee sub-committee and the iajr-gestions of the Treasury department The chief changes are those with respect to depreciation, consolidated returns and corporate reorganizations. The bill does not reduce depreciation allowances al-lowances as did the subcommittee recommendations. Nor does it abolish abol-ish consolidated returns for affiliated affiliat-ed corporations. While it Imposes an extra tax on corporation earnings earn-ings when consolidated returns are filed, this Is not so objectionable as the entire elimination of the privilege. priv-ilege. While the upper surtax brackets have been scaled up somewhat they do not Increase greatly the tax applying ap-plying to a person who has an earned income credit. The tax burden bur-den is increased somewhat on a person per-son without earned income, but with corporation dividends and government gov-ernment bonds not subject to normal nor-mal taxes wnich are readied by commencing surtaxes above a single 4. per cent normal tax instead of above normal rates aggregating 8 per cent. (S by Western Newspaper Union. |
