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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Assassination of Senator Lons: Stirs the Nation Great Britain Ready to Take Sanctions Against Italy Ickes Versus Ilopkins. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. HCRY P. LONG, United States senator and political dictator of Louisiana, 13 dead, the victim of an assassin's bullet As lie passed r - , . r if ; " ri S ml) throiiffh a corridor of the state-house In Baton Rouse, where the legislature legisla-ture was passing more laws to solidify solid-ify his control over the state, he was shot once through the body by Dr. Carl A. Weiss. Jr. of Baton Rouge, nnA nf thA "TCInf. Huey P. Long fish,3 polIHcnl o ponents. The assassin was Immediately Immedi-ately shot to death by the senator's ever present bodyguards. The surgeons and physicians worked unceasingly to save Long, but his strength steadily waned and shortly after 4 o'clock Tuesday morning, about 30 hours after the shooting, he passed away. N Long's body lay In state In the rotunda of the Capitol building while many thousands passed by the bier. The Impressive funeral services were held on the front terrace ter-race and the dead senator was Interred In-terred in a sunken garden of the Capitol grounds. Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, the young minister who deserted a rich parish In Shreve-port Shreve-port to follow Long, was the only speaker at the funeral. The only music was the song, "Every Man a King," played In minor key and dirge time by the State University band. Though the man who killed Long was known as one of his political foes, the real story of the assassination assas-sination was shrouded In uncertainty. uncer-tainty. Earl Christenberry, secretary sec-retary of the late senator, declared that Long was murdered as a result re-sult of a conspiracy; that a number num-ber of his enemies formed a "jury of death," and that Doctor Weiss was selected by lot to fire the fatal bullet. To those who are familiar with the conditions In Louisiana this story does not sound especially fantastic. What will become of Long's "empire" "em-pire" is a question that agitates all his followers, and all the people peo-ple of the state as well. For the present, It seemed likely, the members mem-bers of the Long macliine'wlll sink their personal ambitions and try to hold the organization intact. It will be difficult for them to decide on a successor to the "Kingfish" as their leader. Gov. O. K. Allen Is considered too mild and peace-loving. peace-loving. Seymour Weiss no relative rela-tive to the assassin treasurer of the Long organization, Is the strongest man In the lot, but he has always drawn bacl: from holding public position. Allen A. Ellender, speaker of the house, may be the man finally selected, though Lieut. Gov. James A. Noe Is to the fore. Political leaders of all parties expressed ex-pressed their deep regret for the assassination of Senator Iong. His devoted followers In Louisiana and elsewhere mourned his death. He had been one of the picturesque figures In America's political life, creating Innumerable enemies but persistent In advocating his Ideas which appeared fantastic to most citizens. A Democrat, he had broken brok-en with the administration and often oft-en bitterly attacked President Rtosevelt and the New Dealers. It was the belief of many that he Intended In-tended to become the Presidential nominee of a third party comprising compris-ing his own "share the wealth" crowd and various other groups dissatisfied dis-satisfied with the policies of the old parties. IVrUSSOLINI tacitly consented to the appointment of a committee commit-tee of five nations by the League of Nations council to handle the Italo- Ethlopian embrog-lio, embrog-lio, and after protest pro-test agreed that Great Britain and France should be among the members mem-bers of that body. The other members are Spain, Turkey and Poland. Senor Salvador de Sla-daringa Sla-daringa of Spain Is t tie chairman, and he and his as- Salvador de sociates at once be- Madariaga gan the task assigned them. Each country Is represented by its chief delegate, being besides Madariaga, Eden of England. I. aval of Frmce. Ruwtu Arras of Turkey and 'Josef Beck of Poland. Soon after the assembly of the league openeil Its session, Sir Samuel Sam-uel Hoare. r.ritish foreign secretary, secre-tary, electrified the gathering by nn outspoken warning to Italy and ranee. lie declared Great Britain Brit-ain recognized Italy's need for expansion and raw materials bnt would not admit these coirld not he obtained peaceably. Pounding the trilirne, he said: "BrHoln stands for steady col lective resistance to all acts of unprovoked un-provoked aggression." lie paused, struck the tribune again, and repeated re-peated quietly : "Steady collective resistance to all acts of unprovoked aggression." Sir Samuel more than iDtimated that Great Britain was prepared to take sanctions against Italy In case of aggression provided all the other members of the league shared the risk ; and if not, then England was prepared to Isolate herself from the continent. Tills seemed to put it up to Premier Laval of France, to choose between the friendship of Britain and that of Italy. Laval meanwhile was trying to persuade Mussolini to accept another an-other plan he had devised and postponed his speech to the assembly. as-sembly. Representatives of the Netherlands Nether-lands and Sweden were the first to support Honre's position announcing announc-ing their countries would fulfill all obligations Including collective penalties pen-alties if any member became a vicy tim of aggression. ( In two speeches In Rome Mussolini Mus-solini gave Indication that he would not be diverted from his purpose to conquer Ethiopia. Though in one he said "the Italian people want peace provided It Is accompanied by justice," jus-tice," in the other he declared "we shall march straight on." The Ethiopian Ethi-opian government announced that "telegrams from the northern frontier fron-tier show that the Italians are making mak-ing important troop movements on the Ethiopian and Eritrean frontier. fron-tier. Indicating an early offensive against Ethiopia." - . Accepting the advice of his "brain trust," which Includes Everett A." Colson of the United States, Emperor Em-peror Halle Selassie Instructed his representatives in Geneva to reject all solutions thus far offered by the powers for settling the quarrel with Italy. These are a tripartite mandate man-date over Ethiopia, as suggested by France, with the League Of Nations guaranteeing Ethiopia's independence independ-ence .and territorial Integrity; France's proposal for an Italian protectorate pro-tectorate similar to that of the British Brit-ish In Iraq, and an International police po-lice force similar to the one that occupied the Saar before its restoration restor-ation to Germany. PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATOR ADMINISTRA-TOR ICKES and Work Progress Administrator Hopkins got into such a quarrel over the spending of the $1,000,000,000 fund that the President had to call them to Hyde Park, together togeth-er with the third and neutral member of the triumvirate Frank G. Walker, the director of the national emergency council and administrator admin-istrator of applica- tl0nS- u LJ , Others called to Harry Hopkins the Important works-relief parley Included In-cluded Daniel Bell, director of the budget; Charles West, under-secre-tary of Interior; Corrlngton Gill, afjsistant of Hopkins; Fred Ironsides, Iron-sides, administrative assistant of Walker; and Col. Horatio Ilackett, chief of housing in the public works administration. Mr. Roosevelt was determined to have peace, and told those present that the prime necessity at this time is to make Jobs quickly, always al-ways beeping in mind the Idea of turning workers hack to private Industry In-dustry as business warrants. This looked like a victory for Hopkins, who favors quick jobs, over Ickes, champion of permanent public works. The. President has declared that he hopes 3.500.000 persons can be removed from the relief rolls and put to work by the first of November. Novem-ber. RESTORATION of the Greek monarchy Is coming nearer and presumably Former King George will be the man to occupy the throne. Premier Tsaldaris has put himself on record as favoring the restoration, and President Znlmls has Indicated he will be willing to resign to make room for a king. Tsaldaris said In his statement: "I attribute the nervous tension at present existing in public ranks and the army to general anxiety concerning con-cerning the question of a constitution. constitu-tion. I consider democratic royalty as the natural regime of Greece and ask the people to vote for It In the Impending plebiscite." THOUSANDS on thousands of enthusiastic en-thusiastic Germans gathered In Nuremberg for the convention of the Nazi party, and to them Relchs fuehrer Hitler Issued a proclamation proclama-tion asserting that Germany has won her military freedom and attacking at-tacking the "Fourteen Points" of Woodrow Wilson on which the Versailles Ver-sailles treaty was built A feature of the convention was a great showing show-ing of th6 nation's rebuilt military strength. THREE men who made Independent Independ-ent investigation of the deaths of ilC war veterans In the Florida hurricane reported they found no evidence Indicating culpable negligence negli-gence on the part of any persons. They were Suites Attorney G. A. Worley of Miami. Aubrey Williams, representing Federal Relief Administrator Admin-istrator Hopkins, and Col. George E. Ijams of the veterans' bureau, representing President Roosevelt. This finding was denounced as "whitewash" by James E. Van Zandt, commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; John J. Skillman, commander of the Miami chapter of the same organization, organi-zation, and other representatives of veterans' societies. Van Zandt's statement called on President Roosevelt to ignore the official report re-port and take action against "officials "of-ficials guilty of negligence." "If there officials had heeded the storm warnings or had been in the least familiar with seasonal climatic climat-ic conditions, the tragedy could have been averted, all witnesses agree," Van Zandt declared. The commander's statement continued: con-tinued: " 'Whitewash reports,' official though they may be, bear false testimony tes-timony when eye witnesses, survivors, surviv-ors, and trained news gatherers are unanimous In the opinion that there was gross negligence on the part of properly constituted officials." offi-cials." ((U7E WENT to war on foot, V V and we're joining the parade pa-rade the same way," declared about 150 of the grizzled veterans who attended at-tended the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Grand Rapids, Mich. So these sturdy old men marched in the big parade while the rest, numbering some 250, rode in automobiles. Here were all that remained of the hundreds hun-dreds of thousands who answed the call to the colors in Civil war days, save for a few who were kept at home by extreme age and illness. Some of the states had no representatives repre-sentatives In the line, but their flags were carried nevertheless. From other states there were but one or two. It was a pathetic but inspiring inspir-ing procession, watched by thousands thou-sands whose eyes were dimmed by tears and escorted by Sons of Veterans, Vet-erans, American Legionnaires and Veterans of the Spanish war. . Oley Nelson, ninety-one, of Sinter, Iowa, was elected commander-in-chief, to succeed Albert E. Sfacey of Elbridge, N. Y. In a session of the organization the proposed reunion re-union at Gettysburg next year with the Confederate veterans was discussed, dis-cussed, and Commander . Stacey made it fFls-is that the affair would not be held under the official auspices aus-pices of the Grand Army. The plan originated in Pennsylvania. LEGAL attack on the Guffey soft coal act has been opened by 10 coal companies operating in Harlan county, Kentucky, in Federal Feder-al court at Louisville. Theybiought suit for Injunction against lis enforcement, en-forcement, charging that it vii dates the federal Constitution in these ways: 1. It violated the fifth amendment, amend-ment, which forbids taking property proper-ty without due process of law. 2. It violated the tenth amendment, amend-ment, which reserves to the states, or to the people, ' all rights not granted the federal government or forbidden the states. 3. It attempts to delegate legislative legisla-tive power. 4. The section levying a 15 per cent tax on all coal production, with a 90 per cent refund to producers pro-ducers submitted to the code provided pro-vided by the act, is "an unconstitutional unconstitu-tional attempt on the part of congress, con-gress, under the guise of taxation, to punish those producers of bituminous bitu-minous coal who are unwilling to surrender their constitutional rights." 5. Congress has no jurisdiction over and no power to legislate upon certain matters covered by the act or the code. The companies declared they would refuse to submit .to the act and the code it authorizes.. Former Federal Judge Charles L Dawson filed the action as counsel for the plaintiffs. Judge. Dawson recently left the bench to' re-enter private law practice after declaring unconstitutional the NRA, the slum clearance condemnation proceedings, proceed-ings, the taxes imposed by the Kerr-Smith Kerr-Smith tobacco act, and other Ts'ew Deal measures. r EACTION of American business l- and financial men to President Roosevelt's latest public statement that his basic program has reached substantial completion and industry will have a breathing spell ran the gamut between mild hope and downright down-right unbelief. Those who permitted permit-ted themselves to be quoted were generally extremely cautious In their expressions, but there was usually usu-ally a vein of skepticism In their remarks. Wall Street brokers were gladdened by a spurt of trading at higher prices, but bankers were more than doubtful, and economists insisting that a balanced budget, which wasn't mentioned In "the President's letter to Roy Howard, j publisher, was a prime requisite. Silas Strawn, former president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, said: "Business men generally will say that the improvement improve-ment In some lines of business has been In spite of, rather than because be-cause of, the activities of the administration." |