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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over King AlLort of Belgium, Killed Ly Fall While Mountain Moun-tain Climbing, Succeeded by Leopold Three Great Bowers Protect Austria. I!y EDWAI'D W. PICKARD OVU of the fj't ami most be-lnwd be-lnwd of the fi.-w ri'irialuiri' kins, Alb'-rt I of Iiclluin, met a tragic k-:ttti while nrm-ticlny for l- ,-1 his favorite spurt, mountain climbing, lie was attempting;, alone, to scale a bO foot p 1 n d a c 1 e cenr Nannir anil fell, being probably Instantly killed. Hours later tils body was found and carried car-ried to IlriisseLs. Queen Elizabeth was ill iiau w King Leopold n()t tulJ of the kind's death for some hours. The l!el(;lari nation' was plunged Into genuine mourning, and all the world sympathized, for Albert had won lilKli esteem hy bis heroism during the World war and his just government govern-ment of his people. Albert is succeeded by Crown Prince Leopold, duke of Brabant, lils eldest son. Leopold is thirty-two thirty-two years old and was married in 19-G to Princess Astrld of Sweden. They have a daughter and a son. The new ruler was probably one of the youngest soldiers In the World war, enlisting as a private when lie was thirteen years old. Re was treated as nn ordinary soldier, seeing see-ing active service In the trenches, and was a sergeant when the armistice armis-tice was signed. Tlie dead king's funeral was of course a stately affair. The procession pro-cession from the lirussels palace to the cathedral of St. Gudule was led by mounted gendarmes who were followed by British, Italian and French troops. Then came the Belgian Bel-gian troops with, crepe-draped flags. Albert's personal colors were carried car-ried just ahead of the gun carriage that bore the casket, and his favorite favor-ite charger followed, the saddle empty and field boots reversed In the stirrups. Next walked Crown Prince Leopold, his brother, Charles, aud their brother-in-law, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, the latter carefully guarded by police because of the attempt to asassinnte him in Brussels in 1020. In tlie throng of notable persons in the procession were representatives representa-tives of all nations. Ambassador Morris was there for the United States; President Lebrun and Premier Pre-mier Doumergue headed the large French delegation; from England were the prince of Wales, Field Marshal Lord Allenby and Admiral Sir Roger Keyes ; Germany was represented rep-resented by Dr. Friedrieh von Keller, Kel-ler, and Poland by Ignatz Pader-ewski. Pader-ewski. Next day Leopold was crowned, with Astrld on the throne beside him. The parliamentary reply to the new ruler's speech from the throne . thanked the new queen for having given birth to two children, Insuring Insur-ing the permanence of the dynasty. King Albert was the third of his line. lie was born In 1S75 and ascended as-cended the throne In 1909. Throughout Through-out the war he was one of the most active members of the Belgian army, continually at the front to help his troops and often in Imminent Im-minent danger of death. After the armistice he got the task of reconstruction recon-struction well under way and then, with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Leopold, took journeys to the United Unit-ed States, England, France, Spain, Brazil and other countries to study Jade conditions and find new otitis otit-is for Belgian products. ."ArT. ANTHONY EDEN is raov- ' Ing from capital to capital In Europe on the rather hopeless mission mis-sion of reviving the disarmament negotiations. I n Paris he was told by the seven big men of the French cabinet that France was unwilling to reduce her military power while the Nazi menace continues, con-tinues, and the French government had already coldly refused to' discuss lA f? A the matter with An""y Eden Hitler "while Germany is rearming." Concessions recently offered to the German chancellor had been met with inconclusive arguments, and with demands for a German army of 300,000 effectives, which France rejected. The most the French statesmen would say was that they "looked forward In a most general manner toward the possibility of an International accord, equally hoped for by both parties on the question Cf disarmament." Discouraged but persistent. Cap-lain Cap-lain E-iea went on to Berlin and txonie or further conversations based on the British plan for reduction re-duction of armaments. tjOR the time being the danger of a European war arising from the lustrian Socialist rebellion Is over, fcreat Britain, France and Italy have anited to safeguard Austria's independence, and while that holds no other nation dare attack. Long conversations were held in Paris by British Ambassador Lord Tyrrell, Tyr-rell, premier Doumergue, Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, Capt. Anthony An-thony Eden, British lord privy seal, and representatives of Italy, and the outcome was this statement to the world : "The Austrian government has Inquired In-quired of the governments of France, Great Britain and Italy as to their attitude with regard to a dossier which It prepared with a view of establishing German Interference Inter-ference In the Internal affairs of Austria and communicated to them. The conversations which have taken place between the three governments govern-ments on this subject have shown they take a common view as to the necessity of maintaining Austria's Independence and Integrity In accordance ac-cordance with the relevant treaties." Tli is pronouncement was proposed pro-posed by Premier Mussolini, who seeks to keep Austria Intact as a "buffer state between Naziism and Fascism. It is, of course, directed to Hitler, who hopes that the government gov-ernment of Chancellor Dollfuss may be overthrown, If not by force, then in the elections. TREASURY reports reveal that all sources of internal revenue showed large increases during the first seven months of the present fiscal fis-cal year compared with the same period of 1933, with the exception of corporate income taxes. Total receipts of the seven months' period ended January 31, amounted to $1,937,950,474, a gain of $5G6,-70S.OC1 $5G6,-70S.OC1 as compared with the year before. For the seven months the government's govern-ment's collection of taxes on distilled dis-tilled spirits, wines, and beers amounted to $120,547,399, as compared com-pared with $4,397,580 In the same 1932 period. CENTIMENT in favor of the im- mediate pnyment of the veterans' vet-erans' bonus is so strong among the Democrats in the house that the H promise of a veto by the President did not deter 145 r e p r esentatives from signing a petition pe-tition to take the Patman bill from the committee and bring it up for a vote on March 12. Speaker R a i n e y had been to the .,..,.. v nite nouse anu wrlghtPatman . . .,, ... a returned with this message: "I am authorized by the President Presi-dent to say that this Is not the time to pay the bonus, and that he cannot approve any legislation to that effect." But the members went right on signing. Mr. Rainey was visibly disturbed, but said, In reply to inquiries, in-quiries, "We're going to let the house do just what it pleases." Wright Patman of Texas, Democrat, Demo-crat, author of the bill, told the house the measure would provide the administration with the mechanism mech-anism for carrying out the Inflationary Infla-tionary program it already has embraced, em-braced, and that It would save the government billions of dollars in interest. in-terest. It seemed most likely that the bill would be passed by the house, and it may also get through the senate for the sentiment for it has been steadily growing in that body. ( NLY seven members of the house voted In the negative when the $25S,000,000,000 tax revision revi-sion bill came up for passage. It is expected the senate will make many alterations in the measure for the purpose of further fortifying the statutes against evasion. Of principal interest to the average aver-age taxpayer is the bill's readjustment readjust-ment of the Income tax rate structure struc-ture to provide a new normal, rate of 4 per cent and surtaxes starting at 4 per cent on net income above $4,000 and ranging In graduated brackets to 59 per cent on incomes of $1,000,000 or more. The new tax rates, however, will not be effective on 1033 incomes. Generally the bill Is designed to prevent such tax evasion methods as were disclosed during the recent investigations of the senate banking bank-ing and currency committee into stock market practices. T USTICE finally has caught up "J with Roger Touhy of Chicago and two members of his notorious gang. Their second trial for the kidnaping of John Factor ended In a verdict of guilty, the jury fixing the penalty at 99 years in the penitentiary. peni-tentiary. One Charles W. Mayo of Alabama, Ala-bama, with an accomplice, devised a fantastic plot for the kidnaping of E. P. Adler, banker and publisher pub-lisher of Davenport, Iowa, from a Chicago hotel. Both were caught and confessed, and then Mayo , hanged himself In his cell. The ; "snatching" game appears to be about played out. FRANCE was stirred by a mystery mys-tery murder that Is connected with the S'Xi.ooO.Oia) Stavisky scandal. scan-dal. Albert Prince, counselor of the Court of Arpeuls and the key wit- j ness In the Stavisky case, was lured j from Paris and slain and his body was tied to a railroad track near Dijon and mangled by a traiu. In the same connection, the Paris i police announced they had discov- j ered evidence that Stavisky was an j international spy as well as a swindler; swin-dler; that he was aided by a number num-ber of women, and probably had sold valuable Information to the German government. AS THE fighting planes of the American army, with their guns removed, began carrying the air mail over routes formerly cov- , 1 A ered by private air line companies, the senate committee Investigating air mail contracts resumed re-sumed Its inquiry. The main witness was Walter F. Brown, postmaster general under President Pres-ident Hoover, who has been accused Colonel colIuslon and fa. Lmdbergh voritism In tlie lct. ting of the contracts. Mr. Brown had denied the charges In a long statemeut and in appearing before the committee he waived the Immunity Immu-nity which generally shields a congressional con-gressional witness from subsequent prosecution. At the hearing Mr. Brown again denied the accusations in detail, but made admissions that were not favorable fa-vorable to the defense. Colonel Lindbergh, more or less Involved in the air mail affair, gave to the senate investigators a statement state-ment of his aviation profits, as follows fol-lows : 1. From sale of warrants to purchase pur-chase stock in the Pan-American Airways, $15O,SS4.S0. 2. Salary from Pan-American $10,000 a year. 3. Salaries of $7,194.45 In 1931 and $0,000 in 1932 and 1933 from Transcontinental and Western Air. 4. From Transcontinental Air Transport (predecessor to Transcontinental Trans-continental and Western Air), $250,-000 $250,-000 . in cash, reinvested In that company's stock, and later sold at a $195,633.75 profit; 5. A $10,000 a year salary as technical tech-nical adviser to the Pennsylvania railroad for three years and a $1 a year salary since 1931. Losses: $554.75 from investments in other aviation companies prior to 1930. ""i EN. AUGUSTO SANDINO, for years the leader of rebels In Nicaragua until a year ago when he made peace with President Sa-casa, Sa-casa, was murdered by members of the national guard at Managua. His brother and two of his aides also were killed. The crime was denounced by Sacasa and an investigation in-vestigation was ordered, for the government had guaranteed the lives of Sandino and his followers while in the capital. ipVEN In a republic the people like to read about the doings of royalty, so there has been much interest in the romance of Prince Sigvard, twenty-six-year-old son of Crown Prince Gus-tav Gus-tav Adolf of Sweden. Swe-den. Sigvard fell In love with Erika Patzek, a German film actress who is little known and comes from a middle mid-dle class family. The prince was de- liifill termmed to marry Erika but his grand- Prince Sigvard father, King Gustav, refused his consent and told Sigvard he would be disowned it he persisted in his plan. Nevertheless the young man, unable to get the necessary papers in Berlin, went to London with Erika and it was reported the wedding wed-ding would take place there on March 8. The prince is well aware that if he marries the German girl he will forfeit his royal rights and thenceforth thence-forth will be just "Mr. Bernadotte," but he apparently is ready to give up everything for love. In 1932 his cousin. Prince Lennert, married the daughter of a Stockholm Industrialist Industrial-ist and is now known as Mr. Lennert Len-nert Bernadotte. Q FFICIALS of St. Paul and Min-neapolis Min-neapolis were considerably Tigered Ti-gered by a statement made by Attorney At-torney General Homer S. Cummings in which he said the Twin cities were "breeding grounds of crime." Mayor Mahoney of St. Paul telegraphed tele-graphed Mr. Cummings demanding that he amplify his charge, but the attorney general's only reply was to say that he meant what he said. Thereupon the mayor gave the Ramsey county attorney a list of twelve persons, including Mr. Cummings, Cum-mings, whom he wished asked to appear before the grand jury, which is now in session. It was said legal le-gal complications probably would prevent the subpoenaing of the attorney at-torney general and other national officials. by Western Newspaper Union. |