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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Ilouse Democrats Defy President Lobbying for and Against Utilities Bill to Be Investigated Senator Glass Bests Eccles. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. REVOLT In congress egalnst alleged al-leged dictatorial attempts of the administration reached a climax when the house, by the decisive vote of 258 to 14S, rejected the "death sentence" In the utility holding companies Mil as passed by the senate and demanded by the President. The record rec-ord vole Carrie on a motion to substitute the house bill placing utility holding companies com-panies under regula- tors, subject to reserve board approval, for five-year periods, and the reserve banks need not buy additional government govern-ment bonds unless they choose to do so. INVESTIGATION of the administra- tion of the Virgin Islands by a senate sen-ate committee was certain to be lively. The very first witness heard, Charles II. Gibson, was threatened with Jail by Secretary of the Interior Ickes for removing olliclal documents from the files. Mr. Gibson, who was government govern-ment attorney for the Islands until Ickes ousted him, had testified rather vaguely against the regime of Gov. Paul M. Pearson. Gibson testified that Governor Pearson Pear-son had exceeded his authority under the law, was unpopular with a large section of the population of the Islands, and was not frank in his administration. ad-ministration. To support his testimony Gibson Introduced several letters which were the documents to which Ickes alluded. pEN. HUGH JOHNSON assumed his new office of federal works relief administrator for New York city. "Robbie," his ever present secretary, sec-retary, fended off the reporters for a day, but let them In then, and to them the general wailed: "I hate this thing! It Isn't helping anybody, anywhere. When the source of money is cut off we'll be right back where we started. It's disheartening to sit here, knowing that when the funds are gone, the jobs will be gone." ATTORNEY GENERAL CUMMINGS announced that on July 29 a school would be opened by his department depart-ment in Washington for the purpose of training state, county and city police In law enforcement theory and practice. prac-tice. A twelve weeks' course will be given to selected officers, the instruction instruc-tion being free. j "D EPUBLICAN senators were ad-vised ad-vised that former President Herbert Her-bert Hoover will not be a candidate for the Republican nomination in the Pres- tlon of the securities Reo. Brewster . , H and exchange com mission for the senate bill which prescribed pre-scribed the dissolution of the holding companies of more than first degree beginning be-ginning In 1910. The adaption of this motion killed the "death sentence." After substituting substi-tuting the house bill for t lie senate bill, the perfected measure was passed by a vote of 322 to 81. Immediately after this action, the house voted unanimously for un In-restlgatlon In-restlgatlon of alleged lobbying by both the supporters and the toes of the utility measure. During the debate de-bate on the bill It was frequently charged that the capitol was swarming swarm-ing with utility company lobbyists, and then came two serious accusations against the other side. Representative Representa-tive John II. lloeppel of California, Democrat, asserted an unnamed administration ad-ministration lobbyist had offered to get California's relief allotment Increased In-creased If lloeppel would vote for the bill as the President wanted It This didn't greatly Impress the house, but later Representative Ralph O. Brewster Brew-ster of Maine. Republican, charged that Thomas G. Corcoran, a young brain truster who I3 co-author of the administration bill, had threatened cessation of construction of the $37,-000,000 $37,-000,000 Passamaquoddy dam project In the congressman's district If Brewster should vote against the "death sentence." Mr. Brewster said he did not believe be-lieve the President was aware that such tactics were being used by his aids or would countenance them, and Rankin of Mississippi and Moran of Maine defended Mr. Roosevelt. But the President's contact man, Charles West, and Postmaster General Farley's Far-ley's lobbyist, Emil Hurja, had been so active among the house members that the resentment of the lawmakers was aroused and they gladly directed that the lobbying charges be investigated. investi-gated. WHAT would be the final fate of the utility measure was doubtful. Senator Wheeler of Montana, after a call at the White Ilouse, said he was confident a satisfactory bill would come out of the conference, and if one did not, the measure would be allowed al-lowed to die. In either case the war on the holding companies is likely to be made a major issue of the next Presidential campaign, and administration adminis-tration leaders are predicting that the Democratic congressmen who dared to vote against the "death sentence" will be defeated at the polls. These "doomed" men number ICO, as against 131 Democrats who stood by the President. Presi-dent. Republican leaders were jubilant, professing to see in the episode the beginning of a real uprising against the President and his New Dealers; many neutral observers looked upon it as only a battle between the two lobbies in which the victory went to the utilities lobby. IN THE battle between Senator Carter Car-ter Glass and Marriner S. Eccles, governor of the federal reserve board, the former has, at this writing, scored idential race of 1936. They were advised that Mr. Hoover would make the formal announcement an-nouncement some time this summer. He is staying out, It was said, because he intends in-tends to remain in private pri-vate life and has planned his future career ca-reer along that line. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE proclaimed the establishment estab-lishment of an AAA adjustment program pro-gram for the 1935 rye crop which will Include benefit payments of amounts not yet disclosed. Representatives from 16 rye growing states met in j Washington to discuss the program j and outline plans for its operation. j Farmers from the principal wheat producing states met with AAA officials offi-cials and gave their approval to a tentative flexible plan for the payment of benefits to wheat growers. CAPT. ANTHONY EDEN, England's journeyman trouble shooter, electrified elec-trified the British Isles by announcing that Great Britain had offered to give ITaile Selassie, emperor of Abyssinia, a generous strip of British Somaliland to replace territory acquired by Italy, if the Italian government would promise prom-ise not to wage war against the domain of Africa's "Conquering Lion of Judah." Nothing doing, said Premier Mussolini, Musso-lini, who has turned a deaf ear to all Britain's proposals of an Italo-Etbl-opian compromise. lie was reported as intending to go right ahead with 1 his plan of a four-years' war to effect the complete pacification of the African Afri-can empire. He Insists that there must be more room in Africa for over-populated over-populated Italy to expand. Mussoliui has threatened to "remember" "remem-ber" the nations which have offered to furnish Abyssinia with arms, and they have withdrawn or modified their offers. of-fers. The African emperor pleaded: "If we are in the right and if civilized civi-lized nations are unable to prevent this war, at least do not deny us the means of defending ourselves." The British parliament was no better bet-ter pleased with Eden's "offer" of land than was Italy, and the colonial secretary, secre-tary, son of former Prime Minister MacDonald, had a hard time explaining explain-ing it Then Italy heard that the British government was considering a proposal to Invite other nations to join in an economic blockade of Italy to check her aggression on Ethopia. Rome was astonished by this report but didn't seem in the least alarmed. Neither were the Italians frightened when they learned officially that Ethiopia had asked the United States to study means of persuading Italy to respect the Kellogg Kel-logg pact outlawing war. The emperor em-peror himself made the appeal to W. Perry George, charge d'affaires at Addis Ababa. ANDRE CITROEN, famous for years as "the Henry Ford of France" because he built most of that country's low cost motor cars, is dead. And probably he was happy to pass on, for his vast enterprises had collapsed col-lapsed and his once huge fortune was gone. THE federal government began a new fiscal year with Intentions of spending more money than in any previous pre-vious year of peace. Mr. Roosevelt announced an-nounced that he would spend $S,520,-000,000, $S,520,-000,000, of which $4,582,000,000 will go for "recovery and relief." He expects the treasury to collect $3,991,000,000. No, it doesn't add up. The deficit for the new fiscal year will be $4,52S,000,-000, $4,52S,000,-000, it is estimated. The fiscal year just passed came to an end with the public debt at a new peace-time peak of $28,665,000,000, still some shy of the $31,000,000,000 the President estimated a year ago. To finance the new budget, he had counted count-ed in part upon the $500,000,000 extension ex-tension of "nuisance" taxes just passed by congress, but not upon the tax-the-rich program which the New Dealers hope to jockey through some time in August. Estimates have it that this will net another $340,000,000. The expenditure for the past year is only $7,25S,000,000 instead of $8,571,-000,000 $8,571,-000,000 forecast at the start of the year. The deficit was $3,472,347,000 instead of the proposed $4,S69,000.000. If the expenditures outlined in the 1936 budget reach the estimated total, the public debt on July 1 next year would stand at $34,239,000,000. During the next year the President expects to spend $4,8S0,OO0,000 for relief re-lief and for the employment of 3,500,-000 3,500,-000 idle workers. A general upswing in business would improve the revenue expected by the treasury. The President Presi-dent counted on $3,711,000,000 coming in during the 1935 fiscal year. Receipts Re-ceipts proved to be $3,7S5,000,000. THE week's peak in crime was reached when Detroit police found Howard Carter Dickinson, prominent New York attorney and nephew ol Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, lying dead in a ditch beside a lonely Rouge park road with a bullet through his head and another through his chest Dickinson, a law associate ol Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., had been In Detroit on business of the $40,000,-000 $40,000,-000 estate of the late William H. Yawkey. Apparently, he had driven to Rouge park while on a drinking party after business hours. His companions com-panions on the ride, who were William Schweitzer, Detroit underworld character, char-acter, and three burlesque-show girls, all of whom he had picked up at his hotel in the motor city, lied the scene and were traced to Fort Wayne, Ind., where they were arrested. After several days of grilling by police, po-lice, the four confessed they had plotted plot-ted the murder to rob Dickinson. Sweitzer admitted tiring the shots. Their loot was $134. DETERMINED that what goes up must stay up. Fred and Al Key, endurance fliers, broke the world's lime record for keeping a plane aloft, landing after 6."i31,i hours in the air at Meridan, .Miss. They passed the ! unofficial endurance record of 647 hours, -S minutes and 30 seconds set in 1930 by Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brien at St, Louis. For his active criti-Hoover criti-Hoover cisms of administra-00 administra-00 r tion policies the reason rea-son was given that, although he does not "choose to run," he thought the party needed some sort of direction; now that his candidacy is shelved, it is expected that his political utterances will be clothed in less authority. The informers, however, assured the senators that Mr. Hoover would get behind the party's candidate and enter the campaign for him, and that he thinks, with unification growing, the Republican prospects are looking brighter day by day. WORLD war veterans from both the Allied and the Central powers pow-ers met officially in Paris and debated ways in which future wars may be averted. They denounced as enemies of their own countries those who would seek to foment a new war, and passed a resolution declaring: "The respect for treaties being the basis of international relations, this confidence confi-dence can be durable only when International Inter-national accords and the resulting obligations ob-ligations are mutually and sincerely respected." re-spected." The meeting was held under the auspices aus-pices of Fidac. The American delegates dele-gates included S. P. Bailey, Winona, Minn.; Julian W. Thomas, Salt Lake City; Bernhard Ragner. McKeesport, Pa., and Harold L. Smitli, Coate-sville. Pa. 1 BURR T. ANSELL, a young attorney whose father, Gen. S. T. Ansell, is suing Senator Iluey Long for libel, was .enraged when Long intruded on ' his party at a Washington hotel and ! took a swing at the Kingtish. One of the senator's companions seized An-sell's An-sell's arm and the young man says Long then ran away.. DAVID LLOYD G Eo 111 i I-:, whose New Deal program was not well received by the British government, has resumed active participation in politics, "reluctantly," but with expressed ex-pressed determination to "go on with it." The little Welsh veteran statesman states-man addressed the national convention conven-tion of the peace and reconstruction movement, and assorted the menace to peace anil the economic confusion throughout the world are growing worse. JAPAN'S bi.n'.tiful inland 'sea was' the scene of a terrible disaster that cost 101 lives. The steamer Midori Maru, crowded with holiday passengers, passen-gers, collided with a frcighur in the foggy night and sank almost immediately. immedi-ately. Rescue bouts locked up 91 of the 1GU passengers and 50 of the crew. All the victims were Japanese. the most points. The astute Virginian extracted ex-tracted from the Ec-cles-Currie banking bill most of the radical radi-cal provisions that would have led to government gov-ernment or public ownership own-ership of the federal reserve system, and. indeed, practically rewrote re-wrote the measure. u ,t - r ' Then his subcommittee subcommit-tee handed it on to Sen' GlabS the senate banking and currency committee, com-mittee, which promptly gave the bill its approval, without a record vote, and after making (inly two minor changes. Governor Eccles and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau expected to be called before the committee and were prepared to tell why the bill would not suit the administration, but the committee didn't give them a chance. As passed by the house, the banking bill would give autocratic powers over the banking system to a politically dominated federal reserve board; and the party in power would have the authority au-thority to force the twelve reserve banks to lend unlimited amounts to the rational treasury. Under the bill as rewritten by Glass, reserve board mem hers are to be appointed for 1 1 year terms and are to be discharged only for cause; chief officers of the reserve banks are to be chosen by their dlree- |