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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Bonus Marchers Ousted by Troops After Fatal Battle With Washington Police Pomerene and Miller Appointed to R. F. C. Board. By EDWARD W. PICKARD COMMUNISTS and criminals among the "bonus marchers" in Washington Wash-ington finally accomplished their purpose, pur-pose, bringing on a bloody conflict with the police that made It necessary neces-sary for President Hoover to call on regular troops to restore order. In the fighting one of the veterans, a Chieagoan, was killed and scores of policemen and members of the bonus army were injured. As explained by the President In a public statement, the treasury officials offi-cials had been for several days trying try-ing to get the veterans to evacuate buildings that were to be demolished in the government's construction program. pro-gram. Thursday morning they did leave those buildings but afterwards several thousands of them attacked the police and the rioting was continued con-tinued for hours. The district commissioners com-missioners asked for help and by direction di-rection of Mr. Hoover 3,000 soldiers from Fort Myer, equipped with tear bombs and gas masks drove the veterans vet-erans from their camps and immediately immedi-ately burned the shacks they had occupied. oc-cupied. The main camp, at Anacostia across the Potomac, was the last to be razed, after all the women and children had been removed. The bonus army members who had not already gone home departed for Johnstown, Pa., where they had been invited to make their new headquarters. headquar-ters. POSSIBLY because of charges that the Reconstruction Finance corporation cor-poration was being run too much for l the benefit of the Republican party, -rosiirtrrm?! Pres'dent Hoover ap- j pointed a Democrat j j as a member of the ' board, and he was S elected chairman to , succeed Eugene Mey-fV Mey-fV v 3 sr. The new member Is Atlee Pomerene, (i former senator from ("'i v 'I Ohio and assistant ?V counsel in prosecut- jjt2& 'ng ''le Teapot Dome oil cases. In announc-Atiee announc-Atiee Pom- lng the appointment erene Mr. Hoover said Mr. ' Pomerene had had a long service as a lawyer, business man and member of the senate banking committee. Later in the week the President completed com-pleted the board by the appointment of Charles A. Miller, Republican banker of Utica, N. Y., who was to be made president of the corporation. The corporation's board was thus lined up in this way: Democrats Pomerene, Harvey Couch of Pine Bluff, Ark. ; Jesse Jones of Houston, Texas, and Wilson McCarthy of Salt Lake City, Utah.' Republicans Secretary Mills of the treasury, C. A. Miller and Gardner Cowles of Des Moines, Iowa. Representative Rainey of Illinois, Democratic floor leader of the house, i declared the President, by giving the Democrats a ninjority on the board, could not dodge the responsibility for the new relief law. Mr. Hoover, he said, "lias had his own way about the kind of relief law we should have. If It fails, the responsibility will be his. He vetoed the Garner relief bill." The first loan to a state approved by the board was $3,000,000 to Illinois, chiefly for relief purposes in Chicago. Governor Emmerson had asked for $10,000,000 as a starter, and probably more will be loaned to Illinois In the near future. WITH the formal approval of both Herbert Hoover and Franklin U. Roosevelt, one of whom will be the next President, a war on governmental waste has been declared by the National Na-tional Economy league at a meeting in New York. Six of the nation's most prominent men were selected to form n national ndvisory council, and nil of them accepted and promised to work in support of the league's program pro-gram which Is aimed against extravagance extrav-agance of national, state and municipal munici-pal governments. These six men are Calvin Coolidge, Alfred E. Smith, Elihu Root, Newton D. Faker, Gen. John .1. Pershing and Admiral William Sims. The league plans first to attack the payment of federal funds to war veterans vet-erans who suffered no disability in service. Investigation conducted by the league shows that this class of veterans is receiving nearly half of the in:in appropriation of ?027,S40.O(Hi for veterans of war. The league asked congress to revise downward the veterans' vet-erans' benefits to the extent of over SI.'O.otM.tviO; hut congress contented itself in the last session with appointing appoint-ing an Investigating committee. T YOU .HMMWalkf.h of New 1W ork finally sent ,0 Governor Roosevelt h,s reply to the charges of corrupt ion and inollieloney madea-iinst him by Samuel Soahury. who' asked the governor to remove the ,mvor from ollico. Walker categorically 'denied 'de-nied all the accusations ami asserted they were made and timed for political purposes only. Governor Roosevelt received the 20. 000 word document without comment. I It was believed he would act on the matter quite promptly. Tammany Is Involved in the controversy, and Tammany Tam-many has just formally Indorsed the candidacy of Roosevelt for the Presl-, dency. """pEXAS seems to have lined up in the wet column. In the recent Democratic primary the proposal that congress be petitioned to submit repeal re-peal or retention of national prohibition pf-p to the states carried V ;, V J by a vote of 301,393 8,t), J to 120.3S3. However, the drys asserted that f 1. jr s not half the Demo- r J'. r crats expressed them- u i b selves on the ques- 4 tier, i. In the race for the x gubernatorial nomina- tion Mrs. Miriam A. St-' Ferguson, former gov- yrs Ferguson ernor, led the field of seven contestants by a handsome plurality, plu-rality, but the others polled enough votes to make necessary a run-off primary. pri-mary. In this Gov. R. S. Sterling, who was second, will be her rival, and declares de-clares he is confident lie will win, as he did two years ago in like circumstances. circum-stances. The Democratic nomination in Texas is of course equivalent to election. In some of the counties negroes ne-groes were permitted to vote in the primary for the first time since reconstruction re-construction days. DIRECTORS of the Chicago Board of Trade have decided to fight the order of the grain futures' commission suspending trading in futures on the board for sixty days. The board's attorney at-torney was instructed to file a petition pe-tition In the United States Circuit Court of Appeals and to carry the ap peal to the Supreme court if necessary. neces-sary. The commission's decision against the board was the penalty the commissioners com-missioners sought to Impose for the board's refusal to admit the Farmers' National Grain corporation to clearing privileges. In the exchange of statements concerning con-cerning the commission's action the latter lat-ter body referred to "efforts of the board's president to discredit the administration ad-ministration of the law or to satisfy some antagonism has now gone so far, as to make unfounded predictions creating cre-ating business uneasiness." "Those charges' are utterly false," said President Peter B. Carey. "It was necessary for us to act quickly to retain public confidence when the commission com-mission Itself Informed the public, through newspapers, that the Board of Trade was suspended for sixty days when the board did not receive its notification no-tification until 10 :30 Monday morning. "We succeeded In doing this because we refused to be muzzled by the political po-litical office holders who have taken action against us. We want the public pub-lic to know that this situation was not initiated by the Board of Trade." CONGRESSMAN SHANNON'S investigating in-vestigating committee In Kansas City has been hearing a lot more about the damage done to agriculture by the federal farm board. First the grain men were called In, and they described the "colossal and tragic failure" of the experiment In price fixing and the "withering effect" the farm board has had on everything It hns touched. The Farmers' National Grain corporation came in for some bitter attacks that were supported by figures. Next day there was a long line of witnesses actually engaged In production produc-tion of farm crops, and they were no less emphatic In their condemnation of the farm board, which, they asserted, assert-ed, the farmers never wanted. They were positive in their declaration that the farming industry is opposed to continuation con-tinuation of the agriculture marketing act. After another day of farm witnesses, the committee moved to St Louis for two days, and there heard a lot more testimony to the same effect DECLARING that the "legitimate and necessary expenses" of a member of congress eat up his entire salary so that It is Impracticable for him to lay up any- l ' " "'1 thing for his family, Representative John s Q. Tilson of Connecti- I ? cut says he will not $ x X v be a candidate for re-ft re-ft ', X"" election in the fall j .-.. and will resign his K seat as soon ns It Is I I convenient He In- ; tends to seek a Job that pays better, hop ing that the return J. Q. Tilson for his labors "will at least be on the right side of the ledger." Trobably he will resume the practice of law, but be says that if the Importance of any future service he might he able to render demands It. no sacrifice would be too great for him to make. Mr. Tilson has been a member of the house for twenty-two years, and for six years he served as Republican floor leader. GERMANY was fairy quiet during tie week, which preceded her important im-portant parliamentary elections, but the dictatorship over Prussia was maintained, with Franz Bracht as mln- I T Ister of the interior '-s3i and chief assistant to L 1 Chancellor Yon Pap- f "" I en, who had been made commissioner ! of Prussia. The action ; ; j of Von Hindenburg s , . 1 had been upheld by j ' i the Supreme court at -4v;t,,N ' Leipsig. Bracht, who i is lord mayor of Es- L"s I sen, was to all in- Franz Bracht tents and purposes the dictator of the Prussian state. On Tuesday President Von Hindenburg, Hinden-burg, considering that public order and security were no longer endangered, lifted the state of martial law that had been put on Berlin and the province pro-vince of Brandenburg and that had been in effect for six days. The executive exec-utive authority thus reverted to the president of police of Berlin and the governor of Brandenburg. Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, minister of war, in a radio campaign speech, served notice on the world that unless un-less Germany Is granted equality and released from the limitations of the post-war treaties, she will establish her own security by reorganizing her armed forces. GERMANY decided that she could safely adhere to the Franco-British agreement that was formulated at Lausanne, but her acceptance was qualified with a provision that Germany Ger-many wiT not become involved In any bloc formed to deal with war debts, limiting her adherence solely to problems prob-lems affecting the "European regime." Italy and Rumania are among the nations na-tions that have signed the pact ENEMIES of President Machado of Cuba are determined to compass the downfall of his regime and perhaps per-haps his death. The severe course of the government does not check them in the least and bombings, shootings and assassinations are of daily occurrence. occur-rence. The Communists, as always, are taking advantage of the situation to stir up all trouble possible, and red mobs carrying banners inscribed "Down with the Government" have been having bloody encounters with the Havana police. Among Machado's foes are counted many of the younger members of the island's best families. The other night the police arrested twenty young women, most of them teachers in the Havana normal school, when they visited vis-ited in a hospital a woman who had been Injured by explosion of a bomb she had made. Other arrests Included a normal teacher, two physicians and a customs broker. Soldiers killed three brothers accused of conducting a campaign of incendiarism on sugar mills in the Matanzas district ONE of those marine tragedies that not infrequently shock the world occurred in the Baltic sea off the coast of Holstein. The German naval training train-ing ship Niobe was caught in a sudden storm, upset and sank, and sixty-nine officers and cadets perished. The steamer Theodore .tuss was nearby and her lifeboats picked up thirty-seven men. The only officers saved were the captain and the first mate. Most of the lost cadets were trapped in a classroom between decks. The Niobe was formerly owned and commanded by Count Felix von Luck-ner, Luck-ner, the famous sea raider of war times. In Chicago, where he was visiting, vis-iting, the count said: "She was a good ship, so strong I did not think she could be sunk." A MONG the deaths of the week were those of Nelson O'Shaugh-nessy, O'Shaugh-nessy, a veteran of the United States diplomatic service, In Vienna; Fred Duesenberg of Indianapolis, pioneer automobile au-tomobile manufacturer; Caleb Powers, central figure In a drama of politics and murder thirty years ago in Kentucky; Ken-tucky; Florenz Ziegfeld, musical comedy com-edy producer who "glorified" the American girl ; Reginald Fessenden, eminent as a radio inventor; Alberto Santos-Dumont of Brazil, one of the earliest and most famous of aviators, and Enrico Malatesta of Italy, for years a leader of anarchists. TN CELEBRATION of the one hun- dred and fifty-seventh anniversary of the first United States postal service serv-ice established by act of the continental con-tinental congress July 20, 1775, Maj. James Doolittle made a most notable airplane flight In 15 hours and 40 minutes he covered more than 2,000 miles, passing over 14 states. By stage coach and saddle horse the distance dis-tance would have taken about four years in continental days. Flying with Doolittle was Miss Anne Madison Washington, a direct descendant descend-ant of General Washington's brother John. Another passenger was A. F. Maple, representing the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, under the auspices of which the flight was made. During" the day they dropped 30 packages of letters, hearing air mail stamps, at various points in their Journey Jour-ney of historic interest ANDREW W. .MELLON, ambassador ambassa-dor to Great Britain, returned for a short visit at bis home, having been given leave of absence to attend to private business. He emphatically denied de-nied the report, printed in London, that he would resign. The ambassador ambassa-dor refused to discuss international debts or the political campaign, bin said of the latter, "I will do anything I can." Z I'jZl. Western Newsuv UnJ |