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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over ElooJy Socialist Revolt in Austria Imperiling All Europe; Senate Sentences MacCracken to Jail; Permanent PWA Program Taking Shape. By EDWARD W. PICKARD TS AUSTRIA again to be the starting lioint of a great European war? Tim I was the question that was worrying wor-rying all the nations of the world as ' '""V ' r j the civil warfare between be-tween the Austrian government and the Socialists proceeded. On the side lines watching events closely close-ly and biding their time, were Nazi Germany, Ger-many, Fascist Italy, France Just recovering from Its own Internal row, and the rather frightened members of Ma. Emll Fey the luUe emente (Jn-at Britain, determined that Germany Ger-many and Austria shall not be united, wan warning Hitler to keep his hands on'. Soviet Russia would like to put a linger In the pie but Is fully occupied occu-pied with the threat of war with Japan. Vic e Chancellor Emll Fey and Prince Krnst von Starhemberg of Austria were determlnud that the Socialists should be driven out or exterminated ami the country made wholly Fascist, and Chancellor Dollfuss was going along with them. The revolt of the Socialists was evidently carefully planned and the rebels were well iirmed and capably led. But at this writing they had won no victory of moment and their strongholds In Vienna, mainly the huge communist apartment buildings, had been smashed by the government artillery. In Llnz, Gnitz, Steyr and other centers the results re-sults were the same. After several days of lighting, 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 par-don 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 jnet the attack stoutly, especially in the section Just across the great Eeichsbrldge where they were occupying occupy-ing big buildings nnd trenches. Major Fey was in charge of the operations In and about Vienna, and Prince von Starhemberg was In command at Linz and Steyr. Though the German government was not openly mixing in the mess, the official Nazi newspapers were egging on the Austrian Socialists. 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 in the German press expressed sympathy with the "misled" "mis-led" workers of Austria, and the League of Nations and its members were warned not to Interfere in the struggle. Reports originating In Paris said 75,-000 75,-000 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 government officials said tills 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 obtained ob-tained the arms with which they had been fighting from Czechoslovakia, either from the Czech government direct di-rect or with its connivance. A railroad from Prague to the south runs through a part of Austria, and the story goes that trains loaded with arms and ammunition consigned to some place in Czechoslovakia were emptied of their cargoes somewhere between Gemundt and rressburg. It is also alleged that arms have been shipped up the Danube from Pressburg 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. dicta-torships. Prague is full of refugee Socialists. TEN days in jail was the sentence pronounced by the senate on William Wil-liam P. MacCracken for having tampered tam-pered with correspondence in his files after the files had been subpoenaed bv the special committee investigating air-mall contracts. The same punishment was awarded L. H. Brit-tln, Brit-tln, vice president of INorthwest Airwavs. Two other defendants were acquitted. MacCracken Mac-Cracken already had hp-en fined Sim hv tho District Supreme Gen. Westover court for misrepresentation in obtaining obtain-ing a writ of habeas corpus before actually ac-tually being arrested. He was given time by the senate to perfect an appeal ap-peal from its verdict. The army went ahead rapidly in its preparations for carrying the air mails after the cancellation of contracts by Tostmaster General Farley. Headquarters Head-quarters for this service were opened In Washington and put under the command com-mand of Brig. Gen. Oscar Weslover by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's telegram 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 Justifying his action. Id this Farley made sensational sensa-tional charges that the government had been defrauded to the extent of $1(;.S(XJ,(K) In the letting and operation opera-tion of air-mall contracts. He asserted assert-ed that his predecessor, Walter F. Brown, had Joined in and directed a conspiracy by which competition was smothered and all contracts were awarded by secret agreement to certain cer-tain favored air lines. SECRETARIES ICKES, WALLACE, Dern and Perkins were named by the President as a committee to draw up definite plans for his permanent public works program. This is Intended Intend-ed 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 billion persons still unemployed un-employed and that they must be cared for by something like the Civil Works administration. This new project as now conceived Includes these major undertakings: Methodical development of waterways, water-ways, water power, flood control, soil erosion preventives, reforestation, and other public works. On these works employment would be furnished in the manner of the present CCC and CWA. Decentralization of industry through establishment of small Industries in rural regions to enable people to make a living partly by farming and partly by factory employment. A start in this direction Is now being made In the subsistence homesteads, for which twenty-five millions of recovery funds have been allocated. Government purchase of submar-ginal submar-ginal lands unfit for cultivation, which would be added to the public domain and devoted to forest development. For this purpose twenty-five millions already have been allotted. TPHE Civil Works administration ob- tained from congress an appropriation appropri-ation of $.10,000,000 for its immediate uses and its workers, numbering 3,800,- i fa V $ s 000 persons, received their pay. But at the same time Administrator Adminis-trator Harry Hopkins began the task of cut- ting down the forces, i ordering reductions of : from 50 to 90 per cent. I He directed that work cease on all federal j civil projects not on i federal or other pub lic property. By Hop- Harry kins' plan of cutting Hopkins down the tota, num. ber of employees about 10 per cent a week, the CWA army will be virtually out of existence by May 1. The largest force affected by the nonpublic property order is in the public pub-lic health service. Hopkins ordered it to stop malaria control efforts employing employ-ing 20,779 men, rural sanitation using 32,010 and the sealing of mines by 0,571 workers to prevent water acidity in the Ohio valley. COL. HORATIO B. HACKETT of Chicago was appointed director of the housing division of the Public Works administration by Secretary of the Interior Ickes. He succeeds Rob ert D. Kohn, a New York architect, who has held the position for the last nine months. Selection of Colonel Hackett, a mem ber of the Chicago architectural firm of Ilolabird & Root, was regarded in Washington as a move to speed up the federal housing corporation. Given $100,000,000 of public works money for low cost housing developments, it has spent very little. D KEMPER TSALDARIS of Greece doesn't accept the verdict of several sev-eral government physicians, that Samuel Sam-uel Insull is well enough to stand deportation de-portation without danger to his life. Tsaldaris said it would be "murder" to compel the fugitive American to travel in his present physical condition, condi-tion, so he will be permitted to remain In Greece until his health improves. As Insull is seventy-four years old and has clever advisers in Arhens, his extradition ex-tradition may not be obtained for a long time if ever. MELVIN A. TRATLOR, president of the First National bank of Chicago and one of the country's leading lead-ing financiers, died at his home of pneumonia after fighting the disease bravely for several weeks. Mr. Tray-lor Tray-lor was born in a log cabin in Kentucky Ken-tucky 55 years ago and made his way to leadership in business by sheer ability. lie also became prominent enough in politics to be considered favorably for the Democratic nomination nomina-tion for President in 1932. Chicago and the country sustained a considerable loss in his death. JAPAN'S new ambassador to Wash-ington, Wash-ington, Ilirosi Saito, presented hi3 credentials to President Roosevelt, and the two gentlemen exchanged assurances assur-ances of friendship and mutual confidence confi-dence between their countries. Saito said he was sure that "whatever "what-ever question, either political or economic, eco-nomic, may arise between our two countries, can and will be amicably composed in a spirit of friendship and mutual confidence t he spirit that has characterized our relations ever since Japan made, at the instance of the Unietd Slates, 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 will be resolved in a spirit of friendship friend-ship and mutual confidence. You will find this government devoted now a3 in the past to the principle of maintaining main-taining peace In the Pacific region as elsewhere and ready to co-operate cordially cor-dially and sympathetically with your government In all of the many lines of endeavor which are possible in pursuance pur-suance of and toward making prevail that principle. It is our constant desire de-sire that, by co-operation, all the countries coun-tries of the Pacific region may contiuue to enjoy peace and may attain conditions con-ditions of abiding prosperity." INDEPENDENTS nnd insurgents In congress have long advocated an amendment of the Constitution providing provid-ing for direct election of the President, and at last the first step toward this change has been taken. Senator George W. Norrls' resolution proposing the amendment was approved by the senate Judiciary committee, with only Senator Stephens 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 themselves. them-selves. Under the amendment the names of Presidential and Vice Presidential Presi-dential candidates would be written on the ballots and the votes cast directly di-rectly 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 re-ceiving a plurality of votes cast within with-in the state. Instead a state's electoral elec-toral vote would be pro-rated according accord-ing to the proportion of the entire vote which each candidate received. GOVERNORS of all the states have received from the administration a draft of a model state recovery law which would make all national codes of fair competition automatically effective ef-fective within the states. It would remove re-move the threatening possibility of a constitutional barrier to the enforcement enforce-ment of those codes among concerns that do not deal in interstate commerce. com-merce. The model law would authorize the state governor to consent to the utilization utili-zation of state and local oflicers by the President of the United States "in effectuating the policies of the national nation-al industrial recovery act." A violation viola-tion of a code would be made a misdemeanor misde-meanor in the state with a penalty of $500 a day for each offense and for each day the violation continues. Where a license under the NRA is required, re-quired, a person doing business without with-out one would be liable to a fine of $500 or six months' imprisonment or both for each day of the violation. These state penalities are copied after those in the national recovery act. The state law pronounces the existence exist-ence of a statewide emergency and defines de-fines its own termination on June 16, 1935, unless the President shall by earlier ear-lier proclamation have proclaimed the emergency ended. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT having decided that the civilian conservation conserva-tion corps shall be maintained at full strength until March 31, 1935, orders to this effect have been sent to the commanding generals of all army areas. There will be two enrollment periods of six months each, the total number of men to be 300,000. Additional Addi-tional local experienced men will be enlisted in some of the states, in the eighth and ninth corps areas in the extreme ex-treme West. The President already has announced that he will ask congress for an appropriation ap-propriation of from $275,000,000 to $300,000,000 for the corps. F 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 ob-jectionable provisions which they hoped might be removed by the senate finance committee later. The bill now represents a compromise between the recommendations of the Hill subcommittee subcom-mittee and the suggestions of the Treasury department. The chief changes are those with respect to depreciation, de-preciation, consolidated returns and corporate reorganizations. The bill does not reduce depreciation allowances allow-ances as did the subcommittee recommendations. recom-mendations. Nor does it abolish consolidated con-solidated returns for affiliated corporations. corpor-ations. While it Imposes an extra tax on corporation earnings when consolidated consoli-dated returns are filed, this is not so objectionable as the entire elimination elimina-tion of the privilege. While the upper surtax brackets have been scaled up somewhat they do not Increase greatly the tax applying apply-ing to a person who has an earned income credit. The tax burden is increased in-creased somewhat on a person without with-out earned income, but with corpora tion dividends and government bonds Dot subject to normal taxes which are reached by commencing surtaxes above a single 4 per cent normal tax instead of above normal rates aggregating aggre-gating 8 per cental cent-al by Western Newspaper Union. |