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Show News Review of Current i Events the World Over Heavy Fighting Reported as Creek Government Seeks to Put Down Insurrection Senator Robinson Scores Iluey Long in Heated Senate Session. By EDWARD V. PICKARD , Wrstcrn Newspaper Union. TUTS flrfM'k government Is rnnk-liiK rnnk-liiK a Krlin effort to stump out the fust Kruwlim revolt which .started .start-ed In Crete ami hits sprem to the , , it ::: 1 : 1 1 ;i ri 1 1. Greek ' government phines t ' l)omheil the home In t.'J-r . Crete of former I're i I .- i.. ft . in I e r Kleutherlos V Venlzelos. find also ' s a ' tru( nt Ave nnval i f ' vessels mnmiprl by ,''""V rebels stundlni; off I Sjf!! , the shore of Crete. I 4 Venlzelos Is openly P.. ..AO AJ hp'"llnH tl,e f"r,'',s of sedition, and. re-Ex-Premier prls s;lv, ,KIS H(.lz,. Venlzelos. $ ,, ,,., tle Canea treasury to finance the revolt. re-volt. The rebellion has been plotted for a whole year, and broke when 20 naval ollicers, both active and retired, seized the Salamls arsenal. As the revolt spread, rebels boarded the live warships while the crews were Ignorant of the plan, and put nnder steam. Government planes were dispatched to the scene and pursued the rebel ships down the Aegean sea. The cruiser Averoff was struck by an aerial bomb while the vessel lay In Somla bay, near Crete, and the two other ships were reported to have been overtaken and bombed near the Island of Cythera with undetermined damage. Martial law prevailed throughout the country; rail, telephone and telegraphic tel-egraphic communications have been cut ofT and normal activities suspended. sus-pended. Heavy flglttliiK with serious losses on both sides have been reported In the Struma valley, and In the Macedonian Mace-donian city of Kavalla. Fear has been expressed that the country will be plunged Into a factional civil war of tinestlmated proportions. propor-tions. The government has offered nmnesty to the rebel troops If they capitulate peacefully. Salonlkl harbor has been heavily mined In preparation for an attack by the rebel fleet, and land batteries batter-ies have been reinforced by heavy caliber naval guns. Bight additional classes have been called to the colors col-ors as wounded troops pour Into Salonlkl from the battlefront. The government claims KKUXtO loyal troops, (ill airplanes and a quantity of heavy motorized artillery are ready. nlthoujrh good part of this equipment Is said to be old and defective. de-fective. A report from Alexandria claims til a t Venlzelos has abandoned Crete and fled toward F.irypt. D1MINUTIVK Kins 1'rajadlilpok of Slum has renounced his throne, relinquished his claims to being known as "brother of the moon anil possessor of 24 umbrellas." um-brellas." assuming the simpler. If still unpronounceable name of Prince Stikbodaya. and retired to the slm pie lite of an English country gentleman. gen-tleman. Ity his action, the ex-monarch set a record for it b probably the first time In history that a ruler has abandoned power because his government rejected his demands for greater freedom and democratic control for his people. "My Intention Inten-tion thai the people should have a real voice in the policy of the government lias been ineffective." tile ex king wrote in his message of abdication. "Since I realize that now there is no longer any way of my assisting or protecting the people peo-ple in the future. I hereby renounce all rights which I bad as king or rights of succession, but 1 reserve the rights which I formerly enjoyed before accession to the throne." I'rince Ananda. nephew of Pra-Jadhipok. Pra-Jadhipok. has accepted the throne, reports state. The prince, now eleven years old. is attending school in Lausanne. OI.IVKU YK.'IKI.I. IIOI.MF.S, Jurist, scholar, soldier and gentleman, gen-tleman, is dead. Two days before bis ninety-fourth birthday, the be-r be-r loved "g real dis senter" succumbed : , to the ravages of iV v; pneumonia. The' j , next day in the som- I j i her Supreme court ', t chamber, the court P led by Chief .Justice j v. - Hughes paid trib- t j ute to the man ; whose career, he LJ is " A Si'l'l. hail been one . of "unique distinc- I Oliver W. , , ' . . I , , , 1 1 o n. Justice! Holmes ,. , , ' ii u g h e s voice1 choked as tie spoke. The grind of legislation and the disputes of the day were forgotten in congress as both the house and senate paused while glowing words were said In memory of the retired justice. Funeral services were held in Wash- j ington. attended by the President and Mrs lluosovelt. and members of the Supreme court. After the ceremony. Holmes was given mill- tary burin! In Arlington National f-Miie'cM as belitied one who hail served Ills nation so gallantly. Justice Jus-tice Holmes was born in lioston, the son of the noted American poet of the same name. He entered Harvard Har-vard and was In his senior year when the Civil war began. He enlisted en-listed as a lieutenant, was promoted promot-ed to a captaincy and retired with the rank of colonel. He was wounded wound-ed three times. After the war be returned to school and obtained bis law degree. In lSSii, Holmes was elevated to the Supreme court of Massachusetts, and in 1!)l)12, President- Itoosevolt appointed him to the United States Supreme court. On October 4, liVJS, when he was eighty-seven years old, be became the oldest man ever to sit on the bench of. the Supreme court, lie retired In January, 1!)32. CKNATE administration leaders have decided to virtually abolish abol-ish NRA wdien It expires in June, and set up In Its place a plan of self-government in business, eliminating elim-inating present coercive measures, and giving over administrative functions func-tions of the new program to the federal trade commlslon. Thus would end one of the administration's administra-tion's most spectacular and far-reaching far-reaching experiments. In its general gen-eral form, the plan calls for permission per-mission to join in voluntary codes regulating trade practices and eliminating elim-inating unfair competition. Price fixing will be outlawed. Rnslness and industry will agree to minimum wages nd maximum hours, and only when these standards are violated, vio-lated, can the government apply compulsory codes. At the same time United States District Judge W. G. Borah, in New Orleans, denied a government petition pe-tition to compel a box manufacturer to comply with the maximum hour and minimum wage provisions of the lumber code, ruling that the national Industrial recovery act Is unconstitutional. The ruling Is expected ex-pected to bring before the, United States Supreme court the constitutionality consti-tutionality of the interstate commerce com-merce clause of the lumber code. THAT "ancient repository of dignity," dig-nity," the senate, has been treated treat-ed to an exhibition of personalities, personali-ties, vituperation, barely avoided I s -v? and general up- " ronr centering I about Senator Long V I tliat should set a tw"'fis record for even that I , august body. Goad- J ec nt0 action by I s the almost daily ti- l! x rndes of Lonsiana's I o Kingfish, majority Lli, ,pa,ler Joe R(lhin- son of Arkansas Senator , .. ... arose, white with Robinson , , t , rage, and let loose a castigation designed to blast the irrepressible ir-repressible Iyon into submission. Robinson appealed to the senate to assert itself and put Long, whom he called "a madman," In his place. Vice President Garner and more than a dozen senators shook hands with Robinson when he closed, and galleries applauded until the chair threatened to clear them. It had no perceptible effect on Long other than tn cause him to rush back to the senate chamber, and renew his attack on Robinson. The next day Iluey precipitated another verbal free-for-all when he resumed his one-man campaign against Postmaster Farley and the Xew Peal In general. Long charged that Farley was instrumental In quashing an Indictment against a bank in which Norman Davis, "ambassador "am-bassador at large." was interested. For bis trouble Kingfish received a liberal supply of ridicule. He also sent to the senate post office committee com-mittee a letter In which the accusation ac-cusation was made that Farley Is "profiting" from 2,r business concerns con-cerns in New York city, involving violation of four criminal statutes. When questioned. Farley said he had no statement to make. CHANCELLOR HITLER was not pleased with announcement that Sir John Simon. P.ritish foreign secretary, sec-retary, would visit him to discuss the proposed Anglo-British pact. He sent word that he had a "cold" and could not see Sir John. 0111-cials 0111-cials in London derided Hitler's cold, and attribute It to the fact that Hitler is determined to say when the visit will be acceptable. High sources in Germany have Intimated In-timated that Hitler will not welcome wel-come Sir John unless Britain recognizes recog-nizes Germany's equality. ITALIAN government officials state tliat nearly 1,000 aviators anil several squadrons of planes have sailed for East Africa, and that a second wave of troops has been started to join the 20.000 already massed in Somaliland. General Graziana has been named governor of Somaiiland and commander of the troops. IdNEV markets of the world reacted violently ufter President Presi-dent Roosevelt declared his administration admin-istration would seek further jacking jack-ing up of commodity prices. Stocks rallied in New York, government bonds sagged, and the falling British Brit-ish pound rose four cents. The President hurriedly Issued another statement explaining that his advocacy ad-vocacy of higher prices did not mean further devaluation of the dollar, at least not for the present. The first statement was made by the President at a press conference when he was asked If he believed prices had now risen sufliclently to warrant stabilization. He replied that they had not; that they were still too low in relation to debts. T'OKI IIIROTA, Japanese foreign minister, sees In the dispute over settlement of Japanese fanners fann-ers in Arizona, a spark which may ignite flames of discontent and cause regrettable consequences between be-tween Japan and the United States, he told the lower house of the Japanese Jap-anese diet. He expressed extreme regret that American authorities had not been able to settle the matter, mat-ter, and said he was pressing for an early solution. Exclusion of the Japanese has been asked under the alien land ownership law, and it Is probable that no fundamental solution so-lution can be arrived nt until the exclusion clause of the immigration immigra-tion act, which has been hanging fire since 1024, has been settled. DONALD R1CI1BERG, executive director of the National Emergency Emer-gency council, and one of the closest clos-est advisers of the President, "guar--mm, anteed" tliat there fjN would be no mone-:l:;:;M:;i mone-:l:;:;M:;i tary inflation as li;-:;0iS:;: long as Franklin D. .'.' ':,;. i Roosevelt Is Presi-.9"':'--:v: dent. His state- f;..;:-.;;; ment came In an-I an-I I'-S swer to a q'uestion-or q'uestion-or at a lecture in 5:;;.;;fi:;:-:': Boston. "If we are to as sume that President Presi-dent Roosevelt will Donald be President for the Richberg next six yea,.s , can tell you this: I can guarantee there will be no inflation while Franklin D. Roosevelt is President," Richberg said. He dodged further discussion of the subject, and refused to comment ns to what was being done by the government internationally and nationally na-tionally on monetary policies. However, How-ever, Richberg did touch on the Townsend plan for payment of $200 monthly to all persons over sixty. He said: "If everybody over sixty Is to get $200 a month, you can be certain it is going to come out of the pockets of everybody between eighteen and sixty. "When those under sixty have arrived ar-rived at the unselfish attitude where they are ready to dig to pay everybody every-body over sixty the $200 a month, there will have been a tremendous spread of real Christianity. But the government can't get the money out of thin air." THERE seems to be no doubt about the "pink slip" clause in the income tax law being repealed. Overwhelming sentiment for its abolishment has been expressed in both houses of congress, and the house ways and means committee has already approved the resolution offered by Chairman Doughton. Polls taken disclose a heavy majority major-ity in the senate favor repeal, and both Democratic and Republican house leaders are pledged to lend their strength to prompt passage of the measure. Congressional decision deci-sion on the "pink slips" must be registered before March 15, the date for filing tax returns, if it is to serve its intended purpose. SCLAY WILLIAMS, head of the " NRA, tendered his resignation to the President, starting what is expected to be a wholesale house-cleaning house-cleaning of the recovery administration's adminis-tration's high command. Chairman Williams explained his action by saying say-ing that he had to return to his job as head of one of the country's largest larg-est tobacco companies. Three of the four remaining members of the board, Arthur D. Whiteside, Walton Hamilton, and Sidney Hillman, are known to have their resignations ready. Rumors say that the President Presi-dent will not fill the vacancies, but will return the NRA to a one-man command. BY A vote of 23 to 1 the house ways and means committee approved ap-proved the Vinson bonus bill, and gave the rival Patman bill a possible possi-ble edge. The committee instructed instruct-ed Chairman Doughton to ask a wide open rule permitting inflationists inflation-ists to move the Patman measure as a substitute on the floor. Patman supporters claim the house will pass the first bonus bill brought up, but conservatives are working to jockey the "printing press money" measure out of preferred position. The Vinson bill is favored by the American Legion. FACING its third "revolutionary , general strike" in fourteen months. President Carlos Mendieta's government turned the situation over to Fulgencio Batista, army commander in chief, who will try to bring some order out of the Cuban chaos. Nearly all government employees em-ployees have joined the general strike, as have those working in the Havana municipal government. j |