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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Senate Extends Skeletonized IN'RA Despite? Long's Extraordinary Filibuster Grass Roots Meet Offers a Creed for the Republicans. By'EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. SKNATOK FIUKY LONVJ, the Lou-ln!nnn Lou-ln!nnn Khi(,'listi, made a tremendous tremen-dous elTcirt to keep the soiutle from adopting the resolution extending W). Senator Long the skeletonized N HA until next April, hut failed. Advocating Ad-vocating an amendment amend-ment offered hy .Sen-n .Sen-n tor Gore, which would have required senate confirmation of all executive officials offi-cials drawing more than $4,000 a year, thus disrupting the patronage machine, Huey started on a fillhiiRter. For nearly 10 hours, with eccaslonal help from Senators fichall and MeCarren, he kept the upper house In session, pouring forth a continuous stream of discourse dis-course that ranged from the necessity neces-sity of preserving the Constitution down to recipes for fried oysters and poMikker. lie attacked the 1'resident and the administration Kcnerally, called the NRA "the national na-tional racketeers' association," told stories about his uncle, read from the liihle and Victor Hugo, stalked about the chamber waving his arms and croaking as his voice weakened, and now and then took a bite of cheese and a sup of cold coffee. All In all, Huey put on a show that kept not only the senators but a big crowd of visitors up all night. He was continually heckled by his angry an-gry fellow solons but always had a smashing retort. At last the senate broke down the filibuster, rejected the Gore amendment and passed the extension exten-sion resolution by a vote of 41 to 13. One change, to tighten lip the antitrust laws, suggested by Borah, was made, so the resolution was Bent back to the house for concurrence. concur-rence. In Its final form it continues the recovery administration without codes but with authority for voluntary volun-tary agreements among business men dealing only with collective bargaining, minimum wages, maximum maxi-mum hours, abolition of child labor and prohibition of trade practices outlawed by statute. The house had previously adopted adopt-ed the resolution by a vote of 201 to 121, only a few Democrats stand-tug stand-tug with the Republicans against it. PLANS for spending the $4,000,-X10.000 $4,000,-X10.000 work-relief fund are coming com-ing to the fore rapidly and unmer-ously. unmer-ously. Representative Mitchell (Uem., Tcnn.) has Introduced a bill requiring the President to use $1,-000,000,000 $1,-000,000,000 to help the durable goods Industries. P.y its terms factories supplying machinery and materials would 'oe reimbursed for losses directly di-rectly attributable to hiring new aicn. Mr. Mitchell thinks his plan would aid in the production of $S0,-000,000,000 $S0,-000,000,000 worth of durable goods Deeded by private Industry. The War department tiled a request re-quest for $17,071 'S8 to finance the construction of 3G army bases in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas. California Cali-fornia and Kansas. The Labor department de-partment asked for $-100,000 for research re-search designed to aid the United States employment service in selecting se-lecting and placing workers on relief re-lief jobs and In private industry. The department said it would use this money to carry on studies in Chicago, ISaltimore, Newark and 11 other cities not yet selected. TAXES totaling S47ri.0OO.OOO would go out of existence before be-fore July 31 If not extended, so a resolution continuing them two years was being hurried through the house In accord with the wish of the President. Among them are the 3-cent postage and the 1-cent-n-gallon federal gasoline charge. A second resolution was being prepared pre-pared to plug loopholes In existing , tax laws and to adjust present rates found to be unconscionable or unproductive. un-productive. THE American Federation of Labor La-bor more than i.ny other group except the old brain trust bemoans the death of NRA, and its attorneys are busy drafting a hill designed to take Its place In a measure. This measure proposes to put under federal fed-eral license all concerns engaged in Interstate commerce or handling poods destined for such commerce. Those companies would be exempted exemp-ted from the operations of the antitrust an-titrust laws hut would he required to agree to hours of labor and working work-ing conditions determined by a federal fed-eral commission. SENATOR WILLIAM E. r.ORAH may not he a receptive candidate candi-date for the Presidential nomination next year, but anyhow his friends In Idaho have grabbed his hat and thrown It Into the ring. They are organizing "i'-orah - for - President" chilis all over the state. Ralph P.nishoars of Poise, one of the leaders, lead-ers, says Mr. Porah Is the man to "emancipate our people from the vise-like grip of a vast bureaucratic form of government which is destroying de-stroying Individual Initiative and regimenting the American people." THOUSANDS of Republicans from ten states of the Middle West gathered In Springfield, HI., for the "grass roots" conference and. In i "7" - Frank O. Lowden the shadow of the tomb of Abraham Lincoln, who saved the Union, solemnly solemn-ly determined to save the "indestructible "indestruc-tible states" from what they consider an assault on their constitutional rights. The gathering gather-ing was considered so Important that it attracted political nhsprvprs from nil over the country. Most of the delegates dele-gates were young men eager for the battle, but with them were many white-haired lenders of former frays whose enthusiasm and patriotism have survived the years. Afic-r a pilgrimage to the New Salem State park where the scenes of Lincoln's youth have been reconstructed, recon-structed, the delegates assembled in the fair grounds Coliseum and were welcomed by George W. Bunn of Springfield, general chairman of the local committee. Harrison E. Span-gler Span-gler of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was Installed In-stalled as temporary chairman and made a speech In which President Roosevelt was pilloried for all manner man-ner of political and governmental sins, from killing six million pigs and breaking campaign pledges to violating the Constitution and attempting at-tempting to set up a dictatorship. Mr. Spangler then Introduced the orator of the day, Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois and for-mer for-mer aspirant for the Republican Presidential nomination. Mr. Lowden, breaking a political silence of seven years, vigorously denounced President Roosevelt's proposal to change the Constitution to fit the New Deal and argued at length for maintenance of the bill of rights unimpaired. IN TI1E "platform" adopted by the grass roots conference these governmental policies were advocated: advo-cated: 1. The immediate adoption of a policy of economy and thrift in government gov-ernment with due allowance for essential relief expenditures as opposed op-posed to the present spending policy pol-icy of waste and extravagance. 2. The prompt attainment of a balanced budget, not by the misleading mis-leading method of double bookkeeping, bookkeep-ing, but by the honest method of bringing the expenses of the government gov-ernment within the limits of its income. 3. A sound currency based on gold and definitely stabilized by congress so that individual enterprise enter-prise may have confidence 'In the future value of the dollar, In terms of which every man's plans for his present or future must necessarily be made. 4. The Immediate withdrawal of government from competition with private industry. 5. The maintenance of the vitality vital-ity and free growth of American Industry through the preservation of the competitive system protected against monopoly by the vigorous enforcement of anti-trust laws, so that small businesses may be preserved pre-served and the door of equal opportunity oppor-tunity kept open to all. 6. The rigid enforcement of all laws, civil and criminal, to prevent and punish dishonest or unfair practices in business, Industry, and finance. 7. National recognition of the needs of agriculture. Agriculture is a fundamental Industry of the United States. 8. Work for the workers. With men out of work, as now, the capital capi-tal structure of the nation is not only being impaired but undermined. under-mined. 9. The breaking down of arbitrary restrictions that throttle world commerce, com-merce, such as quotas and exchange restrictions. 10. Continued protection to farm and home ownership, and continued provision, in co-operation with state and local governments, for those that are In need until private enterprise en-terprise absorbs the present army of the unemployed. Senator Robinson, majority leader lead-er of the senate, speaking before the Arkansas Pharmaceutical association, asso-ciation, said of this: "The only constructive suggestion made in addition to those which are embraced in the Roosevelt administration admin-istration policies is the often repeated re-peated demand for the balancing of the budget. The budget cannot be Immediately balanced unless the various forms of relief now being carried on be abandoned. This cannot can-not he done just now without danger dan-ger to millions of our people who have yet been unable to obtain employment." TAPA.J Is moving swiftly to oli-tain oli-tain the control over north China which evidently is her main objective at present. New demands were presented to the Chinese government gov-ernment at Nanking, and w hen some of these were declared unacceptable the Japanese troops and officials began be-gan moving Into Peiping and Tientsin Tient-sin and all the area between the Great Wall and the Yellow river. The Chinese officials, being helpless, help-less, moved out and the branches of the Kuomintang or People's party were closed. The central council In Nanking, though accepting accept-ing some' of the Japanese demands, could see nothing but trouble ahead and Instructed Gen. Ho Ylng-chlng, Ylng-chlng, the war minister, to prepare for eventualities. WARFARE between Paraguay and Bolivia In the Gran Cha-co, Cha-co, which has been going on for three years, came to an end after representatives of the two nations signed an armistice agreement in Buenos Aires. The truce was the result of conferences between representatives rep-resentatives of Paraguay, Bolivia and six neutral nations the United Unit-ed States, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile and Uruguay. An attempt will now be made to settle the disputes by direct negotiations. If these fail the World cor-t at The Hague will be called on to render judgment. The war In the jungle has cost about 100,000 lives. THE British government, It Is believed, has accepted In principle prin-ciple the German demand for restoration re-storation of the German navy up to 35 per cent of the British strength. Tills is exceedingly Irritating Irri-tating to France, and Premier Laval La-val Is likely to send a note to all signatories to the Washington treaty protesting against the revision re-vision of the multilateral treaties by bilateral agreements, and proposing pro-posing a new naval conference, including in-cluding Germany this time, to revise re-vise the Washington and London ratios all around. OEINSDORF, a German town 52 miles southwest of Berlin, was virtually destroyed by the blowing up of a great munitions plant and the ensuing fires. Because of rigid censorship it was impossible to learn the number of casualties. Nazi officials admitted there were 52 dead, 79 injured seriously and 300 slightly hurt GREAT BRITAIN'S attitude toward to-ward the crisis In east Africa has enraged all of Fascist Italy and the attacks on England In the Italian Ital-ian press became so bitter that Mussolini Mus-solini had to order that they be toned down a little, though it was denied in Rome that the British had made any diplomatic protest II Duce, however, continues his outspoken out-spoken denunciation of the British course. In a speech at Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia, he defied his European critics who have requested re-quested him to deal less harshly with the Ethiopians, and attacked the British without going to the trouble of hiding his words behind diplomatic formulas. "We will imitate to the letter those who taught us this lesson," he sh uted, referring to British colonizing coloniz-ing methods which his press has been "exposing." "They have demonstrated demon-strated that when they were creating creat-ing an empire and defending It they never took into consideration world opinion. "We have got old, and we have got new accounts to settle with Ethiopia, and we will settle them. We will pay no attention to what is said In foreign countries. We exclusively are the judges of our own interests and the guarantors of our future." Actually. Mussolini's plans for war with Ethiopia are not very popular pop-ular In Italy, but British interference interfer-ence is Increasing his support dally. The reconstructed British cabinet Is much worried over the situation and believes the war cannot now be stopped. WASHINGTON swarmed with Shriners for a week, and they enjoyed themselves In their characteristic char-acteristic ways. Leonard P. Steuart of that city was advanced automatically auto-matically to the position of imperial potentate, and A. G. Arvold of Fargo, Far-go, N. D., was given the coveted outer guard office, first step toward the top. The conclave of 1930 will be held In Seattle, opening July 14. MAX BAER lost the heavyweight heavy-weight championship of the world, being defeated by James J. Braddock at Long Island City in a 15-round battle. There were no knockdowns and neither man was badly punished, but the referee and judges unanimously decided that Braddock was the winner on points. Baer's chances were injured by a number of unintentional fouls. TWO of the kidnapers of young George Weyerhaeuser of Taco-ma Taco-ma Harmon M. Waley and his wife Margaret were arrested In Salt Lake City, where the woman was passing .$20 bills that were part of the ransom money. A third member of the gang. William Malum, Ma-lum, an ex-convict, was being hunted hunt-ed in the vicinity of Butte. Mont., In which he was forced to abandon a stolen automobile that contained $15,000 if the sum paid for release of the boy. Waley and his wife heavily ironed, were subjected to I grueling examination by govern ment agents and confessed tbvk part in the crime. |