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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Illinois Primary Results Interesting and Significant New Tax Bill Drafted President Roosevelt Favors Flood Control Projects. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. ILLINOIS' primary held the een- tcr of politic!)! Interest, fo.' It rot only provided lively slate battles bat-tles lint iil.so was of considerable moment nationally. Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the i Chicago Dally i '-'- ryf. News, and Senator " t" Borah or Idaho, s i who was born In ( . li i Illinois, were the j J s contestants for the i Republican Presl- . :.:,.. i dential preferential : : vote, and the for- 1 mer came out with Frank Knox 31 delegates against 20 for Borah. The senator's friends were elated, because, without organization, or-ganization, be carried a large part of the state outside of Chicago. This preferential vote Is purely advisory advis-ory and neither man has a slate of delegates to the national convention. conven-tion. The result makes It certain that Knox will make a respectable showing on the first roll call. It also adds to Koran's prestige and aids him In the coming Ohio prima pri-ma ry. Gov. Henry Horner, seeking re-nomlnntion, re-nomlnntion, was victorious In the bitter fight with the regular Democratic Demo-cratic organization and the Kelly-Nash Kelly-Nash machine in Cldcago, which had thrown him overboard and supported support-ed Bundesen for governor. The Democrats almost unanimously voted for the renomlnatlon of Senator James Hamilton Lewis, and the Republicans Re-publicans named former Senator Otis Glenn to oppose him In November. Novem-ber. Republican leaders in Washington Washing-ton were encouraged to believe the Internecine warfare in the Democratic Demo-cratic ranks would help the Republicans Re-publicans to carry the state. The Democratic sages, on the other hand, liked the showing of strength made by Borah, feeling his liberal following might switch to Roosevelt Roose-velt In November if the G. O. P. puts up a conservative candidate. In Nebraska's primary only Borah's name was printed on the Republican preferential ballot, but about one-sixth of the voters wrote In the name of Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas. For the Democratic preference President Roosevelt was unopposed lu both Illinois and Nebraska. pvEFEATING the opposition by President Roosevelt's supporters, support-ers, the state Democratic executive execu-tive committee of Georgia ordered a Presidential preferential primary on June 3 and- fixed the entrance fee for each candidate at $10,000. "The New Deal has plenty of money to pay for a primary In Georgia, Geor-gia, and I am in favor of letting them do it," said Will Mann, close personal and political friend of Gov. Kngene Talmadge, administration foe. The governor was asked directly whether he would oppose President Presi-dent Roosevelt in the primary. "I don't know," he answered. "I am pretty busy with state affairs right now. It depends on how things shape up In the state." HAVING discarded the President's Presi-dent's suggestion of temporary processing taxes, Chairman Sam B. Hill's house subcommittee completed complet-ed its draft of the p,,. new tax bill. It f N ' calls for a new type x ef corporation levy, fc ranging from 1 per l j cent to 20.7 per cent for corpora- L tions with net In- s Vx'" J come up to $10,000, I vi-k I and from 4 to 42 1 per cent for cor- -- 1 porations with net k s - k Income over $10,000, -. depending on the Sam B- Ml" amount of earnings that are not distributed. dis-tributed. Preferential tax treatment Is given to banks and insurance companies, to debt-ridden companies, com-panies, to companies In receivership, receiver-ship, and a new system of taxing aon-resident aliens is created. Railroads will continue to have the right to file consolidated returns but the committee refused to accept the petition of R. V. Fletcher, general gen-eral counsel for the Association of American Railroads, that railroads as a segregated group of industry, be given a variety of special deductions deduc-tions In computing taxable net Income. In-come. IN HIS press conference President Roosevelt said government departments de-partments are concentrating on flood control problems and that If congress con-gress would pass a bill appropriating appropriat-ing a billion dollars for that purpose lie would sign It, provided the measure meas-ure put men to work immediately. Mr. Roosevelt said the Passuma-quoddy Passuma-quoddy project In Maine and Florida Flor-ida ship canal were eliminated because be-cause of the recent refusal of congress con-gress to make appropriations for continuance of the work. lie said be dill not contemplate doling out relief funds for the projects and that there would be no funds for the projects unless congress reversed re-versed its refusal. On the same day the United States Chamber of Commerce issued is-sued a warning against encroachment encroach-ment of the federal government on Hood control projects which are the primary responsibility of the states. The committee also objected to the New Deal policy of expending large sums for dams to develop hydro-electric power and declared that the administration should follow fol-low a well-balanced program baving as its foremost purpose the control of floods. DIA vote of 153 to 137 the house "-J rejected a resolution to permit per-mit Senator Black's lobby committee commit-tee to pay $10,000 to special counsel coun-sel In injunction litigation started by William Randolph Hearst to protect bis telegrams from the probers. This action, which followed fol-lowed a bitter debate, doesn't halt the work of the committee, which has Its own funds, but It prevents the payment of more than $3,G00 a year, In accordance with general law, to Crampton Harris of Birmingham, Bir-mingham, Ala., former law partner of Chairman Black. The lobby committee In a recent session brought out the fact that some wealthy men who are backers back-ers of the American Liberty league also have contributed to the Southern South-ern Committee to Uphold the Constitution, Con-stitution, though what this has to do with lobbying was not quite clear. The Southern committee, which is headed by John Henry Kir-by Kir-by of Houston, Texas, is opposed to some of the New Deal doings. SUDDEN death, due to a coronary thrombosis, came to James M. Beck at his residence in Washington, Washing-ton, and all Informed Americans mourn the demise of this public splr- fn Ited citizen and 1 eminent authority ? on constitutional fif-Wk 1 law. Though he was m", -en a sturdy and con- j sclentious opponent K 3 of the present na- ft s 3 tional adminlstra- 'J tion. leading offl- I 1 cials In Washington united with the Re- publicans in declar- J- Mi Beck Ing that in his death the nation had sustained a great los. Mr. Beck was not1 only one of the foremost lawyers of America but for more than three decades was a public man of distinction, holding numerous offices at Washington, Wash-ington, and an Influential place in the counsels of the Republican party. Born in Philadelphia in 1861, he first held office as United States attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, as a Democrat. He left that party on the silver Issue and. was made an assistant attorney attor-ney general by President McKinley. Richard Yates, former governor of Illinois and former congressman, died in Springfield at the age of seventy-five years. The son of the Civil war governor of the state, Mr. Yates was for many years a picturesque figure in Illinois politics poli-tics and an influential member of the Republican party. MUSSOLINI'S armies in Ethiopia occupied Dessye, an important military base, and captured vast stores of war materials. Marshal Badoglio at once started an expeditionary expe-ditionary force along the excellent road from there to Addis Ababa, and It was believed the capital city would be captured within a few days. Stiffened by military successes In Africa, the Italian delegation went to Geneva for peace conversations, prepared to demand a peace on Italy's Ita-ly's terms, including virtual Italian control of the entire empire of Haile Selassie. Settlement of the matter within the framework of the League of Nations seemed remote If not impossible. PLANS for mutual defense In case Germany attacks France or Bel-glum Bel-glum were studied by the general staffs of Great Britain, France and Belgium at a meeting in London. High officers of the armies, navies and air forces were present, with experts to assist them. It was understood that a major feature of the plan would be to reply re-ply to any German attack with a terrific aerial bombardment by massed fleets on German industrial centers, railways, army headquarters, headquar-ters, airdromes and seaports. It was clear that the relatively small British professional army could not give a great deal of help against German aggression, and that Britain's effective aid would he rendered ren-dered by her navy, which could easily eas-ily seize control of the North sea and the channel, and her steadily increasing air forces. WITH appropriate ceremony the cornerstone of the new Interior In-terior department building In Washington Wash-ington was laid, the President handling han-dling the trowel. The structure, the second largest government office of-fice building there, is to be completed com-pleted in December. It covers five and one-half acres and will provide 700,000 square feet of usable floor space. It will cost $12,000,000, about $5,000,000 less than the capital's largest, the Commerce department building. The trowel used by Mr. Roosevelt was the one employed by George Washington in laying the cornerstone corner-stone of the Capitol in 1703. ABOUT six hundred men and women, members of the recently recent-ly organized Unemployed Workers' Alliance, staged a big parade of "hunger marchers" f ... 71 In Washington, f " shouting demands, I ' singing and waving I banners. They I - sought to present a I s- petition to Presl- I J dent Roosevelt In I the White House f. ST ' but the best they I could do was to ob- t.i tain an audience from Secretary Vice Pres. Marvin Mclntyre Garner for a deiegation headed by David Lasser, president of the alliance. Lasser declared after spending 30 minutes with the President's secretary: secre-tary: "Mr. Mclntyre gave us a lot of nice words, but nothing substantial. substan-tial. If nothing Is done to give these people jobs there will be a hunger march on Washington next summer in which hundreds of thousands will take part. We are tired of Mr. Roosevelt's promissory notes." Lasser and his delegation also called on Vice President Garner at the Capitol and got even less satis- ( faction from him. "The jobless feel that we have been sold out by the Democratic party," Lasser declared, in presenting present-ing bis petition. "I resent that," snapped the Vice President, reddening. "I have been in politics for 40 years and I don't think anybody has ever been sold out by the party." The marchers carried banners and placards with such inscriptions as: "Give the bankers home relief; we want jobs!" "Slaves will not be killed." "We demand employment insurance," "Pass the Marcantonio bill," this being a 6 billion-dollar relief re-lief bill introduced by the New York city representative. DLUTARCO ELI AS CALLES, for-r for-r mer president of Mexico and for long the most powerful figure in that republic, was forcibly exiled to the United States, together with three other once prominent citizens, by the Mexican government, which declared their presence there was dangerous to the welfare of the country. Summarily ousted with Calles, who for 11 years ruled Mexico with an iron hand, were Luis Morones, former minister of labor and leader of the Regional confederation of workers and peasants; Luis de Leon, former minister of the interior inte-rior and agriculture; and Rafael Melchor Ortega, former governor of Guanajuato. The four men were, by order of President Cardenas, placed aboard a plane at Mexico City and taken across the border to Brownsville, Texas. From there they took another an-other plane to California. DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, ac- companied by Mrs. Roosevelt, attended at-tended Easter services at St. Thomas Thom-as Episcopal church, after the First Lady had witnessed the Knights Templar sunrise service at the Arlington Ar-lington amphitheater. Next day the President went to Baltimore where he addressed the Maryland Young Democratic clubs. Mr. Roosevelt accepted an invitation invi-tation to speak before the annual convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution which opens in Washington April 20. He also will deliver an addrest. on April 25 at the Jefferson banquet of the National Na-tional Democratic club in New York. FOLLOWING a conference with Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood, who was removed from command of the Eighth corps area for criticizing WPA methods, President Roosevelt took the soldier back Into his good graces and appointed him to the command of the Sixth corps area with headquarters In Chicago. He will replace Maj. Gen. Frank McCoy Mc-Coy and the assignment takes effect May 2. General McCoy is transferred trans-ferred to the Second corps area at New York to succeed Maj. Gen. Dennis E. Nolan, who is retiring. SOMETHING new In Spanish history his-tory took place In Madrid. The parliament, by a vote of 238 to 5, ousted Niceto Alcala Zamora from the office of president of the republic. re-public. This action, accomplished by a coalition of Socialists, Communists, Com-munists, Left Republicans and ten minor groups, was taken on a Socialist So-cialist motion that the president had acted illegally In dissolving the last parliament before the elections and that therefore he should he expelled ex-pelled from office. Back of this motion, mo-tion, however, lay radical sentiment that Zamora, In using his power according ac-cording to personal whim, has hampered ham-pered the progress of the "republican "repub-lican revolution." Diego Martinez Barrio, speaker of parliament, was made temporary president to serve until elections :.rp held. |