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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Stalo.-mrn in Geneva Struggle to Prevent halo-Ethiopian War Progress of the iSew Deal Measures in Congress. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ri, Western Newspaper Union. CAI'T. ANTHONY KIi:N, Uiiti.-h iriiiiislcr fur league of Nations affairs, 11:1.1 L'Xi'i-ciliu'Iy linsv in (liTicva trying t had a v:iy to iivi'rt '' V 4' 'i. . A .... il Anthony Eden the war lictwi-i-n Italy mill KtUiupia. Hi: was aiili-il iiml abetted liy I'l-oinicr I.ih'ii of I'" ranee and tii'i'tliiT they evolved a plan for procedure liy the league council which appeared promising, unlll It was coininunicatcd to rrcniicr Mussolini. Musso-lini. Then Huron Aloisl, Italian dele- Kali', announced the Kilen-Laval fonniila was "entirely nnaccept-uhle." nnaccept-uhle." However, hoiie was not abandoned for there was a chance that modifications could lie made that would satisfy the demands of the Italians. Italy was expected to protest HKalnst time limits fixed In the draft of the projected peace formula. for-mula. One deadline was set for September Septem-ber 1, by which time the arbitrators arbitra-tors on the Italo-ICthiopian conciliation concil-iation commission, who would resume re-sume their work, would be required to report to the league council. Another time limit was set for September 4, when the three powers pow-ers and Ethiopia would be required to report their findings to the league council. In any event the council would be scheduled to meet September 4. One Important concession was made to Italy In the formula. It was agreed that the ownership of Ualual. scene of the frontier conflict con-flict Involved, should not be discussed. dis-cussed. The Ethiopian contention has been that responsibility for the border clash could not' be established estab-lished without the ownership of the locality being first determined. Emperor Halle Selassie met his chieftains In council at Addis Ababa and they told him It might be now too late to prevent war, for their tens of thousands of fighters fight-ers were eager for hostilities to begin and could hardly be restrained. re-strained. The emperor, however, sought to hold the chiefs back. At the same time he Issued another defiant note informing the world that Ethiopia never would accept an Italian or other mandate, adding: add-ing: "No amount of prosperity under un-der foreign domination would compensate com-pensate for the . loss of independence." inde-pendence." Mussolini seized control of Italy's metal and fuel Imports for use In the expected war. and several thousand more soldiers and workmen work-men sailed for Africa. LED by George Huddleston of Alabama, the members of the house who opposed the "death sentence" sen-tence" In the utilities bill scored another an-other victory over the supporters of that plan of the New Dealers. Sam Itayburn's motion that the house agree to the senate action on the hill was defeated, 210 to lHS. Hayburn argued, pleaded and threatened, but to no avail. He warned the representatives that those who voted against his motion mo-tion would be incurring the wrath of the administration, and at- the last moment had read testimony before the senate lobbying committee commit-tee to the effect that a New Jersey Jer-sey man had suggested the utilities companies start a whispering campaign cam-paign regarding the sanity of the New Deal leaders. Still the big majority ma-jority in the house insisted on rejecting re-jecting the Kayburn motion. Then the house, by a vote of 1S3 to 17-. adopted a resolution which virtually called for the exclusion of I'.en Cohen, administration lobbyist lob-byist from future conferences on the bill. r EMOCKATIC congressmen start-ed start-ed the week briskly determined to push through the President's "soak the rich" tax bill at this ses- s 1 o n. Opposing them with equal determination were a number of the hardest fighting Kepublicans w h o Insist that consideration consid-eration of taxation be postponed until next winter and that meantime the question be studied carefully In connection con-nection with the budget for the next Senator Vandenberg fiscal year. These Republicans are urgently calling for an early adjournment ad-journment of congress. Senator Hastings of Delaware has introduced intro-duced a resolution setting August 10 as the day for quitting and was trying to have it brought up for consideration before passage of the tax measure. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, often mentioned as a Presidential possibility, also de manded postponement of the tax legislation until January, and he gave out a statement denouncing the administration's plan as a "sier-lle "sier-lle political gesture" which would raise "only a little extra pocket change" and declared that "we chatter of taxes in millions to offset off-set known deficits in billions." "The pending tax bill, as It is being be-ing developed," said Senator Vandenberg, Van-denberg, "will not produce appreciable appre-ciable revenue for L'ncle Sam. It will not pay the President's deficit even for the period while the bill Is under consideration. As a contribution con-tribution to the public credit, it is as grim a hoax as was ever perpetrated per-petrated on the country. As a 'distributor 'dis-tributor of wealth' it is a mere vagrant flirtation with this left wing idea." Nevertheless, it appeared probable that the tax measure woldd be enacted en-acted before adjournment, for the administration leaders bad promised tills to Senator La Eollette and other "liberals," and besides that, they have no desire to pass a taxation taxa-tion bill in a Presidential election year. As produced by the house ways and means committee after great travail the measure embodies an S7 per cent confiscation of large fortunes and Increased levies on the rich which would produce perhaps per-haps $1250,000,000 of additional annual an-nual revenue. SENATE and house committees investigating the activities of lobbyists went their separate ways, neither thinking very well of what the other was doing. Senator I'.lack's quiz occupied Itself much with the doing of representatives of the Associated Gas and Electric corporation. An Executive order from the White House directed the secretary of the treasury to make available to the senate committee all Incomes, excess profits, and capital cap-ital stock tax returns to the extent necessary In the investigation with the so-called "holding company bill or any other matter or proposal affecting af-fecting legislation." Simultaneously Simultaneous-ly President Roosevelt approved a new treasury regulation authorizing authoriz-ing the release of this information to the committee. Representative Patton of Texas went before the house committee agnin and satisfactorily explained how he had been able to buy $3,000 worth of bonds out of his savings. As to the cigar box he carried away from the hotel room of John YV. Carpenter, president of the Texas Power and Light corporation, corpora-tion, it contained nothing but cigars, Patton said. "The fact is, you have been done a very great wrong," commented Representative E. E. Cox of Georgia. Geor-gia. SENATOR GLASS scored perhaps the greatest victory in his long public career when the senate, without with-out a record vote, passed his draft of the 1935 banking bank-ing act, rejecting the central bank features urged bv Gov. Marriner S. Eccles of the federal fed-eral reserve board and favored by the administration. The doughty Virginian, who was once secretary sec-retary of the treasury, treas-ury, had fought desperately against Senator Glass the Eccles scneme ana ins triumph tri-umph was decisive. There was no demand for a roll call on the final vote, for tile fate met by the proposers of various amendments showed this procedure would be futile. Senator La Eollette sought to strike out a provision permitting commercial banks to underwrite securities se-curities and his proposal was beaten, beat-en, 30 to 22. Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota, another radical Republican, Re-publican, offered the central bank plan of Rev. Charles E. Couglilin, radio priest, which would set up a government owned and wholly dominated dom-inated system. It was voted down, 59 to 10. Other amendments were offered and debated rather listlessly, for the record, and then were withdrawn. with-drawn. Even Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, chairman of the banking and currency committee, commit-tee, who had sided rather with Eccles, declined to push his amendments amend-ments designed to cripple Glass' plan. The senate bill was sent to conference, con-ference, for the house passed the measure drawn up on the advice of Ecclcs and Tugwell. CONGRESS has passed and the , President has signed a bill which assures promotion In the near future for about 5,000 army oliicers. It accelerates the advancement advance-ment of commissioned oliicers below be-low the grade of colonel und takes i effect September L PASSAGE of the bill to restore S 10,0O,(1o to Spanish war veterans' vet-erans' .ensions was completed when the senate accepted tiie house measure, the only opposing vote be- ; ing cast by Senator Hastings of j Delaware. This nullities the vari- ous adjustments made by the President Pres-ident for the purpose of economy ' to carry out the par;y pled'-re of a reduction of at least 25 percent in the cost of administration of the federal govern merit. FREDERICK II. GIT. LETT, who represented Massachusetts In the house for many years, for six years was speaker, and thereafter served as United States senator, died in Springfield. Mass., at the age of ei-'hty-three. Able, di-'nitied and unfailingly un-failingly courteous. Mr. Gillett was highly esteemed by his fellow congressmen, con-gressmen, whatever their parly affiliation. af-filiation. In his home town he was ! known as a politician who said little lit-tle and did much. JAPAN will probably have another " cause for complaint against the United States. Secretary of the Navy Claude A- Swanson has announced - 5 Sec'y Swanson that strongly fortified naval bases will be established estab-lished in the Pacific ocean upon the expiration ex-piration of the naval na-val limitation treaties trea-ties on January 1, 1037. lie said he considered the creation cre-ation of naval stepping step-ping stones in the Pacific an inevitable inevita-ble result of the treaties' expiration. He revealed that the navy long has given consideration to Pacific fortification fortifi-cation problems and that impetus had been given to the study since Japan's abrogation of the naval treaties. The necessity for adequate bases in the Pacific was demonstrated forcibly last May during the annual fleet maneuvers off Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands. According to reports, re-ports, the navy high command In a report of the lessons learned In the exercises strongly recommended an Aleutian islands base. The United States naval bases are few and far between ns against those of Japan and Great Britain, which lie along the principal courses of English and Japanese traffic lines. The American bases are obsolete obso-lete in comparison with those of other powers. OOVIBT Russia sustained a major naval loss when the submarine B-3 collided with a surface vessel during maneuvers of the Baltic fleet and sank immediately. Her entire crew of 55 officers, seamen and cadets ca-dets perished. The sub, which- was built near the close of Russia's par-, ticipation in the World war, will be raised if possible. GERMANY'S dipljmatic note concerning con-cerning the Communist attack on the liner Bremen in the port of New York took the form of request re-quest that the offenders be punished but asked for no apology. Acting Secretary of State William Phillips, in his reply handed to the German charge d'Affaires, Dr. Rudolf. Leit-ner, Leit-ner, told briefly the efforts of the New York police to guaid the vessel and to subdue the mob, and pointed out that some of those who took part in the attack were arrested. The German note said the incident constituted an insult to Germany. In his press conference President Roosevelt declined to comment on the affair. Asked about the protest of Jewish organizations against the German government's religious attitude, atti-tude, the President intimated that the administration's view was fully expressed by Mr. Phillips' reply in which he expressed sympathy for anyone who was denied religious liberty. Representative Dieksfein of New York told the house that no apology was due to Germany for the Bremen incident and that neither the federal nor the local authorities were to blame for it. He asserted the attack at-tack was made possible by "a selfish desire on the part of the skipper of the Bremen, who would not take police po-lice advice to halt visiting to the ship and lose the revenue of visitors." visi-tors." Over In Germany the saner men in authority recognized that the Nazis were going too far and were probably headed for a fall if not restrained. Dr. Iljalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank and economic eco-nomic dictator of the reich, uttered a solemn warning to the anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic forces, declaring that the great task which the German Ger-man people must fulfill to comply with the wishes of Hitler cannot be fulfilled unless "all disturbances are ended, be they In the intellectual or economic field." pROM the Communist Internation- ale in Moscow comes the word that the reds are planning a strike "of unprecedented scope" by seamen sea-men and dock workers on the Pacific Pa-cific coast of the United States, beginning be-ginning in September. Sara Darcy of San Francisco, an American delegate, dele-gate, told about it. He repeated what had already been said by Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist party In the United States, that Communists were responsible re-sponsible for the seaman's anil dock workers' strikes on the American Pacific coast and the San Francisco general BtriUe last year. |