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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Windsor and Wallis Are Married, Anglican Church Outwitted Tax Dodging hy the Rich to Be Investigated House Rehels Yield. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. PDWARD, duke of Windsor, and Mrs. Wallis Warfield, the American Amer-ican woman for love of whom he gave up his throne, were married in r' "1 the Chateau de Can-f-V- r.V ie, Monts, France, , w" and are now spend. , V; ing their honeymoon K a' Wasserleonburg I tm eastle lower Aus- . 1 tria. Almost at the t j-" ; last moment the I p Church of England . wag outwitted by F -W; - VJ e action of an ob-li2lf!l!lE3 ob-li2lf!l!lE3 s cure provincial Duchess clergyman from the of Windsor north oI Eng,and-and Eng,and-and the civil ceremony cere-mony performed by the mayor of Monts was followed by a religious wedding conducted by that same minister, Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine, in flat defiance of the protests pro-tests of the leaders of the church. Sixteen principal guests were present in the chateau when Mayor Mercier, pronouncing the English names with difficulty, and speaking in French, performed the civil ceremony and pronounced the duke and Wallis man and wife. Vicar Jardine, who had volunteered his services, recited the solemn religious reli-gious rites as prescribed by the church, the duke placed the ring on the duchess' fourth finger, and they knelt on white silk cushions while the minister prayed. Throughout Through-out the entire service the famous organist. Marcel Dupre, played softly. soft-ly. The duchess, who cannot be called "her royal highness," wore a gown of Wallis blue and the correspondents corre-spondents privileged to be present were agreed that she was a beautiful, beau-tiful, gracious and serene woman. The Chateau de Cande, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bedaux of New York, was lavishly decorated with flowers. Wedding presents were numerous, of course, and some of the richest were sent by members of the British royal family. fam-ily. Vicar Jardine was reproved by the church dignitaries for performing perform-ing the religious ceremony, but the Bishop of Fulham, who has jurisdiction juris-diction over Anglican church affairs af-fairs in France, after sending a telegram of protest, admitted the vicar might not be disciplined. He insisted the only valid service Mr. Jardine could perform was benediction bene-diction after the marriage. All Anglican church ministers on the continent had been warned not to marry the duke and Wallis. ADMINISTRATION leaders, from the President down," turned the heat" on the rebellious members mem-bers of the house, and the latter sullenly gave in and passed the billion bil-lion and a half dollar work relief bill about as Mr. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins wanted it. One after another the restrictive amendments earmarking $505,000,000 of the total for projects of a solid type, flood control and highways, which had been adopted in committee of the whole, were called up again and voted down by substantial majorities. majori-ties. The final vote by which the measure was sent on to the senate was 323 to 44. The revolt collapsed after Majority Majori-ty Leader Sam Rayburn, Democrat, Texas, outlined Mr. Roosevelt's position. po-sition. He said the President had agreed to provide adequate funds from the relief bill for PWA projects, proj-ects, highways, grade crossing elimination, flood control and water conservation work. Taunted by Minority Leader Eer-trand Eer-trand Snell, Republican, New York, for the general character of his statement, Rayburn admitted he did not know the exact amount of money that the President would divert to the various projects, which have been described as "vote-getting" and "pork." One of the "rebel" leaders, Joseph Starnes of Alabama, though voting for the bill, announced that congress con-gress would never again "relinquish its control of expenditures." Still sore, especially at Harry Hopkins, the congressmen discussed , the need for investigation of the relief administration, and a resolution resolu-tion calling for such action was introduced in-troduced by Maury Maverick of Texas. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR HAROLD L. ICKES was taken to the Naval hospital in Washington Washing-ton to be treated for an intestinal disorder. Physicians said he probably prob-ably would be absent from his office of-fice for several weeks, a protracted protract-ed rest being imperative. 1)Y HUGE majorities In both srn-ate srn-ate and house congress overrode over-rode the President's veto of a bill to extend the v;ir risk insurance act for another five years. It gives that additional time in which war vcler-ntm vcler-ntm rimy exchange their government govern-ment li'dd t'Tni Insurance polieica for oilier forms of life insurance arid iilTec's about 2'i.OM) men who have-not have-not converted their policies, pep. lesenlative Rankin of Mississippi said these veterans were "too poor" to make the conversion at this time, and added: "The President apparently appar-ently didn't consult with those familiar fa-miliar with veterans' affairs when he vetoed this bilL" D RESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent a A message to congress asking for legislation creating seven regional power authorities patterned after the TVA. He proposed the country be divided into these regions: The Atlantic seaboard. The Great Lakes-Ohio valley. The Tennessee and Cumberland river basins. The Missouri and the Red River of the North basins. The Arkansas, Red and Rio Grande river basins. The basins of the Colorado and other rivers flowing into the Pacific south of the California-Oregon state line. The Columbia river basin. TAX dodging by wealthy men and women, excoriated by President Roosevelt in a special message, is going to be investigated speedily by ' .,jv" - a "lt committee of congress. The reso-lution reso-lution for the in-" in-" quiry was intro- ?"!V' duced in the senate J by Senator Pat Har- "wes t rison of Mississippi, ' - chairman of the fi- '-SssTW nance committee; I v- and in the house by Robert L. Doughton . of North Carolina, chairman of the Sen. Harrison wa"s and means committee. The investigation in-vestigation is designed both to focus public attention on the extent of the alleged tax evasion and to provide pro-vide congress with information necessary nec-essary for the drafting of corrective legislation. Senator Harrison said: "I am sure that congress expects that, where the law has been violated, vio-lated, prompt action will be taken by the government against the malefactors." mal-efactors." He added that men and women referred re-ferred to, not by name, in the President's message, would be given giv-en the opportunity to testify before the committee if their names were disclosed. Accompanying Mr. Roosevelt's message was a long letter to him from Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau in which were outlined eight devices which he said are being be-ing employed by a minority of rich individuals to evade taxes. Legislation asked by the President Presi-dent would be an emergency measure. meas-ure. It is not to be confused with legislation to revise tax schedules, the President said. "In regard to that subject," Mr. Roosevelt continued, "I have already al-ready suggested to the congress that at this session there should be no new taxes and no changes of rates." GENERAL HAYASHI'S semimili-tary semimili-tary government of Japan was forced to resign by the major political politi-cal parties, and Emperor Hirohito summoned Prince ftM t Fumimaro Konoe, - -J president of the if 'A house of peers, to '4 form a new cabinet, g ; ' J This the prince pro- n ceeded to do, and l i . he was meeting with " '" '4 almost complete . y1 success in finding p ?k. -'C: : men who would ac- L J ' J cept office. Tempo- jjgl, &j rarily he had trouble . ..- c Prince Konoe in getting a finance minister. The new government includes in-cludes representatives of the big Seiyukai and Minscito parties and is considered, therefore, a national coalition cabinet. Presumably it Is committed to a large army and navy, a strong foreign policy and drastic administrative reforms. Prince Konoe said he would strive to end the rivalries among the various vari-ous forces in the empire, meaning especially the disputes between the army and the political parties. The army will support him, but its domination dom-ination over Japanese policies is practically ended with the retirement retire-ment of Hayashi Who was accused of trying to set up a Fascist regime. TEFORE adjourning to October the Supreme court overruled a government request that it refuse to review litigation challenging the constitutionality of federal financing of municipal power plants. By consenting con-senting to pass on the controversy, the court deferred a final verdict in the case until next fall, after arguments argu-ments are heard. The Department of Juslire contended con-tended this would posfpone the employment em-ployment of many thousands of men. Ollicials of Hie Public Works adminislralion declared (he court's action rnea us that "at least nuolher nix months" will elapse hi fore fjues-lions fjues-lions allecling the release of $51,-fjjf,(jff) $51,-fjjf,(jff) for filly-four public power piojccls are settled. J URGED on by C. I. O. organizers and other agitators, a mob of some 1,500 steel strikers and their sympathizers undertook to invade the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago and drive out the loyal employees. em-ployees. The rioters were met on company property by 150 city policemen po-licemen and warned to turn back, but they replied with a shower of missiles. The police first used tear gas, but when the strikers began shooting they opened fire in earnest and a desperate battle ensued. Seven men were killed and nearly a hundred, hun-dred, including 26 officers, were hurt. Authorities blamed Communist authorities for the riot. Loyal workers in Republic Steel plants at Warren and Youngstown, Ohio, were besieged by strikers and were supplied with food with difficulty. diffi-culty. At first food was mailed to them, but the government refused to guard mail trucks in Warren which the pickets stopped, and the acting postmaster there said United States District Attorney Freed at Cleveland had authorized him to refuse re-fuse packages of food intended for delivery through the picket lines. The Republic Steel was continuing continu-ing to operate, but the Inland Steel and the Youngstown Sheet and Tube corporations, the two other companies com-panies against which the S. W. O. C. had declared strikes, had closed down their plants. THE A. F. of L. executive council coun-cil closed its conference In Cincinnati Cin-cinnati with the heads of affiliated unions, after directing President Green to push vigorously the campaign cam-paign against Lewis and his C. I. O. First steps were to order the Chicago Chi-cago and New York labor federations federa-tions to expel all unions affiliated with the Lewis organization. Similar Sim-ilar orders were to be sent to all other central bodies and state federations. fed-erations. The council also ordered the collection of a war chest, all members to pay two cents a month instead of one cent for the national federation. The C. I. O. replied with announcement an-nouncement of a drive intended to penetrate every industry which has no organization or where existing unions "are not taking care of their members." An impending contest between the two factions is for control con-trol of the maritime workers. TOST of the ingredients of a good European war were tossed into the pot by loyalist Spain and Germany, but it seemed likely f i jF. the statesmen of 1 England, France and 'her countries ! would be able to X prevent the lighting 1" f of a fire beneath the ! ' j pot. To start with, ' T 'wo Spanish airs' air-s' -" ' ' s planes dropped v, ' . bombs on the i Ni ..,' j German battleship k Deutschland, killing "'' 23 men and wound- Adolf Hitler ing e3 Thc German vessel, participating in the international interna-tional naval patrol, was lying off Ibiza island, one of the Balearics under rebel control. It replied to the attack with anti-airplane guns, and the claim of the Valencia government gov-ernment was that the vessel was the first to fire. Nazi Germany was tremendously aroused by the incident and Reichs-fuehrer Reichs-fuehrer Hitler and all other prominent promi-nent government leaders gathered at once In Berlin. Immediate revenge re-venge was demanded by nil Nazis, so the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer and four destroyers shelled Almeria, southern Spanish loyalist port, without warning, killing twenty twen-ty or more citizens and destroying many houses. Coastal batteries replied, re-plied, probably without effect, nnd after 90 minutes of firing thc German Ger-man vessels departed. Germany announced It would no longer participate in the international interna-tional patrol of Spanish coasts until It could be assured such incidents as the bombing of the Deutschland would not be repeated; and Italy announced It also had withdrawn from -the international committee and firmly supported Hitler. The Valencia government asserted assert-ed the Deutschland had no business being at Ibiza. It also charged that an Italian submarine launched a torpedo tor-pedo that sank the 3.940-ton Spanish Span-ish passenger liner Ciudad do Barcelona Bar-celona 37 miles northeast of Barcelona. Barce-lona. It was declared 50 members of the crew were drowned and a number of others Injured. Italian warships were ordered to stop and search any Russian vessels ves-sels suspected of carrying war supplies sup-plies to Spanish loyalists, and the German fleet in Spanish waters was re-inforccd. German War Minister Von Blombcrg went to Romo to confer with Premier Mussolini and it was believed they were laying plans for concerted action In support sup-port of General Blanco's siege of Bilbao. Great Britain submitted to France, Germany and Italy a three-point three-point plan designed to restore friendly relations lu dealing with the Spanish situation and to Induce Germany and Italy to return to the nonintervention committee. Thc plan provides guaranties against further interference with nonintervention noninter-vention patrol ships. Gen. Kmlio Mola, director of the Bilbao campaign and the most callable ca-llable of the rebel commanders, was killed in the c rash of an airplane hi which he was Hying to Valladolid. Franco Ihereupon split the command com-mand of his northern forces between General Ilavila, who will operate against Bilbao, and General Sail, quel,, who will c ii ni) i :i ml on the Madrid Ma-drid front. |