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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Stiewer to Be Keynoter for Republicans Flood Control Bill Passes Senate Battle Over New Tax Bill in House. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Wiatern Newapaijer Union. WHEN the republicans gather In natliirKil convention at Cleveland next June tlielr keynote for tlielr I'resl'lentlul campaign will be sounded by s,.;m Frederick Stiewer, . the eloquent and hillidsurne United - . Suites senator;. :S from Oregon. lie f.v whs selected to be , . 4 leniponiry c b a I r- ' , -r - man of the con- I .1. vention by unan- J i linous vote of the .j arrangements com- XiVIJi nilttee of the national na-tional committee st-ewe after due consider- w r utlon had been given the names of several other prominent Republicans. Republic-ans. Observers held that the main motive mo-tive In picking Stlewer was a desire of the party leaders to give the convention a western atmosphere right at the start, with an especial eye to agriculture. The senator bus been actively Identified with wheat growing and his home town, Portland, Port-land, Is a center of the northwest battleground of the November elections. elec-tions. Ills colleague Is Senator Charles L. MeNary, one of the authors au-thors of the old McNary-Haugen agriculture ag-riculture bill and by many regarded as a possible dark horse In the Presidential nomination race. Governor Gov-ernor Landon said he was glad to hear Stlewer had been chosen, and It was believed Senator Borah also approved, for in many ways Stlewer has proved himself liberal, and at the same time has upheld the Constitution Con-stitution and the American form of government. Congressman Bcrtmnri Snell of New York, minority leader In the house, was selected to be permanent chairman of the convention, a position posi-tion he held In the convention of :n,i2. THROUGH William Allen White, Kansas editor, the Landon camp suggested to Senator Rorah that he abandon his campaign for the Republican Re-publican Presidential nomination, go to the Cleveland convention as a delegate and assist in writing a liberal platform. Mr. Rorah rejected the proposition, saying: "Naturally I am interested in the platform, but, after all, a platform doesn't mean much unless you know who Is going to run on it. I am more Interested In the latter proposition propo-sition just now." If the Landon forces can control the convention, Mr. White may be made chairman of the resolutions committee. So it was taken that his proposal Indicated that the Landon group was willing to accept as libera! lib-era! a platform as Mr. Rorah might desire in order to check dissension within the party. The Idaho senator sena-tor has made no direct attack on Landon, but has Indicated that he thought there was too much "big business" Influence in the Landon movement. FEDERAL JUDGE HALSTED L. RITTER of Florida was found guilty on Impeachment charges by the senate and removed from olllce. being the fourth " I federal Jurist to be xs 5 ousted In this man- 1 n each of ithe first six articles of impeachment a majority of senators sena-tors voted for his acquittal ; but on the seventh article, arti-cle, which was a -3 generalized s u m-t.. m-t.. .-us3 mary of the charges h. u. Rnwr against him, he was convicted by a vote of 50 to 2S. An order declaring Ritter should be "forever disqualified from holding hold-ing any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States" was defeated, 76 to 0. DISREGARDING warnings by Senator Vandenberg of Michigan Michi-gan against too hasty action, the senate passed a bill Introduced by Senator Overton of Louisiana authorizing au-thorizing the expenditure of $272,-000.000 $272,-000.000 for flood control work on the lower Mississippi river and Its tributaries. trib-utaries. There was no tecord vote. The bill has no relation to the omnibus om-nibus flood control measure now pending, which may reach a billion. The sum named In the senate bill is authorized merely to be appropriated appropri-ated and will have to be put in a deficiency appropriation bill. Senator Sena-tor Overton declared It was justified by emergency conditions. In addition to the 272 million dollars dol-lars there Is authorized an appropriation appro-priation of 15 millions to be allocated allocat-ed by the secretary of war and used in rescue work or repair and maintenance main-tenance of flood control works. THE administration's bill to levy about 800 million dollars in new taxes yearly was Introduced In the house by the ways and means com mittee, and a fierce battle started Immediately. The Republican minority minor-ity of the committee Issued a report which stated that the proposed tax law was "unsound In principle, will undermine business stability, Is another an-other step toward regimentation of all business, and Is not designed to raise revenue but admittedly Is another an-other New Deal experiment." Conservative Democrats Joined with the Republicans In this attack against the hill, but the administration administra-tion leaders were confident the measure would pass before May 1. Complete revision of the -corporation tax system is the main objective objec-tive of the bill. It levies a graduated gradu-ated tax on corporation Income, based on percentage of earnings withheld from distribution to stockholders stock-holders In the form of dividends. The majority report asserted the measure would raise about $803,000,-000 $803,000,-000 the first year, but admitted that over a three-year period revenue would fall $334,000,000 short of the President's budget-balancing program. pro-gram. It was added that the deficit could be acted on "more Intelligently" Intelligent-ly" next session. OCCUPATION of Addis Ababa and all of Ethiopia was the price demanded by Italy for an armistice arm-istice in East Africa when the council coun-cil of the League mmmmtiivmg of Nations met ::: j; . J,k again in Geneva. te:;:j3Clli Raron Pompeo Alo- WM: jf' XWSfii isl presented the IllWllllli ultimatum on be-half be-half of Dictator f(iii'mil Mussolini. Wolde gH011SIS Mariam, represent- flsjP; . Ii:;;s;:i Ing Ethiopia, coun- aV" 1 tered with a request v ' that the league in-voke in-voke all penalties against Italy un- Baron Alois! der article 10 of the covenant, these including military sanctions as well as the economic penalties which the league has been trying tc enforce. The British and French delegates explained the stand of their respective respec-tive governments in the embroglio. The league was helpless, and having hav-ing received the discouraging report of the conciliation committee, was compelled to confess It could not find means to attain peace. France will not consent to the Imposition of military sanctions, and Great Britain naturally will not undertake under-take to enforce them by herself. It appeared the poor Ethiopians were to be abandoned to their fate, meaning mean-ing the extinction of their empire and their exploitation by Italy. The council adopted a resolution regretting Its Inability to end the war, reminding league members that they should continue the sanctions sanc-tions and asking Italy to be generous gener-ous in bringing the conflict to a close. Anthony Eden in his address to the council warned France that she might expect from Great Britain no further support against aggression aggres-sion by Germany than France bad given against Italy. Latest dispatches said the Ethiopians Ethio-pians were blasting the road between be-tween Dessye and Addis Ababa, and that the advance of some of the Italian columns had been halted by strong attacks. The emperor was afield with his troops and turned the government at the capital over to Crown Prince Asfa Wosan. THAT old gold mine at Moose River, Nova Scotia, provided an epic tale of unselfish and heroic human hu-man endeavor that will be told for many a year. For ten days more than a hundred experienced miners strove unceasingly to rescue three men who had been trapped by the fall of dirt and rocks in the 140-foot level of the abandoned mine they were Inspecting. Machinery and other equipment were brought from far away. A diamond drill was driven through and through this small opening communication was established and food was dropped down, but already one of the three was dead of hunger and exhaustion. Finally the desperate efforts of the rescuers were successful and the, two survivors were brought safely to the surface, together with the body of the dead man. Those saved were Dr. D. E. Robertson, famous and beloved surgeon of Toronto, and C. A. Scadding. The one who did not live was Herman Magill, also of Toronto. WHAT American newspaper publishers pub-lishers think of the actions of the Black lobby committee was expressed ex-pressed forcibly and unequivocally in resolutions adopted by their national na-tional association at Its annual meeting meet-ing In New York. The committee was accused of having violated the first, fourth and fifth amendments to the Constitution by Its seizures of private communications, and the publishers recommended that all victims of the committee's acts seek civil damages and demand the "prosecution of all involved In the odious alTalr under the criminal statutes of the United States." OKNATOR KENNETH McKEL- LAR of Tennessee made an attempt at-tempt to reduce by S225.ik.hj the appropriation ap-propriation for the federal bureau of investigation, otherwise J. Edgar Hoover's G-men, and failed lgno-uiinously. lgno-uiinously. Only McKellar and fine other Senator were in the atlinna-tive atlinna-tive on a viva voce v.ote. and In the brief but lively debate several Democrats, Dem-ocrats, including Majority Leader Joe Robinson, Joined Senator Vandenberg Van-denberg In denouncing the proposed reduction. The Michigan man's remarks re-marks were caustic. Said he: "I will go as far as the senator from Tennessee In all matters of economy, but It seems to me that this is a peculiar place to start economizing. econ-omizing. The bureau says it needs 175 more men. If t lie senator wants to save 175 men. I will join him In taking that number from the IS, 235 employed by Doctor Tugwell's resettlement re-settlement administration. I will join him in abolishing 175 of the 43.041 jobs under Mr. Hopkins. I will Join him In removing Unit number num-ber from the 10,548 jobs under the IIOLC, or the 2,422 jobs under the long interred NRA." ANOTHER post-war treaty has gone flooey. President Kemal Ataturk of Turkey and his cabinet decided that the Dardanelles must be remilitarized, j? ! despite theLusanne , " ' 0 pact, and Turkish & ,-j troops were prompt- ws "'f ly moved into the i zone along the 75 -' ' mile long strait that connects the ft-1 Sea of Marmora r y' and the Aegean 'pi's j sea It is believed y$ ' A Kemal will soon j rebuild the fortlfl- J-"4d cations in the zone President which the allies Kemal failed to capture during the World war. The Turkish dictator didn't surprise sur-prise anyone by his action, for he asked permission of the League of Nations, some time ago to rearm the Dardanelles. No formal reply had been made, but the British government gov-ernment rather favored giving consent, con-sent, and the Soviet union openly approves Turkey's move. Italy was displeased, and there was considerable consider-able excitement in the Balkan states, especially Bulgaria which borders on European Turkey. The Bulgarians renewed their demand for a corridor giving them a direct route to the Aegean sea. Probably Kemal's action will not be severely condemned by anyone, for most of the European nations are preparing for war with feverish haste. Austria's army, small but well equipped, held a spring parade in Vienna, and Immediately the nations na-tions of the little entente displayed their anger at this show of military force and their military attaches in the Austrian capital were ordered not to occupy the places reserved for them among the reviewing officials. offi-cials. Rumania has increased its military budget to $3S,000,000 and created a special fund of $20,000,000 for the development of aviation. Hungary is clamoring for revision of the Trianon treaty and recovery of the territory it lost to the little entente. The forty-seventh birthday of Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler provided provid-ed an opportunity for a big display of Germany's military power. As the dictator stood on a balcony overlooking over-looking the Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin Ber-lin nearly 15,000 soldiers of all arms, with motorized vehicles, passed before him, shouting renewal renew-al of their pledges of faith in Hitler. Hit-ler. In many other cities of the reich there were like demonstrations. demonstra-tions. GOV. ED. C. JOHNSON of Colorado Colo-rado Is determined to keep "cheap labor" out of his state and has taken steps to stop the Invaders at the boundary lines by means of a military patrol of the National Guard Col. Nell W. Kimball, adjutant general, flew over western Oklahoma Okla-homa on a scouting expedition following fol-lowing reports workers were gathering gather-ing for a concentrated "border run." Guard officers said workers were camped across the state line in Oklahoma. Ok-lahoma. Reports that Indigents were evading the patrol along the New Mexico line by turning eastward sent patrol units hurrying to the Kansas boundary. SEVEN persons were indicted by a federal grand jury in St. Paul, Minn., for the kidnaping of William Hamm, Jr., brewer, in June, 1933. Some of the accused are already In prison. Only one, Alvln Karpis, pub-, pub-, lie enemy No. 1, Is still at large, and the Department of Justice In Washington has offered aeward of $5,000 for Information leading to his apprehension. LOUIS McIlENRY HOWE, secretary secre-tary to President Roosevelt and for many years his close friend and adviser, died In the Naval hospital at Washington after an illness of more than a year. Mr. Howe- was known In the capita as "the President Presi-dent maker," for it was largely due to his efforts that Mr. Roosevelt reached the White House. .For twenty-five years, from the day when Mr. Roosevelt and he first met In Albany, he had devoted himself to forwarding his friend's political fortunes. During the Chicago convention con-vention and the ensuing campaign his planning and his advice were credited largely with the results attained. at-tained. Funeral services for Mr. Howe were held In the White House. |