Show I 1 news I 1 review of current events the world over massie case defendants set free by gov judd house nearly ruins the economy bill capone begins his term in atlanta by EDWARD W PICKARD S wirtly and unexpectedly came cam 1 the climax in the massie case at al honolulu lulu two days in advance ol 01 of the time set tor for the passing of sen tence on the four con evicted of manslaughter to in the killing ol of SA P Ka Kaha ballawal hawal judge judg davis da vis called the de fend ants before him hiir and sentenced then them to too ten years in prison nt at hard labor imme thereafter gov GOT AP lawrence al judd commuted the sentence 1 1 J to one hour in the custody ot of a bailiff gov judd and this time having passed the navy lieutenant his mother mollier ln in law mrs fortescue tescue and seamen lord and jones were set free this procedure was in accord with an arrangement made by governor judd judge davis dails and attorneys on both sides the governor had been subjected to great pressure to pardon the defendants and it was held that his action was nas in accord with the jurys recommendation of mercy sentiment in hawaii was diverse dl erse many of 0 the natives being extremely dissatisfied with what they considered a miscarriage of justice and most of the whites feeling cling ie that the governor go should have pardoned the four outright thus preserving their civil rights in washington the latter view seemed to prevail several senators and representatives senta tives being outspoken in the matter congressman summers of texas introduced a bill granting the president power to pardon defendants in the territories and before the action in honolulu Ilono lulu was known bills had been introduced in both houses for or a congressional pardon for the four convicted also a petition tor for a pardon was signed by eighty members of congress and cabled to governor judd whether lieutenant bassle will remain to in the navy apparently was nos left up to president hoover in cases where naval officers are convicted in civil courts and sentenced to imprisonment the naval regulations authorize the president to drop such officers naval officers tn in washinton washington ton were hopeful that sir mr hoover would oula not DOE take such sad action in cassles bassle Mas s ca case s e dispatches from flono lulu said it was wag likely the prosecution of the four our remaining youths accused of attacking in mrs massie would now be dropped the young boung woman had said she was ready to go to the stand against li them and once more tell ot of her terrible experience but clarence darrow tier her attorney advised tier lier to come home with tier her family and forget forge t all about it HE the house of representatives enen disregarding tile the leadership of both parties got through mauling the economy measure that was designed sig tied to contribute savings toward balancing the budget and handed it over to the senate as an amendment to the legislative appropriation aaion bill there much left of tile the product of the special economy committee indeed it was about algo short of the mark cy by limiting government pay reduction to 11 per cent of salaries in excess of 2500 the house knocked out of the SG it was proposed to save on pay roll cost the house also rejected savings on veterans benefits estimated at more than and turned down dovin the proposed consolidation of the war and navy departments which the economy committee promised would save from to while administration leaders laid plans to salvage some of the wreckage on the senate floor the appropriations committee was confronted with the task of revamping the shattered measure meantime prospects of lengthy contests over each of the triangular problem of balancing the budget tax atlon reduction in appropriations and economy east cast a fresh shadow of doubt over probability of completing the necessary session work before june 10 M preferential primary was made interesting by the contest tor for delegates between president hoover and dr joseph 1 I france the only avowed rival of mr hoover for the republican presidential nomination though france Is a marylander and was that states senator a dozen years ago he was turned down don by the home folks losing to hoover by a sub stant lal majority this setback lie ho ever will not serve to put J 1 francs france a stop to doctor frances campaign he boll keep right on trying to corral delegates elsewhere and lias fins engaged convention headquarters in a chicago hotel he la Is his own manager baltimore voters paid more atten tion to the matter of repealing so tar far as that city Is concerned Ma rylands year old blue laws than to the presidential cholm choice on this question they cast more than ballots and the repeal was passed by a majority of the repeal became immediately effective so Baltim may now transact business go to movies or ball games and even kiss their wives on sunday all of 0 which and much more was forbidden by the ancient blue laws ALIFORNIA democrats dealt a C california rather severe blow to the asp aspirations of governor roosevelt the third within a short time in the preferential primary they rave gave speaker john N garner a plurality of more than votes over the new york er at al smith crime came in third some 75 WO votes behind the texan though mr air garner has not been an avowed candidate candidate tor for the nomination this makes him more than a favorite son and insures the continuation of 0 the campaign to in his behalf president hoover was unopposed in the republican primary and piled up a big biff vote in alabama the slate of democratic delegates instructed for franklin D roosevelt heat beat the list or of e delegates by about three to oile one the new york fork governor also captured the south dakota delegation republicans of tile the latter state favored a delegation instructed for hoover and also voted to send senator peter norbeck back to the senate defeating harry F brownell ownell Cr of sioux falls FOR several years at least the people of the united states need rea read d little if anything about at al Ca capone for that eminent gentleman Is now behind the bars of the federal penitentiary at atlanta serving a term of 11 years for income tax f fraud r a el d the united states supreme court curtly aw refused to review Scar faces aces case and his bis attorneys could devise nothing more to keep him film out of the penitentiary its sen sentence telice imposed by at al capone y federal judge j wilkerson Is ten years in atlanta and one year in a county jail besides a d une ne of if al behaves himself he may be free again in about seven and one halt half years but it Is unlikely that he will ever again be a power in the world of gangsters on leaving chicago where he be had been in jail for six months capone said graciously that he was not sore at anybody and that lie hoped chicago would be better off and the public clamor would be satisfied F FOR OR about ten years there has been before con congress gress in one form or another it a measure designed to male make steady the value of the dollar the other day the house after brief consideration passed such a bill known as alie abe goldsborough bill and turned it oer 01 or to the senate where it seems doomed to defeat by the republican majority the proponents of this measure say it will restore the purchasing power of the dollar and stabilize commodity prices through the open market operations and rediscount facilities of the federal reserve system the bill declares it to be the pulley of tile the united states that the average purchasing power of the dollar based on the 1921 1021 1929 1920 level of commodity prices shall be restored and maintained by the control of the volume of credit and currency it charges the federal reserve board the federal resene banks and secretary of the treasury with the duty of making effective this policy opponents of the measure who include secretary of the treasury mills say it Is a mandate to the federal reserve board to issue flat bat money and the greatest scheme of inflation ever proposed la in any country S CARL HAYDEN of art zona put forward a project of the silver states to boost the price of sll sil ver offering a resolution that would authorize the president to accept up to july 1 1930 1936 silver in payment of debts owing the united states by foreign governments the silver would lie he accepted at the rate of one and one half ounces for each dollar of indebtedness discharged provided the debtor nations agree to not molt or debase their own collis coins to obtain silver for debt payments As a further inducement to debtor nations the resolution stipulates stipulate that vi hen a government satisfies the president it will restore all of its silver coinage to a fineness of at least nine tenths silver or shall otherwise increase the use of allier aller for coinage purposes the president may accept sil mi ver payments from froin such goverO government luell t itt tile the rate of one ounce of silver liver for each dullar of indebtedness the bit ver so received ly by the united states state shall be coined into standard silver dollars ollars il and deposited in the treasury ind and sliver liver certificates issued against the sliver silver coinage RU elections in france vindicated preliminary indicated that premier tardieu might be ousted and a liberal government installed with edouard herriot Herr lot veteran leader of the radical socialists and former premier at its heild head the issue was to be decided in the runoff run off oft elections may 8 but already herriotts nerr Her tots riots party had made gains in pa parliamentary r lia liti seats and the left republicans led by tardieu had lost heavily tardley himself was reelected elected re by a sound majority and so were most of the members of his cabinet of the japanese R representatives and chinese governments propped up in their hospital beds signed so an agreement which aich ended hostilities in the shanghai area A japanese surgeon amputated the right leg of minister mamoru soon after he signed the agreement lie he was the most moat seriously hurt of the five highest japanese officials who were voun wounded ded in a recent bombing the japanese volunteered to start withdrawal of their troops at once as the first step in the faithful execution of the agreement withdrawal Is to be completed in about tour four weeks in manchuria the japanese claimed to have routed tile the chinese Clil nese insurgents in bloody encounters but the revolt against the puppet manchurian Manc hurlan government was not quelled the league of nations investigating commission in a preliminary report said every vestige of chinese authority in Man manchuria churla had been erased by the japanese that banditry was on the tha increase and there was loss of life destruction of property and a general sense of insecurity UVERAL highly important decisions S SEVERAL I 1 were handed down by the united states supreme court one of them read by justice benjamin njamin Ce cardozo re ejected modification of the packers consent decree of 1920 to permit packers to deal at wholesale in groceries and other lines k not related to tile the packing house industry in january 1931 the district of columb I 1 a authorized t the h e modification under the supreme courts ruling the packers chea justice car will alu be prohibited P bozo from continuing in their present lines of business and must comply with the terms of the consent decree which restricted their activities exclusively to meat and other slaughterhouse slaughter house products the tremendous business of the packers was emphasized by justice cardozo who pointed out that the original decree was insisted on because of fear that the companies would otherwise be able to crush their smaller rivals he said the packers were in a position today to do under the modified decree what was feared when the consent decree was vias entered justices butler and van devanter dissented ruling on a case from texas the tha court decided 5 to 4 that the state democratic executive committee had acted illegally in barring negroes from participating in the bartys primaries the majority opinion handed down doi n by justice cardozo and concurred in by chief justice hughes and justices brandeis stone and roberts held that the party committee lacked this power even though authorized by statute to prescribe the requirements tor for party membership president hoover was upheld in lits hta controversy with mth the senate over the case of his appointment of george otis smith to the federal power commission the case arose when in december 1930 1030 the senate consented to smiths appointment then in january 1931 requested the return of the nomination and voted to reconsider its vote of consent during the interim smith bad angered radical senat senators orsby by dismissing certain power commission employees the president refused to accede to the senates request HOPE OPE tor for an adequate american navy was revived when the senate by a vote of 40 46 to 25 made unfinished business the hale bill authorizing construction of all ships needed to bring the fleet up to the tonnage limits of the london and washington naval treaties the measure undoubtedly will be roughly treated by senators who advocate other legislation and will be displaced from time to time but senator nale hale expressed confidence that it will come to a vote and be passed before congress adjourns the opposition seeks to prevent early enactment of the bill on the ground that its passage would embarrass the american delegation la in the disarmament conference at geneva and violate the spirit of the naval building truce cathedral on washington mount st albans the foundation stone of which was laid 25 years ago was opened for public worship on thursday ascension day the first service was held in the morning in the choir and sanctuary the first portion of tile the main building to be completed and was attended by the president and mrs hoover and mrs woodrow wilson widow of the war president whose tomb la Is in the bethlehem Poth lehem clin impel clintel pel bishops of the episcopal church other religious and lay leaders from all parts of the country and representatives of all rooks of official life in washington also gathered pa for the opening of if the beautiful edifice ia wt irm western newspaper union |