Show news review of current events the world over i b E r roosevel cl U escapes assassins bullets but mayor cerniak cermak Is wounded senate adopts dry repeal resolution by surprisingly large majority by EDWARD V W PICKARD HOT at five fire times by an anarchist S snot in miami president elect frnnk frank un lla D roosevelt narrowly escaped being added to the list of americas illustrious victims of assassins sas sins not one of the bullets struck him film but mayor anton cermak of chicago ae who was talking with mr roosevelt was ivas seriously wounded two other men and two women in the throng that was gathered in cay bay front park to welcome the franklin D president elect also roosevelt were lilt bit by the assassins sas sins bullets and it was feared one of the women would not survive mr roosevelt had flad just landed after his fishing had made a brief talk to the thousands in the park and was being greeted by personal friends when the anarchist identified as giuseppe of hackenback hackensack Hacken sack N J alred at him from a distance of 20 feet in the great excitement and turmoil mr roosevelt remained calm and insisted on taking mr cermak to a hospital in his car ile he remained over night on the yacht Nour mahal and visited the wounded mayor next morning before leaving hy by train for new york all the world was shocked by the attempted assassination and messages of congratulation on his escape poured in on mr air roosevelt one of the first received being from president hoover mrs roosevelt heird heard the news as she returned home from a club where she had made an address her only comment on learning that her husband was not injured was 1 I am thankful she did not change her plans which took her next day to utica to speak at a home and firm farm week celebration secret service operatives in miami said tile the assassin was a member of an anarchist group of paterson X d that he be declared he ita had bad no a afeei acting entirely on his owl initiative immediate steps toward his trial were taken but the authorities were careful to avoid any possible charges that was being railroaded BY THE rather surprising vote ot of 63 to 23 the senate adopted the revised blayne resolution submitting repeal of the eighteenth amendment to constitutional conventions in the states in this form the measure Is almost in accord with the plank of the democratic platform it provides for outright repeal except for federal protection for dry states against liquor importations speaker garner predicted the resolution would be speedily accepted by the house the approval of the president Is not required but it must be ratified by thirty six states voting for the resolution in the senate were 33 democrats 29 republicans and I 1 farmer laborite against it were 9 democrats and 14 Republicans the illinois senate passed le legislation isla wiping out the state prohibition law and the search and seizure act acl WHILE ambassador sir ronald lendsay was starting back to washington with the british proposals for the war debt discussion scheduled for march senator key pittman intro deuced a bill that thai would seem to have some merit though our expert financiers may tear it to pieces i the measure would k permit great britain to make the payment on her debt due in june in silver ano an this according to mr air pittman would oper sen pittman ate in f the advantage of tile united states would enable england to ro abold transfer of gold to meet the war debt payment anil and would make possible acceptance by great Bri britain of silver in payment of a large sum due from india before the june war debt lity pigment ment the pittman bli would authorize the accept acceptance arce by this government of any sum up to due from great britain baital n in silver at current market value its purpose was explained explain eti as tol fol vs by mr pittman the government of india owes great britain approximately 85 it has been reported with some authority that india desires to pay this debt to great britain with fib silver tile the acceptance fly by the united states of worth of silver al ai the world market price of silver of approximately 25 cents an ounce which Is ably lower than it will ever be again would not only be profitable to the united states slates but advantageous to both tile the united states and great britain under such a settlement tile the unit ed states would decelie 2998 oom ounces ot of silver at the present market price of around 25 cents an ounce under the provisions of the act our government out of such silver would coin standard silver dollars it would deposit them in the treasury and issue and circulate against them in silver certificates slinia similar at to those now in circulation in the united states As it requires only seventy eight one hundredths of an ounce of silver in the coinage of standard silver dollars do there would remain therefore in the treasury lo in addition to such standard sliver silver dollars ounces of silver to be held in the treasury as security for the maintenance teri ance of the parity of the silver certificates so issued NE of the eminent men called on 0 ONE to advise the senate finance corn coin cittee dr berman F arendtz a boston ton economist condemning any plan for Jilter internationally nationally oinna managed ged currency such as may be expected to be put forth at the coming international economic conference declared that what we need Is less credit nod and more hard cash silver Is the salvation in this hard money campaign he fie main talked laened its would be the engine priming that would in six months enable america to sell to the orient between GOO COO and million dollars worth of lumber wheat cotton and copper first of the advisers heard by the committee was bernard M baruch who Is likely to be in the roosevelt cabinet ile he argued vigorously against currency inflation and in favor of a speedy balancing of the budget and urged the adoption of a beer tax and the repeal of the eighteenth amend ment meet he also advised the federal leasing of farm acreage to curtail production and this plan was indorsed endorsed Indor sed by C Q C teague former member of the farm board mr teague asserting that tile the collapse of the credit structure of the country was the fundament fun damen tal cause of the depression urged fed eral guarantee of bank deports de posts and in this he hr he the full support of speaker garner george N peek peck a manufacturer of moline ill HI set forth his objections to the domestic allotment bill which la doomed to death either in the sen ate or in the white rouse house nod and pro posed a modification of the plan whereby curtailment of at acreage would come after planting and before barvest since the variation in yield of all growing crops from year to year depends 75 per cent on weather and pests largely beyond human control and only 25 23 per cent on the acreage planted dother DESPITE ESPITE the efforts of brazil and other south american nations backed up by our state department real war has broken out between colombia and peru and the former cou country n has severed diplomatic relations and declared that mediation Is finished this rupture resulted from ao an air attack by peru on a colombian flotilla on the putumayo river which was repulsed by Colomb colombian laii planes and was followed by an engagement at the town of tarapaca Tara paca on the brazilian border FINANCIAL troubles of the union guardian trust company an investment concern of detroit led gov william wililam A comstock of to tn take the courageous step of proclaiming an el eight h td day bank holl boll day and his drasal n 4 action received tb approval and lega sanction ot of the leals lature the legisla tors also got busy busa at ai once with the enact ment of measures cov ering the situation and b bearing e a r I 1 n g retroactive clauses gov comstock except tor for the upper peninsula which is separated both geographically and economically from the remainder of the state the banks were abiding by the holiday order the upper peninsula Is in a different federal reserve bank district and although the governor of the federal reserve bank of minneapolis said he was keeping hands bands off lo in the situation most banks above the straits of mack inae were doing business as usual the federal reserve bank of detroit remained open and received millions of dollars from chicago and new york and tile the detroit clearing bouse association made arrangements whereby was made available aval lible lable to depositors the latter being permitted to withdraw not in excess of 5 per cent of their balances for emergency purposes before the expiration of tile the holiday several of the biggest detroit corporations announced announce that they were continuing to pay their workers in cash and all business concerns except the financial houses bouses carried on an as usual the governor held conferences with secretory secretary of commerce chapin and leading financial authorities and mr air commack said he did no not seek to prohibit any bank from making a sensible arrangement to permit penult withdrawals to meet family necessities or to allow the cashins cashing of pay checks with restraint concerning win the antics of 0 the present congress Is difficult what the house bouse does docs in the way of economy it anything t Is speedily undone by the senate a te and vice rice versa or else both sides agree on some legislation which they well know will not pet get by with prest dent hoover probably all economies economics that might hit the constituencies or the favorites of 0 any members will be left for or air roosevelt to put into effect through the extraordinary powers which the democrats propose apropo se to confer on him in the language of the street they are passing the buck senator brattoni Crat Brat tons to the treasury post office supply bill pro riding for a 5 per cent cut in appropriations and the navy nary departments plans for maintaining the fleet effle efficiency lency by shutting flown down the pork barrel shore establishments caused a hurried lineup of the congressional supporters of the useless navy yards but the two propositions put chair man carl vinson of the house enval affairs committee in a quandary tic ile announced he would fl baht lit the bratton plan in so far as it concerned the navy and if it carried he be would fight to have bare the navy yards at boston charleston and Ports portsmouth mou th closed down at once SOM ENG concrete in the way of VJ unemployment relief was done by the senate when ihen it voted to add 22 to the war department supply bill tor for 1931 for the purpose of enrolling and tra training ining homeless and idle oung men in year round citizens military training camps senator couzens of it michigan ten ga n was the originator of the part of the plan which Is designed to provide a home food and some sen couzens thing to do for a considerable sid ald erable part of the boys m who ho are said to be tram tramper pir about the country the clauses providing that the lads ads be placed under discipline required to drill and Ilmi limiting ting those received to americans physically and mentally fit for community life were introduced at th thi instance of senator david reed of Pensyl vanla As the bill was drawn boys between fifteen and twenty one years old will be admissible provided they can show that they have been without work tor for six months or more and provided they can meet the G C U M T C entrance requirements as to citizenship and health investigation of the election of I 1 I 1 john JEL overton as senator from louisiana by a senate committee that went to new orleans gave senator huey long opportunity for many characteristic act outbreaks and though he apologized frequently to the committee chairman Cli airman bowel threatened him with action for contempt longs brother now his bitter enemy and various other witnesses It nesses told of many instances of alleged corruption graft and extortion in louisiana and the retort of the kingfish in nearly every case was youre a liar with profane trimmings the charges involved both overton and long informed the world that its JAPAN negotiations with the league of nations in the manchurian dispute had come to an end the foreign office in tokyo said it would offer no further concessions and would 4 stand firmly by its d de e termination to main tain the government of Manchu kuo yo suke matsuoka ja pans ab able le represent active at geneva was given instructions to this effect and told to n withdraw from ahe the league and return yosuke home as soon as the matsuoka league adopted the report of the committee of nineteen which reasserts the principle of chinese sovereignty and declines to recognize Manchu kuo all this was formulated by the cabinet and approved by the emperor dispatches from tokyo said the government feels that withdrawal from the league of nations will be the turning point in the empires history before the ultimate decision Is made it was announced there would be an extraordinary tra conference of the council of elders the heads of branches of the imperial family all living former premiers and other distinguished personages meanwhile plans for a general jap anese amese offensive against the chinese province of dehol which japan claims Is a part of Manchu kuo were reported well under way and it was expect ert ea a campaign would soon begin to drive out several hundred thousands of star mar shat chanas chan g s troops if this movement starts before japan actually quits the league of nations the league might apply sanctions under article 10 of the covenant and the results of could well involve many nations S 0 FAR as the courts and tors of hawaii are concerned thil hassle case has been closed with the dismissal of charges against four hawaiian youths of mixed blood who had bad been accused of attacking mrs thomas R 1 I massie casste wife of a naval lieutenant this action was taken on recommendation of pu public alic prose autor J C kelley who made public a report of a detective agency on an investigation of the case made at tl tin instance of gov lawrence AL M judil and attorney general larry flarry hewitt 0 1933 1931 western newspaper |