Show news review of current events the world over heavy fighting reported as greek government seeks to put down insurrection senator robinson scores hue huey y lon long in heated senate session by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper un on agrim ophe UP greek government Is making a grim effort to stamp out the fast growing revolt which started in crete and has spread to the mainland greek government p planes I 1 a n e a bombed the home in crete of former pre aler Eleuther los vent zelos and also struck at five naval vessels manned by rebels standing off the shore of crete venizelos Is openly heading the forces of sedition and AM reports say has seized from the ex P premier re rn ler banea canea a treasury to ve n lz eo I 1 s finance the revolt martial law prevails throughout the country rail telephone and telegraph ic le communications have been cut off and normal activities suspended heavy fighting with serious losses on both sides have been reported in the strums valley and in the macedonian city of kavalla fear has ba been ex pressed that the country countr will be plunged into a factional civil war of proportions the govern ment has offered amnesty to the rebel troops if they capitulate peacefully Sal Salo nikl harbor has been heavily mined in preparation for an attack by the rebel fleet and land batteries have been reinforced by heavy caliber naval gune guns eight additional add dional classes have been called to the colors as wounded troops pour into Sal Salo nikl from the bat tle front the government claims loyal troops 60 airplanes and a quantity of heavy motorized artillery are ready although good part of this equipment Is said to be old and defea tire A report from alexandria claims that venizelos has abandoned crete and fled toward egypt the rebellion had been plotted for a whole year and broke when 20 naval off officers leers both active and retired seized the salamis arsenal As the revolt spread rebels boarded the five war ships while the crews were ignorant of the plan and put under steam gov eminent planes were dispatched to the scene and pursued the rebel ships down the aegean sea the cruiser averoff was struck by an aerial bomb while the vessel lay in bay near crete and two other ships were reported to have hae been overtaken and bombed near the island of cythera with undetermined damage diminutive king of lam has renounced his throne relinquished ed his claims to being knon as brother of the moon and possessor of 24 umbrellas assumed the simpler if still unpronounceable name of prince and retired to the simple life of an english country gentleman by his action the ex monarch set a rec ord for it is probably the first time in history that a ruler has abandoned power because his government rejected his demands for greater freedom and democratic control for his people my intention that the people should have a real voice in the policy of tl e govern dent ment haq ha been ineffective the ex king wrote in his message of abdication since I 1 realize that now there Is no longer any way of my assisting or protecting the people in the future I 1 hereby renounce all rights which I 1 had as king or rights of succession but I 1 re serve the rights which I 1 had formerly enjoyed before accession to the throne prince ananda nephew of pok has accepted the throne reports state the prince now eleven years old Is attending school in lausanne liver I vendell HOLMES jar jur 0 OLIVER 1st scholar soldier and gentleman Is dead two da daa s before h s ninety ey fourth birthday the beloved great dis senter succumbed to the ravages of monia the next day in the somber supreme court chamber ohp court led by chief jus tice hughes paid trib ute to the man whose career he said had bad been one of unique distinction justi justl e hug es voice choked as he spot e fhe the grind oliver W of legislation and the holmes d shutes of the day were forgotten in congress as both the house and senite sen ite paused while glowing wolds words were said in memory of the r re tirel tire I 1 justice funeral services were ald in washington attended by the president and mrs roosevelt and mem bers of the supreme court after the ceremony holmes was given mil tary burial in arlington national cemetery as befitted one who had served I 1 is nation so gallantly justice holmes w is born in boston the son of the noted american poet of the same name lie ile entered harvard and was in his sen or year when the civil war be began bean an he enlisted as a I 1 eu tenant was pro to a captaincy and retired with the rank of colonel he was wounded three times after the war be returned to school a and nd obtained his law degree in 1882 holmes was elea elevated ted to the supreme court of massachusetts and in 1902 president roosevelt appointed him to the united states supreme court on october 4 1928 when he was eighty seven years old he became the oddest oldest man ever to sit on the bench of the supreme court he re tired in january 1932 S CENATE ENATE administration leaders have 0 decided to virtually abolish when it expires in june and set up in its place a plan of self government in business eliminating present coer measures and giving over admin Istra tive functions of the new program to the federal trade commission thus would end one of the administrations most spectacular and far reaching ex perl ments in its general form the plan calls tor for permission to join in vol unitary codes regulating trade practices and eliminating unfair competition price fixing will be outlawed bust ness bess and industry will agree to mini mint mum wages and maximum hours and only when these standards are violated can the government apply compulsory codes at the same time united stales states DIs brict judge W G x borah in new ew or leans denied a government petition to compel a box manufacturer to comply with the maximum hour and minimum wage provisions of the lumber code ruling that the national industrial recovery act Is unconstitutional the ruling Is expected to bring before the united states supreme court the con of the interstate corn in merce erce clause of the lumber code T HAT 1 ancient repository of dig dim naty the senate has been treated to an exhibition of personalities aeration per pe atlon ration barely avoided and general up roar centering about senator long 0 that should set a record for even that august body goaded into ac tion by the almost daily tirades of lou illanas s RIng kingfish fish ma bority leader joe gob rot inson of arkansas 4 arose white with rage and let loose a casti castl senator gallon gation designed to robinson blast the irrepressible long into submission robinson ap pealed to the senate to assert itself and put long whom he called a mad man in his place vice president gar ner and more than a dozen senators shook hands with nith robinson when he closed and galleries gill eries erles applauded until the chair threatened to clear them it had bad no perceptible effect on long other than to cause him to rush back to the senate chamber and renew his attack on robinson the next day huey precipitated an other verbal free for all when he re fumed his one man campaign against postmaster general parley and the new deal in general long charged that parley was mas instrumental in quashing an indictment against a bank in which lnorman davis da vis ambas at large was interested por h s trouble Is bing fish received a liberal supply of rid cule he also sent to the senate post office comm atee a let ter in which the accusation was mide that farley parley Is profiting from 25 bus bust ness concerns in new york city in bolvin evolving violation of four criminal statute statutes s when questioned parley said he had no statement to make CLAY WILLIAMS I 1 lead ead of the S tendered his res agnation to the president starting what is et ex pecked to be a wholesale housecleaning houseclean ing of the recovery adm ni s high command chairman williams ex his action by saying that hp he had to return to his job as head of one of the country count rys s largest tobacco companies three of the four remain ing members of the board arthur D wl WI walton hamilton and sid ney hillman are cnown 1 to have their resignations ready rumors say that the president will not fill the vacancies but vi ill III return the to a one man command M alfoney ONEY markets of the world react 1 ed violently after president roose velt declared his administration would seek further jacking up of COM commodity prices stocks rallied in new york go government bonds s sagged agg ged and the fall ing british pound rose four cents the president hurriedly issued another statement explaining th that thit it his advocacy of higher prices did not mean further devaluation of the dollar at least not for the present the first statement was made by the president at a press conference when he was asked if he believed prices had hid now risen sufficient ly to warrant stabilization he ile re piled plied that they had not that they were inere still too low in relation to debts ALLAN government officials state I 1 II 11 that nearly 1000 aviators and sev era eral squadrons of planes have sailed tor for east africa and tl at a second wave of has been started to jon jo n the 20 already massed in so ma malllard mal lland liland general graziina has his been named governor of Soma liland ind and commander of the troops HERE seems to be no doubt about the THERE the pink slip clause in the in come tax law being repealed over whelming sentiment for its abolish meat ment has been expressed in both houses of congress and the house ways and means committee has already approved the resolution offered by chairman doughton polls taken disclose a heavy majo majority rit v in the senate favor repeal and both democratic and republican house leaders are pledged to lend their strength to prompt passage of the measure congressional decision on the pink slips must be registered before march 15 R Y A vote of 23 to 1 the house ways band and means committee approved the vinson bonus bill and gave gaie the rival patman bill a possible edge the corn cittee instructed chairman doughton to ask a wide open rule permitting in to move the patman meas ure as a substitute on the floor pat man supporters claim the house will pass the first bonus bill brought up but conservatives es are working to jock ey the printing press money meas ure out of preferred position the vin son bill Is favored by the american Anre rican legion D ronald ONALD executive dl di rector of the national emergency council and one of the closest advisers of the president guaranteed thit there would be no monetary inflation aal a long as franklin D roosevelt Is prest dent his statement I 1 came in answer to a questioner at a lecture in boston it if we are to assume that president roosevelt Roosevel twill will be pres ident tor for the next six years I 1 can tell you donald this I 1 can guarantee ehberg Ri there will o 0 be no aa iffla aaa tion while franklin D roosevelt Is president ehberg Ri said he dodged further discussion of the subject and refused to comment as to what was being done by the gov gor internationally and national ly on monetary policies however did touch on the townsend plan for klyment of monthly to all persons over sixty he said it if everybody over sixty Is to get a month you can be certain it Is going to come out of the pockets of everybody between eighteen and sixty when those under sixty have ar rived at the unselfish attitude where they are ready to dig to pay every body over sixty the a month there will have been a tre spread of real christianity but the government can t get the money out of thin air Ri Iti ehberg chberg flatly denied that the gov was issuing baby bonds be cause bankers had refused to lend the government money and asserted thit that several billion dollars more could be borrowed without endangering nation al credit HE american federation of labor THE proposes to find out immediately what are its chances of fully organ ing the workers employed in the auto mobile industry and if doctor wol man s figures are correct it is likely th tb federation is doomed to be greatly dis appo anted the method adopted is th calling of a secret strike vote amoni members of the federation local in the industry organizer francis 3 1 I D lion ilon explained this did not feces mean there would be a strike onla the federation federations s national nat nati ionah officers having authority to order such action now is the time to find out oner and for all he said whether ti if e workers in the automobile industry want the american rede federation ration of la bor if they want the union we wll wil find it out through these strike votes if they don t well the ie le industry Is in thin dst ast of the busiest season it has had since 1930 the great majority of its workers are not in the federation rank and probably would not strike but its plants could be seriously crippled by es in allied industry es peri perl aps the american rede federation ration of labor leaders hae some way of explain ng how all this would help on the cause of na lional industrial recovery OF or STATE cogdil COP COl DEI DIl I 1 S SECRETARY HULL encountered his third sue cess in carrying out his policy of restoring foreign trade by conclude ng a series of reciprocal agreements with other nations when a trade treaty with belgium was signed although not entirely satisfactory to Secre secretary tarl hull unit it was nevertheless a step alon along the way the belgians gave us a tar iff or quota concessions on a number of our exports including automo automobile biler and parts calculating machines radi radl os grapefruit pears oatmeal and corn starch we cut tariffs on plate glass glass sand iron and steel mill products linn linon fabrics lace and ce ment reciprocal agreements have hae been previously concluded with cuba and brazil HE united states and great brit THE tain ain remain unconvinced of japan 8 h b gh h purpose in china although eiji foreign office spokesman de blared that japan is not trying to per suade china to leave the league and 1 is not arg ng china to dismiss foreign advisers he ile also insisted that no at tempt is being made to force china into an asiatic bloc in return for financial assistance in washington william phelps acting secretary of state and S r ronald lindsay british ambassador went into conference twenty four hours later it was an bounced from lon bonlon ion thit that great brit ain aln to together ether with ith the anted un ted states france prance at aid d J baian al an was as exploring pro 1 to help china financially |