| Show news review of current events the world over statesmen in geneva struggle n to prevent italo ethiopian war progress 0 of the new deal A measures Alea in congress by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union APT A ANTHONY ONY EDEN british minister for league of nations at rs was exceedingly busy in geneva ing to find a way to avert the war between italy and ethiopia lie he was aided and abetted by premier laval of prance france and together they evolved a plan for procedure by the league council which appeared promising until it was commini bated to premier mus then baron aloisa italian dele anthony gate announced the eden eden laval formula was entirely unacceptable how ever hope wag was not abandoned for there was a chance that modifications could be made that would satisfy the de mands of the italians unofficially it was said the british french formula dealt with these points I 1 cone and arbitration Is to continue 2 neither italy nor ethiopia Is to resort to war measures in the mean time 3 appointment of a fifth arbitrator to the deadlocked italo ethiopian con dilation commission 4 signatories of the 1906 treaty great britain france and italy will lend their good offices to obtain a gen eral broad solution of the conflict italy was expected to protest against time limits fixed in the draft of the projected peace formula one deadline was set tor for september 1 by which time the arbitrators on the italo ethiopian cone dilation corn com mission who abo would resume their work would be required to report to the league council another time limit was set for sep 4 when the three powers and ethiopia would be required to report their findings to the league council in any event the council would be scheduled to meet september 4 one important concession was mad to italy in the formula it was agreed that the ownership of scene of the frontier conflict involved should not be dis assed the ethiopian con has been that responsibility for the horde borde clash could not be fished w phout the ownership of the locality being first determined emperor halle selassie met his chieftains in council at add s ababa and they told him it might be now too late to prevent war for the r tens of thousands of fighters were eager for hostilities to begin and could hardly be restrained the emperor how bow ever sought to hold the chiefs back at the same time he issued another defiant note informing the world that ethiopia never would accept an ila italian ian or other mandate adding no amount of prosperity under foreign domina tion would compensate for the loss of independence mussolini seized control of italy s metal and fuel imports for use in the expected war and several thousand more soldiers and workmen sailed for at africa alca L LED ED by george huddleston fludd leston of alabama the members of the house who opposed the death sen tence in the utilities bill scored an other victory over the supporters of that plan of the new dealers sam rayburn s motion that the house agree to the senate action on the bill was defeated to rayburn ar gued pleaded and threatened but to no avail lie ile warned the represent atiles that those who voted against his motion would be incurring the wrath of the administration and at the last moment had bad read testimony before the senate lobbying commit tee to the effect that a new jersey man had suggested the utilities com panics start a whispering campaign regarding the sanity of the new deal leaders still the big majority in the house insisted on rejecting the pay vy burn motion then the house by a vote of to adopted a resolution which vir dually called for the exclusion of ben cohen administration lobbyist from future conferences on the bill democratic congressmen started starl the weel week briskly determined to push through the president presidents s soab the rich tax bill at this session opposing them with equal de termination were a IR number of the hardest fighting republicans who insist that con Elder atlon of taxation be postponed until nest next winter and that meantime the question be studied carefully in connection with the budget for the next fiscal year these republicans R e are urgent urgently V senator ta calling for an early adjournment of congress senator hastings of delaware has introduced a resolution setting august 10 as the day for quitting and was trying to have it brought up for consideration before passage of the tax measure senator of michigan often mentioned as a presidential possibility also demanded postponement of the tax legislation until january and he gave out a statement denouncing the administration s plan as a sterile po gesture which would raise only a little extra pocket change and de dared that we chatter of taxes in millions to offset known deficits in billions the pending tax bill as it Is abeln being 9 developed said senator will voll not produce appreciable revenue for uncle sam it will not pay the presidents deficit even for the period while the bill Is under consideration As a contribution to the public credit it is as grim a hoax as was ever per pet rated on the country As a dis tri butor of wealth it Is a mere vagrant flirtation with this left wing idea nevertheless it appeared probable that the tax measure would be enacted before adjournment for the adminis leaders had promised this to senator la follette and other liber als and besides that they have no desire to pass a taxation bill in a presidential election year As pro deuced by the house ways and means committee after great travail the mea sure embodies an 87 per cent con fisca con of large fortunes and increased levies on the rich which would produce perhaps of additional an nual revenue C CONGRESS has passed and the pres ident has signed a bill which as promotion in the near future for about army officers it ates the advancement of commissioned officers below the grade of colonel and takes effect september 1 the act increases the number of colonels by the number of lieuten ant colonels by and the number of majors by more than 1000 second lieutenants will be advanced immediately to the rank of first lieu tenant and 1769 first lieutenants will become captains in all officers will receive immediate promotion SENATE S ENATE and house committees in vesti gating the activities of lobby ests went their separate ep arate ways neither thinking very well of what the other was doing senator black s quiz oe oc cup ed itself much with the doing of representatives of the associated gas and electric corporation an execl tive order from the white house dl erected the secretary of the treasury to make available to the senate commit tee all incomes excess profit and cap ital stock tax returns to the exten necessary in the investigation with the so called holding company bill or any other matter or proposal affecting leg isolation simultaneously president roosevelt ampro approved ed a new treasury regulation authorizing the release of this information to the committee representative patton of texas wen before the house committee again and satisfactorily explained how he had been able to buy 3 worth pf bonds out of his savings As to the cigar elgar box he carried away from the hotel room of john W carpenter den of the texas power and light corpora tion it contained nothing but cigars patton said the fact Is you have been done clone a very great wrong comme commented cited rep E E cox of georgia S GLASS scored perhaps the greatest victory in his long public career when the senate without a record vote passed his draft of the 1935 banking act rejecting t the h e central bank features urged by gov marriner S eccles of the federal reserve board and ta fa bored by the the virginian who was once secretary of the treasury had fought desperately against the eccles scheme and his triumph was decisive senator glass there was no demand for a roll call on the final vote for the fate met by the of various amend ments showed this procedure would be futile senator la follette sought to strike out a provision corn com mercial banks to underwrite securities and his proposal was beaten 39 09 to 22 senator gerald nye of north dakota another radical republican offered the central bank plan of rev charles E coughlin radio priest which would set up a government owned and wholly dominated system it was voted down 59 to 10 FROM the common st ale in moscow comes the word that the reds are planning a strike of un scope by seamen and dock workers on the I 1 lacille coast of the united state beginning in september sam darcy of san francisco an american delegate told about it IL he repeated what had already been said by earl browder general secretary of the communist party in the united states that communists were cespon sible for the seamen s and dock work ers strikes last year PASSAGE of the bill to restore 40 46 of spanish war veterans pensions was completed when the sen ate accepted the house measure the only opposing vote being cast by sen ator hastings of delaware this until fles fies the various adjustments made by the president for the purpose of econ omy to carry out the party pledge of a reduction of at least 25 per cent in the cost of administration of the federal government F fuederick REDERICK H GILLETT who rep resented massachusetts in the house for many years tor for six years was speaker and thereafter served as united states senator died in spring field mass at the age of eighty three able dignified and unfailingly courte ous mr gillett was highly esteemed by his fellow congressmen whatever their party affiliation in his home town he was known as a politician who said little and did much h i TAPAN APAN will probably have another cause for complaint against the united states secretary of the navy swanson has announced that strongly fortified naval bases will be established in the pacific ocean up r on the expiration of the naval limitation treaties on january 1 raj 1937 he said mid he con 1 the er creation cation of naval stepping stones 64 in the pacific an inevitable result of the A treaties expiration he revealed that the navy sec y swanson long g has given conald to pact pacific fortification problems and that impetus had been ghen to the study since japans abrogation of the naval treaties the necessity for adequate bases in the pacific was demonstrated forcibly last may during the annual fleet ma beuvers off hawaii and the aleutian islands according to reports the navy high command in a report of the lessons learned in the exercises strong ly recommended an aleutian islands base the united states naval bases are few and far between as against those of japan and great britain which lie ile along the principal courses of english and japanese traffic lines the ameri amerl can bases are relatively obsolete gearn GERMANY S diplomatic note con cern ng the communist attack on the liner bremen in the port of new york tool the form of a request that the offenders be punished but asked for no apology acting secretary of state william phillips in his reply handed to the german charge daf fabres dr rudolf leitner told briefly the efforts of the new york police to guard the vessel and to subdue the mob and pointed out that some of those who took part in the attack were arrested the german note said the incident constituted an insult to germany in his press conference president roosevelt declined to comment on the affa r asked about the protest of jewish organizations against the ger man governments religious attitude the president intimated that the ad ministration ministrations s view was fully expressed by mr phillips reply in which he ex pressed sympathy tor for anyone who was denied religious liberty representative dickstein of new york told the house that no apology was due to germany for the bremen incident and that neither the federal nor the local authorities were to blame for it he asserted the attack was made possible by a selfish desire on the part of the skipper of the bremen who would not take police advice to halt visiting to the ship and lose the revenue of visitors over in germany the saner men in authority recognized that the nazis were icle going too far and were probably headed for a fall it if not restrained dr II 11 jalmar schacht president of the and econom c dictator of the retch uttered a solemn warning to the anti jewish and anti catholic forces declaring that the great task which the german people must fulfill to comply with the wishes of hitler littler cannot be fulfilled unless all dastur bances are ended be they in the intel or economic field among developments in the current campaign against the steel helmets the world war veterans organization the Schutz staffel or black corps formed to protect the person of hit ler gave out a warning that it must be reckoned with in the event of a showdown against state enemies S and asserting its complete loyalty to der fuehrer the proclamation closed with these ominous words many reasons it would be deeply regretted if the steel helmets by their own fault should come to a dis honorable end M MORE ORE disasters in the far east aftung an important city in Manchu kuo was engulfed by a terrific flood a thousand persons were drowned and practically the entire population of was rendered home less formosa was ravaged by an another other typhoon t which took many lives and aud did vast damage along the han and yingtse rivers the surviving chinese were striving to keep alive and at the same time to bury the tens of thou sands who died in the floods there alocci bonx the line of providing help for white coll collar ar workers harry L hopkins appointed four technical assistants to d the employment of painters musicians writers and actors they are nikolai sok f for music hall e flanagan for oloe the th theater e ater holger cahill for painters pa inters and sculptors and henry G Al seber sebern for writers r JJ o 0 |
