Show news review of current events the world over congressional quizzers stir dr townsend to wrath landon has big bunch of delegates guffey coal act declared invalid by EDWARD W PICKARD western newspaper union F FOR OR two to days dr francis G E town send replied mildly to the questions of the house committee investigating tl e activities of the organization be hind tl ti e old age pen slon sion movement which the d doctor 0 c t 0 r started tien it the he C californian k lost his patience sud denly refused to an awer any more non queries spoke of thick I 1 lead ead ed congre congressmen amen de bounced the commit tee for its unfriendly attitude and as aR dr F E the administration to townsend was as a 0 host ie le foice behind the inq inquiry airy lie ile declare I 1 I 1 ie e would form a third party after the Ao november vember elections finally doctor townsend toll the committee I 1 am retiring from this sort fort of inquisition ind I 1 do not pro pose to come hack back except under arrest and I 1 do refuse absolutely to niile mike iny f arther statement sta starett ent regarding this movement to tl ti is comm atee escorted by gerald cerald h I 1 sm it t torn forn er adherent herent id of huey I 1 on ong and anoil er man the califern Cali forn an alel ile aiom anish ington to baltimore cl 1 e com committee mittet decided to tl e house to cite him for contempt WI wien en he was questioned regard ng large sums contributed by Tonn townsend end club lub members the i ha h s clan said tl e contributors I 1 id faial in I 1 im and that we need mill ons to promote a move meat ment of this kind and we ne will get them ils H s testimony developed blat tl at doc tor townsend his bretler baroti er walter townsend ind and G amour young own the assets of tie Tou townsend send organization estimated sti mated now at about and that townsend club members ha have hae e no property right in them doctor townsend send testified he has re about 08 in salary d NI i i bends from the townsend keelly eel ly and expenses but now had bad only about and his wife about 00 to for their efforts OV AT IDON LANDON captured G GOV ly all the nev jersey delegates to the nation il convention defeating atin sen ator lorah about 4 to 1 la 1 the popular vote I 1 11 I 1 Is victory gan e the kansan hansan a total of I 1 i ote 01 e tl tian an votes to start with at cleveland and his manager hamilton claimed I 1 e would have at leist of the votes feces sary to nominate and would win on the second or third ballot the statement by herbert hoover taking himself out of consideration for the nomination Is generally judged to have helped landon with mr hoover out of the picture it will be d to hold bold california texas and other po tent lally ally hoover votes away from landon james A parley postmaster general and also democratic national chair man told the michigan democratic con bention he believed the republican presidential nominee will be the gov arnor of a typical prairie state and that his election if he won von would be a perilous experiment parley farley critt cited the man iran he did not name as dp tie void of experience in national affairs and predicted that if he Is the lican standard stin dard bearer even kansas will not be in the roosevelt doubtful column of the rail C constitutionality road retirement system was con tested before the district of columbia supreme court by attorneys represent ing the class 1 railroads and lesser railway enterprises the lawyers ar gued that the pension law and a tax law enacted at the same time are to gether substantially the same as the unconstitutional railroad retirement act of the two separate acts one provid ing pensions and the other taxing the income of railroads and employees were passed lait year after the su preme court ruled unconstitutional the 1934 1034 law in which a levy leny and a pension system were vere combined the government contended that the alleged relation bet between veen t e two acts could not be proved and that the rail roads were SUID suing in effect to enjoin collection of a tax such a suit the government contended was barred by federal law the government further defended its railroad retirement a vs tern tem as an exercise of its constitutional power to provide for the common de bense of action on the PI postponement I 1 atman robinson chain store bill until next session was urged on the house rules committee in a letter from six powerful erful farm organizations charging the bill would restrict op orations erat lons ions of farm co cooperatives operatives by preventing them from receiving wholesale discounts the letter warned arned also that alfiel t L isumir I 1 i 1 8 uld result fim en n ament 11 lie e measure al rea ay i i wd ed bv the sen bentte ite pre prevents ants price dinci ii i tl ns I 1 i i n arb to hl hi customers f I 1 he letter vas signed by bep sei set la ri taps of nf tie tl e acil n it laidy 1 air I 1 v fel fe 1 mill 1 i tle tl e 1 da n 1 aa j e I 1 i national cooperative co operative council the na lional co operative ope ratIN e milk producer Produce rb red aeration the failers grain association and tie U e northwestern farmers union committee S SECRET ATI OF will DERN allo cited nearly for river and harbor improvement projects throughout the country that had been recommended by the engineering corps of this sura sum n will III be used for entirely new vat waterway emay and port improvement while will vill be employed in m existing river ind I 1 arbol f fie lie lilies SIX members of the supreme court of the united states ruled that the guffey buffey act to coi cot arol tl e bituminous cral cal in austry Is invalid and another of the aei deal et ex perl ments goes int tl tie e disc r rl I 1 ills is the act ellch 1 I ach prest dei der t JS 11 urged c agress I 1 pass not withstand ng do abts of its const however I 1 oliever five rive justices b 1 th 11 erlind butler ain in devanter mcl ayi old olds and rocci ts boned jo ned in the majority sen guffey ion jon which invalidated the he whole 1 iole act justices cardo 0 brandeis andels Br a and nd stone joined in a dissenting opinion in which they upheld the act chief justice hughes held in a separate opinion that the act was nas constitutional with respect to the marketing marl eting provisions but unconstitutional with respect to the labor regulations the court in the majority opinion held that there is no authority in the constitution for the control of the coal industry attempted in the guffey act the act was not valid either under the commerce clause or the welfare clause benator senator guffey of pennsylvania au all thor of the act lost little time in in traducing a substitute n basure concen colleen brating on price fixing and omitt ng dg the labor provisions which were outlawed by the supreme court john L lewis 1 ead lead of the united mine aline forbers declared that organization would join in requesting congress to enact the bill at once he lie tl ought the measure would operate to maintain the equal barium of tt tl e coal industry pending further study of stab Ilza illation tion of the industry A plea to all coal operators to sup port tl e new bill was N as made by charles 0 neill leg cl airman of the na lional conference of B luminous coal producers some congressional leaders however thought it unlikely tl at the new guf fey bill could be passed at this session PI 1 11 LEHMAN announced suddenly in albany that he would not be a candidate for a third term as governor of new ew aorl saying I 1 feel the time it I 1 m e has s come when I 1 may ask re lease from it the he cares and responsibilities gitles of the governorship goNer but leaders of the demo cratic party including president roosevelt rational national chairman james A parley farley and senators wagner and copeland undertook to persuade mr lebman lehman gov lehman to o 0 run for reelection reelect lon stev all agreed that his retirement would be a loss to the state an ani I 1 the party and that he should be drafted the immediate political insult of the goer governors nors surprise action was that new ew lork again became a doubtful state for the pres dennial campaign in the minds of many politicians the morale of republican leaders in the state improved and democrats began speculating as to which of a group of he the or more candidates could be groomed for the gubernatorial nomina tion this fall it if lehman persisted in his determination GI I 1 rejoicing marked the in Gaug uial of dr aligi miguel mariano gomez as president of cuba the first elected by the people since gerardo mad ado the new executive a law lawyer er and re revolutionary leader who has twice been n nicor ii or of havana took tool the oath of office in the ball room of the dents in the presence of foreign and cuban officials the guns of cabanis fortress across the harbor fired a twenty one gi gin n salute and on the signal all public buildings were ere 11 lumina laminated ted and thousands of merry makers began par parading iding tl e streets president gomez appeared appe ired on a bal cony ind told the sl throngs thit th it he would do his best to maintain a constitution il govern lent by ae ye cu ou bans and for the benefit and interest of all cub ins in his h b st i ps pasie sie to con congress ress ie ahsu ed the nation thit pers onil tights lights NN id ld le 1 e xi i g I 1 s p li if les ifs I 1 e I 1 sip sea I 1 i ile tnie tole ce to II 11 lie I 1 ie s n q e ir i PL for ill r J I 1 I 1 n I 1 s q I 1 nt n v I 1 t I 1 t P Z iv ll 11 I 1 I 1 II 11 EITHER great britain nor france ahas NEITHER has any intention of paying the installments on the american war debt due june 15 and almost certain ly all the other debtor nations except finland will follow the example of the two big ones and again default brit ish foreign minister eden talked about the debts with leon blum who ably will be premier of prance france soon but there was no indication that either one was planning to make male a payment blum told the american club in paris he hoped the war debt misunderstand ing might be cleared up but he was just trying to be pleasant to the people of both america and france without spending any money of course the debtor nations would like to have the issue cleared up tor for as long as they are in default they are subject to the restrictions of the john son act which makes it unlawful tor for any person in the united states to pur chase or sell the bonds securities or other obligations of any foreign gov eminent or to make any loans to huch a government while that government Is in default in payment of its obliga eions to the united states ENITO MUSSOLINI advised prince B BENITO von Star hemberg of austria not to start any domestic trouble because he was ousted from the cabinet by chan bellor acl and when the prince returned to vienna the cabinet fixed things up neatly by decreeing that the country should have three fuehr ers the unofficial dictator becomes national leader of the fatherland front eduard baar von arenfeld Baren aren fels the new vice chancellor Is national commander of the front mil tull itla and Star hemberg continues as sports leader leider ind head of tl e norther r hood protective association ill flat at are especially hard up might consider the method said to be employed emp loed by humania A bu charest newspaper neus paper asserts iss erts that govern ment employ ees hav han e been paid largely in counterfeit money vast quantities ol 01 bogus lei pieces having haning been issued in sealed bags by the ministry of finance I 1 hat ministry then announced tl at the counterfeit coins would not be re deemed and that persons who passed them would be prosecuted HE resettlement administration theader THE headed by rexford guy ingwell was declared by the district of co lumbia court of appeals to be clear ly unconstitutional delegation of pow ei in a case involving a model corn project in somerset county new jersey going beyond the be issue before them the justices of the appeals court called the entire relief appropriations act of 1935 into question the act was invalid and an hence BA RA was invalid ac cording to the court legally however none of the rest of the act will be affected by the decision because the other multitudinous activities of the new deal under the appropriation were vere not before the court der DR R ANTON alleged lead er of the croatian ter forist organization and accused as one odthe masterminds in the assassination of king alexander of in mar jeilles has been set free by the italian authorities released with him was his lieu r tenant eugene avater nik the two were terear ar rested at turin in october 1934 soon after the murder of alexan alexin f der but the french au all thorl les ties who were dr pavel 0 working on the case were never permit ted to question them and an italian tribunal refused the request of the french government for their extrait tion to france for trial J OSH LOTS LUIS TEJADA SORZANO was forced to resign the presidency of bolivia by a junta of army officers and socialists who staged a d bloodless coup betat in la paz col german busch acting chief of the general army staff leader of the coup i will ill be at the head of the government until col david toro hero of the war with I 1 paraguay ar aguay returns from the chaco when loro will be installed as president enlarging NEWS that japan was greatly en barging her force in north ch na led the state department in washing ton to announce that the position of the united states Is the same aa as that outlined last december by secretary hull affirming its support of the nine power powe r pact that guarantees china s ter rit orial integrity at that time mr hull said his country has a binding faith in the fundamental principles of its traditional policy this government adheres to the provisions of the treaties to which it Is a party and continues to bespeak respect by all na eions for the provisions of treaties sol emaly entered into for the purpose of facilitating and regulating to necip bocal and common advantage at the he state department it was said that the reaffirmation of support of the nine power pact does not mean that the administration will abandon its pol icy ley of declining to take the initiative in any aliv attempt to curb japan for vio lations of the pact this waa was at tempted by henry 1 L stimson secretary of state in the looker adminis with the gain of nothing but japanese III will I 1 S S P A III I 1 AM ANO roosavelt ml aed mother of the I 1 resident fell fl alile ile on i alit in new jork some d u i agu go and Is laid lp 13 at hyde I 1 lark ark tl d an li it hip and crichet ne sl 14 P I 1 i a i ie le I 1 of the injuries I 1 mr nir I 1 sevelt seit as grave gravey con f I 1 he ile sent ent the week weekend end alu 1 1 r i U jr 4 |