| Show news review of current events the world over congressmen hurrying ta with tax and relief programs r black blacks a committee wins a decision distracting distraction 12 rivalries in european diplomacy by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union settled down to earnest C CONGRESS work that would clear the way for early adjournment the two tw ochief calef matters under consideration being taxes and relief democratic members of the house ways and means committee worked in executive session to draw up the new revenue measure which they expect will yield about in additional taxes during the next nest year the minority members etayl stayed IJ scornfully y ns as hany L away berting their presence hopkins honan was useless because the preparation of the measure was utterly partisan representative A P r lamneck of ohio democrat was insistent on his plan to raise by a hat flat 20 to 22 per cent tax on corporation income to produce more and bring his plan nearly vp tp to the money requirement outlined by president roosevelt lamneck would repeal the present exemption of corporation dividends from the normal income tax rate on that he was in agreement with the committee program harry L hopkins head bead of the appeared before a subcommittee of the house appropriations committee also in executive session to urge compliance with president Roosevel ts request for an additional billion and a half to finance relief in the 1937 fiscal year various committee members at once demanded that mr hopkins tell what had been done with the granted last year ne ile was said cald to have promised to do his best to satisfy them but chairman J P Eu buchanan chanan warned the minority members that this Is not to be made into an investigation RESIDENT ROOSEVELT happy P PRESIDENT and well tanned wound up his fishing cruise in the bahamas and returned to washington ile he landed at fort lauderdale and boarded ills his special train at once being accompanied for a time by governor of florida and james A moffett aho vho ft ho ma may y be appointed assistant secretary of the navy to succeed the late henry roosevelt governor mcnutt of indiana possible keynoter of the democratic convention went up from miami to greet the president on the way to washington mr roosevelt stopped for half a day at warm springs ga to look at ills his farm and take a swim in the resort pool passing through part of the region devastated by the recent tornadoes he received reports from eyewitnesses along the route SENATOR CLACKS BLACKS lobby committee won a considerable victory in the district of columbia supreme court when chief justice wheat refused to enjoin the committee from using the tele grants grams from and to william wilham 1 it hearst which had been seized the jud judge held that the court had no juristic juris dic dle tion over the committee and said he could not see that the freedom of the press was in any way involved said ills his honor bonor 1 I have not been in senator black formed yet of any case in which any court has assumed to dictate to a committee of the senite senate sen ite what it should do and what it should not do and I 1 do not feel that I 1 have any right to inaugurate any such principle as that ellsha elisha hanson IIan soD counsel for air hearst announced that he would appeal from the decision and it was certain that the case would ultimately be talen before the united states supreme court continuing its investigation the black committee heard the testimony of fred G dark clark of new york national commander of the crusaders Ciu mr clark denied that the organization had ever engaged in lob lobbying bIng and de elated that it had bad assailed the methods of lobbyists hobbyists in a national radio broadcast senator black endeavored to show that the crusaders the american alb liberty league the sentinels of the republic the southern committee to uphold the constitution the american taxpayers league the national economy league and similar opposed to the new deal were supported largely by the same small group of wealthy industrialists one of ills his investigators put in a list of contributors to two or wore more of the groups named mr clark obtained permission to include in the record a list of hundreds of small contributors who sent in sums ranging from 1 up in response to the radio program M african adventure and hillers Hit lers rhineland doings and future intentions tangled together have created a situation that seemed to imperil the formal friendship between great britain and france the british were insisting that italy be b curbed that hw her use of pol son gas in ethiopia be taken up by the league of nations and that peace negotiations between italy and ethiopia be opened quickly to forestall any attempt by premier Musso mussolini lint to sign a settlement which might rise from ruins of halle Selas les sies ethiopian empire foreign secretary eden indicated the british were determined to make peace progress before we leave geneva britain reserving its decision as to what to do next nest it if this conciliation effort failed the conciliation committee of the league was making little or no progress and in rome mussolini told his cabinet that ethiopians armies should and would be totally annihilated ills his own forces meanwhile were moving rapidly toward dessye and addis ababa france was reverting to her former policy of letting italy go ahead with its african conquest devoting her attention mainly to germany and central europe the british continued to treat all that in a conciliatory way which disgusted the french premier sarraut sarratt handed in his governments reply to the hitler settlement proposals submitting in return its own plan this demanded that germany keep hands oft off the rest of europe for 23 25 years renouncing her apparent intentions of action against austria danzig and memel and claims for colonies it submitted a french peace plan based on collective security with regional mutual assistance pacts backed by an international army directed by a commission working through the league FEDERAL E DERAL money totaling will be spent in the the next four years on low cost rent and slum clearance construction projects provided the administrations h housing 0 u s I 1 n g bill introduced by senator senator robert F wagner of new york Is passed by congress mr air wagner hopes it will be put through during the present session the measure Is a compromise corn promise of the many proposals made by the various relief sen wagner and housing agencies of the new deal and was drafted after a series of conferences with president roosevelt it would create another bureau with five directors including the secretary of the later interior lor in ills his ex es odilio capacity re ceiling salaries the file authority would be empowered to make grants not dot to exceed 45 per cent of the total cost and loans for the remainder to any public housing agency for the acquisition of land and the construction of low rent housing projects the loans loana would be repayable reparable over a period not to exceed GO years nt at such rates rate of interest as the authority decreed F FLYING LYING through a fog on its way to pittsburgh a transcontinental and western air liner went far out of its course plowed through the forest seven miles southeast of union city pa and smashed into a granite wall on chestnut nine passengers and the two pilots we were re killed the stewardess miss nellie gran granger ger managed to ding one man and the sole woman passenger front from the flaming n im wreckage bound up their wounds ran four miles to a farmhouse front from willett which she he telephoned to pittsburgh the news of the disaster and then returned to the scene to care for the survivors until a rescue party could arrie arrhe the pilots were flying on a radio beam and it was believed their radio apparatus failed at this writing there is no other explanation S new in spanish history took place in madrid adrId the parliament by a vote of to 5 ousted niceto leeto alcala zamora from the lie onice of president of the le ie public this action accomplished by a coalition of socialists communists left republicans and ten minor groups was taken on a motion that the dent had acted illegally in dissolving the last parliament before the elections and that therefore he should be expelled from office back of this motion however lay radical sentiment that zamura zamora in using his power according to personal whim has hampered lam the progress of the ie publican revolution diego martinez Martl nez barrio speaker of parliament was made temporary president to serve until elections are held R RUSSIA has rejected chinas cainas pro test against the soviet sovie outer mongolian mutual assistance pact but asserted the treaty does not signify any territorial claim by the soviet union over china or outer mongolia the russians believe that japan plans to set up puppet states in north china and inner mongolia and then to seize outer mongolia the government gave out details of a bloody battle between and outer mongolians Mongo lians la in which the latter were repulsed losing six ilni planes and some tanks NORRIS bill creating a S SENATOR mississippi valley authority to apply the TVA experiment to 22 states Is not approved by the national grange which illch thinks it would be absurd to bring bring new land into cult cultivation kation by irrl gatlon while farmers are being paid bald for letting their land ile he fallow fred il brenckman legislative representative of the grange appeared before a senate agriculture subcommittee and said the organization also objected to the proposal to construct huge dams throughout the mississippi valley for the production of hydroelectric hydro electric power ile he favored a scientific program of soli oil conservation but insisted upon a distinction between conservation and reclamation he also advocated a scientific flood control program but distinguished between hood flood control and hydroelectric hydro electric power development like previous witnesses including electrical engineers and morris L cooke the new deals rural electrify electrification administrator mr brenckman informed the committee that flood control can be accomplished only by constructing ting little dams far up in the headwaters FIVE fers IVE hundred members of the workers alliance in convention in washington marched to the white house to demand continuation of the works progress administration but neither president roosevelt nor any or of his secretaries was there to receive their petition the men were orderly and the pollee police did not molest them administrator hopkins II also was absent from his office but ills his assistant aubrey williams received the file delegat delegation IOD david lasser national chairman of 0 the organization told williams the group grou p had been promised food and shelter during their stay in washington and transportation to their hom homes es williams sald said that under a regulation promulgated february 2 no federal funds could be donated for conventions vent ions of the unemployed unless congress made a specific appropriation for that purpose UP to the insistence of 0 senator fvandenberg DUE DV andenberg tor for publicity on large AAA benefit payments secretary wallace has begun telling about them ile he made a partial report withholding the names of recipients with three exceptions this revealed that the largest cotton rental benefit payment for 1934 went to a mississippi company headed by oscar johnston an AAA official among the largest cotton payment recipients in 1933 were the mississippi state penitentiary tent iary lary which received for controlling production on its cotton acreage and to the arkansas state prison itself into a court the RESOLVING senate began the impeachment trial of federal judge halsted L pitter of florida the twelfth such case in years it was believed the trial would t last at least one week the defendant was represented by carl T hoffman of miami em and frank II 11 walsh of washington and new york tork the prosecution was in charge of 0 t representatives summers of texas alabama J judge dge ritter and perkins p of new jersey who presented the char charges es or originally anally approximately GU CU witnesses were summoned for the trial but 29 were excused because of withdrawal by the prosecution of two specifications in article seven charging judge miter kilter acted improperly in electric rate and banking proceedings judge ritter hitter Is charged in seven impeachment articles voted by the house with allowing A L rankin a former law partner exorbitant receivership fees with fill corruptly receiving 4 1500 MO from rankin with violating the judicial code in practicing law while on the bench beach and with evasion of oc taxes on part of his bis 1929 and incomes in a word reply ritter denied all of the charges lie ile asserted none of the actions cited had brought ills his court into scandal and disrepute or destroyed public confidence in the administration of justice in that court tore across mississippi T TORNADOES alabama Alabam fl georgia arkansas and tennessee lealnd death and destruction dost st in their wake about persons were killed and hundreds ot of others injured and the lie property losses ran up into the millions lions the little city of miss suffered the most with neatly neaily on the death list and more than a hundred homes smashed into kindling wood A few hours later another tornado struck gainesville ga and in three minutes had nearly dearly ruined the business section of the town own and killed wore more than persons in lires fires that followed the storm the lie bodies or of many victims were burned beyond reco recognition til the mining communities near columbia term tenn to the north and cast ot of tupelo counted seven dead red bay eastward to in alabama lost live lives live to the merciless wind nearby near by miss had four killed and ark suffered one death rn N A decision concerning a specific I 1 i action of the securities exchange commission the united states supreme court ruled against the SEC and in its it uttered a significant ant int warning against the exercise of arbitrary power by governmental agencies especially censured were the fishing excursions often undertaken by commissions and COD congressional gressional corn coal mit tees |
