| Show news review of current events the world over illinois primary results interesting r and significant 0 new tax bill dra drafted eted president dent roosevelt favors flood control projects by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union ILLINOIS primary held the center of political interest for it not dot ony only provided lively state battles but also was wag of considerable moment nationally col frank knox publisher of the chicago dally daily news nod and senator borah of 0 id idaho aho r who was born in illinois 4 rl were the contestants for the republican presidential preferential erent ial lal vote rind and the former came out with 31 delegates against 20 for corah borah the senj liters friends were prank frank knox elated because without organization lie carried a in large rge part of the state outside of chicago go this preferential vote Is purely advisory and neither man has a slate of delegates to the national convention the result makes it certain that knox will make a respectable showing shoving on the first roll call it also adds to boraas prestige and aids him in the coming ohio primary gov henry corner seeking In atlon was victorious in the bitter fight with the regular r deboer democratic abic organization and the kelly nash machine in chicago which had thrown him overboard and supported bundesen for governor the democrats almost unanimously voted tor for the of senator james camil ton lewis and the republicans named former senator otis glenn to oppose him in november republican leaders in washington were encouraged to believe the internecine terne cine warfare in the democratic rants ranks would help the republicans I 1 cans to carry the state the democratic sages on the other hand liked the showing of strength made by borah feeling his liberal following might switch to roosevelt in november it the G 0 P puts up a conservative candidate in Ne braskas primary only corass name was printed on the republican preferential ballot but about one sixth of the voters wrote in the name of gov alt alf landon of kansas for the democratic preference president roosevelt was unopposed in both illinois and nebraska opposition by president DEFEATING D Roosevel ts supporters the state democratic executive committee of 0 georgia ordered a presidential primary on june 3 and fixed the entrance tee fee for or each candidate at the 3 new deal has plenty of money to pay for a primary in georgia and I 1 am in favor of letting them do it 1 said will mann close personal anil political friend of gov eugene talmadge administration critic the governor was asked directly whether he be would oppose president roosevelt in the primary 1 I dont know he answered 1 I am pretty busy with nith state affairs affair s ra right lit now it depends on how things shape up in the state discarded the presidents HAVING suggestion of temporary processing taxes chairman sam B hills house subcommittee completed its draft ot of the new dew tax bill I 1 it calls tor for a new type of corporation levy ran ranging ing from I 1 I 1 per cent to per cent for corporations with net income up to and from 4 to 42 per cent tor for cor lons with net in come over depending on the amount i L of earnings that are sam B hill 1 not distributed aref prential erent lal ial tax treatment Is glien glen to banks and insurance companies to t j debt ridden companies to companies in I 1 receivership and a lle new system of tax b ing nonresident non resident miens aliens Is created I 1 railroads will continue to have the I 1 right to lie file consolidated returns but f the committee refused to accept the file fr petition of R V fletcher general j counsel for the association of amerl acan can railroads that railroads as a 6 r segregated group of industry be given a variety of special deductions in com coin J buting taxable net income K appropriate ceremony the I 1 f VV cornerstone of the new interior I 1 department building in washington was laid the president handling the trowel the structure the second larga est cst government office building there Is to be completed in december it covers five and one half acres and will provide square feet of usable floor apace it will cost about less than the capitals larg v est tile the Com commerce mere department building th the e t trowel rowel used by ur mr roosevelt 48 was the one employed by george wash ington in laying the cornerstone of the a capitol 1 arltol in 1793 sr 1 I 1 TN N HIS press conference president ii I 1 said government depart ments are concentrating on flood con 11 arol problems and that it congress 0 would pass a bill appropriating a kill f lion hon dollars for that purpose he would 40 sign it provided tile hie measure put men ben A to work immediately mr air roosevelt said the project in maine avalne and florida ship canal were eliminated because of the recent refusal of congress to make appropriations tor for continuance of the work ile he said he did not contemplate doling out relief funds for the projects and that there would be no DO funds for the projects unless congress reversed its refusal on the same day the united states chamber of commerce issued a warning against encroachment of the federal era government on hood flood control projects which are the primary responsibility of the states the committee also objected to the new deal policy of expending large sums for dams to develop hydro elec power and declared that the administration should follow a well bal alced pro program gram having as its foremost purpose the control of floods BY Br Y A vote of to the house rejected ejected a resolution to permit senator clacks blacks lobby committee to pay jay to special counsel in injunction litigation started by william randolph hearst to protect his telegrams from the pr proberb this action which followed a bitter debate le bate halt the work of the committee which has its own funds but it prevents the payment of more than a year in accordance with general law to crampton harris of birmingham ala former law partner of chairman black the lobby committee in a recent session brought out the fact that some wealthy men who are backers of the american liberty league also have contributed tri buted to the southern committee to uphold the constitution though what this hrs his to do with lobbying was not quite clear the southern committee which is headed beaded by john henry kirb karby Y of houston texas is opposed to some of tile the new deal doings UDDEN death due to a coronary S SUDDEN thrombosis came to james al beck at his residence in washington and all informed americans mourn the demise of this public spirited citizen and eminent 4 authority on constitutional law though he be f was a sturdy and con ious opponent of the present national administration lead ing officials in wash ington united nith the republicans in declaring in that in his death the nation had bad sustained J W M beck a great loss mr air beck was not only one of the foremost foie most lawyers of america but for more than three decades was a public man of distinction holding numerous ollices at washington washing ton and an influential place in the counsels of the republican party born in philadelphia in he be first held office as united states attorney for the eastern district of pennsylvania as a democrat lie he left that party on the silver issue and was made an assistant attorney general ral by president mckinley in 1921 mr IlardI harddng Dg appointed him solicitor general an ottice which he be filled with distinction ile he then served three terms in congress where be was one of the best debaters and retired in 1934 richard yates former governor of illinois and former congressman died in spring springfield field at the age of seventy five years the son of the civil war governor of the state mr yates tales was for many years it a picturesque figure in illinois politics and an 1112 influential member of the lie republican party MU armies in ethiopia occupied dessye an important military base and captured vast stores of war materials Alar marshal baroglio badoglio Ba doglio at once started an expeditionary force along the excellent road from there to addis ababa and it was beli bel eed leed the capital city would be captured within a few days stiffened by military successes in africa the italian delegation w went C at to geneva for peace conversations prepared to demand a peace on italis including virtual italian control of tile the e entire tf re empire of ualle haile selassie settlement of the matter within the framework of the league of nations seemed remote if not impossible P PLANS LANS for mutual defense in case Gerni germany any attacks france or belgium were studied by the general starts staffs ot of great britain france and belgium at ft a meeting in london high iilah officers of the armies and air forces were present with exports to assist them it was understood that a major feature of the plan would be to reply to any german attack with a terrific aerial bombardment by massed fleets on german industrial centers railways army headquarters airdromes aird romes and seaports it was clear that the relatively small british professional army could not gle give a great deal of help against germar german aggression and that britaina Brit ains effective aid would woul d be tendered rendered by her navy which could easily seize control of the north sea and the channel and her steadily increasing air forces EF ORE the senate subcommittee on BEFORE labor appeared spokesmen for organized labor with charges that there Is a great movement of machine guns tear gas and police clubs into industrial centers for use in contending with strikes and attendant disorders the first witness to tell the story of the tha arming arman of industrial plants for conflicts with with labor was J P harris a steel worker from portsmouth ohio in support of his assertions came a mass of data compiled by the senate munitions investigating committee and presented at the hearing by heber blankenhorn an employee of the national labor relations board at one point harris tes testified tided that he knew the wheeling steel corporation at portsmouth was arming a statement that brought from corporation officials at portsmouth an assertion that company pollee police were armed to protect property against thieves and Bre brebugh bugs and they will continue to be armed at another point in the hearing there was testimony that general rumors o were being circulated that the ford motor kempany was shot through with spies hired to report on the activities tivi tIvIt ties les of labor six hundred men and women aen ABOUT members of the recently organized unemployed workers alliance staged a big parade of hunger march ers in washington shouting demands t f I 1 singing and waving banners they sought to present a petition to president roosevelt in the white house out but the best they could do was to 0 obtain b t a I 1 n an audience from secretary marvin 4 mcintyre for or a delegation headed beaded by vice pres pg david lasser garner dent of the g alliance adlla e lasser declared decIn red after spending n SO minutes with the presidents secretary ar mr gave us a lot of nice words but nothing substantial it if nothing Is done to give these people jobs there will be a hunger march on washington next nest summer in which hundreds of thousands will take part we are tired of mr air Roosevel ts promissory notes F lasser and his delegation also called on vice president garner at the capitol and got even less satisfaction from him the jobless feel that we have been sold out by the democratic party lasser declared 1 l resent that snapped the vice president reddening 1 I have been in politics tor for 40 years and I 1 dont think anybody has ever been sold out by the party agen FOLLOWING a conference with maj gen johnson bagood fla good who was removed from command ot of the eighth corps area for criticizing methods president roosevelt took the soldier back into his good graces and appointed him to the command of the sixth corps area with headquarters in chicago lie ile will replace maj siaa gen frank mccoy and the assignment takes effect may 2 general mccoy Is tra transferred ns to the second corps area at N new ew york to succeed maj gen dennis E nolan who is retiring ELIAS CALLES former PLUTARCO president of mexico and for long the most powerful figure in that republic was forcibly exiled to the united states together with three other once one e prominent citizens by the mexican government which declared their presence there was dangerous to the we welfare of the country summarily ousted with calles who tor for 11 years ruled mexico with an iron hand were viere lula luis morones former minister of labor and leader of the regional confederation of workers and peasants luis de leon former minister of the interior and agriculture and 11 rafael a melchor ortega former governor of guanajuato the four men were by order of president cardenas placed aboard a plane at mexico city and taken across t the h e border to brownsville Browns ville texas from there they took another plane to california leftists charged that calles and his associates were fomenting agitation against the cardenas administration this calles denied adding A state of anarchy exists in mexico and communism is spreading with government help IS new in spanish history u took place in madrid the parliament by a vote of to 6 5 ousted niceto alcala zamora from the office of president of the republic this action accomplished by a coalition of socialists communists left republicans and ten minor groups was taken on a socialist motion that the president had acted illegally in dissolving the last parliament before the elections and that therefore be should be ex er belled from office back of this motion however lay radical sentiment that zamora in using his power according to personal whim has hampered the progress of the republican revolution diego martinez Martl nez barrio speaker of parliament was made temporary president to serve until elections are held IN THEIR formal acceptances of the invitations of the united states government to the forthcoming anler amer lean pence peace conference three of the latin american nations have proposed that a league of american nations be formed to preserve peace in the western hemisphere the suggestion comes from presidents alfonso lopez of colombia jorge of guatemala and rafael trujillo of the dominican dominica n re public |
