Show news review 0 of current events the world 0 over ver test vote in house encourages cs wets tuo FaI famous lIOUS men alen take their own lives sales tax meets strong opposition by EDWARD V W PICKARD UT lenders leaders in confess con ress great ly encouraged by the tle test vole vote in the house have started a vigor ous campaign to compel the major parties to place in their platforms plinks declaring for resubmission of the tile prohibition question to the people the motion before the house was to dis charge the judiciary committee froni from ju over the deck beck linthicum Linth leum res alution for or ment of the eight J M beck seek tenth has been defeated in the committee by a vote 0 ll 14 11 l l to 0 the the test vote was forced under fhe the liberalized rules by petitioners petition ers on the call of the roll 21 mem bers voted against the motion tor for it and land there were ere 18 19 not voting following the custom speak cr or garner did not vote the strength shown by the wets m was us greater grenter even than many of them had expected end and they were correspond ir it gly aubi lant their cause caute had gained to votes since the house voted debem her ber 17 1917 to subnet the eight tenth amendment beck and linthacum co authors coauthors of the resolution decin red the tile fight was all but won and that all that vias vi as needed was one more elect electon itri mr beek said this vote makes it plain thit if the republican pirty adopts a dry platform in june it will court dilister di sister 11 tie lie predicted it would not be necessity to wait for the tile meeting of the nest next con gross for action to modify the dry law believing tint thit this congress at the session nest next winter as a direct result of the No november ember election will nill submit the anti prohibition amendment leaito leao rs of the drys for their part though ad admitting mittin wet g gilis glins lins declared they were undismayed citing rt to the fact that the wets were still far from having the sir two thirds both sides in the republican party am hae e been hoping that aresi rest dent hoover would declare himself but there was nothing to indicate that he would debirt from his neu tralley in the pre convention con test A close associate of the pros ident was quoted ns is saving mr hoover had not chang changed pil his ills belief that the country Is still preponderantly dry Represent representative athe fred britten of illinois introduced in the house a bill for repeal of the jones I 1 five and ten law which stiffens the pen allies for violation cf of the act TWO WO of the worlds world s famous men decided that life was uns no longer worth living and so committed sul cide george eastman internal tio nally known as the developer of the cimera and 0 o the film and also as one of the coun 14 try arys greatest pall to pat put a bullet through bis his heart at his home in rochester N Y because he was wae in ill health and as his fareA farewell ell note ceo geo eastman eald said my work Is done why wait mr eastman who founded the eastman kodak company and was of its liui ina billue Q a va il but had given away laway all but about his ills philanthropies es timatea at were scattered over the world the recipients including universities and schools and dental clinics in many cities s in this and other countries he ile was seventy seven I 1 bears ears old a bachelor and a lover of music and art mr many friends mourned bis death but none was found to criticise criticism critic ise hb decision that it was time for him to go ivar kreuger head of the great swedish match and one of the worlds most noted industrialists w waa 8 the other noti bie suicide his numerous inter ests est bad been ham on the ex changes of r europe drope and his losses were supposed to have been heavy though his remaining fortune A was very large lie e had just taw failed ivar kreuger ufler to obtain a loin in new I 1 lork ork where he lie had aiwas been able to obtain vast ast sums for the asking so he billed to paris and there ended his life with a rev revolver olier like rist fistman man kreuger was unmarried his ills death created a sensation in financial circles especially in furore and the shares in his companies declined sharply ply the 4 ja swedish government obtained from parliament in special session per mission to declare a moratorium on the debts of those concerns to pr arc 0 a raid by creditors and the stockholm excean exchange e was closed for a time on tho tile billion collir D bill continued in the house throughout the week and the of the tile bales sales tax sou bt to forra form into a bloc their determined fight igni this big feature of the mea ure at least resulted in chaipos chan pos for the ways sail and melvis commIt committie tte agreed to accept an emen amendment dment omitting ting tain fain canned goods and press telegrams from the tile list of articles upon which a per cent sales tax Is proposed the committee also was considering amendments exempting cheap clothing electricity used for irrigation projects and radio corn com piny wires prospects for adoption of the sales tax were nere lessened in mid neck u when hen lenders of organized labor and of the farmers came out in tion to it lellam green dent of the american rede federation ration of labor declared labor vill call on its friends in congress con grets to defeat that section of the taxation meas ure and of the be national grange said imposition of the sales tax would meet the tile un qualified disapproval of the OW people upon the farms of tills this country should the bill as it stands get through the tile house its sales tax feature nil face strong opposition in the senate A group of senators Is reidy to furlic it and alie incle including ling the he men who are classed as progressive republicans some of the diore democrats want nant a bill providing for se selective leethe sales and possibly for surtaxes on incomes about the house surtax Is 40 per cent from up adgers of the Po republican publican M party are busy maun the ar range ments for the nati nationiel onil conven tion in chicago and many of them in their informal talk in washington felt certain that hoover and curtis would be the nom anees on a liberal s i iced platform which i would sarve to ton ion dilate ciliate the wets 1 without outraging the drys the mem bers of the national al committee char charged pil with selecting the 3 8 H sell snell presiding officers of the co convention mention at first thought it would be well to have charles G 0 danes for temporary chairman and keynoter kei ke 11 hut but it was said he was unwilling illing to accept the honor bor tor permanent cha chairmen irmin it was virtu ally agreed that bertrand 11 snell congressman from new york would be pe the best man available ue he Is one of the strong men and a skilled menta rl L how ever both posts were left unfilled the final choices to be made at a meeting in chicago on april 0 9 the arrangements committee decided of ded that four radio broadcasting booths should be put in the chicago stadium it also named dr A 1 11 1 harvey of chicago chief of the staff of physicians and nurses and george L hart as official clat democratic managers ilso aso are slowly completing the details for their convention but have made no announcements in general they will take tale over the stadium as ile le republicans leave it RUMORS rumors and more ro ru mors all proving false clews loading nowhere theories swiftly exploded investigations and negotiations tiati ons that have no result such has been the course of the lindbergh baby case up to the time this Is written toward the close of the week the authorities were in quiring into a story told by charles oliver a prisoner on welfare island new fork york to the effect that the plot to steal the child was hatched in a jail being prop proposed oed to him by william gleason of cliffside N J the latter was taken into custody and denied everything everi ever thing oliver said an ingenious theory originated in philadelphia that henchmen of al at capone stole the baby for use as a leer leier to pry that gang leader out of jail PAUL P AUL va hindenburg main tanned his ills place as idol of the german people in pence time as well as in war in the file presidential election he soundly beat his chief rival adolf hitler leader of the nazis or fascist but the aged pre president adent failed by one half of I 1 per cent to get a majority of the total votes otes cast so there must be a run off election on april 10 at that time it I 1 Is s admitted by nearly ee enrione rione he will triumph As against nearly for iva hindenburg there were about for hitler L arnest Tha elmann COmm unlit polled al most OOOO duesterberg nationalist tion alist got zot and IN inter independent 11 or odd vote nas as so far ahead of the nazi vote in the ril chatag election elections of 1030 1930 that he decided to remain ID to the cont contel ert toward the close of the week the prussian government claimed it had discovered plans for a civil war and therefore raided nazi head quarters throughout the state IN D ROOSEVELT and roy r gov IV if 11 hurray murray of oklahoma ere the contenders in the democratic primaries of north dakota the returns from the rural districts were elow slow in coming in but on the basis of partial returns it appears certain that the states delegation would be instructed for the new lork governor llou however eier alfalfa bill had captivated the imagination of many of the farmers and BBS making a fair contest on the republican cide side those seeking the preference of the voters were dr joseph I 1 france of maryland und and jacob S cozey coxey of ohio france was uns nell in the lead load mr air hoovers name hid not been entered but he received some votes mississippi elected a new con gressman to fill the term of the late percy I 1 II 11 I 1 quin fie Is 4 lins sell hilzey democrat superintend ent of a college at wesson nand between japan i and china for the withdrawal of japanese troops from the file shang hal brei were nere reported to open after conversations engineered by the representatives of the united states and great britain it was understood the japanese forces should be withdrawn gradually gri dually and that the chinese Clil nese should not enter the evacuated territory until final agreement v nas as reached the opera tion will be supervised by a commission nith neutral members under this agreement china chinn aban dons the point that manchuria churin must be considered simultaneously with the blia ighel problem and cipan ab abandons andors the point that the status of shanghai must be fixed prior to her withdrawal meanwhile the lytton commission sent to Shing hal by the tile I 1 cague eague of nations with maj gen frank representing the united states began anvel l eating gating the doings of the japanese in and about shang hal W F r drown brown in a memorandum submitted to the special econ economy oiny committee of the house of re presenta lives thes pointed out dinv ways in which the cost of the postal ico lee can be reduced but said sold all of them require legislation he ile admitted that tho postal ice lee Is for the handling of tha tbs present reduced volume of bu buness iness due to the tile depression lie ile sig suggested that economics could be achieved by reducing the force re pay consolidating rural free delivery delhery routes and providing gov eminent buildings tor for post office stations banch post offices and garages which under the law are now leased such economics ro to wever said mr brown would not balance the post office department budget which can be effected only by postal rates also mr brown submitted for careful consideration the proposal of senator W 11 king that rural free delivery routes be let to the lowest bidders althou although gt the postmaster general recorded himself as opposed to such change because it would be likely to result in a substantial impairment of the general excellent service which Is now rendered to rural patrons A until april 11 A was taken by the international rt cencia co respondents there relate an in ten tort sting incident during the discus slots in the naval com vice admiral D P R pound of great britain naively proposed that they k eliminate from the drat draft convention of the an article in the wah ington treaty pro viding that a nation gen sen swanson engaged in w a r shall not seize a war vessel of another country being constructed in its own yards lie ile said it was not logical to expect a country at a moment when it Is straining to the nt at most not to lay its hands bands on all available material but our own senator Si Su vanson arison was on the alert at once declaring this would not do at all ships con strutted ted in time of peace for an other power should not possibly be consid considered tred mal available lable to the build era la in time of war be said other wise there would never bo be a chime chine for the goern governments ments to agree on their relative e strengths mr swanson exclaimed other delegates supported sena tor for Su ansons argument and nd later the lie british admiral smilingly smiling gly hill mated that his proposition had been misunderstood and withdrew it it a 1932 wei wet tern NOW union |