Show news review of current events the world over bonus loan measure despite con congress fesq veterans hoover and mellon chairman le lagge 00 6 to leave the Farm board by EDWARD W t h t fc FOLLOWING lead of at speaker longworth nearly nil all the rtuh lican members of the house of tives lives deserted the rd ad mf ministration ration and voted with the peril orrall for the passa re of the hill bill increasing maximum loans tin on bonus certificates held speaker by world war teter p longworth lons worth ans from per cent to 50 per cent of their face value the repudiation of the strongly Etron gly held views of president hoover und mid secretary of tie the treasury Tris nry mellon was decisive the ote note being to TO the opposition votes voles all cast by re lie publicans public ans Long longworthy lis activity in behalf of if the measure ans as exerted in bringing about an agreement in the ways and means committee As soon as the jill III was handed up to tile the senate its prop proponents in that body took stops steps to hold up nearly till all other legislation in order to ret get it through before friday night they were determined that it should not lie fie killed by a pocket veto Iii cb would be possible lile if speedy action aare pre nut not obtained smoot reed iteen and other ad ministration senators sought deany in the hope of finding a compromise that would make tile the measure accey t able to the alie president but in vain the bill was passed by the senate by a vote of 72 to 12 all the nays being republicans administration leaders in both houses admitted that there no hope that a veto by the president could be sustained secretary mellons melons ons arguments against tile the bill and the figures he gave as to its cost to tile the government were vigor vigorously disputed by many representatives and senators in the last year andy has lost much of his bis prestige as a financial prophet the house followed up its passage of the bonus loan bill by passing with out roll roil calls a hill bill authorizing the expenditure of 12 for construction st of veterans hospitals and a bill authorizing the expenditure of 9 for additional facilities at national adilon al soldiers homes the dusil tal bill Is designed to furnish about additional beds the house veterans committee re ported favorably a bill tor for pensions tor for widows and children of deceased world war veterans the hill is estimated to cost the first year and over a period of the file years the 11 leiis sought to prevent action on this legis lotion lation at the presen session ENACTMENT E r by congress of the in perlor department appropriation bill carrying tile drought drou glit relief loan and its official oll iclal approval by the president removed most of the danger of a special session despite the controversy over the veterans bonus loan the passage of the coin compromise relief measure was scored as a victory tor for mr hoover and his policy of opposition to any federal up ap that could be interpreted as a dole in the senate the vote on the bill was 67 to 15 and in the houe hoube a formal vote was not even taken on the conference report ENATE and house conferees agreed SENATE S on a compromise resolution which provides for government production transmission and sale gale of power at the muscle shoals plant as in the original norris resolution that measure Is changed only in the part concerning the nitrate plant by the corn com promise resolution the president Is given one year to negotiate a lease of the nitrate plant to a private corporation por horation po ration atlon failing which the government is to begin operation of the plant unless president hoover abandons his former stand he be will veto the bill OON after march S SOON 4 next alexander legge I egge chairman of the federal farm board will retire troia from that body and hand over his multitudinous troubles to 0 another it Is be believed lieve in washington that mow his successor will he be james C stone nw now t vice chairman of the james C board and formerly stone an assistant secretary of commerce mr air stone represents especially the tobacco interests mr legg egg will resume the presidency ot of the in ter national harvester company when he resigned that office in ID july 1929 to head bead the farm board at the urgent request of president hoover he be said he could not absent himself from the company tor for more than one year however the exigencies of the farm hoard board work have prevented his leaving it before this at least three other cither members of the board may drop out before lung it Is ander understood stood they are C C Q teague fruit and vegetables samuel II 11 McKelv mckelvie le wheat member and william F S the dalry dairy men itier almost front from the day sir mr elegize lei ie took up his bis duties dulies as chairman of the farm board lie he has been tile hie cemer tot at luck lack from and aroln trading quarters Iti arterS NN lille lie he met these onslaughts ts maill a vigo vigorous roust defense dreen ie of tile board it Is I 1 that his decision to relinquish lilt his duties with file government was waa inyim aced hy by the floii tit in controversy his policies aroused amoum d for almost a year mr degges Ip eie service ha hatt been di lefell toward izing tile the morl market pt opposition arose in washington and in parts of 0 the iralu belt to the purchasing hy by tie the ikin of of millions of bushels hn shelo of surplus wheat to steady tile market and maintain prices P D S T U ASTER A S T E K A I 1 general walter waller dron was the center of a series of somewhat acrimonious dis cushions cus during abc th 4 week in the first place lie he called air mail operators into conference and told A them they would have to increase service postmaster and readjust rates to to gen brown luct kwet a deficit estl mated at for tile the next fiscal year ue ile said schedules were not bring being met connections at junction prints points not being completed and average speed not kept up to standard As for rates the operators were nvere warned that unless they revised them congress would do it in his speech to the operators broun warned they could not look for support from military branches of 0 the government since these were not at all enthusiastic about any part chil aeronautics might play in any preparedness pa redness program but spoke of such aid with inith some contempt this brought from rear admiral moffett chief of the navy bureau of aeronautics the statement that he was sure no one in naval aviation ever had spoken with will contempt about civil or commercial pilots and airmen or what they have accomplished we have the highest respect tor for them he added and believe that they would tie of tremendous value to the country in time of war about the same time some senators learned that lint mr crown brown anc the he lin n ter state commerce commission were contemplating making increases in the pare parcel ea post rates declaring this would cost the american people senator mckellar McK eIlar of tennessee offered a resolution asking mr brown not to make the changes cli angos until they have been approved hy by congress me kellar rind senator norris of nebraska contended tile the raise would be in the interest of the express companies which aich they said would get much of the business now handled hy by tile the parcel post mckellar McK eIlar added the increases would he be a heavy burden on the farmers the resolution was Wd adopted opted PRESIDENT P RESIDENT HOOVER put his signature to lie bill provid providing ing for a 44 hour week for postal employees which becomes effect le july I 1 and will affect letter carriers office clerks and railway service men the president then announced that he fie would ask congress to authorize tile fill appointment of a special commission to in esti gate ways and means of placing the post office obice department on ething like a paying basis in disclosing his intention to take steps to cut down the annual postal losses the president pointed out that the post office department faces an estimated deficit of for the next fiscal year S SENATORS democratic mostly gave considerable of their time for several days daya to deflating debating the wet and dry question hill lard tydings of maryland wet obtained the alie adoption of it a resolution calling cullin on the commission to forward to the senate the senator sen for ninni on which the tydings based its recent report on prohibition tydings and some of the dry senu senator torb from tile south engaged in acrimonious discus liin ta io the course of which mor of north carolina said s iid some soine most uncomplimentary things about chairman ot of the democratic national committee next day senator wagner of new york delivered a 0 prepared speech call ing on the democratic party to lead the way to prohibition reform and attacking the president for throwing away tile opportunity offered by the wickersham Wickers liani report to lead a grateful people out of the morass of criminality corruption and la in which we have been bogged for eleven years yeara the method of bringing about tin im proved which the commission did oot not discuss woo he be said bald that of state option inder federal control ne offered a plan under such a method fie II 11 have repeal but with a joint agreement between federal and tate state governments as part of the totes stale repealing action to guarantee state stale control without the saloon THELBERT STEWART commas E eloner of labor statistics presented to the alie senate committee on food fond costs ii gnass of government statistics showing a wide discrepancy between the prices paid hy by consumers con tor for milk and dairy products and the prices receded recel ird y farmers fan ners lie fie said tile the figures showed a very apparent failure of cretul prices to follow the decline of wholesale prices in milk the rhe average price of milk th in 51 cities Is cents a quart stewart said slid and ilie flip farmer Is receiving an average price of a little less than 45 cents representatives of the dairy industry testified lied the consumer was receiving tile the full benefit of reductions in the N ho lesile prices of their products but chairman capper showed that one of tile companies lind had nver averaged aged profits of about 20 U per rent cent on its stock during the lie last lie yc rs which he said Is about ten times the profit the farmers in kansas get FOUR OUR days of political jockeying in spain ended with the formation of a jew headed by admiral juan bautista aznar for the time little being both revolution and the renewal of a military dictatorship were avoided though the fundamental issues ore are not settled guerra and alburez almirez AlM Alu irez rez lenders leaders of the opposition both had failed to form governments that king alfonso could accept the new cabinet Is annd up of extreme right monarchists with the conservatives liberals and catalan independents represented it Is believed admiral aznar will consent to a special session of the parliament which will make certain reforms in the constitution leaving the powers of the throne unimpaired aznar Is the oldest ranking officer in the spanish navy nary and has not dot been a partisan in politics V VARIOUS ARIOUS problems V of naval warfare especially that of the relative value of the heavily armored battleship and the airplane may be solved in the great war game of the navy which began at the start of the week in panama waters the forces vice admiral NN ere divided into the A L willard a rd blue fleet and the block black fleet the former under command of vice admiral arthur L willard flying his flag on the arkansas was entrusted with the defense of the panama canal and of a hypothetical nicaragua cana it Is the atlantic or scouting fleet and was reinforced by the aircraft carriers saratoga and lexington and the dirigible los angeles by planes from the naval air station at coco solo and by a big fleet of V 4 submarines the attacking or black fleet was not nearly so strong in planes but more powerful in other respects it was commanded hy by admiral frank H 11 schofield tile the blacks had shout about eighty planes forty from the aircraft carrier langley and the rest from battleships and a division of new 10 ton treaty cruisers tried out for the first tahe in war operations with the fleet this division composed of the northampton the salt lake city and the pensacola was assigned to admiral schofields Sch ields command for the war problem though ordinarily it operates in the atlantic the umpire ship was the texas flagship of admiral jehu V chose chase commander in chief of the united states fleet and genei general at director of the war game N TUB sunday before the beginning 0 ON of leal the government of soviet russia declared war against religious influence in tile the schools enlisting all soviet children in the cam palan the commissariat of education to in a manifesto said we cannot allow file morality of our children cli ildren to be degraded by religion the churches re recently vently had the audacity to creep into our schools in one school tiny liny crosses were distributed tri buted among aiming pupils the commissariat voted frrda for on an issue of circulars calling upon school teachers to intensify their thrle antireligious rell and it appealed to the movie trust to produce special anti anil christian films for juvenile consumption WHILE HILE the alleged iniquities of postal lenses leases are still under investigation vesti esti gation gatlon tile the house gave its approval to lo a arogia tit for vo wider ider federal ownership of postal facilities which has the backing of the lie administration the bill passed authorizes the expenditure I 1 pend iture of 1 for the removal 1 boval moval of postal activities from leased quarters into govern government men owned t sub stations and garages it received a unanimous vote D HATTIS of the week included udea those of louis mann veteran comedian gov frank C emerson ol of wyoming W R merriam former gov bernor of minnesota and louis wol ivol balm movie and stage actor maj gen clarence it edwards commander comman dei ot of new england troops to in the world war who died in boston was burled la in arlington national cemetery a E 1131 1931 western New newspaper union |