Show news w S review of current F events the world over tor tornadoes nadies kill hundreds in southern souther n states an insurgent house killed the manufacturers sales tax provision of the tax bill by EDWARD W PICKARD tornadoes that swept awe across southern inor states s took to a ton toll ot of re e than three to hit h prea andred lives caused and d property dam age that be estimated will till not for hund hundreds reds of persons nf long ue ume time other oth a great tn were injured a ad many were rendered reD dered homeless domele as deaths alabama ath in that was wath state the worst sufferer 6 11 t the he ot 01 at lea least st thil T reaching 6 a total 11 five in georgia t were killed eighteen in two each tennessee asseo and in south th C carolina arolina tucky tuck v As A and ken communale ell actions ere brok down be ijes enlarged over wide res the lists mn tress later to add to the chy a wave if weather unseasonably cold came and farmers blobs globs in the r e hardest hit faced the of a prospect planting tog season without t impe 1 ments live ia stock tr or shelter h the the national guard was called called to relief work ln 11 acab alabama and a d tent s cots oa and 80 n blankets a bets tant were hurriedly d y 18 tributes tri buted to 0 the he sufferers while belfa welfare re agencies collected food and ana clochin clothing gov GOT R B M miner miller fori formally nally called on the people of the state to contribute t to 0 the relief relfort rel fot of those in the storm are areas as and the red cross of course was on the job promptly AN A N INSURGENT house killed hilled the 4 general manufacturers manufacturer sales tax provisions of the billion dollar tax bill in one of the most spectacular sessions in years it marked the revolt of both democrats and republicans from party leadership the sales tax see section was knocked out of the bill by a vote of 21 3 to wild cheering by the anti sales tax forces greeted the announcement having H a v I 1 n g adopted rep la guar amen ments boosting jag dia the individual income and estate taxes and having restored double taxation on companies with plants abroad all estimated to yield around in revenue in 1933 the house immediately took steps to raise the necessary to fill the hole in the bill caused by killing of the sales tax in throwing out the sales tax section the house under lash of insurgent republicans and democrats led by representative la guardia rep of new york and representative Dough doughton tork acm dem of north carolina bowled over the regular leaders of both parties and overturned the program of its ways and means committee As a result of the action of the house in wrecking the tax tas bill congress probably will have to adjourn over the republican and democratic national conventions in june returning IR IB session to complete the legislative program senator robinson of arkansas democratic senate leader said bald majority leader henry T rainey dem ill said after adjournment the house has rejected the democratic bill and now is compelled to turn to the republican bill proposed by the treasury in order to balance the budget it will be necessary to provide for more than of revenue to take the place of the sales tax FRANK MURPHY of detroit M MAYOR announced last thursday his plans to have the city of detroit stop paying interest on the debts owed by the city the announcement was made following a long telephone conversation with senator james couzens who was said to have sp ap probed the plan VER on the senate side there had 0 OVER grown a group known as the ten per centers who under the leadership of mckellar of tennessee undertook to do things in the way of government economy this group Is already so large that it dominates the senate and on tuesday that body by a vote of 50 to 29 sent back to the committee on appropriations the state justice labor and commerce appropriation cut of 10 mandatory bill for a jones of the per ner cent chairman committee who opposed sed the move said he would take this as a 8 mandate manda e similar cuts in all the supply to make it bills b senator mcl mckellar ellar thought of at least saving would result in a AP to the government sons for inheres interest t on 0 the public veterans to war debt or 0 payments than which S together to more be cl to alone are emited empted in the senate ors of rr prohibition set by F re are follow tog the example the the t wets in the house ls rd nod vote paving and file decoi obtain it to way have it 00 dry behalf rS ss sars senators of the say ets they se ignator cali to dis of motion offered a maryland from judiciary charge the of resolutions consideration further r glit amendol nt of be for repeal or ort of an d I 1 benth ih amendment sri b W y petition pa non this lie be pre presented dented a AN ashing g to give loter lOT four lr embers r mr Tail 8 others a chance to sign bien said he would not press his motion until march 31 under the senate senat rules the petition Is unnecessary sen ator watson of indiana the alie alcan lender leader signed it with the under standing that this did not commit him to a wet position the other signers were twelve republicans and eleven clever democrats D ROYAL C av johnson of south dakota a republican who used to be a dry v went ent to the white house the other day to tc discuss legislative matters with pres ident hoover and in the course of their conversation he told the chief executive he be believed the people had bad a right to another vote on the prohibition hibi hibit tion lon question leaving the conference mr johnson said to the correspondents spon dents that less than 25 per ce cent of of the voters of the coun R n C johnson Jor try had bad bad an to register their views on the ont national lonal wet and dry question ile he said that census bureau officials had told him that americans had reached voting age since the eighteenth amendment was adopted in addition mr johnson said there are the veterans of the world war who did not have a chance to vote on prohibition the women never have had bad an opportunity to express their views through the ballot this Is a democracy and the people of this country are entitled to a referendum on prohibition the johnson expression of opinion came at a time when hen renewed pressure Is being brought on the white house by wet republican leaders to influence president hoover to agree to the insertion of a wet plank in the republican platform OPE for the safe return of colonel 1 Lind berghs baby revived with the entry into the case if f n U wallace caldwell of chicago a real estate man and member of the board of education he made several hasty trips to hopewell to confer with the colonel and while refusing to make public his plans told the press 1 I possessed such information as I 1 believed would be of value and I 1 turned it over to tye tre family the situation Is extremely critical and I 1 desire to give every possible assistance mr caldwell was believed to be acting tor for the secret six anti crime group of chicago but this he would not admit he Is a wealthy man and Is interested in crime solution in an amateur way and was thought to have obtained his information concerning the lendbergh case by chance W DULANTY high commissioner JW for the irish free state in london notified J 11 thomas british secretary tor for the dominions that president eamon de valera era intends to abolish the oath of allegiance to king george which is taken by members of the irish parl parliament lament believing the irish people madu made this mandatory by their vote at the recent VW Y election mr thomas told parliament he had grave information from president the free state but do de valera did not present the details instead he went to buckingham palace and conferred with the king for forty minutes and then joined the cabinet which took up the matter mr thomas then returned to the house bouse of commons and announced that the government was determined that the free state should not abolish the oath of allegiance and had r sent ent word to dublin making the british standpoint t clear beyond the possibility of a doubt he said the same stand was taken regarding the land annul soon I 1 ties P president resident resl dent de va valera lera had declared he would also abolish the land annuities which amount to about and on which ireland now owes the british b go government ve rone nt these IS annuities tl e consist cons st of money advanced bv b Y the british B it is h government 1 ent to enable irish farmers to buy holdings from landlords on it a CO year purchase scheme DOLF HITLER R being given aluch A much chance in his attempt to 10 presidency from paul win the german lie ile was refused the von hindenburg Uin denburg of broaddas broadcasting bro adeas tida his speeches privilege nazi newspapers and and then thirty from pub periodicals were prohibited because it was alleged alle cd they fishing S endanger endangering ing the republic by their were gael government they had attacks s on the 9 tion deloune de rioted flitters Hit lers broel unia printed ke ng the raids made by the political prussian russian feel po nazi nal offices I 1 I 1 c on ago vas as running high he and ing in taken by the government the course it any more friends was not wean ing P PEACE prospects in the orient grew brighter during the week though there 0 va was a chance there would be further fighting before an agreement wa was reached by japan and china parleys leys were proceeding quite nicely when gen ablang nuang kuang nal representing sen ting the chinese government walked out of the conference insulted because the japanese representative was gen Kenk lehl his bia inferior in rank instead of gen the interruption was believed to be only temporary and the negotiators including neutral foreign diplomats continued hopeful however it was reported that we the japanese instead of preparing to withdraw from the shanghai area were digging new trenches and erecting new barbed wire entanglements entangle ments and there was complaint of the acts of their scouting planes for their part the japanese accused the chinese of trying to advance into the zone of occupation and said they w were ere prepared to take strong measures to prevent this cats the revolt in the new manchurian state was growing dally daily in strength and there were many fights between japanese troops and the chinese whom they call bandits the latter are under command of tseng hal flat war lord of kirin province on the soviet border who captured the city of fu yu tu THAT HAT the power question will be a major issue in the presidential campaign Is the substance of a declaration lar la signed by fifteen senators and twenty two representatives and they assert that the power trust Is trying to influence the selection of candidates di the statement with the names of the signers appeared on the frontispiece of a booklet issued by judson king director of the national popular r government league giving an analysis of the power stands of presidential candidates the signers included senators johnson norris nye frazier Fraz ler brookhart cutting and Elo now viell ell republicans walsh of 0 montana wheeler mckellar costigan dill gore and long democrats and farmer labor the analysis of the presidential candidates di dates es which was not included in the section endorsed by the legislators described president hoover as a po pow w er trust president classed governor ritchie of maryland and newton D baker na as also on the power trust side termed alfred E smith as on middle ground and listed speaker gurner garner and franklin D roosevelt on the public interest side I 1 republican convention elected twenty five hoover delegates to the national convention and pledged the support of the republicans of the state to the president elsewhere in the middle west the anti hoover republicans pu public blicaus ans were more active in illinois they were preparing to put up slates of candidates for delegates who will viii oppose the candidacy of mr hoover hooter or of any man who is not in favor of repeal of the eighteenth amendment and of the reduction of cost of government so as to lower taxes the leadership of this group especially in chicago however Is not of a character to enhance their chances of success from washington dnald dispatches said it was learned there that the la Fol lettes were planning to enter senator george W norris of nebraska in the wisconsin republican primaries of april 5 neither they nor norris believes for a mome moment n t the nebraskan can win the nomination but the la Fol lettes seek to have a delegation that will not vote for the presidents this was the strategy they followed in 1028 franklin D roosevelt won a big victory in the georgia presidential preference primaries defeating by a vote of 10 to 1 judge G IL H howard of atlanta who abo ran tor for speaker john N garner garner WO house committees those on appropriations TWO and on economy are taking great interest in the movement to close up or curtail the acal activities V ides of surplus shore properties of the navy seven stations now are under congressional fire whether they are closed or placed on a less expensive basis depends largely upon tho the question of whether the congressional desire tor for economy Is stronger than tta its desire to cling to its pork barrel stations and yards the properties under discussion include the boston navy yard the charleston navy yard the portsmouth N 11 navy yard the naval stations at key west and new orleans the ammunition depot at baldwin L L and the newport naval training station it Is estimated that curtailing activities at these stations eventually would result in annual savings amounting to several million dollars troublesome old question of TA TUAT american merican adherence to the world court Is up again before our senators in a letter to the senate foreign relations committee secretary of state Sti nison said he be believes the revised protocol for or american adherence fully accepts the senates reservation against advisory jurisdiction by the court when this was read to the committee by chairman borah there was a storm of debate and it was decided to ask mr stimson to appear for olves tio dioning ning senator johnson of california who nho Is one of the hottest opponents of the world court said mr stimsons sons statement was at variance with what he be has said heretofore a 1932 western newspaper caloa |