Show news review of current events the world over massie case defendants set free by gov judd house nearly ruins the economy bill capone bea begins ins i his term in atlanta by EDWARD W PICKARD S and unexpectedly came the climax in the bassle case at honolulu two days in advance of the time set for the of sentence on the four convicted of manslaughter in tile the killing of Katin hawal judge davis dili Is called caled the defendants fend ants before him and sentenced them to ten years in prison at hard imbor imme ilia tely thereafter go gov V lawrence M 1 I judd commuted tile the sentence seni selli to one olie I 1 hour lour in gov judd the custody ly of t a bailiff and this time having pils bussed sed the navy lieutenant his mother in law mrs fortescue and Q seamen lord and jones were ere set free tills this procedure was la in accord with wilh an arrangement envile by governor judd judge bals dals find attorneys on both sides 1 alie he governor lind had been subjected to lo great pressure to pardon the defendants and it was held that his action was vas in accord with ith file jurys recommendation of merry mercy sentiment in hawaii was diverse many of the natives being extremely dissatisfied with what mint they considered a miscarriage of justice and most of f the whites itil tes feeling that the governor should have pardoned the four outright thus pre preserving serIng their civil rights in washington the latter view seemed to prevail several senators and representatives senta tives being outspoken in the matter congressman summers of texas introduced a bill granting the president power to pardon defendants in the territories and before the action in honolulu was known bills had been introduced in both houses tor for a congressional pardon for the four convicted also a petition tor for a pardon was signed by eighty members of congress and cabled to governor judd whether lieutenant massie hassle will remain in the navy apparently was left up to president hoover in cases where naval officers are convicted e d in convict civil courts and sentenced to imprisonment r 1 so the naval regulations authorize the president to drop such officers naval officers in washington were hopeful that sir mr hoover would not take such action in gassies massies Mas sies case dispatches from honolulu Honolu ln said it was likely the prosecution of the tour four remaining youths accused of attacking mrs massie would now be dropped the boung woman had said she was ready to go to the stand against them and once more tell of her terrible experience but clarence darrow her attorney advised her to come home bothe with her family faintly and forget all about it HEN the house bouse of representatives WHEN disregarding the leadership of both parties got through mauling the economy measure that was designed to contribute savings toward balancing the budget and handed banded it ft over to tile the senate as an amendment to the legislative appropriation bill there much left of the product of the special economy committee indeed it was about short of the mark by limiting government pay reduction to 11 per cent of salaries in excess of 2500 the house knocked out of the SG it was proposed to save on pay roll cost the I 1 house also rejected savings on veter ans ana benefits estimated at more than and turned down the proposed consolidation of the war and navy departments which the economy committee promised would save from to while administration leaders laid plans to salvage some of the wreckage on the senate floor the appropriations committee was confronted with the task of revamping the shattered measure meantime prospects of lengthy contests over each of the triangular problem of balancing the budget taxation reduction in appropriations and economy cast a fresh shadow of of completing doubt over probability work before the necessary session june 10 preferential primary M was made interesting by the contest tor for delegates between president hoover and dr joseph I 1 france the only avowed rival of mr hoover for or tile the geat republican bial Is nomination 0 in I 1 Is a t I 1 0 nis w though france a j marylander and was r that states senator a dozen years ago he was turned down by the home folks 1 losing to hoover by a suh sub majority L A this setback however will not serve to put j 1 prance france stop to doctor a ile he will keep keel frances ca campaign on trying to corral delegates right alsem elsewhere here and has ha engaged CO convention oven tion he hotel headquarters la in a chicago is 8 his own on manager baltimore voters paid more attention to aba matter of re repealing ig so tar far Sl maryland arYlOn ds s 1 concerned as that city g year old blue laws than to the presidential choice on this question they cast more than ballots and the repeal was passed by a majority of the repeal became immediately effective so Baltim may now transact business go to movies or ball games and even kiss their wives on sunday all of which and much more was forbidden by the ancient blue laws ALIFORNIA democrats dealt a c california rather severe blow to the aspirations of governor roosevelt the third within a short time in the preferential primary they gave speaker john N garner a plurality of more than votes over over the new yorker al smith came in third some votes behind the texan though mr air garner has not been an avowed candidate cand idale for the nomination this makes him more than a favorite son and insures the continuation of the campaign in his behalf president hoover was vas unopposed in the republican primary and piled up a big vote in alabama the slate of democratic delegates instructed for franklin D roosevelt heat beat the list of uninstructed delegates by about three to one the new york governor also captured the south dakota delegation republicans of the latter state favored a delegation instructed for hoover and also voted to send senator peter norbeck back to the senate defeating narry harry F brownell of sioux falls or several years at least the peo aple pie of the united states need deed read little if anything about at al capone for that eminent gentleman la Is now dow behind the bars of the federal penitentiary at atlanta serving a term of 11 years for income tax f fraud r a u d the united states supreme court curtly refused to review Scar faces case and his attorneys could devise nothing more to keep him out of the penitentiary HIS ells sentence imposed by at al A i capone federal p judge j wil kerson Is ten years la in atlanta and one year in a county jail besides a fine of it if al behaves himself he may be tree free again in about seven and one half years but it Is unlikely that be aill ever again be a power in the world of gangsters on leaving chicago where he had been in jail for six months capone said graciously that he was not sore at anybody and that tie he hoped chicago would be better on oil and the public clamor would be satisfied fr CR R about ten years there has been 1 before congress in n one form or another a measure designed to mike make steady the value of the dollar the other day the house after brief consideration passed such a bill known as the goldsborough bill and turned it over to the senate where it seems doomed to defeat by the republican majority the proponents of this measure say it will restore the purchasing power of tile the dollar and stabilize commodity prices through the open marlet market operations and rediscount facilities of the federal reserve system the bill declares it to be the pulley of the united states that the average purchasing power of the dollar lar based on the 1921 1929 level of commodity prices shall be restored and maintained by the control of the volume of credit and currency it charges the federal reserve board tile the federal reserve banks and secretary of tile the treasury with the duty of making effective this policy opponents of the measure who include secretary of the treasury mills say it la Is a mandate to the federal reserve board to issue flat fiat money find and the greatest scheme of inflation ever proposed in any country CARL HAYDEN of arizona aris S put forward a project of the talver states to boost the price of silver allver of offering a resolution that would auth authorize oriLe tile the president to accept up to july 1 1930 silver la in payi payment nent of debts owing the united states by foreign governments the silver would he be accepted nt at the rate of one and one halt half ounces for each dollar of indebtedness discharged provided the debtor nations agree to not melt or debase their own coins to obtain silver for debt payments As a further inducement to debtor nations the resolution stipulates that when lien a government satisfies the president it will restore all of its sliver silver coinage to a fineness of at least nine tenths silver or shall otherwise increase the use ose of silver for coinage purposes tile the president may accept silver payments from such government at the rate of one ounce of sliver silver for each dollar of indebtedness the silver allver sile alle er so received by th the e united states shall be coined into standard silver dollars and deposited in the treasury and sliver silver certificates issued against the sliver coinage vindicated RE elections in france franc indicated that premier tardieu might be ousted and a liberal government installed with edouard veteran lender leader of the radical socialist ests and former premiere premier at its ita head the issue was waa to be decided to in the runoff run off on elections slay may 8 but already herklots Herr lots party had made gains in parliamentary lia seats and the left republicans led by tardley had lost heavily Tar tardley dlesk himself was wag reelected elected re by a sound majority and so were most of the members of his cabinet representatives D representatives of the japa lv nese and chinese governments prop propped ped up in their hospital beds signed an agreement which ended hostilities in the shanghai area A japanese surgeon amputated the right leg of minister mamoru shige mitsu soon after he be signed the agree ment ile he was the most seriously hurt of the five highest japanese officials who were wounded in a recent bombing the japanese volunteered to start withdrawal of their troops at once as the first step in the faithful execution of the agreement 11 withdrawal Is to be completed in about four weeks in manchuria the japanese claimed to have routed the chinese insurgents in bloody encounters but the revolt against the puppet manchurian Manc hurlan government was wag not quelled the len league ne of nations investigating commission in a preliminary report said every vestige of chinese authority in manchuria had been erased by the japanese that banditry was on the increase and there was loss of life destruction of property and a general sense of insecurity S 1 vertal highly important decisions J were handed down by the united states supreme court one of them read by justice benjamin cardozo rejected modification of the packers consent decree of 1920 to permit packers to deal at wholesale in grocer leg lea and other lines not related to the packing house indus try in january 1931 V t the e district s ri t of columb I 1 a authorized t the h e modification undra the supreme courts ruling the packers p ac kels justice car will be prohibited bozo from continuing in their present lines of business and must comply with the terms of tile the consent decree which restricted their activities exclusively to meat and other slaughterhouse slaughter house bouse products the tremendous business of the packers was emphasized by justice cardozo who pointed out that the original decree was insisted on because of fear that the companies would oth otherwise emilse be able to crush their smaller rivals he said the packers were in a position today to do under the modified decree what was feared when the consent decree was entered justices cutler butler and van devanter dissented ruling on a case from texas the court decided 5 to 4 that the state democratic executive committee had acted illegally in barring negroes degrees from participating in the bartys primaries the majority opinion handed banded down by justice cardozo and concurred in by chief justice hughes and justices brandeis andels Br stone and roberts held that the party committee lacked this power even though authorized by statute to prescribe the requirements tor for party membership president hoover was upheld in his controversy with the senate over the case of his appointment of george otis smith to the federal power commission the case arose when hen in december 1030 1930 the senate consented to smiths appointment then in january 1931 requested the return of the nomination and voted to reconsider its vote of consent during the interim smith had angered radical senat senators orsby by dismissing certain power commission employees the president ret refused to accede to the senates request OPE for an adequate american HOPE navy was revived when the senate by a vote of 46 to 25 made unfinished business the hale bill authorizing construction of all ships needed to bring the fleet up to the lie tonnage limits of the london and washington naval treaties the measure undoubtedly will be roughly treated by senators who advocate other legislation and will be displaced from time to time but senator expressed confidence that it will come to a vote and be passed before congress adjourns the opposition seeks to prevent early e enactment of tile the bill on the ground that its passage would embarrass the american delegation to la the disarmament conference at geneva and violate the spirit of the naval building truce cathedral on washington mount st albans the foundation stone of which was laid 25 bearr ago was opened for public worship on thursday ascension day held in the the first service was morning in the choir and sanctuary the first portion of the main building to be completed and was waa attended by the president and mrs hoover and wilson adow of the mrs woodrow whose tomb ts is la 10 the war president bethlehem chapel bishops of tile the episcopal church other religious and lay lenders leaders f from rom the country and represent presen re 11 l all a 1 parts of official life in natives washington of all also ranks gathered of edl for the opening of the beautiful S 1932 western no |