Show news review of current events the world over J D rockefeller Rock ereller jr comenout comes Come sOut out for prohibition repeal republicans fashion moist plank shouse Is democratic bone of contention by EDWARD W PICKARD OUN D rockefeller JR in threw a nan man sized bomb into inta the camp of the prohibition forces with his announcement that he be had come to tile the conclusion that the eighteenth amendment Is a failure and should be repealed himself a teetotaler and with his father a liberal supporter of the anti saloon 4 league for years mr rockefeller in a letter to nicholas murray butler buter commended the batters lat tatters anti anil john D rocke prohibition plank and feller jr urged its adoption by both the republican and democratic parties in their national conventions ne ile declared the alms of prohibition had not been achieved and said that drinking generally has increased that the speakeasy has replaced the saloon and that a vast army of lawbreakers has been recruited and financed on a colossal scale upon these reasons of unprecedented erline crime increase and the open disregard of tile the eighteenth amendment which I 1 have slowly and reluctantly come coma to believe mr rockefeller based his present stand he declared that the benefits of prohibition are more than outweighed by its evils after approving in detail doctor butlers proposal for repeal and state control of the liquor traffic mr rockefeller expressed a hope that the millions of earnest workers in behalf behal of the el eighteenth amend amendment would continue their efforts in support of practical measures tor for the promotion of genuine temperance of course the wets were jubilant over mr bir rockefellers Rocke fellers statement and the drys tried without much success to minimize its effect by contradicting his assertions concerning the success of the prohibition legislation E encouraged by the rockefeller pronouncement leaders of six national organizations met in new york and formed a united repeal council with the purpose of placing in both the republican and democratic platforms planks calling definitely for the repeal of prohibition pierre S du do pont font was elected chairman of the council M MANY ANY anxious hours were spent by administration chiefs and james ft garfield over the form in which the republican prohibition plank should be cast and a conference participated in by postmaster general wal ter brown the presidents political advis er and a dozen senators finally approved a resolution which states that while the republican party stands for enforcement of all laws and abhors the saloon it senator borah recognizes the right of the people to pass upon any portion of the constitution and therefore favors the prompt submission resubmission re of the eighteenth amendment to the people of the several states acting through nonpartisan con partisan cOnvent conventions lOGS this naturally did not at all suit the wet republicans and they promised that the issue would be fought out in the convention the tentative plank was derided as utterly evahl evasive ve and deplorably weak on the senate floor senator borah dry and senator tydings of maryland wet democrat took turns poking fun at tile proposed resolution borah borab said it was the rarest combination of hypocrisy and insincerity ever heard of and tydings called it the biggest piece of sham bunk and camouflage ever seen assembled in words ND JANA republicans in state convention INDIANA went wet despite the agonized pleadings of the prohibition ests A plank was adopted calling for submission to the people of a repeal proposition on both the Dat national lonal and state dry laws it was not a strong declaration in favor favo r of such repeal but it sufficed raymond springer was nominated for governor and senator jim watson was by acclamation ill N president hoover signed W WHEN the new revenue bill be said many of the taxes I 1 imposed by it were not as lie he desired which mildly ex pressed the opinion of countless anie amar leans concerning that hodgepodge hodge bodge podge measure however bad as it Is in many respects the act will under tain conditions and within certain limitations balance the federal budget at the end of the fiscal year 1933 provided congress enacts the necessary economy legislation the senate almost rejected the conference report on the revenue bill because the tax on electricity was made to fall on the consumer instead of on the companies one economy bill cutting the costs of government was passed by the sen sea ate after it had been mangled mane led de signed at first to save it was amended so the saving will be only I an important change was the substitution ot of the enforced furlough plan for or federal employees for the 10 per cent pay cuts previously adopted this was rejected by the house S C GARNERS 0 relief bill was rushed through the house by an almost solid democratic vote aided by twenty one republicans the rest of the republican members meni hers paid heed beed to president hoovers denunciation nuncia tion of the measure as a gigantic pork barrel and voted in the negative tt it Is hard bard to understand how bow garner and his associates can justify spending so much time and effort on this measure in the face of their expressed conviction that it would never get through the senate or past the presidential veto the senate indeed showed at once that it intended to smother the bill leaders of both parties in the upper house prepared to push through a bill permitting the reconstruction finance corporation to lend up to to states for relief purposes this was just one section of the senate democratic relief program the remainder ma inder lader involving a bond issue tor for public works and a expansion of the reconstruction units capital being lett left for later consideration F franillin FRANI iLIN ROOSEVEL ROOSEVE TS supporters having decided to run the democratic national convention to suit themselves announced that jouett shouse do as permanent chairman though he had been selected by the smita raskob faction and presumably y bad b been e e n accepted b y roosevelt they declared instead that they would try to put senator thomas taomas 1 walsh of montana in that position which jouett shouse lie held eight years ago mr shouse however made it known that he and his friends would fight to the last ditch so there Is a prospect of a first day battle in the convention that will aul provide tor for a test of strength between the roosevelt and anti roosevelt forces mr shouse said that governor roosevelt expressly consented to the plan to make him permanent chairman not even remotely was any kind of condition attached to the governors assent otherwise I 1 should not have been a party to it said he any speech I 1 may make before the convention will be my own and will not be censored or inspired by any candidate the presiding officer of the convention should represent no faction and should decline to assist or obstruct the fortunes of any candidate M MORE oath seriously affecting roose belts chances was the problem of mayor jimmy walker of new york put up to him by the hofstadter Cof Elof investigating vesti abing gating committee and its counsel samuel seabury the governors nors inveterate toe foe the report of the committee makes it necessary for the gov arnor to decide whether or not the mayor shall be removed from office and it Is believed he be will take A some action a day or so BO before the demos seabury cratic c r a 11 c convention meets presumably it if he be ousts busts the mayor he be will rouse the wrath of tammany nail which might cost him the vote of new york in the elec election tinn but undoubtedly would add to his strength elsewhere for tammany Is not to t admired outside of the metropolis governor roosevelt made a strategic move when he demanded that seabury quit talking and submit to him blin the charges and evidence against walker at once ne ile let it be known that he would give the mayor unlimited opportunity to defend himself and his bis administration but said he would demand that walker prove himself fit to be mayor of new york walker engaged dudley field malone as hla his chief counsel GEN EN CHARLES GATES DAWES suddenly and unexpectedly sent to president hoover his bis resignation us as president of the reconstruction finance corporation to take effect june 15 ile he denied rumors that there had been any friction between him and eugene meyer jr chairman of the board of the corporation and averred be was quitting the post merely because he be wished to resume his banking business in chicago in his letter to the president general dawes said he felt lie he could do this now that the budget had bad been balanced and the turning point toward eventual prosperity seems to have been reached Em IGHT thousand of the bonus mar archers chers who had gathered in washington to demand immediate pay merit of the bonus to veterans held their first parade do down n pennsylvania avenue to the capitol and there was wag not the slightest disorder despite rumors that the communists would stage an aa outbreak As a matter of fact the reds who tied to stir the veterans up to violence were roughly treated by the ex soldiers sol adlers the marchers barchers mar chers carried many american flags and had bad three bands swarms of pollee police were on hand but had little to do the pa broke ranks at the peace monument and returned to the various camps established tor for them every day the number ot of veterans in those camps was augmented by arrivals from all parts of 0 the country senator lewis of illinois had haa a with the bonus seekers and came off with flying colors they resented ills his memorial day reproof to them and threatened to tell him where he got off whereupon the courtly senator calmly told them to go to hell and walked through them to the senate chamber TOWA I 1 1 OWA republicans at last have grown weary of senator smith D brookhart Brook bart and have put an end ead at least for the present to his political career in the primaries they decisively rejected him selecting as hla his dulces sor henry field of shenandoah a nurseryman and a novice in ID politics who owris a radio station field had I 1 been making a 4 1 vigorous speaking ej campaign in which he lal fl attacked brookhart sen brookhart especially for neglect I 1 n g h bis I 1 a senatorial duties dalles to make chautauqua lectures and tor for nepotism ne ile pledged himself not to take any of his family to washington and fasten them on the federal pay rolls brookhart a radical who never lias has hesitated to vote against republican measures refused to comment on his defeat which was attributed by some observers partly to the fact that many voters mithero republicans had deserted that party and cast their ballots as democrats the democratic senatorial nominee was louis murphy who defeated former senator daniel in north carolina the democrats turned against one ot their longtime long time leaders senator cameron morrison Morr lson who was defeated for foi the nomination by robert R reynolds almost a newcomer in politics morrison Is bone dry and reynolds Is an adro advocate cate of prohibition repeal neither of them had a majority of votes cast so both will be candidates again in the runoff primary on july I 1 2 two others who polled a considerable vote promised to throw their support to reynolds franklin roosevelt won a sweeping victory in the florida democratic primary alfalfa bill murray getting only a small vote mark alark wilcox ot of west palm beach running on an platform apparently defeated ruth bryan owen tor for the co congressional it nomination in the fourth distrI district CL i INS conservative republicans in convention at madison nominated a ticket with the purpose of putting a crimp in the regime of the la follette dynasty john B chapple chappie of ashland was put up for the united states senate lo in opposition to senator blaine and former gov walter J kobler was nominated for governor to run against gov phil la follette who seeks to succeed himself ANUEL INSULL of chicago who for S SAMUEL wany many years has been one of the count rys leading public utilities magnates has finally fallen under financial stress and has been forced to resign as head bead of his great utilities concerns and also as officer or director of many other corp corporations corporation oratio as iab alth which ho he has been associated besides his big money troubles tro sir mr insull instill Is in poor health he be Is soon to sail for europe and it Is understood he will reside in england where be owns ons a home three of the big corporations he built up it Is said will unite in paying him an annual pension of HILE has become a socialistic re C CHILE republic the government of president montero was overthrown by a military and socialistic junta in a coup that was almost bloodless a and n d the leader of the movement carlos da vila former ambassador to the united states was installed f as provisional president col grove was made win inin ister of defense and immediately had to L get busy suppressing a counterrevolution counter revolution carlos carloa davila in the southern part of the country it was ely stated in santiago that the establishment of the socialist regime created no immediate danger for american investments in chile except those tied up in the cobach nitrate combine which it was understood would be nationalized president davila said one of 0 the main purposes of the government would be to remove the burdens on workers and the unemployed OL IS 1132 |