Show news review of current events the world over roosevelt escapes assassins bullets but mayor cermak Is wounded senate adopts dry repeal resolution by sur surprisingly ri singly large majority by EDWARD W PICKARD S SHOT HOT at five fire times by an anarchist in miami president elect franklin D roosevelt narrowly escaped being added to the list of americas illus arious victims of assassins sas sins not one of the bullets struck I 1 him but mayor an ton cermak of chi aft cago who was talking with mr air roosevelt was seriously wounded two other men and two women in the throng that was gathered in day cay front park to welcome the Fi franklin anklin D president elect also alo roosevelt were hit by the assassins a sas sins bullets and it was feared one of the women would not cot survive mr roosevelt had bad just landed after his fishing cruise had made a brief talk to the thousands in the park and was being greeted by personal friends when the anarchist identified as gluseppe giuseppe gara of hackenback hackensack Hacken sack N J fired bred at him from a distance of 20 feet in the great excitement and turmoil mr roosevelt remained calm and insisted on taking mr cermak to a hospital in his car he remained over night on the yacht Nour maha mabal and visited the wounded mayor next morning before leaving by train for new york all the world was shocked by the attempted assassination and messages of congratulation on his escape poured in on mr roosevelt one of the first erst received being from president hoover mrs roosevelt heard beard the news as she returned home from a dub club where she had bad made an address her only comment on learning that her husband was not injured was 1 I am thankful she did not change her plans which took her next day to utka utica to speak at a home and farm week celebration secret service operatives in miami taid ZaB gara the assassin was a member of an anarchist group of paterson N J and that he declared be had bad no accomplices acting entirely on his own initiative immediate steps toward his trial were taken but the authorities were careful to avoid any possible charges that was being rail railroaded roadeL Y THE rather surprising vote of nf BY ga to 23 the senate adopted the revised blaine resolution submitting repeal of the eighteenth amendment to constitutional conventions in the states in this form the measure is almost in accord with the plank of the democratic platform it provides for outright repeal except for federal protection for dry states against liquor importations speaker garner predicted the resolution would be speedily accepted by the house the approval of the president Is not required but it must be ratified by thirty six states voting for the resolution in the senate were 33 democrats 29 republicans and I 1 farmer laborite against it were 0 9 democrats and 14 republicans the illinois senate passed le legislation isla wiping out the state prohibition law and the search and seizure act ambassador sir ronald lendsay was starting back to washington with the british proposals for the war debt discussion scheduled sched nied for march senator key pittman intro deuced a bill that would seem to have some come merit though our expert financiers may tear it to pieces the measure would permit great britain to make the payment on her debt due in june in ID sliver silver and this according to mr Pitt Lvin would oper op er sen pittman ate to the advantage of the united states would enable england to avoid transfer of gold to meet the next war debt payment and would make possible acceptance by great britain of silver in payment of a large sum due from india before the june war debt payment the ahtman bill would authorize the acceptance accept acce by this government of any sum up to due from great britain in sliver silver at current market value its purpose was explained as follows by sir mr pittman Pl the government of india owes great britain approximately it has ha been reported with some authority that india desires to pay this debt to great britain with sliver tIl vcr the acceptance by the united states of worth of sliver silver at the world market price of sliver of approximately 1 25 5 cents ao an ounce which Is probably lower than it will ever be again would not only be profitable to the united states stales but advantageous to both the united states and great brit alli ain under such a settlement the united states slates would receive ounces of silver at the present market price of around 25 cents an ounce under the provisions of the act our government out of such duch silver would coln coin standard silver dollars it would deposit them in the treasury and issue and circulate against them in silver certificates similar to those now in circulation in the united states As it requires reou ires only seventy eight one hundredths of an ounce of silver in the coinage of standard silver dollars there would remain therefore in the treasury in addition to such standard sliver silver dollars A ounces of sliver silver to be held in the treasury as security for the maintenance of the parity of the sliver silver certificates so issued of the eminent men called on ONE to advise the senate finance corn com nettee dr nerman herman F arendtz a bos ton economist condemning any plan tor for internationally managed currency such as may be expected to be put forth at the coming international economic conference declared that what we need deed Is less credit and more hard cash silver Is the salvation in this hard money campaign he main talked bained its would be the engine priming that would in six months enable america to sell to the orient between and million dollars worth of lumber wheat cott cotton and copper first of the advisers heard beard by the committee was bernard M baruch who Is likely to be in the roosevelt cabinet ile he argued vigorously against currency inflation and in favor of a speedy balancing of the budget and urged the adoption of a beer tax and the repeal of the eighteenth amend ment he also advised the federal leasing of farm acreage to curtail production and this plan was indorsed endorsed Indor sed by C Q C teague former member of the farm board mr teague asserting that the collapse of the credit ture of the country was the fundament fun damen tal cause of the depression urged fed era oral guarantee of bank deports de posts and in this be he ha the full support of speaker garner george N peela manufacturer ot of moline ill set forth his bis objections to the domestic allotment bill which aich Is doomed til to death either in the sen sell ate or in ID the white house and pro posed a modification of the plan whereby curtailment of acreage would come after planting and before harvest since the variation in yield of all growing crops from year to year depends 75 per cent on weather and pests largely beyond human control and only 25 per cent on the acreage planted ESPITE the efforts of brazil and D DESPITE other south american nations backed up by our state department real war has broken out between colombia and peru and the former coun try has severed diplomatic relations and declared that mediation Is finished this rupture resulted from an air attack by peru on a colombian flotilla on the putumayo river which was repulsed by colombian planes and was followed by an engagement at the town of tarapaca Tara Tars paca on the brazilian border troubles of the union FINANCIAL guardian trust company an investment concern of detroit led gov willlam william A comstock of michigan to in take the courageous step of proclaiming an e eight g t day bank holi boll al day and his drasal action received the approval and legal sanction of the legis lature the legisla tors tore also got busy at ai once with the enact merit ment of measures cov the situation sold and b bearing e a r I 1 D g retroactive clauses gov comstock except for the upper peninsula which bich is separated both geographically and economically from the remainder of the state the banks were abiding by the holiday order the upper peninsula Is to in a different federal reserve bank district and although the governor of the federal reserve bank of minneapolis said eald he was keeping bands off in the situation most banks above the straits of mackinac were doing business as usual the federal reserve bank of detroit remained open and received millions of dollars from chicago and new york and the detroit clearing house association made arrangements whereby XO was made available to depositors the latter being permitted to withdraw not dot in excess of 5 per cent of their balances for emergency purposes before the expiration of the holiday several of the biggest detroit corporations announced that they were continuing to pay their workers in cash and all business concerns except the financial houses bouses carried on as usual the governor held conferences with secretary of commerce chapin and leading financial authorities and mr air comstock Com said he did not seek to prohibit any bank from fr om making mailing a sensible arrangement to permit withdrawals to meet family necessities or to allow the cashing of pay checks with restraint concerning wing WHITING the antics antic of the present congress la ill difficult what the house bouse does in the way of economy it anything Is speedily undone oddone by the senate and vice versa or else both sides agree on some legislation which they well know will not get by with prest 1 dent hoover probably all economies that might hit the constituencies or the favorites of any members will be left for mr roosevelt to put into CL effect through the extraordinary powers which the democrats propose to confer on him in the language of the streets street they are passing the buck senator brattoni Brat Bret tons amendment to the treasury tre abury post office supply bill providing for a 5 per cent cut in appropriations and the navy departments plans for maintaining the fleet effi efficiency clency by shutting abutting down the pork barrel shore establishments caused a hurried lineup of the congressional supporters of the useless navy yards but the two propositions put chairman carl vinson of the house naval affairs committee in a quandary he announced he be would fight the bratton p plan a n in so far as it concerned the navy and if it 11 carried he would light to have the navy yards yard IS at boston charleston and portsmouth closed down at once S concrete in the way of u unemployment relief was done by the senate when it voted to add 22 ODO to the war department supply bill for 1934 tor for the aa purpose of enrolling and training homeless and idle young men in year round citizens mill mili tary training camps senator couzens of michigan was the originator of the part of the plan which Is designed to provide a home food and some sen couzens thing to do tor for a considerable sid erable part of the boys who are said to be tramping about the country the clauses providing that the lads be placed under discipline required red to drill and limiting those rec received ved to americans physically and mentally m ally fit for community life were cintr introduced ced at tha instance of senator david davi reed eed of pennsylvania Pen sylvania As aa the bill was drawn boys between fifteen and twenty one years old will be admissible provided they can show that they have been without work for six months or more and provided they can meet the C Q M T C entrance requirements ai as to citizenship and health I 1 investigation investigation of the election of john 11 overton as senator from louisiana by a senate committee that went to new orleans gave senator huey long opportunity for many characteristic act outbreaks and though he apologized frequently to the committee chairman howell threatened him alb with action for contempt longs brother now his bitter enemy and various other witnesses told of many instances of alleged corruption graft and extortion in louisiana and the retort of the in nearly every case was youre a liar ilar with profane trimmings the charges involved both overton and long APAN informed the world that itt fit J JAPAN negotiations with the league of nations in the manchurian Manc hurlan dispute had come to an end the foreign of flee bee in tokyo said it would offer no further concessions and would stand firmly by its de termination to main tain mill the government 26 of Manchu kuo yo to suke matsuoka ja pans able represent arlve active at geneva was wa given instructions to this effect and told to withdraw from the league and return yosuke home a as a soon as the matsuoka Matt uoka league adopted the report of the committee of nineteen which reasserts the principle of chinese sovereignty lo in manchuria and declines to recognize Manchu kuo all this was formulated by the cabinet and approved by the emperor dispatches from tokyo said the government feels that withdrawal from the league of nations will tip hp the turn ing point in the empires history before the ultimate decision Is made it was announced there would be an all extraordinary tra conference of the council of elders the heads of branches of the imperial family all living former premiers miers and other distinguished personages meanwhile plans for a general japanese offensive against the chinese province of dehol which japan claims Is a part of Manchu kuo were reported well under way and it was expected a campaign would soon begin to drive out sal eral hundred thousands of marshal chanas troops if this movement starts before japan actually quits the league of nations the league might apply sanctions under tinder article 16 of the covenant and the results of could well involve many nations 0 FAR as the courts and S SO tore tora of hawaii are concerned the alassie case has been closed with the dismissal of charges against four Ua Ha wallan youths of mixed blood who had been accused of attacking mrs airs thomas tl H massa bassle wife of a naval lieutenant this action was taken on recommendation of public prose autor J C kelley who made public a report of a detective agency on at an investigation of the case made at tin allt instance of gov GOT lawrence M budol and attorney general harry lleti itt a 1113 1913 western newspaper Nw pr valor |