| Show news rf review alvi ew of current events the world over japanese rebels slay four statesmen anil and dictatorship Is s rumored hagoods hagoodd Ha goods removal starts a row van denberg wont enter the ohio primary by EDWARD W PICKARD Q Ln toi of japan led by a M militarists group of young army officers who were impatient with the governments policy of economy and restraint in the matter of advances in china and mongolia suddenly staged a revolt in tokyo with the avowed purpose of ellmina eliminating ting liberal statesmen whom they considered obstacles to the restoration of a military dictatorship N tinder imperial rule seizing certain government buildings emperor in the they hirohito rushed to the ii onies of the listed statesmen anil and bu ceedee in assassinating four r admiral keisuke okada admiral viscount makoto former premier anil and loril keeper of the privy seat seal gen ettari wata ata nabe chief of military Iii cailin n till and Korc ylko takahashi ashl ti tiance mi minister alster several others were wounded and servants of all of them were killed emperor toot took charge of the situation caled a counell council of state and made fulido I 1 goto oto temporary premier martial ija was proclaimed in tokyo and the to loyal army forces largely outnumbering the rebels surrounded the ingier in tile buildings they had taken meanwhile the second fleet also loyal moved up to the mouth of tokyo bay its guns dominating the city during the first 13 day of the uprising an agreement was reached that the rebel troops should return to their barricks barracks but this they refused to do then the censorship temporarily raised was clamped down again diplomatic quarters in shanghai received a report that pen oen sadao arake former minister of war had established a military dictatorship me lie has been the most chauvinistic of all japans high army officers political observers in tokyo believed that the emperors advisers would urge the right wing elements to be given a chance to form a cabinet to see whether they would be able to conduct the government even liberal political sources shared this belief confident that such an experiment peri ment would produce a strong public reaction to the left permitting early restoration of a normal government nt ENATE and house conferees patched s SENATE up the new farm bill substitute for the invalidated AAA both houses accepted the revised measure and it was sent to the white house senator borah argued in vain especially against the so called consumers amendment which authorizes the re establishment at as rapid a rate as the secretary of agriculture determines to be practicable and in the general public interest of the ratio between the purchasing power of the net income per person on farms and the income per person not on farms that pre prevailed during the five year period august 1001 to july 1914 11 speaking of the he extraordinary delegation of power to the secretary of agriculture senator borah said we are now asked to confer upon him a taste task which would require omnipotence it Is manifestly on the face of it an absurdity this idea that even by divine pow er you can go out and equalize the purchasing power of the producer and equalize the purchasing power of the laborer when above them both Is a power which Is fixing a rule under which they ilive Is to me inconceivable 0 N THE ground that the seed loan w requirements of farmers can be met inet from relief funds on hand president roosevelt vetoed the crop production hill bill passed by congress in his message ge he called attention to his budget message ur urging ing that congress provide additional taxes if it enacted legislation imposing charges not covered in the lind budget get he said he expected last year that such loans aa a the seed loan would be tapered olt off lie he realizes they still are necessary but added 1 I am fully convinced that the immediate and actual need to which I 1 lave bare referred can be met during the year jear 1936 by an expenditure of funds materially less than that proposed in ili the bill under discus discussion siow SUMMARY S removal of maj gen johnson bagood from his command of the eighth corps area because of his big critical expressions concerning the and other new deal ties stirred up a pretty row in washington gen malin craig chief of staff signed the order to lagond by order of the secretary of war and the president the republicans public ans in congress backed up by tom blanton of texas and some other democrats gen hagood assailed tile the action vigorously and senator metcalf blet calf of rhode island introduced trod a resolution tor for an inquiry into the incident on behalf of tree free speech breading Bread Bre adrig ng its usual rule of silence the war department made public a let ter from general geller at cragg to lo secretary dern declaring Ili goods record was marked by repeated examples of if lack of self control irresponsible nod in temperate statements hagood had told a house tec fee that it was almost Impi to 1 get stage ml nty fur for anything worthwhile these remarks said craig can only be 06 as flippant in tone and entirely uncalled for and designed to bring ridicule and contempt upon civil agen agencies cles of the government govern aunt accusing him of thinly belled vel leil opposition and contempt toward war department policies in tile the post past crale pointed out as contemptuous ila H goods references to cf activities as hobbles bobbles collecting postage sla stamps nips and taking inking an interest in butterflies seeking a quirk quick settlement lement or of tile controversy senator byrnes li democrat and mcswain Mes waln democratic chairman of if the house military affairs committee both of whom hail from ila Ha hagoodd hagoods goods home state of south carolina arranged a conference with secretary of war pern dern this had no result VANDEN of michigan S SENATOR has formally declined to enter the ohio presidential primary but does not bar himself from consideration for the republican nomination writing to the republican state slate committee of ohio in reply to an inquiry as to whether lie he would run asserted his big sole interest in tile he republican pu tillean convention was that it should make the wisest possible decisions respecting both party leadership and party policies to conform to ohio law the borah forces have found the required second choice this Is frank R E gannett of rochester N Y publisher of a chain of newspapers 1 who has agreed to fight alongside the idaho senator for chios 52 delegates to receive the votes of those pledged to borah should the nomination of the latter he blocked in the convention mr gannett has expressed the belief that borah Is the olie one member of the party most likely to recover the upstate new york vote and he be also holds the view that the idahoan would lie he the strongest candidate in the agricultural states waiting for instructions as ato WHILE to what to do in the matter of taxation the members of the house and many others directed their attention to the investigation of the activities of the townsend pension plan promoters speaker byrns IS y r n s appointed on the probing committee of eight two avowed Townsend ites john 11 tolan dem and samuel L collins republican both from california the chairman Is J J JJ jasper bell asper jasper pell p of AM bourl democrat author of 0 the resolution for the investigation it was understood der stood that mr air bell had already gathered a mass of information to substantiate the charge that the townsend plan has become a huge racket the leaders of both parties in congress have been getting rather nervous over the growth of tile the townsend movement and are glad to see it attacked but tome some impartial observers call ut attention to the fact that tb the e way the committee Is going after it smacks of unconstitutional abridge ment of the right to petition lt it was expected that one of the first questions to he considered by the committee would be the salaries received by dr francis E townsend author of the scheme and R K U clements former california real estate operator founder cofounder co and general manager S SENATOR NYE of north dakota Is determined that the war profits bill devised by his big munitions commit tee shall be brought up tip for con considers cons sidera tion at this session indeed he more than threatens a filibuster to brine this about if necessary to get the measure out of the hands of a finance subcommittee which Is headed by tom connally of texas one of nyes ayes bitterest opponents the nye bill provides for stiff taxes on earnings earn liias and virtual confiscation of individual income above ekx a year to in time of war in addition it would empower the president virtually to conscript I 1 industrial lenders to maintain production of essential war supplies U revolting against administration direction the house voted down to 16 1 the till hill to exempt from state and local taxation bank stocks held by the tion corporation A similar measure passed the senate as 38 to 23 28 the day before tile the defeat was surprising because the measure had been unanimously supported by republicans and democrats on tile the house banking committee democratic lenders expressed the belief that the measure would not he be revived the legislation was written after the supreme court held beld in a maryland bank case that the stocks held by were subject to taxation OV EUGENE TALMADGE Is 13 vir G GOV financial dictator of georgia because the lie general genera assembly did not t e enact ct an appropriation bill but lie is 5 having his tl Illjes finding funds to lo carry on lie he declared there was a plin plan hatched in to ti hamper him arid misled emte treasurer george hamilton and controller own en er era it william for refusal to tit linnor treasury ury nur arrants rants hamilton removed nil tile money from alio lie treasury vault to a bank three state de purl led funds for teal ope rallon of if lawill arral affairs rs then del hanks banks the unite I tats tat s post office bink p anti and the alie sin ies attorney general sink a hand 3 anil all addressed to the suspended officers was impounded cutting culling ot off hip flow of tax bances nances nil lint bill ont of the depository bauk banks a refused to honor state checks pending a court decision on the legal status of de facto officials ceals and Att attorney Atto iney OlneY Ge general al M J yeo mans once cited by talmadge ns as an authority for his actions declared h hla position hail been misinterpreted took tonk from the scene reene two D DEATH men prominent in national life fire albert cabell leitchie Ritch le governor of Al maryland aryland for four terms anti and henry latrobe e fig assistant secretary of the navy and distant cousin of tile dent sir air fritchle was a leader among con se sen natIve a lire democrats from the start a df de I 1 ter mined foe of na t dional prohibition and in 1932 a candidate for the presidential nomination by his ac ritchie party though beaten out by F r D roosevelt noo sevelt he had the satisfaction is of seeing his repeal plank pu put tinto into the democratic platform ef t late lie he had been an outspoken critic of the new deal policies for he was a champion of state rights henry L roosevelt was the fifth member of his family to serve as assistant secretary of the navy and irk in recent months he be had played an increasingly creason crea singly ln ay iy important part in the affairs of the department acting as secretary during the illness of secretary swanson lie he was a student in the naval academy class of 1909 1009 but left before graduation to become a second lieutenant in the marine corps in which service he rose to the rank of colonel conditions in puerto P POLITICAL rico notoriously unsatisfactory may be rectified as a result of the assassination sassi nation in san juan of E francis riggi chief of the insular police and a district police chief riggs a former united states army colonel was shot by two nationalists two hours bouls later district pollee police chief francisco velez N ortiz attempted to put down a nationalist tion alist riot at utuado and was killed gov blanton winship announced that a full inquiry into the incidents would be energetically pushed deploring tile slaying of riggs as dastardly he be asserted a revival of capital punishment and a ban against carrying of firearms being urged upon the legislature would prevent such crimes the assassins of riggs were caught and admitted the killing saying it was in revenge for the rio alo pedras massacre cre in which police killed four nationalists tiona lists last november while being questioned the murderers the pollee police said reached for guns and were shot to death in washington D developments lead to the belief that the copeland ship subsidy hill has been abandoned word came from the white house that the president although he initiated the principles of the measure would not press for its passage and senator royal S copeland ak whose commerce IN committee approved I 1 the bill which was a W part of the administration k program Is so irritated that he may sen copeland drop op it senator gut fey of pennsylvania has prepared a rival measure not yet introduced shipping interests have div given ell warning that new construction for foreign trade will continue to be par paralyzed by uncertainty and lead to adal additional t lonal insistence si stence by the navy department on the building a 0 its own auxiliaries APT ANTHONY EDEN british C CAPT foreign minister stood up in the house of commons and warned the world that recurrence of the world war was imminent and to in his opinion could not be averted except by a system of collective security embracing fill all nations in an authority alch which Is unchallenged and unchallengeable edin impressed upon members of the parliament the difference between a policy of collective security and one of encirclement such as the ring of steel which germany complains Is being 7 forged about her by france the british government will have no lot or part in encirclement eden edell said M had an ambitious plan evl for a five power agreement that would embrace italy germany austria poland and hungary but when it was submitted to littler hitler be declined to enter tile the combination however the it Is said told mussolini germany looks with sympathy on the stand italy has taken ustler pointed out that germany is at present economically land ind militarily weak and needs a breathing spell to recruit her forces ile he cannot therefore do anything at present that la 18 likely to draw the hostility of france and great BrIl britain aln bu but I 1 cewill he will maintain ta I 1 n an A attitude of benevolent neutrality toward italy |
