| Show news review of current events the world over ahouse house hurriedly passes new revenue bill roper stirs B business usi ness men afen to sharp retort young farouk becomes kin king of egypt by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union ITH extraordinary speed which W W the opposition considered inde tent scent the administrations new revenue bill was pushed through the h house 0 u a e the vote to 93 was almost strictly atly 4 along party lines the roll call showed 82 and only 11 democrats voted against the measure 4 while four republicans deserted the minority y to cast lot with the administration the bill was handed sen harrlson harrison to Q the g senate whose finance committee headed by pat har bar teson had haa been studying it in secret sessions cessions ces cess lons to he be prepared for the public hearings that opened two days after the house had acted there lad had been predictions that this committee would modify the ute measure asure radically ly but the opposition to it in demo bratle ranks seemed to have faded away and its passage hy by the senate without material change chang ge was deemed Tro probable bable As passed by the house the bill provides 1 A graduated tax on corporation income which it Is estimated will force borce distribution of 0 snore more in dividends and yield the government an additional annually nu ally 2 A windfall tax on unpaid or refunded processing taxes imposed under the invalidated AAA which Is expected to yield 3 continuation of the capital stocks and excess profits taxes for six months to yield 4 A refund of to processors who suffered financial losses under the old AAL AAA HE frazier lemke THE farm mortgage bill with its threat of currency inflation inflation was blasted out of its pigeonhole friday and assured of a vote in the house during the present session five representatives signed the petition to remove the bill from the house rules committee completing the signatures necessary to bring up the bill speaker byrns chairman oconnor of the rules committee and the other democratic chieftains by sheer political power are said to have held the farm mortgage currency expansion measure in the committee for more than a year under express orders of president roosevelt the frazier lemke bill proposes to amortize farm mortgages by the issuance of in new currency it provides for a sharp downward revision of interest rates on mortgages ANTEL C ROPER secretary of D DANIEL commerce appeared before the chamber of commerce of the united states at its annual meeting in washington in ton and warned its me members bers most of whom are persistent critics of new deal 1 policies that unless ra private enterprise I 1 takes up the slack in 1 employment business must pay the relief bill out of earnings it Is the responsibility of all business and industrial enter laai w said roper sec se roper af pf and not of one particular segment of the government to increase its efforts for greater employment ea if 11 a sub substantial stam lelal measure of increased re employ ament ment does not take place the taxation for relief purposes will come largely from business earnings there must be re employment or a longer period of increased taxation roper admitted that the ad administration mints had bad fostered bureaucracy but insisted that it was occasioned by an emergency and responsibility for its increase again lay at the door of private business various members of the chamber replied spiritedly roy C osgood vice president of the first national bank of CIti chicago cago predicted that it if the administration embarked on a sound fiscal program that would inspire confidence business would make rapid strides toward recovery ue he criticized the pending tax on corporate earnings as impracticable and a brake on business expansion and stability fred 11 II clausen president of the van brunt manufacturing company of Ho horlein Borl rleon con wis told the chamber that the rising tide of public spending had been rolling onto our people for live five years and there vas nag no end in sight he ee declared that the re employment pan mandates dates laid down by president roosevelt secretary roper and others ikeie practically impossible in the light of the increased burdens heaped on industry the american federation of labor reported that little or no progress had been made in re employment during the first quarter ot of this year the federation estimated persons were unemployed in marati seasonal gains in business and agri culture returning persons to work were about normal the report said continuing continuing the policy of centralizing A control over the activities of 0 american citizens the senate passed a new vocational education bill introduced by senator walter waller F george of georgia and supported by majority leader robinson of arkansas it was strongly opposed by senator kin king of utah democrat who insisted education was P r responsibility of the states not of the federal government the measure authorizes an annual appropriation of to be distributed tri buted among the states on a matching bass basis in proportion to population tion in addition it authorizes a year to be allotted for the payment of salaries and travel expenses of 0 vocational teachers and a year to be allotted for the preparation of teachers and supervisors F 1 I king kin of egypt died of a gan gangrenous arenous throat infection at his bis country place near calro cairo at the age of sixty eight the crown prince farouk a sixteen year old pupil in the royal military academy at woolwich england was immediately proclaimed 03 king and started for egypt sailing I 1 from marseilles on a british liner escorted by a british warship jya in order to avoid gohl SK las ing by way of 0 italy im jr JN before his fais death king farouk fuad Fund named a regency council of three to govern the country until farouk comes of age the young kin ting who Is six feet tall and well educated cat ed hopes to return to england to complete his studies at woolwich it was feared in calro cairo that fuade death would have on an adverse effect on the negotiations tor for a new anglo egyptian treaty which will give egypt a greater measure of freedom from british control fuad a descendant ot of mohammed all founder of the egyptian royal house was the youngest son of khedive ismall ismail pasha the magnificent egyptian sovereign from to 1879 1870 0 OTHER member of congress N NO has been having so lively a time as has marion A of wash 1 ton state the playboy of the western world ue he has been arrested jailed and lined fined and has fought with will the police and the other day lie he suddenly decided to marry miss rubye louise nix a stenographer in the accounting division ot of the at an na with a washington license be dashed around looking for a minister who had left the city several years ago then lie rushed to maryland obtained another license wolie woke up a domine dominc and he and rubye were made man and wife next day marlon marion led mrs check into the gallery of the house bouse and the members all arose and cheered them perhaps his actions will be a arille more conventional hereafter R HITLER has made hermann wilhelm goerling controller of ef national economics and he b e has decreed an era of spartan alm simplicity for the german people goerling summoned the commissars commissary commis sars for raw m materials to a conference ond and worried warned them they must further restrict imports and help draft measures to increase exports only goods vitally necessary to the army and materials needed to produce goods tor for foreign export must be alloi allowed ed to enter germany goering decreed officials of the he propaganda ministry further darkened the picture of the near future by tolling telling the pi ess it must prepare the public for a of relations between france and germany as soon as the french elections are finished they also deplored the fact that relations with england have suf feted I 1 victorious troops la in northern northera ethiopia continued their advance on addis ababa though it vas somewhat retarded by the efforts of the natives to blow up the roadways and ot otherwise berwise harass the invaders the italian motorized column in this movement Is the most formidable yet formed in this war and Is notable for the large number of white troops included general Graz lanas ianos southern army arz meanwhile was toward barar second city of the empire in three columns the ethiopians were putting up stiff resistance at various points but everywhere were driven back according to italian dispatches when the italian forces reached debra bit alihan lion only 75 miles fro from addis mAddis ababa emperor halle selassie ordered the capital city left undefended hoping the invaders would occupy 1 ir without bloodshed the government prepared to move out and the native inhabitants all scuttled for the hills bills I 1 foreigners took refuge in the legations the americans going to the compound where there was it a bombproof shelter ALBEN W BARKLEY ot of S SENATOR kentucky who was temporary chairman of 0 the democratic national convention in 1032 and as such delivered tho lie keynote speech win will serve in the same A capacity at the philadelphia adelphia la convention in june outlining the issues of this years fa campaign as his party JL views them senator g joseph T robinson 0 of o arkansas will be the permanent chairman again yet another repeater will be former sen barkley S 1 judge john E mack of 0 new york four years ago ha be placed franklin D roosevelt in nomination and he be wilt will do it again in june these selections were made by the committee on arrangements other officers of the convention chosen are lee barnes of alabama chief doorkeeper mrs J borden harriman national committeewoman of the district of columbia hostess of the convention with sirs mrs agnes colllns collins dunn of new hampshire as assistant col E edward C Q halsey halscy secretary of the senate sergeant at arms representative claronce clarence cannon of missouri parliamentarian assisted by representative john J oconnor of new york W forbes morgan secretary of the convention national chairman parley farley said that the two thirds rule which has prevailed in democratic conventions for a century will not be abolished the rules committee will be headed by senat r bennett clark of Misso missouri url and it will report for abrogation of the two thorda rule as well as elimination ot or the unit rule the latter binds the state delegations to abide by the decision of a majority of the delegation according to mr farley these changes will not prevent the practically unanimous nomination of president roosevelt RESIDENT ROOSEVELT made P PRESIDENT what might be considered the first of his big campaign speeches before the national democratic club in new york city tammany was there in full force but such disgruntled democrats Rs as al smith and john J raskob were conspicuous by their absence mr roose icat elt declared his purpose to bring more food higher prices and better homes tor for the people it you increase buying power he said prices will go up more goods will be sold wages ought to and must go up with prices this does not cot mean unsound inflation or sky rocketing prices this should be avoided just as we seek to avoid bankruptcy sale values turning to his critics with sarcasm the president said some individuals are never satisfied referring to charges of extravagance and mounting deficits he be said people complain to him about the current costs of rebuilding america about the burden on future america ile he insisted that the measure should not be the three brillon dollar deficit of this year but the assertion that the national income has bag risen thirty flye five bIllI billions in 1032 1932 to sixty five billions in 1030 IVIL war in austria became a possibility CIVIL C lity as the quarrel between the fascists led by prince ernst von star hemberg and the clerical and mon arthist elements be came acute government officials however were trying desperately pera tely to patch up the trouble prince von star hemberg who Is vice chancellor in a defiant speech at horn warned his political opponents that his bis al beim belm wehr or home prince von guard 3 would be dis Star hemberg solved only y over my dead body chancellor kurt Sc buschnigg speaking to at baden retorted that austria Is not italy and Aust austria rians na are not fascists von Star hemberg bemberg asserted that if internal foes press too hard there will be a repetition of 1934 when the helm wehr triumphed in a short but bloody civil war against socialists false friends surround von Star hemberg said and the beim helm wehr plans to protect him from them for austria said Star hemberg there are three possibilities a co continuation of the authority of the state or communism ue he asserted the helm wehr Is determined to preserve the fascist system and would continue as a separate organization aided by mrs airs oliver harridan C CONTESTS new york society leader and alfred 1 B smith jr were barred from the malls mails as lotteries in orders signed by postmaster general farley the orders were directed against the national conference for legalizing lotteries inc of which mrs airs harriman Is president and the golden stakes advertising vertis ver ng company of which young smith Is vice president and counsel in the latter case a temporary injunction restraining the new york post master from enforcing the order was obtained from federal judge knox in new york y and navy officials were reported an ARMY p r ted to be concerned over a new treaty with panama which Is being secretly considered consider pd by the government it was said an uncorrected text of the pact showed it provides ldes for joint conversations sat ions rather than for defense of the canal zone in event of aggression the grant ty ly panama for tho the use occupation cu and control of lands and waters outside the jurisdiction of tho the united states it necessary la Is renounced by this country in the treaty |
