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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Southerners Launch Talmadge's Presidential Boom Kansas Offers Landon to Republicans Bonus Bill Passed Over Roosevelt's Veto. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. TWO THOUSAND or more "grass mot" Dcinocrnt.s, reiirospntlng 17 sou I licrn and Ijonlor Hiatus though rnoHt of thc-m were Ocor(,'ln.s as- ACTIV1TIES of the Townsend old age pension advocates are proving most annoying to many congressmen, and it Is likely they will be Investigated. A resolution for such an Inquiry was Introduced by Representative Jasper Bell of Missouri, Democrat. It charged that for several years "Individuals and groups" have "conceived and promoted pro-moted numerous schemes under the pretext of obtaining pensions for the aged and needy" and that now "several groups of fraudulent promoters pro-moters are enriching themselves by working the so-called pension plan racket." There are perhaps 00 to CO votes In the Townsend bloc In the house, so there were prospects for a lively live-ly fight over the resolution. A JURY In the United States District Dis-trict court In New York returned re-turned verdicts of guilty against acting Capt. William F. Warms and three co-defendants In the criminal negligence trial resulting from the disastrous fire that swept the Morro Castle off Asbury Park, September 8, VX'A, taking a toll of 134 lives. Besides Warms, those convicted were Eben Starr Abbott, chief engineer engi-neer of the burned ship; Henry E. Cabaud, executive vice president of the New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Steam-ship company, operators of the Ward Line, and the New York & Cuba company itself. ITERANCE'S new government, an-" an-" der Albert Sarraut as premier, It Is hoped will stand up until the spring elections. If It does, the re- : , ' J ;i In J seinhled In .Macon, Ga., and with wild yells launched the boom of Gov. Eugene Eu-gene TnlmadgH for the Democratic Presidential nom-I nom-I n a t I o n. They adopted a motion asking him to run as a constitutional Democrat who Is His own best recommendation of himself he gave In three succinct paragraphs summarizing his budget balancing achievements. PAYMENT of the veterans' bonus ' by means of baby bonds payable on demand was enacted Into law by congress, and the money for the ex-soldiers may be available on Julj 1. The Harrison compromise bonus bill that went through the senate and house easily, was vetoed by 'resident Roosevelt. The house Immediately Im-mediately and enthusiastically repassed re-passed the measure. The senate was a little more deliberate, but within three days it, too, had overridden over-ridden the disapproval of the Chief Executive, and the bill was made law. The vote In the senate was 70 to 1!). In the house It had been 321 to 01. It was a notable fact that all the senators 95 In number, for Huey Long's successor has not yet taken his seat were present and voting. Notable, but not strange when one remembers this Is an election year. Fifty-seven Democrats, 10 Republicans Republic-ans and 3 radicals La Follette of Wisconsin. SMnstpnrt flnri Rpnflnn nf opposing what they Gov. Talmadge cu(1() t,(, ..Ue()r. lata, crackpots, brain trusters and professors" of the New Deal. Talmadge, Tal-madge, though highly elated, declined de-clined to comment or to make any announcement at the time. The platform adopted by the mooting called for preservation of the ('(institution, of state sovereignty sovereign-ty and of the American form of government. gov-ernment. It accused President Koosovelt of abandoning faith In the Constitution and the doctrines of Thomas JelTerson and of "re-nudlatlng. "re-nudlatlng. abandoning, and slde- suits will not be happy for Italy for It will take a much stronger stand in support of the League of Nations Na-tions than did that of Laval. The new foreign minister is Pierre - E 1 1 e n n e Flandin, noted for his pro-British ten- tracking" the platform on which he was elected In 1932. It said: "We do not regard the occupant of the White House as a Democrat. "He has broken the pledge of our party and violated the platform of 1032. "We here today allirm our faith In that doctrine." It is not easy yet to estimate the possible results of the Talmadge movement. The administration leaders lead-ers refuse to take the Georgia governor gov-ernor seriously or to admit that he can Imperil their control of any of the southern states. The situation in the South Is further fur-ther complicated by the sudden death of Gov. (). K. Allen of Louisiana. Loui-siana. He was the devoted and complaisant adherent of Iluey Long and had been selected to fill out the unexpired term of the late senator. Lieutenant Governor Noe succeeded to the governorship, hut who will now be the leader of the Long forces was not immediately determined. Minnesota voted for the bill, while 12 Democrats and 7 Republicans voted against It. The galleries were filled and there was wild cheering when the vote was announced. Republican senators amused themselves and the spectators by twitting the Democrats Dem-ocrats on their failure to stand by their chief, the most voluble of the twitters being Senator Hastings of Delaware. Informed of the vote, President Roosevelt at once ordered government govern-ment departments to prepare for payment of the bonus certificates as quickly as accuracy will permit. Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-thau Morgen-thau said that the payment would be the most difficult mechanical task the treasury had faced In Its history. He said the treasury would need $2,500,000 and the veterans' administration $5,000,000 to increase the force to take care of the job. More than seven million Interest calculations will be necessary. :iAirE CAN either take on the V mantle of hypocrisy, or we can take a walk ; and we'll probably do the latter." ... . dencies; and Jos- Albert Sarraut eph Panl.BonconPf no friend of Mussolini, is the minister min-ister of state concerned chiefly with league affairs. In other respects there Is nothing especially notable about the Sarraut cabinet. Regnler is retained as finance minister, and he is committed to the Laval policy of defending the franc. Flandin went to London for the funeral of King George, and It is rumored in Paris that he would sound out British bankers on the subject of a loan of three billion francs which the French treasury sorely needs. With Laval In the discard, the British might look on this suggestion with favor. WASHINGTON wants to know who ordered the United States Marine band to walk out at the women's patriotic conference on national na-tional defense. Probably It was Assistant As-sistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Hen-ry L. Roosevelt, but he would say nothing, so a resolution was introduced intro-duced in congress demanding an investigation. in-vestigation. The difficulties arose out of a speech before the women's conference confer-ence by Balnbridge Colby, a Democrat Demo-crat who said unkind things about the New Deal. Thereupon the band walked out, and certain navy officers offi-cers refused to deliver scheduled speeches before the conference. The Republicans did not overlook the opportunities offered by the Incident. In-cident. A DOLF HITLER has just com-pleted com-pleted three years as the ruler rul-er of Germany, and the anniversary was celebrated by the Nazis with triumphant rejoicing. Addressing 26,000 Nazi storm troop veterans, the reichsfuehrer declared : , "Whoever opposes us now does it not because we are Nazis, but because be-cause we restored military independence inde-pendence to Germany." Hitler spoke 25 minutes, claiming claim-ing the Nazi movement has brought unity to the nation and adding: "We seek peace because we love it, but we Insist on our honor because be-cause we do not live without It." XJOTEWORTHY among recent -L deaths is that of George W. WIckersham of New York, who was attorney general of the United States in the Taft administration These words of Alfred E. Smith In his speech at the American Liberty league dinner in Washington were perhaps the most interesting and significant sig-nificant of his utterances ut-terances on that occasion, for he professed to be XlTIAT Is known as the Bank- head .Tones bill for soil conservation, con-servation, the administration's substitute sub-stitute for the AAA, was given the hesitant approval of the senate agricultural ag-ricultural committee by a vote of 15 to 2, although Chairman Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina said he "personally had some doubts" as to its constitutionality. The measure meas-ure would enable the secretary of agriculture to remove 30,000.000 acres from cultivation and give him even wider powers than he had under un-der the AAA. It was evidently headed for a hot debate on the senate sen-ate floor. Secretary Wallace let It be known that officials of the Agriculture, Treasury and Justice departments were co-operating In an effort to collect for the government the $200,-000,000 $200,-000,000 ordered returned to processors proces-sors by the Supreme court, but he gave no details of the plan. In referring re-ferring to this court order in a radio talk, Mr. Wallace went further in criticism of the Supreme court than has any other official of the administration. He declared It was "the most gigantic legalized steal In history." Representative Allen T. Treadwny of Massachusetts asserted as-serted on the floor of the house that "any official who will make a statement state-ment of that nature about the Supreme Su-preme court ought to be impeached." Mr. Wallace may not have heard the last of this. TTANSAS Republican state com-mlttee com-mlttee members, theKansasDay club and many party leaders from the Missouri valley resrlon. eelehrnf- speaKing ror tne AI Smith disciples of Jefferson, Jeffer-son, Jackson and Cleveland" and concerning their action in the Democratic Dem-ocratic national convention next June when the delegates are asked to Indorse the doings of the Roosevelt Roose-velt administration. There could be no misunderstanding Smith's meaning, and he must now be considered con-sidered the leader of the conservative conserva-tive Democrats in their revolt against the policies of the New Dealers. The concern of the administration admin-istration Democrats is now as to how extensive will be the bolt; and whether the conservatives will put up their own ticket, support the Republican Re-publican nominee or merely stay away from the polls. Of course in any case the Republican cause will be aided materially, unless the guesses of Its leaders are all wrong. New Deal Democrats were quite undismayed by the Smith speech, which they declared was weak and ing Founders' day in Topeka, presented pre-sented to the country coun-try Gov. Alf Landon Lan-don of Kansas as their choice for the Eepubllcan Presidential Presi-dential nomination. In a speech to the banqueters the governor gov-ernor told what he hoped to do for the iiiciic-v. ii c. of y miuouuceu mat Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson Robin-son of the senate would deliver the official reply In a radio address, and unolticial answers to Smith's denunciation denun-ciation came from various sources. Mr. Smith in his Liberty league speech never once named President Roosevelt but he specifically put on that gentleman the full blame for repudiation of most of the planks in the Democratic platform of 1932, which he declared was the best that was ever put forth in this country. "Millions and millions of Democrats Demo-crats Just like myself, all over the country, still believe that platform," he shouted. "And what we want to know Is why It wasn't carried out. And listen. There Is only one man in the United States of America that can answer that question." Senator Robinson's reply to Al Smith's speech consisted In the main of quotations from previous utterances by Smith In which he advocated ad-vocated a course quite as radical as that pursued by the New Dealers In combating the depression. He jeered at the New Yorker for abandoning the streets of the west side for the palaces of Park avenue ami trading his brown derby for a silk topper, and denounced him as a deserter In the face of the enemy. and for many years one of the country's coun-try's leading corporation lawyers. He was seventy-seven years old, and died of heart disease in a taxicab. Mr. Wickersham was chairman of the famous Hoover commission named to Investigate prohibition and other law enforcement in 1929. The commission's report opposed repeal, but the document was accompanied ac-companied by the members' individual individ-ual statements in which a majority urged repeal or modification of the eighteenth amendment The net result re-sult was confusing. T AJOR reductions In naval ton-oage ton-oage are "out" so far as the London four - power conference Is concerned, owing to the unsettled conditon of world affairs and the defection of Japan. However the parley made some progress toward an agreement on the sizes of ships and calibers of guns when the Americans, French, and Italians accepted ac-cepted a new British compromise plan as a basis for discussion. The plan proposes battleships with a maximum of 35,000 tons, the existing limits; 14 inch guns in stead of the present 1(5 inch ones, which would be eliminated; and an entirely separate categ )ry for destroyers, de-stroyers, placing them in a classification classi-fication with small cruisers. nation if he were "" " nominated and Gov- Landon elected. Refraining from "substituting "substi-tuting epithets for arguments," he offered a program for ending federal feder-al extravagance and restoring prosperity. pros-perity. Replying to the query "What would you do?" Mr. Landon proposed pro-posed relief for agriculture through a soli conservation program with the honest purpose of saving the fertility of American farms and not merely that of providing a blind for further dispensation of AAA checks. The governor pledged himself to old age pensions. He recommended extension and Improvement of civil service, and the utilization by the federal government of specially trained minds as he has used them in Kansas "to collect facts, not to administer theories." |