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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over House Democrats Defy President Lobbying for and AgaiiiHt Utilities Bill to Be Investigated Senator Glass Bests Eccles. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C Western Newspapr Union. CAPT. ANTHONY EDEN. England's Eng-land's journeyman trouble shoot-er, shoot-er, electrified the llriti.vh Isle by announcing that Gn-at Britain had offered to ?ive II ai He Selassie, emperor em-peror of Abyssinia, a generous strip of British Sumaliland to replace territory ter-ritory acquired by Italy, If the Italian Ital-ian government would promise not to wa-e war against the domain of Africa's "Conquering Lion of Julian." Ju-lian." Nothing doing, Bald Premier Mus gollnl, who has turned a deaf ear to all Britain's proposals of an Italo-Ethlspian Italo-Ethlspian compromise. lie was reported re-ported as Intending to go right ahead with his plan for a four-years' war to effect the complete pacification pacifica-tion of the African empire. He insists in-sists that there must be more room in Africa for over-populated Italy to expand. Mussolini has threatened to "re member" the nations which have offered of-fered to furnish Abyssinia with arms, and they have withdrawn or modified their offers. The African emperor pleaded: "If we are in the right and if civilized nations are unable to prevent pre-vent this war, at least do not deny us the Djeans of defending otir selves." The British parliament was nc better pleased with Eden's "offer" of land than was Italy, and the j colonial secretary, son of former i r fCVOIr in congress against al l;gi:d dictatorial attempts o the adiiiliilKtrutlon reached a clima: wlwn the house, by the declslvi . rewritten by Glass, reserve board r members are to be appointed for 14-; 14-; year terms and are to be discharged . only for cause; chief officers of the reserve banks are to be chosen by i their directors, subject to reserve board approval, for five-year peri- oiLs, and the reserve banks need not I buy additional government bonds I unless they choose to do so. IVl:.;,,"i' 1 AT.'O.V of the administration adminis-tration of the Virgin Islands by a senate committee was certain to be lively. The very first witness heard, Charles H. Gibson, was threatened with Jail by Secretary of the Interior Ickes for removing official documents from the files. Mr. Gibson, who was government vote or to ii rejected the "deatl sentence" In tin utility holding com panics bill as pa.-t.set by the senate am demanded by th President. The rec ord vote came oi a motion to substl tute the house blf placing utility hold attorney for the Islands antil Ickoa ousted him. had testified rather vaguely against the regime of Gov. Paul M. Pearson. Gibson testified that Governor Pearson had exceeded his authority under the law, was unpopular with a large section of the population of the Islands, and was not frank In his administration. To support bis testimony Gibson Introduced several letters which were the documents doc-uments to which Ickes alluded. ATTORNEY GENERAL CTOI-MINGS CTOI-MINGS announced that on July 29 a school would be opened by his department In Washington for the purpose of training state, county and city pollee In law enforcement en-forcement theory and practice. A twelve weeks' course will be given to selected officers, the Instruction being free and the equipment of the bureau of Investigation being utilized. r EPUP.LIOAN senators were ad- vised that former President Herbert Hoover will not be a candidate can-didate for the Republican nomlna- i rn : I Hon In the Presidential Presi-dential race of 1936. They were advised ad-vised that Mr. Hoover Hoo-ver would make the formal announcement an-nouncement some time this summer. He is staying out, it was said, because be-cause he Intends to remain la private I D. D , Ing companies un-Rep. un-Rep. Brewster . , , v der regulation ol th securities and exchange commission com-mission for the senate bill which preticrlbcd the dissolution of the holding companies of more than flrtrt degree beginning In 19-10. The adoption of this motion killed tlie "death sentence." After substituting substi-tuting the house bill for the senate sen-ate bHl, the perfected measure was passed by a vote of 322 to 8L Immediately after this action, the house voted nnanlmously for an Investigation of alleged lobbying by both supporters and the foes of the utility measure. During the debate on the bill It was frequently cliarged that the capitol was swnrwilng with utility company lobbyists, lob-byists, and then came two serious accusations against the other side. Representative John H. Hoeppe of California, Democrat, asserted an unnamed administration lobbyist had offered to get California's relief re-lief allotment Increased If Hoeppe! would vote for the bill as the President Pres-ident wanted It This didn't greatly Impress the house, but later Representative Repre-sentative Ralph O. Brewster, Maine, Republican, charged that Thomas G. Corcoran, a young brain truster who Is co-author of the administration adminis-tration bill, had threatened cessation cessa-tion of construction of the $37,000,-000 $37,000,-000 Passamaquoddy dam project In the congressman's district If Brewster should vote against the "death sentence." Mr. Brewster said he did not believe be-lieve the President was aware that snch tactics were being used by hte aids or would countenance them, and Rankin of Mississippi and Moran of Maine defended Mr. Rosevelt. But the President's contact con-tact man, Charles West, and Postmaster Post-master Farley's lobbyist, Emll Ilurja, had been so active among the house members that the resentment resent-ment of the lawmakers wns aroused and they gladly directed that the lobbying charges be investigated. T HAT would be the final fate of the utility measure was doubtful. Senator Wheeler of Montana, Mon-tana, after a call at the White House, said he was confident a satisfactory sat-isfactory bill would come out of the conference, and If one did not, the measure would be allowed to die. In either case the war on the holding hold-ing companies Is likely to be made a major Issue of the next Presidential Presiden-tial campaign, and administration leaders are predicting that the Democratic congressmen who dared to vote against the "death sentence" sen-tence" will be defeated at the polls. These "doomed" men number 100, as against 131 Democrats who stood by the President Republican lenders were Jubilant, professing to see in the episode the beginning of a real uprising against the President and his New Dealers; Deal-ers; many neutral observers looked upon It as only a battle between the two lobbies In which the victory vic-tory went ta the utilities lobby. IN THE battle between Senator Carter Glass and Marriner S. Eccles. governor of the federal reserve re-serve board, the former has. at this Prime Minister MacDonald, had a hard time explaining It. Then Italy heard that the British Brit-ish government was considering a proposal to Invite other nations to Join In an economic blockade of Italy to check her aggression on Ethiopia. Rome was astonished by this report, but didn't seem In the least alarmed. Neither were the Italians frightened when they learned officially that Ethiopia had asked the United States to study means of persuading Italy to respect re-spect the Kellogg pact outlawing war. The emperor himself made the appeal to W. Perry George, charge d'affaires at Addis Ababa. GEN. HUGH JOHNSON assumed his new office of federal works relief administrator for New York city. "Robbie," his ever present secretary, sec-retary, fended off the reporters for a day, but let them in then, and to them the general walled: "I hate this thing I It Isn't helping help-ing anybody, anywhere. When the source of money is cut off we'll be right back where we started. It's disheartening to sit here, knowing that when the funds are gone, the Jobs will be gone." SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE proclaimed the establishment es-tablishment of an AAA adjustment program for the 1935 rye crop which will include benefit payments of amounts not yet disclosed. Representatives Rep-resentatives from 16 rye growing states met In Washington to discuss dis-cuss the program and outline plana for Its operation. Farmers from the principal wheat producing states met with AAA officials offi-cials and gave their approval to a tentative flexible plan for the payment pay-ment of benefits to wheat growers. JAPAN'S beautiful Inland sea was the scene of a terrible disaster that cost 104 lives. The steamer Midori Maru, crowded with holiday passengers, collided with a freighter in the foggy night and sank almost Immediately. Rescue boats picked up 91 of the 1G6 passengers and 50 of the crew. All the victims were Japanese. THE federal government began a new fiscal year with Intentions Inten-tions of spending more money than In any previous year of peace. Mr. Roosevelt announced that he would spend $S,520,000.000, of which $4,-5S2,000,000 $4,-5S2,000,000 will go for "recovery and relief." He expects the treasury treas-ury to collect $3,991,000,000. No, it doesn't add up. The deficit for the new fiscal year will be $4,52S,000,-000, $4,52S,000,-000, it is estimated. The fiscal year Just passed came to an end with the public debt at a new peace-time peak of $2S,005,-000.000 $2S,005,-000.000 still some shy of the $31,-000,000,000 $31,-000,000,000 the President estimated a year ago. To finance the new budget, he had counted In part upon the $500,000,000 extension of "nuisance" taxes Just passed by congress, but not upon the tax-the-rlch program which the New Deal- u . life and has planned Herbert , ,, his future career Hoover , .. . ,, along that line. For his active criticisms of administra tion policies the reason was given that although he does not "choose to run," he thought the party needed need-ed some sort of direction; now that his candidacy Is shelved, it Is expected ex-pected that his political utterances will be clothed with considerably less authority. The Informers, however, assured the senators that Mr. Hoover would get behind the party's candidate and enter the campaign for him, and that he thinks, with unification growing, the Republican prospects are looking brighter day by day. "XXT'OItLD war veterans from both v the Allied and the Central powers met officially la Paris and debated ways In which future wars may be averted. They denounced as enemies of their own countries those who would seek to foment a new war, and passed a resolution declaring: "The respect for treaties being the basis of International relations, re-lations, this confidence can be durable dur-able only when International accords ac-cords and the resulting obligations are mutually and sincerely respected." re-spected." The meeting was held under the auspices of Fidac. The American delegates Included S. P. Bailey, Winona, Minn.; Julian W. Thomas, Salt Lake City; Bernhard Kagner, McKeesport, Pa., and Harold L. Smith, Coatsville, Pa. writing, scored the most points. The astute Virginian extracted ex-tracted from the Eccles-Currle hanking hank-ing bill most of the radical provisions that would have led to government or public ownership of the federal reserve system, and. Indeed. era hope to jockey through some time In August Estimates have it that this will net another $340,000,-000. $340,000,-000. The expenditure for the past year Is only S7,25S,000.000 instead of $S,-571.000.000 $S,-571.000.000 forecast at the start of the year. The deficit was $3,472,-347.000 $3,472,-347.000 Instead of the proposed $-1,-SC',1,000.000. If the expenditures outlined li, the 193S budget reach the estimat-" ed total, the public debt on July 1 next year would stand at $34,230,-000.000. $34,230,-000.000. During the next year the President Presi-dent expects to spend $4,SSO,000.000 for relief and for the employment of 3,500.000 idle workers. A general upswing in business would Improve the revenue expected by the treasury. treas-ury. The President counted on $3,-711.000,000 $3,-711.000,000 coming In during the 1035 fiscal year. Receipts proved to be S3,7S5.000,000. O RESIDENT ROOSEVELT asked 'congress to prevent holders of federal golJ bonds from suing the i government for damages they may have suffered because the New Dtai went back on the gold paymenr pledge. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, whose New Deal program wns not well received by the British government, govern-ment, has resumed active participation participa-tion In politics, "reluctantly," but with expressed determination to "go on with it." The little Welsh veteran vet-eran statesman addressed the national na-tional convention of the peace and reconstruction movement and asserted as-serted the menace to peace and the economic confusion throughout the world are growing worse. ANDRE CITROEN, famous for years as "the Henry Ford of France" because he built most of that country's low cost motor cars. Is de"d. And probably he was happy to pass on, for his vast enterprises en-terprises hsd collapsed and his once huge fsrtune was gone. rCER T. ANSRLL, a young attor-" attor-" ney whose father, Gen. S. T. Ansell, Is suing Senator Huey Long for librl, was enraged when Long Intruded on his party at a Washington Wash-ington hotel and took a swing at the Kingfish. One of the .senator's companions seized Ansell's arm nd the young man says Long tlien raa a w;y . . practically rewrote the measure. Then Sen- Giass bis subcommittee handed It on to the senate banking and currency committee, which promptly gave the bill Its approval, without a record rec-ord vote, and after making only two minor changes. Governor Eccles and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau expected to be called before the committee and were prepared to tell why the till would not stilt the administration, administra-tion, but the committee didu't give them a chance. As passed by the house, the banking bank-ing bill would give autocratic powers pow-ers over the banking system to a politically dominated federal re-Serve re-Serve board; and the party In pow-w pow-w would have the anthority to force the twelve reserve banks to lend unlimited amounts to the national na-tional treasury. Under the bill as |