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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Borah Loses in Ohio Primary House Defeats Frazier-Lemke Frazier-Lemke Inflation Bill Tugwell's Report on His Resettlement Administration. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Jl Western Newspaper Union. CHANCELLOR KSJST SOTU-C SOTU-C SCHNIGG of Austria has long been at outs with the vice : chandler, chand-ler, Prince Ernst von Sraihembe g and now he has got rid o hat active young man and is pracU eally the sole dictator of the coun try. This was accomplished by the resignation of the cabinet and its reconstruction Immediately with Von S arhemberg left out. Schuschmgg is not only chancellor but also mm ister of defense and foreign minis- 6Von Starhemberg had antagonized antag-onized Schuschnigg by insisting on keeping up his own private army, the Heimwehr, and also by his friendliness toward Mussolini and his general Fascist sympathies. A It ANTJEL AZANA was advanced M from the premiership to the presidency of Spain by hxst unn-Ln,, unn-Ln,, vote of the ST3 electors gath- OENATOR WILLIAM BORAH J banked heavily on success in the Ohio Presidential preference primary, but the Republicans of timonial Immunity be asserted In the case, and Chief Justice Wheat refused to Issue the subpoena. WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATOR ADMINIS-TRATOR HARRY HOPKINS issued an order to state WPA directors di-rectors instructing them not to em- that state turned him down decisively decisive-ly in favor of their "favorite son," Robert Rob-ert A. Taft, son of the late President Taft. Of the 52 delegates to the Cleveland convention, conven-tion, Borah captured cap-tured only five, the others, Including R1 l'lW1W..liAl':-,W I - (' I V i y, PS?? ' ; Mir A'- ered in the Crystal palace at Madrid. He succeeds Niceto Alcala Zamora who was removed from office on a charge of malfeasance after aft-er the Leftist victory vic-tory in the recent elections. Azana, fifty-six years old, Is a lawyer, orator ploy armed guards, not to spy on workers and not to blacklist workers work-ers who organize. The order was issued following a conference with Victor F. Ridder, New York city WPA administrator, who employed a detachment of guards to protect his office against anti-WPA demonstrations which Mr. Ridder asserts were stirred up by Communists. OPPOSITION in the senate finance committee to the corporate profits tax in the administration's $803,000,000 revenue bill was so strong that both Democrats and Republicans Re-publicans sought for some compromise. compro-mise. Treasury officials were heard In favor of the measure as passed by the house, but former treasury officials and various business and Industrial leaders speaking in opposition op-position were seemingly more persuasive. per-suasive. Senator Tom Connally of Texas put forward a plan he thought all might agree upon. It would retain the 15 per cent corporation cor-poration Income tax and repeal only the capital stock and excess profits taxes, instead of repealing all corporation cor-poration taxes as proposed in the house bill. In addition It would superimpose su-perimpose a graduated tax on undistributed un-distributed earnings, exempting the first 20 per cent on the amount retained. re-tained. The house bill reaches a maximum of 42 per cent of the total income If none is distributed. , Senator Byrd of Virginia, another of the Democrats opposed to the house bill, showed, in a letter to Secretary Morgenthau, that 11 of the largest corporations in the country coun-try would pay no taxes under the Roosevelt bill. the delegates at" large, being Taft Senator Borah men. The winning delegation will be virtually unpledged, because It will vote for Taft only on the first ballot. Mr. Borah did not take this defeat calmly. He gave out a statement state-ment in Washington accusing the Republican organization leaders of manipulating the votes of . colored citizens against him by promising the passage of federal anti-lynch-lng legislation which he has opposed op-posed as unconstitutional. The Idaho senator added: "The Republican party will go Into the campaign laying great stress upon Constitutional integrity and the preservation of state rights. "The men who are In control of the party, and who will likely be in control of the convention, will write its platform and name its candidate, can-didate, have already demonstrated that they care nothing about Constitutional Con-stitutional integrity or the preservation preserva-tion of state rights, that their talk on this subject is hypocritical and intellectually dishonest." Ohio Democrats polled about 500,-000 500,-000 votes in the primary, nearly 100,000 more than the Republicans, and they expressed their preference for Mr. Roosevelt over Col. Henry Breckenridge to the tune of 16 to 1. They also renominated Gov. Martin L. Davey, who will be opposed by John W. Bricker, Republican, in November. No-vember. West Virginia also held primaries and playwright and Manuel ,s regar(ied as the Azana most astute politician politi-cian In Spain. To the notification committee he said- "Spain may rest assured that I will be loyal to the principles of democracy and that the welfare of the nation will be my constant concern." HINDENBURG, the immense dirigible, carrying 107 persons, mail and freight, made the flight from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, N. J., In 61 hours and 57 minutes and was welcomed by thousands of Americans, including R. Walton Moore of the State department who brought the greetings of President Roosevelt. Three days later the airship air-ship started back to her new base ' at Frankfurt-on-Maln. The dirigible dirig-ible was in command of Capt. Ernst Lehmann, but he received far less attention here than did Dr. Hugo Eckener, the veteran skipper of Zeppelins. Eckener, In bad with the Nazis at home, was permitted to be aboard the ship as an "adviser." He and Captain . Lehmann went to Washington together, while the ship was being groomed for the return flight, to call on President Roosevelt Roose-velt and other officials and return their greetings. On the return flight the Hinden-burg Hinden-burg traveled swiftly, reaching Frankfurt-on-Main 48 hours and 18 l KSPOKDlJNG to a senate resolu-J-- tion, Rexford Tugwell made a report on the activities of the resettlement re-settlement administration of which minutes after the departure from Lakehurst. BECAUSE the League of Nations council would not immediately recognize Italy's annexation of Ethiopia and the creation of the new Roman empire. Premier Mussolini Mus-solini recalled his representatives from Geneva, and before long Italy may quit the league entirely. At present it is merely "not participating" partici-pating" in Its activities. The council coun-cil had adopted a new resolution virtually condemning again Italy's aggression In East Africa and then adjourned until June 15. Previously Baron Pompeii Alois!. ri 's f Jtnr.- b he is the head. He showed that it has 15,804 employees on the administration administra-tion pay roll and has been allotted $275,549,944 to I spend. Of this amount, the report stated, ,$98,347,005 has been spent and a total of $173,091,- ana tnere JBoran and Koosevelt won easily over nominal opposition. The state's Republican delegation, however, how-ever, will go to the convention un-instructed. un-instructed. It is interesting to note that one of Ohio's delegates at Cleveland will be Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of "T. R." and a spectator at many previous conventions. WE ARE not going to have any currency inflation; at least before be-fore next session of congress. The Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage refinancing re-financing bill, dragged out of committee com-mittee by a petition signed by 218 house members, and then hotly debated de-bated for a day, was defeated by the decisive vote of 235 to 142. The bill called for the printing of three billion dollars for its financing. The petition signers included 159 Democrats, and before the vote every one of them was told by Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, the party whip, that the President didn't want the measure passed at this time and that If the member voted for the bill It would be just too bad for him. Besides this potent argument the Democratic leaders Induced President Presi-dent William Green of the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor to intervene inter-vene and he called together the federation's fed-eration's executive council and had it write a letter saying it was opposed op-posed to the bill because of the inflation in-flation feature. This was read to the house by Speaker Byrns and undoubtedly affected the vote, though some members resented being be-ing told what to do by Mr. Green. There was relief in the White House when It was announced the R. G. Tugwell 823 "gated, leav-a leav-a ng $102,458,112 un incumbered. Up to April 15, according to the report, the resettlement administration administra-tion had taken options on 9,670,000 acres of land, of which options on 8,409,000 acres, costing $30,344,000, had become legal commitments. As of May 7, the report said, 59,521 persons, Including 3.5S1 on the CCC pay roll, were employed in connection connec-tion with the land acquisition program. pro-gram. The report stated that a recent survey indicated that "the purchase of approximately 24,000,000 acres of land would be needed to block In and round out" the existing projects and to establish a minimum number of new projects. Of 33 subsistence homestead projects, construction has been completed com-pleted on 18, Is in progress on 11 and final plans have been drafted for 4 The report lists four suburban sub-urban housing projects, financed from a $31,000,000' allocation for this purpose. They are in Berwvn chief of the Italian delegation, had walked out of a session of the council because Wolde Mariara, Ethiopian representative, was permitted per-mitted to take a seat and present a plea from Emperor Halle Selassie. Selas-sie. DARK TRAMMELL, veteran Unit- ed States senator from Florida and a staunch supporter of all New Deal measures, died In Washington of a cerebral hemorrhage which followed fol-lowed an attack of influenza. Though 111, he tried to remain on the senate floor long enough to vote for a proposal to Include $12,000,000 In the War department appropriation appropria-tion bill for continuation of the Florida ship canal. This effort probably prob-ably cost him his life. CECRETARt ICKES' supporters J were easily defeated by the Harry Har-ry Hopkins forces in the house fl-ht as to whether the Public Works ad- Md., P.ound Brook, N. J., Milwau-waukee, Milwau-waukee, and Cincinnati. On rural rehabilitation, the report says the RA has cared for more than 800,000 families. For Us re-haliilitation re-haliilitation advances to individual "clients," the administration will expend $100,000,000 through June 30. There were more than 71,000 workers employed on projects' financed fi-nanced by the organization during April, the report states, adding that the peak Is expected to be reached during the summer with 100,000 workers. J F THE house concurs In senate nation, the title of Harold L Ickes will be changed from secretary secre-tary of the interior to secretary of conservation. A bill making the change was passed by the senntB wnustrauon should share in the handling of next year's relief funds But It was understood the femi would be revived In the senate under un-der the leadership of Senator Hay-den Hay-den of Arizona, Democrat and a member of the appropriations com-mittee. com-mittee. The house majority voted accord- Progress administration after July 1 In addition to the relief n frn 9000 oT .fCUrity W'". V 900,000 for the Tennessee Valley Authority, ?4O0,00O for continuing the communications commission telephone inquiry, and varS o ' nnd deficiency amounts for " 0 tZ President would not have to .veto such a measure in an election year. D RESIDENT ROOSEVELT was supposed to have abandoned for the present the Florida ship canal and Passamaquoddy tidal power projects for which the house refused to appropriate further funds. But Senator Robinson of Arkansas was called to the White House for a conference con-ference and returned to the house to Introduce a resolution authoriz-ing authoriz-ing the President to appoint engineering engi-neering boards of review for the two schemes. The boards would present their findings by June 29, and. if favorable, favor-able, the President would have authorization au-thorization to set aside 510,000.000 for the canal and 9,000,000 for Passamaquoddy Pas-samaquoddy out of available relipf money. XTEWTON D. BAKER and Dean Aeheson, counsel, for five power pow-er companies that are trying to block the government's municipal power program, met with defeat in the District of Columbia Supreme court when they sought to subpoena subpoe-na correspondence between President Presi-dent Roosevelt and Secretary Ickes. Jerome Frank, a New Deal attorney, attor-ney, stated that the President had directed that his "privilege" of tes- at the instance of Senator Lewis of Illinois. Two years ago, when Mr. Ickes was at the height of his power, he wanted the title altered to "secretary of conservation and works" and hoped that many of the agencies of the Department of Agriculture Ag-riculture would be transferred to his department. But Secretary Wnl ace objected strenuously, and latelv so much has been taken out of Mr Ickes' hands that Senator Lewis cut his bill to the one paragraph making the change of title and leavl ing off "and works." pUSTAriTA NAITAS PASIU t'l younu Kino, vr ? S('rv0 '"- W otXlSn.'1 tho |