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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Froljinp; the Mono Castle Disaster Textile Strike Mediation Fails and Rioting Is Resumed Profits in War Munitions. By EDWARD W. PICKARD by Western Newspaper Union. SENATOR nt'EY LONG won handily han-dily in (lis fi'lit fur absolute Control Con-trol of Louisiana, his candidates for congress, state supreme court and public service commissioner, defeating defeat-ing those of the "old guard." The election was quite peaceful despite the prediction of bloody "civil war." The Kinglish Is now expected to press his investigation of graft and corruption In the affairs of New Orleans and to undertake to have his arch enemy, Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley, ousted from office through action by the legislature, which he controls. Ilney Is now the virtual dictator of the state, but his opponents op-ponents have not given up the fight. NEW DEALERS rejoiced In the results of the Maine election, though their victory was Incomplete. Incom-plete. Gov. Louis J. Urann, Democrat, Demo-crat, was re-elected by a substantial substan-tial majority over the Republican candidate, Alfred K. Ames, a wealthy and aged retired lumberman. lumber-man. Senator Frederick Hale, veteran vet-eran Republican, was returned to the upper house for his fourth term, but his majority over Harold Du-bord, Du-bord, dynamic Democratic nominee, was so slender that Hale must have felt rather humiliated. The New Dealers won two of the three congressional con-gressional seats. Maine was the pioneer prohibition prohibi-tion state, but in this election It abandoned Its 50-year-old policy and joined the wet list, voting for repeal by a large majority. William A. Comstock lost the Democratic nomination to succeed himself as governor of Michigan, being defeated by Arthur J. Lacey. The Republicans named Frank B. Fitzgerald, now secretary of state. In South Carolina the textile strike injected itself into theelection. In a runoff election Olin D. Johnston, John-ston, union sympathizer and former mill hand, won the Democratic nomination nom-ination over Cole Blease, old-school orator and campaigner. Johnston will succeed Gov. Ira Blackwood, hated by the union as a "strikebreaking "strike-breaking governor." Gov. Eugene Talmadge was renominated by Georgia Democrats. and others were threatening the Woonsocket Rayon company's plant. Fearing major bloodshed and death, Governor Green read the riot act and asked President Thomas Thom-as F. McMahon of the United Textile Tex-tile Workers of America to hasten there from Washington. The governor gov-ernor also ordered the mobilization of 1,000 World war veterans. FOUR members of the Du Pont family, Pierre, Irenee, Felix and Lnmmot, appeared before the senate sen-ate munitions Inquiry committee and told of the huge business the Du Pont corporation has done in supplying war material. Between 1914 and 1918 the company, which was founded in 1S02 to manufacture black powder, Oiled $1,245,000,000 worth of war orders. In that time It did about 33 times the business it had In the year just before the World war, when Its sales amounted amount-ed to $:sg,ooo,ooo. Irenee du Pont testified that the corporation subscribed to preferred stock in the German dye patents seized during the war by the United Unit-ed States. He said these patents had resulted In a "great service" to America. The corporation entered the dye business after the war as a licensee of the Chemical foundation, founda-tion, Du Pont said. There did not seem to be anything any-thing very sensational or scandalous scandal-ous In the facts elicted from the Du Ponts, but previous witnesses had told a lot about the deals of airplane air-plane companies and other corporations corpora-tions with foreign nations In which it was alleged they had been aided by United States diplomats and army and navy officers. There was a lot, too, about graft on the part of South American government officials. of-ficials. One of the stories told brought in the name of King George of England, and this resulted in official of-ficial protests by British diplomats both In Washington and in London. Just what Senator Nye and his committee expect to do with the information in-formation they are gathering Is not certain. There are suggestions of government ownership or at least government control of all war munition muni-tion manufacturing and selling. TN THE fifth installment of the senate banking committee on its stock market Investigation Internal revenue agents were charged with rw-yjii! "- "laxity in enforce--- ment" for accept- 'nS. without exam-It exam-It :;;":H:S;;i-;i:y lnation, income tax " returns prepared by jOSSylllll J- p- Morgan & Co. l;il::;:H:lii The committee pre-w$-'yWVl sented a long re- 1 view of evidence that officials of the ' vi A 1IorgaD company, K,:"-' Loeb & to., and the National J. P. Morgan city bank of New York "avoided" income taxes by a "variety of methods." "Many returns, particularly of partners In large banking houses, were exempted from adequate scrutiny." scru-tiny." the committee said. "When examinations were made the time devoted to them was comparatively com-paratively short, In view of the wealth of the taxpayers and the complex nature of their transactions. transac-tions. "Thus, in 1930, according to the bureau's own records, one day was spent in checking the partnership return of J. P. Morgan & Co. and Drexel & Co. the most powerful banking group in the world. NEARLY always In the case of a marine disaster persons come forward with accusations of negligence negli-gence and misbehavior on the part t of the officers and 1 ", . crew of the vessel ?; ' concerned. This Is 'VI true now of t ho "V vi Morro Castle, the ... j Ward liner which rf; . ij burned eight miles - off the New Jersey i coast with a loss f of 1.15 lives, j. The Morro Cas- l Jji . . tlo, large, swift, ... and luxurious in George W. ,tg appoIntmentSi oqera wag returnjng from a seven-day cruise to Havana. Her master, Capt. Robert Wilmott, had died of heart disease only a few hours before the tragedy, and William Wil-liam I Warms, chief officer, was In command. With 12 other officers and members of the crew he stood by the blazing ship until the hulk was towed to Asbury Park and beached. Several of the surviving passengers passen-gers testified before the federal steamboat Inspection board that no alarm was sounded and that little or no aid was given the panic-utrlcken panic-utrlcken passengers by the members mem-bers of the crew. Then George W. Rogers, chief radio operator, and his first assistant, George I. Alag-ra, Alag-ra, told of the delay In sending out the SOS call, asserting they could not obtain an order for It from the bridge. This, of course, was explained ex-plained by the usual reluctance of steamship officers to call for help because the salvage charges are heavy. Alagna was put under arrest ar-rest as a material witness after he bad told his story to a federal grand Jury. The value of his testimony testi-mony was somewhat lessened by Rogers' admission to both the board and the grand jury that Alagna had been distrusted by Captain Wilmott as a radical and an agitator, agi-tator, and that Alagna some months ago tried to Instigate a riot on the ship as a protest against the food served the crew. The first actual evidence Indicating Indicat-ing that the fire was of incendiary origin wna furnished - by- Quartermaster Quarter-master Gus Harmon. "It was like the flash of a 16-inch gun," he declared. "It couldn't have been gasoline because it traveled trav-eled much faster. It might have been some sort of chemical, all of which would light up when one point of It started. There was a funny acrid smoke coming out of the flash." Other officers of the ship testified testi-fied that they believed the fire was of incendiary origin and was fed by gasoline or chemicals, but they could suggest no motive for such a horrible crime. Acting Captain Warms said he based his opinion that the blaze was incendiary incen-diary on two facts: First, because on August 27, on a previous voyage voy-age to Havana, there was a suspicious sus-picious blaze in the No. 5 hold ; second, sec-ond, because reports to him indicated indi-cated that the writing room locker, in which the fatal fire started, exploded. ex-ploded. The flames, he explained further, acted "like gasoline or kerosene," kero-sene," and fire extinguishers had no effect on them. The chief of the secret service in Havana declared the burning of the Morro Castle was an act of sabotage sa-botage by members of a secret International In-ternational maritime association that takes Its orders from Communists Commu-nists in Moscow. In Arizona the Democrats renominated renom-inated Senator Ashurst and Con-gressman-at-large Isabella Green-way. Green-way. The New Dealers tried to get the gubernatorial nomination In Colorado Col-orado for Miss Josephine Roach, coal mine operator and social worker, work-er, but she was beaten by Edward C. Johnson, the Incumbent. In Washington, also, the New Dealer lost out when J. C. Stephenson was defeated by Lewis Schwellenbach for the Democratic senatorial nonm-lnation. nonm-lnation. THE International Typographical union, In convention at Chicago, defeated a proposal by delegates representing local No. 6 of New York for a four day thirty houJ week, to be optional with each local by a referendum vote. Charges were made that the plan had been instigated by Communists in control of the New York local, who are seeking to wreck the international organization and vilify its officers. The accusation was denied by the president of the local, which has a membership of 10,500 union printers print-ers in New York. Other delegates supplied the convention with circulars cir-culars setting forth the charges of communistic interference and warning warn-ing the union, to be on its guard against the proposition. NATIONWIDE distribution has been started on a poster pledging pledg-ing the public to support Blue Eagle business establishments. Four inches square, It is gummed for pasting in windows. Code authorities and local lo-cal NRA committees are counted upon to aid its distribution. The agitation is to accompany the temporary internal reorganization of the recovery administration, as decided upon by President Roosevelt Roose-velt and Hugh S. Johnson, the NRA administrator. Authority is to be split three ways instead of the present one-man control. con-trol. General Johnson is expected to continue In an Important post RECONSTRUCTION Finance corporation cor-poration announced a new $100,000,000 corn loan program. Farmers will be offered loans on corn of any crop year at the rate of 55 cents a bushel by the Commodity Commod-ity Credit corporation, the RFC disclosed. dis-closed. The RFC has turned over $100,000,000 to the commodity corporation, cor-poration, which is really a branch of the RFC, for the carrying out of the program. States included in the new loan plan are Illinois. Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Minnesota, Min-nesota, Nebraska, South Dakota and Colorado. WHEN the League of Nations met in Geneva an invitation to Russia to join the league was circulated, cir-culated, signed and sent to Moscow. The council then announced that an accord had been reached to grant Russia a permanent seat on the council, and It was expected that only Portugal and Argentina would continue to oppose this, by refraining from voting. Richard Sandler of Sweden was elected president o-' the league assembly as-sembly by an almost unanimous vote. Poland gave a Jolt to the league by announcing that it will no longer abide by the general treaty for the protection of minority peoples. Joseph Jo-seph Beek, the foreign minister, told the assembly that until all states protect the rights of minorities minori-ties Poland would refuse any control con-trol by an International organism of its treatment of minority groups "This return was not subjected to any field examination and apparently apparent-ly the agent's explanation was sufficient suffi-cient to satisfy the internal revenue bureau that none was necessary." Citing that since the hearings w:ere held congress has enacted certain cer-tain reforms in legislation and administration ad-ministration to prevent tax avoidance, avoid-ance, the report stated: "The need for reform, either In law or Its method of enforcement, or both, was made abundantly clear when the income tax returns of some of the leaders of American finance for the years since 1929 were examined by the subcommittee. subcommit-tee. "For the year 1929 the partners of J. P. Morgan & Co. collectively paid about $11,000,000 in taxes to the federal government - For the year 1930, 17 Morgan partners, including in-cluding J. P. Morgan, paid no lax, and five paid aggregate taxes of about $50,000. For the year 1931 not a single Morgan partner paid any tax. For the year 1032 not a single Morgan partner paid any tax. "For the year 1929 the partners of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. collectively paid about $1,900,000 in taxes For the year 1930 four Knhn-Loob part ners, including Otto H. Kahn, paid no tax, and four paid aggregate taxes of about $100,000. For the year 1931 six Kuhn-Loeh partners paid no tax, and the other paid taxes totaling less than $2,000. A similar situation prevailed in 1932." EFFORTS of President Roose-J-' volt's mediation board to bring about a peaceful settlement of the textile strike failed when the employers, em-ployers, according to the board, refused re-fused to make any concessions that would open the way to arbitration. The strike leaders had Insisted that all the mills must remain closed pending arbitration, and this w?s rejecied by the mill owners. The cotton textile employers then declared flatly that they did not believe be-lieve the Issues at stake are "appropriate "ap-propriate subjects for arbitration." The immediate result of this breakdown in negotiations was the resumption of violence and disorder, disor-der, especially in Rhode Island. Thousands of strikers and their sympathizers fought with National Guard detachments in Saylesville and Woonsocket, driving back the greatly outnumbered soldiers. Tear gas, nausea gas and finally bullets were used to check the rioters and many persons were wounded, some fatally. Governor Green made concessions con-cessions to the Saylesville strikers and ordered that there should be no more shooting. But at Woonsocket Woon-socket conditions grew momentarily momentar-ily worse and the police commissioner commis-sioner of the city asked the governor to obtain federal troops to stop the rioting. The major in command of the National Guardsmen there admitted ad-mitted the situation was out of control. con-trol. Great crowds were looting shops In the downtown section |