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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Japanese Relcls Slay Four Statesmen and Dictatorship Is Kumored Hagood's Removal Starts a Row Vandenberg Won't Enter Ohio Primary. By EDWARD W. PICK ARD WeMtern NewMpaper Union. MILITARISTS of Japan, led by a group of young army officers offi-cers who were Impatient with the government's policy of economy ry THE ground flat the seed loan requirements of farmers can be met from relief funds on hand. President Roosevelt vetoed the $50,0W,ixjO crop production bill passed by congress. Id his message mes-sage he called attention to his budget bud-get message urging that congress provide additional taxns If It enacted en-acted legislation Imposing charges not covered In the budget. He said he expected, last year, that such Ioaus as the seed loan would he tapered off. He realizes they still are necessary but added: "I am fully convinced that the Immediate and actual need to which I have referred can be met during the year 19150 by an expenditure expend-iture of funds materially less than that proposed In the bill under discussion." dis-cussion." SENATOR NYE of North Dakota Is determined that the war prof-Its prof-Its bill revised by his munitions committee shall be brought up for consideration at this session. Indeed In-deed he more than threatens a filibuster fili-buster to bring this about, If necessary, nec-essary, to get the measure out of the hands of a finance subcommittee subcommit-tee which Is headed by Tom Con-nally Con-nally of Texas, one of Nye's bitterest bitter-est opponents. The Nye bill provides for stiff taxes on earnings and virtual confiscation con-fiscation of Individual Income above $10,000 a year In time of war. p EATn .took from the scene two men prominent in national life Albert Cabell Ritchie, governor of Maryland for four terms, and nen- j - i r ..;? (' and restraint In the matter of advances ad-vances 1 n China and Mongolia, suddenly sud-denly staged a revolt re-volt In Tokyo with the avowed purpose pur-pose of eliminating eliminat-ing liberal statesmen states-men whom they considered obstacles obsta-cles to the restora- hie" to get WPA's "stage money" for "anything worthwhile." These remarks, said Craig, "can only be characterized as flippant in tone and entirely uncalled for and designed de-signed to bring ridicule and contempt con-tempt upon civil agencies of the government." Accusing him of "thinly veiled" opposition and "contempt" toward War department policies In the past, Craig pointed out as "contemptuous" "con-temptuous" Hagood's references to CCO activities as "hobbles," "collecting "col-lecting postage stamps" and "taking "tak-ing an Interest in butterflies." Seeking a quick settlement of the controversy. Senator Byrnes, Democrat, Dem-ocrat, and Representative McSwaln, Democratic chairman of the house military affairs committee, both of whom hail from Hagood's home state of South Carolina, arranged a conference with Secretary of War Dern." This had no result. SENATOR VANDENBURO of Michigan has formally declined to enter the Ohio Presidential primary, pri-mary, but does not bar himself from consideration for the Republican Republi-can nomination. Writing to the Republican Re-publican state committee of Ohio, in reply to an Inquiry as to whether wheth-er he would run, Vandenberg asserted as-serted his "sole interest" in the Republican convention was that it should make "the wisest possible decisions respecting both party leadership and party policies." To conform to Ohio law, the Borah Bo-rah forces have found the required "second choice." This Is Frank E. Gannett of Rochester, N. Y., publisher pub-lisher of a chain of newspapers, who has agreed to fight alongside the Idaho senator for Ohio's 52 delegates, to receive the votes of those pledged to Borah should the nomination of the latter be blocked In the convention. Mr. Gannett has expressed the belief that Borah is the one member of the party "most likely to recover the upstate New York vote," and he also holds the view that the Idahoan would be the strongest candidate in the agricultural agricul-tural states. WHILE waiting for instructions as to what to do In the matter of taxation, the members of the house and many others directed ry Latrobe Roosevelt, Roose-velt, assistant secretary sec-retary of the navy and distant cousin of the President. Mr. Ritchie was a leader among conservative con-servative Democrats, Demo-crats, from . the start a determined foe of national prohibition, pro-hibition, and In 1932 a candidate for the Presidential nomi- A. C. Aitchie tlon of a military Emperor dictatorship under Hlrohito Imperial rule. Seizing Seiz-ing certain government buildings In the capital, they rushed to the homes of the listed statesmen and micceeded In assassinating four Prouder Admiral Kelsuke Okada ; Admiral Viscount Makoto, former premier and lord keeper of the privy seal; Gen. Jotaro Watanabe, chief of military education, and Koreylko Takahashl, finance minister. minis-ter. Several otlters were wounded, and servants of all of them were killed. Emperor Hlrohito Immediately took charge of the situation, called a council of state and made Fumlo Goto temporary premier. Martial law was proclaimed In Tokyo and the loyal army forces, largely outnumbering out-numbering the rebels, surrounded the latter In the buildings they had taken. Meanwhile the second fleet, also loyal, moved up to the mouth of Tokyo bay, Its guns dominating the city. During the first day of the uprising up-rising an agreement was reached that the rebel troops should return to their barracks, but this they refused re-fused to do. Then the censorship, temporarily raised, was clamped down again. Diplomatic quarters In Shanghai received a report that Gen. Sadao Arakl, former minister of war, has established a military dictatorship. He had been the most chauvinistic of all Japanese high army officers. Political observers In Tokyo believed be-lieved that the emperor's advisors would urge the right wing elements to be given a chance to form a cabinet, cab-inet, to see whether they would be able to conduct the government. Even liberal political sources shared tlds belief, confident that such an experiment would produce pro-duce a strong public reaction to the left, permitting early restoration of a normal government. SENATE and house conferees patched up the new farm bill, substitute for the invalidated AAA, both houses accepting the revised measure and it was sent to the White House. Senator Borah argued ar-gued in vain especially against the so-called "consumers' " amendment which authorizes the "re-establishment, at as rapid a rate as the secretary sec-retary of agriculture determines to be practicable and In the general public interest, of the ratio between the purchasing power of the net income in-come per person on farms and the Income per person not on farms that prevailed during the five-year . period August, 1900, to July, 1914." Speaking of the extraordinary delegation del-egation of power to the secretary of agriculture, Senator Borah said: "We are now asked to confer upon him a task which would require omnipotence. It is manifestly on the face of It an absurdity. "This Idea that even by divine power you can go out and equalize the purchasing power of the producer pro-ducer and equalize the purchasing power of the laborer, when above them both is a power which Is fixing a rule under which they live, is to nie Inconceivable." CUMMARY removal of Ma. Gen. y Johnson Hagood from his command com-mand of the Eighth Corps area because be-cause of his critical expressions their attention to the investigation of the activities of the Townsend pension plan promoters. Speaker Byrns ap-pointed ap-pointed on the probing committee of eight two avowed Townsend-ites Townsend-ites John H. To-lan, To-lan, Democrat, and Samuel L. Collins, Republican, both J. Jasper Bell nation by his party. Though beaten out by F. D. Roosevelt, he had the satisfaction of seeing his repeal plank put into the Democratic platform. plat-form. Of late he had been an outspoken out-spoken critic of the New Deal policies, pol-icies, for he was a champion of state rights. Henry L. Roosevelt was the fifth member of his family to serve as assistant secretary of the navy, and In recent months he had played an increasingly important part in the affairs of the department, acting act-ing as secretary during the illness of Secretary Swanson. He was a student in the naval ucademy class of 1909, but left before graduation to become a second lieutenant In the marine corps, in which service he rose to the rank of colonel. He was buried in Arlington National cemetery with full military rites after funeral ceremonies that were attended by President Roosevelt and many other high officials. GOV. EUGENE TALMADGE Is virtually financial dictator of Georgia, because the general assembly assem-bly did not enact an appropriation bill, but he is having his troubles finding funds to carry on. He declared de-clared there was a "plan hatched in Washington" to hamper him, and ousted State Treasurer George Hamilton and Controller General William Harrison for refusal to honor treasury warrants. Hamilton Hamil-ton removed all the money from the treasury vault to a bank. Three state departments provided funds for temporary operation of fiscal affairs. Then depository banks, the United Unit-ed States post office and the state's attorney general took a hand. Mall addressed to the suspended officers was impounded, cutting off the flow of tax remittances; all but one of the depository banks refused to honor state checks pending a court decision on the legal status of de facto officials; and Attorney General Gen-eral M. J. Yeomans, once cited by Talmadge as an authority for his actions, declared his position had been misinterpreted. MUSSOLINI had an ambitious plan for a five-power agreement agree-ment that would embrace Italy, Germany, Ger-many, Austria, Poland and Hungary. Hun-gary. But when It was submitted to Hitler he declined to enter the combination. However, the relchs-fuehrer, relchs-fuehrer, It Is said, told Mussolini that Germany looks with sympathy on the stand Italy has taken. Hitler pointed out that Germany Is at present economically and militarily mil-itarily weak and needs a breathing spell to recruit her forces. He cannot can-not therefore do anything at present pres-ent that is likely to draw the hostility hos-tility of France and Great Britain, but he will maintain an attitude of benevolent neutrality toward Italy. CAPT. ANTHONY EDEN, British foreign minister, stood up In the house of commons and warned the world that recurrence of the World war was imminent and in his opinion could not be averted except ex-cept by a system of collective security se-curity "embracing all nations In an authority which is unchallenged and unchallengeaable." Eden impressed upon members of the parliament the difference between be-tween a policy of collective security and one of encirclement, such as the "ring of steel" which Germany complains is being forged about her by France. "The British government govern-ment will haAs no lot or part In encirclement," Eden said. from California. The chairman Is J. Jasper Bell of Missouri, Democrat, author of the resolution for the Investigation. In-vestigation. It was understood that Mr. Bell had already gathered a mass of information to substantiate the charge that the Townsend plan has become a huge racket. The. leaders of both parties in congress have been getting rather nervous over the growth of the Townsend movement move-ment and are glad to see It attacked ; but some Impartial observers call attention to the fact that the way the committee Is going after It smacks of unconstitutional abridgement abridge-ment of the right to petition. It was expected that one of the first questions to be considered by the committee would be the salaries received by Dr. Francis E. Town-send, Town-send, author of the scheme, and R. E. Clements, former California real estate operator, co-founder and general gen-eral manager. Clements has revealed re-vealed to newspaper reporters that he and Doctor Townsend receive salaries of $100 a week each from OARP the old age revolving pension pen-sion organization and $50 a week each from the Townsend national weekly, which claims a circulation of 250,000. It has been charged on the floor of the house that this newspaper, privately owned by Townsend and Clements, has a reserve re-serve fund of at least $200,000. T TNEXPECTEDLY revolting against administration direction, direc-tion, the house voted down, 172 to 164, the bill to exempt from state and local taxation bank stocks held by the Reconstruction corporation. A similar measure passed the senate sen-ate 3S to 2S the day before. The defeat was surprising because the measure had been unanimously supported sup-ported by Republicans and Democrats Demo-crats on the house banking committee. com-mittee. Democratic leaders expressed ex-pressed the belief that the measure would not be revived. The legislation was written after the Supreme court held In a Maryland Mary-land bank case that the stocks held by RFC were subject to taxation. Members of the banking committee said that if the states tax the holdings hold-ings the government agency stands to lose $5,500,000. . 1 concerning the WPA and other New Deal activities activi-ties stirred up a pretty row In Washington. Gen. Malln Craig, chief of staff, signed the order t o Hagood, by order of the secretary sec-retary of war and the President. The Republicans in congress, con-gress, backed up Gen. Hagood by Tom Blanton of Texas and some other Democrats, assailed the action ac-tion vigorously, and Senator Met-calf Met-calf of Rhode Island Introduced a resolution for an Inquiry Into the Incident on behalf of "free speech." Breaking Its "usual rule of silence," si-lence," the War department made public a letter from General Craig to Secretary Dern, declaring Ha"-good's Ha"-good's record was "marked by repeated re-peated examples of lack of self-control, self-control, Irresponsible and Intemperate Intemper-ate statements." Hagood had told a house subcommittee subcom-mittee that It was "almost lmpossi- |