Show news review ol 01 of 11 current fi f I events the world over japanese armies on move again while league coun council cil stumbles raskob irritates the drys national political gossip EDWARD W PICKARD E ITHER EITHER japan nor china was N willingto accept the plan devised by the league of nations counell council fa for r an inquiry into the manchurian Manc hurlan situation and the twelve members of that body made a further attempt to draw up a SC scheme heme that would please both sides but without apparent success the salient point of this latter plan was the sending of a committee of study to manchuria only instead of having an gen C P mandate for express summerall summerall Sum merali crall investigating all of china as yell well as manchuria as the recent japanese proposal provided the committee would be instructed to investigate vesti gate manchuria and to include china if they think it advisable As demanded by the japanese the committee would have no power to investigate vesti gate troop movements or to interfere otherwise with the war nor to intervene in any direct negotiations between tokyo and that might be opened dr alfred sze in an uncompromising communication to the council told how china looked on this scheme ile he said an inquiry without at the same time providing for immediate cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of japanese forces becomes a mere device to condone and perpetuate for it a more or less indefinite period the unjustifiable occupation of chinas cainas territory by an aggressor who has already virtually attained his unlawful object while these discussions have been going on in the circumstances you will readily see it Is quite impossible for roe me to consider the proposal in flu question estiOn until the basis above mentioned has been adequately laid down when and it if a committee of inquiry la Is named its chairman may be gen charles P summerall former chief of staff of the united states army lie ile has been suggested for this place by the japanese and probably would be accept acceptable ablo to china still another plan for solving the manchurian Manc hurlan problem was to be submitted to the council by the government according to dr welling ton koo who has just been appo inteLi chinese foreign minister and assumed his now new duties OWN on the southern coast of D DOWN manchuria Is a small strip in which Is situated the city of chin chow and that it still in the hands of china or was last week but evidently the japanese decided to take over this area also for doctor sze ze gave the league counell council information that the troops of the mikado were moving south from mukden in a armored cars with the intention of crushing the opposition in 4 chinchor Chin chow this ac gen jiro alon was explained by the japanese on the ground that their interests there were menaced by bandits but the chinese assert the activities of bandits there and elsewhere la in manchuria are promoted by japan to excuse their militant course despite reports of dissension in the Jupt inese cabinet it Is apparent that the militarists led by gen jiro elnan AlIna ml 1 in minister inister of war are having their own way will not permit withdrawal of the troops from manchuria nor are they afraid of exasperating pe rating the soviet russian government to the point of forceful action although always assuring moscow that russian ian interests will not be en C completion of the lakes to the gulf wu waterway in 1032 1932 instead of in may 1933 with a view to assisting business industry and employment was asked of the federal government by the valley association at its aupuni ainu convention in st louis gators na tors renn enn and lewis of illinois and many others in favor of speeding up the construction work and argued that the objections raised by the army engineers to a quick fin ish lee ice and possible floods would not be considered valid if the waterway were a private enterprise instead of I 1 government project the assacl itsou voted in favor of a federal bond issue to carry on the work rapidly senator glenn recently urged upon president hoover and secretary of war hurley burley the need of early completion of the work and said he be violated no confidence in declaring both of them were in favor of this course S STIRRING rinsing up the animals Is a favorite occupation of john 3 raskob the dynamic chairman of the democratic national commit committee iee its his latest accle achievement to in that way Is the sending I 1 I 1 I 1 out of a questionnaire to contributors trI tribu tors to the party campaign fund of 1023 1028 to get their views on whether the democratic national convention should declare for slon sion of the prohibition bl issue to the peo pie they are also i r J JJ J raskob asked what they think on other matters of party polley policy but the liquor proposition is the main one Nee needless to say mr air raskob himself Is thoroughly wet and as he says in his letter to contributors he believes the time has come for the democratic party to face this issue squarely and to present to the people a definite plan under the polley policy of states rights and local self government the move was wag a follow up to his presentation oi of the home rule olan dian tor for liquor control last march to the national committee ile he evoked then a bitter outburst particularly from southern leaders many of whom felt deliberate injection of the prohibition issue was a fine way to wreck the bartys 1932 prospects this time the drys again responded with strong protests their board of strategy of which chic edwin C dinwiddle Is executive secretary issued a statement which said wet millionaires were bringing pressure to bearon bear on both parties to make their platforms wet by threatening to withhold contributions in the contest some new yorkers saw in the raskob k db questionnaire a deliberate effort to split the support of franklin D roosevelt who la Is still the leading contender for the presidential nomination senator robinson of arkansas hull bull of tennessee tennessen and connally of texas interviewed ter viewed in washington decried ras kobs bobs efforts artenas representative GARNER of teis prospective speaker of the next aimse li use partook of a harmony breakfast with zohn john F curry chief aln of tammany Tan Tarn many lull hall the other day and it Is said persuaded him to abandon his plan to have a member of the tammany delegation delegat iou made floor leader the inter party truee was completed when representative john McDuff la of alabama withdrew from the race for the floor leadership immediately thereafter representative henry T rainey seven seventy ty one year old veteran from illinois publicly announced his candidacy and word went down the line that he had the active support of representative garner air rainey claimed he already had been pledged of the democratic votes democratic Democrat le control of the house was clinched by the election of it al kleberg democrat in the fourteenth texas district to succeed the late harry 31 wurzbach Wurz buch who was the states only republican congressman MEMBERS M of the senate who are classed as progressive republicans were reported to be organizing for opposition to the re election of senator george H moses of new hampshire as president pro tempore of the senate they are said to be actuated especially by moses attack on them a year ago when he dubbed them sons of the wild jackass nye of north dakota norris of nebraska and couzins of lilic michigan higan were supposed to be leading the movement and it was believed they would support senator wesley L jones of washington for the place held by moses the regular republican leaders feared all this might result in allowing the democrats to assume control of the senate as well as of the house regressive SIVE and independent P progressive members of the house expect to wield con control arol of its actions and at the ca of representative laguardia ardla of new fork those in that category both republicans and democrats met wednesday in washington to make their plans and formulate their demands and the invitation ti to this conference which was signed also by paul J kvale of minnesota the lone farm er cr laborite said that even though the democrats might elect the speaker neither they nor the republicans could hope for a working majority without the aid of the independents one of the demands of the progressives progress ives Is liberalization of the house rules so that boss control way may be eliminated THERE HERE Is an unfilled eo vacancy among federal judge judgeships ships in the chicago division of the eastern illinois district and george E U Q johnson united states district attorney there Is strongly urged for the place by senator otis F glenn illinois the appointment of g al mr r johnson would be political tin in some ways A but it also would be approved as a reward 1 for the ex excellent cellen t work he be has done in the line of prosecuting and graft gangsters george E c Q r ins ing politicians for johnson MW evasion of their in come taxes senator glenn denied that he had bad yet made any recommendation to the president but other supporters of mr air johnson were insistent that he should be appointed now though he has fias three mo more re years to serve of his second term as district attorney and mr air hoover it was reported wants him to finish hla his term if mr air johnson Is elevated to the bench his sue successor cessor la Is likely to be dwight II 11 green who though only thirty four years old has been one of the district attorneys most effi efficient clent lind and valued assistants in the prosecution of tax dodgers acting as solicitor for the revenue bureau IF tr THE ME democrats in senate and I 1 house follow the leadership of senator joseph T robinson of arkansas their leader in the senate they will oppose any increase in surtaxes sur taxes and any great increase in any of the government levies robinson says such action by congress would approach confiscation fis and would be likely to prolong instead of relieve the depression he proposes instead a bond issue senator robinson argues that taxes should be raised solely to obtain revenue and not tor for the purpose of distributing we wealth althor or reducing large fortunes lie ile Is opposed to a general sales tax but would consent to a sales h bivy vy on luxuries he said in his statement the most practical method to dl diminish unemployment Is to revive industry increase in taxation Is a poor method for overcoming depression in other words while increases may be unavoidable they cannot be expected to contribute to the forces calculated to restore confidence and courage in the sphere of investments and enterprises ses he added that while he recognized the necessity of balancing the budget he did not look for a great reduction in public expenditures THOUGH ayears ROUGH he Is now eighty eight years old gen A W greely is still actively interested in the exploration of polar regions and he has just been appointed chairman of the national committee that sponsors sponsors a new american expedition which will start tor for the arctic next june to spend two years on ellesmere island the northernmost land on the globe capt flavel bf williams will be ba commander of the party and dr HB gen A W marls will be its sd greely ecy director and the gray bearded leader of the ill fated greely expedition of la Is helping them make their plans they will have radios airplanes and modern comforts in exploring the region where general greely met with disaster and where eighteen of his party starved or froze to death toward chicago with S SPEEDING hundreds of entries for the international live stock show a long special train was wrecked near lexington no mo by spreading ralls ralla seven men were killed and others injured many fine horses known in the show gingri of the country were ivere destroyed the million dollar train was carrying the stock from the american royal live stock show in kansas city among the deaths bof li l i of the week were those of dr sam small of atlanta noted editor and evangelist louis Lou chear former cabinet minister and once rated as the richest man in france 0 0 simonds of Ci deago famous landscape architect and park designer and albert H harris financial head of the new york central lines ME 1931 western newspaper union |