Show edwar N jtb th of f char charles ies curtis president tier vice r former former vice CURTIS alfs G chent gamiles of the united stat states es and arl and sonata that mat representative s before hail kass gas died suddenly of tor lr from heart disease nt at the pw washington home of f his brother in law and 1 sister gister sir mr and mrs edward R gann lie ile was seventy six years j 01 old d and was the first L man of indian hood blood r ever to preside over j the senate ile he was i one quarter kaw in dian diall his grandmother having baring been princess charles julie of that tribe who curtis married a french voy MW in his boyhood curtis was a aey and later a reporter having studied law he became a prosecutor four in shawnee of twenty it the age maty kansas and was elected to ile he was made sen san in 1802 1892 congress acress Dc ress stor in 1907 was defeated in 1912 ind and two tiro years later was again elected senator tt he was elected vice headed by herbert dent on the ticket plover and was wag for that lon in 1932 sir bin curtis was greatly liked by his opiates b Oci ates in lV washington ashing ton and his death chused genuine grief president roose relt said sald mi 1 I ani am deeply distressed to learn ot of the sudden passing of my old friend charles curtis whether they knew ito him as a senator as the vice dent of the united states or as the man he be was in his own right his le eon IOB of friends will remember him always affectionately and will mourn his pass passing ilig vice flee president garner said 11 1 I was wag always fond of him I 1 was moc with him in the house and senate he was a fine man and a good friend funeral services for mr curtis and the interment were in topeka kan long newspaper tax Is held unconstitutional 0 again the supreme court of v the united states comes to the rescue of a free press unanimously the nine justices ruled aba that t the louis ina law imposing a pupi punitive tive tax on the of the principal POT pers of that thai state is unconstitutional the law was passed by a legislature controlled by the late senator huey long g the court said of it it Is bad because in the light of its history and of its present setting ills Is seen to be a deliberate and calculated device in the guise of a tax to limit the circulation of information inform atlon to which the public is entitled in virtue of t the constitutional guarantee A tree free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the he government and the people to allow it to te be lettered fettered is to fetter ourselves in view of the persistent search for or new subjects of taxation it is not no without significance that with the ingle exception of tile the Loul louisiana slant ta tute so far as we can discover no 0 state late during the years of our na existence has undertaken to impose a tax like that now in question the ilie form in which the tax Is im emd IH sll la is it in itself suspicious it Is not insured or liv the hin r or liv the hin r by volume of oc advertisement it is measured alone alon e by f the extent of t the he circulation of the publication in w which lich the advertisements ose are carried with the plain pur of penalizing the publishers and pa mailing the circulation of a selected tel grauli of newspapers kob sued for alleged income tax deficiency ACTIO against john J naska A former chali chairman man of the demo tie c at national ional smith committee when al waa tle the and sis si d albert t aho vho of Y the 1 lea 8 now american S prest nominee L league lue has bee been 4 be begun glin by the government ern ment le f for or at an alg ill deti len clency of 1 income on als his 1929 atme t claim tle tile 41 was filed in an littion I 1 0 the pe gs recently alerre billed ont du tw al 4 8 L mith 0 dilys days before h had itterly bitterly J J raskob 5 tai new on which ueal ead in ID the peti pell beat desert cahon ed as new a cuhon cu Hon alleged t to I 1 sir air du u 10 1 bont 0 1 it was have e by 11 understated il his I 1 s 14 1 11 sq 89 tax 1 32 a and n nn an aull ll 11 the of kllc all a was asked it 1 led cd ham itu k Q b i it petition jec air was alleged that litand the industrialist engaged engage d in fictitious sales of securities one to the other to a total tot a I 1 of about for the purpose 0 of f showing losses new farm bill pushed for early adjournment L T of congress hope for an early adjournment ty by may I 1 at tile ilie latest and therefore they pushed the hie new farm bill forward trying to get it through both houses by the end of the week in their desire to get away from the capital they already had decided to let lie he proposed permanent neutrality legislation go by the board the farm bill as rewritten by the senate agriculture committee is based rin on the soll soil erosion prevention scheme some democrats joined with many republicans public ans in opposing the measure one of them being senator walsh of massachusetts in a statement issued to the press he declared it was a dangerous bill conferring autocratic and blanket authority on the secretary of agriculture ile he said the measure was neither valid in law nor valid in economics chairman Cli airman doughton of the house ways and means committee said he expected definite word from the white house or treasury soon on the amount and kind of taxes that might be imposed to finance the new farm program g ra rn speaker byrns said he could see no reason why the tax measure should not emerge from the committee by the end of february lie he and dou doughton aton insisted they had no advance information on what the administration might propose michigan party chief convicted of fraud E ELMER B OHARA democratic state chairman of michigan and former clerk of wayne county which includes detroit state senator A J and 10 others of lesser prominence were convicted in detroit of having attempted to steal the te 1934 1914 election el eight ht defendants in the rev recount case which had been on trial for nearly 12 weeks were acquitted two other defendants previously had bad pleaded guilty elmer B thus us bringing to 20 ohara the Q number facing sentence for their part in the vote recount for ohara Ol lara the verdict came as the culmination of a series of calamities in a brief political career L last ast november a jury in macomb county adjacent to wayne found him guilty of bribery in a drainage transaction in connection with real estate deals lie had made before 1932 when he entered politics and was elected wayne county clerk ue he awaits sentence under that conviction after conviction he was removed from office in n tile the recount case allara was found guilty on three counts permitting others to alter ballots conspiring to permit others to alter ballots and con to permit others to conduct the r recount in an unlawful manner and change tile the result of the november 1034 1934 election rigid policy announced on mortgages def defaulting aultin on gov H guaranteed renovation will be no more and morts ge notes gently treated by the lie federal deral housing administration than are tax tal delan fuents by the treasury department stewart AI cDonald administrator says there has been a general misunderstanding of tills this matter and so he enunciates tills polley policy modernization u under the alen when a borrower defaults on a credit plan illation err lending institution ution tiles files u claim lending loan tile the ration for administration with the housing matter loan the ilie the Insurance or the obligation ot of collecting it hie e defaulted federal the to over then Is turned ion housing the pot policy ley it avi will 11 be cases such oin in kid housing ising fedel federal ot of tile the treasury department rigid as the to to be just as of taxes IQ ID the collection part ment went machinery Is well org organized an the collection reasonable CO consideration and while every borrowers owera will VIII be ae given 13 to borr ulyst buist not get in deral default uit tile the public tile the housing administration that tile the impre impression slon in perfo performing will be ia lax its luty to assume that there Is no reason treated will be in default ault ohp tl borrow borrowers alar along like tai evIl evildoers evaders ev aders ders but bill individual who is 14 li llimos as 09 11 an I 1 I 1 same saine default of tax as pay payments ments |