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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Sugar Lobby Gift Story Under Investigation, Senator Davis Promising Help Lame Duck Sessions Probably Will Be Abolished. By EDWARD W. PICKARD a constitution!!! convention bt by the submission to the states by congress of resolution for repeat".' J , of tlie Eighteenth amendment. . - BECAUSE of divided opposition , William Hale Thompson won the renomlnotlon by the Itepubllc-ans Itepubllc-ans for mayor -f Chicago otter one of the hottest primary contesta that city haa ever enjoyed. The attack on hlra was fierce and be would have been beaten by Judge John : Lyle, "ueraesls" of the gunmen and ? gangsters, had It not been for the candidacy of Alderman Albert who was supported by Senator Deneen and bis dwindling fnctlon. The hope of those Chlcagoans who aeek to eliminate Jbompsonlsm now rests with Anton Cermak, who is the nominee of the Democrats. Jx:A IN THE closing days of the session ses-sion of congress the senate ran Into what gave some promise of developing devel-oping Into another lobbying scandal. Mr. Borah read to It an article in a New York newspaper newspa-per which said, In effect, that a sena-. sena-. .,. t 1. 1- - '''( WHILE tba conference on narcotics was In . progress In Wash- , . , . Ington, word came 4 that Joseph C. drew, American ambassador to Turkey, Tur-key, was getting results there In the fight to suppress the Illegal exportation exporta-tion of the drugs members in the hallways of the office of-fice building and they do not speak to me. My wife is punished for my daring. Even bureau clerk in legislative departments give me the cold shoulder and interfere with my work as a member of the house. . ' "I have had members whisper that I am right, but thnt I would not succeed. Others have warned me that I would suffer for my rashness. rash-ness. The reaction against my proposal to make it 'unlawful' for any legislative, ministerial, or Judicial Judi-cial officer to appoint any person related to hlra when the pay is to come out of public funds has been most extraordinary." The last annual report of the clerk of the house reveals that approximately ap-proximately 100 relatives are now on the pay rolls of members, and a survey shows that many of these have never done a lick of work in the offices for which they got their appointments. One letter to Mr. Stone points out that the daughter of a certain representative signed vouchers for $3,500 last year and spent almost the entire time abroad. Another report which he would like to Investigate In-vestigate before a committee is that a southern member has paid his father $16,000 and the man has never been in Washington. tor during his for- Mer occupancy of JSrt li a high official post-j. post-j. j. Davis Uoni had recelve(i $100,000 from the president of a domestic sugar company in return for a high sugar tariff. Senator Nye of North Dakota had already alluded to the story, deploring the act that such an unsubstantiated report had been given publicity and credence. Iteplylng to questions, ques-tions, Nye admitted that the campaign cam-paign expenditure committee, of which he Is chairman, had come upon the report of a $100,000 gift to a senator, had Incompletely investigated in-vestigated it and had turned over memorandum to the committee on lobbying. He said he thought the senator in question was entitled enti-tled to have an Inquiry made and the truth established by the lobby committee, which la headed by Senator Sen-ator Caraway of Arkansas. At the Instance of Senator Borah, supported by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the senate Instructed the lobby committee to investigate the story. Immediately thereafter Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, former secretary of labor, announced an-nounced off the senate floor that he stood ready to appear before the lobby committee at any time and that he would assure the committee com-mittee of the presence of several witnesses whom It would desire to from that country. Ambassador Mr. Grew made J. C. Grew vigorous representations repre-sentations to the government at Angora and brought about the sealing of the three big drug factories of Istanbul with their entire stocks, to be effective until the factories present docu- . ments attesting the amounts of production and exportation. Drug exporting from Turkey to countries s-.ich as the United States, which do not allow unre-: strlcted entry of narcotics, is henceforth expected to be Impossible, Impos-sible, as a government official has been attached to each factory to control production and exportation. Factories must report to the gov-ernment gov-ernment every 24 hours the amount of raw inn terlal purchased and the amount of production. The director direc-tor of the Japanese factory in Istanbul Is-tanbul says the new order is so severe that his factory probably will be forced to cease functioning. function-ing. THOUGH King -"l Alfonso of L... ! Spain told Amerl- - :' - 1 can correspondents I ' -y 1 that all was calm i rfl In his country now F'w. t 'l -, r MINNESOTA Democrats announced, through Chairman J.J. Far-reli Far-reli of their state executive comniit-tee.that comniit-tee.that they would try to unseat Senator Sen-ator Thomas D. Schall. Republican, who was re-elected last November in a five-cornered contest Farrel and that danger of ; Jk . 1 a revolution had i-, I passed. Admiral j 1 , Juan Aznar, the . 1 new premier, was I I not finding the sail- iV,,i I ing weather espe- jto" dally fine. This Senator said Schall would T. D. 8chall be charged with violating the state corrupt practices act and also with violating federal regulations governing gov-erning the use of postal franking privileges, and that the state elections elec-tions committee would be asked to declare tile seat vacant so that a new election may be callpd. When Senator Schall was told of this In Washington he said only: "That does not deserve comment." The blind senator's dispute with President Hoover and Attorney General' Mitchell over the appointment appoint-ment of a new federal Judge for Minnesota continues. After rejecting reject-ing Scholl's choice for the post Ernest D. Michel of Minneapolis, the president named Gunnar B. Nordbye, now a Minneapolis district dis-trict Judge, and Schall immediately immediate-ly announced he would contest the nomination in the senate. His course In this matter, it is said, has led some Hoover Republicans in Minnesota to support the ouster move, ONCE again the United States Supreme court has upheld the validity of the Eighteenth amendment. amend-ment. This time the action, which was unanimous, was In reviewing the decision of Federal Judge William Wil-liam Clark of Newark, N. J, who held that the amendment should have been ratified by state conventions conven-tions Instead of by state legisla- was mainiy oe- Admiral cause the national juan Aznar executive commit- , tee of the Socialist party and t labor union decided to boycott the national elections and co-operate fully with the Republican revolutionary revolu-tionary committee. Thl determination deter-mination was so forcible that some of the moderate leaders among the Socialists resigned from the committee, their places being filled with real revolutionists. These resignations ended . the t government's dream of splitting the revolutionary ranks illvwclni! the Socialists and their 800,000 workers with their terrible weapon of a general strike from the pure-lr pure-lr Republican element with their backing among the bourgeoisie and 1 friendly soldiery. The government announced that the municipal elections, the first In , a series of elections that will end eventually In balloting for an as- , sembly to amend the constitution, ; would take place on April 12 Instead In-stead of March 29. Educational institutions, in-stitutions, closed by the Berenguer government a month ago, are ordered or-dered reopened. hear. Among the witnesses he named was Bror G. Dohlberg of Chicago, president of the Southern Sugar company. Mr. Davis declared de-clared he would assist the committee commit-tee In investigating the charges "to the bottom." Appearing later before the lobby committee. Senator Davis declared the charges, If directed at him, were absolutely false. WITH little or no expectation that his veto would be sustained. sus-tained. President Hoover put the mark of his disapproval on the veterans' vet-erans' bonus loan bllL. His veto message to congress Included data provided by Secretary Mellon showing show-ing how the bonus loans would aggravate ag-gravate the financing difficulties of the treasury, and also new estimates esti-mates of the number of veterans who will apply for the loons. ABOLISHMENT of the "lame duck" session of congress seemed sssured when the house adopted the GIfford resolution to that effect and providing for the inauguration of the newly elected President in January Instead of March. The resolution, which proposes pro-poses an amendment to the Constitution, Consti-tution, differs somewhat from the Norris measure passed by the senate sen-ate with the same purpose, but it was believed the differences would be ironed out in conference. It is planned that the terms of the President and Vice President shall end on the twenty-fourth day of January and the terms vt senators and representatives at noon on the fourth day of January of the years in which such terras normally would end. Congress would assemble assem-ble on. January 4, and the President Presi-dent would be sworn in on Janu-i Janu-i ary 24. tures. This decision was reversea, the opinion being written by Justice Jus-tice Owen D. Re.rts, the newest member of the Supreme court In a case appealed from Michigan, Michi-gan, the Supreme court held that the severe penalties of the Jones "five and ten" law are not applicable applica-ble to conviction for possesslpn of liquor. PEHB EVIND SVINHUFVUD. who has Just been elected president pres-ident of Finland, is going to have the prohibition question put up t him promptly. Distinguished women wom-en of the country, of all parties, , : are circulating a petition asking bis support of a speedy repealof the "pernicious prohibition law. , , The petition urges mothers to "feel deep concern in the ever increasing in-creasing intemperance which ruins men, women and children morally and physically. It is awful to contemplate con-template how alcohol will affect , the descendants of the present, poisoned generation unless legislators legisla-tors abolish the prohibition system." sys-tem." The petition further points out that women are nnable to restart re-start a temperance movement until un-til the demoralizing prohibition law is repealed and replaced by reasonable legislation. DRI Democrats in congress were exceedingly active during the week getting ready for the meeting of the Democratic national na-tional committee scheduled for March 6. Chairman Chair-man John J. Ras-kobhad Ras-kobhad announced that the committee would consider fu- ' , ; ONL a veto by President Hoover Hoo-ver can keep the government from going into the power business, for the senate Joined with the house in accepting the conference report on Muscle Shoals. The senate sen-ate vote was 55 to 23. This indicated indi-cated that a veto would be sustained. sus-tained. Twenty Republicans voted for the measure, eleven of them being be-ing of the radical group which has j the power question for Its chief issue. is-sue. Another rebuff for the administration adminis-tration was administered when the house passed Senator Wagner's b,ll setting up federal and state employment em-ployment agencies, without a record rec-ord vote. It was believed President Presi-dent Hoover might kill the measure meas-ure by a pocket veto. COUNTER revo- . lutlon broke out in Peru nnder the leadership of friends of the de-posed de-posed president, Augusto Legula, and threatened the regime of Provisional Pro-visional ; President Luis M. Sanches Cerro. The uprising upris-ing was quelled In y-in R,t thft rpv- ONE of Oklahoma's Okla-homa's lame dnck Republican congressmen, U. S. Stone of Norman, put forth a parting wail that aroused little if any sympathy sym-pathy among the national law makers mak-ers but considerable consider-able among the public at large. ture policies or, me j. j. riatKoo party, and assura- . ing that he would try to commit it to the wet side of the prohibition controversy, the drys were lining up to fight him to the bitter end. Senator Morrison of North Carolina Caro-lina one of the most arid ones, said his group had enough votes to defeat de-feat any wet resolution. Senator George of Georgia asserted the committee had no right to form narty policies, that being the function func-tion of the national convention. Other Democratic leaders were anxious to head off any discussion of the liquor Issue. Naturally the approaching committee com-mittee meeting caused a lot of talk about presidential possibilities. possibil-ities. The names heard oftenest were those of Governor Roosevelt of New York, Governor Ritchie of Maryland and Senator-elect James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. In Chicago there developed quite a boom for Colonel Lewis on his return re-turn home from a sojourn in tne Southwest , Senator C C Dill of Washington, Washing-ton, in a speech in New York, proposed pro-posed that his party, the Democrats, Demo-crats, settle the wet and dry dispute dis-pute within their ranks by supporting support-ing a plan to resubmit notional prohibition to the people. e'ther b' President olutlonlsts seized Cerro Arequlpa and set up a government under the name "Southern Junta." They were Joined by considerable parts of the army and held control of southern Peru. , To prove the sincerity of his Intentions In-tentions in leading the August rev- s olution, Cerro issued a proclamation proclama-tion declaring that he would not be a candidate for the presidency when the elections are held. This, he and his adherents thought would pacify the Arequlpa rebels and lead to peace through negotia- . -tions. Meanwhile loyal troops were moving on Arequlpa and a caU for - volunteers was Issued. ; . . .. (ft nawMtwi NwDpr ViiUa I Mr. Stone had introduced in-troduced a bill bar- U. S. Stone ring relatives of members of congress and of Mgn officials from becoming federal employees, em-ployees, and the other day he called at the White House to ask President Hoover's support fr the measure and also to tell what this attack on nepotism was getting get-ting him. . I never dreamed." Bald Nr. Stone, "that a simple, constructive move on my part could make such a difference. I pass fellow housa |