ORT COVINGTON SUNVOL. LI. FT. COVINGTON, N. Y.. THURSDAY, JULY 11. 1935. NO. 12.

News Review of CurrentEvents the World Over

House Democrats Defy President—Lobbying for andAgainst Utilities Bill to Be Investigated—

Senator Glass Bests Eccles.

By E D W A R D W. P I C K A R D© Western Newspaper Union.

Rep.

REVOLT in congress against al-leged dictatorial attempts of the

administration reached a climax whenthe house, by the decisive vote of 258

to 148, rejected the"death sentence" inthe utility holdingcompanies bill aspassed by the senateand demanded by thePresident. The rec-ord vote came on amotion to substitutethe house bill placingutility holding com-panies under regula-tion of the securitiesand exchange com-

mission for the senate bill which pre-scribed the dissolution of the holdingcompanies of more than first degree be-ginning in 1940.

The adaption of this motion killedthe "death sentence." After substi-tuting the house bill for the senatebill, the perfected measure was passedby a vote of 322 to 81.

Immediately after this action, thehouse voted unanimously for an in-vestigation of alleged lobbying byboth the supporters and the foes ofthe utility measure. During the de-bate on the bill it was frequentlycharged that the capitol was swarm-ing with utility company lobbyists, andthen came two serious accusationsagainst the other side. Representa-tive John H. Hoeppel of California,Democrat, asserted an unnamed ad-ministration lobbyist had offered toget California's relief allotment in-creased if Hoeppel would vote for thebill as the President wanted it. Thisdidn't greatly impress the house, butlater Representative Ralph O. Brew-ster of Maine, Republican, chargedthat Thomas G. Corcoran, a youngbrain truster who is co-author of tneadministration bill, had threatenedcessation of construction of the $37,-000,000 Passamaquoddy dam projectin the congressman's district ifBrewster should vote against the"death sentence."

Mr. Brewster said he did notlieve the President was aware thatsuch tactics were being used by hisaids or would countenance them, andRankin of Mississippi and Moran ofMaine defended Mr. Roosevelt. But^;he President's contact man, CharlesWest, and Postmaster General Far-ley's lobbyist, Emil Hurja, had beenso active among the house membersthat the resentment of the lawmakerswas aroused and they gladly directedthat the lobbying charges be investi-gated.

WEthe utility measure was doubtful.

Senator Wheeler of Montana, aftercall at the White House, said he wasconfident a satisfactory bill would-come out of the conference, and if onedid not, the measure would be al-lowed to die. In either case the waron the holding companies is likely tobe made a major issue of the nextPresidential campaign, and adminis-tration leaders are predicting that theDemocratic congressmen who daredto vote against the "death sentence"will be defeated at the polls. These"doomed" men number 166, as against131 Democrats who stood by the Presi-dent.

Republican leaders were jubilant,professing to see in the episode thebeginning of a real uprising againstthe President and his New Dealers;many neutral observers looked uponit as only a battle between the twolobbies in which the victory went tothe utilities lobby.

IN THE battle between Senator Car-ter Glass and Marriner S. Eccles,

governor of the federal reserve board,the former has, at this writing, scoredthe most points. Theastute Virginian ex-tracted from the Ee-cles-Currie b a n k i n gbill most of the radi-cal provisions t h a twould have led to gov-ernment or public own-ership of the federalreserve system, and,indeed, practically re-wrote the measure.Then his subcommit- _,tee handed it on to S e n " G l a s s

-(he senate banking and currency com-mittee, which promptly gave the billits approval, without a record vote,and after making only two minor•chances.

Governor Eccles and Secretary ofthe Treasury Morgenthau expected tobe called before the committee andwere prepared to tell why the billwould not suit the administration, butthe committee didn't give them achance.

As passed by the house, the bankinghill would give autocratic powers overthe bunking system to a politicallydominated federal reserve board; andthe party In power would have the au-<hoi-Hy to foi'co the twelve ivscrvobanks to lend unlimited amounts to thenational treasury. Under tho bill asrrwritien by (Jla^s, reserve board mem-bers are to be appointed for 1-1-yearterms und are to be discharged onlyfor rnr.se; chief oHu-ors of the reservebatiks are to be chosen by their direc-

tors, subject to reserve board approval,for five-year periods, and the reservebanks need not buy additional govern-ment bonds unless they choose to do so.

INVESTIGATION of the administra-tion of the Virgin islands by a sen-

ate committee was certain to be lively.The very first witness heard, CharlesH. Gibson, was threatened with jailby Secretary of the Interior Ickes forremoving official documents from thefiles. Mr. Gibson, who was govern-ment attorney for the islands untilIckes ousted him, had testified rather

aguely against the regime of Gov.Paul M. Pearson.

Gibson testified that Governor Pear-son had exceeded his authority underthe law, was unpopular with a largesection of the population of theislands, and was not frank in his ad-ministration. To support his testimonyiibson introduced several letters which

were the documents to which Ickesalluded.

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTUREWALLACE proclaimed the estab-

lishment of an AAA adjustment pro-gram for the 1935 rye crop which willinclude benefit payments of amountsnot yet disclosed. Representativesfrom 16 rye growing states met inWashington to discuss the programand outline plans for its operation.

Farmers from the principal wheatproducing states met with AAA offi-cials and gave their approval to atentative flexible plan for the paymentof benefits to wheat growers.

Skyscrapers May Give Way to Oil Wells

GEN.his

HUGH JOHNSON assumednew office of federal works

relief administrator for New Yorkcity. "Robbie," his ever present sec-retary, fended off the reporters for aday, but let them in then, and to themthe general wailed:

"I hate this thing! It Isn't helpinganybody, anywhere. When the sourceof money is cut off we'll be right backwhere we started. It's dishearteningto sit here, knowing that when thefunds are gone, the jobs will be gone."

A TTORNEY GENERAL CUMMINGSXX announced that on July 29 aschool would be opened by his depart-ment in Washington for the purpose oftraining state, county and city policein law enforcement theory and prac-tice. A twelve weeks' course will begiven to selected officers, the instruc-tion being free.

T> EPUBLICAN senators were ad-• ^ vised that former President Her-bert Hoover will not be a candidate forthe Republican nomination in the Pres-

idential race of 1936.They were advised

that Mr. Hoover wouldmake the formal an-nouncement some timethis summer. He isstaying out, it wassaid, because he in-tends to remain in pri-vate life and hasplanned his future ca-reer along that line.For his active criti-cisms of adininistntion policies the rea-

son was given that, although he doesnot "choose to run," he thought thparty needed some sort of direction;now that his candidacy is shelved, itis expected that his political utteranceswill be clothed in less authority.

The informers, however, assured thesenators that Mr. Hoover would getbehind the party's candidate and enterthe campaign for him, and that hethinks, with unification growing, theRepublican prospects are lookingbrighter day by day.

WORLD war veterans from boththe Allied and the Central pow-

ers met oflicially in Paris and debatedways in which future wars may beaverted. They denounced as enemiesof their own countries those whowould seek to foment a new war, andpassed a resolution declaring: "Therespect for treaties being the basisof international relations, this confi-dence can be durable only when inter-national accords and the resulting ob-ligations are mutually and sincerely re-spected."

The meeting was held under the auspices of Fidac. The American dele-gates included S. P. Bailey, Winona,Minn.; Julian W. Thomas, Salt LakiCity; Bernhard Ragner, McKeesport,Pa., and Harold L. Smith, Coatesville,Pa.

BURR T. ANSELL, a young attorney

is suing Senator Huey Long for libel,was enraged when Long intruded onhis party at a Washington hotel antook a swing at the Kingfish. One ofthe senator's companions seized An-sell's arm and the young man saysLong then ran away.

D AVID LLOYD GEORGE, whoseNew Deal program was not well

received by the British government,has resumed active participation inpolitics, "reluctantly," but withpressed determination to "go on withit." The little Welsh veteran states-man addressed the national conven-tion of the peace and reconstructionmovement, and asserted the menace t<peace and the economic confusionthroughout the world are growingworse.

JAPAN'S beautiful Inlandthe scene of a terrible disi

d sea wasisastor th«

cost 104 lives. The steamer MidoriMaru, crowded with holiday passen-gers, collided with a freighter In tinfoKKy wifxht and sank almost immedi-ately. Rescue boats picked up 01the MW passengers and 5G of the crew,AH the victims were. Japanese.

CAPT. ANTHONY EDEN, England'sjourneyman trouble shooter, elec-

trified the British Isles by announcingthat Great Britain had offered to giveHaile Selassie, emperor of Abyssinia,a generous strip of British Somalilandto replace territory acquired by Italy,if the Italian government would prom-ise not to wage war against the domainof Africa's "Conquering Lion ofJudah."

Nothing doing, said Premier Musso-lini, who has turned a deaf ear to11 Britain's proposals of an Italo-Ethl-•pian compromise. He was reporteds intending to go right ahead with

lis plan of a four-years' war to effecthe complete pacification of the Afri-can empire. He insists that thereaust be more room in Africa for over-populated Italy to expand.

Mussolini has threatened to "remem-jer" the nations which have offered to'urnish Abyssinia with arms, and they

; withdrawn or modified their of-:ers. The African emperor pleaded:

'If we are in the right and if civi-lized nations are unable to preventthis war, at least do not deny us themeans of defending ourselves."

The British parliament was no bet-;er pleased with Eden's "offer" of land;han was Italy, and the colonial secre-tary, son of former Prime MinisterMacDonald, had a hard time explain-ing i t

Then Italy heard that the Britishgovernment was considering a proposal

invite other nations to join in aneconomic blockade of Italy to checkher aggression on Ethopia. Rome wasastonished by this report but didn'tseem in the least alarmed. Neitherwere the Italians frightened when theylearned officially that Ethiopia hadasked the United States to study means

persuading Italy to respect the Kel-jg pact outlawing war. The em-

peror himself made the appeal to W.Perry George, charge d'affaires atAddis Ababa.

A NDRE CITROEN, famous f o ryears as "the Henry Ford of

France" because he built most of thatcountry's low cost motor cars, is dead.And probably he was happy to passon, for his vast enterprises had col-lapsed and his once huge fortune wasgone.

>~pHE federal government began aA new fiscal year with intentions of

spending more money than in any pre-vious year of peace. Mr. Roosevelt an-nounced that he would spend $8,520,-000,000, of which $4,582,000,000 will gofor "recovery and relief." He expectsthe treasury to collect $3,991,000,000.No, it doesn't add up. The deficit forthe new fiscal year will be $4,528,000,-000, it is estimated.

The fiscal year just passed came toan end with the public debt at a newpeace-time peak of $2S,665,000,000, stillsome shy of the $31,000,000,000 thePresident estimated a year ago. Tofinance the new budget, he had count-ed in part upon the $500,000,000 ex-tension of "nuisance" taxes justpassed by congress, but not upon thetax-the-rich program which the NewDealers hope to jockey through sometime in August. Estimates have itthat this will net another $340,000,000.

The expenditure for the past year isonly $7,258,000,000 instead of §8,571,-000,000 forecast at the start of theyear. The deficit was $3,472,347,000instead of the proposed $4,S69,000.000.

If the expenditures outlined in the1936 budget reach the estimated total,the public debt on July 1 next yearwould stand at $34,239,000,000.

During the next year the Presidentexpects to spend $4,SSO,000,000 for re-lief and for the employment of 3,500,-000 idle workers. A general upswingin business would improve the revenueexpected by the treasury. The Presi-dent counted on $3,711,000,000 comingin during the 1935 fiscal year. Re-ceipts proved to be $3,785,000,000.

THE week's peak in crime wasreached when Detroit police found

Howard Carter Dickinson, prominentNew York attorney and nephew of IChief Justice Charles Evans Hughes,lying dead in a ditch beside a lonelyRouge park road with a bullet throughhis head and another through his chest.

Dickinson, a law associate ofCharles Evans Hughes, Jr., had beenin Detroit on business of the $40,000,-000 estate of the late William H.Yawkey. Apparently, he had drivento Rouge park while on a drinkingparty after business hours. His com-panions on the ride, who were WilliamSchweitzer, Detroit underworld char-acter, and three'burlesque-show girls,all of whom he had picked up at hishotel in the motor city, fled the sceneand were traced to Fort Wayne, Ind.,where they were arrested.

After several days of grilling by po-lice, the four confessed they had plot-ted the murder to rob Dickinson.Sweitzer admitted firing the shots.Their loot was $134.

Oklahoma City's new zone law permits oil wells to be drilled in the heart of the business district as shown here.The day may come when tall buildings are torn down to make room for the skeleton-like towers.

Gets $25,000—the Lucky Dog!

Nothing to be sniffed at was the $25,000 willed to Pet, this Eskimo spitz, byhis late mistress, Miss Margaret McDermott of Chicago, who asked that he beplaced in the home of a woman who loved dogs. Pet is now the charge ofAirs. Hulda Rhode and her grandson Lawrence Dennis, shown here, who werefriends of Miss McDermott.

Taxidermistfor DefunctNRA Dodo

BRISBANETHIS WEEK

War Possible, Four Kinds10,000 Million QuestionsOur Large Gold PileKnows Too Much at Four

Russian newspapers, speaking offi-[ally, accuse Japan of stirring up

trouble along theRussian border, ta"bring on gravecomplications."

A protest carriesStalin's warning toJapan that a con-tinuation of theseincidents "may haves e r i o u s conse-quences in the re-lations of Russiaand J a p a n , andpeace in the FarEast."

If Russia and Ja-pan should have aserious disagree-

ment, Russia's equipment in the wayif submarines and airplanes, all with-

in 400 miles of Tokyo, would probablyenable other countries to stop worry-ing about Japan's military plans.

Arthur Brisbane

Meet Prentiss J. Coonley, upon whomhas been placed the charge of makingthe dead NRA assume something of alifelike appearance. Mr. Coonley wascode administrator of the old NationalRecovery administration.

He has been advanced to the positionof director of the new division of busi-ness co-operation, in an attempt to re-vive the more noteworthy phases ofNRA.

England does not approve of Mus-solini's plans in Abyssinia, and thequestion arises, Would England closethe Suez canal, the short cut for Ital-ian troops and supplies to Abyssinia?Will Italian airplanes be forbidden to~7 over the Suez canal area?

The answer as to closing the Suezcanal by Britain would probably be

England would not voluntarilyprovoke hostilities with Italy. Shereally wants peace. But, how easily-war could come—French against Ger-man or English against Italian or Jap-anese against Russian! •

Germany undertakes to establish afamily tree" for each of its 66,000,-

000 inhabitants, which means asking,answering, writing down ten thousandmillion questions.

The sensible answer would be, "Idescend from Adam, with heavenknows how many mixtures in my bloodon the way up," but Hitler would notaccept that. Young couples gettingmarriage licenses are questioned:"What were your eight great-grand-parents like? Did they have any Ne-groid or Jewish blood?

"Were they fond of telling thetruth? Did they have imagination,driving power?"

Ten thousand million foolish ques-tions would seem to set a new record.

New Troops for Italy's Ethiopian Front

Fresh Italian troops and small tanks manned by Italians and natives, ready to wage Mussolini's proposed four yearswar in Africa, shown as they passed in review before Gen. Rodolfo Graziani (left, on the stand) in Italian Somaliland.

The "greatest" country in the world,supposed to be the .most intelligent,owns some tons of gold, called"worth" nine thousand million dollars.

We do not use the gold, or even in-vest part of it in adequate nationaldefense, that would protect it. Weare afraid some one may come, withbetter airplanes and submarines thanours, and steal it; so the governmentwill dig a deep hole, far from thecoast, put in it a huge safe, and hideaway the gold lump, that is used onlyto impress the financial imaginationof the world and keep foreigners fromknocking down our currency.

Dolores Anne Diamond, only four,surprised teachers in a Schenectadykindergarten. She said the games forlittle children bored her, and she couldrecite the alphabet backward.

Dolores was moved to the firstgrade, and could have gone higher.She has the intelligence of a child offourteen.

Usually it is better for a child to de-velop slowly and normally. The in-fant prodigy is usually dull later. Per-haps little Dolores will he an excep-tion, like Mozart, and, at eighteen, aswise as Hypatia, wiih a happier end-ing.

Lloyd George, in spire of his seven-ty-two years, returns to active politics.He hates the "arid atmosphere of po-litical controversy" and returns to ac-tive politics only because he believesthat world conditions are growingworse, and "from the point of viewof peace are worse than before 1914."

D ETERSmust

ETERMINED that what goes uptay up, Fred and Al Key,

endurance fliers, broke the world'stime record tor keeping a plane aloft,landing after G~»:Ha hours In the airat Meridan, Miss. They passed theimoliicial endurance record of 047hours, 12$ minutes and 30 seconds si»tin 1030 by Pale Jackson and ForestO'Brien at St. Louis.

MAP WOMEN'S AID

Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward, assistantprogram director, who is busy in Wash-ington with plans for employing T>00,-(XXI women -with part of the President's$-.1,880,000,000 works-relief fund.

WAR INAfrica, Says Duce.

Will CertainlyCome by

OCTOBERPremier Benito Mussolini goes right

ahead with his plans for beginning afour-years' war against Ethiopia in thefall. Italy, now overpopulated, needsmore room to expand, says 11 Duce,and now is the time to do it.

Efforts of Haille Selassie. Ethiopianemperor, and of other nations havefailed to effect a compromise, and newtroops and military equipment are ar-riving in Italian Somaliland almostdaily.

Great Britain, through its Capt. An-thony Eden, journeyman attendant ofJohn Bull's League of Nations affairs,offered Italy a generous slice of Brit-ish Somniihnul as a concession if hewould guarantee peace in Ethiopia.Mussolini flatly refused.

II Duce has also threatened to "re-member" the nations which have of-fered to supply Ethiopia with arms.

RULES CHERRY FETE

G».ne\ie\o Pepei i MUUMOO blond,was chosen from western Michigan'sfairest to reign as queen ovor thetie-nal cherry t\v-i"\;-.' al l\'u\er,;<; CJuly IT, IS and l'J.

Miss Koutanova. Russian, twenty-one years old, jumped 25,426 feet froman airplane without oxygen apparatusand landed in a cabbage field afterturning over four times before herparachute opened. She claims the fe-male record.

Russia is teaching millions of youngpeople to use parachutes, the first stepin curing nervousness in flying. Herewe have only a small handful of excel-lent pilots, but the masses of our popu-lation know as little about aviation asthey do about "geometry in space."

Mr. Werner Kahn, district leader of"Hitler Youth,1' says Nazi doctrineshave become Germany's real religion,and "the time must come when entrynto the Hitier Youth organization will

take the place now occupied by Cath-olic or Protestant confirmation." Fur-thermore, the young gentleman says,"I declare to all enemies of HitlerYouth that the fuehrer is our faithand national socialism is our religion."*

Millions of us so throuch life gettinglittle sunshine, rarely if ever lookingat the stars, our interests cot unlikethar of the entomologicar.y interest-ing mmbie'myi;. that ^p^nds it< life inthe field, rolling: little balls of manureinto a burrow. lie doesn't even realm*f:\it there is a sun. or star*. ar>..l irusnyuo: :;.o ' 's*1 h'.La. aU"i:.-.:ch :i.iv.- may