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AURORA OBSERVER, AURORA, OREGON announced that the sanctions already imposed upon Italy by members of the League of Nations are achieving their purpose of hastening the cessation of war between Italy and Ethiopia. He failed to satisfy the opposition on the question of an oil embargo against Italy by sidestepping a definite com mitment on such a boycott. By Ed w ar Pickard © Western "Newspaper Union Townsend Plan Inquiry Attracts Attention waiting for instructions as W HILE to what to do in the matter of member of his family to serve as as sistant secretary of the navy, and in recent months he had played an in creasingly important part in the af fairs of the department, acting as secretary during the illness of Secre tary Swanson. He was a student in the naval academy 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. ' taxation, the members of the house— and many others—directed their atten tion to the investiga tion of the activities of the Townsend pen sion plan promoters. Speaker B y r n s ap- pointed.on the probing committee of eight two avowed Townsendites —John H. Tolan, Dem ocrat, and Samuel L. Collins, Republican, Week-End Activities of both from California. President Roosevelt The chairman is J. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT had a J. Jasper Bell j aSper Bell 0f * busy week-end. First he went to souri, Democrat, author of the resolu Philadelphia and received from Tem tion for the investigation. It was un ple university the honorary degree of derstood that Mr. Bell had already doctor of jurisprudence. He deliv gathered a mass of information to ered an address in the course of which substantiate the charge that the he said: “ True education depends Townsend plan has become a huge upon freedom in the pursuit of truth. racket. The leaders of both parties in No group and no government can congress have been getting rather properly prescribe precisely what nervous over the growth of the Town should constitute the body of knowl send movement and are glad to see it edge with which true education is con attacked; but some Impartial observ cerned. The truth is found when men ers call attention to the fact that the ‘ are free to pursue it. way. the committee is going after it “ It is this belief in the freedom of smacks of unconstitutional abridge the mind; written into our fundamental ment of the right to petition. law and observed in our every day It was expected that one of the first dealings with, the problems of life, questions to be considered by the com that distinguishes us as a nation.” mittee would be the salaries received Next the President hurried up to by Dr. Francis E. Townsend, author of Cambridge, Mass., to see his son John the scheme, and R. E. Clements, for initiated into the old aristocratic Fly mer California real estate operator, club of Harvard. Returning to Hyde co-founder and general manager. Clem Park, Mr. Roosevelt delivered a radio ents has revealed to newspaper report address marking brotherhood day of ers that he and Doctor Townsend re the national conference of Christians ceive salaries of $100 a week each and Jews, and he called on all be from OARP—the old age revolving; lieving Americans to unite against the pension organization—and $50 a week wave of irreligion that challenges all each from the Townsend national faiths. i weekly, which claims a circulation of 250,000. It has been charged on the Ship Subsidy Measure floor of the house that this newspaper, privately owned by Townsend and Seems to Be Discarded EVELOPMENTS in Washington Clements, has a reserve fund of at. lead to the belief that the Cope least $200,000. Congressman John Steven McGroarty, land ship subsidy bill has been aban . California’s “poet laureate,” says the doned. Word came from the White House that the Presi Townsendites will control the house of dent, a l t h o u g h he representatives at the next session, initiated the princi and adds: “They have built up the ples of the measure, largest political organization in the would not press for history of America, with 10 million its passage; and Sen enrolled members. If you include those ator Royal S. Cope who have sighed petitions favoring the land, whose commerce Townsend plan the number Is increased committee approved to 30 million. By November it will be the bill which was a twice this large. This investigation part ofv the adminis will vastly strengthen the Townsend tration program, is so movement and anybody that knows anything knows that. The American Sen. Copeland irritated that he may drop it. Senator Guf people like fair play and they know fey of Pennsylvania has prepared a that this investigation is just dirty rival measure, not yet introduced, and politics.** Senator Black of Alabama is opposed to the Copeland bill. Gen. Hagood Punished for Shipping interests have given warn ing that new construction for foreign New Deal Criticism A/TAJ. GEN. JOHNSON HAGOOD trade will continue to be paralyzed by recently suggested to the house uncertainty and lead to additional in sistence by the Navy department #n appropriations subcommittee that con gress take advantage of what he the building of its own auxiliaries. termed “ WPA stage money” and use New Farm Relief Bill it to improve housing at army posts Within a few days came this ordei Sent to Conference signed by Gen. Malin Craig, chief of TAIFFERENCES between the house staff, by order of the secretary of U and senate versions o f the new war: farm relief measure were utterly ir “ By order of the President, Maj. Gen. reconcilable, If you could take the Johnson Hagood, United States army work of the conferees of both bodies is relieved from assignment to the to whom the bill was sent. Neverthe command of the Eighth Corps arej less, It was expected the disputes and further duty at Fort Sam Houston would all be adjusted within a few Texas. Maj. Gen. Hagood will procee days and the measure sent to the to his home and await orders. Th White House. travel directed is necessary in the mil Senator Smith, chairman of the sen itary service.” ate agriculture committee, voiced In dignant opposition to a house amend ment providing that tenant farmers T w o Prominent Men Are and sharecroppers shall be included Claimed by Death in cash benefits paid landowners for EATH took from the scene two conserving soil and thus controlling men prominent in national life— production. Albert Cabell Ritchie, governor of Maryland for four terms, and Henry Eden Warns That Another Latrobe Roosevelt, as W orld W ar Impends sistant secretary of APT. ANTHONY EDEN, British the navy and distant foreign minister, stood up in the cousin of the Presi house of commons and warned the dent. Mr. Ritchie was world that recurrence of the World a leader among con war was imminent and in his opinion servative Democrats, could not be averted except by a sys from the start a de tem of collective security “ embracing termined foe of na all nations in an authority which is tional prohibition, and unchallenged and unchallengable.*’ in 1932 a candidate Eden impressed upon members of for the Presidential thq parliament the difference between n o m i n a t i o n by his a policy of collective security and one party. Though beaten A. C. Ritchie out by F. D. Roosevelt, he had the sat of encirclement, such as the “ring of isfaction of seeing his repeal plank steel** which Germany complains Is put into the Democratic platform. Of being forged about her by France. late he had been an outspoken critic “The British government will have of the New Deal policies, for he was no lot or part in encirclement,” Eden said. a champion of state rights. Earlier in his speech the minister Henry L. Roosevelt was the fifth Thursday, March 5, 1936 stock of their corporations at .the ex pense of their true responsibility of functioning as executives.” Gen. “ Billy” Mitchell Is Dead of Heart Attack of the most spectacular and O NE dynamic figures in American life of today passed with the death of Brig. Gen. William Mitchell in a New York hospital. He succumbed to a heart at tack and Influenza at the age of fifty- seven years. “ Billy,** as he was known to airmen, was commander in chief of the American air forces in France dur ing the World war and was decorated by six governments. Afterward, white yet in the regular service, he severely criticized the government’s air pre paredness policy and was courtmar- tialed and suspended. Puerto Rico Slayings May Start Reforms POLITICAL condition« in Puerto * Rico, notoriously unsatisfactory, may be rectified as a result o f the as sassination in San Juan of E. Francis Riggs, chief of the insular police, and | district police chief. Riggs, a former United States army colonel, was shot by two Nationalists; two hours later District Police Chief Francisco Velez N. Ortiz attempted to put down a Na tionalist riot a t a cafe in the central Couzens Is Investigating town of Utuado and was killed. The assassins of Riggs were caugh; W . J. Cummings’ Salaries and admitted the killing, saying it was l OSITIONS and salaries of Walter in revenge for the Rio Pedras “massa J. Cummings, treasurer o f the Dem ere** in which police killed four ' ' r ocratic national committee, are to be tionalists last November. While being ‘ investigated by Senator Couzens, Re questioned, the murderers, the police S publican, Michigan,* in said, reached for guns and were sh< connection with his in to death. quiry into appoint ments made under op SEC Head Is Worried by erations of the Recon struction F i n a n c e Stock Speculation Corporation in financ T AMES M. LANDIS, chairman of the ing banks and rail ^ securities and exchange commis roads. The senator sion, speaking at ah alumni meeting declared that Mr. at Princeton university, expressed Cummings is receiving great concern over in more than $90,000 an creased stock market nually as a result of speculation, and set Sen. Couzens appointments obtained forth three methods, at the behest of the RFC. Mr. Cum whereby the govern mings is receiving $75,000 annually as ment might curb it. chairman of the Continental Illinois These are: Control of National Bank and Trust company of banks and brokerage || Chicago, according to Senator Couzens, credit, antimanipula- 8 who said that Cummings* recent ap- tion laws, and a pro- É pcinment as trustee of the Chicago, gram to educate the ¡¡ I Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific rail public against unwise j|j road to represent RFC interests meant stock purchases. . . . . .. an addition of $15,000 to his income “ One sees with con- J- M. Land.* cern,” Landis said, “ the efforts of trad annually. Mr. Cummings does not deny that ers to outguess events, like court de lit is receiving these salaries but con cisions, and the increasing tendency subtly generated to induce people to tends they are justified. pour their savings into the market Philadelphia Paper Wins with heedlessness as before. “ Still too' prevalent, as our month Criminal Libel Suit ly reports show, is the tendency of HE Philadelphia Inquirer, accused officers and directors to toy with the of criminal libel by Attorney Gen P T eral Charles J.^Margiotti of Pennsyl vania, was acquitted of the charge by a jury of five housewives and seven men. The costs of the trial, however, were placed on the defendant. The basis of the attorney general’s charge was an article printed by the Inquirer on September 29, 1935, during a mayoralty campaign in Philadelphia, which said Mr. Margiotti’s law part ners and associates were planning a “ big tax fee grab.” Acquitted with the Inquirer were Its editor, John Trevor Custis, and general manager, Charles A. Tyler, co-defendants. Interesting Selections of Convention Delegates of delegates to the na S ELECTIONS tional conventions, already being made in some states, are interesting, especially in the case of New York. Representative Hamilton Fish, sup porting Borah for the Republican Pres idential nomination, led a hot fight to displace some of the “old guard” and lost, the state committee naming these delegates at large: Charles D. Hilles and Mrs. Ruth Pratt, members of the national com mittee; Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, vice chairman of the state committee; Rep resentative Bertrand H. Snell, minority leader of the house; Representative James W. Wadsworth, former United States senator; Edward H. Butler, pub- ’ lisher of the Buffalo Evening News; John R. Crews, Brooklyn leader; Charles H. Griffiths, Westchester coun ty chairman. Tammany made public the list of its delegates to the Democratic conven-, tion, and it is headed hy Alfred E. ! Smith who will represent the tip of Manhattan and Staten island. Neutrality Act Extended for Another Year house and senate passed the [ B OTH resolution extending for one year, the exisitng embargo on arms, ammu-- nition, and iinplements of war, and prohibiting loans and credits to bellig* erents. * o Senator Nye was out of the city when the senate, assembled, an hour earlier than usual, to act on the meas ure. Hearing what was going on, he flew from Minneapolis through a storm and arrived five minutes before the final vote but too late to put through any of his proposed amendments. 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