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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