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History -Making Events of the Wo T H K B O \ N K V I l< I. K D A M TW O Review of the By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Western Newspaper Union. Plans Completed for the Democratic Convention New Tax Bill Battle Started in House R A I.BEN W. B AR K LE Y S E of N ATO Kentucky, who was temporary 'T 'H E administration’s Mil to levy * nbout 800 million dollars in new taxes yearly was Introduced In the house by the ways and means com mittee. and a fierce battle started immediately. The Republican minor tty of the committee Issued a report which stated that the proposed tax law was “ unsound In principle, will undermine business stability. Is an other step toward regimentation of all business, and is not designed to raise revenue but admittedly is an other New Deal experiment." Conservative Democrats Joined with the Republicans In this attack against the bill, hut the administra tion leaders were confident the measure would pass before May 1 Complete revision of the corpora tion tax system is the main objec tive of the bill. It levies a gradu ated tax on corporation income, based on percentage of earnings withheld from distribution to stock holders In the form of dividends. The majority report asserted the measure would raise about $<^03.- 000.000 the first year, but admitted that over a three-year period rev enue would fall *331000000 short of the President’s budget-balancing program. It was added that the deficit could he acted on “ more in telligently” next session. chairman o f the Democratic na tional convention In 1982 and as such delivered the keynote speech , will serve In the same capacity at th e Philadelphia convention in June, outlining the Is sues of this year’s campaign as his party views them. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkan sas will be the Sen. Barkley permanent chair man again. Yet another repeater will be former Judge John E. Mack of New York. Four years ago he placed Franklin D. Roosevelt in nomination, and he will do It again in June. These selections were made by the committee on arrangements. Other officers of the convention chosen are: Lee Barnes of Ala bama, chief doorkeeper; Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, national commit* teewoman of the restrict of Colum bia, hostess of the convention, with Mrs. Agnes Collins Dunn of New Hampshire as assistant; Col. Ed ward C. Halsey, secretary of the senate, sergeant at arms; Repre sentative Clarence Cannon of Mis souri, parliamentarian, assisted by Representative John J. O’Connor of New York; W. Forbes Morgan, sec retary of the convention. National Chairman Farley said that the two-thirds rule, which has prevailed in Democratic conven tions for a century, will not be abol ished. The rules committee will be headed by Senator Bennett Clark of Missouri and it will report for abrogation of the two-thirds rule as well as elimination of the unit rule. The latter binds the state delega tions to abide by the decision of a majority of the delegation. Accord ing to Mr. Farley, these changes will not prevent the practically unanimous nomination of President Roosevelt. Present plans are to have Mr. Roosevelt go to Philadelphia on Saturday, June 27, to close the con vention by accepting the nomination in a speech delivered either in the Municipal stadium or in the Univer sity of Pennsylvania stadium close to the convention hall. Roosevelt Addresses National Democratic Club P R E S ID E N T ROOSEVELT made V what might be considered the first o f his campaign speeches be fore the National Democratic club in New York city. Tammany was there in full force, but such dis gruntled Democrats as A1 Smith and John J. Raskob were conspicuous by their absence. Mr. Roosevelt de clared his purpose to bring more food, higher prices and better homes fo r the people. “ I f you increase buying power,” he said, “ prices will go up; more goods will be sold. Wages ought to and must go up with prices. This does not mean unsound Inflation or skyrocketing prices; this should be avoided Just as we seek to avoid bankruptcy sale values.” Turning to his critics with sar casm, the President said “some in dividuals are never satisfied.” Re ferring to charges o f extravagance and mounting deficits, he said peo ple complain to him about “ the cur rent costs o f rebuilding America, about the burden on future Ameri ca.” He insisted that the measure should not be the three-billion-dol- lar deficit o f this year but the asser tion that the national Income has risen from thirty-five billions in 1932 to sixty five billions in 1936. O H It O N I < I. F Borah Rejects Landon him. “ Democracy in Austria is high treason,” said he. Plea to Quit Race For Austria, said Starhemberg. • "p i I ROUGH William Allen While. there are three possibilities— a con Kansas editor, the Landon camp tinuation of the authority of the suggested to Senator llorah that lie state. Naziism. or Communism. He abandon his campaign fur the Re assorted the helmwehr Is deter publican Presidential nomination, mined to preserve the Fascist ays go to tiie Cleveland convention ns torn and would continue ns a aepar a delegate and assist In writing a ate organization but that other pri liberal platform Mr. Itorah rejected vate armies would be absorbed by the proposition, saying; the regular army. “ Naturally I am Interested in the platform, hut. after all, a platform Advance of the ftalians doesn't mean much unless you know who Is going to run on It. 1 am in Ethiopia Continues more Interested In the latter propo T A L Y ’S victorious troops In north sition Just now.” ern Ethiopia continued their ad If the I<andon forces can control vance on Addis Ababa, though it the contention, Mr. White may be was somewhat retarded by the e f forts of the natives to blow up the made chairman of the resolutions roadways and otherwise haras* the committee. So It was tuken that his invaders. The Italian motorized col proposal Indicated that the laindon group was willing to accept as lit» umn In this movement is the most oral a platform n# Mr. Borah might formidable yet formed in this war and Is notable for the large nurn desire in order to rheck dissension within the party. The Idaho sena her of white troops Included. General Grazlnna's southern army, tor has made no direct attack on Ijindon. but has Indicated that he meawhile, was driring toward Ha thought there was too much “ big rar, second city of the empire. In three columns. The Ethiopians were business” Influence In the 1 .¿union putting up stiff resistance at vari movement. I ous points but everywhere were driven back, according to Italian dispatches. Officials at Addis Ababa were still confident of success In saving the capital and were reorganizing their forces there and sending fresh troop« to the front. The gen eral opinion there was that the Ital ian army could be held off if It tries to come in from I>essye, by small detachments concealed In mountain Green Urges Unions to caves with only a few grenades and Remain Nonpartisan machine guns. Therefore. It was a* T 1 / -IL L IA M GREEN, president of serted by Ethiopians, the Italians * * the American Federation of are likely to attack the railroad run Labor, has sent a letter to all affil ning to French Somaliland before iated unions urging that they ad attempting to advance to the capital. here to the federation's “ traditional nonpartisan political p<4icy." He Supreme Court Decision in says; Stock Yards Case “ For obvious reasons, labor should avoid division even in the pursuit f 7 PHOLDING a reduction of rate* and charges at the St. Joseph of Its political policies. Such divi stockyards, the Supreme sion can be avoided if working men (Mo.) court held that the findings made and women, loyal to the American by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Federation o f Labor, will refrain Wallace Justified the rates he set and from identifying themselves with that the stockyards operators had any political movement designed to serve as a substitute for tlie non failed to show confiscation. Justices Louis D. Brandéis. Har partisan policy of the American Fed lan F. Stone and Benjamin Cordozo eration of Labor.” agreed that the rates should be up Some time ago George L. Berry- held, but in an opinion by Justice asked all unions to join “ Labor's Brandéis expressed belief that the Nonpartisan league,” the object of court went too far In passing on which, he said, was “ to put Ameri the fairness of the rates. can Federation of Labor unions on record for President Roosevelt.” Von Starhemberg of Austria Voices His Defiance Navy in Six-Week Drill on the Pacific NK hundred and fifty vessel* of ^ tlie Uni:<-<1 States IV IL war in Austria became a 430 airplanes, are now engaged In possibility as the quarrel be the year’s grand maneuvers In the tween the Fascists led by Prince Pacific. War conditions prevail and Ernst von Starhemberg and the cler the vessels and their crew* are be ical and monarch ing given a severe test o f their fit ist elements be ness that will last for six weeks. came acute. Gov The Panama canal region was the ernment officials, first objective o f the fleet. The however, were try units are divided into attacking and ing desperately to defending forces and something Is patch Op the trou doing all the time, day and night. ble. The naval officers are trying to Prince Von Star solve the seventeenth of a series hemberg, who is of stratelgc problems, each based vice chancellor, in upon some possible International a defiant speech at situation, mapped out by naval Horn warned his strategists. P rin c e Von political opponents S tarh em b e rg that his heimwehr, Black Committee Scored or home guard, would be di hv Publishers “ only over my dead body.” ri AT American newspaper pub- Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, W Ushers think o f the actions of speaking at Baden, retorted that the Black lobby committee was ex “ Austria is not Italy and Austrians pressed forcibly and unequivocally are not Fascists." In resolutions adopted by their na- Von Starhemberg asserted that if fional association at Its annual meet internal foes press too hard there ing in New York. The committee will be a “ repetition of 1934”— was accused of having violated the when the heimwehr triumphed In a fiist. fourth and fifth amendments short but bloody civil war against to the Constitution by Its seizures Socialists. False friends surround of private communications, and the Schuschnigg, Von Starhemberg said, publishers recommended that all and the heimwehr plans to protect victims of the committee’s acts seek him from them. civil damages and demand the The vice chancellor directed a “ prosecution o f all Involved In fhe thinly veiled reproof at monarchists, odious affair under the criminal who are too "democratic” to suit statutes of the United States.” C "l^ V , * „ Stciwcr to Be Kcy-N otcr for the Republicans ti<* Republicans gather U fH In E N national convention at Cleveland next J u n e their k»*jn»»te for their Presidential campaign j j p i v u o j o n p J.UJB o<Ml|imuoy t « a o | ) vu aqi jo -tuoJ *)u *u *tu tu jv Ot|l jo .»jo* *TU»UJt ■ucun iq uoijuov uoo oqj jo utrtn •J I * q J a ¥ j c j o d u i 'i j oq oj uvm ojt uo S ojo uuojj j o } o u a * « .»¡o s poiiu.j euiospoeq z i1 puv ju-mbr-;.* oqj Senator ‘jawiatK jpM**p*i,i| bteiwer iq p-ipuno* oq i n « atlun had been given the naun-s o f several other prominent Republic ans. Observers held that the main mo tive In picking Stelwer was a desire of the party leader* to give the convention a western atmosphere right at the start, with an es|iecial eye to agriculture. The senator ha* been actively Identified with wheat growing and his home town, Port land. I* a center o f the northwest battleground of the November elec- Hons. Ills colleague Is Senator Dharle* L. McNary, one o f the au thors of the old McNary Haugen ag riculture bill and by mnny regarded as a possible dark horse In the Presidential nomination race. Congressman Bertrand Snell of New York, minority leader In the house, was selected to be permanent chairman of the convention. Danai Zone |n *v#il The * r‘" ' 1-st.ou,!? occupation, ttlM, saters our , the United SI i leu « ¿ renounced tb|, treaty. Chairman P itta **# n oy closed h e«ri '»a ti^ would be , lifted, ^ the senate i K-u roiwMwik, ! ment In *eMìoq J, avoid lnt< Senator ill 11 Johaioq • will try to •’ Hi* trxt g j made pul*, t •«* f or« U g j by the n-i. Rescue of Entombed I » Epic of Heroism A T o! if* l<i m¡a* g r H Hiver, .V • » "cotu, p, epic tale of ••• ’.*l< I man endent It Will fc. many ■ j e For ire ^ than a huii * 1 tpertvwd S t r o v e Ule • ' cly I« n*» men who h ••■n i n m , fall of dirt i ! rocks is tfe level of tie ahsndoaai were in g Ridkaqj other equi; ■ •• r.t «ere brt far awav V <fismoa4 driven thr* gh tad ttaqg small *»3S T 1 established : ! food »W down, but a ■ir ot# of m. was dead < ' : unger sad Finally the rst# rescuer* w<re I'tereasfU two survit rn wer» brospt to the «yU e tf-retber body of the s ,.j man. T were Dr t> F fb t-ertstat, and beim « t - r g « * at and C A. 8 a filing. Tb# did not the was Henm also of Toronto T w o W ell Known W.; * Taken by Death D «• I' U H c ‘ wsafle '< ■ '% Finley Peter I* *•# créatif D ooley* the g. 1 ntirtf ern life «h- My *aj'*a ed two gener »ti ns Tb# Percy damn • 1 reterai critic of the V , York HmÄ, one. one of the fora country’s con • • ntator* «• theatrical. R* paaiH New York c; * y. Senate Refuses to Cut F fo r H o o v e r 's G-Men OKNATOR KENNETH v j i.A i: Ot •dF tempt ><• ■■ J appropriation for the fedirsl of lnve«tig.i[ioti. otberwiwJ- Hoover'* G men. and f*l* minlously. only McKelltf other senator w»*re In .in a 11 • •' votftMl Leftists Are Winners in brief but liv a te »«« octal*. Including MaJ**riJ French Elections M I! * /COM M UNISTS and various brands denberg In deto'iiticing d# of Socialists appear to have reduction. The MlcbigiS won a considerable victory in the marks were c • Said k*- French elections for the chamber o f “ I w ill go a* far a* 1^* deputies, though the large number fr<-in Tennessee In s i m- of run off elections necesnary may economy, but It -eeins t" tone down the results. The great this Is a peeuliar place f# j, est gain is shown by the Commu nists, who are likely to have SO omizing. The bureau seats; but this does not please the 17.1 more men radical Socialists for they cannot to save 173 men. I * il1 c* taking that num ber ’m count on the Communists in form employed by D<»ctnr log a government and fear that settlement administrate• without them the chamber will be Join him In Hboli-*h,W ungovernable. Such a contingency would bring a menace o f a Fascist 43.041 Jobs under ' cotip d’etat to prevent the Installa w ill Join him In r‘‘rn,’1 her from the " tion of a revolutionary group, ac HOLD, or tbe 2.122 Job* * cording to the leaders of tbe leftists. long Interred N R '- ’ Secret Panama Treaty Is Cause of Concern A RMY a tel navy officials were re- ported to be concerned over a new treaty with Panama which Is being secretly considered by liie government. It was said an uncor- rectwi text of the pact showed It provides for “ Joint conversations” rather than for defense of the Contrera.* Is Elected President of V e n e * «» n M .K A Z A R e d i t :/ E un army officer « ^ rank of general ‘ ^ It tor. Juan Vinrent*’ •' ^
