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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1936)
T H K B O N X K V 1 M i E A M (1 H R O N ! c •tllUY. K Review of the History - Making Events o f the By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Western Newspaper Union. New French Premier Helps Labor Win All Demands The house elected W llliam B. Bankhead of Alabama speaker for the remainder of the session. The death of Speaker Byrns fo - lowed closely that of another well- known congressman, A. Platt An* drew of Massachusetts, a RepuMIc- an. He died of influenza at his home in Gloucester at the age of sixty- three. Mr. Andrew, who taught eco nomics at Harvard more than thirty years ago, was director of the mint for a few months under President Taft, and then was assistant secre tary of the treasury. He was elect ed to congress in 1921. and support ed much of President Roosevelt s early legislation. ldent Roosevelt. The senate meas ure called for a lS1^ to IS per cent tax on net corporate Incomes as compared with the present 12% to 15 per cent levy; a new type of 7 per cent tax on undistributed profits; repeal of the existing ex emption of dividends from the 1 per cent normal Income tax; an in crease of 1 per cent in the individ ual income surtax on surtax brack ets between $6,000 and $50,000. The house measure called for a tax on corporate net income scaling up to 42% per cent, depending upon the amount of undistributed profits. Chester Davis Appointed Outstanding among the commit tee’s proposals were suggestions that each branch of an Industry, such ns wholesale, retuil, and manu facturing, police the activities of each other through confidential re ports to the federal trade commis sion and that no attempt be made to Include trnde practice and la bor provisions In the same agree ment. to Da control from o. o f the Interior. s ‘ he % totted with the Agricultural Ur|,,ir7*®1101 V * P ro g ^ r £ western grazing |andi ............................ TRIKING workers who paralyzed camps f„r ,fie for * N | the Industrial life of France at the Interior dePart^ * * ( the moment when the “popular enough <’(’(« hein . *^1 front” socialist majority was taking efficiently the TayloJ |°f(lS over the reins of the government, Red Cross Mourns Death won complete victory with the aid Marshal B a c f c ^ u of Leon Blum, new premier. As the of Clara Dutton Noyes general strike was settled, a dis ISS CLARA DUTTON NOYKS. G iven Roman Trim * r quieting note was added by a walk sixty-six, director of the Amer AI- 1‘IKTRO B r J out of 15,000 coal miners and tex ican Red cross nursing service, died M , 1 AK>" ConQueror of K th lo S tile workers in northern France. In Washington a few minutes after viceroy O f that part of Labor won the following five de she was stricken while driving to tuted “Roman mands : work In her car. Miss Noyes was the Eternal City ln ^ 1. Wage increases from 7 to 15 assistant director of the American triumph and wa> to Reserve Board per cent. Is Father Once More Red Cross nursing service during vociferously w ej. GRICULTURE was given repre 2. Recognition of workers’ rights at the Age of 96 sentation on the federal re the World war. She also had been corned as a hero. to organize in unions. EORGE ISAAC Hughes, ninety superintendent of nurse* at the 8lxt> thousand Uo- 3. A forty-hour work week. six-year-old Confederate vet serve board through the appoint Bellevue and allied hospitals In New mana welcomed him ment by President Roosevelt of 4. Vacations with pay. eran, amazed the medical world bj York. as be atepped from 5. Collective bargaining contracts. becoming a father again. This time Chester C. Davis, Cyrus Ilall McCormick, whose fa hla train, and pr*. Settling of the strike marked a a girl was born to Hughes’ twenty admi ni st r at or of ther deve!oj*ed the farm reaper and mler Mussolini mod significant victory for the new gov eight-year-old wife, Libby Hil; the AAA to that who himself helped organize the In estly w nlted |n the ernment which as Hughes. The Hughes’ first born is body. In discussing ternatlonal Harvester company and background until sumed extraordina now a lusty lad of seventeen months h i s appointment. was Its president for 33 years, died they had shouted ry powers to de Surprisingly vigorous for his age Mr. D a v i s said: at his home In l.ake Forest. IIL. at their greetings to vise measures to Hughes was the only veteran in hit- “The fiscal policy the age of seventy-seven year*. He the veteran w«r- b o l s t e r France’s area to attend recent Confederate of the federal gov was noted as a progressive business rlor. Then II DUCs financial s y s t e m memorial exercises. The veteran's eminent has never B»jJ and revitalize na with bis emplojeea and man, liberal been tied In closely came forward and kissed tWiJ mental faculties are clear. He is t i o n a 1 defenses able to do considerable physical enough with agri tlways Interested actively In public on both cheeks and tbe higfcrJ “White c o l l a r ” work including caring for a garden, cultural problems.” welfare movements. He was rated Ing h a sc 1st military letdei | workers were the us one of the wealthiest men In homage. With the pretni« J Mr. Davis has spent chopping wood and doing odd jobs. L only Sr0UP exclud- most of his life in Doctor Tolley America and gave millions of dol picked troops forming the ^ ed from the gener agricultural activities. He was born lars to edu:atiouj. and charitable honor were the entire caU^i ' al agreement which Speaker Byrns of House on a farm in Iowa, was graduated organizations. eral days later a gret: &..•«] Leon Blum wa$ Sjgne(j by em. Is Taken by Death from Grinnell college and later view was held. ployers at the behest of the govern r ) EATH, sudden and unexpected. owned and operated a farm. For The other side of the plrwJ South China Declares raent, but the premier promised re came to Joseph Wellington some years he was a newspaper aeen In London, where HiUla lief for them. Premier Blum Byrns, speaker of the house of rep publisher and then became editor W ar on Japanese I 1 7 I T H a declaration of war sle, the dope se l emperor * ■ gained support from conservative resentatives, and put an end to a of the Montana Farmer. * V against Japan by the Cantoo opla, arrived In tears to] a j forces with his announcement that notable career. The Mr. Davis was succeeded ns AAA though he was given tnouiaj “The People’s Front is and will re veteran Tennessee administrator by Dr. Howard R. (south) Chinese government, first the r.leering r.v 'i-ands tha:M main hostile to devaluation of the congressman s u f Tolley. Nationally known as a sol) steps were taken In what may be dom been accorded to vliitons currency.” The end of the strike fered a heart at come a nationally expert. Doctor Tolley helped Mr land. Many of :be Loodota restored a measure of confidence to tack, followed by a concerted effort to Davis draft the soil conservation rled Ethiopian flags or sorts a panic-stricken nation faced with cerebral h e m o r resist further en plan, enacted after the United nera reading “W¿icons to at possible famine due to the tie-up of rhage, and passed States Supreme court decision inval croachment by Nip peror." With the white vT its transportation, processing and away within a few idated the AAA. He has been carry pon on China's ter era were many African rtlAI distribution systems by 1,000,000 hours in his apart ing on this program during the ab dtory. L e a d e r s live robes, Somalia, negroea striking workers. were hopeful that ment in the Mav sence of Mr. Davis in Europe. Chinese, and colore*! people flower hotel, Wash Another important agricultural a coalition of the parts of the world. Texas Opens Its Great ington. For 27 years post was filled when the President C a n t o n and the There was an oatbvst 4 Mr. Byrns has rep Centennial Exposition nominated Emil Schrarn, grain ele Nanking ( n o r t h ) cheering when Selassie, EXAS celebrated the one-hun resented the “Her vator operator and farmer of 11111- governments might and wearing a long caps dredth anni/ersary of its inde mitage district” of Tennessee in the view, 111., for the post of director give China a united Was from hla private sleeping« pendence by opening a $25,000,000 house, and h«> was elected speaker of the Reconstruction Finance cor front against Ja waa greeted by many ootiftia pan for the first Chiang centennial exposition in Dallas. when the Seventy-fourth congress poration. eluding O. C. Harvey, private time. Should the Kai-Shek Foremost among distinguished vis convened in January, 1935. He was a master of parliamentary strategy South China war lords succeed In tary of Anthony Kden, Brtdi itors attending the world's fair the Sir Samuel Hoare Back and so fair-minded a presiding oflf first week was President Roosevelt. enhstlng the support of Generalísi elgn aev retary. Harvey vu’Jt in British Cabinet cer that all, even his political op To obtain the centennial exposition mo Chlang Kai-Shek and hla Nan representative o L tbe Bridi /CALLED back to the British cab- ponents, praised and admired him. Dallas made available more than king forces, a substantial movement ernmenL ^ inet, which he left some months Selassie received three Before becoming speaker he served $9,000,000 in cash and property. to expel tbe Japanese from North ago as a political scapegoat, Sir welcoming “his Imperial The exposition will be open until long years od the appropriations China could be undertaken. Halle Selassie” from November 29. Numerous other cele committee, as member and chair Samuel Hoare was made first lord tlves of the Ethiopian brations marking the state’s 100 man, and he also was leader of the of the admiralty, to Thomas Hela Responsible the Friends of Ethiopia ol years of freedom* have been held in Democratic majority and chairman succeed Viscount I’an-African federation, various cities and towns of Texas. of the Demociatic congressional Monsell. Sir Sam for British Budget Leak uel, who b o l d l y “Ethiopia's speedy return The exposition presents education campaign committee. I II. THOMAS, until recently faced a h o s t i l e Grief for Mr. Byrns’ death was al, historic and recreational fea J British colonial secretary, was pendence with the rightful tures associated with a major general and sincere in Washington house of commons found res|M>nsible by a so c ia l gov leading his people toward li(K officialdom. “I am shocked beyond last December to world’s fair. ernment tribunal for the leak In I>eace.” Largest building on the exposition all Imagination,” said Represents defend his part In The former emperor roiiW budget secrets which enabled some ground Is the $1,000,000 Texas Hall five Bertrand H. Snell of New York th e Anglo-French “God grant it may be no, ^ of hl* friends to profit largely terri peace plan which of State, which cost an additional i the minority - leader. ----- - “It ■» is « a icm ’hrough Insurance against tax pered. $200,000 to equip. The building was bJe thiD8- B isi hd almost lrrepara would have given raises. Final deposition of the case Mussolini only a erected as a memorial to the patri ble hlp loss. lnaB ” vva8 left to the house of commons S o ld ier of Fortune Did Senator Joseph 1, Robinson of part of Ethiopia, ots and pioneers of Texas, and is bomas, once an engine wiper and the largest historical museum on Arkansas, the majority leader, after will face the task ®ir Samuel in Obscurity in later a powei ful figure In organised Hoare expressing his own sense of loss of solving prob- Shanghai.—Ensign Sardl the North American continent ¡abor and politics termed the trib Other buildings and their erection added: ‘His work during the ses ems arising out of Brltish-Italian une’s known as Count de Toulon# verdict “cruel.” cost include: • been very and try- fleet difficulties In the Mediterra I sion has ------------V i i i m j u i difficult i an tree, representative of » United States building, $325,000, D^‘ He was a 2reat speaker.’* Dean. Ih e biggest task facing Hoare school of soldiers of fortune largest federal building ever erect- President Roosevelt in a state- however, is restoration of the Brit Industrial Mobilization recently In * Russian ed at a world’s fair; Negro Life ment fr°m the White House ex ish navy to an undisputed position Rian Is Condemned pita I here. He was eighty.« building, $100,000, also erected by pres3ed well the high esteem in of supremacy on the seas. When behind nothing but a bit government funds; Exposition Farm which Mr- Burns was held. He said- the Washington and London naval 'T 'H K so-called Industrial moblllz- pawn I n aa tickets. uv-B’ A atlon plan of the War depart Center, consisting of five great “Pearless, Incorruptible, unselfish t ea.le., expire six n,„mhs The giant figure of tM ment, providing for a military dic buildings, erected at a cost of with a hi*h seuse of justice wise in ^servers M in e that Britain waa well known 0* the $1,000,000; Travel and Transporta- counsel* broad of vision, calm in td embark on a gigantic naval build tatorship over labor, capital and In- co ast At one time he bid UIIU dustry, as well ns censorship of the tion building, $365,000; Varied In- versity’ and modest in victory he ing program. press in wartime, was severely con In the Imperial Russiao dustries, $440,000; National History serv*ed his and the nation with The ensign liked to « J demned In a report to the senate museum, $250,000; aquarium, $180,- honor, and great usefulness Filene Plan Urges Ban stirring days when he >> tbe munitions committee ^ 1 Personally mourn the passing of The committee objected partlcu- about to assume ------- a steadfast frlead of many year, ' on Unfair Trade Practices y ly to the proposed conscription of Bulgaria when Al«»*J TN A report Just made public the Senate Passes Its Own Impressive funeral services were of labor as being dangerous to of Russia put so end w 1 business advisory counci r , democracy. Tax Revenue Measure th^Presiden^m“ ^ °f the house’ poses a simplified basis for in i ploll. ID !h»t The picturesque Ru»" T H E senate passed the $829,000,- Inet anu n u m e ro u ^ n io m » !^ CUb‘ trial self-regulation through H / made the hero of a pop** 1 000 compromise revenue meas- present In addifim ? p °“ ats bein« dium of voluntaiv inint * e mfi* Sec. Ickes Complains ure by a vote of 38 to 24. The bill ‘ of congress iL * member* by an American then went to conference with the taken to Nashville Te°n,f ther) able by the federal trade * f°7* of Wallace’s Encroachments an acquaintance In J * ^ house of representatives which had and Mr Roosevelt ^ bUrlaI’ sion. The rennrt n . . Je COmm|s- As a last gesturaj* A partm ent of Agriculture enacted a revenue measure carry- the ^ l a l X r^ ioia? T Dlf J tbe council’s c o m m i t t e e ^ ' ** , ^commended to the senate that light the ensign offered Ing out tax proposals made by Pres- tee there. n*reS810nal commit- trade practices of which r ?C‘dir the administration of the Taylor a test for Dr. & & „ Filene of Boston grazing act, affecting 80,000.000 “rejuvenation treatment, acres of range land, be transferred Ing came of I t S G M A w ÈttJ T ml, TH E
