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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
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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.
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■» 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
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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
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