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ORT COVINGTON SUN VOL. LI. FT. COVINGTON, N. Y.. THURSDAY. JUNE 20. 1935. NO. 9. News Review of Current Events the World Over Senate Extends Skeletonized NRA Despite Long's Extra- ordinary Filibuster—Grass Roots Meet Offers a Creed for the Republicans. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Senator Long S ENATOR HUEY LONG, the Louisi- ana Kingfish, made a tremendous effort to keep the senate from adopt- ing the resolution extending the skele- t o n i z e d NRA until nest April, but failed. AdTOcating an amend- ment offered by Sen- ator Gore, whic h would have required senate confirmation of all executive officials drawing more than $4,000 a year, thus disrupting the patron- age machine, Hue y started on a filibuster. For nearly 10 hours, with occasional help from Senators Schall and McCarren, he kept the up- per house in session, pouring forth a continuous stream of discourse that ranged from the necessity of preserv- ing the Constitution down to recipes for fried oysters and pot-likker. He attacked the President and the admin- istration generally, called the NRA \the national racketeers' association,\ told stories about his uncle, read from the Bible and Victor Hugo, stalked about the chamber waving his arms and croaking as his voice weakened, and now and then took a bite of cheese and a sup of cold coffee. All in all, Huey put on a show that kept not only the senators but a big crowd of visi- tors up all night. He was continually heckled by his angry fellow solons but always had a smashing retort. At last the senate broke down the filibuster, rejected the Gore amend- ment and passed the extension resolu- tion by a vote of 41 to 13. One change, to tighten up the antitrust laws, suggested by Borah, was made, so the resolution was sent back to the house for concurrence. In its final form it continues the recovery adminis- tration without codes but with author- ity for voluntary agreements among business men dealing only with col- lective bargaining, minimum wages, maximum hours, rbolition of child la- bor and prohibition of trade practices already outlawed by statute. The house had previously adopted the resolution by a vote of 201 to 121, only a few Democrats standing with the Republicans againoc it Immediate);: after the house had acted, it was announced at the White House that Donald Richberg would re- tire as chairman of the practically dead NRA on June 16, and that Pres- ident Roosevelt had accepted his res- ignation \with great reluctance,\ and with assurances of his \affectionate regard.\ P LANS for spending the $4,000,000,- 000 work-relief fund are coming to the fore rapidly and numerously. Repre- sentative Mitchell, Democrat, of Ten- nessee, has introduced a bill requir ing the President to use $1,000.000,000 r Uni for the Republican Presidential nomi- nation. Mr. Lowden, breaking a political si- lence of seven years, vigorously de- nounced President Roosevelt's proposal to change the Constitution to fit the New Deal and argued at length for maintenance of the bill of rights un- impaired. IN THE \platform\ adopted by the grass roots conference these govern- mental policies were advocated: 1. The immediate adoption of a policy of economy and thrift in gov- ernment with due allowance for essen- tial relief expenditures as opposed to the present spending policy of waste and extravagance. 2. The prompt attainment of a bal- anced budget, not by the misleading method of double bookkeeping, but by the honest method of bring ng the ex- penses of the government within the limits of its income. 3. A sound currency based on gold and definitely stabilized by congress so that individual enterprise may have confidence in the future value of the dollar, in terms of which every man's plans for his present or future must necessarily be made. 4. The immediate withdrawal of government from competition with pri- vate industry. 5. The maintenance nt the vitality and free growth of American indus- try through the preservation of the competitive system prodded against monopoly by the vigorous enforcement of anti-trust laws, so mat small busi- nesses may be preserved and the door of equal opportunity kept open to all. 6. The rigid enforcement of all laws, civil and criminal, to prevent and punish, dishonest or unfair prac- tices in business, industry, and finance, 7. National recognition of the needs of agriculture. Agriculture is a funda- mental industry of the United States. The farmer is. of right, entitled to a fair and proportionate part of the national income and to receive a parity price for the products of his farm in domestic markets. 8. Work for the workers. With men out of work, as now, the capital struc- ture of the nation is not only being impaired but undermined. 9. The breaking down of arbitrary restrictions that throttle world com- merce, such as quotas and exchange restrictions. 10. Continued protection to farm and home ownership, and continued provision, in co-operation with stats and local governments, for those tha are in need until private enterprise absorbs the present army of the un employed. Senator Robinson, majority leader oi the senate, speaking before the Arkan sas Pharmaceutical association, said of this: \The only constructive suggestion made in addition to those which an help the durable goods induslries. I embrace( j i D the Roosevelt adrainistra- By its terms factories supplying ma- j tio n pn ij C j es i s the often repeated de- mand fc By i s t pp chinery and materials would be reim- bbl bursed for losses directly attributable to hiring new men. Mr. Mitchell thinks his plan would aid in the production •of $S0,0O0.000,000 worth of durable ;oods needed by private industry. the balancing of the budget The budget cannot be immediately balanced unless the various forms relief now being carried on be aban cloned. This cannot be done just now without danger to millions of our peo- TAPAN is moving swiftly to obtain the control over north China which evidently is her main objective at pres- ent New demands were presented to the Chinese government at Nanking, and when some of these were declared unacceptable the Japanese troops and fficials began moving into Peiping and Tientsin and all the area between the Great Wall and the Yellow river. The Chinese officials, being helpless, moved >ut and the branches of the Kuomin- ang or People's party were closed. The central council in Nanking, though accepting some of the Japanese de- mands, could see nothing but trouble .head and instructed Gen. Ho Ying- ching, the war minister, to prepare for eventualities. W ARFARE between Paraguay and Bolivia in the Gran Chaco, which has been going on for three years, came to an end after representatives >f the two nations signed an armistice agreement in Buenos Aires. The truce was the result of conferences between representatives of Paraguay, Bolivia and six neutral nations—the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile | and Uruguay. An attempt will now be made to settle the disputes by direct negotiations. If these fail the World court at The Hague will be called on to render judgment. The war in the jungle has cost about 100,000 lives. T HE British government, it is be- lieved, has accepted in principle the German demand for restoration of the German navy up to 35 per cent of the British strength. This is exceed- ingly irritating to France, and Premier Laval is likely to send a note to all signatories to the Washington treaty protesting against the revision of the multilateral treaties by bilateral agree- ments, and proposing a new na- •aJ conference, including Germany this time, to revise the Washington and London ratios all around. R EINSDORF, a German town 52 miles southwest of Berlin, was irtually destroyed by the blowing up of a great munitions plant and the en- suing fires. Because of rigid censor ship it was impossible to learn the number of casualties. Nazi officials admitted there were 52 dead, 79 in- jured seriously and 300 slightly hurt. G REAT BRITAIN'S attitude toward the crisis in east Africa has en- raged all of Fascist Italy and the at- tacks on England in the Italian press became so bitter that Mussolini had to order that they be toned down a little. The War department filed a request i pl e wno h;lv e ve t t> een unable to obtain for S17.071.3S8 to finance the construe- j employment.\' tion of 30 army bases in Alabama, and Arizona, Arkansas, California Kansas. The Labor department asked for $400,000 for research designed to aid the United States employment serv- ice in selecting and placing workers on relief jobs and in private industry. T HOUSANDS of Republicans from ten states of the M ddle \\ ts>t irat'i <?red in Springfield, 111., for the \grass roots\ conference and, in the shadow of the tomb of Abia- ha m Lincoln, who saved the Union, solemnly determined to save the \indestruc- tible states\ from what they consider an ns sault on their consti tutional rights. The •lathering was consid ered so important that it attracted. political observers from all over the country. Most of the delegates were young men eager for the battle, but with thorn were many white-haired leaders of former frays whose enthu- siasm and patriotism have survived the years. After a pilgrimage to the New Salem State park where the scenes of Lin- coln's youth have been reconstructed, the delegates rissembled In the fair ground* Coliseum and wore welcomed l>> (ieor-e W. liunn of Springfield, gen- eral chmnmni of the local committee. Harrison K, Kpsni^r of Codur Rap- ids, Iowa, was installed as temporary ,-hiiinimii and made a spcoch in which iTcsHlmi ItooseveH was pilloried for all iiimimT of poliMrnJ and govern- mtM'Sul sina, from kiilttm six tullllou T AXES totaling $475,000,000 would go out of existence before July 31 if not extended, so a resolution con- tinuing them two years was being hur- ried through the house in accord with the wish of the President. Among them are the 3-cent postage and the 1-cent-a- gallon federal gasoline charge. A sec- ond resolution was being prepared to plug loopholes^in existing tax laws and to adjust present rates found to be unconscionable or unproductive. T HE American F more than 'any Federation of Labor other group except the old brain trust bemoans the death of NRA, and its attorneys are busy drafting a bill designed to take its place in a measure. This measure pro- poses to put under federal license all concerns engaged in interstate com- merce or handling goods \destined for such commerce. Those companies would be exempted from the opera- tions of the antitrust laws but would be required to agree to hours of labor and working conditions determined by Q federal commission. S ENATOR W may not be BORAH e a receptive candidate for the Presidential nomination next year, but anyhow his friends in Idaho have grabbed his hat and thrown it into the ring. They are organizing \P.orah-for-Presidenf clubs nil over the state. Ralph Brashears of Boise, one of the leaders, says Mr. Borah Is the man to \emancipate our people from the vise-like grip of a vast bu- reaucratic form of government which is destroying Individual initiative and regimenting the American people.\ i-s nnd br to violating iking Constitution nnd at- x diotntorxhtp. Mr. IIIICIM) the orator of .oudon, former <*nv- i,l f..nmT aspiiant M AX BAER lost tho Houvy weight championship of the world, heinu defeated by .lames .1. linuhlock M LOIIJ; Island Cily In n 1\> round hattle. There, were no knock downs and neither man was badly punished. though it was denied in Rome that the j British had made any diplomatic pro- test. II Duce, however, continues his outspoken denunciation of the British course. In a speech at Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia, he defied his Eu- ropean critics who have requested him to deal less harshly with the Ethiopi- ans, and attacked the British without going to the trouble of hiding his words behind diplomatic formulas. \We will imitate to the letter those who taught us this lesson,\ he shouted, referring to British colonizing methods which his press has been \exposing.\ \They have demonstrated that when they were creating an empire and de- fending it they never took into consid- eration world opinion. \We nave got old, and we have got new accounts to settle with Ethiopia, and we will settle them. We will pay no attention to what is said in foreign countries. We exclusively are the judges of our own Interests and the guarantors of our future.\ Actually, Mussolini's plans for war with Ethiopia are not very popular in Italy, but British interference is increasing his support daily. The re- constructed British cabinet is much worried over the situation and be- !ieves the war cannot now be stopped. L ONG ago the President said he was formulating a special message to contrress on relief of the railways and federal regulation of all forms of transportation. This he finally sent in, asking for the following legislation at this session: 1. Amendment of the- bankruptcy act of ltK>3 to facilitate financial re- organization of railways. 2. Regulation of air transport by the interstate commerce commission. 3. Regulation of highway motor car- riers, provided for in a bill passed by the senate. 4. Regulation of intercoastai and coastwise trade and some inland water carriers. 5. Extension for one year of the of- fice of federal co-ordiiuitor of transpor- tation and of the emergency railroad transportation act of 1033. At the same time Joseph B. Eastman.,. federal co-ordinator of transportation, recommended to the railroads drastic changes in rate structures, schedules and types of equipment. T WO of the UnlnapH-s of young George Weyerhaeuser of Tacoma— Harmon M. Waley and his wife Mar jr; U -et—were arrested In Salt Lake City, where che woman was passing $20 bills that were part of the ransom money. A third member of the gang. William Ma han, an ex-convict, was being hunted in the vicinity of Butte, Mont., in which lie was forced to B-baudon a stolen automobile that contRined $lf>- 000 of the sum paid for release of the Waley a their part in th- id his crime. ,-ife coufe W ASHINGTON swarmed with Shriners for a week, and they enjoyed themselves in their character istio* ways. Leonard V. Steuart oi that city' was advanced nuloma'ieaUy to the position of imperial potentate and A. G. Arvold of Fargo, N. D. r was jrlven the coveted outer guard ofHco. tlrst step toward the top. The con olave of io:u> will be hold In Seattle, opening July 14. Safeguarding Kansas City From Flood Waters Waters Cause Much Damage to Property Workmen were rushed to the dike that protects the Kansas City airport and other parts of the city when the Missouri and Kaw rivers went on a rampage. The scene above shows the men laying riprap in an effort to pre- vent a break in the levee, which pro- tects north Kansas City. Not so fortunate were other sections along the rivers. Any kind of cratt that uoul] rioat was pressed ^nto serv- j ice by residents in the inundated area Hundreds were driven from their homes and property damage ran into millions of dollars. At the left Is a picture taken near Turner, Kan., of a raff bearing the belongings of some house- holder along the Kaw river. Arthur Brisbane New and Old Depict Advance in Transportation BRISBANE THIS WEEK Paroles and Ransom Vincent Astor's Hotel Mussolini Is So Blunt The Brain Bath Waley, the Weyerhaeuser kidnaper, caught after he sent his wife, like a true gangster cow- ard', to change ran- som bills for him, has this record: He had been ar- rested six times, be- ginning at eighteen, and sentenced to terms in prison that woul d have kept him in prison for 7o years, if pa- role boards had al- lowed it. He was repeated- ly released until at last, thorooghly trained in crime and convinced, probably, as he might well be, that American justice is a mere joke, he went to Tacoma and planned there the \snatch as crimi- nals call it, of the Weyerhaeuser child. x> Highway patrolmen In the western states did admirable work co-operat- ing with the \G-men.\ The western highway patrolmen are real policemen. Mr. Vincent Astor of New York has bought in and will operate the St. Regis hotel on Fifth avenue, built orig- inally with Astor money, now repur- chased for $5,090,000. An Astor running a hotel is nothing new. You need not be very, very old to remember the gray granite \Astor House,\ a block long, opposite the City Hall on lower Broadway, where they had roast beef such as you find nowhere now. Before prosperous Americans learned to be really \aristocratic\ with yachts, race horses and divorces, they thdnght owning a hotel and putting your name on it was almost aristocratic. The Astor House and the Brevoort House in New York, the Palmer House in Chicago, the Coates House in Kansas City, a thousand others prove it. Railroad week was marked in Chicago by the presence, side by side, of four of the crack new fast trains and a veteran of the rails. In the photograph, left to right, are the Burlington's old 35, the Milwaukee road's Hiawatha, the North Western's 400, the Burlington's Zephyr, and the Alton's Abraham Lincoln. These new monarchs of the rails bear but little resemblance to the old \tea kettle\ with its bell stack. Radical new improvements are enabling the railroads to make drastic reductions in running schedules, and at no reduction in safety. Air conditioning, comfortable new passenger coaches, and other modern features have been introduced to add to the comfort of the traveling public, Wins Coveted Award in Sculpture Appointed Marine Corps Air Chief Lieut. Col. Ross E. Rowell is the newly appointed chief of all the avia- tion units of the marine corps. He Mussolini annoys England; he talks so plainly—no diplomatic beating about the bush. Bluntly he says to old Bri- tannia: \When you were building up your empire, killing off the Boers to grab South Africa, taking India from the pot-bellied rajahs, gathering in ev- erything that was not tied down, yon did not care tuppence what the world thought about you. Now it is my turn to gather in territory, maybe Ethiopia, and I care less than half of tuppence what you think about it. So mind your own business, please.\ John Amore of New York is shown here with his figure, \The Astronomer,\ which won for him the Paris Prize in Sculpture of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design. The award is $1,200 in cash and a year's scholarship in sculpture in Paris. Important to the human race is news of the \brain bath,\ which, according to physicians gathered at a convention of the American and Canadian medi- cal associations, literally \washes the brain,\ freeing it from the poison of diseases such as infantile paralysis, St. Titus' dance, sleeping sickness and some kinds of spinal meningitis. A solution of salt and water is in- jected into the vein at the ankle. Aft- er it has gone through the circulation and washed out the brain, it is with- drawn with its collected poisons through a needle inserted in the lower end of the spine. Newsdom, written for newspaper men, says it has questioned all editors j and publishers that amount to any- ; thing, and finds them ''overwhelmingly | certain that radical movements are of j no serious trend.\ i The discovery will comfort many, « but it is well to be cautious. There I is always a possibility nf uruleresti- I mating what looks like \radicalism of I no importance.\' I China, because she cannot do other- ; wise, yields in full to Japan's demands. That is the news from Tientsin, and ; it happens because tr.e 400.000.000 'ed the rnanre abaters on t.ie list , Chinese are not prepare! for war, campaign in Nicaragua and his head- ' whereas the 00,000.000 Japanese are ed the stunt pilots or tLe co.ps m re- prepared, cent national air races. : \Yielding\ probably will not save China from another heavy loss of ter- Palestine Named for Philistines ritory. It is predicted that the young Palestine gets its name from the Chinese emperor. Japan's figurehead Philistines. \ * n Manchukuo. will be moved over and : back to the old imperial palace, there sit again as the Japanese imperial dummy. All this it not oar happening in Asia, to do here. business, for it is We have plenty \What's in a name?\ Some young Republicans want the old Republican party to change its name from \Re- publican party\ to \Constitutional party.\ Long ago. when the New York Herald, since dead, reduced its price, the lare Joseph Pulitzer wrote In a short editorial: \The trouble is not wirh your price, it is vr::h your news- paper. Chance that.\' The trouble with tl;e RopuMicaa parry is not with its name. If the stork hadn't skipped her In 1PIG. Mrs. Pauline Cole of White Marsh, Md., would have had a child for every no of the 21 years she has been married. She has 20 children and they came one at a lime, and she is not .vat thirty- .-lit years old. Here, at the right of the Hue, is Mrs. Colo with some of her progeny. A d Toled- strike tlloU^d The -OOd t NRA in ore: 1 . Consti.tut: thero. ang rate tha .nd^ ?;< ?xa: tTOUS i-erk:i bet'o t n;is out i str: ':t?n >re c :ht h of w vl in-.Ui*i ::ple. v sea aooi lo. i : hours. ' on do ir.e F>> dsio Ike i wise iave ;rv. tied -,ot r i'lie • n ha is called off in ly iioe;di:-..!r to a'.'.'.i ] with a ;':irow:i tens of a I?'.\ 1 srtt!n£ a to continue the * l;dn- pay or S;ir~eme court's .s done no harm
