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News Review of Current Events the World Over St. Lawrence Seaway Treat v Ready for Investijraton by Borah ? Dictatorship Decreed for Prussia ? Great Railway Merger Plan. By EDWARD W. PICKARD LTNITED STATUS anil Canada have ' signed ttie treaty for construction of the great St. Lawrence seaway, which is to cost in the neighborhood of SSOO.OUO.(HX?. but the pi'.ct must be ratified by pon:-i>?s and the dominion parliament before becoming effec tive. Ratification Is probable but by no means certain. There are various parts of the treaty to which grave objections have been raised, notably those relating to di vision of power t? be developed, and with drawal of water from Lake Michigan for the Chicago sanitary canal. These and all other phases of the pact will be investigated by a senato committee headed by Senator Borah of Idaho. The inquiry will not start until August. The treaty, which had been under negotiation for eleven years, was signed by Secretary of State Stimson for the Fnited States ami Minister William D. Llerridge for Canada. By its terms the seaway is to be con structed under the supervision of a commission to be known as the St. Lawrence international rapids section commission. Five members are to be appointed by each country and the work is to be carried on free from governmental red tape and on a busi ness basis. The commissioners will not have the right to direct construc tion of tin* power plants to develop L\200.iM?0 horse power, although they can co-ordinate these with the sea way. They can order deferred any works. When iheir Job is done, they cease to exist as a commission. PRESIDENT HOOVER signed the relief act but still had to complete his plans for reorganization of the Reconstruction Finance corporation which is to handle the huge fund. In doing this he had to decide on succes sors to Eugene Meyer, governor of the federal reserve board, and Paul Res tor, farm loan commissioner, whose retirement as directors of the corpor ation was made mandatory by the measure. The corporation itself decided to discard red tape to expedite loans from the $tOO,ouu,oiK) f,,r state relief of destitution and for pub lic works, the latter including $132, (MiO.OOU which may be used to match state highway expenditures. More than two-thirds of the $300,00<M*hi sum will be applied for immediately. POLITICAL riots and murders in Prussia resulted in the establish ment of a dictatorship for that (!er inan state and the declaration of mar tial law In P.erlin and the province of Bran denburg. In three weeks more than a hundred persons had been killed and 1.2tX> wounded in the pre election campaign en counters, which were mainly bet. ret n Hit ler's Nazis and the Communists. Presi dent Von Hindenburgh therefore issued the necessary emergency decree and Chancellor Von Pa pen became virtual dictator of Prussia, naming Mayor Franz Bracht of Essen as chief assistant. When Prussian Minister of the Interior Sev ering declared he would yield only to force, the decree of martial law was issued. Premier Bra tin and Severing were removed froin the Prussian min istry. Open air political meetings had already been forbidden throughout the reich. That (lermany faces revolution is seen in the flat threat by Hitler that If his Nazi party do^s not win control of the reichstag in the coming elec tions It will forcibly seize control of the government and arrest all So cialist and Communist leaders. Ac cording to an Amsterdam newspaper. Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, minister of defense, will co-operate with Hitler. The general. It has been recognized for some time, is planning to make himself eventually the actual ruler of Germany. IN ONE of its most important de cisions the interstate commerce commission approved a plan for con solidation of all eastern railroads, ex cept those of New England, info four W. D. Herridge Gen Kurt von Schleicher great systems. Tlie plan will prob ably be accepted by the linos con cerned. though it does not suit them In certain respects. The four .systems will be known as the New York Central, the Pennsyl vania. the Halthnore A: Ohio, and the Chesapeake & Ohio-Nickel Plate. The systems thus created will embrace 57.000 miles of rail lines ? 300 roads, though many of them are already op erated by the large trunk lines. The commissions* ruling causcd an immediate reaction approaching jubi lation in railroad circles, which hailed the plan as the most helpful factor In that Industry In 12 years. In fact, as the report pointed out, the leading railroads have received virtually all that they have asked for in order to work out a new plan of economies. GETTING into action rather more swiftly than their rivals, the Re publican campaign leaders at Chicago headquarters started the preliminary work for the election of 12 United States senators in the central states. The plans are under the direction of Senator L. J. Dickin son of Iowa, keynoter in the national con vention. "We are go ing to concentrate on the senatorial fights." he said. "Where a senator is stronger in Sen. Dickinson his state than the President, we'll ex pect him to carry the whole ticket, and vice versa." Senator Dickinson said the prohibi tion question would be the principal issue in many states, the people hav ing to decide whether the Eighteenth amendment shall be repealed outright, as the Democrats desire, or replaced by another amendment giving con gress control of the liquor trallic, the Republican solution. On August 11 President Hoover will be officially notified of his nomina tion and will deliver his speech of ac ceptance at the White House. He has decided n??t to make a western trip this summer, but will send Vice Pres ident Curtis to represent him at the opening of the Olympic games in Los Angeles. GOVKRNOR ROOSEVELT, having ended his short vacation cruise, was back in Albany attending to busi ness and laying out his campaign plans with National Chairman Farley. The latter gentleman announced the campaign would be run through the state organizations. There will be a campaign committee at the Roosevelt headquarters in New York, but it will assist and co-operate with the state organizations rather than attempt to direct them. Farley said. There will be only one national head quarters. located in New York. The money will be raised by a special com mittee not yet named. Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming will again be at the head of the women's organization. Mrs. Roosevelt, who says she has al ways been "a profound dry." has pub licly declared her belief that the Eighteenth amendment has not worked successfully and should be repealed. THOUGH the members of the bonus army in Washington are rapidly leaving for their homes, tak ing advantage of the free fares of fered by the govern ment, those who re mained. especially the radicals, were threat ening more trouble in the form of a picket ing of the White House. A promise to do this if congress were no? called in spe cial session to pay the bonus was made by Urban LeDoux ("Mr. Zero"). Brig. Gen. Gen. Butler Smedley D. Butler, former marine, projected himself into the picture by giving the veterans a characteristically vigorous talk urging them to stay right there and praising their behavior. -They are trying to get you to go home." he said. "You ought to keep some one here in the front line trenches. You have as much right to a lobby in Washington as the United States Steel corporation. Don't take a step backward. Remember, as soon as you pull down tbe camp flag this movement will evaporate Those of yon who do go home, vote to kick h ? 1 oat of your enemies." ONGRESSM-W J. B. SHANNON S house committee inquiring into j the inroads of the government into j business in competition with private concerns opened its hearings in Kan sas City, his home town, and first re ceived briefs from many orguniza- I tioas. M. \V. Borders, in presenting the data assembled by the Federation of American Business, which has branches in 34 states and represents more than 100 industries suffering l from competition from government boards and bureaus financed by tax payers' money, set forth that bureau cracy has grown to such proportions that it threatens the existence of the present form of American govern ment. A procession of merchants from Leavenworth testified that they were being driven to the wall hy the com petition from new government stores in the two federal penitentiaries and hy the activities of the post exchange , and book department at Fort Leaven worth. Efforts of the government to get int?? the cafe and restaurant business were attacked by the American lintel association, with G.WH) member hotels. Live stock producers, commission men and bankers pictured the "col lapse of live stock industry under withering dictatorship of the secretary of agriculture." and attacked the do ings of the federal farm board. THOUGH the members of congress during the recently ended session gave up a vast amount of tune to jh? litlcal scheming, quarreling and use less talk, they actually did enact con siderable legislation of tnoment. often under pressure from the Chief Execu tive. They passed a series of measures that began with the moratorium for inter-govemmental debts, that includ ed the creation of the Reconstruction Finance corporation, and that ended with the passage of the $2,122,000,000 relief bill and the home loan bank bill with Its currency inflation pro vision. They put through a new revenue measure designed to raise more than a billion dollars in additional taxes, and an economy bill saving perhaps $1.*VO.OOO.OOO in government expendi tures. They passed all the necessary department supply bills, hut refused to make most of the promised economies in these. Two measures long advocated by Senator Norris were passed. These were the "lame duck" resolution to change the constitutional dates for the beginning of congress and the inauguration of the I 'resident, and the anti-injunction bill relating to la bor disputes. The growing national discontent with prohibition was reflected In con gress by two test votes in the house and several votes on the legalization of beer in the senate. On March 14. voting to bring the Beck-i.inthicum repeal resolution to the floor, the house cast 1ST wet votes, the largest of its kind since prohibition, as against 227 dry ballots. Two weeks later a similar vote on the O'Conner-Hull beer bill was 132 to 210. Senate wets pinned their hopes to various bills to legalize beer, and measures by Senators Hiram Bingham and Millard E. Tydings were offered as amendments to the tax bill, and in a final effort to gain modification and increase federal revenues as a rider to the home loan bank bill. The various attempts met failure. President Hoover vetoed only three important pieces of legislation. These were the bill extending veterans' priv ileges to hitherto unthought of classes of former soldiers, and the first Gar ner-Wagner relief bill with its federal loans to individuals, and the bill to shear the President of his powers un der the flexible provisions of the Smoot-llawley tariff act. PREMIER MUSSOLINI of Italy made a grand shake-up In his cab inet, five ministers resigning by com pulsion. Chief of these was Pino Grandi, minister of foreign affairs. The others were Alfredo Roeco, min ister of Justice: Antonio Mosconi, min ister of finance; Prof. Balbino Giuli ano. minister of education, and Giu- ; seppe Bottal. minister of corporations. | Mussolini, who already was minister of interior as well as premier, kept for j himself the portfolios of foreign af- . fairs and corporations. Francisci, ! Jung and Ercole were named to the | other vacancies. Eleven undersecre- | taries also were displaced. Grandi was made ambassador to Great Britain. THE economic conference of the ! British empire opened in Ottawa on Thursday with many of the em- 1 pire's most eminent men in attend ance. Stanley Baldwin, lord president of the British council, leader of his delegation, said that this is the most important conference in history for two reasons: "First, Britain never before has been in a position to negotiate with a free hand from the electorate, and. second, never before was the trade of the world so depressed." <e t?y w*?t?n? Ncwipaptr Union.) COL. NOBLE B. JUDAH _.Et iim. iiitmnrfnt Col. Noble B. .Tudali of Chicago, for mer ambassador to Cuba, who was elected president of the llalnhow di vision at its annual convention at Los Angeles. SLAYING IS FORETOLD BY "CARDS OF DEATH' Murder of Chicago Grocer Is Puzzle for Police. Chicago. ? Police shuttled through a slim deck of clews in their iuvestigu tion of the slaying of George Carl, storekeeper, foretold, his widow said, 00 hours in advance by "cards of | death" she drew from a neighborhood fortune teller's hands. | Authorities held for questioning Ivan | Grilec, age thirty-eight, a brother-in law of the dead man, who, it was learned, sold Mrs. Vera Carl, the wid ow, a $."i.OOO insurance policy with dou- | hie indemnity clause in which she was named beneficiary, (irilec. however, | denied having any insurance dealing with Carl. Mrs. Carl told police she and her ( mother had warned Carl that she 1 turned up three cards which predict im. his death, at the home of Mrs. Susie Hallo, who has a neighborhood repu- j tation as a soothsayer. lie laughed at their forebodings, she said. Mrs. Hal lo corroborated their statements as to the "fatal" deal. Carl was found shot to death iu his South side grocery by his wife and son. The widow notified police after calling a friend, .lohn I'ettek. The rear ??f the store was In much disor der, the cash register overturned and empty. No weapon was found. First information of the occult turn of the case came to police from the victim's nine-year-old son. Porn. He I said that Friday his mother asserted: "Your father will be shot Saturday night. It's in the cards." Mrs. Carl then acknowledged drawing the death cards. Begin Hunt in Ocean for $4,000,000 Gold Norfolk. Va. ? Cold and p?Her bul lion and jewels worth from $4,000,000 to $0,000,000 are being sought off the Virginia coast by Capt. Harry L. Howdoin and a crew of twenty-four aboard the S. S. Salvor. The Atlantic, thirty-five fathoms deep, has hidden the treasure since the Mallory line steamer Merlda sank sixty-five miles off Cape Henry. May US. 1011. after being rammed by the Admiral Farragut, Troops Are Rushed to Indiana Coal Fields Sullivan. Ind. ? Three companies of National Guard infantry were sent to Sullivan to maintain order in the growlngly tense coal fields. The troops were ordered out by Gov. Harry A. Leslie at the request of Sheriff A. W. Williams after 2.000 union miners, converging from all I parts of Indiana, set up camp near the noosier mine. White Man Given Life for Burning Negroes to Death Coffeeville, Miss. ? Arthur Cook, thirty-one. a farmer, is under a life j sentence for the torch slaying of Lewis Bryant, a negro, and his fifteen year old son. Bryant and his son , were saturated with oil and burned j to death after two white men tor- | tured them into revealing the hiding | place of the family's life savings. Brazilian President Takes 3 Rebel Towns Rio Janeiro. Brazil. ? Federal troops under President Getullo Vargas car ried the fighting into rebel territory in Sao Paulo state. Three towns were taken and air planes bombed the air fields of Sao Panlo city. FARM LOAN BOARD LENIENTCOUECTOR Farmer Debtors Assured of Humane Treatment. Washington. ? A promise that the federal farm loan hurt] would pur. sue a lenient collection policy was rfc. en in a letter from President Hoover to Senator Frederick Stuwer (Rep Ore.). Answering an appeal for a "more humane treatment of fann debtors," the President wrote that at his direction the farm loan board ha<l sent to all its member banks a letter of Commissioner Paul P.estor, which said : "I have told the President that the hanks are not pursuing a course of ruthless and drastic foreclosure. I have advised him that t is not th? desire of the federal land hanks to acquire farms and that in cases of delinquencies it is tin* policy of all banks to consider each cas?? on its in dividual merits and to institute fore closure proceedings only when inves tigation discloses that a debtor is not a capable farmer, is not making a real effort to meet his obligations to the full extent of his capacity, and is not likely to succeed if given a reasonable opportunity, or when there are other factors making it necessary to take action in the vital intereMs of the bank." In commenting, the President wrote: "You will recognize that the banks must go through certain forms in cases of delinquencies to determine the cases honestly requiring relief, but perhaps our farmers who are in difficult; do not realize the sympathetic view and the endeavor we are making in their interest in these times." The projected Investigation of the farm board promises to narrow down to an accounting inquiry, rather than one opening up the whole question of farm relief policy. Senator George W. Norris (Rop.. Neb.), the one man most desirous of seeing the inquiry pushed to the full, announced that be did not intend to serve on the senate agricultural sub committee which has the investigation in charge. It was indicated by Senator McNary that, with Senator Norris out, the in vestigation would conline itself to a study of the farm board's record and accounts. Dictatorship Decreed for State of Prussia Rerlin. ? The (iertuan ^ivernment with old-time military pro* ivmi, moved swiftly to establish a virtual dictator ship over the huge state of Prussia and to clamp down martial law on the city of Iterlin and the p/ovince of i limndonbtirg. The tirst action was taken under an emergency decree issued hy I 'resident Paul von llindenhurv'. It followed crit ical pressure npon the government to stop the political riots which had tak en a toll of more than lflo dead and 1.2<H) injured in three weeks. Chancellor Franz von Papon was ap pointed commissioner of Prussia and Lord Mayor Fran* Racht of Essen was named the chancellor's assistant and given the dictatorial power in Von l'a pen's name. The decree of martial law was Is sued when Karl Severing. Prussian minister of interior, declined to ac cept the president's first emergency decree as binding and declared he would yield only to force. Holstein Cow Breaks World Milk Producing Record Breck en ridge. Min. ? A nine cow-pow er milk producer Is Holstein LatfT Pride Pontine I.lemvkje. owned by F. K. Murphy, publisher of the Minne apolis Tribune. She has just broken the world's record for combined milk and butter production at Fetnco farms, with n yearly output of STUW pounds of milk ? about nine times that of the average cow ? and 1,483 pounds of but ter. She gives 50 quarts of milk a ?lay. Dino Grandi Forced Out of the Italian Cabinet Home.? DIdo Grandi. Italian forelf" minister, resigned in n fnr-rrtcMW cabinet shakeup order by Premie1" Mussolini. The shakeup was regarded as another "rotation** to bring new blood into the covernment without any change ot policy. ? Five ministers and eleven under secretaries were displaced. Mussolini retained for himself two of the vacat ed portollos. Jury Convicts Gambler of Kidnaping Mrs. Donnelly Kansas City, ilo.? Charles Mel*. * eambler, was convicted of ki'lpapW Mrs. Nell Q. Donnelly, wealthy sunn*"1 manufacturer. A SR year prison j was affixed by the Jury.
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