/r:r:T
THE BURNSVILLE EAGLE
BURNSVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1935
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Senate Committee Defies President and Richberg on NRA
Extension—Roosevelt Lists “Must” Bills and
Business Opposes Them.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
©, Western Newspaper Union.
D isregarding the wishes of Pres
ident Roosevelt, the finance com
mittee of the senate adopted and re
ported for passage a simple resolution
B -iili/ . *^}°GDuIng the nation-
1^ al recovery act until
April 1, 1936, and at
the same time making
these provisions:
1. No price fixing
shall be permitted or
sanctioned In codes,
'.j except in those re-
lating to mineral or
natural resources
which now have price
fixing provisions.
2. No trade en
gaged In intrastate
commerce shall be eligible for a code.
3. The President is given specified
time in which to review present codes
to carry out the conditions laid down
In the first two exceptions to the reso
lution.
Both President Roosevelt and Don
ald Richberg, head of the NRA, had
urged the passage of a new two year
NRA bill which would set up a stricter
dictatorship over business and Indus
try. The senate finance committee,
however, would not consent to this and
Instead passed the resolution, which
was drawn up by Senator Clark of
Missouri and approved by Chairman
Pat Harrison. Twelve senators first
called at the White House and the
President seemed willing to accept the
continuing resolution until Mr. Rich
berg came in and protested urgently:
whereupon Mr. Roosevelt turned it
down. The committee then took the
action noted by a vote of 16 to 3, de
fying both the President and Rich
berg.
Senator Harrison said he had no
doubt the senate would adopt the res
olution with little debate.
OIGH optimism marked the “fireside
^ ■* chat” which President Roosevelt
delivered over the-r*dio to the people
of America, which ; liple. he said, are,
as a whole, “feeling ■'a
lot better—a lot more
cheerful than for
many, many years.”
He asserted we are
already on the unmis
takable march toward
recovery, and told how
he means to promote
the return to normal
conditions with his
works relief program.
He promised to put to
work three and a half
million persons now
on the relief rolls, and to press for en
actment of legislation he considers nec
essary for carrying on the New Deal.
Only once did Mr. Roosevelt allude
to such Clitics of his administration as
Senator Long, Father Coughlin and
Governor Taimadge. He said:
"The overwhelming majority of peo
ple in this country know how to sift
the wheat from the chaff in what they
hear and what they read. They know
that the process of the constructive re
building of America cannot be done in
a day or a year, but that it Is being
done In spite of a few who seek to con
fuse them and to profit by their con
fusion.”
These six “fundamental principles,”
said the President, must guide the
work relief program: Projects must
be useful, most of the money must go
for labor, "a considerable proportion of
the costs” must be returned to the
treasury, only those projects which can
employ persons on relief will be ap
proved, and projects will be approved
In a given area In proportion to the
unemployed in that area.
L egislation which the President
said, in his radio talk, should be
enacted by congress immediately In
cluded the old age and unemployment
insurance bill, the NRA extension bill,
the public utility bolding company bill,
the transportation control bill, and the
banking bill.
Here he comes Into conflict again
with the views of business leaders of
the country. The National Association
of Manufacturers has just issued its
economic analysis of conditions, which
says recovery Is "within our grasp”
and that the nation Is closer to break
ing the back of the depression than
at any time for years, but asks that.
In order to stimulate business, the ad
ministration and congress temporarily
shelve as "disturbing” such legislation
as unemployment insurance, the omni
bus banking bill, the utility holding
company bill, the SO-hour work week,
the Wagner labor disputes bill, the Guf
fey bituminous coal measure and pro
posed changes in railroad laws.
Of tied-up capital, the analysis said
this:
"Surveys indicate that close to $20,-
000,000,000 In expenditures, which
would give employment to 4,000,000
men for two years, la pent up in the
field of factory expansion, renovation
and rehabilitation alone.
"The release of this flow of private
capital by removing political uncer
tainties would dwarf the billions ap
propriated by congress for relief and
make unnecessary the expenditure of
much of the taxpayers’ money.”
This document was given out as the
members of the United States Cham
ber of Commerce were gathering In
Washington for their twenty-third an
nual convention, and naturally their
speakers endorsed It and attacked
much of the proposed legislation men
tioned as unwarranted Intrusion of the
government into business.
Before it adjourned the chamber
adopted resolutions condemning aboli
tion of utility holding companies, op
posing the banking bill, asking for re
laxation and extension of the NRA
instead of the administration bill, and
postponing "for further study” the
question of social security.
Henry I. Harriman, who has been
president of the organization for three
years, retired from that office In favor
of Harper Sibley of Rochester, N. Y.
H
OW the New Dealers propose to
redistribute wealth by double tax
ation of large estates Is revealed by
Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau
In a letter to Senator
Pat Harrison, chair
man of the senate fi
nance committee. Mr.
Morgenthau outlines a
plan of imposing in
heritance taxes and
also retaining the ex
isting estate taxes, as
serting this Is in line
with “our fundamental
objectives.” That this
would result In the
dissolution ot large
properties, the secre
tary recognizes, for he says:
“To prevent the necessity of hasty
liquidation of large properties in order
lo pay the tax, it might be provided
that Inheritance taxes be payable in
a convenient number of installments.”
The plan as outlined by Mr. Morgen
thau is to impose graduated Inheritance
taxes on estates, with rates following
those of the present Income tax rates,
which approximate 60 per cent on In
comes of a million dollars or more.
The present'estate ta^es have a max-'
Imum of 60 per cent over ten million
dollars.
Thus there would first be a tax of
60 per cent upon the estate or gift,
and then another tax of GO per cent
to be paid by those inheriting or re
ceiving it. This would amount to a
combined rate of 85 per cent on an
estate of one hundred million dollars.
If all this money were handed out
to the poorer people, even Huey Long
might be satisfied.
S ECRETARY ICKES’ Department of
the Interior has now been elevated
to the level of the State, Treasury and
Agriculture departments, for congress
has granted one of Harold’s dearest
wishes and given him an undersecre
tary, whose salary is to be $10,000 a
year. This was a senate amendment to
the Interior department appropriation
bill, and was accepted by the house,
243 to 92, only after coftsiUerable pres
sure had been applied by the adminis
tration. Many of the house Democrats
have asserted that Mr. Ickes snubbed
them, and they would have liked noth
ing better than to administer a rebuke
to him by defeating the amendment,
but the party leaders drove them into
line.
A RIZONA’S victory over the govern
ment In the Parker dam case
ruled on by the Supreme court alarmed
the New Dealers for the safety of
some of their other big projects of the
vSame nature. The court decided that
Secretary Ickes, as public works ad
ministrator, was without authority to
dam navigable rivers unless specifically
ordered by congress and that the law
creating the PWA had not listed any
such specific projects as the Parker
dam. The same applies to many huge
reclamation projects that have received
PWA funds, and it Is not unlikely that
suits will be brought to stop some of
them. Mr. Ickes said congress would
be asked to authorize specifically the
construction of the Parker dam.
F ederal judges Woodv%’ard, Wll-
kerson and Lindley of Chicago are
not going to be impeached, for the
house subcommittee Investigating
equity and bankruptcy receiverships
and practices reported the evidence
taken did not warrant such action.
The report said that in several in
stances “conduct prejudicial to the
dignity of the federal Judiciary” was
disclosed, but that substantial Improve
ments had been made both in the
rules of the court and In the law ap
plicable to the administrator at re
ceiverships and bankruptcy litigation.
C HAIRMAN JOHN J. M’SWAJN of
the house military affairs commit
tee sent to the President a letter ot
apology for disclosure of defense plans
outlined In execeutlve sessions of the
committee, and assumed full responsi
bility for “the unfortunate Incident.”
MeSwain was rebuked by letter from
the President for the publication In a
house document of possible defense
plans against Canada and British and
French islands In the Atlantic and the
Caribbean in the event of war. Brig.
Gens. F. M. Andrews and Charles E.
Kllbourue had outlined the program
before a secret meeting of the com
mittee.
F DREIGN minister PIERRE LA
VAL of France and Ambassador
Potemkin of Russia finally fixed up
the mutual assistance pact between
the two countries in a way acceptable
to both and It was signed In Paris.
M. Laval then prepared to leave for
Moscow, planning to stop in Warsaw
I route.
It would seem Jhat Laval had his
way with the treaty, for It subordi
nates military action of the two powers
to the procedure of the League of Na
tions, to provisions of the Locarno
pact and also to the Franco-Polish alli
ance. All of that probably would keep
France out of war even if Russia were
attacked. In Paris It was taken for
granted that a secret military conven
tion, supplementing the pact, would
soon be signed, fixing the methods of
mutual assistance.
S ETTING a new transcontinental rec
ord for transport ships, a TWA test
plane flew from Burbank, Calif., to
New York In 11 hours and 5 minutes.
What is more important, for all but
about one hundred miles It was con
trolled by a robot pilot. D. W. Tom
linson, the pilot, was accompanied by
Harold Snead, an expert on radio beam
flying, and Peter Redpath, navigation
engineer. Tomlinson had the controls
for only three brief lnterva!s~over the
San Bernardino range, at Durango,
Colo., where a snowstorm was encoun
tered, and at the landing at Floyd Ben-
nett-field. The plane reached its great
est cruising speed of 262 miles an
hour over the Allegheny mountains.
'T'BXANS are going to have the op-
portunity of deciding whether their
state shall remain dry or fall Into line
with most other states and repeal the
prohibition law. The legislature has
voted to submit the question to popular
action.
Under the resolution adopted the
vote would be held next August 24.
Regulation would be left to the legis
lature and at the general election in
1930, a vote would be taken on a man
datory state monopoly over sales of
hard liquor. Local option would be
preserved under both straight repeal
and the monopoly under the straight
repeal plan, which also would bar the
return of the open saloon.
G ERMANY'S latest breach of the
treaty of Versailles, the building
of submarines, Is stirring up a lot of
angry talk in Great Britain, France
and Italy. The English are especially
disturbed, for they remember only too
vividly how near the Germans came
to starving them during the war by
[he Jesiructiou of sUlpiJiug by the un
dersea boats. Anglo-German conversa
tions on naval restriction were to
have been held in London the second
week in May, and these may now be
called off or at least postponed.
The French are less vexed because
they think the development may force
a showdown on the whole status of the
German navy and Hitler’s demand for
at least 35 per cent of the British ton
nage and approximate parity with
that of France. Naval experts In
Paris said the disclosure might “well
prove of Inestimable benefit for mili
tary France in awakening naval Bri
tain to the dangers of Hitler’s arma
ments policy.”
Information obtained by the powers
was that Germany already had under
construction a number of 2o0-ton sub
marines and planned a large fleet of
them. Spokesmen for the German gov
ernment denied that any were being
built yet, but at the same time ad
mitted that submarines were being
“considered” In connection with plans
for rebuilding the navy.
H aving listened to senator Long
of Louisiana and other orators
who do not like the administration and
its New Deal and also have little love
for the G. O. P., the
National Farmers’ Hol
iday association, in
session at Des Moines,
Iowa, decided that a
third national political
party should be
k I formed.
I Milo Reno, national
president of the asso-
k elation, bad a lively
' encounter with a group
of alleged Communists
Milo Reno uurlng a business ses
sion. They sought adoption nf a reso
lution calling for legislation for “re
lief without debts,” “production credit
without strings,” and Immediate
peal of the AAA. Reno denounced
them as Wall Street racketeers and
henchmen of Soviet Russia.
“You can’t talk. You can't argue.
Don’t try to get the floor. I’m running
this meeting," Reno said. “Sit down
and shut up. Get out before we get
really mad.”
p EPUBLICANS of nine midwestern
^ states who met at Excelsior
Springs, Mo., decided that the “grass
roots” conference of leaders of the
party should be held in Springfield, Ill.,
the date to be fixed later, though it
probably will be early in June. The
purpose of this gathering will be the
rejuvenation of the party and the
launching of a campaign to restore
popular government.
P OLICE of Havana apparently are
well on the way to solution of the
mystery of the fire which destroyed
the Ward liner Morro Castle and other
recent marine disasters. They have ar
rested three men, all natives of Cata
lan province in Spain, and say that
they found on their persons letters of
Instruction concerning the destruction
of the steamship Magallanes of the
Spanish line, which was soon due In
Havana. The documents, according to
the authorities, ordered the accused to
"take necessary action to precipitate a
disaster similar to that of the Morro
Castle.” Tile police say the prisoners
are well-known anarchists.
British Empire Celebrates King’s Jubilee
By WILLt,»M C UTLEY
S TRE'IcniNC oil' over the Tint
pv.p.'inso of 'ho L’liiiod Kingdom,
a gie.u pj.-,01.11111 of 1)1 aeon Ihe
fi.irwl foirh in : ic hath night
at oo-iiitieTe o” 'l.r- 6. I .ngi’is of liglit
brc’.e trom flu- -I'n m ' of Ben .\c\i«,
hlL'lic^t 1)0 il. In th-' Bi ,-1=111
Above, Right, King and Queen in Royal Robes. Below,
Street Decorated for the Jubilee.
Snowdon, lofty V-'eish mountain, from
Arthur's Seat, I-'dinliergli, and from
scores of other fj|blpil hills between.
In their usual 1 eaimcity, these bea
cons, of which tiiere are about 30 in
each county, are warning signals, call
ing the countrysi '.e to meet some great
emergency. This time they heralded a
more joyous event, one of the most
joyous the British empire has known.
It U the Silver .jubilee of the twenty-
fifth anniversary^ of the accession to
the throne of KIn.r George V and Queen
.iTIj
celebration, ob^i^p^jQ^the lengtli and
breadth ot the ^
in the world, is ;
of rejoicing and
to go.
For the onlool
a sentiment spr
§ions so widely S(
never sets
well fill him with
‘‘tensive empire
of .iied as 100 days
tfill lus many weeks
er in America, such
I id lyoughout posses-
attored that “the sun
British flag,” might
wonder as to how a
pletely can feel
loyalty for the ft
ardiy which they
the limit to crusl
That is not
haps one of the
people who govet n themselves so corn-
such a devotion and
:ureheads of a mon-
struggled almost to
in centuries past.
1 ard to explain. Per-
reasons is that the
just thaf—a figurehead. But
he is a figureheari vastly more impor-
f us who have had
little or no us^ciation with mon-
.arcliies, other thin in boi;ks, can un
derstand. '
To the average ptizen of tlie British
Isles and to cUizais of every far-flung
outpost of the enjpire, the crown rep
resents the empirle. Time was when,
lo territorial possessions, the name
England itself stood for tlie paternal
wing of shelter and discipline over all,
but today most of the many nations
tliat comprise the| empire are self-gov
erning, and loyalHy to the crown and
the sovereign as exemplifying the pa
ternal wing of shelter is perhaps the
gi-eutest single unifying influence,
drawing the vast realm together under
George V as the head of the great na
tional family.
Symbol of Unity.
The crown and '!he sovei e'gii are not
quite the same thing, however. The
crown is the teclinical symbol of unity,
the king, himself, :the sentimental one.
Laws are still passed in parliament
under the Nonnan “Le Boy le
[n state legal cases it is “The crown
versus (name of defendant).” All fune-
Uons of this true^^mple’s government
are conducted In the name of the
King George In Jiis latest Christmas
address Si^d: “I would like to think
that you who are listening to me now,
in whatever part ot the world you may
be, and all the peoples of the realm
and empire, are bound to me and to
one another In the spirit of one great
I'aiiiily.” The king is the head of that
family.
The prince of Wales, after returning
from visits to Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, South Airica and India, was
articulate in his realization of the uni
fying power of the crown—a power
of tradition and sentiment without
which It would mighty difficult to
keep Britannia hanging together.
“The people of the old country must
realize that the patriotism of the Do
minions is national patriotism, and not
mere loyalty to Grfat Britain,” he said.
“It is loyalty to the empire, of which
Great Britain, like the Dominions, is
only one part. Ttie loyalty of the Do
minions is, in a very special sense, loy
alty to the erown-j-and the crown rep
resents the unity Of the empire. The
king, as constitutional sovereign of the
empire, occupies thfc same place in Can
ada and in the whole British empire, as
he does In Great i^itain, and his house,
altliougli original* founded in Great
Britain, belongs fl.iU)illy to all other
nation.^ of the Commonwealth.”
Altlioush your average Britisher
might be reluctant to admit It, one of
the chief reasons for that loyalty Is
that the crown is, to the Dominions,
about the safest symbol ot allegiance
they could adopt, since In it is vested
all the glory and splendor of the em
pire, but little or none of the power
to interfere In Dominion government.
Progress of the Reign.
Self-government in the Dominions
has progressed by leaps and bounds
since George V became king May 6,
IfilO. That, was the date of his actual
accession; he did not receive hi.s coro
nation until June 22. 1011. In the 25
years which the Jhbilee celebrates,
here are some of the things that have
happened in the Dominions and which
have gone far toward making the king
the tremendously important figure,
symbolically, that he is:
Colonies which reached the status of
Dominions in Queen Victoria's reign,
as well as some protectorates, have
progre.ssed to a state of virtually com
plete seif-government. The only real
exception is Newfoundland, which
tloundercd about in heavy financial
seas until it, of necessity, waived its
Dominion status and became once
more dependent upon Great Britain.
At the other extreme Is southern
Rhodesia. This at the outset of the
reign of George V was merely an un
charted land in southeastern Africa,
owned by the British South Africa
company, Ltd. Southern Rhodesia has
become almost a Dominion today. It Is
supervised not by the colonial office,
but by the Dominions office. Its prin
cipal difference from other Dominions
is that the king’s ministers In England
still reserve the right to veto laws
passed by the Rhodesian legislature,
while in the other Dominions the veto
power rests entirely with ministers
in the Dominion.
Under the reign of George V, many
of the colonies have made progress
with their constitutions which allow
them more and more freedom in choos
ing their own legislators, rather than
having a good share of them appointed
in the name of the crown.
Since the war, many of the colonies
peopled with races other than the white
have seen their share of this progress
as well. These include the Gold coast,
Ceylon, Sierra Leone, and the protec
torates of Uganda and Zanzibar, which
have been given new and more liberal
constitutions. In some of the colonies
definite restrictions have been placed
on the white inhabitants to protect the
rights ot the colored natives. Native
interests have been protected' In Tan
ganyika, the Cameroons, Palestine and
Transjordan. Iraq, once a colony, has
achieved complete Independence and Is
now a member of the League of Na
tions.
Gain Ne>V Rights.
These places are. however, the only
ones which have fallen back. New
constitutional rights were gained by
Hong Kong, northern Nigeria, Trini
dad and British Gui.ana. India, with
Its 312,000,000 people, large as Europe
and with as many different races, has
been brought to the very doorstep of
complete self-government, with only a
British protecting influence.
From this it may be seen that many
a land over which the British flag flies
is simply a protectorate, many are col
onies, and many Independent Do
minions. All of them In all classifica
tions have Individual governments, no
two just rdike. The power of the
crown then, despite the fact that we
Id America often fall to realize it, is
absolutely essential to a people whose
very existence depends upon its rela
tions with colonies and Dominions. It
matters not that the power is little
more than symbolic. It Is there.
The colonies and Dominions t
more than a jubilant interest in this
Jubilee, for trade and defense prob
REICH SUBMARINES
ANGER THE BRITISH
lems of world significance affecting
them are scheduled to be ironed out
by ministers from these lands, scat
tered about the earth, during the Lon
don meetings to do honor to the king.
Prominent statesmen are coming from
Canada, Australia, South Africa, New
Zealand and India; in fact, some of
them have already arrived.
This conference will decide upon the
merit of results of the important Otta
wa conference of July, 1932.
Helps Britishj_Trade.
Resulting from the Ottawa confer
ence has been a large transfer of Brit
ish trade Into the channels of the em
pire. In the year before the confer
ence 28.73 per cent of the United King
dom’s Imports and 43.69 per cent of
its exports went to and from units of
tlie empire. Last year these figures
had risen to 37.07 per cent and 46.
■per cent, respectively. Some of this
gain has, of course, reduced the trade
possibilities between the United States
and Great Britain.
-Australia and New Zealand, while
they have been benefited by an advan
tage over non-British competitors un
der the terms of'the agreement, have
been rather hampered by the quota
clauses which have largely reduced the
amounts ot goods which they are al
lowed to send into Great Britain. It
is the purpose of the present confer
ence to take steps toward substituting
tariffs for quotas, In order to alleviate
the condition. Delegates will be ex
tremely wary of these discussions,
liowever, for they remember the near
famine times of the middle Nineteenth
century when similar tariffs were In
force. Especially concerned are states
which ship dairy produce and meats,
like Australia and New Zealand.
A similar problems has presented it
self to the Canadian wheat farmer, but
he has been protected by a tariff on
flour, which creates a fund out of
which the British wheat grower Is sub
sidized. During the jubilee these min
isters will discuss the possibilities of
extending such protection to nearly all
farm products. This, of course, would
have a considerable effect upon world
commerce.
Consider the Taxpayer.
As regards defense the jubilee con
ferences will malce some effort to re
lieve the taxpayer in the United King
dom of some of the burden he has car
Tied to provide defense for the colonies,
and to discuss developments and neces
sary protection of interests In the Far
East. Here, In the British opinion, the
interests of the United States are close
ly allied with their own, and In official
circles there has been some talk that
a new Anglo-American agreement of
co-operation will be formed, especially
in matters where Australia is con
cerned.
ThesB^are things with whicn the out
side world Is concerned chiefly, with
respect to the Sliver Jubilee. But, aft
er all. It will be the spectacle of the
king and queen riding through the Lon
don streets to receive the cheers of the
multitudes upon many scheduled occa
sions that will receive most of the Eng
lish enthusiasm. Al! throughout the
Jubilee events have been scheduled,
which will bring their beloved king out
among his people. And he is beloved.
When for months he was lying sick In
Buckingham palace, throngs of tliou-
sands upon thousands hung about the
walls and the gates for hours, hoping
every minute for the word that their
prayers had been answered and God
had saved tlie king.
But perhaps the most remarkable de
ference of all is tiiat which has been
declared by employees of certain Brit
ish hat factories. To show their re
spect for the king, they have agreed
not to steal any hats during the Jubile*
© W&atera Newspaper UaHv,
Cabinet 1$ Urged to Check
Further Expansion.
London.—Six of Germany’s twelve
new submarines are already afloat and
ready for naval maneuvers In the
North sea, the London Dally Herald
stated.
The six are complete In every detail
and fully manned, according to the
Herald, which declares that the U-
boats are ready to liegln practice off
Wlllielmsliaven, German naval base.
The newspaper also states that the
Anglo-German naval conversations wll!
be delayed, pending announcement of
Germany's new naval policy by Chan
cellor Hitler.
Members of parliament, angered &
Germany’s new submarine program,
charged the U-boat building is aimed
directly at this country.
They demanded the cabinet take
quick steps in co-operation with other
powers to check further expansion of
the relch’s armaments.
At the same time, the government
began consideration of the further de
fense measures to meet German’s arm
ament expansion on land, sea and air.
Ministers headed by Prime Minis
ter Ramsay MacDonald informally dis
cussed the “legality” of the latest ges
ture of Reichsfuehrer Hitler in defi
ance of the Versailles treaty, and ar
ranged for consultations with France,
and Italy.
There were Indications that a pro
test, probably in the form of a note,
was under consideration, and also pos
sible Joint action of the powers at
Geneva.
The British were becoming thorough
ly incensed as revelation followed up
on revelation concerning the growing
strength of rearmed Germany.
Disclosures that Germany actually is
building submarines on the heels - of
national conscription were followed by
a report in the Dally Herald tiiat the
reich has built a great new naval and
seaplane base on the island of Sylt in
the North sea.
Omaha Strike Rioters
Beat Crew of Trolley
Omaha.—First violence in the strike
of 400 organized employees of the
Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Rail
way company flared here when a crowd
of 100 strike-sftnpathizors smashed the
windows of a street car, beat the crew
and a guard, and stoned other trolleys.
The attack came shortly after the
disbanding of a parade of union men
protesting operation of the street cars
In defiance of the strikers.
Scores of persons at the scene of the
riot at Nineteentii and Dodge streets
were gassed as police released tear gas
bombs ill an effort to disperse a howl
ing throng estimated at 3,000.
Strike sympatii-izers stopped a tram
a few blocks from where the parade
ended, smashed the front window, and
swarmed into the car. They routed a
dozen passenger.s and set upon R. W.
1‘lillllps, raotorman; L. IVakcnight, a
student operator, and a guard, Alfred
Ciracusano. None was believed seri
ously Injured.
Rumania to Spend
$220,000,000 on Arms
Bucharest.—Rumania has embarked
on an extensive program to attain arms
primacy in southeastern European and
the Balkans.
A ten-year program, envisaging the,
expenditure of $229,{X)0,0()0, was ap
proved at a council session at which
King Carol presided.
Altliougli details of the plan were
kept closely secret, it was learned that
the council contracted with the famous
Skoda munitions works of Czecho
slovakia for the purchase of ammuni
tion and artillery costing .$25,1X19.000.
The terms of the contract permit Ru
mania to pay for her purcliases in her
own currency.
Hero Board Awards
18 Carnegie Medals
Pittsburgh.—Eighteen heroes, Includ
ing two young schoolboys and an elght-
een-year-old girl, were recognized by
the Carnegie hero fund commission for
acts of bravery in aiding others.
Bronze medals were awarded In each
case, five of them post-humously to
honor those who died rescuing or at
tempting to rescue others. To the
widow of one of these went a pension
of $720 a year and to the parents of
the four others a total of .$2,000 was
granted.
Artist Gets 7 Years
for $100,000 Robbery
London.—Cecil Swanland, an artist,
has been sentenced to seven years’
penal servitude for the Croydon air
port gold robbery. Two other men, ac
cused of taking part in the theft of
$100,000 worth of gold bars from the
strong room of the airport in March,
have been acquitted.
Governor Fires at Rival
Mexico City.—A dispatch to the
newspaper Excelsion from Irapuato,
Gunnajuatro, said the governor of the
state, Melchor Ortega, tired six shots a(
Enrique Fernandez, candidate for thj
gubernatorial nomination, but missed.
Waitress Slain on Street
Phoenix, Arlz.—Frances Spurlock,
twenty-eight, a waitress, was slain in
the presence of scores of pedostriana
James G. Williams, clerk, handed ovet
a gun to the police and surrendered.