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Given ,)
Hal~
before the meeting of
! Nations council to
quarrel
sssie took a ~tep
that may complicate
matters tremendously,
The "king of kings"
signed and sealed a
document turning ~ver
tO American interests
sweeping concessions
for the development
of • oil,~ mineral and
other natural re-
sources in more than
half his kingdom. The
charter was granted
to the African Explor-
ation and Development
and runs for 75 years. It
F. W. Rlekett, an
representing the
and the transaction was
Andrews Col.
financial adviser to the
himself said the con-
to Oil, but
of New Jersey
Oil units flatly
had no knowledge of or
grant. The compafiy
In Delaware by the
Uzflted States Corporation company
of Great Britain,
were much stirred
development. The British
formally '~dvised" the
the concession,
that it considered this a
between the
Italian govern-
mperor in an interview
not see why s coates-
to Americans should
computations or
~ty which the three
Lined signed In 1906. That
,heros of influence" in
but never was recognized by
Ethiopian -government.
we have the
we please in our
said Halle Selassie.
tilem-
p do nothing ~o encroach on
3thers. This Is one of
the concession to
isal-
and delivered, I
It c~n be recalled
~ thing Is suggested by the
this action by
has forestalled Musao-
seise and develop
Ethiopia,
he felt there was
the duce in the
et hog-
without re-
Rome
that the
enter-
:tar under-
the Job of
and com.
to
a elmr-
~f the ,water
the Source of the.Blue
Fforench premier.
r the league
~eulon with full power to act
Italo.Ethioplan
said It was
~Dce. (
Pickard
by all the Ol~OSition he has aroused.
In the military maneuvers he was con-
ducting near Bolzano l~ve ammunition
was used in the artillery firing, and
one soldier was killed and two wound-
ed by shell fragments. In s fiery
speech to the soldiers, with King Vic.
tot Emmanuel standing beside him,
t~e duce shouted:
'~£he world must know once again
that while there is tAqk so absurd and
provocative of penalties (sanctions)
we will not give up a single Soldier, a
single sailor, a single aviator."
All the Italian submarines were a~
gambled off Sicily ready to lay a de~
fenelve line across the Mediterranean
from that island to Africa, and the
Sicilian coast defense batteries were
strengthened. The premier already
has issued numerous decrees for ral&
lng the funds necessary for his adyen
ture and to forestall embargoes,
Neutrality Act Signed
by President Roosevelt
pRESIDENT ROOSEVELT slgned
the congressional resolution of neu-
trality, announcing that he approved
it because it is "Intended as an ex-
pression of the fixed desire of tl~
people of the United States to avoid
any action which might involve us In
war."
However, he made plain his objec-
tion to the inflexible provisions of the
act, saying it was conceivable thai
situations might arise in which these
might have "exactly the opposite effect
from that which was intended." The
resolution calls upon the President to
place an embargo on the export ot
"arms, ammunitions and implements
of war" to all belligerents in the event
of war, and creates a national mu-
nitions control board. The application
of the arms embargo lasts only until
March 1, 1936.
Huey Lung's Dictatorship
Due for Investigation
~ENATOR HUEY LONG crowed a
lot about the success of his ;oue-
man filibuster which killed the third
deficiency appropriation bill, but he
didn't add to his popu-
larry among the peo-
ple who looked ger-
ard for help from the
agencies that are now
hampered by the fail-
ure of the measure
Besides that, it is now
admitted that his fili-
buster rescued the
Democratic house lead-
ers from a tight place
in the matter of the
cotton and wheat W.L, Granfleld
loans. Still further, It appears that
Huey's domination of Louisiana Is go.
lug to be lnvestig,,ted by a congres-
sional committee. That committee prob-
ably will be headed by RePresentative
William L Granfleld of Mauaehusetts,
for h~ was the author of the elections~
Investigation bill, which was found to
contain a little "Joker/' This Joker
gives the committee such wide powers
that it can probe lntv all the facts con-
cerning Lung's complete control of elec-
tion affairs in his state and the meth-
ods by which he has attained tO th(
position of a dictator there.
Russia Again Warned About
Communist Activifit~
RUSSIA'S reply in America's protest
• ngalnst the subversive plotting of
the Communists in Soviet territory
was a rejection and a coldly welled
re-assertion of the old and more than
dubious position that the MoScow
government is not and cannot be held
responsible for the doings of the Com-
munist Internatlonale. This was con-~
sidered for four days by offi~al Wash°
lagion and then it was decided to let
the matter drop with another and
rather milder warning. The new note
sent to Moscow said:
"If the Soviet government pursues
s policy of permitting activities on
Its territory Involving Interference
with the internal affairs of the United
States. Instead of 'preventing' such
activities, as its written pledge pro.
vtdss, the friendly and official rein-
tions between the two countries eal~
not but be seriously Impaired."
Mrs. Harold Ickes Killed
in Auto, mobile Accident
~/[RS. ANNA ~VILMARTH IC~CES,
1¥1 wife of Seereta~ of the Interior
Hgroldlckes, was killed when an au-
tomobile .in whleh she and three
friends were riding was overturned
in a ditch at Velard~, N. M. MrL Gena-
the Indians of
THE BEACH REVIEW
Norris and Mullen in Row
About Power Plants ~\
ENATOIt GEORGE NORRIS ~f
u Nebraska and Arthur F. Mullen,
formex~ Democratic national commit-
teeman for that state, are engaged In
a warm dispute that may cause con-
siderable embarrassment for President
Roosevelt, friend of both men. Mullen
carried to the White [Ionse a kot pro-
test against a $20,000,000 power proj-
ect which Is sponsored by Norris. ~He
is attorney for two $7,000,000 power
plants which already have been ap-
proved by the PWA, and he asserts
there is no fold for the enormous
amount of electrical energy that would
be developed by the three projects,
and probably not enough wate~ for all
of them.
The first project approved by PWA
was at Columbus, Nab., 80 miles west
of Omaha, and situated on the Loupe
river. The second was on the Platte
river, 150 miles farther west, at Suth-
erland, Nab. Both were approved in
the fall of 1933. In addition to the
original grants and loans approxlmat-
tug $15,000,000, there was added an
allocation of $2,~0,000 later.
In the rivalry bstween these two
pro~ects the same argument about the
shortage of water was used, and Mul.
fen was eriticlzed for acting as alter,
ney for both.
Report That Lindbergh Baby
Is Still Living
ATTORNEYS for Richard Bruno
Hauptmann plan to seek a new
trl~l for the convicted kidnaper and
slayer of CoL Charles A. Lindbergh's
first-hera son on the ground that the
child still lives and that they can pro.
duce him in court.
The boy, five years and six months
old and "the image of the Lindbergh
baby,~ is said to be in custody of a
Flushing (L. I.) family, which took
him from an orphanage andadopted
him.
Stock Raisers Urge That
Tariffs Be Maintained
BECAUSE of the possibllRy of a
continued increase in the importa-
tion of live stock and its products, an
appeal In the name of more than 300,.
000 farmers and rsnehmen, members
and patrons of the National Live
Stock Marketing association, was sent
to President Roosevelt urging that
present tariffs and sanitary restric-
tions on animals, meats, lard, and
similar products be maintained.
In a telegram, signed by Charles &
Ewing, president of the co-operatlve
association, the chief executive was
told that any concessions in the way
of lower tariffs and the removal of
embargos,preventing diseased foreign
animals from entering this country
would further cripple the live stock
industry, and tend tO defeat the recap.
cry program.
Queen Astrid of Belgium
Killed in Auto Crash
BOWED down by deep grief, the Bel-
gian people laIC to rest their be-
loved queen. Astrid, who was killed
near Lucerne. Switzerland, when the
automobile driven by King Leopold
swerved ~from the road and dashed
against a tree. Astrid's skull was
crushed and she died almost Immedi-
ately In the arms o.f her husband, who
was cut painfully by the smashed
windshield.
The qUeen's body, taken back ~o
Brussels, was taken to the cathedral of
St. Gudule for the funeral ceremony
and then was interred in the royal
crypt at Laeken, where lie the remains
of the late King Albert. The services
were simple. In accord with the char-
acters of Astrid and Leopold.
Astrid, a princess of sweden, became
the wife of Leopold In 1926 when he
was ti~duke of BrabaQt, a~L~ mar-
riage was a genuine love match. She
immediately endeared herself to the
people of Belgium, Three children were
born to liar and Leopold.
King George's Third Son :~:!"
Engaged to Marry ' r'~'
T~'~G GEORGE o~ Great Britain
JtX. announced the engagement of the
duke of Gloucester, his third son, to
Lady Alice Montagu-Dougies-Scot t
The duke is thirty-five years old and
is the soldier of the roygl family.
Lady Allce, who is thlrty-three, traces
her descent /~om a natural son of
Charles II. The d~to for the wedding
has not been set.
With his brother's marriage the
f0rty-one-year-ol4 prince of Wales
will be the last bachelor among tha
king's SOns.
German Catholic Prelates
Boldly Defy Herr Hitler
BOLDLY defying Beichsfuehrer Hit*
ler, the three cardinals, 28 arch-
bishops and other prelates of the Cath-
olle~church in Germawy, lmmed a pas-
toral letter, ~which was read In every,
church, strongly eritlef~ing the anti-
rel~-tous ~oilctes of the Na~fl guvern.
merit and tnilmidating~ that the Vati-
can .may enforce an interdict for other
nations to break o~" relatio~ .wit~
Germany.
/
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
How Will Mussolini Fight?
Airfields and Live Wires
A Teapot Tempest
Will Eugenists Explain?
Mussolini fought in the blg war as
a simple soldier in the trenches, was
badly wounded, saw
the horrors of war
from the bottom.
Now, in com-
mand, he will see
war from the top.
How will he man-
age It? Dispatches
say he must do
something in a
"quick drive and
make big gains" be-
fore the rainy sea-
son returns, seven
months hence.
Mussolini's drlv-
ing power and ef-
• ,zrtl~ez. B~isbane ficlency, that have
transformed the fever-breeding Pun-
line marshes into homes for Itallan
families, should need no "seven
months" to produce results in Abys-
elnla. The thing re do is to concert.
trats on the "Conquering Lion of
Judah," otherwise the Negus, or 'Tow.
er of Trinity."
Make It clear that modern war
means "the ruler of the country first,
the little people atXerward," and war
will not last long. The "Conquering
Lion" has expressed willingness, al-
most eagerness, to die for hls country,
but that must not be taken too lit-
erally.
Near Burbank, Calif., a plane
crashes. Three occupants, two pilots
and a stewardess burn to death, after
striking a live wire.
It has been said, "Alcohol and gaso-
line do not mix well," meaning that
men should not drive when drunk.
Air fields and live wires do not mlx
either. The Department of Com-
mdr~.e, ruling aviation and exercising
admirable rules, might Include among
the latter a rule against exposed live
wires near a~r fields.
There is an unnecessary fuss about
American business men having secured
In Abyssinia rights to develop ell and
mineral wealth. An American should
be able to go shopping at his own
risk and on his own responsibility,
wherever he chooses, as Englishman
do, without having the State depart-
ment indulge in "fits."
If one of the great American or-
ganizations, Standard O11, Du Pont or
another, undertakes to do business in
Ethiopia, i~ will not ask Uncle Sam to
send over any of "our boys" to shed
their blood.
Strange sight in a New York court
--one boy, ~ine years old, accused of
kllling~a girl by hitting her on the
head with a stone because she denied
his assertion that he could eat more
peaches than she could. Another little
boy of twelve, also killer of a play-
taste, appeared In the same court.
The nine-year-old boy seemed quite
unconcerned, except that he thought
his dog, "Lucky," would be lonesome
without htm.
Prosecuting authorities accuse the
nine-year-old boy of murder, but hang-
ing or drawing and quartering for chil-
dren are part of the past.
Wlll stirplculturists and eugenlsts
explain these youthful crime phenom-
ena?
The sad death of the queen of Bel.
glum proves that the open ear Is the
dangerous ear. The queen was thrown
from the car. Struck her head against
a tree, and was Instantly killed. Had
she been In a closed ear, she could
not have been thrown vlolently~ and
probably would have escaped death
as did her husband, who was holding
the wheel.
The open car Is the ideal ear .to
see the country and the sky. but a
dangerous car for those who drive
too fast.
San Francisco, as old In the minds
of Americans as the word "Califor-
nia" itself, is cheerful. The great.
bridge that will unite San Francisco
to Oakland across the bay is progress-
ing rapidly. And the suspension bridge
is already stretching its ~spiderweb
cables across the Golden Gate, where
the Pacific ocean comes rushing In
to the bay.
Thanks to good management and an
excellent engineer, Mr. Strauss, this
Golden Gate bridge, with its magni-
ficent span of more than 4,000 feel
will be finished on time and for less
than the $35,000,000 guaranteed as
maximum price.
England wants no w~r, with pros-
perry returning and spoils of the big
war not yet digested. But the wing
feathers of the peace angel must trem-
ble at sight of British and Italian
fleets in the Mediterranean, near the
mouth of the Suez canal
If Britain tries to close that canal
to Italy, leaving thousands of Italian
soldiers cut off from their base and
furore food supplies, there will prob-
blybe some heavy gunfire.
devotion to
Washlngton.--Through more years
than most of us can remember, the
U. S. senate has
Obaolete been the object of
Senate Rulea caustic criticism, Jibe
and Jest because of
its rule permitting unlimited debates.
Time after time long senate speeches
have been the object of editorial at-
tack in one segment or another of
American metropolitan newspapers.
Its slow, tortolse-like methods have
been held up to ridicule In spoken and
written word innumerable times, and
its ~procedure remains unchanged.
If was no occasion for surprise,
therefore, when s new outburst of
criticism of senate rules of procedure
was launched upon us immediately
after the last session of congress ad-
Journed. Senator Huey P. Long of
Louisiana, the self-styled kingfish,
broke loose as he has so many times
broken loose and effectively tied sen-
ate plans in a knot. He did the very
thing that has precipitated criticism
of the senate through all of the years
mentioned above and succeeded in a
one-man filibuster In blocking passage
of an appropriation bill. Indeed, he
was so effective in his job that he
brought down on his head the wrath
of President Roosevelt and all of the
New Dealers who were about to
realize culmination of some of their
most cherished dreams.
Wh~le the Long filibuster probably
should be criticized because undoubted-
ly there was some unfairness about it,
the reason it takes on more importance
at this time is because it placed so
many of the New Dealers in a state
of high dudgeon mentally and because
It again centered attention upon these
same senate rules.
By way of preliminary explanation,
I believe It ought to be said that no
organized body can operate effective-
ly or orderly without first binding
itself to adhere to rules of procedure
that wlll give each an opportunity.
These rules, in the case of the senate,
are very old. It may be said they
are antiquated and obsolete; surely
some will take that view of them. But
nevertheless those are the rules and
the senate h~s been able for a good
many years to produce satisfactory
legislative resulfs under them.
I do not propose here to say that
they should be revlsed or that the pres-
ent rules should be retained. But I do
believe that before changes are made
and before those who propose changes
spread too much ballyhoo, the country
should understand some of the reasons
which actuate the present urge.
$ $ $
The kingfish spoke for nearly siX
hours on the closing night of the ses-
sion. He could not
Lon~'a be prevented from
Filibuster speaking after he
was once recognized
by the presiding officer. He told the
senate he was battling for a govern-
ment loan rate on cotton of 12 cents
per pound whereas the administration
was proposing re make the rate either
nine or ten cents per pound. The sen-
ate had placed an amendment on an
appropriation bill to carry out the ides
of twelve cents a pound and h~d put
up the proposltlon to the house of rep-
resentatives Which showed no slgns of
agreeing at all until Mr. Roosevelt look
a hand and suggested the compromise
of ten cents a pound. All that r~-
rosined was a formal vote of the sen-
ate to put the administration plan into
effect. Senator Long decided if should
no~ be ~nd he proceeded to lick the
administration slngle-handedly by eon-
tlnuit~ his filibt~ter until the mid-
night hour when the congress was to
adjourn finally.
In blocking the administration com.
promise, Senator Long also defeated
appropriation of something like $100,-
000,000 which the administration was
going to use In setting up machinery
under its so-called security laws, the
Guffey bill for regulation of the soft
coal industry and the bond created
theoretically to settle labor disputes.
All of these bills were pressed hard
by the administration, if one had no~
had its antagonists in congress. They
were and are strictly New Deal meas-
ures. As a result of the Long filibus-
ter none of them can be made fully
operative until congress convenes
again next January and appropriates
the money. So, It can be seen how the
pride of the New Deal professors was
wounded. It can be seen likewise
why they, along With the President, did
so much squawking about the Long
filibuster. Senator Long was an Ideal
goat for the situation.
It is not my privilege nor is It
within my power to say whether the
legislation which Sen-
Unnet, e~ary ator Long virtually~
Bnrkirqr nullified is so im-
portant that five
months of delay is the difference be-
tween life and death in this COUntry.
Indeed, I cannot see any reason for
all of the haste that
and the
The President had repeatedly urged
their enactment but the congress saw
fit to delay. Consequently in variot~
quarters in Washington I heard the
inquiry as to why so much damage can
be done by delays of five months when
there had been delays of seven
preceding enactment of the measures.
Some of the more vitriolic among the
New Deal critics even went so far as
to inquire why all of the hullabaloo
over a delay of five months when Mr.
Roosevelt made no effort to obtain
enactment of the social security bill~
the keystone of the New Deal--In the
first session of congress under his con-
~ol. Without knowing all of the an-
swers, it does appear to me that there
is quite a bit of unnecessary barking
going on about this one incident.
So, without defending a filibuster i~
any wise, it occurs to me that we
ought to look back Into history and see/
the benefits accruing from unlmlted
debate In the senate, a procedure
the New Dealers now want to change-
Through all of the years that congresS
has existed the senate has moved in a
deliberatlve way. It has been sloW,
to be sure; yet, records of the past-
make it appear that this slow pro-
cedure has resulted inevitably in bet-
ter legislation. Many are the schemes
that surged forward on the ballyhoo of
a minority to passage in the house of
representatives only to be blocked a~.
properly examined In the senate. Many
are the times as well when the delib-
erative character of senate debate gave
time for expresslon of a majoritY
sentiment in the country and saved it
from being precipitated Into poIlcle~
of national legislation that would have
worked untold harm. I cannot bu~
believe that the privilege of unlimited
debate in the senate has more good
features than bad.
Time after time in years past,
rounds have been made for
tlon of rules In the house of repre"
sentatlves so tha~ individual memberS
might voice their views at length.
house never has yielded from the
tion it has taken that its numbers were
too great ~o permit
slon such as takes place in the
The house does its work In
and those committees are
under the guidance of the
party in control of the
The house, therefore, invariably vote$::~
[he will of the administration.
sequence of this, it is hard to
that the senate ought to blnd and
its members and prevent their
expression. If there is a
that minority ought to be heard.
senate is the forum. As a personal
pression, I do not see where any goO~
at all can come from the proposed ~
strictlons for senate debate and I
not belleve it will eventually.
$ $ $
For the first time since the
war, a federal government bond
failed the other
Bond Issue to attract
Failure subscribers to
sorb the offering.
was a small offering at that.
amount w~s only $100,000,000.
bonds were not, strictly
United States government bonds.
were being issued by
Farm Mortgage corporation but
bore the guarantee of the
Sta~es treasury that they
paid beth as to interest and
and to all intents and purposes
not be distinguished from~
• bonds.
When the ~sasury
of only $85,500,000, Secretary
thau was
He laid the failure of the. issue~to
fact that the bonds were to carry
1% per cent interest, a very low
It was a p~rt of the troastn?.
to sell goverumentsecurtties
eat rates as low as possible to
the burden of the interest
which the government must
its gigantic public debt.
"it ain't so good/'
The national debt now
is something like $30,000,000,000.
approximately $9,000,000,000
than when Mr. RooseVelt
is due to go still higher
tlonsl money must be borrowed:~
carry oat the works-relief
New Deal. Some authorities
that before Mr. ltoosevelt's
term expires as President, the
debt will aggregate~'something
$35,000,(~)0,000, the highest [a aJl
tory for our natiem
Long experience as a
financial affairs prompts
that'flallure of the
be fully ~imbsertbed does
gover~ment~ bonds are a
meat. I am Inclined to
that the treasury tried to drive
the Inferest rate too
Investors figured they
better, return than
Morgenthau offered them.
all, there is
th~s circumstance,
to s~nd