The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1932 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
p RANKLIN’ D. ROOSEVELT and
r Gov. W. H. Murray of Oklahoma
were the contenders in the Democrat-
ic primaries of North Dakota. The
returns from the rural districts were
slow in coming in, but on the basis of
partial returns it appeared certain
that the state’s delegation would be
instructed for the New York governor.
However, Alfalfa Bill had captivated
the imagination of many of the farm-
ers and was making a fair contest.
On the Republican side those seek-
ing the preference of the voters were
Dr. Joseph I. France of Maryland and
Jacob S. Coxey of Ohio. France was
well in the lead. Mr. Hoover’s name
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
OUR COMIC SECTION
Test \ ote in House Encourages Wets—Sales Tax Meets
Strong Opposition—Two Famous Men
Take Their Own Lives.
Events in the Lives of Little Men
SUPper is on the
TA0LE -COME RIGHT IH
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
\X7ET leaders in congress, greatly
W encouraged by the test vote in
the house, have stnrted a vigorous
campaign to compel the major parties
to place in their plat-
forms planks declar-
ing for resubmission
of the prohibition
question to the people.
The motion before
the house was to dis-
charge the judiciary
committee from juris-
diction over the Beck-
Linthicum resolution
for amendment of the
Eighteenth amen d-
ment, wrhich had been
defeated in the com-
mittee by a vote of 14 to 6. The test
vote was forced under the liberalized
rules by 145 * petitioners.
On call of the roll, 227 members
voted against the motion. 187 for it,
and there were 18 not voting. Follow-
lng the custom. Speaker Garner did
not vote. The strength shown by the
wets was greater even than many of
them had expected and they were cor-
respondingly jubilant. Their cause
had gained 59 votes since the house
voted December 17. 1917, to submit
the Eighteenth amendment.
Beck and Linthicum, co-authors of
the resolution, declared the fight was
all but won and that all that was
needed was one more election. Mr.
Beck said: “This vote makes it plain
that if the Republican party adopts
a dry platform in June it will court
disaster.’’ He predicted it would not
be necessary to wait for the meeting
of the next congress for action to
modify the dry law, believing that
this congress at the session next win-
ter, as a direct result of the Novem-
ber election, will submit the anti-pro-
hibition amendment.
Leaders of the drys, for their part,
though admitting wet gains, declared
they were undismayed, calling atten-
tion to the fact that the wets were
still far from having the necessary
two-thirds majority.
Both sides, in the Republican party,
have been hoping that President Hoo-
ver would declare himself, but there
was nothing to indicate that he would
depart from his neutrality in the pre-
convention contest. A close associate
of the President was quoted as saying
Mr. Hoover has not changed his be-
lief that the country is still preponder-
antly dry.
Representative Fred Britten of Illi-
nois introduced in the house a bill
for repeal of the Jones “five and ten”
law which stiffened the penalties for
violation of the Volstead act.
pies, estimated at $75,000,000, were
scattered over the world, the recip-
ients including universities and schools
and dental clinics in many cities in
this and other countries. He was
seventy-seven years old, a bachelor
and a lover of music and art. Mr.
Eastman’s many friends mourned his
death but none was found to criticise
his decision that it was time for him
to go.
Ivar Kreuger, head of the great
Swedish match trust and one of the
world’s most noted in-
dustrialists. was the
other notable suicide.
For months his nu-
merous interests had
been hammered on the
exchanges of Europe
and his losses were
supposed to have been
heavy though his re-
maining fortune was
very large. He had
just failed to obtain
a $10,000,000 loan In
where he
XTEGOTIATIONS between Japan and
China for the withdrawal of Jap-
anese troops from the Shanghai area
after
were reported about to open,
conversations engineered by the rep-
resentatives of the United States and
It was understood the
Great Britain,
Japanese forces should be withdrawn
gradually and that the Chinese should
not enter the evacuated territory un-
til Tinal agreement was reached. The
operation will he supervised by a com-
mission with neutral members.
J. M. Beck.
Ivar Kreuger
New York,
had always been able to obtain vast
sums for the asking, so he sailed to
Paris and there ended his life with
a revolver. Like Eastman, Kreuger
was unmarried. His death created
a sensation in financial circles, espe-
cially in Europe, and the shares in
his companies declined sharply. The
Swedish government obtained from
parliament in, special session permis-
sion to declare a moratorium on the
debts of those concerns to prevent a
raid by creditors, and the Stockholm
exchange was closed for a time.
Nations, with Maj. Gen. Frank Mc-
Coy representing the United States,
began investigating the doings of the
Japanese in and about Shanghai.
Mayor Wu Teh-chen of the Chinese
municipality was guide and chief in-
formant of the members and after
telling them of the outrages commit-
ted by the invaders he took them on
a tour of inspection through many
miles of devastated areas where, as
he said, “you can see for yourselves
how thoroughly the Japanese war
machine has accomplished its mission
of wanton destruction.”
That new Manchurian state of Man-
choukuo, established by the Japanese
and headed by Henry Pu-yi, is in trou-
ble already. Dispatches from Tokyo
saif! there was revolt in the province
of Heilungkiang which is ruled by
Gen. Ma Chan-shan, war minister of
Pu yi’s government. The Chinese
tr ops there declined to transfer their
allegiance. From Changchun, capital
of the new state, word capie that a
strong Chinese force, equipped with
artillery, had captured Fu-yu, a city
of 80,000 people 100 miles southwest
of Harbin.
(Copyright, W. N. V.)
FINNEY OF THE FORCE
Cough ‘Em Up, Finney!
FAITH .FAWNY AN OID GIVE
ME ROK3UT ARM TO GIT OUT
AM (501N' TO THIS PlC-NlC-
ANAGERS of the
Republican
iV-1 party are busy making the ar-
rangements for the national conven-
tion in Chicago, and many of them in
their informal talk in
Washington felt cer-
tain that Hoover and |||pr
Curtis would be the |||r *
nominees, on a lib- |||
eralized platform
which would serve to ||||j
conciliate the wets ||||||
without outraging the ‘ £ V
drys. The members j*
of the national com- jfp||k
mittee charged with .
selecting the presiding
officers of the <
vention at fii
thought it would
Charles G. Dawes for temporary chair-
man and “keynoter,” but it was said
he was unwilling to accept the honor.
For permanent chairman it was vir-
tually agreed that Bertrand H. Snell,
congressman from New York, would
be the best man available. He is one
of the party’s strong men and a skilled
parliamentarian. However, both posts
were left unfilled, the final choices
to be made at a meeting in Chicago
on April 9.
The arrangements committee decided
that four radio broadcasting booths
should be put in the Chicago Stadium.
It also named Dr. A. M. Harvey of
Chicago chief of the staff of physicians
and nurses, and George L. Hart as
official stenographer.
Democratic managers also are slow-
ly completing the details for their
convention, but have made no an-
nouncements. In general, they will
take over the Stadium as the Repub-
licans leave it.
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WENT TO A LOT AM
THROUBLE OVER IT-
B. H. Snell
A DJOURNMENT until April 11
Was taken by the international
disarmament conference at Geneva.
Correspondents there relate an inter-
esting incident during
the discussions in the
commission.
#\PER PLATES
f Ol THOUGHT
THEY WERE
.FLAP- JACK'S,
r SAV! ••• IS ANY-
BODY SETTikf ON
THE PAPER PLATES
HOLY LIZARDS 1 IS THAT
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naval
Vice Admiral D. P. K.
Pound of Great Bri-
tain naively proposed
that they eliminate
from the draft con-
vention of the con-
ference an article in
the Washington treaty
providing that a na-
tion engaged in war
shall not seize a war
vessel of another
country being constructed In its own
yards. He said it was not logical to
expect a country at a moment when
it is straining to the utmost not to
lay its hands on all available mate-
rial- 9
But our own Senator Swanson was
on the alert at once, declaring this
would not do at all. Ships constructed
in time of peace for another power
should not possibly be considered
available to the builders in time of
war, he said. Otherwise, there would
never be a chance for the govern-
ments to agree on their relative
strengths. Mr. Swanson exclaimed.
Other delegates supported Senator
Swanson’s argument, and later the
British admiral smilipgl.v intimated
that his proposition had been misun.
derstood, and withdrew it.
TAEBATE on the billion dollar rev-
Ls enue bill continued in the house
throughout the week, and the op-
ponents of the sales tax sought to
form themselves into a bloc. Their
determined fight against this big fea-
ture of the measure at least resulted
in changes, for the ways and nxians
committee agreed to accept an amend-
ment omitting certain canned goods and
press telegrams from the list of articles
upon which a 2.25 per cent sales tax
is proposed. The committee also was
considering amendments exempting
cheap clothing, electricity used for ir-
rigation projects and radio company
leased wires.
Prospects for adoption of the sales
tax were lessened in mid-week when
leaders of organized labor and of the
farmers came out in opposition to it.
William Green, president of the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor, declared
“labor will call on its friends in con-
gress to defeat that section of the
taxation measure”; and Fred Brenek-
man of the National Grange said im-
position of the sales tax would meet
“the unqualified disapproval of the
27,000,000 people upon the farms of
this country.”
Should the bill substantially as it
stands get through the house, its sales
tax feature will face strong opposition
in the senate.
Sen. Swanson
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O UMORS, rumors, and more rumors,
all proving false. Clews leading
nowhere. Theories swiftly exploded.
Investigations and negotiations that
have no result. Such has been the
course of the Lindbergh baby kidnap-
ing case up to the time this is writ-
ten. Toward the close of the week
the authorities were inquiring into a
story told by Charles Oliver, a pris-
oner an Welfare island. New York, to
the effect that the plot to steal the
child was hatched in a jail, being pro-
posed to him by one William Gleason
of Cliffside, N. J. The latter was
taken into custody and denied every-
thing Oliver said. An ingenious theory
originated in Philadelphia — that
henchmen of A1 Capone stole the baby
for use as a lever to pry that gang
leader out of jail.
THE FEATHERHEADS
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POSTMASTER GENERAL W. F.
I Brown, in a memorandum submit-
ted to the special economy committee
of the house of representatives,
pointed out many ways in which the
cost of the postal service can he re-
duced. but said all of them require
legislation.
He admitted that'the postal service
is overmanned for the handling of
the present reduced volume of busi-
ness due to (he depression. He sug-
gested that economics could be
achieved by reducing the force, reduc-
ing pay. consolidating rural free de-
livery routes and providing govern-
ment buildings for post office stations,
branch post offices and garages which
under the law are now leased.
Such economics, however, said Mr.
Brown, would not balance the Post Of-
fice department hud.^et which can he
effected only by increasing postal
rates also.
Mr. Brown submitted for “careful
consideration” the proposal of Sen-
ator W. H. King that rural free de-
livery routes be let to the lowest
bidders, although the postmaster gen-
eral recorded himself as opposed to
such change because “It would be
likely to result in a substantial im-
pairment of the general excellent serv-
ice which is now rendered to rural
patrons.”
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A group of senators is
ready to junk it, these including the
men who are classed as progressive
Republicans. Some of the more lib-
eral Democrats want a substitute bill
providing for selective sales taxation
and possibly for increased surtaxes
on incomes above $100,000. The
house surtax is 40 per cent from $100,-
000 up.
DAUL VON HINDENBURG main-
* tained his place as idol of the
German people in peace time as well
as in war In the Presidential elec-
tion he soundly beat his chief rival,
Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazis or
Fascists. But the aged President
failed by one-half of 1 per cent to get
a majority of the total votes cast, so
there must be a run-off election on
April 10. At that time, it is admitted
by nearly everyone, he will triumph.
As against nearly 19,000,000 votes
for Von Hindenburg there were about
11.500.000 for Hitler. Ernest Thael-
mann, Communist, polled almost 5,000,-
000; Duesterberg, Nationalist, got
2,000,000, and Winter, independent,
111.000 odd. Hitler's vote was so far
ahead of the Nazi vote in the reichs-
tag elections of 1990 that he decided-
to remain in the contest.
Toward the close of the week the
Prussian government claimed it had
discovered plans for a civil war and
therefore raided Nazi headquarters
throughout the state.
'T'WO of the world’s famous men de-
A cided that life was no longer worth
living and so committed suicide.
George Eastman, internationally known
as the developer of the
camera and the pho-
tographic film and '0$
also as one of the far
country’8 greatest » m
philanthropists, put a I - ’"i
bullet through his W
heart at his home in §£ V
Rochester, N. Y., be- m
health and. as his
farewell note said:
“My work is done.
Why wait?” Mr. East- ~ - .
man, who founded the Gc0- Eastm="
Eastman Kodak company and was
chairman of its board, had made a
vast fortune hut had given away all
but about $20,(JOU,000. His philan'thro-
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