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Senate Passes Its Revenue Bill, Rejecting Sales Tax After
Hearing President Hoover—Von Papen
Becomes German Chancellor.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
C PURRED Into action by President
^ Hoover’s warning that government
credit was endangered and foreign
raids on the dollar were
President
Hoover
garding relief measures and his op¬
position to the huge public works pro¬
gram fostered by Speaker Garner.
There was no chance for the sales
tax, most of the Democratic senators
hav’-ig signed an agreement to defeat
It, It was rejected by the finance
committee, 12 to 8, and just before
the bill was voted on by the senate it
was defeated by that body by a vote
of 53 to 27. Then, in the midst of
great confusion due to relief from the
strain, the senators adopted their
measure. The vote was 72 to 11,
Hfving been informed by Secretary
of the Treasury Mills that their com¬
mittee bill was still some $275,000,000
shy of the amount needed to balance
the budget, the senators provided for
most of this by a gasoline tax of 1
cent a gallon, the restoration of in¬
terne tax rates to the 1022 level and
a 3 per cent tax on sales of electric¬
ity by private power companies.
It was believed the senate and
house conferees would speedily adjust
the differences between the senate
and house bills and then the measure
would go to the President.
One amendment to the bill adopted
by the senate is worth especial men¬
tion. Proposed by Senator Glenn of
Illinois, it puts a 100 per cent tax on
incomes earned through violations of
state or federal laws, thus taking the
government out of what has been
called its partnership with crime.
"^JECESSAR'S ■FN get, the national in tjalaacing ) economy the bud- bill
providing savings of $239,000,000 was
reported favorably by the senate ap¬
propriations committee. Among its
features is a flat 10 per cent cut in
the salaries of all government work¬
ers except the enlisted personnel of
the army, navy and marine corps, and
those whose salaries are specifically
protected by the Constitution, such as
judges. There is also a saving of
$48,000,000 in the amount given to
veterans. The economy bill passed by
the house carried reductions in ex¬
penditures of only $52,000,000. Both
measures authorize the President to
reorganize the executive departments.
C BEAKER GARNER himself ap
peared as a witness before the
house ways and means committee to
advocate his $2,300,000,000 federal re¬
lief bill, which was assailed by the
President as a pork barrel raid on
the treasury because it listed a multi¬
tude of post offices to be built all over
the country. Garner defended the
measure and reminded the committee
of Mr. Hoover’s indorsement of a
$2,000,000,000 advance public works
recommended by the conference of
governors in 1028. Botli his bill and
the program favored by the President
Increase the capitalization of the Re¬
construction Finance corporation and
empower it to make loans for non
federal construction.
TTEINRICH RRUENING chancellor
■Li of Germany, and his cabinet were
forced to resign by President Von
Hindenburg because the latter did not
agree with their pro¬
gram to save the coun¬
try from further finan¬
cial collapse and to
provide work for the
unemployed. This was
really a considerable
triumph for Hitler’s
Nazis but they de¬
cided to permit a stop¬
gap government to
function until autumn,
when it is expected
there will be a general
election in which they
will have a chance to make good their
claim of controlling the reichstag.
The aged president selected for tem¬
porary chancellor Lieut. Col. Franz
von Papen, a man of whom the dnited
States has heard little since 1015. At
that time he was military attache of
the German embassy in Washington
and became involved with Karl Boy
Ed, naval attache, in plots that vio¬
lated neutrality. Both of them were
dismissed by the American government
for “improper activities." Returning
to Germany. Von Papen became a gen¬
eral staff officer, lie is a Catholic
Centrist, as is Bruening, and is editor
and principal owner of the Catholic
ergan Germania.
Von Papen’s government, largely
rightist, is called a “feudal” cabinet by
the senate In a night
session passed its tax
bill designed to bring
in a total revenue of
$1,121,000,000. The
Chief Executive un¬
expectedly appeared
in person before the
senate, for the first
time in his adminis¬
tration, and read a
statement of the seri¬
ous condition. He
urged the inclusion of
a sales tax, and restat¬
ed his re¬
Herr Bruemn 9
the Berlin press because It is dominat¬
ed by members of the old German
nobility. The new chancellor is ex¬
pected to be a stern ruler for be has
often demanded a “national dictator¬
ship freed of parliamentary trim¬
mings.” He is known to favor a
Franco-German union against Russia.
E. HUFF, head of the Farmers’ Na
Urinal Grain corporation, recent¬
ly filed charges against the Chicago
Board of Trade because it denied mem¬
bership to the corporation. In a com¬
munication to the Department of Agri¬
culture Huff alleged the board was
violating the grain futures law. Sec¬
retary Hyde took up the matter and
announced that the grain futures com¬
mission would investigate the com¬
plaint, the hearings to begin in Wash¬
ington on June 8. The commission is
composed of Secretary Hyde, Attorney
General William D. Mitchell and Sec¬
retary of Commerce Robert P. La
mont.
\I7TUTING W of the Republican na
tional platform was intrusted by
President Hoover to James R. Garfield
of Ohio, son of President Garfield and
J. R. Garfield
platform to the White House and it
was edited by the President who de¬
leted some portions and made several
additions.
So far nothing is known to the pub¬
lic of the manner in which the con¬
troversial questions will be handled.
Mr. Garfield is not known to have
made any statements concerning pro¬
hibition, but he has already conferred
with Senator Borah, an inveterate dry,
who had drawn up a plank dealing
with that subject. The senator had a
talk with Mrs. Henry W. Peabody,
chairman of the woman’s national com¬
mittee for law enforcement, who after¬
ward said the senator “agreed with me
that the voice of the people is In
congress and that other matters do
not concern us deeply.”
Representative Bertrand H. Snell of
New Fork, minority leader in the
house, told newspaper men he is cer¬
tain the prohibition plank in the Re¬
publican platform will be ‘‘liberal.”
Snell said he was expressing his own
opinion but that “if anybody tells you
the plank won’t be liberal, don’t be¬
lieve them.”
For two days immediately preced¬
ing the opening of the Republican
convention the Crusaders, an organi¬
zation favoring prohibition repeal, and
the Republican citizens’ committee
against national prohibition will stage
a big demonstration in Chicago. On
Sunday there will be great parades of
airplanes and water craft and a mass
meeting under the auspices of the
American Federation of Labor; and
on Monday there will be a ground
parade and another big public meet¬
ing.
L1 rjERBERT HOOVER having ex
pressed a desire to be placed in
nomination by a man from California,
the grateful job has been given to
Joseph Scott of Los
Angeles. Mr. Scott,
who was born in Eng¬
land, is one of the
state’s most eminent
lawyers and also is
widely known in Ro¬
man Catholic circles.
He was awarded the
Laetare medal by the
University of Notre
Dame In 1918 and was
created a Knight of
St. Gregory by the
pope in 1920 for work
during the World
It is not likely the Republican con¬
vention will last more than five days,
and nominations probably will be
made on Friday night. The platform
will be submitted on Thursday and
there may be a day of open debate on
prohibition and some other contro¬
versial questions.
Democratic managers also are now
hopeful that their convention will be
short, for they naturally wish it to have
an appearance of harmony that would
be ruined by a deadlock. Franklin D.
Roosevelt probably will start in with
more than a majority both of dele¬
gates and of states. At this writing
he has 419 pledged votes from 27
states and territories. His camp
claims he will have on the first bal¬
lot GG8 delegates to 486 for all others.
And he believes a few ballots will
briDg over enough votes to give him
the 770 required for nomination un¬
der the two-thirds rule. Of course
there will be a recurrence of the at¬
tempts to abrogate that ancient rule.
DROP. NICHOLAS JORGA, once
* tutor of King Carol of Rumania,
has resigned as premier and may be
succeeded by Nicholas Titulescu, now
minister to London. Which means
that the semi-dictatorship of the coun¬
try has been found a failure.
The resignation of the government
was the result of financial difficulties.
Rumania is broke and the treasury
is empty.
\X7ASHINGTON’S vV police force had
a problem when the hitch-hiking
army of 1,500 war veterans reached
the capital city to present their de¬
mand for immediate
payment of the sol¬
diers’ bonus. The men
had been conveyed
most of the way from
the Far West in
trucks supplied by
state authorities eager
to get rid of them,
and Senator Costigan
of Colorado intro¬
duced a bill calling
for immediate appro¬
priation of $75,000 to
feed and house them.
Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Illi¬
nois, in a Memorial day address at
the Washington Soldiers’ home, de¬
clared that by adopting a course based
on threat and coercion these vet¬
erans were causing their fellow
countrymen in this time of national
distress to wonder whether their sol¬
diers served for patriotism or merely
for pay.
“I warn you as your fellow soldier
and friend,” Senator Lewis continued,
“that you risk the defeat of the relief
measures you now have a right to
hope for, by placing yourselves where
the charge can be made that you have
come here to terrorize the public
servants and force their surrender
through weakness or cowardice.”
J JAPAN’S under the new premiership coalition government of Admiral
Viscount Makoto Saito Is naturally
Its chief in China,
secretary of the In¬
terior under President
Roosevelt He is to
be chairman of the
resolutions committee
and has been busily
gathering together the
various planks pro¬
posed by party lead¬
ers and building the
structure on which
Mr. Hoover and the
party will stand. Some
days ago he took a
rough draft of the
Premier Saito
delayed until the new state proves its
ability to stand alone, and that Man¬
choukuo with its tremendous natural
resources will continue to exist even
if no nation is prepared to recognise
it as an autonomous state. Uchida,
who may yet become foreign minir«er f
in Saito’s government, feels that Ja¬
pan should continue to pour money in¬
to Manchoukuo and that other nations
should be given equal opportunity of
commercial and financial penetration.
Japanese military forces continued
their drive against the rebels in Man¬
choukuo, forcing them toward the Si¬
berian border. Hailun was bombard¬
ed from the air and set on fire.
Isvestia, organ of the Soviet Rus¬
sian government, charges certain Jap¬
anese elements with seeking an inva¬
sion of eastern Siberia to “facilitate
Japan’s preparations for war against
the United States by making avail¬
able for the Japanese military machine
the rich natural resources of Asiatic
Russia.”
In a sharp warning to Japan not
to try to lay her hands on Siberia,
the vigorous editorial pronouncement
called attention to “recent demands in
certain sections of the Japanese press
for war against Soviet Russia.”
It is true that Fascist newspapers
of Japan have been demanding that
Siberia be conquered now to preserve
the future of Manchoukuo.
iVI. TV/f M. NEELY, Democratic senator
f rom West Virginia, seldom
speaks in that august body, but the
other after
leagues, lie raised his
voice and for fifteen
minutes told them in
scathing language
what he thought of
them and their ver¬
bosity which, lie said,
was losing the gov¬
ernment more than
$83,000 an hour. He
quoted the Bible and
lambasted the Con
gressional Record, and
in conclusion he read
into the record a 34-
Joseph Scott
line poem on the value of terse speech.
If, as he maintains, senatorial speech
costs nearly $200 per heart beat, the
rhyme he recited must have set Uncle
Sam back about twenty-five hundred
bucks. And the whole speech, based
on his estimate of $83,000 per hour,
cost $20,000.
However, the lay citizen will sym¬
pathize with Mr. Neely’s indignation,
though with no hope that the sena¬
tors can be persuaded to talk less and
do more.
F r'ORMER members of the marine
corps living in the Middle West
gathered in Chicago for a colorful re¬
union commemorating the valiant
deeds of the corps in the Battle of
Belieau Wood. In the way of enter¬
tainment the ex-leathernecks were
taken on a tour of the Century of
Progress exposition grounds and were
given theater and baseball parties,
and in the evening there was a big
banquet with Maj. C. I,. Fordney,
U. S. M. C., as toastmaster.
■ (®, 1932, Western Newspaper Union.)
CLEVELAND COURIER
Senator Lewis
and especially Man¬
churia. They planned
early recognition of
the new Manchurian
state of Manchoukuo,
but surprisingly this
is earnestly opposed
by Count U c h i d a,
president of the
South Manchurian
railroad and perhaps
the most influential
Japanese on the main¬
land. He says rec¬
ognition should be
M. M. Neely
GEORGIA
NEWS
Happenings Over
the State
The fishing season was opened all
over Georgia on June 1 by order
of the state department of game and
fish after being closed since April 15.
The Georgia County and Peace Of¬
ficers’ association opened its annual
convention at Savannah recently, with
Governor Russell as honored guest.
Operation of the night air mail
route began at Savannah recently
over the Eastern Air Transport, Inc.,
route through Savannah north and
south.
A bulletin issued by the Lowndes
county board of health shows that
during the period from 1927 to 1932
the tuberculosis death rate in the
county nas been decreased 10 per
cent.
World war veterans of Columbus
and of Phenix City and Girard, Ala.,
who want congress to authorize full
payment of the soldiers’ bonus, have
recently planned a march on Wash¬
ington.
Fort Valley High and Industrial
schools heard a closing a.ddress by
Prof. I. L. Turner, of Tuskegee in¬
stitute, at the commencement of which
100 diplomas and certificates were
awarded.
Work of completing the municipal
stadium got under way recently at
Columbus when workmen began stak¬
ing of the 200-foot entrance. Work
of grading will get under way im¬
mediately.
Expenditures of Atlanta’s munic¬
ipal government have shown a
steady decrease since 1929, when
they reached a peak, according to the
annual report of City Comptroller B.
Graham West, made public recently.
Application for cancellation of the
construction privilege for a dam
across the Savannah river, at Clark’s
Hill, 19 miles above Augusta, has been
filed by the Savannah River Electric
company, with the federal power com¬
mission.
President Hoover recently sent to
the senate the following nominations
for postmasters in Georgia: Louis P.
Cross, Clayton; Pleasant N. Little,
Madison; Ella M. Withrow, Odum;
Edgar H. Lawson, Sandersville; Lur
line M. Overstreet, Sylvania.
To recall a hundred years’ his¬
tory and mark the dawn of a bright¬
er future, a centennial celebration for
’l9S3 was planned by members of the
Mercer university board of trustees
in their annual commencement meet¬
ing at Macon recently.
The chief value that the student
may gain from his college education
is the ability to think and to reason
for himself, said Ralph T, Jones, state
news editor of the Atlanta Constitu¬
tion, in the baccalaureate address at
the Georgia state college for women
at Milledgeville.
Merger of Fulton and DeKalb
counties occupied the spotlight in
DeKalb county recently as proponents
of the merger plan began circulating
a petition to obtain the signatures of
20 per cent of the registered voters
and thus precipitate an election to
decide whether two counties shall be
consolidated.
America today needs leadership of
the type which healed the wounds of
the war between the state and brought
the south out of the shadows of defeat
and reconstruction, Basil Stoekbridge,
of the American Legion, told veterans
of the blue and the gray at the memo¬
rial exercises at the national cem¬
etery at Marietta recently.
Net revenue from the sale of auto¬
mobile license plates by the state
of Georgia in 1931 totaled $4,261,-
523.75, it was shown in the annual
report of Secretary of State John B.
Wilson made to Governor Russell
recently. The decrease under 1930
collections, when $287,000 went into
the treasury, was $26,523.
After due consideration and much
importunity on the part of his friends,
Solicitor General John A. Boykin, of
the Atlanta judicial circuit, has an¬
nounced for re-election to that office.
Mr. Boykin, it will he remembered,
was active in the campaign against
graft in Atlanta and which resulted in
conviction of several city officials.
Backing their desires by ther deeds
folks at Pelham recently staged a
"cotton ball,” the proceeds of which
went for relief of the needy at that
place. All who attended wore cotton
clothes. The second objective is co¬
operation with other southern commu¬
nities in stimulating the use of cotton
and thereby increasing the demand
for the fleecy staple.
A curb market, known as Growers’
Market, consisting of farmers’ prod¬
ucts in the territory of Cedartown,
opened at that place recently. The
market will be in operation every Sat¬
urday with possibilities of being open
other days.
Georgia prison inmates are going
to school as a result of the prison
commission recently deciding on a
recommendation by K. J. Hoke, rep¬
resentative of the National Council
of Illiteracy, Washington, to make a
campaign against illiteracy in the
prison at Milledgeville,
Class-Day Frocks for the Graduates
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
TUMID for diplomas! And after
proudly and demurely receiving
them in perfectly proper cap and
gown, then what? Listen to fashion’s
answer—the prettiest style-significant
array of crisp and sheer class-day
gowns that ever adorned any group
of sweet girl graduates.
Let’s hasten to go into detail regard¬
ing these enchanting gowns, for
there’s not nearly enough space here
allotted to tell all the lovely things
which should be said about the ador¬
able frocks that will answer to the
roll call of those present at college
and school festivities during the en¬
suing days.
As to materials, please to note that
we said “crisp and sheer” in the first
paragraph which is just what they are.
Organdie comes first and most of it is
beautifully allover-embroidered in the
daintiest colors imaginable. In fact,
embroidered effects are “the thing,”
and what’s real news about these pat¬
terned organdies is they are worn over
taffeta slips which are color-matched
to some prominent flower or figure in
the design.
However, organdie has a rival this
season which is none other than old
fashioned, but now new-fashioned
mousseline de soie. It’s back again in
all its fascinating crispness and sheer¬
ness. In pure white it is that sweet
and demure looking one will be tempt¬
ed to say in describing it that she who
wears it was dressed in “simple
•white,” no matter if it is a costly-as
thy-purse-can-buy import direct from
one of the most exclusive Paris salons.
Fawn Leaps to Front in
Color Parade for Spring
Fawn leaps to the front of the color
parade this spring. In every house
one sees dress and sports coats and
suits in the lovely soft shade of fawn
that is so becoming and flattering. It
is a splendid compromise between
brown and gray with the good points
of both.
Beige Is another color that looks like
getting a good play this season. It
hasn’t been very popular for some sea¬
sons, but of course there are always
some women who think of their spring
clothes in terms of a beige oujpt.
Those of you who get a suit of fawu
with brown fur will find that you are
right in the right picture for spring.
As usual, there will be some inordi¬
nately smart suits richly befurred and
grand for wear at smart places from
luncheon on.
A richly furred suit is decidedly out
of place in the morning and the wom¬
an who buys only one suit should be
careful to see that the model is not
of the lavish type. Otherwise its use¬
fulness will be limited, while that of
a simple, perfectly cut and detailed
suit is endless.
Semi-Sheer Fabrics Are
Still Strong in Favor
It Is easy to see through the reasons
for the extended popularity of the
semi-sheer fabric. And knowing the
many virtues of the various weaves of
georgettes and sheer crepes, one is not
surprised to find that every house just
now is using such materials in abund¬
ance.
One sees more little frocks in semi
sheer stuffs than in any other weight
or weave and it looks as though the
woman who finds the season incom¬
plete without a georgette or crepe
romain frock will be able to find sev¬
eral models from which to choose.
Lace Trimmed
Another instance of the distinction
of grege and black is seen in an aft¬
ernoon frock of canton crepe with its
wide full sleeves trimmed with black
satin inset with deep beige alencon
lace.
It’s the way of mousseline de soie to
look the picture of simplicity, and the
sweetly feminine, and for this reason
among many it is regarded as ideal
for the graduation frock.
There’s this, too, about mousseline
de soie, it yields beautifuly to the new
pin-tuck treatments which are such an
outstanding feature in this season’s
styling. The lovely dress to the left
in the picture is designfuiiy pin
tucked, with sections of the silk mous¬
seline left untouched so as to con¬
trast the plain with the tucked which
somehow or other makes this material
look its sheerest. There is just
enough stiffness in this mousseline to
give it a sprightliness which is much
to be desired when it comes to achiev¬
ing young-looking silhouettes. The lit¬
tle puffed sleeves are the latest and
ever so many of this season’s gradu¬
ating dresses have them, for the lat¬
est edict is that shoulders must be
covered either with cap sleeves or
capelets or puffs, or some sort of an
arrangement.
There are more embroidered than
plain organdies being used this sea¬
son. Thus is a fetching note of color
introduced, for white with a touch of
color has become a slogan among de¬
signers.
The embroidered organdie frock il¬
lustrated to the right is a charming
girlish model. It is worn over a slip
of ice-green taffeta, and it adopts a
little jacket of self-organdie. The
wide sash is the same delicious green
of the slip, hut in a darker tone.
(©. 1932. Western Newspaper Union.>
CHIC AND PRACTICAL
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
A pajama costume like the one pic¬
tured is about as practical an outfit
as can be devised. The corduroy
which employs bright blue for the
trousers wuth orange for the blouse
top is waterproofed, making it an ideal
suit for beach wear at the same time
that it is in excellent taste and. will
give splendid satisfaction as a loung¬
ing costume or to be worn during the
recreation hours of the day. Tai¬
lored effects such as this are particu¬
larly good this season.
Collar of Old Dobbin
Suggests New Fashion
Fashion has borrowed the design of
Dobbin’s collar for new spring frocks.
Big, Soft hoop collars of velvet or
crepe falling halfway to the waist are
worn with simple dark dresses.
Most of them are caught on one side
with two large artificial flowers.