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V* News Review of Current Events the World Over Heavy Fighting Reported as Greek Government Seeks to Put Down Insurrection—Senator Robinson Scores Huey hong in Heated Senate Session. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Q, Weitern Newspaper Union. ;■ f;' I '- - - | I a 1 t Ex-Preml«r Venlzelo* HE Oreek government Is making a grim effort to stamp out the fast growing revcit -which started In Trete and has spreaj to the mainland. Greek :.,y government planes bombed the home In Crete of former Pre mier Eleutherlos Venl- selos, and also struck at five naval vessels manned by rebel.s standing off the shore of Crete. Venlzelos Is openly heading the forces of sedition, and, reports say, has seized $1,000,000 from the Canea treasury to finance the revolt. Martial lav* prevails throughout the country; rail, telephone and telegraph ic communications have been cut off and normal activities suspended. Heavy fighting with serious losses on both sides have been reported In the Struma valley, and in the Macedonian city of Kavalla. Fear has been ex pressed that the country will be plunged Into a factional civil war of unestlmated proportions. The govern ment has offered amnesty to the rebel troops If they capitulate peacefully. Salonikl harbor has been heavily mined In preparation for an attack by the rebel fleet, and land batteries have been reinforced by heavy caliber naval guns. Eight additional classes have .been cajled to the colors as wounded troops potir Into Salonikl from the bat- tlefront The government claims 100,- 000 loyal troops, 00 airplanes and a quantity of heavy motorized artillery are ready, although good part of this equipment Is said to be old and defec tive. A report from Alexandria claims that Venizelos has abandoned Crete and fled toward Egypt. The rebellion had been plotted for a whole year, and broke when 20 naval officers, both active and retired, seized the Salamls arsenal. As the revolt spread, rebels boarded the five war ships while the crews were Ignorant of the plan, and put under steam. Gov ernment planes were dispatched to the scene and pursued the rebel ships down the Aegean sea. The cruiser Averoff was struck by an aerial bomb while the vessel lay ~ In Sonda bay, near Crete, and two other ships were re ported to have been overtaken and bombed near the Island of Cythera with undetermined damage. him to the United States Supreme court On October 4, 1028, when he was eighty seven years old, he became the oldest man ever to sit on the bench of the Supreme court He re tired In January, 1032. CENATE administration leaders have ^ decided to virtually abolish NRA when It expires In June, and set up In its place a plan of self-government In business, eliminating present coer cive measures, and giving over admin istrative functions of the new program to the federal trade commission. Thus would end one of the administration’s most spectacular and far-reaching ex periments. In Its general form, the plan calls for permission to Join in vol untary codes regulating trade practices and eliminating unfair competition. Price fixing will be outlawed. Busi ness and Industry will agree to mini mum wages and maximum hours, and only when these standards are violated, can the government apply compulsory codes. At the same time United Stales Dis trict Judge W. G. Borah, In New Or leans, denied a government petition to compel a box manufactiirer to comply with the maximum hour and minimum wage provisions of the lumber code, ruling that the national Industrial re covery act Is unconstitutional. The ruling Is expected to bring before the United States Supreme court the con stitutionality of the Interstate com merce clause of the lumber code. D iminutive King prajadhipok of Slam has renounced his throne, re linquished his claims to being known as “brother of the moon and possessor of 24 umbrellas,” assumed the simpler, If still unpronounceable name of Prince Sukhodaya. and retired to the simple life of an English country gentleman By his action, the ex-monarch set a rec ord, for It Is probably the first time in history thal a ruler has abandoned power because his government rejected his demands for greater freedom and democratic control for his people. ‘‘My Intention that the people should have a real voice In the policy of the govern ment has been Ineffective,” the ex-klng wrote In his message of abdication. “Since I realize that now there is no longer anjr way of my assisting or pro tecting tbe people in tbe future, I here by renounce all rights which I had as king or rights of succession, but 1 re serve the rights which 1 had formerly enjoyed before accession to the throne.” Prince Ananda, nephew of Prajadhi pok, has accepted the throne, reports state. The prince, now eleven years old, is attending school In Lausanne} O LIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Jur ist, scholar, soldier and gentleman. Is dead. Two days before his ninety- fourth birthday, the beloved “great dis senter" succumbed to the ravages of pneu monia. The next day In the somber Supreme court chamber, the court led by Chief Jus tice Hughes paid rrib ute to the man whose career, he said, had been one of “unique distinction.” Justice Hughes’ voice cboked as he spoke. The grind of legislation and the disputes of the day were forgotten In congress as both the bouse and senate paused while glowing words were said In memory of the re tired. Justice. Funeral services were held In Washington, attended by the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, and mem bers of the Supreme court After the ceremony. Holmes was given military burial In Arlington National cemetery, as befitted one who had served fats nation so gallantly. Justice Holmes was born In Boston, the son of the noted American poet of the same name, be’ entered Harvard and -was in bis senior year when tbe Civil war began. He enlisted as a lieutenant, was pro moted to a captaincy and retired with tbe rank 1 of colonel. He was wounded three times After tbe war be returned to school and<obuined his law degree. In 1882, Holmes was elevated to the Saprwno court of Massachusetts, and to 1802. President Roosevelt appointed 'T'HAT “ancient repository of dlg- nity,” the senate, bas been treated to an exhibition of personalities, vitu peration, barely avoided fistic encoun ters, and general up roar centering about Senator Long that should set a record for even that august body. Goaded Into ac tion by the almost dally tirades of Lou isiana’s Klngfish, ma jority leader, Joe Rob inson of Arkansas arose white with rage and let loose a casti gation designed to blast the Irrepressible Long Into submission. Robinson ap pealed to the senate to assert Itself and put Long, whom he called “a mad man,” In his place. Vice President Gar ner and more than a dozen senators shook hands with Robinson when he closed, and galleries applauded until the chair threatened to clear them. It had no perceptible effect on Long other than to cause him to rush back to the senate chamber, and renew his attack on Robinson. The next day Huey precipitated an- other verbal free-for-all when he re sumed his one-man campaign against Postmaster General Farley and the New Deal In general. Long charged that f-Martov was Instrumental in Oliver W. Holmes T HERE seems to'be bo doubt about the “pink slip” clause Id the in-. come tax law being repealed. Over- 1 whelming sentiment for Its abolish^ ment has been expressed In both houses of congress, < and the house ways and means committee has already approved tbe resolution offered by Chklrman Dough ton. Polls taken disclose a heavy majority In the senate favor repeal, aM both Democratic and BetmbUcan house leaders are pledged to lend their strength to prompt passage of tile measure. Congressional decision on the ’’pink slips" must be registered before March 15. D Y A vote of 23 ta 1 the house ways and means committee approved the Vinson bonus bill, and gave tbe rival Patman bill a possible edge. Tbe com- mlttee Instructed Chairman Doughtoa to ask a wide open rule permitting In flationists to move the Patman meas ure as a substitute on the floor. Pat man supporters claim the bouse will pass the first bonus bill brought up, but conservatives are working to Jock ey the “printing press money" meas ure out of preferred position. The Vin son bill is favored by tbe American Legion. Senator Robinson pvONALD RICHBERG, executive dl- rector of the National Emergency council, and oue of the closest advisers of the President, “guaranteed” that there would be no monetary inflation as long as Franklin D. Roosevelt is Presi dent. His statement came In answer to a questioner at a lecture In Boston. “If we are to as sume that President Roosevelt will be Pres ident for the next six DnnalH year8> 1 CaD ^ y ° U this: I can guarantee Ricnberg there wiu ^ no lnfla tlon while Franklin D. Roosevelt la President," Richberg said. He dodged further discussion of the subject, knd refused to comment as to what was being done by the gov ernment Internationally and national ly on monetary policies. However, Richberg did touch on the Townsend plan for payment of $200 monthly to all persons over sixty. He said: “If everybody over sixty Is to get $200 a month, you can be certain it is going to come out of the pockets of everybody between eighteen and sljfMtp “When those under sixty have M- rived at the utfselflsh attitude where they are ready to dig to pay every body over sixty the $200 a month, there will- have been a tremendous spread of real Christianity. But the government can’t get the money out of thin air.” Richberg flatly denied that the gov ernment was issuing baby bonds be cause bankers had refused to lend the government money, and asserted that several billion dollars more could be borrowed without endangering nation al credit National Press Building National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart Washington, D, C. Washington.—The wide apprehen- •ion over tbe increasing cost of food and the prediction New Problem by Secretary Wal- for AAA lace of the Depart ment of Agriculture that food prices will ascend something Jlke 11 per.cent more before July 1, quashing an indictment against a bank in which Norman Davis, “ambas sador at large,” was Interested. For his trouble Klngfish received a liberal supply of ridicule. He also sent td the senate post office committee a let ter In which the accusation was made that Farley Is “profiting” from 25 busl- “ness concerns 1h New York city. In volving violation of four criminal statutes. Whgtl questioned, Farley said he had no^statement to make. T HE American Federation of Labor proposes to find out immediately what are Its chances of fully organiz ing the workers employed in the auto mobile Industry—and If Doctor Wol- man’s figures are correct It Is likely the federation Is doomed to be greatly dis appointed. The method adopted is the calling of a secret strike vote among members of the 176 federation locals Dillon explained this, did not neces sarily mean there woulube a strike, only the federation’s national officers having guthorltv to order'such action.^ has given rise to a new problem for the Agricultural Adjustment adminis tration. It threatens to be serious, as food questions always are serious, and as this aspect of the situation becomes better understood its political impor tance Is becoming greater. There can be no doubt that the New Deal program for raising prices has had Its fullest effect on the food prices and therein lies the basis for the trouble now brewing. To make the problem more serious from the political standpoint, increased • food prices are felt first and most exten sively In the metropolitan areas. It Is in these same areas that the greatest number of uuemployed live and must be cared for. It becomes plain then that increased food prices are directly interwoven with the problem of relief and, ft is difficult to predict what mass psychology may be developed from such a circumstance. ’J’here are two sides of the problem from the political standpoint One of them relates directly to the plans for providing food and affects directly those persons whose employment has been small and who have only limited amounts of money with which to main tain life. The second phase Involves the future of the Agricultural Adjust ment administration and affects direct ly the political situation that has for some time revolved about the focal point of the principle of attempting to manage prices as is being done under the AAA. - „ Connected with the latter phase, and likely to suffer from hard-riding poli ticians, Is the movement within the AAA to broaden Its power. It will be recalled that last year Prof. Rexford „ Guy Tugwell, under secretary of agriculture and a leading brain truster, sought to force through congress a series of amendments to the adjustment act which. In the view of many observers, ^ would make the regimentation of farmers a compulsory instead of a voluntary proposition as Is now the case, in othf^r Words, ac cording to critics of the Tugwell plan, the amendments that were offered and defeated In congress last year would make the Department af Agriculture a veritable* dictator over the agri cultural industries-lq this country. AI-' though Mr. Tugwell does not figure in the picture so much this year, the same amendments have been put for ward and a considerable amount of pressure Is being exerted to obtain an enactment as law. Having defeated them last year f critics of the program, headed by Senator Byrd «(Dem., Va.), are mustering In- full strength to squelch the amendments again. • While it Is yet too early to hazard a guess concerning the results of ttrhr battle, attention may be called at this time to some of-the potentialities of suph a legislative fight. In these de- Ing under the Jurisdiction of the Ad justment act In addition to the proc essors, about nine hundred thousand retailers handling these products are subjected to control, directly or Indi rectly, by AAA, licenses. Consequently, we see more than a million who could do hnalnesa only If the Department of S CI.AY WILLIAMS, head of the • NRA, tendered his resignation to the President starting what- is—ex pected to be a wholesale housecleaning of the recovery administration’s high command. Chairman Williams ex plained his action by paying that he had to return to his Job as head of one of the country’s largest tobacco companies. Three of the four remain Ing members of the board. Arthur D. Whiteside, Walton Hamilton, and Sid ney Hillman, are known to have their resignations ready. Rumors say that the President will not fill the vacancies, but win return the NRA to a 'one man command. * "Now is the time to find out, once and for all,” he said, “whether the workers In the automobile Industry want the American Federation of La bor. if they want tbe union, we will find It out through these strike votes. If they don’t, well . . ." • The automobile Industry IB In the midst of the busiest season If has had since 1930. The great majority of its workers are not In the federation ranks and probably would opt strike; hut its plants could be seriously crippled by strikes In allied industries. Perhaps the American Federation of Labor leaders -have some way-of, explaining how all* this would help on the cause of na tional Industrial recovery.! I * X^ONEY markets of the world react- ed violently v after President Roose velt declared his kdmlnistratlon would seek further Jacking up of commodity prices. Stocks rallied In New York, government bonds sagged, and the fall ing British pound rose four cents. The President hurriedly Issued another statement explaining that hts advocacy of higher prices did not mean further devaluation of the dollar, at»least not for the present' The first statement was made by the President at a press conference when he was asked If he believed prices had now risen sufficient ly to warrant stabilization. He re plied that they had not.; that they were still too low In relation to debts. S ECRETARY OF STATE CORDELL HULL encountered his third suc cess In carrying out hla policy of rfe storing foreign trade by concluding a series of reciprocal agreements with other nations, when a trade treaty with Belgium -was signed.- Although lD other w « r ^ 8 , not entirely satisfactory to Secretary -Hull, It was nevertheless a step along the way. Tbe Belgians gave us a tar iff or quota concessions on a number of our exports, including automobiles and parts, calculating machines, radi os, grapefruit, pears, oatmeal and corn starch. We cut tariffs on plate glass, glass sand, iron and steel mill products, linen fabrics, lace and ce ment Reciprocal agreements have been previously concluded with Cuba and Brazil I TALIAN ^government officials state that nearly 1,000 aviators and sev eral squadrons of planes have sailed for Eaat Africa, and that a second ware of troops has been started to Join tbe 20,000 already massed In So maliland. General Grazluna baa been named governor of Somaliland and commander of the tiroopa. T HE United States and Great Brit ain, remain unconvinced of Japan’s high purpose In China, altbougb E1J1 Amau^ foreign office spokesman, de clared that Japan Is not trying to per suade China to leave the league, and la not urging China to dismiss foreign advisers. He also Insisted that no at tempt is being made to force China Into an Asiatic bloc In retorn for financial assistance. In' Washington, William Phelps, acting secreury of atate, and Sir Ronald Lindsay, British ambassador, went into conference. Twenty-four hours later It was an nounced from London that Grunt Brit ain together with the United States ^ France and Japan waa -exploring pre^ ™ ~ '“gHcitial com'^oditi posala to help China financially. there Is In the Adjustment act, accord ing to the best information I can get. The danger Is to be observed In this direction: Those who criticize th e well amendments, though thby do not now bear his name, are not going to confine, their verbal fire to those pro- posals. They will go, as they did last year, considerably beyond the scope of the proposed legislation. They iyill at tack any and all features of the whole adjustment program and It Is not un likely that their criticism will result In tearing down some of the admittedly good features of this phase of the New -Deal ^ , ———:—p*—— ^ » • * s < I have heard considerable comment to the effect that if the brain trusters who are now promot- Question ing the new or re- of Politics vised AAA amend ments would use good political Judgmenf,' they would not press for action on their proposals at political commentaries are to the effect that the brain trusters are diving headlong into a whirlpool In which they may find themselves unable to swim. It Is plain ly a combination of circumstances with which they' are confronted. Those were enumerated above! To many observers, therefore. It appears most foolhardy for the supporters of this extreme leg islation to go further in their attempt to “strengthen the Adjustment Act" at a time when plainly Mr. Roosevelt does not have complete control of congress and at a time when tbe strongest tide of opposition to regimentation Is run ning. It la to be remembered with respect to the legislative situation that there will be opposition, as Indeed there al ready hfcs been opposition developed from among tbe processors. It should be explained that the revived^ amend ments would place all of tbe processors under licenses from tbe Department of Agriculture. Without such licenses they become the equivalent of bootleggers in the prohibition days and no one can foretell what tbe reaction would be to this. My understanding is that there are something like one hundred thou sand of these processors In the various eo» Agriculture saw fit to grant licenses. And when I say the Department of Agriculture, In law, It simmers down to the secretary of agriculture. Secre tary Wallace's policies and his per sonal attitude, I believe, are not such as to give cause for alarm respecting administration of these proposed licens ing provisions. Yet, It has been freely suggested that a time ipay come when the secretary of agriculture will be nei ther as good nor as wise as Mr Wallace. You can make your own guess as to the possibilities under tbe regime of a secretary of agriculture who was not big enough for the Job. „ , These circumstances and conditions, In the minds of many observers here, point only to one thing now: the Ad justment act and the program drafted thereunder is not as popular as It was before It went Inte operation. Judging from correspondence recelviwl by rep resentatives and senators, the Adjust ment program is actually repugnant to some sections. I believe It only fftlr to state, however, that the Adjustment program Is not blamed wholly for the Increase in prices but always In times like these and under circumstances like those to which attention has been directed there has to be a goat - Ap parently that goat is going to be the Department of Agriculture and Its step-child, the Agricultural Adjustment administration. — ^ , Whil^ all of the newspapers are printing many columYis in review of two years of the Garner Roosevelt admlnlstra- Overlooked tlon and much atten- * tlon is being paid to President Roosevelt it seems to me that one stalwart of the administra tion—Vice President John N. Garner— is bejng somewhat flverlooked. It seems to me, als*, that thlp should not be the case because airobservers agree that Mr. Garner has placed the vice presi dency of the United States on some thing of a new plane. Much levity always has been directed at any man holding the Job of vice president. It is true that the vice pres ident Is seldom, if ever, ont front, as the expression is. With Mr. Garner, however, It has been decidedly differ ent. I believe, from all of the discus sions that I have heard since bis elec tion, Mr. Garner has filled, and Is fill ing, a very constructive post In this administration. Although Mr. Garner weighs about the same and Is no taller; while he dresses much as he did before and his wit and humor is much the same. It certainly can be said that he la a much bigger man In the eyes of the people of this country than he was a Hthv years ago. In other words, given the opportunity, Mr. Garner has per formed in a way that probably will record him In history as among the iirsfflnrtinp; tniHvhtnptw have filled T-/ jr~- r L«ad Indispensable m . All Farms of Painting Although used extensively In print ing and plumbing, In refining petrol eum, and In manufacturing insecti cides and certain colors, lead’s most important use is in paint Becauas ofs.lta atrong adhesion to metal red lead (red oxide of lead) Is the stand- for Iron and and more steel Where a lighter decorative paint is needed, white lead fa admirable, since, exposed to 1 weather, it lasts longer than any other pigment, with the possible ex ception of lampblack. The United States produces and consumes more lead than any other, country In the world. After the metal has been located In bed* of ..*■ \ glmle, chiefly In Missouri and-smelt- ed, It Is manufactured into commodi ties by one of three processes. Slabs of lead} rolled between heavy rollers to sheets of'desired thinness, are wrapped like rugs around a pole and shipped for use as linings for tanks holding corrosive acids, ns coverings for roofs, as plates Interposed for protection between the radium work er and his dangerous mineral, and as linings for X-ray laboratories.—Bul letin National Geographic Society, Are Exceptions Second thoughts, despite the prov erb, are not always best Do you tire easily? m appetite? ■enoes? losing weight? pale? then don't gamble with yosr bufr W HY not reason out the caeae of this unnatural condition? Your first thought may be, “I . eat more.” That’s not all You should enjov what you do ,eat Frequently, the blood cells are low...and this, perhaps, is what makes you feel weak. If this is your trouble the stomach may not be calling for sufficient food. Zest to eat may be lacking. But what a difference S.S.S. makes when taken juat before meals. Just try it and . notice how your appetite and diges tion improve. S.S.S, stimulates the flow of gastric juices and also supplies the precious mineral' elements so necessary in blood-cell and hemo-glo-bln up-buOd- Ing. Do try it. It may be the rainbow you need to brush away present dis couragement over your health condi tion. O S.S.S. Cob that second ranking elective post In our government It Is not generally known, I think, how much influence Mr. Garner wields in the Roosevelt administration.- He sits with Mr. Roosevelt and the other members in the cabinet meetings arid there Is no doubt among observers here' Makes you feel like r ounel again Reputation Counts If one has Is Imputation for Judg ment, his mere grunt has weight ’that those men lean upon the long ex perience which the vice president hai had. see The port of Baltimore, Md., wit nessed an unusual sight the other day, t arrival of a shipload We Import of-earn from Argen- Quick, Safe Relief For Eyes Irritated By Exposure To Sun, Wind and Dust — Corn! tlunf ItNwas the first full cargo ever to ar rive In that port and caused some ob servers to' remark that It appeared to be "carrying coals to Newcastle." Thte would have been true under con ditions such as we used to have in this country before the inauguration of thft Agricultural Adjustment administra tion. The AAA has made the differ ence, Last year, the AAA set about reducing the corn acreage >n this coun try because it was the convlctlorf of the New Deal that production had been too- great. Twenty per cent curtail ment was decreed. To accomplish that end, the AAA offered to pay farmers at the rate of thirty cents per bushel for not growing corn. The plan worked as It might naturally be supposed to have worked and there was tbe expected curtailment of production. But oature took a hand and the drouth settled down oyei the vast c6rn producing areas of the Middle West So great was this disaster that there Is not now sufficient corn to meet do mestic requirements. Importation of corn resulted, and the port of Balti more had the novel experience of see ing corn shipped In Instead of out Secretary Wallace baa defended the AAA policies on the ground that they were exceedingly flexible aad could be used to Increase or decrease produc tion as conditions required. It seems, however, that corn has a habit of grow ing only during the summer months and If tbe production In that period la Insufficient the winter months must witness a shortage. •> Waatern 1 S1LKO COTTON. 1 tt Inch xtapl*. 200 holli (30 o*. eeed-cotton) per plant. 250 geedi SI. J. A. JONES, DeQuincy, LouUlafta Chafintf**! Itching Rash easily soothed by the ibland medication of Resinol BLACKMAN / STOCK and POULTRY Medicines are Melfebfey • Blackman's Medicated Lick* A-Brik • Blackman's Stack Powder • Blackman's Cow Tonic • Blackman's Char-Med-Sal • Blackman's Poultry Tablets • Blackman’s Poultry Powder Hlg/wst Quality - Lowest Pries Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. 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