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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Six Babies in Three Days
World’s Greatest Terror
Another Mild Bad Man
How to Avoid Thought
President Sacasa of Nicaragua con
firms officially the statement that a
very poor woman
on the “distant
shore of Lake Nlca-
r a g u a h a a given
birth to seven ba
bies.' 1
The mother, Mrs.
Slnforosa Martinez,
had a difficult time.
The births stretched
over three days—
May .'t, 4 and 5.
The babies’ names
are, or were, Jose
Jesus, Ha mon del
Carmen, Marla del
C a r rn e n, Socorro
del Carmen, Marls
de Jesus and Juana Itainona.
Arthur Brlabane
The seventh name was not tele-
graphed, for there was no seventh, ns*
It was expected there would be. Five
of the sextuplets are already dead.
Only one, a girl, lives.
What would population of the earth
be if such births were the rule and
all lived?
At the opening of the Catholic press
exhibition In Vatican City, Pope Plus,
for the second time within two days,
cautioned the world against commu
nism, which he called '-‘the great terror
which threatens all the world.”
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Borah Loses Ohio Primary—House Defeats Frazier-Lemke
Inflation Bill—Tugwell’s Report on His
Resettlement Administration.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
$ Western Newspaper Union.
For the comfort of those that live
in dread of final Communist world
conquest, It may* be said that thus far
nothing opposed to human nature has
ever succeeded.
P.v the arrest In California of Thom
as H. Itoblnson, Jr., kidnaper of Mrs.
Stoll, Mr. Hoover and his G-men
brought Into the shadow of the electric
chair the last of the group of danger
ous criminals that have recently been
wandering about the country.
This "bad man,” like others recently
gathered In, shook with fright when
he found the gun pointed at him, made
no effort to fight. When the guns are
pointed the wrong way, “bod men” oft
en change to good, meek and scared
men.
Stamp collectors have held a celebra
tion, grateful to Doctor Kckener for
a now kind of stamp. How many ways
man finds to keep busy and at the
same time avoid thinking!
Collecting queer things, stamps or
tear Jugs; playing bridge, working
cross-word puzzles, playing solitaire,
rushing to the far corners of the world
to spend money—usually not earned;
going to Africa to kill big game ani
mals. Those are some substitutes for
thinking and working constructively,
the only occupation worthy of a hu
man being.
C ENATOR WILLIAM RQRAH banked
^ heavily on success in the Ohio
Presidential preference primary, but
the Republicans of that state turned
him down decisively
In favor of their "fa
vorite son,” Robert A.
Taft, son of the late
President Taft. Of the
51* delegates to the
Cleveland convention,
Borah captured only
five, the others, In
cluding the delegates
at large, being Taft
men. The winning del
egation will he virtu
ally unpledged, be- Senator Borah
cause It will vote for Taft only on the
first ballot. Mr. Borah did not take
this defeat calmly. He gave out a state
ment In Washington accusing the Re
publican organization leaders of ma
nipulating the votes of colored citizens
against him by promising the passage
of federal anti-lynching legislation
which he has opposed as unconstitu
tional. The Idaho senator added:
“The Republican party will go Into
the campaign laying great stress upon
Constitutional Integrity and the pres
ervation of state rights.
“The men who are In control of the
party, and who will likely be In con
trol of the convention, will write Its
platform and name Its candidate, have
already demonstrated that they care
nothing nl>o||t Constitutional Integrity
or the preservation of state rights, that
their talk on this subject Is hypocritical
and Intellectually dishonest.
Ohio Democrats polled about fiOO.OOO
votes In the primary, nearly lOO.tKK)
more than the Republicans, and they
expressed their preference for Mr.
Roosevelt over Col. Henry Brecken-
rldge to the tune of 1G to 1. They also
renominated Gov. Martin L. Davey,
who will he opposed by John W. Brick-
er. Itepuhlican. In November.
West Virginia also held primaries
and there Borah and Roosevelt won
easily over nominal opposition. The
states Republican delegation, however,
will go to the convention uninstructed.
It Is Interesting to note that one of
Ohio’s delegates at Cleveland will be
Alice Roosevelt l.ongwnrth daughter
of “T. R.” and a spectator at many
previous conventions.
the senate at the Instance of Renatoi
Lewis of Illinois. Two years ago, whei
Mr. Ickes was at the height of hit
power, he wanted the title altered tc
"secretary of conservation and works’
and.hoped that many of the agencies
of the Department of Agriculture would
he transferred to his department. But
Secretary Wallace objected strenuous
ly. and lately so much has been taken
out of Mr. Ickes’ hands that Senator
Lewis cut Ms bill to the one paragraph,
making the change of title and leaving
off “and works.”
W ORKS PROGRESS ADMINIS
TRATOR HARRY HOPKINS Is
sued an order to state WPA director*
instructing 'them not to employ armed
guards, not^to spy on workers and not
to blacklist workers who organize.
The order was Issued following a
conference with Victor F. Rldder, New
York city WPA administrator, who em
ployed a detachment of guards to pro
tect his office against antl-WPA dem
onstrations which Mr. Rldder asserts
were stirred up by Communists,
C hancellor kurt schusch-
NIGG'of Austria has long been at
outs with the vice chancellor, Prince
Ernst von Starhemberg, and now he
has got rid of that active young man
and is practically the eole. dictator of
the country. This was accomplished
by the resignation of the cabinet and
Its reconstruction Immediately with
Von Starhemberg left ont Schusch-
nigg is not only chancellor but also
minister of defense and foreign mlnla*
ter.
Von Starhemberg had antagonized
Schuschnlgg by insisting on keeping up
his own private army, the Heimwehr,
and also by his friendliness toward
Mussolini and his general Fascist sym-
patbiea , ,
Manual
Azana
/''hPPOSITION In tlje senate finance
committee to the corporate profits'
tax In the administration’s $803,000,000
revenue bill was so strong that both
Democrats and Republicans sought for
some compromise. Treasury officials
were heard In favor of the measure as
passed by the house, but former treas
ury officials and various business and
Industrial leaders speaking in opposi
tion, were seeming!^ more persuasive.
Senator Tom Connally of Texas put
forward a plan he thought all might
agree upon. It would retain the 15 per
cent corporation Income tax and re
peal only the capital stock and excess
profits taxes. Instead of repealing all
corporation taxes as proposed In the
house bill. In addition It would super
impose a graduated tax on undistrib
uted earnings, exempting the first
per cent on the amount retained. The
house bill reaches a maximum of 4L’V4
per cent of the total income If none
is distributed.
Senator Byrd of Virginia, another of
the Democrats opposed to the house
hill, showed. In a letter to Secretary
Morgenthau. that 11 of the largest
Corporations In the country would pay
no taxes under the Roosevelt bill
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Mrs. James C. Cniii[>« of Clovis, New
Mexico, as a girl was not able to finish
high school, hut that did not discour
age her. She waited some years. Then
she Joined the senior high school class
with her son and daughter In-law, and
will graduate with them this month,
among the most brilliant scholars.
Chancellor Hitler, w ho was never mar
ried, nevertheless thinks marriage a
good Idea. Young Nazis, Ir the public
employ, have been told that unless
they marry by the time they are twen
ty-six years old there Is something the
matter with their “courage and will
power.”
A syndicate is formed to seek the
“buried gold bugs of Alexander the
Great” containing at least $300,000,000
In yellow wealth.
Alexander the Great’s ghost might
he surprised to hear about that. Alex
ander was too busy to collect gold, and
not the kind of man to bury It in a
hole.
Encouraged by her father, a sixteen-
year-old high school girl walked onto
the wing of a small plane, prepared
for a first parachute Jump, at l,f*0U
feet. The pilot Npercelved that the
parachute cord had been pulled prema
turely; pulled her hack Into the cock
pit In time to save her from death.
Without requiring encouragement,
Mrs. Harriet O. Hague, eighty-six years
(dd, flew the ocean on the lllndenburg
return trip. Tell that to your friend
who used to oppose female suffrage
“because women are not brave like
men.’’
ARE not going to have any
urreney inflation, at least be
fore next session of congress. The
Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage refinanc
ing bill, dragged out of committee by
a petition signed by 218 house mem
bers, and then hotly debated for a day,
was defeated by the decisive vote
2!h r ) to 142. The bill called for the print
ing of three billion dollars for its
financing.
The petition signers Included 159
Democrats, and before the vote every
one of them was told by I’at Boland
of Pennsylvania, the party whip, that
the President didn't want the measure
passed at this time and that If the
member voted for the hill it would he
Just too had for him. Besides this |»o
tent argument the Democratic leaders
Induced President William Green of
the American ’ederaflon of Labor to
Intervene and he called together the
federation's executive council and had
It wrife a letter saying it was opposed
to the bill because of the Inflation fea
Hire. This was read to the house by
Speaker Byrns and undoubtedly af
fected the vote, though some members
reseuied being told what to do by Mr.
Green.
There was relief in the White House
when It was announced the President
would not have to veto such a measure
in an election year.
R'
R. G.
r>K ESI DENT ROOSEVELT w as sup
* posed to have abandoned for the
present the Florida ship canal and
Passamaquoddy tidal power projects
for which the house refused to appro
\ priate further funds. But Senator
Robinson of Arkansas was called to
the White House for a conferen* e and
' returned to ttra house to' introduce a
resolution authorizing the President to
! appoint engineering hoards of review
j for the two schemes.
The hoards would present (heir HTuI
ings by June 29. and. If favorable
the President would have authoriza
tion to s'M aside $l().UOO.iKHi fnr the
canal and S'.MMMUMH) for Passaiuaqiiod
dy out of available relief nn ney.
Germany Is building many fleets of
small aircraft, and some day this coun
try’s automobile men will turn to air
plane building; then, those already
past sixty may live to see in the air
25,000,000 flying machines one for
every automobile on the ground.
The Italian flag files over Halle
Selassie’s palace, lie will never see
that palace again, hut he has boxes of
gold bars with him and has moved to
a safer, better climate.
The civilized world, whatever Its at
titude toward the slave dealing alleged
descendants of King Solomon and the
Queen of Sheba, must rejoice In Mus
aolini's proclamation abolishing slavery
throughout Ethiopia, where slaves have
been the chief cash-producing product
£ King Feature* Syndicate, lue.
WFU Service,
N t EW’I’ON D. BAKER and Dean
1 Acheson, counsel, for live power
companies that are trying.to block the
government s nutulcJpaL power pro
gram. inet with defeni in the District
of Columbia Supreme court w’hen they
sought lo subpoena correspondence be
tween President Roosevelt and Sctjre
tary Ickes Jerome Frank a New Deal
attorney, stated that the President lint 1
directed that his “privilege” of tes I-
-morfiaI immunity he as^Mted in me
case a ml thief Justice Wheat refused
to issue the subpoena
I F Till, house comurs In senate ac
tion. ihe title of Harold L. Ick *« w.ll
i*e changed trmu secretary of the in
terior to secretary of conservation. A
hill making the change wan passed by
tion. Rexford Tugwell made a re
port on the activities of the resettle
ment administration of which he Is the
head. He showed that
It has 15.804 em
ployees on the admin
istration pay roll and
has been allotted
$275,549,544 to spend.
Of this amount, the
report stated. $98.-
347,005 has been spent
and a total of $173,-
09L$23 obligated, leav
ing $102,458,112 unln
cunihered.x
Tugwell Up t0 Appl) 15
ac
cording to the report, the resettlement
administration had taken options on
9.670,000 acres of land, of which op-
Tloris on 8,409.000 acres, costing $30.-
■ ’44.000. ha 1 become legal commitments
As of May 1, the report said, 59.521
persons, including 3.581 nr^ the CCC
pay roll, were employed Ir. connection
with the land acquisition program.
The report stated that a recent sur
voy indicated that “the purchase of
approximately 24.noo.otlO acres of land
would he needed to block in and round
out” the existing projects and to es
tablish a minimum number of new
projects.
Of 33 subsistence homestead pro.l
ects. construction has been completed
on 18, is In progress on 11 and final
plans have been drafted for 4. The re-
IMtrt lists (our suburban housing proj
ects. financed from a $31,000,000 allo
cation for this purpose. They are In
Berwyn. Md.. Bound Brook, N. J.. Mil
waukee. and t’lnclnnatl.
On rural rehabilitation, the report
says the KA has cared for more than
S00.000 families. For its rehabilitation
advances to Individual "clients.” the
administration will expend $100,000,000
through June 30.
There jyere more than 71,000 work
ers eutploxed on projects financed by
the organization during April, the re
port states, adding that the peak is ex
pected to be reached during the sum
mer with 100,000 workers.
M ANUEL azana was advanced
from the premiership to tbe presi
dency of Spain by almost unanimous
vote of tbe 874 electors gathered In the
Crystal palace at
Madrid. He succeeds
Nlceto Alcala Zamora
wbo was removed
from office on a charge
of malfeasance after
the Leftist victory In
tbe recent elections.
Azana, fifty-six years
old, Is a lawyer, ora
tor and playwright
and is regarded as the
most astute politician
In Spain. To tbe noti
fication committee he
said: “Spain may rest assured that I
will be loyal to tbe principles of
democracy and that the welfare of the
nation will be my constant concern.’*
TT INDENBURG, the Immense dlrlgl-
A* ble, carrying 107 persons, paall and
freight, made the flight from Frled-
richshafen to Lakehurst, N. J., In 61
hours and 57 minutes and was wel
comed by thousands of Americans, In
cluding R. Walton Moore of the State
department who brought the greetings
and congratulations of President Roose
velt Three days later the airship
started back to her new base at Frank-
furt-on-Maln. The dirigible was In the
command of Capt. Ernst Lehmann, but
he received far less attention here than
did Dr. Hugo Eckener, the veteran skip
per of Zeppelins, Eckener, In bad with
the Nazis at home, was permitted to be
aboard the ship as an “adviser.” He
and Captain Lehmann went to Wash
ington together, while the ship was b$-<
Ing groomed for the return flight, to
call on President Roosevelt and other
officials and return their greetings.
On the return flight the Hindenburg
traveled swiftly, reaching Frankfurt-on-
Maln 48 hours and 18 minutes after
the departure from Lakehurst.
The Hindenburg is to make ten com
mercial trans-Atlantic trips this sum
mer.
DARK TRAMMELL, veteran United
' States senator from Florida and a
staunch supporter of all New Deal
measures, died In Washington of a
cerebral hemorrhage which followed
an attack of Influenza. Though III, he
tried to remain on the senate floor
long enough to vote for a proposal to
Include $12,000,900 In the War depart
ment appropriation bill for continua
tion of the Florida ship canal This
effort probably cost him bis life.
S OME two thousaud delegates were
present when the annual conven
tion of the American Red Cross was
opened In Chicago by Admiral Cary T.
Grayson, the national chairman. Speak
ers at early sessions Included Mayor
Ed Kelly, and Ralph Christian, school
boy of Birmingham. Ala., representing
the Junior Red Cross. Mrs. Elizabeth
H. Vaughan, a nurse of St. Louis, was
awarded the Florence Nightingale med
al for her long record of nursing serv
ice.
Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr., the new sur
geon general of the United States pub
lic health service, was present and
made a speech, and talks were deliv
ered by Robert E. Bondy, director of
national disaster relief, and others wbo
directed activities In tbe flood and
storm areas.
Nttioaal Topic* Interpreted
by William Bruckart
National Press Building Washington, D. C.
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EGA USE the League of Nations
•otincil would not immediately rec
ognize Italy’s annexation of Ethiopia
and the creation of the new Roman em
pire, Premier Mussolini recalled his rep
resentatives from Geneva, and before
long Italy may quit the league entirely.
At present it is merely “not partici
pating” in its activities. The council
had adopted a new resolution virtually
condemning again Italy’s aggression In
East Africa and then adjourned until
June 15.
Previously Baron potnpel Alois!, chief
of the Italian delegation, had walked
out of a session of the council because
Wolde Mariam. Ethiopian representa
tive. was |>ermltled to take a seat and
present a plea from Emperor Haile Se
lassie.
ECRETARY ICKES’ supporters
ere eusiiy defeated by tbe Harry
Hopkins fyrees lo tbe bouse fight as to
whether/Hie Public Works administra
tion shauld share In the handling of
next year's relief funds. But It was
understood the feud would be revived
in the senate under the leadership
of Senator Hayden of Arizona, Demo-
i rat and a member of the appropria
tions committee.
The house majority voted according
to the wishes of the administration on
the relief bill, which Is a $2,364,229,712
ueasure carrvlng $1,425,000,000 to
finance the Works Progress adminis
tration after July 1.
In addition to the relief ‘appropria
tion, the bill carries $458,631,860 for
the social security program. $39,900,000
for the Tennessee Valley Authority,
*400.000 for continuing the communi
cations commission’s telephone Inquiry,'
and various new and deficiency amounts
ror other agencies.
The must Important amendment per
mitted to be added to tbe bill by
i he house leaders was one submitted
by Representative William P. Connery
providing that the prevailing wage in
communities be paid to WPA workers.
Ickes signified his acceptance of de
feat in the battle for funds by order-,
Ing an immediate cut of 25 per cent
in PWA personnel In Washington and
throughout the country. This affects
2,000 persons.
M
USTAPHA NAHAS PASHA, lead
er of the Wafd or Nationalist
party in Egypt, haa become premier
and formed a new government In
which he holds also tbe post of min
ister of the Interior. Wasyf Glial!
Pasha Is his foreign minister and Gen.
All FaTAny Pasha la minister of war
and marine.
Washington.—With tbe national con
vention of the Republicans only a week
away, New Deal
Seek to strategists are
Disrupt C. O. P. bending every ef
fort toward a pro
gram designed to make a knock-down
and drag-out fight of that session. It
Is not disclosing any secret to say that
the New Dealers are using this weapon
up to the hilt because disruption of the
Republican party would make victory
easy for Candidate Roosevelt.
Predictions In politics always are
perilous. Governor Alf M. Landon of
Kansas seems to be In the lead at this
time for the Republican nomination,
but there are many observers through
out the country who contend that the
"Kansas Coolidge” cannot win, and
that various other aspirants for the
nomination, men whose hats are In the
ring, likewise must be counted out.
This is to say that a feeling is growing
that a dark horse will be nominated.
From the strictly Washington view
point, which may be different than else
where In the country, astute political
observers are convinced that there
must be a swift change In sentiment to
keep the nomination away from Gover
nor Landon. Yet, -It must be said that
politics Is fraught with Just such
things and so It is entirely possible
that the Republican nominee may be
someone other than the present appar
ent leader in the race.
Those who feel that Governor Lan
don will he the nominee claim he has
played his cards well. But others in
sist that the Kansas governor made a
had mistake In allowing his name to
be linked with the Ilearst faction In
California. Indeed, I have heard com
ment that this fact alone will defeat
Governor Landon.
• • •
It has been Interesting to observe the
maneuvers of the New Deal strategists
, • with reference to the
■ ”***> Deal London boom. Some
Strategy observers contend
that the efforts be
ing put forth from New Deal quarters
In an attempt to discredit Governor
Landon were being engineered because
the New Deal fears Governor Landon
as a Roosevelt opponent more than It
fears some of the other candidates for
the nomination. Frank R. Kent, the
Washington commentator for the Dem
ocratic Baltimore Sun, asserted that
the New Deal activity against Lantloi/s
nomination constituted “the best evi
dence of the increasing protutbilify” of
the Kansas governor’s nomination. Mr.
Kent did not say that whifN some
other Informed writers feel, namely,
that the Landon candidacy would mean
a hitter campaign on the ixirt of the
Roosevelt forces to re-elect the Presi
dent. Nevertheless. It has been inter
estlng to note the various ways In
which Roosevelt spokesmen and Demo
cratic publicity men have been trying
to show the country that Governor
Landon Is not the man who should he
nominated.
I have no quarrel with these efforts.
It is the game of politics. Virtually
anything goes. It is to he assumed that
present Republican maneuvers will he
concentrated In a few weeks on Mr.
Roosevelt personally as the Democratic
candidate. In fact, one hears expres
sions around Washington flint for tHe
first time in Mr. Roosevelt's political
career, he Is going to he directly under
fire.
Just In this eon sect ion. one can re-
>n1l that through most of the New Deal
administration, criticism of New Deni
policies and plans, almost without ex
ception. was directed at Roosevelt np
polntees. The President himself has
been exceptionally free from the type
of personal attack that frequently char
acterizes political opposition. He has
^tnd absolutely none of the kind of
criticism that occurred in the Hoover
administration and was directed at
Herbert Hoover, personally.
So, as we look at the campaign pic
Hire just aheat. of the Republican con
vention and only a month In advance
of the meeting of the Democrats at
Philadelphia where President Roose
velt will he renominated, without op
position in his own 4»arty. I think It
ran be said without fear of contradic
tion that both candidates this year are
going to be smeared personally Just as
fast and as long as the ammunition
holds out.
• • •
While we are talking about the forth
coming quadrennial conventions, the
two keynote S|>euk-
The ers naturally enter
Keynoters * n, ° an J' discussion.
Senator Alben W.
Barkley of Kentucky will do the key
noting for the Democrats at Philadel
phia and Senator Frederick Steiwer of
Oregon will deliver the main address
to the Cleveland convention of the Re
publicans. Senator Barkley was the
keynoter at the Chicago convention
when Mr. Roosevelt was nominated by
the Democrats four years ago and, al
though it is a subject not freely tils
cussed, it Is said in high places that
Mr. Roosevelt wanted the same man
,to do the job again, believing the Ken
tuckian to be an omen of good luck.
The selection of Senator Steiwer was
one of those things that can be said to
be a surprise and yet not a surprise.
He is, without doubt, a good man for
the Job. Yet In some quarters there is
g conviction that Senator Steiwer was
picked by the so-called “Old Guard” of
eastern Republicans. Some observers
still hold the belief that the selection
of Senator Steiwer was not wholly
pleasing to the Landon forces but be
that as It may;’ ‘there has been no par
ticular ill feeling created by It If It
represents a piece of strategy by the
eastern Republicans w’ho were dealing-
with their problem by remote control
they apparently have played inla_the-
hnnds of the more liberal wing of Re
publicans. It is being predicted rather
freely that thfe Oregon senator’s key
note speech' will lean strongly to the
liberal side but that it will stress sound
economics.
The best advance Information obtain
able on Senator Barkley’s plans Is *hnt
he will devote the hulk of his time os
the convention platform to a review of
Roosevelt accomplishments In the be
lief that such a review will take his
presentation out of the class of a “de
fense" speech. Those with whom l
have talked concerning the Barkley
speech believe he has adopted a smart
political course; that he feels there is
no need to defend anything that has
been done and that the record Itself Is
the thing upon which the Democratic
party can make a plea for re-election
of Sir. Roosevelt.
Having observed Senator Barkley In
action In the senate for a number of
years, I believe lam Justified in saying
that he is a square shooter and a
fighter. In thTs respect, he and Senator
Steiwer, the Republican keynoter, are
much the same type of man and. there
fore. If either convention gets off on a
wrong foot, the fault will He with the
convention managers rather than with
the proposals offered by the men who
are supposed to lay before the dele
gates a rough outline of their respec
tive party’s campaign policies.
Concerning the record of the key
noters In the senate, each stands four
square. Senator Barkley has consis
tently battled In behalf of the Presi
dent and New Deni policies throughout
Mr. Roosevelt’s administration. Senator
Steiwer has been Just as consistent
in his opposition. Certainly, Senator
Steiwer has been much more outspoken
against New Deal policies than most of
his Republican colleagues, and much
more so than Senator McNary.
• • •
For many months Washington has
heard the plaint of business leaders
who wanted to fight
rear socialistic schemes
*Crack Down' an<1 nnsoumi eco
nomic policies given
birth hy New Deal brain trusters but
were afraid to do so because of “re
taliation.” Almost constantly, informa
tion has filtered Into Washington to the
effect that if a corporation undertook
to oppose Nety Deal plans vigorously,
there was danger that some agency of
the government would “crack down" on
them. Much of this Information has
been taken bj? Washington observers
with a grain of salt hut a different ns-
l>ect has been placed on the situation
lately.
it was In the senate that a New Deal
Democrat. Senator Homer T. Bone of
Washington, broke loose with state
ments that seemed to substantiate tbe
fear voiced so frequently by business.
Senator Bone charged that there was a
veritable and “budding OGPU” organ
ized within the government. The
OGPU, as most persons realize. Is 4he
secret spy system of the Russian Sovi
et and 1 think no one In this country
has a complete knowledge of its vi
cious character. So. when Senator
Bone likened the espionage system In
our government to the OGPU, be was
making, to my mind, one of "the most
serious charges yet leveled at the
Roosevelt administration.
Of course. Senntor Rone was attack
Ing this espionage svstem because of
a feeling that If might be used to co
erce members of congress and ezen
executive or administrative officers of
the government who were opposed to
plans propa-nted hv Presidential ad
visers His thought obviously concerned
the political phases of such a system,
hut the fact that he brought the mat
ter to public attention serves. In a
measure, certainly, to substantiate
some of tlie claims that business inter
ests have made.
I am unable, however to reconcile
Senator Bone’s position.respecting the
OGPU which he charged \^Jts In opera
tion within the government and his ut
ter silence when the obnoxious senate
lobby committee, headed hy Senator
Black. Democrat, of Alabama, engaged
In the wholesale seizure of private tel
egrams It will he recalled that I re
ported In these columns how Senator
Black and agents of the Federal Com
munications commission went Into the
files of the Western Union Telegraph
company and carried off literally thou
sands of private telegrams. I was con
vlnoetl then and I repeat It now that
the Black Seizure was nothing mon
than an attempt to dig up dirt o D „ny
body against whom they could find dis
crediting Information. Yet. Senator
Bone, by his silence, condoned that
course only to denounce later the s\s
teuis of so-called “Inspectors’’ used bv
Secretary Ickes of tbe Department of
the Interior and reputedly by several
other agencies of the government I
can only hope that if Senntor Bone’s
charges are true that the usual comb
tion will result, namely, that there will
be other sides to spy on lhe»e>me«.
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