RADICATION of Senator George W. Norris from the Republican party is demanded by Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Re- publican national com- mittee in a scathing statement which is said to have the tacit approval of the White House, In return, the R. H. Lucas independent Republi. can senators Insist that the national committee oust Mr, Lucas. Chairman Fess of the committee has declared for a hands-off policy, but a showdown is demanded by Senator Howell of Ne- braska and others, and there is In prospect a lively party quarrel that may very well embarrass the Repub- licans greatly. All this is the outcome of the discovery by the Nye campaign fund committee that Lucas financed a campaign against the re-election of Norris. Lucas has freely admitted the facts and defends his action by the assertion that the Nebraska senator is not realiy a Republican and has no right to be classed as such, “To accept office at the hands of this party and then viciously oppose its policies, principles and leadership, brings an intolerable situation and one which must be eradicated, if the party is to live,” says Mr. Lucas, “Such conduct by Senator Norris has been revolting and until the lead- ers of the Republican party not only fall to support but give their active opposition to men like Senator Nor- ris, they are not doing their full duty to the party which has come down to us from Lincoln.” After telling how he privately con- tributed three pieces of literature to the anti-Norris campaign, Lucas goes on to relate in detall the many ways in which Norris has displayed his “party treachery” and “ingratitude” by opposing the administrations and policies of Presidents Coolidge and Hoover, all of which is a part of his- tory though heretofore officially ig- nored by Republican party chieftains. Convened by an emergency call by Chairman Nye, the senate committee discovered further that the $4000 which Lucas borrowed to pay for the anti-Norris propaganda and for which he gave his personal note was guar anteed by a $40,000 special account of the can national committee in the Commercial National bank In Washington. This was in the nature of a counter attack against Lucas and was reinforced by statements mada by Norris and Senator Cutting of New Mexico. The Nebraskan openly charged that Lucas had sworn to a falsehood when he testified before the committee that the money he paid was his own private fund. Cutting defend- ed Norris and attacked the national committee, Then up stepped Representative Wood of Indiana on behalf of Lucas and 'eaved a ‘arf a brick at Senator Norris; whereupon Senator Brookhart of ela finding It wasn't a private fight, dornick at Secretary Mellon and called Lucas "an Insig- nificant wart.” Republi shied a There were indications that Presi- dent Hoover and the other party lead- ers would ignore, officially, the entire quarrel, which would perhaps be the safest course if not the bravest, JHETHER or not \ Lucas wins out in his fight on Norris it Is now thought doubtful that he will be made chairman to succeed Senator Fess, The man now most prominently men tioned for the place is Ray Benjamin of San Francisco, a close friend of President Hoover. Several weeks ago Mr. Benjamin had several conferences with the President. Then he went home and cleared up his private »Tairs and returned to Wash- ington for an indefinite stay. When questioned concerning the report that he was to be given the chairmanship, he said he was in the capital to real- ize an old desire to open law offices there, and added: “1 will do anything I ean, however, for my party.” Mr. Benjamin has had an extensive legal career and has been active in polities in California. He was regional director for the national committee for the west coast section In the Re- publican campaign of 1020, Ray Benjamin. OLONEL ARTHUR WOODS, chairman of the President's emergency committee on unemploy- ment, believes the $116,000,000 public works law enacted by congress and signed by Mr. Hoover, will have a big effect in reducing unemployment and stimulating purchases. In an in- terview the colonel sald: “With this additional opportunity and with the co-operation of all fed- eral branches together with the heip of state and local authorities, we should soon witness a material re- sult in the absorption of unemployed and In the stimulation of purchases of building materials which will be involved. “All branches of state and municipal governments throughout the country are working together to slash the red tape which is impeding their own pub. lic works projects, The result will be that a great program of public works will be pushed forward into produc- tion and Jobs created to help meet the present emergency.” Colonel Woods issued another warn- ing to unemployed men to stay in their home communities and not wander about aimlessly seeking work. Jobless transients, he said, are causing serious problems in many communities which, while organized to care for their own destitute, cannot be taxed by outsiders, Woods also called on farmers through- out the country to co-operate in giving whatever work possible to unemployed men. Senator Wagner of New York says that as soon as congress convenes aft- er the holiday recess he will introduce a resolution calling for a study of the public and privote unemployment sys- tems here and and also a bill proposing federal and state co-opera- tion in the maintenance of such a system. abroad, § SENATOR BORAH doesn't want any- one to think he would conduct a filibuster In congress after the hol- idays, but he believes there Is so much im- portant legislation to be disposed of that a special session {mme- diately after March 4 will be necessary and should be called by Senator Borah the President. It was his persuasion that brought about the special session in the spring 1029, Leg- islation which the Idaho solon consid- ers of pressing importance Includes power and railroad measures, the anti- injunction bill, the motor bus bill, further unemployment relief and, per haps chief of all, the export debenture farm relief scheme. In the closing hours before congress the holidays Mr. Borah led other senators in a hot attack on ard’'s wheat opera- recessed for the federal farm be tions. Chairman Alexander legge of the board, being asked what he thought of Borah's charge that the board in buying wheat is merely post- poning “the day of reckoning” that will come when {it sells, replied: “Please don’t ask me to discuss cy- clones. You know the definition of a cyclone—something made of hot alr which runs amuck and usually is de structive,” He went on, however, to defend the board's policy In some de. tail. Mr. Legge also paid his respects to John Simpson of Oklahoma City, new president of the Farmers' union, who was quoted as asserting the board is “deliberately” bh down wheat and cotton and citing a sena- tor as authority. i olding prices, “You can say to Mr. Simpson that any man making that statement, whether in public office or not, is an unmitigated liar, and say It with my compliments,” the chairman said. “Such a statement has never heen made by any member of the board or anyone else in authority. The absurd. ity of it is proved by the fact that wheat still Is sinking In the world market, Today Chicago wheat 1s some 16 cents above the Liverpool close, and, adding a similar amount for transportation, our wheat is 30 to 32 De ERMONT will hold a special elee- tion on March 31 to choose a sue- cessor to the late United States Sen- ator Frank L. Greene. Until then the seat will be filled by Frank C Part. ridge of Proctor, who has been ap- pointed by Gov. John E. Weeks. Mr. Partridge, who Is sixty-five years old, is a Republican and a business man and lawyer. AMERON MOR rison, the new senator from North Carolina, was scarce ly in his seat before he totally wrecked an ancient tradition of the upper house by arising and making a speech. Of course he should have sat silent for at least a few weeks, but the attack made by Senator FR. MeNinch Walsh of Montana on Frank R, Me Ninch of North Carolina, one of the President's nominees for the federal power commission, was more than he could endure without retort. He spoke eloquently and warmly for twenty min. utes, starting out with the declara- tion: “I would scorn to stand In this body and hear this noble man tra. duced by anybody,” and when he was all through he mildly expressed his regret that he “had to trespass upon the attention of this body In almost the hour of my entrance.” Mr. McNinch, the speaker explained, never received nor handled a nickel of any power company's money. True enough, he was an anti-Smith Demo- crat in 1928, and he, Morrison, as a regular, took the stump against him, but that did not make him a Ie- publican. AILURES of relatively small banks For the country were rather numer- ous, and on Tuesday the Chelsea Bank and Trust company of New York city was closed after runs on its main oflice and six branches. The bank had more than 40000 depositors and gross de- posits as of November 14 of $23.023. 000. The deposits had shrunk in the last few weeks to around $16,000,000, it was said. The runs were attributed by officials of bank to unfounded and ma. licious rumors for which Communists, among others, were held responsible. Investigation of the rumors be- gun by the state's attorney general, District Attorney Crane and the police department, and two men were ar- rested charged with circulating false rumors, the were HERE was con- siderable surprise in Great Britain when it was announced the other day that Vis count Willingdon, now governor - general of Cannda, had been ap- pointed viceroy of In- : dia 0 succeed lord Irwin when the latter retires in March, 1031, There had been much talk to the effect that Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald probably would given the rich plum, Lord Willingdon, who is sixty- four years of age, was governor of Bombay from 1013 to 1919 and of Madras from 1019 to 1024, earning a name for a conciliatory attitude. He has been governor-general of Canada since 1026, LordWillingdon be F GREAT importance in the eco. O nomic affairs of northern Europe was the signing by six nations of a convention binding them not to raise existing tariff rates or introduce new ones without consulting one another, This was done at a conference in Oslo, Norway, called to enforce “liberal principles In commercial policy.” The six nations Sweden, Hol land, Belgium, and Luxem- burg. Tt 0 gider the are Norway Denmark to cone iple to signatories also agreed application of the prin ich was the basis of the treaty ‘other arrangements 1} ed to favor international PDrator Stalin in the process of wh kewise trade.’ asp honse™ {ir the Soviet regime, has rid of Alexis Recently tha! re ‘cleaning now got Rykov, gentleman wns his high as president council of moved from position of people's which corresponds to premier in other ernments The day by action of the ¢ and ral control munist party rehip in the important po. It was a part of Sta get rid of all the rights and was followed imme of Tomsky as the supreme econome Rykov and Tomsky Stalin's Industrialle and though they ree canted last summer during the party congress, this did net save them. Rykov was absent from recent Soviet celebrations in Moscow, and (t was explained that he had gone South “for his health” That was the way Trotzky went. Only winger of nence remains in a high post. He is Nicholas Bucharin, a member of the central committee and also of the sue preme economic council, The general expectation is that he, too, will be dropped eventually, thus leaving Stale in's ideas supreme, the commissars OV - a Alexis Rykov al her iit commission of ed entral comn tee cent he was depriy plan to wing leaders by the dismissal af fe council. Both had zat diately vice chairman long opposed program, public iy ion one right promie RESIDENT HOOVER'S Christmas present to Warren T. McCray, fore mer governor of Indiana, was a full pardon restoring him to full civil rights. McCray served three years and four months of a ten year sentence to Atlanta penitentiary for use of the mails to defraud In connection with the sale of worthless cattle paper. He was paroled by President Coolidge in August, 1027. EPRESENTATIVE CHARLES B, five years old and wealthy, and Mrs, Roberta Wood Elliott, a thirty-five year-old widow who has been working ns a waitress, were married In Wash. tington by Rev. Dr. J. 8. Montgomery, chaplain of the house. They started on a honeymoon trip to North Caro- lina, the bride's home, and a crulse in southern waters, NN OTASLES who died during the week included Gerrit J. Diekema, American minister to The Hague: Vintila Bratianu, Rumania's foremost statesman and bitter opponent of King Carol; Charles K. Harrls, writer of “After the Ball" and many other pop- ular songs; Claude A. C. Jennings, edl- tor In chief of the Toronto Mall and Empire; Flo Irwin, veteran actress, and Sir Harry Perry Robinson, an eminent English journalist. (@. 1930, Western Newspaper Union.) a, ZY J Ys as Matter of Morale A nut to ‘better for ‘ial started ton-wide study planning of all permanent human to modern by the committee on city planning of the American stitute of Architects Finding that aually on ugly environment ind ns Its promote LS€e HES e8Ken- been ined in civilizution™ has regional millions nre wasted an buildings, and chat hts iith Hoe blig hehavior hes enjoyment of life the ¢ommli initial ask, Is seeking an no tion: “an churncter of cities ol? swer to the ind ind be consciously ques ividuantity and regione nitain Replies received Indicat conflict of Cheneny, necording to ‘harle H of opinian, Angeles, chairman ted, intelligent and carefu. building up of of the distriet is cited method hy J. C, Nichols, the Nationni lann.ng commis of los the committee, Faraigh morale us the best Kansas City, member of Capital Park and sion. Herbert U. Nelson, ecutive ary of the dation of Real Estate tions the of for municipal beauty posed of men and women working better stand: of living, and to improve the quailty their development, Gardner 8 if the quirtn if the nerce, American cities defined character, of (Chicago, National Boards, nu striving ire com for will of tlogers, ex- AS oR secret UM ions virlue CONS Cities Ag Iras continue went of Com whether civie devel United 8 dec mber Others doubt can es (*h, ares, well have any General Recognition of Value of Civic Beauty 4H RS «1 le for Amarican havin through the per Now fod 80 ri of stru ~~ ize, are h and strong they suit tiful inched on a career In They them, shape in re nre lat pur. of glory. all of become ! shi rage, pa sential want to be hea After they gard to . water supply and ti of a m forces needs thelr i! mere rt. they den ities where less pop long for the co be-1Yemocerat, nyvenience Planting Always in Order There 8 An erroneoy prevalent that when the | unds are once planted, This is over Few pl the different clas the plar iz nll a mistake nll need th in, aces have es of they ver lants they may have al) the shrubs pecessary for vear round heauty be lacking in fruits or flowers, TI which do not need ¢ yet en there are few places rome “patching mm and renewal of plants after they have been planted for severnl years Need 1 to Spruce Up Practically needs spruci town ibuted It con in bean benefit every city nnd Money waste ng up contr for such service is stitutes a genuine investn ty and order for of all To banish can communities would be the standards of give to everyday life in munities a new zest, not ent the common Ameri to improve fo slovenliness from nnd those citizenship com Knowledge Aids Community Knowledge, to be of use in trade. must he applied, and its application usually requires the ald of capital. The greater and more productive the stock of eapital in any community, goods It can put into the of trade, A mill will make a town a center of trade. Docks, and railway terminals help transform a harbor into a port of commerce. the more currents elevators, warchouses, Plant a Tree Figures show that Springfield, Mass, has more trees in proportion to pupu lation than any other American city | With an appraisal value of $100 on | each tree, its 25,000 trees add $2.50), | U0 to be counted as up added asset to the community. This would seem an excellent example for other cities to follow in adding to their valuation Plant a tree !— Exchange. Waterproofing Walls All masonry walls, including stucco, should be made waterproof by a finish of waterproof solution or waterproof paint. [It Is possible to have the wa terproofing element put into the stucco while It is being mixed, Architects as Allies Kansas Clty architects have gone on record as willing to help In the eam palgn to abolish blltboards. Hand some examples of architects work are not helped in appearance by adjncent “uglies."—Loulsville Courier-Journal, W HAT a relief and satisfaction ft is for mothers to know that there is always Castoria to depend on when babies get fretful and uncom fortable! Whether it's teething, colic or other little upset, Castoria glways brings quick comfort; and, with relief from pain, restful sleep. And when older, fast-growing children get out of sorts and out of condition, you have only to give a more liberal dose of this pure vegetable preparation to right the disturbed condition quickly Because Castoria is made ex- pressly for children, it has just the needed mildness of action. Yet you can always depend on it to be | Floodlights That Color FT a in “a0 effective. 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