NE of the best and most beloved of the few remaining kings, Al- bert I of Belgium, met a tragic death while practicing for his favorite sport, mountain climbing, He was attempting, alone, to scale a 90-foot pin- nacle near Namur and fell, being probably instantly killed. Hours later his body was found and carried to Brussels. Queen Eliza- beth was ill and was not told of the king's death for some hours. The Belgian nation was plunged In genu- and all the world sym- pathized, for Albert had won high es. teem by his heroism during the World war and his just government of his people, Albert is succeeded by Crown Prince Leopold, duke of Brabant, his eldest son. hirty-two years old and was mar in 1926 to Princess Astrid of They have a daugh- ter and a The new ruler was probably one of the youngest soldiers in the World war, er as a pri vate when he was thirte rs oid, He was treated as seeing active service In the trenches, and wi was King Leopold fine mourning, Leopold is t rried Sweden. son, sting eon yea ary sol ier an ors 18 a sergeant waen fowy 1 Sip Deda, repe-drape colors were gun his favorite ohare » dle empty ar the stirru Prince Lac and their Umberto guarded by tempt in 19290, In the th the pr of all n: was there for the United ident Lebrun and Pre headed the ntge from Eng Wales, Fi 1 and A« nb Sir Roger many was represented by rich von Keller, and Poland Paderewskl. Next day wns with Astrid » throne beside The parliamentary reply to the ruler’s speech fron he to two children. insuring the pence of the ad of the CaArriag at Hor th asket, ar d rong of notable persons In tives Morris 1 States: Pres- Her Doum ergue DCEeSSIONnE Were reg assador resent HONK, A Henby Keves: Ger Dr, Fried. by Ignatz Crown new queen perma- Albert was line. He was cended the throne in out the war he was Active continually troops and of de the task way and and Princ ird of his o and as Through- the most bers of the Belgian army, at the front to help his often in imminent danger After the armistice he got of reconstruction well under then, with Queen Elizabeth re Leopold, took journeys to the United States, England, France, Spain, Brazil and other countries to study trade conditions and find new outlets for Belgian products, APT. ANTHONY EDEN 18 mov- ing from capital to eapital in Eu- rope on the rather hopeless mission of reviving the disarmament negotiations, In Paris he was told by the seven big men of the French cabinet that France was un- willing to reduce her military power while the Nazl menace con- tinues, and the French government had alk ready coldly refused to discuss the matter with Hitler “while Germany Is rearm- ing.” Concessions re the th in 875 1000, born is one of men ath. arguments, and with demands for a German army of 300,000 effectives, which France rejected. The most the French statesmen would say was that they “looked forward In a most gen eral manner toward the possibility of an international accord, equally hoped for by both parties on the question of disarmament.” Discouraged but persistent, Captain Eden went on to Berlin and Rome for further conversations based on the British plan for reduction of arma. ments, Fux the time being the danger of a European war arising from the Aus trian Socialist rebellion Is over. Great Britain, France and Italy have united to safeguard Austria's Independence, and while that holds no other nation jare attack. Long conversations were held in Paris by British Ambassador word Tyrrell, Premier Doumergue, For. elgn Minister Louls Barthou, Capt, An. thony Eden, British lord privy seal, and representatives of Italy, and the outcome was this statement to the world: “The Austrian government has In- quired of the governments of France, Great Britaln and Italy as to thelr at titude with regard to a dossier which It prepared with a view of establishing German Interference in the Internal affairs of Austria and communicated to them The conversations which have taken place between the three governments on this subject have shown they take a common view as to the necessity of maintaining Austria's Independence and integrity in accord- ance with the relevant treaties.” This pronouncement was proposed by Premier Mussolini, who seeks to keep Austria Intact as a buffer state between and Fascism. It is, of course, directed to Hitler, who hopes that the government of ( shancel- lor Dollfuss may be overthrown, if not by force, then In elections, Naziism REASURY reports reveal that all 801 1 irces of internal revenue showed large increases during the first seven months of the fiscal year as cong period Corporate present the exception ith of the income taxes, Total weriod ended wired w 1933, with ts for the seven months’ January 31 amounted to 150.474, a gai $360,708,061 wired with recelj the mot on of tax Year before, seven ths . 1} oh col leg hears amour of the imme. veterans’ ng the Demo hat the promise veto by th did not deter 145 from to hill mittee we res. epreseniatives petition up for a 1 arch 12 Speaker Raf 1 been to the White House and returned this message: ney had with “lI am authorized the lent to the to pay it he cannot approve effect.” by way the | any ht Patman roul is not time 1 the siation to ut the mem! Mr, that ~rs went right on sign. Rainey was visibl! bu in reply to inquiries, going to let the house do just as it y disturbed, “We're pleases Wrigl author 1 of Texas, Democrat, of ti told the house the measure woul wrovide the admin gira ith tl mechanism for carrying It seemed mos uld be passe also get th ent in for that sentim rowing t fo growing OLY. NLY voted In the O house | - negative wi the $I58,000.000,0(0 tax revision bill came | up passage. It expected the | senate will make many alterations In measure fo 1e Dt of fur. the { ther the statutes against seven members of the oN for in urpose fortifying vasion, Of principal Interest to the average taxpayer is the bill's readjustment of the Income tax rate structure to pro- vide a new normal rate of 4 per cent and surtaxes starting at 4 per cent on net income above $4000 and rang. ing in graduated brackets to 00 per cent on Incomes of $1,000,000 or more. The new tax rates, however, will not be effective on 1933 incomes, Generally the bill is designed to prevent such tax evasion methods as were disclosed during the recent In- vestigations of the senate banking and currency committee into stock market practices, ——— USTICE finally has caught up with Roger Touhy of Chleago and two members of his notorious gang. Their second trial for the kidnaping of John Factor ended in a verdict of guilty, the jury fixing the penalty at 00 years in the penitentiary. One Charles W. Mayo of Alabama, with an accomplice, devised a fantas- tic plot for the kidnaping of E. P. Adler, banker and publisher of Daven. port, lowa, from a Chicago hotel, Both were caught and confessed, and then Mayo hanged himself in his cell. The “snatching” game appears to be about played out, RANCE was stirred by a mystery murder that Is connected with the $00,000,000 Stavisky scandal, Albert Prince, counselor of the Court of Ap- penis and the key witness in the Sta. visky case, was lured from Paris and slain and his body was tied to a rail road track near Dijon and mangled by a train, In the same connection, the Paris police announced they had discovered evidence that Stavisky was an inter national spy ns well as a swindler; that he was aided by 8 number of women, and probably had sold valge able Information to the German gov. ernment, | A coonpixa to the farm adminis. tration, 400000 farmers had signed contracts to reduce their pro duction of hogs and corn this year Most of these contracts were executed by Middle West farmers. In other states the campaign is just getting well started. Iowa leads with a total of 150,000 contracts, representing more than 80 per cent of corn and hog pro- ducers in that state, Flgures for oth. er states are: Illinois, 47,000; Mis sourl, 42,000; Nebraska, 22,000; Kan- sas, 10,000; Minnesota, 50,000; Indiana, 30,000 ; Ohio, 25,000; Wisconsin, 15,000, and South Dakota, 13,000, FFICIALS of St. Paul and Minne- apolis were considerably angered by a statement made by Attorney Gen- eral Homer 8. Cummings in which he sald the Twin cities were “breeding grounds of crime.” Mayor Mahoney of St. Paul telegraphed to Mr. Cum mings demanding that he amplify his charges, but the attorney general's only reply was to say that he meant what he said. Thereupon the mayor gave the Ramsey county attorney a list of twelve persons, Including Mr. Cummings, whom he wished asked to appear before the grand jury, which is now in session, It was sald legal com- plications probably would prevent the subpoenaing of the attorney general and other national officials, AS THE fighting American army, began earry over routes former) planes of the with their guns ving the alr mall by pri- compa. removed, covered minte com ee ing contracts re its Inquiry. * man wit iiter F. postmaster g under Presi Yer, estigating IES8 Was Brown, eneral lent Hoo- who ha «1 by of ritism of the Br a long s x iis BE coliusion in the contr Colonel Lindbergh wn glatemen ore the co nity which ml witne more or less in ' t 1 affair, gave to OFS. a statement 8, as follows fo Pan-American of pur. Alr- i warrants in the {3 S84 80 from P chase ways 2. Salary in-American, 00 a year 3. Salaries of £7,104 45 In $6000 in 1032 and 1033 from continental and Western Alr. 4. From Alr Trans. port (predecessor to Transcontinental and Western A r). L000 in reinvested In that company’s stock and later scld at a $165,033.75 profit. OH. A $10,000 a year salary as nleal adviser to the Pennsylvania rail. road Trans. Transcontinental cash, Y since 109031. Losses: $554.75 from Investments In e8% prior to 1500, Ger AUG USTO RAXDING, for the leader of rebels in Nica en he n ua until a year ago wh pence with President Sacasa, was mur- members of the natior Managua His brother and in were killed, dered guard two of his aldes also he ed by Sacasa and for the teed the Ul crime denoune ation was had guarat and his fol ordered, ves lowers while in of Sandind the capital C VEN In a republic the people like to read about the doings of roy. nity, so there has been much Interest in the romance Prince Sigvard, twenty - six « year - old » gon Crown Prince | Gustav Adolf of Swe. den, Sigyard fell, in love with Erika Pat- zoek, an German film actress who is little known and comes from a middle class family. The prince was determined to marry Erika but his grand. father, King Gustav, refused his consent and told Sigvard he would be dis owned If he persisted in his plan. Nevertheless the young man, unable to get the necessary papers in Ber lin, went to London with Erika and it was reported the wedding would take place there on March 8 The prince is well aware that if he marries the German girl he will for. feit his royal rights and thenceforth will be just “Mr. Bernadotte,” but he apparently is ready to give up every. thing for love, In 1832 his cousin, Prince Lennert, married the daughter of a Stockholm Industrialist and is now known as Mr. Lennert Berna- dotte, of of 4 Prince Sigvard F JAPAN and Russia do not get into a war, it will be the fault of nel. ther. The latest development in thelr growing hostility is a row over fishing rights in the north Pacific. The Jap- anese government Is enraged because Moscow has doubled the ruble rate of exchange with the yen and has reject ed Japanese bids on the Kamchatka fishing grounds based on the old rate, This, the Tokyo foreign office says, Is a flagrant violation of a solemn ngreement between Baron Shidehara, former foreign minister, and Alexan der Troyanovaeky, former Soviet am bassador to Japan, © by Western Newspaper Union, National Topics Interpreted Washington,—It has been just a year tince Franklin Delano Roosevelt ear. ried his “new deal” A Year of the program into the Ex- “New Deal” ecutive Mansion at Washington and the country has witnessed, In that time, many of the most revolutionary changes (n its economic and social and financial structure that could be im- agined. Indeed, in a nation that has & tradition of being largely conserva- tive, some of the things that have hap- pened, or have been brought about by the new dealers, could not imagined except by those who in the house of the theorist. But they have come; they are and without commendation or crit} is being asked: what have we? For one thing, In the past months, we have observed the stretching tent ernment reaching out into hithert known fu netions: we have same tentacles taking over more the -rights of individuals states and divisions of ment, and some jersons even be i dwell with us, twelve | slowly acles of the fed oO un | seen those and and of govern- hat ute more lesser we have itnessed w difference { our cordine aruinug ino tion and a uni That is, to for In letter, 1 cor en of thot there wa tion that denlers the basic str Of have been grea imes than the changes tha er cent curred in any oth turies combin several » others of the “al Every American | which one form or another | one into them ha ife projects and propositions in thelr basic ideas in i nder the gon Years gone desperation of the were hurled int structu they him uished f wag devel up of American resou Union We known, for Instance, a time when our | rrnment told business in so many words that it could work together as | a unit, If it met certain requirements, nor have we ever known a time when our government said to agriculture that it had to cut down its produc tion in a monopolistic agreement In order to force higher prices. One could go on and on with lllustrations Now, to repeat the earlier question: what have we? ped with rees after for tion of the never have BOVE » - » here is, and can be, little doubt of economic progress in the last few months, The coun try has emerged from the depression, to some extent at least. 1 believe no one can say with assurance, however, that we are far enough on the road to recovery that we can be sure of no relapse. But those persons who are best in a posi- tion to appraise conditions certainly feel there has been a gain, As to the cause of this improvement, one can pick up an argument almost anywhere, The ardent supporters of the new deal assert the Roosevelt poll- cies are responsible, while those op posed to the Roosevelt policies claim there is a probability that some or all of the progress made came from the natural wearing out of the depres sion, That is, history records the same course for all depressions. Stocks and supplies are exhausted and pro- duction starts up of its own accord to meet the demand. So we are starting In on a second yeur of the new deal, as [ see the ple ture, still uncertain as to the outcome but equipped with greater confidence than obtained among the rank and file of the people a year ago. It will be recalled how many times President Roosevelt has sald, In presenting new items In his new deal, that here was something else to try. He has experi mented. The law of average might seem to Indicate that part of them will work, and obviousiy a part of them have been influentinl in the economic progress that has been made. But who can say with assurance which they were and how much Influence Noticeable Progress each had? It ls my conviction that anyone attempting to make an unqual- ifled statement of these results at this time is either biased or inclined to stupidity, Human nature has changed slowly through the centuries, * ® od we are looking ex. which the icles have carried the fed. Wide Powers eral government in for Wallace individual affairs, it is proper to call at to the far-reac A ional, proposal to giv of Agriculture Wallace authority the amount of cotten that produced each year. The leg known as the Bankhead bill doubtedly the most importan yet devised for extend! it not vades righ respected but pros secrets agricuit with power to force cotton farm the 1 1 pos into loosevelt While tent to hing, even ¢ Secretary to con- may be legislation, is un- t prop ng fed. lon g only in- it ure power, because ts hitherto ides the ry of ers 10 obey the cotton pro Rue his orders in limiting duction, inctly, the which congress is now limit the produ« United States to ni year of event tl there tion the crop to pr amount tnx surplus e pro i provided The Guiry the reduction % # the pre Under present crop plans, There Is a into which enters, But on ens eontractua he the pr der ode the nev thi tation the hands « culture and he game time to as to total product] are oheyed I have hear favorable to Ar to 1 } yeu UMper cron total for is fixed at nine m rs or in What the Crog ry crop Bg pen nord nereage of a there 1s in the far above the . then will the farmer be penalis having to destroy that part of his p in excess of the amount stated on ition? Or what year, But assume CR favorable weather the wigetion is pr sage by ere his certificate of exem; benefits will he gain when nature has smiled on his crop? - * * There is also the converse of the Assume there Is another drought of 1030 pro- portions and the ote proposition, On the ton crop is virtus Other Hand How destroyed. the cotton producer going to be re warded for having reduced his acre. age, and where will the country fts supplies of cotton? Obviously, a short crop will get even a fair return from the high. | er prices? Secretary Wallace of the Depart. ment of Agriculture called attention to another possible result of the bill He told a congressional committee that he feared there would be a reg. nlar business of dealing In exemption | certificates develop from that feature | of the bill. One can only guess where | that would lead, | Mr. Wallace said that the valve of | the exemption certificates obviously | would fluctuate along with the rate of the tax on the excess, and the higher the rate of the tax the greater would | be the value of the exemption certl- ficate, “In so far as the exemption certl. ficates are of high valve” he sald, “there may be a tendency to shift the emphasis from cotton production to un emphasis on procuring of exemp- tion certificates. These certificates themselves might become a com. modity. This conld mean that various persons who In the past have engaged in the production of cotton and would be entitled to exemption certificates, many prefer to remain out of cotton production and to rely for part of their Income normally received from cotton upon the sales values of thelr exemption certificates.” The secretary likewise pointed to another vital spot In the statement that there was no due allowance made for differences In soli conditions or weather, between the north and south lines of the cotton belt, and other such purely local phases.” © by Western Newspaper Union, Mysterious Cosmic Ray Still in Controversy At Atlantic City recently Dr. Rob- ert A. 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