OREWARNED of a radical plot within the National Socialist party to bring about a second revolution In Germany, Chancellor Adolf Hitler im struck with swiftness i and ruthlessness that completely smashed the revolt on the eve of the planned coup d'etat and left the malcontents, c hlefly members of the Storm troopers, dazed and terrified. The Chan- cellor himself exhibit. ed resolution and per sonal bravery with Chancellor which the world had Hitler not credited him. Flying from Berlin to Munich in the night, Hitler with only two bodyguards went direct to the summer home of Capt, Ernst Roehm, commander of the brown shirts and long his personal friend. Roehm and certain of his as sociates were found in situations that confirmed the ‘often heard stories of their mora! perversion, and as Hitler was certain also of their complicity in the revolutionary plot, he personally arrested Roehm, tore off his insignia and offered him a chance to commit suicide. This Roehm refused, so on Hitler's order he was shot to death, a8 were the others taken with him Meanwhile, Gen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering, premier of Prussia, directed a series of ralds throughout the coun- try that resulted In the deaths of nu merous prominent members of the con- spiracy and the arrest of scores, Chief among those shot down was Gen, Kurt von Schleicher, Hitler's predecessor as chancellor and reputed head revolutionary plot. His wife stepped in the way of the policemen's bullets apd also dled. Wellknown Storm troop leaders in Munich and elsewhere were put to death summarily, and so was Heinrich Klausener, head of the Catholic Action party. Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, whe had recently attacked the radical tendencies of the Nazis, was put under heavy guard, and forbidden to leave his home, and two of his adjutants killed themselves, Von Papen offered to resign from the cabinet, but President Von Hinden- berg, his close friend, refused to ac cept the resignation, and the cabinet urged him to remain as minister with- out portfolio to supervise activities in the Saar. Von Papen, however, will take a protracted leave of absence. Viktor Lutze was appointed to suc ceed Roehm as chief of staff of all the reichswehr units, In- cluding the Storm troops among whom the disaffection had existed and the regu lar army, which was declared to be entire ly loyal to Hitler. President Von Hin denburg all this time was at his estate at Neudeck, East Prus sia, and there were reports of his serious illness, which were flatly dented. Two days after the chancellor's drastic ac tion the aged president telegraphed Hitler and Goering his approval of their course, congratulated them on their victory and thanked them in the pame of the nation. Undoubt edly, Hitler's personal position was strengthened for the time being, and the leftist elements in the Nazi party were weakened and divided. Goering and Hitler professed pity for the “mis led” Storm troopers, but the latter are now out of their uniforms tem. porarily and may never be as impor tant as they have been In the past They had become something Hke a pretorian guard that threatened Hit. ler’s supremacy. In various European capitals there were predictions of further outbreaks in Germany and the return of the Hohenzollerns, Hitler's “violent” methods were crit icized by Engelbert Dolifuss, Aus tria’s dictator, who sald: “Does not the light at last dawn upon us that one cannot make a people happy with violent methods?” Paris interpreted the affalr as a victory for conservatives and as open ing the possibility for a return of the Hohenzollerns, The violence, It was claimed, revealed a breakdown in the unity of the Hitler movement, In London the view was taken that Hitler had solidified his position. Some papers accused him of employing the methods of gangsters and called the slaying of storm-troop leaders “brutal murders.” Oe ——— RADE war between Great Britain and Germany was averted by the signing of an agreement protecting British Interests during the refch's six months foreign obligations morato- rium, ordered in effect July 1. Under the accord, Germany agrees to pay Young and Dawes plan obliga. tions when due It October, Novem. ber and December, on presentation of coupons on bonds by the Bank of Eng. land. For six months, beginning July 1, the German government is to pro vide sterling funds to the Bank of England for the purchase in full at the nominal value of all coupons on these loans held by British subjects on June 135, when the moratorium was disclosed. JArants cabinet resigned as a result of a financial scandal involving a vice minister, and the emperor called on Prince Salonjl, last of the elder statesmen, for advice In selecting a new premier, The prince recommend. ed Admiral Keisuke Okada for the place and the emperor made the ap- pointment, which was generally con- sidered very wise. Okada asked Kokl Hireta to remain as foreign minister, and the minister of war and navy also were reappointed, The new govern- tiring premier. One of its chief alms will be to clean up graft. Japanese naval circles vinced that Okada is the are only the naval conference next They feel that Salonji selected Okada because he realized that the conference will be of the utmost im- portance to Japan's future. through year, RESIDENT ROOSEVELT departed on his crulse to the Caribbean and Hawaill aboard the Houston, accompa nied by his two younger sons, Frank- gee lin, Jr, and John; £ Rudolph Forster of the White House sec retarial staff; Com- mander Ross T. Mcln- tire, naval physician; (ius Gennerich, per sonal gervice man, and Pharmacist's Mate George Fox. On ac companying destroy ers are two secret service men and three representatives of three big press associations, sailing the President per formed these seven important acts: Approved the Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage moratorium bill Approved the raliroad unemploy- ment and pension act involving ad- ditional burdens of millions of dol lars on the carriers, Appointed Joseph Kennedy, wealthy New York stock operator as chairman of the new securities exchange com- mission for a five-year term, and George C. Mathews, James M. Landis, Robert E. Healy and Ferdinand Pecora ad members for terms ranging from four years downward Named Eugene (. Sykes, Thad H. Brown, Paul Walker, Norman Case, Irvin Stuart, George Henry Payne and Hampson Gary members of the pew communications commission for terms ranging from seven years downward. Set up the new national labor re lations board with Lloyd Garrison, dean of the University of Wisconsin law school, chairman, and Prof. Henry Alvin Mills, head of the economics de partment at the University of Chicago, and Edward 8 Smith of Massacht- setts, labor relations specialist, as the other members, Named James A. Moffett, former vice president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and a mem ber of the planning and co-ordinating committee of the oll conservation board, as administrator of the new £1.000,000000 housing program. Appointed five members of a com- mission to study federal aviation and alr mail affairs and make recommend. ations to the next congress—Clark Howell, Atlanta, Ga, publisher; Je rome Clarke Hunsaker, New York; Edward P. Warner, Washington, D. C.; Franklin K. Lane, Jr, California, and Albert J. Berres, California. J. M. Landis Before BR. ROOSEVELT went ashore for the first time on his cruise at Cape Haitlen, Haiti, where he was met by President Stenlo Vincent and other officials of the island republic. At the Union club he made an address, partly in French, in which he announced the forthcoming withdrawal of the ma- rines, adding that he hoped they would be remembered as friends who had tried to help Haiti. Marine detach. ments have been on duty In Haltl, whose population is 90 per cent col ored, since 1915, ME. MARIE CURIE, co-discoverer with her husband of radium and rated ns one of the world's greatest women, passed away at Passy In the French Alps at the age of sixty-six years. Her physicians sald that her inability to recover from an attack of pernicious anemia was probably due to the fact that her bone structure was weakened by years of exposure to radium and X-rays The Netherlands was thrown into mourning by the death of Prince Con. sort Henry. He was married to Queen Wilhelmina in 1901 and the Dutch peo. ple had learned to love him deeply, TTEMPTS to open the port of San Francisco, closed for some time by the dock workers’ strike, resulted in bloody riots In which several men were killed and many injured. Gov, Frank Merriman called out 2,000 Na- tional Guardsmen, RIME MINISTER RAMBAY MAC DONALD of Great Britain, who is in Scotland on a vacation, was bitterly assalled in the house of lords by Vis count Snowden, former chancellor of exchequer and once close ‘personal friend of the premier, Snowden de nounced MacDonald as a traitor to his colleagues in the Labor party and to the country, “The cabinet found the prime minis ter such an amenable instrument of Tory policy,” Snowden declared, “that it has come to the conclusion that there are no professions which he made, no pledges which he gave the country which he will not repudiate, no humiliation to which he will not submit If they only allow him still to be called prime minister, “The Tories have no use for Mac- Donald except for exhibiting him on their platform in chains as the one time Socialist who has seen the error of his ways and found salvation In the spiritual home of the Tory party. “He will be used for the same pur- poses as the reformed drunkard at temperance meetings." ENATOR BORAH of ldaho, inde pendent Republican, opened his one-man campaign against the New pecially bureaucracy and monopoly, Al- though his criticism was directed primari- ly against what he conceives to be these elements in the New Deal, he summarily indicted the national leadership of the Re § publican party on the <4 4 ground that it “seems wholly unwilling to Senator Borah goueh this vital issue” --namely, the monopolistic trend. The senator sald the Roosevelt regime was establishing not Nazism, not Fascism, not Communism, but “simply that meddlesome, irritating, confusing, undermining, destructive thing called bureaucracy.” And bureau cracy he defined as “that form of gov- ernment which steals away man's rights in the name of the public in terest and taxes him to death In the name of recovery.” Bureaucracy, the civilization upon which It has It is the common man who will be the chilef victim of our new bureaucrat- government, the Idahoan as The Influential and powerful erally all the rights and privi desire under any form of jut the “freedom and political rights” of the tollers are be ing more more limited, whether under European dictatorships or the American bureaficracy. leges they government.” and V INDING up its fiscal year, th federal government found that, counting emergency expenses, it had spent about $4,000 000,000 more than it had collected. jalancing receipts against ordinary expenditures, the government figured it was $28.000,000 “in the black™ for the year. President Roosevelt has estimated nearly $5.000,000000 would be added to the national debt by emergency ex- during the next 12 months This was predicated on recovery that would make industrial production av- erage 08 per cent of the 1023.25 level In July, 1035, the President hopes to start the payoff for the recovery program. By that time, he has said, the budget should be balanced. According to the federal reserve board's index, the industrial produc tion figure for the year just ended was slightly above the 81 per cent av. erage on which the President based his hopes. penses phasized the friendship that exists between the United States and Can ada. The first was the dedication of the new International Secretary of War Dern represented and the ear! of Besshorough, governor War of 1812, at Annapolis ever since mendation of President Roosevelt congress authorized the restitution of the mace. Rear Admiral Willlam D, tion, accompanied by his ald, Lieut. Com. Ernest H. von Helmburg, made the presentation at Toronto and at- tended the unvelling of a monument erected by the United States’ Dmugh- forces killed during that war, the departure of President Roosevelt. Secretary Roper went to Alaska and Secretary Morgenthay to a Montana raficki. Secretary Dern salled for the Canal Zong, and Secretary Swanson and Attorney General Cummings were down on the lower Potomac on yachts. Secretary Hull took motor ridos in the Virginia mountains. Secretary Farley was in New York, and Secretary Wal lace svent to Chautauqua. Secretaries Ickes and Perking remained at thelr job, General Johnson went to Sara. toga Springs for a rest, Harry Hop king salled for Europe and Professor Tugwell went to the Far West. Lesser lights also left Washington. EXICO elected a new constitu. tional president—Gen. Lazaro Cardenas—and it was the quietest election in the country’s history, CENTRE HALL, PA. a ———— Washington ~—Congress took & for mal adjournment a few weeks ago, but I found in roam- Tax Inquiry ing about the Capl- . : tol and senate and Significant house office bulld- ings the other day, that there are no less than eleven of {ts committees con- tinuing In session, and that no less than eleven of them are conducting investigations. It is true that only a few members of each of the commit- tees remain In attendance—~the others are out campaigning for re-election but, even so, it appears there Is going to be an extraordinary amount of searching after truth, or mudslinging. through the heat of the summer and the cool of the autumn. While I am not infallible in my Judgment and conclusions, I must con investigations, The ways and committee of the house has started out to do some surveying of the federal taxation structure, and ev- erywhere 1 have asked I have found approval of the idea. There can be no doubt of a need for that survey, provided the politiclans will accept the of those who examined the facts, because the American taxation system, both national and state, surely is of the hit-or-miss type. jut there Is another significance to the tax inquiry. 1 reported to you re cently that it was going to cost tax- payers a total of almost §1,150,000,000 a year in interest on the public debt of the national government when that debt reaches the £31,000,000000 which President Roosevelt has announced it will reach, that Information was given you, further inquiries con vince me the debt easily may reach £35,000.000,000 by the winter of 10385 30, and the interest alone will be cor- respondingly more. This is the interest, mind you, and makes no pro- for retirement of the which would have extra dollars. the national high, and going higher and the house ways and means committee is making such an intensive study of the tax system, one can not fall to link two to gether, The obvious question is: is the administration becoming concerned over the sources of funds to pay the huge total of debt incurred in spend- ing our way out of the depression? Concurrently with the house com- mittee's study, Secretary Morgenthan of the treasury, announced the ap pointment of another brain-trust group to study tax questions for him. Mr. Morgenthau holds that our tax system is full of holes, which undoubtedly It is, and he feels that the general meth- od should be revamped so that the flow of revenue will not be so depend. ent upon tions. To that end, the secretary sent part of the number of professors and tax experts selected by him over to England for a study of British tax. ation methods, British taxes appar ently are much higher than curs, and Mr. Morgenthau Is desirous of finding out how the British government away with it So, one hears ground Washington a great deal of discussion of what the future holds in the way of tax upon the rank and file. Mr. Roosevelt Since Just vision debt, tax Since any of to take debt 1s so the condi Prosperous economic gets levies country, it will be remembered, that relief wad his first consideration, that vast sums had been expended for relief and that further vast sums will be expended. All of which leads back to the observation I made above, namely, that one cannot help linking these sev. eral studies together with an under current of fear that, perhaps, we are spending too much money, - . - While discussing the tax investiga- tion, however, it would be unfair to omit reference to Double one feature of the Taxation Evil house committee in- vestigation that, | am told by real tax authorities, can be of much value, The house committee taxation evil that besets the country. It is known to everyone, of course, that there are places and things upon which the federal government levies high taxes and that these taxes fall on top of similar, and sometimes the committee Inquiry may bring to light how often, and where, this sort of thing Is happening. For example of double taxation, two or three common illustrations will serve to Indicate how severely the burden obtains. Take the tax on gas oline as one. The federal government laid a tax on gasoline two years ago, and that tax although it was small had to be paid by users of “gas” in addi tion to the state levies which run as high in some states as 7 or 8 cents a gallon, making the tax borne by that commodity aggregate as much as 10 or 11 cents a gallon In some places. The tax on cigarettes is another example, but this commodity was taxed first by the federal government and then the states put their levies on, The re sult Is that In many states the tax on cigarettes amounts to more than the selling price of the package would be if no tax were laid, Twenty-nine states now collect taxes on Incomes of Individuals or corpor ations, and twenty-six of them collect A tax from both, These taxes, of course, are aside from the high rates sini i imposed by congress under federal in- come tax laws, These matters naturally constitute subjects for serious Investigation. It is the only way by which congress can inform itself and determine a policy. Such, however, unfortunately cannot be sald about most of the other inves. tigations that are running through the summer and fall. There is the so- enlled munitions investigation, Thus far, my searches have yielded little information showing that this investi- gation ean produce anything construc tive, It, and several of the other in- vestigations, in my opinion, amount to little more than fishing expeditions, a hope that something will be uncovered 80 that some members of congress can be "amazed" or duly “dumbfounded” by business practices of firms that have been in business half a century or more. I guess the senators and representatives have to have some thing to be “amazed” about every so often, but it does occur to me that if congress really wants to economize, it could limit its investigations which roughly will cost close to half a million dollars this summer and fall -. » » many puzzling things, U. S., Greatestand some of Landlord istration soup—released a statement to the twelve federal thousands of others on which the loan are in virtual I think be sald, therefore, that Uncle Sam the landlord default. become world While the less startlin ment, agencies, now ! land, the fact gives only an ink what has happened In others various agencies through As 1 said, one can hardly ing where it altempt to greatest information Is » feder through one of its multifariot owns so much all will end. controvert the federal future holds if the course is ved. The farm loan banks have a total of SRIO30.000 tied up In those farms which they hold The only way that money ean be withdrawn ix by sale of the lands. If they are sold, the chances are new mortgages in varying amounts will have to be placed on them buyers are not in a po LE cause most the government agency again will the land. All of which is by way of saying that the idealist who walls and gnashes his teeth about the terrible brute who forecloses has not yet solved the of saving homes Own problem that was too narrow, or a home into hard luck. The point of it is that government is dabbling every- thing. It is going beyond what gov- ernment ought to do, . . - When one examines the whole ple ture respecting government and | the into federal Astounding Picture is rather astounding. For instance, the Re- construction, Fi- nance corporation anounced the other day that it was willing to help the Baltimore & Ohio raliroad refinance its maturing bonds. 1 do not know what the outcome will be, but it seems to me that refinancing of a railroad by use of government credit is hardly a function of government. The Reconstruction Finance corpor- ation is making loans continually, It has loaned money to, or has bought stock in nearly 4.500 banks. Propo- nents of this policy contend soundly epough that unless those loans had been made, the banks which obtained them would have gone on the rocks and the depositors would have suf fered. But I am still wondering if it is the proper function of govern- ment to protect private activities to the extent of guaranteeing out of the public funds that | shall get my money back on any old Investment or what not into which 1 have put it. Some way, I am inclined to feel that govern ment, as such, ought not be dabbling into things where it is required to in- sure that people will not be foolish or crooked, And there are going to be more loans made. The last congress en. acted a law providing for loans to In dustry, the so-called small industries loan legislation, it was called. Business leaders and bankers tell me that the government ie going to find itself own- ing a lot of business wrecks through those loans. The bankers say that If a business has a chance to survive, which means It can pay expenses, it can get money at ordinary banking houses, If the government is going to make loans onfy to those unable to get bank leans, the conviction | hear most often expressed is that the government bad better set up another agency from which it can send supervisors or gen. eral managers all over the country to run the property it eventually will own, © by Westerns Newspaper Union, Real Bayer Aspirin at Lowest Prices in History A new schedule of prices for Bayer Aspirin tablets has just gone Into effect, The Bayer Company Intro- duced Bayer Aspirin in this country 85 years ago. 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