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UEY. Pp. LONG, United States sen-
‘ator and political dictator of Lou-
isiana, is dead, the victim of an as-
3 assin’s bullet. As he passed through
a corridor of the
state-house in Baton
Rouge, where the leg-
islature was passing
more laws to solidify
his control over the
state, he was shot
once through the bedy
by Dr. Carl A. Weiss,
Jr.,, of Baton Rouge,
one of the ing-
fish’s” political oppo-
nents. The assassin
| Huey P. Long w.s immediately shot
to death by the senator’s ever present
bodyguards.
3 The surgeons and physicians worked
unceasingly to save Long, but his
strength steadily waned and shortly
ter 4 o'clock Tuesday morning, about
| tiry hours after the shooting, he
1 ‘passed away. f
Long’s body lay in state in the ro-
tunda of the Capitol building while
any thousands passed by the bier.
The impressive. funeral services were
~ senator was. interred in a sunken gar-
den of the Capitol grounds. Rev. Ger-
ald L. K. Smith, the young minister
Ww o deserted a rich parish in Shreve-
ort to follow Long, was the only
speaker at the funeral. The only mu-
‘was the song, “Every Man a King,”
Pp yed jn minor key and dirge time
y the State University band.
‘Though the man who killed Long
the real story of the assassination was
shrouded in uncertainty. Rarl Chris-
tenberry, secretary of the late senator,
declared that Long was murdered as
result of a conspiracy; that a num-
ber ‘of his enemies formed a “jury of
y death,” and that Doctor Weiss was
selected by lot to fire the fatal bullet.
To those who are familiar with the
conditions in Louisiana this story does
not sound especially fantastic.
| What will become of Long’s “empire”
1s a question that agitates all his fol-
lowers, and all the people of the state
as well. For the present, it seemed
likely, the members of the Long ma-
chine will sink their personal ambi-
tions and try to hold the organization
intact. It will be difficult for them to
decide on a successor to the “Kingfish”
as their leader. Gov. O. K. Allen is
considered too mild and ' peace-loving.
Ok ‘Seymour Weiss—no relative of the as-
. passin—treasurer of the Long organ-
ization, is the strongest man in the lot,
ut he always has drawn back from
holding a public position. Allen A.
Ellender, speaker of the house, may
by the man finally selected.
USSOLINI tacitly consented to
L the appointment of a committee
of five nations by the League of Na-
* tions council to handle the Italo-Ethi-
~ opian embroglio, and
after protest agreed
that Great Britain and
France should be
among the members of
thot body. The other
members are Spain,
Turkey and Poland.
Senor Salvador de
Madariaga of Spain is
the chairman, and he
and his associates at
once began the task
assigned them. Each
country is represented
Salvador de
Madariaga
by its chief delegate, being besides
Madariaga, Eden of England, Laval
© of France, RustuArras of Turkey and
Josef Beck of Poland.
league opened its session, Sir Samuel
Hoare, British foreign secretary, elec-
{rified the gathering by an outspoken
warning to Italy and France. He de-
clared Great Britain recognized Italy's
" need for expansion and raw materials
‘but would not ‘admit these could not
be obtained peaceably. Pounding the
tribune, he said:
| “Britain stands for steady collective
. Pesistance to all acts of unprovoked
aggression.” He paused, struck the
‘tribune again, and repeated quietly:
3 i “Steady collective resistance to all
acts of unprovoked aggression.”
| Sir Samuel more than intimated that
Great Britain was prepared to take
‘sanctions against Italy in case of ag-
‘gression provided all the other mem-
bers of the league shared the risk;
‘and if not, then England was prepared
to isolate herself from the continent.
[This seemed to put it up to Premier
- |Taval of France, to choose between
‘the friendship of Britain and that of
Italy. Laval, meanwhile, was trying
ito persuade Mussolini to accept anoth-
held on the front terrace and the dead |
was known as one of his political foes,’
| Soon after the assembly of the-
Britain Ready to Take Sanctions Against le
: Ickes Yesus Hopkins.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Uszion,
er plan be had devised and postponed
his speech to the assembly.
Representatives of the Netherlands
and Sweden were the first to support
Hoare’s position, announcing their
countries would fulfill all obligations,
including collective penalties, if any
member became a victim of aggres-
sion.
_ In two speeches In Rome Mussolini
gave indication that he would not be
diverted from his purpose to conquer
Ethiopia. Though in one he said “the
Italian people want peace provided it
is accompanied by justice,” in the oth-
er he declared “we shall march
straight on.” The Ethiopian govern-
ment announced that “telegrams from
the northern frontier show that the
Italians are making important troop
movements on the Ethiopian and
Eritrean frontier, indicating an early
offensive against Ethiopia.”
Accepting the advice of his “brain
trust,” which includes Everett A. Col-
son of the United States, Emperor
Haile Selassie instructed his repre-
séntatives in Geneva to reject all solu-
tions thus far offered by the powers
for settling the quarrel with Italy.
UBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATOR
ICKES and Work Progress Adminis-
trator Hopkins got into such a quar-
rel over the spending of the $4,000,000,
000 fund that the
President had to call
them to Hyde Park,
together with the
third and neutral
member of the works
relief triumvirate—
Frank &. Walker, the
director of the na-
tional emergency coun-
cil and administrator
of applications.
Others called to the
important works re-
lief parley included Daniel Bell, direc-
tor of the budget; Charles West, un-
der-secretary of interior; Corrington
Gill, assistant of Hopkins; Fred Iron-
sides, administrative assistant of
Walker, and Col. Horatio Hackett,
chief of housing in the PWA.
Mr. Roosevelt was determined to
have peace, and told those present that
the prime necessity at this time is to
make jobs quickly, always keeping in
mind the idea of turning workers back
to private industry as business war-
rants. This looked like a victory for
Hopkins, who favors quick jobs, over
Ickes, champion of permanent public
works. The President has declared
that he hopes 3,500,000 persons can be
removed from the relief rolls and put
to work by the first of November.
Harry Hopking
EGAL attack on the Guffey soft
coal act has been opened by 16
coal cempanies operating in Harlan
county, Kentucky, in Federal court at
Louisville. They brought suit for in-
junction against its enforcement, charg-
ing that it violates the federal Consti-
tution in these ways:
1. It violated the fifth amendment,
which forbids taking property without
due process of law.
2. It violated the tenth amendment,
which reserves to the states, or to the
people, all rights not granted the fed-
eral government or forbidden the
states.
3. It attempts to delegate legislative
power.
4, The section levying a 15 per cent
tax on all coal production, with a 90
per cent refund to producers submit-
ting to the code provided by the act,
is “an unconstitutional attempt on
the part of cengress, under the guise
of taxation, to punish those producers
of bituminecus coal who are unwill-
ing to surrender their constitutional
rights.”
5. Congress has no jurisdiction over
and no power to legislate upon certain
matters covered by the act or the code.
The companies declared they would
refuse te submit to the act and the
code it authorizes.
{JNiveRsITY of Michigan is rejoic-
ing over a gift of $5,000,000 for
enlargement of its graduate school.
The money is donated by the Horace
H. and Mary A. Rackham fund, based
on the bulk of the estate of the late
Horace H. Rackham, Detroit phi-
lanthropist. %
One million dollars will be spent to
purchase a square block of land ad-
joining the present campus and for a
new building. The remainder will be
exrployed as an endowment. The in-
come will be used to promote research.
By the terms of the agreement the
school will be known as the Horace
H. Rackham School of Graduate
Studies.
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NATIONAL CAPITAL
By Carter Field
FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
Washington.—Black rust in the
Northwest, particularly in the Dakotas
and Minnesota, and to a lesser extent
—due to less rain—in Montana, is go-
ing to upset a lot of AAA calculations
on wheat this year. For example, all
government figures so far are very mis-
leading, in that they estimate bushels
of wheat, but take no account of the
fact that due to the peculiar type of
ravaging black rust effects, the same
number of bushels of wheat will pro-
duce less flour.
Conservative estimates in Minneapo-
lis and St. Paul, for example, are that
from 40 to 50 per cent of the wheat
crop expected in the whole Northwest
will be unmillable, That is, it would
not, in the normal course of events, be
ground inte flour. This is complicated
further by the processing taxes.
The processing tax is based on the
bushel of wheat that goes into the
flour mill. Now a bushel of wheat
which has been affected by black rust
will produce only a fraction of the
flour that a normal bushel of wheat
fwould. In ordinary times, this would
be ‘carefully calculated, and would be
reflected in a much lower price paid
But the
fact that the processing tax is based
‘on the bushel of wheat, not on the
barrel of flour, upsets normal calcula-
tiens.
Black rust strikes the whent on one
side—always the southern side. If the
weather is dry, it does not spread
around the kernel. If the weather is
damp, it does. It makes a ring all
around, and as most of the nourish-
ment comes up near the circumference
of the kernel, instead of through the
center, the food of the kernel is choked
off. This means that in a bushel of
rust-infected wheat, there is an un-
usually large percentage of bran, and
an unusually small percentage which
can be ground into white flour.
Canada Also Hit
The duty on wheat from Canada is
42 cents a bushel. Canada also suf-
fered from black rust this year, but
Canada has a tremendous carry-ocver—
considerably more than 100,000,000
bushels, which is not affected by black
rust. Moreover, the government of
Canada has decided to liquidate this
wheat, which it has been holding in
much the same way that the United
States government held cotton, and as
the Brazilian government held coffee.
This hold-ever Canadian wheat, ex-'
perts say, can easily pay the 42 cents
duty, and the processing tax, and still
be a bargain for Minneapolis millers in
contrast with about one half of the
northwestern wheat, This is due to
the complication of the processing tax,
plus the fact that half or more of the
northwestern wheat assays such a
small proportion of flour.
Predictions by experts are that at
least 50,000,000 bushels of this hold-
over Canadian wheat will be bought by
United States millers, and probably
nearer 100,000,000 bushels.
The rust-infected wheat thus driven
out will have to be scld as cattle feed.
But there enters another complication.
There is already in the Northwest a
great plenty of cattle feed. All forage
crops were good this year, due to the
very moisture which hurt the wheat.
Forage crops, due to their bulk as com-
pared with their value, cannot be
hauled economically for long distances.
Which means that if they are to be
consumed at all, they must be con-
sumed in the northwestern states.
From all of which experts predict
that there will be tremendous buying
of young pigs for fattening, and young
cattle, in the Dakotas, Minnesota, and
Montana, this year, and that while the
production of beef may not affect prices
before 1937, the price of pork will be
forced down by next summer, no mat-
ter what the AAA may do.
Atlantic-Gulf Canal
Aside entirely from the questien of
whether the construction of the At-
lantic-Gulf canal aeross northern Flor-
ida will ruin the fresh water supply
of that portion of the state south of
the proposed ditch down te Lake Oke-
chobee, the proposition is really on all
fours with the much talked about
Passamoquaddy,
It has been considered for many
years. Always it has been rejected,
after study by engineers. Always the
reason has been the same. It is en-
tirely practical as an engineering
project—indeed it presents few real
difficulties from that angle, if this con-
tamination of Florida's fresh water
supply is waved to one side. But is it
economically sound? The answer has
always been “No.”
Careful study, even this time, pro-
duced a report to President Roosevelt
that if the total velume of business
which might be expected should ma-
terialize, still the proposition would not
pay interest on .its cost and eperating
expenses. There is no hair line about
this. The experts had no doubt about
it whatever,
But there is an even gloomier angle.
Three-fourths of the present tonnage
moving from Gulf ports to North At-
lantic American ports, and across the
Affantic (tonnage for South Atlantic
ports of course would not use it) con-
sists at present of oil. No cne is in
a positien to state how long this ton-
nage will continue so to move. Oil
fields now shipping by way of the Gulf
may continue shipping for many years,
Eh :
IB ne
e i
On the other hand, their production
may slump any time. Also it is always
possible that pipe lines may be found
more economical for moving the prod-
uct.
So that no one knews at what mo-
ment three-fourths of the existing ton-
nage that this canal might expect may
be cut off.
Can’t Foretell Tonnage
Against this the contention is made
in defense that no one can foretell
what business may arise to provide
plenty of tonnage for the canal. It is
quite possible. Many railroads doing
a large business today, and serving
very real needs, were constructed to
accommodate traffic which has long
since disappeared—would never have
been built if their builders, and the in-
vestors who provided the construction
costs, had suspected that the traffic
they were built to handle might evap-
orate.
The Immediate pressure for the
canal, of course, is to provide some use-
ful work for idle men—semething that
will not be mere boondoggling. On the
theory that this work may be useful—
may even prove profitable for reasons
not now realized—the work is justified
by its defenders. And it is a real job.
The canal will be 195 miles long. It
invelves moving almost twice as much
dirt as was involved in digging the
Panama canal—slides and all. Though
on account of the difference in terrain,
climate, etc., the expense will not be
anything like as great.
Incidentally, traffic on the Panama
canal is far greater than anyone at
the time conceived it could be. So that
there has been strong pressure eco-
nomically, as well as for the mere ob-
vious reason of national defense, for a
Nicaraguan canal. Engineers, leaving
out of consideration the question of
keeping a canal open despite air raids
and sabotage in war, would like to
double the number of locks at Panama,
thus doubling the amount of tonnage
which could move through it.
About Politics
It is an old saying in politics that
the man “out in front” in the race for
the Presidential nomination of a big
party—six months before the cenven-
tion—is bound to be killed off. The
theory is that all the other candidates
are shooting at him. Also that the
public is highly changeable, and for-
ets easily.
There are exceptions to all rules, as
evidenced in this case by the present
incumbent of the White House, Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt, was well out in front
for the Democratic nomination for 18
months prior to the 1932 Democratic
convention. He sprang into the lead
when he was re-elected governor of
New York, by a tremendous majority,
in November, 1930. His boom defied
all traditions by staying there, despite
all sorts of ups and downs, right
through the whole peried. To use a
racing term, his boom was never head-
ed. There was never a day from No-
vember, 1930, until his nomination in
June, 1932, when fair betting odds
would not have favored him against
any other candidate. Or for that mat-
ter, against any two other candidates.
Politicians of both parties are won-
dering if an exception will come this
time in the Republican party. At pres-
ent the two leaders, so far out in front
that it seems hardly worth while to
figure who is third and who is fourth,
are Senator William E. Borah and Col,
Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicage
Daily News.
Almost any politician, familiar with
national politics, will tell his friends
confidentially that if either of the two
is nominated, it will be Knox. This
theory is also based on old fixations,
which may easily be preved. wrong.
Stripped down to its essentials, the
theory on which these politicians elimi-
nate Borah is two-fold. First, that he
is too old. Second, that the “regulars”
have never wanted Borah, and hence
would not want him now.
As to Borah
That is ene of the reasons the recent
poll of Republican local leaders by Rob-
ert H. Lucas was so interesting. Ap
parently these local leaders thought
Borah would make a very strong candi-
date in their communities, whether
they personally would prefer another
type or net.
As to his age, Borah is in marvelous
condition considering his 70 years.
Friends are fond of saying he has all
the Mormon virtues. By which they
mean he uses no tea, coffee, tobacco or
alechol. He is a sparing “eater, and
has kept up his horseback riding even
in Washington. He insists on his
beauty sleep every night, cares nothing
about society, never subjects himself
to any undue strains. For example,
even when he was tremendously inter-
ested in filibusters, he never made the
long, grueling, time-killing speeches for
which some other senators are famous.
All his life he has been a lone welf
in politics. In the senate he has never
been a cog in the machine. He would
never be “regular.
The strength of Colonel Knox, as
shown in various polls, is simply revo-
lutionary from a political standpoint.
Ogne has to go back to Horace Greely
for a precedent, and even that is not a
good one.
Copyright.—~WNU Service.
~ The Ananda, a Temple of Pagan.
Prepared by the National Geographic Society.
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
AGAN, Burma's Sacred City, is
Poni and mystery; about it
is enchantment. Here, 90 miles
southwest of Mandalay, the trav-
eler finds himself in the midst of a
veritable forest of temples and pago-
das, large and small, nearly perfect or
almost unrecognizable because of de-
cay. Before their vast bulks the trav-
eler becomes painfully conscious of his
littleness and insignificance. His mere
presence seems an impertinence. The
crumbling walls, the fallen pinnacles
and the desolation are eloquent of the
vanity of fame, the hollowness of
glory, and the futility of human effort.
Of the 5,000 or more temples that
are still to be seen, the Amanda, the
Thatbyinnyu, and Gawdawpalin, stand-
ing all three within a circle of a quar-
ter of a mile radius, are surpassingly
beautiful and majestic.
The Ananda rises like a structure of
foam. On its summit, like the flame
upon some altar, a slender, golden
spire gathers the radiance of the sun
and flings it forth again to every
quarter. It is the first of /all the tem-
ples to command the traveler's atten-
tion; it is the last upon which he
[ gazes as the swift steamer bears him
away.
The Thatbyinnyu has suffered more
from time and neglect than has the
Ananda. Its walls are blackened and
much of the detail of its ornamenta-
tion has fallen away. It is hardly
beautiful; it is majestic.
The third temple has neither the ex-
quisite beauty of the Ananda nor the
sublimity of the Thatbyinnyu; yet in
the perfect harmony of its proportions,
the refinment of every detail, it has a
charm of its own. It contributes with
the others to the spell which Pagan
casts over even the most careless
visitor.
Lovely View From Circuit House.
Past the Gawdawpalin the path leads
on to the circuit house. At every
step is revealed some new grouping
of effects, some new harmonies of pro-
portion or felicities of detail, and from
the spacious veranda of the resthouse
the view is one never to be forgotten.
Westward the river and the hills, sil-
ver and gold and blue in the sunset;
near at hand the Gawdawpalin, with
orange light and soft purple shadows
mingling and shifting over its huge
battlements; farther away the Ananda
and the Thatbyinnyu, now indistinct
in the twilight; and all around, the
half-seen outlines of pagodas.
Heroic achievements, the basest vil-
lainy, successful subtlety—all these
are mingled in the history of this
ruined city.
The greatness of Pagan, and with it
reliable Burmese history, dates from
the accession of Anawrata, about A.
D. 1017. This truly remarkable mon-
arch won by the sword a splendid em-
‘pire. and established a dynasty that
continued in power for more than 200
years. At the beginning of his reign
he devoted himself to the moral and
religious uplift of his people. A cor-
rupt and degrading “Naga-worship,”
or obedience to devils, in the form of
serpents, had come through Assam
from northern India.
Anawrata’s Great Reform.
Soon after Anawrata ascended the
throne Buddhist missionaries arrived
at Pagan from the country of the
Talaings, a people dwelling to the
south and, as a result of the frequent
and easy communication with India
by sea, highly civilized. These Talaing
missionaries found the king a zealous
convert. He expelled the priests of
the abominable cult that for so many
years had debauched his people, striet-
ly proscribed the Naga worship, and
did everything in his power to further
the efforts of the preachers.
His fervor had, however, one lament-
able result. Hearing that there were
in Thaton, the Talaing capital, copies
of the Buddhist Sacred Books and sev-
eral precious relics, he sent a noble
envoy to beg for such portions as
might be spared. His reasonable re-
quest was refused in a singularly inso-
lent and shortsighted manner.
With characteristic energy Anwrata
assembled an army and a fleet and
moved against Thaton. He was com-
pletely successful, and a$ the spoils of
victory he carried back to Pagan not
only the books and the priceless relics
but the king and queen -of the fallen
city, together with principal nobles,
rich treasure, 32 white elephants; and a
host of 30,000 artificers and scholars.
This signal success only fanned the
flame of Anawrata’s zeal. A fresh
field for enterprise was found in Cey-
lon. There was in that island a most
sacred relic, nothing less than a tooth
ef Gautama. Such a trophy was be-
yond price and its possession by Pagan
would sanctify and enoble the king’s
name. Accordingly, with four trusty
captains, mounted on matchless steeds,
Anawrdta hastened to the seashore
self satisfied.
N
and embarked for Ceylon at nightfall.
But unseen hands were fighting om
the side of the sovereign of Ceylon
and sacred tooth. The ship sped
swiftly on through the night. Yet
when the travelers awoke it was to
find themselves anchored a little be-
low Pagan!
Baffled but not defeated, Anawrata
sent an envoy to Sangabodhi, the
king, an envoy who bore many costly
presents and who was instructed to
demand the tooth of Guatama in re-
turn.
Gautama Supplied Teeth.
Sangabodhi, unwilling to surrender
his most precious possession, yet fear-
ful of arousing the ire of so dreadful
a monarch as the king of Pagan, was
in sore straits. In his distress he ex-
pressed the wish that he might have
two such teeth. No sooner had he
given utterance to this desire than the
tooth produced a fellow exactly re-
sembling itself! In fact, the two were
indistinguishable until the original
declared itself by rising into the air
and performing miracles.
The duplicate was placed in a casket
of gold and delivered to the envoy,
who carried it back with great pomp
to Pagan.
To solve the difficulty of choosing
a site for the enshrinement of the
prize, the casket was placed on the
back of a white elephant, and it was
announced that wherever the animal
halted there should be the resting
place of the tooth.
Much to the disappointment of all,
the elephant bearing his precious bur-
den crossed the river and knelt dowm
near the Tangyi hills. This was very
far from the palace, and the king ex-
pressed his regret that he also had not
two sacred teeth. Here again the wish
was father to the miracle. Tmmedigtely
there were twe teeth instead of onef
The duplicate was placed on the ele-
phant’s back and the beast was biddem
to move on.
Five times the elephant halted be-
fore reaching the neighborhood of
the palace, and at each place the tooth
was miraculously multiplied, until at
last the site of the Lokananda was
reached and the king professed him-
At each stop a shrine
was built, and at the last was reared
the pile which stiil remains as one
of the monuments to Anawrata’s great-
ness.
Anawrata’s end was tragic. One day,
as he was riding through the forest om
an elephant, he struck his head against
the branch of a tree in which dweit:
two nats—Teinbin and his wife, Lein-
bin. In a fit of rage the monarch
dragged Leinbin down from the tree
and beat her mercilessly.
Teinbin, in his turn, enraged at the
king's cruelty, lay in wait for Anaw-
rata in the depths of the jungle. Tak-
ing the form of a huge white buffalo,
he furiously charged the unhappy mon-
arch and succeeded in impaling hime
upon one of his horns. The body was:
never found.
Conquered by the Chinese.
For more than two centuries the
successors of Anawrata more or less
worthily maintained the dignity and
prestige of Pagan. But in the north
was developing a power that was soom
to engulf not Pagan only, but almost
the entire continent of Asia. Kublai
Khan in 1254 conquered what is now
Yunnan, and the Chinese were thus
brought into contact with Burma. To
the resulting conflict there could be
but one issue. In 1286 Pagan fell be-
fore invaders from the north, never
again to attain historical significance.
Of the great battle between the two
armies on the plain of Vociam, Marco
Polo gives a graphic and spirited ac-
count.
Though, under the circumstances,
the fali of Pagan was inevitable, the
last king of that unfortunate capital
stands in pitiful contrast to the great
Anawrata. Known to history as
Tayokpyemin, the King Who Ran
Away From the Chinese, he was utter-
ly unworthy of his noble office. In the
Mingalazedi is an inscription which
commemorates his achievements at the
table. Here it is recorded that he
never dined off fewer than three hun-
dred dishes!
While the Chinese host was yet a
long way from the city, the cowardly
king fled down the river to Bassein.
When the cooks whom he had taken
with him were able to produce only
150 dishes, the full horror of his posi-
tion dawned upon the unhappy mon-
arch. He burst into childish tears and
exclaimed, “Now I am poor indeed!”
When the invaders had taken their
toll of Pagan and retired, he thought
of returning. At Prome, however, he
was met by one of his sons, who of-
fered him poisoned food. For a time
the weakling hesitated. At last, con-
vinced that it was better to die so than
by the sword, he yielded and met a
fate that, as few writers have avoided
the temptation to remark, was singu-
larly appropriate to his character.
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