News Review of Current Events the World Over National Prohibition Passes Out and Foreign Liquor Comes In Johnson Put in Control of AAA Cotles Will Budget Director Douglas Resign? By EDWARD W. PICKARD and a deliberate and definite dl obedience of the commandment, 'thou shalt not kill.' We do not excuse ex-cuse those In high places or in low who condone lynch law." WHEN CoL Charles A. Lindbergh Lind-bergh starts out to do something some-thing In the way of aviation, he does It competently, skillfully and neatly. Accompanied and ably assisted as-sisted by Mrs. Lindbergh, he piloted his big monoplane across the southern south-ern Atlantic from Bathurst, Gambia, Africa, to Natal, Brazil, making the 1,875 miles In 10 hours and 10 minutes min-utes and landing smoothly In the Natal harbor, where the entire population pop-ulation of the city was gathered to , welcome them. Through the long flight Mrs. Lindbergh at the wireless wire-less Instrument kept In constant communication with Rio de Janeiro. WITH considerable ceveniony and military display the sev. enth Pan-American conference was opened In Montevideo. Uruguay, to NATIONAL prohibition went Into tlie discard on December 5. State conventions In I'ennsylvanln, Ohio and Utah ratified the repeal V"'- ainendiiient on that day, making the n e c e ssary thirty-six, thirty-six, and Immediately Immediate-ly on being notified by telegraph. President Pres-ident Roosevelt and Acting Secretary of Stale William Phil-Hps Phil-Hps Issued proela-rn proela-rn a 1 1 ons that the Eighteenth amendment amend-ment was no longer a part of the Constitution. Con-stitution. In twen- jr.- j 1M corn and hogs by paying federal bounties to the producers, was launched by Secretary Wallace. The money will be raised by processing taxes which the consumer will pay and will go to farmers who sign agreements to reduce their average of corn and production of hogs In 10TJ4. Benefit payments on corn, under the program, will be at the rate of ,'!0 cents a bushel for each bushel the farmer agrees to withhold from production In 10,14. The payment will be based on the average yield of the contracted acreage during the previous live-year period. One-half the payment will be made to the farmer as soon as his contract has been approved, the other half when he has fulfilled the terms of the agreement. In return for the farmers' agreement agree-ment to curtail hog production the government will pay $5 a head on 75 per cent of the average number of hogs mnrketed or to be marketed from litters farrowed by the producers' pro-ducers' sows In the last two years. JLTOW long Budget Director Lewis 1 1 Douglas will continue to hold his job Is a question that Interests observers In Washington. He hns continue probably three weeks. Its deliberations de-liberations are managed man-aged by Enrique E. Buero as secretary-general. secretary-general. He Is one of the Uruguay's most prominent young diplomats and was summoned from his post as minister to Germany Ger-many to this duty in the conference. Joseph H. Choate, Jr. E. E. Buero Ik jM. v lJ worried over the expansion of emergency emer-gency obligations of the government, and has warned against any further Increase, In-crease, but almost certainly his warning warn-ing will not be heeded when congress con-gress meets. Mr. Douglas thinks that the entire en-tire budget. Includ- Lewis Douglas ty-four of the forty-eight states the manufacture and sale of liquor now Is or soon will be legal. The state laws under which It can be sold vary from those providing "wide open" saloons In Nevada to a strict system of dispensing hard liquor In. Montana only through state-owned tores, one In every county. Most widely enacted of the laws Is one providing for serving of hard liquor only with meals. Governmental agencies In Washington Wash-ington were swamped with preparatory prepara-tory measures to deal with the Importation Im-portation of foreign liquors, many huge cargoes of which were waiting for entry; and with the federal restrictions re-strictions necessary to protect the states that remain dry. Joseph H. Choate, Jr., of New York, son of the famous lawyer and statesman, hnd been appointed director of the federal fed-eral alcohol control administration, and he arrived In the capital to take tip his duties. Mr. Choate halted the Issuance of import permits until a few hours before repeal became an accomplished fact, and In the meantime officials checked the financial finan-cial standing of Importers and worked out quotas for foreign countries. coun-tries. It was understood that between four and five million gallons of foreign for-eign spirits and wines would be allowed al-lowed entry during December and January, and that, If the demand were greater thnn the supply, the quantity might be Increased In order or-der to discourage bootlegging. The government sought to prevent a flood of foreign liquor from swamping swamp-ing the American market to the detriment of domestic producers. Codes for the distillers and Importers Im-porters already were In effect, and those for the brewers, the rectifiers and blenders and the wine growers were being completed. When congress meets In January one of the first matters to be taken up will be legislation leg-islation to Increase the taxes on liquor and for permanent control of the traffic. To draw up such legislation leg-islation the house ways and means committee and the senate finance committee were called to meet In joint sessions beginning December 11. SECRETARY of Agriculture Wallace Wal-lace and Director George Peek of the agricultural adjustment administration, ad-ministration, disagreeing radically In his speech inaugurating the sessions President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay demanded the "scaling down In all American countries of customs tariffs which President Roosevelt justly termed unsound, fatal fa-tal and direct originators of world economic disaster." He referred to Mr. Roosevelt's Indictment of the Hawley-Smoot tariff measure and retaliatory acts "to which other nations were forced." Secretary of State Hull heads the delegation from United States, and nine other foreign ministers are participating In the conference. DEATH came suddenly to Alexander Alex-ander Legge, president of the International Harvester company and one of the country's leading Industrialists, In-dustrialists, In his suburban homo near Chicago. He was almost sixty-eight sixty-eight years of age and apparently had been in good health. Mr. Legge was the first chairman of the federal farm board, under President Hoover, giving up his $100,000 post with the Harvester company In the summer of 1929 to accept the $12,000-a-year government govern-ment position. For 20 months he devoted himself to farm relief experiments, ex-periments, standing his ground In the face of widespread criticism. Then he resigned and returned to his former place. By the gift of $400,000 some time prior to his death and of $500,000 In his will, Mr. Legge brought to completion months of work to perfect per-fect a philanthropic organization to be known as the Farm Foundation, it was made "known by Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois, and chairman of the foundation. In developing his project whose funds and activities will be devoted to the improvement of "the social, cultural and economic conditions of rural life," Mr. Lowden disclosed, Mr. Legge enlisted as trustees- a group of twenty industrialists, educators, edu-cators, capitalists and farm leaders from all parts of the country. WITH his experience as a delegate dele-gate to the disarmament conference con-ference at Geneva clearly in mind, Secretary of the Navy Swanson in it 11 concerning authority author-ity and methods, laid their dispute before President Roosevelt, with the result that the pow-ers pow-ers of the AAA were sharply curtailed, cur-tailed, part of its code work being transferred to the National Recovery administration. Stephen Ste-phen T. Early, one his annual report urges that the United Unit-ed States abandon leadership in the disarmament movement move-ment "by example" and proceed as soon as possible to build its navy up to full treaty strength. He says our concessions conces-sions In the past have been "dangerous "danger-ous extravagance" and that peace is lng both general and emergency funds, may be brought into balance toward the end of the fiscal year 1935 If no further emergency funds are authorized after the $3,300,000,-000 $3,300,000,-000 public works fund and the less than a billion left In the RFC fund are used up. He thinks these funds should be sufficient for emergency purposes. Others In the administration, In eluding the President, have different differ-ent ideas. Secretary of the Interior In-terior Ickes expects to ask for an increase of as much as $1,700,000-000 $1,700,000-000 the public works fund. The RFC probably will want $1,000,000,-000 $1,000,000,-000 or more. The new civil works administration will run out of money In the middle of the winter and the President already has expressed ex-pressed the hope that additional funds will be forthcoming from congress. Its allotments have come thus far from both the public works funds and the relief fund of the RFC. p RESIDENT ROOSEVELT re- turned from his .two weeks In Warm Springs and plunged at once Into the work of solving the various vari-ous financial problems confronting his administration. Most immediate immedi-ate of these was the refinancing of government obligations amounting to about $727,000,000 maturing the middle of the month. This matter was easily . and speedily settled when an entire block of $950,000,000 of treasury certificates was sold In one day. The fact that It was heavily heav-ily oversubscribed was considered in administration circles to be a marked victory for the New Deal economics. There was no cessation of the controversy over the President's monetary policy and the arguments on both sides grew more bitter, though Mr. Roosevelt himself maintained main-tained silence. Financial interests have been considerably annoyed by the fact that the severe federal securities se-curities act has checked the movement move-ment of capital into legitimate channels, chan-nels, and they were cheered up by Senator Fletcher's statement that President Roosevelt wants the act amended to correct this fault without with-out diminishing the protection of the Investing public. Mr. Fletcher, who Is chairman of the senate banking bank-ing committee, said Mr. Roosevelt's attitude had been brought to him by Acting Secretary Morgenthau of the treasury. In this connection he said the President had not asked the banking committee to recommend recom-mend legislation to curtail the stock exchange operations. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, ad- dressing the Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America, took occasion to condemn severely all . those who condone lynchings, and his remarks were interpreted especially espe-cially as a sharp rebuke for Governor Gov-ernor Rolph of California who approved ap-proved the actions of the mob that hanged two kidnapers and murderers murder-ers at San Jose. "This new generation," said Mr. Roosevelt, "is not content with preaching against that vile form of collective murder lynch law which has broken out in our midst anew. We know that It Is murder George Peek Secretary Swanson of the President's secretaries, issued this statement: "Following a conference with Secretary Sec-retary Wallace, George Peek, and General Johnson, the President authorized au-thorized the statement that, for the purpose of co-ordination, all codes under the NTiA, Including those under un-der negotiations by the AAA, will be turned over to the administrator Of the NRA." Mr. Teek was especially annoyed by press conference statements by Secretary Wallace, whic'' were Interpreted In-terpreted among officials as supporting support-ing Trof. Rex Tugwell, assistant secretary of agriculture, and the liberal lib-eral group allied with him. Chief of these liberal associates of Tugwell are Jerome Frank, counsel for AAA, and Frederick Howe, consumers counsel' for AAA. Wallace, In his press conference, questioned the effectiveness of the marketing agreement and codes in the agricultural relief program, ne suggested the major necessity in farm relief was strict restriction of crop production. Peek has throughout through-out emphasized marketing agreements agree-ments rather than crop control methods. Tugwell and other liberals have taken the opposite position, stressing crop control as more important. im-portant. LATEST of the farm relief experiments, ex-periments, a $350,000,000 campaign cam-paign to control the production of jeopardized by our weakened condition con-dition "because balanced armaments arma-ments fortify diplomacy." The report showed Japan will have its full treaty strength of 183 vessels ves-sels with a total tonnage of 775,370 when the treaty expires December 31, 1936, whereas the United States will have only 113 under-age vessels ves-sels with a total tonnage of 988,-520.- Under the treaty, the report said, the United States could construct con-struct ninety-six more ships with 157.2S0 tons displacement. The British empire, according to the secretary, will have 101 vessels with 999,398 tons displacement at the same date, permitting It to build sixty-four ships with a displacement dis-placement of 197,607 tons. Japan was highly displeased by Secretary Swanson's approval of the present treaty ratios for navies. The spokesman for the naval office in Tokyo declared that Japan Is thoroughly dissatisfied with her present allotments under the 5-5-3 ratio'and Is determined to demand an upward revision of Japan's quota when the naval powers reconvene to consider extension of the Washington Wash-ington and London treaties. Only a few days before the Japanese Jap-anese cabinet had approved the navy's replenishment program calling call-ing for about $245,000,000 for the next three years. . 1933, Western Newspaper Unlon.