Show news L I 1 ulf review of current events the world over avei controversy with secretary wallace forces peek peck into a new job education begun in camps sumner welles comes home from cuba by EDWARD W PICKARD G PEEKS controversy with secretary of agriculture wallace mill his assistant professor tugwell mas ft as put up to president roosevelt and he be speedily found the way to settle it sir mr peek was persuaded to resign as agricultural adjustment administrator and a e WK W K now new position in much u C h more to his liking was devised for him ne ile was called a special assistant to the president and named to head bead a temporary com george P peek ek that will recommend clinnie nd permanent machinery tor for coordination orilin atlon of government efforts to eind i foreign trade the committee also will include the nirm men bers ibers of the two departmental the departmental interdepartmental inter departments ad enry board on reciprocal treaties in ter departmental trade policy committees commet and such other individuals as peek bec k may select in a formal statement the white anite house douse said bald the report of the committee and final action Is expected within two weeks it continued george reek peek agricultural adjustment administrator having completed the organization period of the AAA is designated to head bead this committee as a special as alstaot to the president on american trade policy the new organization n to correlate the internal adjustment of production with such effective foreign purchasing power as may be developed by reciprocal tariffs barter and other international ter arraD arrangements gement will be headed beaded by mr peek when it Is completed the administration expects to bring about modification of some most fa bored nation treaties so as to make possible special treatment of liquor imports from countries agreeing to take more of this count rys surplus farm products this Is not regarded as a great difficulty to mr reek peek as it Is a favorite theme with him that trade mounts amounts to swapping my jackknife jack knife for your marbles trade to him whether on a domestic or international basis Is just what the word signifies and he says that in its transaction we sometimes have to sleep with ith people we dont like and sometimes with those we like he Is quoted as remar remarking king to an aide ide of the prospective liquor deals sure well take their liquor it if we can pay them with butter and port pork and other stuff mr reek peek has ton long felt that agriculture has been neglected in its pos for export contending that too much emphasis has been placed during the last 15 years on the exportation por port tation atlon of industrial products C HESTER DAVIS DA VIS who was stated slated to succeed mr air reek peek as administrator of the AAA has been in charge of the crop control section though long a close friend of mr reek peek he bided aided with secretary wallace and assistant secretary tugwell in the dispute however he 7 defended mr peek against assertions that the batters lat presence in the administration had delayed delayed fa prosecution of th the e 1 crop control program chester davis uc ile pointed to the control plans for wheat cotton hogs tobacco and other commodities P placed laced in operation and said the record of the past six months montha would have been impossible without the continued operation cooperation co of mr air reek peek it Is absolutely untrue that he be obstructed progress with mr peek peck moved to a new post officials associated with him were considering plans tor for extensive revision of the methods of handling marketing agreements in the AAA it has been virtually decided to scrap the two main divisions crop control and processing and marketing A agricultural GRI CULTURAL leaders from all over the land gathered in chicago for or the annual convention of the american farm bureau federation and gave their full support and approval to the farm arm relief policies of the president edward A oneal president of the federation called the federal farm adjustment act the magna charts of agriculture saying saving that at last farm era have the machinery and the power to obtain a fair share of the con constia iners heu dollar for forty years he said aid the farmer has been getting less and less of this dollar but by use of the full powers of the agricultural adjustment administration he declared this trend can be turned the other way from mr roosevelt came a letter full of optimism which was read to the delegates the president dent who Is a member of the new york state tarn farm bureau expressed appreciation for the federations support rod and outlined the first efferts of federal money getting into the hands of people who need it yet h hp cautioned farmers and others to guard against letting a rise in farm income tempt us to forget the realities of supply and demand of his duties having been MOST transferred to acting secretary of state thomas bewes resigned his position as assistant secretary and followed dean acheson and professor sprague out of the administration tra tion all three of those men had been selected by secretary woodin who he Is never expected to resume his duties and mr clewes Is a close ally of attorney general cummings it was understood in washington that walter wa iter J cummings executive treasury assistant would retire very soon to become head of the continental illinois bank and trust company compani of chicago CHEEKED and honored by hundreds of americans and cubans but snubbed by the grau gran government sumner cumner welles departed from havana by plane to miami allahl on his his way to washington where here he resumes his former post as head of the latin american affairs bureau in the department of state jefferson caffery Caff cry who succeeds him in havana will be tor for the present the personal representative of president jefferson Jeff roosevelt Roose Nelt rather erton than ambassador caffery whether he be will be able to do more than mr welles in the way of restoring peace and prosperity in cuba Is a question col carlos mendieta Mend leta leading oppositionist sit lonist said that the strife with no end in sight Is keeping the island s sunk u in economic bankruptcy and threatened by strikes ile he said the nation resents control by a government backed by army dictatorship and the student directorate composed of 11 II youths with decidedly communistic leanings augusto saladrigas a director of the ABC opposition declared that 05 03 per cent of the natives are opposed to president graus craus revolutionary socialistic regime saladrigas expressed the opinion that the only solution if 19 either a native revolution or united states intervention A revolution seems impossible as long as the army remains loyal to grau grail but failure to meet a pay day might prove the start of a revolt at al the ran pan american conference in montevideo angel giraudy cuban minister of labor attacked the cuban policy of the united states failure to recognize the grau regime he asserted was actually intervention since it was upholding a minority group against the wishes of the people and propagating revolution ROBERT Remer OBERT FECHNER director of emergency gency conservation work announced that a great program for education of the men in the civilian conservation corps had been ap proved by the president and was being put into effect immediately educational cat ional advisers to the number dumber of are being placed in the forest work camps and an individual program of instruction for each camp Is being developed to a considerable extent the advisers are drawn from if lists ats of unemployed teachers that have been submitted to dr george F zook federal commissioner of education by state directors of education it Is the hope of the president eDt mr air fechner said that the educational program by emphasizing forestry agriculture and like subjects will assist the men in readjusting themselves to a new dew mode of living to country life instead of city life ilfe and to assist them in improving themselves educationally tio nally and vocationally A great number of the young men in these camps arrived at working age at a time when there were no jobs many of then them had meager educational advantages we propose to give these men a chance at an education and to furnish thern them vocational guidance which will aid them to earn a living the opportunity for education will be offered to all members of the corps but participation in the courses of instruction st will not be mandatory the available working hours on forestry projects 40 hours per week will not be disturbed the plan Is to utilize hours other than normal working periods and periods of inclement weather for purposes of instruction A A GE cannot wither james A reed AA who tor for so BO many years enlivened the sessions of the senate with lit his dynamic personality the missouri statesman who Is seventy two years old assembled 20 guests for a game dinner in kansas city and surprised them by marrying there and then mrs nell Q donnelly wealthy garment manufacturer who has long been his political supporter and friend two lears ago mrs donnelly was and held tor for ransom and mr reed helped to run down the kidnapers and a nd prosecute them later mrs donnelly divorced her husband mr reeds first wife died in october 1032 RNEST T wem of pittsburgh ERNEST Ech chairman airman of the weirton steel company has defied the federal labor board and flatly refused to abide by the rules it announced to guide an election of employees representatives representative for collect collective he bargaining in a letter to senator it it D wagner chairman of the hoard board mr air weir said we must consider any arrangements ants with you terminated and the election will proceed in accordance with ith the rules adopted by the employees plo organization informed later that chairman wals aft ner der had announced the board gouid would enforce its agreement to supervise the election at the weirton and clarks burg W va and Steu steubenville benville ohio plants weir reiterated my letter stands ILLIAM C Q BULLITT ambassador ador WILLIAM to russia was received in moscow in a manner mander entirely unprecedented ce since the establishment of the soviet regime other envoys on oil arrival at the capital have been accorded little or no attention iasi 1 until they have pre nf p dented their creden AA but mr fa was greeted with ex 1 C A tra ordinary enthuse E aam by officials and populace alike when he crossed the alexander A frontier at ne 90 gor eloge he was in stalled in a sumptuous private car provided by the government and in this he traveled to moscow on his arrival at Alex androvsky station he was nas met by cheering crowds and was formally presented to alexander A who Is coming to washington as russian ambassador and to alexis neuman vice director of the soviet press department lie ile was installed in the national hotel which thus became a temporary american embassy and atop the building the star spangled banner was waa raised flying thus tor for the first time in soviet russia sir mr bullatt himself and his nine atar old daughter occupy an elaborate three room apartment which last summer was tenanted ten anted by col and mrs charles A lindbergh the suite recently was with valuable antique furniture and priceless objects of art N OW a wife may testify in a fed eral court in behalf of her husband in criminal cases for the old legal rule forbidding this has been reversed by the supreme court of the united states the case which came on appeal from the united states circuit court of appeals was that of the united states versus john S funk of rockingham N C TOWN OWN in montevideo the rand pan american conference was talking about ways of ending the chaco war between bolivia and paraguay without getting anywhere meanwhile the forces of those countries were exceedingly cee busy in the jungle with the result that the paraguayans Paraguay ans captured more than bolivian troops with most of their officers in one engagement more than COO bolivians ians were killed according to the off official lelal announcement no there was great rejoicing in asuncion where the paraguay ans marched through decorated streets and corresponding despair in la paz the bolivian capital A few days later the paraguayans Paraguay ans captured fort saavedra the most important bolivian stronghold in the chaco and it was generally believed that these lc le tortes meant the final defeat of bolivia in the war P PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT let it be known that the interdepartmental committee on communications headed by secretary of commerce roper had completed its study of the matter and laid its report before him this report will be submitted to congress and may result in legislation for rigid government regulation of telegraph telephone and radio companies the reorganization of the whole com munica eions 11 0 n a industry and seely secy roper some g huge mergers the committee favors a trend toward monopoly subjected to strict federal supervision outright government ownership Is an alternative the consensus of studies within and without the government has been that present conditions are unsatisfactory both from the standpoint of national defense and regulation of such matters as rates and that present restrictions give foreign governments art an undue advantage over the american communication muni cation agencies S 0 anarchists started a bloody revolt against the republic in the northeastern part of the country and it soon spread to madrid and further south there were sanguinary conflicts between the rebels and the troops and police and bombings in the capital and elsewhere were frequent scores were killed in street fighting and hundreds hundred of agitators were placed under arrest after several days of ineffectual efforts to overcome the civil guards the anarchists resorted to their strongest weapon and proclaimed IL a nationwide nation wide revolutionary strike the order was issued through the national confederation of labor which is controlled bythe by the for four days the fighting continued and then the government announced that both the revolt and the general strike had bad failed ca C 2933 western iipp Ii pr baua vaua |