Show news review of current events the world over crisis nears in italo ethiopian embro imbroglio Em broglio 0 lio defiant great britain ready committee of lawyers Lai hits labor relations act by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper News piper un on M in geneva were rapidly ia approaching a crisis a crisis for italy and ethiopia for european peace land for the league of nations itself the italian cabinet in which mussolini Musso lint holds eight portfolios an bounced in rome that italy would accept no compromise and would not retreat from the course it has laid out in east africa that its military eions were being in aid that its forces were adequate benito to respond to any Mus mussolini solin menace still more important in the light of developments was tle tl e cabinet cabinets s an no mo of strengthening its mill gitary tary forces in libya where general balbo has been establishing a 13 strong I 1 line of air repots this colony bor ders egypt on the west and there was immediately a lot of speculation as to whether Musso mussolini lint planned to attack the BrI empire in that region italian forces in libbi hie h ne received reinforcements of 40 00 men with tanks and field artillery and are in much uch stronger than the british forces in egypt if it economic sanctions were tin poked on italy mussolini might well reply by threatening great britain in that quarter by invasion and by arous ing the native population to revolt premier kavals speech before the league of rations nations was exceeds exceedingly n gly clever but did not clear the situation sufficiently while he gave assurance that france would abide by the league covenant and fulfill its obligations he hinted that his government would de mand in return that britain enter a definite nIte engagement to carry out the program agreed upon in london on february 3 an air locarno with automatic matic enforcement and the conclusion of and baltic security pacts one after another the nations rep resented in the league announced their support of the british stand against italy if the british do not nor back down and that seems unil unlikely lely and it if italy persists in its adventure the league will be called on to apply ar tide 15 of the covenant this requires the submission of any dispute likely to lead to a rupture to the council which must then try to effect a set cement the council also will adopt as its own the report of the committee fit pf five which has failed to find a solution acceptable to italy the par ties to the dispute are obligated to beep keep the peace for three months in any event which would prevent an italian campaign before the rains set in again in ethiopia if in the next three months either bide side accepts the council s decision the other party Is automatically outlawed it it starts a war at any time in the future in that case the penalties against an aggressor as provided pro tided ded in article 16 must take effect automat icalla it is believed in geneva that the penalty easiest to apply would be a general boycott of all trade with italy in that case the course followed by the united states would be all tin the european statesmen feel confident hat they can count on dent roosevelt once a war breaks out to interpret cotton wheat and other raw materials as war material and under the american neutrality legisla aton forbid direct shipment to italy and ethiopia take a look at this virtually said great britain to italy as she massed a great fleet of powerful warships in t the he mediterranean many of them were a at t gibraltar others at malta and alex andria and yet others at the entrance to the suez canal practically the en tire north atlantic fleet was concen grated in the inland sea and there was a chain of fighting vessels all the way from there to china and every one of them was ready to defend the acy of the empire the royal air force too was fully represented at the naval bases and the shore garrisons were reinforced this was john bull s reply y to mussolini s def defiance lance and tt it might well give him pause 4 49 unconstitutional JN constitutional is bever diet of the american liberty leagues committee of 58 lawyers on the wagner connery labor relations act it Is our belief said the opinion written in the form of a brief that the statute unnecessarily and arbi infringes upon the individual liberties of the employer and the em ein and Is therefore invalid this Is the first of a proposed serl series es of opinions on recent federal legisla tion by the committee of lawyers it was formulated by a subcommittee consisting of garl earl P F heed reed of pitts burgh chairman harold beacom chi cago cage harold J gallagher new york 1 P J Rene kenefick fick buffalo harrison arrison II B mcgraw cleveland gurney G E new 1 in n los angeles hal II 11 smith de troit and E randolph will ams rich mond va copies of the opinion were sent to fill ill members of the full committee and dissenting opinions were invited but none were offered raoul E desvernine of new york chairman of the general committee denied that it was packed with republicans but he did not explain why no labor lawyers and no attorneys with new ded i leanings were appointed to serve among the members of the commit tee are james al M beck beek nationally known constitute onal authority and former solicitor general of the united states bainbridge colby secretary of state under president allison allson john W dass davis democratic candidate for pros pres dent in 1934 joseph B ely for mer democratic governor of massa chu ralph M shaw of chicago former head of the association against the I 1 amendment james A reed former united states senator from missouri a democrat and george W wickersham chairman of president hoovers commission on law enforce ment frank D E morrison A american merican fed red aeration of la labor bor secretary slid this committee s amply represents the views held by special privilege and big business which have always opposed every piece of legislation leg introduced in congress and the states to bring a little more happiness into workers homes A AE E mercher MER CIvEn who used to be secretary of the interstate early potato committee hag has been made head of the potato section of the agrical tural adjustment ad ministration and his troubles are just be ginning control of the potato crop Is con a natural se quence in the policy that Is being followed by the AAA and like other parts of secre tary wallace wallaces s agri cultural plan it Is sup porte earnestly A E and as seriously con damned among those who oppose po tato control Is porter it R chandler of geneseo N Y a gentleman farmer he has advertised extensively his in to grow and sell potatoes in defiance of the federal potato control act and invites prosecution now co operating with mr chand ler comes norman C norman a new york jeweler who some time ago de fled the jewelers code he ile sent to the gentleman farmer an order for six or more bushels of strictly illegal potatoes and the order was filled at once norman suggested that the po be routed through new jersey to make the offense interstate and of to make more than one pur chase as it Is my understanding that the second purchase will entitle me to go to the penitent penitentiary itry HILD all the nation was cele WHILE Wb brating rating constitution day the citi eld zens of pennsylvania went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly against the calling of a constitutional convention for the purpose of modernizing the states basic law which was adopted 61 years ago since the proposed changes were to have a decided new deal trend the republicans looked on the result of the referendum as a vie tory of national significance the re vision was strongly supported by gov arnor earle and the state democratic organization and also by organized labor new mexico voters turned down a proposal to boost their property ex emption to 2 along with four other suggested amendments to the state constitution WHEN HEN the new philippines corn com mon wealth la is formally born on november 15 in manila with vice president john M garner officiating as its godfather manuel quezon for 20 years the leader of the fight for in depend ence will be rated as its first president in the re cent election he and his entire ticket were w ere victorious the d defeated e rivals for the presidency were emi ho ito aguinaldo who led the rebellion against manuel quezon american rule years ago and bishop gregorio Gre gorlo aglipay they were virtually snowed under sergio was elected vice pres ident and victory of manuel rosas roxas quintin paredes and caillo osias oslas as the new president ample lead enship in the unicameral national as where he also will have a clear voting majority quezon s term of office Is six years and his annual salary will be the commonwealth will be a kenyear ten year prelude to complete independence from the united states quezon who Is large ly of spanish blood is afif fifty ty seven years old he has numerous friends and ac quain in the united states and for a long time has been a frequent visitor in washington in hia his endeavor to gain independence for the island archipelago at amisa kR S eccles head of the federal reserve system has been re appointed reappointed by the president and so w will be chairman of the board that will put into operation the new baukin banking r reform law later the PieRl dent will name six other membris of the board mr air eccles cedes la Is the exponent of the the ones ories that monetary control must be from a national viewpoint that the government should spend heavily in bad times to create employment and etkind credit and flat it should tax in good years to reduce debt an and d pre vent excessive accumulation of income prides DAID AID advertisements in weekly maga zincs of n circulation are now being used by the treasury to promote the sale of baby bonds the aim of the campaign Is to interest small in vectors in these bonds the smallest of which sells for 18 ili with a cash ma durity value of aa 20 in 10 years S SIX IX hundred members of the german reichstag all till fervent nazis met in special session in nuremberg and at the demand of hitler passed two laws bear ing down hard bard on the je is s in the reich retch the first of these new stat utes prescribes prison sentences as penalties for marriages between jews and cithens cit lens or of german or kindred blood and declares such marriages void it if performed in a foreign countie extra extramarital marital adolf hitler relations between jews and aryans also are punishable by prison sentences jews are forbidden to employ ii omen under forty five years la in their households after january 1 on penalty of imprisonment jews are not allowed to hoist the national flag being limited to the zionist blue and white emblem the second law provides that only a person who belongs to the protective association of the german empire and is especially obligated to the retch may be a citizen of germany this citizen must be of german or kindred blood and show that he Is willing to serve the german people thus jews and germans of whom the nazis dis approve may be excluded hitler also put through a third law establishing the nazi swastika as the national and trade flag of germany the war ministry was instructed to adopt a war flag of black white and red in his address to the reichstag hit ler ter said that by the laws adopted he hoped to deliver a fatal blow to corn com and jewry THE HE committee of jewish delaga alons has appealed to the league of nations on behalf of the jews of ger many declaring that the conscience of mankind will not tolerate thit that jews should be degraded in this century as pariahs EILOR LOR HITLER S remarks C chancellor CHANC about memel aroused president antonas to putting out the first interview he be has granted in six years in it he be de dared that lithuania relying to the utmost on the legality and justice of her stand and action in memel affairs Is ready abany at any time to defend her po before the per manent court of in inter ter national justice should et ef fort be made to diere president gd gard legality and jus tice in a favor aa of force lithuania is prepared stated president to defend memel with all the means at her command continuing president said memel is to us an economic feces sity not a political issue we are too small a nation to engage in political bargaining as we are too small a coun try to engage in contra propaganda our only point Is that memel contain ing lithuania s only seaport Is an es sentral part of lithuania and the freedom and preservation of lithuania Is to her people a precious thing dof DEATH EATH came to jules cambon one of frances elder statesmen at vervey switzerland he ile was ninety years old and had lived in retirement since the close of the world war though he was frequently consulted by high officials of france his ills brilliant career as a diplomatist covered nearly 50 years he ile served as ambassador in washington five years C comptroller comptroller GENERAL MC CARL in a formal opinion held that there is no legal authorization for the federal government to pay out any funds tor for the construction of a furni ture lure factory at reedsville Reeds ville W va this has been a project especially favored by mrs roosevelt it was intended originally that the factory should make furniture for government offices and give employment to transplanted coal miners A year ago mccarl refused to sanction an allocation to the factory from recovery funds then congress turned on the project on the ground that it bisci imitated against private industry mccarl says the department of the interior went ahead with letting contracts for the construction never and the building Is about 80 per cent completed R D resolutions adopted by the iowa lv farmers union in convention at des moines demand that president I 1 oo sevelt dismiss secretary of agri culture wallace from the cabinet and halt the program of hunger the AAA was called infamous worthless and vicio bicio s 1 4 |