News Review of Current Events the World Over League of Nations Assembly Seats Ethiopians American Amer-ican Legion Elects Colmery Commander Japanese Japa-nese Marines Occupy Part of Shanghai. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 0 Wtra Nwf paper Do Ion. TOM K. SMITH of St. Louis, Mo., was elected president of the American Bankers association at the convention in San Francisco. Orval Adams of Salt Lake City was advanced to the first vice president cy, though it was said this was opposed op-posed by some because of his pronounced pro-nounced anti-New Deal convictions. The executive council will select the meeting place for the 1937 convention. con-vention. Mexico City was the only one to make a bid for the choice. Resolutions reported by the committee com-mittee and adopted called on governmental gov-ernmental divisions national, state and local to bring their expenditures expendi-tures more definitely under control and return to balanced budgets, and recommended that chartering of new banks be limited rigidly to the economic needs of the nation. CHIEFS of police of the United States and Canada, attending the convention of their international association in Kansas City, drew this picture of the typical American Ameri-can criminal of 193G: A lazy, vain, moderately educated educat-ed city youth whose parents have separated; shielding his laziness HAILE SELASSIE couldn't whip the Italians in the Ethiopian war, but the fugitive emperor won President Andrew Johnson seventy-one seventy-one years ago. C. 1L Williams Rune of Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, who ran away from home 72 years ago to join the Union army when he was only a lad of fifteen, today was unanimously elected to be commander-in-chief, and Madison, Madi-son, Wis., was named as the encampment en-campment city for 1937. ASSERTIONS made by William Randolph Hearst and other opponents op-ponents of the New Deal that the President "passively accepts" the iim,iwiiiipuj.ij the battle of Geneva and put Benito Mussolini's Mus-solini's nose out of joint After an exciting ex-citing debate, the League of Nations assembly voted, 39 t 4. to seat the Ethiopian delegation, delega-tion, now headed by the emperor's American Amer-ican adviser. The negative votes were support of the Communists Com-munists nave got under Mr. Roosevelt's Roose-velt's skin. A statement state-ment issuer' through Stephen 1. Early, his secretary, said: "My mention has .been called to a c r tain notorious newspaper owner to make it appear that ''. ' i m : ' A.' 5 mat n mm and an inferiority complex behind a false bravado that leads him into crime; motivated by a desire to impress "the girl friend" with a flashy appearance of wealth. Chief William J. Quinn of San Francisco said the large majority of the 6,000 inmates of San Quentin prison are under twenty-four years of age and that 98 per cent of them come from broken homes. Canada, according to Chief Constable Con-stable George Smith of Winnipeg, does not differ from the United States in respect to its young thief problem. He said: "Kids start in at seventeen or eighteen stealing cars for Joy rides." These criminologists believe the time to "rehabilitate" the youthful criminal is immediately after his first offense. SENATOR LA FOLLETTE'S senate sen-ate committee on civil liberties, Investigating the activities of strike breakers, was told that a preacher was hired as a spy, girls did undercover under-cover work, picketers were scalded by live steam and strikers were electrocuted by secretly strung wires on company property. Witnesses Wit-nesses testified, also, that men who direct crews of ex-convicts, panhandlers pan-handlers and sluggers take a small fortune annually from industry to combat labor unrest. The inquiry is designed to aid in the preparation of legislation demanded de-manded by organized labor leaders to eliminate agencies which specialize special-ize in strike-breaking. It is not indicated in-dicated that evidence will be heard on the other side of the question the violent practices often adopted m Ktriuprs ana uietr GEORGE P. JONES of Minnesota, Minne-sota, who has been serving as a special assistant to the attorney general of the United States since Haile Selassie cagt by Hungary, Austria and Albania, all under the thumb of Italy, and Ecuador. Ethiopia, Ethi-opia, Portugal and four other countries coun-tries refrained from voting. Rather surprisingly Great Britain and France espoused the cause of Ethiopia, Ethi-opia, though it had been thought they considered the co-operation of Italy in the league of more importance impor-tance than justice to the African realm. The heated debate was closed when Capt Anthony Eden, British foreign minister, said: "Enough of this nonsensel There never has been any sufficient ground to unseat the Ethiopian delegation." The credentials committee in recommending rec-ommending the action taken said it applied to the present session only. It: report asserted that certain documents doc-uments which had been received by the members alleged that Ethiopian governmental authority has been set up in sections of Ethiopia nut occupied occu-pied by the Italians. Seating of the Ethiopians made it certain that no Italian delegation would attend this session, and it was believed by many that Mussoli ni might withdraw formally from the league. It was a victory not only for Ethiopia but also for the smaller European powers, which felt that league submission to Italy would be disastrous to their own security. Sir Samuel Hoare, first lord of the British admiralty, added to Italian resentment against Great Britain by declaring in London that the British Intended to maintain their supremacy suprem-acy in the Mediterranean and would !5odeJa.ndOT tween Gibraltar and the Suez canal ca-nal "in the light of recent experience." experi-ence." Malta, he said, would remain re-main the first and principal base of the British fleet in the Mediterranean Mediterrane-an and would be strengthened to meet conditions. Work on Cyprus ur a military, naval and air base is being hurried to make that Island a complement to Malta. Sir Samuel asserted that the development of Italian air power has not endangered endan-gered the British position in the Mediterranean. T ETERANS of two great con- fiicts, the World war and the Civil war, held their annual conventions, con-ventions, the American Legion the President pas-sively pas-sively accepts the support of alien organizations hostile to the American Ameri-can form of government "Such articles are conceived in malice and born of political spite. They are deliberately framed to. give a false Impression, in other words to frame' the American people. "The President does no; want and does not welcome the vote or support sup-port of any individual or group taking tak-ing orders from alien sources. "This simple fact is, of course, obvious. ob-vious. "The American people will not permit their attention to be diverted from real issues to fake issues which no patriotic, honorDble, decent de-cent citizen would purposely inject into American affairs." Mr. Hearst who was in Amsterdam, Amster-dam, promptly replied by cable, saying in part: "The President hai Issued a statement state-ment through a secretary. He has cot had the frankness to cay to whom he refers in the statement I ... 1 think I am justified in as-sumlng as-sumlng that I am the object of the teuuSIy endeavor To correct Mr. Roosevelt's misstatements and to set him right ... . "Let me say that I have not stated at any time whether the President willingly or unwillingly received the support of the Karl Marx Socialists, the Frankfurter radicals, communists commu-nists and anarchists, the Tugwell bolsheviks, and the Richberg revolutionists rev-olutionists which constitute the bulk of his following. "I have simply said and shown that he does receive the support of these enemies of the American system sys-tem of government, and that he has done his best to deserve the support of all such disturbing and destructive destruc-tive elements." C'OUR Chinese gunmen in Shang- hai killed one Japanese marine and wounded two others, and within with-in a few minutes a Japanese landing land-ing party more than 2.000 strong had occupied much of the Hongkew section of the international settlement. settle-ment. The Japanese naval commander com-mander declared martial law in that area and troops stopped buses and street cars in the search for . I l . . m I. s 1934, has been made judge ot the federal district com t for the Virgin Islands. This is a recess appointment appoint-ment by President Roosevelt and is subject to confirmation confirma-tion by the senate. Mr. Jones planned to leave for St Thomas about October Octo-ber 1. He succeeds V 1 Judge Albert C. G. P . Jones Levitt of Connecticut, who resigned August 1 because, as he alleged, the Department of the Interior interfered in-terfered with the processes of his court. The oath of office was administered admin-istered to Mr. Jones in Washington by Ugo Carusi, executive assistant to Attorney General Cummings, in the presence of Mr. Cummings and a number of otlur officials. meeting in Cleveland Cleve-land and the Grand Army of the Republic Repub-lic in Washington. The legion elected Harry W. Colmery, a lawyer of Topeka. Kan., as its national nation-al commander and awarded next year's .conventioL to New York city. Mayor T- ft Wrrsm-I A . .ftbMll CEVERAL columns of Spanish Fascists and Moorish legionnaires legion-naires were reported to be making a determined drive toward Madrid under the direction of General Franco, and the loyalists were falling fall-ing back at the rate ot five miles a day. The rebel garrison of the Alcazar in Toledo was still holding out though the government forces, after dynamiting part of the old fortress, made attacks with flaming gasoline. The defenders lost heavily but the survivors I:ept up their deadly machine ma-chine gun fire and repulsed the charges of the loyalists. The American State department ordered the embassy in Madrid closed and warned all Americans still in the capital that they remained re-mained at their own risk. The consulate at Malaga also was closed and the consul took refuge In Gibraltar. Gi-braltar. Diplomats of 13 nations, who had gone to Saint Jean de Luz, France, rejected the Spanish government's gov-ernment's demand that they return to Madrid. ia uuaraia person- ally led the Gotham l,arry w delegation in the big Colmery parade. This delegation Included au impressive display of police and fire department bands, motorcycle squads and mounted officers. In its business sessions the legion adopted a resolution asking the United States government to withdraw with-draw its recognition of soviet Russia. Rus-sia. Other resolutions approved called for a 90 per cent reduction in immigration quotas and deportation deporta-tion of all aliens who are anarchists, anarch-ists, communists, or affiliated with the Third Internationale; the removal remov-al from public relief rolls of aliens who have not applied for citizenship; citizen-ship; universal application of the fingerprinting system In this country, coun-try, and an investigation of methods used in disseminating "subversive doctrines." Harry E. Ransom of Milwaukee was elected head of the "40 and 8," fun making subsidiary of the legion. The legion band championship was won by the Musicians' post me tiojcia. .i units, urmuieu cars, light artillery and machine gun squads poured through the streets and on into Charei, the Chinese district dis-trict that was the scene of furious fighting between the Japanese and the Chinese Nineteenth route army in 1932. Stirling Fessenden, American chairman of the international settlement, settle-ment, was warned by Japanese officials of-ficials to protect their nationals, and the White Russian volunteer regiment regi-ment and special police in the French quarter were hurriedly mobilized. Shigeru Kawagoe, Japanese ambassador am-bassador to China, who was in Nanking Nan-king conferring with Chang Chun, Chinese foreign minister, on the oth-j oth-j er recent anti-Japanese Incidents at Chengtu, Hankow and Pakhoi, threatened to break off the discussion discus-sion and return to Shanghai. Because of killings in Hankow and Pakhoi, Japanese marines already had been landed in those cities. Transports bearing reinforcements arrived from Japan. no. w oi i. Louis, Mo.; second place went to Franklin post band of Columbus, O., and third to Musicians' Musi-cians' post of Los Angeles. The Commonwealth Edison post drum and bugle corps of Chicago won the drum corps tournament Only about aine hunired survivors surviv-ors of the Union army were able to attend the G. A. R. encampment, and many believe it will be the last to be held. Ths aged warriors, beaded by Oley Nelson of Iowa, the national commander, began their proceedings with a service in Washington Wash-ington cathedral. The route of their parade was six blocks on Pennsyl-. Pennsyl-. vania avenue, the scene of the grand review of the Union armies before 'TpHREE members of the mari- time commission authorized in the closing days of the last congress were appointed by President Roosevelt Roose-velt They are: Rear Admiral Henry Hen-ry A. Wiley, U.S.N, retired; Rear Admiral Harry G. Hamlet coast guard; George Landick, Jr., chief of the planning section of the procurement pro-curement division of the Treasury department The commission will administer the ship subsidy measure, act as a regulatory body in conduct ot merchant mer-chant marine affairs, and operate generally in the nature of the interstate inter-state commerce commission. SPECULATION concerning what part Al Smith would take in the Presidential campaiga seems to be settled by the news that he will deliver several anti-Roosevelt addresses, ad-dresses, the first probably in Carnegie Carne-gie hall in New York in October. He is reported to be making out his own program and planning talks also in Massachusetts and New Jersey. Jer-sey. It is said neither the Republican Republi-can party ..or the American Liberty league will be sponsor for his appearances. ap-pearances. Unti' Mr. Smith announces an-nounces his intentions it will nrt he known whether or not he will advocate ad-vocate the election of Governor Landon.