Show news review of current events the world over japan rejects peace proposals of america and european powers powe rs mellon quits jouita tre treasury abury fote to be ambassador to london B by y EDWARD W PICKARD athe esparto the vigorous protests and the proffered peace plans plana of the united states and the great european powers japan continued her relentless warfare on china developments c came a rn e 1 swiftly and continuously and as the week drew toward its close the situation WAS becoming m more ore anil and more critical attacks on 4 shanghai by land sea eca and air were renewed twice within 48 hours 1 t the he woosung forts at the mouth pf af the Whang Whong poo were bom ari M M admiral M MM M I 1 baided barded and taylor aylos its protecting forts were shelled while the attack on the Wo wootsung woosung forts was going on admiral montgomery M taylor commander of american asiatic fleet arrived in the whang poo poe aboard his flagship the cruiser houston from marilla manila and the amerl con forces for the protection or of our nationals in china were reinforced also by nearly every wa warship iship that had been in the philippines together with the thirty first regiment of regular infantry great britain france italy and portugal also rushed warships and troops to the china coast america and england supported by franceane france and italy proposed in tokyo through their ambassadors a plan tor for restoring pence peace that embraced these points I 1 1 cessation Ces gation of all acts of violence on both sides abonce at once on the following terms 2 no further mobilization or prop prep la rations whatever for further hostilities 3 withdrawal of both japanese and chinese combatants from all points of mutual contact in the shanghai area 4 protection of the international settlement e e ment by the establishment of n neutral e al zones these zones to bo be policed li by neutral nations and nr arrange range ments to be set up by consular authorities ties on the spot 6 upon acceptance of these conditions a prompt advance to be made by negotiations to settle all outstanding controversies between the two parties in the spirit of the treaty of paris and the resolution of the league leaga ie of nations of december 0 without prior demand or reservation and with the ald aid of neutral observers or participants after the emperor had been consulted the government announced that it rejected the second and fifth proposals and accept accepted ed the others conditionally IMMEDIATE I 1 reason for the protests of the powers powe s against J japanese aggression gres sion in shanghai wa was found in the persistent violations of the neutrality of the international settlement by the jap ap g anese they took possession of tho the hong kew section and made it the base of their operations against Clin chapel pel the native quarter where the chinese were still putting up a strong I 1 1 I yep resl stence and driving their foes b back a ck by force of of numbers edwin S cunningham edwin S american consul gen cunningham eral and head of the consular body there was in the thick of things continuously striving not only to curb the japanese but also to bring about a cessation of hostilities once or twice alce he and his colleagues did orrange arrange ora ara truces cruces but theat cheso a were promptly violated and the fighting began all over again for the details of that fighting there is no room in these columns dumns chinas cainas covern government met offices were removed from to miles in the interior in anticipation of an attack on the capital and that attack soon followed two cruisers and a destroyer destroy pr shelled the forts and parts of the city As usual the japanese had their excuse ready asserting that the chinese fired the first shots however correspondents aver that neither the forts nor the two old chinese warships there replied to the japanese fire the population of the city was panic stridden en and fled flodo to the open country soon A the evacuation of th the e american citify ns ita acre was begun 9 un although the firing had not resumed members of the league of nation council licit field a special cession in if geneva and were told by J 11 II thomas british secretary for dominions about the peace proposals put forward by the powers there was waa a report there that japan ws planning to announce her withdrawal fr from the nine power pact and also front from the washington naval agreement of 1022 HING from the position of of the treasur tren treasure sur which wi has held since 1021 andrew r IV mellon becomes the american Arne ambassador to great BrIt britain aln this was wag an bounced by 1 hoover in a statement in which he gracefully air ier malloni one of our wisest and most mosi experienced public Ber vanta the new ambassador la seventy sev en years old and his bis health of late has been so poor that undersecretary ogden L mills milid has been doing most of his work mr mills hills was named by the president to succeed mr air mellon as secretary of the treasury N NATURALLY the opening of the international ter disarmament conference in geneva was clouded by th the a discouraging situation in the orient little had been expected from froin the parley ley before by independent observers of world affairs and I 1 this little was lessened by the ev events ants n china arthur henderson former british foreign looking III and worried took his place as chairman of the conference and spoke for arthur an hour mostly in henderson general generalities tiles concern ing what the meeting should accomplish 1 I refuse to contemplate even the possibility of failure mr henderson said if we tall fall no one can foretell the evil consequences that might ensue v with regard to the ChIno japanese conflict he said we feel bound to refer to the tragic fact that at the very moment this conference whose purpose la Is to promote peace begins its work we are confronted with such a situation of extreme gravity as that which now exists in the far east it Is imperative that all signa tortes tories of the covenant of the league of nations and the arland kellogg pact make it their business to insure strict observance of these two great safeguards against acts of violence and war after the preliminaries and the organization of the conference the thousand or so delegates adjourned until the following week to prepare for the long drawn out sessions and protracted discussions the most prominent statesmen were not expected before february 8 secretary of state stimson he head ad of the american delegation would arrive was uncertain GOY ga FRANKLIN D ROOSE ROOSEVELT VELT a leading aspirant for the democratic presidential nomination has declared himself opposed to american membership in 16 the league of nations in an address before the now new york state grange in this he be follows the lead of newton D baker also a presidential ident ial possibility who recently said that while lie ho still believed in the league he would not have the united states join in while popular opinion was against it governor roosevelt sold said he had no apology for having worked and spoken n in behalf of american participation in the league when he be was the democratic vice presidential candidate twelve years yeara ngo ago lie ile added the league Is not the league conceived by wood row lV illson ilson stather it la Is a mere meeting place for the political discus slon of strictly european difficulties 11 other pronouncements by roosevelt were that Eu ropes debts to america should not be conee canceled led and that tin an international trade conference should be coiled called to level tariff barriers SUCCESS crowned the efforts of the railway presidents dents and representatives of rat rail labor unions in their long sessions in chicago A formal forma pact was signed by which the unions accepted a wa wage ge reduction af 6 10 per cent for one year beginning february 1 the deduction Is made from each pay check on every pay day aay but bur the basic or le legal gal wage Is not disturbed and the full rates wl will be restored on january 31 1033 1933 david S A separate agreement in which the artson railroads made ann ir n concessions along the lines a program proposed by labor for ferule be betterment of working conti columns ons and the relief of anem Py ploy t was signed simultaneously anti v 1 the wage pact leaders in the negotiations were david brown robertson chairman of the railway hallway labor executives I 1 association 01 cia tion and daniel willard Wll lard president of the baltimore ohio railway H a of the leading clyle organic org aniz il antons of the country met in on iad i ad by ly alre president ident i form dvm a nat national fohn purpose of dr hoarded gi inn ari more N it organization of the tha board of 0 organization directors of 0 f the reconstruction finance corporation was completed with the election of charles charlea G dawes na as president and abd eugene meyer as aa chairman of the board quarters were opened in the old commerce department in washington and the recep reception t ton and consideration of requests for or loans was berun begun without delay the senate already had bad confirmed th names of harvey 0 couch and jesse H jones as aa directors and president hoover tent sent in the name of wilson mccarthy of salt bait lake city to com coin ethe the board membership applications for more than one ofie hundred millions in loans had come in before the board began to function IN ORDER to curtail the current overproduction the department of commerce Commer ceis Is making an effort to ere ato sentiment against night work in the cotton mills mill of the south and the heads of the cotton textile industry are operating cooperating co in this with the government ern ment according to edward T pickard chief of the textiles division of the commerce department there la Is considerable overproduction of cotton textiles find and prices have been depressed as a result N NEW HOW hope hop ewas was given the advocates of a large navy by the virtual war in the orient fa e IU biale 10 of MatneR maine rep ep chairman of the senate naval cittee del delivered lvere a prepared speech in the senate in behalf be of his bill authorizing A the building of the american navy up to treaty i strength he said that of all world powers japan J a p a n has senator rHale halt to made a d e the great greatest est strides in naval a armament rm ament taking a legitimate ad advantage vintage underage derAhe un under the terms of the 06 treaties of the laxity of the other powers the next difficulty that we shall have to face he said will without I 1 doubt be a demand on her part for or parity with great britain and the united states and he be added that thai if we continue aur our policy of ing we shall be in a very veri poor position to such a demand A navy equal to our own in the Paci pacific senator role hale went on opens up many interesting problems for the future and Is not at all in con conformance form once with OUT our declared arod needs at the ume time of the washington and london conferences and no one can truth fully say the conditions in the east with the dove of pence peace in temporary tempora rl hibernation on the china coast war rant any lessen ings of those needs needa SEA 42 and land forces of the U states began their annual war ahme game in fl elan awall all the llie problem being the defense of the islands from invasion fighting planes from wheeler and luke fields established air bases on various islands army tanks rushed about through the cane fields and artillery and infantry were vere stationed at points commanding possible landing places all provisioning of troops was being done nt at night to avoid observation meanwhile the vessels of the navy were moving toward the archipelago preceded by seaplanes sea planes for the attack which was to begin early sat bat arday morning r CAUSE his release would bo be unjustifiable B BECAUSE and incompatible with the welfare of society the federal parole board dented denied the application for a parole for albert B fall former secretary of the interior therefore fall must serve hta his full sentence of a year and a 0 day in the new dext mexico co state penitentiary where he was sent for bribery in connection with the oil lenge leae deals during the harding administration S SENATOR WESLEY L JONES of washington author of the five and ten law has devised a way to compel states without state prohibition laws to enact such legislation he bo introduced Introduce da a resolution to prohibitive prohibit the Ibe navy from sending any vessel to a port in any state without state en ea and to prohibit the holding of citizens military training camps camp 0 or r the building of government ships in states without state dry laws lawa the united mine Worker merl ca in convention in 5 adopted a resolution recommending the legalization of good beer rather than an attempt to repeal the eighteenth amendment as the practical nl so gutlon of th the prohibition problem I 1 S LA FOLLETTE star teda debate of several days I 1 in n the sen aen ate by moving to make the next order of business the bill preparE rl by him self belt and senator costigan of colorado appropriating to be given the states for the relief of tile the unemployed and needy directly the tha opposition loo held that the major con trib Ution of the federal government toward relief should be the alon measures for the extension of credit LS A G 6 pat 1 aesque ani an ity A ear aft easte |