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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Roosevelt's Vaeation Trip Ends NRA Modification Modi-fication and Drouth Relief Taken Up Von Papen's Hard Task in Austria. By EDWARD W. PICKARD by Western Newspaper Union. pitRSIDKNT ROOSEVELT ended his rather Ions vacation trip, returning re-turning to his homo In Hyde 1'ark, New Vork. During tiie remainder of Pi -" j President Roosevelt the summer and until congress meets he will spend some time there and in Warm Springs, Georgia, but most of the time lie will be In Washington, Washing-ton, busy with the nation's na-tion's affairs In his temporary ollice which has been established In the blue room of the White House. The executive olllces are belncr remodeled and enlarged. One of the lirst matters to claim the President's attention is the modification of NRA. The secret cabinet cab-inet committee he appointed to inquire in-quire into the legality and advisability of continuing and ex-tending the price fixing features of NRA has decided tills price fixing should be restrloted nnd gradually abandoned, nnd there is little doubt that this advice will be followed. Whether or not the fixing fix-ing of prices Is legal, it has brought sharp and continuous criticism from Senator Borali and many others which lias not been relished by the New Dealers. tin his way from the west coast the President not only saw some of the great public works projects of the Korthwest, but also passed through regions that have suffered severely from the drouth. So he is backing up the government agencies in their work of hurrying vast sums of government gov-ernment money to the arid regions to ease the human suffering and also to lessen the chances of another such catastrophe. The public works administration, admin-istration, which had an original ap: propriation of $3,300,000,000, revealed It had spent about $-100,000,000 on projects to aid Impoverished western families. Emergency relief administration officials of-ficials announced they had allotted huge sums to feed men and women. They also have spent thousands to care for starving cattle. Public Works Administrator Harold Har-old L. Ickes, who was on an inspection inspec-tion tour in the drouth area, ordered his forces to expedite all construction construc-tion projects affecting the dry regions. re-gions. NATIONALIZATION of silver, authorized au-thorized by the last congress, was ordered Into effect by the President. This will have little immediate effect on the average citizen, though the move is somewhat inflationary and started prices on the up-grade. Big debtors and owners of silver mines will benefit, but as the value of the dollar goes, down, the holders of securities se-curities and loans suffer loss. The President's order directs the surrender to the government of all silver buffion and bars within 90 days, the price to be paid being 50.01 cents an ounce. Silver coins and silverware are not included. Under the silver purchase act the treasury is authorized author-ized to value the silver it obtains at $1.29 an ounce and to issue silver certificates cer-tificates on that basis. The government proposes to hold enough silver to make up 25 per cent of the metal backing of the national currency. No one knows how much silver bullion there is in the United States, and it may be necessary neces-sary to make considerable purchases in China and India. SECRETARY OF STATE HULL and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace Wal-lace joined in a statement concerning their efforts to revive America's world trade, explaining that the reciprocal trade agreements to be negotiated with foreign countries will be beneficial bene-ficial and not harmful to American agriculture and manufacturing. The statement pointed out, in ' answer to criticism from farm organizations, or-ganizations, that farm interests would not be sacrificed to aid other groups. It also said no sacrifice of any major or basic agricultural or manufacturing industry was planned, although Secretary Wallace told reporters re-porters that some harm might be done to a tiny fraction of the producers for the greater good of all. XE thousand men and women com-prising com-prising the Minneapolis Protective Protec-tive committee telegraphed an appeal to President Roosevelt to' protect the constitutional rights now superseded by martial law In their city. Copies of the appeal were sent also to Secretary Secre-tary Perkins and Lloyd Garrison, chairman of the National Labor Relations Rela-tions board. "We are satisfied." they wired, "that an agreement between employers and employees could be reached were it not for the interference by a small body of citizens known to be Communist Commun-ist agitators who are being supported in their agitations by the sympathetic attitude of Gov. Floyd R. Olson." At the end of the statement was a sentence interpreted as a request for replacement of the federal mediators, lather Francis J. Haas and E. II. l'uniiigan. The conciliators were authors of a peace dan which the union accepted with alacrity because it granted a maximum of the demands made before be-fore the walkout. It was turned down by the employers, but mediation proceeded pro-ceeded until the principal point of difference dif-ference now concerns the rehiring of all the strikers. The Haas-Dunnigan plan makes that blanket provision. The employers do not wish to be forced to take back men who have Communistic sympathies. "The federal conciliators now here are unable to effect a settlement," the protective committee told Mr. Roosevelt. Roose-velt. "Labor Is being deprived of its earning power; business institutions are suffering substantial losses; taxpayers tax-payers are being subjected to further burden (through maintenance of the National Guard) and bur city and surrounding sur-rounding territory are demanding the right to conduct lawfully ordinary business and Industrial affairs. "We appeal to you to take immediate imme-diate steps to remedy the situation and send us conciliators who will recognize rec-ognize the needs of all citizens and prevent demonstration of the situation for political purposes." Gen. Hugh Johnson's efforts to end the strike of live stock handlers at the Union stockyards in Chicago were successful. The strike was called off and Federal Judge Sullivan resumed his work as mediator to construe the award he made on May 31 as arbitrator arbitra-tor of a similar strike that took place last November. TN GREEN BAY, WIS., 'the President delivered what was considered his principal political address of the year. He told his hearers that the New Deal was going ahead on its nonpartisan non-partisan road and that those who support sup-port it "do so because it is a square deal and because it is essential to the preservation of security and happiness happi-ness of a free society." The President's reference to Wisconsin Wis-consin political alignments was this significant remark : "Your two senators, both old friends of mine, and many others have worked with me in maintaining excellent excel-lent co-operation betwen the executive execu-tive and legislative branches of the government." Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Republican Re-publican independent and sponsor of the new state political party, is up for re-election. F. Ryan Duffy, Democrat, Is the other senator from Wisconsin, elected in 1932. jnRANZ VON PAPEN, vice chanc'el- lor of Germany, who was appointed appoint-ed minister to Austria during the excitement ex-citement that followed the assassina- Franz Von Papen xion or Chancellor Dollfuss, has been accepted ac-cepted by the Austrian Aus-trian cabinet after considerable delay. His avowed task is to restore amicable relations between the two governments, but this will not be easy, Chancellor Schusch-nigg Schusch-nigg is as determined to root out Nazism in Austria as was his predecessor, and at the same time the German Nazis are keeping up their press and radio attacks at-tacks on the Austrian government. In camps around Munich are about 40,000 Austrian Nazi fugitives for whom Von Papen is expected to obtain amnesty am-nesty so they may return to their country ; but as they have been hoping to march into Austria under arms to overthrow the government, it isn't likely Schuschnigg will care to let them return. The cabinet In Vienna is taking vigorous vig-orous action to curb the Nazis, and It was reported that the executive of that party had been ordered dissolved, the members being told to take leaves of absence and to cease activities. Chancellor Hitler is daily solidifying his power in Germany. The latest step is to require all Protestant pastors and church officials to take an oath of fealty to Hitler just as did the Nazi storm troops and members of the regular reg-ular army. New rules were imposed by the national synod that make Reichsbishop Mueller the supreme lawmaker law-maker and authority for the church. Between eight and ten thousand political po-litical prisoners in concentration camps were given their liberty by an amnesty decree announced by Hitler in memory of President Von Hinden-burg. Hinden-burg. ARABS of Algeria, like the Arabs of Palestine, do not love their Jewish neighbors, so they started anti-Semitic anti-Semitic riots in Constantine and surrounding sur-rounding towns in the course of which a great many persons were killed or wounded. Nearly all the casualties were among the Jews. The French military authorities quickly got control con-trol of the situation. Constantine is in a wheat growing area and the Arab farmers had a poor crop this year. The rioting gave them a chance to wipe out many debts to Jewish bankers bank-ers and shopkeepers. p HIPPING and business interests long have urged the establishment of "free ports" or foreign trade zones at many American sea, lake and river ports, and this is now under consideration consid-eration by the government, having been authorized by the last congress. Trade and shipping experts are preparing pre-paring information on how to apply for grants. Some of the cities that have asked how to set up the trade zones are New York, Newark, N. J., Providence. It. I.; Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, San Diego, Calif., Miami, Fla., and Hobo-ken, Hobo-ken, X. J. Private corporations located locat-ed on the Great Lakes also are Interested. Inter-ested. A barrier would surround the area set off for the trade zone. Into this area, which fnust be equipped with adequate shipping and warehousing facilities, fa-cilities, foreign and domestic merchandise, merchan-dise, could be brought, without being subject to customs laws, and stored, broken up, repacked, assembled, distributed, dis-tributed, sorted, mixed with other foreign for-eign and domestic goods, and then exported. ex-ported. Or, if desired, the merchandise merchan-dise could be placed in American domestic do-mestic commerce upon payment of customs duties. FROM now on Communists are not going to have so pleasant, a time in tlie United States, and the spreading spread-ing of their destructive doctrine will 4 J tosstk .teasel M. F. Shannon not be so easy. Congressional Con-gressional investigations investiga-tions into this matter may not have amounted amount-ed to a great deal, but several of the country's great organizations or-ganizations have undertaken un-dertaken to arouse the people to the danger dan-ger that threatens their government and their national institutions. institu-tions. The Order of Elks took cognizance of the Communist Commu-nist threat in its convention in Kansas Kan-sas City, and Michael F. Shannon, its newly elected grand exalted ruler, Is now making an airplane tour of the country for the purpose of urging every ev-ery lodge of the order to carry on the "Pro-America" program in its commu-nity. commu-nity. He will travel 10,000 miles to give what he calls "marching orders" to the 1,400 Elk lodges. Of the Communists Com-munists in America, Mr. Shannon says : "A vast and formidable organization has been set up. The United States is now divided into twenty districts, each with its own committee. Each district is divided into two sections and subsections, with section committees commit-tees set up in accordance with the residential res-idential locations of the Communist members. "Youth organizations, formed to teach not only disrespect, but hate, for American institutions, have appeared everywhere. Organizations under patriotic pa-triotic names, but designed to destroy confidence in our government, are meeting nightly. Bureaus of propaganda propa-ganda are working secretly." The Crusaders, that organization of young business men that was so influential influ-ential in bringing about repeal of prohibition, pro-hibition, has been reorganized and, under un-der the leadership of Fred G. Clark, commander in chief, has entered the fight against the Communists and other oth-er groups that seek to overthrow American institutions. Among its national na-tional advisers are Aldrich Blake, Oklahoma City ; Francis H. Brownell, New York; John W. Davis, New York; Prof. E. W. Kemmerer, Princeton, N. J.; Martin W. Littleton, New York; Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., New York; Charles F. Thwing, Cleveland ; James P. Warburg, New York, and Sewell L. Avery and Albert D. Lasker, Chicago. Chi-cago. The Paul Reveres, a national organization, organ-ization, was established especially to cleanse educational and religious institutions in-stitutions of subversive influences; and the American Vigilante Intelligence Intelli-gence federation is also actively combating com-bating Communism. The Department of Americanization of the American Legion is working in the same cause. A congressional subcommittee, of which Representative Charles Kramer is chairman, has been investigating Communist activities in southern California, Cal-ifornia, and also has heard a lot of testimony about the so-called Silver Shirts, an organization with alleged Nazi affiliations and a large membership. member-ship. An intelligence service witness who joined the Silver Shirts, said members mem-bers were armed and that he was offered of-fered money for stolen government machine guns, rifles and ammunition. He said the declared objective of the organization was to take charge of the United States government, by force if necessary. WHETHER or not Japan obtains naval parity with Great Britain and the United States, it proposes to have a powerful navy. Admiral Mineo Osuml, minister of the navy, submitted submit-ted to the cabinet the largest naval budget in the country's history. It calls for appropriation of about $214,-410,000 $214,-410,000 for the coming year. New items alone total about $90,000,000. In the last budget the diet allowed the navy little more than half of what is now asked. France has denied Japan her support sup-port in any steps toward abrogation of the Washington navy treaty of 1921 by announcing her intention to adhere to its provisions pending "some change in the European situation." HEARTY approval was given by the world Baptist congress, in session in Berlin, to a proposal that a plebiscite plebis-cite be held in 40 countries to determine deter-mine whether the people want to fight another war. The suggestion was made by -Rev. Harold Camp of Oakland, Oak-land, Calif., who said the Kellogg pact should be made the basis of such a vote. |