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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Cuba in Turmoil as Machado Refuses to Quit the Presidency Presi-dency Germany Rebuffs Britain and France National Recovery Progress. By EDWARD W. PICKARD GERARDO MACHADO. president of Cuba, appeared to be reaching reach-ing the end of his rope, but was stubbornly stub-bornly defiant of his opponents and flatly rejected the plan " offered by American - - v Ambassador Sumner ' Welles for settlement I of the Island's po-! po-! yyvVI litical turmoil. Mr. f - I Welles told Machado : v ' ' ' M that he should ask ; congress for a leave ' ,- , I of absence after ap- y"" pointing an acceptable .ljLJ man for the position of secretary of state; that secretary, accord-Machado accord-Machado ,ng tQ (he Cuban C0Q. ititution, would succeed to the presidency presi-dency In event that office became vacant. va-cant. He would then select a cabinet representative of all political factions, fac-tions, constitutional reforms would be submitted to congress and later to a constitutional convention; and the vice presidential office would be filled by either the congress or the supreme court To this proposition President Machado Ma-chado replied: "I am and will continue to be the president of the Republic of Cuba, exercising all of my constitutional prerogatives. Of these I cannot relinquish relin-quish the smallest part without becoming be-coming a traitor to the confidence reposed re-posed In me by the people of Cuba when they freely gave their votes to tne, or without diminishing the independence inde-pendence and sovereignty of a republic repub-lic that I assisted in founding, having fought In the war for independence." The Cuban congress supported Machado Ma-chado In his determination to retain his office, and the mediation efforts of Ambassador Welles were denounced as detrimental to the sovereignty of the republic. To those who know conditions con-ditions on the island this Is not surprising. sur-prising. The basis of Machado's power pow-er Is the state lottery. He controls this Institution and by his favor many leading congressmen are able to realize re-alize large sums from the sale of lottery lot-tery tickets. What the people think of Machado was plainly indicated by the events Just preceding the crisis described. It was reported in Havana that the president pres-ident had resigned and immediately a great throng began demonstrating Joyfully. But the police and troops attacked viciously, killing some and wounding many, and the marchers fled In dismay. Martial law was declared and the city was patroied, but acts of violence were frequent. For several days the city had been tied up by a general transportation strike that Involved many industries. The government announced it had granted the demands of the laborers, but the union men refused to return to work while constitutional guaranties guaran-ties of freedom remained suspended. Cuban politicians thought Machado's rejection of Welles' peace plan would lead to Intervention by the United States, but In Washington this was considered quite unlikely. To send our marines to the Island would be contrary con-trary to President Roosevelt's declared de-clared policy, and would stultify the position he took concerning the Japanese Jap-anese in Manchuria. Mr. Welles declared that mediation was not ended, and Machado in hi3 statement said: "I am disposed to mediate with my political adversaries and to concede to them their just demands de-mands to any extent that will not diminish di-minish the authority or the prestige of the institutions of the republic or the head of the state." SECRETARY OF STATE CORDEI.L HULL, back from the London conference, con-ference, is again In his offices at the State department, and has lost none of his international- p,,,,, Ism. He still believes f all nations can and Wf' '"; should co-operate to fe' , end the world depres- :'-'" . i. Bion, and says domes- &'- - tic programs for nils- 1' f J Ing prices and reduc- ; jks K Ing unemployment are . ..... J but the preludes to . 'ft such co-operation. Mr. , J'.f" ft Hull also announced jJt J that the United States H(J was ready and willing to promote close trade and commercial relations with the countries of Latin America, and suggested the negotiation negotia-tion of specific commercial agreements. In advocating bi lateral trade agreements agree-ments under the most favored nation principle. Hull explained that such agreements would relate primarily to commodities of a noncompetitive nature, na-ture, lie explained that reciprocal trade agreements would not neeos-Kiril? neeos-Kiril? conflict v.ilh most, favored nation na-tion treaties, because such agreements would he- thrown open to signature by oihr nations winch, however, might no! be ijiteroste jn the product af- I'e.ti'l by the treaties because the ti e, ties would arteer. pa i-i in i la r prod-net-, .vie' h would he-1 be manufactured manufac-tured in vol,;- one nation. Ig.,.!:.noug why the eeononilf con- fe - h e li.-l not aehlee the full meal- n, : s l ad been hoped fur. Hull said the various nations found that their economic problems and the problem of co-operation were much more difficult than had been imagined. Nevertheless, he was unwilling to consider con-sider the Iondon gathering of C6 nations na-tions a failure. FMIEXCH fears of another war with I Germany were sharply stimulated by the abrupt refusal of the Hitler government to consider the parallel requests re-quests made by Great Britain and France that Nazi propaganda in Austria Aus-tria be discontinued. The two protesting pro-testing nations declared the course Germany was pursuing was in violation viola-tion of the spirit of the four power peace pact recently signed ; but their ambassadors were told by the German foreign office that the Berlin government govern-ment failed to see any reason for application ap-plication of the four power treaty in this instance, ancl that Germany regarded re-garded as Inadmissible this Interference Interfer-ence in the German-Austrian trouble. Italy had declined to join Britain and France in their protest, but did make friendly representations to Berlin Ber-lin concerning the Nazi aerial propaganda propa-ganda over Austrian territory. The Italian government was informally advised ad-vised that Germany would take steps immediately to end this practice. This eased the situation considerably, but French statesmen were pessimistic and believed the whole affair would lead to the smashup of the disarmament conference when It reassembles in the fall. "NE of the most Important branches ' of the NRA, the national labor mediation board, met in Washington, formally organized and got busy at pj once, taking up first gssxssw-,. a controversy in New fc'J Orleans. Senator V Robert F. Wagner of "ew 5"ork, chairman j,v of the board, was on , Tacati0D ln Europe fc but messages were sent to him asking ' ""-" that he return Imme- s 1 diately. His secre- fe. "'a!,'. ...j tary represented him at the board's ses- Senator ... sions. the other mem- Wagner . . . hers present being Walter C. Teagle. Dr. Leo Wolman. Louis E. Kirstein, John L. Lewis, William Wil-liam Green and Gerard Swope. Henry 1. Harriman. president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Is highly optimistic concerning the employment situation. At San Francisco Fran-cisco he predicted that 7.000,000 persons per-sons would be re-employed by the end of this year. rUY liberally now, hut buy only from dealers who display the blue eagle. Is the advice of Gen. Hugh Johnson, national recovery administrator. His Justifiable expectation Is that prices soon will advance as the various codes ! get Into operation and the purchasing power of the people Increases. At the same time the recovery administration is taking steps to keep the retailers within the terms of their agreements and to check profiteering. Housewives House-wives and wage earners over the entire en-tire country are being organized for house to house and store to store canvasses can-vasses to Insure against infractions of codes and to prevail on buyers to patronize pat-ronize only blue eagle businesses. Miss Mary Hughes, director of the women's section of the emergency reemployment re-employment campaign, announced completion com-pletion of an organization In 4S states to carry on the educational and "policing" "polic-ing" work. Violators of codes and agreements are threatened with publl cation of their names. Deputy Administrator A. D. Whiteside. White-side. In charge of the retail store temporary tem-porary code, said he had received reports re-ports from many parts of the country that retail stores are entering agreements agree-ments to shorler hours of operation so they will not have to hire additional addi-tional workers. The enforced creation of more Jobs Is the major objective of the campaign. In numerous cases stores also are "staggering" their employees to avoid an increase of their forces, Whiteside said. He sent a sharp warning to the Indiana Retail Grocers' association, which was Intended as an admonition to retailers generally and which was Immediately effective. Among the many codes offered was one for the dally and Sunday newspapers. news-papers. ARIZONA became the twenty-first stale to ratify the prohibition re-pea! re-pea! amendment, the wets winning by a majority of more than .'i to 1. Their victory was unexpectedly complete, although al-though I he drys had failed to muster enough votes to place delegates on the ballot. Mrs. Isahena Greenway. national Democratic coinmlltecwninnn and a personal friend of President and Mrs. Roosevelt, easily captured the Democratic Demo-cratic nomination to fill the emigres sinnal post vaealei by Lewis Douglas when he was mimed direetor of Ihe federal budget. The victory Insure, I her election because of the absence of Republican opposition. PRESLDEN.T ROOSEVELT by his , appeal to both sides and Hugh Johnson by vigorous argument and j threat brought the big bituminous coal strike in Pennsylvania to an end. Their efforts were ably seconded by Edward F. McGrady, the NBA labor j representative in the controversy. At i first many of the workers were inclined in-clined not to obey the order of the union chiefs to return to the mines, but when Mr. McGrady arrived at Cn-iontown Cn-iontown by plane and told the men : "I am acting for the President of the United States and asking you to go back to work," they cheered him, picked up their lamps and got back to the pits. The trouble was mainly concerning recognition by the operators opera-tors of the nationally organized unions. un-ions. Under terms of the truce reached ln Washington the miners are to lay their problems before a board appointed appoint-ed by the President, pending acceptance accept-ance of the coal code. Miners are to employ their own checkweighmen to calculate the amount of coal produced, upon which their pay depends. CHINA'S last faint chance to re-1 re-1 cover Manchuria and Jehol from Japan probably has disappeared, for Gen. Feng Yu-hsiang, the independent pi.Ti eyj commander who had I " been leading the fight against Japanese ag-ja"48. ag-ja"48. gression, has given up ivnm,.! and signed a peace f j. 1 pact with the national s j v ' government. Under 1 f the agreement he ,ab- aytSS ?i dlcates all titles, V turns over the com- - ' S n,nn(J of nis troops to the national government govern-ment and retires to en9 p o 1 i t ical obscurity. Yu-hs.ang Gen gung cheh.Tuan will become governor of Chahar province, prov-ince, seat of Feng's most recent operations, oper-ations, and the government will be reorganized. Feng has been one of modern China's most romantic figures and his persistent opposition worried Japan not a little. His capitulation Is attributed at-tributed to a lack of funds and munitions muni-tions as well as mutiny and dissatisfaction dissat-isfaction among his own men, said at one time to have numbered 20,000. Added were Japanese threats to boycott boy-cott Kalgan, and the vastly superior national government forces sent against him. THREE recognized authorities on economics and finance had a significant sig-nificant conference with the President at the summer White House In Hyde t Park, N. Y. They were James War- burg, one of the fiscal experts for the American delegation at the London conference, and Trofs. George F. Warren War-ren of Cornell university and James j II. Rogers of Yale university. j i The two professors brought to the j President a report on the studies they have been conducting for him. Including Includ-ing the budget, taxation, the tariffs, and particularly the possibility of adopting a dollar which would be geared to the commodity price Index, j rising and falling in value with the values of wholesale commodities. TWO bold French aviators, Maurice ' Rossi and Paul Codos, set a new record for non-stop flight and are due to receive a million francs from the I French government. Starting from New York, they flew almost directly to Rayak, Syria, about 500 miles further fur-ther than the previous record. They Intended to go to Bagdad but couldn't quite make It. Rossi said he thought the record would he accepted at 0,100 kilometers (5,77.". 3 miles), although they actually flew more thnn 10. OK) kilometers (0,210 miles) at an average speed of 100 kilometers (S2.2S miles) an hour. Genera Balbo and his Italian seaplane sea-plane fleet reached the Azores, some of the planes coining down at Ponta Delgada nnd the others at Ilorta. After Aft-er a night of festivity and rest the big planes took off for homo via Lisbon Lis-bon ; but fine of them, commanded by Captain Ranierl, upset and was left behind. Lieutenant Squaglia was killed. Ranierl was Injured, and the others of the crew suffered from shock nnd bruises. OUR government Is getting out of the shipping business as fast as possible. Under nn executive order from the President the shipping hoard Is now abolished, and the merchant fleet corporation and Its remaining .18 ships nnd 1.000 employees are transferred trans-ferred to the Department of Commerce for direction. Secretary Roper's department de-partment Intends to carry on the policy pol-icy of winding up commercial maritime mari-time activities. Two years ago the corporation had approximately "00 ships. It had hundreds hun-dreds of employees scattered nbout this country and In foreign ports. Salo and lease of Its shipping lines have reduced re-duced both personnel and ships. Under reorganization the Coninierco depa rt merit may re employ within the next four months as many of the workers as It needs. Many will be absorbed ab-sorbed temporarily by the department, depart-ment, officials expecting the force to be decreased gradually as the fleet corporal Ion's nfTalrs tire closed up. VKiI.K.MT: In the New York stale milk stril;e Increased dally and Gov. Herbert Lehman, though reluctant reluc-tant to call out the National Guard, consnlteij with Its commander and prepared to take that extreme step If It Were deemed necessary. Tim stale police, acting as guards for milk trucks, wen- lu conflict with the strikers In many localities, using Indicts Ind-icts find tear gas against the armed farmers. Most of the filled n lid towns obtained plenty of milk. j C. lieoi. Wrslein Ni-wnxu'or Unlun. |