| Show news review of current events the world over cula cuba in turmoil as machado refuses to quit the presidency germany rebuffs britain and france national recovery progress 4 EDWARD va W PICKARD genardo ERARDO president of cuba appeared to be reach ing the end of his rope but was stubbornly defiant of his opponents and flatly rejected the plan offered by american ambassador sumner welles for settlement 4 of the islands political turmoil 11 mr r welles told Ala malhado chado 4 1 that be should ask congress tor for a leave of absence after appointing an acceptable man for the position of secretary of state gerardo that secretary according machado to the cuban constitution ution would succeed to the presidency in event that office became vacant lie ile would then select a cabinet representative of all political factions 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 to this proposition president machado replied 1 I am and will continue to be the president debt of the republic of cuba exercising all of my constitutional prerogatives of these I 1 cannot relinquish the smallest part without becoming colln a traitor to the confidence reposed in me by the people of cuba when they freely gave their votes to me of 0 without diminishing the independence pen dence and sovereignty of a republic that hat I 1 assisted in founding having fought in the war tor for independence the cuban congress supported machado in his determination to retain his big office and the mediation efforts of ambassador welles were denounced as detrimental to the sovereignty of the republic to those who know conditions on the island this is not surprising the basis of machakos machados Ma Mac chados bados power Is the state lottery lie ile controls this institution and by his favor man many y leading congressmen are able to realize large sums from the sale of lottery tickets what the people think of machado was plainly indicated by the events just preceding tile the crisis described it was reported in havana that the president had resigned and immediately a great throng began demonstrating joyfully dut but the police and troops attacked viciously killing some and wounding many and the marchers barchers mar chers fled in dismay martial law was declared and the city was patrolled patr oled but acts of Ti violence olence were frequent for several days the city had been tied up by a general transportation strike that involved many industries the government announced it ha had d granted the demands of the laborers but the union men refused to return to work while constitutional guarani guaran ties of freedom remained suspended cuban politicians thought Ma Macli chados ados rejection of welles pence 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 to president Roosevel ts declared polley policy and would stultify the position he took concerning the japanese in Man manchuria churla 3 M mr r welles declared that mediation was not ended and Ala malhado chado in his statement said 1 I am disposed to mediate with my political adversaries and to concede to thern them their just demands to any extent that will not diminish the authority or the prestige of the institutions of the republic or the head of the state OF STATE CORDELL S HULL back from the london conference Is again in his offices at the state department and has lost none of his internationalism ue ile still believes all nations cao can and should operate cooperate co to end the world depression and saas domes tie tic programs tor for rals raising prices and reducing unemployment are but the preludes to such operation cooperation co mr hull also announced that the united states secy hull was ready nod and willing to promote close trade and commercial relations with the countries ot of latin america and suggested the negotiation of specific commercial agreements in advocating bl lateral trade agreements under the alie most favored nation principle hull explained that such agreements would relate primarily to commodities of a noncompetitive nature lie ile explained that reciprocal trade agreements would not necessarily conflict with most favored nation treaties because such agreements would be thrown open to signature by other nations which however might not be interested in the products affected by the treaties because the treaties would affect particular prod diets aich would best be jurod in some one nation tx aaning why tile the economic con ference did not achieve the full meas lre n sue s that had been hoped for hull said the various nations found that their economic problems and the problem of operation cooperation co were much more difficult than had been imagined nevertheless he was unwilling to consider the london gathering of CO 00 nations a failure fears of another war with FRENCH germany were sharply stimulated by the abrupt refusal of the littler hitler government to consider the parallel requests made by great britain and france that nazi propaganda in austria be discontinued the two protesting nations declared the course germany was pursuing was la in violation 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 failed to see any reason for application of the four power treaty in this instance and that germany regarded as inadmissible this interference in the german austrian trouble italy had declined to join britain and france in their protest but did make friendly representations to berun berlin concerning the nazi aerial propaganda over austrian territory the italian government was informally advised that germany would take steps immediately to end tills this practice this eased the situation considerably bu but french statesmen were pessimistic and believed the whole affair would lead to the smashup of the disarmament conference when it reassembles in the tall fall 0 NE of the most important branches of the the Dat national ional labor mediation board met in washington formally organized and got busy at once taking up first a controversy in new 0 orleans rl e a n s senator robert F wagner of 0 new york chairman of the board was on vacation in europe N J 1 Z but messas messages e were I sent to him asking that he be return immediately dia dla tely ills his secretary represented him at the boards ses senator alons the other mem wagner bers g present being walter C teagle dr leo louis R E Kirst kirstein eln john L lewis william wililam green and gerard swope henry 1 I harriman president of the united states chamber of commerce is highly optimistic concerning the employment situation at san francisco he predicted that persons would be re employed by the end of this year BUY UY liberally now but buy only from dealers who display the blue eagle Is the advice of gen hugh johnson national recovery administrator ills justifiable justl CabIe expectation is that prices soon will advance as the various codes get of 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 and wage earners over the entire country are being organized for house to house and store to store canvasses to insure a against a dinst infractions of codes and to prevail on buyers to patronize only blue eagle businesses miss mary hughes II director of the section of the emergency re employment campaign announced completion of an organization in 43 states to carry on the educational and policing work violators of codes and agreements are threatened with cation ot of names deputy administrator A D whiteside in of the retail store temporary code said lie he had received reports from many parts of the country that retail stores are entering agreements to shorter hours of operation so they will not have to hire additional workers the enforced creation of more lobs 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 lie sent a sharp warning to the indiana retail grocers association was intended us as an admonition to retailers generally and which was immediately effective among the many codes offered was one for the dally daily and sunday newspapers A IZONA became the twenty first Att 1 2 state to ratify the prohibition repeal amendment the wets winning by a majority of more than th an 3 to 1 their victory was unexpectedly complete although the drys had bad failed to muster enough votes to place delegates on the ballot sirs mrs isamena greenway national democratic committeewoman and a personal per sonni friend of president and mrs airs roosevelt easily captured the demo cratic nomination to III the congressional post vacated by lewis douglas when lie he was named director of the federal budget the victory insured her election because of the absence of republican RePublIC All opposition RESIDENT ROOSEVELT by his hl PRESIDENT appeal to both sides rides and hugh johnson by vigorous argument and threat brought the big bituminous coal strike in pennsylvania to an end their efforts were ably seconded by edward F mcgrady Uc Grady the KRA labor representative in the controversy contro verny at first many of the workers were inclined not to obey the order of 0 the union chiefs to return to the mines but when mr Alc Grady arrived at un by plane and told the men 1 I am acting tor for the president ot 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 of the Dation nationally ally unions under terms of the truce reached in washington the miners tire are to lay their problems before a board appointed by the president pending acceptance of the coal code miners are to employ their own to calculate the amount of coal produced upon which their pay depends last faint chance to r recover ceover manchuria and dehol from japan probably has disappeared tor for gen fong feng yu hsiang the independent commander who had been leading the fight against japanese aggression gres sion has given up and signed a peace pact with WN tile the national OOS government under U n d e r the agreement he abdicates all titles turns over the corn com 3 mand of his troops to the national govern ment and retires to fene eng p 0 I 1 I 1 t leal obscurity yu hsiang gg gen sung gg cheh yuan tuan will become governor of province seat of bengs most recent operations and the government will be reorganized feng has been one of modern chinas cainas most romantic figures and ills his persistent opposition worried japan not a little ills his capitulation Is attributed tri buted to a lack of funds and munitions as well as mutiny and dissatisfaction is among his own men said at one time to have numbered added were japanese threats to boycott kaigan and the vastly superior national government forces sent bent against him recognized authorities on economics and finance had a significant ant conference with the president at the summer white house in hyde park N Y they were james warburg one of the fiscal experts for the american delegation at the london conference and profs pros george F warren of cornell university and james IT rogers of 0 yale university tile the two professors brought to the president a report on the studies they have been conducting for him including the budget taxation the tariffs and particularly the possibility of adopting a dollar which would be geared to the commodity price index rising and falling failing in value with the values of wholesale commodities WO bold french aviators maurice T TWO rossi and paul codos set a new record for nonstop non stop flight and are due to receive a million francs from the french government starting from new york they flew fiew almost directly to syria about WO miles further fu r than the previous record they intended to go to bagdad but quite make it rossi said he thought the record would be accepted at kilometers miles although they actually new flew more than kilometers miles at an average speed of kilometers miles an hour general calbo and his italian seaplane fleet reached the azores some of the planes coming down at ponta delgada and the others at borta after a night of festivity and rest the big planes took off for home via lisbon but one of them commanded by captain ranieri upset and was as left behind lieutenant was killed ranieri was injured and the others of the crew suffered from shock and bruises UR government Is getting out ot of 0 OUK the shipping business as fast as a possible under an executive order from the president the shipping board Is now abolished and tile the merchant mer cliant fleet corporation and its remaining SS ships and 1000 employees are transferred to the department dl of commerce for direction secretary ropers department part ment intends to carry on the polley policy of winding up commercial maritime activities two years ago the corporation had approximately SOO ships it had hundreds of employees scattered about tills this country and in foreign ports sale and lease of its shipping lines have reduced both personnel and ships under reorganization the commerce department may re employ within the next nert four months as many of the workers as it needs many will be absorbed temporarily by the department officials expecting the force to be decreased gradually as the fleet corporations affairs are closed up dolence in the new fork state v VIOLENCE milk strike increased dally daily and gov GOT herbert erbert ll lehman reluctant to call out the notional national hoard guard consulted with its commander and prepared to take that extreme step if it were deemed necessary the state police acting as guards tor for milk trucks were in conflict with the strikers in many localities aging bullets and tear gas against the armed farmers most of the cities and towns obtained plenty of milk e 1933 valmo ne paper ullam |
