| Show 11 news ila review of current events the W world or id over germany studies anglo french peace proposals labor rebuked by roosevelt for objections to the auto code governor ousted from froin office by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union continental chancel chancell lories orles turned Q C their attention toward n new plan designed to restore germany to complete equality among european nations rind and to strengthen the shaky foundations of pence peace ns as conversations ended between pierre laval french foreign minister and sir john simon british foreign secretary germany will be offered a promise of repeal of the military clauses of the treaty of versailles in return pierre laval for or r entering reentering re ee e e n t e r 1 n g the league of nations such a conces concession slon would seem a victory for ril tiers campaign to restore germany to its place BS 05 a sovereign power in europe another proposal arising from the negotiations greatly aids frances campaign for security regional defense pacts to provide the nations participating with reciprocal assistance in repelling an unprovoked air attack are part of the plan france and great britain are willing to enter into such a series of pacts and suggest that other european nations be invited to join this signifies that either cither nation must rush planes to the ald aid of the other in the event of attack from the air the pact will undoubtedly be concluded between groat great britain and france no matter what action the other nations take although no formal announcement has been made some european diplomats are not at all certain that germany and poland can be persuaded to change the unreceptive attitude they have bare so tar far manifested toward suggestions for their participation in an eastern locarno germany may be so EO strongly rearmed by this time that she will not be concerned whether her armaments are legalized gali zed this however Is only speculation dispatches from germany have indicated the willingness to engage in any conversations proposed by the franco british formula but she must first be assured of complete equality of status S BORAH of idaho always sternly opposed to action that might lead the united states into foreign entanglements entangle ments has surprisingly come forward with a demand that congress investigate the alleged religious persecutions in mexico and persuade our oaf neighbors to the south to cease them the excuse for such proposed meddling Is that some citizens of the united states may be among the victims through its representatives in washington the mexican government calmly denies there Is any religious persecution down there and says all who obey the laws are permitted to worship as they please if the borah resolution car carries rles mexico may well tell the united states to mind its own business representative fish of new york followed borass lead by introducing in the house a resolution calling upon the president Ident to take diplomatic steps toward abatement of what he declares Is growing communism in mexico he be said the communistic trend was directly connected with the alleged religious persecutions and that entrenchment of communism in mexico would seriously affect the united states THREE million pounds of steel in ape the form for m of a huge gate was slowly lowered into place at the boulder dam the great colorado river was placed under control and there came into being a new lake which will eventually be the largest ever made by man in two or three years it will extend baik miles from the dam by june I 1 next it will contain about acre feet of water or one tenth of its capacity only one of the diversion tunnels remains open it Is on the nevada side and through it will be permitted to flow only enough water to meet the needs of irrigation in the imperial valley of california brusslan TRus alie much advertised benefits from russian recognition have been rather less than satisfactory neither the wide expansion of trade which was wag anticipated or the satisfactory settlement of debts materialized and following a conference with soviet representatives senta tives secretary cordell hull bull ad knitted that diplomatic dilly dallying bad come to an end null issued a curt statement that certain diplomatic changes had been ordered to in moscow the acting naval will be withdrawn tte the consulate generalship will be abolished and further reductions will be made in the personnel of the embassy he stated the united states action means a period of strained relations between the two countries although not to the point of the united states governments withdrawing recognition william wililam C bullitt will remain as ambas tador but there Is little doubt that the united states will not proceed with construction of an embassy building and that arrangements tor for creating consulates in other parts of russia will be deferred D broke bralic out in england Eng lind as ra a protest against the new dole measure despite an announcement by minister of labor oliver stanley that recent reductions in unemployment payments would he restored thousands continued their protest campaign demanding not only the restoration of relief cuts hut but nn an increase over the fire scale or of relief imposed belore before the adent of the unemployment assistance board last month violent clashes occurred sit at sheffield eld where n mob or of battled with itil mounted pollee police at glasgow during a discussion of the new relief concessions two 0 councillors nere ere thrown out of the council ch chamber arnber rind and a band of unemployed men and women were also forcibly ejected P renewed the automobile mobile code with two changes designed to subi lize employment but the american federation of labor growing daily more dissatisfied with the governments polley policy denounced the code extension and president W william I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 a m ireen reed said we nill nil not accept it recognize nor beld to it ILI the federations executive council bitterly attacked attached donald herg emergency coun wm green ell director an and d dr leo chairman of the automobile labor board asserting they are arc hostile to the american federation of labor colmans Wol mans board not long iong ago conducted elections in the detroit area which revealed that flint less than 10 per cent of the employees were affiliated with the federation and presumably for this renson reason green and his bis aids were not consulted in the matter of renewal of the code the president lost no time in serving in notice that labor would not be permitted to dictate administration policies extension of the code was welcomed by the automobile manufacturers association so its officers declaring there would be steadier work in their factories and that winter unemployment would be greatly reduced the changes in the code call for the introduction of new models during a goday GO CO day period before or after october 1 I and pay and a half for overtime work two days later inter the president aga again I 1 I 1 fired back at the federation in reply to the federation executive councils demand that S clay williams administration board chairman be removed at least until a cigarette code satisfactory to labor could he be approved 1 williams I 1 had been appointed after careful consideration the president said and there was no need for any controversy tro versy A resolution had been passed by the labor council asling asking william green areen to seek the ouster of williams as a toe foe of labor before he be took the post williams headed one of the nations largest tobacco companies agov AFTER FTER less than a month in gov thomas U H was ousted by the north dakota supreme court the court held moodie ineligible on the ground that he be had bad voted and thereby established residence in minnesota in 1930 1030 the constitutional provision requires candidates for governor to have lived in the state five consecutive years before election his successor locut gov walter IL n welford will be the fourth governor in seven months last june the state supreme court ordered the removal of william langer who had just been convicted of conspiracy to solicit political contributions from federal relief workers during his brief term in office moodie was in difficulties difficult les with the legislature the lower house being controlled by the nonpartisan party part y which was hostile to hoodie who was the second democrat ever to win the office WILLIAM ILLIAM maccracken former assistant stant secretary of commerce tor for aeronautics will spend ten days in lall jail the supreme court decreed thus settling the right of the senate to punish for contempt maccracken was sentenced to jall jail by the senate when he be failed to produce data requested by the senate air mall mail investigating committee the district of columbia Coli imbia supreme court held the senate acted within its power but the district court of appeals sided with maccracken 0 ORGANIZED labor in america now gives its full support to the international labor organization in geneva it was officially announced in the swiss city that president william green of the american federation of labor will be the american member of the body leon Jou joubaux haux french labor leader in a speech at geneva expressed the joy of labor representatives of all countries ut at the operation cooperation co ot of american labor alth startling rapidity tle the adjustment administration ousted a group of rn lical new dealers which secretary of agriculture sald ii as ifo for the good food of the aenice sen ice leronie jerome N frank aa leo 0 pressman and frank shea air and gardner jackson all tendered their resignations the rhe final fate of fred C ilowe victor cotnam rind and alger hiss still remain main in douht doubt the bloodless purge puree of the group croup known as favored of rexford G Tu tugwell guell wits was unexpected evidently signals wert confused because hoc ailse president roosevelt in his press conference stated hint tie be was uninformed of 0 any action but later in the day secretary wallace said the resident president was w aware of the action before it was waa announced wallace added ho however Never that tugwell who la Is in florida rail had riot not been consulted it may be remembered that Tug wells light fight for frank fran resulted la in the discharge ge of george N peek peck as AAA administrator and it was as felt by some that it was to avoid possible trouble with tugwell that he was not informed of the plan agricultural administrator davis informed newspaper men that tire the order was necessary to preserve harmony there was mounting in getting things done said administrator davis we believed things would function more smoothly if they were directed by men familiar with farm problems anti and having a farm arm background wallace was asked if this statement applied to tug tugwell well lie hastily replied that tug tugwell well had an excellent farm background which may be a distinct surprise to ninny many T THE first special federal grand jury to he bd called at washington since the teapot dome doine oil scandals more than ten years ago ago began investigation or of the public works scandal involving an alleged conspiracy to use rise miles mile of california redwood pipe in it a texas irrigation project that originally called ailed for no pipe at all IWA administrator harold L ickes instituted the grand jury action the plot centers around the willacy county texas water control program to irrigate citrus orchards ickes claims the money was promised by on the understanding that the willacy project would be a gravity system requiring no pipe and that after the papers were sl signed ned by the plans were altered to make it a pressure system find to use miles of redwood pipe according to the evidence to he placed before the jury officials and engineers texas politicians and lumbermen were parties to the conspiracy when the willacy county matter has been sifted the lie jury may investigate reported irregularities in other projects and may also start a new investigation vesti gation of war department contracts P postmaster r GENERAL JAMES FARLEY will either have to resign his job as head of the post office department part ment or give up the chairmanship of the democratic nation t I 1 0 n a I 1 committee 11 senator norris nebraska succeeds lo in putting through a bill tass osyp he introduced it lo 10 the senate norris would take the post office front from farley down out of partisan politics tire postmaster general james farley would w d be appointed app for ten years and the present system whereby congressmen have an important voice in the appointment of postmasters would be abolished all employees would be select ed for merit emerit and efficiency only the chances of ever putting such a measure through congress are more than lema lerna while norris asserts that thai congressmen ought to be tickled to dent death to be berid rid of the job it Is hardly likely that very many congressmen will be anxious to give up the task of handing out such political plums the administration moved hastily to introduce a counter bill which would provide that all postmaster ships would be brought under chii service and which would ban political appointments and open most of the jobs only to career employees in the postal service the measure was introduced by senator joseph C OSIa honey democrat wyoming and was said to have hare the approval of both the president and F parley a hey only civil service employees of 0 the postal system who have served in supervisory sory capacities or as post poet ollice office inspectors postmasters of first class offices who have had at least four years of actual experience or executives of broad experience in private life would constitute the class from which postmasters would be selected tor for offices having gross receipts of 1 or more S C pollee police action was necessary to avert new blood blied in parta paris on the anniversary of the uprising caused by popular indignation over the Sta vinky scandal disclosures thou sands of arrests were made as communists sought to arouse the public to a repetition of the riots of a year ago when 19 were killed in the place de la concorde police gave the reds no chance to carry out their intended maneuvers mane users tho tha most harmless harmles I 1 lonac ing individuals were escorted a few blocks rind and let gi ga with farewell kicks while bile those found carrying weapons were rushed into improvised concentration camps 11 flandin wit was s hissed and booed bloed by many fire eating nationalists as lie he attended memorial services in noue notie dame cathedral |
