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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Cuha in Turmoil as Machado Refuses to Quit tlie Presidency Germany Rebuffs Britain and France National Recovery Progress. By EDWARD W. PICKARD GERARDO MACHADO. president of Cuba, uii(;iircJ to Ijo reaching reach-ing ttie end of his rope, but was stubbornly defiant of liis opponents R1ZONA became the tvi enty- first state to ratify the prohibition prohi-bition repeal amendment, the wets winning by a majority of more than 3 to 1. Their victory was unexpectedly unexpect-edly complete, although the drys had failed to muster enough votes to place delegates on the ballot. Mrs. Isabella Greenway. national Democratic committeewoman and a personal friend of President and Mrs. Roosevelt, easily captured the Democratic nomination to fill the congressional post vacated by Lewis Douglas when he was named director di-rector of the federal budget. The victory Insured her election because of the absence of Republican opposition. op-position. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT by his appeal to both sides and Hugh Johnson by vigorous argument and threat brought the big bituminous coal strike in Pennsylvania to an end. Their efforts were ably seconded sec-onded by Edward F. McGrady, the Nil A labor, representative In the controversy. At first many of the workers were inclined not to obey the order of the union chiefs to return re-turn to the mines, but when Mr. McGrady arrived at Uniontown by plane and told the men: "I am acting act-ing 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 con-cerning recognition by the operators opera-tors of the nationally organized unions. Under terms of the truce reached In Washington the miners are to lay their problems before a board appointed by the President, pending acceptance of the coal code. Miners are to employ their own cheek-weighmen cheek-weighmen to calculate the amount of coal produced, upon which their pay depends, CHINA'S last faint chance to recover re-cover Manchuria and Jehol from Japan probably has disappeared, disap-peared, for Gen. Feng Yu-bsiang, 'J V v '.A and flatly rejected the plan that was offers) by United States Ambassador Ambassa-dor Sumner Welles for settlement of the Island's political politi-cal turmoil. Mr. Welles told Machado Macha-do that he should ask congress for a leave of absence after appointing an acceptable man for the position of sec- Gerardo Machado I however, might not be Interested In the products affected by the treaties because the treaties would affect particular products which would best be manufactured In some one nation. Explaining why the economic conference con-ference did not achieve the full measure of success that had been hoped for, Hull said the various nations na-tions found that their economic problems and the problem of cooperation co-operation were much more difficult than had been Imagined. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, he was unwilling to consider the London gathering of 6G nations a failure. CTRENOH fears of another war with Germany were sharply stimulated stim-ulated by the abrupt refusal of the Hitler government to consider the parallel requests made by Great Britain and France that Nazi propaganda propa-ganda In Austria be discontinued. The two protesting nations declared de-clared the course Germany was pursuing pur-suing was In violation of the spirit of the four power peace pact recently re-cently signed ; but their ambassadors ambassa-dors were told by the German foreign ollice that the Berlin government gov-ernment failed to see any reason for application of the four power treaty in this Instance, and that Germany regarded as inadmissible this Interference Inter-ference In the German-Austrian trouble. Italy had declined to join Britain and France In their protest, but did make friendly representations to Berlin concerning the Nazi aerial propaganda over Austrian territory. The Italian government was Informally In-formally advised that Germany would take steps immediately to end this practice. This eased the situation sit-uation considerably, but French statesmen were pessimistic and believed be-lieved the whole affair would lead to the smashup of the disarmament conference when It reassembles in the fall. ONE' of the most important branches of the NRA, the national na-tional labor mediation board, met in Washington, formally organized the independent comma nder who had been leading the fight against Jap anese aggression, aggres-sion, has given up and signed a peace pact with the national na-tional government. Under the agreement agree-ment he abdicates all titles, turns over the command of his troops to the national na-tional government Feng Yu-hsiang retary of state; that secretary, according ac-cording to the Cuban constitution, would succeed to the presidency in event that ollice became vacant. He would then select a cabinet representative repre-sentative of all political factions, constitutional reforms would be submitted sub-mitted to congress and later to a constitutional convention; and the vlco presidential ollice would be filled by either the congress or the supreme su-preme 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 re-linquish the smallest part without becoming a traitor to the confidence reposed In me by the people of Cuba when they freely gave their votes to me, or without diminishing the independence and sovereignty of a republic that I assisted In founding, having fought in the war for Independence." Inde-pendence." Tbe Cuban congress supported Machado In his determination to retain re-tain his ollice, and the mediation efforts of Ambassador Welles were denounced as detrimental to the sovereignty sov-ereignty of the republic. To those who know conditions on the Island this Is not surprising. The basis of Machado's power Is the state lottery. He controls this institution and by his favor many leading congressmen are able to realize large sums from the sale of lottery tickets. What the people think of Machado Macha-do was plainly indicated by the events just preceding the crisis described. de-scribed. It was reported in Havana that the president had resigned nnd immediately a great throng began demonstrating joyfully. But the police po-lice and troops attacked viciously, killing some and wounding many, and the marchers fled in dismay. Martial law was declared and the city was patroled. but acts of violence vio-lence were frequent. For several days the city had been tied up by a general transportation etrike that Involved many Industries. The government announced It had granted the demands of the laborers, labor-ers, but the union men refused to return to work while constitutional guaranties of freedom remained suspended. sus-pended. Cuban politicians thought Machado's Ma-chado's rejection of Welles' peace plan would lead to Intervention by the United States, but in Washington Washing-ton this was considered quite unlikely. un-likely. To send our marines to the Islands would be contrary to President Presi-dent Roosevelt's declared policy, and would stultify the position he took concerning the Japanese In Manchuria. Mr. Welles declared that mediation media-tion was not ended, and Machado in his statement said: "I am disposed to mediate with my political adversaries adver-saries and to concede to 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." SECRETARY OF STATE COR-DELL COR-DELL HULL, back from the London conference, is again In his offices at the State department, and J! and got busy at once, taking up first a controversy in New Orleans. Senator Sen-ator Robert F. Wagner Wag-ner of New . York, chairman of the board, was on vacation va-cation in Europe, but messages were sent to him asking that he return immediately. im-mediately. His secretary sec-retary represented him at the board's Senator Wagner and retires to political obscurity. Gen. Sung Cheh-Yuan will become governor, of Chahar province, seat of Feng's most recent operations, and the government -will be reorganized. reor-ganized. Feng has been one of modern China's most romantic figures and his persistent opposition worried Japan not a little. His capitulation is attributed to lack of funds and munitions as well as mutiny and dissatisfaction among his own men. said at one time to have numbered 20,000. THREE recognized authorities on economics and finance had a significant conference with the President Pres-ident at the summer White House In Hyde Park, N. Y. They were James Warburg, one of the fiscal experts for the American delegation delega-tion at the London conference, and Profs. George F. Warren of Cornell university and James H. Rogers of Yale university. The two professors brought to the President a report on the studies stud-ies they have been conducting for him, including the budget, taxation the tariffs, and particularly the possibility pos-sibility of adopting a dollar which would be geared to the commodity price index, rising and falling in value with the values of wholesale whole-sale commodities. HpWO bold French aviators, Mau-rice Mau-rice Rossi and Paul Colos. set a new record for non-stop flight and are due to receive a million francs from the French government. Starting from New York, they flew almost directly to Rayak, Syria, about 500 miles farther than the previous record. They intended to go to Bagdad but couldn't quite make It. Rossi said he thought the record would be accepted at 9,300 kilometers (5.775.3 miles), although they actually flew more than 10.000 kilometers (6.210 miles) at an average aver-age speed of 166 kilometers (82.28 miles) an hour. General Balho and his Italian seaplane sea-plane fleet reached the Azores, some of the planes coming down at Ponta Delgada and the others at Horta. After a night of festivity and rest the big planes took off for home via Iisbon ; but one of them, commanded com-manded by Captain Ranieri, upset and was left behind. Lieutenant Squaglia was killed, Ranieri was Injured, and the others of the crew suffered from shock and bruises. yiOLENCE In the New York " state milk strike increased daily and Gov. Herbert Lehman, though reluctant to call out the National Guard, consulted with its com mander and prepared to take thai extreme step if It were deemed nec essnry. The state police, acting as guards for milk trucks, were in con flict with the strikers in many localities, lo-calities, using bullets and tear gas against the armjpd farmers. Mos' of the cities and towns obtained plenty of milk, for by no means all of the producers were include' among the strikers. . 1933. Western Newspaper Union. sessions, the other members present being Walter C. Teagle, Dr. Leo Wolman, Louis E. Kirstein, John L. Lewis, William Green and Gerard Swope. Henry I. Harriman, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, is highly optimistic concerning concern-ing the employment situation. At San Francisco he predicted that 7,000,000 persons would be re-employed by the end of this year. r)UY liberally now, but buy only from dealers who display the blue eagle, is the advice of Gen. Hugh Johnson, national recovery administrator. ad-ministrator. His justifiable expectation expecta-tion is that prices soon will advance as the various codes get into operation opera-tion 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 agree-ments and to check profiteering. Housewives and wage earners over the entire country are being organized organ-ized for house to house and store to store canvasses to Insure against Infractions In-fractions of codes and to prevail on buyers to patronize only blue eagle businesses. Miss Mary Hughes, director of the women's section of the emergency re-employment campaign, announced completion of an organization in 48 states to carry on the educational educa-tional and "policing" work. Violators Vio-lators of codes and agreements are threatened with publication of their names. Deputy Administrator A. D. Whiteside, in charge of the retail store temporary code, said he had received reports from many parts of the country that retail stores are entering agreements to shorten hours of operation so they will not have to hire additional workers. The enforced creation of more jobs is the major objective of the campaign. cam-paign. 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' Gro-cers' association, which was Intended In-tended as an admonition to retailers retail-ers generally and which was immediately im-mediately effective. Among the many codes offered was one for the daily and Sunday newspapers. v. has lost none of his internationalism. He still believes all nations na-tions can and should co-operate to end the world depression, depres-sion, and says domestic do-mestic programs for raising prices and reducing unemployment unemploy-ment are but the prelude to such cooperation. co-operation. Mr. Hull also announced that Sec'y Hull the United States was ready and willing to promote close trade and commercial relations with the countries coun-tries of Latin America, and suggested suggest-ed the negotiations of specific commercial com-mercial agreements. In advancing bl-lateral trade agreements under the most favored nation principles, Hull explained that such agreements would relate primarily pri-marily to commodities of a noncompetitive noncom-petitive nature. He 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, |