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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over i CuLan Congress Ousts President Gomez Another Arch! jishop Attacks Edward, Duke of Windsor Treasury Plan to Curh Credit Inflation. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. AI IGUF:L MARIANO GOMEZ, president of Cuba, was on his way out because he defied Col. Fui-gencio Fui-gencio Batista, the real ruler of the the sugar tax bill to raise funds for the building of schools that would be conducted con-ducted by army officers. of-ficers. Despite plenty plen-ty of warnings, Gomez Go-mez persisted in his opposition to the measure which, he said, would lead to fneeiem Qrt fh MiKuel Gomel house of representatives, representa-tives, dominated by Batista, Impeached Im-peached him and he went to trial before the senate with the certainty certain-ty that the decision would be against him. He was accused of attempting to coerce the congress unconstitutionally to defeat the tax bill, and of mal-administration. It was the first bill of impeachment ever voted in the history of the Cuban republic. Gomez defended himself vigorously vigor-ously but was resigned to his fate. The prosecution was conducted by three members of the house Carlos Car-los Palma, veteran Republican leader; lead-er; Eduardo Martinez Fraga, Nationalist, Na-tionalist, and Felipe Jay, Democrat. Demo-crat. Vice President Federico Laredo Bru was ready to succeed Gomez automatically. He is a lawyer, sixty-one sixty-one years old and was a colonel in the Cuban war of independence. A ECHBISHOPS of the Church of England just can't let the duke I of Windsor and his love affair alone. The Most Rev. Dr. William Temple, archbishop of York and second only to the archbishop of Canterbury, took his turn in lambasting the abdicated ab-dicated king, in a Christmas diocesan dioces-an letter that displayed little of the Christian spirit. Said the archbishop: archbish-op: "It has happened to many a man before now to find himself beginning to fall in love with another man's wife. That is a moment of critical decision and the right decision is that they should cease to meet before be-fore the passion is so developed as to create an agonizing conflict between be-tween love and duty. "This decision often has been taken tak-en by men of honor. And when the power of personal attraction is reinforced re-inforced by the glamor of the throne the moral obligation is the more urgent for that reason. "Let us remember that any kind of love which can be in conflict with duty is not the love of which the gospel speaks." The British press and a great many of the English people are disgusted dis-gusted with these repeated attacks on Edward by the prelates and there is a growing danger of a split in the Church of England. Dispatches from Edward's haven in Enzesfeld, Austria, say that he is planning to make Mrs. Simpson the duchess of Windsor in May next, immediately after her divorce becomes be-comes absolute. Meanwhile he probably prob-ably will remain at the castle of Baron Eugene de Rothschild without with-out seeing Mrs. Simpson. There were reports that the duke might take legal action against the archbishop of York, presumably for slander. CIMEON D. FESS, former sena- tor from Ohio and for years a leader in the "Old Guard" of the Republican party, died suddenly in the Carlton hotel, Washington. He had been in retirement from national na-tional politics since 1932 when he was defeated for re-election to the senate. A CCORDING to a decision of the United States court of appeals in New Orleans, the national labor relations board has authority to compel employers to bargain collectively collec-tively with their employees. The tribunal upheld the board's cease arid desist orders against Agwil-ines, Agwil-ines, Inc., which operates the Clyde Mallory Steamship lines, in connection con-nection with the dismissal of seven employees for alleged union action. 'TpHE Supreme Court having up-held, up-held, in the Chaco arms embargo em-bargo case, the neutrality powers of the President, Mr. Roosevelt let it be known that he would ask congress con-gress to revise the present neutrality neutral-ity law to give him broader discretion dis-cretion in his relations with foreign governments. In other words, the "teeth" which he and the State department de-partment have always thought the statute lacked. Just what the President Pres-ident would ask was not told to the press, but there were indicaLons that he wants authority to: 1. Declare an arms embargo "upon "up-on the outbreak or during progress of a war, and forbid the passage of American citizens or transport of American goods on belligerent ships, except at the traveler's or shipper's own risk. 2. Determine the actual volume to which commodity shipments would be limited and enumerate the items becoming contraband beyond those limits. Government officials looked upon the Supreme Court's decision as the most sweeping approval of a New Deal law the tribunal has yet given. They read in it an inferential inferen-tial approval of the reciprocal trade treaty program, still untested, and a broader inference that the President Presi-dent should be given more latitude in negotiations of all kinds with foreign for-eign governments. y ELEGATES to the inter-Amer--J ican peace conference in Buenos Bue-nos Aires signed the 69 accords approved ap-proved during the sessions and the conference came to an end. Farewell Fare-well congratulatory speeches were made by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas and the head of the Peruvian delegation, Carlos Concha. They all urged that the peace efforts be continued in the next Pan-American conference, which will be held in Lima, Peru, In 1938. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TREAS-URY MORGENTHAU and Chairman Marriner Eccles of the federal reserve board announced a new program for curbing credit inflation, in-flation, and it is likely to involve $1,-000,000,000 $1,-000,000,000 of borrowings bor-rowings in 1937. About a billion dollars dol-lars worth of gold is flowing into the country annually, and if this continues next year, it was said by officials, the treasury will take M- b' iiCcles that amount out of the'money market, mar-ket, to offset the effects of the gold influx on domestic credit. The plan, which probably was devised de-vised by Mr. Eccles, is intended to hold the excess reserves, which are the reserves that member banks deposit de-posit with the federal reserve system sys-tem in excess of legal requirements, on the same plateau where they are now. Previously gold flowing into the country was chalked up as excess ex-cess reserves upon which an inflationary infla-tionary credit boom could be built. 'TpHREE new indictments against major oil companies, oil trade publications and individuals were returned re-turned by a federal grand jury in Madison, Wis., in order to avoid delay de-lay in the trial of the anti-trust cases. With few changes the new true bills are similar. to those returned previously previ-ously by the 1935 grand jury and contested con-tested as invalid on grounds that the grand jury was illegally impaneled. It is understood that the government govern-ment plans to bring the cases to trial in March. T TNDER the general leadership of John L. Lewis the war for unionizing the steel industry and destroying the company unions is nuw uuuer way. Some 250 company union . representatives representa-tives from the Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, the Cleveland Cleve-land - Youngstown and the eastern districts dis-tricts met in Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh and were told by Philip Murray, chief aide of Lewis and chairman of the commmee lor in-John in-John L. Lewis dustrial uniorli at a strike in the $5,000,000,000 industry indus-try might result "if the industry continues to employ its dog-in-the-manger attitude," in dealing with trade unions. Thereupon the delegates adopted resolutions unanimously condemning condemn-ing the company union plan as a "farce," and establishing a new organization or-ganization called the "CIO representatives repre-sentatives council," with this "declaration "dec-laration of principles:" 1. All steel workers be organized into a national industrial union. 2. Employee representatives use their influence to enroll the steel workers into the steel workers organizing or-ganizing committee's campaign. 3. All steel workers be thoroughly thorough-ly informed by employee representatives represen-tatives who know from experience that the company union is a device of the management and totally unable un-able to win any major concessions for the steel workers. 4. CIO employee representatives remain inside the company union for reasons obvious to alL The wage demands are: A $1.24 a day increase for all employees em-ployees receiving over $5 a day. A 30 hour, five day week. Paid vacations of one week for employees of two years' service and two weeks for employees of five or more years' service. Time and one-half pay for overtime over-time within the regular working week. Double time for Sundays and holidays. TT OPE for the recovery of Pope Pius dwindled day by day. He suffered a fainting spell and was reported to be exceedingly weak. His illness was complicated by high fever and there was danger of influenza. in-fluenza. Senator Nicola Panda of Rome, widely known as a specialist on the ills of old age, was summoned sum-moned by Dr. Amanti Milani and both agreed that the pontiff must have complete rest. His visitors were limited to the ten cardinals who are prefects of executive bodies of the church and they were permitted per-mitted to enter the sick room only one each day to obtain the pope's authorization for their most important impor-tant decisions. The customary Christmas eve audience for cardinals cardi-nals and diplomats was canceled, and the pope also had to abandon his plan to celebrate mass on the 57th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. O ENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK KAI-SHEK not being released by Marshal Chang Hsueh-Iiang within the specified time, the Nanking t F n ft n o m r a A . - V J 13 ,11 J V C U against the Sianfu rebels. Two of the mutinous battalions were captured and disarmed at Huh-sien. Huh-sien. It appeared that Marshal Chang really was reduced to negotiating for his own life and safety, and there r 1 were reports uiai ne was willing to sur- CbF render the dictator Hsueh-liang and quit the country, as has many a rebellious Chinese war lord before be-fore him. T. V. Soong, who is Chiang's Chi-ang's brother-in-law, went to Sianfu Sian-fu to attempt to arrange for Chiang's Chi-ang's release. American and British Brit-ish governments were concerned over the safety of their nationals in Sianfu if that city should be besieged be-sieged by the National army. There would certainly be a distressing shortage of food and fuel, and to this would be added the dangers of probable bombardment by artillery and airplanes. Discipline among the mutinous troops is known to be very poor and already there have been many instances of murder and looting. Japanese military authorities charge that Marshal Chang's revolt was part of a deliberate plan to line up western powers, including soviet Russia, against Japan. The Chinese ambassador to Tokio was told by Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita that the Chinese government would not be permitted to enter into in-to any accord that would make it appear that it favored war against Japan. Arita made it plain that Japan would abandon its waiting policy if Nanking compromised with Marshal Chang. T ARON NUFFIELD, one of Eng-land's Eng-land's wealthiest industrialists and a generous contributor to philanthropic phil-anthropic causes, has just donated $10,000,000 "to stimulate employment employ-ment in Great Britain's poverty stricken depressed v areas,"-v'Four trustees are givyraIl,',ars'eTgtiCin,,in' use of the sum. Baron Nuffield, who is Sir William Morris, is head of a vast manufacturing organization organiza-tion including automobile plants, export ex-port companies, a publishing house and affiliated subsidiaries. EpARTHQUAKE shocks accompa-nied accompa-nied by volcanic eruptions devastated dev-astated large areas in central Salvador, Sal-vador, killing more than a thousand thou-sand persons and injuring about four hundred. San Vicente, a city of 26,-000, 26,-000, was the center of the temblors, and it was reported to be practically destroyed. Several thousand persons there were participating in a religious reli-gious procession when the first quake came, and many of them were crushed under falling walls. Other towns in the stricken region were wrecked. Roads from the capital were broken up and communications com-munications were destroyed, so that accurate information was slow in coming out. All of the towns affected by the quake are in the vicinity of the San Vicente volcano. The area, important im-portant in manufacturing and agriculture, ag-riculture, is in the rich tobacco and indigo-growing region. PETER NORBECK, United States senator from South Dakota since 1920, died at his home in Redfield, S. D., at the age of sixty-six after a long illness from heart disease and cancer of the tongue and jaw. Norbeck, a Republican with radical radi-cal tendencies, entered politics in 1908 as a member of the state senate. sen-ate. Later he was lieutenant governor gov-ernor and governor of his state and then was elected to the United States senate. In that body he was an insistent advocate of agricultural ag-ricultural relief measures. Norbeck's death reduced to 16 the number of Republicans in the senate, sen-ate, but if the selection of his successor suc-cessor is left to the Republican governor-elect, there would be again 17. SENTIMENT in favor of legislation legisla-tion to lessen the powers of th Supreme court is growing weaker in Washington because the President seems to be opposed to it, at least for the present. But Senator Hugo Black of Alabama has announced that he will introduce a bill designed de-signed to strip the lower courts of their injunctive powers. This measure meas-ure would prohibit lower courts from enjoining the operation of laws of congress and require them to forward all records and complete transcripts to the Supreme court within 30 days after an appeal. |