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Show Eden Still Hopeful A NTHONY EDEN, British foreign A minister, hurried from Geneva to attend a special cabinet meetng 4 ,hith he reported on develop- Keicn iteview of Current Events PARITY PRICES ABANDONED Would Cost Too MuchSays Wallace.. . Japanese Air Fleets Bomb Nanking . . . Protests Disregarded meriU'in the Mediterranean Medi-terranean situation that is so threatening threaten-ing to European peace. He told of Italy's It-aly's reiteration of its demand for parity par-ity in the "anti-piracy" "anti-piracy" patrol, and it was believed both he and Prime Minister Min-ister Chamberlain 'A r h 'A OA Mil r . American Legion Membera From West Reach New York City by Airplane Air-plane for Their National Convention. i&LnVid IV. Picked SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK t Wettcrn Nw paper Union. were hopeful that a Anthony rupture could be Eden averted by a partial yielding to Mussolini in this matter. British public opinion was said to be strongly against a complete concession. con-cession. Meanwhile events in the .Mediterranean .Mediter-ranean were not such as ta bolster Eden's peaceful designs. The British Brit-ish aircraft carrier Glorious reported report-ed it had been attacked by a submarine sub-marine near Malta just as it arrived ar-rived to take part in the patrol of the sea. Also the admiralty announced an-nounced an unidentified airplane dropped six bombs close to the destroyer de-stroyer Fearless. The British ana French fleets began their search for "pirate" submarines, Spain's premier, Juan Negrin. stood up before the League of Na tions and fearlessly presented the evidence of Italian and German intervention in-tervention in the Spanish civil war, demanding that the league take steps to stop it He called Mussolini and Hitler "international highwaymen." The assembly of the League oi Nations voted down the Spanish government's request for re-election as a member of the league council President on Constitution ALL orators on the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the sign ing of the Constitution were loud in praise of that great document. Pres ident Roosevelt speaking from the foot of the Washington monument, was emphatic in his expression of admiration for and loyalty to the basic law which his opponents have accused him of trying to under mine. But he called it a "layman's constitution, not a lawyer's contract." con-tract." He reiterated his asser tions that the Constitution was in tended by its makers to be a state ment of objectives and not a rigid document, and declared democratic government in this country can do all things which "commonsense peo pie, seeing the picture as a whole, have the right to expect." "I believe that these things can be done under the Constitution with out the surrender of a single one of the civil and religious liberties Drops "Parity Prices" ONE of the administration's chief policies for agriculture has been abandoned. Secretary Wallace announced in Washington. "Parity Drices" for farm - , r , products, he said, could not be attained. at-tained. The aim now will be to give "the average farmer the same purchasing power he had in the half century before the World war." "I don't think there is any way of getting enough mon- poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis, j It will carry on an educational campaign cam-paign supervised by experts and put within reach of all doctors and hospitals. hos-pitals. The foundation also will see to the financing of responsible research re-search agencies and aid the afflicted in becoming economically independent. indepen-dent. Mr. Roosevelt also gave approval to John Biggers' plans for a voluntary volun-tary enrollment of the nation's unemployed, un-employed, to be carried out with the aid of the Post Office department Nanking and Canton Bombed PAYING no attention to the protests pro-tests of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, Japan Ja-pan sent her air fleets on bombing raids that spread death and ruin in Nanking and Canton. Chinese planes met them and fought bravely but with little avail. American Ambassador Am-bassador Nelson Johnson, under instructions in-structions from Washington, regretfully regret-fully abandoned his embassy in the Sec. Wallace e ,ut f",e Tre" ury," Wallace said, "to give farmers parity prices during dur-ing the next ten years for cotton, wheat, corn, hogs, or any other product prod-uct that is exported. You might be able to get enough for a year of two to do this. But the consumer would soon rise up in protest." it was intended to safeguard," Mr Roosevelt continued, "and I am de termined that under the Constitu tion those things shall be done." Green Slams Lewis DENUNCIATIONS of William Green by John Lewis and of Lewis by Green come almost daily, but the attack on the C. I. 0. leader by the president of the A. F. of L in a speech in Washington was es pecialiy vigorous. He declared the beetle-browed Lewis was an oppor tunist who hopes to gain political power through the formation of a party combining labor and agriculture, agricul-ture, and reiterated the opposition of the federation to the organization, of such a party. Lewis, said Green, was to blame for the bloody strike in "little steel' plants and for its collapse which he attributed to C. I. O.'s disregard 01 the rule that the workers them selves should decide when to strike "Surely those who are to suffei and sacrifice in a strike ought to bt accorded the right to say whethei they are ready and willing to di so," Green asserted. "The i3suef involved in any impending Indus trial conflict ought to be made cleai and thoroughly understood." Wallace also talked about the soil conservation program, under which farmers must hold acreage of major crops below the 1928-37 average in order to obtain benefit payments. He said the only fault with this was that normal yields would be too large in view of the prospective markets. The secretary still believes that national control over production of the major farm crops is necessary. "In my opinion," he said, "the principle of co-operative crop adjustment ad-justment is sound and will eventually eventu-ally be applied again." Douglas Heads SEC WALL STREET didn't like the idea of having William O. Douglas as chairman of the Securities Se-curities and Exchange commission, preferring the more conservative George C. Mathews. However, Douglas was elected to the post, succeeding James M. Landis; and to reassure the financiers he described de-scribed himself as "a pretty conservative con-servative sort of fellow from the old school, a school too old for some to remember," who has in mind "no ruinous theories of social experimentation." Chinese 6apital and put his stiff aboard the patrol boat Luzon, but they returned to Nanking. It was reported in Tokyo that Chiang Kai-shek Kai-shek would remove the seat of the Chinese government to Chengtu. The "soviet republic of China" has dissolved itself and the communist com-munist Chinese army decided to unite with Chiang's forces. Madam Perkins Snubbed POR the first time in the history of the Labor department, the secretary is not asked to address the annual convention of the American Amer-ican Federation of Labor, to be held in Denver. The list of invited speakers was released, but the name of Madam Perkins was not there. The secretary, whose administration admin-istration of her office never has been taken very seriously by the country, is considered by the A. F. of L. to be prejudiced in favor of its rival, the C. I. O. Legion Head Hits Naziism COUR hundred thousand members of the American Legion and their families and friends gathered in New York for the annual conven- tion of the organization organiza-tion which opened with a memorial service for dead veterans. vet-erans. Parades, sham battles and plenty of fun-making marked the proceedings, proceed-ings, but me former soldiers also gave much of time to serious se-rious business. Harry Har-ry W. Colmer. retir- . Hi ? is V Vandenberg's Battle Cry " WE HAVE iust bee"n to fight' was the battle cry adopte by Senator Vandenberg of Michigai in a speech at Bay City that wa taken as the opening of his campaigi for the Republican Presidentia nomination in 1940. He made it evi dent that he hopes to be the stand ard bearer for a coalition party, as serting that a realignment of politi cal parties is inevitable. Indeed he declared, this probably was the one thing that could save our na tional institutions. He was not so sure that the opposition to the Roosevelt policies would unite undei a new party name. Said he: "There may be a realistic realign ment which will bring like-thinking patriots into common battle front whether they live north or south ol the Mason and Dixon line, whether they live east or west of the Mis sissippi." Biggers to Manage Census TJNCLE SAM is going to make a count of his unemployed nephews in the hope that this will help solve the re-employment and relief problem. Just how the censu-is censu-is to be managed is not yet deter mined, but John D. Biggers of To ledo president of the Libby-Owens ora Glass company, has beer named administrator of the under taking and is formulating his plan At toe suggestion of the President Mr Biggers has established hi headquarter, in the Department ot Commerce, and he hopes to com p ete the tabulation of the unem ployed before December 1 do the job without salary. The commission, said the former Yale professor, is not interested in prices as such and will interfere with market trends only when the forces that shape them are artificial artifi-cial "There will be direct and aggressive ag-gressive prosecution of any cases we discover of pools and manipulation manipu-lation of security prices. We are in favor of a free market, not a fixed one. . "The government cannot provide any substitute for investment judgment," judg-ment," he pointed out. "It can act to prevent manipulation and to prosecute pros-ecute fraud, but in the final analysis the investor's judgment must govern gov-ern his actions. We cannot save a fool from his folly." Roosevelt Goes West NOMINALLY to visit his daughter daugh-ter in Seattle, actually to find out what recent events have done to his popularity among the people of the Middle and Far West President Presi-dent Roosevelt left Hyde Park on a special train that also carried members mem-bers of the White House staff and several cars full of reporters and camera men. Mrs. Roosevelt was with her husband. The President had nothing to say, before his departure, concerning Justice Black, who was on his way back across the Atlantic and was scheduled to take his seat on the Supreme court bench before Mr. Roosevelt's return to Washington. Plan to Fight "Polio" JUST before leaving for the Pacific coast the President announced that he was organizing a new foundation foun-dation to direct the war against Ing national, com- Barry W. mander, delivered a Colmer notable report on his stewardship, warning against dangers confronting confront-ing the nation from within and without with-out Colmer declared attempts to subjugate sub-jugate judiciary would destroy the "checks and balances" in government; govern-ment; and he proposed that the American Legion undertake an educational edu-cational program on the principles set forth in the Constitution. He asked each post to hold at least one meeting this fall on the basic law. The commander's warning against perils from without led him to condemn con-demn severely German propaganda in the United States and the alleged action of the German government in fostering the organization of Nazi groups and camps in this country. This he called "a gratuitous insult to our free institutions." The Legion elected Daniel J. Doherty, a lawyer of Boston, Mass. national commander and awarded the 1938 convention to Los Angeles. Besides condemning Communism, Fascism and Nazism, the convention conven-tion called for a larger and better equipped army and navy and for a ban on the export of helium gas. |