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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President's Defense of AAA and Canadian Treaty Italy Offered Peace Plan at Ethiopia's Expense Naval Conference Seems Hopeless. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Weutern Newap&per Union. W 1111.10 the United States Supreme Su-preme court was hearing oral arKUinents In the Iloosac Hills case In which the constitutionality of f the whole Ajjrlcul-t Ajjrlcul-t u r a 1 Adjustment act was attacked and defended, I'res-Ident I'res-Ident Hoosevelt was In Chicago seeking to Justify the entire en-tire New Deal farm program. lie addressed ad-dressed the American Ameri-can Farm Iiurean Federation In the International Am-. Am-. CeorueN. hltlll;aU!r nt the Peek stock yards and was heard and enthusiastically applauded ap-plauded hy some 25,000 farmers and ns many others as could get Into the theater and adjoining wings supplied with loud speakers. The farm program, the I'resident Bald, aimed to "stop the rule of tooth and claw that threw farmers farm-ers Into hankruptcy or turned them Into serfs." As evidence that It Is succeeding, he asserted that farm Income "has Increased nearly ,$3,-000,000,000 ,$3,-000,000,000 in the past two and a half years." Necessarily Mr. Roosevelt defended defend-ed the new Canadian trade treaty because only two days before that pact had been bitterly attacked by his late trade adviser, George N. I'eek. "Just as I am confident," said the I'resident, "that the great masses of city people are fair-minded, so I am sure that the great majority ma-jority of American farmers will be fair in their- Judgment of the new treaty. "If the calamity howlers should happen to be iright, you have every assurance that Canada and the United States will join In correcting correct-ing Inequalities, but I do not believe be-lieve for a single moment that the calamity howlers are right." "W'e export more agricultural products to Canada than we have imported from her. "We shall continue to do so for the very simple reason that the United States, with its large area of agricultural land, its more varied climate and its vastly greater population, pop-ulation, produces far more of most agricultural products, Including animal ani-mal products, vegetables and fruit, than does Canada. "In the case of the few reductions reduc-tions that have been made, quota limitations are set on the amount that may be brought in at the lower rates." In his analysis of the Canadian agreement, I'eel; showed that S4 per cent of the tariff concessions which the New Dealers granted to Canada were on agricultural and forestry products, lie also showed that the articles on which the New Dealers granted tariff reductions reduc-tions amounted to 30S million dollars dol-lars In 1(120, whereas Canada In return- had granted concessions on articles valued at only 245 million dollars. I'eek then charged the President with breaking faith with the farmers by granting' the tariff reductions. After completing his speech and eating luncheon with a lot of local lo-cal notables, the President went to South Ilend, Ind., where he received an honorary degree from Notre Dame university and delivered another an-other address. T1EFOKE the American Farm Bu--' rcau federation closed its convention con-vention in Chicago, it adopted a resolution endorsing reciprocal trade treaties. To avoid dissension, the resolution did not mention specifically spe-cifically the recent trade agreement between Canada and the United States, which lowered the duty on many farm products coming In over the northern border. Another of the 17 resolutions adopted at the meeting concerned "federal fiscal policies." Indicating their uneasiness over the mounting federal deficit, the farmers recommended recom-mended that the fiscal policies of the government be modified, and that "its revenues shall he Increased, In-creased, and that its expenditures shall be decreased, to the end that within the next few years a balance shall be attained." The federation: also approved a resolution pledging itself to defend the Agricultural Adjustment administration admin-istration act. The meeting offered no serious criticism of the act, but asked that its administration be simplified. The delegates, representing a paid-Dp paid-Dp membership of 300,000 farmers in 37 states, reelected Edward A. O'Neal of Alabama as president of the federation for a term of two years. Charles Er Hearst was reelected re-elected vice president and all 15 members of the board of directors were reappointed. ITALY Is being punished for starting start-ing the war against Ethiopia, and will be well paid for stopping it. That in a nutsell Is the status at this writing. Great Britain and France reached an agreement as to the offer to be made to Mussolini before the Imposition of an oil embargo, em-bargo, set for December 12. This plan for peace drawn up by liritish Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Iloare and Premier Laval, was based on the proposal tlmt Italy should retain re-tain part of the territory already conquered In Ethiopia, chiefly in northwestern Tigre province, including includ-ing Adowa but not the sacred city of Aksum, and that the Italian Somaliland border should be rectified. recti-fied. In return, Ethiopia would be given a seaport, either in Eritrea or In British or French territory. Thus poor Ethiopia, already declared by the League of Nations to be a victim vic-tim of Italian rapacity, would be still further victimized with the consent of the two great powers that dominate the league. Presumably Presum-ably if Emperor Ilaile Selassie refuses re-fuses the terms and decides to continue con-tinue his fight for the territorial, Inviolability guaranteed by the league covenant, he will be abandoned aban-doned to his fate. Dispatches from Dessye, Ethiopia, Ethi-opia, said the emperor rejected the Franco-British plan, asserting: "The Ethiopian government cites its previous declarations, notably that of October 8, to show that Ethiopia never wished and does not wish war. But today we are bound to defend our soil, which Italy has violated. "Ethiopia agreed at the time of the Paris conference and the meeting meet-ing of the League of Nations committee com-mittee of five to all concessions comparable to its dignity, to avoid Italian aggression, but that aggression aggres-sion has been committed. We cannot can-not submit to force which we never provoked, because that would be rewading violence." Since Mussolini showed a disposition dispo-sition to consider the proposals, the oil embargo was postponed to permit per-mit negotiations. If he rejects the plan the embargo would go into effect later and supposedly the war In Africa would continue at least until the rainy season next spring. Italian airplanes bombed the city of Dessye three days in succession but Ilaile Selassie, who was there, escaped injury. However, the American hospital and a Red Cross camp were practically wrecked and many persons were killed or wounded. wound-ed. The Italians replied to protests with the statement that scores of buildings In the city were marked with the red cross. O ROB ABLY with slight hope of accomplishing anything worth while, representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France and .Japan met in London Lon-don and opened the international naval conference. Italy also al-so was represented, but enly as an observer ob-server and listener. Prime M I n Is t e r Stanley Baldwin welcomed the delegates dele-gates in a smooth address asking the chief sea powers to Admiral lessen some of their Nasano demands to "avert the calamity of unrestricted naval competition." Norman II. Davis offered President Presi-dent Roosevelt's suggestion of a 20 per cent reduction in existing naval treaty tonnage, or, failing that, a continuance of present fleet limitations. limita-tions. v Then arose Admiral OsamI Nagano, Nag-ano, chief of the Japanese delegation, delega-tion, and told the conference that Japan demanded parity with Great Britain and the United States instead in-stead of the existing 5-5-3 ratio and requested a "just and fair agreement agree-ment on disarmament." He said In part: ' "A new treaty, in the view of the Japanese government, should be based upon the fundamental idea of setting up ... a common limit of naval armaments to be fixed as low as possible, which they shall not be allowed to exceed; simultaneously, simultaneous-ly, offensive forces must be drastically dras-tically reduced and ample defensive defen-sive forces provided, so as to bring about a substanti.il measure of disarmament, dis-armament, thus securing a slate of nonmenace and nonaggression among the powers." After several days of discussion and debate, the Japanese demand for parity was flatly rejected by the delegates of the four other nations. The pessimistic feeling that prevailed pre-vailed was attributed to the Japanese Jap-anese demand for parity, the rivalry rival-ry in the Mediterranean between France and Italy, the war In Ethiopia Ethi-opia and Us sanctions developments and recent occurrences In north China. Any one of which might well wreck the conference. POLITICIANS, especially Repub- licans, were greatly interested in a meeting In Washington between former Vice President Charles Curtis Cur-tis and Senator Borah, and Its possible pos-sible implications. Curtis Insisted to the press that he is still advocating advo-cating the nomination of Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas for the Presidency, Presi-dency, but the Idaho senator is himself a leading possibility for that honor. Curtis had recently had a conference with Landon In To-peka, To-peka, but he said there was no connection con-nection between that and his call on Borah. The ex-Vice President said of the nomination : "I have no second choice, but a lot depends on what happens at the convention. I have the highest regard for the senator. I'm for Landon, Lan-don, who is well equipped to run, after giving us an economic administration admin-istration in Kansas something we need here in Washington more ipw than ever before." CONTINUOUS rioting In Cairo, directed against British control of Egypt, attacks on English soldiers sol-diers and smashing of street cars and shop windows, forced Premier Nes-sim Nes-sim Pasha and his cabinet to decide to resign. The rioters demanded the restoration res-toration of the constitution con-stitution of 1023 and the ministers pleaded with Sir Miles Lampson, British high com- ... . missioner, to give K,ng Fuad hls consent. He was obdurate in his refusal until Nes-sim Nes-sim Pasha announced that he would quit, but yielded then to avoid disorders silmilar to those of 1919. Therefore, with the consent of Great Britain, King Fuad signed a royal decree restoring constitutional constitution-al government, and the cabinet members withdrew their resignations. resigna-tions. The constitution thus restored re-stored provides for a senate and chamber of deputies and takes control con-trol of Egypt's Internal affairs completely out of British hands. It does not, however, affect Great Britain's Brit-ain's control of Egyptian foreign affairs, nor the British military protectorate. pro-tectorate. HP HE United States and Great Brlt--- ain, in the conference at Washington, Wash-ington, agreed upon a plan that Is expected to result in regular air mail and passenger transportation across the Atlantic by the summer of 1937. Negotiations were under way for the northern route by way of Canada, Newfoundland, and Irish Free State to England, and the southern route from Porto Rico and American ports to England. The northern route is more practicable prac-ticable than the southern route he-cause he-cause of the shorter distance, but is less practicable In winter because be-cause flights would be undertaken under less favorable conditions. Under the agreement experimental experiment-al flights will begin next summer. When regular service is inaugurated, inaugu-rated, according to the agreement, four round trips will be made each week. GEORGE L. BERRY, industrial co-ordinator, found great difficulty diffi-culty in mustering his proposed industrial in-dustrial council, in which many great industrial groups had refused re-fused to participate. The initial session of his conference broke up in disorder amid shouts of "liar" and threatened fist fights. Further doings were postponed for a week or more, and most of the delegates went home, declaring they wanted nothing to do with a permanent council which might lead to further fur-ther government interference with private business. The labor unions stood by Berry, hoping his program pro-gram would aid their plans for a 30-hour week and government licensing li-censing of all industry, ADMINISTRATION officials state that President Roosevelt will ask the new congress for a $100,-000,000 $100,-000,000 appropriation as the initial fund to launch the federal social security program going Into effect January 1. The fund Is to be distributed dis-tributed among the states for the needy old aged in the form of pensions, pen-sions, for maternity and child welfare, wel-fare, and to aid the blind. State commissioners and public welfare directors were summoned to Washington by the social security secur-ity board to discuss formulation of regulations and procedure, JOHN II. IIOEI'PEL. congressman from California, and his son, Charles, were found guilty hy a jury in the District of Columbia Supreme Su-preme court of conspiring to sell an appointment to West Point for $1,000. They were released on hail pending motion for a new trial. Hoeppel was elected to congress In the Roosevelt landslide of 1932 from the Seventeenth California district, and was re-elected In 1931. He Is fifty-four years old ; his son is twenty-one. CARLOS MEXD1ETA resigned ns president of Cuba because of a fierce quarrel In the government over procedure for the election of a constitutional president. Men-dieta Men-dieta had held the ofl'ce for two years. Secretary of State Barnef took over the ollice anil reappointed all members of the cabinet, and preparations for the election went ahead. |