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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Yon Hindenburg Dies and Hitler Seizes Presidency of Germany Roosevelt's Economic Security Program Is Being Formulated. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C b7 Wtatarn Newapa.pr Union. PAUL VON niNDEN'BdlG, "German "Ger-man Gibraltar," hai gone to his Jong rest, and Adolf Hitler Is now absolute ruler of the relch. Imme- dlately after the death of the president presi-dent at his summer sum-mer home In East Prussia was announced an-nounced the cabinet met and put forth this decree: "The relch government gov-ernment has passed the following law, which Is hereby pro- Paul Von "I. The office of Hindanburg the recnspresldent Is united with that of the reichs-cbancellor. reichs-cbancellor. In consequence thereof, powers heretofore exercised by the relclLspresldent are transferred to der fuehrer (Hitler) and vice chancellor chan-cellor (Franz von I'apen). Fie (Hitler) (Hit-ler) determines who shall be his deputy." Hitler for the first time became also the commander of the reichs-wehr reichs-wehr or regular army, and Gen. Werner von Blomberg Issued an order or-der that every soldier should pledge absolute loyalty to the death to Hitler. Hit-ler. The president-chancellor has called en election for the presidency. Ever since his great victory at Tannenberg, early In the World war, Von Hindenburg had been the Idol of the German people, and their grief over his death was . general and sincere. Their expressions of sorrow were 'mingled with veiled but anxious discussions concerning the possible effects on the relch of the aged leader's death and the assumption assump-tion of full power by Hitler. The president, though forced to give the Nazi chief the chancellorship, had been a constant check on extreme Nazism, and he had the full confidence confi-dence of other nations that has never been accorded to any other German since the war. As Jacob Gould Schurman, former American ambassador to Berlin, puts It: "Now that Von Hindenburg U gone, no successor, having regard to his achievements, his prestige, and his1 tried and tested character, can, at least for a considerable time, create an- atmosphere equally favorable favor-able to diplomatic negotiations with foreign powers." Doctor Schurman, however, does cot believe the Hitler regime is In danger of falling at this time. He eays the German people are not naturally nat-urally rash and revolutionary and probably will give Hitler a chance to seek a solution of the economic problems that confront the country. Von Hindenburg, who was eighty-six eighty-six years old, was a patriot all his life, a veteran of thre? wars and a marshal of the empire under Kaiser Kai-ser Wllhelm. He was a hard fighter, fight-er, but a kindly gentleman. He supported sup-ported the republic when It was created, cre-ated, but at heart he was always faithful to the self-exiled kasier. His last days were clouded by the realization that he had failed in the effort to really check Nazism. CHANCELLOR SCHUSCHMGG of Austria appeared to have the Nazi revolt completely under control con-trol and was making overtures to the Social Democrats and the workers, work-ers, the latter being warmly rraised for not taking part In the putsch as the Nazis had expected they would. The trial of the leaders lead-ers In the uprising was conducted with dignity and the condemnation and execution of two of them the man who actually killed Dollfuss and the chief of the raid were taken as matters of course. Another Anoth-er NazlV'who killed a police captain cap-tain of" Innsbruck about the same time the chancellor was being murdered, mur-dered, also was found guilty and hanged. Three thousand Nazis who took rart In the outbreak in Carlnthia escaped to Jugoslavia and were disarmed, dis-armed, and the Belgrade government govern-ment now wonders what to do with them. WITH monarchists in control of" the Austrian government the royalists of that country and of Hungary resumed their schemes for putting the young Archduke Otto on the old throne of the Hapsburgs. There are reports that they held a secret meeting In Vitznau, Switzerland, Switzer-land, and formed a restoration plan which they hoped would be acceptable accept-able to France, Italy, Great Britain and the little entente. Their first object was to secure the approval of Premier Mussolini. Leaders In the movement are Colonel Kanda of the Austrian army, Felix Dunkel, an Austrian monarchist, and Count llojos of Hungary. According to the story current in Paris, the condition placed by the little entente and the big powers to allowing Otto to assume the throne 16 that be will sign a pledge guaranteeing guar-anteeing the present boundaries and other terms of existing treaties with regard to Austria and the succession suc-cession states. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT returned re-turned to the mainland from his Hawaiian cruise. The Houston and the New Orleans moved up the Oregon Ore-gon coart, stopped briefly at Astoria As-toria and entered the Columbia river. The Presidential party debarked de-barked at Portland and almost immediately im-mediately boarded a train which carried them rapidly eastward. Stops were made at the Bonneville project proj-ect In Oregon and the Grand Coulee Irrigation and power project In Washington. Mr. Roosevelt spent Sunday In Glacier national park and then continued his Journey homeward. IN ITS monthly survey of business the American Federation of Labor La-bor issued a warning that the enormous enor-mous expenditures of the government govern-ment for emergency needs and the artificial Increase of buying power, If continued, will lead to currency Inflation to meet the huge accumulating accumu-lating deficits. It called attention to the steadily mounting tax burden, the extension of the relief rolls, the decline In business credit with the Increase of government borrowing and the failure fail-ure of NRA to put men to work In Industry. "The government cannot go on borrowing more than its Income for very long," the statement said. "We cannot go on Increasing buying power In this way without a general expansion of production and consumption. con-sumption. Industry cannot pull Itself It-self up by its own boot straps." ONE of Mr. Roosevelt's pet projects, proj-ects, the program for greater economic and social security, already al-ready is being mapped out by the special committee, Including several cabinet members, that was named to get ready the necessary nec-essary legislation for action by the next congress. Executive Ex-ecutive director of this committee, and therefore the most important member, is fror. .uwin a. E. Wit Witte, economist of the University of Wisconsin faculty. facul-ty. Professor Witte has been rather rath-er active in Wisconsin politics as a La Follette progressive and has advanced ad-vanced Ideas along the lines on which he Is now working. One of the main points of the program is the gradual decentralization decentrali-zation of industry and this has been got underway already through the establishment of homestead projects in several localities. The purpose Is to remove thousands of workers from tenement districts In large cities to areas where their standard of living could be raised. Officials believe that greater economic eco-nomic security will result through home ownership with small tracts of land. There is now under consideration a related plan designed to offer to farmers who have suffered severely severe-ly from the drouth a haven In Alaska. Alas-ka. Jacob Baker, assistant chief of the federal emergency relief- administration, ad-ministration, has Just completed a survey of a million acres of fertile land In the Mantanuska valley and has been discussing with Gov. John Troy the feasibility of taking 2,500 farm families up there as a federal feder-al colony. WILLIAM LANGER, deposed as governor of North Dakota because of his conviction on federal charges of conspiring to solicit political contriDu-tlons contriDu-tlons from federal relief workers, and who was renominated renomi-nated for governor by the Republicans, has withdrawn from the race. The Republican Re-publican central committee promptly selected Mrs. Lang-er Lang-er to head the tick- ? fc. fc et, and if she wins, , , , the victory will be Ws.Wilham hailed as a vindica- Langer tion of her husband just as Jim Ferguson of Texas once was "vindicated" "vindi-cated" by the election of his wife. Mrs. Langer, a member of a family fam-ily socially prominent in New York, has never before taken part In poll-tics. poll-tics. She is a home-loving woman and the mother of four daughters. Her opponent In the fall election will be Thomas H. Moodie, a Willis-ton Willis-ton newspaper man who was nominated nomi-nated by the Democrats. MARIE DRESSLER, beloved veteran vet-eran of the stage and screen and one of the foremost comedians of the time, died at Santa Barbara after a long fight against cancer. She knew two years ago that her condition was hopeless, but went on making pictures as long as she was able to work the kind of pictures that endeared her to thousands. JAPAN'S hopes for naval equality equal-ity with Great Britain and the United States were dashed by a frank statement by Secretary of the Navy Swanson to the effect that, in his personal opinion, while the United States might favor a slash of 20 per cent in naval armaments, It would strongly oppose any realignment re-alignment of existing naval ratios for the principal powers. "I take the same position I always al-ways have," Secretary Swanson Bald. "The naval powers met in London and distributed naval strength as they thought Just and right Naval strength Is relative. If we abandon the ratios there is no telling where we shall go." MARTIAL law In Minneapolis, decreed by Gov. Floyd B. Olson Ol-son because of rioting Incidental to the strike of teamsters there. proved ODnoxious to almost everybody every-body and both the trucking firms and their 7,000 striking drivers asked for the dissolution. At the same time Adjutant Ad-jutant General Walsh announced that the "insurrection" "insurrec-tion" had been sup- - pieaseu. Oliu uie ' F- B' governor declined olson to withdraw the state troops. Additional trucks were given military permits to operate, and a ban against those In Interstate Inter-state commerce was revoked because be-cause Its legality was In doubt Beer trucks, however, were removed from the privileged list and were forbidden forbid-den to use the streets on the ground that they did not furnish a necessary neces-sary service. At a mass meeting of union laborers labor-ers the leaders demanded the withdrawal with-drawal of the troops, the secretary of the truck drivers' union charging that the soldiers were "little more than strike breakers." Governor Olson's reply to this was to have the strikers' headquarters headquar-ters raided and their three leaders arrested. This naturally enraged the truck drivers and there was considerable consid-erable violence. Notwithstanding all this, the federal fed-eral mediators, Father Haas and E. J. Dunnlgan, were hopeful of bringing bring-ing about a peaceful agreement in the near future. Riots in Kohier Village,-Wis., In which two men were killed, led Gov. A. G. Schemedeman to place the community under martial control, and 600 members of the National Guard were sent there. During the riot the police and deputies used tear gas bombs and blank cartridges and where these failed to disperse the mob, they opened fire with loaded load-ed shells. The officer commanding the Guardsmen ordered the disbanding disband-ing of the force of special deputies and permitted the strikers to resume re-sume peaceful picketing of the Kohier Koh-ier plant Longshoremen of the Pacific coast ended their two-month long strike and returned to their Jobs In all the ports, as did the marine workers. Pending arbitration by the federal board, stevedores will be employed by employer-controlled hiring halls under supervision of observers representing the board. Control of the hiring halls was the chief issue In the strike and Is still to be settled by the arbitrators, along with the questions of Increased In-creased wages, shorter working hours and improved conditions. SENATOR HTJET P. LONG and Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans were having another lively fight in the southern city. Governor Allen, one of Long's henchmen, mobilized 500 of the state troops and seized the registration registra-tion office-and its files, and the soldiers sol-diers also were ordered to search out the city's red light district and gambling houses. The mayor increased in-creased his police forces to 1,400 and for a time there was prospect of "civil war." Walmsley said the "moral crusade" cru-sade" was just a "smoke screen" to conceal the senator's real purpose pur-pose of taking over the city government govern-ment and Influencing the primary election in September, In which both he and Long are supporting rival candidates. SHARP criticism of the tender handling of deportable aliens by the Department of Labor has brought results, following the disclosure dis-closure that when President Roosevelt Roose-velt recognized Russia no arrangements arrange-ments were made for the deportation deporta-tion of Russian Reds. To straighten out this situation Secretary Perkins has called back Into service Walter W. Husband, a Vermont Republican who was assistant secretary of labor la-bor under Presidents Hoover and Coolidge. Only a month or two ago he was dropped to make room for Arthur Altmeyer of Wisconsin. Mr. Husband has been made a special assistant to Secretary Perkins and may be sent to Moscow. MRS.ANNA ROOSEVELT PALL, only daughter of the President, Presi-dent, obtained a divorce from her husband, Curtis Dall of New York, In swift proceedings at Minden, Nev. The charge was "extreme cruelty," and the judge, "oal of deference de-ference to the President of the United States." held the trial behind be-hind closed doors. The case was not contested by Mr. Dall. The custody cus-tody of the children, "Sistie" and "Buzzie," was determined in a written writ-ten agreement approved by the court but not made public. |