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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Prime Ministers of Three Nations Confer at Stresa President Roosevelt, Busy With Work Relief Program, Prods Congress. By EDWARD W. PICKARD , Western Newspaper Union. SI"X of Europe's foremost statesmen, states-men, with experts and secretaries, secre-taries, solemnly considered peace plans and security pacts on Isola f 1 ft a a f i Lei j& Jk Jiella, a lovely little lit-tle Island In Lake Magxlore ofT Stresa, Italy. The conference confer-ence was momentous, momen-tous, but It was of an "exploratory" nature, and no definite defi-nite results were expected. Prime Minister Ramsay MacLxmald and For eign Secretary Kir Premier J(lhn gimoni repre Flandin soting Great Britain, Brit-ain, were willing to carry out that nation's military obligations under the Locarno treaty but balked at further commitment In continental affairs. Anyhow, they had promised to enter en-ter Into no new agreements without with-out the consent of parliament, which cannot be consulted until after the Easter holidays. Premier Flandln and Foreign Minister Laval of France sought to persuade England to line up with France and Russia rather than with Germany, and they presented as one argument a new mutual assistance pact they had Just signed with Russia. Premier Mussolini, solemn and pessimistic, nanuiea matrons ror icaiy wun tne help of Fulvlo Suvlch, undersecretary undersecre-tary of foreign affairs. He had already al-ready warned the world that the Issue Is-sue of war or peace probably could not be settled at Stresa. Of course, the chief question was the attitude of other nations toward the constantly growing Pan-Germanism of the reich under Hitler, and the first concrete problem taken tip was France's appeal to the League of Nations against Germany's Ger-many's repudiation of the military clauses of the Versailles treaty. Mussolini and MacDonald were Inclined In-clined to accept Hitler's rearmament If there could be an agreement against further military expansion, bnt Flandln stood In opposition. The Italians urged a three-power alliance for protection against Germany, Ger-many, but England objected and France was uncertain. All three nations rather favored the rearmament rearma-ment of Austria, Bulgaria and Hungary, Hun-gary, and the Danube pact which Italy especially has been promoting. TVTUSSOLINrS pessimistic frame of mind was Illustrated by an announcement In his newspaper, Popolo d'ltalla, that Italy would keep GOO.OOO men under arms "until "un-til the horizon Is well cleared, and give them all modern weapons." Both the Italians and the French are convinced that Germany Is maliciously stirring up the troubles that confront them In northern Af rica with the purpose of weakening their position In Europe. This matter mat-ter was discussed privately by some of the participants in the Stresa meeting. THE new mutual assistance agreement reached by France and Russia was at first supposed to be merely an agreement on sanctions sanc-tions to be taken against an aggressor ag-gressor once the latter has been determined de-termined by the League of Nations. But Paris correspondents assert that it Is In effect a military alliance alli-ance such as Russia had been urging urg-ing on France and that In certain cases the signatories will determine for themselves who Is the aggres-Bor aggres-Bor without waiting for word from Geneva. The agreement Is, of course, directed primarily against Germany. It Is believed In Paris that Russia will soon conclude similar sim-ilar alliance with Czechoslovakia and the Baltic states, thus completing com-pleting a steel ring around Germany's Ger-many's land frontiers. The agreement agree-ment is still subject to alteration and final approval, and the Soviet press does not discuss it That Russia still seeks "to maintain main-tain and strengthen the general peace" was shown by the signing of a Russo-German trade treaty which is believed will greatly Increase In-crease the volume of Russia's orders or-ders In the reich. Under this accord ac-cord the Soviet will Increase purchases pur-chases In Germany by 200,000,000 marks (about $SO,000,000), a banking bank-ing consortium headed by the Deutsche Bank and Discount Gesell-schaft Gesell-schaft and the Dresdner bank to grant import credits for an average aver-age term of five years. The credits will bear interest at the discount rate of the relchsbank plus' 2 per cent The Russian trade delegation delega-tion is thereby enabled to pay cash for orders placed with German firms. ANNOUNCEMENT was made by the government that It had uncovered extensive frauds In the immigration and naturalization service from 1923 to 1933, and steps were taken for the ousting of a number of employees and for criminal crim-inal prosecutions. It was estimated esti-mated that a ring of bribe takers and fixers had received as much as a million dollars from persons illegally entering the country. "Revelations so startling In character char-acter have come to light that investigators in-vestigators believe the actual extent ex-tent of corruption and fraud has been but partially disclosed," said a statement Issued by the Labor department after a secret Investigation Investi-gation of alleged frauds In the New York district. "Sums ranging up to $100 are alleged al-leged to have been paid In cases involving false witnesses or passing of an applicant who had failed in his test of knowledge of the government gov-ernment or his ability to speak English. "It Is alleged that fees ranging from $300 to $1,200 were levied In cases Involving fraudulent or altered al-tered manifest records, where It was desirable to obtain a record that would safeguard an alien from deportation or procure citizenship status by showing his legal admission admis-sion at the port of New York for permanent residence." DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, deep-1 deep-1 ly tanned and in good physical condition, was landed at Jacksonville, Jackson-ville, Fla., by the destroyer Far- aim smrieu immediately for New York, to attend at-tend the funeral of his cousin. Warren Delano R o b b i n s, after which he returned re-turned to Washington. Washing-ton. Aboard his special train the President read through the $4,S80,-000.000 $4,S80,-000.000 work relief ... . I II. B 1 M bill as it was final- Harry Hopkins ly passed by both houses of congress, con-gress, called for pen and Ink and appended his signature to the largest larg-est appropriation measure ever enacted en-acted by congress. There were some features of it agreed npon In the senate and house conference, which he did not like, but he said those who had studied it recommended its approval. The President at once signed two allocations from the amount appropriated. appro-priated. The first was $125,000,000 to the administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief administration, in order that relief might not stop. The second was $30,000,000 for continuation con-tinuation of the emergency conservation conser-vation work. In Washington the Republicans and some others discussed with dissatisfaction dis-satisfaction the probability that Harry L. Hopkins, relief administrator, administra-tor, would be the President's chief assistant In carrying out the vast work relief program. TN HIS first post-vacation confer- ence with congressional leaders, President Roosevelt disregarded their fears of a prolonged session and insisted on enactment of his legislative program. Especially he wants legislation dealing with extension ex-tension of the NRA, social security, utilities holding companies, extension exten-sion of federal authority over banking, bank-ing, shifJ subsidy readjustment and extension of $41G,000,000 in nuisance nui-sance taxes. Later the President conferred with Senator Joe Robinson, who said both of them felt that very satisfactory sat-isfactory progress Is being made. To the correspondents Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt said he hoped to have the work relief program at Its peak by the middle of November, at which time 3,500,000 unemployed should be at work under Its terms. He indicated in-dicated this program would be carried car-ried out as far as possible by existing exist-ing governmental agencies. He will seek to avoid moving workers from one area to another, and will take care of as many "white collar" workers as possible. The social security bill finally was produced on the floor of the house of representatives. There were several blocs against It in Its form as reported. These Included representatives repre-sentatives who want higher unemployment unem-ployment and old age payments; members from the poorer states, who want the federal government to bear the entire cost of the program, pro-gram, with the states relieved of any contribution, and the conservatives, conserv-atives, who are opposed to the "government "gov-ernment going Into the Insurance business" and exacting a pay roll tax during the depression. OUR minister to Canada, Warren Delano Robbins, succumbed to pneumonia in a New Yfk hosplral after a week's Illness. He was a first cousin of President Roosevelt and bad been In the diplomatic service serv-ice for more than 25 years, beln one of the most distinguished of the "career" men. He had served in Latin America, France, Germany and Washington before being sent to Ottawa. GEN. HERMANN W I L II E L M GOEItlNi;, the dynamic premier pre-mier of Prussia and air minister of Germany, and Emmy Sonnemann, thirty-seven-year-old actress, were married In Berlin, first In the city hall and then in the evangelical cathedral, with Reichsfuehrer Hitler Hit-ler acting as groomsman in both ceremonies. It was a most spectacular spectac-ular wedding, with many famous Germans and a grand opera chorus In attendance, a triumphal procession proces-sion through the crowded streets and a display of the Nazi air force. SOCIALISTS and Catholics of Danzig combined to give Chancellor Chan-cellor Hitler of Germany his first big setback. In the free city's par- i J llamentary election the Nazis polled G0.6 per cent of the total to-tal vote, but failed to get the two-thirds two-thirds majority of the seats that would give them complete control of parliament parlia-ment Hitler and his followers had hoped Danzig would ell P iuiiuw me letiu ui Paul Goebbels the Saar and return to the reich, and this may yet be the result, for the population of the city is more than 90 per cent German. Ger-man. But the Nazis were defeated In their attempt to lay the groundwork ground-work for the suppression of all other oth-er political parties and the establishment estab-lishment of a dictatorship. Presumably Presum-ably their next step will be to vote for a change In the Free City's constitution con-stitution and to ask the League of Nations, which administers the city through a commissioner, to permit a plebiscite on return to the reich. This was openly discussed by Paul Joseph Goebbels, German propaganda propagan-da minister, during the hot campaign cam-paign In Danzig carried on by the Nazis. Poland was enraged by the violent methods of the Hitlerites in the canmalgn and demand an apol ogy from Berlin. The whole affair endangered the new friendship between be-tween Poland and Germany, and probably this was not mourned by the other nations of Europe. NEW dust storms, the worst of the destructive series, swept over Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas, completing complet-ing the virtual ruin of the wheat crop and causing great losses and suffering among live stock. Schools and shops were closed, airplanes grounded and train and bus schedules sched-ules disrupted. Some regions were being abandoned by all Inhabitants. A delegation of senators and representatives rep-resentatives from four of the stricken strick-en states called on President Roosevelt Roose-velt and asked him to earmark $150,000,000 for a land program for the next two years. He did not Indicate what amount would be allocated, but was said by the delegation dele-gation to have given assurance that he would permit the expenditure of all the money that was necessary. neces-sary. WITH the rubber workers In the tire plants of Akron, Ohio, ready to quit their Jobs, the American Amer-ican Federation of Labor pledged itself it-self to finance the strike, which President Green declared would be a crucial attempt by organized labor la-bor to force on Industry the collective col-lective bargaining provisions of the NRA. He announced his organiza tion would "support the rubber workers of Akron for as long a time as may be necessary." Green definitely marked out the tire strike as a test of labor's ability abil-ity to make good on the promises held out to It by the New Deal. The national labor relations board, he pointed out, had ordered the big tire companies, Goodyear, Goodrich, and Firestone, to allow their workers to elect representatives for collective col-lective bargaining. The companies have refused and labor now takes Into Its own hands the enforcement of the NLRB decision, Green argued. ar-gued. Tire manufacturers, on the other side, recognize the threatened strike as a key move In the New Deal program pro-gram for regimentation of labor and Industry and are fighting back. Firestone. Fire-stone. expected to go before the District Dis-trict of Columbia Supreme court and ask a permanent Injunction against the NLRB and NRA meddling med-dling in Its labor situation. POSTMASTER, GENERAL JAMES A. FARLEY went to New York to study the political and legislative legisla-tive situation there, and it was de clared by local Democratic leaders that he would retire re-tire from the cabinet cab-inet soon after the adjournment of congress. Mr. Farley Far-ley neither affirmed nor denied the story. He has been bitterly bit-terly attacked for retainlns his cab- Inet post and at the James A. same time continu- Farley ing as chairman of the Democratic national committee '.nd of the New York Democratic committee, despite the edict of the President against such double holding. Mr. Roosevelt wants Mr. Farley to remain bead of the national committee and to conduct his campaign for re-election, so he will give up his post ollice job; but he did not wish tk resign while still under n tron Huey Lng and others |