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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Germany Enraged by Iler Condemnation by League Council Work Relief Program Going Forward For-ward Compromise Bonus Measure. By EDWARD W. PICKARD , Western Newspaper Union. GERMANY was thoroughly enraged en-raged by the action of the league of Nations council In adopting adopt-ing the trl-powcr resolution con- demnlng the relch for violating the treaty of Versailles by rearming, and It was expected Relchsfuerher Hitler Hit-ler would make a defiant retort. As a first step he sent from his Bavarian retreat Instructions to Secretary of State von uueiow Adolf Hitler tQ protest ..Eng. land's defection at Stresa and Geneva." Ge-neva." This Von Buelow did, delivering de-livering the message to Ambassador Ambassa-dor Sir Eric Phipps for transmission transmis-sion to London. The German press was loud in denunciation of the league action ant". Lltvinov, the Soviet So-viet delegate, came In for most of th abuse because he delivered the chief speech In support of the resolution reso-lution at the council session. Just recently Germany granted to Russia Rus-sia credits amounting to $SO,000,-C00. $SO,000,-C00. Poland also was assailed for "abandoning" Germany, but fn Warsaw War-saw It was said by officials that Poland Po-land was still the friend of the relch. One newspaper there said quite truly that the complaint against Germany was "a formal matter because the discussion could not result in any actual solution of the problem, but only bring something some-thing like emotional relief." Strange as It may seem, the Jews In Germany are warmly supporting Hitler in this controversy. The following fol-lowing message was sent to him: "The League of National German Jews stands unshaken in its loyalty to the Fatherland, and hopes the government's defense policy will not be changed on account of the Geneva proceedings." German resentment against Great Britain is especially warm because she feels she was deceived In the recent negotiations. Consequently she thinks Britain's prestige as a mediator in continental affairs Is destroyed. During the council's discussion Tewflii Arras, the Turkish mem- hpr nrmso nnrl stntpd flfltlv that If any changes in the existing treaties were made or tolerated, his country would claim the right to fortify the Dardanelles In violation of the treaty of Lausanne. He even hinted that the Turks might follow Hitler's Hit-ler's example and not wait for permission. per-mission. Sir John Simon's Immediate Immedi-ate and sharp reply was: "I feel sure my honorable colleague col-league will not expect me to say any more at thl- stage than that I must naturally make all reservations reserva-tions regarding It." Laval of France and Baron Aloisl of Italy supported Simon In his rebuke re-buke of the Turkish revisionism. Laval carried back to Paris a draft of the mutual assistance pact with Russia for submission to the French cabinet. Lltvinov was still Insistent that the two countries should enter Into a real military alliance, and it may be that he will carry his point In the opinion of many observers such a treaty would be declared invalid by the League of Nations. VirHEN the administration's great work relief program gets nnder way one of the most important im-portant parts of it, the purchase of material supplies, will have to be started at once, and it Is expected that this will absorb ab-sorb about $1,700,-000,000 $1,700,-000,000 of the total Bum. According to authoritative sources In Washington, Wash-ington, this part of the program will be supervised by . . , , t i j t i i t Admlra Bear Admiral C. J. , Peoples Peoples, procure- r ment officer In the treasury. Peoples entered the navy supply corps In 1900 as assistant paymaster and rater developed the navy's present purchasing system. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was assistant secretary of the navy he and Peoples became close friends. The admiral presumably will have full charge of drafting the regulations for material purchases but It Is understood the actual buying buy-ing of supplies for work relief projects proj-ects will in most Instances be handled han-dled by the states and other cooperating co-operating agencies. However, certain cer-tain commodities, like cement, that will be needed in Immense quantities, quanti-ties, probably will be purchased centrally. T UST as soon as the President says the word, the federal bureau bu-reau of public roads and the various va-rious state highway departments are ready to Jump into the work of grade crossing elimination, the building of arterial highways and similar projects. The work relief act earmarks $SOO,000,000 for such undertakings, and the sum may be Increased by the President to a billion. bil-lion. The roads bureau already has $100,000,000 of grade crossing eliminations elim-inations and other projects contracted con-tracted for under authority granted grant-ed by congress last year, officials revealed, re-vealed, and these contracts are to be met with work-relief money. Arthur W. Brandt, president of the American Association of State Highway Officials, advised a congressional con-gressional committee recently that states were prepared to wipe out 4,058 dangerous crossings If as much as $461,SS1,500 was made available. OKVEN agencies of the govern- ment are organizing to combat the damage done by the constantly recurring dust storms. They are the AAA, farm credit administration, administra-tion, emergency relief administration, administra-tion, soil erosion service, bureau of plant industry and bureau of agricultural agri-cultural engineering. The efforts, officials said, will include in-clude shipping feed, food and water into the stricken areas of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas and Colorado, starting work relief projects proj-ects on roads, private lands and' the public domain, planting of fast-growing fast-growing and hardy crops as ground cover in areas where moisture conditions con-ditions permit, and "listing" operations. opera-tions. This latter work is an attempt at-tempt to prevent soil blowing away, by making alternate ridges and furrows. fur-rows. ORESIDENT ROOSEVELT called Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi Missis-sippi to the White House for a conference con-ference concerning the veterans' bonus bill, which already has passed the house. Harrison Har-rison is chairman of the senate finance committee and the admlnis t r a 1 1 o n looked to him to devise de-vise a way to spike the measure which is so objectionable to thp President In its present "green-Senator "green-Senator baek., form otner Harrison majority leaders In congress also were busy with the problem, and the result was the introduction in-troduction in congress, of a compromise com-promise bill which it was believed the President would accept if It were passed. This measure would make bonus certificates mature in 1938, instead of 1945. They could be converted Immediately into 3 per cent bonds. Veterans who wanted cash right away could sell the bonds, losing only the interest they otherwise could obtain until 1938. Harrison said this would cost $500,000,000 more than the present bonus law, but far less than the Patman bill, passed by the house, to pay the bonus with $2,500,000,000 In new money. Milo Warner, vice commander of the American Legion, said this bill was "absolutely not acceptable" to that organization. Heads of veterans' veter-ans' organizations and various others oth-ers were Invited to testify at committee com-mittee hearings on the bill. SENATOR HUET LONG called together to-gether his complaisant legislature legisla-ture In Baton Rouge and ordered it to pass some new laws that would give him complete control of city finances, elections and expenditures of federal relief funds. Secretary Ickes went right up in the air and announced that if the laws were enacted en-acted Louisiana would get none of the public works money; whereupon the Kingfish told him he could go to the nether regions, since the PWA money had already been deposited to the account of the New Orleans sewer and water board. "The state court very properly recognizes our men as that board now, so how is Ickes going to get his money baek?" Long asked. "When he starts that, we'll show him what a smart man he ain't. If Ickes and the balance of the brain trust cabinet hold their breaths until un-til we send for them, there'll be several corpses and the country will be better off." WITHOUT any effort to break speed records, Capt. Edward A. Musick and five companions landed the big Pan-American Airway Air-way clipper ship Pioneer In Hawaii IS hours and 31 minutes after they took off from Alameda, Calif. This was the first exploratory flight for a service that will soon be extended extend-ed clear across the Pacific to Canton, Can-ton, the proposed intermediate stops being Hawaii, Midwa Islands, Wake Islands, Guam and the Philippines. Philip-pines. The operating bases are now In process of construction. tING EORIS of Bulgaria bas foiled another attempt to force him from his precarious throne. Upon discovery of an alleged Fascist Fas-cist plot, he ordered that three prominent political leaders be arrested ar-rested and held In Jail. Their friends sought to free them by storming the Jail but were repulsed. Those seized are Alexander Zan-hofT, Zan-hofT, leader of the Democratic entente; en-tente; Kozma Georgieff, head of the Macedonian party, and M. Natcheff, former police president of Sofia. JOHN R. McCARL, the able, effi-- clent and Independent comptroller comp-troller general of the Dnited States, has annoyed the New Dealers on several occasions. Now he threatens to block the plans of the AAA for lifting the restrictions restric-tions on spring wheat planting and at the same time continuing to pay the farmers for crop reductions that would not be called tor. Declar-J. Declar-J. R. McCarl ,ng they wlsned t0 avoid shortages due to the dust storms, the officials of the AAA said the farmers would be paid for the abandoned reductions in acreage if they would promise to curtail their plantings next year. Mr. McCarl asked for further Information on this matter and Indicated he could not approve of the plan, though AAA men declared he had not ruled definitely against It, Chester O. Davis, AAA administrator, might not be content to abide by such a ruling If It were made, and the administration ad-ministration might refuse to accept ac-cept it Mr. McCarl, a Republican, holds his office under a law which specifies speci-fies that the comptroller general shall be appointed to a 15-year term and can be removed only by death or impeachment. Nevertheless Attorney Attor-ney General Cummings, It Is understood, under-stood, gave it as his opinion that, like any other Presidential appointee, ap-pointee, he could be removed at the pleasure of the President. He based this opinion on a ruling of the Supreme Su-preme court In the case of a postmaster post-master wno was ousted by President Coolidge, the court holding that the President was within his rights under un-der Article 2 of the Constitution. So It may be the New Dealers wilJ. seek to have Mr. McCarl ousted before be-fore his term expires in 1936, for it is feared by them that he will ham per the expenditure of the $4,SS0,-000,000 $4,SS0,-000,000 work relief appropriation to an extent that would greatly irk the Democratic party leaders. It is interesting to read that the Nebraska Progressive league, made up of liberal Republicans, is planning plan-ning the organization of "McCarl for President" clubs in that state and afterward in all others. George W. Kline, Its chairman, says he was asked to support McCarl for President Presi-dent in 1936 by friends of Senator George W. Norris. The comptroller general Is a graduate of the University Uni-versity of Nebraska law school and for years was Mr. Norris' secretary. ALLEGED teaching of Communism Commu-nism in some of our universities and the adoption of that cult by a large number of half-baked young men and women in those institutions institu-tions has long been debated and denounced de-nounced by patriotic citizens. Student Stu-dent strikes and small riots have been frequent, and there have been many demands for the suppression of these reds and pinks. The latest big Institution of learning to be brought Into the limelight in this matter Is the University of Chicago, whose faculty contains several decidedly de-cidedly radical Instructors and Its student body many youthful followers follow-ers of Marx and Lenin. Because of charges made by a prominent drug store magnate the Illinois senate has just adopted a resolution calling call-ing for a "thorough and complete investigation" by a senatorial committee com-mittee of five to determine whether any foundation exists for charges that "subversive Communistic teachings" teach-ings" are going on In "wholly or partly tax-exempt colleges and universities uni-versities of this state." The action of the senate followed within a few hours action by the house in passing almost unanimously unanimous-ly a bill to require an oath of allegiance al-legiance and obedience to the state and federal constitutions from all teachers and professors. The legislatures leg-islatures of other states are passing similar laws. OVER In Turkey the women, until un-til recently, were forced to lead lives of seclusion in the harem and to go veiled when in public. But all that is changed. The other day the twelfth congress of the International In-ternational Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship opened in Istanbul with about thirty thir-ty nations represented and Mrs. Corbett Ashby of England In the chair, and the women of Turkey, unveiled and In modish European garb, were the proud hostesses o' the hundreds of delegates. Among the questions discussed were: The situation and rights of women; the position of women in the liberal professions; the political and civil rights of women ; the means women wom-en can use to preient war. Under Kemal's rule the women of the republic of Turkey have been granted parliamentary and city votes and have entered enthusiastically enthusias-tically Into all branches of life, civil, professional, Industrial and sporting. |