OCR Text |
Show News Review of Current Events tlie World Over niller's Peace Proposals Scouted Ly Francts Big Italian Victory May End Ethiopian War Lowden for Republican Key-Noter. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. ADOLF HITLER'S proposals for peace In Europe, together with his Cat rejection of the plan of the other four Locarno powers for set- t 1 a m a n t nf the Ithlneliind situation, situa-tion, were handed to Urltish Foreign Minister Eden by Joachim von Rib-bentrop, Rib-bentrop, and passed on by Eden to the French and Belgian Bel-gian ambassadors in London. The British cabinet thought tlie uer-Adolf uer-Adolf Hitler nian scheme worthy of consideration, but the French government looked upon It as a "cunning plan" to split the Locarno powers and make LTitler the virtual dictator of Europe. Premier Sarraut and Foreign Minister Flan-din Flan-din were consulting on steps for frustrating the relchsfuehrer and preserving a united front of the Locarno nations. Hitler's note made these proposals pro-posals : 1. A "standstill" agreement to exist ex-ist on both sides of the German border bor-der for four months during which Germany, France, and Belgium would make no troop movements. This "armistice" would be guaranteed guaran-teed by a neutral commission. 2. A 25-year nonnggression pact between Germany, France, and Bel-glum, Bel-glum, guaranteed by an International Internation-al arbitration court, to be negotiated negotiat-ed Immediately after the French elections. 3. Negotiation for nonaggresslon pacts between Germany and her other oth-er neighbors. 4. Germany to return to the League of Nations as an equal if the league covenant Is separated from the Versailles treaty and with the understanding that colonial concessions con-cessions will be made. 5. When a general settlement Is In sight conferences to be held to secure the prohibition in warfare of ?ras, poison and Incendiary bombs, bombing of civilians, bombing of towns more than 12 miles from the battle zone, and the abolition of heavy tanks and heavy artillery. 6. A general economic and disarmament dis-armament conference. FOLLOWING the example of German', Ger-man', the Austrian diet has repudiated re-pudiated that nation's military obligations obli-gations under the St. Germain treaty. By unanimous vote it approved ap-proved a bill introduced by Chancellor Chancel-lor Kurt von Schuschnigg, providing for general national military service "with or without arms." Every male from his eighteenth to his forty-second forty-second year is liable to conscription. conscrip-tion. This move, which has the support sup-port of Premier Mussolini of Italy, was not unexpected, and though it aroused the little entente nations to anger, probably their formal protests pro-tests will bring no result. The new law is not likely to bring any great change at present In Austrian Aus-trian armaments, for Austria already al-ready had disregarded both the treaty of St. Germain's disarmament provision and Its restriction of armaments ar-maments without serious objection from other countries. Tanks, forbidden for-bidden to Austria under the treaty, were actually paraded around the Ringstrasse some months ago under un-der the eyes of foreign military attaches at-taches whom she had invited to attend. at-tend. Hungary may now be expected to violate the treaties and rearm, that, too, being a part of Mussolini's policy. PEACE negotiations between Italy and Ethiopia, outside the League of Nations, seem Imminent, for emissaries of Emperor Halle Selassie Selas-sie already have v. -u,.. been received by Marshal Pletro Ba-doglio, Ba-doglio, and tlie Italian Ital-ian undersecretary of colonies Is In East Africa to conduct con-duct the preliminaries. prelimi-naries. This news followed closely the dispatches telling of a great victory Si N 1 won bv Badoglio's northern troops Marshal over 20.000 fresh Badoglio and picked Ethiopian soldiers whose fight was directed and watched by the emperor himself. The battle, at Mai Ceu, lasted all day and the Ethiopians left 7,000 dead on the field as they fled to join the main body of 50,000 troops south of Lake AshangI eight miles away. Italian fatalities Included 16 officers and about 1,000 soldiers, most of the latter being Eritrean Askaris. It was believed Marshal Badoglio would follow up this victory with a smashing blow at Dessye, main concentration con-centration point of the Ethiopians, unless peace negotiations stop him. Just before this battle the Italian air bombers practically ruined Harar, second city of Ethiopia. GERMANY'S men and women to the number of 44,3S9,1-10 declared de-clared by their votes in the reich-stag reich-stag elections that they supported the policies of Hitler. Only 542.S0S had the nerve to vote against the reichsfuehrer, and a still smaller fraction refused to go to the polls. Among the latter were the former Crown Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria and his wife. Hitler's victory was thus extraordinarily extraor-dinarily complete, and the Nazis celebrated it with wild rejoicings In Berlin and other cities. It was the culmination of a three years' eampslgn In which the leaders sought to persuade the population of the relch that only Hitler could save the country from great danger. The new relchstag will be the largest In history, having about 740 members. Most of them will be officials of-ficials of the Nazi party. For the first time In the history of aviation a polling booth was established In the air. It was aboard the new dirigible Von Hindenburg, whose 104 passengers and crew voted solidly for Hitler. The Hindenburg Hin-denburg and the Graf Zeppelin cruised over the Saar and the Rblneland all day. long. LEADERS of both major parties are perfecting the arrangements for the national conventions and picking out the chief orators fur r T T h e Republicans have tentatively selected Frank O. Lowdeff, former governor of Illinois, Illi-nois, as temporary chairman and keynoter key-noter of the gathering gath-ering In Cleveland. If this choice stands it is pre- ,&....w sume(J the perma F. O. Lowden nent cllairman wU1 be an Easterner, possibly Walter Edge of New Jersey, former ambassador am-bassador and senator. Some Western governor Is wanted want-ed by the Democrats as their keynoter, key-noter, and the honor may be given to Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, O. Ben Ross of Idaho or Clyde C. Herring Her-ring of Iowa. For permanent chairman chair-man at Philadelphia Senator Robinson Rob-inson of Arkansas Is likely to be picked. The speech putting President Presi-dent Roosevelt in nomination for a second term may be delivered by Senator Wagner of New York. New York Republicans of the Old Guard persuasion scored a decisive victory over Senator Borah in the primaries, and the Empire state delegation to Cleveland will be unpledged un-pledged to any candidate. The triumph tri-umph of the conservatives was complete. com-plete. Not only were the Borah candidates defeated in nine congressional con-gressional districts in which they made contests, but the organization organiza-tion candidates for delegates defeated de-feated independent candidates not pledged to Borah in three other districts. Maine Democrats in their primary pri-mary pledged ten convention votes to the renomination of Mr. Roosevelt. Roose-velt. The Kentucky state Republican convention instructed the four state delegates at large to vote for Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas Kan-sas for the Presidential nomination. This, with previous developments, assured Landon of 18 of the state's votes. WHILE a house committee is delving into the financial operations op-erations of the Townsend plan organization, or-ganization, Dr. Francis E. Town-send Town-send announced in Washington a complete reorganization of "Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd." The shake-up followed a split between Representative John S. McGroarty of California, who has pushed the Townsend plan In the bouse, and the California doctor. Doctor Town-send Town-send accused McGroarty of conniv: ing to convert Townsendites In California Cal-ifornia to the Democratic party. Townsend said henceforth the movement would be managed by a I board and that he would present to It 90 per cent of the profits of the Townsend National Weekly. The national headquarters of the movement will be moved from Washington to Chicago, which was chosen for Its central location and accessibility. Another new policy of the movement move-ment will be the selection of an auditing firm to regularly audit finances and report to the directors of each of the Townsend clubs. Townsend will remain as president. presi-dent. His board of directors was named as follows: Corner Smith, Oklahoma City, vice president; Gil-mour Gil-mour Young, San Francisco, national na-tional secretary; Dr. Clinton Wnn-der, Wnn-der, New York, J. B. Kiefer, Chicago, Chi-cago, Frank Arbuckle. Los Angeles, and Nathan J. Roberts, Jacksonville, Jackson-ville, regional directors; and Alfred Al-fred Wright, Cleveland, Ohio, manager. WILLIAM N. M'NAIR, the Democratic Dem-ocratic mayor of Pittsburgh, appeared as a witness before the house ways and means committee and was almost thrown out on his ear. L'nabie to halt McNair's biting tirade ti-rade against wasteful spending on the one hand and the proposed new punitive tax on corporation earnings on the other, Chairman Robert L. Doughton threatened to call a policeman bodily to evict the mayor. "Why all this dignity?" shouted Mc-Nair. Mc-Nair. "Good night!" A committee clerk brought a policeman po-liceman to the front of the room as the congressmen quickly passed a resolution to excuse the witness. McNair said he would leave "gladly" "glad-ly" and departed. CITATIONS were Issued by the Post Ollice department against alleged lottery associations operated oper-ated by Mrs. Oliver Harriman, prominent prom-inent In New York society, and Alfred E. Smith, Jr., son of Al Smith. They and others associated asso-ciated with them were summoned to appear In Washington and show cause why fraud orders should not be issued against them. According to the charge, both persons per-sons are operating lotteries. Mrs. Harriman heads the "National Conference Con-ference on Legalizing Lotteries, Inc.," and Smith heads the "Golden Stakes Sweepstakes." DESPITE vigorous opposition, which will reappear on the floor of the seriate, the senate committee on Immigration and naturalization reported ravoraoiy the Kerr-C-jolidge alien deportation bill, which Secretary Secre-tary Perkins has been trying to get through congress for three years. It will give her and two other members of an Interdepartmental Interdepartment-al board discretion- Secretary radical and even Perkins criminal aliens, otherwise deportable, In this country. coun-try. The same bill recently was reported re-ported favorably by the house committee. com-mittee. Pending action by congress on the measure, Secretary Perkins has beeu holding up the deportation of some 2,800 aliens mandatorily deportable under existing law, contending that they are "hardship cases." Some are radicals, some have criminal records, rec-ords, and others entered the country coun-try illegally. By "hardship cases" Secretary Perkins means that they would be separated from family ties or put to some other inconvenience. Secretary Perkins refused to produce pro-duce lnfoTuurrion respecting the 2,-S00 2,-S00 "hardship" cases until Reynolds introduced a senate resolution, whereupon she permitted him to examine ex-amine the records. UNABLE to raise $3,200,000 to redeem re-deem two bond issues reaching maturity, the province of Alberta, Canada, defaulted. Premier William Wil-liam Aberhart, leader of the Social Credit party, admitted he could not get the necessary funds. In last fall's election the Social Credit party par-ty won a big victory. One of the planks in Its platform advocated the payment of .$25 of social credit "dividends" monthly to every citizen. citi-zen. None of these dividends has been forthcoming as yet. THOUGH Kokl Hirota, the new Japanese premier, said a few days ago that while he was In office there would be no war, it is evident his government really is looking for serious trouble with Russia. This feeling is expressed by E i j i Ami, spokesman for the Tokyo foreign office, of-fice, who said : "Japan "Ja-pan must prepare for Soviet aggres- cinn " i V Recent activities , indicate the Reds EJI Amau are availing themselves of the critical crit-ical situation which developed after the recent military revolt in Tokyo and are Increasing the strength of their troops along the Manchukuan border." Amau said the "recent Soviet policy pol-icy has been to fire on any persons near the border." He said he regards re-gards this as rather strange behavior beha-vior for a "friendly neighbor." The tension was increased when Moscow learned there had been heavy fighting in Outer Mongolia, ally of Russia, where Japanese and Manchukuan troops had crossed the border. B. S. Stomaniakov, Soviet vice-commissar for foreign affairs, told Japanese Ambassador Tame-kichl Tame-kichl Ota that the situation did not permit "waiting pacifically for development de-velopment of events." He declared "serious responsibility" responsibil-ity" would fall on the shoulders of the Japanese government If the fighting in Outer Mongolia were allowed al-lowed to continue. At the same time the Manchukuo government issued a warning that unless the Outer Mongolian government govern-ment "takes immediate steps to terminate all kinds of provocation against Manchukuo's frontiers, the relations of the two countries are threatened with the most serious contingency." Ilachiro Arita. who became for eign minister of Japan, said be did not think the border Incidents would break up relations, hut a recurrence would he dangerous. |