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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Drouth Commission Get3 Data for Program Britain Moves to Protect Her Shipping From Spanish Fascists German-Russian Break Threatened. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. CHAIRMAN MORRIS L. COOKE ' ' and other members of the fed-era fed-era great plains drouth commission commis-sion are holding a series of meet- ' O I j J i' ... ik i..J ings in the drouth blighted states for the purpose of formulating for-mulating a relief and control program pro-gram and are calling call-ing in the farmers to consult with them. At the first of these sessions, In Bismarck, N. D., officials of-ficials and agricul- . . "" turists of Montana, Cooke Wyoming, Nebraska and North and South Dakota heard O. W. Roberts, federal meteorologist, meteorolo-gist, give the encouraging promise that "greater than normal precipitation precipi-tation is anticipated in those states next spring on the basis of light precipitation this fall." Reports of existing conditions, however, showed that the situation is serious. Gov. Walter Welford, of North Dakota, told the conference that water levels throughout his state are seriously diminished, constituting con-stituting a major problem for the state and federal governments. Another official declared that North Dakota's live stock situation Is "most deplorable," that virtually no live stock is left on ranges in western sections of the state and that feed is seriously scarce in all sections. "There is no magic wand at the disposal of the government to make drouth areas bloom," Mr. Cooke said. "We came here to hear your suggestions and we hope to gain from this and similar meetings data which will guide future, helpful legislation. leg-islation. "The reports so far received indicate indi-cate that much can be done through government assistance and expert advice." THE Mississippi Valley association, associa-tion, in session in St. Louis, adopted adopt-ed a resolution calling for rejection of the St. Lawrence seaway treaty unless the crown colony of Newfoundland New-foundland and Anticosta island are ceded to the United States by Great Britain. Of course no one thinks for a minute that Britain ever would do that. "The position of Newfoundland, astride the mouth of the St. Lawrence, Law-rence, is an insuperable obstacle to the treaty in its present form," the resolution said, "inasmuch as Newfoundland New-foundland is a crown colony of Great Britain and is entirely separate sep-arate from Canada. "This crown colony as well as the St. Lawrence plug of Anticosta island should both be ceded to the United States to guarantee our safety safe-ty in case of war." The new president of the association associa-tion is Arthur J. Weaver, former governor of Nebraska and now president of the Missouri River Navigation Nav-igation association. ONE thousand banqueters in Washington celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the American patent system and an announcer an-nouncer from a transport air liner gave them the names of America's "twelve greatest inventors" as selected se-lected by a secret committee of prominent men. These are the inventors in-ventors and their inventions: Robert Fulton, steamboat; Eli Whitney, cotton gin; Samuel F. B. Morse, telegraph; Charles Goodyear, Good-year, vulcanized rubber; Cyrus Hall McCormick, grain reaper; Elias Howe, sewing machine; George Westinghouse, airbrake; Alexander Graham Bell, telephone; Thomas Alva Edison, electric lamp, phonograph, phono-graph, motion pictures, and many other devices; Ottmar Mergenthal-er, Mergenthal-er, linotype; Charles Martin Hall, process for making cheap aluminum; alumin-um; Wilbur Wright, co-inventor with his brother, Orville, of the airplane. air-plane. SEATTLE has a habit of recalling recall-ing its mayors when they are not satisfactory. One was thus ousted oust-ed in 1911 and another in 1931. Now a movement n a s Deen started for the recall of Mayor John F. Dore, who is accused of inciting incit-ing acts of violence in a labor dispute. Formal charges of misfeasance, malfeasance mal-feasance and violation viola-tion of the oath of office were con- tained in a petition Mayor signed by fifteen John F. Dore women and eleven men. It asked the corporation counsel coun-sel to draft the charges in condensed con-densed form so that an effort could be made to obtain the 24,000 signatures signa-tures necessary for a special recall election. Dore, fifty-four, was elected in March over Arthur B. Langlie, candidate can-didate of the New Order of Cincin-natus, Cincin-natus, an independent organization of young voters seeking better municipal mu-nicipal government. The charges against the mayor largely have to do with his actions ac-tions in connection with the strike of employees of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Post-Intelligencer. REAT BRITAIN asked Gen. Francisco Franco, leader of the Spanish rebels, to establish a safety zone for neutral ships in Barcelona Bar-celona harbor which the Fascist chieftain had declared blockaded. Franco's reply was not satisfactory, and besides, one of his vessels sank an unidentified ship off the capital of Catalonia. Therefore the British government promptly started a considerable con-siderable number of warships toward the Mediterranean, cruisers and submarines being included. Foreign Minister Eden already had assured parliament that British shipping would be protected on the high seas with all the might of the British navy which is something to give the Spanish Fascists pause. France took the same stand, but warned its merchantmen to conduct themselves "with extreme caution." Excitement over the torpedo attack at-tack on a loyal Spanish cruiser by a submarine which the Madrid government gov-ernment more than hinted was a German vessel was allayed by the report that the undersea boat was a Spanish submarine that had gone over to the rebel side. Madrid was being continually hammered by rebel shells and bombs, and there was intense fighting fight-ing daily in University City, the northwest section of the capital, where the insurgents had penetrated. penetrat-ed. The American embassy was closed on orders from Washington and Eric C. Wendelin, charge d'affaires, d'af-faires, gave protection to those Americans who wished to go to Valencia Va-lencia to board a United States warship. war-ship. The German and Italian embassies, em-bassies, abandoned by their staffs, were seized and sealed by the defense de-fense junta and a number of Fascist Fas-cist refugees were arrested in the former. Berlin scoffed at this action ac-tion but Rome called it banditry. EI. STICKLING, a German en- glneer, was sentenced to death in Russia for sabotage which he was said to have confessed. Hitler had his ambassador in Moscow make earnest demands for postponement of the execution, and then suddenly announced that if the sentence were carried out Germany would sever diplomatic relations with the soviet government. Great Britain feared such action would seriously aggravate aggra-vate the European war situation and so Prime Minister Baldwin interceded. in-terceded. He asked German Ambassador Am-bassador Von Ribbertrop to urge Hitler not to bring about the open break with Russia, and he instructed instruct-ed the British ambassador at Moscow Mos-cow to appeal for mercy for Strick-Ung. Strick-Ung. Thereafter the soviet government govern-ment commuted the German's sentence sen-tence to ten years in prison. Several Sev-eral of his fellow plotters were shot. The agreement directed against the communist internationale, which angered Russia, was signed by Japan and Germany in the Berlin Ber-lin foreign office. Under it the two nations are to co-operate in a campaign cam-paign against communism, and they invite other nations to join them. JOSEPH E. DAVIES, wealthy lawyer of Washington, has served the Democratic party in various va-rious ways for many years and has contributed liberally to iis campaign funds, and now he has been rewarded. President Roosevelt has appointed him American ambassador ambassa-dor to Soviet Russia, to succeed William C. Bullitt, who was transferred to the Paris embassy. Mr. Davies, whose kat nri t -rcrui i-Yfru nil wife is the former J. E. Davies Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton, heiress of the big Post cereal cere-al fortune, is a native of Wisconsin and practiced law in that state until un-til 1913, when he went to Washington. Washing-ton. He was chairman of the federal fed-eral trade commission under President Presi-dent Wilson in 1915-'16, and was taken along by Wilson as an economic eco-nomic adviser to the Versailles conference. con-ference. Before that he had served as western manager of Wilson's campaign and as secretary of the Democratic national committee, and he was offered in 1918 the ambassadorship am-bassadorship to Russia, to Italy and the governorship of the Philippines. He declined, however, so he could run for the United States senate from Wisconsin. He was defeated. He was active during the recent campaign, serving on the advisory committee at Democratic headquarters headquar-ters in New York. President Roosevelt signed the Davies commission before he left on his South American cruise, but the announcement was withheld until word was received from the soviet government that Davies was persona per-sona grata at Moscow REPORTING on its annual survey, sur-vey, the National Child Labor committee says the improved business busi-ness activity has been accompanied by a general increase in the use of child labor, with "appalling conditions" con-ditions" in some industries. "It appears to be hard for the Individual who sees business and trade reviving," the report said, "to pause to consider the extent to which this process of creating wealth is being built upon the backs of children who need to be in school instead of having their youth ground out of them at labor." KARL VON OSSIETSKY, German Ger-man pacifist who has been imprisoned im-prisoned by the Nazi government after being convicted of treason, has been awarded the Nobel peace prize for 1935 and the Nazis are exceedingly indignant, looking upon up-on the award as "an impudent challenge chal-lenge and insult to the new Germany." Ger-many." Ossietsky, who is seriously ill, was released from prison recently recent-ly but is under guard by the secret police. His "treason" consisted in printing an article some time ago saying the German army was secretly sec-retly rearming. The peace prize for 1936 was given giv-en Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine Argen-tine foreign minister, recently president pres-ident of the League of Nations assembly as-sembly and active in ending the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay. Par-aguay. ORIS P. VAN SWERINGEN, the Cleveland financier who, with his late brother M. J. Van Swerin-gen, Swerin-gen, created a great railway empire, em-pire, died suddenly while on a railroad rail-road trip to New York. In his 57 years of life he rose from being a newsboy to a commanding position in American transportation. The great depression almost ruined the brothers financially, but Oris was well on the way to complete financial finan-cial recovery. DICTATOR JOSEF STALIN, in one of his exceedingly rare public speeches, presented to his fellow countrymen the proposed constitution which he himself has written for the U. S. S. R. The document promises many new liberties lib-erties and privileges to Russian citizens. cit-izens. These include equal suffrage, the secret ballot, the right to work, leisure, material security in old age, education, equal rights for women, universal equality of citizenry, citi-zenry, freedom of conscience and the right to worship, freedom of speech, press, assembly and meetings and the right to organize into any group except political bodies. THAT work relief as administered adminis-tered by the federal government govern-ment be gradually discontinued is the recommendation of the board of United States Chamber of Commerce. Com-merce. The board adopted a report of a committee headed by John W. O'Leary of Chicago which held that the work relief "proves in operation op-eration to fall far short of its purposes and to create new problems." J. W. O'Leary The committee," said the report, "does not propose sudden and instantaneous stoppage. Those gradual steps should be taken which are always essential when adjustments ad-justments have to be made upon a considerable scale. "There is at present danger that, ceasing to have work for unemployed unem-ployed persons as its function, this activity will undertake to replace some of the functions of private enterprise en-terprise in advancing recovery. There can be no substitute for private pri-vate enterprise in the development of improved economic conditions." XTEW YORK'S state's unemploy-t unemploy-t ment insurance law was upheld up-held by an equally divided United States Supreme court. Justice Harlan Har-lan Fiske Stone being absent on account of illness and taking no part in consideration of the case. There was no formal opinion and no announcement of the lineup of the court. In the opinion of legal experts the court's action has wide implications affecting not only state employment insurance and other social legislation, legisla-tion, but also the administration's social security program. BY A vote of 21,679 to 2,043 the convention of the American Federation of Labor approved the action of the executive council in suspending the ten unions that are with John L. Lewis in his Committee Com-mittee for Industrial Organization movement. However the convention accepted the advice of President Green and voted to renew the council's coun-cil's offer to talk peace with the rebel unions and to give the council power to call a special federation convention and expel the rebels if peace negotiations fail. The convention approved the executive ex-ecutive council's decision that no steps should be taken to form a labor political party. EDWARD F. McGRADY, assistant assist-ant secretary of labor, was still trying to bring about a settlement of the great strike of maritime workers, but didn't seem to be getting get-ting along very well. Indeed, the situation was made worse by nationwide na-tionwide strike calls to the Masters, Mas-ters, Mates and Pilots association and the Marine Engineers union. Federal operation of emergency ships to Alaska and Hawaii was discussed but not decided. |