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Show THE PAGE TWO O RESIDENT ROOSEVELT notl fled Rufus C Dawes, president ol the Century of Progress, that lie would be unable to go to Chicago to open that great exposition on He added that be hoed Muy 27. to attend the fair before It clones Roosevelt Calls on All Nations to Han War and Disarm; Hitler Approves, Provided Germany's Equality Demand Is Granted. - to IN HIS special message accompanying a copy of his dispatch to the nations, President Roosevelt thus summarized the he r peace plan that i xiau proposeu . ; "First, that through a series of steps the weapons of offensive warfare be eliminated. "Second, that the first definite step be taken now. "Third, that while these steps are being taken no nation President shall increase exRoosevelt isting armaments over and above the limitations of treaty obligations. "Fourth, that subject to existing treaty rights no nation during the disarmament period shall send any armed force of whatsoever nature across its own borders." To the correspondents he said he had consulted no other governments concerning his project, and had confided the plan only to Secretary of State Hull. The cablegram was a complete surprise to the chancelleries of the world, and the President's direct method of approach rather stunned some of them, especially the Japanese. The emperor of Japan, it was explained in the Tokyo foreign office, "never speaks with foreign cations on political matters and the foreign office cannot comment on communications to the emperor." Prime Minister MacDonald, speaking at a dinner of the Pilgrims' society in London, praised the Roosevelt plan almost extravagantly, rejoicing that "henceforth America, by her own declaration, is to be indifferent to nothing that concerns the peace of the world." In Italy, the Balkans and Mexl-lcas well as elsewhere, Mr. Roosevelt's proposals were received with warm approval, and Norway's cabinet was quick to be the first to accept them formally. Russia felt thSt the message might be the first step toward recognition of the Soviet government by the United States. Opinion In the United States, as reflected in editorials In newspapers of all parts of the country, was that the President had made a bold and timely move to save the world from warfare, and that it had a chance to succeed; but there was some fear that he was trying to extend the Monroe Doctrine over all continents, and some doubt as to what his future course would be if Genbis proposals were rejected. erally, the President was highly commended for his energetic and enlightened action. F JM.ESS Japan yields to the peace pleas of President Roosevelt and others which Is unlikely the Chinese may burn both and Tientsin to prevent their use as bases by the Invaders. Late Pel-pin- dispatches from Shanghai said the defenders, already driven back to a point only a few miles north of the old capital, had planned to destroy both cities if they could not hold All the Chinese banks In them. Pleping had transferred their si?cle reserves to Shanghai, and British mining operations north of Tientsin had been stopped. Thousands of families had been evacuated from a in the belief that Peiping Japanese air attack would soon be made. The navy office In Tokyo announced that the 1933 grand maneuvers of the navy would be held in "seas south of Japan," beginning early in June. Admiral Mineo Osu-mnaval minister, explained that "there Is nothing significant" in the fact that the mnneuvers are being held In waters south of Japan. "Such a big event cannot be staged on the sea of Japan owing to the lack of space," he said. i, ROOSEVELT'S big regulation bill finally was completed by his advisers and submitted to congress. It provides for a PRESIDENT $3,300,000,000 con- struction program it Is hoped depression will be routed and the industries of the nation put on their feet How this immense sum will be raised was left to the with which is B ways and means Lewis Douglas committee of the house to decide. Mr. Roosevelt conferred with Lewis W. Douglas, director of the budget, and thereafter it was made plain that the plan to finance the program by the issue of greenbacks was abandoned, though Senator Glass, wisest finan- the Democratic party, had said he preferred that to any form of taxation, despite his general opposition to inflation. The President was Informed that congress would not stand for a sales tax to provide the $220,000,000 required during the first year for Interest and amortiza- cier Thursday. May 25, NEPIH. UTAH Scenes and Persons in the Current News w;.1 WML 19.33 lei" WMAIISareBURNIKG : mDGOt ' i BEVERLY HILLS Well all I tills disappoint know Is Notwithstanding just what I read in the panit'iit, the exposition will be for I run Into doing someor what pers, mully opened on the date named outside scouting on Intensive and the above, activity for Mr Roose- T the grounds gave assurance that it Q velt. Had great would be practically completed atid back East ready for visitors at that time. week or so ago. daugh- the hool in THREE membersto of ecothe world York In New nomic conference In Ixindon have Westchester, and been selected by President RooseMrs Rogers had velt. They are Secretary of State back a gone M. of Cox Hull, chairman; James week ahead of Ohio, once Democratic candidate for me on the iraic, the Presidency, and Senator Key then when I had Plttnmn. the time I hit Went by the Salt the plane. a court of SITTING foras the way, this time. eleventh time in All lines are good. They have to Its history, the senate began the and they art making plans to trial of Federal Judge Harold Lou- - be, on faster planes. When they get put derback of the that extra fifty miles an hour added, northern district of at the least 150, why that making California. Vice will cut off one third of the times, Garner President those few hours are the ones was president of and want cut off. They are all eventhe court and Hen- you tually going to two and one motor, ol F. Ashurst ry instead of say aviation is chairman no more a three. Oh, Arizona, to use. Just so you thing of the Judiciary can brag on the trip. Its to bs served ashamed committee, of it if you dont take it. os master of A Course the trains with the stiff com. .. jtA cedure. The open petition have helped their service ing statement for too, and Judge they are rolling palaces. 1 was the prosecution have never made a long buss trip, Louderback made by Represen but I am goin to some ot these days. tative Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, I they dont scare me 88 bad chairman of the house judiciary to hope ride In one as they do when they committee. The proceedings took fly by me on the highway. up the day sessions of the senate Well now a bit about the trip. New would and It was believed the trial York was Just going up and down end by May 27. in their feelings with the rise and Is standing fall Judge Louderback of the stock market, just like trial on five articles of impeach- one of these old time movie heroines ment charging him with irregulari- whos bosom heaved and sighed acties in receivership cases. It is alto the heavy drama in the cording leged that he displayed favoritism scene. There is a in our Amerin appointing receivers, that he ap- ican life called thething New York angle, pointed incompetent persons, and that is that everything Is based on ordered them paid exorbitant fees. speculation. Their idea is that the One article claims that he apCountry must read the stock marreas a telegraph operator pointed ket report every morning before it a dollar three million ceiver for can gnaw into the old ham and eggs. motor company ; another that he Well the market was as a whole forced nn expert receiver out of doing pretty good, and so they all office because the receiver would felt better than I have seen them in not comply with his orders to se- a but Lord the old town time, long lect a particular attorney. is not what it used to be. Course thats a sign that I am getting old. Thats the first thing the old timer EXECUTIVES representing Insurlife leading of a place says, "Well ance companies that hold farm aint what she was when IBroadway was actmortgages called on Henry Morgen-thau- , ing on her." And by golly she aint. told nnd in Washington Jr., Show business is show business no that chairman of the farm board more. There is 95 legitimate theathat, while they were desirous of tres and only 20 of em occupied. No helping in the successful adminis- outstanding hits that everybody tration of the emergency farm mort- talks about, and with the musical gage act they were opposed to any shows, they all say, "Well we cant general writing down of mortgages get the talent." They cant find the or their wholesale exchange for federal land bank bonds under the people that will draw anything at terms of the emergency legislation. the box office. Jimmy Durante, late of the It was the consensus of the executives that most of their mort- movies, is now in a dandy good show there. Well he Is supposed to gages had been conservatively writ- come back to pictures pretty soon, ten and that in justice to their poland Lew Brown, and Henderson are icy holders they should not make ad ditional sacrifices of assets to losses having a hard time finding some sustained during the last four years. comedian that will replace him. in the old days if any of us The opinion prevailed that the com- Why was that featured in a show left it, to carry panies should continue they could call up a dozen out of their farm mortgage holdings pend- the audience was just as good. ing a return of increased land val- You see now that with no vaudeville, I ues to come with the general prosmean real vaudeville, high class perity which they felt was not far off. Meanwhile the companies houses, playing to the very best peowould continue avoiding foreclos- ple, well now there is none, and ures wherever possible and decide there was your training ground for talent. There is where every comeIndividual cases on their merits. dian was trained. Every vaudeville bill was full of clever comedians time ago the senate called SOMEthe secretary of that on a moments notice could step agriculture into a musical comedy. for Information concerning grain No sir the loss of old vaudeville speculating on boards of trade. Mr. was more than just the loss of seeWallace has Just ing the show. Taking away vaudeIn rereported ville was just sponse, and he says like taking the that big speculators 4 high school in wheat futures in rl 1 away, and want the grain pit were the pupil to avershort "on an from jump age five days out grammer school of every six" from to college. Then April 1, 1930, to too, too many 1932. October 22, actors made the t .... In his report Walmistake of play-ln- g lace declined to Sec'y Wallace on just They give the names of Broadway. firms short 1,000,000 not persons and only wore bushels or more during the last themselves out "two or three years" on the Chicago there, but meant nothing on Board of Trade, as asked by the the road. Nothey one knew them. futhe senate. He explained grain become so popThats how tures trading laws prohibited re- ular in the oldJolson Al was smart days. lease of this Information. He would always duck out of New A total of 709 trading days covYork and play everywhere he could. Wallace In his report, said, He ered played many a one nigbter In a showed "the big speculators, as the very heighth of his tremendous group, were predominantly on the popularity. He would draw anyshort side of the wheat futures where. market. But its not only the lack ot great "As a group, their net position shows. Of course taking Zeigfeld as of the close of the market each away from Broadway was Just like 83.6 or on was short days, day taking up the sidewalks. He will per cent of the time, and long on never be replaced. There was Just the 16.4 cent of 125 days, or per one of him. Aint you glad you lived time, and one day evenly balanced,'' in an age when you can tell your Wallace reported. grandchildren that you saw Zeigfeld s shows? But what the loss is is for the world are the looks of the street Itself. It used AIR laws drafted at an international to have class did old Broadway. Now now on aerial conference legislation its a street carnival. They will be rules in session in Rome. The selling fish out in front of some of adopted will be embodied In an in the places. They have barkers rut ternational agreement and will be 'lollering for everything. Ah she is applicable In all adhering countries i great old town, but its not "Us old from United The delegation the imers town." But I expect we look States Is headed by John C. Cooper list as seedy to it, as it does to us. Jr., chairman of the committee ot Is about equal In this :verything aeronautics of the American Ba: vorld. association. 1933, SytJicali, Inc. ; - By EDWARD W. FICKARD to unite In outlawing war. In abandoning its weapons of offense and In agreeing not to send armed forces across national borders aroused the peoples of the earth i to enthusiastic approval, and may well prove to be the greatest act of his regime. Coining e as It did when J swas on edge with rumors of Chancellor coming wars and Hitler w h n Chancellor Adolf Hitler was about to make his first declaration of International policy, the reaction to Mr. Roosevelt's message was awaited with Intense Interest Everywhere It was considered that he whs directing his admonitions especially toward Gerhours the many and for twenty-fou- r absorbing question was "What will Hitler reply?" The German chancellor had summoned the almost obsolete relchstng to hear the speech he had prepared In seclusion, and when he delivered it, it was found that he Indorsed President Roosevelt's plan for a pact and agreed to Join it. At the same time, in ringing tones, he reiterated Germany's claim to equal armament and refused to adhere to a disarmament agreement, even If It were reached by a majority of nations, unless this demand for equality Is fully recognized. Otherwise, he declared, Germany will withdraw from the League of Nations. The chancellor ngreed with Roosevelt that lasting economic reconstruction Is impossible unless the armament question is settled, and accepted the MncDonald plan. Indorsed by Roosevelt, ns a basis for disarmament, but insisted any new defense system must be identical for Germany and the other nations. He promised to disband the German auxiliary police and also to subject semimilitary organizations to International control, provided other nations accept the same control. Hitler declared his nation had suffered too much from the insanity of war to visit the same upon others, and denied that Germany contemplated Invasion of either France or Poland, ne demanded revision of the Versailles treaty, asserting that Germany had fulfilled the "unreasonable demands" of that treaty with "suicidal loyalty." Officials of the State department In Washington said Hitler's speech was encouragingly conciliatory. In France it was not so well received. The French government was rather cool toward the Roosevelt proposals, and the fear was entertained In Paris that Hitler's approval of them would isolate France. S. June last year. He ranked high as an educator and as author of work, on philosophy, News Review of Current Events the World Over PRESIDENTallROOSEVELT'S the civilized world TIMES-NEW- In tion charges. The bill, as drafted by Director Douglas and others, would authorize the following construction works : 1. Public highways $400,000,000, of which $250,000,000 would follow the present allocation and $150,000,-00- 0 would be for extensions. 2. Public buildings No set limit. 3. Naval construction $100,000,-00- 0 maximum. 4. Army, Including equipment and possibly a huge airplane flotilla should the disarmament conference fail $100,000,000 maximum. 5. Slums and housing following the pattern of the United States Housing corporation of war days-- No set limit. Natural resources, including soil and erosion work, forestry and similar projects No set limit 7. Loans to railroads for maintenance and equipment No limit. 6. new alignment RUSSIA'Swas with endangered by the Soviet proposal to sell the Chinese Eastern railway of Manchuria to Japan. The Chinese were enraged by this plan and called off the negotiations for a trade treaty with Moscow. Chinese papers claim that China Is likely to retaliate against Russia with a boycott on Soviet oil, which has made serious Inroads on the Chinese market In the last two years. PRINCETON university was thrown by the death of Dr. John Grier Hibben, president emeritus, who was killed at Woodrldge, N. J., when his automobile collided with a truck. Mrs. Hibben, who accompanied him, was severely injured. Doctor Hibben. who was born In Peoria, 111., In 1301. was educated at Princeton and the UniHe suceeded versity of Berlin. Woodrow Wilson as president of Princeton In 1912 and retired In U'W 'yZs pro-fmd.- O. 1933, Wegtem Newycaper Unloa. 1 Jews of Chicago parading In protest against the persecution of Jews In Germany by the Hitler regime. bill as various congressmen, cabinet members and President Roosevelt signing the farm others look on. 3 Dr. Don Enrique FInot, the new minister from Bolivia to the United States, In Washington. 2 relief-inflatio- photo-graphe- d Nation's Best High School Orators .. UtX!! n Champions of the nation's high school orators are shown above after winning first prizes at the hafional high school forensic tournament conducted at Wooster, Ohio. Left to right: Caryl Arnold of Grand Rapids, Minn., (humorous declamation) ; Harold Stark, Granite City, 111., (oratorical declamation) ; Gene Davis, Cicero, 111., (original oratory) and Robert Dunham, Sioux Falls, S. D, (extempore speaking). FIRE BUG M Trying to Check the Japanese 'M m i' M sir-Jar '4 1 lw(r Norman Moore, twenty-fiv- ZMgfW. - - years e old, who is reported to have con fessed that he set the fire which leveled four-fifth- s of the city of Ellsworth, Maine, causing $2,000,000 This Chinese soldier in the Lwan river section Is in his trench ready damage, because "something in my to do his part in checking the advance of the Japanese army on Felplng, head told me to" and because he His is sword out for to hand big hand conflict iked to see fire engines roll. Tornado Strikes Dayton, Ohio ON RESERVE BOARD i ft I 4A NVS, - r A 4r - , It - , 1 Eugene R. Black of Atlanta. Gn who was appointed to snecefd Eugene Meyer as member of the federal resorve board and governor of that body. theiecTtvIncarlasCn,0h,0; af,'er a frenk tornndo 8t the west to at several hundred thou- - lt rTlC Tge ' 1 |