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Show V PAGE TWO 'News Review of may choose to thre group Current president Starts on His Han for Managed Currency and Commodity Price Raising Farmers Strike Under Way Move for Russian Recognition. By EDWARD W. PICKARD d P. , TN HIS radio address the Presldent told of the "relief that Is being given to those who are In danger of losing their farms or their homes," and later said : "I have been amazed by extraordinary degree of given to the government by the cotton farmers In the S o n t h, the wheat farmers of the West, the tobacco farmers of the Southeast, and Milo Reno I am confident that corn-hofarmers of the Middle the West will come through In the same magnificent fashion." There was, however, nothing In the speech that reassured the farmers who have embarked on a national agricultural strike. Milo Reno, president of the National Farmers Holiday association, declared the strike would continue despite Mr. Roosevelt's assurances of higher farm prices. " The President failed to even the g - mention cost of production," he pointed out "We're not going to top this battle until we get w' at we want and have demanded cost of production." Mr. Reno reported that the Continental Congress of Worker and Farmers and the Technocratic Federation of the World for Industrial Democracy had proffered their In the strike, and said that he was confident the farmers themselves would Join the nonsell-In- g movements In "great numbers." At that time the farm leaders In six states Iowa, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Oklahoma and Nebraska had officially proclaimed the strike, and picketing of the highways had begun In some localities. Here Is what Reno's association called for from the farmers: 1 Refusal to sell any grain, produce, live stock, milk, butter, eggs, etc., except for prices equal to the cost of production, but willingness on the other hand to exchange such products for whatever labor and the unemployed may have to tender. 2 Refusal to purchase groceries, merchandise, etc., except as necessary to sustenance and unobtainable otherwise. 3 Refusal to leave their homes, a tantamount defiance of mortgage foreclosures and eviction orders. 4 Refusal to meet capital payments on debts until prices reach production cost levels. 5 Refusal to pay taxes or Interest on debts out of money needed for food, clothing and other necessities. Meanwhile the embargo on wheat shipments out of the state of North Dakota, proclaimed by Gov. William Langer, went Into effect f AXIM MTVINOV. foreign of Russia, probably already Is on his way to Washington In response to the Invitation extend ed to President Kalinin by President Roosevelt to negotiations open I me rec- 'f lushing iu ,1 OR"ion of the ' Soviet government by the United States and to the adjustment of other matters at Issue between the two Adminisnations. M. Litvinov tration officials In Washington believe the conversations will take about two weeks and that before the end of the year the President and Litvinov will announce the resumption of normal relations between the two countries and the establishment of a large credit for the Soviet republic to make purchases In this country. Though In giving out the correspondence President Roosevelt said he was not committed to recognition of the Soviet government, it is said that preliminary soundings had satisfied him that Russia's desire for American recognition Is a concomitant to its desire to obtain credits for the purchase of American goods. The administration is prepared to Join In the development of reasonable credit facilities for the quick disposition of accumulated surpluses In cotton, meat products, copper and other raw materials. There are other problems that must first be solved, such as the czarist debts and the Communist propaganda, hut the administration believes these can be speedily cleared up. The English press hailed the acmove toward a cord as a great force for world peace, and said London could not do better than copy Washington. In Japan officials expressed pleasure over the news, though this may not have been entirely sincere. com-mlss- A ljm (. Russo-America- n p Thursday, November 2, 1933 NEPIII. UTAH Scenes and Persons in the Current News to 56 aipen for from 52 hours week; from M to Ki hours a week ; or for more tnan til hour week. Employees In the first group will work not more than 40 hours a week; In the second group, 44 hours a week; In the third group, 43 hours a week. Minimum wages range from $13 for a 4S hour week In cities of more than population down to s requirement for 20 per cent raise and minimum wage of $10 a week In places with leas than 2,500 COMMUNISTS were blamed for ' wild disorders that prevailed In Havana and In the Cuban provinces of Orients and Matanzas. Bakers, butchers and truck drivers carried on their strike In the capital, and the condition was so serious that President Grau's cabinet was ready to resign. An attempt was made to assassinate Carlos Mendleta, Nationalist lender. A bomb was exploded at his residence, shattering the front part of the building, but Mendleta, his wife and his daughter escaped y. EDOUARD In France was overthrown by the chamber of deputies and he and his ministers resigned at once. Opposition to the premier's economy program that Included cutting the salaries of government workers and reducing war pensions caused his defeat, which came on a motion for a vote of confidence on the budget. The Edouard vote was 329 to 241. Daladier Daladler's Really downfall was brought about by an outbreak of political and personal enmities that had been held In abeyance for a long time. In his final speech before the vote was taken Daladier spoke frankly of the danger the franc Is already facing from bear raids which' have drained many millions of dollars worth of gold from the coffers of the Bank of France. Albert Sarraut, who was naval minister In Daladier's cabinet, was given the task of forming a nevf government by President Lebmn and succeeded In gathering together a ministry that may or may not He became survive for a time. premier and retained the mnrlne portfolio, Daladier taking that of r, war. Other holdovers were Chautemps and Cot M. Sarraut announced that France would not enter separate disarmament negotiations with Germany. All French policy, he said, would be based along the ideas of the late Aristide Erland on full with the league of Nations. PREMIER Paul-Boncou- JOHNSON, chief post In Chicago, announced that the federal operatives had broken up a nation-widring of mail robbers who used Chicago for the dumping ground of stolen securities, and that $,"00,000 of the loot had been recovered out of $050,000 taken In three robberies. The recovery Includes $100,000 In Italian government bonds of the $120,000 stolen from the steamer several months ago; Leviathan about $200,000 taken In the mail robbery In Chicago December 0, 1032, and part of the loot taken In a Sacramento robbery. In connection with the last named affair "Gloomy Gus" Schaeffer, a member of the Totihy gang under arrest In St. Taul for kidnaping, and George W. ("Red") Kerr, arrested In Cbicngo, have been Identified. WALTER e In the United NAZI propaganda is to be Investigated by a subcommittee of the house committee on Immigration, according to Representative Dicksteln of New York, chairman of the committee. "If we did in Germany of what they are doing here, we would be shot," said Dicksteln. German societies In New York were refused a permit to hold a celebration meeting by Mayor John P. O'Brien, on the ground that It was arranged to spread Nazi propa- ganda. piloted another RAILROADS, merchants, hotel visit to the Cnited States. The IFmen nnd others vitally Interested big airship came up from Brazil, give sufficient evidence of support stopping briefly at Miami, Akron, In the way of guarantees, A CenChicago and again at Akron, and tury of Progress, the big World's then started on Its return trip to fair In Chicago, may be opened next Germany. spring. There has been much talk of such a step, and now It Is urged XHAT code for retailers so long by President Roosevelt In a letter - In the making was finally com- to the management telling of his pleted and signed by the President enjoyment In his brief visit to the It seeks to Insure fair practice and exposition. He writes: to protect the small tradesman, the "There seems to be a very conconsumer and the farmer with his siderable demal that you reopen low commodity prices. Retail emnext spring, and since there Is every with fewer than five perployers reason to believe that there are sons on the pnyroll are exempt from thousands who were unmany, the code. Those In communities of able tomany afford the trip to Chicago less than 2,500 population are ex- this year, but hope to be In a betempt from any mark-nrequireter position next summer. I am Inments. Local tribunals arc to be clined with yon that It to established to hear complaints of would be aagree very fine thing to keep retail profiteering. Child labor Is open. forbidden. "In the event that yon and your "Loss leaders," widely used by bonrd decide It Is advisable to rechain stores to attract customers, next year, I shall assure you open are absolutely prohibited "In order that I will recommend to congress to prevent unfair competition that an appropriation be made sufagainst local merchants." ficient to maintain the government Under a comprehensive plan for building and exhibits there." , hours and stores wagf-sworking . 13J. Wtrn Newspaper l iion. EOKENER pR.the nUGO Graf Zeppelin on TIMES-NEW- on mailing Events the World Over SOMEWITERE between the "Bound" by the bunker and the Inflated currencj urged by Senator Elmer Thomas and many ther President Roosevelt takes his stand for a man-agecurrency and rr f,. a dollar of fixed value. In a radio i? address to the na- j A t'on ,ie declared he . would undertake to raise commodity !rices to a satisfactory level and then would lessen the Prer'dent gold content of the Rooievelt dollar and peg prices and dollars so they would remain In a constantly balanced equation. "Government credit will be maintained and a sound currency will accompany a rise In the American commodity price level," he said; but he Insisted the price level must first be restored before anything like Inflation Is established. For the present, Mr. Roosevelt said. It was Important to tighten control over the dollar. He added: "As a further effective means to this end I am going to establish a government market for gold In the United States. Therefore, under the clearly defined authority of existing law, I am authorizing the Re construction Finance corporation to buy gold newly mined In the United States at prices to be determined from time to time after consultation with the secretary of the treasury and the President. Whenever necessary to the end In view we shall also buy or sell gold In the world market. "My aim In taking this step Is to establish and maintain continuous control. This Is a policy and not an expedient. It Is not to be used merely to offset a temporary fall In prices. We are thus continuing to move toward a managed currency. "Our dollar Is now altogether too greatly Influenced by the accidents of International trade, by the Internal policies of other nations and by political disturbance In other continents. Therefore, the United States must take firmly In Its own hands the control of the gold value f our dollar. This Is necessary In order to prevent dollar disturbances from swinging us away from our Ultimate goal, namely the continued recovery of our commodity prices." esse Jones, RFC chairman ; Un Dean Acheson of the treasury and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., representing Mr. Roosevelt, were Intrusted with the Job of fixing the price at which the RFC would buy newly mined gold, and the first day they fixed the price at $.il.3G an ounce. Agricultural staples and securities Immediately began to move to higher levels, as had been hoped. For the second day the price of gold was put at $31.54, and therefore securities and commodities dropped, to the dismay of tire theorists. The RFC "Washington pays for the gold with its own debentures. The President's monetary program is based on the plan of John Maynard Keynes, the British economist Orthodox bankers in Wall street were rather disconcerted by It. Some were skeptical as to the practicability of controlling the internal price level by changes In the gold value of the currency ; others thought the plan would give the government a powerful lever with to lift prices. swhich v If carried to Its logical conclusion, the program means the ultimate fixation of the value of the dollar with a diminished gold the resumption of free trade In gold, and of gold redemptions, doubtless on a bullion basis. f op'a choice of f t rir THE zKM I all I BEVERLY HILLS-W- ell know Is Just what I read in the papers. Walter Uppniaa has come back Into one of our local papers, after a summer's vacation, and we get a mighty fine slant on things from him. Mr Brisbane Is with us every morning and Is great as usual. How that fellow keeps It up, and the amount of subjects be covers Is more than I can even Imagine. When he Is In New York and getting the wires coming In, he really gets stuff ahead of the news. Now you know In last Sundays papers I saw Irvln Cobb with a Sunday syndicated article, and Lord I would give my best horse If I could write one half as good. Do you know that rascal Is just about the best writer we got In this country. He Is rich and lazy, but be Is sure funny, and he can do tricks with those words, and Rugs Bear, he Is Just a marvel. Lord the things that bird can compare something to! What do you call em slmliles. I cant even say It, much less think of one. but Lord 1 could go on by the hour singing the praizes of folks that write In the papers that 1 like to read. Then there Is on every newspaper some wonderful writers that never even get their names signed to anything, but thank the Lord the boss of the papers know who does It. It must be almost heart breaking for those splendid writers to see what some of us syndicate birds get away with. Course with O. O. Mclntlre Its different. O. O. would be a great writei even If his name wasent on his. Course O. O. on account of being raised down there on the Ohio River, around those steamboats with those Negroes he has copped a trait the Negroes have, he does love to use big words sometimes, but I dont believe he means It, cause he Is an awful nice fellow, and he wouldent harm a soul. I got me a dictionary one time, but goodness It dident last long. It was like looking In a telephone book. I never called up anybody in my life If I had to look up their number. Nobody Is worth looking through all those numbers for. and thats the way It was with my dictionary. I could write the article white I was trying to see what the word meant, and thats one good thing about language. there Is always a short word for It, Course the Greeks have a word for It, and the dictionary has a word for It, but I believe in using your own for it. The minute you put in a word that everybody dont know, you have Just muddled up that many readers. Run ning onto a word you cant read, or understand Is Just like a detour in the road. You cuss it and about a half dozen of em, and you will take different road the next time. I love words but I dont like strange ones. You dont understand them, and they dont understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know em the minute you see em. Then a lot of writers like to ring in a little French sentence every few paragraphs. They could make it a lot plainer to everybody by explaining in their first sentence that they went to Paris one Summer Instead of seeing what they should have of America. Then its the same with the English. There Is every once In awhile some English creeping into various writers articles. I tell you these foreign languages must be kept out of our way. Now Tor instance I know a few Mexican words. I cant spell em, in fact I dont believe they can, but I never try to fog the Issue by using any of em In any of my sermons, or speeches, no matter what the type of audience Is. I run onto this Emil Ludwig out here the other day. He wait3 around all over the world till some promi nent mans bones have decomposed, and the r-- U w i ifii.l, ' I r- - fej : J " pelting the police with rocks during a fatal riot. H Milo Reno 2 strikers Paterson. N. J., (left), president of the National Farmers' Holiday association, conferring with Nels Updike and Harry on the farmers' strike In the Middle West a Maxim Litvinov, foreign affairs commissar of Russia, who will discuss with President Roosevelt the establishing of normal relations between the United States and the Soviet republic 1 Silk mill In Par-rnent- Demonstration for the New Deal in Puerto Rico r jmm y rm h jm m i man mmifii ,im if '.' v - "'i T m.ji...i,nm n..i. u ) ' un;i.wu Coalition demonstration In San Juan, Puerto Rico, when citizens pledged their support to President Roose- In the "New Deal." i a relt and to Governor Gore RED WINGS CAPTAIN Coiffure That Won First Prize r'n jr. ',! I &v vo" f V ., if? , it i i' vc This Is Ilerhie Lewis, captain of the Detroit Red Wings, who are preparing for another successful season on the Ice. This hockey tea.n will be one of the strongest In the country If Its present form means anything. DIRECTOR OF WOMEN 3H 3H 3HG Katherine Heitzman exhibiting the coiffure which was awarded first prize at the official hairdressers' show and convention held In the grand ballroom of the Hotel Astor, New York. Leading hair stylists of the nation attended the gathering which featured Instruction classes in the latest hairdresslng developments. The prize winning coiffure Is the creation of George Mlllius. Macon Moored at Her Western Home about all dead, then he writes a great story of the fellows life. He is a fine writer, and has made an awful lot of big men human after they was dead. That would be a wonderful thing wouldent It, it a man could pick his own biographer. Trouble with a lot of these biographers is, they go and lower the moral of character with a lot of facts. Nothing will spoil a big mans life like too much But all this Is a long argument, and It just leads Into something else, and Its getting late and Us getting down to the end of the third page, (double spaced) and you are bored, and I am sleepy, and I dont see any use of carrying this thing on any further. The whole, answer Is, If I knew any big words 1 would use em, so I am going to bed, and I dont see why this article snutildent give you the Idea of the same thing. 1S3 McXamjM Syduatt. Inc. Is . WA ..4V L:,S , t"1 jP . ff relatives are truth. .111 wwjijmx - St, nwmpmmuiujuiM.iL.n.MWUiu JCJIII.UWII t 4 iwti.u..ww,w f , Miss Mary W. Dewson, newly ap pointed director of women's actlv Itles of the Democratic national committee. Miss Dewson. who was . appointed by Chairman James Farley, served with Mr. ""nrley In a like capacity during the 1932 campaign. Carbon Dioxida Too much carbon dioxide In the lir will kill a man, yet plants can-lo- t live pnd grow without It. k What ft rttt&h&A&k&bAtit &Xii& ',. 1 W iisirtrswswMn W 11 Aerial view of the Macon moored to the mast at the nnval air tlon at Sunnyvale, Calif., which Is the huge dirigible's permanent home. In the background Is the hangar. |