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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Russian Conspirators Against Stalin Plead Guilty and Franee Sparring Over Spain Roosevelt Primed for Drouth Area Tour. By EDWARD W. Italy PICKARD 6 WM.irn Sew'iLr tnin. CIXTEEN men, arraigned in Mos-- J duties. The council also announced cow on charges of plotting the it would act henceforth in complete assassination of Dictator Josef independence in maintaining order, Stalin and the seizure of power in the Soviet republic, pleaded calmly guilty. Two of them, Zinoviev Gregory and Leo Kamenev, were members with Stalin 13 years ago of a triumvirate that governed Rus-- , sia and are well known to the outside world. The confessions did not end the trial; for the defendants contradicted and accused one another until the case was in a jumble. Some of them, like Zinoviev, proudly accepted responsibility for the plot, which was said to have been engineered by the exiled Leon Trotzky. It was believed all sixteen would face the firing squad. Twelve more men and one woman, the government announced, were held for examination and probable trial. Some of these were Involved by the confessions of the sixteen conspirators. In the case on trial the defendants revealed the fact that not only were they plotting the assassination of Stalin and four others, but planned also to betray Trotzky and place Zinoviev and Kamenev in supreme power. Trotzky, at Hoenefoss, Norway, scoffed at the Moscow proceedings - For political venas "humbug." he the trial puts said, geance," the Dreyfus scandal and the reich-Sta-g fire in the shadow. The confessions were forced by the Ogpu (secret police), which gives the accused a choice between confession according to the Ogpu's desires and taking lesser penalties or death. PREMIER MUSSOLINI, insisting that neutrality in the Spanish war must mean absolute nonintervention, suddenly put Italys air force of 1,500 war planes in readiness tor flight to the aid of the Spanish rebels if France would not abandon her support of the Madrid regime. News of this stirred the People's Front government of France to indignation. Officials in Paris said if Italy sent arms and munitions to the rebels in Spain or otherwise openly aided them, France would have to abandon her neutral position and help the socialists. For a day this situation alarmed the statesmen of Europe, but soon It was stated in both Rome and Paris that negotiations for the neutrality accord were going forward nicely with prospects for a satisfactory agreement that would include botli Italy and Germany. Whether Germany would come in, however, was still in doubt. Berlin was further provoked against the Madrid government by the stopping and search of the German steamer Kamerun by Spanish warships off Cadiz. German warships were ordered to protect Germari by all means and the shipping German charge daffairs at Madrid was instructed to "protest Immediately and in the sharpest form against the action of the Spanish warship. Which constituted a violation of all international law. ' The Catalonian decree promulgated plans for a single tax and speedy suppression of multiple taxation. The basis for the new tax plan, although undecided was presumed to be income, not land, as the large agricultural properties are to be collectivized. DOPE PIUS XI, addressing pil-- 1 grims from Malta, took another whack at communism. Alluding evidently to the civil war in Spain, he says: The world is upside down, and sick from a grievous malady which threatens to become graver and more dangerous still. It is not necessary to say to you Maltese what this illness is, because you have a definite part in the tribulation. 'There is only the hand of God to aid humanity and put. an end to the horrible massacres which are going on and. all the offenses against human fraternity, against religion, priests and God. is enough wheat in the United States for the usual domestic requirements of the season of 1936-3according to the midsummer report of the bureau of agricultural economics, but the supply of red spring wheat and durum is short and conseauently importation of those varieties will be continued. The amount, however, will not be large, Secretary Wallace stated. "It is probable the spring wheat mills in the 1936-3- 7 season will use a larger percentage of hard red winter and Pacific northwest wheat than last year, said the report. A larger than usual quantity of soft red winter wheat is also likely to be used in bread flour. As a result, imports of milling wheat may be less than in 1935. Wheat prices in the United States may be expected to average about as high relative to world price levels as during the 1935-'3- 6 season, when the price of No. 2 hard winter at Kansas City was 15 cents over the bureau said. During the last three years short crops to-- 1 with other influences result-- 1 ed in wheat prices in the United States being maintained unusually relative to the world market pr,c Farm prices probably have been 20 cents to 30 cents higher than might have been expected with more nearly normal yields in the United States," the report continA return of average or greatued. er than average yields in the United States would result in an export sur-- 1 plus and prices would adjust to- ward an export basis. The acreage seeded for the 1938 74,000,000 acres, was the sec- largest in history, end seedings as large for the 1937 crop would produce fully enough wheat for total domestic utilization even if h yields should turn out to be below average. I 7, (ebb for President PREPARATIONS Roosevelt's trip through the drouth region of the Middle West were practically completed and the Chief Executive was supplied with all (he facts and figures needed to give him a comprehensive understanding of the situation before starting. This information was furnished mainly by WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins, who was selected to accompany Mr. Roosevelt on the tour. Mr. Hopkins told the President that in the drouth area 90,000 persons already are on the WPA payrolls and that the number eventually will be 120,000 to 150,000, the relief work being continued through the winter. At this time the cost per man is about $50 a month. Additional appropriations by the next congress will be necessary, Hopkins said, to care for the load placed upon his organization by the drouth crisis. The amount of new money necessary has not been determined. Estimates of the amount of money deemed necessary to meet the situation in the "dust bowl were given the President by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenlhau and Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell. nd'r NEITHER Fascism be tolerated in Czechoslovakia, which is "a firm, inde- structible lighthouse cy, g. toil llaticnal Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart . WsKhlns ton, D. C. Washington. ! J , .reddl?n JtatjemMlt has come out again with that the bur(jen No New taxes is regrettable Tax Levies and that there must be no new levies nor tax increase by the next conviews gress. He chose to get his conferto the public by staging a ence nt the White House the other day when he summoned Chairman Harrison of the senate finance niittce and Chairman Doughton' of the house ways and means com-gethfor a breakfast meeting to discuss the subject. He followed thig aimost too quickly by releas-hig- h slaU,ment, a letter from Sec- ing retary Morgcnthau that substantiatword of hig lw0 con ed er ( pronouncement: they began at once to find several places in the new picture that appeared to have been smeared over by the paint brush, and, in addition, there was a sud-crod den yelp from the Republican tional committee which did not help Mr. Roosevelt's plans to show the country that the tax burden had reached its peak. ' The Republicans were quite harsh because they called attention to the fact that Mr. Roosevelt on three PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was at previous occasions had assured the when his best as a radio orator there would be no new he addressed the summer camp at country and that in each instance taxes, Chautauqua, N. Y., on foreign rela- new tax legislation somehow or othtions. He expressed er had been enacted by congress. his deep concern decfrom Aside the presidential about tendencies in other parts of the laration that there would be no new world and spoke bit- taxes nor increases in the present terly about the vio- levies and that there would be a lation of both the study of the general tax structure, letter and the spirit the President made the point of national through Secretary Morgenthaus with-- j letter that there were a good many agreements out regard to the hundred millions in "recoverable He also urged upon the simple principles of assets. honor. country that business has improved Our closest'so rapidly that additional federal neighbors are good j income may Be expected from the neighbors, the President said. If present tax rates. This latter, of there are remoter nations that wish course, is true providing business us not good but ill, they know that holds its own or moves to higher we are strong; they know that we levels but it is with respect to the can and will defend ouiself and de- recoverable assets that many quesfend our neighborhood. tions now are being asked. For Mr. Roosevelt said he had seen the sake of clarity, it may be exwar on land and sea. that the recoverable assets plained I have seen blood running from to which Mr. Roosevelt referred the wounded," he said. "I have consisted of the loans of federal seen men coughing out their gassed money by the various emergency lungs. I have seen the dead in the for relief and recovery mud. I have seen cities destroyed. agencies There are the millions purposes. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line the surviv- loaned by the Reconstruction Fithe equally ors of a regiment of 1,000 who went nance . corporation; amounts loaned the Works by large forward forty-eigbefore. hours I have seen children starving. I have Progress administration and the seen the agonies of mothers and Public Yorks administration to states, counties and cities for relief wives. I hate war! In construction. Germans felt that Mr. Roosevelts or. speech was aimed at them and re-- 1 addition, there are loans by the sented his criticism. A Mexico City Home Owners Loan corporation, Federal e Farm Credit newspaper saw in it evidence that th Monroe doctrine was to be re-- ! ministration, loans for crop produc-vivemarkztir. and countless The press of Buenos Aires tin warmly applauded the address, one other types. These are all carried on the books as recoverable assets journal saying: "Without the intention of making and their total may amount to as parallel between discourses re- much as $8,000,000,000. cently heard from Rome or bom The policy of the New Deal adBerlin and which proclaimed vio- ministration is to consider these at lence and expansion as the two their face value. It is the claim sole aims of the modern states, we of the White House recommend reading this- dignified these loans will be consistently that repaid and that nnHoHinvreROOSeVe t8CeC I!" tbey can be used retire an of of the national debt , man content and with which Roose- amount is. true if the loans ever are velt raised his figure above the indeed., repaid.' stature of all dictators. So, whenever the New Deal is called on to defend itself against gTARTING beits 1937 building pro- - charges of imposing a gigantic bur- Navy department den 0f tax or an equally gigantic opened bids on twelve new destroy- - burdcn of ,ilic a I,UR5 em ana six snhmni'tnM Th hide men to demonstrate that came from privaie shipyards and the attempt debt figure as well as estimates were submitted by navy the public taxes must be considered in yards, according to law. The latter their relationship to these recoverwere not made public. It was found that the cost of. con- able assets. To explain the Roosevelt position struction has advanced approximately $1,000,000 per vessel in the further, one may recall that a last year. A year ago contracts for month ago when the public debt destroyers averaged $1,000,000, and reached the staggering total of for submarines. Present 779,000.000 the Treasury secretary bids were about a million dollars contended in a public statement that against this sum there should be higher on each type of craft. offset the cash assets in the gen- fu.rd of ,hc Treasury, then to-- r 1TOLLOWING the recommendation 0110 nnd he $2,000,-th- e l182;6"1-00of Father Charles E. Coughlin, hat s sterilized in National Union for Social Jus- known as the exchange ster- lice, in convention in Clcvela. d, in- dorsed the candidacy of Represent- - l lza,'on hind, "to addition," Mr. Morenthau alives lmke nnd O'Brien, heads of the Union party ticket. But, also addj in his statement, "we have on the advice of the priest, the certain assets representing obliga-Lemk- e platform was not indorsed. tions due us upon which the Treas-Th- e 25,000 members of the N. U. ury will realize cash nnd which will S. J. present enthusiastically and ultimately be available for debt elected Father Cough-- . tirement. These recoverable assets lin president of the organization, millions to home owners, to farm-Lcmand O'Brien both appeared ers, to railways, to banks and inbefore the convention, delivered surance companies, to r.tates, and speeches and were given a rousing cities now total more than reception. Those three itetfis cash on hand, stabilization fund and recovAN EQUITY suit attacking the erable loans provide an offset of constitutionality of the com- $3,750,000,009 to the $33,779,000,000 modity exchange act, chiefly on the public debt." ground that it seeks to regulate InIt thus is made to appear directtrastate rather than interstate com- ly In issue how completely the merce in violation to the Constitu- Roosevelt administration calculates tion, was filed in the federal dis- using these recoverable assets in trict court in Chicago. retiring the public debt. Having The suit was instituted by Wil- gone so thoroughly on it is liam S. Moore, a member of the Jifflcult to sec how thererecord, could have Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and been such a mistake made as denames the exchange, its board of veloped from the White House condirectors, ference on taxes. I refer to the ' p, na-on- one-fourt- of democrasaid President Eduard Benes in a speech at Reichen-berBut he told the German minority which he was addressing particularly, that .he hoped that in the fall "the Locarno powers will be able to work out a .jlan for general European and that good neighborly relations will be" established between Germany and Czechoslovakia. Leaders of the German minority in Czechoslovakia charge that unemployment in their part of the country is greater than anywhere else in Czechoslovakia 73 unemployed per 1,000 population, compared with .the state average of 38 per 1,000. TVSPATCHES They charge that this is partly from the French border said Spanish rebel war- the result of the governments failships finally had begun the long ure to place orders in German Bothreatened bombardment of San hemian factories and failure to give state jobs to members of the GerSebastian and Iran, man minority. and that the loyalists were carrying COIL conservation compliance is to out the threatened be checked by a system of aerial execution of the 1,900 Fascist hosphotography, if the experiments now being carried on by the AAA tages they were are satisfactory. The plan is still holding there. The only on trial but several millions battleship Espana of acres have already been photofired a lot of heavy shells toward Fort graphed, it was learned today. So far it is proving cheaper and more Guadalupe but for a time at least was efficient than the usual way of apparently not trychecking farmers' soil conservation ing to hit that compliance. The iV pictures also stronghold because many of their are being extensively used by the sympatnizers were held prisoners soil conservation service to map In the tort. The Guadalupe garri- erosion and soil depletion and to deson was hesitant in returning the termine remedies. fire for fear that shells would fall on French territory. Already the OEYEN minutes of lively fighting French government was angered put Joe Louis of Detroit once by the dropping of bombs on French more on the road to the heavyborder towns, though it was disput- weight championship. He made his ed whether they came from loyalist come-bac- k by knocking out Jack or rebel planes. Sharkey, one time title holder, in The Fascists captured the impor- the third round at New York. The tant town of Badajoz, near the Por- Lithuanian sailor from Boston was tuguese border, at the point of the plucky enough but proved no bayonet, and were reported to have match for the much younger negro. executed 1,500 government adher- Louis now wants an immediate reents taken there. The rebels also turn match with Max Schmeling, reported a victory near Zaragoza but the German insists his next fight after a bloody battle. General must be with Jim Braddock. Franco met General Mola and "President Virgilio Cabanellas gt ADMIRAL RICHMOND P. HOB- the northern rebel headquarters in SON, now head of the Public Burgos and planned for further ad- Welfare association of New York, vances of their southern and north- told the National Conference of ern columns on Madrid. These will Clergymen and Laymen at Ashebe supplemented by 4,000 Moors ville that Comintern, the internaand foreign legion veterans march- tional Communist propaganda agening eastward from Badajoz. cy, is waging "scientific warfare to gain control of the United States. ' T'HERE inter . I job-maki- ad-th- , d. fr jch , 1 f1 ke $4,000,-000,00- 0. Jhmlu about Woes of French Hotelkeewr. CANTA MONICA, CAUF inclusion in Secretary Morgenthausletter of a reference to the recover- i able assets as one of the reasons to why no new taxes will not have : stated have critics Some be levied. state-boldly that the White House ments on the recoverable assets ; cannot be justified. Their assertion is that if the Treasury properly included recoverable assets as a thing to be used in offsetting the public debt, then by the same token those recoverable assets, or repayments of them, cannot.be used to reduce the tax burden. In other words, the money represented by those assets cannot be spent in two different ways. Either it must be used to retire public debt or it must be used for current spending by the j It seems to be aim-- j administration. ply a refusal to believe the old adage that you cannot have your cake and eat it too. If I should attempt to analyze the situation in the light of a personal equation I think I- might properly say that if I loaned $500 to a friend and at the same time if I from a bank, I borrowed $500 ' $500 say- - the might properly loaned to the friend could be used to pay off the bank loan. So far, so good. But if the friend repaid that $250 to me and I spent $250 and had no other resources, I cant quite figure out how I would pay the bank the $500 I had borrowed from that institution. Although perhaps my worries as an individual about government policies may not be very important because I am just one individual, As he gazes forth on a boule. vard full of rampaging Reds and thinks about his empty bedrooms. Ill bet there isnt a hotel keeper in Paris who wouldnt trade a great gross of assorted French communists, including all the standardized grades, such as the comparatively rare slick tye, the hybrid and the partly haired-ove- r common variety, for just one American visitor the kind that was too carefree to cheek up the weekly bill. fur-beari- ng . i ed easy-goin- g Private Olympic Games. ''ORIGINALLY these Olympian games were based upon the Ideal of strengtheninter - racial ing friendships through competitive sport. But when, in dispatches from Ber-li- n - a reads of fellow disputed decisions, ques- tioned reversals, discriminations against some winning contestants on account of color, and the unnecessarily brutal publicity, or so it appeared at long distance, that was given to the disciplining of an indiscreet woman athlete; and then the threatened withdrawals of aggrieved teams I entertain considerable fear about from certain Latin countries, he those recoverable assets in another gets to thinking, the reader does, respect. For some reason and I that maybe it would be better if think I can state it I doubt that a each national group held its own private Olympian show on the very large portion of those recov- little erable assets ever will be collected. home grounds and barred out the I have a hunch that in the next riffraff, meaning by that, all for fifteen or twenty years the bulk of eigners. those debts which the Roosevelt ad--1 Uncle Sams Alien Burdens ministration counts as repayable will be cancelled or defaulted. In SJO matter which party controls either event, I think I see how policongress, watch at the next tics is going to play an important term for this: A campaign for legipart and I am- convinced further slation opening the doors to millions that Mr. Morgenthau and Mr. of aliens now barred out under the Roosevelt as well, if he shares Mr. quota laws, which also would legaMorgenthaus belief, is overlooking lize the presence here of a great that very vital influence when he mass of the foreign-bor- n, some of holds these loans as likely to be them criminals, some misfits and repaid. malcontents, some avowed enemies of our government, some paupers I recall that the late Albert C. on Federal relief, who already are Ritchie, four times a Democratic biding amongst us through whol, governor of Mary- - esale through frauduDefault land, predicted that lent smuggling-inimmigration papers, through the money loaned carelessness to use a gentle term Likely for the various pur-- 1 on ' the part of public servants poses outlined above, would never charged with the duty of guarding be paid back. Indeed, Governor at the gate. Ritchie, who was a very practical j In the years before us, it will be man and who thoroughly disliked a sufficiently heavy burden to care deluding himself, used the word for such of our own worthy in connection with j whether native or naturalized, repudiation these debts. He said they would be as otherwise would go destitute. handled just like the $11,000,000,000 of war loans made to European naCleverness iff the Chinese. tions. NCE, long ago, I, being a It is a noble thought, of course, was detailed to accomthat the loans will be repaid, yet it pany to police headquarters in New is quite apparent that a cancella- York a Chinese prince whod come tion drive is already under way. I over to study our police methods. think most of those who do me the We were in the Bertillon bureau, honor to read my column will re- presided over by the famous incall that more than a year ago spector Faurot. I directed their attention tovthe reAh, yes, said the courtly visduction in interest rates whiqh con- itor in faultless English, this same gress had ordered on many of the system has been in vogue in my loans. That is simply the first' step. .land kince time immemorial, exCancellation proposals, undisguised cept that we use fingerprinting of-in are bound to follow. addition to legal signatures and Unless I am mistaken, the astute ficial seals, for further validating Jesse Jones, chairman of the Re- - j important documents. construction Finance corporation Dont you also use it for recordand a man who never kids himself, ing habitual criminals? I do not think so. already has kissed good-b- y to many of the millions that haye .been Well, then, asked Faurot, how loaned by his agency. Of course, do you identify them? the Reconstruction Finance corpo- Very simple," said the prince When ration carries those loans on its and smiled a gentle smile. books and counts them still as val-- 1 we catch a chronic offender we imid. But I am of the opinion that' mediately cut off his head, and then Mr. Jones probably regards those j anyone may . recognize him at a j glance." items as dead debts. But to go further with the idea of cancellation, it takes no stretch of . The Spanish Extravaganza. the imagination to say that the FELLOW picks up the paper Home Owners Loan corporation, and reads in the news difor example, will soon have a good spatches from Spain that the Loyamany thousand foreclosed proper- lists licked the Royalists, or ties on its hands. It takes no more and the Leftists tied into imagination to say that politicians the Nationalists again or maybe who have ridden into office with theyre both the same. promises to help those people j Whereas the insurgents walloped whose homes have been foreclosed the radicals, but elsewhere the gowill carry out their promises vernment forces drove back the rebvoting interest reduction or els; and meanwhile the Reds or the curtailment of principal. Centrists or somebody did some- j ; ! j , home-folk- j s, ; j ' I A vice-vers- r i more striking illustration, it' seems to mc, can be found in the case of the loans to states, cities and towns. Who among the politicians is going to have the courage to resist the tumult and the voting of their constituents to avoid increase in their local taxes when they call for cancellation of the A loans? While the bonus for the men is a dead issue, one knows how representativesevery and senators capitulated to the demands of the veterans lobby, picture for yourself, if you will, how much stronger the demand will be when whole community sets a howl to have the funds it has up borrowed from the federal government finally declared to have been just s cifr and not a loan. Wwturs Kawayapcr Volga. thing unpleasant to the Republican outfit, as opposed to the group; and at all points south and the and west the church, the Agrarian party, the Fascists and the Communists, the besiegers and the defenders, the peasants and the townspeople, the aristocrats, laboring classes and the the and ' the tenants, etc., etc., etc., were snarled into various hard knots. So whatT If, after all, there are but t 1 only main aides engaged wouldnt know about that Hie corj respondents could confer a grew boon by just naming .one set Hatfields and the other set the M" Coys. 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