Show news review evi ew 0 of f current events the world over japan succeeds in pushing china out of manchuria plans for unemployment relief and government economy by EDWARD W PICKARD JAPAN TAPAN ignoring the orders of the M league of nations and resentfully disregarding the notes from tho united states and other powers Is apparently to have her own way in manchuria conveniently dubbing all opposing forces bandits she sent her armies forward from f rain mukden during tho the week in nn an advance that was destined to reach chinchor ChIn chow resistance si was mot met at various points but was overcome with I 1 oa 01 armored trains bomb gen ma chan ing planes pg and artil lery and the chinese steadily fell back finally marshal chang l tang decided it was better to give the japanese no further excuse for carr carrying ying in the warfare into north china po fo ho he ordered all hla his forces to withdraw within the great wall and this movement was begun immediately accompanied I 1 by much confusion and the night flight of the panic stricken civilian population of the region thus the japanese gained complete control of manchuria and the gallant fight put up by general ma chan and by the troops directly under command of chang has been in vain in the new coalition government ment was organized and a new cabinet appointed with eugene chen leader of the canton faction as minister of foreign affairs it was thought that chen might be able to negotiate a settlement with japan on the basis of guarantees for fulfillment of treaties in exchange exclia for military withdraw withdrawal wal of af the japanese charges that czechoslovakia M MOSCOW la has been plotting to provoke war between russia and japan presumably to promote the sale of war munitions the story was that a czech diplomat had bad tried to instigate the assassination of KOM fIl rota japanese ambassador to moscow and the man accused turned out to be carl onnek secretary of the czech diplomatic mission to moscow the government at prague recalled but scout scouted edthe the allegation that the mission itself was involved in any plot has a reputation ns as a specialist in military affairs in several large european countries and counts among his bis associates the military attaches of several allied capitals GANDHI returning to M bombay from the round table conference tn in london told a vast throng throne of his followers that he would not flinch from daerl dicing the lives of of a million people ns as the price of liberty for india and he warned k them that in the earning coming conflict with the british they might t have to face bullets instead of staves ills utterances plainly indicated that he Is about ready to ab abandon n his policy of pas mahatma alve resistance gandhi if the fight Is in evitable I 1 will expect every son soil and daughter of mother india to contribute his mite he said however I 1 will not abandon attempts to save the nation from a flery ordeal if on the other hand there Is no single ray of hope I 1 shalliot shall not hesitate to call upon you to bear any amount of suffering ile he counseled his followers to keep their heads despite the bloody events in the northwest frontier province the arrest of pandit nelius and deportation of abdul graffer khan leader of the red shirt tribesmen tio the trouble on the northwest frontier of which candid spoke Is giving viceroy lord great concern the anti british red shirt organization staged violent riots near Pe and fought with the troops many being killed and wounded WASTE ASTE and extravagance in the federal government must be re deuced in the opinion of president hoover and many others as well and it was announced at the white house abat ahn the president was preparing a special message to congress recommending the consolidation of departments and bureaus ile he wants immediate legislative action providing for grouping all construction activities of the government under one administrative head and the transfer of the shipping board and all federal In merchant erchant marine activities so jo the department of commerce according to a statement issued by the president the purpose of the consolidations Is to cut the cost of federal government curtail the growth of independent bureaus eliminate overlapping and aad promote promote effi efficiency clency while refusing coset coset a definite figure indicating the savings chich would follow the consolidations mr hoover sald the grouping last year a of f au veterans a activities tivi tivit ties les under der the veterans ad adminta mInts Is expected to save from to chairman cochran of the house expenditures tures committee which will ban handle the consolidation legi legislation la Is in accord with most of the chief executives recommendations DURING the holiday recess a senate committee considered two bills that call for the appropriation of federal funds to care for the unemployed and heard testimony and arguments from social workers from chicago new york and other cities one of the measures introduced trod trad by senator L la a folletto of wisconsin provides for the appropriation of the other fathered by senator benator costigan of colorado puts the amount at senator la mr cos follette tegan told the committee that nothing short of government help could provide necessary relief for the unemployed iii the witnesses heard estimated that as much as would be needed for relief during 1032 and that the funds from state city and private sources would not be sufficient to carry the load through the winter president hoover la Is now as always opposed to a direct appropriation from the treasury for unemployment relief purposes holding that it would be 1 in the nature of a dole and would be a dangerous precedent WETS ETS in the house of representatives it now appears are to obtain only one vote on prohibition in this session they may have their choice of whether this shall be on a referendum proposal for repeal of the eighteenth amendment or on a measure calling for modification of the Vol stend cad act to permit the manufacture and sale sala of light wines and beer representative rainey of illinois democratic floor leader said the judiciary committee would not report favorably on either measure the wets will have to bring the bill to the floor through the petition of members he be said that la Is the only way in which they can do it they will have but one vote and that either on a referendum or light wines and beer they cant have both the rules of the house will be so interpreted 11 lie ile said he felt the referendum had bad the better chance for getting by because many drys himself included would vote for it R reparations nor war N NEITHER debts will be finally settled at the european conference which great britain has called to meet january is in lausanne it if the program practically agreed upon by british and french treasury experts Is adopted a N 1 they suggest a new three year moratorium for germany on the conditional reparations pa rations and t that h a t germany be required during that period to pay the unconditional reparations into the senator 0 hull hu un bank for international settlements such amounts to be immediately relo rc loaned nned by the bank to the german railways or reinvested invested re within germany thus avoiding all cash transfers abroad by the retch the creditor powers would undertake to concede to germany an in partial examination reexamination re of her capacity to pay reparations toward the close pf af the moratorium period on this side of the water senator cordell hull of tennessee comes forward with a call for international action to lower tariff barriers its as the first step in solving the debt problem the former chairman of the democratic national committee payments can be made only through the restoration of healthy international trade that tariff walls have strangled trade and that it Is fatuous to insist on debt payments and at the same saino time have world commerce hampered the ra senator who Is a member of the democratic policy iZ committee ommIttee in congress says saya he be purposes to offer a resolution looking toward a tariff conference of the he nations SENATOR CARPA CAREY of wyoming republican J and his subcommittee on banking amended the house bill to increase the of the federal land banks by adding the sum tf of to be used in granting post pone ments menis on farm mortgage payments this additional sum li lb to be repaid to the federal treasury by the banks when their need for the money has passed senator carey believes the amendment will permit a moratorium and at the same time avoid weaken weakening inZ tho the banks banke A favorable report on the measure with the ameT amendment dment was decided upon by the committee ath federal reserve reserve and commercial banking officials are severely criticized for their course with respect to the stock market imi collapse lapse in the fall of 1029 1929 in an appendix p to the rep report 0 t being compiled by the senate bunking banking and currency committees sub subcommittee committed which Is investigating the he national and federal reserve banking systems the co committee headed by senator carter gla glass es demo crat of ea virginia who sen een glass was g sponsor for the federal resell act in congress Is particularly critical of what it holds to have been the banks excess excessive lie participation in the security markets and of the misch mischievous levous effects of loans made to brokers for account of others A suggestion ts offered that the banks be prohibited from acting for corporations investment trusts and others in making such loans at the same time the report shows the nations bankers are opposed to now new restrictions strict ions upon their investments in securities acting under a rc resolution solution by senator glass to make a complete survey of the national and federal reserve banking systems the subcommittee Is expected to bring in a bill to revise those systems in some particulars RESIDENT HOOVER announced athe PRESIDENT the appointment ortho of alio fourth member of the american delegation to the disarmament conference at geneva the man selected being norman 11 II davis of now york who was undersecretary of state in the wilson administration and chief financial nd ad visor to the american delegation in the negotiations that resulted in the treaty of versailles later in the week the remain remaining ing del eg agate ate was appointed he being hugh gibson ambassador to belgium a veteran in such negotiations As alternate in case any delegate cannot serve hugh wilson minister to switzerland was named I 1 arthur henderson former foreign secretary in the labor government of great britain told correspondents in paris that he expects to preside over the tha arms conference although he no longer Is in office EMBERS of the progressive t M MEMBERS group in the senate are again talking about a third party in the campaign of 1032 and are said to bacon si dering three possible candidates assuming as they do that president hoover will be re nominated by the republican convention and also assuming that the democrats do not select I 1 a candidate to the liking or of the group the three the independents are talking about are senator borah of idaho senator hiram johnson of california who Is sometimes too regular to suit a few of them and GOT cloy gifford clifford of Pennsyl lo whose lightning rod Is always up senator norris of nebraska will not let his name be considered the itlie republican independents it la is believed would be satisfied with franklin D roosevelt as the democratic nominee but his selection Is no more certain now than it has been for months newton D baker announced in cleveland that he would not be a delegate to the democratic convention but neglected to say whether or not ho he would accept the nomination it if it were offe offered red him both he and roosevelt were declared available candidates by josephus daniels in a statement given out in new york there was a recrudescence of the story that alfred E smith would again ask for the tha honor of leading his party and a spokesman for alfalfa bill murray spectacular governor of oklahoma said that gentleman might be a candidate and the chances of gov albert 0 ritchie of maryland must hot be overlooked RAILROADS west of tho the mississippi were granted authority by the interstate ter state corn commerce merce commission to put recently authorized freight rate increases into effect on one day notice tho the increase order allowed five days ifor for giving notice instead of the customary thirty days the southern pacific railroad company and its employees organization reached a harm harmonious onlo us agreement on the wage reduction problem when efto shop p employees accepted a 10 per cent cut in pay the company notified the maintenance of way men that their wages would be reduced 15 per cent in thirty days there was a general expectation that the railway labor unions would accept a 10 per cent wage reduction effective about the middle of january as the result of conferences conference sin in chicago and cleveland and that the canadian cannel an unions would adopt the decision of f the american unions F FINLAND INLAND had a nati national referendum on the question of abolishing the count rys prohibition laws and 06 on t the I 1 ie basis of early returns it was estimated that the 90 per cent of the finns had voted wet the result of the re feren dum will not finally decide the problem iem but will serve to guide the government ern ment archbishop DIAZ head of the catholic church a mexico has instructed ted tea the priests and all other catholics to disregard the new law passed by congress which limits to 25 the number of priests in the federal district sw the chances foe to renewed trouble there are good a 1112 etem newspaper paper union |