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Show TIlAVKl.IXii r:ipM!T to the Pacific coast for s-iisie tisliing. President Uoi.sevelt delivered several Important addresses. The first was at Fremont, News Review of Current Events the World Over Italian Troops invade Ethiopia and the War Begins Mussolini Warns Nations Not to Interfere Craig Made Chief of Staff. By EDWARD V. PICKARD Western Newspaper Un on. i- 1. i i v X- '. Neb., where he spoke to about VtMM farmers farm-ers and was enthusiastically enthusi-astically received. Mr. It sot forth the chief accomplishments of his administration to date, ami challenged his opponents to do better. He defended the legality of the New IVal doings and WAR is on In east Africa. Mus-snll.ii's Mus-snll.ii's troops in Eritrea invaded Ethiopia because, according to a note he sent the League of Nations, of the ' 'I ? ' " Ethiopian mobilization, though this was not ordered until after the Italians had crossed the border and occupied occu-pied strategic positions south of Mt. Mussa All. Baltingheta neroul. the Ethiopian foreign minister, sent to the league this message: political stability cannot be a -Moved wit liuii t a revival of world trade and that war will block trade. BULGARIAN conspirators formed an elaborate plot to assassinate King Hurls III and seize control of the government, gov-ernment, but they were foiled and many persons were arrested. Among them were '11 army ohicers and former Premier Kimon Cueorguieff. Sources close to the government-declared an attack was to have been made on the king as he appeared before be-fore his subjects to review a parade In celebration of the anniversary of bis accession to the throne. Marching March-ing soldiers were to have been without ammunition, and In the confusion following fol-lowing the attack the plotters hoped to take control of the arsenal and public pub-lic buildings. MAJ. GEN. MAUN CRAIG, a veteran vet-eran of two wars and commandant command-ant of the war college, was appointed chief of staff of the American army by Bait ngheta October 3 from Ras Heroui Seyum, Informs the Imperial government that Italian military mil-itary airplanes this morning bombarded bombard-ed Aduwa and Adigrat, leaving many victims among the civilian population, Including women and children, and destroying de-stroying numerous houses. "A battle Is at this moment taking place in the province of Agame. niane it piam President would continue to car-Roosevelt car-Roosevelt ry on experimonts tor the welfare of the people. Defining tils Idea of constitutional government, he said its true function is "to promote pro-mote the general welfare, not by Interfering Inter-fering unduly with Individual liberties, but by bringing to the aid of the Individual Indi-vidual those powers of government which are essential to assure the continuance con-tinuance of the Inalienable rights which the Constitution Is intended to guarantee. It is democracy In the good old American sense of the word." Coming to the AAA, In which his hearers might be supposed to be most vitally Interested, the President asserted as-serted that "agricultural adjustment Is an expression in concrete form of the human rights those farmer patriots sought to win when they stood at the bridge at Concord, when they proclaimed pro-claimed the Declaration of Independence, Independ-ence, and when they perpetuated these ideals by the adoption of the Constitution." Consti-tution." .No matter what attempts may be made to tear it down, "the principle of farm equality expressed by agricultural agricul-tural adjustment will not die," the President told the crowd. The AAA has made "honorable history," his-tory," the President declared, and as a result, smoke is pouring from chimneys chim-neys again and workers without regular regu-lar jobs are obtaining employment He served notice that It is the purpose pur-pose of his administration to "use every ev-ery square mile of the United States for the purpose to which it Is best adapted." Nature must be harnessed instead of despoiled, he asserted. At Boulder Dam the President assisted as-sisted in the dedication of the great project and delivered an address in which he announced that government spending for employment purposes was nearing its end and that now private pri-vate industry must take up the burden bur-den of decreasing the army of the unemployed. un-employed. He defended the administration adminis-tration against the charges of "boondoggling" "boon-doggling" and said its efforts "meet with the approval of the people of the nation." He touched only lightly, on the power question. Secretary Ickes, who also spoke, said Boulder Dam should be re-named Johnson Dam, in honor of Senator Hiram Johnson. Again at Los Angeles in the Hollywood Holly-wood Bowl and at San Diego the Chief Executive delivered adddesses, and then he went to catch some fish. 4 f I if President Roosevelt. He took office Immediately, Immedi-ately, succeeding Gen. Douglas MacArthur who is on his way to the Philippines to be military adviser to the new Island commonwealth. common-wealth. Craig is advanced ad-vanced to full generalship. general-ship. Born in St. Joseph, "These events, occurring on Ethiopian Ethi-opian territory, constitute a violation of the empire's frontier, and a breach of the covenant of the league, through Italian aggression." A Reuters dispatch from Addis Ababa said the Italian force advancing advanc-ing on Agame had been defeated, but this report probably was false. The Italians, moving south from the Asmara region, crossed the Mareb river riv-er frontier at widely separated point3 and converged in heavy columns toward to-ward Aduwa, the scene of the terrific Italian defeat 3!) years ago. Government Govern-ment authorities in Rome at first denied de-nied that Adua and Adigrat had been bombed, but this action was reported by American correspondents with the Italian army. Halle Selassie's order for general mobilization was carried throughout the empire by the ominous beating of the war drums, and his eager warriors responded by the hundred thousand. The emperor's first war order was to his chieftain, Ras Kabada, and three other generals, to take 50.000 men to Mt. Mussa All. The defense in the North was entrusted to the Negradas of Wollacho. It was estimated at Addis Ad-dis Ababa that the emperor could count on the services of about 1,250,-000 1,250,-000 fighting men, and the women also are ready for active work in the conflict. i.lL-,, ill JUtLS, O Gen. Mal.n graduated from West Cra'3 Point in 1S9S. Immediately afterward he saw service serv-ice in Cuba during the Spanish-American war, and in June, 1900, participated participat-ed In the China relief expedition made necessary by the Boxer outbreak. After Aft-er service In various army posts in this country, Craig, upon American entrance en-trance Into the World war in 1917, was assigned as chief of staff of the Forty-first Forty-first division and sailed with that outfit out-fit for France. Later he became chief of staff of the First army corps, serving in that position until the armistice was signed. For his fine work in the World war he received the Distinguished Service medal, and he also was given the Legion Le-gion of Honor and Croix De Guerre of France, Order of the Bath of England, POL. FRANK KNOX, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, is now an accredited candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, for he has received the indorsement indorse-ment of the Republican Republi-can state central committee com-mittee of Illinois. Colonel Col-onel Knox has been in rt receptive mood for a long time and has traveled all over the country making speeches. In various unofficial straw votes he has been placed spnnnd nlxr Canntn Illlwij f - j Order of the Crown of Belgium, and Order of the Crown of Italy. TREASURY report for three months ending September 30 showed a first-quarter first-quarter deficit of $S32,000,000. This was 34 per cent greater than for tha corresponding period a year ago which at that time was a record deficit. Expenditures Ex-penditures for the quarter amounted to $1,830,000,000. This was an average of about $20,000,000 a day. The deficit occurred in spite of increased in-creased taxes and other revenues Incident In-cident to improved business. Total revenues for the three months were $098,000,000 compared with $954,000,-000 $954,000,-000 in the corresponding period of the preceding fiscal year. A substantial amount of the Increase In-crease in expenditures was due to AAA payments to farmers. Increased army, navy and other departmental spending, as well as larger allocations to veterans' adjusted service certificate fund, public debt sinking fund, and civil service retirement fund, contributed contrib-uted to the increase in regular expenditures. expen-ditures. POTATO control was the subject of discussion at a hearing called by the AAA la Washington, and officials, farmers and consumers were gtven a SIMULTANEOUSLY with the opening open-ing of hostilities in Ethiopia, Mussolini Mus-solini gave the signal for tremendous mass gatherings of all Fascists in Italy. Millions of Black Shirts in all the cities dropped everything and assembled as-sembled to cheer for the Duce and his African adventure. From the balcony of the Venezia palace in Rome the premier shouted the words that committed com-mitted his nation to a .policy that may mean either victory or ruin. He reiterated reit-erated his determination to seize territory ter-ritory from Ethiopia but declared he would do everything possible to prevent pre-vent the campaign from bringing on a European war. But he warned the League of Nations and all nations to keep their hands off, saying: "To sanctions of an economic character char-acter we reply with our discipline, our sobriety, and our spirit of sacrifice. To sanctions of a military character we will reply with measures of military mil-itary character. To acts of war we will reply with acts of war." Summoned hastily to a meeting of the league council in Geneva, the statesmen of Europe found themselves confronted by the fact that an undeclared unde-clared war was being waged by a league member against a league member. mem-ber. Article XVI of the league covenant cove-nant provides for severe penalties for such a war when the aggressor has been determined. The sanctions range through an economic and financial boycott to final military penalties. Before Be-fore going to Geneva, Anthony Eden of Great Britain conferred with Premier Pre-mier Laval of France In raris. He had instructions to throw the full support of his movement behind league efforts to isolate or halt the conflict in Africa. Af-rica. French officials believed that if sanctions were applied by the league, they would be only economic, which would shut off loans and raw materials mate-rials from Italy. The mobilization of the British navy In the Mediterranean and the Red sea continued with accelerated ac-celerated speed. FIRM assurance that the United States would not be drawn into a foreign war was given by I'resident Roosevelt In his address at San Diego. He said : "We not only earnestly desire peace but we are moved by a stern determination deter-mination to avoid those perils that will endanger our peace with the world. As I'resident of the United States I say to you most earnestly once more that the people of America and the government of those people Intead and expect to remain at peace with all the world." In Washington Secretary of State null made a strong plea for peace, declaring de-claring that economic recovery is being be-ing retarded by International political uncertainty. Me warned that world chance to say what they thought about the Warren act, which provides for Quotas for potato growers, with a prohibitive tax on production In excess ex-cess of quotas, and Is armored with jail pen- al ties for willful buyers buy-ers or sellers of bootleg boot-leg potatoes. This act was or- Borah being preferred co1, t"ranK to him. Knox Addressing the Illinois central committee, com-mittee, Colonel Knox said : "I have been from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from .West Virginia on north, and everywhere I find that the Republicans not only think that they will be victorious vic-torious but they have a deep sense of responsibility to rescue the country from the hands of socialists." XT' AN SWERINGEN brothers have v regained control over the vast railway rail-way and real estate empire they built and lost to New ork bankers. At the height of the boom this was valued at $3,000,000,000. It was taken by a banking bank-ing group when the Van Sweringens defaulted on loans of $48,000,000 and was put up at auction. The brothers regained control for $3,121,000 by bidding bid-ding In- the majority stock of the Alleghany Al-leghany corporation, holding company for all but one of the so-called Van Swerlngen roads, including the Chesapeake Chesa-peake & Ohio, Pere Marquette, Nickel Plate, Missouri Pacific, and Chicago & Eastern Illinois, and the Van Swerlngen Swer-lngen corporation through which the brothers ruled their vast real estate possessions. IN HIS second trial Nelson Rounse--1 veil, publisher of the Panama American, Amer-ican, was convicted by a federal jury in the Canal Zone District court on a libel charge resulting from his criticism criti-cism of conditions at Fort Clayton. The charges wero brought by MaJ. Gen. Harold B. Flske, commanding the Panama canal department, and Col. James V. Ueidt, commander of Fort Clayton. PRNEST P. BICKNELL, for 27 years prominent in the American Red Cross, died In Washington at the age of seventy-three soon after his return from Hawaii. He was vice chairman in charge of Insular and foreign operations opera-tions of the Red Croiis and directed relief of the San Francisco e.irth quake; Moods in the Ohio :Mid Mississippi rivers; the Cherry and other mine dis asters; Torest lire's mill ni:in , trophies alim.-id. Iiicludhig ihe .',,.;.,, earthquake in llaly. posed by the New Secretary Dealers, and Secre- Wallace tary of Agriculture Wallace said at the conference that he does not wan; to enforce It and will do all in his power to avoid enforcing it. He offered of-fered several plans for voluntary methods meth-ods which would reduce potato surpluses sur-pluses and raise prices. De continued con-tinued : "Potato growers are In real trouble and the AAA wants their Judgment on possible cures for potato problems. Potato prices are about half of parity and the AAA desires to get the full benefit of the judgment of potato producers pro-ducers concerning plans for increasing their returns." THE AAA announced a production program for cigar-leaf tobacco for the next four years. It provides a maximum acienge production of 40 per cent. Benefit payments will guarantee guar-antee producers not less than "fair exchange ex-change value," or parity, for the crop. Contract signers will be prevented from growing tobacco on farms cither than those covered by the contract. |