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Show INews Review of Current Events the World Over Crisis Nears in Italo-Ethiopian Embroglio Mussolini Defiant, Great Britain Ready Committee of Lawyers Hits Labor Relations Act. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. ATARRIM-JR S. ECCLES, heaJoftlie federal reserve system, lias been re-appointed by the President, and so will be chairman of the board that will put Into operation the new banking reform law. Later the President will name six other members of the board. Mr. Eccles Is the exponent of the theories the-ories that monetary control must be from a "national viewpoint,' that the government should spend heavily In bad times to create employment and expand credit, and that it should tax in good years to reduce debt and prevent pre-vent excessive accumulation of Income. DAID advertisements in weekly magazines maga-zines of national circulation are now being used by the treasury to promote the sale of baby bonds. The aim of the campaign Is to interest small Investors In-vestors in these bonds, the smallest of which sells for $1S.7., with a cash maturity ma-turity value of $25 In 10 years. OIX hundred members of the German reiehstag, nil fervent Nazis, met In special session in Nuremberg and at the demand of Reichsfuehrer Hitler. MATTERS In Ceneva were rapidly approaching a crisis a crisis for I Italy and Ethiopia, for European peace land for the League of Nations Itself. - j J -- lmi iUC,'ri&. . -: The Italian cabinet, in which Mussolini holds eight portfolios, announced an-nounced in Home that Italy would accept no compromise and would not retreat from the course it has laid out In East Africa ; that Its military preparations prepara-tions were being Intensified, In-tensified, and that Its passed two laws bearing bear-ing down hard on the Jews In the reich. The first of these new statutes stat-utes prescribes prison sentences as penalties for marriages between Jews and citizens of German or kindred blood, and declares such marriages void If performed in a foreign dissenting opinions were Invited, but none were offered. Raoul E. De.svernine of New Vork. chairman of the general committee, denied that It was "packed with Republicans," Re-publicans," but he did not explain why no labor lawyers and no attorneys will) New Deal leanings were appointed to serve. Among the members of the committee commit-tee are James M. Beck, nationally known constitutional authority and former solicitor general of the United States; Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state under President Wilson; John W. Davis, Democratic candidate for President In ; Joseph 15. Ely, former for-mer Democratic governor of Massachusetts; Massa-chusetts; Ralph M. Shaw of Chicago, former head of the Association Against the Eighteenth Amendment; James A. Reed, former United States senator from Missouri, a Democrat, and George W. Wiekersharn, chairman of President Hoover's commission on law enforcement. enforce-ment. Frank E. Morrison, American Federation Fed-eration of Labor secretary, said: "This committee simply represents the views held by special privilege and big business, which have always opposed every piece of legislation Introduced In congress and the states to bring a little more happiness into workers' homes." A E. MERCKER, who used to be secretary of the Interstate Early Potato committee, hag been made head of the potato section of the Agrieul- lorces wei t iiuenimiT Benito t0 resi,n( to any Mussolini . nienace .hl,lever." Still more Important, In the light of developments, was the cabinet's announcement an-nouncement of strengthening its military mili-tary forces In Libya, where General 'Balbo has been establishing a strong line of air repots. This colony borders bor-ders Egypt on the west, and there was Immediately a lot of speculation as to whether Mussolini planned to attack the British empire In that region. Italian forces in Libya have received reinforcements of 40,01111 men with tanks and field artillery, and are much stronger than the British forces In Egypt If economic sanctions were Imposed Im-posed on Italy, Mussolini might well reply by threatening Great Britain In that quarter, by invasion and by arousing arous-ing the native population to revolt. Premier Laval's speech before the League of Nations was exceedingly clever but did not clear the situation sufficiently. While he gave assurance that France would abide by the league covenant and fulfill its obligations, he hinted that his government would demand de-mand In return that Britain enter a definite engagement to carry out the program agreed upon In London on February 3 an air Locarno with automatic auto-matic enforcement and the conclusion of Danubian and Baltic security pacts. One after another the nations rep- country. Extra marital . . ,. relations between Jews Adolf Hltler and Aryans also are punishable by prison sentences. Jews are forbidden to. employ women under forty-five years in their households after January 1, on penalty of imprisonment. Jews are not allowed to hoist the national flag, being limited to the Zionist blue and white emblem. The second law provides that only a person who "belongs to the protective association of the German empire and Is especially obligated to the reich" may be a citizen of Germany. This citizen must be of German or kindred blood and show that he Is willing to serve the German people. X'u,s Jews and Germans of whom the Nazis disapprove dis-approve may be excluded. Hitler also put through a third law establishing the Nazi Swastika as the national and trade flag of Germany. The war ministry was instructed to adopt a war flag of black, white and red. In his address to the reiehstag Hitler Hit-ler said that by the laws adopted he honed to deliver a fatal blow to Com- tural adjustment administration, ad-ministration, and his troubles are just beginning. be-ginning. Control of the potato crop is considered con-sidered a natural sequence se-quence in the policy that is being followed by the AAA, and, like other parts of Secretary Secre-tary Wallace's agricultural agri-cultural plan, it is munisra and Jewry. THE Committee of Jewish Delegations Delega-tions has appealed to the League of Nations on behalf of the Jews of Germany, Ger-many, declaring that "the conscience of mankind will not tolerate that Jews should be degraded in this century as pariahs." CHANCELLOR HITLER'S remarks about Memei aroused President Antonas Smetona to putting out the first interview he has granted in six f J years. In It he declared de-clared that Lithuania, relying to the utmost on the legality and justice of her stand and action in Memel affairs, Is ready at any time to defend her position po-sition before the permanent per-manent court of International Inter-national justice. But should an ef- resented m the league announcea uieir support of the British stand against Italy. If the British do not back down and that seems unlikely and If Italy persists in Its adventure, the league will be called on to apply article ar-ticle 15 of the covenant. This requires the submission of any dispute, likely to lead to a rupture, to the council which must then try to effect a settlement. set-tlement. The council also will adopt as lis own the report of the committee of five, which has failed to find a solution acceptable to Italy. The parties par-ties to the dispute are obligated to keep the peace for three months in any event, which would prevent an Italian campaign before the rains set in again In Ethiopia. If in the nest three months either side accepts the council's decision, the other party is automatically outlawed if it starts a war at any time in the future. In that case, the penalties against an aggressor as provided in article 10 must take effect automatically. automat-ically. It Is believed in Geneva that the penalty easiest to apply would be a general boycott of all trade with Italy. In that case the course followed by the United States would be all important. im-portant. The European statesmen feel confident that they can count on President Presi-dent Roosevelt, once a war breaks out, to interpret cotton, wheat, and other raw materials as war material and under the American neutrality legislation legisla-tion forbid direct shipment to Italy and Ethiopia. "Take a look at this," virtually said Great Britain to Italy as she massed a great fleet of powerful warships in the Mediterranean. Many of them were at Gibraltar, others at Malta and Alexandria Alex-andria aud yet others at the entrance to the Suez canal. Practically the entire en-tire north Atlantic fleet was concentrated concen-trated in the inland sea, and there was . , supporte earnestly A. E. Mercker y , , and as seriously condemned. con-demned. Among those who oppose potato po-tato control is Porter R. Chandler of Geneseo, N. Y., a gentleman farmer. He has advertised extensively his intention in-tention to grow and sell potatoes In defiance of the federal potato control act and invites prosecution. Now, co-operating with Mr. Chandler, Chand-ler, comes Norman C. Norman, a New York jeweler who some time ago defied de-fied the jewelers' code. He sent to the gentleman farmer an order for six or more bushels of "strictly illegal potatoes," and the order was filled at once. Norman suggested that the potatoes po-tatoes be routed through New Jersey to make the offense interstate, and offered of-fered to make more than one purchase, pur-chase, "as It is my understanding that the second purchase will entitle me to go to the penitentiary." WHILE all the nation was celebrating cele-brating Constitution day, the citizens citi-zens of Pennsylvania went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly against the calling of a Constitutional convention for the purpose of "modernizing" the state's basic law which was adopted 61 years ago. Since the proposed changes were to have a decided New Deal trend, the Republicans looked on the result of the referendum as a victory vic-tory of national significance. The revision re-vision was strongly supported by Governor Gov-ernor Earle and the state Democratic organization and also by organized labor. New Mexico voters turned down a proposal to boost their property exemption ex-emption to $2,500, along with four other suggested amendments to the state constitution. WHEN the new Philippines commonwealth com-monwealth is formally born on November 15 in Manila, with Vice President John M. Garner officiating 1011 ue maue 10 uisie-President uisie-President gar(J egality and jus. Smetona tice) ,n favor of force) Lithuania Is prepared, stated President Smetona, to "defend Memel with all the means at her command." Continuing, President Smetona said: "Memel is to us an economic necessity, neces-sity, not a political issue. We are too small a nation to engage in political bargaining, as we are too small a country coun-try to engage in contra-propaganda. Our only point Is that Memel, containing contain-ing Lithuania's only seaport, is an essential es-sential part of Lithuania. And the freedom and preservation of Lithuania is to her people a precious thing." DEATH came to Jules Cambon, one of France's "elder statesmen," at Vervey, Switzerland. He was ninety years old and had lived in retirement since the close of the World war, as its godfather. Manuel Quezon, for 20 years the leader of the fight for independence, independ-ence, will be inaugurated inaugu-rated as its first president. In the recent re-cent election he and his entire ticket were victorious. The defeated de-feated rivals for the presidency were Eml- a CUUIU Ui UollUUt; tCOOClO till LilC tl J from there to China and every one of them was ready to defend the supremacy suprem-acy of the empire. The royal air force, too, was fully represented at the naval bases, and the shore garrisons were reinforced. This was John Bull's reply to Mussolini's defiance, and It might well give him pause. T TNCONSTITUTIONAL" is the ver-diet ver-diet of the American Liberty league's committee of 53 lawyers on the Wagner-Connery labor relations act. "It is our belief," said the opinion, written in the form of a brief, "that the statute unnecessarily and arbitrarily arbi-trarily Infringes upon the individual liberties of the employer and the employee em-ployee and is therefore invalid." . Tliis is the first of a proposed series of opinions on recent federal legislation legisla-tion by the committee of lawyers. It was formulated by a subcommittee consisting of Earl F. Reed of Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, chairman; Harold Beacom, Chicago; Chi-cago; Harold J. Gallagher, New York; D. J. Kenefick, Buffalo; Harrison B. McGraw, Cleveland; Gurney E. New-lin, New-lin, Los Angeles; Hal H. Smith, Detroit, De-troit, and E. Randolph Williams, Richmond, Rich-mond, Va. , Copies of the opinion were sent to all members of the full committee and tnougn ue was irequeuuy consuiieu uy high officials of France. His brilliant career as a diplomatist covered nearly 50 years. He served as ambassador in Washington five years. COMPTROLLER GENERAL MC-CARL MC-CARL in a formal opinion held that there is no legal authorization for the federal government to pay out any funds for the construction of a furui-ture furui-ture factory at Reedsville, W. Va. This has been a project especially favored by Mrs. Roosevelt. It was intended originally that the factory should make furniture for government offices and give employment to transplanted coal miners. A year ago McCarl refused to sanction an allocation to the factory from recovery funds. Then congress turned on the project on the ground that it discriminated against private Industry. McCarl says the Department of the Interior went ahead with letting contracts for the construction, nevertheless, never-theless, and the building is about SO per cent completed. O SOLUTIONS adopted by the Iowa Farmers' union in convention at Des Moines demand that President Roosevelt dismiss Secretary of Agri culture Wallace from the cabinet and halt "the program of hunger." Tin' AAA was called "infamous, worthies, and virions. ' ho Agulnaldo. who led .. , . ,,. . . Manue Quezon the rebellion against American rule years ago, and Bishop Gregorio Aglipay. They werer, virtually snowed under. Sergio Osmena was elected vice president, pres-ident, and victory of Manuel Roxas, Quintin Paredes and Camilo Osias assured as-sured the new president ample leadership lead-ership In the unicameral national assembly, as-sembly, where he also will have a clear voting majority. Quezon's term of office Is six years and his annual salary will be 15,000. The commonwealth will be a ten-year prelude to complete independence from the United States. Quezon, who Is largely large-ly of Spanish blood, Is fifty-seven years old. He has numerous friends and acquaintances ac-quaintances in the United States and for a long time has been a frequent visitor In Washington In his endeavor to gain independence for the Island archipelago. |