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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Confers With Roosevelt and Congress Leaders on War Debts Hitler Offered German Rule Under Conditions. By EDWARD W. PICKARD PK-:SII:;.T HOOVER and President-Elect Roosevelt held their scheduled conversation on the war dents In the White House Tuesday and exchanged views TT"TT as to the wisest course A- for the United States , government to pursue. ' The conference may i have been of value to 1vr& J tne two gentlemen I fi but Its national or ; ' International impor-j impor-j tance is questionable. s ?Z j Mr. Roosevelt had no L.&rf JLai 'ntent'0D ot committing commit-ting himself conoern- Dr. Raymond ing the debt question Moley or of assuming any responsibility in advance ad-vance of his inauguration. Mr. Hoover can do nothing more than make a recommendation to congress in the matter of reopening the debt settlements, settle-ments, and It is practically certain that congress Is overwhelmingly opposed op-posed to reducing the debts or suspending sus-pending the payments. Besides Mr. Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt, Roose-velt, there were but two persons admitted ad-mitted to the conference. These were Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills, who with Secretary of State Stimson had prepared the data for the President ; and Dr. Rayiono Moley, professor of governmpnt and law In Columbia university, who attended at-tended as Governor Roosevelt's adviser. ad-viser. Doctor Moley, an authortty on sociology and crime, was one of the so-called "brain trust" that traveled with Roosevelt during the campaign, and It was he who assembled much of the material for the governor's speeches. There are those who think the professor will be the Colone' House of the Roosevelt admlnistra tion. The President, as is well known, favors action looking to revision of the war debt settlements, but knows congress would not sustain him In this position ; so It was thought probable prob-able he would merely tell the debtor nations that the United States declines de-clines to suspend the December 15 payments and that there is no immediate imme-diate prospect of reduction of the terms. However, it was believed In Washington that he would recommend to congress the re-creation of the war debt funding commission for the purpose pur-pose of making new settlements with the nations that might otherwise default. de-fault. This he tried to have done In 1931 but congress declined, and It probably will decline again, which would mean the entire debt problem would be passed on to tbe incoming Democratic administration. WEDNESDAY morning the President Presi-dent and Secretary Mills went over the whole matter again with 13 leaders of congress, including Speaker Garner, the Vice-l'resident-Elect, and these: Senators Smoot, Watson and Reed, Republicans, and Harrison, King and George, Democrats; Representatives Repre-sentatives Collier, Rainey and Dough-ton, Dough-ton, Democrats, and Hawley, Tread-way Tread-way and Bachnrach, Republicans. With them he sought to formulate a united policy on the debts for presen-tatlon presen-tatlon to congress; and this was the conference of greater Importance, for these leaders really will determine the attitude of the government in the matter. Czechoslovakia joined Great Britain, France and Belgium In the petition for suspension of payments and revision. re-vision. Italian ministers declned that Italy would pay its debts punctually and Premier Mussolini approved. OVER in Berlin there were conferences confer-ences during the week that were vital to the future of tne reu-h and of intense Interest to the rest of the world. After talking whh leaders of various parties, Fresl- dent Von Hlndenburg OV summoned Adolf Hit v ler, chief of the Nn- y tlonal Socialists, who had demanded con x trol of the government f for his party and the post of chancellor for himself. The NaI leader set forth the vVsv alms of his move- 0 .v.. ment. and in return the president gave Adolf Hitler him a mandate to form a cabinet under certain conditions condi-tions which Hitler temporarily at least re.iected. The president demanded that Hitler agree to respect the majority of Von Papon's emergency decrees and that his cabinet would have to he backed "by a majority or almost a majority" of the rciehstag. Von Hindenburg also demanded Hitlers pledge to gov ern according to parliamentary rule He further stipulated that Hitler must maintain the present military ami for eign policies and that General Kurt von Schleicher must he retained as minister of defense and Baron Kon stantin von Neurath as foreign minister. min-ister. At this writing the outcome of the conference Is In doubt. Hitler was still trying to get assurance of a majority ma-jority in the reichstag, but this seemed a feat almost Impossible as Hugen-burg's Hugen-burg's Nationalists and various other relatively small parties were holding out, D EDUCTIONS In the budget of ap- proximately SoOO.000.000. requested request-ed of the cabinet by President Uoover have been met The cuts in appropriations appro-priations for the fiscal year beginning June 1 next were settled by the cabinet cab-inet at about STOO.don.OOO. but it was explained that this would be offset "by certain increases' in uncontrollable items, such as interest and amortization amortiza-tion on the public debt and tax refunds re-funds to the extent of about $150,-0(10.000. $150,-0(10.000. " The White House statement said "the administration is determined to present a balanced budget," aii'i lead ers of congress appear enunOy determined deter-mined to keep down the regular appropriations ap-propriations at the short session. WESLEY L. JUNKS, veteran Republican Re-publican senator from Washington, Washing-ton, who was defeated on November 8 for re-election, died In the Mount Baker sanitarium in Seattle. He had served in congress for 33 years, was one of the most uncompromising or tbe drys, and at the time of his death was chairman of the powerful approp-priations approp-priations committee. Governor Hartley of Washington ap pointed E. S. Grammer, a Seattle lumberman lum-berman and a Republican, to fill out Jones' unexpired term, thus assuring the Republicans of a majority in the short session. IHAT did the President say to "l, veV would do to such n bill if it were passed in the short session, and as he came forth he announced he was convinced thar the President would not veto it. Rejoicings among the beer boys ! Then came swiftly Theodore Joslin, one of the White House secretaries, with the Hat assertion to the newspaper newspa-per men that "the President had declined de-clined to discuss beer with Mr. Britten Brit-ten " Cheers from the drys! Notified of this action on the part of the White House, Mr. Britten stuck by his guns, asserted that Mr. Joslin knew nothing about what had been said during his conference with the President and reiterated his prediction predic-tion that Mr. Hoover would approve beer legislation. D AYMOND ROBINS, the long miss-Ing miss-Ing social worker and prohibition advocate, was found in the mountains of North Carolina masquerading as "Reynolds Rogers," a mining engineer and jasCTJ prospector. Identified r by his nephew and .ll:Spll;i then by his wife, he pp"'5-;-- insisted for several days he did not know . ,'l5:ifsS!::i them and was in real f Ity "Rogers." In oth- ta:ft er respects his mind P1. f:M6Q was clear, and after ier'f a rest In a sanitarium -4 aud medical care he - ":: :: J recognized Mrs. Rob- Raymond Ins aud his own Iden- Robins tity and was declared to be on the way to normal health. The psychiatrist in charge said Mr. Robins had been suffering from amnesia am-nesia or a similar mental malady. Ever since his disappearance early in September Mr. Robins had been In the Great Smoky mountains, tramping about and prospecting. SUPPORTERS of the .St. Lawrence waterway treaty now fear that It will not receive consideration at the short session of congress, because the opposition has come forward In such strength. One of them. Senator Walsh of Montana, thinks It will reach a vote before March, hut will not pre diet the outcome. Should the ratification ratifi-cation or rejection of the pact go over to the new congress, its fate would depend largely on the attitude of the new President. This, it was hoped, would he revealed by the testimony of Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the New York power authority, who was scheduled to appear before the senate foreign relations subcommittee after the Thanksgiving holiday. Powerful opposition to the treaty developed at the fourteenth annual convention of the Mississippi Vallev association In St. I.ouis. on the ground that one article would dry up the 111! nois waterway, now nearly readv for opening, and the lakes-to-the gulf water wa-ter route. The article In question. It was said, takes from congress its rights to prescribe diversion from Lake Michigan for navigation purposes. pur-poses. The Mississippi Valley association associ-ation has In the past indorsed the St. Lawrence project, and it still does but It opposes the treaty in its present form. VTOSUKE MATSUOKA, the smooth, smiling representative of Japan in Geneva, appeared before the council coun-cil of the League of Nations and set forth his country's position In relation rela-tion to Manchuria and China. In effect ef-fect he defied the league and ridiculed the findings of the Lytton commission whose recommendation of the internationalization interna-tionalization of Manchuria he declared unthinkable. "Establishment of the state of Man-chukuo Man-chukuo seems to be the only solution possible," said Matsuoka in fluent English. "We have violated neither the covenant of the league, the nine-power nine-power treaty nor the pact of Paris. We acted in self-defense and spontaneously, spon-taneously, and when we acted the independence in-dependence movement developed spontaneously." spon-taneously." Matsuoka assured the council that China was a dismembered nation which was a prey to rival war lords and was menaced by communism. Had China or even Manchuria been properly prop-erly governed, the present situation would not have arisen, he said. Wellington Koo replied with eloquence elo-quence and spirit for China. He charged that Japan had kept China in turmoil as part of a plan to conquer Asia and the world in successive stages. Matsuoka had complained th-' Chinese boycotts were hurtful to friendly relations. Koo Inquired whether friendly relations still existed. exist-ed. He explained that the boycott was a self-imposed sacrifice and the most humane method of resistance to aggression yet devised. Then he whipped forth a clear threat in behalf be-half of the Chinese government to legalize, le-galize, extend and protect the boycott. The league council was helpless, for there was no chance for conciliation, so the whole affair was referred to the assembly of the league. Whatever the assembly may do, the statements of Foreign Minister Uchida and the war office in Tokyo make it plain that Japan Ja-pan intends to maintain the status quo in Manchuria. LATEST advices from Manchukuo say that the Japanese there have just launched a great military drive against the 33.000 Chinese who have been threatening from the north. In China y-JPSfi it Is declared these AjsseWssj forces are under the & v1,? ' ? command of Gen. Ma ""lian-shau, whom the jl Ipanese claim to ( &&t & Ive killed in battle -fne months ago R 4 -3 neral Ma made a jfvV ?f J "name for himself as ' Ti the gallant defender 4ss'' of Tsitsihar, against the Japanese a year General Ma ago. Later he served with the Japanese army, but only, as he later revealed, to obtain Japanese secrets. The Chinese forces are concentrated in the northwestern part of Heilung-kiang Heilung-kiang province. FORMULATING a new agricultural policy for the nation will be the task undertaken by the American Farm Bureau federation when It meets in annual convention in Chicago Chi-cago December 5. President Edward A. O'Neal in his call for the meeting meet-ing said : "As did those fighting farmers of 1787 crystallize the hope of a new people into the' Constitution upon which this nation is founded, so will the organized farmers of today, meeting meet-ing at Chicago In the fourteenth annual an-nual convention of the American Farm Bureau federation, build a new policy seeking through the rehabilitation rehabilita-tion of agriculture the salvation of this nation." The federation's drive, for legislation legisla-tion that will place the Industry on a paying basis will be vigorously prosecuted, prose-cuted, according to the preconvention announcement. Steps to correct the tariff on those commodities produced in surplus, must be taken by the coming com-ing congress. It Is said that millions of bushels of American corn would find a market in home industries if it were not for the competition in products prod-ucts produced by cheap tropical labor and imported in this country free. "If America is lo continue as a protected pro-tected nation agriculture must be given protection." said Mr. O'Neal. "Either we must have tariff for all or tariff for none." SENATOR F. BYRNES, Democrat, of South Carolina, has announced that he will ask the first Democratic senate caucus at the December session ses-sion to agree not to confirm any of President Hoover's recess appointments, appoint-ments, these including several appointments appoint-ments to the home loan bank board, the tariff commission and other bodies. "President-Elect Roosevelt should have the privilege of appointing persons per-sons to serve In his administration and on whom he will depend for the success of his administration," Byrnes said. AFTER serving 23 years as president presi-dent of Harvard university, A. Lawrence Lowell, one of the world's for-most educators, has resigned. No reason was given in the announcement, announce-ment, hut Doctor Lowell Is seventy-six seventy-six years old and it had long been known that he desired to retire as soon as the new house plan, which he regarded as the capstone of his career, was working smoothly. UNIVERSITY of Michigan, with an unbroken list of victories, won the football championship of the Western Conference, with Purdue a close second. Yale defeated Harvard In their annual battle which still holds chief interest in the East. 1 . 12. Weptrrn N.'W.s,-.itw Cnloo. |