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Show News Review of 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, Ignoring the orders of the League of Nations and resentfully disregarding the notes from the United States and other powers, is apparently to have her own way in Manchuria. Con-f-wwi85?1 veniently dubbing all ty "'!' opposing forces "ban- g dits." slie sent ner S armies forward from f'ft Jl Mukden durinK the bVj tnat was destlned to nvT, 1 reach Chinchow. Re- f "i i-fi, sistance was met at various points but Li - -Tibk-, was; overcome with armored trains, bomb-Gen. bomb-Gen. Ma Chan ing p,aues and artu. lery, and the Chinese steadily fell back. Finally Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang decided It was better to give the Japanese Japa-nese no further excuse for carrying the warfare into North China, so he ordered all his forces to withdraw within the fireat Wall, and this movement move-ment was begun Immediately, accompanied accom-panied by much confusion and the 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 Marshal Chang has been in vain. In Nanking the new coalition government govern-ment was organized and a new cabinet appointed with Eugene Chen, leader of the Canton faction as minister of foreign for-eign 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 for military withdrawal of the Japanese. Japa-nese. MOSCOW charges that Czechoslovakia Czecho-slovakia has been plotting to provoke pro-voke war between Russia and Japan, presumably to promote the sale of war munitions. The story was that a Czech diplomat had tried to instigate the assassination of Koki Hirota, Japanese Jap-anese ambassador to Moscow, and the man accused turned out to be Carl Wanek, secretary of the Czech diplomatic diplo-matic mission to Moscow. The government gov-ernment at Prague recalled Wanek but scouted the allegation that the mission itself was involved in any plot. Wanek has a reputation as a specialist special-ist in military affairs in several large European countries, and counts among his associates the military attaches of several allied capitals. MAHATMA GANDHI, returning to Bombay from the round table conference in London, told a vast throng of his followers that he would not flinch from sacrificing sacri-ficing the lives of a W million people as the price of liberty for jD" India, and he warned f them that in the com- L s ing conflict with the L?V British they mighl have to face bullels f5 J instead of staves. His Pvf utterances plainly in- sj? dicated that he is J about ready to aban- ' don his policy of pas- Mahatma sive resistance. "if the fight is m- Gandhi evitable, I will expect every son and daughter of Mother India to contribute contrib-ute his mite," he said. "However, I will not abandon attempts to save the nation from a fiery ordeal. If, on the other hand, there is no single ray of hope I shall not hesitate to call upon you to bear any amount of suffering." He counseled his followers to keep their beads, despite the bloody events In the northwest frontier province, the arrest of Pandit. Jawaharlal Nehur and deportation of Abdul Graffiir Khan, leader of the "red-shirt" tribesmen. tribes-men. Tlie trouble on the northwest frontier of which Gandhi spoke is giving giv-ing Viceroy Lord Wlllingdon great concern. con-cern. The anti-British red shirt organization or-ganization staged violent riots near Peshawai and fought with the troops, many being killed and wounded. WASTE and extravagance In the federal government must be reduced, re-duced, In the opinion of President Hoover, Hoo-ver, and many others as well, and it was announced at the White House that the President was preparing a special message to congress recommending recom-mending the consolidation of departments depart-ments and bureaus. He wants immediate imme-diate legislative action providing for grouping all construction activities of the government under one administrative administra-tive head and the transfer of the shipping ship-ping board and all federal merchant marine activities to the Department of Commerce. According to a statement issued by the President, the purpose of the consolidations con-solidations is to cut the cost of federal fed-eral government, curtail the growth of independent bureaus, eliminate overlapping over-lapping and promote efficiency. While ; refusing to set a definite figure indi-; indi-; eating the savings which would follow the consolidations. Mr. Hoover said the grouping last year of all veterans' activities ac-tivities under the veterans' adminis tration is expected to save from $10,-000.000 $10,-000.000 to $15,000,000. Chairman Cochran of the house expenditures ex-penditures committee, which will handle han-dle the consolidation legislation, is in accord with most of the Chief Executive's Execu-tive's recommendations. DURING the holiday recess a senate sen-ate committee considered two bills that call for the appropriation of federal fed-eral funds to care for the unemployed, and heard testimony rTTfT! and arguments from jL"?&$Vk'r1 social workers from ijwy $ Chicago, New York I 1 and other cities. One W of the measures, in-ll" in-ll" v troduced by Senator J LaFollette ofWiscon-I ofWiscon-I -i Jl sin, provides for the I ' jl appropriation of $250,- 1 J 0.000- The ther. r ""fA 1 fathered y Senator L&sAfS' Costigan of Colorado, puts the amount at benator La $375000000. Mr. Cos-Follette Cos-Follette .. ' , . t, .. tigan told the committee commit-tee that nothing short of government help could provide necessary relief for the unemployed. Some of the witnesses wit-nesses heard estimated that as much as $700,000,000 would be needed for relief during 1932 and that the funds from state, city and private sources would not be sufficient to carry the load through the winter. President Hoover is now, as always, opposed to a direct appropriation from the treasury for unemployment relief purposes, holding that it would be in the nature of a dole and would be a dangerous precedent. WETS in the house of representatives, representa-tives, it now appears, are to obtain ob-tain 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 meas-ure calling for modification of the Volstead act to permit the manufacture manufac-ture and sale 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 145 members," mem-bers," he said. "That 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 t beer. They can't have both. The rules of the house will be so interpreted." inter-preted." He said he felt the referendum had the better chance for "getting by" because be-cause many drys, himself included, would vote for it. NEITHER reparations nor war debts will be finally settled at the European conference which Great Britain Brit-ain has called to meet January 18 ln Lausanne, if the pro- gram practically "7'SraS agreed upon by Brit- ss! 4 ish and French treas- 1 ury experts is adopt- i? -j ed. They suggest u sf8l'V j new three-year mora- l" 1? ' torium for Germany s - on the conditional re- f-l Ys parations and that M f - Germany be required ' ti during that period to "'Ws j pay the unconditional - reparations into the . , , ,, , , r l Senator Hul Bank for International Internation-al Settlements, such amounts to be Immediately reloaned by the bank to the German railways or re-invested within Germany, thus avoiding all cash transfers abroad by the reich. The creditor powers would undertake under-take to concede to Germany an In-partial In-partial re-examination of her capacity to pay reparations toward the close of the moratorium period. On this side of the water Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee comes forward for-ward with a call for international action ac-tion to lower tariff barriers as the first step in solving the debt problem. The former chairman of the Democratic Democrat-ic national committee says payments can be made only through the restoration restora-tion of healthy International trade, that tariff walls have strangled trade and that it is "fatuous" to Insist on debt payments and at the same time have world commerce hampered. The fonator, who is a member of the Democratic Dem-ocratic policy committee in congress, says he purposes to offer a resolution looking toward a tariff conference of the nations. SENATOR CARET of Wyoming, Republican, Re-publican, and his subcommittee on banking amended the house bill to increase in-crease the eapitalation of the federal land hanks by adding the sum of $25,-000.000 $25,-000.000 to be used in granting postponements post-ponements on farm mortgage payments. pay-ments. This additional sum b 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 morato-rium and. at the same time, avoid weakening the hanks. A favorable report on the measure with the amendment was deckled upon by the committee. BOTH federal reserve and commercial commer-cial banking officials are severely criticized for their course with respect to the stock market collapse In the fall of 1029 in an ap-"" ap-"" " " . i pendix to tha report "s being compiled by the o senate banking and .V currency committee's j? subcommittee which 1 'as"'?! is investigating the f national and federal ;! J reserve banking sys- "'' The committee, i headed by Senator L -i fea-4 Carter Glass, Democrat, Demo-crat, of Virginia, who Sen. Glass wag sponsor for tne Federal Reserve act in congress, Is particularly critical of what It holds to have been the bank's excessive participation par-ticipation In the security markets and of the "mischievous" effects of loans made to brokers "for account of others." A suggestion Is 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 nation's na-tion's bankers are opposed to new restrictions re-strictions upon their investments In securities. Acting under a resolution by Senator Sen-ator Glass to "make a complete survey sur-vey of the national and federal reserve banking systems," the subcommittee is expected to bring in a bill to revise those systems in some particulars. PRESIDENT HOOVER announced the appointment of the fourth member mem-ber of the American delegation to the disarmament conference at Geneva, the man selected being Norman H. Davis of New York, who was undersecretary under-secretary of state in the Wilson administration ad-ministration and chief financial adviser ad-viser to the American delegation in the negotiations that resulted in the treaty of Versailles. Later in the week the remaining delegate del-egate was appointed, he being Hugh Gibson, ambassador to Belgium, a veteran vet-eran in such negotiations. As alternate alter-nate in case any delegate cannot serve, Hugh Wilson, minister to Switzerland, was named. Arthur Henderson, former foreign secretary in the Labor government of Great Britain, told correspondents In Paris that he expects to preside over the arms conference, although he no longer is in office. TVI EMBERS of the "progressive" 1VJ group in the senate are again talking about a third party in the campaign cam-paign of 1932, and are said to be considering con-sidering three possible candidates assuming, as-suming, as they do, that President Hoover will be re-nominated by the Republican convention, and also assuming as-suming that the Democrats do not select se-lect a candidate to the liking of the group. The three the independents are talking about are Senator Borah of Idaho; Senator Hiram Johnson of California, Cal-ifornia, who is sometimes too "regular" "regu-lar" to suit a few of them, and Gov. Gilford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, whose lightning rod is always up. Senator Morris of Nebraska will not let his name be considered. The Republican independents, it is believed, would be satisfied with Franklin D. Roosevelt as the Democratic Demo-cratic 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 he would accept the nomination if it were offered 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 Al-fred E. Smith would again ask for the honor of leading his party, and a spokesman for "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, spectacular governor of Oklahoma, said that gentleman might be a candidate. can-didate. And the chances of Gov. Albert Al-bert C. Ritchie of Maryland must not be overlooked. RAILROADS west of the Mississippi were granted authority by the interstate in-terstate commerce commission to put recently authorized freight rate Increases In-creases into effect on one-day notice. The increase order allowed five days for giving notice, instead of the customary cus-tomary thirty days. The Southern Pacific Railroad company com-pany and its employees' organization reached a harmonious agreement on the wage reduction problem when 15.-000 15.-000 shop employees accepted a 10 per cent cut in pay. The company notified noti-fied the maintenance of way men that their wages wrould be reduced 15 per cent in thirty days. There was a genera.1 expectation that 1 the railway labor unions would accept a 10 per cent wage reduction effective about the middle of January as the result re-sult of conferences in Chicago and Cleveland, and that the Canadian unions would adopt the decision of the American unions. FINLAND had a national referendum on the question of abolishing the country's prohibition laws, and on the basis of early returns it was estimated that the 90 per cent of the Finns had voted wet The result of the referendum referen-dum will not finally decide the problem prob-lem but will serve to guide the government. gov-ernment. ARCHBISnOP DIAZ, head of the Catholic church in Mexico, has in structed the priests and all other Catli olics to disregard the new law passed by congress which limits to 25 the number of priests in the federal dis trict. So the chances for renewed trouble there are good. . 1032. Western Newspaper Union.) |