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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over . Representative MeFadden's Violent Attack on President Hoover Stirs House Chicago Wins the Republican Repub-lican National Convention. Ey EDWARD W. PICKARD TWO Republican members of congress con-gress from Pennsylvania Representative Repre-sentative Louis .McFadden and Senator Sen-ator David A. lieed stirred up the national legislature t fffsn.,, by violent attacks on tv Uie p1R'y of I,resi' ir dent Hoover and the .' administration in re- h 4 & lation to the mora- I ,J torium on intergov- :f ern mental debts and . the suggested revival of the refunding com- ewcv ' mission with the pos- Vil "'J sihlIity of cancelia- luitJ . i4J tinll 0f War debts. McFadden, former L. McFadden cll.lirnllln of Uie house banking and currency committee, was especially bitter In his hour-long speech, asserting that Mr. Hoover had "sold out" the United States to "the German International bankers" whom he named as Kuhn, Loeb & Co., the Seligmans, Paul Warburg and "their satellites." He said the administration's administra-tion's course in working for acceptance accept-ance of the moratorium was like "the ways of an oriental potentate drunk with power." He declared the President's Presi-dent's unoflicia) poll of congress last June was "a crude attempt to usurp legislative power." Representative John J. O'Connor of New York, a Tammany Democrat, jumped to his feet shouting to the Republicans Re-publicans : "It's my President as well as yours he's talking nbout, and if none of you will defend him from charges which are grounds for impeachment, I'm going to." But Burnett M. Chiperfield of Illinois, Il-linois, Republican, was already up and his reply was vigorous and adequate. ade-quate. Said he: "If the gentleman (McFadden) means what he says and if the gentleman gentle-man is sincere, let him and his associates asso-ciates prepare articles of impeachment impeach-ment against the President of the United States and let those articles of impeachment be tried, and then the proof may be known, and let the guilt and infamy and horror fall where it may. The President of the United States would ask for such action, knowing that the truth and a fair inquiry in-quiry would vindicate him. ... "Ladies and gentlemen, if there is one particle of integrity in the statement state-ment the gentleman has made, let the gentleman ' produce proof of the charges. Let him show that we have a President who is unworthy of occupying oc-cupying that high office or let him go from this chamber as a foul traducer of the character of an honest man." SENATOR REED, who has often been regarded as the spokesman for Secretary Mellon, denounced what he called the propaganda by the International In-ternational bankers to force cancellation cancel-lation for their own selfish interests, and he declared flatly that he was opposed op-posed to the revival of the war debt commission as proposed by the President Presi-dent "We have cancelled," he said, "ail we are going to cancel ; it is within the capacity of most of the nations of Europe to pay us the amounts they owe us, and as long as that fact stares us in the face it is sheer Imbecility Im-becility for us to be any more generous gen-erous than we have been in the past." Senators McKellar of Tennessee and Johnson of California followed In much the same vein and both declared they would not vote even for the one year moratorium. The latter was before be-fore the house ways and means committee com-mittee and Undersecretary Mills and Secretary of State Stimson both appeared ap-peared before that body to urge ratification. rati-fication. SPEAKER GARNER and Senator Robinson announced that the Democratic Dem-ocratic joint policy committee had determined de-termined that the Hoover moratorium was not a subject matter for party con- 5 sideration and should K " i be left open to the . $ personal views of the 5 J Democratic members. t j The committee also decided that every J possible effort would 1 be made to reduce I " . J government expend! I ,y tures, but did not j " A , . jwiiv- .--X.. reach an agreement on details with re- Senator Moses spect to the tariff or tax revision, leaving these with other matters for future consideration. The first bill to reach actual committee com-mittee discussion In the senate was one introduced by Senator Hale, to authorize building the navy up to the London treaty limits. Organization of the senate was accomplished ac-complished by the election of committee commit-tee chairmen, but the deadlock over the choice of a president pro tempore was not broken. The progressives opposing the re-election "of Senator George Moses of New Hampshire would not give in, and Moses continued contin-ued to preside. One day the recalci trants delivered their entire vote to Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, a regular who was a leader of the so-called so-called "young guard" last session. But both Vandenberg and the young guard spurned this overture and continued to vote for Moses. CHICAGO captured the Republican 1 national convention of 1032, the administration's alleged opposition to that city not manifesting itself. The national committee, presided over by Chairman Fess, listened to earnest arguments ar-guments in favor of Chicago and Atlantic At-lantic City, and on the first ballot gave SG votes to the former and 14 to the latter. The choice was then made unanimous. Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia Phil-adelphia and St. Louis withdrew their bids before the balloting began, none of them having been able to raise the money for the convention expense. The committee decided that the convention con-vention should be called for the 14th of June. Chicago guarantees up to $150,000 to pay for the expenses of the G. O. P. gathering, and her hotels have agreed to accommodate 3,500 delegates, alternates alter-nates and newspaper men at rates of from S1.50 to S4 a day. The convention conven-tion will be held in the new stadium, which can seat about 30,000 and which has ample accommodations for committees, com-mittees, etc. It has a cantilever roof without obstructing pillars, a modern ventilating and refrigerating system, excellent acoustics and a fine pipe organ. or-gan. The only drawback is the fact that the stadium is located on the West side, several miles from the hotels ho-tels that will house the visitors. O ELIEF for the nation's jobless is still foremost in the mind of Senator Sen-ator Robert F. Wagner of New York. Last week he introduced in the senate sen-ate a resolution de-prTg?"!! de-prTg?"!! signed to set in mo-F mo-F JJ tion the machinery created by the federal ; i employment stabiliza- jj jon ae which was ,s"'- passed last session at 'M , re I his instance. This & J would -mean a start --sy on a two billion-dol-t' ,ar federal public ?,. k 'I works program that .ijafeStaiM woui,j give give em-Sen. em-Sen. Wagner P ' o y m e n t to thousands thou-sands of men. In the preamble to his resolution, Senator Wagner set forth facts and figures showing the gravity of the depression. de-pression. After citing the numbers of unemployed, the many bank failures and the falling off in production, he showed that the volume of construction construc-tion for the third quarter of 1931 was SS5S,!)00.000 or 53 per cent less than for the third quarter of 1928; that "the volume of building contracts awarded declined $2,447,300,000 in the first nine months of 1931 below the similar period pe-riod in 1928; that the volume of construction con-struction of public works and public utilities has fallen from $1,039,043,000 in the first nine months of 1928 to S9S2.700.000; that the wholesale prices of building materials declined from an index of S2.9 in January to 74.9 in Sep tember, that money spent for relief in the larger American cities was in September, Sep-tember, 19,31, 142 per cent greater than in September, 1930, and in October, 1931, 113 per cent greater than in October, Oc-tober, 1930. OVER in Basel, Switzerland, the Young plan advisory committee, of which Alfredo Beneduce of Italy is chairman, was said to have abandoned any intention of making mak-ing strong recommen ? "'!T dations for the com , ' plete abolition of re- s!T?y$ parations payments ' p i by Germany, although v this was strongly 4 urge1 by Colijn, neu , , ? tral Dutci member s f and favored by oth ers. The committees r fxf , mind was probably : f : changed by the firm - St . . stand taken by Walter A Beneduce W. Stewart, United States member, against the scaling down of war debts, but Europe still hopes the American attitude will be more lenient in a few months. The advisory committee will merely report to the various governments the facts uncovered concerning Germany's capacity ca-pacity to pay, and action will be put up to the final reparations conference that probably will be held late in January. A technical subcommittee submitted a written report to Chairman Beneduce Bene-duce on German holdings abroad and the holdings of foreigners in Germany with a view to establishing the net debt of the reich. The figures were held in secrecy. It was understood this subcommittee subcommit-tee suggested it was impossible to uncover un-cover all German investments abroad and intimated that they were much larger than the 9.7iK).0(MI.(KX) reichs-marks reichs-marks listed in the Wiggin report as of December 31, 1930. UNDER pressure, Chiang Kai-shek finally has resigned as president of China, and with him Minister of Finance Soong and Foreign Minister Wellington Koo also ...:-, . have stepped down. The result, it is pre- ' dieted In the orient, will be a united China under a coalition gov- m " i eminent, with the v $ Canton faction holding . the upper hand. The ( group that overthrew Chiang Includes Dr. , Sun Fo, son of the ' - late Dr. Sun Yat-sen; . , C. C. Wu, former min-Ch.ang min-Ch.ang Kal- tQ (ne Unied States, and Eugene Chen, formerly foreign minister. For the present Lin Sen, a veteran member of the Nationalist party, is at the head of the government. According to these leaders, the new government will not longer rely so much on the League of Nations and will assume a much more vigorous policy toward Japan In the Manchu-rian Manchu-rian dispute. This announcement may serve to quiet the Chinese students, who in their effort to bring on actual war with Japan have continued their riotous demonstrations in Nanking. Chiang Kai-shek explained his resignation resig-nation in the following statement: "I have tried to fulfill my obligations obliga-tions ever since I was made chairman of the National government in 1928. My comrades at Canton said they would come to Nanking only on condition con-dition that 1 resign. This means that I must retire before peace and unity are restored." MUKDEN dispatches indicate that Manchuria will soon become autonomous, au-tonomous, with Gen. Tsang Shih-yl as: its first ruler. The general has just been installed as governor of Fengtien province, of whicb Mukden is the capital. He replaced i'uan Chin-Kai, who was installed after the Japanese captured the city in September Septem-ber and was never considered more than a temporary figurehead. JAPAN'S new premier, Tsuyoshi Inukai, in his first interview declared de-clared Japan does not covet an Inch of ground in Manchuria but insisted that Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang must ' yf 1 withdraw his army v j from the Chinchow I region. He said the , I J Japanese demanded only their treaty u JQ4 rights, with guaran- if tees of safety for their -.Jt I nationals in China. V In response to a ( "P 1 question regarding ' , Jf $ disarmament, the pre- -Ss&s&ii mier said, "I favor it. One of the most ab- Premier surd ideas in the inukai world is the insistence upon maintaining maintain-ing large armies and navies." He concluded the interview with the hope that the United States would soon get over its streak of thrift and "buy more silk Japan needs the money." The premier has appointed as foreign for-eign minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa, ambassador am-bassador to Paris and Japan's representative repre-sentative at the meetings of the League of Nations council. CHANCELLOR BRUENING'S government gov-ernment in Germany seems to be secure until January at least, for the Socialist party in caucus decided to support him long enough to give him an opportunity to enforce the price reductions re-ductions he promised in his emergency decree. If he fails in this, the Socialists So-cialists will join the Communist Fand Hitlerites in opposition and may overthrow over-throw him. The reich authorities are working hard to uncover the facts in the Fascist Fas-cist plot against the republic which they believe exists. In reply to Bruen-ing's Bruen-ing's threat to mobilize an army if necessary to crush the Nazis, Herr Hitler gave out a long letter in which he defied the chancellor, called his emergency worthless and demanded liberty and power for the Fascists. REPORTS of the royal mix-up in Rumania continue contradictory and confusing. The latest is that King Carol and Prince Nicholas have made up, -that the latter has agreed to give up his wife, Jana Deletj, legally legal-ly but only legally, and that he will therefore retain his royal titles and prerogatives and his military commands. com-mands. So Nicholas and Jana will be merely companions, as were and are Carol and Magda Lupescu. ENGLAND'S round table conference over the status of Burma promises prom-ises to go the way of that concerning India. The other day three delegates representing certain elements in Burma Bur-ma withdrew from the conference because be-cause of dissatisfaction with the British Brit-ish statement of Intentions to give Burma a constitution inside of which to become a self-governing dominion. The three delegates said they went to London with instructions from their priests to return immediately if anything any-thing less than a full. Immediate and responsible government was offered. ILLINOIS Republicans are anxiously waiting to learn whether United States District Judge James H. Wil-kerson Wil-kerson will run for governor of that state. So far he Is silent. Recently Judge Wilkprson called on President Hoover and it is said the President urged him to go after the governorship, governor-ship, predicting bis election. The Jurist, Jur-ist, It is reported, would prefer to remain re-main on the bench and to accept his slated promotion to the Federal Circuit Cir-cuit Court of Appeals. ((c). 1931. 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