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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Progress of the Presidential Campaign New York City Threatened With Bankruptcy Great Britain Abrogates Trade Treaty With Russia. By EDWARD W. PICKARD NO GREAT effort on the part of candidates and campaign leaders was necessary tc keep the minds of the American people on politics during rho u-eelr P.il! flip pf- KV, -' Gov. Ritchie fort was made nevertheless. never-theless. Roth President Presi-dent Hoover and Governor Gov-ernor Roosevelt were out again on speaking tours, and eminent men of both major parties pleaded for the votes of the electors elec-tors In all parts of the country. In the Middle West the chief speaker for the Demo. crats was Gov. Albert Ritchie of Maryland, one of the aspirants as-pirants for the Presidential nomination nomina-tion in tlie Chicago convention. We debated issues nnd candidates with Henry Allen of the Republicans, in Chicago, and delivered other addresses there and elsewhere, and all the time he stressed the Importance of the prohibition pro-hibition issue. 4 Governor Roosevelt in his own behalf be-half spent eight days talking In Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, Indianapolis. Springfield,' II., St. Louis nnd down through Kentucky nnd Tennessee to Atlanta; and then up through South and North Carolina, Virginia nnd Maryland, to deliver the last of his major addresses In Baltimore. Balti-more. President Hoover's Journey was n week-end trip whose main objective was Detroit. On the way to the Michigan metropolis he made brief stops and talks at Charlestown, W. Va., at Columbus and Toledo in Ohio, nnd several other places. The President's Presi-dent's aides said he bad developed a liking for rear platform campaigning as a result of his trips to Des Moines and Cleveland There was nothing surprising in the announcement of the La Follette organ or-gan In Madison, Wis., that the La Follette faction in that state would support Mr. Roosevelt. Rev. James R. Cox, Catholic priest of Pittsburgh withdrew as the Presidential candidate candi-date of the Jobless party and urged all his followers to support Roosevelt. This wns quite withiD his rights, tin' his public statement that i'resideio Hoover "never lifted a hand or raised a voice to relieve the suffering American Ameri-can people" is an example of either Inexcusable mendacity or deplorable Ignorance. Secretary of State Sllmson got Into action in New York, attacking the records rec-ords of both Roosevelt and Garner. Charles M. Schwab, Interviewed in London, said he believed "the best way to better conditions is to re-elect Mr. Hoover." NEW YORK city is in such a distressing dis-tressing financial condition that the bankers have refused to advance funds for the November pay roll, and told the men who are running the metropolis me-tropolis they would not save it from bankruptcy unless the budget were radically reduced. So the budget mak ers got together and slashed off ap proximately $75,000,000, which the bankers said was not nearly enough A large part of the savings planned by the beard of estimate was through the adoption of a fifty-year subway bond scheme. This, it was admitted, spelled the doom of the 5-cent fare to which New York has clung so tenaciously. It was believed a 10-cent fare would be established within a year or two. Acting Mayor McKee tried to put in to effect wholesale salary reductions and elimination of workers in overstaffed over-staffed departments, but the Tammany bloc would have none of this. They even put into the budget some of the ap propriations that had been cut out. The city must have additional funds supplied to it before November 1, as there is only SG.000,000 left in the treasury with which to meet the semimonthly semi-monthly installment of $13,000,000 for the pay roll. WHEN the British parliament opened its fall session almost the first thing it heard was the announcement announce-ment of J. H. Thomas, secretary of state for dominions, that Great F.ritain had broken off com mercial relations with Soviet Russia and ab rogated the trade pact with the Moscow government gov-ernment in order to carry out the econoni ic policy adopted by the imperial conference confer-ence in Ottawa. In one article of the agreement reached J. H. Thomas there, Great Britain and Canada agreed to prohibit the imports im-ports of any foreign country in which the state control of industries and commodity prices resulted in dumping abroad to the detriment of the new preferential tariff agreement of the British empire. Mr. Thomas added that both the British government and Russia were still eager to increase the trade between be-tween the counfies and that the Rus sians were ready to negotiate a new treaty that would not interfere with the empire's internal arrangements. The Immediate practical effect of the renunciation of tiie trade treaty will be to deprive British consumers of large quantities of low priced lumber, fish, and grain. Secretary Thomas told the house also that the British negotiations with President De Valera of the Irish Free State had broken down and that De Valera contended the only permanent solution of the controversy would be the creation of a united Irish republic. r EI'ORTS made public in Washing-ton Washing-ton were both good and bad. Putting Put-ting the latter first, the treasury Issued Is-sued figures of the receipts and expenditures ex-penditures during July. August and September showing that the deficit of the first quarter of the fiscal year is $102,000,000. a rate which If kept up would send the treasury into the red to the tune of $1,000,000,000. The new income taxes coupled with high collections on miscellaneous taxes enacted en-acted In the new billion dollar tax bill last spring are counted on to hold this deficit down during the final months of the year. Statistics given out by the Department Depart-ment of Commerce showed that the export trade of the United States in September, due principally to exceptionally excep-tionally large shipments of cotton, increased in-creased over the value for the previous pre-vious month by a margin of $23,000,-000 $23,000,-000 the largest monthly gain recorded record-ed so far this year. Imports likewise showed an increase In September, as compared with August, Au-gust, the department stated, although it was less pronounced than the gain in export trade. During the month, it was shown, imports increased by $7,000,000 to total $9S,000,000, or the highest monthly import level since June. The Pnited States during the month retained a favorable balance of trade amounting to $3-1,000,000. It was .the largest favorable trade margin recorded re-corded in any month of this year. Another encouraging report was that of the federal oil conservation board, composed of Secretaries Wilbur, Wil-bur, Hurley, Adams and Chapin. It ! said : "The American oil industry gives Indications of being the first basic industry to emerge from the world depression.' The permanency of the improvement improve-ment in the industry, however, will depend, the commission declared, on whether the oil producing states continue con-tinue the co-operation they manifested in the production agreement of 1031. and on whether the oil states', advisory advis-ory committee develops as it should into a permanent body or lapses into the background as conditions improve. LAW authorities of Chicago, assisted assist-ed by the federal government, were still trying to figure out some way to bring Samuel Instill back from Athens for trail on saw""-'"- -4 lil -Jk ... ...A Samuel Insull, Jr. charges of embezzlement embezzle-ment and grand larceny. lar-ceny. The former multimillionaire re-fused re-fused the demand that he surrender his passport, and strolled around the Greek capital cap-ital watched only informally in-formally by the police. po-lice. But the diplomats diplo-mats in Athens were rushing the proceed-i proceed-i n g s in connection with the ratification of tlie Greco-American extradition treaty, and the instruments were already al-ready on the way to Washington. Following Fol-lowing the exchange it was believed Insull might be extradited. The fugitive fu-gitive appears to be well supplied with funds, and their source was explained when State's Attorney Swanson in Chicago Chi-cago learned that Samuel Insull. Jr.. still has an income of $100,000 from four of the corporations that formed a main part of his father's utilities structure. He receives $25,000 salary each from Commonwealth Edison, People's Peo-ple's Gas. Public Service of Northern Illinois nnd Mildland United. The elder el-der Insull. it will be recalled, also receives re-ceives pensions totaling $21,000 a year so the family is far from being poverty stricken. Insull said he received a cablegram from an unnamed person warning him that the American authorities were plotting to have him kidnaped and removed re-moved to a country from which he could he immediately extradited. Responsible Re-sponsible persons declared this story was ridiculously false. COUNT STEPHEN RETH1.EN. former for-mer premier of Hungary and one of that country's foremost statesmen was attacked in a law court in Buda pest by an assassin but escaped nn injured. Louis Eskudt. private secretary secre-tary to a former cabinet officer, approached ap-proached the count through the crowd in the courtroom, but a policeman saw a dagger in his hand and seized him as he made a thrust. The motive was said to be desire to satisfy a private grudge. GERMAN goods, but no German cash. That is what the foreign creditors of the reich must accept if they expect to be paid what is coming com-ing to them, accord ing to a flat statement state-ment made by Chancellor Chan-cellor Franz von Pa-pen. Pa-pen. This meant, he said, that creditor nations na-tions must open their frontiers to German goods, for Germany could not at present bear another drain of money withdrawals by creditors abroad. The chancellor estimated esti-mated the foreign in debtedness of the country at $4,000,000,000. Von Papen denied that Germany's quota policy for the restriction of Imports Im-ports was endangering the stability of the reich's currency. "Restriction of imports was not resolved out of chicanery chican-ery but to save German agiculture from certain ruin." he said. In his speech, which was delivered at Paderhorn. the chancellor also discussed dis-cussed disarmament, asserting that "Germany's aim Is not to arm up to its neighbors' levels, but to procure world disarmament with equal security and justice. There must not be a system of hegemony or political alliances in Europe but one by which nations can serve humanity in mutual respect of their individualism." POLICE authorities in Guadalajara, Mexico, after raiding a house, killing kill-ing two men and arresting a priest and two woi. en, announced they had frus- Archbishop Diaz Franz von Papen trated elaborate plans for a religious uprising upris-ing in the state of Jalisco. The authorities authori-ties said they found a large quantity of rifles, pistols, ammunition, ammuni-tion, dynamite bombs, field equipment, a printing press and considerable printed matter urging the rebellion. Ten other priests were detained after being implicated in the plot. It is in the state of Jalisco that the quarrel between Mexico and the Vatican is most pronounced. A pastoral letter by Archbishop Pas-cual Pas-cual Diaz, denouncing any attempt at armed resistance by Catholics, was read in all churches . All loyal Catholics Cath-olics were cautioned by the archbishop to obey the laws of Mexico and to avoid any movement that might be construed as resistance. The pope, the archbishop pointed out, would not approve any departure from peace. FOR tlie second time Germany refused re-fused to go to Geneva for tlie proposed pro-posed four-power conference to discuss dis-cuss her demand for equality of armament. arma-ment. Foreign Minister von Neurath informed the British that the decision was irrevocable. The Germans hold that there is too much French sentiment senti-ment and influence in Geneva. Prime Minister MacDonald was not at all pleased with this refusal. "Germany" he said, "knows perfectly well that Britain does not oppose her claim to be regarded as an equal at the disarmament conference. We want disarmament, not rearmament, and the British government is continuing to pursue its purpose." DISPATCHES from Tokyo said a great shnkeup in the Japanese foreign service was imminent. The ambassadors from the United States, Moscow, Italy and Turkey already were in the city, and Ambassador Obata was ordered to return from Berlin. The only one of these who will not be replaced, probably. Is Kat-suji Kat-suji Debuchi. who will come back to Washington because Foreign Minister Uchidn cannot find a better man for the post. It was understood the cabinet was nbout to enter on the discussion dis-cussion of the policies to be assumed toward the United States. Russia and the League of Nations, and that a more positive foreign policy would be adopted. The press nnd the public in Japan have been clamoring for a change. RUMANIA'S policy toward Soviet Russia caused a bitter dispute between be-tween Premier Alexander Vaidn-Voevod Vaidn-Voevod .and Nicholas Titulescu and resulted in the resignation of the former for-mer and his cabinet. King Carol summoned sum-moned Dr. Juliu Maniu. leader of the National Peasant party, to form a new government with Titulescu as foreign minister. CIRCUIT JUDGE GUY BRASS-field BRASS-field Park of Platte City. Mo., was selected to succeed the late Francis M. Wilson as the Democratic nominee for governor of Missouri, by the Democratic Demo-cratic state committee. The choice was unanimous, nnd was a victory for Tom Pendergast. Democratic political "boss" of Kansas City. Judgt Pnrk will he opposed in the election November No-vember 8 by Edward H. Winter, Republican Re-publican nominee. T.VO uprisings of convicts occurred early in the week. The first, in Speigner state prison of Alabama, resulted re-sulted in the killing of one convict, the wounding of 21 others and the escape es-cape of one. Warden A. B. Smith displayed dis-played the utmost bravery in dealing with the convicts. The second Instance was in Portsmouth Ports-mouth penitentiary, Ontario. The 90G inmates, demanding cigarette papers and longer hours of recrer.tion, put on a big riot, but were redaced to submission sub-mission without loss of life. . 1932. Western Newspaper Union. |