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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Japan Rebuked by League Council, but Still Persistent President Hoover Asks Congress for Reorganization of Government. By EDWARD W. PICKARD JAPAN during the week seemed to be getting deeper and deeper Into the morass of international trouble, but gave no outward sign of weakening In her determination to subdue the Chinese. Having received a report re-port from its investigators investiga-tors at Shanghai, placing plac-ing the onus of the hostilities on Japan, the council of the League of Nations got its dander up and sent to Tokyo a sharp note calling to Japan's Ja-pan's attention again Sscretary hpr "''ligations under ci, various treaties and otimson the league coveant, reminding re-minding her of her high position among the powers aDd appealing to her to cense the warfare against China. The decision to send this rebuke re-buke was reached in the absence of the Japanese nnd Chinese representatives represent-atives and over the protest of Germany Ger-many and Jugo-Slavia. It was signed by the "committee of twelve" and thus a loophole was provided in case it is not backed up hy the league assembly later. The communication took the same stand taken by Secretary of State Stimson. that the validity of Japanese Jap-anese occupation of Chinese territory could not be recognized. Mr. Stimson formulated another stern protest against the use of the international settlement in Shanghai by the Japanese as a base for military operations, and declined to be impressed im-pressed by Japan's argument that the other powers also had landed troops there. He told Ambassador DebuchI that if the Chinese should enter or fire on the settlement on any pretext while Japanese forces were utilizing it as a military base, the United States would hold Japan responsible. In preparation for a grand offensive the Japanese heavily shelled the Chinese Chi-nese lines, and many shells fell in the international settlement. Two English sailors were killed. This caused great excitement in London. A special meeting meet-ing of the cabinet was called at once and Prime Minister MacDonald left a nursing home to preside over it. American Amer-ican marines also were endangered by the rain of shells but there were no casualties among them. AUTHORIZED by his government, the Japanese minister to China served an ultimatum on Gen. Tsi Ting-kai, Ting-kai, commander of the Nineteenth Chi nese route army, demanding de-manding that the Chinese Chi-nese retire' twenty kilometers kil-ometers from Shanghai Shang-hai and threatening to drive them away by force should they not comply. There were evidences that the Japanese were growing anxious about the great concentration concentra-tion of Chinese troops ana reared tnat uen. chi Ka. Chiang Kai-shek would shek bring his n a 1 1 o n a 1 guard divisions to the aid of Shanghai's Shang-hai's defenders and take command of the entire army. Minister of War Araki asked Emperor Hirohito to approve ap-prove the cabinet's plan to send 30,000 to 45,000 fresh troops to Shanghai If the Chinese continued their resistance. For the third time American Consul General Cunningham had to protest against a raid by Japanese plain clothes men on the middle school of the American Methodist Church, South. The furniture was smashed, books and papers scattered about, and an American Ameri-can flag nailed on the outer wall was torn down. Other Japanese civilians assaulted American Vice Consul Arthur Ar-thur Ringwalt and an American woman wom-an he was helping out of the bombarded bombard-ed district. For this outrage Tokyo apologized. PRESIDENT HOOVER on Wednesday Wednes-day sent to congress a special message mes-sage asking support for a reorganization reorganiza-tion of the government and recommending recom-mending the creation of four new federal fed-eral offices. He requested, simultaneously, simultane-ously, the ma.lor alteration nnd changing chang-ing in title of four other federal departments. de-partments. Under the eight new and altered divisions he would consolidate present overlapping activities In an elTort to subtract "millions of dollars annually" from the tax burden. Authority also was asked for the Chief Executive to transfer nnd consolidate con-solidate executive and administrative groups merely through the Issuance of executive orders, each to lie before congress for GO days before becoming effective. Specifically, the President suggested sug-gested : 1. Consolidation of the millions of dollars' worth of construction work undertaken annually by the various federal departments into a new office lo be known as public works administrator. admin-istrator. 2. Incorporation of the vast amount f personnel administration into one 'lice headed by a "personnel admin istrator," with the civil service commission com-mission remaining In an advisory capacity to that agent. 3. Transfer of the administrative functions of running the American merchant marine to the Department of Commerce under direction of a new assistant secretary. 4. Creation of a new assistant secretaryship sec-retaryship of interior in charge of "conservation," under whom would come reclamation work and the broad supervision of water power development. develop-ment. 5. Placement of all public health activities of the government under a new assistant secretary of the treasury. treas-ury. 6. Promotion of the commissioner of education to an assistant secretary secre-tary of interior, with transfer of all educational undertakings to his care. 7. Promotion of the director of agricultural ag-ricultural economics to an assistant secretary, and the designation of an existing aid to the secretary of agriculture agri-culture as assistant secretary for agricultural research." The immediate changes, Mr. Hoover asserted, would cost about $40,000 per annum in additional salaries, but "the saving in cost of administration would be many times this sum." DEMOCRATIC leaders of the house prepared to place their own taxation tax-ation and economy proposals before the nation as a means of balancing the r national budget. Following the declaration dec-laration of Speaker Garner that President Hoover had failed to promote real economy, Representative Rainey of Illinois, Democratic leader, characterized the treasury tax proposals pro-posals as "woefully insufficient." The first step In the economy program was H. T. Rainey fte creation of a spe cial committee to study means of abolishing abol-ishing and restricting government bureaus bu-reaus to cut expenses. The house ways and means committee com-mittee met to consider the treasury's additional tax program, which Included a 1-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax and a 7 per cent tax on domestic electric light and gas bills. Rainey said : "The treasury originally recommended recommend-ed taxes totaling $920,000,000 and then admitted a mistake of over $400,000,-000, $400,000,-000, and came back with a request to raise the total. "The treasury, even in ts new estimates, esti-mates, does not take into consideration considera-tion expenses Incident to the $500,-000,000 $500,-000,000 reconstruction corporation, $125,000,000 land bank bill, possible direct di-rect relief funds of veterans' bills, and will not even estimate the increased interest on the national debt." BY A vote of 35 to 48 the senate defeated de-feated the La Follette-Costigan bill to provide $750,000,000 from the federal treasury to the states for the relief of thp tnhlpss nnrl '.iPPrlv of which enm $375,000,000 was to be handed the states for highway building. Party lines were broken, and the "progressive" "progres-sive" bloc was the only group that voted solidly for the measure. Sixteen Six-teen regular Democrats and six regular reg-ular Republicans Joined with them In Its support. This being out of the way, the senate sen-ate took up the Glass-Steagall bill to liberalize the federal reserve structure and release a fresh flood of credit throughout the national banking system. sys-tem. This measure had passed through the house with little trouble and it was expected the senate would soon give its approval. IN SELECTING a successor to Oliver Wendell Holmes on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States? President Hoover set aside 2eo- graphical considerations considera-tions and chose Benjamin Ben-jamin Nathan Car-dozo, Car-dozo, chief justice of the New York state court of appeals. The nomination was sent to the senate and early confirmation was expected, though several sev-eral protests were received re-ceived hy Senator Nor-ris, Nor-ris, chairman of the ju- 4 i C i w . Lai aidaryeommlttee-Tlns B N Cardozo appointment gives the Supreme court five Republicans and four Democrats, nnd nine of the Justices Jus-tices are from the eastern states. It had been expected that a westerner would be named. Judge Cardozo was recommended by various groups describing de-scribing themselves as liberals, and his choice for the high honor was praised by senators of such diverse affiliations affilia-tions as Norris of Nebraska Reed of Pennsylvania, Watson of Indiana and Wagner of New York. PIERRE LAVAL, losing a vote of confidence in parliament, resigned as premier of France together with his cabinet Paul Painleve, former premier, consented to try to form a new government. SPEAKER JOHN N. GAKNEK'S big western hat Is still on his head, but his friends have started his boom for the Presidential nomination by the Democratic national convention. The two senators from Texas. Morris Sheppard and Tom Connally, Issued a formal statement In which Mr. Garner was presented not only as his 't-te's favorite son, but as a statesman states-man fully qualified to be the chief of the Datlon. They prom ised that he would J. N. Garner get tte full vote of the Texas delegation and would have the support of countless other Democrats Demo-crats over the country when the nation na-tion knows more of his character and services. "He has been speaker of the house for only a few weeks," said the Texas senators. "During that period the house under his leadership has attracted at-tracted the attention of the whole country by reason of Its prompt, thorough thor-ough and statesmanlike conduct of Its affairs. His record as speaker and leader is among the highest proofs of his splendid qualities of leadership and courage." They recalled his twenty-nine years in the house as a representative from Texas as service "distinguished for its breadth of vision, Its political courage cour-age and its rugged and aggressive democracy." Mr. Garner said he had known nothing noth-ing of the statement beforehand and had no authorized spokesman. He refused re-fused to talk of his Presidential chances. JOBS for a million unemployed within with-in thirty days is the highly laudable laud-able objective of a nation-wide campaign cam-paign which the American Legion has started, in co-operation with the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor, La-bor, the National Association As-sociation of Advertisers Adver-tisers and other organizations or-ganizations r e p r e-sented e-sented on the nation na-tion a 1 employment commission. The entire en-tire movement is under un-der the general direction direc-tion of Henry L. Stevens, Jr., national H.L.stevens Jr. commander of the American Legion. It has the support of President Hoover and countless other national leaders, and the drive is being be-ing aided by magazines and other publications pub-lications commanding a total circulation circula-tion of 35,000,000. Nearly sixty national na-tional radio advertisers agreed to contribute con-tribute thirty seconds of their time on the air daily. Committees in more than 7.000 towns and ' cities, supported by more than 10,000 posts of the American Legion and 30,000 unions affiliated with the A, F. of L. are co-operating in the campaign. cam-paign. That it will be successful Is forecast by the report that nearly 25,-000 25,-000 jobs were obtained on the opening day of the drive. " VER In Germany they are getting ready for an election, and Paul von Hindenburg, their grand old man, has yielded to the petitions of thousands thou-sands of his countrymen and consented to be a candidate for re-election to the Presidency. His chief rival apparently apparent-ly will be Adolph Hitler, leader of thu German Fascist!. Press reports said Premier Klagges of Brunswick had appointed Hitler a professor of practical pedagogics at the University of Brunswick so that "the politician without a country" received re-ceived German citizenship automatically. automati-cally. Hitler had lost his Austrian citizenship and could not run for President Pres-ident in Germany unless he became a German citizen. TEWFIK RUSHDI BEY, foreign minister of Turkey, seems to be one of the most optimistic of the delegates dele-gates to the disarmament conference in Geneva. After the apparently Irreconcilable Ir-reconcilable views of the great powers had been presented the Turk arose and told the conference that the political importance of frontiers will soon be negatived by fraternization among nations, which, he snid, Is the surest means of arriving at disarmament,. disarma-ment,. Turkey, he said, has been aiming aim-ing at understandings with her neighbor neigh-bor nations, but opposed any kind of alliances except one an alliance among all nations against war. He supported the French proposal for Internationalizing civil aviation and urged prohibiting the manufacture manu-facture of offensive weapons. Germany's proposals were submitted Thursday. They Included abolition of all air armaments, destruction of air reserves of stocks, abolition of conscription, prohibition of heavy artillery ar-tillery and tanks, limitation of the size of warships and prohibition of aircraft carriers and submarines. MRS. MINNIE MADDERN FISKE, for many years the foremost actress in America, died in Hollis, L. I., after three months' Illness at the age of . sixty-seven years. For half a century she had greatly entertained the people of the nation, and her passing pass-ing was as greatly mourned. Sir Edgar Speyer, who had been called "the man without a country," passed away In P.erlin. At the beginning be-ginning of the World war he was an eminent British financier and a privy councilor. Accused of treason and of being a friend of Germany, In which country he was born, he came to the United Slates, and later his British naturalization wr.s revoked. tl. 1532. Western Newspaper Union. 1 |