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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Cuba Quieting Down With De Cespedes as President Basic Industries Slow With Codes Johnson Relies on the Women. By EDWARD W. PICKARD CUBA, recovering from Its spasm of revolution, began to settle back Into normal living under Its new provisional pro-visional President. Carlos Manuel de "'sj Cespedes. Killing ; and looting, rhat pre- ' vailed for several days accompanying I : the ousting of the J5 Machado regime, -jMs : ceased In the main, t though the pursuit and iM'S - capture or slaughter of -'fc porristas was contin- i " ''jw' A ned The long suffer- Liia m lDg Cubans were de" termlned to wipe out President De a hose murderolls Cespedes m embers of Ma-chado's Ma-chado's secret police. Dr. De Cespedes appointed his cabinet ministers, most of them belonging to the ABC or the Nationalist party, and they were sworn In. The President himself took the post of secretary of state. Castillo Pokorny was made minister of war and CoL Erasmo Delgado, leader of the military mil-itary coup that forced Machado to flee, was appointed military commander comman-der of Havana. Machado, who fled to Nassau In the Bahamas by airplane, accompanied by several of his closest friends, was reported re-ported to have taken with him several million dollars though he left behind even his clothing. His wife and other members of the family escaped the vengeance of the mobs by taking n gnnboat yacht to Key West, Fla., whence they expected to go to New York and later to Paris. The ex-dictator said he probably would remain in Nassau and would not interfere with development1? In Cnba. No one would even intimate that the Roosevelt administration fomented the anti-Machado revolution, but the State department In Washington certainly cer-tainly knew In advance just about what was going to happen in Cuba, t knew Machado would be ousted, and that he would be succeeded by De Cespedes. Ces-pedes. Ambassador Welles" was In close touch with the revolutionaries and was apprised of their plans. Assistant As-sistant Secretary of State Caffery was kept Informed and approved each step taken, and President toosevelt apparently appar-ently let him and Mr. Welles work out the problem themselves. The Cubans selected De Cespedes for the Presidency, Presi-dency, but he received the O. K. of official offi-cial Washington before being named. The Islanders, were not coerced in any way by the United States, however, and the three American warships that were sent to Havana and Manzanillo were sent only to protect American lives and property. What part in the revolution was played by the National City Bank of New York and Electric Bond and Shares, which have heavy Interests in Cuba, has not been revealed. Both concerns had formerly been considered supporters of Machado, but seemingly they did not lift a hand to save him from destruction. Probably they will come out at the big end of the horn when the Island Is rehabilitated. This recovery, Cuban business men feel. Is certain If the price of sugar can be raised a cent or a cent and a half a pound, which can be done If the United States tariff of two cents a pound Is reduced or abolished. They believe, too, that Cuba would then become a good customer for American goods. Cuba's national debt, hugely Increased under Machado, also will have to be refunded, for the interest and amortization amorti-zation payments now amount to 81,500.000 a month. President Roosevelt was so satisfied with the state of affairs In Cuba that he went for a short motor trip in the Virginia mountains. Before leaving Washington he and President De Cespedes Ces-pedes exchanged friendly messages. Secretary of State Hull explained to the press that Cuba had really not had a change of government. Ho said It was a mere change of personnel without with-out any alteration In the structure or processes of government Consequently, Consequent-ly, he said, the United States did not find It necessary to extend recognition to President De Cespedes since he came In under the constitutional method meth-od of succession in Cuba. STIC EL, oil. coal and automobile Industries, In-dustries, looked upon as basic, were still unable to formulate codes satisfactory to their various factions and to the national re- covery administration. This slowed up the fXT"'"? NI!A stride so much t , :,,,'. that President Iloose- t ' y velt called on Hugh E Johnson to get quirk l action, and the admin- Islrntor told the lead- jf' " A em In Hie Industries that they must at J once agree on codes g J providing rn I ri I rn n m wag.. and maximum Gr" limns. There was un unpleasant In-(Mi In-(Mi nt In Hi'' Iron and sli-i-l discussions that rausi-d further delay. William Creen. president of tin: American I'ed eralH'ri of Labor, went Into a confer-erne confer-erne as a member of the NKA labor advisory board and also on the Invitation Invi-tation of .S'eireliir.v PerkliiH. But the steel leaders took one look at him and walked out. Green declared this act was "a challenge chal-lenge to the government." and continued contin-ued : "The question is whether steel is to dictate to the government or whether the government is going to set up machinery ma-chinery under the industrial recovery net and require industry to work with that machinery." Shortly thereafter the labor advisory advis-ory board formally protested his exclusion. ex-clusion. Johnson described it as "Miss Per kins' party" and declined further discussion. dis-cussion. The labor secretary, who continued In conference with the steel leaders without Green, made no statement. state-ment. Better progress was made with the oil and automobile codes. The former. for-mer. It was believed, would provide for a measure of government super vision of prices. A group of Texas oil producers who challenged the constitutionality con-stitutionality of the recovery act met defeat In the District of Columbia Supreme Su-preme court Justice Joseph Cox denied de-nied the application for an injunction against sections of the law permitting federal regulation of oil production. FOLLOWING a conference of Presi dent Roosevelt and his executive council, it was announced that the administration approved the Chicago Board of Trade's decision to withdraw the peg from wheat futures. Secretary Wallace said: "We are going to do everything effective ef-fective that we can to keep the price of wheat up, but we are not going to Indulge in sleight-of-hand business. The peg was put in to give time to Iron out a technical situation arising from one extremely large speculative account. ac-count. We can't keep up the price of wheat by pegging futures. We are not engaging in a stabilization operation. oper-ation. We will try to do as effectively as possible the fundamental things which will keep the price of wheat up." It was announced, also, that the government gov-ernment was waiving the bulk of its debt claims against cotton farmers who have complied with the acreage reduction program so that about .? lix ).-000,0110 ).-000,0110 would start moving In small checks to farmers within a few days. The same formula found for cotton will be used for wheat. CMRST of the open disputes within the personnel of the recovery administration ad-ministration resulted In the resignation resigna-tion of Prof. W. F. Ogbnrn as a mem - : ber of the consumers' f . advisory bonrd. Or-..- burg, who Is an econ- f" ""T omist from the Uni-'"n Uni-'"n f , versity of Chicago, 8 ( f i was vexed because f ... ft Mrs. Mary narriman f: Rumsey, chairman of th hoard, appointed . i Mrs. Hugh R. John-J John-J V i son. wife of the ads' ad-s' 1 mlnistrator, chairman ,, of the complaint corn-Mrs. corn-Mrs. H. R. ... , , , , , mittee. and declared Johnson ... the committee was unable to fulfill Its functions. Ogburn told Johnson the consuming public was not being protected, and later he said that the expressed policy of the NKA of keeping purchasing power moving alongside of rising prices "will be blocked. I predict, for want of adequate ade-quate Indexes. "The complaints (against violations of codes by employers) . I recommend, should be handled by a 'line' organiza tion and not by an advisory hoard." Mr. Johnson's only comment on Professor Pro-fessor Oghurn's resignation was, "It's all right with me." Flying In an army plane to Rf. I,onls. Mr. Johnson made a stirring ap peal for support of the President's reemployment re-employment program, asserting Its success suc-cess depended upon co-operation of the people In each town. and. In the last analysis, upon the women. "Woman In defense of the support of her home." he said, "is about as safe for triflors as a lioness at the door of a denful of cubs. When every American house wife understands that the Bine Eagle on everything that she permits to come Into her home Is a symbol of Its restorn tion to security, may God have mercv on the man or group of men who attempts at-tempts to trifle with that bin." f 5 ARTS of four provinces In China are reported to be Hooded by the waters of the Yellow river and many thousands of the wretched Inhabitants have been drowned. The flood was said to be the worst since 1XS7. Sev era I Important towns were In danger of utter destruction. M ItTINEZ M ERA, who wns Inniigu-rated Inniigu-rated president of Ecuador only last Derember. tuny have to give up his high odiee. for lie doesn't teem to be satisfactory to tin? country. The congress con-gress voted. 'I- to 'Z'l, to send a coin mission to him to ask him "In the name of democracy" to let the popular will rule. Latest dispatches from Quito said soldiers were guarding the presidential palace; but It Is bard to say which way Ealln -American soldiers- will Jump. I TNC1.E SAM'S war on criminals, especially kidnapers and racketeers, racke-teers, made progress in some regions, notably In the capture in Texas of Harvey Bailey, escaped convict and leader of desperadoes who is wanted for numerous crimes in the Middle West, including the machine gun massacre mas-sacre last June at the Kansas City Union station. Bailey also is charged with the recent kidnaping of C. F. Urschel, Oklahoma oil operator, and ten others implicated in that crime have been nabbed. The federal crusaders, however, staged an awful Hop near Chicago. Government agents, policemen and deputy sheriffs to the number of 250. equipped with airplanes, squad cars, machine guns and bombs, cornered two kidnapers for whom they had laid a trap, chased them by land and air ail over the western part of Cook county, and then had to admit their quarry had escaped. The kidnapers had been baited with a promise of collecting col-lecting a second SoO.OOO from Jake Factor. They are supposed to be members of the Roger Touhy gang, four of whom. Including the leader, are government prisoners under indictment in-dictment for the kidnaping of William Hamni. Jr., wealthy St. Paul brewer. Chicago's law authorities are doing better. The courts are manned by judges who have given up their vacations, va-cations, and every day sees a number of desperate criminals convicted and sentenced to prison terms. The usual long delays granted to defendants in such cases are being refused by the Judges, and the unsavory lot of lawyers law-yers who get rich defending known murderers and gangsters are rather dumfounded. RUSSIANS. Jews and International Free Masons, are concocting a world plot against Germany, according accord-ing to Dor Deutsche of Berlin, official . , . organ of the Nazi "la s' bor front" The paper jfe-".. cites, as proof that ft secret negotiations I sv are being carried on, f&fy tne simultaneous pres- I : ence at the French 1 i , resort of Royat of E w Bernard Baruch of iT- New York, Andre Tar- "i, ..-'&'A dieu of France, Leon K:. T;"'J Trotzky. Maxim Llt- , vinov, Russian for-Bernard for-Bernard , . eign commissar, and Baruch ,, . the Russian ambassador ambassa-dor to the republic of Turkey. Former Premier Edouard Herriot's trip to Moscow is also part of the plot against Germany, according to Der Deutsche. which warns Germans against what It terms the duplicity of the Soviet Russians and "Jews who want to profit by the chaos and hatred they sow among nations." The Swiss, on the other hand, claim to have discovered n Nazi plot, one of their papers charging that Hitler's followers fol-lowers have launched a propaganda campaign for the annexation of German Ger-man Switzerland to Germany. An American sailor named Thorsten Johnson was sentenced to six months In Jail at Stettin on charges of calling Chancellor "a Czechoslovakian Jew," and the American authorities were preparing to move for his release. JAPAN'S fine navy of about 20 ships sailed south from Tokyo, under un-der personal command of Emperor Ilirohito, and began the maneuvers that take the form of an encounter with a hypothetical foe attacking Japan from the equatorial Pacific. It was assumed that the enemy fleet had seized the Caroline and Marshall Islands, between the Philippines and Hawaii, which the League of Nations Na-tions turned over to Japan under mandate man-date after the Germans lost them In the World war. THOUGH the old prohibition bureau bu-reau has been abolished, and repeal re-peal Is expected before the close of the year, "liquor control Is neither dead nor forgotten," In the words of L. Mcllenry Howe. The secretary to the President said the bureau had merely been nbsorbed by the division of Investigation In-vestigation of the Department of Justice, Jus-tice, adding that "If any racketeers or bootleggers are holding celebrations over the supposed demise of the bureau bu-reau they arc due for an awful shock." "When the Eighteenth amendment Is repealed." Howe added, "the bootlegger boot-legger will find himself if anything In closer quarters than now. Uncle Sam is counting on several hundreds of millions of dollars from revenue taxes, which will lighten the taxpayers' burdensand bur-densand If you are laboring under any Illusion that he doesn't Intend to collect every reel cent of It you nre making the mistake of your life." DETERMINED to prevent graft In the expenditures of the government's govern-ment's huge $:s..'VKI.IHKI.(MHI public works fund. Secretary I ekes, the administrator, administra-tor, announced appointment of ten regional re-gional Inspectors as the nucleus of nn organization to see to It that the government gov-ernment gets Its money's worth. They will receive their orders from and report directly to Louis It. Glavls, chief of the division of Investigations of the Interior department. All engineers, familiar wilh construction con-struction work, the Inspectors will ho charged with seeing that contract specifications nre fully met, anil with Investigating evidences of conspiracy In bidding and cotnplalnls. Cil-'.N. ITAI.O I'.AI.BO and his fellow J avialors brought their great seaplanes sea-planes back to Italy and were given a welcome by Premier Mussolini and the people that was much like the triumphs of the ancient Caesars. 1 initio ini-tio was made air marshal and each of his men was promoted and decorated. deco-rated. 1U31 U'Mlurn K,tr HhIm |