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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over LindLergh Baly Kidnaping Brought Near Solution Ly Arrest President's Board Offers Plan for Settling the Textile Strike. By EDWARD W. PICKARD by Western Newspaper Union. WITH tlie arrest of Kruno Itlchard ll.-iuptmann In Now York city, the Roveninieiit agent!) and slate police ap jiea red to be well on tlie way toward solving tlie Lindbergh baby kidnaping and murder mystery. The prisoner, a (Jermiin alien thirty-live years old, was nabbed after be bad given to a filling mutlon man a $10 gold certificate that was found to be part of the ransom paid the kidnapers by Dr. John F, Condon Con-don "Jafsie" over a cemetery wall In a vain attempt to get the baby returned. re-turned. In Ilauptinnnn's garage In the Itronx the police found SKS.T.jO which also was Identified as part of the $.jU, KiO Jafsie had paid. Then circumstantial circum-stantial evidence rapidly was gathered to prove Ilaiiptmann was one of the guilty men, and he was partially ldenti-lled ldenti-lled hy Doctor Condon, as well as by a taxi cab driver who said the prisoner was the man who gave him $1 eleven days KfLsr the kidnaping to carry a note to Jafsie. (Hilda Is of the department of justice jus-tice announced that 1 lauptm.-inn's handwriting hand-writing tallied with that of ransom notes pent by the kidnapers. l'ollcc Commissioner John I O'Ryan, who made the oflicinl announcement of the developments jointly for New York and New Jersey authorities as well as for the federal Department of Justice, declared that llanptmnnu admitted ad-mitted under severe questioning that lie had been employed as a carpenter near the Lindbergh home at Hopewell. O'ltynn also asserted that police had established thnt nauptmnnn had had access to the lumber yard In which lumber was found bearing a peculiar mark, similar to that found on the ladder left at the scene of the kidnaping. kidnap-ing. Flauptmann, he added. Is In this country illegally, lie Is married and has a ten-year-old son. Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh, who were in Los Angeles, were said to have known in advance that the arrest was expected. They secluded themselves and would say nothing for publication. FEDERAL JUDGE YV. CALVIN CIIESNUT of Baltimore handed down an opinion holding that the farm moratorium amendment to the federal bankruptcy act passed by congress last June is unconstitutional. This amendment, known as the Frazier-Lemke Frazier-Lemke law, authorizes debt-ridden farmers to go into federal courts and reduce their obligations. The Judge held that it violates the rights of creditors as outlined in the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution Consti-tution and that It seeks to supersede tlie rights of state courts. The court pointed out that each etate hag laws to protect both the creditor and the debtor. The Frazier-Lemke Frazier-Lemke act, it was stated, wiped away the safeguards for creditors and amounted to. confiscation of property, PEACE In the textile Industry was almost In sight after the President's special mediation board reported to him Its plan for ending the bloody J I Gov. Winant strike that has been going on for weeks. The report was carried to Mr. Roosevelt at Hyde Park by Secretary Secre-tary of Labor Perkins and Gov. John G. Winant, Wi-nant, chairman of the board. It proposed the following four point program : 1. Appointment by the President of a textile tex-tile labor rela 1 1 o n s board of three members to settle all questions of union recognition at the several textile mills and to handle all other employer-employee disputes in the industry. 2. An investigation by the Department Depart-ment of Labor and the federal trade commission of the textile industry's ability to meet the higher wage payments pay-ments which the union is demanding. 3. A moratorium on the "stretchout" "stretch-out" system, whereby, the union claims, employers are adding to the work load of their employees; during the moratorium the textile labor relations rela-tions board shall appoint a textile work assignment control board to plan permanent control of the stretchout 4. An Investigation by the Department Depart-ment of Labor into the various classifications classi-fications of work in the textile fndns-try fndns-try and the wage scale for each classification. classi-fication. President Roosevelt was highly pleased with the 10,000-word report of the board and expressed his hope that It would show the way to end the Strike. F. J. Gorman, leader of the strike, submitted to the union's executive execu-tive council the question of having the workers return to the mills pending final .a.-rangenients. Imaiedintely preceding these developments devel-opments the mills had been reopening under military protection, and in consequence con-sequence the strikers had resumed their acts of violence. There were numerous nu-merous bloody encounters between them and National Guardsmen in New Kngand, New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia and the Pnrolinas. In Connecticut Con-necticut the disorders abated and the Etate troops were being demobilized. Currying ou! his plans for extending the strike to all branches of the textile tex-tile Industry, Gorman sent out orders for 20.000 dyers to quite their Jobs. The union workers were still enraged en-raged at Gen. Hugh S. JohnsoD, NItA administrator, for his attack on the strike at a meeting of code authorities In New York. Me charged that the walkout was In "absolute violation" of an agreement made by the United Textile Tex-tile Workers with the government last June. This the union lenders flatly denied, de-nied, and they demanded tlie resignation resigna-tion of Johnson. Gorman said: "We will not join in submitting any Issue to the NItA as long as General Johnson Is administrator or occupies a position of determining Influence In the recovery administration. We said he ought to resign and we meant it. Since that Is our view, we could not join In any submission to the NItA while he has the power to make NliA decisions." If present plans are carried out, a quarrer of a million cotton garment workers will go on strike throughout the country on October 1. This strike is called, according to the union lead ers, because the manufacturers refused to comply with NRA's order to reduce the weekly working hours from 40 to 3G. ONE of the sharpest thorns In the side of the Roosevelt administration administra-tion will not be in the next congress to clve nnin to the Ww Don 1 ers J. M. Beck James M. Beck of Pennsylvania, leading authority on the Constitution, Con-stitution, has announced an-nounced he will not seek re-election because be-cause congress has become "a rubber stamp." He had been renominated, but prefers pre-fers not to run. However, How-ever, the administration administra-tion will not be relieved re-lieved from his at tacks, for lie Intends to continue them in the courts. "I am not retiring from public life," Mr. Beck explains. "This Is no time for any citizen to lessen his activities in defense of our form of government. I am .retiring from congress because I believe I can help In this great cause more effectively in the federal courts, where I have practiced for more than fifty years, than in congress, where the minority is gagged and reduced to impotence. im-potence. "Our form of government can only be saved by restoration of the Republican Repub-lican party to power, and I hope with my pen and voice to serve that party as effectually in the ranks as In congress." con-gress." WISCONSIN'S state primary was especially interesting because of the fact that the Democrats polled the largest vote by a wide margin, mar-gin, the La Follette Progressives and the Republicans trailing. The Democrats re-nominated Gov. Albert G. Schedeman, vigorous supporter of the New Deal. He will be opposed op-posed by Phil La Follette, who received the Progressive nomination without contest, and Howard T. Greene, Republican, Repub-lican, who defeated former Governor Zimmerman and J. N. Tittemore. John N. Callahan, former national committeeman, was named for the senate sen-ate by the Democrats, and John B. Chappelle was the unopposed choice of the Republicans. Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., was of course nominated nomi-nated by his new party. RCSSIA was duly admitted to membership mem-bership in the League of Nations, only three votes in opposition being cast, and then was given a permanent seat In the council of the league. Maxim Max-im Lltvinov, Soviet commissar for foreign for-eign affairs, pledged his nation to work through the league for world peace. Declaring flatly that Russia would give up no attribute of its social system, sys-tem, Litvinov warned the assembly that "peace and security cannot be organized or-ganized on the basis of shifting sands and verbal promises." It should be established, he said, "that any stale is entitled to demand reasonable security se-curity from Its near and remote neighbors." neigh-bors." This, however, should never be Interpreted as distrust, Litvinov added. Next day, after a debate on plans to end the war between Paraguay and Bolivia, spokesmen for Russia privately private-ly asserted that the danger of war in the Far East has lessened, relations between Japan and Russia having improved. im-proved. NOME, the once famous gold city of Alaska, lies In ruins, having been swept by flames wrth damage estimated at S3.000.000. Four hundred persons were rendered homeless, and most of the food supplies were burned up. Belief vessels with food and medical med-ical supplies were rushed to the place and there was no fear of shortage. The government at Washington granted $50,000 in direct assistance and planned other relief measures. The citizens were hurriedly procuring lumber and other materials in the hope of at least partly rebuilding the city before it Is isolated by winter ice. TAMES A. MOFFETT, federal hous-J hous-J lug commissioner, announced that on November 1 he would begin releasing releas-ing funds for the construction of at least a million new homes. Concerning the home modernization and repair phase of the program, the administrator declared that more than 1,000 communities have set up or are setting up committees to direct the program locally, lie predicted that by Thanksgiving more than 5.000 municipalities munici-palities will have established such committees. com-mittees. Financial support, he said, has come from 7,000 banks, and such loans have been made In all states but three. "From field reports we estimate that one million dollars a day of loans are being made under our plan; and from experience In past community modernization modern-ization campaigns we are sure that double that amount of cash business is being done." TOBACCO, which Is the third largest crop in the United States, has always al-ways been without an organized futures fu-tures market. But it has one now, for the New York Tobacco Exchange, Inc., on Broad street, has opened for business after two years of preliminary prelimi-nary organization work in which the federal department of agriculture cooperated. co-operated. The contract basis Is United States standard flue cured type 12, grade B4F. There are nine types and numerous grades deliverable under specified differentials dif-ferentials under the form of contract that has beeu adopted. The unit of trading is 10,000 pounds and quotations quota-tions are In cents and five one-hun-dredths of a cent per pound. Delivery points have been established to date at Norfolk and Newport News, Va., and Louisville, Ky. j XTEW YORK'S city assembly has L" adopted a lottery scheme for the purpose of raising relief funds, a way having been devised to circumvent the law. The business men and the clergy are protesting violently. D REMIER MUSSOLINI repeatedly r asserts that Italy wants no more war, but he is taking no chances. In ' an order designed to make Italy an "armed nation," his cabinet has directed direct-ed that all males above the age of eight and below thirty-three, shall receive military training. At the same time it was revealed that Italy's farming Industry will ba brought into strong national organization organiza-tion under the corporative state system, sys-tem, to be inaugurated November 10. i The working class will be welded to- ! gether in one group and the owner- ; manager class in another. The two classes will be united in the central corporations. j Two major national co-ordinating bodies have been created for the sepa- i rate groups. These are the Fascist ' Confederation of Agriculturists, for the i owner-managers, and the Fascist Confederation Con-federation of Agricultural Workers. If Italy does have a war In the near j future, it is likely to be with Jugo- j slavia. Just now the two nations are j quarreling bitterly. Mussolini Is espe- dally vexed because Jugoslavia is har- i boring 2,500 Austrian Nazis close to the. border and not curbing their plans for another putsch. AUSTRIA is thoroughly aroused by seemingly authentic reports from Brussels that former Empress Zita Intends In-tends to establish her residence in Aus- Archduke Otto li iu, uiuiig vviui uur eight children, including includ-ing Archduke Otto, pretender to the thrones of both that country and Hungary. It was asserted that this Hapsburg family had been granted permission per-mission to return as plain citizens if Otto would promise not to seek In any way to bring about restora tion of the monarchy. Quite unofficially, it is said restoration restora-tion of the Hapsburg monarchy would not be opposed by either France or i Italy, but the British foreign office , scouted the idea. The little entente nations would be strongly against It i but migiit not hold the Vienna gov- ! ernment entirely responsible. I In Vienna a spokesman for the foreign for-eign office said that the return to Austria Aus-tria of the Hapsburg family, even as private individuals, is "still impossible." impossi-ble." Some member of the Hapsburg family fam-ily may be allowed to return to represent repre-sent the family In the long pending lawsuit over the Hapsburgs' proper- j ties, he said, but this Is not likely to be Archduke Otto, because of the dan- ; ger that disturbances might result from his presence. Socialists and labor unions un-ions would surely start trouble. CA. COBB, chief of the cotton pro- ! duction section of the farm administration, ad-ministration, announced that the third cotton "parity" payment due in De- : ceiuber would be combined with the second rental payment and that both would be distributed in October. The total thus to be paid out will approximate approxi-mate ?72,500,000. Mr. Cobb said that tenants and share croppers had an interest in the , "parity" payment and that to put off payment until December, the usual sea- ! son for many tenants and renters to move to other farms, would cause unnecessary un-necessary complications. WLAWSON LITTLE, a husky San Francisco youth, has accomplished accom-plished the feat of capturing the Brit- ! lish and American national amateur j golf championships in one season. This has been done only twice before. Lit- ' tie easily defeated David Goldman of ' Dallas, Texas, in the finals of the na- i tional tournament at Brooklln, Has. |