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Show SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Hitler and II Duce Meet ITALY will not interfere with Nazi 1 Germany's plans to help the Sudeten Sude-ten Germans in Czechoslovakia and perhaps to annex the territory they inhabit. In return, , ' Germany will do r nothing to check It- aly's plans in the j. -fv Mediterranean, es- pecially in northern ' Africa. , f v But Italy is averse jj - ' to forming a mili- kv ' tary alliance with Germany and will Ilk I not permit itself t0 become involved in Adolf Hitler a decision 0f war or peace over the Czechoslovakian question, and is rather in favor of the British plan for a four-power agreement among Britain, Italy, Germany and France for European peace. That is briefly what is believed at this writing to have developed in the first momentous conference between be-tween Hitler and Mussolini in Rome. No official statement was given out immediately. Hitler, according to reports, opened up with a long statement concerning British rearmament, seeking to wean "Mussolini away from his tir;-up with England. And he asked Italy's support in his demands de-mands for return of Germany's lost colonies. II Duce, it was said, told the Fuehrer that German help in defeating de-feating loyalist Spain was vital, but Hitler was noncommittal on this point. Hitler was given a wonderful reception re-ception in Rome. He was lodged in the Quirinal palace, being officially offi-cially the guest of King Victor Emmanuel. Em-manuel. The city was lavishly decorated dec-orated and elaborate demonstrations and reviews were staged to impress him with the power and discipline of Fascist Italy. After several preliminary conferences confer-ences in which Foreign Ministers Von Ribbentrop and Ciano participated, partici-pated, Hitler went to Naples and witnessed a naval review that was a startling revelation of Italy's sea power. One Italian who didn't cheer the Nazi chieftain was Pope Pius. In an address at his summer home, Castel Gandolfo, to which he had conveniently retired, he deplored as a "sad thing" the raising of the Nazi swastika in Rome on Holy Cross day, the day of Hitler's arrival. Labor Act Denounced VyiLLIAM S. KNUDSEN, presi-" presi-" dent of General Motors, speaking speak-ing before the United States Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce, declared the Wagner Wag-ner labor relations act is the "largest drawback to good in dustrial relations " j Discussing the x I strikes that have i tied up his compa- t' j ny's plants at van ous times in recent . months, Knudsen J said in a prepared : : ;ss 1 address: " "The national la- bor relations board VV.S. Knudsen set up to administer the act makes no pretense even of paying any attention at-tention to the employer's side of the case. "He can only be heard when he is summoned, and he knows before he goes that there is no record of a single decision where he has had a ghost of a show. So what!" The Chamber of Commerce adopted adopt-ed a resolution strongly urging the repeal of the labor relations act, and asked that "management and labor work together without recourse to the federal government." Other resolutions were substantially substan-tially as follows: Demand for relief from present tax burdens, the fight transferring itself from the undistributed corporate cor-porate profits tax and the capital fains tax to the broader field of an annual tax bill which has jumped 30 per cent in the last two years to a total federal-state-local levy of $13,-500,000,000 $13,-500,000,000 a year. Urgent request for drastic revision revi-sion or repeal of the national labor la-bor relations act. Caution and warning on the renewed re-newed government spending program, pro-gram, apart from relief expenditures. expendi-tures. Insistence that White House sentiments senti-ments favoring private enterprise be put into practice through peace with the utilities, abstention from further innovations in government control, and encouragement of private industrial indus-trial expansion. President Roosevelt, who was on a fishing trip on a cruiser in South Atlantic waters, was heard from only indirectly in addresses by Jesse Jones of RFC, Secretary of War Woodring and Chester C. Davis of the federal reserve board. George H. Davis of Kansas City was re-elected president of the organization, or-ganization, and John W. O'Leary of Chicago, chairman of the executive committee. Ireland Elects Dr. Hyde TR. DOUGLAS HYDE has been made the first president of Ireland Ire-land the former Irish Free State. He was invited to take the post by the two largest par- ssssssssssipss' ties and, being un- &N SJ" s opposed, was de- .1 clared elected by ; v acclamation and at I y l5s x once inaugurated H? i for a seven year ? & , term beginning June s( 1. Though chosen to , be head of a pre- . dominantly Roman I N "JVj" ( Catholic state, Hyde J is a Protestant. He " is seventy - eight Douglas Hyde years old and one of the leading champions of the use of Gaelic, the old Irish language. He is a retired university professor and has written writ-ten a number pf books. The inauguration of the president was marked by the release of six prominent political prisoners, the only Republicans still held in jail. Crop Control Revolt Grows 'TpHROUGHOUT the Middle West - the revolt against compulsory crop control was spreading rapidly under the leadership of the Corn Belt Liberty league. Plans for incorporation in-corporation of the league in several states were being perfected and many branches were organized. Unfortunately Un-fortunately for the corn growers, their representatives in congress seemed to be inactive. In the South the cotton and tobacco to-bacco growers were equally resentful resent-ful of the control features of the farm act, and southern senators told the senate of the revolt among their constituents so forcibly that the senate sen-ate adopted a series of amendments to the law designed to appease them. One provides that any cotton cot-ton acreage allotment within a state not desired by the farmers receiving receiv-ing it may be apportioned among other" farmers within that state. Another An-other amendment would placate the growers of certain types of tobacco. Big Navy Bill Passed PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S $1,-157,000,000 $1,-157,000,000 naval expansion bill was passed by the senate by a vote of 56 to 28. The measure empowers this government gov-ernment to surpass the rearmament programs of other nations with construction con-struction of the most powerful warships war-ships ever floated. However, it precludes pre-cludes the possibility of the United States precipitating a race of super-warships super-warships by limiting the size of future battleships to treaty specifications specifi-cations of 35.000 tons unless it is determined de-termined foreign powers are building build-ing in excess of treaty restrictions. In the latter event, the United States will be authorized to construct con-struct super-dreadnaughts of 45,000 tons, armed with deadly 18-inch guns. Primary Results T ETURNS from four state-wide primaries were hailed by Democratic Dem-ocratic leaders as national party indorsement in-dorsement of President Roosevelt's program; but Republicans rejoiced over an apparent 30,000 G. O. P. plurality in South Dakota. The Florida victory of Senator Claude Pepper, New Dealer, in a three-cornered race, on top of New Deal victories in Alabama and Indiana, In-diana, drew this statement from Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley: "These primary elections show definitely that, in spite of the screaming propaganda by the successors suc-cessors to the Liberty League and the spokesmen of the Liberty league policies, there exists no falling off in President Roosevelt's prestige and that the nation approves the legislation the President has advocated." advo-cated." In Alabama the only significant occurrence was defeat of former Sen. Tom Heflin for the house in his old home district. Senate Mileage Grab 'X7"ITH a mighty chorus of "ayes" ' but no tell-tale record vote, the United States senate put over a $222,000 congressional mileage grab. By another voice vote, the senate refused to restrict the payment of the mileage (20 cents a mile) to members who actually went to and from their homes between the special spe-cial session ending December 21 and the regular session beginning January 3. Senator Borah tried in vain to prevent the grab, which he denounced as a disgrace. Franco Restores Jesuits GENERALISSIMO FRANCO'S Spanish rebel cabinet ordered re-establishment of the Society of Jesus in the territory controlled by the insurgents. This act set aside a government edict which more than six years ago dissolved the Spanish Jesuits and confiscated their property, proper-ty, estimated at more than $30,000,000. Franc Is Devalued THE French government an-nounced an-nounced that the franc was devalued de-valued and stabilized at 38.80 francs to the dollar and 179 to the pound. Officially the act was called "de facto stabilization." This was believed be-lieved to mean the franc would be allowed to fluctuate above this level but would be held by the equalization equaliza-tion fund from falling below it in conformity with Premier Edouard Daladier's pledge to the nation. Railroads Vote Pay Cut FIFTEEN per cent reduction in wages of 925,000 union workers, effective July 1, was voted by the Association of American Railroads at a session attended by the executives execu-tives of more than a hundred railway rail-way companies. They declared the two most important reasons for this action were loss of revenue and increases in-creases in operating costs. George Harrison, chairman of the Association of Railway Labor Executives, Exec-utives, said: "We don't propose to submit to wage reductions. The action ac-tion of the roads is ill-advised and unfortunate and will have a tendency tenden-cy to obstruct the President's recovery re-covery program " D. B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, declared: "There will be no wage reduction agreed to by railroad employees." Manufacturers' Program "T'HE National Association of Man ufacturers, meeting in New York, declared that federal pump priming to stimulate business would be futile "unless it is accompanied by governmental policies that will permit business to accept the priming prim-ing and go forward." The association's board proposed a seven point program for revival of business activity. It included: "Declaration by the federal gov: ernment that it will not proceed in competition with private utilities. "Revision of the Wagner act so as to make it a workable instrument instru-ment for curtailing labor disputes. "Prompt solution of the underlying underly-ing railroad problem. "Avoidance of new federal reform legislation that will result in a fresh period of uncertainty at a time when the nation should be concentrating upon making jobs." Timber Company in Court CIRCUIT JUDGE FEINBERG of ' Chicago issued an injunction tying ty-ing up five bank accounts said to contain more than hah a million dollars in funds of the Resources Corporation International, which is under investigation by the federal securities and exchange commission. commis-sion. The injunction was issued on the petition of Magnus C. Brinkman and his wife, Anna, of Sheboygan, Wis., stockholders in the corporation. At the same time Judge Feinberg ordered or-dered a hearing on appointment of a receiver for the company, which was organized in 1931 to sell timber cutting contracts on 2,000,000 acres of Mexican lands. The suit, filed by Attorneys William A. Rogan and William C. Burns, names 21 individuals individ-uals and five subsidiary corporations. corpora-tions. The Brinkmans, who own $2,000 in stock of the corporation, charge that its chairman, Harper S. Hoover, Hoo-ver, through fraud, has got more than $2,000,000 belonging to the company com-pany and has converted it to his owd purposes. |