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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over ino-Japanese War May Come From Autonomy Movement Move-ment Oil Emhargo Against Italy Postponed President Busy With the Budget. By EDWARD W. PICKARD . Wentern Newspaper Union. rOWNItICIIT wnr between the Chlmse nrmles of IMrtHtor Clilung Kal-8hek aim the Japanese appeared almoHt certain wlien the r1fh-m autonomy .move-I .move-I $1 :) ment In n o r t Ii t-'' China was revived In eastern Hopt'1 ,f and Chaliar prov- HZ?GZf lncos h Vln Ju- ! -af I -,. I?, kenp;, the ndmlnis- I l native commission- .11 ' . r ani1 fri''nl of '"'ma Japan. Leaders of , the rest of the re- '"V j tilon were undoelil- , , ed on their course. Gen. Ch ana . . , ,. , ,. , hut Japanese Kai-shek , . troos hean to pour In by the tralnload. Three thousand of them with full war equipment arrived In Tientsin, and the garrison at I'elphu; was more than doubled. The I'Viifctiil railway junction a few miles from IVIpinj; was seized. Colonel Takahashl, military mil-itary attache, asserting this was necessary because the rolling stock was boinff moved south, threatening threaten-ing the Isolation of the Japanese forces. In Nanking ofllclals said the national na-tional government was determined to meet with force any attempt to force autonomy on the territory south of Ilopel and Cliahar provinces, prov-inces, and the executive Yuan proclaimed pro-claimed tive sweeping reforms designed de-signed to stop the spread of the movement. Chiang was hurrying large bodies of troops to the northward. north-ward. . He also sought to hold the support of the Shantung war lord, Han Fti-chu, by entrusting him with the defense of the northern llonan and Shantung frontiers, and promising prom-ising him -money and supplies, if needed, to stem Invasion. Han Fu-cliu Fu-cliu of late has been wooed assiduously as-siduously by the Japanese. Wang Ching-wel, premier and foreign for-eign minister of the Nationalist government, gov-ernment, resigned as president of the cabinet. He has not fully recovered re-covered from the recent attempt to assassinate him. Gen. Sliang Chen, governor of Hope! province, also resigned, accepting the responsibility respon-sibility for failure to check the autonomy au-tonomy plot. XTOVEiMHKR 2!) had been set as L the date for a meeting of the League of Nations sanctions committee com-mittee to consider the Imposition of an oil emhargo , against rtaly, but FvT3 Premier I.aval and - Yi British Ambassador f jAl George It u s s e 1 1 R n? Clerk, after a con- b. ference In Paris. & X- recommended that II the session be in i J definitely post- l-k aV poned, and this ac- I J tion was taken. The LsJ J?k statesmen feared early oil sanctions Parmer Laval would seriously aggravate the political po-litical situation, anil I.aval thought if lie were given more time he might bring about the conciliation of the Italo-F.thinpian quarrel. There were good reasons for the uneasiness of the French and British Brit-ish governments. Benito Mussolini bad bluntly told the world that the imposition of an oil emhargo would mean war In ICurope. the warning being given through his ambassador ambassa-dor to France. Vittorio Cerruti. Furthermore, there was doubt in London and Paris concerning the ability of the United Slates government gov-ernment to prevent the shipment of oil to Italian ports. In Washington Washing-ton It was reported that Ambassador Ambassa-dor Augusto Itosso hail discussed the matter with Secretary of State Hull, suggesting that attempts to choke oil" exports of oil. copper, cotton and other commercial articles arti-cles dhl not constitute "orthodox" neutrality. Kmperor Halle Selassie made two airplane Mights to the lighting fronts In Kthiopia and cheered up his forces so that their resistance to ilie Invasion was measurably stiffened, stiff-ened, especially In the South. The government at Addis Ababa announced an-nounced that its armies had driven the Italian troops back from Corn-hai, Corn-hai, recapturing the town of Cerlo-gtibl Cerlo-gtibl by encircling movements. In the northern sector, according to the oliiclal communique, a thou nnd Italians occupying Makale re yreated sixty miles to Adigrat losses on both sides were Increas inf. PUKSiniCNT P.OOKF.VKI.T was nv.Iity busy at Warm Springs Study. op the departmental esti mates ."r t lie budget of r.i:itk",7. Representative James P. Puchaii an of Texa.i. chairman of the house appropriations committee, took part In the tirst conference and told the correspondents thai he would carry a budget of no! more than S."i(m.lHKi.tnm in excess i.f estimated revenues through th" house by "a devil of a li'.'lil " Then Mr. Buchanan, who didn't appear to have White House support for this stand, left suddenly for Washington, Wash-ington, refusing to explain his departure; de-parture; and the conference con-tinned con-tinned with Secretary of the Treasury Treas-ury Morgenthau, Acting Budget Director Di-rector P.ell and Mark Shields, clerk of the appropriations committee. The President told the press they were making distinct progress In arranging ar-ranging the federal finances, having hav-ing already cut the departmental estimates by -lOO.ooO.CXM). He contradicted con-tradicted reports that he was contemplating con-templating revision of the Ickes PWA and the Hopkins WPA to ease the friction between the two New Deal ofllclals. He asserted a good many similar rumors will be circulated, but no one will know anything about the budget until it is sent to congress. Mrs. Roosevelt and James, the President's eldest son, joined him at Warm Springs for Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing day dinner. 'CECRETARY OF THE INTE- KIOK ICKES has revived the controversy between the New Dealers Deal-ers and the big steel corpora-"v corpora-"v "" I ''ons concerning ftZ''- Vr '1 steel Prices. Mr. P" W3y " Ickes said there " 5 was "prima facie J evidence of colltt- rfj 1 sion" In Identical s " Cl l)ids on 8 Florlda ' x If nn''"c works proj- -l" H eCt The PWA ad" 1 ministrator said the , -; l four companies bid- L JTUkJI flinS $185,000 each , , , on 3,300 tons of Secy Ickes fof fl MamI dock Inland, Carnegie, Jones & Laugblin, and Kalman (a Bethe-hem Bethe-hem subsidiary) were the same that submitted Identical bids on an ocean terminal at Morehead City, N. C, and the Triborough bridge in New York city. In the two earlier instances German Ger-man concerns underbid and were awarded the contracts. Amid protests pro-tests from industry and labor Ickes then halted all additional foreign purchases and raised the differential differen-tial in favor of domestic materials from 15 to 25 tier cent. There was no foreign bidder on the Miami project and Mr. Ickes said the contract would be awarded award-ed to the concern "that is farthest away and has to pay the highest freight hill the object is to spread prosperity around." T- II ERE was terror throughout Germany when Hitler started what apparently was another "purge." Hundreds of persons were arrested and taken to prison or concentration con-centration camps, those taken Including In-cluding some minor officials of the Nazi party in Rerlin. Many others were known as Socialists. The orh-were orh-were known as Socialists. The composed of war veterans, was suppressed and its leaders jailed. CM. EVEN American diplomats and naval officers, selected by Secretary Sec-retary of State Hull, have sailed to represent this country in the coming com-ing naval confer- ( ..i. ence in London. At Oqj their head Is Nor-man Nor-man II. Davis, the a, President's amhas- f- sador-at-large for ' 'sSsll S J Europe, who partici A 4 pated in the pre- s j liminarv conversa ? 1 tions last year. Act- -' i ing with him will kNX- be Undersecretary of State William . j , . N. H. Davis Phillips and Admiral Ad-miral William H. Standley, chief of naval operations. Advisers to the delegation will be Ray Atherton, counselor of the American embassy In London, and E. H. Dooman of the State department, who knows all about Japanese; and other Far Eastern affairs. Noel IL Field of the division of western European affairs, who attended at-tended the last naval conversations, and Samuel Iteher, secretary of the Amerlca.i legation in Bern, Switzerland, Switzer-land, will act as technical assistants. assist-ants. The navy's four technical experts will he ("apt. Royal E. Ii.gersol, CiMiimander Roscoe E. Schulrmann, Lieut. Arthur D. Ayrault, and Lieut. J. R. Fulton. David M. Key, assistant chief of the division of current information, will act as press officer for the delegation dele-gation In its contacts with foreign newspa.ier men. and R. Allen Haden will serve as the delegation's secretary. sec-retary. When the conversations In London Lon-don have gone far enough to indicate in-dicate what the several nations may hi. expected to do. President Roosevelt Roose-velt will direct Ihe course to be followed fol-lowed by Mr. iiavis and his colleagues. col-leagues. 1: is (alien for granted they will si rive to bring alien! an agree ment for Ihe limiting of fulure na val cons! i ili'l ion. f) RAZIL was experiencing another - revolt. In the northern part of the country. Latest advices said the rebels bad control of the city of Natal and that a hot fight was on for possession of Pernambuco. The uprising was laid to the Comnru-nists Comnru-nists and was believed to be led by Luis Carlos Prestes, Communist leader for all of South America. It was said he planned to spread the movement all over Brazil, Argentina, Argen-tina, Paraguay and Chile. Under command of Gen. Manuel Rabelo, the federal troops, army and navy airplanes and two cruisers were hurriedly sent northward to combat the rebellion. Several days later a revolt broke out In Rio Janeiro, the capital, despite des-pite extraordinary precautions. The principal participants there were the aviation force. They seized the aviation field but government troops recaptured It and it was announced this outbreak had been suppressed. Finally the Brazilian government announced that the revolt In the North also had been crushed and that 138 persons had been killed In the four days of fighting. n AN-AMERICAN Airways opened a new chapter In the story of aviation when Its huge China Clipper Clip-per carried the first consignment mm? of alr mail frtl &&-a. Alameda, Calif., to fjrfF&r$8it Manila, with stops aSS"'"?-- at Honolulu, Mid- f is way islands, Wake i nn.- lsIam, aml Guam I Capt. Edwin C. Mu- " sick, veteran chief i 1)1Iot of tlle eom" I- 'M Pany, was In com- I mand of tlie CTaft I ,? v x'Ji 'JuJi and was aided by . , . a crew of six men. rPM T Fourteen passen- c- Mus,ck , gers started on the flight and twelve were dropped off to relieve the staffs at Midway and Wake. The i;700 miles between Guam and Manila had not been flown heretofore. After one or two more flights to Manila the clipper will continue to China and operate on through schedules thereafter. The Philippine Clipper, second of Pan-American Airways' trans-Pacific air fleet, arrived at Alameda from the Atlantic coast and her crew began preparations for a flight to Manila beginning December Decem-ber 6. The plane flew 500 miles from San Diego in three hours 50 minutes. JVT EETIXG in St. Louis, the Mis-ivl Mis-ivl sissippi Valley association adopted resolutions opposing any attempt to limit the "right of water wa-ter carriers to establish and maintain main-tain such port to port rates as they see fit." The convention, which again went on record as opposing the coordination co-ordination of transportation agencies agen-cies under the interstate commerce commission, criticized I. C. C. rulings rul-ings "which have the effect of permitting per-mitting railroads to cut rates . . . for the purpose of killing off waterway wa-terway transportation." The delegates, representing mid-continental mid-continental agricultural shipping, and industrial interests of 25 states, again opposed ratification of the St. Lawrence seaway treaty. Col. Robert Isham Randolph of Chicago was elected president of the association. DRTJNO RICHARD HAUPT-mann's HAUPT-mann's attorneys assert that some of the Lindbergh ransom money has been found in Massachusetts Massachu-setts and that their investigators also have discovered some pieces of evidence that are of great importance im-portance to the defense. The doomed man himself issued a statement state-ment calling on Dr. John F. Condon ("Jafsie") to "make a full confession" confes-sion" of what he knows concerning the kidnaping and murder of Colit nel Lindbergh's little boy. POR a long time it has been ap- parent that there would be a split in the American Federation of Labor La-bor over the Issue of industrial unionism versus Craft unionism. "-zJ? That split now has occurred, and in the ij ranks of organized Ey 'S? labor there Is com-ing com-ing a great battle FT;;" & between the two -'ssL elements. The mat- v.' " t ter was precipitated ra. -' bv the resignation rl. of John L. Lewis. Lk, head of the United Mine Workers of . America, as vice Lewis president of the federation. He Is the chief protagonist for unit union-Ization union-Ization of mass production of Industries, Indus-tries, and his opponents, the craft union advocates, are led by William Green, president of the organization. organiza-tion. The latter have had a majority major-ity In the late conventions of the federation, but Lewis has a lot of fcllowers and Is a determined fighter. fight-er. He has set up separate headquarters head-quarters In Washington and seven International union leaders joined him Immediately. GOVERNORS of the federal reserve re-serve banks, In the bulletin of the reserve board, have sounded a most cheerful note concerning business busi-ness condition. Summing up facts gathered all over the country, they concluded that the United States was undergoing the most substantial substan-tial economic recovery since the depression began, with every sign pointing to its continuance. |
