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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Eastern States Devastated Ly Great Floods Germany Condemned Ly League Council President Asks Billion and Half for Relief. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ) Western Newspaper Union. STATES of the Central Kast and New Kngland suffered severely from the almost unprecedented Hoods. Scores of lives were lost and the vast property damage cannot can-not yet he estimated. At least M-(MMi M-(MMi persons were made homeless. Conditions were worst In western Pennsylvania. The Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, uniting at rittshurgh to form the Oldo, poured raging torrents down over the great Industrial city, driving the people from their homes and places of business. The famous "Golden Triangle" Tri-angle" between the rivers was completely com-pletely Inundated; transportation and communication systems were suspended and power plants were put out of commission so the city was plunged In darkness. The plight of the suburbs was equally bad. Farther east, Johnstown was entirely en-tirely flooded and the terror-stricken Inhabitants fled from their homes, but the great Quemahonlng dam was holding and the danger of a repetition of the disaster of ISSff seemed to be passing. Dozens of cities and towns along the Susquehanna Susque-hanna and Its tributaries were under un-der water, and In New York the Mohawk, Hudson, Schuylkill and Delaware rivers were out of their banks and rapidly rising. The Potomac, Po-tomac, too, became a raging flood and in Washington nn army of men was working feverishly to save the buildings and monuments In the (latlands. Ten thousand persons were rendered ren-dered homeless In the New England Eng-land states and nbout a score lost their lives. The emergency there was greatest In the valley of the Connecticut river. Many cities were cut off from rail transportation and also were without light and power. American Ked Cross rose to the emergency, as always, mobilizing Its forces to relieve the suffering. Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Its national na-tional head, issued an appeal for a fund of 3,000,000. President Koose-velt Koose-velt also called for this amount In a proclamation. Secretary of War Dern was appointed emergency emergen-cy Hood relief head by the President Presi-dent and Immediately ordered the generals commanding six corps areas are-as of the army to extend full aid for prevention of loss of life and destruction of property. Work Kellef Administrator Harry Hopkins gave blanket authority to all WPA ollicials to employ their workers in any way necessary in rescue work and in strengthening evees. The United States Coast Guard sent many power launches, provisioned pro-visioned and manned, from the Chicago Chi-cago area to help in the relief work at various points. To prevent robbery rob-bery and vandalism National Guardsmen were on the job at Pittsburgh and other places. Air lines to the East had a great Increase of business because of the disorganization of railway traffic, and all spare planes were pressed into the service. GERMANY was forced to denounce de-nounce the Locarno pact because be-cause the Franco-Russian mutual assistance as-sistance treaty was directed only , against the reich v J a,ld rnsed 275,000,- 000 people against ' V I lL T1,iU ls W,,1U ' Joachim von Rib-is Rib-is bentrop,' II 1 1 1 e r's adviser on foreign K affairs, told the L , 1 council of the .' i League of Nations - , j when it met In - JI Loiuisn to pass on the complaint o f Joachim von France and B(s,. Ribbentrop gluQ) that Ger. many bad violated both the Locarno Locar-no pact and the Versailles treaty by remilitarizing the Rhineland. Nevertheless, the council by unanimous unan-imous vote condemned Germany as a violator of both treaties. How she shall be punished, if at all, remained re-mained to be determined. France and all her allies wanted the imposition impo-sition of sanctions; Italy could not be brought to favor that, being her-eelf her-eelf subjected to such penalties; Great Britain, striving to preserve the peace, sought some middle way out of the dilemma. Representatives of Britain, France, Belgium and Italy devised a plan which provides for a conference of world nations to draft economic, disarmament, and security plans. This plan also provides that Germany, Ger-many, in the meantime, would agree not to fortify the Rhineland and, pending a new agreement with Germany, Ger-many, Britain would guarantee France's security. The French especially liked that because It amounted to a military defensive alliance with Britain, but they did not believe It would be accepted ac-cepted by Germany. Von Ribbentrop, accompanied by an Imposing lot of experts and secretaries, sec-retaries, was sent by Hitler at the request of the council. The reichs-fuehrer reichs-fuehrer had consented to be represented repre-sented after British Foreign Secretary Sec-retary Eden assured him he would do his best to persuade France and Belgium to consider Hitler's new security plans after Germany had been formally condemned for its action ac-tion in the Rhineland. In his address before the council coun-cil Von Ribbentrop emphatically as-serled as-serled that France by approaching soviet Russia In concluding "what really was a military alliance," did not respect the Locarno treaty. And the Soviet Czeclioslovaklan agreement agree-ment also, he declared, constituted a further danger to the reich. France's proposal to submit the Franco - Russian treaty to The Hague court was said by a spokesman spokes-man for the German delegation to be futile and useless. He also said the plan suggested by the English, to police the Rhineland zone with an international force, was "absolutely "abso-lutely unacceptable." A third provision, for drawing up a system of mutual guaranties among the Locarno powers, to operate op-erate in case of an ' attack, the spokesman said, was "unnecessary because Germany has no intention of crossing her frontiers." None of the Germans, however, even intimated in-timated that Hitler would withdraw with-draw any of his troops from the Hhineland. Hitler was continuing his speech-making speech-making tour in Germany. At Koe-nigsberg Koe-nigsberg he said : "For once a single man comes forth in Europe behind whom stands a whole nation. He extends his hand to other nations. Whoever Who-ever dares reject this, my hand, behind be-hind which 00,000,000 people are united, must bear responsibility in the eyes of history. I have been the herald of the German people for more than three years. I am now the herald for peace in Europe." Eu-rope." i SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE announced the establishment es-tablishment of five regions for administration ad-ministration of the soil conserva-ppprwimw conserva-ppprwimw tion tfntl domestic " allotment act, sub- f- : . stitute for the in- MX:: :'t4 valid AAA. II. R. I"-. Tolley, administra- W 1X2. tr of the new Tf5; plan, said the de- partment already has begun a field K'fjuJem service to admin- 1, - ister the program fW A in various states. H. R. Tolley t h e lea(ling part within the states is to be played by the farmers' county and community commu-nity committees. Mr. Wallace also directed discontinuance dis-continuance of the four commodity divisions whose work of liquidating liquidat-ing AAA production control programs pro-grams will be taken over by the regional re-gional directors. The order leaves intact other administrative units of the AAA, such as the division of marketing and marketing agreements, agree-ments, division of program planning, plan-ning, and the division of the consumers' con-sumers' counsel. ONE and one-half billion dollars will be needed to carry the Works Progress administration through the coming fiscal year, according ac-cording to President Roosevelt's figuring. fig-uring. Therefore he asks congress to appropriate that sum. He thought it would be sufficient to care for the destitute unemployed, together with $1,000,000,000 in unexpended previous appropriations and the $000,000,000 carried in the budget for the civilian conservation corps and various public works. Limitation of federal relief expenditures ex-penditures to this figure, however, is dependent upon re-employment of substantial numbers of the idle by private industry, the President said. As the President's message was presented. Speaker Joseph W. Byrns revealed that Mr. Roosevelt, had advised his leaders that any increase in-crease in the appropriation over his estimates must be accompanied by new taxes to provide revenue to cover tlie added cost. SECRETARY OR LABOR PERKINS PER-KINS was accused of harboring hundreds of deportable criminal and radical aliens in the United States by Senator Robert R. Reynolds of North Carolina when he introduced a resolution calling upon the Labor department to furnish information allegedly withheld from congress. Senator Reynolds' resolution said that request had been made of Labor La-bor department officials for Unfor-mation Unfor-mation concerning "in excess of 2. GO0 aliens in the United States known to and allowed by the Department De-partment of Labor to remain In the United States, although subject to deportation." The request, the resolution stated, was refused. SEIZURE of private telegrams hv the Black committee lias resulted re-sulted In a fierce warfare of words hetween John J. McSwain of South Carolina, chairman of the house committee on military affairs, and William Randolph Hearst, newspaper news-paper publisher. Senator Black withdrew the subpoena on the Western West-ern Union company in the Hearst case but first made public what purported to be a copy of a telegram tele-gram from the publisher to one of his editorial writers In which McSwain Mc-Swain was called "a Communist In spirit and a traitor In effect." McSwain Mc-Swain promptly read this in the house anil then vigorously and eloquently elo-quently defended himself and denounced de-nounced Hearst. THie publisher retorted with an open letter to his editorial writer In which he said : "McSwain is a politician of the lower order, and his extreme radical radi-cal pacificism is a danger to the peace and protection of the nation, and to the safety or the men, women wom-en and children who constitute the American people." C INCE the recent elections in Spain the riots staged by the leftists have been growing more vicious daily, and after disorders x,9w at L o g r o n o In 1 which a number of T 1 persons were killed the Spanish army f . '""-.f ,J was aroused to vlg-I vlg-I " 5 orous protest. Pre-l Pre-l -t f nlier Manuel Azana I 1 was told by the of-I of-I , ' lj fleers that unless his new left gov-I gov-I - t ernment adopted f . S I measures to stop- the widespread vio-Manuel vio-Manuel Azana ience the army would take the maintenance of order or-der into its own hands. Gen. Carlos Masquelet, minister of war, was said to be In sympathy with the army's demand. Azana held a heated conference with Francisco Largo Caballero, president of the Socialist party, and is said to have told him that he believed be-lieved revolutionary Socialists were responsible for most of the disorders, disor-ders, demanding that the violence cease immediately. Largo insisted that the Socialists be permitted to demonstrate, but finally gave In to the premier and issued orders to all Socialists to behave themselves. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT packed 1 up his fishing tackle and started start-ed South for his annual angling cruise, this time on the new Presidential Presi-dential boat, the Potomac. He made a brief stop at Winter Park, Fla., wdiere he received an honorary degree from Rollins college. col-lege. Mr. Roosevelt bad invited as his fishing companions his eldest son, James; an uncle, Frederick A. Delano, De-lano, and three mates of his fishing fish-ing cruise of last fall, Capt. Wilson Wil-son Brown, United States navy, and Col. Edwin M. Watson, Unit-States Unit-States army, his military aides, and Capt. Ross T. Mclntire, United States navy, White House physician. physi-cian. RUSH D. HOLT, the young Democratic Dem-ocratic senator from West Virginia, Vir-ginia, gave notice that he would continue to hammer at the Works Progress administration until a senate sen-ate investigation was ordered. He demanded an inquiry into ail relief activities under charge of Administrator Admin-istrator Harry L. Hopkins, and other oth-er agencies affecting relief, the RFC, CWA, and FERA. In reply to some of the charges made, Mr. Hopkins issued this bulletin: bul-letin: "No employee of WPA is required re-quired to make any contribution to any political party. No WPA employee's em-ployee's job will be in jeopardy because be-cause of failure to make such contribution. con-tribution. "No employee of the WPA shall at any time solicit contributions for any political party, and evidence of such solicitation will be cause for immediate discharge. The question ques-tion whether or not to contribute to any political party is a matter entirely for the voluntary decision of employees. "No person will be employed or discharged on the ground of his support sup-port or nonsupport of any candidate." candi-date." ELEUTHERIOS VENIZELOS, probably the greatest of latter-day latter-day Greek statesmen, died In Paris, where he was In self-imposed exile, following an attack of grippe. He was seventy-two years old. Venizeios, former premier of Greece, fled from the Island of Crete last March after a revolt he headed collapsed. He was tried and sentenced to death, but Kirtg George after his recall offered him amnesty. Venizeios, however, refused re-fused to return, declaring "Greece will never see me again." He was an ardent republican and denounced the restoration of the monarchy. THE Treasury reported that Income In-come tax collections for the first 16 days of March amounted to $2S1,-73S.032, $2S1,-73S.032, or a gain of 4G.4 per cent over the $102,429,413 In the corresponding corre-sponding period of last year. Practically Prac-tically all collection districts registered reg-istered an Increase. Since the first of the year, the Treasury said, $301 .42S.000 hn been collected on the income tax. an Increase of 4o.G per cent over the $24S.0O0.ir!2 gathered In for the same period of 1933. |