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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Raps Tugwell for Budget Prediction WPA Job Program Moves Rapidly Farmers Indorse Corn-Hog Control for 1936. EDWARD W. PICKARi. Western Newspaper Union. REXFORD G. TUGWELL, undersecretary un-dersecretary of agriculture and once considered head man of the "brain trust," made a speech at Los Angeles the f"3'allt 1 other day that I ' called forth a ; Sti. y sharp rebuke from : ' President Roose- p velt" AtWressinS a M "2$ Democratic gath- .. 4 d ering, Tugwell as- "y serted that the ad- 'i ministration could '2 'I satisfy every hu- " manitarian demand and still balance R. G. Tugwell the bu(get , 1038 Mr. Roosevelt, in a press conference, con-ference, scolded the newspapers for printing what he called "crazy stories" and went on to declare that Tiigwell's assertion was almost as unfounded as the predictions thrown out by many political observers ob-servers that the budget probably would never be balanced again. Tugwell's statement wasn't quite as "wild" ns the newspaper stories, he remarked, because Tugwell knew a little more about the budget than the newspaper men. The President said he and his advisers were about to make a study of the financial situation, and that until the budget is finally drafted about the first of the year not even he. knows what shape It will take. Every effort, he said, would be made to hold the regular government departments down to the figures of this fiscal year, but lie would make no predictions as to emergency expenditures. JOI5S for 3,500,000 needy persons by November 15, and an end of the dole by December 1. That was the forecast made by the New Dealers Deal-ers in Washington, and It appeared probable of accomplishment. Officials Of-ficials said states will receive no direct relief allotments from the government for December and that the November grants will be greatly great-ly reduced. The employment program pro-gram is a month behind schedule, but Is now being carried forward rapidly. Every state director of the WPA has been given a job goal by Administrator Harry L. Hopkins and was told by that gentleman: "The responsibility for carrying out these objectives, through providing pro-viding work on approved projects, rests squarely on you." As November opened these state administrators had $1,018,9-17,0-10 to spend, and every day Comptroller General McCarl was putting more to their credit in the federal treasury. treas-ury. Of the $3i:!(),843,S03 tentatively tenta-tively approved In WPA project values by President Roosevelt, McOarl had passed $2,4r0,2!)3,894. Of the $1,000,207,831 definitely allocated al-located for WPA by the president, McCarl. had countersigned treasury warrants for all but $41, 200.1 S2. NEW DEALERS have scored a major victory, and are correspondingly corre-spondingly elated. liv a majority of something like 10 to 1, the corn-hog producers have -n. voted for a conLinu K N,, ance of the crop ad- ht juslmrnt through i another year. In- - complete returns I "?5?y '"5Jy from the referen I dum showed that s: C,,: s the program was & favored by a ma- : Jorlty In every one . ' of the 33 states f . . ; from which votes were received. Chester C. "It Is only nat- Davis nrnl that we should be pleased with the apparent approval of adjustment adjust-ment given by corn and hog farmers." farm-ers." said Chester C. Davis. AAA administrator, as he watched the returns re-turns come In at Washington. "If the final results bear out present Indications another voluntary contract con-tract will be offered for both corn and hogs." In a formal statement Davis emphasized em-phasized earlier assurances that the AAA would seek a 25 to 30 per cent Increase In hog production next year, saying the "need for Increasing Increas-ing the present pork supply of the nation . . . will be kept In mind In plans for the next adjustment con-tract." con-tract." Before the results of the voting were known President Roosevelt announced an-nounced tentative plans for making the AAA over from an emergency to a permanent agency. CONTINUING the administration's policy of "enabling fanners to market their crop In a more orderly or-derly fashion." Secretary of Agriculture Ag-riculture Wallace announced a corn loan of 45 cents a bushel on the 1P.'!5 crop, available from Docem- her 1 until next July 1. The Commodity Com-modity Credit corporation had already al-ready approved this and asked a commitment from the R. I". C. to provide the necessary funds. Wallace estimated that about $150,000,000 would be advmu cd to corn growers under this program. Borrowers must sign the AAA corn-hog corn-hog control contracts. The loans will be .made on corn which, if shelled, would grade No. 3 or better. bet-ter. The grade requirement last year called for was No. 4. The loan rate then was 55 cents a bushel. DREJIIER MUSSOLINI defied the League of Nations and its sanctions. sanc-tions. In a speech at the inauguration inaugu-ration of the new university In Rome he said: "In the face of an economic siege toward which all civilized people of the world should feel supreme shame, In the face of an experiment which they wanted to test, for the first time, against the Italian people, peo-ple, let it be said : "We will oppose It with our most Implacable resistance, with our most firm decision and with our most supreme contempt." However, it was announced In Geneva that the duce was willing to negotiate for peace with Ethiopia, and there was a possibility the league would delay for 15 days the application of further penalties. King Victor Emmanuel Issued a decree putting the entire Italian merchant marine on a war basis; Prime Minister Baldwin's reply to Mussolini's defiance was a blunt assertion that Great Britain was prepared to resort to force, If necessary, nec-essary, to carry out the sanctions. The British government made new protests to Italy against Italian Ital-ian press attacks on Britain and anti-British propaganda in Egypt, and three more destroyers were sent from Gibraltar to Malta. WHILE the League of Nations was going forward with its plans for the imposition of sanctions sanc-tions against Italy, its officials asked the United .i-m States government fT'TJ to comment on ! this policy, for the " s attitude of this , country is consid- ered vital to the . I ? s success of the pro- gram. Secretary of I J State Hull replied ; V"" s J promptly but with s. J extreme caution, jf " M avoiding comment on the action tak- u'ii"7 en by the league ' Hu" powers and Inferentially declining to cooperate in the sanctions. The answer, whose tenor was dictated by President Roosevelt, was sent to Minister Hugh Wilson at Berne. It only set forth the moves made by the United States under the neutrality neu-trality act and restated "our government's gov-ernment's hope for world peace. In press conferences Mr. Hull stressed the fact that this country will continue con-tinue to move independently to keep free and untangled as President Roosevelt has promised. A MER1CAN citizens are not re-specting re-specting the embargo on shipments ship-ments to Italy and Ethiopia to an extent that satisfies the administration. adminis-tration. Therefore the President Issued Is-sued this strong statement : "In dealing with the conflict between be-tween Ethiopia and Italy I have carried car-ried into effect the will and Intent of the neutrality resolution recently re-cently enacted by congress. We have prohibited all shipments of arms, ammunition, and implements of war to the belligerent governments. govern-ments. By my public statement of October 5, which was emphasized by the secretary of state on October Octo-ber 10, we have warned American citizens against transactions of any character with either of the belligerent bel-ligerent nations except at their own risk. "This government Is determined not to become Involved in the controversy con-troversy and is anxious for the restoration res-toration and maintenance of peace. "However, In the course of war, tempting trade opportunities may be offered to our people to supply materials which would prolong the war. I do not believe that the American people will wish for abnormally ab-normally Increased profits that temporarily tem-porarily might he secured by greatly great-ly extending our trade In such materials; ma-terials; nor would they wish the struggles on the battlefield to he prolonged because of profits accruing ac-cruing to a comparatively small number of American citizens. "Accordingly, the American government gov-ernment Is keeping Informed ns to nil shipments consigned for export to both belligerents." EARTHQUAKE tremors that were felt in many localities all the way from Spokane and Calgary to New York and Boston were severest sever-est In Helena, whore at least two persons were killed ami many injured. in-jured. Numerous buildings weakened weak-ened by the former temblors In the Montana capital were thrown down and the property losses wore considerable. CONSTITUTIONALITY of the Guffey coal act, a highly controversial con-troversial measure, is to be passed on by the Supreme court The way was opened when Justice Jesse Ad-kins Ad-kins of the District of Columbia Supreme court granted to the Carter Car-ter Coal company a temporary injunction in-junction restraining government enforcement en-forcement of the act. In allowing the Issuance of a temporary Injunction, Justice Ad-kins Ad-kins denied another order which would have restrained the government govern-ment from collecting the penalty prescribed by the act for noncompliance. noncom-pliance. He directed that the coal company post a bond of $1,500 a day for ten days to Insure stockholders stock-holders of the company against a loss through imposition of the penalty pen-alty should the act be held constitutional. consti-tutional. Regardless of the District Supreme Su-preme court's decision on the constitutionality con-stitutionality of the act, the test case will be carried to the Supreme Su-preme court for a final decision by the company or the government, attorneys at-torneys said. LIBERTY League's committee ,of 58 more or less eminent lawyers law-yers got Into trouble by offering free legal services In anti-New Deal litigation. Someone protested to the American Bar association and that body's grievance committee has been asked for an opinion on the ethics of the offer. It was reported report-ed that the members of the league's committee had been cited for unethical un-ethical practices, but the bar association as-sociation denied this had yet been done. THERE Is no lack of potential candidates for the Republican Presidential nomination. The latest lat-est boom to be informally launched Is for Gov. Alf M. ps. London of Kansas, &J?i ' J often mentioned as jL"' " J a possibility. The other day there i y was a gathering In v j Topeka of party "r ""-"'ll leaders, Including ( 1 members of the y& state committee, ' "Tl state office holders, i congressmen and fT. jj Senator Arthur Capper, and after Gov- Landon some oratory they, unanimously and enthusiastically indorsed the governor gov-ernor for the nomination. Laudon had not indicated whether he would be a candidate. If he will,, the movement move-ment will probably be given formal status at the annual Kansas day dinner in Topeka on January 29, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the state's admission to the Union. npWO tragic airplane accidents marked the week in the United States. The huge Boeing bombing plane built for the army, largest land plane In the country, was being be-ing tested near Dayton, Ohio, when It fell and burst into (lames. Maj. P. P. Hall, chief testing pilot, was killed and four others were injured. Lleuts. R. K. Giovannoll and L. F. Harman risked their lives to rescue res-cue those trapped in the wreck and were themselves painfully burned. Another Boeing plane, rebuilt and undergoing tests by the United Air Lines, crashed against a small hill near Cheyenne and the four occupants occu-pants were hurled to death. HONDURAS suffered one of the worst floods In its history. Fully 115 deaths resulted, and the property damage is estimated at $12,000,000, half of it sustained by the United Fruit company. Reports Re-ports of the disaster reaching Tegucigalpa Te-gucigalpa were meager and vague, and the mortality list may be greatly great-ly Increased later. WANG CHING-WEL, premier of China, and two other olticinls were wounded by an assassin in Nanking. Martial law was declared there Immediately. The Rengo (Japanese) News agency, crediting Chinese sources, said the assassin was a member of the central executive execu-tive committee of the Kuomintang (ruling Chinese party). Chinese sources asserted he was a citizen of a foreign power. The Renter (British) News agency reported Wang's assailant was a Japanese newspaper man. POLITICAL gossip In Washington is that Senator Vic Donahey of Ohio may be invited by the administration ad-ministration to he the Democratic candidate for Vice Presirlent next year. Mr. Garner, of course, can have a renominntion if he really wants It, but there Is some reason to believe that he would prefer to retire to private life after nearly forty years of public service. Donn-hey's Donn-hey's impressive victory over Simeon Sim-eon Fess In 1932 and his well known vote-getting ability lead some prominent Democrats to think it would be wise to put him on the ticket as Mr. Roosevelt's running mate. JIMMY WALKER, former mayor of New York, has en ird his three years of sclf-inipos.i! exile and returned to the metropolis. Tammany Hall, which "made" him politically, took no part In the welcome wel-come accorded him. but enough others oth-ers joined In the affair to fill seven or eight boats that met the liner Manhattan at quarantine. These included delegations from the Friars Fri-ars club, the Lanihs cluh and t!:e Grand Street Buys' association of which Jimmy was vice president. |