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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Italy and Germany Recognize Insurgent Regime in Spain Anti-Communist Pact Angers Russia Tugvvell Resigns President on Unemployment. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. MUSSOLINI and Hitler threw Kurope into spasms of alarm by suddenly calling into session the ministerial councils of Italy and Germany and .Tr""v,' f causing them to rec-Y rec-Y " '', ognizc formally the Fascist government I of Gen. Francisco ? Franco as the legal ' f Government of wur- , torn Spain. It was ? :. I taken for granted ',- ''' that Austria and 'y . Hungary would fol- ft.';'J.'yit low suit. Maj. Ea-Lak. Ea-Lak. . t,A mon Franco, broth- Gcn. Franco er of the Spanish insurgent in-surgent chieftain, had been in Rome and probably informed II Duce that the general, whose attacks on Madrid were meeting meet-ing with unexpected resistance, might lose the war unless he were given active support by the nations that sympathized with his cause. Mussolini and Hitler did not immediately immedi-ately announce that they would quit the international agreement for intervention in-tervention in Spain, but it was believed be-lieved they would soon be shipping munitions to Franco's armies. They withdrew their diplomatic representatives represen-tatives from Madrid and arranged to send others to the rebel government. gov-ernment. Great Britain and Russia were stunned by the action of the two dictators and cabinet meetings were hurriedly called. The British are determined not to be drawn into the Communist-Fascist conflict but they believe that Italy and Germany, Ger-many, especially the former, have designs in the Mediterranean that would peril Britain's seaway to the Orient and are preparing to meet any such threat. Russia's reaction was awaited breathlessly, and the soviet government was being provoked pro-voked still further by the fact that General Franco declared a blockade block-ade of the port of Barcelona, capital cap-ital of the almost independent province prov-ince of Catalonia. This move certainly cer-tainly was made to stop the landing of munitions and food from Russia destined for the Spanish loyalist forces. England, France and other nations were greatly concerned over the blockade, for the port is largely used by their shipping. The Spanish rebels have created a strongly fortified forti-fied port at Palma on the island of Mallorca that can be used as a base for bombardment of Barcelona Barce-lona from the sea. Blockading vessels ves-sels may be supplied by Portugal, which warned neutral shipping to avoid the Barcelona port, though Lisbon had not yet formally recognized rec-ognized Franco's government. An almost humorous note came from Geneva where League of Nations Na-tions observers asserted that the Italo - German recognition of the Spanish insurgents violated Article 10 of the covenant which demands that league members respect "territorial "ter-ritorial integrity and the existing political independence of all members mem-bers of the league." They seem to have forgotten how the league abandoned Manchuria to Japan and Ethiopia to Italy not so long ago. The Italian grand council, with Mussolini presiding, voted to support sup-port the Duce's policies by giving him more airplanes, more guns, more warships and more men. It was frankly stated that the reason lor this was the threatening international inter-national situation. Italian opinion was that if France joined Russia in aiding the formation of a radical Spanish government with its capital at Barcelona in event that Madrid Mad-rid fell to the Fascists there would be great danger of general war. COMPLICATING the already complex com-plex European situation and directly di-rectly threatening war is the alleged fact that Germany and Japan have united to fight the spread of communism, com-munism, and that their pact is expected ex-pected to be adhered to by Italy and perhaps various central European Eu-ropean nations. This is of course directed mainly against soviet Russia, Rus-sia, and Moscow is actively aware of the menace. It is understood that the agreement provides that Germany and Japan shall keep strong military forces in East Prussia Prus-sia and Manchukuo respectively; that the two nations shall exchange military information and orders, and that in certain contingencies Germany shall supply Japan with war materials. An immediate source of friction between Germany and Russia is the arrest of 23 Germans in Moscow and Leningrad under charges of plotting to steal secret military information, in-formation, to wreck industrial plants and to kill government leaders. lead-ers. Berlin protested the arrests but the soviet officials replied that all formalities governing such cases had been observed and that several of the prisoners had confessed their guilt. The German propaganda ministry min-istry said the story of the German-Japanese German-Japanese agreement, which came from Moscow, was a "periodic lie" which this time was intended to sidetrack German protests against the arrests. ' I ''HAT sea level ship canal across -- Florida from the Atlantic to the Gulf, condemned by the army engineers' en-gineers' board as not justified, started start-ed by the New Deal and stopped when congress refused to appropriate appro-priate more funds, probably will now be pushed on to completion. The army engineers, having been asked by the President for a revisory re-visory report, have submitted one holding that the project would be justified "in the public interest" an absolute reversal of opinion. The board also found that the canal would cost only $102,985,000, instead of $223,440,000. as estimated on December De-cember 30, 1933, when material costs were substantially lower than they now are. So far the sum of $5,400,000 has been spent on the project. T) EXFORD GUY TUG WELL, known as the No. 1 braintrust-er, braintrust-er, has resigned from his post as undersecretary of agriculture and resettlement admin- e- istrator and accept- $ 1 - j ed the executive f ' vice presidency of L J the American Mo-j lasses company, of t ' which another brain- f ) JM I truster, Charles W Taussig, is presi- . dent, and a third, A F T "i A. Berle, Jr., is a j ,k , 1 director. In accept- - ' ijlj ing the resignation'' ' the President wrote K' ' luweu to Mr. Tugwell: "Later on I fully expect to ask you to come back to render additional service." Mr. Tugwell will serve on a special committee of 38 just appointed by the President to study the farm tenancy problem. The new resettlement reset-tlement administrator is W. W. Alexander, Al-exander, who has been first assistant. assist-ant. John G. Winant, who resigned as head of the social security board to take part in the Presidential election elec-tion campaign, has resumed that position at the urgent request of Mr. Roosevelt and is directing the big task of enrolling the future old age pensioners. SAILING from Charleston aboard the cruiser Indianapolis for Buenos Aires and the Pan-American peace conference, President Roosevelt Roose-velt directed the release of a statement state-ment in which he announced that the government will continue t o spend money on a work relief program pro-gram until July 1, 1938 at least. It is estimated that congress will be asked to appropriate as much as $1,500,000,000 for relief in the next session. Although he professed himself gratified at the inroads upon unemployment unem-ployment by industry, the President commented upon the fact that private pri-vate business has not yet absorbed vast masses of the unemployed and that millions of persons remain on the Works Progress administration pay roll and other governmental agencies. Mr. Roosevelt declared it was "widely known" that many of the largest industries will not hire workers work-ers over forty years of age. To a large extent, he charged, this policy is responsible for the relatively large number of older workers on relief. And industry must expand opportunities for the hiring of unskilled un-skilled workers, he said. The mayors of the United States, in annual conference in Washington, were gratified by assurances from both Harold Ickes, head of the PWA, and Harry Hopkins, head of the WPA, that the administration will not cease its spending efforts to keep alive the emergency organizations or-ganizations intended to deal with the unemployment problem. "I am convinced," Ickes said, "that the PWA should be made a permanent agency of government. It will expire June 30 next. On that date, many projects will not be completed. Necessarily, a law should be passed giving time within which to complete the tasks already al-ready undertaken." Hopkins predicted the 1929 level of production would be reached next year. "Yet the end of our troubles seems a long way oft," he remarked. "There were about 1,800,000 unemployed un-employed even at the 1929 peak, but next year, with the same volume vol-ume of production, carefully prepared pre-pared estimates indicate that there will still be some 6',- to IV2. millions unemployed." FOR more than ten years the American government has been building monuments of the World war on French and Belgian battlefields battle-fields and memorial chapels in the eight American military cemeteries in France, Belgium and England. This work is now completed and " the American Battle Monuments commission, of which General Pershing Per-shing is chairman, recommends that the structures be dedicated next July, twenty years after America's entry into the war. The approval of the President and congress is required. REPRESENTATIVE RAYMOND J. CANNON of Wisconsin isn't waiting for the "silly season" to open. In a fine democratic frenzy he has prepared and says he will introduce in congress a resolution, "asking the President to forbid our ambassadors and other representatives representa-tives from participating in any official offi-cial capacity in the coronation ceremonies cere-monies and the marriage ceremony of the king of England." The resolution describes the coronation coro-nation as "latent propaganda for monarchy," and added that "it is improper for a free republic to participate par-ticipate in a ceremony of obsequious homage to an hereditary ruler." It may be stated that the matter of King Edward's romance with Mrs. Wally Simpson is now discussed dis-cussed guardedly in the British press and with considerable heat by the nobility and churchmen of England. His majesty continues to see Wally frequently but has given no intimation to the world that he will marry her. M ME. ERNESTINE SCHUMANN-HEINK, SCHUMANN-HEINK, one of the greatest operatic and concert contraltos of the period, died in Hollywood, to the sorrow of the nation generally and especially o the men of the A. E. F. for whom she sang throughout through-out the war. A German by birth, she loved intensely her adopted country of America. Her family was split asunder by the war, one of her sons being killed as a German soldier and another dying in action as a member of the American forces. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S report re-port to the senate committee of his campaign expenditures shows that the cost of his re-election to himself was exactly $670. Robert Jefferys, secretary of the committee, said he had not yet received re-ceived a report from Gov. Alf M. Landon, but understood that most of his expenses were borne by the Republican national committee. William Lemke, Union party presidential pres-idential nominee, reported he spent $2,866 and received contributions totaling to-taling $5,753. The Prohibition party's candidate for President, Dr. Leigh Colvin, listed expenditures of $1,106 and contributions of $1,131. FIRST of the big groups that aided aid-ed in the re-election of President Presi-dent Roosevelt to call on him for their reward, the steel workers have asked that the Chief Executive recommend to the next congress the passage of legislation outlawing company unions and forbidding coercion co-ercion of workers by employers. George A. Patterson and Elmer J. Malol, employee representatives of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel company, com-pany, carried this request to the White House. The Carnegie - Illinois company has offered employees a 10 per cent wage increase on condition that workers sign an agreement to permit per-mit adjustment of wages to the cost of living. At his press conference President Roosevelt said living costs should not be permitted to operate op-erate to curb wage increases. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, Secretary of Labor Perkins Per-kins ruled informally that the employee em-ployee representatives had no authority au-thority to sign such an agreement for their fellow employees. IN HIS first press conference since the Presidential election Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator, admin-istrator, asserted his belief that relief re-lief rolls this winter ; s-OKv-,sl ! would be at the low- ' i J est point since the Jx -s ' start of the depres- jk sion. , I He estimated that v w ) 3,750,000 families $ ' and single persons j would be receiving if federal and local f i aid January 1, 1937, r J compared to a peak f " isT j of 5,316.000 in Jan- m uary, 1935. H- L- Hopkins "I think," Hopkins said confidently, confi-dently, "that we will go into January Jan-uary of this year caring for 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 less cases than a year ago and a reduction of about 1,500,000 from 1935. The administrator's attention was called to the fact that latest figures showed that 3,498,012 persons were employed the first two weeks of October, Oc-tober, an increase of 29,020 over the preceding half month. lie explained this by pointing out that the drouth in the Midwest added 32,831 destitute desti-tute farmers to his WPA project list rMPLOYER corporations were hit by a ruling of the National Labor Relations board ordering the dissolution of the "industrial council coun-cil plan" of the International Harvester Har-vester company at the plant in Fort Wayne, Ind. While the ruling dealt only with the Indiana plant, the board pointed point-ed out that the same plan also exists ex-ists in the other 14 Harvester plants in the United States and Canada. It sets a precedent also for future decisions de-cisions in regard to similar plans in other manufacturing plants throughout the country. ADOLF HITLER has torn up another an-other clause of the Versailles treaty the one that internationalized international-ized the German rivers and canals. He has announced that the reich has resumed sovereignty over all such waters. The treaty clause was designed de-signed partly to give Czechoslovakia free access to the sea, and that nation now has agreed with Belgium Bel-gium to protest formally against Germany's action. British Foreign Minister Eden rather mildly criticized criti-cized Hitler's course. |