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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Franco-British Peace Plan Collapses and Hoare Resigns Re-signs I'enes Elected President of Czechoslovakia Czechoslo-vakia Cliristmas I'ay for WPA Workers. By EDWARD W. PICKARD i) Wtitrn NwwsiiUper Union. IF IT really was Intended to lining about peace between Italy and Ethiopia, the plan proposed by Rrit-Ih)i Rrit-Ih)i Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Y-Mipmvmii jf'i "mre and Premier f ' ".rV Laval of r ii n c e i 1 turned out 11 dismal J failure. The storm 1 'S t of opposition to the $ fty . scheme which wouhl a give Mussolini two- " tlllrlls "r tiip Af' L ' "N I J rlcun country um a F I r"w"r' f"r Stop- 1 l ' ,,lnK "n "lll"'k jLL'J w1i denounced l.y the League of Na- S.rSamuel tliins 1)r()l(,i( he Hoare Urillsli and French governments to the point of col lapse. To Bave the r.aldwin cabinet, cab-inet, lloare resigned on the eve of a parliamentary battle In the house of commons, and It was believed the government thus would be able to win a vote of contldence. lloare was made the gout, for the entire ministry shared the responsibility of the peace plan. In I'uris Edouurd Ilerrlot, member mem-ber of the cabinet without port-polio, port-polio, resigned as president of the powerful Radical Socialist party whose support is needed by Laval to maintain his majority In the par llameut. Ilerrlot's action, In the opinion of some observers, presaged Laval's early downfall. Home's position became untenable unten-able when he learned that the peace plan was about to be burled lit Geneva, dipt. Anthony Eden, probably never enthusiastic for It, practically repudiated the scheme In u public meeting of the league council. Laval also spoke, more reservedly, declaring that even If the plan were rejected, the council coun-cil must continue to seek conciliation. concilia-tion. After the session, however, he admitted to French newspaper men that the plan, for the time being at least, is dead. The council received from Addis Ababa n note In which Emperor Haile Selassie bluntly accused Great Britain and France of bavin); violated vio-lated the league covenant by seeking seek-ing "to Impose upon Ethiopia a predominant pre-dominant control by Italy witli the certain aim of entrusting to Italy the administration of the capital and u large part of the territory. The League of Nations In consenting con-senting to lend itself to such dissimulation dis-simulation would violate article X of the covenant." In view of all the opposition nnd of Mussolini's hint that he woul reject the proposals, the leagr council killed the plan entirol softening its action by formal thanking (Ireat Britain and Fran, for their ''preliminary efforts" I ward peace. A permanent comm tee of l-'l councilors ail but t Italian member was named study the Halo Ethiopian crisis. Dispatches from t lit front s:. a great battle was In progress i the Takkuze river sector and tli.i the Italians, after repulsing a strotr attack by the Ethiopians, were re taliating with a vigorous counter movement. A large force of natives na-tives was reported to be ambushed In a mountain pass, ami the Italian ollicers declared few would escape. Losses on both sides were heavy. WHEN Thomas Masaryk. founder of Czechoslovakia and president presi-dent of the repiddicsinee Its creation, resigned because be was etghfv-six years old and wea- . : rled by his labors, Kf""" h e recommended f that tilt" parliament f elect as his succes s sor Fduard I'enes. j who was Maaryk's I v co-worker for es- ; v tahllshment of the j republic and has s, " j.' been Its only min- ,v, ister of foreign af- N-fairs. N-fairs. This advice wasfoPowod.l'.enos Eduard Bene3 being chosen by a vote of "10 nut i f 410 votes. There were 'Jl votes for Trof. Rohumil Nrtiirr. leader of tin? pro-Fascists, and Tii abstentions. The Snkols, organization of sportsmen, sports-men, and 1 1 to war veterans, supported support-ed I'enes unanimously, and his victory vic-tory was bailed as a triumph for democracy. A general reorganization of ('zee bo-Slovakia's bo-Slovakia's diplomatic representation abroad will follow the election of the new president. Jan Masartk, son of the former president, will be recalled from London to act as chief of lienes' chancellery. The minister Mn Washington, Dr. F. Veverka, Is scheduled to move on to London. Benes, who Is fifty-one years old, has bad a brilliant diplomatic career. ca-reer. One of the ablest strokes was !,e creation of the little entente, whereby Czechoslovakia. Jugoslavia and Rumania stand together In central cen-tral Europe. He also achieved au alliance with France. ' NLESS Eugene Tnlmndge. the -J fiery governor of Georgia, i.iunges bis mind, the Democratic national convention Isn't going to be the mere Koosevelt renomination love feast that administration supporters sup-porters had Intended it should be. Taluiadge went to Washington and there boldly announced that he wouhl be a candidate for the Presl-dential Presl-dential nomination. lie declared the Democrats would lose the election If they put Koosevelt at the head of the ticket again, and denounce ! the President as an "usurper" in the parly. Tne governor also announced that a convention of the "southern Jef-fersonian Jef-fersonian Democracy" would he held In Atlanta the last week In January for the purpose of formulating formu-lating a program to battle the New Deal anil President Koosevelt. lie added: "The southern and border states have ftfiO votes In the Democratic national convention. It lakes hut .'57 votes to block the nomination of a President. We are going to bring a lot of delegates to that convention." Asked nhout his views on the Townsend plan, providing for the payment of $200 monthly to all persons more than sixty years old. the governor said he was opposed to any pension plan except one for Incapacitated veterans of the World war. lie favors payment of the sol-dlers' sol-dlers' bonus nut of the S'.snn.non.-000 S'.snn.non.-000 works relief appropriation, he added. CLEVELAND Is the place and June fl the date selected for the Republican national convention of 1!(."0. The national committee heard arguments on behalf of Chicago. Kansas City and Cleveland, and then decided on the Ohio city, largely large-ly for political reasons. Gov. Alf I.andon of Kansas City and Col. Frank Knox of Chicago both being potential candidates for the nomination. nom-ination. It was thought wise to hold the convention In neutral territory. Ralph E. Williams of Oregon, vice chairman of the committee, was made chairman of the committee ou arrangements. Delegates to the convention will number UU7, or I.T7 fewer than In KK41!. The national committee concluded Its session with an invitation to conservative Democrats to join with the Republicans in the effort to oust the Koosevelt administration. FRANK C. WALKER, one of President Pres-ident Roosevelt's strongest supporters, sup-porters, has resigned as executive director of the national emergency council. He will re-'T re-'T tire to private life, H hut it is understood he wdll return to . , the service of the V ,'overnment as soon 'i''" as his personal af-v af-v fairs permit. This ;s taken to mean x s pointed postmaster "iss""?? " general when James '- A. Farley relin-F. relin-F. C. Walker ,,nislies tliat post to lake over the President's re-election campaign, probably early In the new year. I ..vie' C. Anderson, who has been solicitor for t lit? NEC since last May, was named to succeed Walker anil Is already In charge of the council. In bis letter of resignation to the President Walker said that he regretted re-gretted that some of the men in business and Industry were Impatient Impa-tient witli New Deal recovery programs pro-grams but expressed bimseir certain the great mass of the country was w holeheartedly behind the President. WORKS Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins issued an order or-der that made happy about H.5:0. 000 workers under his unit. "I desire that every regular Wl'A pay check earned he in the hands of the worker by December ''4." Hopkins Hop-kins said, in telegraphed instructions instruc-tions to state program directors "The law does not permit advance payments, but no effort should be spared to deliver checks title by Christmas eve. "Overtime work by ndministra tive employees handling' pay rolls should ho ordered where necessary and courier service should be arranged ar-ranged if necessary to overcome transportation delays caused by congcs:ion in the mails." President Roosevelt entered on a new round of conferences on the relief program to be provided for in the budget for the fiscal year beginning next July 1. New Deal oliiclats associated witli relief were summoned to the White House to oiler suggeslions for keeping the relief program down so that the administration ad-ministration can fMiint to budget balancing efforts In the 1!I.'!0 cam paign. Plans for organizing the Civil lan Conservation corps on a smaller but permanent basis were discussed dis-cussed with Itohert Fochner, COO director, and a group of cabinet officers. offi-cers. Under the program the CCC enrollment wouhl he cut from 4flo. 000 to liUO.OOO men by next July 1. DESPITE the riotous opposition of students and other youth of Pelping, the Hopel-Chahar political polit-ical council, supported by Japan, took over the nffairs of the autonomous autono-mous North China provinces, with Gen. Sung Cheh-yuan as Its chairman. chair-man. That gentleman In his lirst : official announcement declared the opposition demonstrations were being be-ing promoted by communists, against whom he would take drastic action. j General Sung said he would do his best to promote good relations with neighboring countries "which treat us with equality and reciprocity" (Japan and Manchukuo). He declared de-clared his Intention to "revive China's Chi-na's traditional virtues, and to develop de-velop and spread oriental culture." IS A special election In Mich-Igan's Mich-Igan's Third Congressional district dis-trict Verner W. Main, Republican, was victorious over Howard Cav-anagh, Cav-anagh, Democrat. Main Is tentatively tenta-tively In favor of the Townsend plan, but attributed his victory to opposition to the New Deal. The result was nothing much for the Republicans to crow over, for the district Is normally heavily Republican. Repub-lican. HPIIE board of directors of the Knights of Columbus made a tart reply to President Koosevelt In their dispute over our government's govern-ment's position In res(cet to the alleged al-leged religions persecution In Mexico. Mex-ico. It concluded with the assertion asser-tion that Mr. Roosevelt was responsible re-sponsible for the government's fall ure to follow a long line of precedents prece-dents "founded upon established American principle." pv IOTA TOR of Venezuela for 27 years, during most of the time president of the country, Gen. Juan Vicente Gomez died In Caracas of an old malady at fr1 the age of seventy-' seventy-' ""1 eight years. The "TX -1 cabinet named Gen. i"J'',l Klpazar Lopez Con-: Con-: '-wfre treras, minister of j" war, as provisional ' s 4r' 1 president to hold ' -so- "mce "nt" n's suc' k " J cessor is elected by I congress. While JTifci? guns boomed In sa- lute, Gomez was Gen. Gomez )lred ()n (he Jm nlversary of his assumption of power pow-er In 1!H)0. On that day he executed a coup d'etat by which he seized the government while President Clpria-no Clpria-no Castro was in Europe seeking health. During his regime there were ninny Incipient revolts but he crushed them all with an Iron hand ; and even when the presidential presiden-tial chair was occupied by others his control of the government was absolute. Among Gomez's greatest contributions contribu-tions to Venezuela were the establishment estab-lishment of friendly relations with foreign nations and peace within the country, the building of a line system of automobile highways, and development of natural resources. He made the most of the great petroleum deposits at Lake Mara-caibo, Mara-caibo, granting many concessions to foreign oil companies, but placing an ex-port tax on oil. The Industry In Venezuela grew until it now holds third rank In the world. Gomez succeeded in paying olT the entire debt of his country, amounting amount-ing to nearly $-10,000,000. and at the same time accumulated a great fortune for-tune for himself. THE eighth of the reciprocal trade agreements lias been concluded con-cluded witli Honduras. It was signed at Tegucigalpa but must he ratified by the lloniluran congress and continued by President Roosevelt. Roose-velt. The agreement provides for duly reduction on 17 commodities exported by the United States to Honduras and assurance against increases on Ut) others. Among the concessions by Honduras Hon-duras ou United States exports are reductions in duties on smoked hums, shoulders, bacon, and sausages, sau-sages, and on canned meats, except' salted and corned beef, by from one-third to one-half; reduction of the rate on butter by two-thirds; lowering the rate on evaporated milk by one-half and those on condensed con-densed and dried skimmed milk by one-third. Rates on dried fruit items are lowered hy from one-third to three-fourths; on canned fruits, vegetables and lish hy from two-thirds two-thirds to three-fourths. The rate on cotton shirts is cut "0 tier cent and there are substantial reductions in rates on denims, cotton hosiery and other textile Items. CALEB .1. MILNE IV of Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, young heir to a textile fortune, who was abducted for ransom, ran-som, was found bound and gagged live miles from Buckingham, Pa., where he had been thrown from an automobile. It was reported that the relatives had paid $2."i,0()0 for his release. Milne was too weak rrotn hunger and exposure to tell a connected story when found. Department De-partment of Justice agents were on the trail of the kidnapers and It was believed the gang would soon be rounded up. P IPE PIUS conferred red hats on sixteen new cardinals In a public pub-lic consistory nt St. Peter's in Vatican Vati-can City. Four others received their red hats nt their nunciatnras. These twenty bring the sacred college to within two of Its full numerical strength for the first time in maDy years. |