Show news review of current events the world over americans in london conference reject temporary stabilization of dollar and offer economic program three more states for prohibition repeal by EDWARD W PICKARD E exasperated by accusations that they were balking the operations cf of the world conference in london the american delegates placed their cards on the table inform ing the conference that the united states would not consider the temporary estabill bation of the dollar ollar during the life of the meeting as was demanded by the gold bloc they also presented their economic program moving the adoption of a resola raymond IT moley tion binding all na nona to cease raising trade barriers against each other to remove embargoes quotas and other aber arbitrary restrictions and to scale cale down tariffs by reciprocal agreements the delegation then moved the adoption of another resolution corn com slitting the nations to co operative ac tion in expanding cred t and in gov eminent expenditures on public works for the purpose of reviving indus industry ry meanwhile prof raymond moley assistant secretary of state was on his way to london for a weeks week s stay having been sent hurriedly by dent roosevelt to act as a sort of liaison officer between the delegation and the president while the americans were fr framing a ming their statement the french were fum ing and threatening to bring about ad journ ment of the conference and prime minister macdonald was vis ably worried but james 31 cox chairman of the monetary committee talked privately with george french minister of finance and ex mr vr roosevelt s position on the stabilization question in detail he ile outlined the roosevelt inflation program told how cheapening the value of the dollar was bringing about a rise of commodity prices and paint ed a glowing picture of reviving pros at home so the french delegates consented not to disrupt the conference just yet anyhow secretary of state hull it was ru mored intended to return to the united states soon after the arrival of moley he refused to confirm or deny this report and he also declined to express pessimism concerning the success of the conference he ile had a long private talk with king george but of course could not reveal what was said mr hull took the occasion to deny reports that the american delegation was badly split on the course to pursue in the conference it had been re ported that senator couzens of michi gan had read the riot act to the dele gatlon gation asserting that the americans must decide whether to stand for a nationalistic program represented by the powers conferred on president roosevelt by congress or by an inter nationalistic rationalistic program represented by the alms of the conference mr hull said he could see no incon Els sis tency the domestic programs of recovery from depression la in the united states and other nations as he viewed it were to be reinforced by an inter national program to be adopted at this conference 4 KEY PITTMAN of the u american delegation submitted to the monetary committee of the con ference his proposal for currency reform in five clauses the e committee 0 m in I 1 t t e e promptly and pleas antly accepted the first two clauses which urged that sta ability in the internal lional monetary field be attained as quick ly as pra practicable Mcable and that gold be re fished as the internal measure of ex key pittman change values mr air pittman beamed and thanked the committee but the gold standard bloc then got goi into action and decided that the other clauses of the memo the most important part namely reduction of currency cover age in gold and of s I 1 ver were so serious and intricate as to demand study the gold bloc delegates urged that they be referred to committees and subcommittees for analysts and investigation which was done james P warburg of the united states and lord Hail hailsham sham of great britain supported the pittman reso lution lord hailsham Hall Hail sham also intro deuced an amendment to the pittman resolution providing that each nation should be the judge of the time and the parity at which it will return to the gold standard stin dard mr INar marburg burg also made it quite plain that the united states would re turn to gold only when and how she wished and would not submit to any international order on this point arwas of world wheat crops was d at length in the economic section and experts attached to the various delegations made what was hopefully termed a substantial ad vance toward an agreement among I 1 im afu the united states canada australia and argentina to cut output by 15 per cent before the committee stanley bruce of australia said that commonwealth would not accept the french plan to reduce the production of primary corn com modi modifies ties as a means of raising prices he presented the thesis that it was up to the industrial countries or of the world to stop trying to be agrical aurally self contained and buy food from agricultural countries in es ex change for manufactured goods the world has not forgotten the dis concerting proposal of I 1 ov of pus sla in the armament conference that the nations ted sho lid ild agree to disarm dimmed atela well wei t the e pus ian repeated in london submitting ab eting a draft proposal calling for in an economic pact by which the he na eions would bind themselves to refrain from economic attack on each other by means of discriminatory tariffs tariff s special duties or cond dons of trade railway tariffs charges on sh aping and any lind kind of boycott bv by legal or administrative measures of or course this was too forthright to meet with the approval of the other delegates THREE more states are now in the prohibition repeal column the to tal number being fousteen fou teen iteen and not one yet for the dra drs s the latest common we alphs to vote for ratification of the repeal amendment are iowa Connect i cut and new hampshire connecticut was one of the two states that never ratified the tion amendment and the result there was considered a foregone conclusion the wets won by about 6 to 1 iowa and new hamp shire however had been placed in the doubtful list so when they turned in substantial majorities for repeal there was great rejoicing among the anti prohibitionists california west virginia alabama and arkansas are the next to vote on the issue and the drys hope to win tn in the latter two figuring that thus the question will be put over until nest next year when they think their chances will be better SUMNER WELLES our astute am cassador bas to cuba seems to be pro grossing gressing with his plans for bringing about peace on that troubled island his scheme for atlon has been ac cepter by the professors and students 4 in havana foes of president machado and they have told their delegates in the f united states to get 0 tn in line or q quit alt the op position organic organization aaion with the assured support of the A B gumner sumner 0 secret society the welles professors the na lional st union the faction headed by miguel mariano gomez and probably the partisans of former president marlo mario G menocal observers cb servers believed the ambassador had behind him dent clent opposition strength to justify the early opening of del be rations it Is pred eted that the cuin main points of the conciliation program will be immediate restoration resto ratin of pol normalcy throughout the inland liber atlon of political prisoners restora tion of the suspended guarantees press freedom and recall of military supervisors constitutional reforms restoring the office of vice president eliminated in 1928 providing for his selection im mediately after the reforms go into effect curtailment of the terms of public officials prorogued in 1908 and forbidding any pre dent to succeed himself reform odthe of ahe electoral code in this dr howard lee mcbain of co lumbia has been invited to aid teoman TWO WO of the world worlds s most prominent woman rad cals died within a few hours of each other pose rose pastor stokes passed away in frankfort ger many born in russia and married to an american millionaire she devot ed her life to soc soe al at service and the labor movement and in her later years turned to communism clara who died in a sani sant borlum near moscow was for years a communist member of the german reichstag and once was a candidate for the presidency of germany last year she presided over the opening session of the reichstag as its oldest member and demanded the impeach ment of president von hindenburg PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT in his leisurely surely cruise up the new eng land coast to campobello island in the bay of fundy showed that he Is a first class sailor he ile acted as skip slip per of the schooner amberjack II 11 and while he took no unnecessary chances with the weather he handled the little vessel with skill and nerve A coast guard cutter and one destroy er accompanied the Amber jaci Jacl and of course the press boats went along after the start mr roosevelt tried to avoid the photographers L of the illinois water anay dedication way and the lakes to the gulf wa ter route was the occasion of acu lar ceremonies in chicago near the mouth of the river secretary of war george H dern flew there by airplane to make an address and he was ac companied by speaker henry T rai ney n ey and maj gen latie li tie brown chief of the army engineers scores of other prominent persons tools took part in the do ings one of the features of the day was the arrival of a tow of miss asip pi river barges carrying the first corn com mercial cargo over the lakes takes to gilt gilf route from new orleans to chicago it was escorted by the official yacht of tl it e port of new orleans and other craft in one ceremony mayor kelly of chicago joined mayor T semmes Wa walmsley linsley of new orleans in blending water brought from the gulf of mex ico with that of lake michigan among other speakers were governor horner of illino s maj gen thomas Q ash burn president of the federal barge lines and the governors of several states along the inland waterway route delegations were present from st louis milwaukee peoria and oth er cities from riga the only D dispatches source of fairly trustworthy news about soviet russia say that moscow s trade monopoly is anxiously searching for a nation that will w grant the in lyions of dollars of credit nee s essary to bt bay y grain J for the starving pop y of russ a the begot lations opened by smith wild mid man brockl art now of the american agri cultural adminis tra tion are being watched eagerly and it Is as borl eloris seated that his cotton selling scheme Is a camouflage tor for a secret deal with boris chief of the astorg in new york concern ing large credits for purchases of american grain it is said has received instructions to do every thing possible to purchase grain with a minimum of city since russia has decided to keep the tragic news of the present famine hidden from the world according to latvian and estonian d stationed at moscow rus s a has cotton enough to export but not enough to operate her own mills and while moscow Is willing to take any thing the un ted states will sell her on credit the nation nations s chief need la is grain C chancellor HITLER of germany VJ delivered de decisive cisiNe a blow to the nationalist followers of dr alfred hugenberg minister of agriculture and economics when he dissolved their fighting units throughout the reich the police pollee ass sted by nazi aal storm troops raided the headquarters of the nat fighters in all the cities and made many arrests it was then officially announced that these units would hereafter be forbidden the steel helmet war veterans organ za tion in the Duess eldorf district also was suppressed though chancellor dollfuss of aus tria professes to want nothing but peace with the german nazis he has issued a decree outlawing their party and all affiliated organizations in aus tria hitters new trustees of labor are assuming dictatorial control of the factories of germany and it Is an bounced they are above all parties and interests and are responsible only to the state and its highest leader hitler the employers have been warned they must operate their fac tortes in the service of the nation not of their purses EN HUGH S JOHNSON adminis G for the industrial recovery administration held a press confer ence in Nv washington ashington and told in vigor ous language something of what he and his assistants hope to accomplish in part he said the emergency phase of this job is to try to get people back to work worrying everybody the trouble with every thing and we ve got to shorten the week and pay a living wage for the shorter week how its going to work ork out where it s going I 1 don t want to say there s been too much promising all along through this depression the industries want to do the job as much as we do I 1 don t detect any slacking I 1 think its it s going to work and put several million men back to work this summer maybe a snag somewhere along the line we may stub our toes but N were ere going to make a stab at it the cotton industry was the first to move toward placing itself under gov eminent control its proposed code praised by johnson calls for a baxt max mum work week of 40 hours and a minimum wage scale of 10 a week in the south and ana 11 in the north this represents a SO 20 per cent wage advance and a reduction of 20 per cent in wording hours teacon THE HE navy formally accepted the macon and the great airship was commissioned at akron and left for lakehurst N J it will go to the naval air station at sunnyvale calif probably in august L bodenhamer former na OL dional commander of the amer lean le leg on I 1 11 t a cigarette in an oil field near henderson tes tex an elpio sion of gas ensued and with n a few hours mr badeni imer was dead of barns arns H he e NN was a s 0 one D e 0 of f the most kroml nent 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