Show news review of current events the world over rational Jat ional prohibition passes out and foreign liquor jc comes in johnson put in control of AAA codes will budget director douglas resign by EDWARD W PICKARD N prohibition went into the discard on december 5 state conventions in a ohio and utah ratified the repeal amendment on that day making the necessary thirty six and immediately on being notified by 4 telegraph it dent e n t roosevelt and acting secretary of state william phillips Is sued pro clama t 11 I 1 0 D s that the amendment w was a a n no 0 longer a part of the constitution in intfen jo joseph 3 h H ty four a of the e forty cho choate te jr the i eight gg states man facture and sale of I 1 0 bior now Is or soon will be legal the state laws laus un der which it can be sold vary from those providing wide ulde open salo us in nevada to a str ct system of 11 bensing hard liquor in Alon montana tana only through state orned stoies one in every county most widely enacted of the laws Is one provid ng for serving crying of hard I 1 quor only with meals governmental agencies in cashing ton were ere swamped with I 1 reparata ry measures to deal with ith the importation of foreign liquors many huge es of which were waiting alting for entry and with the federal restrictions feces 1 sary to protect the states that remain dry joseph 11 choate jr of new york son of the famous lawyer and statesman had been appointed direce tor of the federal alcohol control ad ministration and he arrived in the capital to take up his duties mr air choate halted the issuance of import permits until a few hours before re teal peal became an accomplished fact and in the meantime officials checked the financial standing of importers and worked out quotas for foreign coun tries it was understood that between four and nd five million gallons of foreign spirits and wines would be allowed entry during december and january and that it if the demand were greater than tie tl e supply the quantity ml might gh t be increased in order to discourage ds d courage bootlegging the government sought to prevent a flood of foreign libi or from swamping the american market to the detriment of domestic prodoc ers codes for the distillers and import era ers already were in effect and those for the brewers breuers the rectifiers and blenders and the wine growers were being completed when congress meets in january one of tl ti e first matters to tie be taken up will be legislation to in crease the taxes on liquor and for permanent permin ent control of the traffic to draw up such legislation the house ways and means committee and the senate finance committee were called to meet in joint sessions beginning december 11 I 1 of agriculture wallace S SI and director george peek reek of the agricultural adjustment adminis tra ution alon disagreeing radically concerning authority and meth moth oda laid their dispute before president roosevelt with the result that the po vers of the AAA besre we re IW sharply curtailed part of its code work be ng transferred to the na lional recovery ad ministration stephen T farly fairly one of the P presidents r e s ident a secreta secrets george peek ries issued this state ment following a conference with secre tary wallace goorge peek and gen era eral johnson the president authorized d the statement ta atiat at for the purpose of co ordination all codes under the IRA including tl ose under negolia alons by the AAA will be turned over to the administrator of the mr peek was especially annoyed by press conference statements by secretary NN wallace allace which were interpreted among officials as supporting prof res rex tugwell assistant secretary of agri culture and the I 1 beral group allied n u ith him chief of these I 1 beral associates of if T awell are terome frank counsel for AAA and frederick how honne e feoni Yn umers sumers counsel for AAA in his press conference queeni n ed the effectiveness of the marketing agreements and codes in the agricultural relief program ile sug the major necessity sity in farm re liet ilef was strict restriction of crop pro peek has throughout ampha sized marketing agreements rather than crop control methods tugwell and other liberals have taken the op i cosite position stressing crop control t as more important i of the farm relief expert L L n cuts a 3 0 can laign to 1 control the production of corn and I 1 by paying federal bo int es to the i pr pD lucers R was as launcy ed by secretary wall ce cc lie 11 e n oi en will III be raised by groces ing taxes wl ich fell tl e consumer Pon on sumer w 11 ii an I 1 will go to fan fari ei s who sign I 1 i grei bents to re I 1 e tl ir average of rr lid it d i di I 1 t r t h I 1 in n 19 4 I 1 pat it I 1 i P t ts i rj ri anler nn ler tie tl e ir I 1 li 11 IP le it at tie e rite of 0 0 i 4 t h ili I 1 cents a bushel for each bushel the farmer agrees to nith withhold hold from pro in 1934 the payment will be based on the average yield of the contracted acreage during the previous ali fhe e 3 ear period one halt half the payment will be made to the farmer as soon as his contract has been approved api roved the oti er I 1 alf when he has fulfilled the terms of the agreement in return f r the farmers agreement to c artall hog production the goberni ent will pay a a I 1 lead ead on 75 per cei t of the avenge number of hogs marl eted or to be marketed from I 1 aters farr ved by the producers sous sows in the last two tuo years D I 1 I 1 SIDI NT T 1 N cl el T returned froni his two tuo necks in warm af sri rl gs an I 1 r I 1 linga inge I 1 at nee nce into the work of solving the arlous financial pr I 1 liens ion 4 c ng his tl ti n al st immediate of these was the drefin I 1 cing eing of go verrin ent obliga lions dons an inting to abo abbit it n maturing na turin ti tie e mid ld 11 lie of the month TI Is I 1 i itter atter vas and speedily s atle I 1 v hei an entire block of f treas trea treasury siry iry certificates was sol I 1 in no dav the fact that it was I 1 ea lly kersul ser bed was considered in id ad nin ti atlon circles to be a markel victory for the new deal eco nomis there nas no cessation of the con troverse tro versy over the president presidents s monetary pol cy ey and the arguments on both sides grew more bitter though mr roosevelt himself maintained silence finan cial interests have been considerably annoyed by the fact that the severe federal securities act has checked the movement of capital into legitimate channels and they were cheered up by senator fletcher s statement that pres ident roosevelt wants the act amended to correct this fault without diminish ing the protection of the investing pub he mr mir fletcher who Is chairman of the senate banking committee said mr ts attitude had been brought to him by acting secretary of the treasury in this conne tion he said the pres president ident had not asked the banking committee to recommend legislation to curtail the stock exchange operations cdouglas HOW HD ONN long budget director lewis leals douglas will continue to hold his job is a question that interests observers in NN washington ashington he lie has worried over the ex of emerged cy ey obligations of the government and has warned against any further increase but almost certainly his warning will not be heeded when congress meets mr douglas thinks aff tl at the entire bud get including both lewis douglas general and emerged cy funds may be brought into bal ance toward the end of the fiscal year 1835 1935 if no further emergency funds are authorized after the 3 public works fund and the less than a billion left in the RF fund are used up ile thinks these funds should be sufficient for emer gency purposes others in the administration in eluding the president have different ideas secretary of the interior ickes expects to ask for an increase of as much as 1700 1 in the public works fund the probably will want t 1000 or more the new civil works administration will run out of money in the middle of the winter and the president already has expressed the hope that add lional funds will be forthcoming from con gress its allotments have come thus far from both the public works funds and the relief fund of the RESIDENT roosevelt addressing P PRESIDENT the federal council of churches of christ in america took occasion to condemn severely all those who con done lynch ings and his remarks were interpreted especially as a sharp rebuke for governor rolph of california who rho approved the actions of the mob that hanged two kidnapers and mur darers at san jose th s ne v generation said mr roosevelt Is not content with preach ings against that vile form of callec alve murder lynch law which has broken out in our midst anew we kno v that it is m arder and a del b crate and definite disobedience of the commandment thou not kill IN we e do not exe ise those in high places or in low who condone lynch lynch law WHEN col charles A lindbergh starts out to do ing in the way ray of aviation he does it compe skillfully fully and neatly accorn palled and ably ass assister istel by mrs lind bergh he piloted his big monoplane across the southern atlantic from bathurst aar ca to natal brazil mak mah ng the 1 to sa miles in 16 hours and 10 n in ites and landing smoothly in the natal harbor where here the entire popi population lation of the city was gathered to welcome them through the long flight mrs lindbergh at the wireless instrument kept in constant comm ni cation with rio de janeiro 1 1 W W J fj came suddenly to alexan adder der legge president of the inter nat national bonat harvester company and one of the count country rys s leading industrialists in his suburban home near chicago he a as almost sixty eight years of age and apparently had been in good health mr I 1 a ege e ge was tl tie e first chairman of the fedrial farm board under pr dent hoover giving up his post with the harvester company in the summer of 1929 to accept the 12 a year government position for 20 mentes he devoted himself to farm relief experiments standing stin ding his ground in the face of widespread criticism then he resigned and returned to his former place by tie gift of some time prior to his death and of in his ill air legge brought to corn com months of work to perfect a philanthropic organization to be known as the farm foundation it vias made known by frank 0 louden low den former governor of III and chairman of the foundation in de developing eloping his project whose funds and activities will be devoted to the improvement of the social cul tural and economic conditions of rural life mr mir I 1 owden disclosed mr legge enlisted as trustees a group of twenty industrialists educators capitalists and farm leaders from all parts of the country WITH considerable ceremony and military display the seventh pan american conference was opened in montevideo uruguay to continue probably three weeks its deliberations are managed by enrique pali L buero as secretary ta general he Is one of uruguay s most prom a anent young d and was summoned from his post as min ister to germany to this duty in the con ference in his ach speech ln in E E buero augu rating the ses president gabriel terra ot of uruguay demanded the scaling down in all american countries of custom customs tariffs which president roosevelt just ly termed unsound fatal and direct originators of world economic dasas ter he referred to mr roosevelt Roosevel ts a indictment of the hawley smoot tariff measure and acts to which other nations were forced I 1 concerning the war in the gran chaco between bolivia and paraguay he said the noble american jurlds cal tradition cannot remain buried in the swamps of the chaco postponed from 1932 because of the depression a gathering in which all 21 nations of the western hemisphere were participating found uppermost in the minds of delegates a mutual search for operative cooperative methods to lin prove the economic status of their countries secretary of state hull heads the delegation from united states and nine other foreign mint ministers aters are participating in the conference COMMISSAR MAXIM F f LITVINOV of russia on his way home from his triumphant visit in washington t on stopped over in rome for a conference with premier mussolini and the correspondents said this resulted in an agreement for soviet fascist collaboration to better the sit nation in europe the well informed thought mussolini had obtained the support of russia in his efforts to solve the disarmament problem and that he and litvinov were in accord in the matter of having russia and the united states asked to join in the four power pact before litvinov left rome he was ghen a brilliant ban by the duce which was attended by numerous dignitaries ITH his experience as a delegate WITH to the disarmament conference at geneva clearly in mind secretary of the navy swanson in his bis annual report urges that the united states abandon leadership in the dis armament movement by example and pro aeed as soon as pos sible to build its navy up to full treaty 41 strength he ile sais says our concessions in the past have been dangerous e extra x t r a and that peace Is ald by our weak secretary swanson ened condition be cause ba balanced lancea armaments fortify dl ahe report showed shoved japan will have its full treaty strength of vessels with a total tonnage of 7 aa 0 when the treaty expires december 31 1930 whereas the united states will have only underage under age vessels with a to tal tat tonnage of under the treaty the report said the united sta states tea could construct ninetysix ninety six more ships with tons displacement the british empire according to the secretary will have vessels with tons displacement at the same date permitting it to build sixty four ships with a d of tons japan was highly displeased by secretary swanson a approval of the present treaty ratios for navies the spokesman for the naval office in boklo declared that japan Is thoroughly dis satisfied with her present allotments under the 5 53 5 3 ratio and Is determined to demand an upward revision of ja pans quota v hen the naval powers ic ie convene to consider axtens on of the washington and london treaties only a few days before the japanese cabinet had approved the navy a ro replenishment program calling tor for about OW for the next three year years 1933 W estera newspaper lews paper union |