Show news review of current events the world over new temporary Tempo ary iary gold standard adopted rus russia sia i accused of using spanish war to rouse international discord bel belgium ZD aum ium abandons alliances by EDWARD W PICKARD western newspaper un on 96 IT IS a new gold standard a way of doing business which has never been tried before was secretary s character 4 of the agree r anent just entered into by the united states great brit a am in and france whereby subject to 24 hours cancel lation they will ex change gold for each other s currencies financiers acono mists and business 0 men were taken by secretary surprise by the pe move and immedi edi abely gave it close study some were disposed to label the maneuver po lotical expediency but experts gen brally said it was a logical step in the sequence of monetary events but not positively in the direction of stabilization the new plan mr said differs from the old gold stand ard in that it will permit the export or earmarking of gold only to and between governments instead of private business institutions and traders the door is wide open said mr we re not going out drumming up business but we U 11 welcome all other countries which want to participate according to the treasury depart ment the united states alone will announce a selling price for gold france and england will keep their selling prices secret though there will be a free flow of gold between the stabilization funds of the three nations it was believed that great britain was the prime mover in this new pact As one commentator put it the agreement was made feces sary when france debased her currency and placed an embargo on gold exports because great britain suddenly discovered that nowhere in the world was there left a fixed yard stick against which to measure in ter national commitments and handle international exchange SOVIET OVIET RUSSIA made a second determined effort to aid the be leagur ed government of spam spain and sustained a second rebuff ivan haisky russian ambassador to england handed to lord plymouth british chairman of the non inter bention committee a virtual ulti alti batum demanding immediate con vocation of the committee to con sider blockading the coast of por against arms shipments des tined for the spanish insurgents it was understood in london that lord plymouth replied that if the apropo were seriously made it should be presented through diplomatic channels to the governments con berned the russian plan was for a blockade by english or french war ships observers in europe are con vinced that the soviet government does not expect the powers to agree to any such blockade as is sug but is chiefly interested in stirring up discord among the na lions british foreign minister anthony eden after hearing of lord ply mouth mouths s reply made a at sheffield in which he pledged great britain s unwavering support to the policy of nonintervention in spain he declared the government was determined to confine that tragedy within the boundaries of that coun try leaders of the fascists were re ported to have planned a steady steam roller advance on madrid and this offensive was already under way the defenders of the capital were hastily building fortifications in the suburbs and surrounding the city with trenches in oviedo the dynamite armed force of loyalist miners was still battling with the garrison and rebel troops sent to the rescue were about to enter the city M MAURICE AURICE F french r e n c h communist leader made a speech in strasbourg that is causing a lot of trouble he was charged with deliberately insulting adolf hit ler and the berlin government en formal protest the official nazi organ der andriff says the speech was an attempt to precipe tate war between france and ger many and also that it was an at tempt to overthrow the german reich and to achieve the definite of france for the benefit of the soviet communist in the french rightist newspapers declare the therez incident was part of the russian communist scheme to throw france against germany so that russia will not be left alone to face any eventual german attack the rightists were even more vig orous in their accusations when it was learned that maxim litvinov soviet foreign commissar was sec betly in pans paris ILA IT made public by the american navy department show that since july 1 last every great naval power except the united states has increased the number and tonnage of its war vessels in the months from july 1 to september 15 the united states re deuced the number of its ships from vessels totaling 1080 1 tons to vessels totaling 1062 1 tons great britain increased ships from 37 to and tonnage from 1224 to 1232 japan increased ships from to and tonnage from to france increased ships from to and tonnage from to italy increased ships from to and tonnage from to germany increased ships from forty nine to fifty three and tonnage from to the british foreign office an bounced that france and italy had agreed to sign that protocol of the london naval treaty far forbidding bidding the use of submarines except under strict limitations BELGIUM t which since the close of the world war has been tied tight to france by a military al liance has decided to drop that and all similar alliances and to rely for her safety on strict neu and a larger army king leopold so informed the cab met telling the mm min aisters that ger many s reoccupation of the rhineland 1 practically puts us back where we were v i in before the g great r e a t hi king g leopold war belgium s geographical position he said makes it imperative for us to maintain a military machine of such size as to dissuade any neighbor from using our territory to attack another state the period of mill tary service was extended from twelve to eighteen months belgium must pursue a policy exclusively and wholly belgian leopold said in any case our en gage ments should not go beyond keeping off war from our own ter atory belgium must remain out side of its neighbors conflicts any policy of alliance with a single country would weaken our position abroad A purely defensive alliance would not meet the case because however prompt the in tion of our ally it would only come after the invader invaders s blow which would be crushing of the national Arnari ax maritime time commission to de dare clare a permanent truce in current contract controversies is challenged by the negotiating committee for the pacific coast maritime unions and members of those unions are instructed to vote on a proposal for a coast wide waterfront strike the maritime commission had peremptorily demanded that the pacific coast ports be kept open while it sent an investigator to san francisco to discuss the conditions which have loag threatened to bring on industrial warfare in telegrams to president frank lin roosevelt and the commission the committee said the commission had caused great unrest among the workers through its parti cipa tion in negotiations between ship owners and dock and shipboard em the seven unions claiming a membership of nearly 37 work ers are the international long shor sh emens s association the amen ameri c can an radio ts assoria tion the marine engineers benefi cial association the masters mates and pilots of america the sailors union of the pacific marine cooks and stewards and the marine fire men Water tenders and wipers er S association 1 SENATOR WILLIAM E BORAH of idaho whose attitude in the presidential campaign is a matter of great interest to all parties has declared he would confine his attention to state matters but then being irked by some criticism from republican he went further and said he AA was going after the ti ie republican party the veteran said he had been accused of not being regular well what is a senator borah regular 7 he asked A regular is a man with no ideas who waits for someone to tell him what to do my idea of being regular is in doing what you believe to be right in the interests of the people you represent let this be understood I 1 m tell ing all parties republican democratic union I 1 ni going to advocate the things I 1 believe in whether they cross party lines or not PESSIMISM and discontent 1 marked the final session of the league of nations assembly the leaders admitting that little had been accomplished carlos saavedra lamas of argentina president of the assembly even asked if he in might ight not raise the question cheth er civilization is on the verge of a final breakup the question of reforming the league covenant provoked a bitter controversy on whether nonmember states should be consulted russia was understood to be anxious par ticul arly to bar german influence and achieved a minor triumph since ni n definite action to solicit ber operation cooperation was taken A corn com cittee of twenty eight was named to study reform proposals the assembly approved reports of its economic and disarmament corn com the economic report carried a british proposal to create a commission to study accessibility of raw materials the united states and other nonmembers would be in cited to participate the report of the disarmament committee approved the reconvening of the world disarmament conference at an early date KURT chancel tv lor of austria is taking his place among the european dictators in order to consolidate military power in his own hands he decreed the 9 tion of all private armies this being aimed especially at the fascist heim wehr headed b y k prince ernst v von 0 it Star hemberg T the it e prince directed his followers to obey the edict and major t fey Star hemberg s prince von on rival for r control of the Heim wehr 9 called on the elements recognize rec ing his leadership to preserve order the chancellor s order also affected his own catholic storm troops all the private troops were ordered consolidated with the austrian state militia this would increase austria s official armed forces to about men the dissolution decree met strong opposition within the cabinet and was voted after three ministers had walked out s task now is to actually disarm the private armies it if he succeeds in doing this his corn com control over austria may be conceded it is recalled that the Heim Helm wehr was ordered to disarm in 1931 that the government seized many weapons and that a year later some 40 Heim Heirn wehr men appeared fully armed and uni formed von Star hemberg may not be really squelched this time either it is a certainty that he has a powerful friend in premier mussolini of italy aa ra 10 A of palestine who had been on strike for days in protest against unrestricted immigration of jews were persuaded by the british to call off the strike which had been accompanied by great disorders and the killing of several hundred persons the arab high committee issued an appeal to arabs throughout the country to re turn to work quietly and this command was obeyed gene generally rahy sir arthur wauchope british high corn com missioner was said to have in formed the british government that it was now safe for the royal corn com mission of investigation to begin its work of inquiring into the grievances of the arabs according to a hebrew newspaper of jerusalem the arabs have ar ranged for backing by italian fas casts for their aspirations also the moslem authority administering Is camic church property is reported to be prepared to sell catholics a christian holy place on mount zion t ASING its conclusions on a study Bc L covering the period from 1900 to 1935 the national industrial con ference board finds that there is no evidence to support the theory that the burden of private debt upon business is excessive statements that private debt is absorbing wealth or is showing a changed and unfavorable relationship to wealth or that the depression was precipitated by an excessive debt burden are without factual basis the board reported interest charges have not outrun the capacity to pay them according to the board s study which showed that the rates of growth of private long term debt and of interest charges from 1900 to 1935 were simi lai lal to those of national wealth and national income since 1930 private long term debt has tended to decline only the pub he lic utilities have increased the amount of their outstanding debt but the board points out that no debt problem exists in the public utility field as a whole and that ex mansion of the electric light and power utilities has been on a sound basis with the industry in a safe position to meet interest charges the steam railroads taken as a bhole are neither overcapitalized nor overburdened with debt the board concludes 0 ONE NE of the worst typhoons in the history of the philippines swept across luzon island killing scores of persons and destroying villages at least perished and the au thon ties feared the death list would be much larger for four o 0 hundred were reported missing eighty two bodies were recovered from the city of cabanatuan 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