Show news of current events LANDON RALLIES G 0 PO calls on the republicans to put curb on demands for increased power X r ax I 1 k K k A w y icus kar pack train starting the long trek down the mountainside in the uinta range utah with the bodies of 19 persons who met sudden death when a united lines airliner from chicago to the west coast crashed in a storm the bodies and baggage of the victims can be seen in the foreground in the background lies the twisted plane wreckage 4 1 c summarizes T T M THE WORLDS WEEK EX a western newspaper union landon calls on G 0 P A LF M LANDON came to the x surface in a radio address to 17 americans who voted for him in the last election and es specially ally to the re publican party as a whole he said he I 1 had called this ra dio meeting to sug gest ways and means by which we the minority party can be of outstanding service to the country the kansan de dared president alam landon roosevelt had failed as an admin had failed to follow the constitution and now was demanding indrea increased ed power what he really needs is less pow er mr landon asserted a post tion that will force him to take the advice and counsel of other men of both parties men whose hearts also are in the right place but men who have had more experience and who know more about the practical application of government than he does it is up to the republicans he said to curb mr roosevelt in his demands he also discussed the war talk prevalent after the dent s chicago speech and said we are faced with a situation where he may make a mistake that would indeed be tragic that might lead to war close observers have in increasing creasing doubt if he thought his recent declaration through to its logical conclusion in conclusion mr landon said we have had a new deal now what we most need in america is a new yardstick a yardstick to meas ure the ability and the accomplish ments as well as the good anten eions of public officials it is time to put a solid dounda tion of workable legislation under the air castles which the president forever is blowing it is time to realize that we must apply the resources of the mind if we are to make the wishes of the heart come true K farmers warned on loans adward DWARD A 0 ONEAL NEAL president beof of the american farm bureau federation headed a group of farm leaders who called on the dent for the purpose of asking loans of 60 cents a bushel on corn to improve prices it was understood mr poosevelt warned that crop loans should hould not be pushed so high that the drain on federal revenues would become too heavy and that he intimated that the budget would not permit great extension of loans at this time however secretary of agriculture wallace subsequently told a press cone conference rence a government loan on this year vear s large corn crop should be exceedingly des rable he de dined to say what loan rate he fa bored but conceded that a corn loan of about 46 cents a bushel vituld A be comparable to the government governments s 9 cents a pound loan on this year years s cotton crop it credit system sfern praised PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT speak 1 ing at the open ng of the new federal reserve building in wash ington gave full pra se to the fed eral reserve system as a most im lm part of the go s plans for acono me nic stab lity and se carity he said disastrous depres ons and booms could be avoided aly by the development of the and monetary machinery of I 1 ae e nat on that machinery machir ery he continued must be steadily perfected and cc d bated w th all other ins f government govern mert to promote the most reductive ut libation liza tion of our human id d material resources only in at t way can we hope to achieve nd ara ertain an eldur ng prosper ity free from the disastrous ex of booms and depressions only in that way can our economic system and our democratic matitu eions endure mr roosevelt avoided mention of the jittery condition of the stock markets but before delivering his address he had seen secretary of the treasury and learned that the market was ering due to heavy buying by bar gain hunters and perhaps to ery of confidence by investors among the many notable persons on the platform with the president was senator carter glass of vir ginia who fathered the federal re serve system during the wilson ad ministration the veteran senator was loudly cheered roper has a program D rANI ANIEL ELC C ROPER secretary of commerce also made a speech in washington under the auspices of the rotary club his subject was wag the economic relationships of the nations of the western hemisphere and he proposed this four point program which he believed would bene fit the entire world I 1 united action throughout the americas for the publication of ver ifield facts about every country stressing constructive events and objectives rather than prejudice crimes and disrupting events 2 the introduction into the edu rational cat ional system of every country study of other languages so that each country would be better pre pared in attitude and knowledge to help develop its own country this means he said that no country will exploit the resources of another country 3 encourage tourist travel among all the americas by truthful adver and better travel facilities 4 broader studies by the coun tries in the western hemisphere of each other s economic and social needs in the light of the individual country new budget figures P PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT found his estimate of as the probable deficit for 1938 ascal year was much too low so he gave out new budget figures putting the able deficit at nearly millions and it admittedly will be much greater unless the executive and congress achieve very considerable economies felix darbu a dies F CELIX ELIX M WARBURG of new 1 york one of the country s fore most fidanc ers and philanthropists d ed at his home at the age of sixty seven he was senior partner of kuhn loeb co international bankers between 1920 and 1930 he gave at least ten million dollars to various philanthropies and for years he was active in the efforts to aid the jews in palestine and those driven from germany by the nazis airliner A wrecked 19 dead SMASHING against hayden peak in the uinta mountains of utah a big transcontinental airliner of the united air lines was totally wrecked and its pac passengers and crew numbering 19 persons were ere killed tl TI c debris was sighted by scout planes some 10 feet up the mountainside but efforts of rescue parties to reach the scene were hampered by heavy snow bla kun seized A to an official corn eunist publication in moscow acla kun hungarian who has stirred up lots of trouble in the past has been arrested by the rus s ans and charged with Trotsky activities which usually means the death penalty kun kull was dictator of hungary during the short lived corn eunist republic after the conclusion of the world war take gior G REAT BRITAIN france and it VJ aly with germany on the side lines were still trying to come to agreement for the removal of volun from spam spain but generalissimo franco wasn gasn t waiting his forces in northwest spain pushed forward to surround gijon last important loyalist seaport in that area and in warships blocked escape by way of the sea the commanders of the defending loyalist troops real iced their predicament and dered the city unconditionally the place was crowded with half starved refugees the loyalists stil were in possession of some strate gif points in that sector occupation by the italians ane anc germans of two island groups off the coasts of spain was reported in pans paris newspapers it was alleged that the italians had occupied the columbretes is lands only 40 miles off the east med coast and had established a submarine base there normally the islands are occupied only b members of a lighthouse crew germans were alleged to have oc aupied albora if island 50 miles off the south mediterranean coast and directly in the path of all shipping to and from gibraltar the ger mans were said to have established ee ci a submarine base on the island likewise used principally heretofore as a lighthouse station 4 davis sent 40 0 o brussels ORMAN H DAVIS is on his way nto 1 to brussels belgium as head of the american delegation to a con ference of the signatories of the nine power treaty which the optimists r hope will put an end to the warfare be tween japan and china more realis tic observers ers of the cour course se of events have no such expect tation for the pact has no teeth and the conferees can do 14 little except talk norman U H associated with davis aels mr davis the ad ministration ministrations s roving ambassador are dr stanley K hornbeck and pierrepont moffat as advisers rob ert T pell is the press officer and C E bohlen is secretary of the delegation before sailing for europe the dele gates received instructions from president roosevelt and secretary of state hull but these were not revealed to the public the invitation to the conference was aas issued by the belgian govern ment at the request of the british government and with the approval of the government of the united states china and japan are both signatories to the treaty the for mer accepted the invitation to the brussels meeting but it was be lieveld japan would not be depre dented there tokyo has maintained the policy that the sino japanese troubles must be settled without the intervention of other nations t russians in west achma TOKYO OKYO newspapers stated that 15 soviet russian planes co oper abing with soviet land forces had bombed kashmar karg halk hal k khotan gumer and other cities of Sin kiang westernmost province of china in a battle against edans the troops were said to have occupied several of the cities mine disaster COAL C OAL gas exploded in the mulga mine in alabama 12 miles from birmingham and the lives of 33 miners were snuffed out five rive hun dred men were at work in tl the ie mine at the time but fortunately the ex was four miles from the en trance the blast was the firs since the operation of the mine was wac taken over by the woodward iron company large producers of mer chant iron in birmingham how ever 56 men had been killed at mulga in former years ir lindy stil still american RUMORS D that col charles A lx lindbergh was planning to be come a british subject seem to be false for he has just accepted a five year renewal of his commission in the united states army air corps army amy officers expressed the belief p he would not have re dewed his air corps tie if he in tended changing his allegiance the airman has retained his military status since his graduation in 1925 flom the air corps flying school at kelly field texas palestine terrorism BRITISH military authorities took stern measures to suppress the violence in palestine palest ne but alpar antly without success the arabs continued their attacks on the jew ish people and build and in jerusalem began using bombs gen A P wavell commander of the 10 british troops in pales tine ordered the homes af arab terrorists burned following the de st ruction of kalandis Ka landia airport near lydda with an estimated loss of 50 50 sixty persons were arrested for breaking the twenty four hour cur few which amounts to virtual mar bial law if tills sort of thing keeps up great britain is likely to make pal estine a crown colony instead of a mandate |