| Show news review of current curren t events the world over j prime ministers of three nations confer at stresa rtresa president roosevelt busy with work relief program 0 prods congress t i a by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union 1 dx ot of Eu ropes foremost statesmen 1 1 4 LJ with experts and secretaries solemnly considered peace plans and se curtly pacts on isola delia bella a lovely little island in lake off rtresa stresa fealy the conference was momentous but it was of an explore ex plora tory nature and no definite results were expected prime min MID ister ramsay macdon aid d and foreign secretary gitary sir john simon representing G great r e a t britain were willing premier to carry out that na flandin eions g military y obliga alons under the locarno treaty but balled balked at further commitment in con tl mental affairs anyhow they had promised to enter into no new agreements without tile consent of parliament vi aich cannot be consulted until after the eater holidays premier flandin and foreign minister laval lava I 1 of france sought to persuade england to line up with france and russia rather than with germany and they presented as one argument a new mutual assistance pact they hat had just signed with russia premier bills bolint so lint solemn and pessimistic handled matters tor for italy with the help or of fulvio sutsch undersecretary of for eign agn affairs tie ile had already warned the world that the issue of war or pence peace probably could not be settled at stresa rtresa of course the chief question was the attitude of other nations toward the constantly growing ran pan of the belch under hitler and the first concrete problem taken up was frances appeal to the league of nations against germanys germanas Germ anys repudiation of the military clauses of the versailles treaty mussolini and macdonald were inclined to accept hillers Hit lers rearmament it if there could be an agreement against further military expansion sion b but ut flandin L stood in opposition the italia italians urged a three power alliance f tor protection against germany but eng england land objected ob and france was uncertain all three nations rather favored the rearmament of austria bulgaria and hungary and the danube pact which italy especially has been promoting M pessimistic frame of mind was illustrated by an announcement no ino in his newspaper ditalia dl dI talia that italy would keep men under arms until tile the horizon Is well cleared and give them all modern weapons both the italians and the french are convinced that germany Is maliciously stirring up the troubles that confront them in northern africa with the purpose of weakening their position in europe this matter was discussed privately by some of the participants in the stresa rtresa meeting HE new mutual assistance agreement T ane reached by france and russia was at first supposed to be merely an agreement on sanctions to be taken against an aggressor once the latter has been determined by the league of 0 nations but paris correspondents assert that it Is in effect a military alliance such as russia had been urging on france and that in certain cases the signatories signa tories will determine tor for themselves who Is the aggressor a gres sor without waiting for word from geneva the agreement Is of course directed primarily against germany it Is believed in paris that russia will soon conclude similar alliance with czechoslovakia and the baltic states thus completing a steel ring around ger banys land frontiers this agreement Is still subject to alteration and final approval that russia still seeks to maintain and strengthen the general peace was shown by the signing of a russo ger man trade treaty which it Is believed will greatly increase the volume of dussias Rus sias orders in the belch under this accord the will increase purchases in germany by marks about SO a banking consortium headed by tile the deutsche bank and discount Gesell GeselIs schaft chaft and the dresdner bank to grant import credits tor for an average term of five years the credits will bear interest at the discount rate of the plus 2 per cent the russian trade delegation Is thereby enabled to pay cash tor for orders placed with german linns firms A A was made by the A government that it had 11 uncovered lovered frauds in the immigration and naturalization service from 1923 1023 to 1933 1033 and steps were taken for the ousting of a number of employees and for criminal prosecutions it was estimated that a ring of bribe takers and fixers had received as much as a roll lion ilon dollars from 1 persons illegally entering the country revelations so startling in character have come to light that investigators I 1 believe the actual extent of corruption and nd fraud has haa been but partially disclosed 1 I 1 said a statement issued by tile the labor department I 1 after a secret investigation ti tl of alleged frauds in the th new york tort district sums ran ranging gida up to are alle ged to have boon been paid in cases involving false witnesses or passi passing ng of an applicant who had failed in his test of knowledge of the government or his ability to speak ru english glish it Is alleged that fees ranging from to were levied in cases involving fraudulent or altered manifest records where it was desirable to obtain a record that would safeguard an alien from deportation or procure citizenship status by showing his legal admission at the port of now new york for permanent residence EAV dust storms the worst of the N destruct lie series swept over kansas colorado oklahoma new mexico and texas completing the virtual ruin of tiie the wheat crop an and causing greit great losses and suffering among alixe stock schools ond and shops ships were closed airplanes grounded and train and lius bus selic schedules lilles disrupted some regions were being abandoned by all inhabitants A delegation of senators and representatives senta senti tives from four of the stricken states called on president roosevelt and asked him to earmark for a land program for the next two years ile he did not indicate what amount would be allocated but was said by the delegation to have given assurance that lie would permit the expenditure of all the money that was necessary RESIDENT ROOSEVELT deeply P PRESIDENT tanned and in good physical condition was landed at jacksonville fla by the destroyer y farragut and started 1 I immediately tor for new york to attend the funeral ot of his cousin warren delano robbins ia ey after which he returned ned to washington A botu rotu I 1 aboard his special tr c lal train the president A d t read through the work re ilef bill as it was final harry hopkins ay y passed p by b p 0 t h houses of congress called tor for pen and ink and appended his signature to the largest appropriation measure ever enacted by con congress gress there were some features of it agreed upon in the senate and house conference which he did not like but he said those who had studied it recommended its approval the president at once signed two allocations from the amount appropriated the first was to the administrator of the federal emergency relief belief in order that relief might not stop the second was for continuation of the emergency conservation work in washington the republicans and some others discussed with dissatisfaction the probability that harry 4 hopkins relief administrator would be the presidents chief assistant in carrying out the vast work relief program it Is extremely fortunate for mr hopkins that if he be Is going to be the lord high distributor of the money the bill Is so drawn that he wont have to be confirmed by the senate said senator of michigan representative snell of new york the republican leader in the house declared it was a sad gad commentary that a man like e hopkins who had termed critics of work relief methods d n dumb should appear to be in line to be clothed with extraordinary grants of power over the greatest sum of money ever appropriated I 1 TN N HIS first post vacation conference with congressional leaders president roosevelt disregarded taz their fears of a prolonged session and insisted on enactment of his legislative program especially he wants legislation dealing with extension of tile the social security utilities holding companies extension of federal authority over banking ship subsidy readjustment and extension of in nuisance taxes later the president conferred with senator joe JOB robinson who said both of them felt that very satisfactory progress Is being made to the correspondent mr roosevelt said he hoped to have the work relief program at its peak by the middle of november at which time unemployed should be at work under its terms lie he indicated this program would be carried out as far as possible by existing governmental agencies ile he will seek to avoid moving workers from one area to another and will take care of as many white collar workers as possible the social security bill finally was produced on the floor of the house bouse of representatives there were several blocs against it in its form as reported these included representatives who want higher unemployment and old age payments members from the poorer states who want the federal government to bear the entire cost of the program with the states relieved of any contribution and the conservatives who are opposed to the government going into the insurance business and exacting a pay roll tax during the depression HERMANN GEN tuno the dynamic premier 01 c prussia Irus sla and all minister of germany and emmy Sonne minn thirty seven see n bear i earold ear old actress were married in r ker er lin first in the dry city hall and theu then to lo the evangelical cathedral will welchs huebrer hitler acting ns as groomsman in both ceremonies it was a most spectacular bacu lar wedding ved ding with many takoui germans and it grand opera chorus in attendance a triumphal procession through tile the crowded streets and a display of the nazi air form force and catholics of lias socialists zig alg combined to give chancellor hitler of germany his first big setback in the free cites parliamentary 4 i election the nazis it i t polled per cent of the total vote but rad failed to get the two 9 thirds majority of tho 1 seats that would give 07 them complete con arol of parliament hitler and his follow ers had hoped danzig J would follow the y lead of the and return to the belch paul goebbels ls and this may yet be the result for the population of the city is more than 90 00 per cent german but the nazis were defeated in their at tempt to lay the groundwork for the suppression of all other political par ties and the establishment of a dicta tors torsh filp lp presumably their next step will w III be to vote for a change in the free cites constitution and to ask the league of nations which admin adain aisters the city through a commissioner to permit a plebiscite on return to the belch this was openly discussed by paul joseph goebbels german kropa ganda minister during the hot cam laign in danzig carried on by the nazis poland was enraged by the violent methods of the Hitler ites to in the campaign and demanded an apol ogy agy from berlin the whole affair endangered the new friendship between poland and germany and probably this was not mour mourned ried by the other nations of europe ITH the rubber workers in the etire tire plants of akron ohio ready read to quit their jobs the american feder aaion of labor pledged itself to finance the strike which president green declared would be a crucial attempt ils organized labor to force on industry the collective bargaining provisions ol of the nna ile he announced his would support the rubber ers of akron for RS ns long a time lis as may be necessary green definitely marked mark ed out the tire strike as a test of labors ability to make good on the promises held out ou to it by the new deal the national labor relations board he pointed out had ordered the big tire companies goodyear goodrich Goodri cb and firestone to allow their workers to elect represent atiles for collect collective le bargaining the companies have refused and labor now takes into its own hands bands tile the enforce ment of the NLRB decision green or ar gued tire manufacturers on the other side recognize the threatened strike as a ley key move in the new deal pro gram for regimentation of labor and industry and are fighting back fire stone expected to go before the district of columbia supreme court and ask a permanent injunction against the NLRB and meddling in its labor situation P postmaster GENERAL JAMES A PARLEY FARLEY went to new york to study the political and le legislative Islat lve situation there and it was wa declared by local democratic leaders that he be would retire from the cabinet soon after th the e adjournment journ ment of congress mr parley farley neither affirmed nor denied the story he has been bitterly attacked for retaining his cabinet post and at the same time continuing as chairman james A of the democratic national parley farley committee and of the new york democratic committee despite the edict of the president against such double holding mr roosevelt wants mr parley farley to remain head of the national committee and to conduct his campaign tor for reelection election re so 60 he be will give up his post office job but he did not nish to resign while still under fire from nuey huey long and others UR minister to canada warren OUR 0 delano robbins succumbed to pneumonia to in a new york hospital aft er a weeks illness he was a first cousin of president roosevelt and had been in the diplomatic service for more than 2 25 5 years being one of the most mosi distinguished of the career men adolph S ochs veteran owner and publisher of the new york times was stricken with cerebral hemorrhage while visiting old friends ID chatta tenn and died without regain ing consciousness tie he was seventy beven years old and had been in poor health for some time another notable man taken by death was edwin arlington robinson gen chally considered the foremost amerl ameri can ca a poet poe t ile he won the pulitzer Pull tzer for poetry in 1922 1920 1926 and 1928 athe A was made by the state department that the united states has accepted in general terms the proposal of argentina and ancl chile tor for operative cooperative co efforts to end the bolivia paraguay war in the gran chaco it was expected brazil which had bad been consulted would join in the plan just what will be done hu has not been determined |
