Show IN news aws review of current events the world over eastern states devastated by great floods germany condemned by league council president asks billion and half for relief by EDWARD W PICARD 0 newspaper paper union STATES of the central east and new england suffered severely from the almost unprecedented floods scores ot avres were wera lost and the vast property damage cannot yet be estimated at least persons were made homeless conditions were worst in western pennsylvania the hela and allegheny rivers uniting at pittsburgh to form the ohio poured raging torrents down pter over the great industrial city driving the people from their homes and places of business the famous golden triangle between the rivers was completely inundated transportation and communication systems were suspended and power plants were put out of commission so the city was plunged la in darkness the plight of the suburbs was equally bad farther east johnstown was entirely flooded and the terror stricken inhabit inhabitants ants fled from their homes but the g great rent dam was holding and the danger of a repetition of the disaster of seemed to be passing dozens of cities and towns along the susquehanna and its tributaries tributa ries rles were under tinder water and in new york the mohawk hudson schuylkill and delaware rivers were out of their banks and rapidly rising the potomac too became a raging flood and to in washington an array army of men was working feverishly to save the buildings and monuments in the flatlands flati ands ten thousand persons were rendered homeless in the new england states and about a score lost their lives the emergency there was greatest in the valley of the connecticut river many blany cities were cut olt from rall rail transportation and also were without light and power american red cross rose to the emer emergency pency as always mobilizing its forces to relieve the suffering admiral cary T grayson its national head issued an appeal for a fund of SS president roosevelt also called for this amount in a proclamation secretary of war dern was appointed emergency flood relief head by the president and immediately ordered the generals commanding six corps areas of the army to extend full aid for or prevention of loss of life and destruction st of property work relief administrator harry hopkins El gave blanket authority to all officials to employ their workers in any way necessary in rescue work and in strengthening levees tile the united states coast guard sent many power launches liun clies provisioned and manned from the chicago area to help to in the relief work at various points to prevent robbery roli hery and vandalism national guardsmen guardsman Guards men were on the job at pittsburgh and other places was forced to denounce gibe GERMANY the locarno pact because the franco russian mutual assistance treaty was directed only against the retch and ranged people against it that Is what joachim von hit lers adeser on foreign aa x el n affairs told the council of the league of nations when it met in london to pass on the complaint of france and pelgrum that germany had violated both the locarno joachim von pt pact and the versailles rib D hh entrop treaty by ia ans the rhineland nevertheless the council by unanimous vote condemned germany as a violator of both treaties how she shall be punished if at all remained to be determined france and all her allies bunted the ot of sanctions italy could not be brought to favor that being herself subjected to such penalties great britain striving to preserve the peace sought some middle way out of the dilemma representatives of britain prance france belgium and italy demised a plan which provides tor for a conference of world nations to drutt draft econ economic disa ruin well t and security plans tills this plan alu also provides that geimann Gei many wany in the meantime would agree nut dot to fortify the athine land and pending a new agree agreement Went with geimann Gei many wany britain would guarantee frances security the french especially liked this because cau e it amounted to a wili military tary defensive fer sive alliance iab brit britain aln but they did not believe it would be accepted by germany von accompanied by an limpos imposing Irig lot of experts and secretaries was sent by hitler at the request of 0 ane council tile had consented to be represented atter after british foreign secretary eden as ared him he would do its ills best to persuade france anil and belgium to consider alders Hit lers new security plans after germany had bad been formally conden ined for its acilus in the rhineland in 10 his address beaure tile council von emphatically asserted that france by fig 80 amlet let allus eld lu in concluding atiat really reilly was u military alliance did daiil not respect res re tile the Loc locardio artio treaty and the soviet czechoslovakian czechoslovakia iligo tie lie declared constituted a further danger to the retch frances proposal to submit the france russian treaty to the hasue hague court was aid by a spokesman for the german delegation to be futile and useless he also said the plan on suggested by the english to police the rhineland zone with an international force was absolutely unacceptable A third provision for drawing draing up a system of mutual guaranties guarantees guaran ties among the Lo locarno carrio powers to operate in case of fin an atmark the spokesman said was unnecessary because germany has no intention r f crossing her frontiers onders fr none or of the germans however even evea intimated Ind mated that hitler would withdraw any of his troops from the rhineland hitler was continuing his speechmaking tour in germany at koenigsberg he sad for once a single roan man comes forth in europe behind whom stands a whole nation lie he extends ex tends his hand to other nations whoever dares reject this my hand behind people are united must bear responsibility in the eyes of history I 1 have been the herald of the german people for more than three years I 1 am now the herald for peace in europe S SECRETARY OF agriculture WALLACE announced the establishment lish ment of five regions for administration of the soil COD conservation and domestic allotment aati act substitute for the invalid AAA n H R tolley administrator of the new plan said the issi department a already I 1 r e a d y JS pa ls has begun a field service to administer the program in various states As under tile the AAA the leading part within the states la Is to be played by the farm H HR R tolley gg ers county and community committees mr air wallace also directed discontinuance of the four commodity divisions whose work of liquidating AAA production control programs will be taken over by the regional directors the order leaves intact other administrative units of the AAA such as the division of marketing and marketing agreements division of program planning and the division of the consumers counsel RESIDENT ROOSEVELT packed P PRESIDENT up ills his fishing tackle and started south for his annual angling cruise this time on the new presidential President lal boat the potomac he made a brief stop at winter pa park rk fla where tie he received tin an honorary degree from rollins college his plan was then to board the potomac and spend about two weeks on his old fiSh fishing Ilig grounds off the florida coast mr roosevelt had invited as his 7 companions his eldest son james an uncle frederick A delano and three matec of his dulling cruise of last fall capt wilson brown united states navy and col edwin al M watson united states army his military aides and capt ross T united states navy white house physician S SEIZURE of private telegrams by the black committee lias has resulted in a berce warfare of words between john J bleS ll cSwain ivain of south carolina chairmen of the house committee on military affairs and william randolph hearst newspaper publisher senator black withdrew the subpoena on the western union company in the hearst cafe cae but first made public what purported to be a copy of a telegram gram from the publisher to one of his editorial writers in which mcswain was culled called a communist in spirit and a traitor in effect hIcSwa ln promptly rend read this in the house and then vigorously and eloquently der defended ended himself and denounced hearst ll earst the publisher retorted with an open letter to his editorial writer in which he said Me mcswain waln Swain Is a politician of the lower order and his extreme x radl radical ill pac Is a danger to the pence and protection of the nation and to tile surety safety of the men women and clil children mho constitute the hie american people NE and one half billion dollars will 0 ONE be needed to cairy tile the filiks progress administration through tile lie coming aseal tear bear according to president therefore he asked congress to that sum bum ile he thought it would be suni clint to care for tile the destitute together with in unexpended pr previous elous aill and tile the carded can led in tile the budget for the civilian conservation corps and various public limitation of federal relief expends tales to this haure boeer bou eier Is de pendent pi upon re of substantial nui numbers libers or of the idle by private industry the Pre president said As the lues buge was presented speaker joseph W V I 1 unia arns re veiled that air elt had his leaders that any inc teabe in the oer ills his estimates wust must be accompanied by tie in taxes to pio ado revenues to comer coer the added cost I 1 D HOLT the young demo cratic senator from west virginia gave notice that tie he would continue to tc hammer at the works sa admill until a senate investigation was ordered lie ile demanded nn an inquiry inquire into all relief activities under charge of administrator harry L and other agencies affecting relief the nii C and FERA in reply to some slime of the charges made sir bir hopkins issued this bulletin no employee of Is required to tc make any to any political party no employees lol job will be in jeopardy because of failure to make such contribution no employee of the shall at any time solicit contributions for any political party and evidence of such solicitation will he be cause for immediate discharge the question whether or not to contribute to any political party Is a matter entirely for the voluntary decision of employees no person will he employed or discharged on the ground of his support or nonsupport of any candidate INCE the recent elections in spain S SINCE the riots staged by the leftists have been gro growing log more vicious daily and after disorders at logrono Io grono in which a number of persons N were killed the spanish army was aroused P to vigorous protest premier manuel azana ans ns told by the officers that unless his i new left government adopted me measures insures to A dmn tile the widespread I 1 S stop violence t the h e a army r in y would take the maintenance teri ance ot of order r into manuel aza azana ia hands gen its 3 own cat carlos los masquelet minister of war ar wits was said to be in sympathy with the ardys demand azana held a heated conference with francisco largo caballero Caha llero president of the socialist party and Is said to have told film that he believed revolutionary socialists eie cespon responsible oble for post most of the disorders demanding that the violence cense cease immediately largo insisted that the lie socialists be permitted to demonstrate but finally gave in to the premier and issued orders to all socialists to behave themselves despite strict censorship imposed by the go governor of lorono logrono l orono it was learned that incendiaries there set fire to six convents and churches four tightest centers and a newspaper and then attacked the army barracks attempting attempt ln to seize artillery THE HE treasury reported that income tax collect collections lons for the first ag days march amounted to MI or a gain of aga per cent over the in the corresponding period of last year practically all collection districts registered nn an increase since the first of tile the year the treasury said has been collected on the income tax an increase of per cent over the gathered in for tile same period of 1035 1935 LEU VENIZELOS probably bably the greatest of latter day greek statesmen died in parts paris where he be was in self imposed exile following an attack of grippe ile he was seventy two years old venizelos former premier of greece fled from the island of crete list last march after a revolt tie he headed collapsed ile he was tried and sentenced to death but king george after his recall offered him film amnesty venizelos ho however uever refused to return declaring greece will never see me again 11 ile he was an ardent republican and denounced the restoration of the monarchy OF lanor LABOR frnk I 1 S SECRETARY was accused of harboring hundreds of deportable criminal and radical aliens in the united stites states by senator robert it reynolds of north carolina when lie he introduced a resolution calling ul u on the alie labor department to furnish information allegedly withheld from congress senator reynolds resolution said that request had been made of libor department for information concerning in excess of agoo aliens lo in the united stites states known to and allowed by the department of labor to remain to in the united states although h subject to deport deportation atlon the request the resolution stated was refused with ith its 18 great re program the lie guern ment has named sir thomas ill 0 ina s in inskip kip attorney since to be tile the co coordinator or of the entire scheme giving him it a naw i created cabinet pt this lon inn by irem minister 1 chhin was a surprise e it lini hal lin I been thought the hie alae j might go to wins ton churchill nealle chamberlain alfred duff cooper or sir yi samuel sir thomas sari hionis is known inskip skip as an anil jingoist Jing olst Is sixty yours old and alays la is calm caira and in tile the bouse yr or chimin n or at the bur fc ur it 1 will bf be his duty duly as def defelic eliw cu co minister to sn chrun le of the urmy and air services brought to an end C tile hie two ati elis ecks strike of building bul ldla bervice workers in nei LIV loik link and thou sunds sands of ele cleator ator operators operal opera urs and othet employees returned to their jobs in tume some 2100 L luia a and all bub loebs ba structures the settlement si pru eded for reemployment employment rr re of ril all lets and of and hours |