| Show EVE TS HUGE NEW ARMY IS 13 ORDERED BY HITLER IN DEFIANCE OF versailles PACT by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union G armany having recently boldly announced that she was now possessed of a military air force in violation of the treaty of versailles still more boldly declares she Is oo no longer bound by the ob obligations ligato ons ot or that pact and proposes to build up an army ot of about men eol comprising ia 12 corps of lk throe three divisions us each bat tills this was the decision of the cabinet which I 1 decreed compulsory military training throughout tile the reich chancellor the exact number ot of hitler men la in tile the army will be determined by a law to be enacted later this w was a s chancellor ilithe hillers Hit lers rs reply to the action of frances chamber of deputies in accepting premier rian flan dins plan to increase the term of conscript service lu in the french army to IS months and subsequently to two years germany considered that france was dealing the last blow to disarmament and rushing to berlin from directed direct eil the action ot of the cabinet and issued to the german nation a rousing appeal tor for full support lie ile declared that the failure of other oilier nations to reduce armament it as called for or in the versailles treaty bad released germany from all treaty obligations and that while the reich had only peaceful intentions tent ions it must rearm re arm arin to protect its ts territorial integrity and maintain the he respect of the world as a of european peace the stated that ger many did all she could to stabilize peace as eilden ced by three facts she offered aggression non pacts to all her del neighbors li bors she regulated her affairs with poland she showed france that after the return of the there were no territorial questions at issue between france and germany official L ondon london was gre greatly atly disturbed by this sudden action ot of the german government chich aich came lust just ten says days before tile the date sot set tor for a meeting of 0 sir john simon foreign secretary and lord privy seal anthony eden with hitler in berlin the british were viere prepared to offer abolition of some of the military clauses of the versailles treaty in return for germanys germanas Germ anys adherence to the inclusive plan for european security but it was feared ditler would no now w demand formal recognition of german rearmament including an army of half a million men a military air fleet of 1500 planes and a navy oue third the tile strength of the british navy all of which Is far beyond il elhat bat the ene british britis i peace plan contemplates of course all the world has been aware for some time of the fact that germany was vias re aiming before the french chamber voted to approve Flan Fl andins diris project jean fabry president of the chambers army commission stated that the army of the belch had been strengthened in one year from to ass asserting erting the wehr had bad keen been increased from the hie treaty figure to and the nominal total 0 of police in barracks doubled C collapse of the adman long battle to regulate prices in the steel industry is seen in an kita offer to give up and in III charges by the federal trade commission of a fiasco basco of collusion the trade commission insists that price fixing be scrapped and no prosecution of steel companies under tile antitrust laws the trade commission charges that under the code the steel companies have fixed and raised prices on government contracts in de defiance flanCe of competitive bidding requirements require mentz bids were nere identical and then steel executives slapped fines of a ton on members who let the goern mout have steel cheaper GOV go v MARTIN L DAVEY of ohio e charged il arged by federal relict administrator flarry L hopkins ilo plans with mth corruption in ohio relief went before the state senate and demanded a thorough invest investigation gation ue defied de bed Il to come to ohio for trial on a warrant lie he had secured charging hopkins II alth criminal libel II had alleged in a letter that lie lias has proof of corruption of relief administration in ohio including soliciting of funds tor for campaign purposes from firms that sold relief materials alop kins through gli C C stillman FERA regional officer has token taken over administration of ohio relief department of justice attorneys la in washington lie declare they stand ready to defend alop kins but there was no indication that Il would go to ohio although he may m ay iy change ills mill mind tile spectacular blo blowup up is said to have had its inception la in the 1034 political campaign dacy made campaign spee speeches flies charging that ahlo relief was mismanaged and particularly aimed ills his barbs at cleveland this irked cleveland cleeland leaders since relief there had been administered gli a nou poll cal group which aich later becnice the oll iclal county relief admin adain hopkins often took note of the fact that clellands Cleio Clec lands relief committee was one of the best la in the co country antry 11 later pavey davey pledged himself not to touch tile the cleveland oran orrein li atlon but Is said to have ousted several members and repeated old charges cleveland leaders took the fight to washington from russia declare R RUMBLINGS that germany la is concluding a military pact with japan gen sadao arald former japanese minister of war nar it is claimed is going to berlin soon to discuss terms official warning wont went out over russia that war may brcak l out unexpectedly at any moment michael chael kalinin president of the rill rus aan central executive committee made this blunt statement in an address before organ hers ers of the soviet en valry and it nas ft as later broad crist cast over the republic ile he blamed conditions on oil the present political whims of the dominating classes of capitalistic colin countries tries lie ile said ii it Is not necessary to prove that the soviet union is against war no other government in III the world ever manifested a desire tor for pence peace more than ours C compromise md find white pressure brought about tho the defeat of the mccarran Uc Carran prevailing wage amendment to the work relief bill in the senate and administration leaders were conil confident dent that tile the measure would be laid before the president for signature within a few days the deadlock ek over tile the amendment was broken when senator richard B D russell jr of georgia proposed a substitute which leaves the president tree free to pay security wages officially offic lallY estimated at 50 a month provided they do not adversely affect the wage scale in private Indus industry and providing that tile the prevailing wage must be paid on all permanent federal building projects this toils way out which had been approved by the white rouse house was accepted ly tile the senate by a vote ot of 63 83 to 2 after the mccarran amendment had been defeated 50 to 38 the two votes against the compromise were cast by metcalfe of 0 rhode island and hale of maine both republicans before tile the vote on the mccarran Hc Carran amendment ment was taken senator glass class announced he was authorized to say that if it prevailed president roosevelt would veto the measure there remained many obstacles over which the relief bill must be pushed for the regular republicans and a considerable sid erable number of democrats were determined to alter it materially several senators favored cutting it down by three or even four billions and la follette of wisconsin wanted the total increased to ten billions inflation and bonus enthusiasts also planned to attach riders THE house appropriations committee favorably reported out the department part ment of agriculture appropriations bill for the 1930 fiscal year A cut of ra 1 was due I 1 largely to a slash in the AAA item the total bill i calls for of which would go to the agriculture adjustment administration activities at committee hearings it nas vi as explained that it Is impossible to estl esti mate how much would secy sec y wallace allace have to be obligated because of the crop control program grain but the AAA item was a rough estimate of processing tax collections an and is not controlling henry wallace secretary of agriculture told the committee that the farmers share sh are of tile the national income is now flow about per cent and should be 13 to IG per cent wallace said true prosperity cannot come coma until there has been a very material increase in the output of physical goods industrial goods if in some way it were possible to turn out 50 0 per cent more industrial goods at a price definitely lower than tile the present price the secretary testified tile the result would be to make it possible for agriculture to buy niora more with the agricultural dollar and there would be more fit factory atory workers to ba fed in it the cities narcotics dealers C countr bootleggers and other violators of federal laws were given a tremendous shock and many hundreds of them acte thrown tl rown into jail when tile the government goverD went opened up an anti crime campaign that covered the en ell ti lire reland land the initial raids made without warning naring nele immensely successful and it was announced they would le be continued indefinitely twelve thousand federal officers to took k part in III the operations operation sand and besides tile the individuals captured millions of dollars worth of contraband was seized the drie was as by treasury oll bials as a test of the advantages of concerted atlon action by all enforcement agen agencies cles coming under its ision islon such a campaign was planned as early as last summer when w hen a crime ordination coordination co committee was formed under tile hie leadership of harold N graves special assistant to secretary Secle clary tary wily LEY POSTS second attempt to fly frum froin los angeles to new boik through the stratosphere in record bi caking time ended at cleveland where lie was compelled to come down because his supply of oxygen aas as running short lie he said lie he would have passed out in a few minutes it if lie he had nut not descended to breathable air post Is convinced that only this trouble prevented ills in tile the transcontinental flight in seven hours slid and minutes and lie declai declared nied ed he be would soon boon try again ills average speed to the cleveland cleeland airport was nilles miles un all hour Is mopping up the loose GREECE bends emli of the revolt some fighting Is reported near tile the border where one regiment part ot of the rebellious bel lious fourth army corps has declined to surrender but the revolution Is definitely over benl zelos es and leader of 0 tile the futile revolt was wag reported a refugee at rhodes tho the tiny liny island where julius cullu caesar was interned by pirates some 2500 years aso ago venizelos was transferred there cy by tile the italian government after lit lie had been landed in italy by one of the rebel warships geu gen george Karro enos rebel commander is safe in bulgaria where have refused rebel pr prisoners isomers are being concentrated in ci imps camps and courts martial are functioning IT in Salo Salon nikl ild kasala and larassa Larl and military trials hae begun in athens HE presidents special mes ine sago ago teallie Te THE callans allin for abolition of utility hold ing companies stirred up a storm that probably surprised een eden such au all astute politician p 0 1111 da n as clr M roosevelt the president urged legislation 14 r to abolish these holding ai VA f V companies which t N 1 I 0 Ns W a were nere unable to show J they were operated in tb the public interest representative bertrand 11 II snell republican leader immediately attacked t the h e message claiming tile the senator norris president had bad denounced propaganda against the proposed legislation and was himself propagandizing izing for it utility companies also swung luto into the battle and thousands of investors in utility stocks are arc reported to have sent in protests to congress in the senate norris nebraska republican offered a resolution calling upon the federal trade commission to investigate propaganda regarding the legislation the senate approved without debate charges v inere ere made by utility companies that because 0 of tile the administrations campaign against public utilities the values of utility securities has declined by three and one half billion dollars since 1033 enactment of legislation to halt holding companies will cause enormous loss to the american family one power official testified stIfled te before the house interstate commerce committee HE senate smacked down senator T THE cuey long for ills his filibustering tactics and his efforts to amend tha administrations work relief measure the KID fish bad demanded alterations in the work relief bill which would take away avay from the earmarked for work and allot it to students in colleges and universities longs amendment was defeated by a vote of 0 58 to 27 to prove that old adage of politics makes strange bedwel lows long was aided by senator hiram johnson of california who declared that the senate should have something to say about methods for spending the huge buge sum sought by the president johnson has heretofore liere totora been considered a supporter of 0 the president longs amendment brought forth other proposed changes which should keep the senators busy arguing for several days the bonus bill may be dragged in III and an all attempt made to make it a rider to the relief measure and and leaders of other ests will insist on having their say ALL A LL outstanding first liberty loan J X bonds have been called for redemption demp tion by secretary of tile the treasury more gen thau the 0 outstanding lias has been called for june 15 beffie which time the treasury will likely offer lower interest bearing in exchange for the first liberties sating the government some in annual interest charges EW DEAL policies took two more batte rings as federal Ie deral courts hel held both tile the AAA and unconstitutional as regards intrastate business the administration a might find some consolation in another ruling which held the radical frazier lemke farm mortgage bill was valid federal judge merrill 13 otis olis at kansas city declared the frazier lemke law was constitutional although unwise in many of oe its provisions aud almost incomprehensible matter judge otis said his hulln ruling was not the first erst in which the act was upheld and that an appeal was already before the united states supreme court and a decision might be expected d shortly tile the AAA was declared declai cd ed invalid as regards intrastate business by federal judge ira lloyd letts at providence it I 1 L who ulio issued an injunction restraining Secie tary of agriculture wallace aiom enforcing the act against three rhode island latall milk dealers on the lie grounds that their business was conducted entirely within tile the state and the national government had no right to interfere at Neli newark ark N J federal judge guy L fake ruled uie tile national ie coNery ery act unconstitutional as applied to intrastate commerce because it attempts an unlawful delegation of legislative authority the latter deLl decision slon agrees with that handed down by federal judge in the controversial steel dispute ia ROOSEVELT clashed 1 with veterans over Irn immediate mediate payment of the two billion dollar bonus and through chairman harrison of the sennie senate finance committee announces lie will veto tile the patman or vinson hills hilis tc it passed the president it Is said will III not compromise but I 1 pre prepared for it no surrender fight irlie house rules rule committee has it up P praed tin tile vinson anil T tad ad figs av bills nd aho bl blo bu bat tie is tei it t begill |
