Show news review of current events the world over revolutionary movement threatens machakos machados Ma Ala chados regime in cuba german reich saved by defeat of radicals s by EDWARD W PICKARD gado GERARDO ERARDO president machado of cuba not lone DO ago scoffed at the danger of revolution in ills his tight little island but the threat has materialized in a way to make him sit up find and take notice rebels in various regions staged outbreaks that alarmed the govern pres machado merit and martial law was declared la in the effort to stave stare on off civil war machado and ills his cabinet ministers conferred with will military find and civil advisers and the martial resources of the republic were hastily mobilized troops were sent to the troubled areas and an effort was made to improvise a navy by commandeering private yachts and arming them with eighteen pound guns meanwhile the authorities were gathering fathering up all the known and suspected rebels they could catch and putting them in jail hundreds were arrested and charged with treason former are president ident bentic menocal it aud colonel mendieta Mend Wend leta were viere credited with the leadership of the revolt and especial ev e forts were made to get them but at this writing they are still till at large the most active of th the re rebels bels were in the province of pinar del rio and it was reported to president machado that they with gen calderno Bal derno acosta mayor of carlano Mar lano as leader were preparing an invasion of havana province indeed there were several sanguinary skirmishes only a few miles from the capital which was isolated by the cutting of communications col jullo julio sanguily San gully chief of tile the army flying corps ordered every available plane to keep on constant patrol along the north coast especially lo in pinar del rio find and for several miles out at sea in search of both cuban and foreign organized filibustering expeditions ions several craft that attempted to escape the navy patrol ships were bombed by the flyers late reports said menocal Mend mendieta leta and others were on a yacht mating their way to Cb chaparral chaparra Cha parra sparra oriente province where menocal has a large number dumber of followers he was at one time manager of the chaparral chaparra Cha parra sugar mill the tee largest in the world LOR TOR the time being at least the IV german republic Is safe for the latest attempt to wreck reek it has failed this was the move to dissolve the prussian diet through a plebiscite which if it bad succeeded would have imperilled Imperil led the reich the scheme was devised by the Hitler ites or nationalists and that other set of radicals the communists joined with there them although their ultimate alms are utterly diverse but even with the aid of the national socialists the combination fell ell some votes short of accomplishing comp lishing its purpose the french government go was almost as pleased by the result of the german plebiscite as was that in berlin for it meant that the growing accord between the two nations would not be broken and it was said in parts paris that the proposed visit of premier laval to berlin was now a certainty international experts charged with the task of dovetailing dove tailing talling the hoover moratorium plan and tile the young toung plan announced in london that they had reached a complete agreement which was signed at the treasury office their said complete agreement was reached as regards the detailed measures required to give effect to president hoovers Hoo verg proposal osal in case of payments by gerwazy gem any under the hague agree merit of january 20 1930 recommendation of the experts in regard to suspension of these payments have been approved by the governments ern ments of australia canada czechoslovakia creme india new zealand portugal rumania Itu manla and south africa agreement also alpo was reached in regard to detailed measures for suspension of war debts to the united kingdom france and italy of payments under agreement with czechoslovakia agreement also was reached on the principle that payments due by hungary under the paris agreement of april 28 1930 and payments by bulgaria under the hague agreement of january 20 1930 30 should be suspended luring during the year ending june 30 1932 1032 but in this case certain adjustments must be made as 88 complete suspension of these payments might re suit in suspension of certain classes of payments to individuals accordingly I 1 the committee agreed in prin that all payments to funds A and IS BI under the agreement signed fit at paris on april 20 1930 should be continued during the hoover year negotiations are continuing in retard regard to adjustments required in the case of bulgaria bulgara P r planters pLAN TEES of the fourteen cotton states of the south are asked by tile the farm burm board to plow under one third of their crop immediately in or dep to enhance the price of the other two thirds tie the board sent telegrams to the governors of the states slates urging that this course lie be adopted in return said the board the lie cotton stabilization corporation will agree to hold off tile the market its bales until july 31 1032 1932 find and will urge the cotton operatives cooperatives co financed by the board to do likewise DWARD A ONEAL president of EDWARD E the american form farm bureau federation era tion announced at a meeting of state tann farm bureau leaders in milwaukee unit that the federation must renew its demand for an equalization fe fes and that the present marketing act was inadequate to cope with agrical tures most acute problem control of its surplus crops the announcement was said to be unexpected by the farm board officials and the administration all ni if in washington wishing ton the federation has always stood for the principle of the equalization bep as expressed in the old mcnary haugen bill which bleb provides that each unit of a commodity produced shall bear its fair share of the cost of disposal of surp surplus oneal said desiring to see the marketing act fully tried out the organization for two years lias has not insisted upon enactment of the fee principle it now nom appears all too plain that tile the present act does not adequately provide for the needed surplus control to lug his PROBABLY own surprise quite te a vigorous though small boom has developed for 83 0 melvin elvin A traylor chicago banker as the democratic nominee for the presidency in 1931 it was as started in malone and hillsboro texas where mr traylor formerly M A traylor lived and where e he Is most popular then a few days later daniel president of the st louis southwestern railroad announced that he would support the banker for the nomination and that a committee was being formed to further traitors candidacy it Is not likely that mr traylor takes the matter seriously except as a compliment but those who know him and ills his abilities feel that the democratic party might go further and fare worse ile he is president of the F first first national bank of chicago been prominent in national and international financial affairs representative WILLIAM E representative hull of illinois is another of the members of congress who has been studying things abroad and he has just been heard from the special object of mr halls bulls investigation has been the bratt system of liquor control in force in sweden and his conclusion Is that sweden has solved the problem with which this and other countries are struggling in a word he be finds the bratt system works well very careful to be sure I 1 was getting the correct information mr hull hall writes 1 I can truthfully say that I 1 seen a single drunken person in sweden since I 1 have been here the restaurants are all well patronized the drinking Is light and the drunkenness Is nil the system Is well organized and a success FELIX S hebert of rhode island chairman of the senate committee 0 n unemployment spent the week end at the rapidan camp and 0 then gave out apparently as president hoovers spokesman an attack on the ideas of a government dole j and federal unemployment insurance senator he asserted that the hebert latter would inevitably lead to the dole is as it operates in england mr hebert based his conclusions upon a study of the dole abroad aarond made during a trip from which he be recently returned ile he visited most of the countries of western europe tor for the special purpose of investigating unemployment insurance and he be predicts now that there will be little clamor in congress tor for the establishment of such a system ile he said of the dole the main difficulty with the dole system as it operates throughout europe with the possible exception of italy Is that it Is intertwined with politics 0 ORGANIZED labor in certain parts v of this Is country not doing much to help solve the question of unemployment quite the reverse take the hoover darn dam for instance th the e workers on that big project made wage demands that construction company holding the contract considered extortionate so men quit work the superintendent immediately shut down operations and about 1000 0 men were thrown out of work the company he said was six months ahead of schedule and could afford to refuse concessions that would cost 2000 daily or during the seven years allowed for completion of 0 the dam living conditions for the workers on this desert job are admittedly rigorous in chicago thousands of men inon and women were mere thrown out of employment when more than one hundred small email movie theaters closed rather than submit longer to the demand of if tile the motion picture operators union that two operators be employed at each house the managers said this was unnecessary and that they could not afford it extensive highway lilg liway construction operations orations erat ions lons in illinois are delayed and may not get under way before next spring because labor organizations objected to the rulings of a state stale board as to the prevailing wage in various districts which must be paid for the work according to the law authorizing theorizing thor izing it IL these these are only a few instances of the many that might be cited it would scein to the ordinary citizen that organized labor might well mell strain a point or two in such a time thre of stress the exec uthe council of the american ic in federation of labor adopted it a declaration to the effect that there must be no reduction of wages MARY anderson MISS head of the mot bureau za of tile lie department of labor Is a a woman of of ideas find and the ability to express them ing returned from europe she gives out an address urging a modern era tor for cooks and maids a higher status for domestic mary service in keeping anderson with modern industrialism her program includes the establishment of training schools to fit the worker to the position through the federal employment eni service and an employees life independent of the employers household she thinks modern apartment living means not the esen eventual extinction of the worker in ID the home tut lut added advantages for her miss anderson alio als 0 points out that apartment living must necessarily give opportunity for much part time work RESIDENT nO HOOVERS OVERS fifty PRESIDENT P seventh birthday came on august 10 but he entirely disregarded the anniversary returning from the rapidan camp he spent the remainder of the day in work as usual and though mrs bits hoover had hurried back from akron there were no guests for dinner 01 LUKE LEA nashville publisher C COL his bis son luke lea jr and four others were indicted by the grand jury in nashville on charges of conspiracy in connection with mith the affairs of the defunct liberty bank and trust company tom pany S SHARPLY criticizing third degree methods in police force administration tra tion which it found to be widespread to in both cities and rural communities muni ties the wickersham commission reported to president hoover that it remains beyond doubt that the practice is shocking Dg in its character and extent of american traditions and institutions and oot not to be tolerated citing many instances of police brutality and unfair tactics by officers the commission declared that the trend toward lawlessness in law enforcement has resulted in a deplorable prostration of the processes of justice and urged that congress enact a code of federal criminal procedure which might serve as a model for the states DELEGATES from nearly all nations were present when the press congress of the world opened tu in mexico city men and women from north and south america europeans europe and the orient were welcomed at a reception ghen by senator don labarto hernandez head of the federal district the inaugural meeting was directed by frank L martin acting deab of the school of journalism of the university of missouri and the guests were addressed by dr don jose manuel casturano Casa urano secretary of public education the newspaper men of mexico then gave the delegates a theater party and next afternoon they were mere reveled rece led at cha pul tepee castle by president ortiz ru blo on wednesday there was an excursion to the archaeological excavations at san juan and on OD friday the closing day of theaon the congress a great flesta fiesta was held in the stadium of ourse between these festive affairs the delegates transacted considerable business much of it through their committees and at the three general some serious and thoughtful aw addresses dresses were delivered DARKER ARKER CRAMER the aviator pm 1 who ito was mapping out a northern air mall mail route to europe got as far as dermick ir IP the shetland islands safely on his way to copenhagen and then ran into trouble that it Is feared at this arl ing resulted resul tel teI in hla his death colonel and mrs hits lindbergh were held up at point barrow for three days by adverse weather conditions and they took off for nome however dense fogs compelled them to come down on the north coast of the seward peninsula about 75 miles mil es from nome which is on the south coast of that peninsula when the fog lifted they went on of to safety bay near nome 0 06 ml western newspaper union |