Show news review of current events ta the e world over president ident Roosevel ts vacation trip ends modification fi and drouth relief taken up von hard task in austria ey by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 by western newspaper union P PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT ended r his rather long vacation trip returning to his home in hyde park new york during the remainder of the summer and until congress meets he be will spend some time there and in warm springs georgia but most of the time he will be in washington busy with the nations affairs in his bis temporary office which has b been en established in the blue room of the white house the president exec executive uthe offices are roosevelt being gg remodeled and enlarged one of 0 the first matters to claim the presidents attention Is the modification of the secret cabinet committee he appointed to inquire into the legality and advisability of continuing and extending the price fixing firing features of NIZA has decided this pr price lee fixing should be restricted HDA and gradually abandoned and there Is little doubt that this advice will be followed whether or not the fixing of prices Is legal it has brought sharp and continuous criticism from senator borah and many others which has not been relished by the new dealers on his way from the west coast the president not only saw some of the great public works projects of the northwest but also passed through regions that have suffered severely from the drouth so lie he Is backing up the government agencies in their work of hurrying vast sums of government money to the arid regions to ease case the human suffering and also to lessen the chances of 0 another such catastrophe the public works administration which had an original appropriation of revealed it had spent about on projects to aid impoverished western families emergency relief administration officials ficiala announced they had allotted huge sums to feed men and women they also have spent thousands to care for starving starring cattle public works administrator harold 4 L ickes who was on an inspection tour in the drouth area ordered his bis forces to expedite all construe construction projects affecting the dry regions rationalization of sliver silver authorized nationalization zed by the last congress was ordered into effect by the president this will have little immediate effect on the average citizen though the move Is somewhat inflationary and started prices on the upgrade up grade big debtors and owners of silver mines will benefit but as the value of the dollar goes down the holders of st securities curi curit ties les and loans suffer loss the presidents order directs the surrender to the government of all silver bullion and bars within 00 90 days the price to be paid being cents an ounce silver coins and silverware are not included under the silver bur purchase chase act the treasury Is authorized to value the silver it obtains at an ounce and to issue sliver silver certificates on that basis the government proposes to hold enough sliver silver to make up 25 per cent of the metal backing of the national currency no one knows how bow much silver bullion there Is in the united states and it may be necessary to make considerable purchases purchase s in china and india OP OF STATE HULL SECRETARY S and secretary of agriculture wallace joined in a statement concerning their efforts to revive americas world trade explaining that the reciprocal trade agreements to be negotiated with foreign countries will be beneficial and not harmful to american agriculture and manufacturing the statement pointed out in answer to criticism from farm organizations that farm interests would not be sacrificed to aid other groups it also said no sacrifice of any major or basic agricultural or manufacturing industry was planned although secretary wallace told reporters that some barm might be done to a tiny fraction of the producers for the greater good of all 0 ane NE thousand men and women com the minneapolis protective committee telegraphed an appeal to president roosevelt to protect the constitutional rights now superseded by martial law in their city copies of the appeal were sent also to secretary perking and lloyd garrison chairman of the national labor relations board we are satisfied they wired that an agreement between employers and employees could be readied reached were it not for the interference by a small body of citizens known to be communist agitators who are being supported in their agitations by the sympathetic attitude of gov floyd B olson at the end ot of the statement was a sentence interpreted as a request tor for replacement of the federal mediators rather francis J haas bass and E H dunnagan the conciliatory conciliators concilia concilla tors wore were authors ot of a peace plan which the union accepted with alacrity because it granted a maximum of the demands made before the walkout it was turned down by the employers but mediation proceeded until the principal point of difference now concerns the re hiring of all the strikers the haas dunnagan aunill an plan makes that blanket provision the employers do not wish to be forced to take back men who haie hae communistic sympathies the federal conciliatory conciliators concilia tors now here are unable to effect a settlement the protect lie he committee told air roosevelt labor Is being deprived of its earning power business institutions are suffering substantial losses taxpayers are being subjected to further burden through maintenance of the national guard and our city and surrounding territory are demanding the right to conduct lawfully ordinary business and industrial affairs we appeal to you to take immediate steps to remedy the situation atton and send us conciliatory conciliators concilia tors who will recognize the needs of all citizens and prevent demonstration of the situation for political purpose seq 11 gen hugh johnsons efforts to end the strike of live lire stock handlers at the union stockyards stock yards in chicago were successful the strike was called off and federal judge sullivan resumed his work as mediator to construe the award be made on may 31 as arbitrator of a similar strike that took place last november I 1 IN N GREEN DAY BAT VIS the president delivered what was as considered his principal political address of the year ile he told his bis hearers that the new deal was going ahead on its nonpartisan road and that those W who su support pho it do so because it Is a square deal and because it Is essential to the preservation of security and happiness of a free society the presidents reference to wisconsin political alignments was this significant remark your two senators both old friends of mine and many others have hare worked with me in maintaining excellent operation cooperation co beewen the executive and legislative branches of the government senator robert SI lafollette La Follet te republican independent and sponsor of the new state political party Is up for reelection election re F P ryan duffy democrat Is the other senator from wisconsin elected in 1932 FRANZ F RANZ VON vice chancellor or of 0 germany who was appointed minister to austria during the excitement cit that followed the assassination 0 of chancellor dollfuss has been accepted by the austrian cabinet after considerable d delay e I 1 a y 14 t A t ills his avowed task Is to restore amicable relations between the two governments but this will not be easy chancellor is as determined to root out nazism franz von in austria as was his ape predecessor and at the same time the german nazis are keeping up their press and radio attacks on the austrian government in camps around munich are about austrian nazi fugitives for whom von Is expected to obtain amnesty so they may return to their country but as they have bc been len hoping to march into austria under arms to overthrow the government it likely will care to let them return the cabinet in vienna Is taking vigorous action to curb the nazis and it was as reported that the executive of that sparty party had been ordered dissolved the members being told to take leaves of absence and to cease activities chancellor hitler Is dally daily solidifying his power in germany the latest step Is to require all protestant pastors and church officials to take an oath of fealty to hitler just as did the nazi storm troops and members of the regular army new rules were imposed by the national synod that make mueller the supreme lawmaker and authority tor for the church between eight andeen and ten thousand political prisoners in concentration camps were given their liberty by an amnesty decree announced by hitler in ID memory of president von hinden burg adf ARABS of algeria like the arabs of palestine do not love their jewish neighbors so go they started antl anti riots in constantine Constant lne and surrounding roun dlug towns in the course of which alch a great many persons were killed or wounded nearly all the casu casualties casualty alti es were among the jews the french military authorities quickly got control ot of the situation constantine Constant lne Is in a wheat gro grow ing area and the arab farmers had a poor crop this year the rioting give gave them a chance to wipe out oot many debts to jewish bankers and shopkeepers hop keepers laprino PINO and business interests S snipping SniP long have urged the establishment of free ports or forel foreign gil trade zones many american sea lake and river tort ports and this Is now u under c consideration dat edi r by the governa government t having n g been authorized by the last congress trade and shipping experts are preparing Inform information atlon on how to apply for grants some of the cities that have asked how to set up the trade zones tones are new york newark N J providence dence R L pittsburgh philadelphia san diego calif miami fla and globo ken N X J private corporations located on the great lakes also are interested A barrier would surround the area set off for the trade zone into ahli area which most mast be equipped with adequate shipping and warehousing facilities cili ties foreign and domestic merchandise could be brought without being subject to customs laws and stored broken up repacked ass assembled ambled distributed tri trl buted sorted mixed with other foreign and domestic goods and then exported or if desired the merchandise could be placed in american domestic commerce upon payment of customs duties ROM now on are not coln to have so pleasant a time in the united states and the thie ii ing of their destructive d doctrine oc r ne w will I 1 not le be so sc e easy sy congressional investigations into inac aliis matter may not have hae ha e amounted to a great deal but several se eral of tile count rys great organizations bitne undertaken der taken to arouse the people to the danger that threatens their government and their national M F shannon alons y the order of elks took cognizance of the communist threat in its convention in kansas city and michael F shannon its newly nealy elected grand exalted ruler Is now dow making an airplane tour of the country for the purpose of urging every lodge of the order to carry on the tro pro america program in its community lie he will travel miles to give what he calls calla marching orders to tho the 1400 elk lodges of the communists in america mr shannon says A vast ast and formidable organization has been set up the united states Is now divided luto into twenty districts each with its own committee each district is divided into two sections and subsections with section commit tees set up in accordance with the residential ident ial locations of the communist members youth organizations formed to teach not only disrespect but hate bate for american institutions have appeared everywhere organizations under patriotic names but designed to destroy confidence in our government are ar meeting nightly bureaus of propaganda g anda are working secretly the crusaders that organization of young business men that was so influential in bringing about repeal of prohibition hi hibi tion has been reorganized and under the leadership of fred G clark commander in chief has entered the fight against the communists and other groups that seek to overthrow american institutions among amon its national advisers are aldrich blake oklahoma city francis 11 II brownell new york john W davis new york prof B E W kemmerer princeton N J martin W littleton new york alfred P sloan jr new york charles F thwing cleveland james P warburg new kew york and sewell L avery and albert D lasker chicago the ch a m paul reveres a national organization iza tion was established especially to cleanse educational and religious institutions of subversive influences and the american Vl vigilante gilante intelligence federation Is also actively combating communism the department of americanization of the american legion Is working in the same cause A congressional subcommittee of which representative charles kramer Is chairman has been investigating communist activities in southern california and also has hag heard a lot of testimony about the so called silver shirts an organization with alleged nazi naz I 1 affiliations and a large membership an intelligence service witness who joined the silver shirts said members were armed and that he e was offered money tor for stolen government machine guns rifles and ammunition ile he said the declared objective of the organization was to take charge of the united states government by force it if necessary HETHER or not japan obtains obtain Is W WHETHER naval parity nith great britain and the united states it proposes to have a powerful navy admiral mineo osumi minister of the navy submitted to the cabinet the largest larges it naval budget in the count rys history it calls tor for appropriation of about for the coming year new items alone total about in the last budget the diet allowed the dar navy y little more than halt half of what ts Is now asked france has denied japan her support in any steps toward abrogation of the washington navy treaty of 10 1921 1021 21 by announcing her intention intent lon to adhere to its provisions pending some change in the european situation H EARTY approval was given by th the e world baptist congress in session in berlin to a proposal that a plebiscite be held in 40 countries to determine whether the people want to fight another war the suggestion was made by rev harold camp of oakland calif who ho said ald the kellogg pact should be made the basis bail of ardnt f h a i vote |