Show news review of current events the world over Is unfavorable mrs nine months trade balance for gets divorce doerin goering wally simpson Laun launches clies nazi economic plan by EDWARD W PICKARD 9 western newspaper union TS of manufactured goods EXPORTS exeor and raw materials exceeded imports into the united states during than four mil m 1 september by more lion dollars accord L ing g to g a report released ak by secretary r 1 ae of commerce roper but the flow t the h e other way w was as so strong during t the li e previous three months that the country suffered an unfavorable balance of trade during the first nine months of Sec secretary y the year amounting roper KOP to this is in contrast with a favorable favorable balance of in the corresponding period of 1935 roper minimized the situation declaring that heavy exports of raw cotton tobacco a and n d automobiles would probably bring the trade balance more into line with previous years pressed for further explanation roper insisted that our government as such does not compete with other governments in the selling of goods and this was the province of private business on reciprocal trade agreements he was mum wed like to end the year with a favorable trade balance naturally he said but we are going through a period of study and readjustment in world trade in fact roper found the increase in import trade to be encouraging he said that it showed our industries were buying raw materials abroad for expansion of their production in this country heavy increases in wheat and meats resulted from the drouth according to roper rather than from the killing of six million pigs and non raising of grain under the AAA UNCLE SAMS nephews and nieces now number according accordine to the estimate of director willim william L austin of the bureau of census the new figure as of july 1 represented an increase of or per cent since july 1 1935 it was based on the number of births and deaths during the year ending june 30 1936 and the excess of immigration over emigration births exceeded deaths by and the net immigration was according to the data taken by austin the population figure on the basis of the 1930 census was and the biggest annual increase since then was for the year ending july 1 1931 the bureau of agricultural economics also has been doing some population estimating it says the back to the farm movement of the depression years has halted and that the farm population remained practically stationary during 1935 being at the end of that year this figure the bureau says was only slightly greater than in 1920 and somewhat less than in 1910 proceedings lasting nineteen minutes in the court of assizes at ipswich ipswitch england sufficed t to 0 give marital freedom to mrs lauy wally simpson justice sir anthony Z hawke heard neatly arranged evidence of the infidelity of i ernest simpson who was not represented and gruffly gave a decree nisi to the attractive american woman who h has a a been and is the close friend of king ed lisi i ward VIII for six mrs simpson san months she will be on probation technically chaperoned at all times and if her behavior satisfies the kings king s proctor she will be unqualifiedly free april 27 to marry again whether or not her new husband if she takes one will be king edward is a question that only time and the two persons most directly concerned can betl determine amine mrs simpson returned from aps to her london residence on cumberland terrace re regents gents park and there told interviewers that she was angered and humiliated by the international sensation her divorce has caused ed she said she might abroad for a time but that she would aou go never return to the united states 3 because of au all the nasty things said of her here the week a radical london week to was ta the f arst english newspaper newspaper carry an open reference to mrs simpsons ward Simp sa sons the friendship P with king ed article was at the time a denunciation of the american same press sasi indence for and giving of the the british story such prom press fa r suppressing it entirely it also mad it clear that there e would be wid e spread opposition 0 to a between edward and wally marriage papers from paris and elsewhere side the united out kingdom in have bee n great demand in lo 10 adon but of course the english vast majo ity of the people know the aff air nothing about PURRED to quick action dy by me S new accord between germany and italy leon slums blums popular front cabinet approved a large in increase in frances military a air I 1 r force already reputed to be one oneo of the most powerful in the world to modernize and build up the aerial squadrons the government will spend at once it was reported too that the cabinet decided to ask parliament to vote extraordinary tra funds for the fortification of the northern frontier because of reversion to a policy of armed neutrality ENITO MUSSOLINI rattled his byword B sword again on the occasion ol of the fourteenth anniversary of the fascist march on rome the italian people he proclaimed today are ready and determined to defend as never before with all their force right up to the last drop of blood victory and empire As for fascism he said when it finds obstacles in its path it throws itself its elf against them and burns its bridges behind it OT to be outdone in martial N NOT gestures by other nations japan trotted out lier her entire navy for review by emperor hirohito it was the greatest fleet ever brought together in asiatic waters comprising warships aggregating nearly tons and manned by men large numbers of aircraft also took part in the evolution in osaka bay GEN HERMANN WILHELM GOERING german minister of air and now the director of the nazi four year economic scheme to make the reich independent M of the rest of the world in in raw materials launched his program at a great nazi rally in berlin we shau shall hack finger after finger off the foreign h hand a n d clutching chin g at germanys germanas Germ anys throat within the next four gen goering years he declared outlining his plans goering said no german had starved nor would starve the high seas fishing fleet will be increased he asserted so ahe the people can eat fish when meat is is not available whale fishing will be developed for the margarine it can produce he promised goering urged all germans to follow the example of fuehrer adolf hitler who ho he said eats neither meat nor butter the audience yelled with delight when the robust goering told them he had lost 22 pounds by eating less butter germany would prefer the old s system sy of international exchange of wares but this now is impossible in a mad world so germany will build her factories produce her own synthetic rubber and her own substitutes utes for cotton and other materials for which she now must spend millions of dollars yearly the general declared M A ANY american travelers join iv 1 the english in mourning the death of sir edgar britten commander of the great liner queen mary and commodore of the curia cunard rd white star lines he was stricken with paralysis in southampton and died within a few hours sir edgar was sixty two years old and first even went t to sea as a lad of eighteen in in sailing ships he was knighted 0 by king george V in 1934 EIGHT cp IGHT armored cars escorted by armed private guards and state police carried a fortune of from the estate of the late col E H R green in south dartmouth mass to the first national bank of boston the fortune which consists of the famous coin collection valued at 5 millions the stamp collection valued at 3 millions a large amount of cash and securities and a quantity of uncut diamonds has been under constant guard at the green home since his death BEFORE BEFORE taking a r recess of two weeks the united states supreme p reme court announced that it would review and hand down a decision at this term upon the wagner labor relations re actions act many lawyers believe this his law will be held unconstitutional for in in the guff cufley ey coal act de casion casion the supreme e court held that the relationship between employers and employees employed es was local and beyond the power of congressional tion regula OF LABOR PRANS FRANS CES PERKINS the third national announced that conference bor legislation on la designed to stimulate the raising of work standards t brough federal and state tive live efforts will be called coop co op era sion in into ss washington ss on november 9 and will last three days I 1 about everything necessary J J to a general european war is it at this distance now ready of josef stalin dictator that seems soviet IS russia will be the man to ho he is is ol 01 and fire the starting pistol pis reported to be convinced that another great conflict is unavoidable the nations of the continent are communist or fascist lining up as either in the constitution of their governments or in their active the immediate occasion sympathies for their disputes is the civil I 1 all the conti war in spain apai n nearly and that of 01 cental governments great britain joined in an agree ment of nonintervention but that pact is about played out russia ussa accusing portugal germany and italy of aiding the fascist spanish rebels has denounced the agreement and declared she reserves I 1 freedom to help the madrid government the accused nations deny the soviet charges and the nonintervention committee committee voted that italy and portugal were not guilty the accusations either not being proved or referring to what happened b before e the international agreement went into effect italian counter charges detailing 20 alleged acts of russian aid to spanish socialists were laid before the committee for action portugal severed diplomatic relations with the madrid government and the representatives of the two countries were recalled dr armindo monteiro portuguese foreign minister followed up this action by sending to lord plymouth british chairman of the nonintervention committee a long document accusing russia of having planned and brought brought about the spanish civil war he named the russian diplomats agitators and soldiers who he charged were directing the operations he alleged that moscow sought to start a revolution in portugal and thus provide a base for attacking general francos insurgent forces in the rear nazi germany and fascist italy have buried their differences for the time being and reached an agreement on a united policy this was outlined in a published after italian foreign minister galeazzo ciano had conferred with fuehrer adolf hitler in the first place hitler and mussolini inform the world that they intend to recognize the insurgent government headed by general franco as the legitimate legit imatt regime in spain but they promise to respect the terms of the nonintervention agreement other important declarations of policy by the two states are 1 operation cooperation co to protect the peace of europe and the holy riches of european civilization and family life 2 endorsement of a conference to rewrite the locarno pact guaranteeing european borders but only in the west this im implied plied that neither would agree to soviet dussias Rus sias presence at the meeting 3 operation cooperation co for the rehabilitation of the countries in one clause of the agreement germany recognizes italis sovereignty over ethiopia P LAIRE the organ of pre 1 mier leon blums socialist party alleges that a shipment of submachine guns from the united states has been added to the secret armaments of the croux de feu in preparation for a civil war in france the croix de feu a fascist organization headed by col francois de la rocque was dissolved recently by the government and was succeeded by the new social party laire referring to the submachine guns said these terrible weapons used by american gangsters arrived from america through the port of havre and through holland the paper added that the weapons are being planted in caches in normandie and elsewhere in the north of france furthermore ther more according to laire great quantities of tear gas bombs and tear gas pistols are arriving from germany for the use of the fascists P PREMIER MUSSOLINI talking 1 at bologna said that italis 01 olive branch grows out of an immense forest of bayonets and next day at imola he told listeners that he hoped for long periods of peace but not for eternal peace which is absurd and impossible the italian people which gave its blood for the empire is ready for any other trial when the crucial hour approaches the fascist chief chic f shouted in order to make peace just as to make love it is necessary that there be two B fascists known as sexists and led by leon deg relle clashed with the police in brussels and degrella De grelle was jailed for a night he said the motive of his demonstration was to show that ex soldiers were backing th the e rex ests and he announced that he would carry out his threatened 11 march on brussels with followers and overthrow the government ern ment S ETTING a new worlds long dis tance tram train speed record the burlington railways s streamlined steel s eel denver zephyr made a nonn stop r un from fa chicago to denver denv in 12 hours 12 minutes tes a and nd 27 sec ands lotfi the distance d stance is 1017 miles so aar the av speed was 83 4 miles es an hour after crossing g the colo rado border the th tram train hit its t top 0 P speed of miles tn aes mu an hour which chic h was maintained for one mile |