| Show news maws review of current L 1 1 events the world over italy and germany recognize In insurgent Z regime in spain anti anticommunist communist pact I 1 angers iners in t ers russia tu tugwell 0 amwell 1 resigns president on unemployment by EDWARD W PICKARD western newspaper union and hitler threw MUSSOLINI ivi europe into spasms of alarm suddenly calling into session the by ministerial councils of italy and germany and ana causing them to recognize formally the fascist government n of gen francisco franco as the legal government of war torn spain it w was as taken f for or granted that Au austria a and n d hungary would follow suit maj alai ramon franco broth of the spanish ingen er I 1 ranco burfe S chieftain had been in rome and probably informed il 11 duce that the general whose attacks on madrid were meeting with unexpected resistance might lose the war unless he were given active support by the nations that sympathized with his cause mussolini and hitler did not immediately announce that they would quit the international agreement for intervention tion in spain but it was believed they would soon be shipping munitions to francos armies they withdrew their diplomatic representatives from madrid and arranged to send others to the rebel government ern erni ment great britain and russia were stunned by the action of the two dictators and cabinet meetings were hurriedly called the british are determined not to be drawn into the communist fascist conflict but they believe that italy and germany especially the former have designs in the mediterranean that would peril britaina Brit ains seaway to the orient and are preparing to meet any such threat dussias Rus sias reaction was awaited breathlessly and the soviet government was being provoked still further by the fact that general franco declared a blockade of the port of barcelona capital of the almost independent province of catalonia this move certainly was made to stop the landing of munitions and food from russia destined for the spanish loyalist forces england france and other nations were greatly concerned over the blockade for the port is largely used by their shipping the spanish rebels have created a strongly fortified port at palma on the island of mallorca that can be used as a base for bombardment of barcelona from the sea blockading vessels may be supplied by portugal which warned neutral shipping to avoid the barcelona port though lisbon had not yet formally recognized francos government an almost humorous note came from geneva where league of nations observers asserted that the italo german recognition of the spanish insurgents violated article 10 of the covenant which demands that league members respect territorial rit orial integrity and the existing political independence of au all members of the league they seem to have forgotten how the league abandoned manchuria to japan and ethiopia to italy not so long ago the italian grand council with mussolini presiding voted to support the duces policies by giving him more airplanes more guns more warships and more men it was frankly stated that the reason for this was the threatening international situation italian opinion was that if france joined russia in aiding the formation of a radical spanish government with urith its capital it at barcelona in event that madrid fell to the fascists there would be great danger of general war complicating complicating the already co com in plex european situation and d directly threatening war is the alleged fact that germany and japan have hav e united to fight the spread of co communism in and that their pact is expected to be adhered to by italy arid and perhaps various central european nations this is of course directed mainly against soviet russia and moscow is actively aware of the menace it is understood that the agreement provides that germany and japan shall keep strong military forces in east sia and Manchu kuo respectively that the two nations shau shall exchange military information arid and orders and that in certain contingencies germany shall supply japan with war materials arl an immediate source of friction between germany and russia is the arrest of 23 germans in moscow and leningrad under charges of plotting to steal secret military in formation t to 0 wreck industrial plants and to kill government lead ers berlin protested the arrests but the soviet officials replied that all formalities governing uch such cases had been observed and that several of 01 the prisoners had confessed their guilt the german propaganda ministry said the story of the german japanese agreements agreement which came from moscow was a periodic lie lies which this time was intended to sidetrack german protests against the arrests HAT sea level ship canal across THAT T florida from the atlantic to the gulf condemned by the army engineers gi board as not justified started by the new deal and stopped when congress refused to appropriate more funds probably will now be pushed on to completion the army engineers having been asked by the president for a report have submitted one holding that the project would be justified in the public interest an absolute reversal of opinion the board also found that the canal would cost only instead of as estimated on december 30 1933 when material costs were substantially lower than they now are so far the sum of has been spent on the project EXFORD GUY TUGWELL REXFORD known as the no I 1 er has resigned from his post as undersecretary of agriculture and resettlement administrator and accept e d t the h e executive vice presidency of t the he american molasses company of which another brain truster tri ister charles W t taussig is president and a third A A berle jr is a director in accepting L the resignation R GS tugwell the president wrote to mr tugwell later on I 1 fully expect to ask you to com come e back to render additional service mr tugwell will serve on a s special committee of 38 just appointed by the president to study the farm tenancy problem the new resettlement administrator is W W alexander ex who has been first assistant john G winant who resigned Is as head of if the social security board to take part in the presidential election campaign has resumed that position at the urgent request of mr roosevelt and is directing the big task of enrolling the future old age pensioners CAILING from charleston aboard 0 the c cruiser r u 1 s e r indianapolis for buenos aires and the pan american peace conference president roosevelt directed the release of a statement in which he announced that the government will continue to t 0 spend money on a work relief program until july 1 1938 1933 at least it is estimated that congress will be a asked to appropriate as much as for relief in the next session session although he professed himself gratified at the inroads upon unemployment by industry the president commented upon the fact that private business has not yet ab absorbed S orbed vast masses of the unemployed ind and that millions of persons remain on the works progress administration pay roll and other govern governmental mental agencies mr roosevelt declared it was widely known that many of the largest industries will not hir hire e workers over forty years of ag age e to a large extent he charged this policy is responsible for the relatively large number of older workers on relief and industry must expand opportunities for the hiring of unskilled workers he said the mayors of the united states in annual conference in washington were gratified by assurances from both harold ickes head of the and harry hopkins head of the that the administration will not cease ceas e its spending efforts to keep alive the emergency organizations 9 intended to deal with the unemployment problem 1 I am convinced ickes said that the should be made a permanent agency of government it will expire june 30 next on that date many projects will not be completed necessarily a I 1 law a w should be passed giving time within which to complete the tasks already undertaken hopkins predicted the 1929 level of production would be reached next year yet the end of our troubles seems a long way off he remarked there were about unemployed even at the 1929 peak but nex next t year with the same volume um e of production carefully prepared estimates indicate that there will still be some to 7 millions unemployed F fok 1 OR more than ten years t the he american government has been building monuments of the world war on french and belgian battlefields and memorial chapels in the eight american military cemeteries in france belgium and rid england this work is now completed and the american battle monuments commission of which general pershing is chair chairman man recommends that the structures be dedicated next J july lily twenty years after americas entry into the war the approval of th president and congress s is required D I 1 R representative i CANNON of wisconsin RAYMOND isn t waiting tor for the silly season seasons to fine democratic frenzy in a open and says lie he will he has bas prepared introduce in congress a resolution asking the president to forbid our ambassadors and other representatives from participating in any official capacity in the coronation ceremonies and the marriage ceremony of the king of england tile the resolution de scribes describes the coronation propaganda for as latent monarchy and added that it is improper for a tree free republic to participate in a ceremony of obsequious homage to an hereditary ruler it may be stated that the matter of king eing edwards romance with mrs wally simpson is now discussed guardedly in the british press arid and with considerable heat by the nobility and churchmen of england his majesty continues to see wally frequently but has given no intimation to the world that he will marry her ERNESTINE SCHUMANN MME HEINK one of the greatest operatic and concert contraltos altos of the period died in hollywood to the sorrow of the nation generally and especially of the men of the A E F for whom she sang throughout the war A german by birth she loved intensely her adopted country of america her family was split asunder by the war one of her sons being killed as a german soldier and another dying in action as a member of the american forces RESIDENT ROOSEVEL TS report F P to the senate committee of his campaign expenditures shows that the cost of his reelection election re to himself was exactly robert jefferys JefTer ys secretary of the committee said he had not yet received a report from gov alt alf M landon but understood that most of his expenses were borne by the republican national committee william lemke union party presidential ident ial nominee reported he spent 2866 and received contributions totaling the prohibition bartys candidate for president derit dr leigh colvin listed expenditures of 1106 and contributions of 1131 fa of the big groups that aided fed in the reelection election re of president roosevelt to call on him for their reward the steel workers have asked that the chief executive recommend to the next congress the passage of legislation outlawing company unions and forbidding coercion of workers by employers george A patterson and elmer J maloi employee representatives of the carnegie illinois steel company carried this request to the white house the carnegie illinois company has offered employees a 10 per cent wage increase increase on condition that workers sign an agreement to permit adjustment of wages to the cost of living livin at his press conference president preside nt roosevelt said living costs should not be permitted to operate to curb wage increases furthermore ther more secretary of labor perkins ruled inform informally aUy that the employee representatives had no authority to sign such an agreement for their fellow employees IN IN HIS first press conference since the presidential dennial election harry L hopkins works progress administrator asserted his belief that relief rous rolls this winter would be at the lowest point since the start of the depression he estimated that families 13 and single persons would be receiving federal and local aid january 1 1937 compared to a peak of in jan B ta ila w uary 1935 1 I think hopkins said confidently that we will go into january of this year caring for less cases than a year ago and a deduc reduction t I 1 0 n of about 0 from f r OM 1935 the administrators attention was called to the fact that latest lal test figures showed that persons were employed the first two weeks of october an increase of over the preceding half month he explained this his by pointing out that the drouth in the midwest added desti tute farmers to his project list em corporations were hit by a ruling of the national labor relations board ordering the dissolution of the industrial council plan of the international harvester company at the plant in fort wayne Wayn eInd ind while the ruling dealt only with the indiana plant the board pointed out that the same plan also ex ests in the other 14 harvester plants in the united states state S and can canada acla it sets st S a precedent also for future decisions d e fissions in regard to similar plans ln in other oter manufacturing plants throughout the country adother ADOLP DOLF HITLER has torn up an H clause ause ot of the versailles tr treaty a f the e tle one that international iced the german rivers and canals he rl 00 has announced that the reich has h resumed sovereignty V over all such waters the treaty clause was designed partly to give czecho czechs slovakia free tl seas access to the he sea and that nation now has agreed with belgium to protest formally against germany germanas Germ anys s action british foreign foremen minister eden rather mildly criticized cd Hit hitler hillers lers s course |
