Show news review of current events the world over i king edward abdicates and Is succeeded by duke of york pope stricken with paralysis wallace promises better farm program i t by EDWARD W PICKARD vistre Vt M newspaper union T OVE and the british constitution LOVE lt are arc the winners in the great contest that has stirred the vast empire to its furthest borders edward VIII stead last fast in his determination to make mrs i wallis warfield simpson his wife abdicated as king of great britain and emperor of india and his brother the duke of york reigns in his stead as george VI edwards fateful george VI decision was communicated munica ted to the house of commons cammons comons camons ons by prime minister stanley baldwin haggard and deeply moved the man who has born the brunt of the struggle on behalf of the cabinet and parliament handed the speaker the royal message and the speaker read it to the half stunned members this is what edward said realizing as I 1 do the gravity of this step I 1 can only hope that I 1 shall have bave the understanding of my peoples in the decision I 1 have taken and the reasons which have led me to take it 1 I conceive that I 1 am not overlooking the duty that rests on me to place in the forefront the public interest when I 1 declare that I 1 am conscious that I 1 can no longer discharge this heavy task with efficiency or with satisfaction to myself 1 I have accordingly this morning executed an instrument of abdication in the terms following 1 I edward VIII of great britain ireland the british dominions beyond the seas king emperor of india do hereby declare my irrevocable determination to renounce the throne for myself and my descendants ants my desire is that effect should be given to this instrument of ct abdication immediately in token thereof I 1 h have ave hereunto set my hand this day of december 1936 in the pres presence ence of the witnesses whose signatures are subscribed there followed a request that the accession of his brother to the throne be expedited and accordingly enabling legislation effecting the abdication and the accession of the new king was promptly introduced and put through the house of commons cammons and the house of lords the new king was proclaimed with the traditional ceremony following an assembly of the accession council made up of privy co councillors councilors counci lors and other distinguished persons that evening the ex king went on the air to broadcast a message of farewell to the half billion people who had been his subjects edward left england for his self imposed exile and probably never will return to his na tive land where he will make his home has not it beer been announced noun ced it was stated in cannes where mrs simpson was with friends p that he would not go there now wally af publicly offered to renounce her assoni edward VM aaion with the king if that hat would settle the controversy but he chose oth erwi erwim her divorce would not become absolute until april 27 but steps were taken in london to a speed up the date notwithstanding the widespread sympathy for edward and his once enormous popularity the general sentiment throughout the british empire is now that he let his h s country down that he mainly was to blame for bringing on the crisis and to quote one correspondent that the cabinets victory was the only possible victory which could be allowed on the present issue the great majority of the people did not think mrs simpson a commoner and twice divorced was fit to be queen of england the cabinet and the house of commons emphatically vetoed a morganatic marriage if he h I 1 would be true to his love there was nothing left for the long to do but abdicate for a day after announcing his resignation of the throne edward remained king but a as soon as parliament passed the abdication measure it t was carried to him and the mo moment ment he signed the document edward ceased to reign it was presumed that with the permission ion of the new king edward would retain the duchy of cornwall suld nd its revenues with his other resources he goes into exile with an annual income of about COO in au all the british dominions steps were taken to ratify the abdication ol of the king and the access accession accussio io n of the duke of york there was considerable uneasiness concerning the course the legislate leg legislature islat ure of the irish free state might pursue for or events seemed to give ireland the chance to shake off the 1 last st vestiges of adherence to the british empire ROM manila came belated dispatches fa IF telling of the worst disaster that ever well befell the philippines a great flood which swept through the fertile and densely populated valley in northern luzon and destroying possibly thousands of the inhabitants the full extent of the death toll may never be known the waters of the cacayan river suddenly swollen I 1 by a typhoon and torrential rains rains inundated many villages and towns town in in the 50 mile wide valley so isolated was the stricken area that a former provincial military commander required four days to fight his way to an outlying point from which he informed the world of the dis disaster asterN military airplanes were used to carry medical supplies and relief agents to the district STRICKEN C THICKEN with paralysis that af tj fectea both his legs pope pius XI was believed go be in a serious condition because lie he already was afflicted with asthma arterio sclerosis and high blood pressure pr assure at first 1 the holy father flatly refused to submit to a medical examination saying 1 I am in the hands of god and he even insisted on dict dictating abing and signing letters but later he was persuaded to take pope pa pus complete repose which his physicians said was vitally necessary father agostino gemelli gemell of milan a medical expert was summoned to vatican city and gave out a statement indicating that rigid measures were being taken to stave oft off possible poisoning the popes illness was discovered when he was unable to arise for a ceremonial concluding a week of spiritual exercises he was barely able to stir the left leg and physicians found that the heaviness of limb had spread also to the right leg MEMBERS of the american farm bureau federation assembled in pasadena calif were told by secretary of agriculture wallace that the government would provide a better farm program than the AAA but he also said the farmer must be willing to accept small increases in the imports of certain agricultural products in the cause of peace he said paid the farmers of the united states must learn to say yes as often as possible to agricultural imports from pan america while at the same time reserving the right t to say no when any vital branch of agriculture is likely to be menaced by too great imports 01 mr wallace declared the p preservation serre of world peace is more mor e fundamental da than national nation a agricultural conservation and added there is is an important relation between the two however danger of the united states becoming involved in a serious war comes from the fact that we export goods to europe and when war comes one side or the other interferes with trade last year 68 63 per cent of our agricultural ri exports went to five co countries n which are arc certain to be ty involved in any major difficulty difficult in in europe and asia only 10 per cent of our agricultural exports went to pan america both our hearts and our heads lead us increasingly n crea singly to pan america but the the facts are stubborn and of necessity can be brought in line with our ou r desires only r slowly lowly the federation conferred upon mr wallace its highest honor the award for distinguished ser service vice to agriculture PLANS of jo john hn L lewis and his associates in the C 1 I 0 for organizing the automobile industry workers seemingly are greatly furthered by the formation of a joint council ot of the united automobile autom 0 bile workers of america and t the he federation of flat glass workers these two unions controlling cont controlling rollin g a as s they do virtually organized w workers or k er in the automotive industry have agreed to unite in in a common cause in any contra controversy v ersy with the industry they ar are e both members of t the he lewis group and so are under suspension by the american federation of labor F POR OR the first ti time me the government has taken a hand in the steel labor labar crisis the national labor relations board has issued a complaint charging the united states steel corporation corp oratio n and its subsidiary the carnegie illinois steel company with interfering with the self organization of employee in carnegles Carne gies 21 pla plants ants this action followed the b boards investigation a of f charges filed by philip murray cha chairman irman of the and M P F tighe veteran president of the amalgam amalgamated abed association of iron steel and tin workers the launching of the WITH gneisenau her second ton battleship germany moved another J step toward her go goal I 1 of a navy large enough to bottle up the russian and fleet hitler many high officials attended the ceremony the ship was christened by frau maerker widow of the commander of the old gneisenau which went down in the battle ot of we the faulkland islands 22 years ago berlin correspondents believe the new german fleet will have reached tons by 1912 it will possess no less than five ton battleships to which can be added two ton battleships three existing 1000 ton pocket battleships and fourteen light and heavy cruisers including three more ton boats there will be 40 destroyers and torpedo boats two airplane carriers biers and submarines up to the limit of the 1935 pact with great britain RANCE and great britain united FRANCE fin in an invitation to germ germany any italy russia and portugal to join them in an effort to end the spanish war by mediation it was thought the time was ripe for this since both the government forces and the rebels are exhausted by their fierce and inconclusive fighting the announcement of the plan came on the eve of the meeting of the league of nations council summoned to geneva to consider the madrid valencia governments appeal against germany and italy because of their recognition tion of the fascist rebel junta it is the hope of france and britain that the spanish people will be permitted to decide by ballot whether they shall have a fascist or a socialist government ern ment FOURTEEN persons perished JL L when a big dutch airliner crashed near croyden airport in england soon after taking oft off in a dense fog the plane struck trees and houses and was destroyed by flames among the victims were juan de la cierva cherva inventor of the autogiro auto gyro gyo and admiral saloman lindman former prime minister of sweden there were only three survivors of the disaster III EADS of 21 delegations to the I 1 peace conference in buenos aires outlined national policies and among them was secreta secretary ry of state hull who proposed a program contain ing ng what he termed eight pillars of peace upon which rest peace and prosperity these were 1 1 internal quiet af and education 2 frequent international c a 0 n t f e r ances 0 3 swift r tion of existing secretary bull peace pacts 4 adoption of a common neutrality policy 5 fair and equal commercial policies iches 6 practical international cooperation 7 strengthening of international law Q 8 a faithful a withful observance of the sanctity ol of treaties next day mr hull offered a neutrality pa pact ct for all american republics his plan would c reate create a permanent inter american consultative cons ulta tive committee to ordinate coordinate co existing peace instruments and bring agreement on a common neut neutrality r aliby policy based on the united states neutrality theory JOHN HAMILTON chairman of the republican national c committee 0 m mi atee called a meeting of that body to be held in chicago december 17 and announced that at that time he would submit his resignation mr hamilton desires that the committee shall be able to address itself to the plans for a party comeback with I a clean slate and with new officers in command if a change of personnel shall be deemed more conducive tu success the management of the late campaign has been criticized by some leaders in the east and also by a few of the most radical a of f the western leaders but it may well be that the criticism represents only minority views of the committee and that mr hamiltons resignation will not be accepted SECRETARY OF THE T TREAS R E AS 0 URY HENRY announced the mid december financing operations of the treasury the main features being further borrowing and refunding that will put the national debt above 34 billion dollars lowered interest rates on government bonds and elimina lion of preferential treatment for the small investor the secretary said that the december 15 fi nanc ng which includes the borro borrowing wing of millio millions nr to cover continuation of deficits incurred would be the last until march when heavy income tax collections will pour into the treasury III refunding funding r raises aises the 0 over v e ra 11 asu mount OO 00 t of the fi dancing to 1 I 1 in announcing that the treasury would not permit the small investor to have his subscription up t to a met in full as in the pas past but would be forced to accept a share just as is the big ton bond d buyer declared that the public had 1 abu ab aser the privilege the plan to give the little fellow a break 1 I was initiated by secretary ogden mills during the hoover regime |