Show news review of current events the world over trance british peace plan collapses and hoare resigns 0 denes benes elected president of czechoslovakia christmas pay for workers ily by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union F IT really was intended to bring ir IF about peace between italy and ethl opla epla the plan proposed by british foreign secretary sir samuel illare and premier laval of france turned out a dismal failure tile the storm of opposition to the scheme w which h I 1 c it would give mussolini two thirds of the african country as a reward for stopping an attack that was denounced by the league of nations brought the british and french sir samuel goern governments ments to the hoare point of collapse to save ate the baldwin cabinet illare resigned on the eve of a parliamentary battle in the house of commons and it was believed the government thus would be able to win a vote of confidence fi hoare was made the goat for the entire ministry shared tin the responsibility of the peace plan I 1 in paris edouard herriot Herr lot member of the cabinet without portfolio resigned as president of tile powerful radical socialist party whose support la Is needed by laval t to maintain ills his majority in the parliament iler riots action in the opinion of some observers presaged lavacs early downfall hoards position became untenable when he be learned that the peace plan was about to be buried at geneva capt anthony eden probably never enthusiastic for it practically repudiated the scheme in a public meeting of the league counell council laval also spoke more reservedly declaring that even if the plan were rejected tile council must continue tu to seek conciliation after the session bov however ever lie he admitted to french newspaper nien men that the plan for the time being at least Is dead the council received from addis ababa a note in alch which emperor halle selassie bluntly accused great britain and france or of having violated tile league coNe covenant nant by seeking to impose upon lipon Ethl ethiopia opla a predominant control ly by italy with till the ertain certain aim of entrusting to italy the administration of the capital and a large part of the territory the league of nations in consenting to lent lend itself to lo diimig it tion would mould violate article X of the covenant ove coe nant in view few it ir till all the opposition and of ll 11 hint that eliat lie would reject the proposals the league council killed the lie plan entirely softening its action by foi milly thanking great britain and france for their prell preliminary ml efforts toward peace A permanent committee OC 0 11 councilors councillors counci lors all but tile atall ll allin in member was named to study the italo ethiopian crisis dispatches from the front suld said a great battle was in progress in fit the river sector and that the italians arter after repulsing a strong attack by the ethiopians were retaliating with a vigorous counter movement A large force of natives was reported to lie be in a mountain pass pas bassand sand find tile the italian officers olli cers declared derli ired few would escape losses ou both sides were heavy W thomas masaryk Alasa ryk founder of czechoslovakia and president dent of the republic since its creation resigned because lie he was as eighty six oars cars old and wearied earled by his labors lie he becom mended that the lie ament elect as ills his successor eduard Ile kenes rips who was Maii Mamu coworker co worker for estaba lis li limont of the ft lie and has been its only In minister inister of for eign affairs till this ad vice was followed benes being chosen v by a vote or of I 1 out eduard d benes of votes thre there th re were ere 24 votes for prof 1101 llull feinle leader of the pro anti anil 76 abstentions the 0 0 8 organization or sportsmen and fe the war veterans belles unanimously and his victory was hailed balled as a triumph for democracy y A general reorganization reorganisation or of czecho diplomatic representation A a abroad road will III follow the election of file rie new president JIM jan masaryk son of a the former president will lot be recalled from london loi ulon 11 act as chief cliplef of belles chancellery ohp minister 11 in washington pr dr F Ve verlia Is scheduled to move on to london V belles who Is nay n fly one years old hils has had bad a brilliant career one of the ablest strokes was lie be creation 1 of the little entente whereby czechoslovakia 1 JIM 0 chivia and Ru rumania mailla stand together in central europe lie ile also achieved an with will li france r an ce i UNLESS T jal ESS eugene talmadge the fiery I 1 governor or of georgia changes chances ills hl y mind bind the democratic national at conven tion going to be file mere roosevelt loar feat fea t that ad ministration had intended it should be bc went to washington washing torl BIK there boldly announced thill that lie in ili a ell y tor for tile the lare normil lallon lie ile declared the would wool lost lose till election it if abey alk y nut roosevelt ns evelt at tile the 1101 1 of nf thi their ir r and dt d 0 0 1 bounced the president as an usurper in the party the governor also announced that a convention of the southern je jener affer conlan democracy would be held in atlanta the lait week in january for the purpose of fo formulating a program to battle the new deal and president roosevelt noo sevelt lie he added the southern and border states have votes lotes in the democratic national convention it takes but votes to block the nomination of a president we are going to bring a lot of delegates lo 10 that convention contention C CLEVELAND Is the place and june 9 the date selected teI for the republican national convention contention of 1938 1916 tile the national committee heard arguments on behalf of chicago kansas city and cleveland and then decided on the ohio city largel for political reasons gov alt alf landon of kansas and col frank knox of chicago both being potential candidates for tile the nomination ilon it I vas ivas vi as thought bought wise to hold the convention in neutral territory ralph E williams of oregon alce ce chairman of the committee was made chairman of the committee on arrangements delegates to the convention will number 1197 or fewer than in 1932 the national committee concluded it its with an invitation to conservative democrats to join with ith the republicans in the effort to oust the roosevelt administration CRANK RANK C WALKER one ot of rent dent Roosevel ts strongest supporters has resigned as executive director of the national emergency council ile he will retire to private life but it Is understood lie he will return to the service of the government ernnie nt as soon as bahn his personal affairs 7 permit this Is taken to mean that he will be e appointed postmaster general when james A farley relinquishes es that post to take over the pres pr F r C waller walker dents identa reelection election re campaign pal n probably early in the new year lyle C anderson ha who has been solicitor for the since last may was named to succeed walker and Is already in charge of the council in his letter of resignation to the president walker said that he regretted that some of the men in business and industry were impatient with new deal recovery programs but expressed himself bertlin certain tile the great mass of the country was wholeheartedly behind the president WORKS progress administrator harry hopkins issued an order that made happy about workers under his unit 1 I desire that every regular pay check earned be in the hands of the worker by dec 24 hopkins said in telegraphed instructions to state program directors the law does not permit advance payments but no do effort should be spared to dellver deliver checks aecus due by christmas eve overtime work by administrative employees handling pay rolls should be ordered where necessary and courier service should be arranged it if necessary to overcome transportation delays caused by congestion in the malls president roosevelt entered on a new round of conferences on the relief program to he provided for in the budget for the fiscal year beginning next july 1 new deal officials associated with relief were summoned to the white house to olter offer suggestions for keeping the relief program down so that th the administration can point to budget balancing efforts to in the 1936 1036 campaign plans for organizing the civilian conservation corps on a smaller but permanent basis were discussed with robert fechner director and a group of cabinet officers J MILNE TV IV of philadelphia C CALEB young heir to a textile fortune who was abducted for ransom was f found bound and gagged five miles from buckingham Ing liam pa where lie he had been thrown from an automobile it was reported that relatives hall had paid for his release milne was too weak from hunger and exposure to tell a connected story when found department of justice agents were on tile trail of the kidnapers und and it was believed the gang would soon be rounded up OPE PIUS conferred red hats on P POPE sixteen new cardinals lo in a public consistory at st SL peters in vatican city four others received their red hats at their these wen ty bring the sacred college t to 0 within two of its full numerical strength for tile the first time in many years I 1 HE board of directors of the THE knights of columbus made a tart reply to president roosevelt in their dispute over our governments position in respect to the alleged religious per in mexico it concluded with tile the as assertion that sir mr roosevelt was responsible for the governments fallin tile e to follow a long line of precedents rounded founded upon established american in ii the riotous opposition of 0 students and other youth of 0 belp log ing the hopal political council horld supported por ld by japan took over the at I 1 fairs of the autonomous north china provinces with gen sung cheh yuan as its chairman that gentleman in his first official announcement declared the opposition demonstrations were being promoted by communists against whom he be would take drastic action general suns sung said he would do hla his best to promote good relations with neighboring countries which treat us with equality and reciprocity japan and Manchu kuo lie he declared his intention to revive chinas cainas traditional virtues and to develop and spread oriental culture i TAMES AMES A REED HEED former senator J from missouri and long iong one ot of the more prominent democrats Is another who will not support franklin D roosevelt for reelection election re ile he said in cedar rapids iowa that it if the president were lie he was prepared to vote for the republican nominee provided the latter Is pledged to stand by the constitution and amer lean fundamentals of venezuela for twenty deeven lr seven years during most of the time president of the country gen juan vicente gomez comez died in caracas of an old malady at the age of seventy eight years the cabinet named gen eleazar lopez contreras minister of war as provisional president to hold ollice office until his successor Is elected by congress while guns gulls boomed in salute gomez was burled buried on the anniversary of ills his gen gomez assumption of power in 1009 on that day lie he executed a coup by which lie he seized tile the government while president castro was in europe seeking health during his regime there were many incipient revolts but he crushed thein till all with an iron hand und and even cien when the presidential chair was occupied by others ills control of the government was absolute among gomels greatest contributions u to venezuela were the establishment of friendly relations with foreign nations and peace within the country the building of a fine system of automobile highways and development of natural resources lie ile made the roost most of the great petroleum deposits at lake maracallo Mara calbo granting many concessions to foreign oil companies but placing an export tax on oil the industry in venezuela grew until it now holds third rauk in the world 0 GILL university the famous M MC montreal institution under its new president arthur eustace morgan of england Is enlisting la ip the youth movement twelve of its professors who are over sixty tive five years of age have been notified that they must retire at the end of the present school year resentment against tile the action was indicated prof stephen leacock Leaco ik head of the department of political economy humorist and writer who was one of those affected by tile the retirement order made this terse statement 1 I have to say about tile the governors of mcgloi putting me out of the university but I 1 have all eternity to say it in I 1 shall shout it down to the mud N A special election in IN I 1 third cong congressional ress lonal district verner W main blain republican was victor victorious lous over howard cavanagh democrat main blain Is tentatively in favor of the townsend plan but attributed his victory to opposition to the new deal the result was nothing much for the republicans to crow over for the district Is 13 normally heavily republican eighth of the reciprocal trade THE agreements lias has been concluded w with ith honduras it was signed at tegucigalpa but must be ratified by the Ilon duran congress and confirmed by president Roo roosevelt evelt tile the agreement provides for duty reduction on 17 commodities modi ties exported by the united states to honduras and assurance against increases agn 20 others among the concessions by honduras Ilon durn 8 on united states exports are reductions in duties on smoked hams shoulders bacon and sausages and on canned ments except salted and C orned corned beef by from one thard to 0 one de half reduction of the rate on butter buffer by two thirds lowering the rate on evaporated milk by one half and those on condensed and dried skimmed milk by one third rates on dried fruit items are lowered by from one third to three fourths on canned fruits et ables and fish by from two thirds to three fourths tile the rate on cotton shirts Is cut 50 per cent and there are substantial reductions in rates on denims cotton hosiery and other textile items ELIAS CALLES onetime P PLUTARCO iron man of Bl mexico exico has re turned there from his exile in california with the apparent intention of dl di poling the rule of the country with president lazaro cardenas in order to prevent a military coup against the government cardenas dismissed gen medina as chief of the military zone of the valley of mexico and gen joaquin amaro as director of the national military school both were among the supporters of calles as a were five ave senators who were previous lous ly expelled on charges of rebellious and seditious activities the administrations next move was to oust four our state governors |