Show news review of current events the world over f i hillers Hit lers peace prop proposals asals scouted by france big italian batory may end and ethiopian war lowden for republican keynoter key by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union A A DOLP DOLF proposals for peace in europe together with his flat rejection of the plan of the other four locarno powers for or settlement of the rhineland situation were handed to british foreign minister eden by joachim von and passed on by eden to the french and belgian ambassadors in london the british cabinet thought the german scheme worthy 7 of consideration but the F french r e n c h govern adolf adol anam hitler ment looked upon y it as a a cunning plan to split the locarno powers and make ditler the virtual dictator of europe premier sarraut sarratt and foreign minister flandin were consulting on steps for frustrating the lie welchs fuehrer and pre preserving serIng a united front of the locarno nations hillers Hit lers note made these proposals 1 L A standstill agreement to exist on both sides of the verman german border tor for tour four months during chich germany france and belgium Itel glum would make no DO troop movements this armistice would be guaranteed by a neutral commission 2 A 25 year pact between germany france and belgium guaranteed by an international arbitration courts court to be negotiated immediately after the french elections S negotiation tor for pacts between germany and her other neighbors 4 germany to return to the league of nations as an equal it if the league covenant Is separated from the versailles treaty and with the understanding that colonial concessions will be made 5 when a general settlement Is in sight conferences to be held to secure the prohibition in warfare of gas polson poison and incendiary bombs bomoong of civilians bombing of towns more thin than 12 miles from the battle zone and the abolition of heavy tanks and heavy artillery 6 A general economic and disarmament conference the example of germany amany FOLLOWING the austrian dle has repudiated pud ted that nations military obligations under the st jG ermala treaty by unanimous vote it approved a bill introduced by chancellor kurt von providing for general national military service with or without arms every male from his eighteenth to his forty second year Is liable to conscription this move which has the support of premier mussolini of italy was not unexpected and though it aroused the little entente nations to anger probably their formal prot ss will bring no result the new law Is not likely to bring any great change at present in austrian armaments for austria already had bad disregarded both the treaty ot of st germains ns disarmament provision and its restriction of armaments without serious objection from other countries tanks forbidden to austria under the treaty were actually paraded around the Ring strasse some months ago under the eyes of foreign military attaches whom she had invited hungary may now be expected to violate the treaties and rearm that too baliag a part of policy P PEACE negotiations between italy ind and ethiopia outside the league of nations seem imminent for emissaries of emperor halle selassie Se lassle already have been received by marshal pietro and the f italian undersecretary of colonies Is in east africa to conduct the preliminaries this news followed closely the dispatches telling of a great victory won by northern t troops r 0 0 p a over fresh and picked ethiopian soldiers marshal whose fight was directed and watched by the emperor Alm himself self the battle at mat mal ceu lasted all day and the ethiopians left dead on the field as they fled to join the main body of troops south of lake ashanti Asli angl eight miles away italian fatalities included 18 16 officers juicers and about 1000 soldiers most of the latter being Erl trean As karls it was bell believed eved marshal would follow up this victory with a smashing blow at dessye main concentration conent radon point of the ethiopians unless peace negotiations stop him just before this battle the italian air bombers attacked and practically ruined clarar second city of ethiopia most of the populace had tied fled when scouting planes gave cave a warning of what was to come so BO the casualties were few agthe men and women to the number cumber of declared by their votes in the reichstag elections that they supported the policies of hitter hitler only had the nerve to vote against the and a still smaller fraction refused to go to the polls hillers Hit lers victory was thus extraordinarily dina rily complete and the nazis celebrated it with wild rejoicings rejo icings in berlin slid and other cities it was the culmination of a three years campaign in which the leaders sought to persuade the population of the retch that only hitler could save the country from great danger HILE a house committee Is delving wing WHILE into the financial operations of the townsend plan organization its founder dr francis E townsend announced in washington a complete reorganization of old age revolving pensions ltd the shake up followed a split between representative john S mcgroarty of california who has pushed the townsend plan in the house and the california doctor doctor townsend accused mcgroarty Groarty Hc of conniving to convert Townsend ites in california to the democratic party townsend said that henceforth the movement would be managed by a board and that he would present to it DO 00 per cent of the profits of the townsend national weekly the national headquarters of the movement will be moved from washington to chicago which was chosen for its central location and accessibility another new policy of the movement will be the selection of an auditing firm to regularly audit finances and report to the directors of each of the townsend clubs townsend will remain as president his board of directors was named as follows gomer smith oklahoma city vice president gilmour young san francisco national secretary dr cllnton clinton wunder new york tork J B kiefer fyefer chicago frank arbuckle los angeles and nathan J roberts jacksonville regional directors and alfred wright cleveland ohio manager T LEADERS of both major parties fire are A 4 perfecting the arrangements for the national conventions and picking out the chief orators for those occasions the republicans have tentatively selected frank 0 lowden former governor of illinois as temporary chairman and keynoter of the gathering in cleveland if this choice stands it Is presumed the permanent chairman will be an n easterner possibly walter edge of new F 0 lowden jersey former ambassador and senator some western governor Is wanted by the democrats as their keynoter and the honor may be given to paul V mcnutt of indiana C ben ross of idaho or clyde C herring of iowa for permanent chairman at philadelphia senator robinson of arkansas Is likely to be picked the speech putting president roosevelt in nomination for a se second cond term may be delivered by senator wagner of new york new york republicans of the old guard persuasion scored a decisive victory over senator borah in the primaries and the empire state delegation to cleveland will be to any candidate the triumph of the conservatives was complete not only were the borah candidates defeated in nine congressional districts in which they made contests but the organization candidates for delegates defeated independent candidates not pledged to borah bomb in ID three other districts maine blaine democrats in their primary pledged their ten convention votes to the of mr roosevelt the kentucky state republican con bention instructed the four state delegates at large to vote for gov GOT alt alf M landon of kansas for the presidential nomination this with previous developments assured landon of 18 of the states votes WILLIAM ILLIAM N the democratic mayor of 0 pittsburgh appeared as a witness before the house ways and means committee and was almost thrown out on his ear unable to halt biting tirade against wasteful spending on the one hand and the proposed new punitive tax on corporation earnings or on the other chairman robert L doughton threatened to call a policeman bodily to evict the mayor why all this dignity shouted mcnair good night nigh till 1 A committee clerk brought a policeman to the front of the room as the congressmen quickly passed a motion to excuse the witness mcnair said he be would leave gladly and departed T UNABLE ki to raise to redeem two bond issues reaching maturity the province of alberta can ada defaulted premier william aberhart leader of the social credit party admitted be could not get the necessary funds in last falls election the social credit party won a big victory one of the planks to in its platform advocated the payment of 25 of social credit dividends monthly to every citizen none of these dividends las has been ning as yet jet were issued by the post C CITATIONS office department against alleged lottery associations operated by mrs oliver harriman Harrl man prominent in new york society and alfred E smith jr son of al smith they and others as with them were summoned to appear in washington and show cause why fraud orders should not be issued against them according to the charge both persons are operating lotteries mrs har raman heads the national conference on legalizing lotteries inc and smith heads the golden stakes sweepstakes DESPITE ESPITE vigorous opposition which adwill will reappear on the floor of the senate the senate committee on immigration and naturalization reported favorably the kerr cool idge alien deportation bill which secretary perkins has been trying to get through congress for three years it will give her and two other members of an interdepartmental part mental board discretionary power to harbor radical and even criminal aliens secretary otherwise deportable perkins in this country the same bill recently was reported favorably by the house committee pending action by congress on the measure secretary perkins perking has been holding up the deportation of some 2800 aliens mandat orlly deportable under existing law contending that they are hardship cases some are radicals some have criminal records and others entered the country illegally by hardship cases secretary perkins means that they would be separated from family ties or put to some other inconvenience to the committee on ACCORDING government competition with private enterprise e whose report has been made to the president that practice Is wholly destructive except in situations where the public welfare can only thus be served the governments government function the report said is to protect economic activities oi of its citizens and not to supplant them the committee unanimously agreed that only under the following conditions Is the government justified in entering into competition with private enterprise 1 when required to assure adequate preparation for and creation of the facilities for national defense 2 for the conservation of natural resources sources rf 3 when private enterprise falls to conduct needed scientific research and exploratory activities to advance industrial du development or in the interest of public health and safety 4 when private enterprise falls to render a service necessary tor for the general welfare of a third national F FORMATION party was suggested in a resolution adopted by the farmer labor party convention at st paul ulna blinn and the delegates noisily welcomed the hint that gov floyd B olson of minnesota might be its presidential candidate in 1910 1940 just now ur mr olson Is after a seat in the senate the resolution was adopted by a vote of to although several leaders pleaded that the move be put off for four years governor olson said privately that in his opinion the resolution could do no harm since it does not commit the liberals to putting a national ticket in the geld this year tanese KOM hirota Ill rota the new japanese premier said a few days ago stat while be was in office there would be no war it Is evident his really Is looking tor for I 1 serious trouble with russia this feeling lg Is expressed b by y EIJI spokesman tor for the tokyo foreign office who said japan must prepare for sov 1 I let aggression recent activities in dacate the reds are availing themselves of the critical situation which developed after EIJI 11 ama tle recent lillta revolt in tokyo and are afe increasing the strength of their along the Manchu kuan border said the recent soviet policy has been to fire on any persons neur near the border ile he said he be regards this a rather strange behavior on the part of a friendly neighbor he fie said premier had protested the alleged action to K K Ture Yure nev Dev russian ambassador bas to japan the tension was increased when moscow learned there had been heavy lighting fighting in outer mongolia ally of russia where japanese and Manchu kuan troops had crossed the border B S soviet vice commissar tor for foreign affairs told japanese ambassador bas Tameki clif ota that the situation did not permit waiting ly for development of events he declared serious response res responsibility bill ty would fall on the shoulders of the japanese government if the lighting fighting in outer mongolia were allowed to continue at the same time the Manchu kuo government issued a warning that unless onless the outer mongolian government takes immediate steps to terminate all kinds of provocations pro vocations against sinn sian chuku os frontiers the relations of the two countries art threatened with the most serious contingency arita who became foreign minister of japan said be did not think the border incidents would break up relations but a recurrence would be dangerous |