Show news review of current events the world over presidents defense of AAA and canadian treaty italy offered peace plan at ethiopians expense naval conference seems hopeless by EDWARD W PICKARD a western newspaper union the united states supreme WHILE court nas hearing oral arguments lo in the mills case in which tile the constitutionality of the whole agricultural r t adjustment act f was attacked and defended president roosevelt was in chicago seeking to justify the entire new deal farm program lie ile addressed the american farm bureau federation in tile internal dional amphitheater at tile the stock yards and was heard and en george N applaud ed cd by some farmers and as many others as could get into the theater and adjoining wings supplied with ith loud speakers the farm program the president said bald aimed to stop the rule of tooth and claw that threw farmers into bankruptcy or turned them into serfs As evidence that it Is succeeding lie he asserted that farm income has increased nearly in the past two and a half years necessarily mr roosevelt defended the new canadian trade treaty because only two days before that pact had bad been bitterly nt attacked tacked by ills his late trade adviser george N peek just as I 1 am confident sold said the president that the great masses of city people are fair minded so I 1 am sure that the great real of american farmers will III be fair in their judgment of the new treaty it if the calamity howlers bowlers should happen to be right you have every assurance that canada and the united states will join in correcting inequalities but I 1 do not believe for a single moment that the calamity holers are right we export more agricultural prod nets to canada than we e have imported front from her we shall continue to do so for tile the very simple reason that the united states slates mith its larger area of agricultural land its more varied cl elli imite nate and its vastly greiter population Ution produces far more of most agricultural products including animal products vegetables and fruit than does canada in the case of the few reductions that hale bae been made quota limitations are set on the amount thit that may be brought in fit it the lower loer rules rates in his bis analysis of the lie Canad canadian laft agreement peek that 81 84 p an ent of the tariff concessions whick lie new kew dealers granted to canni ere on agricultural and forestry prot acts lie also showed that the article in which the new dealers granted tar iff reductions amounted to lollias loll irs ars in 1929 au J whereas he reas canada in re turn lurn had grafted concessions on articles valued at only million illion ni dollars after completing ills his speech and pat eat ing luncheon with a lot or of local nula bles the president went to south bend ind here lie he received an hanm honorary a ry degree from notre dime dame university and delivered another address the american farni farin bureau federation closed its convention in fit chiago it adopted a resolution en dol dalsing sing reciprocal trade treaties to avoid dissension the i ip solution did not mention specifically tile the recent trade agreement agie ement between canada and the L states which lowered d the duty on oil many firm farm products couling coming in over the not thern border another of the lie 17 resolutions adopted 1 at the meeting federal fiscal policies indicating their un 4 dalness tiler 01 er the mounting fet feier leral nl delicie de licit the farmers recommended aided that the ciscal cler of tile g eminent 1 be and that its revenues mies shall be increased and that Us its eapen t shall be decreased to the end that within tile hie text next few years a balance shall be attained the federation ulso also approved a resolution pledging gill itself to defend the agricultural adjustment adminis tra t alon act the meeting offered no serl serf t ous of the net act but asked thit that its administration lie be simplified the dt legates delegates representing a paid pa up ul membership of farmers in fit 37 states slates lIec elected reelected re ted edward A uneal oneal of alabama as president of the fedora t tion for a term or of two years charl charles r E was as re elected vice i dent and all 15 1 i tut members abers of the board of directors were re appointed 1 ITALY TALY Is being punished for st starting arting tile the war against ethiopia ant and will be well paid for stopping topp stOP PInt liiK it that in a hell li ii the status att attlies lils writing great britain and lo lr brince ince reached an agreement us as to the offer to be made to mussolini before tile the imposition of an oil elu embargo bargo set for december 12 this plan for peace draun dran up by british foreign secretary sir simul hoare and laal was wa bused based on the proposal that italy should re tain part of the territory already al realy conquered lu in ethiopia elli elly n u north western estern tigre including adoba but not jie be sacred city of ak surn sum and that tile italian Soma liland border should be rectified in return would bu be given a seaport either in eritrea or in british 01 a frenchi french territory thus poor already declared by the league of nations to be a victim jf f italian rapacity bould be still further victimized with the consent of the two great powers that dominate the league presumably I 1 if emperor halle selassie Se lassle refuses the terms and decides to continue his fight for the territorial inviolability guaranteed by the league covenant he hill be abandoned to hl big fate dispatches from dessie ethiopia said the emperor rejected the franco british plan asserting the government cites its previous declarations notably that of october 8 to show that rth ethiopia loril la never wished and does not wish war but today c e are bound to defend our soil which italy has violated ethiopia agreed at the time of the paris conference and the meeting of the league of nations committee of me to all concessions comparable to its dignity to avoid italian aggression but that aggression has been committed we cannot submit to force which ne e never provoked because that would be rewarding violence since mussolini showed a disposition to consider the proposals the oil embargo was postponed to permit negotiations if lie rejects the plan tile the embargo would go into effect later and supposedly the war in afilena would continue at least until the rainy season next nest spring PROBABLY with slight blight hope of accomplishing comp lishing anything north while representatives of the united states great britain france and japan met in london and opened the international naval conference italy niso was represented but only as an observer v er and listener prime Sl minister inister stanley bald w in welcomed the delegates in a smooth address asking the chief sea powers to lessen some of their demands to avert the calamity admiral of unrestricted naval competition norman H divis davis offered president suggestion of a 20 per cent reduction in existing naval treaty tonnage na e or falling failing that a continuance of present fleet limit limitations tlona then arose admiral chief of the japanese delegation and old lold the conference that japan de iti parity etith ith great britain and lie he united states instead of the exist ng 5 5 3 ratio and requested a just ind fair agreement agie ai cement ement on disarmament nt after several days of discussion and ferate the japanese demand for parity was flatly rejected by the delegates of the four other nations the pessimistic feeling that prevailed was attributed to the japanese demand for parity the rivalry to in the mediterranean terra nean between france and italy the war ar in ethiopia an its sanctions an developments and recent bocc occurrences ur in north china any one of which might wreck the conference THE tain HE united states and great britain in the conference at washington agreed upon a plan that Is expected to result in regular air mall mail and passenger transportation across the atlantic by the summer of 1937 negotiations were under way for the northern route by way of canada newfoundland found land and irish free state to england and the southern route from porto rico and american ports to en england land the northern route Is more practicable than the southern route because of the shorter distance but Is less practicable in winter because nights flights would be undertaken under tinder less favorable conditions under the agreement experimental flights will begin next surn summer mer when regular service Is inaugurated according to the agreement four round trips will viii be nude made each week JOHN 1 11 I hoellen HO EllEL EPPEL congressman from california and his son charles were ere round found guilty by a jury in tile the district of columbia supreme court of conspiring to sell an ap appointment to west point for th they were released on ball pending motion for a new trial lit hoeppel was as elected to congress in the landslide of from the seventeenth california district and was re elected in 1931 1934 lie he Is lifty four years old his son Is twenty one Gordi L Indu industrial strini coordinator found great difficulty in Il mustering ills hla proposed industrial council in which many great industrial groups had refused to participate tile the initial session of ills his conference broke up tip in disorder amid shouts of liar ilar and threw threatened ened fist lights ignis further doings were postponed for a week or more and most of the delegates went home declaring they wanted nothing to co with ith a permanent council which might lead to further government interference with private business the labor unions union stood by berry hoping his train would aid their plans for a 30 i stir week and govern government meat licensing or of industry JOHN OIIN J LEWIS president of tho united mine workers and head of 0 the rebel committee on industrial organization that Is seeking to gain control of the american federation of labor incited president william green of the federation to resign and accept chairmanship of the committee I 1 in a letter to lewis green declared that he never had associated himself with any minority seeking to split the A F of L and never would do so he mildly rebuked the insurgents by saying that he himself in a spirit of good sportsmanship took it on the chin whenever he had found himself outvoted in the A F of I 1 L convention abhat administration D officials state that president roosevelt will ask the new congress for a appropriation ns as the initial fund to launch the federal social security program going into effect january 1 the fund Is to be distributed among the states for the needy nedy old aged in the form of pensions tor for maternity and child welfare and to aid the blind state commissioners and public welfare directors were summoned to washington by the social security board to discuss formulation of regulations und and procedure politicians especially republicans wore were greatly interested in a meeting in washington between former vice president charles curtis and senator borah and its possible implications curtis burtts insisted to the press that he Is still advocating the nomination of gov GOT alt alf landon of kansas tor for the presidency but the idaho senator Is himself a leading possibility for that honor curtis curels had recently had a conference with landon in topeka but he said gald there was no connection between that and his call on borah the ex vice president said of the nomination 1 I have no second choice but a lot depends on what happens at the convention I 1 have the highest regard for the senator im tor for landon who Is well equipped to run after giving us an economic administration in kansas something we need here in washington in ton more now than ever before ARLOS MENDIETA resigned as C CARLOS president of cuba because of a fierce quarrel in the government over procedure for tile the election of a constitutional president Mend mendieta leta had held the office for two years secretary of state barnet took over the office and re appointed all members of the cabinet and preparations for the election went ent ahead rioting in cairo directed dic C continuous against british control of egypt attacks on english soldiers and smashing of street cars and shop windows forced premier nessim pasha and his cabinet to decide to resign the rioters demanded the restoration of the constitution of 1923 and the ministers pleaded with sir silles miles lampson british high commissioner to give ills his consent ile he was 0 obdurate in ills his refusal until king fuad essam nessim pasha announced that he would quit but yielded then to avoid disorders similar to those of 1010 1019 therefore with the consent of great britain king fund signed a royal decree restoring constitutional government and the hie cabinet members withdrew their resignations the constitution thus restored provides for a senate and chamber of deputies and takes control of egypto internal affairs completely comple lely out of british hands it does not however affect britaina Brit ains control of egyptian foreign affairs nor the british military protectorate NORTH CHINA autonomists supported by the japanese armies evidently are too much for tile the N a 11 government of which chiang kal shek has now become the lie premier th provinces of hope and with a population of or more have been granted virtual self rule under a political council the central government ninde made only three stipulations that nankin would continue to control the new states foreign affairs financial military and judiciary matters that all appointments would be made by and that there would be no actual independence for the area no machinery was brov provided filed to prevent the new council from doing exactly as it pleased under tinder japanese protection and guidance convicted of and murdering the lind birgh baby lost almost ills last chance of escaping the electric chair when the supreme court refused to review ills his case the decision was made tf crough tile the single word denied attorneys attori ays eys had announced previously that in tle event a review was refilled they would seek a new nev trial if new evidence could be found and would for a commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment C CONSUMERS who buy potatoes in regular retail establishments are not liable to a fine as high as if tile the spuds are grown and marketed in lol atlon of the potato control aa ac only tire the first purchaser of unstamped potatoes is liable this Is the ruling of the AAA and the act may be ameri amended ded later to include this provision the bureau of internal revenue re regu u lations require that the producer can eel cil ci l tile the stamps after they are attached by tt riling in ankor indelible pencil oi b bi stamping ills his initials and the date |