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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Cerrnany's Economic Crisis Now Worries the Nazi Government NRA Seems Due for Modification Modifica-tion Plot to Kill Caffery Foiled. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ,.' by Western Newspaper Union. RECOVERING from the terror anil dismay caused by Hitler's "purging" of tlie Nazi party at a cost of some fifty lives, the people of 1 1.4 , i&4 Germany dow realize real-ize that a serious economic crisis for their country Is at hand. The essence of the Nazi new deal Is that to make money Is no credit to the Individual, but that to work Is a great honor. Incentive In-centive In the form of profit Is vanishing; vanish-ing; jobs, many of That no political pact be requested request-ed but technical collaboration be guaranteed In the event Belgium Is Invaded again. That the world disarmament conference con-ference be moved to London and consolidated with the 1035 naval conference, In view of the apparent failure of negotiations at Geneva. That these questions be answered categorically: What Is Britain going go-ing to do about the Increase of the German navy? Does Britain favor German rearmament on sea as well as land? That Britain reaffirm that spirit of the Locarno pact In which Germany, Ger-many, Belgium, France, Britain and rtaly guaranteed peace In western Europe. A SSISTANT PRESIDENT" Is what they now call Donald Richberg, because he Is at the head of a kind of super-cabinet which Kurt Schmitt illi fall holds power during the absence of President Roosevelt. Roose-velt. The counsel for the NRA has his work cut out for him, and has gone at It with a will. The chief part of his task is acting as director of an industrial emergency committee commit-tee which has been given sweeping su- Donald Richberg them created, have been spread out thinly; empliyers are urged to run their plants at their own expense, to take on more men and to Increase wages under the theory that It Is a privilege thus to serve the state. Observers believe ihe Nazi government govern-ment Is now trying to retreat from virtual Communism, which Its leaders lead-ers profess to hate, toward relative economic liberalism. The appointment appoint-ment of Dr. Kurt Schmitt, minister of economics, to the position of economic eco-nomic dictator Is taken as evidence of this trend. Schmitt has been given blanket powers that will extend ex-tend to October 1, and in that time he has the authority to promulgate any reasonable laws that he thinks will help trade and commerce. He also has the right to Impose fines on those who do not obey his dictates. dic-tates. Chancellor Hitler sought to restore re-store quiet In the relch by ordering a political truce and a call for peace, and he then left Berlin for a vacation vaca-tion in the Bavarian Alps. In the capitals of Europe it was possible to hear almost any kind of rumor concerning Hitler and his prospects, bo It is Just as well to wait and see what happens. One guess Is as good as another. There Is current among friends of the slain Nazi "traitors" an explanation ex-planation to the effect that those men were truly the supporters of Hitler and were only preparing and arming selected troops to back him up in an attack on the reactionaries. reaction-aries. The sponsors for this account ac-count blame General Goering for misleading Hitler and engineering the executions. One of the chancellor's firmest friends, Rudolph Hess, minister without portfolio, broke out with a speech in which he appealed to France to help Germany avert another an-other war, addressing himself to the veterans. Then he delivered a stern warning to France and the world not to try to invade the reich. "Just you dare to attack us I Just you dare to march into Germany I" The speech was delivered before Nazi chieftains of East Prussia and was broadcast throughout the nation. na-tion. Translations were then broadcast broad-cast to the remotest corners of the world, showing the emphasis placed on this pronouncement. HIS position greatly strengthened by events in Germany, Chancellor Chan-cellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria Aus-tria promptly reorganized his cabinet PRESIDENT KUOSEVELT made brief but pleasant visits to Puerto Uico and the Virgin ts- ! lands, Inspecting government proj- I ecta and talking reassuringly to the i inhabitants. Then the cruiser Hous- j ton headed for (uitagena, Colombia, Colom-bia, for a short stop before going to the Canal Zone. At Colon practically the entire population was out to see Sir. Roosevelt, and he was cheered all i the way through the canal to Balboa. Bal-boa. There he landed and motored to Panama City, where he was the guest of President Arias at dinner and delivered an address. Returning Return-ing to Houston, the President began the 12-days journey across the Pacific Pa-cific to Honolulu. DR. SVEN HEDIN, famous Swedish Swed-ish explorer, has been captured cap-tured for the second time by Gen. Ma Chung and his "army" of bandits ban-dits In eastern Turkestan. Taken with Hedln were a dozen or so of his companions. The captives were reported to have been Imprisoned In an Inaccessible camp In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of Aksu, and officials of the Chinese government said that their rescue would be exceedingly difficult. Hedln was engaged in laying out a new trade route across China, following the ancient silk caravan route. Last March Goner- j al Ma captured him and held him for three weeks. WHEAT production in the United States this year will be the lowest since 1S96, according to the government report. For the second year since 1S90 the yield will fall below domestic consumption. The government's figures, which completely upset calculations of the grain trade, indicated the aggregate of the country's five leading grain crops will fall 450,000,000 bushels short of last year's production and 1,588,000,000 bushels below the yearly year-ly average for the period from 1927-31, 1927-31, whiih Is customarily used as a standard of comparison. The government estimated the total to-tal wheat crop at 484,000,000 bush-els, bush-els, which Is 16,000,000 bushels below be-low the forecast it made a month ago. Even more sensational than the report on wheat was the government govern-ment prediction of a corn crop of 2,113,000,000 bushels. Private authorities au-thorities had predicted a crop of 2,334,000,000 bushels, and It was believed be-lieved that the government's figures would show little change. Tha corn crop has been counted on to make up the known deficiencies In other feed crops. Last year the corn crop totaled 2,330,000,000 bushels bush-els and in the five years from 1927 to 1931 the country produced an average of 2,516,000,000 bushels a year. THROUGH four counties of southern south-ern Illinois a tornado swept, and Jacksonville was especially hard hit. Scores of persons were Injured and the property damage was estimated esti-mated at a million dollars. Hundreds Hun-dreds of the big oaks, elms and cot-tonwoods cot-tonwoods that have been the glory of the city for many years, were destroyed. IT MAT be that William P. Mc- Cracken, Jr., will not have to serve the ten days In jail to which the senate sentenced him. The District Dis-trict of Columbia Court of Appeals, by a 3 to 2 vote, declared the senate sen-ate had not the jurisdiction to inflict in-flict such punishment. The case will be carried to the Supreme court McCracken was tried by the senate sen-ate for contempt because he refused to give the airmail committee copies of correspondence with his clients. He claimed that as a lawyer he could not produce the documents without permission from those whom be represented. THOUSANDS of applicants for PW4 funds are sure to be disappointed, dis-appointed, according to Secretary Ickes, who says nearly all that administration's ad-ministration's money has been allocated al-located or earmarked. President Roosevelt recently turned over to PWA about $400,000,000 of the maximum max-imum of $500,000,000 which congress con-gress authorized him to allocate for public works. Ickes said the other $100,000,000 might be handed over to the PWA later, but that "we are proceeding on the theory that we will have $-100,000,000 to spend" in addition to the original $3,300,000,000 appropriation appropri-ation disposed of long ago. THE world civil service commission commis-sion of the Methodist Episcopal church, in session at Evanston, 111., voted to participate in the campaign cam-paign against dirty moving pictures pic-tures that originated largely in the Legion of Decency organized within with-in the Catholic church. This campaign Is having its effect ef-fect on the movie Industry and the makers of film pictures have been deeply disturbed. James I. Breen of Will Hays' office has been made virtual dictator of pictures in so far as their decency Is concerned. Ten of the largest concerns making movie3 have agreed to "grant exhibitors ex-hibitors the right to omit tlis exhibition ex-hibition of any motion picture released re-leased prior to July 15, 193-1, against which there Is a genuine protest on moral grounds." Tills is a big modification of the "block booking" system that has prevailed, and at nays' office in Hollywood it was said that It will cost the producers pro-ducers around ten millions erf dollars. pervlsory and co-ordinating powers over the major agencies of the New Deal. What is going to happen to the NRA Is an absorbing question to many of our best minds. General Johnson has recommended the creation crea-tion of an entirely new body to take Its place and to perform the functions func-tions of the federal trade commission commis-sion in preventing monopoly. In this he recognizes as Just some of the complaints uttered by Senator Borah. The plan was submitted to Mr. Roosevelt before he went to sea, and Is being studied by Richberg Rich-berg and others. The administrator, meanwhile, Is undertaking to complete the regimentation regi-mentation of Industry. He Issued an order directing all industries still uncodified either to sign specific spe-cific codes or to submit to a new "basic code" governing wages and hours. A time limit of 30 days was set, and three of the general's aides were named to supervise this operation. opera-tion. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, in his capacity of chairman chair-man of the Democratic Senatorial campaign committee, replied to the charge that the New Deal fosters monopoly by asserting that the administration ad-ministration intends to prosecute the monopolists. "At the demand of large business, busi-ness, stimulated by the national chamber of commerce," said Sena tor Lewis, "congress by the votes of both parties suspended the trust act to allow all business to econ omlze by consolidation to 'save expense' ex-pense' and provide 'larger develop ment.' Result: Instead of keeping faith with the government, certain manufacturing and financial establishments, estab-lishments, conscious that the trust law was suspended, promptly violated vio-lated the codes of the NRA by Join ing with each other to fix the price of everything even as against the government Itself. "This administration has Just been able to discover the responsible responsi-ble parties to this conspiracy. It has not had time to take steps to punish it It will proceed at once both to punish and obstruct further injustice." In another statement Senator Lewis indicated the President is willing to modify the NRA and perhaps per-haps some other New Deal policies. BEING ambassador to Cuba is no snap. The authorities of the island is-land republic have Just uncovered an extensive plot to assassinate Am- and declared unrelenting unre-lenting warfare on the Nazis In his country. He got rid of three ministers who were not working work-ing well with bim and himself took the portfolios of public safety, defense, de-fense, foreign affairs af-fairs and agriculture. agricul-ture. M a j. E m 1 1 Fey was supplanted supplant-ed as vice chancel- Chancellor Dollfuss bassador Jefferson Caffery with bombs, many of which were found. Something Some-thing like seventy-five seventy-five former army officers of-ficers were arrested and it was said documentary doc-umentary proof of the plot was seized. The officials also found large stores of guns and munition muni-tion s in ware-houses. lor by Prince Von Starhemberg and was given the job of repressing all anti-government political activities. Trobably to register his disapproval disapprov-al of Hitler's methods, especially as they affect Catholics, Dollfuss recalled Stephen Tauschnitz, minister minis-ter to Germany, and made him undersecretary un-dersecretary of foreign affairs. The opponents of Dollfuss have been resorting freely to the throwing throw-ing of bombs, especially in Vienna, and the chancellor In his official communique said his patience was ended and that all political opposition opposi-tion to him must cease. The immediate im-mediate reply to this was the throwing of a lot more bombs. LOUIS BARTHOU, French foreign for-eign minister, went over to London to ask a lot of things of the Briton government, but wise observers did not believe he would get much satisfaction. The chief thing he wanted was assurance that Great Britain line up with France again In case of a war with Cermany. Reports that Barthou would propose such an alliance reached London ahead of the mln ister and aroused loud opposition in parliament and the press. There were indications that the cabinet was very cool toward the suggestion. sugges-tion. It was reliably reported that Barthou Bar-thou also propope.i; Jefferson Caffery Jose Pedraza, chief of the Havana police, said the former ollicers were aided by one faction of the ABC po lltical society, which recently withdrew with-drew its support from the Mendieta government, and planned a revolt in Havana, striking at police stations and army barracks simultaneously in a night attack after cutting electric elec-tric lights off over the city. There were persistent reports In Havana that President Mendieta would resign In favor of Col. Ful-gencio Ful-gencio Batista, head of the army. |