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Show News Review7 of Current Events the World Over Ini TMans Settlement of Cuban Deljts to Americans Roosevelt Says Federal Government Should End Child Labor and Starvation Wages. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. PEDERICO LAREDO ERU, the I new president of Cuba, proposes SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE has just apportioned I $200, 000, QUO to the states for road I improvement. Of this sum $125,- , 800,000 will go toward improvement j of the federal-aid highway system. ; $25,000,000 for improving secondary ; or farm-to-market roads, and $53,-000,000 $53,-000,000 for grade crossing elimination. elimina-tion. The fund is for use during tha fiscal year beginning July 1, 1937, and funds for improvement of roads must be matched by the states. Grade crossing elimination funds need not be matched. Highway projects selected, contracts and specifications are subject to federal approval after designation by stata commissions. ARTHUR BRISBANE, one of the foremost newspaper editors and writers of the time, and the highest paid, died in his New York residence of coronary thrombosis at the age of seventy-two. The millions mil-lions of Americans who have read faithfully his columns, "Today" and "This Week," mourn his passing. An indefatigable, able and often brilliant worker, he continued hi3 journalistic labors almost to the hour of his death. Born in Buffalo, N. Y., Mr. Brisbane Bris-bane at eighteen joined the staff of the New York Sun as a reporter. Shortly after he went to Europe for five years to complete his education educa-tion and became the London correspondent corre-spondent of the Sun. From that time he advanced steadily in the profession. For the last 39 years he was employed by William R. Hearst. He had been ill for some time but characteristically concealed con-cealed his condition from all but members of his family and died in f - 1 I J T ' , to settle all Cuban obligations In the United States and is expected soon to invite in-vite the bankers and bondholders concerned con-cerned to enter negotiations to that end. Credit for Inducing In-ducing Eru to do this Is given to Col. Fulgcncio Batista, who appears to be largely in control of affairs In the island. would develop during the winter season." Duffy estimated 40,000 to 5C.0OO Wisconsin farmers would need assistance as-sistance in purchasing live stock this winter. He said at least 35,000 farmers in the drouth area and from 10,000 to 15,000 outside the drouth districts were in need of aid. In addition, he said, between 30,000 and 40,000 farmers would need government gov-ernment aid in purchasing seed for the 1927 crop. GOVERNMENT officials, from the President down, were anxious anx-ious to prevent the export of American Amer-ican airpl?nes to Spain, license for which was given perforce by the State department to Robert Cuse, a Jersey City airplane broker. Cuse proposes tc send $2,777,000 worth of planes to the Spanish loyalists, and his action was criticized in Washington as "legal but unpatriotic." unpatri-otic." Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, Ne-vada, chairman of the foreign relations rela-tions committee, assailed the Cuse deal as improper and dangerous president Laredo Hru the harness, as he would have wished to do. SILENT for two years, Mahatma Gandhi once more comes into public notice with a speech tending to increase the opposition to British The obligations include about $75,-000,000 $75,-000,000 owed to many Americans who invested in public work gold bonds which were issued during the administration of President Gerar-do Gerar-do Machado. The new constitution which the Cuban congress recently voted originally orig-inally prohibited any such negotiations negotia-tions as those contemplated before 1940, but when it appeared in the official of-ficial gazette that article had been radically altered. It now orders the government to find a satisfactory way to settle all debts to the United States before 1940 and authorizes the president to open negotiations immediately. This "error" in the gazette's composing com-posing room is supposed to have been ordered by Colonel Batista, and though congress has the power to correct It, a majority of congressmen, con-gressmen, after reading the article arti-cle in the gazette, gave it their approval. So President Bru, it seems, is free to go ahead with the negotiations. ELIMINATION of child labor, long working hours and starvation starva-tion wages is a necessity, and must be carried out by the federal government gov-ernment since it cannot be done by state action. So declared President Roosevelt in his press conference. He warned the correspondents not and said it might embarrass not only the United States but also other nations In their efforts to enforce the hands off policy toward the Spanish war. Congress may be able to rush through prohibitive legislation before the planes are shipped. Meantime pressure was being brought to bear on Cuse tc-cancel tc-cancel the deal. WHEN the German steamer Palos was captured by Spanish Span-ish loyalists at Bilbao because it carried war munitions supposedly destined for the Franco forces, the Berlin government demanded its release under threat of reprisal. The Basque authorities, when the German cruiser, Koenigsberg, arrived ar-rived at Bilbao, let the Palos go, but held on to the cargo and to one Spanish citizen who was a passenger. passen-ger. This did not satisfy the commander com-mander of the cruiser who insisted the cargo and the Spaniard must n rule in India. He spoke at an industrial indus-trial exposition held in connection with the annual session of the All-India National Na-tional congress, the members of which were already agitating agitat-ing in favor of independence. inde-pendence. Said the "holy man": "Show me the way. I am prepared to go back to jail Mahatma Gandhi again. I am prepared to be hanged. "If you do all I want you to do, Lord Linlithgow (British high commissioner com-missioner for India) will say, 'I be released. The authorities defiantly defi-antly refused this, and several more German warships were ordered to the Bilbao sector. There was a report in Berlin that Hitler had been advised by Mussolini Mus-solini to withdraw as gracefully as possible from the Spanish embrog-lio, embrog-lio, and that II Duce himself had decided to cease supporting Franco and the insurgents. It was believed Hitler would avoid war measures in this crisis, and both Great Britain and France were hopeful that he would preserve peace because they have offered to help his economic and colonial needs in return for nonintervention in the Spanish conflict. However, informed German sources said the Anglo-French note sent Christmas, urging a cessation of German volunteer vol-unteer enlistments for Spain had come too late, and that Germany will permit and even encourage a continuance of such enlistments. CHIANG KAI - SHEK, generalissimo generalis-simo of China and its dictator, is back in Nanking. Marshal Chang, who held him prisoner in Sianfu for am wrong. I thought you people were terrorists, and, if you like, we Britishers will go back on the next steamer.' We would then say to Linlithgow and the British, 'India is big enough to hold you and more like you.' "That is my swaraj (sell-government under native influence)." Jawaharlal Nehru, in his presidential presi-dential ' address to the congress, warned the British his countrymen would not be "parties to an imperialist imperi-alist war." ANOTHER big air liner, the third to meet disaster in a month, crashed against the top of Oak mountain, twenty miles from Bur-bank, Bur-bank, Calif., and hurtled down into a ravine, a mass of tangled wreckage. wreck-age. The twelve persons aboard were all killed. Three of the nine passengers were women. The plane, a twin motored Boeing, was operated oper-ated by the United Air Lines and was on its way from San Francisco to Burbank.- PROGRESS of the illness of Pope Pius was followed with great anxiety, for it was admitted at the Vatican that he was steadily growing grow-ing worse and was suffering intense pain. The paralysis was spreading along the left side and arm, and one report said his physicians declared de-clared science could do nothing further for him. GEN. HANS VON SEECKT, who died in Berlin at the age of seventy, was one of the really capable capa-ble commanders in the World war. While acting as chief of staff to Field Marshall Von Mackensen he to say he was planning to revive the NRA and insisted all he could say at present was that something should be done to fix maximum hours and minimum wages. Since the day of the NRA, said Mr. Roosevelt, there has been a steady decline in child labor, grueling gruel-ing hours and starvation wages by 90 per cent of American business. As for the other 10 per cent, he said, they were still failing to live up to the best standards since the death of the NRA. Attorneys for the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor were reported to be about ready to submit to the President a bill designed to restore labor protective features lost in the death of NRA. It provides that congress catalogue unfair "conduct" "con-duct" which would be forbidden to employers and assure workers adequate protection. Violations would be punishable by a fine. The federation is expected to back federal fed-eral licensing of interstate corporations corpora-tions as provided by the O'Mahoney bill. TOM BERRY, before retiring from the governorship of South Dakota, appointed Herbert Hitchcock Hitch-cock of Mitchell, S. D., to fill out the term of the late Senator Peter Norbeck. The new senator is Democratic Demo-cratic state chairman and his appointment ap-pointment brings the Democratic membership in the senate to 76, the highest party total in history. The Republicans now number 16. Mr. Hitchcock was born in Ma-quoketa, Ma-quoketa, la., in 1S67 and was educated edu-cated at Anamosa, Davenport and Chicago. He went to Mitchell in 1S94 and was admitted to the bar two years later. He was president presi-dent of the school board in his home town for ten years and state's attorney at-torney four years. He served as state senator in 1909, 1911, and 1929. AS NEBRASKA'S unicameral legislature, unique in the United Unit-ed States, was about to begin its first session, Gov. R. L. Cochran declared de-clared politics was out. He discouraged dis-couraged party caucuses among the members and said he would have no spokesman in the legislature. The governor pointed out that the constitution provides that the one-house one-house chamber shall be non-partisan and that the voters had done their part by electing, on a non-political ticket 22 Democrats and 21 1 two weeks, also is in the Nationalist capital, avowedly repentant and ready to submit to any punishment. The danger of civil war has passed for the time. The terms on which Chang released re-leased Chiang have not been made public. pub-lic. The dictator issued is-sued a statement, T. V. Soong directed to his kidnaper, commending commend-ing his change of heart and promising promis-ing to use his influence to obtain leniency for him; and Chang also gave out a statement admitting his grievous fault. These developments would seem to have quieted down the Oriental situation, but there is another matter mat-ter that threatens continued trouble. This is the prospect that Chiang may decide to confine his attention largely to military affairs and to make Dr. T. V. Soong, his brother-in-law, premier. Soong, who used to be minister of finance, stands high among those who favor a strong foreign policy, including resistance re-sistance to further encroachments hv Janan. Therefore it is easv to was responsible for the great defeat of the Russians at Gorlice, and he planned the campaigns that resulted in the collapse of Serbia and Rumania. Ru-mania. After the Von Kapp putsch of 1920 Van Seeckt was made commander com-mander - in-- chief of the German army which he built into an efficient effi-cient force. Later he helped to train the Chinese National army. AMONG the numerous governmental govern-mental reports zX the year's close that of M. I. Myers, head of the farm credit administration, is interesting and encouraging, showing show-ing that the outlook for the financial finan-cial status of farmers for 1937 is bright During 1936 the total loans to farmers by the various FCA agencies were $670,000,000 compared com-pared to $1,060, J00.C00 in 1935. The decline reflected a decrease in the "emergency demand" by farmers for assistance from federal agencies, because they "had no other source of credit after the depression," de-pression," Myers said. "In the country as a whole, farmers farm-ers apparently had more money for equipment, machinery, farm buildings build-ings and repairs in 1936 than in any year since the depression," Myers said. He added that this should continue con-tinue next year because of increased in-creased purchasing power and the opportunity to fc'et short term cash loans at the present reasonabla rates. see that his elevation to the premiership- would greatly annoy To-kio To-kio and might easily bring about an open break between the two nations. na-tions. Since Marshal Chang is one of those demanding war with Japan, it is rumored that the appointment of Soong was the specified reward for his release of Chiang and submission sub-mission to discipline. FRANCE took a census in 1936, and the figures, just given out, show the population of the republic on August 3 was 41,905,983. This was an increase of 71,045 over the last previous census, taken in 1931. Of the total, 2,453,507 are foreigners, their number having decreased by 437,416. Republicans. He said he would continue con-tinue personally and as governor, all measures for new forms ef taxation. tax-ation. FINANCIAL status of American farmers may be much improved, as reports of governmental agencies agen-cies say, but some of them still appear ap-pear to need a lot of help. Senator Sena-tor F. Ryan Duffy of Wisconsin asked federal officials to allot $10.- I 000,000 to aid the Wisconsin farm ers who are suffering from the ef-Jects ef-Jects of the drouth. "This would be $200 per farm," he said, "and considering the high price of hay and other items of feed, it would be difficult to make a gmaller sum cover the needs which |
