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Show woek will not be disturbed. The ! ilan Is to utilize hours oilier than normal working periods and periods pe-riods of Inclement weather for purposes pur-poses of instruction. WILLIAM C. KCLI.ITT, ambassador ambas-sador to Russia, was received I in Moscow in a manner . entirely unprecedented since the establish- News Review of Current Events the World Over Controversy Willi Secretary Wallace Forces Peek Into a New Job Education Begun in CCC Camps Sumner Welles Comes Home From Cuba. By EDWARD W. PICKARD f 1a A Dient of the Soviet regime. Other envoys en-voys on arrival at the capital have been accorded little or no attention until un-til they have presented pre-sented their credentials; cre-dentials; hut Mr. Bullitt was greeted with extraordinary enthusiasm by officials of-ficials and populace alike. When he crossed the Rus- GEORGE PEEKS controversy with Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and his assistant. Professor Tugwell, was put up to President It o o s evelt and he Alexander A. Troyanovsky f ' r " s speedily found the way to settle it. Mr. Peek was persuaded to resign as agricultural agri-cultural adjustment administrator and a new position much more to' his liking w.a s d e v lsed for him. lie was called a special assistant to the P r esident and named to head George Peek From Mr. Roosevelt came a letter full of optimism which was read to the delegates. The President, who is a member of the New York state farm bureau, expressed appreciation ap-preciation for the federation's support sup-port and outlined the first effects of federal money "getting Into the hands of people who need it," yet he cautioned farmers and others to "guard against letting a rise In farm income tempt us to. forget the realities of supply and demand." Secretary Wallace and Mr. Peek both were on the list of speakers and were well received. MOST of his duties having been transferred to Acting Secretary Secre-tary of State Morgenthau, Thomas Hewes resigned his position as assistant as-sistant secretary and followed Dean Acheson and Professor Sprague out of the administration. All three of these men had been selected by Secretary Woodin, who is never expected ex-pected to resume his duties, and Mr. Hewes is a close ally of Attorney Attor-ney General Cummings; It was understood In Washington Washing-ton that Walter J. Oummlngs, executive ex-ecutive treasury assistant, would retire very soon to become head of the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust company of Chicago. CHEERED and honored by hundreds hun-dreds of Americans and Cubans, but snubbed by the Grau government, govern-ment, Sumner Welles departed from sian frontier at Negoreloge he was installed In a sumptuous private car provided by the government and in this he traveled to Moscow. On his arrival at Alexandrovsky station he was met by cheering crowds and was formally presented to Alexander Alexan-der A. Troyanovsky, w'ho is coming com-ing to Washington as Russian ambassador, am-bassador, and to Alexis Neuman, vice director of the Soviet press department. de-partment. lie was installed in the National hotel, which thus became a temporary tempo-rary American embassy, and atop the building the Star-Spangled Banner Ban-ner was raised, flying thus for the first time in Soviet Russia. Mr. Bullitt himself and his nine-year-old daughter occupy an elaborate elabo-rate three-room apartment which last summer was tenanted by Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. A GE cannot wither James A. Reed, who for so many years enlivened the sessions of the senate with his dynamic personality. The Missouri statesman, who is seventy-two years old, assembled 20 guests for a game dinner in Kansas Kan-sas City and surprised them by marrying, there and then, Mrs. Nell Q. Donnelly, wealthy garment manufacturer man-ufacturer who has long been his political supporter and friend. Two years ago Mrs. Donnelly was kidnaped kid-naped and held for ransom, and Mr. Reed helped to run down the kidnapers and prosecute them. Later Mrs. Donnelly divorced her husband. Mr. Reed's first wife died in October, 1032. y OWN in Montevideo the Pan-American Pan-American conference was talking talk-ing about ways of ending the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay, without getting anywhere. Meanwhile Mean-while the forces of those countries were exceedingly busy in the jungle, with the result that the Paraguayans Paraguay-ans captured more than 13,000 Bolivian Bo-livian troops, with most of their officers. of-ficers. In one engagement more than 600 Bolivians were killed, according ac-cording to the official announcement. announce-ment. There was great rejoicing in Asuncion, where the Paraguayans marched through decorated streets; and corresponding despair in La Paz, the Bolivian capital. A few days later the Paraguayans captured Fort Saavedra, the most important Bolivian stronghold in the Chaco, and it was generally believed be-lieved that these victories meant the final defeat of Bolivia in thp war. p RESIDENT ROOSEVELT let It 1 be known that the interdepartmental interdepart-mental committee on communications communica-tions headed by Secretary of Com- r ; Havana by plane to Miami on his way to Washington, where he resumes his former post as head of the Latin American affairs bureau in the Department De-partment of State. Jefferson Caffery, who succeeded him in Havana, will be, for the present, the personal representative represent-ative of President a temporary committee that will recommend permanent machinery for co-ordination of government efforts ef-forts to expand foreign trade. The committee also will Include the members of the two depart mental committees, the inter-depart mental advisory board on reciprocal treaties, Inter-departmental trade policy committees, and such other individuals ns Peek may select. In a formal statement the White House said: "Th-e report of the committee com-mittee and final action Is expected within two weeks." It continued: "George Peek, agricultural agri-cultural adjustment administrator, having completed the organization period of the AAA, Is designated to head this committee as a special assistant to the President on American Amer-ican trade policy." The new organization "to correlate corre-late the internal adjustment of production pro-duction with such effective foreign purchasing power ns may be developed devel-oped by reciprocal tariffs, barter, and otliei International arrangements," arrange-ments," will be headed by Mr. Peek when it Is completed. The administration expects to bring about modification of some most-favored nation treaties so as to make possible special treatment of liquor imports from countries agreeing to take more of this country's coun-try's surplus farm products. This is not regarded as a great difficulty to Mr. Peek, as It is a favorite theme with him that trade amounts to "swapping my jack-knife for your marbles." Trade, to him, whether on a domestic do-mestic or international basis, is just what the word signifies, and he says that in its transaction "we sometimes some-times have to sleep with people we don't like and sometimes with those we like." He is quoted as remarking to an aide of the prospective liquor deals : "Sure, we'll take their liquor if we can pay them with butter and pork and other stuff." Mr. Peek has long felt that agriculture agri-culture has been neglected In its possibilities for export, contending that too much emphasis has been placed during the last 15 years on the exportation of industrial products. prod-ucts. CHESTER DAVIS, who was slated to succeed Mr. Peek as administrator admin-istrator of the AAA, has been in charge of the crop control section. Jefferson Caffery merce Roper had completed its study of the matter and laid its report before be-fore him. This report re-port will be submitted sub-mitted to congress, and may result in legislation for rigid rig-id government regulations reg-ulations of telegraph, tele-graph, telephone and radio companies, compa-nies, the reorganiz- iisilil Though long a close friend of Mr. Peek, he sided with Secretary Sec-retary Wallace and Assistant Secretary Tugwell in the dispute." dis-pute." However, he defended Mr. Peek against assertions that the hitter's presence in the administration ad-ministration had de-layed de-layed prosecution of the crop control Sec'y Roper Chester Davis Roosevelt rather than ambassador. Whether he will be able to do more than Mr. Welles in the way of restoring re-storing peace and prosperity in Cuba is a question. Col. Carlos Mendieta, leading oppositionist, op-positionist, said that the strife, with no end in sight, is keeping the island sunk in economic bankruptcy bank-ruptcy and threatened by strikes. He said the nation resents control by a government backed by army .dictatorship and the student dicta-torate, dicta-torate, composed of 11 youths with decidedly Communistic leanings. Augusto Saladrigas, a director of the ABC opposition, declared that 95 per cent of the natives are opposed op-posed to President Grau's revolutionary revolu-tionary socialistic regime. Saladrigas Sala-drigas expressed the opinion that the only solution is either a native na-tive revolution or United States intervention. in-tervention. A revolution seems impossible im-possible as long as the army remains re-mains loyal to Grau, but failure to meet a pay day might prove the start of a revolt At the Pan-American conference in Montevideo Angel Giraudy, Cuban Cu-ban minister of labor, attacked the Cuban policy of the United States. Failure to recognize the Grau regime, he asserted, was actually ac-tually intervention, since it was upholding up-holding a minority group of the people and propagating revolution. ROBERT FECHNER, director of emergency conservation work, announced that a great program for education of the 300,000 men in the civilian conservation corps had been approved by the President and was being put into effect immediately. imme-diately. Educational advisers to the number of 1,405 are being placed in the forest work camps and an individual program of Instruction Instruc-tion for each camp is being developed. devel-oped. To a considerable extent the advisers are drawn from lists of unemployed teachers that have been submitted to Dr. George F. Zook, federal commissioner of education, by state directors of education. "It is the hope of the President," Mr. Fechner said, "that the educational educa-tional program, by emphasizing forestry, for-estry, agriculture and like subjects, will assist the men in readjusting themselves to a new mode of living to country life instead of city life and to assist them in improving themselves educationally and vocationally. voca-tionally. "A great, number of the young men in these camps arrived at working age at a time when there were no jobs. Many of them had meager educational advantages. We propose to give these men a chance for an education and to furnish them vocational guidance which will aid them to earn a living." The opportunity for education will be offered to ail members of the corps, hut participation In The courses of instruction will not be mandatory. The .available working hours on forestry projects iO hours per ation of the whole communications industry and some huge mergers. The committee favors a trend toward to-ward monopoly subjected to strict federal supervision. Outright government gov-ernment ownership is an alternative. alterna-tive. The consensus of studies within and without the government has been that present conditions are unsatisfactory un-satisfactory both from the standpoint stand-point of national defense and regulation regu-lation of such matters as rates, and that present restrictions give foreign for-eign governments an undue advantage advan-tage over the American communication communica-tion agencies. SPANISH anarchists started a bloody revolt against the republic repub-lic in the northeastern part of the country and it soon spread to Madrid Ma-drid and further south. There were sanguinary conflicts between the rebels and the troops and police and bombings in the capital and elsewhere were frequent. Scores were killed tn street fighting, and hundreds of agitators w-ere placed under arrest. After several days of ineffectual efforts to overcome the civil guards the anarchists resorted to their strongest weapon and proclaimed pro-claimed a nation-wide revolutionary strike. The order was issued through the National Confederation of Labor, which is controlled by the syndicalists. For four dys the fighting continued, contin-ued, nnd then the government announced an-nounced that both the revolt and the general strike had failed. , 1933. Western Newspaper Jo-i-m. program. He pointed to the control plans for wheat, cotton, hogs, tobacco to-bacco and other commodities placed in operation, and said : "The record of the past six months would have been Impossible without the continued co-operation of Mr. Peek. It is absolutely untrue that he obstructed progress." With Mr. Peek moved to a new post, officials associated with him were considering plans for extensive revision of the methods of handling marketing agreements in the AAA. It has been virtually decided to scrap the two main divisions, crop control and processing and marketing. market-ing. AGRICULTURAL leaders from all over the land gathered in Chicago for the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau federation, fed-eration, and gave their full support and approval to the farm relief poll-. poll-. cies of tire President. Edward A. O'Neal, president of the federation, called the federal farm adjustment act the "Magna Charta of agriculture," agricul-ture," saying that "at last farmers have the machinery and the power to obtain a fair share of the consumer's con-sumer's dollar." For forty years, he said, the farmer has been getting less and less of this dollar, but by use of the full powers of the agricultural agri-cultural adjustment administration, he declared, this trend can be turned the other way. |
