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Show News Iteview of Current Events NO LABOR PEACE YET A. F. of L and C. I. O. Reject Each Other's Proposals . . Japs Drive Back Chinese . . Will Not Attend Parley Mussolini's Bold Talk NEARLY a million Italians gathered gath-ered in Rome to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the Fascist march on the Eternal City, and heard Mussolini declare that bol-shevism bol-shevism must be driven out of Europe, Eu-rope, meaning primarily that the rebels must win the Spanish civil war. Among the invited guests was a delegation from Nazi Germany, and for their benefit II Duce asserted assert-ed vigorously that Germany must obtain colonies, peacefully or otherwise. other-wise. "The motto of the sixteenth Fascist Fas-cist year is peace," shouted Mussolini. Musso-lini. "There has been much use and abuse ofthis word by the bleating bleat-ing of the so-called reactionary democracies. But when it comes from our lips the lips of those who have fought and who are ready to fight again this word attains its real, solemn, original, human definition. defi-nition. Because to obtain a durable, lasting peace it is necessary to eliminate bolshevism from Europe. It is necessary that some absurd clauses of the treaties of peace be revised. It is necessary that greal peoples like the German people have again the place to which they are entitled, and which they once had, under the African sun." The presence of the official Nazi delegation, led by Rudolph Hess, deputy leader of the party, demonstrated demon-strated "the ever-closer political bond uniting the two people," Mus solini said. Chautemps Gives Warning IF THE necessity arises, France is prepared and ready to employ force in defense of her vital interests. inter-ests. At the same time she offers b " ': $ -J - t R 1 The news camera man took his life in his hands to secure this excellent ex-cellent photograph of Japanese "mopping np" operations in the Chapei district of Shanghai. "Mopping up" is the military euphemistic term for stamping out whatever life is left after the artillery bombardment has done its work. SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK ( Western Newspaper Union. . peace to all nations "that will prove by their acts their de- I sire to keep their engagements en-gagements loyally." Such was the warning, evidently directed especially to Italy and Germany, Ger-many, which Premier Pre-mier Camille Chau- temps uttered be- 1 fore a congress ol the central feder- Labor Parley Deadlock LEADERS of the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor and the C. I. O. couldn't get anywhere in their peace conference in Washington. So M. Chautemps they adjourned temporarily, tem-porarily, and some of them said the parley might not be resumed. George M. Harrison, head of the federation delegation, dele-gation, said that unless un-less the C. I. O. attitude at-titude changed there was no prospect of peace. Both sides had made offers, but Philip Murray ation of his Radical Socialist party. "I hope especially in the grievous affair of Spain this pacific, prudent, and courageous action will succeed in cutting short the violations of justice jus-tice which cannot be renewed without with-out constraining France and Britain to renew their liberty of action," Chautemps said. The premier's declaration recalled French insistence that unless th nonintervention committee soor, pulled .foreign troops out of Spain France would open her frontier to aid the Spanish government Franco's Progress GENERALISSIMO FRANCO, having completed his conquesi of Gijon and the rest of the loyalisi territory in northwest Spain, began moving his insurgent forces eastward east-ward to the Aragon front, where his officers said the "decisive offensive of the war" would be begun. The loyalist government moved from Valencia to Barcelona. Japs Mobbed in Frisco T7IVE eminent Japanese citizens, sent out on a good will mission to the world, arrived at San Francisco Fran-cisco and were at once besieged on their steamship by a howling mob which struggled with the police for two hours. The demonstration was sponsored by the district council of the Maritime Mari-time Federation of the Pacific, comprised com-prised of seagoing unions affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization. But about a third of the crowd was comprised of Chinese, Chi-nese, who streamed out from the city's vast Chinatown to vent their rage at things and persons Japanese. Japa-nese. -K Help for Stock Market TjVER since the slump in the stock 1 ' market began the government has been urged to do something about it. Finally the administration yielded yield-ed to the demands and the federal reserve board of governors reduced margin requirements on stock purchases pur-chases from 55 to 40 per cent and imposed a 50 per cent margin on sho'"t sales. The new requirements went into effoct November 1 and are not retroactive. No official explanation was given for the board's action but it was understood un-derstood that it was designed to adjust ad-just the margin requirements to current stock market conditions. Imposition of the increased margin mar-gin requirements on short sales was an innovation from the board's standpoint, a stock exchange rule requiring only 10 point protection on short sales. It was understood that before arriving at its decision the reserve board consulted with the securities and exchange commission. commis-sion. Many brokers were doubtful that this action would stabilize the market; mar-ket; but the immediate effect waa to give stock prices a start upward. these were scornfully rejected by the opponents. The A. F. of L. proposed that the fate of the C. I. O. affiliates organized organ-ized since the split be decided at an immediate conference "between representatives of organizations chartered by the A. F. of L. and organizations chartered by the C. I. O. and which may be in conflict with each other, for the purpose of bringing about an adjustment to bring the membership into the A. F. of L. on terms and conditions mutually agreeable." This clause of the federation proposal pro-posal brought a denunciation from Philip Murray, chairman of the ten-man ten-man C. . O. peace committee, who asserted that it asked "desertion and betrayal" of these unions. The C. I. O. proposal was that its unions should return to the federation federa-tion and that a new autonomous department de-partment should be created, to be known as the C. I. O., to have complete com-plete and sole jurisdiction over its policies and operations. This plan represented no concessions. John L. Lewis called Murray and others into a strategy meeting to consider whether a new proposal for a truce should be offered by the , C. I. O. James Dewey, Labor department conciliator, and Senator George L. Berry of Tennessee were busy trying try-ing to find a way to peace. The position of President Roosevelt was unknown, but it was believed he would continue his hands-off policy. Windsor Talks of Trip THE duke of Windsor, speaking at a dinner of the Anglo-American Press association in Paris, said that he wanted to make it clear that "in any journey I have undertaken or may plan in the future, I do so as a completely independent observ er without political considerations ol any sort or kind and entirely oi. my own initiative." He added that "I am a very hap pily married man, but my wife and I are neither content nor willing to lead a purely inactive life of leisure. We hope and feel that in due course the experience we gain from our travels will enable us, if given fair treatment, to make some contributions contri-butions as private individuals to solving of some of the vital problems prob-lems that beset the world today." Noted Editor Dead DEATH chose a shining mark when it removed George Horace Hor-ace Lorimer, retired editor of the Saturday Evening Post. He succumbed suc-cumbed to pneumonia at his home in Wyncote, Pa. Honorary pallbearers pall-bearers at his funeral included former for-mer President Herbert Hoover and other men distinguished in public life. Mr. Lorimer became editor in chief of the Saturday Evening Post in 1899 and developed it from an obscure weekly to its high position posi-tion in its field. Ecuador Coup de'Etat GEN. ALBERTO ENRIQUEZ, war minister of Ecuador, and officers of the army executed a coup d'etat which forced Provisional President Federico Pacz to resign and leave the country. Enriquez at once assumed power as "supreme chief" with a cabinet composed largely of army officers. He decreed de-creed the establishment of a popular popu-lar tribunal to deal wilh persons accused of tampering wilh public funds and announced "a nutionul political po-litical purge." The people accepted the change of government quietly. John Roosevelt to Wed TVIRS. FRANCES HAVEN CLARK of Boston announced that her daughter, Anne Lindsay Clark, and John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President, will be married In Nn-hant, Nn-hant, Mass., next June, shortly after Mr. Roosevelt Is graduated froir Harvard. Yardstick for Power PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in conference with J. D. Ross, administrator ad-ministrator of the Bonneville dam project on the Columbia river, established es-tablished the "yardstick" rate by which the charges of privately owned utilities for electric current are to be judged. The formula is to pay operating charges, amortize the federal investment in-vestment in power generation in 40 years and provide a net return of 3'A per cent. For the present the formula is to apply only to the Bonneville project, but Ross recommended that the same principle be followed wilh respect re-spect to power from the TVA and other government plants. Miss Roche Quits Treasury MISS JOSEPHINE ROCHE, first woman to be an assistant secretary sec-retary of the treasury, has resigned that post and returns to the presidency pres-idency of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company of Denver. Tho position will be left unfilled, for the administration ad-ministration hopes sho will resume it later. She was appointed by President Pres-ident Roosevelt three years ago and has been in charge of the treasury's public health and other welfare activities. ac-tivities. -K Stciwer to Retire '"pWENTY years of public service A is enough for Senator Frederick Stciwer of Oregon, Republican. Ho has announced that ho will not seek re-election next year, but will return re-turn to the practice of law. Stciwer was the keynoter of the Republican national convention of lD.'iO. Japs Smash Chinese JAPAN officially declined the invitation in-vitation to the nine-power treaty conference in Brussels, and her forces went ahead fast in their operations op-erations in China. They had been checked by a desperate stand of the Chinese defenders of Shanghai, but launched a new ortensive that forced the Chinese to abandon Chapei, the native section, and fall back to a new line to the west of the international inter-national settlement. There they entrenched en-trenched with their backs to the Soochow creek on the other side of which were the United States marines. ma-rines. These American troops had orders from Admiral Yarnell to shoot at any planes attacking them or at non-combatants. The British troops In Shanghai had similar orders, and tho international inter-national tension was brought nearer to the breaking point when a Japanese Jap-anese tank fired on a British infantry infan-try detachment of which Brig. Gen. A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett, British commander in chief, was a member. A few days before a Japanese machine-gunner in a plane had killed a British soldier. In refusing to send a delegate to Brussels the Japanese government said II i c conference was inspired by the League of Nations aid would "put serious obstacles in the path of the jiist and proper solution of the conflict." |