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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Franco-Iiritihh Peace Plan Collapse3 and Iloare Resigns Re-signs Penes Elected President of Czechoslovakia Czechoslo-vakia Christmas Pay for V7PA Workers. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper L'ulon. TF IT rrally was Intended to bring about peace between Italy nix Ethiopia, the plan proposed by Brit-IhIi Brit-IhIi Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel DESPITE tlie riotous opposition of students and other youth of Pciping, the Ilopei-CIiahar political polit-ical council, supported hy Japan, took over tiie affairs of the autonomous autono-mous North China provinces, with Con. Sung Cheh-yuan as irs chairman. chair-man. That gentleman In his first oliiclal announcement declared the opposition demonstrations were be-in be-in promoted hy communists, against whom he would take drastic action. General Suns said he would do his best to promote good relations with neighboring countries "which treat us with equality and reciprocity" (Japan and Manchukuo). He declared de-clared his intention to "revive China's Chi-na's traditional virtues, and to develop de-velop and spread oriental culture." TS A special election in Mich-Iran's Mich-Iran's Third Congressional district dis-trict Verner V. Main, Republican, was victorious over Howard Cav-anagh, Cav-anagh, Democrat. Main Is tentatively tenta-tively in favor of the Townsend plan, but attributed his victory to opposition to the New Deal. The result was nothing much for the Republicans to crow over, for the district is normally heavily Republican. Repub-lican. 'TP HE board of directors of the Knights of Columbus made a tart reply to President Roosevelt In their dispute over our government's govern-ment's position in respect to the nl-leged nl-leged religious persecution In Mexico. Mex-ico. It concluded with the assertion asser-tion that Mr. Roosevelt was responsible re-sponsible for the government's failure fail-ure to follow n long line of precedents prece-dents "founded upon established American principle." pvICTATOR of Venezuela for 27 -s years, during most of the time president of the country. Gen. Juan Vicente Gomez died in Caracas of S ' "I ' J Hoare anil I'remler Laval of F ranee turned out n dismal failure. The storm of opposition to the schornewhlch would give Mussolini two-thirds two-thirds of the African Af-rican country as u reward for slopping slop-ping an attack that was denounced hy the League of Nations, Na-tions, brought the British and French Sir Samuel Hoare national convention isn't going to be the mere Roosevelt renoiiiinution love feast that administration supporters sup-porters had intended it should be. Talmudgc went to Washington and there boldly announced that he would be a candidate for the Presidential Presi-dential nomination. lie declared the Democrats would lose the election if they put Roosevelt at the head of the ticket again, and denounced t he I'resident as an "usurper" in the party. Tiie governor also announced that a convention of the "southern Jef-fersonian Jef-fersonian Democracy" would he held in Atlanta the last week In January for the purpose of formulating formu-lating a program to battle the New Deal and I'resident Roosevelt. lie added: "The southern and border states have SCO votes In the Democratic national convention. It lakes but ,1fi7 votes to block the nomination of a President. We are going to bring a lot of delegates to that convention." Asked about his views on the Townsend plan, providing for the payment of $2(10 monthly to all persons more than sixty years old, the governor said he was opposed to any pension plan except one for Incapacitated veterans of the World war. lie favors payment of the soldiers' sol-diers' bonus out of the $1.3011.000,. 0(H) works relief appropriation, he added. CLEVELAND is the place and June f) the date selected for the Republican national convention of VX'SS. The national committee heard arguments on behalf of Chicago, Kansas City and Cleveland, and then decided on the Ohio city, largely large-ly for political reasons. Gov. Alf I.andon of Kansas City and Col. Frank Knox of Chicago both being potential candidates for the nomination, nom-ination, it was thought wise to hold the convention in neutral territory. Ralph E. Williams of Oregon,' vice chairman of the committee, was made chairman of the committee on arrangements. Delegates to the convention will number 9U7, or lu7 fewer than In H);!2. The national committee concluded its session with an invitation to conservative Democrats to join with the Republicans in the effort to oust the Roosevelt administration. FRANK C. WALKER, one of President Pres-ident Roosevelt's strongest supporters, sup-porters, has resigned as executive director of the national emergency : . an old malady at the age of seventy-eight seventy-eight years. The cabinet named Gen. Eleazar Lopez Con-treras, Con-treras, minister of war, as provisional president to hold odice until his successor suc-cessor is elected by congress. While guns boomed in salute, sa-lute, Gomez was buried on the an- Gen. Gomez governments to the point of collapse. col-lapse. To save the iialdwin cabinet, cab-inet, Iloare resigned on the eve of a parliamentary battle in the house of commons, and It was believed the government thus would be able to win a vote of confidence. Hoare was made the goat, for the entire ministry shared the responsibility of the peace plan. In Paris Edouard Herriot, member mem-ber of the cabinet without port-polio, port-polio, resigned as president of the powerful Radical Socialist party whose support Is needed by Laval to maintain his majority In tin; parliament. par-liament. Ilerriot's action, in the opinion of some observers, presaged Laval's early downfall. Iloare's position became untenable unten-able when he learned that the peace plan was about to be buried at Geneva. Capt. Anthony Eden, ' probably never enthusiastic for it, practically repudiated the scheme In a public meeting of the league council. Laval also spoke, more reservedly, declaring that even if the plan were rejected, the council coun-cil must continue to seek conciliation. concilia-tion. After the session, however, he admitted to French newspaper men that the plan, for the time being at least, is dead. The council received from Addis Ababa a note in which Emperor Haile Selassie bluntly accused Great Rritain and France of having violated vio-lated the league covenant by seeking seek-ing "to impose upon Ethiopia a predominant pre-dominant control by Italy with the certain aim of entrusting to Italy the administration of the capital and a large part of the territory. The League of Nations In consenting con-senting to lend itself to such dissimulation dis-simulation would violate article X of the covenant." In view of all the opposition and of Mussolini's hint that he would reject the proposals, the league council killed the plan entirely, softetdng its action by formally thanking Great Britain and France for their "preliminary efforts" toward to-ward peace. A permanent committee commit-tee of 13 councilors all but the Italian member was named to study the Halo-Ethiopian crisis. Dispatches from the front said a great battle was In progress in the TakUaze river sector and that the Italians, after repulsing a strong attack by the Ethiopians, were retaliating re-taliating with a vigorous counter-movement. counter-movement. A large force of natives na-tives was reported to he ambushed in a mountain pass, and the Italian ollicers declared few would escape. Losses on both sides were; heavy. WHEN Thomas Masarvk. founder of Czechoslovakia and president presi-dent of the repuhllcsince its creation, resigned because he was eightv-six I 1 council. He will retire re-tire to private life, but It is understood he will return to the service of the government as soon as his personal affairs af-fairs permit. This is taken to mean that he will he appointed ap-pointed postmaster general when James A. Farley relin-nuishes relin-nuishes that post to F. C. Walker niversary of his assumption of power pow-er in 1000. On that day he executed a coup d'etat by which he seized the government while President Cipria-no Cipria-no Castro was in Europe seeking health. During his regime there were many Incipient revolts but he crushed them all with an iron hand; and even when the presidential presiden-tial chair was occupied by others his control of the government was absolute. Among Gomez's greatest contributions contribu-tions to Venezuela were the establishment estab-lishment of friendly relations with foreign nations and peace within the country, the building of a tine system of automobile highways, and development of natural resources. He made the most of the great petroleum deposits at Lake Mara-caibo, Mara-caibo, granting many concessions to foreign oil companies, hut placing an export tax on oil. The industry In Venezuela grew until it now holds third rank in the world. Gomez succeeded In paying off the entire debt of his country, amounting amount-ing to nearly $-10,000,000, and at the same time accumulated a great fortune for-tune for himself. THE eighth of the reciprocal trade agreements has been concluded con-cluded with Honduras. It was signed at Tegucigalpa but must be ratified by the Honduran congress and confirmed by President Roosevelt. Roose-velt. The agreement provides for duty reduction on 17 commodities exported by the United States to Honduras and assurance against increases on 20 others. Among the concessions by Honduras Hon-duras on United States exports are reductions in duties on smoked hams, shoulders, bacon, and sausages, sau-sages, and on canned meats, except salted and corned beef, by from one-third to one-half; reduction of the rote on butter by two-thirds; lowering the rate on evaporated milk by one-half and those on condensed con-densed and dried skimmed milk by one-third. Rates on dried fruit items are lowered by from one-third to three-fourths; on canned fruits, vegetables and fish hy from two-thirds two-thirds to three-fourths. The rate on cotton shirts is cut fiO per cent and there are substantial reductions In rates on denims, cotton hosiery and other textile Items. CALEB J. MILNE IV of Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, young heir to a textile fortune, who was abducted for ransom, ran-som, was found bound and gagged five miles from Buckingham, Pa., where he had been thrown from an automobile. It was reported that the relatives had paid $2."),000 for his release. Milne was too . weak from hunger and exposure to tell a connected story when found. Department De-partment of Justice agents were on the trail of the kidnapers and it was believed the gang would soon be rounded up. P'lI'E PIUS conferred red hats on sixteen new cardinals in a public pub-lic consistory at St. Peter's In Vatican Vati-can City. Four others received their red hats at their niinclatnras. These twenty bring the sacred college fn within two of lis full numerical strength for the first time in many years. years old and wearied wea-ried by his labors, h e recommended that the parliament elect as his successor succes-sor Eduard Benes. who was Masaryk's co-worker for establishment es-tablishment of the republic and lias been Its only minister min-ister of foreign affairs. af-fairs. This advice was followed. Benes Eduard Benes take over the President's re-election campaign, probably early In the new year. I.yle C. Anderson, who has been solicitor for the NEC since last May, was named to succeed Walker and is already in charge of the council. In his letter of resignation to the President Walker said that he regretted re-gretted that some of the men in business and Industry were impatient impa-tient with New Deal recovery programs pro-grams hut expressed himself certain the great mass of the country was wholeheartedly behind the President. WORKS Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins Issued an order or-der that made happy about 3,500.-000 3,500.-000 workers under bis unit. "I desire that every regular WPA pay check earned be in the bands of the worker by December 24," Ho-kins Ho-kins said, in telegraphed Instructions Instruc-tions to state program directors. "The law does not permit advance payments, but no effort should be stalled to deliver checks due by Christmas eve. "Overtime work by administrative administra-tive employees handling pay rolls should be ordered where necessary and courier service should be arranged ar-ranged if necessary to overcome transportation delays caused by congestion in the mails." President Roosevelt entered on a new round of conferences on the relief program to be provided for in Hie budget for the fiscal year beginning next July 1. New Deal oliiclals associated with relief were summoned to the White House to offer suggestions for keeping the relief program down so that the administration ad-ministration can point to budget balancing efforts In the l'.l.'lfj cam paign. Plans for organizing the Civil Ian Conservation corps on a smaller but permanent basis were discussed dis-cussed with Robert Fecliner, CCC (lireclor. and a group of cabinet ollicers. olli-cers. Under the program the CCC j enrollment would be cut Troiii -l:',0. I 000 to ;0(1,(K1() men by next July 1. being chosen by a vole of 310 out of 410 votes. There were 21 votes for prof. Bohumil Nemec, leader of the pro-Fascists, and 70 abstentions. The Sokols, organization of sportsmen, sports-men, and the war veterans, supported support-ed Bones unanimously, and his victory vic-tory was hailed as a triumph for democracy. A general reorganization of Czechoslovakia's Czecho-slovakia's diplomatic representation abroad will follow the election of the new president. Jan Masarvk, son nf the former president, will be recalled from London to act as chief of Penes' chancellery. The minister In Washington, Dr. F. Vcvoika, is Scheduled to move on to London. Benes. who Is lifty-one years old, has had a brilliant diplomatic career. ca-reer. One of the aldest strokes was the creation of the little entente, whereby Czechoslovakia. Jugoslavia and Rumania' stand togelh'T In central cen-tral Europe, lie also achieved an alliance with France. UNI. ICSS Eugene Talmadge. the tiery governor of Georgia, changes his mind, the Democratic |