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Show Relief Bill Pushed gEXATE leaders expected to put through, with little delay, the $2.v0, 000,000 emergency relief appropriation appro-priation bill. The house approved the measure by a topheavy vote of 352 to 23. Ail efforts to make major ma-jor changes in the measure were overridden. Only one amendment. barring relief to aliens temporary in this country, was authorized. The Works Progress administration, administra-tion, which has on hand about $490.-000,000 $490.-000,000 of its regular $1,500,000,000 appropriation, will administer the additional relief fund. The WPA has reported to congress that the monev will keep at least 2.000,000 persons on the relief rolls unt.'l June 30. Wiping Off RFC Debt 'ITHOUT debate the senate approved a house bill writing off more than 52,500,000,000 in Re-I Re-I construction Finance corporation ! debts to the treasury. Senator Byrd i of Virginia said the legislation . marked a "return to honest bookkeeping book-keeping on the part of the federal government." He explained that the RFC, which obtained all its 1 funds from the treasury, had listed I among its assets about two and a half billion dollars it had advanced i for relief and expenditures in va- nuus government agencies. Jones Urges Tax Revision TESSE JONES, the usually level headed chairman of the Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance corporation, conferred con-ferred with treasury officials and SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Wotern Newspaper Union. : ' ',V! : urged them to do what they could to hasten congressional congression-al action on tax revision. re-vision. He told Undersecretary Un-dersecretary Ros-well Ros-well Magill that the whole country was waiting impatiently for action on promised prom-ised modification of the undistributed Schuschnigg Gives In DEICHSFUEHRER HITLER, massing 20 divisions of the German Ger-man army and presenting what were euphemistically termed pow- ships now planned from 35,000 tons each to 43,000 or 45,000 tons, and such dreadnaughts probably would I carry 18-inch guns. In order to obviate the restrictions restric-tions on the size of battleships that inhere in the width of the Panama canal locks and to minimize the contingency con-tingency of interruption of coast-to-coast communication through destruction de-struction of a Panama lock by an enemy, the administration is preparing pre-paring to push the project of a canal through Nicaragua. erful arguments, j forced Chancellor i Kurt Schuschnigg of t Austria to reorgan-! reorgan-! lze his cabinet and give several places I to Austrian Nazis. : Complete amnesty - for all Nazi prison- ers in Austrian inilQ Jesse Jones KsVxet CaPUal Jones Indicated a belief that the bill, which is still in the hands of the house ways and means committee was being held up by opposition to a provision retaining a stiff tax on undistributed profits of corporations owned by a few persons. I if j j ?- ; was Immediately decreed, de-creed, and the Aus- Congressmen who fear the President Presi-dent is piloting the nation into war with Japan made probably futile moves to prevent our government from joining in the rearmament race. Though Secretary Hull had denied de-nied that there was any understanding understand-ing with Great Britain and France concerning Japan, opponents of the I administration were still suspicious that it was planning joint action. Representative George Tinkham of Massachusetts voiced their sentiments senti-ments when he uttered a warning that "every day brings the United States nearer to a war with Japan Great Battle in China NE of the greatest battles ever fought was reported to be taking tak-ing place in central China, where the Japanese invaders smashed a Chinese army of 15,000 and forced it to retreat across the Yellow river under fire and without bridges which had been destroyed by the defenders. de-fenders. Five Japanese armies were driving southward through the rich central China agricultural region and were seriously threatening Kai- I feng, capital of Honan province. From the smith th.-o t Adolf Hitler " 3n press was for" ... bidden to print hos tile criticism of the Nazi regime in Germany.- Many army officers and civil officials who had been dismissed dis-missed as pro-Nazi were reinstated or put on pension. Altogether, the fcazification of Austria was well on the way to completion. But Hitler was not satisfied with this, and called to Berlin the new minister of the interior, Dr. Arthur von Seyss-Inquart, a Nazi, to discuss dis-cuss further extension of the "con-Quest" "con-Quest" of Austria. Schuschnigg was still trying to maintain the dominance domi-nance of his Fatherland Front, and ; Hitler didn't like that. There was a report that he might go to Vienna himself, taking Field Marshal Goering with him. , Italian officialdom was highly pleased with the success of Hitler's i coup, saying it accorded with Italy's 1 central European policy and tended ( to solidify the Rome-Berlin align- t as planned by Great Britain to further fur-ther British interests." Roosevelt said in a press conference confer-ence that the United States never will consent to Japan's aims for navy parity. He said that in the opinion of experts the American national na-tional defense can not rely on a naval establishment designed to defend de-fend only one of the country's two coasts. He subscribed to the view that the national defense rennirB rr tne south, three Japanese armies were advancing from the Hwai river. Gen. Chiang Kai-shek had 400,000 troops along the north and south fronts fighting to prevent the Japanese Jap-anese from gobbling up the huge Lunghai "corridor." Another Dictator State D UMANIA is now added to the European states under dictatorship. dicta-torship. Octavian Goga's government govern-ment was so anti-Semitic and Dm- Great Britain and France, however, how-ever, were alarmed by the developments develop-ments and agreed to lodge joint representations in Berlin and Vienna Vien-na asking assurance that Hitler intends in-tends to preserve Austrian independence. inde-pendence. Neither nation would admit ad-mit that actual union of Germany and Austria was feared just yet protection of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as possible areas of warfare. Wallace Gets Busy DLANS for putting the new farm program into immediate effect were announced by Secretary Wallace, Wal-lace, to whom the law just enacted If m Fascist that it was J forced out, and King I Carol took charge of I affairs by naming I Dr. Miron Cristea as premier and dis- solving the parliament. parlia-ment. Cristea, patriarch patri-arch of the Rumanian Ru-manian Orthodox church, was given virtual dictator power, pow-er, bllt l't UTOO I nruain s ambassador to Berlin Henderson, is said to have warned Hitler recently against any attempt to bring about the "anschluss" which has been one of the Fuehrer's chief ambitions. One London correspondent said the British cabinet had just been informed in-formed that Hitler and Mussolini had formed a new secret defensive alliance of which the Austro-Ger-man arrangement was only a part. It was said to include co-ordination of the German and Italian foreign Sec. Wallace I v- a . just cuac tea gives increased powers pow-ers to control production pro-duction through acreage allotments and to regulate marketing mar-keting by quotas for individual farmers. ; He said he would . soon make acreage , and production alio- cations and call for t a referendum on marketing quotas I Miron Cristea "ul " Was ex" pected George Tar-tarescu Tar-tarescu would very soon succeed him as premier and that Carol would create a crown council over which Dr. Cristea would preside I Much of the new government's authority au-thority was concentrated in the army, and a nation-wide state of siege was proclaimed. A commission commis-sion was set to work formulating a new constitution. Cristea, the key man of the government, gov-ernment, was expected to take steps I to regain the friendship of France , ' fr cotton and to bacco. Marketing quotas will become be-come effective unless rejected by more than one third of the farmers voting in the referendum to be held before March 15. cna nnancial policies in Europe and strengthening of the Rome-Berlin axis in various ways. With the start he has made, it I may be expected that Hitler before JU1'S wm make the move against Czechoslovakia that has been anticipated for months. That country is the gateway toward the southeast and its position is perilous m view of the Fuehrer's known amotions. am-otions. France is her ally but France would hesitata to take strong action in her behalf unles directly supported by the British One observer said "the Fuehrer seems to have started on the road to Bagdad." The secretary announced a six-point six-point program embodying the ''basic principles" of the broadened farm policy as follows: "1. Continuation of the AAA soil conservation program as a part of the permanent farm policy. "2. National acreage allotments -or corn, cotton, wheat, tobacco and rice at levels designed to meet domestic do-mestic consumption and export demands de-mands and establish reserve sun. and Great Britain, traditional allies of Rumania, without offending Italy and Germany. This Is a "Drouth Year" BECAUSE of early dust storms In tf anSaS' 0klahoma and parts of the Texas Panhandle, 1938 already is called a "drouth year" by grain men. The weather in those regions is being closely watched by traders in the United States, Liverpool Winnipeg Win-nipeg and Buenos Aires. Grain experts of Chicago reported that present conditions of soil in much of the territory from west Texas to Nebraska is such that light rams quickly would break it down into powder, easily blown by hish winds. Onlv pvlrmi u , . Jap Refusal Starts Race JAPAN having flatly refused to reveal re-veal her nsval building plans, it is believed that the greatest navy construction race ever seen is about to start, and the United States mav plies. e "3. Federal loans to encourage systematic storage of surpluses in big crop years for use in years of shortage. "4. Marketing quotas backed by penalties on sales in excess of quotas to secure general participation participa-tion ol farmers in holding surpluses off the market. "5. Release of corn supplies from storage under marketing quotas to meet farm shortages or in the case of national need. "6. Crop insurance for wheat to protect producers against drouth and consumers against high prices , resulting from shortages." Admittedly no one fully understands under-stands the new farm law, but Wal- -lace and his associates hope and ! believe it will all work out for the I best winds. Only extremely heavy rains could prevent such blowing. Oklahoma wheat is much below that of last year at this time The western half of the state was reported re-ported in serious need of moisture Uust storms have seriously damaged dam-aged wheat and done further damage dam-age to the state's topsoil. The central cen-tral section, too, was reported in need of moisture. In all these states producers gram traders and elevator men agreed that only part of the winter plant in each state would come to harvest should the much-needed rains fail to materialize. feel called upon to take the lead"" with England, France and Japan in the competition. Our government told Japan that a refusal to divulge her intentions would be regarded as confirmation of reports that she was constructing or planning super-warships, so now, according to some officials of-ficials in Washington, we will have to invoke the "escalator clause" of the London treaty and build larger and more powerfully armed battleships. battle-ships. The President may be expected to order increase of the three battle- |