OCR Text |
Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Asks for Nationalization of Cold Supply Not Yet Ready to Fix Exact Value of Dollar Carlos Mcndieta Given Cuban Presidency. Bv EDWARD W. PICKARD Barharach declared, would lighten materially the tax burden of the .small salaried class without seriously seri-ously cutting Into present Income tax revenues. C KNATOUS BORAH of Idaho, Norris of Nebraska and Nye of North Dakota, all Independent Republicans Re-publicans whose support has been counted on generally by the administration, admin-istration, have started a concerted attack oh the NUA, charging that Its codes foster monopolies and result re-sult In forcing the small dealers out of business. Their fight Is not against the President and his policies, poli-cies, but against Gen. Hugh Johnson, John-son, NRA administrator, upon whom they place the blame for the faults they say have developed. TTALO BALHO, the bearded Ital- Ian air marshal who commanded the great mass flight from Italy to Chicago and back last summer and PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to congress his long-awaited message mes-sage on monetary matters, and It should be In a measure reassuring 1 President RooBevelt to business and finance. He asked that the gold supply sup-ply of the country be nationalized and that his powers be redefined to enable en-able periodic revaluation re-valuation of the dollar within a range of M) to GO per cent of the present pres-ent gold content. He already had the power to devalue 'j 4 w i I - 1 Italo Balbo thereby became too popular to suit Premier Mussolini, has made his peace with the Duce and has assumed his new duties as the governor of Libya in north Africa. Fie crossed t b e Mediterranean In state on the new cruiser Alberto dl Giussano with an- that he resign his military post; a strike to force this was started by Antoido Ouiteras, late secretary of war and navy, and Ilevia ordered that Kulgeneio get out. Rut the army leader promptly brought 3,(XXJ of his troops from Santa Clara province to reinforce the H.IKXJ at Camp Columbia, on the outskirts of Havana, and compelled com-pelled Ilevia to resign. He then declared de-clared that Mendieta was the only man capable of' continuing the Junta's revolutionary program without with-out the extreme measures that had prevented recognition by the United Unit-ed States; that he, Batista, recognized the costly mistake the junta had made In installing Grau and would now rectify it He ordered or-dered government employees to remain re-main at work on pain of losing their Jobs, but the strike went Into effect far enough to tie up Havana's power, pow-er, light, gas and transportation systems. sys-tems. P.atista ordered the arrest of Gulteras, whom he held responsible respon-sible for this. A bomb exploded near Mendieta 's residence but no one was Inju red. Mendieta was assured the support sup-port of the Nationalists he leads, the political societies ARC and OCRR and the newer revolutionary organizations. Moreover, he had performed the highly difficult feat of reuniting the army and the navy. They had been split apart previously previous-ly over the breach between Guite-ras Guite-ras and Batista. ERMANY'S great church qunr- rel goes on unabated and the Evangelical pastors are still determined de-termined that their religion shall i U ' Dr. Ludwig Mueller not be naxified. Relchsblshop Ludwig Lud-wig Mueller, who Is a confidant of Chancellor Hitler, Issued a decree forbidding for-bidding pastors to criticize the Nazi Protestant church administration from the pulpits under pain of dismissal from the church. But the rebellious ones, organized ns other cruiser In escort, and when he lnnded was received by all the Italian officials In the colony and a colorful gathering of the native troops. Balbo, who Is just thirty-seven years old, replaces Marshal rjietro Badoglio as Libyan governor. While a new line of activity, it will be a job with an opening for him, for Mussolini wants to make Africa In time an outlet for Italian emigration. emigra-tion. ISalbo will keep up his interest In aviation, even though he is just governor of the sandy North African Afri-can coast. PUERTO RICO has a new governor gover-nor who may please the islanders island-ers better than did Robert H. Gore. He is Gen. Blanton Winship, former form-er Judge advocate general of the army, and a man of experience In Insular affairs. He served In Cuba and the Philippines as an adviser to the highest American officials in those parts. Also he was a military mili-tary aide to President .Coolidge. His home town is Macon, Ga. Mr. Gore, whose administration was bitterly and constantly attacked by island politicians, resigned, stating his reason was ill health. President Roosevelt also selected a new chief of the weather bureau in. Washington in the person of Willis Wil-lis G. Gregg. He succeeds Dr. Charles F. Marvin. TWO thousand or more persons were killed and 10.000 injured by violent earthquakes that shook all parts of India. The full measure meas-ure of the disaster will not be known for some time, but airplane surveys revealed that many cities and towns had been virtually destroyed. de-stroyed. In some regions the devastation de-vastation was increased by floods resulting from the temblors. Communication Com-munication systems were shattered and there was great danger of pestilence and starvation among the survivors. BIRTH control has been put up to both congress and the President. Pres-ident. A bill designed to promote it by repealing certain clauses of the penal code has been introduced and hearings started; and a committee com-mittee headed by Mrs. Thomas N, Hepburn of Connecticut and Mrs. Margaret Sanger carried to the White House a resolution from the birth control and national recovery recov-ery conference in Washington asking ask-ing Mr. Roosevelt's support for the measure. CAMILLE CHAUTEMPS, fighting desperately to save his French government after the great Bayonne pawnshop scandal, promised the nliflmliDr nf rlenll- tho dollar down to r.O per cent, but he does not do so yet, saying that "because of world uncertainties, I do not believe It desirable in the public Interest that an exact value be now fixed." He added that careful care-ful study had led him to the conclusion con-clusion that any revaluation at more than 00 per cent would not be In the public Interest. The President asked full power to take over the last outstanding supplies of gold In the country, much of which belongs to the fed-oral fed-oral reserve hunks. Tho legislation he requested, he explained, "places the right, title and ownership of our gold reserves In the government govern-ment Itself ; It makes clear the government's gov-ernment's ownership of any added dollar value of the country's stock of gold which would result from any decrease of the gold content of the dollar which may be made In the public Interest." The profit that may result from cutting the gold content, the President Presi-dent proposed should be used to set up a two-billlon-dollar fund for purchases and sales of gold, foreign for-eign exchange and government securities. se-curities. No further recommendations concerning con-cerning silver were marie In the message, the President saying he believed "we should gain more knowledge of the results of the London agreement and of our other oth-er monetary measures." Immediately after the reading of the President's message, Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, chairman of the senate banking and currency committee. Introduced the administration's bill to effect the monetary changes proposed. He called his committee together the 1 next day to consider It, and Secretary Sec-retary Morgenthau was the first to be heard in argument for the legislation legis-lation asked. Only two Democratic senators came out in the open promptly in opposition to the President's program, pro-gram, Carter Glass of Virginia and Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma. Both declared that the appropriation of the reserve banks' gold was unlawful unlaw-ful and immoral. Most of the Republicans Re-publicans were cautious in their expressions of opinion. However, Attorney General Homer Hom-er Cum tilings rendered to the senate sen-ate banking and currency committee commit-tee a formal opinion upholding that section of the proposed bill. "The monetary gold stock (of the federal reserve system) may be taken tak-en by the government in the exercise exer-cise of its right of eminent domain," the attorney general's opinion declared. de-clared. "Such power," he went on, "extends to every form of property required for public use." Gov. Eugene Black of the reserve board was heard by the committee In closed session and Senator Fletcher said Black was unchanged in his opposition to the seizure of the federal reserve gold and the loss of the profit which would accrue ac-crue from the devaluation of the dollar. Senator McAdoo of California was veraciously reported as sharing the jiews of Senators Glass and Gore, but later sought to silence the rumor, ru-mor, asserting that he had not yet inade up his mind. iUnO Is president of Cuba ' this morning?" asks the man In the street, and there Is reason rea-son for his uncertainty. At this the Pastors' Emergency league, defied de-fied Doctor Mueller and for the second sec-ond time read to their congregations congrega-tions a manifesto demanding his resignation. It was up to the council of the churches to enforce the reichs-bishop's reichs-bishop's decree, but several o" the councils declared openly they would not do so. Bishop Mueller showed some Inclination In-clination to recede from his position, posi-tion, but the militant Nazi German Christian pastors brought great pressure to bear, telling him they would support him only so long as he stuck by his decrees. The bishop bish-op also seeks to annul all church laws passed in 1933 so he can proclaim pro-claim new ones. Reverend Doctor Richter, who is highly considered by President Von Hindenburg, declared in the Berlin cathedral that "a storm is brewing in Germany a fight between Christianity Chris-tianity and heathendom." In t!.1s contest, however, Hitler appears to have much more influence than the aged president, who is more and more becoming a figurehead. . O ESIGNATIQNS from the Demo- cratic national committee seem to be in order and some have already al-ready been received. The President let it be known that he did not approve ap-prove of members of that body opening open-ing law offices in Washington and apparently trading on their supposed sup-posed influence with the administration. adminis-tration. Robert Jackson announced his resignation as secretary and committeeman from New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, and Frank O. WTalker said he had resigned as treasurer In order to devote full time to his work as chairman of the President's national na-tional executive council. J. Bruce Kremer, practicing law in the Capital, Cap-ital, resigned some weeks ago as member for Montana. Postmaster General Jim Farley, it is said, wants to quit as national chairman, but Mr. Roosevelt may not permit this. Arthur Mulled, committeeman from Nebraska ano vice chairman of the committee, and Orman Ewing, member mem-ber from Utah, both have established estab-lished law offices in the Capital and it would not be surprising If they resigned from the national committee. com-mittee. D EPUBLICAN members of the house ways and means committee com-mittee proposed two important tax reforms. A constitutional amendment amend-ment authorizing the taxation of federal and state government bonds was suggested by Representative i Allea T. Treadway, with the statement state-ment that there are now some $-10,-000.000,000 of such securities outstanding out-standing and free from taxation. Representative Isaac Bacharach proposed the restoration to the- federal fed-eral tax laws of a credit against earned income. His plan. Mr. ties to clean up that affair, and thereupon was given giv-en a vote of confidence, con-fidence, 360 against 229. The vote came on the government's govern-ment's opposition to the creation of a ' parliamentary commission to Investigate In-vestigate the collapse col-lapse of the Bayonne Bay-onne institution, the I ' ' 4?s i l 'it Premier Chautemps writing the head 'of the Island republic re-public is Col. Carlos Car-los Mendieta, conservative con-servative leader of the Nationalists and presumably acceptable ac-ceptable to the administration ad-ministration I n Washington. Ramon Ram-on Grau San Martin, Mar-tin, unable to hold on any longer, re-Bisrned re-Bisrned and some of Carlos Hevia death of its founder, Serge (Handsome (Hand-some Alex) Stavisky, and the part several deputies have accused high officials of taking In the affair. The premier insisted that such a commission com-mission would not get to the bottom bot-tom of the charges. The premier promised to Investigate Investi-gate the affair personally and to spare' no names. During the heated debate he admitted there had been looseness and poor functioning of various services, but denied the charges of governmental and police po-lice corruption. The opposition deputies were furious and there 'ere open declarations that the country faced a dictatorship. Chan-temps Chan-temps replied vigorously and made the assertion that a coup had been prepared several days previouslj to put the government in the hands of a few "energetic" men to act as a directory. (5? oy Western Newspaper Union. the factions united in choosing as his successor the youthful Carlos Hevia, secretary of agriculture In Gran's cabinet and a graduate of Annapolis Naval academy. Ilevia actually was sworn in before the Supreme court, but he lasted only one day. Then CoL Fulgencio Batista, powerful commander of the army, took command of the Situation. There was a loud demand |