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Show more than $13,000,000. Many other changes, he said, were Id contemplation, contem-plation, and he had selected only those he believed should be put into effect as quickly as possible. MOW Massachusetts Is In line for L1 repeal of prohibition, the tenth! stare to decide the matter. The electors voted about 4 to 1 wet in selecting 45 delegates to a constitutional consti-tutional convention that will ratify the repeal amendment. In Boston the vote was approximately 10 to 1, and one of that city's delegates will be James Roosevelt, son of President Roosevelt. News Review of Current Events the World Over War DeLts Injected in World Conference Britain Pays Installment of Ten Millions Final Doin,r3 of Congress Before Adjournment. Uy EDWARD W. PICKARD TOSEI'IJ B. EASTMAN, a mem-" mem-" ber of the interstate commerce commission, was selected by President Pres-ident Roosevelt to be federal co- D AJ1SA7 MAC iONAI.ij threw a fair-sized monkey wrench into the London economic conference machinery lii his opening speech. p;r 7:w.r I but the wheels hadn't really be'iin to revolve, so the mechanism was not wrecked Immediately. Immediate-ly. Whether It Is ultimately ul-timately to operate successfully depends on diplomatic diplo-matic skill or on the c o m p 1 1 1 g a nee of Undo Sam. In I -' . " :;; ordinator of transportation trans-portation under the terms of the emergency emer-gency railway net. Eastman doesn't like the labor clauses in the measure meas-ure which prevent the reduction of operating op-erating forces, but believes that much can be accom- Hons represented In the conference adhered to the temporary tariff truce which was to last during the life of the parley, and one of these, France, now refuses to renew Its pledge under existing circumstances. circum-stances. W IIH.E this sort of talk wasgo-' wasgo-' ' lug on In the conference hall. Great Britain and Paly were plan ning to evade payment of the greater great-er part of the Installments due the United States on June 15, and France was calmly ignoring the fact that she also was due to make a payment on that date, her government gov-ernment being determined to do nothing about It. The British offered of-fered to pay $10,000,000 of the $70,-050,000 $70,-050,000 due. President Roosevelt's reply to the British offer, eagerly awaited, was that the United States would accept ac-cept the partial payment only with the explicit understanding that the money was Just an installment on the sum due and that such action should In no way Invalidate America's Amer-ica's claim to the unpaid remainder. re-mainder. Afr. Roosevelt advised the British Brit-ish that as soon as possible they should make whatever representations representa-tions for a revision of the debt they desire to offer, and In Washington. He said he had no power to reduce or cancel the debt hut would submit sub-mit the results of the negotiation to congress. Under the new Inflation bill the President Is authorized to accept silver In payment of debt installments install-ments at the value of 50 cents an ounce. So the British paid in silve-r obtained from India. the mid( le of an Ramsay ., j r, u otherwise well-or-MacDonald , , , , dered address, the British prime minister suddenly Interjected In-terjected the war debt Issue, despite the fact that it was not on the agenda of the conference. That question, ques-tion, he declared "must be dealt with before every obstacle to general recovery re-covery has been removed, and it must be taken up without delay by the nations concerned. Lausanne has to bo completed and this vexed question settled once for all In the light of present world conditions." J. B. Eastman ' them. The railroad executives themselves them-selves have decided there must be savings effected In labor and decided de-cided to request organized labor to accept a 22 per cent reduction In the basic wage scale. Their committee of nine is empowered to negotiate with the unions to a conclusion. con-clusion. If the negotiations fail, there would still be a long period before a strike call Under the terms of the railway labor act, if direct negotiations fail, the federal mediation board would offer the services of a conciliator who might spend several months in bringing the parties together. Then, if both ; parties persisted in disagreement, the way would be open to arbitra- : Hon. Arbitration would likely extend 1 over a long period. Should this fail, the law provides for the declaration dec-laration of a state of emergency, under which the President of the United States appoints a fact find- f lng commission, which must study i the issues involved and report within with-in thirty days. Delegates from all parts of the British empire and possibly those from France were not surprised by MacDonald's action, but Secretary Hull nnd his brother delegates from the United States did not attempt to conceal their displeasure with what they considered at least a display dis-play of poor taste. Mr. Hull was soon In telephonic communication with Washington, and as a result his address to the conference which was to open the second day of the parley was postponed. Among the other spen Iters of that day, however, were Guldo Jung of Italy and Gen. Jan Christian Smuts of South Africa, Af-rica, both of whom backed up Mac-Donald's Mac-Donald's stand. fRS. ROOSEVELT returned home from her air trip to California In the course of which she announced the coming divorce of her son Elliott. To the Washington correspondents she explained the Incident at the Dallas airport when Gov. "Ma" Ferguson and her husband hus-band failed to get into a photograph photo-graph with the First Lady. The simple fact was that Mrs. Roosevelt, Roose-velt, being hungry, was eating breakfast and asked the photographers photogra-phers to wait, and when she finished fin-ished eating, the Fergusons had gone away in a buff. I7AR debts, as much as discord ' over the matter of war veterans' vet-erans' benefits, caused delay In the adjournment of congress, though the latter question was the ostensible ostensi-ble reason. The senate appeared determined to stay In session until it had learned all there was to know about the offers of partial payment and the President's response. re-sponse. The senators had known for a long time that Mr. Roosevelt wanted them to get away before June 15, and Robinson of Indiana read to them cabled dispatches from London saying that Chancellor Chancel-lor Chamberlain was waiting for congress to adjourn before announcing an-nouncing his offer of 10 per cent payment. So they decided to stay I on the job a little Ionizer. CECRETARY of Labor Perkins -5 announced the appointment of President Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago as chairman of the advisory committee to be set up in connection with the new federal fed-eral employment service. Senator R. F. Wagner of New ?ork and President William Green of the American Federation of Labor La-bor and President Henry I. Harri-man Harri-man of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States also have beeD invited. NE of the last acts of the house ' of representatives was the adoption of a resolution for con-1 gressional Investigation of all acts! "We firmly believe," Jung said, "that there is a preliminary problemintergovernmental prob-lemintergovernmental debts arising aris-ing from the war. An armistice was signed for them at Lausanne. A final settlement now is imperative." Smuts was even more offensive to Americans, frankly blaming the United States for the deplorable Itllght of the world. Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Ne-ville Chamberlain seconded the remarks re-marks of MacDonald about war debts, and also said the crisis In world economic conditions makes restoration of the gold standard absolutely ab-solutely Impossible at present He outlined British alms in the conference confer-ence as recovery of world prices, greater stability of currencies and abolition of restrictions on international interna-tional exchange. He favored multilateral treaties for lower tariffs, provided the reductions re-ductions were actual and tangible, that they covered a wide area, that they did not Impose undue sacrifices on lower tariff countries and that they did not lend to economic warfare. war-fare. He emphasized the necessity of cheap money. "'HE:sT Secretary Hull arose, the third day, to make his speech, it was expected he would make some sort of reply to the war debts de-maud. de-maud. But he was silent on that subject, sub-ject, devoting much of his speech to argument for a renewal of the tariff tar-iff truce promulgated by President Roosevelt. This must be followed, he said, by removal of trade barriers, bar-riers, elimination of excessive tariffs, tar-iffs, stabilization of exchanges and abandonment of nationalistic economic eco-nomic policies. "The world cannot longer go on as it Is going as present," Hull said. "A successful meeting of this conference con-ference In my Judgment Is the key to widespread business recovery." On the surface the delay was due to disagreement over the modification modi-fication of the President's program for reduction of veterans' benefits, a part of the Independent offices bill. The house had accepted the compromise, but 20 Democratic senators and Shipstead. Farmer-La-borite, joined with 27 Republicans in voting to recommit the measure. Then the senate adopted the Cut-ting-Steiwer amendment, which would increase veteran's compensations compensa-tions by about S135.000.000, though the President had said he would go no further than $100,000,000. It was expected the house would accept the senate plan and that Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt would veto the entire bill. But the house showed signs of going along with the President, so the Democratic senators changed their mind and, after a hot debate, accepted ac-cepted the program it had previously previ-ously rejected. The bill was passed by a vote of 45 to 30, and what had seemed to be the first defeat for the President was turned into a victory. Congress then adjourned. of Judges and other federal court agents in receivership receiver-ship cases, the sponsors being Sab-ath Sab-ath of Chicago and Ceiler of New York. Representative Plat-ton Plat-ton Summers, Texas, Tex-as, Democratic prosecutor and chairman of the mmmMm nOSSIBLY more threatening to the success of the conference than the Injection of the war debts issue was the demand of the French, represented by Premier Pre-mier Daladier, that the dollar be stabilized sta-bilized before the matter of tariff re-ductions re-ductions and removal of other trade barriers be taken up. Both the dollar and the pound, he intimated, must be stabilized n o u s e judiciary committee, said Judge R E' Chicago would be Woodward one of the first courts to be the subject of inquiry, because of the Chicago Bar association report con demning the actions of Judge Frederick Fred-erick E. Woodward in allowing nearly a quarter of a million in fees to his son's law firm as receivers' re-ceivers' counsel. The bar association associa-tion did no-t reflect on the integrity of the judge or the law firm, but condemned the practice. CHANCELLOR ENGLEBERT DOLLFCSS is determined that Austria shall not be Infected with Hitlerism, and the government is carrying on a determined war against the Nazis, who are accused of plotting to inaugurate a reign of terror there to be followed by a coup to seize control of the coun try. All known Nazis in the coun try are being arrested for questioning question-ing by the police, who assert more than 10 per cent of them are Germans. Ger-mans. One of their alleged leaders. Theodore Habicht, was claimed by the German minister to be an employee em-ployee of his legation, and the min ister protested sharply when Hah icht was arrested. In retaliation the Prussian secret police expelled from Germany Dr. Irwin Wasser-baeck, Wasser-baeck, chief of the press department depart-ment in the Austrian legation in Berlin. Naturally relations between be-tween Germany and Austria were near the breaking point. . 1933. Western Nows-pupe, Union. TN OTHER respects the senate acted swiftly in completing the legislation the President had asked. The important bills enacted Included Includ-ed the almost terrifying Industry control-public works measure; the Glass-Steagall banking bill which makes provision for limited deposit guarantee January 1, 1034, unless In an emergency ordered earlier by the President ; and the fourth deficiency de-ficiency bill carrying the largest appropriations ever made in peace time. The borne owners' loan act setting up a $2,200,000,000 corporation corpora-tion for home loan mortgage relief already had been passed and was signed by the President, who at the same time Issued an appeal to mortgage mort-gage holders to desist from foreclosures fore-closures until the new agency can begin functioning. The Industry control bill did not get through without fierce opposition opposi-tion from 15 of the more radical Democrats and 23 Republicans, all led by Senator Borah, who especially especial-ly denounced the giving of vast power to Gen. Hugh Jnhnstin. the man selected as the administrator. The senate rather Ignored the executive order which President Roosevelt had transmitted, providing provid-ing for regroupings, consolidations, transfers and abolitions of certain executive agencies and functions. He explained In his message the necessity for these changes and said they would effect a saving of on a gold basis at r, ,. . .. , Premier the earliest possible , ,. 1 Daladier moment. "We feel we must end the currency cur-rency war." Premier Daladier declared. de-clared. "The maintenance of the gold standard Is indispensable. How can circulation of goods be re-established if their value depends on luck aud hazard? W'mt would you say to an architect ?r builder who used an elastic footrule?" America's hope for success of the conference was built upon a world tariff truce, and the French believe they have blocked this for the present pres-ent at least. They assert this would mean nothing so long as currencies are fluctuating. Only 15 of the na- |