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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Anlo-Crrrnnn Conversations Disappointing, Simon Reports; Hitler Demands Return of Colonies, Air and Naval Parity, and Minimum Army of 500,000. By EDWARD W. PICKARD . Western Newspaper Union. THE senate finally got around to passing the "(link slip" bill re pealing publicity provisions of the lij.'il Income tax publicity act. An amendment allowing state and local taxing authorities to examine federal fed-eral tax returns must he ironed out In conference between the house and senate, but both are agreed that the main publicity clause should be repealed. The slips tilled out by millions with their March 15 re turn must now be secreted In the files of the Internal Revenue department. de-partment. HAY of railroad union men has ' been restored to the 1931 level, with a return of the last 5 per cent of a 10 per cent cut In lDI'.'J. The Increase amounts to approximately $80,000,000. The restoration Is in line with an agreement reached a year ago when the unions negotiated negotiat-ed for a gradual restoration of the old wage scale. JAPAN steps out of the League of Nations and flanked by her single avowed ally, Manchukuo. she faces the world as the self-chosen nrocoruor rf noncp Foreign secretary simon returned to England from his lilstoric talk with Chancellor Hitler, Hit-ler, and reported to the cabinet that Germany Is seek : ft'"'-"', Ing return of the colonies site lost In the war and a greatly great-ly Increased navy. He said that Hitler Hit-ler admits Germany's Ger-many's air force erpials that of Britain. Brit-ain. Prime Minister Minis-ter MacDonald then called on King all bonds with approaching maturities, maturi-ties, and when the fourth Liberty loan Is called for redemption, a move which Is expected to be made on April 15, no federal bond will be outstanding with a call date earlier ear-lier than 10-10. LJOUSE leaders are rushing ac- 1 tlon on the national defense program. Bills designed to strengthen strength-en the national defense are being rushed through the legislative hopper. hop-per. Four navy bills were passed with little opposition and no record rec-ord votes. These include authorization authoriza-tion for expenditure of $.".8,000,000 In 1930-37 to build up the navy's shore stations on the Pacific coast. Hawaii and Canal Zone, and an Increase of 1,000 In the navy's ollicer strength and provide a system sys-tem of aviation cadets to take care of a shortage of navai fliers. Secretary Sec-retary Swanson has ordered concentration concen-tration of the fleet's three most powerful cruisers In a new cruiser division commanded by Rear Admiral Ad-miral A. P. Fairfield, now assistant assist-ant chief of the bureau of navigation. naviga-tion. O EPLA CEMENT of the AAA's system of crop control Is seen as a future potentiality of a new organization established at the De- BT.1 .wmw.- rwrra in the Orient. Japan's Ja-pan's action is the culmination of a series se-ries of events started start-ed February 24. 1033, when Yosuke Matsuoka led the entire Japanese delegation del-egation In a walkout walk-out from the league assembly. Shortly culture under Rex-ford Rex-ford G. Tiigwell. The organization consolidates federal agencies dealing with soil erosion, and Tugwell Is expected ex-pected to direct the expenditure of about a billion dol lars in nublic works .. funds on the pub-R. pub-R. G. Tugwe ,, , , " lie land program. At present plans call for retirement of millions of acres of marginal lands now contributing to surpluses, which experts contend will prove a more effective way of dealing with overproduction than AAA's policy rf taxing commodities for acreage slashes. The latter Is meeting Increased In-creased opposition, due to rising living costs and Increasing competition competi-tion from foreign producers. There will probably be little Immediate change In crop control plans, since the Tugwell program will require considerable time before it can be operated effectively. DONALD RICHBERG has offered of-fered the Intervention of NEA in averting a threatened strike of 450,000 bituminous coal miners. The union is demanding a six-hour day and a 10 per cent increase in pay. Duncan C. Kennedy, head of the negotiating committee, has accepted accept-ed RIchberg's offer. This Is not the only major labor trouble on the horizon, as Francis J. Gorman, first vice president of the United Textile Workers, has served notice that the recent NRA authorization for a sharp cut in cotton goods production pro-duction may set the stage for another an-other strike. The slash in output will cut wages 25 per cent,. Gorman contends. HERBERT HOOVER suddenly projected himself into the political po-litical picture, and set wagging the tongues of countless politicians and George to whom he Chancellor gflve fl prellinlnary Hltler report of Simon's talks, which have been described as "dlsapolntlng." Hitler made a bold play for Anglo-German understanding, understand-ing, declaring both nations should unite to defend western clvlllza tlon against Communism and the colored races. Brlelly, his demands were : First Germany must have an army with a minimum of 30 divisions divi-sions 500.000 men as decreed. Second Germany wants parity In the air with Britain. Hitler admitted ad-mitted thnt Germany now possesses pos-sesses equality with Britain. Hitler Hit-ler Htressed the danger to which Germany Is exposed In the air. He declared that Russia Is using Czechoslovak!- as a European air base. Me demanded return of certain cer-tain Czechoslovak territory and repatriation re-patriation of 3,500,000 German residents res-idents there. Third -Hitler wants a navy equal to one-third of the British fleet, which Is tantamount to 400,000 tons. The British admiralty Is opposed to such a ratio and Germany has been Invited to bilateral navy discussions dis-cussions In London. Fourth Germany wants return of her former colonies. Little encouragement encour-agement was given Hitler on this score. Fifth Hitler refused to have anything to do with an eastern pact, though he Is willing to enter non-aggres'sion non-aggres'sion pacts with Germany's neighbors, as he did with Poland. Sixth Hitler Is prepared to sign a pact of noninterference in the affairs of Austria, but only If It Bieans non-interference by all powers. pow-ers. In Berlin demonstrators howled their resentment at death sentences Imposed by Lithuania on four Nazis, and only stout police resistance kept the mob from the Lithuanian delegation Itself. The four were convicted when a Lithuanian military mili-tary court trying 126 Nazis for an asserted plot to start an armed uprising In Memel, former German territory, found them guilty. Eighty-eeven Eighty-eeven others were sent to prison. As Capt. Anthony Eden, British arms expert, begins his conferences with Soviet officials, observers believe be-lieve the Russians will marshal every resource to convince Eden that the only safe course for the rest of the world Is to bring sufficient suffi-cient pressure on Germany to Induce In-duce her to accept the eastern securities se-curities pact. The official press continues con-tinues to stress that the rearmament rearma-ment of Germany threatens Russia, and that the conflict, growing out of any German attack would spread all over Europe and Asia. This Is but a confirmation of Lltvinoff's contention that "peace Is Indivisible." Indivis-ible." League of Nations circles predict that France, Russia and Czechoslovakia will conclude an eastern pact as an answer to Hitler's Hit-ler's new conscript army. Whether any effort will be made to bring Great Britain Into this, Is not known. According to a Rome paper that usually speaks with authority, there will soon be held an Anglo-Franco-Itallan conference to discuss the re-armameLt re-armameLt or Austria, Bulgaria and Hungary. This has heretofore been opposed by the countries of the little lit-tle entente, but It Is supposed their views have been altered by recent developments. FEDERAL expenditures are soaring soar-ing faster than ever before In peace time history. The end of the first nine months of the fiscal year disclosed expenditures of more than $5,000,000,000. Revenue meanwhile mean-while has amounted to only $2,S27,-000,000, $2,S27,-000,000, or a little more than half of what is spent New Deal spending, spend-ing, 'statistical experts say, has been at an average of $13,000 for every minute, day or night, In the nine months since the fiscal year began, and total expenditures are expected to reach $7,500,000,000 by the end of the year. Unemployment relief bus required the SS20.OOO.-000 SS20.OOO.-000 appropriated for this purpose and an additional $ISS.OOO,000 from the RFC, making a total thus far of $l,30S.00O.0O0. PWA Is next In the line, having poured out $S19,-000,000 $S19,-000,000 In nine months. Despite these terrific totals government credit has not been impaired. The treasury has been able to refund aner japau giie -Kpki Hirota forma, nQtlce of her withdrawal from the league because the assembly had censured Japanese aggression In Manchuria She has advised other powers that she considers herself guardian of the peace in eastern Asia and that outside assistance is neither desired de-sired nor invited. In addition, Japan has embarked on an armament arma-ment policy marked by denunciation denuncia-tion of the Washington naval treaty, demands for naval parity with Great Britain and the United States, and armed forces "sufficient to defend, but inadequate to attack." at-tack." With considerable ceremony the Soviet government transferred to Japan full ownership of the Chinese Chi-nese Eastern railway and thus ceased to be an opposing factor In the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. Man-churia. In the official residence of Foreign Minister Koki Hirota in Tokyo the sale agreement and general gen-eral protocol were signed. CONSIDERABLY mutilated, the administration's $4,SSO,000,000 work relief bill finally got through the senate by a vote of 69 to 16, and was returned to the house later, to be adjusted in conference. The senators accepted an amendment by Senator Thomas of Oklahoma for a currency expansion of. $375,-000,000 $375,-000,000 through the issuance of silver sil-ver certificates at the $1.29 an. ounce monetary value of the treasury's treas-ury's silver stocks instead of the present practice of using the purchase pur-chase value of the silver. Later the Thomas amendment was stricken out after congressional congres-sional conferees had deadlocked for forty-eight hours. Members of the silver bloc asserted they would not stand in the measure's path, although al-though Thomas had declared he would filibuster against any attempts at-tempts to strike out the amendment. amend-ment. Besides eliminating the silver sil-ver Inflation plan, the conference modified the Russell labor compromise compro-mise amendment to provide that the President shall pre-determina the rate of wages on public buildings build-ings to be constructed, and this rate will be submitted to contractors for bids. An amendment providing that all officers and employees receiving re-ceiving more than $5,000 a year will have to be appointed by the President Presi-dent and confirmed by the senate was modified. It now provides that any new administrator or member of any central board will be appointed ap-pointed by the President with the consent of the senate. Among the senate changes approved ap-proved were the allocation of the fund to eight general types of projects; continuation of the federal fed-eral relief administration one year; extension of the Civilian Conservation Conserva-tion corps two years from March 31 ; continuation of PWA two years from June 16; the Georg amendment amend-ment to make funds available In the discretion of the President to administer the agricultural adjustment adjust-ment act; the Russell amendment to authorize farm loans to share croppers, tenant farmers and farm laborers for land purchase. One day Harry L. Hopkins was reported lazing in the Florida .sun and thinking up ways he would spend billions as administrator of the work relief fund. The next day, rumors were that Rexford G. Tugwell was to be nominated for the "biggest spender in history." Later reports from the National Capita! Cap-ita! were that nobody but the President Pres-ident would be the big boss In the program. You can take your choice, but It seems likely that the latter is true. Senatorial discontent over the methods iised by the two otners mentioned will probably eliminate them from consideration. TMs I strategy has been successful In the ! past. When a house group became too highly Incensed at Pub'ic Works Administrator Harold Ickes, they were quieted with the assurance that the President would have com plete control of the wors relief program, and the furore died out observers. In a letter let-ter addressed to the CaHfornla Repub llcan assembly, meeting in Sacra mento, the formei President spoke his mind with utmost freedom concerning the doings of the Roosevelt admlnis tration whose the j 4 i i A orles, he asserted, "are no longer a u ,. . Hoover propagandized millennium mil-lennium ; they are self-exposed." The Republican party, said Mr. Hoover, has today the greatest responsibility responsibil-ity that has come to it since the days of Abraham Lincoln to raise the standard In defense of fundamental funda-mental American principles; and be called for a rejuvenated and vigorous vigor-ous Republican organization. Here are two of the things Mr. Hoover said in arraigning the pres ent administration: "The most solemn government obligations ob-ligations have been repudiated. "The nation Is faced with the greatest debt ever known to our country." TOYING swiftly, Marshal Josef i-'-l PilsudskI Inaugurated a virtual vir-tual Fascist dictatorship over Poland. Po-land. A new constitution drafted on semi-Fascist lines was adopted and the cabinet headed by Premier Kozlawskl stripped of Its power. PilsudskI then named Col. Walery Slawek as his new premier. No other ministers were changed In the cabinet. It Is believed that the marshal is preparing to hardD hit policy toward Soviet Russia. |