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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over American Delegation on Way to London Economic Conference Brookhart Becomes "Agricultural Ambassador" Am-bassador" to Russia Morgan Inquiry Proceeds. By EDWARD W. PICKARD In the Pueblo (Colo.) conservancy ! district; he drafted the revised drainage codes for Minnesota, Arkansas, Ar-kansas, Ohio, Mississippi, Colorado and New Mexico, and has been consulting engineer on drainage and flood control projects all over j the nation. He Is entirely familiar , with conditions in the Tennessee valley. GERMANY has refused to accept ac-cept an unfavorable report of the League of Nations on her treatment of the Jews and virtually virtual-ly told the league that the affair is none of its business. The league council, however, referred juridical aspects of the Issue to a committee of jurists with the understanding that the matter will have a complete com-plete airing. XTILITARY representatives of Ja-pan Ja-pan and China signed a formal armistice in the warfare in north China at Tangku, where the negotia- CIX delegates and nineteen experts are on tlieir way to London to represent tlio United States In the international economic conference Y V. '. u , from which bo much j Is expected In the way of finding a " path out of the world depression. I Secretary of State ; Cordcll Hull heads j the delegation and his associates as an-l an-l nounced by the I White House are: I James M. Cox, vice tions took place under un-der the guns of Japanese Jap-anese naval craft The truce provided for demilitarization of the area bounded bound-ed by the great wall on the north, the Peiplng - Mukden railway on the east and the Peiplng-Suivuan Peiplng-Suivuan railway on nounced the measure as a breach of faith on the part of the government; govern-ment; but Chairman Steagall of the banking committee said It was essential es-sential for the recovery of national prosperity. INVESTIGATION of the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co., was resumed by the senate banking committee, com-mittee, and a new list of important persons who had received bargains in stocks was produced. Ferdinand Pecora, the committee's counsel, was persistent In his probing, but was compelled to tell the senators, In executive ex-ecutive session, what evidence he proposed to Introduce and what he expected to prove by it, and to convince con-vince them of the propriety of his purpose. Senator Glass was still determined de-termined that Pecora should not bring out matters outside thecommit-tee's thecommit-tee's jurisdiction or Irrelevant to the Inquiry. Mr. Glass said he had received re-ceived a number of anonymous threats by mail and what he termed "blackguard telegrams" because of his stand. Though W. H. Woodin's name was on one of the Morgan lists of "preferred" "pre-ferred" customers before he became be-came secretary of the treasury and hence demands for his resignation were made by various men In public pub-lic life, Mr. Woodin declared he had not resigned. His statement left no doubt that he would be willing to quit his office If his presence there In any way hindered hin-dered the return of prosperity, but it also was interpreted to mean that Mr. Roosevelt wished him to hold on, at least for the present. More serious, perhaps, is the case of Norman H. Davis, the very active ac-tive "ambassador at large" in Europe, Eu-rope, who also was on a Morgan list. Representative George H, Tinkham of Massachusetts has demanded de-manded a congressional investigation investiga-tion of the financial dealings Mr. Davis may have had with international interna-tional banking and business interests. r chairman, former Rep. S. D. ' ,. ' , , governor and Demo- ' cratlc Presidential candidate in 1920; Senator Key Pitt-man Pitt-man of Nevada, Democrat ; Senator James Couzena of Michigan, Republican; Repub-lican; Representative Samuel D. McRcynolds of Tennessee, Demo-ocrat, Demo-ocrat, and Ralph W. Morrison of Texas, retired banker. Chief of the experts aro William C. Bullitt, executive ex-ecutive odlcer; James P. Warburg, financial adviser; Fred IC Neilsen, legal adviser, and Herbert Feis, chief technical adviser, under whom will eervo several members of the "brain trust." Of all the delegates the one consistent con-sistent conservative is Congressman McRcynolds. He Is chairman of the iouse committee on foreign relations and his Influence Is expected to be potent In the deliberations of the delegation. Senator Couzens, the one Republican member, has fre-quenlly fre-quenlly lined up with the more radical rad-ical Republicans and Democrats in congress. ,. the west; for disso- Gen. Feng , ' ,, , v., lution of the Chi- Yu-nsiang nese volunteer corps In this area and for resumption of rail traffic between Peiping and Shanghaikwan. Just before the signing of the truce the banner of revolt against the Chinese Nationalist government was raised by Gen. Feng Yu-hsiang, usually usu-ally alluded to as the "Christian general." Feng denounced Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, the dictator, as a traitor and announced himself as commander-in-chief of the "people's anti-Japanese army." He had been recruiting a large force at Kalgan aud It Is believed he was acting in close co-operation with the army of Canton, which was reported to be moving to the northward. In Tientsin It was thought that Feng must have been receiving large supplies sup-plies of arms and ammunition from the Russians of Mongolia by the old caravan route from Urga. The Nationalist government Issued Is-sued a declaration that the Tangku truce is entirely local and of a temporary tem-porary nature. "It is not Incompatible with the declared policy of continuing a sustained sus-tained resistance and efforts for the recovery of lost territories," the statement said. - "It is absolutely impossible for the National government to agree to an ignominious surrender since the Manchurian issue is entirely outside out-side the sphere of the local military truce with Peiping." The administration, according to Assistnnt Secretary of State Raymond Ray-mond Moley, has considerably modified mod-ified its expectations of what the conference will accomplish, and now realizes that the prospects are definitely defi-nitely limited and do not include a lowering of tariffs or an immediate permanent stabilization of currencies. curren-cies. Secretary Hull is said to be the only one of the administration loaders who still advocates the urgent necessity of a drastic international inter-national agreement to lower tariffs and trade barriers. Asserting that Mr. Davis has spoken at Geneva in "repudiation of the traditional American foreign policy," Mr. Tinkham said that 'a congressional committee should also Investigate Mr. Davis connection connec-tion with "disloyal and seditious American organizations ana foundations foun-dations in the United States." C MITH WTLDMAN BROOK-hart, BROOK-hart, former senator from Iowa, has a new job. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has appointed x H 1 h i m "agi-icultural ambassador" to Soviet Russia, and has Instructed him to explore the opportunities op-portunities for disposing dis-posing of American surpluses 'of cotton and live stock In that country. In effect, ef-fect, this means the opening of D EVERTING to the matter of the gold standard, dispatches from Vienna tell of how, in the seventieth congress of the International Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce, the United States was bitterly denounced by Charles Boissevain of Holland for what he called its "immoral" monetary course. He condemned the behavior of those nations which ebandoned the gold standard "although unquestionably unques-tionably in a position to maintain it." He condemned also what he described de-scribed as the "repudiation" of the gold clause in contracts by the United States. In the transportation section, Ira Campbell of New York defended United States shipping against what he termed an international attempt to rule it off the seas. American merchant marine cannot exist with out subsidy, he said, and an interna tlonal agreement to abolish subsidies would mean the abolition of American Ameri-can ships. W. L. Runciman of Great Britain objected to his argument that the American marine is needed for national na-tional defense, asserting such argument argu-ment is out of place in a commercial congress. War debts also came up for discussion, dis-cussion, W. H. Coates, British delegate, del-egate, asserting that they must be settled before It would be possible to improve world economic conditions. condi-tions. T ANSING state penitentiary near ' Leavenworth, Kan., was the scene of a sensational escape of 11 convicts who were led by Wilbur Underbill, Un-derbill, a lifer and one of the most desperate outlaws of the Southwest. During a baseball game Warden Prather and two guards were seized, used as shields and forced to accom pany the fleeing convicts over the wall. Other guards were disarmed and the men got away in the car of S.W. Brook- trai6 negotiations . with a government hart that is cot recognized recog-nized by Washington, but Brook-hart Brook-hart says his work has no connection connec-tion with the question of diplomatic diplo-matic relations, though he hopes recognition will result from his efforts ef-forts to effect a thriving trade between be-tween the two countries. The Iowan has been given the title of "special adviser to the agricultural administration" and serves under Administrator George N. Peek. "I've done a lot of work already," al-ready," he said. "I have gone into the matter with people here. Including In-cluding the Soviet representative, Boris Skvirsky. He's- a pretty fine fellow and I've had several talks with him." Mr. Skvirsky is not a trade representative rep-resentative of the Soviet, nor has he connection with the Amtorg corporation, organized by the Soviets So-viets to transact business in America. Amer-ica. X7"HEN President Roosevelt the other day selected Arthur E. Morgan, president of Antioch college col-lege fit Yellow Rnrino-c Ohir, oo Mr. Moley included only the following fol-lowing among the solutions which probably would be obtained at the conference: An agreement on monetary policy through action of certain banks supplemented by an agreement among governments to synchronize policies of internal public expenditure. expendi-ture. An agreement on progressive removal re-moval of restrictions on exchange. The International wheat conference confer-ence moved from Geneva to London Lon-don and there the representatives of the United States, Argentina, Australia and Canada continued their discussions. If they agree upon any plan for curtailing wheat acreage It will be submitted to the conference for approval. GREAT BRITAIN, France, Italy and the other nations that owe war debts to the United States failed in their efforts to have the debts included in-cluded in the agenda for the economic eco-nomic conference, but their delegates dele-gates enter the conference with the cancellation or drastic reduction of the debts tlieir chief aim. The Roosevelt administration insists that the war debts, however Important they may be, were not a major cause tf the depression and are not a major ma-jor remedy. Consequently the parleys par-leys in London are almost certain to develop into a great battle of diplomacy. President Roosevelt has flatly denied de-nied that he intends to negotiate new settlements of the war debts without recourse to congress. This was made necessary by dispatches from Washington published In London, Lon-don, saying Mr. Roosevelt had offered of-fered to accept from Britain $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 as part payment of the $75,-000,000 $75,-000,000 due June 15. It seemed fairly fair-ly certain that the British government govern-ment would make this payment In full. This will be easier than before be-fore because of the devaluation of the dollar. Britain can either pay in paper dollars, which cost about 2 per cent less to buy than gold dollars, dol-lars, or In American securities, which can be bought with paper dollars dol-lars at a discount and turned in at par. CIIAMriONS of the gold standard In both the house and the senate sen-ate had little chance as the administration admin-istration forces pushed through the Fletcher-Steagall resolution for the abrogation of the gold clause In all governmental and private contracts, con-tracts, both present and future. The measure, asked by the President to legalize action already taken, was first passed by the house by a vote of 2S3 to 57. Twenty-eight Republicans Repub-licans and all five of the Farmer-Laborites Farmer-Laborites joined with the Democrats Demo-crats in favor of the resolution. Representative Rep-resentative Luce of Massachusetts, who led the small minority, de- director of the vast Tennessee valley conservation project, proj-ect, there were many derogatory remarks about the appointing of just another professor for a big job. But the skeptical ones did not know about .Morgan. Since 1902. I s j x 1 fv'--- .... .. the prison farm superintendent, keeping their prisoners with them as hostages until hours later, when they were released In Oklahoma. In their flight they commandeered two other cars and captured three women wom-en who were set free near Pleas anton, Kan. SIX bandits held up the State Exchange Ex-change bank of Culver, Ind., and fled in an automobile with S1G.000. But the men of the town had been trained as vigilantes and, receiving word of the crime, they mobilized immediately under command of Captain Obenauf of the Culver Military Mil-itary academy and went into action. Result: All six bandits were captured, cap-tured, one of tli?m being fatally wounded, and the loot was recovered. recov-ered. . 1933. Western Newspaper Uton. when he was just out of high school, Arthur E. he has heen active Morgan in engineering work and has planned and supervised construction construc-tion of about seventy-five water control projects. Those Include the important reclamation work in St. Francis valley in Arkansas and the Miami conservation project at Dayton, Day-ton, Ohio. He was chief engineer |