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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Culja Quieting Down With De Cespedes as President Basic Industries Slow With Codes Johnson Relies on the Women. By EDWARD W. PICKARD drowned. The flood was said to be the worst since 1SS7. Several important im-portant towns were in danger of utter destruction. AI ARTINEZ MICIiA, who was in-'-"1 augurated president of Ecuador Ecua-dor only last December, may have to give up his high oliice, for he doesn't seem to be satisfactory to the country. The congress voted, 42 to 22, to send a commission to him to ask him "in the name of democracy" to let the popular will rule. Latest dispatches from Quito said soldiers were guarding the presidential palace; but it is hard to say which way Latin-AmericaD soldiers will Jump. T TXCLE SAM'S war on criminals, especially kidnapers and racketeers, racke-teers, made progress in some regions, re-gions, notably in the capture in Texas of Harvey Bailey, escaped convict and leader of desperadoes who Is wanted for numerous crimes in the Middle West, including the machine gun massacre last June at the Kansas City Union station. Bailey also Is charged with the recent re-cent kidnaping of C. F. Urschel, Oklahoma oil operator, and ten others oth-ers implicated in that crime have been nabbed. The federal crusade, however, staged an awful flop near Chicago. Government agents, policemen and CUBA, recovering from its spasm of revolution, began to settle back Into normal living under Its new provisional President, Carlos gaging In a stabilization operation, i We will try to do as effectively as i possible the fundamental things i which will keep the price of wheat up." It was announced, also, that the government was waiving the bulk of its debt claims against cotton farmers who have complied with the acreage reduction program so that about $100,000,000 would start moving in small checks to farmers within a few days. The same formula found for cotton will be used for wheat. STEEL, oil, coal and automobile industries, looked upon as basic, were still unable to formulate codes satisfactory to their various fac- I I 'L :' s Manuel de Cespe-des. Cespe-des. Killing and looting, that prevailed pre-vailed for several days accompanying the ousting of the Machado regime, ceased In the main, though the pursuit and capture or slaughter of porrls-tas porrls-tas was continued. The long suffering Cubans were determined deter-mined to wipe, out President De Cespedes ' 1 1 lir.? is tions and to the national na-tional recovery administration. ad-ministration. This slowed up the NItA stride so much that President Roosevelt called on Hugh Johnson to get quick action, and the administrators told the leaders in the industries that they must at once agree on codes pro- William Green deputy sheriffs to the number of 200, equipped with airplanes, squad cars, machine guns and bombs, cornered cor-nered two kidnapers for whom they had laid a trap, chased them by land and air all over the western part of Cook county, and then had to admit their quarry had escaped. The kidnapers had been baited with a promise of collecting a second $50,000 from Jake Factor. They are supposed to be - members of the Roger Touhy gang, four of whom, including the leader, are government govern-ment prisoners under indictment for the kidnaping of William Hamm, Jr., wealthy St. Paul brewer. Chicago law authorities are doing better. The courts are manned by judges who have given up their vacations, va-cations, and every day sees a number num-ber of desperate criminals convicted convict-ed and sentenced to prison terms. The usual long delays granted to defendants de-fendants in such cases are being refused re-fused by the judges, and the unsavory un-savory lot of lawyers who get rich defending known murderers and gangsters are rather dumfounded. D USSIANS, Jews and interna-" interna-" tional Free Masons, are concocting con-cocting a world plot against Germany, Ger-many, according to Der Deutsche viaing minimum wages and maximum maxi-mum hours. There was an unpleasant unpleas-ant incident in the iron and steel discussions that caused further delay. de-lay. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, went Into a conference as a member mem-ber of the NRA labor advisory board and also on the invitation of Secretary Secre-tary Perkins. But the steel leaders took one look at him and walked out. Green declared this act was "a challenge to the government," and continued : "The question is whether steel is to dictate to the government or whether the government Is going to set up machinery under the industrial in-dustrial recovery act and require industry in-dustry to work with that machinery." Shortly thereafter the labor advisory ad-visory board formally protested his exclusion. Johnson described it as "Miss Perkins' Per-kins' party" and declined further discussion. dis-cussion. The labor secretary, who continued in conference with the steel leaders without Green, made no statement. Better progress was made with the oil and automobile codes. The former, it was believed, would provide pro-vide for a measure of government supervision of prices. A group of Texas oil producers who challenged the constitutionality of the recovery act met defeat in the District of Columbia Supreme court. Justice Joseph Cox denied the application for an injunction against sections of the law permitting federal regulation regu-lation of oil production. r?IRST o'f the open disputes with- in the personnel of the recovery administration resulted in the resignation res-ignation of Prof. W. F. Ogburn as Hfillii of Berlin, official organ of the Nazi "labor front." The paper cites, as proof that secret negotiations negotia-tions are being carried car-ried on, the simultaneous simul-taneous presence at the French resort of Royat of Bernard Baroch of New York, Andre Tar-dieu Tar-dieu of France, Leon Trotzky, Maxim Max-im Litvinov, Rus- Bernard Baruch all those murderous members of Ma-chado's Ma-chado's secret police. Dr. De Cespedes Ces-pedes appointed his cabinet ministers, minis-ters, most of them belonging to the ABC or the Nationalist party, and they were sworn in. The President Pres-ident himself took the post of secretary sec-retary of state. Castillo Pokorny was made minister of war and Col. Erasmo Delgado, leader of the military mili-tary coup that forced Machado to flee, was appointed military commander com-mander of Havana. Machado, who lied to Nassau in the Bahamas by airplane, accompanied accom-panied by several of his closest friends, was reported to have taken with him several million dollars though he left behind even his clothing. cloth-ing. His wife and other members of the family escaped the vengeance of the mobs by taking a gunboat yacht to Key West, Fla., whence they expected to go to New York and later to Paris. The ex-dictator said he probably would- remain in Nassau and would not interfere with developments in Cuba. No one would even intimate that the Roosevelt administration fomented fo-mented the auti-Machado revolution, but the State department In Washington Wash-ington certainly knew In advance just about what was going to happen hap-pen In Cuba. It knew Machado would be ousted, and that he would be succeeded by De Cespedes. Ambassador Am-bassador Welles was In close touch with the revolutionaries and was apprised of their plans. Assistant Secretary of State Caffery was kept informed and approved each step taken, and President Roosevelt apparently ap-parently let him and Mr. Welles work out the problems themselves. The Cubans selected De Cespedes for the Presidency, but he received the O. K. of official Washington before be-fore being named. The islanders were not coerced in any way by the United States, however, and the three American warships that were sent to Havana and Manzanillo were sent only to protect American lives and property. What part in the revolution was played by the National City Bank of New York and Electric Bond and Shares, which have heavy Interests in Cuba, has not been revealed. Both concerns had formerly been considered supporters of Machado, but seemingly they did not lift a hand to save him from destruction. Probably they will come out at the big end of the horn when the Island is rehabilitated. This recovery, re-covery, Cuban business men feel, is certain .if the price of sugar can be raised a cent or a cent and a half a pound, which can be done if the United States tariff of two cents a pound is reduced or abolished. They believe, too, that Cuba would then become a good customer for American goods. Cuba's national debt, hugely increased under Machado, Macha-do, also will have to be refunded, for the interest and amortization payments now amount to $1,500,000 a month. President Roosevelt was so satisfied satis-fied with the state of affairs In Cuba that he went for a short motor trip in the Virginia mountains. Before leaving Washington he and President Presi-dent De Cespedes exchanged friendly friend-ly messages. Secretary of State Hull explained to the press that Cuba had really not had a change of government. He said it was a mere change of personnel without any alteration in the structure or processes proc-esses of government. Consequently, Consequent-ly, he said, the United States did not find it necessary to extend recognition recog-nition to President De Cespedes since he came in under the constitutional consti-tutional method of succession in Cuba. FOLLOWING a conference of President Roosevelt and his executive ex-ecutive council. It was announced that the administration approved the Chicago Board of Trade's decision deci-sion to withdraw the peg from wheat futures. Secretary Wallace said : "We are going to do everything effective that we can to keep the price of wheat up, but we are not going to Indulge in sleight-of-hand business. The peg was put in to give time to Iron out a technical situation arising from one extremely extreme-ly large speculative account. We can't keep up the price of wheat by pegging futures. We are not en- ftlllllll a memDer oi tne consumers' advisory advis-ory board. Ogburn, who is an economist econo-mist from the University Uni-versity of Chicago, was vexed because Mrs. Mary Harri-man Harri-man Rumsey, chairman chair-man of the board, appointed Mrs. Hugh S. Johnson, wife of the administrator, admin-istrator, chairman of the complaint Mrs. H. S. Johnson sian foreign commissar, and the Russian ambassador of the republic of Turkey. Former Premier Edouard Her-riot's Her-riot's trip to Moscow is also part of the plot against Germany, according accord-ing to Der Deutsche, which warns Germans against what it terms the duplicity of the Soviet Russians and "Jews who want to profit by the chaos and hatred they sow among nations." The Swiss, on the other hand, claim to have discovered a Nazi plot, one of their papers charging that Hitler's followers have launched a propaganda campaign for the annexation an-nexation of German Switzerland to Germany. An American sailor named Thor-sten Thor-sten Johnson was sentenced to six months in jail at Stettin on charges of calling the chancellor "a Czecho-slovakian Czecho-slovakian Jew," and the American authorities were preparing to move for his release. JAPAN'S fine navy of about 280 ships sailed south from Tokyo, under personal command of Emperor Emper-or Hirohito. and began the maneuvers maneu-vers that take the form of an encounter en-counter with a hypothetical foe attacking at-tacking Japan from the equatorial Pacific. It was assumed that the enemy fleet had seized the Caroline and Marshall islands, between the Philippines and Hawaii, which the League of Nations turned over to Japan under mandate after the Germans Ger-mans lost them in the World war. THOUGH the old prohibition bureau bu-reau has been abolished, and repeal re-peal is expected before the close of the year, "liquor control Is neither dead nor forgotten," in the words of L. McHenry Howe. The secretary to the President said the bureau had merely been absorbed by the division of investigation of the Department De-partment of Justice, adding that "if any racketeers or bootleggers are holding celebrations over the supposed sup-posed demise of the bureau they are due to an awful shock." "When the Eighteenth amendment amend-ment is repealed," Howe added, "the bootlegger will find himself lf anything any-thing in closer quarters than now. Uncle Sam is counting on several hundreds of millions of dollars from revenue taxes, which will lighten the taxpayers' burdens and if you are laboring under any Illusion Il-lusion that he doesn't intend to collect every red cent of it you are making the mistake of your life." . 1S33. Western NewsimDcr Union. committee, and declared the committee com-mittee was unable to fulfill its functions. Ogburn told Johnson the consuming public was not being protected, and later he said that the expressed policy of the NRA of keeping purchasing power moving alongside of rising prices "will be blocked, I predict, for want of adequate ade-quate indexes. "The complaints (against violations viola-tions of codes by employers), I recommend, should be handled by a Mine' organization and not by an advisory board." Flying in an army plane to St. Louis, Mr. Johnson made a stirring stir-ring appeal for support of the President's Pres-ident's re-employment program, asserting as-serting its success depended upon co-operation of the people in each town, and, in the last analysis, npon the women. "Woman In defense de-fense of the support of her home," he said, "is about as safe for triflers as a lioness at the door of a den-ful den-ful of cubs. When every American housewife understands that the Blue Eagle on everything that she permits to come Into her home is a symbol of its restoration to security, secur-ity, may God have mercy on the man or group of men who attempts to trifle with that bird." PARTS of four provinces In China are reported to be flooded flood-ed by the waters of the Yellow river riv-er and many thousands of the wretched inhabitants have been |