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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Trade Balance for Nine Months I3 Unfavorable Mrs. "Wally" Simpson Gets Divorce Goering Launches Nazi Economic Plan. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. 7XPORTS of manufactured goods and raw materials exceeded Imports Im-ports into the United States during September by more than four mil- f - ! lion dollars, according accord-ing to a report released re-leased by Secretary of Commerce Roper. But the flow the other way was so strong during the p r e v 1 ou s three months that the country suffered an unfavorable balance of trade during the first nine months of C PURRED to quick action by the new accord between Germany and Italy, Leon Eium's popular front cabinet approved a large increase in-crease in France's military air force, already reputed to be one of the most powerful in the world. To modernize and build up the aerial squadrons the government will spend $220,000,000 at once. It was reported, too, that the cabinet decided de-cided to ask parliament to vote extraordinary ex-traordinary funds for the fortification fortifica-tion of the northern frontier because of Belgium's reversion to a policy of armed neutrality. T? ENITO MUSSOLINI rattled his -L' sword again on the occasion of the fourteenth anniversary of the Fascist march on Rome. "The Italian Ital-ian people," he proclaimed, "today are ready and determined to defend as never before with all their force right up to the last drop of blood victory and empire." As for Fascism, he said, "When It finds obstacles in its path, it throws itself against them and burns its bridges behind it" "NJOT to be outdone in martial ' gestures by other nations, Japan trotted out her entire navy for review by Emperor Hirohito. It was the greatest fleet ever brought together in Asiatic waters, comprising 108 warships aggregating aggregat-ing nearly 700,000 tons and manned by 40,000 men. Large numbers of aircraft also took part in the evolution evolu-tion in Osaka bay. GEN. HERMANN WILHELM GOERING, German minister of air and now the director of the Nazi four-year economic scheme to Secretary the year amounting ROD" to $33,136,000. This Is in contrast with a favorable balance bal-ance of $00,496,000 in the corresponding correspond-ing period of 1935. Roper minimized the situation, declaring de-claring that heavy exports of raw cotton, tobacco and automobiles would probably bring the trade balance bal-ance more into line with previous years. Pressed for further explanation explana-tion Roper insisted that "our government govern-ment as such does not compete with other governments in the selling of goods," and this was the province of private business. On reciprocal trade agreements he was mum. "We'd like to end the year with a favorable trade balance, naturally," he said, "but we are going through a period of study and readjustment in world trade." In fact. Roper found the increase In import trade to be "encouraging." "encourag-ing." He said that it showed our industries were buying raw materials ma-terials abroad for expansion of their production in this country. Heavy increases in wheat and meats resulted re-sulted from the drouth, according to Roper, rather than from the killing kill-ing of six .million pigs and non-raising non-raising of grain under the AAA. UNCLE SAM'S nephews and nieces now number 128,429,000, according to the estimate of Director Direc-tor William L. Austin of the bureau of census. The new figure, as of July 1, represented an increase of 908,000 or 0.71 per cent, since July 1, 1935. It was based on the number num-ber of births and deaths during the year ending June 30, 1936, and the excess of immigration over emigration. emigra-tion. Births exceeded deaths by 899,956 and the net immigration was 8,044, according to the data taken by Austin. Aus-tin. The population figure on the basis of the 1930 census was 122,775,-046, 122,775,-046, and the biggest annual increase since then was 1,022,000, for the year ending July 1, 1931. The bureau of agricultural economics eco-nomics also has been doing some population estimating. It says the back to the farm movement of the depression years has halted and that the farm population remained practically stationary during 1935, being 31,809,000 at the end of that year. This figure, the bureau says, was only slightly greater than in 1920 and "somewhat less" than in 1910. D ROCEEDINGS lasting nineteen minutes in the court of assizes at Ipswich, England, sufficed to give marital freedom to Mrs. make the reich independent in-dependent of the rest of the world in raw materials, launched bis program at a great Nazi rally in Berlin. "We shall hack finger fin-ger after finger off the foreign hand clutching at Germany's throat , 1 JUST about everything necessary to a general European war is now ready. At this distance it seems that Josef Stalin, dictator of Soviet Russia, will be the man to fire the starting pistol and he is reported report-ed to be convinced that another great conflict is unavoidable. The nations of the continent are lining up as Communist Com-munist or Fascist, either in the constitution con-stitution of their governments or in their active sympathies. The immediate imme-diate occasion for their disputes is the civil war in Spain. Nearly all the continental governments and that of Great Britain joined in an agreement agree-ment of nonintervention, but that pact is about played out. Russia, accusing Portugal, Germany and Italy It-aly of aiding the Fascist Spanish rebels, has denounced the agreement agree-ment and declared she reserves freedom to help the Madrid government; govern-ment; the accused nations deny the Soviet charges, and the nonintervention noninter-vention committee voted that Italy and Portugal were not guilty, the accusations either not being proved or referring to what happened before be-fore the international agreement went into effect. Italian countercharges, counter-charges, detailing 20 alleged acts of Russian aid to Spanish Socialists were laid before the committee for action. Portugal severed diplomatic relations rela-tions with the Madrid government, and the representatives of the twa countries were recalled. Dr. Ar-mindo Ar-mindo Monteiro, Portuguese foreign minister, followed up this action by sending to Lord Plymouth, British chairman of the nonintervention committee, a long document accusing accus-ing Russia of having planned and brought about the Spanish civil war. He named the Russian diplomats, agitators and soldiers who, he charged, were directing the operations. opera-tions. He alleged that Moscow sought to start a revolution in Portugal Por-tugal and thus provide a base for attacking General Franco's insurgent insur-gent forces in the rear. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy have buried their differences for the time being and reached an agreement agree-ment on a united policy. This was outlined in a communique published after Italian Foreign Minister Gale-azzo Gale-azzo Ciano had conferred with Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler. In the first place Hitler and Mussolini inform in-form the world that they intend to recognize the insurgent government headed by General Franco as the legitimate regime in Spain, but they promise to respect the terms of the nonintervention agreement. Other important declarations of policy by the two states are: 1. Co-operation to protect the peace of Europe and "the holy riches of European civilization" and family life. 2. Endorsement of a conference to rewrite the Locarno pact guaranteeing guaran-teeing European borders, but only in the west. This implied that neither nei-ther would agree to Soviet Russia's presence at the meeting. 3. Co-operation for the rehabilitation rehabilita-tion of the Danubian countries. In one clause of the agreement Germany recognizes Italy's sovereignty sover-eignty over Ethiopia. DOPULAIRE, the organ of Pre- mier Leon Blum's Socialist party, par-ty, alleges that a shipment of submachine sub-machine guns from the United States has been added to the secret armaments of the Croux de Feu in preparation for a civil war in France. The Croix de Feu, a Fascist Fas-cist organization headed by Col. Francois de la Rocque, was dissolved dis-solved recently by the government and was succeeded by the new Social So-cial party. Populaire, referring to the submachine sub-machine guns, said these "terrible weapons used by American gangsters" gang-sters" arrived from America through the port of Havre and through Holland. The paper added that the weapons are being planted in caches in Normandie and elsewhere else-where in the north of France. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, according to Populaire, great quantities of tear gas bombs and tear gas pistols are arriving from Germany for the use of the Fascists. PREMIER MUSSOLINI, talking at Bologna, said that Italy's "olive "ol-ive branch grows out of an immense forest of 8,000,000 bayonets"; and next day at Imola he told 70,000 listeners that he hoped for long periods pe-riods of peace, but not for "eternal peace, which is absurd and impossible." impossi-ble." "The Italian people, which gave its blood for the empire, is ready for any other trial when the crucial hour approaches," the Fascist chief shouted. "In order to make peace just as to make love it is necessary neces-sary that there be two." BELGIAN Fascists, known as Rexists and led by Leon Deg-relle, Deg-relle, clashed with the police in Brussels and Degrelle was jailed for a night. He said the motive of his demonstration was to show that ex-soldiers were backing the Rexists, Rex-ists, and he announced that he would carry out his threatened "march on Brussels" with 150,000 followers and overthrow the gov ernment. i SETTING a new world's long dis tance train speed record, the Burlington railway's streamliner steel Denver Zephyr made a non stop run from Chicago to Denver ii 12 hours 12 minutes and 27 ser onds. The distance is 1,017 mile: so the average speed was 83.4 mile an hour. After crossing the Col I rado border the train hit its t- ! speed of 116 miles an hour, whi I was maintained for one mile. j wumn xne next iour years," he declared. Gen- Goering Outlining his plans, Goering said no German had starved, nor would starve. The high seas fishing fleet will be increased, he asserted, so the people can eat fish when meat is not available. Whale fishing will be developed for the margarine it can produce, he promised. Goering urged all Germans to follow fol-low the example of Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler who, he said, eats neither nei-ther meat nor butter. The audience yelled with delight when the robust Goering told them he had lost 22 pounds by eating less butter. Germany would prefer the old system sys-tem of international exchange of wares, but this now is impossible in a mad world, so Germany will build her factories, produce her own synthetic syn-thetic rubber and her own substitutes sub-stitutes for cotton and other materials ma-terials for which she now must spend millions of dollars yearly, the general gen-eral declared. MANY American travelers join the English in mourning the death of Sir Edgar Britten, commander com-mander of the great liner Queen Mary and commodore of the Cunard-White Cunard-White Star lines. He was stricken with paralysis in Southampton and died within a few hours. Sir Edgar was sixty-two years old and first went to sea as a lad of eighteen in sailing ships. He was knighted by King George V in 1934. "Wally" Simpson. Justice Sir Anthony Hawke heard neatly arranged evidence of the infidelity of Erneit Simpson, who was not represented, and gruffly gave a decree nisi to the attractive American woman who has been and is the close friend of Kina Ed- , v ward VIII. For six Mrs' bPsn-months bPsn-months she will be on probation, technically chaperoned at all times, and if her behavior satisfies the king's proctor she will be unqualifiedly unquali-fiedly free April 2 to marry again. Whether or not her new husband, if she takes one, will be King Edward Ed-ward is a question that only time and the two persons most directly concerned can determine. Mrs. Simpson returned from Ipswich Ips-wich to her London residence on Cumberland terrace. Regents park, and there told interviewers that she was angered and humiliated by the International sensation her divorce has caused. She said she might go abroad for a time but that she would never return to the United States because of "all the nasty things" said of her here. The Week, a radical London weekly, week-ly, was the first English newspaper to carry an open reference to Mrs. Simpson's friendship with King Edward. Ed-ward. The article was at the same time a denunciation of the American press for giving the story such prominence prom-inence and of the British press for suppressing it entirely. It also made It clear that there would be widespread wide-spread opposition to a marriage between Edward and "Wally." Papers Pa-pers from Paris and elsewhere outside out-side the United Kingdom have been tn great demand in London, but of course the vast majority of the English people know nothing about the aHair. ipiGHT armored cars escorted by armed private guards and state police, carried a fortune of $25,000,-000 $25,000,-000 from the estate of the late Col. E. H. R. Green in South Dartmouth, Mass., to the First National bank of Boston. The fortune, which consists of the famous coin collection, valued at 5 millions; the stamp collection, valued at 3 millions; a large amount of cash and securities, and a quantity of uncut diamonds, has been under constant guard at the Green home since his death. BEFORE taking a recess of two weeks the United States Supreme Su-preme court announced that it would review and hand down a decision at this term upon the Wagner labor relations act. Many lawyers believe this law will be held unconstitutional, unconstitu-tional, for in the Guffey coal act decision de-cision the Supreme court held that the relationship between employers and employees was local and beyond the power of congressional regulation. regula-tion. SECRETARY OF LABOR FRANCES FRAN-CES PERKINS announced that the third national conference on labor la-bor legislation, designed to stimulate stimu-late the raising of work standards through federal and state co-operative efforts, will be called into session ses-sion in Washington on November 9, and will last three days. |