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Show News Review of Current Events the W orld Over Lindljcrpli Baljy Kidnaping Brought Near Solution Ly Arrest President's Board Offers Plan for Settling the Textile Strike. By EDWARD W. PICKARD by Western Newspaper Union. velopments the mills had been reopening re-opening under military protection, and in consequence the strikers had resumed their acts of violence. There were numerous bloody encounters en-counters between them and National Nation-al Guardsmen In New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia and the C'arolinas. In Connecticut the disorders abated and the state troops were being demobilize'. Carrying out his plans for extending ex-tending the strike to all branches of the textile industry, Gorman sent out orders for 20,000 dyers to quit their jobs. The union workers were still enraged en-raged at Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, NItA administrator, for his attack on the strike at a meeting of code authorities in New York. He charged that the walkout was In "absolute violation" of an agreement made by the United Textile Workers with the government last June. This the union leaders flatly denied and they demanded the resignation of Johnson. Gorman said: "We will not join in submitting any Issue to the NRA as long as General Johnson Is administrator or occupies a position of determining Influence In the recovery administration. adminis-tration. We said he ought to resign re-sign and we meant It. Since that is our view, we could not Join In any submission to the NRA while he tins the power to make NItA decisions." de-cisions." ONE of the sharpest thorns to the si le of the Roosevelt administration ad-ministration will not be In the next congress to give pain to the New N'O.ME, the once famous gold city of Ala.-ka, lies In ruins, having been swept by flames with damage dam-age estimated at ?:.0 '0,000. Four tiundred persons were rendered homeless, and most of the food supplies sup-plies were burned up. Relief vessels ves-sels with food and medical supplies were rushed to the place and there was no fear of shortage. The government gov-ernment at Washington grantel $.10,000 In direct assistance and planned other relief measures. The citizens were hurriedly producing produc-ing lumber and other materials in the hope of at least partly rebuilding rebuild-ing the city before it Is Isolated by winter Ice. JAMES A. MOFFETT, federal housing commissioner, announced that on November 1 he would begin be-gin releasing funds for the construction con-struction of at least a million new homes. Concerning the home modernization moderniza-tion and repair phase of the program, pro-gram, the administrator declared that more than 1,000 communities have set up or are setting up committees com-mittees to direct the program locally. lo-cally. He predictad that by Thanksgiving Thanks-giving more than 5.000 municipalities municipal-ities will have established such committees. com-mittees. Financial support, he said, has come from 7,000 banks and such loans have been made In all states but three. "From field reports we estimate that one million dollars a day In loans are being made under our plan; and from experience In past community modernization campaigns cam-paigns we are sure that double that amount of cash business Is being done." TOBACCO, which Is the third largest crop in the United States, has always been without an organized organ-ized futures market. P.ut it has one now. for the New York Tobacco Exchange, Inc., on Broad street, has opened for business after two years of preliminary organization work In which the federal department of agriculture co-oopernted. The contract basis Is United States standard flue cured type 12, grade B4F. There are nine types and numerous grades deliverable under specified differentials under the form of contract that has been adopted. The unit of trading Is 10,000 pounds and quotations are in cents and five one-hundredths of a cent per pound. Delivery points have been established to date at Norfolk and Newport News, Va,, and Louisville, Ky. PREMIER MUSSOLINI repeatedly repeated-ly asserts that Italy wants no more war, but he is taking no chances. In an order designed to make Italy an "armed nation," his cabinet has directed that all males above the age of eight and below thirty-three, shall receive military training. At the same time it was revealed that Italy's farming industry will be brought into strong national organization or-ganization under the corporative state system, to be inaugurated November No-vember 10. The wrvking class will be welded weld-ed together in one group and the owner-manager class in another. The two classes will be united In the central corporations. Two major national co-ordinating bodies have been created for the separate groups. Theses are the Fascist Confederation of Agriculturists, Agricul-turists, for the owner-managers, and the Fascist Confederation of Agricultural Workers. AUSTRIA Is thoroughly aroused by seemingly authentic reports from Brussels that former Empress Zita Intends to establish her resl- WITH the arrest of Bruno Rieh-urd Rieh-urd Hauptmann In New York city, the government agents and Rldte police appeared to be well on the way toward solving the Lindbergh Lind-bergh baby kidnaping and murder mystery. The prisoner, a German alien thirly-'jve yearn old, was nabbed afler he had given to a filling station man a $10 gold certificate cer-tificate that was found to be part of the ransom paid the kidnapers by Dr. John F. Condon "Jafsie" over a cemetery wall In a vain attempt to get the baby returned. In llauptiuann's garage In the Jironx the police found $13,750 which also was Identified as part of the $.10,000 Jafsie bad paid. Then circumstantial evidence rapidly was gathered to prove Hauptmann was one of the guilty men, and he was partially Identified by Doctor Condon, Con-don, as well as by a taxi cab driver who said the prisoner was the man who gave him $1 eleven days after the kidnaping to carry a note to Jafsie. Officials of the Department of Justice , announced that Ilaupt-jiiann's Ilaupt-jiiann's Viandwriting tallied with that of ransom notes sent by the kidnapers. Police Commissioner John F. O'R.van, who made the official announcement an-nouncement of tho developments Jointly for New York and New Jersey Jer-sey authorities as well as for tho federal Department of Justice, declared de-clared that Hauptmann admitted under severe questioning that he had been employed as a carpenter near the Lindbergh home at Hopewell. Hope-well. O'R.van also asserted that police had- established that Hauptmann had bad access to the lumber yard In which lumber was found bearing a peculiar mark, similar to that found on the ladder left at the Ecene of the kidnaping. Hauptmann, Haupt-mann, he added, is In this country Illegally. He is married and has a ten-year-old son. Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh, who were in Los Angeles, were said to have known in advance that the arrest ar-rest was expected. They secluded themselves and would say nothing for publication. FEDERAL JUDGE W. CALVIN C1IESNUT of Baltimore handed hand-ed down an opinion holding that the farm moratorium amendment to the federal bankruptcy act passed by congress last June Is unconstitutional. unconsti-tutional. This amendment, known as the Frazicr-Lemke law, authorizes author-izes debt-ridden farmers to go Into federal courts and reduce their obligations. ob-ligations. The judge held that it violates the rights of creditors as outlined in the fourteenth amendment amend-ment to the Constitution and that It seeks to supersede the rights of state courts. The court pointed out that each 6tate has laws to protect both the creditor and the debtor. The Fra-Eior-Lemke act, it was stated, wiped away the safeguards for creditors end amounted to confiscation. pEACE in the textile industry was almost in sight after the President's special mediation hoard reported to him its plan for ending Dealers. James M. Beck of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, leading au thority on the Constitution, Con-stitution, has an nounced he will not seek re-election because congress has become "a rubber rub-ber stamp." He bad been renominated, but prefers not to K:;::i;;i::iI Si 1 r - v j M 4 1 i dence in Austria, a I 3 n g with her eight children. Including In-cluding Archduke Otto, pretender to the thrones of both that country and Hungary. It was asserted that this Hapsburg family had been granted permission to return re-turn as plain citizens citi-zens if Otto would the bloody strike that has been going on for weeks. The report was carried to Mr. Roosevelt at Hyde Tark by Secretary Sec-retary of Labor Terkins and Gov. John G. Winant, chairman of the board. It proprsed the following four point program : Archduke Otto run. However, the administration will J- M- Beok not be relieved from his attacks, for he Intends to continue them in the courts. "1 am not retiring from public life," Mr. Beck explained. "This is no time for any citizen to lessen his activities in defense of our form of government. I am retiring from congress because I believe I can help in this great cause more effectively ef-fectively in the federal courts, where I have practiced for more than fifty years, than in congress, where the minority is gagged and reduced to impotence.- "Our form of government can only be saved by .restoration of the Republican party to power, and 1 hope with my pen and voice to serve that party as effectually In the ranks as in congress." WISCONSIN'S state primary was especially interesting because be-cause of the fact that the Democrats Demo-crats polled the largest vote by a 'wide margin, the La Follette Progressives Pro-gressives and the Republicans trailing. trail-ing. The Democrats re-nominated Gov. Albert G. Schedeman, vigorous vigor-ous supporter of the New Deal. He will be opposed by Phil La Follette, who received the Progressive nomination nom-ination without contest, and Howard How-ard T. Greene, Republican, who defeated de-feated former Governor Zimmerman Zimmer-man and J. N. Tittemore. John N. Callahan, former national na-tional committeeman, was named for the senate by the Democrats, and John B. Cbapelle was the unopposed un-opposed choice of the Republicans. Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., was of course nominated by his new party. RUSSIA was duly admitted to membership in the League of Nations, only three votes in opposition oppo-sition being cast, and then was given a permanent seat in the council coun-cil of the league. Maxim Litvinov, Soviet commissar for foreign affairs, af-fairs, pledged his nation to work through the league for world peace. Declaring flatly that Russia would give up no attribute of its social system, Litvinov warned the assembly assem-bly that "peace and security cannot can-not be organized on the basis of shifting sands and verbal promises." It should be established, he said, "that any state is entitled to demand de-mand reasonable security from its near and remote neighbors." Next day, after a debate on plans to end the war between Paraguay and Bolivia, spokesmen for Russia privately asserted that the danger of war in the Far East has lessened, relations between Japan and Russia heving Improved. NEW YORK'S city assembly has adopted a lottery scheme for the purpose of raising relief funds, a way having been devised to circumvent cir-cumvent the law. The business men and the clergy are protesting violently Gov. Winant promise not to seek In any way to bring about restoration of the monarchy. mon-archy. Quite unofficially. It Is said restoration res-toration of the Hapsburg monarchy would not be opposed by either France or Italy, but the British foreign for-eign office scouted the idea. The little entente would be strongly against it, but might not hold the Vienna government entirely responsible. respon-sible. In Vienna a spokesman for the foreign office said that the return to Austria of the Hapsburg family, even as private individuals, is "still Impossible." Some members of ue Hapsburg family may be allowed to return to represent the family In the long pending lawsuit over the Haps-burgs' Haps-burgs' properties, he said, but this Is not likely to be Archduke Otto, because of the danger that disturbances disturb-ances might result from his presence. pres-ence. WEARY of the continuous sabotage sabo-tage and assassinations by terrorists, ter-rorists, leading business and financial finan-cial men of Cuba have asked President Presi-dent Mendieta to approve the organization or-ganization of an armed band of vigilantes. The plan is to Issue permits per-mits to carry firearms to all "responsible "re-sponsible citizens" who apply for the privilege. Those issued arms would hold authority either to arrest ar-rest or shoot "terrorists." 1. Appointment by the President of a textile labor relations board of three members to settle all questions of union recognition rec-ognition at the several textile mills and- to handle all other employer-employee employer-employee disputes in the industry. 2. An investigation by the Department De-partment of Labor and the federal trade commission of the textile industry's in-dustry's ability to meet the higher wage payments which the union Is demanding. 3. A moratorium on the "stretchout" "stretch-out" system, whereby, the union claims, employers are adding to the work load of their employees; during dur-ing the moratorium the textile labor la-bor relations board shall appoint a textile work assignment control board to plan a permanent control of the stretchout. 4. An investigation by the Department De-partment of Labor into the various classifications of work In the textile tex-tile Industry and the wage scale for each classification. President Roosevelt was highly pleased with the 10,000-word report of the board and expressed his hope that it would show the way to end the strike. F. J. Gorman, leader of the strike, submitted to the union's executive council the question of having the workers return to the mills pending final arrangements. Immediately preceding these de- |