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Show wrs Review of Current Events the World Over 1 1 Britain Lining Up the Nations Against Italy .i More Trouble in the Orient Death of Senator Schall. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper 1.1 u Ion. I") RESIDENT ROOSEVELT de-' de-' dared himself satisfied willi tin! progress made by Harold Ickes ti ml lliirry Hopkins ill carrying out the relief program, lh; said that tbe Works Progress administration bail eiiine within 20. (KH) of reaching its goal of ,".,r,i lil.ODO men at work, and that 77 per cent of public works projects were under way. Mr. Roosevelt repeated that the government assumed no ' responsibility responsi-bility for those not hired under the program. lie bad asked congress con-gress for four billions last January, he said, based upon an estimate that there were 3.500,000 needy men who could work. He got the four billions and the 3,500,000 have been put to work, he said. The remaining unemployed must be cared for , by "states, municipalities, municipali-ties, counties, and private charity," he added. ' clouds over Europe were 3 .wing denser and blacker ,;lie Christmas holidays when j, christian world was sup- Uyo let It be known they are preparing, pre-paring, through the autonomous government In North China and hoped for co-operation by Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese dictator, to combat com-bat the spread of sovietlsm in China. In line with this is the proclamation proc-lamation of I'rlnce Teh, Mongolian ruler, declaring the independence of the western part of Inner Mongolia, Mon-golia, a vast territory with a popu-uation popu-uation of two million pastoralists and rich mineral resources. Chinese students continue their riotous demonstrations against North China autonomy, demanding that it be stopped by armed force. In Shanghai thousands of them took possession of the railway terminal, ter-minal, demanding free transporta- ' ' I.- - .1 posed to be singing 'Teace on earth, good will toward men." Under the skillful guidance of Anthony Eden, the new British foreign secretary, a solid front against Italy was being built up. There was no present pres-ent talk of further sanctions against Mussolini, but it Is When reporters said that some estimates placed the total of unemployed un-employed at 11,000,000, the President Presi-dent held that it was often diili-cult diili-cult to say whether a person should be classed as unemployed. He cited the case of people who have resources, re-sources, but desire part-time employment em-ployment for supplemental Income. lie also said, in discussing unemployment un-employment further, that 5,000,000 persons had found employment since the spring of 19o3 in industries which report such statistics. UNEXPECTEDLY early decision as to the validity of the Guf- 1-y Eden tion to Nanking to present their protests to the central government. Chiang Kai-shek invited their leaders lead-ers to confer with him on January la. , added penalties will be j jree late In January. Mean- , the general military and iyffs of Great Britain and m concluded conversations Vre declared "satisfactory," ': that those nations were !alto stand by each other In J". Duce makes what Prime ire; Baldwin called "a mad In tbe capitals of other -s of the League of Nations f plans were being laid by Ji and naval attaches. " j came into line with the The tenseness in China was in- J creased by the assassination in Shanghai of Tang Yu-jen, vice minister min-ister of railways and known as pro-Japanese. pro-Japanese. This and other anti-Japanese anti-Japanese demonstrations led to the declaring of martial law in Shanghai Shang-hai and Nanking. fey coal net was assured when the Supreme court agreed to pass on the constitutionality of the law without waiting for a ruling by the federal court of appeals. Both the government and Kentucky soft coal producers had asked the Supreme court for this "short cut." The labor relations board asked the Philadelphia Circuit Court of Appeals to help speed the Wagner labor disputes act to the Supreme court for a final test of its constitutionality. IF WISCONSIN Republicans wish to make Senator Borah their candidate for tbe Presidential nomination, nom-ination, it is all right with the vet- LIBERTY league has put out a 12-point program which It thinks the incoming congress should follow for the sake of the country. It is designed "to put the government's govern-ment's house in order." In its statement the league accuses ac-cuses the New Deal of "doing violence" vio-lence" to the Constitution and charges the Roosevelt administration administra-tion with "gigantic waste" In handling han-dling relief funds, "promoting pet theories of monetary "cranks," responding re-sponding to "socialistic influences" in competing with private industry, and capitalizing on the nation's emergency to make centralization of power in the federal government a permanent policy. presumptive opponents of j ;t Is reported to have made Ution that France doesn't b;liis Is that it be permitted 5 'v the Dardanelles, the strait ii Europe and Asiatic Tur-1 Tur-1 Ich was demilitarized under I ty of Lausanne after the war. The Turks also, ac-XI: ac-XI: to Paris advices, ask the cjjJ return of the island of eh In the Aegean sea, which u C-a tinder Italian sovereignty Isl ij Jjjj: is a firm believer In the 3m Nations and, though he is i 8: with caution, is determined re ; Italy to terms through the 2a s. provided the other mem-l' mem-l' the league give the neces-hSport. neces-hSport. The British govern-, govern-, y.vrtainly doesn't want war a:ly, but it is fast preparing w.ied conflict If that shall I i 'A M 1 u -i- eran from Idaho. State Senator P. E. Nelson of Maple, Wis., and former State Senator Bern-hard Bern-hard Gettelman of Milwaukee called on Mr. Borah in Washington and asked permission to circulate nominating nominat-ing petitions for him in their state. This was granted. Senator Borah ' Continued deficit financing will destroy government credit and may lead to chaos and dictatorship, the league warned In demanding a balanced bal-anced budget and repeal of tax laws aimed at "redistribution of wealth." Mr. Borah told reporters that Nel- -son and Gettelman had suggested t a campaign for "a delegation representing repre-senting the liberal forces in the party out there and in my name." I He had agreed, he said, to "go along j with them." , Later Mr. Borah issued this state-ment state-ment : "My primary objective Is a con- vention of liberal delegates which will write a liberal platform and name a liberal candidate. To that end I shnll devote my efforts. If in any state or district the liberal forces think that it will help tbe liberal cause to pledge delegates to me, I shall co-operate fully with that plan. If, however, it is thought better to pledge the delegates to some other liberal, I shall co-operate just as fully. In other words, inflexible as to the objective, flexible flex-ible as to the tactics. "As I see the political situation in this country, a man would be Emphasizing adherence to the Constitution will be the vital issue is-sue in next year's election campaign, cam-paign, the league called upon congress con-gress to defeat two "threatened" amendments which would bring about "a virtual change in our form of government." These proposals would create an "unhampered dictatorship," dicta-torship," the league declared, - by extending federal authority "to permit per-mit complete regimentation of industry in-dustry and agriculture" and by taking tak-ing away the Supreme court's power pow-er to declare laws unconstitutional. SENATOR THOMAS D. SCHALL of Minnesota, who was struck by an automobile as he was being conducted across the highway near ooi avoidable. -. Mussolini, too, is getting " "t extreme eventualities was 'i by orders canceling all ' is leaves of all officers and the army. The same orders Y ; the return to their units of j Wi army men demobilized , 'tiiher in order that they ,-j i the needed work on their I I The Italian press ceased its 111 n Great Britain, and this ';pn to mean that some love was on foot or that J- vJ j had said bis last word in " Viand that he and his gov-lTi gov-lTi ' were prepared to meet J a tn Rome the hope is still 2iiu'tl that Laval will not go way with Britain in the pol-"0 pol-"0 extreme sanctions. The themselves hope that the rt "f the wet season in Etlii-merilhalt Etlii-merilhalt the Italians there be- 1 is necessary to impose the ' enalties decreed by the 3fi X'A-yyA-. . -a -x '-X':m' AAAMaaA: aSAA'A'a f0i.AxA.M his residence in Maryland, succumbed suc-cumbed to bis injuries. in-juries. The blind statesman had been one of the bitterest opponents of the New Deal and President R o o s e-velt. e-velt. He had started start-ed ids campaign for re - election, and Gov. Floyd Olson nf Minnesota had seeking political immolation to take a nomination upon any other than a liberal platform. So the first thing to do is to got a convention committed com-mitted to liberal principles. So far as my efforts count, I am not going to permit personal matters, either my own or those of others, to interfere in-terfere with the main purpose." WHEN the Supreme court passes on the constitutionality of tbe Tennessee Valley act, its opinion will not be unanimous, is the prediction pre-diction of those who were present during the oral arguments. The case was taken up to the highest tribunal by fourteen preferred stockholders stock-holders of the Alabama Power company. Senator Schall announced he also would seek the nomination for Schall's seat. Tbe governor said after the senator's death that be would soon appoint his successor; that he bad no intention in-tention of resigning in order to be of e; cabinet was taking steps in th ppt the Libyan frontier j Invasion by the Italians, 'vptian leaders are urging I ) ' "1? conclusion of a treaty ' n Britain that will give - Jtians the rights they claim, lj their resentment against P and enable them to line Jj-ji the British if war with jtlose Europe is coming to , "il war is apparent with the I'ti that Britain is lining countries of the Mediterra-w Mediterra-w -i'm for support In case she , way 'spd by Italy. Most of them a3t9 ved to have given this adacl But Bulgaria, a close friend lher would be expected in that fund. 0taek either Greece or P1 both allies of Britain, and gn!Jlias promised the British -ommiiKi11 attnck the r'U'K1'1-'11113 t rem,' case. This would arouse -; to the defense of Bulgaria ; kewa wakia would be drawn in ich w( Hungary, and Poland prob-u'1. prob-u'1. 31 M tak't the field against ths dil '!'3- Germany is allied to vallovt aml Russia to Czechoslo-3 Czechoslo-3 th, U.':f'h Is the realistic view of the si 'tion held by competent ob-e, ob-e, pi in Em 'opean capitals. himself named to till Schall's place. Mr Schall, who was born in 1S.S in' Michigan, lost, bis sight in an accident after he had been practicing prac-ticing law in Minnesota four years. He continued his work, and served six terms in the house of representatives represen-tatives before he was elected to the senate in 10'Jl. O EPETED threats of kidnaping K and even murder for their little lit-tle son have driven Col. and Mrs. Charles A Lindbergh from tbe United Unit-ed States. They have sailed with ,eir boy. Jon, for England, and During arguments by Forney Johnson, Birmingham, Ala., attorney attor-ney for the stockholders, and by John Lord OT.rian, New York attorney, at-torney, for TV A, justices shot many questions at the lawyers. Justice McKeynolds, known as a "conservative," appeared to challenge chal-lenge the TYA lawyer to defend the right of the government to sell surplus sur-plus power produced by Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals. On the other hand, Justices Bran-deis Bran-deis and Stone, who are known as "liberals," inquired into the right of minority stockholders of the Ala- plan to establish a residence there, though they will not give up their American citizenship. Where they will live has not been revealed to even their closest friends. It is believed be-lieved the colonel will not sever bis relations with the two air transport trans-port complies for which he :s a technical adviser but that his active ac-tive work for them will cease. bama Power company to tuing me suit which led to the Supreme court tet. The stockholders sought to enjoin en-join performance or a contract under un-der which the company was to sell lines to TVA for transmission of power. FFDER L Judge Merrill E. Otis at Kansas City has held uncon- )crc3i ;" Mongolia Is aroused by :ontai '''ats of Invasion by the Jap-:oxima Jap-:oxima r)ps and their puppets, the nesia., ;itins. Already the border Start u! r, crossed by the latter and era to:.lnol killed an( Tfrcir :arried ofC b-v tlie raUlRrs-head. raUlRrs-head. I '"S"1 government has filed nrpora,!; Protest, demanding an city. nd the return of the cap-' cap-' lost of this news comes Vl . ' ';ow and naturally the Rus-J Rus-J j 'ict government is deeply o7 " 4' for this and similar in-,A' in-,A' . may brinp, on the long ex- j ar between Russia and ;''Danese authorities in To- i I HRVARD university received a Handsome Christmas present from Thomas W. La'uont, one of the partners of J. I'. Morgan & Co It was $500,000 for the establishment estab-lishment of a new chair In political economy, one of the "roving" professorships pro-fessorships to be created by g.fts from alumni in recognition of the university's three-hundredth anniversary anni-versary that comes in 193G. stitutional the Wagner tanor .impute .im-pute act which gives employees the ri-bt to organize and bargain collectively. col-lectively. The judge granted the Majestic Flour Mills of Aurora. Mo., a temporary Injunction against a National Labor board complaint which cited it for alleged refusal to bargain concerning a wage and hour agreement with a union of iU employees. |