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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Representative Tinkham's Scathing Attack on Secretary Secre-tary Perkins Senator Lewis Warns Against Any More Disarmament Treaties. Ey EDWARD V. PICKARD by We itorn Ncwtii-uter Union. r:oT':ic rr. ti.vkiiam, the beiu'ded and sharp tongued n;p-re.senliitlve n;p-re.senliitlve from Massachusetts, lias revived the controversy over the nOTE riL'S XI is not optimistic concerning world peace. In his Christmas eve address delivered according to custom to the cardinals cardi-nals resident In Home, the Holy Father said that the clamor for war spreads ever farther, and he urged the world to pray and work for peace. "We see a constant Increase in warlike arms," the pope continued. "This is a distracting element In which the spirit seems to have no part. We are on the eve of a day when the heavens resound with the hymns of angels calling for peace on earth. Never has the chant had more reason for being than today." King George, In a radio address to all parts of the British empire, was a little more cheerful, lie adjured ad-jured his "peoples beyond the seas" to remember that they all belonged to one great family. "My desire and hope Is that the same spirit of brotherhood may become be-come ever stronger In Its hold and wider In Its range," the king said. "The world Is still restless and troubled. The clouds are lifting, but we have still our anxieties to meet. I am convinced that if we meet them In the spirit of one family we shall overcome them, for then private and party Interests will be controlled by care for the whole community." He made a special effort to reach the restless multitudes In India, whose fate now Is in the hands of parliament, by assuring them of his "constant care of them." President Roosevelt's brief Christmas Christ-mas talk was addressed especially to the citizens of America, calling for "courage and unity," for greater great-er happiness and the Improvement of human welfare. SOLDIERS from Great Britain, Sweden and Holland, to. the number of 3,300, under command of Maj. J. E. S. Brind, a British 'K ' i '- - wju.-"- 'A 1 ' ) League of Nations with an assertion that the United States Is being slipped Into the league through the back door. He says the Joint resolution adopted In the Inst few days of the Seventy-third congress, con-gress, making the United States a member of the International In-ternational labor Secretary Perkins In her guarded Isolation," he Informed In-formed other nations. "We deny the privilege of any nation to dictate dic-tate to the United States the quantity quan-tity or quality of protection our nation na-tion shall adopt." War can come to the United States only through her foreign entanglements. en-tanglements. Senator Lewis explained, ex-plained, and because of the present warlike attitude of the world, America Amer-ica must stand Isolated. C PEAKING of war, It Is Interest-lng Interest-lng to lenrn that the senate mission mis-sion to the Philippines has discovered discov-ered that those Islands "possess the most Important source of war material ma-terial under the American flag." Senator Tydings of Maryland sent the word from Manila- that there are In Zambales province' deposits of chromite so large that they have attracted the attention of other nations. na-tions. John W. Haussermann, dean of the Island's gold mining Industry, Indus-try, told the senators these deposits depos-its may soon take their place as one of the most Important ore bodies bod-ies In the world, and he added significantly that chromium Is the one war material which the United States does not have In ample quantities quan-tities within Its borders. These deposits de-posits In the Philippines were discovered dis-covered after the Tydings-McDuffie Independence act was drafted. It Is easy to see that this news will be of Immense Interest to Japan, which, In its plans for territorial expansion, Is ever on the lookout for war material sources. PROSECUTION and defense at- torneys completed their preparations prepara-tions for the trial of Bruno Haupt-mann Haupt-mann on the charge of murder- t t P i f. 61- In. veteran of several wars, marched into the Saar from north and south with fly-lug fly-lug colors, and were stationed at strategic points throughout the area, prepared to maintain order until un-til after the plebiscite plebi-scite of January 13 which will determine deter-mine whether the Major Brind organization was the first of a contemplated con-templated series of moves designed to Hit the United States openly Into the league, contrary to the wishes of the people and of congress, con-gress, and Secretary of Labor Perkins Per-kins was the especial object of his attack. U.s-Ing such harsh words as "fraud" and "intrigue," Mr. Tlnk-Iiam Tlnk-Iiam accused Secretary Perkins of employing "contemptible trickery" In ndvocatlng the adoption of the resolution. Mr. Tinkham quoted the labor Kecretary as saying that the International Inter-national labor organization, "is not even now an Integral part of the League of Nations, and membership In the organization does not Imply Affiliation with the league." ne continued con-tinued : "This statement Is the grossest perversion of the truth. It Is squarely contrary to the facts facts established by an Indelible record, the treaty of Versailles. The etatement contained In the letter of the secretary of labor was Intended In-tended to deceive. The secretary knew that the congress of the tnlted States was opposed to entry en-try Into the League of Nations and would not vote for entry knowingly. Entry was therefore made surreptitiously surrepti-tiously and fraudulently. "Article S02 of the treaty of Ver-fallles Ver-fallles states: " The International labor office shall be established at the seat of the League of Nations as part of the organization of the league.' "This audacious Intrigue to have the United States enter the League of Nations by way of one of the or-'Siffls or-'Siffls of the league Is to be followed "by an attempt to have the United " States enter another of Its organs, the Permanent Court of Interna-. Interna-. tional Justice of the League of Na-x'.ions, Na-x'.ions, this subsequently to be followed fol-lowed by a proposal of full membership mem-bership In Oie League of Nations. 'Thus, the independence of the United Unit-ed States shall be destroyed, the will of the American people thwarted, thwart-ed, and the United States Inevitably Involved in the next European conflict." con-flict." SENATOR JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS of Illinois, chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations re-lations and a veteran In interna- ing the Lindbergh baby, and the little lit-tle town of Flem-Ington, Flem-Ington, N. J., was a busy place. The names of 48 veniremen venire-men were drawn for examination as jurors, and the sen-s sen-s a 1 1 o n over the mailing of a satire on the Lindbergh case to 150 prospective prospec-tive Jurors died down. C. Lloyd Bruno Hauptmann Saar shall again become a part of Germany or remain under control of the League of Nations. The arrival ar-rival of the troops was watched by the league authorities with considerable con-siderable anxiety for there has been fears that Nazi enthusiasts there might cause trouble. But the inhabitants inhab-itants of the basin remained quiet, none of them showing either enmity en-mity or enthusiasm for the league's armed forces. Under thetermsof thetreaty of Versailles Ver-sailles any person living In the Saar at the time of the signing of tha treaty Is eligible to vote In the plebiscite, and the Nazis of Germany Ger-many made great efforts to gather as many of their adherents as possible pos-sible from other lands to which they had migrated. From the United Unit-ed States 352 Saar Germans traveled trav-eled back to their old home aboard the liner Bremen, and were welcomed wel-comed with feasts, as was another large contingent from South America. Amer-ica. The German government denied de-nied that it was paying the expenses ex-penses of these voters from abroad, asserting they were financed by private pri-vate donations. COL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH, by bis flights across Arctic regions re-gions in 1933, has enabled the Department De-partment of Agriculture to demonstrate demon-strate conclusively that the spores of plant disease can be borne on remote air currents. With a spore trap of his own devising, de-vising, which he called "the skyhook," sky-hook," Colonel Lindbergh obtained specimens which confirmed the previous pre-vious theories of government experts ex-perts that plant diseases may be carried even across continents by air currents. That was announced by Fred O. Meier, the department expert who interested Colonel Lindbergh in the work. Colonel Lindbergh devised his "the skyhook." a light, strong contrivance, contriv-ance, easy to operate and well adapted to protecting sterile glass slides from contamination except for the time they were exposed. Mr. Meier prepared the slides and has examined and photographed thern. Fishei, defense counsel, said he would not ask for a new panel. Betty Gow, the nurse who put the Lindbergh baby to bed the night he was kidnaped and killed, arrived from Scotland on the liner Aquitania and went at once to the Morrow home In Englewood, N. J., to await her call as one of the state's star witnesses. She declined to talk to reporters, but posed for cameramen. There was a report that Miss Gow might remain In this country and take up her former job in the Lindbergh household. She had acted as nurse for Jon, second son born to the Lindberghs, until she returned to Scotland several months ago. Hauptmann seemed calm as the time of his ordeal approached, and he ate a hearty Christmas dinner. Mra. Hauptmann, who moved from the Bronx to Fiemington to be near her husband, made a radio appeal "to the people of the country to wait until they hear every side of the story before they condemn him." She reiterated her belief that Hauptmann had nothing to do with the kidnaping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Lind-bergh, Jr. She repeated her story that Hauptmann hnd waited for her at a Bronx bakery where she worked the night of the kidnaping and had taken her home. 6 - ff i tional conferences, lias set forth a view concerning treaties for disarmament disarm-ament or reduction of armaments that will meet with the npproval of many of his fellow citizens, citi-zens, though they .are sharply at variance vari-ance with those of the administration. ITe evidently is glad Senator Lewis the Washington naval pact Is dying, owing to the action of Japan, and he says that In future the United States must, for Its own sake, remain re-main nloof from all such agreements, agree-ments, because they are almost certain cer-tain to embroil us In war. Addressing the National Forum la Washington, Senator Lewis declared de-clared the recent naval conversations conversa-tions in London succeeded only In designing a "chart of death to men, destruction to nations," and he warned ngnlnst the renewal of the Washington treaty. "Plain it must be," Senator Lewis pointed out, "that should we enter the deal, and It Is disobeyed by any of its parties, the United States must be called on by the nations Involved to lend ourselves to enforce en-force the compact. This means war upon the United States by the nations na-tions we threaten to force to obedience, obedi-ence, or war from the nations we refuse to aid In the enforcement. "To the United States nothing but evil and danger awaits our entrance en-trance Into any International contract con-tract with foreign nations preparing prepar-ing for war on each other." America wants no war and wants armaments only for self-defense, j the senator said, and America does not recognize the right of any International In-ternational conference to tell her what arms she needs for that purpose. pur-pose. "On this right of our own self-defense self-defense America stands sovereign As for the ransom money found In the Hauptmann home and garage, ga-rage, she Insisted on the truth of her husband's story that he got the money from Isidor Fish, who Is dead. Mrs. Hauptmann told parta of her story amid sobs. ONE of the worst American railway rail-way wrecks of the year occurred oc-curred at Dundas, Ont., when a Christmas excursion train bound from London, Ont, to Toronto was telescoped by the Detroit-to-Toronto express on the Canadian National railways line as it stood on a siding. Apparently the express ran through the open switch. Two wooden coaches were demolished and fifteen persons were killed. More than a score of others were injured. A third coach was thrown on end close to the edge of a 150-foot 150-foot cliff. The alertness and quick thinking of Engineer B. Burrell of the speeding speed-ing train from Detroit was credited cred-ited by railway officials with hav- lng averted an even greater tragedy. tra-gedy. Seeing no hope of preventing prevent-ing the locomotive from piling Into the rear of the special train, Burrell Bur-rell ordered It cut loose from the conches behind and prevented them from telescoping. CHRISTMAS In the White House was a season of jollity and noise, especial attention being given to the entertainment of the younger young-er members of the large house party. First, on Christmas eve, the President lighted the Community Christmas tree In Lafayette park, and then he read Dickens' "Christmas "Christ-mas Carol" to the assembled family. fam-ily. Early next morning the children chil-dren gathered In Mr. Roosevelt's room and opened their gifts, and then had a frolic around the tree In the upstair corridor. Fl OR the first time the RFC has undertaken the management of a railroad. John V. Barriger, chief examiner for the Interstate Commerce Com-merce commission, announced that nominees of the RFC would be placed In chnrge of operation of the Denver & Salt Lake railway, which has received large loans from the government agency. |