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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over RoLinson Says the President Plans No New Taxes Franco-German Agreement Concerning the Saar Pa-ported Vinson's Warning to Japan. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ;, Wy.lt'.TO NeW.;i;it;r Union. Jo;.; ROBINSON of Arkansas, senate sen-ate llcor I.i;i'N-r, spent four hours 111 Conference Willi President Roosevelt Roose-velt at Warm Springs, and emerged willi the welcome 97'"w"':?'"s''i r Senator Robinson assurance that the New Ileal program to be presented to congress In January Janu-ary docs not contemplate con-template the Imposition Impo-sition of new taxes or the substantial increase of existing taxes. Ho added that lie believed expenditures ex-penditures for normal nor-mal government purposes would be INSPECTOR SAMUEL P. COW- I A LEY and A-ent Herman E. Hoi- ( lis of the bureau of Investigation, ! Department of Justice, eiiL'au'ed In a run battle with Lester Gillis, bet- j ter known as George ("Baby Face") Nelson, I'ubllc Enemy No. 1, and a i companion, near Harrington, III., ' and both the federal men were shot to death by machine guns in the hands of the bandits. The killers, accompanied by a woman, escaped for the time beln; In the ! a-.'ent's car, their own being dis- i abled. I Next day Nelson's body was I found miles away, in Niles Center, i at the entrance to a cemetery. He j had died of nine bullet wounds ! from the guns of the federal agents . lie killed and evidently his body had been left at the roadside after his companions had failed to save his life. In the same region were found Nelson's clothing and the car the bandits had lied in after the battle. Cowley was the man who killed John Dillinger, chief of the gang to which Nelson belonged, and he also was in command of the posse that ran down and killed "Pretty Boy" Floyd in au Indiana cornfield not long ago. THANKSGIVING day in America was wedding day in London for the duke of Kent, fourth son of the king and queen of England, and Princess Marina of Greece. The metropolis swarmed with royalty and nobility from many lands, and vast throngs of ordinary persons watched the parade to Westminster Abbey, where the marriage ceremony cere-mony was performed. The ancient church was filled with the fortunate fortu-nate ones who had been Invited and the scene was glittering. The only Americans present were United States Ambassador and Mrs. Robert Rob-ert W. Bingham. The ceremony In the abbey was celebrated at 11 o'clock in the morning, morn-ing, and it was followed immediately immedi-ately by another, the Greek Orthodox. Ortho-dox. The latter took place in the private chapel of Buckingham palace pal-ace and was celebrated by Archbishop Arch-bishop Germanos, archimandrite of the Greek church In London. Nations formally charged Hungary with complicity in the murder of the king, asserting she had harbored har-bored Balkan terrorists. Hungary demanded immediate action by the league's council on this accusation, declaring "the peace of the world" might be affected. The Hungarian iwie asked that the matter be placed on the agenda of the council's coun-cil's session called to meet on December De-cember .3 to discuss tlie forthcoming forthcom-ing plebiscite In the Saar, so that Hungary might "defend Its honor against proceedings which have no other purpose than to compromise the good name of the whole Hungarian Hun-garian nation." The document then pointed out that the council, under Article IV of the covenant of the league, may deal with any Question affecting the peace of the world. It Is, therefore, the duty of the council to face this question as soon as possible, it asserted, "and thus guard against the grave dangers which might arise from the situation situa-tion that Hungary is still bound to bring to the attention of the council." coun-cil." The Jugoslavian charges were supported by the other two states c the little entente, Czechoslovakia and Rumania. HUGH R. WILSON, American ambassador to Switzerland, laid before the disarmament conference confer-ence In Geneva a proposal by the United States for international control con-trol of arms traffic and full publicity pub-licity to prevent secret arming of nations. The proposal was well received re-ceived by most of the delegates, and It will be studied by committees in January. By the American plan each government gov-ernment would license its manufacturers manufac-turers of munitions for five year periods. No reserve stocks would be allowed and manufacturers would be required to present bona fide orders before receiving a license. li-cense. Details of war vessels built for other nations would have to be reported. Reports of licenses and orders would be turned over to a central committee at Geneva a nd made a matter of public record. A permanent commission. Including a member from each signatory nation, na-tion, would be empowered to investigate inves-tigate transactions. LEON ARCH IM BA UD, French reporter of the budget, declared de-clared before the chamber of deputies dep-uties that It was undeniable that kept well within the national income. in-come. Of course, this does not mean a balanced budget, for tills cannot be had while enormous sums are being spent for relief and re-em-Iiloyment, but the senator would not admit that the cost of these would go above the ten-bllllon-dol-lar mark. "Unemployment relief Is to be preferred to the dole," he said. "A reasonably conservative program should be adopted with a view to tapering off the deficit." Senator Robinson said that the bonus was discussed at some length but no conclusion was reached. In-Jtimates In-Jtimates of the White House have expressed the fear that a bonus program calling for expenditure of more than two billion dollars may be passed over the veto. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Missis-sippi, chairman of the senate finance 'committee, who was also present at the conference, left for Washington Washing-ton to begin a study of unemployment unemploy-ment Insurance. Next day the President's chief caller was Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, and he told Mr. Roosevelt that business would move rapidly on the road to recovery if only It were assured of a safe and sane federal program of expenditures. expendi-tures. To correspondents Mr. Roper Bald he was greatly cheered by Senator Sen-ator Robinson's statement. He felt that the left wing demand for vast sums of money for relief of the unemployed must be checked and that there must be a further shifting shift-ing of relief control to communities. communi-ties. TROUBLE over the Saar plebiscite plebi-scite may be averted after all the alarm, for it is reported unofficially unof-ficially that Chancellor Hitler of Germany and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval of France have reached an accord providing that Germany will pfly for French mining properties prop-erties In the Saar if France abandons aban-dons the effort to keep the region under the jurisdiction of the League of Nations. Substance was given this report when Relchsfuehrer Hitler instructed instruct-ed all the Nazi propaganda forces in the Saar to cease their activities. activi-ties. He ordered that disturbances must be avoided and that the Nazis must rely largely on the press to keep the swastika flying in the disputed dis-puted territory after the plebiscite. JAPAN, having given unofficial notice that she will withdraw from the Washington naval treaty, still seems to have hope that the O EPORTS of ' various business groups indicate that "luxury spending" is becoming more noticeable notice-able and Is aiding industry considerably. consid-erably. This Includes everything from the baby's doll to the palatial yacht and some place in between is fine furs and all trade organizations organ-izations report an increase. Reports Re-ports to Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper by business leaders lead-ers indicated that sales in some gift lines this year would be 40 per cent greater than a year ago. Charity is not forgotten In this revival of spending. Community chests and councils reported thatcon-tributlons thatcon-tributlons to community chest drives this year already are within 10 per cent of the 1929 total, and national income has dropped about 50 per cent in that time. 7 '1 Ha 4 Col. Jean Fabry a n understanding exists between France and Russia, and that the Soviet government had offered of-fered armed aid to France in case of a conflict with Germany. Ger-many. This caused great excitement and the Foreign office of-fice contented itself it-self with a denial that there was any TAKE It from the Department of Agriculture that American farmers farm-ers have these reasons to'be thankful thank-ful this year: Cash farm income fnwi sales of crops and live "stock, AAA benefit payments, and emergency drouth sales of cattle to the government totaled to-taled $7110,000,000 in October, compared com-pared with $059,000,000 in September Septem-ber and $020,000,000 in October, 19.13. Total farm cash income for ten months this year was $5,040,000,000 compared to $4,099,000,000 for the corresponding period last year, of which $4,014,000,000 was derived from marketings, and $43.',000.000 from benefit payments and emergency emer-gency cattle sales, compared to $3,907,000,000 and $132,000,000, respectively, re-spectively, in 1933. The department noted, however, that the monthly increase was less than tho visual seasonal rise, due chiefly to marked crop curtailment produced by drouth and governmental govern-mental restrictions. SAMUEL INSULL and his sixteen co-defeodants In the great mail fraud trial l. Chicago were acquitted acquit-ted by the ju-;y, despite the long r j ' 1 r 4 Representative Carl Vinson United States and Great Britain will agree to give her naval parity. But just in case, she has now Invited France and Italy to join her in denouncing denounc-ing the pact. Those nations may consent, con-sent, but the two great Anglo-Saxon nations are as one in demanding that the 5-5-3 ratio be llliiiftl Samuel Insull work of thi govern-m govern-m e n t officials In preparing and presenting pre-senting the case at an estimated cost of $100,000. The verdict was reached on the third ballot, and the attorneys for the prosecution could say only that they had done their best. It was apparent appar-ent that the jurors military accord. The Russian offer was generally believed to have been made by Maxim Lltvlnov, Russian foreign commissar, last spring to the late Louis Bartliou and again to his successor, Pierre Laval. Col. Jean Fabry, former French minister minis-ter of war, gave support to Arcliim-bn Arcliim-bn lid's statement by asserting that France's knowledge of German rearmament, re-armament, the details of German troops and information concerning the secret manufacture of arms and airplanes in the reich was supplied by Russia. The two men were arguing ar-guing for a large war budget, and Archimbaud pictured Russia's huge military machine working with France as the only means of preserving pre-serving peace in Europe. DISPATCHES from Germany tell of serious unrest in the reich, and though the government calls them "malicious iios," it is a fact that the army and police forces are being held under emergency orders. A long smoldering feud between the reichswehr (regular army) and the schutzstuffel (black shirt picked Nazi guards) was believed responsible respon-sible for the orders, which involved suspension of Christmas furloughs for soldiers and military police. Drilling of Nazi storm troops has increased, reports said, while all marriages of army men and police set for the Christmas holidays, popular pop-ular wedding period for Germany's military men, have been postponed. BOLIVIA'S troops In the Chaco were being soundly whipped by the Paraguayans and ' President Daniel Salamanca was blamed. He visited the war front and was arrested ar-rested by Gen. Enrique Penaranda and forced to resign. Meantime Vice President Jose Sorzano had taken over the presidential powers by decree and Installed a new cabinet. cab-inet. Penaranda appeared to be the virtual dictator and it seemed likely like-ly he would take steps to bring about peace with Paraguay, maintained. Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, who is chairman of the house committee on naval affairs, af-fairs, has made plain the policy he will insist upon. "I sincerely hope it will not be necessary to scrap the treaty," he said, "but it seems now we cannot hope very strongly for anything else. We cannot grant naval equality equal-ity to Japan at any price. If the Tokyo government does insist upon wrecking the treaty I will insist that the house naval affairs committee com-mittee and congress make enough money available to build five ships for each three laid down by Japan." Jnpan, he said, had once agreed to be satisfied with three warships for each five built by the United States or Great Britain. "Officially "Official-ly and formally it said that was all it needed." Vinson said, "yet now It wants more." AGAIN it may be said that If or when another European war breaks out, it will start among the southern nations. The blaze lighted light-ed by the assassinations of King Alexander and Louis Barthou in Marseilles is still smoldering. Jugoslavia's Jugo-slavia's delegates in the League of were not convinced that Insull and his aides had an Intent to defraud. There are other charges standing against Insull, but whether or not there will be further prosecution ! undecided. There were rumors that the former for-mer magnate, if cleared of all charges, planned to re-enter La Salle street and the utilities field In an attempt to restore his lost empire. Of this he would say nothing noth-ing for publication. GEN. LAZARO CARDENAS, who though only thirty-nine years old is a veteran of the Mexican revolution, was installed as president presi-dent of Mexico on November 30. He is of Spanish and Tarascan Indian stock, a fine soldier and statesman and has held office under the revolutionary revo-lutionary government for five years. |