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Show LORD RIDDEI.L, who during the World war was Lloyd CJwir.'O's chief liaison officer with the press of the world, is dead In London, lie gained fame and great wealth as a newspaper publisher. As a reward re-ward for his war work Kiddell was made a peer In 1!)1S. His voice over tlie telephone carried the first news to England of the sljriiinii of t he Versailles treaty. For some time after the war he continued to he a News Review of Current Events the World Over Davis Warns Japan Against Scrapping Naval Treaty Peaceful Agreement for Saar Plebiscite Moley and Richherg to Industrialists. By EDWARD W. PICKARD by Western Nuw.yaper Union. N TO KM AN 11. DAVIS, American ' ainha.s.sador at-lar'e and our chief representative In the naval limitation conversa tiotis that have I'" I 'A I- ." . ' L.J..."ii 'itiajA H. H. Davis ( Ijeen going on In i London, has given dain warning to Japan that if that nation insists on scrapping the iVanhintfton naval treaty, security will he endangered, suspicion sus-picion created and the world forced Into a costly naval construction race. Mr. Davis was ad- friend and confidant of Lloyd Deore. Later there were political differences, hut while the close liaison liai-son ceased the two men never ceased to he friends. Lord RhMell leaves no heir and the title expires ex-pires with him. CENTRAL, western and northern sections of Honduras were devastated de-vastated by i series of earthquake shocks continuing through two days. The extent of the disaster Is unknown un-known at this writing .or all communication com-munication systems were crippled, but It was reported that at least three towns of considerable size, Oopas, Cahanas and Santa Rita, were nearly destroyed. Most of the inhabitants escaped with their lives and were roaming the mountains without shelter jr food. An entire mountain, Cerronzul, near Paraiso, crumbled and disappeared without any volcanic eruption. PRESIDENT MUSTAPHA KEM-AL KEM-AL of Turkey has become the Idol of all the women of his nation, for, after giving them such social rights as emancipation from the harem, he has given them political rights. At his instance the national assembly unanimously decided that any Turkish woman more than thirty thir-ty years old is eligible to election to the chamber of deputies, and that all women over twenty-two years of age caD vote in the national elections. Thousands of women telegraphed their "deepest gratitude" grati-tude" to Kemal. All this was In effect a victory for the policies of Col. Uoeffrey O. Knox, the league commissioner of the Saar, for he lias long advocated the creation of an International police po-lice force for the territory. rISPATCHES from Warsaw said L-" the Poles were amazed and alarmed by the Franco-Oerman agreement because they feared the understanding between those two nations would be extended to include in-clude Great Iiritain and Italy. The foreign otiice hinted that in that case Poland's relations with Russia might be made closer. Poland resents re-sents being left out In the cold, for she is determined to be recognized as one of the great powers, and to play her part In the stabilization of peace In Europe, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT returned re-turned from Warm Springs to his reconditioned executive oflices in Washington with the greater part of his winter program completed. It will be presented to congress in li is annual message on January 3. The major items have to do with expansion of the public works administration ad-ministration to provide work relief, re-lief, revision of the NRA and the AAA, extension of power developments, develop-ments, social security Insurance and low cost housing, and the paring par-ing down of the budget. INTERESTING statements were made to the American Congress of Industry in New York by two of the President's closest advisers. pipim Donald Richberg Raymond Moley and Donnld Richberg, Rich-berg, director of the national emergency council. Professor Moley declared there Is no workable work-able substitute for the present capitalistic capital-istic economic system. sys-tem. "Basically," he said, "the New Deal was an effort to save capitalism and. by spreading the DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S avi- atiou commission, having concluded con-cluded its hearings on national defense de-fense began drafting Its report, and it was authoritatively said in Wash ington that. It congress approves of its recommendations, government airships will surely be operating In a new transoceanic service. Details De-tails were being worked out, and it seemed likely the commission would adopt the $17,000,000 plan approved by Ewing J. .Mitchell, assistant as-sistant secretary of commerce, and the national advisory committee for aeronautics. That plan calls for two huge Zeppelin type airships and one smaller metal clad craft along with necessary modern landing land-ing equipment. The commission also will ask congress In Its February report to create a permanent federal agency with supervisory control over all civil aviation. This would comprise com-prise five to seven members and take over present Commerce department de-partment aviation activities. SERGEI KIROV, one of the most prominent members of the Russian Rus-sian Communist party's political bureau, bu-reau, was assassinated in Lenin- Sergei Kirov grad, and as he was a close associate asso-ciate of Stalin his death was the occasion oc-casion of public mourning. The government gov-ernment announced that the assassin was Leonid Nico-lieff Nico-lieff and that he 'was sent by the enemies of the working class." But it appears there Is dressing the American Correspondents' Correspond-ents' association In London, but his words were meant for all the world to hear, and as Ids speech was the first comprehensive statement of the American position since the opening of the conversations, It was regarded as of the greatest Importance. Impor-tance. He also announced, for the first time, flint President Roosevelt ' has proposed "a substantial all-around all-around reduction In naval armaments." arma-ments." Mr. Davis said that, since no agreement for armament reduction has been reached, the United States advocates the continuance of the Washington and London treaties with their assurance of "equality of security." Asserting that the Washington pact put an end to a ruinous naval race and established "a sound basis for peace In the Pacific Pa-cific and the Far East," he continued contin-ued : "Only by maintenance of the system sys-tem of equality of security, with proportionate reductions downward of naval strength if possible, can there be maintained the substantial foundation for security and peace which has thus been laid. "Abandonment now of the principles princi-ples involved would lead to conditions condi-tions of insecurity, of international suspicion, and of costly competition, with no real advantage to any nation." na-tion." Unofficially, It Is said that when Japan gives formal notice that she is denouncing ' the Washington treaty, probably on December 20, the United States will immediately withdraw from the discussions in London. Oliicials in Washington consider that to continue the conversations con-versations would he tantamount to acquiscence to Japan's demand for modification of the ratios on which ' the treaty is based. No more than any other nation does the United States wish to-see the revival of the race in naval con- ' struction, but the government will ' not tolerate the decline of our navy ' to a subordinate place. Recent ut- ' terances of cabinet members and of congressmen who especially have to do with naval affairs make this 1 plain. ' In his annual report to the President, Presi-dent, Secretary of the Navy Swan-sn Swan-sn says that although the United States may reduce Its naval strength " proportionately with other powers. ' it is imperative that a navy second 1 to none be maintained. He warns 1 also of the dangerous shortage of 1 personnel in the navy, saying that "ships are valueless unless manned 1 by adequate crews of trained and ' experienced officers and men." j THE government of Jugoslavia lias decided to expel all the 27,-000 27,-000 Hungarians now living in that country. The process will be gradual grad-ual hut relentless. Already more than 2,000 have been deported and j more are being sent away daily. ( Hungary called the action of Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia to the attention of the League of Nations. PEACEFUL solution of the Saar s plebiscite problem seemed as- f 8ured when the council of the f League of Nations unanimously and , gladly adopted the report of the (. Saar committee embodying the Franco-German agreement for pay- r meat for the mines in case the re- t gion votes to return to the reich. f Leading up to this settlement were t two announcements of utmost lm- , portunce. First, Foreign " Minister s Pierre Laval of France promised , that French troops would make no ( attempt to enter the Saar territory i before or during the vote on Janu- f ary 13. "1 desire to announce," said he. "that France will not participate lu any International force which It s may be found necessary to send into ; the Saar. We cannot participate t In such a force because Germany t cannot participate." I Then Cnpt. Anthony Eden, Brit- ( lsh lord privy seal, told the council t that Great Britain would contribute t trooits to the proposed International force, provided Chancellor Hitler v of Germany were willing that such t an army should be sent Into the ter- l ritory. When Berlin was informed 1 of this a foreign office spokesman c announced that Hitler's government t would raise no objections to the plan. v range of opportunity under it, to enable en-able the average man to regain a measure of control over the conditions con-ditions under which he lived. It seemed to me in 1933, as it seems to me now, that this effort .to save capitalism was eminently wise and Just. "By no stretch of the Imagination Imagina-tion could the vote of November, 1932, have been Interpreted as a mandate for the abandonment of the capitalistic system. Finally, even had there been such a mandate, there was and is no workable substitute substi-tute for our present system." Moley expressed much optimism regarding business. He told the Industrialists, In-dustrialists, in effect, that they need have no fear of any radical change in the present economic and social srder, that industry was needed to stimulate trade, bring about recov-3ry, recov-3ry, and that In the last analysis it ivould be the business men who ivould distribute the wealth of the nation. Mr. Richberg admitted the NRA nnd not achieved all its aims in its ;ffort to bring about industrial self-jovernment, self-jovernment, but insisted that its fundamental principles must be preserved pre-served in permanent legislation for ?odes of fair competition. He warned the manufacturers :hat the permanent law must be written in co-operation with labor ind consumers, as well as private business and government, so that :here should be neither work-consumer regimentation by business lor business regimentation by gov-jrnment. gov-jrnment. He hinted that if employers consented con-sented to legal restriction in return 'or Increased power under the codes. rganized labor would be called jpon to do likewise In submitting :o legislative control. Organized labor was soundly be-ated be-ated by C. L. Bardo, president of he National Association of Manufacturers. Manu-facturers. He said Its contribution :o national recovery had been "the nost widespread Inauguration of itrikes, coercion. Intimidation, and violence that the United States has ;ver seen, as evidenced by strikes n Minneapolis. Cleveland, textile industries, in-dustries, and the general strike at San Francisco." Bardo pledged the united opposition oppo-sition of the National Association of Manufacturers to the efforts of the American Federation of Lahor to oh-ain oh-ain through congress legislation Im-wsing Im-wsing a 30-hour week on industry. r any other effort to "fix a rigid ind arbitrary work week for all ln-iustry." ln-iustry." Industry's platform for recovery, vhlch was proposed at a meeting of he national industrial council, urg-ng urg-ng return to the gold standard, a mlanced budget, and other orthodox economic measures, was submitted y W. B. P.ell, president of the American Cyanamid company, and vas discussed at closed sessions. something more to the event than a mere murder. A dispatch from War saw said ten Red army officers had been executed as the result of a plot to assassinate all Soviet leaders at the same time. - ' The Moscow government denied this story, but at the same time it was putting under arrest scores of White Guards, enemies of the Soviet regime, accusing them of "terroristic "terroris-tic action." They were tried by a military collegium of the Supreme court and sixty-six of them, including includ-ing one woman, were found guilty and immediately executed. The names of those executed were officially announced. Among them apparently were none of the leaders who had figured prominently prominent-ly with the Wliite armies during the civil warfare following the Bolshevist Bol-shevist revolution. Nor were there any names of men who have had national prominence subsequently in Russia. The executions were carried out while Kirov's body was being cremated. cre-mated. He was given a state funeral funer-al and his ashes were placed in the Communists' Valhalla beside the wall of the Kremlin where rest the remains of Lenin, John Reed and other miltary and civil heroes of the Red revolution. MEMBERS of the Mid-Continent Reclamation association, representing rep-resenting 19 states, met .n Chicago and perfected plans for a soil erosion ero-sion and flood control program, to cost $000,000,000, which the association associa-tion will recommend to the federal government with a request for a survey to determine Its practlca- j bility. The plan, which was devel- j oped by A. B. IL u lit of Chicago, in- volves the construction of canals and dams over an area extending from northern North Dakota through Texas to control flood waters wa-ters originating on the eastern slopes of the Rocky mountains. |