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Bamwell. S. Thargday, Febmary T- - News Review of Current Events the World -X.’ Germany Studies Anglo-French Peace Proposals—Labor Rebuked by Roosevelt for Objections to the Auto Code—Governor Moodie Ousted from Office; By EDWARD W. PICKARD ©, Weitern Newspaper Union. | •> Pltrr* LaVal (* '' w l : t -- I ■ C ONTINENTAL chancellories turned their attention toward a new plan designed to restore Germany to com plete equality among European nations and to strengthen the shaky foundations of peace, as conversa tions ended between Pierre Laval, French foreign minister, and Sir John Simon, Brit ish foreign secretary. Germany will be of fered a promise of re peal of the military clauses of the treaty of Versailles In return for re-entering the League of Nations. Such a concession would seem a victory for Hitler’s cam paign to restore Germany to Its place as a sovereign power In Europe. Another proposal arising from the negotiations greatly aids France’s cam paign for security. Regional defense pacts to provide the nations partici pating with reciprocal assistance In re pelling an unprovoked air attack are part of the plan. France and Great Britain are willing to enter Into such a series of pacts, and .suggest that oth er European nations be invited to Join. This signifies that either nation must rush planes to the aid of the other in the event of attack from the air. The pact will undoubtedly be concluded be tween Great Britain and France, no matter what action the other nations take, although no formal announce- ent has been made. , me European diplomats are not at rtaln that Germany and Poland can he persuaded to change the unre- ceptlve attitude they have so far mani fested toward suggestions for their par ticipation In an “eastern Locarno.” Germaay may be so strongly rearmed by this time that she will not be con cerned whether her armaments are le galised. This, however,\Is only speculation. Dispatches from Germany have Indi cated the relch's willingness to engage In any conversations proposed by the Franco-Britlsh formula^ but she must nrst be assured of complete equality of status. ^ENATOR BORAH of Idaho, always ^ sternly opposed to action that might lead the United States Into for eign entanglements, has surprisingly come forward with a demand that con gress Investigate the alleged religious persecutions In Mexico and persuade our neighbors to the south to cease them. The excuse for such proposed meddimg is that some citizens of the United States may be among the ‘‘vic tims.’' Through Its representatives In Washington the Mexican government calmly denies there Is any religious persecution down there, and says all who ooey the laws are permitted to worship as they please. If the Borah resolution carries, Mexico may well tell tbe United States to mind Its own business. Representative Fish of New Tork followed Borah’s lead by Intro ducing In the house a resolution calling upon tbe President to take diplomatic steps toward abatemefit of what he declares Is growing communism In Mexico. He said the communistic trend was directly connected with the alleged religious persecutions, and that entrenchment of communism In Mexico would seriously affect the United States r # X'HREE million pounds of steel In the fo.m of a huge gate was slowly lowered into place at the Boulder dam, the great Colorado river was placed under control, and there came Into be-- Ing a new lake which will eventually be the largest ever made by man. In two or three years it will extend back 115 miles from the dans By June 1 next It will contain about 8,000,000 acre feet, of water or onetenth of Its ca pacity. Only one of the diversion tun nels remains open,,, It Is on the Ne vada side and through It will be per mitted to flow only enough water to meet the needs of Irrigation in the Im perial valley of California. , T'HE much-advertised benefits ^?ro& * Russian recognition have been rather less than satisfactory. Neither the wide expansion of trade which was ahtldpated, or the satisfactory settle ment of debts materialized, and follow ing a conference with Soviet repre sentatives, Secretary Cordell Hull aS mltted that diplomatic dilly-dallying had come to an end. Hull Issued a curt statement that "certain diplomatic changes” had been ordered In Moscow. The acting naval attache will be withdrawn, the con sulate generalship will be aboHthed, and further reductions will be made in the personnel of tbe embassy, he 'stated. The United States^ action means a period of strained relsrtons between the two countries, slthough not to tbe point of the United States govern- ment’a withdrawing recognition. Wil liam CL Bullitt will- remain aa ambae- aador but there la little doubt that the States will not proceed with of aa embassy building, nts for creating consulates In other parts of Russia will be deferred. - - OIOTING broke out In England as a protest against the new dole measure, despite an announcement by Minister of Labor Oliver Stanley that recent reductions In nnemployment payments' would be restored. Thousands continued their ' protest campaign, demanding not only the restoration of relief cuts, but an in crease over the scale of relief Imposed before the advent of the unemployment assistance board last month. Violent clashes occurred at Sheffield, where a mob of 10,000 battled with mounted police. At.Glasgow during a discussion of the new relief conces sions two councillors were thrown out of the council chamber and a band of unemployed men and women were also forcibly ejected. Wm. Green DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT renewed * the automobile code, with two changes designed to stabilize employ ment; but the American Federation of Xahbr, growing daily more dissatisfied with the government 1 # pol- * ley, denounced the code extension, and President William Green said: “We'will not accept It, recog nize nor yield to it.” The federation’s exec utive council bitterly attacked Donald Rich- berg, emergency coun cil dlrectqr, and Dr.- Leo Wolman, chairman of the automo bile labor board, asserting they are hos tile to the American Federation of La bor. Wolman’s board not long ago con ducted elections In the Detroit area which revealed that less than 10 per cent of the employees were affiliated with the federation, and presumably for this reason Green and bis aids were not consulted In the matter of renewal of the code. The President lost no time in serv ing notice that labor would not be permitted to dictate administration policies. Extension of th* code was welcomed by the Automobile Manufacturers’ as sociation, its officers declaring tbere would be steadier work In their fac tories and that winter unemployment would be greatly reduced. The changes In the code call for the Introduction of new models during a 60-day period before or after October 1, and pay and a half for overtime work. Two days later the President again fired back at the federation In reply to the federation executive council’s de mand that S. Clay Williams, adminis tration board chairman, be removed at least until a cigarette code satisfac tory to labor could be approved. Wil liams ho^ been appointed after care ful consideration, the President said, and there was no need for any con troversy. A resolution had been passed by the labor council asking William Green to seek the ouster of Williams as a foe of labor. Before he took *he NRA post Williams headed one of the nation’s largest tobacco companies. CTING with startling rapidity, the Agricultural Adjustment Admlnl#- on ousted a group pf radical New Dealers, which Secretary of Agricul ture Wallace said wai "for the' good' of the service.” Jerome V N. Frank, Le« Pressman and Frank Shea and Gardner Jackson all tendered their realgne- tions. The final fate of Fred C. Howe, Victor Rotnam and Alger Hiss still re main la doubt - The bloodless purge of the group, known as favored proteges of Rexford G. Tugwell, was unexpected. Evident^ ly signals were confused, because Pres ident Roosevelt In his press confer ence stated that he was uninformed of any such action, but later In the day, Secretary ..Wallace said the President was aware of the action before it was announced. Wallace added, however, that Tug- well, who.Is in Florida, had not been consulted. It may be remembered that Tugwell’a fight for Frank resulted In the discharge of George N. Peek as AAA administrator, and It was felt by some that It was to avoid possible trouble with Tugwell that .he was not Informed of the plan. Agricultural Administrator Davis In- THIS WEEK Idle Acres, Idle Men The Townsend Plan Mrs. Roosevelt's Enterprise Another Slave of Man . Ten million Idle men and more in the United States. Ten million Idle acres and more on either aide of this railroad running along the Atlantic coast from southern Florida to New York. Two of the acres, Intensively cultivated, would feed a family. Tex as alone, under Intensive cultivation, could feed the entire population of the earth as It exists now, and oil under neath Texas would run all the automo biles. There is an empire for yon. In one single state. r . And we talk about “over-popula tion” with so much land not used, and none of It used-wltb-fnll Intelligence. ti - The Town8en< * P ,IU1 * $200 a month formed newspaper Ven that the order to everybody sixty years of age, ts sol- wag necessary to preserve harmony. - “There was mounting difficulty In getting things done,” said Administra tor Davis. “We believed things would function more smoothly If they were directed by men familiar with farm problems and having^ a farm^ back ground.” Wallace was asked If this statement applied to Tugwell. He hastily replied that TugWell had an excellent farm background, which may be a distinct surprise to many. T HE first special federal grand Jury to he called at Washington stfice the Teqpbt Dome oil scandals more than ten years ago, began investigation of. the public works scandal Involving tin alleged conspiracy to use 200 miles of California redwood pipe in a Texas Irrigation project that originally called for no pipe at all PWA Administrator Harold'L. Ickes Instituted the grand Jury action. The plot centers around the $4,853,000 Wil lacy county (Texas) water control pro gram to irrigate citrus orchards. Ickes claims the money was promised by PWA on the understanding that the Willacy project would be a gravity sys tem requiring no pipe, and that after the papers were signed by PWA' the plans were mysteriously altered to make it a pressure system and to use 20G miles of redwood pipe. Accord ing to the evidence to be placed before the Jury, PWA officials and engineers, Texas politicians and lumbermen were parties to tbe conspiracy. When the Willacy county matter has been sifted, the Jury may Investigate reported Irregularities in other PWA projects, and may also start s new in- v^tjgaUpjQL of War department con tracts. emnly discussed by congress, which ought to be passing s sound, reason able-«ld age pension now. The Town send plan is an interesting plan In ijpany ways By taxation on every transaction, on producer, jobber, whole saler,-retailer, manufacturer, buyer. It' would practically absorb all available money to turn It over to deserving, or otherwise, persons, aged sixty. It would soon become necessary for some other Townsend, to organize a $200-a- month plan for all paupers. There Would soon be twice as many paupers as there are people sixty years old. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Is mean ly criticized, because, having interest iy cmicizen, oecause, Having mieresi- * _" ~ \ ed herself in providing better hoines door where she would discover it. for poor people, It appears that the undertaking may Involve some slight financial loss, trifling In United States finance. Mrs. Roosevelt caused families to be moved from miserable hovels Into comfortable homes. A woman with children, living last year In two rooms without windows, with nothing but raw carrots for her Christmas dinner, told Mrs. Roosevelt that she did not dare tell her children It was Christmas day. On this Christmas day, when Mrs. Roosevelt went to see her, the mother, with a new born baby, and her chil dren, all happy, were living In a de cent homestead, with modern improve ments, Including a cellar full of canned goods. v If that did cost a little money, It was money well spent Other ladles and gentlemen who have spent money for the United States government have not done so well. A FTER less than a month In office Gov. Thomas H. Moodie was oust ed by the North Dakota Supreme court The court held Moodie Ineligible on the ground that he had voted, and thereby established residence, In Min nesota in 1030. The constitutional pro vision requires candidates for governor to have lived In the stMe five consecu tive years befor^ election. His suc cessor, Lieut Gov. Walter H. .Welford, will be the fourth governor In seven months. Last June the State Supreme court ord^Ved the removal of William Langer, who bad just been convicted of conspiracy to solicit political con tributions from federal relief workers During his brief term In office, Moodie was in difficulties with the leg islature. the lower house being, oon- trolled by the Nonpartisan party which was hostile to Moodie, who was the second Democrat ever to win the office. "V W ILLIAM MACCRACKEN, former assistant secretary of commerce for aeronautics, will spend ten days in Jail, the Supreme court decreed, thus settling the right of the senate to pun ish for contempt MacCracken was sen fenced to jail by tbe senate when he failed to produce data requested by the senate air mall Investigating commit tee. The District of Columbia Supreme court held tbe senate acted within its power,but the District Court of Ap peals sided with MacCracken. ^ " '. .V O RGANIZED labor Id America now gives Its full support to tbs IstfK* national labor organisation In Geneva. It was officially announced In tbs Swiss dty that President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, will be .the American member of tha body. Leon Jouhaux, French labor lender. In n speech at Geneva, expressed tbe Joy of labor representatives of all coun tries at tbs’ co-opsratkm of Amsrlcaa labor. DOSTMASTER GENERAL JAMES * FARLEY will either have to resign bis job as head of the Post Office de partment, or give np the chairmanship of the Democratic na- 11 o n a 1 committee If Senator Norris, Ne braska, succeeds in putting through a bill he Introduced in the senate. Norris would' take the post office from Farley down out of partisan politics. The postmaster general w o o 1 d be appointed for ten years, and the present system whereby congressmen have an Important voice In the appoint ment of postmasters would be abol ished. AH employees would be select ed for “merit and efficiency" only. The chances of ever putting such a measure through congress ar'e more Gian prob lematical. While Norris asserts that congressmen ought to be tickled to death to be, rid of the Job,” It Is hardly likely that very many congressmen will be anxious to give up the “task” of banding out such political plums. Tha administration moved hastily to Introduce » counter bill which would provld/that all postmasterships would be broughf under civil service, and which would ban political appoint ments and open most of the Jobs only to career employees In the postal serv- Ice. The measure was introduced by Senator Joseph 0. O’Mahoney, Demo crat, Wyomiilg, and was said to have the approval of both the President and Farley. * Only civil service employees of tbe postal system who have served in su pervisory capacities or 'as post .office Inspectors, postmasters of .first-class, offices who hav^. had at least foss^. 'years of actual- experience, or execu tives “of broad experience In private life” would constitute the class from which postmasters would be selected for offices having gross receipts of $1,- 000,000 or more. ' ■ ' \ PEEDY police action was necessary avert new bloodshed In Paris on the anniversary of the uprising caused by popular Indignation over tbs Stavlnsky scandal disclosures Thou sands of arrests were made as Com- mnnlsts sought to Arouse the public 'to a repetition of the riots of a year ago, when 10 were killed In tbe Place de la Concorde.’ .Police--gave tits Reds no chance to carry out their intended maneuvers The most harmless look ing individuals were escorted a few blocks and let ..go with fare#»U kicks, while those found frying weapons were rushed into improvised concentra tion camps Premier Flandln was hissed and booed by many fire-anting Nationalists as be attends^ mean services in Notre DSae cathedral. -L A steel gate 12 feet thick, weigh ing 3,000,000 pounds, was closed one day recently and the Colorado river, Its water and power, definitely har nessed, made-slaves of man. The stream that had wandered aa It ^pleased for millions of years through the magnificent mile-deep canyqp of the Colorado, through Boul der Canyon, and Black Canyon, was now tied fast In Black Canyon. "The Boulder Dam” Is a reality. Hereafter the Colorado will flow as man shall or S4er. lighting cities. Irrigating deserts supplying power far away. Man eventually will control the earth completely. He has made a good start—at Niagara, Panama, Muscle Shoals, Boulder Dam. • “Faint Heart” By EVELYN GORDON ©, McClure Newapaper Syndicate WNT7 Serrtca. — M ILT MARRICK S fingers drummed with soft Impatience on his desk. Then he got up and for the tenth time itopped to listen ,at bis open door. No, she wasn’t coming yet. Past nine, now, Ruth Royal during these two years as his secretary in the Mar- rick Advertising tfgency never bad been late. Until this morning. And this morning of all mornings! When fate lay In What wduld be re vealed in her lovely face when she would emerge through that door con necting their offices. Would it be yes, or no? ^ For months he had been like a timid- swimmer atop a springboard, but with Insufficient courage to take the actual leap. And now It was as though he had positively cast off by proxy. Be cause of yesterday; yesterday, when he had walked firmly out and bought an expensive engagement ring. He wrote a letter then and placed It inside the velvet case beneath the ring. Now, how to get It to her? It was like a voice from Paradise when on the way out at five, Ruth said, “My mother’s with me for a week. She’s keen to meet the man I’m working for. Couldn’t you drop into the apartment?” Ruth had the merriest fire crackling In the grate when he arrived. Some one said, quietly, “Miss Ruth, the coffee’s served.” And Milt decided that when the la dles preceded him to the* dining room he would place the precious box on her pillow as he passed Ruth’s bedroom SCIENTIFIC OIL STUDf ^ Tha “blood count” for engines, ths work of a woman scientist, and some*; thing new In automobile tests, baa been perfected' in Pennsylvania; Thw new treatment examines engine oll r mudi aa a* physician studies human blood. ^nervous /p*l* ftind s «Im *at imUmM jw Mr, A simple thing, perhaps...yet d very serious one, resulting In loss «fl Chicago reports the latest “American type” murder. Thomas E. Maloy, vet eran head of Chicago's Motion Picture Operators’ union, was killed In the us ual way, as be sat at the wheel -of his automobile. The government says Mr. Maloy’s career as a “union labor leader” was profitable. He bad been indicted and released on bail on a charge of failure to report three hundred and fifty thoir sand dollars' Income befove the assas sin’s “slugs” canceled that and other/ accusations. If the leader of a motion picture union £Ot that income you wonder how and from whom he got it, also what other motion Picture operators who got no apeh sum think about it It was time for somebody to say what Mr, Rlchberg says now. that be "does pot propose to ptft tbe Interest of the unions above loyalty to bis gov ernment.” It Is a friendly act to remind union labor again that If It wants to know what happens when separate organi zations claim the right to run tbe coun try they should study conditions j In Italy. There are no Italian union lead era collecting millions a year in does Former leaders are working with pick and shovel, or tractor, or lathe, accord ing to their mechanical ability,' Kenneth Neu, killer of two ( men. hanged in New Orleans, entertainer and singer by profession, sang gaily the day before bi« banging, sang In the morning before going to the gal lows, said he would sing all tbe way to the scaffold, “Love In Bloom," and “Whdb the Trumpet. Sounds.”' But when be saw tbe hangman and the noose be stopped staging and only did a" feeble tap dance on the scaffold. It may comfort California, which dis likes reading about Florida, to be told that when yota buy cauliflower and many other green things tn Florida you bay things grown In Califc He had not slept, thinking of Ruth and of Joe AHerton—he'd seen them together lately more than enough. The electric light button clicked In the adjoining room! Instantly Milt’s eyes focused dn the connecting door. His heart leapt like a racehorse taking final hurdles ifi com petition with other aspirants; He yearned for the light of acquiescence on her face. Some one was with hler. “Let It be anyone but AHerton,” he prayed. “It’s serious, Ruth.” The voice was low, secretive; and Milt knew that voice—Joe Allerton’s. “We’ve simply got to get together;” (he failed to catch the next pleading words but read his own suspicions Into them) "otherwise the bottom will drop out of everything.” • • • • • • • After a curt “Good morning,” she said firmly: “Let’s get these orders straightened out first, I’ve had so many complaints about mistakes—” Her words all pertaining to business, bumped up in a huddled mass in his brain through a telephone buzzer on Ruth’s outer desk. She hastened to answer It. -And suddenly he was alone again when the door opened gently. Some one peeped In, then entered noiselessly. , Milt’S face paled. “Why—Anne!” His eyes were gray clouds. “You I What have you come here for?” “I’m glad you’re going to marry her, Milt. Any girl would give her ears to marry you. You’ve always been so fine, staunch.” She hesitated as though her throat were b’oeked. “Only —she doesn't know yet.” “You see, Milt, it’s my one bad habit. FU always steak Because I can’t seem to help It, somehow. J took Miss Royal’s rlng;^found it on the pillow ^ien I went in to turn the bed down. I go from place to place, yon know. But I left there this morning.” An aching void for tne girl he had once adored gaped- In - Milt’s gentle heart. He had ..helped her so many times to escape punishment. Anne opened Mr purse, took out the square-cut -purple box with reverent care; put It safely Into Milt’s hands It was only then that her dark eyes misted. “Don’t do It this way, Milt,” she begged. “I mean—not the writing part Tell her. She’ll like it better. Milt It seems sort of cowardly to do It this way.” - , Milt looked hard into her thin face. “Thank yon, Anne,”'he said with diffl- cultv. “I will.” * Suddenly he straightened up to his /ull six feet and slapped his thumb over the buzzer mlghtltf. - Ruth came running In. Her eyes were red,, strained, Without a doubt she-had been crying. • v “Come here, Ruth. What’i the mat ter?” Her Ups quivered. “Oh, everything that was ever the matter In the whole world. The business is going to ruin and you can’t see—can’t* see—’* “-—the reason why,” he supplied In a thick certain voice. “Well—this Is it!” His armsrclosed tight about her. “This is why!” ~ “Oh, Milt,” she was saying breath lessly, “what’s been the matter with yon? This enrions hedge yon seemed to have around yon! I felt yon cared about me, bat somehow we coaldn’t get through to one another.” He kissed her hard. “We £#▼« now,” he said triumphantly. ‘And an tha time yon were getting more absent-minded than ever. Send ing the wrong material out Mhrii> g n p the merchandise; making clients tged until Joe AHerton and I wore almost beside ourselves. Only this morning Joe said the bottom would fall out of everything nhless we could do some thing 7 ; get together—” - “Bo, that’s what Joe Was saying! Thht I was going daft” He kissed Mr again. “My sweet brown birdi” There waa a roguish gleam In hla eye. “Tbs hedge la down—and the Marrtck agency stm Boats—with yon at the helm I* strength ... body weakness . - “J possibly many other ills. So why not check-up and snap back to the scst ol eating and well Ming. 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