By EDWARD W. PICKARD IX of Europe's foremost statesmen, with experts and secretaries, sol- emnly considered peace plans and se- curity pacts on Isola Bella, a lovely pasa om little island in Lake Ra J Maggiore off Stresa, of italy. The conference was momentous, but it was of an “explora. tory” nature, and no definite results were axpected, Prime Min ister Ramsay MacDon. ald and Foreign Sec- retary Sir John Simon, representing Great Britain, were willing Premier to carry out that na- Flandin tion's military obliga- tions under the Locarno treaty but balked at further commitment in con- tinental affairs, Anyhow, they had promised to enter into no new agreements without the consent of parliament, which cannot be consulted until after the Easter holl days. Premier Flandin and Foreign Minister Laval of France sought to per- suade England to line up with France and Russia rather than with Germany, and they presented as one argument a new mutual assistance pact they had just signed with Russia. Premier Mus- solini, solemn and pessimistic, handled matters for Italy with the help of Fulvio Suvich, undersecretary of for- elgn affairs. He had already warned the world that the issue of war or Stresa. concrete problem taken up was tions against Germany's repudiation of din stood in opposition. tion against Germany, but England ob- ‘Jected and France was uncertain. All three nations rather favored the re- armament of Austria, Bulgaria and Hungary, and the Danube pact which Italy especially has been promoting. USSOLINT'S pessimistic frame of mind was {liustrated by an an- nouncement in his newspaper, Popolo d'Italia, that Italy would keep 600,000 men under arms “until the horizon is well cleared, and give them all modern weapons.” Both the Itallans and the French are convinced that Germany is maliciously stirring up the troubles that confront them in northern Africa with the purpose of weakening their position in Europe. This matter was discussed privately by some of the participants in the Stresa meeting. HE new mutual assistance agree ment reached by France and Russia Nations. sert that it is in effect a milkary alli- ance such as Russia had been urging signatories will determine for them- selves who is the aggressor, without waiting for word from Geneva. The marily against Germany. completing a steel ring around Ger many's land frontiers, is still subject to alteration and final approval, That Russia still seeks “to maintain and strengthen the general peace” was shown by the signing of a Russo-Ger- man trade treaty which it is believed will greatly increase the volume of Russia's orders In the reich. Under this accord the Soviet will Increase purchases in Germany by 200,000,000 marks (about $80,000,000), a banking consortium headed by the Deutsche Bank and Discount Gesellschaft and the Dresdner bank to grant Import credits for an average term of five years. The credits will bear Interest at the discount rate of the relchsbank plus 2 per cent. The Russian trade delegation ls thereby enabled to pay eash for orders placed with German firms, A RNOUNCEMEBNT was made by the government that it had uncovered extensive frauds In the immigration and naturalization service from 1028 to 1083, and steps were taken for the ousting of a number of employees and for criminal prosecutions. It was es- timated that a ring of bribe takers and fixers had received as much as a mil Mon dollars from persons illegally en- tering the country. “Revelations so startling in character have come to light that Investigators believe the actual extent of corruption and fraud has been but partially dis. closed,” sald a statement issued by the Labor department after a secret inves. tigation of alleged frauds in the New York district. “Sums ranging up to $100 are alleged to have been pald in cases involving false witnesses or passing of an appli cant who had falled in his test of knowledge of the government or his ability to speak English, “It Is alleged that fees ranging from $300 to $1,200 were levied In cases In- volving fraudulent or altered manifest records, where it was desirable to ob- tain a record that would safeguard an alien from deportation or procure citl- zenship status by showing his legal ad. mission at the port of New York for permanent residence.” EW dust storms, the worst of the destructive series, swept over Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas, completing the vir- tual ruin of the wheat crop and caus ing great losses and suffering among live stock. Schools and shops were closed, airplanes grounded and train and bus schedules disrupted. Some regions were being abandoned by all inhabitants, A delegation of senators and repre sentatives from four of the stricken states called on President Roosevelt and asked him to earmark $150.000, 000 for a land program for the next two years. He did not Indicate what amount would be allocated, but was said by the delegation to have given assurance that he would permit the expenditure of all the money that was RESIDENT ROOSEVELT, deeply tanned and In good physical con- dition, was landed at Jacksonville, == Fla, by the destroyer f Farragut and started immediately for New York, to attend the funeral of his cousin, Warren Delano Rob- bins, after which he returned to Washing: ton. Aboard his spe cial train the Presi dent read through the $4.880,000,000 work re- lief bill as it was final ly passed by both houses of congress, called for pen and ink and appended his signature to the largest appropriation measure ever enacted by congress. There were some features of it, agreed upon in the sen- ate and house conference, which he did not like, but he sald those who had studied it recommended its approval. The President at once signed two al- locations from the amount appropri. ated. The first was $125.000.000 to the administrator of the Federal Emer. gency Relief administratoin, In order that relief might not stop. The sec ond was $30,000,000 for continuation of the emergency conservation work. In Washington the Republicans and some others discussed with dissatisfac. tion the probability that Harry L. Hop- kins, rellef administrator, would be the President's chief assistant in carrying out the vast work relief program. “It is extremely fortunate for Mr. Hopkins that, If he is going to be the lord high distributor of the money, the bill is so drawn that he won't have to be confirmed by the senate,” said Sen- Harry Hopkins Representative Snell of New York, the Republican leader in the house, de a man like Hopkins,” who had termed critics of work-relief methods “d-—n dumb,” should “appear £6 be In line to be clothed with extraordinary grants of power over the greatest sum of money ever appropriated.” I¥ HIS first post-vacation confer ence with congressional leaders, President Roosevelt disregarded thelr fears of a prolonged session and In sisted on enactment of his legislative program. Especially he wants legisla tion dealing with extension of the NRA, social security, utilities holding companies, extension of federal au thority over banking, ship subsidy re adjustment and extension of $416, 000,000 in nuisance raxes, Later the President conferred with Senator Joe Robinson, who sald both of them felt that very satisfactory progress is being made. To the cor respondent Mr. Roosevelt said he hoped to have the work relief program at its peak by the middle of November, at which time 3500000 unemployed should be at work under its terms. He Indicated this program would be carried out as far as possible by ex. isting governmental agencies, He will seek to avoid moving workers from one area to another, and will take care of as many “white collar” work. ers as possible. The social security bill finally was produced on the floor of the house of representatives. There were severa: blocs against It In Its form as re ported. These Included representa- tives who want higher unemployment and old age payments; members from the poorer states, who want the fed. eral government to bear the entire cost of the program, with the states re Nleved of any contribution, and the conservatives, who are opposed to the “government going into the insurance business” and exacting a pay roll tax during the depression. Gz HERMANN WILHELM GOB- RING, and Emmy Sonnemann, lin, first in the city hall and then In the evangelical cathedral, with Relchs- both ceremonies. It was a most spec- tacular wedding, with Germans and a grand opera chorus In attendance, a triumphal procession through the crowded streets and 8 display of the Nazi air force. OCIALISTS and Catholics of Dan- zig combined Hitler of Germany his first big set. back. falled to get the two- thirds majority of the seats that would give them complete con- trol of Hitler and his follow- ers had hoped Dan zig would follow the lead of the Saar and return to the reich, Paul Goebbels the result, for the population of the city is more than 90 per cent German. But tempt to lay the groundwork for the suppression of all other political par- ties and the establishment of a dicta. torship. Presumably thelr next step will be to vote for a change in the Free City's constitution and to ask the Leagfle of Natlons, which admin. isters the city through a commissioner, to permit a plebiscite on return to the reich. This was openly discussed by Paul Joseph Goebbels, German propa- ganda minister, during the hot cam- paign in Danzig carried on by the Nazis, Poland was enraged by the violent methods of the Hitlerites in the campaign and demanded an apol- ogy from Berlinn The whole affalr endangered the new friendship between Poland apd Germany, and probably this was not mourned by the other nations of Europe. V JITH the rubber workers in the tire plants of Akron, Ohio, ready to quit their jobs, the American Feder ation of Labor pledged itself to finance the strike, which President Green de clared would be a crucial attempt by organized labor to force on Industry the collective bargaining provisions of the NRA, He announced his organi zation would “support the rubber work crs of Akron for as long a time as may be necessary.™ Green definitely marked out the tire strike as a test of labor's ability to make good on the promises beld out to it by the New Deal The national labor relations board, he pointed out, had ordered the big tire companies, Goodyear, Goodrich, and Firestone, to allow their workers to elect represent. atives for collective bargaining. The companies have refused and labor now takes into its own hands the enforce ment of the NLRB decision, Green ar- gued, Tire manufacturers, on the other side, recognize the threatened strike as a key move In the New Deal pro gram for regimentation of labor and industry and are fighting back. Fire stone expected to go before the District of Columbia Supreme court and ask a permanent Injunction against the NLRB and NRA meddling in its labor situation, OSTMASTER GENERAL JAMES A, FARLEY went to New York to study the political and legislative sit uation there, and It was declared by local Democratic lead: ers that he would re tire from the cabinet soon after the ad Journment of congress. Mr. Farley neither af- firmed nor denied the story. 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