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.
He has been bitterly
attacked for retaining
his cabinet post and
at the same time con- Be
tinuing as chalrman
of the Democratic na- Jaias A.
tional committee and arley
of the New York Democratic commit.
tee, despite the edict of the President
against such double holding. Mr.
Roosevelt wants Mr. Farley to remain
head of the national committee and to
conduct his campaign for re-election,
#80 he will give up his post office job;
but he did not wish to resign while
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Chile for co-operative efforts to end
the Bolivia-Paraguay war in the Gran
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had been consulted, would join In the
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