a Scheme—Italy Struggles tions—President Talks By EDWARD Against Economic Sanc- to Mayors About Taxes. W. PICKARD JArAx Suddenly learned that the autonomy movement In the north- ern provinces of China, fostered by the Japanese army commanders, was ’ ry likely to prejudice her case In the naval con- ference soon to open in London. There- fore the army high command in Tokyo told its subordinates on the continent to “lay off,” and the am- bitious schemes of Maj. Gen. Kenji Dol. hara came to naught, : at least for the pres- Kenji ent, That plotter, who had become known as “the Lawrence of China,” quietly departed from Pelping and his early return was not expected. Thus, years, Doihara first time In recent militarists have been checked, by the Tokyo govern- ment, which Informed them that the mission of the Japanese army in Man- chukuo did not Include Intriguing for &eparation of the Chinese provinces and that it would not be permitted to pass south of the great wall without an imperial order, Instead of the autonomy coup, the Nanking government was told by the Japanese authorities in China that it must institute reforms in the northern provinces, Akira Ariyoshl, Japanese ambassador, had a long conference with Dictator Chiang Kal-shek in Nan- king, and told the press he had re celved assurance that the Chinese gov- ernment was adequately prepared to cope with the situation in north China, Ariyoshi sald he had also received as surance that Nanking desired to con tinue friendly relations with Japan. for the the Japanese convinced that the autonomy ment will not be revived at the first opportunity, —— nual visit, and for three work. at Atlanta; to deliver an address on which probably will be an for a permanent AAA, ident Ind. to accept an honorary degree and make a brief address at Univer- sity of Notre Dame. The acceptance of this invitation the cent refusal cerning the Catholic Mexico. persecutions Fifty-two nations are united imposition of sanctions against Italy, which became an outlaw na- tion on November 18 by decree of the League of Nations Four league nations, all unimportant, re fused to participate. They are Austria, Hungary, Albania and Paraguay. Indirect support is given the league by two non- member nations, the and Germany. Nearly all the world's chief ports are closed to Italian goods, and exports to Italy of arms, war ma- terials and a long list of key products has stopped. Loans and credits for the Italian government, public bodies, corporations and individuals are for bidden. Should this momentous action sue ceed, it would seem that the end of Benito Mussolini and the Fascist re. gime In Italy Is in sight. Should it fail, the League of Nations fails, the British communications In the Mediter- ranean would be threatened, and the peace of the world would be menaced. Standing steadfast against the sane. tions, Premier Mussolini proclaimed the day on which they wore estab lished “a day of ignominy and In- fquity,” as had been declared by the Fascist grand council. The day was made a holiday, flags flew from all buildings and there were numerous an- gry demonstrations against the mem- ber nations of the league. The fron. tiers of Italy and its ports were closed to goods of those nations except for certain necessities, Restrictions of food, fuel and light were put in force. It was announced In Rome that 100. 000 of the recently mobilized soldiers would be given a furlough of three months to ald Industrial and agricul tural production. There were new negotiations for peace, fostered by the British and French, and the Italian authorities were deeply Interested but said the war would not stop until Italy had posses sion of a large strip of Ethiopia, As for the Ethiopian war itself, Mus- solini announced an Important change in commanders. Gen. Emilio de Bono was recalled with warm praise for hav. “ing achieved his mission “under ex- ¥ ini Gen. Badoglio tremely difficult circumstances” and was to be elevated to the rank of mar- shal. Gen. Pletro Badoglio, chief of staff, was appointed to succeed De Bono as commander in chief of the in vading armies, Emperor Halle Selassie made two alrplane trips to the fighting fronts, visiting Harar and Diredawa and in. specting his troops in the South. The government at Addis Ababa denied Italian claims that 2,000 Ethiopians had been killed in a terrific battle with Italian fliers. The communique sald: “Information from the commander of troops In the region of Makale states the recent Intensive bombardment of their positions by ten Italian planes caused thirty deaths and slightly wounded fifty, instead of the 2.000 killed as mentioned in the press com- munique from Asmara." OPE PIUS surprised the world by naming twenty new cardinals, who will be installed at a secret consistory December 16 and a public one Decem- ber 19. In the group are fifteen Ital lans, two Frenchmen, one Argentine, one Spaniard and one Czechoslovakian. With these additions the sacred col lege will have sixty-nine members, the largest number in the history of the church and only one short of the full complement. The saéred college will now be composed of thirty-nine Itallans and thirty non-Italians. The pope also named the Most Rev. Joseph C. Plagens, recently auxiliary bishop of Detroit, as bishop of the di ocese of Marquette—Sanlt Ste. Marie, Mich., and Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara auxiliary bishop Philadelphia, as bishop of the Savannah diocese. of ired mayors, assem ton to discuss the called work relief program, on the said up I which he grown in 3 then announced he plan conference of cit this con ned to eall state officials lat the winter for the pur. Qe pose of studying the whole system of taza tion which, he sald, should be simplified. Concerning the ter of relief, | told the mayors: “It is a question that yi combat. My answer, and yours will be same ernments, is that we to let people starve, mat Mayor La Guardia contin 4] I am for not Some people will the city do works program will be substantially carried out by the end of November, Just as it was planned last spring.” The mayors elected F, H. La Guardia of New York president of their an- { of Chicago vice president, a position | usually leading to the presidency the La Guardia succeeds | Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee. The mayors recommended that the social security act be amended to in- | clude old age pensions for municipal | employees and urged co-operation by cities with the Department of Justice | for the suppression of crime. HAIRMAN HENRY P. FLETCHER of the Republican national commit { tee issued a call for a8 meeting of the 16 to fix the time and place of the party's national convention of 10368 and to consider the apportionment of dele. gates, It was reported that Chicago was in the lead among the cities seek. ing the convention. Mr. Fletcher also announced the ap- | pointment of a committee of sixteen prominent industrialists and lawyers to raise a big campaign fund. William B. Bell of New York, president of the American Cyanamid company, will be chairman of the committee, and Charles B. Goodspeed, assstant treasurer of the Republican national committee, Chica go lawyer, will be vice chairman, Many of the members have never before par ticipated actively in national polities, AVID A. REED, former senator from Pennsylvania, heretofore considered a possibility for the Repub. lican Presidential nomination, has eliminated himself from the compet) tion, explaining that he lacks “politi. eal sex appeal” What that Is he couldn't exactly define, but he sald: “Roosevelt has it. But 1 discovered last year that I didn’t. I'm not a ean- didate for any public office.” ESSE H. JONES, chairman of the RFC, let it be known that the New repay $15,600,000 which It borrowed from the corporation. The loan, which ANOTHER prominent figure of the | because he did not succeed in pletely defeating the Jellicoe, who entered the navy as a cadet at thirteen years of age, had a official publie life, LANS to establish a three hun. vard university this year, for the awarding of large annual prize scholar- ships to boys In each state of Union, were announced by President James B. Conant in a letter sent to 65,000 Harvard alumni. The fund will also be wsed for the creation of plo- neering professorships of an entirely new type, MERICAN business generally 1s pleased with the terms of the new => Washington—To observe strict neu- simultaneously In Washington and Ot- tawa. Farmers and the lumber men of the northwest will not like it. High tariff advocates In CONGress are sure to attack the pact, but its terms cannot be affected for three years, even were congress to repeal the re- ciprocal trade act under which Presi- dent Roosevelt acted in negotiating the agreement. It Is considered a trade agreement rather than a formal treaty, and goes into effect January 1 next. Government officials, forescelng ad- verse reaction In some quarters be. cause of some of the sliced American duties, sought to show the pact would lead to greatly Increased trade and em- ployment which would benefit the country. An analysis of the pact shows that the United States grants concessions to Canada on 70 major commodities, in- cluding: Tariff slash on four-year-old whisky from $1 to 00 cents per fifth of a gallon, Reductions quotas of cents per 00 poun in duties beef cattle (from 3 pound on animals over 18); dairy cows (2% to 1% cents) ; cream (56.6 cents to 35 cents per gallon); or Irish seed po. (75 45 cents per 1M las fir and western slock (50 per cent), on specified io 2 while tatoes to er and tim cheddar maple sugar, live ut and some other and cheese, ferro-man- Hist gnman- sters, certain 3 asbestos, artificial abrasives and fertilizers, A promise to maintain 10 per duty on animals, On the part of Canada the are cut 180 commodit the leading concessions being: on (from 30 t 12 bushel) ; off season fresh vegetables the free ' on Dew giv 41 gles, ath, | irs, Cruce the present cent feedstuffs for the daties some of on TOR, Rede. tions whent oH) cents a (50 per cent); veg marketing season (35 per cent) : most of farm machinery (30 per cent) ; industrial machinery (35 to 20 per cent) ; mining and textile machin. ery; radios (30 to 25 per cent): elec refrigerators; tinplate mapufac thies Imported In classes tric motor vehicles; cotton fabrics, furs, chemicals, silk fabrics, cotton manufactures, electrical apparatus, Also rai? cuts on oranges, grape fruit, outs, fron and steel manufue tures, Place magazines and potatoes on the free list A pledge to grant the United States on 767 articles, the lowest rates pald by any non-British country. A pledge to liberalize the system of establishing srbitrary valuations oo American products A promise to keep raw colton on the free list and to put tractors on RIME MINISTER STANLEY BALD. WIN and his Conservative gov ernment party won an impressive vie tory in the British parliamentary elec ron tions, although the La. borites succeeded Inde. creasing the Conserva- tive majority in the house by about 60 sents. Baldwin him tell was unopposed for reelection, but Ram say MacDonald, lord president of the coun ell and former prime minister, was badly defeated, as was his Ramsay son, Maleolm, who has MacDonald been minister of ecole onles. The elder MacDonald left the Labor party to form the na- tional government, and the Labor ites had been after his scalp ever since. The government party will have a majority of about 250 In the next house of commons, 0 CANON of ethics was violated trade with Italy— trade with Ethiopia was never Important--but to trade in other parts of the world, The thought, apparent. ly, 18 not to take too much advantage of Italy's occupation with her war by sneaking away a part of her lnterna- tional trade! The whole thing seems rather neb- ulous, though also very high-minded. But apparently it does not apply to South America, Perhaps because Washington has always regarded southern American trade as belonging to this country—not by divine right, nor even by geography, but perhaps because of some expected gratitude for the Monroe Doctrine. Though matter of fact that doctrine has been resented rather than appreciated by our Latin-American friends for many years now, In fact, it began to cool shortly after Washington forced France to withdraw its support from Maximilian, not long after the Amer fcan Civil war, 850 the best minds interested In fur. thering our international several weeks ago to think about the possibilities in South America, now that Italy is very busy in Africa. In fact, It was decided to have a new head of the bureau of foreign and do- mestic commerce, and that this head should be some one capable of taking advantage of this golden oppor- tunity In South America. As this Is written the name of this new “sales manager” for Uncle Sam has not been announced, but it has al- ready been discovered by our consuls from Panama down to Cape Horn that Great Britain apparently had the same idea. Whether it ocourred to the best minds In Downing our Brain Trusters thought it, or whether, thought it, into aclion street before having the British went with. out for a lot and on the selection of a sultable per gon not only not closed iz not known. But the fact in whispers, that to It. And the -"28 usual merely waiting to direct it, is dis is 3s is sadly admitted, Br comment the tish beat us " is sadly added ‘ * "” Not “Cricket It Is rather Interesting that the off. cial who disc x oo} he thought writer, in discussing what this country ought to do in observing the it loned the Britis our trade all over the world at the ex pense of the [Italian International not “cricket” Which a distinctly British ex- pression, though widely used here Just why it would not be “cricket” to take advantage of Italy's preoccupa- tion in some parts of the world, and not in others, is not clear. In the De partment of Commerce there is a cer. tain theory about It. This is to the general effect that Latin-American ies, long before he men 5 4, sald that to expand 1s trade would be happens to be States, and that therefore anything we can do to cement it is justifiable at all times, whether the nations from which we {ake it are engaged In a war or not, and whether we approve of that war or not, It may be that In London the ex. porters and the government figure the same way, on the theory that on sc. count of Sir Francis Drake, or maybe Bir Henry Morgan, Latin-American trade naturally belongs to Britain, and hence any means of taking it away from some other nation is justified. There is a widespread suspicion, of Italy's foreign trade that she can get her hands on. Even during the World war, some State department un- derlings recall, “business as usual” which means get all you quite a motto in the tight little Island, Canadian Treaty On the whole the administration ex- pects to benefit enormously, at the next election, by the effects of the Canadian reciprocity treaty. fications are legion, but, now that time has been allowed for estimating its economic consequences, let's take a look at the political aspects, which were very much In mind at the White House, If not at the State department, while the problems were being weighed. The worst lability to the adminis. tration Is the dairy section, which will let a much larger volume of Canad an milk, cream, butter and cheese into fered to defend gratis the constitu. the lawyers’ committee is Justified In preparing and disseminating “opinions ence to the constitutionality of such legislation.” matures December 1, will be repald out of the road's $25,000,000 cask bal ance. The repayment will be the largest ever received by the RFC from a railroad. In return the RFC agreed to extend until July 1, 1941, the re maining $11,800000 which the New York Central owes to it, Bar association's committee on profes. sional ethics and grievances, given In response to a complaint made by ©. N. Davie of Atlanta, Ga. The bar committee emphasized that It ex. pressed “no opinion as to the sound ness of the conclusions reached by the national lawyers’ committee.” the dairy farmers of New England, New York, Wisconsin and Minnesuta, particularly, and all other dairy farm Incidentally It was rather odd that there was such a rush to sign the treaty that the ceremonies almost synchronized with those attendant upon the delivery at the White House of the 1200.pound Wisconsin cheese, drawn by “Dunder and Blitzen” and the rest In a Santa Claus sleigh. Which, by the way, had been Intended as a high light of National Cheese week, The dalry concessions to Canada are much worse politically than the lum ber section, although actually oppo: nents of the lumber section were more vocal. The reason ls that every do HAVE UTILITY APRON PATTERN 2370 i of the dairy controversy. all the protection he can get from for eign competition, Whereas the lum- ber Industry is divded into groups, with best opinion being to the effect that the stronger group, as far a8 voles are concerned, favors abolish- ing all restrictions against Canadian lumber and shingles, Perhaps the best evidence is that the group favoring no tariff on lumber won every fight In congress until the very last. Then the tariff group won, but only by combining with the ofl, copper and coal groups In a log rolling opera- tion, which resulted in the imposition of the so-called “excise” import taxes, | that really are tariff schedules, | Lumber Tariff Actually interests favoring a | higher tariff against Canadian lumber | are not politically important, save in the extreme Pacific Northwest, Mid. | western lumber Interests, which might | be supposed to be allied actually are {| not, for the simple reason that in the | days before they thought there would | ever be a lumber tariff, they bought | huge tracts of forest land in Canada! the Number one among the assets of the | treaty, politically, is fruit. C | willingness to our r prunes, apricots, and raisins | Just makes the difference between { good times and bad In highly impor- tant areas in California. Incidentally, the orange schedule appeases Florida, overcoming—it is hoped-—her anger against the administration for Cuban reciprocity treaty, which let in early frults and vegetables that com- pete with Floridian products Florida, of course. is not important politically. Not certainly when a Pres. is never forget California! take peaches the idential election considered, But Not be. Cause she elected Woodrow Wilson in 1916. b | are absolutely essential t i hope, far outlined, ending New Deal and retiring Franklin Roosevelt from the White House, Henry P. Fletcher can th electoral votes to put a Repub. { lican In the White House—while AAA | checks keep flowing-—without Califor. being ut because her 22 electoral votes Pp fhe I o any G. O m0 of | even | enc { nia, | Figuring on Lodge Massachusetts Democrals are ng that Henry Cabot Lodge, grands | of the famous statesman heart of against Woodrow the world™ Wilson League of Nations, will be the G. O. I. the candidate for senator next year. They are his that | ready shaping individual politic ft in with that picture. Incidentally, they are not particular iy happy about this situation. Despite his youth, they are not discounting young Lodge's ability as a vote get- ter. On the contrary, they point out that he has all the advantages of a great name, and none of the liabilities, The famous Massachusetts senator, as & matter of fact, had sccumulated : & jot of enemies before his death. In his last race for the senate he barely pulled through. At his last national Republican convention, that at Cleve land, far from being the dominating figure he had been at such gatherings for nearly a generation, he was rather | obviously sidetracked. In fact, that sidetracking led to animosities which rose to plague William M. Butler. at the time Republican national chalrmun ! and representative on the ground of President Coolidge, when Butler later ran for the senate against David L Walsh, None of these old feuds are belleved | to linger on, however, by Democrats #0 sure of t they are al al plans to | interested in holding a senate seat, and | some of them In winning that seat | for themselves. They do not expect | young Lodge to lose any Republican votes on account of them, | Democratic Fears Moreover, Massachusetts has eight Republican members of the house, more than any other state at present except Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, And more than such historically Republican states as California, IHinois and Ohlo! So their fear Is that, with evidences such as the Rhode Island election and ing against him, may poll the full Re- publican vote, assure them. They point to the fact that Curley was strong enough to nom- inate his own candidate for mayor of Worcester, over the sitting mayor, but November 5, All of which might point to the log: fe that the Massachusetts Democrats would be glad to let Senator Marcus A. Coolidge have a renomination, es. peelally as they could count on him to contribute handsomely to a campaign fund which might pull other candi dates through, whether It saved him or not. But human ambitions run con trary to that notion, Ever since It became fairly certaln that Curley would seek renomination and re-election as governor, passing up the chance to come to the United States senate, there have been light ning rods put up by other Democrats. Copyright. ~~ WNU Borviea, utility apron He gre nted percale like The button Good Ise Keene dozen’) best Send FIFTEEN Ch nr (coins Write pls or xt 0s pattern, address ar mber 1» STATE SIZE. 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