TT F IT really was Intended to bring about peace between Italy and Ethi- opia, the plan proposed by British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare and Premier Laval of France turned out a dismal failure. The storm of opposition to the scheme which would give Mussolini two-thirds of the Af- rican country as a re- ward for stopping an attack that was de- nounced by the League of Nations, brought the British and French governments to the point of collapse, To save the Baldwin cabinet, Hoare re- signed on the eve of a parliamentary battle in the house of commons, and it was believed the government thus would be able to win a vote of con- fidence. Hoare was made the goat, for the entire ministry shared the re- sponsibility of the peace plan. In Paris Edouard Herriot, member of the cabinet without portfolio, re- signed as president of the powerful Radical Socialist party whose support is needed by Laval to maintain his ma- jority in the parliament. Herriot's ac- tlon, in the opinion of some observers, presaged Laval's early downfall. Hoare's position became untenable when he learned that the plan was about to be buried at Geneva. Capt. Anthony Eden, probably never enthusiastic for it, practically repudi- ated the scheme In a public meeting of the league council. Laval also spoke, more reservedly, declaring that if the plan ted, the council must continue to seek concl After the to French ne plan, for dead, The council Ababa a Selassie bluntly accused Great Brit and having ated league covenant by to impose upon Et by Italy trusting the capital ritory. senting to lend itself to such dissimula- tion would violate article X of the covenant.” In view of all Sir Samuel Hoare peace even were rejec admitted that gession, however, he wspaper men the time being at received from note in wh ain France of seeking ant aim iiopia a predo with the certain of en to Italy the and a large part of the ter the opposition and of Mussolini's hint that he would re Ject the proposals, the league killed the plan entirely, softening action by formally thanking Great Britain and France for their “prelimi nary efforts” toward peace. A perma- nent committee of 13 but the Italian member--was named to study the Italo Ethiopian crisis, Dispatches from the front great battle was In progress in the Takkaze river sector and that the Ital fans, after repulsing a sirong attack by the Ethiopians, were large force of natives was reported to the Italian officers declared few would escape. Losses on both sides were heavy. HEN Thomas Masaryk, founder of Czechoslovakia and president of the republic since its creation, re signed because he was eighty six years old and wearied by his labors, he recom mended that the parli ament elect as his sue cessor Eduard Benes, who was Masaryk's co-worker for estab lishment of the repub lie and has been its only minister of for- eign affairs. This ad vice was followed, Benes being chosen : 4 by a vote of 340 out Eduard Benes of 440 votes. There were 24 votes for Prof, Bohumil Nemee, leader of the pro-Fascists, and 76 abstentions. The Sokols, organization of sportsmen. and the war veterans, snpported Benes unanimously, and his victory was hailed as a triumph for democracy, A general reorganization of Czecho- slovakia’s diplomatic representation abroad will follow the election of the new president. Jan Masaryk, son of the former president, will be recalled from London to act as chief of Denes’ chancellery. The minister In Wash. ington, Dr. F. Veverka, is scheduled to move on to London, Benes, wha is fifty-one years old, hag had a brilitant diplomatic career. One of the ablest strokes was the creation of the little entente, whereby Czecho slovakia, Jugo- Slavia and Rumania stand together In central Europe. fle also achieved an alliance with France, {Jira Eugene Talmadge, the fiery governor of Georgia, changes his mind, the Democratic national conven. tion isn’t zolng to be the mere Roose velt renomination love feast that ad. ministration supporters had Intend. ed it should be. Talmadge went to Washington and there boldly an. nounced that he would be a candidate for the Presidentia, nomination, He declared the Democrats would lose the election If they put Roosevelt at the head of their ticket ggain, and de nounced the President as an “usurper” in the party. The governor also announced that a convention of the “southern Jeffer- sonlan Democracy” would be held in Atlanta the last week In January for the purpose of formulating a program to battle the New Deal and President Roosevelt, He added: "The southern and bor der states have 300 votes in the Dem- ocratic national convention. It takes but 367 votes to block the nomination of a President. We are going to bring a lot of delegates to that convention.” LEVELAND is the place and June 9 the date selected for the Repub- lican national convention of 1038, The national committee heard arguments and then decided on the Ohlo city, largely for political reasons. Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas and Col Frank Knox of Chicago both being po- tential candidates for the nomination, It was thought wise to hold the con- vention in neutral territory. Ralph E. Williams of Oregon, vice chairman of the committee, was made chairman of the committee on arrangements. Dele. gates to the convention will 997, or 157 fewer than In 19032 The national committee concluded its Cleveland, tive Democrats to join with the Repub. velit administration. RANK C. WALKER, one dent Roosevelt's strongest ers, has resigned as executive of the national emergency council will retire to private life, but it Is stood he will return to support. director the service of the gov. ernment as soon as his personal affairs permit. This is taken that he will be appointed postmas- ter general when James A. Farley re- linquishes hat to mean post Pres tion cam- year, who has been so lelt since last May, named to Walker and ready Ilo charge of the counci letter of resignation to the Walker sald that regretted that men in business and In dustry were Impatient with New Deal recovery to take over the ident early Anderson, the NEC guceeed F. C. Walker Ss reeled . probably Lyle C or for in the new was In his he certain the great mass of the lent. JORKS Progress Harry Hopkins that made happy about ers under his unit “1 desire that every regular WPA check earned be in the hands of 24." egraphed instructions m directors, “The law does not permit advance payments, but no effort should be spared to deliver checks due by Christmas eve, “Overtime Administrator issued an order 3.5000 work. the worker by Dec. in tel to siate work by administrative employees handling pay rolls should be ordered where necessary and courier service should be arranged If necessary to overcome transportation delays caused by congestion in the malls ™ President Roosevelt entered on a new gram to be provided for In the budget relief were summoned House to offer suggestions for keeping administration can point to budget bal ancing efforts in the 1930 campaign, Plans for organizing the Civilian Conservation corps on a smaller but permanent basis were discussed with Robert Fechner, CCC director, and a group of cabinet officers, ALEB J. MILNE IV of Philadelphia, young heir to a textile fortune, who was abducted for ransom, was found bound and gagged five miles from Duck- ingham, Pa, where he had been thrown from an automobile. It was reported that relatives had pald £25,000 for his release. Milne was too weak from hunger and exposure to tell a connect- ed story when found. Department of Justice agents were on the trail of the kidnapers and it was believed the gang would soon be rounded up. pore PIUS conferred red hats on sixteen new cardinals in a public consistory at St. Peter's In Vatican City. Four others received their red hats at their nunciaturas, These twen. ty bring the sacred college to within two of ita full numerical strength for the first time in many years, THE board of directors of the Knights of Columbus made a tart reply to President Roosevelt In thelr dispute over our government's position in respect to the alleged religious per. secution In Mexico, It concluded with the assertion that Mr. Roosevelt was responsible for the government's fall ure to follow a long line of precedents “founded upon established American principle.” ESPITE the rlotous ovbosition of | students and other youth of Pelp- | ing, the Hopel-Chahar political coupell, | supported by Japan, took over the af- fairs of the autonomous North China provinces, with Gen, Sung Cheh-yuan | as its chairman. That gentleman In his first official announcement declared the opposition demonstrations were being promoted by communists, against whom he would tdke drastic action. General Sung sald he would do his best to promote good relations with neighboring countries “which treat us with equality and reciprocity” (Japan and Manchukuo). He declared his in- tention to “revive China's traditional virtues, and to develop and spread orl- ental culture,” AMES A. REED, former senator from Missourl and long one of the more prominent Democrats, is an- other who will not support Franklin D. Roosevelt for re-election. He sald in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that if the President were renominated he was prepared to vote for the Republican nominee provided the latter is pledged to stand by the Constitution and Amer- lean fundamentals. S— ICTATOR of Venezuela for twenty- seven years, during most of the time president of the country, Gen. Juan Vicente Gomez died In Caracas of an old malady at the age of seventy- eight years, The cab- inet named Gen. Ele- azar Lopez Contreras, minister of as provisional president to hold office until his successor Is elected by congress, While guns boomed in salute, Gomez was buried on the anniversary of his assumption of power On that day he executed a d'etat by which he seized the government while President Cipriano health, there were many he crushed them and even when occupled govern war, Cail Gen. Gomez his regime revolts but an iron hand: the presidential chalr was by others his control of the ment was absolute, Among Gomez's greatest contribu tions to Venezuela were the establish ment of friendly relations with foreign nations and peace withi try, bullding of a fine system of auto- and ment of incipient I n the coun the mobile highways develog natural He made the most troleum de resources, f the great pe L ake Maracalbo, ons to foreign acing export in Venezuela rank in posits at granting ma neessi oll t tax on oll. The Indust ry grew until it now holds third the world, GILL MG ny ©o companies, bu an university, the famous institution, under its ew president, Arthur Eustace Morgan of England, is enlisting In the youth Twelve of its professors over sixty-five years of age tire at the end of the present school year. Resentment against the action was of the department of political econ- omy, humorist, and writer, who was one of those affected by the retirement order, made this terse statement: “I have plenty to say about the gov. ernors of MeGilll putting me out of the university. But I have all eternity to say it in. 1 shall shout It down to the mud.” N A special election in Michigan's Third Congressional district Verner Republican, was victorious over Howard Cavanagh, Democrat Main Is tentatively In favor of the | Townsend plan but attributed his vie- tory to opposition to the New Deal. The result was nothing much for the trict is normally heavily Republican, HE eighth of the reciprocal trade agreements has been concluded with Honduras It was signed at President Roosevelt. The agreement provides for duty reduction on 17 com modities exported by the United States to Honduras and assurance against in- creases on 20 others, Among the concessions by Honduras | on United States exports are reduce | tions In duties on smoked hams, shoul ders, bacon, and sausages, and on canned meats, except salted and corned beef, by from.one-third to one half; reduction of the rate on butter | by two-thirds; lowering the rate on evaporated milk by one-half and those on condensed and dried skimmed milk | by oue-third, Rates on dried fruit items are lowered by from one-third to three-fourths ; on canned fruits, veg- | etables, and fish by from two-thirds to three-fourths, The rate on cotton shirts is cut 50 per cent and there are substantial reductions in rates on den- | ims, cotton hoslery and other textile | items, LUTARCO ELIAS CALLES, one time “iron man” of Mexico, has re turned there from his exile in Califor nia with the apparent intention of dis puting the rule of the country with President Lazaro Cardenas. In order to prevent a military coup against the government, Cardenas dismissed Gen. Medina Veytia as chief of the mill. tary zone of the Valley of Mexico and Gen, Joaquin Amaro as director of the national military school, Both were among the supporters of Calles, as were five senators who were previous ly expelled on charges of rebellious nd seditious activities. The administration's next move was tu oust four state governors Washington.~There Is more unanim- among both Democrats and Republicans, New Dealers and reactionaries--that the sliver policy of the United States gov- ernment Is welrd than on any other controversial subject, probably. There Is rot so much public erit clsmn of it, for various reasons, most ly concerning the electoral votes of certain strategie western states, jut the truth is that no ex- plains It satisfactorily, probably be. cause it Is rather difficult for anyone to explain something he does not un- derstand, and the only two persons credited with understanding the sliver policy are President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Neither of them does any talking, If excepts the occasional retort of Morgenthau that he is “still buying silver” and is “carrying out the man dates of the silver law.” The actions of something one one most intelligent theory as to the the administration runs like this: First, it was forced on the adminis. tration. Had It not been accepted, the probability is that congress would have rushed through some other inflation measure, It is not impossible t! at con- gress might have fi the of printing press finance gov- ernmental the national debt, as many Second, acce law, the a tre nnendous profit to the treasury developed in the minds of Roosevelt and Morgenthau. had Just made a profit in gold for the treasury of something like two billion, eight hundred t dollars, Incl dentally filion is still In the treasury, and lion was con- verted mysterious reed use money to needs, and pay advocated. silver having pted the ea of zation silver equal the gery t excel and they Profit Looked Good was revalued Was very Up to this point, as a matter of fact, ih ¢ there is no de about what hap; the more nebulous part. Having conceived the idea of a big profit, obviously the more cheaply sil ver could be bought, the greater the profit wonld be. So every now and then Morgenthau would act as thoug the sliver buying policy had been gh doned. This always resulted in the price of silver falling, and from the standpoint of accumuviating a Jot of silver at a low price, everything was splendid. With the slight exception that the government has nearly always, since the policy started, pald more for newly mined sliver produced In this country than the world price, But as a result of his clever strate. gems to convince world sliver holders that the price was not going to ad- vance, the world gradually came to the conclusion that the whole sliver price boosting objective of this gov- ernment had vanished. So the world, believing the price of silver would fall ag soon as the sliver experimentations of the United States were concluded. began to dump silver, With the result that if States tomorrow abandoned its whole sliver policy (which it positively will not) the result would be a rather heavy loss to the treasury on its silver operations in date. Whereas, If Morgenthau had com- plied with the spirit of the sliver law, and kept up a brave front of forcing the precise ac- curacy of wned. Now comes the United not be dumping silver now, but hold: tioned in the sliver law—$§1.20 an ounce. » President Roosevelt is still con vinced that there must be a substitute for NRA. Further, he is still con- work out a satisfactory substitute This is the status despite the obvious fiasco of Ma). George Ll. Berry's con: impression of fairness, No one inside the administration criticizes Major Berry's motives, nor his advance plan, There Is a good deal of undercover criticism, however, of his lack of tact in handling the sit: uation that developed, Critics admit that they do not blame Berry for his frame of mind when the big meet was called to order, They know all about the preliminary meet. ings of groups of business men, the obvious desire of a great many Indus tries to sabotage the whole movement, and the fact that many had actually come with more Intention of stirring up trouble than of aiding In any cone eilintory agreement or co-ordination of the various viewpoints, 80 when several of the business rep. resentatives started the fireworks, they typified for Berry the spearhead of the whole force he was fighting against, and he lashed out. It would have been much better, erit- ics point out, had Berry restrained his feelings, and, after reminding the con- ference that nothing was on the agen- da for this meeting but his outlining speech, then announced the meeting ad- Journed, but invited those who wished to talk to organize thelr own meeting and go ahead. This have left the business representatives who wanted to obstruct free to talk thelr off, but no particular harm to any administration objective id have been done. would heads wou Feared Speeches Berry's own objection to this course was that speeches wonld be made at such a meeting, which might have “stolen the headlines” in the next papers. His crities admit this, insist that the net result of the hes would have been to show conclusively than anything else could possibly done the difficulty $15 would day's but speec more have business representatives have had In getting together. Two inistration, COUrses are and which will be foll by Mr. now decision open to the a8 to wed will be made Roosevelt self, ng is absolutely essential to The face of Major Ber aved. He is far too pop- Amer ican Feder 1 be to allow Major letters he has various and mendi men of les of opinion, work them * 8 reg OuUs, Wart recom ng lation for a substitute ng to the the letter ged ness men restored low, They n of government pro- Now th ger to t} so {righ to get rid interference and super. that they no longer need, see It, its protection. their hiselers, ' t the dang r not iid like ie ¥ of government vislon, now as they Will Herbert Hoover's strength at the Republican national convention be Sufficient to stop William E. Borah's not tion if the ldabo Lion gets. go- ing good? That many cratic and Republican, radio blast of the veteran lone wo the American house of lords. Particu. larly since, in preaching the “doctrine of plenty as against the doctrine of scarcity,” he goes right to the heart of the problem which Is the chief concern of every Republican anxious to get his own party in power, and to get Frank lin D. Roosevelt out. To wit: the prob. lem of what to offer the farm belt in place of the much denounced AAA farm benefits and processing taxes, As a matter of fact, up until that speech, you could not find a Repub lican In Washington who really be- lieved Senator Borah had a chance for the nomination. This was true despite he paucity of available timber for the . 0. P. nomination. and despite the fact that Borah has been running first ' nina being asked In both question is political circies, Demo since the recent if of with that of Robert H. months ago. Borah was simply set aside for two reasons, One was his age. He will be seventy-one on June 20, next, just after the convention adjourns. The other was the strong group of Individuals high in Republican ranks who object vigorously to his nomination. Herbert Hoover 18 in a way the head and front of this group. but it is very large, and important. The oppo- sition of those composing it is based on two things. Borah's political and eco. nomic philosophy, and what they call his "undependability.” A very prominent magazine editor Lucss many his own negotiations with Borah for a the articles were to be huge. There wns no limitation on what he could sav--no attempt to dictate policies Borah. the editor says. was frankly attracted hy the money and the op portunity to reach such a large andl ence so easily. But he reluctantly de clined the offer, His explanation is the whole point, One article might he all right. Two might be right. But over such a period to change his views so radically that the later articles might contradict the earlier! It is this, rather than Borah's po. litical philosophy, which today causes most of the opposition on the part of Republican leaders to Porah. It mo happens that many of them would swal low his economic views without gag ging if they conld depend upon him. once In power-on the theory that any. thing would he warth trying to be sure of throwing Roosevelt out, Copyright «= WNU Rorvies, 20 2 0 2 22 2 2 2 STAR DUST Movie « Radio %*%% By VIRGINIA VALE kk¥ NY it's William Powell who threatens to shake the dust of California from his feet take up his residence in En and all because of taxes: that 75 per cent of goes that way, and th at he'd bik to hang of FREE | and on to more than 20 per ce whut he earns sonable which 2 looks spend six England and and if tha hat we wil) in fewer bad news ind . He's at t helgh if his popularity at present seeing tleture pi res gi 11d after him in “Rendezvous” 1 thi you'll agree with me that he should be re of those ink Wm, Powell, Been mao often. It's one must not be missed he gossips are incl § that the nan Jean Harlow hers say and lures just ways, And 1 recall first time, years luncheon, was tastefulls oggie-eye of that wWaR ®0O rence, Italy Rudy Vallee's not going to make that “Lucky Me™ to Cali fornia because his wife would start legal trouble picture, won't go all over agoin. Pert Kelt several pl nie 8 Barbara all the Stanwyck— Broadway other made laugh She'd day. known there stage act ress, a brunette: she reappeared as a blonde, as guest of honor at the weekly luncheon of a gre up of motion picture men, and this is the she told, eryone present been tell ever been 88 8 story which ev. has since, had asked an old friend, fore he arrived she took ters, then very small girls, warned them that they kay anything about large, bulbous nose, even to stare at it to come in then stairs, Stanwyck, Mrs. Mor- the elder J. to tea, Bee her ing row, Years ago, P. Morgan, daugl aud to aside, were not his nose—a very They weren't They were just and speak to him, and excuse themselves and go up- Came the day, with Morrow chatting with Mr. Morgan. The eldest daughter came into the drawing room, said “How do you do?” to Mr. Morgan, very politely, and left. In came Anne, who was to grow up and become Mrs. Lindbergh. She sald “How do you do, Mr. Morgan ™ very pleasantly, was told by the elder. ly financier that she'd grown amasz- ingly, and then she excused herself and started for the stairs. At the foot she paused, fascinated eyes on his face. “Well, goodty, Mr. Mor- gan,” she sald. And again, half-way up, still gazing at his face. “Well— Morgan,” and he replied, cordially, “Good-by, Anne” Mrs. Morrow, so goes the story, was If only the child Mr. and Mrs At last sight. And “Mr. Morgan, do you take cream and wifi cnn - “The Adventures of Frank Merri to make old-time movie goers feel For three of the it are Eu ODDS AND ENDS . . . Al Jolson says
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