By EDWARD W. PICKARD EDERICO LAREDO BRU, the new president of Cuba, proposes ' to settle all Cuban obligations in the United States and is expected soon to in- vite the bankers and bondholders con- cerned to enter negotiations to that end. Credit for in- ducing Bru to do this is given to Col. Fulgencio Batista, who appears to be President largely in control of Laredo Bru ,q.ir5 in the island. The obligations include about $75,- 000,000 owed to many Americans who invested in public work gold bonds which were issued during the administration of President Gerar- do Machado. The new constitution which the Cuban congress recently voted orig- inally prohibited any such negotia- tions as those contemplated before 1940, but when it appeared in the of- ficial gazette that article had been radically altered. It now orders the government to find a satisfactory States before 1940 and authorizes immediately. posing room is supposed been ordered by Colonel and though congress has the power to correct it, a majority of con- gressmen, after reading the arti- cle in the gazette, gave it their approval. So President seems, is free to go ahead with the negotiations. LIMINATION of child tion wages is a necessity, and must ernment since it cannot be done by state action. So declared President Roosevelt in his press conference. He warned the correspondents not to say he was planning to revive the NRA and insisted all he could say at present was that something should be done to fix maximum hours and minimum wages. Since the day of the NRA, said Mr. Roosevelt, there has been a steady decline in child labor, gruel- ing hours and starvation wages by 90 per cent of American business. As for the other 10 per cent, he up to the best standards since the death of the NRA. Attorneys for the American Fed- eration of Labor were reported to be about ready to submit to the labor protective features lost in the death of NRA. It provides that congress catalogue unfair ‘‘con- duct’ which would be forbidden to employers and assure workers adequate protection. Violations would be punishable by a fine. The federation is expected also to back federal porations as provided by the O'Ma- honey bill. OM BERRY, before retiring from the governorship of South Dakota, appointed Herbert Hitch- cock of Mitchell, S. D., to fill out the term of the late Senator Peter Norbeck. The new senator is Demo- cratic state chairman and his ap- pointment brings the Democratic membership in the senate to 76, the highest party total in history. The Republicans now number 16. Mr. Hitchcock was born in Ma- quoketa, Ia., in 1867 and was edu- cated at Anamosa, Davenport and Chicago. He went to Mitchell in 1894 and was admitted to the bar two years later. He was presi- dent of the school board in his home town for ten years and state's at- torney four years. He served as state senator in 1909, 1911, and 1929. S NEBRASKA'S unicameral legislature, unique in the Unit- ed States, was about to begin its first session, Gov. R. L. Cochran de- clared politics was out. He dis- couraged party caucuses among the members and said he would have no spokesman in the legislature. The governor pointed out that the constitution provides that the one- house chamber shall be non-parti- san and that the voters had done their part by electing, on a nonpoli- tical ticket, 22 Democrats and 21 Republicans. He said he would con- tinue personally and as governor, all measures for new forms of tax- ation. INANCIAL status of American farmers may be much improved, as reports of governmental agen- cies say, but some of them still ap- pear to need a lot of help. Sena- tor F. Ryan Duffy of Wisconsin asked federal officials to allot $10,- 000,000 to aid the Wisconsin farm- ers who are suffering from the ef- fects of the drouth. “This would be $200 per farm,” he said, “and considering the high price of hay and other items of feed, it would be difficult to make a smaller sum cover the needs which would develop during the winter season.” Duffy estimated 40,000 to 50,000 Wisconsin farmers would need as- sistance in purchasing live stock this winter. He said at least 35,000 farmers in the drouth area and from 10,000 to 15,000 outside the drouth districts were in need of aid. In addition, he said, between 30,000 and 40,000 farmers would need gov- ernment aid in purchasing seed for the 1937 crop. OVERNMENT officials, from the President down, were anx- ious to prevent the export of Amer- ican airplanes to Spain, license for which was given perforce by the State department to Robert Cuse, a Jersey City airplane broker. Cuse proposes to send $2,777,000 worth of planes to the Spanish loyalists, and his action was criticized in Washington as ‘legal but unpatri- otic.” Senator Key Pittman of Ne- vada, chairman of the foreign rela- tions committee, assailed the Cuse deal as improper and dangerous and said it might embarrass not only the United States but also other the hands off policy toward the Spanish war. Congress may be able to rush through prohibitive are shipped. Meantime pressure was JHEN the German steamer Palos was captured by Span- loyalists at Bilbao because it carried war munitions supposedly destined for the Franco forces, the Berlin government demanded its release under threat of reprisal. The Basque authorities, when the cruiser, Koenigsberg, ar- rived at Bilbao, let the Palos go, but held on to the cargo and to one Spanish citizen who was a passen- ger. This did not satisfy the com- mander of the cruiser who insisted the cargo and the Spaniard must be released. The authorities defi- antly refused this, and several more There was a report in Berlin that lio, insurgents. war measures in this crisis, and that he would preserve help his economic and colonial needs in return for nonintervention in the Spanish conflict. However, Anglo-French note sent Christmas, urging a cessation of German vol- unteer enlistments for Spain had come too late, and that Germany will permit and even encourage a HIANG KAI - SHEK, generalis- simo of China and its dictator, is back in Nanking. Marshal Chang, who held him prisoner in Sianfu for two weeks, also is in the Nationalist capital, avowedly repentant and ready to submit to any punishment, The danger of civil war has passed for the time. The terms on which Chang re- leased Chiang have not been made pub- lic. The dictator is- T.V.S00ng gued a statement, directed to his kidnaper, commend- ing his change of heart and promis- ing to use his influence to obtain leniency for him; and Chang also gave out a statement admitting his grievous fault. These developments would seem to have quieted down the Oriental situation, but there is another mat- ter that threatens continued trouble. This is the prospect that Chiang may decide to confine his attention largely to military affairs and to make Dr. T. V. Soong, his brother- in-law, premier. Soong, who used to be minister of finance, stands high among those who favor a strong foreign policy, including re- sistance to further encroachments by Japan. Therefore it is easy to see that his elevation to the pre- miership would greatly annoy To- kio and might easily bring about an WALLACE has just apportioned $200,000,000 to the states for road improvement. Of this sum $125, 800,000 will go toward improvement of the federal-aid highway system, $25,000,000 for improving secondary or farm-to-market roads, and $50,- 000,000 for grade crossing elimina- tion. The fund is for use during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1937, and funds for improvement of roads must be matched by the states. Grade crossing elimination funds need not be matched. Highway projects selected, contracts and specifications are subject to federal approval after designation by state commissions, RTHUR BRISBANE, one of the foremost newspaper editors and writers of the time, and the highest paid, died in his New York residence of coronary thrombosis at the age of seventy-two. The mil- lions of Americans who have read faithfully his columns, “Today” and “This Week,” mourn his passing. An indefatigable, able and often brilliant worker, he continued his journalistic labors almost to the hour of his death. Born in Buffalo, N. ¥Y, Mr. Bris- bane at eighteen joined the staff of the New York Sun as a reporter. Shortly after he went to Europe for five years to complete his educa- tion and became the London corre- spondent of the Sun. From that time he advanced steadily in the profession. For the last 39 years he was employed by William R. Hearst. He had been ill for some time but characteristically con- cealed his condition from all but members of his family and died in the harness, as he would have wished to do. ILENT for two years, Mahatma Gandhi once more comes into public notice with a speech tending to increase the opposition to British rule in India. He spoke at an indus- trial exposition held in connection with the annual session of the All-India Na- tional congress, the members of which were already agitat- ing in favor of inde- pendence. Said the “holy man’: ‘Show me the Mahatma way. I am prepared Gandhi to go back to jail va again. I am prepared to be hanged. “If you do all I want you to do, Lord Linlithgow (British high com- missioner for India) will say, ‘I am wrong. I thought you people were terrorists, and, if you like, we Britishers will go back on the next We would then say to big enough to hold you and more like you.’ “That is my swaraj (self-govern- ment under native influence).” Jawaharlal Nehru, in his presi address to the congress, warned the British his countrymen would not be “parties to an imperi- alist war." NOTHER big air liner, the third to meet disaster in a month, crashed against the top of Oak mountain, twenty miles from Bur- a ravine, a mass of tangled wreck- age. were all killed. to Burbank. P Vatican that he was steadily grow- pain. further for him. died in Berlin at the age of was responsible for the great defeat of the Russians at Gorlice, and he planned the campaigns that resulted in the collapse of Serbia and Ru- mania. After the Von Kapp putsch of 1920 Van Seeckt was made com- mander - in « chief of the German army which he built into an effi- cient force. Later he helped to train the Chinese National army. MONG the numerous govern. mental reports at the year's close that of M. I. Myers, head of the farm credit administration, is interesting and encouraging, showe ing that the outlook for the finan cial status of farmers for 1637 is bright. During 1936 the total loans to farmers by the various FCA agencies were $670,000,000 com- pared to $1,060,000,000 in 1935. The decline reflected a decrease in the “emergency demand” by farmers for assistance from federal agencies, HREE intriguing FERRE more iguing to imagine—even in this day of i style! It's a trio that the younger set in The Sewing Circle will be enthusiastic about too, for first Ne Pattern 1996-—-This excellently styled jumper dress is one the tot of six and the lass will sing long and loud over. 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