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ORT VOL. L. FT. COVINGTON. N. Y.'. THURSDAY. JULY 19. 1934. NO. 13. News Review of Current Events the World Over Germany's Economic Crisis Now Worries the Nazi Gov- ernment—NRA Seems Due for Modification— Plot to Kill Caffery Foiled. By EDWARD W. PICKARD © br Wwtern Newspaper Union. KurtSchmltt T5EC0VERINQ from the terror and *>• dismay caused by Hitler's \purg- ing\ of the Nazi party at a cost of Mom* fifty lives, the people of Ger- many now realize that a serious eco- nomic crisis for their country is at hand. The essence of the Nazi new deal is that to make money Is no credi t t 0 tn e ladivId * ual ' ba t tha t t 0 worl t * s a 8 rea ^ honor. In- centive In the form of profit is vanish ing; maDy ° f them di have been spread out thinly; employers are urged to run their plants at their own ex- pense, to take on more men and to increase wages under the theory that it is a privilege thus to serve the state. Observers believe the Nazi govern- ment is now trying to retreat from virtual Communism, which its leaders profess to hate, toward relative eco- nomic liberalism. The appointment of Dr. Kurt Schmitt, minister of eco- nomics, to the position of economic dictator is taken as evidence of this trend. Schmitt has been given blanket powers that will extend to October 1, xind in that time he has the authority to promulgate any reasonable laws that be thinks will help trade and commerce. He also has the right to impose fines on those who do not obey his dictates. Chancellor Hitler sought to restore •quiet In the reich TJy ordering a polit- ical truce and a call for peace, and he then left Berlin for a vacation In the Bavarian Alps. There is current among friends of the slain Nazi \traitors\ an explana- tion to the effect that those men were truly the supporters of Hitler and were only preparing and arajtngse- lected troops to back him up s in an at- tack on the reactionaries. The spon- sors for this account blame General Goering for misleading Hitler and en- gineering the executions. One of the chancellor's firmest friends, Rudolph Hess, minister with- out portfolio, broke out with, a speech In which he appealed to France to help Germany avert another war, ad- dressing himself to the veterans. Thei he delivered a stern warning to France —and the world—not to try to invade the reich. \Just you dare to attack us! Just you dare to march into Ger- many !** European diplomats were consider- ably disturbed by Hess' utterances, looking on them as the strongest prov- ocation hurled at France in years. The Nazi charge that the executed Storm Troop leaders had been con- spiring with France already had made the French angry, and Andre Fran- cols-Poncet, French ambassador to Berlin, protested vigorously against it H TS position greatly strengthened by events in Germany, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria reorgan- ized his cabinet and declared unre- lenting warfare on the Nazis In his coun- try. He got rid of three ministers who were not working well with him and himself took the portfolios of public safety, defense, foreign affairs and ag- riculture. MaJ. Emil Fey was supplanted as vice chancellor by Prince Von Starhem- berg and was given the job of repressing* all anti-government political activities. Probably to register his disapproval of Hitler's methods, especially as they affect Catholics, DoUfuss recalled Ste- phen Tauschnitz, minister to Ger- many, and made him undersecretary of foreign affairs. The opponents of Dollfuss have been resorting freely to the throwing of bombs, especially in Vienna, and the chancellor In his official com- munique said his patience was ended and that all political opposition to him must cease. The immediate reply to this was the throwing of a lot more bombs. L OUIS BARTHOU, French foreign minister, went over to London to ask a lot of things of the British gov- ernment, but wise observers did not believe he would get much satisfac- tion. The chief thing he wanted was assurance that Great Britain line up with France again in case of a war with Germany. Reports that Barthou would propose such an alliance reached London ahead of the minister and aroused loud opposition tn parliament and the press. There were Indications that the cabinet was very cool toward the suggestion, D R. SVEN HEDIN, famous Swedish explorer, has been captured for the second time by Gen. Ma Chung and his \army\ of bandit* In eastern Turkestan. Taken with Bedln were a 4osen or so of hit companions. The captives were reported to have been Imprisoned in an Inaccessible camp to the neighborhood of Aksu, and officials «f the Chinese government said that their mcue would be exceeding* diffi- cult Hedin was engaged la laying out a new* trade route across China, following the ancient silk caravan route. Last March General Ma cap- tured him and held him for three weeks. « A SSISTANT PRESIDENT\ Is what **• they now call Donald Richberg, because be is at the head of a kind of super-cabinet which holds power during the absence of President Roose- velt The counsel for the NRA has his work cut out for him, and has gone at it with a will. The chief part of his task is acting as director of an industrial emer- g e n c y committee which has been given sweeping supervisory and co-ordinating powers over the ma- jor agencies of the New Deal. What is going to happen to the NRA is an absorbing question to many of our best minds. General Johnson has recommended the creation of an en- tirely new body to take its place and to perform the functions of the fed- eral trade commission in preventing monopoly. In this he recognizes as just some of the complaints uttered by Senator Borah. The plan was sub- mitted to Mr. Roosevelt before he went to sea, and Is being studied by Richberg and others. The administrator, meanwhile, is undertaking to complete the regimen- tation of industry. He Issued an or- der directipg all industries still un- codlfied either to sign specific codes or to submit to a new \basic code' governing wages and hours. A time limit of 30 days was set, and three of the general's aides were named to su- pervise this operation. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, in his capacity ot chairman of the Democratic senatorial cam- paign committee, replied to the charge that the New Deal fosters monopoly by asserting that the administration Intends? to prosecute the monopolists. \At the demand of large business, stimulated by the national chamber of commerce,\ said Senator Lewis, \congress by the votes of both parties suspended the trust act to allow all business to economize by consolidation to 'save expense* and provide 'larger development' Result: Instead keeping faith with the government certain manufacturing and financial establishments, conscious that the trust law was suspended, promptly violated the codes of the NRA by Joining with each other to fix thi price of everything—even as against the government itself. \This administration has just been able to discover the responsible par- yes to this conspiracy. It has not ha time to take steps to punish it It will proceed at once both to punish and obstruct further injustice.\ In another statement Senator Lewi! Indicated the President Is willing to modify the NRA and perhaps some other New Deal policies. \What the President wishes, In ad- dition to the reorganization intrusted to Mr. Richberg and bis associates, i that there shall be gathered from the puWIc, wherever possible, whatever objections exist as to legislation late- ly passed,\ Senator Lewis declared. \He desires particularly to know where business feels that the legisla- tion Is Inappropriate to its welfare or where some change in the legislation would best serve the general uses of legitimate business tn the promotion ot general prosperity In all branches of commerce and industry.\ B EING ambassador to Cuba is snap. The authorities of the is- land republic nave just uncovered an extensive plot to assassinate Ambas- sador Jefferson Caf- fery wit h bombs, many of which were found. Something like seventy-five for- mer army officers were arrested and it was said documentary . proof of tne plot was '§ selced. The official* also fo und large stores of guns and munitions, in ware- houses, Jose Pedrasa, chief of the Havana police, said the former officers wen aided by one faction of the ABO political society, which re- cently withdrew Its support from the Mendieta government, and planned a revolt in Havana, striking at police stations and army barracks simul- taneously in a night attack after cut- ting electric lights off over the city. There were persistent reports in Havana that President Mendieta would resign in favor of CoL Fnlgendo Ba- tista, head of Jhe army. THROUGH four counties of south* X era Illinois a tornado swept, and Jacksonville was especially hard hit Scows of persons weft injured and the MN99rtg#tij»afftwas estimated at a miflSon doilfr* Hundreds of the big old oaks, elms a*d cotionwood* that aare^wea the glory of tt» city «w many years, were destroyed. - .irHEAT production in the United VV states this year will be the low- est since 1896, according to the gov- ernment report For the second year since 1800 the yield will fall below domestic consumption. The government's figures, which completely upset calculations of the grain trade, Indicated the aggregate of the country's five leading grain crops will fall 450,000,000 bushels short of last year's production and 1,588,000,000 bushels below the yearly average for the period from 1927-Sgkr; The government estimated the total\ wheat crop at 484,000,000 bushels, which Is 16,000,000 bushels below the forecast It made a month ago. Even more sensational than the re- port on wheat was the government prediction of a corn crop of 2,113,000,- 000 bushels. Private authorities had predicted a crop of 2,334,000,000 bush- els, and it was believed that the gov- ernment's figure would show little change. The corn crop has been counted on to make up the known de- ficiencies In other feed crops. Last year the corn crop totaled 2,330,000,- 000 bushels and in the five years from 1927 to 1931 the country produced an average of 2,516,000,000 bushels a year. T HE world civil service commission of the Methodist Episcopal church, In session at Evanston, HI., voted to participate In the campaign against dirty moving pictures that originated largely In the LegiQB of Decency or- ganized within the Catholic church. This campaign Is having its effect on the movie Industry :and the makers of film pictures have been deeply dis- turbed. Joseph I. Breen of Will Hays' office has been made virtual dic- tator of pictures in so far as their de- cency is concerned. Ten of the larg- est concerns making movies have agreed to \grant to.exhibitors the right to omit the exhibition of any motion picture released prior to July 15,1934, against which there Is a genuine pro- test on moral grounds.\ This is a big modification of the \block booking\ system that has prevailed, and at Hays* office in Hollywood It was said that it will cost the producers around ten millions of dollars. TT MAY be that William P. McCrack- * en, Jr., will not have to serve the ten days in jail to which the senate sentenced him. The District of Ooli bia Court of Appeals, by a 3 to 2 vote, decided the senate had not the juris- diction to inflict such punishment The case will be carried up to the Su- preme Court McCracken was tried by the senate for contempt because he refused to give the airmail committee copies of correspondence with his clients. He claimed that as a lawyer he could not produce the documents without per- mission from his clients. *TpHOUSANDS of applicants for JL PWA funds are sure to be disap- pointed, according to Secretary Ickes, who says nearly all that administra- tion's money has been allocated or earmarked. President Roosevelt re- cently turned over to PWA about $400,000,000 of the maximum of $500,. 000,000 which congress authorized him to allocate for public works. Ickes said the other $100,000,000 might be handed over to tthe PWA later, but that \we are proceeding on the theory that we will have $400,000,- 000 to spend\ in addition to the orig- inal $3,300,000,000 »appropriation dis- posed of long ago. F OR the first time In history a news- paper office has been picketed bj editorial workers. This was done by leaders of the American and New York newspaper guilds to the Long Island Press, published In Jamaica, L. I. The Press says it \operates all its mechan- ical departments on a union basis an<3 exceeds the requirements of the NRA In every department\ But Heywood Broun and his colleagues aver it op- poses the organization of editorial workers and.has violated the coll< tive bargaining provision of the NBA. Therefore they are asking that the government prosecute the Press. (COMMUNIST agitators who fostered *>-* a farm strike in New Jersey didn't get far. The government concilia to: stepped in and, flndtag most of the trouble was due to the efforts of the reds, soon made arrangements for the men to go back to work on terms that did not differ from those formerly prevailing. The Communists playing a \big part in at least ten o; the major strikes now in effect W ITH Its eyes on the coming con- gressional campaign, the G. O. P elephant Is sitting op and taking no tice. In other words, the Republicai party is showing signs of a distant revivification. Its national leaders are busy these days, The party eightieth birthday was celebrated at Jackson, Mich., with many speeches and assurances of future victories. National Chairman Fletcher being in the van of the. assurers. Mr. Fletcher then went to Chicago, where many of the most important men In the party met with him in closed conferences. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT made * brief but pleasant visits to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Inspect- ing government projects and talking reassuringly to the inhabitants. Then the cruiser Houston headed for Carta- gena, Colombia, for a short stop before going to the Canal Zone. At Colon practically the entire population was out to see Mr. Roose- velt, and he was cheered all the way through the canal to Balboa. There he landed and motored to Panama aty where he was the guest of Presi- dent Arias at dinner and delivered an address. Beturtttog to the Houston, the- President began the 12-daja jour- ney acrow the Pacific to Honolulu. Studying Washing Effect of Unbuilt Dam Howe About: Prof. Harold A. Thomas of the Carnegie Institute of Technology using a one-eightieth scale model of the pro- lected Tygart River dam, key project in the Pittsburgh flood control plan for the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, for an exhaustive study of the washing effect of the rushing waters. The dam will be part of a flood control plan to cost about $12,000,000 which is already under way in the hands of United States army engineers. Historic Old Fort Niagara Has Been Restored Governmental, military and ecclesiastical personages from both sides of the Atlantic are to participate in dramatic commemoration of two centuries of heroic warfare and more than a century of perfect peace during the four day \Three-Nation celebration,\ financed by the federal, state and Niagara Falls munldpA governments, which to be held at Niagara Falls and at nearby Old Fort Niagara September 3 to 6. Dedicatieji of Old Fort Niagara, com- pletely restored to its Seventeenth century picturesqueness after seven years' labor and M% cost of $500,000, and the unveiling upon its lake-front redoubt of a memorial to the Rush-Bagot treaty, under which the American-Canadia frontier has remained unfortified for 116 years, will supply the occasion's contrasting motifs of war and peace. An view of the old fort is shown above. ^ . i , i ^^^S^ 8 ® Rockefeller Scion and His Fiancee Mr. and Mrs. John French of New York and Greenwich, Conn., have made formal announcement of the engagement of their daughter, Mary French, to Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The wedding will take place in August Young Rockefeller, a graduate of Princeton university, has just completed his first year at Harvard law school. Miss French is a graduate of Rosemary hall, and has attended Vassar college. Roper Welcomed by the Blackfeet Secretary of Commerce Daniel a Roper on a visit to Glacier National park was greeted by Weasel leather and George BeUeblld, Blackfeet chiefs. la the photograph they are saying, in the sign language, \Welcome\ and \We art brothers.\ THEODORE ROOSEVELT \n Affecting Letter entiment Bell Syndicate.—WNtl Sarvle*. CoL Theodore Roosevelt is the newly elected president of the National Re- publican club. In accepting the office he said: **The Republican organization must be re-made Into a new party—a virile, fighting unit, liberal in the reaj meaning of the word—an opposition party that will oppose where the real interests of the, nation call for op- position and that will support the President wholeheartedly in all con- structive measures.*' ELECTED BY MEXICO Gen. Laiaro Cardenas, who was elected president of the republic of Mexico by an overwhelming plurality. By ED HOWE LATELY saw a note sent by a mer- chant to a patron, which read: 'Dear sir: Reference to our books jhow that you have for seme years ?aid your bills promptly. In our grumbling about patrons who are very ow, or do* not pay at all, we feel we should express appreciation of your ong-continued fairness.\ ... I have ot in a long time seen a letter affect- Ing me more agreeably. Should thel*e ot be more appreciation for men who :ome somewhere near doing their duty to themselves, their families and their country? « m # - • -— • - -••-.— I often think of the loneliness of my position in religion; T almost never meet a man who agrees with me: one can sing hymns with, and call b'roth- r. As a hypocrite I think I am about the average, but have never seen any sensejn exploiting it; I am rather dis- osed to hide niy hypocrisy, and be shamed of it I have found it best to be honest with sentiment of all kinds^; it is easiei than to pretend a lot of things theie is no practical warrant I judge religion as I judge every- thing else, and, as I say above, am very lonely. • • • A rather notable lawyer called oa me lately. He visited London a few months ago, and told about a sensa- tional murder case there. The crime was committed after his arrival. He was in and around London not to ex- ceed two or three weeks, aad by the time he left the murderer bad been arrested, convicted and hanged. An appeal to the highest court had also been made, and considered and de- cided in due form. I do not know a reputable lawyer who is not ashamed of our courts. Many of the judges, and all the peo- ple are, yet we do nothing about it, as we do nothing about our disgrace- ful political system, our banking sys- tem, or racketeering, kidnaping, or bombing. We shout higher ideals than the people of other nations, and sub- mit to actual performances not exist- ing among the Indians before we Christianized them. Reasonably respectable people are largely In the majority, but they do not use their power; the mistaken, irresponsible, incapable, vicious, are 1B control. It is said Russia is ruled by less than 2 per cent of the people. That is about the percentage here. We pretend we are devoted to the Old Flag, our homes, our families. Actually we daily assault and insult all three. k A certain town built a really re- markable court house and city haiL M A beautiful structure,\ a stranger said to a citizen, \Yes the citteen^ replied, R but it busted the town and county. It reminds me of the war: It was a fine gesture, but how It cost! A New York magazine recently made fun of us because of our squirming about the bonds. Before you leave town, you should see some of our school houses. I fear we shall get in trouble over the school house bonds, too.\ • • • The better elements among the Rus- sian people knew for hundreds of years before the revolution that their government was bad; not as good as it might have been easily made. Had the best citizens insisted on good gov- ernment—the greatest good for the greatest number; there is nothing bet- ter than this—there would have been no Russian revolution. . . . The pres- ent disturbance in the United States is doe to the same cause: the better ele- ments have neglected to insist on the best government possible. . . . But the old government in .Russia was bet- ter than what the radicals are giving the people now—as our old govern- ment was better than what the radi- cals are offering. * • • In my town there is a woman who was • once very tough. She has a daughter, and is stricter with her than any other mother in town. . . . I do- not believe stories that parents are re- sponsible for the bad children BOW SO numerous. It Is nearer the truth to say that we have all encouraged lib- erty so much that parents are no long- er able to control children as they once did. • • • I know an old man who is ill, and lately went to see him. He lives in the house of a relative, as there is no other place for him; and he is not very welcome there. He told me bia greatest terror is the radio, which is always going. The radio is a quite wonderful invention, and very credit- able to the gentlemen who worked out Its, details, bat* there is a lot of mischief in it few of our politest peo- ple realise. • • « One who works under the constant direction of a foreman may get along in a fashion without common sense, but a man who Is his own boss (as doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief) mast have common sense, or he wUl drop many monkey wrenches in the deli- cate machinery be is called upoa to handle. • • • There is one blessed thing aboat oar problems: We can pot them off until tomorrow, ifext week, next year; and anally we wUl die, and leave them to otters for solution.
