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News Review of Current Events the World Over Germany’s Economic Crisis Now Worries the Nazi Gov ernment —NBA Seems Due for Modification- Plot to Kill Caffery Foiled. By EDWARD W. PICKARD • W WoUra Newspaper Union. D ECOVERING from the terror and dismay caused by Hitler’s "purg lug" of the Nasi party at a cost of some fifty Hres, the people of Ger- many now realise that a serious eco nomic crisis for their country la at hand. The essence of the Nasi new deal Is that to make money Is no credit to the individ ual, but that to work Is a great honor. In centive In the form of profit Is Vanish Ing; Jobs, many of them created, have been .. Kurt Schmitt 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 Naz! 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 L and In that time be has the authority to promulgate any reasonable laws that he 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 retch by 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 Nasi “traitors” an explana tion to the effect that those men were truly the supporters of Hitler and were only preparing and arming se lected troops to back him np 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. Thin he delivered a stern warning to France —end the world—not to try to Invade the relch. “Just you dare to attack us I Just you dare to march Into Ger many 1” European diplomats were consider ably disturbed by Hess' utterances, looking on them as the strongest prov ocation hurled at France in years. The Nasi charge that the executed Storm Troop leaders bad been* con spiring with France already had made the French angry, and Andre Fran cols-Poncet, French ambassador to Berlin, protested vigorously against IL HIS position greatly strengthened by events In Germany, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria reorgan ised his cabinet and declared unre lenting warfare on the Naris In his coun try. He got rid of three ministers who KU" were not working well |R ’ with him and himself took the portfolios, of Mg'S-*’ - I public safety, defense, Ks j foreign affairs and ag- MErjep-'j riculture. Maj. Emil M»Kto Fey was supplanted k as vice chancellor by Prince Von Starhem- „ berg and was given or the job of repressing Dollfuss an anti-government political activities. Probably to register bis disapproval of Hitler’s methods, especially as they affect Catholics, Dollfuss recalled Ste phen Tauschnlts, 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. T OUIS RARTHOU, French foreign i-r 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 Gnat Britain Una 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 in parliament and tee press. There were Indications that ths cabinet was very cool toward the suggestion. TAR. SVEN HEDIN, famous Swedish A* explorer, has been captured for the second time by Gen. Ma Chung and his “army” of bandits in eastern Turkestan. Token with Hedin were a doeen or se of bls companions. The cnatfiroß wero reoorted to have boon ImpHamoA lw> '.MI InaectoslMi camp to too Deighborbootkef Alm. and odtotalo of the Chinese government said that their rescue would be exceedingly dMß cult Hedin whs engmod inlaying 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 a* they now call Donald Rlchberg, because he is at the head of a kind of super-cabinet which bolds 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 ge n c y committee which has been given sweeping supervisory and. co-ordinating* powers over the ma- ... Donald Rlchberg Jor agencies of the New Deal. What is going to happen to the NBA 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 la preventing monopoly. In this be recognizes as Just some of the complaints uttered by Senator Borah. The plqs was sub mitted to Mr. Roosevelt before he went to sea, and Is being studied by Rlchberg and others. The administrator, meanwhile, is undertaking to complete the regimen tation of Industry. He Issued an' or der directing all Industries still un codified either to sign specific codes or to submit to a new “basic code” governing wages and hours. A time limit of 80 days was seL and three of the general's, aides were named to su pervise this operation. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, In his capacity of 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 of 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 the price of everything—even as against the government Itself. "This administration has Just been able to discover the responsible par ties to this conspiracy. It has not had time to take steps to punish IL It will proceed at once both to punish snd obstruct further Injustice.” In another statement Senator Lewis 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 reorganisation intrusted to Mr. Rlchberg snd bis associates, is that there shall be gathered from the public, wherever possible, whstever 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 In the promotion of general prosperity In all branches of commerce and Industry.” BEING ambassador to Cuba la no snap. The authorities of the la land republic have Just uncovered an extensive plot to assassinate Ambas- sador Jefferson Caf fery with bombs, many of which were found. Something like seventy-five for mer army officers were arrested end it wss said documentary proof of tie plot was seized. The officials slso so and largo stores of guns and munitions in ware houses. Jose Pedraza, chief of the Havana police, said the former officers were sided by one faction of tho ABC political society, white re cently withdrew its support from the Mendieta government, snd planned a revolt In Havana, striking st police stations and army barracks simul taneously In a night attack after cut ting electric lights off over the dty. There were persistent reports In Havana that President Mendiota would resign In favor of Ooi. Fulgencio Ba tista, head of tho army. qpHBOUGH four counties of south 1 an Illinois a tornado swept, and Jacksonville was especially hard hit Scores of persons wars injured and the property damage was eotlmated at a milUon dollars. Hundreds of the Mg oM OSh% otoM ootfMgvoodo toaihavaboto too glory of too tor • may >tai%too toonoyoflb ;v - WHEAT production in the United States this year will bo the low est since 1896, according to the gov ernment report For the second year since 1800 the yield will fan 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 Win fall 450,000,000 bushds short of last year’s* production and 1,588,000,000 bushels below the yearly average for the period from 1927-8 L The government estimated the; total wheat crop at 484,000,000 bushels, which la 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 2,118,000,- 000 bushels. Private authorities had predicted a crop of 2334,000,000 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 2330,000,- 000 bushels and In the five years from 1927 to 1931 the country produced an average of 2,516,000,000 bushels a year. THE world civil service commission of the Methodist Episcopal church. In session at Evanston, 11L, voted to participate in the campaign against dirty moving pictures that originated largely in the Legion of Decency or ganized within the Catholic church. This campaign is having its. effect on tiie movie industry and the makers of film pictures have been deeply dis turbed. Joseph L 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, 1984, 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 producer! around ten millions of dollars. IT 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 Colum 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 coplee of correspondence with his clients. He claimed that as a lawyer he could not produce the documents without per mission from his clients. • Thousands of applicants tor PWA funds are sure to bedisap 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 8400.000,000 of the maximum of 8500,- 000,000 which congress authorized him to allocate for public works. Ickes said the other 8100,000,000 might be handed over to the PWA later, but that "we are proceeding on the theory that we will have 8400,000,- 000 to spend” In addition to the orig inal 83300,000,000 appropriation dis posed of long ago.' FOR the first time In history a news paper office has been picketed by editorial workers. This was done by leaders of the American and New York newspaper guilds to the Long Island Press, published In Jamaica, L. L The Press says It "operates all Its mechan ical departments on a union basis and exceeds the requirements of the NRA In every department” But Heywood Broun and bis colleagues aver It op poses the organisation of editorial workers and has violated the collec tive bargaining provision of the NRA. Therefore they are asking that the government prosecute the Press. /COMMUNIST agitators who fostered 5-J a farm strike In New Jersey didn’t get far. The government conciliator stepped in and, finding most of the trouble was due to tiie efforts of the reds, soon made arrangements for the men to go back to work on terms that dn not differ from those formerly prevailing. The Communists are playing a big part in at least ten of the major strikes now in effect I WITH Its eyes on the coming con greasionsl campaign, tho G. O. P. elephant is sitting up and taking no tice. In other words, tho Republican party is showing signa of a distant revivification. Its national leaders are busy these days. Tho party's eightieth birthday was celebrated at Jackson, Midi, with many speeches and assurances of future victories, Nations] Chairman Fletcher bring in ths van of tho assurers. Mr. Fletcher then wont to' Chicago, where many of the most Important men In the party met with him In dosed conferences. Jefferson Caffery President roosevelt made brief but pleasant visits to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, inspect ing government projects and talking reassuringly to tho inhabitants. Thon the cruiser Houston headed for Carta gena, Colombia, for a short stop before going to the Conal Zona. At Colon practically the entire population wae out to see Mr. Roose velt, snd be was cheered all the way through the canal to Balboa. There be landed and motored to Panama aty where be was tho guest of Presi dent Arias at dinner and delivered an addresa. Returning to tho Houston, the President began the 12-daye jour neg across tho Pacific to Honolulu. THE HARDIN TN •■ U N E-H E R AL. D SEEN-'HEARD •round th* National Capital ■■"■By CARTER FIELDS"" Washington.—Ambassador Luther, whose hurried trip home after Ger many’s action on reparations so sur prised diplomatic Washington, is re turning, according to advices received hero, with a real tale of woe to back •P his negotiations for special treat ment under the new tariff reciprocity powers granted the President by con gress. j Thia is the first year since the de pression that Germany baa had an ad verse balance of trade, for example. At the Department of Commerce, how ever, skeptics point out that this bal ance is not big enough against Ger many to offset the Invisible credit pay ments for shipping, for other services, and for expenditures by tourists. But it is no secret that the boycott against German ships by American and other tourists—though Americans are the most numerous spenders on this sort of thing—has hurt amazingly, cutting into the profits of the big fast German ships which captured the ■peed record of the Atlantic so re cently. Meantime Germany’s trade with Rus sia has dropped to « low level. This Is partly the outcome of the political situation brought about by Hitler, who overlooks no opportunity to say un pleasant things about the Russians. As a result, Russian trade Is being transferred to Britain and to the Unit ed States. Germany is issuing no new credits to Russia. The movement is the other way. Russia is paying for goods received from Germany in pre vious years. These funds should be available for payment of interest on foreign debts, some of our experts think, but of course there is an un .known element That is to what ex tent Germany has been financing ex ports and stimulating sales abroad through the repurchase of German bonds at depreciated prices. Makes Up Loss Under that procedure the exporter, who could not make a sale abroad if the mark were at par, is permitted to quote a lower price, put the proceeds of the sale In foreign currency, and buy the depreciated German bonds abroad. The bonds are then brought home and sold on the Berlin market at the higher quotations prevailing then. That profit frequently makes up for the loss on the sale oflhe mer rim-dlse. 'i .e Reichbank, however, does not get the foreign currency paid for Ger man goods, as It goes for the purchase of the German bonds. It the Reich bank permits only 50 per cent of the proceeds of the sale of German goods to be employed in the purchase of Ger man bonds abroad, it receives the re maining 50 per cent In foreign cur rency, but the system is one In which the Reichbank always receives less than 100 per cent of the proceeds of German exports. So there Is no way of knowing to what extent German export trade Is actually making foreign exchange available in payment for imports, or for interest on German foreign debt The situation is one in which Germany at any time might decide to devalue the mark in an effort to create a bal ance. If devaluation were sufficient only to achieve such a balance, there would be no serious threat to the Brit ish or the French position. A Germany Importing as much as she exports would be assisting foreign industry by her purchases as much as she might put foreign industries under pressure by her competition. But if the mark were drastically re duced to the point where the German exporter would be given a clear advan tage in world markets, there might be a period of disturbance, which might end with further depreciation of Brit ish pounds and In the unsettling of the gold currencies. Which would lead di rectly to tremendous pressure for fur ther devaluation of the gold value of the American dollar. President Roosevelt still has a lee way of almost 10 cents which, under existing law, he can use, marking the dollar down to 50 cents gold, the fig ure fixed as the limit by congress. The chief question is what such a devaluation of the mark would do to Germany. Doctor Luther la not report ed to bo happy. Doubtful Practices Oil magnates and their representa tives hero believe that the slashing reduction In pipe line rates on oil will delay for a long time tho active move, reinforeed during the closing days of congress by the Darrow report, for di vorcing the big oil producers and their pipe lines. Ono of the points made in tho Dar row report was that something should bo done about the heavy profits of tho pipe lines. It was charged that come of the big oil companies that owned pipe lines wore guilty of a practice very much, in principle, like the secret rebates of the old Rockefeller days. It was alleged that the big oil com paniee charged such high rates on the oR of Independents which passed through their pipe Unes that they were •nabled to cut tho priqe of their own oil below actual cost of production. So they had the independents hamstrung before they started. ' It was as. this snd some other prac tices that the. Ickes oil regulation bUI was aimed, in addition to the necessity tor controlling oil production unless ths iiigkfry was to bo leveled to pros frntlen.The Ickes bin was en dome by the Darrow review board white dsdand systematic and authorl- tative control of production was easen tiaL Many of the board's recommen- dations concerning enforcement of the marketing sections of the code will bob up from time to time In orders from the oil administration, which is now being pestered by widespread com plaints from Independent distributors. Most of the complaints are that while Ickes has been trying to Shut off hot oil valves, the big companies have been doing Just about what they pleased with gasoline. Here In Wash ington L. & Scott, chairman of the local petroleum committee, seriously considered giving instructions that code eagles should be given only to companies complying with the code, and Insisting that certain companies will not get theirs until they sign cer tificates of compliance. Refiners Grumble Refiners in producing on fields have protested and Independents have been grumbling for years that pipe 11ns rates are too high. Now that consoli dated tax returns are practically ver boten, the pipe Unes have another rea son for reducing rates. Last year's net Income of the Texas Pipe Line company of Oklahoma was 8928,436 on an investment of 86,524,987 in gather ing and trunk pipe lines. Shell Pipe Line corporation’s net was 810,486,- 113, on an Investment of 851,585,177; Stanolind Pipe Line company’s was 812,365,087 on an “Investment of 887,- 379,624, and Texas Pipe Line com pany's was 86,528,100 on an Investment of 856,055,840. All of which Indicates thaL while larger profits have been made on smaller investments, a pipe line com pany subsidiary was a handy sort of thing last year for a big oil company to have, while prices of oil were being slashed and profits on the parent com pany were being cut to the bone. On June 7 there was a hearing ea tiie bill of Representative Strong of Texas to divorce pipe lines from in dustry ownership. But it was appar ent to the most casual observer that no immediate action was intended. It was largely a pretext for delaying the oil control bill, and, Incidentally, to help Colleague Strong with his pub licity back home. The pipe line companies, to their in dignation, were not called. Actually, they were delighted, as they think now they will have an argument In the next congress, claiming that In the con gress Just ended they were not given a hearing. But the reduction in rates, ordered by the Interstate Commerce commis sion, is far more important in the pic ture. It makes tiie chief attack on dual ownership of oil wells and pipe lines a dud. Keystone Politics Patronage troubles promise to fade the bright hope'of the New Deal for carrying Pennsylvania, one of the six states which voted against Franklin D. Roosevelt In 1982. Five of the eleven Democratic members of the house from the Keystone state make ne bones of the fact that they have no interest in the election of Joe Guffey as United States senator, and there are some other complications. In contrast with this the Republi can organization, which, of course, will back Senator David A. Reed for re-election, has been enormously strengthened by the recent shake-ups in both city and state committees, which shake-ups Incidentally included the elimination of William S. Vare. The Republicans in Pennsylvania are also. In rather a good humor about the recent selection of Henry P. Fletcher as Republican national chairman. Bitterness of these five Democratic congressmen flared up within six weeks after Roosevelt’s Inauguration. The five malcontents are Representa tives Francis EL, Walter of Easton, Patrick J. Boland of Scranton, Charles L Faddls of Waynesburg, William M. Berlin of Greensburg, and Charles N. Crosby of Meadville. They alleged that the distribution of patronage as dictated by Guffey, long reputed Democratic boas of the state, was calculated to wreck their organi zations. In a subsequent row, after Guffey had obtained the appointment of an Internal revenue collector at Scranton over Representative Boland’s protest, Guffey had A. F. Fix of Tork appoint ed collector of Internal revenue at Philadelphia. This pleassd Represent ative Harry L. Haines of Bed Lion, but later when Fix was forced to re sign because of activity In campaign fund collections all the good will In Tork county, which appointment of Fix had created, was lost. Democrats Angry Just what the Tork county Demo crats expected Guffey to de about it is something rise again. The Impor tant point Is that they are mad, not that their anger is justified. Which In effect makes six of the eleven Dem ocratic districts in revolt Still another fly In the Guffey oint ment resulted from the appointment of Joseph F. Gallagher as postmaster of Philadelphia. He wss appointed on tho endorsement of Guffey and Jack Kelly, now dty chairman in Philadel phia. Soreness hero results from the fact that Gallagher is a member of the famous Philadelphia Union league and was a lifelong Bepubllcan up until April IL last Guffey’s power with tho administra tion is due to tho fact that early in tho pre-convention battle ho broke with his old allies, Al Smith, Frank Hague, and others of tho northeastern group, and came out for Roosevelt More Important hq was able to deliver a large majority st the Mg Pennsyl vania delegation to tho man who to now in tho White Hous*. OzwrisM, WNR osrvise. PAGE NINE Weird and Wonderful Are Jap Traffic Rules The polite Japanese do not want to put a burden on the English speaking travelers so they have translated and posted their traffic regulations. Here is the translation. I—At the rise of the hand police man stops rapidly. 2—Do not pass by or otherwise dis respect him. B—When a passenger of the foot hove in sight, tootle the horn; trump et at him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacle your passage, tootle him with vigor and express by word of mouth the warning, “HL Hl.” 4—Beware of the wandering horse that he shall not take fright as you pass him by. Do not explode ths ex haust box at him. Go soothingly by. s—Give5 —Give space to the festive dog that shall sport in the roadway. 6—Avoid entanglement of the dog with your wheelspokes. 7—Go soothingly on the grease mud as there lurks the skid demon. B—Press the brake of the foot as you roll around the corner to save collapse and tie-up. 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