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Review of the History-Making Events of the \\
| sary when France debased her cur-
j rency and placed an embargo on
E D W A R D
W.
P I C K A R D
£> Western Newspaper Union.
gold exp >rts, because Great Britain
suddenly
discovered that nowhere In
Trade associations of Greater Kan
Edward May Abdicate to
the
w
rid
was there left a fixed
sas City, Mo.; Mississippi Valley
yardstick
against
which to measure
Marry Mrs. Simpson
! Automotive Jobbers association and
ERE scandal and gossip have the Southwestern Jobbers associa international commitments and han
no proper place in this de tion. Their officials also are de dle international exchange
partment. but the “affaire Simp- fendants in the suit.
son. as the French would term it.
The commission points out that
has progressed until the associations represent a "sub- Only America I.a^s in
it assumes world i stantial proportion of the total vol Naval Construction
importance. As ar ume of business of all manufactur .'IGURES made public by the
rangements are be ers and jobbers of automobile parts
i American Navy department show
ing made for the and accessories throughout th e that since July l last every great
quiet and uncontest United States." The commissi n naval power except the United
ed divorce of Mrs. ! charges that these groups “have Slates has increased the number
“Wally” Simpson. combined together with others joint and tonnage of its war vessels.
American friend of ly, preventing the establishment of
In the 2‘j months from July 1 to
King Edward VIII of 1 new and additional competitors." September 15. the United States re
England, it is ru and with "executing certain agree duced the number of its ships from
mored in London so- ments and conspirac es among 324 vessels totaling 1.080,715 tons to
ciety circles that the
30C vessels, totaling 1,062,875 t ns.
King Edward bachelor monarch themselves and with others.”
Great Britain increased ships
will abdicate in favor of his brother,
from
237 to 309 and tonnage from
Blum
Warns
Socialists
of
the Duke of York, and marry the
1,224.329. to 1,232,854.
attractive woman who has shared Republic’s Danger
Japan increased ships from 213
ADICAL Socialists are threaten
so much of his time in recent
to
217 and tonnage from 772.797 to
ing
to
quit
the
"Popular
Front”
months. In support of this rumor
776,397.
is the reported fact that plans are government of France because of
France increased ships from 178
being made for renting the farms discord with Communists, and they
of the Sandringham estate in Nor have been warned by Premier Leon to 187 and tonnage from 558.452 to
folk, which is the king’s private Blum that the one condition where- 571,734
Italy increased ships from 191 to
property. Also, there is a story under the life of the republic can
that this estate may be sold to the be prolonged is that the Popular 195 and tonnage from 403.865 to 406,-
Aga Khan, the immensely wealthy Front “remain united.” In an 333.
Germany increased ships fr -m
spiritual head of the Ismaili sect address to the radical leaders. Blum
of Mohammedanism.
said a split in the coalition govern 49 to 53 and tonnage from 113,708
Should Edward give up the throne, ment would force his immediate to 125.458.
it w'ould eventually be occupied by resignation, and that dissolution of
The British foreign office an
Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter the parliament and new elections nounced that France and Italy had
of the Duke of York, and this suc would result.
agreed to sign that protocol of the
cession would be decidedly popular
Monarchists of Austria, who would London naval treaty f rbidding the
with the people of England. The like to make Archduke Otto em use of submarines except under
abdicating king might revert to the peror, were encouraged by a speech strict limitations.
dukedom of Cornwall, which pro delivered by Chancelloi Kurt Schus-
vides a net income of about $350,000. chnigg in which, defying the little
No More Army Chaplains,
There is nothing in British law to entente, he shouted:
Sny
Disciple« of Christ
prevent the king from marrying
“No outsider, but only Austrians
whomsoever he pleases, but no ruler will decide whether the monarchy ' | 'HE Disciples of Chr.st. In an-
*• nual international convention
of the country since Henry VIII has shall be restored!”
wedded a commoner. Court gossip
The day of a plebiscite to decide in Kansas City, voted to send no
in London says that Prime Minister on the question of restoration of the more of the church's ministers to
Baldwin and the archbishop of Can Hapsburg claimant to the throne is serve as chaplains in the United
terbury recently appealed to Ed “not yet in sight,” the chancellor States army. The resolution adopt
ward for greater discretion in his said. But, with Princess Adelheid. ed also asked the Fed r.il Council
relations with Mrs. Simpson and sister of Archduke Otto, listening, of Churches "to sever its connec
were hotly rebuffed by the king.
he declared that monarchist propa tion with the war system by dis
English newspapers imposed on ganda has a “proper place” in Aus solving its chaplaincy commission”
themselves a voluntary censorship trian life.
and to "provide a non-military min
in this affair, but it has been broken
istry of religion to me:i in the
by the Sunday Referee which prints
armed services at the church's own
an article declaring the king “may “New Gold Standard”
expense and under their own author
marry by spring,” that this would Tried by Uncle Sam
ity without involving the Church of
result in postponement of the coro <*TT IS a new gold standard, a Christ in any alliance whatsoever
* way of doing business which with the state or the military sys
nation, and that tradesmen have
been insuring themselves against has never been tried before," was tem.”
such a delay.
Secretary Morgenthau’s character
ization of the agree
Many Are Killed in
ment
just entered
Japan “Not Fortifying”
into by the United
Moslem-Hindu
Riots
Isles Under Mandate
States, Great Brit
pO
R
three
days
M
U-ns and Min-
F O R some time there have ap- ain and F r a n c e ,
,
1
dus
in
Bombay
f .
ca< h
* peared in print stories about whereby, subject to
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other
fiercely
with
gun
.
and
knives
how Japan was establishing air and 24 - hours’ cancella
j in riots that started du ing the con-
submarine bases in the former Ger tion, they will ex
I struction of a Hindu temple near
man islands of the South Pacific change gold for each
a mosque. Before the authorities
over which she holds a League of other's currencies.
1
had
restored order about fifty per-
Nations mandate. It has been ex Financiers, econo
! sons had been killed and several
pected that the league’s mandate mists and business
| hundred wounded. Nine attempts
commission would investigate these men were taken by
to set fires were made and one
reports, and now Japan seeks to surprise
by
the Secretary
Hindu place of worship was burned
forestall such action by a formal move and immedi M orgcnthau
to the ground.
report to the league in which she
ately
gave
it
close
study.
Some
were
asserts she has “no fortifications,
military or naval bases” in those disposed to label the maneuver “po Coast Maritime Workers
islands. The Tokio government says litical expediency,” but experts gen May Decide to Strik-«
it is scrupulously observing that erally said it was a logical step in AUTHORITY of the national
part of the mandate which forbids the sequence of monetary events but
|
positively in the direction of
the use of the islands for military not
, clare a permanent truce in current
stabilization.
purposes.
The new plan, Mr. Morgcnthau i contract controversies is challenged
Following establishment of a
by the negotiating committee for
south seas bureau in April, 1932, all said, differs from the old gold stand the Pacific coast maritime unions
Japanese armed forces and men of ard in that it will permit the export I and members of those unions ar«i
war have been withdrawal gradually or earmarking of gold only to and instructed to vote on a proposal for
from the islands, the report says, between governments instead of I a coast-wide waterfront strike.
adding that the natives of the is private business institutions and
I he maritime commission had
lands never h a v e been subjected traders.
“The door is wide open,” said peremptorily demanded that the
to military training.
Mr. Morgcnthau. “We’re not going Pacific coast ports be kept open
out drumming up business, but we ll * h',e 11 8,’nt ari investigator to San
Five Groups Accused by
welcome all other countries which h ran cisco to discuss the conditions
which have long threatened to bring
Trade Commission
want to participate.”
/"'MARGES filed in Washington by
According to the Treasury depart on industrial warfare.
In telegrams to President Frank-
the federal trade commission ment, the United States alone will
accuse five trade associations of at announce a selling price for gold. hn Roosevelt and the commission,
tempting to corner the automobile France and England will keep their the committee said the commission
parts and accessories business. The selling prices secret, though there had caused “great unrest” among
groups, which were ordered to show will be a free flow of gold between he workers through its partiema
cause why they should not be com the stabilization funds of the three- tion in negotiations between ship
pelled to cease their alleged com nations.
owners and dock and shipboard em
ployees.
bine, are the National Standard
It was believed that Great Britain
Parts association, Detroit; the Mo was the prime mover in this new „ 2 * 1 *lVCn Unlons’ rlaiming a
tor and Eauipment Wholesale as pact. As one commentator put it-
mbership of nearly 37.000 work-
sociation, Chicago; the Automotive “The agreement was made neces- ers are the International Long-
shoremen 8 association, the Ameri
By
M
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can Radio Telegraphists* nssocla-
ti'in, the Marine Engineers' Benefi
cial association, the Musters. Mutes
und Pilots of America, the Sailors'
Union of the Pacific, Marine Cooks
and Stewards, and the Marine Fire ten
men. Oilers. Wutertrnders and Wip
ers* association.
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Russia Using Spanish War
to Foment Discord
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league red government of Spain,
and sustained a second rebuff Ivan
Maisky, Russian antbassad« r to
England, handed to Lord Plymouth,
ilntuh chairman of the n n inter
vention committee, a virtual ulti
matum demanding Immediate ton-
vocution of the committee to con
sider blockading the coast of Por
tugal against arms shipments dr«-
lined f r thr Spanish insurgents It
was undersh»*! In la>ndon that I. rd
Plymouth replied ttiat if the j.r ;»•>.
sitlon were seriously made. It should
be presented through diplomatic
channels to the governments con
cerned. The Russian plan was for a
blockade by English of French wor
ships.
Observers In Europe are c .n-
vinced that the Soviet government
docs not expect the powers to ugr e
to any such blockade as is sug
gested. but Is chiefly interested in
stirring up discord urn^ng the na
tions.
British Foreign Minister Ar.ti ny
Eden, after hearing of L rd Plym
outh's reply, made a speech ut
Sheffield in which he pledged Great
Britain’s unwavering support to the
policy of nonintervention in Spain
He declared the government was
determined to “confine that tragedy
within the boundaries of that c in
try "
leaders of the Fascists were re
ported to have planned a steady,
steam-roller advance on Madrid,
and this offensive was already under
way The defenders of the capital
were hastily building f<.rtirti ati .ns
in the suburbs and surr.undirig the
city with trenches. In Oviedo the
dynamite-armed f or ce of loyalist
miners was still battling with the
garrison and rebel troops sent to
the rescue were about to enter the
city.
Nineteen Die When Ship
Sinks in Lake Erie
EIGHTEEN men and one w man
I
perished in the waters cf Lake
Eric when the Canadian ship Sand
-*
Merchant foundered off Cleveland
during a gale. Seven men, includ
ing the captain, were picked up
after clinging to life boats for eleven
hours. The woman who was lost
was the wife of the first mate, who
also drowned.
Northern Italy was shaken by
earthquake shocks that were felt
as far away as Jugoslavia and Aus
tria. Twenty persons were killed
by tumbling walls, and thirty others
were injured.
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French Communist Speech
Cause of Trouble
V / f AURICE
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THORKZ,
French
speech in Strasbourg that is cau.xin:'
a lot of trouble. He was charged
with deliberately insulting Adolf Hit
ler, and the Berlin government en
tered formal protest. The official
Nazi organ. Der AngrifT, says the
speech was an attempt to precipi
tate war between France and Ger-
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