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T II E B O N N E V I L L E I) A M C U R O N I CF . E
Review o f the History - Making Events o f the World
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By
EDWARD
W.
PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
Chiang Is Free Again;
Soong May Be Premier
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. Soong
sued 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
open break between the two na
tions. Since Marshal Chang is one
of those demanding war with Japan,
it is rumored that the appointment
of Soong was the specified reward
for his release of Chiang and sub
mission to discipline.
C
Arthur Brisbane, Noted
Journalist, Is Dead
r t h u r B r i s b a n e , 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 ns 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. Funeral services were
held in New York and the long list
of honorary pallbearers, headed by
Vice President Garner, included
many of the nation’ s leading men
and women.
A
Financial Status of
Farmers Improving
MONG the numerous govern
mental reports r.t the year’ s
close that of M. I. Myers, head of
the farm credit administration, is
interesting and encouraging, show
ing that the outlook for the finan
cial status of farmers for 1937 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, because they “ had no
other source of credit after the de
pression,” Myers said.
“ In the country as a whole, farm
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ers apparently had more money for
equipment, machinery, farm build
ings and repairs in 1936 than in any
year since the depression,” Myers
said.
He added that this should con
tinue next year because of in
creased purchasing power and the
opportunity to get short term cash
loans at the present reasonable
rates.
Air Liner Crashes;
Twelve Perish
A NOTHER big air liner, the third
to meet disaster in a month,
crashed against the top of Oak
mountain, twenty miles from Bur
bank, Calif., and hurtled down into
a ravine, a mass of tangled wreck
age. The twelve persons aboard
were all killed. Three of the nine
passengers were women. The plane,
a twin motored Boeing, was oper
ated by the United Air Lines and
was on its way from San Francisco
to Burbank.
Condition of Pope Pius
Is Growing Worse
D ROGRESS of the illness of Pope
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Pius was followed with great
anxiety, for it was admitted at the
Vatican that he was steadily grow
ing worse and was suffering intense
pain. The paralysis was spreading
along the left side and arm, and
one report said his physicians de
clared science could do nothing
further for him. After the Christ
mas eve radio message which the
pontiff insisted on giving he fainted.
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many lines of activity over the pre
vious fiscal year, Mr. Roper ad
mitted that considerable progress
must yet be made to pull the coun
try up to the prosperity level of
1928-29. But he asserted a per cap
ita volume equivalent to that of the
prosperous years would mean a
higher aggregate, since the popula
tion has increased about 4 per cent
in the last seven years.
Adolf Hitler Is Defied
by Madrid Government
HEN the German steamer
Palos was captured by Span
ish loyalists at Bilbao because it
carried war munitions supposedly
; destined for the Franco forces, the
Berlin government demanded its
release under threat of reprisal.
But the Basque authorities defied
| Hitler and decided to hold the ves
sel. This put up to the fuehrer the
decision as to whether he would
send to the rebels the 30,000 armed
men they have asked, and all Eu
rope waited uneasily for hfs an
swer.
It was believed Hitler would avoid
war measures in this crisis, and
both Great Britain and France were
hopeful that he would preserve
peace because they have offered to
help his economic and colonial
needs in return for nonintervention
in the Spanish conflict. However,
informed German sources said the
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
continuance of such enlistments.
W
Hans Von Seeckt, German
Soldier, Is Dead
EN. HANS VON SEECKT, who
Mahatma Gandhi Again
died in Berlin at the age of
Prodding the British
seventy, was one of the really capa
ILENT for two years, Mahatma ble commanders in the World war.
Gandhi once more comes into While acting as chief of staff to
public notice with a speech tending Field Marshall Von Mackensen he
to increase the opposition to British was responsible for the great defeat
rule in India. He
of the Russians at Gorlice, and he
spoke at an indus
planned the campaigns that resulted
trial exposition held
in the collapse of Serbia and Ru
in connection with
mania. After the Von Kapp putsch
the annual session
of 1920 Van Seeckt was made com
of the All-India Na
mander - in - chief of the German
tional congress, the
army which he built into an effi
members of which
cient force. Later he helped to
were already agitat
train the Chinese National army.
ing in favor of inde
pendence. Said the
President Wants Revised
“ holy man” :
Neutrality Law Passed
“ Show me t h e
Mahatma
HE Supreme court having up
way. I am prepared
Gandhi
held, in the Chaco arms em
to go back to jail
again. I am prepared to be hanged. bargo case, the neutrality powers
“ If you do all I want you to do, of the President, Mr. Roosevelt let
Lord Linlithgow (British high com it be known that he would ask con
missioner for
India) will say, ‘I gress to revise the present neutral
am wrong. I thought you people ity law to give him broader dis
were terrorists, and, if you like, we cretion in his relations with foreign
Britishers will go back on the next governments. In other words, the
steamer.’ We
would then say to “ teeth” which he and the State de
Linlithgow and the British, ‘India is partment have always thought the
big enough to hold you and more statute lacked.
like you.’
Government officials looked upon
“ That is my swaraj (self-govern the Supreme court’ s decision as the
most sweeping approval of a New
ment under native influence).”
Jawaharlal Nehru, in his presi Deal law the tribunal has yet giv
dential address to the congress, en. They read in it a:i inferential
warned the British his countrymen approval of the reciprocal trade
would not be “ parties to an imperi treaty program, still untested.
alist war.”
Panama Canal Tolls
System
Is Faulty
Roper Urges Census
ECRETARY OF WAR WOOD-
of the Unemployed
RING’ S report on the Panama
SE C R E TA R Y OF COMMERCE canal shows a deficit of nearly a
^ ROPER in his annual report million dollars in its operation for
to the President and congress urged the fiscal year 1936, and admits
legislation for a census of the un that the present system of collect
employed. It has been estimated ing tolls permits inequalities, ma
that such a census would cost be nipulations and endless reductions
tween 15 and 25 million dollars and in charges, resulting in losses to
would provide jobs for 23,000. Said the United States and unfair advan
Mr. Roper:
tages to shipping interests.
“ Although approximately 6.000,000
The report makes no recom
unemployed persons have obtained mendation that congress increase
gainful work since March, 1933. and the toll charges to a point where
the number of unemployed is stead they will at least pay the interest
ily diminishing, the federal govern charges on the capital investment
ment must co-operate will, state and of 5464 million dollars and elimi
local agencies and industry in mak nate the unfair discrimination
ing work available whereby the un against producers of the central
employed may provide a livelihood I states in favor of those of the Pa
for themselves and their families.” | cific coast and eastern seaboard.
Showing in his report increases in However, it does recommend legis
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to create an agonizing conflict be
tween love and duty.
“ The decision often has been tak
en by men of honor. And when the
power of personal attraction is re
inforced by the glamor of the throne
the moral obligation is the more
urgent for that reason.
“ Let us remember that any kind
of love which can be in conflict with
Inter-American Peace
duty is not the love of which the
Conference Is Ended
gospel speaks.”
T'Y ELEGATES to the inter-Amer-
The British press and a great
ican peace conference in Bue many of the English people are dis
nos Aires signed the 69 accords ap gusted with these repeated attacks
proved during the sessions and the on Edward by the prelates and
conference came to an end. Fare there is a growing danger of a split
well congratulatory speeches were in the Church of England.
made by Secretary of State Cordell
Dispatches from Edward’ s haven
Hull, Argentine Foreign Minister in Enzesfeld, Austria, say that he
Carlos Saavedra Lamas and the is planning to make Mrs. Simpson
head of the Peruvian delegation, the duchess of Windsor in May next,
Carlos Concha. They all urged that immediately after her divorce be
the peace efforts be continued in comes absolute. Meanwhile he prob
the next Pan-American conference, ably will remain at the castle of
which will be held in Lima, Peru, Baron Eugene de Rothschild with
in 1938.
out seeing Mrs. Simpson.
There were reports that the duke
might
take legal action against the
Cuba Ousts Gomez and
archbishop of York, presumably for
Laredo Bru Is President
slander.
1Y/ÍIGUEL MARIANO GOMEZ,
-*-*-*■ president of Cuba, was on his
Baron Nuffield’s Great
way out because he defied Col. Ful
gencio Batista, the real ruier of the Gift for English Poor
republic, by vetoing
ARON NUFFIELD, one of Eng
the sugar tax bill to
land’ s wealthiest industrialists
raise funds for the
and a generous contributor to phil
building of schools
anthropic causes, has just donated
that would be con
$10,000,000 “ to stimulate employ
ducted by army of
ment in Great Britain’s poverty
ficers. Despite píen- 8L
stricken depressed areas.” Four
ty of warnings, Go- |||-
trustees are given full discretion in
mez persisted in his
use of the sum. Baron Nuffield, who
opposition to
the
.
is Sir William Morris, is head of a
measure which, he
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vast manufacturing organization in
said, would lead to
cluding automobile plants, export
fascism.
So
the ^
a
companies, a publishing house and
house of representa-
Gomez
affiliated subsidiaries.
tives, dominated by Batista, im
peached him and he went to trial
Decision Favorable to
before the senate with the certainty
that the decision would be against Labor Relations Board
him. He was accused of attempt
c c o r d i n g to a decision of the
ing to coerce the congress uncon
United States court of appeals
stitutionally to defeat the tax bill, in New Orleans, the national labor
and of mal-administration. It was relations Soard has authority to
the first bill of impeachment ever compel employers to bargain collec
voted in the history of the Cuban tively with their employees. The
republic.
tribunal upheld the board's cease
Gomez defended himself vigor and desist orders against Agwilines,
ously but was resigned to his fate. Inc., which operates the Clyde Mal
The prosecution was conducted by lory Steamship lines, in connection
three members of the house—Car with the dismissal of seven em
los Palma, veteran Republican lead ployees for alleged union action.
er; Eduardo Martinez Fraga, Na
tionalist, and Felipe Jay, Democrat.
Program to Curb Credit
Vice President Federico Laredo
Bru at once succeeded Gomez auto Inflation Is Announced
ECRETARY OF THE TREAS
matically. He is a lawyer, sixty-
URY
MORGENTHAU
and
one years old and was a colonel in
Chairman Marriner Eccles ot the
the Cuban war of independence.
federal reserve board announced a
new program for
Oil Concerns and Men
curbing credit in
flation,
and it is
Are Again Indicted
likely
to involve
HREE new indictments against
$1,000,000,000 of bor
major oil companies, oil trade
rowings
in
1937.
publications and individuals were
About a billion dol-
returned by a federal grand jury in
lars worth of gold is If
Madison, Wis., in order to avoid de
flowing
into
the
lay in the trial of the anti-trust
country
annually,
cases. With few changes the new
and if this continues
true bills are similar to those re
next year, it was
turned previously by the 1935 grand
said by officials, the
jury and contested as invalid on treasury will take
S. Eccles
grounds that the grand jury was il
that amount out of the money mar
legally impaneled.
ket, to offset the effects of the gold
It is understood that the govern influx on domestic credit.
ment plans to bring the cases to
The plan, which probably was de
trial in March.
vised by Mr. Eccles, is intended to
hold the excess reserves, which are
the reserves that member banks de
Archbishop of York Joins
posit
with the federal reserve sys
in Attack on Edward
tem in excess of legal requirements,
r c h b is h o p s of the church of
on the same plateau where they are
England just can’ t let the duke
now. Previously gold flowing into
of Windsor and his love affair alone.
the country was chalked up as ex
The Most Rev. Dr. William Temple,
cess reserves upon which an infla
archbishop of York and second only
tionary credit boom could be built.
to the archbishop of Canterbury,
took his turn in lambasting the ab
dicated king, in a Christmas dioces Former Senator Fess
an letter that displayed little of the Dies in Washington
Christian spirit. Said the arch
IMEON D. FESS. former
ia
bishop:
tor from Ohio and for years a
“ It has happened to many a man leader in the “ Old Guard” of the
before now to find himself beginning Republican party, died suddenly in
to fall in love with another man’ s the Carlton hotel, Washington. He
wife. That is a moment of critical had been in retirement from na
decision and the right decision is tional politics since 1932 when he
that they should cease to meet be was defeated for re-election to the
fore the passion is so developed as senate.
lation to correct the present system
of measurement of vessels, which,
it declares, has “ no justification in
equity among the several types of
snips and may be considered as a
form of subsidy to certain types
which are able to take advantage
of the system.”
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