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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON of the senate agriculture committee and Chairman Marvin Jones of the house committee urging them to speed up the legislation, but warn ing that it must be kept within budgetary limits unless congress Tells Italy France Is Prepared to Use Force . . . Japs was prepared to impose new taxes. “The new national farm act Checked at Shanghai... Roosevelt on Farm Program should safeguard farmers' income as well as their soil fertility,” the President wrote. “It should pro vide for storage of reserve food sup plies in an ever normal granary, so that if severe and widespread drouth recurs consumers will be as sured of more adequate supplies with less drastic increases in price than otherwise would be the case. "It should provide for control of surpluses when and if necessary, but at the same time it should pre serve the export markets that still are open to our farmers. “It should protect both farmers and consumers against extreme ups and downs in prices of farm prod ucts. It should be financed by sound fiscal methods. Local administra tion should be kept in the farmers' hands.” Urging sound fiscal relations, Mr. Roosevelt said that it is important not to interfere with the expected balancing of the budget in the fiscal year 1938-’39. Experts in Washington figure the new farm program may cost as much as $1,000,000,000 in the first year. —♦— JVeir« Review of Current Events THREAT BY CHAUTEMPS Farmers Warned on Loans The news camera man took his life in his hands to secure this ex cellent photograph of Japanese “mopping up” operations in the Chapel district of Shanghai. “Mopping up” is the military euphemistic term for stamping out whatever life is left after the artillery bombardment has done its work. SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK <0 Western Newspaper Union. Chautemps Gives Warning F THE necessity arises, France is prepared and ready to employ force in defense of her vital inter ests. At the same time she offers peace to al! nations “that will prove by their acts their de sire to keep their en gagements loyally.” Such was the warning, evidently directed especially tc Italy and Ger many, which Pre mier Camille Chau temps uttered be fore a congress of the central feder ation of his Radical Socialist party. “I hope especially in the grievous affair of Spain this pacific, prudent, and courageous action will succeed in cutting short the violations of jus tice which cannot be renewed with out constraining France and Britain to renew their liberty of action,” Chautemps said. The premier’s declaration recalled French insistence that unless the nonintervention committee soon pulled foreign troops out of Spain France would open her frontier to aid the Spanish government Dispatches from Paris say that Mussolini and Hitler at their recent meeting in Germany reached an agreement by which Italy was giv en the right to order some long range guns from the Krupp works and armor plate for a new war ship. In return Hitler was promised a free hand in southeastern Europe to obtain the foodstuffs and trade Germany needs Italy is plainly menacing France’s African posses sions, but the danger of an ad vance by Germany through Czecho slovakia and Austria has delayed a showdown in the Mediterranean. Chautemps’ declaration of policy may give II Duce pause. —•*— I Franco's Progress eneralissimo franco , having completed his conquest G of Gijon and the rest of the loyalist territory in northwest Spain, began moving his insurgent forces east ward to the Aragon front, where his officers said the “decisive offensive of the war” would be begun. E'DWARD A. O’NEAL, president IL of the American Farm Bureau federation, headed a group of farm leaders who called on the Presi dent for the purpose of asking loans of 60 cents a bushel on corn to im prove prices. It was understood Mr. Roosevelt warned that crop loans should not be pushed so high that the drain on federal revenues would become too heavy; and that he intimated that the budget would not permit great extension of loans at this time. However, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace subsequently told a press conference a government loan on this year’s large corn crop “should be exceedingly desirable.” Government dispatches announced the Madrid-Valencia loyalist regime was prepared to block the insurg ents on all sectors of the 300-mile line from the French frontier south to Teruel, east of Madrid. Steiwer to Retire —k— WENTY years of public service Ecuador Coup de'Etat is enough for Senator Frederick EN. ALBERTO ENRIQUEZ, Steiwer of Oregon. Republican. He war minister of Ecuador, and has announced that he will not seek officers of the army executed a coup re-election next year, but will re d’etat which forced Provisional turn to the practice of law. Steiwer President Federico Paez to resign was the keynoter of the Republican and leave the country. Enriquez at national convention of 1936. once assumed power as "supreme chief” with a cabinet composed largely of army officers. He de John Roosevelt to Wed creed the establishment of a popu A/f RS. FRANCES HAVEN CLARK lar tribunal to deal with persons t-’I of Boston announced that her accused of tampering with public daughter, Anne Lindsay Clark, and funds and announced "a national po John Roosevelt, youngest son of the litical purge.” The people accepted President, will be married in Na hant, Mass., next June, shortly after the change of government quietly Mr. Roosevelt is graduated from Harvard. Japanese Drive Checked Mrs. Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt, IX days and nights of intensified former wife of Elliott Roosevelt, fighting around Shanghai brought second son of the President, and from the spokesman of the Japa Curtin Winsor of Ardmore, Pa., nese army the admission that its were married in Philadelphia. Mrs. general advance of more than 100,- Winsor and Elliot Roosevelt were 000 men with tanks and planes was divorced in July. 1933. "slowed down.” The Chinese had —♦— blown up bridges, mined highways Credit System Praised and erected barbed wire entangle- ffients, and all the time had bat PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, speak- * ing at the opening of the new tled the invaders desperately. Bullets from a Japanese plane Federal Reserve building in Wash killed one British soldier and en ington. gave full praise to the fed dangered Americans and other for eral reserve system as a most im eigners on the edge of the inter portant part of the government’s national settlement in Shanghai. Of plans for economic stability and se ficial protests were lodged immedi curity. He said disastrous depres ately and the matter was so serious sions and booms could be avoided that it was referred to London and only by the development of the credit and monetary machinery of Tokyo. Reports indicate that Japan has the nation. That machinery, he continued, lost a part of North China which she had occupied. It was said Mon “must be steadily perfected and co gols and Chinese of Suiyuan had ordinated with all other instruments declared the independence of that of government to promote the most province and set up a new regime productive utilization of our human and material resources. Only in at Kweisui. that way can we hope to achieve and maintain an enduring prosper F. D. R. on Farm Bill ity, free from the disastrous ex PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, re- tremes of booms and depressions * turning to his Hyde Park home, Only in that way can our economic was giving especial attention to the system and our democratic institu farm legislation which he wishes tions endure.” passed by congress in the extraordi Mr. Roosevelt avoided mention of nary session. He sent duplicate let the jittery condition of the stock ters to Chairman Ellison D. Smith markets, but before delivering his T G S —*— address he had seen Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and learned that the market was recov ering, due to heavy buying by bar gain hunters and perhaps to recov ery of confidence by investors. Among the many notable persons on the platform with the President was Senator Carter Glass of Vir ginia, who fathered the federal re serve system during the Wilson ad ministration. The veteran senator was loudly cheered. Landon Calls on G. O. P. LF M. LANDON came to the surface in a radio address to A 17,000,000 Americans who voted for him in the last election, and es- pecially to the Re publican party as a whole. He said he had called this “ra dio meeting” to sug gest ways and means by which "we, the minority party,” can be of outstanding service to’the country. The Kansan de- c 1 a r e d President Alf M. Landon Roosevelt had failed as an administrator, had failed to follow the Constitution, and now was demanding increased power. “What he really needs is less pow er," Mr. Landon asserted, “a posi tion that will force him to take the advice and counsel of other men of both parties—men whose hearts also are in the right place, but men who have had more experience and who know more about the practical ap plication of government than he does.” It is up to the Republicans, he said, to curb Mr. Roosevelt in his demands. He also discussed the war talk prevalent after the Presi dent’s Chicago speech and said: "We are faced with a situation where he may make a mistake that would indeed be tragic, that might lead to war. Close observers have increasing doubt if he thought his recent declaration through to its logical conclusion.” In conclusion Mr. Landon said: “We have had a New Deal. Now what we most need in America is a new yardstick—a yardstick to meas ure the ability and the accomplish ments, as well as the good inten tions, of public officials. “It is time to put a solid founda tion of workable legislation under the air castles which the President forever is blowing. "It is time to realize that we must apply the resources of the mind if we are to make the wishes of the heart come true.” Noted Editor Dead EATH chose a shining mark when it removed George Hor D ace Lorimer, retired editor of the Saturday Evening Post. He suc cumbed to pneumonia at his home in Wyncote, Pa. Honorary pall bearers at his funeral included for mer President Herbert Hoover and other men distinguished in public life. Mr. Lorimer became editor in chief of the Saturday Evening Post in 1899 and developed it from an obscure weekly to its high posi tion in its field. Woman in Record Flight EAN BATTEN of New Zealand, twenty-six years old, set a new J record for a flight from Australia to England. She made the 8.615 miles from Port Darwin to Croy- den airport in 5 days, 18 hours and 15 minutes, reducing the record by more than 14 hours. Felix Warburg Dies elix m . warburg of New York, one of the country's fore F most financiers and philanthropists, died at his home at the age of sixty seven. He was senior partner of Kuhn. Loeb & Co., international bankers. I Roper Has a Program ANIEL C. ROPER, secretary of | commerce, also made a speech in Washington, under the auspices of the Rotary club. His subject was the economic relationships of the nations of the western hemisphere, D and he proposed this four-point pro gram which he believed would bene fit the entire world: 1. United action throughout the Americas for the publication of veri fied facts about every country, stressing constructive events and objectives rather than prejudice, crimes, and disrupting events. 2. The introduction into the edu cational system of every country study of other languages so that each country would be better pre pared in attitude and knowledge to help develop its own country. “This means,” he said, “that no country will exploit the resources of another country.” 3. Encourage tourist travel among all the Americas by truthful adver tising and better travel facilities. 4. Broader studies by the coun tries in the western hemisphere of each other’s economic and social needs in the light of the individual country. New Budget Figures «RESIDENT ROOSEVELT found * his estimate of $418,000,000 as the probable deficit for 1938 fiscal year was much to low. So he gave out new budget figures putting the prob able deficit at nearly 700 millions And it admittedly will be mucl greater unless the executive anc congress achieve very considerab' economies. Bela Kun Seized A CCORDING to an official com ** munist publication in Moscow Bela Kun, Hungarian who ha: stirred up lots of trouble in the past, has been arrested by the Rus sians and charged with “Trotskyist' activities, which usually means the death penalty. Kun was dictator oi Hungary during the short-lived com munist republic after the cor.clusioi of the World war. —k— Russians in West China OKYO newspapers stated that 1’ Soviet Russian planes, co-oper T ating with Soviet land forces, hac bombed Kashgar, Yarkand, Karg halik, Khotan, Gumer, and othei cities of Sinkiang, westernmost province of China, in a battle against Mohammedans. The troops were said to have occupied several of the cities. King Cobra Most Feared, Also Most Intelligent The king cobra, or hamadryad of Burma, is the largest as well as the most deadly of poisonous snakes. Its average length is twelve feet, and individuals have been known to measure eighteen feet which is three times the length of the common "hooded horror” cobra of India. The king cobra's intelli gence, quick temper, extraordinary agility, and lethal poison makes it the most dreaded of all snakes, as serts Guy Murchie, Jr., in the Chi cago Tribune. The spectacular appearance of the king cobra and its terrifying repu tation are enough in certain parts of Burma to cause it to be hunted by big-game hunters much as is the tiger in India and the Lion in f- rica. The only difference is. as Ad venturer Gordon Sinclair once wrote: "You don’t hunt the hams dryads. They hunt you. If you go out to track down a tiger the ele ment of surprise is all yours. You ambush the tiger and smash him down. But you can’t put a hama dryad on the spot; the surprise ele ment is all his. He sees you com ing and either lies in ambush for you or comes for you like a splutter ing skyrocket.” According to one authority, the king cobra is the most intelligent of all snakes. It is one of the very few snakes, for instance, that realizes when in captivity that it must rely on its keeper for food. A slight vi bration at the door of a king cobra's cage is enough to bring the snake at ful speed to the crack, where it will explore up and down the frame with flipping tongue in anticipation of receiving food. And it will in variably lift its head and anxiously look about at feeding lime, even be fore the keeper has put in his ap pearance.