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President Asks for Nationali
A et Ready to Fix Exact
Presidency Goes
By i AWARD
pitESinEXT ROOSEVELT sent to
A congress his long-awaited message
on monetary matters, and It should be
in a measure reassuring to business
and finance. He asked
- that the gold supply
W' of the country be na -
^ tlonalized ami that his
Rmw powers be redefined to
* enable periodic revaluation
of the dollar
i within a range of 50
/I to GO per cent of the
fc. j present gold content.
J lie already had the
Is power to devalue the
0 ... dollar down to 50
President J>(ir cem ,)ut h doejJ
ooseve t not <lo so yet. saying
that "because of world uncertainties,
I do not believe it desirable in the
public interest that an exact value he
now fixed." He added that careful
study had led him to the conclusion
that any revaluation at more than CO
per cent would not be in the public
interest.
The President asked full power to
take over the last outstanding supplies
of gold in tlie country, much of which
belongs to the federal reserve banks.
The legislation he requested, he explained.
"places the right, title and
ownership of our gold reserves in the
government itself; it makes clear the
government's ownership of nnv miritwl
dollar value of the country's stock of
gold which would result from any decrease
of the gold content of the dollar
which may be made in the public interest."
The profit that may result from cutting
the gold content, the President
proposed should be used to set up a
two-billion-dollar fund for purchases
and sales of gold, foreign exchange
and government securities.
No further recommendations concerning
silver were made in the message,
the President saying he believed "we
should gain moire knowledge of the
results of the London agreement and
of our other monetary measures."
In talking with the correspondents,
Mr. Itoosevelt explained once more
that the objective of his monetary program
is to bring the purchasing power
of the dollar back to the level at which
the average debts of the country were
incurred, so that these debts may he
paid o(T with a dollar equal in value
to that at which the debt was incurred.
He made It clear that his program
does not call for a resort to greenback
currency.
Immediately after the reading of the
President's message. Senator Duncan
U. Fletcher of Florida, chairman of
the senate hanking and currency committee.
introduced the administration's
bill to effect the monetary changes
proposed. He called his committee together
the next day to consider it, and
.Secretary Morgenthnu was the first
to he heard in argument for the legislation
asked.
Only two Democratic senators came
out in the open promptly in opposition
to the President's program. Carter
Class of Virginia and Thomas P. Gore
of Oklahoma. I?oth declared that the
appropriation of the reserve banks'
gold was unlawful and immoral. Most
of the Republicans were cautious In
their expressions of opinion.
Secretary Morgerithnu made a final
attempt to get into the treasury all
remaining private gold holdings. By
his order all persons who did not turn
in their gold by midnight January 17
are liable to have it confiscated and
to being fined double the amount of
their holdings.
Ramon grau san martin final
ly yielded to the force of circumstances
and resigned as president of
Cuba. His decision to quit was made
at a closed meeting of government
leaders, who thereupon undertook to
select a man to fill the office temporarily.
Antonio Guiteras, secretary of
the interior and of war, wanted the
job, but he was shut out of the meeting.
A newspaper quoted him as saying
the navy would fight if an agreement
was reached unsatisfactory * to
him and his followers. The leaders of
the various cliques were debating
whether to pick Carlos Mendieta, who
was supported by Col. Fulgenclo Batista,
commander of the army, or Carlos
He via, the young secretary of agriculture.
' The choice finally fell on Hevla,
whom Colonel Batista consented to
tolerate, and the thlrty-three-year-old
statesman, after several hours of hesitation,
announced: T am the pres^
ident.** There was a lot of rioting In
Havana and at the nearby Camp Co
lumbla and at least three men were
killed.
The Cherokee Scoi
af Current
Le World Over
zation of Cold Supply?Not
Value of Gold?Cuban
to Carlo# Hevia.
W. PICKARD
PRACTICALLY without opposition,
a measure wr-3 put through the
house ami senate extending the life
of the Reconstruction Finance corporation
for another year and providing it
with $ST?tMKHMHK) of new capital. There
was little debate, ami In the house
only Louis T. McFndden of Pennsylvania
voted against the bill.
PITTING to the test his influence
over the senate President Roosevelt
in a special message to that body
asked speedy consideration and ratification
of the St.
Lawrence waterway
treaty with Canada. ^
The opponents of the -> :
pact had been wait- ^ 1
ing for the chance to
start the l?attle. and ^si;they
were so ntimer- K' /if*" B
oils ami so determined ,^'^H
that no one would ""
predict tlie outcome,
Ratification requires a
two-thirds vote, or 04
of the 0G senators. ^cn" Wa9ner
Coincidental with the reception of
the President's message was the suitmission
of a minority report by Senator
Wagner of New York as a member
of the foreign relations committee,
in which Mr. Wagner argued vigorously
against ratification of the
treaty. Ho declared the cost of the
waterway to the United States would
be $573,1 HO,000 instead of the $"J7*J,4511,000
estimated by the proponents of
the pact; and lie asserted the United
States would spend three times as
much as Canada, though the Dominion
would receive a "vast preponderance"
of the benefits. The senator
added:
"Most important of all. I am not In
favor of a public works project designed
to employ Canadian workmen
with United States money. The treaty
provides that although the United
States is to supply the funds for most
of the work in the International rapids
section of the St. Lawrence river,
the portion of this work on the Canadian
side of the section is to be performed
with Canadian workmen using
Canadian material^
The President's message to the senate
gave his opinion that the treaty
was fair, that the waterway project
was economically sound. He declared
that "local fears of economic harm to
special localities or to special interests
are grossly exaggerated." He attempted
to dispose of opposition from
Illinois and Mississippi valley senators
by declaring that the treaty provision
on the diversion at Chicago was adequate
to guarantee a sufficient volume
of water.
The opposition of Chloago and the
Mississippi valley to the treaty was
voiced especially by Senators James
Hamilton Lewis of Illinois and Bennett
Champ Clark of Missouri.
^"JERMANY'S great church quarrel
-?- goes on nnaoacea and the Evan- I
gelical pastors are still determined I
that their religion shall not be nazle
Relchsblshop
Ludwig Mueller, who
*s a confidant of
Chancellor Hitler, is&pS||-:
sued a decree forbidding
pastors to criti,
cize the Nazi Protest^
ant church ndminisaBRr-.
'* tration from the pulPjts
u?der pain of
'A dismissal from the
MflKSc Ja&k church- But the rebellious
ones, organDr.
Ludwig -7e(j as pas?ors?
Mueller Emergency league, defied
I>octor Mueller and toK the second
time read Jo their congregations
a manifesto demanding his resignation.
It was up to the councils of the
churches to enforce the reichsbishop's
decree, but several of the councils declared
openly they would not do so.
KIshop Mueller showed some inclination
to recede from his position, but
the militant Nazi German Christian
pastors brought great pressure to bear,
telling him they would support him
only so long as he stuck by his decrees.
The bishop also seeks to annul
all church taws passed in 1033 so he
can proclaim new ones.
FRANCE was. cast Into gloom by a
major aviation disaster. The giant
tri-motor plane Emerald, returning
from a flight to Saigon. Indo-Chlna,
crashed in flames and exploded between
Lyons and Paris and Its ten occupants
perished. Among the victims
were Pierre Pasquier, governor geperal
of Indo-Chlna; Emmanuel Cbaurale,
government director of civil aviation,
and Mme. Cbaumle, and three other
high aviation officials. The Emerald represented
the latest in planes of this
at, Murphy, N. C., Friday
sort Christened Inst .Tune. It wss the '
intended prototype of a whole fleet '
of heavy transport planes.
TTALO BALBO, the bearded Italian air
* marshal who commanded the great
mass flight from Italy to Chicago and
back last summer and thereby became
too popular to suit
Premier Mussolini,
has made his peace
with the Duce and has
assumed his new duties
as the governor eJf
of Libya in north Af- | iP
rica. lie crossed the S ? I
Mediterranean in state ft., iwsak^n
on the new cruiser Al- 6
berto di Giussano with W!
another cruiser in es- ^
cort, and when he ? iL
. ' , Italo Balbo
landed was received
by all the Italian officials In the colony
and a colorful gathering of the native
troops.
Balbo, who is just thirty-seven years
old. replaces Marshal Pietro Badogllo
as Libyan governor. While a new line
of activity, it will he a Job with an
opening for him. for Mussolini wants
to make Africa in time an outlet for
Italian emigration and that same granary
which it was during the days of
imperial Home.
JUSTICE CHARLES GARROW of
Toronto refused to upset the judgment
of Justice A. C. Kingston ordering
that Martin J. Insull be detained
for extradition from Canada to the
United States for trial in connection
with the collapse of the Insull public
utilities empire. The fugitive Chicagoan
took an appeal and was released
on $20,000 bail.
It was believed that Samuel Insull,
who must leave Greece by January 31,
would try to go to Turkey. But now
the Turkish minister of the interior
has instructed the police department
not to permit Sam to enter that country.
PUERTO RICO has a new governor
who may please the islanders better
than did Robert 11. (lore. He is Gen.
Rlanton Wlnship, former judge advocate
general of the army, and a man
of experience In insular affairs. He
served in Cuba and the Philippines as
an advisor to the highest American
officials in those parts. Also he was a
military aide to President Coolidge.
His home town is Macon, Ga. Mr.
Gore, whose administration was bitterly
and constantly attacked by island
politicians, resigned, stating his
reason was ill health.
President Roosevelt also selected a
new chief of the weather bureau in
Washington in the person of Willis O.
Gregg. He succeeds Dr. Charles F.
Marvin.
fWMILLE CHAUTEMPS, fighting
1 desperately to save his French
government after the great Rnyonne
pawnshop scandal, promised the eharadeputies
to
clean up that affair,
and thereupon was
F given a vote of con1;;.
' fideuce, IJGO against
-2D. The vote came ;
1 on t*ie 6?v'ernment's
bf' I opposition to the ere- i
J ation of a parliamen- |
t tary commission to investigate
the collapse j
of the Rnyonne instltution,
the death of !
Premier |tR founder% Serge
Chautempa (Handsome Alex) Stnvisky,
and the part several deputies
have accused high officials of taking
in the affair. The premier insisted
that such a commission would not get
to the bottom of the charges.
The premier promised fo investigate
the affair personally and to spare no
names. During the heated debate he |
admitted there had been looseness and
poor functioning of various services,
but denied the charges of government- J
al and police corruption. The opposi- ,
tion deputies were furious and there
were open declarations that the country
faced a dictatorship. Chautemps replied
vigorously and made the assertion i
that a coup had been prepared several i
days previously to put the government '
in the hands of a few "energetic" men !
to act as a directory.
Meanwhile the royalists and young !
men sympathizing with them, ever
ready to take advantage of circum- j
stances, were rioting in the streets
and battling the police in the effort
to gain entrance to the chamber. Ex- |
citable correspondents sent cables In- j
dicating that the republic was about ;
to fall, but heavy rains put a stop to
the demonstrations, for even French
monarchists don't like to get wet,
CHINESE Nationalist forces after
severe fighting captured Foochow,
the headquarters of the rebels In Fukien
province, and It was reported that
negotiations were proceeding to settle
the dispute between the Nanking government
and the leaders of the' rebel
movement. There was great disorder
in Foochow, for all the officers of the .
Nineteenth route army except Its com-. .
trander.Gen. Tsing Tlng-kai, had fled. ?
and the leaderless soldiers were running-wild.
On the request of Vice
Consul Gordon Borke, an American
naval party was ordered sshore from
the gunboat Tulsa to protect 144 Americans
In the dty.B
4 by Wtittru Ninptpir Palm.
II
. January 26, 1934
MENDIETA IS MADE
PRESIDENT OF CUBA
Grau Resigns, Hevia Rules
Only One Day.
Havana, Cuba.?Itnmon Grau Sao
Martin resigned the presidency of
Cuba under pressure, and after long
and acrimonious discussion the leaders
of the revolutionary junta agreed that
his successor should he Carlos Heviu,
who had been secretary of agriculture
in Grau's cabinet. Hevia. who Is a
graduate of Annapolis Nuvo! academy
ind only thirty three years old. was
sworn in before the Supreme court in a
brief ceremony, but he lasted only one
day.
Col. Fulgencio Batista, commander
of the army, had consented reluctantly
to support Hevia. and when an intensive
campaign to oust the colonel was
started and Hevia demanded his resignation,
he immediately announced
that Col. Carlos Mendieta should be
president and ordered 3,000 troops
from Santa Clara province to reinforce
the 5,000 at Camp Columbia
close to Havana. Yielding to the inevitable,
Hevia resigned and Mendieta
tok iiis place.
It was reported that Jefferson Caffery,
personal representative of President
Roosevelt, promised the delegates
ot all revolutionary factions that
the United States would recognize the
Mendieta regime. Mendieta is a conservative
and it was expected he would
promptly revoke Grau San Murtin's
extreme measures and accord lull proiectiyn
to foreign-owned investments
in the island. He and Batista, with
the army back of them, appear to be
in full control of the republic. Batista
said Mendieta was "the only man
capable ol continuing the Junta's revolutionary
program without the extreme
leftist measures which were responsible
for the lark of ropno-niUnn k*?
United States."
In a public statement Batista declared
:
"I will not tolerate undei any conditions
the Communist and Socialist
tactics of the Crau Sun Martin administration.
With the help of my
army I shall stop the prevailing anirehy,
regardless of cost. 1 now realize
that the Grau regime brought
chaos to Cuba. The junta made a
;ostly mistake when it established the
3rau regime. 1 realize the mistake 1
now and will rectify it."
The federation of labor still de- j
tnanded the ousting of Batista from
the army command and planned a
general strike, but the colonel warned
all government employees that unless
Uiey returned to their work they would
lose their jolts and all departments i
would be tuken over by the military.
' WASHINGTON BRIEFS
The Federal Surplus Relief corpora- j
tion announced that 5,S00,000 pounds I
of butter for distribution to needy unemployed
persons had been purchased.
The United States lifted its liquor
import bars a little higher to allow j
the entry of about 1,000,000 more alco- |
holic gallons from Frqnce, Portugal ^
and Ireland within the next month
or so.
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen? j
thau has ruled that hereafter lawyers. !
accountants or other professional ad- I
visers who assist In the preparation |
Oi income-tax returns must sign the i
return along with the taxpayer. i
Inventories of all distilled spirits. I
including alcohol, rectified spirits, j
wines, and cordials, was ordered, as j
of January 12. In telegrams to collec- :
tors of Internal revenue sent out by j
Commissioner Guy T. Ilelvering.
Woman, 60, Kills Self
by Firing Her Clothing
Bloomsburg, Pa.?Her body a flaming
torch, Mrs. Wellirtgton M. Moore,
sixty, of Bloomsburg, perished In
her home. Members of her family said
she caused her own deaths Despondent
for Some months because of severe
headaches, Mrs. Moore went to the
cellar, removed outer clothing and
piled it near the furnace, pouked kerosene
over herself and applied a match.
Shot to Death in <
Answering Telephone
Kansas City, Mo.?J. M. Stubblefleld
was called to" ih%-telephone while at
tending d meeting of the Carpenter
unions' district council. As he picked
up the receiver some one shot him
in the ba'tfic by firing through an open
window. He'died At ar hospital:
\ ;
Two ftiheactclijl fitr
KHling Nazi Trooper
Dessau. Germany.?Two men were,
beheaded for the"' slaytinr of va nasi
storm trooper In the province "of
halt They were the first to be be
headed here since 1886.
! .jj
More or Less Joyous
School Days Recalled
Did you ever glance through an
i old school hook, particularly a reader.
and note the pencilings of more
or less happy school days? On the
! fly leaves will he found such sentiI
mental doggerel as "roses are red.
violets are blue, sugar is sweet and
so are you"; "sure as the vine grows
'round the stump, you're my little
sugar lump." and others. Rut speaking
of sentiment, do you remember
the canceling of names?yours and
that of a childhood sweetheart? You
will recall the letters appearing in
both names were stricken out Those
remaining were named in rotation.
| "love, hate, friendship, marriage."
and repeated. The last letter was
supposed to forecast the windup of
j that particular love affair. Some of
1 the pupds spent idle moments blacking
all the o's in the printed page.
: Others, myself included, specialized
in adding fierce mustaches to Daniel
Webster and other smooth-faced men
of fame whose pictures appeared,
i Another very popular stunt was to
write in the front of the hook: "If
my name you want to see. look on
Page JO-I." Turning to the indicated
page, however, you were told to look
elsewhere and then began a chase
| that probably ended with n saucy
I remark instead of the promised
j name. Oh. the good old days! Oh, to
I read again of the princess who was
! black and blue from three peas under
fourteen mattresses. Or of the
third and last wish that had to be
| wasted In getting rid of those sausages
that clung to the old nam's
nose "and what was more, they could
j not be pulled off!"?"Pioneer." In the
| Indianapolis News.
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could he communicated more impresslvely
and inspire greater credulity."
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