Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 1, Number 18, DeMotte, Jasper County, 24 November 1932 — Page 2

News Review of Current Events the World Over

Europe’s Concerted Move for War Debt Cancellation--Hoover and Roosevelt to Confer--Diversion of Colorado River Completed.

SIR RONALD LINDSAY, British ambassador to Washington, handed to Secretary of State Stimson his government’s request that the United

States agree to a reconsideration and modification of the war debts agreements under which European powers are obligated to pay this country eleven billion dollars in principal and ten billions in interest during the next 58 years. The French ambassador followed with an almost identical request on behalf of France, and

Sir Ronald Lindsay

two days later Belgium asked the same thing. The three powers asked suspension of all war debt install ments, including those due December 15, pending the outcome of the discussions suggested. Receiving notice of this action while on his way from California to Wash ington, President Hoover immediately informed President-Elect Roosevelt of the development and invited him to a conference at the White House, sug gesting that he bring with him the Democratic leaders of congress and any other advisers he might select. He told Governor Roosevelt he was loath to proceed in the matter with recommendations to congress until he had conferred with him, since any settlement of the debt problem must be the result of protracted negotiations that would reach beyond the remain ing days of his administration. The President’s plan seemed fair enough, but Mr. Roosevelt accepted it only “in principle,” saying he would be glad to meet with Mr. Hoover and go over the situation but asking that the meeting be “wholly informal and personal.’’ He added that the European notes create a responsibility “which rests upon those now vested with executive and legislative authority.” Thus it was made evident Governor Roosevelt has no intention of shouldering any responsibility ahead of time. ONE thing that is fairly certain is that Europe’s concerted move for revision of the war debts, and cancellation if possible, will not be successful with the short session of congress that opens in December. Not one of the senators and representatives in Washington was in favor of granting the concessions asked, so the prospect was that the debtor nations would either have to pay the December installments or default. The British installment is 95, the French 20 millions, and the Belgian two millions. It was felt certain that Great Britain would pay if necessary. Governor Roosevelt, according to Democratic leaders, is opposed to any reduction of the debts; but he thinks payment could be made easier through an economic conference to free trade channels of tariff barriers and exchange restrictions. President Hoover is opposed to downward revision of the tariff, but has suggested that foreign nations be given credit against their obligations for any concessions that would offer a wider market for American farm products and. manufactures. GERMANY’S interest in this debt matter is vital, for the drive of the allied nations for revision is based on the Lausanne pact of last July. This was a “gentleman’s agreement” providing that the reparations which Germany must pay the allies should be reduced from $26,000,000,000, as stipulated in the Young plan, to $714,000,000. The reduction was not to take effect unless the United States could he prevailed upon to modify the understanding under which the allied powers are obligated to pay this country. The United States government has consistently refused to link the war debts with reparations. On the other hand the Hoover administration has repeatedly made it clear that its attitude toward full payment of the debts could be modified only by measurable success of the world disarmament movement. FRANCE, through Premier Herriot, laid before the disarmament conference in Geneva its complete plan designed to bring about general dis-

armament and world peace. It was well received by the British, and Norman Davis, American representative, praised it as “a great concession,” so hopes for the success of the conference were high. But they were dashed when Germany refused to find in it reason for rejoining the parley, declaring the Herriot

program was just another plan to assure French hegemony on the continent. The French scheme, combining the

By EDWARD W. PICKARD

ideas of security and disarmament, seemed to offer Germany the equality she demands, under terms yet to be agreed upon. But it provides for “Progressive disarmament” of the powers and excludes rearmament for Germany. The section of most vital interest to the United States reads: “Any war undertaken in breach of the Paris (Briand-Kellogg) pact is a matter of interest to all the powers and shall be regarded as a breach of the obligations assumed towards each one of them. “In the event of a breach or threat of a breach of the Paris pact, the said powers shall concert together as promptly as possible with a view to appealing to public opinion and agreeing upon the steps to be taken. “In application of the pact of Paris outlawing war, any breach of that pact shall involve rhe prohibition of direct or indirect economic or financial relations with the aggressor country. The powers shall undertake to adopt the necessary measures to make that prohibition immediately effective. “The said powers shall declare their determination not to recognize any de facto situation brought about in consequence of the violation of an international undertaking.” This in essence means that the United States would abandon its historic claim to neutrality rights. Great Britain’s plan, presented by Sir John Simon, concentrates on a reduction of national armaments, par ticularly air forces, the latter to be abolished by degrees on condition that Germany in the meantime dees not rearm in the air. FRANCE, Germany and Great Britain have got together in one project --the formation of a tripartite economic consortium designed to rehabilitate Europe and the Near East. It was announced in Paris by Raymond Patenotre. French undersecretary for national economy, who said the first project would be the offering of a loan of 17,000.000.000 francs for the electrification of railways in Poland, Portugal, Rumania and Iraq. France and England are expected to provide 40 per cent of the loan each, and Germany 20 per cent. Premier Herriot will be the titular head of the consortium in France and Chancellor Franz von Papen in Germany. Patenotre, as the vice president for France, will be in actual charge of operations, with headquarters in Paris. Patenotre said guaranties as to insurance, security and noncompetition in industrial bidding would constitute the underlying principles of the organization.

DIVERSION of the Colorado river, one of the big preliminary pieces of work in the building of the Hoover dam, has been completed and the full

Frank T. Crowe

yards must, be removed before pouring of concrete starts, the river bed being excavated to a depth of 130 feet. Frank T. Crowe, general field superintendent of Six Companies, contractors, said the most difficult part of the project is behind the engineers. Building of the dam itself, he explained, will be comparatively simple work. He said the big job was the pioneering state of shaping the great canyon walls, building the diversion tunnels and spillway bores and getting the river out of its channel. Work on the project is more than a year ahead of schedule and it is expected to be completed by the end of 1937. WHEN Senator Borah's committee on foreign relations opened the hearings on the St. Lawrence waterway treaty the expected opposition developed immediately and in full force. Witnesses for the railroads, port authorities, cities, and world shipping interests united in asserting that the development of the St. Lawrence river for navigation and power would disrupt the national transportation system, peril vital American industries, injure lake shipping, jeopardize the coal and ore business of the Great Lakes, and magnify the unem ployment problem. Among other attacks on the waterway development as proposed in the Hoover-Bennett treaty, were charges that completion of that seaway between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic, via Montreal, would jeopardize billions of dollars' worth of railway bonds held by the public and insur ance companies. It was said further the plan would be likely to bring about government ownership of railroads.

M. Herriot

flow of the river Is now going underground through the two Arizona tunnels. The still water between two temporary dams at the inlet and outlet of the diversion tunnels has been pumped out and the river bed laid bare for nearly a mile ready for excavation. Bedrock probably will be reached by next July. Some 4,000,000 cubic

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REPRESENTATIVE SHANNON of Missouri resumed his investigation of government competition with private business with hearings in Chicago, and his committee was told that this competition is a “trust” that must be destroyed if private enterprise is to be encouraged and economic recovery furthered. Representatives of business organizations in Illinois and the Panama Canal Zone as well as executives of steamship companies, told the committee of specific cases where the government competes to the detriment of private companies. On the basis of their testimony, the United States government today is interested in every type of business from mortician to the manufacture of gun powder. The Illinois Manufacturers association, representing practically every manufacturing industry in the state, ascribed to the government responsibility for a large part of the unem ployment in the state and through its counsel, David C. Clarke, charged before the committee that the government has been found to be competing, directly, in 27 different manufacturing operations “and numerous others.” Clarke declared that his association had been advised that the federal government, was not strictly concerned with the actual cost involved in its ventures “Much less,” he said, “is there strict regard for any reasonable profit to the government from industrial OKLAHOMA is twenty-five years old, and the silver anniversary of her admission to the Union was fittingly and excitingly celebrated on No-

vember 16 in Oklahoma City. All the peo ple of the state and the governors of other states were invited to the birthday party, and many were pres ent. At the head of the pioneers participating was Gov. Wil liam H. Murray, who was president of the constitutional convention and speaker of Oklahoma’s first house

Gov. Murray

of representatives. He was one of the speakers, the others being Charles N. Haskell, the first governor, and Federal Judge Robert L. Williams, for mer governor and first Supreme court justice. Among twenty six Oklahomans honored at a banquet and whose names were added to those in the state’s Hall of Fame were Secretary of War Patrick Hurley, Will Rogers, cowboy humorist; Judge Haskell, once known as an oil company capitalist: Senator T. P. Gore, Senator Elmer Thomas and Former Senator Robert L. Owen. The marriage of “Miss Indian Territory” to “Mr. Oklahoma” was reenacted by the couple who participated in the first ceremony at the state capitol in Guthrie November 16, 1907. Following the ceremony carrier pigeons were released to bear news of the birthday to the four corners of the United States. LIBERALS of Honduras, having lost out in the recent election, have turned to revolution and have been fighting some bloody battles with the government forces. The rebels were reported to have seized the towns of Trujillo, La Ceiba and La Esperanza, and then they moved on the city of San Pedro, which they captured. The fiercest of the fighting to date was in a counter attack there by the government troops. Many hundreds were said to have been killed. In the electior Gen. Tiburcio Carias Andino, the Nationalist-Conservative candidate, won over Angel Zuniga Huete, the Liberal nominee. The inauguration has not yet taken place, and President Mejia Colindres remains as the head of the government. The President and the President-Elect are political allies. SEVERAL weeks ago in this column mention was made of the quarrel between Peru and Colombia over possession of Leticia, and by a slip of the pen it was said the sector in dispute had once been ceded by Colombia to Peru, instead of by Peru to Columbia. An authoritative source now gives the information that the Leticia sector was in fact ceded by neither country to the other, but that it is in territory that has always been claimed by Colombia. In 1922 by the terms of the Salomon-Lozano treaty (between Peru and Colombia) it was definitely decided that Colombia’s southern boundary line included Leticia within the limits of Colombia, and the sector was thereafter recognized by Peru as belonging to Colombia. SOON after the December session of congress opens Senator Benigno Aquino of the Philippine legislature will be in Washington to take part in the efforts to win independence for the archipelago. He sailed from Manila some days ago bearing secret instructions to the Filipino delegation, presumably in the form of a mandate of the legislature opposing both the Hawes and Hare bills, and demanding a new independence grant without reservation by the United States of naval bases and coaling stations. The mandate also would provide for tariff reciprocity between the United States and the Philippines and that there be no plebiscite on independence by the islanders in the interim of transition of government for a period not exceeding ten years. The limitation on importation of sugar to the United States free of duty would be fixed at not less than 1,500,000 long tons. ©, 1932, Western Newspaper Union.

INDIANA BREVITIES

Mrs. Alonzo Hudson of Muncie, age thirty, died of the effects of gas fumes inhaled from her kitchen stove. J F. Lehman, age seventy-two, active president of the First Bank of Berne, died unexpectedly at his home of apoplexy. William Hinton, age seventy-four, committed suicide in New Albany by firing a bullet into his head. The deed was attributed to illness. Virgil Barber, age twenty-seven, son of Ed Barber, Fort Wayne, shot and killed Arthur Pratt, age thirty-seven, restaurant owner, in Plymouth in a drunken fight over a girl, police said. Mrs. Helen Nagel, forty-six years old, was found beaten to death with a baseball bat in the Dunesview inn, a barbecue stand which she operated at Trefnout, Ind., 15 miles east of Gary. Berry Fitch, twenty-five, and Edwin Fulton, admitted ten filling station holdups when arrested in Logansport. They were captured after a mile chase in which the officers riddled their stolen car with bullets. A. C. Moore, sixty-seven, and his wife, Violet, sixty-five, were found murdered in their farm house nine miles northeast of Hartford City. Their automobile had been stolen. A double barreled shotgun that was owned by Moore also was missing. The state tax board will hold a prelinjinary hearing in East Chicago December 22 to consider the petition of Frank R. Martin, North township assessor, to increase the taxable assessments of several North township industries by approximately $9,000,000. C. H. Dove, age forty, died unexpectedly at his home in Westfield. Mr. Doyle was a member of the town council and for some years was engaged in the trucking and ice business. He was a member of the Knights of and Knights of Maccabee lodges. Frank Burchfield, age forty-three. Jefferson county farmer, and his housekeeper, Stella Jennings, age eighteen, are facing grand jury indictments of murder in the first degree, after their confession to killing the girl’s baby son and burying the body in an abandoned country cemetery.

John F. White, state representative from Marion county, has been chosen as the chairman of the Marion county delegation to the 1933 session of the state legislature; John Bright Webb, senator-elect, has been named vice chairman, and Miss Bess Robbins, representative-elect, will serve as delegation secretary. Operation of the Vincennes public schools for only five months next year was threatened by V. L. Eikehberry, city superintendent of schools. This length of operation will be made necessary if the state board of tax commissioners grants the appeal of local taxpayers to hold the combined tax rate for the city of Vincennes to $1.50. Mrs. Virginia C. Jenckes, Terre Haute, elected to congress on the Democratic ticket in the new Sixth district, is Indiana’s first congresswoman and she favors the immediate repeal of the Eighteenth amendment. She was born in Terre Haute, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Somes, and the great-grandaughter of Henry Vanderburgh, first judge of the Northwest Territory. She is the widow of Ray Jenckes. farmer and elevator man. Since his death several years ago Mrs. Jenckes has managed several farms and grain elevators. Honors in the annual high school judging contests at the Purdue university horticultural show were well distributed among boys from various parts of the state. Twelve teams competed in judging apples and vegetables. Three boys from Klondike High school, Tippecanoe county, placed first in judging vegetables, with a score of 5,098 out of a possible 6,000. Members of the winning team were Leland Sanders, Frank Granger and Roy Bowsher. The apple judging contest was won by the Paragon team composed of Charles Scudder, Harry Burnett and Harry Dow, with a score of 4,672 out of 6,000. Representatives of Indiana Odd Fellows’ lodges, meeting in the grand encampment of the order at the Odd Fellows building in Indianapolis, elected O. G. Fields, Fort Wayne, grand junior warden of the encampment. The office is the first step in a succession to grand patriarch, the ruler of the encampment. William McMannis, South Bend, became grand patriarch, advancing from the office of grand senior warden. Frank E. Smith, Rochester, was advanced to grand senior warden from the office of junior warden. Other officers elected without opposition were George P. Bornwasser, Indianapolis, grand scribe; A. H. Chamberlain, Salem, grand treasurer; W. A. Chapman, Indianapolis, grand high priest; J. T. Arbuckle, Rushville, grand trustee; Elmer Davis, Russiaville, and R. N. Kolthoff, Lafayette, grand representatives. Charles H. Kintner, age sixty, farmer south of Corydon, died at St. Edward’s hospital. New Albany, of shock and loss of blood suffered when his shotgun was accidentally discharged as he was driving dogs from his sheep. Two Mexican girls were killed by a Pennsylvania railroad passenger train in Indiana Harbor. The girls, Lea barbo Munez, nine years old, and Lupe Ramiez, twelve years old, stood on the eastbound track at the Lincoln street crossing while waiting for a westbound freight train to pass, and did not see the approach of the passenger train.

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Lesson for November 27 STEWARDSHIP OF LIFE Mark 1:16-20; Acts 26:12-19; I Corinthians 9:16-27. GOLDEN TEXT--And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. II Corinthians 8:5. PRIMARY TOPIC--God Choosing a Worker. JUNIOR TOPIC--Following the Leader. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP-IC--Serving God Where We Are. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP-IC--Living as God's Stewards. By stewardship of life is meant the recognition of the fact that our personal being, including all of our powers, faculties and possessions--all that we have and are--belongs to God. I. Four Fishermen Called to Stewardship (Mark 1:16-20) 1. Who they were (vv. 16, 19). Simon and Andrew, John and James; two pairs of brothers. It is usually wise to engage in the Lord’s Service in groups. This is not only desirable for effective testimony, but for needed fellowship on the part of the workers, and protection of the witnesses. 2. From what they were called (vv. 16, 20). These men were fishermen. 3. To what they were called (v. 17). They were to become fishers of men. The qualities which made them good fishermen were patience, courage to face the storm at night, and perseverance which led them to toil all night though no fish were caught. These qualities would make them good fishers of men. 4. The cost of obedience to Christ’s call (vv. 18, 20). Obedience to Christ’s call meant sacrifice and painful separation. It was to give up all business interest and leave their father: 5. Their reward (v. 17). Their names have become immortalized. Christ promised one hundred fold in this life and eternal life in the world to come.

II. Paul's Call to Stewardship (Acts 26:12-19). 1. His manner of life (vv. 1-12). In his defense before Agrippa he showed that he had been in the strictest accord with the most rigid sect of the Jews. He possessed the same hope of a coming Deliverer and reminded them of the fact that .formerly he was most bitterly opposed to Christ. 2. His supernatural conversion (vv. 13-15). He declared that Christ had appeared and revealed himself to him on the way to Damascus. 3. Commissioned by Christ (vv. 1618). He was sent to the Gentiles. a. To open their eyes, which had been so awfully b. To turn them from darkness to light. c. To turn them from the power of Satan unto God. d. That they might receive forgiveness of sins. e. That they might obtain an inheritance among the saints, 4. His consecration (vv. 19-23). As soon as he received his commission, he rendered instant obedience. III. Paul Impressing Stewardship Upon the Corinthians (1 Cor. 9:16-27). The Corinthians were an intemperate and dissolute people. The surest and most effective way to combat vice is to inculcate virtue. 1. Paul’s own life and example (vv. 19-23). Though free from all men he made himself servant unto all. He most rigorously limited himself in order to gain others for Christ. 2. The Isthmian Games (vv. 24-27). Paul uses these populate games to illustrate the need of self-control. He showed that man was redeemed for a purpose. Those who would apprehend that purpose must possess a definite motive. He shows: a. Life is a race (vv. 24-25). In order to win a prize there must be selfdenial, and definite self-exertion. The Christian obtains life by contact with Jesus Christ through faith (John 3:16; John 3:35; John 5:24). This life must be possessed before he can begin the race. While he gets salvation, (life) at the beginning, God places before him definite rewards as incentives for exertion. The Christian believes for salvation but works for rewards. As the racer in these games abstains from everything that might hinder him, so the Christian will make any sacrifice in order to win. If the heathen would practice such self-denial for a garland of laurel, certainly the Christian should turn from all bodily indulgences to obtain the crown of righteousness which fadeth not away. b. The Christian’s life is a fight (vv. 26-27). His efforts are not merely beatings of the air. He has a real antagonist. In order to win success, his body must be kept in subjection. The believer has a severe struggle with his carnal nature.

The Natural Thing

We should seek to make our lives straight, and true, and healthful, and beautiful, because that is what they were meant to be; just as a tree grows upright, and broad, and leafy, because it is the natural thing for it to do.

Light to Our Path

“The word of God is not only a lamp to our feet and a light to our path, but exhorts us to courage and victory.”

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