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Motorists to Fix Own
Speed Limit in the Alps

GENEVA. -Switzerlan Of all Euro
pean countries. is continually making
things easy for the touring motorist.
1t has just abolished the speed limit IN
the open country. after three ineffec-
tual attempts to prescribe what a safe
speed might be. The motorist In the
future is to be his own censor.
A federal law which brings this into
being leaves the % cantons indivtdu-
ally the privilege Of applying 1t or not.
with or without exceptions. Most OF
them will line up with the federal law,
others will reserve their states rights
option.
Swiss post ONCE motorized mail
coaches have the right of way and may
take the inside OH any narrow noun
tain road, leaving other road users only
the outside edge, whether 1t be left or
right. No other vehicle using these
same mountain roads may have horn
or audible signal Of more than one note.
The mail coach is thus privileged to
announce itself from afar. around cor
ners and high up on the staircase hair
pins by which Swiss roads scale noun
tains.
Foreign touring cars entered Switzer-
land last year to the number of 163,477,
September alone accounting for 1879.
Switzerland Is almost the only CONT
mental European country that exemptS
the temporary foreign automobile tour
ist from road taxes or charges Of any
nature.
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SITUATION LIKE THAT OF 1915
Palestine Has Russian Competitor;
Soviet Financing Homeland in Ukraine

OSCOW.-Palestine's most serious
competitor in the establishment Of a
Jewish homeland is the Jewish agricul-
tural and industrial colony at Bro
bidjan, in the Ukraine, where 5000
Jewish settlers are at work.
Expansion of the colony to the extent
OF $4,000 settlers by 1888 was forecast
by I. Paikin, the>colonys chief agricul-
tural expert, on the eve of his departure
for the United States, where he will
study the mechanization of soy bean
culture.
Paikin's forecast is in line with the
views expressed by M. /. Kalinin, presi-
dent OF the Executive Committee Of the
Soviet Union, at last November'S meet
ing of Ozet, the Jewish Relief Society,
when he declared that II the Jewish
population at Birobidjan increased
there was nothing to prevent the estab-
lishment there Of a Jewish republic
within a few years.
Twice the Size of Belgium.
The settlement which in the past
three years has expanded to an acreage
twice the size of Belgium, was declared
by Paikin to be one of several answers
10 IIlC pIODlCul VI CIOWuCQ UGMLSll
ghetto towns in the Ukraine and White
Russia which were left as q legacy Of
czardom.
Birobidjan is situated some nine days
Journey from Moscow, 172 kilometers
before the TransSiberian train reaches
Habarovsk. Here, bounded on the north
by the railroad and on the south by the
Amur River, four former rayons town
ships) were thrown together into one.
Later q forest region north of the rail-
road, comprising 100000 new acres
and inhabited by forest-living natives,
was added.
The western part Of the colony is the
bingham Range, where rich iron deposits
forecast the establishment of metal
works in the near future. OF the north
are woods replete with game, fish and
timber. The south contains farm land
along the Amur River.
state Farms Flourishlng.
Several state farms and four collective
farms are already flourishing In the
colony Scouts have been sent out to
And new settlers from the small Jewish
towns in the Ukraine. AS an induce
rnerlt for Jews who wish TO settle In the
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Geneva Fears Explosion


ward war II years ago will this time
lead toward peace? That is a question
to which the League Council meeting
next week in Geneva may indicate the
answer.
The Council will meet in an atmos-
phere of doubt and uncertainty. So
far as can be learned, little progress
has been made in the advance nego-
tiations toward settling any of the
major problems with which the Council
will be faced.
A simple enumeration Of these prob
lens SufficeS to show how arduouS the
Councils task will be: First, the Ques-
ton of whether the Austro- German
union is legal under existing treaty
agreements. Both Austria and Germany
assert that they are going ahead with
the plan and have not suspended ne
gotiationS pending the Leagues deci-
sion, as previously announced.
Secondly. Aristide BRANDS scheme
for broader customs agreements, unit
ing all Europe, instead of dividing 1t
scheme would tend to do. The Soviets
have been invited to participate in this
discussion, which, in the view of many
observers, means that positive results
are virtually impossible.
Thirdly. the organization Of the World
Disarmament Conference Of 1882. Mel
Their the place of meeting nor the chair
man has yet been selected, TO say notn-
ing Of an agreement on the method OF
work. President Hoover's speech setting
disarmament as the price Of prosperity
has thrust this question sharply for
ward and emphasized the Importance
of taking serious steps toward prepa..
rations for the 1882 conference, II
American cooperation in any Of the
general schemes for economic revival Is
hoped for.
Behind these major questions are
whole flock of smaller. but equally diff
ficult, issues which promise to fill the
Geneva atmosphere at the coming meet
ing with unaccustomed anxiety and ex-
element.
(CopyriEht, 1919
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colony the government offers to pay
their railroad fare to those who want
jobs on state farms Those eager to
become affiliated with the collectives
are given a government loan OF 1000
rubleS.
Among the farms already established,
according to Paikin, is the grain farm,
one of the many farms of the Grain
Trust. This year the farm is sowing
$1,000 acres. of which 10000 acres are
planted with soy beans. There is a
farm of the Cattle Trust, with / 300
head of cattle ranging 10000 acres.
This number is expected to be increased
to $4,000 by the end of the current
year.
There is also a rice farm, which
sowed ITO acres last year, and Is plan
ming the sowing of 1850 acres this year.
A chicken farm, with an incubator
capable OF Matching $4,000 chickens at
one time, has just been opened. A
vegetable and milk farm with 300 cows,
a hog ranch and rabbit farm also are
in process Of being organized.
Four Collective Farms.
The colony'S state farms are part of
the countrywide system of farms
financed by the central government in
Moscow. Besides the state farms there
are four collective farms at Birobidjan,
with q total Of 1925 souls. They pos
sess $50 COWS, $50 horses and 1,70o
beehives. Last year the collectiVes sold
to the state $4,000 pounds Of honey, Of
which more than half was exported.
The collective farms, though COM
paratively small at present, are expected
to be expanded to agricultural socialist
towns" of considerable size.
The central government in Moscow
is keenly interested in the development
of the Birobidjan colony, Paikin de-
clared. He said the state had expended
over 100000 rubles in starting the
colony. An additional 5000, 900 rubles
was applied to the development of the
state farms last year. This years plans
call for an expenditure of 100000
rlbles. The funds are to be applied
not only to farming but also to the
development of artisan industry. OF
this there is already furniture factory
which produces a carload daily of
chairs A limekiln and q suitcase
factory are the other industries,
(Copyright, issi)
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They Lost Their Thrones
Family Former Monhs

revolution which sent two dozen Ger
man thrones topping.
He has considerable faith in an
eventual restoration in Bavaria. II not
in federalized Germany. Meantime, nc
waits, takes precedence over the head
Of the Bavarian state whenever the two
appear together in the same place, RAM
bies in the Bavarian mountains and digs
about his huge old castle for hidden
antiquities.
The ex-Kaiser doubtless thinks with
envy of the relative freedom of his
sons, especially of Little Willie, in the
first flush of the revolution rs unpopu-
lar as his father, but now going freely
about Berlin and living comfortably
with his wife and their three children
without guards, at his castle at Gels
in Silesia.
Wilhelm maintains the strict Ell
quette of the PruSSian court in his
fastneSs behind his screen Of trees,
walls and barbed wire at Doom. This
disgraced and Inundated man has man
aged to rescue some part of his gigantic
private fortune, and his income, sup
plemented by the revenues from his
wifes great Silesian estates, is sufi-
cient to relieve him from the sort OF
financial cares which beSet, for example,
the heads of the HapSburg house which
crashed along with the Hohenzollern.
How does this man, who was so ner-
vously restless and active and who lived
in great state between a score of castles
and palaces and meddled with every
thing and had a finger in every pie
how does he occupy himself on his 20
acre estate, with its 25-room mansion?
Studies Newspaper Clippings.
He walks in his little park. He reads.
He studies the cuttings of newspapers
carefully garnered and sent to him. He
sits long over dinner with the Queen
of Prussia" his occasional monarchist
guests and his two permanent equerrieS.
He visits the school room where his
wife'S children-she brought him five
step-children on marriage-study under
the supervision of a governess. He
writes, standing, for the most part
by his doctors advice-at a special
desk. He fells trees and saws them up
for exercise. His hair and beard are
white now, his skin Is well colored, bu.
he looks aged and raviShed, and in his
Swallowed and Sunken eyes there is an
expression at once defiant and hunted.
He is the only one of the crownless
monarchs who dare not leave the sane
tuary to which he fed when his people
rose and his throne was pulled from
under him.
In little chateau in the warm Pro-
vencal plain lives a quiet woman who
was once a queen and a boy for whom
kingship is still claimed by a small
body of partisanS. The Queen. is her
majesty of Montenegro. the tiny coun-
try which after the war was incor-
porated in the kingdom Of the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia) by a
decision of the Paris peacemakers.
But separate party remains in be-
ing, and periodically bombards the press
and the foreign offices with demands for
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BY C. PATRICK THOMPSON.

40 the considerable family Of
crownless kings, which lost a
member when Carol regained his
~ throne, has its numbers restored
again by the arrival in its bosom
Of a new member-the tall, lean Alfonso
XIII of Spain (and some still say there
is no evil portent in that number;
1t Is an oddly assorted family-a
family OF all shapes, sizes and tintS,
ranging from a philosophical young
Chinese by way Of gloomy and stout
ening Afghan to an embittered Hun
garian woman and smiling and chubby
Portuguese.
But not entirely an unhappy family,
bereft of consultations and eating its
royal heart out. Alfonso, for instance,
adaptable and resilient, will not look
so sad after he has got over the first
shock of the Spanish landslide.
Alfonso has cultivated other interests
in life besides those which appertained
to his existence as a Semi-absolute SOW
ereign. He has made good friends
among the sporting nobility and arts
tocratic bon viveurs of England and
France. He has been coming over to
the island in the North Sea for many
seasons now to visit the capital, go
racing and stalk deer over the domains
of the Scottish Duke Of Sutherland,
whose tall duchess is one of the best
shots in England and plays the trap
drum in a private jazz band OF her
own. Alfonso shoots, fishes, plays polo
with abandon and is a crack motorist
with a preference for racing cars.
Interested in Cattle Breeding.
He likes witty talk and well chosen
little dinners, and knows where to find
both in half dozen capitals. He likes
the life of Deauville and Cannes. He
is at home in at least three Of the many
worlds of Paris. And he has always
been keenly interested in cattle breeding
and farming and horses.
Should Alfonso desire the company
Of other deposed monarchs in England,
he can find eX-King Manuel OF Por-
tugal and his charming queen, and ex-
King George of Greece. Manuel has
fitted himself smoothly into the Eng
lish social picture during his 20 years
of residence. He has a picturesque
mansion in extensive grounds near ths
Thames at Twickenham, and both he
and his queen have associated them
selves with lawn tennis until no club
or private tennis party in the high
world is complete without them, while
at the Wimbledon tournaments he is as
familiar figure as Tilden or Helen
Wills.
They live the lives Of English aris-
tocrats of the modest and rather old
fashioned type-no cocktail parties; no
cabaret dinners; no association with the
more f1amboyant side of Mayfair en-
tertaining: no haunting of the smarter
restaurants and theaters. You don't
find them in the Embassy Club or out
with the fashionable hunts. Occasion
ally they dine or lunch with King
George and Queen Mary. Most Win
tiers they seek the sun on the Riviera,
but never go into the casino to play.
One way and another exile seems to
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eign policy. Then Germany was tight
ening the bonds of alliance with
Austria and seeking to extend her in
fluence in the Balkans. Today Germany
and Austria openly declare their desire
to unite in a far closer tie than bound
them in 1914 and Germany has practi-
cally wrecked Frances friendship with
Rumania and come near destroying the
Little Entente, which was designed to
prevent forever another attempt to
create "Mittel Europa" Italy then,
as now, was sitting on the fence wait
ing to see which combination would
offer her greater advantages. Two ele-
ments, however, have changed. Russia
is no longer Frances ally, but her po-
tential enemy. Secondly, the League of
Nations has been created to arbitrate
disputes.
Are Changes Suff1cient?
Are these changes SUFFICIENT to guar
antee that history will not repeat itself
and that the situation which led to-
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Rebuilding China,
Tough Assignments

SHANGHAI-A government official
in Wusih has resigned his post and his
action illustrates the difficulties of the
reconstruction movement in China. He
resigned when ordered by the provincial
government to widen one of the main
streets Of the city six feet on each side.
Being native of the city. he realized
what an unpopular undertaking he was
called upon TO do, and rather than
superintend the destruction of stores
and houses fronting the street he threw
In his hand and quit. The government
has transferred him TO another town,
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Women Police Banned
From Shanghai Force

SHANGHAI.-There will be no wom-
en- on the Shanghai foreign police
corps. according to ruling made by
the municipal council of the Interna-
tional Settlement. However, the coun-
Gil admits the police commissioner, now
on holiday in England. Is making a.
study OF the question. and If women
still want to get jobs as police officers
they may submit their petition to the
commissioner when he returns.
The question was raised by the chair
man of the joint committee Of Shang-
hal women's organiza tons. To date
the only foreign woman in the police
service is the matron Of the municipal
jail.
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Their postponements as a result Of the
coming sessions.
But even the most optimistic can
not overlook the fact that compromise
and postponement are only adding to
the store of dynamite in the Geneva
cellar.
(Copyright, 1919
SITUATION LIKE THAT OF 1912.
Geneva Sessions 10 Be Surrounded by
Uncertainty.
BY WILLIAM BIRD.
~ ARTS, May 9-Should war break
- out tomorrow or next year,
people will look back upon the
l. events of today and say that
these events clearly foreshad-
owed 1t, just as the events in Europe
in 1912 and 1913 are now regarded as
plainly forecasting war in 1914.
France then was torn apart over for
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Continued on Fourth Page.)
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BY MARK SULLIVAN.

w YE may put the Republican
IA situation this way: Presi-
wv dent Hoover will be renomi-
mated. AS to the renomina-
La gaceta., 1931-11-04
ELOGIADA LA ACTITUD
DEL P~RESIDENTE MA
CHADO

Habana, Nov. 4.-Desde a.
yer Sc encuentran en- libertad
los representatives DR.. Santa
go Verdeia, Miguel Angel A
guar, Pedro Martinez Fraga
Y Jose Meneses de filiaci6n
conservadora que fueron en-
cerradoS en- la Cabana por le-
%Vantarse en- armas para derri-
bar ell gobierno del presidente
Machado.
Hicieron frecuentes gestio-
mes con ell Oral. Machado para
%conseguir la libertad de esos
,egisladores, gran numero de
representatives liberales, entire
ellos ell DR.. Guas Inclan, pre-
Sidente de la Camara.
Philharmonic Sc elogH por
,os .jefes politicos la Actitud
conciliadora del presidents.
La gaceta., 1931-11-04
APALEARON ANOCHE A
UN OBRERO COMUNISTA

A la termination del mitin
ccmunista verificado anoche en-
ell Centre Obrero para protes-
tar contra al arresto de tres ira
bajadores que Sc opusieron ell
sabado al desahucio del taba-
quero Rojas, vecino que era de
la Gale Catorce, en- Ybor, ocho
individuos sacaron de su domi-
clio, avenida Garcia 1925, al
obrero comunista F. T. Craw-
ford y en- dos AUTOMOBILES 10
llevaron hasta ell aerodromo,
donde lie dieron de golpes.
Crawford, que fue recogido
por sus companeros, dice que
como a las doce y media 10 sor-
prendieron en- la puerta de su
casa, secuestrandolo y ponien-
dole sobre la cabeza una hopa
landa blanca.
Cuando lie daban de latiga-
EOS, los secuestradores lie ha-
clan baiIar y lie decian: Habla
ahora, hiio de-.
La policia y los diputados
del sheriff tuvieron conoci
miento del suceso en- la mana
ma de hoy.
La gaceta., 1931-11-04
LOS PERIODICOS RUSOS A
CUSAN A LOS MILITARIS-
TAS

Moscow, Nov. Al peri6-
lico Izvestia acusa Y declara
hoy que los militaristas japo-
neses han inventado ell falso
rumor de una possible interview
ci6n del Soviet en- la Manchu-
ra, con ell 1nico p~rop6sito de
cubrir y justificar sus planes,
extendiendo su radio de ocupa-
ci6n hacia ell norte, por 10 me-
nos hasta ell IS de Noviembre,
Que es la fecha en- que Sc reu-
Mira de nuevo ell ~consejo de la
Liga de las Naciones.
Los militaristas japoneses
tienen la esperanZa, continua
diciendo ell citado peri6dico, de
impedir la resistencia de otros
poderes impeaalistas mediante
ell anuncio de un conflicto con
la union %sovi6tica, o sea, un
conflicto que Sc desea mayor
mente en- los circulos imperia-
listas de Europa.
Comentando la primera de.
claraci6n hecha por ell Japdu,
asegurando que Sc vic precisa-
da a extender su ocupaci6n en-
la Manchuria ante los ataques
de los soldados del General
Chang Such Liong, convert
dos en- bandidos, ell peri6dico
dice: Else argumento prob6
que era insufieiente para JUS
tificar tai MEDIA, aun a los
ojos de la liga de las naciones,
de ahf ell que necesitase un nue.
vo argumento. Entonces los n
litares japoneses inventaron la
interferencia del Soviet de Ru-
STA en- ell conflicto Manchuria-
La gaceta., 1931-11-04
DIvoRC1o PoR JUsTA eau
SA Y MUTUO CONSENSO

o Madrid, Nov. 4.-La clausu-
la constitutional que concede
a los esAnoles ell derecho a di
vorciarse, sin la Intervention
ecclesiastical, de nuevo esta sien
Go comentada con motive del
decreto presentado aver a la
asamblea, por ell gobierho, en-
G. cual Sc da a los tribunales
civiles la Jurisdiction en- los ca
sos de divorcio.
Autoriza ell artfculo de la
constitution que Sc refiere a es
e importante asunto, ell divor
10 por "justa causa" Y por mu
tuo consentimiento.
Por ell decreto los tribunales
liviles deben ser consultados
N primer termino, aunque tam
! len podra obtener ell divorcio
apal, por la via religiosa, ell
at6lico que crea tener dere-
no a clio y 10 demande.
La gaceta., 1931-11-04
TEATROS


CASINO
ia Mentira Magnificente"
es una historic agradable, muy
interesante, avalorada por ell po-
deroso nombre Chatterton.
Una a ESQ ell nombre de Stuart
Erwin, ell notable primer actor,
Y tendya los elementos para des-
tacar, como Sc destaca, la Mer
tira Mapnif'cente".
Ruth Clatterton es la estrella
autentica, una de las tres mu-
jeres que brillan con luz propia
en- la cinematografia hablada.
Ralph Bethany ayuda al exitc
con su claro talento.
"Vidas Truncadas" tambien
Sc repondra hoy, como parte i'm,
portantisima del doble progra,
ma.
Ann Harding, Olive Brook y
Conrado Nagel d~esempenan los
papeles de mas relieve.
La gaceta., 1931-11-04
Ia TESTS DE ROOSEVELT
VENCIO A LA OPOSICION
DE SMITH

Albany, N. Y, Nov. A. Ell
yobernador Franklin d. Roo
evelt aparentemente ha triun
ado en- la controversial con Al
Smith y Sc gastaran 100000
le pesos en- plantar arboles en-
errenos abandonados.
Las 1ltimas noticias indican
ue los electores han apoyado
4 gu gobernador, aprobando,
DOR un margen sustancial, la
anmienda a la constitution Que
iispone la replantaci6n de ar
ooles en- ell estado.
La gaceta., 1931-11-04
AUMENTA LA GRAVEDAD
. DEL PROBLEMA DE LA


Ginebra, Nov. AL tenor
de que Russia pueda figurar
dentro de la controversial man
churiana, conjuntamente cor
los informes oficiales de que
las tropas japonesas han avan-
zado sobre Tsitsihar, un impor
tante punto estrat6gico cerca-
no a la esfera de la Influenza
rusa, tiende una sombra sobre
los esfuerZos que habra de rea
liar hoy ell consejo de la Liga
de las Naciones en- favor de Ia
paz entire la China y ell Jap6n.
Aquellos que Sc encuentran
en- constante contacto con los
asuntos de la Manchuria, ex-
presaron anoche la opinion de
que durante la semana ell pro-
blema habia empeorado.
FL DR.. Alfred SEE, delegado
de China, llam6 al Secretario
del Consejo de la Liga dici6n-
dole que su gobierno teme que
el Jap6n no tiene ninguna in
tenci6n de retirar sus trOpas y
que por ell contrario esta con-
solidando Sus posiciones en- la
Manchuria Y extendiendo su
radio de acci6n.
81 Russia tomara alguna &C =
ci6n alarmaria a Polonia y a
Rumania, sus vecinos del oeste,
y aumentarian las dificultades
para establecer la paz en- pro
de la cual viene luchando ell
Consejo de la Liga.
Sc ha declarado que ell Con-
sejo encontrara dificultades en-
lograr un movimiento concer-
tado contra ell Jap6n, 81 los We
cinos del oeste de Russia temie-
sen a la participation del So =
Wet en- ell conflicto m%anchuria-
ne.
La gaceta., 1931-11-04
QUEDO CONSTITUIDA A
YER LA NUEVA CAMARA
DE LOS COMUNES

Londres, nov. 4.-Por tercera
vez tom6 aver possession de la pre-
sidencia de la camara de los
ComuneS ell captain Edward AL
gernon Fitzroy, de filiaci6n
consewadora.
De acuerdo con la tradici6n,
que data de los dias de los Es-
tuardos, ell presidente fu6 con,
ducido a la fuerza a la gran 81
LA, viendo desde esta la mayoria
del gobierno, $50 diputados,
contra 81 miembros de la oposi-
ci6n, laboristas en- su cast tota-
lidad.
La costumbre de "conducir a
a fuerza" a los presidentes Sc
debe a las vacilaciones de estos,
en- slglos va pasados, por ell te-
NOR de perder la cabeza.
En- esta Camara los conser-
vadores tienen una mayoria de
473 diputados.
Muchas nuevas caras figuran
entire los miembros comprometi-
dos a apoyar la politica de Mac
Donald y su gabinete nacional.
AL frente de la mayoria labo-
rista, por no haber sido electo
TIC Arturo" Henderson, figu-
ra George Lansbury.