Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-12-07

head of Congress, the British gov
eminent protested to Washington
that there can be no substantial
start toward world economic re-
covery unless America reconsiders
its insistence upon the British debt
payment due on December Is, AMI
consents to a review of the whsle
system of intergovernmental debts
with a view of graduating them.
The note, although carrying no Ill
rect refusal to make the December
payment of $95,550,000, emphas-
lied that it could only be made at
the cost of a vital shock to bust
ness generally. Rejecting Presi-
dent Hoover's suggestion of a
temporary payment in sterling,
the communication pointed out
that the installment must be paid
in gold, if at all, and that the
British gold reserves were barely
sufficient to satisfy London's re-
quirements as an international fl
nancial center.
Congressional action to repeal
the eighteenth amendment within
the next four months moved
measurably closer as House DEM
ocratic leaders expressed conf
dence of obtaining the required
two-thirds majority for the Gar
ner resolution, and Senator Robin
son, of Arkansas, Democratic floor
leader, declared the Senate should
also vote on repeal during the COM
ing short session. After the House
and Senate have passed the repeal
resolution, if it is passed, the pow
err of Congress on this issue will
be exhausted and the fate of the
measure will be in the hands of
the individual states with the ap-
proval of t~hirty-six required to
complete ratification.
A second assault on government
tai extravagances, n of the
many efforts under way or pend
ing toward ~effecting a balanced
federal budget, will begin on Cap
itol Hill. The Senate economy
committee, under guidance of Sen
ator Bingham, Connecticut, will
start it's arduous task of prying
into every conceivable corner of
government activity for savings.
The economy committee which
succeeded last summer in saw az
from $3.50, 100000 to S175,000, 900
has an even more difficult task
this session with a continuously
mounting deficit. But it will bend
to its work with Colonel Roop, d.
rector of the budget; as first of
many witnesses asked to assist.
/ In the light of the most recent
information and using as a meas
uring yard the full air strength
that this country could employ in
an operation where armies, navies
and air forces would be used, the
United States today stands fourth
among world powers in relative
air strength. Assistant Secretary
of War F. Trubee Dawson, in
charge of army air activities, dis
closes in his report to the Secre-
tary of War. On June 80, this
year, the air strength of the Unit
ed States Army, the National
Guard and the organized reserves
was 1874 airplanes, of which
about 210, of all types, were tenn
p~orarily unserviceable.
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Plans are being discussed at
Geneva, with the approval of the
State Department, for the general
disarmament conference to %consol-
idate through a treaty convention
the gains already made and leave
the adjustment of remaining ques-
lions to negotiations among the
various governments or to a re-
convened conference at Geneva
made up, perhaps, of only one del
egate from each country. This
much was disclosed on authority,
| although II WIG strassad that the