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Show vlcted more than a yeor ago of accepting bribe la connection with the Elk Hills (California) lease and sentenced to pa; $100,000 and serve one year In prison. Do-lieny Do-lieny was acquitted. Atlee Pomerene, speclnl govern-ment govern-ment counsel, replied to Llogan'i argument that It made no difference differ-ence whether Fall's act was "offl-clal" "offl-clal" Just as long as Tall had accepted ac-cepted the money to influence his decision. The appeal of Harry M. Black-mer Black-mer of Denver, who fulled to appear ap-pear as a witness at the Fall-Sin-clolr conspiracy trial and was fined $60,000 for contempt of court, also was argued. i . . i -. ; News Review of Current Events the World Over Developments in Fight Between Administration and Senate Over Relief Funds Terrible Earth- 1 quake in New Zealand. f . By EDWARD W. PICKARD ? v t 1 f mt A REPUBLICANS In congiess who support the administration started out the week by declaring there would be no compromise on re-lief re-lief legislation, even If the quarrel quar-rel makes necessary neces-sary an extra aes-lon. aes-lon. Their attitude una a v nnnticn h V f - jf FOR some years Mrs. Mary Henderson, Hen-derson, ninety-y ninety-y e a r - o I d social leader In Washington, Wash-ington, wealthy widow of John B. Henderson who was a senator from Missouri, has grieved because Uncle Sam does not provide a residence resi-dence for the Vice pled Into the sea, and the bottom of the harbor rose 18 feet, the anchorage an-chorage pool becoming an Island. Hastings, a plains town 12 miles from Napier, where most of the buildings were of wood, was razed by temblors and Ore. The hospital and nurses' home collapsed on the Inmates. The towns of VValroa, Wulplkuroa and Waipawa also were wrecked. Martial law was proclaimed for the ravaged district, and the Immediate Imme-diate evacuation of Napier was ordered or-dered by the authorities because of the danger of an epidemic. The city's water and drainage systems were entirely destroyed. Several British cruisers reached Napier .harbor and Commodore Bloke took charge of relief measures. Other vessels carried many refugees to Auckland. Property dumnge In the Napier area alone was estimated at iioooo.ono. VT 1 L1AZJ ONE of those famous leaky congressional trunk cases that amused the country coun-try some time ago is going to get a further airing. Justice Joslah Van Orsdel of the District Dis-trict of Columbia Court -of Appeals has made a ruling that Ronrpupiitii. Rep. Tilson 'ohu Q. Tllson. majority leader of the house, and his statement was approved by James E. Watson, majority ma-jority leader of the senate. "In all matters of legislation where no question of principle Is involved compromise Is . not only customary, it Is ofttlmes necessary," neces-sary," said Mr. Tllson.! "But In connection with the proposed $25,-000,000 $25,-000,000 dole there Is no proper place for compromise. The amount-of amount-of money Involved In the Initial appropriation ap-propriation is of relatively minor importance. Once the door to the federal treasury for a dole to aid citizens In distress la oined, the appropriation used as the opening wedge, whatever its magnitude, will soon pale Into Insignificance In the wake of what will follow. "Once the Red Cross Is destroyed, as It must Inevitably be by a federal fed-eral dole, and our local charities paralyzed, as they will be when the federal government takes over responsibility re-sponsibility for charitable relief, the appropriations that must follow fol-low as a consequence of such a policy would now stagger belief." Democrats and radical Republicans Republic-ans lost no time In responding to this challenge. Senator Caraway of Arkansas made one of his bitter attacks on the administration, the Red Cross and Representative Tllson. Tll-son. and he whs followed by Senator Sena-tor Borah of Idaho who made a speech that brought cheers and applause ap-plause from the Democrats and the insurgents. He took his place alongside those who threaten a filibuster unless the President Mrs. Mary President. She has Henderson made several attempts at-tempts to remedy this at her own expense, once offering of-fering a fine house when Calvin Coolidge was Vice President Its upkeep was too expensive and he declined. Now Mrs. Henderson is trying again, offering to present to the government a handsome residence resi-dence valued at something like $.'100,000 and situated on one of the exclusive streets of the Capital city. At this writing congress hud not decided whether or not to accept the gift, but Mrs. Henderson's granddaughter, Mrs. Beatrice Who-lean, Who-lean, has asked the District of Columbia Col-umbia Supreme court to prevent the aged lady from disposing of any of the real estate belonging to ! the estates of her former husband and son. According to Mrs. Who-lean, Who-lean, her grandmother is mentully Incompetent properly to perform her duties nnd functions as trustee under the wills of her husband and son, and her removal as trustee Is osked. FOR the second time the senute voted on the appointments of Smith, Garsuud and Draper as members of the power commission, and the Democratic-radical Itepub-Hcan Itepub-Hcan coalition rejected Smith by a vote of 40 to 83. The two others, however, were confirmed. The administration ad-ministration considers all three are legally members of the commission. The leaders of the coalition hold Mint this latest action perfects the senate's record In case the mutter is tuken Into court E. E. Denlson tlve Edward E. Denlson of Illinois must go to trial on an Indictment charging hfm with Illegal possession posses-sion of liquor In his office on Capitol Cap-itol Hill. Representative Denlson was Indicted In-dicted by the district grand Jury on November 10, lOL'O, eleven months after a leaking suitcase addressed ad-dressed to him wos discovered by federal agents In the union station In Washington. An Investigation led to the discovery of a trunk contulnlng liquor In Mr. Denison's office, and In spite of the representative's represent-ative's assertion that both the trunk and suitcase were mistaken- CAMERON MOR-rison, MOR-rison, appointed appoint-ed recently to succeed suc-ceed the late Lee S. Overman us senator from North Carolina, disregarding disre-garding the senate tradition that new members must sit silent for mouths, arose to warn his fellow Democrats "t ly delivered to him, an Indictment was brought. PRESIDENT HOOVER was advised ad-vised by R. C Stephenson of South Bend, Ind., president of the American Banker's association, that business conditions are Improving Im-proving in all parts of the country and should continue to get better during the rest of the year. Mr. Stephenson expressed the opinion that the business depression struck bottom on December 20, and that conditions have been on the upgrade up-grade since that time. He said also that If there were less talk of unemployment un-employment those who are employed em-ployed would spend more. yields on the matter of relief appropriation, ap-propriation, shouting: "I am perfectly willing to say that not another appropriation bill shall pass this body until the hungry hun-gry are fed, until the sick are taken care of, until the government of the United States has met Its obligations to its distressed and hungry citizens." This brought from President Iloover himself a long statement In . which he defended his policy and declared his confidence In the adequacy ade-quacy of the Red Cross to meet the situation. Some of the opposition sow a chance for a compromise In Mr. Hoover's assertion that "If the . time should ever come that the volunteer vol-unteer agencies of the country . . . are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and suf-, suf-, ferlng In my country, I will ask the aid of every resource of the federul government." One proposal for compromise was to Increase the drought loan appropriation by $15,000,000 with provision that In the event of extreme ex-treme emergency, It may be loaned for human relief purposes. House and senate lenders and Vice President Presi-dent Curtis all joined In negotiations negotia-tions to settle the dispute. President. Hoover dispatched personal per-sonal representatives to Arkansas, center of the drought region, to re-- re-- port to him on the actual situation. WHEN MaJ. Gen. S medley med-ley D. Butler was Philadelphia's director di-rector of public safety six years ago he- naturally mude enemies of a number of bootleggers. bootleg-gers. It Is reported report-ed that one of these disgruntled Individuals first called the attention atten-tion of the Italian Gen. Butler government to the general's speech in which Premier Mussolini wns depicted as a hit-and-run motorist and which Is causing caus-ing the gallant marine so much trouble. General Butler will-go on trial before a court-martial board In Philadelphia February 10, and the public will be admitted to the proceedings. pro-ceedings. Meanwhile he Is free to go where he pleases In preparing his defense. MaJ. Henry Leonard Is his chief counsel at present. From close friends of Butler, it was learned that he will argue that the Mussolini etorv was simnlv nn I OFFICIAL announcement an-nouncement was made In Washington Wash-ington that the administration ad-ministration of the Virgin Islands was being transferred from naval to civilian civil-ian rule. Soon afterward aft-erward President Hoover 'appointed Paul Martin Pearson Pear-son of Swarth- that the Democracy Democra-cy of the South Sen. Morrleon would not submit to the wet wing of the party, and to call for the appearance of a dry lender for the party. Said he: "I am a party Democrat. And I nm also a dry. , I believe that millions mil-lions of Democrats In this country feel ua I do. If the great city organizations or-ganizations In array against the Eighteenth amendment seek to capture the Democratic party nnd put a wet plank In its platform they will find us resisting. We will not be driven out of the party -neither will we submit to such domination. They will never override over-ride our consciences on that matter mat-ter or force us to bow to party decree." de-cree." BV NO means satisfied with the prosiiects for self rule In India In-dia held out by the British government gov-ernment and the plans devised by the round table conference, Mahat-ma Mahat-ma Gandhi nnd his lieutenants have decided that their campaign of civil disobedience shall be continued. con-tinued. A resolution to this effect was adopted at a meeting of the working committee of the All-India National congress, the members of which were released from Jail when Gandhi was set free. It looks now as if they and the "holy man" will be In durance again before long. The Nationalists decided that all political prisoners must he freed before they will treat with the government, nnd that meanwhile mean-while the picketing of foreign cloth, narcotic and liquor shops and the illegal making of salt shall be continued. A conference was arranged between be-tween Gandhi and his associates nnd the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce which It was faintly hoped might help clear up the situation, because the business busi-ness men In the federation, who have been financing the Nationalist cnmpnlgn, are said to be ready to call a halt. GERMANY'S big flying ship, the DO-X, which Is on Its way to South America, made the first Jump from Spain to the Canary Islands without mishnp. but In attempting to take off for the Cape Verde Islands Is-lands it was damaged by a wave. Repairs, It wns believed, would take at least two weeks as It wns necessary to get new purts from Germany. AMONG those taken by death during the wee - were the duke of Vendoine of the royal Bourbon line; Philip L. Hrle. American artist and son of Edward Everett. Hale; Mary Hampton, veteran actress, ac-tress, and Lady Decles, the former Helen Vivian Gould, granddaughter of Jay Gould US, ! S3 1. Western Newspaper Ur Ion.) illustration, used In a military preparedness speech. It will be urged that no offense against the Italian premier wos Intended, One point to be stressed Is that the hlt-and hlt-and run story was not told In any attempt to get Into print, or because be-cause of any personal enmity toward to-ward Mussolini. BISHOP JAMES CANNON, JR., appeared" in Washington before be-fore twelve traveling elders of the Methodist church. South, to answer to grave charges the exact nature of which wns not made public. If the elders find the accusations have sufficient merit Ihey will order a trial which will be held at the next general conference of the church In 1034. The bishop, who Is node! no-de! going, treatment at a hospltnl for arthritis, was accompanied by two of his sons. ALBERT B. FALL, the fnly man convicted on criminal charges growing out of the oil leasing scandals scan-dals of the Harding administration, bases his hope of escaping punishment punish-ment on the claim he had no authority au-thority from congress to mnke the leases. The case was argued In the District Court of Appeals. Frank Hotran, his counsel. In seeking reversal of the former Interior In-terior secretary's conviction of accepting ac-cepting a bribe from Edward L. Doheny, snld that since Fall lacked the proper authority he could not be guilty of accepting a bribe to influence a lease. Fall was con- v more. Pa., to be the first civilian Paul M. governor of the Pearson territory. Mr. . Pearson Is well known as an educator, edu-cator, lecturer and author. Is a na-tlve na-tlve of Illinois and Is fifty-nine years old. The Virgin Islands were purchased from Denmark In March. 1917, and since then have been under the control of the Navy department Capt W. Evans was the last naval governor. 1 REPEATED earthquake shocks of great severity wrought havoc hav-oc in the Hawke's bay province of the North island of New Zealand, and were followed by conflagrations conflagra-tions and tidal waves that added to the destruction. The large towns of Napier and Uastings nnd at least three other towns were virtually vir-tually ruined. The number of the dead will not be known for some time, but Jt probably Is nearly a thousand. Other thousands of per-persotis per-persotis were injured. All means of communication In the stricken area were destroyed and the only news reached Wellington and the outside world from ship wireless stations and eyewitnesses who had fled from the scene. At N'npier, the capital of the province, which has a population of 20.000. nil the stone and brick buildings fell with a terrific roar, ell innks exploded, and flames consumed con-sumed most of the remaining struc-' struc-' tures. Bluff hill, which stood high above ti e city, collnpsed and top- |