Show ile V III 4 7 6 M 2 p 11 1 engines typifying years yeara of railroading stone bridge of baltimore and ohio railroad colled called the carrollton viaduct on an the hundredth anni anniversary versay of its completion 2 col 0 D U H macalpine third from left and his companions who were loat lost for two months while making A n prospecting flight over the shores of 0 hudson bay 3 opening the grat golden eolden padlock of pasadena to welcome the throngs to that cites tournament of roses on now new years yeara day NEWS REVIEW CURRENT EVENTS discord among senate drys dry and a nd officials over law enforcement by EDWARD W PICKARD D dissuasion among the dry lead era of congress con gresi and dissatisfaction with president hoovers Hoo verd law enforcement commission marred the good food will toward men that to la supposed to characterize the christmas teason season united states district judge raul paul J mccormick 0 of los loa angeles a mern mem berof berlof the commission who had been sitting fitting on the federal bench in new york started the fireworks when 0 on his return home he found occasion to make tome some very caustic remarks concerning tho the prohibition problem A maug mans home to la his castle the jurist and the practice ot of entering it in the courno of prohibition enforcement without legal procedure should be abolished the national ohal commission the judge said already line has deter determined mineAl that two major problems require settlement BetH ement one ona Is tho the solution othro of hython enforcement nt and the other to ta the removal of 0 governmental lawlessness liss ness cna and restoration of constitutional tut ional rights to citizens speaking as an individual judge mccormick pronounced fanaticism one of 0 the most serious en eroles ot of pro hibi tion lie ile said eadd fanatics were to bo be found in the ranks of both wets and drys william J harris ot of georgia one ot of the leading drys la in the senate was roused to immediate action and demanded that the president remove the los angelae jurist from the commis alon judge McCorm leles statement shows that just what I 1 feared was being done la in being done said eald senator it really Is nn an encouragement 1 to violators ot of the law an and 4 it shows judge mccormack McCorm lck tobe to be uch such a partisan against the prohibition enforcement law that no matter how bow honest ho he may be he Is unfitted to hold office on the commission un less the commission stops its secret sessions es lona and comes out in the open its ita usefulness to Is impaired d to such bich ark an extent that its report will bo be given no weight the flie prohibition forces of the country will be greatly disappointed it if tho th president does not remove tills this w h hos hai encouraged antl anti t a nis as well an violators of the law 1 harris was joined ily by other senate drys arys urging that mr hoover ask tho the commission to make an early report on en the liquor question senator glass class of virginia bonts to hear from the coma corn mission soon hut but ho he does not think judge ludge McCormick should be removed from that body 1 I do 0 not participate in senator Ilar harris rial view vica of tile the matter at all said senator glass 11 it II ignot Is not my idea that the commission wits was appointed to fled out something that would please any p particular group in congressi con gresi grem but was appointed to ascertain the facts regardless of what con conclusion dualOn the tha facts might signify if judge or any other member of the commission or tho alo commission asa aa a whole has found out what judge budke mccormick seems seeing to imply it Is tho business bu atness of such individual members of the commission arid and ot of the commission as a whole to report the result of his or its investigation without respect to whom ahorn it would woold please or dis displease pleam that was the purpose of the investigation and I 1 am not going to join with anybody in calling tor for the resignation of 0 any member of the commission merely because he may tall fall to find what I 1 could coald have bave wished him to find senator william 11 norah bomb of idaho another dry leader expressed the opinion that a report from the crime commission would be of little value ta in obtaining better dry law enforcement conditions what la in needed ha be paid Is an improvement in the per sonnet of enforce enforcement officers it the commission report borah i 8 said ld they will not tell us as anything we do not know either nn an to the law or fix fig to the fats we still will be back to the proposition that with the present personnel nothing will be accomplished complis hed 11 this brought a sharp retort from commissioner james at doran who declared that such a sweeping condemnation of the prohibition hibi tion unit 1 I a most unfortunate and bound to have ft a disheartening effect upon the morals morale of the service bervice 11 to say any that prohibition cannot bo be enforced with the present personnel the prohibition director added comes perilously pear near to saying that it cannot be enforced at nil all 0 ONE NE more indre killing by prohibition enforcement agents marked christmas lay day coast guardsmen guardsman Guards men tit at buffalo fatally shot eugene F rowney downey jr agnoff spa of a policeman in a motor boat on the niagara river they declared he be did not heed their signals to stop but it was sold they found no liquor in domneys Dow boat the man was arrested recently in connection with liquor smuggling and was outon out on ball C joy at ibe the white 1 loua ewas was almost ruined by a tire fire that ant completely wrecked tho the interior of tile the offices wing ot 0 the mn manston mr hoover helped in the removal of ills his tiers per sonni and business papers pup era and then stood in the cold tor for two hours watching the firemen fighting tho the names tile the chugo of tile the lie fire was found to be nn an overheated fireplace chimney it n the ofelea of secretary newton now ton col alu U S grant III director of public buildings and public parks estimated the damage to be approximately diat e ly inspections showed that although it will be necessary to completely rebuild tile the structure there was waa no irreplaceable damage at tho the time of the conflagration mrs hoover was hostess of a childrens party in the white trouse house dining room while the president and the other men present hurried out sirs men II over in order not to frighten th children had the marine band strike up a lively air and then presided over the celebration without a hint of what was happening a few i hundred feet away on christmas daa daf there a happy family party in the th white house followed by a dinner dillner to members nier obera of the cabinet and their families gales with rain and cold carried disaster and death to the atlantic toast coast of europe from the orkney islands to spain on wednesday the worst accident reported was the loss odthe of the norwegian steamer aslaug near vigo spain with its entire crew of 11 21 many other steam ships were reported in trouble one went aground war near oer ger ronny many blocking the river nibe elbe and two were driven on the rocks off Pors pol prance france P YRIGOYEN of argentina JL narrowly escaped death at the lianda hands of nn assassin three bullets were fired at ills hla car ns as he was ans on lite hl way to his office in buenos alres aires but none of if them lilt hit him though his eclief bodyguard was wounded police guards guarda in another car opened ire fire on tile assassin killing him lie ile was identified as aa marinelli Marl nelll a dental me chante but his motive was not discovered the police decided lie he was not the agent of an organ tred land band though they have hae arrested it number of suspected anarchists president TrI yrigoyen goyen tooh the attempt on liis alfo moto more calmly than anyone else going on with his work as aa usual donall bonan chairman of the S senate foreign relations rela tlona committee and tho the united states department of the interior appealed to rus eta ala for help in searching tor for carl lion ben L ilson und and earl borland la in the wastes of siberia and the soviet foreign offices office replied that nn an airplane had been dispatched to hunt bunt tor for the two missing american avin aviators tors who tailed failed to return to alaska six sit weeks ngo ago from it a flight to old nid no an icebound fur ship they are ara believed to have been forced down near worth north cape tho the foreign office announcement said also two otherl airplanes would bo be dispatched immediately to aid in the search for or the airmen semyon national air hero of soviet russia since his flight from moscow to new york woe was selected to head the tha rescue expedition three powerful cabin planes and ive five experienced canadian ulu tore were conveyed to alaska from seattle on a coast guard cutter to help in the search amander ri RICO nico military commander at cs says in a report to the mexican government on tile the recent execution of gen carlos et I 1 eliat hn I 1 douquet bouquet made a signed statement that he had been commis signed by joso jose vasconcelos defeated candidate for the presidency who now Is go in the united states to recruit revolutionists on the mexican pacific coast and that bedad he had gone to nogales to receive orders money and munitions from a revolutionary directorate established at tucson ariz tuwan n 13 our new a nm m cassador bas to spain presented his hl credentials to king alfonso on bues buea day was introduced to the queen and exchanged formal calls with premier prime palmo rivera ue he Is now engaged in a long series of calls on government officials and the heads of all the other embassies and legations the king received the american ambassador bas bao in the uniform ot of a captain general with red trousers a blue coat and many decorations he made a striking martial figure the simple evening dress of ambassador laughtin and his start staff was in contrast contra sf with the gorgeous uniforms of the spanish court president elect of 0 0 ORTIZ mexico visited washington last week and was accorded all the honors honora duo the head of a state during his three days stay no he made a formal call at the white house and president and mrs hoover departed from long established precedent by returning the call at the mexican can embassy on friday senor benor ortiz rubio and old his wife were entertained at 4 state dinner at the white house NE of the great disasters of the th 0 ONE dying year if measured by lou loss of lifer life was the foundering of the chinese steamer lea cheong plying between hongtong Hong kong and in a heavy storm two hundred and fifty chinese passengers perished as an did the members of tho the crow crew and 44 indian guards only two men escaped by clinging to a raft all in manchuria between china wand WAH and soviet russia up appears pears to have come to an end tho the foreign commissariat in moscow announced that manovsky Sl nna and tsai yun tun shen plenipotentiaries of the soviet union and mukden governments had signed a protocol at siberia restoring the status quo ante on the tha chinese eastern railway and tram amme restoring soviet consulates consulates and commercial organizations in the aba soviet far east it was stated that peace would follow on the frontiers to be followed by withdrawal of troops of both sides aides all prisoners aro are to be released and the chinese promised to disarm the white guard russians luns full restoration tion of diplomatic relations will not ile ha brought about until after a conference that will open in moscow on january 23 25 for the tha settlement of all outstanding questions G benman N nationalists made a dismal fallu failure r e of 0 their latest attempt to prevent present adoption of tile the young reparations plan in a public referendum their bill against the enslavement sla of the german people which would have tile the young plan re ejected failed to obtain more mora than one fourth of the vote required to give it effect the rel chatag last dinst november defeated a similar measure by an overwhelming majority to D CLAYTON CLASTON who while a member of congress framed the pie antitrust anti trust act that bears his name died at his home in montgomery ala ain after an illness or of three weeks lie ile was seventy two years old end and was serving na as a judge of the middle federal district of A alabama 1 warn M unload |