Show news yaws review of current events the world over gnp japanese nelc armies on move again while league conn coun 1 I Stu stumbles nibles raskob irritates the national political gossip by EDWARD W PICKARD LI japan nor china anns as N willing to accept the plan demised by the league of lotions nations council for an inquiry into the alan charlan situation and the twelve members of that body maile made a further attempt to draw up a scheme that would mould please both sides but buti without ith apparent sue 44 4 cess the salient 4 point of this litter plan was mas the tend ing of a commit tee of stud to gen C P manchuria only in Suno ci summerall c merall i stead of an express roan dito for investigating all ill of him chint ns as well uell as manchuria vs the recent japanese pro proposal postil provided the committee would mould be instructed to investigate manchuria Mani lan huria churla and to include china if it they malt it od dible As demanded by the japanese the committee would im no power to investigate troop move merits ments or to interfere oth otherwise ernise nith the war or cor nor to In terent in any dl bet tokyo and that might be dr alfred sze in an uncompromising communication to the council how china looked on this echeme lie ile s ild an inquiry without at the same time providing for immediate tes of hostilities ho and the withdraw branal al of Ji pinese forces becomes a mere device delce to condone and cpr for a more or less indefinite period the unjustifiable mccu pation of hina a territory by an a narcessor na 1 11 ressor ulio has hag already virtually attained his unlawful object chile these thee discussions have hae apen going on in the circumstances ion will rowdily see it Is quite sible for rie to Lon ons lder sider the proposal dosal in question until the basis above aboe mentioned has been ade qui tely laid down don al hm lien and if a committee of in quiri Is mined its chillman kiy bo be oen gen chirles P Suni merall former chief of boalt of the unite I 1 state stater army lie his been suggest ed for this place by the japanese and pro probably bibly would be acceptable to uhlna still another plan for solving the hurlan problem was mas to be submitted to the council by the nan n ling king government according to D wellington koo who iho has ling just ken appointed japanese foreign ro in nister and assumed ills his new duties da an N on the southern jast ast of manchuria Is a small strip la in which Is situated the city of crin chow and that Is still in the hands of china or was last week eek but evi dently the japanese decided to take over this area also for doctor sze gave the league counell information t that h a 1 the troops of the mikado were ere amov ing south f from rom in armored I 1 cars A alth ath the briten tion of crushing the gen jiro opposition in to I 1 hin chow this action ft as explained by the japanese on the g ground round that their interess ts there were menaced by bandits but the chinese Clil nese assert the activities of bandits there and elsewhere in man alan churia churla are promoted by japan to excuse their militant coune courie despite reports of dis agn in the japanese cabinet it ts Is apparent tint thit the militarists led by gen jiro minister of war nr are hav ing their on way they will not permit of the troops from manchuria inri churla nor are chev afraid of GIBS brating the soviet russian government to the point of forceful action althou alt liou i aliis assuring moscow that russian interests will mill not tot be endangered rd seeming borts efforts torts of the league council in paris to put on the united states the onus nf f the ino copanese affa affair r are re not meeting with mith suteso su tess there has been talk there aad and in of in invoking an eo economic b averit ot of japan if the TO 0 gon government per tints in refusing to keel the peste and our government has been ap pro preached ached on the subject I 1 the leighe Is asking us to c in nit ourselves before it mikes u ui its own mind what it wants ants us ro to be committed to an official la h washington declared I 1 IN e ere re not going to do it TION of the I 1 akes to the C gulf waterway a in 1032 1912 instead olo olin o lo may alay with a view lew to as busl business ness industry and cm em waa mia asked of f the fede itil government by the val vill ley assod atlon at its annual con lk g emlon alon in bl fouls and lewis of illinois and ciany other in favor faor of fleeming spee dinc eding up the construction m I 1 ur or cued gued that the objections nilsen by the army engineers to a quick fin ish isaice ice and possible floody would not be considered valid if the water ater way may were mere a private enterprise efterp rise in stead of a government project the association voted in baior mor of a fed eral bond issue isque to carry on 01 the work r senator glenn recently urged upon president hoover and secretary of nr or hurley the need of early corn com of he the work ork and said he violated lo no confidence in declaring both of them mere ere la in faor of this course H HEARINGS PARINGS by the senate lot lobby by committee 1 were resumed in washington and john holland the committees chief investigator told 1 an interesting story of deals in sugar stock by two wo united states senators watson of indiana and davis dils of pennsylvania alloth of them holland said bought stock of sugar companies operated by bror 0 dahlberg Da lilberg of chicago giving their notes in payment and later turned IL the stock for considerable paper profits thich afterwards digap feared other prominent men he said also bought dahlberg stock and lost these included al at smith john J raskob and senator moses hoi land told the comm committee Itle he could find no evidence that senator davia had bad lobbied for a high sugar tariff dahlberg in chicago denied that there was anything unusual or reprehensible in the transactions with knalson atson and davis dals and also declared false the rumor that he had made a gift of 10 to davis S Q dirring up the animals Is ts a fi fh evorite occupation of john 1 I raskob the dynamic chairman of the democratic national committee his ills latest achievement in that way Is the sending out of a q to 88 IM con tribu to the party campaign fund of 1023 1928 to get their views lews of whether the democratic na lionil con convention entson should declare for of the prohibition issue to J i J i raskob nib i the people pg they are a also asted ast ed what they think on other matters of piny pirty policy but the liquor proposition Is the main one to say mr air him self sell Is thoroughly wet met and as he says in his letter to contributors he believes bel leNes the time has come for the democratic party to face this ISSUP issue squarely and to present to the people a plan under the pol pot icy ley of stales states rights and local self solf government the moe was as a follow up of his presentation of the hon home rule plan for liquor control last march to the national committee he ile evoked then a bittar outburst particularly from southern leaders many of whom fell deli dellb bente erite injection of the prohibition issue was nas a fine ay wiy iy to wreck reek the party a prospects this time the drys a biln aln respond ed with ith strong protests their baird of santeg egv of which C din middle Is ex uthe secretary Is sued a statement which said wet iet millIon millionaires alrea were bringing pressure pre sure to bear on both parties to make their platforms wet met by threatening to withdraw contributions in the he 1012 contest some now w lork orlas orl cs 2 it s ane hustoh questionnaire a deli benite effort to the lie support of frank ila D cosevelt no sevelt alio ho Is still the leading contender for the nomination senators Kohl of arkansas Arh antas hull of tennessee and connally of texas interviewed in washington decried nabobs et ef forts the democratic national committee has been called to meet 0 9 and this matter undoubtedly will III be a major topic of discussion of R texas prospective effie of the next house partook of a har 11 v breaks with jan F curry chieftain of tammany hall liall the other day anil sad it Is said him to abandon his plan to lime dive a member of hie ilie delegation made door floor lender leader hie inter party truie trute vias mas corn com plated balien A hen john of alabama withdrew from imin the lie arfice for floor leadership ain in mediately thereafter henry T rainey old id veteran from 1111 Il linol purll lv announced his and vord went do anun n the line that he lie li hid id the atthe atle e support of e garner mr it stalney claimed lie ile al rt alv ins his I 1 pen pledged of if the 17 Demor itle votes control of the house was mai lini lindhol hol hv the altti a of R M kleberg Denin trat in the four benth texas district to succeed the late harry 11 wurzbach urz bach who wm the tales states only republican con gressman P SIVI and members of the house expo t wield control of if it action Oct lOnO and at the call of laguardia of new york those in that category both republicans and democrat democrats met wednesday aday lu in washington sh Ington to make their plaus plans bial formulate their di munds the invitation to ahli conference which whick wae birned also by paul J altalo of the lone farmer laborite eald said that even eien though the democrats might elect the speaker Is neither they nor the republicans could hope for a an working majority vilt without hout the aid of the independent independents one of the demands ot of the progressives progresso pro gressl es Is liberalization aliza tion of the house rules eo so that boss control I 1 may be bt eliminated M of the senate who are classed as progressive shive he ile publicans were reported to be c gan izing for opposition to the reelection of senator george 11 II moses oses of new ew hampshire as pre president pro tempore of the senate they are said to be actuated especially by moses attack on them a year aso ago when he dubbed them an cf the wild jackass nye ot of north dakota norris N orris of nebraska and cauz ens of michigan higan were supposed to be leading the Li and it was as believed belle sed they would support senator lesley esley L jones of washington for the place held by the regular republican lenders leaders feared all this might result in allowing the democrats to assume control of the senate as well as of the house T 11 Is 1 an unfilled vacancy union among federal Judi ships in the chicago division of the eastern illinois ditri district ct and george E IL Q johnson united bante district dig brict attorney there Is I 1 strongly urged for the place by senator oils otis F glenn illinois the appointment of mr air johnson mould be political in some I 1 was is but it at alao 0 k would mould be app approved as a reward for the k excellent work he his done in t the lie line Q george 5 Q of prosecuting gang johnson and grafting politicians for evasion easlon of their in come taxes senator glenn denied that he lie had yet made any emendation mend men atlon dation to the president but other supporters of mr air johnbson were insistent that he should be appointed non though ie te has three berrs a to sene serie as district attorney and mr air Ilo hoover oer it was as reported wants him to finish his tenn terin if mr air johnson Is elected eleia ted to the bench his ills successor Is likely to be dwight 11 II green who though only thirty four years old has been one of the district attorneys most efficient and assistants in the prosecution of tax dodgers I 1 r THE democrats in senate and house follow ti tie e leadership of benator joseph T hokinson hobl ho hinson of ar cansas their leader in the senate they ft oppose any increase in sur tur taxes and any great increase in any of th government levies robin son says such action by congress would mould approach confiscation and would be likely to prolong instead of relieve the depression lie ile pro poses pokes a bond issue isue sen aitor robinson Hobl argues that taxes should be raised solely to ob tain revenue and not for the pur pose of distributing mearth or reducing large fortunes lie ile Is opposed to a general sales tax but would mould consent to a sales ley lely on luxuries he lie said in his statement the most practical method to dl ill minish unemployment Is to industry increase in taxation Is a poor method for de in other words while in creases creates roc me be they cannot be expected to contribute to the fones fortes calculated to restore con sd a lu in hie the sphere ot of in investments estment 3 and enterprises he ile added that while he be lecog nihed the tile necessity of balancing the budget he did not look for a great reduction in public expenditure i ayears lie Is now eighty eight years old cen gen A IV greely Is still actively interested in the exploration of 0 polar regions and he lie has just been appointed chairman of the national oni om cittee that spon IV sors a nei nev ameri amert can expedit expedition io t which willi will art tart for the arctic text june to spend tao aa years yeara on El lemere I 1 inland f I 1 the northern ino anol t land on the globe capt apt flavel 31 III be r gen A AW A W w commander of the greely pany party and dr 11 D P marls nill be its scientific dl di betor and the gray bearded leader of the fated freely greely expedition cip edition of 1881 1884 Is helping tiem hein make their plans plang they will mill have radios airplanes mil and modern comforts con forts in exp exploring I 1 or III g 1 tie I 1 e ragou vil ere general greely met v with ith dimster dl sister and where eighteen of hie his party or froze to death because they hid no means of letting know of it their plight 18 11 1131 epta rn colon anio 9 2 ajr omin YO alj 0 ar 9 1 14 v 7 ite J remains of a ceiba tree in santo 00 ingo to which columbus moored his bhim p irre prepared pared by the th Nit lonal able society ma hington 1 U 0 aera ke j dark unmarked santo ccolumbus THE TCo do domingo mango harbor into columbus lumbus three diminutive casseh sailed la in 1042 1942 soon will be lighted by a new lighthouse it memorial to the great discoverer plans hine already been chosen froni from iho ahoe ke submitted by architects representing the united states lad and several countries of europe although now santo domingo still retains much of its birly spanish aspect oldest in the new orld and first to b established by white men in amer lea are phrases of inevitable recur rence in any descriptive list of the historic buildings and ruins of this ancient city the early colonists built for the centuries and many edifices dating from the sixteenth century are still in use the ministry itry of foreign affairs and other departments of the dominican government occupy the old colonial colonl nl palace of government a spacious structure that was vener able lone long before the first buildings rose at jamestown va surmounting a bluff which corn mands the ent entrance rante to the ner harbor rises the ati indent clent tower of homage Un unshaken shalen through the centuries this pioneer outpost of new ew horld conquest seems to dream of the golden age when it guarded the key city of the far flung empire of spain in america in the tower tomer Is a a small I 1 acred aperture that sometimes Is pointed I 1 out as the me window of the cell in which columbus was imprisoned before being sent back to in chains n statement chrit cannot be tnie me since columbus imprisonment took pince in TO when the city uns situated on the opposite bark rf f the oama aher the same bur tant destroyed the homebound fleet in 1102 02 so damaged the city that it was decided to rebuild it on the higher western side of the thi azami the site it now occupies house of the tho admiral of the buildings now in ruins one of the most interesting Is the castle of dego diego colon or house of the ad miral the anc ancestral etral home of the columbus lumbus Io family 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