Show ke a m P 1 V I tw 9 M I 1 Pl athing christmas tree in venice calif where it Is sunny and 2 vow of joseph R grundy Gru udy ip pointed senator from pennsylvania 8 german troops flag of the belch as A rises over fortress after the departure of the french troops NEWS REVIEW 0 CURRENT EVENTS senate se ate approves tax reduction t ia A and french war I 1 I 1 debt settlement by edwand W WITH ITH afie tax cut bill passed classed by both house and senate and the mellon berenger agreement for the funding of tho french debt ratified by the upper house congress quit work on saturday and went homo home to celebrate christmas and nel new years fourteen senators most of 0 them classed us radi radicals cati voted against tho the tax tar reduction redaction measure but 03 were recorded tn in its favoro favor and it was promptly signed by president hoover the act whose terms forms are already quite generally known remains in effect only one year but it to la presumed that congress a year henke hence will provide tor for another reduction if tax revenues continue at the present high level the vote tota on the ratification ot of the tha french debt settlement was wan 62 to 21 senator clovell ot or nebraska alcan led the opposition on behalf of thi tha radical groups group which consistently about everything tho the administration seeks to accomplish contended that tha titio the effect of the settle gettly cent was to cancel the iho entire entera principal cipal of the tha debt nis theory was waa that the over a period of 62 years represent merely interest at fl rato rate ot at ZAT percent per cent ce french indebtedness which was wag funded aai at total of not only was one of of wiley any of the debita but la ii th t last to be disposed of except those thosa of and armenia vach are aro at present listed la in tho the hopeless class tho the principal and accrued interest at the 00 time of the funding of alie llio debts totaled approximately unless the entire debt question in i reopened at some future time tho the la Is now officially closed there thera to la an impression that if the american Amerl coa public p 1 bublic debt continues to bo be retired at its ita present rato rate and Is in entirely wiped out within the next 17 or IS 18 years an agitation will immediately develop for gi a cancellation of all foreign debts which remain outstanding kt ht that time for the naval limitation conference confer enco la in london in january tire are no quite so rosy as they were in the drat place the japanese delegates who have been entertained in washington on their way may to england eagland re healed that their program differs sharply from roia that of the tha united states to in the matters roat tera of cruisers and submarines the japanese Ja panesa are still asking a 10 7 ratio for all auxiliary craft including the Us kun gun cruisers though it Is hoped they will modify their demands slightly tn in order to gain their point concerning cot berning rines they wish to retain tons of underwater craft now in their bicet or under construction As the tha united states la Is anxious to sharply reduce ber submarine ion tonnage nage and there are some dome indications the cruiser demands by japan may be modified the jap aitse submarine proposal now furnishes the chief obstacle to an aa accord between the two powers american naval officials als especially a are opposed to permitting japan such R large larce submarine nub marine force one big rea ion on for the navys opposition lira iles in the fact that possession os of a big out submarine navy together hT with numerous naval bases would give japan control of the asiatic trade routes over which the united states must transport its supplies of tin and rubber raw materials not produced in sufficient fent quantities in eltta country but absolutely to the prosecution of a successful war over in paris the chamber or of deputies commission on affairs and naval matters sitting sitten r jointly approved the governments viewpoint that alt all results of cot tho london confer once nee guht be considered tentative and loutt be submitted to the thes league of nations Kat lons dle disarmament armament commission tor for consideration of their possible facer po horation ration into a general disarmament program foreign minister briand explained to the commissions that france had accepted the theory or of limitation on the tha bisla basis ot of global tonnage instead of categories that she ha demanded the right to devoto devote as aa high a percentage of her global allotment an aa she wishes to submarines and that sho insists that each power tell the others jutt just whak types of vessels it la Is using to in its tonnage premier tardley ond and his bl delegation it Is believed bel loved will demand it a full tons for the french fleet which figure Is thought too high by both great britain and italy there Is reason to belle belleme bel leye however that france mid and italy have made progress in reconciling their viewpoints A correspondent of the london dally telegraph bays the american delegates have prepared a series of charts graphs and data that actually demonstrate th that atthe the british navy not only is not superior in strength to the american but Is really greatly inferior tho the correspondent understands that these revelations have deeply impressed the members of president hoovers Ho overa cabinet and other american statesmen who previously had accepted the tha view carefully fostered by propaganda that the american ican navy Is below the treaty strength an and d badly outclassed by the british navy it is an aa ironical circumstance that this disclosure should have emerged from the work of american naval officers who were of course anxious to make out the caso case tor for a larger ship building program i JAPAN APAN la Is deeply concerned over the new situation in manchuria and statesmen the world over see in it the possibilities of another big war in the far east mongols in the barge district have seized control and declared barga independent of china and the young mongol party tn in ballar Is reported to hive have organized organize iel aa inde pendent government installing as om clala emissaries fro mUrga the capital of outer mongolia these movements are believed to be inspired and supported tod actively by the soviet rus titan elan government and it if they are sue they wilt will bring brang the soviet zone several overal fc miles inside the present chinese frontier Dispa dispatches telles from harbin said japan had bad lodged a verbal protest against the soviet activities with thin the russian Itus ambassador to tokyo P PRESIDENT RESIDENT HOOVERS request for authority to tend send a cord commission mission to investigate affairs la in haiti was approved by the house of re presenta tives the debate provided an for or oscar de priest colored representative from chicago to make ills his malden maiden speech in support of the proposition lie he took occasion to give the southern democrats some borne shrewd digs that made the republicans laugh one opponent of the opposition was representative of alabama who recently declined to serve on a house committee because do de priest PrIes thad had been appointed one of its members seven hartlan political ions eions have asked the united states to super supervise vIso the islands presidential election in april 1030 their petition la is considered tho the climax of a campaign of the anti borno factions which hope to effect the withdrawal of american marines before the expiration of the treaty in IWO under which the united states took over the safeguarding of the republic U the terms of a decree recommended to the supreme court of the united states by charles evans hushes hughes special master the chicago sanitary district would be required to complete a MO sewage treat ment meat program within the next nine years meanwhile there would bo be su successive reductions in the diversion of water from lobe lake michigan at chicago from cubic feet per second to and fi nolly 04 oa completion of the sewage treatment works to asoo feet per second watch mr hughes holds la Is all that Is required for navigation purposes tn in the chicago rt liver ver the tha figures given are exclusive of puro page tor for domestic purposes the th proposed decree Is of interest to th tha entire great lakes region and the mississippi valley in the light ot of the adverse decision ID of f the supreme court of last january which held that there la Is no legal basta bests for diversion of water beyond the comparatively small amount necessary for navigation in the chicago river the hughes report was war regarded as being about as favorable tavo rabla to chicago us as could have been expected mr air hughes made it clear that it la Is within the power of congress to provide tor for a greater diversion tor for navigation purposed purposes sei it appeared evident that if congress approves the illinois state waterway as a federal project the way will be opened tor for a sufficient diversion of water to maintain n s v I 1 ration cation in a nine foot channel fr from 0 chicago to the mississippi T TWO WO members of the british royal air force squadron commander jones kullama and plight flight lieutenant jenkins started on a mile nonstop flight from england to cape capa town but crashed and were killed on a mountainside SO 30 miles sou southeast thet of tunis they had bad run into a severe storm and supposedly lost their way moro fortunate were maj tadeo larre borges of uruguay and beut leon lean challe of prance france though they too tailed failed in accomplishing what they set got out to do they took oft off from seville spain hoping to fly without stop to montevideo but having crossed the tha ocean safely they lost their bearings in the dark and made a forced landing in a brazilian forest their plane was smashed and both men were injured slightly 0 NIO of the tha worst mine disasters of r the year occurred at mcalester mca lester okan akia an explosion in the old town coal mine trapped 09 59 men and not one of them escaped death seven others who were on upper levels got out oaf aalto rescue teams penetrated with great iff ettora ortto to the lower levels which were filled with gas and there found the efio budles bodies of f the victims many of them charred by the blast the majority had bad died swiftly of gas suffocation considerable relief was assured disabled veterans of f the world war when the senate unanimously passed the vete veteran ranAl js hospitalization bill which had bad previously been put through the house the measure carries a total appropriation of 0 world war veterans and dependants of deceased veterans who have not filed applications for or federal compensation are warned by als of the veterans bureau that they must do so not later than january 2 Z P RESIDENT HOOVER appointed joseph joaeph B bastman of boston a democrat and robert it jones ot of knoxville tenn a republican members of the interstate commerce commission for terms of seven years beginning january I 1 eastman Ila atman has been a member of the commission for more than ten years representing the new england section jones who Is chancellor of the eleventh judicial district in tennessee will succeed richard V taylor of mobile ata ala appointed three years ago by president coolidge to fill out an unexplored term WIGHT W MORROW cm am bassa addor D dor to mexico and delegate to the naval conference has formally an bounced his bis acceptance of the appointment as senator from new jersey upon the resignation of senator baird ue he will assume his new duties as soon eoon as his work in connection with tho the london parley Is completed baird was given the place when edge resigned to be ambassador to france with the th understanding that be h would step aside tor for morrow marrow P UT who has been SP 8 0 engaged to in prohibition work in iowa owa was nas elected superintendent of the indiana anti antl saloon league to succeed the late 11 S shumaker Sliu maher lie he was the tha choice of 10 scott mcbride the national superintendent of the league so other candidates retired from competition in the process of drying up the national capital george L I 1 cassidy known as the mno man with the green batand bata a unita reputed to be the bootA bootlegger egger to united states senators tas been indicted under the jo jones i e act ca 1131 ottra rala |