Show r iq i 41 v g Z Z RINI SRI J jar X V fla it I 1 TA I 1 Z I 1 john K X North novel airplane the ir lying flying wing in its successful test flight over burbank nur bante calif 2 tho the yacht which was used by president hoover and his party during their fishing expedition at long key fla a 3 maj gen cen clerbert B crosby selected bythe by the president debt as commissioner of the district ot of and expected to reform the liquor and vice conditions in the national capital NEWS REVIEW F CURRENT EVENTS wets give house committee opinion binion of dry laws hughes confirmed by EDWARD W PICKARD HAT the opponents ot af the W WHAT amendment and the net act really think of those pieces ot of legislation and their effect on the lives and morals of the amerlean american people was brought out forcibly list st week in a hearing bearing held by the j judiciary cIary committee of the house of representatives es that body has before it a number of bills designed to cancel or modify the prohibition laws and Cb chairman airman george S graham of I 1 pennsylvania enn sylvanin himself a wet decided to give ghe both sides a chance to present their best arguments the public in washington liked the idoa idea and flocked to tile the hearing in numbers that thronged thron ged the large house caucus room sir graham opening tile the proceedings said this hearing will not interfere with president flo hoovers overs crime com commission in assion but rather be in aid thereof therdo f the eighteenth amendment he asserted has been tested tor for ten years WIL without hout satisfactory results enforcement having left a train of consequences most deplorable and depressing to every patriot I 1 let us reason together he suggested not with the fanatic for he I 1 Is s the foe of religious as well a aa S individual liberty but with broadminded men and women of every faith and belief and try to relieve our country by conceiving a new system one not founded on the bludgeon and violation of mens conscientious convictions I 1 vict vici ions lons regarding drink no law can ever be enforced that tha t Is destructive of right and individual liberty you may create a guerrilla w airfare and its conditions r with murder bribery corruption violations lat lons or evas evasions lons und and disrespect t for all law every law to be capable of being enforced without such a train of consequences must not be inconsistent with tile the mind of the people of tile the country as being right and must must not be destructive of tu individual liberty 11 sabath of illinois first explained his proposed amend ment giving the government control over the dispensing of liquor as aa in sweden and canada and then called Rs as his first witness walter IV V ug gett a magazine writer whose articles on prohibition have brought him bim before various grand juries for an hour mr liggett told of the crime debauchery corruption and hyp hypocrisy 0 crisy he said he had bad found existing in I 1 washington boston michigan kansas minnesota and north dakota summarizing mar izing it lie said in washington speakeasies speake asies and and bootleggers operate unmolested in boston prostitution Is rampant with persons engaged in purveying booze in kansas after CO years 1 b of prohibition there la Is not a town where I 1 cant buy a drink in five ral minutes autes detroit Is in the grip of gangsters and crooked politicians clani drinking goes on merrily in minneapolis and north dakota consumes immeasurably more liquor than before prohibition the witness made many sensational detailed statements and when then cross examined by drys he declared lie he could prove them till all but was sure he would not be called on to do so this was only the star for the association opposed to the prohibition amendment had a ton long line of witnesses ready tor for each proposed bill after the wets were through of course tile the drys were to have their eunity and they too were fully primed for the occasion OT f 1 w wets et a and D were BOTH bali cheered e ere d b by y the re results of an election in the springfield mass blass district to till fill a congressional vacancy the successful candidate was fred D griggs a democrat and an avowed wet the democrats professed to believe this presaged tile election of a democrat in november to succeed senator F 11 gillett who la Is not lot a candidate for the springfield district which Is the home of f former president coolidge Is nominally but griggs won by several thousand votes some of the democratic democrat tic leaders said the result was to be c credited to dissatisfaction with the hoover administration I 1 IN N TUR THE central west vest there were several big events in connection with prohibition A federal grand jury in springfield ill indicted the fleisch mann yeast company the corn com products refining kenning company and the hub binger brothers company of Keok keokuk ulc iowa as corporation conspirators against tile the drylak dry law they are charged with furnishing large of yeast and corn sugar to illicit distillers A lot of minor bootleggers also were indicted another federal garnd grand jury in chicago returned indictments against individuals and small concerns scattered over the country on charges if misusing industrial alcohol the government officials ali said this was the breaking aloof up 0 the biggest alky ring in the country the king icing of which was anastassoff Anastas soH nn an internationally known chemist who invented a process of for removing non drinkable ingredients from specially denatured alcohol E reaching a vote on the confirmation of the appointment ot of charles evans hughes as chief justice of the supreme court the sea een ate heard a number of rather violent attacks on the supposed attitude of sir hughes toward economic problems and to warm defense of that gentleman and his record lending leading the bp apposition position was senator koran borah of idaho the chronic opponent of almost everything anyone else wants tie as well as carter glass cole blease brookhart maine blaine wheeler and connally ot of texas based their arguments against the appointment mainly on their alleged belief that mr hughes was more in sympathy with the oil gas electricity coal transportation and power magnates than with the people and that ills bis views as borah said on matters pertaining to great combinations might it if reflected in su preme court decisions lead to great economic oppression all ot 0 which was replied to ably by senator glenn ot of illinois and others the voto vote for confirmation of mr air was 62 to 28 20 voting for confirmation fir tir were 38 republicans and 14 democrats while in the negative were 11 republicans and 15 democrats democh ats are arc not to be banned S submarines as weapons of war by the naval conference in london but their use against merchant ships Is to be restricted strict ed and humanized such Is the assertion of mr timson and sir AI Al acDonald leads heads of the american and british delegations respectively ninde after the question had bad been taken up by the con conference ferebee la in plenary session thel the british proposed that the lie be abolished and the americans seconded that but them the french iliad japanese objected as was expected and the It italians allans sat on the fence all however were willing that ruthless warfare py by submersibles on merchant vessels should bo be outlawed premier tardley put france in a conini commanding andIng position when he save gave out the french ile he announced that he be was willing to abandon his hia governments naval requirements were laid down dorfi in tile the 1023 pro program grani on ope one condition only this condition Is a mutual guarantee from the other powers by 1036 the french memorandum says tile the french navy will Vom comprise prise a total tonnage of 9 tons this approximates the seu sea strength of japan who proposes tons as her proportion and ana swamps italy who suggests a figure in the neighborhood of tons as her needs tho the french strength would approximate the british and american strength in a ratio of 32 3 2 the japanese delegation on thursday made public its position stating that japan la Is ready to assent to a holiday in battleship construction until 1030 which also la Is favored by the americans americana and the british that japan Is willing that the tonnage of battleships be reduced to tons and the maximum caliber of guns to 14 inches mr stimsons sons demand at first sup pressed that in arranging battleship parity with great britain the united states be permitted to build one new battleship of the rodney type of which england has two appears to have been abandoned owing to the firm opposition of the british as well as adverse criticism at home ono one rumor was scotched scorched scot ched when prime minister Al macdonald acDonald told the house of commons that there was no question 0 of f great britain scrapping any battleships of 0 the rodney and nelson queen elizabeth or royal sovereign classes and that neither the americans nor anyone else lind asked thise this the conference delayed decision on the question of methods of limitation referring it back to the first committee im together with the matter of 0 in maximum n x linum and minimum tonnages ton nages for individual cruisers in the si smaller class in washington it was said that ammunition mun to be utilized in combating ratification of tiny any naval agreement men t based on the stimson proposals halting big gun cruisers for america to eighteen was being prepared at the direction of the eli chairmen airmen of the senate and house bouse naval committees PRESIDENT fRUS IDENT HOOVER OVER with mrs A hoover justice and mrs harlan S stone and a few others spent IL a do delightful week fishing at long key fla all of them made good catches catch es and mr hoover and mr air and M mrs IS stone each captured a big sailfish HOWARD TAFTS W WILLIAM steady progress toward recovery last week was surprising hig to his bis physicians sic ians though they insisted he was stilla belll a very ve sick man he had overcome his restlessness at night and the sleep lie he obtained was so helpful that he was able to leave his bed and move about without assistance KINO tring ALPONSO ALFONSO of spain has extended amnesty to all those whom do de rivera exiled and taken other steps to please the people but the republican sentiment in hla his country Is growing alarmingly anti monarch ests who returned from foreign lands at once resumed their agitation and threats against the throne and its occupant are made openly at a celebration of the anniversary of the short lived republic of 1873 tho the attacks on alfonso were savage one of the speakers speaker declared there are only two roads open to the bourbons one leads to the frontier and the other to the scaffold the police were ordered by premier berenguer Keren guer not to disturb this and similar meetings though street servet demonstrations were barred count romanones noma Roma nones former prein premier ler and lender leader of the liberals says the only way to save the monarchy in spain Is to establish a constitutional government modeled after that of Engla england nL GH REDERIC EDEniO NJ M SACKETT the new FA american merIcan ambassador to germany presented his credentials to president von hindenburg and was most cordially received in his address mr r sackett expressed his admiration for the president as the living embodiment of german love for the fatherland lie ile then praised tha energy and determination mi with which the german people are facing postwar post war problems lems and expressed the hope that the two great republics would be able to labor together for peace in years to come EN million dollars wilt will be advanced TEN Tvan ced it was announced by the federal farm board to the new grain stabilization corporation organized in chicago recently by grain operative cooperative co associations in an effort to check the decline in wheat prices the new corporation the first of its kind created and financed under the terms of the marketing law enacted seven months ego ago will be empowered to purchase and store such quantities of wheat as may be necessary to control the surplus and stabilize tile the roar mar ket it was incorporated in dover del bof BASEBALL tuna fans rejoiced to hear bear of the good fortune of connie mack veteran manager of the worlds cham champion plon athletics ue ile has received the edward bok award of presented annually to the man or woman who during the preceding twelve months rendered the most outstanding service to philadelphia the gift was enclosed in an ivory case and accompanied by a gold medal a 5 1920 stern newspaper juniou |