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Show I xx 1 ' I g; -iv 4- ,-jjCif;Pv! 1 Judge Thomas D. Thacher of New York taking the oath as solicitor general of the United States. 2 Dr. Helnrlch Breunlng, leader of the CeDtrlst party, who Is now chancellor of the German republic. 3 New library of Lehigh ualversity, Bethlehem, Pa., costing $GO0,0O0, which has Just been dedicated and opened. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Mr. Stimgon Returning With Naval Treaty Fight on It Due in Senate. By EDWARD W. PICKARD CECKETAltY OF STATE STIMSON nnd his colleagues In the Loudon naval conference sailed for the United States Wednesday bringing with them certified copy of the naval treaty which the senate will soon be asked to accept or reject. The treaty was igned on Tuesday by the representatives represent-atives of the five powers concerned, the ceremony taking place at the final plenary session of the conference In the Queen Anne drawing room of St. James' palace. Prime Minister Mac-Donald, Mac-Donald, Mr. Stlmson, Arlstide Brland, Eejlro Wakasukl and Admiral Sorl-anni Sorl-anni all spoke at some length and then affixed their signatures to the momentous document. . The conference confer-ence then was adjourned, with the way left open for its resumption when and If Fiance and Italy can be brought into the full treaty by diplomatic diplo-matic negotiations. Though the results of the three mouths of work in London fell far short of the hopes of those who spon-ored spon-ored the parley, they are by no means small. The treaty, though signed by all five powers, Is in the main a three power pact between the United States, Great Britain and Japan by which those nations agree to limit the tonnage ton-nage of all classes of fighting ships. America is to scrap three battleships, England five, and Japan one. The sections of the treaty adhered to by France and Italy provide for a five-year five-year holiday in battleship building, prescribe rules of submarine warfare and relate to less important phases of disarmament. The compromise reached between the French global and the British and American categorical .methods of limiting tonnage was omitted omit-ted from the document but will be transmitted to the League of Nations for use by Its preparatory committee on disarmament. That the treaty would not have an easy time getting through the senate was assured when the plans of Senator Sen-ator Hale of Maine, chairman of the naval affairs committee, became known. He Is leading the opposition and in his first attack on the pact will charge that its ratification will not give the United States parity In naval ships with Great Britain during dur-ing the life of the pact. He also will attack the treaty on the ground that Its provisions allowing Japan an increase in-crease in cruiser, submarine, and destroyer de-stroyer ratio will weaken the American Ameri-can Daval position in the Far East and lower this country's prestige in the Orient. It. was said Mr. Hale found many admirals of the navy were hostile to the treaty mainly because of limitations limita-tions placed on American building of 8-lnch gun cruisers and the increase In the Japanese ratios. Senator Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee, com-mittee, and Senators Reed of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and Robinson of Arkansas, are expected to lead the light in behalf be-half of ratification of the pact. p EBUTTAL evidence by the wets was heard by the house judiciary committee, the principal witnesses being be-ing Pierre S. du Pout, millionaire chemical chem-ical and munitions manufacturer; Muj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, commander comman-der of the Twenty-sixth division. A. E. T. ; Miss Elizabeth Harris, representing repre-senting the Women's Organization for National Prohibition iteform, and Dr. Clarence F. Buck, secretary of the Federal Dispensary-Tax Reduction league. Mr. du Pont presented arguments argu-ments and statements designed to refute re-fute the claims of the drys that the country's prosperity in recent years has been due mainly or in any marked degree to prohibition. General Edwards Ed-wards bitterly attacked the prohibitionists prohibi-tionists for putting through the Eighteenth Eight-eenth amendment while the soldiers were overseas, told the bad results of drying up the military reservations reserva-tions as a preliminary experiment and gave facts and figures showing the excellent beha'lor of the American troops in France where they were permitted per-mitted to drink wines end beer. Declaring that "temperance" was his objective In coming from his farm In Westwood, Mass., to talk to the committee, he described prohibition as "the most Intemperate thing Unit exists." ex-ists." BEFORE another committee, that of the senate on lobbying,, the liquor Issue also was dominant. Henry II. Curran, president -'of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, had been summoned to tell of the activities ac-tivities of the officials of that organization, organi-zation, and he proved a very lively witness. In his first day's testimony he predicted the development of a new national party made up 'of the wet elements of both the Republican and Democratic parties, the platform ' for which already has been written by Dr. Samuel H. Church, president of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He said Pierre du Pont has Indorsed the proposal and has said the new party will be successful. As for lobbying, Mr. Curran freely admitted his association asso-ciation took part in the campaigns in Wisconsin and Illinois for repeal of the state liquor laws, but said he didn't see what that had to do with "lobbying In and around Washington," which is the subject of the committee's commit-tee's inquiry and of which he declured the association had not been guilty. Next day Senator Robinson of Indiana Indi-ana came to bat with sensational charges that Curran's association had "lobbied with members of the United States Supreme Court." He produced letters written by T. W. Phillips, Jr., Republican gubernatorial aspirant in Pennsylvania and a director of the association, to Justice Stone and the late Justice Sanford, and denounced them as "the most amazing thing I ever heard of." Three hundred delegates representing represent-ing the hundred thousand members of the Women's Organization for National Nation-al Prohibition Reform held a conference confer-ence In Cleveland, Ohio. A platform catling for repeal of the Eighteenth amendment was adopted, and Mrs. Charles Sabin of New York, founder of the organization, was elected its first president. DOSTAL substation leases are about to be Investigated by a special senate sen-ate committee, and at least one of them already is being probed by the federal trade commission. It is predicted pre-dicted that the Inquiries will turn up a scandal rivaling the Teapot Dome affair. Rumors involve the names of high post office and other government officials in an alleged conspiracy that is said to have mulcted the government govern-ment of millions of dollars and taken the life savings of thousands of Innocent In-nocent Investors throughout the country. coun-try. NOMINATION of Judge Parker of North Carolina to be an associate associ-ate justice of the Supreme court was rejected by the senate Judiciary committee, com-mittee, and the matter goes to the floor of the senate. The vote to report re-port adversely on the nomination was 10 to 0. The negro issue caused the defection of three administration Republicans Re-publicans and the opposition of organized organ-ized labor accounted for the votes of the radicals on the committee. THREE hundred and eighteen ln-mutes ln-mutes of the Ohio state penitentiary penitenti-ary at Columbus lost their lives in one of the worst holocausts of recent years, and the pity of it is that not one of them need have died if the cell tiers had been unlocked promptly. At least, that is the statement of A. E. Nice, fire chief of Columbus. Where the blame Is to be placed will be determined de-termined by an official Inquiry. The fire started, apparently, from a short circuited wire and spread with great rapidity, and most of the victims vic-tims perished in locked cells. The other prisoners, numbering many hundreds, hun-dreds, being freed, helped the firemen and guards In rescue work and some of them performed notable acts of heroism. Warden P. E. Thomas said at the investigation of the disaster that he did not provide general fire protection at the prison because the Columbus fire companies could reach there In two minutes, and that he did not go inside the walls to the scene of the fire because be; had given orders or-ders and expected them to be carried out The penitentiary, like most oth ers in the country, was terribly overcrowded; over-crowded; in addition, the buildings were poorly constructed and not fire-proofed. fire-proofed. COLONEL LINDBERGH, accompanied accompa-nied by his wife, put himself on. the front page again by a record-breaking record-breaking flight from Los Angeles to New York in his new Lockheed SIrius low wing monoplane. With one stop at Wichita for refueling, the Lindys made the trip in 14 hours, 45 minutes and 32 seconds. The flight was unique in that it was made at altitudes ranging rang-ing from 14,000 to 15,500 feet, the colonel's col-onel's Idea being to demonstrate that express and passenger plane service can be greatly speeded up If the planes fly In the higher reaches where the air Is thinner and the resistance less. Mrs. Lindbergh shared the honors with her husband, for she acted as navigator naviga-tor throughout the flight and at times handled the controls. AMONG the victims of airplane accidents ac-cidents were two noted men. Count Henri de la Vaulx of Paris, president of the International Aeronautical Aero-nautical federation, and three companions com-panions were electrocuted at Jersey City when their plane ran into a power pow-er cable in a fog. Maj. Lionel M. Woolson, army air reserve, chief aeronautical aero-nautical engineer of the Packard Motor Mo-tor company and inventor of the Packard Pack-ard Diesel aircraft engine, and two companions were killed near Attica when their Diesel motored plane crashed into a hillside during a blinding blind-ing snowstorm. They were taking the plane to New York for exhibition In the aircraft sliow. Major Woolson designed de-signed the motor used by Commander Rogers in his flight to Honolulu, the X-type motor for Lieut. Al Williams' racing plane two years ago and the engines of the navy dirigible Shenandoah. Shenan-doah. WITH Gates W. McGarrah of New York as president, Leon Fraser as deputy president and Pierre Ques-nay Ques-nay as general manager, the bank for international settlements at Basel, Switzerland, was fully organized and ready for work. The directorate decided de-cided that the Issue of shares of stock of the bank should take place on the eighth day after ratification of the Young plan by Great Britain and Italy. On that day the new scheme of handling han-dling German reparations becomes officially offi-cially operative. The directors decided decid-ed to enter into trust agreements with Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia to handle the collection of their reparations. Mr. McGarrah was empowered em-powered to open banking accounts whenever he pleases If the local and central banks do not object. CHICAGO is really trying to rid Itself It-self of the gangsters who Infest the city and who have given it such a malodorous reputation. Last week the Chicago crime commission listed the 28 men whom it considers the worst of the lot, labeling them "public enemies" and asking the police to treat them accordingly. Police Commissioner Com-missioner Russell promised that he would co-operate in harassing them and that they would be arrested whenever when-ever they appeared on the streets. There was no news in the list. Every one of the men named Is notorious and his misdeeds well known to all readers read-ers of the Chicago newspapers. If the crime commission could see Its way to printing the names of the corrupt pol- ; itlcians and disreputable lawyers with I whose protection and aid the gang- 1 sters operate, the crime situation In Chicago might be cleared up more I speedily. REVOLT of the Nationalists of India In-dia against British rule Is becom- ing more serious daily, and has passed beyond the "passive resistance" advocated advo-cated by Mahatma Gandhi. There have been bloody riots in various quarters, and at Chittagong the lnsur gents raided the arsenal. The authorities author-ities now are making free use of the military forces and many natives have been killed as well as some soldiers. The revolt has spread over the entire Indian peninsula, outbreaks being reported re-ported in Karachi, on the Arabian sea; Chittagong. near Burma; Bom bay, a thousand miles southwest; Cal cutta and Madras, and late last week at Peshawar, on the northwest fron tier. ((B. 1930. Western Newspaper UnioD.) |