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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Sacco and Vanzetti Given Twelve-Day Reprieve Gen. Wood's Death. By EDWARD W. PICKARD SACCO and Vanzetti, who were to have been executed August 1 1, were granted 12 more days of life by Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, after af-ter Justice Holmes of the United States Supreme court and Judge Anderson An-derson of the Federal Circuit court had denied appeals for a writ of habeas ha-beas corpus on the ground that they had no right to issue the writ unless it was shown that the court which tried the case was without jurisdiction. jurisdic-tion. The reprieve was given the condemned con-demned men with the approval of the state executive council in order to allow al-low a ruling on a writ of error by Justice Jus-tice Sanderson of the state Supreme court which, if approved, would take the case to the full' bench of the Supreme Su-preme court Celestino Madeiros, sentenced sen-tenced on another murder charge to die at the same time, was included in the respite. Justice Sanderson let the matter go to the full court. It is to be hoped by all right-minded Americans that this new delay in the leisurely course of justice was not due in any way to the noisy, violent demonstrations dem-onstrations which radicals and sentimentalists senti-mentalists have been staging in nearly all parts of the world. That the bombs, threats and sloppy appeals of those people, who are certainly misinformed, to say the least, could have any influence in-fluence on our courts and governors would be humiliating indeed. Meetings Meet-ings of protest against the execution of the condemned men were held, or attempted to be held, every day in Boston, New York, Chicago and other American cities and also in cities in Europe, and South America. Hostile mobs in various places threatened American embassies and consulates, and in Casa Blanca, Morocco, a gang of radicals tore down the American flag, desecrated it and burned it. The police, here and abroad, did what they could to break up these demonstrations demonstra-tions and many arrests were made. Congressman" Johnson of Washington, chairman of the house immigration committee, warned all aliens domiciled in this country that if they partook in anti-government demonstrations they would be liable to deportation under the act of 1919. Although President Coolidge has more than once let it be known that he does not consider he has any right to intervene in the Sac-co-Vanzetti case, he was again asked to do so In a telegram from Victor L. Berger, Socialist congressman from Wisconsin. ONE of America's very best soldiers sol-diers and citizens and its most eminent colonial administrator passed away when Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, governor general of the Philippines, rlied suddenly in a Boston hospital fol- lowing an operation for a tumor In the skull. On Tuesday he was buried, 1 with full military honors, in Arlington National cemetery among the dead members of the Rough Riders whom he led so gallantly in the Spanish-American Spanish-American war. Born in New Hampshire in I860, Leonard Wood was graduated from Harvard medical school and in 1SS-5 entered the army as a contract sur-.geon. sur-.geon. His rise thereafter was swift and spectacular. While serving with General Miles he captured Geronimo, the notorious Apache, and won the congressional medal of honor. When the war with Spain broke out he was made colonel of the Rough Riders recruited re-cruited by Theodore Roosevelt and was promoted to brigadier general. As military governor of Cuba he did such excellent work that the islanders will ever revere his memory, and already they are preparing to erect a monument monu-ment to him. President McKinley made Wood a major general in the regular establishment, and previous to 'h World v.-ar he was the most vigorous vigor-ous proponent of preparedness. When America entered the war. General 'Vood trained the Eighty-ninth divi-";i-ri -i'h characteristic skill and thoroughness, but President Wilson and Secretary Baker did not permit him to go to France as its commander. Instead In-stead he was kept in this country except ex-cept for one observation trip to Europe. Eu-rope. In 1920 he was a popular but unsuccessful candidate for the Republican Repub-lican Presidential nomination. President Presi-dent Harding appointed him governor general of the Philippines, and he held that troublous post until his death, administering ad-ministering the affairs of the islands with the greatest ability and firmness in the face of the continuous opposition opposi-tion of tlie native advocates of independence inde-pendence and of a change in the form of government. THAT President Coolidge meant his "do not choose" to be a positive declination of a renomination is now accepted by nearly every one, but some of his strongest supporters still have hope that he can be successfully "drafted." Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, who himself has been mentioned as a likely possibility for the nomination, nomina-tion, visited the President in the Black hills and pleaded with him not to make his decision irrevocable. "If they can't get along without me now, what will they say four years from now?" the President replied, according ac-cording to Senator Fess. Mr. Coolidge reiterated his thought that "this is not a one-man country," and gave Mr. Fess the impression that he wanted to be relieved of the burdens bur-dens of the office. Senator Fess told the President that the logic of the situation called for his nomination by the convention, and said he believed the convention would seek to draft Mr. Coolidge. "Don't echo that sentiment," the President replied, according to Senator Sena-tor Fess. Whatever the attitude of the President, Presi-dent, Ohio will instruct her delegation for Coolidge or nobody, the senator said. On Wednesday Mr. Coolidge went to Rushmore mountain, on the face of which Gutzon Borglum is to carve the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln Lin-coln and Roosevelt and dedicated it as a national monument, delivering an address on "The Spirit of Patriotism." VICE PRESIDENT DAWES, in his address at the dedication of the Peace bridge between Buffalo and Fort Erie, Ontario, created something of a sensation by his comments on the recent futile naval disarmament conference. con-ference. Though he said the parley was not altogether a failure, he plainly plain-ly indicated his belief that the Inability Inabil-ity of the American and British "delegations "dele-gations at Geneva to agree was due to insufficient parliamentary preparation and the preoccupation of the conferees with the needs of their own countries. His implied criticism of the American delegates was resented by administration administra-tion officials in Washington. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur conferred con-ferred with the President and it was stated that they saw no need for radical radi-cal change in the administration's naval na-val policy because of the failure of the Geneva conference. This policy is the completion of the moderate building build-ing program determined upon long before be-fore the conference at Geneva was called, and now to be carried out by congress as If this conference had never been held. The President sees nothing alarming In the situation. He does not think the Geneva conference will make an iocrease over this five-year five-year program necessary. Consequently, Consequent-ly, there Is a prospect of another contest con-test In congress next winter between those who approve this moderate program pro-gram and the advocates of a bigger navy. WITH about a dozen planes almost ready for the race from California Califor-nia to Honolulu in competition for the Dole prize of S35.000, the flight committee com-mittee and the Department of Commerce Com-merce recommended that the start be postponed for not more than two weeks because some of the planes and crews were believed to be not yet properly equipped or qualified. The Honolulu committee vetoed the postponement, post-ponement, but all the pilots signed an agreement not to start before dooo of August 10. The demand for better preparation was partly due to the death of two contenders, Lleuts. George W. D. Covell and Richard 9. Waggoner of the navy, when their transoceanic mount crasher! near San T'iego and burned. SUIT has been filed in Cleveland against the Brotherhood of Locomotive Loco-motive Engineers, alleging that notes, properties and securities "of little or no value" had been "unloaded" by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Co-operative bank there on the Brotherhood Broth-erhood Investment company, the holding hold-ing company of all the brotherhood's financial undertakings. The suit brought by two stockholders stockhold-ers of the investment company, asks for an accounting of all profits made by the bank in its dealings with the investment company, and that al' transactions be declared null and voi4 which resulted in loss to the Investment Invest-ment company. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY LOWMAN announces an-nounces that the treasury's plans for the resumption of the manufacture of medicinal whisky this fall have been abandoned, because there is no shortage short-age now and supplies in government warehouses should last for seven or eight years. Although no recent gauge of the amount of whisky actually actual-ly on hand had been taken, it is estimated esti-mated that at least 20,000.000 gallons of aged whisky is now safeguarded in bonded warehouses. Another 10,000,-000 10,000,-000 gallons of brandy and other medicinal me-dicinal beverages are available for prescription use. The withdrawals during 1920 were LSS0,33S gallons. STANDARD OIL COMPANY of New Jersey got ahead of all other similar simi-lar concerns the other day when its president signed an agreement with the German dye trust for the mutual exploitation and development of patents. pat-ents. The dye trust owns the Bergius process for making crude oil and gasoline gaso-line from coal and lignite. The products prod-ucts of this process, it is expected, will be on the market soon. Also, the chemists predict that the by-products will yield rich returns. Although the details of the agreement were carefully careful-ly guarded, there is a conjecture that many millions of dollars will flow from the United States to the fatherland as compensation for the dye trust's giving giv-ing the Standard Oil the use of Its patents. KING FUAD of Egypt, on his way home from England, stopped In Rome for a visit and achieved the distinction dis-tinction of being the first sovereign of a non-Christian country to be formally formal-ly received in private conference by the pope. Moreover, Pius XI decorated Fuad with the order of the Golden Spur, and the two exchanged miniature minia-ture oil portraits of each other. The pope sent an elaborate escort for Fuad, but the latter, who had been the guest of the Italian government, had first to move to a hotel. RESUMPTION of military operations opera-tions in the Chinese civil war were seen in the mobilization by the Christian general, Feng Yu-hsiang, of 50,000 of his best troops on the border between Honan and Shantung provinces. prov-inces. He plans a flank movement against the northern troops controlling Shantung. Seemingly the Japanese have failed to force a compromise between Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, the Nanking commander com-mander of Nationalists, and Marshal Chang Tso-Iin. A Shanghai correspondent corre-spondent says : "Since the Japanese are policing the entire Shantung railway for the obvious obvi-ous purpose of blocking a movement northward, complications are almost Inevitable, particularly since General Chiang already has declared his intention inten-tion of treating the Japanese troops the same as the northern militarists if the Japanese try to Interfere. General Gen-eral Chiang recently seized severnl shiploads of German war supplies Intended In-tended for Marshal Chang." INDIANA wets rejoloed when Rev. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the state Anti-Saloon league, was adjudged ad-judged In contempt by the state Supreme Su-preme court and was sentenced to c,0 days on the state farm and fined ?2."Ut. Jess E. Martin, nn attorney for the league, also was found guilty of ei-,n-tempt, but was not sentenced. hej:jg ubsent from the state. Legal vps m save Shumaker from serving his se. tence were taken at once. The prohl bitlonlsts of the state and some ministerial minis-terial organizations rallied m his m.,, : :-ort with offers of symp-'hy and :aoney. |