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Show U, M , ir'- .t-.'-l rri -j 1 Looking aft on the now cruiser Salt Lflke City during her trial "blue water" run. 2 Tnnker V. I'.nice almost cut In two liy colllslnii with tanker Scottish Maiden off New York. 3 Tug-of-wtir In the I'ythluii gamin, revived at Delphi, (Jreece, ufter twenty-four centurlea. n.iiiirs Iiave beeu "fwniei in tuITla iiioiiK the railway south of tha Yellow , river since Muy 6. OKOANIZED labor won a big Tic lory when the Supreme Court of ti e I'nlted Stntci uphald an Injunction Injunc-tion rcstralnlu: the Texas and New i. loans railroad, a Southern Pacific ;tcm Kubtildlury, from organizing a called "company union" or lnterfer-i lnterfer-i r with Hie activities of the Brother-li.iod Brother-li.iod of Itiillwny and Steamship '"it!. a among Its employees. V K'n:r'.MiM:r t hold down bov- n:i::ciit e'!' inlll ures for veterans' veter-ans' rclii f to t- ;;:,:.!e figures, Presl-l. Presl-l. iit. Moovrr vcli o I n Mil hrondenlng :!;( Ii;i !:t f,,r pi !i:-i"tis for Spanish vcl:i;ui:i v 'urn would have added fr..m ."II.eiKVm to $!2,CtlO,(HlO to an-i an-i cik's t' li e tiveiliiiicnt. 'i in fisvor of properly di- ri iM-yinx tlie nntloiial ohlijjutloii to u v. !m ervcd In u.ir or hecaiiM; dis-M",l dis-M",l nrl ere In need." said the I'resl-I I'resl-I r,l in Ms veto tuessiiKe. "Hut cer- I:. in principle-; nre Included In this li'.Slslntioii wiilch are oppnxed to the i: lerest holh ot viir voteruns und of tlie pulillc." pi'T. nosou: tuknku, n.vins a j I.ockl call VcKti monoplane, set a new record for tha cast to west trans coiiiinciiial l!l','lit. Starting from Nw I Vor!:, lie made one atop, at Wichita, i lan.icl at (ilcmlale, Calif., In 1H !!.!, l:l ndnn t', .".I second eliips-.I I I'yln.l time, lie la-U'loii strong head- ! winds all the way lo Wichita. Tur- j tier's only companion was a lion nib. The (irnf Zeppelin, after spending j I au lieiir or two ill I!ueno3 Aires, re-' re-' tiirnoil lo I'eriiflinlinco for mm and , ' fuel and then took off on her night to Havana and Lulu-hurst, N. J. On the ! not 'invai'd le' of the voynge her pat!-l pat!-l senders numhered nineteen. It was iirninged that I'eniambuco shall hs l lie In-minus of a regular Zeppelin service. Amy Johnson, the young English girl who Hew from England to Australia, in touting the Australian continent. She was presented with 150,000 by English admirers. SEVERAL well known men and women were taken by death during dur-ing the week. Among them were Cardinal Car-dinal Lucon, the venerable archbishop of Iteltns who remained in that city throughout Its bombardment In the World war; Mrs. Katherlne Keith Ad-ler Ad-ler of Chicago, popular novelist, who was killed In an automobile accident In rrnnce; Lord Handall Thomas Davidson, former archbishop of Canterbury Can-terbury ; Pnnlcl St. Lord of New York, veteran advertising man, and Baron Ashlon, the richest man In England. (St. 1 n 1 0 Wuitvn Niwsuaper Uuloa.) 1 I Good Bedfellow j If you would sleep scniuil) take I clear conscience m bed with you 'J Benjamin Franklin 1 l NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS London Navnl Treaty Will Be Dealt With by Senate in Special Session. By EDWARD W. PICKARD T3 ATIF1CATION or rejection of the London naval treaty will be accomplished ac-complished by the senate In a special session, to bo called by Presldeut Hoover Immediately after the adjournment adjourn-ment of congress about June 15. This was the plan decided upon by majority leaders of the senate and house with the approval of the President. It'was considered best for congress to go ahead with the business before It, compile that and adjourn without taklnt: up the treaty. The bouse lead-era lead-era said they were rendy to set a date for ending the session as aoon as the senate was prepared for such a step. Opposition to hasty action on the treaty, by opponents of the pact, and a desire on the part of members of the house to get through and go home were two of the major reasons for the decision reached. President Hoover's announcement that be Intended In-tended to call a special session, If necefsnry, to Insure early action on the treaty waa a principal factor. Senators Johnson of California and Hale of Maine, leaders of the opposition, oppo-sition, were especlully vehement In their objections to what they called an attempt to railroad the pact through the senate by administration senators. 1-.. .1 . tt,A nt.;,,.,..,., oil.-ir.taft ilia tnrtlf forcement bureau. Senutor Sheppard of Texas, for instance, urged the early enactment of legislation to make the liquor buyer punishable under the dry laws. Sheppard was co-author of the Eighteenth a mend men t. Early In the present session be introduced a bill to make tlie seller and purchaser of illicit liquor equully liable to punishment. punish-ment. .Senator Jones of Washington, author of the "five and ten low," and others opposed the views of Sheppard, The court, In an Important test, case brought by the government, held that congress not only "deliberately and designedly" exempted purchasers In the Volstead act, but for ten yeara "litis significantly left the law in Its original form." Enforcement bureau officials pointed out that the decision was entirely In accord with tlie policy the bureau had followed. TI1KEE bills Intended to Improve prohibition enforcement, principally principal-ly .through the relief of congested federal fed-eral court dockets, were given the approval ap-proval of the house Judiciary committee. com-mittee. One measure would authorize the summary prosecution of offenses, elsewhere defined as misdemeanors, before United States commissioners without a Jury. Whatever the action of the commissioner. It must be confirmed con-firmed or disapproved by a member of the federal bench. ' Another would amend the United States code to define a misdemeanor as np offense calling for a maximum penalty of six months In Jail, a fine of $500, or both, and a felony as an offense punishable by Imprisonment for not less than one year. The third measure would amend the Jones law to define a misdemeanor under the prohibition laws as an of- coolles when laborers were Imported to breuk a strike of dock workers, rnd the troops were forced to lire on Hie mobs. Many were killed nnd tlifl wounded numbered perhaps a thou-emid. thou-emid. Latest reports Indicated that pence had not yet been restored there, fifteen Indian coolie women were sai l to have been tortured nnd massacred by coolies. All the simps In the city were closed and the food situation was becoming desperate. """" PUEMIEU MUSSOLINI recently d- I livered several addresses so fiery I and provocative concerning the necessity neces-sity of having Itnly prepared for war that the negotiations between that country and France for n naval limii.i-tion limii.i-tion agreement were broken olT, ut ltast temporarily. Some of the French newspapers even hint at the possibility possi-bility of war between France nnd Itnly, though the conciliatory altitude of the French government is stressed. On the other hand. Iiepuly flrtiy in a speech before the Italian chamber of deputies, appealed to France to make an accord with Italy so that Europe may present a united fror.t against America In the future armed struggle which he Is certain will come. CHINESE Nalloiialbit ' forces In Ilonan province are reported to , have been severely defeated by Hie troops of the northern alliance com- I mandod by Yen Ilsl-slinti and Feng ; Yu-hslnn and numbering about 200,ikiO j men. The government troops were ! forced to dig In nnd suspend their nd- ' vnnce on Chengchmv, the rebel base,' until reinforcements arrive. The two fense committed by one who Is not an habitual violator of the dry statutes and a case Involving not more than I one gnllon of liquor. OUT In Seattle a federal grand Jury returned Indictments aguInstRoy C. Lyle, prohibition administrator for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska, nnd others on charges of corruption and bribery. Among the Indicted are William XI. Whitney, Mr. Lyle's assistant and legal advisor; Karl Corwln, a prohibition agent; M. L. Fryant,. a deputy sheriff who won notoriety as a wire tapper In the famous fa-mous Olmsted "whispering wires" case, nnd O. T. McKlnney, a young lawyer from Kentucky who led the prosecution of the Olmsted liquor gang. OFFICIALS of the Methodist board of temperance, prohibition and public morals were asked to appear before the senate lobby committee to oxpluln Its alleged failure to report, In 1 accordance with the federal corrupt practices act, Its activities In the Presidential campaign of 1028. I Dwts Pickett, research secretary of the board, testifying In the absence of Dr. Clarence True Wilson, Its general secretary, Insisted that Its activities i In behalf of Hoover were "nonpollt-ten!." "nonpollt-ten!." He pointed out that the Department Depart-ment of Justice hns declined to prosecute prose-cute the board for noncompliance with the federal statute. Tlckett stated that hundreds Of thousands of copies of the Voice and the Cllpsheet, organs of the board, attacking at-tacking Al Smith's prohibition record, were circulated during the 1928 campaign cam-paign ; that the religious Issue received attention in the Voice, a fact lie now deplored; and that, as reported to the board by Doctor Wilson after the com-palgn, com-palgn, "we did use all the energy that we were capable of In bringing about the election of Herbert Hoover as President and Charles Curtis as Vice President." r).SSIVE" no longer describes tlie I resistance of the Indian natives to Hritlsh rule. The rioting Is Increasing Increas-ing dally and hns developed Into bloody conflicts with the police and the troops. What is worse, In the eyes of the British. Is the fact that the Moslems are Joining their trndl-tlonnl trndl-tlonnl enemies, the Hindus, in the campaign cam-paign in some localities, though In other places there- have been sanguinary sangui-nary fights between natives of the two religions. Worst of all the rioting, but not llrectly connected with the Indlnn campaign, was that In Rangoon. In that capital city of Burma warfare "iroke out between different bands of rivers and harbors, omnibus and veterans vet-erans bills will be acted on In the senate before congress adjourns. More members of the navy general board and other high officers of the navy appeared before the senate committee com-mittee on foreign relations and naval affairs to tell why they consider the London treaty dangerous for the United States. Much of their testimony testi-mony was to the effect that It would make It Impossible for the navy to protect this country's trade routes; there also was further criticism of the reduction In the number of large cruisers for America and of the Increased In-creased ratio given Japan. DEBATE on the conference report on the tariff bill was Just getting under way In the senate when some one raised a point of order which was sustained by Vice President Curtis and under which the measure was sent back to conference. Consequently Consequent-ly final action on the bill was delayed for at least one week. i The point of order related to a clause In the flexible provision permitting per-mitting the tariff commission to make effective changes In duties If the President Pres-ident failed either to approve or disapprove dis-approve a recommendation for an In- crease or decrease within CO days. Republican leaden rerc concerned over the fact that several additional points of order may be made relating to rate Items. If these are sustained further delays are in prospect FIGURES presented to the senate campaign expenditures committee revealed that Senator Grundy of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania spent $291,000 out of his own pocket in his losing campaign for re-nomination re-nomination and that the total cost of that campaign was $332,070. Secretary of Labor Davis, who defeated Grundy, told the committee that he expended nnd pledged out of his own funds $10,M1.4. He said he also handled about $10,000 In contributions to his cnmpalgn which he turned over to bis committee. Francis H. Bohlen, who ran against Senator Grundy and Secretary Davis witli the backing of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, testified tiiat the total expended for the ticket which included himself and candidates for governor and lieutenant governor was a little more than $200,-000. $200,-000. Of this amount $10,000 was contributed con-tributed by the association. COME of the dry leaders In the sen- ate were considerably more disturbed dis-turbed by the ruling of the Supreme court, that the ordinary purchaser of Intoxicating liquor Is not guilty of an offense, than was the prohibition an- |