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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over "Alfonso of Spain Surrenders Power, but Does Not Abdicate Illinois Governor Vetoes "Wet' Bill- Nicholas Longworth Buried. By EDWARD W. PICKARD on the grounds that others Involved In the post office deals were not indicted. in-dicted. Judge Woodward said: "Respect for public office Is lessened les-sened If they may be bought and sold. The offense of which this defendant has been found guilty is grave. I do not deem it necessnry to Impose the extreme penalty but the sentence must be .of such a nature as to deter other congressmen congress-men from such practices." Rowbottoni's attorneys indlcnted that no appeal would be taken. The Jury returned its verdict after deliberating two hours and five minutes. The ex congressman, testifying as a witness, told of receiving money from Job seekers, but insisted in-sisted It came to him with expressions expres-sions of sympathy over his unsuccessful unsuc-cessful campalgu for re-election last November. A S KING AL-fonao AL-fonao and members of the royal family scat tered into exile, leaders of the Spanish republic moved to insure the life of the new regime and to make royalty's return re-turn to Spain impossible. worth's personal popularity was such that a solid party vote was confidently, expected to appear when needed. Now the would-be bolters may not be drawn into line by personal affection for the party leader. Archie Roosevelt, brother of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, said that his slater "has never and will not seek political office." Roosevelt made this statement at the Longworth home and added that "my sister will of course go back to Washington where she has a residence, but Cincinnati Is her home and she intends to make it such in the future." Further than this, he said, Mrs. Longworth has no future plans. This would seem definitely to set at rest rumors that Mrs. Longworth would be a cnndldate for ber late husband's seat in congress. SECRETARY of the Navy Adams ordered the cruiser Memphis from Quantanamo, Cuba, to a position near Nlcaraguun waters for use if the rebel movement move-ment in Nicaragua should become serious. se-rious. The gunboat A a h e v 1 1 1 e also GOV. LOUIS L. Einmerson, contrary to expectations, expec-tations, vetoed, the hill for the repeal of the Illinois search and seizure laws. The measure, whlcb would have placed Illinois sixth in the column of states repealing their prohibition enforcement acts. Secretary started up the east Adams coast of Central America from tbe Canal Zone. Advices received at Panama City by officials of the Standard Fruit Steamship company at Cristobal said three United States marines were killed In an attack by a large force of bandits on the commissary at Logtown, Nicaragua, seven miles from Puerto Cahezas. Puerto Ca-bezas Ca-bezas Is on the northeastern coast of Nicaragua. The three marines listed as killed In the reports to the steamship company were Capt Harlan I'efley, Lieutenant Darrah and Sergeant Taylor, Several native employees of the commissary also were killed, the report said. Rev, Karl Hergener of Water-town, Water-town, Wis., a Moravian missionary In the Prlnzapnlka district, was reliably reported killed when Cape Gruclas a Dlos was captured by Insurgents. Other American residents resi-dents of Cape Graclas a Dlos Include In-clude Albert and Edwin Fagot of New Orleans, and WIlLam J. GreeD of Allegheny, Pa. RUTH NICHOLS. Rye (N. Y.) avlatrix, set a new speed record rec-ord for women over a three-kilometer course at Detroit (slightly less than two miles) with a speed of 210.685 miles an hour. Amelia Earhart Putnam held the previous record of 181.157 miles an hour. Miss Nichols flew the Lockheed-Vega Lockheed-Vega plane tn which she set a woman's wom-an's altitude record In March, over an official course laid out near the dying Held. Harry H. Knepper of the National Na-tional Aeronautical association, checked the flight, and R. A. Lea-veil, Lea-veil, another aeronautical official, timed the race. Miss Nichols made two round trips over the course and the speed was the average of the four timings. tim-ings. In the trips against the wind she was timed at 191.038 and 202.814 miles an hour, and with the wind the times were 221 .825 and 220,880. , The only comment the avlatrix made was that "there wasn't anything any-thing particularly exciting about the flight." Gov. L. L. had been enacted Emmerson by the state senate by only a two-vote margin, 26 to 24. The vote for It In the house had been 91 to 50. Several of those who voted for repeal in the senate, where the turn of two votes would have changed the vote, frankly udtnitted they voted for it only because be-cause of the referendum, by which the voters of Illinois, by a large majority, expressed their approval of repeal. Governor Einmerson, however, left the way open for alterations in the repealer, which he said would cause it to meet with . bis approval. He declnred In his veto message that If the repealer had contained a referendum provision "so that the people of the state, with the full knowledge of the consequences, could vote on wiping out all Btate liquor legislation without regard to the Constitution of the United Stutes, I should feel compelled to . sign the bill." The governor asserted that the efforts of Illinois "wets" to strike all prolUbltion laws from the statute books was nulllflcationism. The prison gates Ex-King of Barcelona, Va-Alfonso Va-Alfonso lencla, Juca and other cities were opened for thousands of political and revolutionary hostages Incarcerated Incar-cerated during the dictatorships of the last eight years, while .crowds boisterously celebrated the death of the monarchy and the birth of tbe republic. Don Niceto Alcala Zamora, provisional pro-visional president of Spain, at once assumed power. Born on May 17, 1880, six months after the death of bis father, Alfonso Al-fonso XII, Alfonso XIII automatically automatic-ally became the king of Spain. His mother. Queen Maria Christina, was appointed regent and ruled the country as sovereign until Alfonso Al-fonso became sixteen, when, according ac-cording to Spanish constitutional law, he reached his majority and mme Into his full kingship. Alfonso made no bluff of abdicating abdicat-ing in favor of his son. The kingdom king-dom of Spain Is at an end. And Alfonso, by yielding without bloodshed, blood-shed, won for himself a unique (honor. He did not have to take to his heels and scamper for bis life. He went out of Spain In a dignified way, a man who feels that he bas served his nation well and who knows himself worthy of this last mark of consideration. It will be Interesting to watch the developments In Madrid during the next few weeks, for the trend In government on the continent of Europe has not been wholly a victory vic-tory for present-day democracy. In certain countries, notably France, a republican government I- nDS functioned with admirable sta bility. In others the tendency has been toward dictatorships. And the chief difference between a monarchy and a dictatorship is that individual ability and dominance, dom-inance, rather than accident of birth, bring about the selection of the ruler. IN ASSUMING his duties as vlce-. vlce-. roy to India, Lord Willlngdon finds the country vastly more complex com-plex and infinitely more difficult to deal with than was the Dominion I ef Canada. Instead of having to J handle 10.000.000 people with only I two principal languages, the new I -governor general has 350,000,000 I speaking 222 vernaculars, nil crowd- ed In a space about half the size I of Canada. I Lord Willlngdon is facing a coun try not only clamoring for the right to shape her own destiny but one beset with acute racial and religious re-ligious cleavages and animosities, with Hindus outnumbering Moslems by 3 te 1. Te be sure, every viceroy has had this Moslem-Hindu communal problem to struggle with. Observers Observ-ers In India say It will always exist, ex-ist, as long as the Hindu worships the cow and the Moslem eats It. for It Is the so-called desecration t this animal that causes most race riots. One of the few bright spots Lord Willlngdon will find is that the Nationalists Na-tionalists are now at pence with the British government. But how long this will last depends on what measure of Independence Gandhi secures when he goes to the second "round table" conference confer-ence In London this summer. If Increased remuuerution and f honors are any compensation for the trials he must fate. Lord Wll- i4nnn .., n .. ,1 ..., anttflfuprlnn 1 CHAIRMAN James C. Stone of the federal farm board said in a recent statement that Russian activities activ-ities In the dumping dump-ing of wheat "were largely responsible for demoralizing the world market and necessitating a renewal of the PROHIBITION DIRECTOR Woodcock announced a new high peak in federal prohlb'tlon ' enforcement for the month of March, with more arrests and more automobiles seized than In any similar sim-ilar period since July. He declared de-clared It was "the best month the bureau has had since I took office nearly a year ago. Notwithstanding Notwithstand-ing the increased activity the courts more tlfltn kept up with us. There were 23.583 cases on the docket at the end of February and only 21.548 on April 1. "Further," he claimed, "we have established a definite trend In these figures showing that the average of fines Is steadily decreasing while the average of Jail sentences has been steadily Increasing In the nine months since prohibition enforcement en-forcement was transferred from the Treasury to the Justice departments." wheat stabilization operations the mid- James C. die of last Novem- Stone ber to prevent further fur-ther effects of that collapse from being felt In our own market." That Is to say, the dumping of Russian wheat Into the markets of Europe at any price It would bring was largely the cause of that great accumulation of wheat In storage which now embarrasses the board and the morket Thnt Russia was the ttinin cause of that calamitous slump In wheat last November Is a fact that is not questioned by responsible re-sponsible authorities anywhere in the world. Yet little of- none of this wheat came to America. The tariff on wheat Is practically prohibitive, even for Russia. And we can if ..a n.tah uffantf vol v npsvant tha on. to the fact that his $50,000 salary as governor general of Canada Is doubled and his expense allowance quadrupled. ADANGEROUS-iy- complicated complicat-ed situation has arisen In the political po-litical situation developing de-veloping In Europe, especially In connection con-nection with the Austro German tariff union and the forthcoming visit of the German chancellor and for- I , ; .if y rV . - Mr " tvXxv THE funeral of Nicholas Long-worth Long-worth at Cincinnati Cincin-nati was attended hy notable men from all parts of .the United States, all of them warm friends of the late speaker of the house of representatives. represent-atives. President Hoover laid aside try of any Russlnn products. That however, will not enable us to escape es-cape the consequences of Russia's prodigious economic program, the most extensive and the most audacious auda-cious economic experiment In the world's history. It need not touch us directly at any point but we cannot escape It Russia Is In a position to make the price In the world market, and It will not be a profitable price." Much the same situation Is developing de-veloping tn relation to lumber and nil. Russia bns a larger area of useful timber than any country In the world and as fast as It can. by forced labor. It Is turning that timber Into lumber in order to realize real-ize cash or credit on It from its sales In the markets of the world. The effect on lumber prices must be similar to thnt on wheat The world of the established order or-der has never been confronted by such an economic menace as Russia Rus-sia now presents, not to speak of Its social and political menace. IN THE federal court at Kvans-vllle, Kvans-vllle, Ind.. Harry E. Rowbottom. former representative In congress of the Firs Indiana district was convicted of accepting bribes from oersons who sought office appointments. appoint-ments. The former congressman was sentenced Immediately by Judge Charles E. Woodward to serve one year and one day In Leavenworth penitentiary and wbs fined $2,000. In refusing a request to have the defendant pkiced on probation because be-cause of his physical condition and eign minister to . . ... London for confer- o , ? ences with Brit- Br'and Ish government leaders. Behind the official silence in various vari-ous capitals many French observers observ-ers saw important Issues centering In the tariff agreement and In the Franco-Italian naval accord, which It was said France ts attempting to drop because the government was never fully convinced that it was profitable. France desires to remain on friendly terms with Britain, because be-cause Foreign Minister Arlstlde Rrinnd has asked the British foreign for-eign secretary, Arthur Henderson, to use pressure on Germany to modify the tariff accord when the German chancellor goes to England next month. Brland bss been placed In an ex-"eedingly ex-"eedingly embarrassing position he-cause he-cause ef the possibility that he will he elected President of tbe repub lie In Mny, while he would prefer lo conclude the naval accord with Italy by continuing his work at tbe Jual d"Orty. mi. Wsatera Newspaper Onion.) pressing public du-Mra, du-Mra, ties to do honor to Longworth the memory of Mr. Longworth. Affectionate Affec-tionate tributes from all parts of the world laid stress upon his attractive at-tractive personality. These expres-Cps, expres-Cps, and the high esteem manifested mani-fested by the public and through the press, are a rich legacy of comfort te his family. Mr. Longworth'g death has. of course, completely changed the course of events In the house. A struggle for the speakership would have occurred in any event, but if was taken for granted that Mr. Longworth would command all the votes ef bis party and thus hold an even chance of winning the speak ershlp. The Republicans must now ohoose a candidate for speaker, aad lie will face the difficult task of eonsolldnfing the entire party. Although a few Republicans had threatened to bolt "Nick" Long- " |