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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Japan Still Defies' League "of Nations and China Threatens:-roener Asks Fair Play, for . Germany in Armaments. . ' - :' By EDWARD W. PICKARD ' .? T.U...U is no war In Manchuria because, as the League of Na-' Na-' tlons and other authorities agree, there cannot be war until a competent com-petent government cited the fact that the Callfornlan has opposed all of the Hoover policies poli-cies that proved most unpopular In this' part of the country, and also they thought his coming Into Illinois Illi-nois as as a Presidential entrant in the April primaries might help their state ticket. Those of them who oppose Mr. Hoover had heretofore hereto-fore had no one to suggest except Frank O. Lowden. SMALL-mlnded people reveled In the news that C Van Nest Leavltt, a brother-in-law of President Presi-dent Hoover, was arrested In Sunta Monica, Calif., on charges of violating vio-lating the state prohibit Ion law. A police officer and two dry agents who were raiding speakeasies there found Leavltt In an alley holding a sack, containing nineteen pints of liquor, and he was released on ball after pleading not guilty, Leavltt said some one handed him the suck while he was visiting in a store and asked him to take It out the back door and get rid of It, and that tie acquiesced as a friendly service, not knowing the sack contained liquor. The owner of the store, also arrested, arrest-ed, said he believed the sack was brought In' by a bootlegger fleeing from the police. Altogether a trivial affair, made news only by'Leavitt's relationship to the President. RUMANIA'S roya! famHy has supplied sup-plied the world with another romance. ... This time It Is Prince Nicholas, brother of fCIng Carol and princess lleana, Vis! has declared war. But there have been bloody battles . up there " almost every day, and the situation during the week was getting worse.. The league council was to meet again on November 16, and It was confronted con-fronted with the the victors and the vanquished by freeing the victors of their obllga tlons to disarm and making . the vanquished bear the full brunt of the disarmament clauses in the Versailles Ver-sailles treaty." , 1 ;, CONFERENCES and conversations conversa-tions In Paris and Berlin concerning con-cerning reparations and war debts were held behind closed doors, but It was reliably reported .that .the French government , sept, word, to Berlin that whatever concessions are made to. meet the Gennun situation sit-uation must be 'only temporary ' and within the framework of' the Young plan; that France will not' agree that Germany's private debts shall be given precedepce over reparations rep-arations payments; . and that tf there Is any permanent ., reduction i In the. conditional part of the Young plan annuities. It must be aceu panled by a corresponding reduction In the war debts Owing to the United State, . ' Germany, on the other hand, . Is evidently seeking to take advantage of her present economic distress to obtain a . great permanent reduction reduc-tion of ' reparations, or even their complete obliteration. The French nationalists are determined that Premier Laval shall not abandon 'the principle of reparations, no matter mat-ter what pressure Germany brings to bear.,. .. . . , . O tJR political " pot Is already seething and bubbling and there Is a lot 'of talk, loose and otherwise, about next year's . cam- Henry PuYI " !ta' ' not heeded Its or der to withdraw her troops by that date, with the added aggravation that Tokyo had reiterated the Statement that it would not obey the order and would make no concessions con-cessions to the league. Then China came to bat with a stutement by Its representative fit Geneva, Dr. Alfred Sze. In a note expressing his government's conditional condi-tional acceptance of. the one-year arms holiday Doctor Sze told the league secretariat flatly that if J,he league covenant and the . Kellogg pact should fall In the ManchurhtQ crisis, China would build up her fighting forces to protect . herself against Japan. Before-that !he had asked the league to send an Inter national force to police the Man-, churlun railway sone. Gen. Ma Chan-shan, commanding the Chinese troops in southern Manchuria, Man-churia, was said to have attacked the Japanese at the NonnI river bridge which the latter were re- who is the central figure. Nicholas met accidentally and fell In love with Mmc DeletJ, the divorced daughter-in-law of a former . cabinet minister. He asked Carol for permission permis-sion to marry ber and the king refused, re-fused, whereupon Prince Nicholas Nicholas climbed Into his automobile, picked up the lady and drove at top , speed 125' miles to the village of.To-han. of.To-han. There he' compelled the mayor to perforin the marriage ceremony, and the happy couple rushed away, while the terrified mayor telephoned tele-phoned the news to Bucharest - So far as Is known, the king has not relented enough to -recognize the marriage as . even a morganatic morga-natic union. But he probably will not take severe measures, for he Is fond of his brother and gives blm much credit for his own success, in gaining the throne of Itumanla. . palgn. Senator. George , W, Norrls of Nebraska gave voice In Washing- . ton In a few characteristic char-acteristic opinions. The insurgent Republican Re-publican made a strung . attack .. on the policies of Mr. Hoover, and seemed to the correspondents correspond-ents about ready pairing, and after a sanguinary conflict con-flict the Chinese, were driven off But they did not go far. and at the last report were gathering fo another an-other attack; and more Japanese soldiers were on their way hurriedly hurried-ly to the scene. There were 'other battles, but this was the1 biggest. . What was more afarmlhg to- fur elgn nations was the spread pf the fighting to the big city Of Tientsin. This began with outbreaks of Chinese Chi-nese mobs that attacked the,. Jap-, anese concession. , The Japanese officials said the disorders were due to the fighting of Chinese factions and that the real motive of the Chinese was to occupy the foreign, concessions in the city; so the Japanese Jap-anese forces went into action "for protection" and sheHed the Chinese. Chi-nese. American, French and other troops were held ready to act, but at this writing had not been called on to do anything. In the background of all the trouble trou-ble la Henry Pu YI, who as ilsuan Tung was the last Manchu emperor of China. The young man Is a quiet . renting householder In the Japanese Japan-ese concession In Tientsin, but loyal monarchists have always beep" about him, and now it Is asserted that there Is afoot a plan to separate sepa-rate Manchuria from China " and put Henry on the throne. With thl In view, It Is said, many thousands of troops have been gathered together to-gether by Gen. Liang In-Chlng, former for-mer ally of the Manchu dynasty and for years the enemy pf the Chang family now headed by .Marshal .Mar-shal Chang Hsueh-Llang. It Is true most of these reports come from Japanese sources, but they havttbe ling of truth. -Ambassador Dawes was instructed instruct-ed to go to the league meeting. WHAT Germany can and will do and what she . ask the other powers to do for her continue con-tinue of absorbing interest to the world; The reich' Then, of course, Carol, cannot full to. remember his own affairs Wythe .past. Prince Nicholas, who. Is twenty-eight years old, accompanied his mother. Queen Murle, and. the Princess lleana on their tour of America In 1020. OBSERVANCE of Armistice daj was the occasion of Innumerable Innumer-able ceremonies and addresses In all parts of the country,' and in the lands of the allied nations as well, president Hoover, of course, led our nation In observing the day, . In the morning, accompanied by General Pershing, Secretary of War Hurley and Secretary of the Navy Adams, he' went to Arlington cemetery and laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. At eleven o'clock, the hour symbolic of the ending of the war, the President was In West Potomac park, where he dedicnted the beautiful marble temple which the people of Washington . have built as a memorial to the soldiers who went from the District of Columbia. Co-lumbia. In the afternoon Mr. Hoover Hoo-ver paid a visit to the old frigate Constitution at the Washington navy yard. . Ceneral Pershing and American Legion officials participated in a commemorative program In the Evening, Eve-ning, and the Carnegie endowment for International Dence held a ni isa . ''.'"", to participate.' In a Senator.. Norrls bd,, . radK.algl from the G. O. P.-ticket that presumably pre-sumably will be, put up next summer. sum-mer. . Here are few of the things the Nebraskan said: "If we are to keep men employed why discharge them? It may be necessary In some instances for private pri-vate Industry to reduce Its employment.- hut there Is no Justification for the government .discharging workers.- "... ... .... . "If we expect Industry to keep men at work the government ought to set an example, because the government. gov-ernment. Is the largest employer In the nation. ' L favor a. bond Issue to cover the emergency and provide work for the unemployed. I do not favof bond Issues In peace times, but this Is an emergency 'tantamount 'tanta-mount to war conditions. I mean a bQPd Issue, not to provide cjiarr lty. but to provide Jobs , by road building and other federal construction. construc-tion. Instead of fighting over the dole the government ought to provide pro-vide work for Its Jobless' citizens." Concerning the world eourt ' Senator Sen-ator Norrls said: "I shall .favor American, adherence only .lf,a reservation res-ervation .is . adopted requiring the senate's approval before any controversial contro-versial issue.' Involving the United States, may be submitted to the court for decision." . meeting which , was addressed .by Houston Thompson and Frederic ;R. Coudert WILLIAM L. EDISON, second ton of the late Thomas A. Edison, Ed-ison, who Intends to contest the great Inventor's will, Issued ' a statement at Wil- tand on disarmament disarma-ment was set forth by Gen. Wllhelm Groener, the brilliant bril-liant soldier, who is now minister of war and minister of the Interior and who may succeed Von Hlndenbnrg as president "Germany has the If? pi DEATH, having . removed , from . the senate the forcible and pic-, turesque Thaddeus II. Caraway of Arkansas, . the Democrats of that state are considering the choice of his successor. The suggestion has been made and well received, that the senator's widow, Mrs.: .Hattle Caraway, be , nominated, to fill.. out the unexpired terra. This would be tantamount to her election. Mrs. Caraway Is said to be willing to accept ac-cept the office. She Is a close student stu-dent of public affairs and' has been charming and popular, hostes In the Lord Baltimore mansion, a colonial colo-nial : home Just over on. the Maryland. Mary-land. I'ne bear Washington. COMING back to the supposed opposition op-position in the Republican ranks to th renominatlon of President Hoover, which If It exists will probably prob-ably be: futile. It Is mlngton, Del In which he said be believed Interests opposed to him are trying to establish the Impression that he was not always on' friendly terms with bis father. As proof that this Is untrue he pointed out that wheu both f , 'i Hi i sum t nff '- 'f lfw'' Vrjffc astnkknWl' Interesting to note that Senator Hiram W. Johnson of Cat Ifornla Is going to visit Chicago for the purpose of find Ing out what sup port he would receive re-ceive In Illinois If he became a candidate. candi-date. Some of the Republican leaders right to the same Gen Gror-treatment Gror-treatment as all other nation!," General Groener' said. "She Is entitled to the same security and to the same methods of disarmament as other nations. It was expressly guaranteed In 1919 that the other powers would follow the path Germany took when she was disarmed. "When we disarmed we were forbidden for-bidden to possess heavy artillery, tanks, war planes, submarines, and warships over 10.000 tons. Even anti-aircraft artillery was prohibited. prohib-ited. Military conscription was forbidden, for-bidden, and Germany was instructed, instruct-ed, even to the slightest detail, on bow to organize her army. "Therefore we object to the drafts of the disarmament agreement as worked out by the preparatory disarmament dis-armament commission at Geneva. It Is a violation of tbe principle of the equality of nations if It trie to make eternal the difference between had perfected like w E(Jteon radio equipment be (William) did not market his set In opposition to his father's even though it was patented. ; " "I have had the highest refeard: for every member of my father" family," he said, "and never since his second marriage has there Been a single Instance of unpleasantness either with my stepmother or. any of my full or half sisters and brothers. broth-ers. "Until the conditions of my,, father's fa-ther's will and codicil were revealed no disagreement of Importance ever had come between us. Even now I do not Intend to allow the case to degenerate-Into, attacks on. personalities." per-sonalities." Edison's will left tbe bulk of tie estate to Charles and Theodore Edison, Edi-son, the two youngest sons. & 1131 Waatwa Ntwniiw Onloa.) of the city and , . - i x 4. u Sen. Johnson state said they would give the matter serious thought, and they were rather of the opinion that Johnson might be approved ap-proved by all or part of the Illinois delegation In tbe convention. They |