Show news review of current rent events the world over 0 ver france and italy reach agreement as to their naval na i va strength seventy first cengr congress ess 1 comes to an end r ey by EDWARD W PICKARD MATS ii n 1 I DIPLOMATS wol k inn flig steadily und per brou brought ht about an ain accord ix ailt between va 1 d it ian 4 ay 1 on the lie titi question estion oil or of if r relative e in I 1 I 1 v e n naval it a I 1 tile able result will mill lie he unit tile three power lon ln d ilon ninvill funty 1111 become 0 o tile it a he power A henderson 1 pact iclet tims thus tile the I 1 french bench and ans will gle up the iden of Bt starting arting a building pro grard tillit would compel grent great britain to increase tier her naval forces under the escil oscillator latOr of the treat and the lie united states and japan would ho he relieved of the fatir that their relative strength would not be without a lively resumption of building arthur british foreign was most active in tile the final stags of the negotiations between france and italy making trips to home and carls purls lind Is given credit for ex cellena work vork nut but it la Is admitted that the groundwork forthe for the agreement was laid by hugh S gibson american ambassador bassa bas dorto to belgium who for several months hot had been laboring to bring tle the desp ute io to an end acting under per contil orders order from president Il hoover tie ne held a series of private talks mussolini Tard lexi briand and others and tron transmitted d their various propos tits to rome home and parts paris and finally to the british tile the financial end of the accord consists n a long term lonn loan to italy tp to be ninde made by french arid ard aberion vail bomers ers which vill really he be a lr debt i uni in disguise the lias in cist governa government ent will receive perline three and i a half finif billion fallers fal lors which sum it la Is said will save cave italy from froin bankruptcy and put tile the countrymon coun country tryon on Us its feet specifically the loan will he ased to retire and convert concert internal debt obligations of which alch fen fell due on october 1 last mus soUn ls previous efforts to obtain long terin tonne jonns from american and french froncki bankers had failed because largely of tile I 1 naval dispute desput e with Fron frnnces cee wile while the terms of tile the franco ital ton ian agreement were temporarily with held field from the public it was learned in paris that it provides that french naval superiority over italy be reduced from tons to tons most of the reduction coming from projected submarines and super mor lpes it U wits waa agreed dint the hattleR battleship tun ton tinge nage allotted at the lie washington conference would not be used worships for ships of more than tons france ob tolled the right to bu build three 2 WU flo ton vessels of the super abier cruiser type in return for superiority in oi 01 totals total tonnage it la 19 believed thal france gives italy a slight superiority in light cruisers and torpedo dest deal lovers but retains supremacy in rines it t was understood that italy tit banded the sacrifice of super soper ones alnes iti in the french program and thin that france franca roade made tile the concession because its its coastal submarines are sufficient for its present needs france and italy jt Is understood agreed on parity in n ton cruisers LEGAL prod proceedings edings are under way in washington in the contest between president hoover and the over oer ohp right W of of chairman george the power commission to hill hald that office and the senate Is represented represent if by J john ohn W davi A who wits was ei condl n d 1 date 1 a e for tile the john ohn w baws presidency in 1124 lie he was for tile the joh ht by ft subcommittee 1 the ali judiciary committee composed of sn ator norris will galsti tit and the proceedings are expected to at an other chapter to the history of tut lonal clashed 1111 between tWeen the riem tive n and nd legislative branc hes lica of the so wrather WITH itic a filibuster in n the senate rind rather uproarious hilety celety in tile he bou house sethe the beeney first cattle came to an end at noon marra march 4 during Us its life it carried out fairly well pres program pro graro 0 of f legislation despite frequent clashes with the chief executive since lust last december it 1 li 11 1 unnecessary to recount for every eiery one Is aunill e ida with thon in only two major of at le nomination of judge parker to the supreme court and the recent veterans lete runs bantis lonn act was the he resident defeated the important items of during file third bession included these liese annual appropriation billyj carrying liny ing more than alinn construction program ama providing for speeding up op public work hicle including ding rivers and har vors construction jt and ri other federal improvements for drought stalk stricken en areas in eluding for foot food loans pro pio I 1 bided vided in measures embodying a fg loan fund for rural sanitation activities and of unexpended balances in funds for relief of flood stricken states program of federal public building construction increased by series of unemployment relief mens measures enacted contemplating federal census long term planning of public construction to meet and federal operation cooperation co o in unemployment agency gency ji activities additional soldier hospit till antion fa afforded in program naval modernization bill author lz log ing to remodel ren battleships louisiana idaho and now new mexico to meet standards prescribed by the 1022 1922 washington arnis arms coneff cone frence ence ilie seventy first congress earned th the one distinction of being the heaviest spending s pent ling of all pence peace time congresses in all it appropriated approximately proxImately tip for government uses lip YOU are a re to take 1 the word of henry 0 11 curran president of tile t II 11 e association against prohibition a majority of the peo V pie of the Uni united tet 1 states are now ready and willing to vole for the repeal of the eighteenth n amend m e n d ment in tits his annual report to the directors H H curran and members of the association mr air C curran arran declared that the dry cause had not advanced an inch during MO 1030 while the wet movement had registered important gains lie ile asserted that the ane november election doubled the wel we representation in the house and raised tile the senate wet group from 15 two years ago to 22 at present ile he said the house now hns has a wet vote of IGO compared 70 76 it in 1028 1928 of agriculture hyde denies that bets he s to blame for deiy in distributing tile the drought relief fund in a letter reply 11 ing ig to ti a resolution introduced by sen sell ator caraway asking why mr air alyde ila and not the distribution the he secretary said 1 I have the honor to inform the senate that because of the exten extended oed dehate upon the appropriation of au 1 1 contained in the interior de parturient bill bili and because of the uncertainty as to the provisions of the MCI it was not possible to work out the administration and accounting llis en entailed until the net afis was finally passed lind and its provisions den deft known lie explained the he machinery which the department lind hild set up in ordet order to distribute loans through adi ate credit organizations nian t ions and directly I 1 tr to tile i lie former I 1 1 there exists now no reason why for loans ottay duay not now be ond and payment made shortly tit grentier he be concluded M 1 1 I it alph royce j jl l of the lie aminy air I 1 airi in 11 i 1 I n 1 I 1 eil dl 0 on n t the it e on an that lie ham been awarded the lie ifrid limy trophy for q ak ll alil il this Is in of tile hie arctic parl pl rl vit lie he aeji lel through li severe winter from sell oldee field michigan to wash and major laor royce oyce return in fit january Jitni ary 1030 it w was u 3 a se vee ve e test of the lie skill anti and sta stamina fill D a of the pilots and the stability of the pt pannes anes and wits Success successfully tully carried through uRh I 1 I 1 N ITS closing days the congress en 1 acted tile the muscle shouts shoals legislation which would put glut the government into the power business but president elit hoover vetoed the measure sending in a long ond and well argued beasa message the senate sustained tile the vajo arto the vote be ang ah to 34 14 awl airl ws dead mr air hoover hail pre lie would be licensed of favoring the power trust jand arid hlin of accuse jilin of til adhe incident it was it certain that the power would lie be one of the roa ma of the next 11 presidential resIdential valli cam mr also failed to algia the ill bill for federal operation cooperation co with will all the 1 q in e 14 i na system of inal cli iDge at etis unde understood od h couii 1 Iio eLet veto whai lid aig tle 11 hus number abe of ills his vetoes to n C SIAN told the dem dl committee at its r geeting washington 64 il nebout the act y hin tuo I 1 tile the party B tild dot ask ic tilon bi on 61 m t until n t eria eri 1 1 x meeting tit I 1 eting dry brym ers ato I 1 41 ni it vigorously opposed ed et s 1 0 4 9 v asor ey es 1 or any of batie by tie it was decided of led thata 1 campaign fund should 1 Z OW bid for the general contract 1 LOW L on the tie hoover lak arad ii rid power lf l f plant in boulder ca canyon yon haq submitted in denver benver by it on of western construction slie SIX companies Compan ls inc of san francisco and ilie lie government engineers recommend ed that tills this bid of be accepted by ehnry of the interior wllbur work gri on the project the biggest engineering joh job ever undertaken in this country hlll be started before the end oil 0 alarca f rby NE of it the jhb S eminent engineers odthe of the american army and indeed of the alou pass passed efon on wile when gen edgar jad win ret retired ired chief of 5 y the army engineering corps and chairman of tile the antero cean canal commission died at for florgan hospital in city while in gen jadwyn ancon allcon go to nicaragua lo 10 survey the possibilities of H n I 1 banat lie he offs was stricken 4 with apoplexy nod and a cerebral hemorrhage milded hla him life general irdwin who wits aa born in lo ial in 1805 1865 was graduated bom from west point in 1890 and hod find a brilliant career in the engineering corps for nearly forty years retiring in 1029 lie served in the spanish american war and the world war but wits was bist bed known know for tits peacetime work in the he knitel united states prid in the cinal canal zone zohe the jadwin plan of flood control for mulched mulcted after the disastrous valley floods of 1027 1927 was the army officers most Import important tint work the plan called for expenditure of and was opposed in congress but finally passed with administration support LORD IRWIN and M mn a V VICEROY chatma Gand lil both making concessions ces reached till nn agreement for pence peace in india and the civil disobedience movement that hit tind lusted histed tor for it year came caine to an end the nationalists looked on the part pact ns as a triumph for the doctrine oi of nonviolence non violence the brit ish government though it yields considerable sid erable probably gets none the corat of the barg bargain nin by the 0 of f the agreement it Is understood afie no na ah lindon their reM stance movement and will work for qualified dominion status in the second round table conference in return their imprisoned pris nned routhers mou illen will he released roasts ed and fid most of the p will he returned i they fire are permitted to conduct boycotts t s that do not aim almste specifically at british goods and the he poor natives tile the are given th the e tight right to maka their own salt the most important gain for the afie british wits the point in which the ahe nationalists agreed to confine the themselves M at the next round mund table conference to the specified scope of constitutional quest questions lons elucidated by the tha birst round table nw meeting eting in london this commits gandhi to the prinell ite of a federation of indian responsibility hut but with british safeguards C covering 0 ve finance defense foreign a affairs tile the position of minorities and the discharge of andins s national debts enathio arthur cappers commit S tee on oil food prices reported that i I 1 it t found nn an ula alarming tendency to ward toward the khe monopolistic control of the food of the nation by a small group of powerful corporations and coni combination bIna the lend ten doicy tricy being especially strong in tile the east case of bread and tulek A careful scrutiny by the federal trails trade commission and the department of justice was recommended TWO WO new governments within it a week for P peru crul first a navy group forced sanchez cerro torie to nelgo sign und and named chief justice ricardo ellas ila ii provisional president then along I 1 came a bubich of officers anti and trompa loyal to cerro and out went ella an and d ills his friends the new army junta was headed by col gustave jemc jammer n er M 1931 newspaper ullon |