| Show news review of current events event s the world over al smith willing will ing to accept presidential nomination again developments in shanghai war Di disarmament sarin plans submitted to conference by EDWARD W PICKARD S SHOULD the democratic party as aa represented by the national convention in chicago so desire alfred 1 EX smith Is willing to be again its can didace for the presidency that was the statement put out by the former governor of new york and for a few days its reverberations berat be lons d drowned r 0 w n e d out the roar of japans guns at shang hat hal in this country declaring t that h a t h he e owed it to his friends to make clear his po mitlon mr air smiths A al I 1 smith statement continued if the democratic national convention after careful consideration should decide that it wants me to lend lead I 1 will make the fight but I 1 will not make a campaign to secure the support of delegates by action of the democratic national convention of 1928 1 I am the leader of my party in ID the nation with a full sense of the responsibility thereby imposed I 1 shall not no in advance of the convention either support or oppose the candidacy of any aspirant for the nomination to the reporters the ex governor said 1 I dont know how I 1 can stop anybody who wants wanta to do anything for me no I 1 wont stop them that would be biting off more than I 1 could chew 11 political wiseacres wise acres immediately assume that mr smiths statement meant he had bad joined the stop roosevelt movement that the new york delegation would be split up that the nomination of the present governor of the empire state would be difficult to bring about if not impossible and that there would be a deadlock in the convention comparable to that in the democratic national gathering in new york fork city nearly eight years ago supporters of mr roosevelt Hoo sevelt refused to be discouraged and began to redouble their efforts republican leaders expressed their quiet delight in the situation believing it enhanced the chances of success for their party in november then came a new development that left the prophets all up in the air mr smith made an unannounced arlt friendly adly call on governor roosevelt in albany the first in a long time and after he left the governor emerged all smiles declining to say anything about the conversation that had been held the guessers guessels gu essers then guessed that mr anth had agreed to throw his bis support to mr roosevelt at the earl earliest opportunity and had bad been promised a position in the cabinet ff 1 the governor becomes president R by the arrival of a large contingent of army troops the japanese kept up their attack on chapel native quarter ot of shanghai and the woosung W 0 0 s a n g forts and village but the chinese defending forces also were strengthened and their resistance was surprising to neutral observers they refused to be driven from chapel though it was a region regio of battered ruins and the garrison of the woosung forts held out under admiral an almost continuous ruin rain of shells that smashed against their mud walls and blew up their ammunition stores the apparent object of the japanese was to silence the forts and land troops there tor for an advance on shanghai Shan from the north but for the time this was prevented by chinese artillery and machine gu gun n nests and barbed wire entanglements entangle ments vice admiral Nich isaburo the new commandant of the japanese naval forces tn in the shanghai area arrived at the scene of conflict and talked diplomatically of his intention to prevent further trouble and settle the matters as quickly as possible in 16 operation cooperation co with the representatives of other countries another japanese adal admiral rat shimada mada explained that the failure of the japanese forces to occupy chapel and woosung was due to a desire to keep the japanese casualties down to a minimum shells from the chapel battle area frequently fell in the international settlement tl and protests of tho the powers were unavailing as usual the american thirty first regiment went on duty pat patrolling roling ng a part of shanghai enot EVENTS VENTS fi iff flapan japan showed there ther waa ewas not complete unanimity concerning the governments policy students at the imperial ver alty in tokyo were arrested for participating tiel in a demonstration in which handbills hand bills were distributed urging the people to stop this imperialistic warl the demonstration was believed if ved to be the first protest against the military operations in china since the manchurian Manc hurlan campaign began junnosuke inouye financier alb eral statesman and leader of the Min opposition bartys campaign for the general election february 20 was assassinated by a youth youth indirectly connected with the reactionary patriotic elements ele menta responsible for most of the recent political murders VARIOUS jr ARIOUS schemes for the restoration T of peaceful conditions in shanghai were put forward during the week and either discarded or taken under consideration dr NV IV yen again 1 appealed 11 xai k 1 ak 1 i to the council of the league of nations to check japan and received a scolding from the president of the council joseph paul boncoeur because he had not strictly observed the rule v laid down for 0 o complainants S said a I 1 d joseph paul tho frenchman 1 I boncoeur would like to remind the delegate from china that the statement he has made does not replace the full statement of his case with all the relevant facts and paper which are required under article XV of the covenant the article under which he himself appealed to the council yen submitted quietly to the rebuke but doctor allu chinese minister to berlin jumped up angrily you other powers are siding with japan he cried cited because you are afraid of being kicked out yourself you want your share of the trade if you dont be careful be kicked out all of you into the sea I 1 ETTING down to business the GETTING disarmament conference in geneva heard set forth the views of bf all the great powers andre tardley on an behalf of france pro posed that the league of nations be provided with an armed force to enforce peace on the world and emphasized pha sized the french refusal to disarm without security assurances suran su ces for G great reat britain sir john simon I 1 offered a cisar disarmament plan include including abolition of submarines hugh gibson and gas and chemical warfare and he criticized the french proposals the united states came next and ambassador gibson made a fine speech submitting a program summarized thus by the state department the american government advocates consideration of the draft convention as containing the outlines for a convenient basis for discussion while expressing its entire willingness to give full consideration to any supplementary tary proposals calculated to invoke the end we all seek we suggest the possibility of prolonging the existing naval agreements concluded at washington and london and we advocate completing the latter as soon as possible by the adherence of france and italy we advocate proportional reduction from the figures laid down in the washington and london agreements agre ments on naval tonnage us as soon as all parties to the washington agreement have entered this framework we advocate as we long have hav done edone the total abolition of submarines we will join in formulating the most effective measures to protect civilian population against aerial bombing we advocate the total abolition of lethal gases and bacteriological warfare we advocate as aa I 1 have already stated the computation of the number of armed forces on the basis of the effectives necessary tor for the maintenance of internal order plus some suitable contingent for defense the former are obviously impossible of reduction the latter Is 1 a question of relativity we agree in advocating special restrictions strict ions tor for tanks and heavy mobile guns in other words worda for or those arms of a peculiarly arly offensive character we are prepared to consider a limitation of expenditure on material as a complementary method to direct t limitation feeling that it may jerove useful to prevent a qualitative race it if and when quantitative limitation has been effected chancellor Bruen bruening trig for germany made a demand adamand tor equality in fight ing forces dino grandl told of all the war tools that italy was prepared to scrap and was loudly applauded and ambassador assured the conference than japan Is as ever in the cause of disarmament EDGAR WALLACE british author aa of some noven novela and plays most i of them mystery ib thrillers rillers died in hollywood calif of pneumonia aft after r two weeks illness mr wallace afes wag perhaps the most prolific writer of the time and nearly nea y all his bootes and plays were successes actions A unit in n tile tho alous economic program was brought forward when at the In stanro of resident ll hoover a 0 bill was introduced in loth both senate and house to revise tile tho fundamental portions c of J the federal federa I 1 reserve act with a view to increasing the amount of money in circulation cu thereby stimulating credit forcing down the value of the dollar and sending up commodity prices leaders of both parties had given the measure their approval and it was introduced trod by senator glass and representative senta tive both democrats the tha bill it was vas explained may be expected to accomplish the following results ic it makes A 1 increase tn in currency theoretically possible it may release close to a billion dollars of 0 the federal reserve systems free gold for use as the basla basis of new credit it will make eligible for rediscount billions of dollars in paper not eligible under present regulations P XI who had just celebrated the tenth anniversary of tits elevation to the papal throne received on thursday tits his first visit from premier mussolini the day was chosen because it was the third anniversary of the signing of the treaty and concordat and nominally the duce failed to thank tho the pope for tile the award of knighthood of the golden S spar amr which made mussolini Musso lint a defender of the catholic falth faith the interview between these two strong men who really admire each other took place in the popes private library j and was behind closed doors but the alie premier in full uniform was received at the vatican with all the pomp usually accorded to visiting royalty accompanied compa com panted nied by tits ills chief ministers he was greeted by the governor of vatican city and the councillor general after passing through tho ilie streets of the papal city which were cleared or of all but the swiss guards jap cp in the senate A tried to prevent the confirmation of ira ff ornburn democrat of connecticut as a ro member ember of the tariff commission norris led the attack and after a sharp interchange between him and moses tho the senate went into executive session to discuss charges against Orn burna burns fitness the pro gres gressl ves then were routed the ap being confirmed by a vote of 70 to 9 0 president flooder sent to the senate hla his appointment of joseph 0 grew to be ambassador to japan it Is expected mr grew will go to tokyo in a few weeks for ambassador F forbes has desired to retire for several months CRISP of representative georgia acting chairman of the house ways and means committee says revised estimates by the treasury i department show the new tax bill now under consideration must raise a total of in additional revenue if the budget Is to be balanced by the end of the fiscal year 1933 As a result the committee expects to find it necessary to broaden the tax base to a far greater degree than had heretofore been contemplated the imposition of a general sales ordes tax of some sort Is considered well within the realm of possibilities PRESIDENT HOOVERS campaign to put an end to the hoarding 0 of f anoney money in the united states as an effective means for the restoration of bf confidence and prosperity is now under way with col frank knox knor publisher of the chicago dally news as its director ground work for the movement was laid at a conference of GO 00 civic leaders they pledged the support of 2000 j members of ori they r rep lt esis resented col rank frank citizens willing to put slacker dolla dollars r knox nox to work are urged by the treasury and reconstruction finance corporation corp gra officials to invest in ufa life insurance and trust funds federal reserve and high administration osvals ahu ohu bals also have suggested the transfer of hoarded money to postal savings accounts and government bonds these types of investment ac aze con safe and certain no money has been lost in postal savings or government bonds and insurance according to one treasury official aL offers a safe Invest investment meril over a long period with attractive returns in 1030 1930 was invested in the united states in insurance none of this money according to a careful check has been rosl 0 ONES NE of the count rys most sensational murder cases came to a 2 close when a jury in phoenix araz arl brought in a verdict of guilty guilt against sirs mrs winnie ruth judd accused of killing dismembering dismember ing and shipping in trunks her friends mrs le rol hol and miss lindvig samuelson the jury fixed the womans comans punishment at death mrs judds only defense was a plea of insanity and this the jurors disregarded U UPRISINGS along alone the indian india frontier and in kashmir have be came so threatening that as a friendly friend IY gesture toward great ErIt britain aln orders orden have bare been issued for the mobilization of the turkish army also the array army I 1 of persia was waa mobilized the persian minister at kabul abtil explaining that a tribal combination against t angland was imminent PU paid tbt tb t afghanistan might be jockeyed info it 1 Q 1132 western newspaper lalon Lc lon 4 |
