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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Two Italians Fly From Roma to Brazil, Establishing . New Distance Record. By EDWARD W. PICKARD TWO Italian aviators, Captain Fer rarin and Major Del Prete, starting from Rome in a Fiat-motored Savoia monoplane, headed for South America on a nonstop flight, reached Brazil In safety, establishing a new record. When they landed near Port Natal they had flown about 4.4S5 miles, bettering bet-tering the distance record of 3,909 miles made by Chamberlin and Levlue - by about 576 miles. These aviators already held the duration flight record rec-ord of 5S hours, 38 minutes and 20 seconds. When the flyers passed over St. Vincent, Cape Verde islands, approximately ap-proximately 3.000 miles from Rome, they had been up 22 hours with the remarkable re-markable average of more than 135 miles an hour. They made the 1.G00 miles from there across the south Atlantic At-lantic ocean at almost equal speed On the way they were In radio communication com-munication with the steamship Phllarus and said all was well with them. The flight was made under the auspices of the Italian military aviation service. ONE of the extraordinary tragedies of aviation occurred last week over the North sea. Capt. Alfred Loew-enstein, Loew-enstein, world-famous Belgian financier finan-cier and rated as one of the wealthiest men in the world, disappeared from his Fokker plane in which he was crossing from Croydon, England, to Brussels. It was believed that he had mistaken the door by which passengers passen-gers left the plane for the one to the washroom, and, opening the former, stepped off into space and fell Into the sea. Loewenstein's wealth was estimated to be only less than that of Henry Ford and the Rockefellers. He controlled steamship lines, was one of the chief stockholders in the Belgian railway system, owned manganese man-ganese Iron mines In Silesia, steel furnaces In the north of Spain, coal properties in the Saar basin anil in the Ruhr, nnd Immense rubber plantation's In the Congo Two years Hgo he startled the world by offering the Hel gian government a loan of $5( M : 10.000 for two years without Interest In order or-der that the Helgian franc might be stabilized. The oiler was refused Shortly after this lie offered to lend France a like amount at interest of 2 per cent. Quite recently Captain Loewenstein spent several weeks in the United States and ('lunula on business, traveling most of the time by airplane He was an enthusiast on aviation anil owned a number of big plane? which were equipped with office desks anil carried a staff of secretaries so he could work while Hying. Immediately after the capitalist's disappearance was reported there were rumors that he had committed suicide because of financial embarrassment embar-rassment following his recent failures to obtain large loans. These stories were denied and were succeeded by reports that he was secretly landed In France ' from his plane and had been met by an automobile which took him to a place of retreat On Euro pean stock exchanges the l.oewens-tein shares fell rapidly SECRET A It OF CO.MMKHCE HOOVER spent Independence day In rest and quiet recreation, but gave up the rest of the week to prepara tlons for his departure from Washington, Washing-ton, winding up with a conference on Saturday with prominent eastern lie-publicans lie-publicans for the purpose of establish Ing a campaign organization In that section of the country. It was an nounced thai Mr. Hoover would de liver his resignation from the cabinet to President Cooiidge at the summer White House on the Brule river. Fur ther than that his plans were not made public. Ills notification and speech of acceptance will he made In California, the first week In August Governor Smith made two speeches on the Fourth of July, one at Tammany Tam-many hall and the other from the steps of the city hall In New York city, but In both of them he avoided partisan politics, making only passing allusion to his nomination for the Presidency. Then he went to Albany to attend to state business. His plans called for a campaign conference with Senator Robinson, his running mate, and the Democratic national committee this week. Governor Smith also will be notified of his nomination early in August, and it is asserted that in his. speech of acceptance he will make a further pronouncement on his position in the matter of prohibition. Until then he declined to reply to Josephus Daniels, who, while calling on all Democrats Dem-ocrats to support Smith, said Al had not been given any leadership by the Democratic party to seek to change the Volstead act and that any attempts at-tempts to weaken the prohibition laws must be fought In congress. Ernest H. Cherrington, general secretary sec-retary of the World League Against Alcohol and a leader in the Anti-Saloon Anti-Saloon league, lssoied a summons to all friends of prohibition to unite against Smith, asserting that the country coun-try faces "what promises to be the greatest 'wet and dry' battle that the nation has ever seen." National Prohibition Pro-hibition party chiefs seemed to be at outs as to the party's national convention conven-tion called for July 10 and 11 in Chicago. Chi-cago. Some desired to nominate some prominent dry Democrat, preferably from the South, while others believed it would be best to Indorse Hoover. The Anti-Saloon league, scheduled to hold a convention in Asheville, N. C, at the same time, was said not to be co-operating at all with( the Prohibition Prohibi-tion party. If there is dissension among the drys. there is still greater disagreement disagree-ment among the men who profess to be the leaders of the Middle-West farmers. Gov. Adam McMullen, Republican, Re-publican, of Nebraska; George N. Peek, chairman of the corn belt committee com-mittee formed in 1920, and some others declared the Democratic plank on farm relief was satisfactory to agriculturists agricultur-ists and far superior to the Republican plank, and they predicted the corn belt farmers would vote for Smith. A counterblast came promptly from Senator Sen-ator Brookhart and Governor Ham-mill Ham-mill of Iowa, who accused Peek of double crossing Lmvden nnd denied the assertions that the farmers were going Democratic. Meanwhile men who think they know the mind of the farmer, continue to assert that those who have been Republicans In the past will support Hoover, and those who have been Democratic will cast their votes for Smith JEAN LAUSSLER. thirty-six years old, a French Canadian salesman from Springfield, Mass., .achieved notoriety no-toriety nnd perhaps fame last week by going over Niagara falls In a rubber and steel ball designed by himself. Taken from the river a few hundred feet below the cataract, he was found to he uninjured beyond a few bruises on face and shoulders. He was the third person to perform this feat and live. The others were Bobble I. each and Annie Edson Taylor, both of whom performed the stunt In barrels. Lnus-sier's Lnus-sier's rubber ball was eleven feet In diameter. Inside the outer covering was a canvas lining. Then came a steel framework and another canvas lining, and Inside all a harness-like arrangement In which the occupant strapped himself. He carried in tanks enough "oxygen to keep him alive forty hou rs. GERMANY'S model of a treaty for strengthening the means of preventing pre-venting war was adopted by the committee com-mittee on security and arbitration of the League of Nations In Geneva, nnd was ordered sent to all governments In preparation for a general discussion of the subject at the September assembly assem-bly of the league. The essence of the so called German treaty Is that the nations will hind themselves In advance ad-vance to accept the recommendations of the league council In the case of a threat of war and to refrain from measures likely to aggravate the dispute. dis-pute. Its object Is the same as- that of the proposed Kellogg pact namely: the outlawry of war. CHIEF feature of the celebration of the Fourth of July by Americans In Paris was the dedication of Hie beautiful triumphal arch. In Pare VII leneuve L'Ktang In memory of 07 young American members of the La fayette Escadrille who fell In the service serv-ice of France". Paul Painleve, min- ' Ister of war, delivered the address to i a. great throng that Included Anibas- j sador Herrick, Marshal Foch and other notables. Ten French army planes -j droned overhead and as the last salute - was fired and taps blown, tribute was ' paid to each grave In the marble-lined i crypt, where the dead birdmen lie four j by four In the order In which they fell. ; . . Americans In Shanghai had as a j part of their celebration a Wild West ! rodeo given by the marines, the first j ever ' seen In the Orient. Czecho- j Slovakia made the day, which was also the tenth anniversary of Its own In- dependence, the occasion for the dedl- '! cation of a monument to Woodrow j Wilson in Prague. i CROATIA'S threats of demanding : complete separation from Serbia i because of the killing of two Croatian deputies In the parliament resulted In ' the resignation of the Yugo-Slavian 1 government. The king began negotia- ' tions with party leaders with a view ' to forming a coalition government that would satisfy the demands of Croatia, j Bosnia and Herzegovina fo; equal rep- , resentation with Serbia. Italy an- ! nounced that she would refuse to ac- . i cept the ratification of the disputed ! Nettuno treaty unless it was approved by the Croatian deputies. ENCOURAGEMENT of foreign lm- J migration and capital are the N 1 aims of a bill drawn up by officials of 1 the Mexican government for the pur- - j pose of rehabilitating Mexican' national na-tional finances. The measure has been ! approved by President Calles and also ( by Aivaro Obregon, who was unan- i, imously elected President of the re- public. The proposed law throws overboard over-board most of the disabilities of for- eigners and foreign capital. General " j Obregon's election was unopposed, as- he was the sole surviving candidate. -, His supporters will be in control of j the senate, chamber of deputies and ; state legislatures. J HERMANN MUELLER, the new So- ;.' ciaiist chancellor of Germany, announced an-nounced to the reichstag that Germany V Is ready for a final discussion of her y full reparation debts. "The Dawes plan j has been carried out for almost four j years and has prepared the ground for j a definite settlement." Chancellor Muel- j ler stated. "The exact date of the ' final agreement remains vague, but matters have progressed so far that j all mirties concerned are convinced : Unit a definite debt settlement Is not ,j only desirable, but also possible." j In stating his policies HeiT Mueller t said: "We will give up all thought of : j revenge. This Is the foundation of our policy, and starting from this stand- 1 point we shall endeavor to reconquer '. for Germany the same rights that ; other nations have " -- - i,; YOUNG CHANG HSUEH-LIANG, j son of the late Marshal Chang, has 4 succeeded to the dictatorship of Man- churia and has made overtures to the ' Nationalist leaders at Peking looking j to the unification of China. General ', Chaing Kai-shek, commander of the t Nationalist armies, says that Nanking 4 will become the capital of the country i Immediately, even If the foreign dip- i lomnts should refuse to move there. REVISED but unofficial figures give first place In the International balloon bal-loon race, which started from Detroit, to the United State? army balloon, with the French bag Bianchard second and the German balloon Barmen third. The bags all landed In Virginia. West j Virginia nnd North Carolina. J-., REHABILITATION of ilb-abled j World war veterans, as a govern- j. uii'tit activity, came to an end last week when the last of the 12S,.riOO men j who have been trained to be self-sup- J porting, or nearly so, at n total cost j of more than $000,000,000. received their ; diplomas. The number of men who i took advantage of the training offered " them far exceeded the original estimates. esti-mates. A total of 334.-194 applied for the benefits offered them before .lime 30. lO'J.'S and of these 2I0.-131 were rated as entitled to full courses. Out . .. , of the latter number. 5S.S73 il,ipped j out. Besides paying for tuition ami : books, the government provided $od a month for single men and $1:15 a f month for married men with additional j allowances for other dependi-tiis 1 I I |