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Show Ik '4 1 Vice President Dawes delivering address at congressional funeral services for the late Representative Representa-tive Madden of Illinois. 2 German-Irish transatlantic aviators spreading their flags over grave of Floyd Bennett at Arlington. 3 General view of New York's reception to crew of the Bremen as the parade reached city hall. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Smith's Victory in California Califor-nia Seems to Make Nomination Nom-ination Certain. By EDWARD W. PICKARD UNLESS most of the political prophets proph-ets are sadly fooled, California last week settled the Democratic national convention at Houston, so far as the Presidential nomination is concerned. Few of them now venture any other prediction than that Al Smith has the prize all wrapped up, and It is generally gen-erally believed that the rush to get into the band wagon will result in the nomination of the New York governor tn the first ballot, probably by acclamation. accla-mation. The California primary was admittedly a test for Smith, for Me-Adoo Me-Adoo strove to lead the dry Democrats of his state into the Walsh camp, and Senator Reed also was a live contender for the preference vote. But McAdoo fell clown so badly that the Montana senator ran third, Reed standing in lecond place. Smith's victory was decisive, de-cisive, his vote being greater than the combined votes of the other two. With most of the preclucts heard from, the result in round numbers was: Smith, 133,000; Reed, 5S.0O0; Walsh, 46,000. Of the 58 counties, all but one were won by Smith. Imperial county was claimed for Reed. Former Senator James D. Phelan, head of the Smith delegation, has displaced McAdoo as the Democratic leader of California. The wets rejoiced in the apparent fact that the state had joined the wet col-mn, col-mn, but Dr. Arthur H. Briggs, head of the California Anti-Saloon league, asserted the wet and dry issue was Dot a determining factor in the fight. Smith's delegates to Houston now number 497, this total including 157 nninstrueted but known to favor him. He is expected to garner about 140 more in the next few weeks and to EO into the convention with at least S35 votes. His managers believe the Dliio and Maryland delegations will be uick to shift to Smith, and that many )f the Reed delegates also will climb nto the band wagon promptly. Wilbur Legette of California, state manager for Reed, asked Josephus Daniels by wire if he would run for rice president on a third pa-rty ticket leaded by Senator Reed or Senator Borah. Mr. Danivls replied that he would not accept a nomination on any Ihlrd party ticket, and declared the inly hope of wresting the government h-om the hands of "privilege and corruption" cor-ruption" lies in a victory by the Dem-cratic Dem-cratic party. He said he intended to rupport the nominees of the Houston convention and believed enough dry Democrats would be elected to con-tress con-tress to guarantee no weakening of the prohibition laws. Claude G. Bowers, an editorial writer writ-er of the New York Evening World and a political historian of note, was selected by the Democratic convention arrangements committee to be temporary tem-porary chuirmau at Houston and to deliver the keynote speech. This choice had been expected. HERBERT HOOVER was unopposed unop-posed in the California Republican Repub-lican primary, but the Republicans flocked to the polls to vote for him in surprising numbers. The total G. O. P. vote cast was more than twice as large as the Democratic vote. The Golden state delegation of gives Hoover an estimated total of 3GG delegates dele-gates to date, though 211 of these are uninstruct-cd. His supporters now claim he will enter the convention with 52G votes, only 19 short of the necessary 645 majority. Last week the Ten-' Ten-' nesves Republican convention indorsed Hoover and also instructed the state's delegates at large to vote for Con-gwssman Con-gwssman J. Q. Tilsoa of Connecticut for vice president. i itnUARLY it will not cost as much I,, nominate and elect a President this vcar a it lias sometimes in the pa'it.'l'or the senate has adopted a resolution reso-lution for an inquiry into the campaign cam-paign contributions and expenditures of both parties. The special committee i.niiied ,v Vive rnvMi-M Dawes in-clu.l.s in-clu.l.s S-eiv.ar of Oregon, chairman; Dale of Vermont, McMaster of South Dakota, Barkley of Kentucky and Bratton of New Mexico. Senator Robinson, Rob-inson, the minority' leader, who presented pre-sented the resolution, made no charges of improper methods in the present preconvention campaigns, but said it was considered desirable to have a committee go into the matter just as the Borah committee did in 1024 and the Kenyon committee in 1920. TJ Y A vote of 204 to 121 the house J passed the Haugen farm relief bill, which is almost identical with the McNary measure passed by the senate. Both contain the equalization fee feature fea-ture which Is especially objectionable to the President, and it was taken for granted that he would veto the bill that conies out of conference. Nearly all the western and southern representatives repre-sentatives voted for the Haugen bill. The eastern Republicans voted against it, but it was supported by a considerable consid-erable number of Tammany Democrats. Demo-crats. Veto by President Colidge also is expected for the flood relief measure which was reported to the house by the conference committee, since the conferees insisted on retaining the flowage rights feature to which he objects. ob-jects. P ARTY lines were drawn quite sharpie sharp-ie ly when the senate began debar.-: debar.-: ing the tax reduction bill. Repub-i Repub-i licans on the finance committee had cut down the total reduction of the house bill from $290,000,000 to about $200,000,000, which is the limit placed by the Treasury .. department. The Democrats still insisted on a total reduction re-duction of $325,000,000. The fight was mainly over the corporation tax, the Republicans wishing this cut from 13 to 12 per cent and the Democrat? arguing for a cut to 11 or at most 11 per cent. The Democrats also would retain the graduated scale of rates for corporations with incomes of $15,000 or less as voted by the house. Senator Sen-ator Smoot expected the debate In the senate would last over a week. HARRY SINCLAIR appeared before the senate's Teapot Dome committee com-mittee and told something of the Continental Con-tinental Trading company deal, but not near enough to satisfy the investigators-. He fenced skillfully with Chairman Chair-man Nye and the others and made few admissions except that he had received re-ceived $757,000 of the Continental's profits, which sum, with interest, he said he had recently turned over to the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing company. com-pany. The committee is making up its report, but expects later to investigate the oil leases in the Salt Creek field. RETURNING from Washington, where they attended the funeral of Floyd Bennett, the German-Irish transatlantic flyers were given the usual uproarious reception that New York accords to such celebrities. It Included parades, banquets and valor medals and the aviators were almost worn out by the attentions showered upon them. Next they journeyed back to the national capital where they were officially welcomed to the United States by Secretary Kellogg with dignified dig-nified ceremony. They lunched at the' White House and President Coolidge pinned on their breasts the distinguished distin-guished flying crosses which congress had voted them. In Arlington National Na-tional .cemetery they laid wreaths on the tomb of the Unknown SoldiCi Among those who greeted them in Washington was Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Lind-bergh, who had flown there in his "Spirit of St. Louis" for the purpose of placing that famous plane in the Smithsonian institution. 'Thursday Baron von Huenefeld, Captain Koelil and Major Fitzmaurice flew to New York to arrange for their air tour of ,the East and Middle West. Gen. Umberto Nobile and companions compan-ions left Stolp, Germany, Thursday in the airship Italia for Spitsbergen, 1,700 miles away. The Italian explorers explor-ers plan to make several flights over the polar regions during the summer. DELEGATES from all parts of the world are assembled in Kansas City in attendance on the quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. They have a lot of business on hand, but it is not likely their doings will be tinged with sensationalism, sensa-tionalism, since at the start they voted overwhelmingly against a formal dis cussion of fundamentalism and modernism. mod-ernism. In their episcopal address the 44 bishops recommended that full advantage ad-vantage be taken of the chance to assign as-sign responsibilities to younger members mem-bers of the church. They held the possibility of a world union of Christian Chris-tian churches to be beyond consideration considera-tion at present. Among the laity there is a strong movement for the democratization demo-cratization of the church government, including the election of bishops for a term of years instead of for life. The conference approved a court of 17 members to try Bishop Bast of Copenhagen on charges arising out of his conviction in civil court of misusing misus-ing church funds. Rev. Fred S. Stone of Chicago was chosen prosecutor. " HIANG Kai-shek, generalissimo of the Chinese Nationalists, has moved his headquarters to Tsinan, capital cap-ital of Shantung province, and is laying lay-ing his plans for the final drive against Peking and the armies of Chang Tso-lin. Tso-lin. It is reported that Chang has gathered 100,000 men in the vicinity of Techow, where there is a large arsenal, and presumably the next big battle will be in that area. The situation situ-ation between the Nationalists and the Japanese was relieved when the former for-mer agreed to reopen the Shantung railway and permit the Japanese troop trains to operate between Tsingtao and Tsinanfu. But the Nationalists Id Shanghai are keeping up their anti-Japanese anti-Japanese boycott. TOHN BULL is likely to cancel nil J agreement to help Uncle Sam stop the smuggling of illegal liquor into the United States, for he is getting greatly great-ly peeved over the impetuous actions of some of the American rum chasers. Coast guard boats have been entering Bahama and Bermuda ports without warrant, and foreign ships have been seized by them allegedly without right. The British government made formal protest, and Secretary Kellogg, after replying in apologetic tone, ordered all coast guard craft to remain away from Bermuda ports. Only, a few days ago, too, Canadian authorities complained that our enforcement agents in the Detroit De-troit area were firing shots that crossed the river and endangered the lives of Canadians. This was denied by Washington. GYPT isn't going to lose Its inde-peudence inde-peudence just yet, but it must mind its step. Great Britain's protest against the Egyptian "public assemblies assem-blies bill," which . it was said would hamper the protection of foreigners, was followed up by the sending of several sev-eral warships to Alexandria and open threats to reduce the country again to a dependency. But the Egyptian government govern-ment postponed consideration of the objectionable measure and the warships war-ships were called off. However, Foreign For-eign Secretary Chamberlain warned Egypt that there must be no revival of the controversy. GERMANY has unqualifiedly accepted ac-cepted Secretary Kellogg's proposals pro-posals fgr a multi-lateral treaty to outlaw out-law war. The Berlin government indorses in-dorses the plan enthusiastically and says it is ready to enter negotiations with the leading powers for the consummation con-summation of such a pact. The German Ger-man note holds unfounded the French fear that an unconditional anti-war treaty would conflict with the League of Nations or a nation's right of self-defense, self-defense, and takes the position that reservations to the American draft treaty are unnecessary. PREMIER RAYMOND POINCARE won a big victory in the French parliamentary elections and is assured of a working majority of about one hundred in the chamber of deputies. The country thus gave evidence that it wishes him to continue his task of putting its finances in order without interference from the radicals who bad threatened his plans with destruction. As a preliminary to stabilization 0( the franc the premier has announced a heavy loan to reimburse the Bank of France for advances to the state. EATI1S of the week Include that of Congressman Thadileus Sweet of New York, killed in the crash of an airplane: and of Palmer Ii Anderson United Slates niiir.-lml for the northern north-ern Illinois district. Mr. Anderson has been succeeded by H. C. V. Lauben lieimer. |