| Show news review of current events the world over france and italy reach agreement as to their naval strength devent congress 0 comes to an end by EDWARD W PICKARD D DIPLOMATS and financiers work ork lne hig steadily and persistently han lne e brought about nn fin accord between F tween france find and ita ly on tile question of relative n a v a I 1 strength and the probable result will lie bo that the three pov er lon don naval treaty will become a live five power A henderson pact thus the be french and It italians allans nil give up the idea of starting a building pr that would compel great britain to increase her naval forces under tile oscillator escalator clause of the treaty and the united states stales and japan would he be reli relieved eed of the fear that their relative acl ellve strength would not be without willi d u lively resumption of building arthur henderson british foreign secretary was most dios t active in tile the final stages of the negotiations between france and italy making trips to rome and paris is given credit for ex cellena work put nut it Is admitted that the groundwork ground k for the agreement was vias laid by hugh S gibson american ambassador bas to belgium who for several months had been laboring to bring tile the dispute to an end acting under per bonal orders from president hoover he held field a series of private talks witt with mussolini tardieu briand and others and transmitted their various proposals to rome and paris and finally to the british the financial end of the accord consists in a long iong term loan to italy to be made by french and american bankers which will really he a war debt moratorium in disguise the fascist government will receive three anil and a half billion doil dollars rs which surn bum it Is said will 11 save italy from bankruptcy and put the country on its feet specifically tile the loan will be used to retire and convert internal debt obligations of which fell due on october 1 last soli so linis previous efforts to obtain long term loans from american and french bankers had failed because largely ot of the naval dispute with francee while the terms of the franco ital ion ian agreement were vere temporarily with held from froin the public it was learned in paris that it provides that french naval superiority 0 over er italy be reduced from 1000 2 tons to tons most of the reduction coming coining from projected submarines and super submarines it if was agreed that the battleship tonnage allotted at the washington naval conference would not he used tor for ships of more than tons france obtained the right to build three 2310 ton vessels of the super cruiser type in return tor for superiority in global or total tonnage it Is believed that france gives italy a slight superiority in light cruisers and torpedo destroyers but retains supremacy to in submarines it was understood that italy demanded the sacrifice of super does in the french program and that thai france made the file concession because its coastal submarines are sufficient for its present needs france and italy it Is understood agreed on parity in ton cruisers L LEGAL ECAL proceedings ak are under way viny to washington in the contest between president hoover and tile the senate over the right of chairman george otis otia smith of the power commission to hold that office and the senate Is represented by john W davis who ho wag democratic john h w davis candidate for the presidency in 1924 lie he was selected for the job by a subcommittee of the juill Juil clary lelary committee composed of senators norris walsh and stelmer the proceedings are expected to add another chapter to the history of constitutional tut ional clashes between the executive and legislative branches of the government selection of mr air davis as 08 counsel for the senate assures a spectacular court test with the former ilen bial candidate on one side bide and possibly attorney general mitchell on the other the final decision probably will vill be rendered by the supreme court ITH a filibuster in the alie senate rod and wrather WITH rather uproarious gaiety in ill tile the house the seventy first congress coine came to an end at noon march 4 during its life it carried out fairly well president hoovers Ho overe program of legislation despite frequent clashes with the chief executive since last december it Is unnecessary to recount these disputes for every one Is familiar with them in only two major affairs the nomination of judge parker to the supreme court and the recent veterans bonus loan act was the president defeated the important items of legislation during the third session included these routine lout lne annual appropriation bills currying carrying more than Einera emergency ency construction construct ion program pron providing kling for spee speeding ding tip lip public work including ahers and har bors highway construction a and nd other federal relief for drought stricken areas in eluding for food loans loan provided in measures eni embodying bodyIng a ga G loun loan fund fur for rural sanitation and of unexpended 1 tin lances in funds bior for relief relict of lood flood stricken states program of federal federi il public building construction increased by YO of unemployment relief measures enacted contemplating federal census long term planning of public construction to meet din wildes and federal operation cooperation co in agency activities additional soldier hospitalization fa in program naval model bill ins 1119 to 0 o remodel battleships louisiana idaho a and nd N new C w Al mexico exico to fileck prest labed by the 1922 washington arms cone frence the seventy first congress earned the one distInct distinction lon of being the heaviest spending of fir all peace time mile congresses in nil fill it appropriated approximately for government uses N ITS closing days tile the congress enacted I 1 IN the muscle shoals legislation legislation legisla tiou which illch would put the government into the power business but president hoover vetoed the measure sending in a long and well argued message the senate sustained tile the veto the vote being 49 to 0 o 34 and the bill was dead mr hoover hall had predicted he would be accused of favoring the power trust and members of congress did accuse him film of this and the incident it was said made it certain that the power controversy would he be one of the major issues of the next presidential campaign mr hoover also tailed failed to sign the wagner bill for federal operation cooperation co ope radon etli the lie states in establishing a national system of employment exchange it was understood he would pocket veto this measure which would bring tile the number of his vetoes to fifteen F YOU are to take IF tile the word of henry 11 curran president 0 of f t the h e association against prohibition a ak majority of the alie peo ale p I 1 e of the united states are now ready and willing to vote for the repeal of the eighteenth a m e n d ment in his annual report to tile the directors H H curran and members of the association mr M r curran declared that the dry cause had not advanced an inch luring 1930 while the wot wet movement had registered important gains ile he asserted that the november election doubled tile the wet representation in tile the house and the senate wet group from 15 two years ago to 22 at present ile he sold said the house now has a wet vote of IGO compared with ith 76 to ID 1928 1028 of agriculture hyle hyde S SECRETARY denies that he Is to blame for delay in distributing the drought relief fund in a letter replying to a resolution introduced by senator caraway asking why mr hyde lind had not begun the distribution the secretary said old s 1 I liane ae the honor to inform the senate that because of the extended dehate debate upon the appropriation of 20 contained in the interior department part ment bill and because of tile the uncertainty as to the provisions of the net act it IE was not possible to work out the administration and accounting problems leing en entailed until tile the act was finally passed and its provisions definitely known lie he explained the machinery which the department had set up op in order to distribute loans through intermediate credit organizations and directly to the farmer there exists now no reason why application for loans may not now dow be reveled rece led and payment payi nent made shortly thereafter lie concluded J ralph royce MAJ M of the artely artily air corps Is being congi at u I 1 a t e d anthe 0 n t li e an that he tilts lils been awarded the 4 mackay trophy for 0 this Is in recognition i of tile hie arctic patrol which he led through severe winter inter weather eather from self aldge field michigan to spokane Sp oliane wash tind bud major royce return in january 1030 1930 it was a severe test of tile the skill and stamina stat nina of the pilots and the stability estabill I 1 Y of the planes and was successfully carried through the trophy which Is competed for annually by united states army om cers under war department departie depart me tit rules was wag first presented IS 18 years ago to tile the aero club of america by clarence U mackay the national association successor to the aero club of Arn america erics la Is present custodian of the trophy for the war department RASKOB told the democratic C CHAIRMAN national committee at its meeting in washington all about the wet policy which he thought the party should adopt but said he be would not ask action on hla his suggested platform until the next meeting dry me roem bers bera from the south vigorously posed opposed opp nas Ras kobs views or any consideration of them by the committee it was decided thru that a sio campaign fund should be raised hid bid for the general contract LOW on the hoover data dam and power plant in boulder canyon was submitted in denver by a combination of t western estern construction firms the six companies inc of san francisco and tile lie government engineers recommended that this bid of be accepted hy by secretary of tile the interior wllbur wilbur work on the project the biggest engineering job ever undertaken in this country will be started before hie file end of march government Goern ment officials although asserting work would he be hastened so unemployment conditions in the southwest se st would be relieved warned workers against a general migration to the nevada arizona line bilm site as there were ivere laborers on hand tit at las ins vegas a s nov nev Estlin estimates ates for construction forces ranged from 2000 to 2500 men at work ork at one time when the program gets into full stride NE of the most ONE 0 erol eminent nent engineers of the lie american Ameri cao or army m y nod and indeed of the notion nation passed on when meat gen edgar jadwin retired chief of the army engineering corps and chairman of tile lie Inter ocean canal commission died at gorgas hospital in panama city while in gen jadwin ancon acon preparing to go to nicaragua to survey the possibilities of a nicaraguan canal he be was stricken with apoplexy and a cerebral hemorrhage ended his life general jadwin who was born in IIo Ho pa in was fradua graduated ed from west point to in 1890 and had a brilliant career in the engineering corps for nearly forty years retiring in itie 1929 served in tile the span spanish isha ish A merican american war and the world war fir but was best known for liis ills peacetime work in the united states and in the canal zone the jadwin plan of flood control formulated after the disastrous mississippi valley floods of 1927 was the urmy army officers most important work the plan called for expenditure of and was nas opposed in congress but finally passed with alth administration support LORD IRWIN and ma V VICEROY fatma Gand lit both making concessions ces reached an agreement for peace in india and tile the civil disobedience movement that had lasted tor for a year came to an end tile the nationalists looked on the pact as a triumph for the doctrine of nonviolence non violence the 13 arlt alt ish government though it yields considerable sid erable probably gets none done the worst of the bargain by the terms of the agreement it Is understood the na tiona lists abandon their resistance movement and will work for qualified dominion status to in the second round table conference in return their imprisoned pris fined members will be released and most of the confiscated property will be returned they are permitted to conduct boycotts that do not aim leally at british goods and the poor natives along the corst coast are riven given the right to make their own on salt tile most important gain for the british was the point in which ibsch the nationalists agreed to confine themselves at the next round rou 11 d tama conference to the specified scope of constitutional questions elucidated by the first round table meeting in london this commits gandhi to the principle of a federation of indian iddinn responsibility but alth british safeguards covering finance defense ie fenRe foreign anners annl rs the position of minorities find and the discharge of endias indias national debts IR OSWALD MOSLEY SLEY wealthy S SIR british socialist and ills his wife lady cynthia have broken with tile the labor ites and formed a new party of their own which asks for candidates in tile the next election the moslems especially attack the unemployment policy of the macdonald MacDon uld government CAPONE Chi cagos public enemy AL no 1 did not fare so well when he be ran afoul of the federal judiciary there judge wilkerson Wilke rsm sentenced the notorious gang leader to six months in jail for contempt of court in excusing ills his appearance nonappearance non in court some time ago by pleas of ill ness at the case nas lifts appealed capone being released under bond arthur coppers cappers committee SENATOR S on fund food pries that it found an alarming tendency toward lite hie monopolistic control of the food of the nation by a small group of po powerful aeiful corporations and coni combinations bIna tile the tendency being especially strong in the case of bread and milk A careful scrutiny by the federal diral fe trade commission and the department of justice was recommended WO new governments governal ants within a TWO week for peru first a navy group forced sanchez cerro carro to resign and named chief justice ricardo ellas elias provisional president then along came a bunch of officers and troops loyal to cerro and out went ellas elias and his big friends the new dew army junto junta was headed by il gustave jimenez Jl western newspaper union |
