Show news review of current events the world over president hoover on business and pleasure trip to porto rico and virgin vir gin islands mayor walker under fire by EDWARD W PICKARD PRESIDENT RESIDENT er and a stag party sailed from norfolk va thursday morning on the reconditioned battleship arizona for a twelve day trill on oil which the chief ex scathe cuth e planned to combine rest and 2 pleasure with business included in the lie gov theodore party were ere secretary roosevelt of at war hurley secretary of the interior wilbur capt william furlong who handles bundles navy island matters capt charles R train naval aide col campbell hodges army aide various other oilier officials from the while louse and a hunch of newspaper men and photographers pliers rapt C Q S freeman was in command t ii the art ari zona and the vessel carried a full complement of 00 90 officers and 1241 men for it was int makin ikin a shaking doni down n run after being re buit the first stop was wai at sun san junn juan porto forto wool and the for two days was to be the gaast 0 of Goer gobernor nor and mrs airs theodore Theo ilore Hoo evelt at ln ia fortaleza For tale the old mansion maii sinn in which governors goer nors of the have resided from the hie early das dais of the spanish regime it was planned that mr air hoover should make a tour lour of the island in order to observe industrial agricultural and social conditions meet the leaders of the political parties and gain a general idea of tile the success governor roosevelt has attained in moet meeting ln the problems of the porto ricans bich are many und and serious the governor in his official reports and in communications to the american papers has given detailed pictures of the distress obtaining in the island sixty per cent of the people are out of work be said either all or part of the year the population density Is exceeded by few countries it Is 4 10 to the square mile and even intensive aarl culture would not support this lation so t Is industries InCus tries that governor gu V roosevelt says must he be deel de el aped more than persons lire are suffering from tuberculosis from malaria and from hookworm bookworm from porto rico the arizona was to proceed to st thomas principal port of the virgin islands where mr air hoover was to be met by dr paul U M pearson of philadelphia tile the recently appointed civil governor and waldo evans of the navy the retiring gov arnor with them lie he was to study the problems of the group which are as serious as those of porto rico th the virgin islands used to prosper on th the manufacture of rum and the trans shipment of european cargoes tor for the entire caribbean region the prevailing economic distress Is the result of prohibition and the conversion of coal burning vessels to oil consuming ships only a few days ago the control contro I 1 of the virgin islands island i was transferred from the navy to the interior department and now in washington Washing tou it Is suggested that one result of the presidents visit may be the amalgamation of the group with porto rico as n single political unit administered by one governor HEODORE G JOSLIN washing THEODORE atou tou correspondent of the boston transcript has been made secretary to president hoover to succeed george akerson Akers nn resigned mr joslin la Is a close personal friend of sir mr hooker ills his main duties will III be arranging tile the presidents calling list handling visitors at the executive offices and maintaining contact between the president and 2nd nd the hie correspondents the new secretary Is an experienced political reporter and has a wide acquaintance among public men ile he Is a native of massachusetts and Is forty one years old developments din in the campaign to clenn clean up new york city politically call 7 me BI e coming rapidly during i the week form it il charges of neglect I 1 and unfitness were lied filed against jiani Y AM wilker walker W ilker the dapper and debonair mayor of the metropolis now regaling himself in california T the it e samuel charges were present seabury ed to governor Row rozevelt evelt by leaders of the city affairs committee and were nere said to be of such a nature as to com pel tile governor to take some acolon toward widening the investigation now being conducted by samuel benbury and confirmed by police and magistrates governor roosevelt had let it ft become known that ile he would not notre respond 4 to any public cl clantion antior for a ly wide Inesti investigation gation um li that lie he would act only upon sli charges vs such as led him to appoint seabury scabury to in vesti gate the conduct of district attorney chounis C Q T crain craan previous ly IY seabury had hoen been fill put it in charge of tin an investigation or of police fraine ups in vice cases caseb and of the conduct coni luct of city magist magistrates rales the governor goi was asked ly by crain to reak revoke tile of seabury on the lie ground of bins bills but bill refused and grain crain was summoned to appear and answer tile hie charges anade against liim by the city club republican members herB of the state legislature were sill s ill trying to put through a resolution for a general inquiry into new york conditions but were blocked by several recalcitrant members of their own party tile next three months it D DURING anns as announced at the white louse house president hoover will carry out an exten extensile she speaking program dom cilny eight addresses ind mawn nine public besides this ills lie Is contemplating a trip to his home lu in valo ialo alto calif the subjects of ills his speeches have not been announced but it lg Is understood dundei stood he will take tile lie opportunity to sot set forth ills his own estimate of the achievements of his administration so fur far and its his alms tor for the future thus lie he will be in a measure taking up the challenge put out by the progressive at their recent conference in 17 ashington the speaking calendar tor for the president rs Ps ni ai ranged arranged Is 13 1 9 amerlean american red cross in washington april 14 pin pan amerlean day pari pan american dilou washington sidy may 4 international chamber of commerce washington may 21 fiftieth anniversary of the red cross washington may SO 30 memorial ble morial day valley forge pa ila june 15 republican editorial association indianapolis ind june 16 dedication leation Deff of barding memorial murlon marion ohio june 17 dedication of lincoln memorial springfield in addition to these engagements the president Is to review veteran of the grand army of the bellu republic c a at their reunion june 18 16 in columbus ohio S SENATOR niram HIRAM johnson of california FX p aho ft ho Is one of the most independent members of the upper it house bouse thinks the re celt conference of progressive lea leaders tie rs was afine thing and that tile leaders I 1 I 1 of the republican party should call a similar meeting add senator ing g oy only good can johnson eg come from rom such gatherings brings lie ile Is convinced that something Is radically cally wrong somewhere with the republican party mr johnson gave out a statement in which he agreed with some of the progressive doctrines and disagreed with others but said that public consideration study and discussion constitute the contribution and value of tile alie conference ue he asserted the country was naturally interested in unemployment representative government tile power question mono en croach ments and public utilities add ing some of our republican brethren not only belittle the effort but would transmute it into the one public matter of concern to them politics but a philosophic onlooker who long iong ago marked his own course and prefers in his hison win way to follow it might suggest that only progressives progress ives in the interim between beti veen sessions bring these altal questions up to in public meeting for public discussion can any one imagine the nang ing of either party meeting together with earnest and able experts and publicly discussing economic problems D eatn once more has changed the political makeup make up of the llie house of which will assemble in december janius james B advell of louisiana democrat and ranking minority member of the agricultural committee passed away at his 1 Is apartment in washington after a heart attack lie was sixty tio years old and had bened in on digress gress for nine con se cutie terms mr astells AsA As ells death leaves in the house republicans democrats hud had one furmer farmer representatives john 14 V quayle and david J oconnell both democrats of new york died last viler their sors bors matthew V Ob laley and en A rudd are both democrats representative henry allen cooper republican of wisconsin died last march 1 ills his successor as not been chosen EVERYONE has now filed bled his bis income tax ceburn Ie turn or should have done so and the experts in washington are busy figuring up how much uncle sam will receive treasury Trea eury cury officials could not net yet make definite predictions as to the collect collections lons for or the first quarter hot but they hoped that thil th receipts tor for march would run above and those lot for the first quarter ending march si 31 well above at least one fourth or of the total tax due was paid with tile the income tax returns file filed 1 so that collections for the first quarter will run somewhat above the average for or the tour four quarters indications are that the higher tax rate for or 1130 lo 10 SO incomes will tall fail to offset the losses caused by the economic depression by around il last years collections for tile first quarter were twenty men perished P PROBABLY nhen hen the sealer viking was blown up in white bay newfoundland of the survivors many of t them eu badly injured managed to reach little horse island where a few inhabitants tried to care fur for then witt with inadequate food rind and no medical sup suit plies several others were picked up by vessels that sped to the rescue called by flie I 1 lie ines messages sages of tile young noun girl radio operator on the island be bc bides aides the large crew the viking carried the members of a moving picture expedition NE of 0 the earnest 0 ONE hopes of the american federation of labor the adilia tion of the brotherhood of railway trainmen with ili alie ie federation ion s soon to le be rea realized izod according to dispatches from washington representatives senta tives of both bodies and of certain S at affiliated fit railway doak n oa workers unions feie eie engaged during the week in drafting the terms of an agreement tor for the amalgamation representing the federation in the cone conference rence were president william green secretary frank morrison Morr lson and vice president J 11 bu gen lazet nho also Is secretary of the international of electrical rl workers sitting in for the trainmen me n were president aabert whitney and james farquarson legislative agent the drafting conference was the culmination of negotiations that have been in progress for a year in which secretary of labor doak in his former capacity as legislative agent of the train mens organization Is said to have played an important part U Y heavy demands by world war veterans for loans have made it necessary for the treasury to raise in less than a month secretary mellon announced antoun ced a request by veterans administrator lines hines for to cover payments on applications received up to march 15 it had been estimated would suffice and 1 per cent treasury certificates were ere issued to get that sum hines said however hoi Never the would be needed by april 11 the veterans administrator also told mellon would be required to pay all loans AL DAUGHERTY brother ot of M MAL former attorney general harry M daugherty was sentenced at washington courthouse ohio to ten years in prison and a fine of he was convicted recently of abstracting str acting funds from the now defunct ohio state bank of which lie be was president and was refused a new trial C A R D inal P PIETRO nal archbishop of pisa and one of the most eminent members of the file sacred college istead Is dead in pisa at the age of seventy three years u D its his earlier years lie gained fame a ai an as tro nomer and ten teai tier her of philosophy he was made archbishop cardinal I 11 matti in VMS 1903 and fourbears four years later was raised tu to the purple by pope plus X tile same pope it was rumored considered deposing him because lie he sup porte orle the modernists in a contest with the reactionaries la in the church twice afterward mafle was considered a pipal papal possibility lie was always a great friend of the hie italian royal family and he officiated last year at the marriage of cronn prince humbert of italy and princess marle jose of Bel belgium glum for tills this he was given the collar of the Annun zlaia tile the highest gift of the crown croan cardinal mallis death reduces the italian membership in the sacred college to 28 against 30 foreign mem bers bera therefore it is expected h iu rome that a consistory will aill lie ile held before long at which tile pope will create a number of cardinals and give the italians at least equal strength with tile the foreigners 0 VARIED are the interests of dlf dif S SO ferent coun countries count that the tariff armistice convention called at geneva by the league of nations Is forced to report that it hag failed to reach an agreement though it has hopes that within a few years enough nations will ratify the pact to make it effective tor for europe the conference was called by the league in an effort to secure a truce on the raising of tariffs and later to obtain a general reduction of tariffs 0 only eleven countries ratified the truce clause and all eleven made important reservations the usual res er was if surrounding countries would also alsa ratify a 0 ism Nesa union |