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Show . i. ri '4 1 f. -1 1 News Review of Current ' 1 Events the World Over President Hoover Declares Xlimself for Change in Prohibition Amendment Roosevelt Hears Mayor .Walker's Defense Sec. Stimson Angers Japan. fiy EDWARD PRESIDENT HOOVER opened the campaign for hie re-election with bis acceptance speech, and told the nation that, In regard to the liquor question, he stood not exactly exact-ly on the Republican Republic-an platform but a considerable step ahead of it. lie said the administration's adminis-tration's efforts to enforce national prohibition had . been of no avail, because the Eighteenth Eight-eenth amendment Itself was a failure except in states President ' Hoover where the majority sentiment was actually dry. lie declared de-clared he could not consent either to restoration of the saloon or to the continuance of such grave abuses as the speakeasy and the bootlegs which flourish under the amendment. Therefore, he proposed such modification of the prohibition amendment as would return liquor control to the states under federal control that would guarantee the dry states federal l ald. In keeping ut liquor and prevent the restoration restora-tion of the saloon in the wet states. In substance the position taken by Mr. Hoover on this prohibition problem Is very close to that of Alfred Al-fred E. Smith In 192a It was warmly Indorsed by the Republican Republic-an senators who consented to talk about It, even by such veteran drys as Fcss and JJornh. The Republican Republic-an press generally commended It, and Democratic newspapers praised the President for "bravery greater than that of his party platform." . The President's address of course covered practically all the subjects that appear in the Republican platform plat-form and was written with skill. In It be reiterated his stand for freedom free-dom in industry and commerce as opposed to radical and revolutionary revolution-ary proposals, for a protective tar-Iff, tar-Iff, for noncanccllatlon of foreign debts, and pledged himself to work for restoration "of prosperity. The notification ceremony took place in Constitution hall and the speech was heard by 4,000 persons gathered there and by countless millions mil-lions who listened In by radio. The affair was preceded by a garden party and buffet luncheon oij the White House grounds, to which 700 men and women had been Invited. Former President Calvin Coolldge was not tKere because, as he said, he feared the trip would BRRrnvate the hay fever from which he was suffering. XJATOR JAMES WALKER of New York, appearing before Governor Roosevelt in the tetter's office in Albany, made an impassioned impas-sioned plea for the right to face and question the witnesses who have accused him and whose tea tlmony before the Seabury committee commit-tee resulted In the demand that the governor remove hlra from "office. Mr. Roosevelt ruled that the mayor might present any witnesses r evidence that would contribute to the governor's examination of the case. He did not require the proof oi Mr. Walker's guilt to be shown ky witnesses, but he did go at once Into a eross-examlnatlon of the mayor himself. Mayor Walker's answers, followed closely his previous defense as given In bts formal answer to the Seabury charges and In his testimony testi-mony before the legislative committee, commit-tee, ne admitted taking the $26,000 gift from J. A. Slsto, banker Interested Inter-ested In taxlcab legislation, but denied de-nied be had given of his Influence as mayor to obtain the legislation. Answering the charge that he owned securities In a company doing do-ing business with the city, in violation viola-tion of a state law, Walker asserted he knew nothing about its connection connec-tion with city contracts. In succeeding sessions of 4he hear ing he continued along the same line, denying all charges of mlscon- ouci ana ccienatng me acts on which those charges were based. tAPAN, continually on the defen- J slve concerning her course in Manchuria, and extremely sensitive to criticism, whether direct or Im plied, hat been aroused to great Indignation In-dignation by Secretary Secre-tary of State Henry . I Stimson In an address ad-dress : before the council on foreign relations I- New York the cabinet officer asserted that consultation among signatory nations to mobilize "moral A v el disapproval" of acts Secy Stimson of aggression Is Implicit Im-plicit in the British Eellogg treaty outlawing war and that a definite pact providing for such consultation Is unnecessary. , As an example, the secretary of stite referred to the f. -v. w"( HpV W. PICKARD American protest to Japan against hostilities In China. Such a protest pro-test would have had far less welgwt, he pointed out, had It not been supported sup-ported by "the entire group of civ-illjied civ-illjied nations." Later In his address Mr. Stimson said: "As It stands, the only limitation to the brooC covenant against war Is the right of self-defense. This right Is so inherent and universal that it was deemed unnecessary even to Insert it expressly in the treaty. It exists in the case of the individual under domestic law, as well as In the case of the nation and its citizens under the law of nations. na-tions. Its limits have been clearly defined by countless precedents. "A nation which sought to mask imperialistic policy under the guise of the defense of its nationals would soon be unmasked. It could not long hope to confuse or mislead public opinion on a subject so well understood or In a world In which facta can be so easily ascertained and appraised as they can be under the journalistic conditions of today." to-day." - The Japanese foreign office took Mr. Stlmson's remarks as an attack at-tack on Japan's acts In Manchuria and cabled the embassy In Washington Washing-ton for a detailed report of the speech. It was believed that formal protest might be made to the United States government. O OY D. CHAPIN, the Detroit au toniDiuiB manufacturer-, was sworn In as secretary of commerce to succeed Robert P. Lamont,-who resigned to become president ef the American Iron and Steel Institute. As he took office Mr. Chapln gave expression expres-sion to his optimism, optim-ism, saying: "Naturally, "Natu-rally, like every other American, I 9 y -4 am gratified by the unmistakably better tone that now prevails pre-vails in our indus R. D. Chapln tries and marts of trade. Concerning the 'future trend, I will not be so bold as to venture prediction now, but one thing is certain cer-tain we must all exert ourselves to the utmost striving to strengthen all favorable factors and to make the Inevitable turn come as soon and with as much security as possible." Secretary Chapln is already encouraging en-couraging the railroads to go ahead with repair and replacement work n ml ftnillna MAn.. .1 h.ln 4 1, rm A ICllJU ,11111. Ull'llf-f IU liril IIICIU uu It; and In co-operation with Secre tary of Labor Douk he Is working on the plans for spreading employment employ-ment by decreasing the individual hours of work. FOR about twenty-four hours there was a spectacular attempt at rr- olutjofPln Spain hy.tha mnnnrch! who hoped to restore the Bourbons to the throne. TheTnovement was led by Gen. Jose Snnjurjo, known as "the lion of Morocco," and for a time he and his helpers were In control of Seville. But the republican repub-lican government was apprised vof his plans In advance and the revolt wa speedily squelched mainly by the police. Sanjurjo himself was arrested as he fled from Seville and was taken to Madrid for trial by court-martial, and various others of the former king's military command-era command-era also were apprehended. In Madrid there was little fighting when revolutionists sought to occupy occu-py government buildings. The whole affair was a mixture of comedy and tragedy and the net result was the burning' of many roy alists clubs, homes and residences by the Republicans In several cities, and the prospect of death at the hands of firing squads for the royalist roy-alist leaders. Former King Alfonso denied having any part In the uprising. up-rising. n EWARD for his uniformly snc- AV cessfui prosecutions of gangsters gang-sters and politicians for evasion of the federal Income tax has come to George B. Q. Joha: ' son. United States attorney In Chicago He has been appointed ap-pointed to the fed era District bench by President Hoover, Hoo-ver, and probably will be confirmed by the senate In December De-cember with flMU opposition. As sue- V f. J cessor to Mr. John- son, the President G.E.Q. Johnson named . Johnson's able assistant . In the tax case. Dwlght H. Green, who has been solicitor so-licitor for the bureau of internal revenue and has conducted many of the trials Instituted by John son, Foil) the appointments were urged by Senators Glenn and Lewis Of Illinois. Johnson began his drive against hoodlums and crooked politicians In the fall of first indicting Ralph Capone and -Terry Druggan and Frankle Lakfc Other Indictments followed, and trials, and Mr. Johnson John-son was successful In sending the following persons to the penitentiary peniten-tiary for evading income taxes: Al Canone, Ralph Capone, DruRtfan, Lake, Jack Guzik, Sam Gnzik, Frank Nlttl, former County Assessor Gene G. Oliver, and former State Representative Repre-sentative Lawrence C O'Rrlen. Christian P. Paschen, building commissioner com-missioner in the last Republican Chicago municipal administration. Is now under sentence, but has appealed ap-pealed his convtctign. CHANCELLOR VON PAPEN and hla cabinet acted to stop terror-Ism terror-Ism among the political factions of Germany by decreeing the death penalty for all persons convicted of acts of political violence. Including rioting, treason, arson, instigation of explosions or' floods or damaging railways or railway equipment. Despite De-spite this rigorous action, the acts of violence did 'not cease. Adolf Hitler Issued a proclamation to his storm troops to 'curb their disorderly enthusiasm. l Von Papen lnlted both Hitler's Nationalist Socialists and Hugen-berg's Hugen-berg's Nationalists to share In the government which he will submit to the relchstng when It convenes August Au-gust 30. But the monocled chancellor chan-cellor Is determined to keep the office of-fice of chancellor and to maintain the government on the "no-party" basis. The Hitlerites continue to claim full governmental control, one of their organs saying: "If we are not allowed to direct the government govern-ment we will fight to the finish." It Is the aged President, Paul Von Hin-denburg, Hin-denburg, who must make the final, decision. WHEN the field and track events of the Olympic games came to a close It was found the Dnited States had won first place by a tremendous tre-mendous margin: Finland was second and Great Britain third .ThellmW of this part of the program was the marathon race, which was won by Juan Zabala gf Argentina Ar-gentina In record-breaking record-breaking time. The Becond week was given over to all kinds of events, mainly In the wa Helene Madison ter, and Helene Madison, the premier woman swim mer of the United States, distinguished distin-guished herself again by winning the 100 meters free-style race In the new Olympic time of 1 :6.8. She was first In the fastest field of girl swimmers swim-mers ever assembled, and every one of them beat the old Olympic record. la other, water events the flags of Japan, Holland, Australia and other nations were raised. A LL the neutral nations of "Cen- tral and South America Joined with the United States In calling on r.olivla to lay down her arms and accept arbitration of the dispute with Paraguay over the Gran Chaco. They even set a definite time for such submission, sub-mission, but Bolivia's Bo-livia's reply was not especially . sat- .4 Isfactory. President Presi-dent Daniel Salamanca's Sala-manca's govern-ment govern-ment said it was willing to suspend hostilities pending President Salamanca arbitration, If Paraguay Para-guay and the neutral powers would consent to the present positions In the Gran Chaco as the basis of ne gotlations, Instead of the position of the troops on June'l, as stipulated by Paraguay. After June 15 Bolivian Bo-livian patrols captured three Para-quayaq Para-quayaq outposts. Pacifists in La Paz, Bolivia, who opposed war with Paraguay, were court-martialed and eight of the.i were condemned and shot GEN. CHANG KAI-SHEK, It appears ap-pears likely, will be the su preme dictator of China. This results re-sults from the controversy between Wang Chlng-wel, premier, and Marshal Mar-shal Chang Hsiao-Hang. Pelplng war lord. Chang refused to obey Wang's order to make war on the Japanese forces that were operating In Jehol province, and offered to resign. Soon after. Wang and his entire cabinrt submitted their resignations, the last to step out being Finance Minister Min-ister T. V. Soong. Chiang Kai-shek, unlike Wang, still thinks the SIno-Japanese dispute dis-pute can be settled y direct "negotiations "nego-tiations and therefore refuses to take any warlike steps likely to antagonize an-tagonize Tokyo. Under the terms of the Chinese constitution. General Chiang as permanent chairman of the military council Is untouchable snd Is In full control of the armies. TP WO Democratic senators were successful during the week In obtaining renominates. They were. Alben W. Barkley 01 Kentucky, keynoter key-noter In the recent national convention, conven-tion, who defeated former Senator George R, Martin and others; and Mrs. Hattle W. Caraway of Arkansas.' Arkan-sas.' the only woman member of tV.e upper house. Mrs. Caraway had six male rivals for the nomination, but easify distanced them all ft 1J- BcH 8jUau WXU lanbt - Intermountain News -Briefly Told for Busy Readers NEW ROAD WORK-RAIN WORK-RAIN SAVES F0RBST. HAS NO COINTKV NOW-TEN NOW-TEN PER CENT fl T MADE. WAR ON THE FI DDLER. MISSOULA, MOXT.-Clonds pouring rain In the Selway country helped crews fighting fin to establish estab-lish control of various blazes burning burn-ing to the northern Idaho woods, most of which had already been corralled cor-ralled In a fashion to prevent further spread. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-Tbe state industrial commission has or dered the payroll changes necessary, for compliance with the recent or der of the state board of supplies and purchases, ordering a 10 per cent' reduction In all salaries in ex jf ess of $90 a month. ' ' BOISE, IDA. Road construction activities, utilizing $1,559,000 of a $2,502,112 emergency -federal aid fund for unemployment relief, will begin In Idaho soon. The state receives re-ceives $lI50?),912 for highway construction. con-struction. Forest highways receive 1014,000, park roads $210,000, Indian reservation roads $53,000, and pub He loans $119,200 of the total emergency emer-gency fund allocated to Idaho. POCATELLO, IDA. Authorities are busy clearing Pocatcllb streets of outside peddlers who, according to charges filed by the Chamber of Commerce, have been selling their produce at prices considerably lower fhan those of established merchants POCATELLO, IDA. Claiming h s "a man without a country," William Wil-liam F. Elliott, 50, Canadian wai veteran, has askeil Sheriff Woodward Wood-ward to have him deported to Canada. Can-ada. Elliott said he has been or rored to leave the United States bv immigration authorities, but Canada refused to recognize him due to his !nng absence from his native land. f LOGAN, CT.-The-ax levy for Logan district will be the highest iff history,' this year, according to the statement of Comity Assessor R. S. McQuarrle. The total levy this year is 45.81 mills compared with 15.05 mills in 1931. OGDEN, UT.-Officlals of this city applied for the location of one of the Home Loan banks for Og den. PROVO, UT. Utah county's tax levy for 1932 has been set at 7.97 mills as against the 1931 levy of 8.23 mills.. BEAVER, 1 UT. The Union Pacific Pa-cific Railroad company Is planning plan-ning to erect a large storage cellar for potato crops from Milford and Mlnersvllle. - BOISE, IDA. Reports :-lndica to nil abundance of water and good range conditions in the Boise national na-tional forest. Livestock men with herds and flocks in the forest are enthusiastic over conditions prevailing prevail-ing anions their stock. RICHFIELD, UT, The schools of Sevier county will open October 17 ami the length of the school term bns not yet been decided. OGDF..V, UT. Twenty-two mining min-ing claims have been staked off in the territory two and one-half miles north and east of the Hermitage in Ogden canyon, where a lode of gold peanng quartz was recently found The claims have been filed in the county recorder's office. BLACKFOOT, IDA. Two persons per-sons were painfully injured and two otliers escaped injury when an automobile in which they were riding rid-ing crashed Into a horse standing on the highway five miles south "of 'Blaekfoot. BEAVER, UT. Graveling of the ten mile stretch of road from WiM. I cat canyon to the Millard county "ne op Highway 91 has been started. start-ed. -WilSER,. IDA. Property owners own-ers and water users of the Weiser Irrigation district decided at a re cent mooting to build a new intake canal approximately two miles in length, together with a diversion dam and headgate In the Weiser river riv-er to Injure a permanent supply of water to the district. The project is to cost $12.1)00.00. I MANTI. UT. A destructive frost ! the rarlit on record in this vl ; ''inity. Destroyed 14 acres of peas on the lowlands at the KJar ranch an1 -t tbe experiment farm at Ephralm , -SEUTLE, WASH.-ln Tf pocY "ts of the coat of 81-year-old John s:on, banks, when he dropped dead ln the jmMIc library here, were round a rrint of bread and a shriv led apple core. His clothes were -oI and ragged. The bodv wa 'aken to the public morgue where bank bodks were found In the lathing, showing deposits of $l0.0r " sevea settle banks. TWIN- FALLS, IDA.-Crop proses pros-es are exceptionally good, in the rffln Fa!is- Jerome, Wendell region ' Ji-cording to the district crop Inspect iT. Rrsin vie,,,, r aTersse an(J and alfalfa are prodncinc 'I'WELL, IDA: The Canyon . c nnissloners have made ap-P ap-P t:,in f, r a $100,000 loan from :'. r: ment to mmlnct road wars. c.-. .1 . u C-'tr- work for th.!r lirtr.. rs: receive char'rv i ii - -. - i w .a m n n m m m m m m m at . m . at n w I f ' . libit .Opt j',K-.i; Ss,7'. ir: toj " '-aHI V.'l & ? t f f 41 f 1 1 - ? t vWJ if 7V . lView of the marathon race at the Olympic games In Los Angeles, which was wosb ..n i .r timo 0 Dinlnmntlc renrpsentfltives of the nations of Central and . ArgrlilliJU 111 ICVUIU HWJW '1 r - wuu BVUmjJi sembled in Washington considering the Bolivia-Paraguay quarrel S Jotra lamamoto, jmt anese business man and formed president of the South Manchurlan railway, who, it Is reported,? Katsujt Pebuchl as ambassador 10 me Mississippi Steamboats Stage Mock Race Two excursion steamboats, the Saint Paul and J. S.. provided their passengers and spectatona? when they engaged in a race down the the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez fought it out for the supremacy of the Mississippi. READY TO FIGHT s President Jose P. Rimer, a m d- eb' wi 1 ax- aguay, who mobilized his nation's youth to fight Bolivia in the dispute over the Gran fh Sinn rarriAn TA. be agreed to submit the quarrel to NAMED FOR SENATOR ) Ire ... Col. Bennett p. nnv . . .. fete SDeakw ni. . . viar, wno won rf 7 o c nomination for Lnlted States senator from Mis- Sometimei Hard to Tell Dl man , VV V life I X " 1 , i - i- 1' ' I - always iangDg at double.? sild Cncle Eben. -may be 1 Philosopher; an. den agTnJemi, dor. Washington Star. . - umieu jaimea Mississippi under full steam which recalled the ttrilliiij AI Smith's Youngest Son and E i iiifilSlW-l N Wnltop l Cmlfl. . termor OOV. Ainwl New York, and Florence E. Watson of SchnectadJ, " ' j , . . . .. . .. . . . hrii TPin me umer oay in AiDany. Each of them is iwemjr-i First in Olympic Sculpts W f . 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