Show news review of cu current lent events the world over president hoover delivers addresses in three middle west nest states moves toward restoration of economic prosperity by EDWARD W PICKARD ifor responsibility responsibility or the existing economic depression in the united states should be laid to frozen confidence rather than to frozen assets according to president 11 a 0 0 v e r who addressed the indiana republican editorial association and its guests 1 in indian president dent spoils the chief ex hoover expressed his hopes bopes and plans tor for renewed pros parity which shall be wrought out of the nations great natural resources by a people with renewed d courage and he be vigorously defended the course of his administration in tile crisis and denounced panaceas tor for recovery after alluding to the russian five year plan mr hoover proposed what lie be called an american plan said he we plan tu take tare care of increase in population in the next 20 years we plan to build for them new and better homes thousands of new and still more beautiful city buildings thousands of factories to In increase creast capacity of our rall railroads roada to add thousands of miles to our highways and waterways to install electrical horse power we plan to provide new parks schools colleges and churches for this people wo we plan to secure greater diffusion of wedith a decrease in poverty and a great reduction in crime from indianapolis the president anil and his party which included mrs hoover and their son allan went rent to marlon marion ohio and took part in the dedication of the magnificent memorial to warren 0 harding mr hoover delivered the chief address to in which he severely condemned the friends who nho betrayed hardings trust former senator president of the memorial association presented the memorial to the association and calvin coolidge who succeeded harding in the presidency replied in acceptance cep tance gov george white accepted the structure on behalf of the state immediately after the cere monies mr hoover went to columbus and reviewed a parade of civil war veterans attending the ohio G A R encampment next day the presidential party journeyed to springfield ill for the dedication of the remodeled tomb of abraham lincoln mr hoover was vas the guest of governor Gov einor emmerson Um merson and again delivered the main speech at the imposing ceremonies the caal implications of president hoovers no overs trip to the middle west were evident and not denied the three states he visited have all caused alarm among the republican leaders by their votes in recent elections only last november illinois replaced a republican senator with a democrat and sent five more democrats to the house in place of republicans ohio elected a democratic governor and sent six democrats to congress in place of republicans and indiana replaced six republican congressmen with democrats the republican Republic ariman managers hoped the presidential tour would have effect in bringing these states back into the fold and abd there was also the expectation that it would atwould belp in promoting mr hoovers hookers prospects for and re election that he Is a candidate Is no longer in doubt if it ever was the recent conference of young laicans in washington under the guidance of senator fess national republican chairman made that certain N A letter to leaders IN of american industry and organized labor the national civic federation takes the first step in setting up a ten year plan of system systemizing IzIng production eliminating unemployment 1 and integrating the industrial and economic 1 structure of the J W gerard erard nation the letter was signed by james W gerard former ambassador to germany and now the chairman of tile the federations commission sion on industrial inquiry it Is based on a proposal made by matthew vice president of the american federation of labor and urges the calling of a national congress to discuss and formulate a program of industrial readjustment and create permanent machinery for this purpose mr gerards letter was addressed to all leading manufacturers in the country officials of the american federation of labor and heads of all international anions the letter declares that mr wells proposal tor for a great congress of industry Ind has received the indorsement endorsement Indor of the national civic federation and expresses the readiness of the federation to summon ouch auch a congress if it can have reasonable assurance that the response will be such as to make success probable manufacturers and labor leaders were asked to state their opinion and that of their organ nations Izat tons on the proposal propos nl find and to advise whether they would participate in et a preliminary meeting that might be held before the formal calling of the congress what Is desired Is to draw together a great conclave of delegates not a mere collection of individuals without representative character mr gerards letter declared FOR jjoe the purpose of encouraging other nations to help in the disarmament movement by telling all about their military strength the united states through secretary stimson has made public its report on that matter to the league of nations the document shows allows the land naval and air armaments of the country giving the exact number of men warships and aircraft maintained tor for military 11 lary and naval purposes the total number of army reserves rescues Is 1 also given though this information was not asked by tile the league the data gave americas total land effectives as including officers the national guard was listed at average daily effectives and was not included in the total forces because it was reported not available to the federal government without measures of mobilization the total strength of the naval force was fixed at including officers and enlisted personnel of the marine corps the total armed air forces including effectives fec tives in the army and navy were placed at officers and men of which were credited to the army air corps and to the naval air force the total number of airplanes in the armed forces was listed as 1752 including army craft and naval planes three nimy army and two navy dirigibles including the los angeles were added japan promptly followed the example set by the united states ill rather ex E pacts that when secretary of state stimson gits gets over there for his visits to various capital cities it will be revealed that the united states government will con sent under certain conditions to alter its stand on reparations and war debts and W A castle in this countie counti there are indications that this may be true undersecretary of state willian Wll llan A castle gave out a statement the other day to the effect that tile the government does not consider its position as signifying an inflexible thesis und and there have been strong hints at the white house that president hoover would not oppose the scaling down of war debts if he were assured this would be followed by ample reductions in european armaments mr castle said the government Is and always has been open minded on the war wai debt question and has been watching the situation abroad very carefully he added that no crisis has yet et arisen of a nature that would call for any action by this country on the war debts if such a crisis should arise he said it was obvious this government would have to consider whether a temporary change was necessary official opinion in washington was that mr castles statement was designed to help chancellor bruening of germany german in the troubles that beset him ANNA ADAMS GOUDON GORDON MISS former pre president s ident of the national womans comans christian temperance union and of the world W 0 T U died in castile N Y at the age of seventy eight years site she was a close friend fi lend of the late frances 1 13 willard Wll lard helped her organize the W 0 T U and for many years was her secretary she was one of the best known of f temperance leaders of this gener atlon D presidential dent fill boom was given a decided boost in massachusetts by tile the luncheon given by col edward al house at ills his summer co cottage it age near manchester by the sen sea the gover nor of new york was the guest of honor and among those col c i e M present were the most house influential democrat lc ic leaders of the bay state little was said about politics during the luncheon but the feeling was general that the affair was of considerable political significance and fi lends of mr roosevelt are of the opinion that the massachusetts delegation in next years national convention will be in line for ills his nomination just before the party rose from the table colonel house offered a toast to the governor as the man on whom the eyes of the nation are focused it will be remembered that colonel house recently announced that he was corresponding with leading democrats with a view to promoting pres presidential dentin prospects among the guests guest at the luncheon was henry like house a wee cluse friend of 0 woodrow wilson and it Is believed he has associated himself with louse house in tills this movement with the sanction 0 of f roosevelt although i the governor 1 lias ins not yet beclar declared ed himself a candidate for the presidential nomination A A L caponn CAPONE the worlds most noaa dorious gangster will have to spend some years in leavenworth penitentiary before federal judge wilkerson Wll kerson in chicago lie he pleaded gull gulf ta t to indictments for evasions of income tax payments and for con conspire spir acy to violate the prohibition law he will be sentenced on june 30 to from two to four years in prison sixty eight members of ca pones gang also are under in indictment fur fir the liquor law conspiracy y ca pones rule as king of gangland Is ended JUAN T UAN pere z obeying a n demand made by the congress of venezuela resigned from the presidency of that republic after evading for some time the oral and written suggestions gest ions lons of members of congress that lie he step out of office the drive him ahlm against juan juan vicente lalit gomez was manngen bed by sup porters of juan VI cente gomez who were ft ere determined debei mined that the veteran should resume the place lie he held for 20 years from the time of castros downfall until tiny may 1929 lie retired then on ills his own motion and when ft hen perez was elected to succeed him the constitution was amended to permit gomez to become commander ln in calef of the army and to be responsible only to congress an academic rattier rather than active type president perez left the task of putting down insurrections three of chich ba have ve occurred since he took ruffice to general gomez and his army of men gomez in fact his been almost as much the ruler of the country since retiring as lie he was before and his return to the presidency in the election set for june 19 10 was considered certain ile he Is getting to be an old man but retains his youthful vigor and eness and probably Is the man venezuela needs all the traditional WITH ditto dit ional nal splendor and ceremony paul doumer was nas inaugurated as the new president of the french republic succeeding 0 gaston dou bergue premier lavat called at the senate for ai M doumer and took him to the presidential palace py paul their automobile ben boum doumer ing escorted by cavalry through throngs of cheering citizens as the artillery fired the 21 gun salute at the palace the retiring president transferred his office to his bis suf fessor and ai 11 doumer received the insignia of grand master of the legion of honor from the hands of general duball head of the organization president dent dommers Do umers first official act was to go to the city hall ball and be received by the council after which he proceeded to the are arc de and there in a solemn ceremony re lighted the eternal flame at tile the tomb of the unknown soldier this rite was especially moving tor for M doriner lost tour four of his five sons in the war president doumer received the resignation of premier pierre laval and his cabinet and urgently requested laval to retain his office the latter consented orisen ted and offered for the prest dents acceptance an unchanged inin astry including foreign minister bri arid aid NEARLY EARLY persons most of them flomen and children perished when ft hen a french excursion steamer cup cap sized near st nazaire during a storm only eight of those aboard the vessel were nere saved the submarine nautilus carrying sir hubert wilkins under ice fee polar expedition was disabled to in midat mid atlantic by the breaking down of her engines and was taken in tow by the american warship wyoming ARDINAL SEGURA the exiled C CARDINAL primate slipped back into spain the other day but was promptly apere bended and ushered out again across the french border ills presence in spain threatened a recurrence of the attacks on church institutions for the radicals were enraged by tile the news of his return the vatican protested ills his expulsion 0 ONE NE more member of the federal farm board the third within a few months has bas resigned from that body ue Is samuel R McKelv mckelvie le the wheat member of the board and he said that as his term lad had just ended presidential acceptance of his nation was not necessary ills his sor eor has not yet been announced mr air McKelv mckelvie le who took part in the re cent grain conference in london will retire to his large live stock in nebraska NETTA ETTA DUCHAT nAU of was selected as miss universe at the international beauty pageant in galveston texas silo sho Is seven seventeen teel years 0 old I 1 d and has long dark halt ball ia 1931 western Now paper union I 1 |