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Show Ski Meet Big Success Ample Snow and Facilities Make interest In Increased skiing, plenty of snow, and ample facilities for the sport are combining to give Chicago the greatest ski winter in its history. The season opened with the annual tournament at the Grand Beach slide. 1 Overflowing of the River Slain at Frankfort, necessitating emergency extension of the great steel bridge. 2 Members of Greek commission in Washington, who want new loans. 3 Henri Berenger, new French ambassador, conferring with Secretary of State Kellogg. g NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Senates Tax Bill Reduces Revenues $352,661,000 World Court Debate. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. SMOOT, chairman of the C ENATOR senate finance committee, formally to the senate the new tax bill Wednesday and It probably will be called up for debate and action within a few days. The prospects for fairly early passage of the measure are good and tax payers are advised to delay filing their schedules until the Treasury department gives them notice. , Official treasury estimates furnished the finance committee show that the finance coiymittee bill reduces revenues by $25,500,000 more than the house bill, the total loss under the house measure being $327,1G1,000, as against $352,001,000 under the finance . committee bill. The estimates show that in the calendar year 1!)2G the retroactive estate tax provision will mean a loss of the cnpitnl stock repeal will rneun a loss of $08,500,000. The cut in cigar taxes will mean a loss of $4,000,000 more than under the house bill, stamp tax repeals will cost more in revenue than the house bill, and admission tax provisions will reduce revenues by $5,000,-00- 0 more than the house bill. Repeal of the federal estate tax as recommended by the senate committee Is favored by administration Republicans, but will be fought on the floor of the senate nnd even if passed there, may not be accepted by the house, which voted for continuance of the estate tax' at reduced rates. Senator Simmons of North Carolina announced he Intended to offer a modified sinking fund provision on the floor of the senate under which he believes the entire public debt can be wiped out In 26 years. He would provide that all foreign debt payments should be appVed toward the sinking fund, but he would increase the basic amount of the sinking fund from two and a half per cent of the domestic portion of the debt in 1920 to three and a half per cent. reported . were fireworks In the week over the World court resolution. Proponents of the measure but Senator sought quick action Blease of South Carolina started a filibuster Tuesday, talking for many hours. Next day Hiram Johnson of California and Jim Reed of Missouri made spirited attacks on the resolution. Both sides were preparing for a fight over cloture and there was a lot of discussion of the question of setting a definite date for taking a vote. Then Vice President Dawes took a hnnd with characteristic vigor. Speaking ov'er the radio on revision of the senate rules, he cited the methods of delay being used by opponents of the World court, and succeeded in riling Reed and Copeland, who said he had unjustly placed the aforesaid opponents on the defensive before the country. Lenroot, Curtis, and other senators said that as the debate had been going on intermittently since December 17 last, it was about time cloture was applied. The administration Is anxious to ' have this World court question settled quickly so that the tax bill can be passed, and probably most of the people in the country would like to see the upper house get down to attending to Important domestic legislation. THERE THE house committee on agriculture two proposals of legislation for the relief of the farmer were considered seriously. One was the export bounty plan offered by C. Reinold Noyes of St. Paul, and the other was the export corporation plan devised by Carl Vrooman, of Illinois several years ago and passed by both houses In 1921 but killed In conference. The latter plan provides for the creation of a farmers export financing corporation, with an initial capital of 0 and the power to Issue in debentures. The capital would be advanced by the government, which eventually would be reimbursed. The corporation would be authorized $200,-000,0- $800,-000,00- to extend credit on sound security to foreign purchasers of American surplus grain, cotton, tobacco, hogs, and beef cattle. On the floor of the house Representative Tincher of Kansas undertook to support In a speech the contention of President Coolidge that the tariff Is of benefit to the farmer. The Democrats bombarded him with questions, and Jones of Tennessee followed with an address In which he declared- that the iarmer gets no help from the tariff. Representative Strong of Kansas introduced a bill creating a federal board, composed of the secretary of agriculture, the secretary of commerce and five members appointed by the President, to determine crop surpluses and assist farmers in marketing them. The board would assume no liabilities for the government. - of a strong navy got when the house began consideration of the $331,431,787 naval appropriation bill, the outstanding features of which are decreases which will require the withdrawal of ships from active service, restriction of Advocates not the most serious side of It Federal Attorney Buckner will institute libel proceedings against the vessels., Former Pilot of Louisville Team Never Played in Major League. court-marti- , T'OCTOR LUTHER, reappointeo. chancellor of Germany by President von Hindenburg, has formed a new ministry that is expected to put into effect the Locarno pact. Strese-man-n remains as foreign minister. The Nationalists and Socialists are left out and Luther will have to have aid from either the right or the left wing to obtain a majority In the house, The Nationalists, who are trying to wreck the Locarno .treaties, will not help him, but probably the Socialists will in a pinch. Mainly because Peter Reinhold, an expert on economics, was made minister of finance, the business men of Germany are. warmly supporting the new cabinet and stocks havq risen on the bourse. . nlaneuvers and exercises, reduction of personnel, and the closing down of the Lakehurst airship plant Britten of Blinois charged that the measure was framed on a pacifist basis and that the committee on appropriations had ignored the recomV mendations of the secretary of the COUNT BETHLEN of PREMIER board the the navy general navy, apd Is trying hard to mainPresident. Considerable opposition de- tain a course in. the veloped to the Item of the bill appro- midst of all the row stirred up over for the priating $300,000 experimental the thirty-billio- n French franc forgery production of a metal clad airship. plot, and may be able to prevent a reor the volt by either the He is planning to rePRESENTING his credentials to M. Berenger, form the cabinet and It Is announced the new ambassador from France, told that a parliamentary commission of the Chief Executive that France is 25 will be named to Investigate the resolved to settle the debts contracted forgery plot. The Fascists will enfor her defense as promptly and as deavor to balk this inquiry. During a fully as her present and future poss- heated debate in parliament Bethlen ibilities will allow which, of course, asserted the counterfeiters had not is no more and no less than has been planned to revolt. It was an act of said repeatedly by official France. Mr. patriotism" he said, but the governCoolidge replied that it was his honest ment must oppose such patriotism. hope that a fair and honorable adjustment of the debt would be reached old Damascus has been bom- -' in the near future. The negotiations, POOR again by the French and at least; will not be delayed. The was left of the Shagour quarter what house has ratified the debt settlements was destroyed by shells because, the with Italy, Belgium, Latvia, Esthonia French alleged the Inhabitants were and Czechoslovakia. aiding the rebels. The population, it is said, has been reduced virtually to only one negative, vote the a state of famine. voted $50,000 to pay the expenses of the American delegates to the preliminary conference on disarm- SWEDEN and Denmark have signed arbitration treaty ament. Germany announces that its which outlaws war between those representative in that .conference will be Count voq Bernstorff, who was Ger- countries. It provides for the arbitraman ambassador to Washington when tion of all questions, not excluding those of national honor and vital the war broke out. A similar treaty already Is Interests. in effect between Norway and Sweden? to promulgate MEXICO proposes effective her new land nnd oil laws, regardless of the protest RUSSIAN officials of the Chinese of the United States. Last week Forrailway refused to transeign Minister Saenz issued an official port Chinese troops free, whereupon statement in which he denied that Chinese soldiers seized the trains and these laws were either retroactive or precipitated what may become a real confiscatory. He said they are based crisis. The Russian embassy at Tokio on a general principle, accepted in the announced that unless China complied United States, that foreigners cannot with the soviet demands in the matacquire certain rights unless they pre- ter, immediately releasing the trains viously declare their intention of be- and freeing railway officials who were but he imprisoned, Russia would send an coming Mexican citizens pointed out that the laws permit army into Manchuria. She holds the rights legally acquired by foreigners Chinese government responsible for prior to their enforcement, to be kept losses and damages occasioned and by those who have acquired them un- will Insist on compensation. The fortil' their death. eign consuls at Harbin also filed with Secretary of State Kellogg took is- the Manchurian officials a vigorous sue with the statements of Senor protest against the seizure of the The position of this govern- trains because of the obstruction of Saenz. has been the mails. ment, said, Sir. Kellogg, and still is that the land and laws contain provisions petroleum STORIES that representatives of which are plainly retroactive and conare with fiscatory in their effect upon property Mohammedan leaders in arousing narights heretofore legally acquired and tional and international discord are held by American citizens in Mexico to be Investigated by Dr. Henry S. under prior existing Mexican laws. Pritchett, who has just been sent to This position, which does not in any Egypt and the Near East by the Carsense question Mexicos sovereign negie Endowment for International Doctor Pritchett also will right to legislate on her domestic con- Peace. cerns, has been made perfectly clear make a study of the educational, soin the most frank and friendly terms cial and political movements in that to the Mexican government, both for- part of the world so as to advise the trustees of the endowment as to polimally and Informally." cies that might be adopted to improve conditions. enforcement agents PROHIBITION raided eleven forelgn-owne' ocean liners in the harbor CARLOS SOLARZANO having there and seized more than ten thouas president of Nicaragua, sand bottles of liquor worth between the office has been assumed by Gen. $50,000 and $100,000. Among the ships Emiliuno Chamorro. The United States were the Adriatic and the Franconfa, does not recognize the Chamorro govWrits for the destruction of the liquor ernment because it is established by were prepared at once, but this was unconstitutional means. 4 middle-of-the-roa- Photograph shows Jockey Morten-eon- , who is leading all the other jockeys at the New Orleans race track. Although getting stiff opposition from the rest of the riders, he manages to keep a smile on his face such as is shown above, and is noted for his sunny disposition. d ultra-radica- ultra-Fascist- WITH NEW CUB ot coi. wiiiiam Mit-- . was approved last week by the War department board of review, which considered only the legal aspects of the case. The sentence does not go Into effect until It has been passed on by President Coolidge and it is believed by many that he will reduce the five years suspension to two years, at the end of which time Colonel Mitchell will be eligible for retirement. Conviction ls Ederle as a Skater is joe McCarthy LEADER Leads All Jockeys Back in , 1911 when Jimmy Burke was manager of the Indianapolis team of the American association, he had a rookie by the name of Joe McCarthy working for him. McCarthy was an lnfielder and his second-bas- e play became so erratic and his batting so futile that Burke got sore one day and yelled at him: "You are no good at anything else, so just grab that bat bag and cart it to the clubhouse ! At the big league meetings the other day Joe McCarthy, new manager of the Chicago Cubs, hired this same Jimmy Burke to work for him as coach. And I think I will make Jimmy carry a bat bag at least once just to get even with him, said McCarthy with a grin, after telling the Indianapolis story on himself. As the Cubs are one of the famous teams of baseball, and Chicago the second city in the Union, the fans are keenly interested in this new manager about whom little was known in major circles when he was named by President Veeck to load his team for 1926. n Gertrude Ederle, a American girl swimmer, who attempted to cross the English channel last fell, when not swimming, prefers ice skating to any other sport. well-know- Joe McCarthy is a medium-buil- t Best Golfing Average Is man, strong face, quiet manner, gives Won by Willie Melhom John L. Sullivan knocked out 165 the Impression of having a level head and a lot of good common sense. He Fourteen of the leading professional men on his famous tour. won two pennants for Louisville and golfers of the country finished with developed some young players who an average of better than 75 for their Hong Fong Lee, aged twenty-sevean American-bor- n years tournament play. These figChinese, and promiures were based only on those who nent in boxing circles in San. Francishad taken part in twelve or more co as a heavyweight, has a record of rounds of championship play. eight knockouts. Willie Melhorn, who threatened to win several titles the past year, but Napoleon Lajoie, old second-bas- e star of the Cleveland club, has acceptdidnt, had the best mark, 72.33 strokes for twelve rounds. ed a position as commissioner of the Willie Macfarlane, the United league, an indeStates open champion for seventeen pendent organization. rounds, had an average of 73.23. He was third in the rating, MacDonald The football squad of the M oo ReSmith being second to Melhorn with heart (111.) high school lays claim to 72.44. the national championship, having Will Klein, who played more chambeen undefeated last season. Every member of the team is milk-fepionship rounds than any other profesto be exact, had a sional, twenty-nin- e mark of 74.55, bringing up the tail end Tentative dates, the weeks of Sepof the list. tember 23 and 30, have been named by the womens committee of the United States Golf association for the womans championship next year. Cyrus Lebourveau, left fielder, who was obtained from Nashville by the Kansas City club of the American association, has been traded for Fred Nicholson, outfielder of the Toledo club. , Receipts from all sports at Yale this year amounted to $S01,258, of which $690,372 was taken in at the football gate. The minor sport teams showed a deficit averaging about a piece. $3,-00- 0 Because of a tie In the election for the University of Missouri football team for next year, the team will have two leaders Pete Jackson of St Louis and R. F. Bacchus of Kansas City, both seniors next year. Arthur Trefz of Centralia, Mo., has been signed as a recruit catcher ,by the St. Paul club. Trefz, who is twenty-twyehrs old and over six feet tall, has had virtually no minor league experience. o . e lacombined crosse team will tour the United States next year, playing a series of international matches. Their first game will be with the University of Maryland on April 3. A Oxford-Cambridg- i There are nine major league twirl-er- s still using the spitball three in the National and six in the American. All of them are classed as veteran pitchers who have been using the spitball for ten years1 or more. d Rev. Charles H. Urban, the Fighting Parson, on the freshman football team of the University of Pennsylvania, has taken up wrestling for the winter. He is six feet one inch in height nnd weighs 102 pounds, and Is the father of two children. JporfinQiwbj The British embassy at Washington, Joe McCarthy, New Manager of the D. C., Is organizing a soccer team. Hong Fong Lee, aged twenty-sevean American-bor- n Chinese and popular have won fame in major league com- in boxing circles in San Francisco as a petition. He is a minor leaguer from heavyweight, has a record of eight A to Z. Never played in a major knockouts. league game in his life. Born and t raised in Philadelphia. He used to e The Texas law has done play both second and third base. He a great deal towards eliminating was made manager of the Wilkes-Barr- e blinding lights from the highway. This team of the New York State law went into effect September 1 and league when only twenty-fiv- e years has received the of motorold, the youngest manager In the rec- ists. , ord books of baseball. Then he went to Buffalo as a player in 1914 and 1915 By making a score of 100 to 0 the and did so well there that they lured Lyons high school of Rochester, N. Y., him to jump to the Federal league. established what is believed to be a That league was disbanded before Mc- record for basket ball, when its team Carthy ever played a game in a Fed met the Macedon high In a recent uniform. FTe went to Louisville in game. 1916 as a player. Was later manager and ended his playing days In 1920. Among new freak golf clubs is one Only once during nis long reign in in the form of a comb for use in the Kentucky metropolis did McCar- playing out of water. Another driver thy land his team out of the money, has a bored tube in the head of a in 1922, when he dropped club filled with quicksilver to give and that-wato sixth. The rest of the time he was added weight and whip in playing. class. up in the Reliable estimates place more than 600,000 school children in athletic comThree Indians Will Try petition in Greater New York, alone. are a million attending schools for Jobs With Chicago There in the city, therefore six out of ten Three Indians will camp with tts participate in some branch of athletics. White Sox at Shreveport, La., during the spripg training season, it was The New York Yankees lost 31 learned with the announcement of the games this season by a margin of one teams personnel. run, that the team possessed All three are rookies and come to little showing resourcefulness. The scoring the White Sox burdened with star- Yankee team temperament is of the tling minor league accomplishments. sort that can larrup ordinary pitching They are Lee Najo, outfielder from to the three corners with a slam-ban- g San Antonio, Texas; William Carney finesse that looks (food and wins by a of Ardmore, Okla., and Edward e good-sizemargin. But when oppoa of Little Rock, Ark., both pitchis more complex the bafe ing pitching , ers. ting shelves off. Chicago Cubs. anti-glar- s . , Mc-Be- d |