Show 44 4 0 t L JK IL 4 1 Q V 41 na k 40 1 ahree or tile Atu american erlean nu un oil cluty in ill tile 4 aillia 11 aiu aliu tire ur trying to let dilim gt amany a f atte tie left tn to likht I 1 of f rome konar arity of angland I of italy end and theunis of 3 lius trolling Mr in ili the girt cirik lens ng with mith ills NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS placing germany in n voluntary default Is big victory for frances poky PREMIERS IN SESSION AGAIN 1 berlin suggests four power agreement for european peace plan for world conference oil land question 04 may disrupt lausanne lusanne parley by EDWARD W PICKARD BORAH heading S SENATOR a group of mild reservation late and democrat democrats has offered an amendment to the naval appropriations bill requesting the president to call a world conference to discuss eco economic nomia questions and further limitation of armament what Is your opinion of the advisability t y of this action has been declared b by y agthe the reparations commission to be la in voluntary default in part of her reparations payments namely the wood deliveries due in lu 1921 lids in itself doean t seem to be of greut breut Import importance axim but the action of the commission represents a decided victory for france which has contended tor for a long time thata that ermany could be placed in volun tary default by a majority vote of of the great britain holding the opposing lew bad been supported eup ported by belgium and italy but Is now deserted duier deer ted by them on this issue and her depre tentative cast cost the only vote against the action Musso mussolini lInt appears to have wung swung to the french side in ine eions dispute and it may be that in the session of the allied premiers in paris parts this week seek he and of belgium will stand with poincare leaving bonar law alone in his effort to restrain the french from taking rod md leal teat steps to collect from germany more than CO GO per cent of gemanis Gen Gem nanye anys wood deliveries were wera made but she said she could do no more am and that the deliveries tor for 10 1023 n must be greatly reduced she also announces she can not deliver the tom of pure nitrogen due on reparations account because the german production of this commodity in 1 already far below domestic requirements france according to gem deml 1 statements feels that unless she exact exacts forfeits from germany she facto ab absolute ruin and consequently ehe she in tends to get the tot forfeits felts even if pay ment merit in full cannot be obtained however does dos DOI not now intend to belze the ruhr valley by force of arms ills predent plan Is to send in costoma officials to collect revenues 1 and in this way wring reparations from stinnes and the other rich industrial lets whose resources the german gov eminent emment has so far refused ted to arn draw W upon these magnates have steadily opposed all plans for payment of war or obligations and at the same time have been piling up vast fortunes for times in a coun try that claims to be poverty stricken nod and stary starving InZ naturally the french are bitter against them ind natural lyt too france cannot stomach the british pulley policy nich rails calls mainly tor for gentle treatment of 0 germany so fo that british trado trade may benefit while CAres program does do not involve a military invasion of the thel luhr it provides for the use of the army to protect the civilian officials ollic lall to be sent into that reg glon judging by the past such protection will be necessary gaion GERMANY has just made a suggestion to the united untied states which may possibly meet with ith the approval of 0 president 11 arding it ie Is that our ol emment sound the european jow ow rn ers as to their disposition to enter into a four power agreement to t pr pre page tave the peace similar to the madae treaty the fur nations would be h rut mat iriina italy and ger many nil oil I 1 the united states would be 0 only y an intermediary the peace torm tor for t europe bo be set at thirty aini s it is 1 argued tills this agreement would gaur anteo trance against by and enable tier to her big sti linding army and olio also would krinn ny against further belzire of territory by the k reach are aident harding abd secretary of state hughes are disposed dix posed to move very camfill cam ani full in matters relating to europe but it Is known that mr harding arding ll be bellavy llevis cuch such pact by which the nati nations olis will agree to consult one another before res reporting to war ar will prevent warfare more surely than will aiji any league to pre preserve erve peace resolution for SEi S a world conference on economics and armament armaments alluded to at the head of the column not only hae bon caused a lot of discussion in washington Was liln ton but also has disrupted the tho oung alliance the funn furm and radical blocs in congre the idaho has ha seemingly broken away from the tile croup group of irreconcilable i and johnson of california already ims lins loudly an bounced his opposition to the boroh borah plan lie ile says an economic parley of necessity must consider not only present conditions in europe but the debts due to us and of course the reparations due from germany 11 ere we ire to invite the interested nations to discuss these subjects in order to arrive arrie at understandings and agreements v ellb ath a mental reservation res to take no part in the ultimate solution we me would bo be guilty of a species of bad faith of which america has never been guilty and bleb americans neer can tol crate erate it if we vre bring the nations of the earth here to 1 washington ashington tor for such a conference well viell dump into americas lap the economic ills of europe and the reparations muddle if officially we sit down with the other nations who meet at our invitation imitation and reach an understanding under gandIng and agreement we are in honor bound to carry out and execute that agreement and the very instant we me undertake to carry out an tin agreement to enforce reparations that instant we me abandon the traditional policy of america we W become a part of the european scheme of things and we me enter upon that course from which n xe e have so recently escaped and which our people so overwhelmingly repudiated mr borah insists there Is nothing inconsistent in his pro rom maintain ing that it Is up to the united states to point a way may to stability and peace in europe but that it lj Is not necessary for this nation to anti r into pledges to carry out agreement belauste tile borah plan looks to the restoration of the european buru market for american amerlean agricultural products it Is ts regarded with tilt favor by the members of the farm bloc bim C CONTROL of the oil fields may way vet wreck the peace conference ismet pashu noti fied the british delegates that turkey would maintain her tier claim to ownership of if th abo and could not accept the british contention that it I 1 Is a part of iraq and therefore of mesopotamia over which there Is a british mandate jo in reply marquis curzon it informed tho the turks that great britain never would abandon the alj yet and that no prolongation of the conference would influence the british government to recede from its position in this watter iatter it lord curzon said the british bad expelled the turks from the region and had occupied and administered it that they had promised to free the arabs from turkish rule and to establish the govern ment of iraq and had bad given their solemn pledge thai that no foreign power should be allowed to take any of this territory to these pledges he aid sald britain would steadfastly adhere lord curzon urion however agreed to have british expert experts meet with turkish experts to defene the northern boundary of iraq this statement by marquis curzon la 13 too aa att to be taken as a bluff and it seem seems certain that if the turks do not ditth to have the conference break up they must yield the borks have agreed that the non moslem minorities in turkey shall en joy freedom under turkish law laws without distinction 98 a to nationality re lapton or lang langweige wige they arp are also will ili to nilow allow the greek to in constantinople tilt I 1 ut purely in a religious capacity the traits straits question it Is believed believe will mill be settled on the basis busts of nn an international commission that III ill supervise the passage of hips ships but mill will hie 1 no control over the fortified zones great sensation the L murder of two men nien by a masked mob the finding ending of their decapitated bodies and the arrest of a fu fo nier iner deputy sheriff and a former mayar of the town of fee house rouge be begins ins to look like a tempest in a teapot so far no evi dence has been made public that proves the crime was committed by the ku K u 1 klux aux klan and though the tile klan Is strong rung in that part of the state there does not riot appear at this distance to be any real need of the state troops which acre ft re called out by Goer governor nor parker the bodies were ere brought to the surface of lake la fourche by a mst mysterious erious dynamite explosion whose authors inn lius been nought sought by state and federal au tin the fonner former mayor of sier rouge ur dr B II 11 51 koin was arrested in baltimore and chaired with murder he lie denies guilty knowledge of the crime and also denies hating hasing been bee a member of the klan though he defends its activities in bis his toun town both nickola and the klan were avowed enemies of the bootleggers and moon shiners who nourished flourished in that part of louisiana and this fact explains much of the row and other reform P prohibition some soine of which have been classed as obnoxious puritanism have lost one of their it worker ers in the death of rey dr wllbur wilbur P F crafts milio bu for twenty eight years has hem superintendent of the tile international reform bureau in washington alth ith almost fanatical zeal aej he fought the liquor and narcotic evils sunday amusements prize and other things he lie thought su bershe of mo morals anil and he was a familiar figure in legislative lobbies and committee rooms in the cat national lonal capital more blore liberal minded persona persons objected to him as a paid reformer tr and to his apparent influence on con confess ress but he be always fought back nt at them with vigor and frequently with success doctor crafts who maa seventy three years old combed to pneumonia CAPPER head of th S SENATOR farm bloc says the ship subside bill if enacted into law will ill lad tt raids on the treasury by all sorts sons ot 0 industries the losses a ship subsidy in all probability would bring on this country cannot be figured he ma a I 1 but I 1 cannot ice see how the subsidy can eon do anything more then than to pile up a lot of costs against the gobern ment and start an international subsidy war ar with circles of international subsidies and a very harmful series of raids or attempted raids on the treasury by industries Indu A here ut at home hoine why throw good money after bad find ll avent we lost more than 1 14 0 public money in a merchant marine that cannot operate it seems to me some other way may out must be found arile THE IN party of america has J just held its second annual coo con ien mention tion in new york lurk in tin the course of which it declared clarea de for the dictatorship of the proletariat and the supplanting of the existing cap top government ith a soviet government they did riot at this time accept openly and qualifiedly the principles 0 of I 1 the tbt coro com manist ale at moscow and its program of armed revolution but the speakers made it quite plain that this vas mas due not to tack jack of full sympathy with the internationals ale but to fear of prosecution and suppression by the federal government the tion sent a message to the moscow in ta reporting report lne that it bad had do voted itself to the constructive work of building a powerful revolutionary movement in america resolutions adopted urged all workers in this country to join in a movement to compel the government ernnie nt of the united states to gecox a nize soviet russia and grant a loan for Itus hlas attacked the ku ru klux klan and the american lesion legion and indorsed the INK elan dati american industrial |