Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS EVENT structural weakness apparent cause of tragedy of the giant airship 2 FAULTS mm KNOWN IN IH ENGLAND congress takes take thirty day recess after discarding antl beer bill panama yields yield coto to costa rica at uncle sams sama command and goes into mourning by EDWARD W PICKARD the hull structure Is in general principles of standard type such as used la in zeppelin airships and in earlier british types but a very considerable sid erable saying saving of structural weight has been effected by a largo large number of improvements in details det alls this excerpt from the official british description of the 2 seems to ey er plain the disaster befell the giant clant dirigible while on its trial trip last wednesday the saying saving of structural weight was effected at the he fx cx pense of the lie entire airship and the lives of 40 46 of the men who manned tier her according to survivors an abrupt change of direction when the yes ves eel was above hull strained the framework beyond its strength it broke in two in the middle unit and fell into the humber river terrific explosions included in the dead were commander louis 11 IL maxfield and ani 15 more of the american crew which was to bring the airship to the united states rind and british air commodore Commo ilore 1 I M mauland maitland and 29 of the english crew only one american a rigger was among tho th e survivors sun ivors 2 was the he largest airship Mr still ever constructed and was waa built by the british 1 government for the united states navy the price was jo 0 o be of course na an she had not yet been turned over to the americans americana the financial loss does not fall on the american government the catastrophe waa not a great to those in eng land who had watched the building and testa of the lie airship on several seve ral preliminary trials defects and weaknesses were uncovered red and the float final 1 trial flight which ended so an disastrously had been postponed repeatedly though the weather seemed entirely favorable tt it la Is bald arild that enlisted men of the he british air service stationed at how den had bad offered t to 0 bet ten to one that the dirigible never would get the atlantic that they hey declared it was structurally weak and impossibly large with wit h unreliable engine and a framework incapable of standing the lie strain of its own xa tons us of dead weight while in the air news of the disaster di reached washington wahington while a congressional commit tee was waa listen listening lox tr to argit arguments ments in favor of an appropriation for the completion of zit 1 an american hullt built comps companion nion ship of tait ali an 2 on which more than a million dollars already bits hn been expended officers of the naval bureau of aeronautics are confluent that the navy will 1 permitted to continue its rigid airship building program notwithstanding the loss of 2 plans for the all akl 1 l call for nn airship of slightly smaller size than ilian the an 2 a length of OTO feet diameter about 80 feet and ROS cala capacity effy of approximately cubic reet reef the total cost coat Is estimate l it at her desI designers gnem have adhered adli adi cred ered more closely than tho the british to in the hie structural plans of the lie germans Gen who were ix original builders or of aigid airships nir shIps the linval gas extracting plant nt at port fort worth already line has stored enough helium gas to till fill tho the envelope of helium Is far less dangerous than hydrogen gas being tile me anto wednesday night congress nil loureed for a 30 day recess or until september 2 21 tile the finance remain rei tn on the joh job to tf continue its work woric on th 04 iff rind ind the ilia tax rc ruslon slon ineas aurer I 1 1 w which the house has passed among the bills va passed wed at the closing session were the agricultural credits credit measure the it chipping hIpping board deficiency bill of WAY with its amendment carrying for expenses of the adli dl P armament conference end and the live ani mih R ure extending the dye ern embargo bargo anid until january 1 chief interest in the senate centered about the anti beer bill which was attacked at length by senators aeed and stanley tiie the dry leaders found by test votes that the could not be carried tie so they allowed it to be thrown into the discard they failed even to la their effort to have hae it made the tin unfinished finished business when th the f nate enate reconvenes the more fanatical of the prohibition leaders are to be blamed for the failure of this bill for they rejected all Cont compromise promise and by their stubbornness led the wets to tn form a temporary coalition with the agricultural bloc the members of the latter helped kill the antl anti beer measure in return for the support of the wets for the farm export credits bill which won was in danger of being abeln caught in the jam and held up in definitely this thin credits bill empowers the war finance corporation to issue of its own bonds bondi and to lend for financing agri agrical cul tural exports the house refused to agree to senate provisions which would allow the corporation to lend directly to european purchasers of the hut but the compromise mill III allow the finance corporation to t lend to anybody provided satisfactory cOlin collateral terni Is furnished to it for the sums advanced japan has formally accepted the invitation vi tation to the washington conference and its embassy Is obtaining accommodations for a delegation of about eighty persons A large residence an office building and a section of one ot of the hotels have been rented since the meeting of the japanese diet probably will keep premier iiara ham at homo home the japanese delegation Is likely to be headed by either foreign secretary or viscount chinda in its note of acceptance the japanese government expressed the hope bope that tho the agenda of the conference on far eastern affairs would be arranged prior to the meeting in accordance with its suggestion that matters matten concerning only it few nations or which are ac cOmplis hed facts be not brought into the discus clon so far nobody hits has shown any intention of supporting this proposition of the japanese which of enorse is I 1 put forward solely in behalf of of their own selfish interests they do not wish to fie be asked about shantung or tap or manchuria great britain also accepted the invitation to the conference last week in a graceful note that contained nu no rt restrictions strict ions or qualifications the rep of the republic of south china are still mill taking asking recognition in washington and a bid to the meeting the they Y a S seil chrit the people raple of south china have set met up a of their own that owes no allegiance to the peking government and that they constitute a full halt hair of tile lio population of china alie republic of Is officially in mourning president pre adent porras hns has ordered the flog flag displayed at half mast on till nil public bull buildings ding q for one month bemuse costa nian pets gets the lie disputed territory of coto will not feek by borce to prevent its neighbor from occupying the district because the united statts states dinst wei 1 told her that the terms of the white award must he be accepted and lint warfare var fare between panama anti and costa illen would not he be permitted porena then lind find no other course ahalt to yield though ids his foes probably will allt anke tnt of his plight rind attempt to oust ourt him from office it la Is sinla they hoy are anre trying to org a revolution anti this MIA may give some occupation cu to the bat battalion tallon of ani american e rican ina in rines that wres sont lown dawn to tit the limus ostensibly to protect american property and lives if the lie Panni Pan amans nans did not give in when bids tor for the wooden rt fleet were opened hy by the lie united stats states shipp shipping frig board there was but one bidder for the me entire fleet tile the ship construction conand st and trading of vew york mila concern offer pil to tal take e the 2 eals Is ns as bt at 2100 each or a total of although tills thin won was less I 1 than han the estimated abr aier age cost ot of one of the ships the board agreed to accept the offer most of 0 the vessels have been lying idle in the james river and it hns hits been costing the board almost a month to care for them twenty were reserved men ed to be sold at highest prices and fifty others may bo be kept for or use as pontoons pon for the building of the proposed bridge across the hudson river the pence treaty with germany has haa been completed and lost last week was shown to the members of the senate committee on foreign relations and also to other senators all who saw it expressed their approval of the pact and it was to be signed in berlin it must now he ratified by the senate and the reichstag the treaty provides for the resumption of diplomatic and commercial relations between the two countries awards the united states the fruits of victory in the versailles treaty rind and provides for the payment by germany of american war damage claims A similar treaty has been negotiated aith austria and signed at vienna unless the dublin correspondents correspondent are wrong another impasse in the irish pence peace negotiations has been reached de valera doll dall elreane tind and the irish republican council after long debate have drawn up their re ply to lloyd georges offer and its dla patched it to london presumably its c contents will be made public before t tills his reaches the render it Is asserted now that the british offer has been rejected and no counter tion made by the irish nit hut that the way la fit left open for further neg negotiation otla the sain si nn irein feln lenders belloma the premier Is not sincere when lie he says anys great britain has made its ultimate offer they think the truce will not he be broken by their hon and that mr lloyd george will make further concessions the cloman catholic church intervened in the irish controversy last week with a message to de valera from the highest authority delivered by the lord bishop of dromore drombore Dr the source of the message and its ita purport were not made public federal officials have punctured n financial bubble they assert in the arrest of diaries charles NV french partner of john W worthington already in custody and a number of his associates in various parts of the th 6 country co antry these men inen it la Is charged were selling stock in 1 20 10 companies all organized by french and having a total capitalization of 0 more than the federal agents have seized about 27 in suspicious paper and are getting confessions from several of the gang developments in the case are coming dally of concrete entert Inter cut in the south and at least academic interest in the rest of the country Is the decision of federal Fe leral judge boyd in Oreen greensboro N X C holdi holding nir unconstitutional the federal law imposing it ft tax of 10 per cent on the profits derived from products on which child labor li Is employed regulation of labor judge boyd hneil ruled Is one of the powers re trilled ly by the states anti not delegated to the fett federal erat government state chill child labor laws are to caro for the situation and provide a n penally not it a tax ar an li Is proposed it by tile the net of congress the he decision sold said the attempt of the federal government to regulate labor within tho the state Is n usurpation of authority and A violation of the lie sovereign rights of the state the judge decided the railroad company pany hn hns i again challenged the right of if be federal selwny labor board to in the roads road ii policy in deallo with its employees nal tint lias has neweLl re the tight light for the he open shop hop the pennsylvania in on nn application filed by samuel ren president dented denied tho the leR fUty of the bonnis refusal to rec nire n recent election of representatives oj of the employees tho ballots which selected them made no provision for unions us its luell lucli and the board ordered it a new el celecon econ n prec crib ing the form of the ballo bellote aberm ments entered into subsequent m ts the n amt election wera declared |