Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS placing germany in voluntary default Is big victory for francos dolcy PREMIERS IN SESSION AGAIN berlin four power agree ment for european plan for world conference kocul oil lands question may disrupt lausanne parley 4 dy by EDWARD W PICKARD I 1 DORAH BORAH heading SE SENATOR a group of mild reservation late and democrats has hai offered an amendment to the naval appropriations bill requesting queuing re the president to call a world con ference to discuss economic question and further limitation of armament what Is your opinion of the advisability of his 1 I ell IIA N hns has been declared by the reparations commission to be la in voluntary default in part of her reparations grat ions payments namely tile tho wood woo d deliveries due in this in itself itsek seem to be ot of great Im importance important ca but the action of 0 the commission r rep P resents a decided victory for france which has contended for a long ions time that germany could bo be placed la in colun tary default by a majority vote of tile the c 0 great britain holding the opposing cv had beon been supported by belgium Itel elura and italy but Is now deserted by them on this issue anti and her depre tentative senta tive cast the only vote against the action mussolini appe aral to have swung to 0 o the french side in the ina ions dispute and it mily may lie ile that in the session of tho the allied premiers in paris this week lie ho and theunis of will stand with nr leaving bonar law alone in his effort to restrain the french from talking tailing radical ical steps to collect from germany morn more than CO 00 per cent of germanys germanas Germ anys wood deliveries were made but bat she said she could do no more und that the delili erles for 1023 must tie he greatly reduced she also announces she con not deliver the ilia tons ton of 0 puro pure nitrogen due on reparations account because tile the german production of tills commodity la Is already far below doman tie Ir tirrance rance ac cordin to deml statements feels that unless she exacts forfeits front from germany title faces absolute ruin und and consequently sho she intends to get tho the forfeits even if apay inept in full cannot ile bo obtained how allow over ever it II care does not now intend to seize elze tile the fluhr valley alley by force of arms ills ilia present plan Is to fend end in customs officials to collect revenues reven aes ues and in ahli way wring tr from oin stinnes and the other rich industrial lats whose tho the gorman german gov hua bus so BO tar far refused to draw upon these ma maniates have steadily sten dlly opposed all plans for payment of war nar obligation anti and at the same banie amo t me have been piling up vast fortunes in a country that claims to be li en anti starving stanl ns naturally the french are bitter theta them a and n d n naturally adur atur a ily tw too france cannot stomach tho the ri ailcy lcy ilch malily tor for gentle g antle trea treatment merit of germany so BO that hat british trade tony tiny bere benent fir while PoIn caros cares program does not inn he n military invasion of the ruhr it provid for the tha uso use of tile army to protect the el villau official to bo be sent ent into I 1 that region judan by the pat such prot protection tion will be emary SATY SIAN ZY ha has jat jn tt made a Gln G tion to tho united states which possibly ost lily meet mith etli the of I 1 i eldont lIin Hns it Is that our round und the Uuro european pow r ni 1 ft disposition tu to enter in ia fk for power to pro pr I 1 ve c th pa p d 1 l r to tt th pacific I 1 treaty the four nations would lie great britain france italy and jermany anil and the ilia united states bould ile ho only an intermediary the peace term for E siope might ile be set at thirty years it Is argued tills this agreement would guar anteo antee france against gresslin by germany find end enable her to reduce her lit big standing army end anti also would guarantee Getina germany ny against further seizure of territory by the french president harding end secretary of state hughes uro are to move very carefully in matters relating to 13 drope but it la Is known that mr harding believes some such pact by which the nations will agree to consult one another before resorting to war will prevent warfare more surely than will any league to preserve pre berve herve peace resolution for S u a world conference on economics find and anna armaments ments alluded to nt lit tile head of tle ito column not only tins lias caused a lot of discussion in washington but bill also line has disrupted the tha young alliance between the farm and radical blocs in con congress congles gres the idalio idaho senator benator has seemingly broken away from the lie 1 roup group of and johnson of california already hns has loudly announced Ms ills opposition to tile the dorah borah plan lau ile iia says faye an aa economic parley of necessity must consider not only present conditions in europe but the ehg debts due to us and of course the reparations d due from germany were we to invite the Inter interested esteil tint lops to discuss these subjects la in order to arrive nt at understandings slid agreements with a mental reservation to take no part tn in the tie ultimate solution we ire would bo be guilty of a species of bad faith falth of which america line has never been guilty and which americans americana never con can tolerate it if wa bring the nations of 0 the ea earth rth here to washington for or such euch a c conference on ference well dump into americas lap tho the economic ills of europe and the reparations muddle roud dla if officially we sit it down with the other nations who meet at our invitation and reach an understanding and agreement we me are in honor hollor bound to carry out and execute that agreement and the very instant Ins trint wo we undertake to carry out an agreement to enforce reparations that hat instant we abandon the HIP traditional policy of america wu become n part of the european Lur scheme schema of things and wo en enter ter upon that course front from which we have so recently escaped and which our people so overwhelmingly repudiated ili borah insists there la Is bothin in ills ilia program maintaining that it Is up ta to the united states to point a way to stability and peace in europe but that it la net ot necessary for this nation to ta enter to carry out agreements because the borah plan looks to the restoration of tile the european market for or american agricultural products it Is regarded with favor by the lie members of the farm blot blo ot of the oil fields C way tuny yet wreck the ibe lausanne pence peace conference ismet pasha nutt nott fied the british delegates that turkey would maInts fil her claim to ownership of the vilay tt and ulal not accept the itie british contention that it Is a part of iraq anil and therefore of neso pot aroln arnin over which there la Is n british mandate in reply Ilar marquis quis curzon in formed fu nut the turks lint flint great britain neur neier would abandon the Stol lail ond and that no prolongation of fill ahn conference would influence the british government to atle from in tills this matter lord curzon curton paid the british hod had expelled the lie turks turk from nm the region and RU had occupied anti administered lt that they alad promised to free the arabs from turk ish rulo rul and to establish the government ot or iraq and had bad given their not 01 ol cain pledge that no foreign power 1 hould ti be allowed to take tiny of tills territory to these pledges lie said britain would steadfastly nd nil liere lord curzon however howd to line uru brit ish experts meet witto with to define the northern boundary loun dary of iraq tills statement by marquis curzon Is too gat flat to to ile he taken as A billit and it seius certain that aliat it if the turks d a n nut it wish to have tho the conference break up tip they their must mast yield the turl have nereca that the non moslem tc slem minorities in turkey tn en liy free freedom flow under Turkish lawa without distinction us to nationality re 1 I 1 llalon or language they are also will 1119 to 10 allow tile the greek patriarch to remain lit in constantinople hut but purely in ili a religious capacity the straits question it Is believed believe will be settled on the basis of on an international coul conr mission that will supervise the passage of 0 ships but will luve no control over ilia fortified forill led zones great sensation Bena atlon tho the L louisianan LOUI murder of two men by a inus keil kioh 1110 tile lie finding lin lins of decapitated boales bodles tint anil the arrest of a fo bomer fomer wae deputy sheriff and a former mayar of the atio imin of mer ater begins to look like a tempest in ill it so tar far no evidence has been made public that proves tile crime was us committed by tile lit klux klan and though file klan Is trung strong t la in that part of the suite state tile 1 a does doca not appear nt at tins tills distance tu to bo be lilly nn real ical need of th atio state troops which were called out by governor parker tile bodies were nere brought bro unlit to the of 0 lake la fourche loy liy a mysterious dynamite explosion whose authors aut liora line have beell sought by state and federal nudes audes thorl the former mayor maior of mer ler dr 11 II sl bI cHoln was ar arrested rented in baltimore and charged with murder lie ile denies guilty knowledge of the crime and also denies having been a member of the klan though he defends its activities in hla his town doth both and the klan were ft ere avowed of the hie bootleggers and moon mon who in that part of louisiana slana anil and this fact explains much of the row 14 and other reform L movements some of which have hav a been chissel as pari tunis in have lost one of their staunchest liast work ork erst era inthe in the death of llev ur dr wilbur F crafft who tor for elshot yea years ra hit has Is been of the intent a reform bureau in washington with almost fanatical xeal teat lie fought the liquor and narcotic palls sunday sunda 7 amusements prize fights and other things he thought subversive of moral anil and he was a familiar figure in legisla tle five lobbies and committee rooms in tho the nat national lonal capital more liberal minded persons objected to him as a paid reformer and to tits his apparent influence on oil congress but lie he always fought back nt at them with vigor and frequently success doctor cratti will nho waa atna seventy three years old suc combed to pneumonia NATOn carian CA rinn head of th Sll 0 farm bloc sn says tile the ship subsidy hill it if enacted into law vill lend lead fill t ralda raids on oil tile the treasury by all sorts of at industries tile losses n still ship subsidy in alt all would bring on tills ills country cannot be figured he ha hilt but I 1 cannot see how haw tile the bub so I 1 saily ran con do anything anee then to pile up a lot ot or costs against the government go emment eminent and start no an still sidy aldy war M with ft ith circles of international subsidies and a very cry harmful series of auld or attempted raids on tile the areus ury try b by here nt at home why throw money after ind we wa lost more than of public money in a merchant marine that cannot operate ope rote it seems see rull to me topo other wily out must he b found 1131 workers Work cra party of america hoa has TI tieu just held its beronil annual con vent mention lon in now new york ork in the course of which it declared for the dictatorship of the ond and the supplanting of the COPI tall at guV emment ill it soviet t governments government en eminent 1 they gilld not at this time accept openly and un qualifiedly the he principles of the coni co m internationals ale nt at moscow ism nd I 1 its program of armed revolution but the apih berti it quite plain eatn ill fit ahli tam aa due not to luck hick of fill all sym bym liatha with the t but to lo far of and by tile tho federal government tile conven a n cies sage to the MOTION in acri reporting that hut it hall hail de dc voted itself to the ilia constructive work orli of building a po poa erful revolutionary movement mote tn in america resolutions adopted deed barred nil all workers wor liera in tills country to tc join in a to compel the gov BO eruct hinnent int of tho the united states to roco nizo russia ISu isla anti grant brant a lon loin loan for dussias Ilus Rus aliis sias recon str attached the lie ku klux klan and hie file american legion eslon 1 and endorsed indorsed Indor sed the allm 1111 elan american Indusi trial n |