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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Election Day Results in New York, Detroit and Elsewhere. By EDWARD W. PICKARD GOV. AL SMITH'S stock as a Presidential Pres-idential nominee possibility, already al-ready pretty high, took quite a jump as a result of the elections in New York state. The Democratic organizations organi-zations elected nearly all their candidates candi-dates in the metropolitan district, but the party's biggest victory was in the vote on the nine proposed constitutional constitu-tional amendments. The governor opposed op-posed the sixth of these, to lengthen the term of the governor to four years and hold the state elections in Presidential Presi-dential years, and this was defeated by a huge majority. The other eight proposed amendments, all supported by Bmith, went over by big votes. One of them raises the debt limit of New York city so that additional bonds fr $3OO.0W'OO may be issued for new subway construction. The adoption of this was considered a personal victory for Mayor Walker. Detroit's exciting mayoralty election resulted in the defeat of Mayor John W. Smith, an avowed enemy of prohibition, prohi-bition, by John C. Lodge, the candidate candi-date of the Anti-Saloon league and other reform organizations on a Lme dry program. However, the glee of the drys was somewhat tempered when Mr. Lodge, who had maintained silence during the campaign, asserted that he was absolutely free from obligations obli-gations and pledges, and continued: "This wet and dry matter was dragged into the campaign. It was never an issue. We can have orderly law enforcement without asking the aid or advice of the professional drys. with the emphasis on 'professional.' There will be positively no 'snooping.'" In Ohio the Anti-Saloon league met with defeat when the voters rejected the Marshall bill which would place justices of the peace on a fee salary-basis salary-basis and thereby give them authority to hear and decide cases involving infraction in-fraction of the prohibition laws. Lovers of horse racing and those who like to bet on tie ponies rejoiced In the victory of Judge Flem D. Sampson, Samp-son, Republican, over J. C. W. P.eck-ham. P.eck-ham. Democrat, for governor of Kentucky. Ken-tucky. The winner made his campaign as a friend of racing, and the loser was opposed to it and to pari-mutuel betting, and the Kentucky Jockey club took a most active part in the light. Senator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania scored in Ph:Iad"lphia. where his campaign manager. Harry A. Maokey, was elected mayor, defeating de-feating J. Hampton Moore. Citi-Z'-ns' party candidate. Put this rn;iv involve Mr. Vare in a new slush fund scandal, for the Citizens' party council asserts that the Vare forces expended "approximately -Sl.-tiO.Of'O" and crowded the polls with watchers and workers, "some of whom not only intimidated voters but doled out copious allowances of $10 notes nnd di-pened liquid refie.-hments kiv-tst.lv." kiv-tst.lv." Wherefore the council may 6ee; to invalidate the election. At this writing it appears certain that J. noes Itolph. Jr.. was re-elected mayor of San l"ran isc.i. defeating James I-i. Power. IndiaiiapolN has a new mayor, who will serve until II':, ii. when the manager sy-tem gee, into effect. He is I.. K;-t Slack, friii"r I'niie, S;ate, di-triot i; t lorney, aro ho wa-: elected bv the city com, i ; to till the nio-. pi r d lop. i of John I ' ' i -. : t i I . who re-s'g;n re-s'g;n d a , : or convict inn of corrupt practice.. Si,:.-!; at time-.; h:n ervcl ati tit'or;,. y for ll.e l.f ii and for t';e ,t ; .,:,, 'o: IT.o. ,. i- pop, , ";. a o V, I!'; fpe., :. . .int o.;t he , , .,i : ; -:. and h: o,l,. , ore , a!w - If. .1 hi-' legal foe O'l. i- 1 1 ; ' HO e, ,.,1 i, vi r the p! !"" n ' a a l.ii.gt-.n v. here ,i ,. ; ; .,p. i. in-..- i... ellr. , -,., p 'ci , to hp, tic I all Pie lair j i p.- r,r t ., . il, the juror to i i p; . ; ... a. ' . ill .11.1' Wi'li mi .1 P.' It'll . ,o , of Ii" d' l e. I i '. e n:-.,,.y V. ho c (,;! ,,: i . "- . it e eicplo;. I'd 1 y per -on acting for the defense, souglit to justify justi-fy the actions of his men. assort ins that the defense had the same right to shadow and observe juries as the prosecution has. An apparent attempt at-tempt to start a bade tire was the charge made by P.urns' men that a young assistant attorney general had had improper contact with one of the jurors, but this fell through. A. Mason Ma-son Day and Sheldon Clark. Sinclair company otiiciais who were charged with directing the operations of the detectives and receiving their reports, refused to testify before the grand jury as to who actually hired and paid the investigators and what relationship re-lationship existed between iliem and Harry Sinclair. Coth Day -and Clark were arrested and held under bonds. Every P.urns operative who was sent to Washington for the Teapot Tea-pot Dome job was quizzed by the government prosecutors in t'.ie effort to establish the identity of two strangers stran-gers who approached Jurors J. J. Costinette and Ci. P. (Ironfall, as related re-lated by those two men to the grand jury. Si:VF.P,.M. thousand residents of the Mississippi valley, with Mayor Thompson of Chicago and a big delegation dele-gation of his admirers at tin ir head, went to Washington ami presented to the. house committee their demands for eomprehen.-ive Hood control legislation. legis-lation. Mr. Thompson. (Inventor Small of Illinois. Mayor 0'Ke;f of New Orleans Or-leans nnd a number of others addressed ad-dressed the committee, and while no specific legislative program was proposed pro-posed there vvas agreement among the speakers that the fcd-ral government must assume complete responsibility for the adoption of a program to avert future flood disasters on the Mississippi. Missis-sippi. Willingness was expressed for the most part to support whatever program might be recommended by the army engineers. There was insistence in-sistence that other legislative projects, which might he attached to a Mississippi Missis-sippi flood control hill, be kept separate. sepa-rate. While in the national capital Mayor Thompson readied an agreement with C.eneral Jadwin. army chief of engineers, engi-neers, in Chicago's water meter dispute dis-pute with the government. tEV ENGLAND'S floods, which i N spread d:Jalh anil disaster throughout several stales, are subsiding, subsid-ing, but the conditions in the stricken regions are so serious that President Coolidge and the Ued Cross were asked to go to the rescue. I'.ilterly cold weather, impassable roads, shortage short-age of food supplies and threatened outbreaks of pestilence combined to render the situation of the people desperate. des-perate. About loll lives were los; in the floods, and the damage to property probably will run far into the millions. mil-lions. Farmers lost great quantities of live stock and in many cases nil their, buildings were swept away. In cities and towns along the rivers the losses of both lives and property were heavy. CONTRACTS calling for the eoti-slrttcliort eoti-slrttcliort of eight Atlantic cargo airplanes, similar to the one piloted across Ihe pacific to Hawaii hy Lieu tenants Maitland and I legeiiherger have b: en let by the War department. The planes will co-t approximately ",.". O'KI apiece. They a re tri ttiotoreil i-ion.u Poc-s with a capa'ily of ten pop. i, ns to each plane. FROM na'ive sources comes the story of t'-.v heroic light ami tragic death of Lieut E. A. Thomas and S.-rgl. -Era nk Dow.hll. American marine ma-rine aviators who were hilled l.v Nicaragua!! Nica-ragua!! relpls several Weeks ago When Ha ir plane era- hod I hey escape! es-cape! unhurt and made their way toward to-ward .licaio. capiuring two pri-oners whom I hey met. (Hie of t he :e men 'ilddei'lv anaol.ed one of ihe marines with ii uii'de-le. severely .... ,,un. I'., :.. him. The o'le-r marine shot tl ,. p-hol .lead, but the other prp. in r lied and carpel o;d of the ha!ipe:i;ii'.. ,i Sall-dil.o. Sall-dil.o. Tl e outlaw lea,!--,- seal a fi, !',,. that t t ".pp. d I he ! 1 1 ; ! r i 1 1 e - in a '-a V e Pi the d. p 'fate fi.:! t thai followed Ihe .Si n t h ai,- I :it. d a niiirlict of l ,. gilol'li!! I- hi fore Illei were I hen i el . ; -hot to deal h, Q-llVII'.T RES. I. c Id. rate, I the v) len'li aniiiw-i any of the P.el-.hei ik i-eoutioti v.ilh gr at dcaa.n .! ra I h ns in Moscow and ether cities. In the j capital a wild, cheering throng or a! million men. women and children J marched through the streets, passing before the tomb of Lenin, on which j stood President Kalinin of the soviet j union. Thirty thousand troops umi -r j General VoroshilotT took part in the parade. In Shanghai. China. rand liar bin. Manchuria, the White Russians staged counter demonstrations and there were bloody encounters between the two -factions, which were finally ended by the consular guards. OEYMOER PARKER OILP.F.RT. the American agent general for reparations repa-rations payments, scolded the German federal states recently for their lax administration of finances, and part of the German press and puldic w'as greatly offended by what w:is considered consid-ered dictatorial interference. E-'pe cially was P.avaria angered, and that state and Wur'temborg threatened to separate from the German republic and join Austria. It developed latei that Mr. Gilbert issued his warning at the instigation of the government In P.erlin to open the way to ndministia tive reform and financial economi -s Chancellor Marx planned a trip to Munich to calm down the P.avnriausv FRANCE has arranged for the (lis posal of -575J " .( M in government f per cent bonds to the Swedish Match company and thus wi'd lie enabled to retire the balance of the S per cent ' Morgan loan of Pol. Financiers in ! Paris believe the Swedish concern ! expects sooner or hiler to get the very ' lucrative French match monopoly I-'rom the start the Swedes will win important commercial advantages hy ! the deal. The French agree to buy i millions of francs worth of match ' making machinery, w hich the Swedes j alone manufacture, in the hope of try- i ing to make a good thing out of the monopoly, the potiential value of . which is eviihnt from the fact that; everybody in the world wants to exploit ex-ploit it. GEN. ARNULFO G( i.MEZ, Presiden-; tial candidate in Mexico, und chief of the late insurrection, was cap tured with a number of his supporter.-in supporter.-in the uiotintain region of the state, of Vera Cruz by Gen. Gonzalo Esco bar. Gomez and his nephew, Fran oisco Vizoarra, were summarily tried by court-ti'artial and executed. Later; several of the military ollieers who had followed his fortunes were con detuned and shot. Generals Mains and Espinosa, lead ers of the Vaqui Indians lately In re bellion against tie? Mexican goveit. meiit, have surrendered nnd with Coo of ihe Indians were taken to Mexici City. The Vaquis were lodged in bar racks to await forced enlistment Ii various sections of the army. The en lire tribe will he dispersed in accord anee with Ihe plans laid hy Genera' llbngen some lime ago. C( il.i IRAI M 'S coal-mine strike seem- to he fizzling oul, for the men have lost nearly all their leaders. Thirty j of them were arrested by Ihe state police in a concerted drive designed ! to pnl an end to illegal picketing, and ! though new leaders sprang up. the I men appeared to have lost heart and ' were reported returning o work in' considerable numbers, (in Ihe olhei ' hand I here w ore sloi'ies of plots lo storm liie jails at W'alsenhtirg and Pueblo and release the imprisoned agitators, and at Ihe former place a mob of- i hi strikers attacked a squad' of stale policemen and sevi pely heal six National Guard oliicers. MII.I.Ii'ENT linOERS. daughter oi Henry II Rogers of New York who lecen'lv divorced Count Salu von I loor t ract -a. was married h.si week lo Ar'ttro I'opoia Kanios of , i-geiilina. i-geiilina. It was reported 1 1 1 hriih received s: from her falher a- SI Wedding I'll. The couple sailed fn, the g I'Miia's home in .'out U A taeiica A M iTIIIi". v.o-Ming, of mot-,. ni,.-e ni,.-e I in Europe, was that of Pi-ii, ce- ; Aii! f I raie e. d nplii.-r of tin ilul.o of Giti .... pi .'tender to the t lii'inn of a le e, and 1 'l ne'e A tnad -o Em herto. ilul.e of Apulia and , -in , the king of Italy. The c.-re iy w:e peifniuicl III Naples and was wit lie- -'d by ii brilliant pi ! henna tha-included tha-included Ihe I; in: - i of Italy and Spa it nnd many laemliers of I he nobility. |