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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Hoover Declares Himself for Change in Prohibition Amendment Roosevelt Hears Mayor Walker's Defense Sec. Stimson Angers Japan. By EDWARD W. PICKARD PRESIDENT OOOVER opened the campaign for bis re-election with his acceptance speech, and told the nation that. In regard to the liquor question, he stood not exactly exact-ly on the Republican Republic-an platform bnt a considerable step ahead of it Be said the administration's adminis-tration's efforts to enforce national prohibition had been of no avail, because the Eighteenth Eight-eenth amendment Itself was a failure except in states is 9. - "V B President Hoover where the majority sentiment was actually dry. He declared de-clared be could not consent either to restoration of the saloon or to the continuance of such grave abuses as the speakeasy and the bootlegs which flourish nnder the amendment. Therefore, be proposed such modification of the prohibition amendment as would return liquor control to the states under federal control that wonld guarantee the dry states federal aid in keeping out liquor and prevent the restoration restora-tion of the saloon In the wet states. In substance the position taken by Mr. Hoover on this prohibition problem Is very close to that of Alfred Al-fred E. Smith In 1928. It was warmly indorsed, by the Republican Republic-an senators who consented to talk about it, even by such veteran drys as Fess and Borah. The Republican Republic-an press generally commended It, and Democratic newspapers praised the President for "bravery greater than that of his party platform." The President's address of course covered practically all the subjects that appear In the Republican platform plat-form and was written with skill. In it he reiterated his stand for freedom free-dom In Industry and commerce as opposed to radical and revolutionary revolution-ary proposals, for a protective tariff, tar-iff, for noncancellatlon of foreign debts, and pledged himself to work for restoration of prosperity. The 'notification ceremony took place In Constitution hall and the speech was heard by 4,000 persons gathered there and by countless millions mil-lions who listened In by radio. The affair was preceded by a garden party and buffet luncheon on the White House grounds, to which TOO men and women had been invited. Former President Calvin Coolidge was not there because, as he said, he feared the trip would aggravate the hay fever from which he was suffering. VjAIOIt JAMES WALKER of New York, appearing before Covernor Roosevelt in the latter's office In Albany, made an Impassioned Impas-sioned plea for the right to face and question the witnesses who have accused htm and whose tea tlmony before the Seabury committee commit-tee resulted In the demand that the governor remove him from office, Mr. Roosevelt ruled that ; the mayor might present any witnesses or evidence that would contribute to the governor's examination of the case. He did not require the proof of Mr. Walker's guilt to be shown by witnesses, but he did go at once Into a cross-examination of the mayor himself. Mayor Walker's answers followed closely his previous defense as given In his formal answer to the Eeabury charges and In his testimony testi-mony before the legislative committee. commit-tee. He admitted taking the $26,000 gift from J. A. SIsto, banker Interested Inter-ested In taxlcab legislation, but de-Bled de-Bled he had given of his Influence S3 mayor to obtain the legislation. Answering the charge that he owned securities In a company doing do-ing business with the city, In violation viola-tion of a state law. Walker asserted be knew nothing about Its connection connec-tion with city contracts. In succeeding sessions of the hearing hear-ing he continued along the same line, denying all charges of misconduct miscon-duct and defending the acts on which those charges were based. JAPAN, continually on the defensive defen-sive concerning f her course In Manchuria, and extremely sensitive tq, criticism, whether direct or Implied, Im-plied, has been aroused to great Indignation In-dignation by Secretary Secre-tary of State Ilenry I Stimson In an address ad-dress . before the council on foreign relations I- New York the cabinet officer asserted that consultation among signatory nations to mobilize "moral 46.-.; -i- " -V.'v i, 5 it 1 disapproval" of acts Sec Stimson of aggression is Implicit Im-plicit in the Brltlsh-Kellogg treaty outlawing war and that a definite pact providing for such consultation Is unnecessary. As an example, the secretary of state referred to tie American protest to Japan against hostilities in China. Such a protest pro-test would have had far less weight, he pointed out, had It not been supported sup-ported by "the entire group of civilized civ-ilized nations." Later In his address Mr. Stimson said; "As It stands, the only limitation to the broad covenant against war Is the right of self-defense. This right is so Inherent and universal that It was deemed unnecessary even to insert it expressly In the treaty, ; It exists in the case of the Individual under domestic law, as well as in the case of the nation and its citizens under the law of nations. na-tions. Its limits have been clearly defined by countless precedents. "A nation which sought to mask imperialistic policy under the guise of the defense of Its nationals would soon be unmasked. It could not long hope to confuse or mislead public opinion on a subject so well understood or In a world in which facts can be so easily ascertained and appraised as they can be under the Journalistic conditions of today." to-day." The Japanese foreign office took Mr. Stlmson's remarks as an attack at-tack on Japan's acts in Manchuria and cabled the embassy in Washington Washing-ton for a detailed report of the speech. It was believed that formal protest might be made to the United States government. n OY D. CIIAPIN, the Detroit au- tomobile manufacturer, was sworn In as secretary of commerce to succeed Robert P. Lamont, who resigned to become president of the American Iron and Steel institute. As he took office Mr. Chapin gave expression expres-sion to his optimism, optim-ism, saying; "Naturally, "Natu-rally, . like every other American, I am gratified by the unmistakably better tone that now prevails pre-vails In our Indus I ISMS'" R. D. Chapln tries and marts of trade. Concerning the future trend, I will not be so bold as to venture prediction now, but one thing Is certain cer-tain we must all exert ourselves to the utmost striving to strengthen all favorable factors and to make the Inevitable turn come as soon and with as much security as possible." Secretary Chapln is already encouraging en-couraging the railroads to go ahead with repair and replacement work and finding money to help them do It; and In co-operation with Secretary Secre-tary of Labor Doak he Is working on the plans for spreading employment employ-ment by decreasing the individual hours of work. FOR about twenty-four hours there was a spectacular attempt at revolution rev-olution in Spain by the monarchists who hoped to restore the Bourbons to the throne. The movement was led by Gen, Jose Sanjurjo, known as "the lion of Morocco," and for a time he and his helpers were in control of Seville. But the republican repub-lican government was apprised of his plans In advance and the revolt was speedily squelched mainly by the police. Sanjurjo himself was arrested as he fled from Seville and was taken to Madrid for trial by court-martial, and various others of the former king's military commanders command-ers also were apprehended. In Madrid there was little fighting when revolutionists sought to occupy occu-py government buildings. The whole affair was a mixture of comedy and tragedy and the net result was the burning ef many royalists roy-alists clubs, homes and residences by the Republicans In several cities, and the prospect of death at the hands of firing squads for the royalist roy-alist leaders. Former King Alfonso denied having any port in the uprising. up-rising. O EWARD for his uniformly suc-cessful suc-cessful prosecutions of gangsters gang-sters and politicians for evasion of the federal income tax has come to George E. Q. Johnson, John-son, United States attorney in Chicago. He has been appointed ap-pointed to the fed eral District bench - ; by President Uoo- vj? ver, and probably V ' C!7, will be confirmed i --J, -f by the senate In De- . V ;'- eember with mtl : . ; -i opposition, as sue- i Nv.'':i cessor to Mr. John- ' son, the President G.E.Q. Johnson named Johnson's able assistant In the tax cases. Dwight II. Green, who has been solicitor so-licitor for the bureau of Internal revenue and bas conducted many of the trials instituted by Johnson. John-son. Both the appointments were nrged by Senators Glenn and Lewis of Illinois. Johnson began bis drive against hoodlums and crooked politicians In the fall of 1929, first Indicting Ralph Capone and Terry Druggan and Erankle Lake. Other indictments followed, and trials, and Mr. Johnson John-son was successful in sending the following persons to the penitentiary peniten-tiary for evading Income taxes; Al Capone, Ralph Capooe, Druggan, Lake, Jack Cuzik,Sam Guzik, Frank NItti, former County Assessor Gene G. Oliver, and former State Representative Repre-sentative Lawrence C. O'Brien. Christian P. Paschen, building commissioner com-missioner In the last Republican Chicago municipal administration, Is now nnder sentence, but has appealed ap-pealed bis conviction. x CHANCELLOR VON PAPEN and his cabinet acted to stop terrorism terror-ism among the political factions of Germany by decreeing the death penalty for all persons convicted of acts of political violence, Including rioting, treason, arson, instigation of explosions or floods or damaging railways or railway equipment, "Despite "De-spite this rigorous action, the acts of violence did not cease. Adolf Hitler issued a proclamation to his storm troops to curb their disorderly enthusiasm. Von Papen Invited both Hitler's Nationalist Socialists and Hugen-berg's Hugen-berg's Nationalists to share In the government which he will submit to the relchstag when It convenes August Au-gust 30. But the monocled chancellor chan-cellor is determined to keep the office of-fice of chancellor and to maintain the government on the "no-party basis. . The Hitlerites continue to claim full governmental control, one of their organs saying ; "If we are not allowed to direct the government govern-ment we will fight to the finish " It Is the aged President, Paul Von Hln-denburg, Hln-denburg, who must make the final decision. WHEN the field and track events of the Olympic games came to a close it was found the United States had won first place by a tre mendous margin; Finland was second and Great Britain third. The climax of this part of the program was the marathon race, which was won by Juan Zabala of Argentina Ar-gentina in record-breaking record-breaking time. The second week was given over to all kinds of events, mainly In the Wa Helens Madison ter, and Helena Madison, the premier woman swimmer swim-mer of the United States, distinguished distin-guished herself again by winning the 100 meters free-style race In the new Olympic time of 1 :6.8. She was first in the fastest field of girl swimmers swim-mers ever assembled, and every one of them beat the old Olympic record. In other water events the flags of Japan, Holland, Australia and other nations were raised. A LL the neutral nations of Cen-tral Cen-tral and South America Joined with the United States In calling on Bolivia to lay down her arms and accept arbitration of the dispute with Paraguay over the Gran Chaco. They even set a definite time for such submission, sub-mission, but Bolivia's Bo-livia's reply was not especially satisfactory. sat-isfactory. President Presi-dent Daniel Salamanca's Sala-manca's government govern-ment said It was willing to suspend hostilities pending Sato J President Salamanca arbitration, If Para-guay Para-guay and the neutral powers would consent to the present positions in the Gran Chaco as the basis of negotiations, ne-gotiations, Instead of the position of the troops on June 1, as stipulated by Paraguay. After June 15 Bolivian Bo-livian patrols captured three Para-quayan Para-quayan outposts. Pacifists in La Pa?, Bolivia, who opposed war with Paraguay, were court-martialed and eight of the;.i were condemned and shot GEN. CnANG KAI-SHEK, It appears ap-pears likely, will be the supreme su-preme dictator of China, This results re-sults from the controversy between Wang Chlng-wel, premier, and Mar shal Chang Hsiao-Hang, Teiping war lord. Chang refused to obey Wang's order to make war on the Japanese forces that were operating In Jehol province, and offered to resign. Soon after Wang and his entire cabinet submitted their resignations, the last to step out being Finance Minister Min-ister T. V. Soong. Chiang Kai-shek, nnlike Wang, still thinks the Sino-Japanese dispute dis-pute can be settled by direct negotiations nego-tiations and therefore refuses to take any warlike steps likely to antagonize an-tagonize Tokyo. Under the terms of the Chinese constitution, General Chiang as permanent chairman of the military council Is untouchable and Is In full control of the armies. "PWO Democratic senators were successful during the week In obtaining renomlnatlons. They were Alben W. Barkley oi Kentucky, keynoter key-noter In the recent national convention, conven-tion, who defeated former Senator George R. Martin and others; and Mrs. Hat tie W. Caraway of Arkansas, Arkan-sas, the only woman member of the upper house. Mrs. Caraway had six male rivals for the nomination, bat easily distanced them all C 1331, BeU Syndicate WNTJ Scrrlca, THE LEW SUN. LEIII. UTAH Intermountain Hews -Briefly Told for Busy Readers NEW ROAD WORK. BAIN SAVES FOREST. ILAS NO C0UNTRVN0W. TEN PER CENT CUT MADE. WAR ON THE TEDDLER. MISSOULA, MONT.-Clouds pouring rain in the Selway country holped crews fighting fires to establish estab-lish control of various blazes burning burn-ing in the northern Idaho woods, most of which had already been corralled cor-ralled In a fashion to prevent further spread. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-The state industrial commission has ordered or-dered the payroll changes necessary for compliance with the recent order or-der of the state board of supplies and purchases, ordering a 10 per cent reduction in all salaries in excess ex-cess of $90 a month. V BOISE, IDA Road construction activities, utilizing $1,659,000 of a $2,502,112 emergency federal aid fund for unemployment relief, will begin In Idaho soon. The state receives re-ceives $1,505,912 for highway con-structioa con-structioa Forest highways receive $614,000, park roads $210,000, Indian reservation roads $53,000, and public pub-lic loans $119,200 of the total emergency emer-gency fund allocated to Idaho. POCATELLO, IDA.Authoritles are busy clearing Pocatello streets of outside tpeddlers who, according to charges filed by the Chamber of Commerce, have been selling their produce at prlcea considerably lower than those of established merchants. POCATELLO, IDA Claiming h is "a man without a country," William Wil-liam F. Elliott, 50, Canadian wai veteran, has asked Sheriff Woodward Wood-ward to have him deported to Canada. Can-ada. V Elliott said he has been ordered or-dered to leave the United States by immigration authorities, but Canada refused to recognize 11m due to his long absence from his native land. LOGAN, UT.-The tax levy for Logan district will be the highest in history, this year, according to the statement of County Assessor R, S. McQuarrie. The total levy this year Is 45.81 mills -compared with 45.05 mills in 1931. OGDEN, UT. Officials of this city applied for the location of one of the Home Loan banks for Og-den. Og-den. PROVO, UT. Utah county's tax levy for 1932 has been set at 7.97 mills as against the 1931 levy of 8.23 mills. BEAVER, UT.-The Union Pa cific Railroad company is plan ning to erect a large storage cellar for potato crops from Milford and Minersvllle. BOISE, IDA. Reports Indicate an abundance of water and good range conditions in the Boise na tional forest Livestock men with herds and flocks in the forest are enthusiastic over conditions prevail ing among their stock. RICHFIELD, UT.-The schools of Sevier county will open October 17 and the length of the school term has not yet been decided. OGDEN, UT. Twenty-two mln lng claims have been staked off in the territory two and one-half miles north and east of the Hermitage in Ogden canyon, where a lode of gold bearing quartz was recently found xne claims have been filed in the county recorder's office. BLACKFOOT, IDA. Two persons per-sons were painfully injured and two others escaped injury when an automobile in which they were riding rid-ing crashed into a horse standing on the highway five miles south of Biackfoot BEAVER, UT. Graveling of the ten mile stretch of road from Wildcat Wild-cat canyon to the Millard county line on highway 91 has been started. start-ed. WEISER, IDA. Property owners own-ers and water users of the Weiser Irrigation district decided at a recent re-cent meeting to build a new Intake canal approximately two miles In length, together with a diversion dam and headgate In the Weiser river riv-er to insure a permanent supply of water to the district The project is to cost $12,000.00. MANTI, UT. A destructive frost, the earliest on record In this vicinity, vi-cinity, destroyed 14 acres of peas on the lowlands at the KJar ranch and at the experiment farm at Ephraim. SEATTLE, WASH.-In the pock ets of the coat of 81-year-old John Stonobanks, when he dropped dead in the public library here, were found a crust of bread and a shriveled shriv-eled apple core. His clothes were yoUed and ragged. The body was taken to the public morgue where seven bank books were found in the clothing, showing deposits of $10,0CO In seven Seattle banks. TWIN FALLS, IDA.-Crop pros-Pts pros-Pts are exceptionally good, in the Twin Falls, Jerome, Wendell region, according to the district crop inspector. inspec-tor. Grain yields are average, and potatoes and alfalfa are producing abundantly. CALDWELL, IDA. The Canyon county commissioners have made application ap-plication for a $100,000 loan from the government to conduct road work, so that the unemployed In county may work for their living ratter than receive charity. Scenes and 1 irt r.t tha mornthnn rnpA in - - - "usvico, wiucn wag wnn l k -ii i. ftntA ' O TMnlmaffi vaniaaantflHiraa v ...... . u uj argeuuua mj t7 . sembled in wasmngion consmenng anese business man and former president of the South Manchurian railway, who, It is reoortM Z l Katsujt Debuchl as ambassador to the United States. v Mississippi Bosnia ti&w Two excursion steamboats, the when they engaged in a race down the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez READY TO FIGHT - 3 ana IV; ; 7- ' 1 1 A President Jose P. Guggiari of Paraguay, Par-aguay, who mobilized his nation's youth to fight Bolivia in the dispute over the Gran Chaco region.. Later he agreed to submit the quarrel to arbitration. NAMED FOR SENATOR - : V. , -a A CoL Bennett a Clark, son ef the fete Speaker Champ Clark, who won the Democratic nomination for United States senator from Missouri. Mis-souri. Sometimes Hard to Tell ' De man who always laughs at trouble," said Uncle Eben, "may be a philosopher; an den ag'in he may have a powerful pore sense of humor." hu-mor." Washington Star, I'-w VHWW. iiiiiijipWiHiiiII imww- -Wfl5jwsrsyi AiANri sr-sr r. . 1 1 1 .T.7 ? ' v ' a. "7 ' ' ' - "'t ' f Persons in theuif fit fh Olvmnlc PHmp fn T.na Arnv. 7.7 "ll "auv WI Wl and South iJ uie xjoiivm-raraguay quarrel. 3 Jotra TamfimntA Zrai Steamboats Stage Mock Race pi .J.l -i V Saint Paul and J. S., provided their passengers and spectators eaEea the Mississippi under full steam which recalled the thrilling days ! fought it out for the supremacy of the Mississippi Al Smith's Youngest Son and li l 7- - v t s 1 J - 7 , if,J Walter J. Smith, youngest son or lormw hoTe'; New York, and Horence E. Watson or miww".. the other day In Albany. Each of them Is twenty-two jea First in Olympic Sculpture ' - - - ? . - v;w7' t ' 7l - V ' ' . '-77;- & 7 - f f ) )YJ 1 ; 7 7' C X - ' v-J 7' - ; ' ' t s 1 , r.'L-; ' , 7' ' i : - c:fi7 v y 'iv -..O ,7 - :i ii ".if :.U 7 'Ti ' ,: -The Knockdown," by Mabonn te first prize In sculpture at the Olympic games ,- if J mm ! . . r Alfred gest son or rormw --. , I Watson ofSchnectawho of the W;; ... |
