Show N news aws review of current events the world over hoovers Illo overs plan for war debt moratorium not wholly liked by france aviators fly across atlantic ocean by EDWARD W PICKARD P PRESIDENT RESIDENT 1100 vers plan for a ono one year moratorium on reparations and war debts probably 71 1 f I 1 will go through unless F franco r a n c 0 blocks it hailed with cheers by A N most of th world HOI id tile the proposition was n as received rather coldly and suspiciously by thu tho french walter E dor walter B E edgo edge edge 0 got busy with ft ith the government leaders in paris and worked hard to gain their acceptance of the plan but the best ho he could obtain from the cabinet was a n note carrying modi modified fled approval this forwarded through him to washington lauded mr hoovers initiation but insisted that germany must continue payment of the unconditional annuities As as provided under tho the young plan though france would waive the conditional payments for a year inasmuch as america will waive war debt payments for the same period the unconditional annuities france Is willing to turn hack back to germany GerE inny through the bank of international settlements if the money Is needed great britain and germany had already given the plan their full approval and mussolini sent gent word tl that lat italy accepted it unequivocally bel glun glum which la Is as aa jealous of her reparations as franco france was expected to follow the french lead secretary of the treasury mellon arrived in paris find and immediately began conversations at the dorsay in the hope of reconciling the plans 0 of f mr hoover and of the french cabinet the president early was assured of the support of the leaders of both parties and nil all factions in congress and during the week lie he canvassed the entire membership of both houses in order to learn just what position they would take in the matter the result resul t was not made public but it was presumed lie ha had assurances of far more than enough votes to put over whatever legislation will bo be necessary there Is no pretence predence pre tence that mr hoovers plan Is wholly altruistic it Is designed to help bring to an end the existing depression by reviving trade and business and if it succeeds in this the united states would be expected to reap its fair share of the benefits that the mere putting forward of the propose proposition tion was at least temporarily beneficial was shown by the new buoyancy in the stock exchanges PROVIDED reparations the proposed and war debt moratorium really turns tho the business tida toward 0 prosperity it would be a profitable investment for the united states such Is the opinion of ogden L mills undersecretary secretary of the treasury lie ile asserted averted in ogden anin Q L i washington that tile the mills loss of about which tills this country will no not t collect next year it if the plan goes through would be more than made up lip in a short time if it brought about a return of better times from indications thus far mr air mills said it appears that the world at large looks upon the american proposal as a hopeful business factor stocks have risen in the big exchanges with better business the tax receipts of the treasury will increase mr mills declined to predict whether it will be necessary to recommend a tax increase to the next congress to supply revenues for operating the government during the next nest fiscal year ue he pointed out however that i postponement of war debts pay met q would cut the treasury receipts dumlad the next year oy by more than 1 tills this years deficit on the lie basis of income tax returns probably will not greatly exceed up to the dose close of june 19 total expenditures chargeable against ordinary receipts were as compared with an estimated ex expenditure for the fiscal year of F FIRST of this tears scars crop of american transatlantic flyers to hop off from harbor grace newfoundland vere ere wiley past and harold gatty in tine ald 10 mt motored ored cabin plane winnie mao thel the destination was berlin ond and ano agh they did not make the flight to the german capital without stop they did succeed in getting safely across across the ocean they landed at the sealand airdrome near neair chester li ai gland after circling over the city of bungor wales post was tile the pilot of the plane throughout the light flight and gatty acted as navigator they were heard from only once on the way across the liner picking up their radio call post and bratty set out to make the circuit of the globe in ten days they remained at chester only long enough to refuel an and eat lunch and then flew to berlin and thence onward toward moscow only a few hours after post and gatty hopped off otto hillig and hot ger hoiriis started from harbor grace in a big heavily loaded bellanca plane with flight to Copen copenhagen lingen denmark but they lost their way and landed at krefeld germany ruth nichols Nl chols flying from new york on the first leg of her projected trip across the atlantic landed at st john N B and ran her plane piano into a rock near the airfield she was painfully injured and the plane was so badly damaged that it was necessary to postpone her flight indefinitely james jimmy doollittle one of americas most daring and most ex pert flyers had another narrow escape from death when his new speed plane started falling apart while he was traveling miles an hour only feet up near st louis mo alo he came down safely in a parachute and the plane was EW Y YORKS 0 it K S N NEW latest death mystery S that or of starr faithful beautiful but erratic whose body was found on the sands of long beach Is still unsolved and may remain so the author atles had hoped the information brought dr G jame back by bt dr G joson carr son carr arr ships surgeon of the cunard line would reveal how the young worn woman came to her death she had admittedly mitt edly been infatuated with him and on his return from england lie he gave the grand jury two notes from her in which she told of planning to commit suicide but starrs starra stepfather stanley E faithful took one look at them and declared they were forgeries handwriting experts were to be called on to settle this question both letters were addressed to doctor carr in care of the medical department part ment of the cunard line at ilver pool one postmarked june 2 and written on stationery of a new york hotel flatly declared starr was going to end tier her worthless disorderly bore of an existence beare I 1 ruin an any y one alses life as well the second written two days later from myneola Ml 1111 neola was in flippant vein and reiterated her intention to commit suicide SIH S IR HUBERT WILKINS and its his weary crew managed to get the submarine nautilus into the harbor of cork ireland after its stormy voyage across the atlantic the commander said that after the batteries were recharged he would proceed to england for other repairs and that lie hoped to reach the north pole bythe sub ice route in two months the mishaps and delay suffered by the wilkins expedition led dr hugo eckener to abandon tits his plan for a meeting between the graf zeppelin and the nautilus at the pole the dirigible will make a six day cruise into arctic regions in july on a scientific mission D WIGHT DAVIS governor general of t the h e philippines has had enough of that difficult and 4 thankless job and has haa notified the 9 4 in washington that ho he would like to quit as soon as president hoover can conveniently fill the post ile he says merely that he desires to take up dwight davis again his residence in the united states the knowledge spreading through official circles that mr davis I 1 has offered his resignation has already produced booms for or two men ns as candidates for or lis his position POSIt lou they are theodore roosevelt Koo sevell governor of porto port nico and maj gen frank it II mccoy the official expectation is that one of the two will get the post and at pres ent sir air elt appears to be in the lend lead ITH due formality president whoever hoover received william duncan herridge Herrl dge the new minister from the dominion of canada in accepting his letters of credence mr air hoover declared that the establishment of relations between the united states and canada and served to strengthen Intern international onal friendship mr Il Herrl erridge dge who Is only the second canadian minister to the united states referred to the maintenance of a legation in washington as an aid to cordial relations FACE between the vatican and nn d PEACE P italian fascism instead of being within sight Is as far away ns as ever according to pope plus XI the holy father addressing members of the congregation for propagation of the faith declared in so many M any words that he and premier mussolini were nt at swords points and that it had been impossible even to start talking of agreements he I 1 asserted that eliat the church Is being persecuted in italy worse than in mexico and russia and that organizations of the duces followers have been given the task of persecuting him however he declared his faith in providence und and said the bishops in italy had informed him that there was increasing unrest in the country because of the intolerable surveillance odious espionage secret reports and continuous menaces mussolini lu in his latest note to the vatican was rather conciliatory but thedice was firm in his attitude toward the catholic action societies ile he left the fundamental issue which has always existed as to the respective rights of the church and state in educational cat ional matters exactly as it has always been PAIN Is settling S SPAIN down to normality under the republican rule but the subject of the status of catalonia Is not yet settled alexander ler roux minister of foreign affairs went to barcelona center of the stormy province the other lay day to sound out the intentions of n don jaime do de col francisco bourbon and tits his catalan fol lowing who demand rather more than autonomy for catalonia it has hag been considered likely that larroux will bo be the first premier under the new constitution ution which will be drafted by tile the constituent cortes restoration of the spanish monarchy with himself on the throne tl irone Is the ambition of don jaime de hour bour bon the pretender alv Is now sixty years old but vigorous and full of schemes it Is reported that gen martinez Martl nez aulda his chief military aid has gathered an army in northern spain and expects to overthrow the republican regime but pretenders seldom have any luck in such ventures and the government at madrid probably worried by this threat F FLAMES LAMES starting on a wharf at st john N B swept the waterfront and practically ruined the entire western section of the port the property damage was believed to exceed 10 and several lives were lost the conflagration raged for hours fioura destroying ying docks grain elevators and several steamships the greatest loss was suffered by the harbor commission federal property valued at or being burned fehlo FOR OR the first time in the history of ohio a woman Is to be electrocuted at jefferson mrs julla julia maude lowther of ashtabula twenty three years old was sentenced to die in the electric chair at the state penitentiary tent iary lary on october 2 for the murder of mrs clara amah sni kh her employer and the wife of the man she lovel loved smith twice convicted of complicity in the killing also Is under a death sentence FOR feary OR the first time in its history re tary international has elected a european as president at the annual convention of the organization in vienna the dp delegates agates selected sydney of london england to succeed president almon E roth of california rufus fisher chapin 0 of f chicago was reelected elected re for his eighteenth term as treasurer tr C IULE through its minister finist er of foreign affairs has invited invite d the foreign ministers of all the pan amer ican nations to attend a conference on the existing financial crisis to seek eek s methods by which their governments may operate cooperate co to prevent a n complete commercial and economic breakdown the united states Is included in the invitation and presumably will be represented by an official observer the date and place are not set ma cx 1031 if 11 western union t |