Show NEWS REVIEW OF OE CURRENT EVENTS Congress Meets and Hears the Presidents President Message Message- Hoovers Hoover's a Progress By Uy EDWARD W W. PICKARD CONGRESS assembled Monday l for tor VJ V the short session and both houses housel adjourned almost Immediately In re roe- respect sped for tor members who bad had died Next day dal they got down to business and received the Presidents President's message In this which was by bl way of being his bis valedictory Mr Coolidge reviewed the progress of ot the nation during the five Ave and one one half halt half years that he has hu been Chief Executive and painted an nn entrancing picture of ot the present prosperous condition of ot the American people But he put forth a warning that while we are enjoying unprecedented unprecedented unprecedented dented peace and prosperity it Is le too easy under their Influence for a nation to become selfish and degen degen- erate Of Ot Ms his recommendations recommendation to congress these are the more Important A system of ot farm larm relief consisting of ot a federal farm tarm board and stabilization stabilization stabilization tion corporations to handle bandle crop surpluses surpluses sur sur- pluses financed in the beginning bya by a government revolving Ing fund tun Passage of ot the bill providing for tor fifteen additional cruisers and one airplane carrier but without the requirement re roe- d for tor laying them down In I three years Ratification of ot the Kellogg multilateral multilateral multi mulU lateral treat treaty for tor the renunciation of ot war as an instrument of ot national policy A more effective law to promote the consolidation of ot the railroads Into a afew afew afew few great systems On Wednesday da President Coolidge sent lent In to his annual budget message and ond In it he asked that all proposals for tor new expenditures of ot a substantial character be rejected In order that a threatened dp deficit In both the current and the next fiscal years year may be avoided The budget for tor the fiscal year ear 1010 1090 calls calla for expenditures of leaving the treasury with an estimated surplus of ot GOr 70 k i- 1552 The President said that while this surplus would be small nevertheless less len It was wal satisfactory Inasmuch as RII asIt asit It points paints to a R balanced budget liEl liE He l c said there are art no Immediate prospects h of further reduction In tax tar rates President Coolidge referred to the t fact tact that bonds of ot the French government gov goy aggregating more than millions given hn In payment of ot surplus a American war wor supplies will mature In the latter part rt of or H 1020 1029 In case the French government JO tails falls to ratify th the theR R war d debt ht funding finding agreement which 1 merges the war wal supplies debt with Its other obi obligations to the United v States the President suggested that the amot amount nt nt due should t be hI applied to the retirement of our war debts Instead Int In In- t S stead of being available a for current expenditures I S T A 11 Y of the r Treasury ury Mel Mel- Ion In his annual report set forth the conditions prosperous In III In Industry Industry and finance Figures Figure of ot In Industrial Industrial production show allow R a reuse decrease of It 3 per cent for thE fiscal year nr owing ow ing to a R decline In activity durin during the latter part of or the calendar rear 1027 but a recovery Ery took place In III he the early part of the calendar fear ICS 1928 S and anil has coat In Attorney Sargents Sargent's year Elir I ly report the moot mo t Interesting was that concerning prohibition en fn l prepared by Mrs Mr MI l randt Tills This admitted frankly that Dint t i the go governments government's efforts to II cheek check the smuggling of or liquor the CUM Cans dian Ian border have bave been o of little arall a r and anil that Hull the lilt tr truffle traffic Is U Increasing i E for the necessary ary supply ls bills congress Cn rEI Is not expected tn t ht puss pass much of major majr Im nt lit this lon ses-lon Hut flat mem mein hers of lit both houses tiou e were quick k to toft ft their pet schemes felicities to 10 the lilt front f In tI the senate the than hill hili we wry unfinished business and Senator linson Jr-linson of wim wu permitted to 10 jet ct It li In n a I n D. D the tilt angina l' senate hill bill u for fr everything In thE bill IH E b by the hou house JOUit e lust last session after I the enacting clause It was believed the debate on the measure and nu numerous numerous nu- nu pending amendments would take two t weeks In his message the President Indicated his dissatisfaction tion with this legislation and Intimated Inti mated he might veto eto It unless It were made to comply with certain c condi lions Senator McNary of Oregon introduced introduced intro intro- n II new farm relief bill which In general follows the lines line of the much vetoed toed bill but omits the equalization fee tee It Includes a provision for a stabilization corporation corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion such as was wall recommended b by Mr Hoover While McNary and some other other oth oth- er lien senators senator at ora hope to get action on this bill during the present session It Is the general opinion In congress that nothing In that line will be accomplished pushed until the special session which Mr Hoover promised to call p NT A TIYE BRITTEN'S S 'S at at- 1 tempt to bring about an Inter pa parliamentary conference with the British on naval limitation Imitation was given the approval of ot the house naval affairs committee of ot which he Is chairman after otter he had energetically defended his action In addressing Prime Min Minister later ister Baldwin directly instead of ot through the Department of ot State Mr Baldwins Baldwin's reply which was sent first to Ambassador Sir Esme Howard and which Secretary Kellogg declined d to receive was later transmitted to Mr Britten In It the primp prime minister said that the congressman's suggestion was Interesting but that he could say suy or ordo ordo ordo do nothing more about It because the United States StatE's government had not been consulted n. n AND HOOVER and ond their M Mil MIt party part made their first South American stop at ut Guayaquil J Ecuador To reach the port the they were transferred transferred trans trans- to the cruiser Cleveland eland and sailed for tor seven se hours hoars up the Guayas river rI President Ayora and other officials officials of ot met t them at the pier and the arm army and school children paraded through the gaily gall decorated and thronged streets At a banquet the President and Mr Hoover made appropriate appropriate ap op- ap- ap speeches and next day the party laden with gifts from the I cua wn was on its way to Peru escorted by a Peruvian lun cruiser As Mr Hoover er stepper ashore In 10 Callan Callao Wednesday nine airplanes swooped above e the harbor and thousands of citizens joined the officials In greeting him Troops escorted him lilon along the concrete road rond to Lima where he called celled formally on President jula f visited the famous cathedral In which Is the tomb of ot PIzarro and was entertained entertained en en- at a feast In his address addres Mr Hoover said lold that commercial airplane airplane air air- plane service between North and South America Is the key to new un understanding and friendship and h he h. predicted that such a sen service Ire will be hf realized within another twelve twel months On the way from Peru Peril southward th till the Maryland made male a brief stop at Anto foga to tn Chile bile where an party purly from landlocked Bolivia HolMa w was wu ns on hand tn to meet the President Elect Fleet ral rol o was the next port rent reached There and ond at Santiago the Chileans extended thEm themselves In their welcome to 10 their distinguished guests SOUTHERN Chile Chill experienced a n terrific ter tr rifle earthquake that killed more than two hundred persons and wrecked the Ihl town lown of ot und and Its port The TIle temblor broke a big Mg dame at and forty were drowned dro In the ru rush li of nt released re reo leased waters Kitty In more were Irl killed In a copper wine mine The govern go government meat ment was llOS quirk quirk- to 10 send quote nut 11 relief re- re 11 lief forces and guards to In the Ihl scene of ot the tI disaster 1118 It 1 physicians and hi his own S bruve spirit enabled Kill King George of about to hold bold his own awn against the atha k of Inflammation of or the liin lungs hat but hiv his heart rl was Will rather weak and the did not lIot conceal the Ihl tact fact that thol he was wan still In danger dunger Tuesday the king signed nn an order cry n sting H s rl royal RI lon loli to tn perform hi Ida his dill duties II during hi his Illness II He lie named Queen Mary ns s II Its head the Ihl theother or other oilier members being II I the Ibe hI printe of ot Wales Wull'S the duke 1111 of York fork the arch anh of Canti Lord Chancel Chancellor lor for hom and Prime Baldwin This ThiN Is U not nn o n hut but a H council of ot state with II powers rs to exercise sonic some functions of ot ro chiefly the signing of ot documents commissions com corn missions and acts of parliament The prince of Ot Wales WaIls was conveyed by bl the fast tut cruiser cr I Enterprise from Dar Dar- Dares Dar s- s and reached Suez Frida Friday night He liE planned to land at al BrindisI and the Italian government offered a special train to carl carry him from there thereto to Calais by hy the shortest route The duke of ot Gloucester went from Bula Hula way wao o to Capetown and sailed from i there on the steamship Balmoral Castle Friday I FIELD r MARSHAL SIR sm WILLIAM WILLIAMI I HO ROBERTSON took a nasty slap at atthe atthe atthe the United States when addressing a meeting of the League of ot Nations union conference In London Distrust Distrust Dis trust and jealousy jealous still prevail and end nations seem to learn little or nothing from the experience of ot ten years year ago he said I still tall fall to see how war wat can cnn ever t be he the means of ot bringing lasting peace France and Ital Italy still consider the maintenance of large armies a national necessity Russia continues to keep formidable military forces Germany German Is fretting over what It considers consider its defenseless posy America Influenced by ImperialIstic Imperial tendencies apparently means whatever happens to continue IncreasIng increasing Ing its navy and official utterances on the question bear close resemblance to those claims we were accustomed to hear benr made In Germany German previous pre to the tragedy of ot 1014 The same annse da day Ambassador II Houghton Hough Hough- ton at the annual dinner of the Ill lir society In london ondon assured Great Britain and Europe that Ameri Amerl Americans cans and anti other peoples of the western western west west- ern hemisphere are really lovers levers of ot peace place and he be pointed out that the 1000 miles of unfortified fd and unguarded unguarded un un- guarded Canadian American frontier are ore proof sufficient to the world that two tl peoples can live side Ide b by side not oot armed against each other O ONE of ot the frequent peasant uprisings uprisings up up- risings s the Soviet government government govern govern- ment of ot Russia has just been suppressed suppressed sup sup- pressed In the Minsk district b by the click checa n punitive detachments and sixty of the Insurgents had been belo executed at lust last accounts Before the they were routed the rebels had bad Interrupted railroad communications with Poland burned Soviet It model farms murdered Communist village officials and ambushed ambushed am am- bushed the tax collectors collector The Russian Rus nus- sian grain groin collections collection for tor November are said to have been only a third thin ot of the anticipated amounts and the government gov government is alarm alarmed b by the decrease In Siberia the tune Urals and Caucasus ntY E. n a score of ot officials of Canadian Ca Ca- N NEARLY nadian distilleries were Indicted II by a n federal grand jury In Buffalo N N. Y V. as os a 1 step In fresh efforts to stop the liquor smuggling across the bor bor- der dr Thirty true bills bill were werl returned charging con conspiracy to smuggle whisky and other Intoxicant Into the United States Gales In Detroit the government Is uncovering a n 0 river liquor conspiracy that Involves o the wholesale bribery of customs border patrol Inspectors In and guards h the booze by run tiers ners Already twenty or more of or the Inspectors have e been arrested and startling confessions have hl been ob oh tamed I IA t rn mn hi big bank merger In Chi Chi- A ANOTHER has bus been ranged arranged ill The First l National and Its lIs subsidiary the First t Tru Trust t and Savings a are to be bl merged with the tIl Union Trust com corn pun puny pany This consolidation will give e 1 Chicago two of M the Ihl largest hanks banks In Inthe inthe the United States Shires Total assets of the First National Union National Trust combination com corn will approach t total deposits will he nearly and capitalization will he hI about tOI IMM n. n It II will be hI M second only to the recently announced I Continental Continental- Illinois Mi merger fr I n metal ll workers worker and their O employers of the Ruhr III district In Germany agreed under pressure of ot the tilt government 1 to 10 abide b by the Ihl arbi arbitration of It of ot the Interior Severing 1 a and 1111 the plants have been reopened on nn the till previous precious lous wage sen scale scab II pending hI hits his decision E MEEKER 1 I the last survivor of ot the Ih Oregon Trail pioneers and anda a nn runt marl t pl ue figure t died last week In Seattle at III the till age of or ninety ninety- sort seven year He lie took look his wife Iud and Infant child over oter the trail trl In 1952 |