| Show A IF 7 ON I 1 MIR WA a q 44 t VA W 3 A V pl im la ko 04 X Q t g i the cruiser houston at after its 14 at newport newts news ya 2 1 lecture by wire of brecka 9 1 0 1 f the T TA T ilir ir liner city bf b ban Pran pisco in the loss loas of which in ri new mexico eight per sons eona perished peria hed 8 ellham t 1 tam IL brock ck sworn lo lie as senator from tennessee to fill out the term of the late senator lawrence D tyson NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS hoover and senate act in case of propagandist of shipbuilders Ship I 1 builders Wilders I 1 by EDWARD W PICKARD t ly aitt tens ns or cor loia in the th foreign n relations relation of I 1 the unit states Is riot to be tote tolerated rated by the president orabe or fao senate and proceedings were sorted last week designed to put an end to that practice the matter came to the fore ora when one william lUain 23 1 shearer Bhear er in a suit cult for remuneration revealed that he had been employed by american shipbuilding concerns to attend the futile three power naval limitation conference of 1027 anday and by propaganda to frustrate the plans for or reducing naval a ma president hoover immediately issued a statement scathingly denouncing shearer and hla his employers employ era ind and ordered tho the department of Jut justice itice to io investigate tho the mates inaus activities the senate followed sult suit and ana adopted unanimously a resolution by Se senator fintor borah directing the linval affairs committee to nn an inquiry into tho them alleged employment of shearer by corporations and the part by theme them in the of 0 tho the conference at geneva T toiler juder the resolution the he inquiry was limited to that though senator mckellar of tennessee suggested aug it might be found wise to enlarge en largo the scope of f the inquiry to include alt all kinds of propaganda in the naval armament controversy contro controy yeTsy ersy this course also had been urged by bi various persons persona outside of afi the senate who whala not de tendons th the alleged of shearer er condemned the propaganda of pa aad other little navy navy persons senator robinson of arkansas tho the minority lender bald no jit estion Is 13 batted ratted as aa to the right of an any i or all parties to carry on within the mits lof lawful action butt but this 44 a quest question ign of interference in nhat to la essentially tho the foreign relations ot of ahe the united there la Is no to contuse confuse lb tho arnn sac tlona mentioned with the one continued controversy as to whether er the united states Statta should have a large or a 4 navy tho arkansas senator declared no senate investigation could ind end that controversy or stem the ho low ot 0 pro agan a on ahai anti and virtually every major q brought before congress it was expected how over aver th atthe end intoci clerence le rence by jait crested citizens or in tri the count rys torell relation aki he be eald the a named hamed by lu tiia or er in his hta Butt for were the tha bethlehem shipbuilding corao coro rit rot iford lori the american brown loverl corporation and the newport nears shipbuilding and drydock company ym pany eugene G grae president deni 0 of o tb tho bethlehem steel cor corpora Uon in a jet letter to president hoover r il admitted shearer lind been bt en by uio tho ship shipbuilders builders to attend the conference tin BB an observer but said eald this was done without hla bin arid that when vieh tho the board boar of lie corporation learned of cra anti disarmament propagandist iichi 0 his i employment w wa altern ati ahk anserlean Ant erlean brown dovert corporation issued a a statement to the thea hamd amo effect affet president hoover anahis and hla his chief advisers W attern lional affairs were considering new proposals propos ala from the british govern gobern establishing a tentative tin naval reduction ioA agreement and preparing an answer thereto which was wag cabled to ambassador dawes thursday night the british plan called for reduction af 0 the british cruiser fleet to about tons tong on condition taftt that t the he untied united states s mould donld limit its ton 8 13 inch gun treaty cruiser tonnage to eighteen ships instead of the twenty three now c carried on the american building f ovder thlu this arrangement britain rouIl uld baT Af teen i 8 inch zurl gun cruls crula 1 f i v ti 1 I era TS end and the united states eighteen elesteen cirnat Dr britain ItaliA proposed that this disparity in bl big gun ciul cruisers sers would be made up by allowing the gov eminent to retain four older T lucli inn gral cruisers sers and maintain talt on edyan advantage iti in cruiser tonnage amounting to sip approximately proximately tons of small C G inea gun so bo called police cruisers in london it was announced that prinle prime minister macdonald cDonald Mn had decided to sall ball for the united stat states eso on n september 28 to confer with president hoover and secretary of state stimson niU ANDS proposals tor for a federation of european powers was enthusiastically received by the delegates of 28 nations to bhora ho he explained his scheme and they decided to try to bring the idea into force almost the only 0 objection raised was that the plan might result in 14 A loss of sovereignty of 0 the individual states and some of the tha statesmen union should bep be mainly economic french premier was asked to draw upa up a binm ora induni on on hs scheme to b be e studied by the tha europ european ta ii governments and after they have replied a conference conference 10 of nil all european nations will be called to consider the plan H HAVING elected peru yugo slava and poland to beats la id the cou council n c the assembly of the league of nations corill dered and debated a number fit mutters these included in a by louis Loue Lou henr cheur of france fo or the rationing of coal anti and sugar ajar among the nations an appeal by count apponyi Appo of hungary for or revision re islon of tho the khanon treaty to return gollits to his nation some of its citizens citti ens now placed as minorities in rumania yugoslavia yugo slavia and czechoslovakia and a plan to place under the supervision ot at tho the league tho the international bank created under the young reparations plan dr 9 0 0 nyu YU climeson minister to io the united states P proposed r opo sed wat that tila longue league advise its ita members to reconsider the extraterritorial treasea tre atlea which he said the chinese republic androe and rob it of its sovereignty tim rite agenda committee voted against plea for adoption of a resolution for revision of treaties that have become inapplicable on tho the ground that it opened up a question of too vast an importance and the chinese delp delegation gation threatened to withdraw atom the tha assembly war between russia and THOUGH china has not been declared and may pot not bo nevertheless an actual state pt war exists pit the manchurian frontiers and many deaths already have bave resulted the russius have been attacking with artillery and bombing planes and th ohp phinese chinese have retaliated sharply there was desperate deaf crato fighting toy for several days for possession islon of the city of on the 66 eastern border and at first it was claimed the chinese had won there but later nd ad laca said imald they had been driven back 40 miles to molln and that indya had been reduced to ashes sov leti let gunboats gan gun bonta boats ninde made determined efforts to forc orea their way up the river out ut it ik lind bild been intner by the achl hl vele nee claich alda braroe bl aroe the other for or tha ag greve att loins and actual con dillons are rather clouded hopt for peaceful settlement were tt ere still going on in berlin the great tariff fight really WHEN got amder way in the senate the republicans in that august body met defeat to in the first test vote senator SIm moris resolution directing th to obtain from roto the treasury Treas nry department information contained in the tha income ncoma finx returns of 0 beneficiaries was waa adopt adopted edby by a iota vota 0 bl to 27 the thirty dem dam ball all voted for the measure and were allied by 21 republican including fill all the so called radicals and ana several others the information sought la Is to include profits or losses gross grosa sales su les inventories merchandise bought and costa casts of manufacture anelu including ding materials te or rials a and salaries senator rezil need smoot and others othera argued la in vain that ahe resolution ives wag offered with a alevo lew to delaying action on on the 1 1 1 tariff bill senator norris introduced n tion calling tor for immediate Imme date conall dera uon of the caso case 0 of senator elect vare ot at pennsylvania and this tao was as said to be intended to delay the tariff measure but on motion of senator watson the vare matter over until the regular cession in december so the tariff battle continued E exhaustive inquiry into the disparity between prevailing wheat prices in lie united states and canada lada and also into the alleged congestion of storage facilities by speculators w who p a seek to depress prices for the incoming crop was vas announcer announced by the federal federal farm board it Is being conducted by experts of the bureau of agricultural economics odthe of the department jentof of agriculture at toe the request of the board which hopes to tol obtain facts upon which to base future policies as well bell as to relieve the immediate enter kency gency 0 onn NE of the most peculiar swindles of recent times was perpetrated on new york banks by charles D waggoner Yag goner president of at a bank in teli tel lurl luride deColo colo through code telegrams ostensibly signed by denver banks he obtained from the new york institutions eions checks chacks for halt half a roll lion dollars most of which he had placed to the credit of his own bank it was a kind jot a robin good stunt for he says it was done to make it possible for the people of to recover the losses they havo ave met through the manipulations of new york finanders financiers the latter he asserts t bought three of the largest mines inthis I 1 in the telluride district and closed them to prevent competition tb throwing rowine 1 most 08 i of the towns inhabitants out of employment and wrecking his bank de posits waggoner was ar nr rested in wyoming in ing and said lie he expected to spend a long time line in prison but was contented with lux tho the success ot af his ingenious s scheme REV 0 J farmer labor congressman froni from minnesota who succeeded andrew J was burned to benth ichen his summer cottage near lyattle lake minn was destroyed stroy edby by flames mr kyale an or dalbed lutheran clergyman was waa the only farmer in tho the house to which he wai waa elected in ln 1022 arthur 13 beliard ullard Bu liard former washington correspondent for a time chief of the FarFa far eastern stern dIv division Islon of the state department part ment and associated in various capacities with the league of nations passed away in geneva after a short illness lie he wits was one of the best in formed americans americana on questions connected hect with the league louis lita marshall ot of new york noted lawyer and jewish leaded leader nud philirn phI IRn plat died in zurich switzerland following an operation been taking nn an active and prominent part la in the iho zionist movement FLIGHT 11 it D WAI WAG itono won the schneider cup for the when he drove the alio dolls royce plane around the islo isle of af wight course at an average rate rata of 32 03 hillea s tin an ho hour ur breaking all records tor for speed nia ilia record borover ho however rover was w 0 s d a few feni days dayi later when A 11 II orlebar Orl phar lit in the same plane flew four our tim a over a str straight algat three thra kilometer course at a speed of q S miles an hour one lap was wa a tunde made ot dt the truly terrific rate of 0 ao 08 miles c r LAUDICS 11 HUSTON of tennessee A skillful politician and old time friend at president hoover was unanimously Inious ly elected chairman ot osithe ithe re ite pu publican kubican bIcan can national committee 1 to succeed pr ir hubert work tit at a decline iti a washington oy or SPECIAL interest to the central south was the offer 0 of president hooyer hoover to hold up work on the mississippi flood control project on the flood wa ways a extending from the arkansas river ilver to the gulf at 0 mexico it if tha southern touffic rn congressmen interested requested u sted it senator senat r robinson of ar alms kaigas and senatro senator lansdell nans dell and representative wilson of louisiana concurred in this plan this will permit the administration to consider the controversies trover sies stes involving pa payments arue 9 for flowage rights and othet other teat features ris of the project property owners have laidve pro protested kested against the ruling under which they can obtain no bompensa com pensa tion tor for towage flowage rights unless actual damages are caused i 0 newspaper union |
