Show am 10 fil 0 J az ilk 7 S 41 an I 1 Nati orial vaudeville artists just opened itt ht saranac lake N Y b lias has huge solarium with quartz quarts windows 2 one of the russian gun bouta that havo been making chinese vessels on tho the lungari river man churla 3 augustus AuKust ua vollmer fornier former police chief of berkeley calif new member of the presidents crime and law enforcement commission NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS powers are busy with plans for limiting armaments and insuring peace sy by EDWARD W PICKARD R 0 of armaments and other plans for insuring the pence of the world and so saving t the lives and money of its inhabitants anro a r e occupying th the international mind these days largely to the exclusion of other matters matter the weeks developments in this line was the virtual conclusion con lusion of the conversations between ambassador dawes and prime minister macdonald ot of great britain with enough agreement reached to intake certain the calling of a five power conference on naval reduction england will issue the invitation it was announced to the united states france italy and japan and the meeting probably will be held in london starting in the second week in january mr macdonald cDonald Mn completed tile ills arrangements to sail anti for the united states on september 28 to confor confer yelth Fres president ident hoover and secretary of state stimson and it was assumed that this consultation would result only in furthering the plans for the big meeting dispatches from washington asserted that president hoover already had agreed to accept a limitation of the number ot of ton cruisers crul sera the united states may build tn in addition to a limitation of aggregate cruiser tonnage which to Is the point for which the british contended in the futile gneva geneva conference of whether americas big cruisers shall number IS 18 or 21 la Is to he decided later it may be bei too the british will put over their former proposition that there shall te be no replacements of capital ships before 1038 1036 when the washington treaties expire the extremists in tho the matter of national defense are rather worrier worried by these reported concessions ces anti and cannot see sec how the united states la Is tp to attain naval parity with great britain hut but americans in general probably regard the negotiations neg otla with complacency I 1 president hoover in a radio address sought to reassure those who might bei be apprehensive tor for their count rys safety ue he declared that naval and land armaments should bs be held down to etia barest necessities for defense purposes in tile the interests In teresta of pence and that unless this policy is adhered to preparedness may become a threat of ugar aggression 1 assion and a cause of fea fearins rind an animosity mosi ty throughout the world the proposals now under discussion by the great powers tip lie salo said would preserve jur aur natio national nationiel nill defenses and yet would relieve the bucks of those who toll from gigantic expenditures and tile the world from the linte hate and fear which hows flows from tile the rivalry tn in building wa warships 71 dealing with the troubles that may confront the live alve power confer conference ened the london dally daily telegraph says it la Is from france and italy rather than front from japan that the greatest difficulties are feared these two powers may draw together temporarily aaril for the he purpose of nt objecting to holding the inference conference in london and of weaving causes tor for delay but they have been engaged since 1020 tn in a nevot rie ree of a very strenuous and severe character with one another it Is not cot grot gme rally appreciated that france hits been working on a but building I 1 d which does not cot reach its maturity until and which comprises IS 18 cruisers 90 destroyers 07 67 ocean going submarines submariners ant and coastal italis building program was further increased only last year by the addition of 13 11 ships tn reat nn an additional but its principal strength lies tn in its fast destroyers and inetor torpedo craft LOUD LORD OBE RT CECIL presented to the disarmament committee of he langlie of notions nations the british plan culling calling for reopening of 0 the ques question tiou if army reserves in ani r hevie for world oid disarmament and aps vps hr tile the german delaca tn ti tile fr enca italians and jop jap anese argued that tills this question had been definitely laid aside lust just spring and that the present time line was inopportune for or reopening it since t the he grent great powers in the league of nations have rejected frances proposal for an international standing army and great britain refused to help form an international navy the league la Is now thinking of forming nn an international air for fore e to help in compelling tho the world to be peaceful col clifford harmon of america president of the international league of avi floors suggested the scheme last rh december and was sharply rebuked by lord cushendun Cushen dun of england Un gland but lie he did not noi give up and seems to h have av e gained some support from pre premier aler briand of france and other diplomats last week both the french and the germans introduced before the disarmament committee resolutions defan jug ing the juridical status of the planes of such euch an international force over various countries the french measure said that the international commission for aerial navigation Is preparing plans and urges the freedom of flying over all states granted that they are the leagues machines the german resolution said bald that having learned that the international international ai commission tor for aerial navigation 13 studying tue the legal position of league aircraft the question must give rise toi an important issue that the various governments will require nn an op port unity to study after they have hake received complete information on the project count von for germany thought the french vie viewpoint point could not bo be accepted harmons plan provides for a 0 fleet of bombing planes to attack and break up mobilization in an aggressive count country ryby by smashing bridges br adges tunnels railways and other lines of transportation in norderto order to prevent the attacker from invading a neighbor country the league assembly shelved until next nest year a proposal to assist nations threatened by war with international loans guaranteed by fill all po powers in the league ono of its committees ahsu als carried toward compie completion tion plans for lowering of customs tusi bair barriers had and reductions duct ions of economic impediments t to tra tr adean deail essential preliminary being a world tariff truce of three or tour four years BRITISH beegan and Cettl an troops quietly began the evacuation of the rhineland and some of the french broo troop s were withdrawn though it Is expected france will maintain a rather largo large force there up to the last minute wiesbaden Wies baden Is to be made the headquarters of the Inte rallie a rhineland commission whose stair staff will be greatly reduced C CHINA says it Is getting tired of the soviet russian raids on man border towns and that unless they biase the nationalist government go eminent will drop its defensive ta tactics c and adopt other measures confident that it will receive the support 0 of f world opinion the tha chinese troops troop s are enraged by the tales of atrocities practiced by tile the russians as brought to harbin by fugitive chi chinese nese merchants from the border regions and cannot hu be restrained much longer foreign minister C T wang has protested pio tested through the german government against the internment by the russians of chinese who are not communist or members of russian trade unions and demanded thelt their immediate release while gathering large larga bodies ot of troops and quantities of munitions on the be manchurian frontiers tile the chinese are collecting a mass of evidence to prove to the world that russia has been violating the kellogg pact denials of thisby this by moscow do not have hare great weight ht with those who are aware ot of the russian propensity to misrepresent to put nut tt mildly SOON after col II 11 W stewert otowa was wa unnoted by the elfers from the chairmanship at tle standard oil company of indiana there were rumors that he was going to form a combine to tight the american oil all kings these have been revived now tor for the colonel sailed for europe last week and it ft was ns admitted he be would visit sir henri Deter dlag dlug oil magnate of europa and director general of the royal roya dutch shell company whose products already ars are sold all over america if a combine of standards competitors does doe result it may bring the floyal dutch shell and its ramifications cat ions the sinclair companies the prairie oil and gas and subsidiary pipe line company and the continental oil OH company all under a unified control rumors in american A lancial elides circles were werd that stewart had enlisted the morgan interests it looks as aa if a merry oil war were in the offing harry I af blackmer the american oil magnate who fled to france to avoid testifying in n the ten pot dome cases and Is still overt over there heie was fined for contempt of court by justice jug siddons of the district of columbia supreme court his lawyer gave notice of appeal and blackmere Black mers in liberty bonds seized some memo time ago remains in the custody of the federal marshal in washington CAPT APT jonn JOHN brought fits bis motor vessel shawnee of nova into halifax with two shell holes in its hull and declared these were caused by two of cf four shells fired at close range by thou tha U S coast guard cutter no when the shawnee was 20 26 nilles miles off new york bound from bermuda to halifax in ballast ifa H said eald the no had all its lights doused and that after the firing it called the tha coast guard gresham Or esham which later was relieved by another vessel and that he finally outdistanced his convoy mcleod said bald he be would make cormal protest ottawa the shawnee Is alleged tol have been engaged la in run rum running DOWN in the carolinas Caroll nas the inhabitants apparently are determined not to have communists from other regions interfering with frith their labor troubles the radicals from new york who went down there to aid the striking textile workers are having baring a rough time what with kidnapers ers anil and and in a mob attack on persons on the way to a strikers rally ol at gastonia Gast onla N C Q one woman was shot to death fr for this murder and for various floggings nu meroni arrests have bave been made and the state authorities seem to be doing ill all in their power to restore order but tife the carolinians are in an ugly mood and further bloodshed la Is expected PRESIDENT p RESIDENT HOO appoint 1 ment of henry P F guggenheim Gugg in as ambassador to td cuba to succeed noble B judah resigned meets with general approval the new ambassador Is one 0 of f the leading figure la in american av aviation ablation lation k being president of the gug kenhelm fund for tin the promotion of aeronautics during the war he be served in the naval aviation forces in both france and italy and rose to tho tb rank of lieutenant commander BRIG bof RIG GEN BROWN ona of the greatest of Ame american ican engineers was appointed chief of army engineers with rank of major general to succeed major general jadwyn retired and simultaneously with making known this selection president hoover announced plans for tile the reorganization of the office brown i takes high ranking officers will be placed in entire charge of important projects project a and held definitely responsible for the successful completion of these thesa gli special ecial assignments sign ments a general brown Is fifty seven years yeara old and was born at nashville tenn N NEW EW YORK la Is to have it a lively mayoralty campaign with flys five candidates congressman F 11 II laguardia L Gu ardla extreme wet won the republican P nomination but the dry republicans public ans begin began laying plans plana to p put ut up tip a dry candidate the democrats ore nominated jimmy walker and richard enright former police commissioner was put up by the square deal party attacking tammany control of abo th pollee police department the fifth flath candidate Is norman thomas running as a socialist and he be Is expected to be stronger than hla his party because of dissatisfaction with both laguardia ardla and walker M deltgen of two five of new yorks biggest banks the national city ani and the corn exchange wp was arranged arran pod and approved by tte the directors the consolidation brings together total resources of making it the larget bask bank in the world 10 1129 if if western union |