Show V y P anz K A wa 3 4 I 1 s 4 A 7 K I 1 telephoto picture of wreckage age of big passenger plane which crashed at Ocean calif killing sixteen persons 2 frau Dorot dorothea bea von voa of germany sirs airs tsune gauntlett Gannt lett of japan miss bliss kathleen D courtney of england engla nd and mme ame marfe louise louisa puech of france principal speakers speaker sat at a public meeting held in philadelphia for the furt herment of international peace 3 henry heary wharton shoemaker hist historian orlan appointed american minister to bulgaria to succeed LL V B arthur schoenfeld NEWS REVIEW OF EVENTS naval parley starts with good chance for success young plan signed by EDWARD W PICKARD E except the physical atmosphere of london was auspicious I 1 s for the opening of the naval limitation icat 1 on conference on tuesday and every one connected with the parley seemed optimistic concerning its results king george making lila his first public appearance sines since he fell ell ill on armistice day 1928 1028 started the proceedings ce with a warm but brief address of welcome to the delegates gathered in the royal chamber of the house ot at lords ile was followed by the heads of the five delegations all of whom made appropriate speeches bullof full of generalizations and hope significant extracts extrac tA from these live five addresses are prime minister macdonald of great britain it if we are not careful wo we shall ahall be once more involved in feverish competition such as heralded the outbreak of the war in 1014 1914 them the way of great britain Is on the mea ea the stock or of its people came from the sea its defense and its high been the sea its fine dog Is a flag of the sea our navy nowhere Is superfluity to us it Is us secretary of state stimson of the united states 1 I feel it la Is more important to emphasize the fact that we do 60 not took look upon this effort toward disarmament armament Is as final naval limitation Is a continuous proc process ess we regard recard disarmament an aa a goal to be ba reached by successive steps stepi we sincerely hope that increased feeling of security may enable still more drastic reduction in the future premier tardieu of franco france our needs are determined as mr bir maedonald has justly observed by our geographical position our historical position our economic maritime colonial political and defensive situations eions talen taken altogether they define what la called a nation of japan it Is the unanimous desire odthe of the japanese people that peace should be lastingly established I 1 see no insuperable obstacles in our path dino grandl of italy the fascist government la Is desirous of securing real and tangible results in the fields of disarmament and security the problem Is one calling for courageous on action FRO canom 11 their public expressions and the information that came from their private conversations conversa tlona with one another it appeared the representatives of the five naval powers had at least reached a unity of opinion on five broad principles they were agreed upon tha 04 necessity tor for a naval holiday in ba the sense that competitive building of war fleets should cease they admitted that the public opinion of the world demanded economy in naval expenditures and relief for the peoples from financial burdens they believed it advisable that tiny any agree indents arrived at by the conference should hould be for a comparatively short period to BO they might be revised and improved in later years As aa to the last point it was said the british and probably the tha americans favored revision of agreements in and the french wished the term to be about twice as long thi the abreo highest hurdlik the conferees will have to surmount probably are the british determination to bring about a sharp reduction in IB battleships with their pos possible sibl elimination in the future the contest between franco france and italy for control of the mediterranean and the italian demand for parity with france on that sea and the desire of the french that any agreement reached shall be advisory to the league of nations disarmament commission wh wha n the question of the method of limitation comes up the americans and british BrItIs hl who prefer restriction by cate categories gorle will probably make concessions ceisl ces 0 ns to the french and italians who advocate the theory of global re ra edons and offer to accept an ran gement of global limitation by which w i ilch 10 per cent of tonnage may be tr transferred from one category to another on one years notice business sessions of the conference began thursday but it was the opinion of 0 mr macdonald that it would be two weeks before the delegates got to the point of at putting their sea strength estimates into terms and figures ln in formal meetings lie he urged them not to be too hasty in getting down to statistics and categories and lists of tonnage believing the problem should bo ba attacked slowly and piecemeal the three hundred journalists gathered in london from all parts of the world were bitterly disappointed when it was announced that the plenary sessions of the conference IN would not be open to them for the present their exclusion however did not prevent their sending many columns of speculation and gossip to their papers every day it Is g good aa d reading but the wise reader accepts their statements with reservation WHEN HEN on january 20 tie the delegates of nineteen nations signed the revised and amplified young plan a at t the hague the world war actually came to an end twenty separate agreements fourteen annexes and fifteen special clauses were signed and presented to premier jascur of belgium chairman of the second reparations conference and he thereupon declared the conference adjourned after ten years of discussions quarrels military occupations and parleys the final act of liquidating the war had bad been performed the young plan as modified and accepted requires germany to pay about from april of last year through 1006 1060 the tha system of annuities Is little changed the sanctions clause that was added implies that military occupation can ensue it if the hague tribunal holds that germany has wilfully defaulted the international Ln bank will be merely a clearing house for the payments the first concrete result of the adoption of the young plan will be the withdrawn withdrawal of troops of occupation cupa cu tiou left in the rhineland this already Is under way tor for the french are moving out of the forts tn in the rhine valley and the germans are blowing up those fortifications in accordance cor dance with the evacuation agreement and the versailles treaty treats has elevated the american clean CONGRESS legation in poland to the rauk rank of an an embassy and president hoover has nominated alexander P moore of pennsylvania to bo be am cassador bas to warsaw similar action of course was taken by the roush polish government tytus filipowicz the tha polish minister in washington being named ambassador the nomination of edward E brodle brodie a of f oregon to be minister to F inland finland was also sent to the senate by the president the senate confirmed the nominations of four ministers they were gilbert baker stockton sto e akton of florida flore to austria john motley morehead of now new york to sweden ralph 11 II booth of michigan to denmark and henry wharton shoemaker of pennsylvania to bulgaria if ANY citizens still thought the wickersham Wk kersham crime commission intended to take up the question of the desirability of prohibition they were undeceived last week by mr wicker eliam himself in a radio address that was broadcast to the nation the tha chair pan inan of the commission made it quite plain that that body was cance concerned arned only with the enforcement of the dry laws and he appealed to congress and the people to aid the authorities in making the country arid the eighteenth amendment Is in a part of the constitution end and it Is the duty of congress to enact adequate laws for the enforcement of tta its provisions said bald mr the detection and prosecuting agencies of the government should be properly 7 organized and there should be ba tribunals properly constituted to deal promptly and efficiently with violations of the law these would seem to be elementary principles not requiring argument secretary of the treasury bellon and commissioner doran appeared before the house committee on expenditures in the executive do de part apartments ments in behalf of the tha wickersham commissions bill for the transfer of the prohibition bureau from tho the treasury department to the department of justice the wet members of the committee tried in vain to lure lura mr mellon into giving his personal opinion of prohibition and the possibility of enforcing IL it in the house of representatives the wets had another chance for sarcastic oratory when five bills to relieve overcrowding of federal prisons were under consideration but they got nowhere and the bills were passed federal judge J W at t omaha declared unconstitutional that part of the prohibition act which permits personal injunctions against habitual violators of the law S OF 01 COM MEnCa LAMONT announced that on the basis of statistics compiled by the new construction division of his depart ment it seemed certain there would be in 1030 1930 an expenditure of almost seven billion dollars on construction and maintenance of public works non and d public utilities this total mr air la mont said does docs not include residences commercial and industrial structure 6 and other private operations which last year totaled more than three billion dollars programs for betterments to plant and equipment announced by public utilities railroads and telegraph co companies m represent expenditures or of divided as follows class A railroads electric gas and street railway companies american telephone and telo tele graph company independent telephone and telegraph companies short line lifie railways and privately owned waterworks water works complete returns troa from the governors of 26 20 states indicate probable expenditures of tor for pub lie works and ahls combined with con serva tive estimates based on partial returns from the remaining 22 states aggregating it was stated would give an indicated total of for public construction by the various states when federal construction Is included this total tor for public construction it Is estimated ti will b be e increased to F FOURTEEN passengers and two pilots lost their lives in what was called the worst tragedy in the tha history of aviation near oceanside calif A big tri trl motored plane that was bringing passengers back bach to los angeles from the race track at agua ballente Cal lente mexico got out of control and as the pilots were attempting to make a landing on the bench beach the machine burst into flames and crashed every one on board perished their bodies being burned beyond recognition eight women were among the victims WO latin american quarrels trenched TWO reached a somewhat dangerous stage last week while negotiations were under way tor for peaceful settlement of the border dispute between bolivia and paraguay there was wa a clash between troops on the frontier with some casualties bolivia said the paraguayans Paraguay ans were the aggressors and were defeated paraguay blamed the bolivians ians and both complained to the league of nations the tha government of honduras ordered it a mobilization of troops to dislodge guatemalan forces that were alleged to have occupied honduras territory the th foreign minister at tegucigalpa in a statement disclosed that military movements on the tha guatemalan border had threatened threaten edthe the lire or of the tb joint boundary dispute conference which to lc now how seeking a solution of f the problem the status quo onto ante was restored however and the conference resumed its ta work RS WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN BRYM M ans widow of the commoner died of arthritis in los angeles at the tha age of elgha years other deaths of the week included those of stephen T hather r former director of the national parks parka aya sy tem james Da daliman Dahl biman roan mayor ot of omaha george le matre well known comedian D A doody boody one ona of th the veteran brokers of wall street and 0 viscount Vla count esher one of the most influential fluent ial of british peers ga 0 1130 1120 clorn colon |