Show XZ 1 2 V M I 1 kv einns hughes ra appointed chief justice of the united slates supreme court to succeed william XI it taft T ft who rest ened because of ill health 2 cubas new capitol building to in havana which cost and will SL be h officially offic r tally opened on february 24 as 3 gen berenguer who premier and add dictator of spain when primo de was forced to resign KIM REVIE W 0 cun fi REINT W H taft III quits as chief justice and hughes named to succeed eftim aim by EDWARD W PICKARD WI WILLIAM 1 HOWARD TAFT re 10 to washington from asheville a very sick man sent so t in his res I 1 agnation as chief justice of T the supreme court of the united states it ft was tens ct at once accepted by president hoover with expressions regressions egres of deep regret and of sympathy tor for mr air tafts c condition and charles evans hughes was appointed ills successor though the lie entire matter seemed sudden it was learned that the president had been informed of mr tafts intention several weeks week s before and that air mr hughes had conferred with mr doover several times before accepting the appointment aar mr tafts physicians admitted that he was seriously and thou though 11 toward the close of the week his condition appeared to have improved th chev L y heti held out little hope tor for his recovery r they said that for some years b he e bad had very high blood pressure associated with general arteriosclerosis an and and niso also had bad a clinic cystitis president and mrs airs hoover called on him the day after his return from the south and so did several of the supreme court justices there was a constant stream of other other cillers at the taft residence but of course post most of them merely left messages of greeting and cheer mr tafts retirement closed a public career unparalleled in this country for nearly fifty years he served the people in ranging from an assistant a nt prosecuting attorney to prest bresli dont den t of the republic and head of its big highest best tribunal lie ile was the first civil clell governor general of the philippine I 1 islands and was secretary of war u under president roosevelt lie ile was a appointed by president wilson as chief justice in 1021 1921 in accordance with a law passed at the last session of congress he retires with his full salary of a year mr ilu bes presumably will take ottice inico when the supreme court reconvenes on february 21 ills appointment Is the climax of it a record in the public service almost as remarkable ns s that of his predecessor lie he lias has h held eld some of the highest offices w within the reach of an american citizen having fallen only of the presidency for which lie he w was 8 tho the unsuccessful c e republican c candidate a S ate in wid 1010 against woodrow wilson to make that campaign he resigned ns as associate justice of the supreme court to which position he had been appointed by president roosevelt noo sevelt in 1010 about a year ago lie he was selected as a judge of the world court and spent last sli brimmer miller sitting at the hague from march 4 1021 to march 4 1025 lie he was secretary of r tate state to in the and coolidge cab cabinets linets retiring volun tartly As a matter of propriety charles im hughes II jr wilt will now resign as solicitor general of the united states tates i and if has been suggested that president hoover may select as his successor mr hr tafts son robert A taft who Is now district attorney at aln rinn RUBIO was in P augu rated president of mexico wednesday with simple ceremonies and as he was leaving the national stadium tin an attern attempt Pt was made to as aa him which was quite in n accord with Alex mexican ican tradition A young man standing ng behind a file of soldiers sold lera at the gate of bonor emptied his revolver into the presidential car ortiz bublo was shot through the cheek the bullet lodging in the left jaw ula wife and niece and his military aide were slightly wounded as was the chauffeur who nevertheless stepped on the abc acc accelerator Ie and carried his passengers swiftly to a tied red cross hospital A few hours later inter the sur our gemond econs announced that the president was out but of danger the iss assassin a asin was seized by the polle and ana vald he was daniel flores of a can lula fujs potosi state and was wa I 1 fol foi lower of tose jose vasconcelos defeated candidate for the presidency ile ho refused to ti say why lie lind had tried to kill ortiz but the authorities were satis satisfied tied that it was a plot of the vascon ellstam ell stas ll 11 this was the view also of portes gil retiring president who told newspaper men that senora denorn de da oritz had received an unsigned letter e ater a few days ngo ago which said tier her husband li would not live to be inaugurated only fi week before the shooting the federal dl strict district authorities announced they had frustrated frustrate d one such vascon celesta plot with ith t alie ie arrest of nineteen abo allegedly persons persona who allegedly planned to a assassinate aa both senor ortiz kublo and senor sanor portes fortes gil and seize the government it if that was the plan in this instance events did not develop as was hoyed holled for mexico city except for an air of anxiety tor for the presidents den t s s safety was quiet with little or no indication that anything unusual had find happened P 1 11 11 negotiations among 1 the naval conferees in london did not proceed very smoothly prime minister macdonald MacDona td announced that great britain sought the abolition of submarines and immediately thereafter henry L head of theA the american morl delegation made it known that this position was supported by the united states and that he would propose the abolition of underwater war craft at the plenary session set tor for february 11 the jil french rench delegation at once met and examined the question and then declared flatly that they would not consider the proposal it was understood that premier tardley at the plenary session would meet it with a speech in which lie he would say that france considers the submarine as most necessary for the defense of th the french eFrench coast though france does not want it as an offensive weapon and believes that submarine warfare should be humanized italy Is willing to abolish submarines if france will do so but it insists that italians must have sub submerse mers bibles if her northern neighbors have them thus the italian action will be governed by the french attitude the american delegation made public its plan tor for reduction ind and limitation stating that it provided for im immediate ml parity with great areat britain in every cluss class of ship in the navy equality in battleships would be secured by abandonment of the british and three by the americans the cruisers would be so apportioned that the british would have an apparent advant advantage age of tons which the americans could equalize by including the number of their smaller cruisers critics of this plan declared it was a surrender to the demands of the british daig delegates ates from the british dominions protested to mr macdonald that tile the conference was making unnecessarily slow progress and he therefore conferred with the other heags heads of delegations and they decided to speed things up the first committee which includes all the delegates took up on thursday the matter of the method of limitation seeking a solution for wa the controversy between the global and categorical methods london correspondents however said it was not likely any real progress would be made toward fixing tonnage figures until near the erd end of the month this is due to the fact that the japanese have a general election on february 20 and the japanese are stalling g vigorously on the figures until the present resent government can get settled in the saddle or a new government formed WUEN HEN maj gen herbert crosby chief of cavalry of the united states slate army retires on march 21 next he will undertake under talie the task of making the city of washington a model for the rest reet of the country so BO far BS as liquor and crime are concerned lie he has been selected by president hoover to albect the police alre and traffic departments of the district of columbia and mr hoover said the appointment will be ek a guaranty to both tile the official al and unofficial residents of the district and especially to the nation at large that the capital shall be tree free of organized arline the police affairs of the district I 1 of columbia have been under fire from froia members of congress for the la last t year or so BO during that time there ther have ha ve been a wide variety of charges inc including ud lax enforcement of the prohibition t on laws general crosby will succeed proctor L dougherty as s commissioner SAMUEL S AMUEL 11 CHU president of the carnegie institute proposed at a dinner arinner of the eastern directors of the association against the bl tion amendment that a now new liberal party be formed by the wets and while the idea was not endorsed indorsed Indor sed at the abe meeting it was decided that a nation wide convention should be held in baltimore in the spring leaders of the old parties and many prominent wets us as well said the foes of prohibition pro hibl would gain little or nothing by forming a new party those wets weta who are practical politicians believe they can accomplish much more by placing wet candidates in the field in three cornered contests for the senate or the house they think this might result in the election of wet democrats and bring about a change in the policies of the Ite republican publican party C Q L BEEDY of maine offered in the house an amendment to the act which would make possible the padlocking pad locking of places of business by public prosecutors in the absence of their owners and it was generally accepted as ag an administration measure beedia bill provides that a district state county or city attorney falling failing to locante the owner of premises alleged to be a nuisance may issue a substitute or dummy subpoena and without serving it on oa the aba owner may go into court and have his bla place padlocked it also provides presides that the judge may speed up the case if hla his docket Is congested by referring it to a muster master toy proceedings under equity rules BY A vote of 48 to 8 6 the german or national council of the he states approved the young plan which has now gone to the reichstag for final discussions and disposition the council also gave lie its approval to the separate permanand german Germ anand and american debt agreement Ba bajarias Bavar varias laa premier doctor held tried everything in his power to prevent the from accepting the young plan lie He declared that the young toung plan was based on the assumption that germany was responsible for the war foreign min ister julius curtins Curt liis countered by saying baying that germany never has and never will sign a pact admitting war guilt ITALY atlon VALY greatly strengthened its post clori in central europe last week by the signing of a treaty of friendship conciliation and judiciary regulation with austria austila this os ns a rome nome correspondent says bays means that postwar Aus inhabitants will be added to the circle of fi lends friends italy has been cultivating ld in the states and which at present includes c hungary and bulgaria plus the diminutive adriatic Adrat lc monarchy of al barila barda it means likewise that besides burying the hatchet in south tyrol italy extends tier lier range of influence to the border lines of the little entente austria on the other hand makes a noteworthy advance from her pro status of a political zero through this italian alliance thas luga latvia the world has learned that recently nearly five hundred farmer officers of the old russian imperial navy have been put to death by the cheka or secret police tills this massacre was ordered by bt commissar chief of the chacka I 1 and no reasons for his action have been given i because of the crisis in diplomatic relations between moscow and berlin I 1 and paris the soviet foreign trade I 1 monopoly to Is contemplating a trade boycott of europe and concentrating its european purchases in the united states according to the soviet trade delegate in riga authorized the president C to send road a commission to haiti to study conditions and sir mr hoover last week was considering the makeup make up of that body the commission the president said will be charged with the hie responsibility of re recommending commending when and bow the united states la Is to withdraw its military forces from the negro republic it will also recommend the policy which thin country should follow during the years that will elapse before american occupation ends endi ft 1120 Kew pair union |