Show 31 1 7 1 g 4 A JOK W X r IF Y V ell anz A 1 senate finance committee laboring over tha tariff bin bill while ehtle the rest of congress iv Is on 1 1 general gouraud of france guest of 0 the rainbow division laying wreath on tomb 04 0 the unknown sol soldier ajor in ArlIng arlington tOa national motional cemetery otery 8 david cunter miller of new york appointed editor af ot py secretary of state slata aimson NEWS CURRENT EVENTS china and soviet russia near war wickersham stirs wets and drys by EDWARD V PICKARD and russia came to tho the C verge of war and whether they would push each other into the gulf was art an open question surface indications i pointed to an armed conflict in tho the immediate future but individuals like former secretary of state gg believed a peaceful solution of the trouble would bo readied reached inasmuch no aa both nations signed the kellogg pact outlawing war russia enraged by the seizure of the chinese eastern railway iu in man churla and the expulsion of numbers numbers of russians sent an ultimatum to china demanding that within three days the government arrange for an amicable settlement cettl ement of the crisis immediately the citizens of the soviet republics and cancel till all illegal orders unless this were done moscow threatened the soviet union would resort to other means to defend its rights in response china sold said an im envoy was being sent to moscow to discuss mattera matt erg and almodo also demanded that the soviet rele release tiso all clil hafto imprisoned in and adequately protect chinese la in russia from aggression and cepres mon filon the soviet government declaring tha he note was unsatisfactory in content und hypocritical in tonti tone announced that all its tal diplomatic and consular official and ami commercial depre fives would bo bb recalled train from clr china at once all means of reaching an amicable settlement hiving been exhausted it placed the entire responsibility for all consequences on the chinese government wen t during this exchange of notes and indeed before it began be nm both nations were concentrating large bodies of troops along tho tha border cancel canceling lug the leaves of their army officer cerp and otherwise preparing for armea with these achl M an sm border duty were the former en russian uellan imperialist white guard forces dispatches from Nr inking quoted a meni member fier of tho die central execl five qt of the nationalist national par ty as saying iha ihde t vie tho chinese jpy government rn would resist to the very end any russian threats growing out of the taking over of the railway to lo llan alan ch churl utin fi and president chiang nal kat shok was reported to have told ft a gath crine bering of party leaders that the re of the railway wo was only the first stage of the policy toward rug eta bla ile was effot quoted d as adding after this first stage we will go further the imperialist powers are greatly excited over our coup agn anat the rua nus stans and fear that their interests may be involved but aa long as w we chinese are united we ve need not fear opples slon blon from the outside out eldo As aside ida froni from the quarrel over control of tho railway in manchuria the row between rhese two huge nations to is directly traceable to the everlasting urge of the russians to spread their red communistic doctrines in other landa hinds by means ut of insidious propaganda they seem beera convinced that th they e y pre are right and aind determined that all the world shall be turned to only I 1 last ast week 20 of their agents were sentenced to prison in turkey for dis semina ting communist propaganda ant anil r attempting to undermine the existing government own idea of the prevailing confusion S SOME of mind among american alti sens ens concerning prohibition enforce went may be gained from the response res ponso to the suggestion which george NY wickersham chairman of the boover law enforcement commission made to the conference of governors in session at groton corm conn in of effect act the wacker wic kersham proposition made in a letter to governor roosevelt of new york Is that tha prohibition laws lawa be chael changed ed to turn wholesale enforcement over oer ito to the th federal government elit and retail enforcement T n galner saloons ind and Weaken sies to 0 the states both wets and drys both praised and denounced the suggestion in the governors meeting the notably dry executives ought bought to have it indorsed endorsed Indor sed ais as a move a toward greater operation cooperation co of the states with the federal government in fighting the demon rum and the drys led by Ro governor vernor ritchie of maryland rallied to prevent such indorsement endorsement Indor senator caraway of arkansas Arkans ns said in washington that mr Wicker shams letter was the worst blow ever leveled sit at prohibition brandl branding ng the act as unenforceable and lending encourager encouragement nent to the criminal world and he be insisted that mr wick arsham should resign from the chairmanship of the commission wet lenders generally agreed with caraway y that the letter was an that the dry law could not be enforced and consequently chuckled I 1 contentedly but representatives of the NY 0 T U and other dry organizations took tho the view that it was really a call to duty on the part ot of such stated as have been remiss in siding hiding in the enforcement of tho eighteenth amendment among tho the weeks developments was a statement from prohibition commis aloner doran that he would issue to all prohibition administrators admInistrator il a drastic order barring the employment of armed volunteers in liquor raids conducted by federal agents this Is a result ot of the killing hilling of two oklahoma farmers allegedly b by a volunteer old aid of a dry agent promised to be bejin an exciting airplane rai race across si the atlantic from paris to new york fork ended in tragic death and failure the polish plane marshal managed to roach reach the azores and making a forced landing on the small email island of Grac graciosa losa overturned rolled down an embankment and exploded maj lud was burned to death and hla his co maj casimir kubala was badly injured kubala said bald their motor failed them the french plane question stion mark piloted by dieudonne costo coate and jacques bellonte slowed ali ap by dense clouds and strong head winds that forced the consumption of too much gas flew almost to the azores and then turned back reaching ilar paris Is in safety williams and yancey flew to parts paris from rome home last week saw the sights eights of the gay capital and then crated their plane and started for home by steamship howler bowler the chicago tribunes amphibian in plane that was trapped by weather conditions on hudson strait on its way to io greenland iceland and berlin came to grief when ice floes broke up up carrying the plane out to sea where it sank tho the crew was safe ashore W WITH ITH allbut oil but one member appointed tho the federal furm farm board was started on its way toward agricultural relief with an address by president denti hoover at its initial meeting in his mal charge to the board the tha president said i its chief labh wits was the crent creation lon of farmer fanni er owned and farm farmer er con controlled strolled trolled marketing agencies lie ile continued I 1 1 I am deeply impressed with the responsibilities which lie ile before you I 1 your tour fundamental purpose must be to I 1 determine the facts and to find solutions to a multitude of agricultural problems among them to more nearly adjust production to need to create ent business institutions tor fori marketing which owned and controlled by the farmers shall be sol wisely devised and soundly io wid well maong cd that they by effat ing economics lind and giving such stability will grow in strength over the years to come through these efforts we may establish c for the farmer fanner fan in equal opportunity in in our economic syn system with other industry after this first meeting chairman legge expressed the belief that while the board was created to deal with the whole agricultural situation it wits probable the wheat surplus generally considered the most urgent phase of the question would receive we die boards immediate attention next day following an executive session mr alf legge legga announced that the board would do everything possible to work with existing co organ Izat lons nna and to build up now new farmer groups for co marketing by effecting a better organization of farm marketing facilities and bringing the farmer in more direct contact with his market mr legge bald the board I 1 feels trl ll 11 that increased profits will accrue to t the f producer without placing too great LL a on the consumer later mr legge gave out the state ment that the board would not at tempt to dis lilace private banking in and the fet feler leral nl credit banks b inks in financing co operative 4 engaged in marketing farm commodo ties the board expects the cooper co oper aleven to exhaust the lines of credit which may be obtained at reasonable rates from other institutions before calling on the alie board for nus assistance latane a for the present no loans will be made out of the boards funds finds though a great many applications already have anve been received the ninth member of the board not yet named Is in to represent especially the wheat growers incidentally reports ot of severe crop losses in the american and canadian northwest tent sent wheat prices on the boards of trade up in great leaps and bounds and other fraini advanced sharply in sympathy WENTY banks in the port part tot of florida around tampa closed in two weeks fifteen of them on one day last week the atlanta federal reserve bunk bank sent 5 to tampa with the promise of one of its of all the money needed to meet the situation anti and this helped the florida bankers and business men to re store public confidence the state controller said the failures were caused primarily by unnecessary withdraw find decree slon blon through the state which hns been accentuated by the effect odthe of the mediterranean fruit fly and quarantine LOUIS C SELTZER editor of the clev cleveland land press and carlton K X matson the papers chief editorial writer were sentenced to serve 80 days and pay lines fines of each for contempt of court in printing an editorial denunciation of common pleas judge F P walther of cleveland the judge himself brought the charges heard the case and pronounced sen tence lence newton D baker former secretary I 1 of war defended the newspaper men and filed an appeal and they were released on ball after an hour in jail the case cage will be watched with great interest by ell all members of the journalistic fraternity for it involves the freedom of the press and the privilege of criticizing public officials according to mr baker 0 OLD LD times on the river were revived to the delight of thousands of spectators when the veteran paddle paddie wheelers batay ann and tom greene raced 20 miles up the ohio from cincinnati to new richmond for the championship won many years ago by the betsy ann the steamers ran neck t ck and neck for most moat of the dis als tance but young torn tom greene finally pushed his hl boat ahead and won the exciting rae race by a scant five feet D DURING a ter terrific rIfle storm on the coast of chile the chilean army transport abtao ablao was sunk off the port part of valparaiso and all but two of the derew of 43 were drowned A atack island passenger train west bound from chicago plunged through a weakened ened bridge over landsman creek near mar stratton colo rind and one of the pulli pullmans nans was submerged the loss of life was reported to be nine floods in the ond district on the black mea ea have taken a toll of per hops ft thousand lives live many villages were engulfed and W square miles ailles ol al crops destroyed avent TING ING of 0 england under A went another operation and for foi a few lays das his suh jets were very acx tous lous but tie lie came out of it well and wits reported to be recovering rapidly the surgeons found it necessary to remove parts of two ribs to facilitate drainage of the abscess on his bis ma bestys lung V ETI BANIS of the rainbow division A K F r hew held their annual meeting in baltimore and their parade wits was reviewed eved by president Il hoover general gouraud wartime war time commander ot of the fourth french army with which the division fought in france french ambassador claudel claude and other not nota 1 bles general gouraud couraud Is honorary president of tho divis divisions lons association end aid cania came over avei especially for the reunion |