Show V Z V 0 A V 3 X ON 5 V R na 0 M aki za U I 1 K I 1 dr frederick A cook arctic explorer just released rel easert from leavenworth prison plans to begin a new life 2 final resting plate place of william howard tuft taft in arlington cemetery near tomb of robert T lincoln S kama devi notel noted female bernale leader in the opposition to british rule in india NEWS REVIEW OF CURRE NT EVENTS hoover makes move to avert collapse of arms ton conference ference CN N AN effort to avert eit the enli collapse apse of the lie arms arins conference or failure to reach a five power agreement tu to reduce armaments threatened by the attitude of france president hoover lias bent beak new instructions to ti the american delegation tho the president Is said bald to have offered aldei 91 ter native proposals designed design edo to anke 1 ke a live he power agreement possible if t not for actual reduction of naval s strength tren th for at least placing a limit near present figures tt it Is understood bood that ho be suggests concessions on the part of the united states and great britain which would make it easier for or japan france and italy to agree the collapse of the conference was was L atoned when foreign minister Hin later bri briand an d had announced his withdrawal bee because n u se the united states backed by gre great a t britain had flatly refused to accede to the demands of fra france n cc for a security pact as a condition of their consenting to an any y reduction in naval 1 ann ament later mr adriand relented and an bounced that lie ha would remain with the conference an and that he still had copas of reaching an agreement t the break with prance france came at a private ine meeting eting between prime minister macdonald secretary of state stimson and foreign minister briand of france mr macdonald Mn cDonald demanded that hi land produce his real figures mr briand replied tartly 1 I have no figures I 1 came over here to get a pact if you wan want t figures you must talk to premier tardieu I 1 am finished mr briand demanded point blank of the british prime minister and the united states secretary of state why they are suspicious of F frances rances naval requirements and why they refuse to permit her to maintain adequate sea power for self defense defence but accept italis demand for parity in silence 1 I dont think that tt it Is fair to ask france to produce all of her figures and nd make out her case he said we are willing to discuss every point without being nal asked ed but there Is another country at the conference occupying the some same status as prance france but she Is left alone and says nothing beyond demanding parity with us making no justification of her claims the japanese delegation indicated that the absence of france from further negotiations which automatically disposes of anly also will prevent japan from proceeding in detail toward any extensive reduction of armaments mamen ma ments ts because her strength Is contingent upon the naval forces of the Euro european penn powers however it la is practically ased that grout britain and the united states will vill write a treaty treats it if the other powers refuse to come in anje sam and john dull bull will sign it alone or orLAno labon nj J J DA VIS S has announced ills his candidacy for the nomination for U united tilted states senator tor for pennsylvania anta mr davis announcement came after he had been informed that willin in S vare lind withdrawn Ith drown from froin the senate race and would throw him blin ills his support sir mr davis denied that he in tended to withdraw from the cabinet to male make the raw race HE great importance of teaching T THE civic responsibility to the youth of today along with the ability to read and write was stressed by president hoover in a short address at a dinner given by the boy scouts of america four hundred business and probes adonal men gathered in washington to commemorate the twentieth until anniversary of the founding of the boy scout movement and to launch a big expansion program listened while the president spoke of tile the necessity for training the boys of impressionable age in the duties and obligations of citizenship if the country Is to continue as a successful democracy mr hoover spoke in the highest te terms r m 0 of f the boy scout movement as fig se r tl that it Is one of the most valuable bable educational and training forces for dern in the alio nation tho the president also praised the leaders of the boy scouts for offering the boy of today tin nn opportunity for real adventure andoe and of directing ills his interests toward constructive joy instead of destructive destruct le glee M indian lead lea d er and mystic la Is conducting a campaign for civil disobedience against british rule in india demonstrations have been held in various parts of the country hut but they have been orderly defies the british g government ova rn to arrest him and warned ills his followers that they must be prepared for the worst even death in plans for or defiance of the suit salt tax production of suit in defiance of the government monopoly Is tile first enci enc step of the indian program the B british authorities are taking every precaution to prevent trouble IMMEDIATE appropriation of f more than tor for multiple government projects project was voted by the senate in passing the first d deficiency e bill of tills this sum la Is for the farm board giving that newly lislie tl pot eminent organization a total of of the authorized zed for its revolving fund by congress the additional fund was approved without opposition NEW financial and diplomatic aera era da dawned W ned for germany and europe when the following the plea of chancellor mueller voted to accept the young plan which provides for the final liquidation ot of germanys germanas Germ anys war debts in his Is address in the reichstag chancellor mueller hailed balled the expected liberation of tb ahr rhineland its lt recovery 0 of f sovereignty arnd control of finances railroads and taxes we v no 0 longer longar will depend tin r decisions of the uncontrolled and uncontrollable laHL office in the hands of foreigners an was the case u under n der the dawes plan he said WITH ward ITH the body of william howard taft resting beneath the newly turned sod in arlington cemetery the affection which he be bore for sirs mrs taft his three children and yale tale university was attested when his will ans opened to my dear wife helen 11 taft the final testament of the former president left virtually his entire estate filed for probate it disclosed no va valuation tua tion yale university where taft spent many of the happiest years of his busy life first as nn undergraduate and then as tile the kent professor of law from im 1911 until 1921 1021 when he rose to the chief received tile the largest single sum mentioned in ills will it will be added to the priti principal cipal of the alumni university fund find and credited to his own class that of 1878 to his three children robert AL A and charles P taft and mrs helen ildren taft manning the former chief justice left some of his most prized priced posses lils his papers paper manuscripts correspondence addresses and copyrights they fire are to be used as the recipients think best after consultation with mrs mra taft P POLICE of new york has started a campaign to drive all active communists from their jobs in shops factories and commercial establishments ile he supplied heads of industrial corporations with a proscription list of SOO names of communists who have been operating in their places of employment as organizers agitators and propagandists ts COMMITTEE of the new york lacounty A county lawyers association after a two year study of the question decided by a six to one vote to challenge the eighteenth amendment ns as a defiance of the tenth amendment ame adment to tile the constitution the cammi committee atee also voted to submit their conten contentions eions to the Sup supreme reffie court for a test ruling the tenth amendment reads the powers not delegated to the united states by the constitution nor prohibited by it to the states are re served to the states respectively or to the people the fact act that the eighteenth amendment conflicts vitally with tile the older tenth amendment has never been presented to the supreme court for a ruling THREE T airee states new york pennsylvania syl sylvania vanla and ohio are to spend more than a billion dilara this year for construction and maintenance of state county and municipal public works according to figures assembled by secretary of commerce robert P lamont lament gov john S fisher of pennsylvania has just reported ported le to secretary lamont lament that the total for that state Is estimated at the total for new york state Is while that for ohio Is on the basis of coci complete reports from more than two thirds of the states covering all types of public construction st and maintenance to be carried out in 1030 together with reports from federal departments and commissions blons and public utility companies said secretary lamont lament prompt decisive action in speeding up tills this years program of construction work of these types seems we well 11 established IN I 1 N VIEW of the issue raised by senate a te radicals in opposing the nomination tion of charles evans hughes tor for chief justice it Is likely that unless president hoover names a man of 0 cnown known liberal tendencies to succeed the late associate justice edward terry sanford there will be another long drawn out fight in the senate TUE HE government Is preparing to count noses again an army of census takers will begin knocking at your doors april 2 in the nations fifteenth decennial count of its population many new questions along with the old ones are to be naked asked this time the 1030 census will delve deeply into the count rys economic life as well as providing provid lne the usual basis for reapportionment tion ment of seats in the house of representatives L legislation to place the power industry under the controlling hand of the federal government la Is now before congress sponsored by senator couzens of michigan chairman of the senate interstate commerce committee tho the bill Is the second to ts follow months of inquiry into and discussion of activities of the giant power industry and its relations with the federal trade and power commissions couzens a republican Is the author a also iso of another bill to reorganize the power commission and was confident 0 of f getting both the reorganization and the regulatory proposals before the senate this session voluminous ITO LUMINOUS evidence showing chewing the breakdown of prohibition enforcement especially in the large cities has been amassed at secret hearings by the wickersham law enforcement commission during the last few weeks it has been learned although the commissions sessions salons se have been held behind closed doors reports leaking out unofficially are that shocking conditions have been pictured before the investigators by witnesses from chicago new york and other urban centers it Is known that among the witnesses have been prohibition officials from these allies some come of whom hove have testified dry law violations are widespread despite honesty honest enforcement efforts TUG HE army engineers are ready to proceed with of hood flood control construction along the main r tem stem of the mississippi river as soon boon as congress makes the money available ab e selecting work not involved in the controversy control ersy over the merits of the jadwin plan the engineers have hate virtually completed all plena pleas and slyer ial and their field forces are ready to go to work after the pending appropriation bill la is passed coincident with this announcement secretory Secret nry hurley made known that condemnation proceedings will bo be brought immediately to obtain leveo levee a and nd floodway rights across railroad a and nd state highway lines in the boo net carre floodway floods ay in III louisiana ca 1930 Wi erzt unions l |