Show 17 W PF or A 3 t lq r INS ik 4 u A A I 1 02 I 1 new million dollar buildings for the british embassy la in washington nearing completion to be occupied on june 8 tile the birthday of king george 2 night scene during the conflagration that destroyed desti 0 oyed y ea hundreds ot of residences lu in bashia N 11 3 1 lerman bernstein author and journalist who la Is now american america r 1 ml minister later to albania NEWS REVIEW CURRENT HENTS senate rejects nomination of f parker as supreme court justice dy by EDWARD W PICKARD N nomination of judge john J parker of north carolina to bo associate justice of tile the supreme court of the united states was rejected by the senate by a in argin of two vote ott A I 1 like lie event had fail not occurred in 81 90 years year a it was stated in washington that president hoover would spelt another appointee nud and the names most prominently mentioned were those of chief justice penton whitlock booth of tile court of claims john W davis ta alia Dimo democratic cratic presidential nominee of 1024 and newton D linker baker of olito ohio secretary of war under president wilson wll since many of the southern senators voted against judge parker it was rather taken for granted by many that another southerner would 11 not at bo be appointed mr hoover la Is merely human the senates action was waa the climax of ten days daa of keen debate concerning judge parkers decision in it labor injunction case and hla his personal stand on tho the negro quest question lon when lie he wim a nominee for the governorship of north carolina and stated that the participation of the negro in politics la in a source surce of evil and danger to both races political considerations and antl sentiment also were factors in the result it was waa ainer asserted ted the president ili by tile the appointment point mint was trying to retain for hla his patti party the southern votes it received lit in the lust presidential election and of course the radical republicans publicans ans ns excepting senator norbeck of south dakota opposed tho the nomination as an they have opposed nearly alt all administration measures of the 38 who voted for judge parkers confirmation 29 20 wera republic anti atna and 10 democrats the 41 against included 17 republicans 23 democrats and I 1 farmer labor member paired for the nomination were ivo republicans and 3 democrats while paired against were also 0 5 Re pins ans and a 8 democrats counting pairs 3 31 J republicans were lined up for parker while 2 were against him there wore were 13 democrats for parler parker and 28 against him since the creation of tho the supreme court lit in 1789 1780 nine alno men appointed by tile chief 11 executive have been rejected edby by the senate one of those john of south carolina Carolin awas was n nominee for chief justice the last bejec rejection aton before that of judge parker was that of wheeler 11 peckham in L RESIDENT HOOVER wits was credited P w wah ith a decided victory when tho the hou house se passed on controversial adain admin provisions in the tariff bill by br a vote of to it defeated a motion to accept the senate export debenture amendment to which mr hoover was so firmly opposed that its inclusion probably would have resulted in a veto then the house by a vote of to rejected a boilon motion to accept the senate amendments repenting tile the flexible provisions of the present law nw the president has bus str at I 1 gly advocated retention of power in the executive to make melve emergency changes in duties on the recommendation of the tariff commission roth both house and senate sent the tariff measure back to conference and it was expected the senate would finally yield don on both these points IN connection with tariff matters it Is interesting to read that tha premier mackenzie kenzie king announced in the canadian house of commons that a election would he be held ably early in august in which the y main issue wilt will be canadian tariff retaliation tat tation against the united for impending american tart tariff increases st canada the premiers announcement which staggered the house because of its OBid denness followed a three hour richard C B bennett con leader Is ir which mr bir cennett bennett denounced the countervailing duties provisions 0 of f the canadian naillan Cn budget and wound up by moving a motion of no confide fee in the bluck mackenzie enzie king administration ministration ministro tion under these countervailing duties tile tho Canad lun tariff on off 10 16 major items automatically mati cally moves to the level of american imposts against canada and ad the items consist largely ot of those now under tinder deview by the united states congress for or increase among home C browers followed a decision ot of tile the supreme court written by justice holmes uphold lug the seizure and forfeiture of kegs bottles bottle cappers cups caps nil and other oilier apparatus sold fur for use in the tha production of illegal bev eve trayes rages one loophole was seen by tile hie dealers in chwe articles justice holmes referring specifically to appliances ances s offered corsale for sale guipo purposely s ely to attract persons intending to togao us them tor for tho lift manufacture of illegal drink prohibition commissioner doran announced lie he would instruct ills hla administrators istra tors to proceed against commercial distributors of brewing apparatus SCOTT general su F perIn of the anti antl saloon league was nn nil interesting witness before the sonata senate lobby committee ile said tile tho league now tins has a deficit and ana that the leader leadership it formerly possessed tins lias passed parsed to tho the executive committee of tile the defensive alliance of about thirty dry organ organizations under cross examination he testified that the league Is tin in active lobby that it still seeks to influence federal appointments point ments by timely recommendations that it maintains a surveillance over federal judges and makes sure that federal district attorneys are kept advised of its desires through gli the submission of briefs for the guidance of tho the prosecutors in liquor law prosecutions by the tha spreading revolt of the nationalists of india the british government decided it would be heat best to put mahatma Maha troa under tinder arrest the holy roan man was taken into custody suddenly at jalal pur ani and I 1 conveyed convened to a jal jail at beroda near poona where ho he was wa given corn COM for ort aLto taLle quarters and an ample allowance for ills his personal expenses later lie he was removed to tho the military sanitarium Gand lils wife and tits lieutenants were prompt to take over tile the of the tha civil disobedience campaign the news of the mahatmas mah maha atmas tinas arrest was curried carried swiftly over the peninsula and tile immediate result was renewal of the riotous demonstrations in n many localities cali ties the natives had frequent clashes with th the troops and police and there were numerous casualties DIs tui lanes were especially violent in bombay delhi calcutta unit anil lahore several lenders leaders of the moderates of india ore are in london carrying on peace negotiations and it was reported that wedgwood benn secretary of state for or andt a was willing to give assurance 0 it the determination of the brit asil government eventually to grant dominion status to india OLD star mothers to the number GOLD of sailed from new york on ahn first of tho the pilgrimages to if the 3 battlefields of franco france under tho the au auspices S of the government and at its expense these women whose sons died in the world war came from many states they were given it a most moat hos hoa bitable reception by new york boffl alati and organization and then started across the ocean ocean on tile tha steamship america to visit the graves of hoys buys followed by a tidal E earthquake wave and conflagration wiped out an old seaport of burma 58 53 miles north of rangoon and also did a lot of damage in tile latter city the total dead were estimated at GW GOO of whom two thirds were inhabitants or of begu hundreds of others were injured A large section of the indian population in bitang oon connected the disaster with the arrest of mahatma Maha troa Gand lit leader of indias andias civil resistance campaign and police and military forces were diverted from rescue work to quell a riot in which persons persona wearing foreign cloth were stripped ot of their clothing which was piled on bonfires about the same time heavy earthquakes occurred in the northwestern part of persia and it was reported that 2000 persons persona were killed th the towns of recently renamed named re kazaleh Kez Rez aleh and ballast were destroyed the former Is the reputed birthplace of Tortin tornadoes does struck in widely scattered sections of texas killing hilling about seventy persons and demolishing many man homes and there were destructive windstorms wind storms in oklahoma kansas anil and nebraska in which several persons perished fire destroyed a considerable part of the town of nashua N IL II rendering a thousand tousand tl persons persona homeless in new jersey and on long island an and staten island forest and brush urea lasting several days did great damage N CARTHAGE that ancient city in I 1 IN north africa where thousands of christians were centuries ago the 1930 eucharistic congress of the roman koman catholic church opener last week some twenty thousands of tile faithful were there including many of the highest dignitaries of th church pope plus being represented by cardinal Lo pleter thoo the cere mordel began in the old st louis cathedral on a hill overlooking the ruins and hovels hovelin that now constitute the once mighty city and some of the rites during the flye days were performed in tunis tell tea miles away f the london naval S agreement met a congressional rebuff when th tha a house appropriation committee deleted an indorsement endorsement Indor of the pact from the report prepared by bi its naval subcommittee for transmittal to the house with the M naval supply bill As prepared by the subcommittee whose chairman Is representative burton french of idaho the report referred deferred lef erred to the treaty as a signal ao a L and an achievement of immeasurable importance to tho the signatory nations in executive se session the full appropriation committee ordered all commendatory matter regarding the pact stricken out As finally presented when the tha naval bill wits introduced tile the report contained only matter pertinent to the naval bilt bill the measure recommends lin an outlay of for new construction anti and for maintenance of the naval establishment during the 1031 fiscal beir of tills this sum Is set se t mile aside for new construction work and for modernizing the battleships the tha measure represents on an increase of over tile the naval appropriations for tile the present fiscal year it Is 1710 WO below the 1931 budget estimates recommended by president hoover senate foreign relations corn com THE arranged to hold open oceh headings on the london treaty beginning may alay 12 with Secre secretary tury of state stilla i son as aa tile the first witness the naval affairs committee of tho the senate als also a binde nde its plans for hearings 0 on the pact senator david A reed need last of the delc delegates gAtes to return from london ar ai rived in washington anti and enthusiast colly cally predicted that the treaty would be ratified 1111 national I 1 live ive stock marketing THE Tasso association clat I 1 on ne the fourth national comi commodity edity marketing concern under the auspices of the federal furm farm boac board was organized in chicago with a capital of after bellig being approve approved 4 by representatives of 17 live stock co cooperatives the farmers union andl and the central live stock Produce aa as r declined to join the nef net corporation HE camers Fan ners national grain co corporation P T TUB po ration through its president CL U B aluff 11 un announced that plans for ro glon it a und n d brunch branch development now nov under way any call tor for the establishment of uve five branches of the corporation nt at kansas city mo for southwest esit territory st paul duluth or minneapolis for the spring wheat area spokane wash or portland ore for the tha pacific northwest with henry W colllns collins of pendleton feton ore na as manger manager buffalo for the mill business and export outlet in n the northeast nort arid d st louls or indianapolis pro probably bibly for the soft wheat territory from uli bourt eastward to the seaboard fi uto 1130 W etera wa NO lapair unis |