Show W 4 aw I 1 7 7 7 V I 1 mary duff of ill receiving g from mrs margaret 17 lower field director of the american red lied cros 8 the mrs mis henry K R rou rold gold medal as the outstanding member of tills class in the army school of nurs 1 1 ag 2 view mew of tile the grent great bridge river the st lawrence Ln wrence at montreal just opened for traffic a 3 nat the graf at lakehurst N J after hor flight from brazil IF C U n H RIM T E V E PH T S congress overrides hoover veto of spanish war var pension measure dy by EDWARD W PICKARD aint hooven it Is not lot having a 0 pleasant time with a 1 congress ron gretiS wh ose mind N 9 to a coils id arabi e extent fixed on the 0 dinnyes I 1 anees of re election next ful fall the majority tn in both h houses ollsen I 1 Is S republican but it disint isn t nl hi ways vi ai s administration especially when hen being so might cost some votes at tile polls this condition was illustrated last week when congress overrode the 1 residents veto of the spanish war veterans pension hill bill in ili re passing tho the measure the senate voted 01 31 to 18 against hoover IIo oer and those for the hill bill II 11 included eded 28 32 democrats and one labor member only 14 members of the lower house all republicans voted to uphold the veto with alth against it vetoing any pension bill Is painful for a president and in this case air hoover displayed displaced courage ills three objections to the measure were viere held by bi the press of the country for the most part to be well nell taken the provisions lie he opposed ore are the reduction of the service period upon which pension cla claims ims may be made for disabilities of a non service nature from 00 90 to 70 days and that venereal diseases drug habits or alcoholism contracted at any time in the life of the veteran dball constitute disabilities entitling the sufferer cr to a pension lie ile also con need should lie be an element of valid claim the enthusiasm with which both senate aldhouse and house passed tle the bill over the veto Is strongly reminiscent of the time when the grand army ol of the republic was strong enough numerically to obtain from congress tiny my legislation it desired HAT will happen to the london WHAT naval treaty in the senate la Is still a matter of conjecture senators watson and moses last wick week urged the president to postpone the consideration of tile the pact until sifter after the autumn elections but lie insisted on his plan to call a special session of the senate immediately after the adjournment of congress this despite the warning from the two lenders leaders that if tile the discussion proved to be protracted tile senate might adjourn the special session and throw the whole question over aver to the winter se session next day senator henry J allen alien of kansas sub to mr a plan that seemed deemed to impress q him hill the kansas senator thought ht that tile the wisest strategy would IP be to bring the treaty before tit the senitte fit at the present session immediately following the passage of the rivet rivers s and harbors hai liora hill bill but before the voter vete rant an tion Is taken up there tins has been much talk of the difficulty of keeping a quorum or of the seante on hand to dis discuss cliss the treaty but mr ir allen alien opened opined that few senators would dare dar go home before tile veterans bill 1111 comes up altogether tho effect of tile the situation thought senator allen alien would beto be to expedite the disposition of th the treaty it was disclosed tit at the navy department that contracts for the construction of the new aircraft carrier and two fleet submarines slated to be lot let before july I 1 will not be aw awarded until utter after the senate has tit a acted on the treaty according to secretary of the navy adams contra contracts acts for no more warships will be let tills this fiscal year ERTAIN citi citizens rens who have been C CERTAIN badgered embarrassed and distressed by tile the persistent of congre congressional bonat investigating committees probably cheered in private for bishop james anni jr last we week ek that militant cli chali allman aan of tile the board of temperance and social service of tle me methodist church south and afi acl at of tile antt anti salau league chal edged the authority of tile the senate lobay to ln investigate estimate his political activities in the campaign of insi ifyu to reply to its ita questions in tit that it connection and defied its int piled threats to punish him tor for contempt as others have been punished in sim ahr circumstances ii inon was hns willing to tell a lot alb dubont it ills worl aik oik us its a lobbyist using t the le sord v r d in it its s atri sense in ili behalf of prohibition legislation but its as tie he stated to tile lie press afterward lie 1131 sted that tills this singling out of roi self mid of the virginia anti democrats deino rats because we fought the wet ta binany candidate Is a deliberate intolerable infringement upon the rights of american citizens and Is a threat to independent citizens against a repetition of tile lado independent pendent action of 1129 1 the bishop ulso also told the press much about alip tit disposal of money contributed by n E 0 jameson of new york for the smith campaign tit in clr gatila information motion lie had refused to gle give the committee senator caraway Cai away chairman of the committee who was in arkansas at tile the time issuer issued a statement upholding the bishops stand and denying that the committee had a right to inquire into cannons ival activities the investigation was being conducted by bv senators walsh of montana and maine of wisconsin on thursday cannon repeated his refusal to answer the committees questions ques tiong and then alien coolly walked out of the room without waiting to be excused lie ile was done lie he said unless dunles the committee wished to subpoena him if the bishops defiance yesterday was not contempt and I 1 think it was his action today la Is certainly a clear case of contempt declared declai ed walsh whose opinion was echoed by a number of senators the contumacy ot of cannon pro probably ably will be reported to the senate with a request for contempt proceedings NE more step in the presidents ONE 0 dry enforcement program was taken tali en when the house by a vote ote of to passed the Wicker wickersham wickershain shain bill designed to relieve congestion in the federal courts by eliminating jury trials in fit minor prohibition cases if it becomes law the measure will radically revise the federal court procedure in criminal cases extant for more than a hundred years it provides that defendants charged with petty ol Tenses vs shall first be given ft a hearing before a united states commissioner whose otiose recommendations shall goto go to the district judge for or final disposal tile accused will be glen given a jury trial only if he deminds demands it in it a specified manner and tittle tine limit the house also adopted bills supplemental plem to the juryless jury lesa trial measure one of thern them denning defining ns as petty offenses all crimes involving a jail sentence of less than six months or a flue of less than aft broo and another amending the bout s act to make the manufacture transportation or sale bale of less than alinn one gallon of liquor a petty offense the democratic party of pennsylvania Is now officially wet the state committee which was reorganized at g adopter adopted a platform that recommends the repeal of tile the state enforcement act and the Vola tead pad act and removal of the eighteenth amend ment from the federal constitution HE french chamber of deputies TUB opened its summer session last week with the opposition members ready with a flock bock of lations among the things they wanted the government to explain were the naval treaty the serious red lied revolt against french rule in Indol Chinn national security and an oil scandal that has bag involved prominent ofil clala it was predicted in parts that the bardl u cabinet would not survive the summer mummer V la is a naval building race IP between france and italy t the lie blame must rest reat with france according td foreign secretary dino grandl of italy in a speech before the senate grandl said that last month in geneva lie proposed to aristide briand that the two nations suspend tb their air naval construction pro program grain tor for 1030 and that the french foreign minister refused to consider the proposition the senate thereupon approved tile alie governments policy of augmenting tile alia italian navy several of the senators declared the mediterranean would he ba the theater of the next european war recently premier mardlen announced that the french would expend largo sums sams tor for fortifications in the alps in reply senator or of italy urged the continued strengthening of tho the italian frontier defenses in that region three questions divide prance fiance and italy today continued senator they are first arst control of the adriatic Adi lotic second the status of italians in tunis and third the southern frontier of libya ile he repeated tl the e oft heard charges that france was pouring arms and military supplies into jugo slay ports G iti himat AT lUlI TAIN wits was called upon VJ to defend tier her regime in palestine when the mandates commission of the league of nations met in n geneva numerous compIn complaints Ints had been made of the british regulations especially one curbing for a time the immigration of jews to the holy lund 1 drummond Drum moud under tinder secretary of 0 state for colonies declared that immigration was restricted only pending the receipt of an additional report and recommendations from sir jolin hope simpson who la Is now making a new survey suney of palestine UTTING a stop to the raids on nn tile alie P stilt salt wor works the rainy season came to the aid of the british in india cut but the campaign ot of the nationalists though checked has not ceased to function the gandhi toiler ol lovers era and all the rest of them are now concentrating tr on tax resistance which will be more serious than salt raids on the northwest frontier where the reds neds and wild tribesmen are giving a lot of trouble british troops occupied mccu pled several villages and took command of tile the situation shelling tho the positions of the rebels in the hills tto fighting was reported to to be going on along the yellow river between the chinese Clil nese nationalist armilea and the northern rebels with the final results in doubt dispatches told of victories claimed by first one side and then the other the alie outcome of tills this conflict may settle the fate ot of the government late in the week messages message received in hi shanghai said tile the northern troops lind had crosse crossed d tile the yellow river sixty miles east ot of Tsin anfu broken the nationalist lines and reached the ksinan railway line in the vicinity of Chow tsun the nationalists also lost tile the important city of Chanh sha capital of hunan province to a crowd of rebels band and bandits called the red army apparently the russians have given up hope of results from the moscow conference between china and russia hussla on the chinese E rall railroad road and have reverted to direct action along the frontier of northern manchuria the nationalist government charges the soviets have raided the town of 0 Tah Tali ellio ellin in chinese territory opposite and carried away a number of chinese and also a large amount vt f farming machinery twenty two prim passengers andin anda large cargo of freight and n niall tall th graf crat zeppelin left lakehurst J monday night for the return t tl trip ip to pried fen she lind had a I 1 pleasant and swift passage across the atlantic until she neared the coast of portugal where tt a storm and heavy winds were encountered it la Is that the zeppelin will be in chicago late in august as one of the attractions colons at the rational national air races to tobe be held there aa eiton MEnON boston WA canker L er and former governor gener generalou alof t the lie philippines has been tentatively nl selected selected as the new am bas sad to J japan pan acco according to information learned larned in administration circles mr forbes a close friend of president Il hoover served as chairman of tile the SP special clat commission velch recently con completed plated a survey and report on the american administration of affairs in ill I 1 TN N RE of his 1 ing c contributions in the many fields of hum i service the louis living LI diaman aman gold god medal was presented atit to no president hoover by the anted n museum or of Sti safety fety the award lit f the medal was decided upon before mr air flo hoovers overs nomination for the pr presidency but ohp formal presen presentation yas as delayed 1 ij JHO 1930 wt neahr r aum 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