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Show I StJ?-, v c. u - w f p. i. v 1 Class of 1928 In "convict" garb in commencement costume parade at Columbia university, New Sork city. 2 Lodge, at left, and dining hall of the Pierce estate on the Brule river, northern Wisconsin, picked by President Coolldge for his summer vacation residence. 3 Flag-draped Security building in Kansas City which was tba Republican party headquarters during the convention. NEWS REVIEW OF CUilRENTEVENTS Four Aviators Make Flight Across Pacific Ocean in Three Big Hops. By EDWARD W. PICKARD CALIFORNIA to Australia by air- plane in three hops! For the first" time the Pacific ocean has been traversed by the air route, the great feat being accomplished by two Australians, Aus-tralians, Capt. Charles Kingsford Smith, war ace, and Charles T. P. Ulm, and two Americans, Harry W. Lyon and. James Warner. Their machine was the monoplane Southern. Cross, once used unsuccessfully in the Arctic regions by Captain Wilkins. In constant communication with the mainland and with vessels by radio, the airmen made the flight to Hawaii without much trouble. The worst part of the trip was? the next hop, nearly 3,200 miles to the Fiji islands, and during this they ran into repeated storms that were most skillfully dodged by Kingsford-Smith, the chief pilot. This was the longest overseas flight ever made, and If they had been forced down before reaching Suva the only possible places to light without disaster were two coral atolls In the Phoenix group 1.8G0 miles from the starting point in Hawaii. As Is was they landed safely at Albert park, Suva, with only 30 gallons of gas left in the tanks, having made the hop In 34 hours and 33 minutes. Whites and natives of Fiji Joined in giving the flyers a rousing welcome. After a brief rest the plane was flown to Naselai beach for the take-off for Brisbane, Bris-bane, Australia, 1,702 miles away, the route taking the airmen through a region re-gion of frequent storms, south of the Loyalty Island? and . New Caledonia. From Brisbane they were to fly to Sydney, Syd-ney, 500 miles to the south. Sydney newspapers printed the report re-port that Captain Kingsford Smith was on the brink of insolvency and started a campaign to raise a fund for him. When the trans-Pacific flight originally orig-inally was planned Kingsford-Smith sought the aid of the Ans-tralian government gov-ernment and It was promised. Advance Ad-vance payments purchased the plane and the flyer came to the United States. There followed the disastrous Dole flight from Oakland to Honolulu In which seven lives were lost. The Australian government withdrew Its support and urged Klngs-fonl-Smith to return home. He refused and continued con-tinued plans for the Californla-to-Aus-tralia flight on limited resources and finally obtained hacking from Allen Hancock, millionaire oil man of Los Angeles'. But even with this hacking the flyer faces financial ruin. During the week there were reports-. based on alleged radio messages, that Nohile and the dirigible Italia were on Franz Josef land east of Spitsbergen Search for the. missing explorers was , con'lnned by the steamship Hobby, by Lieutenant Holm. Norwegian aviator, and by parties of Alpine chasseurs. The Italian department of aeronautics was In communication with Captain Wilkins. hoping to induce him to join i In the bunt by air. C" FAI! as Hie Republican national k committee was concerned. Herbert Hoover was given nearly all the contested con-tested Southern delegates In the hearings hear-ings conducted nt Kansas City. The contests, however. It was- stated would be carried before the committee on cred.ntlals and possibly before the convention. In the committee hearings hear-ings the secretary of commerce won fia nut of 73 contested delegates, his most impressive victory being In the ense of Texas In which be gained the entire delegation. By conservative estimates this brought the total num her of Hoover votes to 472, the ma ferity necessary to nomination being r.-l.-). The experts then figured that SI. M"n witli his 70 Pennsylvania delegates dele-gates cnnld put Hoover across the lim1 If he chose to do so. The con test for the South Carolina delegation, which was- for I.owden. was withdrawn by the Honverites, Among the politicians gathered In Kansas City many expressed the opin ion that Senator James Watson of Indiana In-diana or Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas would make a good vice presidential presi-dential nominee. Some Hooverites especially es-pecially favored Watson for second place, figuring his nomination would "pull the stinger of the corn belt." Farmer crusaders of the regions sur-rouding sur-rouding Kansas City were preparing to move on the convention city in considerable con-siderable numbers, by automobile and train, and many of them wore badges on which was printed this amended version of the Hoover slogan: "Who but Hoover? Anybody." A ('CORDING to the partial report of the senate campaign fund committee, com-mittee, total expenditures in behalf of the various Presidential candidates to date have been only S731.0S7. Of this sum the Hoover expenditures have been S3S0.822. Frank O. Lowden is eredited with having spent $60.-922.90. $60.-922.90. The committee found $579.50 has been collected and expended by the supporters of Vice President Dawes. The expenses of Governor Smith of New York, leading Democratic Demo-cratic aspirant, were $121,471.04. Collections Col-lections to the Smith fund amounted to $120,911.40. The Reed preconven-tion preconven-tion campaign fund amounted to $41,-430.64. $41,-430.64. His expenditures are listed at 538,752.79! r EN. JOHN J. PERSHING made a rush trip from Paris to Cherbourg and jumped aboard the Leviathan for the United States, and both In New York and in France the report was circulated that he was called home hurriedly by friends who wcie starting a boom for him ns a dark horse candidate can-didate for the Republican nomination for President MARSHAL CHANG TSO-LIN. Northern war lord, gave up his dictatorship and abandoned Peking to the Nationalists. With his household he tied to Manchuria and just ns his train reached Mukden It was bombed presumably by Nationalist agents. Some soldiers were killed and Chang himself was so badly Injured that his recovery was considered doubtful. The Nationalist troops gradually occupied oc-cupied Peking while forces left by Chang and those of the foreign legations lega-tions strove lo prevent disorder. General Gen-eral Hsi-shan, for years known ns the model governor of Shnnsl province, was appointed garrison commander of the Peking-Tientsin area and at once began the work of reconstruction and development. The Nationalist government govern-ment asked the Immediate evacuation of American troops from Tientsin, where the United Slates has maintained main-tained part of a regiment since the Boxer rebellion. In Washington It wns stated that our government could not comply with the request al once. PASSING upon two cases arising In the slate of Washington, the Supreme Su-preme Court of the Unlled Slates bap I ruled that evidence of prohibition violations vio-lations obtained by wire lapping is admissible In a criminal proceeding and that a conviction resulting from such evidence Is not a violation of the constitutional guarantee ngainst "unreasonable "un-reasonable search and seizure." The question was decided by a five to four ruling. Chief Justice Tafl wrote the ma jority opinion .lus-tices Holmes and Brandels. in dissenting opinions, scathingly scath-ingly denounced the placing of judicial sanction upon the commission of a crime to delect crime. Justice Butler nlso filed a dissenting opinion and Justice Stone announced he concurred with the views of Justices Holme?. Brandels and Butler In holding wire tapping did not amount to n search and seizure within with-in the meaning of the fourth amendment amend-ment to the Constitution. Chief Justice Jus-tice Taft said that while this amendment amend-ment might have a proper application to a sealed letter because of the constitutional con-stitutional provision for the Post Office Of-fice department and because fuch a letter Is in the possession of the government gov-ernment it could not apply to communication com-munication by wire. I TN'l'LE SAM proposes to get a lot of money from Henry M. Blnck-mer. Blnck-mer. the wealthy Denver nil operator wlio fled to France to avoid the Teapot Tea-pot Dome Inquiry. Income taxes, Interest In-terest and penalties aggregating $8,-4nS.9.'!n $8,-4nS.9.'!n have been assessed against him and tax liens filed In Denver and New York federal courts. Also wrtBi of attachment against any property held by or for Blackmer were filed with 22 companies or Individuals, including in-cluding all financial Institutions in which Blackmer is believed to hava accounts. In New York city they were also served upou banks with which ho did business. Only a part of the tax, Interest and penalties assessed against the oil man was understood to he for his alleged profits in the Continental Trading company, com-pany, an adjunct of the Teapot DonK case. T ITHUANLVS assertion, in her re-1 re-1 ' cently adopted new constitution, that Vilna is the capital of the country coun-try was denounced before the League of Nations council by Poland when the council opened Us fiftieth session In Geneva. Foreign Minister Zaleski submitted sub-mitted a copy of his note of protest to Kovno in which he asserted this could only envenom the Polish-Lithuanian relations. Lithuania's claim, he said, had no juridical foundation as Poland's Po-land's rights over Vilna were definitely definite-ly established by the Vilna and Polish diets and by the ambassadors' conference confer-ence In 1924. It was not believed this session of the council would do much business as both Briand of France and Stresemann of Germany were absent on account of Illness. XflENNA received reports, seemingly ' authentic. I Inn Ahmed Bey Zogu, President of Albania was getting ready to proclaim monarchy witli himself as tile king He has had a stormy career, lighting with the Democrats Dem-ocrats and Liberals and once being wounded by an assassin In December. Decem-ber. 1924. he led a successful revolt against Bishop Noll's rule and next month was appointed President by the national assembly, lie Is only thirty-four thirty-four years old and besides being President Pres-ident has held the olllces V premier and commander In chief of the national na-tional forces. PREMIER MUSSOLINI took a good deal of wind out of the sails ot his detractors by the restraint of his annual address before the Italian senate. sen-ate. Ills hearers were especially Interested In-terested In what he might say about the threatening siiuation In the Balkans, Bal-kans, hut rhe Duce cut out nil violent talk and made a plain offer of friendship friend-ship to YugD-SIavIa Then dismissing dismiss-ing the idea of enmity, he declared Italy could not wait forever for Yugoslavia Yugo-slavia to settle Its domestic problems, and warned that treaties would be no good anyway if a friendly, moral atmosphere at-mosphere between the two peoples was not developed. He ridiculed the prediction pre-diction made by a former Yugo-Slar minister that war soon would brenlc out between the two countries, ending end-ing with a peace signed nt Venice. He had nothing to say concerning the disputes dis-putes with Austria about Upper Adige, hut announced that a treaty would soon be signed with France that would settle all outstanding differences between be-tween the French and Italians. Mussolini spoke at some length about the astonishing growth of l?.9 Unlled States In wealth and world power He said be had no complaint to make against American Immigration Immigra-tion restrictions nnd the Italian quota, though deploring the reasons which prompted that legislation. "As for Ilia naturalized Americans of Italian origin." ori-gin." lie continued, "they are American Ameri-can citizens and then fore foreigners so far ns we are concerned. Wa limit ourselves to hoping they will continue to he proud of their Italian origin " A TLANTIC CITY having abandoned Its annual beauty contest, the '"International pageant of pulchritude" held In Galveston attracted the intention inten-tion of those who enjoy such nfTiiirs. Selected beauties from mnny states and a number of foreign countries gathered In the Texas city, and paraded along the sen wall. Mips Ella Van flueson. the entrant from Chicago, was first chosen ns "Miss America." and then, being .adjudged the most pulcbrl-tudlnous pulcbrl-tudlnous of the whole lot. was crowned "Miss Universe." She is twenty-two years old, tall and pleader, with long, dark brown hair. The other prize winners win-ners In their order were the girls from France. Italy, Colorado, West Virginia, Vir-ginia, Canada. Luxembourg. Ohio, San Antonio and Tulsa. |