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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Two Germans and an Irish-man Irish-man Cross Atlantic East to West in Plane. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. TfAST-WKST crossing of the north J ' Atlnnllc by airplane is an accomplished ac-complished fact. Two Germans and an irishman succeeded where French and IOiikIIkIi had fulled at the expense of eeven lives. Huron von Iluenefeld, Cupt. Herman Koehl and Commandant James K. Kilzmaurice of the Irish free Stale air forces, starting from Dublin In the Junkers plane Iiremen, Just managed to get across the ocean In safety. Kncountering strong head winds and a heavy snow storm, tiiey wandered some four hundred ndles rorlhward of their course and finally, with fuel tanks empty, landed on Greenly island in the 81 rait of Belle Isle. They were only 100 miles from the open sea. The plane was slightly damaged In landing but the during aviators were unhurt and made their way to a lighthouse, whence news of their arrival was sent out to an anxiously anx-iously waiting world. rISGUSTICO and Indignant citizens of Illinois gave- the Small-Thomp-son-Crowe machine' a terrific walloping wallop-ing In the liopublican primaries and felt that they had in a measure redeemed re-deemed the state and especially the city of Chicago. Governor Small was defeated for renomination by Secretary Secre-tary of State Louis L. Emiuerson by a majority of more than 400.000, and State's Attorney Crowe of Chicago was beaten by John A. Swanson by nearly 105,000 votes. Frank Smith, whom the United States senate refused re-fused to seat after his election last year, went Into the discard, the senatorial sen-atorial nomination being won by Otis F. Glenn of Murphysboro. Big Bill Thompson, mayor of Chicago, protagonist protag-onist of the "America First" campaign cam-paign and relentless enemy of King George of England, sought only one oflice, that of committeeman for his ward, and the voters denied him even that. The same fate befell President of the Board of Education Coath who carried out Thompson's orders to dismiss dis-miss Superintendent of Schools Me-Andrew. Me-Andrew. In congress and elsewhere great satisfaction was expressed over the renomination of the veteran Representative Repre-sentative Martin B. Madden of Chi cago, long one of the most useful and Industrious members of the lower house. Ilis constituency has become almost wholly negro, but lie decisively decisive-ly defeated his colored rival. For congressmen-at-Iarge the Republicans named Mrs. Ruth Ilanua McCormick, daughter of the late Mark Hanna and widow of Senator McCormick, and O. R. Rathbone, dropping Congressman Dick Yates. The voters of the state showed strong preference for Lowden as Presidential nominee and he will have at least forty-nine of the state's delegates at Kansas City. Illinois Democrats put through a slate practically uncontested and by their preference votes determined that Al Smith will have fiftj'-two sure Illinois votes In the Houston convention, conven-tion, and he may get the entire delegation dele-gation of fifty-eight. One murder of a negro and several kldnnpings and assaults marked the Chicago primaries, but the picture of a saturnalia of slaughter and other crimes presented in the press of London Lon-don and Paris was scarcely Justified by the activities of the gangs of thugs that worked for both the Republican factions. REPUBLICANS of Nebraska divided di-vided their preference votes between be-tween Senator Norris and Lowden, and they renominated Senator Howell. How-ell. The Democrats were solid for Gilbert M. Hitchcock for President Vermont will send a solid delegation to the Republican convention Instructed In-structed for President Coolidge. Most of Nevada's delegates will he for Hoover, and so will all of Michigan's Despite the progress made by 'the Hoover campaign, there were signs of Increasing opposition to the nomination nomi-nation of the secretary of commerce. After a tour of Indiana and the corn belt, Representative Dickinson of Iowa, Republican and one of the agricultural agri-cultural leaders of the house, predicted pre-dicted that If Hoover were the Republican Re-publican nominee Indiana would go Democratic in the fall, and other states of the Midwest, normally Republican, Re-publican, might follow suit. Some of the party leaders In Washington are beginning to suspect that Hoover may not be the best vote getter among those seeking the Presidential nomination. nomi-nation. Idaho's delegation to the Republican Re-publican convention will be solid for Senator Borah. WET members of the National Republican Re-publican club gained a victory when the national affairs committee of the club adopted a resolution urging urg-ing repeal of the eighteenth amendment. amend-ment. The resolution was to be presented pre-sented to the full membership Tuesday Tues-day of this week for action, and a hot. fight was anticipated for the drys were putting up a forceful opposition. opposi-tion. The club, whose headquarters are In New York city, Is national as Its name indicates. Presideut Cool-ldge Cool-ldge Is an honorary president and among the members are Vice President Presi-dent Dawes, Herbert Hoover and Frank O. Lowden. r Y A vote of 53 to 23 the senate passed the McNary bill for agricultural agri-cultural relief. Various amendments were first made, but the equalization equaliza-tion fee and other features objectionable objec-tionable to the President remained untouched, and consequently his veto was expected. It was stated at' the White Hou?e that Mr. Coolidge would like to help the farmers, but cannot see that any good purpose would be served by his signing the McNary measure. He is convinced the equalization fee would be declared de-clared unconstitutional by the courts. The President also made It known that he was not likely to sign the flood control bill unless it was materially ma-terially modified. Elimination of local lo-cal contributions, according to his judgment, means that it becomes a matter of bestowal of favors npon certain localities. When one locality . is taken care of he thinks it is inevitable inevi-table that other sections will demand action on the same basis. One objectionable ob-jectionable feature from the President's Presi-dent's standpoint Is the provision under un-der which the federal government presents a locality with valuable property and then proposes to pay the locality for damages. WITH the w-arm approval of the President, Secretary of State Kellogg is moving forward on the way toward a multi-lateral anti-war treaty. With the co-operation of the French government he has sent notes to Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan asking those powers to state their reaction to the proposal for the conclusion of a treaty renouncing war as an Instrument of national policy. If the responses are favorable it is hoped France will recede from her demand for the inclusion of numerous nu-merous reservations. FEDERAL Judge W. H. S. Thompson Thomp-son of Pittsburgh threw out of court the suit of five former members mem-bers of the Ku KIux klan to restrain the order from operating in Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, ruling that be was without jurisdiction and that it was a matter for the state courts to handle. The opinion climaxed three days of sensational sen-sational testimony, during which klansmen were charged with burning men alive In Texas; organizing a "night riders" terrorist branch in Ok-1 Ok-1 lahoma and Ohio ; horse whipping "offending citizens" and causing riots and other disorders. HpRIAD of Harry F. Sinclair for the alleged Teapot Dome conspiracy got under way swiftly in the District of Columbia Supreme court because Justice Bailey took the examining of veniremen out of the hands of the lawyers and qualified twelve jurors in three and one-half hours. One of the first witnesses was Mahlon T. Everhart, son-in-law of Albert B Fall. He told the jury the whole story of Sinclair paying Fall more than $300,000 within a few months after the then secretary of the Interior Inte-rior had turned the Teapot Dome oil reserve over to a Sinclair company. The money was paid ostensibly for a one-third Interest in a ranch and for improvements to the property. Everhart Ever-hart said Sinclair neither asked nor received receipts for the payments Of the money paid $233,000 was in Liberty bonds. I IS A decision written by Chief Jus-tice Jus-tice Taft the Supreme court ruled that congress has the power to delegate dele-gate its legislative authority to the President in the administration of the flexible tariff law. Justice Taft in his opinion compared the1 delegation of power to that vested by congress in the Interstate Commerce commission which controls railroad rates. He held that the tariff law was designed to secure revenue and that the declaration declara-tion for protection of domestic Industry In-dustry did not invalidate it. Three ' opinions bearing directly upon current prohibition enforcement methods were handed down by the Supreme court. One, which sustained conviction of an alleged dope ' peddler, ped-dler, was accompanied by dissenting views in which Justice Brandeis scored the use of entrapment methods in law enforcement. Another opinion upheld the validity of padlock injunctions in-junctions against property even after an alleged violator of the dry law has been ousted from the premises. The third sustained the conviction of John P. Donnelley, former prohibition prohibi-tion administrator in Nevada, for failure fail-ure to report an alleged violation of the Volstead act for prosecution. I?EDERAL troops in Caracas, capl-" capl-" tal of Venezuela, backed up b.?' university students, staged a revolt last week and engaged in a battle with loyal troops at the San Carlos barracks. The mutineers were speed ily defeated, several being killed and many arrested. Since early in February Feb-ruary there have been student riots on various occasions in Caracas. In putting down these demonstrations the government placed many students under arrest, and the casualties have been reported heavy. JUST why any Italians should desire de-sire to kill that nonentity King Victor Emmanuel Is a puzzle, but they did attempt It, last Thursday. A big bomb was exploded in Place Julius Ceasare, Milan, while the streets were crowded with people waiting for the king to arrive for the opening of a trade fair. The monarch mon-arch had not reached the scene but fourteen persons were killed and some forty Injured. HENRY Ford is visiting In England Eng-land and was the guest of honor at a dinner given by the American Society of London. It was announced that the automobile manufacturer would make the first speech in his life, and he did, but it was only twenty-nine words long. Said he': "I just want to say Mrs. Ford and myself are greatly honored tonight to be present to meet so many distinguished distin-guished representatives of two great nations. I thank you." SENATOR JOHNSON'S pet Boulder Boul-der Canyon dam bill, reported favorably fa-vorably by the irrigation committee, apparently is going to have hard sledding. sled-ding. Senator Ashurst of Arizona filed a minority report assailing the measure as "a reckless and relentless assault" on his state. Asserting that the bill was drawn wholly in the Interest In-terest of California, the Arizona senator sen-ator declared that it "proposed to sever Arizona's jugular, vein," by denying it rights to Irrigation and power from the Colorado river. When the measure was reported by the committee, com-mittee, Senator Ashurst gave notice that be would conduct a filibuster, adding that if the proponents of the bill expected to pass it at this session the senate would sit "until the ides of November." TP HEATRICAL and automobile' in-A in-A terests presented their best arguments ar-guments to the senate finance committee com-mittee for repeal of the admission and automobile taxes. The theater group, headed by William A. Brady and Frank Gilmore, said the legitimate legiti-mate theater had been "handed "the worst of it" and that the spoken drama had almost disappeared In many states. The automobile men promised cuts in prices equal to the tax if the latter is removed. |
