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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Carol's Romantic Coup Wins for Him the Throne of Rumania. By EDWARD W. PICKARD CAIIOL CAItAIMAN, once crown prince of Rumania, then an exile from his country, Is now King Carol II after one of the most romantic and spectacular coup d'etat of modern times. Everything being arranged by his friends, he flew to Bucharest in an airplane and was immediately welcomed wel-comed by the parliament, which voted to give him the crown and to make the little king, Michael, Carol's son, the heir apparent. Practically the entire population of Rumania seemed to be glad to have Carol back, thougii the Liberal party voted his return was a "dangerous adventure" ad-venture" and refused to accept the new order of things. Carol signed a law legalizing all acts of the regency In the name of King Michael and also approved a general amnesty act; but be then proceeded to punish certain prominent politicians who spoke against him after his return. He told correspondents cor-respondents he would work constitutionally constitu-tionally through parliament and that he had no idea of establishing a dictatorship. dic-tatorship. At latest reports he was having some difficulty in forming a government, since the National Peasants' Peas-ants' party decided not to participate and therefore Juliu Manlu could not accept his former position of premier. Carol's future family concerns were somewhat doubtful. His mother, Queen Dowager Marie, hastened to Bucharest from Oberammergau to welcome wel-come him, and there were confident predictions that he would be reconciled recon-ciled to Princess Helene, his former wife, their divorce having been his annulled. Magda Lupescu, the red-haired red-haired woman for love of whom Carol four yp.trs ago gave up his wife and claim to the throne, has returned to Rumania, but declared her associations associa-tions with Carol were ended. CHICAGO has been aroused to a tremendous tre-mendous anti-crime spasm by the cold-blooded murder of Alfred J. Lingle, veteran police rpporter of the Chicago Tribune. Rewards totaling $55,100 have been offered for information leading lead-ing to the conviction of the slayer; the city authorities have been subjected sub-jected to the severest criticism for not suppressing the gangsters, and the police po-lice department is apparently devoting most of its attention to rounding up the known criminals or frightening them out of the city. Lingle was a remarkably well posted crime investigator and was intimately acquainted with the affairs of both the underworld and the police. Presumably Presum-ably because he knew too much, he was shot down In broad daylight by one of two men, who made their escape es-cape in the crowds on Michigan avenue. ave-nue. The press of Chicago and of the entire country looked on the murder ns a bold challenge of the gangsters to tbe press and there was a universal demnnd for the arrest and punishment of the slayer. HALF a hundred lives were lost by fire and drowning when the steamer Fairfax of the Merchants' and Miners' line rammed and sank the tanker Pinthis, laden with 500.000 gallons gal-lons of high-test gasoline, in Massachusetts Massa-chusetts bay off Scituate, in the midst Cf a dense fog. Two minutes after the collision the tanker exploded and flames swept over the liner. The sea around the two vessels was immediately imme-diately covered with blazing oil and many panic-stricken passengers and members of the crews who jumped overboard were burned to death. The tanker speedily went to the bottom and her entire crew was lost. About eighteen persons on the Fairfax died in the accident and others were so badly burned that recovery was doubtful. Federal authorities started an Investigation In-vestigation ot the disaster in Boston and had for consideration serious charges including the allegation that the Fairfax was traveling at almost top speed despite the fog, and that the liner's officers failed to give an adequate ade-quate idea, of the extent of the accident acci-dent in early radio messages. Capt. S. J. Brooks of the Fairfax asserted, according to a federal steamboat Inspector, In-spector, that D. C. McNeil, vice president presi-dent of the Merchants' and Miners' line, Instructed him to send the message mes-sage to the company's oflices in code instead of broadcasting an S O S call. CONGRESS has finally disposed of the tariff bill after months of bearings, bear-ings, debates and discussions. The measure passed the senate by a mighty slim .majority. Senators Iteed and Grundy having decided to vote for it despite their belief that It was unfair to eastern Industrial interests. The bill's passage through the house was of course much easier. r ISHOP CANNON of the Methodist Church, South, and of various dry organizations, probably will not be punished pun-ished for contempt of the senate committee com-mittee on lobbying, but his conduct has been reported formally to the senate, lie appeared again voluntarily last week and repeated his refusal to answer an-swer questions relating to Ids political activities in the 1928 campaign. He already had explained that he did not intend to express contempt by walking out of the hearing without being excused. The committee in private pri-vate conference decided it would be fruitless to attempt to punish the bishop for an alleged contempt committed com-mitted before less than a quorum of the committee or to seek additional authority from t lie senate to pursue the Inquiry and perhaps force Cannon to testify. DISCUSSION of the naval treaty was complicated by the President's Presi-dent's refusal to let the senate foreign relations committee have all the documents docu-ments concerning tile pact and the Loudon conference on the ground that this would be incompatible with the public interest. Senator Johnson of California . was especially insistent that the committee should have these papers since the senate has equal power with the President in the making mak-ing of treaties. After much talkSen-ator talkSen-ator Reed of Pennsylvania, one of the delegates to the conference, offered to turn over the secret correspondence on the treaty to Johnson ou condition that the documents should not be made public. The Califoruian rejected re-jected this offer, and the committee adopted a resolution setting forth the contention that it is entitled to examine ex-amine ail documents relating to the London treaty.. Chairman Borah said the dispute would have little effect on the outcome of the treaty debate. THOUGH the house appropriations committee reported favorably the second deficiency bill carrying an initial in-itial appropriation of $10,GG0,WX) for the Boulder dam project, the action was taken only after changes in power contracts had been made which would give greater protection to the government. govern-ment. Members of the committee obtained admissions from Secretary of the Interior In-terior Ray Lyman Wilbur and other witnesses that while the contracts with the city of Los Angeles and the metropolitan water district required the government to furnish specified amounts of water and power, there was no specific requirements on the part of the municipalities to buy a minimum amount of water or power. Amendments were made in the contracts con-tracts to meet these objections. PRESIDENT HOOVER nominated W. Cameron Forbes of Boston to be ambassador to Japan, and reappointed reap-pointed Chairman Legge and C. C. Tengue members of the federal farm board. REGUIjSR Republicans of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin held their state convention In Oshkosh and indorsed Gov. Walter J. Koliler for renomlnntion. The delegates dele-gates adopted a platform embodying what Is called the "new progressivism," the aim of which Is to provide a common com-mon meeting place for folks in the middle of the road between reactionaries reaction-aries and radicals. It reiterates the petition of the Wisconsin legislature asking congress to authorize n na-j na-j tion-wde referendum on prohibition. Another plank calls for restrictions o the operations of chain stores. The Democrats of Indiana also met, put out a state ticket and assailed tbe Republican party for all kinds of alleged misdeeds, charging that the , people no longer govern themselves. ( j XTOBLES of the Mystic Shrine In ' great numbers gathered In Toronto, Toron-to, Out., for their annual convention, , staged a wonderful electric parade that was almost wrecked by the immense im-mense throng of eager spectators, and enjoyed themselves generally In a city where they were not hamiicred by prohibition laws. Thursday they dedicated dedi-cated a peace memorial, the principal speaker being Senator Joseph T. Robinson Rob-inson of Arkansas. The Imperial . council elected listen A. Fletcher of Rochester, N. Y., imperial potentate and selected Cleveland, Ohio, as the scene of next year's convention. PRESIDENT HOOVER awarded the Charles R. Walgreen prize of $500 for the winning essay in the second annual an-nual Gorgas memorial essay contest to Pauline Lodge of Lakewood, Ohio, a high school senior. She captured tbe prize in a field of 5,000 higli school students all over the country. In addition ad-dition to the five $100 bills handed her by the President, she received $250 for travel expenses to the National Capital. JULIO PRESTES, president-elect of Brazil, returning Mr. Hoover's visit to Brazil last year, was the guest of the President and the government in Washington last week. Secretary of State Stimson and other high officials met Doctor Prestes at the railway station and lie was escorted by marines, ma-rines, cavalry and artillery to a private pri-vate residence placed at bis disposal by the government. The chief feature of his visit was a state banquet Thursday Thurs-day evening. WHAT may prove to be one of the greatest discoveries of medical science is announced by Dr. J. A. t'feif-fer t'feif-fer of Baltimore. He says he has Isolat-ed Isolat-ed the microscopic Organism that is the cause of the common cold which is estimated esti-mated to cause the American worker a loss in wages alone of two billions a year. With this micrococcus a vaccine vac-cine has been worked out that has proved successful in a long period of tests and that Doctor PfeiiTer and his associates say will immunize people against catching colds for one to three years. THE first volume of the long awaited report of the Simon commission on India was published simultaneously In London and India. The first paragraphs para-graphs declare that Great Britain stands by its promise to grant India self-government within the empire at the earliest moment compatible with tlie safety and prosperity of the country. coun-try. In England the report was most favorably received, but the Nationalists National-ists of India and the native press there berated it as an insult to their country. coun-try. The princes of the Indian states of course Indorsed it for they are the warm supporters of the British rule. COUTH FLORIDA'S oldest financial institution, the Bank of Bay Bis-cayne, Bis-cayne, and three of its subsidiaries In the Miami district failed to open their doors last Thursday. Notices posted on the doors said the action was taken for protection of depositors and because be-cause of recent substantial withdrawals. with-drawals. Heavy withdrawals were reported re-ported by other Miami banks, but the fears of depositors were allayed by the arrival of $8,000,000 sent "by air- plane from the Federal Reserve batik at Atlanta. The Bank of Bay Bis-cayne Bis-cayne listed total resources of $17.. 182.292 and deposits of $15.037.1!)S as of March 27, 1930, in its last quarterly report. The Ohio state banking department closed the Cosmopolitan Bank anl Trust company of Cincinnati and Its seven branches because its $037,577 capital was impaired by the unsuccpK'j. fnl stock market gambling of A. W. Sbafer, discharged district manager of the Henry L. Doherty company. New . " York, one of its largest depositors. After an Initial survey, examiners said Khafer was short $023,000 in his accounts ac-counts with the bank. ((c). irtiiO. W'L-jtL-rn N'owspupcr Uiil'n,J |