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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Hoover's Plan for War Debt Moratorium Not Wholly Liked by France Aviators Fly Across Atlantic Ocean. By EDWARD W. PLCKARD ' t '.OA Walter E. Edge PRESIDENT II 00-ver's 00-ver's iI a n for a one year moratorium on reparations and war debts probably will go through unless France blocks it. Hailed with cheers by most of th( workl, the proposition was received re-ceived rather coldly and suspiciously by the French. Ambassador Ambassa-dor Walter K. Edge got busy witll the government leaders In Paris and worked hard to gain their acceptance of the plan, but the best he could obtain ob-tain from the cabinet was a note carrying carry-ing modified approval. This, forwarded through him to Washington, lauded Mr. Hoover's Initiation but Insisted that Germany must continue payment of the "unconditional" annuities as provided under the Young plan, though France would waive the conditional payments for a year Inasmuch as America will waive war debt payments pay-ments for the same period. The unconditional un-conditional annuities France Is willing will-ing to turn back to Germany through the Rank of International Settlements If the money Is needed. Great ISrltuIn and Germany had already al-ready given the plan their full approval, ap-proval, and Mussolini sent word that Italy accepted It unequivocally. Bel-glum, Bel-glum, which Is as Jealous of her reparations repar-ations as France, was expected to follow fol-low the French lend. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon arrived In Paris and Immediately began be-gan conversations at the Qua! d'Orsny In the hope of reconciling the plans of Mr. Hoover and of the French cabinet. The President early was assured of the support of the leaders of both parties and all factions In congress, and during the week he canvassed the entire membership of both houses In order to learn Just what position they would take In the matter. The result was not made public but It was presumed pre-sumed he had assurances of far more than enough votes to put over whatever what-ever legislation will be necessary. There Is no pretence that Mr. Hoover's Hoo-ver's plan Is wholly altruistic. It Is designed to help bring to an end the existing depression by reviving trade and business and If It succeeds In this, the United States would be expected ex-pected to reap Its fair share of the benefits. That the mere putting forward for-ward of the proposition was at least temporarily beneficial was shown by the new buoyancy In the stock exchanges. PROVIDED the proposed pro-posed reparations and war debt moratorium mora-torium really turns the business tide toward to-ward prosperity. It would be a profitable Investment for the United States. Such is the opinion of Og-den Og-den L. Mills, undersecretary under-secretary of the treasury. treas-ury. He asserted In Washington that the loss of about $250.- Ogden L. Mills 000,000 which this country will not collect next year If the plan goes through would be more than made up In a short time If It brought about a return of better times. "From Indications thus far," Mr. Mills said, "it appears that the world at large looks upon the American proposal pro-posal as a hopeful business factor. Stocks have risen In the big exchanges. ex-changes. With better business the tax receipts of the treasury will increase." Mr. Mills declined to predict whether wheth-er it will be necessary to recommend a tax Increase to the next congress to supply revenues for operating the government during the next fiscal year. He pointed out, however, that a postponement of war debts payments pay-ments would cut the treasury receipts during the next year by more than $250,000,000. This year's deficit, on the basis of Income tax returns, probably will not greatly exceed SSjO.000,000. Up to the close of June 19, total expenditures chargeable against ordinary ordi-nary receipts were $4,116,003,000, as compared with an estimated expenditure expendi-ture for the fiscal year of $4,335,000,-000. $4,335,000,-000. If business conditions Improve treas-nry treas-nry oflicials anticipate an immediate raise in the Income tax and other receipts. Commerce department officials of-ficials said that they were hopeful better financial conditions abroad would be reflected in American foreign for-eign commerce. FIRST of this year's crop of American Amer-ican transatlantic flyers to hop off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland were Wiley Post and Harold Gatty in the single motored cabin plane Winnie Mae. Their destination was Berlin, and though they did not make the flight to the German capital without stop, they did succeed in getting safely safe-ly across the ocean. They landed at the Sealand airdrome near Chester, England, after circling over the city of Bangor, Wales. Post was the pilot of the plane throughout the flight and Gatty acted as navigator. They were heard from only once on the way across, the liner Drottuingholm picking pick-ing up their radio call. Post and Gatty set out to make the circuit of the globe In ten days. They remained at Chester only long enough to refuel and eat lunch, and then flew to Berlin Ber-lin and thence onward toward Moscow. Mos-cow. Only a few hours after Post and Catty hopped off, Otto Hilllg and Ilol-ger Ilol-ger Hoiriis started from Harbor Grace In a big, heavily loaded P.ellanca plane with the hope of making a nonstop Might to Copenhagen, Denmark. But they lost their way and landed at Krefeld, Germany. Kuth Nichols, Hying from New York on the first log of her projected trip across the Atlantic, landed at St. John, N. B., and ran her plane Into a rock near the airfield. She was painfully Injured and the plane was so badly damaged that It was necessary to postpone her flight indefinitely. James ("Jimmy") Doolittle, one of America's most daring and most expert ex-pert flyers, had another narrow escape es-cape from death when his new speed plane started falling apart while he was traveling 250 miles an hour only 100 feet up, near St. Louis, Mo. He Game down safely In a parachute and the plane was demolished. Dr. G. Jameson Jame-son Carr NEW YORK'S latest death mystery mys-tery that of Starr Faithful, beautiful but erratic, whose body was found on the sands of Long Beach is still unsolved un-solved and may remain re-main so. The authorities author-ities had hoped the information brought back by Dr. G. Jameson Jame-son Carr, ship's sur geon of the Cunard line, would reveal how the young woman wom-an came to her death. She had admittedly ad-mittedly been Infatuated with him and on his return from England he gave the grand Jury two notes from her In which she told of planning to commit suicide. But Starr's stepfather, Stanley Stan-ley E. Faithful, took one look at them and declared they were forgeries. Handwriting experts were to be called on to settle this question. Both letters were addressed to Doctor Doc-tor Carr in care of the medical department de-partment of the Cunard line at Liverpool. Liver-pool. One, postmarked June 2, and written on stationery of a New York hotel, flatly declared Starr was going to end her "worthless, disorderly bore of an existence before I ruin any one else's life as well." The second, written two days later from Mineola, was In flippant vein and reiterated her Intention to commit suicide. SIR HUBERT WILKINS and his weary crew managed to get the . submarine Nautilus into the harbor of Cork, Ireland, after its stormy voyage across the Atlantic. The commander said that after the batteries were recharged re-charged he would proceed to England . for other repairs, and that he hoped to reach the North pole, by the sub-ice route, in two months. The mishaps and delay suffered by the Wilkins expedition led Dr. Hugo Eckener to abandon his plan for a meeting between the Graf Zeppelin and the Nautilus at the pole. The dirigible will make a six-day cruise into Arctic regions In July on a scientific sci-entific mission. pv WIGHT DAVIS, governor general of the Philippines, has had enough of that difficult and thankless Job and has notified the administration adminis-tration in Washington that he would like to quit as soon as President Presi-dent Hoover can conveniently con-veniently fill the post. He says merely that he desires to take up k IT. Dwight Davis again his residence in the United States. The knowledge spreading through official circles that Mr. Davis has offered of-fered his resignation has already produced pro-duced booms for two men as candidates candi-dates for his position. They are Theodore Roosevelt, governor of Porto Rico, and MaJ. Gen. Frank R. McCoy. The official expectation Is that one of the two will get the post and at present pres-ent Mr. Roosevelt appears to be in the lead. OHIANG KAI-SHEK, head of the ' Chinese Nationalist government, has begun his great effort to exterminate extermi-nate the communists and bandits. He concentrated about 200,000 troops in Kiangsi province and held a war council coun-cil in Nanchang at which the military operations were all planned. If these succeed, he believes it will put an end to resistance, both political and armed, to the Nanking government, for he minimizes the doings of the opposition op-position in and about Canton. General Chiang sailed from Nanking aboard a Chinese gunboat to lead tin forces, leaving Finance Minister T. V. Soong In charge of political affairs during his absence, which, General Chiang estimates, will be about two months. WITH due formality President Hoover received William Duncan Dun-can Herrldge, the new minister from the Dominion of Canada. In accepting accept-ing his official letters of credence Mr. Hoover declared that the establishment establish-ment of direct diplomatic relations between be-tween the United States and Canada and served to strengthen International friendship. Mr. Herridge, who Is only the second Canadian minister to the United States, referred to the maintenance mainte-nance of a legation In Washington as an aid to cordial relations. P EACE between the Vatican and Italian Fascism, Instead of being within sight, is as far away as ever, actording to Pope Pius XI. The Holy Father, addressing 700 members of the congregation for propagation of the faith, declared In so many words that he and Premier Mussolini were at swords points and that it had been impossible even to start talking of agreements, lie asserted that the church Is being persecuted in Italy worse than In Mexico and Russia, and that 9,000 organizations of the Duce's followers have been given the task of persecuting him. However, he declared de-clared his faith In providence and said the bishops In Italy had informed him that there was increasing unrest In the country because of the "intolerable "intoler-able surveillance, odious espionage, secret reports and continuous menaces." men-aces." Mussolini In his latest note to the Vatican was rather conciliatory, but the duce was firm in his attitude toward to-ward the Catholic Action societies. He left the fundamental issue which has always existed as to the respective rights of th.e church and state in educational edu-cational matters exactly as it has always al-ways been. MEXICO'S troubles with the Catholic Cath-olic church have been renewed by the action of the Vera Cruz state government In restricting the number of priests conducting services to one for every 100,000 inhabitants. Priests In Mexico are warning their congregations congrega-tions that another religious conflict Is likely. They said priests In Vera Cruz had been harshly treated, and that a few had been killed. These remarks are believed to have been inspired by a riot at Huatusco, in the state of Vera Cruz, during the burial of Father Felipe Cano, . who died from injuries he had sustained in a clash between liberals and Catholics Cath-olics at Chavaxtla. Don Jaime de Bourbon SPAIN is settling down to normality under the republican rule, but the subject of the status of Catalonia Cata-lonia is not yet settled. set-tled. Alexander Ler-roux, Ler-roux, minister of foreign for-eign affairs, went to Barcelona, center of the stormy province, the other day to sound out the Intentions of Col. Francisco Macia and his Catalan fol lowing who demand rather more than autonomy for Catalonia. It has been considered likely that Lerroux will be the first premier under the new constitution con-stitution which will be drafted by the constituent cortes. Restoration of the Spanish monarchy, mon-archy, with himself on the throne, Is the ambition of Don Jaime de Bourbon, Bour-bon, the Carlist pretender, who Is now sixty years old but vigorous and full of schemes. It Is reported that Gen. Martinez Anido, his chief military aid, has gathered an army in northern Spain and expects to overthrow the republican regime. But pretenders seldom sel-dom have any luck in such ventures, and the government at Madrid probably probab-ly isn't worried by this threat FLAMES starting on a wharf at St. John, N. B., swept the waterfront and practically ruined the entire western west-ern section of the port. The property damage was believed to exceed $10,-000,000, $10,-000,000, and several lives were lost. The conflagration raged for hours, destroying de-stroying docks, grain elevators and several steamships. The greatest loss was suffered by the harbor commission, commis-sion, federal property valued at $3,-500,000 $3,-500,000 being burned. FOR the first time in the history of Ohio a woman Is to be electrocuted. electro-cuted. At Jefferson, Mrs. Julia Maude Lowther of Ashtabula, twenty-three years old, was sentenced to die in the electric chair at the state penitentiary peni-tentiary on October 2 for the murder of Mrs. Clara Smith, her employer and the wife of the man she loved. Smith, twice convicted of complicity in the killing, also is under a death sentence. F'OR the first time in its history Rotary Ro-tary International has elected a European as president. At the annual convention of the organization In Vienna the delegates selected Sydney Woodroffe Pscall of London, England, to succeed President Almon E: Roth of California. Rufus Fisher Chapin of Chicago was re-elected for his eighteenth eight-eenth term as treasurer. CHILE, through its minister of foreign for-eign affairs, has invited the foreign for-eign ministers of all the Pan-American nations to attend a conference on the existing financial crisis, to seek methods by which their governments may co-operate to prevent a complete commercial and economic breakdown. The United States is included in the invitation and presumably will be represented rep-resented by an official observer. The date and place are not set. IZl 1221. Western Ntwsuaiw Vnioa.l |