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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Hoover Orders Drastic Economies in Departments Depart-ments Old Military Posts May Be Abandoned Briand Is Defeated. By EDWARD V. PICKARD g mtr-a pRKSIDENT HOO- i " ts i I ver has notified h'-""" the members of the t i -1 cabinet that they i must Introduce econ- 5" 3SS, omies in their de-'i de-'i ' , " partments wherever "v possible. The civilian v" personnel is to be re-Kf' re-Kf' s duced and the over- , ,y-j " 4 bead expenses cut Lkuii, a drastically. The message mes-sage went out after Sec. Hurley Uie President had conferred with Secretary of War Hurley Hur-ley and Secretary of the Navy Adams, and it is evident he expects many of the economies to be made effective In those departments. Surveys have been recently made Indicating how savings could he made by the sale of old Indian posts, navy shore stations, coast artillery fortifications, fortifi-cations, and yards and other shore properties of the navy thai are no longer needed for purposes of national nation-al defense. Secretary Hurley said the other day that the adminislration desired de-sired to remove army posts from the "pork barrel" classification, and it seems that among those considered superfluous are Fort Lincoln, North Dakota; Fort Meade, South Dakota; Fort ilissonla, Montana ; Fort Eustls, Virginia, and various posts along the Mexican border. Some air flying fields also may be abandoned. How far the expenses of the military establishments establish-ments can be cut Is problematical. The last annual supply bill for the War department carried about $445,-000,000, $445,-000,000, of which approximately $111,-000,000 $111,-000,000 was to be devoted to noninill-tary noninill-tary activities. The latter figure included in-cluded $00,000,000 for rivers and harbors har-bors and $35,000,000 for Mississippi floor control. As for the navy, It is known that civilian labor cost that department $79,000,000 last year. Some official investigators in-vestigators have estimated the Navy department personnel at Washington could be cut as much as 40 per cent without impairing efficiency. Congressmen in whose states are located lo-cated the obsolete army posts and surplus shore stations probably will fight against their abandonment, that being their habit In matters of this sort, but if economies are applied throughout ' all the executive departments depart-ments their political wrath may be unavailing. FRED C. CROXTON, vice chairman of the President's emergency committee com-mittee for unemployment, stated that during the week ending May 9 contracts con-tracts were awarded for public and semi-public work amounting to $27,-904,799. $27,-904,799. This brought the total since December 1, 1930, to nearly a billion and a half. FOREIGN MINIS- l'""1"- ter Aristide Bri- jo and was persuaded by Jf Mb friends to be a rJ?"J candidate for the rH presidency of the ' !&4 'J French republic and . J-V ifl then some of those J-sJffl friends let him down. SVL JfJLJ The result was that g-f-f he failed of election on the first ballot BaK&iBSiiB&iisSiaia and, astounded and broken hearted, he M Br,and withdrew from the contest. Paul Dou-mer, Dou-mer, venerable president of the senate, sen-ate, was elected. This action by the French parliament was of importance not only to france hut to Europe and all the world. It means that for the present at least Briand's policy of peace and conciliation Is discarded and the nationalists are In the saddle. sad-dle. It is possible Briand will continue con-tinue to represent his government in the debates of the League of Nations at Geneva, but if he does he will be subject to daily orders from Paris. More likely it is that he will soon retire to Cocherel, his home. He has been In poor lealth for many months and It is feared this defeat will break him down badly. Andre Tardieu and Edounrd Herrlot, leaders of the left, are held mainly -esponsible for the rejection of Briand. ANTI-CLERICALS of Spain, egged on by communists and very possibly pos-sibly by monarchist plotters, staged violent riots in Madrid and other cities for several days, and the government gov-ernment was forced to proclaim martial mar-tial law. The mobs directed their attacks at-tacks against Catholic churches and other religious edifices and burned many of them. Monks and nuns were beaten and driven through the streets, and in some cases the troops that were called out refused to move against the rioters, telling their officers they would not fire on the people-Angel people-Angel Galarza, the republic's prosecutor, prose-cutor, declared the riots were the result re-sult of a carefully laid monarchist plot and that there would be a monster mons-ter trial of captured royalists in which former King Alfonso will be judged. In his absence, for complicity. The Vatican state department instructed instruct-ed Papal Nuncio Tedeschini at Madrid Ma-drid to demand from the government govern-ment an explicit apology for the attacks at-tacks on churches, monasteries and convents. The Vatican protest, while not blaming these attacks on the Republican Re-publican government, asserted that violence against religious orders does not represent a general political tendency, tend-ency, hut is the result of the anti-religious odium of a small minority of Spain. DRAJADHIPOK, king of Sinm, un-1 un-1 derwent a successful operation for the removal of a cataract from his left eye, and is recovering nicely nt Ophir hall, the Whltelnw Reid mansion man-sion in Westchester county, New York. He was an excellent patient and. being be-ing under only local anesthesia, he knew what was going on and co-operated in every way with Drs. J. M. Wheeler and T. N. Johnson, who performed per-formed the operation. When the cataract had been extracted his majesty maj-esty said: "I see the light." CMFTY railway ex-SM-bjwk-w." ecutives have i2s": united in asking an BfiF-, increase of freight I Jrss yx rates that would bring I 2 $450,000,000 more rev- i. " but it will not be i granted without a Fur', fight. Duncan U. r - Fletcher, senator L from Florida and e , . , ranking Democrat on Sen. F etcher , the senate commerce committee, voiced the opposition to the plan. He called for lower rates rather than higher carrying charges and said one reason why trucks were moving so much freight today was because be-cause of "high rail rates." "I cannot see how the railroads can expect to Increase their revenues by increasing rates." he said. "Some ten years ago an increase of 40 per cent was allowed the railroads and this brought the rates up to the highest point ever reached. They have been revised downward by the Interstate commerce commission in 5,000 out of 6,000 cases brought. "Today the railroads complain of a loss of business and lay a good deal of that to competition by trucks and to some extent nlrplanes. Undoubtedly Undoubted-ly they would Increase their revenues by raising the rates provided they could carry the same amount of tonnage, ton-nage, but it is perfectly obvious that one reason why trucks are moving so much freight is because of the high rail rates. Consequently If these rates were increased there would be an Inevitable In-evitable decrease in tonnage." Freight rates os live stock from western points Into Cleveland were attacked by the chamber of commerce of that city in a complaint to tht, interstate in-terstate commerce commission asking a reduction. ONE of the world's greatest scientists, sci-entists, Prof. Albert A. Michel-son, Michel-son, formerly of . the University of Chicago, passed away In Pasadena, Calif., after a long illness and was laid at rest in Altadena. He was the recipient of all the honors the world of science could bestow, not the least of which was the Nobel prize for his achievement In measuring the speed of light, and It has been said that his discoveries and Inventions added billions bil-lions to the wealth of the world; but withal he was exceedingly modest and unassuming and always declared he carried on his great works In physics because they amused and interested him. Doctor Michelson was a native of Poland but was brought to the United States when a babe and was educated In San Francisco and the naval academy at Annapolis. Two years after his graduation he went back to the academy as an instructor, and it was then he began the experiments experi-ments and investigations that continued con-tinued throughout his long life. Another eminent man, Eugene Ysaye, master of the violin, died In Brussels, Belgium, at the age of seventy-two. He is survived by his American Amer-ican wife, the daughter of Dr. Herman Dincln of Brooklyn, N. Y., whom he married In 1927. Walter A. Strong, publisher of the Chicago Daily News and one of the most forceful figures in American Journalism, Jour-nalism, died suddenly of heart disease. dis-ease. He was only forty-seven years old. He became publisher and principal prin-cipal owner of the News In 1925, after the death of Victor Lawson. SECRETARY OF rTP5 State Henry L. - Stimson, in an ad-' L, " dress on United States S$. s i foreign relations and ecpecially American c $v j policy toward Latin- t America, served no- , , 'tice that our army f '"?ll ! and navy will not be ' used to collect debts ? Jh''i from foreign nations. Vmirfenfli-a At the same time, he .. , . . Sec. Stimson mode it clear, the present administration would give to Americans who have investments abroad ail the protection, counsel and assistance to which they are entitled under InternaMocnl law. Defending the Hoover policies In Nicaragua, which have been attacked, Mr. Stimson declared the administration administra-tion was not departing from American traditions, adding that "the United States would continue to be zealous in Its concern for the lives of its nationals na-tionals wherever they may be found." Ele characterized the current policy toward Latin-America as one of removing re-moving sore spots which have Injured good will and American trade. Mr. Stimson expressed confidence that the Anglo-French negotiations would eventually he successfully concluded, con-cluded, expressing the opinion that a great stimulas had been given the prospects for success of the league conference en general disarmament to be held next February. Cultivation of good will between nations na-tions was described by him as "the great business of diplomacy." "Honest people in one nation find It notoriously dillicult to understand the viewpoint of honest people in another," anoth-er," he said. "State departments and their ministers exist for the purpose of translating e viewpoints of one nation into the terms understood by another. Some of our most important work and efforts at the present time lies In this direction." t-. v"'- C PEAKING before the Manchester I - A chamber of commerce, s" the prince of Wales f i harshly admonished I British business men 'I " ' S for their failures in s- v (JJ S getting and holding r x fore'En trale- Tlie k s 'tT only way which Great L . -i Britain can gain a I iwiii larger share of the South American mar-Prince mar-Prince of ket he deeiared, was Wales hy imitating North American business ' and advertising methods. The prince Is delivering a series of speeches dealing with conditions con-ditions he found prevalent in South America during his recent tour. Not only did Wales score British business methods, but he also dipped Into politics in a way that caused a sensation. His advocacy of "manufacturing "manufac-turing within tariff walls" cuts squarely square-ly across the hottest political Issue of the moment In Britain tariff versus vers-us free trade and was an unexpected blow to the free trade labor government. govern-ment. PRESIDENT HOOVER has appointed appoint-ed George Hastings of New York as a member of the White House secretarial sec-retarial staff to succeed French Strother. Mr. Hastings is given the title of executive clerk and will handle han-dle the President's outside social welfare wel-fare Interests, including his contacts with the conference on child health and protection. He will take up his duties about June 1 after 15 years of social welfare work in New York. THERE Is conster- --saMssCT nation in gang- ( 'fS.'1 land. And pleased f surprise among the ,ft w j decent citizens of h" 1 Chicago. Al Capoue, '.p &g&- the redoubtable gang- I W i ster chieftain, hither- f ' i to looked upon as al- tZ'r , nost unconquerable, Z.', f has been defied and is gtit& seemingly doomed to 6aMl---l fail In one of his Iat-est Iat-est efforts to add to Al cPon8 his monetary stores. It is the dyeing and cleaning industry of Chicago, which has been a fruitful field for lacketeers, that has done the defying, and in its bold stand it is backed up by the law enforcing agencies of the city and state. "Scarface" thought the time was ripe for him to take charge of the Industry, and through agents he Informed In-formed the Cleaners and Dyers institute insti-tute thnt he would do so for 75 per cent of its annual receipts In membership member-ship dues, which would be about $190,-000. $190,-000. For this he promised to keep prices up, to police the industry and to bring into line any recalcitrant members. A committee from the institute in-stitute met Capone in his hotel headquarters head-quarters in Chicago and he repeated bis offer, reducing his demands to 50 per cent but declaring If his offer were not accepted he would take over the Industry anyhow. The institute, however, how-ever, happens to have as Its chairman chair-man Dr. Benjamin M. Squires, honest and nervy, who had practically freed the Industry from the racketeers. He told Capone no gangster associations would be tolerated, and State's Attorney At-torney Swanson promised to support him to the limit in this stand. Capone's efforts to take over the cleaning and dyeing Industry were regarded re-garded by Assistant State's Attorney Charles J. Mueller, In charge of racketeer prosecutions, as an indication indica-tion of the reverses suffered by th gang In recent months. "There Is no question that Capone's mob has been hard hit, and that he needs money," said Prosecutor Mueller. Muel-ler. "His gambling racket has felt the force of raids by the police and the state's attorney's office, in connection con-nection with the special grand jury, and some of his biggest breweriej have been raided hy the federal agents. The prosecution of the big shots In the gang by the federal government, gov-ernment, and the high bonds required, have no doubt caused Capone to look around for new ways of raising money." I7 RANCH'S amateur boxing cham-1 cham-1 pions, eight in number, who came over to meet the team of American champions from Chicago and New York In the former city, were defeated de-feated but made a good showing. Thej lost five of the bouts and won three The tournament was a feature of Chi cago's fortnight of "Jubilee." ((c). 1331. Western Newspaper Ualoa.1 |