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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Secretary Kellogg Goes to Paris for Signing of ' Treaty to Ban War. ' By EDWARD W. PICKARD SECRETARY OF STATE KELLOGG has sailed for France to take part in the ceremony of signing the multilateral multi-lateral nntl-war treaty which he has negotiated with the great powers. The Blgning will take place In Paris on lAugust 27 and the accompanying pomp and circumstance will be worthy of so notable an event. Mr. Kellogg Is accompanied by Mrs. Kellogg and William H. Beck, his private secretary. secre-tary. Before sailing he let It be known that he will transact no other ofllclal business while abroad, setting set-ting at rest the persistent rumors that he would discuss naval limitation and other International subjects with foreign for-eign officials. Before returning to America the secretary expects to make a short visit In London and to go to Ireland. President Coolidge, addressing the convention of the 'Wisconsin American Legion at Wnusau, described the Kellogg Kel-logg treaty as the brightest hope for International peace the world has ever eeen and declared that If It. had been In existence In 1914 the World war would not have been started. He continued con-tinued : "While It would be too much to suppose that war has been entirely banished, yet a new and important barrier, reasonable and honorable, has been set up to prevent It. This agreement agree-ment proposes a revolutionary policy among nations. It holds a greater hope for peaceful relations than was ever before given to the world. If those who are involved In It, having started It, will finish It, Its provisions will prove one of the greatest blessings ever bestowed upon humanity. It is a fitting consummation of the first decade of peace." Soviet Russia hoped to be invited to sign the Kellogg treaty with the great powers, but Mr. Kellogg said no to this proposition and If Russia signs It must be along with the minor nations. na-tions. The Soviet press was bitter over this "snub," asserting that the capitalistic powers did n6t wish the Soviets to sign for thnt would hinder them from attacking the Bolsheviks. It was said at Riga that Latvia and Esthonia, which are constantly arresting arrest-ing agitators plotting to overturn their governments, are hesitating to sign the pact, since with a neighbor like Russia they would like to know what guarantees and means would be provided pro-vided by the signatory powers to maintain main-tain peace. T7AR clouds that were hovering V over central Europe blew away when Marshal Pilsudski addressed his Polish legionnaires at the reunion in Vilna. Ten thousand of the veterans vet-erans were gathered in the city which is the constitutional capital of Lithuania Lithu-ania but Is held by Poland, and it had been feared the meeting would be the starting of active warfare against the Litlis. Hut the Polish dictator was exceedingly mild In his address, his only provocative statement being: "Vilna remains mine. I received it as a present from my soldiers. They fought for it and gave it to me. which was a very nice thing i do." Later, reviewing the parade of the legions, he remarked: "Ten years ago we were worried about Vilna, but then we were weak. Now we are strong." "T7ITn the Croatian and Serb Agra- rian deputies absent, the parliament parlia-ment of Yugo-SIavIa ratified the Net-tune Net-tune conventions with Italy by a majority ma-jority of only one vote, and then adjourned. ad-journed. This action, however, by no means ends the trouble in that country. coun-try. The opposition asserts the constitution con-stitution calls for a two-thirds vote for treaty ratification, and It Is generally gen-erally admitted the Nettune conventions conven-tions give the disaffected Croats more power in their demand for home rule. At the same time the treaty leaves Italy with no excuse for interfering in the Yugo slav Internal affairs. The Croatian peasants' party, li meeting In Zagreb, declared that Stefan Raditch, their murdered leader, remains re-mains "the president of the party, although al-though dead," which Is interpreted to mean that his spirit still dominates his countrymen. In Rome the ratification ratifi-cation of the Nettue pact was hailed as an auspicious sign of the opening of an era of friendly and mutually profitable relations between the two nations. ONE of the most Interesting events of the week, though it was given but brief mention in the newspapers, was the action of the Argentine chamber cham-ber of deputies canceling the entire war debt of Paraguay to Argentina, amounting to 10,000,000,000 pesos or more than $4,200,000,000. There were indications that Brazil also would cancel its claim against Paraguay, which totals an even greater sum. The cancellations probably will do much toward rehabilitating the credit of Paraguay, which has been at low ebb owing to the huge debts which never could be paid. Jose Guggiarl was inaugurated in-augurated President of Paraguay. MUCH space was devoted during the week to comments on Herbert Her-bert Hoover's speech of acceptance. President Coolidge warmly congratulated congratu-lated the candidate on the address, and naturally the other Republican leaders found It a political document of remarkable force and clarity. Naturally, Nat-urally, too, the Democrats did not think so much of it, and some of the farm organization leaders called it "disappointing" because it did not outline out-line a specific proposal for agricultural agricul-tural relief, though he promised that a definite plan for this would be forthcoming. forth-coming. Others of the farm leaders highly commended the section on agricultural agri-cultural relief, agreeing with Frank O. Lowden, who said: "Mr. Hoover frankly recognizes that the most urgent economic problem in our nation today is agriculture; and that the solution solu-tion of this question constitutes the most important obligation of the nation. na-tion. No farm organization could ask for more in the way of general expression." ex-pression." The drys were fairly well satisfied with his statement on prohibition, that he does not favor repeal of the Eighteenth Eight-eenth amendment and stands for efficient effi-cient enforcement of the laws enacted thereunder. The wets in the Republican Repub-lican ranks hoped that he would later elaborate his views on the liquor question, ques-tion, revealing them as more to their liking in the matter of modification. On Thursday Mr. Hoover left Palo Alto for southern California, planning to pass thence through New Mexico and Arizona, up into Iowa and then on to Washington. OFFICIAL notification of Senator Curtis, Republican vice presidential presiden-tial nominee, drew a big crowd at Topeka Saturday and the ceremony was - thoroughly enjoyed by the senator's sen-ator's relatives and fellow townsmen. Senator Simeon D. Fess notified Curtis Cur-tis of his nomination, and the candidate candi-date accepted in a 'characteristic speech which was given wide circulation circula-tion through h radio hook-up of many stations. GOVERNOR SMITH, before completing com-pleting his speech of acceptance, conferred with eleven farm relief advocates ad-vocates from seven states, and also had important talks with such party leaders as Carter Glass. Josephus Daniels, Senator George of Georgia and Senator Walsh of Montana. Mr. Daniels, bone dry, predicted the South would remain solidly Democratic, hut frankly told Mr. Smith that if his acceptance ac-ceptance address showed a more moist tendency than the people of North Carolina believed in, the normal Democratic Dem-ocratic majority in that state would he considerably reduced. Despite his own views on the liquor question. Mr. Daniels Is warmly supporting Smith, and laughed away the thought that if elected he would nullify prohibition. Hope for a joint discussion of the candidate's record between him and Dr. .Tolin Roach Straton faded last week. The preacher insisted that the affair should be held in some large hull and Mr. Smith said it would be in Calvary Baptist church, where Doctor Doc-tor Straton first made his attack, or nowhere. The governor told the minister min-ister he had no iutcntion of conducting conduct-ing a political debate with him but wished to appear In his church to re- ply to statements "traducing" .the governor gov-ernor of New York. The preacher, who has not won much support for his methods, says he will go ahead with the "debate" In the biggest hall he can hire, whether or not the governor appears. ap-pears. . OHIO Democrats nominated Congressman Con-gressman M. L. Davey of Kent for governor and the Republicans selected Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati. Cincin-nati. Both had Anti-Saloon league support. For senator the Democrats named Charles V. Truax and the Republicans Re-publicans renominated Senator Fess. Candidates to fill out the unexpired term of the late Senator Willis are Congressman Theodore E. Burton, Republican, Re-publican, and Graham P. Hunt, Democrat. Dem-ocrat. In Hamilton county Charles P. Taft n, son of Chief Justice Taft, was defeated for renomlnation as county prosecutor. A BOUT seventy thousand trainmen and conductors of Western railroads rail-roads are in process of voting on a proposed strike following the failure of a joint conference with their employers. em-ployers. The result will be made known September 2 and union leaders say the ballot will show that 98 per cent of the men favor a strike. The roads will be given until September 4 to come to an agreement with the men on their wage demands. J. W. Hlg-gins, Hlg-gins, chairman of the employers' committee, com-mittee, declared the men rejected an offer of arbitration, thus violating the spirit and purpose of the Watson-Parker Watson-Parker railroad labor act. One of the chief obstacles In the way of agreement which previous conferences con-ferences and arbitrations were unable to surmount is the so-called "double-header" "double-header" rule, which limits the tonnaga and number of cars of trains where two engines are used, and which the railroad heads Insist be removed. NEWS of one of the minor tragedies trage-dies of aviation comes from Ric de Janeiro. Maj. Carle del Prete, who, with Captain Ferrarin, flew from Rome to Natal, Brazil, was injured In a test flight of a plane at Rio. It was found necessary to amputate his right leg, and he failed to recover from the operation. HENRY L. STIMSON seems to be doing very well as governor general gen-eral of the Phillipines. Last week he appointed his cabinet from members of the Nationalist party, which carried car-ried the last election, and the appointees ap-pointees were immediately confirmed by the island senate. In a statement Senator Sergio Osmena, Filipino leader, lead-er, said the appointment of the cabinet cab-inet "shows that the government of the Philippines has returned to normalcy," nor-malcy," and further "this happy termination ter-mination of a past crisis, this beginning begin-ning of a new understanding, has been attained through an adequate Interpretation Inter-pretation of the Jones law and department de-partment reorganization act." NOT only Florida, but all the other southern Atlantic stales suffered severely from the series of violent storms that came up from the Gulf of Mexico. SHIP-TO-SnOEE mail service with the aid of amphibian airplanes was successfully established when a plane loaded with mail was catapulted from the deck of the French liner He de France 450 miles off the port of New York and reached land In about four hours. The saving in time was about 12 hours, and this is expected to be increased. Eventually the same service serv-ice will be established at the French end of the run. The extra charge for this is quite heavy. FAR from yielding to Japan, the Nationalist Na-tionalist government of China has sent another note to Tokyo reiterating Its Intention to abrogate the treaty of 1S0G. The Japanese government Is just as determined to refuse revision until China acknowledges tiie validity of the old pact. Japan has scored one big point in the postponement of the proposed union of Manchuria with Nationalist Na-tionalist China. American Minister MacMurray went to Mukden from Peking, and In Tokyo It wos believed he had been Instructed to investigate the Manchuria situation personally and report to Washington. The Japanese Jap-anese think he is not unsympathetic with them in this mutter. |