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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURREHTEVEHTS Illinois Republicans Name Ruth Hanna McCormick For U. S. Senator. By EDWARD W. PICKARD RUTH HANNA McCOUMICK, daughter of one former United States senator and widow of another, may be the first woman to be elected a member of highest deliberative body In the land. Her nomination! for this high ofllee by the Itepublicans of Illinois was an event of national Importance, Im-portance, and it also has International Implications for the chief issue she raised In her primary campaign was American adherence to the World court, which she unreservedly opposes. Senator Sen-ator Charles S. Deneen, whose seat was the prize In the contest, favors such adherence with the reservations now pending, and his decisive defeat must be taken to indicate that the Republican voters of Illinois stand with Mrs. McCormick In this matter. This may not be true of Chicago, where the fight was, complicated and probably decided by party factional strife. If Mrs. McCormick Is to be elected she must defeat at the polls that former for-mer Illinois senator and seasoned political campaigner, Col. James Hamilton Ham-ilton Lewis, who easily won the Democratic Dem-ocratic nomination. The colonel Is an avowed wet and says he will make his campaign largely upon the liquor Issue, with attacks on the Hoo-er administration ad-ministration and the Hoover policies thrown In for good measure. Mrs. McCormick has supported the Eighteenth Eight-eenth amendment and the Volstead act and may expect the hearty support sup-port of the various dry organizations. Aside from personalities and issues, the victory of Murk Hanna's daughter Is notable as "the first conspicuous and unequivocal acknowledgement of .the full Implication of the Nineteenth amendment," In the words of the Chicago Chi-cago Tribune. As such It aroused the enthusiasm of the nation's women and the interest of every one. Mrs. McCormick is now a congressman at large, and among the first to congratulate con-gratulate her were the other six women wom-en who are members of the lower house. No woman ever has been elected to the senate though Mrs. Fel-ton Fel-ton of Georgia served for two days In 1022 by gubernatorial appointment. Reports that unduly large sums were spent In the Illinois Republican senatorial primary campaign may be Investigated by the senate. Some weeks ago Senator Norris of Nebraska introduced a resolution for the creation crea-tion of a special campaign fund inquiry in-quiry committee for this year, and it was unanimously approved last week by the committee on privileges. T OBEYING activities of the Meth-odist Meth-odist board of temperance, prohibition prohi-bition and public morals were the subject of a warm interchange of opinions before the senate committee on lobbies. Congressman Tinkham of Massachusetts appeared before the committee to nsk that the political doings of the board be investigated, and he supported his case with much documentary evidence as well as with vigorous argument. Senator Walsh of Montana, although a Catholic, came to the defense of the Methodist organization. or-ganization. Tinkham, it may be unnecessary un-necessary to say, Is a wet and Walsh Is a dry. Tinkham next day presented a similar sim-ilar case against the Federal Council of Churches and the Anti-Saloon league, and the committee decided to call for the books and records of the throe organizations. The lobby committee, which had heard John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic national committee, defend his liberal gifts of money to the Association Against the Prohibition Prohibi-tion Amendment, also heard Josephus Daniels and other dry Democrats attack at-tack the motives of Mr. Raskob and condemn him for "giving money to elect wet Republicans, and defeat dry Democrats." Many of Raskob's as-oJlants as-oJlants demand that he resign his chairmanship, but he has shown no sign of Intending to do so. pi.N'DING the adoption of a complete com-plete five-power treaty Impossible at this time, the naval parley delegates dele-gates in London decided to quit after signing a pact, the outlines of which were stated as follows: A five-power agreement between Great Britain, America, Japan, France and Italy on the following terms: 1. Postponement for five years of replacement of capital ships scheduled sched-uled by the Washington treaty In 1922. 2. Extension of the aircraft carrier category to Include carriers not exceeding ex-ceeding 10,000 tons, the armament of which shall be limited to six inch guns. 3. Definition of coast guard and other small ships exempt from limitation. limi-tation. 4. Classification of warships and methods for permanent limitation by global and category tonnage. A five-power agreement prohibiting the destruction of merchant ships by submarines, unless the passengers and crew of the captured craft are placed In safety. A three-power agreement between America, Great Britain and Japan on the lines previously given In these columns, providing for reduction of battleship fleets and limitation of cruisers, destroyers and submarines as In the Reed-Matsudaira plan. This entire progrem was announced by Secretary SUmson with the full approval of the other delegates and was announced in parliament by Prime Minister MacDonald. Meanwhile Mean-while Brland, French foreign minister, and Dino Grand!, chief of the Italian delegation, had had a conference and agreed that their nations could not yet reach an accord In the matter of navies, but that further discussions should take place in Geneva when the League of Nations meets In May. M. Briand later explained that France Is ready to pledge not to construct con-struct any capital ships during the Interim until 1936, unless Germany, through building additional units of tlie Ersatz Preussen type, forces her to do so. It was understood the proposed treaty and Instruments would be ready for signing by April 17 and that the American delegation would sail for home April 22 on the Leviathan. DRY law violations and prosecutions prosecu-tions are increasing the population popula-tion of the federal prisons at the rate of one every GS minutes, according to statistics issued by the Department of Justice. Between June 30, 1929, and April 1, 1030, the number of federal prisoners both in federal penal institutions insti-tutions and local jails, mounted from 19,349 to 25,620, an Increase of 6,277 in nine months. Approximately 75 per cent of the Increase, according to the Department of Justice estimates, was due to convictions con-victions under the Volstead and Jones laws. Attorney General Mitchell has filed in the Supreme court a brief, to be used when the case of James E. Farrer of Boston is reached, which is designed de-signed to bring a decision . as to whether the liquor buyer Is equally guilty with the seller. The Federal District court for Massachusetts held that the purchase of liquor from a bootlegger was not "prohibited by the Volstead act" and dismissed the indictment in-dictment against Farrer. The attorney attor-ney general argues that the failure of congress to specify that purchases from a bootlegger should be an offense of-fense should not be construed by the courts as meaning that congress did not Intend to make such purchases an offense. THE administration of the $20,000,-000 $20,000,-000 Farmers' National Grain corporation, cor-poration, the first national co-operative set up by the federal farm board, was turned over at a meeting In Chicago Chi-cago to stockholders representing 21 regional farmers' grain marketing associations. as-sociations. Nineteen farmer stockholders were named on the new board of directors of the grain sales co-operative, which takes the place of the original board which incorporated the organization. Two of these original directors were dropped P. A. Lee, Grand Forks, N. D., and II. G. Keeney, Omaha, Neb. The five new directors added are: B. El Kennedy, Kankakee, 111., Farmers' Farm-ers' Union ; C. B. Steward, Omaha, Neb., Farmers' West Central Grain cooperative co-operative ; Oscar Slosser, Astoria, Ohio, Ohio Farmers' Grain and Supply as-sociatlou as-sociatlou ; F. J. Wilmer, Rosalia, Wash., president North Pacific Grain Growers' association, and W. J. Kuhrt, Minneapolis, Northwest Grain association. asso-ciation. C. E, Jlutt, Sallna, Kan., was elected president ; John Manley, Enid, Okla., vice president, and Lawrence Farlow, Bloomlngton, 111., secretary. MAHATMA GANDHI'S campaign against the British government In India was not going quite to his liking, although the movement was spreading In various districts. The trouble Is that the English refrained from martyrizing him personally. Two of the ascetic leaders' sons and numerous others were arrested for violating the government salt monopoly monop-oly laws, and one of the sons was promptly sentenced to prison. But Gandhi, up the time of writing, had not been taken Into custody. Annoyed An-noyed by the tactics of the British authorities, who were seizing the illicit il-licit salt the Nationalists were making mak-ing from sea water, Gandhi so far abandoned his non-resistance policy as to advise his followers to hang onto the salt If possible. The Indian women are taking an Increasingly prominent part in the passive resistance resist-ance campaign. I TROUBLES for the Chinese Nationalist Na-tionalist government are multiplying. multiply-ing. Not only is there open warfare between It and Gen. Yen Hsi-shan, ruler of Shansi province, but now the rapid growth of Communism in the southern provinces Is causing great alarm. Wealthy Cantonese merchants and bankers are co-operating with the government of Canton In raising a fund and equipping a "Chinese Anti-Red Anti-Red army" which is to be trained by foreign military tacticians. RAS TAFFARI, who became co-ruler co-ruler of Abyssinia In 192S, has proclaimed himself emperor. This action is the sequel of the crushing defeat of revolting tribes, the killing in battle of Ras Gugas Wall and the death next day of the Empress Zau-ditu, Zau-ditu, wife of Ras Gugas. CALVIN COOLIDGE has completed , two sections of the 500-word history his-tory of the United States which Is to i be inscribed on Mount Rushmore In ' the Black Hills, and they have been I made public. They are as follows: "In the year of our Lord, 1776, the i people declared the eternal right to ; seek happiness, self-government, and j the Divine duty to defend that right I at any sacrifice. "In 17S7, assembled in convention, they made a charter of perpetual union of free people of sovereign j states, establishing a government of . limited powers, under an independent j President, congress, and court, charged to provide securities for. all j citizens In their enjoyment of liberty, j equality, and justice." i The other sections will deal with ex- pansion of American territorial dominion domin-ion westward, the Louisiana purchase, the admission of Texas, the admission of California, the settlement of boundary bound-ary questions with England and Oregon and the cutting of the Panama canal. ONE hundred years ago, on April i 10, 1S30, eighty-oue frontiers- I men with a train of covered wagons j set out from St. Louis to blaze a trail j to and across the Rockies. So, on Thursday of last week, another band of men with ten covered wagons bor- I rowed from historical societies and j collectors started from the same place j on the route to Oregon. This was the beginning of a series of events arranged ar-ranged to celebrate' the Covered Wagon centennial. There will be festive gatherings all along the Ore- ; gon trail and the whole affair will last j until December 29 in accordance with ' a proclamation by President Hoover. HOG ISLAND, which during the war was the biggest ship yard in the world, has been sold by the gov- j ernment to Philadelphia and will be j transformed into the largest air-ma- j rlne-rail terminus in the country. The Quaker city pays Uncle Sam $3,000,- , 000 for a total area of 916 acres. (1 1930. Western Nswsoaxer Union.) |