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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Hoover on Business and Pleasure Trip to Porto Rico and Virgin Islands Mayor Walker Under Fire. By EDWARD T. PICKARD SI PIIF.SIDIC.N'T IIOOV-er IIOOV-er and a "stag party" sailed from Norfolk, Va., Thursday Thurs-day morning on the reconditioned battleship battle-ship Arizona for a twelve day trip on which the Chief Executive Ex-ecutive planned to combine rest and pleasure with busi ness. Included In the Gov. Theodore party were Secretary Roosevelt of yvar Hurley. Secretary Secre-tary of the Interior Wilbur. Capt. William Wil-liam Furlong, who handles navy Island matters; Capt. Charles R. Train, naval aide; Col. Campbell Hodges, army aide; various other officials from the White House, and a bunch of newspaper newspa-per men and photographers, ("apt. C. S. Freeman was In command of the Arizona Ari-zona and the vessel carried a full complement of DO officers and 1,244 men for It was making a shaking down run after being rebuilt. The first stop was at San Juan, Porto Rico, and the President for two days was to be the guest of Governor and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt at La Fortaleza, the old mansion In which governors of the island have resided from the early days of the Spanish regime. It was planned that Mr. Hoover should make a tour of the Island Is-land in order to observe industrial, agricultural and social conditions, meet the leaders of the political parties par-ties and gain a general Idea of the success Governor Roosevelt has attained at-tained in meeting the problems of the Porto Iticans, which are many and serious. ' The governor in his official reports and in communications to the American Ameri-can papers has given detailed pictures of the distress obtaining in the island. Sixty per cent of the people are out of work, he said, either all or part of the year. The population density Is exceeded by few countries. It is 440 to the square mile and even intensive agriculture agri-culture would not support this population. popu-lation. So it is industries that Governor Gov-ernor Roosevelt says must he developed. devel-oped. More than 35,000 persons are suffering from tuberculosis, 200,000 from malaria, and 600,000 from hookworm. hook-worm. From Porto Rico the Arizona was to proceed to St. Thomas, principal port of the Virgin Islands, where Mr. Hoover was to be met by Dr. Puul M. Pearson of Philadelphia, the recently appointed civil governor, and Waldo Evans of the navy, the retiring governor. gov-ernor. With them he was to study the problems of the group, which are as serious as those of Porto Rico. The Virgin Islands used to prosper on the manufacture of rum and the trans shipment of European cargoes for the entire Caribbean region. The prevailing prevail-ing economic distress is the result of prohibition and the conversion of coal burning vessels to oil consuming ships. Only a few days ago the control of the Virgin Islands was transferred from the Navy to the Interior department, depart-ment, and now in Washington it is suggested that one result of the President's Presi-dent's visit may be the amalgamation of the group with Porto Rico as a single political unit administered by one governor. THEODORE G. JOSLIN, Washington Washing-ton correspondent of the Boston Transcript, has been made secretary to President Hoover to succeed George Akerson, resigned. Mr. Joslin Is a close personal friend of Mr. Hoover. His main duties will be arranging the President's calling list, handling visitors visi-tors at the executive offices and maintaining main-taining contact between the President and the correspondents. The new secretary is an experienced experi-enced political reporter and has a wide acquaintance among public men. He is a native of Massachusetts and Is forty-one years old. DEVELOPMENTS In the campaign to clean up New York city politically are coming rapidly. During Dur-ing the week formal charges of neglect and unfitness were filed against Jimmy Walker, the dapper and debonnir mayor of the metropolis. , f ; now regaling himself In California. The IvT charges were present- ur ed to Governor Roos elt by leadve of the city affairs commit lee and were said to be of such a nature ns to compel com-pel the governor to take some action toward widening the Investigation now being conducted by Samuel Seahury and confirmed by police and magis-tra magis-tra tes. Governor Roosevelt had let it become be-come known that he would not respond re-spond to any public clamor for a city-wide city-wide investigation anu that he would act only upon specific charges, such as led him to appoint Seabury to Investigate In-vestigate the conduct of District Attorney At-torney Thomas C. T. Crain. Previous ly Seabury had been put In charge of an Investigation of police frameups In vice cases and of the conduct of city magistrates. The governor was asked by Crain to revoke the appointment of Seabury on t lie ground of bias, but refused, and Crain was summoned to appear and answer the charges made against him by the City club. Republican members of the state legislature were s.ill trying to put through a resolution for a generul inquiry into New York conditions, but were blocked by several recalcitrant members of their own party. pURl.G the next three months, it was announced at the While House, President Hoover will carry out an extensive speaking program, delivering eight addresses and making nine public appearances. Besides this, he is contemplating a trip to his home iu Palo Alto, Calif. The subjects of his speeches have not been announced, but it is understood he will take the opportunity to set forth his own estimate esti-mate of the achievements of his administration ad-ministration so far and his alms for the future. Thus he will be in a measure meas-ure taking up the challenge put out by the progressives at their recenl conference in Y'ashington. The speaking calendar for the President Presi-dent as arranged is : April 13 American Red Cross in Washington, Apri! 14 Pan-American Day, Pan-American Pan-American Union, Washington. May 4 International Chamber of Commerce, Washington. May 21 Fiftieth anniversary of the Red Cross, Washington. May 30 Memorial Day, Valley Forge, Pa. June 15 Republican Editorial Association, As-sociation, Indianapolis, Ind. June 1G Dedication of Harding Memorial, Marion, Ohio. June 17 Dedication of Lincoln Memorial, Springfield, 111. In addition to these engagements, the President Is to review veteran; of the Grand Army of the Republic at their reunion June 16 in Columbus, Ohio. SENATOR HIRAM Johnson of California, Cali-fornia, who Is one of the most independent members of (he upper house, thinks the receipt re-ceipt conference of progressive leaders was a "fine thing" , and that the leaders of the Republican party should call a similar meeting, add-Senator add-Senator jng. ..Qnly good can Johnson come from suen gatn. erings." He Is convinced that "something "some-thing Is radically wrong somewhere" with the Republican party. Mr. Johnson gave out a statement in which he agreed with some of the progressive doctrines and disagreed with others, but said that "public consideration, con-sideration, study and discussion constitute con-stitute the contribution and value of the conference." He asserted the country coun-try was naturally interested In unemployment, unem-ployment, representative government, the power question, monopoly's encroachments en-croachments and public utilities, adding: add-ing: "Some of our Republican brethren not only belittle the effort hut would transmute It into the one public matter mat-ter of concern to them politics. But a philosophic onlooker who long ago marked his own course, and prefers in his own way to follow it, might suggest sug-gest that only progressives, in the interim in-terim between sessions, bring these vital questions up in public meeting for public discussion. Can any one imagine the standpat wing of either party meeting together with earnest and able experts and publicly discussing discuss-ing economic problems?" DEATH once more has changed the political make-up of the house of representatives which will assemble in December. James B. Aswell of Louisiana, Democrat and ranking minority member of the agricultural committee, passed away at his apartment apart-ment in Washington after a heart attack. at-tack. He was sixty-two years old and had served in -ongress for nine consecutive con-secutive terms. Mr. Aswell's death leaves In the house 217 Republicans. 215 Democrats and one Farmer-I.aborite. Representatives Represen-tatives John F. Quaylc and David J. O'Connell, both Democrats of New York, dieil last .vi-.ter. Their successors. succes-sors. Matthew V. O'Maley and Stephen Steph-en A. Rudd. are both Democrats. Representative Rep-resentative Henry Alien Cooper, Republican Re-publican of Wisconsin, died last March 1. His successor !'as not been chosen. EVERYONE has now filed his Income In-come tax return, or should have done so, and the experts In Washington Washing-ton are busy figuring up bow much Uncle Sam will receive. Treucury officials of-ficials could not yet make definite predictions pre-dictions as to the collections for the first qnarter, but they hoped that the receipt, for March would run above $400,000,000 and those for the first quarter, ending March 31. well above $500,000,000. At least one-fourth of the total fas due was paid with the income tax returns filed, so tha collections col-lections for the first quarter will run somewhat above the average for the four quarters. Indications are that the higher tax rate for 1!0 incomes will fall to olT-oet olT-oet the losses caused by the economic depression by around S100000.000 I ast year's collections for the hrst quarter were S62S.IWO.W0. pi ROB BLY twenty men perished F when the sealer Viking was blown up In White bay, Newfoundland. Newfound-land. Of the survivors US, many of them badlv Injured, managed to reach little Horse Island, where a few Inhabitants In-habitants tried to care for them with inadequate food and no medical supplies. sup-plies. Several others were picked up bv vessels that sped to the rescue, called by the messages of the young girl radio operator on the island. Besides Be-sides the large crew the Viking carried car-ried the members of a moving picture 'expedition. 1 ONE of the earnest hopes of the American Federation of Labor the allilia-tlon allilia-tlon of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Railway Trainmen with the federation is soon to be realized, according to dispatches from Washington. Representatives Repre-sentatives of both bodies and of certain Secretary affiliated railway Doak workers' unions were engaged during the week in drafting the terms of an agreement for the amalgamation. Representing the federation fed-eration in the conference were President Presi-dent William Green. Secretary Frank Morrison and Vice President J. M. Bu-geniazet, Bu-geniazet, who also is secretary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Electri-cal Workers. Sitting in for the trainmen train-men were President Albert Whitney and James Farquarson, legislative agent. The drafting conference was the culmination of negotiations that have been in progress for a year, in which Secretary of Labor Doak, in his former for-mer capacity as legislative agent of the trainmen's organization, is said to have played an Important part. UNEXPECTEDI Y heavy demands by World war veterans for loans have made it necessary for the treasury treas-ury to raise $200,000,000 in less than a month. Secretary Mellon announced a request by Veterans' Administrator Hines for $500,000,000 to cover payments pay-ments on 1,372,006 applications received re-ceived up to March 15. It had been estimated $300,000,000 would suffice, and per cent treasury certificates were issued to get that sum. Hines said, however, the $500,000,000 would be needed by April 11. The veterans' administrator ' also told Mellon $1,000,000,000 would be required to pay all loans. MAL DAUGHERTT, brother of former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, was sentenced at Washington Courthouse, Ohio, to ten years In prison and a fine of $5,000. He was convicted recently of abstracting ab-stracting funds from the now defunct Ohio State bank of which he was president and was refused a new trial. PIETRO C A R D I-nal I-nal Maffi, archbishop arch-bishop of Pisa and one of the most eminent emi-nent members of the sacred college, Is dead in Pisa at the age of seventy-three years, in his earlier years he gained fame as an astronomer as-tronomer and teacher of philosophy; he was mace arcnnisnop in 1003 and four years Cardinal Maffi later was raised to the purple by Pope Pius X. The same pope, it was rumored, ru-mored, considered deposing hlra because be-cause he supporte.'. the modernists in a contest with the reactionaries in the church. - Twice, afterward, Mafil was considered a papal possibility. He was always a great friend of the Italian Ital-ian royal family, and he officiated last year at the marriage of Crown Prince Humbert of Italy and Princess Marie Jose of Belgium. For this he wan given the Collar of the Annunzhita, the highest gift of the crown. Cardinal Maffi's death reduces the Italian membership in the sacred college col-lege to 2S, against 30 foreign members. mem-bers. Therefore it is expected iu Home that a consistory will be held before long at which the pope will create a number of cardinals and give the Italians nt least equal strength with the foreigners. SO VARIED are the interests of different dif-ferent countries that the tariff armistice convention called at Geneva by the League of Nations is forced to report that it lias failed to reach an' agreement, though it has hopes that within a few years enough nations will ratify the pact to make it effective effec-tive for Europe. The conference was called by the league in an effort to secure a truce on the raising of tariffs and later to obtain a general reduction of tarilfs. Only eleven countries ratified (lie truce clause and all eleven made Important Im-portant reservations. The usual res ervation was, "If surrounding conn tries would also ratify." (. 1931. Western Neusuape 1'Hoii j |