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Show !,V ' V.lfv vA ' irrimnimrir-iM-iii t, ...-..mo.. ,..M UJgg 1 Mies Anne Morgan laying cornerstone of $T,000,000 clubhouse for the American Woman's association in n York. 2-Seeretary Kellogg and Ambassador Prittwitz signing the ru-Amerl u'tlTZaZ treaty. 3 Parade of undergraduates at May fete of Wellesley college, Wellesley, Mass. "ruurauon NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Watson Defeats Hoover in Indiana Japan Is Fighting Fight-ing Chinese. By EDWARD W. PICKARD TNDIANA farmers Indicated last week that they did not approve of the Presidential candidacy of Herbert Hoover. The vote of the rural districts dis-tricts in the Republican primary was strong enough to give Senator James K. Watson, favorite son, a majority of something like 25,000 over the secretary sec-retary of commerce, whose strength was mainly In the cities and larger towns; and the 33 noosier delegates at Kansas City will vote for the senator sen-ator at least on the first ballot. Anti-Ilooverites Anti-Ilooverites claimed the result in Indiana In-diana was a severe blow to Hoover's chances, but his supporters asserted he really had won a victory by keeping keep-ing Watson's majority down to comparatively com-paratively small figures. Pesplte Senator Watson's protestations protesta-tions that he Is In the race to win, the politicians nearly all assume that he is ii stalking horse for Lowden or Dawes, and the opinion is widespread that the Indiana delegation, or many of Its members, will shift to Dawes as soon as the sonator releases them. though they may first give Lowden a chance. G. Burt Thnrmnn, the Watson Wat-son campaign manager in the state, said : "Indiana will be for Dawes or Lowden or any other Republican." with significant emphasis on the word Republican. Maryland Republicans last Tuesday pledged their 19 delegates dele-gates to Hoover. Democrats of Indiana voted to send their 30 delegates to Houston instructed instruct-ed to vote for Evans Woollen, the Indianapolis In-dianapolis banker whom Tom Taggart brought forward. He was unopposed. The Republicans renominated Senator Robinson and the Democrats picked Albert Stump for the senate. Tlie nominations for governor must be made by the party conventions, for no candidate on either side won a clear majority. Michigan's state Democratic convention conven-tion voted to Instruct the delegation of 30 to vote as a unit for Ai Smith, the opposition being easily squelched. Rut the fight against 'the New York-governor York-governor Is not entirely abandoned, for in Alabama the anti-Smith or "un-Instructed "un-Instructed delegation" faction captured the majority of the state's delegates to Houston. In Texas the bitter struggle strug-gle to send an uninstructed delegation to the Republican convention seemed likely to win. C i:NATOR STEIWER'S campaign expenditures Investigation committee commit-tee has not brought out anything interesting in-teresting so Tar except a small display of temper by Herbert Hoover. He was subjected to a long examination as to promises, contributions and po-litical po-litical deals and managed to retain control of himself, but when Senator r.arkley of Kentucky asked him whether wheth-er he had advised the manufacturers of chlnaware to raise the price of china, he exploded, saying: "I wonder. won-der. Mr. Chairman, if the committee Is not getting down to dealing with a pretty small type of street slander." From the other candidates for the Presidential nomination the committee extracted no information in the least sensiitional. BOTH the house and senate accepted t lip conference report on the flood control bill after the measure had been so altered that it would meet with the approval of the President. Three Important revisions suggested by Mr. Coolidge were made and It was understood the bill would receive executive approval, although the President Pres-ident still dislikes some of Its pro-Tl-ions. The bill a? it reached the President authorizes the expenditure of ?.'!-".-fKXI.000 for the flood control project, but. according to President Coolidge and MaJ. Con. Kdg-ir .ladwin. chief of engineers, the actual minimum cost will be at least .?.".( iri.i k 1.1 a 10 The bill places filial authority in the hands of the President. Actual Muistniction wnk would be In charge of the present pres-ent Mississippi river commission under the direction of the secretary of war and the supervision of the chief of engineers. While the bill declares for the retention re-tention of the principle of local contribution con-tribution toward flood control projects, local Interests under the bill must furnish fur-nish only such 'additional rights of way as are needed for levees on the main channel of the Mississippi and must maintain the flood control works when completed. The federal government govern-ment will bear the entire cost of construction con-struction of levees and other flood control con-trol works and will furnish rights of way for levees along floodways and spillways. pOR the first time In history the senate sen-ate has assumed the prerogative of offering advice to the Supreme Court of the United States. By a vote of 40 to 31 It approved a resolution asking that Donald C. Richberg of Chicago, counsel for the national conference on the valuation of American railways, be allowed to Intervene in proceedings before the court for the purpose of making an oral argument and filing a brief. The conference Richberg represents repre-sents was formed some years ago by radical groups and is headed by Senator Sen-ator Norris of Nebraska, who introduced intro-duced the extraordinary resolution. The case in question is an appeal by the railroads from a lower court's decision de-cision upholding the interstate commerce com-merce commission's ruling with respect re-spect to tlie determination of valuation valua-tion for rate-making and recapture purposes. O II IN A and Japan are actually at war, though not officially, because Japan insists on giving military protection pro-tection to tlie Shantung railway and to her nationals there. Protests of both the Nationals and the Peking government were unheeded and bloody clashes between tlie Japanese and the Southerners atTsinan, capital of Shantung Shan-tung province, followed. There were many casualties on both sides and the fighting continues at the time of writing. writ-ing. Each side blamed the other for the outbreak of hostilities, and each accused the other of brutal outrages. The Japanese commander in Shantung established a neutral zone along the railway and at latest reports ' had driven the Southerners out of it. The Tokyo government speedily prepared and sent over heavy reinforcements and dispatched additional warships. Then Marshal Chang, dictator of north China, Issued a proclamation ordering all his forces to cease fighting the Nationalists, Na-tionalists, in order, evidently, that the Chinese nation might employ its combined com-bined strength in combating the Japanese Jap-anese aggression. In his pronuncia-mento pronuncia-mento Chang intimated his Intention of soon retiring to Manchuria, stating lie was willing to be not insistent regarding re-garding national polities, and he concluded con-cluded with the statement that the ship of state was sinking rapidly and he hoped tlie people would coma to their senses and save the country from destruction. Suggestions of mediation by the L'nited States have been made but are useless, for Washington has said it would not undertake to mediate unless asked to do so by both sides, and Japan says it will neither ask nor accept ac-cept mediation. The unofficial government govern-ment view in Tokyo is that Japan does not consider the present situation situa-tion war and that therefore tlie matter can be settled diplomatically between Japan and China. All Americans in tlie war zone are believed to be safe, though some, including Consul Price at Tsinan. were under fire. O I MANIA almost had a revolution last week, but the government nipped it in the bud. Tlie peasants gathered in vast throngs two hundred hun-dred thou.-and In Alha.iulia and smaller numbers in other placesand forum-lated forum-lated demands for a change of govern-merit govern-merit and tlie end of the despotic regime of Premier Eratiano. Some of the leaders wished to have the hordes march on Bucharest to enforce their demands, hut others dissented and only a few thousands started on the trek to tlie capital and they soon quit. At the gatherings the government had stationed large detachments of troops which did not interfere witli the de-liberal de-liberal ions but effectually squelched all tlie ardor for militant action. An interesting feature of the alTnir was tlie fact that Prince Carol, in England with his female companion, plotted to take advantage of the assemblage of the peasants to gain possession of the throne. He Intended to send airplanes over to scatter messages to the people, peo-ple, and perhaps to fiy there himself. But the British government discovered the plan, frustrated It and ordered Carol to leave the country. It was rumored ru-mored he might come to the United States. Leaders of the peasants' party denied that they had any part In Carol's scheme. n REMIER MUSSOLINI, In an official 1 note to Secretary Kellogg, states that Italy is entirely willing to collaborate collab-orate with the United States in the negotiation of a multilateral anti-war treaty. The State department officials, however, do not like the dictator's- suggestion sug-gestion that the United States should participate in an International jurists' conference which would discuss the whole subject of outlawing war. It is not believed Italy will press this point. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., has J made public two letters to Col. Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, in which he asked the latter to resign his position because of the revelation of Stewart's participation in tlie Continental Trading company's deals that were involved in the Teapot Tea-pot Dome lease scandal. Mr. Rockefeller Rocke-feller wrote Colonel Stewart that he was calling upon him "to make good the promise you voluntarily gave me some weeks ago that you would resign at my request." Stewart up to the time of writing has declined to com ment on the matter. Rockefeller is a very large stockholder in tlie Standard Stand-ard of Indiana, but it was said in Wall street that he might not be able to enforce his demand for Stewart's resignation res-ignation if the chairman decided to resist. District Attorney Rover in Washington submitted a transcript of Stewart's tesr'mony before tlie senate Teapot Dome committee to the federal grand jury with a view to his indictment. indict-ment. D RESIDENT COOLIDGE told callers at the White House the other day that if all projects before congress are approved the required expenditure would be so huge that tax reduction would be impossible. Indeed, he warned, it would be necessary to levy additional taxes. The aggregate expenditure ex-penditure called for would be more than a billion dollars, according to Chairman Snell of the house rules committee. com-mittee. Included in the big projects are:. Flood control, at least $323,000,-000; $323,000,-000; farm relief, $-100,000,000; Boulder dam, at least $125,000,000; Muscle Shoals, $75,000,000; good roads, $75,-000.000; $75,-000.000; retirement of civil employees. $30,000,000; Welch federal employees' salary increase bill, $18,000,000; Mississippi Missis-sippi river barge line, $10,000,000; war mineral relief bill, $5,000,000 to $10,-000.000. $10,-000.000. and vocational training bill. $0,000,000. O ARON VON HUENEFELD. Captain - Koeld and Major Fitziuaurlce, the Bremen transatlantic flyers. Hew from Philadelphia to Chicago and spent two strenuous days and nights there. They were feasted and entertained in various vari-ous ways, and on Saturday there was a grand parade to Soldier field on the Lake Front where they were formally welcomed to the city. More than one hundred German and Irish societies were in tlie line of march and took part in tlie ceremonies. Among the guests of lienor were I'rof. Hugo Junkers, Junk-ers, manufacturer of tlie Bremen plane, and T. A. Smiddy, minister of tlie Irish Free State at Washington. r NFORMATION reaching the War de-' de-' partment shows that Great Britain's Brit-ain's army expenditures during tlie coming year for the development and purchase of new machine weapons and motorized equipment will be ten times the amount expended by the United States for a similar purpose. The British will spend S5.000.0OO In army modernization work. The States is planning to expend more than ever before in peace time on machine ma-chine weapons, its total spendings for testing an, w develop,,,,.,,, work will not exceed $.",(K.,io Of the funds allot,,.,, ,n ,,e ordnance department of the Uiiiied states arniv about SHO.ikio will l,e MU; for the purchase of tru-n-. lrM,..s linn power cans, aid ,,,er material for completely torizing n i 1 1 f : , , , t ,-x regiment. The balance will ... ,,x peiided In tank experimentations ,-, in perfecting new artillery. |