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Show NEWS REVIEW OF j CURRENTEVENTS Graf Zeppelin Arrives and ' Starts Eastward on a Trip Around World. By EDWARD W. PiCKARD GRAF ZEPPELIN; the great German Ger-man dirigible, was the feature of the week's news. Its second crossing of the Atlantic, from Frledrichshafen to New York, was made without mishap, mis-hap, and after flying over the metropolis metrop-olis It came to the ground at Lake-burst, Lake-burst, N. J., In a perfect night landing. land-ing. Nineteen fare-paying passengers, one stowaway and a miscellaneous cargo that Included one chimpanzee, one gorilla and 600 canaries were brought over In comfort and safety. Three days later the big airship, having been refueled, started back to Germany on what Is planned to be the first leg of a trip around the world. The only stops are to be at Friedrlchs-hafen, Friedrlchs-hafen, Tokio, Los Angeles, and again Lakehnrst If the Zeppelin keeps to her schedule she will arrive at the New Jersey hangar on August 29. Twenty-two passengers were taken on the eastbound trip. Those who intended intend-ed to continue aboard for the globe circling Journey Included William B. Leeds, Lady Grace Drummond Hay, Carl Von Wiegand, Joaquin Rickard, Sir Hubert WUklns, Lieut Jack Richardson, Rich-ardson, Lieut. Commander C E. Ros-endahl Ros-endahl and C. B. Burgess, the last three being sent by the United States Navy department. Dr. Hugo Eckener, as on the previous flight, is pilot of the dirigible, but it was reported that aft-wr aft-wr this world tour he would relinquish Its command and devote himself to the management of the Zeppelin company, com-pany, of which he is the business head. Bear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the naval bureau of aeronautics, aero-nautics, while praising the successful trip of the Graf Zeppelin, calls attention atten-tion to the fact that our navy is now building at Akron, Ohio, two dirigibles that will be about twice the size of the German airship. Work on these vessels baa been going on for some time and the admiral says the first of them will be put Into use In 1931. Bach win be filled with six and one-half one-half million cubic feet of helium gas and will carry five airplanes attached to the bag. Admiral Moffett has been looking along the Pacific coast for a good place for a base for these Immense Im-mense dirigibles. One novelty In aviation Is to he noted this week. A company has been formed hi Kansas City to rent "fly-lt-yourseir airplanes to persons who cannot afford to own and maintain planes. One hnndred two-seater sport planes have been ordered and they will cost the renter between $15 and (20 an hour. LIET7T. ALFORD J. WILLIAMS. America's lone hope In the International Inter-national seaplane race for the Schneider Schnei-der trophy, to be run at Cowes, England, Eng-land, September 6 and 7, has produced his plane, without government hacking hack-ing but with the aid of Admiral Moffett, Mof-fett, and was tostlng it out near Philadelphia Phil-adelphia last week. He believes It win prove to be the fastest ship In the world and that It will beat the time made by Major De P.emanll of Italy last year 318 miles an hour. The en-irjne, en-irjne, of 24 cylinders In banks of six. will deliver 1.100 horsepower. The plane Is a twin flont monoplane, ihe fuselage, wings mid fixed tall surfaces of wood and the control surfaces of rital. LlenL Florentln P.onnet of the Trench nnny, selected by the mlnlslry of air to pilot the French entry In the Kchneldcr cup races, wns killed when the slrplnne In which he was training for the speed test was wrecked In Waving the airfield at liordefiui. Hon-net Hon-net v.nr. the holder of the world speed record for land airplanes. EMI.NTCNT statesmen representing 12 world powers gathered In TIm Hague, arid on TueKdny opened a con-fererK-e fleslijned to liquidate the In-teri.ntlonal In-teri.ntlonal problems left over frjn (lie yVorld wnr. Tho chief matters to be settled were the adoption of the Young plan for German reparations, the evacuation evac-uation of the Rhineland. and the establishment es-tablishment of a committee of conciliation concili-ation and control to supervise the demilitarized de-militarized zone of Germany along the western frontier. Whether all or any of these things could he arranged amicably at this conference was a bit doubtful. This was especially true concerning the Young plan, which iu certain of Its features was distasteful to every one of the powers except possibly, pos-sibly, France and Italy. Philip Snowden, British chancellor of the exchequer, opened the discussion discus-sion by frankly stating that the British Brit-ish government could not accept the Young scheme for division of reparations repara-tions because It reduces England's share from 22 per cent to IS per cent He said: "Great Britain objects to the proposed division by which France gets five-sixths of the unconditional annuities $11,900,000 out of $157,050,-000. $157,050,-000. Italy gets a considerable animal sum, amounting to $10.000.000 much larger than under the Dawes plan. 1 hope for your forgiveness for my frank and firm speaking, but this division Is utterly Indefensible and the experts did not attempt to explain or justify it." The smaller creditor powers, for which Premier Venizelos of Greece was the spokesman, also protested that their debts had been overlooked by the experts when they formulated the plan which "compresses" their reparatlous, but they said they had no intention of attacking the Young rlan. Representatives of France, Italy. Belgium Bel-gium and Japan defended the new plan as probably the best that could be devised, de-vised, although each of them asserted nls country was making sacrifices In accepting it. M. Cheron, French minister min-ister of finance, declared France accepted ac-cepted the plan In Its entirety, without with-out reservations, and considered It Indivisible In-divisible as the experts stated. Notwithstanding Not-withstanding these expressions on behalf be-half of the other nations, Mr. Snowden and Arthur Henderson, British foreign secretary, told the reporters positively that Great Britain would reject the proposed, new division of reparation.-. Two commissions were named by the conference, one to study the political po-litical consequences of adoption of the Young plan and the other to deal with the financial questions involved. These bodies may not get through their work for five or six weeks. Dispatches from Rome said Italians generally were indignant at Snowden's speech, which they considered a churlish churl-ish attack on the Latin nations and calculated to endanger the friendship between Italy and England. Berlin also disliked It, feeling that Snowden was trying to "squeeze still more out of the unfortunate Gennan tax payers," pay-ers," and fearing that France, rather than quarrel with England, would compromise com-promise at Germany's cost. PRESIDENT HOOVER'S law enforcement en-forcement commission has divided Its work Into eleven sections and for ench a committee has been named. Chairman George W. Wlckersham himself him-self Is head of the committee to study prohibition, the other members being Newton I). I!a!;er, Ada L. Conistock and Judge William S. Kenyon. No other single body of laws was singled out for such concentrated study as those concerning the Eighteenth amendment. Judge Kenyon wns designated chairman chair-man of the committee on lawlessness by government law-enforcing officers, which wus made one of the subjects of special Inquiry because of the recent re-cent nse of firearms by prohibit ion agents In chsch which nronsed criticism criti-cism in and out of congress. The committee com-mittee on Juvenile delinquency Is headed head-ed by Miss Conistock, that on causes of crime by Henry W. AnderRon, of Virginia, statistics of crime and criminal crim-inal Justice by Dean Itoscoe Pound, of Harvard law college, police by Frank ,T. Locseh, of Chicago, court" by Judge William I. Oriibb, of Alabama, prosecutions prose-cutions by Monte M. Lcrminri, of New Orleans, penal Institutions by Judcn Kenneth Mackintosh, of Washington state, criminal Justice by Newton 1). Baker, and cost of crime by Judge Paul J. Mcf'ormlck, of California. FAHMEItH who wish to make cider and let It get hnrd will not he Interfered In-terfered with by the agents of pro. blbltlon If they don't sell tho tuff. Treasury officials announced that no restrictions wouid be placed on the manufactuie of cider and fruit Juices in the home providing these beverages were not sold unlawfully, and Dr. James M. Doran, prohibition commissioner, commis-sioner, warned the dry agents not to molest the makers unless there was clear violation of the Volstead act. I'TJOI D your wheat as long as pos-T-l sible in order to avoid increasing increas-ing the congestion of the terminal markets," is in substance the message to wheat growers Issued by the federal fed-eral farm hoard. The board's statement state-ment said the crowding of the markets mar-kets by unusually heavy shipments has caused a sharp depression of cash prices, although there Is every prospect pros-pect of a crop shortace In the world supply, which naturally would make prices higher In domestic and foreign markets. OUR federal prisons must be made bigger and better, especially because be-cause they are now so overcrowded with violators of the prohibition and narcotic laws, in the opinion of President Presi-dent Hoover. Consequently he has given his approval to n program of expansion ex-pansion of prison facilities that calls for the expenditure of $."i,OOTi,000 and Includes the building of a new prison In the northeastern states. The penitentiaries peni-tentiaries at Atlanta and Leavenworth will be considerably enlarged. TICTOR'L. BURGER, former con-V con-V gressman from Wisconsin and for ninny years an international leader of the Socialist party, died In a Milwaukee Mil-waukee hospital from Injuries sustained sus-tained In a street car accident In July. He wns a determined fighter for the cause of socialism and though he got Into trouble during the war because of his denunciations of capitalism, he was respected by his political enemies. He was elected to congress first In 1910. bring the first Socialist to hold a s-at In that body. Two famous Inventors were claimed by death. They were Emlle Berliner, who devised the disk phonograph and many other things, and Dr. Karl von Welsharh of Austria, best known for bis Invention of the Incandescent gas mantle that hears his name and his development of metal filaments In electric lamps. Thorsten B. Veblen. noted economist ami author, passed away at Menlo I'nrk, Calif.; and Mary Mncl.nne, who gained considerable consider-able fume a generation ngo as the writer of a dlnry and several other books, died la Chicago. THERE Is going to be a lively fight for the governorship of Virginia, for the Democrats who refused to bolt their party last fall because Al Smith was the Presidential candidate hnve nominated John Garland Pollard of William and Mnry college to contest with Dr. Wllllimi M. Brown, put up by the antl-Smlth Democrats and the Republicans mid backed by Bishop James Cannon, Jr. Professor Pollard was an active supporter of Smith. Down In Georgia the split In the Democratic party was mndo wirier by announcement of the niif'-fiiilth faction fac-tion thin they would take no part In the prlmnry culled to select a candidate candi-date for congress to succeed the late Leslie .1. Steele of the Fifth district but would concentrate their strength In the general election. There will be three nsplrants for Steele's seat a Republican, Re-publican, a regular Democrat and on antl-Smlthltc. TMAT old wnr between the On Le. ong and Hip Sing tongs broke on nguln In New York, Chicago and other large cities, and several slnnt-eyed gentlemen were shot to death. But United Stales District Attorney Chillies II. Tattle of New York threatened threat-ened w holosiile deportations unless the cnnlllct censed, so the long leaders got together and signed n peace treaty. T"ING FUAD of Egypt and his prima minister left London with n proposal pro-posal from the British government for giving Fgypt the status of an Independent Indepen-dent tuition and at the siime time preserving pre-serving In nil essentials British control con-trol of the Lund of the Nile. It Is designed de-signed to satisfy the tronblesoins Egyptian nationalists without periling British Interests, and It must bo n rcptrd by a new freely circled Egyptian Egyp-tian parllnmcut |