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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Alfonso of Spain Surrenders Power, Lut Does Not Abdicate Abdi-cate Illinois Governor Vetoes "Wet" Bill Nicholas Longworth Buried. By EDWAKD W. PICKARD . : . 1 i ( ' - , 1 A3 KINO A L-fonso L-fonso anil members mem-bers of the royal family fami-ly scattered Into exile, leaders of the Kpan-Ish Kpan-Ish republic moved to Insure tlie life of the now regime and to make royalty's return to .Spain Impossible. Tlit prison (jutes of Barcelona, Valencia. Jacn and other cities Ex-King wer(? OI)(.ne(1 fr thou. Alfonso s,ius (f pomic.al unil revolutionary hostages incarcerated during the dictatorships of the last eight years, while crowds boisterously boisterous-ly celebrated the death of the monarchy mon-archy anil the birth of the republic. Don Nicelo Alcala Zamora, provisional provis-ional president of Spain, at once assumed as-sumed power. Horn on .May 17, 1SSG, six months after the death of his father. Alfonso XII, Alfonso XIII automatically became be-came the king of Spain. Ilis mother. Queen Maria Christina, was appointed recent and ruled the country as sovereign sov-ereign until Alfonso became sixteen, when, according to Spanish constitutional constitu-tional law, be reached his majority and came Into bis full kingship. Alfonso made no bluff of abdicating In favor of bis son. The kingdom of Spain is at an end. And Alfonso, by yielding without bloodshed, won for himself a unique honor. He did not have to take to bis heels and scamper for bis life. He went out of Spain in a dignified way, a man who feels that he has served his nation well and who knows himself worthy of this lust ma rli of consideration. It will be inlerestlng to watch the developments in Madrid during tbp next few weeks, foi the trend In gov-eminent gov-eminent on the continent of Europe bus not been wholly a victory for pres-enl-day democracy. In certain countries, coun-tries, notably France, a republican government has functioned with ad inirable stability. In others the tendency tend-ency has been toward dictatorships. And the chief difference between a monarchy and a dictatorship Is that Individual ability and dominance, rather than accident of birth, bring about the selection of the ruler. IN ASSUMING bis duties as viceroy, to India, Lord Willlngdon finds the country vastly more complex and in finitely more dillicult to deal with than was the Dominion of Canada. Instead of having to handle 10,000.000 people with only two principal languages, the new governor general has 3r1O.OOO.UOO speaking 222 vernaculars, all crowded In a space about half the size of Can ada. Lord Willingdon Is facing a country coun-try not only clamoring for the right to shape her own destiny but one beset be-set with acute racial and religious cleavages and animosities, with Ilin dus outnumbering Moslems by 3 to 1. To be sure, every viceroy has had this Moslem-Hindu communal problem prob-lem to struggle with. Observers In India say It will always exist, as long as the Hindu worships the cow and the -Moslem eats It, for It Is the so-called so-called desecration of this animal that causes most race riots. One of the few bright spots Lord Willingdon will find Is that the Nationalists Na-tionalists are now at peace with the liritish government. But how long this will last depends on what measure of Independence Gandhi secures when he goes to the second "round table" conference In London this summer. If increased remuneration and honors hon-ors are any compensation for the trials be must face. Lord Willingdon may find some satisfaction In the fact that his $50,l00 salary as governor general of Canada Is doubled and his expense allowance quadrupled. TUB funeral of Nicholas Long-worth Long-worth at Cincinnati was attended by notable not-able men from all parts of the United States, all of them warm friends of the late, speaker of the house ft representatives. representa-tives. President Hoover Hoo-ver laid aside press- - 1 Ing public duties to do , . Mrs. honor to the memory of Mr. Longworth. 3 Affectionnte tributes from all parts of the world laid stress upon his attractive at-tractive personality. These expressions, expres-sions, and the high esteem manifested by the public and through the press, nre a rich legacy of comfort to his family. Mr. Longworth's death has, of course, completely changed the course of events in the house. A struggle for the speakership wo"ld have occurred in any event, but it was taken for granted that Mr. Longworth would command all the votes of his party and thus bold an even chance of winning win-ning the speakership. The Republicans Repub-licans must low choose a candidate for speaker, and he will face the dillicult dilli-cult task of consolidating the entire party. Although a few Republicans wd "threatened U bolt, "Nick" Long- worth's personal popularity was such that a solid party vote was confidently expected to appear when needed. Now the would-be bolters may not be drawn Into line by personal affection for the party leader. Archie Rnosevtlt. brother of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, said that his sister sis-ter "has never and will not seek political po-litical ollice." Roosevelt made this statement at the Longworth home and added that "my sister will of course go back to Washington where she has a residence resi-dence but Cincinnati Is her home and she intends to make it such In the future." Further than this, he said, Mrs. Longworth has no future plans. This would seem definitely to set at rest rumors that Mrs. Longworth would be a candidate for her late husband's seat In congress. ! r - v:. . GOV. LOUIS L. Emmerson, contrary con-trary to expectations, vetoed the bill for the repeal of the Illinois search and seizure laws. The measure, which would have placed Illinois sixth in the column of states repealing their prohl-b prohl-b I 1 1 0 n enforcement . , . actsjiad been enacted Gov. L. L. , , . , . by the state senate by Emmerson only a two-vote margin. mar-gin. 2G to 24. The vole for it in the house had been 01 to 50. Several of those who voted for repeal In the senate, where the turn of two votes would have changed the vote, frankly admitted they voted for It only because of the referendum, by which the voters of Illinois, by a large majority, expressed their approval of repeal. Governor Emmerson, however, left the way open for alterations in the repealer, which he said would cause it to meet with bis approval. He declared In his veto message that If the repealer had continued a referendum provision "so that the people of the state, with the full knowledge of the consequences, could vote on wiping out all state liquor legislation without regard to the Constitution Con-stitution of the United States. I should feel compelled to sign the bill." The governor asserted that the efforts ef-forts of Illinois "wets" to strike all prohibition laws from the statute books was nullificationism. CHAIRMAN JAMES C. Stone of the federal farm board said in a recent statement state-ment that Russian activities ac-tivities In the dumping dump-ing of wheat "were largely responsible for demoralizing the world market and necessitating a renewal re-newal of the wheat " J stabilization opera- james c tions the middle of , , , . Stone last November to prevent pre-vent further effects of that collapse from being felt in our own market." That is to say, the dumping of Russian Rus-sian wheat into the markets of Europe Eu-rope at any price it would bring was largely the cause of that great accumulation ac-cumulation of wheat in storage which now embarrasses the board and the market. That Russia was the main cause of that calamitous slump in wheat last November is a fact that is not questioned by responsible authorities author-ities anywhere In the world. Tet little or none of this wheat came to America. The tariff on wheat is practically prohibitive, even for Russia. And we can if we wish effectively ef-fectively prevent the entry of any Russian products. That, however, will not enable us to escape the consequences conse-quences of Russia's prodigious economic econ-omic program, the most extensive and the most audacious economic experiment experi-ment in the world's history. It need not touch us directly at any point but we cannot escape it. Russia Is in a position to make the price in the world market, and it will not be a profitable price. Much the same situation Is developing develop-ing in relation to lumber and oil. Russia Rus-sia has a larger area of useful timber than any country In the world and as fast as it can, by forced labor. It Is turning that timber into lumber In order to realize cash or credit on it from Its sales in the markets of the world. The effect on lumber prices must be similar to that on wheat. The world of the established order has never been confronted by such an economic menace as Russia now presents, pre-sents, not to speak of its social and political menace. IN THE federal court at Evansville, Ind., Harry E. Rowbottom, former representative in congress of the First Indiana district, was convicted of accepting ac-cepting bribes from persons who sought post office appointments. The former congressman was sentenced sent-enced immediately by Judge Charles B. Woodward to serve one year and one day In Leavenworth penitentiary and was fined 2.00. In refusing a request to have the defendant placed on probation because of bis physical condition and on the grounds that others Involved In the post ollice deals were not indicted. Judge Woodward said: "Respect for public office is lessened if they may be bought and sold. The offense of which this defendant nas been found guilty Is grave. I do not deem it necessary to Impose the extreme penalty but the sentence must be jl such a nature as to deter other congressmen from such practices." The ex-congressman, testifying as a witness, told of recehing money from job seekers, but Insisted it came to him with expressions of sympathy over his unsuccessful campaign for re-election last No', ember. 1 "I f SECRETARY O F the Navy Adams ordered the cruiser Memphis from Guan-taamo, Guan-taamo, Cuba, to a position near Nica-raguan Nica-raguan waters for use if the rebel movement in Nicaragua should become serious. The gunboat Ashe- ( ville also started up the east coast of Cen-Secretary Cen-Secretary traJ Amerk.u from the Adams Canal Zone. Advices received at Panama City by officials of the Standard Fruit Steamship company at Cristobal said three United States marines were killed In an attack by a large force of bandits on the commissary at Log-town, Log-town, Nicaragua, seven miles from Puerto Cabezas. Puerto Cabezas is on the northeastern coast of Nicaragua. Nica-ragua. The three marines listed as killed in the reports to the steamship company com-pany were Capt. Harlan Pelley, Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Da rrah and Sergeant Taylor. Several native employees of the commissary com-missary also were killed, the report said. Rev. Karl Bergener of Walertown, Wis., a Moravian missionary in the Prinzapolka district, was reliably reported re-ported killed when Cape Gracias a Dios was captured by Insurgents. Other American residents of Cape Gracias a Dios include Albert and Edwin Ed-win Fagot of New Orleans, and William Wil-liam J. Green of Allegheny, Pa. RUTH NICHOLS, Rye (N. Y.) aviatrix, set a new speed record for women over a three-kilometer course at Detroit (slightly less than two miles) with a speed of 210.CS5 miles an hour. Amelia Earhart Putnam Put-nam held the previous record of 181.-157 181.-157 miles an hour. Miss Nichols flew the Lockhead-Vega Lockhead-Vega plane in which she set a woman's altitude record in March, over an official course laid out near the. flying field. Harry H. Knepper of the National Nation-al Aeronautical association, checked the flight, and R. A. Leavell, another aeronautical official, timed the race. Miss Nichols made two round trips over the course and the speed was the average of the four timings. In the trips against the wind she was timed at 191.036 and 202.S14 miles an hour, and with the wind the times were 221.825 and 22G.SS0. The only comment the aviatrix made was that "there wasn't anything particularly par-ticularly exciting about the flight." PROHIBITION DIRECTOR WOOD-cock WOOD-cock announced a new high peak in federal prohibition enforcement for the month of March, witli more arrests ar-rests and more automobiles seized than in any similar period since July. He declared it was "the best month the bureau has had since I took office nearly a year ago. Notwithstanding the increased activity the courts more than kept up with us. There were 23,-5S3 23,-5S3 cases on the docket at the end of February and only 21,548 on April 1. "Further," he claimed, "we have established es-tablished a definite" trend in these figures fig-ures showing that the average of fines is steadily decreasing while the average aver-age of jail sentences has been steadily increasing in the nine months since prohibition enforcement was transferred trans-ferred from the Treasury to the Justice Jus-tice department." A DANGEROUSLY complicated situation situ-ation has arisen in the political situation developing de-veloping in Europe, especially In connection connec-tion with the Austro-German Austro-German tariff union and the forthcoming visit of the German chancellor and foreign minister to London for conferences with British government J'f 1 , , Bnand leaders. Behind the official silence in various capitals many French observers saw important issues centering in the tariff agreement and in the Franco-Italian naval accord, which it was said France Is attempting to drop because the government gov-ernment was never fully convinced that it was profitable. France desires to remain on friendly terms with Britain, because Foreign Minister Aristide Briand has asked the British foreign secretary; Arthur Henderson, to use pressure on Germany to modify the tariff accord when the German chancellor goes to England next month. Briand has been placed In an exceedingly ex-ceedingly embarrassing position because be-cause of the possibility that he will be elected President of the republic in May, while te would prefer to conclude con-clude the naval accord with Italy by continuing his work at the Quai d'Or-say. d'Or-say. 1 ISi, 1331. Western Newspaper Union.) |