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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTJVENTS Progress of the Farm Relief Measure MacDonald Now British Prime Minister. By EDWARD W. PICKARD NOW known as the agricultural marketing act, the farm relief bill came out of conference last week and was then accepted by both the house and senate. It was scheduled to be In the hands of President Hoover for signature about June ' 12. From the bill as modified the export debenture plan was omitted,. all the conferees except ex-cept Senators Norris of Nebraska and Smith of South Carolina voting for this course. On other features the measure represents a compromise between be-tween the senate and house bills, the essential points of the latter being retained. re-tained. Provision Is made for a farm board composed of the secretary of the treasury and eight members appointed by the President at salaries of $12,000. The President will deslgnnte the chairman chair-man of this board. Commodity advisory advis-ory coun lis are to be set up to advise the board on methods of dealing with crop surpluses. Commodity stabilization corporations, corpora-tions, all the stock of which Is owned by co-operatives, are authorized to buy, store, nnd market surplus commodities. commodi-ties. The stabilization corporations will be able to obtain loans from a $500,-000,000 $500,-000,000 revolving fund at the disposal dis-posal of the farm board. Only such part of this fund as congress appropriates appro-priates .111 be Immediately available. The board may make loans for the handling of crop surpluses and also for the purchase of warehouses and other physical market facilities and may mnka advances to co-operatives for various purposes. Including loans for Insurance against price decline. The board may fix the terms of the loans, the Interest rate being limited to an amount approximating the rate on outstanding government securities. President Hoover let It he known that the adiiilnlstriitioi. would ask congress con-gress to appropriate, before recessing, as much as J100.000.ooO from the half billion fund authorized, with a view to having It available for handling the wheat surplus. Department of agriculture experts said this Immediate Immedi-ate appropriation should be $''00,000.-000, $''00,000.-000, for they believed more than half that sum would be needed for wheat alone, the price of which has fallen very low. This does not mean necessarily neces-sarily that the entire amount will be loaned to the wheat stabilization corporation cor-poration to be set up by co-operatives with the approval of the farm board. Some of the supporters of the Hoover farm relief program believe that If a stablllzi lion corporation buys as much as 25,000,000 or 50.000,000 bushels of wheat It will have a tremendous efTccI on the market, provided It Is known that the corporation ran borrow unlimited un-limited additional funds from the farm board. SENATOR SMOOT, chairman of the senate finance commit lee, announced an-nounced the make-up of the four groups of subcommittees which will consider various schedules of the tariff Mil. They are to hold hearings simultaneously, simul-taneously, beginning June 13. The free lis! nnd administrative provisions will be handled by (he full committee. Paris Industrial newspapers urge the Urencli parliament to find some means of erecting retaliatory larllT harriers against United States products. Indeed, In-deed, throughout most of Europe there Is deep resentment against (he proposed pro-posed American tarllT measure. The presidents of th lCtiropcnn chambers of commerce In a report slated that the policy of Ihe United Slates Is In-coiiiprehonslhlo In-coiiiprehonslhlo "if one considers Its fiiiiinclnl rcnulrcinctits," for this country coun-try Is not only Kuropo's creditor but also Is Ihe holder of Ihe greater part of -the world's gold; and If American portH are closed to European merchandise merchan-dise the debtor coimlrlon are cut olT from their only menus of raising money to settle their debts. I)I!I:SIII:NT IHkiYKU In a message to congress asked that (he senate uud house appoint a select comtiilltoe to study the mailer of concentrating and reorganizing the bureaus charged with enforcement of the dry laws In co-operation with his special commission commis-sion on law enforcement. At the same time the Treasury department announced an-nounced the opening of a new drive to stop Liquor smuggling In the Detroit area. PASSAGE of the census and reapportionment reap-portionment bill was accomplished In the house, but only after the majority ma-jority leaders had freed the measure from negro disfranchisement and alien exclusion amendments that threatened to bring about Its defeat The final vote was 272 to 105. GERMAN reparations are now up to the governments of the allied nations and Germany, for the commission commis-sion of experts has concluded Its great task with the adoption of the Young plan, the main features of which were given In these columns a week ago. Seventeen weeks of nerve wracking discussion thus came to an end, and while It could not be said every one was satisfied, all at least were relieved. re-lieved. "Well, are you glad It Is over?" some one asked Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the chief German delegate. "Who would be glad over the prospect pros-pect of paying $4S7,9O0,000 In the next thirty-seven years and then not be through?" he snapped back. The Eelglan representatives at a creditors' meeting in Paris announced that they would accept the German offer for settlement of the Belgian claims for compensation of the Belgian worthless German marks unloaded In Belgium during the war. This settlement settle-ment Is to be negotiated directly between be-tween Germany nnd Belgium and must be completed before the Young plan goes Into effect next September 1. In Berlin It is thought that a political politi-cal conference will be called In July to sanction the report of the experts and to take up the question of evacuation evacua-tion of the Rhlnelnnd. President Hoover and Secretary of State Stlmson cabled their congratulations congratula-tions to Messrs. Young, Morgan, Perkins Per-kins and Lament, the Americans on the experts' commission who really brought ubout the settlement. RAMSAY MAC DONALD, chief of the Labor party, is now prime minister of Great Britain and his cabinet cab-inet has been sworn in. Stanley Baldwin Bald-win handed In his resignation Tuesday Tues-day nnd the king Immediately summoned sum-moned MacDonald to form a new government. gov-ernment. He submitted the names of the principal members of his cabinet and they were approved by his majesty, maj-esty, who sat up In bed and chatted nnd joked with the new prime minister min-ister for a hour, for they are very good friends. It was reported In London that Lloyd George was willing to give the I.aborlles the support of his Liberal following on condition that nn electoral reform bill be Introduced and no really real-ly contentious legislation, such as widespread nationalization schemes, be proposed. The question of the mining min-ing industry tuny present difficulties In which the I.nborltes nnd the Liberals Lib-erals cannot agree. The biggest matter mat-ter on which they are agreed Is unemployment un-employment relief. The schemes of both parties Include large appropriations appropria-tions for building of new houses, slum clearance, drainage of land and reclamation, rec-lamation, construction of new roads, electrification nnd reorganization of the railways, and afforestation on a wide scale. In foreign affairs the Liberals Lib-erals in 1 1 I.nborltes are In complete accord. THREE months In jail are not enough for the punishment of Harry F. Sinclair, the oil uimrnate. The Supreme Court of the United States last week unanimously upheld the decision of the District of Columbia Colum-bia Supreme court which sentenced Sinclair to servo six months In Jail for hiring delect Ives to shadow the Jury In the first Fall-Sinclair criminal conspiracy trial almost two years ago. Henry Mason Day. vice president of the Sinclair Exploration company and Sinclair's personal representative In the shadowing of the Jury, must serve a Jnll sentence of four mouths. William Wil-liam J. Burns, head vt tin diteclive agency which supplied the detectives, was sentenced to serve 15 days at the same time Sinclair nnd Day ' were sentenced by Justice Frederick L. Sid dons. The Supremo court reversed tho HuruH Bcuteuce, but permitted a fine of $1,000, Imposed on his son, W. Sherman Burns, secretary of the detective de-tective agency, to stand. CHARLES G. DAWES, our new ambassador am-bassador to the Court of St. James, safled for England after a final conference with President Hoover and Secretary Stimson. On June 26 General Dawes Is to receive the degree de-gree of doctor of civil law from Oxford Ox-ford university. COLONEL AXD MRS. LINDBERGH finally were found, not by re- . L porters but by a steamer captain who discovered the moneymooners aboard Lindy's express cruiser Mouette when he helped moor the craft at a pier at Block Island. The Mouette was purchased pur-chased by the colonei just before his wedding, and he and his bride boarded it at a lonely spot on the Long Island shore. Tuesday the little craft put to sea again, apparently headed for the Maine coast, and again Lindy dodged the press and camera men by going around Cape Cod- instead of through the canaL Newspaper reports re-ports said a piece of canvas was draped over the stern of the Mouette, hiding its name, and coast guards in 0 Boston declared the colonel for this reason was incurring the danger of being fired on by their patrol boats. T T HTLE the Shriners were gather- ' ing In Los Angeles for their annual an-nual meeting and joyfest, the Supreme court in Washington handed down an opinion that gives the negro organization organiza-tion known as the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine the right to continue the use of its name and insignia. White shriners in Texas had objected to the activities of the negro organization and to Its Insignia. They won in the lower courts. Justice Van Devanter in delivering the opinion, to which no dissent was announced, said the white shriners by their failure to object within a reasonable time had lost their right to act. PORTERS and mauls In the employ of the Pullman company have won their three years' struggle for higher pay, having been given a wage Increase In-crease of $5 a month and various improvements im-provements in working conditions. The agreement was reached in a conference con-ference between officials of the company com-pany and 21 elected representatives of the 12,000 porters and maids. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was Ignored by the company. Big building operations in Chicago were held np for several days by a strike of the bridge nnd structural Iron workers, in which the architectural architec-tural Iron workers joined. The former demanded a wage scale of $13 a day. an increase of $1. This was soon agreed to by the Steel Erectors' association, asso-ciation, but the Iron leagu ield out longer. THOUSANDS of Italians who Uvea on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius wer driven from their homes when that volcano Indulged In another big eruption erup-tion and poured rivers of lava down Its sides. The properly damage was Immense but the loss of life was kept to a minimum hy the precautionary steps of the authorities. Tourist were prohibited from approaching the danger lone. THOUGH the Vatican nnd the Italian Ital-ian government last week exchanged ex-changed ratifications o, the l.ateran pact, the relations between Plus XI and Premier Mussolini . not cordial. cor-dial. The duce addressed tile parliament parlia-ment recently on the treaty, and tin pope, In a letter to Cardinal Gasparrl. characterizes the dictator's speeches as "heretical, modernistic, ponderously ponderous-ly erudite but full of errors and i exact." The letter Indicates thatw there may be a long period of disputes over details ami expresses the church's resentment of the fact that the stale's hills giving effect to the l.ateran treaty are not conceived lu the same spirit as that pact. VJPl'.I.E RKANDON JUD.U1 has re-' re-' signed as ambassador to Cuba: nnd Dr. Hubert Work has resigned as chairman of the Republican mi tUmnl committee. There were rumors that Work thought he had been Ignored Ig-nored by the Hoover administration, but the correspondence between hliu 4-anil 4-anil the President con"lued no hlul of this. |