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Show -v wvn -M-L m- IiIr Jim f4 111 pli hft ,,j - immmwIvm niin iirniriMTOn ii II it inriT- i ii ri - n i iMiinlii ijiiin 1 Corner of old city wall of Tsinan, China, which was stormed by the Japanese in conflict with the Nationalists. Nation-alists. 2 Unveiling In New York university hall of fame of busts of Louis Agassiz, Rufus Choate, John Paul Jones, Samuel F. B. Morse and John Greenleaf Whittier. 3 Design of new Constitution hall to be built In Washington by the D. A. R. at a cost of $2,013,000. NEWS REVIEW OF GURRENTEVENTS Signing of Flood Control Bill Stimulates the Mississippi Mis-sissippi Valley. By EDWARD W. PICKARD niJOI'LE of the lower Mississippi ' valley threw up their hats and cheered when the news was flashed over the country that President Cool-Idge Cool-Idge had signed the flood control bill and made it part of the law of the land. Throughout the region especially especial-ly affected there were happy celebrations, celebra-tions, and New Orleans particularly rejoiced, calling the day the greatest since the end of the Civil war. That city, relieved of fear of annual floods, will go ahead with plans to take her place among the big cities of the country coun-try and her Industrial and real estate men already are out after new business. busi-ness. In lesser degree the whole valley val-ley up to the mouth of the Missouri river is similarly stimulated, and the railways running through the area are expecting steadily Increasing business. busi-ness. Under the provisions of the act a board of three is to make recommendations recommenda-tions to the President in connection with the adjustment of engineering differences between the Jadwin plan and the Mississippi river commission . plan for flood control. Major General Jadwin, chief army engineer, and the president of the river commission are two members of this board, and Mr. Coolidge selected Carleton YV. Sturte-vant Sturte-vant of New York as the third member. mem-ber. Mr. Sturtevant is sixty-four years of age and was recommended by members mem-bers of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Mis-rouri Mis-rouri in 1SS4. In his early years, Mr. Sturtevant had charge of survey work as n government engineer on the Mississippi as a private engineer. He was employed on the Panama canal and had charge of engineering work In South America and in Mexico. The bill centers authority in the hands of the President and the army engineers. Actual construction work vill be handled by. the present Mississippi Missis-sippi river commission under the direction di-rection of the secretary of war and the supervision of the chief of engineers. engi-neers. An appropriation of about $25,-000.000 $25,-000.000 will be required for the first year. The act authorizes a total expenditure ex-penditure of $325,000,000, but the President Pres-ident and General Jadwin believe the actual outlay during the next ten or twelve years will be at least $500,000,-000. $500,000,-000. Mr. Coolidge's fears that a land pcandul would arise were allayed by a provision that the government shall acquire ac-quire flowage rights only on such land as Is not now subject to overflow. TpVVO more big pieces of legislation were put up to the President when the senate adopted the conference reports re-ports on the farm relief and merchant marine bills. That the former, known as the McN'ary-Haugen measure, was certain to be vetoed by Mr. Coolidge was gt-nerally admitted, and Its supporters sup-porters were not sure they could muster mus-ter enough votes to pass it over the veto. The report on the merchant marine ma-rine bill was accepted only after a filibuster conducted by radical senators sena-tors who attacked It as a ship subsidy sub-sidy measure In disguise, the postal subvention and construction loan features fea-tures especially being denounced. Nine Republicans and eleven Democrats voted in the negative. Though a majority ma-jority of the house rules committee are against the Boulder Dam bill, the extremely ex-tremely active lobby boosting that measure forced the committee to put it up to the house and a special rule was granted permitting its consideration considera-tion with eight hours of debate. This may prevent the planned adjournment of congress at the end of this week, but it is unlikely that the filibuster against the bill, announced by Senator A-dmrst. can be broken down. NTOTHLNG happened last ween to ' change the prediction of the Hoover ami Smith boosters that their respective candidates would have virtual walkaways in the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Indeed, these predictions were strengthened, strength-ened, for Hoover gained 21 and perhaps per-haps 29 delegates in New Jersey and 14 jn Alabama, and Smith garnered 44, from New Jersey, Vermont and Montana. South Carolinar Democrats in conven-. tion elected 18 delegates to Houston unlnstructed but directed to vote for a dry nominee and a dry platform. The anti-Smith faction lost in the attempt to Instruct the delegates to vole against Smith "or other candidates of similar views." The New York governor, according to his supporters, already is assured of 603 votes on the first ballot at Houston, or within 30 of the necessary two-thirds. His opponents dispute 79 of these votes, but there are few bold enough to dispute the claim that Smith is certain of nomination and that the convention will be only a Democratic love feast. Reports reached the senate sen-ate committee on campaign expenditures expendi-tures that the governor's campaign was being financed by contractors who had held fat contracts from the New York state or city governments; but these were denied by W. F. Kenny, one of the contractors in question who has contributed con-tributed $70,000 to the Smith fund. He said he had done, in eleven years', not more than $243,000 of business with the city and he added he was ready to add to his contribution to the limit of his ability to pay. Other substantial contributors made similar pledges. Hoover's certainty of nomination is more open to discussion and is especially espe-cially disputed by Lowden and his followers. fol-lowers. The Hooverites claim 3S2 instructed in-structed and favorable votes and a probable total of 407 on first ballot, and give 226 to Lowden. But the Lowden figures are : Hoover 329 ; Lowden, 25S ; uncertain, 317. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, addressing the Pennsylvania delegation, delega-tion, created a sensation by giving Hoover as his choice for the nomination nomina-tion provided-President Coolidge could not be persuaded to run again. "Hoover seems to come closest. to the standards we have set for this high office," he said, but at the same time he urged the delegates to remain uncommitted un-committed to any candidate until they reached Kansas City and could determine de-termine in caucus what course was best for the party and the country. To reporters Mr. Mellon said afterwards: "It is not certain that Mr. Coolidge will not consent to the use of his name. The Pesident may be a candidate." candi-date." In which opinion he agrees with Charles D. Hilles of New York and other Easterners. It was said in Philadelphia that Mr. Mellon's declaration declara-tion concerning Hoover was prompted by the knowledge that William Vare, local Republican boss, was ready to come out in favor of the secretary of commerce. And this Vare did shortly after the Mellon statement. Lowden and Dawes partisans still insist that some of the 79 Pennsylvania delegates wUI be against Hoover. CHIANG KAI-SHEK, leader of the Chinese Nationalists, rejected Marshal Mar-shal Chang's proposed truce in the civil war for the purpose of uniting against Japanese aggression, and both the Southerneps and their allies, the forces of General Feng, resumed their movement on Peking. Chang prepared for the withdrawal of his troops and himself to Manchuria but Feng intercepted inter-cepted him at Machang where there was heavy fighting. Early capture of both Peking and Tientsin was fore seen, and both American and British forces in that region were made ready to protect their nationals. . The Japanese, Jap-anese, in full possession of Tsinan and the zone along the railway, decided to send troops to Manchuria if necessary to prevent disturbances there. The American force in north China totals 4,400. most of whom are at Tientsin. piiEMIEU BRATIAXO ot Rumania 1 defies his enemies, and lias told parliament that his cabinet has no intention in-tention of resigning or heeding other of the demands of the peasants. Juliu Maniu. leader of the peasants, says they will now boycott the government completely and if that doesn't have effect they will resort to active resistance re-sistance in nonpayment of taxes. Carol, former crown prince of Rumania, Ru-mania, driven out of England, took refuge in Belgium, where he was told he might remain so long as he behaved be-haved himself. Friends have leashed for Carol and his companion, Magda Lupescu. the magnificent Chateau d'Ardennes, near Diuant. r R. GUSTAV STRESEMANN, for-eign for-eign minister of Germany, lay almost al-most at the point of death most of last week, but at latest reports his condi- i tion showed a little Improvement. His illness created great anxiety in Germany Ger-many and his political enemies, the Nationalists, took advantage of It to push their candidates in the general election set for Sunday. , CECRETARY OF STATE KEL- L'OGG'S anti-war treaty plan was warmly indorsed by the British house of lords when it unanimously adopted Lord Reading's resolution calling call-ing on the government for "prompt, favorable consideration of these proposals." pro-posals." Premier Bruce of Australia has given the proposals his hearty approval, ap-proval, and Japan's reply is expected to be an acceptance of the principles enunciated. It is reported in Paris that Mr. Kellogg will be given this year's Nobel peace prize by the Norwegian Nor-wegian parliament for his work in forwarding for-warding world peace. The award will not be made until November. D EDS from sixteen countries, includ-A includ-A ing the United States, attended a Communist convention at Cassel, Germany, held under the auspices of the Third International and presided over by a nephew of Rykoff, assistant Russian commissar of foreign affairs. The discussion was mainly concerning means of extending Communist activity in the armies and navies of "capital-I "capital-I istic" nations and was extraordinarily frank. Progress in this work in the navies of England, France and America Amer-ica was reported, but Moscow delegates dele-gates were told the prospects of revolutions revo-lutions in Europe were discouraging, especially since the failure in Vienna last year. ANNOUNCEMENT is made by the Fairchild Aerial Camera corporation corpora-tion that it has built for the army air corps an aerial camera with a range of eight miles, designed to photograph areas as large as four square miles. Picture taking at heights of 30,000 feet or more will be possible by devices which include an electrical heating system to prevent the shutter from freezing at temperatures as low as 60 degrees below zero. The machine has complete automatic control and operation, opera-tion, including a device to record the time the picture was taken, the altitude, alti-tude, the time of each exposure and other useful data. FASCISM'S new electoral law was passed by the Italian senate. It reforms re-forms the chamber of deputies and abolishes democratic popular suffrage. The new chamber will be made up from a single list of 400 Mussolini-picked Mussolini-picked men, whom the people will approve ap-prove or reject in a special "yes" or "no" plebiscite. No opposition list is to he presented. UNCLE SAM is going into the business busi-ness of manufacturing and disposing dispos-ing of fixed nitrates and electric power, pow-er, if the Morln resolution adopted by the house is accepted by the senate in lieu of a similar resolution by Norris already adopted by the upper house and becomes law. The measure, relating re-lating to Muscle Shoals, may be vetoed by the President. In addition to setting set-ting up a $10,000,000 corporation for the operation of the obsolete nitrate plants, and the disposal of power, the bill authorizes expenditure of sufficient funds to complete dam No. 2. Estimates on the authorized improvements run as high as $40,000,-000. $40,000,-000. This will he in addition to the $1-10,000.000 which the government has already spent on the Muscle Shoals project. UILTY on two charges of Ini-prudent Ini-prudent and unministerial con duct and suspended permanently from exercising the functions of n bishop was the verdict of the Methodist Episcopal Epis-copal ecclesiastical court in the case of Bishop Anton I'.nst of Copenhagen, tried during the general conference In Kansas City. The court continued the Danish bishop in his membership and ministry and recommended provision for his support until the next meeting of his conference. The charges against Bishop Bast Involved misuse of charity funds. |
