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Show NEWS REVIEW GF CURRENTEVENTS Congress Recesses, the Farm Aid and Reapportionment Measures Are Signed. By EDWARD W. PICKARD WITH the farm aid bill signed by President Hoover nnd $ljl,500,-000 $ljl,500,-000 appropriated to begin putting Its provisions Into operation, and the census cen-sus anil reapportionment measure also made law by the President's signature, congress quit work for the summer In the middle of the week. The senate recessed until August 19, when It will reassemble to begin debate on the tariff bill which Its finance committee Is expected to have completed by that date. The recess of the lower house la to extend until September 23, nnd between that day and October 14 It Intends to hold only perfunctory ees-lons ees-lons twice a week on the supposition that the senate will not have passed the tariff measure before the bitter date. Senator Corah of Idaho made a strong fight to have the tariff revision confined to agricultural and directly reluted commodities nnd lu the course of a hented debate assorted 'thut his i resolution to thnt effect was In accord ac-cord with the President's views and the primary purpose of the special session. Most of the regular liepub-llcans liepub-llcans and seven Democrats, however, tood firm for more general revision and succeeded In beating the resolution resolu-tion by tho narrow murgin of one, the tote being 33 to 9. JCST before rece.vslng congress gave Us approval to President Hoover's recommendation Hint Frnnce he relieved re-lieved of the necessity of paying the $-100,000,000 due August 1 for the aur-plus aur-plus war supplies It purchased after the close of the war, on the condition that the Mellon ISerenger debt funding fund-ing agreement be ratified before that date tiy tho French parliament Under Un-der the tonus of thnt accord the sum mentioned Is absorbed as part of the entire French debt which Is funded over a period of sixty-two yenrs. The arrnnuement was attacked In both houses. The Bcnnto adopted a separate sep-arate resolution on motion of Senator Howell of Nebraska declaring that In effect tho United States under the Medina I'.erenger agreement canceled the entire $4,2:10,777,000 of the principal princi-pal and accumulated Interest up to l!)2,r) of tho French debt. The payments pay-ments to bo made by tho French government gov-ernment over n period of sixty two years arc merely (he equivalent of annual an-nual Interest payments of 2.17 per cent on the original sum, the resolution de-cl de-cl a res. As the matter now utands. If either tho French parliament or the American Ameri-can congress falls to ratify the Mel-Ion-1'.erengcr agreement, France must pay tho $HK1,IKKI,IHXI on May 1 next. TRANSFER of prohibition enforcement enforce-ment activities to the Department of JiikIIco has boon Indefinitely postponed. post-poned. Senator Jones Introduced a resolution for tho appointment of a Joint commit tee to study reorganization reorganiza-tion and centralization of ky enforcement, enforce-ment, as asked by tho President, hut tho iintl-Volstcid sonator.s, aroused by tho repeated killings by enforcement officers, started such n hot debate, demanding de-manding that (he shootings also be Investigated, In-vestigated, that the administration loaders had tho resolution withdrawn until August 19, when It was promised prom-ised a vote would bo taken. Citizens of International Falls, Minn., whoro Henry Vlrkuln, an apparently ap-parently innocent man, was killed by enforcement agents, appealed directly to the President for protection. He did not reply Immediately, so thn city council of tho place sent u telegram to lilm to the same effect. Then, at tho While House press conference, Mr. Hoover gave out this formal statement : "I deeply doploro tho killing of any person. Tho Treasury department In making every effort to prevent the misuse of arum. Any case of misuse will lie determined by the orderly pro I'oeillngH of Hie department and tho court. t. I hope that tho cninniuiill les luiig the border will do their host to help the treasury end the systematic war that Is being carried on by international inter-national criminals against the laws of the United States. It Is these activities activ-ities that are the root of all of our difficulties." Mayors of Detroit, Wyandotte, River Rouge, Trenton and other towns nnd cities of Michigan close to the Canadian border responded with pledges of wholehearted co-operation with the federal authorities If a sane enforcement Is adopted. That the rum runners up that way are encouraged by the attacks on the enforcers was shown when the crew of a well-known liquor smuggling boat opened fire on a customs patrol speed boat near Detroit, De-troit, smashing Us bow and windshield and damaging Its machinery. Officials of the Trovlnce of Ontario announced that they would try to reduce the peril of border gun fights by disarming the occupants of all boats leaving lake and river ports. WHEN Oscar De Priest, colored, was sent to congress by a colored col-ored Chicago district everyone knew trouble was likely to result It has come, and Is likely to stay for some time. In the house Mr. De Priest had conducted himself In a manner that cannot be criticized, but the presence of himself and his family In Washington Wash-ington has brought on social complications. compli-cations. Mrs. Hoover recently entertained enter-tained several congressional women In the White House, nnd among her guests wns Mrs. De Priest. Of course the South rose In Immediate nnd loud protest, nnd the action of the First Lady has been attacked as unseemly and unwise by southern legislatures, officials and Individuals. The Implications Implica-tions of the affair nre more than so-clnl, so-clnl, for the administration Is receiving receiv-ing numerous warnings of a renewed solid Democratic South, these coming especially from those states below the Mason and Dixon line which were carried car-ried by Hoover. VIRGINIA'S anti-Tammany Democrats, Demo-crats, who, being hone dry, were opposed to Al Smith, consolidated themselves lu a state convention In Roanoke which was dominated by Ulshop James Cannon, Jr., of the Methodist Meth-odist Fplscopal church south. The 800 delegates nominated Prof. William XI. Rrown of Washington and I.ee university uni-versity for governor nnd C. C. Perke-loy Perke-loy for attorney general. The executive execu-tive committee was authorized to select se-lect fi candidate for lleutennnt general, gener-al, and may name cither J. H. Price, the regular Dcmicrntlc nominee, or tho nmn to be picked by the Republican Repub-lican convention. The De Priest Incident Inci-dent cropped up here. too. L C. Trot-nuin Trot-nuin bolted the convention when It rejected re-jected a platform plank ho offered denouncing de-nouncing Mrs. Hoover's action lu entertaining en-tertaining the Negro woman. AMBASSADOR DAWKS and Prime Minister MacDonald between them gavo n great boost last week to the cause of reduction of naval armament arma-ment and consequently of world peace. Their speeches, the one at the dinner of Hie Pilgrims' society In London nnd tho other at Lossiemouth, Scotland, had been nwalteil with Intense Interest and neither of them was a disappointment. disappoint-ment. General Dawes declared that naval reduction was tho problem of outstanding Importance to the world nt tho present time, and he discussed tho methods whereby It might be brought about. He Raid It must concern con-cern all naval powers and should hnvo world sanction. Tho final negotiations, negotia-tions, he asserted, must bo carried on by statesmen rather than by naval experts, ex-perts, from whom be personally would expect a failure to ngroo. Said the nmbnssador : "It would sooin Hint to adjust to human nature the method of arriving nt nnval reduction each government might separately obtain from Us respective re-spective niivnl experts Hielr definition of the yardstick and then Hie Inevitable Inevita-ble compromise between these dllTor-Ing dllTor-Ing definitions, which would lie expressed ex-pressed In a filial fixation of tho tooli-i Ideal yardstick, should bo made by a cntnuilttoo of statesmen of the nations, re enforced from tho beginning by these separate expressions of abstract technical naval opinion nnd able again to Reek further naval inhlce If neces nary before tho linn! fixation. "Those Mato'iuou should further ho the ones to diaw up for Hie world the lei ins of tho final auieeuieiu upon naval reduction which should be couchnrl In those simple terms understandable under-standable to the ordinary man in the street and which, while the pet aversion aver-sion of the casuist, are the highest expression of true statesmanship. That final agreement covering quantitative quan-titative dispositions would go to the nations for approval or rejection." Mr. MacDonald told of his conversation conversa-tion with General Dawes and expressed 1 his sincere belief that they might be Instrumental "in preparing a board around which other nations might ultimately ulti-mately sit In co-operative fellowship t studying the arts and the ways of peace." PREMIER rOLNCARE of France held a long conference In Paris with Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany, who was on his way home from Madrid, and though there was no public announcement. It was understood under-stood they reached a complete agreement agree-ment concerning the coming conference confer-ence that will put the Young reparations repara-tions plan in operation. Then M. Poln- care went before the foreign affairs and finance commissions of the house of deputies and urged that the way be cleared by the ratification of the American Amer-ican and BrIUsh debt agreements. He told the two commissions that the great liquidation conference would be called soon so as to enable the chamber cham-ber of deputies and the reichstag to raOfy the Young plan in good time for it to go Into effect ou September 1 and for the former body to put its O. K. on the debt agreements. LOTTL Assolant and I.efevre. the French aviators who flew across the Atlantic from Old Orchard, Maine, are being accorded all due honors In their home land, for they made a great flight notwithstanding the fact that they landed first on the coast of Spain instead of Le Bourget. This was made necessary by the unexpected un-expected presence In their plane of one Schrelber, a brash American youth who stowed away on the Yellow Bird and whose added weight made the take off difficult nnd prematurely exhausted ex-hausted the supply of fuel. Displaying Display-ing scarcely the Intelligence of a seven-year-old child, Schreiber did not realize that he was endangering the lives of the aviators and Imperiling the success of their flight. The three Frenchmen treated him with the i. greatest forbearance and admitted he had nerve. But It Is good to read that he was almost completely Ignored In Paris and all right minded people hope that that will be bis fate on his return to the United States. M. I.ottI made the youth sign an agreement that half of any money be might receive re-ceive as n result of his foolhardy exploit ex-ploit should be given to Assolant nnd Lofevro, the pilots, and to a fund for victims of nlr accidents. Seven persons lost their lives when the City of Ottawa, huge nlr liner of the Imperial Airways on her way from l'ngland to Paris, with eleven passengers pas-sengers fell In the Fnglish channel throe- miles from the Fncllsh shore. The main shaft of one of the two motors mo-tors broke nnd the pilot was unable to keep the plane up or to land safely. safe-ly. Four passengers and the pilot and mechanic were rescued. COLONEL nnd Mrs. Lindbergh emerged from their honeymoon seclusion nboard a power boat on Wednesday, appearing nt Mltehol field. New York, to take part In the first tests In the prlre competition held by tho Guggenheim fund In the hope of discovering an absolutely safe airplane. Llmly put on a helmet nnd parachute nnd took up the first entry, after which ho gavo Mrs. Llnd-bergh Llnd-bergh a ride In a fast army plane. A I.L tho troubles of Gen. Urnnnvell Booth, former commander in chief of tho Salvation Army, enme to nn end when ho died nt his heme In London, llo wns given a great funornl by the nrmy whoso council had deposed him recently, nnd Its lings wore kept flying tilth for ns Us officials nald: "General Booth Is not dead he has passed to gloiy." Others taken by death wore . sa P, Potter, well known capitalist of Boa- ton; Sir A. Maurice Low, for many oars American oorre- pondoe.t ef louden lou-den papers, nnd S K. Mn,:Mon. et oi an general niani j;or for l loioni '.iegfeld. |
