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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Earthquake in Palestine and Transjordania Is Fatal to Hundreds. By EDWARD W. PICKARD HUNDREDS of men. women and children perhaps as many as a thousand were killed in Palestine and Transjordania by the severest earthquake that region has experienced experi-enced in a hundred years. Thousands were injured and other thousands were rendered homeless. In Jerusalem nlany famous buildings were seriously damaged, including the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Hebrew university, univer-sity, the Dome of the Hock, the Basilica, Basil-ica, the Russian church, the Bag-dadese Bag-dadese synagogue and the government house on the Mouut of Olives ; but the casualties in the "City of Peace" were few. Elsewhere, especially east and south of the Dead sea, the destruction In towns and villages was almost complete com-plete and hundreds of mangled bodies were taken from the ruins of houses. Half of the town of Nublus was utterly ut-terly wrecked and many inhabitants were killed. It was reported that 3O0 were dead at Maau, 3b' at Amman, 72 at Ramleh and SO at Ludd. In Jericho there was but one victim, but the Winter Win-ter Palace hotel collapsed and other buildings were damaged. British military aviators from Transjordania Trans-jordania helped in the rescue of many survivors, aud relief work was got under way promptly. Pope Pius, deeply grieved by the catastrophe, seut instructions to the putriarchiate at Jerusalem concerning relief measures. meas-ures. The earthquake was felt in Egypt and caused great alarm but not much damage. On the same day there were severe temblors in Victoria, Australia. Aus-tralia. Floods following a cloudburst in the ?alleys of the Gottleuba aud .Muglitz rivers, tributaries of the Elbe in Saxony, Sax-ony, killed about 200 persons and devastated the valle.vs, burying the ruins of villages deep in mud. Troops and hundreds of relief workers were rushed to the rescue, the Red Cross leading the expedition and being followed fol-lowed by the communists, the Fascists, the "Steel Helmets" and the rebub-lican rebub-lican "Reiclisbanner" forces, all united for once in the task of extricating and feeding the hapless survivors. The same violent storm that struck Saxony Sax-ony raged along the Alps and Apen- ! nines in northern and ceutral Italy. doing vast damage. JEVIN CHRISTOPHER OTIIG-t. OTIIG-t. GINS, vice president of the Irish Free State, minister for justice aud perhaps the leading man in the gov- -eminent, was assassinated as he was on his way to church in Booterstown a suburb of Dublin. Three men tired bullets into his head and body and escaped in a motor car. OTliggins. before his death a few hours later, whispered: "I go as Collins went aud as my father went. 1 die as I have lived fur Ireland. 1 Uie at peace with J my enemies and with God. I forgive ilem all." The brutal murder caused iutense indignation, not only in the Free Slate but throughout the world, and messages mes-sages of sympathy were received by President Cosgrave from King George, the duke of Abercoru for northern Ireland Ire-land and 1 many other personages. Euaijn do Valera denounced the crime s murder inexcusable from any standpoint stand-point and said be was coutident the republican organization was not responsible re-sponsible for it. Ten men. all said to be connected with irregular organizations, organiza-tions, were arrested, the charge being that as senior officers of secret groups they directed the conspiracy resulting in the assassination. One of the prisoners pris-oners was a son of Count George I'lunkett. NOTHEi: week of debate in the ' f naval limitation cunlY'retii.e at Geneva, and no definite results. Great Britain, still striving to maintain her predominance on the seas but not willing will-ing that tile conference should fail, suggested a compromie solution of the cruiser problem, w. C. Bridtre- uian. first lord of the admiralty, said if the United States would agree to limit the number of 10.000-ton cruisers to ten each for America and England and six for Japan, he would be pro-pared pro-pared to accept the maximum tonnage figures of 400,000 tons fixed by the United States. Mr. Gibson and his colleagues might have reached some agreement with the British with this as a starter, although it was asserted in Washington that our government could, not accept Bridgeman's figures. But here the Japanese stepped in with the flat statement that they would not go above 4S0.0O0 tons for cruisers and destroyers combined, this being the; total for both categories as suggested in the original American plan. Viscount Vis-count Saito said his delegation was ready to return home without any treaty, and that if the Americans and British could get together, they might as well sign a two-power pact. This, however, did not suit Mr. Gibson at all. Mr. Bridgeman requested that a plenary session of the conference be held on Thursday. At this be, Mr. Gibson and Viscount Saito again set forth the positions of their respective governments in the matter of cruisers, and there was a formal review of what had been accomplished if anything. Talking to the correspondents. Mr. Gibson was optimistic. "We luckily hold a middle position" he said. "The Japanese are in full accord with our original figures aud we can get an agreement with the British on increased in-creased tonnage totals under consideration. consid-eration. Now it is up to the British and Japanese to get together." America has not definitely held out for 25 10,000-ton cruisers, Mr. Gibson added. EI'RESENTATl VES of the agricul-Ix agricul-Ix turisis in . 15 Middle Western states, attending the Northwest farm conference in St. Paul, voted to support sup-port the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill until it becomes law, though they were willing it should be revised to meet President Co'olidge's objections. Drafted by Congressman Charles Brand of Ohio, the resolutions urged that the bill be changed : To permit the President to select nominees for the federal board to stabilize sta-bilize prices of farm products, instead of having them chosen by farm organizations. organ-izations. To make the bill general in its application appli-cation so as to include all farm products, prod-ucts, instead of the five specifically named in the bill which Mr. Coolidge vetoed. MR. COOLIDGE received a call from representatives of the Western Stock Marketing association who pi seuted a plan for extending the co-op erative marketing process to the cattle business, and asked government aid in its organization. Extended to the en tire Western range, as is suggested, cattle would be manipulated just as the fruit growers of California handle their crops, holding them until they get a certain minimum price. Such an organization would compel the packers to bargain for cattle on the ranches instead of in the Omaha and Chicago markets. Among other visitors of the week at the summer White House were a large number of members of the National Women's party, just from their meeting meet-ing in Colorado Springs, who presented pre-sented to the President their demand for "equal rights for women." The farmers of North Dakota also seut a delegation to tell Mr. Coolidge that they are in favor of the St. Lawrence waterway project and a new diversion of the Missouri river waters through the JiuiK'S river valley and to urge the earlj completion of those projects. FRANK O. LOWDEN, whose boom for the Presidential nomination has just received the indorsement of 10.-000 10.-000 residents of Montana, delivered an address before the Wisconsin legislature, legis-lature, and seemed to make an excellent excel-lent impression. He confined his talk entirely to the problems of agriculture and the necessity for stabilization of prices of farm products. Especially vigorous applause greeted these two parts of the speech : "What -the farmer asks is that tie be given llie same right to name a price in the first instance and Uiat he be enabled to acquire an organization which will secure to him the same power to maintain that price whicb other industries through their superior organization now enjoy." "The federal farm board should be able to empower organizations of farmers farm-ers to take control of the surplus and to distribute the cost of that operation not only among the members of the co-operatives but among all the producers, pro-ducers, whether they are members or BOL" HONOLULU is host, for two weeks, of the Institute of Pacific Relations, Rela-tions, and 100 leading citizens of ten nations bordering on the Pacific or having especial interests in that ocean ore trying to arrive at an understanding understand-ing of the causes of friction betweeD East and West. The conference is unofficial un-official and the discussions are frank, and open, with no germane topics forbidden. for-bidden. . Nearly 50 Americans are present, including in-cluding Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president presi-dent of Stanford university and chairman chair-man of the institute; Prof. James T. Shotwell of Columbia university; Robert Rob-ert Dollar, president of the Dollar Steamship company; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Chap-man Catt, lecturer of New York ; Stephen P. Duggan, director of the Institute of International Education, and Archbishop Edward J. Hanna of California. EMULATING Oliver Cromwell, Marshal Mar-shal Pilsudsky has executed another an-other coup d'etat in Poland by sending send-ing his soldiers into the senate and ordering it to dissolve because it would not pass laws he considered necessary nec-essary without debating them. Pil-sudski Pil-sudski had given democratic rule a trial for about ten months but it wasn't satisfactory to him so he has resumed the absolute dictatorship. PROHIBITION COMMISSIONER DORAN held a conference with his district administrators in Washington and warned them that honest physicians physi-cians and retail druggists are not to-be to-be harrassed in the prescription or sale of liquor for medicinal purposes. Prohibition agents are not expected to practice medicine or pharmacy in the enforcement of the Volstead act, according to Commissioner D.oran, who continued that doctors and druggists, as members of responsible professions, profes-sions, should be given an ample opportunity op-portunity to explain apparently irregular irreg-ular practices before they are subjected sub-jected to the expense of proceedings to revoke their permits. t x tHETHER the two S1.0O0.0O0 libel VV suits against Henry Ford will b settled out of court as a result of his public retraction of and apology for the anti-Jewish articles in the Dearborn Dear-born Independent is uncertain at this writing, but Aaron Sapiro said he was negotiating a settlement of his action. ac-tion. In Washington there was a mass meeting of Jews called to consider Ford's apology, and eloquent appeals for its acceptance in good faith were made. But a majority of those present pres-ent preferred to wait and see if Ford's actions conform to his words. So the resolution of acceptance was rejected. JOHN DREW'S death in San Francisco Fran-cisco caused the nation to heave a sigh of regret, for the dean of the American stage was universally beloved be-loved and respected. His entire life bad been given over to the work of entertaining the public with clean, intelligent in-telligent and thoroughly artistic acting act-ing aud he passed away "in the harness" har-ness" though he had reached the age of seventy-three years. Another capable and popular actor, Gregory Kelly, died in New York after several months' lUaoiS. DR. F. SCOTT M'BRIDE, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league, has issued a statement saying the league will make every effort to elect a bone dry congress next year, despite the fact that many constitutional lawyers are of the opinion opin-ion that any modification of the Volstead Vol-stead act would be held unconstitutional unconstitu-tional by the Supreme court of the United States. "The UCS campaign." he says, "will be carried into every congressional district. Candidates who are not known friends of the prohibition prohibi-tion cause will be opposed, while candidates can-didates who ure friendly to prohibition prohibi-tion will be supported to the fullet-i extent." |