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Show . ' 4 v I 1 Archbishop Juse Mora y di-I Kio. I'xpelled from . Mexico Willi other Catholic dignitaries. '1 Air view of Greenville, Miss., during the Hoods, showing refugees on the levee. 3 (.'huuneey Depew on his ninety-third birthday erceivlng cuke from New York Young Republican club. " NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Flood Loss Tremendous Hoover in Command Beveridge Dies. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 'TP Hit EE hundred lives lost, two -1 thousand men, women and children chil-dren driven from their homes, material damage running' up into the hundreds of millions. That, roughly. Is the price puid by the Mississippi valley this time for the failure to establish flood control. Secretury of Commerce Hoover, at the Instance of 1'resideiit Coolidge, took personal charge of the situation at the beginning of the week, going to Memphis, thence down the river to New Orleans. On Thursday, lie thought, the worst was over for the region north of Yicksburg, hut conditions condi-tions south of there were growing more serious as the crest of the tluoil passed 011 south. The return waters from tlie levee breaks in Arkansas, northern ; Mississippi and northern Leuisiaua were getting back into the river aud.tlie peril of New Orleans with its ' 400,000 inhabitants was so great that-Mr. Hoover and Major General Gen-eral Jadwln, chief of army engineers, also on the ground, recommended that the levee- be cut ear Poydras, ten miles south of the Crescent city, to relieve the pressure. The War department de-partment gave its consent to this radical rad-ical action and the break was made. The Immediate consequence was the flooding of St. Bernard and Plaquemines Plaque-mines parishes by the waters rushing across to Lake i'Borgne, an inlet from the Gulf of Mexico. The hundreds of farmers In those parishes had been ordered to move out with their families fam-ilies and live stock, but of course their property loss is immense. The entire National Guard of Louisiana was ordered or-dered out to help in the evacuation of the region and to suppress the threatened threat-ened resistance of some of the inhabitants. inhab-itants. Mr. Hoover apopinted Col. John M. Parker director of the flood situation In Louisiana, with dictatorial dicta-torial powers. Both the secretary and General Jadwin were greatly concerned con-cerned by conditions along the west bank of the Mississippi between Yicks-. burg and Natchez where immense losses were expected unless the work of strengthening the levees could avert them. Urged on by President Coolidge, measures for the relief of the flood sufferers were carried out efficiently and swiftly by the national and state governments and by innumerable organizations. or-ganizations. All contributions were made to and the work done by the Red Cross, and the federal and state troops gave efficient aid. Steamers and other boats plied up aud down the river removing refugees from tiie levees and high spots aud concentrating concentrat-ing them in camps and towns. Steps were taken to check the threatened spread of malaria, pellagra and other maladies, aud vast quantities of clothing, cloth-ing, food and other supplies were received re-ceived by train and boat. President Coolidge had called 011 the nation to raise a fund of S.'.OoO.OOO, and by the close of tlie week almost the entire sum had been collected and turned over to the Red Cross. Secretary Hoover voiced the opinion of all thinking persons when he declared de-clared the nation should take a lesson les-son from this diseaster. "The floods of the Mississippi river and its tributaries tribu-taries can be controlled if a- tuate engineering works are insia!lt.1," he said. These would cost a minor part of this single loss. Thirty states have contributed water to this flood, but of more positive interest is tlie fact that no part of the nation can suffer a loss without that loss reflecting reflect-ing onto every other part. The people peo-ple in this vast region who contribute so much to national wealth ;md prosperity pros-perity should be relieved of this anxiety anx-iety and terror. It is a national problem prob-lem and must be solved nationally and vigorously." SPEAKING in New Y"ork at the anniversary an-niversary dinner of the United Press, President Coolidge outlined tlie attitude of the government toward Mexico, Nicaragua and China and made an appeal for pure Americanism. Ameri-canism. He declared there is no trace of imperialism in the foreign policies of the administration and said those policies, deserve the undivided support of American publishers. Concerning Con-cerning Mexico, he said our government govern-ment stands squarely on the understanding under-standing with Obregon, hut he does not expect any armed conflict since Mexico Mex-ico indicates that the confiscation of American property Is , not intended. The presence of American forces in Nicaragua 'was explained and justified, and the President then took up the Chinese question. He said final disposition dispo-sition of the Nanking incident rests in further consideration of the oiatter by the American government. Tlie President reiterated that the United States is ready to negotiate a treaty giving China complete tariff autonomy aud releasing extraterritoriality rights as soon as China is prepared to give protection to American citizens and their property. Meantime he insisted our forces "are in China to do what China itself would do if peace prevailed." pre-vailed." XJEWS from China was somewhat Lf obscure, but it Is certain that a three-cornered contest is on for control con-trol of the Nationalist party. Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, moderate leader, was advancing his .troops toward Hankow, and the Communist faction there was "digging in" to- resist them.. Meanwhile Mean-while the Nationalists at Canton had declared their independence from both those factions." Tlie northern forces at Pukow on ' the north bank of the Yangtse were 'reported to have made an attempt to -cross the river near Nanking and to have been repulsed '' with heavy loss. It was. said, the batteries bat-teries at Nanking sank every boat' of the northerners. From both banks of the river American and British warships war-ships were subjected to gunfire and-several and-several Americans' were wounded on the gunboat "Penguin. .Reports were received of the- movement of several armies in various, parts of China, but their exact affiliations and destinations were unknown." " President Coouuge's seeming reluctance reluc-tance to join the British In taking drastic action against those responsible responsi-ble for tlie Nanking' outrages luis enraged' en-raged' the British residents and press in Shanghai and P,eking..-.They assert he and Secretary Kellogg( are deliberately delib-erately ignoring tlie "reports "and advice ad-vice of American consular Officials' there. -- ' ' Dispatches from Peking-said Mar-, shal Chang .was seeking alignment with certain-elements of the south China Nationiilists,..and that he might assume a dictatorship under the title of provisional president and call a constitutional convention. He is forming form-ing nine new armies to combat the advance ad-vance of Feng Yu-hsiang. the Christian Chris-tian general, down the Y'ellow river. PEACE in Nicaragua is in sight, for Doctor-Sacasa, liberal leader, has accepted the' proposal for a conference in Managua, made by Henry L. Stin-sou, Stin-sou, representing President Coolidge, and has sent three members of his cabinet to tlie meeting. DEATH came suddenly Wednesday to a man who had been one of tiie most interesting and prominent of Americans of his day in politics and who had in his later' years achieved distinction in letters. Albert J. Beveridge Bev-eridge succumbed, to a heart ailment at his home in Indianapolis, and two days after his body was laid at rest beside the grave of James Whitoomb Riley, the beloved Indiana poet. Bon: and brought up on an Ohio "farm. Mr. Beveridge made his " way through grade school and Depauw university and adopted law as his profession. H, became noted fur his eloquence and when he entered politics soon was recognized as a leader. He represented repre-sented Indiana in the United States senate for twelve "years, from 18H9 to l'.Ul. He was one" of - Roosevelt's strongest adherents in the Progressive party, but became "regular' again , in 1010. His most notable literary work is a monumental biography "of John Marshall which is considered an authoritative au-thoritative history of tlie early years of the Supreme court. At the time of his death he was engaged in writing au equally ambitious life of Abraham Lincoln. His passing is a serious loss to American public life and literature. TWO more aviators perished last week in the preparations for attempted at-tempted nonstop flights across the Atlantic At-lantic from New Y'ork to Paris. Lieut. Com. Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Wooster of the navy were testing fhe giant plane "American Legion" In which they hoped to make the flight when some trouble developed and it landed in a marsh near Newport News, Va and flopped over, killing both flyers. The tragedy lias not deterred others from going on with their plans for trying to win the Orteig prize. Flyers will, start from both New York and Paris. V 17-ILLTAM WRIGLEY, JR., of Chl-V Chl-V V cago, said he had been led to believe that President Coolidge had decided to accept his offer of the beau-tiful beau-tiful AVrigley summer home on Lake Geneva, Wis., for his vacation .residence. .resi-dence. The lake is eighty miles north of -Chicago, and the Wrigley home, "Green Gables." is one of the finest of the establishments in the so-called 'millionaires' row." Tlie house, situated situ-ated close to the shore in beautiful woods, has twenty rooms, all exquisitely exquisite-ly appointed. A private bathing beach and Mr. Wrigley's fleet of sail and power boats would be at the disposal of the President's household. In addition addi-tion to the mansion a ten-room cottage and several smaller buildings, including includ-ing a lodge at the gates, dot the property. prop-erty. TNSISTING that the Catholic episco-1 episco-1 pate of Mexico was primarily responsible re-sponsible for the recent train massacre mas-sacre in Jalisco and that it has been fomenting continual revolt against the government. President Cnlles has de-i de-i ported Archbishop Mora y del Rio and seven other leading churchmen. Some of them came across the border into the United States.. The federal troops also went after the bandits who committed com-mitted the outrage and at latest reports re-ports had killed some sixty of them. In several other . conflicts with rebel bands the government forces were victorious and in each case priests who were leading . the rebels were killed. ... THERE wjll be no general international interna-tional disarmament agreement this" year, anyhow. ' This'was made oeriain-wheu oeriain-wheu the League of Nation's preliminary prelim-inary commission adjourned without having come to an understanding. It will' make a report to the league assembly as-sembly in September showing' the disagreements dis-agreements of the various nations, most f which listed a number of reservations. Count von Bernstorff. the German delegate, in a private statement, said : "The value of the conference has been in showing clearly clear-ly the different opinions. Disarmament Disarma-ment is the true role of the League, but the instructions of the various governments to their delegations show little desire for actual disarmament. The public certainly is disillusioned." SOVIET WAR MINISTER YOROS-S1LOFF YOROS-S1LOFF told the ail-union soviet congress in Moscow that Russian women as well as men must undergo some sort of military training, and was. warmly applauded by the many women delegates. The minister denied de-nied the British "fairy tale" that Russia Rus-sia has the- world's largest standing army, with 10,000,000 reservists. The real number of the Russian forces under arms is GOO, 000, of wham 100.-000 100.-000 are. permanent noncommissioned officers, he said. WILLIAM GIBBS M'ADOO has been" visiting New, Y'ork. and when be left lie was confident that he had assisted the dry elements in the North and West in so -consolidating hat tlie nomination of Gov. Al Smith for the Presidency by the Democratic party weald be impossible. Tlie Anti-Saloon league leaders felt tlie same way about it. McAdoo's de mand that' Smith withdraw from ;he race for the good of the party is naturally ignored by the governor, for he has not declared himself a candi-1 candi-1 date. On behalf of Smith it is said lie is only waiting for an opportune time to meet tlie challenge of those demanding de-manding a further expression of his views on prohibition. His close frjemls assert he is not 'nearly so wet as lie has been painted and will be able to satisfy the. law enforcement group of his party. Washington 1ms inviiod the Democrats to bold the convention of l'J-S in the national capital. |