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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Mussolini Threatens Germany Ger-many and Defies League in South Tyrol Affair. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ' ITALY, ns represented by Premier Mussolini, and Germany, through Foreign Minister Stresemnnn and the relchstag, said a lot of nasty things about each other Inst week and the nlarmlsta would like to have It appear ap-pear that peace was threatened. Cut hostilities, nt least for a long time, are quite out of the question. The row, of course. Is over the treatment of the German minority In southern Tyrol, the recovered territory which Mussolini Insists must be Italianized. In a speech to parliament Mussolini Enid: "Italy can, If necessary, carry Its tricolor beyond the frontier (the Brenner pass), but never will lower It." lie declared the policy in the Tyrol would never be changed but Would be carried out "obstinately, methodically and precisely." And he ndded : "If the Germans attempt a boycott, we will answer with boycotts squared. If Germany takes reprisals, we will answer with reprisals cubed." Germany's formal answer was a declaration adopted by the reichstag that It "vigorously rejects the Italian prime minister's objectively nnjustl-unble nnjustl-unble and insultingly phrased attacks at-tacks and sneers," and reasserting right to support the demand of the German minorities under foreign sovereignty sov-ereignty for just treatment. Doctor Stresemnnn stigmatized Mussolini's address ns "soap-box speechifying" and asserted the Italian government had broken its promises to safeguard local traditions In southern Tyrol. He more than Intimated that Germany would lay the matter before the League of Nations. Mussolini's reply was Immediate and sharp. He told the League of Nations Na-tions to keep Its bands off. lie made these three points : "1. That the non-Italian population of south Tyrol are outside of those minor. t'es which became objects of special accord In the ponce treaties. "2. That Italy will not accept any discussion of this matter by any assembly as-sembly or council. "X That the Fascist government will oppose with maximum energy any plan of this nature, because it would feel Itself guilty of a real crime toward the fatherland if. for 100.000 Germans, the peace and security of 42.0O0.0ilO Italians, who surely form the most homogeneous and compact national bloc in Kurope, should In any way be compromised." "These, " declared Trenticr Mussolini, Musso-lini, "are not menaces for which any ambiguous dilemma Is valid. They are an afllrmatiou of dignity and force." Berlin officially considered the incident inci-dent closed nntil it shouhl be taken up by the league. Meanwhile the Italian Ital-ian authorities in southern Tyrol said they had uncovered a plot by Bavarians Bavari-ans to revolt against Italy, and raids were made near I.avaroue In which f0 persons were arrested and quantities quanti-ties of arms and ammunition were seized. GKUMANY'S petition for entry into the League of Nations was received Thursday by Secretary General Gen-eral Sir Eric Prummond. The council coun-cil was called together at once and arrangements made for a session of t!te assembly to receive the new member. mem-ber. T7-IT1I the unexpected aid of 10 N Republican votes, the senate not i nly voted to repeal the inheritance tax but added S100.0OO.iW to its committee's com-mittee's cut of $:?."i2.iXX000 in the gov-enment gov-enment revenues. Taxes on automobiles automo-biles and trucks, admissions and dues were wiped out. At this writing it Is believed the bill will be passed by the senate before the week ends. It is not considered likely that the Inheritance Inheri-tance tax repeal will stand In conference. confer-ence. More probably the house provisions pro-visions reducing the rates from a mxximum of 10 to 20 per cent will be restored. Other slashes made by the senate may be abandoned in the conference, con-ference, for the reductions tire far below the margin of safety set by the treasury ollicials. Chairman Smoot told the senate its action in repealing the automobile passenger-car levy, Involving a loss of ?70,000,000 In revenue, "will ruin the bill," while Senator Couzcns (Rep., Mich.) countered with the charge that it was "a damnable outrage If you take the taxes off dead millionaires and not relieve these burdensome levies." CECEETAItY OF WAR DAVIS sus-pects sus-pects that officers of the army air service are using disloyal means In their fight for the creation of a separate sepa-rate air corps, and he has ordered two separate Inquiries, one by Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the air service, and the other by Maj. Gen. Eli A. Helmllck, the inspector general. It is charged that officers of the air service have been preparing and circulating cir-culating letters asking all officers to "get busy and fight now for a sepa- rate air service" and to appeal to their congressmen to' vote for the Wainright bill. Action on the part of an army officer to infiuence legislation by clandestine means is expressly forbidden for-bidden under general order 25. It is asserted by some that General Patrick Pat-rick himself will be involved in the inquiry because of his recent testimony testi-mony before the house military' affairs af-fairs committee in favor of the Wain-right Wain-right bill, and that committee Inquired In-quired Into the purposes of the investigation inves-tigation and the possibility that it would result in gagging army witnesses wit-nesses called by congressional committees. com-mittees. Secretary Davis formally denounced the separate service plan, and also issued a bulletin telling his conception concep-tion of the duties of the air service. "The mission of the air service Is to assist the ground forces to gain strategical stra-tegical and tactical successes by destroying de-stroying enemy aviation, attacking enemy ground forces, and other enemy objectives on land or sea, and. In conjunction con-junction with other agencies, to protect pro-tect ground forces from hostile aerial observation and attack," the bulletin stated. "In addition, It furnishes aerial observation for information and for artillery fire, and also provides messenger service and transportation for special personnel.". WHILE there has been no doubt concerning the attitude of the Roman Catholic church toward compulsory com-pulsory prohibition, that attitude was formally stated for the first time last week by William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston, the church's ranking prelate pre-late In the United States. He declares de-clares the Catholic church applauds voluntary total abstinence and needs no persuasion to light against intemperance, intem-perance, but that "compulsory prohibition prohi-bition in general is flatly opposed to Holy Scripture and to Catholic tradition." tradi-tion." Ale, wine and their like, the cardinal car-dinal holds, are not In themselves evil. He stresses the fact that they have their lawful uses, "ranging from the supreme honor paid to wine, along with bread as the matter of the holy eucharist, to their original work of moistening and enlivening the laborer's la-borer's rough fare." "It has been made clear a thousand times." he adds, "that we will work with our separated brethren as temper;- nee men, but not as the tools of those whose confessed policy is worldwide world-wide prohibition by installments." Cardinal O'Connell called attention to what he called an attempt by prohibitionists pro-hibitionists "to entrap the pope by begging him to give his montl support sup-port to secure the observance of the law of prohibition." and added that the mse had failed badly. Cardinal Mnndelein of Chicago declined de-clined to discuss prohibition, holding that It is a purely political issue. He added: 'T have always found that when the American people wanted something hard enough they were usually successful in getting it in the end. If the American people do not want prohibition or want it in a modified form, there is a congress as their servant, an.l if this congress will not do their bidding, let them get another an-other congress that will." FORMATION of the new S2.OTO.noo,-" S2.OTO.noo,-" 000 Ward Food Products corpora- iion. which is called by some the "haling trust," was attacked by the r-'vernment in a suit charging viola-lion viola-lion of the Sherman anti-trust law and the Clayton act. In taking this step the administration believes it has nipped in t lie bud a scheme to form a gigantic bread monopoly comprising substantially all the wholesale bakeries baker-ies In the United States. The suit seeks not only the dissolution of such combinations as already have been effected ef-fected by the baking corporations involved in-volved but the consummation of the main merger, recently incorporated by William B. Ward, the bakery millionaire. mil-lionaire. Ward and his t;ociates call the merger the "corporation with a soul" because of its plans for community enterprises and for the gift of one-tenth one-tenth of its profits to charity. TT APPEARS probable, at the tlms of writing, that a settlement of the long anthracite coal strike is at hand. A tentative arrangement was reached by leaders of both sides and the miners' full scale cominttee was called to Philadelphia to ratify it. The joint negotiating committee of twelve was then to meet and make it public. It was stated unofficially in Wilkes-Barre Wilkes-Barre that the arrangement was substantially sub-stantially as follows : First, that President Coolidge be invited in-vited to mediate the differences between be-tween the miners and operators. Second, that pending the mediation by the President the miners shall return re-turn to work ; or. under certain conditions, con-ditions, remain . on suspension until the decision is made known. Third, that in the event the mediation media-tion decision is unsatisfactory President Presi-dent Coolidge shall be asked to sit as a judge and make a decision on the question at Issue. This decision to be binding on both sides, with the proviso that either side may appeal on questions of fact within with-in ten days. GREAT BRITAIN'S coal commission commis-sion has recommended that the government buy and operate all coal mines, shutting down all those that are not paying a profit nnd re-employing the workers in profitable pits. It does not advise any reduction of wages or increase of working hours underground. A NCIENT laws are being Invoked -fi In both Tennessee and Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, and their enforcement may lead to revision of the laws in those states. In Tennessee it Is the "blue Sunday" law which has been resurrected. resur-rected. It prohibits all work except "acts of real necessity or charity" on Sunday, and It has been invoked especially es-pecially to close gasoline filling stations sta-tions on that day. Its general enforcement en-forcement would stir up things a bit. In Brocton, Mass., Anthony Bimba, a Lithuanian and the editor of a Communist Com-munist paper, is about to be put on trial for "wilfully blaspheming the holy name of God by denying and continuously con-tinuously reproaching God." The blasphemy statute has been on the statute books for 220 years and none of the present generation of local lawmakers law-makers or defenders of law breakers remembers of its having been invoked previously. Biniha is also accused of "inciting the overthrow of the constituted consti-tuted government of the commonwealth common-wealth of Massachusetts." The joint committee on rules of the Massachusetts Massachu-setts legislature has reported favorably favor-ably on a motion to establish a special spe-cial commission to study obsoleto laws of the state and recommend their repeal. pOMMANDER FRAXCO, the Span- ish "Columbus of the air." with his three comrades successfully Com pleted the flight from Spain to Buenos Aires an.l mis given n tremendously enthusiastic welcome to the Argentine capital. The distance covered by the Plane was G.232 miles and the flvin-tune flvin-tune was only 62 hours and min" utes. Each stage of the Journey was covered in almost the exact time fixed for the distance. TTALY has taken a decisive step to sui'press the Senussi tribesmen ln i'yrenaica, North Africa. colu,n of troops having taken possession 0f their headquarters, the oasis and city of Jarahuh. which controls the tr-ide routes between central AM" a rod the coast. |
