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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Naval Conference Resumed With Not Much Hope of an Agreement. By EDWARD W. PICKARD WITH the return to Geneva of the British delegation, the naval limitation lim-itation conference was resumed ; but there was a feeling there and in Washington that the parley was doomed to failure. Viscount Cecil and W. C. Bridgeman had submitted to the British cabinet their demands and their entire policy, and apparently were upheld in every particular. Sir Austen Chamberlain, foreign secretary, secre-tary, then made a statement to the house of commons that left little hope that an agreement could be reached. The crux of this was that he considered consid-ered the permanent formula adopted at Washington for limiting battleships Inapplicable for certain classes of cruisers to have sounded the death knell of the conference. It was to apply this formula to auxiliary craft that President Coolidge called the conference. Sir Austen suggested that an agreement might be reached for a shorter period than originally planned, or on destroyers and submarines subma-rines only, in case the three powers could not agree on a maximum cruiser tonnage; but this idea was coldly received re-ceived by the American officials in Geneva and in Washington. Dispatches from Geneva said the final British proposals were as follows fol-lows : 1. That, since an agreement has practically been reached on submarines subma-rines and destroyers, a convention shall be framed providing for 90,000 tons of submarines and ISO.OOO tons of destroyers, with an approximate 68 per cent ratio for Japan. 2. That a quota of 300,000 tons shall be adopted for all cruiser types. 3. That the ratio between the United Unit-ed States, Great Britain, and Japan for 10,000-ton cruisers carrying S-inch guns shall be 12-12-S, or, if this is not acceptable, 15-15-10. 4. That the next smaller cruiser class shall be limited to 7,500 tons, carrying 6-inch guns. 5. That the question of providing extra smaller cruisers for Great Britain Brit-ain from its obsolete vessels shall be left to the Washington conference in 193L Congressman Martin B. Madden of Illinois, chairman of the house appropriations appro-priations committee, who has been traveling in England, gave an Interview Inter-view at Torquay in which he said that If Great Britain was not willing to give America the equivalent of English Eng-lish ship power with respect to speed, range, tonnage, etc., there was every reason to believe that the United States naval building program would have the support of the appropriations appropria-tions committee. An agreement putting put-ting our navy out of balance with Britain's would not be ratified by congress, con-gress, he said. Ambassador Gibson has been told by the State department that the United States would rather have him return to Washington without with-out a treaty than to sign an agreement which fails to safeguard American interests in-terests or make possible real naval economies. FOR three days about two dozen governors of states and some guests, in annual conference at Mackinac Macki-nac island, Mich., discussed all manner of topics related to the public wel-face, wel-face, devoting a large part of the time to flood control and farm relief. The executives do not adopt resolutions at these meetings, but they were unanimous unan-imous in favoring flood control of the Mississippi river and its tributaries by the federal government and in blaming that government for past neglect of that problem and the consequent con-sequent losses. Governors of the Middle Mid-dle West and West had a lot to say about the agricultural problem and most of them seemed to favor a measure meas-ure like the McNary-lIuugen bill which the President vetoed. j There was a general condemnation : of election corruption but the gover nors disagreed on the method of purification. puri-fication. A limited expression on federal fed-eral control of hydro-electric systems was largely opposed and the sentiment senti-ment against the centralization of power in Washington bureaus was all but unanimous. A proposed house of governors was called ridiculous by one governor and commended by others. Gifford Pinchot, former governor of ' Pennsylvania, found opportunity to tell the conference that Senator-elect Vare should be ousted from the senate, sen-ate, and to make a bitter attack on Secretary of the Treasury Mellon as Vare's political partner. PRESIDENT AND MRS. COOLIDGE attended the pageant at Custer, S. D., celebrating the days of gold discovery, dis-covery, and experienced some thrills not on the program. Two big horses broke from a covered wagon they were drawing and, with the doubletree attached, at-tached, ran through the crowd straight for the box where the Chief Executive and his party were seated. A mounted cowboy managed to turn them aside, the throng opened for them and they disappeared over a near-by hill. When Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge were returning to the State Lodge they were overtaken over-taken by a violent rain storm which made travel over the slippery, sloping slop-ing roads rather perilous. Mr. Coolidge Cool-idge has been asked by several cities to use his influence in the matter of the location of the Republican national na-tional convention of next year, but last week he declared he had no choice, though he would be glad to confer with the national committee if it desired. It is said that San Francisco Fran-cisco now has more votes pledged to it than any other city. The President is seriously considering consider-ing the invitation to visit Havana next spring, extended by President Machado of Cuba, and to address the Pan-American congress there. He might make such a proposed trip the occasion of visiting Porto Rico to inform in-form himself of conditions in that island, the people of which are clamoring clamor-ing for changes in their form of government gov-ernment and the election of a governor gov-ernor of their own people. MRS. ANNE U. STILLMAN and her son, "Bud," found place on the front pages again last week, for the young man was married in the Grand Anse camp, in the Quebec woods, to Lena Wilson, forest girl and former servant in the Stillman household. house-hold. Fifi managed the whole affair with great eclat gathered a lot of notable wedding guests and decked her new daughter-in-law with magnificent magnifi-cent diamonds. Of course the news photographers were there in swarms, and as Father L'Ami was performing the ceremony some of them pressed too close. Fifi flew into a rage and upset them and their cameras and bombarded the whole squad of camera men with plates until they fled to the woods. MARION COUNTY PROSECUTOR REMY of Indianapolis and his aids are working their way through a great mass of documents turned over to them on the order of ex-Dragon Stephenson, the life convict, which he says substantiate his charges against Indiana oilicials; and a new grand jury at Indianapolis is supposed to be investigating Stephenson's alleged control of the 1925 legislature. Gov. Ed Jackson continued silent concerning concern-ing charges of misconduct in office, and two Indianapolis papers, the News and Times, asked him to show his innocence in-nocence or resign. Editors of other Indiana papers back up this demand, the Republican organs saying the governor gov-ernor owes it to his party, as well as to himself and the snte, to dispel the cloud of mistrust now enveloping the statehouse. Prosecutor Remy says the disclosures may rock the state and shock the nation. FREDERICK STERLING, the first American minister to the Irish Free State, presented his letters of credence to Gov. Gt-n. Timothy Hr-aly in Dublin Dub-lin and tooU up his duties. The ceremony cere-mony was made elaborate by the Irish, their be?-t tro..ps a.-tin as escort for Mr. Sterling and lining the route of the parade to the vice regal lodge in Phoenix Park. After seeing the governor general, the minister exchanged ex-changed calls with President Cos-grave. Cos-grave. Mr. Sterling's first task will be the negotiation of a commercial treaty between America and Ireland, replacing the old American treaty with Great Britain. IGNORING the Chinese treaties with the powers, the Nationalist government govern-ment at Nanking has promulgated a new list of tariffs on luxuries, running from 15 to 60 per cent American exports ex-ports to China are especially hard hit, and the American merchants in Shanghai Shang-hai met and decided to send a strong protest to Washington, though their hope of relief was small. Though Gen. Feng Yu-hsiang was continuing his advance on Peking, along the line of the Hankow railway, Gen. Chang Kai-shek, generalissimo of the Nanking forces, was reported to be in a precarious position because the Radical forces from Hankow were moving down the Yangtse toward Nanking and also were threatening to advance south through Chekiang , province on Shanghai. FRANCE, or its government is about fed up on Russian communist commu-nist propaganda and Premier Poincare called in the soviet ambassador, Christian Chris-tian Rakowsky, and told him most emphatically that unless Moscow' Red agents In France were recalled at once France might be provoked Into breaking off all relations with Russia. Rus-sia. Rakowsky hurried to Moscow to confer with his chiefs. Eight communists, com-munists, convicted in Paris of being spies in rtie pay of Russia since 192 I, were given unusually severe sentences. sen-tences. Secretary General Turatl of the Italian Fascist party in a speech at Ravenna predicted that a clash between be-tween the Fascist and the Bolshevist conceptions of the state must come, and that the victory would rest with Fascism. ' NEW YORK was all set to undergo the inconvenience of a strike of traction workers, and the Interborough managers were prepared to continue service with strikebreakers which promised riotous times when Mayor Walker intervened and in two hours won both sides to agree to a settlement settle-ment that resulted at least in a truce. The trouble probably is not over, however, how-ever, for the union leaders assert they are now free to organize the traction workers, while the Interborough officials offi-cials deny this. ACCOMPANIED by his brother. Prince George, and by Prime Minister Baldwin, the prince of Wales has come over for another visit to Canada, and possibly to the United States. On August 7 these three distinguished dis-tinguished men will represent England Eng-land at the formal dedication of th Peace bridge between Buffalo and Fort Erie, Ontario, built to commemorate commem-orate a century of unbroken peace between be-tween the United States and Canada, The United States will be represented by Vice President Dawes and other notables. LIEUT. CARLETON C. CHAMPION CHAM-PION of the army went up for an altitude record at Washington, and when seven miles up his airplane motor mo-tor caught fire. Refusing to use the parachute because he was determined to save his barograph record, he descended de-scended by head and tail spins and back slips, all the time fighting tha flames with a small extinguisher. Several Sev-eral times the machine was out of control, con-trol, but Champion finally land"d safely in a cornfield. Then he learned that he had failed of a record by 1,000 feet MAURICE E. CRUMPACKER. rep. resentallve In congress from Portland, Ore., committed suicide by Jumping into San Francisco bay. after previously attempting to kill himself with poison. The reason for his act was not revealed. Cardinal Czernoch, primate of Hungary, Hun-gary, died in Budapest after a long illness. . CHICAGO'S worst marine tra'.dy since the sinking of the Eir.dainl 12 years ago occurred Tl- jrsflay, when the little excursion steamer Favorite Fa-vorite sank In a squall. Vwenty-six person were drowned, fifteen of them bein gchildren and ten woni'-n. Kif:y-five Kif:y-five passengers and members of the crew were savc-d. |
