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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Mr. Hoover Offers Flood Relief Re-lief and Control Plan to President. By EDWARD VV. PICKARD FLOOD relief and control work by congress, covering a period of ten years and costing more than $150,000.-000 $150,000.-000 Is recommended by Secretary of Commerce Hoover in the comprehensive comprehen-sive report on the Mississippi valley disaster of this year which he laid - before President Coolidge at the summer sum-mer White House. His control project, besides providing for taking over and improving the levee system, embraces a plan for completion of the navigation naviga-tion program of the Mississippi and its main tributaries which he says can be carried out at an additional cost of fifteen to twenty millions a year. Mr. Hoover declared that the flood control program must embrace the following principles': 1. Higher and consequently wider levees and the extension of federal responsibility for levees in 'some of the tributaries. 2. A safety valve upon the levee system by the provision of a spillway or by-pass to the gulf to protect New Orleans and southern Louisiana most probably the Atchafalaya river for this purpose. 3. For further safety measures the engineers are examining the possible extension of the by-pass to the northward north-ward from the Atchafalaya toward the Arkansas, the possible erection of emergency flood basins, and the possibility of store In the tributaries. Concerning the relief work Mr. Hoover said in part: "The financial situation on relief ls that we can complete all these programs pro-grams seed, food feed, furniture, animals, house construction, sanitation. sanita-tion. By the first of November we estimate we shall have spent 513.400.-000 513.400.-000 Red Cross funds, S7.000.000 equipment equip-ment and supplies from the federal government. S3.000.000 free railway transportation, and provided SI. 100.-(XX) 100.-(XX) for county health cleanup units. We should have left S3.000.000 from the S16.fi00.0iX) subscribed to the Red Cross with which to face continued necessities after November 1. It Is impossible to determine what the necessities ne-cessities will be after that date." I A OTHKR caller on the President A was Senator Smoot, chairman of the senate finance committee, who presented his plan for tax reduction. This program is based on a tax cut of S300.0O0.000 and iucludes the following fol-lowing items: Reduction of the corporation tax from to 12 per cent lopping off tl."0.000.000 annual revenue. Elimination of taxes on admissions and club dues, cutting the nation's Income S37.00H.OOO yearly. Reduction of tax on passenger automobiles auto-mobiles from 3 per cent to IV2 per cent, costing S"0.000.000. Graduated scale reduction on incomes in-comes between Sln.OOO. and SW.000. MICHAEL, a golden-haired child not yet six years old. Is now king of Rumania, for the picturesque King Ferdinand succumbed on July 20 to the malady that made his death Imminent for many months. Until the new monarch reaches his eighteenth year the country will be ruled by a regency comprised of his uncle. Trinee Nicholas. Miron Cristea. patriarch patri-arch of the Rumanian orthodox church, and Judge Buziiugan of the supreme court. In announcing the death of Ferdinand Ferdi-nand the government issued an official of-ficial statmem saying It will not waver from the decision of the crown council on January 4. 10'Jt). at which Prince Carol was disinherited and Trinee Michael, his son. proJniined crown prince, ar.d that the government govern-ment will support the regency, and "if nct'essary. reson to arms to prevent pre-vent the reinstatement of Carol." The commander of the Second army corps, stationed In t.urharest. issued a statement informing the country that the state of siege continues, and warning newspaper men that If they spread false alarms they will be liable to court-martial. Prince Carol, at his home of exile In Neuilly, near Paris, received word of his father's demise and at once secluded se-cluded himself, sending word to the press that he expected to be recalled to. Rumania and calling himself "king." Ferdinand's last words, as he died in the arms of Queen Marie, were : "I am feeling tired." His body lay in state in Cotroceni palace outside Bucharest until Saturday, when the state funeral was held. Then the casket cas-ket was placed In the family vaults at the monastery of Curtea Arges. Premier Bratiano took strong measures meas-ures to prevent any uprising, public buildings and strategic points being occupied by troops and meetings being be-ing forbidden. Queen Marie received messages of condolence from all over the world, including one from President Presi-dent and Mrs. Coolidge. and the British Brit-ish and Belgian courts went into mourning. TAKING advantage of a strike of protest ordered by Vienna Socialists Social-ists because of the acquittal of some Fascist slayers, the communist agitators agi-tators there tried to get control of the city and set up a soviet government. govern-ment. Mobs, stirred to riot, marched through the city, looting public buildings build-ings and burning the palace of justice, jus-tice, and fighting the police fiercely. The local contingents of troops were disinclined to fire on the crowds, so the Seipel government called in troops from provincial garrisons. These, with the help of the Social Democrats, Demo-crats, soon gained control of the situation, sit-uation, and the civil war which the communists were trying to stir up was averted. The strike had stopped all transportation, trans-portation, and threats were received from Italy that if Italian trains were not permitted to pass through the country, troops would be sent into the Austrian Tyrol, occupying the railroad rail-road line up to the German border. The government of Austria threatened threat-ened to take radical steps to end the strike, and the nationalist villages, the anti-soclallst peasantry and the loyal Heimwehr or home guards gave Premier Sepel full support So the labor unions and Socialists of Vienna yielded and the strike was called off. The flurry, however, was costly to Austria in several ways. During the rioting scores of persons were killed and hundreds wounded; the destruction destruc-tion of property was great, and in the burning of the palace of justice all the nation's financial records were lost. The government was fearful lest the disturbances might keep many tourists away from Vienna. DOWN in Nicaragua one rebel leader, General Sandino, refused to submit to the peace terms imposed by the United States, and last week he led his brigand band of 500 In attacking at-tacking a small detachment of American Ameri-can marines and native constabulary at Ocotal. Capt. G. D. Hatfield was in command and his little force fought back desperately. Marine scouting planes carried word of the battle to Managua and five bombing planes commanded by Maj. Ross E. Rowell flew to the rescue through a severe tropical storm. With bombs and machine guns they speedily routed rout-ed the rebels, of whom about 31X3 were killed. The marines lost only one man. Sandino, still defiant, fled to the mountains and a column of troops was sent out with orders to get him. Delegates to the fifth congress of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, La-bor, in session in Washington, denounced de-nounced this killing of Nicaraguan citizens, and President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, who presided at the opening of the congress, sharply denounced American Ameri-can Intervention In the domestic af- : fairs of Latin American countries and wrote a letter of protest to Secretary Sec-retary of State Kellogg. In reply Mr. Kelh'LTg warmly defended the action of the marines, and set forth clearly the conditions in Nicaragua which had resulted In the outlawing of SatTlir.o. who had neither the support nor the approval of any of the leaders lead-ers of tl'e political parties in Nicaragua Nica-ragua The resolutions committee of the P:in-American labor congress adopted a resolution asking the im- mediate withdrawal of American ! forces frop Nicaragua. j P.rigadior tncral Fetand, com- ' manding the marines in Nicaragua, has recommended that the distinguished distin-guished service medal be awarded Major- Rowell, who, he says, saved the little garrison at Ocotal from great loss of life and almost certair destruction. GREAT BRITAIN and Japan reached some sort of accord on the cruiser question in the conference at Geneva and the plan was presented present-ed to the Americans, who did not seem especially pleased with It Then the British government called Viscount Vis-count Cecil and W. C Bridgeman to London for consultation with the cabinet, cab-inet, and at once there were reports that the conference was on the verge of a breakdown. This was strongly denied in London, where a foreign office spokesman asserted tfcit the hope for an agreement was stronger than at any time since the conference began. The Japanese delegates in Geneva also were optimistic, predicting predict-ing that an agreement would be reached by the middle of August. The British before leaving Geneva had consented to reduce their demands for cruisers and destroyers from 800,-000 800,-000 tons to 500.000 tons, as insisted upon by the Japanese, and hoped this would induce the Americans to agree to bar eight-inch guns on all but 10-000-ton cruisers ; but Mr. Gibson would not surrender this point. FIVE transatlantic flyers Byrd, Noville, Acosta, Balchen and Cham-berlin Cham-berlin returned to the United States by steamer and were given New York's usual noisy reception, with parade, paper pa-per confetti, banquets and ' medals. The two first were awarded the navy's distinguished flying cross. Lieutenants Lieuten-ants Maitland and Hegenberger, who flew to Honolulu, had a triumphant trip across the country on their way to Washington, where Secretary of State Kellogg and other government officials greeted them warmly. They, too, will receive the distinguished flying fly-ing cross when President Coolidge returns re-turns to the capital. Colonel Lindbergh picked up his "Spirit of St. Louis" at Mitchel field, New York, and started on a tour of the country to tell the people of the advance of aviation and the needs of more and larger airports. His first stop was at Hartford. Conn., where he spoke at the Hartford club. Capt F. T. Courtney, British aviator, avia-tor, was all ready for his attempted flight from England to America, with a stop at Valencia, Ireland, but was delayed by unfavorable weather. He was to carry a crew of two men and intended to fly from the Irish town direct di-rect to Newfoundland. JACK DEMPSEY, former heavyweight heavy-weight champion, "came back" In the fight with Jack Sharkey In New York and won the right to challenge Gene Tv.nney for the title. He knocked out the Boston lad In the seventh round with a hard left hook to the jaw. The battle was lively and aroused the enthusiasm of 83.000 persons per-sons who were present Sharkey claimed that he was fouled in the final round, but this was denied by Denipsey and by Referee O'SuIlivan. IOWA'S Lowden-for-President club announces that more than 100.000 persons in that state have signed the petition asking Frank O. Lowden to seek the Republican Presidential nomination nom-ination and pledging him their support sup-port Among the signers are Gov. John Hammill and more than 90 per cent of the employees in the Iowa state capitol building. Action of the governor in signing the petition nullified nulli-fied the hopes of his friends that Mr. Hammill. who. like Mr. Lowden. has been a leader in the farm relief fight might become a vice presidential candidate can-didate next year on a Coolidge ticket 1INOR Items of news: L 1 Aaron Sapiro has dismissed his million-dollar libel suit against Henry Ford, accepting the automobile manufacturer's apolotry and a "substantial "sub-stantial sum" of money. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey Jer-sey nnnnunces It will have no business busi-ness relations with the soviet envrrn-ment envrrn-ment :f Russia so Ions as that e"v-eminent e"v-eminent declines to recognize private property ri'.-hts. Hankmv and Hanyang. China, were occupied hy Gen Ilo Chien. a Conservative Conserv-ative southern lender. Mine Sun f:it sen. widow of China's first President retired from political life. |