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Show i must hot puwtU i j-t- - E'- 'j V, ; ; ,v- '-".': ."!'. -".-; ww.-. 5 ' - jj , , : v : ;. -it X - i I 1. Dr, James Poran (right), tne new prohibition commissioner, and Maj. U. H. While, new usslstanl prohibition pro-hibition commissioner, hold their first - conference with Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews' (left). 2. Anti-r.rliifh agitators picket British embassy in Washington. 3. William Phillips, first American minister min-ister to Canada. i NEWS REVIEW OF CURPiENT EVENTS Capt. Lindbergh Is Recipient of Unprecedented Honors in France. THE notable event of the week ending end-ing May 27 was the completion of Capt. Charles Lindbergh's successful crossing by airplane from New York to Paris at 10:21, Paris time, Saturday Satur-day night, May 21, after 33 hours 29 minutes in the air. Paris gave the Intrepid American flyer a wildly enthusiastic reception, in which there was no evidence of the reported enmity for American contestants con-testants In this transoceanic air race that had resulted in the loss of two French flyers, Captains Nungesser und Coli. From the moment his plane came to a stop on Le P.ourget flying field, just outside the French capital, he became be-came the acclaimed hero of the civilized civ-ilized world. In Paris no such tumultuous tumul-tuous scenes have beeu witnessed since the signing of the armistice at the close of the World war, and for the week following the landing he has been sought for and feted 'by all classes. The king of Belgium wired him an invitation to be his guest at Brussels, King George of England extended ex-tended him an invitation to visit him in London, organizations of many kinds contended for the honor of being be-ing host to him ; the French government govern-ment conferred upon him the medal of the Legion of Honor. From Captain Lindbergh's own countrymen came hundreds of oners of employment at fabulous salaries. Motion picture producers, pro-ducers, vaudeville theater managers, managers of lecture courses, off?red large sums for his services, and If he wltdies, It Is estimated that he could within the next twelve months easily make a million dollars as a result of his heroic exploit. So far he has refused re-fused to consider any of the offers, asserting as-serting that he had no idea of commercializing com-mercializing the flight which he made tolely for the purpose of advancing the science of aviation. It Is not known at this writing when he will return to America. Before doing do-ing so he will accept the invitation from the kings of Belgium and England Eng-land nnd will visit Stockholm and other European cities. The United Slates government has offered to hrin;: him back on hoard a baitlcshiy) as 1 1 1 -- guest of the American people and it is probable that he will accept this invitation. invi-tation. Captain- Lindbergh covered the distance dis-tance from San Diego. Calif., to Parls 6,725 miles In actual flying time of .56 hours and 40 minutes. He left San Diego, Calif., on the afternoon of May 10 and arrived In SL Louis 1.000 ( miles the next day. After a rest there he hopped to New York 000 miles crossing the American continent In an actual flying time of 23 hours and 15 l minutes. After a few days' rest he 1 started from New York to Faris -S.OfiO miles. This is n new world's record rec-ord for nonstop straight line distance, the previous record being 3,400 miles. ANOTHER event of Importance In the field of aviation was the attempted at-tempted flight of the Italian aviator, Francesco do Plnedo, from Newfoundland Newfound-land to the Azores islands, n distance of 1,200 miles. He left Tropassey Bay, N. V., Monday morning. May 23, but became lost in the fog and landed on the ocean some "CO miles from his objpctlve point mid his plane was towed Into port by a sr.lliug vessel that had picked him up. AMOVE of unusual importance in the field of International relations was the break between Great Britain nnd Soviet Russia following the revelations rev-elations resulting from the raiding by the British government of Arcos, Ltd., the Russian trading company operating operat-ing in England, and the official Soviet trade delegation. In the house of commons com-mons Prime Minister Baldwin announced an-nounced that on the basis of Sir Windham Wind-ham Child's findings in documents seized In the raid on May 12 the British Brit-ish government had deckled to break ol diplomatic relations with Rus3la. I In his address the prime minister referred at length to the documentary evidence of the Soviet Internationale's network of Bolshevist plots in England, Eng-land, the United States, Cunada, New Zealand, and said: "In the face of these breaches of the trade agreement and International comity, his majesty's government has shown patience nnd forbearance which is probably without 'larallel. "Diplomatic relations when thus deliberately de-liberately and systematically abused are In themselves a danger to peace, and his majesty's government therefore there-fore has decided that unless the house expresses disapproval on Thursday, the government will terminate the trade agreement, require the withdrawal of the trade delegation and Soviet mission mis-sion from London, and recall the British Brit-ish mission from Moscow." "The Soviet government itself cannot can-not escape the responsibility for the action of the trade delegation and the abuse of the facilities afforded' It," the ji line wmiiaitri LWJILIIIUCU, UUL me matter does not rest there, because It Is difficult to believe that, whilei one organ of the Soviet government was breaking Its solemn undertaking, the Soviet mission and Soviet government did not pass on these proceedings." The prime minister explained that the police for months had been watching watch-ing the activities of the Soviet secret agents who had arranged for photographing photo-graphing secret documents In the Soviet house. Their suspicions were confirmed early this year when two British subjects employed by the air force were discovered stealing two documents for the Keels, he said. Mr. Baldwin then referred to a "further "fur-ther document of an official nnd highly high-ly confidential character," which turned up missing utid which was discovered dis-covered by the police to have been photographed on the Arcos premises. Armed with this knowledge, the police staged a raid, going straight to the subterranean photostat room, where they found a cipher clerk known to be connected with the secret agents. Documents found in another room showed that this clerk's chief function was the carrying out of secret communications com-munications abroad. In his possession were found codes in envelopes addressed ad-dressed to well-known Communist individuals in-dividuals and organizations in England Eng-land and the L'nlted States. The envelopes en-velopes contained directions from the Red Internationale to Communists and organizations In both countries. "The investigation shows," said Mr. Baldwin, "that both Arcos nnd the trade delegation habitually used subversive sub-versive propaganda. The correspondence correspond-ence dealt with the Communist seamen's sea-men's club, the 'hands off' China movement, move-ment, the anti-trade union bill, the dis-rlbutlon dis-rlbutlon of Communist propaganda ;r,il industrial nuairs m. America. This action on the part of the Brit-'sh Brit-'sh government means again outlawing Russia in the family of nations, and the llnlni up of England with the l'nlted States in its attitude toward the Soviet government. The American government has consistently refused to recognize In any way the Soviet government gov-ernment of Russia on the basis that (hat government was engaging In prop-nprnrfdn prop-nprnrfdn with the purpose of undermining undermin-ing other governments with which friendly relations had been perfected. This government has refused to permit per-mit any official representative of the Soviets to land in the United States, and this investigation on the part of England ha3 demonstrated the wisdom wis-dom of the officials at Washington. SECRETARY of the Treasury Mellon Mel-lon has announced the resignation of Assistant Secretary L. C. Andrews, effective August 1. At the same time announcement was made of the appointment ap-pointment of Dr. James M. Doran as prohibition commissioner to succeed Roy A. nnyncs. The resignation of Mr. Andrews was unexpected. Secretary Secre-tary Mellon announced thr.t he has recommended to Pres!d;nt Coolidge the .'ii-pointment of Seymour Lowmnn, former lieutenant governor of New York, to succeed him. It was Indicated by Mr. Mellon that while the new assistant secretary of the treasury will have supervisory authority au-thority over the bureau of prohibition, as well as over the bureau of custom-; an'1, the coast guard, he will not l.ave such broad powers as Mr. Andrews. Doctor Doran, It wus stated, will have full authority as prohibition com missioner, although general determination determina-tion of policies will remain In the hands of the secretary of the treasury. The date of Daynes' retirement was not Indicated. GERMANY claims that with the re -cent blowing up of the 2" concrete dugouts on Its frontier at Koenigsberg it has completed the disarmament provided pro-vided for by the Versailles treaty, and Is now demanding that the allied troops evacuate the Rhlneland provinces. prov-inces. The allies are insisting that the interallied military commission must inspect the work of dismantling the fortresses, but Germany holds that the interallied military control commission expired on February 1, as promised by the allies, and that for reasons of prestige, Germany cannot permit a renewal re-newal of the Interallied control. There the matter stands with nothing definite as to when the remaining French troops will march out of Germany. FLOODS continue to ravage Louisiana Louisi-ana parishes. Five additional parishes, par-ishes, with an area of 1.100,000 acres, and the homes of S0.000 people were thrown open to Invasion by the inland sea when the river tore aside the protection pro-tection barriers at McCrea nnd spread over the low lands of Pointe Coupee parish. Before the flood waters have vanished Into the Gulf of Mexico they- will have cut a path 50 miles , wide and 200 miles long from the Arkansas border to the gulf. AT WASHINGTON Justice William Hitz sentenced Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil operator, to serve three months in jail and to pay a fine o.f SoCO for contempt of the United States senate in refusing to answer questions in connection with the investigation of the Teapot Dome lease scandal In 1024. The sentence was more severe than had been generally expected by those who have followed the case and who did not believe that the term of imprisonment would exceed the minimum min-imum of one month which had been imposed, in an earlier case, on Elver-ton Elver-ton R. Chapman, a New York stock broker. In 1S0G. In sentencing Sinclair, Justice Hitz declared that he believed the decision of the United States Supreme Su-preme court in the Mai Daugherty case was binding on him. Pending an appeal to the United States Supreme court Sinclair was released re-leased on ?5.000 bail. PAYNE WHITNEY, prominent sportsman, sports-man, one of the richest of Americans, Ameri-cans, son of the late William C. Whitney Whit-ney and brother of Harry Payne Whitney, Whit-ney, died suddenly May 20 on the tennis ten-nis court of his country home at Man-hasset, Man-hasset, L. I., of acute indigestion. York 51 years ago, the second son of William C. Whitney. Like his father and elder brother, he went to Yale, where he was graduated In 1S0S. While there he achieved fame as an oarsman and was captain of his college col-lege crew. After leaving Yale he took a law course at Harvard, and In 1902 he married Miss Helen Hay, daughter of the late John Hay, secretary of state nnd at one time ambassador to Great Britain. Mr. Whitney was for many years a power in financial circles, although comparatively little was heard of him . in that field. He was an active philanthropist phi-lanthropist In a generous but unostentatious unosten-tatious way, so that almost nothing was known of his benefactions. Wall street estimates his wealth as more than .'."OO.OOO.OOO. basing the estimate es-timate on the income-tax payment that Mr. Whitney made for the yea 1924 and 1023. SOME progress was made at Philadelphia Phila-delphia In the efforts of tiie union miners and operators to negotiate a new wage agreement. After two days of discussion of conditions con-ditions in th" Pennsylvania soft cnnl field.- nnd In t!ie birumlnnu': tcrrl'orv Ki!era!!y a sub scale eominittoe of six member onm w:i nppn:ntA'! to get down to work nnd ;:! npt to arrive at a bais for nogni i-i-us. It was made cler.'r hv bo'h sM. however, that no ron--ro;p nrnpnMon had yet been advanced. The m!rr xid the joint confern-'e wa ci',1 by th operators and any p.-v; osit'on must come from tlierc |