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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS New Englanders and Wall Street Eager to "Draft" President Coolidge. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ASTERN Republicans, political and business leaders, cannot reconcile themselves to seeing President Coolidge Cool-idge eliminated from the contest for the nomination next year. They never have given up the Idea that he could be "drafted'1 by the convention, and should be, despite his expressed reluctance re-luctance to run again. Last week they got very busy, especially in Wall street and in New England, with plans to push the Coolidge boom. In Boston Bos-ton a chain letter petition was started t)y some of those who believe Mr. Coolidge should be virtually compelled to accept a re-nomination. The White House correspondents questioned the President on this matter and he told them he could not see that the circulation circula-tion nf the petition would serve anv ood purpose and he hoped it would be discontinued. This being telegraphed tele-graphed over the country, the proponents pro-ponents of the chain letter issued a s-tnteruent asking that all 70rk on the plan cease immediately. However, the correspondents left the White House somewhat mystified and as uncertain as ever in their interpretation interpre-tation of the President's attitude toward tbe general proposition of conscripting con-scripting him for another term. Many Republican senators and representatives representa-tives thought nothing had been added to the Coolidge statement of August 2 and that, while the President does not want another term and does not wrnt to be drafted, he nevertheless would not refuse to respond to the call if the party should ask him to sacrifice his personal inclinations. Others influential in the party believe he will not he a candidate under any circumstances. The theory accounting for the sudden sud-den Interest manifested by New York Republican leaders1 in the renomina-tion renomina-tion of the President is that they are becoming panic stricken over the danger dan-ger of losing that state in the Presidential Presi-dential election. That AI Smith will be the Democratic nominee is now generally taken for granted, particularly particu-larly since dry Democrats have been seen throwing up the sponge in various vari-ous parts of the country, and Smith hn repeatedly shown his ability to carv New York state against great CGX Unless Mr. Coolidge absolutely rejects re-jects a re-nomination before congress meets on December 5 the anti-third term agitation will be renewed, and Senator La Follette will reintroduce hi resolution declaring a President should not serve more than eight years. Frank O. Lowden's boom grew somewhat some-what with the authorized announcement announce-ment that his name would be entered in the Indiana preferential primary. Dawes. It was understood, would not contest the delegation with the former governor of Illinois, and Senator Watson, Wat-son, who has been credited with Presidential Presi-dential ambitions, was advised em-phu'ically em-phu'ically by his friends to stay out of the race. The Lowden boomers declare de-clare their man will enter the convention conven-tion with more assured votes than he had in 10JO. Si:ci:i:TARY MELLON'S program of tax reduction was ripped all up the hack by the house ways and means committee, which practically comi'U'Ud the new revenue bill. First the fOtmnUtee agreed upon a reduc--tinn of f::xs not to exceed $-"O.O0O,-000. and then it slashed the miseel-l::n miseel-l::n i ns taxes that Mr. Mullen wanted i:!te!:-:ngeil. The taxes on automobiles automo-biles ami e:ipital stock transfers were cut in half. The exemption on admissions admis-sions was raisvd from 75 cents to ?1. the r::te on boxing matches being in--ereas. d from 10 to '25 per cent on ad mis ;:: of and more. The stamp "tax 0:1 dealings in futures on grain ami ii-i -.luce exchanges was repealed. "The aws on grape wines were ro '.l-iool t the pro-war level. The tax -oa corporation earnings was cut from l:i: 10 1 1 1 u per cent, ono-half per cvm more than re-xunmended by Sec retary Mellon. The Mellon proposal under which corporations with net earnings of $25,000 or less and with no more than ten stockholders would have the option of paying taxes as partnerships was rejected. In place of it the committee increased the exemption ex-emption on corporations with earnings of less than $25,000 from $2,000 to $3,000. CHICAGO won a big victory in the ' battle over diversion of water from Lake Michigan through the Chicago Chi-cago sanitary canal. Charles Evans Hughes, special master for the United States Supreme court, recommended to that tribunal that the case brought by Wisconsin and other states bordering border-ing on the Great Lakes be dismissed. After holding that the complainants had presented a justifiable controversy contro-versy and that the sanitary district has no authority to divert the water without the consent of the United States, Judge Hughes declared that congress has conferred authority upon the secretary of war to regulate the diversion, and that the permit of March 3, 1925, is valid and effective according to its terms, the entire control con-trol of the diversion remaining with congress. Therefore he recommended that the bill be dismissed. 'TVAX laws were materially clarified by the Supreme court in its interpretation inter-pretation of numerous questions which bad worried both taxpayer and tax collector. In one case involving taxes on incomes derived by lessees of Indian In-dian tribal oil lands, the government established its right to retain approximately approx-imately $150,000,000 in revenue. In another proceeding the government lost in its contention that under the revenue act of 1924 it could tax gifts made prior to enactment of the law. ISA case brought down from Alaska A the Supreme court held invalid the drastic provisions of the dry law of the territory prohibiting the possession posses-sion of liquor in a private home even for the personal use of the owner, and declared residents of Alaska are entitled en-titled te the same protection against unreasonable searches as are given residents of other parts of the United States. Federal Judge Killits in Toledo, Ohio, in dismissing a case against a farmer charged with operating a still, declared the law of the sanctity of the home was a higher and more sacred law than the Volstead act or any prohibition pro-hibition law. HARRY SINCLAIR, William J. Burns, W. Sherman Burns, Sheldon Shel-don Clark, H. Mason Day and C. L. Veitsch, manager of the Burns agency in Baltimore, were cited by Justice Siddons of the District of Columbia Supreme court for criminal contempt in connection with the mistrial of the Teapot Dome oil case. They are ordered or-dered to appear before the court on December 5 to show cause why they should not be sentenced under the statutes. REAR ADMIRAL WILLIAM H. BULLARD, chairman of the federal fed-eral radio commission, died suddenly of heart disease at the naval hospital in Washington, where he had gone to rest for a slight operation. His death came at the end of a famous career, 36 years which was spent in the United States navy. A BOUT fifteen hundred convicts In the California state prison at Folsom staged a desperate revolt on Thanksgiving day and fought the guards, militiamen and other officers with guns, knives and other weapons in their effort to escape to the hills. In the first encounters two guards and six convicts were killed and a number num-ber wounded. Two United States army tanks were sent from Salinas to help the state troops, and at this writing the convicts are under s.iege in the prison. rO!.. NOT.LE BRANDON Jl'DAH. .well known Chicago banker and lawyer and a distinguished war veteran, vet-eran, was appointed ambassador to Cuba by President Coolidu-e. This is his fir t diplomatic post, and it is consider. con-sider. (I an important one. especially beeau-e tli Pan-American congress is lo meet in Havana in January. Colo, el .Imlah was born in Chicago in 1?4 end went to France with the Three Hundred and Thirty-second field artillery, later becoming assistant chief of staff of the First army corps. He participated in five major campaigns cam-paigns and was decorated for bravery by America and France. OL. CHARLES R. FORBES, for- 1 mer director of the federal ret-erans' ret-erans' bureau, who was sent to Leavenworth Leav-enworth for two years for defrauding the government, left the penitentiary last week. He had completed his sentence sen-tence and, having signed a pauper's affidavit, served thirty additional days in lieu of paying a $10,000 fine. WARFARE In the Colorado coal strike region broke out, as predicted, pre-dicted, when state police and mine guards at the Columbine mine, thirty miles from Denver, opened fire on a big and threatening mob of strikers that Invaded the mine property. Five of the mob were killed and more than a score were wounded. Governor Adams called out the National Guard and tank, airplane, infantry and cavalry cav-alry units were sent to the trouble zone. A proclamation declaring martial mar-tial law was given to Adjutant General Gen-eral Newlon to post if he deemed it necessary. The L W. W. leaders of the strike rather unexpectedly did not meet the situation with arms, but in stead called on all the strikers to refrain re-frain from violence. They swore out warrants for the arrest of the mine superintendent and an under sheriff on charges of murder. T UMANIA was thrown into mourn-- mourn-- ing by the sudden death of its premier and virtual dictator, Ionel Bratiano. This brought to the fore again the possible return of former Crown Prince Carol, but the Rumanian Ru-manian minister to Paris was instructed in-structed to warn Carol not to attempt to enter the country. ITALY'S reply to the Franco-Yugo- Slavian treaty was the publication of a treaty of military alliance between be-tween Italy and Albania which was signed Tuesday. The danger of hostilities hos-tilities was so serious that, on orders from Foreign Secretary Chamberlain of Great Britain, the British ambassador ambas-sador to Rome urged Mussolini not to be rough with Yugo-Slavia, because it is a young state and unversed in the niceties of diplomacy. COYIET Russia has agreed to take part in the coming disarmament conference at Geneva, and its full Intentions In-tentions there are a matter of much concern to the other nations. Premier Rykov said last week: "The Soviet unin is ready to propose, support and carry out the most radical program of disarmament for the whole globe, and simultaneously conduct a campaign against proposals only destined to mislead mis-lead and disguise preparation for a new war under a mask of pacificism." Vice Foreign Minister Litvinoff declared de-clared the Soviet delegation was going to Geneva to propose a complete and general disarmament, and he added that Moscow has no faith in the good will of "capitalist nations" or in their ability to disarm. Leon Trotzky and his associates in the opposition party in Russia, having hav-ing been ousted from the Communist party, have been put on probation for six months with plain warning that unless they cease their machinations they will be banished to Siberia or executed. Reports from south Russia said Trotzky supporters had fought the government police in Odessa, Kharkov Khar-kov and other Ukrainian cities and that IS persons were killed and 30 injured. The Ukrainians want a separate sep-arate republic. ERMANY and Poland have ended their long customs war by the signing of a protocol which declares an armistice in the economic battle ' over coal and manufactured products on the principle that the Poles will have the right to send coal, farm products prod-ucts and manufactured articles Into Germany while the Germans will have the right to open banks and p!ees of business and sell manufactured articles arti-cles in Poland. COCIALIST members of the Belgian ' cabinet insisted on a reduction o1 : the term of military service and ; brought about the resignation of the ' ministry. Premier Jaspar promptly formed n new ministry which contains i no Socialises. j |