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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CsJBBT EVENTS Mussolini Shot in Nose by Eccentric English Woman; Wets Arraign Dry Act. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ANOTHER piece of good luck for Eenito Mussolini, the redoubtable redoubt-able premier and dictator of Italy ! Having just addressed the international interna-tional congress of surgeons in the cap-itol cap-itol of Rome, he was about to step into his automobile when Violet Al-bina Al-bina Gibson, member of an eccentric family of Irish nobility, flred a small pistol at him. The bullet struck him in the nose, piercing both nostrils, but the wound was so trifling that Mussolini Mus-solini resumed his office work after it was dressed, and next day began his journey to Tripoli with the battle fleet. The assassin, who is an elderly woman, was rescued from the angry people by the police. Her motive has not been revealed. She is the sister of Baron Ashbourne and her relatives say she Is half mad. The Immediate result of the attack was a great outbreak of enthusiasm for Mussolini by the Fascisti in Rome and other cities. The offices of several sev-eral opposition newspapers were sacked, despite the premier's order that there be no acts of vengeance. The "duce" is now even more of a national hero than before, if that is possible. His departure for Tripoli was attended witli great pomp. The fleet accompanying him was made up of a division of battleships, destroyers destroy-ers and submarines, together with large numbers of airplanes and seaplanes. sea-planes. Aboard the flagship Conte di Cavour he received the new directorate directo-rate of the Fascisti and gave out the details of the party program for the change of Italy from a parliamentary to a syndicalist state. In his address lie declared the Fascists had won their battle at home but that there was now the graver battle with foreign for-eign countries. It was natural that all countries upholding the principle of fraternity without real brotherhood of equality, without peace or liberty, and without independence would coalesce against Italy. The premier said he foresaw an attempt economically economi-cally to isolate Ilaly, but he shouted, "We will win, because we have 3,000,-000 3,000,-000 youths ready." Not a day passes without further evidence of the implacable determination determina-tion of the Fascisti to have their own way. Tuesday they engaged in a pitched battle with their opponents in the province of Palermo, Sicily, and drove them into the mountains. In Naples the Jewish lawyer for I lie wid-w wid-w of (iiacomo Matteoli, Sig Modigli-imi, Modigli-imi, was seriously wounded by a Fascist Fas-cist i::oh. Matteotl was the Socialist deputy who was kidnaped and murdered mur-dered on June 10, 1024, by a Fascist group. J(h:i Amendola, the last important impor-tant lender of the opposition to Mussolini, Mus-solini, died in Cannes as the result of H beating lie received from a Fascist noli in Italy several months ago. I'ncontirmed stories sent over by foreign correspondents toll of an attack at-tack by Fascisti in Venice on American Ameri-can sailors from the four destroyers that were there. This was due to resentment re-sentment against the holding up of Hie Italian debt settlement in the senate. The navy officials in Washington Wash-ington said they had not heard of the event, hut the desuovers left Venice suddenly. pMKUY ONE in the country, be he wet or dry, is following with interest in-terest tho senate committee hearings the bills for amendment or repeal of the Volstead act. Last week was given over to the wets, ami they made Hie most of their opportunity, under tl;e leadership of Senators l'.ruce and I'-dge and witli the assistance of counsel coun-sel for various wet organizations. Gen-Pral Gen-Pral Andrews, chief prohibition enforcement en-forcement official of the government, was the Hi-si witness. He told at cngtli nf ()le problems encountered bv Ms forces and of their plans for more efficient work; of t lie amazing effrontery of the bootleggers and al cohol redistiilers and the crookedness of many druggists and physicians. He said that captures made by his agents show that OS per cent of the whisky Americans are drinking today is fixed, doped, poisoned, split, and otherwise adulterated. At one point in his testimony General Gen-eral Andrews blamed "politics, the churches, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-saloon Anti-saloon league" for the presence in the federal prohibition enforcement enforce-ment organization of men either corrupt or stupid and inefficient. He was not, of course, a friendly witness wit-ness for the wets, and declared that with more legislation and additional forces he believed he could finally control the situation. United States District Attorney Buckner of New Yrork followed with disclosures of the enormous quantities of industrial alcohol, much of it poisonous, poi-sonous, diverted to the bootleggers and to the stomachs of the people. He estimated the total to be 60,000,000 gallons gal-lons a year. Other parts of his testimony testi-mony may be summarized thus : Twelve hundred drug stores in New York city are selling 4S0.000 gallons of whisky a year, and that is precisely twice as much as could legally be sold if all the prescription blanks which the law allows the 5,100 physicians in that area were legitimately used. Analysis of 50,000 samples of bootleg boot-leg wdiisky captured by federal agents in New York city in two years showed the captures not to be whisky at all, but redistilled denatured alcohol with traces of the poisonous denaturing fluid still in it. So large and so flagrant is the diversion di-version of industrial alcohol from legitimate le-gitimate channels that now it Is being bootlegged into Canada, where the tax on alcohol is very high. Thirteen months ago, wdien Buckner Buck-ner took office as United States district dis-trict attorney for the Southern district dis-trict of New York, he found the fifth floor of the federal building in New York city a seething mob of bartenders, bartend-ers, waiters, liquor peddlers, petty bootleggers, fixers, and bond sharks openly trafficking with justice. They tried to bribe the jurymen even in tRe building. Alfred J. Talley, former judge of the court of general sessions, New York city, swore that bis court experience ex-perience convinces him that prohibition prohibi-tion Is "the greatest single menace confronting the United States and the greatest cause of lawlessness among the most lawless people in the world," and that "for every saloon abolished three speakeasies have sprung up." Among the many other witnesses heard were Hudson Maxim, Congressman Congress-man Vnre of Pennsylvania, Dr. William Wil-liam C. Woodward of Chicago, representing repre-senting the American Medical association associa-tion and Anton J. Cermak, speaking for a delegation of Cliicagoans. CORN-BELT leaders in Washington announce, that the cotton growers of the South will support the surplus control bill designed to raise the juices of farm products on the domestic domes-tic market above the export market price, and believe they will overcome the opposition of the administration to tli o measure. Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture Jardine has been drafting a hill which makes some important concessions conces-sions to the demands of the corn growers. His measure will provide for the creation of a farm board to deal with the surplus problem, as proposed pro-posed by the farm organizations, hut will omit any provision for collecting equalization fees from the producers. The corn belt would linance the price-boosting price-boosting operations from a SoO.OOO.-(K'O SoO.OOO.-(K'O revolving fund advanced by the government. Secretary Jardine will not provide for a revolving fund, but is working out a plan for a loan either by the government or private capita! for financing operations in the orderly marketing of surplus products. ACCORDING to a report of the Department De-partment of Agriculture, tho farm population of tile United States decreased nearly half a million darini r.l'J-1. H estimates the number of persons per-sons living on farms January 1. l'.'JC, to have been ."'UieTi.i W. compared with January 1, l'.vjo. The estimated net movement away from farms last year amounted to cioi.fKui persons, but there was an estimated excess of farm births over farm deaths amounting to 422,000, which reduced re-duced tile loss due to cityward movement move-ment to 479,000. The estimated decrease de-crease in farm population in 1024 was 1S2.000. ARGUMENTS in the Brookhart-Steck Brookhart-Steck contest occupied considerable consider-able time in the senate last week and it did not appear that an early decision de-cision was likely. There was a report re-port that President Coolldge had intimated inti-mated to Senator Butler, chairman of the Republican national committee, that in his opinion the majority report re-port of the elections committee, which recommended the seating of Steck, Democrat, should be approved. If this is done it is a certainty that Brookhart will oppose Senator Cummins Cum-mins for the nomination in the next Republican primaries. That might result re-sult in the election of a Democrat, and the prospect is rather worrying the Republicans. pROSPECTS are good for settle-' settle-' ment of the Tacna-Arlca dispute between Peru and Chile in accordance with a plan submitted to the representatives repre-sentatives of the two republics by Secretary Sec-retary of State Kellogg. The nature of the proposals was not made public except that they would be substituted for the plebiscite. Ambassadors Cru-chaga Cru-chaga of Chile and Velardi of Peru both expressed the hope that the new negotiations would succeed. T AUOL PERET, finance minister of France, won a big victory when the parliament adopted his measures after a week's consideration. considera-tion. Figures issued Tuesday showed that France's budget was balanced for the first time since the beginning of the World war, without, including of the country's 52 per cent of the reparations repa-rations paid by Germany under the Dawes plan. XT EGOTIATIONS for peace in Mo-- rocco on the basis of autonomy for the Riffians were proceeding nicely nice-ly in Paris when a semiofficial announcement an-nouncement from Madrid virtually ended theni. This was to the effect that Spain would not accept the terms offered by Abd-el-TCrim. Consequently Consequent-ly a strong French offensive in the near future is predicted unless Krira is willing to consider new terms offered of-fered by France and Spain. In Syria the French are still fighting fight-ing the Druses, and a recent dispatch says Prince Hamad Atrash, son of Sultan Sul-tan el Atrash, leader of the tribesmen, was killed in battle at Maarba. t70UR hundred men and women, fugitives from Russia, met in Paris in the first Pan-Russian congress of emigrants and exiles and laid plans for an early attempt to win back their country from the Bolshevists. Prof. Peter Strouve was elected president pres-ident of the congress and roused intense in-tense enthusiasm when he called on Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of the late czar, to become grand chieftain of national Russia, assume command of the army and liberate the country from communist oppression. How all this might be accomplished was considered con-sidered in secret sessions of the conference. con-ference. RELIGIOUS warfare between the Moslems and Hindus in India, always al-ways smoldering, has broken out in Calcutta and other cities and the British authorities are having a hard time trying to restore order. Mosques and temples are destroyed and many persons are being killed or wounded in the wild street fighting. Another cause of anxiety to the British in India is the demand of the nazim of Hyderabad that be be given Borer, which was ceded to the English 17.0 years ago. The nazim has armed forces and mi-l:t lead a revolt of other dissatisfied Indian princes. British Brit-ish troeps have heen concentrated in Secunderabad to keep the nazim quiet. AIRPLANES from the army of Marshal Chime have been bombing bomb-ing Peking, despite the protests of the foreign diplomats. The real battle for the possession of the city seems to have begun. It is reported there that a coalition has been formed between the forces of Feng Yu-hsiang. Wu Pei-fu Pei-fu and the governors of S!i:m.-i and Kiangsi provinces for the destruction of the Chili and Shantung armies that are besieging the capital. |