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Show NEWS (BiEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Vare, Wet, Wins in Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Senate to Probe Campaign Expenditures. By EDWARD W. PICKARD O El'KKSKNTATIVE WILLIAM S. 1V VAKli'S victory In the I'ennsyl-vunla I'ennsyl-vunla Itepulillcan senatorial primaries was the week's most notahle event in the United States, hecauso, as viewed by Mr. Vare himself and a great many other people, It was a victory for the cuuao of modification of the Volstead act nil her than for Mr. Vare personally. person-ally. True, the comhlned votes of Vare's rivals, Senator Pepper and Oovernor I'lnchot, exceeded that of Vav by ubont 150,01)0, and both of them are pronounced urys. Hut Vare s election, If lie wins in November means one more wet vole in the seiuite; and according ac-cording to many political observers the Pennsylvania vote makes it certain cer-tain that (he beer and light wine is-eue is-eue will he a leading Issue in the congressional con-gressional elections this year. Party lines will not be closely observed in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts and some other states, it Is predicted. In the Keystone stale Vare's Demo-iT.;:ie Demo-iT.;:ie opponent will be William H. W:i:;un, former secretary of labor, nominated without opposition, lie is a dry. (iovernor I'lnchot may decide to lead a bolt of dry Republicans and run independently, and if lie does, the Democrats think they have a chance to win In that overwhelmingly Republican Repub-lican stale. Anyhow, the tlrys declare they will not support Vare. though Senator Pepper asserts he will stand by the party's choice. PENNSYLVANIA'S primaries had 1 something more than an echo in the senate chamber. Indeed (here was a veritable explosion there, for Senator Sena-tor Reed of Missouri took advantage of tlie published stories of vast expenditures ex-penditures on behalf of certain of the Republican candidates and brought forward again his resolution for investigation in-vestigation of primary campaign expenditures, ex-penditures, li ist offered during the April contest in Illinois. He made a red hot speech in support of it, and was answered by Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, who tried to defend the fair name of his state. The affair was embarrassing especially to those senators sen-ators who come mi for re-election in the fall. The vote to take up the resolution for consideration was 4fi to SI, the nays being all Republicans. When the vote on adoption was taken It revealed some sudden and rather panicky switching. Fourteen more Republicans Re-publicans joined the Democrats in voting aye, and seven (?. O. P. men ducked out of the chamber to avoid being recorded. The 14 were : I'.utler. Cameron. Cummins. Curtis. Pale. Gooding, llarreld. .Jones of Washington, MeMaster, Pine. Stan-field, Stan-field, Weller. Williams and Willis. The seven who fled were: Capper, Deneen. Keyes. Reed of Pennsylvania, Watson, Norbeck and Robinson of Indiana. The vote was 50 to 13. Comment by Reed of Missouri was characteristic : "The fact is that S4 of you voted against taking up this resolution, and 21 of you. and I am going to drop into the vernacular welched inside of Tai minutes. . . . It is a remarkable exhibition of intellectual activity. . . . Yes. in that period of time 21 senators sena-tors changed their minds. If we had had two or three minutes more the other 13 would have changed also, in my judgment." Vice President Dawes appointed this committee to carry on the investigation: inves-tigation: Senators David A. Reed (Rep- Charles S. Deneen (Rep.. 111.), Robert M. La Folletle. Jr. (Prog. Rep.. Wis.). James- A. Reed Di'in.. Mo.). Thomas F. P.ayard- (Deal.. Del.). Reed of Pennsylvania. Deneen and I'-ayard. resigned for good reasons and were replaced by Fernald (Rep., Maine) C.o'.T (Rep., W. Va.) and King (Dem.. I'tah). The committee is empowered to sit during the summer recess and to investigate in-vestigate the expenditures of money pot only in primaries that already have been held but also in those yet to come and In the Impending election elec-tion campaigns wf t lie 31 senators who come up for re-election In November. CF.NATOR REED of Pennsylvania. who supported Pepper, said he would advise Ids friends in the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania legislature to vote for the holding of a referendum on prohibition prohibi-tion modification, and at a conference with President Coolldge and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon he urged tills course. New York state is going to have such a referendum, for the bill providing for it was signed on Wednesday by Oovernor Smith after be heard both sides. XTARSIIAL JOSEF PILSUDSKI succeeded In his revolutionary coup In Poland, and now doesn't seem to know just what to do with his success, suc-cess, lie Installed Rataj as acting president and Charles Pattel as premier, pre-mier, but he firmly resisted all the demands de-mands that lie assume the dictatorship, dictator-ship, asserting that he was a liberal democrat and opposed to absolule rule. Neither would he stand as a candidate for the presidency.' This led the Socialists and Radicals to desert de-sert him and to denounce him for a needless shedding of blood, although the marshal apparently had done all he could to avoid this. Indeed, his supporters say lie originally had no intention of overthrowing the government, govern-ment, desiring merely to make a demonstration dem-onstration before the Belvedere palace in protest against the corruption of the administration. Acting President Rataj has summoned the national assembly as-sembly to meet May 2S to elect a new president. Many of the deputies demanded de-manded that the session be held outside out-side of Warsaw. General Mailer, one of Pilsudski's leading opponents, was supposed to be organizing a counter-revolution nt Po-sen Po-sen where It was reported he had more than 10,000 troops. Pilsudskl started negotiations with him to avoid further lighting. T ISPATCIIES to the London Daily r..pif ii ii oi anoiiier terrinc bombardment of Damascus by the French in which the Midan section of tli at city was utterly destroyed by shells and flames and 500 civilians and 100 rebels were killed. Druse rebels had attacked French military posts and then tool; refuge in the Mi-dan Mi-dan quarter. The French commander gave the inhabitants an hour to get out of range of his guns and then opened fire on the barricaded Druses with three-inch guns, howitzers and airplanes. The bombardment lasted 15 hours and the slaughter of the natives na-tives was terrible. In a recent interview inter-view given a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune the nationalist leaders lead-ers of Syria declare they will continue' the fight against the French to the deatli unless their demands for independence in-dependence are recognized. They hope for intervention by the League of Nations, since France holds the mandate for Syria under the league. THE Norge. which landed at Teller, Alaska, instead of Nome, after its epochal (light over the North pole, has been dismantled for shipment to the United States and Captain Amundsen Amund-sen says he is done with polar exploration. explo-ration. Since he has been to both the North and South pole, his retirement Is understandable. On the other hand. Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd, the American who was first to fly over the North pole in an airplane, is now planning an expedition to the South pole. He and his party have left Spitsbergen for London. np HOUGH Great Britain is return-A return-A ing to normal conditions in most respects after the general strike, the miners are still out. Thursday their delegates in conference rejected the government's proposals for settlement because they included a reduction of wages. The delegates asserted the pay does not at present provide for a decent standard of living. The country is beginning to learn what the general strike cost it. Walter Wal-ter Runciman. in the house of commons, com-mons, estimated the total direct loss to trade at 2fi.500.0YN (about $130.-OOO.OOO) $130.-OOO.OOO) and indirect loss to the country's coun-try's industries of more than 30.000,. OOO. Four railway companies roughly estimated their losses at more than 5.000.000. while- the National Union of Railway Men figures the strike cost :o it at more than 1.000.000. The government has announced no new taxation will be necessary to pay the strike bill. r It. WILIIELM MARX, leader of Center party, is again chancellor of Germany, having succeeded Doctor Luther. He Is supported by a large majority of the reichstag. nd has pledged himself to continue Luther's foreign policy and to uphold the Locarno Lo-carno pacts. He promised the Republicans Repub-licans the government would prepare a new law on the national flag that would satisfy everybody. A MERICA and Great Britain seem to stand alone in the meeting of the preparatory disarmament commission commis-sion at Geneva, the delegates of nearly near-ly all other countries opposing the view of Lord Cecil and Hugh Gibson that the popular conception of armaments arma-ments only can be taken as the basis of general disarmament. The others insisted that Invisible war factors also must be considered. The commission decided that onlv nencetime nrmn- ments could be limited by international interna-tional agreement. But it accepted a reservation of Paul Boncour of France that any formula on the reduction of peacetime armaments must recognize the geographic, economic, and military mili-tary conditions, as well as population, upon all of which wartime power depends. de-pends. ITALY'S new Fascist syndicalist sys-A sys-A tern of government Is now In full effect, having been inaugurated by a proclamation by Premier Mussolini. He said it was an experiment which the Fascists were confident would succeed where other forms of government govern-ment had failed. The Duce continued contin-ued : "For the first time in the history of the world, a constructive revolution, like ours, pacifically realized in the field of production and labor, gathers together all economic and Intellectual forces of the" nation to direct them toward to-ward a common goal. For the first time is created a potent system of . 15 great associations, all placed on a basis of equality, all recognized and guaranteed in their legitimate united interests as part of the sovereign state. "Only today the people, which labor in their varied activities, lift themselves them-selves as enlightened co-workers of their own destiny." CEBASTIAN S. KRESGE of New Y'ork, multimillionaire owner of chain stores, announced a further gift of $23,000,000 to the Kresge Foundation Founda-tion to he used for charitable and public pub-lic welfare purposes. He started the foundation two years ago with $2,000,-000. $2,000,-000. The foundation will first make a general survey to determine the best channels of distribution and when the program has been decided on the expenditures ex-penditures will be left to the discretion discre-tion of the trustees. Mr. Kresge Intends In-tends to make further gifts as the work proceeds, fie has already made other large contributions for religious and temperance work. ARCHBISHOP GEORGE J. CARU-ANA. CARU-ANA. papal nuncio to Mexico, has been expelled by the Calles government gov-ernment rn the charge that he made false declarations when he entered Mexico regarding his birth, profession profes-sion and religion. This he has absolutely abso-lutely denied. He Is a citizen of the United States and has come to this country. Other Incidents of the week In brief: Millions of dollars of damage was done in northern Italy by floods following fol-lowing severe storms. The Begum of Bhopal. only woman ; ruler in India, abdicated in favor of her son. The house of representatives passed the Johnson bill making great changes in the World war veterans' act of 1024, and the Sanders bill prohibiting the transportation of pistols and revolvers re-volvers through the mails. ' French franc made new low record. 1 reaching 3(1.17 to the dollar. J Mohammed VI, ex-sultan of Turkey: I A. W. Gilchrist, former governor of : Florida: A. R. Metcalfe, authority on I whist, and W. E. D. Stokes, New York j hotel owner and figure in noted di- j vorce litigation, were among those ' taken by death. Clyde Liner Seneca went aground off Miami and the rescued passengers accused the crew of being intoxi- cated. |