Show A 7 14 04 aw 14 at I 1 Z S f aa 1 I 1 american cruiser pensacola immediately after its launching at brooklyn navy yard 2 vice president being serenaded by the american indian band on the steps of 0 the capitol in washington 3 dr robert maynard hutchins hutching thirty years old elected president of the university of chicago NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS mexican revolution collapses leaders taking refuge in united states by EDWARD W PICKARD latest revolutionary M movement has finally collapsed after many premature announcements to that effect liy by the end ot of the week the only rebel bandi in arras arms were the troops of general caraveo near put pul pito pass and some bands of guerrillas and crl cri an offer of amnesty had been sent to caraveo and his men tuesday the rebels surrendered nogales where they had bad long held out against the federal attacks their leaders already had led fled across the border and the soldiers agreed to quit after government officials had guaranteed them safety food clothing and shelter meanwhile general almazan disposed his federal forces for a great attack on the rebel positions blocking his bis way to agua prieto the last important stronghold of the revolutionists along the northern border howe homeier Ho weier er a conference held in the american customs house at dougas las ariz resulted in arrangements like ithe those at nogales and agua prieto was surrendered without a fight the 1500 rebel troops transferring their allegiance under guarantees francisco ellas elias was appointed provisional governor of the state of sonora which had now been nearly all brought under federal domination whereabouts of general escobar military chief of the revolution were unknown but it was believed lie he and gens roberto cruz and manoque were lit in the united states rebel kebel leaders known to have come across the border included gen cen rica ricardo rdo topete gen fausto topete J jesus us alzar raga gen ramon namon iturbe deputy afredo romo homo and tomas balderrama mayor of nogales capt n R 11 polk and patrick phy american aviators flying for the rebel army voluntarily crossed the international ter border into the united states and surrendered to collector of customs fred I 1 E edwards edards they were arrested by department of justice officials and charged with violation of the neutrality act NOTHING anway doing at present in the way of reduction of either land or naval armaments such Is the admission of nicholas of greece chairman of the preparatory disarms ment commission in session at geneva lie ile said the commission would adjourn in a few days but would be recon before the session of the league of nations assembly which has been set for september A number of declarations he said would be made concerning naval disarmament but there would be no discussion general statements were made by the big naval powers lit in answer to hugh gibsons gibbons Gib sons proposals on behalf of the united states nith withdrawing drawing objections to naval limitation by categories and to the exclusion of trained reserves in considering si land armament reductions earlier in the week the commission rejected mr air gibsons gibbons Gib sons suggestion that reduction be substituted for illma limitation and the chinese amendment proposing the abolition of conscription maxim tor for soviet russia had bad offered an amendment calling for the alteration of the phrase in fit article A in the chapter on military effectives front from high contracting parties agree to limit the effectives in bervice to agree to reduce appreciably the effectives in service after warm warin debate Lity loov agreed to change reduce appreciably to limit and reduce but most of the other delegates would not beld ilela and the soviet amendment ment went by the board in washington it was stated the administration lias has no intention of seeking to bring about another naval disarmament conference la in the near deal future holding that the next move in that line Is up to the league of nations and that such a conference would be futile until there had been an agreement in advance on a formula quite apart from that of tonnage upon which the calef naval powers were unable to agree in 1027 LIVELY L IVELY debates marked the consideration of farm relief legislation in the senate and various amendments to the mcnary bill were introduced rind discussed senators watson of indiana and robinson of arkansas respectively majority and minority leaders accused each other of inconsistency sis tency in their stand on the equalization fee and the debenture plan and kept the senate chamber in a turmoil for hours an amendment to the debenture provision of the mcnary measure offered by senator norris ot of nebraska was accepted it Is designed to prevent ci overproduction by reducing debenture rates as production increases among other amendments introduced were by mcnary exempting fruit and vegetables fro from the I 1 he operation of the bill by capper making the loan fund available to lo cooperative oper atlie purchasing associations of farmers and permitting loans to cooperatives operatives tor for the purpose of 0 retiring ing existing obligations on marketing facilities aties by blaine to provide that instead of a flat rate of 4 per cent the interest rate on loans to be equal to the lowest rate on government obligations issued since 1917 horace paul bestor of st louis was nominated by president hoover as a member of the federal farm loan board to succeed eugene meyer resigned mr bestor has been president of the federal land bank of st SL louis since 1922 and of the federal intermediate credit bank of st louis Louls since 1923 abells ATTORNEY GENERAL mitchells campaign for increased efficiency in the prosecuting attorneys offices and his survey of conditions resulted last week in the summary dismissal from office of william A degroot of new york united states attorney for the eastern new york district degroot had repeatedly refused to resign william A gober federal attorney for the southern district of and john cook for the southern district of mississippi already had lind resigned C HARLES EVANS sailed from new york for the hague to take up his duties as a member of the world court which is to convene on may 13 ile he will III sit on the bench beach of that permanent court of international justice not as a representative of the united states but as a judge elected by the league of nations for the united states Is not yet a member of the court by a vote of 20 to 19 the house of lords of great britain rejected lord cecils motion inviting the house to express the opinion that the time had come when britain should sl sign n the optional clause of the world court statute by tills this clause states recognize the compulsory jurisdiction of the court 44 discourtesy on the apart 11 L 1 part of the washington post led secretary of state stimson to send a letter of apology and regret to prince de ligne ambassador from belgium the newspaper publishing reports that the recall of the ambassador was imminent said it was understood that he has not been seen frequently enough concluding statesmanlike negotiations tiati ons for his government and that he was regarded by some of ers of its his government as aliat wit timi klit be termed in america guiant completely C dom dav premier mussolini Musso lint who incidentally now holds eight of the thirteen portfolios in his cabinet the italian fascist council of 00 and ili senate held their opening sessions d organized by electing giovanni Glov annl gla minister of public works as president of file corporation chamber and luigi Fede president of the senate augusto buratt secretary of tho the fascist party told the deputies that due to a drastic reform in the new chamber several changes in the rules rulea and regulations governing govern lne its procedure had been decided upon by the tha grand council the old rules based on a chamber which had bad a majority and minority were useless gowhe now he explained pla ined tor for the whole chamber was fascist sicily Is now believed to be freed from the grip of the mafla for the tha trial of members of that maleficent society which has been going on tor for nine months has ended in the conviction of of the defendants and the imposition of sentences running is as high as 23 years imprisonment the jury was out for seven days italy has Musso mussolini lInt to thank for this as for innumerable other things P PRINCE RINCE HENRY DENRY of great britain third son of king george went to japan last week for the purpose of conferring the order of the garter on the emperor of that country ile he was greeted at boklo with a most extraordinary welcome emperor Ill himself meeting him at the railway station and accompanying him to the palace through gayly decked streets that were full ot of applauding pla citizens at the palace the tha prince was greeted by the empires hostess princess acting for the empress who expects to become a mother for the third time M MAT AT day the traditional day for communist demonstrations was especially lively la in berlin the reds and the municipal authorities both were organized as for warfare and consequently the numerous clashes between the demonstrators and the police were bloody and desperate all day and far into the night the rioting continued the reds beds barricade barricades barrica ded streets and fought from the housetops and the pollee police used their rifles machine guns and armored cars freely hose wagons designed to drench mobs with torrents of cold water also were employed effectively probably a score of persons were killed in the battles and the wounded numbered many hundreds in paris the police completely squelched the reds arresting more than and preventing all strikes except that of the taxicab drivers there was rioting in several other european cities but in vienna and in england the day passed peacefully Mos cows demonstration naturally was immense and impressive the soviet army was out in force leading a tremendous parade of civilians reds in mexico city congregated in front of the american consulate general carrying ID banners attacking the united states but they were speedily dispersed by the police demonstrations of workmen in the united states were in all ali instances quite orderly OLIN J RASKOB chairman of the i JOUN democratic national committee refuses to resign as urged by certain prominent democrats of the south but lie he and his fellow leaders have created a new executive committee which Is to establish permanent and adequate headquarters in washington and devote its efforts to the rehabilitation of the party throughout the country for chairman of this committee they selected jouett shouse of kansas city former member of congress assistant secretary of the treasury during the wilson Rd administration mInIstration supporter of william G mcadoo in two campaigns and known as a dry na HO was a smith worker however to in last summers campaign Sho uses task it was explained will be to represent the national committee in efforts to ordinate coordinate co the activities tivi tIvit ties les of 0 democrats in both houses bouses state organizations and democratic groups in order to build a strong countrywide country wide democratic organization that will be a virile going institution in it Is 6 believed mr boskol and his associates think the tha democrats can win the presidential campaign of 1032 1932 with at AI smith as a their candidate and prohibition as the tha main issue |