Show news review of current events the world over ater senate passes economy bill to save million hoovers disarmament proposals get co cool ol 01 reception siam establishes Establish cs constitutional monarchy by EDWARD V W PICKARD action on the national C congressional economy bill was completed by the house and senate tuesday lal night ailt the senate agreed to the changes made by the house in the plan of pay less furloughs furroughs for government employees plo the major house changes in the furlough plan were reduction of the exemption from 1200 to 1000 and establishing tab lishing shing a graduated scale of pay cuts for those employees whose services were so BO needed they could not be given a months leave without pay as will the employees who can be spared the pay cuts begin at 10 per cent on salaries over and range to 20 per cent on salaries of and over those making less than who could not be furloughed would give up op 8 13 1 3 per cent ot of their years pay one reason for the se senates nates reluctance to approve tho the bill 1111 may have been that it cuts the salaries of congressmen 10 per cent the vice president and speaker of 0 the house suffer 15 per cent slashes even the president Is invited to do his part the measure providing that whatever portion of his salary he wishes to turn back Is acceptable to the treasury department president hoover had indicated his willingness to accept a smaller salary as part of the economy program the same provision Is applied to federal judges who like the president are exempted by constitution from salary changes during their terms the salary and wage cuts provide the great bulk of savings in the measure but changes in bureaus to eliminate duplication will effect other reductions duct ions in government cost OST observers agree that the opposition M MOST ol of france and japan and RY of great britain are ta ii result in the he rejection of president hoovers latest A i proposals tor for deduc tion of armament senator J hamilton lewis of 1111 illinois always a deep student student of international affairs Is of this 0 pin iel conand Ina in a speech in the senate lie he declared the replies of the countries named even embody the clear ex sen lewis pec tation of a war in which the united states might be embroiled therefore said the senator it Is time for this country to take stock of its national defense policy and he offered three suggestions to democratic senators he suggested that they applaud the presidents effort to bring about world concord through the reduction of armaments to the democratic convention ln chicago he suggested that there be written into the platform a full declaration as to the army find and navy that will assure defense and adequate preparations against these peoples who are refusing to join us in an effort for peace and are contemplating events which in their judgment will surely involve us in war to the president he suggested the withdrawal of it a proposition that foreign nations had flouted in order that the future course of the ali nation as to its foreign relations and its de festle deafen defense se might be made an open campaign issue with the people given opportunity to speak in november premier Herric herriotts Her riots its cabinet decided on this line of policy regarding the disarmament plan and reparations 1 france will not categorically reject the hoover plan providing a security pact with adequate sanctions la Is drafted 2 there will be no european settlement of the debt problem without a general settlement in other words 11 france rance will not give up reparations unless america cancels the war debts HEN the fiscal year 1932 1032 ended W WHEN on june 30 the public debt showed an increase from at the end of the last fiscal year to close to this was due to both diminishing revenues and I 1 buglo J b g expenditures in spite of the fact that the gross deficit nearly la Is the largest in the nations peace time history treasury officials were inclined to see a ray of hope bope in the fact that the deficit Is no larger than had bad been anticipated by the departments statisticians last february it was said also that the total expenditures not counting the flie extraordinary sp spen endings dines for the reconstruction finance corporation capital and the federal land banks will run con considerably below the estimated expenditures tor for the fiscal year representative LA GUARDIA rand representative and mothr r congressional critics of the federal farm board think they have fourd found another case of mismanagement by that body and the new yorker has sent to chairman J C stone a letter demanding a full explanation of the boards sale galo last fall fail 1 of bushala of wheat to china the chief question in the minds of congressional inquirers Is why the farm board sold wheat to the government orilona ori on long term credit when advices advises from china are that china has paid cash for canadian and australian grain and has been selling large amounts of wheat to russia and getting payment in cash the farm boards transaction with china was fulfilled last fall and winter on the governments plea that its own gra granaries narles were empty that it had no funds to make cash payments and that millions of chinese faced starvation in approximately the last tour four months of 1931 and the first four months of this oils year the united states sent to china bushels of the farm boards stabilization wheat it accepted chinas cainas notes partially secured by customs receipts calling for payment in 1933 1033 1931 1934 and 1935 during this same period chinas cainas wheat exports to russia japan and I korea orea showed surprising upward fluctuations whether or not the Nan hanling ling governments ern ments ability to buy american wheat on credit made it possible for chinese shippers to increase their exports so suddenly was a question t the p critics wanted answered by chairman S tone stone the good natured and progressive kingoff siam Is no longer an absolute monarch when he was in the united states some months ago he said he intended to grant his people a constitution when they were ready for it but they wait any longer because of 0 the c count rys economic verc distress headed by ir 1 I the army and navy va they put on a revolt at bangkok arrested a number of princes and other government king leaders and an bounced that a constitutional tut ional lonal monarchy must be established at once they gave the kins king only one hour to accept their terms declaring that it if he refused they would put 11 ut another prince on the throne pra and his queen returned immediately mcd lately from their vacation and ile he agreed to the demands of the revolutionists issuing a proclamation legalizing all the nets acts of the peoples party under whose banner the government had been taken over A draft of the constitution was submitted to him and after studying it with representatives of the resellers he signed it the only casualties in the coup were the death of a palace soldier adler and the wounding of gen sena Song kram commanding the first army corps the arrested princes were being held as hostages pending final action by the king D ENE wat of warfare between L china and japan Is threatened by the developments in the relations between the government and the manchurian Manc hurlan state of the 3 bone bode of 0 contention this time ls is the customs receipts at dairen which were being diverted to 4 by the japanese customs i commissioner at dairen J fukumoto this off official iclal was discharged by T V soong chinese finance minister and the ent V soong tire japanese staff there resigned declaring the action outrageous the government through its japanese finance minister matsuzo gonda declared its intention to establish a new customs house at on the border between the Kwang tung leased territory and manchuria in addition to dairen nine other customs offices within manchuria churia are now operating under the flag of sir frederick maze british inspector general of customs in china upholds the chinese in the controversy A spokesman of the government in shanghai said troops in north china had bad been ordered to resist arly any attempted invasion of the helping area by japanese of troops of federal bureaus C curtailment and a stated percentage reduction in total appropriations are asked of congress by representatives of manufacturers rs association who met in chicago A careful survey of all governmental ern mental spending activity will be made at once and detailed suggestions are to be made on this information states represented at the meeting were illinois indiana iowa ohio michigan wisconsin minnesota kentucky nebraska south dakota vermont virginia west virginia florida an and tennessee T LAST AST december S S a prohibition 14 1 4 agent driving his car at a rate of at between GO CO and 70 miles tin nn hour br 1 in pursuit ursula of a bootlegger killed mrs lira mary jeffcoat in new kew brookland S raw C A bill was introduced in congress to pay the comans womans husband damages 14 aw and amos W wood cock director of pro h hibit lon enforcement ali told a subcommittee of the house committee on claims that he L recommended against payment of the claim amos W because he did not woodcock consider the dry agent guilty of reckless drian lie ile said he be thought a prohibition agent had the right to break local speed laws with immunity it if he was engaged in pursuing an alleged prohibition law violator director woodcock also roused the ire of committee members by stating that his instructions to dry agents directed them to indignantly and vigorously reject bribe offers made to them by law violators but not to attempt to arrest the bribers unless they offered actual cash the question of officers receiving bribes came up when mr woodcock praised officer sligh as a man who had been offered bribes as high as and had replied by kicking the men off the porch who offered the bribe the house passed the bill awarding the widow bill to abolish the oath of allegiance THE Tle legi ance to the british crown for the irish free state entered in a new phase of its tempestuous career when the senate passed the bill with several strings a attached to it As a result of the sen senate ate action the oath bill does not serve the purpose originally announced by president eamon de valera of giving the free state complete independence but carries tin an amendment that would sterilize it this amendment provides that abolition of the oath could not cot occur until the british and free state governments have reached an agreement on the point minister connolly of telegraphs graphs speaking for the government said the measure would not be accepted in its present form but would be permitted to go to the dall dail with the results that might be expected A AT T A meeting of the republican senatorial campaign committee called by senator henry D hatfield rep W va committee chairman plans were made for an active senatorial campaign in the east middle west and far west senator felix nebert hebert rep R 1 I will be ln in charge of eastern headquarters dt at ni new ew york senator T L J dickinson rep iowa will copers midwestern headquarters at chicago and senator robert D carey rep wyo at cheyenne will have charge of the far western section in the middle west the senatorial committee will assist in the campaigns of senator ir otis F glenn in illinois and senator james E watson in indiana in iowa it will have the candidacy of henry field victor in the primaries over senator smith wildman brookhart Erool Broo Aart radical republican to support PEACE conference between gen A augusto sandino nicaraguan insurgent and powerful political leaders of his country has been arranged for the near future this startling development came about through gen manuel balladares prominent san dista who recently talked with american officials from nicaragua after a conference with sandino the conference will be held at san lorenzo a honduran port the participants will probably be the four liberal candidates for the presidency and gen horatio San Sand dinos luos candidate the immediate object of the conference is the nomination of a single liberal candidate from among the contesting live five it if a compromise la is reached tile the next step would be a de declaration C la ration of an armistice pending elections and ultimately final peace A TWO MILLION DOLLAR cur curtailment tall of the coast guards prohibition hibi tion activities was eted by the senate with the passage of the treasury and post office appropriation bill the saving was more than counterbalanced however by an increase of the appropriation for rural sanitation from to 30 jOWo and the retention of customs surveyors and appraisers which the house bill had thrown out As agreed to the bill carried 1 I 1 TEN EN americans comprising missionaries sion aries and their families have been captured by communists at kl KI kung shan china consul general walter A adams reported to the state department through the american legation at neiping Pel Pei ping the consul general reported that a missionary who escaped shan on june 27 07 said these ten americans had been abducted by communists before daylight on june 26 sir mr and mrs D IV and three children of mead head neb mrs erik socially Sov Sovi lally ally and son of northfield eld blinn ur mr and mrs arthur 11 nyhus an and d infant child of fink iowa the consul general reported that he be was making urgent telegraphic representations to the chairman of the nonan provincial government and requested that the legation make representations to the national government C 1932 WON newspaper union |