Show news review of current events the world over president hoover urges economy in national expenditures earthquake practically destroys city of mana managua ua knute rockne dead by EDWARD W PICKARD P PRESIDENT ver RESIDENT returned 1100 to washington after an ni day cruise to porto rico and the virgin islands with a countenance that at an the shade K of he an almost alinosi ripe tomato west indian sw sur and wind had burned his face badly and there was a president strong busl biclon iclon the hoover akin kin would peel I 1 there that lie he was however was no question rested and greatly so go as a result of hla his leisurely trip one of his firby announcers announce announcements rn ants was that thai a tax Inc increase rense could 1 be e avoided if his budget and other oilier recommendations for expenditures were not increased by congress next winter to that end he appe appealed nied to the button to bring pressure on congress against the demands ot of sectional or group interests the statement was vas v as made in the face of c lagging income tax receipts Ind indicating lent a treasury deficit of perhaps at the close of the current fiscal year june SO 30 it was regarded as part of the presidents effort to public sentiment against further soldier jonus legislation farm relief appropriations or similar proposals in the new congress to condone in december senator william E borah borab republican insurgent idaho retorted through the press that thai tle the record Is that congress has appropriated less than the budget bureau has lecorn recommended each session for the last few years tie he declared his willingness to cut cui oft off the provided for the ad administrations min eistrat tons naval building program BLIZZARD in rocky mountain aana A and plains states took a toll of eleven lives including five children two men and a woman in colorado scores were in a serious condition from frostbite and exposure thousands of cattle perished in a wide area including wyoming colorado south dakota nebraska and the vI western estern parts of kansas okla ooma boma and texas in the southern part of the storm area p peach each apricot and other stone fruit crops were ruine ruin the cald victims of the storm were pupils at pleasant hill school towner colo the morning of the blizzard maude moser the teacher ended classes because of the storm carl miller arrived to take the pupils to their homes lu in the school bus hiss bliss moser started to walk to her home there were twenty two tao children in the he bus when miller started all between the ages of eight rind and thirteen three miles from pleasant nil mil the bus plowed into a snow drift ten feet deep and stalled outside the mass of falling snow enow nas a curtain obscuring the road tracks brachs and covering fences miller tried to back toward the school but could not get the wheels heels odthe bur bup free from the drift after remaining with the children for many hours miller realized be must net get old bid or all would perish in the driving storm he started out thinking he could reach a farmhouse struggling Kline on for more than three miles he fell exhausted in a cornfield and perished five fire of the children were load dead when a rescuing party found them but the rest were saved there were other oilier tragedies in the that swept the mountain states slates and other sections but this tragedy was one to arouse the utmost pity linely the children met their fotel they sang blind end and boxed and played to keep keel ann as they were viere told by the a driver before he left liem bern to seek aid us its urged by the young lender leader put in charge until the mer merciless elless wind find and chill benumbed them into helpless drowsiness NUTE KnO rockne cIne football 4 couch coach of the anler baity of not notre re fame dame 0 a name that thai be came a collegiate byword e plunged to his fits death willi will live fellow passengers and two to pilots on n a tran transcontinental scon tin and ad western tern air inc air liner in the mid kansas grazing knute K country witnesses said gald the rockne t raft flying through clouds and fog L liitt a 8 aing in the hie air and hurtled to the ground like a crippled blid bird rockne had only recently recovered ered froni from an illness which a year fear nio ago lind lied threatened to terminate his ia brilliant coaching career last kefir howver however he developed one ot the very liest best of tits his many excellent tennis learns end and weds a schedule for 1931 1 11 ll which in dilated that thai he looked forward to an equally great team this year american football sustains a great rent jobs AmerIca American DR st lose one who typified the host best in ID useful widen wideawake wake citizen ship hoover in an official statement deseri described beci the death 0 f rockne ns its a national loss JIL development of fascism in THE Is to in be marked further on july I 1 of this year by the banish ment of hie lie twelve good men and true frai from the penal court of mus solf rilland juries are abolished with the reform of the courts of assizes or those try criminal cases wh which ich premier mussolini bill put in effect three months hence and tor for them will be substituted a juridical committee or n hats called a college consisting of two professional judges end and ove five citizens who are called assessors rut put every one cannot be an assessor only special categories of catl zens who have high moral end and intel if not political attainments will run the risk of having their names in the wheel to be drawn as assessors the reform of the courts of assizes and the abolition of the jury Is a result of the reformed penal code in italy a work ork on minister llin lster of justice rocca and his collaborators have labored for five fire years yeam the reform was as brought about by what nha were considered scandalous decisions often returned by juries made up of men of insufficient intellectual attainments to distinguish between the facts and the emotional bunk of the lawyers discontent with these abuses had ne accumulated cumulated in ID less than a century for the jury system was only intro deuced in italy in ID 1848 the formal DURING admal adjournment of he german welchs t tag a g t the h e bruening cabinet la Is armed with parliamentary certified dictatorial powers to run the country until next autumn vt hen the reichstag reconvenes recon renes the government also prepared measures to curb attacks chancellor on president bruening the emergency decree enormously curtails the vital civic rights anchored to the german constitution basing the action on article 48 of 0 the constitution enabling the president to take dictatorial measures when security and order are threatened the decree curtails the personal rights of citizens such as the freedom of speech the inviolability af homes freedom of the press secrecy in the malls the right to nicel meet when unarmed the right to form a or own property public announcements of political gatherings must be confined to the barest facts newspapers infringing upon the terms of the decree may he be suspended tor for elgh weeks cc and other publications may be suspended for six months the public speaking muzzle decree the old timers eloquently claim Is more severe than a ukase to in the days of the former kaiser during adjournment committees will continue working on a mass of internal reform projects end and the can be called together a any time on ole hie demand of one third of the hie members or the council of elders ran can authorize such a special call by majority vote RUSSIA RUS SIA bade open defiance defence to tle international grain conference tit nt inome home when abraham kissin soviet dele delegate gute declared that fur far froni from reducing her wheat A beat production his coun try would increase it this year nud anu that hint instead of giving up tier pulley yf of so called duncing duni ing she elie intended ili tended to lucrease increase her ident exports la in order to pay for her imports import e exceed 7 aeed a year any proposal to exclude from economic intercourse a nation occupying une one sixth of the worlds surface ix Is foredoomed fore doomed to failure kissin said russia a population Is increasing at the rate of nt a year which Is proportionately twice tivice as great its as the increase of Eu ropes population therefore we must increase out wheat production the united states agricultural department part ment tins has estimated that spring wheat plantings illumines would be reduced per cent this exceeded the hope of the farm board for a 10 per cent cut 11 E cuban supreme THE court has tin given a decision against a g u I 1 n B t president Machado 9 suspension of newspaper publics tion holding that tie he acted lo in violation of 0 the constitutional provision tor for free speech when he shut down rushes ak which hibb lind had information and criticism distaste president ful fill 0 o the hie go machado mr air machado set get forth the necessity of 0 public security and order as reason ifor for the prohibition of publication but without any showing that there was an emergency or that the newspapers comment was visa contrary to the public good VAST financial organization with AVAST millions of capital to relieve the cotton producers of the hie south from the distress caused by low prices ot of their commodity Is dec declared lored to be in ID process of formation by chicago capitalists headed by william wrigley jr details of the scheme have not been ree repealed aled but the main idea Is understood to be to accumulate large quantities of holed baled cotton and hold it for higher prices cotton Is now selling at prices ruinous to the planters and Is a drug drag on the world market the plan Is also said to embrace a system of trading credits by which the vast surplus of cotton will viii be exchanged for commodities of which the cotton growers stand in dire need these include farm equipment of all 11 II kinds groceries and clothing earthquakes E ICAN and ire fire to in managua nicaragua N WA took an 00 estimated vior CAN I 1 toll of 1000 0 o R pt dead and many PA A Phou thousands gands injured ocean ninny many of them arrow points americans the to managua kmer american ican legation the british legat legation IOL and nicaraguan government buildings were all destroyed st fire following the earthquake razed twenty blocks of the business district causing an estimated property damage of american agencies were quiel quick to respond to the need tor for help the red cross rushed supplies marines sent seat to the little republic on a political mission several years ago were used to maintain order and relieve distress t r es a it Is too early to know definitely the extent of the disaster Man aguas population was in the neighborhood ot of the region of this city a dotted with evidences of its volcanic character and history records at least two major volcanic disasters nicaragua has been less afflicted with earthquakes than its central american neighbors so tar far as Is known there Is not a habitable building left in the once beautiful central american city the second in size in the republic president himself abandoned the th national palace for a tent loses two of its major BlumIn BASEBALL luminaries arles in the passing of ernest S barnard and byron B johnson the president and the alia ex ei dent of the american league dying within sixteen hours of each other both devoted their lives to the amerteen american national game their terms of service in the presidency spanned the life of the league itself when johnson quit the sports desk of a cincinnati newspaper to leek hla his fortune in the business administration of baseball james J had bad arrived as the empire builder of the northwest and john D rockefeller lied had established the dynasty of standard oil As ench eacle ot of those in his sep aisle aate sphere wore the napoleonic mantle so eo johnson Jo linson did in baseball under his leadership a rather rowdy spurt sport became on its artistic side a profession and economically entered the company of large affairs it was johnsons John soua genius that wrought the miracle mr barnard could have been fifty seven years old on july 17 lie he had bad been re reelected elected president of the amerteen american league for a live five year term ufa ills activity in connection with the draft contro controversy ersy and in the adoption of the schedule Is believed to have hastened his death N ahn death of arnold bennett english literature lias has N lost one of its mat mas and an ably long list of novels drains and essays comes to an end absorbed in I 1 lie workaday world a about b 0 U it him never a propagandist or a preacher shunning the mazy arnold introspections of the bennett oe igei school uennett bennett with mingled realism and romanticism portrayed the human comedy wills gentle irony and exacting attention to detail he be laid bare the dull material asins isms and the shams of filling the most insipid nith exciting interest Inter but never receding from tits his detachment to turn crusader sum dent clent of his works will survive to assure arnold bennett a permanent place oo on the worlds bookshelves 1111 1 libel albel suit gus 0 nations T taik former prohibition agent filed died against mrs mabel walker former assistant attorney general in 1929 lo in connection with a series of articles she wrote about prohibition hibi tion enforcement was stricken from the docket in federal court at st louis for failure to prosecute mr nations said he could not proceed any further with the suit because ho be he had been unable to obtain service on mrs but he asserted asser teil that suits for damages each were pending against her in new york and washington for alleged injury done to him by the articles the only observation of mrs mabel walker to the news that the hie libel suit filed against tier her by gus 0 nations lied had been stricken cLen from the record was the rite action for itself IQ 18 1911 1931 nap ont inlo 03 |