Show i news review of current events the world over alfonso of spain surrenders poi power ver but does not abdicate illinois governor vetoes wet bill Nie nicholas bolas longworth buried by EDWARD W PICKARD S KING A altonso 1 A AS and members of the royal family scattered into exile leaders of 0 the spanish 41 republic moved to insure the life of the file 00 new regime and to make roy altys return to spain impossible the prison gates of barcelona valencia jaca and other cities ex king were opened for thou alfonso g yf of political and revolutionary hostages incarcerated during the dictatorships of the file last eight years while crowds boisterously celebrated the death of the monarchy and the birth of the republic don niceto alcala aicala zamora Za niora provisional president of spain at once assumed power born on may IT 17 six months after the death of his father alfunso alfonso XII XH alfonso ani automatically became the king of spain his mother queen maria christina was appointed regent and ruled the country as sovereign until alfonso became sixteen when according to spanish constitutional law he reached his majority and came into ills his full kingship alfonso made no bluff of abdicating in favor of his son the kingdom of if spain Is at an end and alfonso by yielding without bloodshed won tor for himself a unique honor he did not have to take to his heels beels and scamper for hi his life ne ile went out of spain in a dignified way a man who feels that he be has served his bis nation well and who knows himself worthy of this last anark of consideration it will be interesting to watch the developments in madrid during the next few weeks for the trend in government on the continent of europe has bag not been wholly a victory tor for pres ent day democracy in certain countries notably france a republican government has functioned with admirable stability in others the tendency has been toward dictatorships and the chief difference between a monarchy and a dictatorship Is that individual ability and dominance rather than accident of birth bring about the selection of the ruler IN N ASSUMING G his duties as viceroy to india lord willingdon finds the country vastly more complex and in finitely more difficult to dent deal with than was the dominion of canada instead of having to handle people with only two principal languages the neww new governor general has speaking vernaculars ulars all crowded in a space about half bait the size of canada lord willingdon ts to facing a country not only clamoring for the right to shape chape her own destiny but one beset with acute racial and religious cleavages and animosities with hin flin dus dug outnumbering moslems by 3 to 1 to be r ure sure every viceroy has had this moslem hindu communal problem to struggle with observers in india say it will always exist as long as the hindu worships the cow and the moslem eats it for it is the so called desecration of this animal that causes cause most race riots one of the few bright spots lord willingdon will ill find is that the nationalists tiona lists are now at peace with the british government but how long this will last depends on what measure of independence gandhi secures when lie he goes to the second round table conference in london this summer if increased remuneration and honors are any compensation for the trials he must face lord Witling willingdon don me may y find some satisfaction in the fact that life hla salary as governor general of canada Is doubled and his expense allowance quadrupled HE funeral 0 f THE nicholas longworth at cincinnati was attended by notable men from nil all parts of the united states all of the them in warm friends of the late speaker of the house of representatives president hooter laid aside pressing 4 public duties to do M mr rs honor to the mentory longworth of mr longworth affectionate tributes from all parts of the world laid stress upon big attractive personality these espres and the high esteem manifested by the public and through the press are a rich legacy of comfort to his bis family mr Long longworthy ns death has of course completely changed the course of at events in the house A struggle for the would have occurred occur rd in noy any event but it was taken tor for granted that mr air longworth would command all the votes rotes of bis big party and nd thus hold an even chance of win ning the the Ilef laicans must list jow choose a candidate I 1 ivr speaker and he be will face the file dilli cult task of consolidating the entire party although a few republicans bad threatened to bolt nick long personal person nl popularity was such that a solid party vot wits confidently expected to appear when needed now the would be balters may not be drawn into fin line e by ii personal affection for the party leader archie roosevelt brother of mrs nicholas longworth ll said that his sister has never and will not seek political office roosevelt made this statement at the longworth home and added that my sister will nill of course go back to washington where she has a residence but cincinnati Is her home and she intends to make it such in the future further than this he said mrs has no future plans tills this would seem definitely to set at rest rumors that mrs longworth would be a canam candidate alte for bar late idle husbands seat in congress av LOUIS L I 1 GOV Grin Rin merson co contrary to expectations vetoed the hill for the repeal of the illinois search and seizure laws the measure which would have placed illinois illino is sixth in the column of states repealing their prohibition enforcement acts had bad been enacted gov L L by the state senate by emmerson only a two vote margin 20 26 to 24 the vote for it in the house had been 91 to 50 56 several of those who ho voted for repeal in the senitte whore where the turn of two votes would have changed the vote frankly admitted they voted for it only because of the referendum by which the voters voter a of 1111 illinois DOIS by a large majority expressed their approval of repeal governor emmerson however left the way open for alterations in the which he said would cause it to meet with his approval he declared in his bis veto message that if the had continued a referendum provision so that the people of the state with the full knowledge of the consequences could vote vole on wiping out all state liquor legislation without regard to the constitution ution of the united states I 1 should feel compelled to sign the bill the governor asserted that the efforts of illinois wets to strike all prohibition laws IWAS front from the statute books was nullification ism C chaliman CHAU iMAN JAMES C stone of the federal farm board sold said in a recent statement that russian activities tivi tivit ties les in the dumping of wheat were largely responsible for d demoralizing i in 0 r a I 1 I 1 z I 1 n g the world market and necessitating a renewal of the wheat stabilization opera i ames m C eions the middle of stone last november to prevent further effects of that collapse from being felt in our own market that Is to say the bumping of rus ilus glan elan wheat into the markets of europe at any price it would abrl bring ng was largely the cause of that great accumulation of wheat in storage which dow cow embarrasses the board an and d the market that russia was wag the main cause of that calamitous slump in wheat last november Is a tact fact that Is not questioned by responsible authorities anywhere in the world yet little or none of fill 5 wheat came to america the tariff on wheat Is practically prohibitive even eve for russia and we can it if we wish effectively prevent the entry of any russian products that however will not enable us to escape the coin consequences se of Kus Rus sias prodigious econ orate program the most extensive and the most audacious economic expert ment in the worlds history it need not touch us directly at any point hut but we cannot escape it russia Is to in a position to make the price in the world market and it ill not be a profitable price much the same situation Is developing in relation to lumber and oil rus rug sia gin bus a larger area of useful timber than any country in the world and as fast as it can by forced labor it Is turning that timber into lumber in order to realize cash or credit on it from its sales in the markets of 0 the world the effect on lumber prices must be similar to that on wheat the world of the established order has hag never neer been confronted by such hu an economic menace tie as russia now presents not to speak of its social and political menace I 1 IN N THE federal court at evansville 1 ind harry E former representative in congress of t the it e first indiana district was wag convicted of accepting bribes from persons who sought post mgt office appointments the congressman v was as sent encee ed immediately by judge charles E woodward to serve one bear ear und and one day in leavenworth penitentiary tin anil was lined fined in refusing a request to have the defendant placed on probation proba tinn bemuse because of ills condition and on the grounds that lint others involved in the post office deals aare ore not indicted judge woodward said Rp respect for public office Is lessened if they be bought and sold the offense of which this defendant ons nas been found polity guilty Is grave I 1 do no not cecill it necessary to impose the extreme penalty but the sentence must he be jt f such stich a nature as to deter other congressmen from such practices the ex congressman hesli fains 9 ns 8 a witness told of receiving money from job seekers but insisted it came to him with expressions of sympathy oer his unsuccessful campaign for election reelection re last no ember OF 0 F S SECRETARY the navy adams ordered the cruiser i memphis from guan la einmo cuba to a position near nicaraguan waters feruse for use if the rebel movement in nicaragua gua should become serious the ashe rifle also started up the east cast const coast of cen secretary Secre fary trill Ani america erica from the adams canal y zone advices advises received at Pari panama anin city by of the standard fruit steamship at cristobal said three united states marines were killed in an attack by a large force of bandits on the commissary at los log town nicaragua seven miles from froin puerto cabezas puerto cabezas Is on the northeastern coast of nicaragua the three marines listed as killed in the reports to the stearn ship company were capt harlan lieutenant darrah and sergeant taylor several native employees of the commissary ml sary also were killed the report said rev kev karl bergener of watertown wis a moravian missionary in the district was reliably reported killed ahen a hen cape gracias a dlos dios was captured by insurgents other american residents of cape gracing gracias a dlos dios include albert and edwin fagot of new orleans and william wiiliam J green of allegheny pa UTH NICHOLS rye N Y R RUTH aviatrix set a new speed record for women over a three kilometer course at detroit slightly less than two miles with alth a speed of miles an hour amelia earhart putnam held the previous record of ef miles an hour miss bliss nichols flew the lockhead vesa vega plane in which she set a comans womans altitude record in march over an official course laid out near the flying field harr darry y tl 11 knepper of the national aeronautical association checked the flight and 1 it A leavell another aeronautical official timed race miss bliss nichols maide made two round trips over the course and the speed was the average of the tour four timings in the trips against the wind she was uns timed at islo ig and miles an hour and with the wind the times were and the only comment the aviatrix made was that there anything particularly ticul arly exciting about the flight DIRECTOR woodcock P prohibition announced a new high peak in federal prohibition enforcement for the month mon th of march with more arrests and more automobiles seized than in any similar period since july he declared it was the best month the bureau has had bad since I 1 took ollice nearly a year ago notwithstanding the increased activity the courts more than kept up with us as there were cases on the docket at the end of february and only on april 1 further he be claimed we have established a definite trend in these figures showing that the average of fines Is steadily decreasing while the average bl of jail sentences lins has been steadily increasing in the nine months since prohibition enforcement was transferred from the treasury to the justice department A DAN dangerously GEnOUSLY complicated situ has arisen la in the political situation developing ve in europe especially in connection with the austro german tariff union and the forthcoming visit of the german chancellor cliance llor and foreign minister to london for conferences with british government aristede Aris tlde leaders briand behind the official silence in various capitals many french observers silat sit important issues centering in the tariff agreement and in the franco italian naval accord which it was said france Is attempting to drop because the gov eminent was never fully convinced that it was profitable table france desires to remain on friendly terms with britain because foreign minister Inister Bl briand has asked the british foreign or elo secretary arthur henderson enderson ll to use ilse pressure on germany to modify the tariff accord when the file german chancellor goes to england next month briand has been placed in an ex cee embarrassing position be cause of the possibility that lie he will br be elected president of the republic in may while te pe t e would prefer to con elude the naval accord with italy by continuing ills his work at the dor say 0 1111 1931 western union |