Show news review of current events the world over president hoover orders drastic economies economics in departments old military posts may alay be abandoned briand Is defeated by EDWARD W PICKARD RES IDENT P PRESIDENT ver has hag notified the members of the cabinet that they must introduce economies in their departments part ments wherever possible the chilian personnel Is to be reduced and the over bead expenses e cut u t drastically the message went out after sec hurley the lie president h had a d conferred with secretary of war ley and secretary of the navy adams and it Is evident he expects many of the economies to be made effective in those departments surveys have lioen been recently mude inside indicating how savings could be made maide by the sale of old indian posts navy shore stations coast artillery fortifications cat ions and lards and other shore properties lea of the navy that fire are no longer needed for purposes of nathin at a defense secretary hurley said the other day that the administration desired to remove army posts from the pork barrel class fica tion and it seems that among those considered superfluous are fort lincoln north dakota fort mende meade south dakota fort missoula ilis soula montana fort eustis virginia and various posts along tile the mexican border some air hying flying fields also may be abandoned how far the expenses of the military establishments can be cut Is problematical the last annual supply bill for the war department carried about 4 15 of which approximately was to be devoted to tary activities the latter figure included for rivers and harbors and tor for mississippi floor boor control As for the navy it Is known anat civilian labor cost that department last year some official investigators vesti gators have estimated the navy anvy department personnel at washington could be cut as much as 40 per cent without impairing efficiency congressmen in whose states are located the obsolete army posts and surplus shore chore stations probably will fight against their abandonment that being their habit babit in matters of this sort but if economies are applied throughout all the executive departments their political wrath may be unavailing RED C CROXTON vice chairman FRED bof of the presidents emergency committee tor for unemployment stated that during the week ending tiny may 9 contracts were awarded tor for public and semipublic semi public work amounting to this brought the total since december 1 1930 to nearly a billion and a half MINI minister SF FOREIGN aristede Aris tlde briand was persuaded by his big friends to be a candidate for the presidency of the french republic and then some of those friends let him down tle result was that he be failed of election on the first ballot and astounded and M briand broken hearted he withdrew from the contest paul doumer venerable president of the senate was elected this action by the french parliament was of importance not dot only to trance but to europe and all the world it means that tor for the present at least brianas Br BrI lands ands policy of peace and conciliation Is discarded and the nationalists are in the saddle it to Is possible briand will continue to represent his government in the debates of the league of nations at geneva but if be does he will be sit subject abject to dally daily orders from paris more likely it Is that he will soon retire to Coe cocherell cocherel Co cherel berel his home he has been in poor I 1 balth for many months and it Is feared this defeat will break him down badly andre tardley and edouard herriot Herr lot leaders of the lie left are held mainly for the rejection of erland briand A A CLERICALS of spain egged on by communists ind and very possibly by monarchist plotters staged violent riots in madrid and other cities for several days and the government was forced to proclaim martial law the mobs directed their attacks against catholic churches and other religious edifices and burned many of them monks and nuns were beaten and driven through the streets and in some cases the troops that were called out refused to move against the rioters telling their officers they would not fire on n the people angel galarza the republics prosecutor declared the riots were the result of a carefully laid monarchist plot and that there would be a monster trial of captured royalists in which former king alfonso will be judged in his absence for complicity the vatican state department instructed papal nuncio at ma adrid to demand from the government an explicit apology for tile the attacks on churches monasteries and convents the vatican protest while not blaming blam lii these attacks on the ile he publican governments government asserted that violence against religious orders does not represent a general political tendency but Is the result of the anti re legious odium of a small minority of spain king of siam underwent P a successful operation for the removal of a cataract from ills his left eyes eye and Is recovering nicely at al ophir hall the whitelaw held man sion in westchester county new york lie ile was an excellent patient and heing under only local anesthesia he knew was going on and coop co op aerated in every way with drs J U M wheeler and T N johnson Juh who per formed the operation blien the cataract hod had been extracted life his maj esty said 1 I see the lie light F ca railway ex h have a v e united in III asking an increase of fre lElit rates that would bring 7 more revenue to their roads Z but it will not he be granted without a fight D u n c a n C Us f fletcher senator senat or from florida and ranking democrat on sen fletcher the senate commerce committees committee voiced the opposition to tile the plan ne ile called for lower rates rather than higher carrying charges and said one reason why trucks were moving so much freight today was because of high rall rail rates 1 I cannot see how bow the railroads can expect to increase their revenues by increasing rates he be said some ten years ago an increase of 40 per cent was allowed the railroads and this brought the rates up to the highest point ever reached they have been revised downward by the interstate commerce commission in out of cases brought today the railroads complain of a lots loas of business and lay a good deal of that to competition by trucks and to some extent aira airplanes fanes undoubtedly they would increase their revenues by raising tile the rates provided they could carry the same amount of ton nage nag ge but it Is perfectly obvious that one reason why trucks are moving so much freight Is because of the high rall rail rates consequently if these rates were increased there would be an inevitable decrease in tonnage freight rates on live stock from western points into cleveland were attacked by the chamber of commerce of that city in a complaint to the interstate ter state commerce commission asking a reduction NE of the worlds greatest scientists 0 ONE enlists ts prof albert A michelson formerly of the university of chicago passed away in pasadena calif after a long illness and was laid at rest in altadena AI he was the recipient of all the honors the world of science could bestow not the least of which was the nobel prize for his achievement in measuring the speed of light and it has been said that his discoveries and inventions added billions to the wealth of the world but withal he was as exceedingly modest mod estand and unassuming and always declared he carried on his great works in physics because they amused and interested him doctor michelson chelson Ml was a native of poland but was brought to the united states when a babe and was educated in san francisco and the naval academy at annapolis two years after his graduation he went back to tile the academy as an instructor and it was then be began the experiments and investigations that continued throughout hla his long life another eminent man eugene ysaye master of the violins violin died in brussels belgium at the age of sev enty two ile he Is survived Bur by his amerlean american wife the daughter of dr nerman herman dincin of brooklyn N Y whom he be married in 1927 walter A strong publisher of the chicago daily news and one of the most forceful figures in american journalism died suddenly of heart disease ne he was only forty seven years old he became publisher and principal owner of the news in 1925 after the death of victor lawson OF 0 P s SECRETARY state henry L in an address on united states stales foreign relations and american policy toward latin america served notice that our army and navy will not be used to collect debts from foreign nations il at the same time he be sec stimson made it clear tile the present administration would give to americans who have investments abroad all the protection counsel and assistance to which they are entitled under international law defending the hoover policies in nicaragua which have been mr declared the administration was not departing from american traditions adding that the united states t t would continue to be ba realous lealous in 1 its 1 i concern a for or the lives of its nationals nol nal t i 0 n a s wherever they may be found lie ile characterized the current policy toward latin america is as one of removing sore spots which have injured good will and american trade mr climson expressed confidence that tant the anglo french negotiations would eventually be successfully concluded expressing the opinion that a great stimulus sti mulas had been given the prospects for success of the league conference rn cn general disarmament to be held next february cultivation of good will between notions nations was described by him as th thi 2 great business of diplomacy honest people in one nation find it notoriously difficult to understand the i icy point I 1 tisa of honest people people ame in n another abo he e said id state depa departments lits and their ministers exist for the purpose of translating ae e viewpoints of one nation into the terms understood by another some of our most important work and efforts at tile the present time ile lies in this direct lorO SPEAKING S PEAKING the manchester before chamber of commerce tile the prince of wales admonished british business men for their failures in getting and holding foreign trade tile only way which great britain can gain a larger share of the south american mar prince of ket he declared was wales by imitating north american business and advertising methods the prince Is delivering a series of speeches dealing with conditions he be found prevalent in south america during his recent tour not only did wales walea score british business methods but he also dipped into politics in a way that caused a sensation ills advocacy of manufacturing within tariff wolfs walls cuts squarely across the hottest political issue of the moment in britain tariff versus free trade and was an unexpected blow to the free trade labor government RESIDENT HOOVER has appointed P PRESIDENT george hastings of new york as a member of the white louse house secretarial ret arial staff to succeed french strother mr hastings Is given the title of executive clerk and will hanlie handle the presidents outside social welfare interests including his contacts with the conference on child health and protection he will take up his duties about june I 1 after 15 years of social welfare work in new bork york is consternation THERE in gangland and pleased surprise among the decent citizens of chicago al capone 1 the redoubtable gangster gan chieftain hitherto looked upon as almost unconquerable has been defied and Is il seemingly doomed to fall in one of his big latest latal at al capone efforts to add to his monetary stores it la Is the dyeing and cleaning industry of chicago which has been a fruitful field tor for racketeers that has done don e the defying and in its bold stand it Is hacked backed up by the law enforcing agencies of the city ard and state scarface thought the time was ripe for him to take charge of the industry and through agents lie he informed the cleaners and dyers tute that he would do so for 75 per cent of its annual receipts in membership dues which would be about for this he promised to keep prices up to police the industry and to bring into line any recalcitrant ir embers A committee from the institute met capone in his hotel headquarters in chicago and he be repeated his offer reducing his demands to GO 50 per cent but declaring if his big offer were not accepted he would take false over the industry anyhow the institute however happens to have as its chairman dr benjamin it squires honest and nervy who had practically freed the industry from the racketeers ile he told capone no gangster ass associations oc lations would be tolerated and states at torney swanson promised to support him to the limit in this stand Ca caponis capones Capon pones cs efforts to take over the cleaning and dyeing industry were regarded by assistant states attorney charles J mueller in charge of racketeer prosecutions as an indication of the reverses suffered by the gang in recent months there Is no question that calones capones Cn Ca pones mob has been hard hit and that he needs money said prosecutor mueller ills gambling racket has felt the force of raids by the police and the states attorneys offices office in connection with tile the special grand jury and some ot his biggest breweries hane haie been raided by the federal agents the prosecution of the big shots in the gang by the federal government ern ment and the high bonds required have no doubt caused capone to look around for new ways of raising money FRANCES amateur boxing cham chain plona eight in number who came over to meet mec t the team of american champions from chicago and new york in the former city were ie de feared but made a good blowing they lost five of the bouts and won three tl the tournament was as a feature of achl cagos cages 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