Show news nelys review of current f events event the world over de clopman ts in fight figlia tl between administration and senate over relief funds terrible earthquake in new zealand by EDWARD W PICKARD 71 Reon republicans republicans congress gress who sup in p port ort the administration rat started out the tit vi eek by declaring there would be no BO V compromise on oil relief even if the t e quarrel qua rel makes nee necessary essary an extra session their attitude was expressed hy by job johi Q tilson nia ma rep tilson jorke leader of the houe hoube and his statement was wag approved by james E watson wathon majority lender leader of tile the senate in all matters of legislation where no question of prine principle lille Is involved invoked compromise is no not only cutin iry it Is necessary said Mr Tilson kut but in connection with the proposed apropo aed dole there Is oo no proper place for compromise the amount of money involved in the initial appropriation pria tion Is of relatively minor importance once tile the dorr door to the federal treasury for a dole to aid citizens to in distress Is opened the appropriation used as the opening wedge whatever its magnitude villi soon ROOD pale into in sIgnil leance in tile the wake of what will follow once tile the red cross Is destroyed as it must inevitably ile he hy by a federal dole and our local charities paralyzed as they will be when the federal government takes over responsibility for charitable relief the appropriations that roust must follow as a consequence of such a policy would now stagger belief democrats and radical republicans lost no time tigue in responding to this challenge senator caraway of arkansas s as made one of his bis hitter bitter attacks on the administration the red cross and representative tilson and he was fol fl lowed by senator borah of idaho who ibo made a speech that abat brought cheers and applause from the democrats anti ami the insurgents tie he took his place alongside those who threaten filibuster unless the president yields on in the matter of relief appropriations shouting 1 arn am perfectly willing to say that not am anit lier bill shall pass this body until the hungry are fed until the sick are taken care of until the government of the vol te states has met its obligations to its distressed and citizens this brought from president llover himself a long statement in which lie he defended his policy and declared his conil confidence dence in the lie adequacy of the red cross to meet the situation some of the opposition bal aa a chance tor for a compromise in mr hoovers assertion that if the time little should ever come that the volunteer agencies of tile the country are anable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and suffer suffering ing in my country I 1 will ask the aid of every resource of the federal government one proposal for compromise was to increase the drought loan appropriation by with pr provision islon that in the event of extreme orv emer gency genc yIt lt may be loaned for human relief purposes house and senate leaders and vice president curtis all joined in negotiations to settle the dispute president hoover dispatched personal a representatives to arkansas ren cen ter of the drought region to report to him on the actual situation 0 I 1 7 0 announcement no was made in washington that the adminis tra tion of the virgin Is a lands was being transferred from naval to civilian rule soon afterward president hoover appointed paul martin pearson of swarthmore penn paul M sylvania to be the pearson first civilian illa ill 1 governor of the territory mr pearson Is well known as an educator lecturer and author Is a native of ill illinois idols and Is fifty nine years old tile the virgin islands were purchased trim front denmark in march 1917 and sim sliby then have hae been under the conf control roil 0 of f the navy department capt W ev evans one was the last naval governor D earthquake shocks of great severity wrought havoc in the Elaw hawkes kes bay province of the lie N noi 0 ath ih island of new zealand and were followed by conflagrations and tidal waves that added to the destruction the large boans of napier and hastings I 1 and at least three other towns were virtually ruined the number of the dead will not be known for some lime ellue but it probably Is nearly a thou solid sand other thousands of persons were injured all melus of communication in ID the stricken area were destroyed and the only conly nes reached wellington und the outside world fro from alip wireless ii lation jad crewl nesses asea who had hald fled frum the scene at Nii tile hie elPI of the province it blib has a PoU lallon of ull all tile the stone and brick buildings fell A walli ith a terrific roar mar oil tanks exploded and am clanies consumed most of tile re structures illaff hill which stood high allme the lie city collapsed and toppled into the lie sea and tile hot bot tom of the harbor rose IS 18 feet the anchorage pool hero ining an island a plains pining tonn boin 12 miles frim cupler where most or if tile lie buildings vele of wood witto razed hy by temblor and fire the hospital and nurses lionie bottle collapsed on the Iiii nates the tona loans of and also wee wrecked blar thil law was proclaimed for the ravaged district and the immediate tion of napier wits was ordered by tile hie authorities fries because of the danger of an all tile cites anti anil drainage systems were entirely de strayed 10 iveral veral british crul seis a reached napier harbor and commodore Comino dure blake took charge of if relief measures other ul assels sels carried many refugees to auckland property damage in the napier urea area alone vias has estimated at W V 0 NR NE of those famous nio leaky con W gres gressional siona trunk cases that amused the country some time ago Is j going to get a further r justice josiah van of the pis dis I 1 t jow brict of columbia court of appeals has i made diode a ruling that representative E de E denison ward B E denison of illinois dos must go 90 to trial on an indictment charging him with illegal possession of liquor in his office on capitol hill representative denison was indicted by the district grand jury on no ember 19 1929 1029 eleven months arter after a leaking suitcase addressed to him was disco discovered ered by federal agents in the union station in washington an investigation led to the discovery of a trunk containing liquor to in A mr ir Deni sons office and in spite of the representatives assertion that both the trunk and suitcase were mistakenly delivered to hiru him an Indict indictment went was brought PRESIDENT P RESIDENT ER was advised by R C Q stephenson of south pend bend ind president of the american bunkers association that business conditions are improving in nil all parts of the country and should continue to get better during the rest of the lear 3 ear mr stephenson expressed the opinion that the business depression struck bottom on december 20 and that conditions have been on the upgrade since that time lie ile so said also that if there were less talk of unemployment those who are employed would spend wore more Ws WHEN smedley medley HEN maj D gen butler A as philadelphian Phila PhIladel delphias phlas director of public safety six years ago lie he naturally made enemies f a number of bootleggers it Is reported that one of these di in first called tile lie attention of I 1 the he italian to government general Q butler bler the generals getie rals speech in left premier mussolini was depicted as a hit and anc run motorist and which Is causing the gallant marine so much tro trouble utile general butler will go on trial before a court martial board ln in philadelphia february 18 16 and the public will be admitted to the proceedings meanwhile lie he Is free to go where he pleases in preparing his defense maj henry leonard Is his chief counsel at present from close friends of butler it was learned that lie he will argue that tile the story vins simply co an it 11 used la in a mill military tary prepared ness speech it t will he urged that no offense against the premier was intended B I SHOP ISHOP JAM JAMRS rs CANNON JR a ap p poured in N ab lington before belve traveling elders of tile lie meth bleth odist church ili south to ans answer to grave charges the exact nature of atch was not made public if the elders find the have sufficient merit they VIII order a trial which will be held at a the next general conference of tile lie church to in 1934 tile the bl shop who Is undergoing treatment at a hospital tor for arthritis was as accompanied danied by two of his son sons ALBERT B FALL the only man conict cd on criminal charges growing out of U uie be oil leasing scandals of the larding harding administration bases his hope of esca escaping pins punish on oa the claim be had no authority from congress to make the len leases a es the ease case was ails argued la in the district dist r let court of appeals frank bogan his bis counsel in seeking reversal 1 of the former for iner interior secre conviction of accepting a bribe from edward I 1 L doheny dabeny su said id that lint since full fail lacked the proper ao an thorild lie could noi tie lie guilty of ac c a bribe to influence a lease rail wag convicted acted more than a year 11 ago ratib go of 11 afflis a bribe in connection I 1 with alie e L alk ik hills california lease leafs and sentenced tu to py pay and serve one jear in prison doherty wag visa acquitted atlee alice Pou Poi ierene nerene special government counsel replied to slogans llo nans argument that it made no deference whether baws art act was laas elat lust just as long ate ab fall had accepted the money to influence his bis decision ua or some y e a r a s F for 4 mrs mary alary uen al derson ninety earold social lender leader in washington higton wealthy v widow of john B 3 aenderson Re who labo was wag a senator front from missouri hns bits grieved because uncle sarn sam does nut not provide a residence for the vice dent d site has bas made ae mrs mr mary seli Ee ecial eral Ial attempts to Hende henderon raon remedy this at her ovi own n expense once offering a tine line house bouse when hen cahill ah in coolidge too lidi e wag laas vice president its upkeep was too and he declined now mrs ira henderson Is trying benin again offering to present to the government goern ment a resilience residence valued at al something like ian oOOO and tin on one of the exclusive streets of the city at tile hie writing congress had not decided whether wh ellier or not to accept the girt gift hut hat mrs Ilen dersons grand daughter riu ilter mrs beatrice has abed tile the district of columbia Columb ln supreme court tb prevent the aged lidy lady froni from disposing of any aby of the real estate belonging to the estates of her former husband and son according to airs Wb olean her grandmother Is mentally incompetent properly to perform pe r her duties and functions as trustee under the wills villis of her has bus hand blind and soll son and her removal as trustee Is asked olt the second time the senate F FOH voted on the appointments of smith garsaud and draper as members of the power commission and the radical republican coalition rejected smith by a vote vole of 40 to 33 the two others however were vere confirmed confirm ei the administration considers all three are legally of the commission the lenders leaders of 0 the coalition inid that this latest action perfects tile the senates record in case the matter Is taken into court AMERON bt MOR 0 nc CAMERON alson appointed recently to succeed file die late lee 1 ee S overman as senator from north carolina disregarding the senate tradition that thai new members must sit silent fur for months arose to worn warn ills his fellow pem dent that the PC de of the south sen se n morrison Morr lson would not submit to the wet wing of the party and to cull call for the appearance of a dry leader for the party said he be 1 I aro ani a party democrat Pomo Demo crat craL and I 1 am also a fry dry I 1 believe that millions of Demner rs in this country feel as I 1 do if the great city organizations in array against the eighteenth l amendment seek to capture the democratic party and put a wet lael plank in its platform aey aey will iril us resisting we will not he be draeb oui of the party neither neit lier will ill be submit to such domination they will leier leer Oer override ride our consciences ob that mutter matter or force us to bow to party decree Y NO means sati satisfied fled thith the B BY prospects for self rule in india held out by the british government and the plans devised by the round table conference Gil anti and his lieutenants have decided that their campaign oi 01 civil disobedience 11 shall ila if he be conti nuell A resolution to tills this effect was adopted at a meeting of the tr committee of the all india national Nat Nati loual oual congress the members of which were released from jail when ben wits was set free it looks now an ai if they and the holy man aill be la in durance again before long the no nationalists tiona lists decided that all po political littral prisoners must be freed before they will treat with the government and that meanwhile the picketing of foreign cloth narcotic and liquor shops and the illegal making of salt filial be continued A conference was aas arranged between gandhi and his associate and the federation of indian chambers of C commerce 0 which it was faintly hoped might help belp clear up the situation because the business men in the file feder aaion who have teen fina financing neing tile the nationalist campagni campal gu ii are said to be ready to call a halt GERMANYS G lit bil lying ship the DOX DO X which is on its way to south america alade the first first jump from spain to the canary islands without mishap but in attempting to take off for the cape verde islands it was damaged by a wave repairs it was wag believed ix would take at least two weeks as it was wag necessary to get new parts arts from germany IN AMONG MONG thos thosa auken by death during the beeb eek were the duke of vendome of the royal bourbon line philip L hole hale american artist and son of edward everett mary hampton veteran actress and lady deales the former helen vivian gould granddaughter of jay gould na 1 western nevader newer Nev aper Va vallat loat |