Show news review of current events the world over Eu ropes concerted move alove for war debt cancellation hoover and roosevelt to confer diversion of colorado river completed dy by EDWARD W PICKARD s HI RONALD LINDSAY british ambassador to washington handed to secretary of state stimson his gov ern ments request that the united states agree to a reconsideration and modification 0 f t the b e war debts agreements under which european powers are obligated ail to pay this country eleven billion dollars in principal and ten billions in interest Inte resl during the next 58 years the french ambassador roll followed owed sir ronald with an almost iden lindsay tica request on be half balf of france and two days later belgium asked aked the same game thing the three powers asked suspension of all war debt installments including those due december 15 pending the outcome of the discus suggested receiving notice of this action while on his way from california to wash ington president hoover immediately informed president elect roosevelt Roo of the development and invited him to a conference at the white house su suggesting that he bring with him the democratic leaders of congress and any other advisers he be might select ile he told governor roosevelt he was loath to proceed in I 1 lie he matter with recommendations to congress until he had bad conferred with him since any settlement of the debt problem must be the result of protracted negotiations that would reach beyond tile the remain ing days of his tile the presidents plan seemed fair enoish but mr roosevelt accepted it only in principle saying he would be glad to meet with air hoover and go over the situation but asking that thai the meeting be wholly informal and personal ile he added that the european notes create a responsibility which rests upon those now vested with executive and legislative authority thus it was made evident governor roosevelt has no intention of shouldering any responsibility ahead of time 0 NE thing that is fairly certain Is that Eu ru ropes concerted move for re revision islon of the war debts and cancel lation if possible will not be success ful with the short of if congress that opens in december not one of the senators and representatives in washington was in favor of granting the concessions asked so the he prospect pet was that the debtor nations would either bae to pay ohp in stall ments or default de the british installment Is 95 tie the french co 20 millions and the Peigi Pel glan fin two millions it was felt certain that great britain would pay it if necessary governor boosel roosevelt elt recording according to democratic leaders Is opposed to any reduction of the debts but he thinks payment could be made easier through an economic conference to free trade channels of tariff barriers and ex change restrictions resident president hoover la Is opposed to downward revision of the tariff but haf suggested that foreign nations be given credit ligal against rist their dobli obligations lations for orly any concession concessi onla that would offer a wider market rall ket for american farm products and manufactures interest in this debt gfatter GERMANYS matter Is vital for the drive of the alli d nations nation for revision Is based or n arit no lausanne pact of last july ibar was a agreement providing that the reparations which germany full must st pay the IM should be reduced from as stipulated in the young plain to ily the reduction was not to take effect unless the united states L could be prevailed upon to modify the understanding under und r which the allied powers are obligated to pay this country the united states government 9 government overn ment has consistently antly refused to the war on oil tile the other debts with reparations hand the hoover administration flag bus repeatedly made it clear that its attitude toward full payment of tile the debts could be modified only by mess meas arable success of tile the world disarmament movement herriot Herr lot premier through RANCE fjald FRANCE coo laid before tile the ference in geneva its ita complete plan designed to bring brine bout about general e 1 dis alls armament and world peace it was wall w received 1321 by the british ash and norman davis american representative praised 11 ll fig as a ft grent great conces concession so 80 hopes for the success of the conference were high h hut they were dashed when germany refused t to find la in it reason for rejoining the parley M herriot declaring the Lier riot program wits was just al another lother plan to as on tile the continent mute euie french hegemony the french scheme combining the I 1 ideas of security and disarm disarmament ament seemed to offer germany the equality she demands under terms yet to be agreed upon but it provides for progressive gres sive disarmament of the powers and excludes rearmament for germany the section of most vital interest to the united states reads any war undertaken in breach of the paris briand kellogg pact Is a matter of interest to all the powers and shall be regarded as a breach of the obligations assumed towards each one of them in the event of a breach or threat of a n breach of the paris pact the said powers shall convert concert together as promptly as possible with a view to to UP appealing Pealing to public opinion and agree ing upon the steps to be taken in application of t pact of paris outlawing war any breach of that pact shall involve tile the prohibition of direct or indirect economic or finan caal relations with the aggressor coun conn try the powers shell undertake to the necessary measures to make that prohibition immediately effective the said powers shall declare their determination not to recognize any de facto situation brought about in consequence of the vIn violation lation of an in ter national undertaking this in essence means that the united states would abaD abandon dOl its his bis claim to neutrality rights great britaina Brit ains plan presen presented by sir john simon cora conen centrals traus on a reduction of national armaments par ticul arly air forces the latter to be abolished by degrees on condition that germany in the meantime does dees not rearm in the air R tj RANCE germany and great brit aln in have got together in one project the formation of a tripartite economic consortium designed to rehabilitate and the near east it was announced in paris by raymond Pate notre french undersecretary for national economy who said the first project would be the offering of a loan of 01 francs for the electrification of rail railways was in poland portugal rumania and iraq france and england are expected to provide 40 per cent of the loan ench each and ger many 20 per cent premier ller riot will be the titular head of the con in france and chancellor franz von in germany pate palle notre noire as the vice rice president for fra france nee will be in actual charge of operations with headquarters in paris Pate notre said guar guarantees guaranties guaran antles ties us as to insurance su rance security and competition non in industrial bidding would constitute the underlying principles of the or of the colorado flior done DIVERSION one of tile the big preliminary pieces or work in the he building of the hoover baim daim has leen completed and the full mow flow of the river Is now going gol ng underground through the two arizona tunnels the still water walter between two temporary dams at tile the inlet and outlet of the diversion tu t u anels D n e I 1 s has been pumped out and the riverbed river bed laid bire bare for nearly at a mile ready for or excavation ped bed frank T rock probably will he crowe reached by next july some cubic yards must be removed before pouring of concrete starts the river bed being excavated to a depth of feet frank T cruwe crowe general meld held superintendent perin of six companies nies contractors said the most dIlla culi part of tile the project Is behind the engineers building of the dam itself he explained pla ined will ile he comparatively simple work lie said gald the big job was the plo pioneering state stale of shaping sli aping the great canyon walls build iii the diversion tunnels and spillway bores and getting ting the river out of its channel work on the 1 project Is more than a icar ahead of schedule and it Is expected to be completed by the end of 1937 senator boraas committee won WHEN on foreign relations opened tile the hearings bearings on the st Ln lawrence wrence waterway trent treat tile the expected opposition developed immediately and in full form force witnesses for the port authorities cities and world shipping interests united in asserting that the development of the st lawrence aher for navigation and power would disrupt the national transportation tation system peril vital american industries dus tries injure lake bi shipping lipping 17 tile the coal and ore business of the reat real alefs 1 and magnify the dunem ploN pl ment problem among other r attacks on the water way development as proposed prop obed in the coover honnett aresty were charges that completion of that seaway between the great lakes and the atlantie atlantic via Is montreal would jeopardize billions of dollars worth of railway bonds held by lite le public rod and ansur it was sall sald further once ance coLn companies parkies the plan would be likely to bring about government ownership of railroads representative representative SHANNON ol of missouri resumed his bis investigation of government competition with private business with hearings in chicago and his committee was told that this competition Is a trust that must be destroyed if private enterprise Is to be encouraged and economic recovery furthered representatives of business lations in illinois and the panama canal zone as well as executives ol of steamship companies told the committee of specific cases where the government competes to the detriment of private companies on the basis of their testimony the united states government today loday Is interested in every type of business from mortician to the manufacture of gun powder the illinois manufacturers tion representing practically every manufacturing industry la in the state ascribed to the government cespon sibl lity for a large part of the ubern in the state and through its counsel david a clarke charged before the committee that the government has been found to be com directly in 27 dIffer different erit manu fac fracturing turing operations and numerous others clarke declared that his association had been advised that the federal government ern ment was not strictly concerned with the actual cost involved in its ventures much less he said Is there strict regard for any reasonable profit to the government from indus trial operations 0 OKLAHOMA Is twenty five years old and the silver anniversary ol of her ad mission admission to the union was fitting ly and excitingly celebrated on oil no vember 16 in HP IN ma city all the peo H pie of the state and gaj the goer governors nors of other states were invited to the birthday party parly and many were pres ent at the head of the pioneers participating was gov wll wit liam ham U murray who was president of the constitutional conven gov murray tion and sp speaker eliker of oklahoman Okla homas first house of representatives lie fie was one of tile the speakers the others being charles N haskell the first governor and federal judge robert 1 L williams former governor and first supreme court justice among twenty six mans honored at a banquet and whose names were added to those in the states nail or of fame were secretary of war patrick hurley will rogers cowboy humorist judge haskell nas liell once known as an oil company capitalist senator T P gore senator elmar thomas and former senator robert L owen the marriage of miss migs indian territory to mr air oklahoma was re enacted by the couple who participated in the first ceremony at tile the state capitol in guthrie november 10 16 1907 following the ceremony carrier p pigeons I 1 geons were released to hear news of the birthday to the four corners of the united states L T of Ilon honduras duras having L lost st out in the recent election have turned to revolution and hav have e been fighting some bloody battles with tile the goern government ment forces the rebels were reported to have spied seized the towns of trujillo la ceiba and la 18 esper arnza and then they moved on the city of ann pedro which they captured the fiercest of the fighting to date was in a counter attack there by the government troops many hundreds were said to have been killed in ID the election sen gen tiburcio carlas andino the nationalist conservative candidate won over angel buete the liberal nominee the in augu ration has not yet taken place and president mechi colindres remains as the head of tile government the president and the president elect are political allies S EVERAL weeks ago in this column me mention was maide made 01 ol the quarrel between peru and colombia over possession of leticia Letl cla and by a slip of the oen nen it was said the sector in dispute had once been ceded by colombia to peru instead of by peru to columbia an authoritative source now gives tile the information that tile the leticia sector fecto was in fact ceded by neither con country iviry to the other but that it Is in territory that has always been claimed by colombia in 1922 1022 by the terms of the salomon lozano treaty between peru and colombia it was definitely decided that colombians Colom bias southern boundary line included lett cla within the limits of colombia and the sector was thereafter recognized by peru as belonging to Coloni colombia bla OON after the december session of S SOON congress opens senator benegno aquino of the philippine legislature will be in washington to take part in the efforts to win in independence for the archipelago lie he sailed from manila some days ago hearing secret instructions to the filipino delegation presumably ir the form of a mandate of the legislature opposing both the ellawes ond and flare bills and demanding a new independence grant without reservation ervn er tion by the untied united states of naval bases and coaling stations the mandate also would provide fa for r tariff reciprocity be between the united states and the philippines and that there be no plebiscite on independence by the hie islanders in the ahe interim of tran of government for a period not exceeding ten year R the on importation of sugar to the 1 alt states stales free of duty duly would hp fixed lit at not loss less lhnn 1 allu ton AS A 1412 WI Arn N lin 11 |