Show ivin news IG ws review of current events the world over france and belgium t default on war debts great britain and four other nations pay drys argue against legalizing td 0 beer by EDWARD W PICKARD fest RANCE PRANCE reputedly one of the elie rich est nations in the world has de raul faulted ted for the first time in history it ft has broken its pledged word refus ing to pay the decem ber war debt interest Inte resl installment of 10 19 due the unit ed states tills this ac tion was taken by the chamber of deputies hy by a vote of to while the gal berles roared the na and royalist song not a sou to america the power M herriot ful socialist party tie de sorted the government premier herriot had made a tre mentions fight the most brilliant in his career and when his defeat was an bounced tie he and nis his ministers minister st stalked out of the ithe chamber tile the dt deputies then took another vote on a motion to defer payment until such a time as an international debt conference can be held and this was carried asu to 57 tile the radical socialists who had supported the premiers prem lers terms for payment had bad left the chamber before this vote was taken herriot and lis cabinet immediately submitted their resignations to president lebrun and as Is customary were asked to carry on until a new government could be formed consequently it was necessary for tIer rInt to transmit to washington the decision of the chamber F FOLLOWING a rapid exchange between london and washington great britain tain fulfilled expectations by paying the in and interest due the united states on oil thursday al a c D 0 government had proposed that the payment should nol noi be regarded as the regular semiannual semi annual installment provided for in the debt agree ment but as a pay ment on capital to be taken into account in any future u under n d e r secy StI stimson nison standing secretary of state Sti stimson tilson promptly replied declining to accept the payment if accompanied by conditions that would amount to repudiation of the debt fun funding dinK pact the british explained explain id that thai they were mere merely setting forth their own position and reserving the right to recur to their arguments in tie future examination of the whole question 0 0 to which the united states government has agreed the officials in washington inter prated the last british note noli as on of mental reservations and decided they could accept the payment without ith committing the united states to any deviation from the terms of the debt settlement so the incident was considered closed so far as great brit din aln was concerned Itel ghim followed the example of france and the cabinet council decided not to pay america the that was due explaining unit that the hoover moratorium and the lausanne Laii sanne reparations agreement had deprived belgium of 0 substantial bums and that the file delit debt funding agreement of 1029 1025 was based on capacity to pay then the resigned italy lithuania czechoslovakia and latvia paid up on an the delit debt linn gary poland nod and Ks Esth thonia onla did not pay poland lias bas asked the united states to review the debt agreement on the ground that thai her interest on the debt Is unfairly high when compared to that which italy pays RESIDENT ELICT awas pi 1 v was aroused to wrilla when the correspondent of the london express sent a cablegram to his paper mis representing mr Roosevel ts views on the debt question the dispatch said gald in part let me at once clear up any alls understanding there Is at home hoine concerning what the new president la Is going to do about war debts I 1 gather from our conversation that oil I 1 march 5 he be Is going to make a statement which I 1 believe will tiring bring some meas ure of relief to a 8 doubting world but although I 1 have the best rea sons for believing that thai the interest on the war debts may be waived and perhaps some pretty bard conditions will be attached to cutting off 0 ff the interest there Is no possible shadow of doubt that the capital representing nl at Roosevel ts own 6 figure gure K N will have to be paid every red cent ofil of it governor noo roosevelt sevelt declared the elie story was made of whole cloth that lie he had refused to give ec the correspond ent a christmas message for the world nod and had declined to discuss with him the debts or anything else gov H il II lehman who was waa present when ahen the englishman saw the governor asserted that nothing in any way justifying the cabled story bud bad been said the president elee elect t took occasion also to deny a report printed in a sacramento newspaper that he be would offer the portfolio of the interior to senator hiram W johnson Job D LOUIS T me mc Rf lv fadden of pennsylvania who seems to dislike mr hoover more than anyone else does introduced a resolution seeking to impeach the president on tho the ground that he has failed to obey the mandate of congress against the cancellation of the war debts and lias has endeavored to nullify the con tracts existing between elie th e united states and its debtors in his talk the pennsylvanian Pennsylva niaD even hinted at possible bribery A motion to lay the impeachment peach ment resolution on the table was opposed by only eight members all democrats except mcfadden P PREMIER of france having accepted the agreement reconciling the equality demands of germany and the security requirements of france the german government consented to return to the dis armament conference and hopes for the elie success of that conference were revived france great britain and italy declared that one of the alms of the file conference is to give equality ot of rights to germany and her allied powers within a framework frai nework of cecur ity for all nations britain france italy and germany affirmed the would not resort to arms to settle disputes and the same powers promised to co operate in a sincere effort to bring about disarmament in berlin this accord was consid ered a distinct victory for chancellor kurt von schleicher and foreign minister von neurath R representative representative DANIEL E garrett of ll houston texas died in his washington apartment after an illness of several months ile he was a democrat of great influence in the party and in the house had served sixteen henrs in congress and was reelected in november E EXCEPT for the war debts beer W was as the chief topic of interest in ID washington the house ways and means committee was condne conducting ting hearings on the legalizing meas meag ures and it heard f plenty in opposition from both men and women the gentler r sex came first and the 4 things it said about beer viere nere far from gentle the women were led by Y 1 mrs lr henry W lle peabody bod 1 of new york general gen eral chairman of the worn wom ens national commit dr A AJ J barton tee for law enforce ment they told the committee that beer was responsible for DO 00 per cent of pre prohibition drunkenness and asserted that of the vol stead act was as the pilfering filtering wedge for the return of the open saloon then they warned that if zed red revo lution and riots followed Aed the passage of beer legislation the responsibility would be laid at the committees door three congressmen and dr leigh colvan of new york also spoke in opposition to modification next day the dry men marshaled by dr A J parton executive secretary of the anti saloon league took the floor they included canon AV S chase deets picket bishop james cannon jr and others and another woman mrs ella boole president of the national christian tern tem perance union was with them to ado add her arguments one of the w witnesses I 1 produced by the drys was fr dr walter R miles allies of yale who told of experiments be made with students tending to show that a 27 i per cent alcoholic drink was intoxicating tie he admitted the stuff he gave the boys was not noi real beer but a concoction of grape juice sugar and alcohol secretary of the treasury mills wile wa summoned by the committee to give estimates of the amount of revenue which would be derived from a tax of 0 sa 5 on each barrel of legalized beer little affect affected pd by all the dry arguments it had heard the committee went to work drafting the legalizing lega lising bill the wets were confident cont ident the could put it through the house but were not so sure they could muster a 0 two thirds vote to overcome a veto by president hoover and there were reports that the chief calef executive would disapprove the measure on ahe tie ground that it would nullity nullify the eighteenth amendment the senators were discussing the relative merits of repeal ond and modification senator hirah H 11 irah a bone dry suld he liked the repeal plan offered by senator blaine of wisconsin who Is very wet et mr blaines Bl alnes resolution would amend the constitution first by forbidding transportation or of intoci cants into any state or territory in violation of its laws second by authorizing congress to ennet enact laws to aid enforcement in dry states this he be would substitute for the eighteenth amendment M aps RS FRANKLIN D I A has called forth the shocked pro te stations of prohibition women in va mons parts of the country by asserting in a radio talk that allne average american girl of today faces the lem of learning very young how much she can drink of such things as whisky and gin and sticking to the proper quantity she was contrasting conditions today with those la in her youth when as she said very few girls drank anything beyond a glass of wine at home and it never would have occurred to the young man to carry a flask to an evening party 1 W ETS in the house were defeated in two attempts to cut off funds for or prohibition enforcement amendments to the treasury supply bill designed to slash from the 1934 appropriation for the coast guard were offered by schafer of wisconsin and boylan of new york but both were voted down i JAPAN APAN was becoming more anil and more isolated by developments in geneva the league of nations conciliation committee of nineteen which Is now to handle the sino japanese trouble over manchuria intended to co ask the united al states and russia to have representatives un on the committee but tokyo instructed its delegation at geneva to reject any such proposal indeed japan declines to let he be committee settle the M litvinov controversy thus disregarding the friendly advice of great britain then maxim litvinov soviet foreign forell n affairs commissar issued a statement that russia and uhlna china are resuming diplomatic negotiations that were ruptured in 1927 oe he gave out the news dews after a parley with D W W yen ten chinese delegate at geneva this was looked on as a direct bid for recognition of russia by the united states it Is only when all states maintain relations with one another litvinov said that we will be able to speak seriously of international co operation cooperation in the cause of peace international observance of peace pacts and agreements and the creation of universally recognized and authoritative international organizations this was interpreted as an I 1 intimation that russian operation cooperation co in settling the Manchi irlan dispute may be conditioned on american recognition of the soviets at the same time it was taken as a veiled hint that thai russia if it Is treated its as it wishes would con sider entering the league of nations to collaborate in strengthening the peace pacts A spokesman for the government in tokyo said this action by what he described as the nations most moist dis disturbing to the peace of the world was indirectly threatening japan MARVIN JONES of the C CHAIRMAN house agricultural committee introduced trod the democratic farm relief measure in the house the same being the allotment plan which Is favored by president elect roosevelt with this as a basis the democrats hope to work out a bill that can call be passed at this session the jones bill which applies a only aly to wheat cotton tobacco and ho hogs 9 provides virtually two plans in one for 1933 the secretary of agriculture would fix fit the percentage of these commodities modi ties required for domestic con no means of curtailing production Is provided thirty days after passage of the act producers of the four commodities would be entitled to receive adjustment certificates on that portion of their sales falling within the domestic consumption percentage the certificates would be issued ni ill the rate of 42 cents a bushel for chent 5 cents a pound for cotton 4 cents for tobacco and 2 cents for hogs brigs less a small administrative charge with passage of the act adjustment charges at these same rates would be levied on the processing of the four commodities tariffs at these rates would be levied on imports and an ettra eitra tariff of 5 cents a pound on short staple cotton and cotton goods would be imposed RESIDENT HOOVER in the presence P PRESIDENT of a group of distinguished persons accepted on behalf of the nation the deed to the wooded island of Aco Ano lostan in the potomac river which Is now a natural shrine to the memory of theodore roosevelt the president directed that it shall hereafter be known as theodore roosevelt island and dedicated to the nation among those present at the ceremony were mrs hoover mi mrs s alice roosevelt longworth secretary of state stimson and general pershing 0 DY in the chaco continues aes ues between bolivia and paraguay and it Is estimated that the casualties already have reached the paraguayan forces claim to have captured several forts recently and have seemed to be having the best of the conflict but the bolovinos bolivians Boll ians vinos are greatly strengthened by the presence of gen bans kundt the german officer who la is commanding them in the field NE of the lame ducks of the 0 ONE house bouse C william Rams cyer of iowa lias has been provided for if the sena senate Is willing president hoover has nominated him bim to be judge of the united states state court of customs air hooded headed the republican campaign speakers 7 bureau 0 1032 ltv western newspaper union |