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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over France, Alone in Blocking Hoover Moratorium Plan, Is Warned by President- Feat of Globe-Circling Flyers. By EDWARD W. PICKARD n. Pool, New York; Dr. Dallas B. Phemlster, Chicago; Dr. Daniel F. Jones, Boston; Dr. Walter K. Lee, Philadelphia, and Dr. William J. Mayo of Rochester, Minn. Exchange of Ideas and explanation explana-tion of research work on cancer, plastic surgery, skin grafting and other phases of the profession featured fea-tured the convention topics. SPAIN Is to continue to be a republic, re-public, and Alfonso will remain an ex-king, according to the results of the national elections. Alajan-dro Alajan-dro Lerroux, old time Republican leader and at present foreign minister. min-ister. Is the man of the hour and it is accepted that he will be the first premier under the new constitution consti-tution that Is to be adopted by the national assembly that convenes on July 14. The Socialists and so-called so-called radicals will control this assembly, as-sembly, which In fact will be rather rath-er moderate In policies. The communists com-munists are powerless. Catalonia still Insists on being a separate state In a Spanish federation, federa-tion, but Senor Lerroux predicts that the Catalan movement will soon collapse. SWMWMJ'!M'"tg 1 1 iiiiiii'' 1 T)aY after day Secretary Mellon Mel-lon and Ambassador Ambassa-dor Edge negotiated negotiat-ed with French officials offi-cials In Perls In the effort to reconcile recon-cile the moratorium moratori-um plans of President Presi-dent Hoover and Premier Laval, and In Washington the President and Acting Act-ing Secretnry ' of close or June, ana is now just eleven elev-en men and women. On Tuesday the One furniture and equipment were moved out of Its offices; after midnight the unexpended remainder remain-der of Its $500,000 appropriation reverted re-verted to the government; and Chairman Wlckersham by that time was the only member left in the National Capital. Sticklers for exactness said the commission will not actually cease to exist until a final history of Its activities and expenditures Is written writ-ten and Is accepted by President Hoover. In order to attain this end a temporary commission headquarters head-quarters has been established near the White House, equipped to accommodate ac-commodate only the chairman and a small staff. There the fifteenth report will be written. Here Is the commission's record: rec-ord: Ten reports have been delivered deliv-ered to the government printer or deposited at the White House; four others, one of them the still-controverted study of prohibition, bave been made public. Since midwinter the commission has completed reports upon the deportation de-portation of aliens, "lawlessness In law enforcement." crime among the foreign born, Juvenile delinquency, the work of the police, prisons, probation pro-bation and parole, the costs and causes of crime and a "progress report" re-port" upon the work of the courts, to be carried on by private agencies. RAY LYMAN Wilbur, secretary secre-tary of the Interior, Interi-or, before he became be-came president of Leland Stanford university In 1910, had attained considerable con-siderable fame as a physician and surgeon, and he demonstrated the I other day that he. Premier Laval S''e castle were almost constantly at the American end of the transatlantic trans-atlantic telephone line, coaching them and learning what progress they were making. At this writing writ-ing the progress, If any, Is small. Premier Laval, who was continually contin-ually receiving the advice and assistance as-sistance of Fluance Minister Flan-din Flan-din and others, stood firmly on the position he had assumed, and the senate, by a vote of 107 to S, backed him up, virtually giving him a free band so long as he did not recede. This huge vote did not indicate that the senate had confidence con-fidence In Laval, however. He was attacked fiercely and Jeered, but tbe senators had to express their approval of the refusal to give In to President Hoover. Mr. Hoover then came to bat with a memorandum sent to Ambassador Edge for communication to the French government. This was In effect an ultimatum to France that unless she accepted the Hoover ' plan she was likely to be left out In the cold. The warning was conveyed con-veyed that If the President's project proj-ect failed, Germany certainly would apply for a moratorium on reparations repara-tions as provided by the Young plan, and this, Mr. Hoover figured, would cost France $100,000,000 more than would the Hoover moratorium. mora-torium. Behind the polite phrases In the memorandum seemed to lie the Intimation that If France rejected re-jected the Hoover plan, the administration admin-istration would establish a moratorium mora-torium on war debt payments and leave France out. '' ' ' J 1 w i, j, PRESIDENT Hoover's request to the federal farm board for a definite statement of its policy brought a response from the board, through Chairman James C Stone, in which Its policy as an-nounced an-nounced on March 23 Is virtually re- has not lost nis Sec'y Wilbur surgical skill. While escorting Secretary and Mrs. Wilbur through Mesa Verde National park V. M. Delerchmun. president of a southwestern south-western Colorado transportation concern, fell suddenly ill and was taken to the park hospital. There Doctor Wilbur diagnosed his aliment ali-ment as acute appendicitis and decided de-cided an Immediate operation was necessary. So he gnthered up the tools and, with the assistance of Dr. E E. Johnson of Cortez, he performed per-formed the operation which almost certainly saved Delerchman's life. Next day the patient's condition was so good that Secretary Wilbur resumed bis trip of Inspection of the park. MARRIAGE of divorced persons In Episcopal churches with use of the Bonk of Common Prayer Is favored In a revised proposal pro-posal by a, commission of the general gen-eral convention of the church. Last April the commission offered a plun to authorize Episcopal clergy mm to remarry divorced persons. per-sons. That plan barred the use of church and the regular prayer book. The revised proposal would give clergymen the right to officiate. offici-ate. A minority report suggests marrlnge by a clergyman at his discretion If there already has been a civil marriage. Under the majority plan, one year must elapse after divorce before be-fore permission to remarry may be filed. An ecclesiastical court, appointed ap-pointed by the hlshop of the diocese, dio-cese, must then pass on the fitness of the persona to he married. The report will be submitted to the genernl convention of the church in Denver next September. IN A few dnys Secretnry of War Patrick J. Hurley will be on his way to our farthest possession, the Philippines, for an inspection tour of the Islimds. This Is because their administration fnlls under the Jurisdiction of the War department. depart-ment. While the official War department announcement ascribed the reason for the secretary's trip to a desire "to acqnnlnt himself more Intimately Intimate-ly with the details of Philippine problems," It was understood thnt Mr Hurley would study personally sentiment there for Independence In preparation for a movement in the next session of congress to free the Islands. MEANW H I L E Premier Mussolini Mus-solini put oyer what was considered consid-ered by some a "fast one." Ills government a n-' n-' nounced that the Hoover proposal, which had been accepted ac-cepted unconditionally, uncondition-ally, was in operation, opera-tion, so far as Italy stated, rieas rrora J. C. Stone the Middle West and Southwest that the board commit Itself to keep its Immense wheat holdings off the market, either for a stated period or under a fixed price level, are rejected. re-jected. One Important concession is made. The board agrees to limit sales of Its wheat to 5,000,000 bushels bush-els a month, this limit to run on a cumulative basis, the unused portions por-tions of the quota to be good for succeeding months. But it excepted ex-cepted from this limitation Important Impor-tant contracts with foreign purchasers pur-chasers now under consideration. To the problem of the wheat surplus sur-plus there Is only one answer, and that is acreage reduction, the board declares. Hope was seen-for an Improved export market In smaller productions in other countries and In the prospect for better world conditions "that will be created by the President's debt plan." was concerned, on July 1. Italy's debt- M. Flandln r nations, Germany, Ger-many, Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, Bul-garia, were notified that she was not collecting sums due from them on that date; and her creditors, England and the United States, were told she was putting aside the SENATOR Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the senate finance committee, has been in conference with the treasury authorities In Washington ; and he now says that under the provisions provi-sions of the Haw-ley Haw-ley -Smoot tariff law with relation to the products of Senator Smoot convict, forced or SENATOR S I meon D. Fess of Ohio,, who Is a lending member of the senate committee commit-tee on Interstate commerce, predicts that railroad and transportation legislation leg-islation of a comprehensive com-prehensive character charac-ter will be considered consid-ered during the ' k, s ; .wwasws.. i U3aLJ sums she owes them, pending final , decision. The State department In Washington Wash-ington said the Hoover plan had been accepted by Belgium and Poland, Po-land, both allies of France and by Rumania, and In part by Greece and Jugo-Slavla. So France was i standing alone In opposition. It was believed In Paris that Premier Laval, after closing down parliament, parlia-ment, would call a conference of all nations signatory to the Young plan to obtain from them a release from the guarantee clause requiring requir-ing her. In case of a moratorium, to place in the bank for International Interna-tional settlements the sum of approximately ap-proximately $120,000,000 to be applied ap-plied in part to Increasing payments pay-ments to be received by other creditors cred-itors during the period of suspension. suspen-sion. VSTILEY POST and Hurold Gat-W Gat-W ty. American aviators, set their monoplane, the Winnie Mae, down at Roosevelt field. New York, Wednesday evening. They had accomplished ac-complished the remarkable feat of flying around the globe, approximately approxi-mately 15.475 miles. In 8 days 15 hours and 51 minutes, a new mark for other flyers to shoot at. They set out to break the record f 22 days made by the dirigible Graf Zeppelin, and they smashed it to bits. Great skill In piloting and navigating, unconquerable courage and nerve and a plane that functioned perfectly all contributed to the success of this epochal flight. The route followed by the flyers took them from New York to Harbor Har-bor Grace. N. F.; thence successively succes-sively to Chester, England; Ber-, Ber-, Iln. Moscow, Novoslbersk, Irkutsk, Blagovyeshchensk, Khabarovsk, Solomon Sol-omon and then Fairbanks, Alaska; Edmonton, Canada; Cleveland, Ohio, and back to New York. They met with no serious accident but at times flew through high winds and rainstorms. New York city on Thursday gave the aviators the usual showy and noisy welcome, with parade, speeches and reception by Mayor Jimmle Walker. But they were too ' tired tojnlnd this much. President Hoover invited them to luncheon at the While House, and they received the congratulations of eminent per-sons per-sons all over the world. It Is estimated esti-mated that Post and Gatty will realize about $50,000 each from their wonderful flight and they eertnlnly earned It WHAT was the President's national na-tional commission on law enforcement en-forcement and observance, better known as the Wlckersham commission, commis-sion, went out of existence with the indentured labor, the Treasury department de-partment will adopt, a policy of excluding ex-cluding a large share of the products prod-ucts of Russia. While this exclusion will not apply ap-ply to products of the soil, says Mr. Smoot, It will apply to Soviet products which are manufactured, rained or produced by means of forced labor of any kind, and which are competitive with products here. He mentions lumber and pulpwood especially as products which will be shut out. FOR the first time since the World war the federal government govern-ment began Its fiscal yeur on July 1 with an unbalanced budget The deficit Is almost $903,000,000. Handicapped by reduced revenues, reve-nues, the Treasury found Itself confronted con-fronted with rising expenditures, due to the government's efforts to help the farmer, the unemployed and the drought sufferers. About the only favorable factor In the financial situation was a cash balance bal-ance of over $400,000,000 with which the treasury entered the new year. This will be used to meet current expenses during the first quarter Instead of being applied ap-plied to the deficit CENOR DON SALVADOR DE v-' Madarlaga, the new ambassador from Spain, presented his credentials creden-tials to President Hoover with due ceremony, and the customary polite phrases were exchanged. Then the two distinguished men enjoyed an Informal chat, as both of them used to be mining engineers. Senor de Madarlaga Is a noted writer and In the past has criticised severely some of the policies of the United States in Latin-American affairs. lANY of America's most em!-neut em!-neut Kurgeons gathered In San Francisco for the annual convention conven-tion of their association. Among the speakers were: Dr. Aiexsnder Primrose, Toronto, president; Dr. Lincoln Davis, Boston; Dr. Eugene next session of congress. He has Senator Fess studied these questions ques-tions closely for years, and probably prob-ably knows whnt he Is talking about. In his opinion, consolidation consolida-tion legislation will again be taken tak-en up, and laws for the regulation of 'the motor bus and tbe motor truck will he proposed. Mr. Fess foresees much difficulty In getting legislation enacted to j meet the various transportation problems. This difficulty is much enhnneed. as he views It. by the competition between the railroads and other forms of transportation, on the one hand, he feels the country cannot get along without the railroads, but on the other, he Is convinced the public will not sanction any undue restriction of other forms of transportation. The Ohio senator Is an advocate of legislation to liberalize existing law with reference to railroad consolidations. con-solidations. He sponsored. In the last congress, the Fess-Parker bill jo provide. In effect, for voluntary combinations. It Is Interesting to hear, from Senator Fess himself, that he probably prob-ably will remain chairman of the Republican national committee for another year, despite frequent rumors ru-mors thnt he would retire or he displaced. He called on President Hoover the other day and afterward after-ward said: "It appenrs now that I Hill serve until convention time next year." However, he insisted he had not discussed the matter ; with the President. ! ((Q llt. Wtrn N(irrtper Holea.) |