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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Soviet Premier Attacks the United States and Secretary Secre-tary of State Stimson Begins Study of the Russian Question. By EDWARD W. PICKARD lleve the economic depression in the country. Five sessions were held, each devoted to discussion of a major topic. Senator Borah, who still advocates the export debenture, de-benture, presided over the session on farm relief; Senator Norrls, chalrmon of the conference, presided pre-sided over the public utilities session; ses-sion; Senator Cutting over the representative government session, and Senator-Elect Costlgan of Colorado Col-orado over that devoted to the tariff. tar-iff. All of these except Costlgan are nominally Republicans. REVERBERATIONS from the Democratic national commit- MUCH attention Is being paid these days to our relations with Rossis, Ros-sis, or the lack of them. In Moscow the opening session of the All-Union S o r I e t congress was aroused to wild enthusiasm by a violent attack on the United States and Incl- tee meeting have not ceased, nor will they for a long time. Many Republicans were Inclined to chortle chor-tle over what looked tike a big split In the Democratic party on the prohibition Issue, but La Guardla of New York warned them against this attitude, asserting the Republican leaders had better take an Inventory of their own party. He praised the Democrats for their courage in discussing prohibition In the open and urged the Republican Repub-lican national committee to follow suit. "There Is a determined movement move-ment within the ranks of the Republican Re-publican party to vote wet In lfcU" he said. "If the party refuses re-fuses to meet the situation and falls to present a plank which will end the present farce of prohibition prohibi-tion and Its many vlctlous ramifications. rami-fications. "A dry Republican running on a dry platform with the present temper tem-per of the wets would be In danger of losing Illinois, 20 votes; Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, 18; New Jersey, 14; New York, 45; Rhnle Island, S; Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, 13, and Ohio, 24; thereby giving giv-ing the wet Democratic candidate a total of 2!2 votes without taking Into consideration the doubtful states. Only 206 electoral votes out of the 631 are sufllclent to elect a I'resldent" was recognized that this might embarrass em-barrass them owing to the high submarine tonnage which the pact allots to France. The London treaty as ratified by the American senate provides for (52.000 tons of submarines for the United States and Great Britain. The Franco-ltallan-Rrltlsh agreement agree-ment provides for 81,000 tons of eubmarlt.es for the Frebch navy. If this figure were to be Inserted In the London treaty it Is possible the higher tonnage would he questioned ques-tioned by the senate and the whole treaty would need the senate's consent con-sent again. This the administration administra-tion desired to avoid. The same parliamentary reason applies to the case of Japan. Arthur Henderson, British foreign for-eign secretary, made public the terms of the three-power accord In a long memorandum. They rover three outstanding considerations In the armaments situation. Technical Tech-nical problems of European naval power are swept away; renewal of an armaments race such as led to the World war has. It Is hoped, been prevented; success of the world disarmament conference at Geneva next year Is brought measurably meas-urably closer. The basis of the agreement as outlined la the detailing of the limits lim-its of both the French end Italian V. Molotov dentally all other "capitalistic" countriesdelivered coun-triesdelivered by Vlacheslav Molotov, president of the council of people's commissars, which means premier of the Soviet government gov-ernment Molotov characterized the lack of diplomatic relations with the United States as abnormal and as being part of a plot of European groups, headed by the Vatican, against Soviet Russia.. He said , that twenty countries are haying satisfactory relations, except Poland, Po-land, whose relations might be Improved. He denounced the charges of dumping and forced labor that have been made against the Soviet government and declared the American "foolish Fish bill" framed by Representative Hamll- bra EMPRESS NAO-ako NAO-ako of Japan has given birth to a daughter, her fourth, and the Imperial Im-perial family and the Japanese nation na-tion are rejoicing and celebrating. But the Joy Is mainly over the safety of the new princess and her building programs In all fleet categories cate-gories until 1030. It Is estimated by naval experts that France will continue to hold a superiority of about 157.000 tons over the Italian fleet although this Is not stated explicitly In the memorandum. ONE of the State department's most valuable men, Undersecretary Under-secretary Joseph Potter Cotton, died In Baltimore after a long Illness Ill-ness and two severe operations for spinal Infection. Mr. Cotton, who was fifty five years old and a native na-tive of Rhode Island, worked under un-der President Hoover when the latter was food administrator and later secretary of commerce. He was appointed to the State department depart-ment post In 1921) and made a reputation for his frank and direct diplomatic methods. . ton Fish, Jr., after a congressional Investigation tnto Communist activitiesundoubtedly ac-tivitiesundoubtedly would affect trade relations between the two countries. "America must remember," he declared, "that the Imports of the Union of the Socialist Soviet Republics Re-publics depend upon her exports." The premier called the attention of the delegates to a statement by an American senator that "a thou- sand persona are starving to death dally In the United States." He asked the delegates to compare this situation to that In the U. S. 8. It. where, he said, there was no unemployment and no starvation. In Washington It was learned that Secretary of Slate Henry Stimson is now devoting most of his time to a careful study of the Russian question In all its phases, presumably at the request of President Pres-ident Hoover. That this indicated any important change of policy by the administration was considered unlikely by the well Informed. Indeed, In-deed, William R. Castle, acting secretary In the absence of Mr. Stimson, said that the hitter's study had no significance beyond the fact that the secretary desired to Inform himself more closely on the Soviet problem. Since becoming becom-ing secretary, Mr. Castle pointed out, Mr. Stimson has been devoting devot-ing his time to disarmament. Latin-American Latin-American affairs, and other problems, prob-lems, leaving no time to study Russia. Mi OLIVER WEN-dell WEN-dell Holmes, the grand old man of the Supreme court of the United States, celebrated his ninetieth birthday birth-day on Sunday, and received nt his home the affectionate affection-ate congratulations of countless friends mother, and there Empress Is little conceal-Nagako conceal-Nagako ment of the disappointment disap-pointment that the child is not a son. The throne of Japan can pass only to male descendants de-scendants of the sun goddess and Emperor Hlrohlto Is yet without a direct heir to carry on the line that has been unbroken for many centuries. Prince Chlchlbu, the emperor's next younger brother, continues to be the heir presumptive. presump-tive. PERU'S new provisional president presi-dent Is Lieut. Col. David Sam-anez Sam-anez Ocampo, and he has assumed the office In Lima after flying there from Arequlpa. Ocampo was the head of the "southern Junta" which was set up by Arequlpa revolutionaries. revolution-aries. He and his followers, to bring peace to the country, gave up their regime in favor of the new junta at the capltnl, and Ocampo was promptly put at the head of the government ONE more campaign Issue was provided for the Democrats when President lioover vetoed the Wagner hill for a reorganized employment em-ployment service. Even If the measure Is ngnln Introduced and passed by the next congress, the Democrats are sure to make the veto one of their prlncipnl talking points, claiming the bill should have been enacted and signed at the height of the business depression. From the statements of State department de-partment officials It was gathered that no consideration would be given to the suggestion that a separate sep-arate division for Russia be established estab-lished In the State department, and that there was nothing In the report re-port that an assfstant secretary of , state would be appointed to bundle Russian affairs. President Hoover has In the past stood firmly by the policy that there can be no recognition recog-nition of Russia before the Soviet government agrees to recognize official of-ficial and private obligations to this country and cease propaganda Intended to overthrow the American Ameri-can government iwJ and admirers. In the evening the Justice venerable assort-Helmet assort-Helmet ate Justice made his first radio speech, after listening to tributes of Chief Justice Hughes nnd others. oth-ers. Justice Holmes said, through the microphone: "In this symposium my part Is only to sit In silence. To express one's feelings as the end draws near Is too Intimate a task. "But I may mention one thought that comes to me as a listener In," he added. "The riders In a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There Is a little finishing finish-ing canter before coming to a standstill. There Is time to hear the kind voices of friends and to say to' one's self: The work Is done.' But Just as one says that the answer comes: The race Is over, but the work never Is done while the power to work remains.' The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest It cannot be, while yon, still live. For to live Is to function. func-tion. That Is all there la to living." liv-ing." Next day Justice Holmes achieved his ambition of handing SECRETARY of the Interior Wilbur Wil-bur accepted the bid of the Six Companies, Com-panies, Inc., of San Francisco, which offered to build the Hoover dam, power house and appurtenant works at the Boulder canyon project for $48,800,995. This v V A li5fev DISTRICT AT-torney AT-torney Thomas Thom-as C T. Croln of New York county Is liable to lose bis Job as a result of the exposures of corruption in the magistrates' courts of the metropolis. The City club through Its officers filed formal charges against huge engineering Job. the biggest W. H. Wattis ever undertaken In the United States, will be directed for the present from a hospital In San Francisco, for William H. Wattis, Wat-tis, president of the Six Componles, is confined In the Institution. The entire project. Including erection of a dam and power house. Installation of machinery and building build-ing of a canal, Is estimated to cost the tremendous total of $105,000,-000. $105,000,-000. Congress has already authorized author-ized expenditure of $10S,000.000 for the dam and appurtenant work. REAR ADMIRAL SAMUEL Mc-Gowun, Mc-Gowun, retired, appearing before- the war policies commission that Is now conducting hearings, advocated the adoption of a con-stiutional con-stiutional amendment to prevent the country from going to war without a referendum of Its citizens. citi-zens. He added the amendment also should provide that If the referendum ref-erendum resulted In war every able-bodied male citizen between the ages of eigbten and thirty-five be drafted. Chairman Johnson of the house veterans' committee and General Delafleld. former chairman of the War department board of contract adjustments, opposed the referendum referen-dum plan as Impracticable and unnecessary. un-necessary. Bernard M. Baruch, who was chairman of the war Industries board during the World war. proposed pro-posed that, to prevent profiteering during a war, til prk-es should be fixed by Presidential proclamation at the prewar level. (& Kit. Western Newspaper Vales.) down a decision after he was ninety. nine-ty. In It the Supreme court ruled that within the meaning of the motor vehicle theft act an airplane Is not a motor vehicle. It reversed the Judgment passed on W. W. McBoyle of Galena, III., who was sentenced to Imprisonment and fine for transplanting a stolen airplane from Illinois to Oklahoma. In the last paragraph Justice Holmes made the typical ruling that makers mak-ers and constrners of criminal laws must play fair In marking out the Hue between right and wrong. STEALING a march on the Insurgent Insur-gent Republicans and Democrats, Demo-crats, the Republican national committee announced the organisation organi-sation of an advisory council for agriculture, with Senator-Elect L. J. Dickinson of Iowa aa Its chairman. chair-man. The other memhers are Senator Sen-ator Arthur Capper of Kansas and Representatives Robert G. Simmons Sim-mons of Nebraska and Fred S. Pur-nell Pur-nell of Indiana. This council will have headquarters In Washington and In the West and will Immediately Imme-diately begin work In the corn and wheat belts. One of Its purposes. It was stated. Is to be the "dissemination "dis-semination of accurate Information Informa-tion regarding the vartoua con-structlve con-structlve steps the administration has taken to aid the farmers and to save them from bankruptcy In this critical period of economic depression and drought." Two days after this announce ment was made, the Insurgents opened their scheduled conference the purpose of which was to demonstrate dem-onstrate that the Hoover administration adminis-tration did little if anything te re- Craln, alleging in- j. C. T. Craln efficiency. Incompetency Incom-petency and misfeasance In office, and asked that Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt "remove him. The gov-, gov-, eroor promptly appointed Samuel Seobury as special commissioner to Investigate the charges and report re-port back to him. If he sees fit the governor may remove Craln and name a successor to serve the remainder of the year. Seabury already has been serving as special spe-cial referee Investigating the magistrates' mag-istrates' courts and will continue that work. It Is expected that the Grain Inquiry will lead Into the police department and any other department of the city government r phase of political life which may be related to the district attorney's conduct of bis office. Republican leaders and others are urging that the legislature authorize au-thorize a thorough nonpartisan Investigation In-vestigation of the entire New York city government, and a mass meeting meet-ing of citizens was called to pro-note pro-note that plan. IT IS understood now that the new naval treaty between France and Italy will be signed by only those nations and Great Brit ain. It will not be Incorporated In the London naval treaty of 1030 but both pacts will run concur rently until 15KJ6. Official expressions expres-sions cf approval of the convention will be asked of both the United States and Japan, but neither will ke called o to sign It because it |