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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Hoover on Business and Pleasure Trip to Porto Rico and Virgin Islands Mayor Walker Under Fire. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 000 and those for the first quarter ending March 81, well above $500 000,000. At least one-fourth of the total tax due was paid with the Income tax returns filed, so thut collections for the first quarter will run somewhat above the average for the four quarters. Indications are that the higher tax rate for 1980 Incomes will fall, to offset the losses caused by the economic depression by around $100,000,000. SO VARIED are the interests of different countries thut the tariff tar-iff armistice convention called at Geneva by the Ledgue of Nations Is forced to report tbat it has failed to reach an agreement, though It has hopes that within a few years enough nations will ratify rat-ify the pact to make it effective for Europe. The conference was called by the league in an effort to secure a truce on the raising of tariffs and later to obtain a general reduction of tariffs. Only eleven countries ratified the truce clause and all eleven made Important rescrva-tlons. rescrva-tlons. The usual reservation was, "If surrounding countries would also ratify." PROBABLY twenty men perished H when the sealer Viking was H blown up in White bay, Newfound- B land. Of the survivors 118, many fl of them badly Injured, managed to I reach little Horse island, where a I few inhabitants tried to care for I them with Inadequate food and no fl medical supplies. Several others H were picked up by vessels that sped H to the rescue, called by the mes- fl sages of the young girl radio op- B erator on the island. Besides the B large crew the Viking carried the fl members of a moving picture ex- fl pedltion. If , : V PRESIDENT Hoover and a "stag party" sailed from Norfolk, Va., Thursday morning on the reconditioned recondi-tioned battleship Arizona for a 12-day 12-day trip on which the Chief Execu-tlve Execu-tlve planned to combine rest and pleasure with business. busi-ness. Included in and making nine public appearances. appear-ances. Besides this, he Is contemplating contem-plating a trip to bis home In Palo Alto, Calif. The subjects of his speeches have not been announced, but It Is understood he will take the opportunity to set forth his own estimate of the achievements of his administration so far and bis alms for the future. Thus he will be in a measure taking up the challenge put out by the progressives progres-sives at their recent conference In Washington. The speaking calendar for the President as arranged Is : April 13 American Red Cross In Washington. April 14-Pao-Amerlcnn day, Pan-Amerlcnn Union, Washington. jjy 4iiitcrnatlonal Chamber of Commerce, Washington. May 21 Fiftieth anniversary of the Red Cross. Washington. Gov. Theodor. "i party were Sec-Roosevelt Sec-Roosevelt "tarV,,"J " nf ley, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, Capt. William Furlong, who handles navy Island matters: Capt Charles It. Train, naval aide; Col. Campbell Hodges, army aide; various other officials from the White House, and a bunch of newspaper men and photographers. pho-tographers. Capt C. S. Freeman was In command of the Arizona and the vessel carried a full complement com-plement of 00 officers and 1,244 men, for it was making a shaking down run after being rebuilt The first stop was at Snn Juan, Porto Rico, and the President for two days was to be the guest of Gov. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt at La Fortaleza, the old mansion In which governors of the island have resided from the early days of the Spanish regime. It was planned that Mr. Hoover should make a tour of the Island In order to observe Industrial, agricultural and social conditions, meet the leaders of the political parties and gain a general Idea of the success Governor Roosevelt has attained In meeting the problems of the Porto Rlcans, which are many and serious. se-rious. The governor in his official reports re-ports and la communications to the American papers has given detailed de-tailed pictures of the distress obtaining ob-taining In the Island. Sixty per cent of the people are out of work, be aald,. either all or part of the year. The population density Is exeeed- ! 1 Liw:J ONE of the earnest earn-est hopes of the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor the affiliation of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen with the federationIs federa-tionIs soon to be realized, according to dispatches from Washington. Representatives Rep-resentatives of both bodies and of May 30 Memorial day, Vauey Force, Pa. June. 15 Republican Editorial association, Indiunapolls, Ind. June 16 Dedication of Harding Memorial. Marlon. Ohio. June 17 Dedication of Lincoln Memorial. 8prlngfleld, III. In addition to these engagements, the President Is to review veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic at their reunion June 16 in Columbus, Colum-bus, Ohio. THEODORE G. JOSUN, Washington Wash-ington correspondent of the Boston Transcript, has been made secretary to President Hoover to succeed George Akerson, resigned. Mr. Joslin is a close personal friend of Mr. Hoover. His main duties will be arranging the President's Presi-dent's calling list hundling visitors at the executive offices and maintaining main-taining contact between the President Presi-dent and the correspondents. The new secretary Is an experienced experi-enced political reporter and has a wide acquaintance among public men. He Is a native of Massachusetts Massachu-setts and Is forty-one years old. :; vv 1 vj Luav i, .a.. SJ SENATOR Hiram Hi-ram Johnson of California, who Is one of the most independent in-dependent m e tubers tu-bers of the upper bouse, thinks the recent conference of progressive leaders lead-ers was a "fine thing" and that the leaders of the Re-publican Re-publican pnrty ed by few countries, it is u 10 the square mile and even intensive agriculture would not support this population. So It Is Industries that Governor Roosevelt says must be developed. More than 85,000 persons per-sons are suffering from tuberculosis, tubercu-losis, 200,000 from malaria, and 800,000 from hookworm. ... From Porto Rico the Arizona was to proceed to St. Thomas, principal prin-cipal port of the Virgin islands, where Mr. Hoover was to he met by Dr. Paul M. Pearson of Phila delphin. the recently nppointed civil governor, and Waldo Evans of the navy, the retiring governor. With them he was to study the problems of the group, which are ns serious us those of Porto Rico. The Virgin Islands used to prosper on the manufacture of rum and the transshipment of F.uropean cargoes for the entire Caribbean region. The prevailing economic distress is the result of prohibition and the conversion of coal horning vessels to oil consuming ships. Only a few days aco the control of the Virgin Island was transferred trans-ferred from the Navy to the Interior In-terior department, and now In Washington It Is suggested that one result of the President's visit may be the amalgamation of the group with Porto Rico as a single political unit administered by one governor. Secretary certain affllfated Doak railway workers' unions were engaged en-gaged during the week in drafting the terms of an agreement for the amalgamation. Representing the federation In the conference were President William Green, Secretary Frank Morrison and Vice President J. M. Bugeniazet, who also is secretary sec-retary of the International Brotherhood Brother-hood of Electrical Workers. Sitting Sit-ting In for the trainmen were President Pres-ident Albert Whitney and James Farquarson, legislative agent The drafting conference was the culmination of negotiations that have been In progress for a year, in which Secretary of Labor Donk, in his former capacity as legislative legisla-tive agent of the trainmen's organization, or-ganization, is said to have played an important part UNEXPECTEDLY heavy demands de-mands by World war veterans for loans have made it necessary for the treasury to raise $200,000,-000 $200,000,-000 In less thnn a month. Secretary Secre-tary Mellon announced a requester by Veterans' Administrator Mines for $500,000,000 to cover payments on 1.372,000 applications received up to March 15. It hnd been estimated esti-mated $.100,000,000 would suffice, and per cent treasury certificates certifi-cates were Issued to get that sum. Hlnes said, however, the $500,000,-000 $500,000,-000 would be needed by April 11. TADJIKISTAN has been admitted admit-ted to the Union of Soviet Socialist So-cialist Republics as the seventh constituent state, the actlou being taken by the sixth biennial all-union all-union Soviet - congress In Moscow Just before adjournment The Tadjikistan Tad-jikistan republic, organized last, July, was formerly a part of Uzj bekstan. It comprises slightly more than 00,000 square miles with a population of 003,000. lying In a cove formed by the frontiers of Afghanistan, Af-ghanistan, India and Chinese Turkestan, Tur-kestan, its capital Is Stalinabad, formerly Dushambe. Rykov, former premier, and others oth-ers who were removed from office . recently, were restored to favor during the session of the congress and made members of the central executive committee. should can a Bim-Senator Bim-Senator liar meeting, add-Johnson add-Johnson lng: "Only good can come from such gatherings." He Is convinced that "something is radically wrong somewhere" with the Republican party. Mr. Johnson gave out a statement state-ment In which, he agreed with some of the progressive, doctrines and disagreed with others, but said that "public consideration, study and discussion constitute the contribution con-tribution and value of the conference." confer-ence." He asserted the country was naturally Interested In unemployment unem-ployment representative government, govern-ment, the power question, monopoly's monop-oly's eucroachments and public utilities, adding :' "Some xst our Republican brethren breth-ren not only belittle the effort but would transmute It Into the one public matter of concern to them politics. But a philosophic onlooker onlook-er who lone aeo marked his own DEVELOP-ments DEVELOP-ments in the campaign to clean op New Tork city politically are coming com-ing rapidly. During the week formal charges of neglect and unfitness were filed against Jimmy Jim-my Walker, the dapper and debonair debo-nair mayor of the PIETRO CARDI-nal CARDI-nal Maffl, archbishop arch-bishop of Pisa and one of the most eminent members of the sacred college, col-lege, Is dead in Pisa at the age of seventy-three yenrs. In his earlier ear-lier years he gained fame as an astron-ornpr astron-ornpr find teacher lit minriirieriS course, and prefers In his own way to follow It, might suggest thnt only progressives. In the Interim between sessions, bring these vital questions up In public meeting for public discussion. Can anyone Imagine Im-agine the standpnt wing of either party meeting together with earnest earn-est and able experts and publicly discussing economic problems?" V EATH once more has changed the political make-up of the house of representatives which will assemble In December. James B. Aswell of Louisiana, Democrat and ranking minority member of the agricultural committee, passed away at his apartment In Washington Washing-ton after a heart attack, lie was sixty-two yenrs old and had served In congress for nine consecutive terms. Mr. Aswell's death leaves In the house 217 Republicans, 215 Democrats Demo-crats and one Farmer-Laborlte. Representatives John F. Quayle and David J. O'Connell, both Democrats Dem-ocrats of New York, died last winter. win-ter. Their successors, Matthew V. O'Maley and Stephen A. Rudd, are both Democrats. Representative Henry Allen Cooper, Republican of Wisconsin, died last March 1. His successor has not been chosen. MAL DAUOHERTT. brother of former Attorney General Harry Har-ry M. Daucherty, was sentenced at Washington Courthouse, Ohio, to ten years In prison and a fine of $5,000, He was convicted recently of abstracting funds from the now defunct Ohio State bHnk of which he was president and was refused a new trial. EVERY one has now filed bis Income In-come tax return, or should have done so, and the cvMcrts In Washington are busy fl' tiring up how much I'ncle Sum ill r ' Treasury official could not yet make definite prediction as to Hie ! collections for the first quarter, hut they hoped that the receipts for I March would run above S400.00O. 1 metropolis, now regaling re-galing himself In Samuel California. The Seabury charges were presented pre-sented to Governor Roosevelt by leaders of the city affairs committee commit-tee and were said to be of .such a nature as to compel the governor to take some action toward widening widen-ing the investigation now being conducted by Snuuiel Seabury and confirmed by police and magistrates. magis-trates. Governor Roosevelt hod let It become be-come known that he would not respond re-spond to any public clamor for a eity-wide Investigation and thnt he would act only upon specific charges, such as led him to appoint Seabury to Investigate the conduct of District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain. Previously Seabury had been put In charge of an Investigation Investiga-tion of police frameups In vice cases and of the conduct of city magistrates. The governor was asked by Craln to revoke the appointment of Seabury Sea-bury on the ground of bias, but refused, re-fused, and Craln was summoned to appear and answer the charges made against him by the City club. Republican membprs of the state legislature were still trying to put through a resolution for a general Inquiry Into New York conditions, but were blocked by several recalcitrant recal-citrant members of their own party. DURING the next three months. It was announced at tbe White Hoase, President Hoover will carry out aa extensive speaking pro-gran, pro-gran, delivering eight addresses of philosophy; he .. rr ifA was mnde arch- Cardinal Maffi bishop In 1003 and four years later was raised to the purple by Pope Pius X. The same pope, It was rumored, considered deposing him because he supported the modernists in a contest with the reactionaries in the ' church. . Twice, afterward, Maffl wns considered con-sidered a papal possibility. Hs was always a great 'friend of thfjsv Itallan royal family, and he officiated offi-ciated Inst year at the marriage of Crown Prince Humbert of Italy and Princess Marie Jose of Bel-glum. Bel-glum. For this he was given the foliar of the Annunzlata, the highest high-est gift of the crown. Cardinal Maffl's death reduces the Italian membership In the sacred sa-cred college to 28, against 30 tot-eiCT tot-eiCT members. Therefor It Is expected ex-pected In Rome that a couslstory win be I -M before long at which the imimp .. m rreti'e a number of mnt'ii-is mill give the Italians at least equal strength wltb the for eigners. a. 191. Wraiara NewaMPer Daial |