Show news review of current events the die world over president hoover orders drastic economies economics in departments old military posts may be abandoned briand Is defeated by EDWARD W PICKARD RESIDENT f 1 0 0 P PRESIDENT ver has no notified t lafle d the members of the cabinet cabine that they must introduce economies in their departments part ments wherever possible the civilian personnel Is to be reduced and the overhead expenses cu c u I 1 drastically the mes ga sage go went out after see sec hurley the president h had a d conferred with ft ath secretary of war hurley and secretary of the navy adams and it Is evident he expects many of the economics to be made effective in I 1 those I 1 lose depa departments rt me n ts surveys have been recently made indicating how savings could be binde vinde by the flie sale of old indian posts navy shore stations coast artillery fortifications fl cat ions and yards and other shore properties of the navy that are no longer needed tor for purposes of nation RI nl defense secretary hurley said tile the other day that the administration desired to remove remote army posts from the pork barrel classification and it seems that among those considered superfluous are fort lincoln north dakota port fort mcade south dakota fort missoula soula montana fort eustis virginia and var various loiis posts along th the mexican border some air flying fields also may be abandoned ilow how far the expenses of the military establishments can be cut Is problematical the last annual supply bill tor for the war department carried about amo of which approximately was to be devoted to tary activities the latter figure included for rivers and harbors and for mississippi floor control As for tile the navy it Is known that civilian chilian labor cost that department last year some official investigators vesti gators have estimated tile the navy department personnel at washington could be cut as much as 40 per cent without impairing efficiency congressmen in whose states are to lo bated tile the obsolete army posts and surplus shore stations probably will fight against their abandonment that being their habit in matters of this sort but if 11 economies are applied throughout all the executive departments their political wrath may be unavailing RED C CROXTON vice chairman F of tile the presidents emergency committee for unemployment stated that during the week neck ending alay 0 9 con tracts were awarded for public and deml public work amounting to 2700 this brought the total since december 1 1930 to nearly a billion and a halt half M minister I 1 N I 1 SF art s tide urland was persuaded ly ills his friends to be a candidate for the presidency of the french republic and then some of those friends let lit him down tle the result was as that b he failed of election on the first ballot and astounded and M in n orland brid i broken hearted lie he withdrew from the contest paul doumer venerable president of tile the son ben ate was elected tills this action by the file french parliament was nas of importance not only to trance france hut but to europe and all the world it means that for the present nt at least BrInn brinnis ds policy of pence peace a and rid conciliation Is discarded and the nationalists are in the saddle saddie dle it Is possible briand will con to represent his government in the debates of tile the league of nations at geneva but it if he does he will bill be subject to dully daily orders from paris more likely it Is that he will soon retire to cocherel cocherell Co cherel his home ile he has been in poor health for many months and it Is feared this defeat will break him down badly andre tardieu and edouard herriot Herr lot loaders leaders of tho the left are held mainly responsible for the rejection of briand A ANTI CLERICALS of spain egged on by communists and very possibly by monarchist plotters staged violent riots in madrid and other cities for several days find the government was forced to proclaim martial law the mobs directed their attacks against catholic churches and other religious edifices and burned many of them monks and nuns were beaten and driven through the streets and in some cases the troops that were called out refused to move against the rioters telling their officers they would not ire fire on the people angel galarza the republics prosecutor declared the riots were the result of a carefully laid monarchist plot and that there would be a mons ter trial of captured royalists in which former king alfonso alfonsa will be judged in ills his absence for complicity the vatican stute state department instructed papal nuncio at ma ala arld to demand from the govern mant an explicit apology tor for the at cla on churchea monas and convents cements the vatican protest while not blaming thise these attacks on the ile he publican government asserted that violence against religious orders does not represent a general political tendency but Is the result of the antl anti re odium of a small minority of spain P king ang of slam un 1 derwent a successful operation for the removal of a cataract from his left eye ee and Is recovering nicely at ophar hall the whitelaw reid held man slon InVest in westchester chester county new york ile he was an excellent patient and be ing under only local anesthesia he knew what was going ou on and coop orated in every way with drs J M wheeler and T N johnson who performed the operation when tile cataract had been extracted his majesty said 1 I see the light clatt railway h have ve united in asking an increase of fi freight eight rates that would bring more revenue to their roads but it will not be ij grunted granted wit without hout a va 1 11 fight dun D u n c a n U F fletcher I 1 e t c h e r senator from florida and ranking democrat on sen fletcher tile the senate commerce committee voiced the opposition to the plan lie ile called for lower rates rather than higher carrying charges and said one reason why trucks were moving so much freight today was because of high rail rates 1 I 1 cannot see how the railroads can expect to increase their revenues by increasing rates lie ile said some ten years ago an increase of 40 per cent was allowed the railroads and this brought the rates up ap to the highest point ever reached they have been revised downward by tile the interstate commerce commerce commission in out of cases brought today the railroads complain of a loss of business and lay a good deal of that to competition by trucks and to some airplanes undoubted ly they would increase their revenues by raising the rates provided they could carry the same amount of ton nage hut but it Is perfectly olivius oliv jus that ahe one reason why hy trucks are moving so much freight Is because of the high rail rates consequently if these rat rates es were increased there would be tin an inevitable decrease e in tonnage tonn ionn freight rates on oa live stock from western points into cleveland were attacked by the chamber of commerce of that city in a complaint to the in ter state commerce cominis commission slon asking a reduction NE of f the worlds greatest be scientists 0 ONE oil enlists ats ts prof albert A michelson formerly for meily of the university of chicago passed away aft ay in pasadena calif after a long illness and was lold at rest in almudena Alt udena ile he was the recipient of all the honors tile the world of science could bestow not the least of which was tile nobel prize for ills his achievement in measuring the file speed of light and it has been sald said that ills his discoveries and inventions added billions to the wealth weal til of the world but lie he was exceedingly modest and unassuming and always alwais declared he carried on ills his great works in physics because they and interested him docton michelson chelson Ml was a native of poland but was brought to the united states when a babe and was educated in san francisco and the naval academy at annapolis two years arter after his graduation he went back to the academy as an instructor and it was then he began tile the expert experiments and investigations that continued throughout his long life another eminent man eugene ysaye isaie master of the violin died in brussels belgium at the age of sev enty two ile he Is survived by hla his amerlean american wife the daughter of dr herman dincin of brooklyn brooklen N Y whom he married in 1927 walter A strong publisher of the chicago dally daily news and one of the most forceful figures in american journalism died suddenly of heart disease ile he was only forty seven years old ile he become became publisher and principal owner of the news in 1025 1925 after the death of victor lawson OF 0 v SECRETARY state henry L stimson in an address on united states 14 foreign relations and especially american F policy toward latin catl america served notice that our army and navy will not be used to collect debts from foreign nations at the same time he see StI en rason made it clear the tha present administration would give to americans american who have investments abroad all the protection counsel and assistance to which they are entitled under law defending the hoover policies in nicaragua which have been rt hacked attacked mr stimson declared the administration t wua was not departing from american americ n n traditions ons adding that tile the unit united ed states would continue to be zealous in it its c concern 0 for the lives of its na tio tignall onn nall le 1 I lie heraver rever the they y may be found I 1 he 1 al tile current policy amerlia na as one of re so e spots wh which let have injured wand good Arne american rican trade mr SO expressed confidence that the anglo F rench french negotiations would eventually be successfully con eluded expressing the opinion that a great had bad been given the prospects for success of the t ie league eague conference en general geri eral disarla disarmament m ent to be held eld next february cultivation of good wilt will between nations eions was ft as described by him as the tha great business of diplomacy Ionest lonest 11 I people in one nation find it notoriously notor I 1 ou sly difficult to understand the viewpoint of honest people in another lie he said state departments and their ministers exist for the purpose of translating P e viewpoints viewpoint 8 of one nation into the terms under understood t by another some of our most important work and efforts at the present time lies in this direction SPEAKING S PEAKING before the t h e manchester chamber of commerce the prince 0 of f wales harshly admonished british business men for their failures lit in getting and holding for foreign ign trade the only way which great britain can gain a larger share of the south american Amerl cap marm prince p of 0 kt ket he declared was wales alea north by imitating american business and advertising methods the prince Is delivering a series of speeches dealing with conditions he found prevalent in south america during his recent tour not only did wales score british bu business S iness methods but he also dipped into to politics to in a way that caused i a sensation ills advocacy of manufacturing within tariff walls cuts squarely across tile the hottest political issue of the moment in britain tariff versus free trade and was an unexpected blow to the free trade labor government P PRESIDENT RESIDENT has appoint ed george hastings of new york as a member of the white house secretarial ret arial lal staff to succeed french strother ber mr fla hastings stings Is given the title of executive exec uthe clerk and will handle the presidents outside social weli wel tart fart interests including his contact con with ft ath the conference on child health and protection lie ile will take up his big duties abo about ut june I 1 after 15 years ot of is social welfare work in new york alen tiou Is consternation 7 V lu av V gang land and pleased surprise u among tile the decent catl citizens zells of chicago at al Ca caprile the redoubtable gangster 41 s chieftain hitherto 0 looked upon as at al unconquerable has been defied and Is seemingly doomed to fall in one of his lat at capone pa est efforts to add to his monetary stores it Is the and rid denning cleaning industry of chicago bach has been a fruitful field for 1 lie ketelers ke that tins has done the defying and in its bold stand it Is backed up by the law enforcing ageia agencies cles of the city and state scarface nce thought the time was ripe for him to take charge of the industry and through agents he informed the cleaners and ana dyers institute that lie he would do so BO tor for 75 per cent calit of its annual receipts in member ship dues which would be about for this lie he promised to keep prices up to police the industry and to bring into line any recalcitrant mem n aers A committee from the institute met capone in his hotel headquarters qua arters 19 I 1 chicago and ana lie he repeated bis big offer reducing his big demands to 00 50 per cent but declaring if his big offer were not accepted he would take over the industry anyhow the institute however happens to have as its chairman dr benjamin BenJam ln M squires honest and nervy who had practically freed the industry from the racketeers ile n told cupone capone no gangster would be tolerated and states attorney swanson promised to support him to the limit in this stand capones calones Ca pones effo efforts arts to tale take over the th cleaning and dyeing industry were regarded by assistant states attorney diaries charles J mueller in charge ot of racketeer prosecution is as an indication of the reverses suffered by tb gang in recent months there la Is no question that Ca calones capones pones mol has baa bi been een hard hit bit and that ba h needs money said prosecutor muel ter ler ills gambling racket has felt the force of raids by the pollee police and the states attorneys office in connection with the special grand jury and some ol of his biggest breweries brew erlei have been raided by the federal agents the prosecution of the big thole shots in the gang by the federal government ern ment and the high bonds required have no doubt caused capone to look around for new nev ways of raising raisin money amateur boxing champions F FRANCES eight in numbers number who ho carat cam te over to ctet the team of am american alcan champions from chicago and 0 n d new york in the former city w were er e defeated but a good showing thel lost five fire of the bouts and won three tie the tournament was a feature of 01 i cagos cages fortnight of jubliee jubilee 1 jre 1431 western ulloa I 1 |