Show news Ms review of current events the world over france alone in blocking hoover moratorium plan la Is warned by president feat of globe circling flyers by EDWARD W PICKARD DAT AY af after ter day secretary melton mellon and ambassador edge ne negotiated g with the r reach french officials in parts paris in the effort to reconcile the moratorium plans of president hoover and premier laval and in washington the hie president and acting secretary see of state castle premier laval were byg almost constantly at the american end of the transatlantic telephone line coaching them and learning progress they were making at this writing the progress if any Is s small nall premier laval who was continually receiving tile the advice and as assistance istance of finance minister fla fladen din and others stood firmly on the position he had assum assumed eQ and the senate by a vote of to 8 5 backed him up virtually giving him a tree free hand so BO long as he be did not recede this huge vote did not indicate that the senate had bad confidence in laval however he was attacked fiercely and jeered but the senators had to express their approval of the refusal to give ghe to in to president hoover mr hoover then came to bat with a memorandum sent to ambassador edge tor for communication to the french government this was in effect an ultimatum tima to france that unless she accepted the hoover plan she was likely to be left out in the cold the warning was conveyed that if the presidents project failed germany Ger miny certainly would apply for a moratorium on reparations as provided by the young plan and this mr air hoover figured would cost france more than would the hoover moratorium behind the polite phrases in the memorandum seemed to lie the I 1 intimation adulation that if france rejected the hoover plan the administration would establish a moratorium on war nar debt payments and leave france out M aler mussolini pre put over what was considered by some a fast one ills his government announced that the hoover pro dosal which had been accepted unconditionally was in operation S W no 0 o far as italy was concerned on july 1 italis debtor nations M flandin germany A austria u a t r I 1 a hungary and bulgaria were notified that slie she was not collecting sums due from them on that date and her creditors england and the united states were told site she was ft as putting aside the sums slie she owes them pending final decision the state department in washington said the hoover plan had been accepted by belgium and poland both allies of france and by rumania and in pait by greece and jugo minvia so france was standing alone in op position it was believed in paris that premier enval after closing down parliament would call a conference of all nations signatory to the young plan to obtain from them a release from the guarantee clause requiring tier her in case of a moratorium to place in the bank for international settlements the sum of approximately to be applied in part to increasing payments to be received by other creditors during the period of suspension OR the first time since tile the world F FOR war the federal government began its fiscal fileni year on july I 1 with nn an unbalanced budget the deficit Is almost handicapped by reduced rove reve cues the treasury found itself confronted with will rising expenditures due to the governments efforts to help tile the farmer the unemployed and the drought sufferers sulTer erf about the only favorable factor in the financial situation was a cash balance of over with which the treasury entered the new year this will be used to meet current expenses during the first quarter instead of being applied to the deficit elt LEY POST and harold gatty american aviators set their monoplane the winnie mae down at roosevelt field new york wednesday evening they had accomplished the remarkable feat of tiling flying around the globe approximately miles in 8 days 15 hours and 51 minutes a new mark tor for other flyers to shoot at they set out to break the record of 22 days dais 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 nil all contributed to the success tol i of this epochal light flight the route followed by the liters flyers took tooh them from new york to harbor grace N F thence successively ces to chester england nn gland berlin moscow nov bengov solomon and alaska IM monton cany ada cleveland ohio and back to new york they met with ft ath no serious accident but at times flew fiew through high winds and rainstorms brainstorms rain storms new york city on thursday gave the aviators the usual showy and noisy welcome with parade speeches and reception by mayor jimmie walker but they were too tired fired to mind this much president hoover invited them to luncheon at the white house and they received the congratulations of eminent persons all over the world it Is estimated that post and gatty will realize about each from their wonderful flight and they certainly earned it RESIDENT 1 veis vei s request to the federal farm arm board for a definite statement of its policy brought a response from the board through chairman james C stone in which its policy as announced 0 on n b march I 1 ar ch 23 Is vir virtually ua y rei stated pleas from the J u C r w stone otono iann middle west and southwest that the board commit itself to keep its immense wheat holdings off tile the market either tor for a stated period or under a fixed price level are rejected one important concession Is made the board agrees to limit sales of its wheat to bushels a month this limit to run on a cumulative basis the unused portions of the quota to be good for or succeeding months but it excepted from this limitation im contracts with foreign purchasers now under consideration to the problem of the wheat surplus there Is only one answer and that is acreage reduction the board declares hope was seen for an improved export market in smaller productions duct ions in other countries and in the prospect for better world conditions that will be created by the presidents debt plan chairman stone before giving out the statement conferred with president hoover aua aw he suld said it was satisfactory is to the chief executive it certainly wa nas a not wholly satisfactory to the grain growers farm leaders and grain dealers of the middle western states they continued to urge the board to hold nil all sales of surplus wheat for a year HAT was the presidents na W WHAT lional commission on law enforcement and observance better known as the wickersham commission went out of existence with the close clos e of june and Is now just eleven men men and women on tuesday tile the one floe furniture and equipment were moved out of its offices after midnight the unexpended remainder of its appropriation reverted to the government and chairman wick arsham by that time was the only member left in the national capital sticklers klers tor for exactness said the commission will not actually cease to exist until a linal final history of its activities tivi ties and expenditures Is written and Is in accepted by president hoover in order to attain this end a temporary commission headquarters has been established near the white house equipped to accommodate only tho the chairman and a small staff there the fifteenth report will bill be written here Is the commissions record ten reports have been delivered to the government printer or deposited at tile the white house four others one of them tile the still controvert ed study of 0 prohibition have been made public since midwinter the commission has completed reports upon the deportation of aliens lawlessness in law enforcement crime among the foreign born juvenile delinquency the work of the police prisons probation and parole the costs and causes of erline crime and a progress tess report upon the work of the courts to be carried on by private agencies RE it C ED G D S smoot of f utah chairman of the senate finance committee has been in conference v with ith the treasury authorities in washington and he now says that eliat under I 1 the provisions of the hawley smoot tariff law with relation to the products oi of eon con senator smoot g v vict act forced or indentured labor the treasury department ment will adopt a policy of excluding a large share of the products of rus sla bill while abis exclusion will not apply to products of the soll soil fays enis mr air smoot it will apply to soviet products uc is which are manufactured mined or produced by means of forced labor of tiny anny kind and which are competitive with products here ile ho mentions lumber and pulpwood especially as products which will be shut out the utah senator takes sharp issue with ills his democratic Demorra tle colleague col leacue tor W 11 II xing king who has denounced the idea of shutting out russian products in blanket fashion and declared that congress did not have such a thing in mind and did not authorize authora z it senator smoot declares it was the purpose of congress to shut out the products of convict forced or indentured labor anil and that the treasury department will adhere to the law IN TN A few days secretary of war patrick J hurley will be on his way to our farthest possession the P philippines for an inspection tour of the islands this Is because their administration falls under the jurisdiction of the war department while the official war department announcement announce merit ascribed the reason for the secre trip to a desire to acquaint himself more intimately with the details of philippine problems it was understood that mr hurley would study personally sentiment there tor for independence in preparation for a movement in the next session of congress to tc free tile the islands president hoover has been advised by members of both senate and house hous e of representatives that it appeared probable sufficient strength would be mustered in the next nest session to pass a bill authorizing philippine independence R RAY AY LYMAN WIL bur secretary of the interior before he became president of leland stanford university in 1018 1916 had attained considerable fame as a physician and surgeon an and d he be demonstrated the other day that tie be has not lost secy wllbur wilbur ills surgical skill while escorting secretary y and mrs wllbur wilbur through mesa verde national park V AL deleach man president of a southwestern colorado transportation concern fell suddenly til ill and was taken to the park hospital 4 there doctor wllbur wilbur diagnosed ills his aliment ailment as acute appendicitis and decided an immediate operation was necessary so he gathered up tile the tools and with the assistance of dr E G U johnson of cortez lie performed the operation which almost certainly saved life next day the patients condition was so good that secretary wllbur wilbur resumed his trip of inspection of the park DON SALVADOR DE MA SENOR darlain dar darl laga agn the now new ambassador from spain presented his credentials to president hoover with due I 1 ceremony and the customary polite pj phles s were exchanged then the two distinguished men enjoyed an informal chat as both of them used to be mining engineers gi gl senor de madariaga Madar laga Is a noted writer and in the past has bus ariti alsed severely some of the policies of tile the united states in latin american affairs PAIN Is to continue to bf ba a republic S SPAIN public c and altonso alfonso will remain emain r an ex king according to the results 0 of f the national elections Ala alasandro landro larroux Ler rous roux old time republican leader and at present foreign minister Is the man of the jour and it Is accepted that he will be the first premier ander the new constitution that Is to be adopted by the national assembly that convenes co on july 14 the socialists socialist a and nd so called radicals will control this assembly which in fact will be rather moderate la in policies the communists are powerless catalonia still insists on being a separate state in a spanish federation but senor larroux predicts that the catalan movement will soon c collapse 01 S SENATOR SIMEON D fess of ohio in w who to Is a leading member of the senate com committee cittee 0 on n interstate commerce predicts that railroad and transportation legislation of a corn com character will be considered during the next session of congress cons ress ile he son 5 ator r few fess ha has s studied these questions closely for years and probably knows what he la Is talking about in his bis opinion consolidation legislation will again be token taken up and laws for the regulation of the motor bus and the motor truck will be proposed mr air fess foresees much difficulty in getting legislation enacted to meet the various transportation problems tills this difficulty Is much enhanced as he views it by tile the competition between tile the railroads and other forms of transportation on the one hand he feels the auntry 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 Ither alize existing I 1 law w with reference to railroad d consolidations consolidations ile he sponsored in tile the last co congress n the fess parker bill to provi provide de in effect for voluntary tary combinations it Is interesting to hear from senator fess himself that lie he probably will remain cli chairman airman of the republican national committee tor for another year despite frequent rumors that he would retire or be displaced ile he called on president hoover the other nay day and afterward said it appears now that I 1 will serve until convention time next year however he insisted he ha had not discussed the matter with the president 10 0 10 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