Show news review of current events the world over C andali tells roundtable round table conference india must mus t have self government pro progress 0 ress in plans for relief by EDWARD W PICKARD GANDHI clad only in M ills loin cloth and a white robe and constantly sipping goats milk from a vacuum bottle was the outstanding figure in the roundtable round table conference on the status of india which got under way in st james palace in london on the opening day he spoke no word because it was I 1 his weekly day of silence s but in the evening his period of silence having ended he made this rather gandhi gana pessimistic statement if our hopes and tears fears are weighed in the balance I 1 am afraid our fears will far outweigh our hopes but it Is too early to make predictions we ought to be able to say a week hence whether our hopes ultimately will overbalance our fears at present everything Is in the lap of the gods lie ile had listened to flowery and hopeful speeches by lord sankey chairman in a n of the federal fei leral structures committee and several others including indian dla potentates but he seemed bored and unimpressed next day however the mahatma w was afree free to speak and speak he did letting the british know that the minimum demand be as authorized by the all india nationalist congress Is em powered to make Is undiluted self government for india ile he wanted the british to let him know very soon whether this would be granted and was willingto willing to let other minds work out the details but if the answer was to be no he be wished to return speedily to india and resume there his revolutionary movement the queer looking little hindu leader did not say any this quite so bluntly as it Is written but there was no mistaking hi his s meaning for he Is always unafraid to speak frankly india he said was nas willing to remain a partner in the british empire re but that partnership twist must be such that it ft may be terminated at the will of either party it god wills he said it will be a permanent partnership but at the same time the right to terminate the association will constitute a real test of the equality of position enjoyed by both partners there was a time when I 1 was proud of being called a british subject but many years ago I 1 stopped calling myself a british Biltl sli subject I 1 would far rather be called a rebel than a subject but I 1 still aspire to bea be a citizen not of an empire but of a commonwealth in partnership not a partnership superimposed by one nation upon another but a partnership of mutual agreement in such a partnership india will be ready to share great britaina Brit ains mis t fortunes or tunes and if necessary to fight side by side with great britain not for exploitation of any race or any person but conceivably tor for the good of the whole world the dominance of the conservatives I 1 in n both the present cabinet and the house bouse of commons makes it likely that th the e opposition to indias andias demands will be stronger than when the round table fi first met lost last winter the tories have le r efte iterated rated their position against those de demands bands it seemed certain that I 1 the be debate would be long lone drown drawn out and probably at times acrimonious tile the federal structures committee ig noring ignoring Gand lils desire to have a decision cislon de on the general question of self rule first went ahead with the working out of details ANKERS economists ex es service binen men and ninny many other groups are holding almost dally daily con conferences conferee feren ces to see what can be done about unemployment and the recovery of prosperity one of the important sessions was that eliat or of the american legion labor conference in washington and in it tile the chief adar address ess w nas na made mad e by maj alaj 0 gen e jm l mes ca 0 bar bord now president of the radio corporation of am america rien ile he told the att legion legion that the surest contribution it could gen harbord make toward the solution of the problem would be to offer its services unreservedly to president hoover and continuing he had some harsh barsh words for those who advocate the demanding of full payment of soldier bonuses 1 I cant imagine anything mo more re ridiculous he declared than your going to your detroit convention with a program to relieve the country count rys unemployment and depression problems in n one hand and a tin cup la in the other you would be laughed out of jhb country the prohibition issue was nas brought to the fore by 51 11 II mcdonough dent of 61 the building brailes depart ment of the american federation Fedei atlon of labor who told the conference that legalization of beer would do more to relieve unemployment than all other relief measures combined lie he said would afford within six months employment for more than persons besides providing a market for farm produce T TWELVE WELVE eminent bankers representing as many fede federal ral reserve districts were mr hoovers overs guests at dinner and tor for two or three hours they set before the president the conditions in their respective regions it was said at the white house that each banker had assured the president t his district would be able to assume the unemployment relief burden this winter without federal aid the bankers were herbert K X hal lett iett of boston it 11 treman of 0 ithaca N Y howard A loeb philadelphia delp hla J A louse house cleveland john poole washington john K ottley atlanta melvln A traylor chicago walter W smith st louis george 11 prince st paul walter S kansas caty henry al robinson los angeles and walter lechten stein of chicago f TV F DISTRESS during the coming winter can be relieved through the appointment and the labor of leading citizens on committees it certainly will be relieved director gifford has just named a large committee of distinguished men a and n d women whose duty it will be to mobilize 11 national it onal associations tor for the task the chairman of this body la Is dr eliot ot wadsworth of boston who used to be an assistant see secretary of the treasury doctor and who Q Is g known own tor for wadsworth his excellent public service in connection with the red cross ile he already Is busy at the headquarters in washington doctor Wad fellow members include william green president of the american federation of labor john barton payne chairman of the american red cross blat matthew thew sloan president of the new york edison galson company silas H strawn president of the chamber of commerce of the united states colonel arthur woods of new york who was chairman of mr hoovers relief organization last year and R 11 Aish aishton toh washington martin 11 carmody grand rapids mich james C drain spokane wash dr john W davis institute W va john B Z Ed edgemon gehon lebanon tenn dr lillian gilbreath montclair N J 0 0 gru grunskey key san francisco calif A johnson washington alvan macauley detroit mich john it mott new york city rabb A H IL silver cleveland 0 ohio hlo mrs john P washington george sloan new york city mrs robert 0 speer new york city L J taber columbus ohio george E vincent greenwich conn and william allen alien white emporia kan E 17 JOHN J PURSUING PERSHING went G out to lincoln neb to spend his seventy first birthday anniversary with ills sister miss aliss may alay pershing and ills his son warren ile he planned to remain there for three weeks resting from ills his labors as is head of the american monuments gs sc i commission tt h 1 c h b i fy 1 have taken him on extensive s travels As ai 11 always when he Is in lincoln 4 he declined to make any public appearances or statements or even to give interviews but he uen gen pershing chatted every day dal with his old felenes and thoroughly enjoyed ills his rest with its informality one remark the general dropped was quoted by the press theres nothing vitally birong with will tile the country he sald said anyone who says were on the know his country well come out of it the depression cant last news was a mixture of A good and bud bad dort dorr noyle movie and C A allen alien who started a flight from tokyo across the pacific and were etere missing tor for nine days das were found alive and safe on an island off the coast of three passengers and a pilot died when a plane fell into the sea at oakland calif and a navy plane carrying supplies to stricken belle belize crashed killing an of ocer floor and two enlisted men wreckage of a monoplane found near the shetland islands was identified as the plane in which parker cramer and oliver were trying to fly to copenhagen at this writing there Is no word of the fate of rody jo linns sen and viega who ho flying dying from portugal to new york vanished off the nova const coast ON ITS second reading in the house of commons the british governments economy bill authur authorizing izing the use of orders in council to effect sav inos of 3 in administrative adill expenditures i ras as approved by a vote of to q majority tor for the government of af K the division came after a long debate on proposals to reduce by 10 per cent the dole and salaries and costs of social devices rrie prime aft minister nister macdonald has appointed a cabinet committee to investigate vesti gate great britaina Brit ains adverse trade balance and many think this means the government has decided to adopt a tariff policy the london dally daily mall says there Is a strong opinion in parliament that a general tariff of 20 per cent on all classes of foreign imports will ultimately be ba adopted without an electoral appeal to the country the laborite herald however contends that a tariff cannot be imposed until the electorate has bai been consulted and hints t that h at a general election Is impending I 1 one immediate result of the wags wag cuts instituted by the government was a threat of mutiny among the navy men of the tower lower rating the admiralty mi ralty admitting there was serious unrest suspended the program of exercises of the fleet in the north sea and started an inquiry REAR ADMIRAL RICHARD ARD B E byrd announced in ID boston that he was planning another expedition to the south pole he said that detailed preparations for this trip already have been made but that he was not ready to give out the plans yet because there Is still much scientific work 15 to be done on the data collected by the former expedition As Is my custom he said there will be no public campaign for tile the raising of n A i i rear admiral funds for this expedit byrd tion in the past friends of mine who nho are interested in the work have hae contributed the bulls bulk of the money in this barti particular cular case they will contribute probably all of it i 31 SINISTER INISTER JULIUS CURF curtius FOREIGN tius startled the league of nations and especially the french the other day by a speech in which he ha said that germany was forced to demand an entire new deal on reparations and also would not be satisfied anything less than absolute parity in armaments his remarks concerning concer nt n ai the latter point being almed aimed directly at france poland and the little litlie entente later he found occasion at a journalists luncheon to mollify the french saying we are firmly decided to pursue collaboration between our two countries it Is only I 1 in n this way and with the aid of the league that we can hope to master the difficulties and reach the goal set by al briand in his moving and impressive words the complete sup pres of war mexico just admitted to the I 1 league bagu had expected to be given a sea sent t in th the coonc council 11 but was panama and china were elected to the council to take the places of venezuela and persia respectively there were vere reports in geneva that the united e d states would be seriously displeased if mexico were elevated to the council so soon and that the big shots hots r gave up the he idea in order to keep beep president hoover in good humor or LATE reports from belize british honduras are that the deaths resulting from the hurricane that smashed that city may reach the shocking total of 1400 or nearly one in ten of the entire population hundreds of 0 the victims were burned in huge ayres pyres without attempt at identification because of the danger of pestilence other hundreds were swept out to sea by the grene great tidal wave vave that accompanied the storm relief measures for the survivors were nere promptly carried out by the honduran authorities the american red cross cios the Sni army and the american ninal naval forces in the vicinity 2000 members of t the ile S SCARCELY once mighty grand army of tile the republic were able to attend the annual encampment irl in des the sixty fifth and perhaps the last they were tenderly cared for and many of them managed to march over at least a 11 part of the route when the big parade parada vaa s held but in the main they were content to sit in arm chairs and exchange reminiscences F FINDING INDING he could not complete ills lav investigations in the philippines in th the e time originally sot set Sec secretary y 0 of f war 11 patrick atrick J hurley put off for one week ills departure for the united states and went on with the work with refreshing thoroughness lenders of the filipinos who demand q immediate independence are not wholly holly W pleased with mr air hurley seeming to be c convinced on vinced he fie will ft report against their cause in the island senate he fie was bitter seely V hl rie ly attacked by two senators despite the pleas of sergio president pro tempore of the senate that they reserve their criticisms mr air hurley far from being offended said such incidents gave hini him a clearer insight into conditions and amanuel roias speaker of the insular house stated that plans had been made for tile the sending of an independence commission to washington this tall fall the delegates delegate will seeli seek a roundtable round table conference and may consent to a compromise settlement of the question if a by western Nowa caper union |