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Show fighting in Manchuria between the Chinese factions. The Nationalist gov-eminent gov-eminent deeply resents what it considers con-siders unwarranted Interference by Japan and may compluln to the signatories signa-tories to the Washington treaties. Russia Rus-sia also officially disapproves the Japanese Jap-anese activities In China. WITHIN a few days 222 miners perished In a series of disasters in the coal fields of the United States. The worst of these was at Mather, Pa., where nearly three hundred men were entombed by a gas explosion ; the dead there numbered 198. At Tukon, W. Va., another explosion resulted In 17 deaths; and a dynamite blast at the Kenvlr mine in Kentucky killed at least seven. Over In Hamburg. Germany, a tank of phosgene, one of the most deadly of the war gases, leaked and the fumes spread over a considerable part of the city, killing 11 persons, Injuring hundreds and creating general consternation. con-sternation. The fact that the Germans Ger-mans were still making this war gas caused rather excited comment, especially espe-cially In France, but it la explained that it Is manufactured for export for the dye industry and that much of It Is shipped to America. Mellon that Mr. Coolidge would be the strongest candidate the Republican party could name and ought to run again, and that if the President would accept renominntlon he, Hoover, would gladly withdraw from tbe contest con-test and release all bis delegates to vote for Coolidge. In Washington It Is expected that Mr. Coolidge will make a new and definite statement as to the renomlnatlon before the Kansas Kan-sas City convention meets. Texas Democrats administered a rebuff, re-buff, to Gov. Al Smith of New York when their convention voted that their forty delegates In the Houston convention conven-tion should work and vote for a dry platform and a dry candidate. Gov. Dan Moody promoted this "harmony" program and defeated both the Smith faction and the radical dry group that wished to Instruct the delegation against Smith by name. Moody was elected chairman of the delegation, and said afterward that as far as he was concerned It never should vote for the New Yorker. Smith adherents, adher-ents, however, believe the delegation will shift to Al on the second ballot The Republican convention of Texas was split into two, one faction Instructing In-structing for Hoover and the other naming unlnstructed delegates. The controversy must be settled In Kunsas City. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTJVENTS President' Veto of Farm Relief Bill Arouses Ex-cited Ex-cited Comment By EDWARD W. PICKARD VETO of the McNary-Hangen farm relief bill was so fully expected that the only surprise was caused by the extreme vigor and strong words of the President In expressing his disapproval dis-approval of the measure. "It embodies," em-bodies," said Mr. Coolidge, Ma formidable formi-dable array of perils for agriculture which are ay the more menacing because be-cause of their being obscured In a maze of ponderously futile bureaucratic bureau-cratic paraphernalia." The six "major weaknesses and perils" of the bill the President listed as follows: 1. Its attempted price-fixing fallacy. 2. The tux characteristics of the equalization fee. 3. The widespread bureaucracy which It would set up. 4. Its encouragement to profiteering and wasteful distribution by middlemen. middle-men. 5. Its stimulation of overproduction. , 6. Its aid to our foreign agricultural competitors. These feutures, the President said, "by no means exhaust the list of fallacious fal-lacious and Indeed dangerous aspects of the bill, but they afford ample ground for Its emphatic rejection." Appended to the veto message was the opinion of Attorney General Sar-geunt Sar-geunt which concluded: "I feel bound to advise you thut the act In question. If approved, would violate the Constitution Consti-tution of the United. States, In that legislation having for Its main purpose the control of the price of food In the interest of the producer Is not authorized author-ized by the Constitution; In thut, if congress possessed the power to do the things attempted by this act. It could not delegate it, as It Is legislative In character; in that It vests In those not officers or agents of the United States FOES of Fascism In Buenos Aires, Argentina, exploded a bomb In the Italian cousulate there, killing six persons per-sons and injuring thirty-seven. All the victims were Itullan Immigrants with the exception of four consulate employees. Another bomb was found In a store owned by a prominent Italian Fascist leader. The police made hundreds of arrests. NT ATIONAL1STS were defeated in the German parliamentary elections, elec-tions, loping many seals. Forty per cent. of the members of the newreicb-6tag newreicb-6tag are Socialists or Communists. The Socialists were ready to Join the middle parties In forming a cabinet, demanding concessions on labor problems. prob-lems. The Marx center party lost seven of Its sixty-nine seats and therefore there-fore could not retuln the post of chancellor. chan-cellor. Greece's cabinet, headed by Premier Zaimis, resigned and the parliament ufter receiving the resignations was suspended by President Koundouriotis. Eleutherios Venlzelos, former premier, ugreed to form a new government. j ETHODISTS in their general con- ference at Kansas City settled for the time being a long debated proposition by voting against the election elec-tion of bishops for a limited term instead in-stead of for life as has been the rule since 1808. They also adopted, almost al-most unanimously, a declaration staling stal-ing that "we are opposed to all military mili-tary training In high schools? and to compulsory training In colleges and universities." An expected clash on doctrine was averted by the adoption of a report on doctrinal beliefs which, while It reiterated all the usual doctrines doc-trines of the Evangelical churches, spoke a good word for Independence of thought and the accepted conclusions conclu-sions of science. Dr. Raymond J. Wade of Chicago and Dr. James C Baker ot Urbana, 111., were elected bishops. ONE of the foremost scientists of the day passed when Dr. Ilideyo NoguchI, bacteriologist for the Rockefeller Rocke-feller Institute for Medical Research, died In Accra, Gold Coast Colony, Africa, Af-rica, from yellow fever. He had gone to Africa to study the relationship between South American and African yellow fever and contracted the disease dis-ease during a laboratory experiment. Bravely he used bis own Illness to further fur-ther bis scientific study. SECRETARY KELLOGGS peace proposals have been accepted, with slight reservations, by the British government gov-ernment and its readiness to co-operate with the principal powers In a multi-lateral anti-war treaty on those lines is announced. Sir Austen Chamberlain Cham-berlain In his note explained that Great Britain must protect her special Interests throughout the world and that her existing commitments under the League of Nations and other International Interna-tional agreements must not be affected by the proposed pact Statesmen in both countries believe these reservations reserva-tions will not be-a bar to formulation of the treaty. REDUCTION of taxes, according to the bill passed by the senate lust week, will amount to $205,875,000, which Is only a little more than $3,-000,000 $3,-000,000 above the maximum reduction first set by President Coolidge and the treasury and therefore would be acceptable ac-ceptable to the Chief Executive. But It Is nearly $85,000,000 below the total In the bill as adopted by the house. Just before the bill was passed the senate unexpectedly defeuted the amendment for a graduuted tax on corporations with Incomes below $15,-000 $15,-000 which was approved In the committee com-mittee of the whole. By this action the aggregate tax reduction was cut down by $24,000,000. The vote on this was a tie and Vice President Dawes voted in the negative. In conference, changes were agreed upon which brought the aggregate reduction re-duction up to about $223,000,000. The conferees consented to the elimination of the senate provision for full publicity public-ity of tax returns, which had been objected ob-jected to by the President. Thursday evening the house adopted a resolution fixing the adjournment hour of the session at 5 p. m., Tuesday, Tues-day, May 29. FOR the second time General Nobile has viewed the North pole from the air. In the dirigible Italia he flew from Spitzbcrgcn to the top of the world and, because of the difficulty in locating the pole exactly, circled cir-cled several times over the region. re-gion. The plan of dropping men for explorutiou was abandoned, but the cross given the explorer by Pope Pius was let full onto the ice cap and the pope was notified of this by wireless. wire-less. The flags of Italy and Milan also were dropped, and the airship was then headed back to Its base at King's Bay. Colonel Lindbergh has been appointed ap-pointed chairman of the technical committee com-mittee of the new Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., and has assumed his duties which will have much to do with the work of organizing and placing plac-ing In operation the air lines of the concern. The company Is to establish air and rail passenger service between New York and Los Angeles. Lindbergh Lind-bergh said he did not contemplate giving giv-ing up other aeronautical Interests and that his office was still In those of the Guggenheim fund, of which he will remain a director. He will make no transoceanic flight this year. HEAVY fighting began last week between be-tween the Nationalist armies and the forces of Marshal Chang that are defending Peking and Tientsin, and the Southerners had the worst of several sev-eral encounters, notably at Hokien, Chihll province. The main battle was expected to take place on a line between be-tween Puotingfu and Machang, nearly a hundred miles south of Peking Chang eeemed to have made np his mind to go down to defeat rather than flee to Manchuria, but it was reported In Tokyo that he was negotiating with Japan in an effort to arrange for an orderly retreat without giving battle. Japan still Insists there shall be no the power and duty of participating In appointments to fill places in the service of the United States; In that it contravenes the provisions of the Constitution against the taking of property without due process of luw." It was agreed by all that the President'? Pres-ident'? action was consistent .and courageous, but there agreement ceased. Opponents of the bill were gratified with the way In which he had scotched a plan which they believe be-lieve would not work; and Its supporters, sup-porters, both in congress and among the leaders of farm organizations, were correspondingly indignant and resented what they considered his want of sympathy for the farmers and luck of knowledge of the eubject. Gov. Adam McMulIen of Nebraska Immediately issued a call for 100,000 farmers to march on the Republican convention In Kansas City to demand their rights. He declared the farmers could expect "no effective furm legislation legis-lation from the present administration administra-tion or from any candidate like j Hoover, whose only claim for recog-nition recog-nition and whose only hope of securing secur-ing the Republican nomination Is based on his blind adherence to the antiagricultural attitude of the Chief j Executive." , Frank O. Lowden, when he learned of the veto, raid only: "I have declared de-clared my position on the bill, and that is that I am for It until something some-thing Is advanced that Is better for the farmer."' The opinion of some prominent supporters sup-porters of the measure, that the President's Pres-ident's action greatly endangered the Republican party's chances in the Middle West were no shared by editors edi-tors from that section who were attending at-tending a convention of the Inland Daily Press association In Chicago. It was admitted, however, that the veto probably would have far-reaching political consequences, and the Democratic politicians were not noticeably no-ticeably displeased, though they hud little to say for publication. HERBERT HOOVER, it is now known, told his supporters among the Pennsylvania delegates to Kansas City that he agreed with Secretary |