1—QOverflowing of the River ridge. new French ambassador, conferring Frankfort. necessitating Washington, of State at whe Secretary Kellogg CURRENT EVENTS Senate’s Tax Bill Reduces Revenues $352,661,000— | World Court Debate. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. SENATOR SMOOT, chairman of the \ senate finance committee, formally bill be | reported to the senate the new tax and It probably will called up for debate and action within a few The prospects for fairly | early passage of the weasure and tax are advised filing their schedules until ury department Official Wednesday days. are good {to the pavers delay Treas them SiVEes notice, treasury estimates furnished the finance committee, show that the finance committees bhifl nues by 0,60 0K) bill, the measure reduces reve the the 327.161 000, as more than total loss under being against $352.061.000 under the finance committee bill, house house The estimates show that in the eal endar year 1926 the tax provision will mean 000 (XX), the capital loss of S68 500.000 retroactive estate a loss of 820 siock repeal will | The cut loss mean a witli n than repeals in in cigar taxes 54, 000,000 hill, stamp SOO O00) fn n mare under tl tax will more hill, sions will HX) revenue house iission provi revenues hy 5,000, than the of the federal the more house bill Repeal estate recommended by is favored by but of the senate and even if passed there, not he which fate tax at Senator Simmons intended modified sinking fund provision on the floor of the senate under which fleves the entire wiped out in 26 years. vide that all foreign should be applied the sinking | fund, but he would increase the basic | amount of the sinking fund from two | and a half per cent portion the debt and a half per cent. senate comm administration will be Cans, fought on may accepted by the house, voted for continuance of the es rates. of North Car fo offer reduced nnnounced he he be Can He would debt public debt be | pro- payments toward the domestic in 1920 of of to three HERE were fireworks in the ate last week over the World court sen. resolution. Proponents of the measure but Senator Carolina started a talking for Hiram Johnson of Reed of the sought quick action Blease of South filibuster Tuesday, hours, Next California and made spirited tion. Both sides preparing fight over cloture and there was ao lot of discussion of the question of set ting a definite date for taking a Then Vice President Dawes took a | hand with characteristic vigor, Speak- | ing over the radio on revision of the senate rules, he cited the methods of | delay being used by opponents of the World court, and succeeded in riling Reed and Copeland, who said he had unjustly placed the aforesaid opponents | on the defensive before the country. Lenroot, Curtis, and other senators | said that as the debate had been going | on intermittently since December 17 last, it was about time cloture was applied. The administration is anx. fous to have this World court ques tion settled quickly so that the tax many day Jim Missouri resolu attacks or Vere ior a vote, of the people in the country lke to see the upper house get down to attending to Important domestic legislation. N THE house committee on agri culture two proposals of legislation for the relief of the farmer were con- sidered seriously, One was the ex. port bounty plan offered by C. Reinold Noyes of St. Paul, and the other was the export corporation plan devised by Carl Vrooman of Illinois several vears ago and passed by both houses in 1021 but killed in conference. The latter plan provides for the creation of a farmers’ export financing corpora. tion, with an initial capital of $200. 000.000 and the power to issue $800. 000.000 in debentures. The capital wonld be advanced by the government, foreign purchasers of American sur beef cattle, On the floor of the house Represen 1 tariff } the aril is The Demo that of benefit to the farmer, erats bombarded him with and Jones of Tennessee followed an address in he declared with which iff. introduced a board, Representative Strong of Kansas bill creating a composed of federal secretary of the agriculture, the secretary of commerce and five President, 10 determine crop surpluses in members appointed by and assist faripers marketing them The for the government hoard wonld assume DYVYOCATES of a strong navy go into aotion the i consideration of $331,431.78 » outsia vhen house | appropriation Lill of require which are decreases the active service, ang exer the Lures will withdrawal of from restrict maneuvers Ses, personnel, and Lakehurst of IH framed the Britt iirship en nols charged was and that the cor propriations men navy basis had ignor dations of the the navy mrd President. Considerable opposition veloped to priating the new ambassador from the Chief Executive that void to settle the debits her defense as prompt ¢ and future as her present wil whith ill allow™ no more and no less than said repeatedly by official France Coolidge replied that it was his honest hope that a fair and honorable ad The be in the near future negotintions at will not The house has ratified the debt settlements Italy, Belgium, Latvia, Esthonia {zechoslovakia least, delayed with and house voled £50000 to pay ite will announces that that conference nstorff, wi Washington when Germany representative in be Count von Be 1 wag Ger mun ambassador to war broke out. EXICO and proposes to \ el make effective her new oil laws, regardless of the protest of the United States, last fssued an week For eign Minister Saenz denied that were either retroactive He said they are based statement in which he these jaws or confiscatory that acquire certain rights unless they pre declare thelr intention of be Mexican citizens; but out that the laws permit legally acquired by foreigners prior to their enforcement, “to be kept by those who have acquired them un- til their death.” Secretary of State Kellogg took |s- sue with the statements Saenz. "The position of this govern- ment.” sald Mr. Kellogg, “has heen United States, foreigners cannot coming pointed petroleum laws contain rights heretofore legally acquired and held by American citizens in Mexico under prior existing Mexican laws, This position, which does not In any question Mexico's sovereign right to legisiate on her domestic con. cerns, has wen made perfectly clear in the most frank and friendly terms to the Mexienn government, both for mally and informally.” ROHIBITION enforcement ngents in New York ralded eleven.forelgn- owned ocean liners in the harbor there and seized more than ten thou sand bottles of liquor worth between £50.000 and $100,000. Among the ships were the Adriatic and the Franconia. Writs for the déstruction of the laguor of loans, 3 extension great dee] the po Henrl Berenger, 1 7 e of will the eral Attorney Buckner the board of review, The does not has been Coolidge and It that will sentence pass La dent he red {oo two of Ce will be which time eligible for ret ocion LUTHER chancellor of g Hind ministry effect tl yon nto © remains Natiounlists am ind Luther supporting tl hiave ri Ot Hungary a 1m PREMIER Ait plot to balk or debate the counterfe planned to revol patriotism” nent must poon old Damascus has beer harded again by the Fren was jeft of the 8 Cott Was shells becaus French destroyed by the inhabitants alleged, w tio 1d popul reduced virt LE has been a state of famine *WEDEN and Denmark las unlimiied War \ an arbitration which outiaws bet weer li provides for the all “national A similar treaty already of of questions not exe those hono and and Swede R USSsiaN officials of the Eastern railway refused Chinese free, where port troops become a real The Russian embassy at Tokio announced that unless China complied the demands in the mnat- immediately releasing the trains soviet nn the for wonld =end Khe responsible imprisoned, Russia army into Manchuria. Chinese government josses and damages occasioned and will insist on compensation. The for eign consuls at Harbin also filed with the Manchurian officials a protest aguinst the seizure of trains because of the ohstruction holds the of TORIES that representatives of WJ goviet Russia are co-operating with Mohammedan leaders in arousing na- tional and international discord are to be investigated by Dr. Henry S Pritchett, who has just been sent to Egypt and the Near East hy the Car negie Endowment for International Peace, Doctor Pritchett also will make a study of the educational, so cial and political movements in that part of the world so as to advise the trustees of the endowment as to polls clea that might be adopted to hinprove conditions. ARLOS SOLARZANO having re signed as president of Nicaragua, the office has been assumed by Gen dmilinno Chamorro, The United States does not recognize the Chamorro gov. ernment because It is established by wneonstitntional means Pennsylvania News in Brief The has by company at Cornwells new pumper fire popular subscription Brown, a Pottsville, was East well known resi. found dead at Minersville street, Georg nt of home on Maurice ¥ High former city treasurer took his life by in his bathtub. aged sixty-three, ; of i shooting while Mayor Harvey irdered the on police t« hefore Rim axi line Pp wolrcom, ga tation owners who have failed to 4 rr 3 3 out 1926 lice tation to th ractured stantaneo nudge have been identified A Engs azelwood, a Johnson, Mrs Marion suburb: and hier, seven, Rixty, ("ashel, American Ate (3 by Rev ntendent league said +E AbD« DOOLIGEE INE source to large ex 1 i * all breweries tha ie law.” close are ih John Wandal their six!) Mr. and Mrs Kendree celebrated wedding anniversary Hazleton Council passed measure (0 give way Department men Mayor Frank C } of the Exchange to su i McClain reading a resident of pers vy, in a in Unionto recently The b the eastern border raised iis rough of McSherrystown, at of Adame tax rate for this to 14 mills, an increase of 2 wills last year The Philadelphia Com vear over City Council ap crease of $5,000,000 in the capital stock of the Philadelphia Rapid Trans it Company A precedent in the habits of jurors Wilkesbarre coke, a striking miner, who is serv ing his first term as & juryman in a carrying his tin dinner bucket. Recommendation for an additior to that will eliminate from the water the pollu. tion said to be caused by mines and factories will be made in the near (n- ture, according to a statement issued by Commissioner of Public Safety Dr. Samuel F. Hassler, Preparations for the observance of the diamond jubilee of Westminster College, New Wilmington, in 1927 and a campaign for $1,000,000 for increas: ed endowment and new buildings, to be raised through its alumni, was an: nounced by the board of trustees head: ed by Dr. A. R. Robinson, An appropriation of $100,000 for a new post office building in Grove City has been asked In a bill presented by Congressman H. J. Bixler, Grove City has needed a post office bullding sey: oral years and residents hoph that Congressman Bixler will be successful in getting the necessary money. The traveled more than 4.000 miles in | ancient bus shown above hunting lodge and traveling home ow Winte Cove, L shot In Maine (yien Ernest i | were LODGE HUNTING The USE OF DIMMER 1S NOT FAVORED Feet Visibility Is Urged by Bureau. Opposes The whole Crittenden £ 1 y i hig gos m-ifhtelligent He 12 makes of motor the market plane refle the oth vigion o et | ment station, lies modern devices mages no between variot { lights now on of which uses a ing lenses, er redired ing a special reflector 1 Re ad or ward “For of the country driving burean cation headlight ghts, “Bmming the meeting | couraged | danger ins ing « i fusted | When the lights are dims anditions the driver s ei« for good road illu reducing the road light, a { must elapse before the eyes fust themselves to the new conditions, | During fow the | f2 unable to see clearly and may col lide the car, run into | pedestrians walking along the { side or get off the road into the ditch, | In addition, the lights on the approach- | ing car seem unduly brigit ao road illumination beyond them is avallable to reduce the conirast with the background.” these seconds oncoming with road How to Warm Up a Motor ‘KQerious damage is done to many automobiles during the winter season by drivers who do not know how to warm up the motor,” says a bulletin {ssged by the mechanical first sid department of the Chicago Motor club. When the thermometer starts to drop the oll cofigeals, and cannot elrculate properly, If the driver at. tempts to warm his engine by rae ing the motor, the thin film of oil is likely to be burned off, and burned out bearings may be the result of this common practice. “When the efigine ix being’ raced. the fan is being driven at a high rate of speed which tends to cool the en gine, rather than to heat it The en- gine should be run slowly with the spark retarded. A retarded spark tends to heat the engine quickly, Use he choke or the primer to keep the engine from stalling.” Is Expensive to Speed er who pers sis I tyeoral ‘ fr aad The majority of n devel ogern motor p their maximum efficiency lowest expense at seeds rang 15 to 25 miles an hour, depend the make of car road $144 and onditions of Shutters on Radiators Kept Closed Too Long i imporian t precaution neg a motor loss of fuel through the Im between the ra shutter and the radiator heat ator Many drivers keep their shutters long in winter driving be neglect to observe the of the heat ind on the nag cap. This lack of co-ordina- too they icator radiator as easily £lmmer wastage possible in the winter as in with its fuel and months, of COTISe los of ton of hand, if little the engine will On the other the radiator is covered carburization, gasoline waste, Steaming. which often Indicates trouble in summer cannot be detected as the steam oon the cold air and therefore the readings of the heat indicator must be relied upon. Headlight Glasses Must Be Kept in Right Place Some of the light diffusers or devices designed to redirect the rays of light, are designed to be effective only when in a certain fixed position. Vibration may so loosen the glass in the rim that the glass will be permitted to creep around, in which case the whole scheme«fails, Not all headlights have means for anchoring the glass perma- nently, so It is a matter for the owa. er's attention to see that the glasses are properly fastened In place. I screws are used (t might do to Insert a lock washer under each one,
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