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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Senate Ratifies Settlement
of Italy’s Debt—Turkey
Alarmed by Mussolini.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
Y ETTLEMENT of Italy's war debt
7 to the United States arranged
by the joint debt
finally approved by
spite the efforts of
number of both
ators Borah
favor the
as
commissions,
the senate,
derable
"
parties Sen
and Reed The vote in
of tl funding of the debt was
[ tween the Unlted States and each of
the powers and sald he saw no diffi
{ culty in the way of securing the as-
sent of each signatory In this
Greece already has accepted the Amer-
ican
way.
reservations.
ENITO MUSSOLINI and his Ro
man empire plans continue to ex-
cite and disturb the Old world. The
latest story that Italy and Greece
have a secret treaty directed
against Turkey and that If they are
able to carry out thelr plans Italy will
of southern
the port of
will
Is
made
slice Asia
nding
Greece
get a
Minor incl
that
and Constantinople and
Selenti
and recover Sir
tl
yrna
tose rites ry i y
territory Juga. 8
iece of Albania,
she want
H4 to 33 Reed of
the affirmative
make ds
tion
Howell's
bated
The Italis
funding
Misson
next
to recor
the
000, ine
Interest
During
S5.000 (6x)
After the
fixed
pay
est
1s
for
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fourth of 1
nt, three
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tor
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per cent
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When the
ried out, for
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received
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have
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cent paid
ernment
furnished
loans
Consideration
ments with
elgiam
countries was
with every the
agreed upon ratified,
Dispatches from Paris sald Premier
Briand had Informed foreign af.
fairs of the French
that Ambassador Berenger and Secre-
of Treasury Mellon had
ngreed principle on plan for
funding French debt It was un-
derstood the political and commercial
debts would be and that
beginning
and rising to £100,000,
While |
hegun senate,
prospect terms
would be
the
committee sennte
tary the
in
the
a
merged
France would pay annuities
at $205.000 (6%)
000, until 62 years have elapsed
the “safeguard cla is to be aban- |
doned, France's capacity to pay at any
time In the future might be revised on
ft} of the it
sible to collect from Germany.
we basis amount was pos-
EPRESENTATIVE GORMAN
Illinois, who sald he
save his colleagues In other states
from being defeated on the World
court lssne as was Senator McKinley,
offered re-
ap-
the
’
house
of
wanted to
in the house
pudiating the Burton
proving American
World court, passed
year ago The
would have the house
resolution
resolution
a
adhesion to
by
Gorman
of
the fn
resolution
representa.
tives express the hope that the United
take
gary steps to Keep out and stay out of
the World court. The resolution
vides further that the house
Its disapproval of the League of Na
tlons and its agency, the World court,
and declare that it will not make any
nppropriation for dues or other ex-
penditures of the United States as an
Integral part of thé discredited World
court or of the British seven -votes-to-
our-one League of Nations"
Secretary of State Kellogg, ex-
pressing the administration view that
no new agreement is necessary to give
effect to the conditions and reserva.
tions on which the United States is
prepared to adhere to the permanent
court of International justice, has for:
mally declined to send a delegate to
ieneva in September to explain those
conditions and reservations to the con-
ference of the forty-eight signatory
powers of the court. He pointed out
that the senate reservations provide
epecifically that they must be ae
wepted by an exchange of notes be
the
States will immediately neces.
pro
"express
Jf EPERAL om, rs, bis!
clergymen, heads of reform
ons and various other persons
1 one another In rapid succes.
fore the 1 to
benefits wrought hy prohl.
nities
senate n
com
decry the suggestion
the enforcement
District Attorney
of Chicago was one
and he at least
arousing the anger of Chi-
officials, Making vigorous
of lax enforcement of
criminal laws In Chicago, he sald it
wag safer for a man there to commit
t robbery with a gun than to
the Volstead act and added
and to
> law,
nited Ed-
A
witnesses,
States
win
the
Olson
£YC-
ceeded in
CARON
charges
ayligh
mi
inte
in Chicago and that prior to
had no chance whatever
know," he said.
¥ stills are operating In Chicago,
but there are many. It Is safe to as
sume, however, that there 18 not a still
of importance In any police precinet
that Is not known to the police in that
inet and that it would not be a
very hig job for 5.000 policemen to pull
out by the roots every outlaw still in
1023 it
se)
many
do not “how
He zaid the citizens of Chicago have
not “intestinal fortitude enough
themselves with
government that will send mur.
derers and robbers where they
long.”
In a
to
local
be
fine frenzy of rage
Collins, started at once for Washing:
ton and in the last hours of the hear
they senators thar Mr
prevaricator and, in ef-
‘all wet” Tie asserted the
men in Chicago who tried hon
estly to enforce the Volstead act were
Chief Colling and himself, and that
Mr. Olson never did act until they
forced him to do so.
Dr. J. M. Doren, chief chemist for
General Andrews, presented figures to
show that District Attorney Buckner
of New York grossly exaggerated the
amount of Industrial alcoho! diverted
to illegal uses. Father Curran of
Wilkesharre contradicted the test).
mony of Father Fasaczun concerning
conditions In the anthracite region.
Chavies Stelzie denled that organized
labor was a unit for modification of
the Volstead net. And 8, 1. Striv.
Ings, representative of the National
Grange, testified the farmers were for
strict enforcement, admitting under
crose-examination that they would be
opposed to repeal of section 20 which
permits farmers to make wine and
cider for thelr own use These were
ing told the
Was fn
tect,
wis
only
i
i
i
only a few of the more Important of
the many witnesses heard.
New York's legislature passed a bill
for a state referendum on whether
congress should modify the enforce
ment act to permit the manufacture,
intoxicating, as determined in accord
ance with the laws of the respective
states
The United States Clreult Court of
Appeals in New York handed down a
decision which seriously affects the
rum treaties with Great Britain and
Norway and may even render them in-
The held that the
under government
an
valid decision
n
within
distance of the coast
extending ter
States be
which the
ard
had been b i vessels
joe
Is
ua lnw
fted
It
Hbel proceed.
WAS ren
government
t Norwegian ves
which flew
of the French
the conference
indefinitely to permit
rther fnstroc
Mean
Moroc
nt
hief of
governments
as declared In
broke
ever, be en
Vy
of {
al Pres
ontrol but a Js
rom Marshal
entered tl
oa Tients
Marshal Wu
dec]
in Wilh
Pel-fu
ared himself and f
ils forces outside Peking Pub
lie bodies are urging that and
Chang get together and form a govern-
ment, but in Canton It is predicted
the two marshals will clash and
that complete chaos in northern China
will result The Canton government
sees In this a chance overthrow
illitarism and unite the country on
he principles of Dr. Sun Yat-sen
has not,
writing remal
with 1}
he
to
n
t
AUGHTERS of the American Rev
olution, holding thelr thirty-fifth
CONEress, addressed
President Coolidge, who called es
continental were
by
for
regard voting, warning that It
threatened the doom of the republic,
“The perlious aspect of this situa.
sald the President, "lies in its
Inslidiousness. With the broadening of
popular powers, the direct election of
of most of them.
ballot box. We are placing our rell
ment. But If the people fail to vole
» government will be developed which
fs not their government."
Mra. Alfred Brossean of Connecticut
president general of the
without opposition.
GDEN T. M'CLURG of Chicago,
wealthy head of the publishing
house that bears his name and one of
the country’s leading explorers and
yachtsmen, died suddenly of cerebral
hemorrhage soon after returning from
a ‘rip to Yucatan. During the war |
he was a lieutenant commander In the |
navy and chief of staff for Captain |
Moffett at the Great Lakes station. |
Another notable death of the week
was that of Sir Squire Bancroft, vet.
eran actor-manager who was known
as the dean of the English stage.
RIAL of Col. A, 8. Willlams of the
marines by court-martial itn San
Diego on charges of Intoxieation pre.
ferred by Gen Smedley Butler is be
Hleved tn have resulted 'n his convie
tion, though the verdict has not heen
made public. The ease attracted wide
alleged offense General Butler had
Just been the colonel's guest at a
party where cocktalls were served.
SANITATION SAVES
LIVES OF CHILDREN
United States Aids Great
Work in Santiago.
Washington.—Should a fire sweep
through a children's hospital In San
tiago. Chile, and snuff out the lives of
messages of con
but far
news that
year old
months’
Less spectacular, more
under
in a
children
saved
lives of
have been
one
six
And United States had im
this magic
the
part
modern medicine,
The clrcumstances
news because of the announcement
an
in boon
the
of
emerge Into
the decision of the United States pub
lle heslth service to permit Dr. J. D.
Long of its staff to remain in Santi-
ago as technical adviser to the Chilean
ministry of hygiene.
Repaying Medicinal Favors,
“It seems only a bit of poetic jus.
tlee that the
minister the land deserts
make the world's gardens grow, bind
the sores and wounds of mankind, and
to whose
in hospitals from New York to Singa-
pore—for those the effects
nitrates, the jodine and the
that Chile exports,” a bulletin
nre
cocaine
BAYR
the National Geographle soclety.
“Medicine
changes in
world,”
nine,
chief in
And recent
science
has wrought powerful
geography of
the continues, “Qul
for
ally
example,
conqu 7
application
have heen
saved more live
the
titanic
tions since
Inst in that
“Now Chil
What Chile
rated
one. {
dis
vided In
of health n
quarantine regulations
put effect
censed and compelled to repo
miunicable diseases,
plants installed in small communities
municipal sanitary codes drafted and
physical examinations of school hill
dren are being gradually provided
“Infant mortality In Chile has been
approximately one-third the total mor
tality. Of those babies that die under
one year of age about 80 per cent die
under month old
report states, a great
perhaps 80 to
these will
proper hospital maternity
for mothers,
Tat
Corps
ated,
into
been physicis
sewage disposal
Therefore,
of
per cent
prevented
the
life,
of
by
ion
one
sa
from a0
deaths, be
provis
fos Leones,
henceforth
‘Four cit Santiago
San Antonio and Tales,
are to have their water supplies ster.
lized with Certain cities
which have had inadequate water for
domestic purposes, including Valpa
raiso, are being surveyed for an aug-
mented supply.
“In the water shortage, many towns
suffer from a condition which makes
for Chile's prosperity, Northern Chile
is the one arid region of the world
which doesn’t want more rain. If the
climate changed and heavy rains fell
periodically the grad.
ually dissolve the wnsh
away the country's
of wealth”
jes,
chlorine,
water would
and
reservoir
nitrate
unique
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5 Clock Gives Up After
Running 400 Years
East Hendren, Berkshire,
Eng~Day In and day out for
more than 400 years the church
clock of this village has told
the correct time, but at last It
has been stopped for repairs,
much to the inconvenience of
villagers.
There Is an ancient clock at
Windsor Castle which, accord:
Ing to history, was given hy
Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn on
the day they were married in
1533. It Is still going. The old.
est public clock now In service
with its original’ mechanism is
sald by the Horologleal Jour
nal to be one In the Rye parish
church, which was set up In
1518,
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OLD NEW ORLEANS
IS QUAINT SPOT
Perfume and Antique Shops
Intrigue Visitors
New Orleans.—The Vieux Oarre
Old New Orleans Is known every-
where as one of the quaintest spots in
America, but probably nothing else In
this historic quarter so intrigues the
stranger as the perfume and antique
shops,
France, but
there also are the larger shops.
are scattered throughout the quarter,
but most of them are strung along
Hoyal street
In the antique shops, lovers of old
things are in thelr glory,
New England and other old
sections
f thelr treasures,
Priceless pleces, many of them
hrought Nouvelle Orleans by the
first settlers, are on display, and the
to
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buying mission or “just looking.”
Feminine visitors get a res! thrill
from the perfume shops In whieh al
luring bottles contain even more al-
luring odors. Many of the shops are
by descendants of the
and they have real family
the products they are offer-
old
ing
In one or two of the places, spec
attention has been glven to
southern perfumes
and orange
who purchases
sure t}
magnolia
blossome—and the
one of those
be mt when she
hie
“old home 1t«
wn her
bridge party wi
to it’
her in
W. RIGHTMIRE
ber of t
Woman Seeks Her Kin;
earch Begins at 18
Philadelpi In an effort to
Any ing who ma still
relatives
in this vicinity, Mrs
" locate
SUrviy J
Lewis Thorp
of miss
Ek Just
task for the burean
ing which dates ba
uinety-eight years
Mrs, Thorp
18. 1878
Ramuel
his wife and family
old England, and or
2, 1828, landed Phil riph
Whether Mrs. Thorp ix of the same
of branch of
letter not
she begins
landing of her grand
America just a fraction
century ago. She
hat she anxious
persons
writes that
great
Crawshaw,
on August
grandfather,
by
set =ail from thelr
her
accompanied
home in 1 October
in a
ahothe
hier does stale nor does
why her searcl
the great
jess
“ does siate
is to lo
helrs
relatives or
20 that
of some
the basis of
IHinols woman
possible
be living, apparent
long-stand
the search
asks,
the
esinte
the
iy settlement
in
Wales Can Tilt Hats
The tilt of Lord Beatty's
copyright
L.ondon
is the of two
England-—-the prince of Wales
Beatty himself
Kir William
persons
in
1.ieut, Furse
sen
who nre to be
in
hats on
inspec ted by
the prince June. to
put their
them straight,
“There are only two officers In the
whole of the empire” Sir William
said, “who are allowed to wear thelr
uniform hats on one side of thelr
heads, One ig the great Admiral Lord
Beatty and the other the prince of
Wales,
“From the little T know of the prince
of Walesa, If he sees anybody mimick.
ing him, he will not give them such
a nice report as he might otherwise”
the speaker added.
Needed Reform
New York Will Hays Is making
progress In ending misleading adver.
tising by movie exhibitors, usually due
to ignorance as In the following cases
he cited: Special children's mat “ee
for that great animal pletuare, “Binck
Oxen”; “A Doll's House"-—bring the
kiddies: “The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse”-—another great cowboy
drama,
straight
SIOUX DEMAND MANY
MILLIONS FROM U.S.
Tribal Claims Are Based on
Treaty Rights.
| Plerre, 8. D.—Milllons of dollars
| would come to the Bloux of the Da
kotas If they can establish all thelr
claims against the government in the
| action now before the court of
i clalms on the showings they make
This action started on the demand
of the Sioux for coumpensation the
lack Hills, a territory
allege was taken from them
tion of treaty rights and on
natures of heads of n few bands
of the Sloux, instead of 8 general
ngreement. The value they put upon
this tract is $156.548,750, wi inter.
est from 1876
Go Back to 1851,
Besides the claim for
Hills the action carries with It
which have been made by the Sioux
under different treaty regulations,
dating back to 1851, with Interest
running back that far on some of the
claims. The direct claims without
interest amount approximately
' §217,000,000 for the general tribal
funds and approximately §5,000.000
for various bands, and the
charge will more than
The government will present
{ which will wipe out a portion of this
| claim, nd just how much ever wiil
come to the Indians is a problem
These claims are the result of a
mand made by the Kloux for
Hills section
the
2:
the
to
interest
double this
offsets
pay
"ie
an agreement
they to gat
were
ms they made
Claims for Haye
claims em
Irishman, 125 Years Old,
Walks Mile for Pension
Londot Yoolat ’ breeding
f£ 3}
ost
i miress 1@
f them ympared to
who died
venerable
At
have
est « are youn
Thomas C a Lond
on January 18 1588 at
age of two hundred
least, this a
been inscrit in
of St. Leonard's
{ which was destroyed by
Students
arn oner,
the
and
record sald to
the
cht
urei
fever
iB
ed parish register
Sh
fire
of longevity say
rians come from long lived
where the thin is a
Ggiscount the 1
pre
alcoho
eo! modes
any p
ing, the
haceco
i that
indices for or against
food
often
in p
this
which old
their
to
tribute
| ap birthdays
Persons
achievements
| Y.—Fear, love and a
cow figured in the drama of Lawrence
{| Hawthorne's escape from Sing Sing
prison and his return to serve a sen
tence of 38 years,
Hawthorne
cause he
Ossining, N
fled from the prison be
he
him
woods
another
furnished
hid in a
feared convict
The cow
while
explained
with food
| for ten
The
i Cal.
he
days
to Hollywood
where he got a job in the "mov.
| fox " He fell In love with a girl who
ils im, Then returned t
prison to complete his term.
convict went
od he oO
To Save Church
Burgos, Spain's most beautify)
church, the Burgos cathedral, built In
1221, i= falling to pleces, but the gov
ernment has voted funds to save it.
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300 Clocks to Replace
Noon Gun at Rome
Rome.-~One of the most ple:
turesque Institutions of Rome,
dating back several centuries,
the firing of a noon gun on top
of the Janiculum hill each day,
will disappear soon.
Governor Cremones! of Rome
has decided to institute in its
stead a system of 300 electrical
Iy controlled clocks through the
elty,
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