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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Cummins’ Gloomy Prophecy
Doesn’t Disturb Coolidge
—Bar Meets in Denver.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
ENATOR ALBERT B. CUMMINS
returned to lowa in pessimistic
mood and gave out an interview that
reflected his gloomy state of mind and
created something of a
which, however, didn’t
&@ day or so. The politi
in Iowa and other mid
presages a
in the u
lowed to
party “on
Democrats
the senator
the present
jority In the
may disapp
se
last more than
upheaval
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western tates
irolonged
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tem ican
continue,
. tre *
TOCKS,
maintain
belleves,
election.
due more
the
would
(Canrliad
his vacat
ing much
ful anglin
woods wi
dogs. Among
ers at the
ernor
Smith It
Meighen
there
Mr,
RUcCCcPus-
g in the
and the
1
his distinguished eall-
camp last
of New
was
of
pay
(tov
Mrs.
week were
York
expected
Smith
and
Canada
his
would
respects,
soon be
to
T MAY never be known exactly how
many persons were killed in the ter
rible disaster at the naval arsenal at
Lake Denmark, N. J., but the number
may be thirty or more. Several days
after the explosions and conflagrations
began, there were soaking rains that
ended the danger of further blasts and
saved the army arsenal at Pleatinny,
near by. The loss to the navy in
stores and materials is roughly esti
mated at $85,000,000. The army loss
was about $5,000,000, and that to el-
villans approximately the same, Na-
val boards are now assessing these
losses, and meantime detachments of
marines are “mopping up” the rilns
and searching for the remains of vie-
tims. The region was so devastated
by projectiles and exploding ammu-
nition that It looks like a patch of
No Man's Land in France during the
war. Several near-by villages suf-
fered severely from shells and con-
cussions,
F THERE 1s one subject which
should be of pre-eminent concern
to the people of America these days,
It Is the breakdown of respect for law
and the fallure of the courts to cope
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with organized crime. The members
American Bar assoclation
this and made it the chief
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of discussion at thelr
topic annua
meeting in Denver. President Chester
L Long of Wichita, Kan., in his open
Ing address declared that the courts
and futile and that the
lawyers should be “Slow
glslatures and up
the courts.” He pletures as
not only blindfolded but handcuffed
and put in a straltjacket by
many laws and antiquated procedure
Sald he:
“The public has
are helpless
slogan of the
th
I gpeed
justice
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too
lost faith In the
i
i
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| the criminal
Crimes of violence have become
that in
citizens have taken into
ik
the enforcement of
several states cer-
helr hands t protection of thelr
This 1s of
greatest reflection
Yes
and property.
ankers., It is the
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true
our courts.
= ex
Jury of six for trial
for in cirelin
were
Vell and I
ir
maging
speed
smashed whe
records
en
f + 8. Evans reache
i New York
28 days, 14
} minutes and 51 seconds from
they
They
special
many small
Jinricksha, a
modes
their
seventeen
when started
on
eastward used
anes, three trains, two
liners and boats, automo
droshky and
of convey-
met with no aceldents
many thrilling experiences,
in flying over mountain
The travelers agree that the
biles, n
feet
They
had
especially
ranges,
seven
backwardness of aviation in
the United States as compared with
Europe. They comment, too, on the
client help given
sians,
them by the Rus
craters are becoming common
In the old world. Just recently
two more of them-—dictators at least
80 far as financial matters are con-
cerned—were created. One of them,
as an Innovation, Is a king already.
Albert of Belgium was given by the
chamber practically unlimited pow-
ers to try to solve the country's finan-
cial problems which are made evi
dent in the rapidly rising cost of ly.
ing and the fall of the Belgian franc.
Premier Jaspar, asking the chamber
for this action, scored the “eltizens
without consclences” for thelr cam-
paign against the national currency.
He continued :
“Nothing justifies the uneasiness of
our population. Never have we had so
few unemployed. Antwerp has recov.
ered full activity, Our crops are boun-
tiful and agricultural production is
worthy our industrial production. The
budget is balanced, thanks to economy,
and no new taxes will be needed on
this score. It Is only for dealing
Officers of newly or
1 shells were exploding.
and food
these POWers "
financial
the financial
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M. Calllaux is France's
{ dictator, and he
by running
with Winston Churchill, chan-
the d
the F
scale of year-
has ma« a good
start over to London and
signing,
| cellor of the exchequer, definite
arrangement for funding
{ debt to Great Britain. The
| payments is that
The so-called safeguard clause,
France
rench
{ 1s proposed last Au-
| gust,
i wishes incorporated In
with
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that if Germany defaults in
which
the agreement America, provides
its repara-
latter
for re-
¢ Aran ha
{ tion payments to France, the
cot will be entitied to ask
intry
| consideration of the terms in t
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| of all circumstances then preva
| HIRTEES men, incl
{ bers of the Turki
ale
tested
oh
with
on
1% last
ce of
was threat
YHICAGO entertained
st last we members
er great
of
ney nt a 1 petive Order
is
iii 3
150068) of them
were present
hosldes
wore 1
Amusements
provid
1 exe
inna! was award
the next convention.
{ ailed roler ar Tin
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d the Bankers’ Trust company,
operating company
the
120
for
closed
banks
their doors,
action being due to the appoint-
| ment of a receiver for the trust com
pany. The recelvership was granted
on the petition of the Bank of Umatil-
Ia, Fla.,, which alleged the trust com-
pany had obtained $401.500 from the
Umatilia bank to be placed on Invest
ment,
gtnte, have
AN FRANCIBCO will benefit im-
mensely from the action taken last
week by fourteen of the city's wealth.
lest men whose combined fortunes are
more than $100,000,000., Led hy CC. W.
Merrill, W. H. Crocker, Mortimer
Fleischacker, Paul Shoup and Clay
Miller, these men formed a founda-
tion under which billions of the sur
plus wealth of thelr families will be
donated to the benefit of the com-
munity. Each will make specific gifts
for specific purposes and a self-per.
petuating board of trustees will han-
die the bequests after the donor's
death,
—
Jous W. WEEKS, former senator
and secretary of war In the cab
inet of Presidents Harding and Cool.
H., after
a long lliness. He was an able and
loyal citizen and an unusually com-
petent public official,
Another man taken by death last
week whose name was familiar to all
was Lincoln J. Carter, writer of pop
ular melodramas and Inventor of much
stage machinery,
—— a ———
Lrver Fating Jolrsg
White Bull
8y ELMO SCOTT
WATSON
HE is cor
red to
w Wolf
Kelly was born In
ountry of central
mins his bovhood In
homeland of the Iroquois confederacy
He «
free life
tain may be
try, for numbered among his forbears
was the Hannah Dustin,
whose escape from Indian captivity in
onfesses that his taste for the
r
of the forest,
plain and moun
due to his ploneer ances
redoubtable
At the age of sixteen Kelly left the
the regiment to which
tory, and here hig career as a fron.
tiersman began,
While still a soldier Kelly gained
in his regi
for a “tenderfoot,” as an
courier end guide in that trackless wil
a A x2 Fr ru>
Jorkrt I riysire rr
where he
him
hetweos
stuff that was In
HAs
post and
, the 1
fe o
ull carrier
+ ¢ when
Buford at a tin
or
an lone white traveler wasn't worth a
nickel
manly vigilant, During this time
he had the encounter with the Sioux
warriors which has become something
of a in frontier history and
which won him the name of “the Little
Man With a Strong Heart” from the
Indians and that of
Who Never Lays His Gun Down” from
unless he was almost
foo
classic
know that he didn’t.
Then followed the "Lone Wolf” pe-
a hermit in the mysterious Yellow.
country, hunting, trapping and
trading. It was an almost idyllic ex.
istence, except for the ever-present
danger from the Sionx. The modesty
admitting, except In the most casual
pe
campaign opened had lived In
tiles * historians
Miles’ soldie
Indians’
post on Wolf mountain
shouted down to them
“You have had your last
and Kelly and Bru.
Kelly makes no
mention of this incident in his me-
moirg, but he does tell a splendidly
dramatic story of the battle and the
difficulties the soldiers overcame In
hunting and fighting Indians In arctic
weather, He says little about the fact
th=t he and his scouts endured the
hardships,
After this campaign was over Kelly
returned east for a visit after twelve
years of absence from home scenes.
But he did not stay long. He was
needed on the Montana frontier, where
Ritting Bull's irreconcllables were still
camp
corded how as
proached the stron
[4
led
ages the
pre wphecey,
fast™ how
ward Chief Joseph of the Nex Perces
made his magnificent dash for freedom
from Oregon toward the Canadian
line.
Havoc by Peat Fires
Huge trees totter and eventually
fall at Wedholme Dale, Cumberiand,
England, often without warning.
bered among the hundreds
for several weeks past a peat fire has
been burning under the surface of the
earth. As the roots of the trees are
consumed, the trees wither and come
is almost beyond
such an
eraghing down. It
human power to extinguish
been known to burn for many years
before going out,
Just as Ordered
Suddenly a shriek of indignation
echoed In the alr. All those seated In
who had given vent to the scund,
“Walter,” she sald, “please take this
portion of ple away. There are sev
eral pleces of straw in it” '
The waiter looked wistfully at the
ple, and then, an amused expression
flashed across his face,
“But that's all right, mise” he ex.
plained, anxious to placate the angry
woman. “You ordered cottage ple and
of course, It’s thatched. "Philadel.
phia Inquirer.
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Wig parties, the guests wearing
colored head coverings, are popular
in England.