York.
treaty. 3—Parade of
Prittwitz
May fete of Wellesley
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Watson Defeats Hoover in
Indiana—Japan Is Fight-
ing Chinese.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
NDIANA farmers indicated
week that they did not approve of
the Presidential candidacy of Herbert
Hoover. The vote of the rural dis
triets in the Republican primary was
strong enough to give Senator James
EE. Watson, favorite son, a majority
of something like 25,000 over the sec
retary of whese strength
was mainly in and larger
towns: and the Hoosier delegates
at Kansas City will vote for the sen
ator at least on the first ballot. Anti
Hooverites claimed the result in In
diana was a severe blow to Hoover's
chances, but his supporters asserted
he really had won a victory by keep-
ing Watson's majority down to
paratively small figures,
Despite Senator Watson's protesta-
tions that he is In race to win,
the politiclans- nearly all assume that
he is a stalking horse for Lowden or
Dawes, and the opinion is widespread
that the Indiana or many
of its members, will shift to Dawes as
the senator them,
may first give Lowden
a chance, G. Burt Thurman, the Wat.
campaign manager in the
“Indiana will be for Dawes or
Lowden or any other Republican”
with significant emphasis on the werd
Republican. Maryland tepublieans
inst Tuesday pledged their 19
gates to Hoover,
Democrats of Indiana
their 20 delegates to Houston instract
ed to vote for Evans Woollen, In-
dianapolis banker whom Tom Taggart
hrought forward. He was unopposed.
The Republicans renominated Senator
Robinson and the Democrats picked
Albert Stump for the The
nominations for governor be
made by the party for
no candidate either
clear majority
last
commerce,
the
neo
on
cities
con
the
delegation,
0On As releases
though they
won state
said:
dele.
voted to send
the
senate,
must
conventions,
on side won a
Michigan's state Democratic
tion voted to instruct the delegation
of 20 to a= a unit for Al Smith,
the opposition being easily =quelched.
But the fight against the York
governor is not entirely abandoned,
for in Alabama the anti-Smith or “un
instructed delegation” faction captured
the majority of the state's delegates to
Houston, In Texas the strug:
gle to send an uninstructed delegation
to the Republican convention seemed
likely to win
conven
vote
New
bitter
S! NATOR STEIWER'S campaign
J expenditures investigation commit.
tee haz not brought out anything in-
teresting so far except a small display
of temper hy Herbert Hoover, He
was suhlected to a long examination
as to promires, contributions and po-
litieal deals and managed to retain
control of himself. but when Senator
larkley of Kentucky asked him wheth-
er he had advised the munufacturers
of chinaware to the price of
china, he exploded, saying: “I won
der, Mr. Chairman, if the committee
it not getting down to dealing with a
pretty small type of sireet slander.”
From the other candidates for the
Presidential nomination the committee
extracted no inforination in the least
seneational,
raige
OTH the house and senate aecepted
the conference report on the flood
control bill after the meusure had
been 30 altered that it would meet
with the approval of the President
Three important revisions suggested
by Mr. Coolidge were made and It
was understood the bill would receive
executive approval, although the Pres
tdent still dislikes some of its pro
vitians
The Lill ar it reached the President
authorizes the expenditure of 83205.
000.000 for the flood control project,
but. according to President Coolidge
and Mal Cen Edgar Jadwin. chief
of engineers, the actual minim cost
will be at least $600.000000 The bill
pinces final authority in the hands of
the President. Actual construction
work wonld be in charge of the pres.
ent Missigsippl river commission under
the direction of the secretary of war
and the chief of
engineers,
While the bill the re-
tention of the principle of local con
tribution toward flood control projects,
must fur
supervision of the
declares for
local interests under the bill
nish omnly such additional rights of
way as are needed for the
main channel of the and
must maintain the fleod control works
when completed. The federal govern-
ment will bear the entire cost of con
struction of levees and other flood con
trol works and furnish rights of
way for and
levees on
Mississippi
will
levees along floodways
gpillways,
fos the first time In history th
fate has assumed the pt pat
prerogu
© sen
ive of
Marine
aierin
2 advice to the Supreme Court
of 46
8 ft n 1 ry”
resolution asking
of the United States. By a vote
to 31
that
it approved a
Donald C,
counsel
the
v
Richberg of Chicago,
for the national conference on
valuation of Ame
be allowed to
rican raliways
intervene In proceed
for ‘the
argument
The conference Richberg
was formed years
radical headed
ator Norris of Nebraska, who
duced the
The case In question is an
the railroads from a
before the court
making an
brief.
sents
purpose
oral
game
groups and is
intro
extraordinary resolution
appeal by
Con.
lower cour
upholding
COMIMIRKIONn 8
cision the interstate
merce ruling with re
spect to the determination of
tion for rate making
purposes
HINA and Japan
war, though not official
Japan Insists on giving military pro
tection te the Shantung rallway and
to her nationals there
both the and
government were unheeded and
clashes between the Japanese and the
Southerners at Tsinan, capital 3
There
many casualties on both sides and the
fighting continues at the t
ing. Each side blamed the other
the outbreak of hostilities
accused the other of brutal
The Japanese commander in Shantung
established a neutral zone the
rallway and at latest reports had
driven the Southerners out of it. The
Tokyo government
and sent
and dispatched ad
, because
Protests of
Nationals the Peking
hloody
of Shan-
tung province, followed were
ime of writ
Cre
10%
and each
outrages
le ne
speedily prepared
over heavy reinforcements
warships,
Then Marshal Chang, dictator of north
China,
all his forces to cease fighting the Na.
tionalists, in order, evidently, that the
might employ Ite com
strength in combating the Jap
anese aggression. In his pronuncia
mento Chang intimated his infention
of soon retiring to Maopchuria, stating
he was willing to be not insistent re
garding national politics, and he con.
cluded with the statement that the
ship of state was sinking rapidly and
he hoped the people would come to
their senses and save the eountry from
destruction,
Suggestions of mediation by the
United States have been made but are
useless, for Washington has said it
would not undertake to mediante unless
asked to do by both sides, and
Japan says it will neither ask nor ac
cept mediation. The unofficial govern.
ment view in Tokyo “is that Japan
loes not consider the present sitna-
tion war and that therefore the matter
ean be settled diplomatically between
Japan and China. All Americans In
the war zone are believed to be safe,
though some, including Consul [rice
at Teinan, were under fire,
litional
¢
issued a proclamation ordering
Chinese nation
bined
80
UMANIA almost had a revolution
last week, but the government
nipped it in the bud. The peasants
gathered in vast throngs--two hun-
dred theusund in Albajulla and smaller
numbers in other places—and formu.
lated demands for a change of govern.
ment and the end of the despotic
regime of Premier Bratlano, Some of
the leaders wished to have the hordes
march on Bucharest to enforce their
demafide, but others dissented and
only a few thousands started on the
trek to the enpital and they soon quit,
At the gatherings the government had
stationed large detachments of troops
which did not interfere with the de
tiberations but effectually squelched
all the ardor for militant action. An
interesting feature of the affair was
the fact that Prince Carol, In England
with ‘his femnle companion, plotted to
take ndvihtage of the assembinge of
the peasdnts to gain possession of the
throne. He intended to send airplanes
over to scalter messages to the
ple, and perhaps to fiy there himself
jut the British government discovered
the plan, frustrated it and ordered
Carol to leave the country. [It was ru-
mored he might to the United
States. Leaders of the peasants’ party
denied that they had any part In
Carol's scheme.
peo
come
REMIER MUSSOLINI, in an official
note to Secretary Kellogg, states
that Italy is entirely willing to coliab-
orate with the United States in
negotiation of 8 multilateral anti-war
The State department officials,
do not like the dictator's sug
gestion that
participate |
the
treaty.
however
the United States should
fonal jurists’
the
war, It is
this point
conference whiel uld discuss
whole su
not be
ing
aly will press
Joix D. ROCKEFELLER
«J made public
Robert W.
board of the Standard
Indiana, in
to resign
revelntion of Stewart's participation In
the Trading company's
deals that ved In the Tea-
pot Dome lease scandal Mr. Rocke
feller Colonel Stewart that he
was calling upon him “to make good
the promise you voluntarily gave me
some weeks ago that you would resign
at my wart up to the
of writing has declined to
ment on the matler,
a very large stockholder in the Stand
ard of Indiana, but it was said In Wall
gtreet that he might not be
enforce his demand for Stewart's res
ignation if the chairman decided to
District Attorney Rover ’In
Washington submitted a transcript of
1
'
two letters to Col
chairman of the
Ol Company of
which naked the latter
his position because of the
Continental
were Ins
wrote
request.” Ste up
com
time
Rockefeller is
able to
resist,
Stewart's testimony before the senate
Teapot Dome commitiee to the federal
grand jury with a view to his indict
ment,
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE told callers
at the White House the other day
that if all projects before congress are
approved the required expenditure
would be so huge that tax reduction
would be impossible, he
warned, It wonld be necessary to levy
additional taxes, The aggregate ex-
penditare called for would be more
than a billion dollars, according to
Chairman Snell of the house rules com
mittee. Included jn the big projects
are: Flood control, at least $325,000,
000 : farm relief, $400,000.000; Boulder
dam, at 125.000.0000: Muscle
Khonls, £35.000,000;: good roads, $70,
indeed,
least
000.000: retirement of civil employees
LI0.000.000 : Welch federal empioyees
salary increase bill, RIS 000.000 : 1lissis
gippi river barge line, $10,000,000 ; war
mineral relief bill, £5.000000 to £10
000,000, and vocational training bili
£4.000,000,
3 ARON VON HUENEFELD, Captain
Koehl and Major Fitzmaurice, the
dremen transatiantie flyers, flew from
Philadelphia to Chicago and spent two
strenuous days and nights there. They
were feasted and entertained in vari
ous ways, and on Saturday there was
a grand parade to Soldier field on the
gke Front where they were formally
welcomed to the city. More than one
hundred German and Irish societies
were in the line of march and took
part in the ceremonies. Among the
guests of honor were Prof. Hogo Junk-
erg. manufacturer of the Bremen plane,
and T. A. Smiddy, minister of the
irish Free State at Washington.
NFORMATION reaching the War de
partment shows that Great Brit
ain's army espenditures during the
coming year for the development and
purchase of new machine weapons and
motorized equipment will be ten times
the amount expended by the United
States for a similar purpose. The
British will spend $5,000,000 in army
modernization work. The United
States is planning to éxpend more
than ever before in peace time on ma-
chine weapons, but its total spendings
for testing and few development work
will not exceed $500,000,
Of the funds allotted to the ordnance
department of the United States army
ahout £140,000 will be utilized for the
purchase of tracks, tractors. ammuoni
tion power carts, and other material
for completely motorizing an infantry
regiment, The balance will be ex
pended In tank experimentations and
in perfecting new artiliery,
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| English Town Built
| With Eye to Beauty
With the increase of population and
| the of civilization the uglifi-
| cation of the countryside proceeds
| apace. Squat and dismal little towns
spring into unlovely being, especially
{in the vicinity of great Just
| where some touch of nature's beauty
| is most needful, And where the jerry-
| builders are not active the billboard
| men work thelr cruel defacements.
The United States has been held up
{| to scorn us the nation which gives the
greatest scope to the uglifier, Justly,
| too, For the United States, being
young as a nation, has offered the
| greatest field for devastation. But the
| old countries have pot escaped.
England stands very near the top
| of the list of beautiful countries. And
the English people ure trying hard not
{ to permit the of the pa-
tion's gift of
advance
cities
destruction
beauty,
England, and it Is
work Where
eRliates
tion of do
ing effective
rural
great
+ beautiful
for resi.
for other
Ors
town building
purposes the 1
council is pr
destructive
dential
the
and
direction
lying
created,
venting haphazard
activit Under Its
suburbs and out
and villages are being
And the efforts of the
stroyers nre being intelligent
8
handsome
towns
all
nature-de
Iy opposed
As a result it will
before England bed
Engl: provide
growth of populai
long
And if
ally for
industry
esthetic
mes
ind ean
vithout urrender
idenls United Siates, too, can
becoming mis
defacements
gave
its rural wwions from
erable nerustatl « and
ture The
are for the future
nl,
Roller Essential
for Fine Grass Plot
fIave
Lawn
lawn must an even
A perfe
surface, either
if the ground dip
lawn |
be repaired ¥ ing
ects the
Depressions In the
which
Water col
8! ( mre OLR, must
winte fice
stands ud the grass is killed out,
be avolded easily
at the start lawn roller is an es
sential tool fo kept lawn, It Is
After the lawn
or plowed, the
reduced
needed every
: soil
wl as nearly level us
and go over It with a
will force the seed
the and
that need a
roller
contact with soil
any places
until the
that the
Then you may
with the roller
¢ shows po hollows
touch.
is right.
As rollers are rather expensive, It is
a good plan for neighbors to club to
gether and get a good one As the
need for it is not constant, there will
be no likelihood of difficulty In getting
a chance to use it. Twice a year ought
be suflicient.
to be
* Goes not
»
that" it
Gambrel Roof Adaptable
The.gambrel roof
form
which in its sim
plest is often to be found
barns,
resulis to certain types of American
architecture. The gambrel, like the
gable roof, has steep slopes which
shed the snow and rain, but because
of the two slopes or angels it has an
advantage over the gable roof In in-
creased attic space, so useful In the
American home,
The hip roof is experiencing an era
of popularity due to the bungalow
of house that has become So
prevalent in modern American com-
munities. The hip roof has four sides
~two of which extend laterally from
the ridge beam, while the other two
glides extend from the ends of this
heam,
type
Roof Vital Part of House
The roof is the great protédter of
sour home, and will faithfully perform
its task only to the limit of Its en-
durance. It ean do no more than that.
{| A weakling cannot be expected to
do a giant's work, Hence, if you put
sn a roof that lacks the stamina to
{grapple with heat, cold, rain, snow
land wind — opponents that never
{ wenken in their attack-you need Bot
| expect that kind of a roof to outgnme
| them.
| If the natural staying qualities are
pot there, though you paint and
| patch, ‘your roof will lose the battle.
| Meanwhile, it hans cost you more al-
| together in money outlay than sn en-
during roof would have cost at the
| tart.—Chicago Evening Post.
Advantages of Brick
Considered from the architectural
viewpoint the versatility of the com-
mon brick is one of its paramount
virtues. It can be used in the con
struction of any type of house, in any
kind of wall, for almost any type of
decorative design, One must actually
gee an expert bricklayer in action
upon a difficult piece of work fully to
appreciate ts wonderful adaptability.
And by the same token the brick
home fits pleasingly into any sor.
roundings. Whether it has a wooded
background or In in the open makes
little difference; the house will speak
for itself with conviacing emphasis
a
country,
The pavement rises 620 feet in
feet, The average
roadway winds around the
one place making a complete
have
accident bazard
that the grills
na i Rriil)
ON
mc ———— "
Lower Repair Bills and In-
crease Efficiency of the
Engine.
fleary duty vehicle owners
are operating
thelr machi
repair bills i
the engine, due to the 8
f engineering des
Kamrath,
only
lower and inci
ecleney of
resey
neer Not does the
dollar purchase more
te
years ago, but the
mong the many improvements on the
heavy duty vehicles is the
which removes and
reaches carburetor
nit
dust
and
dam
clenner dirt
the
befure the alr-cleaner equipped
Dust Always There.
Oftentimes the dust on 8 g«
wd rond
Truck wheels are constantly
grinding off fine particles of road ma.
¥
Trucks nsed in building new
highway construction View.
ng these particles under a microscope
Without an air cleaner this dust en-
ters the engine, forms on the cylinder
walls and becomes thoroughly
mized with lubricating
is the
soon
the
result
oil.
inevitable
a grinding compound which,
attacking the and eviinder
walls, is driven remorselessly into the
and other working paris
Causes Damaging Work.
Analssis of almost any carbon de
posit taken from the average engine
shows that it containe a considerdble
amount of hard extraneous matter
that must have beep drawn in through
the carburetor. This Is what does the
damaging work throughout the engine,
lowering its performance, shortening
its life and causing unnecessary re-
pair costs,
Air cleaners which have been de
veloped minimize this trouble and
they are now recognized ae essential
by leading manufacturers,
Motor Exhaust Tested
in Setting Carburetor
As an improvement over the usual
methods of adjusting the carburetor
a process has been. developed that
makes use of a simple testing ap
paratus to examine the exhaust from
the motor and so tell accurately if the
proper combustion has been effected,
gays Popular Mechanics Magazine. It
ia similar in some respects to the outfit
peed in making .an analysis of flue
gases In steam-generating plants. The
auto-exhaust tester gives an exact
measure of the amouni of carbon diox-
fde in a sample of the gas, so that
adjustments of the carburetor ean be
made until the proper amount Is reg.
istered. But little skill is vpecessary
in operating the tester,
Plan for Parking on a
Congested City Street
“When forced to park on a con
gested street, stop parallel to, and
about one foot outside of the car be-
hind which it is Intended to park.
Turn wheels sharply to curb. Back
slowly until it is possible to see that
when swinging the front wheels hard:
over to the left the right fender will
just clear the left rear fender of the
ear ahend. Turn wheels fully to left
then back into position. Learn these
points at which extreme turns are to
be made. This method will park the
ear at the proper distance from the
curb and in one backward movement,
and will cut down the time traffic Is
held np while the car Is being parked.
pistons
DD
Pd
SHAR A la t
>
Half of Horsepower
Is in Automobiles
Computations made by a large
manufactu
half thd horse
in the Ur
mobile eng
rer reveal that ons
hhh)
AA A a a a a ee a
power available
nited Statex
The
a Aaa
+
v
ment
full <2
»
vo
uate
S00 0080 O00)
hors
proxima
.
a
i
power
Ratis
a
v
Mae
"
(O00 antomn
D4
is regarded
ae the neervative figure of J
their
horse
nakes
amount io
hoarse power, or fri0t
combine
v
HH ETD
half af the
ons
SOPPIPOCY
nation’s tota
ov 4
Alp ln io pn Cnr pr lp lr Crp re lp 0 ie
Unruly Tractors Curbed
by Automatic Cutout
that
wheels
»
The
throu?
bad hal
te pull a load so
near the limit of pulling
is a for the
on
doesn’t remove h
Foi
qQrives
small farm
cleated rear
tractor
has one
When an attempt is made
heavy that it Is
power, there
tendency tor to rear
ftx hind wheels and if the driver
{ throt
s foot from the
enongh, the i
tra
with serious
#1 yi1ie-d
Lie qui *
ba
or may
kwards rests
LITTON
“ MIRCURY CONTALY
’
INSULATING
MATERIAL ©
Automatic Cutout Switch.
Thig peculiar trouble can be elimi
nated by an automatic cutout
switch shown in the illustration.
When she switch is horizontal the mer-
curs the circuit between
the electrodes, but when the tractor
starts to rear up on its hind wheels
the mercury flows away from one elac-
trode and cuts off the ignition, thus
stopping the engine and eliminating
the chance of a serious pecident oc-
curing.
adding
ns
comple tes
Ettore Bugatti Proposes
New Type of Auto Race
A real race between the world's
great automobile drivers but all with
exactly the fame cars, is being organ-
ized by Ettore Bugatti, one of the
leading car builders of France. He
is anxious fo see what different men
will do with the same automobile and
to determine whether it is the car or
the man that wins a race.
Bugatti, whose firm bas been en-
tered in most of the big races all over
the world for many yearf proposes
to furnish a large number of cars and
let the drivers draw lots for them,
SOUOS LOL ORNONDODOLT IDOL LT
AUTOMOBILE HINTS
SOOO OOLR OURS ONNROONORON
Worn bushings cause many ubpleas-
ant noises In motor cars.
. *
Most well-equipped repair shops are
ahle to recondition an automobile en-
gine In one day's time,
—- * & ®
Pistoys are fiow being made for
welght of those previously used
.
Capt. Malcolm Campbell, British
racer, holds the new world's speed
record for automobileg, He averaged
nearly 207 miles an hour, :
LE
Maybe that strange Cape Sable fish
which the experts cannot Identify is
a cousin ‘of the new specimen on the
automobile number plates
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