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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Bolivia and Paraguay Take
Mediation Instead of War
Over Gran Chaco.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
OLIVIA and Paraguay led not
to have a war over the disputed
Gran Chaco distriet, to the great re
lief of the Western heml and
the league of Nations, Paraguay was
the first to agree that the quarrel
should be submitted to the
mediation committee of t
fean conference In session in Wash
ington, and le hesitation
Bolivia followed suit. The latler re
public, however, asked that the in-
quiry be confined “in the first place to
the sttack on Fort Vanguardia with
out involving In the minary in-
quiry the
the dispu
to Eran within the procedure es-
tablished by the Argentin
of December, 1027, and w!
cepted by both countries”
dec
phere
sphen
special
he Pan-Amer-
after a litt
34
pre;
tions at the
cht
ave been intrusted
The mediation committ
Pr. Victor Maurtua of Peru, got busy
at once, and sent communications to
hoth governments asking them to out-
iine the type of mediation machinery
they wonld Ike to have set up. Both
governments were asked If they would
agree to withdraw troops from the
danger zone and If they wished to
sign a protocol ending the fighting. A
spirit of friendliness and cordiality
pervaded the committee conference
room. Dr. Eliglo Ayala, Paraguayan
delegate to the conference, and Diez
De Medina, the Bolivian minister, both
of whom had attended the first meet
Ing, walked away arm In arm.
While, as said ahove, t
Nations council was
peace move, it was
cause the South Am
did not submit
Geneva, for t!
the power of the
Monroe Doctrine. However,
ell claimed the eredit
vented the threatened warfare,
guay stopped its mobilization
ures, though the enroll of volun.
teers continued, The of the
Balivian coalition war eabinet was
eompleted, to be ready for
gencies,
Pp YOHIBITION enforcement was the
tople of hot debates In both the
senate and the house of representa
tives Inst week while
partment
action,
wet of
ernment shot
ee, headed by
relieved by
disappol
eriean
their
is wns
leagne despite the
the estun
for having pre-
Para
meas
ment
formation
emer
the Treasury de
ippropriat fon hi
Senator Bruce,
Maryiand,
il was an for
nent
gov
the em
declared
tld make “one honest of
fort” to make the Volstead
tive, Prob
sioner Doran had declared this wonld
require at least 2200000000 annnally,
Bruce moved to Increase hy £270.000
000 the 212.500,000 originally voted hy
the house for prohibition netivitios,
The Marylander had a long speech
prepared. and In order to shut him
off, his amendment was accepted with
out a vote, It was certain the con
ference would knock this out, and 1t
did. reinstating the house figures. The
conference report was adopted hy the
senute by a vote of 28 to 25 after a
lot more lively Interchange of opin-
fons and recriminations: and next day
the house also accepted it, without a
roll call vote. The Democratic dry
leaders made eapital out of the admit.
ted fact that prohibition enforcement
has been a fallnre during the last sev.
en and one-half years.
Comparatively smooth going for the
Kellogg antl.war treaty in the senate
was assured when the committee on
foreign reintions voted, 14 to 2. In
favor of the pact, agreeing that the
resclution of Senator Moses of New
Hampshire Interpreting the treaty
should be reported simultaneously but
without recommendation. Moses elim.
inated from his resolution all ita pro-
visions except the following:
“That the treaty does not impair or
abridge the right of the United States
to defend its territory or other vital
Interests In necordance with ite tra.
ditional American policies.
“That the treaty imposes no obll
gations on the United States to re
the
nw effec.
and since ihition Commis.
sort to coercive or pubitive measures
against any offending nation.
“That the treaty does not
the United States to the conditions
of any treaty to which the United
States is not a party.”
Senator Hale, chairman of the naval
committee, tried to get action on the
administration cruiser bill, but was
blocked temporarily by the “small
pavy group, who threatened an “ex-
tensive debate” amounting te a fli.
buster.
RE 0. WEST,
the Interior,
hers of the ser ate committee on pnb.
lic lands before it voted, not quite
unanimously, to recommend that the
senate confirm his appointment. Mr.
West's professional and financial past
and his reputed connections with Sam-
uel Insull, utilities magnate,
were the matters given chief consid
eration. Senator Nye, chalrman of the
committee, continued his opposition to
although he admitted
obligate
the new secretary of
was subjected to a
publie
the appointment,
grounds for its rejection had been sub
stantiated.
‘ongress adjourned Saturday until
January 3 for the holiday recess.
HAT hmarine, the 8-4,
which forty men to their
deaths a has been recon
ditioned and is being used for experi
mentation with safety devices. Last
week It was sunk 085 feet to the bot.
tom of Salt Pond at Block Island,
R. 1, and was then brought to the sur.
face by the use of new apparatus. The
raising, however, was too slow ts suit
the navy's experts so the test was not
entirely successful. The lifting hooks
r “padeyes.™
submarine amidships, were found ae
for attachment to pontoons
by divers though the divers
worked against a list deliberately
created jut only the how could be
brought to the surface, as a leak In
the motor aft held the vessel
down by the stern.
N HOOVER had a pleasant jour.
PP ney on the U, 8 8 Utah from
Montevideo to Rio de Janeiro, reach
ing the Brazilian metropolis Friday
Hig reception and enter
talnment there were all he econld ask
in the way of friendliness and en
thusiasm. He a the war
«hip that he would leave Rio Decem-
ber 23 and would proceed directly to
Florida, His to cut the
projected vieits to Havana, Santa
Domingo and Mexico City was due to
his desire to get back to the United
States and In touch with the situation
here. Whether he will land at Key
West or Miami was not announced.
The President-Elect will occupy the
J. C. Penney piace, a beautiful estate
on a small Island at Miami Peach, and
there rest up and prepare for his ine
augnration. The Cubane were especial-
ly disappointed when they heard Mr.
Hoover would not visit them. FElab.
orate preparations already were under
way in Havana. Radio dispatehes from
the Utah sald Mr. Hoover wonld go to
the Cnhan eapital before taking office,
and might also go to Texas and Mex-
ico before March 4
ING GEORGE gained steadily, if
slowly. througheut the week In
his brave fight against death. The
phreleinns said both general and local
conditions wer2 better, hut they
warned the public agninst over opti.
mism with the reminder that the
ruler's recovery depends. on a econ
tinned Improvement rather than iso-
lated gains. That there was some re.
laxation In the tension of anxiety was
shown by the faet that the prince of
Wales went to the Bath elub to see
the squnsh rackets finals, and the
queen, Princess Mary and Viscount
Lascelles visited the London soo,
In the Lancet, leading medical jour
nal, appeared a technical review of the
king's illness which concinded with
this paragraph:
“It will be apparent to medical men
that not only the severity and length
of the infection bat exhaustion result.
Ing therefrom must make progress
slow and difficult. At the same time
the dangerous phases of the [liness
have been surmounted and there are
increasingly solid grounds for hoping
for his recovery as a result of this
long and anxious struggle.”
The statement reveals that the king
has had periods of delirium. The em-
ployment of ultraviolet rays is be
unlucky =u
carried
year ago,
cessible
even
room
afternoon.
nounced on
decision out
Heved
ficial,
to have already proved bene
FING AMANULLAH of Afghanistan
is having a hard time introducing
occidental customs ntry. A
considerable part of his people is In
rebellion aguinst his westernization
program, and In the castern district
of Jelalabnd they also are revolting
against taxes and laws requiring cern
tain of the tribesmen to carry ident!
fication papers. The pews from Af
ghanistan te rather vague, hut Dell
heard that the rebels had captured
two forts overlooking the capital
Kabul,
into his con
American min
presented
credent'nls last and the
States thereby
new royal regime of Zogu, who made
himself king. The ceremony, in
shabby litle eapital, Tirana,
d with military pomp at
king's palace,
wed
formally reco
Wis oon
SL EGATES to the int
aviation conference and
of air-min journeyed te
Kitty Ha wk ) *. to do
Orville Wright, the
in a powered
lay the cornerstone for a gover:
memorial to Wright brot
top of Kill Devil hill at the spot
which they took off
first flight twenty
huge granite bowider with
ate Inscription was unveiled
first
mont
the
five years
appropri
Tribute
of War Davis, Gov. Angus Mclean of
North Carolina and Senator
Bingham, president of the
Aeronautical association,
ahout
a crisis
Joseph A
person, finally brought
in New York police affairs,
Warren,
forced out of office and Mayor
Walker appointed Grover A.
to succeed him. The new official start
ed In by making many dismrinsals and
demotions of commanding officers
Whalen was secretary of May
for a time, and ever since
been chalrman of the mayor's commit
tee for the reception of
guests. In that
aimost continuo
streets In parades with prongnent per
sonages.
police commissioner,
he has been
Ales er
eapacity
sly ri about
ARRY F. SINCLAIR filed In
United States Supreme
brief presenting arguments
should not be required to
three-months' jail sentence for con
of a senate committee on the
oll lenses.
Sinclalr contended that
ment, having initiated proceedings
against him on charges of conspiracy
to defraud In connection with his
Teapot Dome lease, could not compel
him to give Information before the
senate committer which might be
used to his disadvantage in the trial
of the ense. He alto asserted the
senate had lost Jurisdiction
he, Sinclalr, refused to answer.
APAN'S first national parliament
elected under the new manhood
suffrage law is about to meet, and
the government prepared for presen.
tation the largest budget jn the coun
try's history. For the fiscal year.
1020.30, it totals 1.753.000,000 yen
(approximately $800.380000), repre
senting an increase over the current
year of 43.700,000 yen. The budget
for the navy calls for 268,000,000 ven,
an increase of 5,600,000, and for the
army 232,000,000 yen, an Increase of
7.700,000,
There were prospects of a bitter
political conflict in the diet over the
empire's relations with China and on
domestic tax Issues. Premier Tans
ka's majority In parliament is so siim
that his government may fall at any
time
LINOR WYLIE, wellknown poet
and novelist and the wife of WH
liam Rose Benet, poet, died In New
York of fyparalytic stroke at the age
of fortydtwo years. Bhe was the
daughter of Henry M. Hoyt, solicitor
general under President Taft. and
wan previously the wife of P. A
Hichborn and of Horace Wylle.
HIS LAST QUESTION
tired
dumb
The tourist
He had to
questions
, “And just
boulder came
numbskull,
The guide politely replied
glacler brought fit down.
Then up spoke the inquisitive one
again: “And where did the glacier
go?
“Aw.” sald the guide,
after another boulder.”
guide was getting
answer too many
this
one
where did
from?”
you say
inquired
that a
“jt went back
individual Efficiency
me Pa : i
As life
For Ev a
Who goes ahead and does
No Credit
lufus, aren't you feells
“Nosguh, ab
“Have yi
“NOogs
U Const
and Ah
“What's the trou
willing to trust him?”
{ih ussuh, but
i together willin' to trust m
Miss Chameleon
Firs Merchant ]
who
have 8 bookkeep
office has gone
service
Second Merchant——That's
Ind Miss Smith there
hrown. blonde and Titian
service. ~London Passing Show,
nothing
red in my
These Girls
Murie— Hello
Jae th |
of your nmrriage |
inte
Jane
fu=t yesterday heard
hope I'm not tow
you
to congratulate
One Not Often Accepted
“Fu. what is
“Th> lok 8
soung mar who is
the street car. son”
a standing invitation?
jred woman gives the
sitting
LEAD UNNECESSARY
Witie
the pantry
Hieve
Hubby Do you think so? Then it
wont’ be necessary for me to give him
a dose of lend
{rweorge, theres a
eating
burgin: in
my ples | do be
Heopy Histrion
A statesman has to take a chance
in apeaking for a cause
The kid who doer a song and dance
Is sure of his applause
Not a Timorous Girl
Lady (engaging maid) - Regarding
your evening out, I'm quite prepared
to meet you half way.
Mald—That'll be all right ma'am ;
t aint a bit worried © coming home
in the dark
Gathering His Own
Congtatle—~How did you come by
hat pt of honey?
Trump Well, ‘I admit | don't keep
Dees, but wot's to step 8 bloke squees
tn’ it out of the flowers bisrelf?
Now, Youngster
Ardemt Swuin-—-The frst time |
moked inte your eyes you set my
laps racing.
Little Brother (breaking cover) 1
«uy. Mr Jones. which of them ont
Passing Show
o-
Heap Big Chief
Stranger So you are the postmas-
wr. Btorekewper, justice of the peace
nd constable of this town.
Native Yaussir! You might say i'm
we Mussalinl of Buckeye (Corner.
Jayer Aspirin!
tonsilitis. No
for colds, neuralgia,
der is that anyone
tablets! They rel
heart. They ha
Icve qui cl
tions. Why not put it to the
winter without these
no effect whatever on the
pirin is marvelous ; doctors
it, with proven direc-
of Mao
leylicseld
it
ar
k
t
requis
Cuticura,’
Drop in Temperature
Explai ned by Culprit
Hig
re
when !
in Boyle Heigin
toinary gale
ter played on
running back an
the thermometer
This wis
little chap
an seriogy
felt
to report i
nevertheless
bouse and =
“Nhat is
suessing
something
“I was plas
Walter, “and
down,”- {
Elcetric Lamp Progress
In 1900 it was said th
descent an t
wae 80 perfect a device that it could
never he it was
about tly
search was ing “11 { in the elec.
justrial re
¥
trical industry Since then the offi
clency of the
been
the
artificial
cheaper ligh
has
approximately quads and
inerense intensities of
le poss hile by the
incandescent inmp
uplied,
great in the
new applications
have had a
industrial
few
effect on
lamps
our
far-reaching
prosperity
“Phantom Ship” Uncanny
German tists are taking great
interest in the demonstration on Am:
mersee lake near Munich of an un
manned mystery boat It a motor
aunch., which, on receijt of a ce~anln
eignal from the station, immediately
returns to shore in a straight live, if
the transmitter is mounted on naother
scien
the distance between It and the
towboat can be adjusted at will, A
large doll of uncanny appearance
fastened with its hands to the steer
ing wheel caused the natives to nick:
name the craft the “Phantom Ship.”
Resord Birth of Lambe?
Five lambs at a birth is the unusual
record established by a crossbred
Rambouillet-Cotswold ewe owned by
George Rust, of Victor, Idaho. Twin
tambs are common, triplets occasional ;
but more than that is very unusual
according to J BE. Nordby, of the Uni
versity of Idaho, who reports the oe
currence in the Journal of Heredity.
The lambs were permitted to remain
with their mother for a few days,
after which three were removed and
reared as bottle lambs,
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great interest that ig now being taken
in Hving foreign tongues as well as
in our own, Crossword puzzles, too,
have stimulated the study of words,
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