2—Col. James C. Roop of NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Sino-Russian War Clouds Denser Over Manchuria —Senate Tariff Bill. By EDWARD W. PICKARD AY, AR between China and Soviet Russia became increasingly prob- able during the week, and China let the world know that if it did come, Russia alone should be blamed. Sev- eral weeks ago it was sald In these columns that the basis of the Man- churian trouble was the incurable itch of the Russians to sovietize the rest of the world, and this fact Is empha- gized in identical communications de- livered by China's envoys to the gov- ernments of all nations signatory to the Kellogg pact. The note handed Secretary of State Stimson by Min- ister Wu makes the flat charge that the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- lics has been plotting to overthrow the Chinese government and says the latter has the documents to prove this accusation, Since 1027, the Chinese government declares, Russia has been conducting communistic propaganda in China, using the funds of the Chinese East- ern rallway to finance these activi- ties. These involved, it is charged, not only the overthrow of the Chinese government but the destruction of China's political and economic system. These activities, it is added, have progressed to a point where the safety of China is endangered. China also charges Russia with sponsoring a policy of wholesale assassinations, one of the purposes of which was to bring about a world wide revolution, In the present crisis on the Man- churian frontier Russia, the Chinese say, has been making warlike threats involving not only firing into but the operation of military airplanes over Chinese territory. China, says the communication, still hopes for peace. It adds that “should acts of provocation on the part of the Soviet government result in unavoidable clashes arising out of China's deter- mination to defend her own rights the responsibility for disturbing the peace of the world must entirely rest with the Soviet government.” During the week there were repeat- ed clashes between Chinese and Rus- sian troops which In one or two in- stances amounted to real battles. Each side accused the other of invasion, but the dispatches Indicated that the Soviet forces were the more aggressive in making border raids. The Nanking government continued to hurry heavy reinforcements to the Manchurian frontier, and recent cablegrams from Tokyo sald Russian troops had al- ready completed mobilization and were soon to march on Harbin, the Manchurian raliroad center. It was asserted this advance was to be a “punitive expedition” and that the Soviet government was determined to force China to comply with its de- mands regarding the Chinese Eastern railway but would make no formal dec- laration of war. Several trains on the Chinese Eastern were dynamited re- cently and Soviet agents were arrested charged with the crime, such EPUBLICAN members of the sen- ate finance committee completed thelr draft of the revised tariff bill and made It public, and immediately was started the battle of words that is certain to be continued with In- creasing fury when the senate be- gins consideration of the measure. Senator Reed Smoot, chairman of the committee, gave out figures as proof that the bill drawn up by his conferees represents a scaling down of duties from the house bill rates, The comparisons showed equivalent nd valorems for the senate committee bill, the house bill and the present law. It was Indicated the senate comunit- tee decreased rates In ten of the fif- teen schedules from the duties of the house bill. In four schedules the re- vision was upward and in one there was no change, The revised blll creases from the present law In twelve schedules, decreases in two and no change in ore. The equivalent ad valorems were obtained by esti. matipe “avenues under the different represents In. measures and figuring what the total duties by schedules would represent in percentages of total values of im. ports. It was estimated the customs rev- enue under the senate bill would amount to $005,408,400, as compared with $646,014,545 under the house bill and $516,512,086 under existing law, The figures showed a reduction in the agricultural schedule from the house bill, which was somewhat of a surprise. The equivalent ad valorem of rates of the agricultural schedule In the senate committee bill was listed as 82.00 per cent as compared with 34.00 per cent In the house bill and 22.850 per cent in the present law, The senate reconvened on August 19 with only about thirty present and decided to hold perfunc- tory sessions twice a week tember 4, when the would begin. The leaders passage of the measure abou dle of October. The convene September 23 and will mark is passed and members house will time until the tariff bill ready for conference, The Republican members of the sen. ate finance committee approved a com- yrovision for delaying two ghift from a foreign to a valuation and settied administrative tarifl Democrats of the com- ready the Lill promise years the domestic basis, several other controversies, mittee made amendments to will numerous the which they offer. WW HILE the representatives of allied nations at The Hague were still disputing over the division of German reparations, with small pros- pect of imuediate agreement, Dr. Gustav Stresemann, German foreign minister, informed them that, whether or not the Young plan was ratified by September 1, Germany could _pay, be. ginning on that date, only the repara- tions enlied for by the scheme devised by Young and the namely, $487.900,000 a year. Premier Aristide Briand of replied that since the Young not been adopted the Germs: ment must continue treaty In which th Philip British of the exchequer, said he considered the Germans must continue their pay- ments according to the Dawes plan, which is the only recognized scheme for reparations. British and Belgian troops were preparing to evacuate the second zone of the Rhineland, but Premier Briand said the evacuation of 60,000 French troops from the occupied territory hurriedly would be difficult since bar racks were lacking In France to house them. It was understood that by Jan. uary 1 the allied troons of occupation to the number of less than 20,000 would be out of all but the last zone, the Mayence bridgehead. As for the split of reparations, Lon. don dispatches indicated that Morgan and other American bankers might have a good deal to do with forcing a compromise. The British press and, on the surface, the British government uphold Snowden in his refusal te accept a reduced share of the German payments, but It was sald Prime Min. ister MacDonald was much impressed with the arguments of the financiers. other experts, France hans carry 1 pla ratified. force the Dawes e reichstag bad Snowden, HE Graf Zeppelin completed its momentous voyage from Friedriche. hafen to Tokyo Ir approximately 102 hours, circled over the Japanese cap- ital and landed at the Kasumigaura fiying field forty miles away. For sev- eral days the passengers and crew were feted by the wildly enthusiastic Japanese while the dirigible was being refueled and overhauled, the emperor himself taking a leading part In the entertainment of the visitors. As the big ship was being taken from the hangar for its start across the Pacific two struts were broken, and the take. oft was delayed a day. Then the Zeppelin soared Into the alr on its way to Los Angeles snd Lakehurst. Oscar Khesar and Kurt Luescher, young and comparatively inexperienced Bwiss aviators, took off from Portugal for a flight across the Atlantic ocean to the United States. By the end of the week It was belleved they had paid the penalty of their rashness with thelr lives, From the timé when they were seen above Terceira Island in the Azores all trace of them» was lost. Miss Marvel Crosson of San Diego, one of the contestants in the womens’ alr derby from Santa Monica, Calif, to Cleveland, Ohlo, her death In western Arizona. Her body found crushed against a boulder a hundred yards wsway wreckage of her plane, had leaped for her life but her para- chute had failed to open. Mamer met was and the Evidently she was and Walker in the Spokane Sun God feat of making a flight from Spokane to New return. They were in the full days and traversed 7,200 One of the British Rchnelder races, a Rolls Royce six plloted by plane the non-stop York and air five accomplished refueling entries for the cup guper-murine Fiying OM. fastest cer Waghorn, made in tegts the flight ever made by an alrp tremendous speed of A530 miles an hour rea« Lieut. Alford Willlams was hav. ing a lot of he Ameri can for the Schneider p Ld During one of his } Inne. The Assisling hed, without an wind. trouhlie with t hope tron : off the water he scious by fumes from the er Ha E SAM decided last ’ make a loan of promote the builidi woes SAMO to chant marine, the no oblection American Export tifiad uneq Ht ni # shippls the Steamship pora- tion under the Jones. White act. The company wishes to build four vessels, and this work may prevent unemploy- ment in the Camden yards of the New York Shipbuilding tary of the N Secroe. Adams also signed a contract with the Inst named con. cruisers In the fifteen-cruiser program, the cost to be $10,003.200 Relief eral for agriculturist cingses Is actively way igh the federal farm board. That body approved loans aggregating more than $0.000.000 to be exper thro ted thre x4 po} SEG gE co-operative groups for ¢ stabiliza- The two principal the Son Maid the Federal Fruit In addition to . the board, it was the Sun-Maid pos s ti fon of the California and fresh grape t industries. groups Ralsin Ktabil- concerned are Growers und jzation assist in whatever way sible to Insure the growers “the un. disturbed use and control of the valu. able Sgn-Mald trademarks, the mod- ern plants, and the international sales organization.” which the raisin grow. ers of California have built up over a period of years. It was announced by the board that from five to ten millions te supple. ment the assistance not given Soulls ern co-operative associations. of Holland, member of congress, pointed minister Mien, and a former has been ap- to Holland to suc who resigned. Mr. Diekema, whose parents were born In Holland, speaks Dutch and has long been a student of the affairs of the Netherlands Be. tween 1901 and 1907 he was a mem. ber of the Spanish treaty claims com. mission. NJEW YORK has formally aban. AN doned its plan to hold a world's fair In 1933, leaving that year to Chi. cago, whose Century of Progress ex- position is fast being brought into concrete form. The New Yorkers de. cided to wait until 1935 and “then show them how to put on a world's fair right,” The Chicago exposition has the advisory patronage of the Na. tional Research council, the backing of President Hoover and the national government and a united civie support. m— RITISH cotton manufacturers hav. ing agreed to arbitrate the dis pute with their workers, the great strike in the Lancaster mills came to fn close and half a million hands re turned to their jobs, The arbitrators then decided that wages should he reduced G41 per cent, which is one. half the cut demanded by the opera- tors. Both sides accepted the deci sion. Determination of strikers that the Clinchfield textile mill at Marion, N. C., should not reopen with non-union men necessitated the calling out of two companies of the National Guard (©, 1929, Western Newspaper Unlon.) Obtain Healthy Seed for Spuds Most Profitable Plan Is to Eradicate All Infec- tious Diseases. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture) Sweet-potato growers will find it profitable to eradicate, so far as Is possible, the several destructive dis- eases which annually couse losses in the growing of the crop. Of these diseases, stem rot is one of the most difficult to control, and control meth. ods minimizing damage from stem rot also reduce injury from several other parasitic infections. Breeding Plot. L. IL. Harter and J. L. Weimer, sweet-potato specialists in the United States Department of Agriculture, In an recent publication say they “have learned from experience that the use of what may be called a ‘breeding plot’ 18 of considerable value in erad- feating stem rot and other diseases.” Use Separate Field. “While it is advisable to pull up and destroy all diseased plants,” they continue, “it is a big task where the large. Where it is not the farmer set uside a part of his fleld from which he will his seed potatoes for the next and rogue out all diseased plants from it i entire Such na not great labor and will greatly improve the crop in a year or This method Is pecially to be recommended if the not split i for To disensed producing and much take crop Ammer, does involve two, “8. when selecting prevent seed by slems are seed. plants from pull- ing them loss in the suc- ghould them up destroying would eliminate This practice be followed each year" Be Found Quite Useful sepa- percentage ay be no fault of your Experiments experiment ik separated at ahren- in the skim le milk sepa- litlons except been al- +t fat in the it pays to warm the milk is done at a long Many times iiry thermometer the stable, 1 to be a profitable invest- Cockerels and Pullets Should Be Separated 3 1A kerels shou from eight to for will develop be separated from The pul when they are weeks of age. lets vinter's taying flock if there are no lot to disturb and an- William Ie university. vil 5 Kohl are left in the brooder bave addi- many cases is cockerels are themselves they room, which In de i. When it iz often possible to leave brooder for the sorted ou the pu the original house they are ready laying Late Ducklings Have Several Advantages The hatched ducklings have a number of advantages over their ear lier hatched brothers and sisters, In the first place, the summer and early fall hatched ducklings, If pushed for rapid and cheap gains, will go on the late fall and early winter markets in time for the Jewish and Christian holidays. They are naturally profit able, for at this time the highest prices can be realized and in addition, the weather during the growing season for late for rapid growth, Agricultural Notes Alfalfa makes a well-balanced ration for horses when fed with corn alone. » . * it pays well ® * * Bluegrass probably Is frequently as a hog pasture than any other forage crop. . * » The lamb's mother should have all the legume hay she wants, because le gume hay makes milk. * - - Disking or otherwise cultivating early plowed fields to keep down weeds and volunteer wheat will ald materially in controlling Hessian fly and will Increase the yield of wheat, * . - Carefully choose varieties of apple trees to be planted next spring. Many of the kinds once considered leaders are now being displaced by higher quality and better selling varieties. - » - Produce the best. Quality products bring prices high enough above the market quotation for ordinary prod- ucts to make it profitable and economi- cal to produce them, They also make satisfied customers and Lring repeat orders. y LATEST ARTIFICE and driver, Is registering alarm from the fender. RULE IS BROKEN Error Leads to Many Acci- dents, Say Traffic Patrol Officers. “Keep to the right” Is the first according to Minnesota broken le Brown, the : trafic pat more people than any other and » 10 observe ® pon. a very 3 accidents, Drivers Hug Road Center, fendencs ¢ Lut foot ar loft J iis center beiween but if the nd meet some ame thing, sn accident is if drivers will keep to the pt when passing other cars, ars unless the left side is ming cars for a safe and not p cars on of a view © orest COR here the alf of our highway ac ould be avoided Few Arrests Made. Oniy a arrests have been made by the on the road few state patrolmen since they went plates, driving with licenses by luggage or bumpers, pa pavements, iure to stop WaYe, yd driving ith ch exceed the size fixed by law, are among violations frequently encountered, but so far no arrests Lave been made for any such offenses. Eight men make up the first squad of state patrolmen and the full quota of 35 allowed by law will not be reached until next spring. The men aiternate their time between highways in various parts of the state. All wear uniforms of dark gray whip- cord and carry revolvers. Besides the regular traffic officers insignia they have the words “Minnesota Highway- State Patrol” in large yellow letters on the right shoulder. The law-abiding driver who com They are on Arrests Unusual’ Warning Signs Now Displayed on Roads From time to time cone hears criti- Drivers, it Is play. These critics should be pleased with the original and novel note struck by experiments carried on by the traflic authorities of Detroit, They have en deavored to Inject emphasis into their warring sign system, and have de signed two unusual types. The one ig a skull and crosshones warning for safety zones. The skull and crossbones are illuminated in a flaming neon red. Surmounting ft is an amber caution light with two more amber lights beneath, The other novelty is the rubber lady. It carries an amber reflector at the walstline and a red reflector above the hem of the woman's skirt, Its resili ence permits it to be knocked down and resume an upright position imme diately. It rides in a dog's favorite place, extension Franklin, noted bulldog barks at him cord is “Outdoor scout the ferocious drives the ea Ang, ~— state that Nineteen per cent. cent WAS f : Ans. —~More curr Tools U { Handy Too! Pockets Can Be Rigged With Canvas Flaps Under Coach. Body Seats That Tilt Up. Can You jllustratic fitted wit} ings and The arrengen number of governed by viar Science Monthly. the pace avails Blame Habit Victims for for Traffic Delays Habit is a problem for trafic engi. neers to solve, says Maxwell Halsey, traffic engineer In the Massachusetis department of public works People drive by habit instead of by judgment of distance, he asserts, and in consquence the better known routes are choked with traffic that should be moving on shorter anc partly deserted byways, In Boston, he explaing, more than 20 per cent of the people in Tremont strect could take a shorter route, but, either from custom or because they follow the traflic, they pour down into the most densely congested part of the city. letter signs will such conditions, in opinion, tend to relieve Mr. Halsey's PPPPPP POPP PIPIIIOPOVPP IPP AUTOMOBILE FACTS Remember the motor meter regls- ters most accurately when the water level Is high. * * - A steady, fairly high speed makes for better time than one that is al- ternately fast and slow. .- & About the first thing of all learned in the school of experience is that a red light is not a challenge. - . » If all the antomobliee were placed end to end 5:30 on Sunday after Statistic? in the world it wonld be noon, > - » A New Jersey motorist lost his I. cense on the charge of operating a car while under the Influence of snuff. The task of handling a car in traf. fic these days is nothing to be soeesed at
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