NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
American Delegates to the
Naval Parley Prepared
for Big Reductions.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
NE hundred American delegates,
experts and advisers sailed Thurs-
day for the naval limitation conference
in London without any definite instruc-
tions from President Hoover, but with
the assurance that he will support any
agreement at which they may arrive
with the representatives of the other
four naval powers. The Chief Execu-
tive, entertaining delegates at brews-
fast, told them he considers they have
become naval technologists through
their study of the questions involved
and therefore are now better prepared
on the naval problem than he is.
While no figures have been made
publie, it Is understood in Washington
that the American delegation is ready
to cut about 200,000 tons from the
American navy, to eliminate two of
the proposed 10,000 ton cruisers and to
agree to a further battleship building
holiday, postponing replacements that
would begin in 10831 under the Wash-
ington treaty. This program would
include reducing our submarine
strength by 20,000 te 30,000 tons and
our destroyer stremgth by 100,000 to
150,000 tons; provided the other pow-
ers made proportionate reductions.
In a statement to the press Presl.
dent Hoover sald that to complete the
conference in three or four months
would be in itself a great accomplish.
ment, and added:
“It is the most important of Inter-
national conferences of a great many
years and probably the most important
for many years to come, The progress
of peace for the world rests in a great
measure upon the shoulders of the
five delegations, There is good will
toward the conference on the part of
every nation. The Importance and
the gravity of the occasion have been
recognized in the Mapatch to London
of the leading men of every country.
They have the will to succeed.”
ROM Europe the word was that
Premier Tardieu of France expects
the conference to end successfully in
thrée or four weeks and that France
will play a dominant role in the pro-
ceedings, The French delegates, it
was said, would propose a scheme cov-
ering six years, to 1036, creating =a
naval construction holiday for that
period. While France still insists on
retaining submarines, it Is willing to
restrict thelr size, gun power and
crulging radius to a degree that would
make them strictly defensive.
France Intends to renounce its
rights to construct capital ships up to
175,000 tons, as allocated to it at
Washington, and concentrate its sea
power in the auxiliary classes—cruis-
\ ers, destroyers, and submersibles. The
Freuch plan whl seek to overcome
the existing deadlock between the
United States and Great Britain over
10,000 ton cruisers carrying eight-inch
guns, by allocating the global tonnage
of the various powers with categories
merely indicated approximately, per-
mitting each power to allot whatever
amount of the total it decides neces-
sary for self-defense to that class.
As was stated several weeks ago,
however, the French persist in their
demand that whatever agreement is
reached In London shall be trans.
mitted to the League of Nations’ pre-
paratory disarmament commission so
that it can be made a part’ of the
league's general plan for the reduc.
tion of both land and sea armamerits,
The French believe that within mix
years the league's disarmament econ.
ference will be held and that all na.
tions will accept its findings,
sin.
HILE on the subject of arma-
ments it may be noted that the
house appropriations committee is be-
ginning to realize that the American
army needs better fighting machines
and *more up to date motorized equip-
ment. It reported to the house the
War department supply bill carrying
appropriations of $455,000,000, and
called attention to the fact that it had
provided $230,806 for experimental
Se
work In connection with the develop-
ment of tanks, armored cars and other
weapons and equipment for use with
a mechanized force. This had been
entirely omitted from the budget as
submitted by the President.
No change in the size of the army
Is contemplated in the new bill. As
at present, army enlisted strength will
remain at 118,730. Officer strength
will be 12,000. The National Guard
will be given an increase, raising the
strength to 190,000. Funds for train.
ing citizens at the citizens’ military
training camps are slightly reduced.
The alr corps appropriation ap-
proved by the house committee
amounts to $35,823,473, a million dol-
lars increase ‘over the present year,
This sum will not bring the five year
&ir expansion program up to date.
EVELOPMENTS of the week in
the German reparations confer-
ence at The Hague indicated that a
settiement of all disputes would soon
be reached. The major question was
as to a guaranty for France in
the German government should
fully defanit in execution or
denounce the Young plan. The French
delegates submitted a draft of a docu
ment covering this point which it was
hoped the Germans would accept.
Viadimir Moloff, Bulgarian minister
of finance, pleaded for a reduction in
the Bulgarian indemnity, “We are not
seeking to haggle or bargain,” he said,
“but a spirit of loyalty to you neces
sitates stating that Bulgaria is ineap
able of paying annuities as high as
$3,000,000 over a period of 306
We are anxious to discharge the debt
honorably, but we simply cannot pay
that mueh.”
When asked to a figure M.
Moioff suggested $2,000,000 per annum
Chie
wil-
should
years,
name
UMBERT, prince of Pledmont and
heir apparent to the throne of
Italy, and Marie Jose, the “snow prin-
of Belgium, were made man and
wife Wednesday in the Pauline chapel
of the Quirinal palace at Rome after
three days of elaborate fetes and en.
tertainments. The ceremony was per
formed by Cardinal Maffi, archbishop
of Pisa, and was witnessed by a bril-
liant assemblage numbering 1,500.
The princess, who entered the chapel
on the arm of her father, Al-
bert, wore on her head a high filigree
crown in the form of orange blossoms,
adorned with diamonds and pearls
Her wedding gown was of white satin,
and over it was a mantle of white
velvet made especially in the Omo dis
trict, with a train seven yards long
trimmed with white ermine and held
by four male attendants dressed in
black, gold braided uniforms. King
Victor Emmanuel escorted Queen Eliza:
beth of Belgium, and Prince Humbert
accompanied his mother, Queen Elena.
Many other royal and noble per
sonages were there, including King
Boris of Bulgaria In a gorgeous Hus.
sar uniform; the duke of York in ad
miral’'s dress uniform; Prince Leopold
of Belgium; former King Manuel of
Portugal; former King Amanullah eof
Afghanistan, who now lives in Italy;
the prince of Monaco; the grand
duchess of Luxembourg; Prince Dan.
fel of Montenegro; Prince Paul and
Princess Olga of Jugoslavia; Don Fer.
nando of Bavaria, and former princes.
princesses, kings and queens from all
over Europe. Premier Mussolini of
course was a conspicuous figure.
The royal couple, after appearing
on a balcony of the palace to receive
the plaudits of the vast throngs gath-
ered there, were accorded a private
audience by the pope, who blessed
them and gave them a special plece of
Arras tapestry. For two more days
there were public festivals and cele-
brations in Rome, and then Humbert
and Marie went to Turin, where an.
other week of the same soit of thing
had been prepared,
Coss’
Ring
UCH talk and little action char.
acterized the ruction in congress
over prohibition enforcement. The
one concrete thing was the request
of President Hoover that congress ap-
propriate Immediately S302,000 for 80
new speed boats for the coast guard
to use In combating rum-running on
the Great Lakes, This request was In
a supplementary budget report which
pointed out the necessity of getting
the boats Into action within three
months, before the navigation season
opens, Each of the boats desired
would be 34 to 30 feet In length, would
carry a crew of four and presumably
would be armed with guns,
, we
Senator Wuisk of Mossachusctts was
machine
the first to bring up the prohibition
matter in the
sions were
days. He
a Boston
when
after the holi-
resolutions of
meeting
against the “wanton and reckiess kill
ing of citizens of Massachuselts by
the coast guard.” Next day orators,
both wet and dry, exploded in both
senate and house and the recrimina-
tions and retorts were loud and bitter.
On Wednesday Representative Black
of New York, a wet, told the house
that he had heard there dissen-
gion in the President's crime commis
sion, Judge W. 8B. Kenyon and Roscoe
Pound being © dissatisfied with that
body's procedure concerning prohibl-
tion,
upper house ROR.
resumed
submitted
mass
tout ine
protesting
was
PROHIBITION caused what may
prove to be the first serious rift
between the house of répresentatives
and the White House. Administration
leaders in the house sent
President Hoover that the
Joint congressional
Committee is not
was passed by
and
ittee,
word to
resolution
proposing a pro-
likely to
the
sent to the
from which it
hibition
mss, It
}
i
senintle
pas
three weeks ago
house rules com:
Has never em
Nichola
reed.
Speaker f Longworth admit.
ted that
believe
the leaders of the house” do
not such a Joint committee
fune
com
should be al
of the
lowed to usurp the
+
!
tions independent house
mittee already constituted.
Fifty wet
both political
selves at a cau
against the for
¥ 1
we dry to Dit
he drys to put b
pledged them.
us to battle
parties
vow gr
teeth in the probibition
T 0sE radical : call
themselves Republicans won a de
cided victory by forcing the
ment of Sen
who
appoint-
ator Robert M. La Follette
erful finance committee,
niso was named a member, the vacan-
cies filled being those left by the resig-
bassadors.
from the
fearing to
hard to keep La Follette
place, but Senator Smoot,
have the contest carried to the
of the senate, voted with the Demo.
cruts and radicals for the appoint.
ment. The finance committee now in-
cludes 11 Republicans and 8 Demo-
crats. If La
Michigan join forces with the Demo-
crats, the latter will control the com-
mittee. In any event it is no longer
bossed by the Eastern Republicans,
FF THE course of regular business
the senate continued its work on
the tariff measure, dealing especially
with woolens and rayon silks, The
committee investigating lobbying heard
some more witnesses concerning ef-
forts to raise or lower the sugar sched-
ule, and the name of the President
was dragged in several times in a way
that brought a sharp rebuke for the
committee from witness, H. H.
Pike, Jr, a New York sugar broker,
one
~CDWARD BOK, for many years edi-
- tor of the Ladies’ Home Journal
and otherwise noted for his philan-
thropies, died suddenly at his winter
home near Lake Wales, Fila. He was
sixty-six years old and had retired
from work some time ago. Coming
from Holland as a child, Mr. Bok by
his own efforts won fame and fortune,
and then set about returning to the
public much of his money in the way
of philanthropic gifts.
Another well known American who
was claimed by death was Prof, Henry
J. Cox, chief of the weather service
in Chicago and the oldest weather
forecaster in the country in point of
service.
GES JOHN J. PERSHING does not
want to be a senator. Certain of
his friends and admirers in Nebraska
started a movement to induce him to
and broached the subject to him. The
general's response was: “1 do not
desire, nor have I desired at any time
to seek public office. While it would
be a distinct honor for any man to
represent the great state of Nebraska
in the United States senate, my de
cision must be regarded as final,”
(®, 1930, Western Newspaper Union)
Coat Is Shorter;
Skirt Is Longer
Abbreviated Garment More
Graceful Over Trailing
Skirt Lengths,
As skirts
shorter;
grow longer, couts get
fashion has discovered that
few women can afford more than two
gr three coats. The happlest compro
mise for the new silhouette is to have
| one serviceable coat short enough to
graceful the ne trailing
{ skirt lengths, says a fashion writer in
the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
The style trend Is definitely “set”
{ and the first against fash-
jfons in the history of American
{ clothes, staged by American women —
{ has been lost!
There are a few
souls here and there who are wearing
Dut from New York to
from Angeles to
| Chicago, and all the around this
| far-reaching are
| cumbing to the 1030 mode,
| look over
revolution
brave feminine
short skirts,
f.os
way
New Orleans,
globe—women suo.
New dressmaker collections are fea
turing velvet ext ively,
Next in popularity, this
the use of chiffon for both In-
formal and formal wear.
] A prominent dealer splayed a vi
observer
notes
fon evening dress,
| videgreen rayon chif
{ which had a novel flared flounce fall
Ro.
Ensemble That
Practical
Is Regarded as
for Travel.
hark
the front
in the
cutting line,
Another showed +
rayon chiffon of the
This was trimn f
two of
front of
which crossed each other in
dross, fullness with
effect.
has
will
holding the
an flared
The
Ladies
roman
the fair
Arthur's court, if the
mode grown
vers
resemble
larity
For black and all
prevalent; reds,
rose col
sireet wear,
fire
and
grays
ranth, shell bois de
also much favored.
Marocain crepe and moire are much
are
a flared flounce of irregular width, A
georgette collar of the same shade Is
knotted on the side,
Sports suits have no part on the long-
skirts controversry. They are
That's that.
Along Jean Charles Worth,
the Parisian couturier, who says:
“Feminine legs have lost their al
lure because so crassly exposed, and
that ig one reason why skirts are grad-
ually growing longer!”
Hunting around for “something
new” to startle the feminine public
into bigger buying, the stylists have
rediscovered elbows! They now advo
“exposure of the elbows” since
longer is exposure of the
short
comes
cate
there no
knees,
Thus into the mode comes the el
bow-length blouse and frock which is
very new, very smart and very be
coming. They eall It “being out at
tha elbow!”
for Smart Winter Hats
The felt hats trimmed with fur seen
earlier in the season were merely a
forerunner of the winter types made
entirely of flat fur such as galyak,
lapin or broadtail, Of course, these
hats are very small, fitting the head
snuglyeand with perhaps a soft drape
at the side of back, beret fashion,
They may be worn with almost any
daytime costume from tweed to
dressier materials and are chic when
worn with a coat of the same fur,
Glamorous Hosiery
Exquisitely fine gold and silver
mesh stockings are created now for
evening * wear, with metal frocks or
some of the regal velvets and Sigs.
fons. ‘They are worn with gold or sil.
ver brocaded slippers for the most
part.
A —— eo ————— a ——
ON REARING
CHILDREN from
CRIB TO COLLEGE
fampiled the Editors of
THE ARENTS: MAGAZINE
A child who I8 old enough to ask
what made the rocks hard or what
keeps the stars in the sky is quite old
enough to take hold of the idea of a
primal and of the sustaining
furce which perpetually holds the uni-
together, Ideally, an awareness
of God's eontinued Immunence
commonplace Mm a
ciiuse
Verse
should
become a child's
dally experience,
le
Equipment for the dining room table
need not be expensive but there should
be plenty of It and it should be pleas-
ing as well as serviceable, A colorful,
well appointed table, with a
plece of flowers Is the right setting for
the Inculcation of good table manners
and that socifll be-
hi vior
quire, It
mens
center
training in correct
which children shoul
also helps to m
rivitine
VILIng
The fire
cific purpose of
partment. It Is thoroug
its use practically eli
of error or d
Harm box,
in locating
0% on
fur
annound
houette
the
children's clot higher
that
Anup mode,
i : u af vant
of circular skirts and the belt is placed
at a new
Wit a
trealments
There Is ON E18
i line,
Statistic
the days of the
week heavies! ure
Saturday.
when shopping is
Thursday, and
Knowing this, why not plan
the rush and buy your staples on the
other days of the week?
that the
between ten and
Tuesday,
to avoid
Statistics also
heaviest buying
eleven In
in ti
the
red six
Maroon Tweed Ensemble
Paris contributes this lovely maroon
tweed ensemble with a wrap.around
ckirt and three-fcurths.length coat for
early spring wear. The blouse ond
lining are of beige figured crepe de
chine,
Jewelry Made of Wood
Whether brown should be worn with
black may have been a question of
any other season, but the combination
is completely sunctioned now, The
smartest form this alliance takes is
geen in the coat of black broadcloth
with beaver collar and cuffs. Sports
Jewelry of wood often combines brown
with black and a lighter accent of
beige or capucine,
New Hats
In spite of the general unbecoming.
ness of the off-the-face hats for many
faces, the predominating style is just
that. Tuarbans now come In at least
twenty-four varieties, with the bon.
net turban growing more popular, es
pecially for girls and young matrons,
ENA SAN
FAMILY DOCTOR
LEARNED THIS ABOUT
CONSTIPATION
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years of practice convince
many were ruining their healt]
careless f
determined to wri
scription which
cause of constipatior
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