AY after day
Secretary Mel-
lon and Ambassador
Edge negotisted with
the French officials in
Paris in the effort to
reconcile the mora-
torium plans of Presi-
dent Hoover and
Premier Laval, and in
Washington the Presi.
dent and Acting Sec-
retary of State Castle
Premier Laval ... almost constant
ly at the American end of the trans-
atlantic telephone line, coaching them
and learning what progress they were
making. At this writing the progress,
If any, is small,
Premier Laval, who was continual-
ly receiving the advice and assistance
of Finance Minister Fla.din and
others, stood firmly on the position
he had assumed, and the senate, by a
vote of 107 , backed him up, vir-
tually giving him a free hand so long
as he did not recede. This huge vote
did not that the senate had
confidence © in Laval, however. He
was attacked fiercely and. jeered, but
the senators had to express their ap
proval of the refusal to give in to
President Hoover.
Mr. Hoover then came to bat with a
memorandum
Edge for con
government. This was in effect an ul-
timatum to France that unless she ac-
cepted the Hoover plan she was lik
ly to be left out in The
warning conveyed
Presiden Germany
certainly apply for a mora-
torium on reparations as provided by
the Young plan, and this, Mr. Hoover
France £100,000.
would the Hoover
moratorium. Behind the polite phrases
in the memorandum seemed to lie the
intimation if France rejected the
Hoover pl ninistration would
establish on war debt
leave France out,
to 5
indicate
¥
sent to Ambassador
he cold.
was that if the
failed,
figured, would
O00 000
yt
cost
more than
that
orium
payments and
NjrAkw HI
+ mier 3
put
considered by some a
“fast one.” His
ernment annoanced
that the Hoover pro
posal, which had been
accepted uncondition-
ally, was In operation,
go far as Italy was
concerned, on July 1,
Italy's debtor nations,
Germany, Austria,
Hungary and Bulgaria, were notified
that she was not collecting sums due
froth and her
creditors, United
States, was putting
us she owes them, pend-
decision.
State
over whi
TOV.
M. Flandin
date;
and
she
them on that
England
were told
the
aside the st
ing final
The department Wash-
ington said the Hoover plan had been
accepted by Belgium and Poland, both
allies of France and by Rumania, and
in part and Jugo-Slavia.
80 France standing alone in op-
position. It was believed in Paris that
Premier Laval, after closing down
parliament, would call a conference of
all nations signatory to the Young
plan to obtain from them a release
from the guarantee clause requiring
her, in case of a moratorium, to place
in the for international settle
ments the sum of spproximately £120.
000,000 to applied In part to
increasing payments to be received
by other creditors during the period
of suspension.
in
¥
hn
hy Greece
was
bank
he
OR the first time since the World
war the federal government be-
gan its fiscal year on July 1 with an
unbalanced budget, The deficit is al-
most 2003,000 000,
Handicapped by reduced reve.
nues, the Treasury found itself con-
fronted with rising expenditures,
due to the government's bein to
help the farmer, the unemployed and
the drought sufferers, About the only
favorable factor In the financial situa.
" tion was a cash balance of over $400.
000,000 with which the treasury en-
tered the new year. This will be used
to meet current expenses during the
first quarter instead of being applied
to the deficit.
ILEY POST and Harold Catty,
American aviators, set their
monoplane, the Winnie Mae, down at
Roosevelt field, New York, Wednes-
day evening, They had accomplished
the remarkable feat of flying around
the globe, approximately 15475 miles,
in 8 days 15 hours and 0614 minutes,
ft new mark for other flyers to shoot
at,
They set to break the record
of 22 days made by the dirigible Great
Zeppelin, and they smashed it to bits,
Great skill in piloting and navigating,
unconquerable courage and nerve and
a plane that functioned perfectly all
contributed to the success of this
epochal flight. The route followed by
the flyers took them from New York
to Harbor Grace, N. F.; thence sue
cegsively to Chester, England ; Berlin,
Moscow, Novosibersk, Irkutsk, Blagov-
yeshehensk, Khabarovsk, Bolomon and
Valrhanks, Alaska; Edmonton, Can-
¥
on
ada: Cleveland, Ohlo, and back to
New York. They met with no serious
accident but at times flew through
high winds and rainstorms,
New York city on Thursday gave
the aviators the usual showy and
noisy welcome, with parade, speeches
and reception by Mayor Jimmie Walk.
er. But they were too tired to mind
this much. President Hoover invited
them to luncheon at the White House,
and they received the congratulations
of eminent persons all over the world,
It Is estimated that Post and Gatty
will realize about $50,000 each from
their wonderful flight—and they cer-
tainly earned it.
P RESIDENT HOO-
veir's request to
federal farm
board for a definite
statement of its policy
brought a response
from the board
through Chairman
James CC, Stone, in
which Its palicy as
announced on March
=3 is virtually re
stated. Pleas from the
Middle West and
the board commit itself
wheat ir
sither for a stated pe
fixed
the
J. C. Stone
Southwest tha
1 » i § oF
to keep nse holdi IRS
off ti .
level
price I, are
concession Is made,
rd agrees to limit sales of its
5000000 bushels a mont
on a cumulative basis,
h,
limit to run
unused portions of the quota to
But
limitation fir
foreign
good ng months,
this
yrtant
contracls
3 with
ow under considerati
of
one
wheat sur
answer,
the bon
for an
export market in smaller
problem the
is only
creage reduction,
Hope was seen
in other countries and i
for bet
tor
Le]
before giving out
the statement, conferred Presi.
dent Hoover, and sald It
isfactory to the Executive, It
certainly was not wholly satisfactory
to the grain growers, farm leaders and
dealers of the middle
nud to
sales of surplu
with
he wag sat-
Chief
grain western
states,
board to
wheat for a
They conti the
hold all
year.
\% oa al oe
Mn
and
urge
the President’
on
observance,
Wickersham
of existence with
close of June, and is now just eleven
men and On Tuesday the
fine furnit equipment
of its after mid-
unexpended remainder of
its $500,000 appropriation reverted to
and Chairman Wick.
that time was the only
member left in the National Capital
for exactness said the
mission
forcement
known as the
sion, went
Commis.
out the
women
ure and were
out offices :
the government:
ersham by
Stickliers
exist until a final history of its ac
tivities and expenditures is written
and is accepted by President Hoover.
In order to attain -thiz end a tem-
porary ion headquarters has
been established near the White
House, equipped to accommodate only
the chairman and a small staff. There
the fifteenth report will be written,
Here is the commission's record:
Ten reports have been delivered to
the government printer or deposited
at the White House; four others, one
of them the still-controverted study
of prohibition, have been made pub
lie.
Since midwinter the commission has
completed reports upon the deporta-
tion of aliens, “lawlessness in law
enforcement,” crime among the for
eign born, juvenile delinquency, the
work of the police, prisons, probation
and parole, the costs and causes of
crime and a “progress report” upon
the work of the courts, to be carried
on by private agencies
comm
NATOR REED
Smoot of Utah,
chairman of the sen
ate finance commit-
tee, has been in con-
ference with the treas.
ury authorities in
Washington: and he
now says that under
the provisions of the
Hawley-Smoot tariff
law with relation to
the products of con-
viet, forced or in.
dentured labor, the Treasury Depart-
ment will adopt a policy of excluding
a large share of the products of Rus-
sia, ‘
While this exclusion will not ap-
ply to products of the soil, says Mr.
Smoot, it will apply to Soviet prod-
ucts which are mapufactured, mined
or produced by means of forced labor
of any kind, and which are competi
tive with products here. He mentions
lumber and pulpwood especially as
products which will be shut out.
The Utah senator takes sharp issue
with his Democratic colleague, Sena-
Senator Smoot
tor W. H. King, who has denounced
the idea of shutting out Russian prod-
ucts in blanket fashion and declared
that congress did not have such a
thing in mind and did not authorize
it. Senator Smoot declares it was the
purpose of congress to shut out the
products of convict, forced or inden-
tured labor, and that the Treasury
Department will adhere to the law,
/
N A few days Secretary of War
‘atrick J. Hurley will be on his way
to our farthest possedsion, the Philip-
pines, for an Inspection tour of the
islands, This is because their admin.
istration falls under the jurisdiction
of the War department,
While the official War department
announcement ascribed the reason
for the secretary's trip to a desire “to
acquaint himself more intimately with
the details of Philippine problems”
it was understood that Mr, Hurley
would study personally sentiment
there for Independence In prepara-
tion for a movement in the next ses-
sion of congress tc free the islands,
President Hoover has been advised
by members of both senate and house
of representatives that it appeared
probable sufficient strength would be
mustered in the next session to pass
a bill authorizing Philippine independ.
ence,
AY
bur,
interior,
LYMAN WIL-
secreiary of
the
he became
of Leland
university in
had attained
erable fame
and
he demon.
physician
con, and
that be has not lost
skill,
Sees
Sec'y Wilbur his surgical
While escort
Mrs, Wilbur through Mesa
National park V. M. Delerch-
southwestern Col-
ne
ng
P
ident of a
tion concern, fell
to the, park
There Doctor Wilbur diag
acute appen
linte
porta spd-
1d as taken
niiment Qi-
1 decided an immed
as
te
Op
he gath-
HECeREaTrS Ro
WHE ry.
ip the tools and, with
f Dr. E. hnson
on which al
3 Siew .
rehiman s
ition was
ibur re
of the
DON
+}
SALVADOR DE MA-
¢ new ambassador from
is Cred
ith due
olite phrases were
ed
ientials to
ceremony,
ngedd. Then
men enjoyed an
ht b ¢ shor
OLE OF Hen Use
tiger 4
LinENs
1 to be mining
Madariaga is
€1i-
Rineers, Seno de
noted writer and .
clad some of the policies of
the Uni Latin-American
affairs,
in the past has eritl
severely
te] St
ites In
PAIN
publie,
ex-King,
national
Lerroux, old tin
and at present foreign minister, is the
and It Is ac
first premier un
m that is to
he a re
remain
results
lajandro
joader
an
¢
of the
man of the Jour
that he will
epted
ler
he
assembly that
The Socialists
be the
the national
enes on July 14
assembly, which in fact will be rather
moderate in policies. The communists
are po
Catalonia
separate state
rwerless,
still being a
federa-
Xx predicts that
will soon col
ingisis on
in a Spanish
tion, but Senor Lerrou
the Catalan movement
lapse,
ENATOR SIMEON
“J DD. Fess of
who Is a leading mem-
ber of the senate
committee on Inter
state commerce, pre-
dicts that rallroad
and transportation
legislation of a come
prehensive character
will be considered
during the next ses.
sion of congress. He
has studied these
questions closely for years, and prob-
ably knows what he is talking about
In his opinion, consolidation legisla-
tion will again be taken up, and laws
for the regulation of the motor bus
and the motor truck will be proposed.
Mr. Fess foresees much difficulty in
getting legislation enacted to meet
the various transportation problems,
This difficulty Is much enhanced, as
he views it, by the competition be
tween the railronds and other forms
of transportation. On the ‘one hand,
he feels the ountry cannot ge: along
without the railroads, but on the oth.
er, he is convinced the public will
not sanction any undue restriction of
other forms of transportation,
The Ohio senator is an advocate of
legisiation to liberalize existing law
with reference to railroad consolida-
tions, He sponsored, in the last con
gress, the Fess-Parker bill to provide,
in effect, for voluntary combinations.
It is interesting to hear, from Sen-
ator Fess himself, that he probably
will remain chairman of the Renub-
lean national committee for another
year, despite frequent raomors that he
would retire or be displaced. He called
on President Hoover the other day
and afterward sald: “It appears now
that I will serve until convention time
next year.” However, he insisted he
had not discussed the matter with
the President,
(i. 1931, Western Newsvaver Union.)
Ohlo,
Senator Fess
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
N THE sixth of July, 184
YEATrs ago, was
born in Kirkbean,
ty of Kirkcudbright
Scotland, to a gardener
named John Paul, a son
who was
pinay a role
ing of a new nation.
the first twel
his life young John Paul,
named after his father, ls
of any boy of his time and
nothing to ind
that awaited him
was apprenticed
merchant, engn;
trade, and
on the sea
{fo win i
outstan
there
Coun-
destined to
in the found
=
there
dic high destiny
To
Paul
ususnily
between the
the Ferapis
tered his Ir
yet
much mo vf
than is given in our school
tories that it
edge among us of his adopt
For one thing, if for n
connection with the ear!
our national banner shoul
endur “That Fila
twina™ he once sai
day and the same
be parted
interest
deserves
oa country
his
other,
ior
ing fame,
AR we can
boy who went fo sea in
1750 rose ily, bees
er and by 1773 was ma
the West Indies and to India. In
mean ¢ his brother, ©
had been adopted by a
liam Jones, and became a
planter. When he died John Paul
herited his estate,
ed the Jones to his name and settled
down as a planter In America
as he characterized it, was
try of his fond
of eighteen”
Jones was not long to for-
ward his ambition to a Vir
ginia gentleman, For the outbreak of
the Revolution brought with it the
necessity for the rebellious colonies
me a ship own-
ing voyages to
LGrORD
| ¥
"5 : . :
hereupon he add
which,
“the coun-
selection since the age
carry
become
f
if possible with the “Mistress of the
Seas,” and more especizily to waylay
ships bringing supplies to the British
army, 80 one of the early acts of the
Continental congress was to choose a
naval commandar-in-chief, four cap-
tains and a number first, second
and third leutenants, and provide
ships for them. This new nary was
mainly a New England affair and the
commander-in-chief was Commodore
Fesek Hopking from Massachusetts,
The only officers who were not New
Englanders were Nicholag Biddle of
Pennsylvania and John Paul Jones of
Virginia.
Jones’ first task was arming and
manning the flagship of the fleet of
eight vessels given to Commodore
Hopkins, It was the Black Prince, a
merchant ship, which was renamed
the Alfred. In January, 1776, Commo-
dore Hopkins arrived in Philadelphia
to go aboard his flagship. As he
stepped over the side Captain Salton.
stall gave the signal and Lieutenant
Jones, who was flag llleutenant, hoist
ed over the Alfred two flags. The one
which he raised to the mizzen peak,
as the flag of the United Colonies,
was the Grand Union flag of thirteen
alternate red and while stripes with
the Union Jack In the upper left-hand
corner where in the future the field of
blue with its white stars was to ap-
pear. At the main peak he ran up
as the fleet flag one of the famous
rattlesnake flags, ‘the first of which had
been suggested by Benjamin Franklin,
80 eame about Jolin Paul Jones’
first connection with our national flag.
After his return from this voyage,
during which he distinguished him:
golf for boldness and skill when the
commanderin-chief displayed a timid
ity and a lack of skill not In keeping
with his high position, Jones was giv.
of
en command of the Providence, a 12
gun brig. With her he captured 15
prizes along the Atlantic coast and on
October 10, 1776, he was Cap
tain and given command of the Alfred
On this ship he set
out on his resulted ir
the capture British
he brought into port at Boston
He
vinced that re gos wuld be
made
a Z4-gun vessel
cruise which
of sev
i veRgels
en
In the
book, “The i
ti ‘illis Fletcher John.
son, pub by Hough-
ton Mifflin company. Upon tak
command of the Ranger Jones it
diately began preparing
the trip across
the Atlantie,
there is no
¢ f the ¢
he raised the Star and St
110%
ished recently | the
record of la
v
her, tradition
Fourth of July.
he
hitehaven
made his nam
the consis of Great
the
success in
8 of anxiety
troubles, how
months wi
were
Most
an
to pay his men, sell
and secure a squadron for an-
i greater cruise which he had
At last an old East India
i ship was secured, renamed
Bonhomme Richard, in compli-
to Benamin Franklin, dnd to
was Joined the Alliance, a 32-
frigate and three small French
The commander of the Alli-
ance was Capt. Pierre Dandais, whe,
as Jones wrote to Franklin,
perently a crazy man.”
If, as Jones had complained that
the Ranger was a poor fighting ship
because it was “cranky, slow and of
trifling force.” he soon found that the
Bonhomme Richard was worse. Her
hull was rotten and later in his great
battle with the Serapis one of the
heaviest guns blew up at the start
forcing a whole battery to be aban.
doned. The crew was a mixture of
Americans and Europeans and with
the untrustworthy support of the
“crazy” Dandais, his venture was a
perilous one at best, But. disregarding
his many handicaps, Jones sailed from
France on August 14, 1770. By Sep
tember 22, he had nearly completed
the circuit of the British isles, had
captured 17 vessels and thrown the
entire, const Into a state of perpetual
alarm. What Jones conld expect if
he were defeated and captured was
shown by the British authorities pro-
claiming him as “the pirate Jones, a
rebel subject and criminal of the
state.”
On September 23 off Flamborough
Head, Jones met the “Baltic trade,” a
convoy of 41 vessels, escorted by the
Serapis and the Countess of Rearbor.
ough. Then followed the historic en-
gagement of which it has been said
“the annals of the American navy con.
tain no finer example of skill, courage
and leadership than that found in the
duel off Flamborough Head, Rarely
has a commander who won his fight
contended with such overwhelming ob.
stacien,” The story of that engage
ment is too familiar to need retelling
here—how Jones soon realized that
the Serapis would destroy him in a
long range battle, how he out-manen-
the
ment
this
gun
% ecrsels,
was “ap-
OHZY PADZ, JONES (BY HOUDCIT)
yoo
ished the
France,
3
Jones did turn to receive the
acclaim of his own countrymen until
in 1781. He reached Philade
phia February 18 of that
gave im FO of
commana
early
year, where
CONEross
and the
new J4-gun ship then
tion. But the Revol:
fore he could again put With
more fighting to re done Jones
could not content himself to go back
to Virginia or to
quiet of commerce on
restless spirit led him to
service with Russia.
He became a rearadn and In
1788 continued his brilliant exploits on
the water by defeating the Turkish
navy at the battle of Liman. He re
turned to Russia to reap his reward
but he did not =tay long. He returned
to Paris and there he died July 18,
1702.
What followed is a striking illustra.
tion of the old saying about how “a
republic forgets” For more than a
hundred years the republic which he
had belped establish forgot John Paul
Jones, at least so far as paying any
honor to his ashes was concerned. In
1005 Ambassador Horace Porter, after
a long search, found Jones’ grave in
the old St, Louis cemetery for foreign
Protestants. Under instructions from
President Roosevelt his remaine were
exhumed and brought to the United
States by an American naval squadron
sent especially for that purpose, They
were taken to the United States naval
academy and then as a final ironical
touch to the way In which “the richest
and stingiest government in the worle'
rewards ite heroes (for neither his
salary, the money be had advanced to
the United States government, nor his
prize woney was paid until a genera
tion after his death) the easket con
taining his body was eft behind a
staircase resting on a couple of rough
carpenter-horses in one of the build.
ings at Annapolis for seven years!
Then, when the scandal of this threats
ened to be aired In congress. he was
buried with the honors due him,
(0 by Western Newspaper Union)
thanks
comple
ended be
ER
no
the
His
naval
down to
the
settle
SPaR,
seek
a 1
ed