News Review of Current
Events the World Over
President Offers New Plan for Arms Reduction ? Senator
Borah's Refusal to Support Hoover ? Pre
Convention Doings of Democrats.
Iiv EDWARD W. P1CKARD
PRESIDENT HOOVER called the
correspondents to the White House
Wednesday and pave out his new
plan for reducing the armed forces of
the world b\ one
third. thereby saving
between ten nnd fif
teen billion dollars !
during the next ten
years At the same
time his proposals
were being laid be
fore the reparations
conference in Geneva
by Hugh Gibson.
As a basli- the Pres
ident laid down these
five principles:
"1. The Keilogg
Itriand pact, to which we are all sig
natories, can only mean that the na
tions of the world have agreed that
l hey will use their arms solely for de
fense.
"ii. This reduction should be car
ried out not only by broad general
cuts In armaments, but by increasing
the comparative power or defense
through decreases in the power of the
attack.
"it. The armaments of the world
have grown up in general mutual re
lation to each other. And. speaking
generally, such relativity should be
preserved In making reductions.
"4. The reductions must be real and
positive. They must first effect eco
nomic relief.
**5. There are three problems to
deal with? land forces, air forces and
naval forces. They are all intercon
nected. No other part of the proposals
which I make can be dissociated one
from the other/*
Irpon this foundation he proposed:
Abolition of all tanks, chenucal war
fare and large mobile gtins.
Reduction of one third in the
strength of all land armies over and
above "the so-called police component."
The abolition of all bombing planes
nnd the "total prohibition of all bom
bardment from the air."
Reduction In the treaty number and
tonnage of all battleships by one
third.
Reduction In the treaty tonnage of
aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroy
ers by one-fourth and of submarines
by one-third, with no nation having
more than 35.000 tons of submersible*.
It was said authoritatively that Mr.
Hoover's plan had the full approval of
Secretaries Stimson. Hurley nnd
Adams, the chief of staff of the army,
the chief of naval operations and the
entire American delegation in Geneva.
When Ambassador Gibson read the
President's proposals to the Geneva
conference the Iiritish seemed to give
them cautious general approval, but
the French were frankly hostile.
Premier llerrlot said: "This Is abso
lutely unacceptable. France again will
raise the question of security." The
Germans and Italians both liked the
Hoover plan.
Russia and nearly all the smaller
nations represented at Geneva let Mr.
Gibson know at once that the pro
posal pleased them.
It was emphatically denied in Wash
ington that the United States has
made any suggestions of war debt re
duction or cancellation in return for
reduction In armaments.
Hugh Gibson
SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH of
Idaho can safely beco i.ted upon to
enliven the news at frequen. intervals
He a Rain furnished a
conversation when,
during n denuncia
tory speech on the
Republican platform.
he flatly informed his
fellow senators and
world that he would
not support President
Hoover for re-elec
tion. The gentleman
from idaho is extreme
]y dry and he cannot
stomach even the
moderately moist
plank which the Re
publican convention
conscience, rather than the party
leaders, ever has been Borah's guide,
and his action In this instance can
not be called inconsistent. The pro
posed revision of the Eighteenth
amendment, he declared, is equiv
alent to repeal. He denounced all
straddling and compromise, laying
down the Issue as one demanding a
clear cut choice between the status
quo and outright repeal. He asserted
that a great majority in the Repub
lican convention were in favor of re
peal but were steamrollered by the ad
ministration forces.
major topic of
Senator Borah
adopted. His
k
Senator George Norris of Nebraska,
a dry Republican who often leaves his
party lines, was pleased with Borah's
statement, saying that now he, Norris.
would not he the only renegade this
fall. Later he uiade the surprising
statement that he believed the United
States must try some modified plan of
dealing with the liquor question.
To the press Senator Borah said that
if he had written the Republican pro- i
hihitlon plank it would have con- |
tained no resubmission proposal for
either revision or repeal. It would,
instead, have Informed the country
that the only constitutional method of
change was through the election of
members of congress pledged to sub
mit a repeal amendment to the stales.
A:
S HIE Democrats gathered in
Chicago for their national conven
tion it become apparent that a great
number of them, probably a majority,
were in favor of a prohibition plank
simpler and more explicit o*an that in
the Republican platform. Most of
those who had anything to say on the
question wanted a resolution propos
ing that cougress submit an amend
ment repealing the Eighteenth amend
ment, hut not declaring that the party
is in favor of repeat This. It was felt,
would be a safe course, and it was
the opinion of Jouett Shouse and
others that such a plank would be
adopted. In Washington it received
the Indorsement of Senators Carter
Class of Virginia and Joseph T. Rob
inson of Arkansas.
Speaker John Garner of Texas, one
of the candidates for the Presidential
nomination, issued a prepared state
ment making an unequivocal demand
for repeal of the Eighteenth amend
ment. which he said he never had be
lieved sound or workable; nnd this
was declared by other Democratic '
leaders to cinch the repeal plank. |
Garner's statement also was taken as
a bid for the support of A1 Smith and
the others who were determined to
prevent The nomination of Governor
Roosevelt, in any event. It was be
lieved, It hurt the chances of Roose
velt's being nominated in the early
ballots.
Al Smith, on his arrival in Chicago,
announced that he was for a repeal
plank, and for himself as the nom
inee, first, last and all the time,
ROOSEVELT'S managers were
seemingly undismayed by any
late developments and continued to
predict victory on the first ballot or
soon after. It was con
ceded by all that the
governor would have
enough delegates
to organize the com
mittees, and might f ^3*
even go to the length
of trying co abrogate
the old two-thirds
rule. The chief pre
liminary battle was
to be over the selec
tion of a permanent
chairman, the Roose
velt forces Insisting
that Senator Thomas J. Walsh of
Montana should be substituted for
Jouett Shouse. who had >een recom
mended for the position by the ar
rangements committee and who was
one of the Smith-Raskob group.
To*present his name to the conven
tion Governor Roosevelt selected John
R Mack. New York attorney and gen
tleman farmer, who was Roosevelt's
political godfather when he first stood
for public office 22 years ago. Mr.
Mack ?s famous at home for oratory
that appeals to the "common people."
He is not a member of Tammany,
and as he was not one of the New
York delegates, room had to be made
for him in the delegation.
INDIANA Democrats in state con
vention unanimously adopted a
plank calling on congress to submit
! to the states an amendment to the
! constitution repealing the Eighteenth
amendment, and calling for immediate
repeal of the Wright "bone dry" state
law. It declared for state laws to
prevent return of the saloon and for
state control of the liquor traffic.
Paul V. McNutt was nominated for
governor and Frederick Van Nuys of
Indianapolis for United States sena
tor. Van Nuys was introduced as "the
man who can beat Jim Watson."
Primaries of the Republican. Demo
cratic and Farmer-lJibor parties were
held in Minnesota. For the nine seats
In congress most of the leaders In the
race were classed as wets. In Maine
the Democrats nominated Louis J.
Brann, wet, for governor, and the
Republicans picked Burleigh Martin
who Is supposed to be a dry.
RIGHT In the middle of all the ex
citement over politics came the j
prize fight between Max Schmeling of |
Germany, world's heavyweight cham- j
pion, and Ja^'k Sharkey of Boston, I
challenger for the title. The combat j
took place in a new "bowl** on Long
Island and attracted about 70.000 spec
tators. Many millions heard it de
scribed by radio. For l"> rounds the
warriors fought warily, with never a !
knockdown, and then to the surprise
of nearly everyone, including Sharkey
himself, the Bostonian was declared
the winner. Cene Tunney. former j
champion; Mayor Jimmy Walker of
New York, and a majority of the sport- j
Ing writers present agreed tlia* it was
an unfair decision. The general opin- ,
Ion was that Schmeling had won eight j
rounds, Sharkey four, and three were j
even. Judge George Kelly and Kef- j
or?*e Gunboat Smith voted f??r Sharkey.
Charles Mathison, the other judge,
voted for Max.
JUST one month from the time she i
started on her solo Might to Ireland,
Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam returned
to New York and was given one of the |
characteristic rece|?
tions of the metrop
olis. All th?? big guns
of the city were out
to meet her, vast J
crowds swarmed aiong
the route of the pro
cession and the air
was filled with ticker
tape. At city hall
plaza the formal cere- i
monies took place, 1
Mayor Walker pre
Mrs. Putnam Sen ting to the intrep
id young woman the
gold medal of the city, while others
loaded her down with roses. In Bry
ant park she received the cross of
honor of the United States Flag as
sociation. Next day Mrs. I'utnam
flew to Washington, where President
lioover received her and presented to
her the medal of the National Geo
graphic society. Toward the close of
the week she was in Chicago us a
guest at the Washington bicentennial
military tournament.
Through it all Mrs. Putnam won in
creased admiration by her modesty
ami her futile efforts to belittle her
achievement.
CONGRESS made some progress
with Its work, but it wa, believed I
it would not be able to adjourn be- j
fore July 2. The house passed the j
economy bill after adopting the ad
ministration plan for pay less fur- I
loughs for federal employees and com- i
bluing with it a out in salaries of 10
per cent for members of congress and
15 per cen for the Vice President and
the speaker of the house. The Presi
dent and members of the Supreme
court are invited to return part of
their salaries to the treasury.
Altho" Initiated to raise enough
money to balance the budget, the
measure still fell between $100,000,000
and $2<)0.000.000 short of the savings
needed for the balancing of next
year's budget. The size ot the gap
depended mainly on reductions to be
made In the department supply bills j
that were still before congress.
The senate passed the Wagner fed
eral loan and construction relief bill
after adding to the measure the Wag
ner $300,000,000 direct relief bill which
It had already passed and which was
pending in the house. The combined
measure carries $2,300,000,000 for fed
eral relief projects, divided as follows:
For loans to states for the direct
relief of the unemployed (the first
Wagner hill). $300,000,000; for federal
construction projects, $T?00,000,000 ; for
loans to states and their political sub
divisions and to private corporations
for public, self-liquidating projects, as
toll bridges, tunnels, water works,
and canals, $1,400,000,000; for financing
agricultural exports, $40,000,000.
CAItLOS DA VILA, restored to the
headship of the Junta ruling Chile,
was sick abed, but his associates were
taking strong measures to suppress the
latest attempt of the
Communists to get
control of the govern
ment. There was con
siderable rioting in
which some men were
killed, and the Reds
tried to rescue Col.
Marmaduke Grove, the
extreme radical who
for a short time had
displaced Davila and
was then made pris
oner and started on Col. Grove
the way to exile on
lonely Juan Fernandez island.
The ruling Socialist junta out
lawed Communistic agitation by de
cree, with exile, imprisonment or
fines as the punishment for at
tempts to foment trouble. The gar
rison commander In Santiago Issued
a drastic set of martial law regula
tions to end the violence and unrest,
and ordered that agitators guilty of
rebellion, plundering or resisting au
thorities should he shot.
(Ok 1**1. WMttra N?wsp?p?r Union.)
Jack Sharkey of Boston won the
heavyweight championship from Max
Sch Dueling of Germany in a l.'-round
light on Long Island. Experts at the
ringside considered the decision unfair
to Schnieling.
MEDALS AND HONORS
GIVEN MRS. PUTNAM
She Is Welcomed in New York
and Washington.
New York. ? The girl who Hew across
the ocear "just for the ride" came
lome to a New York welcome remini
scent of that which wailed for Col.
Jharles A. Lindbergh five years ago.
"Lady Lindy !" screamed the brass
lunged thousands banked on lower
Broadway as Amelia Earhart rode in
triumph through a summer blizzard of
torn telephone books and ticket tape.
The lirst woman to make a solo
.light across the Atlantic returned on
the lie de France, accompanied by her
ausband. George Palmer Putnam, and
by the red and gold monoplane in
tvhicli she flew straight into America's
llhum of heroes ? and heroines.
Fifteen airplanes dived and swooped
Above the welcome boat Riverside as
Miss Earhart, a slim, boyish figure in
Parisian brown, stepped to its deck.
Reporters and photographers
swamped her wPh questions.
Ofliclal gentlem >n with credentials
in their buttonhole.* extended congrat
ulations.
Amelia stood and grinned a friendly,
shy, little-boy grin, shook her short
red-gold curls, ducked her head as
the army planes dived toward her,
wires screaming, in perfect formation,
and said :
"They make me nervous.**
A parade of eighteen cars and two
busses, carrying a band, escorted
America's new conqueror of the air
up Broadway to city hall, where Mayor
Walker waited to present the city's
medal.
Then the parade moved on to Bry
int park, where the cross of honor of
the United States Flag association was
presented.
Next day Mrs. Putnam flew to Wash
ington, where she was received by
President Hoover. The President
handed to her the special gold medal
Df the National Geographic society.
Five Rob Kansas Bank;
Three of Them Caught
Nevada. Mo.? Vernon county officers
reported they had arrested three of
the five men who robbed the Citizens'
National bank at Fort Scott, Kan.,
of ?30,000. The loot was not recov
ered.
The men were taken by surprise as
they sat in a parked motor car in
which were found two long-range
rilles. a sawed-off shotgun, and sev
eral pistols.
The men refused to talk- They were
Drought to jail here by their captors.
Sheriff W. E. Butner and two depu
ties.
Famed Sourdough Wins
Air Race to Gold Strike
Atlin, B. C. ? The air race to the
new gold strike at Scurvy Creek. In
southern Yukon,* near the British Co
lumbia boundary, has been won by a
famous Alaska sourdough. John Sten
braten. He landed and staked out
claims a little ahead of four sea
planes carrying Michigan mining men.
A New York-Seattle syndicate's plane
was the third on the ground. The
find Is said to be considerably above
the average.
Dump* Liquor as Raiders
Enter, but They Catch It
Fairbury, Neb. ? Liquor raiders an
ticipated what Henry lioeting might
do when they arrived at his roadside
inn. Accordingly, when Hoetlng
dumped a container of liquor down
a drain the raiders merely smiled.
They had placed a container at the
sutlet before entering.
BORAH WILL NOT
SUPPORT HOOVER
Idaho Solon Denounces the
Prohibition Plsnk.
Washington. ? Senator WiUiara F
Borah, Idaho dry. repudiating the Re
publican platform, announce**! in the
senate lie will not support President
Hoover ror re-election.
His announcement came dramatical
ly a few minutes after he had conclud
ed a blistering speech denouncing the
Republican prohibition plank as mean
ing repeal of the Eighteenth amend
ment.
Asked by Senator Lewis. Ip'nois
Democrat, whether he would campaign
against or for Mr. Hoover. Itorah, ris
ing slowly at his place, declared:
"I understand the senator to nsk
whether I will support President Hoo
ver upon the present platform. 1 will
not.**
There was tomblike silence in the
chamber as Borah, glancing neither to
left nor right, resumed his seat,
slouched in bis chair.
Borah will be a man without a party
so far as the national elections this
fail are concerned.
He said he would not support the
Democratic nominee for the Presi
dency.
It was indicated Borah will cam
paign for individual progressive sen
ators. He will support Ids colleague.
Senator Thomas of Idaho, and possibly
Blaine of Wisconsin.
Senntor George Norris of Nebraska,
who bolted Mr. Hoover in 11KW, em
phatically approved Borah's declara
tions. He said:
"1 will not be the only renegade this
year."
He will not support Hoover. Wheth
er he supports the Democratic candi
date. he said, depends upon whether
the party names "another Hoover.**
He classed ns "another Hoover" Owen
D. Young, Newton I). Baker and Gov.
Av ert Ritchie of Maryland.
Norris said prohibition alone would
not start a third party movement
Sharkey Given Decision
Over Max Schmeling
New York. ? Jack Sharkey was voted
the new heavyweight champion of the
world before 70,000 at the Madison
Square Garden bowl at Long Island
City after one of the dullest heavy
weight fights in the history of the ring.
There was no fighting during the 15
rounds, nothing but careful long-range
boxing.
At the end of the fight the whole
left side of Sharkey's face was swol
len. His left eye was closed. Sharkey
fought in retreat with Schmeling stab
bing him with lefts. -Judge George
Kelly and Referee Gunboat Smith vot
ed for Sharkey. Charlie Mathlson, the
other judge, voted for Schmeling.
Sharkey thought he hnd lost and
went to Sehmeling's corner to con
gratulate him. When Joe Humphries
announced a new champion. Sharkey
almost keeled over. Most of the re
porters at the ringside considered the
decision unfair.
Metcalf Heads Badger
Ticket of Socialists
Milwaukee, Wis. ? Frank B. Mel calf.
Milwaukee county supervisor, was
nominated the Socialist candidate for
governor. He was candidate for the
same office in 1!I.*U). Emll Zidel. Mil
waukee's tirst Socialist mayor was
nominated for United States senator.
William Coleman. Milwaukee alder
man, was nominated for lieutenant
governor. The Socialist platform
adopted advocates public ownership
and development of electric power
plants, exemption of taxation on homes
and establishment of a state-owned
bank.
Democratic Leaders in
Fatal Railway Accident
Pittsburgh. ? Several Democratic
party leaders narrowly escaped injury
on the Capitol Limited, crack Haiti
more & Ohio train Chicago-bound from
New York and Washington, when the
locomotive boiler exploded near Pitts
burgh. ?
Two enginemen were instantly killed
when the blast ripped apart the huge
engine, causing $75,000 damage The
victims were: Engineer O. P. Smith.
I<odi, Ohio, and Fireman H. E. Scott,
Akron, Ohio.
Army of Caterpillars Can
Stop Railway Train
Toltec, Colo. ? A train was delayed
an hour near here by an army of cat
erpillars on the track. Their crushed
bodies made the wheels slip.
Great swarms of caterpillars have
swept this region, stripping leaves
from trees and ruining gardens. In
Kio Grande National park damage has
been so extensive that aid of forestry
service specialists in Denver has been
sought