News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Progress of tlie Presidential Campaign ? New York City
Threatened ith Bankruptcy ? Great Britain
Abrogates Trade Treaty With Russia.
Bv EDWARD W. PICKARD
N'O CHEAT efTort on the part of
candidates and campaign leaders
was necessary to keep the minds of
the American people on polities during
the week. But The ef
fort v. us made never
theless. I loth Presi
dent Hoover and Cov
entor Roosevelt were
out again on speaking
tours, and eminent
men of both major
parties pleaded for
the votes of the elec
tors in nil parts of
the country. In the
Middle West the chief
speaker for the Demo
crats was Gov. Albert
Ritchie of Maryland, one of the as
pirants for the Presidential nomina
tion in the Chicago convention. 1 1
debated issues and candidates with
Henry Allen of the Republicans, in
Chicago, and delivered other addresses
there and elsewhere, and all the time
he stressed the Importance of the pro
hibition issue.
Governor Roosevelt in his own be
half spent eight days talking in Pitts
burgh, Indianapolis, Springfield. III.,
St. Louis and down through Kentucky
nnd Tennessee to Atlanta ; and then up
through South and North Carolina.
Virginia nnd Maryland, to deliver the
last of his major addresses In Balti
more.
('resident Hoover's Journey wns ft
weekend trip whose main objective
was Detroit. On the way to the
Michigan metropolis he made brief
stops nnd talks at Chariest own. W.
Va., at Columbus nnd Toledo in Ohio,
nnd several other places. The Presi
dent's aides said he had developed a
liking for rear platform campaigning
as a result of his trips to Des Moines
nnd Cleveland.
There was nothing surprising In the
announcement of the La Follette or
gan in Madison. Wis., that the La
Follette faction in that state would
support Mr. Roosevelt. Rev. James R.
Cox. Catholic priest of Pittsburgh,
withdrew as the Presidential candi
date of the Jobless party and urged all
his followers to support Roosevelt.
This was quite within his rights, but
his public statement that President
lloover "never lified a hand or raised
a voice to relieve the suffering Ameri
can people" is nn example of either
Inexcusable mendacity or deplorable
Ignorance.
\T E\V YORK city Is in such a dis
tressing financial condition that
the bankers have refused to advance
funds for the November pay roll, and
fold the men who are running the me
tropolis they would not save it from
bankruptcy unless the budget were
radically reduced. So the budget mak
ers got together and slushed off ap
proximately STfi.OOO.OOU. which the
bankers said was not nearly enough.
A large part of the savings planned
by the b^ard of estimate was through
the adoption of a fifty-year subway
bond scheme. This. It wns admitted,
spelled the doom of the 5-cent fare
to which New York has clung so
tenaciously. It was believed a 10-cent
fare would be established within a
year or two.
Acting Mayor McKee tried to put In
to effect wholesale salary reductions
nnd elimination of workers In over
staffed departments, but the Tammany
bloc would have none of this. They even
put Into the budget some of the ap
propriations that had been cut out.
The city must have additional funds
supplied to It before November 1, as
there is only $0,000,000 left in the
treasury with which to meet the semi
monthly installment of $13,000,000 for
the pay roll.
HEN the British parliament
opened Its fnll session almost the
first thing It heard was the announce
ment of J. 11. Thomas, secretary of
state for dominions.
that Great Britain
had broken off com
mercial relations with
S6vlet Russia ami ab
rogated the trade pact
with the Moscow gov
ernment in order to
carry out the econom
ic policy adopted by
the imperial confer
ence in Ottawa. In
one article of the
agreement reached J. H. Thomas
th^re. Great Britain
and Canada agreed to prohibit the Im
ports of any foreign country In which
the state control of industries and
commodity prices resulted In dumping
Gov. Ritchie
n broad to the detriment of the new
[?referential tariff agreement of the
British empire.
Mr. Thomas added that both the
British government and Uussia were
still eager to Increase the trade be
tween the counfies and that the Uus
sia ns were ready to negotiate a new
treaty that would not interfere with
the empire's internal arrangements.
The immediate practical effect of the
renunciation of the trade treaty will
l be to deprive British consumers of
large quantities of low-priced lumber,
i fish, and grain.
Secretary Thomas told the house
also thai the British negotiations with
President De Valera of the Irish Free
State had broken down and flint De
Valera contended the only permanent
solution of the controversy would be
the creation of a united Irish republic.
D E PORTS made public In Washing
ion were both good and bad. Put
ting the latter first, the treasury Is
sued figures of the receipts and ex
penditures during July. August anil
September showing that the deficit of
the first quarter of the fiscal year Is
$402,000,000, a rate which if kept up
would send the treasury into the red
to the tune of $1,000,000,000. The
new Income taxes coupled with high
collections on miscellaneous ttt 4 en
acted In the new billion dollar . bill
last spring are counted on to hold thi?
deficit down during the final months
of the year.
Statistics given out by the Depart
ment of Commerce showed that the
export trade of the United States In
September, due principally to excep
tionally large shipments of cotton. In
creased over the value for the pre
vious month by a margin of $23,000.
ooo ? the largest monthly gain record
ed so far this year.
Imports likewise showed an Increase
In September, as compared with Au
gust. the department staled, although
it was less pronounced than the gain
in export trade. During the month. It
was shown, imports increased by
S7.000.000 to total $08,000,000. or the
highest monthly import level since
June.
Another encouraging report was
that of the federal oil conservation
hoard, composed of Secretaries Wil
bur, Hurley, Adams and Chapln. It
said: "The American oil Industry
gives indications of being the first
basic industry to emerge from the
world depression.**
f AW authorities of Chicago, assist
L* ed by the federal government,
were still trying to figure out some
way to bring Samuel Insull back from
Athens for trail on
charges of embezzle
ment and grand lar
ceny. The former
multimillionaire re
fused the demand
that he surrender his
passport, and strolled
around the Creek cap
ital watched only in
formally by the po
lice. But the diplo
mats in Athens were
rushing the proceed
1 n g s In connection
with the ratification
of the Greco- American extradition
treaty, and the Instruments were al
ready on the way to Washington. Fol
lowing the exchange It was believed
Insull might be extradited. The fu
gitive appears to be well supplied with
funds, and their source was explained
when State's Attorney Swanson In Chi
cago learned that Samuel Insull. Jr..
still has an Income of $100,000 from
four of the corporations that formed
a main part of his father's utilities
structure. He receives $2.1.000 salary
each from Commonwealth Edison. Peo
ple's Has, Public Service of Northern
Illinois and Mlldland United. The el
der Insull, It will be recalled, also re
ceives pensions totaling $21,000 a year
so the family is far from being poverty
stricken.
Insull said he received a cablegram
from an unnamed person warning him
that the American authorities were
plotting to have him kidnaped and re
moved to a country from which he
could be Immediately extradited. Re
sponsible persons declared this story
was ridiculously false.
/~?OUNT STEPHEN BETHLEN, for
v-* mer premier of Hungary and one
of that country's foremost statesmen,
was attacked In a law court In Buda
pest by an assassin but escaped un
injured. Louis Eaku^t, private secre
tary to a former cabinet officer, ap
proached the count through tiie crowd
in the courtroom, but a policeman saw
a dagger In his band and seized him
as he made a thrust. Th<? motive was
said to be desire to satisfy a private
grudge. .
GERMAN goods, but no German
cash. That Is what the foreign
creditors of the reicb must accept if
they expect to be paid what is com
ing to them, accord
ing to a flat state
ment made by Chan
cellor Franz von Pa
pen. This meant, he
said, that creditor na
tions must open their
frontiers to German
goods, for Germany
could not at present
bear another drain of
money withdrawals
by creditors abroad.
The chancellor esti
mated the foreign in
debtedness of the
country at $l,C.OO.<KHMiort
Von Pa pcu denied that Germany's
quota policy for the restriction of Im
ports was endangering the stability of
the reich's currency. "Restriction of
imports was not resolved out of chican
ery but to save German agiculture
from certain ruin." he said.
In his speech, which was delivered
at Paderborn, the chancellor also dis
cussed disarmament, asserting that
"Germany's aim Is not to arm up to Its
neighbors' levels, but to procure world
disarmament with equal security and
justice. There must not be a system
of hegemony or political alliances In
Europe but one by which nations can
serve humanity in mutual respect of
their individualism.'*
POLICE authorities in Guadalajara.
Mexico, after raiding a house, kill
ing two men end arresting a priest and
two women, announced tliey had frus
trated elaborate plans
Tor a religious upris
ing in the state of
Jalisco. The authori
ties said they found
a large quantity of
rifles, pistols, ammuni
tion, dynamite bombs,
field equipment, a
printing press and
considerable printed
matter urging the
rebellion. Ten other
Archbishop priests were detained
Diaz after being implicated
In the plot. It is in
the state of Jalisco that the quarrel
between Mexico and the Vatican is
most pronounced.
A pastoral letter by Archbishop Pas
cual Diaz, denouncing any attempt at
armed resistance by Catholics, was
read in all churches . All loyal Cath
olics were cautioned by the archbishop
to obey the laws of Mexico and to
avoid any movement that might be
construed as resistance. The pope,
the archbishop pointed out, would not
approve any departure from peace.
FOR the second time Germany re
fused to go to Geneva for the pro
posed four-power conference to dis
cuss her demand for equality of arma
ment. Foreign Minister von Neurath
informed the British that the decision
was Irrevocable. The Germans hold
that there Is too much French senti
ment and influence in Geneva.
Prime Minister MacDonald was not
at all pleased with this refusal
"Germany" he said, "knows perfectly
well that Britain does not oppose her
claim to be regarded as an equal at
the disarmament conference. We want
disarmament, not rearmament, and the
British government is continuing to
pursue its purpose."
Franz von
Papen
DISPATCI1ES from Tokyo said a
great shakeup in the Japanese
foreign service was Imminent. The
ambassadors from the United States,
Moscow, Italy and Turkey already
were In the city, and Ambassador
Obata was ordered to return from
Berlin. The only one of these who
will not be replaced, probably, is Kat
sujl Debuchl. who *wlll come back to
Washington because Foreign Minister
Uchlda cannot find a better man for
the post. It was understood the
cabinet was about to enter on the dis
cussion of the policies to be assumed
toward the United States. Itussla and
the league of Nations, and that a
more positive foreign policy would be
adopted. The press and the public in
Japan have been clamoring for a
change.
TWO uprisings of convicts occnrred
early In the week. The first. In
Spelgner state prison of Alabama, re
sulted to the killing of one convict,
the wounding of 24 others and the es
cape of one. Warden A. R. Smith dis
played the utmost bravery In dealing
with the convicts.
Tha second Instance was in Ports
mouth penitentiary. Ontario. The 900
Inmates, demanding cigarette papers
and longer hours of recrer.tlon. put on
a big riot, but were redaced to suit
mission without loss of life.
fe IMS. Wwun N?wa?*p?r Unloa.
I
GRIM TRAGEDY OF
SACRIFICING LOVE
Kills Self and Children to
Let Husband Rewed.
Wood mere. N. Y. ? A modern marital
tragedy was played in the Long Island
home of Guy Phillips, English actor and
dramatic coach, when his wife. Jean,
killed herself and her two children
to clear the way for her husband's
love for another woman.
It might have been written by Eu
gene O'Neill, the story told to Police
Inspector Harold II. King of Nassau
county by the young husband, who
was overcome by gas after he found
the bodies of his wife and their chil
dren. nine-year-old Norma and three
year-old **( 'hubby,** dead in their gas
filled bedroom.
The three had dinner together in
the Phillips home, he said ? himself,
his wife and the other woman. Mrs.
Joseph J. Seltzer, whose husband re
cently had brought an alienation of
affections suit for acainst the
actor. She was Invited by Mrs.
Phillips.
Mrs. Phillips told the actor:
"You must decide between us and
her. You have a wonderful future.
I don't want to stand in the way, but
I can't go on like this/*
After dinner all three went to a
movie. Philipps took Mrs. Seltzer
home and returned to find that his
wife had locked herself and the chil
dren in !ier bedroom.
Toward morning he awoke, smell
ing gas. and broke Into the room. His
wife lay dead on the floor with the
children. Phillips, overcome by the
gas. dropped the receiver as he tele
phoned police.
District Attorney Edwards said:
?'It was a tragedy of sacrificing love.
I am convinced Mrs. Phillips was try
ing to clear the road to happiness for
her husband. The case Is closed."
New York. ? Scribbling a farewell
note to "Anyone" with a lipstick and
grasping two white carnations in one
hand, Mrs. Charles J. Present t, social
reglsterite of Boston. Jumped to her
death from the thirty-first floor of the
Hotel New Yorker.
The former Beatrice flardiner. whose
marriage to I'rescott, son of a Cam
bridge manufacturer. In November,
1020, was the outstanding social eveut
of Koston, left a note which read :
"I don't like you. This Is the best
way out. Make the most of every liv
ing moment."
Prison Football Game
Results in Fatal Riot
Montgomery, Aiu. ? One convict was
still at large after a riot at Spelgner
prison that began while a prison foot
ball game was being played and result
ed in one convict being killed and
twenty-three others wounded.
Prisoners taken to the prison yard
for exercise were playing when sixteen
broke away and tried to scale the
fence. Guards started firing. Other
convicts ? about half the prison's pop
ulation of 840, according to A. B.
Smith, warden ? tried to take advan
tage of the disorder. The guards sub
dued them, but one of the first six
teen escaped across the prison farm.
He is Reuben Titman, of Montgomery.
Carl Singleton, of Marshall county,
was killed. He was serving one to
two years for larceny and burglary.
Police Rescue Man
Kidnaped for $50,000
Hull, Mass. ? Five days of captivity
that amounted to torture were de
scribed by Herman F. Itutsteln. Boston
theatrical surnly dealer, as he pre
pared to f: ce and formally accuse
three prisoners charged with kidnaping
him for $5tMHH) ransom.
A police raid on a summer cottage
here released Rutsteln and bagged the
trio, rive other members of what
detectives called a kidnaping gang were
sought in Providence and New York,
where they were believed to have fled.
The supply dealer was kidnaped
from his garnge in Boston. Bound
and blindfolded almost continuously
for six days, he was roped to a bed
In the cottage here. He was gagged
with ticker tape, which his captors
would occasionally rip away, tearing
his mouth.
3 Negroes Killed, 2 Hurt
by Posse Seeking Fugitive
Smatobia, Mine. ? Three negroes
were slain and two others seriously
wounded by ft posse hunting Jesse
Williams, forty-flve, negro, accused of
killing Deputy Sheriff Walker Wil
liams. County Jailer J. T. Dixon said
the posse surrounded the home of a
negro. "Judge" Crawford, at midnight
and two shots were fired from the
house. The posse returned the Ore.
killing Crawford and two of his sons
and wounding Crawford's wife and an
other son
LINDLEY M. GARRisq^
Llndley M. Garrison, u*lio wns sec
retary of war under President Wilson
from 1013 to l'HG, died suddenly at
Ids home in Sea Bright, X. J. lie was
sixty-eight years old.
GOODS, NOT CASH,
FOR GERMAN DEBTS
Von Papen Warns the Foreign
Creditors of Reich.
Berlin. ? An arrangement going be
yond the present "still holding ?? agree
went must be found under which the
sums Germany has borrowed from for
eign creditors will be further consoli
dated, Chancellor Franz von I 'a pen
announced when he addressed the
United Economic Associations of West
phalia in the crowded Itifle Clubs hall
at Paderborn.
Even if Germany succeeded in pay
ing bnck within a short time more
than 0,000.000.000 murks (S1.1PO.OOO,
000) worth of foreign loans a new
outflow of foreign moneys from
this country is impossible at present,
the chancellor declares.
For this and other reasons, the Ger
man representatives at t lie impending
world economic conference will advo
cate that the foreign debts of this
country be paid in kind to the credi
tor countries, Herr Von Papen said.
"Creditor nations can expect pay
ments from Germany only if they are
ready to accept German goods as pay
ment for Germany's debts," he said.
"Therefore they must open their fron
tiers to our goods.
"Only If tariff barriers are reduced
and German goods are no longer sub
jected to insuperable obstacles in the
world market will Germany's debts to
foreign countries not be made an un
bearable burden threatening to para
lyze initiative in Germany's business."
Charged With Two Wives,
He Finds He Hasn't Any
Chicago. ? George Sapyta. tifty-three
years old, who was arraigned before
Municipal Judge Jay A. Schiller on
a charge of having two wives, left the
courtroom cheered by the judge's rul*
'ing that he was married to neither.
Mrs. Bernice Sapyta made the charge.
Sapyta testified that his first wife. Mrs.
Elizabeth Saypta, had had him ar
rested on a charge of bigamy, but that
he since had obtained a divorce from
her. "The bigamy conviction annuled
your marriage to Bernice,** Judge
Schiller ruled. "So If you are divorced
from Elizabeth you haven't any wife.
Australian Gold Mine
Discoverer Dies ; Age 80
Sydney, Australia. ? William frord,
who with bis partner, Arthur Bayley.
discovered the famous Colgardie gold
mines, died here, lie was eighty
years old. Ford was a typical pros
pector. He lived a story book life
having Uowq both hunger and riches.
I Thus far the Collgardie mines ha\C
produced about $500,000,000 iu gold.
Votes for Near Beer, So
Alabama Deacon Retifffl*
Tuscaloosa, Ala.? The Holt Baptl*
church didn't like It because Kepre
sentaUve K. Callahan voted Id
islature for passage of a neftf t0
bill, so the congregation asked h
resign as a deacon. He did.