IMPORTANT NEWS OF STAT I, NA ' TION ANB .THE WORLD I . RRItFUV TOub l A 0*nd*nMtf R?pord Of Happ*nln?a ' Oflnt{r??*From All Point* - ; Of TN) WorU Washington? mnk A. Vanderllp, retired New^l ' ( ?jin^ b8nker* ?n?pnnce? his Intention , ,, . ? ^*u> ?uvoulIUU I resigning from every .business ird on irhlcVI occiipyva ?eat" be* | k can bo of the attitude of many of hlB New York business associates "toward the work I .am doing In Washington." Tax affairs companies In which Sec retary Mellon Is a stockholder are be ing put under a searching Inquiry be fore a speplal* senate Investigating committee consisting 'for 'the day at ' letet, of Senator Cousens, Republican, of 'Michigan, done. >&tV ?' ' ? . :?. ?' T , ? Appropriations totaling *66,849,180 for the det>Artments of state. Justice, commerce and labor are ckrrUrd In a blllre'portedto the hohse. Dr. in wood Mead of California 'has 3 ' ' been made commissioner of reclama tion of the Interior department, suc ceeding D, W. Darts of Idaho, who will" become head, of the Idlvliion ot finance In the reclamation service. Appropriation of f 7,600, 00) for tbe construction, of roads and trails In national parks bas been authorised by. the senate. The bill had' already pass ed tn the house. y?,. ? ' One way to "break Into print" with a "formal statement" once your name ? ? \ i hat been mentlonfd In the press has 'i*;/ ! been pointed out In tbe senate. ; > In a note to Secretary Hughes Alva r?] Castillo, Washington representa tive of tbe de la Euerta revolutionary movement, urged the state department to change its polfby toward Mexico. , ' : An /*adjnst?d pension bill" designed u to remove inequities between gratul " * ties now paid veterans of the several past wars has been passed by the senate. The house committee which Is tn vestlgatnlg charges against Represen- , tatlves Zlhlman, Maryland, and Lang- 1 ley, Kentucky. Republicans, resumed | Its hearings recently beMnd closed | doors. Committee members said it j had not been determined whether open I hearings would be held. Ratification of the long-pending Isle of Pines treaty confirming Cuban sov ereignty over tho Islands would be a blot on American history, President Cool id ge was recently told In a petition from some of the American property ? ? of the Island. ?w*?ri Ik A new grand Jury has been ordered to convene In Washington on 'April 16, presumably to hear evidence In con nection with contemplated criminal prosecutions growing out , of the oil ?candal. ' Secretary Wilbur and Governor Smith of New York were praised In the house recently by Representative U pshaw, Democrat, Georgia, for their position In law enforcement. The senate committee Investigating alleged land frauds In the lower Rio Grande valley of Texas encountered another 'storm when Chairman Moses, Republican; New Hampshire, and Sen ator Htflin, Democrat, Alabama, com mittee, prosecutor, again clashed over procedure In this hearing. , Announcement by Chairman Smoot of the senate, flnanqe committee that some special appropriation bills pend ing before congrets would have to be considered In connection with tax reduictlon dealt a sfevore, blow to the chances of retention of sotne of i the tax cuts by the house In /the revenue Domestic ? ' John A. Whltehurst, president of the "State boarij of. agriculture (Oklahoma) was acquitted In the senate court of Impeachment of, charges alleging gen eral Incompetency, neglect of duty and moral turpitude. / Warrants were Issued for the arrest bf G. F. Bates of the Citizens Trust jCOv.pt'Bnffalo, NvY.; Erlcfe Thorberg of Minneapolis; Ed Schvlenberg, Anl. and Gilbert Semlngton, , st^te bink examiner for North .Dakota, In connfectlon with, alleged banking lr* regularities. r " ( ??'$" . \ ?El Paso dispatches say Mexican) of ficers along. ;the border art keeping an eye out for Adolfd de la Huerta, tor pier chief of the Mexican rebellion 1 One man was vreiorWd killed and six persons seriously 'injured in a tornado that' swept through Richard eon, Texjls. ? Thomas George Mackenzie; general manager of the Companfa Agrlcola of Chihuahua, It is anotinced in ha Paso, ToxWi- escaped from Hlpollto, Villa's bandit gapg. . ' . .. A slight earthquake shock, at Mn Jose, C^llf., caused audiences to leave theaters. ? No damage .was reported. ? Damage estimated at between $B0. 000 and $100,000 was caused by a'ftre which broke out inthe new MemphlB (Tenn.) auditorium. <_imarlfls Allen Munn, editor of the i Scientific American, died at his New | York Cltyjbome recently. It Is announced frpm Detroit,' Mich., tha> the American Orthodox . church Jxaa %'pllt with the Russian church, and will' attempt to form a separate c izatfon. In many communities congregations have, already'/ 1 (be Protestant Episcopal chc The Woman's party 'is seek, hare the resolutions committed j Republican national conventlo a woman's suffrage plank In* from. * ' Narcotipg rained at approximately $2,000,000 were recently destroyed ' in New Orleans. : Mn- Virginia Peterg-Parkhurst, of Berwyn, Prince Georges county, Mary land, hag announced for cpagreis, and will make the race on the Democratic platform. 1 1 / . * 1 FWe alarms were sounded 1 6 quick succession when Harlem Park Method ist Episcopal church (Baltimore) caught fire. An annual conference Was being held In the building. No one was injured. Charges that he was doped and not drunk wheu arrested were made in a formal statement by Delegate Bragg of Brunswick county, p member of the Virginia legislative committee investi gating the department qt game and ln Und fisheries, sitting at Richmond. Lieut Ervlne R. Brown, missing navy pa>maater, whose "accounts Were found to be short, seems to have been In San Diego one day and In Los An geles. His Wife has returned $75,000 of the missing funds. Tulane University (New Orleans) has purchased for $^6,000 the interna tionally known -collection of Mayan and other ancient American survivals owned by Dr. William Gates of Char lottesville, Va. After being re-elected year after year for nearly twenty' times as asses sor In the village of Agenda, Ashland county, Wisconsin, Charles Bleudors, 70. has been defeated by a margin of one rote. He then committed sui cide. r Fireman John Quinn was killed and 15 persons were; injured when an elevated train crashed Into another at a Long Island City station during a blinding snowstorm. Russ Forth, 33, actor, his wife, Irene, 24, and their daughter, 4, formerly of Evansvllle, Ind., were bufned to death In a rooming-house at Houston, Texas. Governor John M. Parker fixed May 9 as the date for the execution of sli men convicted of the murder of Dal las Calm es, a restaurant proprietor of Independence, La., on May 8^ 1921. Maj. Frederick L Martin, com manding the flight of the *XJnited .States army around-the-world, an nounces that four planes will leave Seattle, Wash., in the near future. The Birmingham (Ala.) Light and Power company has beeS sold at auc tion for $18,500,000. The company will hereafter be known as the Bir mingham Electric company. .An alarm sounded by Miss Margaret K. Gonter, a Wheeling, W. Va., tele phone operator, frustrated a holdup of the First National bank, located In s suburb of that city. sank .i f - nVi iW 1 ? Closeup showing great gnah made lo famous Fire. Island) Ughtslilp by collision with a freighter which almost ink the lightship, 2 ? Autbraoblle highway ataHancock, Md.', inundated by the Potomac river flood. 8 ? Walter HIn ton, famous aviator (left), and John Swanson, radio expert, ) who have started on on extensive exploration of the Amazon 'region. . * ' NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Harlan Fiske Stone of New York' li ^elected to >Be Attorney General. C . ; By EDWARD W. PICKARD PRESIDENT COotjDGE'S selection ' for the new attorney general to succeed Harry Daugherty may not please the more "progressive" of the western Republicans, but It Is likely to nieet t^e approval of the party gen erally and probably of the country. Harlan Flstt? Stone of New York la the 'ma4 chosen, and ID him Mr. Cool Idge believes, he has ionnd what he required for ''the place ? m authority on law and an able executive. Mr. Stone and the President are lifelong friends ?ftd both are graduates from Amherst For fourteen year's Mr. Stone was dean of the Columbia uni versity law school, pnd he 1b a director of pinny Corporations, including the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line rail way. He !s; a big, forceful ancf able man, . and Mr. Coolldge relies on, him to g\v? the Department of Justice a progressives as evidenced, In of the navy portfolio to Judge : and it is now asserted in Was that the Coolidge supporters more than willing to have a progres*ive nominated for vie dent. The men most talked ?that place are Jndge Kenyon, jBorah and Senator Capper. over, it is said Mr. Coolidge one of that group named porary chairman of the Clevelau vention to make the keynote Mr. Stone visited the executive office Wednesday and was, Introduced to the administration leaders. SHARP admonition to the majority leaders in the senate and bouse by the President brought on an access of activity in pushing vital legislation to ward enactment. In a series of con ferences vrlth those leaders he mqde known his attitude, which was re flected lu a statement' by Senator Wat l son of Indiana : -J ''Now that Attotney General Daugh erty has seen fit to resign," Mr. .Wat son sal6, "a new situation presents Itself In the senate. It seems to me that it Is the duty of the Democrats to join with the Republicans to bring the senate back to Its legislative func tions. . * "It has been regrettable, although unavoidable, that four months of this session ? with the most constructive legislative program " before It of the'1! reconstruction period following the ,war ? have been devoted almost entirely to the endless discussion of personal ities Involved In the oil leases and al leged misdoings in public office. "The senate must devote Itself untir ingly If it hopes to conclude consid eration of the legislative program and adjourn by June, .which we ought to do. The general prosperity of the country would be aided by congress en acting Its program without delay so business can adjust Itself to new con ditions called for In new laws.." The senate finance committee worked day and night on the tax reductlo'n bill, on which the leaders of both par ties profess to wish speedy action. Early In the week the committee unani mously approved the house provision for a retroactive reduction of 25 per cent In taxes on 1923 Incomes paid In 1024. and It Is considered certain that j the senate will accept this. The tax- I payer will pay one-half of the next | Installment, due June IS, ond three- I fourths of each of the lost two Install- | ments. If the tax hns been paid In fvl! a refund of one-fourth will be made the taxpayers. Of course mimer- ' oils changes In the house hill were mode hv the committee, mainly for the ' purpose of raising additional revenues. j Secretary of the Treasury Mellon read j t