1 ? Chicago boy scouts on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Lincoln in Springfield. III. i!? Fleet submarine \<& pno
tographed just after her launching at Portsmouth navy yard, where Mrs. D. E. Dismukes christened her. 3 ? Mrs.
F. A. Wellman and her two daughters, of Monrclair, X. J., ice-boating near the Lake I'lacid club in the Adiron
daeks.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Uncle Sam Lets France
Know He Won't Stand for
War Debt Repudiation.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
THERE was considerable excitement
in government circles In Washing
ton vrhon the publication of the I' reiieh
budget revealed the fact that it did not
Include France's war debt to tin* I nlt
ed States. A spokesman for the ad
ministration stated in rather blunt
language that this country expects
France to recognize the debt and to
make immediate' arrangements to fund
it. pointing out that repudiation would
seriously affect international credit,
lie said the position of this government
is that, while we do not wish t<> be ojh
pressive. we recognize no grounds in
law or equity why the debt should be
reduced or canceled. On the question
of the validity of the debt, the. ?gov
ernment spokesman pointed out tli.it
$1.(KI0,<KKU>C0 of the loan had been
turned over to France nfrer the war
was over and that $40rt.0U>.0i*? more
had been credited to France for the
purchase of war surplus supplies.
In both the senate and the house the
matter came.' up ami die supposed atti
tude of France was severely criticised.
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, speak
ing for Secretary Mellon, chairman of
the war deh: funding commission.- set
forth the necessity of collection of the
debt from France to relieve American
taxpayers of that portion of their bur
den. asserting that repudiation would
destroy French credit and intimating
that the French attitude would put an
end to French borrowings of American
bankers.
The French embassy in Washington
promptly issued h statement explain
ing that the American debt was not in
cluded in the budget because the law j
does not permit the Inclusion of inde
terminable items for payment of which
no revenue is provided: and both there
and in Paris it was reiterated that
France had never Intimated that she
would repudiate the obligation, itiis
was not enough, however, and Ambas
sador Herri ck conferred with Premier
Herriot and Finance Minister Clctnen
tel. both of whom repeated the expla
nation and the assurance that trances
intentions were honest, and telegraphed
this assurance also to the l.ritlsh go\
ernment. The truth appears to be that
the Herriot government is glad thus to
have the French people disabused of
the prevalent idea that the dent will be
either canceled or materially reduced.
In this both political and financial con
. slderations weigh largely, for. until ^he
French public is brought to realize that
the American and ISritish debts must
be paid, any government that under
~ takes to pay them will be politically
dead: and. in addition. American cred
it and American tourist trade mean a
tremendous lot to I* ranee.
According to Washington dbAtches,
the administration leaders i^Pmgress
are formulating a plan by whiter I' ranee
will be given about thirty days to dem
onstrate her intention : <? fund the debt,
unci if she fails in this it is their pur
pose to ask the senate to adopt a res
olution condemning the attitude of
France and expressing disappro\al ot
any further -loans or extensions of
credit by American bankers or other
individuals to the French government
or to French citizens. President Coo!*
idge, of course, knows all about this
plan and is said to approve its impor
tant features, but he has come to no
hasty .conclusions and still assumes
that* France intends to propose a fair
settlement of the debt.
GERMANY received in sullen and
threatening mood the notification
from the entente nations that the
Cologne bridgehead will not be evacu
ated on January 10, as was provided
in the treaty of Versailles, because of
her own failure to observe the terms
of the treaty in the matter of disarma
ment. Foreign Minister S reseniann
declared that, unless a compromise
were reached, peace in Europe would
be dealt a terrible blow, the reconcilia
tion of nations postponed and the fui
iuiuieiu ol uie itttw c* yliui gieutl} eu
.
dangered. He warned the allies not to
overtax the patience of Germany,
which was interpreted to mean that
Germany was prepared to reply by
making harder trade treaty terms. lie
.said that the machinery in the Krupp
gun works had not been dismantled
because it was busy on American or
ders. The German government has de
manded that the alleged facts on
which the allied control commission
based Its report and recommendation
that the Cologne region be not evacu
ated should he made public at once.
The commission was asked by the al
lies; to rush to Paris all its information
on the German failure to disarm, so
that they can justify their action in
the eyes of the world. This should
make most interesting reading. The
most important part of the report
deals with the methods by which Ger
many is said to have at least 7<K),(KK)
men trained and equipped for war. A
Paris paper is publishing a series of
sensational articles revealing Ger
many's alleged gigantic preparations
for the next contllct. One of these
tells of a new and devastating war gas
' developed by a German scientist, and
says great quantities of mustard gas
and suffocating gas are also being
made.
The Gorman reichstag meets Janu
ary 5 and Berlin dispatches say Chan
cellor Marx, Foreign Minister Strese
mann and Finance Minister Luther
plan to form a nonpolitlcal directorate
with extraordinary powers to deal
with the situation temporarily.
GRKAT BRITAIN'S invitation to]
the premiers of the dominions to i
a conference in London in March to I
discuss the empire's policy in the mat
ter of the Geneva peace and disarma
ment protocol, has met a chilly recep
tion in the dominious and their atti
tude is worrying the government in
London not a little, for it amounts to
a practical declaration of their com
plete independence of Great Britain,
the only connecting link being a com
mon crown. Australia. New Zealand,
South Africa and Canada have been
exchanging views by cable and mail,
trying to arrange to present a com
mon front against Croat Britain in the
dispute that all feel is certain to come.
As for the Geneva protocol, they feel !
that their own parliaments can decide I
their stand, and each of them has a ?!
membership in the League of Nations, j
Pit KM I BR MUSSOLINI of Italy is
lighting desperately and so farsue
} cessfully to maintain his position in
' the face of the bitterest kind of at
| tacks against him and the Fascist!,
j Tiie latest development was the publi
| cation by the opposition of a menio
| randum written by Cesare Rossi, for
mer chief of the press bureau of the I
interior department and now under ar
rest for connection with the murder .* !' j
Deputy Matteotti. The document <\- 1
rectly imputes to Mussolini the critics
committed by the Fascist! recently, as
serting they were committed by his
I orders. It is generally believed the
j Rossi charges are unfounded, but
i they stirred up great excitement and
! complicated the difficulties under
j which Mussolini already was laboring,
i Some of the premier's followers have
! deserted him and others have urged
him to resign, but he still has suflicient
support- in parliament to retain his po
sition. *
SPAIN has succeeded, at considerable
cost in lives, in withdrawing her
j troops is^Morocco to the prepared line
j connecljR the coast towns, and hopes
i to Remain there. Ab<l el Krim, leader
; of the rebellious tribesmen, last week
! issued a proclamation in which he said
the Riff republic would treat with
Spain only on equal terms, "since we
are the victors and they are the van
quished." His peace conditions, he
said, were:
"Recognition of the republic of the
Riff, whose frontiers will be formed by
the mouth of the River Kert and the
River Marti, in which territory not a
single Spanish position must remain
nor warships of the vanquished nation
exercise vigilance along the coast.
"Spain must agree not to engage
Musselmen troops, transferring those
in the service here to the borders of
the government of the Rift* republic;
delivery of all Moroccan prisoners
without ransom, at the saniv? time pay
ing a heavy sum for the ransom of
Spanish prisoners we captured during
i lae ia&t gioiious cuiupaigu in witicii t
our traditional enemy lost more men
and materials and suffered more hu
miliations Hum three years ago."
CO.MK three thousand savants gath
^ ered in Washington for the ses
sions of tiie American Association for
the Advancement of Science, divided
themselves into 15 sections and pro
ceeded to discuss a varied menu of
scientific subjects. One of the ad
dresses that attracted popular atten
tion was that of I)r. Edward L. Rice,
professor of zoology in Ohio Wesley-,
an university, in which he character
ized the views of W. J. Rryan on evo
lution as "dogmatic" and "dangerous
to religion," and urged more unpreju
diced co-operation In scientific and re
ligious study. Mr. Bryan's arguments,
lie said, were deduced "from the as
sumption of the literary accuracy of
the Bible in general and of the first
two chapters of Genesis in particular."
This assumption was "not Biblical."
nor was it "accepted by leading Bible
scholars of today," he said.
Pr. W. 1*. I)avey of the General
Electric company's research laboratory
told of the production of a new form
of copper that conducts electricity
with 1,'t per cent more . efficiency than
the ordinary copper. I ?r. K. C. Rose
riow of the Mayo Foundation reported
the discovery of bacteria that appear
t< be responsible for the present epi
demic of hiccoughs. Favorable results
looking toward the control of diabetic
symptoms by means of insulin admin
istered by Hie mouth, instead of liypo
| dermically, as at present,' were report
ed in a .paper by Dr. John It. Murlin
of the University of Rochester, To
overcome the problem of the destruc
tion of insulin by stomach juices, Doc
tor Murlin said he had prepared in
sulin tablets which pass through the
stomach unaffected and are dissolved
in the intestines.
ILLINOIS especially Is Interested In
the result of the civil suit to recover
from Gov. Leu Small the interest on
state funds which he Is charged with
withholding when he was state treas
urer. Judge Burton at Springfield
held Small liable to the state for all
interest paid by Chicago packers on
state funds lent them in 11)17 and 1U1S
and referred the case back' to a mas
ter In chancery for determination of
the. amount of indebtedness. Since the
Illinois law provides that no one In
debt to the state can be elected gov
ernor, there was some question
whether or not the second inaugura
tion of Small, set for January 11!,
would be blocked.
WORKING rapidly, the house
passed the treasury-post office
supply bill, carrying , a total of ST(xl,
(J(KI,(KK?, and sent it on to the senate.
Among other items in the bill are $11,
j (>00.000 for prohibition enforcement;
$"0,000.(100 for the coast guard service,
of .which half will be available' .during
the coming year to check liquor smug-'
'glin;:; .$",()( to.ono for Hit* transebnti
I ncntal air mail service ; $1<>,(?."(>,"00 for
the customs service and .?!).10H,101 for
the public health. . service. -The Ivouse
at the close of the week was consid
ering the army appropriation measure.
Senator N orris,- chairman of the ag
ricultural committee. introduced a
resolution directing the federal trade
commission to conduct an 'inquiry into
the doings of the "power trust," which,
lie charged, is attempting to dictate
disposal of the Kuscle Shoals prop
erty.
NOTABLE among the deaths of the
week were those of Leon Bakst.
celebrated Russian painter and stage
scenery designer, who succumbed to
pneumonia in I'aris; William Archer,
the veteran English dramatic critic
i and' author, and A. Henry Savage-Lan
dor. famous artist and explorer, whose
sensational experiences in Tibet were
related in his book. "The Forbidden
Land."
NOTRE DAME .adversity made
good its claim to the intercol
legiate football championship by de
feating Leland Stanford at I'asadena,
I Cal.. on New Year's day. the score
! being -7 to 10. The University
i California eleven beat the University
of Pennsylvania by a score of 1<1 to
o, the game being played at Berkeley.
Both contests were witnessed by im
[ Cl'UVt (Is.
NEWS BRIEFIYTOLD
0I8PATCHES OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENINGS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
FOR THE JO READER
fhe Occurrence Of Seven Days Qlve?
In An Epitomized Farm For
Quick Reading
Foreign ?
A despatch from Honolulu says that
the Red Star Liny was fined $400 for
tranporting Mr. and Mrs. Edward J.
Buteler, of New York between two
American ports.
Berta Kuebbler, Gemany"s oldest
woman, is dead at Walberbcrg, Rhine
land, at the age of 106 years and three
months.
The Havana university football team
defeated the Florida All-stars by a
score of 13 to 6. at Havana.
Premier Mussolini of Italy, has tight
ened the noose of censorship about
the opposition press and Italy is virt
ually without newspapers exccpt those
that approve or the Fascist govern
ment. /
Leon Trotzky, Soviet war minister,
who was reported under arrest and
confined in the Kremlin in Moscow,
is in the Crimea, far to the south, more
than a thousand miles from the Rus
sion capital. Trotzky went to a Cri
mean resort to recover from the ill
ness which attacked bim in Novem
ber.
It is understood that Rajah Sir Hari
Singh, named as the victim in the re
cent London Robinson blackmailing
case, has been asked by the govern
ment to go to England in connection
with legal proceedings against the al
leged instigators of the plot.
Cardinal Creste Giorgi died of pneu
monia at his residence in the Palazzo
Aitempts in Rome, in his 09th year.
He was born in Valmonte, Italy, and
was created a cardinal December 4,
1916. He held the office of grand pen
itentiary of the Holy Roman Catholic
church.
Editions of all the principal opposi
tion newspapers in Italy have been
seized by carbineers by order of Pre
mier Benito Mussolini, Fascist com
mander-in-chief.
Thousands of black-shirted Fascist!
stirred to feverish heat by the exhor
tations of their leaders recently con
verged Florence, Italy, defying cor
dons of carbineers and sacking the
plant of an opposition newspaper, the
Nuvo Giornale.
The p< ?;e recently gave private aud
ience to the Rt. Rev. Edward P. Allen,
bishop of Mobile, Ala., who pre
sented a report of the diocese. The
bishop expects to remain in Rome for
the beginning of the jubilee year.
the name of Christiana, Norway,
has been changed to Oslo, which was
the name of that city in the middle
ages.
Washington ?
A bill to permit S. M. Adams of Iva,
Anderson county, South Carolina, to
construct a bridge across the Savan
nah river near Sander's ferry or Craft
ferry between Iva. S. C., and Elberton,
Ga., has been introduce! by Represen
tative Dominick, Democrat, South Car
olina.
As a climax to the recent bints of a
miniature Teapot Dome scandal in
volving the alleged use of money to aid
the postal employees' pay-increase
bill, six responsible postoffice officials
in as many different cities have been
suspended until further notice.
The bill to convert the military res-y
ervation at Camp Benning, Ga., into
a national forest, has been passed by
the senate without objection.
Rear Admiral Henry J. Ziegmeier
has been detached from command of
the Norfolk navy yard and assigned
to command battleship division three
in the Pacific. His successor has not
been decided upon.
Urging more unprejudiced co-opera
tion in scientific and religious study.
Dr. Edward L. Rice, retiring vice pres
! ident of the zoological section of the
' American Association for the Ad
! vancement of Science, in a paper pre
pared for the meeting of that section
recently, characterized the views of
William J. Bryan on evolution as
"dogmatic and dangerous to re
ligion."
A bill granting a pension of five
thousand dollars annually to Mrs.
Edith Boiling Wilson, widow of the
late war president, has been passed
by the senate, and has been sent to
the house.
The future of the American navy
has taken on a new aspect with simul
taneous expressions of opinion from
both the white house and the house
naval committee as to what should
be the first step in -that direction.
Inhabitants of Mars are either cave
dwellers, or they hibernate in winter
l'ke polar bears, in the opinion of Dr.
W. W. Coblentz, physicist of the bu
reau of standards, expressed in a pa
per recently read to the American
Physical association.
The bill of Senator Smith, Demo
crat, South Carolina, to require the
director of the census to include in
the cotton ginning reports the names
of the owners of sinn^ries with the
quantity of cotton ginned at each
ginnery was passed by the senate
? Itlicut o' jccticn.
An agreement has been reached by
the Joint congressional postoffice sub
committee to recommend ihat provi
sions of the administration bill In
creasing postal rates and salaries be
effective for one veai- onl\ * ending
further hearings.
John A. Johnston ias l? r-n nominat
ed by President Coolidg-j i ? . be post
j master at Petersburg, Va.
The future of Americanism in the
United States will be safeguarded un
der the provisions of existing immigra
tion laws according to findings of a
third biological study of thir. question
made by Dr. Harry H. Laugh n of the
Carnegie Institute.
Announcement of a gnu:; of $350,
000 to the American As- . at ion for
the Advancement of So t.- <? by the
Rockefeller foundation #v ado here
by officers of the as ? a.
A plan for a bigger and i.. ;t<?r year,
designed to unscramble ?!; present
hit or miss calendar tin
simpler one, which wonh.
every year, has boon j v
Americaafn Association >
vancenient of Science r
They propose cutting tl
thirteen months of 28
stituto a
he same
d by the
the Ad
on here.
? up into
each.
Domestic ?
vizard
,x Klan.
hospital
?s an at'
of the
n nit Ste.
?i. whose
?<".va river
i Decem
of eight
j. is home
i railway
ill, d by
?r brake
Springs,
rnv York,
.oral fin
a bandit
Dr. H. W. Evam i:
of the Knights of t }?? i>
underwent an operation
in Dyesburg, Tenn foil*
tack of acute append io",
Hary J. Colweel on :
Minneapolis. St. Pari ai
Marie railway pass -nc- r
rear coach fell in* tin; Sn
near Shippewa Fa. p. \VJ
ber 20, resulting in the ki
pesons, commited s- iwiil -
in Minneapolis, Minn
Albert C. Sides, a So ??
brakeman, was shot nm!
Charles L. AbernatJiy, an
man. in a fight in f'onr.
N. C.
Mrs. William J. Fox -
started the new yea: wit1
gers badly lacerated ?i
bit the rings from he f.
Rupert Hughes, novolis. and motion
picture director, and Mi"- ""lizibeth
Paterson Dial, were rn.- r-.-.J in Loa
Angeles, California.
William Newborn f ?
J., was elected hon >r ?r
rior of the Phi Ep^;lon
at the closing of its ami:
in Philadelphia, Penn.
was selected as the no
1925 convention.
In Chicago squadf o ?
the city in a vain
Accadio, wanted -
connection with tl .wm.,
of Russell Dieko;- n> ? :?>
Chicago and Nor Ir^ s'-r
was shot during an.: :<-i
by a robber a:, ihe t'rar
cago.
Four killings, one nr>
shooting, only fvn arr-s'
enness. packed hotel d
cabarets and res'aunu
ands of private limi
the birth of the nc -,v >?? :i
Fighting their way thr
storm borne on the wing
tain gale, fiv? intrepid oil j.
the heights of Pike's Po. k
the tradition of the Adam
organization which for ye.
ebrated the coming of ea<
by staging a display of fire
the brow of the pepk. say
from Colorado Sprint'
Rupert Hughes. novlist
picture director, and fame
was recently married *o
both Patterson, known or
at Patterson Dial, t.t Lo.
Calif. They immedi:- .:ei>
to New York on their ho:.
The New York World
that its price has been r
cents. It has been setlii.
cents.
Thomas N. Harris, forme
of the United States Vetera
In Atlanta, Ga.. wa- re cot
cd in Memphis, Tern..
charging him with the th
ords from the bureau, but
released on a thousand
He was working in Meinph: ?
dry wagon driver at tho
arrest.
Approximately four ini'lio:.
treos were in the Missouri s;
?*if December IS and su?f> r
damage and destruction. th.
public utility information
mates.
The Kr.w Valley State b
City, Kan., was held up :;:n
of $7 1 .(.GO the other day by tltf-o men
They just missed getting thv Armotu
payroll which had been mad ? up r
few minutes before their entrance and
taken away by messengers, Tho ban
dits got away. I
The toll of dead from acoi<i. ital gai
poisoning in St. Louis. Mo., the las'
few days was increased to I vo witl
the death of Mrs. Martha H>att. 70
Eighteen others had been overcome
several of whom are still in hospitals
The Maryland public service com
mission declares that the Chesap
and Potomac Telephone company's ro
quest for increased telephone rat?r is
unjust and unreasonable and would
constitute an unfair burden upon th*
telephone users of the state, and or
ders that existing rates be maintain
ed in the future.
At Milwaukee, Wis., a warrant has
been issued against Joe Jackscr.. far.v
ous baseball player, and formerly s
member cf the Chicago White Sox ol
the American League, charging hin
r;ith oeriurv
fi' Id, N.
Lini supe
fr. ornty
? ntion
mi a. Ga.,
pla e for
? so nired
>: Angolo
ng in
to death
i on a
: iin who
t holdup
red Chi
ve fatal
r drunk
ropms,
.1 thous
h raided
a ehicago.
h a snow
>f a moun
? rs scaled
to uphold
i c'mb, an
1 has eel
new year
rks from
dosnatch
? Silo.
,d mot lot
agnostic
? iss Eliza
he screei
Ang jlea
lbernated
moon,
nnouncei
cod to ;
for tw(
mpioyet
bureau
arrest
warrani
l of rec
as lat?ii
ar bond
i.s a latin
e of his
orchard
:m am
llfl'.V}
? Iis^our
ill ? est i
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