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1? Doctors from all (he veterans' hospitals gathered In Washington for a conference. 2 ? Maiden Dearborn, first of the fleet of airplanes which Henry Ford has put into operation between Chicago and Detroit for use of bis company. 3 ? Parade in New York's Chinatown to honor the memory of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. first President of Chinese republic. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Painleve and Caillaux May Pull France Through Her Financial Crisis. By EDWARD W. PICKARD rpRANCE is struggling through the " governmental crisis precipitated by her financial troubles, but the out come is still shrouded In doubt. Paul Painleve accepted President Dou mergue's Invitation to form a ministry after Arlstide Briand had tried and abandoned the attempt because the So cialist party voted n^nlnst participa tion in the cabinet he was trying to constitute. The Socialists, however, agreed to support Painleve's govern ment, but first the National bloc car ried through Its plan to divorce the bill to increase monetary circulation from the 10 per cent capital levy In De Monzie's financial measure. After a warm debate the chamber decided it was competent to receive a fiscal scheme from a resigned cabinet and passed the bill to Increase the paper money circulation of the Bank of France from 41,000,000,000 francs to 45,000, 000, 000 francs. The senate quickly followed suit. The rest of the financial scheme Is at this writ ing still up in the air. Though Painleve is premier. It ap pears likely the dominating figure in the new government will be Joseph Caillaux, who, during the war, was exiled^s a traitor and to whom am nesty was only recently extended. This former premier and admitted financial genius was called on by Pain leve to take the post of minister of finance and accepted. He has declared his opposition to n capital levy, but what scheme he will offer Is not yet known. It was believed in Paris that the left wing groups were prepared to make Caillaux dictator in case the right wing and the Nationalists at tempted to place in power the reac tionaries who overthrew the Herriot government. GERMAN Socialists were consider ably relieved by the developments in Paris, for it had feared that If the supporters of Polncare regained power there would be a revival of the "policy of violence" that would greatly help the candidacy of Field Marshal von Hindenburg for the presidency. On the other hand the French are await ing with anxiety the result of the Ger man election. The old soldier's fol lowers, however, indignantly deny that hto election would mean war with France within a few years. They as sert that peace is an important point in his program, and, furthermore, that IB elected he would take the oath of the Weimar constitution, a clause In which provides that war can be de clared and peace signed only through special law. The German monarch ists say they are willing to stand the republic a few more years, meaning until 1927, when Prince Wilhelm reaches the age of twenty-one years. Violent campaign talk Is rife In Ger many. Von Hlndenburg's most ardent supporters declare Germany "will see something terrible" If he Is not elected, and they are said to be ready to start ?a 'putsch" at a moment's notice. The Communists, for their part, openly tfay that If Von Hindenburg wins they "Will start an armed uprising. So in either event there may be lively doings. MORE than 150 American war ships and auxiliary craft of all kinds steamed out from San Francisco .through the Golden C?ate Wednesday on the way to attempt the "capture" of the Hawaiian islands. At that out post of the nation an army garrison of 15,000 men with air squadrons and 20 submarines made ready to defend the islands. The attacking force, known as the Blue Fleet, was an imposing sight as It started westward. First was a flock of mine sweepers to clear up tony mines the defenders, known as the Black forces, might have placed. iNext were 54 destroyers that spread out widely and made a lane of safety. They were followed by 11 battleships and 8 light cruisers, and then came the lesser craft. Including submarines, American Dollar Hit by Rate of Exchange > New York. ? The American dollar In some parts of the world is not always good. The National Foreign Trade council reports this is particularly true In the majority of "silver" coun tries of the Far East. The council says that the ups and downs in foreign exchange there, the ratio betveen what money of one mtry brings in money of another, a bardahlD on re&ldent Amert* Jp furl and supply ships and the nlrplane carrier Langley, on which were about 30 planes. When the Pine fleet, commanded by Admiral Itobison, nears the islands It will be attacked by airplanes and sub marines sent out by Admiral McDon ald and General Lewis, commanders of the Illack forces, and if these fall the troops there will try to prevent a landing. The umpires of the mimic struggle, headed by Admiral Coontz and Major General Hftes, are on the cruiser Seattle and will watch every move. It Is up to them to decide whether any battleships are construc tively sunk or crippled by the defend ing planes, so the maneuvers may go far to determine whether the claims of Col. William Mitchell are right or wrong. The conditions of the contest are about such as would obtain were the Hawaiian Islands attacked by Ja pan when the American fleet was In the Atlantic and the Punama canal crippled. THERE has arisen In Honolulu a a most Interesting case of army trial and punishment. Privates Crouch and Trumbull were convicted by court martial of attempting to organize a branch of the Communist party in vio lation of the territorial law of Ha waii against secret societies, and also of spenklng contemptuously of the President and the flag. Crouch was sentenced to 40 years' Imprisonment and Truilbull to 20 yenrs. The ex treme severity of the sentences led the War department to call for an ex- j planatlou and General Lewis, com manding, forwarded a summary of the testimony. From this It appears the clyprits had plotted to foment revolu tionary movements among both the garrison and the civil population and that Crouch at least had planned this before he enlisted. It Is believed In Washington that the sentences will be greatly reduced. SENATOR BURTON K. WIIEELER of Montana went on trial at Great If alls, before Federal Judge Frank Diet rich and a Jury, on charges of accept ing a fee for prosecuting claims of a client before the Department of the Interior after he had been elected to the senate. The outcome of this case means everything to Wheeler, for If he Is convicted he Is by law forever barred from holding public office. In addition he may be imprisoned for two years or fined $10,000, or both. Senator Thomas J. Walsh, who went to Great Falls In connection with the Wheeler trial, said that as soon as congress convenes he would press for an Investigation of the Midwest Refin ing company's leases in the Salt creek fields of Wyoming. These fields, which were under Jurisdiction and control of the Interior department, are much more productive than Teapot Dome. ALANSON B. HOUGHTON, our new ambassador to Great Britain, sailed from New York to assume his duties in London. He had little to say for publication before leaving, content ing himself with the statement that he was aware of the Importance of his new post and realized "the necessity of maintaining friendly relations be tween the English-speaking peoples." An assignment has Just been given Miss Lucille Atcherson of Columbus, Ohio, the first woman to qualify as a member of the foreign service of the Department of State. She has been appointed third secretary of the lega tion at Berne, Switzerland. Edward Caffery, consul at Bucharest, has been made consul general at Havana, and George Messersmlth has been ap pointed consul general at Antwerp. COMMERCIAL airplane service be tween Chicago and Detroit was In augurated by the Ford interests, but the planes for the present are carry ing only freight between Ford plants. Announcement is made that the Gen eral Airways System, Inc., Is soon to begin operating an aerial passenger and freight service between Boston, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis and St Paul. KING ' BORIS of Bulgaria had a close call from death at the hands of Communists last week. While mo toring In the country he was am bushed and fired upon and two men In the car with him were killed. The king and others Jumped out and re turned the fire, but the assassins es cans, who cannot figure family budgets with a reasonable degree of certainty. Employees In foreign service of American export corporations are the ones who have been the hardest hit, the council says. Each month, when they come to cash the otherwise welcome pay check home offices send out In some form of dollars, they find It a gamble whether they win or lose. The chance of profit Is discounted by the corre sponding risk of loss. The situation was flret broqjht of cnped. One bullet carried away part of Boris' mustache. About the same time General GeorghlefF, a leader In the movement that overthrew the Staraboulisky government In 1023, was killed In Sofia. While a great crowd was watching his funeral procession an infernal machine exploded In front of the Sveta Bodllla cathedral, killing some twenty, Injuring many others In cluding Premier ZankofT and wrecking the cathedral. Reports from Sofia said that communist bands were In artned conflict with troops In various localities. All this Is taken to be a part of the announced campaign for the establishment of a soviet republic in Bulgaria. Moscow is said to be sup plying funds and plans. TIIE revolt of the Kurds has entirely collapsed and the Turks have cap tured Sheik Said, the rebel leader, and his suite while they were fleeing to Persia. Said was to be tried at Dlar bekr and It was a certainty that he would be executed. Now the Turkish government la worried by the murderous raids of the Nestorian tribesmen of the Mosul vilayet In Turkish territory. The authorities say these tribes are acting under British iniluence, and they have called more troops to the colors, feel ing that the situation Is alarming. BY A decision In two cases brought by a packing company of Topeka against the Kansas industrial rela tions court, the United States Supreme court has held unconstitutional that part of the Kansas Industrial court act which provided for compulsory ar bitration of labor disputes. It also held that state commissions or Indus trial courts have no right to fix the hours of labor In packing houses or other Industries. In a case from San Francisco the Supreme court ruled that when labor strikes or lockouts do not result In material restraint of Interstate com merce, the federal government Is powerless to Intervene. Two Important tax decisions were handed down by the Supreme court. The first was that states have the right to prescribe in their Inheritance tax laws the method of determining the market value of property trans ferred, and to provide that no de duction shall be made from this value in computing the state tax for any In heritance or estate tax paid to the federnl government. The second de cision held that any gain In value must be taken Into account on taxes under the 1918 revenue act upon securities purchased before March 1, 1013, and sold in 1910. WITH impressive ceremony, a handsome memorial gate, in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, was unveiled and dedicated at Port of Spain, Trinidad, where the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie died In 1810. The American cruiser Mem phis was there for the proceedings and military and civic organizations took part. The gate Is at the entrance of the cemetery where Perry's body lay until It was removed to the United States In 182G, and Is the gift of Amer ican residents of Trinidad. DEATH took two famous men last week. One was Elwood Haynes of Kokomo, Ind., credited with being the Inventor of America's first auto mobile. This "horseless buggy" he drove in Kokomo in 1804, at the re markable speed of eight miles an hour. John Singer Sargent, American member of the British Itoyal Academy and recognized as one of the greatest of contemporary portrait painters, was found dead in bed In his home at Chel sea, England. Born In Florence, Italy, In 1856, he won the highest honors that can be accorded an artist and num bered among his sitters many of the world's most eminent men and beau tiful women. BASEBALL, our national sport, opened Its season most auspicious ly with all the teams of the National and American leagues In action. The attendance surpassed that of opening day last year, that at the National league games being 100.000 and at the American, 128,000. The one thing wrong In the picture was the absence of Babe Ruth from the lineup of the New York Yankees. He was sick abed. flclally to the council's attention by an American corporation having a large branch in Singapore, Straits Settlement. The concern paid Its em ployees there ln\ drafts against the American dollar, Issued In the form of a revolving letter of credit Recent strength in sterling ex change, however, was reflected by sympathetic strength In the Stralta dollar, with the result that the number of Straits dollars realized by the em ployees in selling their drafts in Amer ican dollars dropped perceptibly. _ DOINGS IN THE * I TAR HEEL STATE i news of north Carolina! | TOLD IN SHORT PARA- I I GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE i Kinston.? The last dollar for Kin gton's 10-story hotel was raised y Chamber of Commerce workers. T e structure will cost $220,000. It W lj the tallest building here. Fayetteville.? After one week of a scheduled two weeks' experiment of not printing any crime news, the Fay etteville Observer announced "iri re sponse to an overwhelming public e mand" for crime news, abondonment of the expriement. J Chapel Hill.- ? Orange county ;s go ing to build a new county home one mile out from Hillsboro on the Dur ham road. According to Ralph Ward, chairman of the board of county com missioners, the cost will be about $40, 000, including the $7,000 paid for the land, j Wad esboro ? Fred Hargrave, aged 66 years, for many years a prominent citizen of this place, passed away at his home following a prolonged ill* ness. He was a son of the late John son Hargrave, a prominent lawyer here some years ago. Winston-Salem.? The sixth annual meeting of members of Group Five of th<? North Carolina Bankers Associa tion, composed of about 90 banking in stitutions located in the counties of Alamance, Caswell. Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin, was held at the Robert E. Lee hotel. About 250 bankers were in attendance. Danville.? Mary Catherine Lane, in fant child of James Lane, was burned to death at Pelham, N. C. The father was visiting an ailing brother in Dan ville. The mother, who had been in the field, saw the house on fire. She tried to enter the dwelling but the heat drove her back. The building and all interior effects were destroyed. Greensboro? 'Concerted effert on the part of executives of the Carolina Mo to Club will be directed toward de creasing child accidents during the present year, it is announced by C. W. Roberts, vice-president. Mr. Rob erts udged that motordom correct its attitude relative to this situation. "Don't worry so much about children playing in the streets? watch | your step yourself. Asheville ? Richard Knapp, driver of the automobile which struck a tele phone post on Biltmore Avenue, [result ing in the death of S. H. Gosnell, was given a preliminary hearing before , Judge MacRae in Police Court Satur day and was bound over to Superior Court under bond of $5,000. Asheville. ? Buncombe county in creased Its area by 100,000 acres when forced action was taken annexing Broad river township of McDowell county. The Buncombe county board of commissioners adopted a resolution changing is boundary lines so pa to in clude the township, and to take! charge of the affairs of the township. Elizabeth City. ? Rev. Daniel Iven | son, of Howard Memorial church, Tar ! boro, was elected moderator of the Albemarle District Presbytery, at the opening session of the presbytery here at which work of organization for the sessions was completed. Rev.; J. L. Yandell, of the Edgecombe county field, was elected temporary clerk. Danville. ? Strapped to and engaged in repairing wir?3 Landreth Collins, aged 29, was instantly killed at Leaks ville. He came In contact with a pow er wire carrying 2,300 volts. Work, men on the ground saw him collapse across the wire held "by his bjelt. By the time a switch could be pujlled and help co^ild reach the lineman he wag dead. Elizabeth 'City. ? Staring about breakfast on an April morning and wishing for a fresh fist to cook for the meal, Mrs. W. G. Etheridge, wife of the officer in charge of Nag's Head OoaM Guard Station, had the surprise of her life when a large North Carolina i herring, still alive and kicking, drop 1 ped at her feet in the kitchen door. The herring had fallen from the clutches of a fish hawk overhead. Asheville?Walter B. Carpenter, as sistant cashier of the National Bank of Commerce was awarded damages in the amount of $35,000 a s a reeult of the death of hte wife by the Jury in Superior Court in the proceedings against the Ashveille Power and Light Company. The jury held that the death of Mrs. Carpenter over a year ago was caused through the negli I gence of the Power Company. Wilson^? The formal opening of the | Wilson Woman'i Club new $30,000 I home held at the building on West Broad street proved one of the most brilliant events of the season. Several hundred visitors were entertained dur ing the course of the evening, many of them from out of town and prom inent in club circles throughout the State. Jacksonville, Fla. ? Frank O. Miller, of Jacksonville, president, and other officers of the South Atlantic Coastal Highway Association, were re-elected, and Wilmington, N. C., was selected as the 1926 convention citiy, at the closing session of the annual conven. tion of the association here. Rocky Mount. ? Robert M. Dillard, night superintendent and manager of Edwards-Cutchin Motor Company, was fatally injured here when the auto mobile which he was driving ran into and snapped off a elephone pole on the Tarbpro highway in the vicinity of Pinevfew Cemtery. Charlotte ?Mrs, Lucy Robertson, Instructor in the Greensboro College for Women, was re-elected president of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Western North Carolina Confer ence at the closing session of the con vention here. Oreensboro. ? C. O. Yoakum, of New York, came here with a contractor and engineer to look over a piece of prop, erty upon which it is proposed to erect a hotel to cost over a million dollars. The property is owned by J. E. Lath am, prominent cotton factor and real estate man here, and he will be inter acted in the hotel. ^ L tiiiiiwinnutMiiiiiu Gen. John J. Pershing has been handed a man-sized Job, even for the commander in chief of the American Expeditionary Forces. Within a few days of his appoint ment by President Coolidge as head of the commission to supervise the plebiscite in Tacna and Arica that will decide the sovereignty of territory j In dispute between Chile and Peru for I forty years, he discovered he has been 1 picked out for the most difficult, deli cate and important diplomatic assign ment on the American continent. The Peruvian embassy In Wash ington touched off the fireworks by making public nn official dispatch from Lima in which It was charged that the Chileans had already Insti gated a campaign of terrorism In the occupied territory. The plebiscitary commission, head ed by Pershing, has supervision over I all registratlng and voting and one of the commissions' first duties will be in sifting the facts in the present tions as well as other similar charges which will unquestionably be mn "The Alsace-Lorraine of South America." allepa de over Sol Bloom Tells of the Jewish Farmer Representative Sol Bloom of the Nineteenth New York district (por trait herewith), one of the few Jews In congress ? there are eight In the house and none In the senate ? made an In teresting speech in the last session on the work of the Jewish farmers In the United States today. He pointed out that the Jewish farm population Is over 75,000, farming more than 1,000, 000 acres worth more than $100,000, 000. The Jews are also prominent In the agricultural profession, as distin guished from "dirt farming." Among the Jewish scientists are Dr. Jacob C. Llpman, deon of the New Jersey ag ricultural experiment station^ his brother, Dr. Charles B. Llpman, pro fessor of soil physics In the California Agricultural college; Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, formerly superintendent of the Woodbine Agricultural school, who Introduced "Rosen Rye" into this . country, and who Is now the head of ! the comprehensive agricultural reconstruction project in south Russia ; Dr. J. 1 J. Taubenhaus, plant pathologist in the Texas Agricultural college; J. Levlne, j plant pathologist at the Minnesota experiment station. Representative Bloom has been newspaper man, theater builder, music pub ! Usher and realto-, and constructed the Midway Plalsance at the Chicago World's Fair. Blease Says He Will Hoe His Own Row Former Governor Coleman Living ston Blease is the new United States senator from South Carolina ? and of course he's a Democrat. Wl\pt will he do in the next session? Not even the Democratic leaders can guess. They can be reasonably certain, how ever, that there are certain things he will not do. Senator Blease gave an interview to his home town paper, the New berry (S. C.) Observer. The inter view was not pleasant reading for such Jeffersonians as Robinson of Arkansas, Harrison of Mississippi. King of Utah, Simmons of North Car olina, Swanson of Virginia and Walsh of Montana. To begin with. Senator Blease said he would from the start of his senatorial career fight "every attempt to involve this nation in the affairs of any other nation. I will,!' he contin ued, "resist any move toward partici pation in the League of Nations or th? world court, and I will never agree to any recognition, diplomatic, trade or otherwise, of the Bolshevik government of Russia. I shall work In harmony with ray Democratic colleagues, but will not be bound by the code of any man who ''alls himself a Democrat and at the same time tries to defeat the party (apparently a reference to Senator Wheeler). Stearns Goes Abroad; No "Colonel House" The White House must look de serted these days without Frank W. Stearns of Boston, President Cool ldge's friend. Anyway, he's In Europe for a pleasure Jaunt. But he will be back soon, for his summer home at Swampseott, Mass., adjoins White Court, which has been selected as the "Summer White House." "Pleasure Jaunt" is used advisedly, for Mr. Stearns wanted It understood when he sailed that he was no "Colopel House." Oh, no ; Mr. Stearns Is not wholly resentful of the bright lights which beat about him as the nearest asso ciate of the President, but he Is wor ried lest his relations with "Calvin" be misunderstood both at home and abroad. So he wants It immediately understood that he is not going abroad to sound out sentiment on a new arms parley. He is not going over to see how the League of Nations Is func tioning at Geneva. He Is not going over to bring back official or semi-official reports to the President of the United States as to the state of mind in Europe. Kipling "Nursemaid to the Empire" "Nursemaid to the Empire" Is what some people In England are call ing Rudyard Kipling these days. For he is making political speeches and calling apon his countrymen to cul tivate good will, get together and "carry on." Those who do not like Kipling declare him to be a scribbling person and Intimate that what he does not know about politics would fill a book. What exasperates these peo ple most is the fact that apparently Kipling is speechifying with the Ap proval of Premier Stanley Baldwin. This may well be so, since Bald win and Kipling are own cousins. Their mothers are sisters and the daughters of a Methodist preacher. They are very different. Baldwin Is an Ironmaster, a business man who rather prides himself on being prac tical. Kipling Is a poet, a dreamer of large dreams. He is a man of strong opinion* as his countrymen have reason to know from his writings. Possibly the practical premier JP the "nursemaid" a useful complement to ? 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