The Owosso times., 1922-08-04


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power" This, Mr.. Smoot supposed, was
the basis Of McCumber's statement,
but he, Smoot, did not think Norris
had been authorized by the publishers
to. make such threat. McCumber
reiterated his statements with added
details and was supported by"Watson
Of Indiana who related how Norris
and other publishers in 1909 offered
to make Joe Cannon president If he
would put through bill placing news
print and wood pulp on the free list
Cannon, he said, ordered Norris from
his office. All Of this; whether true
or not, was highly entertaining to the
Democratic senator's.
| COMMISSIONERS BLAIR of the In
ternal revenue bureau dealt the
liquor industry a hard blow by for
bidding further imports Of wines and
liquors until the supplies already in
the country for nOnbeverage uses are
insufficient for national. requirements.
Secretary Hughes asked, and presum-
| ably'was promised the aid of the. Brit
ish government In the suppression Of
liquor smuggling from Bermuda and
the Bahamas. The British govern
ment, however, has refused the unoffi-
cial request of the United States for
the right to search outside the three
mile limit British vessels suspected
Of being engaged in smuggling liquor
into the United States.
THAT the French are at last reach.
L ing point where they will con-
sent to a reduction of the German
reparations debt Is evidenced by the
plan on which Premier Poincaire Is
working. AS 1t stands now-it Is be-
ing modified daily-the proposition Is
that for every dollar paid by Germany
on the reparations account and for
every dollar Of the allied debts which
Is cancelled. France will cancel an
equal amount of q certain class of
bonds. In the second week in August,
crisis is cleared up, the Morgan COM
mittee of bankers will meet again In
Paris and 1t Is hoped that meantime
the League Of Nations council will
have prepared the. way for the bank
ers to propose new reparations set
are to hold their conference in London
August 16.
THE Bavarian government Is In
L open revolt against the central
German government at Berlin and has
issued decree that rejects and sup
plants the recent legislation by the
reichstag for the defense Of the re-
public. The Bavarlan minister at
Berlin was instructed to inform
Chancellor Wirth that any outside po-
lice official attempting to operate in
Bavaria would be promptly arrested.
Wirth has called a conference Of all
the German states to consider the
problem, and II Bavaria does not
suppress Its new law President Ebert
may summon the staatsgerichtshof, or
tribunal Of the states. to deal with the
case. Chancellor Lerchenfeld Of Ba-
varia says he Is opposed to any sep
aratist movement but that his state
will not submit to any abridgement Of
its rights. The old enmity between
Bavaria and Prussia and the strong
monarchist sentiment among the Ba-
varians make the situation difficult
for Berlin.
u ROM several widely separated /
L sources comes the information that
soviet Russia Is planning military
operations on her western front In the
autumn. Frank vanderlip, the Ameri-
can fnancier who has been In touch
with the Russians In Berlin, says In
Paris that the probability is increasing
that the bolsheviki will force such a
war on Europe In the harvest season,
attacking Rumania and Poland 'in
an attempt to rally Russian morale
and also to get food from the eastern
harvests." Russian refugees In Bel.
grade assert the soviet government Is
preparing for drive through the Bal.
kans and then westward through Aus
tria.
n UGUSTUS THOMAS has been ap-
4 pointed executive chairman of
the Producing Managers association
for three years at large salary, with
powers In the world of the spoken
drama comparable to those Of VIII
Hays In the motion picture industry
and Judge lands In baseball. The
association includes practically MI the
important theatrical producers.