Evening star., 1923-04-22
BY HENRY ". BUM.
T HE following is a brief summary of the
most important news of the world for
/ the seven days ended April 20:

most important news of the world for
the seven days ended April 20:
United States OF Americn-After confer
ence between the President and the Shipping
Board the other day, statement was issued
with the Presidents authorization of which
the following is the more important part:
with the failure Of the subsidy bill. the
board is confronted with it's vast possession
of ships and the heavy losses under the exist
ing plan of operations under managing
agents.
In compliance with the shipping act the
board will proceed at to the consolda-
tion of foreign trade lines and then offer the
izaton of the law, conditioned on suitable
guaranty Of maintained service.
justihable saerice Of the ships, then The gov.
ernment will proceed to direct government
there ne isl is unanimous agreement that the exist
ing law contemplates and authorizes an
marine; and and such a course Will be followed Owed
Hs It's Tri larger iu',i deveiopmente' eHaae II anu
The existing law" referred to is the Jones
fer the ne presen, scai year an approprson
Of Quite naturally the
and speculation, both at home and in Great
The United States and Japanese government
have by ssi eHchanse of notes NO the
on Hpr Il ut eues. Macpeady and Kelley of
the Army established new airplane record
for gh in In b the T Fofer
hve minutes and twenty seconds ,,
same mae day ay'st at Ihe the Wii,ur Wright Field.
Gen. Mitchell. assistant chief of the United
States Air Service, has announced that pro.
viding the ship is ready, Lieuts. Kelley and
Macready will start their nonstop transcon-
tinental flight from New York to San Francisco
within a month. In May of 1924" said the
general, I'VE plan to send six airplanes, OF a
.ype not yet determined, upon cruise around
The Thomas jefferson Memorial Foundation
has been Incorporated. 1t proposes to raise Il
fund of s1.000G0O for the purchase of
Monticello and its preservation as national
The Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester Tuttle,
for many years past the presiding bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal Church. died on
April IL at the age of eighty-six
The British Empire.-Stanley Baldwins bud.
set for the coming British fiscal year proposes
II reduction of the income from five
.shillings and sixpence in the pound: cutting
the corporation profits tax in two; taking Il
penny per pint from the price Of beer and
some other reliets of which the most relate,
l underst tand. to agriculture. These changes
supposed. he estimates the revenue for the
next fiscal year at S1s.o00.o0o pounds and ex
peuditure S16,616.0O0 pounds. Mr. Baldwin
favors tax on betting, and will move for
committee Of the commons to consider and
report upon the advisabilty of a betting tax
Noting that the financial year just ended
got steadily better as it proceeded" Mr..
With the capture Of Austin Stack. the
14th and of Dan Breen, on the 18th, there
very few important Irish "irregulars" left
who not in captivity There found
on Austin Stacks person a document which
clearly proves that the rebellion, in a military
view at least, is on its very last legs.
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Germnny.-There were number OF acts of