Evening star., 1925-03-22

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| be Attorney General of the United
! States. On March II the President
nominated John Garibaldi Sargent for
| the office, and the nomination was
| unanimously approved by the Senate
| the same day. Mr. Sargent is So
years of age, a country lawyer of
Ludlow, Vt. (not far from the
Coolidge home at Plymouth), an old
! friend of Col. Coolidge and the Presi-
dent. an enthusiastic fisherman. a
good shot and something of a natur-
| alist.
| Before submitting Mr.. Sargent's
name to the Senate. the President
| had Informed Mr.. Warren by letter
| that he proposed to offer him a re-
! cess appointment as Attorney Cen
| eral, but Mr.. Warren ended the en-
barrassing episode by replying that
| he would not accept such an offer.
Copies OF this letter were issued for
| publication before the nomination of
| Mr.. Sargent.
On March II the President nomi-
mated Dir. Jacob Gould Schurman.
Minister to China, to be Amba ssador to
| Germany. The nomination was con-
frmed by the Senate the same day.
| The special session of the Senate
ended on March is.
On March Is a tornado. starting in
| the Ozark hills of Missouri, swept
! across northeastern Missouri, south
| ern Illinpis and southern Indiana
and down into Kentucky and Tennes-
| see, practically wiping out several
| towns, wreaking terrible havoc in
many others. killing about 500 per-
| sons, injuring about 5000 others and
| rendering $4,000 homeless. 1t was.
| one is told, the most destructive tor
nado of record. Its path was in parts
| about a mile wide. elsewhere it mar
rowed to feet. Illinois was far the
worst sufferer, nearly 700 dead and
| 1000 inquired.
The same day a fire destroyed the
Breakers Hotel, the Palm Beach Ho-
| tel and several smaller buildings at
Palm Beach.
Unable to pay its debts, the Chi
| cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Rail-
| road has been placed in the hands of
| receivers. In 1924 the system earned
| only 2.75 per cent on its capital in
vestment.
Miscellaneous. The thirty-third
| session of the Council of the League
of Nations ended on May IA.
Back in the Spanish zone of Mo-
rocco, directing operations, Gen.
Primo de Rivera, president of the
| Spanish military directorate. declares
| that within IL months there will be
| peace between Spain and the tribes
| men. He is satisfied that the resis-
tance of the enemy is breaking
down" 1t may be breaking down
| and then again 1t may not
Lithuania is indignant at the desg-
! nation by the vatican of the Arch
| bishop of Wilma as having jurisdic-
! ton over Polish religious territory, a
! sort of recognition, as they see 1t, of
| the Polish claim to Wilma. A part of
| the Lithuanian press has, in conse-
| quence, been clamoring for the ex-
pulsion of the papal emissary from
Kovno.
On Friday reports reached us of
| another clash between Polish and
Lithuanian frontier guards, and the
alarmists were all agog. Yesterday
| we learned that through the good Of
| fees of Mr.. Chamberlain and nj. Her
| riot the business had been smoothed
over.
At the request Of the league coun-
ell the World Court will meet in
| special session on April IA to decide
the dispute between Poland and
| Danzig. The immediate issue is fan
| tastic enough, but back of the quar-
| rel about the mail boxes are issues of
| profound Importance.
According>to a dispatch from Ber-
| lin, Communist papers in Russia ad-
| NIT that more than 100000 children in
| southern Russia are starving.
The reports concerning the Kurdish
/ insurrection that reach us are con-
| flicting.
On March IS fire swept a district
| of Toxic being rebuilt after the great
earthquake and its ensuing fire, de-
! stroying LOO buildings, rendering
| nearly 5000 persons homeless and in
| juring nearly 100.
At last Capt. Roald Amundsen's air.
| planes, especially constructed in Italy
| for his proposed flight from Spitz-
| bergen over the North Pole to Alaska,
are paid for and in his possession.
| They are about to leave Leghorn by
steamer for epitzherEAa