The Coolidge examiner., 1930-11-21

A'A war lOrQ OF MdnCnurla WHO
by his intervention ended the civil
war in China, went to Marking last
week to confer with President
Chang Kai-shek on a program of
reconstruction. The finance prob
lem presents the greatest difficulty,
for the Nanking government hopes
to persuade the Manchurian fac
tiOn to surrender the customs and
salt gabele revenues which Mar
shal Chang Is cOrnering. Chang
also is asking Nanking for $5,000,
600 monthly for the upkeep of
Manchurian troops within the great
wall.
XAET Republicans are demand
w ing that Senator Simeon d.
Fess of Ohio resign as chair
man of the Republican national
committee because he said that the
party must remain dry or face Il
split and be defeated in 1882. The
senator declares that this was
merely his personal opinion, and
that while he will continue TO do
all he can to combat efforts by the
vets to weaken prohibition, he may
be ready to support any recon-
mendations made by the Wicker
sham commission that would tend
to make prohibition more enforce
able. He more than intimates he
will not give up the craftsmanship,
hut n
will soon be forced out and that
Robert II. Lucas will succeed him
and conduct the next Presidential
campaign.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, pres
ident of Columbia university, says
that if the Republican party's plat
form in 1882 does not call for re-
peal of the Eighteenth amendment
"there will come in the following
November the biggest political
smaSh-up that has taken place iii
the history of any American now
living"
AS a matter of fact, the leaders
of both parties are greatly con-
cerned over the problem of adjust
ing their platform on the liquor is
sue so as to retain their respec-
tive strengths.
The Wickersham commission,
trying to get together on a report
concerning prohibition enforce
ment, continued its hearings and
deliberations until Thursday and
then adjourned until November "a.
Among the witnesses it heard were
DR.. William c. Woodward of Chi
cago, legislative counsel for the
American Medical association, and
DR.. William H. Mayer of Pitts
burgh, Pa. Both doctors were I'M
derstood to have told the commits
sion that they felt the present dry
law provisions are obnoxious to
their profession generally and a
burdensome interference with the
practice of reputable physicians.
= EN-. TASKER H. BLISS, who
~ was chief of staff of the
United States army during the
World war, American representa-
tive on the supreme war council
and one of the American peace
commissioners in 1918, died in Wal
ter Reed hospital, Washington, at
the age of seventy-SiX years. He
was buried in Arlington with full
military honors.
Thomas Coleman du Pont, for
mer senator from Delaware, finan-
cier and for years head of E. l. du
POnt de Nemours & Co., passed
away at his home in Wilmington,
Del. Other notables who died in
cluded DR.. Julia Holmes Smith of
Chicago. pioneer suffragist and
philanthropist; John Lee Mahin,
noted advertising man; Sidney NJ.
Colgate, soap magnate, and F. M.
Hubbell of Des MOineS, reputed
to be Iowa's wealthiest citizen.
THREE Iandslides in rapid sue
l. cession. caused by heavy rains,
buried part of Fourvieres, dense
ly populated industrial suburb of
Lyon. France. Scores were buried
alive and it was thought the death
list might run as high as 100. Mem
bers of rescue parties that began
work after the first landslide were
among the victims of the later ones.
DREAIIER YukO Hamaguchi of
l. Japan was mortally wounded
in a Tokyo railway station by a
young member of reactionary pa
triotic society. He was shot in the
abdomen. The premier, known as
the Lion of Japan" was consid-
cred a financial genius and was
popular.
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