The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-26

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retain the road and the matter may
be carried to the United States Su-
preme court.
D USSIA'S picturesque trial of
IN eight engineers accused of an
anti-SOviet conspiracy in which for
eign nations and nOtabilites were
declared to be involved ended as
expected in the conviction of all
the defendants. 1t could not be 9th.
erwise, since all had confessed. Five
of them were sentenced to death
and three to ten years in prison,
and all the Communists applauded
Next day the central executive
committee of the Union of Social
ist Soviet Republics cOmmuted the
five death sentences to ten years
Imprisonment and two years were
taken off the other sentences. The
press of London and Paris looks
on the whole affair as n put up job.
Mo SATISFACTORY explanation
has yet been given of the poi
son fog" which killed 81 persons in
the Meuse valley of Belgium and
France. The Belgian authorities
tried to belittle the affair. but
Queen Elizabeth ruled otherwise
and appointed a commission of ply
sicians to make an investigation.
HENRY CLAY now stands, in
l. i marble, in the center of wide
plaza in Caracas, the capital OF
Venezuela, and he is labeled the
"Apostle of fraternity between the
countries of America" The statue
is the present of the United States
to Venezuela. given in return for
one of Gen. Simon Bolivar, hero
of South American independence,
which was unveiled in New York
in 1921. 1t was dedicated on Tues
day by James r. Sheffield, former
ambassador to Mexico. and re-
ceived by the high officials of the
|. Venezuelan government.
In his address Mr.. Sheffield said:
an speaking TO the people of Vene-
zuela, am trying to interpret to
all the republics of South Amer
lea the friendly attitude of my
country and its faith in the com
plete triumph of free institutions
and governments in the western
world. We aspire to no leadership
in your affairs. We only wish to
help you in attaining the highest
development of your national con-
sciousness and sovereign rights"
CECRETARY of the Navy Adams
y in his annual report points out
the perils in the administration
policy of reducing navy enlisted
personnel to a minimum. He says
that during last year there were
not enough enlisted men to man
fully all types of ships in the navy.
To operate the navy with the re
naming 79,S00 men it will be neces-
sary to decommissiOn n number OF
vessels
Appearing before the house naval
committee. Mr.. Adams asked that
congress approve n S34.000,000 con-
struction program designed to
start our country on the way TO
having such fleet as is authorized
by the London treaty. Chairman
Britten of the committee thereupon
introduced a bill authorizing the
construction of seven new cruisers
| and submarines and one aircraft
| carrier. the only vessels on the navy
program not now authorized.
IF the Adams program Is adopt
ed in it's entirety American gov
ernment and private yards will be
! working on new naval vessels
valued at S3OO,OOO.OOO during the
1882 fiscal year, beginning next
July.
THE annual report of the inter-
/ l. nal revenue commission shows
that ten states with an aggregate
population of less than one-halt
of the total for the country pay
more than three-fourths of the fed
eral tax bill. These states, in their
order. are: New York, North Caro-
lima, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Cali
fornia. Ohio, Michigan, Massachu-
setts, Virginia and Missouri. Few
of the southern and western states.
except those with large industrial
cities, paid tax percentages ap-
preaching their population percent
ages.
The total international revenue
receipts for the fiscal year were set
by the report at 5000, 49, ,733, of
which S2,41O, ,259,230 was paid in
income taxes and 5000, ,SS6,502 in
miscellaneous taxes.
| EE S. OVERMAN, veteran sena-
~ tor from South Carolina, died
in Washington after a weeks ILL
ness. He was seventy-six years
old and had served in the senate