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News Review of Current Events the World Over 4 k- . ? * ' $.;? , * . * . . * ' . . * ' % s Startling Victory of Democrats in the Maine Election ? Hoover Calls for Big Budget Cutd ? Von Papen ? Triumphs Over Reichstag. By EDWARD W. PICKARD GREAT rejoicing among the Demo crats, and corresponding/ dismay In the Republican <^amps. Maine, nor mally a rock-ribbed Republican state, has gone Democratic, and everyone is quot ing the old adage: MAs Maine goes, so goes the Nation." Whether or not that is true, this Septem ber election certainly gives Immense en couragement to the supporters of Frank lin D. Roosevelt. Nor did the Hoover forces attempt to minimize its Importance. Louis J. Brann For the first time In 18 years Maine chose a Democrat for governor. He Is Louis J. Brann, mayor of Lewlston, whose plurality over Burleigh Martin was nearly 1,400. The Democrats also elected two out of three congressmen the victors be ing Edward C. Moran, Jr., Rocliland Insurance agent who twice ran for governor, and John G. Utterback, an automobile dealer who was once re form mayor of Bangor. Congressman Carroll L Beedy, Republican, was re elected In the First district Republican National Chairman Ev erett Sanders sent a reassuring tele gram to President Hoover, but the Chief Executive was not to be de ceived. His reply wire said : "The result of the election In Maine imposes need for renewed and strong er effort that the people may fully un derstand the Issues at stake. We have known all along that, owing to the ravages of tho world depression, our fight is a hard one; but we have a strong case and a right caufee. Our task is to acquaint every man and woman in the country wfth the facts and issues which confront the nntion." "We are greatly disappointed," ad mitted Vice President Curtis. "But It will only make us work the harder, and we will carry Maine in Novem- | ber." Democratic Chairman Farley grinned exultantly as he said he was impa tiently awaiting a Republican expla nation of the Democratic victory In Main?. "The Democrats do not concede a single state," he added. "I think It must be admitted by Mr. Hoover's sup porters that In this particular com monwealth the Democratic prospects were no better, to put it mildly, than in the least promising (from our point of view) of the so-called doubtful states. Maine was no harder hit by the depression than the rest of the country and had no more reason to resent the evasive policies of the ad ministration." PRIMARIES were held In various states during the week. In Mich igan Gov. Wllber M. Brucker, Repub lican, easily won renomlnatlon and Representatives Walcott and Person also were victors. The Democrats named W. A. Comstock for governor. Senators George H. Moses of New Hampshire and Porter Dale of Ver mont were renominated by the Repub licans, as was Senator E. D. Smith by the Democrats of South Carollna. Cole Blease being rejected. In Louisiana ' Representative John H. Overton, friend of Senator Huey Long, defent ed Senator Broussard who sought re ?, nomination. MR. "HOOVER poked a stick into a hornet's nest when he made public the report of Attorney General William D. Mitchell on the bonus army nnd tho regrettable Incident of Its oust ing from Washington. Mitchell said his In vestigators found that most of the B. F3. F. members were hon est, earnest and law abiding, but that per haps a quarter of them were criminals, * many were radicals, many were arrant fakers, and the worst were among those who were evicted by Att'y Gen. Mitchell troop* with tear gns andv flrimes. The attorney general defended the manner of eviction and the conduct of the troopn used, and the Presl dent said; "This report should cor rect the many misstatements of fact as to this Incident with which the country has be&n flooded." But many newspapers and Individ uals, hotly discussing the report, de clared It was misleading generally and absolutely false In certain vltnl parts; and It is a question whether It did not still further alienate a con siderable part of the body of wnr veterans from suppoft ot jthe admin istration. Of course, it was one of the major topics of talk among the members of the American Legion when they assembled 16 'Portland. Of greater Importance to the I/O < jtlonnnlres than this affair ,wss the demand for Immediate cash payment ot the bono*. The resolution calling for this was adopted by a vote of 1,167 to 109 after a noisy debate. The dele gates thus disregarded tfffe warnings of President Hoover and General Hlnes, director of the veterans' bu reau, that the payment would cost tha treasury between two and two and one-half billion dollars and Impose an Intolerable burden on taxpayers. Other resolutions adopted called for repeal of the Eighteenth amendment and Immediate modification of the Volstead act, opposed cancellation of foreign war debta and favored ade quate national defense. Chicago was selected for the 1933 convention, and Louis A. Johnson of Clarksburg, W. Va., was elected national commander. HOW the problem of Intergovern mental debts may best bo solved Is the puzzling question that Is now being considered by a new organlza tlon of business lend ers of the nation, sev enty-six men promi nent In Industry, agri culture and labor. Al fred P. Sloan, Jr., president of General Motors, Is the chair man, and the vice chairmen Include Hen ry A. Wallace, farm paper publisher of Des Moines; Dr. Nicholas Murray But I A. P. Sloan, Jr. ler, president of Co lumbia university ; James M. Cox, for mer governor of Ohio; John W. Davis, former ambassador to Great Britain; Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois; E. A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bu reau federation, and Louis Tabor, master of the National grange. Mr. Sloan's new forum, It Is an nounced, will devote itself to "mob ilizing practical opinion" on the international debts question. PRESIDENT HOOVER started off the week well by calling on the heads of departments and the execu tives of all other federal activities to cut out all non-essentials from bug get requests for the next fiscal year. The President said he had requested Director of the Budget Roop ' "to make every "flfort to secure a reduc tion of at least $500,000,000 in the estimates of appropriations for the next year from the appropriations made for the current year, and the co-operation of the responsible ad ministrative officers Is necessary to achieve this end. A, part of this can be accomplished in reduction of con struction, activities which have been so greatly speeded up during the past few years as an aid to employment." . From administration sources It was learned the President hoped the to tal budget reduction might bo $800, 000,000. Just before sending his message to department head3, the President an nounced that the government would go ahead with that portion of the construction program which the relief act made contingent on the ability of the treasury to raise the necessary money. He said he had Instructed the various departments to speed up the program by the amount of slight ly less than $200,000,000. On Tuesday the War department, to advance the government's employ ment relief efforts, approved a great construction program thnt calls for the expenditure of $41,f>77,200 on flood control and rivers and harbors proj ects. The dopnrtment expects these activities will provide work for 25, 000 persons now Jobless. THOUGH supported by only one fifteenth of the relchstag, the gov ernment of Chancellor Von Papen of Germany remains In power, for It has the bricking of Presi dent Von ITIndenburff who seems to agree with the chancellor that parliamentary government In the relch Is a failure.. When the relchstag met Monday Von Fa pen tried to read the command for its dis solution given him by the president, but Herman (Joerlng, the Von Papen Nazi president of the! parliament, refused to recognize him t until after a voto of non confidence In the government had been moved by a Nazi and carried by an overwhelming majority. Von Papen wnlked out, leaving the decree of dissolution on Ooerlng'H desk. That gentleman announced It was not valid since thA relchstag hnd already overthrown the cabinet. I,ater he admitted thfit both the dissolution and the vote of non-conflrtonco were legal, after being rebuked by the pres , Ident for his action, -dovernment offi cials aald there would be new elec tions Within sixty days, according to the constitution, but tho Deutsche* Zeltung, mouthpiece of the govern I ment, said: "There will bo no new i elections? no decision on s date of l election Is expected In the near future." AS WAS forecast a week ago, France rejected the German de mand fpr equality of Armaments, though In a conciliatory way, assert ing that the other allied nations and also the United States would have to assent to. Che proposal before It could be granted. Chancellor Von Papen thereupon announced, that German delegates, would not attend further ses sions of the disarmaments conference, which reassembled Wednesday. FROM Riga comes the Interesting statement that Josef Stalin, dic tator of Soviet Russia, has loBt his influence and before long will be re placed Q8 secretary of the Communist party ? the only office he holds ? by M. I. Kaganovlch. This lat ter man, however, Is a devoted disciple of Klem E. Voroshllov, commander of the Soviet armies, so It is taken for granted that Voroshllov will thereafter direct the policies of the Com munist party and of the nation. K. E. Voro. shilov Stalin's reign, it is said, Is being brought to u close because of failure of the flve-year plan to industrialize the country, coupled with the growing shortage of food, which Is causing workers everywhere to desert the In dustrial undertakings and return to the villages. Another reason for the fall of the dictator Is said to be Moscow's hope to obtain American recognition by a radical change of Internal policy. Vo roshllov is anxious to obtain America as an ally against Japan, whose plans, Russians fear, threaten Siberia. MANCHOUKUO, the "independent" 'state set up by Japan In Man churia, is now a full-fledged nation for Japan gave it recognition by sign ing a protocol Thursday at Chang chun, which city was re-named HBlnching, meaning "New Capital." There was great rejoicing in Tokyo nnd a display of Intense resentment in Chinese cities. CHILE narrowly escaped another revolution during the week. A military clique led by Col. Arttfro Benitez, air force commander, served notice on Carlos Davlla, the Social ist President and former ambassa dor to Washington, thnt unless he re signed the Presidential palace would be bombed or attacked by troops. The clique already had forced the resignation of the cabinet, and the men and planes of the air corps gath ered at Santiago ready for action. So Davlla gracefully stepped down and out, saying he would leave Chile and probably would seek a job in journalism in some other country. G athered in sioux city for the purpose of considering the needs of the farmers, governors and other representatives of nine middle west ern states outlined a proposed federal program for financial aid to farmers. Among other things they suggested tariff revision to protect, farm prod ucts, "sound" expansion of currency. Reconstruction Finance corporation loans to farmers, $ moratorium on farm mortgage foreclosures and crop surplus control legislation. This program seemed fuirly satis factory to the farmers who were on "strike," and there was an Immediate decrease in the picketing that had kept much farm produce out of sev eral large cities, especially In Iowa. FOR several days It was believed the "Flying Family," made up of Mr% and Mrs. George R. Hutchinson, their two small daughters and a crew of four, had perished, off the coast of Greenland on their flight by stages to Europe. Their huge amphibian plane was forced down and smashed in the Ice, but all of them were found alive and unhurt In an Eskimo settle ment and were taken to AngmagKnlik P?y the lirltish trawler Lord Talbot. The projected flight of the Hutchin sons over Greenland and Iceland was not approved by the Danish govern ment, and the taking of the children has been severely criticized. Receivers for the insuii utility Investments, Inc., report to Fed eral Judge Llndley In Chicago that the concern Is hopelessly insolvent, Its assets being $27,473,304 and ItH liabilities $253,084,341. Aside from the $148,000,000 which 51,078 persons Invested in the stock of the corpora tion and lost, there still remains a deficit of $78,474,403. That apparently wipes ont the pur chasers of $58,045,028 of debenture bonda In the company, with Atill n deficit of nearly $20,000,000. That Is nearly half of what the bankers loaned the corporation. KOUR years ngo John D. Rockefel ler, Jr., conceived the Idea of r? storing the old town of Williamsburg, Va., to the conditions of colonial days. Tho first step In the project, the restoration of the historic Raleigh tavern, has been completed, and the structure, rebuilt on the original site nnd furnished In the style In vogue 150 years ago, was opened to the pub lie on Friday. This one Item has cost more than $200,000 of the $5,000, 000 Mr. Rockefeller has contributed for tho entire work. Close by tho tavern, which Is sit uated on' the f)uke of Gloucester j, street, Is the old Colonial Capitol building, another of tho stmeturo which ha* been Included In the res toration plan nnd which In now near ?' Ing completion. * ? 1932 W??t?rn NewApnpor Union. Disappearance of Judge Still Remains Mystery T wo- Y ear Search for New York Jurist Unavailing. .Kew York. ? Two years ago Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater sauntered casually out of Haas' res taurant, 332 West Forty-fifth street, Manhattan, stepped into a taxicab, waved a Jovial farewell to the friends with whom he had been dining, and I drove off into oblivion. Not only have the police been un able to find any trace of him, dead or alive, but they have been unable to locate the taxi driver or cab in which many of his friends believe he took his last ride. But whatever his fate, he left be hind him a baffling mystery that al ready has taken its placo beside the mysterious disappearance of Dorothy Arnold and Charlie Ross. Intensive Search Futile. Never in recent years has there been so intensive or so futile a search for a missing person. Coming in the midst of the investigation of charges that District Leader Martin J. Healy had accepted a $10,000 bribe for ob taining George W. Ewald an appoint ment as city magistrate, It created a political sensation. The attorney general's investigation Into the Healy-Ewald charges was ex tended to cover other charges which were sent from various sources to the attorney general affecting higher and lower courts. The attorney general dug deep into the Crater disappear ance in an effort to learn whether his mysterious absence had any connec tion with the Judicial probe. He could find none. The police, personal friends and members of the family of the Jurist were equally unable to find any rea son why he should vanish. The board of aldermen offered a reward of $25, 000 for Information as to his where abouts. Mayor Walker offered $5,000 reward. Other rewards were offered by the newspapers. It was estimated that in all some $250,000 was spent in running down wlll-o' the-wisp clews in various parts of the United States, Canada. Mexico and Cuba. The search Is still on. Legally Justice Crater Is still alive. His wife, Mrs. Stella Crater, still clings to a tenuous hope that he may actually be so. ? If he is alive, a secondary mystery Is how a man with such unusual charac teristics can remain undiscovered after his photograph and description have been spread so widely throughout vir tually the entire civilized world. For Crater's appearance was such as would attract attention anywhere. Although he was six feet tall and weighed 185 pounds, his head was so small that he wore a hat. With all his bulk, he had a long, thin neck, and wore a size 14 collar. Crater was appointed to the Su preme court bench on April 8. 1930, by Governor Roosevelt to succeed Joseph F. Proskauer. Spending the summer of 1930 with his wife at Belgrade Lnke, Maine, where they had been going for 15 years, Crater received a telephone call on August 2 and told his wife he was going to Manhattan on important po litical business. Never Saw Him Again. On August 4, 5 and 0 he was in his chambers in the New York county courthouse,' according to his personal attendant, Joseph Mara, son of John Mara, Tammany leader of the twenty third A. D. On August C, Mara said, Perfect No Trump Hand Dealt Player Buffalo, N. Y. ? Mrs. George O. Lehmann was dealt a perfect bridge hand In a recent game with her husband and two ott er players. Mrs. Lehmann kept a straight fac6 when picking up her cards and with no trace of emotion bid a grand slam at no trump <o the astonish ment of. the other players. The unusual hand contained- ev ery aee, king and queen in the deck, together with one Jack. Justice Crater spent most of the morn ing tearing up papers and putting others ip a brief case and in four card board boxes. Then he sent Mara out to cash two checks totaling $5,100. Mara returned with the money and helped the Jurist carry the hoxes of papers and the brief case to his apartment at 40 Fifth avenue, Manhattan. He told Mara he was "going up In Westchester for a swim" and would be back the next day. That was the last Mara ever saw of him. But he did not go to Westchester that afternoon and his movements have been traced that night up to the time he enteied the mystery cab. At 0:30 he purchased a theater ticket at the theatrical ticket office of Joseph Gralnsky In Times Square. Then he weht to the Forty-fifth street restau rant. In the restaurant he dined with William Klein, attorney for Shubert brothers; a show girl named Sally Ix>u Ritz, and her parents. They left the restaurant with him and It was to them he wtived farewell after he stepped Into the taxlcab. Red Ant* Fill Signal, Halt Trains in Texas Marshall, Texas. ? Ants ? common red ants ? stopped traffic on the Ivouls lana division of the Texas & Pacific railroad for a time, much to the an noyance of everybody. Passenger train No. 24. eastbound, encountered a red light near Scotts vllle and halted. Trainmen were un able to find the cause. Train No. 20 had the same trouble. An Investigation revealed that ants had worked Into the signal box and formed the contact/ Many ants had been electrocuted, breaking the cur rent and causing the signul to remain red. England's "White Horiei" There are three "White Horses" in England, one In Berkshire, one on the downs three miles east of West bury in Wiltshire, and a third at Lul worth near Weymouth in Dorsetshire. On the top of the White Horse hill In Berkshire Is a magnificent Roman camp, complete as If left only a few years ago, and on the downs at West bury the earth works are as perfect as any could be found in France from the World war. As these two horses are only a few miles apart, with their camps, there seems good reason for believing the legends told of them to be founded In fact. There Is no doubt that battles were fought In that sec tion. The Dorsetshire horse was cut to commemorate another event. BO" CALLS TEAM OUT "Bo" McMlllin, as tie was known when ho led the "praying colonels" of Center college, Kentucky, has lined up some promising material for the new season at Kansas State college, where he now officiates. The future quarter back in the picture is Jere Robert Mc Mlllin, ten months old, who shows con siderable aptitude in learning signals, according to his proud dad. Two Great Expositions Are Planned by Paris Paris. ? Two great world expositions are planned for Paris during the next five years, a first World's Kibor fair, in 193."), and the second International Decorative Arts exposition, in 1037. They will be followed by a third In ternational Colonial exposition before 1940. Modern decorative arts, particularly in furniture, interior decorating, jew elry and architecture, have changed so rapidly that the lines which existed in 192a, the epoch of the first arts exposition, are sadly out of fashion. The Labor fair is intended to revive the trades and corporations of other centuries, to re-establish the bands of each branch of industry. It will also revive the great labor fetes of the Eu ropean calendars of the days of kings and serfs ? the annual harvest fetes, grape picking parties, and other cele brations which went out with the revo? lution. Poem* Were Returned Educated, pure young Japanese poet seeks position as Journalistic worker, window cleaner, tutor, housekeeper or schoolboy. ? Japan Advertiser, Tokio. Nile River Water Will Engulf Temple of Isis <e_ Was Erected to Isis, Goddess of Fertility. Cairo, Egypt. ? Again one of those extraordinary coincidences between the super natural mythology of oncient Egypt and happenings In the land of I'haroahs In the present day has come to startle believers In the occult. When the late Lord Carnnvaron, who, with Howard Carter, brought the relics of Tut-ankh-Aninn's tomb to light, died as the result of the bite of an Insect, mystics pointed to the fate of the great archeologist as the ful fillment of a dire prophecy. The mod ern world considered the death of I/ord Carnavaron as merely a strange coincidence. And now those conversant with Egyptian mythology point to the forthcoming submergence of the tem ple of Isis, ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility, which Is so oddly linked with the mythology of the goddess. For the mysterious temple of Isis, which Is located on the most beauti ful islond In all Egypt, I'hllae, seven miles south of the great Assunn dam, will bo completely submerged when the Assuan reservoir, now being en Lost at Sea for 115 Days - Drifting helplessly for 115 days In n disabled SO foot flsKlhg boat, It. A. Iilggs of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, was picked up off Point San Luis, Calif. He was weak from hunger and exhaustion after nearly four months of wandering over the seas, during which, he srtld, he was once driven by the wind to a point only 000 miles from Honolulu. The photograph shows Illgga on tho how of his boat. t larged, is filled by the annual flood waters of the Nile. ; And as the waters of the Nile an I nually recede from the flood stage, this great temple, one of the most beautiful ruins of antiquity, will, as if having imparted to the waters the fertility which the ancient Egyptians believed was in the power of the god dess to bestow, again for a season, appear in Its former glory. Isis, the patron goddess of the Pharaohs, was the goddess of nature and fertility, and the greatest goddess of lOtfypt, who, with her husband Osiris, legend relates, dwelt when on earth on the fruitful Island of Philne. Osiris was a kind and beneficent rrod. lie was the first to teach his children, the Egyptians, how to grow barley and wheat and how to make wine. He also built banks along the Nile to pre vent it from destroying life and prop erty lit flood times and constructed Irrigation canals tn make richly pro ductive the barren lands near the Nil valley. In addition to being worshiped as the god of ascrlculuire, Osiris was looked upon as having the same pow ers as llep, the divine keeper of the Nile. When the mineral impregnated waters of the great stream made fer tile the lands along Its banks so that the crops grown thereon were boun teous. offerings were made him by the priesthood in the temple of Isis. Boys Mixed Up at Birth May Get Right Parent* Iterlln. ? A mother's recognition of familiar features of a son twelve years old may restore to her her rightful boy In place of the child given her by mlstako at the time of his birth. Frau Mario Donk of Oladhach, der ma ny, has a suit, on file to force Kran Mathilda Month to exchange sons born 12 years ago In a maternity clinic. Tho prospects for the exchange are favor able. but the happiness of tho boys, in finding natural parents whom they do not know, Is being considered. Though Frau Donk declares she pro tested to nurses in 1 5)20 that they had given her the wrong baby, It was not, until a few months ago when sh? chanced to meet Heinrich, son of Frau Heuth, on the streets, and found his resemblance to her eldest son so strik ing that she became convinced sho had been given the wrong baby at the hos pital. Illood tests, fingerprints, and facial features seem to prove Fhm Donk's Judgment. If the court confirms tho 'scientists' Judgment, the Mouth family has agreed not to challenge tho de cision.