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1 GENERAL NEWS OF THE DAY s V Germany is making a desperate effort -to avoid being surrounded by a ring of hostile powers. The French cabinet is expected to approve the military pact with Soviet Russia Friday; or Saturday. The crew of the Pan-American clipper plane has befun the work of analyzing the data of the flight to Hawaii. Bulgaria is reported in a state of discontent as opposition leaders are exiled, and the cabinet has resigned in protest. Upton Sinclair has declared that he is not out of politics and that he hopes to extend his "end poverty" plan to all states of the union. A total of 11,640 were -arrested or given notices to appear in court during the four-day drive of the police against motorists without Illinois and Chicago licenses. The TJnited States has lodged a vigorous protest against Germanys failure to pay the semi-annual interest payment due on Dawes loan bonds held by Americans. On charges that he sang to his bookkeeper and spent government funds and time breeding pigeons, Mikhail Ifremov, chief engineer of the hard soil excavation department of the Moscow subway, was sentenced to ten years in prison. Leo Magnus, 1831 North Francisco Avenue, Chicago, a Tuley high school student, was seized when he picked up a dummy package left in response to his written demands for ransom for the missing Richard Max Perrot. Magnus admitted he wrote the notes to the boys father for "a thrill," and now faces federal prosecution. A dispatch from Havana says: "The police laid half a dozen additional crimes at the door of the group of leftist leaders indicted with Antonio Guiteras, former secretary of war, navy and interior, for the 00,000 kidnaping of Eutimio Falla Bonet." .
