Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1921, Page 13

L BYAL " British‘and French Even Hint| ~* at'Pact With Gerarany to U. S. AID MOST, DESIRED Sy This or at operation. circles in Paris that last April Austin Chamberlain, & member of the ‘British cabinet, drafted a memorandum approv- ¥ Lord Cruzon, the B minister, asserting that Bj sian policy was a failure. It pointed out the danger of a Russo- German alliance which would be the strongest continental combination since the -time of Napoleon, peace of Europe and eventtally the in- dependence of Great this er, it is asserted, Chamberlain would tighten the bonds between Great Britain and France and if possible ob- tain the participation of Germany in order to draw her out of the Russfan It is asserted that this argument impressed Lloyd George, who is. now working on_ British opinion to accept this view and ‘is now sounding out French opinion. ir British Adv It is said that the British advanta v of a Franco-British allianice with eithes | Germany or the United States partici- pating would be four, namely: ed b; orbit. torial security. Great.Britain could re- strain “French Tthperialism."” (2) If Germany were included in such an _alliance it astrength to the combination, but make Germany secure against the Russian PARIS, France, June 13—The diplo- matic situation in Eugepe seems to be in a shake-up. Every one appears to recognize the necessity of: greater stability and clearness of understand- ing between events, of which those in Upper Silesia have been typical, far-seeing men: by revealing the im- minent danger in freé-for-all quarrels in which each nation seeks an ad- vantage over the others while Eu- Topean economic, life disintegrates and Reace grow dimmer. ‘Many political been suggested, but in Paris atten is concentrated ap the possibility of a written alliance with Great Britain. is ardently hoped for by the dominating oircles in French political life if it can be accomplished under conditions that will safety of French interests. of Great Britain's aversion to formal alliances, it is believed in Paris that she is taking the initiative in agitat- g for the proposed alliance. France until now has been taking a coy role. U. 8. Co-Operation Desired. . proposed alliance has numerous possible forms. with Winston Churchill -on_ the neces- of a_triple alliance betyeen Great ain, France and cectain” that the first choice Qn both sides of the channel + American participation in the ‘alliance least permanent American co- The Franco-British Agreement. Has =l “More Support in Eagland BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. Cable mh;«ur and Fu (1) By danger. | | | 3 |+ i | | | the French military assistance in the LANGE ALK Outwit Reds.. Chicago Dally News. "opyright, 1021. > the nations. Recent have frightened o mere the job of el prospects for permanent combinations have | Minor. more troops, ke In spite guarantee sons, namely : Some Frenchmen agree | (2). Fear Britain. ny, but it is would be for It is said in well informed menacing the | UTEINE 2 Britain. Against worjd.", certain Freneh official tageés. France - will guaranteeing French terri- 1919. would not only add duced to join of Greece: name opini MISS FLORENCE BAHMAN, - City clerk of Sea Cliff, Long Island, is ‘the mominal head of the city govern- ment as a result of the of the city trustees. as Miss Bahman eleetion, within she will guide the destinies, wit city attermey as her tmtor. Mixs Bakman that running cult tha; ity clerk. — east of Europe would save Great Britain | from -the bankruptcy of its mear east policy against the victorious Turks, who | are now threatening to pweep over Asia Great Britain is unable to send 8, while France has the most powerful army iin the world. (4) If the United States could be in- that would be popular among the British dominions, which mis- trust the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Why France Hesitates. ‘Tho hesitation of France about enter- ing such an alliance is due ‘to four rea- (1) Fear that the United States would resent a Franco-British and American goodwill is just now the chief preoceupation of the French. (2). Fear that such an alliance would “enslavement' (3). Fear that Great Britain would demand that the French armies draw Hritish chestnuts out of the fire, making of Franice what the British scek to make her police force in the near east. France is unwilling to ‘share either moneyv or French blood on | §: adventures not directly in her own in- < A belief (4). ef which is gaining gro that France does not need the allies. o Franco-German Alliance Hinted. There is also a powerful section of French opinion, close co-operation- with or without a British alliance. On excellent authority the writer has heard the astounding as- sertion that conversations to this end have recently taken ' place between “high personages” in France and Ger- many through the intermediary of “personality of-the American diplomatic From all this it will be seen how un- European politics is on at this be formulated thus: If the United States refuses to enter the: proposed: aliiunce accept a Franco-Britis: cqmbination if French independence is safeguarded and England copsents enter into a more precise and extensive engagement, better guaranteed than ths “understanding” of 1910 or the pact.of The. evil that men do lives after .c ...cn misconstrued Ly the attorneys for the Cedar Rapids (lowa) Gazette. university were discussed by xt thirty days, Rholding town Law. war. the eity 18|} onze tablet, twenty-eight will”be unveiled ol who gave by pt. senior class. Thé presentation address linois, New York. president. of first class day in its histo; Harlan Wood, "21, of class oratos 21, of Ohio, Hallam, '21, prophet of combination, to Great|in connection with the clesses. John G. the Alumni Ass, Agar, atio hold will its class day o’clock of Swans, to the Potomac river. be «made by B. Meredith Georgetown hill. Others F. A. Mack, '20, Thomas A. Vogel, Leo J. Casey honguroton orators for master’ York, West Virginia. With the openin, ment today, ime might United States Steel Philadelphia, who Georgetown the Hirst taining 100,000 volumes. Expansion Plans. other side—| Ganeral B .. Instructor of Domestic Science * . . willgivea free - " Series of Lectures. - and .- Conduct a Cooking:Sehool cially featuring the economy of ‘both o tim’e and . food that can be effected with the use of " Thermatic . Firélessi -Cookers k (Take main store elevators u sever’nh floor) 3 ~ L Miss Lantz, in her series of lectares, will cover thoroughly the ‘preparation of all foods, and in’an interesting - manner will show~the economy of hoth time and food Miss ' Lantz , will. be- » % consultation :every ‘mio: -from 1010 12~ Daily st 3P.M. . : by this manner R Every aiternoontlm week - “How 1o Use a Fireless "Cook'ér”v’ - STUENTS TOPAY [ 1 HwigEToDEA | Tablet to28 Who Died in War to Be Unveiled by George- EXERCISES THIS EVENING | University Alumsi to K_old Banquet "’ in Connection. With Annual Commene‘ement?rognm. While the' collegians are holding forth on the Hilitop tonight the:entire student body of Georgetewn Univer- sity School of Law will agsemble in the law library at 8:15 o'clock to honor their classmates who made the supreme sacrifice during the world Several hundred alumni have noti- fled Dean George E. Hamilton that they will be present to pay homuge to the hero dead of the school, and a bearing the names of their lives, ‘Wolverton, U. 8. A., a member of the made by John Marshall Karns of Tl- president of the senfor class, | S. while Francis William Cullen, '21, of the' Senior Debating Society. will preside. - Incidentally with the unveiling of the tablet the law school will hold its . Those taking part in the program will be uth Carolina. Thomas Edward O'Hern, class historian; Maryland, William Alonzo Dyke, '21, of ew York, class poet. The valedictory address will be delivered by Harry Clarence Churchman, '21, of Commencement Events. The annual alumni reunion banquet com- mencement of the university will he held at the Hilltop at 6 o'cloc the members of the five and ten year | president of n . will preside. Following the banquet. the Harry class Towa. 1224 college exercises at n the quadrangle. ture will be the Cohonguroton dress. the name meaning the Th‘o add Rive 8 applied by the IndiansRaleigh Hotel, with James A. The address Garbed in full Indian regalia, he will stand in the light of a wigwam fire in front of the old North building and address his farewell to the Po- tomac river that flows at the foot of who take part in the program are Edward oratlon; doctor's . oration; class poem. Other Co- the \alumni will -be Louis A. Langie, '19, of and Robert J., Riley, will of the commence- veek vesterday. President J. B. Creeden, §. J.. announced the election of James &.-Farrell. presidcnt of thet “orporation, a member of the bourd of régents. 9| succeeds the late Anthony A. Hirst o presented library Mr. con. who will serve a term of two year: o has been an enthusiastic worker for the School of Foreign Service. expansion plans for the fmmigfaftOn Ban Is Death‘btow, ToU.S.Trade,Saysltalian Official thus avoiding any congestion or that racial grouping which along might threaten American ideals. “You must’ understand that mot e single ship has left Italy-for 'the United States since June 1, d that the first salling. will be on June 22. Nearly all of the transatiantic liners on’the North American run will be idle or-will be transferred to other seas. -While only a part of our ship- ping is so hit, all of yours will be paralyzed, for today no transatlantic liner can pay expenses without steer- BY EDGAR ANSELL MOWRER. By Cable to The 8tar ‘aad Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921, ROME, Italy, June 13 —*It' deals & blow to the commercial relations of | Italy and the United States” sald 8ig..de Michaelis, Italian royal com- missioner for emigration, in speaking of the Dillinghag/bill limiting immi- gration into the United States for a year. .“Not only our ports and steam- ship lines, but yours will suffer. Nat- | urally,sthe United" States is free to pass any laws she pleases, but 1 fllnq 0 a biow to the social een Italy and the Unit- Mary Italians have been & back and forth between both countrics and establishing family and other relations on each side of the Atlantic. These relations pust now be broken off to a considerable extent. -Mail communications will be- come rarer and everything will suffer.” - “What measures are you.taking to meet “the -crisis?” 1 askéd. “We mhall limit the- cirrying of Italians to the Italian and American lines. Our only hope is that the act will not stand more than a year. Our shipping may- be- able 'to get along for that length of time, but if the law id extended we must make ar- rangements to deflect our emigration and other interests to other more hos- pitable shores. not understand that what the Dil- itngham act will accomplish coul not have ‘been better reached in some other way .without what is virtually a rupthre of the commercial relations between ‘the two countries. “Qur own Italiad’ organization is so perfect that upon.a mere hint we could have limited.Italian emigration to the United States to such classes and organizations as. your govern ment. desired. We could, if men six feet tall were desired, have limited emigration to_ six-foot men. Like- wise, we could have sent plumbers, mechanics or farmers. W& are ready today to enter into labor agreements with the United States by which Ital- izns can go directly and to those d tricts only where their labor is de- board of regents yesterday. owing to the rapid growth of the Institution. President Crecden reported 3,311 stu- dents enrolled and 201 professors. Definite decision on certain policies of the university will be reached & mecting of Rev. John J.; Rey. W. Coleman George Hamilton and John |rency. The interest on Mexico's for- Agar, in Neéw York about two week-l eign debt amounts approximately to 40,000,000 pesos peér year, embracing various amounts owed to railroads now under federal operation and to a number of banks. E The money received from petroleum companies in payment of the new ex- port taxes which go into effect July 1 will be deposited in the Banco Na- cional de Mexico, and will not be with the payment of in- terest on the foreign debt of the coun- try. STORE SAFE BLOWN OPEN; $1,500 IN CASH STOLEN Checks for $1,000 Also Taken by Yeggmen From P. J. Chaconas & Co. Yeggmen visited the grocery storc 7 of P.'J. Chaconas & Co.. southw.st Hilltop at olock in he|corner of Louisiana avenue and Sth tomorrow, the eXerclscs street, between closing time Saturda ome to a close. Secretary of anq early last night. blew open « small safe in the office on tie firs floor and stolc about $1.300 in cash and checks representing about $1.000 Payment of the checks was imme- diately stopped. Six ‘years ago a larger safe in the store was blown open and robbed of about $3,000. The safe blown Saturday nignt cr yesterday was a much smaller one and was directly against a window on the ground floor, where it cou be ‘seen by persons passing along 9th street. The force of the explosion. while great enough to blow open the door. did not even shatter a pane of glass. Soap had been used about the lock to enable the burglars to insert the explosive, and sacks had been placed over the safe to assist in deadening the sound. Sergt. Beckett of the first pracinet and Detective John Flaherty found that the vezgmen had enter~d the store’ through a rear second-story window. gaining entrance .to a rear roof through the lunchroom of be hence. 3 Wilton “Lackaye, the actor who graduated from ‘Géeorgetown College in the class of 1881, furnished the surprise of the program given last night in_the quadrangle, when alumni and students assembled to sing class songs. Mr. Lackaye is here to at- tend the reunion and is quartered with the “boys” at the college in_the room he occupied as a student. Mud- ray I Macllhenny, president of the Yard, presided at the exercisea which were preceded by a reception honor of the graduating classes. The exercises opened.formally yes- terday morning in Dahlgren Chapel, when Rev. Francis X. Delany, 8. J head of the Jesuits in Jamaica, de livered the baccalaureate scrmon. With the graduation exercises on fo- Navy Edwin Denby will make the 58 to the students. The Foreign Service School will hold its first an- banquet that: evening at the Farrell nuval 11| us_the principal speaker. " : MEXICO TO PAY INTEREST ON HER FOREIGN LOANS National Budget of Expenditures Will Be Increased Twenty Million Pesos. MEXICO CITY. Jume 13.—Payment of interest on the Mexican foreign debt. will be resumed on July 1, and the national bidget of expenditures will be increased 20.000.000 pesos for a8l that purpose. Announcement to this H'j effect’ was made last night by Eman- ew of 2 e lvde Wrenn. 218 9th street. uel Padres, acting secretary of the |C! L the absence of Adolfo!| They entered thé lunchroom through "e”“l)-‘i‘uedr‘::mg he dbsence of Adolfoy " i3 Goor and. ransaciied ithe place. a Ibut took nothing. thing was left to e Padres asserted President cCTELar 'adres 'S 5 0:;;2: i-oum issue a decree this|in the grocery re to suggest the week ordering the expendituresbudget | POssible identity of the yeggmen. increased by 20,000,000 pesos. adding —_— that the debt on which interest would | Even the birds would ‘have acci- be pad included sums owe: dents if they tried to do acrobatics the which formerly issued in the air—Harrisburg Patriot. D. ©, MONDAY, JONE 13, 1921 'Th?ou?x ~ GOV: SHOUP URGES PFOR PUEBLO Heads Appeal to U. S. Com- merce Chamber, Citing Dis- tress of Flood Victims. —_— HALEMILLION IS NEEDED Places - Mperty Losses Between QIE{OIX_),OOO and $25,000,000. Many Homes uvBe Rebuilt. By the Amociated Prews. ~ | PUEBLO, Col, June 13.—Appeal to the United States Chamber of Com- merce ' for” reélief subscriptions for Puebla. was e .today . by Gov. Shoup, Jameés. L. Lovern. president of the: oity council of Pueblo; G. L. L. Gann, president of the Pueblo Com- wercial Club, and J. F. Keating, chair- man of the Pueblo Chapter of the American Red Cross. The eppeal. which will be presented oy W. Frank Persons, vice president of the American Red Cross at Wash- ington. states that Pueblo’s need is beyond the resources of the commu- nity, that subscriptions have been ight and that haste is imperative. Half Million Urgently Needed. “Five hundred thousand dollars urgently needed as a bare minimum sum to do most necessary reljef and rehabilitation work in the city of Pueblo. according to a conservative and careful estimate,” the appeal said. “More than 1,500 families already have been listed by the Red Cross census as being in need of help. Many of these have lost all they possessed. These families represent an approxi mate total of seven thousand persoRe. “Hundreds of dealers, large ana small, have been paralyzed by the flood, which completely wiped out their stocks and ruined their build- ingi “The_ damage is estimated at be- ween $15,000.000 and $25.000.000, ex- clusive of the loss to municipal and cailroad property. as well as to high- ways. Plight of Flood Victimm. “The flood v s must be helped to r¢gain normal economic existence before the city can return to its po- sition as aself-supporting community, “Initial steps to rehabilitate thesc unfortunate persons have been start- ed, so that they may again becomc productive citizens. Homes must be rebuilt and productivity restored This will necessitate funds_being made available immediatel e Red Cross has appropriated $105.000 for relief. but general subscriptions re- ported to date have been light. e o URGES BUYING YORKTOWN Mrs. James T. Morris Favors Bill ‘at Hearing. As proposed in a bill of .Senator Kellogg (republican). Minnesota, was urged at hearings today before the Senate appropriations committee by Mrs. James . T. Morris, Minneapolis. vice president general of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, and head of a women's patriotic organiza- tion behind the Yorktown purchase project. —_ Being urged to cultivate optimism. some folks order goods on credit that they can't possibly pay for.—Linn County (Mo.) Budget Hae Plan to Pat An End to Ticket Waste MRBS. GERTRUDE GILMOLR, New York social worker, launched at Los Angeles a move to end “ticket | She haw founded the Py o Greek art, for which he has chased tickets, precioun pasteboards to pe: who are regh tered as interexted fn the subjeet athletic affairs, ete. PREPARATIONS ARE MADE FOR 1922 PASSION PLAY Selection of Cast Will Be Made in October—First Performance in May, Last in September. By the Associated Press. OBERAMMERGAU, Germany, June 12.—TRe committee having in charge the arrangements for the renewal of the famous “Passion Play” has decided to give thirty performances in 192 The first performance will take place May 11 and the last September 24. Selection of the cast will not be made until next Ostober. Anton Lang, who has played the role df Christus, probably again will have that part Ottilie Sewink, who piayed Mary in 1810, has married since that time, and iax no married woman is permitted to ct that role another actress must cted. ghty-two men from Oberammer- zau were killed during the war. They were chiefly minor actors and mus cians. The leading actors in the “Pas- sion Play” were mostly bevond the i when the war broke out —_—_— not be medicine, despite ruling of the Department of Justice. ;ut most of the home brew tastes like it—Great Falls (Mont.) Leader. Reduction in Vhite Truck Prices to : figures that in view of improvements are virtually' at pre-war levels. - - ’Cfiaésis prices; f.0.b. ‘factory: Pre-War Values Substantial price reductions on all models of White Trucks, effective immediately, put the Five-ton Truck. back to the 1914 price, and other White models so close to pre-war to.the product they also Lo - 33-Ton, $4.200 - - 2=Ton, $3,250 i h the whole period of price changes during and b following the war, the average White price advance on all s ot models was the lowest in the entire industry. . Now White prices are at the point of pre-war values. R Favors Grants Only in Special These parks were created by Ci lied 10 coneerts, theaters, | Bress for the preservation of !menery. forests and other objects | beauty | conditions and they ure created !tion, 1 OPPOSES DAMMIN (FYELLONSTD Secretary Fall Makes Adve Irrigation Project. WANTS TO SAVE PAR and Then Under Strict Gov- ernment Control. Secretary Fall of the Interior partment has made an adverse port on a bill introduced by Se: Walsh of Montana, proposing to thorize the state of Montana, or rigation districts authorized by state, to build a dam across Yell stone river at a point not more ti three miles below the outlet of ™iowstone for the regulation of waters of the lake for irrigation pi poses. H The W#lsh bill had been refer: to the Senate committee on irrigatfph and reclamation of arid lands, which Senator MeNary of @regon i chairman. The proposed contruct t would be within the limits of Yellowstone National Park. ¥ Canmot Favor Measu In his adverse report on Secretary Fall said: “I cannot favor the enactment the measure. I do mnot -believ would be advisable for Congress permit private interests (o dewvel irrigation or power sites within Iimits of existing mational the and interest-in (heir natuf for general and natio contradistinguished fr 1 developments. - f casex be found where it is and advisable in the pubd interest to develop power and ¥ gation possibilities in national par| and it can be dome without interfl ce with the purposes of their er am of the opinion that should only be permitted to be d whether through the use of privi or public funds, on specific authori: tion by Congress, the work to constructed and controlled by the feds government.” Opposed in Many Quarters. The Walsh bill has been vigoro: opposed by the National Parks ciation and by numerous other pers and organizations desiring to main the national parks and to pre them in their original condition and prevent commercialization of their sources. The suggestion was made today t Senator Walsh might veek 1o am: his bill s0 as to permit the propo developments to be made by the f eral government with the ides thats might then conform to the views Secretary Fall. However, the Si tary might still hold. as do oppon of the bill, that the proposed devel ment would injure the natural beax of the parks, and again report adver, ly. The opinion was expressed at Capitol today that the proposed I lation has no chance of being el into law.