Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1923, Page 11

WORK OF JUNKING WARSHIPS BECINS . Hulks of Unfinished Indiana and South Dakota Being Destroyed Under Treaty. ny ROBER L SMA Epecial Dispateh to The Star. « NEW YORK, August 28 — The A clangor of ‘preumati’ hammers on steel, the £10% and hiss of the acetys leng toréh and the clamor of the ©overhead traveling crane are again to he heard in the Brooklyn navy yard. The work of “junking” two great battloships that were to have been the pride of the American Navy The proclamation of the 1¥-af Washington, following France's tardy ication, has set in motion the machinery to ecarry out Americ %afrifice in the heavier ships Gi beited steel and bristling tueret Thién uncompleted hutks of the mammoth superdreadnaughts South Takota and Indiana, abandoned on word from the agreements of Washington were signed, are being torn apart. For more than a year they have stood like Kreat red skeletons in the black steél cradles Which were erected to serve as maternity beds for the Dattleships that Were to help the United States climb to the highest peak of world naval powers Navy Yard Silent. tered steel plates me had remained kmen had left the Washington confer- For a year vard hag been ept for the oc- Just them ence completed its work. where when the Brooklyn a silent astonal from the d From. the momeht on the behemoths tined never to ave was known that the task of construc- tion must give way to the rougher of ‘destruction. But, tech- of the naval powers sanctioned the treaties. v the United States want- ed to remain in the position where it could. g0 ahead on the South Dakota and the Indiana if the treaties finally failed in any quarter. But the experts knew that nothing could sa the two battleships. Rust and the had left them more neglect ‘of a year derellets on the ways. Largest in the World. Tndtana, which was to placed the famous Indiana of war days and of Fighting Bob remini e was laid down alon, the kota in 1 of vy fightin havé been the larg » dviven, torpedo-protected “battieships in the wovld. Each was to have been .0 world foleHiit of ten t pt for the ‘Hren of . the h awd E retained as ips | a first e Indiana -inch guns in battleships which | plare carrier horized to con- | eratt mount turre adopted in th Years ago. but abandoned in the dac siEmeor oo farzest ships which came f ihe ban of the Washington evenice. - Carry One More ~@reat Britain's lo) ineers did not approve of l¢ mounting, but they have adopred it in their two new super- | dféadnaughts. the Nelson and the diiexl. in order to get the maximum Cpower withdn the dispiavem Welght prescribed by the Thé Briti=h ships will 16-ineh theref néarest in any Yoreigh navy. cor t the con Q m\xcnrm e two se-called Brit “hoods.” the United States com- nine Gun. perienced President Harding -when | ders could not be given | you OLO DARLL W ve et Awfuusy MAPAY HAVEN T wt HARDLY n CrosSs WorD Binice we 4 OPAY THE ALTAR q DEAR BUTAN FIVE e THE s:vem the West VirFghia ands the pleted Japan completed her Maryland and beloved Mutsu. Flowery Kingdom was umpmd up the Mutsu and th fonera. m Waahtheton Sald they da R mot gest that she be scrapped. T | Bfuteu"\Was ‘constructeq. withimensy. | raised by vncpular sSubscrisio: The knocking down.of the . Dakota and the Indiana is f“bart of | the Hughes' proposal .at . the firet meeting_of the WasRingtor confer- ence. when the Secretary of State eaid: 3 Rendy to Serap Al “The United- States is now,compleg- ling its program of 1916,%calling for | ten new battleships agd Six battla j crutsers. One battles has been completed. The others are in va- rious stages of construction—in some cases from 60 to over S0 per cént of the construction has Been doné. @n { theso Afteen capital #hips now being Ibuilt over $330,000.000 has been spent. Still the United States is willing in the interest of an immediate liml- tation of naval armament to scrap all_of these. ships. The Irdiana and the snum Bakota gore’ about ene-third, comploted. Moct of the work on thelk auter joiring be cold for junk. Probably the| i prices realized ‘for the-material -will not cover the cost of difhmantiing. but the treaty must be carried out Then. too, they are hopeful at the navy vards that onve the # m}enfid capital shins are gotten' ol way the cradles can be used.for new ructicn—of cruigers and ' ai and " the tvarlous other upon which mno’ limits ver The new era in the Navvj has begun. - (Copyright, 1922 WRITER DENIED DIVORCE. RENO, Nev.. August Munday, short stéry: and Wwriter, was denied ‘a @k Judge George A. Bartiaj he had failed to sustall M of desertion by his wife, Harrlette Rogemary undy, eastern portrait atnter of NAte. n the same ruling Yuflgn Bartlett awarded M Mund! ermanent £eparate maintenanes o B onth, AROlATIng (he g en. titled to a divoree if sh -ds‘fl»}u. __._.__..1_ g A telephoné compahy ifiNew Or. leans forbida any of the-1.880 #iris in ite_employ tn wear bracelets or wrist watches. Al e, = Sale Twill Wraps A SPECIAL PURCHASE the codfer” eve quality—for t tuallyw ot $29.50. ,tnmmed In A TiE PO Y MR! oree ITLACKS 3us,; Five Mum.r!! dw‘fl $ SEVENTH ANMIVER SARY The , pride of - the hulls hnd been done and~Boller #-‘ 9 10¥mEBoRO. Ark., Aukust "'7{...!{ S?.fiand $29.50™ “Sith:Bined Twill - Coats and Nob&y;flew s'tt'ra't:tive ~—just the very thing for are ngw, experiencing. Théi‘l"‘g:(ct.r'e"’tni_:ly low price cannot be accepted as a criterion of their In “th p “\fashionable" side-tie” effécts —s o m'e with stltchmg; others braid orgembroidery \oU ADORARNE LTNE ot NOU'VE BEEN in WORDERT UL WiFE ! 61 A5 TMUEW 1N LOUE Wi YouAs | WAS THE DAY WE MET - @13 5Avon as ‘HELD FOR PERPETRATING FRAUD ON HIS’ CREDITORS Man Clnim(ng Service in War Ac- cused -of Removing Property Which He Had Mortgaged. By ‘the Asoeibted Prest. " CHICAGO, August 28.—Thomas R. ‘Stebic, thirty-six vears old, claiming to have been a formeér Army captain in France and Previoud to (he. war an employe of the internal revenue department, was h8ld here today on a lrn-rge of removing mortgaged prop- e'ty ak a result of the failure of | himself and a companioh to pay a jbalance of about $2.600 on a power- boat they had bought heré . admitted, according to the pdlice, that they had taken the cruiser nto and had dled_several but declared none of the was brought to the United He declared he married the daughter of a fetired French afmy captain in Parls, in 1918, ahd that they have a c which 'is now in Toledo. |LANDIS DEPLORES PARDON “"OF U. S. WAR PRISONERS Tells Legion He Would Like a President.-Who ‘Would Refusé, 28K, M. Landis, commissioner of base bal A!nqargsgmg_ the state convention _of the Department of the 1 Wi Jeelon, heuh fil}l her fge fl\e election of a. Preuden of thi nited Btates who would refuse to plrrlon A Bingle “war prisoner.” Commissioner Landis strongly voteed Ris advo,acy of the soldiers’ bohus and directed keen sarcasm against qrponpm. of the measufe. he speaker urged that the legion extlufe from its membership all® pers sim’ une t thoeé whoe oflh the late confiict. me' N Arkansas ric&h E t; he sald, oot um~nerv|m mén L orkan= isation Ne was dble to Burdens and wetk sut its ssrob o mngs we hey are ac- h- $25 ito - sizes. 16 to i - | OWN DRY METHODS - of Conference Unconvinced. iwore. the | Bavarian Prémier Knifiig and. other leaders, Although the visit received only per- Tuhcfdry notice in tite bress, it was con- sidered mohetheless important, as it was undoubtedly connected “with' the cen. that gbvernment' foréign and in‘érnal volicies. B In brief, it is learned, Dr. Stres mann told the Bavarians that they must- behave themselves and: raise. no obstacles to thé government's efforts to hring about & settlement of the Ruhr conflict by negotiation, or ‘to interfere in _anyway-with the radieAl taxation and économic programs. r. Stressmann Was accompanied to Munich by. Herr von Rheinbaben, chaneellor’s office, anu GERMANS WILL AID ALLIES FEED RUHR - Agreemenf to 00 Operate Seen as First Step Toward End of Resistance. 1l‘ol\lh|l|fl|\ nations from boycott by he winesgrowing nations and close |mhrnnumul collaborativh, both be- tween governments and customs au- ll\m‘lfle!. to prevent llauor sug- G hermanent committeo ia consid- ering .a change in rules #o as to permit the congress to paes resolu- tions on these subleors at the mext internatiénal meeting. ~ Mehnwhile the delegates doubtiées will stir up interest in these subjoets in their own countries. SEES ISSUE OVER U. S. RAILWAY ‘CONTROL Dr. David Friday Regards Federal Ownership Topic of Discussion for 1924 Campaign, favoring the earliest tion of “the -Ruhr struggle. st po Relchstag would reconven of the Relchsban] efr resignation. American Delegates at Copenhagen Find 50 Per Cent for promulgation -tonight. . BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL, By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News, Copyright, 1020, COPENHAGEN, August 28.—Ameri- ean délegates to the anti-alcoholism congress, who came here expeeting to And’ that 90 per vent of the delégates from all parts of the world were pro- nibitionists, found that kcarcely 60 per cent were convinced of the adviss ability of the American experiment. “fhe delégates now have departed | from Copenhagen, either for their By Cable to The Star. o2 s Z BERLIN, . August . 28.—The - inter- allfed- Rhineland commission - at Co- blenz hay extended “an " invitation .to Prussia, Bavatia and Baden to co- operate with-it iniways.and means to amelisrate the food problef in oacu- pied- territories, and oh advice’ from the reich government these «mm have accepted. ' The commision’s invitation and the German government's acceptance is conmidered significant here in the ifs -Stress on Dress By the Asociated Press CHICAGO, August 28 —Government ctwnership and operation of the rail- roads Is likely to be the issue in the 124 presidential campaign, Dr. David Friday, diréctor of the resbArch coun- O the consequential busi- ness man the starched col- lar p]ays a conaequentml part in the world's opinion homes 6r for Buropean tours. cil of the National Transportation In. rée methods of combaling al-| stitute and former. president of the | Cernational situation, as it constitutée | £ ki F h d coholidm besides prohibition were dis- | Michigan Agricultural College, de- |tWe first attethpt at' negotlations ot or him, or the require dussed and defended at the congress. here. lared in a statement any kind between. German and the : 2 : bellcved that the ultimate | It ‘Is of vital imboriance that:a | Sesupation Suthoriiies siane he oo dignity: and the desired ideal could best be approximated | thorough, impartial examination be | vasion of the uhr last January. - through some other means, for in-{ Mmadé of all the results of, government comfort, have your collars May End Hesisiasce. stance rallroad operation wheréever oarried 1. - The Danish whereby | on, and that thé fact be made apirite are made v _expensive,| to all the public,” sald Dr. Friday. through deliberate taxation. *This has| “Otherwise a popular election with decreascd Coneumptivh of spirits in|this as an lssue cannot be anything Denmark by 90 per cent. but a fdrce." The Nérwegian system. whereby Educational literature concerning ohly heavy wines and spirite are pro- | transportation, including an investi- hibited, and light wines and beer | Zation of government ownerthip, is freely permitted. to be prepared by Dr. Thomas E he Swedlish system, whereby all| Finegan, formerly superintendent of drinks are permitted in strictly lim- | public instructioh of Penneylvania, on ited quantities under state control. behalf of the educational department Piuhiiteaia Mk of the institute, for use in- schools and colleges It is not necessary to mention. of | The institute algo is planning a se- eourse, the cynical bolshevik method ries of lectures on transportatioh to expressed by the slogan: “Prohibition |.be given in universitirs &nd colleges for the proietariat, but let the bour- in_Michigan, Iowa and Karisas this geolsie drink thémselver to death. fall. 1t would be enlightening to com- e the statintics of these Scandi- FRANCES WHITE A BRIDE: navian methods with American pro- CHICAGO, August 28.-— Frances hibitibn statistick, but unfortunately 9ne of the viearest conclusions Arawn | wita “musical comedy and vandeville at the congress is thal alcoholism |, iress, has disclosed that she wae tatistics are still so unscientific that | SETERn (R CIAEOECT B rane it Is impossfble to make an accurate | MafEIed In Cincinnatl, Ohig, Jung or comparison between the various couns { 10 (CUIOR K. Doantliv. Ner, Yotk tries. But taking all claims at their j aRIREEE, TN SR OO eville - tour face value the visitors’ Impression | e, White was divorced from Frank Wwas that all methods showel ap-|pay four years ago. proximately equal effectiveness in | 253 combating drunkenness and crime. Difterence in_ Attitude. A sharp difference was noted be tween the American attitude and European attitude on the whole sub- The Americans considered thé uFopean méthous good dhly to the degree that théy approached com- piete prohibition, and the Europeant generally sought to obtalh beneficial results with the minimum of inters ference with private lives and ine dividual liberty The Americans re ected all argus based on_private liberty in bl\pragek The Européans were ins ¢lined to be eritical of the American aystem because it réquires such an elaborate apparatu# for espionage and repreksion. Many Europeahs considered that the American experience with pros hibitiop caused a setback of the pros hibition idea in Europe. The congress, after much informal discussion, did not take action on the two important points of inter- national JAw which arose—action by prohibition nations to protect other In some circles” it is consigeFed as the first move toward a possible cedsation of passive resistance. Al- though nothing ‘more than the food . The Tolman Laundry there iv a tendéncy here to consider the allled gesture as having a politi- R W. MacKenzie, Manager 6th and C-Streets NW. significance “of first importance, ming as it dées on the top of Chan- lor Stressemann’s address yestép. TOLMANIZING starches collars flexibly, makes them glazeless but smooth, with a standard tone of whiteness only possible thru Franklin 71. nown TOLMANIZED. “ircles close to the govefmment to- day were gratified to hear from ais- patchey that the chancellor's déclara- tion had received a favorablé recep: tion fn all the allied capitals, Germany's readiness to neégatiate with the Rhinéland commission, and the latter's desire for such co-ope: ? tion at this moment might e-‘ ¥ lead to more significant overturés of a political nature it way declared authoritatively here’ today. Other Moves Expected. The general finpression as réflected in the prees t is that the ice has been broken hl‘l“ en- the Allles and Germany, and jmore important and.con- | stiictive devélopménts may new fol- low. 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