Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1924, Page 17

PRESIDENT'S “RIGHT-HAND MAN” CELEBRATES HIS BlRTlll):\\". to the White Hous Saturday and presented Frank W. Stearns with flowers on and Mrs. Stearns are guests of the Prgsident and Mrs. Coolidge. Left to r M. K. Leighton and F. W. Couillard. A delegation from Boston came sixty-eighth birthday. ight: J. C. Reid, Frank W. Stearns, Copyright’ by Harris & Ewlng. LIPS ARE PERMANENTLY ROUGED WITH TATTOOING achine giving a permanent red to the lips. milady, the Miss Ruth Donnelly of shland, W MACHINE. The photograph being operated upon. This is the latest invention for shows the machine in_operation. Wide Word Tbor A new “baby” of the House. This is Virgil M. Chapman, 29 years old, of Paris, Bourbon County, Ky., elected to Congress at the recent election.” Virgil is the first member of Congress to be elected from his county in 61 years. By United News Pictures. TOOK PART IN SATURDAY'S FOX HUNT. Mlle. Claire and Mlle. Helene, daughters of the first secretary of the French embassy and Mum Hunt Club M. Heilmann, ready to start in the fox hunt of the Rock Creek National Photo. Defeated Magnus Johnson for Sen- ate. Thomas D. Schall, the blind Representative from Minnesota, and his overalled family. Mr. Schall lost his sight through an electric shock. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood HELIUM GAS FOR USE I the S. S. City of Houston at the Philadelphia-Wharf. will be placed in the great bag of the ZR-3 at Lakehurst. AROUND THE WORLD IN WOODEN SHOES. Three years ago Cor- nelius Hoffman and his wife, Johanna, left Holland to walk around the world in their native costumes. They have one more year to complete the trip and win a prize from the Holland Sporting Club. Photo taken in New York yesterday. J. Copyright by Kadel & Herbert. THE NAVY'S NEW DIRIGIBLE. Unloading cylinders of the precious gas from The gas was shipped from Fort Worth, Tex., and Wide World Phote. - §1,000.000 EMBASSY INTOKIO PROPOSED President Seeks to Put Through Froject as Evi- dence of U. S. Friendship. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. When Edgar A. Bancroft, our new Ambassador to Japan, reaches Tokio, during the next few days, he will present to the Mikado's government practical evid of America’s be- lief in endu & peace and friends shlp with Nippon Amba dor Ban- croft will be able to notify Japan that President Coolidge has recom- 11ended the expenditure of more than £1,000,000 on American Iimbassy and consulate premises in Tokio. The buildings to be erected will be de- signed, in a physical sense, to be earthquake-proof. In a political and sentimental sense they are to denote American confidence in the indestruc- tibility of our amicable relations with Japan. The Washington au- thorities who have originated the Tokio project are frankly inspired to make its materialization an un- mistakable gesture of good will. Toward the end of the spring ses- sion of Congress the President sent « special message recommending that appropriations aggregating roundly $1,000.000 be made. With $100,000 wlready at the State Department's disposal for the purp. under en- acted legislation, Mr. Coolidge’s pro- posal contemplates a gross outlay of $1,150,000. It is to be expended for constructing on property which the TUnited States already owns in Tokio & modern and imposing embassy, which will serve as the residence of the American Ambassador, with addi- tional quarters for the members of his staff and their families May Buy More Land. Attached to the embassy proper “will be outbuildings which will be the offices and business premises of the embassy. Additional ground will need to be purchased to carry out the scheme, the property on which the embassy destroyed by the earth- quake stood Dbeing too small. In the business section of Tokio property is to be bought for the erection of a TUnited States consulate general, in- cluding residential quarters and of- fice premises. In both cases the bufldings to be put up are to be of dimensions and splendor commensu- rato with our dignity as a great power and indicative of our purpose to remain at peace with Japan. Owing to ssions engendered in some congressional quarters by the Japanese on legislation, the administration did not press for action on President Coolidge’s recom- mendations for Tokio. They are now to_be submitted to the House com- mittee on fereign affairs and the Senate commiitee on foreign rela- ®ons, with full administration back- ing. Confidence prevails at the ex- ccutive end of Pennsylvania avenue ithat the proposals will be approved in due course. Building operations would ensue thereafter as soon as practicable. California, Oregon and Washington, the coast States chiefly interested in Japanese exclusion, all gave Coolidge big majorities on November 4. No lurking opposition there to Japan will, it is felt in Washington, operate against the Tokio building scheme. The Uniter States owns its own diplomatic and consular premises in only a handful of foreign capitals and AL LOSES BY RESPONDING TO “HARD LUCK” STORY | Dr. Henry R. Dickens Shows Val- ueless “Gem” Taken as Pledge for $10 Loan. A hard luck story told Dr. Henry | Dickens, 4806 Wisconsin nue, Saturday night, resulted in his ready response with a $10 bill, and yvester- day morning the physician discovered he was the victim of a swindler. He | had a ring worth a few pennies to | how for his money Dr. Dickens told the police that the | swindler, a man about 30, wearing a light suit and velour hat and having a noticeable scar on the left side of | his face, appeared at his front door |and said the battery of his automo- | bile had gone dead.” He was without | | money enough to replace the battery | he said, and asked for a loan, offer ing the physician a supposed ring as a pledge. Dr. Dickens accepted the ring as security and advanced the money re- quested. The setting turned out to be nothing but a piece of glass, the physician informed the polict. diamond | cities. in holds title to embassy property seven cit es Uncle Sam —London, | Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Constantinople, Santiago, Mexico City and Havana.| We are our own landlords at seven legations—in Peking, Christiania, | Panama, San Jose (Costa Rica), Tan- gier, San Salvador and Bangkok. We own’ consular premises in four places —Amoy. Shanghai, Seoul and in the Tahiti Islands. In countless impor- tant cities throughout the world— Berlin. Brussels, Rome, Vienna, Ma- | drid, Budapest, Lisbon, Buenos Al The Hague, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Bern and other capitals—our amb: sadors, consular officers and minis- ters are housed inadequately, indev corously and always expensively. In Prague, Czechoslovakia, we are on the threshold of acquiring a legation. Tentative arrangementsfare pending elsewhere. Dating from -the bill in- troduced in the House in 1911 by Frank O. Lowden, when the former Governor of Illinois was in Congres: funds have been appropriated an- | nually for acquirement of official property abroad, but they have never been anything like adequate enough for the carrying out of any general scheme. Diplomatic Property Here. | The embassies and legations owned | by foreign states in Washington are a constant shame of American policy | on that score. Small and relatively poor states like Cuba, Siam, Poland and even Persia own or occupy houses of far more stately type than the places we maintain in their als. Conditions in some of the castern Europe apitals are imposing ac- tual hardships on our representatives there. The writer knows of one world-famed capital, where a Wash- ington millionaire is American Min- ister, in which water supply condi- tions exist that would not be tol- erated in the slums of a second-class American city. The envoy in ques- tion abandoned one of the finest man- sions in America to serve his coun- try abroad, and his letters to friends indicate that the transition from lux- urious comfort to diplomatic squalor is a severe strain on patriotism. To date, he is grinning and bearing it, one of the unsung soldiers of peace. e Bishop Installs Rector. Rev. Dr. Arlington A. McCallum was installed as rector of St. Paul's Epis- copal Church yesterday morning by Bishop James E. Freeman of Wash- ington. The new rector was chap- lain to the Rainbow Division in France and he served during the war with distinction. He came to the capital from Lebanon, Pa. SEEKSTO SPEED UP PAPERS FOR BONUS, Adjutant General Finds Ap- plicants Coming in Very Slowly. Adjt. Gen. Robert C. Davis has in- stituted a more comprehensive or- zanization to help get out applica- tions for the soldier bonus. More than half of those entitled to it have not yet applied Applications are coming in so slowly, it was said, that the machin- ery set up by Gen. Da to issue certificates will run out of material early mext year unless the flow of applications can be stimulated Instructions have been issued to all branches of the Regular Army, in- cluding the recruiting services, .to take every possible step in a decen- tralized campaign to get out the ap- plications. The National .Guard, Or- ganized Reserve units, the Navy and Marine Corps and the Red Cross, Sal- vation Army, patriotic societies and lar organizations have been asked ipplement the Government's efforts. Approximately 1,500,000 veterans have submitted applications, of which all but some 50,000 have been exam- ined and either acted upon or re turned for correction. Of the 1,500, 000 applications gone over up to date about 300,000 have been found incom- to plete, principally because veterans cither forgot to sign their names or because they failed to include their fingerprint In these cases it was necessary to return papers for cor- rection and of the 300,000 returned there are 140,000 cases 'still out- standing. ECONOMIC SURVEY OF WORLD PLANNED International Commerce Chamber to Supplement Dawes Plan Purposes. An economic world survey designed to supplement the purposes of the Dawes plan and to stimulate produe- tion, revive industry and restore in- ternation trade was announced by Pres- ident Willis H. Booth of the Interna- tional Chahber of Commerce. Preparatory to the survey, the chamber’s committee on economic restoration will be enlarged by the addition of more members from coun- tries now represented and from other countries which figure in in- ternational trade. “The work has only begun,” Mr. Booth said, “if we are to reap in full the fruits of the Dawes plan. The next step is to start production and the flow of currents of international trade. If a constructive program can be outlined which will meet the approval of the business interests of all countries to which international trade is a matter of vital importance, the progress of reconstructfon will be measyrably hastened.” The survey project whs launched by the cham- ber's American committee, Wwhose members include Owen D. Young, Henry M. Robinson of Los Angeles, Julius H. Barnes of New York, Joseph H. Defrees of Chicago and John H. Fahey of Boston, | political deci L . S. ELECTION RESULT LIKELY TO INFLUENCE BRITISH ACTIONS Trend Indicated by Returns May Strengthen Tories’ | Confidence in Own Policies—Rejection of Geneva Protocol Likely—Herriot’s Removal Seen. BY FRANK H. There was something more mere coincidence in the fact that, having announced his acceptance of the King's commission to form a new cabinet, Stanley Baldwin should have questioned his press interrogators about the American election, for be- yond much doubt the results of our election will have a very marked and perhaps unprecedented influence upon ions in Great Britain, There are two very obvious dire tions in which the American decision will influence the policy of the new Tory government. Of cour: it is plain that there is something of a resemblance between the results of the two elections which have taken place within a week. Both in Great Britain and here in the United States the victory has been won by a party which represents the conservative as contrasted with the liberal and rad- ical fractions of the Nation. The difference is that at home, we have continued a conservative gov- ernment; while in Britain they have ousted a radical ministry and, quite as important, while our decision has been by an enormous majority in the popular vote, the victorious party on the other side of the Atlantic, al- though obtaining an unparalleled ma- jority in the House of Commons, has hardly polled half the votes cast at the recent test Problem in Cabinet. The first problem raised for Baldwin is whether he shall undertake to make his new cabinet with regard for the eéxtremists or the moderates among .the Tories. He was himself called to power two years ago as the leader of the die-hard extremists, who had ousted the coalition and Lloyd George and’ clamored for a straight- out old-fashined Tory regime. Many of the older leaders, however, who had shared in the coalition government, advocated a continuation of this, and favored steps which might lead to the accession of a considerable num- ber of the Liberals, whose party was obviously breaking up. Baldwin fell on the futile tariff is- sue before/he gave any measure of his ability as a leader; now, however, from the outset, he will have to make clear whether he means to take over some of the igsues and plans of the Laborites or return to the men and measures which are traditionally Tory. And it must be clear what a support tw the latter course must be derived from a glance at the Ameri- can election returns. Baldwin and Coolidge have both of them nearly five years of power indicated, we know in advance the course our own President is likely to follow, since he is the most consistent of public men, and one may guess that the British cabinet will follow the same general direction. Rejection of Protocol Likely. A second consequence of the Amer- ican result is the probable rejection of the Geneva protocol by the Tory parliament. The British will, beyond a doubt, read into our result another indorsement of the Republican course in refusing to join the League of Na- tions. Had Davis won, even a Tory ministry would have showed more consideration for the league, but after the American verdict there Is no reason for hesitating to reject the protocol recently signed by Herriot and MacDonald, or, at the least, fol- lowing the American example, cover- SIMONDS, than ing it with reservations in such a manner as to make it of little real value. . MacDonald's achievement at Geneva left the Tory part of Britain cold, save as it was hot over the sugges- tion made by Lord Parmoor that the British navy might be made a sort of international police force. This form of internationalism does not ap- peal to the Conservative: Nor does much more of the idealistic_element written into the protocol. The Tory party is not against the league, it will not renounce its membership, but it is almost certain to display little of tho enthusiasm and zeal of the Labor prime minister. May Follow Coolidge. Tt is even possible that Stanley Baldwin may take up the suggestion made by President Coolidge for a dis- armament conference outside tly league, a suggestion which was some what brutally rejected by MacDonalu and Herriot, who regarded it as an invasion of the field which belonged properly to the league. Baldwin may easily seek to increase Anglo-Ameri- can association by reverting to this American proposal. Britain has not had a real party government for a decade, not since the outbreak of the war. Bonar Law was expected to supply this when he carried the election two years ago, but his health broke almost immedi- ately, and Stanley Baldwin, who suc- ceeded, became involved in the tariff conflict at once. . Now, with 2 pow- erful majerity and reinforced by the American example, one may expect Baldwin to govern as a Tory partisan, and it is a reasonably safe forecast that if he does not, his party will revolt against his leadership with very little delay. The power in both Britain and the United States is now going to be for a series of years in similar hands. If America had “gone” radical or showed a great radical revolt, Brit- ish policy might have been influenced. As it stands, the influence is in the opposite direction. It is certain that the new British government will be strongly national, the resumption of | the Singapore project, the expansion of the navy, save in battleships, these things may be forecast—and, as I have said—the protocol of the league is well nigh certainly doomed and the league destined for the moment to take a much less important place in_British official calculations. Even in France the double event, Republican and Tory victory, is bound to have consequences. Herriot may linger, but he cannot stay indefi- nitely, and with his departure French policy is likely to drop the character which the present premier imparted at Geneva, and be expressed by some one who represents the French equiv- alent of Baldwin rather. than Mac- Donald. . For nowadays, -nations, like base ball teams, use different pitchers against different teams or under varying conditions. In a word, a year which began rad- fcal, with MacDonald and Herriot, is ending with a conservative tinge— and Germany has still to vote. (Copyright, 1924, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) It is a good idea to kise the children good-night, if you don’t mind waiting up for them, says the Feru (Ind.) Tribune. DROUGHT RECORDS SMASHED WIDELY ‘Fall Plowing Difficult in Dry Soil—Forest Fires Numer- ous Over Nation. Records of half a century for drough in many parts of the country have been broken and the Forest Service, whose duty it is to protect the National Forests from fire and all other dangers are watching the situation in places where the drought has reached serious proportions. Farmers are hard hit by the long dry period. In some sections where Fall-sown grains already have been planted there is lack of moisture to start germination of the seed and where the grains are above ground they are not doing well for want of rain. Those sections of the country where the worst drough conditions prevail are the New England States and southward to Virginia; the Gulf States, with Louisiana hardest hit; Michigan and surrounding states and the far Southwest. A picture of the drought conditions throughout the country is shown in the Weather Bu- reau’s latest report as follows: Fall Seeding Needs Rain. New England—Rain needed for Fall seeding, for streams, and to control forest fire: New York—Ground very dry and hard, making plowing difficult. Many forest fires. New Jersey—Meadows and forests dry; some forest fires. Rain needed for late-sown seed. Pennsylvania—Rain badly needed. Virginia and North Carolina—Rain- fall light. Georgia—No rainfall. More mois- ture needed for germination. Florida—Absence of moisture det- rimental. Alabama—Continued _drough ditions delaying ‘planting. Mississippi—Rain badly needed. Louisiana—Drough continued. Scarcity of water and bare pastures serious for stock. Texas—Few scattered showers, too light generally to be effective. — ‘Wheat Seeding Retarded. Oklahoma—Wheat seeding retard- ed by dry soil; early planted suffer- ing for rain. Pastures short and dry. * Arkansas—Too dry for plowing, seeding and growth of grains. Tennessee—Little germination or growth because of severe drought; stock water sgarce in,many locali- ties. Kentucky—Tqo con- dry for germina- tion. Pastures badly dried. Water shortage growing worse. West Virginia— Light showers. Pastures poor. Some forest fires. Ohio—Some lack of moisture; dry for germination. . Indiana—All .vegetation needs rain; too dry for plowing. Illinois—Wheat needs moisture; ground. too hard for plowing in south. too rfl_ Plowing Dificult. Michigan—+Drought conditions con- tinue and ‘Winter grains and mead- ows sufferifig. severely. Many forest and Dbrush? fires; farm - buildings burned and ‘“fidangered. Fall plow- ing difficult. ‘Wisconsin—Too dry for plowing, which practically at standstill Towa—Mostiy.. dry. weather; late | ple, MODERNIZING OF FIFTY CARGO SHIPS STARTED Equipping Shipping Board Craft With Internal Combustion Engines Begun. Modernizing of fifty vessels of the government’s cargo fleet began today with granting by the Shipping Board of authority for the installation of internal combustion engines in 18 ships. A resolution adopted by the board directed the purchase of 18 Diesel en- gines. Thirteen of them, of the ap- proved single acting type, will be obtained from companies in St. Louis, Philadelphia, Auburn, N.Y., and Oak- land, Calif. Awards for the remain- ing five, of the double acting princi- were given to firms in other cities, the board’s resolution said, “to establish a domestic Diesel industry.” The installation will cost about $4,350,000. Completion of the con- version of the entire 50 ships, it was déclared, will give the American mer- chant marine the largest fleet of die- selized vessels under one control. Tt is expected the modernization of the carriers will reduce operating costs and will increase the speed of de- livery of American goods to foreign destinations. WIFE CHARGES CRUELTY. Asserts in Suit D. F. Hurley Drinks to Excess. Cruelty and excessive use of in- toxicants are among the charges made in a complaint filed by Mrs Ellen C. Hurley in the District Su- preme Court against her husband, Donald P. Hurley, trafic manager for a local manufacturing company. The wife asks a limited divorce with ali- mony and an injunction to prevent her husband from molesting her. They were married October 6, 1590, and have five children. Through Attorney Raymond. B. Dickey, the wite tells the court that her husband onge rushed to“the kitchen, and securing’ a ‘carying knife chased her into the street thréaten-| He associates with to tor- ing her life. other women, the wife says, ment her. seeded wheat needs moisture. Missouri—More rain needed; getting dry everywhere. Kansas—Most sections dry. Nebraska—Too dry for plowing and Winter wheat. South Dakota—Rather dry for plow- ing in southeast; rain would benefit pasture: North Dakota—Favorable weathe much Fall plowing accomplished. Montana—Rain and snow greatly benefitted Winter wheat and soil. Wyoming—Six inches of snow in extreme west; soil well filled with moisture. soil Colorado Gets Rain. Colorado—Rain grain and ranges. in west benefited New Mexico—Rains generally need- | ¢d. as wells, streams and water holes ow. Arizona—Generally dry. Utah—Rain and.snow general; pre- cipitation urgently .needed on Win- ter ranges. Nevada—Ample precipitation. Idaho—Copious general rains very beneficial. ‘Washington—General and frequent rains effectually removed drought. Oregon—Precipitation over entire State; record-breaking in southwest; some flood damage. California—More rain needed southern half of State. in ARREST HAY XD IARFAREOFTONGS Police Take Man Alieged to Have Been Cause of Chinese Feud. Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 10.—Police last night expressed the belief that the truce between the Hip Sing and | On Leong tongs will become per- manent following the arrest yester- day of Chin Jack Len, 49, a Chinese said to be wanted in Cleveland, Ohio. as a fugitive from justice. Len i reputed to have been directly re- sponsible for the tong war through out the United States, which 1 inese have polic: id According By in lost their lives to the police, Ten i wanted in Cleveland on an indict ment charging him with having “threatened to kill one Wong Sinz if he did not hand over to him the title to a vast tract of land in Ohio valued at about $76,000." Cause of Tong War. Len, at the time, the police said, was president of the Cleveland branch of the On Leong tong, but following his indictment was expelled from the organization. He then is said to have joined the rival tong of the Hip Sings, and it was his acceptance as member by the latter body that is alleged to have caused the tong war, as there was said to have been an agreement between the two or- ganizations that neither would admit. an_expelled member of the other. _The 14-day truce between the war- ring tongs will expire next Thursday, but the authorities are of the opinion that the arrest of Len will result in the slgning of a permanent peace treaty. The police were “tipped” that Len would arrive from Chicago today and detectives of the bomb squad met him at the Pennsylvania station They trailed him to a hotel and from there to Chinatown, arrestyng him within a few feet of the Hip Sing tong headquarters, on Pell street 237 MORE U. S. DEAD IN FRANCE IDENTIFIED ‘Work of Beautifying Eight Ceme- . teries in Europe Progresses Rapidly. Army experts have succeeded in identification work in the cases of 237 men of the American expedition- lary forces who are buried in France, | during the last fiscal year, according |to the annual report of Maj. Gen. William H. Hart, quartermaster gen- eral, which was made public today. Many of the bodies identified, the re- port said, were recovered during the year from isolated graves along the old battle fronts. With the return to the United States of 34 bodies during this period, the total of American dead now asléep in American soil is 46,259, the report added. The others still are in the eight American war cemeteries in France, Belgium and England and Gen. Hart reported to Secretary Weeks that the beautifying of these plots had continued throughout the year with excellent results, v