Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1926, Page 6

- $400,000.000 URGED FORNEW U. . NAVY Butler Says It Will Cost That| Much to Keep Pace in Race for Supremacy. By the Assoclaied Press WEST CHESTER, Pa.. December Renewing his plea for “adequate” national defense, Represntative Thom- as S. Butler, chairman of the House naval affairs committee, asserted last night that the United States would have to build virtually a new Navy, “and it is going to cost us more than $400,000,000.” Representative Butler, who is spend- Ing the holidays at his home here, ®said he would make a big fight at the adoption by Congress of the naval af- fairs committee’s program. “There is a new high-speed race of naval supremacy on between the na- tions, and we are not in the race,” sald Mr. Butler. “When we scrapped more than $300,000,000 worth of the finest warships ever designed, that were built or building. we willingly, gracefully dethroned ourselves from the potential position of mistress of | the seas. Now we are & poor third, and likely to be fourth. Repeats Trickery Charge. “I said the other day that we had | been fooled out of $300,000,000 worth | of ship is the truth, and 1 am| bitterly humiliated by it. 1 was all for the 5—5—3 treaty. We went into it with the spirit of peace. We trust ed everybody. We believed, of ‘cour: that that treaty meant naval strength was our trusting good nature that got us into trouble. It w agreed, without much attention being paid to it, that there should be no regulation about ships of 10,000 tons or less, carrying guns not over eight hes. “England has_already built 40 of these cruisers, has 11 building and 3 projected, a total of 54. Japan bas buiit 19 and is building 6, a total of 25. The United States has built 10, is building 2 and has appropriated for 3, a total of 15, “England’s tonnage in these craft aggregates 2,290, Japan's 156,000 and ours 125.000 when all are com- pleted. In addition to these England has authorized three light crulsers, totaling £6,000 tons, each year for the next three vears, and that makes 78,000 tons more. Sees National Duty. “I don’t want any issue with the sident, but this is a matter of na- tional defense. No matter what views may obtain, this is a duty that has got to be performed for the Nation’s | sake. ’ “It will require 50 ships of war to Ing us up to our place; it will uuu-i $400,000,000, or maybe more. The| present arms pact expires in 1932 Whether it will be renewed, and upon | what terms it can be renewed, de-| pends upon what potential naval strength we can show at that time. “So we have got to build up—we have got to bulit up fast.” Representative Butler said the cruiser additions to foreign navies were “much more formidable than | any one would mve imagined a few ago.” And added: “It is true they carry no guns over eight inches, but they carry lots of them, and they are loaded down with 15-inch and 21-inch torpedo tubes and torpedoes.” MOTION TO “ABOLISH” WOMEN IS DEFEATED YTord Darling Scores €ambridge Men Who Offered It—“Should ,Have Passed Before Born.” By the Associafed Press. LONDON, December 27.—Lord Dar- Ung, speaking at the annual dinner of the Gray's Inn Debating Soclety, took a fling at Cambridge under- graduates who recently offered a reso- lution that women ought to be “abolished.” “In my opinion,” sald his lordship, *4t is a pity the resolution was not passed before they were born.” The undergraduates’ action was taken at a meeting of the Cambridge Union Soclety. A. B. King-Hamilton, arguing for the resolution, charged that the women of today were “as double-faced as their ancestors.” “Rather than grow old,” he said, “a woman dyes when young. She bangles hor arms, bingles her hair and bungles her face.” | Defending the women, A. C. Town- send made a long dissertation on the highly civilized way in which they rode bicycles and ate chocolates. They did powder their faces, he ad- mitted, but he pointed to the advice of Nelson, “Trust in God and keep your powder dry.” ‘The resolution lost, 164 to 191. Since the debate King-Hamilton has received 335 abusive letters from women. Townsend, who championed the women, has recelved six proposals of marriage, FISHERMAN COLLECTS FROM MYSTIC RITES ‘Novel Tip for Anglers Is Offered by Old Alaskan Medi- cine Man. By the Associated Press. WAIRBANKS, Alaska, December 27. ~~A novel tip for anglers may be - leaned from the methods of “Old loguk,” medicine man and sovereign wf an isolated tribe of Eskimo, liv- ing on the wind swept mud flats be- tween the Yukon and Kuskowin Rivers in Western Alaska. Hvery Spring before the salmon run up the rivers to spawn, “Old Joguk” journeys to the river mouths, where he performs queer incantations and magic rites. Wearing a wooden mask resembling a salmon trout, he dances and chants, commanding the fish to swim up the stream to his people. For this mysterious nower *Old Toguk™ exerts over the fish, he visits every home and collects as his share one-fourth of all the fish caught. FIRE RAZES FIVE STORES. Damage in Elizabethtown. N. C., Estimated at $40,000. ELIZABETHTOWN, N. C., ber 27 (). —Five stores in the busing sectlon here were destroyed by fire carly Saturday, causing an estimated damage of $40,000. The fire is reported to have been caused by a gas tank in one of the stores. Former dklnhom‘WaMen Dies. OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla., Decem- her 27 (). B the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary dur- ing the administration of President arding, died here yesterday. He was &9 vears old. Mr. Dyche had long heen « leader in Republican political ‘,ll(u:umokmwm Dyche, warden of | A man's as ole as he feels, an’ a woman's as ole as she looks—when she first gits up in th' mornin'. A barrel o' Chicago beer costs $3 an’ sells fer $60, so it's going t’ be purty hard t' git machine gun operators ' work fer any less if we' ever go U war. (Covyright. 1926.) SOFT COML WAGE PARLEY AWAITED Miners and Operators to Open Conference in Miami on February 14. By the Aesociated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., December 27. —How steadily will burn the bobbing lights on the caps of 200,000 miners in the great central soft coal fields of the United States during the’ next few years will be determined in the sun- shine of Miami, Fla., at a conference starting February 14. Miners’ and operators’ representa- tives in the central competitive field of western Penns ania, Indlana, Ohio and Illinois will start negotiations then for an agreement to supplant the Jacksonville wage scale which expires March 31, 1927. Nation-wide importance attaches to the gathering, however, because wages in other States having bituminous mines are based on the agreement reached for the central competitive field. Demands Being Drafted. Nelther miners nor operators will give any definite indication of the de- mands they expect to make at the conference, but their attitudes during three years of the Jacksonville scale | was made plain at various times. The miners firmly opposed any at- | tempt to open mines at a wage sca lower that that called for in the Jack- sonville agreement, and the operators in some States asserted they could not pay the scale and successfully com- pete with the product of the West Virginia non-union fields. By the last of January, it is"ex- pected that each side will have for- mulated its demands. The miners will draft their proposals at their thirtieth constitutional convention here be- ginning January 25, and the operators are expected to hold a meeting early in the new year to adopt a plan of action. Mine Outlook Favorable. “It would be indiscreet now,” sald John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, “for either side to venture its idea of the proper wage terms. “The theory of the joint conference is that the committee representing the miners and operators will decide at the conference what are acceptable terms for the new wage agreement.” Coal is pouring out of the central competitive fileld mines in great quan- tities, because of the demand created by the British strike, and big seasonal demands of railroads, industrial con- cerns and public utilities. The present activity is expected to give an advantage to the miners. Be- cause of the high prices being received for coal, the Jacksonville scale is be- ing paid it virtually all mines, both union and non-union. SLAYS TWO; HURTS ONE. Jealous Husband Kills Wife and Boarder, Say Police. DETROIT, December 27 (#).—En- raged by Jealousy, according to police, Abraham 'Alberts, a Byrian merchant, slashed to death his wife, Mary, 41, and a boarder, John Rabaddy, 26, and seriously wounded a nephew, Waddie Hannah, at Highland Park, Detroit suburb, Saturday. Hannah was wounded when he at- tempted to intervene. Alberts was dis- armed and arrested by police. Among the unusual professions fol- lowed by women are dealing in auto- graphs, running children's partles, finding names for persons and run- ning a roofing factory. Ample The interest rate is 514%. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 19%. DRY SHOES CAUSE SLAVER'S ARREST Victim Found in Alley After Rain, But Soles Are Not Wet. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, December Dry shoes on a dead man’s feet were the clues | that turned to justice the slayer of Willlam Lindstrom, radio cabinet maker. Loren Patrick, who confessegd killing Lindstrom December 6 “as & favor for Mrs. Lillian, Fraser, “a friend, who got me out of jall,” continued nonchalant in his attitude toward the affair. The clubbing to death of Lind- strom weighed so little on his con- science, he told police, that he scarce- ly gave it a thought save to keep out of the way of the officers. Soles of Shoes Dry. When the hody of Lindstrom was found on the icy pavement, appeared_accidental. It had r: during the night, however, and Police Captain Dennis Carroll's first glance at the dark figure lying in the wet al- ley showed that the soles of the man’s shoes were dry. “Murder,” he said, and he put his men to work. Patrick verified the murder theory yesterday. “Sure,” he said. “I hit him over the head with a lead pipe. Mrs. Fraser fixed it up to pay my $137.50 fine for bootlegging if 1'd kill him. She planned to collect his $1,000 as cident insurance.” Three in Jail Mrs. Fraser is in jail, as is Catherine Cassler of Crown Poin Ind., a friend, held as an accessory. Police say she introduced Patrick to Mrs. Fraser with the intention of get- ting him to undertake “the job,” and that she accompanied him in dis. posing of the body after the slaying in the flat in which Lindstrom and Mrs. Fraser lived. Confessions of Patrick and the two women sald the killing was planned so that Mrs. Fraser could get Lind- strom's insurance money and return to her husband, from whom she had been estranged four years. RIVERA SEEKS FAME AS SAVIOR OF SPAIN Has No Other Ambition, He Says, Declaring He Will Retain Power Now. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 27.—Gen. Primo de Rivera, military dictator of Spain, is quoted by the Figaro's Madrid cor- respondent as declaring he intends to “main in power “for the period neces- ary to destroy all the miasmas still poisoning the country.” If he consulted only himself, he added, ‘“e would retire forthwith.” However, the recent plebiscite had proved ‘that the country was behind him by 99 per cent. He would not intervene in the composition of the forthcoming National Assembly, he as- erted, adding: “I have no ambitions. All I ask is a place in history without pomp and lendor. Let people say, bowing be- fore my tomb, ‘that man saved Spain,’ d let all good patriots bless my e in pronouncing it—that’s al.” Spain wants to finish secret diplo- macy, he said, in explaining the afr- ing of Spain’s Tangier claims through the press before taking them up diplo- matically HORTICULTURE EXHIBIT IN ANCIENT SCULPTURE Stone Bas-Relief Portraying Early Fruit Growing by Royalty Coming to America. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 27.—An an- clent sculpture showing a royal horti- culturist apparently making an early effort to grow bigger and better fruit is coming to America. The object {s a stone bas-relief of the seventh century B. C., upon which is carved a profile portrait of Assur. banipal, an Assyrian king, whose chief historical centribution seems to have been his ordering his brother burned to death and his boast that he had 80 serving women of royal birth. The sculpture is 24 inches high and 22 Inches wide and pictures the King participating in what appears to have been the artificial fertilization of dates, which consisted of dipping a palm spathe in a basket of pollen and rub- bing it on the date flower. It is one of a large collection of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Persian and Renais- sance works of art which Alphonse Kann of Paris is sending to New York for sale by the American Art Asso- ciation. 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