Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1927, Page 2

PARK VIEWPLANS 'CARNIVAL TONIGHT Miss Catherine Beck Is Chosen Queen From 28 - Seekers After Honor. ith Miss Catherine Beck of 512 wton place as queen, the Park View Business Men's carnival will be-| gin tonight in celebration of street | improvements and & new and better | lighting system recently installed in that section. i The queen was chosen from zbout | 28 candidates at the finals last night in the York Theater. The candidates were selected by applause by the au- dience, one aspirant for the honors of queen and two maids _of honor each night beginning with Monday. Mondav night Miss Kathleen Mof- fett of 3916 Fifth street ‘was held to have received the most applause, while Tuesday night Miss Beck was selected to be the other contestant. “Miss Washington” Decides. Last pight the two stood ~v. the lage e theater and Miss GRays Cookman, this year's “Miss Washing- ton,” acted as arbiter to decide which | girl received the louder acclaim. | The maids of honor, besides Miss | Moffet, are Miss Isabelle McDonald, | Miss Rita ~eldenberg, Miss Doroth Mahaney and Miss Hannah Ifughes The queen will be officially crowned this evening on the playground of the Park View School by District Commis- sioner Proctor L. Dougherty. Co-operating with the Park View business men in staging the carnival are the citizens' assoclations of Park View ahd Columbia Heights, both of which organizations are represented | on the carnival. committee. C. Theo- | dore Denekas is the general chairma and J. Clinton Hiatt is vice chairma and represents Columbia Heights. Final Arrangements Set. Final arrangements for the parade | and pageant were made at a busi- ness meeting of the committee last | night at the Park View School. * Mr. Hiatt presided. { The parade will form this evening at 8 o'clock at Georgia avenue and | Harvard street. It will proceed north on Georgia avenue to Rock Creek | Church road, from there east to| Ward.r street and south on Warder street to the Park View School, where the first division will disband. The remainder will continue south on ‘Warder street to Kenyon street. The parade will be led by ‘Capt. Fred Cornwell of the tenth police precinct, foliowed by a police escort. The American flag will be carried by | Percy. Baker. Then will come the| Bnys' Independent Band, followed by automobiles occupied by Commission- ers Dougherty and Ladue; Maj. Wil- liam E. R. Covell, Assistant Engineer Commissioner; Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superinteadent of police; Chief George 8. Watson of the Fire Department and Representative Frederick N. Zihl- man of Maryland. Decorated automobiles, in which will ride cfawvrs and members of the citizens' associations of Park View, Columbia Heights and Petworth and representatives of the Park View Community Center, will end the first division, Exercises at 9. The second division will be led by the Costello Post band and a float bearing the queen and her maids of honor. A float entered by the Colum- bia Heights Business Men's Associa- tion and decorated trucks belonging to the merchants of Park View will com- | pleta-this section. The third and fourth divisions will be composed principally of commercial floats. Included in each division will be several bands, ariong which will be the Elks' clown band, the Boy Scout band and two public school bands. At 9 oclock, the exercises at the school will begin. The queen will be crowned by Commissioner Dougherty and the following will speak: Fred S. Walker, the presiding officer; John McGrath, president of the Park Viaw Citizens’ Association; A. B. Carty, president of the Columbia Heights Citizens' Association; Commissioners Dougherty and Ladue, Maj. Covell, William McK. Clayton, chairman vf the public utilities committee of the Federation of Citizens' Associations; | Representative Zihlman, and Mr. Denekas, the man who has been large- | ly responsible for the successful plans for the carnival. BUILDING FOR CLINICS URGED IMMEDIATELY Board of Directors of Social Hy- giene Society Advocates Aid for District Activities. Immediate steps to purchase a build- ing to house the tuberculosis and so- cial hygiene clinics operated under the direction of the District of Co- lumbia Health Depariment was urged by the board of directors of the Social Hygiene Society at the monthly meet- ing yesterday afternoon at headquar- | ters, in The Star Building. The board was told by Dr. W. C. Fowler, heaith officer, that these two clinics will he removed this week from 409 Fifteenth street, the tuberculosis clinic going to the Tuberculosis Hospital and the so- cial hygiene clinic to a portion of the sylum Building at Gallinger Munici- pal Hospital. This necessity was de- plored. as the distance is very great and the facilities inadequate, it was declared. Dr. Robert Scott Lamb, president of the Social Hyglene Society, appoint- ed a committee to co-operate with the Tuberculosis Society and the Council of Social Agencies:to assure the Com- | missioners of their desire to help to | provide 2 more gdequate and accept- able building to house the clinics. Those on th as W | L. 3 ders, Mrs, ter §. Ufford, How- | Moran and Willard C. Smith. { The board also announced plans for a serics of educational lectures during the latter part of November by Dr. Thomas W. Galloway of the American ocial Hygicne Assoclation, who will | appear under the ausploes of the local | ial Hygiene Society. HORSE RACING IS HELD LEGITIMATE BUSINESS Board of Tax Appeals Backs Re-| ductions Made by Two Wideners. By the Associated Press. Horse recing is a legitimate business and expenses and losses occurred in the maintenance of a racing stable are deductible from Iederal income tax weturns, the Board of Tax Appeals has held in Quctions m: by Joseph E. and jeorge D. Widener of Philadelphia. e owners of the widely* known Widener stables listed their racing business as only one of the factors entering into their claims for tax de- asming on claims for de- | Abov iss Catherine Beck, selected queen of Park View carnival Below: C. Theodore Denekas, chair- man of celebration. CAR MERGER PLAN KEENLY AWAITED Public Utilities Commission Experts to Get Wilson Pro- posal Tomorrow. With considerable anxiety members of the Public Utilities Commission to- day awaited a report from Harley P. Wilson, owner of the Washington Rapid Transit Co., who has evolved a plan which he believes will bring about a voluntary merger of the street railway companies of the District. Mr. Wilson, who also is a member of the board of directors of the North American Co., a New York investment corporation which is credited with holding a controlling interest in the ‘Washington Railway and Electrie Co. and considerable stock of the Capital Traction Co., let it become known yes- terday afternpon that a merger scheme on. which. he has worked for some months had virtually been completed and that he-Wwould reveal it in tenta- tive form at least at a conference to- ‘morrow morning with John W. Chil- dress, chairman of the Public Utili- ties Commission. Details Closely Guarded. Mr. Wilson is in New York today, presumably perfecting certain details of the.merger scheme with the North but he promised to re- turn tomorrow morning to confer with Mr. Childress. Reports were circulat- ed in his absence, however, that the plan would not be in complete shape for consideration of the Utilities Com- rman by that time and most likely would be the time for its presentation. - The cardinal features of the as well as its minor details have closely guarded by Mr. Wilson ap- lan | parently, as members of the commis- sion and even the officials of the street railway companies disclaimed _any knowledge about it. Members of the commission, however, indicated that they are elated because an evident step has been taken to bring about the long-advocated consolidation, Childress Is Pleased. Mr. Childress is particularly pleased because Mr. Wilson's scheme gives evidence of leading to a voluntary merger rather than one forced by legisiation, which the former Utilities Commission aimed to accomplish in a bill it prepared and sent to Congress last Winter. Mr. Childress has re- peatedly indicated that he is not in sympathy with a compulsory merger except as a last resort, believing that 1 voluntary amalgamation would prove far more satisfactory to the public. Col. Harrison Brand, jr., vice chair- man of the commission, and the En- gineer Commissioner, Willam B. Ladue, its third member, also are in- clined to favor a voluntary merger, providing it is based on terms that would be acceptable to the public. The only fear of the commission members is that Mr. Wilson may have worked out a merger scheme with a service at cost basis as its fundamental principle. Such a propo- sition, it was said, likely would not appeal to the commission, as the merged company would have to be guaranteed a certain rate of return on a fair valuation, and the rates of fare would fluctuate according to the cost of the service. Any merger plan approved by the sion, however, would have to be given the sanction of Congress before it could be put into effect. CHINESE BANDS FIGHT IN FOOCHOW STREETS Nationalists Sweep Into City After Battle at Gates—Foreign- ers Safe. By the Associated FOOCHOW, China, October 13.— The streets of this city were a battle- field tod: for Nationalist forces, who attempted to expel followers of Tang | Hsu Ching. A number of casualties | were reported. Tang Hsu Ching had demanded | 1,000,000 Mexican dollars as the price of evacuating the city. esterday there were clashes between his fol- lowers and students. The populace has accused the provincial military chieftain of wholesale graft. A half- {milllon Mexican dollars had been paid him and his fuither demands were re- fused. Prior to the arrival of the Natlon- |alists, Tang Hsu Ching closed the city gates, manned the walls and pre- en | delegates. UNITARIN HARGES| [_—oceas rvens sws ox sme | DOGMATIG TYRANNY Fundamentalist Movement Treason, Rev. A. C. Dieffen- bach Tells Conference. “The fundamentalist movement is a betrayal of the religion of Jesus Christ and treason against the United States,” Rev. Albert C. Dieffenbach, editor of the Christian Reglster, de- clared today. The fundamentalist: he said, “have deliberately made the church an instrumentality to dominate the state.” Dr. Dieffenbach, who is credited with precipitating’ the fundamentalist- modernist controversy _h’l 1 is at- tending the biennial conference of the American Unitarian Association. He is well known as an author and lecturer and leader of the modernist camp. There has never bsen such dogmatic tyranny in this country as there is today, he declared, as a_result of the activity of the World Christian Fun- damental Association, organized by William Jennings Bryan and now led by W. B. Riley. This organization, he said, which declaves that “science is a form of irreligion,” has outlawed the teachings of science in many States and is seeking to put the seal of igno- rance on the entire country. “The Biblé belt extends all over the nation,” he declared, The Fundamen- talist churches dominate the religion of the country. Dogma Written Into Law. Dr. Dieffenbach contends that the Fundamentalists have betrayed the| principles of democracy by “‘writing | dogmas into statutes” and setting up a monarchy founded on the Bible. President Coolidge’s words, “law and order,” are “the words of monarch 4 he declared. “The words of democracy are freedom and service.” | This monarchical rule is illustrated by prohibition, anti-evolution laws and other examples. of “the dogmatic at- titiide of letting the majority dominate all,’ he said. “They hold that the voice of the majority is the voice of God. In the candidacy of Gov. Smith for| President, Dr. Dieffenbach said, there vould be as great a menace to free- dom. The Fundamentalists would fight Smith, he thinks, *“but the; would be inconsistent because the re- ligion of Fundamentalism is a dangerous as that of Rome.” Dr. Dieffenbach praised Gov. Smifh as an exponent of democracy in his adminis- tration in New York, but declared that his Catholicism would keep him from being a satisfactory President. The conference of Unitarian publi- cations today recommended passage of a resolution to make a survey with the object of staging a publicity cam- paign. At other conferences child problems, parish management and “reaching the multitude” were dis- cussed. Materialism Assailed. The growth of materialism, if it prevails, will become a blight upon society, Chief Justice Taft declared at the meeting last night at which he presided. The new discoveries of sci- ence furnish no basis for disbelief in God, he said, asserting that belief in evolution of man from a lower form { involves the noblest conception of | man. 1 A liberal faith based on modern sci- ence has brought comfort to many whom fundamentalism “has failed to satisfy,” he declared, expressing the hope that “experimental religion may furnish a real hope where fundamen- talism hes failed.”. P Speaking of the reported ‘spread of atheism in colleges, the Chief Justice declared: “For those of us who are familiar with the cocksure conclu- sions of our young hopefuls in college communities the statistics are not as alarming as they are to those who do not understand the nature and devel- opment of our academic youth.” The bellefs of the present coliege men and women are likely to change when they grow older, he said. Urges Part in Problems. ‘Worid problems, such as the out- lawing of war and disarmament, are “not the sort of politics from which the churches should refrain,” George ‘W. Wickersham of New York told the “If the church has no opin- ions on subjects such as these, she must renounce all claims to moral leadership.” he added. He praised the work of the League of Nations, which he described in some detail, and disparaged the “apathy" of the State Department in the move- ment for world peace. Rev. Owen R. Lovejoy of St. Peters- burg, Fla., spoke on “Religion in the Social Order.” MISSIONARY RELATES EXPERIENCES IN INDIA Rev. E. C. Davis Talks at iwfing at Columbia Heights Chris- tian Church. Rev. E. C. Davis, who for the past 24 years has been a missionary in India, told the convention of the Disciples of Christ, being held today in the Columbia Heights'- Christiar Church, ot his experiences there and the difficulties and conditions that are met in his work. Rev. John R. Golden, secretary of the United Christian Missionary So- ciety of St. Louis, presided at the meeting,at which about 100 delegates representing 54 churches in Mary- land, Delaware and the District of Columbia were present. Mr. Golden presented the situation to the delegates, looking forward to the celebration in 1930 of the 1,900th anniversary of the Pentecost, which will be conducted by the missionary soclety as an inspiration to greater efforts. ; . Other speakers this morning were Rev. P. A. Cave, on the missionary work in this section, and Rev. C. M. Jarrett of the College of Lynch- burg, who told of the work being done’ there, This_afternoon Mr. Davis again will_address the meeting. Rev. C. B. Reynolds of Lynchburg and Miss Nora E. Darnell; national superin- tendent of the children’s work of the United Christian Missionary Soclety, also will be heard. The convention will be closed tonight with a ban- quet at which Mr. Golden will speak on the situation in China. ot LITHUANIAN ARRESTS MADE LEAGUE ISSUE Complaint Concerns Alleged De- tention of Teachers by Polish Forces. By the Associated Press, GENEVA, October 13.—Lithuania has addressed a complaint to the sec- retary-general of the League of Na- tions respecting the alleged closing of Lithuanian schools and the arrest of schoolmasters in Vilna territory, by Polish authorities on the groun uctions for the years 1919 to 1922, in- tlusive, and experts of the board said today they were unable to estimate bow much the racing deductions alone would totad ” pared for battle. The Nationalists | were greeted with heavy rifle five, The Nationalists succeeded in break- ing into the elty and carried th2 battle inte the streety, e apparently of political agitation. The complaint has been circulated among members of the League and Poland will be Invited to furnish ex- Underwood Fhoto. Ruth Elder, upper, and Capt. George Haldeman, who landed at sea beside the Dutch tanker Barendrecht. COOLIDGE PRAISES DRAKE'S SERVICES President Accepts Resigna- tion of Useful Official With Regret. Aceepting the resignation of Assist- ant Secretary of Commerce J. Walter | Drake, President Coolldge yesterday sent Mr. Drake a letter in which he voiced regret over his severance of connection with the Government and highly praised his able administration of four years. “*You haye given four years of devot- ed service,” President Coolidge wrote Mr. Drake, “to the American people in the upbuilding of our commerce and industry, and in such you have served not only the industries and business, but the stability of employment-—and thus the whole people Mr. Drake gave notice last June that he intended to resign this Fall due to his desire to re-enter business life, and just sent his formal. resig- nation. Up to the time Mr. Drake became Assistant Secretary of Commerce he was chairman of the board of the Hupp Motor Car Corporation,.of which he was one of the organizers in 1908, and he was also widely interested in an active way in several other motor enterprises and industrial activities. He was also at that time a director of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Director of the Na- tional Automoblle Chamber of Com- merce, and actively associated as di- rector of several of the leading na- tional business organizations, particu- larly those concerned with foreign trade. ‘When Merbert Hoover took office as Secretary of Commerce he had called upon a number of leading men in the business world to come to his assistance as an advisory committee in reorganizing the business services of the department, and Mr. Drake served for a time as chairman of the com- mittee, AUTOMOBILE TITLE LAW URGED FOR D. C. Enactment of an automobile title law for the District of Columbia as a means of protecting owners of auto- mobiles from fraud in the purchase of cars was indorsed by members of the transportation committee of the ‘Washington Chamber of Commerce at a meeting yesterday afternoon in the offices of the chamber in the Homer Building. Such a law, it was pointed out by members of the committee, also would serve to guard against the issuance of District of Columbia tags to non- residerts not entitled to them if pres- entation of a certificate showing title to an automobile were required for the purchase of local tags, as much as the giving of fictitious local addresses thus would be minimized. Enactment of such a title law, which for some time has been urged by other groups here, thus was seen as an aid In the solution of the pres- ent controversy between the District of Columbia and Virginia over the new Virginia tag law. This proposal, it is understood, will be presented at the conference this afternoon hetween local trade officials and Traffic Di- rector Harland with James M. Hayes, jr., commissioner of motor vehicles at Richmond, following the conference with Gov. By Jerome Fanciulll, chariman of the transportation committee, presided at the meeting yesterday. 6. 0. P. LEADERS WATCH PARLEYS BEING HELD BY SENATE INSURGENTS (Continued from First Page.) are planning to hold consultations here on the coming presidential cam- paign, it is indicated with the an- nouncement that Clem L. Shaver, chairman of the partws national com: mittes, tomorrow and Saturday will come to confer with prominent Wash- ington Democrats on the party’s af- fairs. The conferences are intended mainly to discuss plans for the com- ing meeting of the national commit- tee of the party in January, at which the 1928 convention city will be selected, Several cities have bid for the con- vention, including Detroit and Cleve- land, which also are in the running for the Republican convention. Other cities' which have invited the party are Chicago, Atlantic City and Miami, | Flae 2 oo, g Associated Press Photo. RUTH ELDER SAFE - WITH CO-PILOT AFTER LANDING AT SEA ‘(Continued from First Page,) American Girl might land in Spain, due to the altered course in avoiding perhaps impassable storms. Confident friends of the pilots pointed to the emergency. equipment the plane carried. Thete was the dump valve, which might have Joosed the fatal weight. of gasoline. They had, too, fiber-lined rubber lfe-buoy suits ,with breath condensers to sup- ply water and emergency ratians in a waterproof case. ¥ The radio, & small outfit capable of sending only, which might be op- erated if the plane were afloat; was provided with a kite aerial and afforded communication .within a radius of 75 miles. The functioning of all these safeguards is contingent, airmen realized, upon‘a margin of time in case of a forced Janding at sea. It was such.a margin, appar- ently, that the Old Glory and its three occupants did not enjoy. MOTHER SOBS WITH RELIEF. Family of Aviatrix Keep Watch for News in Press Office. ANNISTON, Ala., October 13 (#).— Sobs choked the voice of Mrs. J. O. Elder here today as she gave thanks that no harm had befallen her ad- venturous daughter, Ruth Elder, transatlantic aviatrix. The girl flyer's parents, sisters and brothers were gathered in a local newspaper office this morning, anx- iously waiting for reports of, Miss EI- der’s progress across the Atlantic in the plane American Girl, Throughout the night they sat in their little home, not daring to sleep. Anxiety was written on the faces of all. “I knew Ruth would be found safe,” the mother exclaimed when she was told of Ruth’s landing beside the Dutch tanker Barendrecht. The father, standing aside, turned his head and wiped away a tear. Smiles on the faces of the brothers and sisters replaced the troubled ex- pressions which plainly have shown their misgiving during the last few days. ACKERS “TICKLED PINK.” “One of Bravest Little Women in World,” Wheeling Man Says. WHEELING, W. Va., October 13 (®).—Joseph Holloway, speaking for the Wheeling backers of the Ruth Elder flight, after being informed by the Assoclated Press of the fact that Miss Elder and George Haldeman were safe, sald;: “We are tickled pink. We are so happy we cannot express it in words. Not one of the men backing the flight has had a wink of sleep since she started Tuesday night and we are so pleased now it will be impossible to sleep. Miss Elder started against our protests, but after she was once off we prayed for her success. All we care for is to know she is alive and safe. Whether she succeeded or not she is one of the bravest little women in the world. Have the Associated Press tell her if possible of our great happiness in knowing she is alive.” HOME TOWN ELATED. Hundreds Break Into Cheers as News of Flyers’ Safety Is Received. LAKELAND, Fla., October 13 (#). —Joy unrestrained marked the rece tion by their home town of the As- sociated Press dispatches announcing that Miss Ruth Elder and George Haldeman had landed safely in the American Girl at sea. Hundreds of persons gathered in front of the office of the Lakeland Ledger broke into a deafening roar of applause as the announcer read the flash of the safety of the Lakeland tiyers. J. J. Haldeman, father of the:co- pilot\and nayigator of the American Girl, was in the Ledger office when the flash came. He was too overcome for a few seconds to make any com- went. T BN LABOR “HANDS OFF" LS UIPlUMAGYt Convention Chiefs Steer Clear of Questions Involving | National Policies. " By the Associated Press. i LOS ANGELES, October 13.—Inter- national policy and interstate contro- versies have no place on the course plotted for the American Federation of Labor convention here by its leade: The federation chiefs declared neither of these problems should be argued on the convention floor. Delegates yesterday gave their ap- proval to a “hands off” policy on international relations when they de- clined to denounce the Government's | foreign policy In Latin Ameérica and | China. The resolutions committee report on the Colorado River development situa- tion showed that .the f deration’s leaders had no intention of taking a hand in the squabble of the seven States of the river’s basin. The com- mittee’s report on the river problem is yet to bé voted upon by the con- vention. Gets Unanimous Approval. Affirmation of the Monroe Doctrine, embodied in the resolution commit- tee's disappraval of a resolution intro- duced by John Sullivan of New York, opposing “American interference in foreign countries,” received the unani- mous approval of the delegates. The committee declared that the resolu- tion itself “had no regard for the truth.” The committee pointed out that President William Green of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, who also is president of the Pan-American Fed- eration of Labor, had taken the Nic- araguan situation up with the United States Government “in an effort to be helpful to the Nicaraguan people.” A declaration “that American and so-called American interests in foreign countries abide by and accept the con- sequences of the laws of such coun- tries just as foreigners and foreign in- terests within our borders must abide by and accept the consequences of American laws,” was suggested by the labor committee. Attitude on Immigration. Although the committee believed that the Government had ‘‘committed errors” in past intervention in China, it declared that a mere withdrawal would give other nations an oppor- tunity to use American interests “to embroil our Government further.” For the second time in the conven- tion, the delegates supported the ad- ministration policy of self-restraint rather than quota laws to control the immigration from neighboring coun- tries. This action came on resolu- tions asking that Canada and Latin American countries be placed on the quota basis. Both were referred to the executive council, virtually ta- bling them. DAWN STIL HELD AT OLD ORCHARD 'Wind and Rain Prevent Wom- ‘an’s “Safe and Sane” Hop to Copenhagen. By the Associated Press. OLD ORCHARD, Me, October 13. —A. stiff southerly wind, a steadily falling rain, thick weather and rough sea combined this morning to post- pone probably for another day the projected America-to-Copenhagen flight of Mrs. Frances Grayson, and her two cumpanions in their big Sikorsky amphibian monoplane. There was. the bare possibility that the flyers might leave at dusk when low tide shall have widened the nar- row beach runway, but it was only a possibility. The Dawn, as the plane has been christened, stood fueled and ready, provisioned for the flight, while the aviators and their companions who flew here with them this week from Long Island, N. chafed at the fresh delays. The aviators have been awaiting clear weather since early last month. Mrs. Grayson has consistently re- fused to take a needless chance. It must be a “safe and sane” flight or none at all, she has announced. Mrs. Mildred B. Stultz and Mrs. Gertrude J. Goldsborough, wives re- spectively of the co-pilot and navi- gator of the trip, had joined the party today from New York. CONSULAR PROGRAM FINALLY APPROVED BY PAN-AMERICANS ntinued from First Page.) samples of small or no commercial value and of mail packages valued at the equivalent of not over $30 gold, shall be exempt from requirements for the presentation of consular in- voices and the payment of consular fees. “Where countries regard it neces- sary to require the prescribed docu- ments on all shipments, no consular certification should be required of the documents covering advertising mat- ters and samples, or mail packages valued at under $30 gold; or, if any fee be required, it be paid by the con- signee in the country of destination.” The purpose of this proposal is to give effect to the position now com- monly taken that the commercial use of parcel post should be facilitated and not subjected to the conditions and charges usual for commercial shipment. A number of the American republics now waive all requirements for con- sular documents or fees in the case of parcel post shipments, and others either waive the fees or provide for their collections from the consignee at destination. The proposal is to standardize these tactics. Plan Fee Recommendation. Recommendation will be made to the various American republics that consular fees shall be considered compensation for services rendered and not ‘as additional duties, in ac- cordance with a resolution adopted by the commission late yesterday. A number of proposals looking to agree- ment on this point were presented and the one finally adopted was an amended form of a proposition pre- sented by the delegate from Panama. The proposal as adopted was as fol- lows: “It is recommended the countries represented at this confer- ence resolves, That consular fees he considered as compensation for serv- ices rendered instead of considering MAJ. GEN. CHARLES P. SUMMERALL. SUMMERALL TOUR ENDS IN MYSTERY; OFFICIALS PUZZLED (Continued from First Page.) because of a speech delivered Tues- day in San Diego in which he is said to have criticized severely Govern- ment policy in connection with the housing of troops created widespread lq‘f;ro!l among Army officers and offi- cials. TLe chief of staff is known to hola positive views on that subject and has exhibited recently a considerable degree of frankness in expressing his opinfon publicly, although up to this time, at least, he has avoided any- thing approaching a direct conflict with congressional or administra- tion_ policy in_handling the Army fiat President Cool- directly - because I's remarks in San him to Washing- would be almost Army history. As a fhe President desired to action, White House in- structions to the Secretary of War would accomplish the purpose, the actual orders to the officer involved being sent in the name of the Seere- tary. Conjecture Over Cause. One aspect of the situation ¢rousing particular interest in military circles was the course Gen. Summerall might follow if he proves to have been called in rebuke for his San Diego speech. Some officers were inclined to believe he might ask to be relieved as chief of staff in that event, thus forcing the Army housing issue and any other questions of military policy in which he is deeply interested into public no- tice in such a manner as to insure the attention of Congress during the com- ing sessfon. . RECIPROCITY TAG WAR IS AVERTED BY VIRGINIA GOVERNOR (Continued from First Page.) Co.. of Washington; H. C. Violet of the Schneider Baking Co.. of Wash- ington; J. Heflin, Dorsch: Baking C Washington; A. E. Gray, Rice Bak- ing Co., Washington; Robert Bender, General Baking Co., Washington; C. W. Lowe, Colonial Ice Cream . ‘Washington; H. B. James, Corby Bak- ing Co., Washington, and Albert L. Martfield of the Loeffler Provision Co., ‘Washington. The Langley Citizens' Association entered the lists against the Virginia State officials at a meeting Monday night. The action was unanimous. It was embodied in a resolution which places the association on record “as being opposed to any agitation which threatens severance of present pleas- ant automobile tag reciprocal relations between the District of Columbia and the State of Virginia.” Ask Curb on Break. The resolution specifically requests the State officials “to refrain from any action tending to disturb the cordial understanding between officials of the District of Columbia and the State of Virginia.” Not content with merely adopting this resolution, the association direct- ed its secretary to send a copy with- out delay to the State authorities, and incidentally, also, to the officials of the District and the press. At the same time, R. E. Plymale, president of the Arlington County Mo- tor Club, issued a statement declaring that District citizens taking up tem- porary residences in northern Virginia “should not be imposed upon by two separate and distinct registration plates, even if there is some archaic law on the old statute book of Vir- ginia to that effect.” Condemns “Chinese Wall.” “Virginia, and specifically Arlington County,” declared Mr. Plymale, “is in- sistent that there shall not be a ‘Chi- nese wall’ at the Potomac River. Ar- lington wants to_supply its share of produce to the Washington market, and we want to welcome all pur- chasers of Washington to what we have to sell in our county, and I be- lieve that the producers and business men of Fairfax County feel the same way. “What should be done is to forget this whole problem that has beer raised from ome individual case and to get down to normalcy on the whole situation as sane business men. The legal residents of Virginia must be compelled to have Virginia registra- tion of their cars. If this is enforced I believe it will iron out the whole situation.” Wants Definite Action. According to a statement issued by the Greater Washington Motor Club today, the ‘“great need to iron out the situation with Virginia is ultimate workable legislation that will clearly define the rights of Washington motor- ists in northern Virginia and of northern Virginia motorists in the Dis- trict of Columbia.” Following the principle accepted in other sections where cities are ad- jacent to another State, the question of legal residence, according to this statement, is the determining factor as to the registration of the motor vehicle, even though there may be some minor laws on the statute books that may be applied and work hard- ships with intercommunity trans- portation. AZORES FLIGHT DELAYED. Junkers Plane Starts Ocean Trip, but Engine Gives Trouble, LISBON, Portugal, Qctober 13 (#).— The Junkers plane D-1230 hopped oft this moruing with the intention of proceeding to the Azores ep route to the United States, but sbon after landed, as one of the engines was giv- them as additional duties. It is recommended at the same time that sald countries shall seek to reduce in conformity with their necessities, their consular charges, If 1t 1s not possible to establish a fixed tariff.” ing trouble. \ The plane made a flight over Lisbon, when the German airmen decided it would be advisable to land belore taking off on the ocean hop to the Agores. R Lo JAPANESE OPPOSE . MEDDLING IN CHINA Friendliness and Co-opera- tion Is Country’s Attitude, Premier Claims. BY PAUL WRIGHT. By Cable to The Star and Ch | News. Copyright, 18 TOKTO, October 13.—Gen. Baron G- Ichi Tanaka, premier and minister of foreign affairs, outifned for the writer {today the attitude of Japan towardq China and Manc 1. He explatned Japan's new so-called positive policy and told the correspondent why the Japanese empire’s motives in foreign affairs are not what they decade ago. “Toward China in general.” said the premier, “Japan's feelings are gencr- ous and sympathetic. Japan is ef- tirfly opposed to intervention in Chinas China's domestic problems must be solved by the Chinese them- selves. If the lives and property of Japanese residents in China are jeop- ardized, then this government must take steps necessary to safeguard them. azo Daily were & Impresed by Outrage. “Japan was deeply impressed by the Nanking outrage last March and sent troops into Shantung Province last Summer in order to prevent a repe- tition before it could begin. After two months Shantung became quiet and the troops were withdrawn. Now there are ro Japanese soldiers Shantung. “We are pathetic with the aspi ratlons of the Chinese people for the abolition . of extraterritorialify, in crease in_customs dutfes and proper adjustment of unequal treaties. Al- though the " Peking conference last year came to nothing, we will be glad to see another customs conference when circumstances permit. “Manchuria is a little different from China proper, for there we - have ‘planted blood." We stand in a special position and are specially interested. ‘We have there the South Manchurian Railway and the leased territory of Kwantung Peninsula. Over seven hundred _thousand Japanese d Koreans live in Manchuria. For a iong distance, only the Yalu River separates Manchuria from Korea. ) Manchuria as Paradise. 5 'The new positive policy of the pres- enit cabinet has two principal aspects regarding Manchuria: In the first place we desire to make Manchuria a kind of paradise in China—a model land.. It must be kept free from China civil wars. Manchuria must be made safe for all investments and for all Chinese and foreigners. Man- churia is to be helped to full pros- perity and happiness, Marshal Chang ‘Tso-Lin, mow virtudl king of Man- ¢ churia, must know this policy is fa- vorable to him also. Secondly, to attain this aim Man- churia must be developed economically to the fullest extent with the co-operat tion of the Chinese. Our positive policy must not be understood as meaning Japanese aggression. We consider Manchuria to be Chinese ter- ritory and we respect China’s sover- eignty. Inasmuch as Chinese alone will not carry through this develop- ment, it will have to be done by Japa- nese and Chinese working together. Therefore it is evident that the man who is ultimately to hold the chief power in Manchuriz must be able to understand thoroughly Japan's aims. “Is Manchuria to be a buffer state? We haven’t an idea, because our spe- cial interests are mainly economic. Suffered From Reaction. ‘“Japan is undergoing a change of policy which is most pronounced since the Washington conference. No states. man can afford to disregard liberal tendencies in this era which are mak- ing their impression even upon the minds of the world’s military leaders. Both the Versailles and Washington conferences - caused the Japanese peopld to think seriously and deeply of medifying the nation’s ideas con- cerning its attitude toward China, “Leaders of yourg Japan profited from contact .with other nations around the conference tables. While we did nét suffer séverely in the great war, we suffered much from the economic reaction which followed. “Furthermore, the earthquake of 1923 helped change Japanese thought socially, politically and economically. We have moved forward, as a «om- parison of newspaper editorials today and 10 years ago will prove.” Concerning Japan’s relations titd Russia, Premier Tanaka added: “We have no special interest with Russia—no secret political agreentents. Japan aims, however, to promote our own economic interests. For two years we have been working together on an agreement concerning certain basic points in commerce.” e premier received the correspond- ent in the foreign office in a mumeer kindly and courteous. He gives the interviewer an impression of intel. lectual vigor. He is a retired general and a veteran diplomatist. His body is strong, despite the heavy duties of his double position in the cabinet. . Costes Again Delayed. SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal, Octobe (P).—Dieudonne” Costes "was again forced to postpone his hop-off fir Port Natal, Brazil, today In his plane. the Nungesser-Coli. The sogginess of the flying field mad i i e a take-off inad- ) LAUREL ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW, Vocal C: 2 N HE & Dorwood Stable entry, 165 manden, S5 ar oS 1N By R Ry e Lady o *Discovered o *Batwing . :, Warrenton 2 miles claiming; § ep Rivanna . Stonedale *Landslin Finisterre THIRD R. for 3-year-olds and *Real Artist James ‘Stuart Touvoyou Gem of the Fancy Field oo se. $1,300: g Drea FOURTH RACE—Pu bridge Handicap; o miles. Birlev M. C. 115 Nit Eve Athel ... 118 Fly H:A": FIFTH RACE—Purse, $2.000: st ents Handicap: all ages: 6 furlongs. ~ Rolls Royee 112 'and Pairieia do. 00 107 hasacrs i aMaid o' Mist 106 Navigator . aH. P. Whitney entry, SIXTH RACE—Purse, : R for 2-vear-oids: 1 miler S 000: claiming: Inquisitor s Roi T: panish Imperator *Sun Kin e Star Gold . o Ing do A arurse. $1,300: elalm: i et : nd furiong. and up: 1 mile and & Yachtsman The Archer Valentino Sand Pile Delhi = Boy Immolator M aMrs, W. H. ntry. oria .. . Polly Poker. | Wellet cley Beggar. . a*Harlan N St. John Immiortal aEl Caroe Ruban Rouze™. . Denham and. Charles Wolfe 107 107 |