Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1927, Page 6

CONERESS TOHLD NAVALPLAN RS House Committee to Question | Lord on Money Phase of Program, Says Butler. “Congress will n ing the United S American way, with' Americ the wishes, fe countriee. € il refuse to be a party t other nation @ mere bluff at building gress js soing abead with plans to) build them. Congress will pass no| naval bill with a jok will nullify the bill the body wants more con other disarmame In these we Thomas Bu ve a, veteran chairman of naval affairs committee M hle to proph ind of cruise ers, submarines Congress will the House nan bohes about gress will paper, shipe, i that the nation fina bear the immense burden Cangress, in particular, Butler de- clgres, will say when the ships are to be built Geneva Failure Probe, Hefore the House takes up the naval bili—which will not be until after the halidays—Chairman Butler s rts the naval affairs committee, of all, i8 going to the bottom of the failure | of the Geneva limitat “I propose to sug , “that we n delegates e. for the pur- pose of getting fr Fem, if it is pos- sible to obta.n i e inf. the dicagreement tnere. | would like to kdow if w n ever find out the real reason Wi o British ‘people de- clined to get tosether with us on the SNt | $900.000,000. n t | thinks he will be able to continue “* | now paving it, without placing addi- Rep: Repub of | they are constructed. The American | quired. | the - |1y and irrevocably. THE limitation of smaller ships. Affer we have learned that, we shall perhaps have some idea in our heads as to whether or not any agreement is like- Iy to be reached in the near future. If we can ascertain what divided the British and American peoples, we shall be better able to judge whether it will be worth while ever again, to aim at a limitation understanding. 1t it does not seem likely that such a result can be achieved, then we shall proceed to prepare our own affairs lin our own way."” oney does the admin- fon really call for, in istration proj hairman Butler was the long run asked. Lord to Be Questioned. “Nobody knows,” he replied “As gure it, the eventual cost may | vwhere between $800.000.000 and After turning the light on the Geneva failure—if it can be | T! purpose calling G er of the budget " from him how he in tends to finance the program suh- | mitted to us—whether he intends to | borrow the money, or whether he | RICHMOND, | slayer | opened * when to be an paying off the national debt as he is | tional burdens upon the people. We think it is quite important to know that “Then we shall want to know Gen. Lord whether he has mas estimate of what itll cost to construct | | within five vears 71 ships of war, and | what it'll cost to maintain them when | ‘Snluldm, short time. | people must know, in other words, 1y ¢ are letting themselves | for if they adopt this program. We Il be anxious to find out how much in officers t ot Gen. Lord will be a for an hese | hen Congress is in possession of | 1l these fundamental facts and fi construction usa | American naval force. The program !is undoubtedly entirely ample. But I | think you will find Congress in mo | mood to turn over to the President a program that is utterly incomplete and uncertain—which fails to fix any | time for its construction. Congress | will insist upon determining the num- | ber, the class and the building dates of the ships it authorizes—how many shall be laid down each year, definite- As matters now stand, nobody knows whether the 71 ships proposed are to be laid down in 1, 5, 20 or 50 years. I feel perfectly safe in foreshadowing that Congress Fantion | will consider no naval bill that is not crystal-clear on all these points, an- other limitation conference, or no con- ference, to the contrary notwithstand- ing.” (Coyright. 1927.) 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Robinson was on the stand only a He said that he was at EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. the Hermitage Club on November 4 and that he heard two women engag- ¢ in conversation, one of them say- ng: “If Mrs. Falson gets her husband back 1 will blow my brains out.” He said he later identified the wom- an as Mrs. Snipes. His testimony was completed within a few minutes and the jury was given the case for the second time at 10:20 o'clock. L. O. Wendenburg, chief of defense counsel, informed Judge Kirk Ma- thews that Robinson had reached Richmond as soon as court opened, and that the defense now desired to put him on the stand. Dave E. Sat- terfield, commonwealth's attorney, of- fered no objection, saying that he de- |sired all possible light thrown on the | case. Robinson was then sworn. Witness December 19.— Faison, alleged Holt' Snipes ‘her, was re. | Court con- | v to hear the for Willlam 8. \[ freader of the Yfice, who dled | t his residence, 1108 E street | L in his eighty-second year. 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