Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1928, Page 13

THE SUNDAY U WAR ENEMIES (oo e e DI SURVEY WORK. T0 GETSIC00MA0 TOBE DISCUSSED Compensaticn Embraces Claims for Ships, Patents | and Radio Station. STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. NOVEMBER 18, 1928—PART 1. 00VER 10 SEEK A R B ) Herbert Hoover’s Trip To South America I When the next President of the United States visits the nations of South America a new era in the relationships of the United States and our southern neighbors will be initiated. This is the consensus of the best minds throughout the world. Naturally Government officials and citizens of Washington will be interested in what is happening on the President-elect’s trip. To meet this overwhelming interest. The Evening Star and The Sunday Star have arranged for unparalleled service for Washingtonians. Every move of Mr. Hoover and his party will be heralded. 'The diplomatic and political sig- Am=rican Society of Agron- | Main Aim of South American; { omy to Open Meeting Here Tour Seen as Gesture of Earnestness. Next Thursday. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Enough time has elap. since an- | nounceraent by President-elect Hoover that he i5 going to South America to sain an impression of what will be the international significance of the trip. The purpese of Mr. Hoover. first of all. was to get a rest from the labors of {he campaign. First he thought of a fishing trip. then it was suggested he might go to Hawaii. He knew that the pro re in the pre-inauguration period would be intense and that most of the things asked of him he could not pos- sibly do until after inauguration, any- how. The idea of going to South Amer- | ica appealed to the President-elect as | a means of spending a couple of months | or s0 away from the politicians, and at \me same time doing a constructive piece of diplomacy. Competition Keen. The farm probiem will be attacked by | soll selentists, agronomists, agricnltural | extension workers and foresters at the | ‘.’mnufl meeting of the American So-| clety of Agronomy here, Thursday and Priday. Dr. A. G. McCell, president of the American Society of Agronomv and chief of snil investigations of the Bu- reeu of Chemistry and Soils, Depart- ment of Agriculture, will cutline a na- tional program for soil research in his presidential address. Fully 1,000 coun- | ties, comprising more than half th~ total arable area of the United States. have been survevet and mapoed. ac- | cording to Dr. McCall, who will discuss | | ntans to continue the work of the soil survey until the entire agricultural area 2717, | of the United States is contained in a h Legal Questions. soil map of the Nation. r of squaring accounts ! | Subjects for Discussion. man claimants against the The inauguration of a program of United States that is the up-to-date fortilizer research based on findings of phase of the war aftermath. By act | | the soil survey, a study of methods for of Congress, Judge Edwin B. Parker of ! the control of erosion of various types 1C WILLIAM WILE. Tenth anniversary of the World War ermistice finds the United States in the final stages of winding up the vast | and complicated business of settling fhe recpoetive war claims ot Americans, | and Hungari 1 of the United S s been made to the extent teps are now tion of Ger- of ships BY FR trians 100.000.000. In | patents, the | B to reimburse its | |8 s for the wircless sta- | lle. Long Island, which 1017 Busy W 5. McCALL, Chief of soil investigations, Department xas, who was umpire of the German- American Mixed Ciaims Commission, iz clothed with full power to adjudicate | the German demands. His title is that | of War Claims Arbiter. He was ap- pointed by the President and confirmed | — by the Senate. nce of | E. P. Bowyer of South Dakota, ‘ has been his right-hand man since the | Claims Commission was established in . Judge Parker is no the mass of legal questions invoived in | With the as: Altogether 109 claims are on file covering Respecting patents, 1.070 clai equire adjudica- tion. The Sayvi ireless station is the only claim of its kind. In the Settlement of War Claims act, which came to the Hous: from the ways and means committee and to the Senate from its finance committee. | the principle laid down by Congress was that it violates American traditions to conficcate the private property of | nationals with whose country the United | States may have been at war. Uncle| Sam never interned the German ships which he eventually seized when we declared war in April, 1917. The ship: ran into our harbors at the outbreak | of the World War in 1914, in order to | escape certain capture or destruction | by the allied navies. Even after the! United States went to war with Gt many and Austria-Hungary, the vessels which had been enjoying refuge in| American harbors for two and a half vears might have weighed anchor and taken to the high seas. They, of course, did not dare do so and risk being sacrificed, whereupon the mili- tary necessities of the United States impelled us to take possession of them. Now, more than 11 vears later, we pur- pose reimbursing the original owners of {he ships, at least in part. for their value at the time they fell into our defi- nite possession. 3 | 102 Ships Included. Altogether 102 ships are embraced by | the claims which the American arbiter iz about to consider. Of that number, 5 are cargo steamers: 4 are cargo mail ; 47 are passenger and cargo re sailing vessels; 3 are and 3 are express pas- | senger steamers. The last named grouo includss ths famous former German cueen of the seas. 8. S. Vaterland, now | U. 8. S. Leviathan. The other German | evoress steamers were the one-time well | known and popular lners, Kaiser Wil- | helm II and Kronprinzessin Cecilie. The voup of passenger and cargo vessels includes S. S. George Washington, the | former North German Lioyd liner, whose | rame was not changed when she en- tered America's service. It was the George Washington which transported | President Woodrow Wilson back and forth across the Atlantic for the Peace Conference. ‘While the two big German shipping enmpanies—the Hamburg-American and | the North German Lloyd—did not own | the majority of the seized vessels,| roundly 80 per cent of the gross ton- | i | and patents, nage and value represented flew the flegs for those lines. The more im- portant ships were seized in Atlantic ports, but others were distributed among Gulf ports and along the Pacific Coast. | The bigger and better former enemy ships were all emploved ip carrving American troops to France or in the service of supplies. Entitled to Oppose Awards. Judge Parker, the claims arbiter, has many knotty legal tangles to unravel in considering both the ship and patent | cases. The Depertment of Justice, | acting for the United States, is en- titled to oppose the awards asked for. Assistant Attorney General George R.| Fernum is in charge of the ship cases| and Assistant Attorney General Her-| man J. Galloway is in charge of the! patent cases. As to the ships, Con- gress provided that the basis of com- | pensation should be their value to the | owner at the time they were seized by | the United States. The fixing of this| value conjures up no end of contro- versial difficulties. There comes into consideration the fact that the Germans and the others voluntarily took refuge in American waters ! Another ticklish question is whether | the ships or any of them were entitled to the innocent character of purely merchant vessels, er whether they were —snd to what extent—naval auxil-{ jary craft. Congress was rather de-| termined on the point that no Ameri- ran money should ever be paid in compensation for a ship which was in fact a disguised man-of-war. The bottom fell out of the international =hipping market in 1921. That brings up a factor which will enter into the fixing of the value of individual vessels. The matter of the seized German patents is no less complicated than the | &hip question. The Alien Property Cus- | todian sold certain valuable German | patents to the Chemical Foundation of | America, and previously the United States Government during the war had been itself using some of these patents. Just how and to what amount the orig- inal owners are now entitled to re- imbursement brings up questions of law and fact almost endlesss in num- | t The United Slates Treasury to date has paid to American claimants against on account of death and laims, a total of §72.- | iem adopted wos to claims of less than | 00,000 each 2nd pro-rata amount on ims in excess of §100.000 each. yments were derived | from a numi ources, including | 423,000,000 received by the United | States under the Dawes reparations | plan and the Paris finance agreement, | and $33.000,000 in unallocated intercst | from the Alien Property office. | (Coprright, 1928.) GEORGIA WOMAN BAILED | IN K. OF C. LIBEL CHARGE| SAVANNAH, Ga. November 17.— | Mrs. Ed C. Alumbaugh of Macon, in jail here on 2 charge of libel for distribui- ing spurious oaths atiributed to the Knights of Columbus, succeeded today in giving bond of 51,000 o answar the charz: in city court next week. Her bond was signed by O. Dodson of Todler. Rev. W. F. Larowe. arrested at the tame time and on the sams charge ac Mre. Alumbaugh. has not made bond. Mrs. Alumbaugh did not obtain | her freecom todar. as she i5 serving a jail sentence for violating A city ordinance. This case may be setiled 1Menday, ; ing branches throughout of Agricuiture, and president of Ameri- | can Saciety of Agronomy, who willj <peak ot the conference of the society here Thursday and Friday. CROUP DENOUNCES | HOSPITAL SEIZURE Spanish Benefit Club Will| Ask Ambassador Here | to Take Action. | By the HAVANA, Cuba, November 17.—Of- ficials here of Centro Asturiano told the Associated Press today that they v.-uu!d‘r ask the Spanish Ambassador in Wash- | ington to take up the action of munici- pal officials of Tampa, Fla., respecting the organization's branch thers, It was reported here that Tampa had taken control of the hospital operated by the Tampa Centro Asturiano, which | is a mutual benefit organization ccm-| posed of Spaniards from the Province of Asturia. The Centro Asturiano is one of the largest mutual organizations in Cuba, owning a clubhouse in Havana and hav- | the island. | The Tampa branch was dedicated about | four months ago after expenditure of | ebout $300,000, of which the major part was subscribed here The purpose of Centro was described as providing club- rooms for people from Asturia and to aid them in banking and business transactions Hospitals, it was said, are | conducted at a saving to members. The | Havana Centro often has been criticized | by medical associations. REQUEST IS NOT RECEIVED. | Spanish Embassy Attaches Here With- | hold Official Comment. Attaches of the Spanish embassy here said yesterday that no request had been received from officials of Centro Astu- riano in Havana for the Ambassador to act with regard to reported differences between the organization’s branch at Tampa, - Fla, and municipal officials | there. Comment was withh2ld pending receipt of word from Havana. PAROLE FOR MOONEY | DENIED BY GOVERNOR Report of Clemency Offer Being Refused by Bomb Outrage Con- vict Disputed by Young. i | By the Associated Press. | SACRAMENTO, Calif., November 17. Reports from New York that Gov. C. C. Young had offered a parole to ‘Tom Mooney, Which had been declined by the former labor leader, who is serv- i ing a sentence at S8an Quentin prison for alleged participation in the Pre- paredness day bombing in San Fran- cisco in 1916, were denisd at the exec- utive’s office here today. Gov. Young has informed per- | sons appealing for aid for Mooney that | he s eligible for application for parole, | which then would be considered on its | merits. Moonew has refused to apply for a paroie on the ground that to do so | would be an admission of his guilt. He | has said he would accept nothing less | uhan a pardon. The governor said recently he saw nothing in the case warranting a par- don. but would review th> matter. At a _meeting in New York yesterday called by the American Civil Libesties Union plans were discusssd for an at- tempt to interest Herbert Hoover, Presi- dent-elect, in Mooney's case. Frank P. ‘Walsh, attorney for Mconey, was quoted as saying his client had been offered | a parole but refused it. | | Shipping Board Agent Dies. GALVESTON, Tex, November 17 (®.—Carlos N. Nye, agent for the United States Shipping Board here and former_assistant superintendent of the Cape Cod Canal project, died of pneu- monia. “No Parking™ ¢ Too Far Apart, Man igns Is Freed by Court Diserepanciss in “No Parking” devices in front of a downtown theatsr were cited by Thomas B. Shoemaker. Franklin Park, Va., fo secure his asquittal yesterday in Traffic Court for parking in a restricted zone. When Shoemakar parked beside a “No Parking” sign near the theater, Policeman A. B. Clark of the first precinct placed him un- der arrest. Shoemaker deposited $2 coliate: and told the officer he would win the case in Traffic Court. He then made an investigation at the District Building, which showed, he told Judge Gus A. Schuldt. that th: theater's permit called ‘for 30 feet of reserved space, while the signs were 37 feet apart Furthermore, he said, the numbers on the signs did not, correspond 1o these in the permit. The court docided Shnemaker had made an adequate defanse and dirmiszed the case, | subjects which will be | srosion have had wide circulation, and |issue of stock, were reindicted by the | stains were found and the body carried | I'.hvo New Craft Would Be Largest | sea speed of 20 knots, would be the of soil and the problem of disposing of | farm wastes in regional areas of dis-| tinctive soil which have become clearly defined by means of the soil survey, are introduced by the president's address and discussed in_detail bv members of the association Dr. C. F. Marbut, chief of the soil| survey, Department of Agriculture, | whose international reputation as a soil | scientist recently brought him honors from abroad, will speak on “The Rela- tion of Soil Type and Climate to the Appearance and Distribution of Or- sanic Matter.” Other *Specialists Listed. Other specialists of the Department of Agriculture who will take part in the meeting are O. 8. Fisher. senior egron- omist of the Extension Service. who will conduct a symposium on the agricultur- al uses of lime; Hugh H. Bennett, spe- cialist on soil erosion and field inspector | of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. whose recent publications on soils and C. E. Ramser, senior drainage engineer with the Divicion of Agricultural engi- neering, will describe methods of pre- venting erosion of farm lands by ter- racing. g This meeting will be attended by soil | and agronomists from State | colleges andl universities and experiment stations in many States. In addition to the practical problems of the soll survey and crosion, there will be discussions of the adaptation of different solls to various crops with special reference, this vear, to the notable effect of soil type on the quality of tobacco. specialists ASA KEYES INDICTED | FOR BRIBERY AGAIN a2 Seven Others Named by Jury in Julian Pstroleum Corpora- tion Investigation. By the Associated Press. | LOS ANGELES, November 17.—Dis- trict Attorney Asa Keyes and seven others previously indicted as an out-| growth of the collapse of the Julian Petroleum Corporation due to an over country grand jury here today on 11 counts charging conspiracy and bribery. Two indictments were returned, one setting forth 11 alleged overt acts against the district attorney and his co- defendants and the other 40. The first named Keyes, Charles Reimer, his chief investigator, Ed and Jack Rosenberg, and Jack Berman of the Julian corporation, and Ben and Dave Getzoff, tailors. Besides Keyes, Reimer and the Get- zoffs, A. 1. Lasker, former head of a finance company, were named in the second. | Keyes was specifically charged with | taking several thousand dollars in | bribes for neglecting to prosecute offi- | cers of the petroleum company and | others indicted on allegations that they | made fraudulent sales of company stock. | The Getzoffs are charged with actmzi as go-betweens in the bribe case. /POOL OF BLOOD IS CLUE IN SLAYING OF GIRL | Body TFound After Victim Left| Home in Response to Auto Siren. By the Associated Press. NEW CASTLE, Pa., November 17.— Discovery of a pool of blood about 300 yards from the bank of a stream where hunters today found the body of 16- year-old Emma Alley was the basis of investigation tonight by city and county | detectives and State police. Belief was held by some of the officers | that the girl, who left her home late last night after an auto siren had sounded in front of the house, had been | slain in the highway where the blood- to the stream bank. The girl's head | was badly crushed. | Three youths were questioned. but | authorities said they would be cleared. | Sam Alley, father of the girl, was ques- | tioned also and then sent home. It was established definitely tonight, police said, that a bathing suit and a sack found near the body did not belong to the girl. PACIFIC LINERS PLANNED. | Built in United States. SAN FRANCISCO, November 17 (#). —Plans for construction of two 26,000~ ton liners for service between San Fra cisco and Australia were announced to- day by the Matson Navigatlon Co. The vessels, capable of a sustained largest commercial ships ever built in | the United States. They are expected | to cost about $6,500,000 each and have | accommodations for 730 passengers. | Matson officials said the new ships | will be 625 feet Jong at waterline, with | a beam of 7712 feet. | of Commerce that the American manu- | facturer and exporter should look to |a | while the anti-American effort is not | affirmative | troubles with Mexico have been used | City, which may yet bring him the Mr. Hoover has insisted throughout his administration of the Department his markets south of the United States. where the competition with Europe is keen. Before the World War, America lagged behind European countries. Ship- ping facilities were lacking and credit machinery was inadequate. And Eu- ropean capital poured into South Amer- ica. Since the war, the American in- vestments have gone up by leaps and bounds and capital loans have been made which have given several countries stimulus to de pment leading naturally to purchases.of American raw_ materials and manufactured progducts. The ascendancy of the American in the markets of the Central and South American countries has excited the competitive element once more and as pointed as it used to be in pre-war days, so far as inspiration from Eu- ropean busincss men resident in South America 1s concerned, it nevertheless shows signs of being revived. Coincident with this is the growth of anti-Amer- ican sentiment in political ecircles in South America 2s revealed in the Pan- American conference at Havana early this year. Fresident-elect Hoover feels that acts are necessary in diplcmacy and that if American trade is to continue to grow it must have a better foundation in political relations. The Nicarauguan episode and the early by anti-American publicists as excel- lent materfal for their arguments. Mr. Hoover plans to stop at Corinto, Nicaraugua, where the election of Gen. Moncada, a Liberal, the man who fought against the Diaz government that had been recognized by the United | States, is regarded as proof that Amer- ica is not really interfering with the electorate but merely helping to safe- guard its sovereign righis. Morrow Lessens Prejudice. Ambassador Morrow's job in Mexico portfolio of Secretary of State as a re- ward, has helped overcome some of the prejudice on the subject of Mexico, but the era of good feeling is too recent to judge its permenent effect on South America. Mr. Hoover's trip to the other re- publics of this hemisphere is really a continuation of the task which the Pan-American conference left unfin- ished. There were sores revealed then. Some of them it will be for the Hoover administration to heal. Mr. Hoover has set out more on a trip secking first hand information and facts than as an effort to do any placating of anti- American sentiment immediately. He knows it's a problem that cannot be quickly solved, but if he can only indi- cate to South America the earnest spirit in which he seeks to tackle it, South America will meet him more than half way. And Europe will understand that the United States is not going to b2 a passive onlooker in the competitive markets of South America. but actively will guard her own interests in the po- litical as well as the commercial field. (Copyright, 1928.) CITY GREETS MOTORCADE. | Wilmington, N. C., Stop Made on ‘Washington-Key West Tour. WILMINGTON, N. C.. November 17 (®).—The Washington-Key West motor- cade, led by Mayor John T. Alsop, jr., of Jacksonville, Fla, left here this morning for Charleston, S. C., next overnight stop on the route southward. !"l{i(:cn automobiles compose the motor- cade. The party spent last night here and were guests at an informal reception tendered by the civic clubs and city officials. Mayor Alsop, Frank O. Willilams, six times president of the Atlantic Coastal Highway Association; Senor Jorge Ponce, Cuban counsul at Key West, and Frank Ladd of Key ‘West were speakers. The motorcade is observing the open- ing of the coastal highway from Maine to Key West, Bandit Slaps Man When Victim Says He Has No Money| Angry at the frustration of his intended hold-up in Mount Rafnier, Md,, last night, a 6-foot colored ban- dit placed his pistol in his pocket, slupfled George Glorius, 3940 Twenty- ninth street, Mount Rainier, in the face and then walked away. Glorius said the man approached him at Twenty-ninth street and Bunker Hill road, leveled a pistol at him and demanded his n:oney. The intended victim claimed that he had none, and the bandit took his (\\":;l‘d' for i",' T;\." slaxp followed as man uttered a disgust a“? e disgusted grunt Just to & that ne was not ;{r;]id 31' P! t]tzls. sg}lnrms proudly splayed to police 82, that R BaksL P that he had in Wife-Stealing Stirs Nation as Girl's Brother Is Slain in Attempt at Rescue By the Associated Press. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, November 17--Wife stealing, still a practice among lovesick swains in the Temoter paris of Jugoslavia, has led to a trag- edy which stirred the whole nation. From time immemorial it was the custom in rural districts, when parents refused to give their consent to mar- riage of their daughter, for the wooer to come at night with a party of, friends and forcibly carry off the girl. | Such was the case with Dragomir Fili- | popovitch, who was madly in love with Milka Jovanovitch, of the village of | Mislodjina. i | Meeting with apposition from Milk: {ather, a rich pessant, Dragomjr end his friends went to Jovanovitch's hou this week under cover of night, seized the girl and spirited her off to Drago- mir's house in a neighboring vlun?e. There an elaborate wedding feast had been prepared and many friends gath- ered to celebrate the elopement. Milka's Irate father, however, soon | discovered the theft of his daughter and, forming a rescue party, set out with his sons and friends to recover her. Break- ing in on the merriment of the wedding celebration, he demanded the return of his daughter. A free-for-all battle ensued in which revolvers flashed and knives were drawn. In the melee, Bogoljub Jovanovitch, the girl's brother, fell dead and six others were badly wounded. Police interfered | FACTS ON JOURNEY and Dragomir Filpopovitch was taken away in frons to be tried for murder and wife stealing. (1 nificance ot Mr. H_oover:s speeches and the receptions accorded him will be made plain. Nothing will escape the vigilance of The Star’s men accompany- ing Mr. Hoover and his party. The Star’s Own Staff Correspondent‘ REX COLLIER —who accompanied Mr. Hoover on his trips to the flooded regions of the Mississippi and a personal friend of Mr. Hoover, will be with the next President’s party throughout. Mr. Collier, an able writer, whose articles on the Mis- sissippi flood and Mr. Hoover’s activities during the campaign commanded wide attention, is expected to give interesting high lights on the trip. His cables and wire- less dispatches will interest all. WILL IRWIN Noted newspaper correspondent and lifelong friend of President-elect Hoover from college days, has joined the staff of this newspaper to especially report Mr. Hoover's trip. : Will Irwin’s wartime dispatches and masterly report- ing of big news events before the war won him the title in many quarters of “the best reporter in America.” Mztr. Irwin will join the Hoover party at San Pedro Monday, when it puts off in the battleship Maryland. His colorful, accurate and always interesting dispatches will appear exclusively in The Star and Associated Newspapers of the North American Newspaper Alliance. Watch for them! The Associated Press The peer of all newspaper press organizations, has assigned two of its finest reporters to accompany Mr. Hoover. One of these, . JAMES L. WEST —h-~s heen in charge of the Associated Press staff covering Presi- de ¢t Hoover since the nomination of the Secretary of Com- me. o at the Kansas City Convention. He accompanied Mr. Hoover on all of his campign trips and wrote of his activities while he made his headquarters in Washington as well as in Palo Alto, Calif. As a news writer West has worked on nearly every big story which has broken in Washington since he joined the Capital staff in 1915. His assignments have included the day editorship of the Washington bureau; chief of the Capitol staff, White House and departmental correspondence. He has been a mem- ber of the Washington staff covering the last several national political conventions and has had extensive experience in travel- ing with candidates for President. He has long been familiar with the making of government policies and has a wide acquaintance among the importani per- sonalities in the Nation’s political life. The other Associated Press correspondent on the trip will be CLARENCE Du BOSE Chief of the Associated Press Bureau at Mexico City. His work there has caused much commendation from news- papers in the United States. Particular praise was given to his report of the landing of Lindbergh. During the revolution preceding the election of Obregon, the assassination of the latter and the ensuing delicate political situ- ation Du Bose's dispatches were such as to bring unstinted praise. He established relations with the Mexican government of such a character as to make it possible for American corre- spondents to send out the news of the country without fear of the restrictions of censorship or of expulsion from the country. After the World War Mr. Du Bose served in Tokio, China and England as a correspondent, and was assigned by the Asso- ciated Press to its Mexican City bureau in 1925. He was selected for the Hoover South American assignment because of his fluent Spanish, his wide acquaintance with Latin American problems and his ability as a writer. The dispatches of all these able writers will appear daily in The Evening Star and The Sunday Star If you desire to follow Mr. Hoover you should read The Star.