Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1928, Page 4

€ A BUENOS AIRES PUTS SPELL O GUESTS Hoover Party Captivated by Beauty and Progressive Spirit of Capital. BY WILL IRWIN. By Cable to The Star and the North Ameri- can Newspaper Alliance. BUENOS AIRES, December 15.—The train bearing President-elect Hoover and his party traveled a full day through the pampas without our seeing a single hill. Although I have described the coun- try in a previous dispatch, I should like to describe it all over again, so much has its beauty and productiveness im- pressed us all. The first ‘sign of .a hill signaled our approach to Buenos Aires on the At- lantic Coast. After a crowded threc days of sightseeing and intellectual cramming the start for home will be made. Buenos Aires, glimpses of a day, capital of an empire so rich and unique as Argentina. ‘Inis mecropolis of neay two and a half millic>s of people lies with charming irreg. arity over the hilis and along the litie peninsular of | ts harbor. The streets are narrow and | irregular and in that circumstance lics part of the city's charm. Architecture is ¥, It has the gayest architecture of an: elty I have cver seen. It has finer| buildings as banks, great shops an public offices. They are French in gen eral structure, but the native architects | have decorated them with a flamboyant detail such as ornamental piilars, lace- | work carving, friezes and airy domes | which outdo Madrid. That exuberance | goes with the climate, It snows here | only once in 10 years. And though it ' never grows excessively hot in Summer there is a bright and eager sun. | I noticed tne traffiz policemen all | wear in this Summer weather Arab- | like neck veils, falling' from sweat | bands of their caps. The very taxicabs and American touring cars are painted in color schemes, which no one with en eye ‘for etfect would dare employ in the United States, but which har- | nize with the brilliant lights and | dows of this sun of the South. I find myself impressed not so much by the Plaza de Mayo, the old heart of the town, where stand the classic ca- thedral and the strange old building In which Argentina declared her inde dence, -as by several modern build. gs. Notable among these is a group | judged from the worthy to be the of three nine or ten-story structures |- dedicated to business which occuples | & whole ample block in the center of the city. | Appear as One Structyre. | ‘The architects have harmonized thesey wmildings so that they appear to be\ all one great structure, which, in spite{/ of the inferior height, look more pow- erful than our skyscrapers. Cut into the upper center stories is a high and beautiful balcony with impressive Pil- {ommerce Chamber /Committee Ap- lars, and on m;gomxcle rides a heroic | ‘equestrian-grouj statue. Then there is & department store where many of the official party went ing today, in spite of the tropical heat of the journey. On' first sight | the store is just a pretty arcade of diverse and very smart shops, running through a massive building between two narrow streets. Ask in the shops for anything you don't find and ! = clerk will lead you: to a back qoor. You discover then that these apparent shops are but the show windows to & great department store which occuples the lower floors of the building. .Above that for three or four stories are offices.- And for the rest of the way to the garden on the roof are flats which the renters of the offices occupy. Furthermore, in the basement floor is a theater and cabaret. The ten- ants can work, live and amuse them- selves without stirring from their &ie- gantic nest in the very center of | city. Boulevard Is Interesting. il urther detail of the city is the WA t‘ double drive and promenade which Buenos Aires is stretching for 85 miles along the plata. Between the wide parallel walks lie superb gardens. By some mysterious management of her harbor facilities the city has stowed decks inside of this strip of delight and loveliness. The shipping lies tied @p in two rows of freighters, liners. tugs end tankers, which stretohes literally to the horizon. d all has behind lit the assurance d‘nmermou! stability—that _imperial pampas ocountry S:Mc&‘drma‘s richness. aza San 3 hm\‘b:emtlzl great libarator sits on 2 rancing horse among \weeping willows, great houses resembling, except for e oo e tor mansions it a1 o N vmderh’m lately disappeared w York, w .nllfllely because the owniers found them %;cmlgmmum the old order < fn Argentina, and that seems to be ing. Likeg all Spanish-Amerivan cotintries, Argentina began with endrmous estates granted o conquistadores \by the King 2nd worked the estates firstiwith slaves and then with peons. Heonage Wwas never so much of a part fof the eco- nomic structure here as in! some other southern cduntries and it dpassed long ago. { Labor Need Brought \Many. t while the cattle on the enormous gat the economici mainstay, ucho was conten y from It: {=ay and generous flavor, calling on beven doing a lttle shopping. |jdicate that he likes this fown. He may {{except by virtue of an ablej people. | « | Tive here nxt Friday, a day later than T \PERRY W. HOWARD : ACQUITTED BY JURY | % T, 3 ‘,Four Others Also Cleared of 1 Charges of Bartering for U. S. ‘Marshal’s Office. ] | i SR | | By the Assoclated Press. | i JACKSON, Miss, December 15— | i Perry. W, Howard, colored Republican natfonal \committeeman of M ppi; | and four other Republican leaders were | i acquitted An Federa { 4 of conspiracy 1 Court of charges to v 1 MRS. Sixty-three, a wealthy widpw, was found | lain_in_her home at 'Fowanda, Pa.! Bloody fingerprints are all that the' police have to (help them in solving the crime. They believe tiie motive was robber; is of it—is like :twisting; the Britih lion's tail, which was the stock in trad~ of our cheap politkal,orators 30 years ago. So plucking the (American eagle's feathers is sometimes useful here. Americans tell me they have heard speakers at radical nieetings denouncing ome American corbpany, which has| t obtained a footiiold, as a grasping monopoly, while just across the street a British company, three times as large, went unnoticed. But let no American itake all this too seriously. It by no nieans represents the prevailing sentiment in the Argentine. Another manifestation! of the froth s the occasional. anarchistic outrage. Here as elsewhere, militar§ and criminal anarchists are an extiemely minute group. The anarchist aritested with a 'big bomb in his possessicm three days ,ago may or may not have\meant it for Mr. Hoover. The police and) the military jauthorities are rightly ‘'taking mno ‘chances. The incident seems not, to have jperturbed Mr. Hoover. He {spent this imorning and part of the afternoon sstrolling about the town, absorbing its ‘bankers, industrialists and publishers, And his expression would seem to in- iwell like it and approve of the popula- ion behind' it—the people who have welcomed and cheered him so heartily. No city so rich, so civilized, so well jordered and so beautiful wcould exist \(Copyright. 1928. by North American News- el e i GIBSON LIBR\ARY?'BILL FOR DISTRICT/INDORZED | ° proves Five-Yeary Building Pro- gram to Meet City’s Needs. ‘The Gibson bill prpviding for a five- | year library building program for Wash- fington was approved yesterday after- noon by the public schoals committee tof the Washington mber of Com- jmerce. This progretm was said to be (the first formulated lon a scale to meet Ithe needs of the citf, which is held to 'be far below comparable cities in - ‘brary facilities. ' Toe committee, pf which Charles H. Le Fevre is chair:nan, also approved the proj bill tol provide part pay for teachers of the lic school system on leave w}zue tzh educational courses or for other purposes. . The committee rilso reiterated its indorsement of the Lills to provide free text books for the junior and senior high schools of the District, to exempt members of the Board of Education irom personal liability for the actions of the board, and to exempt certain public -school employes from the $2,000 | ‘salary limitation. HOOVER WINI;HNG up ARGENTINE ! VISIT; LEAVINGjTOMORROW | (Continued Fronp First Page.) ship in every avenije of life such as had never been knc before was be- ing witnessed today. For these reasons he did not fear thed sociai decay such as occurred in nations of the past. Buenos Aires took the appearance lof a carnival city:in honor of Mr. ! Hoover. The Starsjand Stripes floated over many miles of /beautiful boulevards along with the blue and white flag of Argentina. The; bronze statue of George Washington, in Palmero Park, was decorated with the flags of both countries. Mr. Hoover;will leave tomorrow morn- |ing on the ‘Argentine cruiser Buenos Aires for Montevideo, Uruguay, whence he will go 10 'Rio de Janeiro aboard the U. S. 8. Utah. RIO ARRANGES PROGRAM. Slight Changes/Made in Plans to Re- ceilve ‘President-Elect. | RIO JANEIRO, December 14 (P) | The fact triat Herbert Hoover will ar- in tan. $3. originally scheduled, has made necessary | slight chareges in the program. His | ood ' will sklip, the U. 8. S. Utah, will be cescorted up ythe coast by two Brazilian efficient North and they began coming bere in such num- bers that they may by the end of this generation displace Spanish as the basic blood. These newcomers were dis- isfied with the old gaueho conditions. ey began forming unions and agitating. As yegl there has been little serious attempt to break up the big estate: though political gossip says President Irigoyen intends to tackle that before . But if there were cheap land on which the agricultural laborer. after a term of wages, could get a farm of Bis own, the problem would be solved. For some time Argentina has had a law like the French Napoleonic law ixa Ttalians were the of inheritance, requiring that the ];ndt ut | be divided among all the heirs. I that naturally will not produce sensible changes for two or three generations. | cruisers and] will be boarded outside the White handmade { harbor by tlie director of the protocol of | the foreign} office and United States | Ambassador fMorgan. | President and Mrs. Washington Luis, | with members of the cabinet, commit- | tees of the Jouse and Senate and heads jof departmonts, will greet the Hoover party at thes dock. Mr. Hoover will be | driven to Guanabara palace in the presidential . automobile with other | members of/ his party following with !'military eszort. ‘The evening of the first day and the mornings ofj the others will be free for | the Hoover]party to do as they wish. | December 27 & speeial luncheon will |be given by the Jornal do Brazil at the ‘Jockey Club for the newspaper men | with the visitor and the next day Mr. Hoover will give a luncheon at the American embassy to President Wash- ington Luis. They will visit the race Utah 15¢; 3 in box, at 50c. | course Sheer white linen handkerchiefs; rolled hems and corded borders. $1 to $4. Linen handkerchiefs; with colored borders and hand-rolled hems. drawn threads and colored borders. Linen handkerchiefs ; with white or colored hand- embroidered initials. 50c to $2. White linen handker- chiefs, with colored bor- ders or with figured prints. HanoxercHrers, Fast FLoos. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, patronage act yesterday. the charge with- Howard were S. Redmond, A. M. Redmond and Ed L. Patton, colored ‘lawyers of Jackson, and J. Scott Hubbard, white, suspended | deputy marshal in the Southern Mis- | sissippt jurisdiction. The ju: * had the case fo. 20 hours. | After th - verdict was announced Mil. |ler McGilchrist, spacial Assistant Attos ney General of the United States, aid- ing in the prosecution, said that the {outcome of the case would not affect the prosecution of several other cases of similar nature pending. This case involved alleged ‘“‘purchase” of the marshal’'s appointment in Southern Mississippl. A. P. Russe!l, former post- master at Magec and principal witness for the State, testified that conspiracy existed to bargain for the marshal's of- Acquitted of folate the Federal fice with Howard and the other colored | planting.” D.{a trip to Wi D O defendants for $1 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, /500 and expenses for| pO|_ |SH-GERMAN Al Gefengants, ) 0 ety denled Bv) - 1SPYTE AROUSES LEAGUE COUNCIL (Continued From First Page.) methods of strengthening machinery 1008 2,000 Street Trees Planted. “Two thousand new trees have been | planted throughout the city this Fall,” | | Clifford L. Lanham, superintendent of | {'trees and parkings, declared today.i [“All the trees removed in connection |for the consolidation of peace. Many | with street widening have been Te- |persons believe that a weakness of the placed with better varieties,” Lanham |League is its lack of a police force em- said, “with the exception of Tenth |powered to act to settle conflicts when and’ Seventeenth streets, where the | pacific means fail, street work is not completed. Never | in the history of this department have Cites Use for Deterrent. | we had better or more trees on the streets of Washington than are to be found now at the close of the Fall Col. Harmon explained that the un- | derlying idea of the plan was that all| countries would place at the disposal of ' internationl crisis. the League 10 per cent of their trained pilots. These pilots would serve as units SEAS POUNDING CELTIC' of an air force of peace which would Salvige always be ready for mobilization where i | war threatened. The present dispute between Para-| guay and Bolivia was cited by Col. Har- | mon as an instance where an interna- | at the entrance to Cork Harbor, wa | tional air force, operating under the | Still being pounded by heavy seas today | League or the Kellogg-Briand pact re- | and the position was so precari- | nouncing war, would be @& powerful |OuS that salvage men could not go | deterrent. He believes that a thousand | aboard. aviators surrounding a_hostile country [, Their tugs had to take refuge in the could force it to sumbit to the will of | harbor. Much cargo remains in the | the League. | ship, which, it is feared, is doomed. One difficulty seen by League circles | egelisanindy in the project was the task of deciding| Brooklyn Evangelical Church of the which Was the aggressor nation in an Incarnation, cost $170,000, was dedi- | cated this week. Crews Leave Scene. Cargo Believed Doomed. 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