Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1929, Page 2

- BROWN REVEALS STENCE STUDES Architects in Meeting gThis Week to Discuss Projected System About Capital. Buperb facilities for recreation and play for the National Capital 'will be provided in the projected far-flung park system, now in the making, Maj. Carey H. Brown, engineer of the National Capital Park and Planning. Commis- sion, said yesterday in a statement re- Icased through the American Institute of Architects, which will hold a three- day meeting in Washington, starting Tuesday. ! The institute will consider “The De- §elopment of the National Capital” as Pne of its major topics on the program of the sixty-second convention, which Wwill adjourn to New York on Friday. Giving a comprehensive view of the park development of the city and out- lining plans for the future, Mej. Brown asserted that the Washingtod of to- morrow will witness the expansion of a system of parks not only within the metropolis itself, but extending from Washington to Baltimore, Mount Vernon and Great Falls. Rock Creek Park will be expanded into nearby Maryland; an imposing . parkway will stretch from Great Falls, 10 miles above Washington, to Mount Vernon, 15 miles Below the Capital, and Anacostia Park will take the form of a parkway con- nection between Washington and Balti- more, Maj. Brown points out, if present plans materialize. Praises Natural Beauty. “It is extremely fortunate that the National Capital is located amidst sur- roundings of such great natural beauty as the Washington region,” Maj. Brown asserted. “Probably this situation should s credited not,so much to good fortune as to the forethought of the founders, since Gen. Washington's ap- preciation of the locality had been evi- denced by his prior selection of Mount Vernon as his home, “The Potomac River is the main nat- ural feature of the entire region. The city is located at the head of navigation, above the city being a 10-mile stretch of rapids. At Great Falls, the head of thuse rapids, there is a drop of over 50 feet, while in the gorge between Great Falls and the city there is a further drop of almost 100 feet to the tide- water at Washington. Flowing into the Potomac at Washington is the Anacostia or Eastern Branch, a low tidal stream, navigable for a short dis- tance from its mouth. “Entering the Potomac at some dis- tance above the Anacostia, but still within the District boundaries, is Rock Creek. The course of this stream lies through a steep-sided, rocky valley, comparable on a smaller scale to the Potomac above the city, as distinguished from the low-lying banks of the Eastern Branch and of the Potomac be- low Analostan Island at the mouth of Rock Creek. “The park system, existing and pro- posad, is, in the main, developed about these streams. The flats of the Po- tomac below Analostan Island and of the lower Anacostia have been re- claimed by pumping material from the river to create the extensive Potomac and Anacostia Parks. The Anacostia reclamation will ultimately make Ana- costia Park continuous on the east side of the river. On the west side a por- tion of the water front is devoted to con}‘merchl purposes; the remainder is park. “Contrasted to the low-lying river- side areas of Potomac and Anacostia Parks are the wooded, hilly areas of Rock Creek Park and Fort Dupont. Rock Creek Park is justly famed for its great natural beauties. Fort Dupont Park, now in process of acquisition, is much like Rock Creek in general char- acter. It will serve the eastern section of the city as Rock Creek serves the western. ' Fort Drive Important. “An additional main feature of the park system, as planned fog, the future, is the fort drive. During the Civil War, earthworks for the defense of the Capi- tal were constructed on the surround- ing hills at a distance of 3 to 5 miles from the Capitol and the White House. The 1901 park plan recommended the acquisition of these forts and their con- nection, one with the other, by a park- way or varying width. Several of the forts have been acquired, retaining many earthworks in an excellent state of preservation. Unfortunately, no . progress has yet been made toward the acquisition of the connecting drive. “In the valley of Rock Creek, just below Rock Creek Park proper, is the Zoo. From the Zoo to the mouth of creek, land has been acquired for the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway. Thus there will be created a complete park and parkway connection along Rock Creek from Potomac Park to the District line. if “For the preservation of streams flow- ing into Rock Creek and for the pur- pose of providing entrances into the park tributary valleys have been ac- quired, notably Piney Branch, Klingle Valley and Soapstone Valley. In gen- eral these feeder parkways pass beneath the main arterial highway lying to either side of the park p! r. Acquisi- tion of such tributary valleys not only serves park purposes, but also provides open drainage and saves the cost of expensive storm water culverts. “Another unit of the patk system of great value to the western section of the District is the Foundry Branch Valley, which project was Initiated by the generous dedications made by C. C. Glover and Mrs. Anne Archbold. Many Small Parks. “Within the central section of the city are many small parks provided by the L'Enfant The L’Enfant area | \ ‘sulting in the evolution of B Catherine Charlotte (above) ‘of Green- ville, 8. C., and Dorothy Warthen of Warthen, Ga., were voted most beauti- ful girls at Brenau College, Gaines- ville, Ga. SHAKE-UP ORDERED OF CHCAGO POLLE Stock Yards District Trans- fers Among Most Drastic in City’s History. oor oz ey ] By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, April 20.—Dissatisfled with efforts of police to suppress gang- ster activities in the stockyards district, | Commissioner of Police William Russe“' tonight ordered the entire district de- tail composed of Captain Ben Enright and 115 patrolmen, transferred to other precincts. The commissioner at the same time ordered shifts that affected 150 other men and their officers, and demoted Capt. William Shoemaker, one of the aces of the department, from his as- signment as attache to the State’s at- tarney’s office. i ‘The shake-up, one of the most dras- tic in the department’s history, came on the heels of an announcement from the State's attorney’s office {hat a num- ber of police officials a prominent politicians are expected to be indicted by the county grand jury investigating crime conditions here. With first-hand information as to the easy means Chicago gangsters have of obtaining machine guns, similar to those that mowed down seven men in a North Side garage last St. Valentine's day, police searched intensively today for two patrons of firearms dealers. Two Men Investigated. The amazing testimony yesterday at the inquest into the St. Valentine's dav massacre ylelded two names of interest to the suthorities, Steven Oswald and | Frank Thompson. It was believed they might possess much valuable informa- tion of the killings. A machine gun was found in the home of Oswald, known as a beer run- ner, and one of the firearms dealers on the stand yesterday told of selling six machine guns to pson, who lives at Kirkland, II.. Thorpson’s wife said he solicited students for a university and was home seldom, and then only on week ends. His aged parents in Chicago thought their son sold ceme- tery lots. Clues Seen in Vest and Guns. A vest and a half dozen revolvers, found in a raid on the Webster Hotel after the killing, might result in some valuable clues, Dr. Herman N. Bunde- sen, coroner, believed. Maj. Calvin i 1 Goddard, New York expert, began com- | stein. rison of the weal and the bullets ‘t’t‘\ey fired. with mfl':"’.’ taken from the bodies of the victims. Some of the guns may be found to have been used on_the seven men, authorities believe. Tests on the gun found in Oswald's home have l:oi been completed, Dr. Bundesen ' said. - “PFor that reason,” he added, “we connot state whether it was used in the killing.” l"I.QS ANGELES FREES SUSPECT. , Prisoner Proves He Is Not Gunman Wanted in Gang Killings. LOS ANGELES, April 20° (®.— Charles W. Lloyd, 32, arrested as a suspect in the St. anfifine's day gang massacre in Chicago, {ffiwhih seven members of the “Bugs” N, were killed, was released by police here this afternoon. N, Lloyd was arrested Friday night by city detectives on a tip from Ci + | ishes. - light. KEYSTONE OF L Mysteries of Chlorophyll Are Explained Before American Physical Society Meeting. ) BY THOMAS R. HENR Efforts to determine the nature of here yesterday by lenz and Ralph Stair of the Bureau of Standards. 11 is the green coloring mat- . The function of chor- ts in the absorption and decomposition of carbon dioxide gas, R\; and the production of new plant substance. ‘This action takes place only in sunlight and apparently is due to some reaction between the light and the chlorophyll. Is Basic Life Process. ‘This is apparently the basic life process. It enables plants to grow by direct action of the sunlight, trans- forming energy from the sun into chem- ical energy, which is stored up in them as food for animals, which have no chlorophyll. Chlorophyll, together with its companion foliage pigments, xantho- phyll and carotin, have been isolated pure form by Dr. F. M. Schertz of the Department of Agriculture, who an- nounced his findings at the meeting of the American Optical Society here last ‘Winter. The chemical constitution of chloro- phyll remains unknown, but evidently is very complicated. Dr. Coblenz and Dr. Stair studied it in relation to the lboo?uun bands of infra-red light and found several bands which al are found in compounds of oxygen-hydro- gen. nitrogen-hydrogen and carbon- hydrogen. If one travels a mere 176,000,000,~ 000,000,000,000,000 miles in any direc- tion, one will be back at one’s start- ing point, according to a new measur- ment of the curvature radius of space- time by Ludwig Silberstein of the East- man Kodak Laboratories. This will take place, however, in a universe the nature of which is incomprehensible to the average mortal. The measurement presupposes the geometry upon which the Einstein theory is constructed, in which space is very different from that apparent to the senses. Space Is Boundless. Space in this Einsteinian universe is | boundless and yet finite, just as the | surface of the earth is boundless and yet finite in the ordinary geometry of three dimensions. If a person moves in what appears to be a continuous straight line along the surface of the earth, he eventually will come back to | the starting point. It is obvious to a man why this happens—because what | appears to be a straight line on the | earth’s surface really is bent in a third dimension and he has followed, not a straight line, but a great circle. But to some intelligent worm living on the surface of the earth, but hav- ing no conception of a third dimension, the return to the starting point would be very puzzling. In the supposedly actual universe of four or five dimen- sions, only three of which have any reality to the human senses, man is in the position of the two-dimensional worm. Space-time itself, in some in- comprehensible way, bends back on itself just as the surface of the earth does. By traveling 176,000,000,000,- 000,000,000,000 miles the person not only would have returned to his start- ing point in space, but probably also to his starting point in time. This figure for the circumférence of space-time was obtained by Dr. Silber- stein through data obtained at Harvard University from observations._on two groups of stars known as Cepheid vari- ables. Prodigious as the figure seems, it is 20 times less than a similar calcula- tion made by Dr. Silberstein five years ago on observations of the Magellanic clouds, great clusters of stars which lie at enormous distances outside the Milky Way galaxy, of which the earth is a part, and which are visible in the Southern Hemisphere. He prefers the smaller estimate, however, because seri- ous errors have been found in the Magellanic cloud data, while that based on the Cepheld star observations is much more accurate. Latest Theories Attacked. The latest theories of Einstein, which seek to provide a common explanation for the phenomena of gravitation, elec- tricity and magnetism in terms of the structure of the universe itself rather than as mysterious forces, came in for attack from two sources. Norbert Wie- ner and M. S. Vallarta of the Massa- | chusetts Institute of Technology con- tended that by Einstein's own equations accounting_for electricity and magnet- ism the gravitational field itself van-) bility. CANADIAN WATERS BARRED T0 GUARDS Two U. S. Rum Chasers Arrested for Landing Boat in Ontario. By the Assoclated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y. April 20.—Strict orders were issued today to American Coast Guardsmen to keep out of Cana- dian waters. Action followed arrest of two members of the United States Coast Guard early today after their rum-chasing boat, al- leged to have become disabled, landed on the Canadian shore of the Niagara River near Bridgeburg, Ontario. Both Canadian officials and United States Coast Guardsmen drew revolvers when the two parties came in contact, but the Americans quickly made known their identity, and there was no firing. Discipline Is Threatened. “If it is shown,” Commander M. W. DEBT PARLEY FATE “pends on Plenary Session, Rasmussen of the Coast Guard said to- night, “that the boat was in running order, and that motor trouble was not the reason for the entry of the boat into Canadian waters, the two men will be_disciplined.” So far as the Canadian government is concerned, the matter was amicably set- tled this afternoon when Commander Rasmussen and Chief Hyatt, the latter of the Canadian customs preventative force, completed a three-hour confer- ence at Bridgeburg. Claim Regulations Violated. Chief Boatswain's Mate Hubert Wil- bur and Surfman Orville N. Lagrant were the two taken into custody by two provincial officers on the Canadian shore. The two men had left the Buf- falo station early in the evening in a cutter to patrol what is known as the West River. A machine gun was mounted on the patrol beat and the men carried service Tevolvers. Federal authorities said that “over- zealousness” in the performance of what they thought to be their duty resulted in the two men anchoring the large craft in American waters and continu~ ing into the shoals along the Canadian shore in a smaller motor boat, which they had in tow, and eventually landing in Canada. The two men disobeyed Coast Guard regulations when they retained. their re- volvers on entering Canadian waters u-;d uggmg ashore in Ontario, it was ad- mitted. 'ARMIES PREPARE FOR MAJOR CLASH Rebel Cavalrymen Believed En Route to Augment Forces Massed at Masiaca. “The new Einstein theory,” they declared, “lacks at present all experi- mental confirmation.” Glen H. Draper of the Naval Observa- By the Assoclated Press. tory proposed a new theory of light NOGALES, Sonora, Mexico, April 20. —Predictions that the final major bat- varying considerably from that of Ein- . In this mathematical theory space is considered as a three-dimen- sion vold, except when occupied by mat- tle of the Mexican revolution in all likelihood would be enacted soon in southern Sonora were heard today as ter or light. This offers an explanation, Draper said, of the puzzling effects of the famous Micheison-Morley experi- military experts studied the movements of the opposing armies. A rebel army of some 8,000 men was ment which apparently disproved the existence of ether and led to the con- said to be encamped at Masiaca, Sonora, about 35 miles from the new rebel base 15 DUE TOMORROW Negotiations’ Renewal De- WIth Prospects Gloomy. By the Associated Press, . PARIS, April 19.~The second Dawes committee ended today the tenth week of its efforts finally to settle the Ger- man reparations problem in the gloom of threatening failure and bereavement for the death of one of its members, Lord Revelstoke of Great Britain. All hope that something yet might be salvaged out. of the work of the conference rested tonight upon talk which the’ Germans were reported to have had this afternoon with other ex- perts concerning the possibility of re- opening negotiations. ‘The American delegates to the com- mittee were unable to say anything as to the future other than that the ple- nary session Monday alone could show ‘whether there was’ & chance to save the negotiations from f 3 For most people con: d with the committee and for those following its ‘work failure of the conference has been already established. Up to Plenary Session. It remains, however, for the plenary session to establish officially the fact that the committee cannot proceed further with its efforts to reconcile the diverget theses of the German and the allied delegations. Until the full committee meets at 11 o'clock Monday morning no further activities of the experts were antici- pated tonight. ‘The plenary session held this morn- ing adjourned at once out of respect for Jord Revelstoke, who was found dead of the subcommittee which he himself ‘The only development today was thel contention the German delegation that Dr. Schacht’s proposals contained nothing of a character that should have ‘broken up the conference. ‘The Germans brought forward no new proposal, however, and 5o far as it learned they showed no in- clination to withdraw the conditions ‘which their chief had proposed for any increase of his offer of 37 annuities averaging 1,650,000,000 (Ap- proximately $396,000,000.) Memorandum Contents Withheld. It was sald in German.circles that their figures were susceptible of a cer- tain increase. but no indication was given that they would increase their offer without maintaining the political considerations which Dr. Schacht de- clared were absolutely imperative if g;nmny paid any more than he had ‘The German delegation refused to give out its memorandum here, but Berlin dispatches quoting the German press cite Dr. Schacht’s references to Upper Silesia and former German colonies. Neither the Americans nor the other allied experts would reveal the contents of Dr. Schacht’s memorandum. All they ‘were willing to say was that if anyone wanted to know to just what extent litical considerations had been thrown to the debate, they had only to. con- sult the memorandum. They added that the Germans had only to publish it as it was read before the committee to establish the truth. Reports of efforts by the Germans to reopen negotiations were regarded by the French as closely connected with the source of German dispatches from Berlin referring to “unconfirmable re- ports that efforts will be made to find a new basis for discussion.” The Prench attitude is that France did not demand calling the conference of experts, but now that it has been convened would |the prefer it to come to some sort of agree- ment. Failure Weighs on Bourse. Failure of Lord Revelstoke's subcom- mittee to find a basis of agreement be- tween the Germans and their creditors weighed rather heavily on the Paris Bourse today, but in the main the street accepted the failure philosophically. It was stated authoritatively that it was wholly up to Dr. Schacht as well 8s the other experts to decide whether |g a provisional solution lay within the committee competence and that this did not concern the German govern- ment which consistently had declined to_instruct the German delegation. Should neither a final nor even a provisional solution be reached. it was stated in official circles that Germany would continue loyally and to the ut- most of her ability to live up to the Dawes plan. At the same time the general belief was expressed that would fall of its own weight before another year was over. BERLIN STILL HOPEFUL. Leaders Feel Schacht Conferences Nec- essary to Avert Fiasco. at Navojoa. San Blas, Sinaloa, a short BERLIN, April 20 (4).—Official circles struction of the weird universe of Ein- atein. distance below Navojoa, is occupied by a strong Federal army. A meeting of in Berlin were hoping against hope to- night that negotiaf of the second Herbert J. Brennan of Northwestern these two contending forces is said to University went back to Sir Isaac New- Dawes committee in Paris’might yet re- be imminent, with the outcome a mat- ton in expounding a theory that light sult in some positive decision as to Ger- ter of speculation. consisted of minute corpuscles which man reparations. That preparations are under way for are the same as electrons of matter, the ‘The four members of the cabinet mort light effect being due to the enormous speed of nearly 190,000 miles a second. Electrons studied in connection with matter move at a maximum of about 150,000 miles a second and hence, Bren- nan says, have not been identified with The corpuscular theory of Newton held the fleld until about the middle of the nineteenth century, when it was a big engagement was evidenced by the arrival here today of a troop train carrying 1,000 rebel cavalrymen from the Cananea sectors. Rebel headquar- ters said the train would ?meeed “southward,” although its exact desti- nation was a matter of secrecy. troops, however, were believed to be en route to Navajoa. The rebels had their airplanes here concerned with the reparations prob- lem—Chancellor Mueller, Foreign Min- ister Stresemann, Minister of Finance ly adhered to their viewpoint that Dr. Schacht and his col- leagues are to be considered as inde- pendent economists, uninstructed by the German government. But they feel that they would shirk This magnificent and well proportioned tree of flowering dogwood is a feature of the floral display along Lee Highway at Falls Church, Va., grounds of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Eastman. ARBORETUM GROUP 1S NAMED BY HYDE Agriculture Department Com- mittee to Confer With Na- tional Advisory Council. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde has appointed ‘a committee from the De- partment of Agriculture to confer with the National Arboretum Advisory Coun- cil as required by the act establishing the Arboretum. The members of the departmental committee are: Dr. A. F. ‘Woods, director of scientific work; Dr. W. A. Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry; Maj. R. Y. Stuart, chief of the forest service, and Dr. F. V. Coville and Dr. W. T. Swingle of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Members of the National Arboretum Advisory Councit are: Frederic A. Delano, chairman; Dr. L. H. Bailey, author and botanist, Ithaca; Dr. John C. Merriam, president, Carnegie Institu- tion; Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, Garden Club of America, Washington; Mrs. Hardld R. Pratt, secretary, Garden Club of America, Glencove, Long Island; Harlan P. Kelsey, nurseryman, Salem, Mass.; Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, Brookline, Mass.; Robert Pyle, chairman of the Botanical Gardens and Arboretums committee of the American Association of Nurserymen, West Grove, Pa., and Henry S. Graves, Yale Forest Schoo!l, New Haven. The National Arboretum, .as author- ized by Congress, will be developed on & large tract of land in the District of Columbia, including reclaimed land near the Anacostia River above the Berming Bridge. It will be both an educational and recreational center and an important adjunct to the scientific activities of the Government, particu- larly the Department of Agriculture. i To the fullest degree possible, it is ! expected, the management of the Na- | tional Arboretum will collect plants and trees from all the of the world for cultivation, study and breeding in grounds of the Arboretum. Dr. Coville, one of the members, of the de- partmental committee, has suggested the function of Arboretum in such phrases as a “Ii library of the {plants of the world” and as “a 5-foot shelf of the more important plants.’ CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. ‘The National Shakespeare Federation will open its twelfth annual convention, o'clock, at the Vermont Avenue Christian Church. Rev. Earle Wilfley will speak of “Great Moments with Shakespeare.” This will be a part me- T Fion- and vl be_ attended DY local and w atten Y %?n;’gnhes of the Christian Endeavor societies, beneficiaries of the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. H. Craigie. ‘Tomorrow, 8:15 p.m., the federation will be guests of the Washington Shake- speare Society in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. ‘The Wanderlusters’ hike will start from Mount Rainier, 3 o'clock. Mr. Schwertner will lead. Henry Flury will address the Wash- ington Open Forum, 808 I street, 3 p.m. Subject: “Behavioristic Psychology.” Free. A free lecture, “Modern Methods of Eye Treatment,” by Dr. Lewis H. Kras- kin, 3 o'clock, at the Secular League, Musiclans’ Hall, 1006 E street. FUTURE. The Loyal Knights of the Round Table will meet at luncheon Tuesday, 12:30 p.m., at University Club. Speaker, W. W. Everett, retiring president of the Board of Trade. Subject, “The Modern Department Store.” ist Mrs. Ralph L. Morrison. The University Club of Washington tuned up for the purpose of combatting {will give “An Hour of Music” at its found that it did not fit certain phe- nomena and a wave theory formed any attempts of the Mnrll‘go Tepeat their duty if they did not take ad- ladies’ night, Thursday evening at the club. The entertainment committee is in general This indicates a more or less formal type of park treatment. When the highway plan was extended to the rougher terrain beyond the L’Enfant area, the designation of park squares| his identity and found more than a | observed phenomena with the result was not extended except for an occa-|score of witnesses who swere that he | that during the past few years it has sional circle at a multiple street”inter- section. The parks in this outer area are therefore less formal in location, and | lieved at first to be a Chicago city de- | corpuscular quite properly less formal—or natural-| tective's badge, which was found on his | “quanta” This is entirely pography and the eral conditions *which surround. ‘What has been said relates mainly i the park system within the District ofi Columbia. However, the project of -National Capital Park and Plan- Comumission, ‘and closely built up. | officials that he might be Pred Burke, | which necessitated the postulation of a gunman wanted in connection with the gang killings. Burke, however, was described as a much older man. Lloyd produced credentials to prove was in Los Angeles on St. Valentine’s day. He explained that a badge, be- '8 five-year term of service. Ben Milrot and Jack Weston, who were arrested with Lloyd, were held on liquor charges. e Lynchburg Pastor Resigns. YNCHBURG, Va., 20 (Spe- Baptist Ohurch ot Moron. s miles i here,” has_resigned and will his rate June 1. He has not plans for the recreation centers and playgrounds District of Columbia. an ideal substance filling space known as ether, Under this theory light had no_ma substance. This theory also failed ‘o fit certain been i O hoaiciats apoared i o riew Tole at 2 2 new a_ banquet at the Club last night when William Heisenberg and Arnold Sommerfelt, distinguished visit- German scientists, and W. F. G. the recent daily bombing of ‘N These planes are under the command of an American. Capt. R. H. Polk. Yes- terday Gen. Abelardo Rodriguez, head of the Federal forces in northwestern Mexico, promised to continue the bomb- ing of the rebels until the revolution is overthrown. g GIRL IS INJURED. guihr} Broken Collar Bone and Jaw in Collision. Brooks, 17, of the 800 block D wen oy t, is in a critical ‘where smnm SERIOUSLY HURT BY AUTO. 70-Year-Old Victim at Hospital May Have Fractured Skull. _ Jan Bruijn, 70 years of 1109 itk imet:‘ isin a ur;‘n:' condition He 1 as "ha result of night when run operated by t early this suf- injuries belleved to have tained in an automobile acei- and jaw. vantage of the pause in negotiations over the week end to confer with Dr. Schacht as to what might yet be done to avert an igminent flasco. ‘There was speclal interest in Berlin in Dr. Schacht’s reported offer to place at the creditor's disposal 25 per cent of ‘Germany's exports surplus without any restriction, to be added to his pro- posed annuities of 1,650,000,000 marks in the event Germany's trade balance should become active. This may prove a bridge to a reported ‘comprom| suggestion by Owen D. Young, it is thought here. BODY OF MISSING WOMAN IS LOCATED IN RIVER b ¥ Found " Several Hours After Her Disappearance From Home ™ _ Near Here. | will present Frances Gutelius, pianist; Dore Walten, violinist, and Gertrude Mockbee, accompanist. of the school. Proceeds for extra curricular activities of the school. The Red Triangle Outing Club will have a moonlight walk through the woods April 24. Meet at Thirty-sixth and M streets, 5 p.m. Two Dead in Crossing Crash. CORDOVA, Ala., April 20 (#).—Two men were A'kslla(i md:me seriously in- j "l‘_l:lEA'l‘ FOR LEE HIGHWAY TOURISTS nd is in the —=Star Staff Photo. DOGWOOD BEAUTY DISPLAYED BY TREE Lee Highway Has Beautiful Specimen on Estate at * Falls Church. A beautiful, symmetrical flowering dogwood tree, which has attracted the attention of thousands of motorists | along the Lee Highway is at Falls | Church, Va., in the spacious grounds | DROP NAVY ISSUE, DXPERTS AR RGED Lord Cushendun Proposes’ Proceeding With Other - Armament Questions. By the Assoclated Press. GENEVA, April 20.—The preparatory commission disarmament conference, finding itself at the end of the first week with nothing specific accomplished and with one delegation considering withdrawal, heard a British proposal that, the stubborn question af big nawws be laid aside to see if other armament 3:‘“ offered less resistance to reduc- ns. Lord Cushendun came out for con: centration of the commission on prob- lems of land and air disarmament in- stead of naval problems, which Britain would prefer to hold over until the powers reached a direct accord. Soviet Considers Withdrawal. The drastic scheme for scrapping armamentss proposed by Soviet Russia was sidetracked, but not killed. The Soviet delegation, headed by Maxi Litvinoff, spent the lnemoonytmngxz decide whether it was worth while to continue after their failure to force definite action on their proposal. American interests were taken in charge by Minister Hugh R. Wilsc.. because of the illness of Ambassatc. Hugh S. Gibson. The Ambassador 19 Belgium caught cold while playing golf and was ordered to remain quiet for 1wo days as a precaution. Urges Change in Program. Lord Cushendun, British under-secre- tary for forelgn affairs, declared that since his country was not & military power in the continental sense of the term, he was prepared to accept in this Tegard any agreement which had the unanimous approval of the rest of the commission. He pointed out that the chief naval powers, working by them- selves, had already effected important reduction and limitation in naval arma- ments. He urged, however, that if the com- mission failed to accomplish anything it would lay itself open to ridicule that would be disastrous. He therefore pro- posed to “get on with the land and air problems.” STIMSON OPPOSEE_ of the home of Mrs. Albert P. Eastman. Frank H. Eastman, who, with his| mother and wife, lives at the old home- | stead, says the tree was planted about | Steadily grown to the size and sym- mv::ry it has today. i At the edge of the lawn, almost over- ! hanging the highway, this flowering | Jogwood is one of several on the estate, | but is in a conspicuous place, and has | been the source of much commenda- tion from passersby. The Eastman family is enthusias- | tically in favor of the campaign being | conducted here in Washington by the | National Capital Committee of the Gar- | den Club of America and the Wild- | flower Preservation Society for the pro- | tection of the dogwood, according to Mr. Eastman. | They feel that this native flowering | tree should . receive protection instead | of spoliation at the hands of the pub- | lc, and are proud to point to their beautiful trees this year as an example of how they may be employed in beauti- | | fication of home sites. | |SENATORS TO SET FUTURE POLICY OF (Continued From First Page.) upon its merits. It has won by an ap- peal to imaginative grievances, by a subtle appeal to racial hatreds and by skillful manipulation of misinforma- the Democratic party and its candi- dates. Notwithstanding these inde- fensible methods, the Democratic party than any party had polled at any pre- vious election.” s i Declaring that the Republican party frequently charges the Democrats with | lack of constructive ability, Senator Barkley pointed out that his party was | responsible for the Federal Reserve sys- | tem, the law that recognizes the right of labor to organize; that it gave to agriculture a loan system that placed it on a parity with other industrial groups; that it took the tariff out of politics by setting up the tariff commission, and that it had set up the Federal Trade Commission before which big and little business could lay its grievances. Referring to the extra session of Congress the Democratic Senator said that “if it had not been for the in- sistence of Democrats all over the country, led by our resourceful candi- date for President in the last election, Congress would not now be in extra session under the pretense of legisla- tion for the benefit of the farmer.” Senator Ransdell, referring to the tariff stand of Mr. Smith during the late campaign, pointed out that “credit for the doctrine of adequate protection belongs to Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Jackson, who guarded our Govern- ment in its infant days.” The Louisiana Senator said he had always been a protectionist and that he rejoiced in Gov. Smith's stand, “Let his (Jefferson’s) teachings lead us in the future under the sun!:rd of Gov. Smith,” he continued, “who after 25 years of public life, has shown us the error of our ways and led us back to_the path of Jeffersonian principles.” Representative Douglas spoke agains! the growing bureaucracy of the United States, referring particularly-to the pro- posed new Department of Education. That which is accomplished by cen- done by mutual compact among States which think the same lines, he said. “Were the eighteenth amendment not a part of the basic law,” he con- tinued, “it is nof improbable that the 45 years ago by his father, and has,K — tion and misrepresentation concerning | polled more votes in the last election | RESTRICTING FREE PHILIPPINE SUGAR (Continued From First Page.) additional tariff, he said, would serve only to stimulate and more than double sugar production in the Philippines, Porto Rico and Hawaii, whose products ?:yy no duty upon entry into this coun- Roughly speaking, Stimson informed the committee, three-fifths of the sugar consumed in this country comes from foreign sources, nearly ali of it Cuban: one-fifth from continental United States and the other one-fifth from its insular possessions. “The issue, therefore,” he said, “does not” rest between domestic sugar and Philippine sugar; domestic sugar is not in any way affected by free importation from the Philippines.” Stimson Holds Cuba Fixes Price. The Secretary, who recently retired as governer general of the islands to be- mr:dmeflbe;ol the Hoover cabinet, that duty-paying sul has been far above 3,000,000 tons dn‘n‘;z the past five years and that inasmuch as practically all of this comes from Cuba, its price fixes the American price. Domestic sugar intrests had armitted, DEMOCRATIC PARTY |Be said, that their production cannot | be greatly or suddenly increased. “Therefore,” he said, “even if the free entry of Philippine sugar should be cut off entirely, the only effect would be to increase the amount of foreign sugar which would enter the American i market, i. e, to sacrifice Philippine | sugar for Cuban sugar.” Stimson declared the increased Phil~ ippine production, at which the resolu~ tion of Representative Timberlake, Re- publican, of Colorado and a member of the tariff framing committee, is aimed, was not due to increased acreage, but to improvements in milling. He added that no increase in acreage can be ex- pected owing to land laws of the islands, which prevent purchase by corporations of tracts of land exceedin; 2,500 acres. A Domestic Price Not Affected. “To sum up.” he said, “this committee is asked by the proposers of this limi- tation to strike a blow at an industry which is at present not affecting the price of any domestic sugar and which cannot possibly affect such price withig any reasonable period of years to come, owing to the democratic method af its cultivation fostered under the laws of an American Congress. “Such & limitation would be in- evitably interpreted as a betrayal of trust by the United States toward a dependent people and such betrayal not only would violate American principles of government which have in- itiated by a Republican administration and carried out without a difference of opinion by all parties, but it would arouse a widespread criticism in the Orijent as well as in other parts of the world with which we desire commercial relations, end would inflict a lasting blow upon our credit and good name.” ARPORT FOR CHICAGO. Curtiss Service to Conmstruct Mil- lion-Dollar Establishment. CHICAGO, April 20 (#).—A new $1,000,000 airport, providing for an op- erating base for a flying university and all branches of private and commercial aviatiofl, will be constructed here by the Curtiss Flying Service, it was announced tralized authority could much better be | toda; y. The Chicago fleld, the announcement said, will occupy a key position in the national chain of 25 airports estab- lished throughout the country by the Curtiss organization. Construction will compact clause might constitute a sound solution to the liquor question.” eating On all the highwa'ys are to be found hotels and places serving excellent meals. Why not make the dinner in the country a feature of your trip. A number of such places are listed in the Automo- bile Section of today’s Star under “Where to Motor and Dine.” Refer to this classification and plan to dine at one of these attractive places. ibe started immediately on a 430-acre tract near suburban Glenview. Dine in the Nearby Country During the beautiful Spring season when nature is at its best, enjoy an auto- mobile ride 'through some of the beautiful country surrounding Washington.