Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1929, Page 3

CLASHES REPORTED| ON CHINESE BORDER Two Towns Taken in Rus- sian Offensive, Dis- patches Say. (Continued From First Page) for the purpose of undermining the Chinese political situation, and, further, that the Soviet disruption of traffic of the Chinese Eastern Railway is an ob- struction of world traffic, and should war arise from the present incident the responsibility rests with Russia, who has repeatedlv, Il'anking will claim, threatened China wi'h strong notes, despite the fact thal uoth countries are signatories to the Kcllogg anti-war act. 3 The Nanking government received the | Soviet's second note calmly. It was! drlivered to an official of the foreign office, who promptly handed it to Presi- dent Chiang Kai-Shek, who is pllyl.ngl the leading role in foreign affairs. | Upon receiving the note, Chiang said | that Russia’s action had been antici- pated and the Chinese government is well prepared for eventualities. i The Associated Press said that Pogranichnaya and Manchuli are bor- der points, the former about 150 miles rorth of Vladivostok and the latter a thousand miles away across Manchuria. PRoth are key positions to the Chinese Eastern Raliway, but the significance of their occupation is believed to be of political rather than of military im- portance. Neither place is of industrial or com- mercial importance. Pogranichnaya is | 8 mere cluster of houses around a station. A mile and a half to the west i of the station. on the actual border be- tween the maritime Province of Siberia | and Kirin, Province of Manchuria, there is a settlement of Koreans who live in very primitive fashion. Manchuli is definitely in Manchuria, being about 10 miles from the border. Pozranichnaya, according to available | aflases, is on the Russian side of the | border, and the use of the word “eap- ture” by the Osaka Asahi correspondent | presumably would mean that the Rus- sians had expelled the Chinese there | and taken over entire possession of the place and control of the railway and administration. EAST SITUATION TENSE. Troops Concentrated But Hope to Avert | War Not Abandoned. LONDON, July 19 (#).—The menaze of war hung over Northeastern Asia to- day with a tense cituation rapidly de- veloping which easily could involve Rus- ; sia and China in a battle for supremacy | in_Manchuria. European correspondents in the af- fected area reported large concentr: tions of troops, both Chinese and Rus. sian, at frontier points on the Chinese Eastern Railway, seized last week by Manchurian authorities. There was admitted danger of border clashes in the propinquity of these armies. Such incidents conceivabiy could precipitate both home govern- ;Ilnenls into a deadly and disastrous co ict. Little if anything indicated the actual peace of the two countries has been broken, the current crop of rumors of border incursions and repulses lacking confirmation from any source. Except for frontier clashes there was some di inclination to believe the serious situ: tion which has developed inevitably meant war. Situation Still Hopeful. ‘The National government of China, Nanking dispatches said, viewed the po- .. sition as grave, but not hopeless. Presi- | dent Chiang Kai-shek presided yester- day at a meeting of National leaders to discuss the situation, What took plaze was not revealed. Traffic on the Chinese Eastern Rail- way has come to a standstill except for the extensive troop movements. Crowds of Chinese have blocked routes from the border towns eastward and to the south, while Russians in Manchuria are try- ing to reach Siberia either to the west or_the north, Thousands of Russians in the interior of China were reported as anxious to leave the country to escape internment | in the event of war. Other Russians. “whites,” said to number 20,000, and accepting the White Leader Ataman Semenoy as their spokesman, were said 1o be anxious to wage war against the Soviet. The Japanese government made ar- rangements for the protection of its nationals in the threatened area and | kept a vigilant eye on every happening with the possibility of Japan becoming involved in the conflict in a military way. The Japanese general staff was sail not to expect war. Take Over Interests. ‘The German consular and diplomatic offitials have or are taking over the Russian interests in China and Man- | churia, and Chinese interests in Rus- | sia. The foreign legations at Peiping | were represented as watching develop- | ments closely, without assuming wan was inevitable, Little news emanated from Moscow and there was nothing in such dis- patches as were received to indicate | agy war-like action was being prepared. ‘The usual Russian censorship on press dispatches from Moscow was under- stood to be in force. Japanese dispatches said martial law had been declared in Harbin, capital of Manchuria, and the death penalty threatened for any one spreading alarmist reports. Newspapers were strongly censored. SPECIAL NOTICES. WANTED-DIRT AT NEW BUILDING AT Colorado _ave. and Madison st. n.¥. Adams_2360. EXCAVATING. 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The railroad men contended that the $3.13 per ton rate for bringing Southern coal to the Capital, a distance of 412 miles, was scarcely fair even un- der the present switching arrangements, while the current rate of $2.71 is in forc: for hauling the Northern fleld coal over the 252 miles separating them from Washington, If a general switch- ing charge, which would void the 4 cent difierence in the rates from t two_flelds, were established, the ra road men told the trade board’s com- mittee, then the rallroads would bz obliged to seck an increase in the Southern coal hauling rate. Ask Support for Charge. A delegation of Southern coal op- erators addressed the Board of Trade committeemen last week when they ap- pealed for support of their petition for the switching charge on the ground that unless the switching charge is ad- justed Washington consumers either will have to pay more for coal from West Virginia or give up this supply and accept the Northern field coal. | The rallroad representatives were in- vited to present their side of the switch- ing controversy to the same committee today. Following the testimony of the rail- road men, the trade body committee | agrec to hold its decision on the coal rate in abeyance while an inquiry into ! freigiit rates in general is undertaken. | The coal operators explained last week that it is proposed in their peti~ tion now before the Interstate Com- merce Commission, that a general switching charge be established cover- ing the transfer of coal from the Po- tomac yards via the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio roads to coal yards in Washington proper. All coal then would be billed, they pointed out, to Potomac yards, where the rate is $2.84, instead of Washington, and Southern railroads using the Potomac yards ter- minal, would absorb the local switch- ing charge to be fixed by the Interstate | Commerce Commission. i Upper: Soldicers of the Russian Army, who may clash with the Chinese—P. & A. Photo’ Center, left to right: Gen. Chang Hseuh-Liang. ruler of Manchuria, who has been ordered to return to Mukden to L. M. Karakhan, vice commissar for foreign affairs of the Soviet Gen. Budenny, Russian military leader; Gen. Chiang Kal-Shek, president of the Nanking government of | Lower: Chinese Nationalist troops, who, according to reports, are mobilizing at the Manchurian border.—P. & A. Photo. SAN DOMINGO BUYS SITE FOR LEGATION Building, to Cost $150,000, | to Be Erected on Massa- chusetts Avenue. The Dominican Republic has pur- | chased a site on the north side of Massachusetts avenue between Twenty- fourth and California streets for the crection* of a legation building to cost $150,000, it was announced today. Senor Angel Morales, Minister to the | United States from the republic, this ‘morning confirmed reports that the Dominican government had purchased this site and planned to erect the lega- tion building to cost approximately $150,000. Plans for the structure are to be drawn shortly and construction is to be started some time next year, Site Has 100-Foot Frontage.. ‘The site, having a frontage of about 100 feet on the avenue and a depth of about 125 feet, was acquired through the office of Mayo & Wright from Mrs. Elizab>th Van R. Frazer. The site is west of the home of Dr. Stanley and Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart. Massachusetts avenue has been loom- ing up in the past several years as the new “Embassy row,” which in former years was claimed almost ex- clusively by Sixteenth street, where an impressive number of embassy build- ings are. ‘The trend to Massachusetts avenue recetved impetus with the acquisition of the site there for the large and wostly new home of the British em- bassy, near Observatory Circle, which. now is well uncer way. Several other new embassy and lega- tion sites since have been selected on Massachusetts avenue, nearer the down- ?wn area than the British embassy ome. Japan Has Bought Site. Only a few days ago it was learned that the Japanese government had acquired through the offices of Mayo & ‘Wright and Story Co. an extensive site just west of 2500 Massachusetts avefue, running back to adjoin the Rock Creek and Potomac parkway, The new home of the Austrian lega- i tlon was completed recently on the { avenue in this section near the fash- ionable Sheridan Circle and previously the new homes of the Egyptian and Czechoslovakian legations were on this thoroughfare, A number of other homes of the representatives of foreign governments previously were in this section. —_— BERGER IS REPORTED STEADILY IMPROVED Former Socialist Representative Expected to Get Well of Skull Fracture. MILWAUKEE, Wis,, July 19.—Victor L. Berger, 69, former Socialist Repre- sentative, who suffered a skull fracture when struck by a street car Tuesday, wu reported today to be ‘steadily im- Attendjn icians the opinion Bt, pblhyr!rln‘ e;flgtlanl, he would recover. Messages poured in to the sick room from l.“ of the world, expressing the hope of a speedy recovery. SR M AT m-ugunv is to spend nearly & quarter of a mililon dollars in building & w- ing house for immigrants, AIR MAIL RATE ADOPTED BY UNION IS CONTINUED| Universal Postal Congress Agrees| on Exchange of Equal Terms Between Countries. An agreement to continue for the present the regulations concerning the | rates and handling of air mail that were adopted at The Hague two years ago, was reached at the recent session of the Universal Postal Congress in London. Under The Hague agreement every country associated with the Uni- versal Postal Union is required to place its own air mail at the disposal of all other members on equal terms. The congress also went on record as being in favor of admitting packages of merchandise, not exceeding two pounds in weight, to international let- ter mails at 25 cents per pound. It is belleved that the recommendation will be adopted by the majority of the members of the Universal Postal Union and will be of particular value to ex- porters. FORD AND EDISON TIE IN “RACE” FOR MAYOR Each Polls One Vote at Fort Myers as Prosecuting Attorney Is Elected to Post. By the Associated Press. FORT MYERS, Fla., July 19.—Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison ran “neck- and-neck” for mayor of their Winter home town here yesterday, each polling 1 vote in the precinct in which their residences are located and where their retainers live. William J. Wood. former Lebanon. Ind., prosecuting attorney, was elected over Josiah H. Fitch, present city man- ager and former chief engineer of the Borough of the Bronx, New York City. The election was the first under a change from the commission to the dermanic form of government here. All other animals force or theft. That Day Money Was AN is the only animal that gives in exchange for what he takes. That day, in the distant past, when Man first offered a tiger’s skin in exchange for a neck” lace of shells—instead of killing the wearer of the necklace and taking the trinket—that day Man became . a man, and master of other animals. RECORDS REVEAL PAPERS UNSERVED Haynes Never Summoned in Suit, According to Court Documents. Harry V. Haynes, former president of the Farmers & Mechanics' National Bank, who was sued by Mrs. Louise T. Chambers for an accounting of $140,000 worth of bonds which she claimed he had handled for her, has never been served with summons in the suit, ac- cording to the records of the District Supreme Court. An attempted service by some uniden- tified person is sHown on the record. This person appears to have left the summons with a servant at the Haynes home, No. 6 East Melrose street, Chevy Chase, Md. The return of this service is not signed, but reads: “Served copy of within on T. Haynes by service on his servant, I. White The copy of the summons left with the servant was returned June 21 to Frank E. Cunningham, clerk of the court, with a note written on the back and signed Marian K. Haynes. The note reads: “This paper was handed to me by my servant, who said that an unknown man who gave it to her re- quested that it be given to me to hand to Mr. Haynes. Mr. Haynes is away from home at present. I do not think he will be home wijhin the 20 days | mentioned in the paper, 5o I return the_ paper to you 73 Jewish Soviet Republic Formed. MOSCOW, July 19 (#).—The Jewish Soviet Socialist Republic has been cre- ated. Several thousand farmers and their families have been sent to colonize an area about as large as Texas in the Biro Badjan district, on the Amur River in Siberia, near Manchuria. An Open Book on Banking As races take by Born, as it costs | pencott for | vaney each other more and more, they agreed that gold should be the common money, . be- cause it contains large value in small space—is convenient— and does not deteriorate to any great degree in passing from hand to hand. Gold is a great servant. It will go to work for you—it will earn money for you—and, clothing, it gives -all of its earnings back to you. Systematic Saving Is Excellent. Esch Presides at Meeting. The railroad representatives who ad- dressed the Board of Trade committee | today were C. H. Asher for the Balti- | more & Ohio Railroad and C. H. Llp-‘ the Pennsylvania. sessfon was attended also by Charles O'Neill, secretary of the Central Penn- | vania Coal Operators; A. B. McOl- of the Western Pennsylvania Operators, and J. F. Graves of the Con- solidated Coal Co. of Northern New York. The meeting was presided over by John J. Esch, former chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and (‘hdlrman of the trade board's com- mittee. Gronnded Steamer Refloated TSINGTAO, China, July 19 (#).— The North German Lloyd steamer Derfllinger, miles from Tsingtao on Wednesday, was | refloated this afternoon and taken un- der tow by tugs towards Tsingtao. Forty plssengrrc aboard the ship which | was bound from Dairen already had | been removed. Howitzer Byrsts, Kills Four. BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 19 (#) — A field howitzer exploded during prac- tice today at Haymasker, killing four | of its crew including Capt. Erich Viktor. Several other soldiers were injured by the_blast. MODERNIZE Qour Home by the No Ready Cash Is Required For more than 80 years we have n serving ington homeowne: in and tell us the nature of the work you to have done—or if is not convenient, our representative will be glad to call at your home. A: EBERLYS SONS (INCORPORATED) 718 Seventh St.reet,NW Phone Main 6557 of men traded with nothing for food and which went aground 40 | POSe! American Anthem Played in Moscow For 99 U. S. Guests By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July 19.—For the nxn ume since v.ha World War " was lyeq hzn it nllht in a public w ining #All as & compliment to the 99 now on a tour of tmpectlon of Bovm mmiu who Among those the toasts by the Soviet irt- ment for Western mdebsvpl:ich was the host, were Albert Ot- tinger, former attorney general of New York State, and H. lyn Eagle. tions stressed the pressing need of Russia for American en- gineers, capital and bruuns. PAPER SAYS CHINA CANT AFFORD WAR Suicide of Nationalist Power |* Seen in Armed Conflict With Russia. By the Associated Press. PEIPING, China, July 19.—The Brit- ish-owned Peiping and Tientsin Times in an editorial today said China did not have the financial or military re- sources to wage a successful war against the Russian army. The Soviet military forces, the paper said, in technique, equipment and training were years ahead of the Chinese army. “With vuinerable frontiers from the Sin-Kiang to the Amur River, it would be suicidal for the new Chinese govern- ment to stake gts existence upon the issue of war in “It is probable Nanking in its heart of hearts deplores the precipitate action | of the Manchurian authorities, taken on their own responsibility in the absence of Chang Hsueh-Liang, and would glad- 1y find some method of extricating itself from its untenable position.” ‘The paper regarded the seizure of the | Chinese Eastern Railway as a flagrant violation of a solemn international agreement and added that if it suc- ceeded it was generally felt it would be a prelude to wholesale attacks upon privileges, properties and rights of foreigners in China. ACCOMPLICE HINTED IN BENNETT BANK EMBEZZLEMENT CASE (Continued From First Page.) ‘The {in the embezzlements, while not as much as $104,000, were large. It has never been the practice of the United States attorney’s office to | fix the amount of the bond in an em. bezzlement case to coincide with the m involved in the embezzlement. it + was said, the sole purpose of the bond | being to guarantee the availability of the prisoner when wanted. Bank officials have been outspoken in criticism of the action of the dis trict attorney’s office in agreeing to th bond being reduced from $90,000. as formerly fixed in Police Court. be a mistaken idea on the part some,” sald Assistant United States | Attorney Collins, “that the bond is sup- | d to cover the amount of the em- bezzlement in such ceses. The Gov- nment alone would receive the amount | of the bond if it is forfeited.” MA“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA“AAAAAAAAAAAA ussia,” the Times said. | GALLES MAY DEFY THREAT OF ARREST Plans to Travel Through Texas, Despite Old Charge of Officers’ Murder. ‘By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, July 19.—Accounts published in Mexico City newspapers today that Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles would leave here Saturday by train for New York, passing through Texas en route, caused surprise in some circles where the threat of John A. Valls, for- mer district attorney at Laredo, Tex., to arrest him on & murder warrant was remembered. The Mexico City accounts today said Gen. Calles would leave New York on the Tlle de France July 26, to spend sev- eral months in Europe, during which time he will rest and mk relief !rorn an flmess which has bothered him for some Previously it had been understood he would go to Tampico and take a ship from there to New Orleans, proceeding to New York by train from that city. Last August Valls, who is now a judge at Laredo, accused Gen. Calles and the late Gen. Alvaro Obregon of complicity in the assassination of two Mexican army officers in Laredo in 1922. said that while Gen. Obregon’s assas- sinltlon had removed the possibility of rresting , “the prosecution against Cn.llu and his mlow consp!nwn will remain pending with the fervid hope that some day they will be called upon to answer for their enormous crimes at the bar of public justice in Webb County.” Vall's statement was made as the re- | sult of an exchange of correspondence with the State Department at Washing- ton growing out of the threat of the Mexican government to remove its con- sulate from Laredo because of preju- diced bandling of cases in which they were Interested. | —_——— Nearly 140,000 people in Austria are | receiving unemployment subsidies. -:tlvmu of the cituens‘ Valls | 8y 3 LUDLOW LAUDS WORK AT C. M. T. C. IN SPEECH Jndiane Representative Becoupts Growth of Movement and Benefit to Youth. the pl T e S, S hum tlu WY Camps and pointed out - po! that Con- gfl! ly behind the movement moral lumn and financial assist- !nmueld by Maj. Prederic William Wile, newspaper man and officer in the Specialist Reserve of the Army, Mr. Ludlow said: “In 10 fruitful years the Citizens’ Military Training Camps have trained 266,248 young men and have sent them out into civil walks of life with quick- ened patriotism, keener mentality And ywr hod)es. and t};)ee training cam ve grown in number from a men handful to a total cf 53, under the sorship and sanction of that bran :‘L‘:‘I.nn Government that controls the m FORCED DOWN IN FIELD. Lieut. Arthur B. Craig of flm, Md Naval Reserve orced landing in a corn field nmflu Anncomn vanl Air Station afternoon when the motor of cut out while he was taking off. ‘The ship nosed over after Lieut. Craig “set her down” in the soft field and was hauled back to the station for repairs. Lieut. Craig had been making practice hnd&g( and had made l num- uit, ay is plane ber of h tions—etc—that iy nec of ONE YEAR. 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