Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1929, Page 4

HOUSE DEBT ACTION| SOON IS EXPECTED Mellon-Berenger Agreement May Be Put on Program of Special Session. By the Associated Press. French ratification of the Mellon- Berenger war debt agreement, now confidently predicted, is expected to re- ceive prompt attention in the House after it reassembles late in September. Ratification of the agreement prob- ably will be added to the special session program of Congress if, as indicated, the French Senate agrees with the ac- tion of the Chamber of Deputies. Both chambers of Congress will have to act on it before it can be made finally effective, but meanwhile, preparations are being made to postpone the maturi- ty date of the $400,000,000 war supplies debt, which falls due August 1, but is provided for in the general $4,025,000,- 000 agreement. The House two years ago ratified the general agreement, under which all of Prance’s war and post-war obligaiions to the United States are lumped to- gether for payment over a period of 62 years. But the Senate declined to act pending French ratification and the subsequent inauguration of a new Con- gress has nullified the approval voted at that time. Despite some determined opposition to the agreement in Congress on the contention that it does not provide for adequate payments to the United States, Chairman Smoot of the Senate finance committee -and other leaders expect that little difficulty will be en- countered in bringing about its rati- fication. The last of the debt settle- ments arranged between the United States and the associated powers it helped to finance during the World War, the agreement is similar to those negotiated with the other nations, all of which have been ratified. WIFE CALLS BURNS “MENACE TO SOCIETY” Declares Chicago Publisher Re- turned to Georgia Gang Manu- factured World War Record. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., July 22.—The State Prison Board, considering a clemency appeal for Robert Edward Burns, Chi- cago publisher returned to Georgia to complete his sentence on the chain gang, vesterday had an affidavit of Mrs. Burns describing her husband as a hardened criminal, “a menace to so- clety” and a fraud in his pretentions to World War distinction. Mrs. Burns said the editor had left her for another woman, urging her to obtain a divorce, and that she had “tipped off” Chicago authorities he was an escaped convict, thus causing his ar- rest. Burns was sentenced in 1922 to from 6 to 10 years for an armed rob- bery that netted him only a few dollars, and escaped a few months later, eventually going to Chicago, where he “made good” as publisher of & com- mercial magazine. Mrs. Burns, in her affidavit, declared that following his escape from the Georgla chain gang Burns had figured | in a gun battle in St. Louis in which four men were killed. SIX ACTORS gUPENbED BY EQUITY ASSOCIATION Ten Have Been Dropped Since Fight for Recognition in Movies Started. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 22— Frank Gilmore, president of the Actors’ Equity Association, yesterday announced | that at a meeting of the group held Saturday night six members had been | suspended. | Those suspended, Gilmore said, were E. J. Ratcliffe, Joe Brunnell, Charles Fellon, Emily Melville, Winifred Harris and Hugh Haxton. The suspensions brought the total number of actois to lose their member- ship in Equity t> 10 since the associa- | tion began its fizht for recognition in motion pictures. At the meeting, Gilmore said, the suit filed by Equity yesterday against Tully Marshall, character actor, and Warner Bros., Inc., film producers, was dis- cussed. Equity sued for $1,000,000 dam- ages and a court order restraining the defendants from carrying out a con- tract alleged to ‘be "in violation of Marshall's agreement with the associa- tion. Gilmore said during the discus- sion opinion was expressed that similar sults should be filed against a number of prominent actors. The matter was before Equity officials, he said. POPE’S VISIT EXPECTED. Monte Cassion Trip Reported Con- templated After Vatican Incident. ROME, July 22 (#).—A Cassino dis- patch to the newspaper Il Tevere says that Pope Pius is expected to visit the Benedictine Monasiery at Monte Oas- !10111hth15 season. e paper says that 10-year-ol = seppe Giallonardi, mgethe¥ withdfgl?w students from Maria College, were re- ceived in a private audience by the Pope. The boy made an effort to kiss the papal ring and the pontiff asked him who he was and whence he came. Giuseppe gave his name and added that he was from Monte Cassino, Whereupon the Pope is said to have exclaimed: “Bravo! I shall look -for you there this Summer.” American Hurt in Mexico, MEXICO_CITY, July 22 (#).—Dis- patches to El Universal from Oumfi- jara today said an American, Clarke Thompson, was injured seriously yes- terday when an automobile he ‘was driving turned over near Tlaquepaque, Jaliseo. Manuel Calero, jr., son of Man- uel Calero, secretary of interior in the Madero government and former Am. bassador to Washington, killed. Electrical Repair‘ TO ANY g Apparatus or Appliances TORS — ARMATUEE — com NG ANS . TACE CLEANERS — ELECTEIC REFRIG- ELECTRIC WINDING CO. 1915 E St. NW. NAtional 9346 Wil Call and Deliver Swat the Fly' Take advantage of an early start by an aggres- sive war on the fly at the beginning of the season. The Star has for free distribution wire-handle fly swatters. Ask for one at the main office of The Star, 1ith and Pa. Ave. W-"‘y : GLIMPSING THE FAR EAST By GIDEON A. LYON, . Member of American Journalists® Farty Now Touring Orlent as Guests of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Peiping, China, June 28. 1929. Grateful that arrangements had been effected while on the train to extend our stay in Pelping—I will try to keep to that new spelling of the name of China's northern capital—we reached the railway terminal last evening at about 8 o'clock, hot, tired, grimed with travel dust, unshaven because of the uninviting facilities for totlet- making on the train, eager for the comforts of a hotel. Yet in the hubbub of our reception, on the station platform we learned that a tea party was awai.- ing us and that it had been awaiting for several hours and that there was nothing for us to do but %o respond to the invitation, which we had never received. Protests on the score of our unseemly state were unavailing. We simply must put in an appearance, sad though that appearance might be. Our host was a highly important personage, a banker, His other guests, summoned meet us, were likewise important personages. We must go. We did. ‘The hot towels with which the Chi- nese greet their guests were refreshing. ‘We simulated a cleanliness we really did not possess, and faced the long-waiting assemblage, gathered in the courtyard of a palatial home. There was tea and there was food. We partook of both, though we had no appetite. We shook hands with numbers of cordially smiling Chinese and some Americans, the lat- ter plainly pleased to hear familiar language. We were | shown through such parts of the dwelling as could be shown to us, re: joicing in the beau. ties of decoraion: and furnishings, had a silhouette view of the children of the nousehold, gathering in giggling interest at the doorway of one of the pavilions and peeping between slits in the ofled-paper sliding doors at the strangers. ‘Then, with much more handshaking, we were free to go to our hotel, situated within the legation area, a short block from the “Water Gate” where the expeditionary force of 1900 made its first entrance into the be- leaguered foreign compound and raised the seige of the Boxer War. After a late dinner, several of our | party took a walk over to the wall that surrounds the Tartar City, the wall that helped to save the legations 29 years ago. At the Water Gate, which gives directly upon the rallroad station vard, a swarm of rickishaw men sprang to attention upon our appearance. One of our members, with enough Chinese to indicate legation, declined their services. One of the rickishaw men asked us, in excellent “pidgeon,” if we were going on top of the wall Affirmative answer quelled what seemed to be an inciplent riot. We walked a few yards to the west and by an easy ramp ascended to the top of the wall. | It is broad and tree-grown, with smooth flagstone walks, a favorite pro- menade for couples and seekers for the | cooler air of the night in Sumemr. | Wireless Towers on Wall. Our idea was to see Peiping by moon- | light. But the moon was scheduled for | to0 late an appearance for us, tired as we were by our long journey from | Mukden. We walked around & bit, identified some landmarks, such as the | Chien Men Gate, which abuts upon the | American legation compound, and. | further to the south, the great Chien | Men Tower, on one wall of which some | motion pictures were being projected in | the interest of an advertising enltr-‘ prise. Dimly through the night we could discern slim wireless towers rising | high above the roofs of the buildings in | compound. Two towers have their base | on the wall itself. Never again. while | the electric current holds out, will there | be any lack of communication between | the American legation and headqua ters at Washington 5| As we looked those towers we \ Mr. Lyon. thought of those anxious days in 1900, when the Boxers were batterin WE PA ! 2y Money Pennies make dimes and dimes make dollars_make themselves, if give Start in today saving systematically out of income for future se- you will chance. o curity. OR MORE Open daily 9 to § at the walls of the legation compound. No word could be had from the thou- sand foreigners penned up in the few acres comprising this space. For weeks none knew: whether they lived or had perished. At last, on the 4th of July, Secretary John Hay got a cipher mes- sage to Minister Conger through the good offices of Minister Wu Ting Fang, and received the following message in reply: “For one month we have been beseiged in British legation under con- tinued shot and_shell from Chinese troops. Quick rellef only can prevent general massacre.” Good mnews this, that the foreigners survived. But there was suspicion lest this be a fraudulent dispatch, intended to cause the hastening of the relief ex- pedition before it was sufficiently strong to reach the capital. So Mr. Hay sent another message, asking the Minister to mention, in his reply, the name of his sister. This came in due time, and the name was correct, and then it was known that no massacre had occurred. But it was not until the 4th of August that the expeditionary force of about 20,000 men, Japanese, Russians. British, Americans and French, left Tientsin, and on the 14th the troops in various columns attacked the gates in the ‘Tartar Wall. Ijputs and Sikhs made a dash for the Water Gate, which was barely more than a tunnel for the flow of a stream and won their way into the compound. Tn a few hours the lega- tions were relieved. U. S. Marine on Guard. ‘That story was running through our minds as we walked along the wall to- ward the Chien Men Gate and saw a solitary figure approaching. A Marine sentry, he proved to be. He pald no attention to us until we told him that we were all Americans. Then he asked us if we would like to go through the gate. He tried to open a barrier for us, but it was stuck tight and we urged him to desist. We asked him how he liked service in Peking—I should have written Peiping. “Not s0 bad,” he replied. “Better than some other places I've been.” say this, these American Marines, “not 50 bad.” Yesterday we met two coming up on the train from the coaling sta- tion below Tientsin, just arrived with a couple of officers on the Grant from Guam. One, a sergeant, had been in Pelping before, at a troubled time. He was eager to return. His “buddy,” a young corporal, was non-committal. But he felt assured that Pelping would It is not necessary to have had an Account at this Bank to Berrow THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. $. Treasury - We Grows have financed “4 City of Homes” dollars and them a Saturday until noon on your Savings NATIONAL PERMANENT BUILDING ASSOCIATION _ (ORGANIZED 1890) 949 Ninth Street N.W. Just Below New York Avenue Under Supervision U. 8. Treasury & ADVERTISENENTS Receivep HERE By ot Reiskin’l Pharmacy—Fla. Ave. & 1st St. Is a Star Branch Office Don’t go without something We had seen enough. | They all | & | EISEMAN'S THE ABOVE SIGN 18 DISPLAYED BY AUTHORIZED STAR BRANCH /OFFICES you want when it can be so readily supplied through a Star Classified Advertisement. In this way you will reach practi- cally everybody in and around Washington and the results will be surprising. ; Copy for The Star Classified Section may be left at any of the Branch Offices—there’s one in your neighborhood. Branch Oflie;n ren::r their service with- out fee; y regular rates are charged. 3 The Star prints such an ~ overwhelmingly greater volume of Classified Advertising every day than any other ing- ton paper that there can be no question as to which will give you the best results. “Around the Corner” is a Star at least be better than Guam, where nothing ever happens. Well, there they are, across the street from the hotel and some distance to the west, those stout young Americans, those Marines. Foreigners feel a deal safer with them and their fellows of other foreign services at hand to keep order in case of trouble between the Chinese factions. Nobody looks for trouble now, however. This is an era of cmnglntive peace. President Chiang Kal Shek is in Peiping at this hour, having come up for a conference with the leaders of the Peiping Kuomintang, the party which supports and, in fact, constitutes the Nationalist government located at Nanking. He made a talk yesterday and declared that the fol- lowers of Sun Yat Sen must turn a deaf ear to Communists and must work for unification in China. It 1s of more than passing moment that coincident with Chiang Kai Shek’s visit to this city the authorilies here made raids upon a number of Chinese hotels and inns and arrested a large number of suspects. It was printed this i morning that seven of them had con- fessed to being Communists. The raids extended to Tientsin. It appears that a highly efficlent detective force went through the places of public entertain- ment like a fine-toothed comb, Feng a Strong Character. Yesterday on the train coming up from Tientsin I had a long talk with one of our Chinese guides who is at- tached to the Nanking headquarters and has been detailed to accompany us on our tour through China. He cxpressed the feeling that with the yielding of Marshal Feng—which is pronounced “Fong"—to Nationalist authority the cause of Chinese unification has been greatly strengthened. Feng is rated, he sald, as the strongest character in China loday, the ablest military leader and possessed of the most loyal devotion of his troops. Feng, he intimated, would make & strong leader for unified China. But he represents, or did represent, the old feudal spirit that has caused the division of the country into “war lord” areas of contention and conflict. The highly important factor in the situation at present is the announcement of sev- eral of Feng's generals, leaders of large for unification and not for feudalism. This, said my informant, was the rea- | son for Feng's decision to retire from | active duty and his voluntary retreat into & province where he will be under | divisions of his forces, that they stand | SN to the Nanking government. Had he chosen to fight, as & few weeks ago it seemed likely that he would, he could, if defeated, have retreated to the west and gained contact with Moscow. It may, indeed, be that the tide has turned in China and that the National- ist government is actually established ina tion of such strength as to en- able it gradually to extend its author- ity into the various provinces. Up in Manchuria the “Young Marshal,” Chang Hseu Kiang, with 250,000 or perhaps 300,000 loyal troops, is playing his own game of adherence to the principle of anchuria first, with no interference with the affairs of Nationalist China. So long as he continues in this role the chances of Chiang Kal Shek are im- proved. Y A Difficult Study: But these are purely speculative mat- ters. What is going on under the sur- face of things is beyond discovery, save by veterans in the game of finding out the meaning of China. And whoever essays to solve that riddle must make up his mind to settle down here and make it a lifetime study. ‘Thus far we have seen very little of Peking—there goes again! This | morning I took a daylight look from the | top of the wall and saw the roofs of what appeared to be a modern city. though I knew that just over the im mediate horizon lies a distinctly Chi- nese community. 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