Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1929, Page 2

NAVY MENTO GIVE CUTPLANS BATTLE Need of Full Strength Seen, With Flare-ups Possible Overnight. The sensational announcements of President Hoover and Premier Mac- Donald, suspending cruiser construction have come with such amazing force that the naval group has been taken aback completely. This does not mean, howeevr, that opposition to the Presi- dent’s program is negligible. It merely foreshadows a gathering of strength by various elements in and out of Congress in an attempt to maintain the author- ized strength of the American Navy. ‘While the diplomatic world is rocki with enthusiasm over the apparen! working understanding between Britain and the United States, after many years of misunderstanding, the navalists are by no means prepared to surrender. 1t would be folly to suppose that the naval group is actuated either by any desire to build up a war machine for a selfish reason or by any thought of im- mediate hostilities with any country. ‘There is an abstract viewpoint held by the naval men, which comes from a conscientious desire to be ready for hypothetical emergencies, and, while Great Britain and the United States may both say through their spokesmen today that war between the two coun- tries is unthinkable, the seasoned naval men know that bad feeling flares up almost overnight between nations, and that the construction or expansion of navies cannot be begun under those circumstances without casting suspicion on the voters for such enlargement of naval powers. Technical Argument Seen. There is also here a feeling that when the diplomats actually begin w determine what “parity” means as be- tween the United States and Great Britain, a technical argument is in- evitable. What the Navy experts wanc is a well balanced fleet of all classes, and with the prospects of submarine as well as aerial warfare, they are likely to demand almost as large an expend:- ture in the future as in the past in order to protect the huge coastline of the United States against any attack. The situation has changed materially from the days when everybody agreed that the battleship was the mainstay of the fleet. It is still conceded to be a great offensive weapon, but the num- ber of auxiliary units required nowa- days has overshadowed the expendi- tures for battleships. It is a serious question, too, how many small vessels of fast speed are going to be needed for coast patrol work in connection with smuggling. ‘The big fact, however, is that Grea’ Britain and the United States unde: stand each other. The next question is whether France and the other naval powers are going to feel that they have liberty of action with respect to the make-up of their navies. Moral Force Rellance. Undoubtedly both the President and British prime minister are depending almost entirely on moral force to back them up in their demands that naval expenditures be cut. The battle of pub- lic opinion will be waged no less inte: sively inside the United States than in Great Britain, because the naval groups in each country have very much the same viewpoint. They consider themselves guardians of the naval in- terests of a country against all emo- tional peace movements, which are not necessarily permanent and which, in their judgment, frequently prevent naval expenditures from being effec- tively used. Entirely apart from the attitude of the naval group, there is no doubt that the expressions from Premier Mac- Donald have created a profound feeling | in Congress. In the last cruiser fight the opponents of cruiser suspension were strengthened by the fact that Great Britain had made no effort to cut down the number of her new ves- sels. The naval group will undoubtedly argue that the Labor government in England may be overthrown any mo- ment and a Conservative government put into power, which will take the same view of things that the British admiralty did in the Geneva naval con- Yerence, which irritated President Coolidge and caused him to make his famous Armistice day speech last Autumn. If the British Labor government, how- ever, appears to grow stronger, the anti- big Navy sentiment in Congress here will grow correspondingly. If the ques- tion were to come to a vote tomorrow Mr. Hoover would have an overwhelm- ing majority in support of his program not only of suspending cruiser construc- tion but of further limiting naval armament. D. L. (Copyright, 1929.) BROMLEY WATCHES FOR FAIR WEATHER TO START FLIGHT (Continued From First Page.) land on & small emergency skid on ar- riving at Tokio. Placing this wheel on the tail of the ship means there is hardly the slightest chance of another test flight, as that might mean a ground loop for the plane when landing. A spark and rainproof radio key also was installed yesterday to prevent any possibility of setting the plane on fire by exploding gas fumes while sending out radio messages. £s tne compasses are all adjusted, the motor in perfec: shape and all the other instruments have had a final testing, only one task remains before the take-off. That is, the plane will be fueled with fresh e, strained through chamois to remove possible foreign matter. This will take several hours, and the warming up of the motor will take approximately 20 minutes. After that, the take-off—and then mmhs,,ooo miles of islands and water to Tokio. Dutch Harbor is a trading post port of call of Alaska. It has a village settlements. It is on the east coast of Amaknak Island, Unalaska. Unalaska is one of the Aleutian Islands group. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alllance.) v SETTLES DOWN FOR WAIT. and few Pilot, With Plane in Readiness, Hopes for Ideal Conditions. TACOMA, Wash,, July 27.—Lieut. Harold Bromley's jected non-stop flight over the Pacific Ocean from Ta- coma to Tokio developed today into a walting contest, with a favorable weather report the cue needed to send weather report has of rain, storm and head entire course the young fiyer intends to_follow. < Lieut. Bromley declared last night that he asked only for reasonably fair ‘weather from Tacoma to Dutch Har- | | Soviet troops patrolling the Amur River, which skirts Northern M: churia, have captured the wife and baby daughter (above) of Roy Talbot, Ameri- can, and present commissioner of cus- toms at Taheiho, China. Mr. Talbot has been in the Chinese customs service for over 20 years. —P. & A. Photo. MERCHANTS FAVOR LEFT-TURN CHANGE Secretary Shaw Writes Har- land After Consulting As- sociation Members. Adoption of the so-called Hoover left- hand turn at controlled interesections as the solution of Washington's traffic problem was urged by Edward D. Shaw, secretary of the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association, in a letter to Traffic Director Willlam H. Harland, which was made public today. Mr. Shaw’s letter was written, he said, aft- er he had consulted with “a large num- ber of members” of the association, who have made a careful study of this situa- tion. Referring to Director Harland’s sug- gestion to change the present method of making left-hand turns only to the extent of having traffic move to the center of the road and there wait for the green light for the direction thoy are going before making the turn, Mr. Shaw said that while these members of the association believe it is “a step in the right direction,” they do not think it goes far enough. “It does not conform to general practice now in existence in a great majority of the cities and towns throughout the country, where the left turn is com- Dl:;eg on the same green light,” he added. ‘Would Benefit Tourists. Continuing, Mr. Shaw wrote: “As Washington is the mecca for thousands of motor tourists who are visiting their Nation's Capital each year, and their number undoubtedly will greatly increase during the coming years, local traffic regulations, it seems to us, shoyuld be made to conform to accepted ‘practices elsewhere, in order to facilitate and _encourage tourists visiting this wonderful city. “Another reason for adopting in ‘Washington the generally accepted prac- tice of completing a left turn on the green light is that during rush hours in the morning and evening, when the great bulk of the traffic is traveling in one direction, there will be little diffi- culty on most_ arterial highways of completing the left turn on the green light. It would certainly relieve the congestion at these intersections which exists in the present method of dling the left turn, and which we do not believe will be relieved by the pro- posed method of holding traffic in the center of the street, with the comple- tion of this turn on the green light.” T. V. 0°Connor in Hospital. NEW YORK, July 27 (P).—T. V. O'Connor, chairman of the United States Shipping Board, was in Memorial Hospital today suffering from a slight attack of laryngitis. He told reporters his condition was not serious and that he would be out in a few days. * Victim of Bandits REV. T. LEONARD, T mto, of the prelminary, gRAlE IPARK POLICE BACK HOOVER LEFT TURN Commander Declares Rotary Rule Hinders Efficient Traffic Control. Whatever the attitude of the Metro- politan police, and they are said to ap- prove the present rotary left~hand turn because it makes traffic direction easier, the park police are whole- heartedly in favor of a change to stand- ard Hoover maneuver at all intersec- tions. Asserting that the rotary left turn actually retards the flow of traffic and has to be discarded during certain rush periods, Capt. P. J. Carroll, who has one-seventh of the territory of the Dis- trict in his jurisdiction and whose offi- cers handle one-fifth of the traffic, ac- cording to his estimate, declared him- self yesterday for the Hoover left turn and op} to any further experi- mentation with modification of it. now at but one of the intersections under his control, Seventeenth and B streets, and is being continued there only because of his belief that traffic regulations should be as uniform as possible. Carroll said the opinions ex- pressed were not only his own, but were concurred in by all the park police | force. Ready to Drop It. “When the rotary turn was put into effect here I told Inspector Brown that I would try it at Seventeenth and B streets, but that at other intersections, wnlcullfly Fifteenth and B streets and | est Executive and State place, there WAS no use even testing it as the num- ber of left turns were too many to permit the rotary turn to work.” sald Capt. Carroll. “After giving it this thorough trial we are ready to drop it and would do so were it not for our desire to conform to the Metropolitan police system so far as sible. “The aim of traffic officials should be to get left-turning vehicles clear of the intersection as soon as possible and the rotary turn falls to do this, Arbi- trarily requiring vehicles to stop for light changes defeats the effort to clear , the intersection and whether they are stopped at the center or at the far right side makes no difference. That's why I am against the suggested compromise turn. iy “The thing to do is to put into ef- fect the left turn which is now au- thorized for all uncontrolled intersec- tions in the city that conforms to the Hoover code system. Drivers making left turns at those places now have to use judgment, knowing that oncoming traffic has the right of way, and there is no reason to suppose that they will not use the same good judgment in making left turns at controlled corners if given the chance. At Seventeenth and B streets we | have found that the rotary left turn | slows up the flow of traffic materially and when things get too bad we just have to drop it and motion the cars through. It doesn't seem wise to me to have a rule which won't stand up under the peak of traffic. At Four- teenth and Water streets it has been | found necessary during periods of ex- ceptionally heavy vehicular movement to turn off the lights entirely. Any rule now suggested for Wash- ington should, in Carroll's opinion, be subjected to close scrutiny and should be rejected if it will not work umi- versally, because local drivers should no longer be forced to operate under two rules, which differ radically. Favors One Rule for City. “I am & strong bellever in having but one rule for all over the city and no rule should be adopted that cannot be enforced at practically all intersec- tions,” declared the capta “That is the reason why J am against the sug- gested rule that cars null to the center of the intersection and stop until the lights change. you think that at | uncontrolled crossing drivers are going to stop when there is no traffic in sight in the block? I don’t believe they will any more than they do now when there is no need for it. If I am coms rect in my estimate, we will soon, in effect, be operating under two rules, because the stop w'l be observed at controlled interesection; ard disre- garded at uncontrolled (rossings unless vehicles having the right of way make a stop necessary. Therefore the only difference which will be caused Ly the modified left turn will be that the cars will be out in the center of the street instead of at the right side. There will also then be a law on our books which will be ignored in most instances at uncontrolled intcresections and this will breed contempt and hamper en- forcement of other regulations. “It will be far better, in my opinion, to discard the rotary turn and adopt the Hoover turn without modification. By that I mean turning left from the left lane of traffic at the center of the intersection without stopping, unless oncoming vehicles, which have the right of way, make a stop necessary for safety. ‘That’s the rule now at our uncontrolled crossings; it's the gereral rule through- out the country; it has the almost unanimous indorsement of our leading traffic experts, and I'd like to see Wash- ington join in the movement for uni- formity. “These are not alone my own views. I think I have, at one time or another, talked to every man on our force on this subject and have yet to find one who did not prefer the Hoover left turn to the rotary turn.” LUCAS IS HONORED AT REVENUE DINNER New Commissioner Guest of As- sistants at Banquet at Press Club. Robert H. Lucas of Kentucky, new commissioner of internal revenue, and his assistants in the Bureau of Internal Revenue were guests of honor last night at & dinner given at the National Press Club by ting revenue agents from various part8 of the country. The visiting agents are here on special as- signment to assist in the classification of returns to determine which income tax returns shall be closed here and which referred again to the field for examination. Joseph 8. Rowland of Cleveland was toastmaster, paying tribute to the new Mr. Lucas responded cording to Capt. Carroll it is being used | commissioner. 2 with appreciation for the testimonial dinner and praise for those who ar- ranged it. Arthur Rosenchild of Brook- Iyn was song leader, and there were a number of short speeches. ent included a .’;k!tp en- and A. J. Pfeiffer of Columbia, 8. C. Mr. Thompson also was heard in man- dolin solos. Other _entertainers in- cluded Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Pratt of Takoma Park. Guests of honor in addition to the commissioner included H. F. Mires, A. R. Marrs, L. C. Mitchell, assistant com- missioners; C. B. Allen, deputy com- missioners; Willlam T. Sherwood, as- sistant deputy commissioner; C. M. counsel; George J. nJun, -Iihnt deputy commis- advisory uvum;cml:.uc clearing division, A ) ENDURANCE FLYER STRETCHES HIS LEGS ‘Telephoned picture shows Dale “Red” Jackson of the St. Louls a little walk on the catwalk to inspect the machinery. ROBIV CONTINUES AS TERANS LANO Motor Failure Forces Hous- ton Pair Down—St. Louis- ans in 15th Day. (Continued From First Page) the endurance ship to be separated abruptly. O'Brine, handling the hose, was sprayed with gasoline, and it was several minutes before the contact was re-established. It was the second near collision with a camera plane since the endurance flight started, and Acting Manager Parks of the airport said any plane going aloft with a cameraman will be grounded for the duration of the flight. The contacts this morning brought the number of refueling operations to 35, and the number of contacts for all purpcses to 64. Including today's sup- ply, 3,210 gallons of gasoline have been transferred to the St. Louis Robin. ‘Two weeks ago the St. Louis Robin ventured aloft “to test the motor” and with its two pilots, and a week from today. when 500 hours will be concluded, was the goal of their flight today. Families of both airmen are at Lam- bert-St. Louis Field, augmenting the “unofficial” family of newspaper men, photographers and visitors, as Jackson's parents arrived in the Spirit of Fari- bault, a sister ship to the St. Louis Robin and painted in the same colors. Designer Is Optimistic. Arthur Nutt of Buffalo, who designed the Curtiss-Challenger air-cooled motor in the Robin, seemed more optimistic than ever toward another week in the air. “It sounds as good as ever,” he declared. “I came here to be on hand when it lands, but I'm going back to Buffalo Sunday. I can get in a couple of days’ work and come back some time a;xlt week. That will be plenty of In directing the amount of gasoline the reflueling plane was to bring up last night, Jackson added in his note: “Two weeks today—I14 days. Good for another week at least—21 days—504 hours. Hope we can go beyond that. Regards, Red.” A slight change in their diet was a reward for the fiyers last night, when Dr. A. C. Leggat, flight surgeon at the fleld, sent aloaf a jar of iced water- melon hearts with the following note: “Mrs. Leggat thinks you need a change, so we are sending some melon on ice. Hope it goes to {:ur stomach and sticks as you are doing. Keep it up. If you need any medical attention send word and I will come up. Be care- ful of those girls up there. I believe they call them angels, but take my tip and run no chances. Yours on earth.” In an earlier note, O'Brine had com- mented on the ease of life, adding, “There isn't much news up here—eno shooting scrapes and no fights. In fact this is a peaceable country up here, not even a speed cop.” Mr. and Mrs. Jackson announced their arrival to their son by the words blazoned on the side of their ship “Hello, son. Here is Pa and Ma Jack- o And in turn their son sent down a note “Everything is fine, but you'll have to wait a long time to see us.” The rewards for the flyers continue to grow, another $100 a day bem; added as well as an additional oflz:r ho $1 an hour, brin the total 24-hour pay roll” to !{"ll;!l It was figured their earnings, based on the time they have remained aloft and exclusive of a jack- pot being contributed through the Chamber of Commerce and other flat gifts, was $9,000 last night. This sum did not include their regular pay as commercial pilots. ENGINE FAILS ON TEXANS. Houston Flyers Forced Down After Passing 233-Hour Mark. HOUSTON, Tex., July 27 (#)—The endurance monoplane Billion Dollar City made a forced landing at the Houston Alrport at 6:50:06 a.m. today after being in the air 233 hours, 1 min- ute, 12 seconds. A wrist pin on the connecting rod of No. 1 cylinder of the 225-horsepower Wright Whirlwind motor became loose, wrecking the cylinder and stopping the engine. Joe Glass was at the controls and Glen L. Loomis was asleep. The breakdown occurred a few min- utes after the plane, a Stinson-Detroiter, had made its twenty-sixth refueling “After the refueling I climbed her to about a thousand feet,” Pilot Glass said. “The air was perfect and the day was dawning as pretty as you could imagine, There wasn't a hint of trouble. We both were feeling fine and were ready to stay up indefinitely. 8.| The next thing I knew there was a loud crashing sound from the stopped instantly.” HEAT BOTHERS MINNESOTANS. Flyers Ask About Weather on Ground the as They Pass 100-Hour Mark. LIS, July 27 (P)—With 5 3;'\""" Robin taking —P. & PLANS TOPUTWAR LESSONS INTO USE | Summerall to Tell Hoover of Steps to Modernize Meth- ods and Equipment. By the Assoclated Press. Aside from the survey President Hoover proposes of Army maintenance costs with a view of curtailment, Gen. Charles P. Summerall, chief of the Army general staff, has initiated an- other survey looking toward more rapid progress in turning lessons learned in France into practical use for possible future wars. ‘This became known today at a time when the Chief Executive, at his fish- |ing preserve in the cool of the Blue | Ridge Mountains in Virginia, had gath- ered around him the Secretary of War and other high officials of that depart- | ment, including Summerall, for con- | ference on Army questions. ‘The President’s announcement was | made early this week, but some time before that Summerall held a confer- ence in Washington with the highest |officers connected with the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. No pub- lictty was given at the War Depart- ment to this meeting, but it is known | that tactical plans under consideration by officers there were discussed. Fort Benning is the Army fleld labo- | ratory for testing all theories of tactics and new weapons or equipment which | have any bearing on the use of infan- try in war. That means almost every type of weapon or Army transport vehicle. ‘The American Army, like all others, stands by its formally declared policy not long after the close of the World War that the infantry still was the backbone of the fighting force. That staff study, made by direction of Gen. Pershing as post-war chief of staff, pictured every other element of the military establishment from avia- tion to tanks as merely auxiliary to the foot soldier, to help him reach his ob- jective and minimize infantry losses. Members of Congress especially inter- |ested in Army problems frequently have said they felt one of the solutions of lessening natipnal defense costs lay in a careful study of the most modern | means of waging war, and it is certain the work at Benning will be considered | carefully in any program of militavy ( economy. Al post-war experimentation with | motorization or mechanization had as its objective the reduction of infantry losses in battle. Gen. Sum- merall is represented as insistent upon close co-operation among the various Army branches to provide far greater fire power for the infantry itself and its auxiliary services, such as tanks and front line guns. During his week end Army costs con- ference with President Hoover Summer- all is expected to outline what the Army has done sincé the war and what it hopes to do toward modernization of its methods and equipment. The largest element of increase in Army costs in the last three years hac fallen under the five-year aviation ex- pansion program. The direct cost of new planes and other equipment for the current fiscal year was above $34,000,000. The indirect aviation expansion costs also were heavy, includi addition of 200 air officers a year to the rolls. BROOKHART SCORES LEADER OF LEGION ON CRUISER STAND (Continued From First Page.) indicates that the conflicting viewpoints which marked that contest are about as strongl; as ever at least as far as the lers are concerned. The President’s opinion :hat the act gives him authority to delay construc- tion of all 15 cruisers until the end of the three-year period, June 30, 1931, is held by Chairman Hale of the Senate naval aflairs committee to be “entirely in error.” Senator King, Democrat, Utah, who opposed the crusier program, is ready, on the other hand, to move for s ic congressional approval of the President’s action if the advocates of the law’s time clause decide to chal- lenge it, and the stand of Senator Brookhart means more support. . Although that indicates cne line of cleavage which might be expected, pre- dictions of what may actually develop after Congress reassembles are not be- ing made, since the conversations being conducted among the United States, Great Britain and other naval powers are recognized as holding the ibility mnw facts wmgx can ation very rapidly. tement issued at Portland, | Cochet-~ Borotra: rushed _ | injured and homeless. The earth move- U.5.DOUBLES TEAM WINS, &1, 86, 641l Borotra and Cochet Are| Beaten by Allison and Van Ryn. (Continued From Pirst Page.) through only once in eight times while Van Ryn lost his delivery three times. | ‘The latter, however, was unbeatable in the third set. het dropped his service four times, as did Borotra. ‘The players were late in taking the | courts, and spectators n a demon- stration of impatience uni the arrival of Alain Gerbault, 'round- the-world navigator. The French sailor, just back from his globe-encircling zgp in a 30-foot sloop, received an ova- n. Allison began serving in the first set, and the Americans captured the open- ing game after a succession of whirl- wind rallies. All four H}lyel‘l volleyed so skillfully that the frequently did not touch the ground until after a half dozen exchanges. The American pair broke through Borotra's service to win the second game. The Americans won the first set, 6—1. Allison’s Delivery Is Too Much. ‘The crowd cheered the American boys enthusiastically as they quickly piled up a big lead over the redoubtable Prench team. They displayed not the slightest fear of Cochet’s rifle shot vol- leys and broke through his service to lead at 3—1. Allison’s delivery was too much for the Frenchmen, who obtained only one point as the Americans won the fifth game. Van Ryn and Allison took the last two games of the set with astonishing rapidity, completely upsetting the de- fenses of the Frenchmen. The point scores, first set: Van Ryn-Allison. 4 6 3 4 4 4 5—30—6 Cochet-Borotra ..2 45210 3—17—1 Concentrate on Borotra. The American collegians started the second set without any let-up in the terrific pace. They broke through Cochet’s service in the first game and led at 2—0 when Allison's smashing de- livery again prevailed over the best that the Frenchman could offer in re- turn. ‘The Americans began concentrat- ing their offenses against Borotra after a few undesirable experiences with Cochet's smashing returns. The Basque was forced into many errors by low vol- leys that he tried to pick off his shoe- tops. Borotra's service was effective in the third game, but the challengers forged into & 3—1 lead on Van Ryn's delivery. French Teamwork Crashes. ‘The teamwork of, the Prench showed no improvement ‘as the American youths volleyed and smashed through two more games for a lead of 5—1. The two Frenchmen, victorious sep- arately yesterday, seemed unable to strike their stride in combination. Cochet’s service was again broken in the fifth game. The Americans won the second set, The French staged a big rally and took four successive games to force the set to deuce. Cochet dominated the French attack, volleying sensationally as he checked the American rush for the first time. Borotra also was steadier and the Frenchman made five games in a row to lead 6—5. Allison appeared upset by a foot fault called on his service by Count 3alm von Hoogstraten, one of the judges. The Americans regained command in the twelfth game, which they won to square the count at 6—6, again concen- trating their attack upon Rorotra. The Basque was unsteady and Cochet, in efforts to cover extra ground, also s led into errors. The Americans led 7—6 as they broke through Cochet’ service for the third time in this set. They pulled out the set on Allison’s service at 8—6. ‘The Americagns won the third set, tch, 6—1, 8—6, 6—4. lysis: Place- Double ments. Nets. Outs. faults. s 2 e Goas mao e NOWO WEND wan R sssw aBaB wa ) h ahss omoo o0o> cooo omoo ccorfoose ecss ooom Point score second set: Van Ryn-Allison: 44054432242545—48-8 2143225446432345—86 ‘The Frenchmen, their backs now to the wall, fought desperately to hold the Americans even as the third set began. It was a much closer match now and games went to 4-all on service. The turning came in the ninth game on Bdrotra's service. The American youths upset the Basque with craftily executed lobs and broke through to lead a 5—4, then scoring the decisive game for the set and match on Van Ryn's service. ‘The point score, third set: Van Ryn-Allison— 041414044 4-2—6 Cochet-Borotra— A 404241401 2224 The United States' cause apparently has been lost, despite the doubles vic- tory. Bill Tilden's straight set defeat at Cochet’s hands and Borotra’s four- set triumph over George Lott yesterday allowed no room for hope it the American singles players will be able to win the last two singles matches tomor- row, when Cochet meets Lott and Tilden faces Borptra. - Tilden may be able to overthrow Borotra, but not even the most opti- mistic of American observers has any hope that Lott can down Cochet, who right now, seems to deserve ranking as l?lm greatest singles player in the world. 60 REPORTED DEAD IN ECUADOR QUAKE Mountain Village Shattered by Repeated Shocks—Inhabitants Terrorized. By the Assoclated Press. i UITO, Ecuador, July —Si = killed in rSONS Wwere re] an r:nhq\nke whlcr':”dut.mnd most of the buildings of the town of Moyurgo, half way between tm'; :Il.ty n(:;ie n‘e‘r‘l‘l chachi, at dawn rday. pnnu?l' was caused lnye:he vicinity by the A strong shock first tumbled the buildings of the mountain village and following lighter shocks added to the terror of those inhabitants that escaped. Much damage was also done in Tam- achach] R oa " Gross. workers ross 1ot trom here to the assistance of the ‘ments still continued this evenlug Near the center of the disturbance in the ground, in some mogemd cases 15 feet wide. TOKIO SHAKEN. o A s un felt here at 7:48 am. Two hours later no reports of SR e e o e ane in and in Yokohama rushed from their homes in panic, P | areas, and the need for the fire limits | | | | Top: Raymond Poincare, premier of France, who has resigned because of Il heaith, and whose cabinet quit with | m. Bottom: Aristide Briand, retiring forelgn minister, who is expected to succeed Poincare as premier. OLD FIRE LIMITS MAY BE RESTORED Board of Seven Members Is| Named by Commissioners to Take Up Problem. The District Commissioners yesn:r-: day appointed a board of seven mem- | bers to look into the matter reviving the old District fire limits, which passed | out of legal existence in July, 1925. The | fire limits, within which no frame building construction was allowed, were originally enforced by police regula-| tions, and later by building regulations. When the revised building regulations were adopted in July, 1925, reference to | fire limits was omitted. The zoning| act then and now in force prohibited the construction of combustible build- ings in all except A and A restricted was felt to have been filled by the system of zoning. Later, however, it was discovered that the fire limits played an impor- tant part in the work of the Electrical Department, as there are acts of Con- gress in force prohibiting the stringing | of overhead electric wires within the fire limits. There being now no fire limits, apparently there is no restric- | tion, other than that which may be! imposed by the Public Utilities Com- | mission, against stringing of overhead electric wires anywhere in the city. This, according to Warren Hadley, District electrical engineer, is deplor- | able, and in one of the indorsements on the official papers which have been going the rounds for the past year on the subject, he wrote abcut the regret- table effect in new subdivisions, where the subdividers strip the land of its trees and substitute for this scenery ugly rows of poles carrying wires for the household electrical uses. The Fire Department is also opposed | to stringing of overhead wires, which Chief Engineer George S. Watson con-' siders dangerous to his men, particu- larly when ladders have to be used. He is also in favor of restoring the fire limits as an added check to the spread of frame-building construction. The committee formed to deal with the problem consists of Assistant Engi- neer Commissioner Donald A. Davison, Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, chief en- gineer of the District; E. V. Fisher, | secretary of the Public Utilities Com- mission; George S. Watson, chief en- | gineer of the Fire Department; John W. Ochmann, building inspector; Warren F{;td‘l;{. Celec"‘ctll engineer, and As- s orporation Counsel Alexander Hamilton Bell, jr. ——— TWO MEN ATTACKED | IN MOVIE CLASH First Violence Breaks Out Equity's Campaign for Closed Shop. in By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 27.—A physical encounter at a Hollywood film studio between employes and alleged sympathizers with the Actors’ Equity Association here late yesterday marked the first violence incidental to Equity’s campaign for a closed shop in the talkie studios. ‘Two men were dragged from an au- tomobile and several hundred feet of film destroyed by war veterans work- ing in a picture at a studio when al- leged sympathizers with Equity cre- ated a demonstration by booing and hissing 150 former service men as they were leaving the lot. Charles Adams, head of the motion picture division of the Central Employ- ment Bureau for Veterans, who had engaged the ex-service men, was in the studio. when the demonstration oc- cul . He said two of three men who hissed the workers were taken from their machine, while a third, a man of advanced age, was unmolested. ‘When he obtained the names of the three men, they admitted, he said, that they were members of Actors’ Equity Association. The former service men took a camera which, they sald, the trio had used to film their departure from the studio and destroyed film in it. Charles R. Miller, resident agent of the association, said he had he nothing about the disturbance. show cause on August 5 why an in- T it g it o from suit was based on the asso- clation’s centention that Marshall had mm t not to work in any with non-members of aulty, R'he suit alleged Marshall entered the ‘Warner Brothers in viola- ' agreement. setvices of tion of the | Poincare as mini ard | March, “Pepe POINCARE CABINET'S RESIGNATION GIVEN Aristide Briand, Retiring For- eign Minister, Expected to Form New Government. __(Continued From First Page.) | tide Briand, former foreign minister, to assume head of the government. If M. Briand should be asked to form a new cabinet he will approach the task with an envied reputation as a master parliamentarian. =~ Many credited his impassioned speech near the end of the | chamber debate on the debt ratification: with pulling the government through at all, the majority being just eight in favor of ratification. He is noted for a felicity of expres- sion, a warmth of feeling, and an in- | finite capacity to sway a crowd. This will be M. Briand’s tenth time as premier &nd his eighteenth post as s minister. ‘He has been with Premier 1 of foreign affairs since the ministry of July, 1926, and re- mained in the reorganized cabinet of last Novemb M. Briand's choice is felt to be so ob- vious that it is expected President Doumergue will summon him late this afternoon and it is likely Briand may present his cabinet list early tomorrow. President Doumergue lost no time in getting to work and within a few min- utes after the cabinet’s resignation had seen several pofltical leaders and sum- moned nearly a score of them for con- ferences during the day. League Circles Pleased. League of Nations circles in Paris view the expected advent of Briand as premier as a great impetus to the further tranquilization of Europe and | of great importance to world disarma- ment at the present time. It is thought that the French will collaborate warmly with any five-power naval accord provided the negotiations are linked with the League and dove- tailed into the general activities of the preparatory disarmament commission As premier M. Briand also would speak with greater authority at the September Assembly of the League con- cerning his new project amalgamating Europe into a sort of federation which, while without a constttucion, would seek union through economic-force and the consolidation of peace. Letter to Cabinet. In his letter to his cabinet' Premier Poincare merely said it was necessary for him to undergo an operation which would disable him for three months at least. Circles close to him said this op- eration was for ulcer of the bladder, less stringent treatment having failed. The resignation came within a_few hours of his success in the French Par- liament in obtaining with a Senate ma- jority of 212 votes ratification of the debt accords with Britain and America. He previously had eked a bare majority for the ratifications from the Chamber of Deputies. ‘The parliamentary victories were not obtained without a tremendous fight on his part, involving speeches of more than 30 hours’ duration before the chamber and its committees prior to opening of debate. It was this strenu- | ous battle which wore him down and a fortnight ego led to his withdrawal from the chamber and confinement to his bed. where his physicians said he was suffering from exhaustion. Awalted Senate Vote. Thursday rumors were current he was in much worse health than was repre- sented and yesterday it was predicted freely he would resign as soon as the Senate voted ratification. He enters his seventieth year August 29. The ministers, in_ seeking Poincare’s continuation as nominal head of the government, made the point that Chan- cellor Mueller of Germany is at present doing just what they asked him to do. Aside from the common conference at The Hague on application of the Young reparations plan there should be no great political activity during the next few months, Poincare had been told, and the work in connection with the ' reparations conference could be handled easily by his colleagues, Henri Cheron, minister of finance, and M. Briand. In the event M. Briand is asked to form a cabinet it was believed he would make an attempt at greater national union than that attained by M. Poin- care in his last government, constituted as of November 11, last year, and would include in it the Radical Socialists, whom M. Poincare excluded. Sketch of Poincare. Once President of France and five times prime minister of its govern- ments, Raymond_Poincare, the uncom- promising little Frenchman from Lor- raine, grew gray and somewhat stooped in the 42 years in the service of his country, and created a place for himself not only paramount in France. but over- shadowing all of Europe. When & boy he wanted to be a poet. His greatest task, probably, was re- construction after the World War. While still President he inaugurated the economies and new fiscal laws which stabilized the franc and began the coun- try’s rapid emergence from the post- war depression. M. Poincare entered French politics in 1887 as a_deputy from the Depart- ment of the Meuse and from that time to this has been almost constantly in public office. He became a cabinet minister at the age of 33, when he ac- cepted the portfolio of minister of edu- cation. The next year he became finance minister, and two years later president of the Chamber of Deputies Elected President in 1913. He became President of the French Republic in 1913, succeeding a short premiership, and until 1920 guided France, most of the time with the as- sistance of Georges Clemenceau, the “Tiger,” his premier. This was the try- ing period of the World War. Firmness of the French President and his govern- ment _did much throughout to render its military effective, until finally victory crowned the achievement. His post-war life was dedicated to two objects, redressment of French finances and making Germany pay for the war. He succeeded well in the former and with his occupation of the Ruhr hjis stand on evacuation of the Rhineland and his insistence on provisions of the reparations settlement has done much to achieve the latter also. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Military Band, bandstand, this evening, at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmer- mann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant leader. March, “The Boomerang”.....Lit Overture, “The Maid of Orleans,” Rawlinson Descriptive fantasia, “A Musical Tour Through Europe”...... cesaed Conradi Excerpts from musical comedy— “Rose Marie” e .. Priml Intermezzo, “Love Valse de Concert, “Op. , “Black Harse Troop Sa ‘The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Army Band, Curtis D. Alway, captain, Infantry, commanding; William J.’ Stannard, band leader; Thomas F. Darcy, second leader, conducting. At the Tuberculosis Hospital, Fourteenth and Upshur streets, this evening at 7 o'clock. Conde” ...Vive Overture, “The Magic Flute,” Mozart hgow dal Cambronero Selection from opera, 1and” ...oeeieieeennis Characteristic, “Juba Dance”.....Dett Pascalle Andaluz, “Boqueron de Plata,” Cambronero “The Star Spangled Banner.” the