Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1929, Page 2

R d 2. NAVAL COT MOVE BY FRANCE LIKELY Briand Acceptance of Cabi- net Task Hailed as Prob- able Impetus. Br (he Associated Prest. Acceptance by Aristides Briand of | the commission to form a French cabinet was hailed in official circles last | night as lkely to furnish an impetus toward negotiations for an interna- tional naval reduction parley. Much credit was given former | Premier Poincare by Washington offi- cials and diplomats for the part he has played in both international and do- mestic French affairs. Some of them noted that Poincare had succesafully concluded virtually all of his efforts to put the internal problems of France on a sound basis and sald the way was open for Briand to devote greater attention to foreign affairs. Equipped for Problem. | Briand, if he succezds in forming a | eabinet, is considered the best equipped ! statesman in Prance to deal with the naval question on behalf of his country after the problem reaches a definite stage. As premier, it was pointed out, he would not be obligated to seek the approval of a superfor upon shaping a foreign policy. as was the case while | he was foreign minister under Poincare. | A firm_supporter of the League of | Nations, Briand is expected to endorse any efforts toward naval reduction | which are made by the naval powers ' in co-operation with the work of the | League of Nations preparatory com- miesion. Probability of Results, | Since the present plans, so far as is known here, contemplate complete co- | operation_ with the preparatory com- mission, Briand would be looked to to | give more support to future naval | fforts than if the question was being | settled outside the machinery of the | League. { Secretary Stimson yesterday in- atructed the American embassy in | Paris to express to former Premier | Poincare his “very deep personal ap- | preciation of ths magnificent effort which M. Poincare made in the debate on the ratification of the Mellon- | fer the eruise, which he finished at Berenger debt agreement. He also - asked that the embassy express his | “great personal regret that the strain | which the premier has thus undergone should undermine his health” and to | resoavr s 15 UNDER SCRUTINY TO EXPEDITE CALL OF ARMS MEETING 4 ¥ . = 2 | Proponents of Cut Believed Ready to Discuss Standard. world voyage, alone, in this 10-ton, (Continued From First Page.) | struggle to rid the farm relief bill oll the debenture feature. Yesterday vir- | tually all of them were in the position | of defying the big Navy group, includ- | ing many of the leading administra- tion Senators. to start any move to force the President to butld five crui- sers & year for the next m;;- years un- | the “yardstick.” which has been pro- est an _international agfeement on i v " neval reduction 1s Actually reached.” | P0°d to world powers by the United It 18 the contention of the big Navy | StAtes as a basis for future naval re- aroup. led by Senator Frederick Hale |duction, will next occupy Prime Minister of Maine. chairman of the Senate com- | MacDonald and Ambassador Dawes in mittee pn haval affairs, and others, & that subh an agreement is a legal pre. | 'NeIF discussions in London. Tequisite to presidential suspension of | The “sardstick™ is & formula whereby work on any of the 15 cruisers author- | the comparative strength of fghting ized to be started in the years 1929, ' units would be reached by & considers- 1930 And 1931. All of the Democratic and Republican | 1100 Of the clements of speed, age, ar- | mor, gun power and other factors in 8enators mentioned have served notice, in ef:e'fl. |h’n:hnnpinIH r]\x!n'z any At- | addition to that of the size of the mpt, to put through legislation direct- V Preslaent o proossd with ths units. Roughly speaking, it would deal vearly quota of five. Senator| With & determination of the value of & Borsh anticipates, however, that such | British cruiser of 6.000 tons, armed 2.move would be the signal for & bitter | with 6-inch guns and built in 1923, in struggle in Congress, and, while | comparison with an American cruiser of obviously in sympathy with the Presi-| 10,000 tons, armed with 8-inch guns dent’s action in matching Britain's sus- | and built in 1928, pension of work on five new naval | vessels. he indicates disagreement with | Gibson. Asked te London. the President’s interpretation of the! Hugh S. Gibson, American Ambas- cruiser bill to authorize him to hold sador to Belgium and head of ihe American delegation to the League of | By the Associated Press. up the entire cruiser program until July 1, 1931, if in his opinion it is in | Nations preparatory disarmament com- the public interest. | mission, first proposed use of the for- _The President’s position as to this, | mula in a speech before the commis- given out Friday at the White House, | sion April 22. Ambassador Gibson, was promptly chalienged by Senator | Hale will_return to London tomorrow for Senator Borah, who was the first to ' further naval conferences with Ambas- g0 to the President's support in this | sador Dawes. After arrival in London, controversy, appears to think the law | Dawes immediately began conferences empowers only one year's delay by the | with the prime minister on the naval President. Two of the five cruisers| question and enlisied the assistance of projected for this year are under con- | Ambassador Gibson. 1In the forthcom- tract with private shipbuilding com- anies and are not affected by the, pected aiso to confer with Prime Min- esident’s order. Those affected were [ ister MacDonald, the functions of the contracts to the Brooklyn, Philadelphia | the factors which will be and Puget Sound Navy Yards, into consideration by Mac- lconlerencu is that which was pointed The general feeling in Washington is out by President Hoover in his state- dent's hand in cruiser construction !sion of construction of thrce cruisers while he is negotiating for international | pending the outcome of the naval dis- three for which the Navy had awarded | yardstick will be discussed. Fight Ts Expected. Donald, Dawes and Gibson in that any attempt to force the Presi-| ment Wednesday announcing suspen- reduction will not succeed. It is ex- | cussions, when he remarked tha GLOBE-GIRDLING VOYA A determination of the functions of | Secretary Stimson announced yesterday, | ing visit, during which Gibson is ex- | their | the | pected, however, that the issue will be | cruiser strength of Great Britain “con- | Taised in the regular session of Congress, beginning in December, and will result | in a spectacular fight, the third in| President Hoover's relations with Con- | aress. | While the fight might be started either by a resolution supporting the | President's action or a resolution to | direct him to proceed with the program. | 1t 18 considered certain to be precipitated | when the naval appropriation bill is reached. For in this bill account must be taken of the work to be done on the cruiser program, for which a limited appropriation of $17,000,000 was in- | cluded for the first year. President Hoover, apparently, is stak- ing his chances on the backing of the American people. The administration has frankly stated that it is trying, in | co-operation with the other powers, to | mobilize public opinion for world peace. Administration leaders express gratifi- | cation that the prass of the country is | sympathetic with the President. They believe that if it Is clear that the Presi- dent has the weight of public senti- ment behind him no move to restrict his Jatitude in the naval negotiations will get far in Congress. Watching Reaction. ‘The President, it was sald, is watch-| ing carefully the reaction to his moves, | is greatly pleased with it to date, and ‘was determined to be guided by it. Con. vinced that he has the backing of pop- ular opinion, he will not hesitate to | have & showdown with the big-Navy| group. Indeed. administration leaders ! balieve that such a showdown it in- evitable if any move is made in Con- gress to force the President to start work on eruisers whose construction he has postponed for psychological effect in adyancement of thé naval reduction negotiations. Once this situation is behind the President, he is likely to be faced by & series of other controversies over his, moves, not the least of them involving the definition of parity. Navy League of America, and the big Navy group, among others, have hailed Britain's agreement to absolute parity between the American and British navies. It was said yesterday at the headquarters of the Navy League, that the “reacceptance” of this principle in the present negotlations is important because it commits the administrations, on both sides of the Atlantic, which are now dealing with the naval reduetion question. To a greater or lesser extent, | it was considered to have been agreed | npon by the two English-speaking nations in previous disarmament con-| ferences. | siderably exceeds” that of the United | States at the present time. Parity Is Problem. Since a policy of equality of naval strength beiween the iwo mnations i been agreed upon, the feeling in official circles is that, some consideration must now be given the question of how equal- ity or parity can be attained. It was pointed out that parity between the two nations, with consideration of their tonnages alone, wouid either necessitate | the further construction of cruisers by | the United States or a considerable decrease in the British fleet. Since the yardstick theory proposes coneideration “also of the eiements of speed, age, guns, etc, the length to which it is to be applied—or & limit on its application—must now be deter- mined. In official circles it was noted yester day that the trip of Ambassador Gibson coincides with the adjournment of Parliament and the prime mintster will thus have more time to discuss the general situation with the American representatives, Since much ground | must necessarily be covered, this latest problem being only one of many which must be considered before any final agreement is reached, it is felt that some time must elapse before anything definite will be announced by either governrhent. In view of the amount of technical detalls which must be discussed in con- nection with the vardstick theory and other matters, any preliminary naval conference which might bs contem- plated by the prime minister, it is be- leved here, would involve tes well as political discussions. The Lon- don discussions 41so involve the passing of full details of the talks to the French, Italian and Japanese govern- ments who are equally interested in any progress which made toward naval reduction. ductfon. Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State, has definied parity as “absolute efiunmy of fighting strength applying to all eategories of si ‘{: The success of the effort to achieve that equality, taking into account the special denfensive needs of different nations, will rest heavily on the yard- stick, it is pointed out. No one realizes it bstter than President Hoover, which is sald to account for his personal ap- plication to the problem while negotia- tions are being carried on between Ambassadors Dawes and _Gibson and Ramsay MacDonald, the British prime minister, to iron out the problems that have been the major sources of friction A controversy over the definition of parity is only one of the complications that appear to lie ahead in the diffic: a) to international naval re- between the. United States and Great ult' Britain in past disarmament con- gdollars every time they fire ferences. d chnical As | THE SUNI ER AND HIS BOAT It, former French tennis star, has completed an around-the- 0-foot sloop, the Firecrest, taking six years « Havre yesterday. MARS DEALT FIVE DEFEATS IN WEEK Naval Suspensions and Army Pruning Plans Big Blows to War God. | | BY DREW PEARSON. Probably at no time in recent his- tory has Mars received 8o many pun- ishing body blows in so short a period of time as during the week just ended. In three consecutive days the cause of peace scored the following major vic- tories: 1. On Monday Secretary of State Stimson recelved notice froms China and Russia that they would- respect the Kellogg pact and would not resort to war in Manchuria. 2.0n Tuesday President Hoover snnounced that commission was appointed A ture and curtail the obsolete branches | of the War Department. 3. On Wednesday the Kellogg-Briand pact for the renunciation of war came into full force in the presence of the envoys of 46 participating nations. 4. On Wednesday Premier Ramsay MacDonald announced that England would cancel the building of two sub- marines and one submarine depot ship, suspend work on two' cruisers and slow down dockyard and other naval con- structicn work. 5. Three hours after this President Hoover announced that work on three | cruisers already contracted for would be_suspended. | ., The suspension of naval bullding and |the plans for pruming Army expendi- | ture eame so closz upon the heels of | | each other, and so soon after the proclamation of the Kellogg pact, that they must have been the result of a prearranged move an idealistic assemblage of words. Five-Power Parley Prospect. Since this concentrated onslaught on the god of war. it has further developed that a five-power naval conference is |in the offing for either late next Winter or the early Spring. While no definite date has yet been set for this, it ap- pears probabie that a formal announce- ment will be made upon the visit of | Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald | when he comes to discuss Anglo-Ameri- can friendship in October. | In addition to the three major naval powers—Great Britain, the Uni States and Japan—the conference will include France and Italy. This is be- cause it is practically impossible to securé & definite_reduction agreement as long as Great Britain faces the frm- |pect of increased submarine bullding by the two countries located along the | line of the British jugular vein, namely the Medeterranean shipping route via Gibralter and Suez to India and Australia. Alihough it has not aroused nearly as much attention as President Hoover's naval moves, his plan for pruning army expenditure may net just as much sav- 1n§. to the taxpayer. 'his i= because the United. States Army, although one of the smallest in | the world—being smaller for instance |than those of Jugoslavia, Poland or Czechoslovakia—actually costs nearly as | much as the United States Navy. The | Navy, on the other hand, 18 supposed to | rank with Great Britain's as the largest {in_the world. ‘The high cost of maintaining the | Army 1s due partly to the large number |of high officers in proportion to enw | listed men, because of the number of ! big guns placed along the Atiantic | Coast. many of which have become ob- | solete. and also because of the number | of =small forts no longer considered to be of military value. To Abolish Small Foris, | One of )h' first things the Army | pruning commission is expected to réc- ommend is the abolition of these small | forts built in the old Indian days. As |far as military value goes, experts say | they might just as well be located on the tops of the Rocky Mountains. How- ever, some difficulty is expected in abol- ishing them, due to the fact that almost every Senator and Representative Nas his pet military establishment for which | he wants increased appropriations. One branch of the Army expected to suffer from Mr. Hoover's plan for mili- tary reduction is the Cavalry. Baby tanks capable of making 60 miles an hour and cross-country cars which can maneuver through any desert now have practically put the Cavalry on the shelf. The Coast Artillery also has been made more or less obsolete by the Air Corps, in the opinion of some military strategists. Big guns along the Atlantic Coast which could once stop & fleet 30 miles at séa hardly will be needed when {an air fieet now can stop the enemy 100 | miles or more from shore. These bi guns, incidentally, cost several thousan (Copyright, 1929.) to prune military expendi- | to prove to the| world the pact amounted to more than | GASTONIA T0 OPEN MILL SLAYING CASE Change of Venue Is Sought by 23 Defendants, Ready for Trial Tomorrow. By (he Astociated Press, GASTONIA, N. C,, July 17.—Twanvy-~ three members of the Natignal Textile | Workers' Union and affiliafed com- | munistic organizations, accused of mur- der and assault to kill in connection with the Loray strikers' tent colony ahooting on June 7, will go on trial at a special term of the ton County Buperior Court here Monday morning. Attorneys for both sides today had completed their plans and the little courtroom, seating not over 200 persons. !had been altered to provide working places for & score or mare of newspaper correspondents, as well as extra court officials. The cases grew out of the fatal wounding of O. P. Aderholt, chief of police of Gastonia, and the wounding of Tom Gilbert, patrolman, and-A. J. Roach, & special policeman. None of the defendants has been indicted and the first act of Oircul Judge M. V. Barnhill of Rocky Mount. specially assigned to the case by Gov. O. Max Gardner, will be to charge the grand jury. The indictments may oe | returned shortly after noon and the | defendants arraigned. Murder Charges, Twelve men and three women are ! held on charges of murder. They are | Fred Erwin Beal, Lawrence, Mass Southern organizer for the National Textile Workers' Union: Vera Buch New York, union organizer; Sophia Mel. | | Pioneers of America, & Communistic or ganization; Amy_Schechter, Interna- tional Workers' Rellef worker; Joseph Harrison, Passaic, N. J., union organ- izer; George Carter, Mizpah, N. J.. union member and camp guard, and the following strikers: Louis McLauglin W. M. McGinnis, K. O. Byers, J. C. Heffner, Robert Allen, Russell Knight N. F. Gibson. K. Y. Hendricks and Delmar Hampton. Those accused of assault with intent ! to kill are J. R. Pittman, Clarence | Townsend, C. M. Lell, Clarence Miller, | | R. Litoff, D. E. McDonald, Waiter Lioyd and Earl Martin. Seek Change of Venue. Although all preparations were made for trial of the cases here, defense counsel today completed preparations for an effort 10 have the cases removed | to another county on & change of | venue. Scores of aMdavita alleging | that feeling in Gastonia was such that ! a fair trial could not be had. were in the, hands of defense attorneys. It | wad planned to make this motion when | the defendants are arraigned. | Judge Barnhill will have before him | three possible courses in connection | | with the change of venue motion. He can grant or refuse the petition or he can call a venire from another county and still try the case in Gaston County. The National Textile Workers' Union has called & Sputh-wide meeting at | Bessemer City, five miles from here, | for tomorrow afternoon. Circulars have | been sent to mills throughout the South | with the request that they name dele- ates to attend. Willlam 7. Foster, who has twice | run for President on the Communist | party ticket, and John Randolph Neal, Knoxville, Tenn., a defense attorney, | {are listed among the speakers. The | elght men accused of assault, who have { I been in Eastern cities heiping raise | {funds for the defense, returned to | Gastonia today. | Cause of Shooting. ‘The shooting which brought about | | the charges against the 23 persons was | a result of a strike of operatives of | the Loray Mill of the Manville-Jenckes | | Co. here. ! The 156 operatives and their families | | were housed in_a tent colony main- | | | tained by the International Workers' ;Rellrf. On the night of June 7, Ader- holt and four policemen went to the place, presumably to investigate a fight ! between two atrikers. During a scuffie | between Georze Carter and one of the i policemen, some one fired a shot. | aral other shots followed, and Chief | Aderholt, Patrolman Gilbert and Spe- | clal Officer Roach fell seriously wound- ed. Aderholt died the next day. |OKLAHOMA'S OLDEST RESIDENT DIES AT 116/ Brief Illness Is Fatal to Irish Na- tive Whose Age Was Proved by Church Records. By the Associated Press. . QUTHRIE, Okla., July 27.—Thoma« Sloan, 116 years old, Oklahoma's oldest | resident, died here tonight. He had been | ill but & few days Sloan, whose age was verified a few | vears ago by a Cathqlic priest who checked up with chuch records in Ire- land, was borf in Mourn Shore, County Down, Ireland, December 25, 1812, He came to the United States with his parents in 1826 on a sailing vessel. In his youth Sloan was a sailor, He was too old for service in the Civil War, and became a superintendent of bridg: construction for the Northern Pacific Railway, playing & major part in push- ing that line into the wild frontiers of the West. He came to this State when it was opened for settlement about 40 year &go. ART DEVOTEE DEAD. Frederick Gottlieb, 76, Expires Aboard Liner Bergensfjord at Sea. BALTIMORE, July 27 (#).—A radio- gram received tonight by the Baltimore 8un announced the death at sea of Frederick Gottlieb, 76, widely known amateur musician and devotee of art. The message, sighed by his wife, was sent from the steamer Bergensfjord, which sailed July 20 from New York for Bergen and Oslo. Mrs. Gottlieb sald that she would return with the body on the Mauretania, sailing from South- ampton Friday. SEVEN DIE IN MILWAUKEE, July 27 tfl.—&veni deaths, one from heat prostration, the others by drowning, occurred in Wise consin in the two-day heat wave which reached its peak here today. Two other persons were overcome by heat. The season’s record temperature here was reached today with the mercury at 92 degrees. Other points in the State reported even higher readings. HEAT WAVE.! HARRY LANGDON WEDS. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., July 27 (#). Harry Langdon, motion picture comee dian, and Mrs. Helen Walton of Toledo, Ohlo, were married here tonight. Heat Overcomes 3 Firemen. NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 27 (#).— Three firemeén were overcome by heat Jate today, fighting a fire which swept one wooden elevator and & 25-bin stor- age room of the Nashville Warehouse and Elevator Co., causing damage whica may reach 000, according to une official estimates. of the fire_ had not been determined. Thou- sands of bushelt of grain were burned. Five railroad ears with grain were burned and the $150,000 concrete clevator was damaged. {Armed Guard | before 9 a.m. tomorro BROMLEY TESTS PLANE FOR TOKIO FLIGHT Lieut. Harold Bromley (right) is preparing his newly designed City of Tacoma for a eity to Tokio. At left crowds are shown inspecting the plane at the Tacoma field. BROMLEY PLANS 10 START TODAY Is Put Over| Tent of Flyer Who Will Try to Cross Pacific. By the Associated Press. TACOMA, WASH., July 27.—Lieut. Harold Bromley returned to Takoma | Pleld, from where he will start on an attempted fiight to Tokio, Japan, and after ordering that his ship be moved to | the southwest end of the runway for fueling, went to bed tonight in a Na- tional Guard tent that had been espe- cially prepared for him. A double armed guard was placed over the tent. | C. W. Paxson, motor expert, who has pronounced Bromley's plane, the City of Tacoma, in perfect shape, declared that “Bromley will take off in the morning, if he hasn't a cross wind.” | Bromley was so heavily guarded he could not be reached. but tne flyer let it be known through his guard that he was ready to go At a_moments notice. | He previously had announced his take- off officially for dawn Monday. o Shortly after arrival of Bromley at the airport and A conference beivecn him ana airport officials and techni- cians, the guard around the City of Tacoma was doubled. All spectators were ordered back beyond a line 100 feet from the plane. | At the same time automobiles were ordered out of the main Airport in- closure, which leads directly to the run- way. The plane was fueled except for “topping.” t “top” of 100 gal- | lons or more of gasoline, which vill fiii the tanks to the brim, will be poured in Just before the hop. Bromley sald he asked only assur- ances of fair weather condlitions cn the first stage of his long flizht. After reaching Dutch Harbor, Alasia, on his northward swing over the great cncle route, he said his fuel losa would be lightened enough so that his fast piane could cope with any storm condicions encountered. | AIR TOUR'S ROUTE Transcontinental Non-stop Record Holder Will Be Referee in Annual Derby. By the Associated Press. ROOSEVELT FIELD. N. Y —Capt. Frank M. Hawks, hol transcontinental non-stop fiying record for both directions, will leave Roosevelt Field at 5:30 a.m. tomorrow on a three- week pathfinding tour of the United States in preparation for the national Air_tour to be held in October. Capt. Hawks, who will be referee of the tour, will sfop in Detroit to pick 1 Capt. Ray Collins, manager of the air tour, who will accompany him on the trip. They will visit airports all over | the country. Capt. Hawks expects to be in Detroit st i FURTHER STEP SEEN FOR NAVAL SLASHES 'British Observers Expect Much From Monday Meeting of @ibson and Dawes. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 27.—British pelitical observers, gratified with the improve- ment in Anglo-American relations during the past week, tonight looked forward hopefully to further advance in solution of the paramount interna- tional problem of naval disarmament. The rising of parliament will enable Premier Ramsey MacDonald to give as much time as he has promised to fur- ther negotiations with the United States. United States Ambassador Hugh 8. Gibson, one of teh- most valued agents of President Hoover in these discussions, is again coming from his post at Brussels to renew his confer- ences with Ambassador Charles G. Dawes. ‘Well informed persons believe these two Americans with the British pre- mier should record sanother forward step in the negotiations during the coming week, not yet ceased praising President Hoover and Premier MacDonald for their an- nouncements of curtailment of the current -naval construction. ‘There arée many who optimistically echo the words of a political writer who | Fr: sald, “When Mr. Hoover sald ‘drastic reduction’ and meant it, he began the work and democratic Britain is Hand in hand with the American blic to carry it out DISABLED VETERANS GO ON OUTING TODAY More than 1,000 veterans from Mount Alto, St. Elizabeth's, Walter Reed and the Naval Hospital will be taken on their annual outing today at the estate of the late Rear Admiral Rixey in Virginia. The veterans will be transported in automobiles loaned.for the occasion. Among those whd placed cars at thelr dispcsal were Mrs. Hoover and Oommis- sioner Dougherty. Music will be fur- nished by the Overseas Drum and Bugle the Veterans of Poreign Wars prize-winning tion. Senior Vice Comdr, John J. Allen will be in cuzz f the outing, with Comdr. John L. and Harry J. Hooley in charge of the program arrangements. The British press has | DAY SiAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JULY 28.;1929—PART 1 , flight from that Washington | —Assoeiated Press Photo. “MADAME LA PRESIDENTE" GLAD HER HUSBAND HAS RESIGNED Poincare’s Wif pect of Rest Companion. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 27.—One of Raymond | Poincare's staunchest admirers today i | | delighted he is no longer premier of | | France. 8he is his wife. Probably in her feminine heart she is secretly sorry for France because, con- trary to the old sayl Raymond Poin- care is & hero to his wife as well as to the best of France. enriette Poincare is just as pleased to retire to private life and enjoy peace and quiet, caring for her sick states- man husband, as any other loving help- mate would be. She is quitting official life. according to her intimate friends. with the same gladness in her heart that Mrs. Grace Coolidge must have felt when she turned over the keys to Mrs. Hoover., Few people realize what strenuous job this first lady of Prance had. As wife of the president of the ecouncil she is entitled for life to be addressed “Mme. La Presidente.” Because President Doumergue is unmarried. H:; I 8 o'clock each morning and ended her tasks late at night. She and her premier husband _entertained many people. and the difficulty of maintain- | ing the premier’s position on a slender income fell to her lot. For months past close friends of the Poincares have known they were spending their per- sonal savings on official life, so small BRIAND IS CALLED BY FRANCE TO PICK NEW PARIS CABINET _(Continued From First Page.) _ ter of resignation, which was presented to the President of the Republic. “Our attempt to persuade M. Poin- care 1o continue to direct the country’s affairs has not had the result for which we hoped. We. are forced to accept his decition, with regret at not being able to continue collaboration with him. We request you to Accept our resignation, and expressions of our pro- found respect.” Immediately afterward President Doumergue, according to French pro- cedure, began to receive visits from the various party leaders with a view to de- | termining who should be charged with | the mission of forming & new govern- ment. The secretary or president of | almost every political group made & pilgrimage to the Elysee Palace during the late morning and afternoon. As had been expected. mearly every one of these party chisilains insisted that Aristide Briand was the sole pos- sibility. If it had not been so before, the foreign minister's masterly speech in the Senate yesterday, in which he | | covered the whole field of his country's | foreign policy, would have made this | inevitable. Having thus heard this al- most unanimous demand for M. Briand, | President Doumergue summoned the foreign minister to the Elysée Palace and received his consent to head a new | government. There is an impression among acute observers here that if the change had to come, it might as well come now. M. Poincare, it is pointed out, has done his great work in rebuilding the coun- try’s economic structure and in lending his immense prestige to the task of ratification of the debt accords. The great task ahead is one of solving & | group of intersrelated problems wilich | bave to do with the future peace of Europe, and pcrhaps M. Briand. in temperament, outlook and experience, is that task than M. Poincare. Resignation Hinted Earlier. In fact, in the view of some, M. Poincare had looked forward to resign- ing in any case before the inter-gov- ernmental conference in order not be known in hisf as the man who had withdrawn the French troops from the Rhineland five years before the end of the maximum period stated in the Ver- saille treaty. M. Briand’s point of view is different. In his speech in the Senate yesterday he showed himeelf nearly in harmony with the views on foreign policy of the Radical Socialists, and even not far distant from the position of the So- | cialists themselves, M. Briand holds to the bellef trat Germany will not accept the Young plan without being assured of evacua- tion of the Rhineland, and he plans to evacuate it if for no other reason than to bring Germany to agree to the repa: rations project of the Young commis- of experts. While he did riot make a clear-cut statement on the subject, the foreign minister indicatéd that he hoped for a ‘anco-German entente which would gnve the way to his dream of A United tates of lur#e. ‘There 1s no ques- tion but that M. Briand will find him- self in closer accord than would M. Poincare with both the Labor govern- ment of Great Brittain and 8o~ clalist regime of Germany. Two Greups Join on Issue. ‘The Radical lists at & D ses- slon tonight & resolution to .the effect that they would rrudmu in the government on condition that such government abide by the Laic and democratic principles for which the party stands. party leaders tealize that Briand needs mem;'::':lflm:m &re tl_l;'{ ll;e.diln a strong ba fon. The - cal Socialists participated in a Poin- care government formed three years ago, withdrawing only last November after they had clashed with the premier over the church issue. ‘The Radical Socialists and Radicals together have 21 members in the Cham- ber, while the Marin groups & 101, Briand realizes that as & result 8 com- bination of factors has to be faced with e Is Delighted With Pros-! | better suited to represent France in for Her Il 1 1s the French Government's allowance to_its cabinet chief. The funny old automoblie which the | premier rented on the $80 a month pro- | vided for the piirpose by the govern- ! ment, is one of the most eccentric ve- | hicles in the capital. “We don't use it because we like it, but because it is all | we can afford,” Mme. Poincare told | friends. | Her hardest job. however, was pro- | | viding proper working atmosphere for | the man who accomplished some of the | | most prodigious thinking In modern | times in solving the problems of France's post-war finances. She never lost her belief in his ability to accom- | plish the gigantic tasks set him. | Unofficially, Mme. Poincare is little known to the French public. They know Raymond Poincare is her gecond | husband and that she was borni Henrlette Benucci and that is practi- cally all. | Nobody knows. except perhaps her husband. whether Henriette Poincare would like to vote. When an operation has been per-: formed on the ex-premier and he is | able to travel, it 1is supposed by friends, that M. Poincare and Mmr.l Poincare. traveling as simple citizens | of France. will go to their country property at Sampigny on the Meuse, where the veteran statesman can re-| cover his health and enjoy the out-| doors during his convalescence. | difmculties in taking the Radical Social- | ists in tow. | In the first place it iz taken for| granted- that this powerful group will | demand the portfolio of ministry of in-| terior, which is now heid by Andre Tar- ' dieu, portant power in regard to electionc, ! __ | and with the balloting for Senators| scheduled to take place in the Fall f] Radical Socialists desire to gain what | advantages may come from having one of their number fill this prize position. | Briand cannot afford fo let Tardieu g0 into the opposition, so will probably | have to provide him with another berth of prestige equal to that he now occu- | ples. ‘There I8 certain fo be anogther com- ! plicaticn in eonnection with the post of | minister of war. The Radical Socoialist Gesire to hold this post to earry out their program of armament reduction. the | discontinuation of plans for strengthen- | ing the Eastern fortifications and re- | duced military service. Deladier Has Ambitions. Edouard Deladier, the most power- | tul chieftain of the group. once was minister of war, and personally has am- | bitions in that direction again. Should | Briand name Deladier to the it he | would be faced with the ticklish ques- | tion of what to do with the powerful Paul Painleve, who now is minister of war. ‘There is yet another complication. | Edouard Herriot. one-time premier and | minister of public instruction in the | Poincare government of July, 1926, is a Radical Socialist of action not on the | best terms with Deladier, If Briand took Deladier, he could nbt leave Her- riot out without dangerously alienating | the former premier's affections. This difficulty is still more serfous, for Her- | riot 1% ‘used to important posts and could not be persuaded to take & lesser post in the cabinet now being formed. {He it known to be eager 1o be taken for the portfolio of foreign affairs. but that 1s out of the question, for Briand is known as planning to bs foreign minister as well As premie: But the cabinet maker will have no less trouble getting the right wing out of the cabinet than getting the left wing in. M. Maginot, the present minister of colonies and the principal representa- tive of right wing in the government just resigned, it definitely opposed to evacuation of the Rhineland. There is some thought that Briand may replace Maginot by Paul Reynaud, who is also of the right wing, but is sympathetic in the movement to evacuate the occu- pled areas. These are some of the difficulties with which Briand will be faced in the next 72 hours: If the projected shift to the left should fail, it is conceivable to maintain & government much the same that which resigned this morming. rliament probably will not be con- | vened before Thursday to take cogni- | 2ance of Briand's handiwork. (Copyright, 1920.) CROSS PARLEY ENDS. | i \RED Geneva Conference Is Completed ! ‘With Revising of Pact. GENEVA, July 27 (/.—A Red Cross conference which has been sitting here sinee beginning of the month to | revise the Geneva Red Cross conven- tion, concluded its labors today with the signing of & revised convention by the delegates of 32 countries as well as a_convention to jmprove the eondition of prisoners of war. ¢ signatory states included. the United States, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, the gg:‘nlnlun Republic, Mexico 8, Till’: ’ionvenuom Temain open for signature till February, 1930, and after that for adhesions. TWO WOMEN KILLED. | American and Sister Die in Berlin Auto Crash. BERLIN, July 27 (#).—Tw%o American women were fatally injured in an auto- mobile accident on the outskirts of the cl?lul today. Mrs. Caroline Eustac wife of Henry ¢ of Minnesota, courier of the American embassy, died from lhocllfid her sister, Miss Alma Sawyer, died In a hospital shortly after the accident, ! ‘The minister of interior has im- | & | 000. IHOOVER. PRAISES FRENCHDEBTPAC Wipes Out War Period Obli- gations, Says President in Statement, By the Aseoristed Prase President Hoover in expressing grati- | fication yesterday that Prance had rati- fied the Mellon-Berenger debt agres- ment, told the American le that “this settlement in effect l'll:;eoolnnm the entire indebtedness of France whic arose during the war period, and simpiy provides for the payment of advaners to France sfter the armistice. "I think in fairness to the American lmp)e 1.am justified in mentioning the liberality of the settlement,” the Presi- dent seid, adding that the French deb; fo the United Statez on June 15, 1925, was $4,230,000.000 and that on a 5 per cent basis, which the French obliga- tions bear the present value of the p: rmn::'t,l in 1‘2“.‘1”’&’“'59"“" AR concluded subsequent! 1681,+ 200508 q! ly is $1,681 The President said the advances to France after the armistice aggregated with accrued interest $1,655,000,000, and continued: “While some of the after-armistice advances were made for the liquidation of obligations incurred in this country by the French government during the war, considerable advances during the war period itself were for permanent improvements. for shipping, for the meeting of obligations to private cred- itors incurred prior to the entrance of the United Btates into the war, and advances to the Bank of France for credit and exchange purposes.” Measure of Sacrifice. Mr. Hoover said he was “giving these facts so that in recognition P )rr:n- orabl® way in which France has acted fo meet its obligations. they will nn- derstand that our people, too. feel that this settlement involves a measure of sacrifice on their part.” Secretary Mellon, who headed the commission which concluded the agree- ment, in a statement jssued simultane- ously with that of the President, said gew e’r}’fi?"; rlntmr’-nlan would “prove a actor in “nmm}s iaclociiin promoting general resident’s statement, iss 3 the White House upon his nun‘::gm:f jion from his camp in Virginia, fol- “I am very much gratified to le that France has ratified the urnm:;’:. providing for the settlement of the debt of the French republic to the United Siates, thus disposing, in so far As lies within her power, of one more of the great financial problems left over by the World War. = With the high sense of honer and financial responsi- bility that has alwavs characterized the actions of the French people. it was Alwaye certain that to the full axtent of their ability they would meet. their Obligations. The definite settlement. of the amounts fo be paid in complete diccharge of this deot is & cause for mutual satisfaction. removing as it Goes a question that has occasioned llluc_‘_.l‘l_l EVI“Y]D\‘CI’I_V and debate. “The settlement calls for pavment: of $35,000,000 in the fiscal yg:rn;e;;d‘. a::fluall,\;"n'sfinz over a period of 11 Years uni ey reach a maxi $125,000.000 annual i Liberality of Settiement. “I think in fairness to the American people I am justified n mentioning the liberality of the seitlement. The total debt of the French republic to the United States as of June 13, 1925, Was approximately $4.230.000,000. On - which is_the rate y the obligations given by the French Government the present value of the payments provided for by the Mellon-Berenger agreement i8 $1.682,000,000, or, in other words, a reduction of approximately 61 per cent of the total indebtedness. This settle- ment in effect_wipes out the entire in- debtedness of Prance which arose dur- ing the war period and simply provides for the payment of advances to France after the armistice. which aggregate, including accrued interest. $1,655,000.« While some of the after-armistice Advances were made for the liquidation of obligations incurred in this eountry by the French Government during the war, considerable advances during the war period itself were for permanent improvements; for shipping; for the meeting of obligations to private credi- tors incurred prior to the éntrance of the United States into the war, and ad- vances to the Bank of France for credit and exchange purposes. “1 am giving these facts so that in recognition of the honorable way in which France has acted to meet fts ob- ligations, they will understand that cur people, too, feel that this settiement volves a measure of sacrifice on ir part. There is every reason to hope and believe that such an agreement, based as it is on mutual sacrifice and consid- eration, cannot but promoie A better understanding between these two great nations and serve further to cement a friendship that has lasted for a cen- tury and a half.” Sacrifices Both Ways. Secretary Mellon said that the agree- ment involved some sacrifice on the part of both Prance and the United Statec The amount agreed upon, he said, was determined without taking into concid- eration any payments from repararions or other such outside sources, and the remarkeble financial and economic covery of France “is convincing evi- dence that great hardship will not be imposed upon France In meeting the payments to America." “In so far as this country is con- cerned,” Mr. Mellon continued. “it brings to a successful conclusion the task intrusted to the World War Debt Commission to negotiate settlements with the various nations for the debts incurred during and after the war. Agreements have been reached with Great Britain, Finland, Hungary. Lithu- Ania, Poland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Estonia, Italy, Jugosivata, Ru- mania, QGreece and France, bringing the total amount which has been fund- ed to date to $11,554,651,000. “All these netions are punctually meeting their engagements, and the payments as they are received are be- ing applied on the debt owed by this QGovernment to its bondholders.” VIRGINIA VETERAN SLAIN, CONFESSION IS REPORTED |Officers 8ay Youth Gave Details of Quarrel Which Resulted in Use of Shotgun. Ry the Associated Press. LOUIS. VA.. July 27.—Robert Me- Donald, 23, wast said by officers today to have confessed to killing John Rcss Marshall, 39, World War veteran, at the latter's home near here, on July 9, and then setting 0 the house con- taining Marshall's body. McDonald waived preliminary he: . and B pr ry hearing this after. According to the alleged confession, the killing followed a quarrel, Mc- Donald said he fired the fatal shot with Marshall's shotgun. The charred remains of Marshall were found in the ruins of the home the following day. $278,069,689 Cuba's Year's Exports HAVANA, July 27 (#).—A depart- ment of commerce report today showed that exports for the past year were ;;;‘:e’ld ”-:“uahm,m. nffl Ll;lll amount ,720,860 was sugar and the remain- der in fruits and vegetables. Last year $1.441,000,000 was spent on drink in England, being A reduction of $563.000,000 from the previous 12 months,