Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1929, Page 2

CHINESE REPORTE SEEKING ARFLEET State Department's Export Approval Alone Holding Up Military.Project. My the Associated Press. SHANGHAI August 24, from “the State “Department of the! tary-type airplanes, ft was learned to- | day; 4swall-that 4x holding up formation of a military air fleet in Nationalist Chinr described as *the most extensive | THE STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C, AUGUST 25 1929—-PART- Y. IRUSSIA'S CONFIDENCE SWELLS WITH ADVANCE IN SOCIALISM | i by Belief in Greater Strength ¥ AM RUFUS SCOTT, (A Recent Visitor to Russia.) What gave Soviet Russ! a the assurance to swing the big stick so menacingly ~Permission | At China in the dispute over the Manchurian railroad? Why has the Soviet Government been so independent in the negotiations to United States for the export of miili- i re-establish official relations with England, now under a Labor regime? How is the attack on the Americzn mediation efforts In the railroad dis- When did the Soviet Government pute by the Moscow press to be appraised? veach the declsion to welcome foreign milg’gry';v)mon project yet undertaken ; tournsts to Russia whom formerly they had barred or admitted sparingly? in the | These are only four outstanding questions prompted by an unmistakably stern Hemisphéve.” .. i It was “Uhdefstood that “the Com- | merce Department at Washington had | beeh ,asked to help obtain approval of fact that $1,250.000 would be spent im- ! mediately with ~American aircrait | manufacturers. | : Chang in’ Charge. i aj. Chang Wei Chang American trained aviator who has led in deveiop ing: flying in China, has been named minister of aviation to direct the pro- gram of the Nationalist government. \ He declared today that the initial | ase of 62 airplanes would bé only | the' first step of a two-year program | pus ed “to give China & military air for¢e worthy.of consideration.” Last Sunday it was announced that the' Canton government was planning to ‘purchase 100 airplanes presumably to develop the already flourishing com- mercial airlines in Kwangtung Province. It was learned today that while Can- ton; was supplying some of the funds most of the money was to come from Nanking and the airplanes were to be the property of the Nationalist gov- ernment. 1 ‘War Specifications. Specifications for all planes called for, machine gun mounts, bomb racks, cameras and other war equipment, al- though it was said that the planes ld be capable of commercial usage. It was learned that the first 50 air- planes purchased would be of two American types both suited to bombing ‘work, while later orders would be placed for lighter planes better suited to ob- servation and pursuit. The American agency in Canton which is conducting the negotiations with the government sald today: “Eve ing waits on the American State Department granting the manu- facturers permission to sell the planes to China. ‘The arms embargo has been lifted, authorizing such sales. However, the American manufacturers are not seli- ing such equipment without specific ap- proval from the State Department. It was understood that the State Depart- ment was awaiting assurance from the Chinese Minister at Washington that | the National government desires the CAPT. TURNER SPEEDS ON TO LOS ANGELES Record-Seeking Flyer Refuels Plane at Albuguerque in Dash Across Continent. Br the Associated P : ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex.. August 24.—Capt. Roscoe r, attempting to establish & new fecord time ‘o1 a New York-Los Angeles:flight, stopped here at 5:45 p.m. (M: S. . refue.ed and left at 6 o'clock this ernooa fer Los Angeles, His was at Tulsa, Okls. <% s Made Licuteriant Colonel. ! RENO, Nev., Auguit 24 (P). —Roscoe | Turner, now flying ftom New York to California in an sttempt to set a new transcontinental rece 1s no longer » captain. He is a Heutenant colonel and he probably does-not know it yet. He was appointed a lieutenant colonel on the staff of Gov. Frcd B. Balzar of | Nevada by the governor this inorning | in recognition of his flight : cross the | continent a few davs ago. SR AMBULANCE IS PRESSED | INTO TAXICAB SERVICE | * Aids Woman to Catch Train After | She Is Slightly Hurt in | Auto Crash. Miss Mary Todd of the Conard Apartments, Thirteenth and I streets, | started for Union Station in a taxicab shortly before midnight last night and | finished the trip in an ambulance, little the worse for a collision with another automobile en route. Miss Todd suffered cuts on the right arm and a scratched lip when the taxi- | cab was struck broadside on Pifth at I| street by a touring car driven by Allen ; F. Solt, 22, of 931. New York avenue. ‘The fire rescue squad and an Emerg- ency Hospital ambulance arrived and | Mise Todd was given first’ ald and taken to Union Station where she | boarded a train. Thomas A. Graves, 27, of 1006 T street, the driver of the taxicab, told police he was driving south on Fifth | street. when the other car swerved to- ‘ward him. Solt's explanation was that he was watching another machine that had made a left turn into Fifth street from I street and did not see the cal i Both were taken to the 8ixth precinct station and relased after questioning. | BEAUTY PREPARATIONS CONTAINING POISON | | ARE FOUND-IN PROBE ' 7 (Continued From Mirst Page.) ever before,” Dr. Wynneésaid. _“The increase is- due in part ito the fact that women who look young cah ob- tain better positions than thoss who are old in appearance. - However, 1 su] the chief reason' for the use of these preparations is,the anclent. one containea in womans vanity.”. Beanty Parlors Checked, “Beauty parlors using electric lamps Sunb ty. treatmient work 5 this ding. i mn (L\lnwln‘ the in- , the beauty industry had on a higher level and the T ucts. right, 1929.) FOUR AUTOISTS DROWN. - Missouri Car Containing Nine Per- sons Goes Over River Bank. | strength has grown up a vigorous mna- previous refueling | new note and vigor in Russian foreign policy, and the answer to all four is identical after a visit to Russia, namely, Soviet Russian now believes that it the; State Department in view of the has passed the worst phase of the socialistic experiment and feels sufficiently strong to relax from the stern standoffiishness of the first decade of Communism. Along with this bellef of greater tionalism. In spite of every effort of oviet leaders to maintain the interna- | ional viewpoint, Russia of today is more and more concerned with purely Rus- sian objectives, which is a natiopalistic impulse. This factor was important in deciding the stand of Russia on the | Manchurian issue, | To attempt an answer to the first question, the assurance shown in the | | clash with China is based on a firm { conviction among Soviet officials that | China was the aggressor In selzing the | railroad and arresting or ousting Ru: 1an officials and employes thereof. Al ne in Moscow and other Russian cities and in the rural section, in July, when | the ultimatum was sent to China to | restore the railroad to its former status ! had_unquestionable evidence that the | people generally backed up the Soviet | officials 1n their demands to China. Provocations Cited. | The people as well as officials be- lieved that Russia had been more than patient in the face of repeated Chinese provocations, such as the raiding of |the Russian embassy and consulates from 1927 down to May of this year. | No other nation, they declared, had | submitted without retaliation to such a | series of offenses in violation of the in- | ternational custom giving immunity to | | diplomatic and consular offices. | "Of course the nations outside have | another viewpoint on Russian activities | in China in the way of communist | propaganda. but within Russia the con- viction is as stated, that Russia has been humiliated repeatedly, and since it is upon the convictions of the Rus- sian people that the Soviet Government { is acting. their side is outlined to & { rive at an explanation of the new policy. | Moreover, both officials and people in | Russia have unbounded faith in the | prowess of the Red army. It is believed | to be better equipped with the most { modern fighting equipment than the | Chinese forces and to be ready to make | & better showing than the czarist armies ever made. Yet it was just as clearly evident that the bulk of the people did not want war if it could be | avoided without “loss of face” to Rus- sian prestige. ! The 12 years since the Red revol | tion of 1917 have been years of in- | credible suffert; Prior to that were nearly three vears of participation in the World War, so that all adult Rus- sians today have had more than the usuai fill of hardship, famine. death, mutilation and other concomitants of war. There was no demand for war for the sake of war in Russia after the railroad dispute arose, but a grim deter- mination was manifested to shoulder = whatever consequenees might come from-| holding on to the Russian interest in | the Manchurian line. $ | Advance Made in Recent Years. { On the economic side the assurance | of Russia has increased notably in the | last two years. The American visitor | cannot see this if he undertakes to measure Russia by American standards. By such measurement Russia today pre- sents an undesirable picture. But Rus- sia must be measured by Russian stand- ards, namely, is Russia better off now than it was a year or several years ago? | The reply by that test is aMrmative, and the visitor has his tmpression con- firmed by reports made by Americans who are permanent residents in Russia. Officials did not disguise the fact that a costly war would give Russia a serious setback just as they believe the nation is getting on its feet. Consequently war was not wanted for that reason. Never- theless, the Russian half interest in the | Manchurian railroad, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and the prestige | of Russia in the Far East were declared to be so imporiAnt as to force the Soviet ' government te act drastically. | As for the second question, concern- | ing resumption of diplomatic relations ' with England, it will be recalled that the negotiations were broken off in London after Premier MacDonald laid down the | prerequisite that Russia must give guar- antees that no propaganda hostile to the British empire would be permitted | by the Soviet government. ' ‘The Russian negotiator left London, as he was not instructed to give such | assurance in advance of actual recogni- | tion. The Moscow contention was that | and talk details afterward. Premier| MacDonald preferred the reverse proc- | ess. For the outside observer, however, | the significant fact was the willingness of Russia to drop negotiations, “for the | present,” as it was officially stated, thereby giving the impression that Rus- | | sia was not_begging for recognition, and even that Russia did not consider it a | pressing problem. A few years ago Russia did give the impression of being | exceedingly eager for recognition. | Trade Grows Despite Rupture. ‘The explanation offered for this new | attitude was that Soviet Russia now | feels able to stand without recognition. Trade is going on in spite of the rup- ture of diplomatic relations, and is growing. The new nationalistic pride of Russia is getting to the point where it does not cool its heels outside the foreign offices of other nations, humbly'| petitioning for recognition, aceording to this interpretation. The same sense of strength behind the - gesture toward China was operating here. . ‘When the violent attack upon Ameri- { can diplomatic moves in the dispute be- tween Russia and China, made in the Moscow press on August 6, is considered, the former and some other motives ap- parently were operstive. This attack, quite significantly, -did not come until after the preliminary negotiations be- tween Russia and China at the Siberian border “broke down. The “plot” in . Washington about which the Moscow i | siont held at the Department of State | with the. envoys of England, France, any, Japan and Italy, the obvious purpose of which was to find an equit- able adjustment of the dispute—equit- .able to Russia, nq less than to China, it will be taken for granted. | “The Moscow press said this confer- lanning to take over the rai that finally it would work out “into & decided advancement of American interests in Manchuris, While not making any formal reply to this :h :' it was indicated in Wi at & situation has rested there, 5o far as an- | with Russia in the rallroad crisis. | thin .preas complained bitterly was a discus- | distorted view of the confetence | was taken by the Moscow press, and the | nounced moves are concerned. It was stated above that the attack by press came after it ap- peared that Russia and China woul not get together in the preliminary ne- gotiations. One explanation of the out- burst therefore, is that it was a maneu- ver to force disclosure of all detalls of the Washington conference. Russia has no envoy here while China has, An- ather explanation is that Russia there- by served notice ! back;” that to say, agreements among any powers in which Russia wa: not represented, had not been consuited | or had not consented to. Realizes Its Own Vitality. Beyond all such speculations how- | ever, is the essential factor stressed at | the outset of this article, that Soviet Russia has reached a feeling of its own vitality that causes it to take a firm, a belligerant, stand, United States, which it has been culti- vating so_assiduously in the hope of getting official recognition and finan- cial assistance in its economic program. The official and popular feeling in Moscow before this attack had been particularly friendly to the United States, for in July it was noted by the | Russians (at least, they so interproted events) that editorial opinion in Ameri- ca seemed in the main to aympmmf t was the first lime American newspaper opinion had seemed so favorable and there was elation in Russia. When negotiations with China broke down the Soviet leaders seemed to be- lieve that Russia was isolated in spite of this one favorable factor and so the Russian press increased its efforts, by cartoons and in news columns and edi- torials, to convince the people tha | Russia’ was the sole socialist nation in the world, surrounded by powerful cap- italist nations ready and eager to pounce upon and destroy the first workers' re- public. China was pictured as having been won over to the capitalist side and as being in fact a mere cals paw | in a vast capitalist “plot” to deprive Russia of its Manchurian rights. Most of this propaganda within Rus- sia may be attributed to the usual gov- | ernmental effort to stimulate and solidi~ fy public opinion. In China the gov- ernment was just as active in setting forth the justice of its cause and arous- | ing Chinese nationalistic emotion. Both Russia and China, but China especially. have been seeking to convince world opinion that each was the victim, and the other the aggressor. Competent judges of Russia here and in Russia itself do not expect any last- ing_resentment in Russia toward the United States when have passed because the sincerity of any efforts the United States may have made to adjust the dispute is not questioned. Nevertheless this does not gainsay the central fact that Russia today is & more decisive factor in inter- national politics than has been the actuality hitherto, ‘Wants Financial Benefits. As for the fourth question, the open- ing of Russian doors to tourist travel, it is attributable to the same underly- | ing conviction in Russia that the n tion can stand such scrutiny by for- eigners and Russia in addition wants the financial benefits of tourisis such as France have reaped from the American in- vasion. There are limitations of hotel and other accommodations in Russia which will prevent a large influx of tourists. | but regulations at the border for those who are admitted have been gimplified and relaxed to approximately ofher Eu- ropean border conditions. Even cam- eras are used freely now by tourists, the Russians seeming to feel that every- ready has been so photographed and written up that tourists carnot find anything new, especially detri- mental to the soviet regime. After all, Russians are human. As the memory of past wrongs and hard- ships fades out and as economic re- covery progresses giving somewhat easier living condition a relaxation from the severe system of the earlier soviet years is inevitable, though this does not mean relaxation from social- istic doctrines within Russia, as far as observation in 1929 could detect. The testimony of Americans living in Rus- sla, as well as observation, was that a tightening up of socialistic ideas ha: occurred this year. It is in the atti- tude toward foreign visitors and in the government’s foreign policy, tHat the relaxation is apparent, and the vigor- ous new note struck. Greek Vessel on Fire. VENICE, Italy. August 24 (#).—The Greek vessel Captain Stathis, from Danzig with a cargo of 7,800 tons of ‘While firemen fought the blaze for hours, longshoremen worked frantically to unload the cargo. After hours of struggle the fire was still out of control. and the ship, with smoke pouring from it on all sides, was towed out of the harbor, where it had become a menace to other shipping. ‘The number of retail shops, propor- tionally greater than in most countries, is becoming a problem in the Nether- lands. DISTRICT RIFLE TEAM OFF FOR MATCHES toward the | this crisis shall | and other European nations | DEMOCRATS PLAN B TARFF FIHT Shaping Program to Br-aden Attack—Filibuster Is Feared by Republicans. By the Associated Press. Increasing signs of a spirited contest in the Senate .over the party-old issue of tariff were apparent at the Capitol yesterday as Democrats revealed plans to broaden the attack to bs made agatnst the bill as revised by Republican members of the finance committee, The minority disclosed it intended to direct its drive against not only many proposed higher levies, but also against scores of existing rates which it regards as unduly high and in need of revision downward. To Work Out Plans. I Amendments will be prepared on vir- tually every industrial item in the meas- ure. Details of these and other phases of the Democratic program will worked out next week at daily meetings of the eight Democrats on the finance committee. From the Republican camp word also went out during the day that the tariff | would be kept constantly before the Senate until disposed of, with no other business allowed to displace it. i In addition, from high Republican counclls there was issued a warning that should a filibuster develop, en- dangering passage of the proposed legis- Iation at the special session or early in the regular session, a move would | bz made to defer action on the tariff for_another year. Under no circumstances, it was said would the Republicans countenance any effort to postpone action far intc the regular session beginning in December | or until the time of the Spring primary campaign for the next congressional elections. Attributing this warning to Senator Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader, Senator Harrison, Democrat. Mississippi, sald the move was not surprising. “This administration and those who have brought forth this tariff iniquity.” he saild, “are beginning to feel the | aroused indignation of the American people. “They have retreated step by step and now are only looking for some excuse to exiricate themselves from the position they e taken.” Instead of a fillbuster, Harrison sald there “is going to be orderly, reasonable debate.” The Democrats, he added. would “not_be bludgeoned by coercion | or threats from a full and frank ais- cussion of every item and a record | vote on the various increases in pres- ent dutles and on amendments that | will be oftered upon the floor.” “That is what the country wants, and that Is what the Democratic minority will demand.” he asserted. adding that the measure was indefensible. that the Republican leadership was beginning to see this, and that “Leader Watson's move is the first step in the retreat.” Brief Explanation. Chairman Smoot sald yesterday hat as one time saver he would not make an extensive speech in explanation of the bill at the opening of debate. but | would confine his remarks fo a brief | explanation of proposed changes as | each revised pa aph was reached. He sald he formslly would introduce the bill September 4 and ask that con- | | sideration begin the following day. The Senate probably will recess on the first meeting day out of respect to Senator | Tyson, Democrat, Tennessee, who fllfid' early yesterday. Smoot said he “hoped” the bill would be passed at the special session. but would not make a definite prediction that this would be done. SPONSOR AIRPLANE EXHIBIT IN CAPITAL Project Under Auspices of Uni- versal Aeronautic Association Will Be Held Sept. 21-29. ‘The National Capital will have its first aeronautical exhibition during the week of September 2129 in the Washington Auditorium. The exhibition is under the auspices of the Universal Aeronautic Association of Chicago, and is under the direction | of Willlam J. Dwyer of this city. Vari- ous Government officials of aeronautics have promised to aid in the exhibit. A gold-inscribed invitation will be presented to President Hoover com- | memorating the event. More than 100 manufacturers are making contracts for their exhibits. | These will include everything from the | | largest airplanes to the smallest acces- | sory used in their construction. Aviators | and student aviators from many nearby Engiand should recognize Russia first| Silesian coal, caught fire today in port.| cities are planning to attend. | = vy ! | Takes Up Vibrations. | | The united States Navy has recently | come into possession of a device which | | 1s said to effectually prevent all vibra- | tion in the engines. The inventor is | a Brooklyn man, who is a graduate of the Cooper Union and Brooklyn Poly-| technic Institute. The device, so far, has been adapted to the Diesel engine, | | although it is also available for recipro- | cating engines. | terly telling how “she died on us.” | flares to tell the world of their plight. | Rhineland. Ordinarily when the Presi- ! mergue is coming to Paris. SAVED CREW TELLS HOW VESSEL SANK Quimistan’s Company Says Boat “Laid Down and Died on Us.” | By the Associated Press. laconic, came back to port today, sur- | vivors of the last voyag> of the old freighter Quimistan. A spray-bitten crew of many nation- alitles, they set out from Norfolk ' August 14 to take the rusty‘old banana | boat to the boneyard in Genoa. They | never got her there. i De:p down in Davey Jones' locker | rolls the Quimistan's creaking carcass, and her crew, rescued after 62 hours in | the lifeboats, came into port on the Dollar Liner President Harrison, bit- Like “One-Hoss Shay.” | In a glassy sea 1,000 miles off the Virginia Capes the Quimistan started to go to pleces under them—somewhat, according to their description, aftel manner of the deacon's cel:brated ! “one-hoss shay.” They tried to urge | her on, but she was all through. Since she had no radio, they sent up | Then they burned their mattresses, but no_help came. So they packed their muffle bags, took along a phonograph and all the | food they could carry and climbed into | the open boats. ! ‘The old ship, presumably fired by the burning mattresses, went on her blaz- ing way to her doom, sighted once by a passing ship but unfound by Coast Guard vessels who put out to sink her. | Investigations Planned. Investigutions have been started to determine how th: Quimistan haj pened 1o give up that way on her last | voyage. The German consulate has announced it will start one on Mon- day. United States Attorney Charles | H. Tuttle also has indicated that he is | interested. “A plate dropped out and the water came in," said Capt. George Pietsch. who as a German naval officer had several boats sunk under him during the war. “A rust spot gave way” sald the second mate, Nils Jorgensen. “Sh» was rusted so thin I could poke my hand through.” “She laid down and died on us,” saild the crew. And— “Just snother shipwreck,” added an American member of the crew, Cook | Harry Anderson of Portland, Oreg. Passed Inspection. Capt. Pletsch said the ship had been passed by the Lloyd inspectors at Nor- folk just before her departure. The Richard Nathan Co., American agents for the owners. in a statement today asserted the Quimistan was sea- worthy when she started out. They denled reports that she was in such bad shape that a captain and crew who brought her from New Orleans to Norfolk deserted. “The facts are that Capt. Theodore Wiesa, who came on from Germany to take the Quimistan to Genoa, was offered another job on his arrival in New York.” the statement sald. “We released him. but before he left he supervised the final repairs to the Quimistan in dry dock at New Orlean: and brought her around to Norfolk.” BRIAND GOING TO PARIS FOR CABINET MEETING Premier Changes Plans Twice and Will Be in Capital Tomorrow Morning. By Radio to The Star. PARIS, August 24.—Changing his arrangements for the second time with- in 48 hours, Premier Briand, it was re- vealed here tonight, plans to arrive in Paris for an extraordinary cabinet meeting now scheduled for 9 o'clock Monday morning. The premier hopes to be able to return to the seat of the reparations conference on the North Star express, which leaves the Gare du Nord at 11. Thus his stay in the capi- tal will at the most be limited to & few | hours. There is much speculation here as| to the purpose of his visit, but the view generally held is that Premier Briand desires to sound out the cabinet before making further concessions at The Hague, Young plan or the evacuation of the dent of a republic is at Ramboutllet, his Summer home, cabinet meetings are held there, but the time is so limited that on this occasion President Dou- Earlier in the week a cabinet meet- ing was scheduled for Sunday morning, but yesterday it was revealed that Pre. mier Braind had changed his plans and-expected to return to Paris Tues- day for the cabinet meeting which had been postponed until Wednesd: It was not until late tonight that a statement was given out to the effect that the premier for the second time had changed his arrangements and would be here Monday morning. (Copyright. 1929.) A fae———y Most of the road construction in the | Dominican Republic in recent years has been financed by loans made in the United States. | complaint s against either in the matter of the | 51 AGAINST: 21 43 FAVOR F STREET PARKING BAN:| NOT RECOP.DED Survey ] of 131 Business Establishments Between Eighth and Fifteenth Streets Shows Divided Sentiment. A prohibition against automobile parking on P street between Eighth and Fifteenth streets—the very heart of Washington's business district—is favored unqualifiedly by 48 of the 131 merchants whose establishments front on that NEW YORK. August 24.—Twenty- | Jmportant thoroughfare, according to an impartial survey completed yesterday six salty sailormen, grim. grizzied and by arepresentative of The Star. Fifty-one opposed the ban. The canvas was made as & direct result of the proposed regulation of ENGLAND WL GET NEW DEBT TERMS Four Nations.Preparing Offer in Writing at Request of Snowden. By the Associated Press. THE HAGUE, August 324.—Repre- | sentatives of France, Italy, Belgium and Japan worked tonight on the draft of | Traffic Director Willlam H. Harland to eliminate parking on the south side of : a new offer en division of reparations F street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, a move regarded in traffic | payments which it was hoped would be circles as the first step toward the gradual elimination of all parked cars in r.-tblncwry to the British. the congested' business area. There are precisely 131 business establishments on F street from Eighth :crnu the British share of Ge, The proprietors of 110 were interviewed and | nuities between 36,000,000 m: to Pifteenth streets .inclusive. would be objectionable. The remain- ing 21 could not be located after re- peated calls. | Showing of Survey. Succinctly, the survey showed, aside | from the fact that 48 favor a prohibi- | tion against parking, and 51 opposed, 5 are not concerned what is done wi equal number are non-commital, and one approves parking only for motor- | ists who come to F street on & mission | of business. | ‘The F street merchants, the inter-| views showed conclusively, have an in- tense interest in the parking situation | and are vitally concerned with the va- | rious suggestions for relief. Their chief | the “cruising” | taxicab and the lack of enforcement of the existing parking restrictions, blamed by a majonty of them for ths con- | | gested conditions and the lack of avail- | able parking space for customers. | As the division indicates, there are | two diametrically opposed schools of thought among the P street business men. Those who favor the elimination of parking are confident that it will come eventually anyhow. The n- ents feel just as strongly that a prohi- bition against parking will be injurious to business—that it will drive prospec- tive customers to some other section where parking may be done with im- | punity. Beveral amusing incidents were de- veloped by the survey. In one case & merchant reyealed he had kept a sys- tematic check on a car that parked regularly in front of his establishment and learned upon investigation at the | office of the superintendent of licenses | that it belonged to another business man on the same block, who admitted he did not leave the car in front of his | own place of business because he want- ed the space for his customers. The survey likewise brought to light | a number of ideas that have matured in the minds of the merchants for | solving the present parking problem. One advocated a reduction in the park- from an hour to 30 minutes. however, was & plan of sub- nz which would require the on of the streets and the con- struction of parking stalls below the surface.. The merchant wio advocated this scheme was of the opinion that the District could receive enough in rental fees to defray the expense of sucn a project. Besides interviewinz the business men a check was made by The Star's representative on the approximate amount of parking space available on F street between Eighth and Fifteenth streets, and his estimate was 225 ma- chines of average size. There would be space for several aundred more save for the regulations forbidding parking | at shipping entrances, street car load- ing platforms and within 10 feet of | fire hydrants. In other words, the pres- ent area in which parking is prohibited between Eighth and Fifteenth streets | is equal in size to nine blocks equiva- leent to the one between Eleventh and ‘Twelfth streets, or slightly less than six blocks of the size of the block be- | tween Twelfth and Thirteenth sireets. | In terms of cars, the space now | closed to parking represents about 35| per cent of the total curb area. A ban in one block alone, that from Thir-| teenth to Fourteenth streets, on both space available for 34 cars, whereas an extension of the no-parking zone from | Thirteenth to Twelfth streets would shut out 27 more machines. Twelve | cars can park without crowding be- and 16 on she adjacent block from Eleventh to Tenth. From Tenth to, count there showing there is space for 47 vehicles. In the stretch from Ninth to Seventh streets. however, the space | will permit the parking of only 25 cars. Of the 13 blocks surveyed, counting one side as a block, 6 went for no, parking, ¥ for parking, 2 were evenly divided and the remaining block was evenly divided with the odd merchant expressing his belief that there should | be no parking except for the customers | of the merchant in front of whose place | the vehicle was stopped. Of the 7/ blocks included between Eighth to | Fifteenth, it was found the total showed | 4 for no parking while 3 were for parking. ‘ From Eleventh to Fifteenth, both sides of the street showed a total| majority for no parking of slightly: less than 2 to 1, although the south side | of one block was evenly divided. lh!\ vote being 40 for no parking, 1 for no parking except for customers, 24 for | parking, while 3 said they did not care | which method was selected. The two blocks from Eleventh to Thirteenth gave no parking a 2';-to-1 lead, the| count showing 20 for no parking with 8 for parking and 2 others neutral. 4 From Eighth to Ninth streets not a | vote was cast for no parking. and from | Ninth to Tenth parking again ran up a big majority, the vote for parking being 17, while but 6 evidenced their belief in the value of no parking. The combined vote on both sides of F from ‘Tenth to Eleventh also showed parking to be in the lead with a 2-to-1 ma- jority, aithough the north side of this block was evenly divided. The north side of the block from Fourteenth to Fifteenth was evenly divided also, but | the tie was broken for one side or the other by the merchant who voted for parking for customers of the particular store facing the parking space, but for no one else. Voting is Close. There were 30 lines represented in | the occupations surveyed, and of these I 13 were for no parking, 12 for parking, 3 evenly divided and no opinions were | obtained from 5. Between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets on the soutn side, where it is now recommended that there be no parking, the vote was ex- ceptionally close. Six were recorded as in agreement with the director of traf- fic, 5 expressed themselves as preferring a continuation of the existing arrange- ment and 1 indicated a complete lack of concern in the matter. From Tenth to Fourteenth street there was a general complaint about | the tion on the street which, it was sald, was caused by cruising taxis. ‘Time and again The Star representative was taken to the door and forced to see what was pointed out as this phase of toe problem. There was likewise a very general complaint that the present park- ing law was not being enforced as it should be. Numerous merchants insisted that at the present time there was in effect no king for their custol because, Bey claimed, "vas during the street was occupled enough to prevent the issuance of tick- ets, and ue:ll ‘merchants pointed out : to heit to The Star representative cars which they claimed had been standing in one place the greater part of the day. There were numerous tions that the time for parking be cu instend of the nressnt an heur asked specifically whether a prohibition against parking along that l!f!mh;';fi’i hour rule, and there was a general | insistence ' that, whatever be decided upon, it should be enforced rigidly. This was especially true among those who voted for a eontinuation of the parking privilege. There was among ihem a rather generally expressed be- lef that present conditions were far | ke- Tespect to the parking problem, an ‘Irom satisfactory. but they were like. convinced that, with strict en- forcement, sufficient space would be de- veloped 7 that customers would be able to find a place to leave their cars long enough to transact their busi- ness. PHYSIEIANS STUDY DIAGNOSTIC CLINIC PROJECT FOR D. C., (Continued From First Page) _ ment to meet the prelimenary costs and the physicians interested would not consider starting on a shoe-string, but would require a good location, plenty of room, and the best up-to-date equip- ment. They expect the support of all the general practitioners in Washington for whom they would render a service and at the same time leave them their patients. : No Place for Ordinary Patient. Two classes of persons. physicians interested in the chinic point out, now | can have their ills diagnosed in the light of the most recent findings in all fields of medicine. These are the very rich, who can pay as many specialists as are necessary whatever fees are asked without embsrassment, and the very poor who can obtain free service at variqus hospitals. But there is no place in between for the ordinary man or woman, too proud to accept charity with all the loss of self-respect that goes with it and to0 poor to pay the long list of specialists necessary to obtain a full diagnosis. It is to serve these that the present clinic is pro- | posed. At present there is no institution in the country organized exactly in this way. The nearest approaches are such in- stitutions s that maintained by the Mayo brothers and that at Johns Hop- kins University. The former is a rivate enterprise. It does a great deal of charity work and fixes its bills | according to the ability of the patient to pay. At the same time it does not pretend to be other than a business ors ganization, paying & fair return. Be. sides it would not usually be consulted at the time when accurate diagnosis is most needed, with the first symp- toms. ‘The Johns Hopkins clinic does excel- | lent work. but has the drawback of being at#ached to a hospital and edu- cational institution. At present it is the recourse of many Washingtonians. Its fee is low, known in advance, and not contingent on the difficulty of the | case. But it could not attend to the numerous cases requiring the diagnostic services of a group of specialists. It is heavily endowed, and hence cannot sides, it was estimated, would wipe out be taken as a model for the much-} needed city clinics. In working out their preliminary plans, the group of physicians inter- ested in the project have carefully avoided any suggestion of a tie-up institution. They wish to make it a thoroughly civic enterprise, adminis- It would be open to ail persons. The patient availing himself of its services would not be acceptin® charity, or placing himself on exhibit. No city has anything of ‘the kind at present— and the result: is that thousands of persons are not receiving any benefit by the great progress of medical science. Not Open to Rich. ‘Washington has a number of private diagnostic clinics, competently ad- ministered and with some of the coun- try's foremost s alists on their staffs. They trqat two kinds of pa- tlents, those who can pay and those who nnot. the former, for the services of the pro- posed diagnostic clinic would not be available to the well-to-do. The others they now treat as a duty enjoined by | medical ethics and give them just as good service as they give the million- aire—but they would be relieved of this necessity nnder the new plan. The National Capital, it is pointed out, is the proper place for such a clinic to be organized as a model for the rest of the country. Here are lo- cated some of the world's foremost specialists, who have signified that they would be glad to co-operate because of their interest in the proposal and their sense of the medical man's duty to the public. In addition, this city has unexcelled medical laboratories and lbraries. It is expected that such a clinic would bring to Washingten de- serving patients from all this part of the country because of these facilities. ‘The physicians have agreed among themselves as to the need of the clinic, but hitherto they have had no means of ascertaining the reaction of the gen- eral public, especially the large army of moderately paid workers here, who would be the chief beneficiaries. They would appreciate any comments on the proposal, which may be addressed to | them through The Evening Star. Function Illustrated. * The function of such a clinic was illustrated by one physician today as follows: “A few hours ago I had a girl come Int’? my office complaining of a head- ache. “My first examination showed that her blood pressure was below normal. That was all that I could find wrong with her, and I diagnosed the case on this evidence. I gave her some medi- cine, which probably will relieve the headache, and if my diagnosis was cor- “But 't know ti my diagnosis was correct. She may be back again in a few days, and the only proper procedure will be to send her 10 & 3) . _There may be some underlying condition which will worse. obody knows what it might cost_her to find out the actual cause of this girl's headache. Such a - lem would be solved instantly if we had mfi:wl‘p institution as pro- posed clinic. Thetg‘hyflclln‘l u::‘umneld are consid- ering POS ly from an Sruistic. viewpoint and o ot desire to have their names come before the wb—l lic until such time as they have some indication as to whether the cligic would be welcomed and whether need is such as to justify undertaking the necessary financial arrangements. PSP hinery and raw materials were ) fea of the exposition held at Fonanhme. (hina . aawie tor S Som—— They would still keep | | The offer being drafted would in- an an- s (about 200) and 38,000,000 marks (about ,051,600). Chancellor of the Ex- chequer Philip Snowden had demanded 148,000,000 marks, or about $2,382,000 i more than the .offer now in making. Expect Acceptance. If the British chancellor is satisfied with the estimated yield of this offer, | as he has not been with previous esti- | mates by the other creditors, and has no objection to the sources from which the sum is made up, it was thought that :,‘:,5 ‘:\'ould accept compromise on that By shaking up the almost expiring conference today Mr. Snowden o stirred its blood as to give it new life. The chancellor in a leiter to Premier Henrl Jaspar of Belgium said he had | had enough verbal proposals and that the time was come to put on paper whatever the other creditors had to { offer, and to do it at once. He asked for a reply this evening, but |it ‘was readily apaprent that the writ- i ten proposals could scarcely be com- pleted before tomorrow morning. Adjourn to Tomorrow. ‘The representatives charged with drawing up the offer to the British worked until 11 p.m. before adjourning until tomorrow. The British chancellor t6ok occasion in his letter to repudiate any thought | that_the British were encouraging or | abetting a move to induce the Germans | to contribute to the offers to Britain by | increasing the unconditional portion of | the annuities. Mr. Snowden had al- { ready made ciear that he would not ac- { cept for Britain sacrifices by the smaller llies and ne now revealed determina- | tion not to accept further sacrifice by | Germany. | Up to France and Italy. ‘The British theory is that the other creditor powers obtained in the Young plan undue advantages from which the British suffered. Mr. Snowden wants | those powers. notably France and Italy. 1o put things right by abandoning 6 Britain what he claims they took away in the Paris conference of experts. An immediate consequence of the in- tervention by the chancellor was post- ponement until next week of a meeting of the six powers that organized the conference, which had been set for this afternoon. The chancellor suggested that it was useless for them to meet again until the creditor powers had put on paper what they proposed to offer. MacDONALD IS SILENT. Declares Situation at The Hague “Too Vague” for Comment. LONDON. August 24 (P.—Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald found many cares of state awaiting his atten- tion when he arrived here tonight by air from Lossiemouth, Scotland. He sald that he considered the situation at the reparations conference at The ' Hague “too vague’ for him to make any comment. He did, however, immediately sum- mon his cabinet to a meeting tomorrow to consider what action was necessary in view of the serious religious riots in Jerusalem. He consulted several lead- ers of the government tonight, who re- ?.r::‘ to him ll;u dBr'msn troops ard ps were already o vay T y on the way to _‘The premier disclaimed any special significance for his hasty retnrn from vacation. “As for going to the United :S tes.” he said, “I am as much in the | dark about that as you are for the time | being. It will depend on many things, including The Hague conference and tween Eleventh and Twelfth streets, | with any local hospital or eduutlonll‘l’""lmcmlf." busines: Premier MacDonald, who had ex- | pected to make a direct flight from. Ninth, there is a decided increase, the tered by the medical profession itself. | Scotland to London, was forced to make | two unscheduled landings en route to- ;dl_}"hbeca‘usf of poor visibility. e plane unexpectedly appeared at the Cramlington Airdrome abgut lunch time and put off again after a short halt. Encountering bad visibility again |:':t|:|:|eedflclm"é of Durham, the pilot 0 Cramlington, wher i pr;mler had lunch. . e veteran pilot was then assigied to act as pathfinder in anothcr plaga and the two machines set off for Tondon, I:v‘:;’l:: 'thz premier was cxpected thig PARIS BLAMES SNOWDEN. "Prru There Heaps Blame on British | Chancellor. | BY RALPH W. BARNES. | By Cable to The Star. PARIS. August 24.—Rejection vester- day at The Hague by Philip Snowden, British chancellor of the exchequer. of | the most recent offers of the four other | powers which are creditors of the Ger- mans, has brought out & new outburst in the French press against the chancel~ lor of the exchequer and all his works, _Perhaps the most bitter denumcia- tion appears under the name of Leon Bailey in L'Intransigeant. Bailey offers his tirade with the question “In the last analysis, what does Mr. Snowden want?"—and the response—‘He wants everything.” He then continues: “The obstinacy of the chancellor in saying na to all our propositions would appear at first to be the work of a wretched bungler.” Without doubt it is, on the contrary, nothing other than a series of steps toward the achievement of the Machiavelltan plan of an exasperated nationalism. Mr. Snowden and his party Wwish a Great Britain dominant over all —over undivided Europe. What does Mr. Snowden wish? He wishes to de- stroy all that which is not Great Britain. He believes then, that the “B'l;::::el;‘tpeopéth is |lble to found s 'y and happiness u of other peonbs,"p P poRietis iy Temps Menacing. The semi-official Temps itself returns g;‘ :rw ';‘::.t;mf pt,(rme. h-'nrni.nu Chancellor at French patience was exhlnlulled. = e “It would be dangerous to continue. says the Temps, “to demand too much of the patience, of the desire for con= ciliation, of the will toward under-. standing of ‘the French people, It would be dangerous not to understand that the extreme limit of complaisance. and condescension had been attained. Let everything be done to avold a rupture, but there is something more dangerous than rupture itself. That is, the total abdication of Europe before the policy of money, of prestige, and of the ultimatum that the Labor minister’ has practiced at The Hague, with so much calculated violence.” Atmosphere Poisoned. The Temps then concludes with t! lament, “cne thing is' certatip. {4t it is found possible to avoid the di-. (Tect consequences which wouyld result from a rupture at The Hague, even if an ‘accord in principle is finally reached, the impression which will remain from mfl vhc:.u mmfitlotnbg ntm'nle Hague perhaps_ n_the atmosphere of Europe for n‘pl‘:m’ time to come.” ~ (Copyright. 1929.) ‘The largest Chinatown of the Western Gontingat . Havana, Cuba.. Mora