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LS FAOVER ISARNS 436 NAVY” GROUP His Denunciation of Sheargr! H 14 as “Propagandist” Regard- ed as Effective Strategy. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. I President Hoover has taken advantage | of a development in the fight beiween n;""blx Navy” group and the admin- 1sfration to disarm his opponents. since the talk of a_reduction | in’drmament between the United States and Great Britain began to be taken seriously by the two_ governments, the naval group in the United States has been, quietly gathering strength to break | down “the' movement. It has been one ' of the most vexalious phases of public t;':ouz:y with which Mr. Hoover has had | “@eal. His suspension of cru’ser build- ing was attacked as beyond the law, and ‘while there was no way to prove that h interests in shipbuilding were | of the opposition it was felt here pary. fig% ‘the organized attack on the Presi- dent’s ‘policy was not by any means accidental. A t Propagandists who are fighting the naVal policy of the administration are not the kind who can very well come out’in the open, so the administration «dd¥s not see the actors behind the scene, though it knows fully the effect of their ‘work. _ Adopts Coolidge Raules. ! Under the rules laid down by Presi- | dent Coolidge and which are heartily | concurred in by President. Hoover mem- bers of the executive branch of the Gevernment are forbidden to oppose upprogrhunns or budget figures settled upon by the Chief Executive or cabinet | officers. This, however, does not en- tirely silence Army or Navy officers who manage to get their views privately before members of Congress or who are summoned to appear before congres- sional committe¢ and then are com-. pelled to testify. ‘When they. get on the witness stand they often reveal opposition to the ad- ministration from the viewpoint of mil- itary or naval experts. This, in itself, is not challenged as improper, but it is a fact that, members of Congress are constantly given ammunition to support i the views of big Navy advocates in Con- gress, and much of this ammunition it 1s believed comes from Army and Navy officers, 5 While it is not always the case, never-, theless, in many instances, the big Navy advocates in Congress come from States where large shipyards are lo- cated or where raw material needed in shipbuilding are manufactured. Most members of Congress have always felt an obligation to flotect their constitu- | ents, whether it on naval construc- tion or on tariff duty. This adminis- tration, on the other hand, takes the view that a world at peace means a stimulated commerce and a better mar- ket both for shipbuilding and raw ma- terials if the threat of competitive | Feared President Would Go to Extremes to Push U. S. Trade. MacDonald’s Projected Visit Is Token of New Attitude Toward America. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. How Great Britain has completely revised its estimate of Herbert Hoover and thus made possible the Anglo- American naval agreement now ap- proaching final negotiation is discloceu by Edward Price Bell, world representa- tive of the Chicago Daily News. This seasoned dean of American foreign correspondents is now in Washington. He 1s the man who receives chief eredit for originating the idea of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald’s visit to the United States and persuading the Labor leader to take it under favorable consideration, Mr. Bell is exploring Washington’s attitude toward the naval situation, following his recent inquiries into London’s views earlier in the Sum- mer. At the beginning of 1929, and vir- tually from the time of his election, Mr. Hoover was looked upon in Great Britain—Mr. Bell says in a special in- terview with this writer—as the incar- nation of American economic aggres- siveness. The British people knew of Hoover’s achievement in building up the Department of Commerce and ex- panding the United States foreign trade. They were filled with a con- viction that no sooner would Hoover become President than he would lzunch a flerce, world-wide drive for Yankee business—a drive of which John Bull, still reeling under the loss of his own world trade through the Great War, was persuaded he would be the chief victim. Especially, according to Mr. Bell, the British doubted the friendli- ness of President Hoover toward them. They had heard a good deal about the ‘pro-British” inclinations attributed to him by venomous political enemies like “Jim” Reed. They wondered if he might not be impelled to go to ex- tremes to live down that fictitious repu- tation. v All Fear Vanishes. “All this miasma of fear and anxiety about Mr. Hoover has vanished,” Mr. Bell declares. “The Britich have aban- doned the theory that he is markedly nationalistic, with a conspicuous bias against themselves. Gone is the alarm that he would pursue fresh American conquests in the commercial sphere and be all for America—ruthlessly for Amer- ica. Several things promptly happened to reverse British expectations. First. President Hoover's inaugural 5S. was an international revelation of the happiest sort. It was not at all .ultra- nationalistic. It rang with the note of world fellowship. It was an utterance armament is eliminated and war clouds ! worthy of our people, worthy of their are dissipated. Borah Makes Disclosure. ‘The President’s denunciation of Wil- | liam B. Shearer as a naval propagan- | dist came after Scnator Bor: had | called the matter to the atention of | the Senate naval affairs committee. It 1s not expected that any serious resuit will come from the incident, because Mr. Shearer has always been an advo- | cate of a big Navy and a technical | expert, 1f he was employed by Amer- | | ican shipbuilding companies to go to Geneva or if he rendered service to was for breaking the evil spell of exces- [heen one of the gravest liabilities of | the elbowed fairway. He was still sixty hearts, a credit to their minds. Next, a campaign of enlightenment about Presi- dent Hoover and the feelings of the | American people swept Great Britain It filled the press. It affected all classes. Its reaction was recorded in | the newspapers of the entire world. Finally, Ambassador Gibson expoundad | the real President Hoover in telling words at Geneva, and the good work | did British leader. Stanley Baldwin. | yphill The President was seen to | It is common ground among the first | was done. be not narrow, not selfish, not econos ically blind. He had nothing b friendship for the British. peoples. He | THE SUNDAY STAR, BRITAIN'S REVISED ESTIMATE OF HOOVER IMPROVES RELATIONS | EDWARD PRICE BELL. tween the men of highest responsibility and greatest authority in London and ‘Washington, - respectively, there is no British-American question which can- not be settled, and settled right. More- over, the naval question as -now fo- cused—the question of combat equality or approximate equality—is far from the only question outstanding between Britain and America. - Fix parity and tonnage how we like, the great, the crucial question remains: ‘How - are these navies to be used in the event of aggressive war in scorn of the Briand- Kellogg pact—such a war as neither Britain nor America ever will start? Until we have a clear understanding on this head British-American relations are a long way from where they ought be.” wmunmn was called to the confusion existing both in the United States and Great Britain as to the real prospects of & naval record. M. Bell was invited to say whether he believes when all's sald and done, reason to expect that Premier Mac-. Donald and President Hoover will get together on terms mutually satisfactory to both countries. Both Desire Reduction. “1 think so.” he said, “because both | these men, who, of course, are stron men, really desire to reduce naval arm- ! aments to-as low a point.as is consist- ent, first, with the mutual security of Britain and America, and, second, with the security of English-speaking civili- zation—a thing which must be de- fended, if at all, upon the sea. The second of these objects, indeed, is in- cluded in the first, for if Britain is navally prepared for self-defense, and America is in a like position, their democratic systems cannot be attacked with success. assuming, to be sure, that eny such attack would meet a com- oined opposition.” Laté cables from don having suggested that Mr. Mac- Donald’s visit has vanished into the 'm of the wholly indefinite, Mr. Bell was urged, from his close knowledge | was trapped and exploded to the oppo- of the British vremier's thoughts on the subject, to discuss them. “No one can say just now.” he de- clared, “wh-ther it is certain Mr. Mac- Donald will come to Washington or third straight hole and virtually settles I know only that he wants to | the not. come— that, to speak frankly, he is eager to come. as was that other splen- public men of England that non-inter- course of the faca-to-face kind between Britich and American statesmen has Geneva and Lon- | there is substantial | 9 1 | | | JOHNSTON LIFTS AMATEUR CROWN St. Paul Sharpshoote: Dec- feats Dr. Willing in Golf Finals, 4-3. (Continued From First Page.) “Jimmg” really began his uphill fight to | victory, scattering cheers ecl as Willing’s second shot trickled over the | edge of the green into a trap, from which it took the doctor 2 to get out. Again at the eighteenth, the partisan spirits in the gallery groaned as Wil- ' ! ling's approach shot, apparently headed for a trap, just cleared the hazard and madethe green. It was on this hole that Johnsion made the most magnifl- | cent recovery shot of the entire match. ' He had just cut Willing’s lead from three to one hole by taking the sixteenth | and seventheenth in succession, but it lcoked dublous when “Jimmy” pulled his brassie over the bank and down to the of the ocean. The surf lapped around his ankles as he took his stance, but he clouted the ball to within six yards of the green, hi‘m short of a trap, from where he chipped dead to the in for the par 5 that gave him a gl.lf. Willing requiring two putts to get down. Johnston Missed Putts. Had Johnston been able to sink at least a half dozen short putts .anging from four to eight feet, he would have won the match long before the thirty- third. “Jimmy" was nervous and wild at the start, finding traps. woods or rough on six of the first nine holes He steadled down after that, got his| irons and wood under control, but re- peatedly lost chances to win by falling on putts that looked ridiculously easy Fortunately for the St. Paul star, his opponent was having similar trouble Otherwise they might have battled to ark. On both the fourteenth and fifteenth holes in the morning, after beautiful pitch shots, Johnston missed short putts by inches, for wins. Both finished the first round in even 80, eight over par, to show the extent of their poor scor- ing, but Johnston redeemed an erratic outward 43 by coming back in 37, only ne over par. In fact, “Jimmy" played the last eight holes of the first round in even par. -Willing was out in 41, baek in 39. ‘They started shakily again in the afternoon, both taking shots out of traps on the nineteenth to reach the green, but Johnston got down in 5 to win the hgle and square the match ‘Thus encouraged. Johnston took com- mand of the situation for the first time. He began to hit his shots with more confidence, boldness and accuracy. He missed a 5-foot putt for a win on the twenty-first, but took the lead on the twenty-second for the first time when Willing three-putted. “Jimmy” planked his tee shot to the 160-yard twenty- third hole, 10 feet from the cup. and won the hole with a 3 after Willingi site of the green. Johnston Gets “Break.” Alded by a “break” Johnston won hh} match, on the long 5oz-ynr§1 twenty-fourth, which bends around the cliff at the ocean’s edge and finishes| Going for the green with his sec-; ond shot, using & spoon, Johnston half topped the ball and it barely carried over the cove that cuts part way into WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER ¥, 1929—PART 1. REPUBLICAN LEADERS HERE Dr. Hubert Work, retiring chaiymzn of the Republican national committee, and his successor, Claudius H. Huston eve of the national commitiee meeting. HUSTON TO DIRECT POLICIES OF G. 0. P. THROUGHOUT SOUTH (Contirucd From First Page.) too, and Glen B. Skipper, the nationzl committeeman, may have something to say. The inclination of the members of the committee, however, is to have these matters relating to party affairs in the Southern States gone into and handled by Mr. Huston. It is likely he will be given a free hand to try to untangle the difficulties in Florida and Georgia before the committee it- self takes action in them. President Hoover is expected to en- tertain the members of the national committee who have already arrived in Washington at dinner at the White House tomorrow. A number of them were luncheon guests of the President yesterday. Dr. Work, Mr. Franklin Fort of New Jersey, secretary of the committee, and several of the committeemen were guests of Dr. Work at the Metropolitan Club at luncheon ‘The national committcemen who have reached Washington are unani- mous in their declaration that the first six months of the new administration have placed Mr. Hoover firmly in the good graces of the people. This report is brought to the Capital from every section of the country. Dr. Work, who became chairman of the Republican national committee fol- Huston, | of Tennessee, pose for a picture on the —Associated Press Photo. Georgia Patronage Honor Is Seught by Commiltee Woman Mrs. George Williams | Secks Conference With New Chairman. | By the Associated Press. Mrs. George Williams, Republican national committee woman for Georgia, yesterday sought to arrange for a con- | ference with the new chairman of the committee directly after his election on | Monday, in order to lay before him a demand for participation in patronage reform {n her State. Making her request on the ground that, since there is no committee man from Georgia, she is “the highest Re- publican official in the State,” the Wil- ltams women said she had been prom- | fsed that her recommendations regard- | ing patronage distribution under Presi- | dent Hoover’s eommittee would be con- sidered, but thet thus far they have been “utterly disregarded.” | “I believe in purirication of patronage practices in ‘the State,” she sald, “but desire to participate in the new pro- | gram, as the ranking Republican offi- | cial, Georgia Republicans have no lowing the nomination of President | representative in Congress, and it would Hoover at Kansas City last year and | seem just that I should be consulted managed the presidential campaign | in the distribution of patronage.” culminating in the election of Mr.| *“I have faith in Fresident Hoover Hoover, is leaving office with the narty It is true that there are matters to be ironed out in some of the Eouthern States. But that is nothing new. Generally speaking, the G. O. P. is in condition for the con- gressional campaign which is to come next year. The swing bick of the pendulum, however, may be expected. It invariably comes after an upheaval such as that of last year, when four States of the Democratic “Solid South” crashed into the Hoover column and many congressional seats were lost to the Democrats in districts which have in exceilent shape. and in his purification program,” she said, “and in conferences with party leaders I was assured that the commit- tee handling reorganization of patron- | 2ge was to act only in an advisory ca- pacity. But so far my recommenda- | tions have not been accepted. |HARRY MILLER ELECTED | BY AIR SQUADRON GROUP ; * The sixth annual reunion of the 840th Aero Squadron Veterans’ Association CRUISER LAUNCHED AMID PEACE TALKS Celebrities Present at Cere- monies as Houston Is - Given to Seas. BY JOHN CLINE. £taft Correspondent of Tue 8t NEWPOR'Y' NsWS, Va, & p.ember 7. —The Nevy laun n 4 Ls nowest in- | sirument oo war ai e oo Nows (o | day, buc 1a koG o1 p.a e *nd browi.- 3, 10, W tn i Ees 32k “an bis ive boace.” Fosd €n La2 vas al s Wit News Shpbuilans & L.y Lok Cu, like ! some gracefui bird of fi‘gi, the Hous- { ton was held in p. sition by checi blocks until the noon whistle blew. At th hour the block:s were knocked away * the cruiser moved slowly forward. Miss Elizabeth Holcombe, daughter of the former mayor of Houston, Tex., struck the moving bow with a bottle of Hous- ton Channel water. Bottle Fails to Break. ‘The bottle failed to break, and swung backwards. -Homer L. Perguson, presi- dent of the shipbuilding company, selu? it and smashed it against the vessel. Sirens shrieked and whistles screamed as the ship gathered speed down the | ways. A fieet of airplanes zomed down, scattering roses over her decks. Out in the Roads at anchor idled four big battieships of the line—the Wyoming, flagship of the Atlantic fleet: the Utah, the Arkansas and the Te-as. No sooner had the Houston come to a stop than a fleet of river tugs scur- ried to her sides and attached lines. She was towed to a dock in the yards, where the necessary finishing touches will be applied. ‘The launching ceremonies were at- tended by celebrities in naval and public life. Gov. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia came down by piane from Richmond, Vice Admiral W. C. Cole and other high ranking officers from the Atlantic fleet temporarily in the Roads, also were present. On the platform were Miss Holcombe, Miss Mary Ellen Bute of Houston, maid of honor; Miss Charlotte Williams, great 1 granddaughter of Gen. Sam Houston; Mayor W. E. Monteith of Houston, As- Ferguson. Bulbous Bow Conspicuous. A conspicuous feature of the Houston before she slid down the ways was the peculiar bulbous bow, reducing the re- !xmnnoe and increasing the speed of | the ship. This is a feature of the new | German liner Bremen, holder of the | transatlantic speed record. After the | christening ceremonies were over the | party returned to the Chamberlin-Van- | derbilt Hotel, at Old Point Comfort, | for iuncheon.” In the absence of Gov. ! Byrd, who was called back to Rich- mond, the Virginia State’s attorney, | John Saunders, | of welcome to the 200 Texans who | came up from Houston to attend the | launching. | Senators Make Addresses. * United States Senators Sheppard and Connally of Texas, made short ad- dresses. “The cruiser Houston is nearly twiee sistant Secretary Jahncke and Mr,: delivered an address | bes FLOOD RECEDES IN'NEW ORLEANS EBig Property Loss Reported as Pumps Dry City After Heavy Rain. By the Associated Press. | NEW ORLEANS, La., Scptember 7.— With damages running into a heavy gure by to:rential rains, converting Ciy inio a lake, New Orleans umped iselt dry and went about its e M5 lace loday as il nothing had D Wade Lae Gily slept quning s peinci and drop- thet literally d-nte m the v.cre arouszd by shotgun ¢t wre fiom ne gubors and tele- K a s ir.m i po ., Lyt a laige »2:t ot the populace was surprised tc ond their homcs playing the part of boats. No scction of the city was spared, but the uptown fashionable residential quarter bore the brunt of the water, which stood as high as 6 feet in some places. Residents all over the city were forced out of their first floors, and in some cases gglllce had to use heroic measures as boatmen to rescue persons in actual danger of drowning. They carried food to others marooned and fought terrific snarls as the water be- gan to recede. A freak rainfall caught the city un- prepared and in the midst of construc- tion of $15.000,000 additional drainage lines that would protect the city from such a deluge. Since New Orlea 18 below the river and has to puma s of its rainfall over the levees in%. W+ Mississippi, it is at the mercy of all rain water that the pumps cannot handle. LOUISVILLE BAPTISTS WIPE OFF DEBT SLATE Tabernacle, Made Bankrupt by Blind Treasurer's Actions, Pays Creditors. By the Assoclated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., September 7.—The finnacial state of the Baptist Taber- nacle, which was thrown into insolvency by the manipulations of its blind treasurer, Albert Nisbet, was wiped S topting lopting a more generous policy than that previously anponnced,” the’ Long Run Baptist Association, with which the church is connected, paid creditors $45,563.24, which included more than $41,000 Nisbet borrowed in the name of the church and never accounted for. Co-makers on notes and creditor banks contributed about $8,000 of the total. The association's attorney, Thomas C. Fisher, explained that the payment is intended to have no effect on the prosecution of criminal charges against |6he blind man, who has evoided trial cause of a nervous breakdown suf- |fered soon after the shortages were | discovered, about a year ago. Nisbet formerly was a justice of the peace and was known as the “terror of bootleggers.” ONE DIES IN OIL FIRE. hitherto been represented steadily b; Dol b eadlly BY | Gas held at the Hamiion Hotel this |as large s the old baitleship: Texas, Dr. Work expects to remain in Wash: | past week, with 40 members of the war- | which won fame at Eantiago,” Ass.siant ington’ for some time to come. He has time night bombardment squadron | Secretary Jahncke déc’arcd not yet made an; nouncement of hig | present. My rvent hop2 plans. it 7| Havry Miller of Pittsburgh was elect- | guns of this ship will L AN | ed president, succeeding Charles H.!|man's life,” h- seid QUAKERS LAUD HOOVER them while there, the defense prob- |sive armaments. He had pushed to the ably-wil be that the Infornmation was l very front of the van in the mdrcirAfor sought to keep American companies in- . peace.” 2 formed on the matters in which they | Mr. Bell was asked wh haq to #: adviscd first hand in deteil. jufgment, Prem'er M; But to know @ week or two in aavance i come to the United Siates. wgevél’:r colnsunctécn would ; k—umcd. !'naval agresmsnt is reached cr not. whether the conference was likely PR succeed or break down, was something Premier Siould Come to U.-8. the post-war epgch.. It has been stupid. | yards short -of the green, but laid a Tt has been unne-essary. . It might | chip shot dead, eight feet from the | have bern disastrous. 1 hope we are|cup. Willing chipped short, micsed his nearing the time when wo <iall'witness | putt and Johnston hoied for a birdie. | the definite elosi=~ of thi¢ serfous' pnd the frst and only one. of the eniire meriacing international hiotes I may ‘contest. i | not Tive to'séé it: T am pretty old, Eut ! Willing was game. right down to the T am allowing mvse!f to hope that even | finish, but he was a beaten man from men of my age still will b reading the | then on. Johnston, on mest of the By the Assoctated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, September that the 7.—One person was killed, six received v r take a|burns, from which they -were believed “st is not ap |to be dying. end four others were re- -ngine to prcvcke war but & symbol to Port-1 missng, 1o a fire at pztroleum preserve - poace.” jwell No. 4, et Runku, near Moreni. Mr. Feizuson presented the Navy's | Several other persons were slightly in- ScRaffner of this city. Mr. Schaffner | was elected a member of the board of | the astociation. The retiring vice presi- | Jured. sn which American ‘compznies wou!d re- gard under such circumstances as busi- ness information of a vital character. The hfi -question is whether Mr. Shearer &t eva gitempted to ob- struct an-egreement and whether .he was pald for these services or whether he was there as an agent of information on the one hand fer American com- panies and’ a propagandist in his own | behalf. Mr. Shearar has always been an advocate ‘of a big Navy and it never was_known that he was professionally | employed for ‘that, purpese. It remains | to be seen when he appears before the Senate committee whether his position is any different: from that of many of | the lawyers.who appear in advocacy of & cause and ‘get paid for so doing. Paid Propaganda a Problem. ‘The whole subject of paid propaganda and lobbying has been discussed in Con- gress from time to time, but nothing tangible has ever been done about it. President Wilson decried against the lobbyist when' the Underwood tariff bill ‘was under discussion and Mr. Coolldge complained about the efforts to frus- trate his economy program. In both in- stances a declaration from the White House was effective and the probabilities are that Mr. Hoover's aggressive state- ment will do for his disarmament policy what was accomplished by his prus:’ccs- sor—namely, a driving to cover of op- ponents and a squelching of opposition. It is true that Mr. Hoover is a be- lated participant in the controversy and that news of Shearer’s suit against the shipbuilding companies for money due for services rendered at Geneva is & month old, but from a strategic point of view it is considered none the less effective and may have its repercus- :Ifdmuabrud. ;vherebermmln - supposed io havin e sa kind of trouble with big nlv’y‘{“flo«?" (Copyrignt, 1929.) " NAVAL PROPAGANDA : PROBE 'BY SENATE BELIEVED CERTAIN !Les P,thnl- about. (Continued From First Page.) Bhearer against the three ship-build- ing ko tions. ‘He said he had been Bines 81 Geneva,” bos tnas s2500000 S af eneva, bul b $250, ‘Was still due him, g o : Interested in Ship Concerns. Mr. Borah and members of the naval affairs and foreign relations committee take with a grain of salt, reports that Bhegrer had enough personal power or persuasiveness to defeat the Geneva mneg:c. but they are deeply interested in rning whether the shipbuilding coneerns paid money to him for this ‘I'think the investigation should pro- ceed, whether the " Af General makes his inquiry or not,” Mr. Borah said yesterday afterncon. “If shipbuild- ing porporat are hiring to try ‘?: uence international conferences I ich the United States miclpnua, the public should W about possible cancellation of jer contracts, he stated: “No, I don’t know of anything done at Geneva that could be linked up ‘witly that.. As a legal proposition, there | posil u“fio assoctatio ber:een those two ts. But.” continued, “it ‘would be interesting to know if powerful corpbrations are hiring men to influence the pituation at conferences where dis- lb ent and world peace are the = o i “Patriotism or Dollars.” Tt! was suggested to Mr. Borah that Mr.. huEr might assume the role of triot,” subj sincerely advocating & big “I certainly do,” he replied. “Why | not? Will the need for understanding ibe less because the attempt to settle {the British-American naval question | temporarily has failed? Will the need | | not be more? My thesis is that, given | the Intimacy of direct conversaticns be- | | newspapers when the chiefs of the English-speaking peoples,. each sove- reign in its place, gather round a table as a symbol of the unity of thede lingyally-linked nations for law and peace. (Copyright 19201 | constituted patriots should not work | in the dark.” iz Mr. Borah was not of the opinion that if Mr. Shearer's alleged activities had become known, the c: r bill would have been defeated in the last Congress. “Congress was for the cruiser bill,” he said. “To my mind.” he continued, “Mr. | Shearer’s object in being at Geneva was | to try to break down the conference. For what other purpose would he be there? I do not think he would deny that. His attorney sald as much this | morning.” Senatorial exposure of anti-reduction propaganda_ would, in Mr. Borah's opinion, be likely to result in a demand for building naval vessels in Govern- | ment yards, instead of in private plants, | where many are now constructed. “If Shearer went to Geneva to op- disarmament, he was well within is rights,” Mr. Borah commented. “But it great cor tions, desiring contracts, privately e some one to spread propaganda, that is a different propo- sition. When the Government, as a ent, is dealing with foreign governments and seeking to arrive at an agreement, those opposing the pol- icy should do it in the open. Exercise Powerful Influence. “I have felt for a long time that the sl flding companies exercise & POw( here and abroad. The reason why these conferences fail is the constant, surging attack corporate interests which have a selfish purpose to attain.” ‘The outcome of the investigation might have an important bearing on future naval arms conferences, it Was ventured, and would probably result in proposed legislation to restrict contracts for war ships to Government shipyards. islation would be required to bring ‘While it was not known exactly what the President had in mind when he said measures to rid the country of such influences would have to be con- sidered unless the shipbuilding corpora- tions named by Shearer could disprove his story, the opinion prevailed that the President had some such legislation in mind. Mr. Hoover was unof advised yesterday that mone of the three com- panies named have had anything to do with Shearer in more than a year, at jeast So far as known, neither the White House nor Department of Jus- tice had received any ::‘sronse, how- ever, to the President’s on the di- rectors ot all three ‘companies to a swer Shearer’s statethent implicating these companies. . PRAISES HOOVER'S STAND. Oklahoman Brands Naval Stand “One - of Best Steps.” g ALTUS, Okiahoma, September 7 (). —Characterizing President Hoover's in- struction of Attorney General Mitchell to investigate the activities of Willlam B. Shearer, in connection with his op- tion to naval disarmament “as one of the best steps you have taken,” J. V. McClintie, Oklahoma Congressman, urged the President in & telegram today to press a “full and complete” inquiry. - lations with t to the it reveWl.l.llnlll B. m, said and complete investigation of all ac- tivitles in this connection.” ‘The Co has long been an advocate of reduction of naval arma- ments. “It will be recalled,” the tele- gram said, “that Shearer was in daily attendance at the Geneva conference called for the purpose of agreeing upon a shipbuilding program between cer- tain major nations, and that his ac- tivities while at Geneva received nearly as much publicity as that of all of the others combined. “His statement that he was in these shipbuilding companies’ employ during this time shows conclusively what steps they will take to prevent agreements between nations and is one of the dark- est pages ever written effecting peace and humanity of the world. On many occasions during the consideration of | the last House shipbuilding bill, he pre- sented- to me various arguments used at the Geneva conference in support of a bill that would have cost the Government more than $1,000,000,000, and never at any time let it be known that he was the paid lobbyist of these three companies. “Because of his co-operation with Admiral Hilary P.- Jones.and the an- nouncement of certain officers in the Navy that the Geneva conference, al- though it failed, was the most success- ful ever conducted, T made a speech Jast year on the floor of the House advising the public that no good result could or would come from any conference in which this admiral was the chief ad- visor. I shall be happy to co-operate with you in any way I can in this connection.” OPPOSE YOUNG PLAN. BERLIN, September 7 (#).—The na- tional committee of - the Economic party today voted against ratification of the Young plan for reparations, re- gretting “the extensive concessions of the German government at The Hague.” A resolution was also adopted against putting the Y plan to a vote cf the country by plel ite as “dangerous.” The Economic party represents middle class business and’ has only 23 members in the Reichstag, but it cast the de- cisive vote in the defeat of the defense ! of the republic act last June. | sliced over the ocean_bank. holes, was putting for the win while | “Doc” was struggling for the half. On the 110-yard 25th. Johnston missed a | 6-foot putt for a birdie 2. whi~h would | have made him 4 up. Wi'ling had to| get down in 1 putt on the 20th to gt | a ha'f. He won back a hole at the 27th, when. Johnston was trapped, but the end was in sight Johnston won the 28th to become 3 up egein, when Willing's second shot Doctor Makes Recovery. ‘The Doctor made a remarkable re- covery with his niblick, reaching the| en, but he could not sink a 20-footer. th were in trouble on the short 30th, but Johnston finally took it with a 4 to Willing’s 5. This hole marked the | fourth time in the match that Willing took 2 shots to get out of a bunker. It seemed that what hopes he had were buried in the sand, for on each | of these occasions he lost the hole. Al 'Johnston ‘needed to protect his margin of 4 up, was to halve the next 3 holes and he did it. helped on_the 31st as well as the long 32nd by bril- llant chip shots that enabled him to offset mistakes and get down each time in 1 putt, Johnston thus marched to his first mnational championship at the age of 33 in a tournement that knocked the dope all over Pebble Beach and the sur- rounding California countryside So lightly were “Jimmy's” chances regard- ed that he was only No. 6 in the rank- ing list used for “seeding” purposes. Dr. Willing was No. 7. But all those nlgm in the rating fell by the way- Champion Jones went out in the first round along with Von Elm, while Jess Sweetser, George Voigt and Cyril Tolley passed out in the *hird it disposed of Francis Ouimet, while Willing con- round. Yesterday Johnston ouered H. Chandler Egan in the semi- finals. Long one of the most popular ama- teur figures'in the game, Johnston has been a formidable contender for na- tional as well as sectional honors fre- auently, but he never got beyond the third round of -this tournament before or won any title of greater importance than the Western amateur. Usually a good medal player, Johnston’s sypport- ers were astounded when he went out in 43 this morning, but he redeemed himself by doing the same nine in 37 this zfternoon. He played the last 24 ‘v’lollli.ls.n in unlyl shue ovefrpatr, while Dr. | g was 1Q over perfect figures for the same stretch. 5 e For failing to keep to.its time-table hedule & motor bus company in Scot- land was fined in court recently. 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