Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1929, Page 4

4 C. . BELL'S RITES SET TOMORROW Banker to Be Buried in Fam- ily Plot After Funeral at Cathedral Chapel. Charles J. Bell, chairman of the board of the American Security & Trust Co. and one of the foremost bankers of the city, who died yesterday morning in St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, after an extended illness, will be buried tomorrow afternoon in the Bell family plot in Rock Creek Cemetery, following funeral services to be held in Bethlehem Chapel of Washington Cathedral at 3 | o'clock. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, will officiate at the funeral. The body of the banker today was resting at the home of Mr. Bell, Twin Oaks, on Woodley lane. Mrs. Bell, who was with Mr, Bell during {llness and at his bedside when the end came; her son, Robert W. Bell, and her two daugh- ters, Mrs. Juiien H. Ripley and Mrs. Granville R. Fortescue, all of New York, accompanied the body to Washington, arriving shortly after 7 o'clock last night. The death of Mr. Bell came as & shock to his associates in practically every walk of life in the National Cap- jtal.” Although primarily a banker, Mr. Bell's interests, Eusmess and social, were many and varied. He was 71 years old and had spent the last 40 years in the Capital. Elwood Street, director of the Wash- fnoton Community Chest, in a tribute today recalled that Mr. Bell was largely responsible for the successful organiza- tion of the Chest in the Capital. Mr, Street says of him: “It was at a mecting of representative citizens held at his estate, Twin Oaks, in May, 1928, that the support of these representative citizens was pledged to the Community Chest plan—a support which was essen- tal to the success which the Community Chest has attained. “Moreover, Mr. Bell, since the begin- ning, had been a member of the execu- tive committee of the Community Chest and was chairman of the first budget .committee. In that position he did a tremendous amount of work. Not merely did he preside over the meetings of the committee as a whole, but he gave a large amount of time and energy to the consideration of the budgets which came before the subcommittee dealing with character building organizations. WASHINGTON’S HOME FUND OF $65,000 ASKED Senator Swanson, ,in Senate Bill, Seeks Money to Improve Birth- place at Wakefield. An appropriation of $65,000 to im- prove the birthplace of George Wash- ington at Wakefield, Va., would be pro- vided for under a bill offered in the Senate yesterday afternoon by Senator Swanson, Democrat, of Virginia. Out of the total authorization $50,000 would be for the use of the Wakefield ‘National Memorial Association of Wash- ington, D. C., to put up at Wakefleld a reproduction of the house in which Washington was born, and for the gen- eral improvement of the surrounding grounds. The remainder would be used to relocate the —monument which already stands at Wakefield. The bill was referred to the committee on li- brary for report. NORTH STARW.C. T. U. HOLDS FALL MEETING Mrs. Edward E. Norwood Is Elect- ed President of Group—Other Officers Named. " The first Fall meeting of the North Star Women'’s Christian Temperance Union was held yesterday at the home of Mrs. W. S. Minnix,” 3028 Newark street. The following officers were elected for the new year: Mrs. Edward E. Nor- wood, president; Mrs. M. M. Brinley, second vice president; Mrs. T. L. Law, third vice president; Mrs. F. M. Oster- hout, fourth vice president; Mrs. Oliver Ports, recording secretary; Mrs. E. M. Gustafson, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. William M. Hurley, treasurer, AGENT ASKS MILLION. Commission on Rubber Firm's Sale Demanded. BOSTON, October 2 (#)—Claiming & commission of $1,000,000 for intro- ducing a representative of the Hood Rubber Co. of Watertown to a New York financier, which resulted in the sale of the Hood Co. to the B. F. Good- rich . Co. for $50,000,000, Patrick J. Doherty, local broker, yesterday brought action in Superior Court. Through his attorneys Doherty ob- tained an order of notice from Judge Louls Cox commanding the presence of representatives of the Hood Rubber Co., Hood Rubber Co. Inc, and B. F. Goodrich Co. of New York to show why they should not be enjoined from disposing of 100,000 shares of the stock in the B. F. Goodrich Co. - MEXICAN VOTE FIGHT. Wasco-Celos’ Opponents Claim He Violated Election Law. MEXICO CITY, October 2 (#).—Re- rts that Jose Vasco-Celos, anti-re- . election party candidate for the presi- dency, recently crossed the American border into El Paso, as claimed by his opponents and denied by his followers, form the latest issue in the campalgn. TLeaders in the Chamber of Deputies of the party of Pascual Ortiz Rublo, the rivel candidate, claimed yesterday that Vasco-Celos had disqualified himself under the '.:ont“lmt'i};m‘ Dligg‘sch;n m a candidat for pres| Teside in Mexico for a year prior to the elections. —_—— U. S. EXPERTS IN PARIS. PARIS, October 2 (#).—M. lor and Jfiukmx‘nu Reyrx‘::lda. ankers who will se: &plcmzs at the coming meeting of the committee for organization of the In- fernational Bank, arrived in Pa: day. The& plln'!“;ed. to leave tonight -Baden ?;edrfl‘lllg ::sslon of the committee. Beyond saying work was clearly defined by the A, Tray: American in unofficial ris to- for attend _tomorrow’s e scope of their that the pe r MACDONALD’S THE NAVAL VIEWS Premier Holds Development of Air Forces and Submarine Have Revolutionized Opportunities of Winning War by Starving Enemy. BY J. RAMSAY MACDONALD. Written exclusive'y for The Star and the er_Alliance just Borth, Americah Ber i was. re-ciecied prime minister. 1t ‘is surprising that we have ad- vanced so little in settling the most prolific causes of international disputes, and yet the reason is not far to seek.- The nations have never acquired any confidence that peace can be kept be- tween them, and so, while they have been willing to agree to arbitration in disputes of a superficial kind, they have always reserved for the sword and the soldier the real causes of war—matters which they cless as things affecting na- tional honor, national safety and such like. Therefore the policy of every nation has been to prepare its military forces to meet “the next war” and to hold within its own control freedom to hit enemies at their most vulnerable points by means best calculated to force a successful issue, That is why Great Britain, an island and naval power, has declined to allow its control of the seas in time of war to be weakened. Right of Blockade Essential. ‘The right of blockade, of search of neutral ships, of diversion of sea traf- fic has been regarded as essential to our self-defense. And who will say that that was wrong so long as there was a danger of war in which we should be involved, and also so long as we were in g position to enforce the right upon other states? In tiying to retain that right it must |be confessed that we were rather in- genuous when we protested thit the navy—the instrument by which we en- forced that right—was being maintained by us solely to keep the seas open. His~ tory presented the story to other na- tions at an angle different from tjat from which we saw it. In time of peace it used to be that every naval power reserved great ocean areas for its own trade, as some nations now reserve their own territorial waters, but economic enlightenment has made that a thing of the past. In times of war there is up to now no question of the open seas. The doctrines of con- traband and of blockade have been va- ried from time to time, but whenever war has broken out, whether it was a civil war, as in the United States, or the last war. freedom of the seas has been interpreted to suit the convenience and necessities of belligerents. whole question is again up for consideration under completely new conditions. Readers of Col. House's “Intimate Papers” know how frequently qur action in interfering with United States’ rights to use the sea as a trad- ing highway brought us into dangerous conflict with American interests, and on occasion, but for the influence of friends, the United States might have fought us as soon as it fought Germany. Object to “English Rule.” Indeed, the United States has always been antagonistic to “the English rule” of search and blockade, and it was quite apparent that when the war end- ed America would challenge the inter- ference of irade on the seas by naval belligerents. At one of the sittings of the peace conference at Paris, Col. House, on be- half of President Wilson, intimated that unless we modified our claims the United States would build a navy against us. That has now happened. It is peffectly obvious that when a nation ceases to be able to enforce its wilfon the open seas it is bad policy for it to try to do so, and for us now to build ships against the United States is a hopeless task, and a dangerous one to boot. Nor will our people tolerate the attempt. We simply .decline to treat the United States as a potential enemy. To come to an agreement’ with America on the freedom of the seas is the onl; a completely satisfactory with that country. In the event of another war in which we should be engaged a surrender of the rights which we claimed and tn- forced during the last war would un- doubtedly weaken our striking power. But there is a much bigger entry on tae other side of the account now than heretofore. Airplane and Submarine Enter. ‘The development of commercial air services and, above all, use of the sub- marine have changed the world for the great naval powers and have revolu- tionized their opportunities of winning a war by starving their enemy. When nations, including every man, woman and child, now fight, and not only sol- diers, everything is contraband and nothing is private property. This enormously increases the task of those who would close the sea high« ways, lays them open.to new attacks upon themselves, and multiplies very seriously their risks of creating new enemies. Moreover, the fact that contrabard can no more be separated from gen- eral trade and that blockade cannot stop short of the starvation of old and young, soldier and civilian, must weaken the effectiveness of the naval power, because the horrors attending on its use must more and more outrage our moral sense and create a revulsion in the hearts of peoples against those re- sponsible for it. The weapon has become too horrible, and for that, if for no other reason, civilized nations must abandon it. It is quite impossible to limit the op- erations of blockade and contraband now, and that means that we cannot repeat any of the old compromises. There must be either complete freedom of the seas or competitive naval arma- ments and growing misunderstandings between certain nal . _The power to interrupt the freedom of the seas has broken in our hands for both military and moral reasons. ‘What can be done in such a dilemma? Fortunately the events which have brought the dilemma have also brought riendship of the Young plan itself, the financiers would make no cation. List Your Rented and \ll‘ncn:t Houses With J. LEO KOLB 923 N. Y. Ave. 1237 Wis. Ave. West 0002 FALLIN District 5027 STO statement for publi- weather basis of | EgVD! solution. ‘The world has now a nce to establish peace. 1f nations are wisely guided, Kant's “Eternal Peace” is no dream but a possfl)ll"{. The wars which made blockades ad- vantageous and which made the main- tenance of the power to carry them out a national duty were “private wars,” and these are now outlawed by the Kellogg pact. If that pact is honored and supported by the necessary conse- quential agreements, the circumstances which gave importance to reservations to the freedom of the seas can never arise. Blockade and right of search are abandoned not only because they can- not_be enforced, but because the new world opening out to us does not require em. If the peace pact means anything at all, it means that the rights of neutrals as against those of belligerents no long- er present a real problem. The que: tion now is, how are nations to operate in the police duty of suppre: ing private war and of limiting its e tension? Any discussion of the free- dom of the seas on any ground but that is a violation of the peace pact ;nd an undoing of all the pact has one. A document of agreement should be negotiated, and it ought to begin with a declaration that the signing of the pact has put an end forever to this vexed question, and that belligerent and neutral rights as the subject of inter- national dispute have been swept away by, the pact. ‘Way Open for Understanding. The history of this long controversy therefore ends. Coercive action against a state can only be contemplated when the League of Nations—or similar au- thority—decrees the outlawry of some aggressive nation for a breach of a But that will not be a private wa: d no civilized trad- ing nation will be able to obstruct such protective and disciplinary action. That would be police action and not war ac- tion as we have known it hitherto. The way, therefore, is open for a complete understanding between Great Britain and the United States and for the ending of claims which have in- volved the two nations in the only war they have ever fought against each oné“'h uch an agreement would also be the last nail in the coffin of the old order of military rule and would begin the new order of peace and good will. (Copyright, 1929.) $50,000,000 RADIO LINK. Merger Announcement by Manager Spreckles of Kolster Corporation. NEW YORK, October 2 (#).—Merger of the Kolster Radio Corporation vl;?th the Earl and Freed-Eisemann Corpo- ratiogs, announced yesterday by Ru- dolph'Spreckels, chairman of the board of Kolster, brings under control of a new $50,000,000 radio corporation about 700 important radio and wired-wireless patents. The Kolster corporation will be the holding company for the new group, with each company continuing to manu- facture apparatus under existing trade names and maintaining ‘its present identity, according to Mr. Spreckels’ announcement. Mr. Spreckels will be chairman of the consolidated com- pany, which has not yet received a name; Ellery A. Stone, president of Kolster, will become chairman of the executive committee, and Clarence A. Earl, chairman of Earl Radio, will be president. EGYPT’S CABINET OUT. CAIRO, t, October 2 (#).—The tian et, headed br Premier Mahmoud Pasha, resigned today to pre- pare the way for new parliamentary elections and give the people of the country an opportunity to express opinions regarding the proposed new treaties with Great Britain. It was understood the decree for new elections will be issued after the new cabinet is formed and affairs are res- tored to ir normal constitutional position. 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Craigie of his staff. “I had a great game,” he re- marked as he descended. Later Capt. Sir Arthur H. Rostron was host at tea in his cabin on the bridge. Among the guests were James W. Gerard, former United States Am- bassador to Germany, and Mrs. Gerard. One of those dancing with Miss Ishbel in the evening was Tom Mellon, nephew of the United States Secretary of the Treasury. & Just two days remain aboard ship, the expectation being it will arrive in | New York early Friday. ‘hh'fil dancing, being among the most BRISTOL QUITS MOSCOW. U. 8. Admiral and Wife, Sightsee- ing, Leave for Berlin. MOSCOW, 'United States of Soviet Russia, October 2 (#).—Admiral Mark Bristol, commander of the United States fleet in_Asiatic waters, and his wife left for Berlin last night after five days of sightseeing in Moscow and Lenin- grad. The government authorities re- spected his desire to move about as a private citizen and made no effort to engage him in discussions of the Chi- nese situation, American recognition or other current questions. The admiral said he found conditions much better than he had expected. st Good Will Tour Resumed. By Cabls to The Star. ASUNCION, Paraguay, October 2.— Pablo Sidar, Mexican good will aviator, touring South America, planned to leave Asuncion today for Salta, Argen- tina. From there he is sceduled to fly to Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and thence to La Paz. G R O S FAMOUS exclusive patterns suit value which | of £6,000 ($30,f C.. WEDNESDAY, MacyJonald’s Golf To Suffer Under Program’s Weight By the Assoclated Press. Two things stand between Prime Minister MacDonald and a foursome of golf, his favorite sport, after he arrives in Wash- ington—the time for a game and three other players. ‘The only time available in the program arranged for his enter- tainment in the Capital would be next Monday afternoon, while he is a guest at the White House. While there are doubtless thou- sands of Americans who would be willing to play with him, the make-up of a Capital foursome appears somewhat difficult. Pres- ident Hoover does not play golf, but Secretary Stimson piays a fair game—roughly around the score usually made by Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador. Either of those would make a fair partner for the prifne minis- ter, with Attorney General Mitchell or Undersecretary of State Cotton, who are both good players, the leader of the oppo- sition team. Whether they will be able to get away for a round of the Scottish game, however, remains to be seen. BANK FUGITIVE HELD. 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One Against 15, Mrs. Hilton spelled Dean Woods’ words until she stood against 15 of the local team and after a while she had reduced her opponents to nine. “Parliamentary,” said Dean Woods. Mrs, Hilton took up the word as it dropped from the dean and glibly spelled, “p-a-r-1-i-e-m-e-n-t-a-r-y.” The contest thus was concluded and- the Capital Cit{l Spelling Club, which had answered the Baltimore group's chal- lenge addressed to “any one in Wash- ington who can spell or thinks he can spell,” had undisputed possession of a mpionship. Dean Woods used only 317 words in the two contests. M Hilton took honors and awarded $5 Optician—Optometrist 922 14th St. N.W. Establi - ld for being the last to er team an‘me two wnu:&‘down ‘Will Meet Again. ‘When the Baltimore club, captained by 8. T. Walker, sent the challm?.e last year Elmer C. Helm organized the local group, invaded Baltimore last April :end cnmleui:ng vlcu;r in :m contest. The ams P meet again next April. 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