Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1929, Page 26

&3 "HE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929, VOTES T0 EXPAND OEEAN AL LINE Hoover Committee to Invest $175,000,000, Including Con- struction of 29 Vessels. By the Associated Press. Expansion. of ocean mail service in- volving construciion of 29 vessels at a cost of between $160,000,000 and $175,~ 000,000 was approved yesterday by Pres- ident Hoover's interdepartmental com- | mittee on mail contracts. Four vessels of a swift, modern type were included in the building program | to which shipping companies bidding | for contracts will have to conform.| ‘They will go into the North Atlantic| traffic. Twenty-seven of the vessels con- templated will be used on 13 existing ocean routes and the other two will be required for extensicn of a ruote to th2 Black Sea. Creation of three other new lines is being considered by the committee. These would go from New York to| French ports, from New York to Dutch ports and from San Francisco to Ma- a. Postmaster General Brown said the Post Office Department would advertise for bids on contracts about Decem- ber 15, Program Outlined. ‘The program agreed upon Was a re- duction from an original proposal to require construction of approximately $250,000,000 of ships. The building must be agreed to by shipping interests before contracts lre‘i entered into and the ships are to be | put into operation within periods vary- lnfi_’(lmm three to five years. e committee also is considering a proposal to make ocean mail contracts cover 5 years instead of 10, except on condition that the contractor make provision for replacing ships carrying the mail. . ‘Three new vessels of the modern fast type will be required for the route from New York to Southampton, Postmasier General Brown said. least 45,000 tons gross, and one of them must be placed in service within three years, another year being allowed for completion of the others. Two must be of 28 knots per hour speed, the other not less than 24 knots. For the New York-to-Hamburg-via- Plymouth route, the committee agreed to require construction of two new ves- sels within five years. These liners must be of 20,000 tons gross, with a speed of 20 knots. One Line Specially Considered. No building requirement was made by the committee for the New York-Lon- don-via-Plymouth route, for five mod- ern liners already are in this traffic, In addition the construction contem- plated in the program approved would the following ships: One for between New York and Val- paraiso, one for the route from Taco- ma to Valparaiso, two between San Francisco and British Colombia, three between New York and Limon. two for the Baltimore-Hamburg Line, three be- tween New Orleans and Puerto Colom- bia, three for San Francisco-Corinto, three for New York-Puerto Colombia, two between New Orleans and the east coast of South America and two for the | route bne:ween New Orleans and Span- The extension contemplated would | carry the route now existing between New York and Mediterranean ports to the Black Sea. e When on two occasions in Western , | Pankhurst said: “I All must be at | asked. MISS PANKHURST BLAMES WARS TO NATIONS® DESIRE FOR POWER | English Suffragist Renounces: Politics for Preaching Mis- sion Against Conflict. o | Christmas. Mastery, Not Equality, Is| Goal of Powers, Woman Declares. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. i ‘The renunciation of politics, in which for many years she played an active and militant part in her own country, has been announced by Miss Christabel Pankhurst of London, England, in order to carry on a preaching mission, in which prophecies of the Scriptures are | cited as a basis of her contention tha world unrest and wars, past and future, may be attributed to the desire of na- tions to dominate and master. “It isn't equality that nations want— it is mastery,” she stated at the Dodge Hotel, where she is staying during her visit in Washington. For several years Miss Pankhurst and her mother, Mrs. Emmeline Pank- hurst, attracted the attention of the political world by their ceaseless activ- ities and efforts toward gaining the vote for English women. Relative to this period of her life, which with a shrug of the shoulder Miss Pankhurst tells you is past history, she said, “I became actively _interested in fighting for woman suffrage only when I saw that by our mild methods we were getting nowhere. Political dif- ficulties were such that a more vig- orous movement was necessary. Our methods of gaining the vote were based to a large extent upon the methods of men. “The vote came to us at an entirely unexpected time, during the troubled war days in 1918. I am thankful we have it now and don’t have to fight for it.” Claims Gain Through Vote. “Do you think that suffrage has helped the women of England?” she was | MISS CHRISTABEL PANKHU... he has created a r'esllyx valuable pre- cedent for other countries.” *it was largely by coincidence that Miss Pankhurst’s visit to Washington has occurred simultancously with the “Yes, decidedly,” she replied. “It has improved the condition of women in every walk of life, social and industrial.” “But I do not wish to talk itics any more,” she added. “I feel I have a different mission ‘now. ~After the war, when we had gained the vote and the war crisis had passed, I felt it was 2 time of stocktaking. What was behind all the world unrest—the violence and tions of world peace? It seemed to me that the desire of one nation to dom- inate—that selfish spirit of domination lay at the bottom of all world unrest. be unrest and wars among the nations until Christ has come to the world the second time.” Miss Pankhurst is in this country de- livering a series of addresses in churches throughout the East. Her subject, “Prophecy,” deals with Scripture pas- sages, which she claims foretell condi- tions in the world today. She is not a strong believer in the possibilities of a permanent peace among the nations, so long as the desire for worldly power continues to exist among them. Laud’s Hoover's Business Parley. Asked what she thought of the League of Nations and other post-war move- ments endeavoring to about dis- armament and permanent peace, Miss Pankhurst said, “I am neither tic or cynical. I am merely watching to see what .will happen -and hoping that the best results will be achieved.” Relative to President Hoover's recent call to the industrial heads of the country to gather in conference, Miss should like to see even pay expenses. M-Brooks-Co -3 - STREET BETWEEN 1ITH something done in Great Britain to correspond to the recent movement made by President Hoover. I feel that 2T TFhrift Jhop Saturday Is the LAST Day of OPPORTINITY | memorial_service Sunday and will then |go to Baltimore and Philadeiphia. convention this week of the National ‘Women's Party and the memorial serv- ices to be conducted Sunday to the memory of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst. She already had arranged to visit | Washington to deliver her address in several of the city churches when she was mvm‘d to attend the rty meeting. mshye will regmnln here until after the women's will remain until after| A visit to the West Coast | |is contemplated before her return to Europe in the early Spring. where she PREPARE FOR SHOW. Daily Rehearsals and Weekly Song Programs Held by Troubadours. | Extensive preparations, including daily | rehearsals and weekly song programs over the radio by members of the com- vany, are being made by the Trouba-| dours of George Washington University for the fifth annual production of the organization, a musical show entitled ‘Gyped in Egypt.” The presentation is scheduled to take place December 12, 13 and 14 at the McKinley High School | Auditorium, Second and T streets north- | east. “Interesting, if True.” A “master wireless clock,” capable of | | controlling watches by wireless, has “nr men as well as women. 25-MILE TRAMWAY RIDE IN BERLIN FOR 4 CENTS Six-Penny Slot Umbrella Another Bargain—Doctors Urge Free Cosmetics. BERLIN (N.AN.A).—You can now travel 25 miles by tramcar in Berlin for 4 cents. Berlin says it is the longest and cheapsst tramway in the world. starting from Spandau, in the west of the city, you reach Muggisee, at the ex- _trome eastern end, with only one trans- fer, and the journey lasts two hours and a quarter. There are more new bargains in Ber- 1in, too. There is the 6-penny unbrella you get out of an automatic machine. On a rainy day, when your new hat is like to be ruined, You may now be saved by sixpence in the slot. The cover of the slot umbrella is of oil paper, and the stick is a strong one, so your sixpence is fer no mean and ephemeral thing. In the proud claim of the makers, it “can be used more than once.” ‘The doctors are agitating for “cos- metics for all, free!” They want them included in a State insurance scheme, No one | need be ugly, say the doctors. 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