Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1930, Page 5

- BOUNTY PROPOSAL MCLINTIC PRAISES ARMS DELEGATION Hoover’s Failure to Name Officers Defended by Representative. On the heels of the voicing of a de- fense of President Hoover for failing to place naval officers on the United States delegation to the London Arms | Conference by Representative Mc- Clintic of Oklahoma it became appar- ent today that the delegates will be kept at work here until the last mo- ment. “President Hoover is to be warmly congratulated for appointing members of the commission that represent the American people,” McClintic said in a statement, “rather than the officers of the United States Navy.” He took exception to the stand taken in New York by Rear Admiral Bradley A. PFiske, retired, that a mistake had been made because no naval officers were appointed to the London confer- ence. Judgment of President. “When it is taken into consideration that the sorriest mess ever exposed to the American public,” McClintic said, “was the proceedings at Geneva at the last Armament Conference, which were conducted by a commission the ma- jority of whom were naval officers, ably assisted by a representative of certain shipbuilders, it easily can be understood why President Hoover has used such good judgment in appointing the kind of a commission that will not be domi- nated by those who have a selfish in- terest to serve.” McClintic referred to the activities of Willlam B. Shearer, naval lobbyist, which recently were investigated by a Benate committee. “As to Shearer’s effect on the Geneva conference,” Mccrlllnflc c-;,ndnued, “It tory one officer in the naval intelligence said that if Mr. Shearer was paid $3,000,000, he would be still underpaid. “In addition, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy and many other officers of the Navy knew of this unholy combina- tion, yet not & word was ever given to the public until Shearer squealed. In fact, every one knew this except Ad- miral Hileary P. Jones; and, although 1t is claimed he did not co-operate with Shearer, there are but few le in the United States who will believe that he assumed a different attitude than that which was put forth by all of the other naval officers who co-operated with Shearer.” McClintic said in explaining his statement that the Assistant Secretary of the Navy to whom he referred was “Theodore Douglas Robinson, under Secretary Wilbur.” If the program now set for the de- parture of the delegation is adhered to, New York City will have to wait until the delegates return from abroad to catch a glimpse of them. Start Next Thursday. ‘The whirlwind leave-taking now in prospect would keep the delegates and their party constantly en route from the time of leaving Washington until they arrive in England. A special train will fsteam from the Capital at 9 am. next Thursday with the entire party, from Secretary Stimson down, aboard, arriving at the Exchange Place Station, in Jersey City, at 1:30 p.m. The group is to be taken immediately by bus to the steamship George Wash- ington at its pler in Hoboken. The time for the ship's departure is set tentatively at 2 p.m., or as soon as all is aboard. ‘Two_days before the delegates de- part, however, President Hoover will p.yl".ho_m the final wn:pun:m: of n early morning breakfast. The princi- members of the delegation and all technical advisers have been in- vited. The hour set for this function % 8:15 am. DR. W. S..CULBERTSON 1 TO BE HONOR GUEST Georgetown College Deans Join in Dinner for United States Envoy of Chile. Dr. William 8. Culbertson, United States Ambassador to Chile, will be Georgetown Eafiege “tomortow ehening wn ege. orTow _evening given by President W. Coleman Nevils, 8. J, for the faculties of the law and foreign service departments of the university. Deans of all departments and the wives of faculty members, in- S’udm‘ul':rg Culbertson, will be among e guests. Ambassador Culbertson helped nize the Georgetown 8School of ‘oreign Service and for a number of years was a regular member of its faculty until his appointment as Min- ister to Rumania, his first diplomatic post. In addition to lecturing, he was a member of the executive faculty or the school. He is soon to return to his post in Chile. Both Dr. Nevils and Ambassador Cui- bertson will speak at the dinner. Es- pecially invited guests include executives of the various departments of the uni- versity, as follows: Dean George E. Hamilton and Assistant Dean Hugh J. Fegan of the Law School, Dean Wil- Ham P, Notz and Assistant Dean ‘Thomas H. Healy, Foreign Service School; Rev. R. Rush Rankin, 8. J., dean of arts and sciences; Dr. John A. Foote, dean of medicine, and Dr. ‘Willlam N. Cogan, dean of dentistry. HEART AT'I:ACK FATAL. Colored Woman Succumbs on Train in Union Station. Mrs. Mary Coleman, colored, 30 years old, of 47 Marris street, New Rochelle, N. Y., was stricken with an attack of heart disease while on a Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad train at Union Station about 3 o'clock this morning and died before medical aic could be given. An infant child of the deceased was taken to Children's Hospital to be cared for temporarily. Police notified rela- tives of her death. DR. NILSSON KNIGHTED. Noted Music Critic Honored by King of Sweden. MDTNMP?L]S, January 3 m:m recognition of his many years' work in Swedish letters and m’u!flc. Dr. Vietor Nilsson, music critic of the Minneapolis Journal, has been knighted by King Gustaf of Sweden with the Order of the North Star. Announcement of the distinction was made mflwfl.y by Nils Leon Jaenson, Bwe vice consul. APPOINTED 1:0 ACADEMY. J. Julien Southerland Named to hunting trip last Friday and Saturday. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Robert L. Pyle, local Nimrod and angler, and his Virginia deer, bagged on a The hunters, in addition to Pyle, were Marion Chapman, Allison Mouncastle, Richard Mouncastle, Berry and Barton Haxhall, Grover McCann and Zoxa and Wilmer Atkinson, all members of the ' | Chickahominy Country Club, Providence Forge, Va. located about 25 miles *| below Richmond. —Star Staff Photo. MRS. GANN TO GIVE PARTY T0 SIR ESME Farewell to Envoy First Formal Dinner of Vice President’s Hostess. Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann will preside tomorrow night at her first formal din- ner party since she assumed the social duties of official vice presidential hostess last Winter. Vice President Curtis will share with his sister the official dutles. ‘The function is in the nature of a farewell to Sir Esme Howard, the re- tiring British Ambassador, and will be attended by about 70 high ranking American and foreign officials. Among the guests will be five or six members of President Hoover’s cabinet, a num- ber of heads of foreign missions and members of the House and Senate with their wives. Vice President Curtis said today that he and Mr. and Mrs. Gann were giving the affair to return the courtesy of Sir Esme. “He has been fine to me and Mrs. Gann,” said Vice President Curtis, “and when we heard that he and Lady Isa- bella were leaving, we wanted to honor them in farewell.” Communication Recalled. It was Sir Esme Howard who, at the height of the controversy over Mrs. Gann’s social rank last Winter, sent & communication to the diplomatic corps, declaring in effect that the Vice President’s sister was recognized by him (Sir Esme) as entitled to the same honor she would have as the Vice President's wife. The British Ambassador invited both the Vice President and Mrs. Gann and Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth to the reception at the embassy last October for Prime Minister Macdonald. One of the first formal dinners in honor of Vice President Curtis and Mrs. Gann was that given by Sir Esme Howard and Lady Isabella shortly after in- auguration. Set in the Chinese room of the May- flower Hotel, at which Mr. and Mrs. Gann and the Vice President live in a 15-room suite, the dinner will be fol- lowed by a private showing of a motion picture film, in accordance with ar- rangements that apparently have been made in special consideration for the guest of honor. Sir Esme is fond of motion pictures and often has shown them for small groups in the ethbassy. Longworths Not Invited. ‘The question over the relative rank of Mrs. Gann and Mrs. Longworth will not be brought to the fore by the dinner tomorrow, since it is customary not to invite officials outranking the guest of honor, and consequently the Long- worths were not invited. Ever since inauguration Mrs. Gann has had large numbers of guests at her regular “at-homes,” so that they have been virtually small receptions. She was hostess to the diplomats at a re- ception last Winter, but this will be the first formal dinner party at which she has presided. Later in the Winter Vice President Curtis will have another large dinner party, in accordance with the custom of his entertaining the President. Sir Esme Howard and Lady Isabella will return to London when he retires from the diplomatic service of his country next month. WILL DISCUSS NOVEL. Hugh Walpole to Give Lecture at Central’ High Auditorium. “The Art and Immorality of the Novel” will be the subject of a lecture to be delivered by Hugh Walpole, Eng- lish novelist and critic, Thursday eve- ning, January 16, before the Community Institute at the Central High School | auditorium. Mr. Walpole is to make a lecture tour of the United States. - Fort Meade Plans New Buildings. Contract for the construction of 20 company officers’ quarters and 16 non- | commissioned officers’ quarters at Fort George G. Meade, Md., has been award- ed by Quartermaster Gen. 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B Batlo g, Too SATb1d SRiceee Do PARIS, France, January 3 (C.D.N.)— An American probably will be chosen head of the new Bank of International Payments at the conference called for the nnfil adoption of the Young repara- tions plan, which opens today at The Hague. Furthermore, it is expected that American banks will be requested to ar- range immediately to sell to investors in the United States a large allotment of new German reparations bonds. When the Young plan was negotiated in Paris some skepticism was expressed regarding the sale of the bonds because the New York Stock Exchange was then booming, with call money at 10 per cent, and the public was declining to buy anything but common stocks. After the November panic it is thought Ameri- cans will be glad to invest in sound Ger- man bonds which probably will yield about 6 per cent. Conference Prepared For. Unlike the first Hague conference, at which Chancellor Philip Snowden of Great Britain astonished the world by vigorously ending the British entente with France, the present conference has been carefully prepared for by diplo- matic interchanges which seem to have brought a complete agreement between France, Great Britain and Italy. It is believed, therefore, that the negotia- tions will succeed. The French even hope that all will be over in 10 days, so that the delegates may proceed directly to the meeting of the League of Nations Council in Geneva January 13. The Germans are less optimistic, though even in Germany nobody seri- ously doubts that the plan will go through. The British are reported to be particularly eager for rapid achieve- ment, so that a way will be prepared nd a favorable atmosphere created for great London naval conference. Nevertheless there are a number of minor points on the agenda. The bank statutes must be completed. Not only the president, but also the general man- ager, must he chosen for this institu- tion. The British, i they cannot have this place themselves, would, it is known, prefer a Dutch or Swiss man- ager to a French or n one. Annuities to Correspond. The scale of annuities must be re- vised to correspond with the new Ger- man-American agreement whereby Ger- many will pay the United States Army of Occupation costs directly inatead of through the international pank, It is feared here that this complete official withdrawal of the United States from the Young plan after having participat- ed fully the Dawes plan may en- courage Germany to hold out on a number of smaller points for trading purposes. However, it is realized that the American official policy is dictated iargely by fear of the American Senate and that the administration is not real- 1y unfriendly toward the bank. ‘The French intend to raise the ques- tion of sanctions. It is thought that a compromise can be reached by letting the World Court decide in case of a German default whether this default is willful, hence lawful grounds for the putting into force of the sanctions pro- vided for by the treaty of Versailles, (Copyright, 1930.) o WILL INSPECT STATION. ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands, Jan- uary 3 (#)—Capt Waldo Evans, Gov- ernor of the Virgin Islands, will pro- ceed to San Juan, Porto Rico, today on the U. 8. S. Grebe to inspect the naval radio station and other Ameri- can Navy establishments as district He will be the guest of Gov. Theodore Roosevelt for about a week. - cfifl“ - commandant. QOur Practical Credit Plan makes it easy for you to have a Beau- tiful Home! 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Philippine sugar produc- tion has been increasing rapidly in re- cent years and Congress has refused to apply the tariff to importations from the islands. sugar controversy has been one of the high spots of the tariff debate in both the House and Senate. The Senate lobby committee has been in- quiring extenstvely into the operations of those interested both for and against the proposed sugar duty. This inquiry has shown that Cuba and Cuban sugar producers were active against the in- crease. The sugar tariff probably will be taken up by the Senate as soon as it concludes its consideration of the wool schedules after resuming sessions on Monday. . POLICE SCHOOL FORMS NEW CLASS IN TRAINING Intensive Course in Study to Begin Monday and Continue for 80 Weekdays. A new training class in the Police School will start its instruction at 8:30 work every week day for 30 days. Among the subjects of instruction are the elements of law, the police regula- tions and training in the use of fire- arms. Those who will attend the school are: J. E. Yost, first precinct; C. H. Gould and John R. Wallace, second precinct; M. C. Barco and J. C. Con- way, third precinct: E. D. Alber and L. D. Peyton, fourth precinct; W. H. Cox and F. G. Pilkerton, fifth precinct; V. A. Hinely, sixth precinct; D. O. Fletcher and K. G. McCormick, seventh precinct; F. J. Haack and J. C. Mc- Kone, eighth precinct; C. L. Hayden, ninth precinct; J. E. Armstrong and W. B. , tenth precinct; C. W. Coleman, twelfth precinct; H. A. Sauer, thirteenth precinct, and E. T. Haas, fourteenth precinct. GUEST TO ADDRESS JEWS. Rabbi Benjamin Listed for Tonight at Local Synagogue. ‘The seventh of a series of guest rabbis will address the Adas Israel Congregation tonight at the re ligious services of the - Synagogue. 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