Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1930, Page 4

CAPITAL SHIP PACT | IS EXPECTED S00N 5—5—3 Ratio Fixed Under: Washington Treaty Is Basis | of Agreement. i By the Assoclated Pregs. LONDON, February 5—The highest | authority stated today that America, | Great Britain and Japan expected to | reach a tentative agreement within a few days for reduction of capital ships, or battleships contained in those coun- tries' navies. H This source stated that the Amerfeans | had submitted definite propocals to | Great Britain and Japan. While the detalls were withheld, it was understood the proposed reduction would follow the 5—5—3 capital ship ratio established at the Washingtcn Conference. The general problem of battleships | is being negotiated now between the delegatiuns of ihe three countries. The gemeral attitude of the three delega- tion chiefs is said to be that there are | prospects of ready acceptance, al- though thus far there is no agresment between any two. i The British capital ship total now stands at 20. The Americans have 18 of the big ships and the Japinese 10. ‘Thes= limits were set by the Washington conference. Contingent on Cruisers. It was said. however, that the pro posed agreement between the three na- tions would be only tentative, the Amer- icans contending that it was contingent | upon the settling of the cruiser question. | Members of the French delcgation ex- pressed their approval of the proposed | agreement and said they would be in accord with any such development. The delegations this morning devoted their time to discussions among their own members. Col. Stimson had an carly round of golf with his military aide at Stanmoor and later had a con- ference with members of his delegation at the Ritz. As a prelude to the “big five” meeting called for this evening, a conference was | arranged at St. James' Palace between Secretary Stimson, Premier Tardieu and Prime Minister Macdonald. The meet- ing will be held an hour before the other session gets under way. Col. Stimson is attacking a problemi involving facts and figures, to wit, bat- tleships and submarines. Submarines Discussed. Meeting yesterday in private confer- The society, organized in 19 ton group entertained the out-of-town IPANESEANDLU.S SEEN IN IMPASSE 140 Per Cent Superiority Held ‘rreducible Minimum Fixed by Americans. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, Stalf Correspondent of The Star. | By Cabie to The Star, LONDON, February 5—America and Grosvenor, Mrs. Lucille Douglass, Mrs. Mrs. Mitchell Carroll, Mrs. Mary Maxwell, Mrs. Helen Fitzgerald and Mrs. John B. Kuhns. STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, | ppkUARY photographed yesterday at luncheon nt the Arts Club. members now in Washington. Around | sudaira has not been disclosed. The nese, on their part, assured the Americans of Tokio's eagerness to join n postponement of battieship replace- ment and reduce both the size and gun calibers of battleships. | As to postponing replacements over a limited period, they found the Ameri- cans in an acquiescent mood. With respect to cutting down the size and decreasing the armament of battleships, | Reed voiced less enthusiasm on his Government's behalf. The American | attitude that battleships are “the core | of the fleet” was presented strongly. Because of the United States few and far-flung naval bases in the Pacific, it was shown to the Japanese that the United States looks upon battleships as floating fortified bases to be sent | across the sess in emergencies. | | The Americans regard them as | weapons not only capable of giving | punishment, but more particularly of | | taking punishment. They are in short, the Japanese were informed, considered ‘The members of the Washing: the table, left to right: Mrs. Margaret Downing, Mrs. John Walker Holcombe, Mrs. Mabel Cook Cole, Mrs. Charles Walcott, Dr. Hollen Strong, Mrs. Giibert . Gifford Pinchot, Mrs. Gloria Hollister, Mrs. Fulton Lewls, CHICAGO ESCAPE PLOT DETAILS ARE DISCLOSED Police Find Desperadoes Had Sawed Through Steel Wall Before Being Discovered. | By the Zearclated Press. CHICAQN:, an escape plot in the Cook County Jail, frustrated last Friday, were disclosed today. Although sounds of sawing were first detected three weeks ago, the exact cell from which the sounds emanated could not be located. Friday, prisoners were removed from all cells in the tler and under a bunk in one of them, eight saws | were found. An opening, 8 by 10 inches, had been cut through the steel wall, = February 5-—Details of | REVEALED IN PACT {Hoover - Macdonald Agree- | ment Sets Capital Ships for Two Nations at 15 Each. (Continued From First Page.) whether they carried 6-inch or 8-inch guns. The four Hawkins type British Cruisers, which have 7lj-inch guns, | were to be classed as large cruisers, Strength in Cruisers, It was agreed that Great Britain | should have more smail cruisers and the United States more large cruisers, if possible on a basis of 18 large for the | United States and 15 for Great Britain, | the total crulser tonnage then being for Great Britain 339,000 tons and for the United States 315,000 tons. In small | cruisers this would allow the United | States, in addition to 10 of the Omaha | type now in service, to build 45,000 tons | of some of the new type of 6-inch | cruiser. It would allow Great Britain to have 35 small cruisers of an average | tonnage of 5,400, making a total of 50 British cruisers, which 18 the least the admiralty thinks it can do with, In order to achieve the foregoing pro- ortion of 18 to 15 in large cruisers, it eems to have been settled that Great Britain before 1936 shall scrap four | Hawkins' type or else the United States | would be obliged to build not 18, but 21 large cruisers. However, it was recognized that Brit- ish cruiser strength depends to some extent on France and Japan, and the proportion considered acceptable was stated, it s said, thus: the United States 18, Great Britain 15, Japan 12, France | 9 and Italy 6. |, There would be parity in destroyers. | This parity seems to have been suggest- ed on a basis of 130 units, which is the least the British say is possible. It was agreed to try to abolish sul but if unsuccessful in an tempt to do this, then to limit them | as low as possible and to allow a total of not more than 60,000 tons for any one nation. Scrapping Is Opposed. ‘These terms in & general way seem | to_continue to be the basis of whatever | talks on figures the American and Brit- ish delegates have had thus far here. | Mr. Macdonald, however, is meeting | some opposition to the scrapping of four Hawkins' cruisers. | Private negotiations continued today among the delegates of the five powers. The general subject is now actual fig- LARGEREDUCTION {CRIPPLES' SCHOOL HELD ANTIQUATED Weightman Building, Poorly, Lighted and Heated, Needs Modern Equipment. This final article of a series on the physical s of Washington's elementary schools deals with the Weightman' School for Cripples, which was omitted from yesterday's article. Only a little more than 3 months old | the Weightman School for Cripples falls far short of being housed and equipped like modern schools of this type in oth- er cities. It occupies four rooms on the first floor of the Weightman School Building, Twenty-third and M streets, | an antiquated structure, poorly lighted, | poorly heated and dingy in appearance | inside and out. | ‘Two of the rooms are used for class | work. ‘There is & combined first, sec ond and third grade in one room with 28 boys and girls. The other class room has a combined fourth, fifth and sixth grade with 12 boys and girls. ‘The only public school for white crip- pled children in the District, it corre- | sponds to the Magruder school for col- ored crippled children, Five of the children in the Weight- man School use wheeled chairs, three of them never leaving the chairs while in the school. There is no table high enough to be used by the children in wheeled chairs. The Star reporter was | informed that tables are being con- | structed that will remedy this need. At | present the children in these chairs | write on boards laid across the chair | arms. | Some other specially constructed fur- niture, suitable for crippled children, is Pruvldefl in both class rooms, but more s needed. One room, used as a rest room, has some physiotherapy equipment. It is provided with cots on which the chil- dren can recline when they are tired i 1 | or_unwell. ‘The other room on this floor, now va- cant, will be fitted later as a gymnasium | and ‘treatment room. It is hoped to in- | stall equipment for hydrotherapy and electrotherapy in this room. While a beginning has been made toward establishment of a properly equipped and housed school for cripoled children, the Weightman School is al- most entirely lacking in the things that a modern school of this kind is sup- | posed to have, according to the teach- ing personnel. | White, musical comedy actress, yester- | She testified_that | serted without cause June 1, 1926. brought to school and taken home again in busses provided by the school system. It is hoped by those in charge of the Weightman Schoal for Cripples that Congress will soon provide sufficient money for the purchase of modern equipment and that eventually more cheerful and better designed quarters will be provided. Comedy Actress Gets Divorce. CHICAGO, February 5 (#).—Frances day was granted a divorce by .Yudl!I Joseph Sabath from Clinton T. Don- nelly, New York theatrical manager. they were married d that she was de- une 23, 1923, “Six years ago, in June, my husband and I were mar- ried. We both worked and our combined income ranged around $350 per month. The first vear the business we were n failed and we were plunged $1,000 in debt. “We commenced to go into debt for clothing and other TIN ROOFS PORCHES BUILT " B AR R Sfim& oN <JERVICE neces sities and were greatly dis- couraged. We knew not where to turn until our coal man suggested the MORRIS PLAN. “This was nearly ifwo years ago, and we, by month- ly payments, have nearly cleared ourselves of debt. We can now look people in the face and mot feel ashamed.” ence for the first time since the naval | JAPan at last have come to grips at /as a wholly indispensable arm of ures and tonnages, but nothing new arley opened, Col. Stimson and Reijiro ‘akatsuki, head of the Japanese dele- gation, and their aides and advisers | Jaunched a discussion of the capital ship | needs of their governments, the pros. pects for their limitation and the mat- ter of abolition of submarines. It had been supposed when the rep- Tesentatives of the two nations met that | Japan’s contention of an allotment of | a 10-10-7 cruiser ratio was to be taken | up. At the conclusion of the mceting | neither of the chiefs wouid divulge de- tails of what had passed between them. A spokesman for the Japanese, how ever, said later that the cruiser ratio demanded by the Japanese had been | mentioned only casually and that bat- tleships and submarines had been the principal topic. It was understood that America and Japan were together on the matter of prolonging age limits of bat- tleships, but could not agree on sub- marines. America and Great Britain want the undersea craft abolished, but neither believes seriously that the other powers will give up submarines, which they consider necessary for coast defense. Consequently the conference will be asked to agree instead on lim'tation of the size and cruising radius of these craft. Japan, in favor of this, is asking only | for submarines suitable for defense of | its coast. Beyond the matter of age | limits it was not known just what phases the discussion of battleships touched. No date was set for future American or Japanese meetings, but it was thought others would be held soon. Tardien Return Awalted. Meanwhile the remainder of the con- | ference seemed as deeply imbedded as | ever in its treatment of opposing view- points on global and categorical view- nage methods of naval limitation. ‘There was hope that arrival of M. Tar- dieu, French premier, from Paris this | evening might clear the way for a: solution of this phase of the negotia- tions. A new hitch has arisen with disin- clination of the French for a discussion of total tonnage figures for each power until after the theory of the manner of limitation has been settled. Italy, on the other hand, would prefer seeing proposed tonnage figures for the five powers stated first in order that they | can determine whether the global or categorical plans meet their approval. The Americans and Japanese have taken little active part in discussions of this phase of tonnage theorizing, be- lieving a compromise agreement will be reached on the basis of British and French proposals to reconcile the global and categorical schools of thought. They have, however, been busy formu- lating plans for adjustment of the French and Italian parity differences | ‘when they come before the conference. ‘While this Pranco-Italian matter has been viewed generally as one of the principal obstacles confronting the del- egates, the chiefs of the delegations apparently are not at all pessimistic as to the final outcome of the meeting, feeling that both countries are sincere | in their desire to reduce tremendous sea armament expenses and ultimately | reach an agreement which will be | generally satisfactory. TARDIEU LEAVES PARIS. Premier Expects to Remain in London for Parley Two Days. PARIS, February 5 (#).—Premier ‘Tardieu left here for London today, ex- pecting to remain there two days. He will return here Friday afternoon for debate in the Chamber of Deputies. the London Naval Conference. During two hours of courteous but plain talk- ing, at Secretary of State Stimson's | America’s sea forces. The Japanese let the Americans know that Japan cannot possibly discuss the abolition of sub- jhad to yield under American and Brit- marines. On the contrary, her de- fensive requirements call for 90,000 tons of them. conference at the Ritz Hotel, yesterday afternoon, each government laid down | its_position. i il Japan now knows that, in a m | ctions vhere. to equality with Great Britain, the | e A [y United States has another irreducible | The Japanese have run into the same | minimum. It consists of strict main- | Objections to their 10-—7 cruiser de- | tenance of 40 per cent superiority in mands at the hands of Great Britain | naval strength over Japan. In other and especially British dominloris lke | rds, the perpetuation of the 10—6 | Australia, New Zealand and Canada, as | ratio. The Japanese were told that | they are encountering from America. | their desire for a 10—7 ratio, particu- | The Japanese delegation regrets that larly in the category of 10,000-ton, |Britain should have accepted fewer 8-inch gun cruisers, is practically | 10.000-ton cruisers than the United undebatable from the American stand- | States, becauss Japan feels its quota point. must be based on the higher American Undoubtedly. the American-Japanese fotal. Consequently, if the United conference. which was the first of any States obtains 18 and Great Britain real importance yet to have taken place 15 big cruisers, Japan, which claims | between the two delegations, marks onc | 7-10 Tatio, would have to insist on 86 of the turning points of the conference. | Per cent of the British total, or prac- Secretary Stimson, Ambassador Morrow | tically as many as England would and Senator Reed were the spokesmen |Possess. It is well understood in Lon- | for the United States. Former Premier |don that such figures never would be ‘Wakatsuki, Admiral Takarabe and Am- |acceptable to Britain. Australia and | bassador Matsudaira represented Japan. | New Zealand would not consent to an | Senator Reed was assigned to do |#greement that would result in out- | most of the talking on behalf of the numbering of the British cruiser United States. The Japanese delegation | strength in the Pacific by Japan, or | has been allotted the Pennsylvanian as | even in equalizing the two fleets. his more or less special field at London. | It needs always to be borne in mind Ambassador Matsudaira, because of his that the most insignificant British fluent knowledge of English and per- (dominion represented at the conference | sonal acquaintance with the American | could prevent an agreement, because no delegates, functioned as the chief | decisions which are not unanimous | mouthpiece of Japan. vould have any effect. i ‘The Star correspondent learns that Insist on Margin. ways and means yet may be found to ‘The Japanese delegates were assured | conciliate Japan, perhaps by slight that American public opinion—on | modification of the 10—6 ratio in her which Stimson and his colleagu>s al-—7&o7, Y ships other than cruisers. The ways keep an eye peeled—is not pre- | American delegation is fully conscious pared to look with favor upon the pro- | of the local political situation, where- posed increase in Japaness naval| of the Japanese delegation must take strength. Japan’s readir to “go the | constant cognizance. limit” in reduction is appreciated and | The Tokio admiralty was powerful | fully shared by the United States, the |enough to send Wakatsuki, Takarabe and American delegates explained, but to | Matsudaira to the conference with un- satisty the American people such re- | compromising instructions on the 10—7 | duction always would have to provide | proposition. The American spokesmen for a 40 per cent margin in the favor | realize the difficulty the Japansse thns of the United States. | face in mak'ng concessions. Meantime, The Japanese delegation was re- | the work of finding a way out of the minded that the United Stats, in the | impasse proceeds Washington treaty of 1922, agreed to | (Copy:ight, 1930.) cease all work on her naval bases in the | : e ol Far East and leave them unfinished and unprotected. This was done for the special purpose of reassuring Japan, the Americans pointed out. American confidence in Japan's peaceful inten- tions, Reed explaincd, is just as strong today as it was eight years ago, but to sustain that confidence, the United States feels entitled to ask preservation of the 10—6 status. Ambassador Matsudaira argued force- fully for the contentions which Japan has put forward publicly and still ad- vocates tenaciously. These call for a 10—7 quota of eny and all cruiser, destroyer and submarine allocations made to America and Great Britain. The Japanese especially demand 70 per cent of whatever big cruiser tonnage eventually is assigned to the United States. Japen's delegates recalled that at the Washington conference the Japanese suggested & much lower standard than 10,000-ton, eight-inch gun cruisers, but The new submarine Odin, which has | taken two and one-hslf years to build ‘has just been completed at Chatham, | England. A Garage for Your Car New Material at Low Prices ish pressure. Japan would welcome a drastic cut in the size of cruisers and even hopes this may be one of the con- crete results of the London Conference But no matter how large or small the largest types of cruisers shall be in the future; the Japanes® want 7 of them to every 10 built by the United States. Would Affect Far East. The American delegates did not fall during the protiacted discussion with the Japanese to stress the Far Eastern AGREE TO SIGN TREATY. - | Austrin and Italy Will Complete| Friendship Pact. } ROME, February 5 (#.—Austria and | Italy will sign a treaty of friendship and conciliation and a judicial pact to- morrow as the result of a mecting here vesterday between Chanccllor Schober of Austria and Premier Mussclini. The treaty and pact are expected to go far toward smoothing over the diffi- culties of the two countries since the P var rearrangement of frontiers and the advent of Fascism to power in Italy. Chancellor Schober thanked the Duce | for the Ifallan support given Austria at The Hague reparations conference and gave him the Austrian grand cordon | with the gold star of merit. He also made him a present of the first copy | printed in Austria of a book of pravers | by Galezzo Maria Sforz: CANDIDATE TAKEN ILL. Enrique Olaya-Herrera, Colombian Presidency, Has Grip. By the Associated Press. BOGOTA, Colombia, February 5— Enrique Olaya-Herrera, Colombian Minister to Washington and Liberal candidate for the presiden day was under a physician’s cause of an attack of the grip. Meanwhile the two Conservative can- didates, Guillermo Valencia and A. Vas- bo, remained active in their paign, the result of whith will be decided in the national election Sun- | United States forthwith to reconsider | impressed Wakatsuki, Beeking t naval base situation. What they said amounts to notice that if Japan insists on raising the auxiliary craft ratio from | 10—6 to 10—7, she automatically will reopen the whole Paclfic Ocean fortifica- tion question. She would compel the FOUNDATION TO ROOF. the advicability of turning Manila and Guam into first-class protected bases as the inevitable reply to increased Japanese naval power, How far this principal American ar- gument against Japan's 10—7 demand ‘Takarabe and 3—Branches—3 MAIN OFFICE-6™ & C.Sts. S.W. CAMP MEIGS-5 & Fla. 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Davis_acquired extensive business hold- ings and became & wealthy and re- spected citizen. In appeals for clemency it developed that Cameron had given $10,000 to the family of the man he killed. this respect has thus far developed. All five countries are merely outlining to one another their initial positions. ‘The British cabinet met this morning and this afternoon Mr. Macdonald con- ferred with the Dominion delegates. Secretary of State Stimson, Premier | Tardleu and Mr. Macdonald are sched- uled to meet at 5 o'clock this evening, prior to the meeting of heads of the delegations at 6 o'clock. The feeling is that the conference proper will be ready to tackle figures by next week, For the present all the | delegations are bent upon keeping what- ever divergences may develop out of | the press, because they fear bad effects from what they imagine would be the excited pressure of public opinion in | the'r various nations. Japan now has more than 60 banks ' in Manchuria. 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