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PACT RATIFICATION BY U. 5. FORECAST {Treaty Interpreted as Assur- ing Better Balanced Navy for America. (Continued From First Page.) Sheoretical for . there is no reason to | @ssume that Great Britain, Japan or even the United States would have been willing, without a real emergency, to build new capital ships at such ex- pense that other categories of the fleet | must have necessarily suffered. | The fact seems to be that under the | treaty figures Great Britain must near- ly double its present replacement and new construction budget, the United | States must nearly triple, and Japan | can continue at about the present level. France can carry -ut its present build- | ing program without increasing its | naval budget, but Italy, to reach parity with Prance, would be obliged to more | than double its present financial ef-| 2. Naval. Great Britain under the | treaty somewhat reduces its fleet, Japan | stabilizes at about its present strength, | and the United States plans to build up _to parity with Great Britain. France and Italy keep a free hand They will be asked to slow up building | 80 that Great Britain will not obliged to invoke the escape clause in a year or two and, under the two-| power standard on which the British | admirably insists, to build more | destroyers and cruisers than the treaty provides for. Whether they will really slow up or whether they wiil accentuate their present naval race remains to be_seen. France apparently plans to keep the | three-two ratio to Italy, whatever the | latter builds, while Italy is equally in- | sistent on parity with France. In any case, whatever France and Italy de- cide, Great Britain will be affected, and through Great Britain we and the Japanese. Thus, paradoxically, it ap- pears that the size of our Navy depends in the last analysis on the Mediter- ranean rivalry of two powers whose differences do not directly concern us —such is the essential unity of the modern world. Still Consider Battleships. Technically the trend of the confer- ence is toward a new type of navies of small units, and more of them, with plenty of submarines and especially airplanes. The United States, which is the last power to cling to battleships, has agreed not to replace them before 1936, while holding cpen the question whether they should then be decreased | in size or abolished altogether. | The chances are that the eight-inch | eruisers will be the capital ship of the | future, supplemented by a new type of | large six-inch cruiser which we seem | to be preparing to inaugurate. De- stroyer fieets will be proportioned to submarine fleets, which Great Britain, the United States and Japan are main- | taining at a level large enough for defense, but not sufficient for long-dis- tance offense. | France apparently intends to retain | its pre-eminence in submarines, though | some French experts are beginning to think 1n_terms of more airplanes and | fewer submarines. In any case, the | British effort to abolish submarines has failed completely for the present. 3. Political. ~ The main political question of the conference was to what extent the Rapidan meeting meant an Anglo-American entente, or even an un- jon of Anglo-Saxon peoples to “keep the peace” for the rest of the world. Un- doubtedly some British leaders, even some Americans, hoped that there would be such an entente. But when the American delegation realized the sit- uation, it hastened to do everything in its power to prove to the other nations that the United States contemplates no such entanglement. Our delegates then urged the British to try every reasonable means to reach an agreement with the French and when this fafled, we went so far as to make our spectacular tentative offer of a consultative pact, which, without binding us in any respect, was equiva- lent to assuring the Europeans that we are not trying to draw Great Britain out of Europe and smash the League of Nations. Demonstrate Interest. It was largely owing to this offer on | our part, with a corresponding lesson to Great Britain on one hand, and France and Italy on the other, that the conference in failing to achieve a five- | i treaty nevertheless ended in a tter political atmosphere than would otherwise have been possible. ‘We have made it clear that we have an interest now, even if only an indirect interest, in the future of Franco-British and Franco-Italian relations, on which the size of our own Navy must ulti- mately be regulated. This fact, it is felt, will exercise, a harmonizing in- fluence on all concerned and will facili- tate ultimate agreements. There is not the slightest doubt that our diplomacy will watch with the great care the Geneva negotiations in | which France and Great Britain will again discuss security, as well as the Franco-Ttalian _negotiations on which | the ultimate size of the French and | Italian navies will depend. Callam Uninjured in Crash. Alexander Callam, master of cere- monies of the Fox Theater here, escaped injury when an automobile he was driv- ing sideswiped a truck, according to | police, and crashed into an electric pole | on the Fort Humphrey road just south | of Alexanaria Friday. The accident was attributed to the slippery condition of | the highway. Callam’s auto was re-| ported considerably damaged. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 20, 1930_PART ONE BYRD AND COMPANIONS EN ROUTE HOME Upper, left to right: G. A. Thorne, surveyor; Capt. A. N. Parker, airplane pilot, and Capt. C. A. McKinley, aerial photographer of the Byrd Antarctic maps of an area represented until now barrier. Lower: Rear Admiral Richard E. | Expedition, glimpsed on their return to the United States April 15, through the | port of San Francisco on the liner Narama. | across the South Pole. His pictures and surveys are to provide the world with Parker is one of the four who flew as a large blank surrounded by an ice Byrd (left), leader of the successful exploration expedition in Antarctica, which was climaxed with a flight across the South Pole, and Capt. Frederick O. | of New York, as they parted on the bri sailed for Papeete, Tahiti, en route to behind to close the expedition’s business the ship in Panama. Melville, master of Byrd's flagship, City ge of the barque March 23, when she | New York. The commander remained affairs in New Zealand, but will rejoin ENVOYS DIFFER IN METHOD Naval Conference Makes an “Uncle Joe” of Robinson, While Morrow Is Distinguished by Use of Books for BY WILLIAM HARD. | Senator Joseph T. Robinson of | Arkansas will come back from his work as a naval delegate at London clothed with the title of “Uncle Joe.” His work in the conference was to sit back and let the other delegates do most of the direct negotiating with the foreigners, _after which they would return to Senator Robinson and present the results of their efforts to his wisdom. He proved that his wis- dom was very great and very creative. The other delegates started looking up to him exceedingly. He presently began to be regarded as much more venerable than his years would justi: fy. He began to be mentioned, there upon, with _considerable awe, as “Uncle Joe.” He is still robust enough to knock down an ox, and he ought to enjoy being “Uncle Joe” for along about @ generation to come. Dwight Morrow initiated his labors as a Naval Conference delegate at the Ritz Hotel in London by buying a lot of books. He did this much more than any other delegate present from any country. He bought books | principally on, the history of British | diplomacy and on the general develcp- ment of European politics. One reason why he is a great diplomat is that he begins by trying to learn all about strangers with whom he is going to deal. The first thing he did in Mexico was to read up about M-xicans. The‘ first thing he did in Europe was to read up about Europeans. The long row of books in his work room in the Ritz Hotel was a monument to his sensitive and sagacious inquisitiveness about his | foreign conference colleagues. He then | further proceeded to mingle with them | and to listen to them with tireless at- | tention. It is hard to say whether Mr. | Morrow more loves books or more loves | people. The best summary of him perhaps would be that he is pretty | nearly our greatest American peruser of human documents, whether those | ALL AMERICA A Man’s Diamond That Insures Pride set Pay $1.00 a Week Gleaming white diamond, in a distinctive 18-Kt. Solid White Gold man’s mounting. A ring which both dignified and masculine. A fine value! it JEWELRY COMPANV 409-11 7th St. NW. p AMERICAS CARGEST CREDIT JEWELRY CRGANUZATION Guidance. documents are in cloth covers or in flesh and blood. It is said, though, that Mr. Morrow does not much care for a campaign slogan which has been suggested on his behalf in anticipation of his fight among voters of New Jersey for nomination and election to the United States Sen- ate. The suggested slogan is: “If He's Good Enough for Lindbergh, He's Good Enough for Me.” It has been further jocularly thought that Mr. Morrow might be advertised as “The only man with a son-in-law who is an asset.” The toughest job assigned to any American delegate at London was Sena- tor Reed’s. He had to do the negotiat- ing with the Japanese. The trouble was that they were actually ahead ot us in the building of new first-rate cruisers and of new first-rate sub- marines. Senator Reed’s necessary ob- jective was to persuade the Japanese at least to slow down and calmly allow us to catch up with them. It is be- lieved that he succeeded in this task largely through one of his most strik- ing peculiarities. He always looks as if he were getting the worst of a bargain and as if somebody was doing him a grevious injustice. 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Borden was arrested by police on & charge of colliding and failing to stop. James H. Jones, 14 years old, of 217 Pennsylvania_avenue, was hurled from his bicycle and his right knee fractured yesterday afternoon when a machine, operated by Elmer W. Balster of 4464 Reservoir road, struck him The acei: | dent occurred in the 900 block of Penn- sylvania avenue. He was taken to Emergency Hospital HUSBAND IS MISSING Woman Asks Police to Help Find Man. Mrs. Frederick A. O'Neill of 2123 I street, appealed to police last night to conduct a search for her husband, who has not been seen since he left his place of employment in the Government Printing_ Office yesterday afternoon. Mrs. O'Neill described her husband as being 25 years old and 5 feet 5 inches tall. He was wearing a blue suit, a derby and gray raincoat when he left for work yesterday morning, she said. . | There is never any glint of triumph in his eye, He always wears the appear- ance of needing large further conces- sions to his claims before he could think that fairness had been accom- plished. One of the Japanese delegates once remarked that he would like to do something to make Senator Reed less mournful. He was frustrated. ~The Japanese delegation agreed to lie quite fairly still while our cruisers and sub- marines could get even with theirs, but Senator Reed looked mournfuler than ever. His only moments of hearty | hilarious cheer seem to be when he dis- covers some New Testament or some | book of prayers printed with special |skill in the Latin language in the | fifteenth century. He is a bibliophile, which means book-bug. Forced to Vacate May 1st Entire Stock of Electric Fixtures Will Be Sold Regardless of Cost 259% to 50% off | 717 12th St. N.W. Material/ But if you call yard or delivered 3 BRANCHES 3 Main Office Sixth and C Streets S W Camp Meigs Fifth and Florida Ave. N B. Brightwood 5921 Georgia Avenue N. W BREADTH OF VISION URGED IN MERGER Washington C. of C. Speaker Broadcasts Plea for Traction Move. ‘The various interests concerned with the proposed merger of the District’s street railways were urged to forget | their differences and strive for the common good, last night by Dorsey W. | Hyde, jr. executive secretary of the | Washington Chamber of Commerce. in a radio address broadcast from station ‘be WMAL. The speaker discussed at length the various arguments relative to the ques tion of jurisdiction of the Public Utili- ties Commission and the courts and stated the position of his organization as a compromise between two extreme views. “The Washington Chamber of Com- merce does not believe,” he declared. “that the District of Columbia should be made into a ‘trying-out' place for ‘model’ or other premature legislation. In the present instance it feels that in agreeing to the surrender to the Public Utilities Commission of the legislative powers now exercised by the courts, the street railway companies have gone as far as, in fairness, they may be ex- pected to go. “The chamber, therefore, has rec- ommended to Congress an extension of the powers of the Public Utilities Com- mission to achieve this end, but with appropriate safeguards so that there shall_be no undue infringement upon the field of the courts nor upon the right of the individual to appeal to the courts for final action upon any cause in_which his personal rights or the rights of the community are at stake “The District of Columbia has every- | thing to gain from a properly conceived | transit merger plan, such as has been | recommended for some 20 years past by the Washington Chamber of Commerce. | The people of Washington have a right | to expect that their interests be not | sacrificed and the merger plan delayed | or defeated by overinsistence upon de- | tails which are not essential to the | success of the undertaking.” The largest building in the world was built more than 4,000 years ago. It is the Great Pyramid at Gizeh. The | square base covers 480,000 feet, and it to0k 200,000 men 20 years to build it. | playground, reported to police yester- | day. The loot was valued at $15. Girl Describes Escape Warden’s Daughter Let-Off by Polite Convict When Discovered in Thick of Battle in Rhode Island Prison—Sees Start of Shooting. Editor’s note: _The_following is the account of Miss Thelma Lins- cott, 23-year-old daughter of War- den Charles E. Linscott of the Rhode Island State Prison at Cranston, of her release by rioting prisoners at the height of a frustrated prison de- livery, written for the Associated Press. By the Associated P CRANSTON, R. I, April 19.—Of course I was frightened—who wouldn't > I was in the prison barber shop when the outbreak started. My hair had just PLAYGROUND ROBBED Base Balls, Bats, Jump Ropes and Soccer Ball Are Stolen. Breaking into the office of the play- ground at Thirty-fourth street and | Volta place, robbers escaped Wwith 16 indoor base »>alls, four bats, three jumping ropes and a soccer ball Friday night, Mrs. Abbie Flynn, director of the ' MISSING GIRLS SOUGHT | Baltimore Parents Believe Pair| Came to This City. | District police began a search last | night for Josephine Earle and Bertha Furrow, both 16 years old, who have | been missing from their homes in Bal- | timore since early yesterday. | The two girls were believed to have | come to this city and Baltimore police | appealed to local authorities to main- tain a watch for them. Boy Killed by Base Ball. | CHICAGO, L, April 19 (#).—Joseph | Lefkowicz, 14, died today of concussion of the brain, the first Chicago victim of sandlot base ball. Joseph, at bat, was | struck in the temple by a pitched ball. been trimmed and I was about to leave through the double gateway that leads to the visitors’ room, when I realized what was happening. Mr. McVay had just put the key in the outer door to let me out when he was attacked. I turned to give the alarm, when I saw the convict McNeil had a gun pressed against the side of Guard Meehan, inside the cage. I ran back toward the spiral stairs that leads upstairs and the shooting started. I crouched down and ran into a clothing room and back to the barber shop. There I was joined by Guard Levi Davis. Outside in the yard I could see an assistant deputy warden and I called to him to send help down from = | upstairs. Then I heard Guard Davis saying, “There’s a girl in here fellows, we ought to let her go.” Whitney Miller came to the door and said he didn't know there was a girl in here. “Pardon me, lady,” he said, “I didn’t know you were in here.” He told me to go and I ran up the spiral stairway and over to the warden's offic Give the Folks and Get Your at A8 PRISON OUTBREAK TAKES TWO LIVES; THREE WOUNDED (Continued Prom First Page.) erty damage estimated at $250,000 was caused. One of the esca convicts subsequently was killed. Convicts &t the Federal Penitentiary at Leaven- worth, Kans., rebelled August 1 over the quality of the food and the system of discipline. One prisoner was killed and three injured. On October 3, in- mates of the State Prison at Canyon City, Colo., captured & number of guards as hostages and murdered them one by one when officials refused to grant their demands for freedom. The battle between the barricaded convicts and the State troopers, guards and po- lice lasted for more than 24 hours. At last the leaders of the mutiny, seeing their cause was lost, committed suicide. Seven guards and five convicts, includ- ing the leaders, were killed and several prison buildings wrecked, with damage of hundreds of thousands of dollars. At Auburn Prison on December 11 seven prisoners and George A. Dunford, principal keeper, were killed in a riot and attempted jail delivery. 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