Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1931, Page 4

U. $: Experts Believe Date Too Near and Bitter Feeling Likely on ‘Delay Question. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Examination of the political sitution in Europe by Afherican disarmameft experts, iow drawing to a close, predi- cates findings that are not encouraging. Today, more than ever, these experts bélieve that the date for the general disarmament conference, fized by the Léague of Nations for February 2, 1932, is premature. Bitter feeling existing today between the European statés is at & point that makes out experts look with appréhen- #ion at what may happen at that con- fétence, which is being summoned to rélieve the present political tension ih Burope. Yet, it is authoritatively stated, it will be difficult to obtain a postponeé- ment of thé conferénce, much ad it may be desired. At Geneva, in November, 1930, the German delegates wefe very persistent in demanding a general disarmament conference ih the course of year. Members of thé Council of the Leagué of Nations were able to obtain & posts ponement only after they had given a solémn understanding to the Germans that the conference would be held in Thus Dr. Jilius Cuf- ign minister, teturnéd a water-tight under- to that effect from the French. and other representatives. Further Délay Doubtful. Purthér postponement of this eonfer- ence cannot be obtained without the unanimous vote of the League Council, and under ent circumstances it is extremely doubtful whether the Ger- mans would vote in favor of such a delay. Many German leaders realize the consequences of failure of the Disarmament Conference. A number of politicians representing mod- erate sections of Germany's political parties have intimated privately to American diplomats that failure of the conference would be disastrous, yet, they added, the German defeat at Geneva, plus the difficult situation in Germany make it impossible for the present or any other German cabinet to agree to pos t 6f she Disarma- mgon( m‘:.g:! int of view of the course, pol ians is not fl‘l:l.l ‘While takin, Britis] Wheaton, Til, May 26, killin g All fout members of the erew. RECKAGE of giant tandem-motored sésquiplane, belonging to the Chicago Dadly News, which crashed near The plane was aloft cn an endurance test. Witnesses sald the plané was attempting & forced landing when it crashed 300 feet from the ground. ~A. P. Photo. ARGENTINE TARIFF WALL CONSIDERED Parley Told High Rates in U. S. and Other Nations May Force Action. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Mdy 28.—Ambassador if some | Don Manuel E. Malbran of Argentina, primarily to Germans bélieve that caused by the heavy burden of tioris they must pay under the to reliable news re- lin and London, it the but, after all, the question of chogsing the most propitious moment for hold- ing that conference is a matter which concerns primarily the nations. Meanwhile the American disarmament afations on the assumption that the conference will be held next February. (Copyright, 1931.) 2 —— g, OFFICIALS ARE ASKED TO EXTEND AREA IN MORNING PARKING BAN |t (Continued From First Page.) streets and from Pennsylvania avenue to_New York avenue. ‘When pians for prohibition were un Inspector Brown said, the areéa in which it was to make the no-parking ban effective was finally TDVM' The fic officials at that time, he declared, was to start with a small ares at first and then gradually extend it if the pian worked out succesefully. r Brown sald he has no in- tention of recommending the extension , faith.” thie parking consideration, | today told the natiomal foreign trade convention that his country might be forced to embark on & high-tariff policy Stove Plate Target Victim Is Cleared Of Beating Wife Special Dispateh to The Star. MAGERSTOWN, Md, May 28— Even though Mre. James Jones walked 20 miles to swear out & war- rent -pr-nd 0 be about the head, where his eame in contact with & stove thrown by his wife. The hus- nd Was sent to Jall for 10 days seber up. CHRIST DISCIPLES SELECT WORKERS Committees Named at Session of Delaware, D. C., Virginia, Maryland Groups. Special Dispateh to The Star. RIOHMOND, Va.. May 28.—The dis- of Maryland, D:laware and the ct of Columbia, in joint session here with the Virginia body, has a 2 following committees: Nos ting ittee—Rev. Walter F. Smith, Mrs. R. W. Frame, Rev. Charles ¥. Funk, Rev. A. W. Gottechel, Rev. C. . Pineheloe, Jobn F. Sidell and 8. Irvin 'ood. Committee on Time and Place— Rev. W. H. Pinkerton, Rev. W. B. erson, Rev. W. 5. Pisher, Rey. J. 8. Mindiing, Mrs. W. M. Norment and V. Stanforth. _Joint Committse Ches: peake Area—Rev. J. T. Hundley, F. W. Long, Rev. H. G. Haney, Rev. F. H. Scott, Rev. L. L. Rudolph and Re William Norment. Comnittee on Fu- ture Work—Rev. 8. Reld McAlpin, Mrs. Mrs. 8. B. Bagby, Guy A. Oave, E. W. Davis, Z , Rev. B, H. Melton and Miss Catharin: Wilfley. Chairmen of Virginia committees were by | fidmed: as follows: Nominating Com- “obj tariffs. they or protective undmnm that in any case the im- tine . and the includes this prohibi- clauses. of the no-parking ares for some time, | the despite the requests that have been made to traffic officials. It is his bellef that the parking ban 14 be given a longer trial before the area is en- larged, although he is well pleased with the results thus far in the comipara- tively small existing bited 20ne. Inspector Brown, ver, declared he proposes to recommend o' the Com- missioners the adoption of a fegula- tion prohibiting- parking on the east side of Fourteenth street between Pennsylvania and New York avenues between 4 and 6 p.m. Traffic conges- tion on this thoroughfare during the afternoon rush hour is particularly bad, 1y by ibiting parking. wou prov\d!w an _additional lane for the heavy northbound traffic, he expiained, and result in a smoother movement of officials, Ins) Brown pointed out, have no intention at this time of suggesting that the morning parking ban in the downtown ares be made effective during the Afterncon rush hour. Such & plan, he said, un- doubtedly would facilitate the move- ment of traffic out of the congested area, but it would seriously affect busi- ness during a period when the Govern- ment workers do their sl 3 Compliance with the mofning.no- prohibition is steadily improv- , Inspector Brown said, and while a number of violations ar yet observed, he believes motorists in general are mmfio: sincere effort to obey the Tegulal . Conditions also have im- proved around the hotels, he said, as a Tesult of action taken by the Hotel Men's Association in that hotel den wam mmm morning Parking ban. — Greensboro Man Dies Suddenly. , N. C., May 28 (@) FOR FALL IN STREET Distriet Ordered to Pay Sum for Injuries Bustained Through Defective Sidewalk. Mrs. Frank G. Leys of terday whs awarded s ent of $7,500 aga'nst the District of Columbia by a fury in Cireutt Court for injuries al- leged to have resulted from a fall on the sidewalk in front of 107 B street southeast on January 17, 1926 Her husband Robert was awarded an additional $200 for medical Spenses u;clumd by him in trestment for his wife. York yes- in an unsafe condition and that as a result of her fall she was injured. Mr. and Mrs. Leys were represented by At- torney Alvin L. Newmyer. Mrs. Leys claimed the sidewalk was | mitbte, C. M. Gordon, Norfolk; Time Place Committee, W. P. Taylor, ; Resolutions Committee, R. J. iber, Petersburg; Future Work Com- mittee, W. G. Forbes, Dundas. Todhy's Sessions were devoted to a *Pan- | dresses and religious exercises, with ur:chl rogram of music. Business ses- slons will be resumed tomorrow and the convention will adjourn tomorrow night, following the celebration of the Lord's Supper. ith | WEST VIRGINIANS GET CONTRACT AT QUANTICO ne ‘uz.uo Bid Accepted for New Dis- ciplinary Barracks at Marine Corps Bse. ‘The disciplinary barracks at Quan- T |tico, Va. for the Marihe Corps will be bullt by Green & Stowe of Welch, W. Va, for $62,140, the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, announced today in making public the award of contracts totaling $199,306 for construction work in various sec- tions of the country. The Mechanieal ring & Con- struction Co. of this city was given the contract for $6,000 for repairs to the sea wall at the Naval Torpedo Station, Alexandria, Va. | _A New York firm was given the con- tract for $1,254 for tiling at the chapel of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. | _Other contracts awarded were $78,750 | for an_ aireraft overhaul shop at Coco 8olo, Canal Zone; $15,413 for asphaltic road ofling at the Naval Ammunition | Depot, Hawthorne, Nev.; 820,950 for a storm-water drainage system at the |Naval Air Station, Seattle, Wash.; {84790 for a five-ton electrie traveling crane at the Naval Air Station, Seattle, |and $10,000 for dredging at the United States naval receiving ship, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, Calif. CHANGE OF NAME ASKED (John C. Meserlian, ::mmdmflmmuer of Liggett's, Fourteenth an streets, today asked the Distriet Supreme Court | to change his name to John C. Meserve. He says he 1 known as Meserve by | many of his friends and busihess asso- | clates and declares it will be more con- | venient and practical to sdflzt that | by Attorney — |name. He is represented | Ralph A~ Cusiek. BEE SWARM ATTACKS FIREMEN ON TRUCK SPEEDING TO BLAZE Silver Spring Volunteers’ Swollen Faces Show Effects of Encounter While Responding to Alarm. Spectal Dispateh to The Bta SPRING, Md, May 28— Several members of the local Volunteer are displaying swollen to ed the truck and its occupants, forcing | them to_stop. The bees were finally | driven off, but not, however, before two of the men were badly stung. | With s truck full of dead bees the firemen then went on to their destina- in . W. Grant | tion where they found that » Bfle of cover- shavings had caught on fire and Was triet of the Disciples of Christ, com- | TAKIG OF 4001 CENSLS IS REFUSED |Chevy Chase P.-T. A “Strikes,” Charging Insults and “No Co-operation.” Spectal Dispatch to The Star, CHEVY ASE, Md,, May 28.—Re- fusing to take the school census again this year, the Parent-Teacher Associa- tion of the Chevy Chase public school yesterday declared a “strike” against | the Montgomery Ccunty authoritles. | A bellef that sufficient taxes were | being paid to relieve the mothers and teachers of this burden was the com- | pelling motive that caused the associa- tion, at its final meeting of the year, o ?)‘o- the responsibility to the eounty authorities. Lack of public co-opera- tion also was declared another reason for the adoption of " motion to notify the county board it’would have to find | some other way this year to take the | eensus. Chorus of Objections. ‘When the question arose as to whether the parents should tackle the census again, as they have | years past with the | of teachers, a chorus of objections arose at the meeting over which Mrs. Daniel C. Walser of 17 East Bradley Lang, the president, was presiding. Lack of public co-operation, such as the slamming of doors in the face of school census takers, refusal to answer ques- tions and other unpleasant experlences, .| which some of the mothers led to a majority voting to shift the responsibility to other shoulders. The suggestion was made by some that the Montgomery County police might be utilized in the census 3 With the new Chevy Chase school bullding in 91 advanced stage of con- struction, the association unanimously voted to ask the County Board of Education to install equipment in the building for a model lunch room. Kitchen to Be Sought. The association’s idea of equipment, it was said, includes & kitehen, but this involves matters which will have to be taken up with board members. A survey of lunch rooms conducted in the county schools will be made to determine what system of management g;ll lb' followed at the Chevy Chase 00l Mrs. Tudor Morsel, chairman of the Bocial Committee, and Mrs. J. Curtis Walker, vice chal , Teported $75 receipts from the sale of ice cream and cake to the pupils during the noon hour. The meeting of the association was held in connection with the BEducational day observance at the achool. il ANNULMENT 18 A;KED Thomas Muldowney, 18, Bays Mar- riage was “Hasty and Foolish.” Annulment of & “hasty and foolish” n-umnsow 17-year-old Mabel E. Pad- gett, Second street southeast, is in & petition filed in the District ney, 18, through his father, Thomas J. Muidowney, 1359 Massachusetts avenue southeast. The youth l;)"; he secured kville April & marriage license in 14, and although legally too yonn". y. He tel he earns only $15 a went through the ceremon: the court that week and cannct afford to support a wife. He is represented by Attorney PFrank R. Long. WIPETRIP ABI;JAD Benjamin Ungerman, Syracyse Uni- versity student, has won a tfip through Northern Europe this Summer as a re- lul: of wlnneiggb; nmcnfi‘mr con- SPONSOT y the ercollegiate Prohibition Association. Ungerman's essay, “A College Student Ixelen Prohibition,” was selected as the 8t in the contest, the association an- nounced here. He will attend the In- ternational Student Anti-Alcohol Cone ference at Helsingfors, Finland, in July. Optician—Optometrist 922 14th St. N.W. Established 1889 Cleaned and Glased In"and “Out’ ‘and § Stored in Absolute Cold Sterdge for... ey o erate Summer priees. Expert Workmanship Work Called for and Delivered NEW ENGLAND FURRIERS Benjamin Sherman, Prop. 18th Sérest. Nat. rs remodeled Iatest st; dor several Harry m"fif'i'-mm‘ AL {TREASURY: DEFICIT 15 51000792430 Long-Term Bond Issue May Be Announced to Replace Present Short-Time Paper. __(Continued From Pirst Page) actual or net deficit will be cnly about & half billion dollars. The Treasury is required by act of Congress to pay out every ysar about & half biilion dollars in sinking fund ents on the public debt. Part of at billicn, which is now being called & deficit, is made up of tne expense of dnklnu! fund requirements, so if the United States were to stop paying sink- ing funds the public debt would be in- creased by only a half billion dollars. To put it another way, the Treasury borrows a half billion dollars and uses it to pay off the public debt by that amount. Yet by that very act of bot- rowing the total public debt has been increased. It's like taking money from one pocket and putting it into another. The estential fact is that the billion- dollar deficit is actually only halt that sum where the bookkeeping transactions are completed for the fiscal year. It might be asked why the Treasury borrows the money for sinking-fund payments when a deficit is being ine curred in actual operations. The an- swer is that Congress fixed the sink- ing-fund m{menu when the ° bonds were originally floated during the war, and 1t 18 necessary for the Government to keep faith with its bondholders. Thus the Government can increase the public debt at will, but it owes the money to a new set of borrowers. It has been cuggested that the Treas- ury might stop retiting the public debt instead of increasing taxation. Con- of course, will decide the ques- Congress 18 not in session, the ry 18 increasing the public debt. A net increase of a half billion dol- lars if the public debt is not consid- éred an abnormal amount, partieularly since the United States has retired its public deébt from $25,000,000,000 to ap- ?mximtuly $16,000,000,000 in the last 0 years. It wasn't necessary to retire the debt so rapidiy, but the huge Gov- ernment surpluses were applied to cut the indebtedness down, so if for a.year or two debt retirement is stopped and the public debt is increased somewhat, that result will be a figure which still reveals & high average annual payment on_the public debt ever since the war. Just what the next flscal yoar begin- nla( July 1 will bring in the way of a deficit is hard to tell, but the Govern- ment is economizing and the estimates thus far indicate the next fiscal year may run af & dficit much smaller than the present. In any event, if business improves the tax receipts will cut down next year's deficit especially since the fiscal year beginning in July runs into July, 1932, and the Treasury is likely to get a her income from indirect tax's as business conditions get better. The general feeling is that an im- provement in business will bs here long before the total public debt is mat:rially increased. What the Government has done in effect is to borrow back half a it appli<d during the last 10 years to debt retirement. (Copyright, 1931, by the Consolidated Press.) The Fox Theater will be a clearing house Friday and Saturday for floral tributes to be sent to the graves at ater, aceording to ouncement to- manager, will W. ¢o-operate with the loeal chipter of the of flowers to the graves. ‘The services of the theater were ac- cepted by William F. Franklin, general chairman of the Floral Committee of the G. A. R. Memorial Day Corpo: tion. which represents. variqus' eivic ot ganizations honoring the war dead. the Gr WILL DISTRIBUTE BLOOMS | Arlington National Cemetery. The the- | Girl Scouts in arranging transportation | ras | UNON AGENT SHOT IN LABOR DISPUTE Quarrel Over Territorial Rights in Chicago Blamed for Gunplay on Street. By the Asédelated Press. CHICAGO, May 28.—Daniel M. Agoa, secretaty for the Chicago Window and | Bullding Cleabers’ Union, was shot | and setiously wounded today in front of & resteurant at State and Van Buren streets, | His alleged assailant, B. J. Weber, business agent for the Chicago Windew Washers’ Unlon, was arrested by & police officer who Was nearly struck by one of the bullets. Leo Hemrick, sectetary to Capt. John Prendergast of the South State Strest Police Station, was in his automobile at the corner waiting fer a stop light when the shooting started. He said he ducked to the floor of the car until the firing ceased and then ran out and tol and wetit to the police station Hemrick. Shots Followed Quarrel. Hemrick sald Weber told him the shooting folls & quarrel as the men stood on the er. . Agon was shot twice in the abdomen and once in the arm. Physicians said | they did not expect him to live. He had & police record dating back to 1922 and in 1023 was sentenced to & year and a day in Leavenworth Penitentiary for extortion while he was a prohibition ‘Weber quoted as sayini the detective bureau. gress, tion in the last analysis, but now, wheny “He threatened to kill me and then he struck me in the face. I pulled out my gun and shot him. Claimed Exclusive Territory. “I had put & man to wotk. I met Agoa and he told me that the man was on the job in his tetritory and for flnu not to put men to work in that ter- told me that if I didn’t stay in my own territory he would put & bullet in my head. 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