Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1931, Page 10

A—10 SAYS BRITAIN FOE OF SILVER PARLEY Senator Pittman, in China, &Eharges Aim Is to Get | Debt Adjustment. | Blames Britain By the Associated Press. SHANGHALI June 8—Charges Great Britain is opposing the calling of an international silver conference ema- nated today from United States Sena- {cr Key Pittman of Nevada, who Thurs- day predicted that such a conference would be held within three months. Scnator Pittman asserted the British opposition was being used by the Lon- don government as a “trading point” by which Great Britain hoped shc might obtain readjustment of her war debts to the United States. | Sharply commenting on President Hoover's recent telegram to Senator | Reed Smoot of Utah, in which the President was reported as saying the United States was willing to participate in an informal international silver con- ference, but believed the present was not opportune for a & formal session, | Senator Pittman said ‘It is amazing that forelgn influence can be brought to bear on such high American official circles.” SENATOR PITTMA! Card Party Planned. LEELAND, Md, June 8 (Special).— For the benefit of the endowment fund of the church a card party will be held in the grove at St. Barnabas Church Saturday afternoon, June 20, starting at 3 o'clock. There will be prizes and refreshments, Given Temporary Setback. Senator Pittman, who came here as a representative of the silver-producing State of Nevada to study the admittedly serious silver situation in China, said President Hoover's telegram to Senator £moot had been made public at a *eritical” moment He added that as a result of the | President’s message nations now were | Tesitating to assume leadership in the | proposed formal conference, and for | that reason the conference prospects had received “a temporary setback— THE ATHLETIC FIELD DRIVE NETS $300 $1,700 More Needed to Improve Grounds for Sports at Hyatts- ville School. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., June 8. — Slightly more than $300 has been raised in the drive for $2,000 to improve the Hyattsville High School athletic field. The campaign started Monday, and was conducted last week by a group of | Welsh, Fred Baird, Walter Alexander, student canvassers in Hyattsville, River- dale, Berwyn, College Park and’ other communities served by the school. This week all the students wiil take part in the canvass, and it is hoped that the total will be substantially in- creased. Prof. K. J. Morris, principal of the Great Britain, 42. LIBERAL ALLOWANCES To balance our stock of used cars we need late model Fords, Chevrolets and other light We are in position to make most generous offers on such cars against the purchase of new cars. Ford cars and trucks. but not for long.” In a statement to the Associated Press Senator Pittman said: “The informal conference on silver | suggested by Senator Smoot and ap- perently approved by President Hoover 35, in my opinion, a futile move. I am afraid it would be suspected by certain governments most interested as a sub- terfuge. Such an informal conference, not initiated by governments and for which governments are not responsible, will be but a repetition of the two con- . Does the toothpaste you use bear this | acceptance? ferences already held — namely, the COLGATE'S United States Chamber of Commerce Conference on the subject, and, sec- RIBBON DENTAL CREAM ondly, the similar conference of the International Chamber of Commerce. | D o Es ! “No more representative informal | conferences than these could be ob- HE iEnigediidi | above seal signifies that tained. Both conferences unanimously hecosposiiiaaiardiepiod: recommended the calling of a formal | . conference by governments, such as the | uct has been submitted to the London Conference for the Limitation Council on Dental Therapeutics of Armaments. of the American Dental Associa- tionand thatthe claimshave been found acceptable to the Council. Action Is Demanded. “The result of that conference was a treaty signed by President Hoover and the heads of other governmentis and ratified by the United States and other governments. This kind of a conference got immediate action. That SAVE MONEY ON YOUR CALIFORNIA TRIP tourist sleeping car Teaves is what is demanded by the silver sit- || washington daily. “Unusual opportunity tion. to make trip cheaply and comfortably. U here was every indication that the || Eullman fares about’ hali. ‘Round tris every fon tha € | | Summer fares now in effect. One way Chinese and Japanese governments || Washinaton to Los Ankeles o San Pran- were seriously considering immediate || cisco $92.54 via Atlanta, New Orleans, action relative to the calling of an in- || fouston: El Paro, = Also special coach ternational silver conference between || cars to New Orleans and In conches be: governments until Hoover's telegram to || yond. Write for illustrated booklet Senator Smoot, discouraged such action. | | ¥ s SONG 10N ~ SUNSET ROUIE “It is impossible to conceive, in view of all the circumstances, that the gov- ernments of China and Japan could be satisfled with the holding of a uzel informal conference. It might be de nominated silly if it were not tragic. “It is unfortunate the trading schemes of one government could be permitted to block a conference of all nations upon so vital a subject. I do not believe it will be blocked for lcag.” SMALL BOY STARTS FIRE THAT BURNS 32 BUILDINGS Child, Playi’r;g"kvhitTr_dntches, Fled Without Spreading Alarm of Blaze. N RY. EXE WASHINGTON, 5688 SOUTHE! BLDG... PHONE NATIOML Why Suffsr With Painful CORNS Litt Them Out With Fingers By the Associated Press [l NO PAIN! NO BOTHER! QUEBEC, Quebec, June 8.—Fire | B DUSNGISCHHPR started by a small boy playing with matches in the village of Notre-Dame de Tring, in Beauce County, Saturday destroyed 32 buildings and damaged several others. The village telephone office was destroyed and news of the fire reached Tere only yesterday. | The boy is reported to have set fire | to a shed and, fearing punishmen, fled without sounding an ala: Among the buildings d ed were a girl's convent, under the direction of the Sisters of Notre Dame des Victoires, and the local branch of the Banque Canadienne Nationale. England has rejected the claim made for higher pay by lowest-paid govern- ment clerical employes. | PAINT THAT ROOF If you did not paint your roof last year you must paint it this year or take the consequences. Meaning—ruined wallpaper and falling plaster. After 35 years of manufac- turing, testing and experimenting I have put on the market GILL’S ROOF PAINT —at $2.00 per gallon, and guarantee this to be the best paint made for a tin roof. GEO. R. GILL After other methods have fai that stubborn corn or call .. just_spi n’ the annoving or callous' with handv little glass Vo “burn. "no bandage. ‘plaster Almost instantly the agon in i% gone. and soon you can easily | he corn out with vour fingers. Why | sier meedlessly when this simple | ‘medy is available to every one who is bothered with torturing corns. 1t costs only 25¢ at Peoples or any good rug store, but i worth many dollars in Comfort’ (o those ‘troubled with pain- led and | keeps corn Tod re w*E. Z KORN REMOVER Eases the Pain Removes the CORN DEcatur 1230 1011 U St. N.W. Delivered anywhere C. O. D. @ $2.00 per gal. y v 9 AMOX Killed Him A Product of The American Oil Co. AMDOX é BETTER: INSECTICIDE © 1931, LiGosTT & Myzas Tosacco Co EVENING | | Steuart Motor Company 6th at New York Ave. N.W- Open Evenings and Sundays NAtional 3000 STAR, WASHINGTO school, and Mrs. Lillian Bender and Miss Vera Parker of the faculty, or- ganized the canvassers who were active this week. Leland G. Worthington, the school's athletic director, is acting as treasurer. | Students who canvassed included | Ernest Michaelson, Alfred Bolz, Jack | Gahan, Solomon Pincus, Alvin Mc- Chesney, Ruth Gover, Anna Shegogue, Jack Hurley, James Rimmer, Esther Pyles, Carleton Heyser, Willlam Stan- ton, ~York Hollingsworth, Coleman Headley, Jule Bladen, Clifton Byrd, James Whalen, De Voe Meade, Mabel | Schrom, Charlotte Schrom, Andrew Beveridge, Walter Jeffries, Roberta Hannum, Walter Armiger, Ella Allison, Betty Cage, Marjorie Gruver, Marie Howard, Dorothy Ordwein, Walter Ruth Jehle and Jean Hamilton. In America there are 169 telephones for every 1,000 persons; in Canada, 144; New Zealand, 108: Denmark, 94; Swe den, Austrelia, 82; Norway, Switzerland, 65: Germany, 60, | B the Associated Press. N, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE -8 1931. _— CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS | 5osi, SRl of oare, Scientisty in ELECT R. E. BUFFUM| day. George Shaw Cook of Chicago and Mrs. Elizabeth F. 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