Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1931, Page 14

4 4 FRENCH TRIP DELAY FLATES GERMANS Postponemert of Laval and Briand Visit to Berlin Seen Debt Plan Aid. - BY EDGAR AN!IL MOWRER. By Oable to The Star. , Germany, August 15.—To & “fin“ empty words snd an 3 ," mews that the the September assembly of the of Nations should be welcome. it means simply that no proper a Franco-German understand- has been found. And until such a basis can be discovered or created, a of the statesmen must result n#ln: but more rhetoric and, re- intment, would delay ain has not the money to lend. ‘France Demands Treaty Revision. The. French, furthermore, demand that Germany at least temporarily re- nounce its policy of treaty revision as rice for a loan. Prance could give ichsbank new rediscount credit as a kind of Hindenburg line behind the first line trenches to be provided by the still uncertain tors’ self-control consortium. But the price is again political. German Chancellor Heinrich Bruen- ing neither can nor will accept political D! y, therefore, must tself” and the idea therefore that Germany and France should attempt to get together on a series of purely economic measures, leaving France and politics to some hap- pler future day. But here too far r. Both the French and thal ask, why, if the French Germans both wish to amplify and number measures which conservative circles are jubl- at the French decision to postpone Berlin visit and trumpet abroad the "fll.l"ll; of the Bruen! d | seems to be future seen what Geneva (Copyright. 1931.) AUTO INJURIES FATAL T0 BRANCHVILLE MAN Linwood C. Smith, 23, Dies at Casualty Hospital Here of Fractured Skull. i® Linwood C. Smith. 23 years old. of Branchville, Md., died at Casualty Hos- pital yesterday from injuries sustained Friday night in an automobile accident | armament question settled in the Wash- | near his home. Smith was injured when the automo- blle he was driving erashed into a truck operated by Robert Waters of Baltimore on the Baltimore Boulevard near Branchville. He was brought to the hospital by the | Prince Georges County Fire Department rescue squad. Death was due to a frac- tured skull, doctors said FORESTVILLE FIREMEN'S FAIR STARTS TOMORROW Al Prince Georges Companies In- vited to Participate in Horse- shoe Contest. Special Dispatch to The Ster. T Many Nationalities in Lantern Festival SINGERS IN COSTUME TO REPRESENT AMERICANIZATION SCHOOL IN SYLVAN THEATER PROGRAM. | { i | i Left to right, standing: Clara Schinskaya, Russian; Najiv Arabien; Lina Bocek, Czechoslovakian; Dorothy Boghoesin, Armenian. Front row, Americanization School group which will take part in the “Festival of Lanterns” at the Sylvan Theater, arranged | by the Community Center Department and the Greater National Capital Committee of the Washington Board of Trade , in native Palestine costume; Mary Matsu, Italia Maria Prehan, Southern German; Marie Berttolomeo, Spanish; Paquito, Porto Rican, in Arablan costume; Cecelia Snie- goski, Polish. Middle row, sitting, left to right: Lee Ben Yuen, Chinese; Evelina Jaccarino, Italian; Mary Molinari, | left to right: Maria Todaro, Rumanian; —Star Staff Photo. Elsa Bettum, Norwegian, and Beatrice Fleischman, Russian. UDGES for the Festival of Lan- Brunett, Y. W. C. A. musical director, terns were announced vesterday and issac Gans, member of the Cham- by Mrs. Elizabeth Peeples, chaii- per of Commerce and prominent music | man of the Board of the Com- |patron. munity Center Depariment. " Awards a B C Judges to award the silver cup to the | Grana Y e e of Music Clubs; Miss Maud Aiten, head of the Americanization School; Curtis A. Hodges, publicity director, Greater Washington Committee, Board of Trad Miss Erba Birney, head of the Neigh- D. C., AUGUST 16 BRUENING HELPED Outlook Is Found Improved and More Financial Re- forms Promised. BY FREDERICK OECHSNER. By Cable to The Star. BERLIN, August 15.—Strengthened by the defeat of the radicals in the | Prussian plebiscite and with the Reichs- bank's reduction in the discount rate to 10 per cent as & sign of more secure financial conditions, Chancellor Brien- ing today is in a more advantageous position to push his program of finan- cial and political stabilization, which has been seriously interrupted by the recurrent crises of the last few months. ‘The immediate future in Germany looks calm and the cabinet is strenu- ously engaged in details of the policy under which Germany will make the most of her own moral and material resources, since help from abroad con- tinues only a possibility instead of & fact. Bruening in an announcement in the Upper House of the Reichstag on Thursday emphasized that the boitom of the German depression has not yet been reached and that rigorous steps were imperative to carry on financial reforms and suppress agitation for | social upheaval. The intense police campaign against the Communists thi week seems to be a feature of the lat- ter point. Expansion of Policy Stressed. The chancellor, it is understood, stressed the need for now extending the Reich’s general fiscal reform policy to | states and municipalities, the need for close governmental supervision of bank- |ing operations and the need for the | country's getting along on the present currency without resorting to methuds that might even remotely threaten in- flation. ~ Certain proposals advanced | under the tension of the recent money crisis were believed to be pointing in opinions proved to be | most picturesque group in the festi- val at the Sylvan Theater will be G. A. Lyon, associate editor of The Evening Star; Mrs. Maude Howell Smith and Ward H. Marsh, director of the Greater ‘Washington Committee, Board of Trade. ticipating will be Henry Giliigan of the Boar Graham Counctl, chatrman of the Advisory Communfty Center Depart- | ment, d president of the National| Capital Civie Mun ‘The two cups | | were awarded by Homer Kitt of the | Homer Kitt Piano Oo. and Isidore Kahn | | of the Kahn Optical Co. | ples, are Mrs. , president | Gertrude Lyons d of Education, Miss Mary M.| of the District of Columbia Federation Sylvan Theater Friday night. | borhood House; Miss Sybil Baker, head | that direction. of the playground department of the| It is interesting to note that tHe sav- District, Mrs. Lilllan Brousseau and|ing represented under the Hoover mora- Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, prominent | torjum plan has already been technical- pageant director. {ly gobbled up by the government's Tickets for the 400 chairs reserved | guarantee to banks and the necessity Judges who will make the award to | Members of the committee in charge ' for the event are available at Commun- | for covering the large deficit suffered the best. musical group of the four par- | of the festival, in addition to Mrs. Pee- | ity Oenter headquarters, ‘Washington | already this year by the municipalities, Hotel, A. A. A. headquarters and at the | mainly in unemployment funds. ~ FALURE IS FEARED FOR ARMS PARLEY Postponement May Be Asked Until World Tension Is Eased. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Btar. PARIS, August 15 immediate rs of Now that the he Central Eu- what attenuated, the attention of gov- ernment chancelleries is turning to the Disarmament ference on the land, sea and air forces of all countries, scheduled to open in Geneva February 2 under the presidency of British Forelgn Minister Arthur Hen- derson and under the auspices of the ! of Nations, ofle Conterencs is of such moment and on such scale that it is utterly un- wecedented in the history of the world. er?' one agrees that it must succeed, for failure would be tragic, yet almost ev hfi’one also agrees that it could opportune come at & more in moment. ‘Thanks to political agitation for re- vision of the treaties on one hand, and to to such revision on the other, the inf in today is anything but friendly confident. The business and finan- cial crisis, which more or less affects every country and hence logically ought to draw all countries together on the basis of common interests, thus far has had almost the opposite resuit In consequence, nearly all the major | powers, instead of secking reasons why hey should disarm, are now engaged | in explaining to the rest of the world reasons why they cannot disarm. Each looks askance on the armaments, actual or potential, of the others, while claim- ing that its own armaments are exceed- ingly modest and wholly defensive. Each, instead of seeking in the Dis- armament Conference a means of per- fecting the peace of the world and | creating a better feeling among. nations, bent mainly on keeping or gaining some national advantage at the | others’ expense, Preliminary Positions Clear. Preliminary positions are being taken rapidly. Germany has officially re- jected the conclusions of the Prelimi- nary Disarmament Commission, which | was supposed to form the basis for the ! forthcoming deliberations, and uniess | other powers disarm down to the Ger- man level it claims the right to arm up to theirs. ish Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- Donald stated formally in the House of Commons a few weeks ago that Great | Britain had already disarmed to the limit and could not possibly cut another man or ton. France has followed with a memo- randum taking credit for alleged drastic cuts in French armaments and stating that further cuts are impossible uniess | arrangements for mutual aid against | aggression are agreed upon. The United States considers the naval | ington and London conferences, as far 28 concerns itself, and that as far as land armament is concerned, our Army is s0 small that we are not interested ’ Statements Requested. The Soviet Unicn says that it is ready to abolish srmaments aitogether. but meanwhile it maintyins the Ilargest | standing army in the world Italy 5 also ready to reguce to any . Jevel. but with an imporzant proviso— that Italy’s armaments shall be e of the sirongest conti- T the U | nenta er. The ffque of Nations has requested | all countries to make a uniform state- ! ment on their armaments by Septem. ber ‘The United States, Great Brit~ fin. France and several others already | namet, ropean financial crisis have been some- | |the Prussian Diet, which s the present political focus in Germany, will be re-elected and there is a “&lbmt}' of general elections in Great Britain. { Such being the outlook, there has been a good deal of gossip about the possibil- | ity of once more pos this already | oft-postponed conference, whose actual date was finally fixed with such t ‘tuflcullg, Powers 'llufh mx.(l;z ject | to such postponement are Germany, | | Russia, and perhaps Italy, all of which | hope to gain some sort of advantage | from the conference, whether it fails | or succes | [ Diplomats Dismayed. | There is reason to believe that the R | United States, Great Britain and Prance | might all like to see this mighty con- | course of some 45 or 50 nations held | over until a more propitious moment, yet | none seems ready to take the initiative for such a proposal lest it be immedi- | ately charged with trying to obstruct the march of world | ‘When it is real t-after several | years of negotiation at Geneva, there mMOTe | is still not even an agreement on how |lay before Woodcock personally a re- | to solve the complex problem of com- | | paring the armaments of one country | with the armaments of another, not to | mention the formidasie problems of fix | ing the ratios of one country’s arma- | | ments to the armaments of 1 the | others, the dismay of earnest students | and diplomats, as the date of the con. | ference actually appr , seems read- ily comprehensible. Meanwhile the tendency is rather increase than to diminish armame: | ”qozmt::!ml with the nr't;;‘ 3t n esi poss showing and, in case cuts are decide on, each could reluctantly sacrifice something it never really set much store M 9813 | S b IFATHER AGAIN SEEKS DAUGHTER’S CUSTODY to | State Department Studies Docu- ments Involving Charges Aguninst Venezuela. By the Associated Prass. Efforts of James E. 'Weilch, Louisiana | ofl worker, to recover his young daugh- | ter in Venezuela are again engaging State Department attentions. | The department announced recently | that it had investigated and found no maladminisration of justice despite charges by Weich that Venezuela authorities had prevented him from ob- taining custody of his chiid. It became known yesterday that the solicitors’ office of the State Depart- ment is studying the authenticity of documents which have figured in past ings. Weich appealed to the Louisiana Senators and ether public officials in his effort to regain his daughter. Her mother is a Venem!!unugvm whom the oil worker is separated. BIRTHPLACE OF WILSON WILL BE OPENED SOON Booklet, Deseriptive of Staunton Property, to Be Sold by Committee in Charge. Special Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON. Va. August 15.—Since the Manse, birthplace of Woodrow Wil- son, soon will be opened to the pul a booklet has been prepared by t) cal Staunton committee. Charles Cat- lett, chairman, which will be on sale the Manse. ‘This bookiet contains a brief descrip- tion of Staunton., of its churches, par- ticularly the Pirst Presbyterian Church. ‘of which President Wilson's father was pastor, and also a description of the Manse itself. FELLOWSHIP AWARDED Hyattsville National Guardsmen | Begins U. of Maryland Studies. Specisl Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md. A Second Lieut. 8. L. 15— of Com- filf i L ‘The fact that the budgetary im- ———— | portance of saving under the Hoover | plan_aiready has been realized upon wooucocK DEcuNEs | naturally is not to be taken as.vitiating the benefit of the holiday, but indicates he extent of the constant strain upon To RE'NSTATE AGENT‘ the Reich's budget and the demand for | further curtailment of public expendi-~ | tures. Also indicated is another rigor &% | ous rmucmn i‘n and :fihfle‘: all ini i over e country. ‘workers, how= Tells Hlmlt,?r Bnc§ AF‘ZID!I Would e T vy S aiatiot pariyd Be Against Principles of will submit to a further lowering of liv- . ‘ ing standards only if a serious attempt Esprit de Corps. | is made simultaneously to lower prices. — This issue is under deliberation at the | moment and Bruening has been in close R ARR S R | touch for several weeks with leaders of Prohibition Director Woodcock an- | inauctry and trade working toward con- nounced last night that he had Written | certed action by the government and ey C. Templeton of Dodge City. | organized capital for the purpose of Kans., declining the minister's request | creating a new basis of conducting the hat John Medden, former assstant 8d: | nation's fnances. t NSAs 0 return gl Y | French Leaders’ Vieit Awaited. to duty there. Madden was suspended for disobedi- | Respecting fcreign relations and pol- ence when he declined to accept & ' jcy, Germany’s attention focuses on the transfer to Seattle, and Woodcock said = approaching visit of Premier Laval and he would remain suspended indefinitely | Foreign Minister Briand to Berlin. Re- lieved of the immediate pressure of do- “for the good of the service.” ‘Templeton eame here from Kansas to | mestic political uncertainty, the chan- cellor is able to face the coming meet~ quest that Madden be returned. ing with more confidence. 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