Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1932, Page 6

A—6 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY, JANUARY ¢4 MONEY SEEN BASIS OF U. 5. ARMS PLAN Naming of Dawes and Davis, Both Bankers, Points to New Policy. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. On the threshold of Am Dawes' arrival in Washing week for a consultation on Gen srmament Conference matters straws begin to indicate how American wind at the rence blow. Overtowering in significance appointment of even Gen. D: as chairm American ,delegation is President Hoover's 1 1g of a sec- ond Democrat, N one of the United the will the as Assistant Treasury in 1919-1920 ction with our $12.000,000,- 000 of foreign o He was in _charge of them during period be- fore they ] \dividual agreements nations. Davis nected with Just before he beca tary of the Treasur member of the Paris Commission on Rer funded the w e Assi Mr Peace rations. ant Davis W Confer Bankers to Take The New York bank at Geneva with Ambassa like him, is a financie and has the distinction of hz chairman of the famous which in down the Teparations ved by Europe for the purpose of helping Germany out of economijc choa e ac- cepted the chair the Dawes Plan Commission an com- pleted a term at gton as first director of the United cs’ Bureau of the Budget These respective Dawes and Davis cussed throughout diplon ton as presaging the ican policy ment Coi that pab! poses stres getary not itary and r dent Hoo T of g widely dis- Wasksug- ren the pro- g the bud- > rather than the strictly mil- val note. To London Presi- of the , to assist al limi- r intended that questions would be the United States at t he would al- tched Secre- in, accom- cretary of in negotia tation. ad M purely armament thrust forward by Genev argued t most certaix e disp tary Adams one panied_this time the War, Patrick J. Hurley. Instead the | President is sending bankers, repara- | tions_experts, budget masters—Dawes and Davis. Not a soldier or sailor is on the delegation Castle’s Remark Recalled. On September 22, 1931, the Under- | secretary of State, Willlam R. Castle, jr., made what is only now being rec- ized as a meaningful reference to “the fight for reduction of armaments” which the American Government is waging. Mr. Castle's closene Hoover throne is well | ing recalled that 1t was the Undersec- retary’s supposedly casual remark at a State Depart conference in May of last ) about the possible Decessity of & moratorium which was a couple of weeks later translated into tr now historic move by President Hoover to bring abou r holiday in intergove: Ad- dressing the sing Club of Boston, | Mr. Castle had this to say \ “The whole question of disarmamer comes down to a question of competi- tion. Although we are too distant to be & threat to most nations, I cannot be- lieve that we should not be among the first to agree to any kind of cut in armament which would give confidence and would yet leave us, in comparison with others, as strong as we are today. No one nation can cut its armaments to the bone, because there is always possible the madness or the cupidity of other nations. Every nation must pro- tect itself. But, on the other hand, no nation is safer with a high general level of armaments than it would be with a low general level if the level is every- where proportional “It is said that the world spends an- nually three billion dollars on arma-| ments, and yet it is clear that indi- vidual nations would be just as safe if the volume of this construction were proportionately cut down one-half or three-quarters Here is something like a pretty def inite hint from an a itative admin- istration quarter that a flat cut in bud- | expen x aments, with- | t them directly | e battleships or army to the Hoover govern- | practical short cut to dis- | armament. In the past, American au- thorities have mnot looked nuch | favor upon budgetary disarmam be- | cause manufacture and maintenance of | of war cost more in this coun- expensive materials and A flat slash in armaments on & purely financial basis Might therefore weaken the United Stales rel much more than other countries, do not need to make such heavy outlay | on their land and sea establishments Hitherto France and Italy 1 the principal proponents of budget limitation of armaments. The Prepara- | tory Disarmament Comm Whose “draft treaty” will be the forn terial upon which the Geneva c ence will set to wor ciple of budgetar emphasized try of wages. e expendi- to be | coun- ditures of the same country in successive years. Opposed by Service Heads. Bolled down to the essentlals in whic the American people_are inter looks as if e Dawes-Davis com! at Geneva a detern ation on President H to tackle dis- armament nd-cents basis. Ou author- h !to Noted Baritone and Bride b S s 2 S A e in the New York City home of H of the bride. Mrs. Tibbett is t Burgard, San Francisco heiress, and wedding supper the newlyweds left moon, destination of which wa DROP HOOVER, PLEA OF MRS, MCORMICK G. 0. P. Urged to Nominate Candidate With “Fair | Chance of Winning.” Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKFORD, January 4—In an edi- 1 dictated by its publisher, Mrs Ruth Hanna McCormick, former Rep- resentative at large from Iilinois, the Rockford Register-Republic today urged that the Republican party disregard precedent and select a presidential nominee who has “a fair chance of winning.” The editorial declared that President | Herbert Hoover is “not & popular leader” and asked “why Hoover should not be freely discussed and impartially weighed as a seeker for public office.” It emphasized confidence for 1932, as expressed by the Democratic lead- ers, and asked consideration for “hun- dreds of thousands of Republicans who will either vote against Mr. Hoover or | refrain from voting for him.” The editorial recalling what it called | the convention steam roller that gave | &n unpopular candidate the renomin: tion in 1912 with party disaster, sug- gested that if & “considerable number of Republicans would prefer to have | Mr. Hoover step aside as a candidate the party leaders should sclect some- body else.” Asserting that the intrenched posi- tion of the President as “head of & gigantic corporation which has on its pay roll 700,000 men and women and supporting 3,000,000 Americans, it would be & gratuious~affront to the Presi- marshal this great force and use it for & political purpose in which he is| vitally concerned. “A good begiuning for the Repub- lican party this year would be a reso- lution to stop saying, ‘In accordance with a time-honored custom, we shall of course, renominate the President, and begin to say, ‘Who is the best man in the United States f the biggest job Uncle Sam ever tackle GEN. BROWN ACCUSED OF PROBE PREJUDICE Mississippi Labor Federation Asks | Congressional Inquiry of Levee Camps. By the Associsted Press, JACKSON, Miss, January 4—A itles wo ow up their hats in iasm for such a program, should out to be the one our delegation ted t irsue. d not th TEACHFING WI‘TH TALKIES TO BE GIVEN TRY-OUT Boston High Schools Will Form Laboratory for Test of Method’s Value, Junior Br the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., January 4—An experiment in the use of talking ple- tures in education will begin this week mnior high schools in Greater Bos- under auspices of the Harvard uate School of Education. The tests to discover the value of films as a supplementary aid in teach- ing science will be made in the junior high schools of Lynn, AQuincy and Re- vere, and will continue for six weeks. Three hundred students will be in- structed with films and text books, and an even larger “control group”, will be instructed with text books alone. At the end of the period both groups will be ven tests which were devised by the Graduate School of Education with & grant of $25,000 from e Foundstion forpthe Ad- vafinent of Teaching., ! c ¥ a resol arge of prejudice against Ma). Gen tle Brown, chief of Mississippi River od Control work, was contained in ition sdopted last night by the | Committee of the Mississippi | of Labor, Tequesting & con- inquiry into labor conditions truction camps. Federati resentatives ted that levee workers in sections were in a state of virtual Fresident Willlam Green of an Federatlon referred the to Sccretary of War Hurley, who i Gen. Brown to investigate the Gen. Brown the resolution declared, | “immedtately announced that he did | 10t believe any such. conditions existed,” before he made his investigation Later his report admitted every im- portant wllegation save certain specific | charges of inhuman treatment, the | resolution said, but was issued in the |form “of "a ‘general denial of the charges.” Federatio fon: evee cor abor re Woman Is Unafraid Alone in Chamber Studying 160 Mice By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 4 —That classic fable about women being in mortal fear of mice doesn’t apply to Miss Katharine G. Wat- son, graduate student at New York University. She has just Ainished a three- day stay in & windowless room where her only companions were 160 white mice ‘The purpose had something to dafllhlthtflllhlkflh write about how mice to pneumonis germs. LAWRENCE TIBBETT MARRIED JA g R. AND MRS. LAWRENCE TIBBETT aiter tneir m: baritone and movie actor, has been divorced once. not announced. | at dent’ to imply he would, if necessary, | o RY 1. Tiage, January 1, unter S. Marston, financier and brother | e former Mrs. Jennie Marston Adams | twice divorced. Tibbett, noted operatic After the ceremony in the Marston motor on their honey- ~A. P. Photo ’ Opposes Hoover S. R NA McCORMICK. LOBBY RUG STOLEN Floor Covering Taken From Foyer of Apartment House. A rug valued at $150 was stolen from the lobby of an apartment house 5130 Connecticut avenue early yes- terday, according to a report made to police by Harold H. Culmer, night entered the one of the d_one of e building. missed the two to men re visit and rug, he said. Eves Examined Glasses Fitted DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Phone National 0721 409-410 McLachlen Blds. 10th and G Sts. N.W. Graduate MeCormick Medical Cellese Plumbing Fixtures 4100 Georgia Ave. AD-0145 Union Prayer Service Monday, Jan. 4, 8 P.M. Eckington Presbyterian Church N. Cap. St. Speaker: Rev. Hugh T. Stevenson Drink IGER Ginger Ale NONE_BETTI PHONE LINCOLN R 1981-1982 BRITTEN ASSAILS ALLIES ON DEBTS '!War Victors Should Rewrite Peace Pact, He Declares, Irked by Nations’ ‘Gall.” Incensed as what he described as “the unmitigated gall” of certain foreign na- tions in seeking cancellation by the sentative Fred A. Britten, Republican, of Illinois, declared today that France and England should in turn “cancel all reparations payments and rewrite the treaty of Versailles.” “Congress has reached the end of its benevolence, declared Representative Britten There will be no further sentimental ex- tensions or reductions. The World War was & European institution and its ef- fect should be settled by the European governments involved.” Foresees Reduction Drive. Foreseeing the drive for reduction that Democratic Leader Rainey has said jected into his statement reference to German colones given to allied powers under the Versailles treaty “No one can estimate the physical value of the territory acquired by the victors of the World War, but it is quite reasonable to assume that it is worth many times the amount Germany is expected to pay under the Young plan,” Britten said. Wants Treaty Rewritten. “England and France extorted from Germany more than 1,000,000 square miles of territory and a population of 9,000,000 people in Eastern and Western South Africa and certain Pacific islands. “Aside from the terrible sacrifice of life in a_war which has been fought in vain, France and England have al- ready been overpaid and should now practice what they preach, cancel all reparations payments and rewrite the treaty of Versailles.” uret Buried. MEXICO CITY, January 4 OP).— Donna Concha Miramon Viuda de Duret, daughter of Gen. Miguel Mira- mon, one of Emperor Maximilian's lieu tenants, was buried in the French Ceme- tery here yesterday. Gen. Miramon was executed with the Emperor at Queretaro in 1867. Donna de D United States of all war debts, Repre- | “and will be duped no longer. | could be expected in June, Britten in- | DEMOCRATIC PARTY 10 MAKE DECISIONS !Jackson Day Dinner Friday and Committee Meeting Will Shape Policies. By the Associated Press. This week ushers in a period of fundamental decisions for the Demo- | cratic party. |~ With the Jackson day dinngr on Fri- | day and the Spring meeting of the National Committee on Saturday, signs point to an ending of that jockeying for | the starting line which so far has marked the activities of leading pros- pects for the presidential nomination. “Al” Smith at Dinner. About the same time a clarification of party policy may begin. In Congress the Democratic elders are showing signs of getting their feet squarely on the ground, preparing to offer legislation bearing so indelibly the party trade mark as to force it upon the country: attention as campalgn material. Tariff and tax plans seem the leaders in t The Jackson day dinner brings back to the arena, as a political speaker at least, Alfred E. Smith, about whose .p(fi!t‘llflal'flnl)dldn y once again specu- lation has been exceedingly busy With the assembling of the party’s ke: | men, the disciples of such leading pros- | pective candidates as Gov. Roosevelt of New York and Gov. Ritchie of Mary- land are intensifying their consulta- tions. Hats should fly into the ring soon, almost certainly within the month. Test on Prohibition Issue Due. Saturday should bring something like a test on the determined thrusting for- ward of prohibition as a party issue There will be determined effort in the committee meeting to quench anything | like the outbreak which Chairman John | J. Raskob precipitated last March with the injection of his State liquor con- trol plan. If it comes up again they will try to sidetrack it to the conven- | tion. Thé committee must pick the conven- tion cigy. Chicago and Kansas City are among the favorites, Atlantic City is mentioned and a delegation from San Francisco is coming with a strong talk- ing point—a $150,000 certified check to | defray convention expenses. Water-hog skins, for glove making, are being shipped from Brazl to the United States ELECTRICAL WIZARD, OUSTED FROM ANNAPOLIS, ENDS LIFE [John A. Cygon Found Dead in Bed Clutching Tube of Deadly Gas. | Resignation From Academy Followed Experiments With Remote Control. By the Associated Press. 0 BALTIMORE, January 4—John A. Cygon, 19, whose experiments With electric remote control at the Annapolis | Naval Academy led to his resignation | from the institution about a year ago. was found dead in his bed at his home here yesterday. A verdict of suicide was given by the coroner, who said a tube from which a deadly gas had been released was found in the youth’s hands. | Young Cygon's case at the Naval| Academy caused Nation-wide attention.| \/|SA DIVISION CHIEF RELEASED IN SMASH-UP In announcing his resignation, acad- _JOHN A. CYGON. | emy officials said that in the course of | electrical experiments he had estab- lished remote control of the elevator, clocks and lighting systems of Bancroft | Ang S EiRSdon A | Hall and had arranged things so that SRS SR O L he could cut in on the direct telephone | Failure to Keep to Right of | Road. of the academy without the service of | an_operator. " | After his resignation, he was offered | g ‘posltlons by several firs intvestea | 7 N 10T GBS cH THE Mhaes | capitalizing his knowledge of electrictiy,| MARLBORO, Md, January 4—An- | but he decided to seek admission to the | derson D. Hodgdon, 3306 Cleveland ave- West Point Military Academy. It was| p,e chief of the visa division of the understood he had received & condi-|geate Department, was charged with tional nppolngment to that _)nsm.ulmn. failing to keep to Lvhe right after an ac- Pl father, Maj. Joseph R.|cident involving three automobiles on “ygon, of the 3rd Army Corps Area, de- | the Southern Maryland pike near here clared his son had died from a heart |jast night. attack. He said there was no connec- | mHodgdon's car collided with one op- tion between the tube and his son's |erated by James Henry Casey of Wash- death. | ington. Casey’s machine then collided The youth, he explained, had been | ywith & machine operated by Fred B experimenting with such tubes for some | Kelly of Vienna, Va., who was driving time. The coroner, on the other hand, | pehind Hodgdon, according to police Cygon had inhaled the gas, a tybe| Taken before Justice of the Peace ed in hospitals in limited quantities | parry I. Anderson, Hodgdon preferred to reduce pain. charges of failing to keep to the right T against Casey, who then obtained a Insured Race Drivers Gain. similar warrant for Hodgdon. An addi- tional charge of operating with expired OAKLAND, Calif,, January 4 (P).—|license plates was lodged against Casey Ralph Hepburn and Bryan Salspaugh, |by State Policeman A. F. Norris, Hodg- autcmobile racing drivers injured in|don was released under personal bond | New Year day wrecks on the Oakland | while Casey was required to post $100 Speedway, were reported “vastly im-|bond for appearance in Police Court proves t a hospital here yesterday.|here Friday. Police say neither Casey's | Both men had recovered consciousness, |nor Hodgson's machine was badly |and neither showed symptoms of skull |damaged, but Kelly's car was ditched fracture, physicians said. and wrecked. LAGUARDIA TOBALK FINANGE GROUP BILL Wil Try to Delay Its Passage | Unless Guaranty Fund for | Bar.s Is Enacted. Determination to resist immediate en- | actment of President Hoover's recon- struction finance corporation bill was expressed today by Representative La Guardia, Republican, of New York. He announced his purpose to balk the ad- ministration proposal until Congress does something to create a guaranty fund which would protect depositors in banks that have failed The House Banking Committee will y in the week to resume hear- the finance corporation bi}l Pr Hoover has asked leaders in both House and Senate to speed their work on this proposal | Representative La Guardia, however, | said: “By all means let us restore con- | fidence, but first let us restore it for the depositors_who have lost so much and without whose money we would have no banking syStem.” He suggested National and Federal Reserve banks be assessed one-quarter of 1 per cent of the daily average de- posits for two years, the money to go into a guaranty fund. After two years | the levy, under the bill he will intro- duce, would drop to one-twentieth of 1 per cent So far, he asserted, all talk of restor- ling confidence has centered around bankers, bank directo Investors. 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