Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1932, Page 5

Hoover-Roosevelt Conference Gives Europe Truth on Policy Continuation. t BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘While outwardly little seems to have been accomplished in the conference between President Hoover and Presi- dent-elect Roosevelt, actuclly substan- tinl progress has been made on several points so essantial that it may be zaid the debt prcblem has been clarified, if nct moved scmewhat nearer a sclution. First, a united front to Europ> has been presented by the Repubizan end ratic parties through _their spokesmen—the President and Presi- dent-elect. Not only has there, been Tnammo\u insistence on the December 5 payments, with some easing_of the exchange problem for Great Britain, but the implications of the Lausanne agreement have been refuted by America. What concessions the allies have made on German reparations have nothing to do with allied obligations to_the United Stetes. Seccnd, hope of ultimate revision on the basis of capacity to pay has been given by the incoming as well as the outgoing President of the United States. Such revision, it is true, must b2 brsed on a showing of facts relative to ca- | pacity to pay, and Ccngress finally must agree to eny alteration of existing sgreements, but the United Sietes does not refuse to talk about modification. Indeed, that is the sole subject of any discussion the moment a hearing is granted. Early Parley Futile. It would not be surprising to have| European governments take advan- immediately of this hint. But it goes without saying that until g.l’. Roosevelt names his Secretary of tate, the foreign governments will find @t futile to begin ‘conversations here or sbroad. Also, if there is no_special session of Congress called by Mr. Roosevelt in the Spring no immediate approvil can be given to any recom- mendations made by the new President. The next payments are due July 15, 1933. Europe’s effort will be to sscure some improvement of the debt condi- tions by that time, though the United | States may then have to rep’y again| that there can be no action till Con- gress meets. It may be, of course, that Mr. Roosevelt will be compelled by do- mestic circumstances to call an extra session in the Spring, in which case the matter may move to such a climax in April and May through the regular diplomatic_channels as to call for some action by Congress. Deor Is Not Closed. ‘While America has apparently turned 8 deaf ear to pleas for postponement, the door has not been closed to re- wvision, especially if a world economic conference or future developments open the way for a trading of trade advan- tages for debt reduction—a policy championed by Mr. Roosevelt in his speeches. The President-elect wriggled out of 8 delicate domestic political situation here. He did not assume ty for refusing to grant a ement. o'lh:!:e mm 15 p‘lx; mients, leaving . Hoover rom e by deviating ately time | In_the ‘in avoiding the normal wait till March 4 to learn the foreign policy of the mew administration. Mr. Roosevelt: co-operated to the ex- “tent of agreeing with the President every essential point except one; name- iy, the means of carrying on sions for revision. The t-elect called thi$ sscon M.butndmflllpd;ll not have reported will have little practical importance. Controversy Simplified. The important point is that Mr. Roosevelt did not refuse a hearing to foreign governments and hinted that individual cases might differ and that America would be glad “at any time” to get the facts, which means tomorrow and not after Congress has debated whether it will or will not set up a spe- cial commission. To this extent the ‘whole dehdt controversy ::.l been llm-t plified and Europe may expected a once by a public exchange of notes to appeal to the public opinion of the United States to re-examine the obli- gations. Also, both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hoover agreed that the advances parti { were not mere “political debts” or war subsidies. Mr. Roosevelt has come and gone, and while some of the Republicans were disappointed that he did not agree on all points with the Hoover program, the fact remains that the President-elect made a pleasing impression, the gravity of the debt problem and thelped to take it out of congressional hands and debate for the time being, while more facts and discussion come to light to enable Congress itself to Justify a change of viewpoint from rigid | insistence on payment in full to con- cessions mutually advantageous to the | United States and the debtor countries. (Copyright, 1932.) U. S. PRESSES WORK ON PRISON PROGRAM fotal Expenditures in Construction | Authorized by Congress Ex- | oeed $13,000,000. ‘To relieve congestion in the Federal prisons, the Government is making steady progress in the building program authorized by Congress to construct several institutions providing more than 9,000 beds in penitentiaries, jails, camps end narcotic farms. The total expenditures run well over 818,000,000 and call for acquisition of amore than 18,000 acres of land to put up new institutions and additional without cost from the War De- nt. The program is under di- ns of Sanford Bates, of Bureau of Prisons of the Depart- it of Justice. COL JAMES TAYLOR % | the Army, was commended for the dis- Bicentennial THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Tree Planted MEMORIAL IN CATHEDRAL GROUNDS. a red oak tree in memory of George Cathedral, at Mount St. Albans. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, is seen above plant- Washington at the close of the Bicen- ing tennial Celebration yesterday. The tree was placed in the grounds of Washington —Underwood Photo. DES N CAPTAL Commander of U. S. Troops During Japanese Invasion of Shanghai Il Two Months. Col. James D. Taylor, Infantry, U. 8. A, who commanded American troops in China during the critical period of the Japanese invasion of Shanghai last year, died yesterday at Walter Reed Hospital. He was 55 years old and had recently returned from duty at Tientsin for duty in charge of Regular Army work in connection with the Organized Re- serves of the 80th Division at Rich- ond, Va. He had beerr ill two months. A ed Army career that front during the World War, in Col. Taylor's Army record. Graduated From V. M. L Graduated from Virginia Military Institute in Junnee.d 1898, he was immedi- commisjo: & second lieutenant Regular Army. As a first lieu- tenant in g:e Philippines, with the 24th Infantry, secured information mak- ing possible the capture of the insur- rectiol leader, Emilio Aguinaldo, by Oen.k , thus ending the out- Lieut. Taylor, in general orders to cretion and good judgment he used in making Gen. Funston’s exploit possible. In 1919 Col. Taylor was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal after he | had commanded a regiment in France | in the St. Mihiel attack and the Meuse- | Argonne offensive. The French be- | stowed upon him the Croix de Guerre. Organized Survey Office. The colonel organized the Surve, Office for Maritime Affairs in 1919 1!{ New York City for investigating claims for damages to or by ships owned or chartered by the United States during the war. The President commended Col. Taylor for the work of this board, which saved the Government millions of dollars. A distinguished graduate of the Army | service schools at Fort Leavenworth, Kans, Col. Taylor also graduated from the Army War College and at both in- stitutions zerved as &n instructor after graduation. He commanded the United States Army _troops dn China, including the 15th Infantry, from April, 1929, to last | June. Strained relations between the To Succumbs COL. JAMES D. TAYLOR. Chinese and Japanese 4n the Orient during that time made Col. Taylor'’s position a delicate one, but he is cred- ited with carrying out his assignment with unusual success. Col. Taylor will be buried with full military honors tomorrow in Arlington National Cemetery after funeral services at 1 o'clock in the Fort Myer chapel. He is survived by his widow and a son, Lieut. James D. Taylor, 3d, U. 8. N., who is on duty in the Office of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department. |FIVE PERSON.S INJURED IN COLLISION OF CARS Woman in Serious Condition After Accident Near Intersection in Northeast. Five persons were injured, one seri- ously, when two automobiles collided last night near the intersection of Bladensburg road and New York avenue northeast. The injured are: Edward Warner, ‘55, who police say was the driver of on= of the automo- biles; Mrs. Hester Warner, 55; Mrs. Laura Holbrock, 49, the most seriously hurt; and Alberta Ray, 10—all from 317 Fourteenth street northeast, and | Charles Lofgren, 42, 2213 Rhole Island | avenue northeast, who police say was| the driver of the other car. All were treated at Casualty Hospital. Gain, a Child must EAT Mothers, it is not the stomach, but a bowel condition that keeps so many children from eating. Parents shouldn’t coax a child to eat. Nature knows' best. Healthy children are hungry. If pale, listless, and_ without sppetile.-lh?' have stasis. Not to correct this sluggish- is inexcusable. Read what the lifornia_treatment” is doing for ailing, sickly children all over the United States! Nature provides a simple remedy for stasis. The only “medicine” re- quired is some pure California_fig syrup. It stimulates a sluggish child’s colon muscles and has no effect what- ever on the twenty feet of intestines which strong purgatives paralyze. Start this wonderful treatment today. Any d t has California fig syrup, all bottled, with directions. 'se enough the first time to cleanse the clogged colon of eve bit of poison and hard waste. Then just a little twice a week until the child’s apreme. color, weight and spirits tell you the stasis is gone. It may take four weeks if a child is all run down, but isn’t it well worth it, to have constipation conquered? MELLON THANKFUL FOR L. 3. STABILITY & We Have Adhered to Orderly | thanksgi Processes of Government, He Points Out. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 25.—Ambassador Andrew W. Mellon, speaking yesterday at the Thanksgiving dinner of the American Society, gave thanks because the people of the United States “have lceept«f the inevitable and have ad- hered to the orderly processes of gov- ernment” under conditions which in other nations might have produced “violence and upheaval.” * American residents of London also heard Stanley Bruce, former Australian premier and minister without portfolio in the present Australian government, plead for an extension of the intergov- ernmental debt moratorium until a per- manent war debt settlement could be | arranged. b Ambassador Mellon found numerous reasons for being thankful this year. Thankful for Werld Peace. “The world is at peace—the peace of exhaustion, perhaps, but nevertheless it is a cause for thanksgiving and for hope that responsible men in all coun- tries, backed by public opinion, are laboring ‘with a good prospect of suc- cess to bring about reduction in the cruching burden of armaments and to make it neither safe nor profitable for any nation to disturb the peace of the world,” Mr. Mellon said. “Turning now for the moment to our own domestic affairs, we have many reasons for being thankful. America, it is true, has passed through a difficult hard Winter is still ahead “Lean years have seemed to swallow up the good years, leaving us with a de- flation in values and a reduction in wages and gommocity prices without precedent in'the history of the world. “Yet we have weathered storm remarkably well and have hot only maintained the integrity of our financial structure but have preserved intact our social organization and our inherited institutions of government. “Under conditions that in other coun- tries might have produced violehce and upheaval, we, as befits the epiritual descendants of Englishmen, have ac- cepted the inevitable and have adhered to the crderly process of government as“the means of expressing the public will. . “We have given no thought to dic- tators, either economic or otherwise. We have induiged ourselves in ncthing more than” our usual E litical battle, by which we fondly we can zettle anew all questions that perplex us and can choose for our- selves an earthly providence which in four years will rid us of all our ills. “Surely ruch belief is cause for ving, and" its calm and crderly expression by the electorate is a healthy manifestation of the body politic, in which even the Pilgrim fathers would have taken comfort.” Mr. Bruce, the gue:t of honor, pointed out that war debt payments aiready had been deferred for 15 months. “Would further postponement make such a difference?” he asked. “I do not think it would. I firmly believe, on the other hand, that further pcst- ponemsnt would have a psycho'ogical effect and would bs a contribution toward the sutcess of the world economic conferenze which carnot be exaggerated.” REFORMATORY INMATES FEAST ON ROAST TURKEY All Traditional Thanksgiving Trimmings Furnished Yes- terday at Lorton. Inmates of the District Reformatory at Lorton, Va., feasted in style on roast turkey and all of the traditional ‘Thanksgiving trimmihgs yesterday. One hundred and twenty turkeys provided the fesst. ‘The Lorton foot ball eleven then took the fleld and defeated the St. Stephen’s team, 18 to 0. Capt. M. M. Barnard, superintendent of District penal institutions; A. C. Tawse, superintendent of Lorton, and Prank J. Coffin, steward at Lorton, planned the feast. After the foot ball game the prisoners attended a talking picture show in their auditorium. WIFE MURDER CHARGED Kansas City Police Seek 21-Year- 0ld Husband. KANSAS CITY, November 25 (#).— Orville Jennings, 21-year-old packing plant employe, was sought by K“u to- day in connection with the slaying of his 18-year-old estranged wife, Ethel, shot to death in a parked motor car in front of a home where she attended a Thanksgiving party. The bedy, with two revolver wounds in the head, was found early today. Mrs, Jennings was the mother of an 11-months-old boy. She left her hus- band two months ago. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932. AUSTRIAS T0 PAY INTERES ON EBT Guaranteed , International Government Loan Not to Go Into Default. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 25.—Coinci- dent with the new interest being fan- ned around governmental debt obliga~ tions, it was onnounced yesterday that the semi-annual interest payment, due December 1, on the $121,590,000 guar- anteed Austrian government interna- tional.loan of 1923 would be paid. But two-thirds of this payment, it was explained, would be from reserve, tet up under the loan contract to take care of especial contingencies. The Austri~n government, it was added, had failec because of forelgn exchange r: r difficulties to make its four monthly installments, from July 1 to inclusive, in compliance with the loan agreement. It had de- posited _the two monthly installments previous to July 1 with the loan’s trustees. No Sign of Default. In consequence, although the Aus- trian government failed to maintain its contract with respect to its loan serv- ice deposits in advance of the semi-an- nual interest date, the bonds will not g0 into default. Nor was there any in- timation that any future default was considered probable. The trustees for the loan announced they had entered a demand with the Austrian government for the reconstruction of the reserve furd in its entirety. The demand bears the moral backing of several nations, which guaranteed the bonds when they were floated nine years ago and are cbligated to make good on interest and principal payments in should fail. ‘The guarantors were Great Britain, France and Czechoslovakia, each to the extent of 24 per cent of the total issue; Italy, 20%: per cent; Belgium and Sweden, 2 per cent, and Denmark and Holland, 1 per cent. The United States Government was not a guarantor. Of the original issue, approximately $25,000,000 of the bonds were sold in this country. 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