Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1935, Page 19

Admiral Osumi, Navy Head, Voices Determination for Equality. Great Britain has just abandoned the maval ratio principle of the Washington treaty of 1922. There was disappointment, but mo sur< prise in Washington; Japanese naval circles were pleased. Glenn Babd, in a recent interview with __Admiral Osumi, found the minister of the Japanese Navy optimistic on the future working out of naval problems. BY GLENN BABB. TOKIO (4).—On December 31, 1936, the Washington and London naval treaties come to an end. That date falls llke a curtain be- fore a future full of anxious questions for the great naval powers which turn “fargely on what Japan will do. It was Japan that denounced the *Washington treaty, last December 29, because it did not give her equality with the United States and Great Britain; and the doubts concerning the future center about how Japan will pursue her puropse to attain, that equality. Admiral Mineo Osumi, minister of the navy, who probably knows more of what lies behind that curtain than any man living, resolutely declines to draw it, but in spite of his knowl- edge of what is likely to happen after 1936, he professes to be an optimist. Parley Seals Lips. Will there be a naval race, espe- elally between Japan and America, after 19362 Will Japan begin the replacement of her nine battleships when the Washington treaty expires? Is it true' that the Japanese Navy has & new “replenishment program,” under which it will construct an- nually about 54,000 tons of warships, beginning in 1937? Is Japan plan- ning to achieve parity with the United States—which she is demanding as an indispensable provision of any new naval treaty—by building if she can- not obtain it by treaty? The admiral’s reply to these ques- tions invariably was: “I do not wish to discuss any question which pre- supposes the failure of the confer- ence.” He referred to the naval con- ference which the signatories of the ‘Washington conference agreed to hold | in 1935, and which he professes to be- lieve still will be held. “I have been asked all those ques- tions in our Parliament,” Admiral Osumi added, “and my answer there has always been the same.” Only brief flashes of the Japanese navy's grim attitude—its unwavering determination to attain equality with the greatest naval powers—came through the curtain Admiral Osumi drew before the possibly ominous fu- ture. He was reminded that in the | Diet he had said the Japanese people must be prepared to cope with any future naval situation “even if we are reduced to eating rice gruel.” He laughed. “That must not be taken too literally,” he explained. “It is one of our Japanese figures of speech. I did not mean that we actually should come to such a pass, and I said further that we must do every- | thing in our power to prevent such an emergency. “But,” he added, as the smile faded momentarily, “I did mean to give ex- pression to the inflexible determina- tion of our navy and our people.” Hopes for Support. “I do not believe the forthcoming conference will fail,” he continued, expressing the hope that “America, England and other powers will even- tually appreciate the sincerity of our motives and give us their unstinted | support.” | AWhat he wants the other powers to support is Japan’s program for & new naval treaty: Parity, assigning to all powers “a common upper limit of fighting strength:” fixing this upper limit as low as possible; the abolition or drastic reduction of “those units characterized by formidable offensive power so as to render defense effec- tive and offense difficult.” “This is our .firm faith and will be the governing principle of our atti- tude in the coming naval conference. Being convinced of the impossibility of reaching a just and fair agreement unless the parties approach each other in such a spirit, we must firmly insist on our position.” Mandated Isles:Problem. There have been speculations abroad as to whether Japan is fortifying her Pycific mandate islands—the Mar- shalls, Carolines and Ladrones—or Zconstructing harbor works there for naval purposes in contravention of ~the non-fortification provisions of her League of Nations mandate. There also have been suggestions that Japan .might be required to relinquish these islands on her secession from the League, which became effective on March 28. Admiral Osumi's negatlve on all these points was equally force- ful. . “It has never entered my mind that we should relinquish the islands, or that we should fortify them, or that we seek the consent of the League for such a purpose,” he declared. The part these islands may play in the development of trans-Pacific air- _ways is still to be determined, Ad- miral Osumi continued. Lying, as they do, athwart the direct routes be- tween California, Hawali and the Philippines, they occupy an important strategical position in the Pacific, s0 _much so that the Japanese Navy has come to refer to them as Japan's “life line"—frontier of defense—at sea. ‘Agimiral Osumi, however, indicated “that how far these islands may be opened to the peaceful air c of “other nations is a subject under study “py our civilian authorities.” He em- g that such questions come un- “der control of the ministries of com- ‘munications and overseas affairs, out- iside the Navy’s province, 1 C.C.C.Camp Use for Treating Alcoliolic Addicts Proposed By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va, July 27—In & letter to Chairman Wilbur Hall of the Virginia Conservation and Devel- opment Commission, Delegate Charles Moss of Richmond todsy urged the use of one of the C. C. C. camps in Virginia for treatment of alcoholic eddicts. He sald the camp not only could provide treatment to “rehabilitate” confirmed alcoholics, but at the same time would serve as a means of giving their families the usual C. C. C. *| woodburner on that same section of | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO ., B. & A. Veterans Continue Faithful SEA PUWER V[}w Harry and Wes Basil, Together on Interurban for 17 Years, I Decline to Believe Service Will End. «Uncle Wes” Basil, left, the conductor, and his brother Harry, dean of W., B. & A. trainmen, who refuse to believe the railroad will fold up August 20, as ordered. yesterday. L2 BY W. H. SHIPPEN, JR. €6 E HAVEN'T come to the end of the road yet, eh, Harry?” “Not yet, Wes,” agreed Harry, with a cheerfulness which be- | lied the ominous notice in the An- napolis station behind them. “What time you got?” The Basil brothers, Conductor Wes, 58, and Motorman Harry, 65, com-| pared old-fashioned railway time- pieces, which agreed to the minute— 1:40 p.m. “Five minutes yet,” said Wes. They replaced the watches precisely from long habit, West in the vest under his | alpaca coat and Harry in his striped overalls. It was all routine to the brothers, a routine as timeless as the railroad itself. The two could no more conceive of the day when their interurban would cease to leave Annapolis on the An- napolis Junction run than they could conceive of quitting the only job they | had known since boyhood. Neither could credit the notice, which said the receivers would end operation of the Washington, Baltimore & An- napolis Railway on August 20. Deans of 450 Employes. As conductor and motorman, the last for 17 years, the brothers have | been operating the same interurban on the Annapolis-Junction run, con- necting with the Washington-Balti- more electric trains. They are deans of the 450 W., B. & A. employes, whose jobs will end August 20, but unlike the others, they refuse to believe the end is in sight. The pair are railroaders and the sons of a railroader who stoked a track, the second oldest in the world, | before either of them was born. “This railroad is going on,” de-| clared Wes, or rather, Uncle Wes, as he has come to be known. “It has served this section since 1848, and it can’t quit now; folks need it too much. How are the working people going to | get to their jobs, or the kids to school?” “That's right,” Harry said. ‘“The railroad will go on . .. it always has.” Motorman Harry Basil at 65 is as rugged and almost as spry as the day | his father signed papers permitting him as a minor to take a job firing on the old “short line” between Balti- | more and Annapolis in 1888. Mostly, he is called Harry, but old- timers know him as “Hopper,” since the day as a boy he chased grass- hoppers over the countryside to offer the pet mocking bird of a friend. Learned New Type Cars. In 1897, young Wes obtained a job on a bridge gang on the “short line.” Both brothers went to the old Annap- olis, Washington & Baltimore Railroad in 1903, while it was operated by steam, Harry as an engineer and Wes as a conductor. Harry learned how to drive the new-fangled cars when the line was electrified several years later and reorganized as the W.B. & A. During the Civil War, the old Annapolis & Elkridge Railroad car- ried Union troops from Virginia and Washington to Fort Severn when Northern generals feared an attack from that quarter. The old railroad ran from Annapolis to Annapolis Junction, now Fort Meade Junction, and once bore hundreds of Confederate prisoners to the camps at Parole, just outside Annapolis. The ‘father of Harry and Wes was railroading in those days, stoking the old wood burners and heating the boilers for daily runs. . In his 47 years of railroading, Harry said proudly, he never killed & man, or even a horse, mule or cow. One or two dogs have met death under his wheels, he admitted, and & few chickens, but these accidents were unavoidable. In a reminiscent mood, he told how midshipmen returning to the acad- emy in forbidden “cits” after a holi- tunately, who become so addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages that | mounted to his cabin. would not see them and report their absence. Broke Regulations Once. Once, and only once, Harry said, he broke the regulations of the road. He saw a mother and her three children stumbling over icy ties one February day in a blizzard and halted between stops to let the tardy passengers aboard. Harry added the thing hurt | his conscience until he reported to the boss and was excused. “Yes,” cut in Wes, “We're old tim- ers for a fact. There's plenty of grand- parents on this road who call me ‘Uncle Wes." We know every spike and every rail in the roadbed and every passenger by his first name. “Why, one day Harry and I were re- turning fro mthe junction with two naval officers, a father and son, and | the father said to his son, who was a retired lieutenant commander, ‘Do you know this conductor?” “‘Sure,’ replied the son, ‘he brought me to Annapolis when I entered as a plebe. Do you know him?’ “‘Of course,’ said the father, a rear | admiral, ‘he did the same for me!" | Boy and Cone Arrive. | “We better go on that one” said | Harry, looking again at his watch. He | Just then a small boy started up the steps, clutch- ng an ice cream cone. “Here, son,” grinned Wes, “you can't get on this train with that ice cream cone.” “I won’t go then, Uncle Wes,” cried | &mycmngster, dodging by into the ‘Wes shouted with laughter. “That's the way it goes. They pay no atten- tion to Uncle Wes, but he starts this train on time.” Uncle Wes gave Brother Harry two | belis and Brother Harry responded ! with two toots from the whistle fa- | miliar to every citizen along the right- | of-way. “There’s nobody in these blow that whistle like Harry," baggage master. “Folks will miss that whistle—they all know it.” VALUE OF FARM LAND| RISES IN SOUTHWEST Prices More Than Double During Past Year, Wichita Land Bank Head Says. By the Associated Press. WICHITA, Kans, July 27.—Farm and ranch lands of the Southwest have more than doubled in value in the past year, Hugh L. Harrell, presi- dent of the Federal Land Bank of Wichita, found today in the records of the bank’s real estate department. And the value of transactions has made a more notable jump. “Sales of farm and ranch proper- ties owned by the Federal Land Bank of Wichita,” Harrell said, “are going forward at better than double the average price per acre the bank was receiving a year ago. “The improved demand and -prices bear rather eloquent testimony, it seems to me, not only of the come- back which agriculture in the South- west is staging, but also of the uni- vetsal improvement in business con- ditions. “Money to buy farms has to come from somewhere, and while farmers and intending farmers are buying for cash er on such terms as we are able to make them, many others are buy- ing farm properties for investment.” Servants Get $1,750,000. Faithful servants in England have received, under the wills of their em- ployers, bequests totaling over $1,750,~ 000 in the last 12 months. The pair are shown just before they left Annapolis Patton Is Tearful As Texas Friends Avow Their Faith Voters’ Wire Says Whole State Knows His Innocence. By the Associated Press. Representative Patton, Democrat, of Texas, dropped his head on his desk yesterday and wept. He had just read this telegram from John H. Kirby, Houston, Tex, lum- berman: “Don't let them intimidate you. Give your enemies the bayonet. Every informed man and woman in Texas knows you are innocent.” Patton raised his head. “Everybody in Texas is with me,” he sald. “They all know me and they know I never did anything wrong in my life.” Patton is the Texas Representative who told the Senate Lobby Commit- tee he received a box of cigars at the hotel room of John W. Carpenter, president of the Texas Power & Light Co., and was questioned about in- vesting $3,000 in Government bonds in a period when his salary was only $3,100. —— e TAX APPEAL PLANNED Milling Firm Seeks Injunction to Block Processing Levy. TOLEDO, Ohio. July 27 (P).—At- torneys for the National Milling Co. said they would appeal from a refusal of Federal Judge George P. Hahn to grant an injuaction to prevent the internal revenue collector from col- lecting tax under the agricultural ad- justment act. The National Milling Co. and the Northwestern Milling Co. sought a temporary injunction against collec- tion of wheat processing taxes. Government officials said many small firms, charged with taxes in processing hogs and wheat, disclosed their, intention to refuse payment be- cause of four injunctions Judge Hahn previously granted. 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P, Lawmaker to Speak in House of Commons for Banned En- tertainers. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 27.—Two dozen American chorus girls, ordered by the British lsbor ministry to cease ap- pearances here, enlisted new allies yesterday in their fight to continue dancing in England. Owners of the hotels at which the American beauties are performing ap- proached the ministry with requests for extended working permits, while & member of Parliament, Capt. Arthur Evans, former aide de camp and pri- vate secretary to Admiral Viscount John Jellicoe, threw his support to the cause of the American girls. Evans said he woud speak in the House of Commons Wednesday to vrge the government to reconsider its decision barring the American chorines. A statement by Evans, whose wife is the former Mary Claflin of Mor- ristown, N. J, sald reports from America of threatened reprisals against British actors and actresses were causing alarm among American stage stars in London. ‘The government here, it was pointed | out, has so far taken no steps to ban individual stars, but if such action develops in America, Great Britain | may be forced to exclude American | The chorus girls, half of whom came to England from Hollywood | | and half from New York, were ordered July 17 to quit work within two weeks. They hope they may be permitted to return as a unit, since England continues to allow certain “unit” acts | from America. Pilgrims Climb Mountain. ‘WESTPORT, Irish Free State, July 27 (#).—Thousands of piigrims from all parts of England and Ireland, and some Americans, arrived today for the annual pilgrimmage up Croagh St. Patrick—St. Patrick’s Mountain— where Ireland’s patron saint prayed and fasted for 40 days in penance. Siamese Inspect Japan's Navy. 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