Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1935, Page 2

NAVAL DELEGATES DEBATE SHIP SIZES Japanese Plan for Total Tonnage Cut Pushed Aside for Time. BACKGROUND— While world talks of war, inter- national naval erperts at London talk of fleet ratios. First such ra- tio to be established was 5—5—3— 1.5—1.5 for Britain, United States, Japan, France and Italy—fized in Washington conference of 1921. Since 1930 Japanese demands for parity in heavy ships with Britain and United States have increased, culminated in declaration before opening of present session that is- sue must be settled before consid- eration of other business. Last week France and Italy joined Britain and United States in opposing preferential treatment for Oriental empire. ->~— By the Associated rr LONDON, December 16.—The Naval Conference temporarily sidetracked its discussion of Japanese proposals for total tonnage limitation of fleets to- day and decided to listen to British suggestions for limitation of the size of ships and guns. The British will make their pro- posals for such “qualitative” limita- tion at the next meeting of the dele- gations. Viscount Monsell, first iord of the fadmiralty, summarized the Confer- ence situation to Prime Minister Stan- ley Baldwin today, while delegates sought to unravel the snarl resulting from Japan’s equality demands. Informed sources expected the ne- gotiators to attempt to dispose of or side track the parity issue soon, to permit the conference to proceed with discussion of limitations on subma- rines and tonnage and type of war- ships and armaments. A secret session of chiefs alone of the American, British, Japanese, Prench and Italian delegations was called for this afternoon and was ex- pected generally to be highly impor- tant in determining the immediate future course of the negotiations for an agreement to replace the expiring Washington and London naval limita- tions treaties. Japanese Visit Admiralty. Before the regular session the Jap- fnese made an unannounced call on the admiralty and talked privately Wwith experts for two hours. Admiral Nagano, chief of the Jap- enese delegation, made an effort to as- sure the British that British interests in the Far East were in no danger from Japan and that therefore British opposition to the Japanese demand for equality was untenable on the ground of vulnerability. The talks were inconclusive, but both sides expressed a desire to make every effort to avoid a deadlock. France and Italy left the prelimi- naries to the three big sea powers— Great Britain, the United States and Japan—but both want the conference | to get down quickly to limitation of individual tonnages and sizes of guns, chiefly to lighten the burden of their taxpayers. Both nations, too, are convinced of the futility of discussion of modifica- tion or prolongation of the Washing- ton treaty ratios for battle fleets, which delegated France to a position of in- feriority she is determined not to @pprove again, The French delegates are believed tesirous of parity both with Germany in the North Sea and Italy in the Mediterranean. During the conference they have maintained a suspicious at- titude, dating from the conclusion last June of the Anglo-German naval agreement, permitting a German fleet 85 per cent of Great Britain’s. Italy, conference observers believed, 1s not likely to be overconciliatory in view of exisiting League of Nations sanctions, which Dino Grandi, chief of the Fascist delegation, has hinted would be taken into account at the conference. — ROY H. BEHELER DIES; DRUG STORE PROPRIETOR Georgia Avenue Store Manager ! Came Here From Roanoke M Five Years Ago. Roy H. Beheler, 53, proprietor of a drug store at 3936 Georgia avenue, cied in Homeopathic Hospital yester- day after an illness of three weeks. Mr. Beheler was a graduate of the West Virginia College of Pharmacy, and was in the drug business in Roanoke, Va., before coming here. He had been in business at the Geor- | gia avenue address for the last five years. His home was at 3541 Tenth street. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Helen Beheler, and by two sons and two daughters by a former marriage. Funeral services will be held at Hy- song’s funeral parlors, 1300 N street, at 7 o'clock tonight. Burial will be at Lynchburg, Va. %o g {7 BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS The famous Pony Express was born in 1860 SHOPPING DAYS TO (CHRISTMAS sz Pony Express, most famous #nd romantic mail route in Amer- jcan history, began in 1860. The route What’s What Behind News In Capital Peace Plan Held British Blunder—Laws Con- fuse Jurist. BY PAUL MALLON. OU have never heard diplomats use such language as the tcp I New Deal set used here when they first heard about the Anglo-French peace plan. They could say little openly. Strictly, it was none of their business. But they could be sued for libel in the World Court for what they thought, particularly about John Bull. the British Tory government had blundered out of the greatest oppor- tunity of a generation to restore the predominant prestige of the British Empire in world affairs. It might have meant war, they agree. But they con- | sider war inevitable anyway (two years off at the most). The proposed settlement seemed to bring war nearer by strengthening Mussolini’s prestige, weakening that of the League and restoring the old the- | ories upon which the pre-war secret | agreement was founded by Britain, France and Italy for partitioning Eth- jopia among those three powers. Peace-loving Premier Baldwin is supposed to have agreed to it be- cause he feared what Mussolinis great air fleet would do to Britain’s ships in the Mediterranean, they say. Our naval authorities do not believe Mussolini’s airmen are that good. Slightly Confused. Supreme Court justices apparently have not been closely following the progress of New Deal law-making. At least one has not After the court had listened to argu- ment in the A. A. A. processing tax case the other day, it proceeded to hear the Bankhead cotton act case. As all New Dealers know, the Bankhead act was not originally acceptable to the New Deal because it involved com- pulsion, as distinguished from the so- called voluntary A. A. A. control of crop production. Consequently, some of their bright young lawyers eyed each other when Justice Van Devanter broke into the Bankhead argument to ask a lawyer: “Is this part of the (A. A. A.) act we just considered?” However, the justices have certainly been reading the international news. Also, during the Bankhead argument, Justice Harlan Stone interrupted an attorney to ask: “What are the sanc- tions?"” The lawyer paused a moment,- Vis. sions of Ethiopia and oil and th League confused him. Noting his pre dicament, Justice Stone continued: “Th~ sactions—the penalties?” This brought the attorney quickly back to the United States, but in a tone which seemed to say: “Oh, you mean the penalties.” Bashful Principal. A bashful lad with cheek of tan approached President Roosevelt at ‘Warm Springs and told him the high school at Durand, Ga., was going to hold some exercises. He wondered if the President would attend. The President asked if the young man was president of the senior class. | “Oh, no,” he replied, “I'm the prin- cipal of the school.” Inquiry developed that the principal was 19 years old, had concluded his | freshman year at the University of | Georgia, and had turned principal for a year in order to get money to go back to the university. The President is telling the story to all educators who call on him. He uses it as an erample of what has happened to the American system of education during the de- pression. Code Book Needed. A code book should be issued by diplomats so that others than them- selves will know what they are talk- ing about. For instance, survey these elusive words from the tongue of Norman Davis at the London naval parley: “Our objective must be to insure that, in the difficult and trying years ahead, the essential balance of our fleets, which during the past years has proved such a guarantee of peace and stability, should be maintained by means of mutual agreement rather than by expensive and dangerous The mildest idea they had was that [ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢ EDWARD T. CLARK. EDWARD T, CLARK DIES SUDDENLY Was Personal Friend of Coolidge and Served at White House. Edward T. Clark, former White House secretary and personal friend of the late President Coolidge, died suddenly early today in his home, 4706 Seventeenth street. He was 57. in the Shoreham Building and was apparently in the best of health. He is survived by his widow and two sisters, all living in Northampton, Mass,, his early home. Mr, Clark came to Washington nearly 30 years ago as secretary to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. When Calvin Coolidge was elected Vice President dn 1920 he became his sec- retarv. He was an undergraduate at Amherst College while Mr. Coolidge | was a student there. He never held | the title of presidential secretary, as | that was before the days of the White House secretariat, but performed that | function during the six ‘years of the Coolidge administration. He was particularly active during the 1924 presidential campaign and i made many trips for the President in connection with campaign madters. He was also active during the cam- paign of Senator William Butler for election to the Senate from Massa- chusetts. Mr. Clark retired from public life at the close of the Coolidge adminis- | Washington representative of the | United Drug Co. of Boston. He was a | member of the Metropolitan Club, | the Chevy Chase Club, the Alfalfa Club and the National Press Club, | the Amerst Club of New York City | and of Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Funeral arrangements were not ompleted late today. OKLAHOMA FEARS MENINGITIS SPREAD Citizens Alarmed Despite Lift- ing of Quarantine in Kiowa County. By the Assoclated Press. HOBART, Okla, December 16.— Fear of the unseen enemy, meningitis, spread today, despite lifting of a quarantine in Northern Kiowa County. A health investigation was started in Canadian County by Dr. A. L. Johnson, county health officer, after Dale Russell, 4, Yukon, was taken to |an Oklahoma City hospital, where doctors described his illness as men- ingitis. Meantime National Guards clamped down 4 strict quarantine on a small area in Southern Kiowa County, while a two-day suspension of business and public gatherings was lifted from the northern part of the county. - SEA DEATHS PROBED Four of Russian Tanker Crew Died in Lifeboat in Storm. MOSCOW, December 16 (#).—An official investigation was ordered to- day into the deaths of four sailors in & lifeboat in the Caspian Sea, when it was alleged the captain of a tanker ordered them to the boat in a raging storm. The victims were members of the crew of a motor vessel which was be- competition. I may say also that the United States, which now is definitely on the way to recovery from the severe depression through which it has been going, is most anxious to devote its energies and material resources to upbuilding of the country.” Translated into American, this means Japan had better agree to a limit in the internatipnal naval poker game or else a prosperous United States is going to make it very ex- pensive. . Jurisprudence. The recent collapse of Solicitor Gen- eral Reed in Supreme Court started New Dealers talking about their dire legal predicament. Reed is the best court man they have. He has been overworked, just as all their other key legal men. The basic trouble is not so much the number of cases, but the fact that the lawyers with the large national repu- tations are all on the other side. ‘The law books do not say so, but it is & well-recognized fact that jus- tice often best favors the side with the best lawyers. (Copyright, 1035.) ITALIAN TANKER ARRIVES SAN PEDRO, Calif, December 16 (®).—The Italian motor tankship Stelvio arrived in the harbor late yes- ing towed by the tanker but broke loose and rard aground. The captain was charged with order- ing the four men to set out in the life- boat to investigate the tanker's ground- ing, despite their protests that the lifeboat could not weather the rough sea., ARMY FLYER KILLED MIAMI, Fla, December 16 (#)— Second Lieut. Robert L. Carver of the 55th Pursuit Squadron, Barksdale Field, La., was killed today when the Army plane he was flying crashed into & mangrove swamp on the edge of Chapman Field, 12 miles south of Miami. Wild West Movie Thrilling, Boy, 10, Watches 9 Hours A 10-year-old motion picture fan who sat several times through a double Wild West feature was found by police last midnight after his father, Henry B. Lowe of Del Ray, Va., asked aid in e search for him. Tommy Lowe entered a Ninth street movie house at 2 p.m. yesterday while his father attended a show more ap- pealing to his adult taste. Tommy was 50 entertained he did not leave until after 11 pm. He went to the spot where his father. had parked the family car, but it was nowhere in sight. Meanwhile, Mr. Lowe had -been searching Washington for the missing ‘Tommy. Detectives found the boy on Ninth street and took him to head- He had been at his office Saturday | tration and since 1929 has been the | ZONEW CARDINALS CREATED BY POPE CHTR Pontiff Avoids Mention of War Situation at Secret Consistory. By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, December 16.— Pope Pius purposely avoided discus- sion of pending Italo-Ethiopian peace propspals today in a secret consistory where he created 20 new cardinals. The Pontiff said any observation he might make “would not be well under- stood, or would be deliberately mis- contrued” in many places. His holi- ness did, however, “pray God fervently for peace with justice, with truth and with charity.” The consistory, during which the 20 new princes of the church were elected, was saddened by the sudden death of Cardinal Lega, 75, Bishpp of Frascati, an hour and a half before the conclave, U. S. Bishopric Filled. “We do not wish to enumerate those conflicts which give worry not only to Europe and Africa, but all the world, because in so many places there is danger our word either would not be well understood or would be deliberately misconstrued,” the pontiff said ir his address. Only 22 of the 48 cardinals were present as the Pope, escorted by his booted noble guards, walked briskly to the consistory hall and mounted his scarlet-draped throne unaided. His holiness filled the only vacant bishopric in the United States, that at Helena, Mont, by appointing Joseph P. Gilmore, chancellor of that diocese, to succeed Ralph L. Hayes, who was recently named rector of the American College in Rome. Cardinals Now Total 68. The consistory lasted an hour, the Pope entering and the doors closing at 9:45 am. (3:45 am., Eastern stand- ard time), and the conclave ending et 10:45 am. The death of Cardinal Lega and the election of 20 new cardinals brought the total in the college to 68—37 Italians and 31 from other na- tions—two less than the 70 permitted oy the holy see regulations. The sdcred college approved Pope | Pius’ 20 elevations—the greatest num- | ber in modern times—as each cardi- | nal raised his hat as an affirmative vote in the ancient manner of elec- | tion, Other Ceremonies Set. The red hats, symbol of a cardinal's rank, will be .given the new princes | of the church Wednesday evening in | & secret session and publicly in St. | Peter's Thursday at the public con- sistory. Before the ceremony of elevation the 78-year-old pontiff delivered his customary allocution to the next ranking members of the Catholic | hierarchy. ‘Then he intoned in Latin: “Therefore, on the authority of om- nipotent God, the blessed aposties Peter and Paul, and our own, we create and proclaim cardinals,” and he named each of the 20. New Cardinals Notified. A delegation of papal heralds con- sisting of a papal chamberlain, a master of ceremonies, and an ar- chivist, was assigned to go to the resi- dences and hotels of the newly created cardinals to advise them of the ap- pointments and invite them to visit the Pope Wednesday evening. This afternoon they received the congratulations of their colleagues and lesser prelates. e CURTIS L. WARD DIES IN ROCKVILLE AT 39 Former C. of C. President and Town Council Member Ill Few Days. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., December 16.— of the Rockville Chamber of Com- merce and a member of the Town Council, died last night at his home here after less than a week's illness. Throat infection was given as the cause of death. The deceased, one of the founders of the Rockville Fuel and Feed Co, which he served as secretary-treas- urer, had been engaged in business here for 10 years. He also was 8 mem- ber of the Rockville Rotary Club and | of the Montgontery Lodge of Masons. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Melanie | Ward, who was a Miss Linkenhoker | of Roanoke, Va.. his mother, Mrs. Hattie Ward of Rockville; two broth- ers, Norman E. and G. Dudley Ward of Rockville, and two sisters, Miss | Mildred Ward of Rockville and Mrs. | G. Edington Bell of Potomac, Md. | Mr. Ward was a son of the late | Edward G. Ward. Services will be held at his late home here at 2 p.m. Wednesday, followed by burial at Forest Oak Cemetery, Gaithersburg. ISAAC C. CLARKE, 79, ARMY VETERAN, DIES Retired Hospital Sergeant to Be Buried in Rock Creek Ceme- tery Wednesday. Isaac C. Clarke, 79, of 3224 Warder street, retired hospital sergeant and veteran of many years' Army service, died Saturday in Welter Reed Hos- pital after an illness of several weeks. Funeral services will be held at 9 em. Wednesday in Sacred Heart Catholic Church, after brief services at the residence. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. He is survived by two sons, William C. and Ridgely J. Clarke, both of this city; three granddaughters, Mrs. G. B. Kefover and Miss Elizabeth L. Clarke, both of this city, and Sister Bernardine Anderson of the Sisters of Charity, Portsmouth, Va., and a brother, L. J. Clarke of this city. Mr. Clarke retired from the Army in 1909, after 32 years’ service, which included duty in the Philippines. —_— AID PLAN ASSURED Oklahoma Victory Seen for $2,- 500,000 Initiative Measure. OKLAHOMA CITY, December 16 ®)—~Supporters of Gov. E. W. Mar- quarters, where his father called for | reljat him. Curious, the police asked Tommy > away_from funds made proposed social security act Curtis L. Ward, 39, former president | Defends American Beziuty Title Ankles 8 incRes in circumference. . This personable young woman is Mardee Hoff, “girl with most begutiful figure in America” She was selected from 2,600 models to accept the challenge of Rosemary Andree, English dancer and British beauty winner, to match her physical perfection. Miss Hoff will “fight it out” with Miss * adree Pebruary 10. Fairfax Man Aceused Slayer | |GGETT WITNESS MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1935. ™ This is the well where Fred Martin told Sheriff Kirby of Fairfax County he threw & gun used to kill his brother, Isaac Martin, and wound himself. The sheriff is looking down the well: (Story on Page A-1). Slaying (Continued From Pirst Page.) mother told police, Fred ran out of the house in the direction of his un- cle's home, & few hundred yards away. . Escapes From Brother. ‘There, according to another broth- er, Elwood,. he shouted: “I've just shot Ike and am going to kill myself.” Elwood tried to.disarm Fred, he said, but Fred wrenched free and ran off into the woods. Sheriff Kirby was notified of the shooting about 7 o'clock and im- mediately organized a posse which scoured the woods and dense pdw brush in the vicinity of the’ home until about 11 o'clock, when rain forced a postponement in the search. Relatives who live nearby said they heard a shot in the woods sometime after Fred had fled, but the search for him was futile. Fred told his uncle that just before entering the latter’s house this morn- ing he had thrown his revolver in the well. Police were attempting to re- cover it today. Bad Feeling Several Years. According to- another brother, Nor- man L. Martin of Clarendon, there had been bad feeling between Fred and Isaac for a number of years, al- though they continued to reside under the same roof. el Isaac, he said, is’survived by his widow, Margaret, and two married daughters living in Washington and by seven brothers sisters. His mother has been s 33 years. The surviving brothers are Frank P, ( —Star Staff Photo. he was carried to hospital. Eugene L., Norman of Clarendon, Ernest 8. of Washington, John H., Walton J. and Fred of near Fairfax. The two sisters are Mrs. Mary V. Da- vis of Clarendon and Mrs. He{zu Thompson of Fairfax. i Pred is the youngest son and Isaac was the second youngest. ; Paper Laboratory at University. ANN ARBOR, Mich. UP).—Facili- ties for all types of experimental work in paper making and wood pulp utili- zation are provided in & new labora- tory at the University of Michigan. . Bring on the English beauty. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. REPORTED FOUND Minneapolis Police Chief Says Man Was Taken to State Capitol. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, December 16.—| Chief of Police Frank Forestal today | announced the key witness in the | Walter Liggett assassination had been apprehended. Wesley Andersch is the witness. was known, the police said, as “Mr. Isaacson” at the apartment house near that occupied by the Liggett family, where he frequently visited a woman. He was traced through the license | plates of his expensive automobile. Audersch was picked up with the| woman with whom he disappeared two days after the killing, a week ago tonight. Two policemen immediately | took the couple to the capitol in St.| Paul for a conference in the office of | Attorney General H. H. Peterson. Andersch was walking in the alley at the rear of the Liggett home as the slayer's automobile started up. He avoided being run down only by leap- ing into a nearby doorway. Chief Forestal said the ‘witness got a good | look at the car’s occupants. Attorney General Peterson refused | to disclose whether Andersch had sub- | stantiated Mrs. Liggett's reported iden- tification of Isadore (Kid Cann) Blu- menfeld as the killer. Meanwhile Mrs. Liggett was near the breaking point from her experi- ence of witnessing the submachine gun slaying of her husband. Caring for the two Liggett chil- dren, Wallace and Marda, not yet | in their teens, has resulted in an emotional strain, which prompted her physician to order her to bed. The widow has been called before the grand jury, which will reconvene tomorrow to consider the slaying that snuffed out the life of her husband, publisher of the Midwest American, weekly newspaper devoted to politics and an anti-crime campaign. Investigators sought to find a man they believe is the key witness, who was reported almost run down by the killers' automobile as it left the scéne. Rev. George Mecklenburg, preach- ing at the Wesley Methodist Epis- copal Church yesterday, declared, “It makes it unsafe for any one to speak out. Liggett must have had the right dope or he would not have been killed. “There has been a laxity in en- forcement and in some cases there has been actual collusion.” Christmas Seals Why I Buy Them—a State- ment by Robert V. Fleming. Tuberculosis causes nearly & bil- ilon dollars’ economic loss each year | fire hazards. A A A ARGUMENTS RESUMED IN COURT Amendments to Farm Meas- ure Debated Before High Tribunal. BACKGROUND— Attacking constitutionality of amended agricultural adjustment act, eight rice millers of Louisiana met reverses in Federal District Court at New Orleans and Fifth District Court of Appeals. Contin- uing fight to Supreme Court, con- cerns asked temporary injunction against colleciton of processing tazes pending settlement of case; request granted. Case may bring most complete settlement of A. A. A. controversy, since law has been amended since Hoosac Mills suit was filed. Decision expected in January. By the Associated Press. The amendments fo the A. A. A, passed last August in an effort to meet constitutional deficiencies indi- cated by the N. R. A. decision, will come up for argument in the Supreme Court today. The original farm measure was de- bated last week in a suit brought by the Hoosac Mills Corp. of Massa= chusetts, The litigation set for argument this afternoon was started by eight Louisie ana rice millers. They sought an injunction against paying the process- ing taxes the A. A. A. levies on them to pay farmers for adjusting produc- tion. Lower courts dismissed their petition. Before starting the arguments the nine justices were expected to an- nounce opinions in some of the 28 cases which have been argued. Ruling Due in January, A final ruling in the two A. A. A. contrdversies is likely in January., A Joint opinion is possible. After the Supreme Court held N. R. A. invalid last May Congress amended the original farm act to ratify certain acts by the Secretary of Agriculture. This was to meet any objections that the farm act consti- tuted an invalid delegation of authority, Another new provision requires pro- cessors before s recovering the taxes paid in the event A. A. A. is upset, to prove they have not shifted the levies to farmers or consumers. The rice millers contended that be~ cause of the peculiar nature of their business they could not prove this. The Government replied that proof was possible. Pay, Then Sue, Millers Told. “Pay first and litigate later,” was the Government's argument. The lower courts held the millers should | pay the processing taxes and then sue to recover. On Thursday, the court will hear arguments in the attack on the Ten- nessee Valley act by minority stocke holders of the Alabama Power Co. Another New Deal case, involving the right of the Government to condemn land at Louisville for a slum-clear- ance project, will be argued early next year. But other important cases are -en route here at a fast pace. ‘They ine volve the utilities holding company bill, the Wagner labor act, the Guffey coal bill and the revised Frazier~ Lemke farm mortgage moratorium. Hazards (Continued From First Page.) determined. The water damage is considered as serious as the damage by heat. Most of the damaged files belong to the General Accounting Office, and include many Navy De- partment vouchers. If they are des- troyed the Government will bz unable to refute claims that may be filed. Reed Martin, chief clerk of the General Accounting Office, started a careful study of these records today in the Government-leased warehouse, to which they were hastily removed in sacks. He has invited the expert of the National Archives to assist in ape praisement of the damage. Deputy examiners from the Archives Building, dubbed “document detec- tives,” now studying the files of the various departments to make recome mendations to the National Archives Council which will meet here soon to determine what classes of records should be first transferred to the cus- tody of the archivist of the United States, have already disclosed many It may happen that as a result of such disclosures the Na- tional, Council may decide that the most valuable records now stored where they are subject to grave fire menace should be the first to be transe ferred to the Archives Building. Irvin S. Cobb Says: This **Bringing-Back-to- Life” Process Might Be Tried on Diners. SANTA MONICA, Calif., December 16.—Dr. Carrel is a bit late with his theory that human beings might be dried out and filed away for a matter of 200 years or so and then brought 2 back to life again. Only the other i night I was i speaking at a dinner where there were many who must have £ undergone the process — only they hadn’t been brought back to life_yet. It used to be that I had better results, talking at banquets, but lately my audiences and I seem to ba drifting apart. Or maybe it's merely poor old Mr. Cobb that's drifting apart. Seriously, I think it would be a mise take to dehydrate a fellow the way Dr. Carrel suggests and set him aside in some quiet ratproof place for a couple of centuries and then return him to consciousness. He probably the power of-the penny lies in the fact that it provides the “ounce of prevention” that helps make cure un- necessary. help wouldn't notice much change in radio y'll still be using the same ones—but, judging by the present rate- of progress, think what taxes will be then! (OCopyright.' 1035, by the North American spuper Alllance. Inec.) f [