Evening Star Newspaper, April 25, 1937, Page 7

.~ C.OFC.FACESTEST INELECTING HEAD Conservatives and Liberals Contend for Successor to Sibley. A test between the conservative and liberal factions of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States over the election of a president 'is in the offing as the organization prepares for the opening of its twenty-fifth annual convention here Tuesday. The announcement by President Harper L. Sibley in Rochester this past week that personal affairs would no longer permit him to serve, unex- pectedly raised this issue, as it has been customary for heads of the chamber to hold office for three terms, and Sibley'’s election for the next year would have been a matter of course. In consequence, the race was re- garded at the chamber as a wide-open affair that would await the assem- bling here of the Nominations Com- mittee before there would be any indication of where the choice would fall, Elected By Directors. Theoretically, the president is elected by the directors, who meet immediately after the convention closes. Nomination, howeyer, is tan- tamount to election, for no committee recommendations ever have been turned down. The committee is headed by Lee J. Dougherty of Daven- port, Iowa, president of the Guaranty Life Insurance Co. Despite the strained relations that have existed between President Roose- velt and the chamber during the last four years, the two chamber presi- dents who have held office in that time have been on good terms with the White House. This was particularly true of Henry 1. Harriman, New England power magnate, who was president in 1932- 1935. Harriman was one of the prime movers in developing the National Recovery Administration, although later differing with the administra= tion over the wide scope taken by the codes. In the memorable floor fight | in the convention in 1935, when the | chamber rejected the Roosevelt legis- lative program, lock, stock and barrel, in a fight led by the Illinois Manu- facturers’ Association, Harriman vig- orously defended a portion of the social gecurity plan, particularly for pension- ing the aged indigent, and called on the chamber to support that item, and to give an impartial study to the rest of the proposed set-up. Sibley Takes Middle Stand. Sibley, banker and farmer and a | elassmate of Roosevelt at Groton and | Harvard, has taken more of a middle- ground stand, although never hesitat- | ing sharply to criticize administration policies which he opposed. | There is, however, a substantial | bloc in the chamber that is entirely out of sympathy with President Roose- velt, and whether the new president | will be more representative of this ele- | ment than of the other wing of the | chamber, is expected to be watched | with interest by business men gen- erally. ‘The convention, which will be pre- eeded as usual by the meeting tomor- row of the national coucilors repre- senting the constituent organizations in the chamber, will be attended by some 3,000 delegates—one of the largest gatherings in the chamber's history and perhaps the largest ever held here since the annual meetings were located in the Capital. ‘With more than 1,300 reservations received for the annual dinner at the Willard, Thursday night, as the convention ends, it was necessary to close the list several weeks ago. The principal speaker will be Sir Edward | Beatty of Montreal, chairman and president of the Canadian Pacific | Railway. While the chamber program will follow the usual lines and take in the various problems with which indus- try and agriculture must deal, princi- pa! attention will be centered on labor relations. The administration views on this subject will be sounded at the general session Wednesday, when Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Becretary of Labor, will speak. For the first time in years, none of the cabinet members is addressing the chamber, but Secretary Hull, Secretary Morgenthau and Secretary Perkins have accepted invitations to the annual dinner. , The annual dinner of the American Section of the International Chamber of Commerce will be held at the May- flower at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night with Secretary Wallace as the guest of honor. The speakers will be John Foster Dulles, New York lawyer, who formerly was in the State Depart- ment, and Eliot Wadsworth of Bos- ton, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Secretary Mellon, who now is president of the Boston Cham- ber of Commerce. Awards to Be Presented. Tomorrow's program also includes & session at the chamber at 10 am., at which the awards—previously an- nounced—will be presented in @he city and rural health conservation and fire waste contests; buffet lunch- eon of the councilors at 12:30 o'clock and a business meeting at 1:30 o'clock. Colby M. Chester of New York, chair- man of General Foods Corp., will speak at the afternoon meeting. On Tuesday night Sfr Willmott Lewis, Washington correspondent of the London Times, will address the annual dinner of the National As- sociation of Commercial Organiza- tion Secretaries at the Washing- ton. One other associated group—the American Trade Association Execu- tives—will have its dinner at the Mayflower that night. : The final business session of the ehamber will be Thursday afternoon. NEW TEXTILE TEST Proper 8izing of Yarns in Starch Process Determined. Methods of testing in textile mills whether yarns are properly sized when white potato starch is used for sizing have been worked out by Wal- ter T. Schreiber and M. N. V. Geib of the fiber structure section, Bureau of Btandards, in co-operation with O. C.| Moore of the Alabama Polytechnic In- stitute, the Commerce Department has announced. Effect of weaving and abiasion and | Rhe breaking strength and elongation of yarns sized with potato starch can be determined accurately with the test procedure which has been developed, it was explained. British Pupils Visit Germany. Thousands of British school chil- dren have been entertained recently in Germany as guests of the Hitler | youth organization. sand-duned dryland acres and western Colorado. Belgium (Continued From First Page.) strategy is the trip by Foreign Sec- retary Anthony Eden to Brussels to- morrow for discussions with King Leopold, Premier Paul van Zeeland and Foreign Minister Paul Henry Spaak. Eden will travel in a plane provided by the Belgium government and will not return to London until Tuesday. How the Anglo-French general staff measures will affect Belgium in case of war is likely to be among the matters pondered in Brussels. Although Bel- gium is no longer a party to the staff conversation, she is in a peculiar geo- graphical position still to figure promi- nently in Anglo-French defense plans. Her objections to the establishment of Anglo-French air bases in Belgium, in case of war, were understood to have delayed the signing of the new agree= ment announced today. Belgium's role of “listening post” for | Britain may be read between the lines of the communique issued tonight by the foreign office. The Anglo-French communication to Brussels, as report- ed in the communique, notes the de- |termination expressed by the Belgian government “to defend the frontiers of Belgium with all its forces against any aggression or invasion and to pre- vent Belgian territory from being used for purposes of aggression against an- other state as a passage or as a base of operations by land or sea or in the air,” and “to organize the defense of Belgium in an efficient manner for this purpose.” Britain will rest easier with this as- surance. It means that Belgium would not only impede German invaders, as in 1914, but would notify Britain promptly if Belgian neutrality were violated by German bombers headed | for London. While releasing Belgium from her | obligations toward them under the Locarno and the staff talks' arrange- ment, Britain and France still promise Belgium “the undertakings of assist- ance” which all three entered into | heretofore. Moreover, Belgium again pledges fidelity to its League of Na- tions obligations, which conceivably might permit Britain and France to enter Belgium to defend her neutrality against an aggressor, (Copyrignt. 1937.) JOINT DECLARATION ISSUED. Independence of Belgium Is Guaran- teed by Two Powers. By the Assoclated Press. BRUSSELS, April 24 —Belgium was set today on a unique basis of neu- trality by "Anglo-French guarantees which may become historic. | A joint declaration guaranteed Bel- gium's independence and released King Leopold’s nation from her prom- ise to fight for Great Britain or France if either were the victim of aggression. The document, published simultane- sponsored trek from dust bowl farmlands. ously here, in London and in Paris, DRESSES Just Received $6.95 CHARGE IT ¢ Months to Pay Just received— new prints, guaranteed wash- able silks, in a fascinating range of newest designs and colors. You'll adore these new frocks — you'll admire ther | smart, crisp | styles. Just the dresses you need now — and all Summer long. For street and day- time. Al sizes. Buy several ot this modest price and charge it on convenient terms. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO. Toward the sunset, Northeastern Colorado families headed yesterday in the first Government- Charles and Ed Kovach, brothers, stand on their point toward their new home in the irrigated lands of South- was believed in diplomatic circles to have strengthened the close ties be- tween Great Britain and PFrance in Europe's quest for a non-aggression pact to replace the nullified Locarno treaty. Flemish Nationalists Opposed. Some authoritative sources in this country viewed the Franco-British declaration as the most important diplomatic event since the World War. Flemish Nationalists, however, assailed it in connection with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's scheduled arrival tomorrow for further discus- sions of Belgium's status. The declaration also was made a stop-gap to clarify Belgian policies “‘until the negotiation and conclusion of & general pact intended to replace the Treaty of Locarno.” The signatures of Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Spaak, British Ambas- sador Sir Robert Clive and French | Ambassador Jules Laroche to the joint communication released Belgium from all obligations under the Locarno Ppact and the subsequent London “arrange- men' of March 19,1936, after Reichs- fuehrer Adolf Hitler nullified the Lo- carno pact by reoccupying the Rhine- land. Three Quandaries Foreseen. Despite the so-called consideration observed in the declaration, observers foresaw three quandaries sull con- fronting Belgian policy makers* 1. How can Belgium, desiring again the neutrality she had in 1914, deny League of Nations members the right to transport troops through her ter- ritory and still remain in the Leag:e, as she also desires, which makes such Permission obligatory against an g~ gressor. 2. How will Belgium answer the moot question of international law as to whether airplanes fying over a country constitute an invasion in the same way as troops on its soil? This problem, important for any neutral country, is particularly vital for Bel- gium, over which French or German bombers probably would fly in case of trouble. 3. How neutral can Belgium really be? Both Britain and France have made Belgium part of their defense systems. Falls 1,000 Feet Unhurt. 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Formerly pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in this city, Dr. Sizoo holds the honorary degree of doctor of human letters from George Washington. Alumni, faculty, trustees and stu- dents will attend the dinner. Charles S. Baker, president of the General | Alumni Association, will preside, and Robert V. Fleming, president of the Riggs National Bank and a trustee of the university, will act as toastmaster. By pre-arrangement alumni clubs in & number of cities will hold din- | ners the same evening and will hear radio broadcasts of the Washington program. Dean Louis Kayser will go to Baltimore to address the alu group assembled there N Foed e DG, DRYLANDERS'GE NEW START INLIFE Resettlement Moves Dozen Families From Colorado “Dust Bowl.” By the Associated Press. PURCELL, Colo., April 24—S8ix dusty years—when “black rollers” were a terror and flelds blew skyward— ended today for a dozen Colorado families. They packed belongings and headed ‘Westward—the first of more than 100 “drylanders” to move from the dust bowl to green, irrigated acres West of the continental divide. It was the first major trek of families from the Southwestern dust area under Federal resettlement pian. All were residents of this community, Government Bought Farms. First families to participate in the project were selected for good health, financial stability and farming experi- ence, The Government purchased their arid farms, paying about $4 an acre, and financed purchase of the irrigated | tracts. Each new farm will be from 60 to 80 acres, with a small house. The farms are in Mesa, Delta and Mont- rose counties in Western Colorado. Antone Kovach, for 28 years a dry- lander, smiled as he turned West. Once Land Was Fertile. “It’s going to be something, getting to a spot where there is water,” he said as he took & last look over his sand-duned acres. “Maybe we grow something again,” interposed his wife. 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The engrossed bill, &s sent to President Roosevelt for signature, contained an “are” where an “or” should have been. But legislators decided that the meaning was plain, and so suggested that the President sign it that way, instead of sending it back to Congress. He must sign by April 29, else the bill becomes dead. CREW OF SEVEN TAKEN OFF SINKING SCHOONER Rescue Ship BSights Vessel Off Norfolk as Six Feet of Water Fill Hold. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., April 24 —The crew of seven men of the British schooner Charles and Vernon were taken off their sinking craft 6 miles off Winter Quarter Light this afternoon by the Ford Motor Co.'s steamer Lake Ormoc, according to a message received here by the Coast Guard. The Lake Ormoc is bound to Norfolk and will land the men here. The Charles and Vernon was re- ported en route from Philadelphia to Lahavre, Nova Scotia, with a cargo of coal. 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