The Washington Post
August 18, 1929

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tle southwest winds. Temperature yesterday—Highest, 86; lowest, 58, Weather details on page 12. i NO, 19,421. | Rimes Sameer r= CAA TEPPELIN Butte Slated ‘fo Get MAY ARAIVEAT | District Court Post TOKYO TONIGHT | Far~- Ahead of Schedule as: It Speeds Over Siberian Wastes. WAS LAST REPORTED ON WAY TO YAKUTSK Already Established Radio Contact With rIVE CENTS. WASHINGTON & SUGURES COPYRIGHI, 1929. BY THER WASHINGTON POS1 CO. HOOVER IS ED AS NEIGHBOR AMI CHEERS OF VIRGINI R | Theveitiigs Join in Ov si u“umrunner Hang ed | tion to Pepa For 3 Murders at Sea WASHINGTON: SUNDAY, AUGUST 18,. 1929. FALLS POWER ALLIES. oTRIVE: PLAN VETOED; | T.AGREE UPON PARK FAVORED) BRITISH STAND Reports Leaves Potomac /|France Insists Proposal, Project’s Future With | Offers 60 Per Cent of Lawmakers. London Demand. PURCHASE IS URGED |SNOWDEN DECLARES WITH RESERVATIONS| ITS ONLY ONE-FIFTH Texan Expected to Re- place McCoy, Who Is Likely to Retire. By E. T. FOLLIARD. George C. Butte, of Texas, assistant {to the Solicitor General, is slated for appointment as a judge in the Dis- trict of Columbia Supreme Court, it was learned yesterday. The vacancy which Butte is ex- pected to fill will be created by re- tirement of Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy, who reaches the retirement age of 70 on December 8. While Mc- Coy has not yet made any announce- ment as to.his intentions, it is: gen- erally expected that he will step down. at that time. So certain does Butte’s appoint- e ge FRB 2 ; - ~F Madison son Visit. GOV. BYRD EXTENDS .. b FORMAL WELCOM a Crowd Votes to hare New Park Entrance = 5. a FF 5 3

LE F i *. > . 4 > a ; : e : @ Turkish less than 3 years old when in June, 1915, his family was driven . from home. As they streamed over the snow-capped mountains into exile, the mother, fearing she might lose her child, slashed his shoulders and thighs with a “hajemet” so that might later identify him. On the journey the father was killed and Loris was snatched from his mother’s arms by a Turkish officer. The mother of Loris went on to Arabia. She found her brother, ren Vernian, and together the two until they landed-in America. phe remarried and went to live in California. The brother settled here in New York. stg after he had been abducted, taken into . There he got S until he was 9 hs. Plattes -Nepr., alge iegaine, | lain eadeneteas. plane. Spokane sua. God, was refueled forthe tast ths | yer dak” Hours behind schedule, the Spokane 4 couumn. 6.'14 res Po eee on Some Points. UTILITIES PROPOSAL CREATES CONTENTION Planning Board Demands Scenic Beauty of River Valley Be Retained. The. National Capital Park and Planning Commission recommended in its study on the development of the Potomac River. Valley between Great Falls and Chain Bridge, which the Federal Power Commission yes- terday released for publication, that Congress acquire the area for park purposes, but reserve the right to “authorize the development of the navigation, flood control and power potentialities of the area should such development become of greater importance and be justified in the public interest.” This recommendation, which will be presented to Congress along wita separate reports by Lieut. Gen. Ed- gar Jadwin, former chief of engineers of the Army, and the Federal Power Commission, represents a compro- mise in the viewpoints of a majority of the members of the planning com- mission and Gen. Jadwin as its for- -met.cheirman, who held that Mery phould fit into the scheme of ths Nation and not the Nation into the * Lined ap against Gen. Jadwitt were Col. W. .B Ladue, Engineer Commis- sioner of the District of Columbia, Representative Frederick N. Zihiman, of Matfyland; Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, $d, director of public buildings and public parks; Frederick A. Delano, Prederick L. Olmsted, J. C. Nichols and the late Milton B. Medary, jr. Objectives Held in Conflict. | These men held that the “two ob- jectives of economically developing power on a large scale from the Po- tomac River, and of conserving the peculiar and characteristic scenic, recreational and inspirational values of this part of the Potomac River Valley are so essentially in conflict that they can not be attained in a satisfactory degree. Therefore the only basis for avoiding an inefficient and illogical compromise is to de- termine which of these two objectives should be the controlling or domi- nant purpose and then to seek, as a by-product, so. much and only s9/ much of the other objectives as is consistent with the fully successful! attainment of the objective selected as the ‘ominant one. “For such amount of power as would be used here; it does not ap- pear that the prospective econon advantage to the National Capital and its environs from any expectable saving in cost of power from this scurce as compared with others, even assuming that the saving would be Passed on to the consumers, would be 86 great or that the people of this region and of the United States are so poor that they can not afford to forego it for the sake of retaining ® unique feature of the Naticnal Capital. “It would therefore seem inadvis- able to decide now upon the destruc- tion for all time of the scenic and recreational and inspirational assets of such large p-ospective importance 2s those included In the Valley of the Potomac at the doors of the Nationa! Capital.” Held “Different Kind of Park.” That part of the report which rep- resented the majority view added that a park under the combination park and power scheme “would be a totally different kind of park trom the natural valley. And the price of creatin this different and less valu- able kind of park would not merely be a matter of dollars, and of the lapse of many years for the healing of scars, but would include the de- struction for all time of essential characteristics which make the pres- ent natural river valley unique and distinctive as an appanage of the Na- tional Capital.” Gen, Jadwin held a contrary view Conference. CHANCELLOR WANTS LARGER PARIS SHARE Up as Briand Declines to Go to See Englishman. The Hague, Aug. 17 (N.¥.W.N8.) — The last and final attempt to save the Young plan reparations confer- ence from defeat will be made on Monday when experts representing Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium and Japan will meet and examine the terms of the previous proposal of the four powers for increasing the Brit- ish share of the reparations. This proposal was rejected today by Philip Snowden, British chancellor of the exchequer. The experts will attempt to agree upon what is the actual money value of the new offer of division. The French claim that it amounts to 60 per cent of the British demands, while Snowden insists that it is only 20 per cent or thereabouts. Snowden’s acceptance of the pro- posal for the meeting. late today, } the first weakening from his ada- mantine stand for the Spa percen- tages without change. His consent Was. conditional, for he said: "Yes, anoue it. *~ to a place in international affairs.” Claims Britant, Victimtzed. This was the statement of Snowden today following the announcement by the British delegation on the reasons for its rejection of the offer of Prance. Belgium, Italy and Japan to compro- mise on the British demand for the Spa percentages. “Great Britain has been so weak that other nations have taken ad- vantage of her,” the statement says. “The time has come for Great Brit- ain to resume her place In the world. “The great mass of letters and tel- egrams which I have received from England, congratulating me on the stand I have taken, all contain the same note, which runs through them all: ‘We, as Englishmen, can. now stand up and not be ashamed.’” memorandum could not be misinter- preted. What Snowden said in reply was. in brief: First, the four powers offer Great Britain what she considers one-fourth of her demands; second, the proposed sums of that one-fourth are very) vague; third, Great demands; fourth, France, with a five- sixth unconditional payment, nothing: fifth, Italy, which would benefit by a portion of the Spa per- centages taken from Great Britain, offers nothing. Wants France to Pay. What Snowden insists upon is that the difference between the Spa per- centages and the Young plan per- centages be sliced off the French and Italian portions. He wants to make them dig down into their own pockets for the money. He wants an extra 48,000,000 marks annually to come of the 580.000,000 marks of uncondi- t' al German nayments, 500.000,00.) of which, by the Young plan is given to France to mobilize and realize upon, to make up, in part for actua: war devastation. He does not want sums scraped up here and there, but a real siice of the unconditional payments melon— most of it s’-ed off France's share. “It is not the money involved which counts with us. Two million pounds yearly is small in our budget, but if we yield in this they will extort other ply states. The other concessions preted to refer to the bank for inter- | national. payments which Snowden | The British reply and the discussion around it. from a British standpoint. | are taken to indicate the intention of Snowden to take and hold the lead in this and all European affairs in which Great Britain is concerned It does not promise a rapid acceptance of the Young plan and it may well lead to a complete impasse. The evident intention to force Prance to cede a portion of the sum allotted in partial compensation for her devastated areas makes it ex- tremely difficult for Briand to yield. Snowden let out, in the course of the afternoon's conversations, that he ae. with Ticklish Question of Prestige sehen: 88 = are — “We. have peste? ‘Seiitinsit' right The British reply to the four-power Britain will be | satisfied only if she receives all she . offers and leaves no doubt that he wants concessions from us,” the British re- | are inter- , except for transfer purposes | ng fe Btegeed dent Hoover was right well taken with | | the eli ace: eens’ Bt Alderman: -Keeps Nerve at Gallows; Widow of Victim Lives Here. In the haelf-light of an airplane | hangar, James Horace Alderman, rum runner and desperado of the high seas, swung to his death from a gal- lows at Fort Lauderdale, Fia., | | i Louis Johrden, Post Staff Photographer. Mrs. Robert K. Webster, 2310 ‘mead place northwest, wido Robert K. Webster, and her two children, (left) Mary Je, 244 years old, and (right) Ann, 4%% years old. |two Coast Guardemen and a secret service operative. About the same time yesterday. a ; slender, sad-faced women was bestir- ear'y Ting herself jn her apartment here at yesterday morning. thus paying the |2310 Ashmead place north west, get- penalty for the killing of three men, | CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 3. HOOVER TO CONFER OW TARIFF RATES Senator Watson pa Sackett Leave for Presidential Summer Camp. SUGAR TO BE PROBLEM | Having spent ten gruelling weeks | at the task of rewriting the tariff bili, two members of the Senate | new | finance committee—Majority Leader | Watson and Senator Sackett. of Ken- | tucky—yester@ay journeyed to the Blue Ridge camp of President Hoover where, presumably, they will discuss with him the result of their labor. Watson and Sackett left for Rapi- dan at noon in a White House auto- | mobile, earlier, it is assumed that President Hoover decided to have them with | him after he learned that the finance CONTINUED ON PAGE 3. COLUMN 2 . | military operations on a major |along the Manchurian-Siberian , der, where the armies of Soviet | Sta and China have been facing | other , | today ‘to be | ment. Inasmuch as they were NOt | western Manchuri mentioned in the guest list given out | south of Manchuli. 16 KILLED IN CLASH OW CHINESE BORDER Reports Say Soviet Cavalry ls Repulsed in Dash into Manchuria. ACTUAL FACTS " DOUBT London, Aug. 17 (A.P.)-—The scale bor- Rus- each for some weeks, were reported from Mukden and purported based on an official announce- An army of 10,000 Russians, equip- | ped with machine guns and 30 fiela |guns, was said to h--* penetrated a both north and It was believed that their objective was Dalaincr Peiping reported what was appar- ‘ently an incident in this general ad- CONTINUED ON PAGE 3. COLUMN 8&8. ep for Executive. ee rn een ater WEEK-END GUEST PRAISES HIS HOSTS ill enteetestnemimmtiaess= oie Tells What Great Delight # Finds in Restful Moun- tain Retreat, NN ee enone Madison, Va,’ Aug. 17 (AP)—~ 4 President ‘Hoover came down from | his retreat in the Blue Ridge Moun- tains today to be adopted as a neigh- bor by the sturdy mountain folk of this section and to receive a formal welcqme to Virginia from Gov. Harty Flood Byrd. As a further mark of esteem far their distinguished week-end citizen, the. assemblage of several thousand, with a rousing cheer, “Yes!” vated to name for Hoover one of the entrances to the proposed Shenandoah National Park. This entrance is that to be gained over the roadway recently carved ont of the sides of the mountains and passing the spot where the Chief Mx- “ ecutive elected to establish his rece reation lodge, where the Laurel and Mill prongs. or creeks. converge to form the headwaters of the Rapidat River. Governor Offers Motion, This action was taken after che departure. of the President for ne ‘4odger and was on motion of Ge - a Byrd, who made the trip from the State Capital in an Army blimp, ae riving in midafternoon. : In his address of appreciation tor the welcome given him. President Hoover announced that it was ss neighbors that he and Mrs. Hoover participated in the ceremonies.. ‘We hope to be good neighbors,”. he ‘sald, “and we know from experience thst you already are.” The Chief Executive disclosed that he had selected a site far up in the Blue Ridge for his camp because only in such an atmosphere could Presidents escape to their own thoughts and tive in their own ‘m- aginings and ‘find relief from the pneumatic hammer of constant per- sonal contacts.” “And I have discovered,” he added, “that even the work of the Govern- ment can be improved by the lets- urely discussion of its problems cut under the trees in Virginia, where. tin ; first | Hoover’s $5 for Gne ‘Possum Brings Boy Back With Two ee Youthful Mountaineer Admirer Isn’t Going to Ask Pay, But if President Should Insist, Who Is He to Defy the Presidential Will? Crigiersville, Va, Aug 17 (A.P.j).— “Hill Billy” lad who “allowed Presi- ‘possum” the boy brought to the | | President's mountain camp last Sun- | | day, is going there again tomorrow— | this time with two opoeryms, in- stead of one. The boy, whose nickname is Ray because he says it takes too long to pronounce his real name, spent the last week combing Big Stone Moun- tain, which overlooks Mr. Hoover's camp on the Rapidan River. His hunt was rewarded by the capture of two big ‘possums, for which the Pres- ident has promised to pay $5 apiece. and the boy has them caged on the mountain ip a soap box, 6 Ray beli¢ves that carrying two fighting "possums down the mountaia [S-year- old brother, George, | william McKinley Burracker. Virginia _ slong to see that neither animal es- Capes, as one did on the journey last | week. Ray's sister, of the soap box Ray lugged into the Hoover camp last Sunday, when he was an impromptu guest at the Pres- ident’s birthday party. “Did” one of the “critters” squirmed through the chicken wire Ray bee. nailed to the box. Ray will appear tomorrow in more formal clothes than he wore on the last visit, when he was attired in every-day overalls. Taking the 65 the President gave him, Ray ee a . q ire 45 } ite ‘ ’ < . o's $ +. ae a ae ae ap j ela ie GAP eS Es Toei dina ets ets JS CS pee 2 She ¥y fae. Fe ite —* 3 \Madison people, no bells ring or callers jar me's thoughts from, the channel of ur- banity.” Fishing Good Excuse. Asserting that fishing was done only the spring. months, Hoover said it nevertheless was a valid reason for temporary retreat for everybody from a buay world. In this case it is the excuse for return to the woods and streams with “their retouch of the simpler life of the frontier from which every American springs, ". he said. “Moreover it is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility and human frailty—for all men are - equal before fishes. And it w desira- ble that the President of the tmnited States should be periodically re- minded of this fundamental fact— that the forces of nature discriminate for no single man.’ .% In welcoming the President, Gov. ~ Byrd declared that in Virginia Sanship stopped at the doors of pitality, adding the hope that’ ¢be chief executive would febl “thet all Virginians today join in spirit in the welcome that is extended to him by the warm-hearted people of Madison.” While this was “Madison Day” for the President -and 4 NEWS is going | Eva May, who is 10' years Old and insists her nickname 1 | “Did.” was authority for the informa- | tion today that one ‘possum got out | said of SUBURBAN Washington and the