Evening star., 1925-02-22
History.

state department, has baan sounding
out the attitude of foreign powers
on the practicability of his calling
another limitations of armaments
council, but the results evidently
have led him to the conclusion that
the time is not ripe. The question
of another arms conference to be
called by the United States has been
rumored for some time, but last week
dispatch from London was to the
effect that the American Ambassador
there actually had discussed the mat
ter with Austen Chamberlain, the
British foreign secretary. Later In
the week, however, a spokesman for
the President indicated that the
United States will await the full re-
suits of the attempt by the League
of Nations for holding a disarmament
conference before going forward with
it's own.
Last Tuesday the Secretary of the
Navy formally certified to the Secre-
tary of State that the United states
had met all requirements of the dis
armament treaty by scrapping all OF
the ships required to be disposed OF
under the agreement. The original
cost of the vessels disposed of under
the treaty was s197,41S.6 620.06. The
sale price of the ships as scrap and
junk was $2,257. .474,SS.
The present policy of the United
States toward Soviet Russia will re-
main unchanged under Frank Is. hel-
logg, who succeeds Secretary OF state
Hughes March 4. This was predicted
by an authorized spokesman for the
President at the White House last
week, who was asked regarding
Widespread rumors to the erect that
there would be a change
Mr. Hughes has been consistently
against the recognition of Soviet Rus
sia, while Senator Borah, chairman OF
the Senate foreign relations fommittee,
has advocated recognition.
Rumania is unwilling to have the
reparations commission decide the imam
cial difficulties with Germany which
exist as a result of the German occupa-
ton of Rumania in 1918. Rumania
claims about S400, 900, for which
Germany refuses to accept responsibility.
The rupture has led to an open break
in the commercial relations between the
two countries, German newspapers in
Rumania have been coniscated and
German ships carrying Rumanian oil to
Germany have been recalled.
On the 27th anniversary of the blow
ing UP of the United States battleshlp
Maine, in Havana Harbor, the veterans
of the Spanish War held memorial serv-
ices in Arlington Cemetery last Sunday,
February Is, at the base of the Maine
mast, which marks the tomb of the gal
liant men who lost their lives when the
ship went down.
There is a plan afoot to set up some
lasting tribute to the daring and cour-
age of Americas six world flyers. The
national committee which has been
formed to carry out this plan has chosen
sculpture by Joseph A. Atchison for
which the flyers sat, and plan that it
should be presented to the Nation as a
gift from the youth Of America. The
probable cost of this plan would be
100000.
Congress recognized the achievement
of the flyers last week by passing a bill
allowing their promotion and awarding
them medals.
A busy Nation anxiously watched last
week while miners, after days of fever
ish work digging a shaft to reach Floyd
Collins. imprisoned for two weeks in a
narrow passage of a cave near Cave
City, Ky. found his dead body. Life had
ceased "a hours before his rescuers
reached him. Instead of removing him,
as first Planned. from the cave, it viii
be his tomb in death as il was in life.
His funeral rites were held last week.
The allied military commission ap-
pointed to investigate Germany's al
legged failure to abide by the terms
of the treaty of Versailles respecting
her disarmament delivered its report
last week. The report states that be-
cause of obstacles placed in it's path
by the German government it was
unable to obtain results by direct re-
search. The majority of its disclosures
came from dsgruntled German paci-
fists working in factories where mu-
nitions of war were being manufac-
tured. The report goes at length into
its discoveries of other evidence that
Germany is not disarming. 1t will be
remembered that the commission was
appointed when the allies refused to
withdraw troops from Cologne, in ac-
cordance with the peace treaty, be-
cause, it was claimed, Germany did
not live up to her requirements.
Another week of hearings dragged
by with little sensation as the House
committee investigating the Air Serv-
ices of the Army and Navy continued
it's work. Secretary Weeks, the COM
mittee said, would be summoned be-
fore the committee and asked to ex-
plain War Department state
ment for the press to the effect that
the Army has 1900 planes ready for
an emergency in the face of state
ments from Brig. Gen. Mitchell, as
sistant chief of the Army Air Service,