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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
.SCHACHT DISPUTED
{. ON RAW MATERIALS
U. S. Foreign Trade Shows
No Need of Controlling
Source, Says Council.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 29-The posi-
ton taken by DR.. Hjalmar Schacht
at the reparations conference that
Germany must have some guarantee
of her supply of essential imported
raw materials, presumably from re-
stored colonies, is described as contrary
to the experience of the United State
in a statement issued today by the Ma
tional Foreign Trade Council, which
is headed by James A. Farrell. presi-
dent of the United States Steel Cor
poration.
THE experience of the United States
ought to carry conviction to every one, y
says the council, that political con-
troll over raw material is not essential
to the industrial and commercial de-
velopment of any country. The growth
of the United States has not been
based upon possession of colonies. The
huge expansion of our industries has
not been dependent upon control by our
Government of overseas territories pro-
ducing raw materials essential to con-
tinuity of occupation by our plants and
our labor.
"Yet we are always the heaviest
users of raw material of foreign origin
in all the world More than half our
total imports are materials for indus
try, and 40 per cent of the total is in
the crude form. 1t will not be denied
that the United States is fairly pros
porous nation. and has become so
without being, as DR.. Schacht says. in
a DoSiti0y m Croato for harcalf a ha eis
entirely her own for raw materials
overseas.
Moreover, it is fact that some
10 or 20 per cent of the total imports
are essential raw materials that are
always liable to greater or less degree
Of control by the foreign government
in whose territory the sources of pro-
duction are located. Potash from Ger
many is an illustration.
Fate of Controls.
"On several occasions such contro
has been actually exercised or attempt
cd. Our recourse, under such circum-
stances, has not been some form oil
governmental retaliation, but rather
public exposition of the unwisdom oil
the control procedure. Every such con-
troll has in the end defeated itself
just as the British experiment with
rubber did two or three years ago"
QuotinG President Hoover's words
"the United States is more pledged to-
day to open competition than anv
other nation in the world" the council
declares. That is the obvious way out
for Germany. and not the construc-
ton of controlled reservoirs of raw
materials"
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delegations in order to keep the

DELEGATIONS in order to keep the
PREPARATIONS negotiations alive.
This might involve higher annuities
for the first 10 or Is years than were
offered in the last German proposals,
or what the German delegation at other
times has called a provisional settle
ment." It was thought that possibly
with the return of Morgan from a
Yachting cruise the German flnancier
had been warned again just what
reversion to the Dawes plan and failure
of the conference might mean to his
country.
There was another view, however,
based principally it seemed on dis
patches from Berlin. which held that
he had been summoned home because
his government had come to the con-
clusion the committee of experts would
never reach solution and ought to
be wound UP as quickly as possible to
leave the way clear for diplomatic
negotiations. In these alone, it was
said, did the German government see
any hope of salvation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
OFFICIALS INVITED
TO OUTING MAY e
Annual Affair of Board of
Trade to Be Held at Sher-
wood Forest, Md.

Vice President Curtis, Gov. Ritchie of
Maryland and Gov. Byrd of Virginia
and long list of prominent Federal and
local officials have been invited to at
tend the annual shad bake outing of
the Washington Board of Trade, to be
held at Sherwood Forest, Md, May rs,
it was announced today by Elmore L.
Burdett, general chairman.
Included among those invited as
guests of honor are Senators Capper of
Kansas, Jones Of Washington. Sackett
of Kentucky, Gould of Maine, Blaine of
Wisconsin, Waterman of Colorado, King
of Utah, Glass of Virginia, Copeland of
New York, Edwards of New Jersey, Nee
ley of West Virginia, Tydings of Mary
land, members of the Senate District
committee; Senators Bingham of Con-
necticut and Go1dsborough of Maryland.
Representative Simmons of Nebraska,
chairman of the District subcommittee
of the House appropriations committee;
Representatives Zihlman of Maryland,
Underhill of Massachusetts,, Mcleod of
Michigan, Gibson of Vermont, Beers of
PENNSYLVANIA, Stalker of New York, Reid
of Illinois, Bowman of West Virginia,
Lampert of Wisconsin, Hall of Indiana,
jenkins of Ohio, Sullivan of New York,
Mrs. Mary T. Norton of New Jersey,
Whitehead of Virginia, members OF the
House District committee.
District Commissioners Dougherty,
Taliaferro and Col. Ladue, Lieut.. Col.
u. S. Grant, Sd, executive officer. Of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission Assistant Engineer Com
missioners L. E. Atkins and Maj. DON
aid A. Dawson; Capt. H. G. Whitehurst,
co-ordinator and chief engineer of the
District; Maj. Carey Brown, engineer of
the park and planning commission; Maj.
Henry G. Pratt, chief of police; George
S. Watson, chief engineer of the Fire
Department; Gen. Anto Stephan, presi-
dent of the Merchants and Manufac-
turers' Association: Charles w. Darr.
president of the Washington Chamber
Of Commerce; Dorsey w. Hyde, secre-
tary of the Chamber of Commerce; Ed
ward D. Shaw. secretary of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Association,
and John Petty, secretary of the Wash
ington Real Estate Board.
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FIRST t. 5. WOMAN IN KABUL
MAKING VISIT IN WASHINGTON
Braved Dangers to Enter
Afghanistan Capital
Beyond India.
Many Other 0ut-of- Way, In
teresting Places Seen by
Miss Van Coover.
BY GRETCHEN SMITH.

The first American woman to pene-
trate the wilderness of Afghanistan to
its distant and usually inaccessible
capital. Kabul, Miss Jean Van Coover
recently arrived in Washington. Miss
Van Covers life as a world traveller
reads like the story of feminine SIN
bad.
Miss Van Coover was born in Pennsyl-
vania, but when small child. after the
death of her father, she went to Paris
with her mother and there she re-
ceived the education which has endowed
her with a store of international
knowledge possessed by few Americans
She speaks five languages, and through
her linguistic ability she rendered in
valuable assistance to the United States
Military Department during the World
War.
Miss Van Coover has circled the globe
in her wanderings, led on by love of
the unknown and a "WanderluSt" &C
quired by the adventurous life she has
led.
Told Trip Impossible.
1t was while spending a Summer in
Kashmir that she first conceived the
idea of visiting Kabul. IT was told"
she said, that it would be impossible
for any white person to reach there
alive. That aroused my interest and
determined to make the Journey"
Before starting it was necessary to
secure permission from the ruler of
AfghaniStan to visit his country. 1t
took three months before the visa was
received from the Ameer, Amanullah.
in Kabul. The trip was considered
hopelessly dangerous and the British
authorities refused to take any reSpon-
sibility in the matter. So Miss Van
Coover made her own arrangements
She journeyed to the border town of
Peshawar, where she arranged with
two members of the semi-barbarous
Pathan tribe to conduct her through
the difficult Khyber Pass into the King
dom of Afghanistan.
The trip was made in tonga, or two
wheeled cart, drawn by two horses. It
took a day to travel through the pass
and two weeks to reach the capital
Despite the fact that the mountain
passes, sometimes reaching an altitude
of 10000 feet, were filled with outlaws
and bandits, Miss Van Coover reached
the capital without mishap. She was
greeted cordially by the Ameer and his
Queen, who entertained the American
in their palace and bestowed upon her
many gifts as symbols of their friend
ship. The Queen was particularly gra-
cious, and showed the American visitor
many glimpses of Afghan life, such as
the royal harem, the girls school under
royal patronage and other phases of
the feminine side of the nation.
It was with keen interest and no lit
tie trepidation that Miss Van Coover
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The Ambassador, picking out fine
sword of French manufacture, demon
strated that there is decided difference
in the methods taught by the schools
of different nations. The swords also
show decided differences, particularly
in the handle guards and handles
which are considerably longer in the
French than in the Italian makes.
Benefits Are Described.
The Ambassador was asked if he
thought that any outstanding benefits
were derived from fencing besides the
mere pleasure of the sport.
yes" he replied, II think that
physically much benefit is derived from
it, but morally, even more. Fencing de-
velops great courtesy, as the first
obligation of a fencer is to be very
polite to his opponent.
Physically, it is excellent, as it de-
velops great agility, broadenS the chest
and helps respiration. I find" con-
tinued the Ambassador, that to be a
skillful fencer one must not allow the
muscles to get too hard and therefore
| it Is best not to do strenuous gymnasium
work at the same time. 1t is also best
not to overdo fencing-if one practices
every day IS minutes or so Is quite
enough
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the bank raised its discount rate. 1t
was openly charged here at the time
that certain French sources sought
withdrawal of foreign capital from Ger
many.
French newspapers charged that DR..
Hjalmar Schacht, who arrived in Berlin
yesterday from Paris to attend the two
meetings of the directorate, was trying
to undermine the German financial
structure and wrek the Dawes plan on
the reef OF its own transfer protection
clause.
Schacht Keeps in Seclusion.
Such a statement as the bank does
issue is expected here to conclude that
the safeguards which have been placed
around its operations preclude any pos
slble great fall in the value of the mark
1t was claimed here yesterday that the
banks depleted gold supply was still
1000, 000,0 600 marks (about $240, 600, 000)
IN excess OF the required 40 per cent OF
the mark circulation.
Since his arrival here DR.. Schacht
has kept in strict secluSion and so far
as ascertainable having made no ap-
pointments save for the meetings of the
board OF directors of the bank. OF
which he Is president. 1t was insisted
his coming early was purely for per-
Sonal reasons.
UNFOLDING this last contention, per-
sons high in the WilhemStrasse COM
planned that the German delegation to
the reparatfons conference at Paris
alone had adhered possibly too rigidly'
to the original idea of appointing eco
nomic experts to the conference to act
idependently of their governments. The
other delegations, they said, with the
exception of the Americans, kept close
to their governments and merely acted
out the wishes of the politicians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
WOMAN FINED $500
FOR OBSCENE BOOK
Civil Liberties Union Director
Plans Test by Sending
Hoover Copy.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 29.-Mrs. Mary
Ware bennett, convicted for sending
obscene matter through the mails. to-
day was fined $500 by Judge Warren B.
Burrows in Federal Court in Brooklyn.
She was paroled in custody Of her at
torney until Thursday, pending the
filing of an appeal and posting of bail.
The conviction last week Of Mrs. Den
nett, who could have been fined $4,000
and sentenced to five years imprison-
ment, was based on distribution of her
pamphlet, 1.-THE Sex Side of Life"
which she said she wrote II years ago
for the guidance of her two sons. She
is SO years old.
The pamphlet had been distributed
for more than 10 years by the Y. M.
C. A., churches and social organiza-
tons, and had the Endorsement of
many educators, editors and social
workers. The complaint against it
which resulted in the conviction was
made by resident of GrottoeS, Va.
Roger Baldwin, director of the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union, announced
yesterday that copy of 1.-THE Sex Side
of Life" will be mailed to President
Hoover over the signatures of more than
100 prominent men.
Their signatures will be offered, he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
CHEMIST PUTS BY-pRODUCTS
OF FARMS TO USEFUL TASKS
DR.. Knight of Federal b.
reau Cites Profit in
Waste Materials.
Urges Tie to Industry.
Paper Made From Corn
stalks Is Development.

Chemistry, by its increasing CONVEX
of agricultural surplus into raw
cria's demanded for manufacture
commercial products, offers a sub
1sal means for increasing farm
Is. said DR.. Henry G. Knight, chief
ilo Bureau of Chemistry and Soils,
ted States Department of Agricul-
in an address recently before the
20 Chamber of Commerce, at
= D umbus.
IN such application Of chemistry to
the present problem of farm surplus,
he says, lies the hope of preserving that
proper balance between farming and
manufacture which is everywhere rec
ognized as the requisite for improving
the present agricultural situation. Dr.
Knight reviewed the remarkable prog
resS that has thus been made in widen
ing farm markets, and outlined the
possibilities for the increasing CONVEX
sion of agricultural SURPRISES into ma
terial which can be profitably worked
up for commercial uses.
THE farmers business" said DR..
Knight. lis more and more coming to
be recognized as the production of the
raw material for the use of manufac-
turing industries. The farm itself is
coming to be recognized as a special
lied factory and the farmer as a manu-
facturer whose raw materials are the
minerals in his soil, the gases of the
atmosphere and the rain and dew
which. through the life process, by use
of solar energy and power, are con-
verted into organic materials for the
use of man."
Utilization Of BY Products.
DR.. Knight believes the logic of events
points to a closer alliance between the
farm factory and the city factory which
will benefit both. THE manufacture
of hides into leather, of straw into
paper, of potatoes into starch and Of
numerous other agricultural raw ma
terials into industrial products consti-
tutes a line of important chemical &C.
tivities with which the farmer himself
should have more than indirect rela-
TONS
DR.. Knight illustrated the widening
utilization of farm by-productS by citing
the history of cottonseed, which he
described as "a garbage in 1860, a fer.
tilizer in 1870. cattle feed in 1880 anc
a human food and many other things ir
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working actively and successfully among
the natives in spreading the doctrine OF
communism.
Viewed Great BuddhaS.
A trip was made from Kabul to the
ancient city of Bamian, 200 miles dis
tant from the capital and famous for
the colossal statues of Buddha, which
have been carved out of the cliffs OF
the Hindu-Kush Mountains. There are
five of these statues. one of which is
l78 feet high. Legen. has it that the
statues were carved thousands of years
ago by certain high priests who escaped
from the lost continent of Atlantis
The figures were originally nude, but
when the country was converted to
Buddhism the priests draped the
statues by plastering them with stucco
The mountain cliffs are also honey
combed with hundreds of caves built
by Buddhist priests.
In addition to her travels throughout
Europe and Asia, Miss Van Coover has
had considerable experience in Mexico
and South America. During the revo-
luton in Mexico in 1913 she lives for
two weeks in Mexico City in house
which was daily riddled with bullets
and shrapnel.
In Brazil she Travelled for weeks into
the wilderness where no foreigner had
ever penetrated.
An interesting collection of Jewels
carefully stored during her wanderings,
has been acquired by raiss Van Coover
in her travels. Filigree work and pearls
from Mexico, aquamarine bracelet from
Rio Janeiro, amber from Peking and
Korea, a rare string of clouded amber
faErNNA (raTNr fny klaR &AENIy
lace of flligree silver and enamel, an
old cross reminiscent of Byzantine En-
perors, scarab from Egypt and other
rare pieces form interesting souvenirs
of the places she has visited.
Miss Van Covers collection of pass
ports alone, forms an interesting record
of her travels. ViSaS from practically
every country on the globe are to be
found among them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
NONSTOP WORLD
FLIGHT PLANNED
American Aviators May Use
Five-M0t0red Plane in
RefueIing Venture.

Plans for a nonstop flight around
the world based upon the refueling in
flight system which made possible the
worlds record endurance flight of the
Army transport plane Question Mark
last January are berg made by a
group of American aviators which in
cludes Lieut.. Albert D. Hulse, Army Air
Corps Reserves; Capt. Harry w. Lyon.
jr., navigator of the Southern Cross on
its fight from the United States to
Australia. and Lieut.. l.. T. O'Connell,
radio officer at the Naval Air Station,
Lakehurst, ~ J.
Lieut. Hulse, who will be engineer
officer of the flight, was a visitor at the
aeronautics branch of the Department
of Commerce Saturday. At that time
he intimated that plans for the flight
are fairly well under way. He refused
to discuss any of the details of the plan
with Government officials, however, and
the arrangements are being held secret.
Secrecy Wells Plans.
Capt. Lyon, a frequent visitor to this
city, has not made any mention of the
plans to Commerce Department officials.
Lieut.. O'Connell, it was stated at the
Navy Department, is on duty at Lake
hurst and nothing is known here about
his plans.
The hints which have been dropped
by Lieut.. Hulse have served to rekindle
interest in the nonstop round-the-
world project which has been planned
by several American flyers or aviation
groups.
The Army is planning to apply the
refueling-in flight principle to the long
range bombing airplane demonstration
n 10 xyfn
to New York and return without land
ing, in connection with the annual
Spring maneuvers of the Army Air
Corps in Ohio. The big bombing plane
is to be refueled twice during its 1900
mile fight, both times at Middletown.
Pa, where the Air Corps has an air
depot.
The Fokker aircraft interests, repre-
senting the manufacturers of Fokker
planes of the Question Mark type, are
said to be planning flight around the
world from Paris to Paris by way of
Aleppo, Karachi, Calcutta, Hongkong,
VladIvostok, PetropavlovSk, Kamchatka,
Prince Rupert. Vancouver, Winnipeg
and st. Johns, Newfoundland Re-
fueling planes would be posted at each
of these points, according to the tenta-
tive plans.
May Use 5-MOt0red Plane.
Col Arthur C. Goebel, winner of the
Dole trophy race from the United States
to Hawaii, announced last January that
he had signed contract with Wichita
aircraft company for construction of a
plane to be used in a nonstop flight
around the world. The plans called for
a tri-motored plane to have a cruising
range Of 1000 miles on one load of fuel
and a speed of $50 miles per hour.
The plane to be used by the Hulse
group, it is understood, will have five
motors, being of the Ford and Fokker
type transport plane, with a single mo-
tor IN the nose and pairs of motors in
tandem under the wing. The plane is
to be designed to fly on any three en-
gines, leaving two in reserve. The fight
is tentatively scheduled to begin next
September, probably from New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
Conservatives Bid
For WOmen's Vote
Through Magazine
Intimate Articles, Some
Discussing Family Tiffs,
Are Included.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated FreSS
LONDON, April ga dainty maya
zine of guileless appearance is being
distributed throughout England by the
millions, and probably few women who
receive it realize at once that 1t Is an
ingenious conservative bid for the new
feminine vote, that most puzzling ele-
ment of the present election.
Facing a PEACEFUL of film stars is a
page of photographs of three clever
young cabinet ministers" with photo
graph also of the Duchess of Atholl,
who works untiringly to give our chill
dren better education"
Little articles written in an intimate
fashion follow. The editor is bold
enough to discuss family tiffs, but does
not hazard conjectureS as to whether
such may proceed from political diff
ferences.
Finally there is a story of the heart
to-heart kind, the tale moving to its
mournful climax when it is revealed
the heroine knew nothing of the vari-
Gus benefits the Conservatives provided
for women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
GANNETT BUYS PAPER.
Acquires Malone On. Y Telegram
Seven tenth in Chain.

ROCHESTER, NY, April 90 (R.-
Announcement was made here today Of
the acquisition of the seventeenth
newspaper In the Gannett group of
which Frank z. Gannett of this city is
head.
The newspaper is the Malone, N. Y,
Telegram, founded in 1905, by Charles
M. Redf1eld. who has been its publisher
since its founding. Douglas N. CAL
lander and Leon L. Turner will con-
tinue to hold an interest under the
Gannett management.
The Gannett group includes daily
newspapers in New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
ARTS CLUB BUYS E
ADJOINING SITE
$4,000 Is Amount Reported
Paid for Property at
2015 ! Street.

The Arts Club of Washington has
expanded its headquarters at 2017 I
street by purchase of the appointing prop
erty to the east, at 2015 l street, which
will make possible provision of larger
hall for dramatic and motion picture
productions and speaking programs. Il
was announced today by Will G. Barnes,
club president.
The property, three story and base
ment building. was acuired from the
Conway Investment Co. Inc. for
consideration reported to be approxi-
mately $4,000 The property purchased
has frontagle of % feet and depth
# 140 feet. giving the Arts Club hold
ing total frontage on street of 81
fcct.
Will Raze Old Building.
The club proposes in the future 10
rae the old building on the new site,
erect large new structure on the rear
Of the lots and to develop a garden In
the front portion OF the property just
acquired.
In the meantime, however, the newly
acquired property will be remodeled
to convert the first floor of the building
into public hall. where productions
and other programs Of the club will be
staged. except for the larger activities
held in more spacious Washington
theaters. The theater section of the
clubs quarters will be about % by IS
feet.
Present quarters have been somewha5
cramped for the programs of the club
and. in addition to providing larger
space for such programs, the club pur-
chased the additional property as a
means of forestalling the possible con-
struction of large structure there.
which would have hemmed in the club
building.
Club Formed in 1916.
The property was purchased through
the Office of Louis P. Shoemaker.
The Arts Club was formed here in
1916 and later it took possession Of the
old structure at 2017 1 street, a former
residence. said to have been erected in
1902. This building is being preserved
as historic landmark.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
JOHN ]. CASEY STRICKEN.
Representative Reported in Serious
Condition in Canal Zone,

ANCON. Canal Zone, April % CP.-
Representative John Joseph Casey of
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, suffered a cerebral
hemorrhage early today.
He was taken to Gorgas Hospital.
where 1t was said his condition was
serious. His blood pressure was abnor-
mally high. Mr.. Casey arrived here a
week ago, seeking a rest because Of i'm
haired health
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29

said, with a view to their thus becom-
ing voluntary violators of the law
against sending obscene matter through
the mails.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29

The new gold coinage of the French
Republic shows the Goddess of Liberty
with b0bbed hair