Evening star., 1929-06-04
CUT IN ARMAMENT
NOW HELD LIKELY
Hoover and Macdonald Ex.
pected to Influence World
Peace Move.
BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June with Herbert
Hoover leading the movement in the
United States and Ramsay Macdonald
in Great Britain. it looks as though the
next year would see substantial prog
ress IN armament reduction.
Perhaps not in a generation has the
situation been so favorable to a sub
stantial and systematic reduction of
armies and navies as is presented in the
present political leadership of the world.
The United States is spending nearly
Sl,O00,O0O day on its Army and nearly
Sl,OOO,0OO a day on the Navy to main
tain It's position. Great Britain is
spending almost as much.
II the first-class powers would agree
70 slt around table and pledge them
serves 10 reduce armament all around.
by a certain percentage. the problem of
armament reduction would resolve itself
into simple job.
what Great Britain and the United
states do in this important matter viii
probably determine world policy over
the next decade.
The French government is standino
pat In its controversy with the Amer
lcan fllm industry. For some time now
Lne french Superior Cinema Control
commission, which adopted the prin-
ciple that tour French films should be
shown in French theaters to one for
elgn MIN. has been surveying the field.
Inc French exhibitors are in arms.
ciamoring for greater number of for.
elgn films, especially American. Aneri-
can nlm producers stand opposed to all
forms OF quotas, even offering to nav a
heaVy frontier tax, the proceeds of
Mnlcn can even be used to rebuild the
french film industry. But the French
say, Nc" that might establish a prece-
remains.
Americans are pessimistic and are all
ready taking steps to close their work
in France. If they do, 5000 to 5000
French employees will lose Jobs.
The French reply by saying that
should American producers withdraw
entirely, they can supply the French
pendent American pictures-those not
under the control Of the Hays organiza-
ton. The French press, meantime, is
giving the whole subject wide discussion.
Beef prices are high all over the
world, says the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture
New Zealand, Canada and Argentina
are expanding their beef shipments to
the United States. Refrigeration has
helped the faraway countries in this re-
gard. New Zealand now leads Canada
as source of fresh and frozen beef for
the United States. Distant Argentina
is sending a larger quantity of canned
beef to the United States than is Cam
ada. Canadas leading outlet for her
cattle and beef, under present world
price conditions, has shifted from
Great Britain to the United States.
There is in Europe more consumer
resistance" to the existing price level
Of beef than there is in the United
States. According to the Department of
Agriculture, the cattle industry in the
United States is supposed to be passing
to bottom OF production cycle and
approaching the peak Of a price cycle.
In other words, as prices rise through
the effect of series of years Of shortage
In cattle. breeding animals are withheld
from the market to build breeding herds,
and there is a temporary additional
contraction of beef supplies.
That period seems about over. Beef
prices throughout the world should
soon begin to soften.
Elmer A. Sperry. president of the
Sperry Gyroscope Co., believes he has
found the way to remove the peril
from blind-fog flying. Today fog is
the greatest enemy of the flyer AS
yet no accurate instrument has been
invented to give the exact distance to
the earth Immediately below.
Mr.. Sperry believes he has found the
solution. He has given no details, but
it is thought the invention will be a
combination of the gyroscope and
something else" Just what that some
thing else" is remains a secret. The
Sperry gyroscope, in wide use today,
indicates the true course of a plane.
During the war Mr.. Sperry developed
remarkable bomb-carrying, pilotless
planes that performed perfectly under
tests. Just how this was done remains
one Of the secrets of the United States
War Department
(Copyright, 1929. by North American News
paper Alliance)