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Prime U. S. button-presser is President Hoover. But last week the President could not oblige. In his stead Vice President Curtis did some button-pressing to flash a signal from Washington to Rhode Island. There a cannon boomed salutes. An airplane dropped noisemakers. U. S. Cruiser Dallas tooted its whistle. Two little girls cut ribbons while silk-hatted notables stood by. These ceremonious alarums celebrated the opening of the new Mt. Hope suspension bridge, world's seventh largest, connecting the two sea-severed fragments of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Best ceremony: initiation of Rhode Island...
...Congress: He is about as regular in his votes as a Democrat can be. He voted for tax reduction and flood control in 1928, for the Jones law and the 15 cruiser bill in 1929. He voted in series for the three farm relief bills in recent sessions, for radio control, for the Boulder Dam, against reapportionment. He is now fighting the tariff bill...
...insisted that his company did not wish the conference to fail, but was interested in knowing if cruiser reductions were to be made. He thought Shearer was paid too much, that his "ordinary business judgment had been disarmed" by Shearer's plausibility. Shearer's reports had been full of "bunk." He had only glanced at two or three, and when he learned of Shearer's big-navy propaganda he had insisted on his discharge. Mr. Bardo admitted that Shearer was later re-employd by Laurence Russell Ilder on a project for building liners to cross the Atlantic in four days...
Parity in destroyers is to be struck at around 150,000 tons for each Great Power, and parity in submarines at roughly 88,000 tons. In the more ticklish category of cruisers the U. S. is asking 315,000 tons and Britain 339,000 but this too is supposed to represent "parity" because the U. S. cruiser fleet will have a larger proportion of heaviest 10,000-ton, 8-inch cruisers than the British...
...considered the Anglo-U. S. figures for achieving parity somewhat too high. The policy of the Imperial Government at the Five Power Conference, he said, would be to urge slightly lower fleet tonnages for all concerned in all categories. Japan will ask to be allowed to maintain a cruiser fleet 70% as strong as that of either Britain or the U. S., will demand absolute parity with the major powers in submarines. Today under the famed 5-5-3 ratio of the Washington Conference Treaty limiting capital ships the proportionate strength of Japan in that class is of course...