Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1921, Page 13

“WOREDDEPRESSON 5 HOOVER TOPC * Secretary Points Way to U. S. Recovery in Speech to Leather Men. TELLS OF EUROPE’S PLAN By the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, July 12.—Reéovery' from economic depression in the United Btates as well_as abroad depends upen “courage and applied intelli- gence and the rewurn to primary v tues of hard, ‘consclentious toil end economy in living,'*, Secretary Hoaver. “declared here todyy. in' an address before the nA(lonnl‘hoe and léather exposition. L “There may be nokrecovery iom these hard times for Yany years, to come,” Mr. Hoover ¥aid, “if we neglect our econemdc’ reiations abroad. . The hard time} that knock at every cottage door 'came from Europe. No tariffs. no embargoe no navies. no armies can ever de fend us from these invasions. Our ®ole defense is the prosperity of our neignbors and our own commercial #kill. The recovery of our foreign trade can march only in company with the welfare and prosperity of our customers.” Europe's Efforts to Recover. Discusaing efforts in Europe to recover from the wealth destruction of the war, the Secretary said that the rein- forcement of their marketing machinery many of the governments are stimulat- ing the consolidation of banks and man- ufacturing concerns.” - “Governmental and government-en- couraged combinations are being cre- ated.” he said. “to control exports and imports to exploit foreign markets. They are seeking speclal concessions for de- velopment and trade throughout the world. Altogether. these policies com- prise a militancy in commercial expan- slon that compares with Elizabethan England. P “Any improvement in European pro- duction of manufactured goods will fa- vorably affect our market for raw mate- rials, such as cotton and copper. I am confident there will be a return to pre- war demand for these. But as to our manufactures, we must get production costs down. The surest road to con- tinued high wages and the surest safe- guard against unemployment is to_re- move every restriction on effort. This must extend from our mines to the rall- ways, to the factories, to the wharf and to ‘the ship. It means smaller .profits. Tt means that we must have ultimately much lower transportation rates. It means we must have better organized marketing machinery abroad under Americans. It means the establishment of adequate short-time credit machinery and much more care in foreign risks than our merchants have shown in the Iast twelve months. Lift Commerce Burdens. “It means the government must re- move as quickly as possible those un- necessary domestic burdens upon commerce to which the government is a party, by the reorganization of our tax system. the settlement of the tariff question, the reduction in government expenditure through the reorganiza- tion of the federal .government, through reduction of armament and through reduction of Shipping Board losses and by the settlement by the | government of the outstanding claims of our rallwavs. It means we must cease trying to drive American ship owners off the sea w'th tax-paid shin- ping losses. I am satisfied we can hold our markets. our higher standards of living and of wage if we will all put our backs into it." Discussing the foreign debt owed to the United States. and its citizens, which he placed at “between thirteen and fifteen billions of dollars,” Mr. Hoover said: “If we stop giving more credits and demand payments of lnt}x t.on debts due our government bur éxports wii further decline, and the decline will find its interpretation in more unem- ployment among our own people and more displacement of our industries. 1 am confident our debtors can eventu- ally carry the debt dup to us.” N GurPASTHY SECTION Cornwell’s Lemon Meringue Pie ¢USTARD fraught with the fra- grance and taste- tang of juice laden lemons. This cupped in French pie pas- try, with bounteous sugar meringae atep. PASTRIPHONE Main 875 A Delicious Food Absolutely Pure. Large Glass Jars 10¢ Bare floors, - especially kitchen floors, require much back-breaking work scrub- bing to kesp them clean. Acme Quality Floor Var- nish makes this unnecessary. W. H. Butler Co: MAURICE ‘F. FLYNN 607-609 C St. N.W. Establisked 1845 Straight down the street from the % l-A.l.h-tanhAq- PHOTO OF HIS GRAVE ' AND REPORT OF DEATH RECEIVED BY SOLDIER . Officially “dead,” but allve is the unusual status of Nathan Cooper- man, formerly of Company H. 3sth #I'nited States Infantry, according to the Federal Board for Vocational Education. He has an official notification of his death on the fighting front, and a photograph of his grave ‘“over there.™ But ‘he is actively engaged in studying a course In agriculture un- der the federal board. BROTHERS SWEPT TODEATH N SEWER Children Wading in Soldiers’ Home Grounds Meet *Sad End. Twoibrothers, Myer Kolker, eleven yeafs old, and Louis Kolker, three years old, children of Samuel and Sarah Kolker. 1523 Sth street, were drowned yesterday afternoon when they were swept for nearly four miles through the sewer from Soldiers Home grounds to the outlet, at the foot of B street northeast. Sidney Kolker, seven years old. a third brother, narrowly escaped being washed through the sewer while try- ing to save his brothers. The three Kolker children and five companions were wading in the wa- ter in the Soldiers’ Home grounds be- low the duck pond. When the storm came up they sought shel.er under the bridge at the outlet of the pond. The rain - swelled the stream and youngest Kolker child was swept from his feet. Drowns in Attempted Rescue. Hurrying to the assistance of his little brother, Myer Kolker also lost his footing and soon the two children, each embracing the other, started on death’s journey. Sidney Kolker and his companions. unable to rescue the pair, ran to the opening. reaching there’in time to see the brother’s being carried out of sight. Children in the party with the Kolkers were Frank McAnally, thir- teen years, and Thomas McAnally, fourteen years, 1532 §th street: Grace raham, twelve vears. and Willlam aham. nine years, 1513 Sth street, and Earl Sangston, fifteen years, 705 Rhode Island avenue. A few minutes after the accident happened, police of the tenth pre- cinctgot busy on the telephone and summaged assistance from every di- rection. |Hospital physicians, the pulmotor crew of the Potomac Elec- tric Power Company, employes of th wer degartment and Soldier's Hom Detective Patrick O'Brien and others responded and remained on the scens until it was certain the children could not be rescued. Parents Frantie. Parents oft the children were noti- fled of the agcident, and the father hurried to the scene. He was anxious to enter the mewer through one of the manholes and search for his children, but was prevented from doing so, the police realizing he could not accom- plish anything and fearing he might Tose his life. At the Sth street house, the mother. distressed and hysterical, had to be given medical attention. Knowing the water from the Sol-! diers’ Home would eventually find its way to the Eastern branch through the big trunk sewer, the police sent | word to have the mouth of the sewer watched. George G. Ratherdale, captain of the Fatch at the jail, dis: covered the body of the three-year- old child floating in the branch near the jail, and later Policemen Lowery and Harbaugh of the harbor precinct recovered the body of the eleven-year old brother in three feet of water at the mouth of the sewen. The bodies were removed to the morgue, where they were viewed by Coroner Nevitt who gave certificates showing the deaths had resulted trom an accident. + 1 ter frot the rain under the bridge, iw CALEB POWERS IN LINE | . FOR FEDERAL OFFICE ‘Ex-Representative From Kentucky Calls on President—Exact Job Unknown. Former Representative Caleb Pow- ers of Kentucky and who has been { prominent in republican political ac- j tivities in that state for many years Is slated for appointment to an im- portant federal office. Jast what office the President has ih mind has not been divulged but he is known | 0 have given positive asgurance to he republican congressional delega- tion which called at the White House jtoday with Mr. Powers that the lat- ter will be taken care of to the sat- isfaction of all concerned. Mr. Powers was first presented by. his Kentucky backers for appointment as United States fish commissioner, but this place is understood to have been ‘half-way promised. Several of the patronage hunters who have been gun- ning about the White House recently are of the opinion that this federal berth is going to be given to Reno S. Harp, 1& prominent republican worker living in | Frederick, Md. This was discounted to- day by some of the more persistent plum seekers. i _They are of the opinion that Maryland jalready has been fairly well treated in ithe matter of choice patronage. y referred to the appointment of Thomas E. Robertson of Chevy Chase, Md.. as comn oner of nateunts, and one or two appointments of VALUE OF RAILROADS FIXED. Valuation .of the Minneapolis and Rainy River raliroad of Minnesota is tentatively pilaced ~by ‘the Interstate Commerce Commifiion $1,250,000. The “Sumpter VaH ay.. Com- pany was valued at $1,829.745 and the Woodstock railway was valued at $489,213. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. The picture on the left shown the vi the | Koloker were caught by the flood waters and carried to thel Sister of Edward J. C. n the Soldiers’ Home grounds, mear the Park ro in. The boys, with several cos uct under the bri ‘The rain caused the the younguters along into a four-mile .GEN. BADOGLIO, NOTED ITALIAN, COMES TO U. S. AS NATION’S GUEST Tapidly promoted until he became a full general and chlef of staff of the Italian “army. He personally led his troops when they stormed and cap- tured Mount Sabotino, the key, posi- tion of the defenses of Gorizia, in 1916, accomplishing one of the most brilliant feats of the wa He was premoted six times, and after the armistice became a life member of the allied supreme war council. He will be received here tomorrow as the guest of the government. Sec- Gen. Pletro Badoglio, formerly chief of staff of the Italian army, and Col. Domenico Sigilini, his aid, will be met upon arrival in this country today by Col. M. C. Buckey of the general staff. as representative of the United States Army, and othet. rep- rescntatives of the American govern- The Italian general comes on =it of courtesy and will probably it many parts of the country, in- cuding those where the numbers of retary, Weeks has planned his recep- his countrymen are largest. tion with Gen. Pershing, chief of The general held the rank of major staff, and other high ranking Ameri- when war was declared, and was can officers. MISS STELLWAGEN DIES. | GRADUATION EXERCISES. Lewis Hotel Training School to Give Piplomas. Graduation exercises of the -Lewis Hotel Training School, to which the public is invited, will be held in the ballroom of the Shoreham Hotel this evening at 8 o'clock. The class will be addressed by Miss Alice Robert- son. representative from Oklahoma. The following local men and women lare to receive diplomas: Lillis Barlow Bowes, J. A. Calderwood, Emma K. Carney. C. G. Degman, Myrtle L. Davis, Helen H. Frothingham, Annie Freeman, lda George, Margaret A. Hampton, Frances Starr Mallery, Janet McCallum, Winifred C. Moyer, Marie C. I. Nelson. Louise Shinn, 1da B. Simrall, Eve M Lehman, Lora Watts Moody. Jennie E. Thompson, Edith A. Williams, Frances Mary Hird, Katherine M. Ladd and Marion B. Danfofth. Stellwagen Succumbs at Seventy-Three. Miss Annie E. Stellwagen, a life~ long resident of Washington and the daughter of the late Charjes K. and Eliza S. Stellwagen, diéd Sunday evening at her home in the Kenesaw Apartment.~ She was seventy-three years old and is survived by a brother, Edward J. Stellwagen, and two_sisters. Mrs. James Gillis widow of Col. Gillis, U.'S. A, and Mrs. H. C. Ducat, widow of Col. Ducat, U. 8. A. | Both sisters live in Washington. | Funeral services were held this afternoon at the residence of her brother, Edward J. Stellwagen, 1803 Biltmore strcet. Rov. R. E. Brown- ing. assistant rector of the Church of Epiphany, of which Miss Stell- wagen_was a member, and Rev. Wil- liam_Gillis of Holy Trinity Church timore. & ngbhew, officiated. 1n, Reck Creek cemetery. Mra. Nellle McClung, well kfiown Wisconsin has a-mew law prohibit- ing girls under twenty-one from working in hotels as “bellboys.” for a seat-in the provincial legisla- tive assembly of Alberta. OU will not have to experiment with Fab, the new Colgate wash-bowl flake. Colgate & Co. have done all the experimental work for you! -They have spent five years in improving and testing out Fab. iy e . -Fab makes soft, gentle suds which soak into-the fine meshes of silk or woolen But Fab does not injure. the tiny threads in the filmiest fabric, neither .does it fade colors. (Colors which do not run in plain water will not run in Fab- . Fab is safe for the color and the tex- ture of your daintiest garments. .. Keep abox of Fab at hand for.all incidental TUESDAY, JULY 12, 192L. Canadian writer, has been nominated | nd emtrance, where Louis bridge, to rige, the left, which runs abo BILL PUTS PROOF BURDEN ON DRIVER IN DISTRICT Senator Fletcher's .Measure Is Re- ferred to Senate Com- mittee. A bill introduced by Senator Fletcher of Florida today would place the burden upon the operator of an automobile which injured a person or property in the highways of the District of Columbia of proving that the injury was due solely to the per- #on injured or the person to whom the property belonged. In offering the bill Senator Fletcher said that the discussion in the Senate | yesterday of violations of traffic reg- ulations in the District and the large number of injuries that occur here made it imperative that Congress should enact legislation to remedy the situation. He said that he had intro- duced a similar bill in the last Con- gress, which was referred to the ju- diclary committee. He suggested that the bill introduced today should be referred to, that committee, too. Senator Jones of Washington, how- ever, pointed out that the bill relates to the District of Columbia only and for that reason asked that it be refcrred to the Senate District com- mitiee. Senator Fletcher said he had no ohjec.ion to that course, aml the bill was finally referred to the Dis- trict committee. e GETS MEDAL FOR BRAVERY. Corp. Albert J. Considine, 101st In- fantry, of Newtonville, Mass., has been awarded the distinguished ser- vice cross by President Harding. for | Washington in keeping a weather eve T A ] Editors to Give President a Chair Made From Frigate Tomorrow at 12145 o'clock Harding will be pre- in charge of the matter, he nud a number of editors wi Capper of Kansas will c presentation speech. The ehair ix to be knmown | ! as “the President's editorl H chair.” | ONPERSTOHELP STUDY LEGISLATION Will Join D. C, Labor Union Chiefs in Guarding Organi- zation Interests. President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Imbor will co- operate with all the labor unions in on legislation which seems to portend harm to labor interests. ! President Compers sounded a warn- | ing arainst legislation inimical 1o or- | ganized labor in an sddress before a meeting of branch presidents of Federal | Employes' Union, No. 2, held at 1423 New York avenue last night. Plans for Conferences. President Luther C. Steward of the Naticnal Federation of Federal Em- ployes announced the inauguration of regular conferences of representatives of legislative committees of labor or- ganizations here with Mr. Gompers to guard against harmful legislation. President Gompers, while stressing the fact that the organized federal employes have a ‘“no strike" clause in their constitution, warned they should remain true to the ideals of organized labor, as well as faithful and loval to the government service. “Stick to the unifon he said, de- claring that this would be for the best |interest of the government amd the employes. Labor is organized, he said, to secure improvement to the life of the people. Gompers States Creed. “We must make our contest felt by our government and the people in every way we lawfully can,” he said. “Justice must be dealt out to our pe ple whatever stage of life they occupy, but all within the law.” Mr. Gompers forcefully gave his creed when he said. “1 have no re- ligion but labor; no politics but labor; my purpose in’life is to serve my fellows. PERSHING’S NEW POLICY. Time for Duties. Gen. Pershing, chief of staff. has adopted a policy of mixed play and work, in order to keep himself phys- ically fit. His play begins early in the day, before the doors of the War Department are open for business. and @ s taken the form recently of polo vlaying in practice with the Army team. He may be secn on the grounds in Potomac Park 500n after sun-up most jany morning. riding his ponies hard extraordinary heroism in action near Vaux, France July 13, 1918. and swinging his mallet vigorously, Plays Polo in Early Morn Before | (MRS KABER GALLED INSANE BY SISTER Tells of Weird Traits as Des fense Starts in Sensational . Murder Trial. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 12.—The state’s contention that Eva Catherine Kaber attempted to kill her husband, Daniel F. Kaber, by poisoning, w. attacked by the defensd today as an initial effort to discredit the state's case. The first witness called by the de- fense today was Roy A. Daniels, the undertaker who prepared Mr. Kaber's body for burial. He told of th autopsy conducted at the county morgue at which all the internal organs were removed. He asserted that he used a harden- ing compound on the orguns, using two-thirds of a five-pound box. He said he did not know the content of the powder. Mrs. Kaber appeared more cheerful today, as testimony more favorable to her was being presented. She came into court without her face covered by a handkerchief. That Mrs. Kaber was insane at the time her husband was murdered was the opinion expressed by her sister, Mrs. H. A. McGinnes. She declared that Mrs. Kaber was very “tempera- mental.” and at school would slap other children and pull their hair. At home she said Mrs. Kaber's eyes at times had “a wild look.” State and defense counsel clashed mgny times during the examination of Mrs. McGinnis by Attorney William J. Corrigan. There was a continuous {fire of “objections by state counsel, most of which were sustained by the court. Cries as Sister Testifies. Through William Oehlsrom, a mas- seur, the defense attempted to show {thut he had treated Mre. Kaber for nervousness several years ago. but the court would not admit the testi- mony. Mrs. Kaber rested her head on the back of a chair and cried while her sister was testifying. Names of alienists who are to tes- tify as to the sanity of Mrs. Kaber in her defense have not vet been re- vealed by her counsel. The list of witnesses to be called today when the defense begins its testimony numbers twenty, al] rela- tives or friends of the accused wom- an. No intimation has been given |as to the line of evidence they may | offer, though it is expected that from some may be obtained statements bearing_ upon Mr. Kaber's alleged “nasty habits.” The testimony of the alienists is not expected to be offered until all other defense testimony is in, as the hypothetical question to be asked must be predicated on testimony al- ready in evidence. Defense to Take Week. 1 It 1s expected that it will take prac- tically all of the present week for th defense to offer its testimony and the state its rebuttal. The state yesterday completed the case wtih the exception of one wit- ness, former County Coroner P. A. Jacobs, who will testify that Mr. Kaber died as a result of the stab wounds, alleged by the state to have been inflicted by assasins hired by Mrs. Kaber. As a result of Judge Maurice Ber- non's ruling yesterday, the jury can- not find Mrs. Kaber guilty of killing her husband by poisoning. Testimony relating to alleged poisoning, how- ever, may be cansidered by the jury in its deliberation on the conspiracy charge. i Whether Eva Catherine Kaber will testify in her own behalf remains an uncertainty Her attorney, William J. Corrigan, stated today that he had not yet decided whether he will call despite his «ixty-one years. Mrs. Kaber to testify. INVESTIGATE and Compare Truck Price Reductions \ Every truck purchaser in looking into present truck prices should compare them with the lowest price ever in effect for the same product. 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