Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1923, Page 23

FILIPINOS PASS HEALTH AND SANITATIOR LAW By the Associated Press. MANILA, February creating a department for the Phi e e —— — —— ——— —— ———————————————— — — — ——————— ———— ——————————— Ihassvd by the special session of the legislature before it adjourned yes- terday. The measure must be ratified by the United States Congress before it can become éffective. All the bills to amend the land laws for the purpose of encouraging rub- ber growinz in the Philippines failed “health and The biil l ppines nitation ‘THE: EVENING -STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, R T T T e e e e 3R] 0 B e B e S or in one of the Philippine dialects. The law was strongly opposed by the Chinese merchants, who declared it would put all of their smaller shop- owners out of business. CONSCIENCE BRAND AR R i 72 Reasons for Sound Sleep! VEN the finest mattress is made more restful, more comfortable by proper spring support. Here! Turn up the mattress on your bed and see that woven wire or link spring. What is it! 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T ||||||muluimmlumlmllxlmlnumlunn|ummullnmnnmlmnulluuummlnuluxm\ummumnlnlnl!llunum\uulumumm|mlumuummlun Prurar e L RS UM R LRSS A M O Washington, D. C. = President Harding was appealed to yesterday by the District Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Assoc! tions, representing 5.000 mothers and 70,000 school children, to use the in- fluence of his office’ to secure the pagsage of the Capper teachers’ sal- ary arid school reorganization bill be- fore the adjournment of Congress. Carrying an admonition that upon the passage of this measure depends not only the future of the District public school system, but the future of the entire school population, the organ- ization. in Its written appeal to the President pointed out that “the future generation should not be sacrificed to present economic corisideration.” At the same time the President re- celved from the Twentleth Century Club, representing 400 members; the National Council_of Jewish Women, 48,500 women in 206 cities, and the Sisterhood of the Washington Hebrew Congregation, representing 610 members, copies of an editorial which appeared in The representing Evening Star, February 21, urging the passage of the teachers’ pay bill, The petition of the Congress of Mothers declared that “the children of the District of Columbia are, by the wards of the nation, and their opportunity for an adeguate education depends solely upon the ac- “There is pending law, tion of Congress.” 0N D, JR., BUYS FAMIED TAPESTRIES “Hunt for the Unicorn” on Way to U. S.—Purchased for $1,100,000. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 27.—Six medieval tapestries known as the “Hunt” for the Unicorn, the sale of which the French press recently de- manded the government investigate, have been purchased by John D. Rocketeller, jr., and are on their way to this country from London to hang in his home. The purchase price was said to be $1.100,000. A statement made public today on behalf of Mr. Rockefeller, who now is at Ormond Beach, Fla., said: Before purchasing the tapestries r. Rockefeller had what he con- sidered to be responsible assurances | that their sale was duly authorized by their owner. Mr. Rockefeller had no information as to understand- between the owner and the ch government concerning con- ditions_under which these tapestries might be removed from France.” The tapestries were owned by Count Gabriel de La Rochefouldcauld, who. | according to te French press, had promised his government they would jnever be removed from France. ' | MINE UNION WINS SUIT. Coal Company Must Reimburss | Miners on Writ of Error. FORT SMITH, Ark.. February s 810 were assessed inst the Coronado Coal Company yesterday by Federal Judge Youmans, who ruled that the a must reimburse the United Mine Workers of America, de- fendan: in the prosecution of a “l’l(‘ of errg from a $600.000 )udzmonl | handed down Novembe; . Pha originai suit was fied i 1914 | byt Coronado Coal Company after | ed depredations in the Hartford, coal fields during the miners’ rike '|tent mutiny aboard the Ru TUESDAY, FEB Passage of Teachers’ Pay Bil before that body,” it continued, “a bill, upon the convlderlflnn of which depends not, only the future of the school eystem of the District, but the future of thie 70,000 school children now enrolled, The teacher is the most important factor in any educa- tional system. To maintain a corps of efficlent In- structors this bill provides for a mod- erate increase in salaries. Belleving the passage of this bill too important to be defeated by default, and that the future generation should not be ncrlficed to present economic con- of the women of the District of Co- lumbia, do earnestly entreat your ald in !ef‘u'fln‘ consideration of this measure. The petition was signed by Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter. Dre!|den! of the Congress of Mothers; Mrs. Samuel Herrick, president of the Cleveland Park Mothers Club; Mabel G. Sworm- stedt, president of the Women's City Club; Mrs. Walter DuBois Bookings, chairman of the education commit- tee of the National League of Women Voters, representing 5,000,000 mem- bers: Amy Louise Veerhooff, president of the College Women's Club, and Mrs. J. W. Frizzell, president of the Women's General Federation of peis FOSSIL MAY PROVE | ORIGIN OF MAN Skull Said to Antidate Glacial Period, Found in South America. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February thropologists said today that the fos- silized human skull, believed to be of the tertiary period, discovery of which was announced in Associated Press dispatches from Buenos Aires last night, may be the oldest human relic ever uncarthed. 1f proved authentic, Dr. Franz Boas, Columblia University anthropologist and world famous scientist, asserted that it would be even older, possibly 500,000 years, than the skull of an erect man-ape, known as the Pithe- canthropus Erectus, which was found in Java twenty-nine years ago. It may even prove, he said, to be the skull of one of earth's first men. Antidates Glacial Age. “This discovery,” Dr. Boas said, “will throw light upon this hitherto unknown period. Scientists have merely speculated upon the possible existence of man in the tertiary pe- riod. although tracks pointing to the existence of a man-like animal have been found on various rocks.” He explained that it was during| the tortiary period that the earth assumed its present form and huge reptiles were being replaced by mun- | mal RUARY 27, 1923. 1 By the Associa ritorial senate unanimousiy adopted a |concurrem resolution requesting Con- gress to amend the organic act of Ha- wal Contract Given to American Lo- comotive Company Involves 33,100000 ° By the Assoclated Press. RICHMOND, Va., February 27.—An order for sixty-six locomotives has been placed with the American Loco- motive Company by the Southern raflway, the News Leader was in- formed today by Fairfax Harrjson, president of the rallroad, who said the contract stipulated that the en- gines must be constructed in the Richmond plant of the locomotive company. The locomotives will cost about $3, 100 000. RAW SUGAR PRICES IN SUDDEN BREAK Refined Also Drops After Spectacu- lar Advance of Last Week. St ey Bt 2 Mothers Urge President to Aid S[]UIHERN RY. ORDERS [Woure i l By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 27.—Raw sugar prices broke one-half a cent a pound today, Cubas declining to 4% under increased offering from opera- tors. Refined sugar also dropped and sev- eral local refiners reduced fine gran- ulated to the basis of 8.73 cents. Futures broke 22 to 40 points, May to 4.85 and July 4.92, or about half cent under the recent high level. COMMODITY NEWS WIRED STAR FROM ENTIRE COUNTRY FLINT, Mich, February 27.— Both common labor and skilled me- chanics and automobile workers are in demand here today. Automobile factories are recruiting forces in or- der to bring production to the high- est pitch. At Lansing all plants are employed, there is a shortage of tool makers and employment is on the upward trend. ATLANTA, February 27.—Warmer weather has brought better buying to the retail dry goods houses and wholesalers reported today that sales reflected a marked business improve- ment throughout the entire outh- east. BOSTON, February 27.—It was stat- ed today in the textile trades that certaln manufacturers making cotton specialties are now naming quota tions for their products for forward deliveries based on raw cotton prices higher than those now named ew York and southern markets. derthan Man Seewms Modern. “The earliest man, scientists have found, dates back to around the gla- cial period.” Dr Boas continued. “If it is definitely established that man existed in the tertiary period it will upset all accepted sclentific view re- zarding the American continents and . found in lime- in Prussia, was much more recent and existed only about 200,000 years ago, he said. Magnon man. found in France, was about 100,000 years old, and was the forerunner of the present human race. FOUND BY SETTLER. Skull, Fossilized in Tertiary Sand- lrsium?, after being idle since March, stone, Kept as Curiosity. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, February 27.—Dis- covery of a fossilized human skull of the tertiary period has been announc- ed by Dr. J. G. Wolf, who has just returned after two years of ex- ploration in Patagonia on behalf of La Plata Museum. Dr. Wolf declared the fossilization vas’ that of tertiary sandstone and that there was no doubt it was for- The Cro- | jof the benzol plant will be justified, it ST. PAUL, F Northern railway has let a contract for fifty-eight new locomotives to the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Phila- delphia. The new motive equipment will cost.approximately $4,000,000. CHICAGO, February 27.—Reduction in the price of coal of 75 cents a ton by southern Tllinois operators brought in a flood of orders, which will take care of production for some weeks to come. Operators predicted consumers would get the benefit of the reduction as soon as retailers disposed of PITTSBURGH, February { coking plant of the Carnegic Steel Com- bany at Farrell has been ordered to 1921. There are more than 200 ovens in the battery. Prices of by-products have reached a level where operation was sald tod WORCESTER, February 27.—The plants of the Wickwire Spencer Steel| Company, both at this place and at Clinton, are operating today on full| time and would be working at better than normal capacity if not handi- capped by a shortage of labor. | ay. merly the skull of a human belng. not an aceidental formation. The lower jaw is missing. but oilwr-‘ wise the skull is almost perfect. The cye sockets and, what is_still more convincing, the sockets of the teeth in the upper jaw are clearly defined. The crunium is fong and oval, and the ! forchead extremely low and sloping. Picked Up by Settler. Dr. Wolf went to Patagonia prima- rily ‘to study the language and mythol- ogy of the Indians and found the skull in the possession of a white settler on the Andean slope who pick- ed it up some years ago and kept it as a curlosity. Dr. Wolf sald he had left the fossil in the possession of the settler, whose property it was, and that he had sub- mitted data thereon to La Plata Mu- seum for such action as the museum cares to take to obtain it. Finds Anclent Fort. The sclentist also announced the discovery of ruins of an ancient forti- fied town in the unexplored region north of Lake Cardiel, in_ the terri- tory of Santa Cruz, which he believes to be remnants of a civilization prob- ably earlier than that of the Peruvian Incas. Sections of walls forty-five feet in height, built of blocks each of three cubic feet. cut out of basalt, are still standing, The walls extend for a dis- tance of 150 yards between hills which serve as buttresses. Within are the ruins of habitations. There have been other evidences of an anclent clvilization in Patagonia, but this is said to be the first dis- covery of actual ruins. Some distance farther south he found what was per. haps an ancient thoroughfare along which for more than a mile the rocke were covered with similar inscrip- tions. Will Seek Enchanted City. After leaving his data with the mu- seum Dr. Wolf plans to return to Pat- agonia next month when he is to search for the “enchanted city” of Patagonian Indian mythology, sup- posed to be situated in the Andes, He believes that this place, which the Indians refer to as the home of the sun god, will prove to be the ruins of another anclent city. ———— MUTINY ON RUSSIAN REFUGEE SHIP NIPPED Admiral Stark’s Officers Will Ask Revolt Leaders Be Deported to Native Land. By the Associated Press. MANILA, February 27.—An incip- fan refu- gee ship Magnit, at Marivels quaran- tine station, was smashed before it got well under way Sunday night by the ship's officers and & detachment of Philippihe constabulary. Members of the ship’s company the Magnit, discontented with ot rations, obtained five carbines belong- ing to the officers and planned to seize the vessel. The officers discov- ered that the arms were missing and notified constabulary headquarters. When a constabulary detachment ar- rived the plotters threw the carbines into the water tank and fled. Later they were rounded up, and it was an- nounced that- the Russian officers would ask the Philippine authorities to-deport -the ringleaders- to- Russia, PITTSBURGH, February Stand- | iard Steel Car Gompany today is work- | ing on orders for 300 gondolas from | the Nickel Plate and the Pressed Steel Car Company and will build | 1,000 hopper cars for the same road. HOUSTON, Tex., February 27.—Ad vaneing prices for crude oil in this section, coupled with falling oft in production in the Mexican field, has already acted as a stimulus in drill- ing operations throughout Texas. FRANKLIN, Pa., February 27.—The Lakeside Refining Company’s plant will resume operations March 1. The company succeeds the Foce Oil Com- pany. BOSTON,” February 27.—The tan- neries of the American Hide and Leather Company, manufacturers of upper leathers, today are running at full capacity, as compared with 76 per cent of capacity last fall. Officials of the company expect the recent Egyptian discoveries to result in a heavy demand for multi-colored leathers. AMARILLO, Tex.. February 27. Although much wheat already had been killed by drouth in the Pan- handle, the recent rains have revived many of the flelds, which were in STEAMSHIPS _TO SUNNY ITERRAN AND FABTEST ITALIAN LINER. ELECT GOVERNOR. Press. 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