Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1923, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO D. C., MONDAY APRIL 9, 1923 y ) . giit il NDAY, J, 2o, BONAR LAW FAGES ) TEST IN COMMONS Industrial Unrest May Prove! Cause for Downfall of British Ministry. By the Associated Press LONDON, April 9.—Tho portant part of the present mentary tession begins today the house of commons reassembles after a short vacation. It is universally admitted there are critical times ahe government. Seldom an administration more criticism from cause of its alleged The unrest in the labor discontent shown by a lar of the middle classes and feties of capit nd n features in every London newspap and the government seems to be garded as the at of all terests. most paria- | when im- that e been drawn b has that the she 5 pr rteom th division | the world, anx- re- scap in- Opposition Ix Strong. The cabinet. fenders and apc of this morning’s general impre nents decidedly the the sticl The Times, 1y hostile to emphasizes the lamentary for, the cabinet. whe “without being act demands _consiant newspaper, howeve it the ministers lav will luck neithie the reward « The Post, t supporte he malcdiction eret,” the has its but a pe leaves th of cou gists, vapers that sion oppe have big end the gover strength of ed th s arra s p of foes vernment h > country behind it St of the other newspapers s warnings and ation Dally Mail, e: hostile, the ‘ministers meet parliame cretly cious that they have pletely Mfidence st bankr ¥ Change Urged. ne versed continues, “knows ti at present the governn much longer and that there sweeping changes within weeks * * * What is w change of j to the of common st and a dism blunderers.” The Westminst the views of mc serts that the cr of the 1l may ministry s be able eagues of might even a prime n not win thro; terial.” 260 BALTIMORE’S TRAINING QUOTA i t ust b very few ted is licy v | casily Lights Go Out During Operation Upon Little Girl Special 1 LELKI little undergoing the City niht, and ope out and pateh to The Star. . W. Va., Apr Beatric a serious ope at Elkin: in the m sudden electrically While was ation at Miss Curtis Hospital ay the lights hospital went ghted in the s rende useless. rl suffered greatly in restoring the which the operation Dr. A, P. Butt, physician, - stated the patient to r the instrument 1 ation w little & the de arter npleted attending e expee ing used the that over. HALF-FARE PETITION WILL STRIKE SNAG Difficulty Expected When Citizens’ Body Makes Plea for Half Rate for Children. Assocf ne whe lities Com- with few days a school chil- | irned to- utilities | to the Congress author Irer t power of throughout iscussing this but this tion tted by man_of on’ util- san mitter at the MOUTH 4 CANCER OFTEN DUE T JAGGED TEETH ! Tobacco Also Blamed for Disease. Dr. H. H. Kerr Warns of Symptoms. t cancer eth Harry H mmit- | for ooked teeth plates must ause they, Ritchie Approves Camp Program | of Citizens in Letter to Swindell. BALTIMORE dred and sixty and county will citizens' milit be held amp to July day t Gov. proval Two the to from J Apri [ hun men fr ad train be e it was anncu officers of the Ritc b of the following letter Walter dell, jr., civilian aide to the of War for Maryland “My Dear Mr. Swindell advise vou that accord with the pr. objects of the citizens’ milit ing camps. They have proval, what edu; ziven to the state of Maryland yours, (Signed) The camp, partment men betw and thirt and fr Bovernment, at the cant Daid in addition to ex -nt. 5,000 AT PYTHIAN | STATUE CEREMOGNY | Tributes Are Paid Rev. Dr. Ger- hardt, West Virginia Founder, at Martinsburg. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star, MARTINSBURG, W A memorial monurment Greenhill cemetery, late Rev. William “father of Pythian ginia,” was de ed here yester- day afternoon before 5,000 Pythians and friends in ceremonies which were in charge of Grand Chancellor Harry R. Bell of Wheeling, and under the auspices of the Grand Lodge of the state. It was accepted on behalf family by L. D. Gerhardt, ‘Washington Lods . 1. by District | Deputy Grand Chancellor C. D. Burns. The chief address was delivered by samuel B. Montgomery of Kingwood, | grand keeper of records and seals, and the monument veiled | Mrs, Sallie Lowrey, past grand £ of the Pythian Sisters, The ex from lod April 9 standing this city, to the jerhardt, D. D, m in West Vi in of the and for from which dedication ode cises by Grand Outer Guard V Myers of Moundsville, W, dedication proper being a; So let us dedicate this shr ‘As holding somewhat the A fit memorial to a friend Who toiled, pure friendship extend; And on its face this legend bind “He lived to love and serve man- Kkind.” to SHOT BY WOMAN; DIES. Carl H. Dufford Expires in Hos- pital—Assailant Held. NEW CASTLE, Pa, April 9.—Carl H. Dufford, secretary and treasurer of the Dufford Furniture Company, died in a hospital yesterday from a re- volver wound inflicted last week on the sales floor of the furniture store by Mrs, Josephine Best, a widow, for- merly a stenographer in the firm's em- ploy. The woman, who gave herself up to the police at the time, will be wharged with murder, attorneys stated. ¥ fa viey cath penal- 1. C. C. OPENS PROBE | OF PULLWAN RATES into the of the inst ion 3 t sar- ssenzers who and into the charged fo was instituted to- Commerce Con: 1 pluaces fop hear d later. ¥ (ssenzers T *uliman oing to the hose lines the mplaint in hian service hrought o ed Commercial Travelers perica will be taken up in con- with th neral in comm s order s ymmission_indicated investigation would be mad to determining just z b ished ping and parlo and incly 1 such gation the bases of compe Letween the railroad companie the .1 wm Company with to t use of sleer and parlor prese t, rat rail- journey ferenee Un ission” trave By the Associated Pross, CHICAGO, of its busine I'ullman Compa president said in when informed that the Commerce Contmission at W, had ordered an inquiry chedules. DYNAMITE RAID FEARED. Eureka Springs, Ark., as Result of Reports. April 9.— prings, rth Ar- guarded today a result of reports of former railroad ed dynamite at planning an in- Springs and neigh- Int g ngton into its rate men sympathizers boring town: It was said that in ret ber a raid . who, it Is was “lectured” and Members of the band telling him he “talked tly < were quoted too much.” —_— STRIKE DELAYS LINER. HAVRE, France, April 7—The French liner l-'r.»ln( , which was to have sailed for New York this afternoon, was held up in her port here by a strike of stokers. The men are protesting against the deduction of a tax on wages from the amounts due to seven of their number. . | There few the | are | nounting | Guarded i DENIES U. . NEEDS FOREIGN ALLIANGE Senator Jones Declares Ameriea’s Trade Has Not Suffered by “Aloofness.” Quoting from figures compiled by the experts of the Department of Commerce to show that the foreign trade of the United States is OW enormous—almost two and a half times what it was before the world war—Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington, republican, today issued a warning against being_“led astray by the specious plea that we will re- ceive material benefits by entering into negotiations for the peace of the world and entangling ourselves with their jealousies, quarrels and contro- enator Jones is chairman of the Senate committee on commerce and led the fight during the iast Congress for the passage of the administration merchant marine bill. He left here today, ccompanied by Mrs. Jones, in his automobile to drive to his home lon the Pacific coast. No Nemedy Suggested. t is insisted,” said Senator Jones, ¢ should do something to aid fld_to get on @ normal peace Just what we should do very clearly pointed out some Kind is urged, asks for the footing. can do is ne Which give the efit to u our interference. itcdly that. we ial and permanent prosi | unti1 business conditions in the world stabilized. rhis sounds good. but is it true? 1cts which seem to | me refute this suggestion. all want the world stabil- want to see its business {put on’a normat g basis and we 1 want to sce its people turn m the ways of war to the ways of ce, even if this does not bring to us more business or greater pros- perity. “Hero are a_ few ment of Commerce most significant and which, it seems to me. demonstrate beyond question {that from a material standpoint we are better off than we would be if the world were in a normal condi- tion and that the plaa that we 1] wve no markets and ca sperity until the world is mal footing is not correet “In 1912, when the world was on a nermal peace basis, we sold to for- cign peonles, in round numbers, 04,000,000 worth of our products hought m them $1,357.000,000 worth. This was! before the war and under normal peace conditions. In 2. with all the unscttled and wotic conditions we hear so much | about, we sold $3.771.000.000 of our produ and bought $2,608.000,000 worth of theirs. In other words In our population increased only ut 20 per cent. our foreign bus ss is almost doubled. This is not figures from the that are fpr n. on Notwithstanding that vex I our ears this fore For the eight year of 1823 we sold 857,600,000 worth of prod- kept up for the rest of the ame rate, we will sell 4.000,000 worth. For first_six months of the year we | ht from the world, $1,696.000.000 | | h or at the rate of $3.392,000,000 a year. In other words, our foreign de for the yvear 1923 will be nearly {two and one-half times what it was | for 1912, o that | such calamitous and fill our business | months does this show? the people of the world a situation that they are not | »plying their own I'needs and | to us up the de- | When they get upon a| sis they will come more | ¥ =upplying their own need such great der instead of stimula > and Increasing the i : produets of the farm e will occur. This, of | not diminish our hope and for stable conditions in the orid we should not allow our- selves to be deceived. We must put our own house in order so that when to the world and it be- <to Tunply_its own needs, we will |Bave such a diversity and such a de- mand at home that we will continue prosperous when the screases, as it sur TC-1 COMPLETES FIRST LEG OF TRIP| ‘Anny's» Largest Non-Rigid Dirigi- ble Lands at Fort Ben- jamin Harrison. Tt shows re In 1y FORT BENJAMIN HARRISON { April 9.—The TC-1, the United States Army largest non-rigid dirigible, nded at the Fort Harrison aviation | field at 9: m. today, completing the first leg of its journey from Wingfoot | Lake station. Akron, Ohio, to Scott| Ficld, Bellville, 111 KRON, Ohio, April 9.—The TC-1, st Army non-rigid dirigible, left cfoot Lake station this morning . Officers in charg ke an average specd planned to an hour over the 500- of forty mil mile course. The airship was in charge of Lieut Kuntz, commander. and car-{ the following Army aviator F. W. McKee, Lieut. James Sergt. Olin Brown and Sergt. { Harry Barne: ¢ TC- t of three ships of the | type to be built at the Goodyear plant | here for the Army, is especially de- signed to use either helium or hydro- gen gas. Hydrogen is being used in the trial flights. She is 195 feet long, ! with a gas capacity of 200,000 cubic feet. It carries two 150-horsepower mo- tors and has a maximum speed of sixty miles an hour. Cruising radius is estimated at 1,630 miles. WILL REVIVE ATHLETICS. Public Track and Field Meets on July 4 to Be Arranged. custom of holding public ) k and field meet in Washington fon July 4 will be revived this year. At the suggestion of the American Amateur Federation, Commissioner Rudolph _has designated Maj. C. lugene Edwards and C. E. Beckett | to select a committee to arrange for the event. Maj. Bdwards sald today the tentative plan is to have a program of field events on the Monument grounds, coupled with swimming | classics at the Tidal basin. Prizes will be offered if the committee on arrangements can obtain the neces- sary. funds. {PASTOR SHOWS COURAGE. Quiets Flock, Rescues Teacher, Ex- tinguishes Fire, Resumes Sermon. NEW YORK, April 9.—After quiet- ing the congregation when fire start- led in the basement of the First Ma- gyar Church during services yester- day, Rev. G. Takaro rescued a Sun- day school teacher who had been overcome by smoke, and extinguish- ed the blaze. He'then relurned and finished his sermon. The fire started from a shnrt cir- cuit on a motion picture machine which the teacher was repairing. e a tra Science Shocked When Rats Survive Pneumonia Test Special Digpateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., April 9.—Dr. R. A. Spaeth, associate in phy; ology and public health, and Miss la” Oppenheimer, a student, se- lected two groups of rats on which to experiment. One' group they pampered, fed and took general care of. Another Broup they put into a case which was kept revolving con- tinually during the day, which forced “the rats to scamper and move around for hours in physi- cal activity, wMich was like a workingman's ~ day before _the cight-hour rule w into_efrect, or the washerwoman's method of earning her living washing machines were invented. Then they Inoculated each group with the pneumococel, which is germ of pneumonia. perimenters sa for the hard: knov\ nothing of u die, *and_ for the idle ter and pinker. long maintained poisons the bod sms more su went right on living, and scemed eager for more of the pneumococsi, and the idle rich turned up their toes and died. So late two groups of guinea pigs were selected. One was ampered and the Then both inoculated with the_toxin o Same The “id up and the hard-working ones ght on living. Dr. Spaeth, speaking about the matter, was extremely careful to explain that it was unsafs to gen- erali to_what th m s have shown he experiments did show that tigue didn’t make the rats sus- tible, didn’t they?" he was 1 ey showed that the fatigued s did not die. The results were entirely contr to what we vected. Ve 1 we de ex- periments on’guinea bigs with the \e result. But"—and Dr ansed nd smiled-—“there havo been other clemants. in 'th bedies of the rats which compli- cated the thin or many pheumococei 1 fers n the the human organi \ the human b we went t k rich rat Medi that fatigue makes Experimenters Surprived. But, to the tremendous surprise Dr. Spaeth and Miss Oppe ard-working v Americans Win Year’s Study and Court Rules $250,000, Grown to| $1,350,000, Belongs to Wake Forest RALEIGH, C., April third New York courts Wike Forest Coil hequest of § 000, granted ir Expenses in Belgium. YORK, April 9.—Six fellow- ar's graauate study in versity have been award- by the fellowship committee of the commission with relief in Belgian educational foundation 9.—For the ruled is entitled L000, nowW grown to the will of the late wealthy ol man_of Jones, attorn his” been info el in New Yo may b sterday’s s under New Yorl carried t irt of Jast resort only on @ show ing of error. The three judges are said to have becn unanimous in their deci- on. Mr. Bostwick died twenty years ago, his will providing a trust fuid of § 000 for Wake Forest in er died without heirs re ited S Miss Bostw s hefe r children re a litem was appointed for child \d the contest to «'s right to the fund was filed behalf tin ¢ | led fellow- | ¥ Caughey of | { rge M. Guest, | niversity of ¢ itution, ociate One furth was stated, [ thought to be practice roappe; but ye final, of Pittal Univers instruct rleton 3 ¥ The fellowships include expenses, tuition fees Belgian francs for the Thirty Belgian will enter Am fall, under foundation e RAT TRAPS CATCH CROWS. pecial Dispateh to The Star. BERRY VII H. Huvett. a travel and 1 lemic year. graduate students can universities next the auspices of the| 000 hi ing in April 98— John | B fifty land owner in |t as R ui n Clarke county. is using cessfy ci- rat traps to cateh the crows that same infesting his land W. & J.S 1 FIGHT SCHOOL TAX MINE STRIKE ”P IN CLARKE COUNTY, AT LABOR SESSION e e s e ) Supervisors Against !Maryland and D. C. Conven-| S tion at Cumberiand Is Largely Attended. Special Dispatch to The Star. BERRYVILLE, Va., April 9.—A peti- tion is being circulated in the upper section of Clarke county asking the board of supervisors not to grant the | proposed 10-cent increase on the school levy requested by the school board to help take care of a $25,000 loan to meet a deficit. The board of supervisors met today to consider action. Efforts are being made to'provide a new school build- ing and relieve congestion at the high school. W. 8. Dix sold last week, to D. L. Ramsburg his property on west Main street, comprising his store and the offices and flat_above. Col. Julian S. Carr, commander-in- chief of thg United Confederate V he | €rans, has appointed on his staft as the | aggistant surgeon general Dr. George E. Plaster, with the rank of colonel Dr. Plaster, who, although ninet seven years old and the oldest sur- viving surgeon who fought all through the war, is still an active man, with a remarkably bright mind. Dr. H. R. Mcllwaine, state librarian, | has, at the request of the American Library, in Paris, France, recently | appointed a committe to collect books | for this library. !son of Richmond is chalrman of this committee. Guy Mason, a lawyer of Washing- ton, who recently bought the Cramp- ton orchard and thirty acres of land from Mason Osbourne, will set out 1,000 apple and 1000 peach trees on this land this spring. William Bon- ham of Berryville has been engaged to superintend this work. One of the most important pleces of road construction in Clarke county for vears is being executed now by District Road Commisioner John Yowell of Chapel district in rebuild- ing the Boyce-Old Chapel state-aid road from New Market gate to the chapel. The ‘Lloyd Willlams Post of the American Legion of Berryville has fixed April 24 for its annual clean-up for the town. Hpeelal Dispateh to The St CUMBERLAND, Md., April 9.—The Maryland State and District of Co- lumbia Federation of Labor met at the City Hall Auditorfum here this morning in annual session and is largely attended. The Allegany Trades Council is host. Nearly all the local unfons in Cumberland and The United Mine Workers of America, at present con- ducting a strike in the Georges Creek | field, are represented. Many matters vertaining to strike, which is the result of the refusal of the operators to recognize | the union, are being considered. The mines are paying the unlon scale on an open-shop basis. Francis J. Drum, | who is pres! nt of the United Mine | Waorkers of the distric s also presi- ident of the State Fedération and is presiding over the convention. Rail Strikers Represented. The Western Maryland railway strikers have an International officer present. The credentials committee | consisting of G. A. Ott, Baltimore; L. Schmidt, Washington and Charles H. Little of the Order of Rallw ‘on- | ductors, Cumberland, met Sunday | | afternoon attention is being paid by ntion to proposed legislation benefit of labor and action taken looking to a larger presentation of labor in legislative alls. The business include reports | ¢ Henry Broening of Baltimore, | lobbying fo the state federation at | the general assembly at Annapolls, Mr. Broening commends the work of State nator David A. Robb of Cum- | |re—rl.n|d in behalf of labor. The an- | nual report of Prestdent Francis J. ! Drum and the financial reports wili »e submitted. Officers will be chosen and the next place of meeting will | be selected toward the latter part of | | different. expected. The addresses of welcome will be de- livered by former Sheriff Harry vine, president of Allegany Council, and Joseph secretary-treasurer. May W. Koon, J. ilton Patte dent of th mberland Commerce; Rev. Gustav pastor of Zion Reformed C the Rev. Father Clarenc B Peter and Paul monestery will spak LOANE | | Strenuous opposition is . zabeth Gilman, Baltimore, ymine relief worker, will attend the convention with a View to offering a solution of the coal miners’ strike. A | | prope to amalgamate unions is b to cause much discussion. it would tend to abolish | 1 disputes which have ny differences in the Ameri- | | can tion of Labor. The plan would include, it is sald, merger of aft unions not noticeably Bewick, gxpectsd r Thoma s | Jurisdictic {caused m Fede | ot and o 1508 H STREET, N. W. 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Mt arrett is neer and architect of the firm of Starrett & Van Vieck th the emer- reported e contracts for subs made 1 the in a staines ney Stanle says, it must follow that abting for the United n exeeutive acity and St ved the ior officer. t of the United 20-workers be Subject nal indictment for the instigation of a ministration if the new should happen to dis- dminist or shol pital out whose including the Pr s, would with inistration gree with the tion of which | cordin {impe land i BLue ReeON REAM CHEESE o A Y of a salad ( Atemptingsnack For the afternoon guest try this: Place a MacLaren’s Cream Cheese, with two eggs, in a saucepan over a moderate fire and stir slowly until perfectly smooth. Add salt,pepper and paprika to suit, serve on crackers or toast,and as a hostess your guest will vote you a success. 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