Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1923, Page 5

PRESIDENT BACKS LEVATHAN CRUSE Trial Voyage With Invited‘I Guests Private Lines’ Medium of Advertising. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The trial trim of the Leviathan which begins tomorrow, is a political | as well as a nautical event ! Thi row between the democratic | natfonal committee and the United | i State rd over what has Treen “a m lion-dollar jo vide” is the first controversy under | government operation of ships which | lias developed a volitical quarrel, and | if it results In a congressional in-! Vestigation or i de the subject of eontinued political discussion, the chances are that the whole course of the American merchant marine in the future will be vitally affected. | Follows Private Precedent. The big point in the controversy wicther the Shipping Board is to be vermitted to do things with govern- ment money as vrivate lines do with teir own funds. Trial trips are taken by all big liners. Guests are invited | ride free. It'sa part of the good- | will and ady campaigns of | «ll shipping companies. But it isn't usual for the government to give away anything f cept seeds, S0 there has becn a gr deal of criti ¢ism about ti junket”” and even though the pping Board insists the total cost of the gue wlil be only $13,000. instead of u $1,000,000, still the fact that anx one gets some- thing gratis is brougzht into question. What some of the Shipping Board pveople now are beginning to fear is that a seatiment may be bullt up ich will iiituence Congress in its appropriations r the Shipping Board for the future. If objection is made 1o the expenditure of $13.000 for in- vited guests as an indirect adverti objection might be made ion doll spent ai A nited Sta Shipping Board J advertising in newspupers and All the shipping lines ate concerns spend, it is bout thre or four mil year ir ising, and | Board h 1s it must e If it wish nger travel Merits Are Ove The merits of the cont the trial trip have very little to do with what may become a political prejudice against operating the nited States Shipping Board as a/l vate concern would operate a fleet PASEeNg! nd freight vessel: H Briefly, arguments for and| gainst the trial trip of the Leviathan are these: First, it #ip has is estimated, lion dollars the adver pas oversy over is unneccssary because been taken from Newport | ews to Boston. The answer of the Shipping Board to this that the ship could not be operated at full | power until after she had had cer- | taln repairs made in drydock and | that the experts from the start— nearly two years ago—have planned a trial trip. Seek to Train Crew. Second, that if guests had to taken, the Shipping Board might have | raken some of the wounded soldiers. | the board makes answer that not preparing the Leviathan for | hospital rervice and does not feei it/ shou lertake the care and re- | sponsibility of the sick men, when ! the trial trip itself will be a_series of fire drills, lifeboat drills and me- ehanical speed tests. The object of the trip is to break in the crew and stewards for service on a regular north Atlantic vovage, and _that training would not be secured in at- ‘ tending convalescent soldie | hird, the months of May and June have been lost by delays when money might have been made for the gov- ernment _in the st trade. The answer made b: Shipping Board is that the contractors who recondi- | tioned the vessel couldn’t get it fin- ished before June 19 and that the Shipping Board was unable to get & berth for the Leviathan in South- ampton earlier than July 11, so that| the first sailing date from America was July 4. Viewed as Joy Ride. But_the arguments between the po- Mtical committee and the Shipping Board involve technical facts and, even if the Shipping Board were | proved right in its contention, this pot erase the impre: s being undert 5 the government hasn't! sort of thing, even though | private concerns have always done it Leviathan_itsclf when it was cnown as the Vaterland. arrived from Germany on her first trial trip with hundreds of newspaper men and busi- ness men ridin ree. { As for the partisan feeling in the matter, the demos tic national com- mittee’ hasn't forgotten the way the | publicans beha en President ; Wilson went to Pa id spent a mil- | tion dollars in expenses for the Amer[-’ can peace mission. The late Senator | Penrose had a lot of fun with the epi- | sode in the Senate, and many news- ypapers cast knowing looks about the free meals and entertainment given in Parls and an audit was demanded by a Senate resolution of the “presidential junket to Paris.” So the facts have little to do with the case, and political committees would g0 out of business if they didn’t have something to criticize, especially |Arts jeoal” Mr. M: VTHE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1923 '‘Persia Land of Untold Wealth As Well as Home of Philosophy and Letters Society Told of Resources. Says Students chid, is a country of untold and in- calculable wealth, according to Jen- abi Fazel Mazardarini, Persian scho! ar and teacher. ternational Arts and Letters Associa- tion yesterday at 1715 I street. “Persia Is a table land, above level all through. and has mountains full of silver, gold ardatini said. *In fact, there is hardly any mineral does not possess, but they are all un- der the grounq. She has 1 people. but is sparsely populated and consequently has untouched resources of incalculable wealth.” sea many Land of Heauts. The lund of Haroun-al-Rashid is looked upon as a storehouse of poeti- cal intercst as old as the hills by orientalists of Kurope, he added. Great scholars of Germany, England and France have transluted her gems of literature and have called Persia the land of the nightingale, of beauty and poetry. Pointing out that in the minds of many people Persla is asso- clated only with rugs, cats and th. poetry of Omar Khayyam, Mr. Mazar- darini d the Persian minister Washington - during his stay in this country has been encouraging Persian students to come to America instead of alwavs emigrating to Europe. “Until lately,” he said, “owing to political rivalries which rend the peo- ples of north and south, Persia was between the devil and the deep se but as a result of the great war many advantages have come to Persia and the door is now opga to her “Persians are J ns, the race of anclent India which sent out its three branches to Egypt and Persia, south Europe and north Europe, and thence | to the United States. The language is Sanskrit. The European student of anclent language finds similar words in his own tongue. The writing of ancient Persia Is cunieform, {llustra tions of which are found in Pe sapolis In the conquering of Persia by the CLOWNS OF CIRGUS DELIGHT CHILDREN town Strees on Route of Parade. The circus came to town today, and folks of all ages lined the route of parade. Probably the old clown band was the favorite of the Sells-Floto parade. Elephants, camels and the old mother as the mounted huzzars and the pretty women all on “fierce and flery steeds from the stoney steppes of Tartary.” Route of Parade. The parade started at the grounds at 5th and Florida avenue northeast and followed the route down Florida avenue to New York | avenue to K street to Washington | circle, around circle to south side of Pennsylvania avenue east to east Executive avenue to roadway south of Treasury, to Pennsylvania avenue to Peace Monument to 1st street to | K street to 5th street northeast, back to Camp Meigs. Yesterday midst a bunch of curi- ous onlookers the circus arrived from Philadelphia and proceeded to erect the “great white city” on the circus lot at Camp Melgs, 5th and Florida avenue northeast. The show opened this afternoon at 2:15 e'clock and is scheduled for this evening at 8:15 o'clock. The circus will stay in town tomorrow and give two performances. “Night in Persia.” One of the big features, in addition | to the regular circus stunts that will be shown in the “big top,” will be the rendition of a big “special spe tacle of magnificent magnitude,” * Night in Persi; Reserved seats and general admis- sion tickets have been placed on sale at Liggett's drug store at 14th and F streets northwest and at the circus grounds. The doors of the “big top” will be in | show !Persian Teacher | | [ Persia, the land of Haroun-al-Ras-| | no addressed the In- | and | Tersia 000,000 JENABE | Arabs, under Moh gion and Pe: Haroun- lated into the writings of the 2 Arist Pers wn philoso- | phers who collected the of all | existing philosophy und ht of | the world and translated it into their own tongue, so that in the fifteenth century, when the Renaissance be- gan, there was a rush from Europe to the Persian translations of the Greek philosophers from the Arabic to the uropean languages. One branch of Persian literature consists of exact translations of algebra, medicine and astronomy.” The leading P and prophet of t { Mazardarini said, ah, who took the ages and arranged them quence of constructive the International literature darini _concluded, il do with misunderstan e riindedness i int and bring about closer relations, polit ically, commercially and spiritually .M. SHARPE NAMED TOW.R &EOFFCE rsian philosophef nis centur has been writing Bway rrow- v |Folks of All Ages Line Down- | Becomes Executive Assistant | to Traction Company After | Long Residence in Capital. |hippo came along downtown, as well | 1 | | i €. MELVIN SHARPE. William F. Ham, president of the Washington Railway and Company, today announced the ap- city as ‘executive assistant to the | company. Mr. Sharpe was born and educated in Philadelphia, and came to Wash- ington in 1904 to enter the employ of the government. He was actlve Electric pointment of C. Melvin Sharpe of this | LEVITHANCARRES [ ™ ™= UNQUERADIOPLANT 'Transmifling Set Six Times More Powerful Than Any Merchant Ship. The | radio most powerful and versatile utfit aboard any merchant | steamship in the world will be car-| ried by the steamship Leviathan when | leaves Boston tomorrow on her With her principal trans- she | trial trip. i mitting set, six times as powerful as! lany of its kind ever installed on n' ] | merchant vessel, and with three ad- i ditional complete radio stations in the | | spacious radio quarters ble of in- | ! dependent operation. the Leviathan's officers will be able to reach out arms” of communication in any | I‘lhl‘li’ { direction over great distances. This apparatus will be used chiefly i for commercial and social communi- cation between points in Europe and ! the United S s, as well as for Naying the messages of smaller v s equipped with radio having a limited range of communication | Great attention h: be given to} cmergency apparatus, even in the case of the 1 boats, two of which are pr ded with |2 t sending and receiving | ur Independent Sets. i remarkable design which has | installation in such | space of fo ing outfits, und 4 | e of carrying on both telegraph and telephone communication on a band of w lengths, | i to the of American neers. system will ne operator to engage in tlon while at sea with <ngland, while the volce of another operator is hurled out westward to the shores of America to other vessels in the North or South Atlantic | his installation is the outcome ans laid by the Radio Corporation | America, and the United States | antenna cap i1l This : or of | of | Shipping Bourd, the former company { having been awarded the contract to | { cquip the huge vessel several months | Tubex Recent The main anten pended between the | vessel, Design. which is su topmasts of the s over six hundred feet long nd two hundred feet above the wa- | ter level. Connected to this aerial super-power vacuum tube set, t tubes of which are of a very recent :cn:qn:n By the simple manipulation of a wheel, similar to that employed motor car, this transmitter can ated on four pre rmined | ths from 1,500 to 2,800 me- | The vacuum tubes are of the -power type, and are operated at 00 volts H The radio telephone employed | rd the Leviathan is the only o s kind in use. In design it di fers only slightly from the average deasting _transmitting station. in practical operation and in combination with the oclated re- ceiving outfit, it performs in a man- ner identical with that of the con- ventional land wire telephone. The person operating the set can listen to the voice of his co-operator on shore and immediately break into the con- versation without the manipulation | of a single control. LEVIATHAN READY TO SAIL| ON SECOND TRIAL TRIP| { Giant Skip to Leave Boston Tomor- row on Cruise to Southern is 1 | e giant iiner reconditioneg, ecquipped | furnished. is ready to leave a! drydock in South Boston and resume her sailing of the seas. Tt is planned i to float her out this afternoon. To- | morrow ske will start on « trial trip w0 southe ! Thourands of people have visited | the liner while she has been laid up | here. W. F. Gibbs, contractor in| charge of the record reconditioning, said that the cost of the work done in Boston was about $200,000 and that { supplies to the value of $500,000 had been assembled here. Fourteen tugs were on hand today to guide the Leviathan from the| dock into the harbor two hours be- fore high tide. | 1 ARMY PURSUIT PLANES 1 COMPLETE LONG FLIGHT: and waters. Seven Fokker Machines Arrive at Kelly Field for Use in i Instruction Course. By the Associated Press. 8. ANTONIO, Tex., June 18.— Seven Fokker pursuit monoplanes of | the nine in possession of the United | {States Army-reached Kelly Field here | late yesterday from Selfridge Fileld, Detroit, Mich. The planes are !erty of the Ladder. 5 - sler. ERWIN R. BERGDOLL INCLOSED FIND - IN AS MUCH - AS WELL AS - MORE OR LESS - Nours TRuLY - ReSPeCTFULLY — ‘SHORTHAND 1 KNOW FRA-FRA-TERN-N-N= TERN-N-NALLY YOURS Gos Y wish | KNEW THE WORD SIENS -FRANK A.VANDERLIP PRACT WiNDoo HIEROGLYPHICS ! BeEAT Th' Boss AT SHORTHAND TEY DONT COME ICED SHORTHAND AT THE LATHE IN THE HOYT MACHINE SUOP OF AURORA,ILLINOIS WHEN HE' THOUGHT THE BOS® VASNT LOOKING- Army to Test 20-Ton Airplane, | Largest in World, This Month | -'Machine Has Six Liberty Motors and Can'i Carry Bomb Weighing 10,000 Pound for Two Hours. Surpassing in size ali heavier-than- air machines th the Barling bember, property of the Army air se within the next month will make its maiden flight at Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, the War Department announc- ed yvestaerday. Lieuts. Leigh Wade and Harold R. Harris e been selected to be the pilots for the test flight. 4 The ship 120 feet from tip to tip, is powered with six Lib- motors, s 40,000 pounds and will have less thafi ninety f the performance in flight is tisfactory.” the departments an- nounc id, “the air service en- gineering jon at Dayton will have achieved the credit of putting in the air the largest successful air- plane in the world.” Desigled By Borling. The plane was designed for air service by Walter H. Barling. It was constructed by the Wittemann Aircraft Corporation of Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. ~ While it is generally rated as a triplane, the “mid plane” is S0 ‘narrow as to prompt the expres- eion “two-and-a-half planer” The gascline capacity is 2,000 gallons and cil 181 gallons and a minimum oper- crew of four will be required Specifications require that not mora than 5000 pounds of bombs shall be carried at one time,” the announcement added, “but were any thing so large as a_ 10.000-pound bomb developed, the Barling could 1ift and fly with it for two hours. Spruce “and 60,000 - pound ste were used in construction, as co pared to the 130,000-pound _nic steel used in building the Navy world, the transatlantio flier NC-4 fuselage construction the said ix-inch could probabiy D rough the tail portion with=~ out bringing the plane down. There are mno vital longerons or wires which if shot would end the flight is scheduled to have a speed flight capacity carry seven guns, sweeping field of approach of cnemy machines. Controls of the six mo fors are centralized for operatior thr~Ch a single control stick, added features being means of shutting down the engines on one side with out reducing the drive of the other: to aid in negotiating “power turns Pilot controls are in duplicate, with the two pilots sitting side by side. permitting frequent anges in i or statement ns PAUL CORNOYER DIES. " YORK, June 1S.—Paul Cornoyer, noted artist, at East Gloucester. here were advised Louis in 4. He won first prize at the Amer- n art exhibition in 1890 and_was awarded medals at exhibitions in Pars, St. Louis, Philadelphia and elsewhere. One of his best known paintings, “After the Ra hangs in the Brooklyn In- stitute Museum LAFLIN Will Examine Your C Eyes for Glasses Claflin Optical Co. c:&*24.% 2%, L - Beginning at 9 A.M. Tomorrow, Our Closing Out Sale GRANTED RELEASE Will Leave Leavenworth After Nearly Three Years of Four- Year Sentence. 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Extra Special VICTROLA 'D No Red Tape No Extras Style 210 Styl= 863> 85 Down Buys Either of Them—Two New 1923 Genuine’ stationed at Kelly Field for use i pursuit course at the advanced opencd one hour ahead of time, so| that the lions. bears, elephants, seals | and other animals will have plenty of time to strut around and show in the passage of the civil service retirement act for government em-| ployes, and during the war was ap- pointed assistant of the in midsummer days, when campaign ammunition is scant. (Copsright, SACRIFICING HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES THAT YOU school of the Army air service, | USE EVERY DAY IN YOUR HOME opened here recentiy. Maj. Carl Spatz, | 23.) DRY ULSTERITES IN RUSH OVER BORDER FOR LIQUOR First Prohibition Sunday Gives Free State Counties One of Busiest Days. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, June 18.—Northern Ire- 1and’s first prohibition *Sunday was the cause of a rush'to towns just ncross the border from the six-county area for liquid refreshments. The Donegal, Cavan, Monanghan and louth districts had many visitors. Bangor, the home of the Lipton cup challengers, and Belfast's famous measide resort, was hard hit, as was Warren Point on the County Down <hore of Carlingford Lough. But in the latter case a short row took thirsty souls across to Omeath, . which enjoyed one of the buslest days In its history. Passengers on the Canadian liner Metagama, arriving at Belfast from the dry and dusty Atlantic, were as- tonished to find themselves in parched Ulster. TRIAL OF CREIGHTONS IN POISONING STARTS Two Alleged to Have Killed Boy For His Insurance " Money. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., June 18.—Trial of Mary F. Creighton and her husband, John, on an {indictment charging them Jointly with having murdered Mrs. Creighton's _brother, Charles Avery, eighteen, began today. Avery, who died April 20 last, was the victim of slow death by poison, according to the indictment. Insurance amounting to $1,000 which young Avery carried and of. which Mrs. Creighton was to be the beneficlary, was alleged to_have been the motive for the murder. While the jury was being .selected Mrs,. Creighton’s baby,. born in the house of detention since her arrest, was gared for by a maliele themselves off to the admiring vis- | | itors. —_— ROTARY TO DEBATE WORK FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN Convention Will Get Proposal to Assume Task—Invited to Meet in Mexico. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 18.—Welfare work in behalf of crippled children and whether district clubs shall be- come administrative instead of ad- visory, as now constituted were dls- cussed at a meeting of the commit- tee on proposed legislation of rotary international here today. The meet- ing was prellminary to the formal, opening tonight of the fourteenth an- nual convention of the organization. Suggestions have been made that Rotary International assume the wel- fare work being conducted among crippled children by the international society for crippied children. The society Is comprised mostly of Ro- tarians. President Obregon of the Mexican republic has issued an invitation by letter to the convention to meet in Mexico City in 1924, “We will not need government recognition if we get friendly recog- nition,” declared Manuel Palavicini, president of the Mexican delegation of sixty, who will present the invita- tion. fexico is rotarily extending her | arms In_brotherly embrace to the United States.” President Obregon wiil open the government palace to accommodate the thousands of ro- tarians from all parts of the world. CONFEDERATE DROPS DEAD. Special Dispatch to The Star. BERKELEY SPRINGS, W. Va. June 18.—Philip A. Walter dropped dead in & barn at the home of his nephew, C. N. Bohrer, this county, aged seventy-nine. years. He served in the Stonewall ~Division of the Confederate army. He had been In charge of the Deford tannery, for- erly locatéd in this town. Three sons survive, . secretary | liberty loan committee of the District. Later he served on the congressional | government salaries. He became as- sociated with the Chamber of Com- | just_resigned as field director of the La Salle Extension University of Chi- cago to assume his new duties. | Mr. Sharpe’s long association with wide acquaintanceship in busine: | social circles and his active participa- | tion in the civic, fraternal and com- | munal activities of Washington, Mr. | Ham points-out, equip him admirably | to assist the company in its public relations work in this city. MAIL LISTS TAKEN OVER. Capper Farm Publications Supplied to Commoner Subscribers. TOPEKA, Kan., June 18.—Senator Arthur Capper has confirmed a re- port that his farm publications had taken over the malling lists of the Commoner, Willlam Jennings Bryan's paper, which recently ceased publi- cation. Under the agreement, Mr. Bryan is to contribute to the publications going to the former Commoner sub- scribers, but nothing over his signa- ture is to be of a partisan nature, it as_stated. Attractive Office ‘Space for Rent The Barrister Building 635 F Street N.W. " Inquire of. superintendent at | building or THE F. H. SMITH COMPANY 1416 Eye Street N.W. Temporary Location commission for the reclassification of merce of the United States. and has the commercial life of this city, his and commander of Selfridge Iield, was personal charge of the flight. The planes left Selfridge Field Friday and encountered bad weather through- | out the trip before arriving in Texas. They were forced to land Fri- day at Chanute Field, Rantoul, IIL.. but later in the day resumed their flight to St. Louis, where the night was spent. Fort Sill, Okla., was reached Saturday and the planes came from there vester- day, stopping at Dallas for gasoline. The fiyers are to return by train to Selfridge Field before June 2: PERSHING AT WELLESLEY. WELLESLEY, Mass.,, June 18.—The class of 1903 at Wellesley College, hold- | ing its twentieth reunion here today, had as its guest Gen. John J. Pershing, whose deceased wife, Mrs. Frances Warren Pershing, was a member of the class. Gen. Pershing’s son. War- ren_also was New Brick Homes | 4h&LNE. ! Exhibit Home | 1108 4th St. N.E. $1,000 Cash Easy Monthly Payments Open Every Day and Evening. McKeever & Goss 1415 Eye M. 4752 At Less Than Cost Prices Thin Tumblers, usually Je s 28¢ Jced Tea Tumblers, Gray Enamel S-qt. 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