Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1923, Page 20

T2 BRITISH CAMPAIGN IN FINAL STAGES Candidates Make Prepara- tions for Election Thursday. 18,000.000 Votes Seen. Br the Associated Press LONDON, Dacember opposing political armies of tion and free trade are having a final resting spell tonight and tomorrow in preparation for the three sirenuous fighting before Thursday next, when approximately 15.000.000 elec- tors in England, Scotland, Wales and northern Iretand will go to the polls and cast their votes in the third gen- eral election since the war. All forecasts of the results been extremely cautious. and even prognosticators who certain that the present gov ernment will be returned to West- minster are not at all sure that its majority in the house of commons will be sufficient to put through its program of tariff reform, an issue which brought about the dizsolution of parliament and the appeal to the voters, The of the have cut across the platforms, making the outcome difficult to gauge the women's to the uncertainty general lines the return of the cc servative government with a work- able majorfty In the house of com- mons meuns the beginning o wall around England, somewhat simi- lar to that around the United States. Victory for the that Eaglund will ¢ o trade country, with ality of Lloyd Grorge dominating the | cabinet. althoush Mr. Asquith head the government for a Ume at least. If the unexpected should hap- pen, and the labor party be returne victorious, it would that th rule of the two parties, which have red England for two and a half centuries, would end and Westminster palace would its first house of common Baldw gland’s protec- 1.—En sts have those political seem issues present camp traditional party predictions W and inability titude udds of the result as - u Hberals ar the magnetic - mean historic alternate house socialist Confldent, Premier Raldwin week end & spesch o Mondzy, by the son, who who is spending rhe at Chequers Court prep delivered at Liverpool s not seem greatly stic < actively campaigning labor party. but he the Britisii housewives' Today he sent a letter to the of Women's organization assertin tariff reform progr wouls dearer food, but would sult increased production of home and empire foodstuffs, while would provide a mens of reducing the duties on ten and sugar. He declare that the liberals have no plan for re- viving trade quickly and hold out hope for unemployment, and that labor party only offers socialist schemes. which class hatred rui LLOYD GEORSE HITS FOES. Glad Enough to H'\\'e Him Lead War, He Says. By the Awsariated Pross CRICCTETH. Wales —From own front loyd George today defended himself hefore his fellow against the conser Poster which represente wito had e worried of hi for th anxious about fomentations is vot. a chairman un; that not 18t his meaun re the would cause De his campaign him omplished vain talker nothing His ction was. b the conservatives were et to have this vain t ke i 1914-18. When British finanee in a state of panic vecall that ru wlad 1t chiarg and ments had 1o to suve | om disastor, w machine guy forged and g organizations had to Le improvised for turning them out at the shortest notice to support the men in the field “the vain talker had his uses. When Germany three of Great was on the po fourth, when rman submarines wero sinking shipx by the millions of tons, the tory Ly, the former pre- mier continned, was Frighter Trigtencd that it shivked begged this “vain talker charge and do his best to country through Hld on After War. When there was 1t England after the war, were menacing il ments. the were glad to get him, 3 e He yemembered poster in which he fizuied in i alvo issuwd by the confurvirive A more fiy ried the who brought puld show posicrs shells and rifles ons had to b en and can had Britain’s broken allies up and unrest and thers s and move- the maen victory hig opponents one sull sticking to an where it had been the 1818 election when they thourh: r troulics were over—t los in Europe and troubles in Ireland, that trade wis besinn said My . sudder s talker” a1 for item is no issue that 11TH DESTROYER OFFICER IS ACQUITTED IN TRIAL Court-Martial Concluded After Freeing Eight and Finding Three Partly Guilty. AN DIEGO, Calif., December 1 Lieut. Conmnander Richard H. Booth, eleventn aud last of the Navy offi- to court-martial as the re- wreeking of seven de- stroyers on Point Honda the night of September 8. to was acquitted of charges of nugligence Of the ecleven officers tried three wére found guilty in some degree and elght were acquitted. The degree of gullt affixed by tne court will not be made public until approved by the Navy Departmenc in Washington. —_— BACKED FOR PRESIDENT. Former ted It duite s vt cers sult Missouri Governor In- dorsed by Editors. LOUIS, December Gov. Frederick D. Gardiner of Mis- souri today was indorsed for the démocratic mesidential nomination in resolutions adovted at a meeting here of the democra®ic press assoclation of Migsouri. The resolutions also urged an “hon- est and humane administration of the Unlted States Veterans' Bureau. ST. 1.—Former on ! the tarift | and | townspeople | of breaking up the | GARDEN CITY, N. Y., HEARS ENGLISH RADIO STATIONS Musical Program Held for Two Minutes—America Received at New Castle. By the Associnted Press, GARDEN CITY, N. Y —English radio stations and New Castle America were the radio musical December 1. at London broadcasting to heard here tonight at broadcasting station. A selection from the London station was heard for two minutes. A private station heard the announcer at New Castle tell his listeners that his station had heard clearly a program broad- New York earlier in t) indistinet, wus heard here, K a program cleariy DECISION ON CRAIG ' EARLY THIS WEEK lAttorney General Confers With President After Study of Pardon Plea. Action will be taken early this week by President Coolidge upon the tion of @ pardon for Charles 1 controller of New York city, who is un- der & of sIxty days in Jall, fm- posed by Federal Judge Mayer for con- tempt of court ques- ence Attorney General Daugh pending ber him tion for pardon, day the riy. form; spent most of ve ords in the case late in the day he conferred with T jdent Coolldge. What phases of the « \\\Hu tuken up with the President wer inot disclosed, and Mr. Daugherty, leaving the White House, confi femarks to a4 statement he o to be able to complete his study frame his recommendations nd to present his report to the } dent on’ Monday M who has o «“ appli or- and ove on xp matter iving Mr. mmendations. state lemocr house L caucus ight instructed members of the ation who have been admitted | o practice of law to investigate th ord in the Craig case and deter- what remedy, it any ind whether Fediial Jud, wh d Cralg, has be of hable offense <o1 X ed by the twenty ers of the delegat pPr asked the lawyer memboers isider “what tations of jurisdiction, power or au- re appropriate to prevent fo future any similar gross abu Y federal judges and appr. solutions of impeachment if ry and of legislation if ad- York ation in the n to power printe necess ! visuhle The to rep | soun w members were rt back to the conference as possible, Other Inquiry Axked. confere oD n asking for & cong ation of all suits 1 at law and other proc been instituted in the eting pudtic utility this connect L attention be the appointinent of receiv speeial masters and methods termining amounts of f [to be paid receivers and other c lofficers and the relation thereto of the appointing und determining federal Judges, A general of the iministra ban fruptey law wa ert wsons i The oved rexoluti linvesti land actions ings that have federal courts i corporations. In sks that sy quity | given investigation the federal as asked to for grossly and expens trustees, rec and auctioneers, and the | returns made to legitimate of bunkrupts.” NEGRO STUDENT’S POEM WINS 2D BYNNER PRIZE Ballad of the Brown Girl" Scc- ond to Pcem bv University of Chicago Man. nadequate WK, December L—Countee 1 | University. has been awarded second :pnb in the Witter Bynner {graduate poetry contest, for “Th {Bullad of the Brown GIrl” the theme of which was an old “tale the grand- | mas tell” around the negro cabins of |ll|-- south. “in the Leseman of the Lcago. won first prize The Poetry = ety der whos 'h-‘l(l made under- Range Country.” b; University of Chi- of Amj uspices the contest this announcement’today. {and declared that 700 students in 6 |colleges and univ had com- |peted. The judges were Witter Byn- {ner, Carl Sandburg and Alice Cor! } Cullen's ballad. which is 200 lines long, deseribes the tragedy of & hero {who disdains the love of a “lily mald,” {the “pride of all the south.” for that {of a “dark brown girl" because of the ;uu.x s gold —_— iVENIZELOS DECLINES ica, un- was ', TO SEEK GREEK VOTE Pxemier Bef\lus All Of- —Pope Asks Pardon for Revolt Chiefs. futed Press. | December 1.—An Athens dispatch says that the former Greek j premier, Venizelos, has sent a mes- vage from London refusing all offers made to him to stand as a candidate lin the forthcoming Greek elections. With the exception of the Venizelist most of the other parties are staining from entering the elections. Pope Pius, according to this dis- { patch. has requested Premier Gonaras to consider pardoning the officers con- demncd in connmection with the re- cent revolt in Greece. —_— 9 CLEARED IN ILLINOIS RUM CONSPIRACY TRIAL Former State Dry Director Among { Defendants Found Not Guilty by Jury.. By the Associated Prens. CHICAGO, December 1.—The fed- eral jury trying nine defendants, in- cluding Roscoe Andrews, former pro- hibition director for Tllinois, on charges of conspiring to violate the prohibition laws in connection with the dissolution of the liquor firm of Grommes and Ullrich, tonight re- turned a verdict finding all the de- fendants not gullty. The jury delib- erated about ten hours, i { Former i fe i \ s the Assoc LONDOY is open to restrictions and limi- | direeted | sional | 1- | ivers, masters, attorneys | creditors | {P. Cullen, negro student at New York ! bel THE SUNDAY STXR, WASHINGTON, KING'S INNER TOMB WALL TORN DOWN Howard Carter Personally Removes Stones From Last Barrier. By the Assoc LUXOR, greater part ted Press. 3gypt, December 1.—The of today's work in the .{tomb of Tutankhamen was devoted to removing the partition wall be- 3 the antechamber and the mor- room contasining the great shrine, a series of wooden shells, un- der which the Pharaoh's mummy is believed to lie Howard Carter, head of the exp dition, personally removed the stones, some of them so large that one wa utficient burden for a man, ane they were carried out in wicker bas- Kets by the native workers and dum ed beyond the wall back of the tomb. $About half of the wall on either side of the opening previously made by piercing the sealed door leading into » mortuary chamber was ren there will be at least anoth ¥'s work before the dismantled and a space cleared to al- low the beginning of the delicate eration of taking down the outer shiine. Preciston Felt Certain. It ix understood that the excavators confldent that the latest devie St B hich they Intend to ey able them to ascertain greatest degree of personal details of the e and health of Tutankhamen alive, should his mummy actu- ¥ be found. AMr. ¢ has ar- nged with Sir Archi! Reid of the Royal Soclet I rie 1o fonrey ont w spe phic ox aminatio of the |mm in collubo- rution with Dr. Derry the Kusre- Hospltal ‘of Cairo, reputed to catest lving cspert on with the ance amination of the juncture of cer- tain benes will enable the pharaoh’s uge at the time of Geath to be defi nitely established within u ye two. and it ix expected the p {should “throw light on the theory in «1 Tutainkhamen was actually the ! younger brother of Akhenaton, the heretic king whose pletorial repre- sentations show extraordinary faciil and other physical charaeteristios, Which may have constituted family or merely individual resemblance Among those holding this theory of relationship s Dr. Berchardt, toe Cminent Ge 1 Ekypiologist, now it Cairo, who is re ze - thority on Akhenaton con faneted 1 rman exca | that king' t Tell May Find Ca Derry, Dr. ! ; probably will reasonable theory as to the Tutankhamen's death. One is that he 1Ay, It sraphic est oot out 1 found The weather which is unusual The sun went down last night | towering banks of clouds. ithroughout the night lightning | flushes outlined at intervals the grim isilhouette of the hills surroundine the roval necropolis. | washout between L cutting off until . who has had « in what might ix understood that appiratus, which its kind, will not Wil the mummsz the radio is the lut- be brought actually is over this region communic the exc ed weather d li prepar. to block the tomb with kandbags eventuality that th is sded by Tdburst & not unknown citement was cans. workers by the slay poisonous snake, found amon | party’s stores. The reptile was one-hal? Teet in lengti. ¢ DUCK-HUNTER KILLED. | CROWL] La., December 1. —Wil- {fred Arpin, seventeen, instantly Killed ¥ near K he {arose in a boat just as his g fired He ty front muzzle weapon been the unlikely oatr n the i vall e the four | and was orence when e at a duck the was in of the CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. . Farrington, Governor will spesk to the Soropt it annual banquet to b Tuesday a1 Rauschers. Commissio tudolph will also be honor gue i speaker Maj. J. Frenklin {Comniissioner of the I'u!tln‘«u the Columbia Heig! iti- |zens Ansoclation at & meting to be Leld at 8 o'clock Tuesday night at St. |Stephen’s parish hall, 3017 19th street {After the address, which is to take place gbout 9 o'~lock. there will he social and refreshments Bell. Engineer District, is te Serntor W. B. McKinlev and W. M. C. A, secretary in | ‘rincipal speakers at member dinner to be gi Lat Central Y. M. C. a “Frida A. 1736 G strect The Lotus Male Cupriet i will give two concerts Wedn. |5 and at 8 pm., at itional Church. Mrs. Blanc! i i | son, reader, will asisst Washington Branch. American Bacterlologists, will \Tuesday evening at 1739 H street. {The program will be provided by the staff of the National Canners’ Asso- clation. Prominent speake: “Keennexa of Vision” will he the subject of a lecture by Francis P. {Barr of Rochester, N. Y., December 10, fat Raleigh el, under auspices of of Columbia Optometric Soelety of “Prosperity™ the “club night"” Maud Hallam Club_tomorrow Playhouse. Will he dixcussed nt meeting of the Anna Practical “Psyehology at 7:45 pm., at the ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TQDAY. The Wanderluster's hike will start from Takoma Sanitarium at 2 o'clock. and follow & new trail to Silver Spring Mr. Gambs will lead. Flag day for the Jewish national fund will be held at the Y. M. H. A., & o'clock. Those desiring to be sent out on committees and those who can volunteer their machines are asked to attend. Representative L. R. Dyer of Mis- souri, author of the anti-lynching bill will be the principal speaker at a mass meeting at, John Wesley A M. E Church at 2:30 p.m.. in_honor of the hirth anniversary of Willlam Lloyd under auspices of the Associution for the Advance- ment of Colored People. Red Triangle Outing Club will meet at Chevy Chaxe lake at 2:30 o'clock for a hike around the lake and through | Rock Creek to Connecticut avenue car jline. Bill Greenley, leader. W. Bowyer Pain, will give an exhi- bition of his water colors today an jevening at his studio in the Eckington, | Public invited. Tea, 3 to 6. | The girls’ clubs of the Y. . C. A will keen informal open house at 614 E street, Short vesper service at 5 o'clock, after which a supper will be |served. ~Strangers and young people apay from home are especially invited to use the parlors to entertain their friends. TONIGHT. The Rev. Albert H. Zimmermann will speak at Wesley Chapel, corner of 5th and F streets northwest at 3:30 p.m. “Parasites, or Waste Turned to Value,” { | opinion | was killed by his successor, | ast.] meet | WOMAN GETS LIFE TERM. Mrs. Rhoda Tedder Found Guilty of Murder in Florida. DELAND, Fla., December 1.—Mrs. Rhoda Tedder was found guilty to- night by a jury in the circuit court in connection with the murder of her former husband, Courtland Smith, a farmer, about two years ago. The jury recommended mercy, the verdict carrying with it a sentence of life imprisonment. GRAY PREPARED T0 FURNISH SURETY Governor Still at Liberty. Expects to Give Bond Be- fore Formal Arrest. ! By the Associnted Pross INDIANAPOLIS, December 1 Warren T. MeCray, who was named in eight indictments charging for| ry. embezzlement. larceny and false pre- . returned by the Marion county ay, had not given wurthouse was closed Monday. The gov been fixed at § A. Collins of the George % intsructed n | n the grand jury ts before Monday. althougl | ¢d that the bond would —Gov tens; grand jury 3 bond when the tonight until next had James and wa ernor's bond 400 by Jud 1inal _court, sheriff, eri Gov. MeCray was in conference dur- ing the da with his attorneys, James W. Noel and George M. Baruard, and 1 apnounced that many ofters had 1 received from persons willing Gesiring Lo go on the governer's gurety. No announcement was made to when the hond would be posted, it was x nerally believed tonight RS Lo revent the meccasity sherift making a fol futiv Sl w hie the exe said he | Thdlctment wis retaricd, a8 requested in w letter 1o the foreman f the grand jury sl =TT s |III|I||flllfllllllllllllllllflllfllllll!IIIIIIIIIIII||IlI'IIIHIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllillllllll“lllllflllflll { months | national | ity ol D. ¢, DECENBER NEW FRATERNITY BORN IN NEW YORK Phi Kappa Pi Created by Eleven Local College Bod- ies, Including G. W. U. By the Associated Press. NEW, YORK, December 1.—A new national fraternity was born at the cloxing session of the annual inter- fraternity conference today when representatives of eleven local col- lege fraternal organizations an- nounced the formation of the Phi Kappa Pi fraternity The name, adopted temporarily, is that of a local fraternity of Stevens Institute, whose members assisted in the organization. Other institutions whose representatives voted for the fraternity were George Wash- ¢ ton University, Penng College, lowa State Coflege, Univer- Hampshire. Bucknell mple University, Uni- Chattanooga, Worcester Institute, Davidson Col- University of Illinois. 1t was announced that this was the first ngible result of the con- ference’s expansion committee's ef- forts to form additional national fra- ternities. Perfected detalls of the new fraternity are to be presented conference officials within ix In the néantime, (', 2 1. W. Ohleander, and S re 1o act us an executi mittee in charg Conference s University versity of Polytechnic and the Drenk Lewis akers voiced critic of professional fraternities in collzes A resolution also was pted con demning the Kappa Beta Phi Fraternity, declaring the organizataion was based r scholarship and made “an or d s of regular The delegates who formed fraternity were ine the frst inter-local f " wWhien' 1t w nnually o N | Willlam R Bayes, Phi I Ohio Wesleyan™ University rman of the conferen TS Choxen we Dr. William . Gies Gettysbhurg ettysburg, Pa Vice chiairman . Uhiver f Cincinnati, cretary, and H. A, an. University of Wisco treasurer. new tend. the Tiag. wti of vas_ elected | National Victory Easier Un- lvania State | fra- | Other offi- | na'i n, | 2, 1923—PART 1. MISSING AIR MAIL FLYER SAFE, PLANE UNDAMAGED GRASS VALLEY, Calif., December 1.~Clare Vance, air mail pilot, who had been missing since 2 p.m. yes- terday, made a safe landing near Last Chapce Mine, in Placer county, late yesterday and today was on his way to_Auburn, Calif., where he is expected tonight. - Neither Vance nor his plane was injured, but Vance did not attempt to fy out today. This information was received here to- night by forest service officials. S. DAKOTA LEADER INDORSES M'ADOO der Him, Says Democratic State Chairman. By the Associated Press. HURON, §. D, December i-—-An unqualified indorsement of William G. McAdoo for the South Dakota pre idential primary nomination was volced todsy by the democratic stat chairman, W. W. Howes of Wolsey, | following a conference with state leaders here in preparation for the | party_ proposal convention at Pierre | next Tuesday he statement is the first definite slon from the state chalrman | ¢ party in the matter of presi- | tial preferences, Because of the fine liberal prin- ciples of genuine democracy for which he has batiled, and because 1 onvinced he is the one candidate ¥ ecarry the party | to & magnificent victory,” Mr. Howes sufd, “I have come to the conclusion that Mr. MeAdoo is by long odds the | best material for party to nomi- “Ns chairman and anxiour for the principles DATLY 1o be given an opportunity nal execution. I shall be acti in behalf of Mr. McAdoo in the « Mr. Howes t posal man from Beadle county, which | gives him the privilege of the floor at Pierre. I | | | | | | | | democrat the of | is democratic pro Rl e g SR = S B e Y e G GAS APPLIANCE LAPORTE, FRENCH FLYER, SETS ALTITUDE RECORD Reaches 5,535 Meters in Seaplane Before Being Forced Down by Intense Cold. PARIS, December 1.—Jean Laporte, the French aviator, established a new world record for altitude for a hydro- airplane by ascending yes height of 5,535 meters. His record has been officially verified under the supervision of an Aero Club official Laporte thus bettering the r held by Lieut. C. F. Harper, American Navy flier, of 4,236 meters, by 1,299 meters, Laporte’'s flight was made at Ar- genteull. He said he came down b cause of extrem cold, in which his face was frostbitten He used the same machi in which he won the Mediterranean crossing prize. 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