Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1924, Page 19

MUDD WILL RETURN FOR FIGHT IN HOUSE Maryland Member to Lead Battle for Annapolis and Indian Head Funds. Representative Sidney E. Mudd of Maryland, who has been In Arizona on account of fllness since eleotion day, will hurry back to Washington to lead the fight for adequate appropriations for the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and the naval proving ground at Indian Head, both of which ®re in his district. R@presentative Mudd has been visit- ing his brother, Thomas B. R. Mudd, and indicates he will make an early return to Washington in letters to Chairman Madden of the appropria- tions ‘committee, to Representative Burton L. French, chairman of the subcommittee on naval affairs, and to other members of the appropriations comtiittee. He has also written to Chairinan Butler and the members of the committee on naval affairs, Sets Forth Detafls. in these letters Representative Mudd Fets Torth in detail the necessity for 4dequate appropriations for the Naval cademy and naval proving grou at Indian Head. vl The announcement that he is im- Proved in health and will enter the coming contest for re-election was Zladly received by his friends, who had been led to belleve that he was hope- lessly {ll. Representative Mudd urged that the Committee restore $118,000 for main- tenance of the academy, the amount of the reduction recommended by the bud- &et bureau, and he suggested also that 3100,000 in addition should be added to this amount to supply the deficiency caused by Increased wage schedules during the present flscal year, which resulted In the discharge of a number ®f employes. Question of School. Representative Mudd's action was especially timely in regard to Indian ¥ead, .as at his request, Admiral Bloch, "chief of the bureau of ord- nance was questioned upon the sub- Jject of continuation of the govern- ment high school at Indian Head. At the instigation of Mr. Mudd this mag- nificerit high school, which is main- tained on a co-operative basisegbe- tween the government and the school authorities of Charles county, was saved, from destruction, as it was built during the war and under exist- ing law war-time bulldings must be destroyed or otherwise disposed of. Representative Mudd in endeavor- ing to'save this school obtained a de- cisfonfrom the controller general au- thorizing the conduct of the school for the present year. Before his de- parture to the west, he obtained fa- Yorable recommendatlons for a per- manent appropriation for this purpose from Admiral Bloch and the Secretary of the Navy. — English as She Is Spoke. From London Tit-Bits. The Serblan boys in this country #are making rapid progress in English. The extent of their attalnments may be judged from the following story, which is vouched for as authentic. One of the boys was asked to trans- late from Serbian into English the following sentence: - |§I° gave up his life on the battle- “With the help of a dictionary he produced the version: “He r(llinqulshe% his vitality on the bellicose meadow. Lowest Prices YTHE EVENING HOW D. C. POPULATION HAS- JUMPED LT TP T DA «KEREENY §333% g 13 The above chart shows how the population of Washington has steadily are based on tistica and present a substantial argument for planning to care for a pro- portionate increase, at least, in the future. increased since 1 The POLICE WARN PUBLIC IN HIRING STRANGERS Ease With Which Criminals Get Positions in Homes and Firms Amazing. Special Dispateh to The Star. NEW YORK, January 16.—It takes a good deal in these days of re- curring crime waves to shock the police of the city of New York, but they are shocked today. They are shocked at the revelations of the man, Frank Benner, who has con- fessed to strangling one young woman to death in this city and attempting to kill another young woman in Philadelphia. Frank Ben- ner is a low type. Most of the crimes in the metropolitan district recently | have been traced to degenerates. Th police, however, have not been shocked by the revolting detalls con- talned In Benner's confessions. What has made them gasp is the | readiness with which Benner has ob- | talned employment In city after city without his employers ever having made any inquiry into his past. Got Jobs Easily. This confessed murderer, this strangler, this madman—even the | police belleve him deranged—actu- ally obtained employment as a cook In a girl's school in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Benner has told the police that | when the fmpulse comes to him to attack a victim, he is utterly unable to resist it. That is his only excuse. He says he is fully consclous of the wrongdoing afterward, but when the fury is upon him nothing can stop it. While at the school in Bryn Mawn Benner evidently had the rur of the place, but fortunately for the women and girls in the building the only im- pulse he had while there was one of robbery. He entered one of the girl's rooms and took $125 he found among her possessions. With this petty | crime accomplished, he left the place. | Beat Nurse Brutally. Benner's next employment was al- most as amazing. He took a place in a hospital for tuberculosis patients outside Philadelphla where there were many nurses and women patients. Be; he deliberately, d: T Ready | about cooking while he was in the 400 200 100 T 8838 United States census sta- ahead, selected one of the nurses for attack. When the impulse came he brutally beat her and left her on the hospital lawn for dead. This ended Benner's series of jobs in the Philadelphla district. He returned nearer to his home in Brooklyn and obtained employment as an assistant cook in a Mineola hospital. The rob- bery complex once more got the upper hand at Mineola and he left that place after committing some petty thefts. Benner learned what littie he knows Army during the world war. It is sald it was one of the great disappointments of his life that they made him a cook at home instead of 2 fighting man in France. He has he build of a gorilla and the strength of an ape-man. The police were inclined today to throw up thelr hands. “What can we do to protect people who will not protect themselves?’ they say. Must Protect Selves. The police insist that even the most casual inquiry into any story Benner may have told at the places he sought employment would have revealed him as a liar and would have been sufficient to warn any one against him. More than 60 per cent of the rob- berles in New York are what the police call “mside jobs” They are “pulled off* by crooks who take employment as cooks, butlers or maids. Even staid | ol banking institutions have been known to take men with criminal records into tneir service. murder of two bank messengers and the | theft of $43,000 they were carrving was traced by the police to the “tip off” of a man inside the bank. Benner, the amazing criminal now in custody, obtained most af his jobs through employment agencies, and it | was through his return to one of these | agencies that he fell into the hands of | the police. The police have issued warn- i ings that even where help is obtained through a reputable agency there should be a thorough investigation of refer- ences. — Used to Noise. From the Toledo Blade. A local -music_enthusiast took & friend and neighbor to one perform- ance of our recent two-night grand opera “season.” The music, grand as it was, sounded a little noisy, more especially when the bang of drums and the crash of cymbals occurred at intervals. But the friend's face re- mained unmoved, STAR, (70w b c_poruLATION mas sumpep | |Unele The recent || WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1 Uncle Sam 14,777 Feet Tall, Data For His Life-Sized Photo Reveals Trifle Higher, But His Differences in Altitude Il.ll vt | He’s a Dwarf Compared With Asia and Europe Is a BERMEREDY - Are Notable, Figures Show. From the top ¢f the crown of Uncle Sam’s tall hat to the brass clips on his boots when he stands tiptoe is exactly 14,777 feet, engineers of the geological survey here have deter-l mined. They measured from the peak of Mount Whitney in Callfornia, 14,501 feet above the sea level, to the lowest point in Death Valley,-276 feet below sea level. The distance be- STUDENT SELLS BLOOD | TO PAY WAY IN SCHOOL Ohio State Boy Undergoes Eight Transfusion Operations in Two Months. COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 1 John George Broady, Ohio State versity student, has found a new way to earn money to help pay his way through scheel. He sells his blood. The price is about $100 a quart. Eight times in a period of two months Broady has undergone blood transfusion to help patients in Co- lumbus hospitals, and to add to his income. All told he has given up five quarts of blood to others, for which he says he received close to $590. s apparently suffered no 111 eftects. ef symptom at the time was a greatly increased appetite. The average amount of blood taken from him at a time was & little more than a pint, but he said on one occasion he gave up close to a quart. “Broady is six feet in height and | weighs 180 pounds. His home is at) Plains, Kan. ECUADOR ELECTS PRESIDENT. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, January 17. —Dr. Gonzalo Cordova was chosen president of Ecuador at the natfonal election yesterday. TR 1t's easy enough to love your neigh- bors as you love vourself, provided they mind their own business. tween these highest and lowest points is only ninety miles. Compared with old man Asia, Uncle Sam {s a dwarf, for from the top of Mount Everest, 29,002 feet above sea level, to the shores of the Dead Sea, 1,290 feet below sea level, is 30,292 feet. The erratic and pugnacious 'au Europe also is taller, for she stands 15,868 feet {n her high heels. The shadow of the Stars and Stripes, however, falls upon the near- est approach this world makes to Gehenna, according to the calcula- tions of 'the geological survey engi- neers. It is at the bottom of the ocean, about forty miles north of Mindanao in the Philippines, where there is a dip of 32,088 feet below sea level. A life-sized portrait of the surface of the world, therefore, would be eleven and one-half miles tall, the distance from this point under -the sea and the crest of Mount Everest. While Mount Whitney may be Uncle Sam's high hat, his tall, mas- sive brow is the state of Wyoming. The Washington engineers calculate that no less than nine Wyoming peaks rise more than 13,000 feet above sea level and three of them over 14,- 000 feet high. There also are thirty- one named and about forty unnamed peaks In that state over 12,000 feet gh. “There are thousands of peaks in the Rosples” says the geological survey report, “which are double the height of the highest mountain in the Appalachian system.” These figures have been garnered in_ connection with the mammoth topographical map of the United States on which the geological suf- vey has been at work for several years and in _connection with wh exploring parties are sent out every summer to little known areas. Furniture Carpets Dr. Platt’s Rines Prescription—a new. in trrnal treatment -allasa violent spasme in 30 minutes and T onte You nothing. Kol by all drugeit +conts you nothing. Kold by ail druggia DE. 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Charging that “red battalions” are being organized In Mexico with the approval of President Obregon and have appeared under the soviet colors —red and black—Enrique Sledner, representing the Do La Huerta revolu- tlonary forces, in a statement here today charged that the “Obregon-Cal- les regime is so tainted with red ten- dencles that Mexico would be con- verted Into a soviet state dominated by Moscow.” “The people of the United States,” sald Seldner in his statement, “are not aware that with the assent of Obregon, Calles s openly organizing red battalions gecruited from the lowest classes, {fom which his offi- cers are likewise selected. He is as- sembling at his headquarters in San Luis Potosi several hundred of these men, who are being armed with the rifies and cartridges recently pur- chased from the United States gov- ernment. “The flags of these troops are not the colors of Mexico; their flags are black and red, symboilc of the terror. 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