Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1924, Page 4

DELTA IS PROBLEM -FOR U. S. EXPERTS Maj. Gen. Beach Describes Efforts to Keep Mississippi River Open. GREAT DEPTH OF MUD Geographic Society Told of Tre- mendous Flow. That the “Father of Waters” fully deserves its name was demonstrated by Maj. Gen. Lansing H. Beach, chief of engineers of the United States Army in an nddress last night befofe members of the National Geo- graphic ' Society at the Masonle Temple. Keeping the mouth of the Mississippl open for navigation with its tendency to form mud bars is the greatest engineering maintenance job in the world, he declared. There is seemingly no bottom to the mud and recently a huge freighter, wrecked there, was swallowed up in a few weeks. The volume of water carried by the Mississippi in flood is so great, Gen. Beach said, that the amount passing a point in Kentucky in one second would be sufficient to sup- ply the needs of Washington at the present rate of consumption, for sixty years. Vaxt Overflow Annually. Before levees were built on_the Mississippl a region as large as West Virginia was overflowed each year, Gen. Beach sald Levees have been constructed now from the mouth of the Ohio to below New Orleans, and all this region reclaimed. The last gap through which flood wat escaped was closed in 1921, and the river I8 now forced to remain in its banks. To protect these dikes tre- mendous mattresses of willows are woven and sunk against their sides. The process of weaving and placing these mattresses ws shown by G ch in lantern slides and motion pic- Other Tess of tu lustrations showed the prog- on the Wilson dam at Muscle S . Tennessee river, the mov: dams of the Ohlo river and the construction of levees on the Jower Mjssissippi Water from New York. Among_the little known facts about the Mississippl river emphasized by Gen. Beach was that water drains into it from New York state as well as from North Carolina and Virgl But for the aridity in large sectlons of the drainage basin in the west, the geogra- phy of large sections of the country along the lower river would be radically al- tered, he pointed out Gen. Beach was introduced at the aft- ernoon ure by Maj. Gen. A. W. Greely, United tes Army, retired, and at the evening session by Frederick ¥. Coville. POLITICIANS SPECULATE OVER SUCCESSOR T0 GUDE Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., January There fs considerable speculation as 1o who will be named to succeed George A. Gude, who died recently, as a membper of the board of commis. sioners of Prince Georges coun J. August Miller, Perry Boswell and Thomas M. Miller, all of Chillum dis- trict, are being prominently mentioned for the post, while the name of Henry A. Friday of Riverdale district also has been brought to the fore, It is understood to be a strong prob- ability of the appointment going to a Chillum district man, the people of that district believing they are en- titled to representation on the board. The appointment is to be made by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie upon recom- mendation of the democratic state central committee for the county. FEB T THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Rain tonight, possibly changing to Snow tomorrow: temperature slightly above freezing tonight; colder tomorrow: moderate southerly wind. Maryland—Unsettled weather, with probably rain tonight, changing t gnow tomorrow; colde tomorrow moderate southerly win, Virginia- Probably rain tonight and tomorrow: warmer in the interior to- night; tions tomorrow; south winds. West Virginia—Rain or_snow to- night d probably tomorrow morn- ing; warmer in east portion tonight; colder tomorrow. Recordn for Twenty-Four Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 43; 8 p.m., 39; 12 midnight, 35; 4 a.m., 33; 8 am., 33; noon, 46. Barometer—i pm., 30.38; 8 pm. 30.42; 12 midnight, 30.38; 4 a.m., 30.38; S a.m., 30.36; noon, 3( Highest temperatur. at noon today Lowest temperature, 33, occurred at 6:30 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 50; lowest, 33. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States coast and geodetic survey.) Today—Low tide, 12:35 a.m. 32:38 p.m.; high tide, 6:11 am. 6:30 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 1:20 am. 1:23 p.m.; high tide, 6:57 a.m. 7:13 p.m. The Sun and Meon. Today—Sun rose 5:13 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises 7:24 a.m.; sun =ets 5:15 p.m. Moon rises 3:25 5:12 lighted 19.— moderate east to and and and sun sets pm.; sets am. Automobile lamps to be one-half hour after sunset. Weather in Various Cities. £ Temperature. Stations, Abiiene, Tex, 30.00 62 46 Albany ... 30.80 30 Atlanta Adlantie Gity Raltimore .. Birmingham THsmarck Honton Buffalo ... Charleston. Chicago . Cincinuati Cleveland Denver Detroit ¥ Paso.. ..l Galveston .. 80.08 Helena . 8068 Huron, 8. D. 30.48 Tndlanapolis, 3016 E nville. 30.20 Cloudy + Cloudy Clear dudy 0.08 Clear: Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Pt.cloudy Cloudy «Clear ‘Cloudy, Cloudy Loutsville Mfami, Fla.. Pt.cloudy | 8. Lake Cits Sin_Antonio. San_Diego.... R, Francisco 30.18 3 30,08 Stations. Tondon, England Copenhagen, Stockholm, ' Sweden. Gibraltar.” Spain. Horta (Fayal), Asores. Hamilton, ~ Bermuda. Clear Cloudy Cloudy, Pi Clear Part cloudy colder in west and north por-j e, 46, occurred ! and | FOLKS No pleasure, amusement, diversion or fad can offer solace to the Secre- tary of State like organ music, the swelling, rolling kind which seeming- Iy uplifts the soul to the very edge of heaven and can bring peace and the sense of the insignificance of material trouble: But what is more difficult to obtain in the ordinary city awelling? Great organs that will produce the sounds _desired, have vibration: which are shatter. ing to Interior loosening plaste: causing picture: o hang awry and sometimes are very disturbing to non-musfcal neighbors. In thelr summer homes, for since coming to Washington the Secretary and Mri Hughes have always found an isolat ed rural retreat, they can enjoy a good organ concert and they do on svery possible occasion. For they have several instruments, not the mighty pipe organs as they would wish, but entirely adequate as sub- stitutes. In their New York home organ music was as much a part of the day's routine as having break- fast and the other meals. Secretary and Mrs. Hughes are of course interested in all progress to- ward installing massive pipe organs in the home and without disastrou results. One which is deemed a tri- umph is that recently placed in the of Johp J. Rascob, one of the presidents of the du Pont Pow- der Company, which is near Clay- mount, Del. Mr. Rascob was one of the “dollar a year men” during the war and his work took him often to the Pan-American building. He be- came infatuated with this beautiful structure and built its replica for his ne. The organ has been placed in chamber which opens on the court or patio and though it is one of mammoth size, the pipes are skill- fully hidden by delicate wood carving and just outside the door an_echo organ has been installed. The result is to have an organ recital in the house without torturing vibrations or {broke . while outside the echoes swell to the upper ranges of the mansion and give a faint, more wholly delighttul repetition of the concert, Such {nstruments are now being in- stalled in many country homes, where an open garden offers space for the echo organ. No doubt the Secretary . Hughes will look Into this method of enjoying their favorite music. SO — COPELAND ASSERTS HISSERS HYSTERICAL Says Silk Association Boos at His Speech Amazing Spectacle to Physician. | | | | Becretary Hughe From radio broadcasting station WRC here last night, Senator Cope- land, democrat, New York, who in private life is a physician, diagnosed as a “violent attack of hysterfa” the | condition which caused the guests of | the Silk Association of America, at a dinner at New York last Saturday night, to hiss him when he declared { for tax reduction bonus, too. - “They hissed and booed, blatted and squealed like a barnyard filled with trightened cattle, geese and swine,” said Senator Copeland. “It is a most ting example of mass hysteria. er more enjoyed a clinie in men- tal nervous diseases. “It is amazing that men conspicuous for good works should permit them- selves to indulge in anger to the verge of apoplexy. Children who act one-tenth as bad are punished.” D. C. MEN ON COMMITTEE OF UNITY CONFERENCE to Progressive Movement in Adjoining States Closes Two-Day Session. Parley Promote Several Washingtonians were elect- ed to the committee designed to pro- mote the Unity movement in adjoin- {ing and nearby states by the pro- gressive conference which closed a two-day session last night at the Hamilton Hotel under the auspices of the Unity committee of the District of Columbia. The committee is composed of the following: Rev. J. L. Smiley napolls, chairman; Charles Kutz, toona, Pa., vice chairman; Willlam V. Mahoney, this city, executive secre. tary, and Mrs. Ida M. Hathaway, Bal j timore. treasurer: Dr. Albert N. Jar- 1vis of Baltimore, Carl D. Thompson, | Chicago; Dr. S. Neistadt of Baltimore, {H. A ‘Telgan. of Minneapolls, Marx Lewis of New York, J. A. H. Hopkins of { New York, J. G. Brown of Chicago, Dr. Alfred Holt, Baltimore, and Ben- Jamin Meiman, L. H. Keenan and H. J. Hays, all of this city. The following persons addressed the conference at its various session Dr. Lewis Edelman of Alabama, Miss Jane Hills of the National Woman's Party, Dr. Alfred Holt, Dr. A. N. Jarvis, Mrs. I1da M. Hathaway, Scott D. Vanderslioe and Dr. S. Neistadt, all of Baltimore; Dr. James Hugh Keeley of Riverdale, Md.; William Manoney of St. Paul, Minnesota; W. J. Wallace of New Jersey, Marx Lewis of New York, J. A. H. Hopkins, na- tional chairman’ committee of forty- eight, New York; M. Freilichoff of the Paole Zion Movement, Charles Kutz of Altoona, Pa.; I Geracl, Edward H. Young, L. T. Struck and others. The final meeting of the conference, held last night, was addressed by Dr. James Hugh Keeley, Charles Kutz of Pennsylvania, Rev. Dr. McGowan of the National Catholic Welfare Council, Representative Knud Wefald of Min- nesota, Senator Lynn Frasier of North Dakota and Carl D. Thompson, na- tlonal secretary of the Public Owner- iship League of America. jparliamentarians._kne and a soldiers'| THE EVENING CHURCHILL ATTACK WITHOUT RESULTS| MADE OBJECT OF SCIENCE FIGHT || SENT T0 CONGRESS; STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 19%4. ENORMOUS PRICKLY PEAR FOREST WANTS SHOALS BID - |75 OF YALE FACULTY FOR DRY MODIFICATION Plurality of Three Shown by Poll, Has Done Nothing Toward Halting [ GTOWth, Stretching 1,000 Miles, Threatens Austra-|1,uu; Says Proposal of Sonthern| With 72 for Enforcement and lian Continent—Renders Land Fruitless. Started From Few Plants. Liberal Support of Labor Party. POLITICAL MOVE IS SEEN Author of Letter Would Lead Con- servatives: Is Believed. By the Ausociated Pre LONDON, Jahuary 19.—Wineton Spencer Churchill has put himselt in the limelight by the publication of his open letter deploring the advent of ‘a soclalist government, but so far nothing has developed from it to sug- gest that the manifesto s likely to produce the desired effect, namely, the prevention of liberal support in putting the parllamentary labor par- ty into power. The letter was criticised in yes. terday's debate in the house of com- mons and s being widely discussed, but the general opinfon is that it wa: launched at the wrong! time. Mr. “Churchill's _suggestion that a further amendment of the address in reply to the speech from the throne should be moved—an amendment de- nouncing socalism—has been adopted Ly that section of the. conservatives vn_as the in- dustrial group. These members have tabled an amendment along the lines proposed by Mr. Churchjll which it passed would record its repudiation of labor. But, apparently, there i8 not the least prospect that this reso- iution will be moyed. Discussion at E: The three parties, through their whips, it seems, have agreed that aft- er the adoption of labor's condemna~ tory amendment on Monday evening, the reply to the king's speech shall be adopted forthwith, and consequently there will be no further oppertunity to_discuss The political correspondent of the Westminster Gazette describes the letter as constituting a definite break with the liberal party, and says Mr. Churchill's friends and others behind the scenes do not doubt that it rep- resents his turning move toward the conservatives. ‘The laborites, who have no love for this prominent liberal, opine that the letter is a distinct bid for the lead- ership of the conservatives in antici- pation that that ty is likely to throw over Stanley Baldwin. conservatives, according to some po- litical writers, are fixing thelr hopes of leadership on &ir Willlam Joyn- son-Hicks, president of the ministry of health, whose able speech in par- llament on Thursday aroused their enthusiasm. LAUFER ANSWER CARTER'S CHARGES Writes Public Printer Giving Reasons Why He Should Not Be Dismissed. A letter from August F. Laufer, summarizing reasons why he should not be dismissed from the govern- ment printing office, was received at the office of Public Printer George H. Carter today, in reply to a letter from Mr. Carter of January 12, but was not made public because ‘of the absence of Mr. Carter from the city In a lotter dated January 12, Mr. Carter notified Mr. Laufer that charges had been preferred against him specifying that he 'had made and was giving *wide publicity” to ac- cusations against the public printer which “not only are malicious and wholly false, but were known to you to be untrue at the time you gave utterance to the same in your letter of January 2. 1924." Among the charges alleged to have been made by Mr. Laufer is that Pub. lic Printer Carter was using all his “personal influence” with members of Congress to obtain passage of the Kiess wage bill, and that he was using ‘powerful influence” against printers in the government printing office. This letter informed Laufer he was suspended without pay until such time as final action may be taken.. Columbia Typographical Union meets tomorrow afternoon, but officials today declared that it was their belief ace tion in this case would awalt the reply of Public Printer Carter to the most recent letter of Mr. Laufer. —— Births Reported. The following births hy {he Health Gepartment in'the e i ourn: TRobert ©. George W. Michael J. nd Catherine B. Abell, L R e g €7 ry A, O John d MaryC itumson: giee Frederick J. and Daisy Souder, boy. Bamuel and Aanie Levine, girl. -ly‘:'t:“bg Ln‘a“l""’;.fl irl. . and Rue E. Jona and dae Wele: airl T les anc ntonette Tancrede, boy. Edward and Helen Gol f Leonard and Helen Saith bopt >0 l‘nd VI“fllDil L g s, boy. John T. and Dalsy W, 39ha aa" Aante Dodg, phris o0 L. mpson, bey. Asron T. and Miranda Deaths Reported. The following deatha TS S0 e s e Dalias Thomas Joyce, 79, William Hillmer: 7. 011 B par O 4T Mary J. Don, 78, 408 Cedar si Joanna Carew, 78, 3568 11th, jouis Beach, &:B-angn Howpital, Louls He ider, rving Joseph wk.{'fi"a‘?;"' o0 1 e Kelly, 42, Galiiager i n, 1, €37 Infant of Herbe: "lorence ol oftis Besett Bracd Thomas, 24, 53¢ Givard,” Mary 1. Floren Play Starring Marjorie Rambeau Withdrawn, Acting Angers Author Actress’ Lines Unruly, Pronunciation Bad, Critics Say—Doctor Says Star Suffering Nervous Breakdown From Work. + By the Associated Press. - i NEW YORK, January 19.—Less i{than twenty-four hours after the iclosing curtain was rung down on ithe first performance night of George Middleton's “The Road Togethes Majorie Rambeau In the leading role, rep- resentatives of A. H. Woods, the producer, an- nounced last night that the production had been withdrawn “at the request of the author, . who was dissat- f. 1T, isfied with the § performance at ' opening MIS8 RAMBEAU. Rambeau’s physician, Dr. Max Wolf, announced that she had had a complete nervous . breakdown as a result of the over- straln and excitement df the openi; night. S The actress, he sald, had been un- der his care for nine days, suffeting from overwork. He hid tried to in- duce her not to:play last night, he |A. added, but “it seems it could not be arranged.” Mr. Middleton, who will sail tomor- row for Bermuda, refused to discuss the matter, except to say: “The answer is obvious.” Representativ. of Mr. Woods, who i 4 ul;ed SySoas ‘l abroad, main- 'ewspaper critics today c on, what they tormed Mis Rambesssy “difficulties ~w! h 2 ““;‘L : er , lines,” last “In spite of long preparatidn,” said one, “Miss Rambeau b - 04 e:lnm hel;dllnel.s e nother “She seemed laboring under some” mentsr scraye which made her lines somewhat un- ruly. Occasionally her anxiety her into mispronunciation ef -‘:g words as ‘thermometer.’ ™ 1 Experiments are in progress here this - winter toward the elimination 0f ‘the world's strangest forest—a waste of 30,000,000 acres stretching north and south for a thousand miles, covered with prickly pear cactus shoulder high. The Btory of the battle which has been waged for four years to prevent this spear-armed ocean of rank vege- tation from flooding a continent was told by J. C. Hamline, former Depart- ment of Agriculture specialist here, who now Is at the bureau of ento- mology conducting some of the final tests necessary before an army of insects and fungi are turned loose to attack the advancing waves of prickly peur. Hamline's work is supported by the Australian government. About a half century ago somebody in Australia introduced a few speci- mens of the cactus from the western deserts of the United States, prob- ably as a natural curlosity. In the antipodes there were none natural enemies of the bush which have kept 1t scattered in a compara- tively limited area of North America. In a few years it was beyond con trol. Mile After Mile of Cactus. ow,” says Hamline, “one can ride n the ‘train for hour after hour fron Sydney, New South Wales, to Rock- hampton, Queensland, and see nothing but mile after mile of cactus, cactus, cactus. It is one of the most ds- pressing sights imaginable.” The land originally was used most- Iy for sheep grazing. The cactus has it absolutely worthless. Foz made BIG OIL SHALE BED FOUND IN BRITAIN Greatest and Richest Fields in World. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 19.—What is claimed to be one of the.greatest and richest oil-bearing shale beds ever discovered has been found in West Somerset, according to the Evening Star today. The bed, cover- ing a large area, is sald to have a mining surface of 600 to 700 feet, which, the experts here say, is un- precedented. The beds, it is declared, contain the highest qualities of oils, com- parable only with the Green river formation in Colorado, hitherto an unparalleled example of oil shale wealth. : The newspaper quotes Larrette Parkin, an English engineer as re- porting that it is safe to base the commercial production of the beds at 9,000,000,000 tons of ofl shale, with ‘an’ oil content of more than 1,000,000,000 . tons, valued at $3,000,- 000,000. He estimates that the shale can be quarried for three shillings per ton. 1t also quotes Dr. W. Forbes Leslie, geologist, as saying the beds are “a mighty . source of heat and power from which we can draw for our in- dustries without spending money on foreign oil. The magnitude of this discovery means that we can supply all' our needs for cheap power, light and heat for centuries.” He claims the beds will make England inde- pendent of foreign supplies in time DISABLED VETERANS GRATEFUL TO HINES Fifteen Students Express: Appre- ciation of Study Tours Granted Them. Director Hines of the Veterans' Bu- reau was presented today with an en- graved copy of a resolution of appre- | clation adopted by fifteen disabled vet- erans, who, as students in the George- town University School of Foreign Service, made study tours of Spain and Poland last summer. The tours were included in a foreign service course opened to disabled service men, to af- ford a practical means of acquainting the students with economical and polit. feal conditiops abroad. / Accompanying the defegation were 3! Dalton, manager, ‘Hitch, chief of administration of the fourth district; J. M. MacCammon, acting subdistrict manager In chargs of the local office; B. J. Foy, local training officer; Dr. William n of the school of foreign service, and Thomas H. Healy, assistant dean. The veterans who made up the dele- Potrien Maine, .ChnlhrH K Massachuset: ::2’ Holland; John F. Walsh, Iow: Harry N. Phillips and Charles. E. Geoghegan, Virginiu; Willlam H. Mahan and Ewart A. Hester, Whsh- ington, D. C.; Severt J. Marifjeren, North Dakota? Walter V- Mils, North Carol ; Josepl sy, Pennsyl- vania, and Enrique Palms, Philip- pine Islands of the | Discovery Is Held One of andi E. T.] the most part the jungle is impene- trable, even by the smallekt animals. To crawl into it means probable death. Experiments have demonstrated that arsenic injections made in bush kill-off the growth, but this is impracticable because only in the scattered sections can men reach more than the fringes of the forest. The railroad and one dirt road now are the only paths through it. To date sixteen natural enemies of the cactus have been sent from the United States through the co-opera- tion of the Department of Agricul- ture and nine of these have proved adaptable to the Australian climate. These consist of a variety of insects, principally cactus borers and cactus stink bugs from Texas and a num- ber of varieties of fungus. None have been rele however, because of fear that any one of them might spread over Australia and become an even worse menace tha the cactus itself. The object of the present ex- | periments is to determine the extent |of this danger and methods of com- | batting the parasites if they get out | of hana. Found Valueless. | The Australlan government, Ham- line says, has made many futile ef- forts to turn its unwelcome forest to some account. It has been ade Into paper, potash and commercial alco- hol and cochineal dye bugs have been reared on it, but in every case it was found that the expense was too great. Hamline points out that the pres- ent effort 1® unique in eatomological warfare since insects and fungi are being introduced to kill vegetation while in practically every other case on record they have been brought in to kill other insects which are feed- ing on crops. | PROPOSES PURCHASE ' OF LINCOLN RELICS Bill Authorizing Government to Buy Oldroyd Collection Offered in House. Purchase of the Oldrovd collection of Lincoln relics by the United States | Rovernment 'is proposed in a bill in- jtroduced in the House today by Representative Rathbone of Illinois, which authorizes an appropriation of $50,000. The bill points out that the col- legtion' contains 3.000 pieces now on display In the government property known as the house in which Presi- dent Lincoln died, 516 10th street northwest. Representative Rathbone has taken a particular Interest in this collec- tion because of the intimate asso- ciation of his family with the martryred President. His parents were ‘in the ‘box with Lincoln the night of the assassiantion and his father, who was an Army surgeon and woupded in endeavoring to ap- prehend the assassin Booth, was with Lincoln when he dled. while his mother remained with Mrs. Lincoln during the tragic hours :following the attack by Booth. Representative Rathbone has been selected to deliver the annual ad- dress in the House on Lincoln's birth- | day, April 12 COMMITTEE SPEEDS POLICE PAY MEASURE Zihl.nm; Calls Special Meeting Monday; Favorable Report Held Certain. To complete work on the police and firemen’s pay increade bill the special subcommittee of the House District| committes will meet Monday morning lat 10 o'clack at the call of Repre- mentative Fred N. Zihlman of Mary- land, its chairman. ', The subcommittee last week order- ed a favorable report on this legisla- tion to the full committee, but when the full committee met, Chairman Zihiman announced that the measure had been held up for a few days at the request of Representative Beers, jrepublican, of Pennsylvania, who wished to correct ' several inequalities in pay adjustments. There is no opposition in the House District committee to the police and firemen's pay increase bill, and it is expected that it will be favorably reported to the House for considera- tion on the first District day when the full committee meets on Wedne ay. —_— KILLED BY TRAIN. Washington Man Caught on Tracks % Near Seabrook. Thomas S. ‘Curtis, seventy, roomer at 617'E street northwest, was killed by a Pennsylvania rellroad train yes- terday while walking along the tracks near gubrook. co Georgos county, Md. An investigation by Prince Georges county officials_last aight resulted in s certificate of ac cidental death. The deceased, ‘& cabinet maker, had been a resident of this city a number of years. He had a home at Lanham, not far from the scen of the accident, and' went there yes terday to see that nothing had hap pened to the house during his tem. porary absence in thig city, where e was under medical care. Mr. Curtis is suryived by a number of children. Funeral arrangements had not been completed this morn- ing. -~ Numerous relatives and triends of the family are residents of North olina minor | Power Companies Is Best Yet Made. STILL OPEN I8 Hull' Asks That Three Points Be Studied Before Disposal. By the Associated Press. The proposal of & group of south- ern power companies to operate the Muscle Shoals plants for fitty years for & rental of $100,000,000 was de- scribed as “the best offer the govern- ment has ever recelved” for the proj- ect in a statement issued today by Representative Hull, republican, Iowa, who inftiated the correspondence with the Federal Power Commission which resulted in the bid being made. Declaring the offer brings out for the first time “some actual facts as 1o the large money value to the peo- ple of the United States of the water- vower rights and privileges at Muscle Shoal Mr. Hull expressed the hope that the Secretary of War “will im- mediately transmit it to Congress The proposal, he said, clears the way “for production of a constant and large supply of cheap fertilizers for ithe benefit of the farmers of the countr; and, if Congrese accepts,it, “the hydro-electric energy from the south’s greatest natural resource— Muscle Shoals—will be equitably dis- tributed all over the south, where it belongs." Asserting that his “mind is open as to the best disposition of the gov- ernment's vast interests at Muscle Shoals,” Mr. Hull outlined three con- ditions he regarded as essential to entitle “any proposition to receive considergtion”; that it must protect “for all time the government's inter- est In natlonal preparedness” and “the farmers' interest in the conservation of soils, from the production of n trates in peace time,” and must “pro- vide for the completion of dam No. 3 within a reasonable time, 80 that river transportation on the Tennes- see river can be inaugurated.” “When the government has secured these three essentials,” he sald, “it should then accept the best financial offer it recelves.” MURPHREE’S VIEWS DIFFER WITH BRYAN'S Commoner's Candidate for Presi- dency Declares Opinions Do Not Coincide. By the Associated Press. GAINESVILLE, Fla, January 19.— Dr. A. A. Murphree, president of the University of Florida, and named by Willlam Jennings Bryan as the Florid- ian he would support for the presi- dency In the event Mr. Bryan is chosen a delegates to the democratic national convention, said last night that he does not totally agree with the commoner in some of his political vlews and his stand on the theory of evolution. “I think,” said Dr. Murphree, “that Mr. Bryan Is a great citizen and his moral integrity is unimpeachable, but I have never agreed with all his po- litical views nor with his argument on evolution. “T belleve in the use of organic evo. lution, not as & fact, but as a theory, he asserted, “for it is a hypothesis accepted by'sclentists as offering the most- ‘plausible explanation of life processes. 1 agree with Mr. Bryan, however, ‘that evolution ought not be taught young people in a way that would upset their faith in God and the Bible. I also agree with Mr. Bryan that the monkey theory has not been proven." BRYAN EXPLAINS STAND. Declares He Is for Dr. Murphree - Because He Is Floridian. By the Associated Press RALEIGH, N. C., January 19.—Belief that the south should be recognized caused William Jennings Bryan to speak in favor of Dr. A. A. Murphree, president of the University of Florida, for -the democratic nomination for President, according to a story in the News and Observer here. Mr. Bryan spoke last night at Henderson, N. C. “There are many southern demo- crats worthy of the nomination,” as- serted the commoner in reply to a question. “One of whom I have often mentioned is my long friend Josephus Daniels, but, being now a Floridian, I am going to nominate a man from my own state.” “Do_you think he can be nomi- ed?’ he was asked. “I am too old a politicia; predictions this far ahead, reply. EARNINGS JUSTIFY NEW FEDERAL BANKS Record of First Four Months Show They Will Not Be Drain on Treasury. n to make was the | Earnings of the federal intermedi- ate credit banks for the first four months of actual loaning have demon- strated that the banks can make their own way, and will not be a drain on the government. This was announced last night by Comfissioner Cooper of the Federal Farm Loan Board, in announcing that the earnings of the twelve banks from the creation lgst year to Jan- 1 were $304,542. VA hder the Intermediate credit act the banks are obligated to pay one- half of their net earnings into the { Treasury. This is in addition to m? interest they must earn on the mplt; stock, which is held solely by the Treasury. Sixty million dollars was | authorized as capital for the twelve Bankw, but only one-third of that amount has actually been employed. BRADY TO MAKE GOOD IF TO BLAME FOR LOSS soclated Press. By the Amociatad P Januar 190 ALE n and executor E Ry fate of his father, Nicholas 75,000,000 o8t to the e £ :‘(‘)‘ki;ag‘:.o:lsll suffered through any fault of his own, he testified today at & continuation of hearings on ob- jeotions to 1919 and 1920 ac‘ounts Of the Srled™ by ‘mis own counsel former Gov. Nathan L. Miller, 3 Brady declared neither he nor | brother, James Cox Brady, also an oxecutor, made’ any personal profits by their various transactions for the estate. ‘cash fund, held In _the conne o "Trust Company of New York, was necessary, Mr. Brady sald, to meet quarterly incomes due benefl- claries, to meet obligations, to pay for partially paid-up securities and in readiness for “careful invest- menta” Isidor J. Kresel, counsel for Mrs. Carll Tucker and Mrs. Francls P. Garvan, who filed the objection had oriticised the action of the exec- utors: in keeping much & large cash fund in the bank. & - 42 for Repeal. By the Associated Press, NEW HAVEN, Conn., January 19— Faculty voting on prohibition based on the three questions prepared by the Yale News, and figures of which Wwere not in the taubulation announced yesterday for Yale University, showed faculty figures were 75 for modifica- of the eighteenth amendment. The faculty figures were 75 for modifiac- tion, 72 for enforcement and 42 for repeal. These figures, added to those previously given out, made about five- eighths of the total vote in favor of some change in the law. Every de- partment in the university except the graduate school gave a margin for modification. The final figures were 641 for en- forcement, 1,042 for modification and 661 for repeal. THe News says that the mature sections.“are more nearly isatisfied with existing conditions than the ' younger, less experienced ele- ment.” e Ao HEIR TO MILLIONS BANK MESSENGER Young Vanderbilt Runs -Errands for Boston Firm, Seeking to Learn Business Thoroughly. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, January 19.—Willlam H. Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and heir to a for- tune estimated at $20,000,000, has taken a position as messenger in the offices of Lee, Higginson & Co. bankers and bro- kers. He receives the salary of a be- ginner—38 a week —and asserts that he desires tolearn banking from the bottom rung up. Outside of office hours Vanderbilt's socfal life is in sharp contrast to his job, where he. sits” on a long bench with otherwM. H. VANDERBILT messengers, an- swers telephone calls and runs er- rands. Upon his departure from work he returns to his home, on Louisburg square, Beacon Hill, where he lives with his bride of last November, who was formerly Emily O'Nell Davis, and where he employs a butler and five servants. During the evening he s prominent in the social affairs of Boston's younger set. But next morning, romptly when the office opens, he s on hand to hang his hat on the peg and begin work. \ POLICE CHECK-UP GRATIFIES BUTLE Personal Tour of Philadelphia Made by Public Safety Director. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 19.— After checking up the results of his second forty-eight-hour drive against lawlessness, Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, director of public safety started shorty before midnight on a personal tour of inspection of the va- rious poice districts, “to keep the 4,200 polcemen and their commanders on their toes.” The tour kept him on the go far into the early morning hours, and upon its conclusion he ex- pressed himself as well pleased with conditions. A check-up of the police records showed a total of more than 300 ar- rests for various alleged offenses, in- cluding 67 for traffic violations. Near- Iy 200 prisoners were taken in raids on billiard and pool rooms, speak- easles, and stores said to have been operating as blinds for gamblers, Pugilixt’s Place Ratded. Ten men were taken from a pool and billiard room in the center of the city, owned by Lew Tendler, Philadel- phia's well known lightweight boxer. Few disorderly houses or gambling establishments have been found in the second drive, and in some dis- tricts every place which has been un- der suspicion was closed tight. Lieut. Carlin sald early today that his men ad not found a single place to raid, “for the simple reason that they were either closed down or operating with- in the law." FORMER ACThESS JAILED ON AUTO THEFT CHARGES ST. LOUIS, Mo, January 19.—Mrs. Herbert Uribe, former actress, of New York, today was taken to Warren- ton, Mo., to begin gerving a four- month sentence imposed yesterday in federal court on two charges of bringing stolen automobiles from New York to St. Louls. She also was fined $100. She was arrested with her husband in December of 1921 and, following their release under 32,500 bond each, both disappeared. TUribe is said to be in Mexico. Mrs, Uribe was arrested later in Los An- | geles, where she is said to have been instrumental In prosecution of a man alleged. to. have killed geon. police -sur- —_— SAYS SHIP RULE HITS SOUTHERN EXPORTING By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky, January 19.— Refusal of the recently reorganized imergency Fleet Corporation to ac- cord southern ports the same ocean rates as north Aglantic ports on ex- port shipments originating In the middle west will nullify export rail rates to southern ports on large movements of European traffic. from’ central west points, R. L. McKellar, foreign freight trafic manager for the Southern railway system, de- clared today. One thousand or more ocarloads of agricultural implements for export recently were booked for shipment via morth Atlantic ports, Mr. Mc- Kellar asserted, because of the cor- poration's action. The matter has been referred to the Shipping Board for a decision, —_— MAY DIE OF POISONING. John E. Barnhill, twenty-four year old, giving his address as 203 Battle street, Rocky -Mount, N. C, 18 in an apparently dying condition in George Washington University Hospital fering_from & dose of polson he says he took by mistake. The young man called at the hos- pital Tuesday, told of having taken the poison and was sent to a ward. Not wanting his relatives to know of his predicament, he gave his name a: Frederick H. Martin and said he r sided on Perryville avenue, Pitt: burgh. This morning_he was visited by De- tective Harry Evans of the, narcotic squad, and the change in the name and address was given. Detective Evans wired relatives of condi- tion and whereabouts. ¥ TNy g - DEMOCRATS TAKE UP. CONVENTION PLANS National Chairman. Holl -Picks Waldorf-Astoria as Commitsée Headquarters, 200,000 VISITORS EXPECTED Leaders Survey.Field for Coming Political Battle. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, January 19—The ad- vance guard of the démocratic na- tional committee came to New, York from Washington vesterday and sur veyed the fleld where the politica battle for the parly presidential. non nation will be waged next June. Th established liason with the nion-parii- n citizens’ committee which lured them here; picked the Waldorf- Astoria for national committee head quarters! inspected and approved Madison Square Garden as-an ideal political arena; and began the ' work of organization necessary the entertainment of at least 200.000 expected visitors. Representative hair man of the democratic natjonal com- mittee headed the delegation, which Includead Mack, chairman of the co ngeéement sub- committer, and eleven others, .among them Mrs, ewell Blait of Mis- souri and D. A. McDougal Oklznoma. Convention Plans Well Under Way. The qualms the national committs had expressed about ing here the quadrennial event s been gquite dissipated learned how well the paved, what facilities w disposal and what attractions being planned to make the sessic popular with delegates. Isadare Dockweiler, whose check for $20 failed to get San Francisco the vention, was a thougi communicati Mrs. learned that the local citize figured it, would cost them $500,000 fo fulfill their promise the national committee. A Madison Square Garden particularl struck the fancy of visitors. The went through it from top to bottc around the area, up to the numerou offices that will be turned over to th convention executives, d down to the basement menagerie quarters which will be remodeled for hundred of lines of communication that would lead from the convention. You'll seat 15,000 to 20, Rickard, and the tors we ibly impressed. Arrangements were made to the four major convention com: at the Madison Square Hotel, udj ing the Garden and with private ¢ trances to it. Tentative Plans for Speakers. Tentative plans are for a huge speakers’ platform to be built on the northside of the arena, extending al- most to the present boxing ring. It thus will be almost in the center of the big oval. Seven hundred press desks will flank the platform. The band stand will be erected directly opposite. Managers of the larg: today to form. an nization for the entertainment of delegates and to adopt means of keeping rates from skyrocketing, John R. Young of association, discl would be spent b mittee as its contribution toward the Bsuccess of the convention { of d of $200.000 already was pledged, said. The remainder would be’ ob- tained - through the distribution of 6,000 convention seats on a basis of one for each $100 contribution. Mr. Young said ticket speculators were offering $200 each for the seals, but pointed out that an excess of the $500,000 needed could be obtained b the plan to allot a ticket for each $100 contribution. t hotels met merchants' 500,000 the d that the citizens' Se-3af N PATENT FRAUDS HIT BY NEW HOUSE BILL To prevent fraud, deception and im- proper practice in connection with business before the United States ent office, a bill was,_today introduce in the House by Representative Louis C. Cramton, republican, of Michtgar “In Washington and a number of other places throughout the country said Representative Cramton, “ind viduals, firms and even corporatio are acting as patent attornevs and inducing clients to intrust important patent business to them, with the idea that they are registered to prac- tice. In several instances attorneys have been disbarred from pra and are practicing under cover. 1 other instances men who have neve been ‘registered and who. are not en- titled' to be registered are represent- ing thmselves a8 Datent attorneys and taking fees as such. 'atent Counsellors.” “In one flagrant instance two men, not registered, representing then eelves to be ‘patent counsellors, have oven been doing business unde false names. In another instanc one of my own constituents was led ay an association not registered to practice and not having any right to_practice about $1,500. “In this case the one who acted {attorney disclaimed all responsib: and the applicant could not obtain the service to which he was entitled until the commissioner of patents forced the attorney to complete his work. The palpable fraud is cloaked under the irresponsible association. “The bill which I introduced toda explained Representative Cramton, designed to prevent any one practicing before the pa is not registered to pre has been disbarred after having been registered, thus gIving the patent office an opportunity to protect tho public by preventing practice befarc it by unscrupulous persons. PRINCE AND GENERAL DON COWLS OF MONKS By the Assoctated Prese. 4 BERLIN, January'19.—Two men who were active officers in the German army during the war—one of them a prince—have ‘becomé Francis . Monks, having taken the vow +Stands Church, Munich. The prince {Alban Lowenstein Wertheim Freuden-+ | bers, formerly a captain in the Han- inover Uhlans, the most famous and aristocratic cavalry regiment of the- ! German army. | The other ex-officer who has taken ecplesiastic orders is former Gen. ‘Réichlin Meldegg, who, until he be-- {gan studying for the priesthood, was . imilitary “commander of Ingvlstadi, Bavaria. — CALVERT JURY HUNG. After deliberating several hours u Jury in Criminal Division 2 reported last night to Justice Hoehling its inability to reach a decision in the case of Albert L. Calvert, - charged With an assault with a dangerous weapon on his brother-in-law, Milo Soars, September 23 last. The jurors were discharged and the case con- tinued Sears, it _was claimed. had beaten Calvert earlier in the day because the: latter had slandered Calvert's:wife, ‘who a sister of S The argu- ment was resumed at a Jater meetin and Sears was shot and weounded. Calvert claimed he acted in. se:f defense. Assistant United States Attorney .Emerson conc. th prosecution, while At ope represented the d H om toffice who ce BT Who. ' | | |