Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1924, Page 17

CABINET OFFCER ASART HEADURCGED Tinkham Bill Proposes New Federal Department for Cultural Advance. WOULD HAVE WIDE POWER Official Would Recommend Public School Courses and Con- trol Exhibits. Creation | of a I Arts to be headed by officer, “who shall be learned and ex- perienced In matters pertulning to the fine arts, with & salary of $12,000,” Ls proposed in a bill introduced tod. by Representative George H. Tink- ham, republican, Massachusetis, which has been veferred to the c mittee on education. The purpose of the Department of I"ine Arts would be to increase knowl- edge of the arts through official channels, and to develop a taste for ATt as one of the greatest factors in the march of human progress tment of Fine a new cabinet - In Charge of Galleriex. erctary of fine arts would vharge and control of the ¢ of Art, including th Gallery and which under control stitution. He would be a member and chairman ex-officio of the Com- rissfon of Fine Arts, and would ad- nd judge all matters relating to mstruction. monumental us well uilding, pair - and ex- Libitions und. d, both n the Uni other The giver N nment 1o secrota the Tinkham bill, we of international relati field of urt. assum together ¥ ould exhibition abroad: | it United working male ns throughout the w Ald of Dipiomnts. ham hill would instruct and require the diplomatic and con- sular service to assist the secretary of fine arts by kee m informed all flelds of o ents through- out the world The bill would cabi officer port frequently art in the public schi mmend be more instruct! ath cnd that the com- may e g prmed and more highly de public taste.” cretary equira I3 the new te and re- “to th generat ng better velope The ir { would be re- with industrial United States ti ard | uring o _better understanding of | the value of art as applied to the in- Qustrial product WALTON PLEA DENIED | BY SUPREME COUR Impeachment Proceedings Review: Is Declined; Controversy Held Political. The Suprems Court today declined to permit former Gov. John C. Wal- ton of Oklahoma to bring up for re- view direct from the legislature the fmpeachment proceedings which re- sulted in his removal from office. The case which the court acted vas distinet fr another, re- v appealed from a decision of the district for western a control- tire proceed trial befor: Oklahoma senate was judicial in aracter, the former governor had insisted that he had the right of ap- | Teal to the courts for o review, but ! » federal district court for western Oklahoma held that the controversey was strictly political and refused to take ¢ urisdiction. The former | governor asked the Supreme Court to review that decision und he also filed «_separate petition, the one-acted ipon toduy, asking 'that he be per- mitted to appeal directly to the Su- me Court from the acton of the| mpeachment court, The former governor advised the supreme Court that the people of Ollahoma had been exposed to an- archy, Insurrection and attendant cvils by his impeachment, and had heen subjected to:the domination of | “the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and the Invisible Empire.” A majority of the members of the mpeachment court, disqualified to it in the trial, had entered a con- spiracy in advance of the trial. he harged to remove him from the of- ice of governor, regardless of tes- timony or the law. The impeach- ment court, he insisted, had not ac- quired jurisdiction to try him. 3 FROZEN TO DEATH ON AUTOMOBlLE TRIP Two Young Women and Man Die Near Little Rock, Ark. Fourth in Party Dazed. '3 the Associated Iress, LITTLE ROCK, Ark., January 2. o young women and a youth were iound dead in an automobile on the Vilonia pike eight miles east of Con- way, when another member. of the wutomobile party, Fred Wallock of little Rock, staggered to the maln lighway and hailed a passing car. \vallock appeared in a dazed con- ditlon from cold and exposure. The dead are Annic Mae Balley of North Little Rock, Miss Dovey Woods, student at a_business college here, nd Ernest Mann of Little Rook. hey are believed to have Leen frozen eath, EASTERDAY’é SENTENCE BACK WITH APPROVAL Stock Broker's Appeal for Review by Highest Court Denied and Prison .Tem Confirmed. The United States -Supreme Court having refused to review the action ~f the Court of Appeals of the Dis- trict of ~Columbia, which affirmed 1he convietion of Wilen W, Easterday, former stock broker and assoclate of Jules, alias Nicky, Arnstein of New York, the appeliate tribunal today sent its mandate to the criminal court pproving the sentence of three years on the forgery charge bf which Yasterday was convicted about two veare ago. Easterday surrendered be- tore Justice Hitz in Criminal Division 1 and was committed to jail. The case in which Wasterday was convicted with Arusteln and others for bringing portions of the $5,000,000 stock robberfes of Wall street Washington for hypothecation with local banks, is pending in the Court of Appeals. ' Easterday's sentence in at_case I8 for tv'o ycars in the peni- tentiary, = court ntending that his 4the alley slums of the National Capi- {of New York, chalrman of the Senate |afternoon {5lums of New York; that they constl- jtuted & menace to the health of the | United States paid $68.37 in ; . 18258,034,001 " ___THE EVENING Alleys Here Are Worse Than Slums Of New York, Says Senator Copeland Menace to Health and Morale and Peril From Fire Seen in Tour of Section—Action in Congress Promised. A determined effort to clean up|len B. McDanlel, member of the civillan advisory board of the geneial staft of the Army. Hounes Are Dilapidated. Many of the alley dwellings visit- ed were dilapidated with refuse plled near them. They were dark. dirty for the most part, many of them overcrowded and il smelling. On_ clotheslines near the dwellings dangled clothes put out to dry, and enator Copeland called attention to ct, s aington did mot realize to what dangers of infection they made them- selves access'ble through having tal is to be made by Senator Copelund District subcommittee charities und hospltals. ‘opelund spent three hou on health, Senator ¥ erday Inspecting personally the alley dwellings of the District, which Congress for ¥ears has souxht to legtslate out of existence without success, The New York Senutor declared after his trip through the alley slums that the condlitions hLe had found ‘here were worse than in the | Mrs. Hopkins sald that what she wanted to 4o was to gradually the alloy dwellers out of their in- nitary homes and into clean houses constructed in some other Section of the cfty. Possibly this should a ¢, she sald, in groups of 1,000 It has been estimated t ashlugton’s alley population runs high s 14,000. Mrs. Hopkins referred to the im- morality which such living condi- ton# induce. colored children born in these alleys, sho declared was Hlegltimate, - Fors thermore, she sald, the tuberculosis death rate in the alleys is nearly deuble the normal rate. Compnres With Europe. ntire city. He said that he would ask the District Commissioners to come before his committee and en- deavor to ascertain just what addi- tional authority was needed by thew | to meet the alley situation. “I thought New York had slums,” sald Senator Copeland, "but condi- tions in the .alleys far worse than any 1 have ever scon. Befo becoming nator, Mr. nd was health commissioner of York. Sees Peril to Health. always thought” he Washington Rut to have s | Capital City is not only on our nation, but also a da jlife. The law’ of commion ser you that you have here a firs and a brecding place f plague and oth: Kious dlse: | Senator trip th {the alleys yesterday I by Mrs. Archibald Ho a long time ha | the plan to repluc ings with model ho: Mrs cre could be compared to the worst slums in Buropean citles. If it is possible to bulld a_cathedral here, {costing $10,000,000, she said, it should 2 possible to cleun out these alleys a cost of $1,000,000 or so. Logan urt was described us one of the worst of the alleys visited by the party yesterday. The District jafl by . continued, | city. was visited also enator Copeland yesterday. He nd the living conditio there sanitary and the institution well rested in |k, pt, though he criticized the practic ell- fof ~keeping prisone destin eral penitentiaries there u; nough were on hand to fill a car. Representative Rathbone of 11lino! ber of the House District ng a deep inte the alley 1 Cop Copeland, Mrs, aciates Archibald Jd: Cha vl etvil and the Hopkins in this luded Mrs. 2lug Lcavice Anne ul nd in the $68.37 PER CAPITA | MISS BALL TAKES PAID INTAXES IN 1922 ‘GREAT WOMAN’ PRIZE | Federal Government Alone Takes $29.47 From Every Man, Woman and Child. Submits Winning List of 25 of Virginia's Greatest Char- acters Not Living. Every man, woman and child in the | t cs in 1922, collected by the natlonal, state, county and city governments, and all other civil divisions having power to levy and collect ta Taxes col- lectsd In 1922 amounted to $7,433.- 081,000, the census bureau announced today. Federal government taxes collected In the fiscal year beginning July 1. 19 amounted to $3,204,133,000, | ment was almost five times the! The conte unt collected in 19 Tho per |&reatost w, { Columbla ha. o mwny {but no entries will he r Miss Mary Ball of Waynesboro, Va., of $30 In gold for th est Virginla women anot now livin Mrs. Clarence Crittenden Calhoun prestdent of the Women's Universal Alliunce, announced last night. The award will be presented to Jilss Ball by Gov. Trinkle st u speclal meeting fn Richmond the first week in Feb- ruary, according the announce- to for twenty-five of District 2 cloged, Au. W from whi taxes came iwere: duties, $362,189,000; incéme i tax. $1, 090,000; internal revenus | tax on circulation of na- s, 24,304,000, and federal rve franchise taxes, $10,861,000. 5 Taxes collected by other than the |28 Virgini federal government totaled $4,228,- ' Poca 948000, or an average.of $38.90 for |FEvelyn B each person. General property taxes | Lynn Lewis, the pioncer; Mary Dra- were $3,329,380.000, or 78.7 per cent [Per Ingles and Polly Moore of Abb of the total. Specfal taxes, including | Valley. revolutionary herolnes; Mar- the District - s submitted by Mise Ball cluded he Queen of - Pamunkey; t 1 of Westover; Margaret af | revolutio mothe: Heath 7 and will continue until February 11, Wil result in a cash award of $500 for the best poster, $200 in cash for the' second best and $100 for the third prize. A cash award of $100 Will be paid to the person submitting the most appropriate slogan. REPRESENT 33 STATES. | Editors to Witness Navy Maneu- vers in Southern Waters. One hundred. and nine editors of newspapers In thirty . three states have accepted invitatlons from iNavy department to witness the naval 'maneuvers of the United States fleet (in southern. waters about the middle of next month. They Wwill make the trip on the transport Henderson, sail- ing from Charleston February 10, Secretary Denby will be the official %, Secretary. of the host of the party and will be asaisted W avs (o9 R re) Interlor, to 0! meir. entertainment by sersro show cause February 15 why a writingya] officers including - probably of mandamus should not be lssucd Rear Admirals Schofleld and Robison, against him to compel the adjudica- Capts. Cotton ans ackford, and Lieut. Heffernan of the Nav: tion by him of a clalm of the Pacific IMER" G Tejeune. of Cthe” Sanng Tungsten Company of Lovelock, Nev. | Corps. The company clalms that the award of $92.590.01 made by the commission @oes not include the losses ‘on the pur- chage of real estate and leases, The latter amounts to $287.481, it Is claimed, and the court is asked {o require the Secretary to take jurisdiction of this claim and pass on it. The ' company, through Attorneys Leslle C. Garnett and John F. Davis, declares that in May, 1918, it was re- quested by the Department of In. terfor to produce tungsten for war purposes and that in compliance therewith ‘the company bought and leased certain mineral lands aggre- gating in value $312,300. The question of its losses under the act of May 2, 1919, was referred to the rellef com. mission, it is stated, and that com- mission’ July 22, 1930, recommended to the Secretary of the Interior the payment of §92,690.0L » inheritance, income, ete., contributed | Ball, mother of « shington poll tax 9,190,000; | Janc Randolph Jefferson, nother of licenses and permits, $408,797,000, and | Thoma: Sargh Wins special asscesments, 320 1000, mother of Patr. state governments collected | TRomson Masen, 1435,000 In taxes, mn i o of | Ma etty per cent over 14 the countie cted $742,331.000, an increase of 151 per cent: cities and o corporated places collected $1,627,529,- Lee, 000, an increase of about 50 per cent; | Capt. Sall townsalps collected ' $151318,000; | garct Jun * Broc school districts. §738,433,000, ‘and ali | enbrough Marian Harland: other civil aivisions, $102,069,000. Mary Baldwin of Staunton; Rebekah Dulaney Peterkin: _AMrs. Joseph Bryan; Mrs. Roger A. Pryor; PRESIDENT coNFERs Meade' Valentine and Sadle Cabaniss. WITH 6. 0. P. LEADERS| WILL SELECT WINNERsS. Hilles, Lanstrum and Leavitt Dis. | 51X t0 Judge Grade Crossing Con- 3 : = test Entries. cuss Situation at White Selection of six men experienced in House. transportation and allled problems to determine the winner of the con- test of the American Rallway Asso- President Coolldge dlseussed politics | clation to obtain the best poster and today with Charles D. Hilles, republican fl:—“z{'c rl?xr'p{w\:“m" of :rudt]e cross ; Vow cldents was announced today natlonal committeeman from New | . SO 000 (WO8 Suicunced toduy York, and Dr. O. M. Lanstrum and| C. ¢. McChord, member of the In- Representative Scott Leavitt of Mon- | terstate Commerce Commission: . i G. Tylor, Lincoln, Neb., president of - - the Natlonal Assoclation of Railway Committeeman Hilles discussed the| and Utilities Commissioners: T political situation generally through- G;e D'(_&m;_‘h»l C;h;;rtlzov Cnrvsl?‘emcaf : % > a ety ' Council; Col out the country, whilo the two Mon- | (i ries Cilfton, Buftalow a5 ipro tana party leaders confined them-|dent of the National Automenie selves to their own section. They also ’C‘g:‘n;be‘l;e;f ‘_Co';m?tmev fod H. A 3 . ve, A ork city, chalrman of took up with the President the mat- | 1o committee on prevention of Hghs ter of filling the vacant federal' way crossing accldents of the Ameri. Jjudgeship in the Montana district. can Rallway Association. Dr. Lanstrum, a newspaper pub-|, The coutest, which opened January lisher of Helena, was recently elected national committeeman at a special meeting of the republican state cen- tral committee of Montana, which ac- tion 18 now being contested before the republican national committee by ©O. H, T. Shelley, the present national committeeman, Who 13 now in Wagh- ington. Secretary of the Navy Denby took up with the President some depart- mental matters, one of them relating to the present features of the athletic contest conducted by the fleets of the Navy. SECRETARY WORK CITED IN WAR CLAIM CASE Justice Siddons of the District Su- preme Court today cited Hubert —_— -CHARGES SUPPRESSION. Complaint Filed Against Retail Fuel Dealers, A complaint charging coal dealers allied with the California Retail Fuel Deglers’ Assoclation, fts eight local organizations and thirteen wholesale or producing organizations in_the coal business in Californta and Utah with suppressing competition was is- sued today. by the:Federal Trade Com- mission. The complaint charged . the con- cerns and persons named with at- tempting to shut off the supply of coal to co-operative purchasing en- terprises “or to non-member retail dealers in the.same trade, ving that residents of' thelr clothes washed in such places. get} One out of every two | Ledyard said that the alleys . of twenty-five of the great- | ‘loll of | Lila | the | STAR, WASHINGTON;--D: -T DEMOCRATS PRESS TEAPOT OIL SSUE National Committee to Make Special Appeal to Woman Voters in Controversy. | 2 { An announcement by the democratic national committee today shows that | this organization is intent upon mak- ing the lease of the Teapot Dome ofl flelds @ major issue in the coming presidential campaign and will allege scandalous acts upon the part of of- fictals of the republican administra- tion. The democratic national' committee Is understood to percelve in the leas- ing of the Navy's oil reserve an op- | portunity to make political capltal {for the party of the highest (m- | vortance. In connection with the ! current statement democratic leaders in House and Senate will set about to secure legislation at once cancel- ! ing the lease of the oll flelds to the | Stnelair interests. The democratic national committee Proposes to work especlally among the woman voters of th land. sup- o 1 to be deeply interested in con- ation. The committe, ending. ut today a forty. ve page printed «mphlet entitled The Lands Ye Possess; Who Shall Administer Thern,” written by Marion Bannister. Scope of Pamphlet. All the information brought out Ly the senatorfal committee investi- gating the Teapot Dome leasc i in- corporated In the pamphlet un to the date of Senator Walsh's vi-dt to Florida. when he obtained admission from Edward B. McLean, newsphper publisher, and former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, that the $100.000 cash which Fall fn 1921 took With him from Washington to N Mexico to iucre Lis western holdings had not been loun by Mr. McLean, #s he h ' I previcus testimony {the committec. Aduitional news {the hearlngs are published in {Fortnightly Bulletin issued at de |eratic heddquarters for the benefit jof the w vuters of the coun- ot t a statement uily Newell Blair, vice chairmin of the democratic national commmittee. in which she says: Says Women Are Interested. 1 | pecial departments for the study [of conservation exist in every Ilim\:n B has b { whic {of woms peech of in the United States ary 16, in which he demand- ed prosecution of the pub iants dealing with the nation’s naval reserves I “For #ing that this would be lof the issues which would be of g impor ots, we had prepared und distrioute 1to thousands of wom clubs wnd 1 dividual voters a complete history the conservation movement. The su Ject makes an especial appeal to women because of their natural Interest in safeguarding the interests of their chi Aren and children’s children. . incorporated in t . showt that under democratic br “caslve-republican adr ons policy of cons n lourished, 1t has inevitably fa forced under old guard adn fate Jan at wator Cara: United prese tration has been leasing a ritizens their naval lessary to the ofi-burning battleships, a betrayal of the nation on a parity fwith™ the attempt of Bemedict Arnold, during the revolutionary war, to turn jover to the British a fortress upon the {Hudson river.” B 'FIGHT REFEREE SHOT. ASSAILANT ESCAPES Police Believe Affair Aftermath of Leonard-Mitchell Match in Chicago. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, = January ~—David (“Davey”) Miller, boxing and wres- tling referee, restaurateur, politician and veteran “first nighter,” and, ac- cording to the police and newspapers, gangster and rum runner, was shot and probably fatally wounded as he left a theater last night, as an out- growth of trouble, the police say, dating back to the Benny Leonard- iPinkey Mitchell boxing match here |May 30 ast His~ brother Max wus slightly ’woumled. a silver belt buckle de- flecting a bullet that barely broke the skin, Has Fair Chance. | Davey Miller was rushed to a hos- ipital and an operation performed fm- mediately to remove & bullet from |his abdomen. Early today it was sald he had a fair dhance for recov- er: Teave. this to me” he sald shen the police questioned him regdrding the {dentity of the man who shot him. Max also was reticent. Four other bullets fired by the un- known gunman flattened against the itheater facade as patrons in evening !dress who had attended the opening jof “Give and Take” scurried for cover. Several women . fainted, and in the excitement the gunman and his companfons escaped by melting into the crowd. Decixion Ended Boxing. The riot precipitated by Miller's de- cision as referce of the Leonard- Mitchell fight ended boxing in Chi- cago, where it had been dead legally since the Gans-McGovern fakea score |ot years ago. As the tenth and final round was !near its end, Mitchell and then Leon- fard ‘motloned to the other'to ‘“‘come |in and take a chance.” The next in- tstant Mitchell was down from a |Leonard right-hander. Leonard struck |another blow and the fight was end- ted, Miller officially stopping it. i difterence of opinion arose and led to a ring full of fighting men, with a {dozen or more fights throughout the arena. Backers of the Milwaukee boxer contended Leonard's last blow Iwas delivered before Pinkey had left Ithe floor. RS ther angles belng investigated by the police include Max Miller's con- nection with & saloon Killing in| which Sailor Friedman, lightweight pugilist, also was involved,.and for Which a2 Jjury exonerated' both; -a gangsters’ war, rum-running and strife among .the owners of ‘a taxical company. —_—— ASKS STREET PAVING. Bill Provides for Improvement of Belmont Road. Provision for paving, grading and otherwise improving Bemont road be- tween Massachusetts avenue and 24th street, at an expense not to exceed $25,000, s made in‘a bill introduced today by Chairman Langley of the House committec on publlc buildings snd grounds. s A 2 . ance and interest to woman vot- | an action which, he sald, l\eunnsldflrn}’ i 1 Al functions and- activities and by in- MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1924, 17 THE MICROPHONE FOR RECORDING INSECT TALK. —BY WEBSTER. How' SRE HAVIM 2 2-FINE! THA'S GooD-FUMMY WEATHER WE AflAS:fYWELL,HW GOES IT? OH, PRETTY Wi 79':‘ ) UNTRY WILL EET A SANE, BUSINESS AV;;::.SWT‘\;:“{F? . o { — WELL 1E IT AINT OLD WIGGL €t ‘now‘ Lolint ARG\:::: ?loff.’ OM, $0.- SO « HOW GOES IT WATH vou? OH,\ Can'T even_\'::f—'n‘e WORLD To-OAY 1S CONFRONTED WITH AN Alnvzl‘wmc ‘s:::.‘mvvou ANMD LET'S 60 Yo THE MAUVE MAGGOT, THEY VG D ARE ‘ v THERE THAT WHAT WE NEE f:;:; -'s,cczzfi«o:;:frsu.inws. INSECTS ARE COMFUSING LIBERTY WiTH — we c TAXE 5 LAST YEAR WERE EMSE AMD WELL, MY, - ‘;Ez"s‘ BEINE THE HIGHEST TYPE OF LIFE EVOLVED THUS FAR ,\T 'NAYUEA\:LY FoLLow S THAT=— ON THE OTHER HAn_ov,uTeeAYufeoAz_o ‘:n-r 1M THIS COMMERCIAL AGE ARE Deeeuevznvmr\:zmwiou ~ | WAS OFF MY GAME THis AFTERMOOM , NOW LAST WeEEK ] 1 WEMYT AROUMD IM e WHAT'S Goim G To BE DoME WITH Lo, EDOIE! AT IT7 fLL s ELECTE D THE Co THE CHILOREM OF To-DAY ? THEY RE HEADED STRAIGHT f:it PERDITIONM! WHEM | WA'S Youn G WeLe, \ Sag TOo BOLLWEEUIL ONLY LAST NMIGHT ~ ¢ THE HI6H CO\SY OF. LIVING %EEPS 1S THAT SO7 YA-AS,THAT'S SO. WELL , I'LL TUST SIMPLY KMNOCIK YOUR —— LOOK AT OUR ORAMA TC-DAY ! WHY, MO SELF RESPELTING INSECT COULD SAY, HERE'S ONE THAT WA S NEw To ME! STOP Me IF YOM'VE HEARDUT, IT SEEMS THAT A Mo SQUITO My DEAR! Don'T TELL ME AMABEL MARRIED THAT AWFUL JSO0E BEETLE ! Lefore | T wenE FRRSE PN Water Beetle Most Voracious Of Cannibals, Investigation Shows RUSSIAN ORPHANS’ ODYSSEY NEAR END {Larvae of Family Eat Each Other Until Only One!Four Remains—W ill Attack and Kill Fish Several Times Their Own Size. Million of Hungry Wan- derers Rounded Up and Given Shelter. The results of a scientific study of | near the vital “one of the flercest of creatures | Blood 1o ave just been announc v # 1 by the|ya bureau of fisherfes here. The water | the bectle, 11 drop._its v in the sume w number of 0 buffalo n odys- bands of * haned ch number- L fry way g i in artifi Tavorite fooc ¥ old 1 found floating on the sunny | = of any small pond, emerges the examination a convicted and murderer, who can hardly be dup world despite his r and i th ans of defensc little Form Food for Fixhe: beetles themselves a favorite food for ti Birds, toads and snakes ) dev them in durge numbe The insects seldom are seen on larger bodies of water, preferring amp por quict it he swim, i of large distan vm one pond to { other at n mietimes a seen in s around clectric ligh Washington on sprit enings. | Both the larva and t Leetle breathe under . ar first Lowever, they have developed ap for” breathing. in air. They re hatclied out in the mud (ftensive sppearance. Even heforo birth these heetles eat cach other. One pecies, study showed, spins a cocoon in which are deposited about 100 cggs. When these hateh the tiny larvae begin their warfare, und there is no pause in the cannibalistie feast until ¥ remains. The firet question for settlement with them is the enrvival of the fittest, Scme Eaten fn Cocoon. the larvae of ore ther, Russia® i Httle children. I rounded up in th uthoritis * provid mes and institutions conducte the mmissariats for public and public home tained ring u ion have two vear. when not dif 1 for we pur mi in't on Some . ar Lefore other f deter them an find cach oth ments a number specimens were iut off In wire chambers, the tobs | coxcess of rainy weather proves {of which projected several inches| The experiments on . swhich {from the water. 1In the night the|bureau isolated larvae climbed over the wire | sfons i P . d life two brot) In the experi- usy o third of the tering child now become cne of the chief internal problems o the soviet authorities, The task of liguid lem of child homeicssn time has been placed by the all-Rus slan central executive committ highest governing body the kncwn as the committee for amellor- *he conditions of child life. , former head of the ssion of the ng this prob. for some were conducted_ by (¢ and ate one another just the same, 8o | Branch Wilson, « Massachuset! that unly a single specimen was left | teacher, at the overnment hatel in_ the maorning. | erles at Fairport, Towa. Pond fish Some of the larger specles, known | culture, a growing industry in the as water tigers, attack smaller fish | United States, it is stated, demands fearlessly and sucoessfully. One will |a thorough knowledge of the habits seize a fish by the throat and plunge | of tho insects and their relations to ite powerful mandibles into the flesh | fish. BILL FOR EDUCATION MARYLAND'S WEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE SHOWS BIG INCREASE Chairman of Houge Committee Pro- %Cennus Reveals It Is 80.8 Per Cent poses Establishing New | Greater in 1922 than "Department in 1912, habilitator, is chairman of t E te ,tion for getting tone He is known to mean wi and to insiet that orders arc ord land must Le carried out | engaged in this work with Djers Jsky-is President Kalinin himself, Bu is upon the 1 t the children ia rests, th vossible, 1 Job of gathering n_ wh restoration wherk £uch home till in exi and ¢ Dificulties Pointed Out. ! The children’s commissi fealled onge more to the " tboth Russia and the w ties and problems of i !for the aims of th th national and cope. Kalinin, himself a knowing little of the of Russia, addr I peasunts of his poignanily simple brevity 4% remin Abraham Lincoln, the soviet president appealed to every childless family to adopt an orphan. Where th ible or impracticable suc pleaded, should pay to the ernment the sum required upkeep of one orphan. “Peasants and workers of Rus: President Kalinin said in this m: festo, “with your efforts the appall- ing problems of Hussla’s children must be met. The little orphans, th homeless, sick, hungry children must be given some sort of physical and mental seccurity. Thelr crying needs must be met. s must be educat- ed: they rought up to be honest and decent people N substantial fund in money, provisions and ar ticles of clothing, a fund which will enable us to increase the number of our children’s homes and schools.” DAKOTA BANK CLOSED. Heavy Withdrawals Cause of Directors’ Action. MITCHELL, S. D, January 21.—The Western National Bank, with a cap- ital stock of $100.000 and deposits of $426,000, was closed this morning by the board of directors. Depleted reserve, due to heavy withdrawals, was given as the reason for the closing. WILL TAKE RECESS. { fieat @ and pare parent to The establishment of a department of education and welfare “for the purpose of protecting and promoting the cducation, health and social wel- farc of the peéple of the United United States” is proposed in a bill tntroduced today by Chairman Dal- linger of the House committee on education. This provides for a new cabinet of- with a salary of $12,000. The bill stipulates that there shall be I tge proposed new department four divisions, as follows: The division of education, which shall have charge of educational functions and- activities and shall by {investigation, publication and other methods authorized by Congress pro- mote the devélopment of =chools and other educational —and - recreational facilities_for. the. instruction of chil- ydren and llliterate adults, the train- ing of teachers and the Americaniza- tion of those .people in this country who_lack’ knowledge of our language institutions. “"A"dfvision of public health, which {shall have 'charge of the health Principal forms of wealth in Mary- land increaged 80.8 per cept in valuc in the decade between 1912 and 1 from $2,206,760,000 in 1912 to §3 530,000 in 1922, the census bureau a | nounced toddy. Per capita value creased from §1,672 to 32,665, or per cent. Value of all clas creased in the d stock, which decreas 00 to 34 ,000, or bureaun said, Value of erty and improvement to have increased from $1,169,742,000 to $1,719,338,000, or 47 per cent. Exémpt real property increase from 000 to $248,951,000,. or 417 per cent; farm {mplements and_machi- ery from $12,509,000 to $20,007,000 or 159.9 per cent; manufacturing machin- ery tools and-implements, from §: 043,000 to $219,387,000, of 138 per cent, and -railroads and thelr equipment. from $149,116,000 to $183,100,000, or 22.8 per cent. i Privately owned transportation and transmission enterprises, other than railroads, increased in value from $165,625,000 to $257,354.000, or 55.4 per cent. and stocks of goods vehicles, other than motor, furniture and cloth- ing from $403,079,000 to_$1,238.01 in- { \ i i of property in- de, live 04, , the | 1 prop- was estimated fi local gov- for the 3 n, publication and other 4 ':"e:‘"l'fi;‘ofl""gfl and premote public (gg, or 207.1 per cent. No separate health. estimate was made for motor vehicles A division of social service, which 7912, which were estimated to be shall have charge of social Welfar> (aiueq in 1922 at $61,561,000. functlons and activity. wiien” Snmi have chargo. ot the “so!| MONTHLY NATIONAL NOVENA WILL OPEN diers and sailors’ inwrance, compen- u:.flon, rehabilitation and pension ‘he monthly national novena in hu’ln‘or of Blessed Teresa, “the Little fons." O en Givision would be in tharge er,” will begin tomorrow even- g‘!;w“ 7:30 o'clocK in_thé Carmelite of an assistant secretary. e e Shrine of the Little Flower, 200 T street northeast. HINES TO MAKE REPORT. The Carmelite Fathers will conduct Investigation of New York Vet- the exercises and the Franciscan Sis- P jure: 3 el Bt Complates tors of the Atonement at the Retreat Investigation of charges and coun-! goyce are in charge. Vigil or ‘,ou‘_(_i ter-charges - involving officers and lamp.-‘wl‘l‘lmtsn:nau;ilm nn;lo "ifia}:}en‘:‘ employes of the New York office of | TLEESCR, \CL ritions sent to the the Veterans' Bureau has boen com- | ggtors will be placed on “the Little pleted and a declsion by Dircctor Flower's” altar and prayed for dal: Hines I» expected in & few-days. An Devotions of the octave of prayer inspection of tite office Tecently was| for church unity, which originated ordered:as a result of alleged drink- with the Saclety of the Atonement, Inz-parties. - = Given as sion Jan. 28 to Feb. 18. The Supreme Court announced, today that it would recess from January 2% to February 18, will bg conducted each evening, home- | in Russia, in | hands of a special commission, | Supreme Court to Be Out of Ses- | TFRENEN DROWN N TANK OF 01 !Ladder Breaks, Chemical Fumes Overcome Men in Pittsburgh Blaze. | i i | ! { | H By tie | “rrrr | Seven n { captains | Pittsbures fig plant of th I pany today ered after th under contro! unestimated { The deaa « | capt oriated Pres SURGH n were two wned in ofl and of fir Atla The f Ru. in th when t fell int tinguisher i the héa covered | deterr pany, & NEW YORK UNIT RULE OPPOSED BY MC ADOO Candidate Wants Democratic Dele- gates Free to Vote Individ- ually If Smith Is Out {will be m the st | Mille fa un imen: that it would viola lemocratic state pia lared for direet p Miljer doulite tfe rin AT BACARAT IN PARIS Gen. De Bettenc in Phenom urt Breaks Clnl al Streak mor tencourt | run of whie - nd that of ti When De Bettencourt joined the cl rt in rather light and frienc ngie pl than but after the ccessi il i 2 F STREET STORES VISITED BY ROBBERS !Safes Cracked at Kafka's and at i Quality Boot i i isome time vesterd: and about $00 About t * amount i taken from the Qu Shop, 1218 ¥ street, ked the safe there One hundred and of gasolfue was reporte a filling station of the Penn Oil | pany, Good Hope road and Ala lavenie southeust. Robert I ford, manager of the ed to_the police th been broken and the out. Two attempted ro {on two & R. ¥ gla, othed {Maram. In both were frigh se Policemen Antos arrested Howard J street, who, it Is alleged, cli ing out of rear window CABINET FOR REPUBLIC. {Report to Go to Greek Assembly Soon, Papers Say. Associated Press Januar: according (o the decided to report to the embly recommendations favoring a republic. The erted, is opposed to . which it holds the evils {n the in mone 1if : pumy jerics were made one of Charle In the first and Ashton By the ATH feabinet ipers, ha [ nattonat virtually cubinet, it is as & monarchical reg is the cause of al country. The recommendatione, the papers ay, will be presented Wednesdaga —The Greck Athens pa-