Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1924, Page 17

‘ rated by former students of the pub- . lio schools. PANAMA CANAL ZONE'S PERI senting the “perfect child trophy” to Miss Pe FECT CHILD WINS A LOVING CU! earl Brown of the Red, White and Blue swimming team, at Mrs. J. J. Morrow, wife of the governor of the Panama Canal Zone, pre- the Balboa pool. Mrs, Morrow has been untiring in her efforts to build health among the Zone employes of the United States government, and srecial efforts have been made along the particular DECORATED WITH THE ORDER de Mora, minister to Mexico from Peru (at left), who presented Presi dent Obregon of Mexico with the the honor coming from the President of Peru. gon’s Mexico City palace. 'HONOR JEFFERSON - IND.C. TOMORROW Public Schools to 'Join int Monticello Move- | ment. Thomas Jefferson day will be cele- ‘brated tomorrow in the public schools, in oconformity with the recent order of the board of education, at the re- quest of the National Monticello As- sociation, as a part of the campaign for the $50,000 memorial fund to pur- chase Monticello as a national shrine. Appropriate exercises will be held, ‘with special instruction by the teach- ers on the life and character of ‘Thomas Jefferson, statesman and edu- wvator, and founder of the public school &ystem of the District of Columbia. An “in memoriam” fund has been started by five mothers in the Force School, in honor of the children of the ‘Washington schools who have died, and another fund has been inaugu- Special Spoakers in High Schools. In the high schocls tomorrow spe- eial speakers will be sent by the Na- tional Monticello Association. They will include five men prominent in national life and five prominent ‘'women associated with the Monticello fund. Thomas Sim Lee will announce ihe names of the men this afternoon. The women to speak are: Mrs. Minni- zerode Andrews, Central High School rs, Albert N. Baggs, Easter: foward Hodgkins, Business; tchard Parker Crenshaw, Technical; Mrs, Rose Gouverneur Hoes, Western Later in the month the parent- ccacher associations will hold a big joint morning meeting for children in one of the largest theaters, when the children’s gift to Monticello will be received formally. 55 DESCENDANTS LEFT BY VIRGINIA VETERAN | John W. Taylor, Eighty, Soldier in ! Civil War, Dies at Colonial Beach. Word has been received here of the recent death of John W. Taylor, cighty years old, a Confederate vet- eran, at Colonial Beach, Va. Vuneral services were held at the onial Beach Baptist Church March ! Rev. G. 3. Connelly, a former pas- | or of the church, officlated. He was ted by Rev. Mr. Craig, pastor of Methodist Church at Colonial uch. Interment was in the family hurying ground, near Monroe Hall, &, . o Mr. Taylor was a half-brother of the late Capt. G. Allensworth, who served as a representative of Caroline “ounty in the Virginia house of dele- zates for a mumber of years. Mr. Taylor enlisted in the Confederate Army at the age of sixteen. He took line of swimming. OF THE SUN. Senor Leonicio G ANCIENT CARVINGS FOUND IN director of the N: decoration of the Order of the Sun. Photo taken in Obre- Wide World Photo. shows one of the “finds.” Price of Radium Now Cut in Half ational Museum of Guatemala, wh ered ancient carvings and sculptures of the Mayas which are considered as fine as anything of the kind in the western hemisphere. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. GUATEMALA. Dr. T. T. Waterman. recently discov- Photo Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. 'FAIR SKIES IN VIEW BRINGS VIOLIN TO WASHIN GTON. Miss Olive Belle Hamon, whe arrived in the Capital yesterday to appear before the Senate oil vestigation committee, in behalf of her father, the late “Jake” Hamor:. oil operator. The violin was a gift from the father. 0il affairs in sculpture. This work. “The Teapot Dome,” is being dis- played in the exhibition of the in- dependent artists in New York. It is the work of John Nolan, a milk wagon driver, who refuses to give his address. ‘Wide World Photo. 1 {ACCURACY OF STAR By Discoveries in Belgian Kongo| FOLLOWING STORM| REPORT IS PRAISED OO, ‘ S ———— Samples of Stone Received Here So Rich That It Defies All Competition—Most Precious Mineral $75 a Milligram. The price of radium, the world's most precious mineral, has been cut in two and the mines of the United States, hitherto producers of almost the entire supply, have been put out of business during the past few months. This was made known at the Na- tional Museum here yesterday with the placing on exhibition of radium- bearing stones from the Belgian Kongo, where mines have been opened so rich that they defy competition. The discoveries mean that radium can be purchased for $75 a milligram, whereas the lowest previous price was $150 for the same amount. The milligram is a one-thousandth part of a gram, which in_itself is about one- thousandth part of a pound. The reason for the enormous re- duction in price was clear to Na- tional Museum geologists from the first analysis of the African rock. It contained nearly 50 per cent of uranium, the mineral from which radium is derived. American rock is considered excellent when 2 per cent of this material, which in turn con- tains only a minute per cent of radium, can be obtained. The enor- mous cost of extracting the radium ren & renders impossible any idea of com Heights Citizens. Eliminates All Rivals. Growth' of business in Columbia The few radium deposits elsewhere | Helghts was predicted by Charles J. n the world also will be put out of | Columbus, secretary of the Mer- Rusiness. These exist in Russia. in:chants and Manufacturers' Assocla- Austrian Saxony, in Cornwall, Eng- | : land, and in Madagascar. > ! tion, in an address at a meeting of them ‘compares with - the. Avemgeos : the Columbia Heights Business Men's deposits even. These are principally | Assoclation at St Stephen's parieh mines have farnishod aion& The | the “downtown' section of the city. m e shed employment | the, "dommtown soetion O b esocia- or a considerable number of skilled | Mr. Colun t In the city-wide e kere: sithough little of the final| LB to taks pact ' o8 tfade bet- ¢extraction process has been under-| Mmovements for clvio and trace bets taken herc. This has been done for! torment The association adopted as the most part in European ubom.l Its omcialiinalenls the méad (ot 100 the price for even a few grains, which is scant likelihood, the minerologists say, that any richer deposits will be discovered. ~Many of the popular theories of radium—such as that it constitutes the heating agency of the center of the earth—have been dis- counted and it probably exists quantities only on the surface. Another theory has been that great radium de- posits melted rocks which were dis- charged from the center of the earth as volcanic lava. Will Turn to Lead. A curjous fact is that radlum even- tually tarns to lead, although this does not denote that all lead mines once were radium deposits. Experiments in_specific gravity of minerals have indicated that most lead was formed in some other way, just how is not clearly understood. The National Museum minerologist in charge of experiments with radium bearing stones and other rare min- erals is W. H. Forshag, who has ar- ranged the exhibit. — - SEES BUSINESS GROW. Columbus Encourages Columbia tories where special in umbia in white against a circular available. .7 struments are ! figia of rea and biue. Ten business The largest uranium rock from , irms of Columbia Heights were elect- inueh interest in the Confederate re- unions ot Richmond. He attended all of the gatherings up to the time of his de th. He was a charter member uf the Coionial Beach Baptist Church. He 1 survived by his widow, Mrs, John W. Taylor; nine children, thir- ty-elght grandchildren and eight #wl-grundchildren., % = \ Amon; the superstitious Irish peas- antry ‘riday is regarded a very unlucky day.. The door should never be opened fo a stranger on that day, nor should a cat be taken'from one house to amgthex, Africa received here weigh i ed new members, Col.'C. C. Lancas- Dounds, and, It Is estimatey fOUTLeen | tor Dresided in absence of the presi- slightly over a millegram of radium.| dent, C. J. Van Epps. From this oan bo estimated the im- men: value—! 'or that one chunk . of stone. This rock is made up of | LUSITANIA AWARDS MADE. uranafane, a rather common uranium- = o ] bearing mineral, and soddite, a min- eral found only in the Belgian Kongo. | Claims Commission Allows $37,343 Kept Secret for Years, Aavstcan For several years the richness of 4o Blahteqn Amettoann. the African deposits were a jealously | The German-American Mixed Claims guarded secret. They are controlled | Commission yesterday announded entirely by one Belgian mining com-.awards tolaling $37,343 to eighteen pany. "They were made known only , Americans for loss of property in the recently when everything was in |sinking of the Lusitania. readiness to supply the world with| The awards include interest in each greater quantities .of radium than jcase of b per cent from May 7, 1915. The ever had been dreamed of before. |claimants and their awards are: Dwight The majority of the rook samples |Cariton Harris, New York city, $4000; received here are pitchblende, from Thomas Blideli, Paris, France, $1,750, which radium first was extracted.|and Edwin Martin Coliis, Riverside, IIL. gver, 1s a pale Tmnul“mm;“' other awards, A s not from {331,093, were announced, the largest be- actual amount of this peculiar min- (ing foF $10,000 to Mary I. Osemburs of eral is so small that it can be de- | Fuilerton, Four claims were dis- tected only by the skilled mineralo- | missed. gist. Been to Houpitals. Radium still chiefly is valuable as a healing agency. The boon of the discovery to hospitals all over the world ean hardly ce estimated, sefen- HUals bere claim.’ Huadregs of such institutions have been unable 16 raise | would bring relief to hundreds. There | in | | Weather Bureau, However, Pre- dicts Drop in Local Tempera- ture Tonight. Emerging from the worst storm it has cxperienced in twenty years, Washington may look forward to continued fair weather, but with a falling temperature, the mercury probably dropping to below freezing by tonight, the weather bureau pre- dicted today. The sudden northeaster that whip- ped over the Capital yesterday and the night before, causing the death of one person, slight injuries to many others, crippling communication sys- tems and all but blocking traffic, was roaring seaward over the New Eng- land states today, with unabated fury. Gale Gains Momentum. Instead of losing its terrific velocity, the gale seems to have gained momentum on its journey northward, and Maj. Bowle, the forecaster, sald belicved it would cross the At- lantic into Burope, causing serious interference to liners now at sea. Reports from the morth, he said, in- dicate that other sections_suffered \worse from the storm than Washing- on. The only fatality of the storm in this section was that of Joseph O’'Brien of East Riverdale, Md., who was killed when he fell through the roof of a chickencoop late yester- day while trying to remove the heavy amow from it. Numerous aocidents were reported to the police late yes- terday, due to slippéry streets and socattered debris, but none threatened serious consequences. Damage Repairers at Work. Small armies of men were busy today repairing broken lines of com- munication both in and out of the city. Only one wire was Tte in condition to the west, but the tele- graph companies expected to have several others before nightfall. Hun- dreds of telephone lines are still down in Washington and it probably will be several days before repair arews can restors conditions to normal. Communications with the south have been partially restored and it still 1s possible to keep in touch with the north, although the bulk of traf- fic in that direction is being carried over underground wires. ‘The Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- phone Company estimates its loss during yesterday’s storm as $500,000. They declare that the storm was only rivaled in the amount of tie-up by the storm during the inauguration of President Taft. Fifteen thousand telephones are out of commission in Maryland, with 5,000 poles down. Two thousand tele- phones are out of commission, in the District, 4,000 telephones uséless in Virginia and 2,000 poles down. Two thousand men are working to repair the havoc, some of the men having been imported from other sources. Despite this fact the tele-. phone company declared that it will be a week or ten days before full service will be restored to all the stricken parts. Seme Limes Restored. The lines between Washington, An- napolis and Baltimore have been re- stored and the telephone company expects to resume its service on the eastern shore of Maryland later today. Because of the severity of the storm the telophone company has decided ta e in account proper allowances on the bills of subscribers whose phopes were put out of commission, iBhnwn Says It Gave Exact State of House Bootlegging | Inquiry. The Washington Evening Star was commended at the meeting of the House | District committee today for being the only Washington newspaper to publish the true facts as developed at a hearing yesterday, when B. F. Dorsey was before the committee as a witness. Representative Thomas L. Blanton of Texas today called the attention of the committee to the fact that The Star published the true account of the hear- ing yesterday, and that no testimony was developed showing that any mem ber of Congress or any employe of the House office bu’ 1ng had anything to do with _bootlegs. having been pub- lished at the o..c of Dorsey's arrest that he claimed e was carrying whisky to a member of Congress, and that he was an employe of the House office bul ding. On the floor of the iiouse today, Representative Blanton attacked other Washington newspapers for carrying this story at the time of Dorsey’s arrest and for not telling what was developed at the hearing yesterday. No sych thing occurred, Represent- ative Blanton said. The man was not arrested in front of the House Office bullding, as stated in the newspapers. He was not in the employ of the House Office building, Representative Blanton continued, and had not been in such employ by the House Office building for more than a year. At the | time of his arrest he was drunk, and had been drinking for some days. “After the committee had ascer- tained these facts, we find a Wash- ington newspaper this morning r iterating those charges. The Wash- ington newspapers ought to be more careful in printing such charges, Rep~ resentative Blanton concluded. | AUTO SHOW CROWDED IN SPITE OF BLIZZARD Officials Expect All Attendance Records to Be Broken This Year. Despite one of the worst blizzards in the history of Washington, crowds swarmed to the fourth annual auto- moblle show yesterday afternoon and last night. Convention Hall, although slightly chilly, presented a comfort- iable and inviting appearance to the visitors. Officials of the Washington Auto- motive Trade Arrociation, under whose auspices the show is being held, are of the belief that all attendance rec- ords will be broken this year. All details of local shows have been worked out to such a point that everything moves @as smoothly as clockwork. Exhibits are in booths plainly marked, and the visitor has little trouble finding his favorite car. The accessory show this year fea- tures every known contrivance for the comfort of the motorists. From shock absorbers to cigar lighters, the, exhibit is complete, With clear weather on tap today, & record attendance is expected, with many prospects to be “lined up” for a demonstration “when the show is over,” 25N 1 National Pho NORWEGIA! WHEN ROYALTY GOES IN FOR SPORTS. King Haakon and Queen Maud of Norway and their only child, Crown Prince Olaf, starting for a ski hike at Kongskateren, their winter home near Christiania. The little girl is Maud Nicoleysen, a god-daughter of the queen. Bergen railroad, to take part in the annual meet of the ski jumpers. Eight Field In this day of rapid transit, when the automobile is being used to speed up every line of activity and effi- clency is the watchword of the hour, the building inspectors of the Dis- trict government are still engaged in that health-producing exercise of walking most of the time. Officials of the building offics say that walking is & practical way of inspecting buildings, provided the area assigned an inspector is of a size he can perfectly cover on foot. Unfortunately, however, the build- ing office has only elght men avail- able for fleld work, and when the entire District of Columbia is mark- ed off into eight sections there is | more than a reasonable hiking tour | mapped out for each man. Two Avemues of Relief. i There are two possible solutions to the problem, in the opinion of heads of the building office: vide for | more inspectors, so that the, terri- tories could be made smaller, or give adequate transportation to the pres- | ent personnel. i The building office has no automo- biles available for inspectors and so | limited a fund for street car fare: that inspectors never get morg than ! sixty tokens a month. it is a rule in the District service that annual ap- propriations must be 80 handled tha they will last throughout the twelve months The effect of this regulation is that ; at ce~tain times.of the year the build- | ing office must even shut down on the' distributlon of car tokens, in order to make the allotment last’ for twelve months. Nothing to Do But Walk. ‘When these periods of conservation | oecur the buflding inspectors, with miles of territory before them, set out on nature’s old reliable vehicle of propulsion, which will keep going while the shoe leather holds out. Two of the eight fleld men have their own automobiles, for the use of which Congress allows them $20 & month. The remaining six men are doled out two car tokens a day while the tokens last. Each day they wend their devious paths from the river front to the northern heights of the city, pausing here and there to cast a watchful eve on the skeleton of some mew struc- ture rising out of the ground, and then trudging on to the next job. “Loag, Long Trail” The wanderluster who sets out on a bright Sunday morning for a jaunt through Rock Creek Park has noth- ing on the building inspector who covers a zone from the Mall to Ar- ‘kansas avenue between 7th and 14th streets. Another keeps his muscles limber hiking from New York avenue on the south to the District line on the north, and from Soldiers’ Home on the west to the vicinity of Langdon on the t. K An juall in’ ting walk is that exta u& ram Worth Capitol street to the ‘bragsh, between Men Cover Entire District.| Six Get Car Tokens When Available, Otherwise Use “Shanks’ Mare.” East Capitol avenue, A fourth man takes in the area from Potomac Park to Spring road and west from 14th street to Rock Creek Park. man covers the territory of the Mall southwest and Pennsylvania avenue southeast. The growing sections west of Rock Creek Park comprise another inspec- tion district. One of the two men who use their own automobiles rides through that part of the District beyond the East- ern branch. The other motorist in- spector has the thickly settled area from the Mall to the District line be- tween North Capitol and 7th streets. Washington, for several years, has been enjoying a building boom that has kept the inspection force busy. MOVEMENT TO AID CRITTENTON HOME Mass Meeting at Local Church Sun- day to Be Addressed by Prom- inent Speakers. street and New York In the interest of the Florence Srittenton Home of Washington, D. C. a mass meeting will be held in Cal- ! vary Baptist Church Sunday after- noon at 3:30 o'clock. Justice Fred- erick L. Siddons of the District Su- preme Court will preside, and the fol lowing prominent speakers are listed . Representative La Guardia of New York, “Value of Florence Crittenton Work”; William Hodson of the Rus- sell Sage Foundation, consultant to the commission of public welfare leg- islation of the District of Columbia, “What Can be Accomplished Through ! Legislation for the Protection of the Unmarried Mother and the Child Born Out of Wedlock”; Surg. Gen. Hugh 8. Cumming of the United States health service, “The Value of Florence Crit- tenton Work from a Public Health Standpoint,” and Dr. Kate Waller Barrett, president of the National Florence Crittenton Mission, Larger Work.” Miss Beatrice Seymour Goodwin will be the soloist of the meeting. Rev. Dr. Willlam S. Abernethy, pastor of the church, will deliver the invoca- tion. The committee in charge an- nounces that no collection will be taken, e CUBAN OFFICIAL HURT. 0. G. Jaine, chancellor of the Cuban'| legation, was injured yesterday in an automobile collision at 16th street and Park road. The automobile of which he was an occupant and a truck of an ice cream company smashed into each other and Chancellor Jaine received bruises and , while Cranville Simms of 2209 9th street, opegator of the truck, also was slightly shaken up. “Our | Copsright by Underwood & Underwood TAKING PART IN ANNUAL SKI MEET. This photograph was taken at the railwa; at Christiania, where hundreds of athletes awaited a train to Finse, the highest point on the Ch ni Copyright by Cuderwood & Underwood. Inspectors Forced to ‘Hike’ Miles iWOMEN’S CITY CLUB | Dueto Limitation on Street Fund| A0S WAR ON CANGER | First Unit Organized for Cam- paign—More Committeemen Appointed for Movement. ! The Wom City Club has forme: the first local unit to aid the local ‘mmp:ugn for control of cancer, the District of Columbia committee of | the American Society for the Contre of Cancer announced today. Designated by Mrs. Willlam 1 Chamberlin, president of the club, the unit is composed of Dr. Frances A and Miss Florence Miss Virginia Benjamin, Mrs Lawyer and Dr. Edith Coale It will be in charge of a meeting at the club in the interest of cancer con- trol, at which it is planned to have an expert speak on the disease. Similar units are to be formed ir other organizations here for carrying {on the educational work on which the campaign is based while the move- | ment is in_progress from March 1 |to April 15 In the course of the | month a period will be set aside for |an especially intensive effort. Rev. Dr. Charles T. Warner of &t Alban's parish is one of the new mem- {Other new members announced today |are Miss Flora Henley of the Ludlow | School faculty, who will be in charge of meetings for teachers; Mrs. Amos A. Fries, Rev. Dr. Jason Noble Plerce, pastor of the First Congregationafy Church: Mrs. G. T. Longcope, Mrg James F. Mitchell and Mrs. H. H Kerr. Dr. Plerce informed the cancer |committee he had appointed ~Mrs Albert H. Coster to organize thc !omen of his congregation for the } ture to 1 tin the course of the campaign, anc | will also show the moving picture “The Badge of Courage.” | iCARE OF STUDENTS’ i' VISION IS PROPOSED iSchool Officials to Have Defective Eyes Treated in Early Stages. ' Plans for a campaign to conserie the eyesight of District public schoo! children were outlined at a meeting jof the supervising principals of the several school divisions vesterday {afternoon, at the Franklin School Correction of vision defects in their incipiency is the object. 1, An examivation of vision on a uni- form standard will determine whether the child has an eve defect, and Its ex- tent. Where defects are shown the medical examiner will take charge. If the examination shows the child's vision to be perfect, but the student complains of headaches, red eyes and similar ailments, a speclal medlca test will be made. Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, supervising medical inspector of the schools, and Walter B. Patterson, director of spe- cial schools, pointed out that 80 per cent of a child’s knowledge is taken through the eyes, and otherwise stressed the importance of perfect vision. / Teachers will be furnished 'char: and tests to-conduct the preliminary examination. g