Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1924, Page 16

DENT-ELECT OF MEXICO ON VISIT -Gen. ington. and is welcomed to this DEATH RAY MACHINE IN in any direction. right cont: to the inventor, the ra U..S. RULES WORLD, | BRITON DECLARES <« seere e England’s Sun Is About to " Set, Cecil Roberts Says, in Address. | peake By the Associated P . CHICAGO. that “the ber ant 1.—Declaring of the world | has p ric; hands,"” Cecil Roberts, British war _corre- | spondent and editor of the Notting- ham Journal, in an address yesterday, added: | “All we ask of you is not to act too | hasty As to the fall of the Labor govern- ment of and and the triumph of the Conservative Roberts said | that the Liberal p: 1 his country | “has no future for at jeast 10 vears.' He regretted the defeat of H(TDPTI Asquith, former premier. “You Zoing to have a mew phasc—a phase in which the mental and intellectual will clash with the physical and industrial,” sald. “If they with- God alone can in America | and and America stand as the last two units in the trial of ¢ tion,” he added. “Our ‘England’ is about to set—but it will be a glori- our sunset.” | i FALLS CHURCH FAVORS ' $75,000 BOND ISSUE Special Dispateh to The FALLS CHURCH, Va, —By a vote of 209 to . of Falls Church vesterday approved an issue of $75,000 of bonds for the erection of a 10-room graded school building on the site acquired a vear ago at Washington and Great Falls streets. The issue still has .to be sanctioned by a majority of qualified voters. a special ‘election for which purpose will be held early next month, but the overwhelming vote at yesterday's ection is accepted as as- surance of final approval of the issue. If the issue Is carried in December it will end & 10-year fight for a new school. At threc i elections a prop had Been defeated, ter provision that a two-thirds vote of freeholders was required for sanetion. At the last session of the legislature the charter was amended, making a majority vot of freeholders suffi« cient, and it was under the amended charter that yesterday's election was held. There was no_organized op- position yesterday. The only doubt in the minds of proponents of the bond issue had been as to ‘whether a .sufficient number of freeholders could be gotten to .the polls for an election which was unopposed. The charter requires that at least 50 pet cent of the freeholders must vote to make an_ elxtion valid. There were @5 freholders on the official list, 8o @e 225 who voted made a comfort- @ble margin over the necessary half. November 1 4 freehol N. J., November 1.—In re- sponse to a’challenge of “céme and get me,” from Abel Jones, Norfolk, Va., @ riveter atop the Delaware River Bridge tower, 350 feet high, Howard Smith, Camden detective, yesterday ascended in the crude “elevator”’ used by the workmen, and arrested Jones on a warrant charging non-gupport of his wife and three children in Norfolk. s frecholders’ | hool bonds | but under a char- | | TELEPHONE RATE | | Special Disps | Following vibrations i T OPERATION AT NIGHT—First photograph of H. Grindell Mat- thews' device at work on a dark night, while endeavoring to find supposed enemy aircraft. tor in foregroup is mounted on heavy porcelain base and contains induction motor. The energy of a series of electri through the beam of light to the aircraft when located, thus causing destruction. s a night telescope and numerous batteries in connection with the large drum. now capable of reaching a distance of 3,000 feet.. Projec- It can be revolved sent from the cabin on the right The cabin on the According Copyright by Underwood & Underwood INCREASE DELAYED mission Order on Advise " of Gov. Ritchie. | ch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., November 1. a conference late vester- | between officials of the Chesa- and Potomac Teléphone Co. and Gov. Ritchie, in which the Go ernor said the company would make a big mistake by putting the in-| creased rates in effect before hearing by thé Public mission was finished, ‘notwithstand- ing its legal right to do so under the decision of Judge Stein. President A. Berry was summoned from Wash- ington and two hours before mid- night notified the commission the company would abide by its order to defer the increase until January 1, 1925, J In withdrawing the new schedule the company announced it would be put into effect on the first of the year _irrespective of whether the hearing before the Public Service Commission and the valuation of the | company’s property was finished at| that time. . | Gov. Ritchie today was' the recipient | of hundreds of telephone calls and wires from all over the State con- gratulating him on his success in de- | laying the increased telephone rates. PLAN $60 000 THEATER. Hyattsville Business Men Purchase Site on Boulevard. HYATTSVILLE, Md.. November 1 (Special).—The Hyattsyille Amusement Company, Inc., the directors of which are local business men, has bought prop- erty on the Washington-Baltimore boulevard and will erect a motion: pic- ture theater at a cost of ‘about $60,000. 1t will be a modern, fifeproof building, about 50 by 150 feet, containing two stories and basement. The main audi- torium on_the first floor will seat about 700. There will be a lobby 14 by 30 feet, with a store room 18 by: 30 feet on each side. The second floor will con- tain @ reception.room, a rest room for women, a smoking room for men and a gallery with 250 seats. STRIKE IN PORTUGAL. Soldiers Callgd to Restore Order in Factory Town. 1ASBON, November 1.—Riots and disorders accompanied a ‘24-hour strike by workers of the large indus- trial center, of Guimaraens, North Portugal, in protest against the low- ering of wages 20 per cent, because of the rise in exchange, ‘Two bombs were exploded and one of the factory ownar's houses raided and his furniture destroyed. Military rule was proclaimed, the ringleaders arrested and quiet restored. day Lieutenant to Be Named. A compétitive examination will be held among applicants from the 29th Military Police Company for commis- sion as second "lieutenant in that company. ‘The examination will be conducted in academic and military subjects. General _suitability and recommendations of company com- mander and instructers - will weigh ‘equally with the examinatioh men- tioned aBove’ in ‘the -seléction of a successful candidate, according to an announcement made by Gen. Anton Stephan. DROUGHT REGORD OF NATION BROKEN. | Different Cities Report on| Dry Spell of Month—Some Pray for Rain. By the Associ RIDG s November 1.—A prayer for rain was offered last night by residents of Marienville, Bk County, as a result of forest fires that have been burning in the section. One fire was reported ¥ have burned 20 acres of timber near the head of Wagner Run, and trains on the private railways of the Wheeler and Dusenberry and the Central Pennsylvania Lumber Com- pany have bcen forced to cease opera- tions. No Rain in Month. NEW ORLEA November Drought_records for New Orleans 1874 were shattered when the Weather Bureau announced last night that the month of October had closed without a drop of rain. The same condition existed in October, 1847, and the nearest approach to the zero mark was in_October, 1886, when only .22 of an inch was recorded. The entire State has been suffering through the summer, a total of only 5.56 inches of rain having fallen since July 1. The normal rainfall for the period is 18.84 inches. 107-Year Record Broken. BOSTON, November 1.— October closed with a record of being the driest month here but one in 107 years. Only 6-160 of an inch of mois- ture fell. the cumulative result of three traces of raln early in the == | month. Dryest in History. NEW YORK, November 1.—October ‘was the dryest month in the history of the local Weather Bureau. It rained on only one day during the month, and in that instance the rain- fall amounted to but 30-100 of an inch. Tempest Sweeps Coast. PARIS, November 1.—Several days of unseasonably - mild and rainy weather culminated yesterday in a tempest of unusual violence, which did much damage along the channel and Atlantic coasts. Fishing boats were obliged ‘to remain in port, and many coastwise services were sus- pended. A cargo steamer and .a pilot boat were driven ashore in. the Boulogne roadstead. Country Inundated by Rain. SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Sal- vador, " November 1.— Heavy rain- storms, which have lasted for the last five days, are reported from Nica- ragua. Rivers are overflowing, wash- ing away railroad tracks in many places and paralyzing communica- tions generally., Trees have been up- rooted. crops destroved and many cattle have been drowned. EX-EMPRESS ZITA SUES. MADRID, November 1.— Former Empress Zita of Austria, who has made her home than two years, has brought charges againsty a German jeweler named Menevell, a resident of Madrid, “for tllegal retention of Austrian imperial crown Jjewels valued at 20,000,000 pesetas.” The ‘Spanish’ courts have' bagun’ an investigation into the charges. HE _EVENING ' STAR sterday to | in Spain for more | WASHINGTQN. Plutarco Elias Calles is under camera fire when he arrives at. Union Station in Wash- Nationoal Photo. MOTHER FIGHTS FOR SO! D. C., SATURDAY CONGRATULATED — President Coolidge expresses his pleasure at hearing “America” sung by Zadi, 4year-old child from Armenia, who was adopted by Dr. and Mrs. Gan- naway, Near East Relief workers. The girl speaks four languages. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. —Truth of dlmppeaunce of 14- year-old. Franklin RosheR a month ago sought in court. Mother accuses father, wealthy merchant. National When a man gets sick the doctor feels his pulse, takes his temperature, | listens to® his heart and tells him | what's the matter Then the phys cian decides what sort of germs cause that particular malady, and | feeds the patient medicine to, kill | them. But when a plant gets sick the physicians must first determine what is causing the trouble before he can tell what the trouble is. As a consequence the work of a plant doctor as a_curative agent is diffi- cult, Dr. L. F. Blackburn of England told " scientists of the Department of Agriculture in a lecture at the new National Muséum yesterday after- noon. Most plant diseases, Dr. Blackburn said, have about the same outward symptoms, although they -may differ in cause as widely as do a common cold and smallpox Cltes Antitoxin Problem. Dr. Blackburn said that he dispair- ed of ever securing any plant anti- toxins—such as those used to render human beings- immune to smallpox, [diptheria or typhoid fever. These may be manufactured in the body of the plant in exceedingly small quan- tities during the progress of a disease, he said, but it will be practically CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. Montgomery County Federation of Women's Clubs, will hold annual meeting November 7, at 10:30 a.m., in Court House, Rockville, Md. The Soroptimist Club will meet at luncheon Wednesday, 12:15 p.m., at Lafayette. Hotel, to celebrate “boost- ers’ day.” Stuart Walcott Post, American Le- gion, will give a mardi-gras costume ball, November 11, at City Club. Red Triangle Outing Club hikes to- morrow morning; meet at Cabin John at 9:30 for all-day outing in vicinity of Great Falla Afternoon. meet at Rock Creek Bridge station, Calvert street, Chevy Chase line, at 2:30 for walk in Rock Creek Park. The board of directors of the Ju- venile Protective Association will hold its eighth annual meeting Monday, 8 p.m., in the gold room of Shoreham Hotel. Rev. Z. B. Phillips, D. D., rec- tor of Church of the Epiphany, will speak, Parents’ League of the District will meet Monday, 8 p.m, at New Bethel Baptist Church. Takoma Park Clvic Study Club will meet Tuesday, 2:30 p.m., at Takoma Theater. General subject, “Child Wel- fare.” Speakers: Dr. June Hull, Mrs. Florence V. Watkins, Walter S. Uf- ford and Miss Lydia Birklyn. All women welcome. ¢ North Washington Citisens’ Asso- ciation will meet Monday, 8 p.m., in Sunday School of. United Bretheren Church, War on Window Breakers. HYATTSVILLE, Md., November 1 (Special).—Prince Georges school authorities, determined to. curb breaking of windows and other dam- age to school property, announce a quring Plant Disease by Antitoxins | i Now Declared Virtually Impossible| English Scientist Tells of Progress in Agricultural Healing Work in Lecture at New Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Museum. impossible -act the | Even if secured the problem of | administering them would be almost | unsolvable. In man or animal the| antitoxins can simply be injected into | the blood streams and the natural processes of the body tend to dis- tribute them where they are needed to resist the inroads of the disease germS. The plant has no blood- stream. The nearest phenomenon ap- proaching this is the passage of water upward fram the roots throtigh the stem and leaves. This process would be too slow to carry anti- toxins and would at the best dis- tribute them in a limited area. | Process of Selection. He said that plants do not have the faculty of developing disease re- | sistance after one attack—as in the case_of humans, who, once cured of measles, mumps or smallpox, rarely | fall ‘sick of the same malady again. The best hope of plant doctors, Dr. Blackburn said, is to breed disease resistance into the plant species by a process of selection. He explained some of the problems of fungi which distribute poisons through the plant system, resulting in eventual death. Blackburn's lecture was illus- trated with a number of colored slides to isolate and extr ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TODAY. The Society for Philosophical In- quiry will meet, 4:45 o'clock, in Cor- coran Hall, Twenty-first street below H. Topic: Discussion of President Richardson's paper on “Ultimate Truth.” The Vitalio Hikers will meet 2:30 io'clock at Sixteenth street and Co- lumbia road. E. E. Pabst, leader. TONIGHT. Washington Academy of Sciences and the Philosophical Society of ‘Washington will hold a joint meet- ing, 8:15 o'clock, in assembly hall of Cosmos Club. Prof. H. N. Russell of Princeton University will give ad- dress on “Recent Advances in Our Knowledge of the Interior of the Stars.” The Tivoli Pastime Club will hold a dance in private ballroom of the Ar- cade. Proceeds will bo used to help furnish radio sets for shut-ins ul' hospitals and other institutions. The League for the Larger Life will give a supper of baked beans and pumpkin pie to members at its lodge at San Souci Beach, Va., at 7 o'clock. American Association of University ‘Women, 1634 I street, club night, 8 o'clock. I-K House dance, 8:30, in Recrea- tion Hall of Government Hotels. Susan B. Anthony Foundation meet- ing, 8 o'clock, at 1709 H street. Halloween dance, Community Serv- ice Club, 8:30 o'clock, at 1012 Ninth street. Boston Marks First Home. BOSTON, November 1.—The site of the home of Boston's first white settler, William Blaxton, who set up his ctude house on Beacon Hill three | the { official meeting in Berlin of the trans- | its organization and adopted a reso- NOVEMBER 1, 1924 MRS, director of nurses, Group of nurses, J-ft 1+ COOLIDGE AS A VOLUNTEER—Fir st Lady enlisting in Instructive Visiting Nurse So- ciety's campaign for $97,000, which will open in ear nest on November 17. pinning badge on Mrs. Coolidg e. Miss H. Bow] Pau ertrude TSI Stock, Lydia M. Stewart, Margaret S. Smith, Amy B. Hofstetter, Mary A. Rexrode, and Pearl A. Griffth. WILL ROGERS PRESENTS COWBOY TROPHY +:onal Fhoto. —Roosevelt emblem of all-round cowboy cham- pionship reccived by Paddy Ryan as result of work in Cheyenne Frontier Day and Pendleton, Ore.. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood round-up, this year. EILBERT ASSUNES | 0e Marcn Saxs: ] § WiLL REDEE; REPARATION [lFFIBE| ‘Owen D. Young Forma||y‘ Turns Over Work and Pre- pares to Start Home. By the Associated Press. i BERLIN, November 1.—Owen D. Young vesterd formaHy turned over the office of agent-general for | reparation payments to S. Parker | Gilbert, former Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury. Mr. Young gathered around him at a formal farewell dinner 30 of the ex- | ecutive members of the agent-gen- | eral's organization. Today he will| leave for London and thence sail for United States. As proof of his statement that the Dawes plan was operating smoothly, | and as evidence of his faith in its ul- timate succ Mr. Young. displayed a brand-new 10-mark German bank note, it being number 2 of the Reichs bank's new issue of gold currency. | Number 1, the present issue, is held by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank and German currency commission. Mr. Young's optimism was coupled | M with evident joy over once again be- ing a free agent after 10 months of wrestling with the reparation prob- lem. His contact with German of- ficial quarters has furtheer served to galvanize his reparation plan. with which he has been more actively | identified than any of the numerous' international experts. To the newspapermen yho sought a farewell prediction as to the future development of the reparation issue, Mr. Young's reply was one reflecting pronounced optimism and assurances of implicit confidence in the organ- fzation with which Mr. Gilbert has been surrounded. Mr. Young's last official act as temporary _agent- general was as chairman of the first fer committee, which was attended by all the American and entente members. The committee perfected lution safeguarding the priority of the German reconstruction loan and | payments to bandholders out of repara- tion funds. Following this gathering Mr. Young and Mr. Gilbert were guests at a luncheon given by Dr. Schacht. Later they attended a meeting of the directorate of the Bank of Industrial Obligations, of which Baron Krupp vén Bohlen and Halbach of Essen, who is the husband of Bertha Krupp, | daughter of the late .head of the great Krupp interests, was elected chairman. , RAIL OFFICIAL DIES. Elias Summerfield Stricken While on Street Car. NEW YORK, November -1.—Elias Summerfield, 80, prominent railroad man of the Middle West, was seized with a heart attack while riding on a surface car yesterday and died soon afterward. An immigratant boy from Germany, he began his railroad career as a fireman on the Kansas City, Wyan- dotte and Northwestern railroad, of which he was later made general manager. His home was in Lawrence, Kan., but since his retirement from active reward of $10 will be pald for in-|centuries ago, ‘'was marked yesterday | business, 25 years ago, he had spent formiation ‘leading " to the afrest and | with a tablet by the Boston Commis- much of his'time, when' not traveling, convietion of such offenders. sion on Marking Historical Sites. in New York. “Eventually, why not this Fall?” th’ slogan of Small, cannydate fer sheriff, who's out fer Gover'ment own- ership o’ bus lines. A Mexican dog is th’ only ani- mal left that don't finally end up | in a fur coat or neckpiece. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) BRYAN PLANS 4 MORE HOME STATE SPEECHES is Will Talk Within 60-Mile Radius | of Capital—Welcomed Home After Trip. By the Associated Press. ' LINCOLN, Nebr., November 1.—Hav- ing oured most of the eastern part of ebraska early in the campaign and western towns and cities this week, Gov. Bryan, Democratic candidate for Vice President, left here early today by automobile to fill four more home State speaking engagements within a 60-mile radius of Lincoln. v. Bryan was welcomed back to | his home city last night after a trip that carried him from Ohio to Wyom- ing. ASKS TO RETIRE. Veteran Policewoman Wants to Live Buietly. NEW YORK, November 1.——After 28 years in the Police Department Mrs. Oscar Seaholm, the only woman to become a first-grade detective in this city, asked for retirement yes- terday because she desires to live quietly at home. s Her first big case was the capture, in 1912, of eight bandits who two months before had held up two bank | messengers in Greenwich Village, e: caping with $25,000. She recovered the money by getting the confidence of woman companions of the hold-up men, all of whom were sent to Sing Sing prison. Twenty-eight years ago she report- ed for duty as police matron. She was the wife of a roundsman and mother of three children. Within three months her husband died and the young widow had to support the family on her pay—$1,000. She edu- cated the' three and sent her daugh- ter to a French convent in Quebec. Neither home nor children suffered from her work. Artie | LOAN IN FEBRUAR: ‘$100 000, 000 Issue Used as Security for Bank Notes to Be Paid Up. of the Treasury Méilo st wight the Treasury redcem the loan o | 1925, of the issues of Fede | obligations used to secure nationa | bank notes. The redemption will be another step toward eventual replace ment of national bank notes by cur rency issued under the Federal Re serve act | In a fo { Mellon said “The Tre called for redemption | on February . the United Sta | 4 per cent bonds of 1925, dated Febru ary 1, 1895, and that such bonds wil cease to bear interest on that date Urges Prompt Action. | “In order to facilitate redemption ‘hnm»n are urged tb present their | bonds well in advance of Februars s to insure prompt payment w due. This is particularly importan with respect to registered bonds, | payment cannot be made until reg- istration shall have been discharged by the Treasury Department, di { of loans and currency The call will end the life of $118,459,000» in Federal securities. It will also force the retirement of an equal amount of national bank not ued against the bonds now scal- tered widely over the country in per- haps 500 different national banks. The nks now holding the bonds, how- an altgrnative in that they purchase other the circulation substitute the for those to | Secretary announced | has prepared tc al statement Secretary sury announces that it b and payme Federal bonds bearing privilege and merely utstanding securitie be retired. The loan 5 automatically matures next uary under its thirty -y r life and the law providing | for its retirement specifies that the Treasury shall give three months’ notice to the holders of the securities, The unnouncement of plans for re- dempt + was made in accordance J with that provision | Huge Sum Outstanding. | In addition to the $118,000,000 to b off. there will remafa outstand- ing bonds bearing the circulation privilege to he amount of almost | thr quarters of a billion dollars. Six hundred million dollars in these securities—the per cent consols will mature in 1930, and the re- mainder fall due in 1936 and 1 AS the maturing bonds are believed by Treasury officials to be held in every section of the country, the amount of national bank note circula- tion to be retired in each locality is ex- pected to be relatively small. Some offi- | cials believe the actual retirement in February will be materially reduced, as many of the banks, they said, al- ready have anticipated the retirement and have purchased other Federal se- curities to place behind their own cur- rency issues. of Boy Slayer Gets Life. ELLSWORTH, Me., November 1.— Roland McDonald, ear-old Am- herst youth, convicted Vesterday in the supreme court of the murder of his school teacher, Miss Louise Ger- rish, last Spring, was sentenced to- day’ to life imprisonment at hard labor at the State prison at Thomas- ton. —