Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1924, Page 16

CURIGUS BRITISHERS ANXIOUS TO H America as Fhis crowd of playing what is known many thousand pounds. MAYBE ITS THE BIG makes the claim. The volume, whi T BOOK IN THE WORLD. THE Los Angeles ch is the register of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, weighs 310 pounds and has 4.000 pages. The girl is Anna Mintz, unmarried, a native " UBLIHER TO FACE MURDER CHARGES Looney, Center of Fight at Rock Island, Causing Nine Deaths, Returns for Trial. By the Associated Fress CHICAGO, November 28.—John Looney, former publisher of the Ro Tsland (11L.) and cent figure in factional conflict which two years ago including that his s is here from his ranch in New Mexico with the announced Intention of returning to Rock of murder st nine live arges ctments. went 1o New after his son was kille 2. A. W. Billburg and ( Holsapple, convicted of the killin recently filed aflidavits charging four t business men and numer- with hatching a cons: w kill Looney, sr., at the same slzin, attack of tuberculosis. from 1id he did not expect to d in stoppin to time Mis purpo erted, was to arrange oL 000 to $100,00 return Monday or Tu nd. Jealousy because of 1 nower in politics was re the attacks on him, Loc He fought back in his newspaper un- tl the strife was climaxed by the death of his son and his trip to New Mexico, he sald here, he for bonds of before his ¥ to Rock § it growing ible for v declared. VERDUN DEFENDER GUEST IN VIRGINIA Gen. Dumont Speaks at Ceremony Marking Hundredth Lafayette Anniversary. Epecial Dispatch to The § FREDERICKS November 9.—Fredericksburg onored Fri- day by the presence of Gen. G. A. L. Dumont, the distinguished soldier of France, veteran of many campaigns, when the German armi ing against the French lines in th terrific drive toward Paris. He w the guest for the day of Frederick barg Masonfc Lodge, 4, and w the principal speaker at the exercises in the courthouse at night commem- orating the one hundredth anniversary of the date when Gen. Lafeyette was made an honorary memier of the local Masonic lodge. Gen. Dumont's topic was “The Life of Lafayette.” He was introduced by Charles H. Callahan of Alexandria, Grand Master of Masons in Virginia. Another fea- ture was the singing of “The Marseil- Jaike” by the French classes of Fred- ericksburg High School. Gen. Du- mont was met by a committee and was taken on a brief tour of the adja- ent battlefields of the Civil War. is a great admirer and a close student of Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson. The meeting at the courthouse was strictly Sfor members of the Masonic lodge and thelr guests. RESHG You don't have to be a financier to put & lot of money into an auto and &et a quick turnover. there | Mexico a few | , October | ais trip to New Mexico. | He | one | | 1 daughter of the Golden State. e woeit Photo, 1‘ {Radio to Be Chief | s | Vehicle of Plea | For Early Mailing ! Unprecedented efforts will be made during the next few weeks | to persuade every to “Mail ! Barly for Christr The cam- paign will be v Postm: the air next Monday evening from a Washington radio st on to broadcast an appeal. that the postal workers be permitted to have their d: at home Christm ay by very one posting their gifts, cards and tters so as to permit delive before the holi- tions will be utilized by post- mw s in sending forth a similar e zht thousand motion | and thousands of conspicuously placed posters are other mediums | through which the campaign will ! be wa |PRESIDENT TO GET " MEASURE MONDAY | Presentation of Resolution for Signature on Opening Day of Congress Is Rare. as Congress convenes on there will be a resolution| ing to be presented to the Presi- jdent for his signature. At no time ‘in recent yeal and never so far as {hasty search has revealed, has Con- been so quick to present a ure to the Chief Executive for It is extfemely un- ;II\II 1 for Congress to p: a resolu- tion in one s fon and hold it over till the next session before it is sent to the White House for final action, |but that is exactly what happened in this case, The resolution provides for making arrangements for participation by {the United States in a fittingly pre- | tentiou celebration of the bi-cen- tennial of the birth of George Wash- jington, in He was born in 1732, | As | Monday | w soon This resolution w introduced in the Senate by Senator Simeon D. Fess, Republican, of Ohio, and in the House by Representative R. Walton Moore, Democrat, of Virginia. The latter claims George Washington as one of his constituents,.as he repre- |sents the district in which Mount Vernon, the home of Washington, is located. Asks Commission. The Fess-Moore resolution pro- vides for the appointment of a com- 5 | mission of 19, to serve without pay |to make arrangements for the cele- bration. This commission would be headed the President of the United States and other members would be the presiding officer in the Senate, the Speaker of the House, eight members appointed by the President, four appointed by the President pro-tempore of the Senate, four appointed by the Speaker of the House. It carries authorization for an ap- propriation of $10,000 to meet the necessary expenses of the commis- | sion. ‘ It is hoped that by early organiza- tion -of this commission that a na- tion-wide celebration may be plan- ned. Many persons have advanced the suggestion that as the celebra- tion will not be for seven years, it may be possible to establish a great permanent memorial to Washington by construction of & memorial boule- vard from the city he founded to his bome at Mount Vernon. You McHugh, jr., was playin Franci He drove from the 18th CAN BELIEVE IT OR NOT. g golf on the public 1 BHERY OUR'T. England is excited over the trials of several men and a woman accused “the badger game.” The victim of the affair was an Indian prince, who is claimed to have been fleeced of By United News Pictures. here's the story: Tom ks at Lincoln Park, San mighty wallop—and a pelican Anywa tee— flew between the ball and its destination. The result was a dead pelican and McHugh holds the bird to prove the stor |ELECTRIC CHARGE IN ELECTRON IEASURED BY SOUND DEVIC GOULDIS ACCUSED tate Shoulder Loss in Per- sonal Investment. ’ By the Associated Press. November 29.—Law- vesterday in the $8 ounting suit of the Gould over the measure of responsi- y assumed by Frank Gould in countersigning a check for $1,600,000 at the direction of his brother George. Counsel for Frank Gould held that his cllent signed the check under or- ders, and was, therefore, not to be nsidered as having thereby given nt to expenditure of the money. It was said that Frank was only 26 years old at the time and was working in the office of the estate to “learn the business.” William Wallace, of counsel for the estate, replied: “I don't see how any man in his right senses could sign a check for $1,500,000 and not know what he was doing.” The check in question was a pay- ment in a transaction involving ap- proximately $7,000,000 in Colorado Fuel and Iron, in participation with John D. Rockefeller, sr., which, it was charged, George Gould began as a personal investment and turned over to the estate only when he found there would he a loss. Mr. Walker denled this, alleging that the invest- his a: | ment had been an estate matter from the outset. MRS. SAVERIA DI MARZO, Widow of Barber to President An- drew Johnson Expires in Home at Age of 95. Mrs. Saveria Di Marzo, 95 years old, widow of Pasquale Di Marzo, the latter a barber to President Andrew Johnson, died at her residence, 530 First street southeast, Thursday, after a lingering illness. Mrs. Di Marzo was one of the older inhabitants of Washington, having lived here since 1864. Funeral serv- ices and mass were held at the Holy Roszary Catholic Church this morning at 9:30 o'clock. Mrs. Di Marzo is survived By four daughters, Mrs. Joseph Oliveri, Mrs. Josephine Hay, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown | and Mrs. Rose Allen; three sons, John | Di Marzo, Paul Di Marzo and Salva- tore Di Marzo; 21 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. e MAGNATE’S SON WEDS. Actress Is Bride of Alva C. Dinkey, Jr. CHICAGO, November 29.—Alva C. Dinkey, jr., son of the former presi- dent of the Bethlehem Steel Corpora- tion, and Miss Mary Gayer, an actress known as Marcia Byron, were mar- ried here yesterday. His parents wired their blessing from Phila- delphia. The bridegroom, a war veteran, is employed as & blower in the blast furnace department of the Illinois Steel Company. He started several years ago to learn the steel business from the bottom up. Mrs. Dinkey has made her home in New York since her parents diéd, several vears ago. IN§T0000 DEAL Declared to Have Made Es-| IN D. C. SINCE 1864, DIES| Wide World Photo. | Wide Field of By the Associated Press. ANN ARBOR, Mich., November 29.— Experiments by which sclentists have been able to listen to the movement of electrons, the smallest particles of all matter, were described here today by A. W. Hull of the re- the General at the annual ‘American Physical Electric meeting Society. The vacuum tube amplifier, in which the amplification is carried to a hundred-thousand fold, and with which a million fold can be reached, makes thsi possible, Dr. Hull stated. The sound produced by the electrons is caused by bombardment of the plate by electrons. released from the hot fllament. It s these electrons which carry the current and which make the operation of the tube pos- sible. The noise is therefore a fun- damental property of electron emis- slon, a characteristic of the electron, according to Dr. Hull. The experi- ments have been conducted jointly by Dr. Hull and Dr. H. H. Willlams of the University of Michigan, at the university. Can Produce Roar. The noise, due to the electrical os- cillation which s set up by the im- pacts of the individual electrons on the plate, is known as the Schrot ef- fect. The energy of each blow is extremely minute, but, like rain drops, the energies of the many in- dividual impacts add, and their sum becomes very large. With sufficient amplifigation, Dr. Hull stated, the blows may produce a roar like that of Niifzara. The' electron is the unit charge of electricity and the determination of its value is of the utmost importance. The oil drop method, devised by Prof. Millikan _in the physics laboratory of the University of Chicago, gave science its first accurate measure- ments of the charge of the electron. Accurate as the experiments are, however, it is desirable that they be checked by some independent method. VMilllkan's method of measuring the charge of an electron is based on the influence of gravity and of electric i NOTED ENGINEER DIES. George C. Whipple Had Been Har- vard Professor Three Years. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 2. —George Chandler Whipple, who had been Gordon McKay professor of sanitary engineering at Harvard since 1921 and who was known widely for his work in connection with the mu- nicipal water supplies of Boston, New York, Chicago and Milwaukee, died yesterday at his home here. He was | 58 years old. = He had been employed on the Chi- cago drainage canal and the Milwaue kee sewerage commission. He at one time was expert adviser to the inter- national joint commission on the pol- lution of waters. In 1917 he served as a major and deputy commissioner to Russia in the American Red Cross. In 1920 he was appointed chief of the department of sanitation in the League of Red Cross Societies, Geneva, and made a special study of typhus fever in Rumania. of the Get West Point Posts. The President has appointed Rus- sell E. Klug, Fort Hayes, Ohio, and ‘Willlam D. Lamprecht, San Franci co, as cadets at large at the West Point Military Academy, subject to the usual examination. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Pai 2 The woman in the e. Mrs. Maude Robinson, English beauty, who is alleged to have been the “bait” in the “badger game” staged to fleece an Indian prince. The trial is the most sensational in Lon- don in years. By Upited News Pictures. Dr. Fridjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, who expects to accompany Comdr. Burns, German aviator, on a Zeppelin trip to the North Pole. ht by Miller Service. E Research Opened by Use of Vacuum ! Tube Amplifier in Study of Atoms in Motion. charges on minute These droplets are so sm effect of gravity causes them to fall only a quarter of an inch in 10 seconds. In the formation of these drops with an atomizer one becomes charged by frictios it may carry an additional el If then the droplet electrically charged plates it will be- have differently from the uncharged partlicles, Dr. Hull stated. which are not charged will fall. The charged particles will be attracted to the. positive plate. By the use of the proper voltage between the plates, these charged particles can be made to fall more slowly, held stationary, or caused to move upward. If two instead of one, are held by the droplet, the effect is doubled. Measurements made by this method glve the ue of the electronic charge very exactly. In recognition of the importance of this work, the Nobel prize in science for last year was awarded to Prof. Millikan. Also Mensure Charge. Doctors Hull and Willlams have measured the charge of the electron in a different way. by means of the Schrot effect, and have opened a fleld for research which promises to add to the knowledge regarding the elec- tron and its properties. It was not such a long time ago that the electron was unknown, the speaker declared. First sclentists had the molecule, itself so small that man’s ability ever to see even one of the largest may seriously be doubted. Then came the atom, the minute integral part of the molecule. For a long time the atom was con- sidered as the ultimate particle of matter. But each element. presents a different atom. Science was not content to rest. Tt sought to connect all phenomena, and the electron was the result. It was discovered that all matter is composed of electrons, the differ- ent substances resulting from the dif- ferent properties possessed by the atoms according to the number and arrangement of the electrons they contain. BOW MAKERS WORRIED. White Horse Scarcity Hits Vital Violin Accessory. LONDON, November 20.—Makers of violin bows are becoming anxious over the growing scarcity of white horses, from the talls of which are taken hairs for the manufacture of bowstrings. According to an expert there is a decided shortage of white horse-tall hair from Siberia and East Russia, whence the best supplies come, and thus far no suitable substi- tute has been found. ‘When the supply of gut for instru- ment strings began to dwindle silk and metal were successfully intro- duced as substitutes. ROBBED BY PICKPOCKET. Victim Loses $40 in Cash and Note for $250. While at the transfer point at Ninth street and New York avenue, Phillip Mincosky of 634 Keefer place yesterday afternoon fell a victim of a pickpocket who stole a billfold containing $40 in cash and a note on J. Makona for $250. Police instituted a search for a man answering the de- | scription furnished by Mincosky. small ctron. is between two | Those | 1924." 4 WHEN REPUBLICANS GET TGGETHER. who succeeds the late Henry Cabot hands with Senator Curtis after the Senator William Butler, Lodge from Massachusetts, shaking Republican caucus yesterday. Copyright by Harris & Ewing L. S. Rowe, director of the Pan American Union of Washington sailing yesterday aboard the S. & Santa Amna for Lima, Peru, wher he will attend the Pan-America Congress. Cop t by P. & A. Photo COULD NOT AGREE ON THE RIGHT OF WAY. So this it what happened when two flivvers came together at Seventh and R streets northwest ‘SAVING T0 PUBL |Wholesale and Manufactur- ing Interests to Consider Reducing Production Costs. occasionally | Le,| Representatives of retail, whole- manufacturing interests will | ngton in to onsider all the factors entering into | from the in an ef- | | distribution of merchan. producer to the consumer, fort to find a means of cutting down saving to the public The Chamber of Commerce of the United States, in announcing plans for the conference today, said the undertaking was the first of its kind from the point of view of the dis- tributor. It will be in charge of the chamber’s department of domestic distribution, and various phases of the investigation into such cost which some Investigators have held represent about one-half of the price pald for various articles by the con- sumer, will be intrusted to repr sentative committees of business men and economists. Topic for Final Conference. Recommendations of these commit- tees, it was stated, will be taken up at a final conference of merchandise distributors with a view to mapping a definite course of action. “Few subjects relating to what 1s called business are of so great inter- est to the average man or woman as what happens in the spread of price between producer and consumer,” ald the announcement. Periods of high prices bring about an. insistent demand that the public shall be shown why the cost of ar- ticles, generally speaking, should be doubled, or even trebled, between producer and the consumer. There are very good reasons why this situ- ation should be uppermost in the mind of the average person, since the cost of living is about 60 per cent above that prevailing in 1913. “The complaint does not stop there. Profits not only seem too large, but the public suspects that too many peo- ple are getting them, and it is eagerly trying to arrive at an understanding of distribution comparable, at least, to the understanding which the pub- lic has of production.” Unable to Make Defense. ‘While bankers, insurance companies and manufacturers are provided with the means for studying their common problems of cost and methods, it was explained, distributors of merchan- dise, as a single body, when faced with problems common to all large groups of business men, “are found least able to defend themselves from unjust charges or to escape from many of the conditions which form an obstruction to the most eficient merchandising practices.” In this connection the Department noted that owners of establishments employed in distribution constitute | the largest single class of business | men in the country, numbering not less than 1,500,000. “As practical results of the con- | statement sald, “that material sav-| ings may be accomplished by reduc- ing the amount and number of fail- ures throughout all industry by re- ducing the costs of doing husiness and the ultimate price to the con- sumer, and by placing the distributor in.a better relation to his customers.” AIM OF CONFERENCE. expenses in this field with ultimate | yesterday. \Woman’s Party Hits . Putting Ban on Sex | In Reserve Army The National Woman's Party went to Secretary WilBur yester- day with a vigorous protest ainst any law which would bar women from service in the Naval or Marine Corps Reserve. A deputation from the headquarters declared S House bills now pending tioned that these services should be composed of “male citizens” and declared they showed discrim- ination nst. wom Among other such party’s and men- thin fro erving as 'y they did in the World W. The deputation consisted of Miss Maud Younger, congressional chairman of the National Womar Party, and Mrs. Genevieve Allen of California, national organizer of the Woman's Party and for many vears legislative representative of the organized women of Cali- fornia JAPAN PACT RATIFIED Treaty Stipulates Immigration Can Be Regulated at Will by Either Country. November 29.—The e has unanimously ratl- fled the Mexico-Japanese amity, com- merce and navigatiom treaty which was signed on October 8 and which displaces the treaty of 1888 The most important point in the agreement connected with the damages citizens of either country may suffer owing to revolutions, each Rovernment agreeing not to hold the other responsible on that score. Japan so withdraws all claims for revolu- tiona damages suffered previous to the signature of the treaty. Regarding immigration, the specifies that this may be according to the laws and of the respective countries, Mexico being at liberty to study and decide to what extent Japanese immigration is desirable. The treaty becomes eftective a fortnight after the change of ratifications. pact limited ifiterests e g WORLD BEAN KING FACES GRAND LARCENY CHARGE Lewis E. Sands to Be Arraigned on Fraud Accusation Growing From Company Failure, By the Assoclated Press. TAMPA, Fla, November 29.—In custody of Sheeriff Horace Kelsey and Deputy Charles Kellogg of Orleans County, N. Y., Lewis E. Sands, “‘world bean king,” started his return trip to Alblon, N. Y. last night from here to face charges of first degree larceny growing out of the failure last September of the Lewis E. ly §1,000,000. The New York officers arrived here and immediately took Sands Into their custody from the county jail in which he had been lodged pending their arrival. Sands W apprehended Monday sheriffs after he had purchased a rail- —_— “It's & long lane that has no one alongslde changing tires,” notes the Altamount Times. way ticket to Rochester. e had ar- rived in Tampa the same afternoon from Bradenton, near which city he says he had been a laborer on a celery farm, The drivers of the machines were only slightly | BY MEXICAN SENATE| ex-| night by Hillsborough County deputy | jured n & MORGAN' WIoDW DNDESFORTUAE i | | W r Photo Daughters Share Bulk of Es- tate—Banker Son Gets Qnly 0il Painting. beque atives under the office of Surr the wil fto tne equal daughters basis. The d | Louisa Pierpont | Pierpont Hamiltc | Tracey Morg | Mrs. Mor | Happin of Prov { Jul Brow | ceive cquany Morgan's sh proceeds in 1 | Pullman Car Frances | and Helen Happin and Helen Kin nieces, receive uitles o $2. each. Four oth n ecelve &1 nuities of $1,000 each. Miss Florence W. Blythe ronto, a friend, is bequeathed an & nuity of $8,000. James Duchie, M: Morgan's butler for many years, bequeathed $25,000. No estimate of [ value was given, 'STOCK WORLD ELITE " PRESLNT AT SHOW it the estats's tc | 11,500 Prize Cattle, Horses, Shee | and Hogs Exhibited at Chi- | cago Exposition By the Associated Press CHICAGO, November 29.—The | of the stock world in record-br. | numbers was gathered here to ;(hc opening of the international liv | stock ~ exposition, in which entr | have been made by breeders fro | every State, Canada, Europe a South America. | Upward of 11,500 cattle, + hor | hogs and sheep were in stalls be | groomed for the various contests. I |trles in the curlot classes reached t record total of 254. | Growers from the United State South America and Canada subm | ted exhibits in the hay and gra | show. | Live stock judging teams from | United States and 2 Canadian c | leges competed today in the judging | conte: One girl, Gladys Platts templated survey, it is possible,” the | Sands Co., for what is said to be near.| the University of Kentucky, was i1 the judging ring, against 115 boys | ¥arm boys and girls from all sec | tions of the country met in the juni live stock judging contest and ex hibited their pet live stock today. | The horse &how, which will be nightly event, will open tonight, with only Chicago entries competin e A Frenchman has in receiving set that can an umbrella. ted a radio be carrfed on