Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Fair and much colder today; morrow fair; continued Foreeast.) to- cold. Record for twenty-two hours end- ing at 10 p. m. last night: Highest, 62 at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 41, at 10 p.m. yesterday. Full report on page 7. No. | PUBLISHERS FIGHT §65,000,000 POSTAL RATE BOOST MOVE Virtually All But Letters Hit by New’s Plan to Cover- Pay Increase. 1,029.—No. . 29,447 MEANS BARRING PAPERS FROM MAIL, OWNERS SAY Edge Abandons Efforts to Push Wage Bill as Vote Is Blocked. \dva in postal rates, designed vield very close to the proposed $6%.000,000 a vear imcrease in the pay f postal employes were suggested to «'Ghgress yesterday by Postmaster _General New. They would affect vir- tually all classes of mail except letter mai Simultaneous with the transmission of the Postmaster General's recom- mendations to Congress, the postal committee of the American New: vaper Publishers’ Association at- tacked the departmental measure, de- to Entered as second class matter post office. Washington, Plan for $5,000,000 Museum A [INTROVERSY d by Engineers n.G Here Launche i Project to Contain By the Assoclated Press, NEW -YORK, December 13.—-A hall] of fame for inventors, engifieers and ploneers of American industry will be situated In the eentral rotunda of the $5,000,000 National Museunt of Engineering and Industry to be erected on the Mall in Washington D. C. it was announced here today at the headquarters of the movement in the Engineering Societies Building. 1t is planned to raise a national en- dowment of $10,000,000 for. the museum movement, which embraces, hesides the central edifice in Wash- ington, a chain of local museums of industry in the industrial sections for the diffusion of technical knowl- edge to all parts of the country. Sculptures of outstanding Amer- whose achievements have BODY OF GOMPERS DUE HERE TUESDAY “Hall of Fame” for Americans Who Have Aided Country’s Progress—Notables Among Sponsors. he WASHINGTON, placed the United States in the fore- front of industrial progress, will be installed in’ the rotunda chamber, the statement says. Records of their achievements, Including original mod- els or authentic replicas, will be assembled in the main industrial chambers of the new museum. Among those to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame will be: Charles P Steinmetz, Alcxander Graham Bell,| Thomas ~A. Idison, the - Wright| brothers, EM Whitney, Capt. John Ericeson, Robert [Fuiton, Ottmar Mergenthaler and other glants of American inventive genius. Announcement is also made that a chamber adjoining the Hall of Fame will be dedicated as “the founders'| room.” 1In this chamber will be hon- | ored those individuals and organiza- | tions hose contributions in en- | REPUBLIANS G TOCONTRUE AT i WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION |new fuel { preparation of the annual Naval sup- . C, GATHERS NEW FUEL IN' HOUSE REPORT Committee Reveals Confiden- tial Information—Holds Alarm Is Baseless. $300,000,000 MEASURE , SUBMITTED FOR ACTION Determination for Full Probe of Situation Increased by Findings. The controversy as to whether the American Navy is fit to fight found vesterday with the publi- cation of confidential testimony given to a House committee during the ply bill. The committee itself reported to Congress that it did not feel “the country need be alarmed” that Naval prestige fs rapidly waning. Accompanying this report was an official transeript of the _testimony of Secretary Wilbur that the Gov- GUARAN y Star, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1924. —136 PAGES. TEED, GENTS To MAXE \ ycmnlpq'rs Lok LIKE A /SRRy VERMONT £ FARMER LY, 5 The Star i 60 cents Resurar Rervstican CouNTRY CLUB MEMBERS DEMAND THE EXPULS 10 OF THE LAPOLLET TR, FouRSome. S| EMnever w R Represeurarue Jou Pt Hit i B Cevtat ,(' Al “From Press to Home Within the Hour” s delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immedately. FIVE CENT BLUE RIDGE SITE CHOSEN FOR GREAT U. 3. EASTERN PARK Site Within Three Hours of Capitals Accessible to 40,- | 000,000, Formally 0. K.’d. ‘SHENANDDAH’ SELECTED AS RESERVATION NAME Bill to Appropriate $10,000,000 for Immediate Work Introduced in House. BY HAROLD K. PHILIPS, The Blue Ridge Mountains of Vir- ginia, rich in historical interest an the legends of early Americs, formally have been nominattd to be come the site for the East's fi¥at great national park. Simvitaneous with annéufeement v Secretary of the Interlor Hubert Work late yesterday that the South- ern Appalachian National Park Com- mittee had unanimously selected the Virginia site, Representative Henry W. Temple introduced a bill in th {ernment must spend $110,000,000 an- Inually for the next 20 yvears for new | construction if the Navy is to bej | maintained on an equal footing in all | branches with that of Great Britain claring that the suggested increase of $10,876,000 annually on second «lass mail, consisting entirely of @ewspapers and periodicals, would§ House asking Congress to make the |area ““The Shenandoah Nationai Park."” AS a result there may be create Capital and Labor Join in Paying Honor to Fallen Will Battle With Progressives for Control of Number _have the effect of doubling the rates| of newspaper circulation going through the mails, Taken Papers From Mail. “This action by Congress,” said a statement from the association, “will have the double result of reducing the Yevenues aceruing to the department and absolutely forbidding the circula- tion of daily newspapers in the mails.” Announ that his suggestions tor advan were based upon the conclusions arrived at by the cost as- cortainment recently submitted to Congress. Mr. New in his letter trans- mitting the rate proposals to Chair- man Sterling of the Senate post office committee, purtment was pgepared “to explain and defend” this cost ascertainment If attacked, Apportionment of Incre: Specifically, the rate advances rec- ommended would yield $66,390,750, di- vided as follows: Second class mail—newspapers and periodicals—$10,870,000. Fourth class mall-—parcels post— 000,000, ! Third class—circulars’ and_direct il advertising—$18,000,000. Post cards—$12,500,000, through in- creasing the rate from 1 cemt to 13 cents. Registered letters—$4.000,000. Money orders—$3,500,000. Postal insurance—s$3,058,000. Collect on. delivery service — $1,103,000, ; Attempt at Vote Fumils. Before the TPostmaster General's! recommendations were transmitted, to Senator Sterling, a third effort to ‘fix A date for a Senate yote on the em- ployes' pay bill, vetoed at the Jast session by President Coolidge, had Tailed. Senator Edge, Republican, New Jer- ¥, proposed that the measure be takén up on January § under a nnanimous consent agreement, but Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, ob- jacted on the grounds that there was an effort to kill the measure at this | $1 session by hitching up to it the postal | rate increase measure. The New Jersey Sehator, who had charge of the pay bill, subsequently announced in a formal statement that he had washed his hands of the mat- ter, and It now was up to those| friendly to the bill but who have; vpposed unanimous consent agtee- nts to lead the fight. Meantime, the vetoed bill retained Jis status of a highly privileged com* iunication, resting on the Senate table, but not subject to considera- | tion because of the Intervening unani- mous consent arrangement for final fe- ton on. both the Muscle Shoals bill| und the Isle of Pines treaty. Changeés in Rates. Detalls of the various changes in | nostal rates proposed by Postmaster General New, other than as to post- ards, previously set forth, are as fol- lowe: Second ¢ 0 change s matter: in reading portion of nawspaper: now 131; cents a pound.| o change in reading portion of | veriodicals classified as scientific, | ricultural, religlous, fraternal, etc., conducted for profit, now 1% cents a pound. Rate on reading portions of all other publications increased from 1% to 2 cents a pound. Rates on advertising portions of vublications now subject to zone rates are increased @ cents per pound in the first, second and third zones, and 1 cent a pound in fourth, fifth and sixth zones. and eighth. Rates on advertising portions of publications now subject to zone rates will apply alike to advertising nortions of all publications, except where advertising matter is 5 per cent or less of total_printed space. [ ) Leeway Ix Given, Itecommendation that any publisher or registered news agent may elect to mall a portion or all of the fssues of any publications entered as second class mail under the rates recom- mended for fourth class, or parcel post matter, such rates to be applic- able to each piece for each addressee. This will enable publishers and regls tered news agents to ship large bundles of second class matter to a single addressee at parcel post rat Rates on transient second class matter are changed from 1 cent for four ounces to 1% cents for each two ounces, up to and not exceeding eight ounces and parcel post rates to apply to weights above eight ounces. Third clags matter: Limit of. weight changed to eight ounces, and rates in- ‘reased from 1 cent to 1% cents for ach two ounces, excepting for books, atalogues, seeds, bulbs, etc., which will carry the present rate of 1'cent for each two ounces. All matter now in third class weighing more than ~ight ounees Wwill go at parcel post rates. . Fourth class matter: Proposed in- «<reases in zone rates average approx- imately 2 cents per package for ull zones with increases averaging more than 2 cents per package for pearby sones, with a lesser increase in the {Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) h gave notice that the de-: [Not only labor possessed him, No Increase In seventh | Union Chief. THRONGS LINE ROUTE Funcral Rites to Be Held Here Prior to Burial in Tarry- town, N. Y. By the Associated Press BAN ANTONIO, Tex., December 13. | —San Antonio has seen her great pro- cessions for the living and she has i buried her fllustrious dead, but to- night, in a mapher entirely different, she prepared to glve back to the ination a son of toil whom death had |loan@d her for a fieeting moment. Strange to the rugged Sam Gom- | pers, could he have looked upon them, | would have been the scenes of his funeral cortege as. his. mortal body was started on its long journey home. With the pomp of a general, but Mo with the sentiments of the humble, lahor's late chieftain was to be borné toward the rising sun by a grieving throns. Pald Military Homors. His last ride in this city of his death was to be on an artiliery cais- son, and the last escort for the man who had fought all his life, "but always In civilian clothes, was to be composed of men in military uniform. The Government, whose hands he had upheld in peace and in war, stepped_ in to claim the body for the whole American people.and through the Unitéd States Army the Amerifcan people officiully took back their dead. Mr. Gompers' last words were, “God bless our American institu- tions!” and one of those “Institutions— the United States Army-—claimed that he belonged to them as much as to anybody. Soldiers from Fort Sam Houston were assigned to the escort. they sald, but the country also. The music of a military band and the rumble of a military carriage were to be his requiem. Sieeping in his great bronze cas- ket in a flag-draped house of death, the late president of the American Federation of Labor, drew to himself | throughout the day the men of labor and the men of capital, those Wwho work in field and fagtory, those who knew him as only a name and those who knew him as a loved and loving companion, all filed past the massive (Continued on Page 6, Column 1.) o TWO AMERICAN LOANS ARRANGED -BY BELGIUM Negotiations in Progress for Months Concluded Satis- factorily. By Cable to The Star and New York World. BRUSSELS, December 13.—The Bel- glan government's negotlations for two American loans, which have been In progress for several months, have now been concluded. The proceeds of the first loan are to serve' for the equipment of the Kongo colony, and the other loan will be used to ‘con- colidate the Belgian floating debt. A Morgan representative, “who has been in ‘Brussels: for several days, came to an agreement yesterday with representatives of the finance minis- Itry and the national bank.. The loan |18 reputed to be for $100,000,000, of which $50,000,000 - is “advanced mnow and the other half early mext yea The rate of interest is 7% per cent, which financial circles here consider very favorable.. (Copyright, 1924.) By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 13.—A vietory was accredited to the Lucy. Stone League today, when Miss . Helene Normanton, the first Wom- an admitted to the bar in’ Eng- land, cabled _friends - that she would sall for America on' Deeem- ber, 37, with the first passport ever granted a British marrled wonran in her maiden name. Miss: Nor- manton, whose, husband's name% Clarke, cabled friends here that. her passport has been vised by the. American consul. . - Special interest was created by Miss Normanton’s announcement, ‘because only two years ago, Miss Ruth Hale, leader of the Lucy Stone moyement In America, falled in.a like endeavor. Miss Hale, who :is the wife of vuuwm:dr BP'“;.‘W rman, refused . to sail for Europe after Secrstary of State Charles E. u‘h’c had Lucy Stone League Happy as Member Gets Passport Under Maiden Name of States. i BUTLER DIRECTS PLANS Will Retain in Skeleton Form Party Organization of Last Campaign. i BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Regular Republicans and the Inde- pendent Progressives who followed Senator La Follatte in the last cam- paign, it appears, are girding up their loins for the struggle which is to come for control in a number of the States, particularly as to con- trol of party organization in the Northwest. It is in some of the| States of that section that the Pro- | gressives haye been able to grab con- trol ‘of “the Republican” organization | and to work through it for the nemi- nation and election on the Repub- | lican ticket 6f members of Congress and State officers. Plans are being made by Senator Butler, chairman of the Republican national committee, to continue dur- ing the interval before the next elec- tlon the party organization which worked so effectively during the cam- paign—though, of course, In skeleton | form, very much reduced. Tt is not| his plan to keep the country or any | part of it in the throes of a political | struggle. But the organization will | bave its headquarters here in Wash- ington. ‘It will be in position to aid with speakers or with publicity see- tions of the ecountry which ask for aid. The national committeer has | come out of the campaign not with | a deficit, but with a generous sur- plus. The national organization is in position to continue the organiza- tion in skeleton form. Plans of Progressives. The progressives, on the other| hand, have just made arrangements. through the conference for progres- sive political action, which nominated La Follette for President, for a na- tional convention to be held in Chi- cago in February. At that conven- tion plans will be made for continu- ing the progressive movement, | Whether it take the shape of a third| party or continues to work in the several States us it has in the past— boring from within. The progresaive | fires are to be kept burning with the! hope that two years hence it will be | possible to strengthen their position in_Congress, possibly to regaln the balance of power in the Senate and House, which was lost in the last election. It is to prevent just such a return to power of the insurgents that the Republicans wiMl work. In addition to Chairman Butler, Roy West, sec- retary of the national committee. and other party leaders were in Wash- ington yesterday. Plans for the fu- ture are being but in- formally. In_Wisconsin tho domination of the Republican machinery by ths in- surgents is more complete than in any of the other States, it is said. But there are other weak spots, among them North Dakota. In Wis- consin the Republican State com.- | mittee was absolutely in the contrel of the La Follette followers. The Republicans worked in Wisconsin during the campaign through the Coolidge and Dawes Club, an or- ganization of regular. Republicans. ‘This organization continues in e istence and will be fostered and de- veloped for future use. In North Dakota the Republicans were in bet- ter shape, but there they worked (Continued on Page 15, Column 5.) considered, fused to grant her a passport as Ruth -Hale, on the ground that sction was “contrary, to. the cus- - toms of a Christian country.” “The decision in Miss Norman- ton's case is - entirely in accord with law,” Miss Hale said.. “In - England there is respect for:law. It I were able to obtain a court review of Mr. Hughes’ . decision, I would win as Miss Normanton has won, for the law is clear. But decisions of .cabinet. members are ' not. subject- to court. review as they should be, and his word ap- parently is final. . Miss Hale disclosed that the de- . cision by which Miss Normanton ‘was granted the right to practice law. under her own name, a little more than a year ago, has been made, the basis of a reopening of the case of, Dr. Jarvis, who was refused fon to sign her maiden 1o & government Controller General “Mc- | and superior to that of Japan. | committee served to increase the de- | |feels, looking at the situation from The committee’s observation and the Secretary's statement went to| the House along with the Naval ap- | propriation - bill proposing nearly | three hundred million dollars to take | care of ' the existing establishment | and construction heretofore author- | ized. | Thorough Study Sought. | Information coming thus from the hitherto sealed doors of the House | termination of those in the Congress | who are insisting that there must be | a thorough-going investigation to get at all the facts with regard to the condition both of the Naval estab- lishment and of the fighting fleet. Coincident with the developments in the Naval controversy at the Capitol, the Army Air Service disclosed that the recent bombing on the uncomplet- ed superdreadnaught Washington had demonstrated that American Naval architects had developed in the ships that are being scrapped under the ashington arms treaty craft that could _ withstand attacks from the | present-day airplanes, { _Taking.cogRizance in its report to the House of previous reports as to the unsatisfactory conditions of the capital ships, the. naval appropria: tions committée said these conditions had been remedied except with re- spect to one -battleship—the Florida. Work on that craft, it said, was be- ing held in abeyance pending decision ! as to whether she is to be converted | from a coal to an oil burner. Ratien Analysis DI Asserting that the naval ratio as| between ‘the United States, Great | Britain and Japan “is a dierent | measurement,” leading into channels | of so broad and varicd remifications | that only those possessing all the avallable facts with respect to both the « American and foreign navies ‘were in a position to speak, the com- mittee suggests that the authorship of reports regarding the ratio “be con- sidered when forming an opinion.” ‘Turning to the Navy's needs, the mmittee said the bill it reported carried the money for two additional fleet submarines and also all “that it will be practicable to expend during the ensuing fiscal year for making repairs and effecting desirable im- provements on vessels of the fl "Tl’e program of modernization of certain battleships and of new con- struction of cruisers and gunboats | carried In the so-called moderniza- tion bill just passed by the Senate,” the ‘report added, “curlously should not be appropriated for in advance of budget estimates and thorough hearings. “In the meantime, the committee . | | i i | i many influencing ‘angles, that thare need be no misgivings. as. .to. our naval forces generally In an hour of need.” ‘Wilbur Gives Estimates. Secretary Wilbur, in informing Con- gress that $110,000,000 ‘would have to be spent annually if the Navy is to be maintained on a Ppar with that of Great Britain and superior to Japan's, made no recommendation that this be done! He estimated that of the total amount $92,000,000 yearly for 20 years would be needed for ships and $18,000,000 for aircraft. - Until there is an international agreement limiting “within reason- able bounds” the additions to the| Portions of the fleet not cévered in| the arms treaty, Secretary Wilbur | said, the only method of maintaining the treaty Tatlo of the respective fleets “will' be by a bullding program commensurate with that of the other signatory power: “In such case,” he added, “the very absence of an agreement with refer- ence to such vessels (those other than capital ships) makes our. policy de: pendent upon that of the other pow- (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) REACHES T16TH BIRTHDAY Oldest Woman in Mexico Has Full Possession of Faculties. By Cable to The Star and New York World. MEXICO CITY, December 13.—The oldest woman in Mexico, Mrs. Guada- lupe Mamires, has just celebrated her 116th annivérsary. She is a resident of Tulacingo, te of Hidalgo. She is in full possession of her faculties and is vigorous for her years. She has outlived seven children and many of her grandchildrén and-great-grand- children. 2 3 | mas givers of Washington its annuat ! their gifts at this holiday season to | 1eft to shift for themselves and their | rected, that they are well nourished Z4 FEATUR 14 OPPORTUNITIES OPEAED TO PUBLIC Kiwanis Ciub First: t& Help “Oné of Neédiest Famities in District. For the fifteenth year the Asso- ciated Charities offers to the Chris lisg of 14 families, selected from the| many. others under its care because | of special and continulng need. Thess families are presented as “Christ- mas opportunities” to those who wish bring more than a passing joy and happiness. These 14 opportunities should make a strong appéal, because in every in- stance the head of the household is the fhogier. Ten of these mothers are widows. Three others have been children by husbands who have aban- doned ‘them. .In one instance the father is chronically ill in the hos- pital. Al told there are €0 children and 15 aduolts, including an elderly grandmother, in these 14 family groups. . Only four of the children are over 16 years of age. There are 11 between ‘14 and 16, inclusive, The plan is for such of these older children as have the capacity to take vocational or business. training, to| increase their earning power so that | they may be able to take care of tehir mothers and younger brothers and sisters in the near future. Sev- eral of the mothers have large fami- lies, -In fact, two of them have seven children each and there are six chil- dren in two of the other families. The number of children in the re- maining families ranres from two to five each. Giving Children a Chanee. It Is to give these children a fair chance and an equal oppoTtunity to make g0od that forms the strength of this appeal. The object is to keep these homes together throughout the coming vear, to enable the children of school age to attend regularly, to see that their. physical defects are cor- and otherwise normally healthy, in | order that they may make the most of | their home and school training, The first announcement of these op- ‘Portunities is unique this year by rea- son of the fact that, even before pub. lication, the Kiwanis Club has voted to take care of Opportunity No. 5 for the coming year, and has pledged $960 for this purpose. This family consists of a deserted wite and seven children. None of the children ix old enough to work. The board of managers of the Assoclated ' Charities at its - last meeting in adopting a vote of appre- clation for the generous action of the Kiwanians expressed the hope that other civic bodies or clubs might also find it in their hearts to follow the example of the Kiwanis Club. - . Friends of this appeal of other years will miss from this year's list the quaint trio known as Opportunity No. ‘6, consisting of three old people all above 75 years of age. One of them has died during the year—the only casualty in the entire list-of last year's 14 opportunities, Another aged Derson of the group is hopelessly ill in the hospital. Total Amount Needed $13.388. The total amount required for the. care of these 60 children and 15 grown-ups, in addjtion to what rela- tives-or their churches and others| interented are prepared to give, Is .$13,388. Of .this amount, however, thanks to the actioh of the Kiwanis Club in ‘voting ta take care of Oppor- tunity' No 5 the coming year, the amount stands. today ad the oppor- tunities. are published for the: first time, at $12,428 It Is for this sum that the Assoclated Charities makes appeal to' meet the remaining 13 op- portunities Gifts. may _be .specified for any one or movre of these families, and will be’credited %u—nm T €Copi [on 716, Column 3.) ( | L RAL (OLLEGE. GLEE CLUB GENERAL ~YN DAWE: GERMAN TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—64 Pages. General News—Local, National, Foreign. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 33. Schools and Colleges—Pages 35 and 52. Current News Events—Page 36. Radio News and Program—Pages 38 and 30. Spanish War Veterans—Page 40. Girl -Sceuts—Page 42. At the Community Centers—Page 43. Y. W. €, A. News—Page -43. Army and Navy News—Page 44. News of the Clubs—Pages 45 and 54.| Around the City—Page 46. Veterans of the Great War—Page 47.| The Civillan Army—Page 53. Boy Scouts—Page 55. Financial News—Pages 58 and 59. Fraternities—Page 60. PART TWO—20 Pages. Editorials and Editogial Features. ‘Washington and Othi Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 10. D. A. R. Activities—Pages 14 and 18. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 16. PART THREE—10 Pa¥es. Amusements—Theaters and Play. Music in Washington—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 to 3. Reviews of New Books—Page 9. PART FOUR—4 Pages. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 Pages. Magazine Section—Fiction and Features. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—8 Pages. Classified Adve: 9. Serial—‘The Ark of the Covenant’— Page 8. GRAPHIC SECTION—I18 Pages. World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—% Pages. Mr. Straphanger; Reg'lar Fellers; and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. RUM SMUGGLERS KILL IMMIGRATION AGENT Two Inspectors Ambushed at El Paso. Five Assailants Es- cape After Shooting. Mr. By the Associated Press. EL PASO, Tex, December ¥ Liquor smugglers in ambush on the banks of the Rio Grande tonight shot and killed Immigration Inspector Frank Clark. Inspector Clark was on duty with Herbert Brown, another inspector, who was fired upon, but not wounded. Clark ‘was shot in the stomach by the smugglers, one of them was in view and four of whom were hiding in the brush on the American side of the_river. All the smugglers escaped. RESCUES BEAUTIFU MAIDEN amber the Photo | A rr = / S OF THE GRIDIRON CLUB DECEMBER DINNER. CRIDIRON CLUB fAS POLITIGALAUCTION ed by Newspaper Men at Winter Banquet. . the guests assembled at ann Winter dinner of the jGridiron Club Jast night. at the New | Willard, had a suspicion that the { newspaper men composing ganization might make some slight animadversion ‘upon certain events | that happened November tast. | When they lookea | saw | President of the United States. | Speaker of the Ious senator: of states well as suspicions 1, the | Cabinet, governors ieaders, as lore, their representatives, and political politicians ga- grew, to be ceedings All the officials and politicians present had participated in some | fashion in the campaign, the most of the hosts of the occasion had been commentators upon and observed -of it. so nearly every one was tuned in to appreciate the flings and_arrows and harpoons of the jests. William E. Brigham, of the Boston Transcript, I csident of the Gridiron Club, wel- comed “the distinguished company nd gave them fair warning that some of their number might be pre- pared to be placed upon the gridiron, but that jts glowing bars would leave no blisters or burns. Gridiron { Club comments are not intended ‘to hurt. 1 Political Remnants For Sale. As the other guests followed Pres- the cheerful sound of the big dinner bell. they passed between two wich-board” men, carrying signs. One bore the legend, “Auction to- night. Political Remnants For Sale,” and the other “Auction Tonight, Cam- palgn Leftovers Sold Cheap.” The lights were turned out, the Gridiron Quartet welcomed the guests in song and President Brigham in suitable words, whereupon the lights came on and likewise the dinner. The auction scene disclosed | presence, in the center of the hall. of members of the club impersonat- ling certain prominent figures in the late campaign. There were John W. Davis, Senator La Follette, Chairman William M. Butler, Shaver, Gov. Alfred E. York, William G. McAdoo, Senator Magnus Johnson, Theodore Roose- velt, a crier and the auctioneer, with his red flag over a miscellaneous as- sortment of “political junk.” The first article offered to the bidders was an amplifier, described as the one which President Coolidge used. Everybody wanted it but Chairman Clem Shaver; he vowed he wonld never have another Democratic Na- Smith of New (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) Auto Thieves Fail to Find $10,000 In Jewels in Car Deserted Here An automobile containing jew- elry upon which a value of $10,000 had been placed,-for which police had been scouring the city for many hours, was located on F street between Sixth and Seventh streets northeast by detectives vesterday afternoon after it had remained in the same spot, with its valuable cargo, nearly, 16 hours, The car, bearing a Virginia license, had been taken from in tront of the Burlington Hotel Fri- day night, when its occupants, two jewelry salesmen, had gone inside of the hotel to make a sale. The car wasfirst seen parked by Capt. Walter” Emerdon of ‘head- quarters when he returned to his home last night. At the time, however, he thought nothing of it. Returning to police headquar- ters to go on duty Yesterday aft- ernoon, Capt. Emerson heard ‘that about 18 detectives-and many po- licemen were on the outlook for a coupe bearing a Virginia license. “I believe that T have seen the car you are looking for,” he said. Detectives O'Day, Alligood and Cullinane were immediately dis- patched to the spot, found the car and returned to police headquars ters with it and the case contain- ing the jeweiry. W. H. Beck, Jr., Tepresentative of a Detroit com- pany to whom ° the jewelry be- longed, found it intact, Campaign Figures Lampoon-, this or-| around them and | among their fellow guests the ! . members of the | amply confirmed by subsequent pro- | ident Coolidge, escorted by Mr. Brig- | ham into the large banquet hall, to | and- | the | Chairman Clem | there. within three hours’ motor ride of the National Capital and but day's travel of 40,000,000 persons, = reservation that experts predict will become America’s outstanding nu- tional park, a mountain playgrounc and natural museum cove: proximately 800 square miles. Sketch Park Besuty. Declaring the Blue Ridge Mour tains to be “the outetanding an logical place” in the East, the com mittee briefly sketched a word pic- ture of what the park is hoped to be —a skyline drive along the mountain top looking down on either sid= intc valley and p'ateau from a heliht of 2,500 feet, “surpassed by few fcenic drives in the world”; an &nimai refuge of mnational importanSe, = zoological garden of native a%lmal and a reservation of majestic beauty Aside from scenic and other natural wonders of the area, the committee pointed out that it was persuaded in its decision by the nearncss of th- site to more than a third of the Na- tion's population and its immediai~ proximity to spots that have been immortalized in the most sacred pages of Amerlcan history, Acceanilility Big Factor. Although admitting that the @reat Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and | North™ Carolina are superior to the | Blue Ridge in altitude and some uther teatures, selection of the latter w | based on its fine scenic and recrea { tional qualities, its immediate cluse- ness to Washington- and its ac- cessability to such a large proportion of the people of the country. 1a this connection the committer expressed a hope that the expecter success of the Shenandoah National Park would so materialize as to_ en- courage Congress to create a second national park In the Great Smok Mountains later. Difficulty of con- veriing that area into a national ark. such as road building, and its inaceessability, however, precluded selection for the -present. The area recommended in the Blye | Ridge is bounded Ly Front Royal on | the north. Waynesboro on the south, ! the historic Shenandoah Valler on the west and the +iedmont plains on the east. It lies within the counties of Rappahannock, Page, Warren, Madison, Greene, Albemarle, Rocking- ham and_Augusf. Some of its peaks, | topograpkical engineers. believe, will touch 5,000 feet in altitude when ac- | curately measureq, * From these slopes great primeval forests gaze down upon scenes of many of the battles of both Revolutionary War and the Civil War: Roaring cataracts gush from steép canyons into the valleys that give birth of many of the Nation's présidents, and on a clear day the siim- white shaft of Washington Monument - may be observed from the summits of the highest peaks. i ! i | | Ninety Miles from Capital. Thirty day from. now the Lee Highway will . bring _the park to within less than $0 miles of the Na- tional ' Capital, accessible over a brand-new road. Another historic | highway, the famous Spottswood Trail, paved and in perfect condition, sweeps straight through it en route from Richmond to Harrisenburg, and to the south the Jefferson Highway touches its boundaries. Secretary Work, discussing the park, declared that every member of the Southern Appalachian National Park committee, which he appointed last February, was enthusiastic over | the' possibilities of the Virginia area. The report, favorably indorsed by every member of the committee, was given to the Secretary at a meeting | which was also attended by Stephen T. Mather, director of the National | Park Service, and Robert S. Yard. executive secretary of the Natiomal Park Associatfon. The committee consisted of Repi sentative Temple of Pennsylvani who Introduced the bill yesterday and long interested in outdoor recrea- tion advancement; W. A. Welsh, gen- eral manager of the Palisades Inter- state Park; Harlan P. Kelsey, well known landscape architect of Massa- chusetts; Willlam C. Gregg of the National Arts Club of New York and Col, Glenn S. Smith, acting chief topo- graphic engineer -of the Geographic Survey. Asks $10,000.000 Fane. In his bill Representative Temple asks Congress formally to establish the park and make an initial appro- priation of $10,000 with which to pay the expenses of a committee to look into_the matter of purchasing and acquiring the necessary property. It is belleved .that some gifts of,land will be made. This committee would consist of five members, one to repre- sent Secretary Work. The committee that selected the area served without pay and paid its own expenses, too. 1t will bé neces- sary' for.the Government to bear the expensés of the commission that is to make the initial survey inasmuch as’ the ‘site has now. been definitely gelected and ‘recommended .to' Con- gress through Secretary Work. The report of the committee to Secretar: Work, in part, follow: “The members of the committes | appointed: by you and desigmated as (Continued on Page 2; 3) | |