Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1924, Page 13

IT WAS THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS. greens sold in the Capital at this season come from nearby Maryland and Virginia. [ THE CHRISTMAS GIRL OF 1924, wreaths--and everything. - Market. NAVY FLYER NEEDS MARKED ABLTY Must Be Master of Many In- struments, Naval Of- ficer Asserts. ted Press. of tation tn ent address before ctor, Association of the United States. ‘Che differences between the opera tions of the land and sea services in the alr were vividly described in the light of the expert knowledge re- wnired of a naval fiyer to meet the =reat number of peculiar problems 20t faced by shore gviators. After having passed the physical and expert qualification for a flyer, the naval aviator must become a ent radio operator, 20 words a inute sending and receiving. Then e must be a nautical navigator, an cxpert in gas explosives and under- stand the theory of operations of bat 1 destroyers and submarines. leaves his. ship station es away, and not - how to find it, but movements so as 1he North Island Naval Air Fan Diego, in a ri the Ang «f the les must appreclate not to injure it. Radio Communication. aunication by radio is es:iab- naval airplanes and of naval caft, even sub- arines operating under the surface of the sea. Naval airplanes are launched from submarines, from bat- 1 plane carriers, plancs also n alight, 50-foot runway Instead tield to land upon. An important factor in airplane op- crations at sea is the smoke screen, #nd a thorough knowledge of the sci- cnece relating this is essential. T'urthermore, Navy flver must understand bombs, the Navy all types but of to the gas using bombs of sufficient phosphorous | content, when exploded over a battle- ~hip, to annihilate the whole crew. the planes also discharge torpedoes. Another problem in. operation, Capt. Craven id, is the destructive effect of salt air on airplanes and their ma- terfal, this not only requiring great care and attention to the condition of the planes, but the development of collapsible craft that may b taken down and stowed away below decks and protected from the elements COUPLE DECIDE DIVORCE WAS MISTAKE; REMARRY #pecial Dispatch to The Sta: ROCKVILLE, Md., December 24— ‘Wellford T. Leake, 37 years.old, and Mrs. Marguerite E. Leake, 32, of Bir- mingham, Ala., were married in Rockville ~Monday by Rev. Nolan ‘B. Harmon, jr., pastor of the Metho- dist Church, at his home. It was the second time the two ~mbarked on the matrimonial sea to- Zether. Divorce proceedings ended the first venture, the bridegroom d closed, but they decided that a mis. take. The couple motored out from W ngten accompanied by s riond® and réeturned to the medlately after’ the ceremon Photograph with a | Here she is in all her glory—holly snapped down areund Center ‘Washington Star Photo. |On Duty 51 Years, | Never Losing Day. W. U. Mar’s Record Working for 51 years without losing a day for iliness or other reasons is the record held by John F. Connor, veteran emplove of the tern Union Telegraph Com- at Fourteenth and G street: ding to officials of the com. pany today or, who a testing and ire chicf, has been the job since he en- tered the telegraph company’ ploy, in 1873 e has never been out of work for one day and never stayed off excepting the days which are allowed holidays Ly the company Mr. Connor is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds. He lives with his children at ighth street and attends ristian Science Church is AUTOS BEAR BRUNT OF FRENCH TARIFF ‘General Increase in Duties Decided by Commission Ranges From 10 to 50 Per Cent. | BY the Assoctated Press. PARIS, December 24 —Automobiles suffered the brunt of increases in du- ties provided by the new tariff bill which affects nearly every commodity. {except foodstuffs imported ~into France. The bill will be presented to parliament after the budget is voted. The customs commission, in charge of the bill, decided on a general increase in customs duties ranging from 10 to G0 per cent in some instan . Automobiles, whether bare chassis without tires or finished cars ready °|for the road, will pay from 1,800 to {8,600 francs per 100 kilograms weight, | according to the size of the car. Spare {parts are assessed at from 900 to 2,250 and from 32,600 to 7,200 francs per 100 kilograms, according to clas- | sification of metal. Light ofls for motor fuel, benzols and naphtHa are fassessed at 7.50 francs per 100 kilo- grams, but the heavy fuel oils testing | 90 per cent are exempt. | The duties on steel are placed at | from 150 to 600 francs, on copper from 1108 to 900 francs, according to the | classification of trade; on sewing ma- | | chines, at from 600 to 1,200 franci | typewriters, 2dding and on address- | ing machine, {francs per 100 kilogram | ties are unchanged. The new tariff raises a wall against the import of dry { many, the duties from 1,200 to 3,400 francs per 100 | kilograms in order to protect the dye l!nduslrles of Alsace-Lorraine. at from 2,400 to 3,600 Cotton du | \ [ MAN, 64, ASPHYXIATED. Gas Escaping From Heater Fatal to Henry Wells. Henry Wells, 64, roomer at 459 Mis- sourl avenue, was found dead in bed | early today, having been accidentally | asphyxiated by illuminating gas that | had escaped from a heater. Charles A. ‘Baker, another roomer, detected the odor of gas and made an investi- gation, Police learned that Mrs. Susan wife of the dead man, lives mont street, Washingtonians buying wreaths on F street. dyes from Ger- | being placed at| _to Niemua in~10-hours, ** Nearly all of the Washington Star Photo. The Christmas season would not be complete without the . Salvation Army lagsie and her keule. = And the pot is always kept boiling by the Capital shoppers in the down- town section. Washington Star Photo, Supt.” Hess of the Botai in the new $35,000 palm exhibit house, for which Congress recently ap- propriated the fands. presented by the late President Harding. TWO AIRRECORDS Aititude and Speed Marks | Made by Italian and French- man in Laden Craft. | By the Associated Press AMPES, France, December aviator Doret yesterday broke the world record. for a - 500-kilometer (310.69 miles) flight in a plane carrying a load of 250 kilpgrams (a little more than 551 pounds). 3 The fiyer averaged 223 kilometers (about 136% miles) per hour. The for- mer record was made by Aviator Meister in_the United States last June. TURIN, Italy, December = 24.—The Aviation Society reports that Pilot' Bot- tala has exceeded the world height. rec- ord in an airplage carrying a load of 1,600 klograms (3,306.90 pounds). machine rose -to.an .altitude of more than 5,400 meters (17,7163, feet): and was in the air 110 minutes 52 4-5 sec- onds. STONE ADMITS MONEY BEHIND POSTAL PAY BILL Declines to State Amount, Says Fund Sent-to Capitol; But Use Still Undetermined. Although - admitting - that the ‘De- partment of Justice had established the fact that “funds were sent to the Capitol to be used-in behalf of - the postal pay - bill,” Attorney. - General Stone révealed mno further details of an investigation - still- under -way. Mr. Stone explained- that thus. far it had ‘not been-determingd how the money was used. He-had conclusive proof that it had been sent to the Capitol, e said, but he_reiterated that he could not make public the names of persons under investigation or the course the inquiry was taking. Officials of the postal workers' or | ganizations, in a statement last week, charged that the reports that an at- tempt had been made to use money to influence legislation had been concocted in an effort to defeat the | postal pay increase - bill. K. OF C. PLANS DINNER. | iy ; ““Get-Together” in Honor of Prelate to Be Held aJnuary 15. Announcement “that local Knightd of Columbus will _tender & - ‘get-to- gether” dinner in honor of Archbishop Michael J. Curley .at Rauschér's | January 15 - was made at & mesting of Potomac Council last -might in Knights of Columbus. Hall. A~ committes was appolnted by, Potomac - Counoll - to. assist- in . ar- rangemernts, comprising . the. follow- ing members: Hamilton E. Clipper, A.-J. Sardo, Willlam G. Feely,- Ed- ward L. Tuckeér, Walter L Plint and Willlam T. Kernan: : R. E. Hall was announced as the lucky recipient of _the _super-elght radiola which was glyen-away as a Christmas -~ present- . by - -Potomac: | Council. e ot 2 — | ney by regilar alr service trom Paris. The ! ‘| specfal It is-now - possible to ‘make -a -jour— Mr. Hess stands beside an eight-foot orange tree tiopal Photo. Washington may have fickle weather, but it is by no means the hardest city in the country to predict weather for, according to Forecaster Mitchell of the Weather Bureanu. Weather prognosticating is not an easy task, any way vou look at it,” Mr. Mitchell- remarked to- day. “But, generally speaking, it certainly isn't any -easier to hit the nail on the head, metaoro- logically, in other parts of the country than it is in’the National Capital. = “Some cltie not experiencs so many whims of the skies as Washington. it is true, but there are other cities that are treated & lot more whimsieally than this cit; “Weather is thing to deal SAFETY FOR SPEEDY ELEVATORS SOUGHT Bureau of Standards Attempting to Evolve New -Accident Curbs. > a ° mighty _ fickle with. A ‘weather By the Associated Press. to. sprout. skyscrapers, and- modern invention must provide methods of getting -sizable masees of the.popu- lation ‘up.. and. down within those of Standards s seeking, in associa- tion with insurance companies, man- ufacturers ahd engineers, to evolve new methods by which the process may be-safeguarded. A prime requisite to the operation of the” high-speed eclevators which alone make skyscrapers practicable is a dependable interlocking mech- ansim, that will hold doors shut un-, less the elevator car is-in proper po- sition for their opening, and function to pre cars within “shafte. To -the perfec- tion of -such a mechanism bureau experts have addressed themselves. One device which the bureau has constructed for -testing interlocking devices puts .each machine through 100,000 :repetitions of its - functions. The mechanism is observed and ex- | amined before, during.and after the ! testing. Its fallures, potential or | mctual, are - detected. Dr. C. K. Burgess, director of the | buresu, has revealed that-manufac- | turers “following the work already { have mapped out several. improve- | ménts to’ the mechanisms “they pro- | duce, ~ Insurance companies follow | the work;-sincé it bears: directly on the rate of accident risk which they apply. AR BN WINS SCULPTURE PRIZE. Yale. Student Awarded - Warren Honor for Work. EW HAVEN, December -24.—The Yalo School of. Fine Arts .announced 1ast_night that one. of .its students, Maude - Phelps Hutchins ~of New Haven, has won first place and the Lioyd. ‘Warren prize _for extraordinary promise in‘the sculp- | ture- competition at Beaux Arts In- | stitute of ‘Désign, New York City. Two_other Yale students, George Snowden of Bridgeport and Avard ‘Falrbanks of.Engene, Oteg.; tpcélved mention, Since -modern- cities must continue structures; the: Unlted States Bureau| vent the dropping of ‘elevator| A BIRD IN THE HA D. There are some folk who prefer the goose for the Christmas Yuletide table, but there is really only one national bird at this season of the yaer. The gobbler wins all pop: Bad weather has brought an unusual appeal for the poor and homeless. The Volunteers of America are do- ing their part to relieve suffering throngh the provision of food, cloth. ing and shelter. |\Weather Man Finds Forecasting | Hard Job “Any Way You quk at It” CREATED ABROAD forecaster wouldn't - keep his health long if he grieved too much about the way the fates have played him at times. He just has to go along doing his Lest to fathom out what will happen and trust to the orderly proce: fortuns to bear him out. just as disappointed when doesn’t turn out exactly as figured it out &s the public 1 “The old habit of blam weather man for distasteful veather is happily going by the ards. The public knows now- adays that the forecaster c: ¥ read the signs and the maps and let it ‘g0 at that. If he could regulate things to suit him he could be the most popular man in the world, I guess. es, it looks like Christmas. hop! | HENDERSON TO HEAD ECKINGTON CITIZENS Association Election - Results in Choice of Former Presidént. Other Officers Named. snow for William G. Henderson was elected president of the North Capitol and | Eckington_ Citizens' Association at a. | meeting.in ~the Emeory. School Lin- | coln”road and . Randolph’ street, last night. Mr. Henderson -was the as- sociation’s “first president when it was _organized 28 Years ago. He succeeds “Seldon M. Ely, who has been its president for the past-seven Yyears. Other officors ' elected were vice president, Dr. -Bila- R. second, vice president, . secretary-treasurer, Jesse . First Citizens” Assoclations, | son and Mr. Morgan. Wise, Robert - C. Mr. Hender- Willlam T2, Carter- T. Homer Houchins . and . Miner were elected to the X commitfes. Resolutions were. adopted. urging {Congress to acquire all property be- jtween the Union Station- and the Capitol, and that. the.buildings there- on be razed and’the area converted into- a-parkway, affording -an- unob- structed. view of the Capitol Bullding from Union Station Plaza. The as- sociation also -voted to indorse- the {five-year . bullding - progTam as - out- lined by the Board of Education. Lieut.. Chapman entertained the as- sociation with‘a number of Southern dialect storles. PRSTERATT WILL QUIT-U. S. POST. John Carroll ‘to Retire After 31 Years in Service. John ~Carroll, an employe of the Treasury Department for 31 years, has ‘retired from his position in the accounts and collections unit of the Internal Revenue Bureau. Mr. Car- roll was appointed from Adams, Mass., by former Assistant Secretary Ham- lon of -the Treasury Department. Upon his .birthday, the last.day of this _year, he ~will officlally . retire, although, -having - 15" days’ - vacation due, he already .is “off duty.” Mr. Carroll: plans to visit-kis old home in_the Berkshire -Hilis in the near future, and -delegates -to the Federation of | ularity contests. ‘Washington Star Photo. T o4 “ A FEW WORDS WITH A GENIA! L FELLOW. The lad wants a sied and ice ckates; the Washington climate does not favor the use of such vehicles, and Santa tried to get him to change his request. fellow had to promis: o PASS THROUGH THE PANAMA CANAL. T But the old Washington Star Photo he steamship Belgenland is making a Winter cruise around the world, going first to the Pacific coast by way of the Panama Canal. The passengers will not retarn to SHPBOARDPLANS THOMIGHTYLINERS Congress to Be Asked to Au- thorize Pair Like George Washington. the Associated Press. | 'NEW YOF gress will be Board for pe: Ler 4.-Con- the Shipping rmission to construct two new Atlantic liners of the type 1of the George Washington, E. C. Plummer, vice chairman of the board, announced at the annual reunion of the Veterans' Association of steamship Leviathan on board the vessel here last night. This, Mr. Plummer said, was the answer of the Shipping Board to reports that Amer- ican shipping was vanishing from the seas. Shipping men. at the dinner subse- quently said that the money required to build the proposed liners was already In the hands of the Shipping Board, realized from the sale of ob- solete vessels, and the comstruction would not necesditate any new out- lay. and that permission of Congress was | ing ‘actual construction. The George Washington and the Leviathan are {ships of the United States lines and | the new ships would-be used-to sup- plement the service being carried on by -them. Raps Navy's Critfes. 8o far as is possible for the Navy to maintain it, the §-5-3 ratlo agreed upon by the Washington arms con- ference is being observed, Assistant Secretary of _the Navy Theodore | Douglas" Robinson told the assoca- tion. “The gentlemen who want to stir |up war but not.to take part in it are responsible for the accusation that the United States was handed a {Temon’ at the disarmament confor- { ence, and, by %o doing, bring dishonor upon their country by questioning | the motives of the men who partici- {pated in the conference,” he sald. | Secretary Robiuson also commented “without wishing to eriticize - Con- gress,” upon the delays by Congress in acting upon the requests of the Navy for appropriations. He sald that many Representatives seemed to be more interested in the make and date of automobiles and fn command- ants of the varfous -naval yards than in the vital naval problems. Greeted By Coolldge. The following letter from President Coolidge to the Veterans was read | “The Leviathan Veterans’ organiza- tion strikes me as one of the World { War veterans' organizations that is icertain to make a particular appeal to those who are fortunate emough to be entitled to membership. The wonder- ful work of the Leviathan during the war will make the vessel ome of the traditions of the service for all time. “I send my best wishes to the mem- bers of the association.” . Col. Peter K. Traub, who repre- sented the Army, said that had it not been for the Navy and the merchant marine fleet the World War -would never have been won by the allies. He added-that he hoped for the day when the Army as weil as the Navy would have a 5-5-3 ratfo. Mr. Plummer reviewed the charac- ter of the men whose devotion has made tradition upon the sea in the naval and merchant marine services. { | | He: complimented the veterans of the the | They said the plans were drawn | the only. step necessary before start- |- now the two major| New York until latz in the Spring. [Women Criticized | As “Quick Change Artists” by Vicar By the Assoclated Press. KINGSTON, Englan, A. Wel December ley Orr, vicar Paul's Qhurch, Kingston has come dut against the use of paint and powder by wom- en. Writing to his parishioners, the vicar says: “Even while we are signing the marriage registers in the church vestry, the bride may get in moments’ work before the mirror with a powder p ssors and a bottle. The mar church in love a blonde takes out on his blooming bobbed brunette. “Some wives are so constantly hanging their appearan their husbands live in dread being arrested a HEBREW UNIVERSITY IN JERUSALEM OPENS Institute for Jewish Studies, First Department, Is Launched on Mount Scopus. arm a JERUSALEM, December 24 (Jewish Telegraphic - Agency).—The East West were joined in the presence of representatives of American and | west Kuropean men of letters, pol- itical representatives and officials of the - Palestine government, when the Institute for Jewish Studies, the first department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was opened on Mount Scopus the first day iof the festival of _lights, commemorating the Mac- cabean- victory over the Greeks. Prof. .Crawford . of ‘the American College at Beirut, and \Dr. Allbright of the American Institute of Arche- ology in Jerusalem, represented the American world of letters at the celebration.- The consuls of various lands and representatives of Moslem | tine also were present. Dr. Yebuda L. Magnes, American dent of Palestine and president of the governing board of the univer- [ sity, in his opening address, declared: | “We aro creating in Palestine a place { for study without fear and without prejudice. ~ We depend upon the Jewish spirit to enrich the spiritual Yife of mankind. “The " institute for Jewish studies will be a connecting link between the wisdom of the East and the | civilization and cuiture of the West.” DEADLINE ANNOUNCED. | _ ASHEVILLE, C., December 24.— |January -1, 1925, is the final date on which men presumed to have con- tracted tuberculosis as a result of war service may apply for. treatment, it Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of. the Veterans' Bureau. Gen. Hines said, however, this will not apply to.men whose ‘records are held by the Vet- erans’ Bure: Leviathan for what he termed “the olimax of thdt tradition” during the had trapsported the sea than had any other vessel. The reunion was attended by .more than 400 veterans of the association, which, William 8. Allen, its president, sald would continue as long as an man - who served -on the Leviathan during fhe. war was alive, and | and Christian institutiong in Pales- | | Jewish communal leader, now a resi- was announced here last night by | war when he said that the Leviathan | moTe troops across | World Phets. IRELAND'S ATTITUDE CREATES PROBLEM Status of All British Domin- ions Bound Up in Treaty Registration. By the Associated Pr GENEVA, Decem | British Empire has been raised anew | by Ireland’s throwing the auntlet of diplomatic re he mother country. eland added { to the strenuous schedule of Ch: | mas events already before the league | through the Albanian and Germa: problems, by notifying the Geneva peace organization that she entir dissents from the views of Grea Britain denying Ireland's right t register the famous Anglo-Iris! {treaty which transformed Irelanc | into & state of freemen. i Ireland, in diplomatic phraseclogy { told the league that she does not de sire to pursue the controversy Wwitl eat Britaln, yet makes it perfectl: lear that she cannot be restricted ax | to the league prerogatives by any |limitation imposed by Downing street Irela 's deflance h created an ex traor v interest in league circles because it is believed here that-it-ma> be the procursor of similar move ments by other parts of the empire {espectally Canada and South Africa. | The question -involved-is-_heid to {be far deeper than a ruling.as t | whether the Irish treaty-is-an-inter { national instrument capable of regis |tration with the league. Iréland’ | move involvs the - entire relation. |of the various units of the Britis. | Empire with the league, and, in"th | judgment of officials in Geneva, ma: | settlo how much- independence of {action can .be expected. from the colontes and permitted by the:league itself. England’s, initiative concerning Ire {land, it is thought, will furnfsh | subject for debate at the forthcom 1ing tmperlal conference, which at its meeting Inid dowh the principle o diplomatic independence of the com {ponent parts of the empire, witl mutyal copsultation, ms the guiding rule in foreign policies. Irishmen contend that no agree | ment exists authorizing England to speak for :Ireland or the other-do | minions without first obtaining their | assent. ~They argue that Mr. Cham- {berlafn had no right to take his recent stand against.Ireland's libert: | ot action? they remark that Canads refused o be bound by the Turkis! ,in the negotfation of which she was not represented, and declare that not one dominion would- have accepted league membership . excepl upon the condition of independénce. Ireland’s communication™ indleatcs clearly that she.stands by her-right to register the ‘treaty. Ragistrati gives that document validity before tBe World. Court by Ireland’s. right te:appeal to that court should ign effort be made to infringe the trehty orgdetract from her independence. S5 ¥ BRYN MAWR, Pa., December.24.- Dr. Boger F. Brunel, head of the de- partment of chemistry at Bryn Mawr College and.a scientist of note, dled esterday after an_operation for ap- down o olt-agal: