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PROTESTS ON MAI RAISES PRESENTED Publishers Renew Complaint on Hasty Consideration of Rate Increases. Protests against increases in sec- ond-class mail rates, proposed in the administration measure to ralse reve- nue for postal salary increases, were presented today to the joint congres- slonal post office committee by spok: the Amer ewspaper ers’ Association. Rencwing thelr complaint against hasty consideration by Congress of the Post Office Department’s cost ascertainment report on which the rate ralses are predicated. the pub- lishers contended that the records of the department show the inadvisabil- ! ty of raising rates on second-class matter at this time on the theory that such an advance would produce increase in revenue. Pointing out that since 1912 sec- ond-class mail has been the only class on which Congress has increassd rates, they contend that these ad- vances had increased the revenues of the department more than 125 per cent, but at the same time resulted in a large decrease in the volume of the mails, arguments ciation were for the publishers’ presented by £ B. homason of Chi president: John t Bryan of Richmond, Va., vice D. Barnum of Syracuse, of postal commit- of Cleveland, M. F. Palmer and York and association’s ashington repr Appearing ye Agricultural tion, Charies F. Jenkins ed thi Congress abolish the zone system of charges on second-class mail matter. He also argued that without any in- crease In rates the Post Office Depart- ment would be able to absorb the 5,000,000 increase in salaries for postal employes approved by Congress «t the last session and vetoed by President Coolldge. Rural Delivery Loss. be would forced out of the Ly the rates. h c ntion that the Post Otlice Department improper- 1v had charged second-class mail with 100,000 for the rural free delivery service, they declared thers was no way o cover tha loss of rural delfv- ery except by spreading it over the entire postal service, or else Ly re- ;arding it as a public policy expend- re. See Farther Revislon. 1? the advance became effective, it was argued, Congr two wvears would be obliged to revise rates downward again, because revenues ere increasing sufficiently on the present rate structure to provide for the salary increases within that time. Figures were furnished in an ef- fort to show that the previous in- creases in second-class rates had curtailed the mail circulation of daily ucwspapers from 15 to 40 per cent. The present proposed increases, rep- resentatives of the publishers de. clared, are more than double the for- mer Increases, which were spread out over a period of four years. The “disastrous” effect of thess proposed sdvances, they sald, would be an “irreparable” injury both to the pub- 1ishers and the subecribers. Attention also was directed to figures showing that the Post Office Department has @ net annual 1oss of 537,000,000 for speclal services, such s forelgn mall, transit, money order, egistry, special delivery, insurance, C. 0. D.'and Treasury savings. Would Extend Truck Service. E. H. Baker, president of the Cleve- land Plain Dealer Publishing Com- pany, declared if the proposed rate increases went into effect his com- pany would be forced to extend its truck service and diminish to the minimum the mail service. “Weo expect to pay for the cost of delivery of our papers” he said, “based” equitably and fairly on de- livery only of our papers. But we must have time to figure out accu- vately this cost.” E Senator Oddie. Republican, Nevada, inquired if newspapers receivad credit for routing their mail. Mr. Baker aid not, and Representative Kelly, epublican, Pennsylvania, pointed out hat hundreds of mail clerks were <ed in other businesses to route rth-class mail. Performance of \s work was by newspapers, Mr. rhomason suggested, saving the Gov- 1aent great expense. “Why are these mail clorks furnish- mail order businesses and not to spapers?” asked Senator Harreld, tepublican. *We do this ourselves to avold de- Mr. Thomason replied. *We wint ders to get the papers next orning. Repreeentative Ramseyer, Republi- 4n, lowa, suggested that Congress might be willing to grant more time the publishers would prepare a rogram for permanent settlement of scond-class postal rates. Thomason Teplied that if given time the pub- Tigners would seek to determine the cokts of second-class postage and prepare such & program. ENVOY TO ENTERTAIN DIPLOMATIC CORPS Venezuelan Charge Will Commem- orate Great Victory of Ayachucho. The diplomatic corps of Washington will be the guests of the Venesuelan charge d'affaires, Dr. Yanes, at a ban- quet in commemoration of the centenary of the battle of Ayachucho at the New Willard Hotel tonight. Secretary of Stats Hughes and Mrs. Hughes, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Ambagsadors and Ministers will be pres- ent at the affair. The battle of Aya- chucho, which was fought December 9, 1824, marked the end of Spanish rule in South America. While the conflict toek place In Peru, Venesuela was rep- resented by two generals, Bollvar and Sucre. Secretary Hughes and Charge d'af- falres Yanes will speak. Special music, consisting of South American national airs, will be played. Eighty guests will e present. LAND DEALS STIR MEXICO Acquisitions by Americans Taken Up by Government. MEXICO CITY, December 26.—The Mexican consul at McAllen, Tex., has notified the foreign office that Ameri- can companies racently acquired ex- tensive tracts of land on the right bank of the Bravo River, which is prohibited by the Mexican constitu- tion. (The Rlo Grande is also known in Mexioo as the Bravo del Norte.) ‘The foreign office has referred the matter to the department of the inte- rior for Investigation, eased | Mother and Girl, Trap in Blaze, Saved by Firemen Trapped in their apartment on the third floor of 1220 G street when fire broke out early today on the floor below them, Mrs. Amelia Graeux, 50 years old, and her daughter, Martha, 17, were carried down ladders to satety by firemen of No. 2 Engine Company. The blaze at first was so threat- ening that a second alarm was sounded, and before it could be extinguished the building and a stock of gowns in a shop on the second floor had been damaged to the extent of nearly $10,000. The shop is owned by J. Willard Greene, retired “millionaire” police- man. Mrs. Graeux and her daughter, awakened by the stifling smoke which poured up from the lower story, shouted frantically for help through an upraised window, and pedestrians sounded the first alarm from a nearby box. The mother and daughter were glven first ald treatment at Emergency Hospital for shock and partial suffocation. after which they hurrled back and watched the firemen complete their work. Their apartment was not damaged. MINERALS IN GRAIN FOUND ESSENTIAL Loss of These in Milling De- tracts From Food Value, Scientists Find. soclated Press. YORK, December 27.—Min- erals may be vital to the world's food supply, according to a report to the American Chemical Society of re- searches now in progress in the labor- atories of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Statlon at Lexington. “The conclusion has been reached,” said Dr. J. S. McHargue, in charge of the Investigation, “that copper, iron, manganese and zinc perform more important functions In agriculture than is generally recognized.” Experiments thus far have been made on Kentucky bluegrass, red clover, alfalfa, white and yellow corn, wheat, rice, polishings and polished rice, showing that iron predominates, with zinc second, manganese third and copper fourth, Asseciation of Metal “The germ of wheat,” says the re- port, “is a rich source of an unidenti- fled vitamin factor. The association of relatively large amounts of copper, | manganese and zinc with this sub. stance, rich in vitamins, is a colnci- dence of striking interest. “It was found that when rice is polished, nearly all the ~~nper, iron, manganese and zinc are removed in | the polishings. Consequently when pigeons were confined to a diet of polished rice they soon developed polyneuritis, whereas pigeons fed on unpolished rice maintained a normal condition. Apparently the compounds of copper, iron, manganese and zinc contained yn the pericarp and germs of cereals are {mportant factors in nutrition. “Fertile soils, it is shown, contain small amounts of the elements, cop- per, manganese and zinc. Plants grown in the soll absorb small amounts of these elements, which are stored in the leaves and in the perl- carps and germs of the seeds. Lest in Milling. “When the cereals, corn, wheat and rice are highly milied the resulting degermed corn meal, patent flour and polished rice deprived of the greater part of the compounds of copper, fron. manganese and zinc, which appear to be factors in animal nutrition. “In practical agriculture, depleted solls may require the addition of | sion. | rents ! previously available compounds of copper, man- ganese and zinc in order to restore and maintain productivity and to pro-| duce 2 food supply containing the vital factors in normal proportion.” A research problem of fundamental importance in agriculture today, the report declared, Is to ascertain which of the elements that occur in soils, plants and animals are necessary and what are their functions. ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TONIGHT. The Amicitia Club of Young Bus!- ness and Professional Woman's De- partment, Y. W. C. A, will give a dance, 8 o'clock, at Blue Triangle Hut, Twentleth and B streets. The National Fellowship Club will give a got-acquainted dance at the Cairo. Strangers invited to attend and get acquainted. The executive board meeting of the District League of Pen Women will meet, 8 o'clock, ‘at clubhouse. Community Service dance, o'clock, at Pythian Temple. dancing class, 7:30 o'clock. §:30 Free Tivoli Pastime Club will give a; dance, 9 o'clock, private ballroom of Arcade. Dr. Howard Temple of St. Louis talk of “Constructive Thinkini o'clock, at League for the Larger Life, 1628 K street. Public invited. in 8 CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. “Second Death and Second Birth” will be the subject of a lecture to be given tomorrow, 8 p.m., at United Lodge of Theosophists, 1781 K street. Public invited. West End W. C. T. U. will meet Monday, 2 p.m., at 3113 I street. The D. C. League of American Pen Women's fellowship tea, scheduled for this afternoon, has been postponed until January 31. Bryan May Join Body Holding Men And Monkeys Kin Despite his far-flung campaign against the Darwinlan theory of evolution, Willlam J. Bryan has made applivation to join the army of sclentists who have been the theory's chief exponents and de- fenders. Announcement was made today by the American Association for the Advancement of Sclence that a letter inclosing a check for the usual $§ membership fee had been received {from Mr. Bryan, who had expreised his desire to join the association. The check, however, was unsigned, and Mr. Bryan's membership card is being held up until this detail hag been remedied. The assoclation is to hold its annual meeting here next week, and one of the events on the pro- , gram ‘will be an address on “Dar- win and Bryan,” by Prof. E. L Rice of Ohlo Wesleyan University. Local scientists are wondering whether Mr. Bryan expects to at- tend. | fowa,” June THE EVENING WILL RESUME FULL ENGAGEMENT LIST Coolidge to Discontinue Holi- day Policy Following New Year. After New Year day President Coolidge will abandon his Christmas week pollcy of keeping the White House callers down to the minimum and will then resume his former policy of the virtually full engage- ment schedule. It is understood that early next week the President will Tesume conferences with some of the Senate and House leaders regarding the progress of administration legis- lation and with the view to expedite the same. Mme. Marica Palestl, prima donna of the Moscow Opera House, was recelv- ed by President Coolidge at the exec- utive office of the White House to- day. Mme. Palesti has been in this country only a short time, coming from Russla, where she lost all of her family and fortune at the hands of the bolshevikl, and is in Washington for the purpose of singing at a con- cert next Monday nigh* at the New Masonic Temple. Open Mind on Extra Session. President Coolidge’s mind is still open regarding the question of call- ing an extra session of Congress after March 4. He is frequently asked as to the possibility of an extra ses- To callers yesterday afternoon the President Is represented as hav- ing replied that he has made no de- cision, but in his opinion one should be called only in the event of some developments of great importance. Naturally enough, the Executive will await the expiring of the present Congress before making any attempt to come to a conclusion. Much de- pends upon whother or not Congress enacts certain important leglslation being sought by the administration. The chief task before the present session is the enactment of the regu- lar appropriation bills, of these approved by the House, the feeling at the White House Is that this work will have been successfully disposed of by March 4. Besides these supply bills, there is a wide diversity of legislation, either urged or suggested by the President, some of which is deemed by him as being highly important. Judgenhips to Be Filled. Almost immediately after the Christ- mas. holiday, when Congress is back at work, the President will send the nominations filling the several Fed- eral bench vacancies to the Senate. Although final recommendations in several of the cases have not yet been made by the Department of Justice, decislon has practically been reached in all of them by the President. Theso appointments wlill represent the largest single group of judge- ships Prcsident Coolldge has been called upon to fill since becoming President. 1t was revealed at the White House late yvesterday that the President le contemplating calling, in the near future, a conference of governors of coal-producing States to consider the promotion of safety in the coal mine industry. Prosident Coolidge s giving the Tacna-Arica arbitartion case his per- sonal attention, and expects it to be ready for announcement within two months. He §s being assisted in the preparation of his decision by Secre- tary Hughes. The announcement at the White House that the Tacna-Arica decision soon would be ready for delivery to the Chilean and Peruvian govern- follows similar statements made that the decision would be made public early in the new year. To Appoint Bosten Attormey. It was indicated at the Whtie House that Harold P. Willlams will be ap- pointed United States district attor- ney at Boston. He now is the district attorney of Plymouth and Norfolk Countles. The Federal vaeancy for which he has been recommended was caugsed by the recent removal of United States Attorney Robert O. Harris by President Coolldge after a controversy with Department of Jus- tice officials growing out of com- plaints lodged against his administra- tion. The appointment Is the first major one to be made in Massachusetts on recommendation of Senator Butler, successor to Senator Lodge and chair- man of the Republican national com- mittee. —_— F. J. DYER, U. S. CONSUL AT COBLENZ, IS DEAD State Department Learns of Death at German Sta- tion. Francis J. Dyer, United States con- sul at Coblenz, Germany, the State Department {s {nformed, died in that city yesterday following a stroke of paralysis. He was born in Dyersville, 21, 1864, and afterward made his home in San Francisco. He was successively assistant postmaster at Athens, Nebr.; postmaster at Pender, Nebr.; in the lumber business in Iowa and Nebraska, and in the newspaper business in Corona, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington. In Jenu- ary, 1914, he entered the consular service and served successively at Swansea, the State Department, Ceiba, Tegucigalpa, Nogales and Coblenz. FRENCH BANKER HELD. Accused of Spreading Alarmist Reports in Nantes. PARIS, December 27.—The govern- ment {s not confinink its efforts in repressing false Communist reports to the expulsion of undesirable for- eigners. It was learned yesterday that action had been taken against a banker of Nantes, who is declared to have recently sent circulars to some 50 of his clients warning them that conditions in France wers critl- cal; that Amiens was in the hands of the Communists, and that a railroad istrike was imminent. The banker, whose establishment is not of the first Importance, {s officlally charged with propagating alarmist reports. FURNACE GAS KILLS 3. Family Overcome by Escaping Carbon Monoxide: ® PORTLAND, Oreg., December 27.— Carbon monoxide gas from a defective €as furnace killed three persons in one family here yesterday. The dead are: Charles E. Adams, 58; Mrs. Mary L. Adams, 84, grandmother of Charles Adams; Miss Marjorle Adams, 17, granddaughter of Mrs. Adams and niece of Charles Adam The three bodies were discovered in thetr home by a relative who called at the home. —_———— Col. Jewett Ordered to Manila. Lieut. Col. Henry C. Jewett, Corps of Engineers, attached to the office of the chief of Engineers, War De- partment, has been ordered to Manila, P. I, and Lieut. Col. Wildur ‘Willing, Corps of Engineers, at Bos- ton, to the Panama Canal Zone, for| which only.one other copy s ksewn |lation is going about the str dutyy STAR, WASHINGTO Two Thousand Radio Fans Res and with three | To Plea to Aid nd Children’s Hospital Political Analyst Demonstrates That Politics and Charity Can Be Mixed With Profit to Little Ones in Washington. { Politics and charity generally are considered as involving such widely varying qualities that they don’t mix, but Frederic Willam Wile, special writer for The Star and well known political analyst, has succeeded not only in scrambling them together in the great mixing bowl of the air, but In obtaining something really worth while out of the result. The something worth while Is the round sum of $2,300 which has rolled in to date in response to an appeal in behalf of the Children's Hospital broadcast by Mr. Wile in his Tuesday night weekly radio talks from WRC. “I have been talking to you every Tuesday night” he told his radio audience, & month or so ago, “and I haven’t had a cent out of {t. Now I am asking you for aid, not for myself, but for the little sick children out there in the Children's Hospital. What are you going to do for them for Christmas?” 2,000 Fans Respond. The more than 2,000 letters contain- ing contributions, large and small, which 80 far have been received con- stitute the radio fans' answers. The letters began coming in the next malls—first by the dozems, then in scores, then in hundreds. They are still coming. Few letters contained more than a LIGHT RATE CUT (Continued trom First Page.) Since that time, the matter has been In the lower courts and a decision has been expected recently. Refund to Cover Seven Years. Although the company, during the seven years of litigation, has only been allowed to keep approximately § cents per kilowat hour, consumers have never stopped paying the 10-cent | rate. Therefore, the bills they receive | trom February on, as a result of the settlement, will show a noticeable re- | |Old Tribe Legend Lures Indians to Seek Hidden Gold| | | | § |Dig for Big Ransom Re- puted to Have Been Paid 400 Years Ago. Correspondence of the Assoctated Press, BUENOS AIRES, November 18— Descendants of the Incas along the Andes still search to this day for| the hidden gold which legend says their ancestors gathered to ransom | their emperor, Atahualpa, from the | hands of the Spanish conqueror, Pi-| zarro, four centuries ago, and which | they never delivered because Plzarro betrayed and murdered him. The gold promised by Atahualpa was enough | to fill the room where he was im- prisoned as high as his neck, and is! supposed to have been buried and! scaled with bowlders somewhere in | Andes v Summer when the mountain have melted groups of Indians from southern Bollvia and north- western Argentina pursue their quest, armed with picks, and some of them carrying expiosives to blow | away the bowlders which are supposed po<ed to cover the treasure. Last Summer a number of them who had climbed Cerro Colorado in Argentine territory cams across a mound of stones evidently piled by human hands. The stones were sol- 1dly fixed in a sort of concrete and resisted their picks. Then with dy- namite they blew the mound open. The golden treasure they had hoped to see was not there, but instead the undamaged and well preserved mum- my of an Inca chlef. A few silver trinkets and a huge, strange disk of copper had been entombed with him, but no gold. The Indians carried their late an- cestor to the town of Salta and Ir- reverently 20ld him a few weeks ago to Justo Ducasse, an archeological collector of Buenos Aires, who has brought him here and tells the story of the discovery. The mummy wears & crown of parrots’ feathers as fresh as if they had just been plucked, and a curlous blanket of black and white ! check with an embroidered red fringe. |The long hair s plaited. A bone tag attached to the crown denotes he was of high rank. P FIRE TRUCKS COLLIDE RESPONDING TO ALARM One Put Out of Commission, Other Slightly Damaged, But None Is Injured. Colliding at Rhode Tsland avenue and Seventeenth street this morning, No. 2 truck was put out of commis- sion and No. 1 engine was damaged while responding to a fire alarm at} 1431 N street. The running board of the truck was badly damaged and the fender of the engine was damaged. Delay result- ing from the aocident made it neces- sary to summon other companies to take their places. Allen Taylor resides in the house whers the fire ocourred. The fire was in a room on the second floor of the home, where a bed ignited and was destroyed. None of the firemen on the machines in collision was injured. BISHOP BOWS TO EDICT: Presents Pontifical Documents te Argentine for Approval. BUENOS AIRES, December 27.— Bishop Boneo has sent to Foreign Minister Gallardo for the govern- ment's approval the pontifical docu- ments acerediting him as apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. The bishop at first declined to com- ply with this formality and a strained situation between the Argentine gov- ernment and the Holy See appeared imminent, HIGH PRICES FOR BOOKS. Sbakespeare Folio Brings $8,000; “Humor’'s Faces,” $4,500. Correspondence of the (Assoctated Press. mmn. No“n?ber 28.—The book sales season has opened in London with several rare editions offered at auction. The chief of these was a copy of the third follo of Shake. speare’s plays, which made a record price of $8,000. A copy of “Humor's Antique Faces” a collection of epi- bearing the date 1605 and of to exlst, brought $4,5600, i dollar. Some had 35 and some $10. One of the most recent contributions came | from the boys of the motor cycle corps | of the post office, who took up a collec- | tion among themselves. Few of them are the letters of the wealthy. The ma- Jority are from those who are willing to glve their mite, as did one widow, 84/ years old, who wrote as follows: “In sympathy for your good work | for the Children's Hospital I send the ‘widow's mite.’ Another letter, inclosing a dollar, sald: “Here is the combined contribu- tion of four working women.” “From a friend of the alir, for the Children’s Hospital,” read another. Prominent Citisen Joins. One of Washington's leading citizens wrote; “I have a couple of tots myself, who for the time are in good health. It is to thelr’ little brothers and sisters in need of the services of the Children's Hospital that I consider it a privilege to respond to your call.” So they run, these replies of the radio listeners-in. Written on letter- head stationery and signed by a well known name only now and then; writ- ten on scraps, scrawled, badly type- written, printed out in ink, thumb- marked. They are the answers of those who themselves have known, perhaps, the cry of need. TO 7V, CENTS; duction, amounting to 2% cents per hour. As the amounts in the impounded funds grew larger each year, interest in the outcome of the case, has in- creased proportionately among the users of electricity. The amount which each {ndividual wlill have refunded will depend on the amount of current they have used monthly during the past seven years. One consumer, who has lived in an apartment, figured out recently that his refund would be about $30, if the impounding should stop at the present time. Boys Fight Duel With Shotguns to Settle Argument One May Die as Result of Test to Prove Best Marksman. Epectal Dispatch to The St DALLAS, Tex, December Julius Jordan, 16 vears old, is in a hospital not expected to live and po- | lics are searching for another youth about the same age, as the result of a shotgun duel staged by the boys to see “which could shoot the bes The shooting followed an argument | between the two bors as to which one was the best marksman with air rifles, and when the discussion became somewhat heated some companions went for the shotguns so that the boys could settle the affair. The shotguns were thrown down between the youths, each took one, then backed away about 50 or 60 feet and both fired. Jordan dropped wounded while the other boy ran. The left side of Jordan's face and head is filled with buckshot and his left eye is belleved to be punctured. Part of his face was shot away. Between 25 and 30 boys witnessed the argument and the shooting, one boy saying that “he could not look at the shooting” and ran across a rail- road track nearby. —_— LAYS CHINESE STUDENT STRIKE TO BOLSHEVISM President of Trustees of College of Yale in China Hits Japanese Educated Clase. By the Associated Preos. NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 21A| —Receiving unofficlal reports that students of the College of Yale in China at Changeha are on strike, Prof. Frederick W. Willlams of Yale Unlversity, chairman of the board of trustees of the Institute in China, yes- terday placed the blame on the bol- shevik movement in China and the antagorism of half-trained Chinese students returning from Japan and demanding teaching positions. “It appears highly probable,” Prof. Willlams said, “that the unrest, which has for the moment swept the under- sgraduates into common action, results from a flareup by an old group called the anti-imperialists, which has lately been crying for “state rights” or pro- vincial independence of Peking. “Two elements are in evidence all over the country. One of them s bolshevism, with its strong irreligious basis, which instigates for the mo- ment a flerce antagonism against every kind of religious teaching. The other is the presence of great num- bers of partly trained Chinese who on | returning from Japan find themseives outclassed by Western educated teach- i I | known. USERS TO GET BACK $3,000,000| | pany, it {s claimed, of the.right of D. ‘0, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1924.’ FOUR AUTOS FLEE AFTER ACCIDENTS Joy-Riders Responsible One Case, Virginia Driver in Second. in Four instances of drivers of auto- moblles falling to stop after accidents and make their identity known were reported by the pollce yesterday. In one Instance the car that did damage belonged to Ira Lockey, 309 A street northeast, and had been previously taken by joyriders from in front of 1611 Corcoran street. It struck the machine ot J. 8. Barry, 1442 Corcoran street, parked in front of his home. Lillian Parker, 18, 1404 Wisconsin avenue, was knocked down by an au- tomoblile at Wisconsin avenue and Q street vesterday afternoon and in- Jured. The driver of the machine, an unidentified colored man. did not etop. A motor vehicle of the W. W. Grif- fith Coal Co., driven by Edward Wil- liams, was struck by an automobile while leaving an alley near Massa- chusetts avenue and Thirteenth street yesterday morning and damaged. There were dead tags on the car that did the damage and it was not stopped. Virginia Car Flees. William Boswell, 1439 Newton street, was driver of an automobile that was struck by another car at Fourteenth and Q streets last night and damaged. Driver of the other car, equipped with a Virginia licenee, fail- ed to stop and make his identity His license number was ob- tained, however, and he may be ar- rested. Charges of driving while intoxi- cated, leaving the scene of accident without making his identity known, no registration card, colliding and breaking glass on the street were filed against Vernon Payseur, 932 C strest southwest, after his car had collided at Columbia road and Six- teenth street with an automobile driven by John Sheskin, 302 O street. Driver Held in $340 Bond. Payseur is alleged to have broken a bottle on the street at the scene of the accldent and another at the time of his arrest in South Washington. Unable to furnish bond for his ap- pearance, Payseur was locked up. Arthur Miller, 5, occupant of the car driven by Sheskin, was slightly hurt. A collision between a motor ve- hicle of the National Casket Co., 613 Pennsylvania avenue, and an auto- mobile driven by Reginald Jackson, colored, 2412 Seventeenth street, oc- curred yesterday afternoon on Penn- sylvania avenue between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets. Both ma- chines were damaged. Jackson was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated and colliding, and was re- leased on $340 collateral. CANNERS HIT DECREE BINDING “BIG FIVE”| Ask Court to Vacate It on Ground | of Lack of Juris- diction. The California Co-cperative Can- neries yesterday, through Attorney Frank J. Hogan, asked the District Supreme Court to vacate the consent decree between the Department of Jus- tice and the “Big Five” packing con- cerns by which the latter agreed to di- vorce themselves from ail business ac- tivities not related to the meat industry. The Canneries Co. was recently per- mitted by the Court of Appeals to intervene in the case. Mr. Hogan asserts the decree is void because of a lack of jurisdiction of the court to enforce it; because it enjoins the packing concerns from engaging In a business that is origi- nally lawful and followed by other concerns without molestation of the Government. It is vold, he also asserts, Decause it sets up a monopoly by the supposed restriction of another mo- nopoly and safeguards one public in- terest by the destruction of another. It also deprives the cannery com- | free contract and takes away Its property, without dus process of law. The consent decree Is void, it is said, because when it was signed there Wwas no case or controversy pending in the court. Finally, it is asserted, the decrce ftself violates the anti- trust laws. PRETTIEST GIRL SAVED FROM POTTER’S FIELD | Blind Wife of Lake Captain Pro-| vides Funeral to Repay Debt to Chicago Beauty. Wy the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December —Angelita Cuceinello, recently picked by Ru- dolph Valentino from among 19,000 contestants as Chicago's prettiest girl, was saved from burial in potter's fleld last night when Mrs. Danfel J. McGarity, blind wife of a lake cap- tain, paid a debt of gratitude by pro- viding a filne cofin heaped high with flower: Otherwise poor, Angelita was called by her friends rich in a sunny voice. i ers In competing for places in schools of modern types. TWO MEN DIE IN FIRE. Workers' Hotel Lodger Sacrifices Life for Friend. , NORTH TONAWANDA, N. Y., De- cember 26.—Two men lost their lives when fire swept through the Wash- ington Hotel, a workmen's fodging house, early today. Paul Kabby made his way to the street safely from the third floor, but dashed back into the blazing building when L .earned that his friend, Wil- liam Smith, was missing. The charred bodies were found, with arms olasped, in Smith’s room when firemen were able to enter. Help Is Asked for Jobless. The aid of 2very employer in the District of Columbia is sought in a drive being conducted by the Ministers and Deacons’' Union of the District of Columbla and the American White Cross, two colored organisations, to secure work for the numbers who are out of work. A committee headed by Bishop Isalah P. Brooks, president of the Ministers and Deacons’ Union, and Rev. Simon P, 'W. Drew, president. of the White Cross Labor Burean, has been appointed to co-operate in ob- taining the attention of Washington business men. — LONDONDERRY IS FLOODED. BELFAST, Décember 27.—~The streets of Londonderry, Ireland’s only walled city, are under water today in conse- quence of the torrential Christmas rains. The flood 1s said to be the worst in the city's history. Th popu- jaunting cars and launches. She lavished that on the blind woman, who needed sunny voices. Three days ago Angelita was killed by a motor truck as she stepped into the street to board a street car to return to work from which she long had been absent because of illness. Old friends of the days of fresh youth and beauty seemed to have forgotten, but Angelita was remembered when a Christmas card she had mailed to Mrs. McGarity just before the truck snuffed out her life was received ves- terday. Mrs. McGarity’s effort to find Angelita led her to the morgue, where for three days the body had lain un- claimed. RUSSIAN ARTIST DIES. Leon Nicolaievich Bakst, Noted Painter and Theatrical Designer. PARIS, December 27.—Leon Nico- laievich Bakst, noted Russian painter and theatrical designer, died at his home here today, aged 58 years. He was educated in art at St. Petersburg and Parls, ani after working for a time in Moscow settled in Paris, and rapidly achieved popularity as @ de- stgner for the stage. His chief fame was won through his designs for the setting of some of the notable pro= ductions of the Russian ballet, but he also was widely known as a portralt painter and mural decorator. He vis- ited the United States in 1932 and ex- hidited a number of his paintings in New York. Two in Transfer List. Capt. John R. Kaiser, U. S. Infantry, at Annapolis, Md,, on leave of absence, has been ordered to Hartford for duty with the Connecticut National Guard, nd Sergt. Samuel Latsen, detached enlisted men's list at Fort Hi 'ys, Va.. to Philadelphia, for duty the Penneylvanta National Guard, | Rugby, but, unlike Austen, did not | | Chambertain, Ww. | 8liding coal. U. S. Cutter Speeds To North to Save Two From Freeszing The Coast Guard cutter Tampa is ploughing Northward through ice and rough water on a 200-mile errand to Westport, Nova Scotia, in an attempt to rescue two fisher- men before the bitter cold of the northern Winter takes their lives. The fishermen, natives of South Addison, Me., were stranded on an island off the Nova Scotia coast when their frail fishing craft was wrecked. They were reported to Coast Guard headquarters here to- day to be in a “pitiful plight” and near death from freezing. Orders were issued directing the Tampa to go immediately to the rescue and she left her base off Boston at dawn. BLUEBLOODS RULE AGAIN IN BRITAIN Baldwin Cabinet Contains 17 College Men of Names Long Famous. Correspondence of the Asfociated Press. LONDON, November 29.—Self-made men have cezsed to have any say in | the British cabinet. The old ordar| has been brought back by Stanley | Baldwin, the new premler, and brought back strong. All but two of | the 13 men in his cabinet are college | bred, and these two attended public schools, which are pecullarly private institutions in this country, fre- quented largely by tho sons of people of means or culture, or both. The! new Conservative cabinet is rich in| names long associated with positions | of prominence in British life. The tide of opportunity for those born in the lower classes to rise to political power and fame, that seemed to run_strong when, only 10 months 2g0, Ramsay MacDonald as pre- mier surrounded himself with col- leagues who were ex-miners, ex-en- gine drivers, ex-office boys and mill workers and clerks, has dropped to the ebb of the days of old. No one in Mr. Baldwin's new cabinet ever pol- ished up the handle of the blg front door.” Ten Oxford Products. { Ten of the 13 names Mr. Baldwin presented to the King as his ministers are Oxford products. Four can look back to happy days in the halls of Cambridge. Of the remaining five all had the advantages of public school training. Mr. Churchill, upon leav- ing the ancient hill where Harrow turns out young gentlemen, betook himself to Sandhurst, the West Point of England. Neville Chamberlaln, like his brother, Austen, went to| 80 on to Cambridge. He finished up at Mason College. Sir Douglas Hogg, | the attorney general, is an Eton prod- | uct, and 8ir W. Joynson-Hicks, home | secrotary, was educated at the Mer- chant Taylors School, of which Car- Iyle wax a dirtinguished son. Sir L.| Worthington-Evans, war secretary, ! #ttended Eastbourne College. | The Cambridge men In the cabinet, | besides the premier. are Austen | C. Bridgeman and 8ir John Gilmore. Oxford men in the cabinet are noble lords of the realm—Curzon, Sallsbury, Cave, Birkenhead and Eustace Percy. The others are Sir A. Steel-Maitland, | Edward Wood, 6ir Philip Llovd- | Groame, Sir Samuel Hoare and L. S.| Amery. Puhlic Schools Play Part. i The public schools of historio fame, Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Merchant Tay- lors, Winchester, all played parts in the_education of the new Tory cabi- net™ Mr. Baldwin and three of his cabinet colleagues prefaced their uni- versity days with & few years at Harrow. Five other members of his cabinet played as youths upon - the cricket fields of Eton. Rugby knew three of the new ministers in their youth. And so it goes. The ex-miners and ex-engine ariv- ers have gone back to their labors at the head of trade unions and other organizations outside of Whitehall If they sit in Parliament, they occupy the opposition benches. The front bench is filled again with the type of men who for centuries have governed Great Britaln—men whose birth the gods smiled upon, whose climb in lite was made less arduous by the en- vironment of ease and wealth, pomp and circumstance that England gives in such generous portion to her priv- ileged fow. =t MINER HERO IN SLIDE. Holds Back Avalanche of Coal to ! Save Injured Man. | NEW YORK, December 27.—Michael Long, a laborer, entered a coal pocket last night and, with another coal ava- | lanche impending, saved the life of a fellow-worker burled to the neck in More than 500 tons of coal {n the immense pocket, frozen and jammed, tumbled in a sllde over Benjamin Bradderak, a laborer, who went into the pocket to loose it. Long was pushing coal away from Bradderak when a second coal slide began. He braced himself against the side of the pocket and held back the avalanche, while with one free hand he keapt the falling coal from burying Bradderak. ‘When firemen had cut a hole in the side of the pocket, Long told them to take Bradderak out first. Long's hand had been s0 torn by the coal that he will be unable to use it for some time. AR Resignation Accepted. The resignation of First, Lieut. Ignatius L. Donnelly, U. S. Infantry, has been accepted by the President to tal effect December 31, and the resignation of Warrant Ocer Luther G. Franklin at Atlanta Ga., to take effect January 6. Movies aMT;;rty Christmas Treat For Star Newsboys Sidney B. Lust, proprietor of the Leader Theater, and the circulation manager of The Evening Star got together today. and arranged a little Christmas entertalnment for the boys who serve The Star at the home and those who sell the paper on the street corners. The boys will be invited to the theater Monday as the guests of Mr. Lust to witness a series of moving pictures. First will be shown the initial installment of “Into the Net” a graphic serial | which thers are more tha: is Five of the ten |Creases, with their m I ton, 262, SOCIALISTS AVERT FALL OF HERRIOT Accept Modified Version of Amnesty Bill Provided . Strikers Are Aided. Dy the Asseciated Press. PARIS, December 27.—The So ists have rescued Premier Herriot from the possible danger of being overthrown when the amnesty bill comes up in the Ckamber of Deputies They have agreed io accept the Sen- ate’s modified version of the me ure, even though this fails to mee the Soclalist party’s platform princi- ples. This decision, which was reached after a vote {n a party caucus, ls con- ditional upon Premier Herriot declar- Ing n the chamber tha: he would make every endeavor to obtain the reinstatement of all the railroad men dismissed by the companies after the 1820 strike and use the pardoning power freely. The Senate’s amend- ment of the bill makes this reinstate- ment optional, contrary to the So- cialist party desires and the previous action of the chamber, which pro- vided for compulsory reinstatement. The decision of the Socialists was followed by a meeting of the offi of all the parties of the Left bl comprising the government's suppor who agreed to follow this program METHODISM RANKS NUMBER 4,711,994 Church Has Shown a Net Gain of 51,450 in Last Year. By the Associsted Pres: CHICAGO, Decembe 6 4,711,994 Methodists, according to fiz ures from the Methodist vear book for 1925, made public vesterday by the World Service Commission of the Meth odist Episcopal Church. This membership Includes only pre- paratory and full members, and dees n include either affiliated, non-resl: members or adherents of the church. of 10,000,000 Last vear the membership was 4,6 544. From the Increase of 86,437 must be deducted a decreass of 34,987 caused by deaths, removals and transfe to other churches, leaving a net increa of 51,450, of which 27,625 are in foreig: areas and 28,822 in the United States. Ther> are increases in 13 areas in thes United States and decreases in cigh areas. The Omaha, Nebr., area show the greatest increase, with a me ship of 285,929, an increase of Other areas, their membership creases, follow : Kansas City area, 209,3 6,048, San Francisco, 12 ; increase, 5,726. Indlanapolis, £36,093; iricrease, 4.387. Chicago, 2534 ncrease, 3.445 Detroit, 175,929 ; increase, 2.533. burgh, 284,582 ; increase, 2,01 pati, 438,628 increase, 1, phia, 285,174 Increase, 146,493 In e, .985; increass, 1.0 104,049 ; increase, 93 increase 8. The following eight 6,374 increase, §81. Boston Covingtor:, as showing de- nhership and the decrease, follow : Atlanta, 97,827 Orleans, 119.454 Paul, 134.025; 1and, decraase, 1, Washing- : . 1,002 New York, 218,808 ; decrease, 333. Denver, decrease, _255. Helena, 39,542; crease, 49. All the forelgn areas showed 2,080. Port “MR.ZERO’S” ARMY FACES BATH THREAT 300 Unemployed, Sleeping Church, May Be Routed by Official Order to Wash. in Ey the Associated Press. EW YORK, December army of unemployed which, leadership of Urbain Ledoux, otherwiso known as “Mr. Zero,” has captured ors church for a sleeping place and threa: ened to take several others, is facing rout. Bathing of the 300 members of has beon suggested by city who assert that the free municipal lodging bouses provide ade- quate accommodations for all men ou of work. Besides baths, City Commissioner of Public Welfare Coler has recommended that privates in the army who came from other cities be sent home The new turn In events, howeve: which included actlon by the Americ: Board of Applied Christianity in ady ing churches against throwing the: doors open as sleeping quarters, has n. daunted Ledoux. He declared today next objective would be the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Mark's-in-the- Bouwerie, the ecene of - eurhythmic dances. He said that 50 men would march to the church tomorrow wit picks and shovels, and at the services would give a dance in which the men would go through the motions of dig- ing. ¥ fedoux fe confined to his tenemet room with a co!d contracted while lead- ing his army. The army Is still oocup) - ing the Camp Memorial Congregationa! Church, on the East Side. el NOTED SURGEON DIES. Arthur K. Yoosuf Succumbs to Heart Disease. WORCESTER, Mass., December —Dr. Arthur K. Yoosuf, who w fame a6 a surgeon in both the Balkan and World wars, died suddenly in office here last night. His death was caused by heart disease. Overwori in connection with the erection of & new Assyrian church, coupled with & large practice,” is thought to have caused his sudden death. Dr. Yoosuf was born in Harpoot Aslatic Turkey, in 1867, the son of » silk manufacturer, coming to New York in 1889. During the Balkan War he was chief operating surgeon in & hospita! in Constantinople, and was later dec- orated by the Sultan of Turkey for meritorious service. During - the World War by Dr. Yoosuf served as a major in the United States Medica Corps. Dr. News Writer Dies. NEWPORT, R. I, December 37 Marshall W. Hall, day correspond of the Assoclated Press in this city story of the New York underworld, written by Richard E. Enright, police commissioner of the metrop- olis. west thriller, “The Stage Coach Driver,” with the broncho-busting two-gun Tom Mix in the leading role, and as a climax a Buster Keaton comedy will be flashed on the screen. The entertainment will wind up with an ice cream party, in which Carry Ice Cream - Company will play the ' role of Sants Claus for the newsboys. Next will bs' shown a wild { for approximately 20 years as a mem- ber of the staft of the Newport Daily News, died at the Newport Hoe- pital last night atter a long illnes: With the late Frank M. Wheele Hall gave to the country in Octob 1914, the details 6f.the unheraldec appearance of the German war sul- marine U-53, which preceded her ratld on 2llied shipping oft Nantucket in Vineyard Sound. Mr. Hall was &0 years. old. His wife and daughter survive.