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BURTONWANTSU.S. - IN'WORLD COURT Dhio Republican Calls Tribu- nal Distinctively an Ameri- can Conception. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January fng the thirty-ni the Ohlo Socie ew York to- night, Repre Theodore E. Tiurton of Ohi 1 the United States join World Court with reservatic ave been recommended as essential by the ad- He d that s 2 inctively an American ption 1 that moveme: tribun come from far n from any 10.—Address- ner of for deny that the World ation which prom- benefit,” he Do we wish titude pla to which cannot an organi of general question by our tradi all we refuse b was formulated by a league we do not belong? “If we desire to participate in a World Court we must recognize the fact that there are more than 50 na- tions which are members of the league. If we ign members with whom sha!l ? 1t must be with Russia, Turke other impossible nations.” Court i ises said to stand results “The Longworth Also Speaks. cluded Represen Ohio, Edward Hil- the British Nevin Other speakers i tive L ton You ©of Pennsylvania Represe Republican that the rker Long is leader i ext Cong having a clear h Houses would be one efficient legislative bodies He lared himself barring from Republican s the followers of Senator in the recent Presidential ep al taken by worth, who thie House, ess, with cut ma- th n predi Rep: Jority of the most in history in favér of party coun: La Foll the 247 Republicans who will be after March 4 15 openly sup- candidate and Republi- nt cady ers of the House “Four ported the th opposed the can c n or 1 part election of the Still Fighting Party. he declared, “cannot to be classed ‘as Re- next Congress. They laft the Republican party deliberate- 1y and did everything possible toward its undoing. Their leaders admit that from the first they carried the fight to the Republican ticket in the cam- paign. They %hssert now that the fight has just begun “Shall we take them to our bosom and keep them in the inner chambers of our par ? To do so, in my opinior to deliberately ignore last elec- tion 1 party was commissioned to out a definite legislative program 'and to adhere to certain fundamental gov- ernmental princ ‘As 1 in poses upon us the mach ma i as po sur that could not be done we » put in key positions next Conz men who have opposed | and are opposing that program and who have sought and are seeking the destruction of the very foundatior upon which, as we hold, our gov. mental structure is based.” The Republican leader expressed the ion that the most pressing of all problems is the reduction of Government expenditures through economy “to t bedrock leve and the corresponding reduction in taxes whi said still are “a bur- den upon business and all forms of T feel you the pror be done by the next Congress and - men,” ought not publicans in the counc would be ndate of the the Repul n which pret that mandate it im- : duty of seeing that to exe it shall be it sible and it we in th n- in making is'can and will PO N AWARDED G. U. DEBATE HONORS | Minnesota Student Wins Indi- vidual Honors, Although Team Loses Decision. dividual de- prize contest at Georgetown University Law* School Priday night, although his team lost the decision of the judges. As winner of the debate, Mr. Hagen receives the cash prize of $25 offered by the faculty. , The subject of the debate was the mdoption of the child labor amend- ment, the de ion being rendered in favor of the negative team repre sented by members of the Senior D bating Society Mr. Hagen w member of the junior team Second honors i the debate accorded to Herbert George Pillen, senior, of Ohio His teammates were Willia Grafton Elliott of the Dis Columbia, and T. E of Montana, alter € 1 addition to Hagen, eomprised Kenneth Clare Robbins of the District of Columbia, and Stephen Anthony Moynahan of Massachusetts Harry K. Hickey announced the decisi on behalf of the judges who were hard L. Merrick, J. V. Con- nolly sistant United States attor- ney; Franklin C. Parks and Charles H. Ruth, all members of the Dis- trict bar. Gerard John C. Guilfoyle ot the District of Columbia, presi- dent of the junior society, presided at the dehate Four prize debates are held during the year from each of which the winner is chosen to participate in a final contest for a cash prize of $50, which is awarded on commencement day. John Burke Walsh was winner of the first event ared the best in the a were R BUS TERMINAL PLAN STUDIED BY OFFICIAL Central Station for All Lines Op- erating Into Maryland and Virginia Proposed. The desirability of having a central terminal established in the downtown sectlon of Washington for the various motor bus lines operating into Mar. Jund and Virginia is being studied by Maj. W. E. R. Covell, istant to the Public Utilities Commission. Maj. Covell has not gone into the question deeply, but he said yester- day it appeared to him that both the ublic and the bus lines would be enefited by having one cemtral sta- tion. Charles J. Columbus, secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Assoclation, inquired into this ques- tion some time ago, but thus far the plan has not been realized. Maj. Covell said yesterday he had Been Informed that some of the con erns that manufacture passenger gllu'l might be Interested in the ' puoposaly Solid Rubber Tire Has Blowout as Friction Develops Next time you have a blowout don't envy the fellow who uses solid rubber tires. He can have blowouts, too, even though his tires lack air to better their rid- ing qualities. The Bureau of Standards has found that solid rubber tires, through excessive friction, can swell and burst like a pneumatic tire. While a test of solid fires was in progre at the bureau re- cently a solid tire swelled and blew out. This was caused by the high temperature developed as & result of friction within the mate- rial and shows, in the opinion of the bureau, the extent to which the wearing qualities and economy of operation of solid tires can be influ- enced by the choice of materials from which they are made. The tire which blew out reached a temperature of 355 degrees dur- ing the test made in a tire dyna- mometer. TRAINING SCHOOLS BRING DISCUSSION Congress Committee Hears Differences of Opinion on Welfare Board. Sharp differences inclusion of the School for Girls f opinion over National Tralning 1 the bill to estab- lish a board of public welfare in the National Capital developed at a hearing yesterday by the Senate and House joint subcommittees on the legislation. Provisions regarding the Board of Children's Guardians were also debated at length. Officials of the National Training School for Girls, including Mrs. O. L. Veerhoff, president of the board, and Francls H. Duehay, a trustee, contended that the institution was national, and should not be turned over to the proposed public welfare board to be made local. On the other hand, the other school of thought, led by John Joy Edson of the Board of Charities, contended that the institu- tion, caring principally for local girls, should be under District of Columbia management and should be left in the bill. Senator Copeland of New York and Representative Gilbert of Kentucky, after close questioning of several witnesses, announced they favored keeping the school in its present “national” status, by striking it out of the bill Need for Federal Institution. _ Representative Gilbert, who was formerly a juvenile judge, said there was need for such a Federal insti- tution, declaring “so many crimes are being committed by girls that were not committed in the past. Girls are better than boys,” he declared, “but there is a tendency among them to be more daring now than they used to Representa: e Gllbert’s statement hat he thought it unwise for the National Government to merge with the District of Columbia, as the “Dis- trict will attempt to take over other Federal institutions,” met with re- joinder from Mr. Edson, who said there was no such acquisitive intent on the part of Washingtonians. Mr. Edson said he had been on the Board f Charities for years, a board which d charge of most of the organiza- ns proposed to be consolidated un- der the bill, and said he would be very willing to give up the position he held favor of the new plan. Mrs. Veerhoff contended that under the new plan of putting the school under District of Columbia control there would be lost many facilities now avallable from the Federal Government. Mr. Duehay read a memorandum from Superintendent of Prisons Votaw, which sald that the training schools for both boys and girls should be under the Department of Justice in the interest of a “more complete and perfect penal system gor the United States.” Mr. Duchay reported that in the boys' school here, now under the Department of Justice, ch is not included in the proposed solidation plan, there are 202 Federal boy and 116 District of Columbia boys, although in the girls’ school there were 100, including only 1 from outside the District. The ad- dition of the new site and bulldings, however, it was said, would provide facilities for white girls, which here- lofore, he said, had not been avall- Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, head of the woman’s bureau spoke for the bill, re- porting that facilities for taking care of women prisoners here are inade- quate, and frequently she personally nad pald for the transportation of girls to institutions in other States. Testifying to the fncreasing number of women in custody, Mrs. Van Winkle said there were 50 women now at Occoquan, “the biggest num- ber since prohibition.” Opponents to Change. Mrs. C. Fuller Winters and Mrs. L. M. Clements of the Women’s Council objected to the leglslation on account of its inclusion of the Board of Chil- dren’s Guardians, which they said the Mothers’ Council attempting in other legislation to abolish. They wished the ©board omitted entirely, they said, from the welfare bill, in‘or- der that it might be replaced by a new plan proposed by a bill sponsored by the council. Henry T. Clark and Walter Hol- land also spoke against the bill as constituted, whie Willlam Hodson, consuitant to the Code Commission, rusnfi:-tl concerning many points at question. At the morning sesslon Judge Siddons of the District of Columbla Supreme Court spoke particularly regardjng the proposal to place under jurisdiction of the proposed board the National Training School for Girls. He said that while that school originally had been created by Con- gress with the idea that it would be a Federal institution, subsequent legislation Indicated Congress took the view rather that the school was a District institution. He pointed out that it is appropriated for in the District appropriation bill. He dif- ferentiated between the National Training School for Girls and the Na- tional Training School for Boys, pointing out that the latter was really a Federal institution with about 50 per cent of its population sent there from the States by Fed- eral courts. He said that he had been informed that only one girl was in the Na- tional Training School for Girls sent there by an outside jurisdiction. He pointed out that Congress. has re- cently authorized construction of a Federal women's reformatory and that possibly girls would be sent to that institution by the Federal courts in the States. Nothing in the bill, however, would prevent girls being sent to the National Training School for Girls by Federal courts outside the District, he sald. The Board of Children’s Guardians and the Board of Charitles, which would be abolished by the proposed legislation, Judge Siddons said, have both approved of the bill. to the school | THE SUNDAY' STAR, WASHINGTO! 12N MAIL FRAUDS 10 APPEAL CASES Hawkins Company Conspir- acy Defendants Remain at Liberty on Bonds. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., January 10.— Twelve of the 14 defendants in the Hawkins mail fraud conspiracy who were given prison sentences by Judge Ferdinand A. Gelger of Milwaukee, in Federal court here today, were granted 90 days in which to perfect thelr ap- peals and permitted to remaln at lib- erty on their former bonds for 10 days. John T. Sutton of Portland, Ind., a vice president of the Hawkins Mort- sentenced to pay a fine of ttled his account with the Government this afternoon. Leo P. Arrington, Dunkish, auditor of the com- pany, who also was fined $1,000, without a prison sentence, informed the court that his fine would be paid next week. Six of the defendants were sen- tenced to two years in prison on the conspiracy charge and five years each on the fifteen other counts in the indlctment in addition to a fine of $2,000; three were sentenced to two years in prison and fined $1,000 each, while the three others were sentenced to a vear and a day in prison. The prison sentences are to run concurrently in the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kans. Heaviest Sentences. Those upon whom the heaviest n tence was imposed are Anthony A Scheib, Portland, secretary of, the Hawkins Company; Willlam M. Sacks, wealthy politle n of St. Louis; the Rev. William Webb of St. Louls, for- merly a minister in Texas; William M. Jones, former secretary-treasurer Indiana ate board of agriculture and Mord Carter, Indlanapolis busi- ness man. Frank B. Jaqua of Portland, gen- eral counsel for the company, and Frank Haight and Frank Willis, In- dianapolis accountants who prepared an audit of the company's books, were given the next heaviest sen- tences, while A. R. Sax, New York City, sales manager; W. D. McCallum, Detroit, assistant treasurer, and Carl B. Anderson, Portland, treasurer, were each sentenced to serve a year and a day in prison, Overrules Motions. Before passing sentences, Judge Geiger overruled motions for new trials and for arrest of judgment in each case. Morton S. Hawkins, organizer and president of the Hawkins Mortgage Company, the activities of which re sulted in the Government investiga- tion and the indictment of a number of its officers on a charge of using the mails in a consppiracy to defraud, was arrested at Dayton, Ohio, last week and released on bond. During the trial it was brought out that the company had investors in many states from whom between $4,000,000 and $6,000,00 had been obtained Hawkins disappeared on the eve of his trial here and his bond was forleited. MRS. ROSE E. DOBBYN DIES IN HOME HERE Lifelong Resident of Capital Suc- ARMY. For what is belleved to be the first time in Army pletorial annals, four former chief signal officers of the Army and the present incumbent Maj. Gen. Charles McK. Saltzman, were recently filmed in the office of the latter. It is claimed that this Is the first time that any five succes- sive chiefs of any one branch of the Army have been pictorially recorded together. In addition to Gen. Saltz- man, the four former chiefs who were present were Brig. Gen. Adolphus W. Greeley, Brig. Gen. James Allen, Brig. Gen. George P. Scriven and Maj. Gen. George O. Squier. The list of statutory age retire- ments for 1925 prepared this week by the War Department {s unusual that it contains the names of eight general officers, viz, seven major generals and one brigadler general. in addition to this general officer list, five colonels and one professor will be separated from the ralls of the regular establishment, due to their reaching the age of the 64 years. They are as follows: Maj. Gep. Rob- ert L. Bullard, January 15; MaJ. Gen. Charles G. Morton, January 15; Prof. Cornelius De W. Willcox, February 26; Col. Henry J. Newcomer, C. E, April 8; Brig. Gen. J. T. Knight, as- sistant to the quartermaster general, April 18; Maj. Gen. Omar Bundy, June 17; Col. Farrand Sayre, Cavalry, June 17; Col. Charles C. Walcutt, jr., Cavalry, June 20; Col. Arthur John- son, Infantry, J_i~ 9; Maj. Gen. Harry C. Hale, July 10; Col. Hugh J. Gal- lagher, Quartermaster Corps, July 25; Maj. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgls, August 1; Maj. Gen. George B. Duncan, Octo- ber 10, and M Gen. William H. Johnston, October 19, As was anticipated In these columns a few weeks ago, the War Depart ment has, under Circular No. 78, War Department, 1924, announced that a final examination of applicants for appointment as second leutenants in the Regulr Army, under the provi- sions of Army Regulations 605-5, will be held in the United States, in the Philippine, Hawaiian and Panama Canal Departments, and with the United States Army forces in China, trom June 15 to 20, 1925, Inclusive. This examination will be open to all classes of eligibles to fill vacan- cles accruing to June 30, 1925, as shall remain in the combatant branches (Infantry, Cavalry, Field Artlllery, Coast Artillery, Alr Serylce, Corps of Engineers and Signal Corps) after the appointment of the next graduating of the United States Militay demy, but will not include candi- dates fom the Philippine Scouts. Ac- cording to War Department figures, the present estimate is approximately 40 vacancies. Information relative to the scope and detalis of the June examination is contained in A. R. 605-5, and copies thereof may be obtained at any mili- tary post or station. Application to take the examination may be submit- ted at any military post or station or at the headquarters of the corps area or department in which the can- didate resides. Announcement was made this week by the War Department that the dis- bursing officer, office of the finance officer, United States Army, Washing- ton D. C. has been designated as cus- todian of the United States Army ath- letic fund. This fund is derived from contributions made annually by corps areas, departments, the district of Washington, certain general and spe- cial service schools and the United cumbs at Age of 80—Funeral Held Friday. Mrs, Rose Eila Dobbyn, 50 vears old, a_descendent of the earlier set- tlers in this country, and a lifelong resident of this city, died at her resi- dence, 9 Sixth street northeast last Tuesday. Funeral services were con- ducted in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Friday. Interment was in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Born on Capitol Hill, Mrs. Dobbyn had lived in that section of the city all her life. She was the daughter of the late William Wilson, a_pros- perous butcher, who served the White House and many of the famous fami- lies of the day. Mrs. Dobbyn had long been a mem- ber of St. Peter's Catholle Church. She was the mother of 16 children. Mrs. Dobbyn first married the late John 'J. DeLacy, who was a shoe merchant on Capitol Hill for many vears. He was also a Civil War vet- eran and a member of several Irish societies of this city. Mrs. Dobbyn's second husband was James R. Dob- byn, a lifelong resident of the Dis- trict. He was a Clvil War veteran and 2 member of the Assoclation of Oldest Inhabitants of the Distriot of Columbia and the Volunteer Fire- men's Association. Mr. Dobbyn was a descendant of Nicholas Boone, who landed in this country with Lord Cal- vert and James Dobbyn. History shows that James Dobbyn was a rich planter of the Maryland colonies. A granddaughter of Mrs. Dobbyn, Rose Ella Dobbyn, six years old, is belleved to be the only pérson of the ninth generation of the nativity of the District of Columbia. Forty domestic servants recently left England for Canada in response to appeals. to the fact that Included in the bill is the proposal to place the Municipal Hospital and the Tuberculosis Hospi- tal under the jurisdiction of the board. “Are you making a radical change in such a proposal?” he asked. Judge Siddons replied that the Board of Charities now has similar jurisdiction In regard to those hos- Ditals and the bill merely transferred that authority to the Board of Public Welfare. Calling attention to testimony at an earlier meeting by Chapin Brown, as reported in the newspapers, to the effect that the District Commission- ers were merely seeking more power through the inclusion of the National Training School for Girls in the bill, he declared that the District Commis- sioners had nothing to do with this matter and had not even been con- sulted by the commission with regard to it. Judge Siddons also sald that the Department of Justice officials in the past had looked with favor on a transfer of jurisdiction over both the National Training School for Girls and the National Training School for Boys to the District authorities. Would Transfer Powers. Judge Siddons was asked if the new bill would do away with the so- called “farming out of children,” which had drawn criticism from some quarters on the Board of Children's Guardians. He replied that the same powers now held by the Board of Children’s Guardians would be trans- ferred to the Board of Public Wel- fare. Representative Keller expressed a hope that at an early date legislation would be enacted for mothers’ pen- sions which would make it possible to keep children in the homes. Joseph D. Sullivan, member of the Public Welfare Commission, opposing the proposed bill, said that he be- Ileved that it would result ultimately in the same kind of criticism which has developed in regard to the exist- ing boards. He pointed out that in the past there was a Board of Fire Commissioners and Board of Public Health and other voluntary boards in Senator Copeland called attention. the District which had been abolished, States Military Academy. Expenditures from this fund will be made as follows: (a) For an an- nual subscription, not to exceed $1.000, to the National Amateur Athletic Federation as long as the United States Army is a member of that as- soclation; (b) for such other pur- poses relating to athletics, including prizes, trophies, printing, etc., as may be directed by the Secretary of War, under approved policies. The tests of mm., 155-mm. and 12-inch smokeless powder stored un- der water in Picatinny Lake for a perfod of one year indicate no appre- clable change in the stability of the powder. The ballistics of the powder have suffered only a very slight change, while the 155-mm. powder has appreciably quickened as a result of loss of solvent. A relatively new type of field glass has been submitted to the Ordnance Department by the Moeller Optical Works, through their American agent. As it was believed that it would be interesting to the various branches of the using service and instructive to the Ordnance Department to examine models of this material, an order has been placed for glasses of 5, 6 and 8 power. When received, these will be studied by the Ordnance Department and also submitted to the using services for examination and test if desired. A Calvary pack cooking outfit which has been under development for several years has been perfected in so far as the contents and the gen- eral arrangement of “the pack are concerned. Further work in connec- tion with the outfit is going on, so that a satisfactory hangar equipment may be developed. In continuation of the policy to test commercial tractors for use in handling artillery, there were recent- ly purchased and sent to Aberdeen Proving Ground for test the follow- ing tractors: Best Cruiser, Best 30, Monarch 4-40, and Monarch 6-60. The Monarch 6-60 and Best Cruiser are the heaviest commercial tractors that have been purchased for test so far. These will be tried for use with corps artillery loads or divided army artillery loads and will also be tried for tandem operation on the heavy army artillery loads. NAVY. Under the command of Admiral Robert E. Coontz, commander-in-chief United States fleet, the combined scouting fleet and battle fleet will leave San Francisco for the Hawaijan Islands during the latter part of April, where joint exercises will be held with the Army. Upon the comple- tion of these exercises in Hawaiian waters, the scouting fleet will re- turn to the East coast, while the bat- tle fleet will make an extended cruise to Australia and vicinity, re- turning to American waters about September 15. In the recent election of officers of the American Society of Naval En- gineers Rear Admliral C. F. Hughes, U. S. N, in charge of fleet training, Navy Department, was elected presi- dent. For the past two years Capt. J. T. Tompkins, alde for navy yards, has been president of the soclety, The following were elected council members: Rear Admiral B. C. Bryan, U. 8, retired; Capt. W. T. Cluve- rius, on duty in Naval Operation: Comdr. 8. M. Robinson, on duty in the Bureau of Engineering; Capt. Q. B. Newman, engineer-in-chief of the United States Coast Guard; Comdr. H. M. Howard, on duty in the Bu- reau of Construction and Repair; Mr, H. M. Southgate of the Westinghou Company, and Mr. J. F. Metten, chief engineer of the Cramps’ Ship and Engine Building Company. Comdr. Bruce wes re-elected secretary-treas- urer. Three rear admirals, two captains and one lleutenant of the Navy will be automatically transferred to the retired list during 1925 upon their reaching the statutory retirement age of 64 years. They are, with their retirement dates designated, as fol- | Army and Navy News By M. H. Mclnty-:c. lows: Rear Admirals Henry B. Wil- son, February 23; Joseph Strauss, No- vember 16; Charles W. Dyson, De- cember 2; Capts. Francis W. F. Wie- ber, (Medical Corps), April 5; Thomas A. Berryhill (Medical Corps), October 26, and Lieut. Thomas M. Johnston September 20. No Marine Corps offi- cers will be retired for age during 1925. Rear Admiral Carl T. Vogelgesans, chief of the American Naval Mission to Brazil, will, upon the arrival of Rear Admiral Newton A. McCully at Rio de Janeiro, be relleved from this duty and will proceed to the Bureau of Naval Operations, Navy Depart- ment, for temporary duty, where he will make a report of the activities of the American Naval Mission up to the time of his rellef, Upon comple- tion of this report, Admiral Vogelge- sang will be ordered to sea duty. Eleven officers of the Naval Medi cal Corps have been authorized b the Navy Department to attend a course of instruction at the Naval Medicl School, Washington, D. C., which will begin January 23. Those who will take this Instruction, all Heutenants, are as follows: Percy W. Dreifus, David E. Horrigan, Francis H. Webster, Ben Hollander, Robert M. Gillett, Park M. Barrett, Ernest F. Slater, Chasles A. Costello, Ray E. A Pomeroy, Bryce W. Harris and Leo L. Davis. Beginning February medical officers 1, four other will take a special course in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Bos- ton, Mass. They are as follows Comdr. Lewis H. Wheeler, Lieut. Comdrs. Lester L. Pratt arl Willlam M. Kerr and Lieut. Roger D. Mackey. On or about April 1 a competitive examination of chief pay clerks and pay clerks for appointment to the grade of assistant paymaster will be held. Candidates for such appoint- ment must be not over 35 years of age at the time of appointment and only those chlef pay clerks and pay clerks whose records have heen above average since appointment in the grade of pay clerk will be given authority to compete in the examina- tion. Applications must be in the hands of the Bureau of Navigation prior to February 15 to be considered. Maj. Joseph A. Rossell, Capt. Roy C. Swink and First Lleuts, Edwin J. Farrell and St. Jullen R. Childs, all Marine Corps, have been appointed to meet at Marine Barracks, Washing- ton, D. C, some time during the month of Junuary for the purpose of examining enlisted men for appoint- ment as probationary second lieuten- ants In the corps. The following men have been authorized to appear be- fore the examining board: Gunnery Sergt. Theodore B. Millard, Staff Sergts. John J. Ahern, Matthew ( Horner, Sergt. Samuel Ballentine and Corps. Milo R. Carroll, David K. Claude, Rudolph Dossett, Charles L. Emerson, Homer L. Litzenberger, jr.; Fred C. Marringer, Charles Mc- Dougall, Floyd A. Stephenson, Wilbur S. Brown, Donald N. Carpenter, James P. Devereaux, James N. Driscoll, Albert L. Gardener, Silvanus L. Mara- ble, Samuel W. Marsh and Robert C. Harrison. Conserving as well as eliminating defective officer personnel is the object of the board conducting the annual physical examination of all naval of- flcers. In the event that the board discovers a defect of importance, re- quest will be made of the officer undergoing examination to fill out a questionnaire of personal hygiene and medical history which will be con- sidered as confidential. The board is also empowered to decide If the defect can be remedled by operation or treatment and If it will disqualify the officer from future service. The Holmgren skeins or Jennings' self-recording test {s the official test for color .perception. Candidates for midshipmen are required to pass the Stilling’s test and Edridge-Green lamp. Officers having defective hearing will be examined on successive days by whispered and spoken voice as well as by watch and acoumeter, and a special study will be made in order to determine whether an albuminuria is temporary or if renal disease ex- ists. High blood pressure will be in- vestigated on several successive days in order to ascertain whether or not it is _constant. Efforts are being made by the Navy Department to accentuate this annual physical examination as one of con- servation of officer personnel rather than to emphasize the elimination factor. It is pointed out that the final opinfon of the board as to fitness for service will have great welght with the Bureau of Navigation, and attention s especially invited to the consideration of the economic value of every officer to the Government as well as to the loss of highly trained personnel when officers are retired. The Bureau of Navigation proposes to examine during the month of Febru- ary all confirmed ensigns of classes 1 and 5 of the naval reserve force for promotion to confirmed lieutenant (.2.), who have had four years’ com- missioned service as ensign or higher and at least two months’ sea service since first commission, in the Navy or Naval Reserve Force in the case of line officers of classes 1 and 2, and & corresponding amount of active serv- ice in the case of supply officers and officers of class 6. In addition to these requirements, officers of class & examined for promotion to lieutenant (J.g.) confirmed must have had at least 75 hours in the air. HILL TO ASK PROBE OF DRINKING CHARGE Upshaw Wants to Tell Any Dry Violators in Congress to Get Out. Two resolutions dealing with the prohibition laws will be prepared by Representatives _ Hill, Republican, Maryland, and Upshaw, Democrat, Geotgla, and introduced before Con- gress adjourns. Mr. Hill announced yesterday that in view of statements that members of Congress had violated the customs laws by the importation of liquors and the transportation laws by carry- ing it to their homes, he felt the integrity of the Congress demanded the charges be investigated. He added that although he felt the finitiative should be taken by “a recognized dry leader,’ if no action were forth- coming he proposed to ask the House judiclary committee to inquire into the matter: Mr. Upshaw said he planned to offer 2 resolution declaring it is the sense of the present Congress “that Con- gress is overwhelmingly dry,” and that he also proposed to initiate ac- tion to inform those who may have violated the laws that their presence was “persona non grata” in Congress. LI onn Indian Collector Adopted. Walter McClintock, a Pittsburgh collector of Indian lore, was actually adopted as a son of Mad Wolf, chief of the Blackfoot Indians. The chief was attracted by the straight car- riage of young McClintock in 1896, and as a result of their association McClintock’s collection of Indian relics is almost priceless, and cer- tainly among the best private col- lections in the country, 16 RESCUED AT SEA AFTER LONG FIGHT Crew of Schooner Caragol Half-Crazed by Two-Week Vigil on Doomed Ship. Special Dispateh to The Star, NEW YORK, January 10.—A radio message flashed through the air to day from the Atlantic told of another tragedy, one in which the luck of the sea Is responsible for the lives of 16 men, all of whom are being brought to port on the freighter Kenowis. ‘The cryptic message gave a brief outline of the rescue of the men after a two weeks' battle with the maa seas that had made a wreck of the four-masted schooner Manuel Cara- gol. about 00 miles southeast of Nantucket Shoals lightship. The Caragol is gone, but her will have a story to re- as only survivors of a sea storm can tell, when they reach here some time tomorrow. For days the lttle schooner’ was the plaything of the elements, with- out radio, her rudder smashed by the heavy rollers. The schooner was sent backward and forward for days and days, while the crew’ heldf fast in some manner, waiting for some res- cue ship. Sailed From Montevideo. The sailing craft—her cargo is un- known—was bound for New York from Montevideo, Uruguay. For more than a month she buffeted th wind and the waves, and finally limped into Rio de Janeiro on September 22, and underwent repairs for her trip northward. With their experience behind them, the captain and crew set out from that port late in October for New York, but they had left Rio only a few hours when they ran into an- other storm Then came one storm after another and the little craft she wa 735 tons—began to crack under the strain, and distress eignals were flown, .l:ul the storms had driven the Caragol far off the beaten path and nothing hove into sight. For days and days the men remained aboard the waterlogged craft nibbling on a few crackers they had salvaged from below before the sea rushed in. They refused to surrender. Rescue Ship OF Cpurse, Then early this morning the Kenowls, according to the endent Wireless Corporation, herself off course, due to the high seas and storms, came upon the waterlogged and almost complete dismantled schooner. The crew were holding on to torn bits of rope and waving for help. Capt. Humphrey of the Kenowis or- dered @ life-boat lowered and a volun- teer crew put on the schooner, The saillng craft was found to be a total wreck. Her pilot house had been carried. away, and everything was awash. The sixteen men were half crazed from their experience, but, after being put aboard the freighter, they were quickly revived The captain of the Kenowls, the radio stated, had set fire to the der lict, but she was still afloat when he last saw It. The Kenowis is coming from Antwerp. She is chartered by Lykes Brothers of this city. New Use of Word. From the Hartford Times. In the old days the word “simpl meant “foolish.” Now it is used only to make frocks cost more, Vows Single Bliss After Divorce, But Reweds at Once Losing Fifth Wife in Court, 78-Year-Old Man Marries Housekeeper. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, January 10.—Ten min- utes after a divorce decree separating him from his fifth wife had been signed, Wilhelm Bottcher, 78 years old, yesterday obtalned a marriage li- cense and was wedded to his sixth spouse, Mrs. Marie Kesler, 65, his housekeeper. Bottcher was divorced from his fitth wife, Mrs. Lela Bottcher, on charges of desertion, and asserted at the hearing two weeks ago that h was “through with marriage foreve: Superfor Judge Harry Lewls, who signed the divorce decree, a few min- utes later was startled when Bottch- er again appeared before him™ and asked the judge to marry him “How do you know you could be happy with this man?” demanded the judge of the blushing bride. “His first wife died, his second committed suicide, his third went insane and two others divorced him. Aren't you afraid to be their successor? “Oh, I've been his housekeeper for a year,” she replied. *“I know how to humor him. T can even stand him when his rheumatism makes him cross. — LINER'S PASSENGERS INJURED IN STORM Piano Breaks Loose, Wrecks Main Salon on the France—Ships - Delayed Two Days. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 10. gale-swept liners, the Lapland and the France, made port late today, 48 hours overdue from European ports The France and her 285 passengers g0t a bad shaking up and were pretty well battered when the big ship nosed her way toward the center of a hur- ricane that swept her path just off the Grand Banks early last Thursday. The Lapland skirted the same hurri- cane, bu and passengers escaped with minor hurts. An upright piano on the France broke loose as the ship bucked the 100-mile-an-hour wind and smashed up most of the furniture in her main salon. Most of the passengers re- ported having been flipped out of their berths at least once during the storm. All had minor bruises Tt was the France's second storm of the trip. The first Kept the liner out of Plymouth harbor, and 50 pas- sengers, including Fritz Kreisler, the viollnist, and Mrs. Kreisler, were tossed about in a cutter for seven hours before they could be hoisted aboard the bucking ship Albert Coates, London orchestra leader, was aboard the Lapland. He came as guest conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra. Also on the Lapland was Maj. Gen. Sir Fred- erick Maurice, president of St. Pan cras, the “working men's colleg who is here to lecture at Lowell In- stitute, Boston. . Same Thing. Two vessel Froin the Irish Times. The Disconsolate One—I wish I were dead. The Consoler—Why? marry her—or did you? Can't you E. F. DROOP & SONS CO.,, 1300 G STR DEPENDABLE MUSICAL PRODUCTS SCHOOLS INVITED T0SEE FOOD SHOW Officials, Teachers and Pupils to Be Special Guests This Week. 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