Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1925, Page 17

MRS. COOLIDGE ONE OF HOSTESSE! Building yesterday, when Mrs. Coolidge served as one of the hostesses. BOY ACTOR GIVES MONEY TO UNIVERSITY. the freckled countenance University. Wesley Barry—he of presenting a check for $10,000 to Northwestern The money will be used in scholarships for deserving stu- dents, the president of the college to select one boy from each of the Chi- cago high schools, . ASSERTS BISHOP GONVICTION FAIR Episcopal Church Advocate Disputes Right Rev. Brown’s Claim of Error. By the Assoeiated Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 14 Contentions that Bishop William Brown, retired prelate of the Protes tant Episcopal Church, was c of heresy last May in full accord with canon and civil law were presented today to the church’s court of review by Charles L. Dibble of Kalamazoo, Mich., church advocate. The proceedings, it was expected, would wind up the open hearings in the o as the next tribunal to wh may go is the house of bishops, all of whose sessions are executive. After Mr. Dibble and his associate, John H. Smart of Cleve- Jand, have concluded their argume on the appeal, Joseph W. Sharts, chief counsel for the accused bishop, close the formal arguments. RBishop Brown, it was announced will wind wp his own case with a personal appeal to his fellow bishops for a reversal of the trial court Mr. Dibble's argument was in reply to assertions made yesterday by Mr Sharts that his clfent had been mis representated in the accusation b son of the fact that 23 detached ions from his book, “Communism \d Christianism,” had been selected arbitrarily as the basis for the charges. Mr. Dibble pointed out that the whole book had been placed in evidence at the trial, having been introduced by the defense itself. Mr. Sharts asserted further that the trial court had erred In not ordering depositions on church doctrine taken from all bishops of the church, as requested by the defense, and also in taking judicial notice of the church’s doctrine without defining what constitutes that doctrine Mr. Dibble rejoined that doctrine was established by the corporate act of the church, that each bishop could have given only his individual opin- fon and that such opinions would have been incompetent and imma- terfal, as the trial court ruled He reaffirmed his position that doc- trine of the church w Book of Common Prayer, particularly in the Apostles and Nicene creeds. This was in tion, to the idea advanced by Mr. Sharts that the creeds were confessions of faith placed in the praverbook as part of the order of worship, and that they amounted only to symbols of the chureh’s doctrine it oppo 10,000 CATTLE KILLED. Hoof-and-Mouth Plague Sweeping Sweden. MALMOE, Sweden, The cpidemic of the hoof-and-mouth disease in Skaane, south Sweden, has already caused the slaughtering of 10,000 head of cattle, involving losses of nearly $2,000.000. A number of Sweden’s most valuable prize-breed- ing animals have become victims of the disease, and all export of live cattle s prohibited by the govern- ment. Local authorities are adopting drastic measures of isolation and pre- vention to stop further spread of the e L SRR G te 5 DR January 14.— M. | nvicted | will | s found in the| | the President Scott of Northwestern at right. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. 2 Killed in Auto Hurled to Nearby Engine by Train Engineer Attempting to Give Warning Just Escapes Death. By the Associated Press. FLORENCE, . C., January 14.—W. Whitehead, 47, mayor of Lake City, S. C.. and G. Stalvey, 50, an attorney, were killed yesterday when the automobile in which they were riding was demolished by an Atlantic Coast Line passenger train at a crossing 10 miles from here. Their small closed machine was struck broadside by the fast train and shattered against the pilot of a freight locomotive standing nearby on a sidetrack. Both were killed in- stantly. W. L. Dean, engineer of the freight, who jumped from his engine to warn them of the approaching train; missed death by inches when the auto was dashed against his locomo- tive He escaped death in a mass of flying glass and splintered wood. EVANGELIST T0 TOUR ADVENTIST MISSIONS Rev. Meade MacGuire Accepts Call to Study Work in South America. H. Rev. Meade MacGuire, one of the world leaders of the Seventh-day Adventists, has accepted a call from the foreign mission board of that church to make an extensive tour of South America in the interest of mis- sionary work Leaving Washington last night, he started for his home in Modesto, Calif., where, after spending a few days with his wife, he will start for the East, leaving New York City on the S. S. Voltare on February 7. His first stop will be in Rio de Janeiro, from which point he will visit many mission stations in Brazil. He will then go to Buenos Aires and other points in Argentina. From that country he will go to Chile, and then up the west coast of South America, crossing the Andes tains into Ecuador. It is in E Bolivia and Peru that the day Adventists are conducting a most progressive _missionary campaign among the millions of Indians. More than 6,000 of these already have ac- pted Christianity. Arofind Lake Titicaca, which has an elevation of 12,500 feet above sea level, the Adventists have esteblished 12 different mission stations, and Mr. MacGuire will visit all of these, to- gether with others scattered among the highlands of the Andes. He will spend about seven months in South America, returning home by way of Central America and Panama. Mr. MacGuire has been In_Takonfa Park for the past 10 days conducting a series of evangelistic meetings in headquarters church of the de- nomination. ~He and Elder A. G. Daniells, secretary of the foreign mis- sion board, and also secretary of the Ministerial Assoclation of the denom- ination, have been making a tour of the leading centers of the church in North America during the past year, and successful results have come from their evangelistic efforts, AT LUNCHEON OF SENATORS’ WIVES. The regular Tuesday luncheon was held at the THREE WOMEN ON TEXAS SUPREME COURT BENCH. tense Ward of Houston (center) is WASHINGTON, nate office Copyright by Harrls & Ewing. Mrs, the chief justice, and Miss Hor- Ruth Brazzil of Galveston and Miss Hattie Henenberg of Dallas are associate justi, This a State Supreme Court bench. ernor. SYMPHONY PLAYS WAENER CONCERT Damrosch Orchestra, Aided by Berta Morena, De- lights Audience. The a Walter Damrosch { comparatively unfamiliar his annual Wagnerian Poll's Theater vesterday when the New York Symphony as guest soloist Berta Morena, prano of the Munich State Opera, who has been called by some authori- {es the “greatest Isolde.” Two songs, chmerzen” and “Traume,” boih sung with beautiful shading of tonc and especially fine pianissimo work in the latter, are numbers that- would bear more frequert hearings in Wash- ington. Mr. Damrosch's own concert arrangement of the march of the Knights ot the Grail, in “Parsifal,” was a fine musical description, poetic color being given with the bells and with a suggestion of the solemmity of a mighty organ tone. Another unusual work was scherzo from Wagner's only phony, written when he was 19 old ind plainly showing the in- fluence of both Beethoven and Mozart The work is interesting chiefly for use in contrasting the early and later trend In Wagner's development presented some works concert at afternoon. had the sym- ¥ Interpretations Excellent. The beautiful overture to “Tann- hauser” was the opening selection. The brasses were particularly pleas- ing in this number. The violins and ‘cellos were fascinating in the pre- lude and the quaint “Dance of the Apprentices” in the “Meistersinger” selections. The ‘cellos and wood winds were featured in the prelude and accompaniment of the ‘Liebe- stod,’ from “Tristan und Isolde.” Every number showed the pleasure and care that Mr. Damrosch takes in interpreting the Bayreuth master. Madame Morena was heard at not a little disadvantage. She was de- layed in reaching the United State: landing in New York last Saturda: Moreover, this was her first concert in this country since before the war and she was not a little nervous.| Born of Italian and German parents and in a not particular! musical family, Berta Morena grew up the possessor of a beautiful but prac- tically untrained voice. At the age of 19 she sang Agatha in a production of “Der Freischuetz” in the Munich Opera House and she sang Elsa and Elizabeth while still very young. She is to sing Isolde and probably Brunnhilde with the Metropolitan Opera Company. Madame Morena sang Elizabeth’s aria -from “Tann- hauser” With enthusiasm and fine ‘Wagnerian _style yesterday. Her singing of the “Liebestod” was given more artistic shading and feeling. Mme. Morena has marvelous volume, but at times does not seem to have perfect ‘breath control. Her German is, of course, excellent. Officers Ordered Here. Lieut. Col. Charles E. Reese, Army Quartermaster t'or?u at Fort Mason, Calif.; Maj. Rudolph W. Reifkohl, uartermaster Corps, at Camp Hola- bird, Md.; Maj Douglas B. Nether- wood, Alr Service, at New York City: Maj. ' Shepler W. Fitzgerald, Air Service, at Kelly' Field, Tex. have been ordered to this city for duty in. their respective branches, | robbed of every the first time in_history that women have presided upon ppointments were made by the Gov-: Copyright by Ugderwood & U'nderwood \Traffic Bureau All at As White Lines D. ¢, WEDNESDAY, Mme. Tsuneo Matsudaira, wife of the newly appointed Japanese Am- bassador to Washington. The photo- graph was taken in the garden of the Matsudaira home, in Tokio, re- cently. Copyright by Underwood & Underwo Sea Vanish in Snow Many Suggestions Made for Replacing Safety Zones, But All Brought Up Found to Have Some Drawback. Great cornsternation traffic bureau these ill-treatment given safety zone lines by the snow, ice and slush of the past few weeks. Nobody seems to know just what to do_about it With the cently the reigns at the days over the all their white first heavy motoring snowfall re- public was vestige of its traffic lines, and the problem then arose as to what good is a carefully worked out traffic line if nobody knows where it is_except Inspector Headley. Various suggestions to remedy the embarrassing _situation have been made to the traffic bureau chief, but all seem to have their drawbacks. The inspector said that iron stanch- ions had been considered as markers at the street-car loading safety zones, but instantly a train of ob- jections arises. The stanchions would have to be lighted at night, in the first place, and supposing a languishing lantern wick should be wicked enough to go out while the inspector was not looking? Dises Would Fafl _ Then came the proposition iron discs be put at the corners where once the safety zone lines met “But they would be of little benefit,” Inspector Headley states, “with snow and slush piling over them.” Personally, the inspector the wooden platforms now in use on certain_wide thoroughfares, but in most of the places where the white zones have been painted the plat- form would take up most of the street and vehicular trafic would have to be detoured over the side- walk. If there were no safety islands at all, motorists would have to stop be. SICK CAT AROUSES MAN IN FIRE PERIL Several Busipess Concerns in Hyattsville Damaged by Early Morning Flames. that favors Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., January 14— But for a cat with the colic, Frank Caccinl, a shoemaker, might be dead today and scores of Hyattsville build- ings in ruins. The cat woke _up Caccini at 4 o'c'ock this morning by its cries and Caceinl_discovered the pool room of Frank Baldwin, next door, in flames. Fire had started from an overheated stove in the pool room and was spreading between the celling and roof over the several business places in the same. building- at the end of Rodgers. row. The pool room, with three tables and. other contents, was practically gutted at a loss of $600 or more. The lunchroom of Harry Thomas was damaged about $500, the tailor shop of A. Elmo about $1,500, the barber shop of B. F. Chinn, $800, and the roof of Rodgers & Rodgers, real es- tate, was slightly damaged. Cac- cini’s shoe shop was damaged about $1,000. His sleeping quarters are in the rear of the shoe shop. Using a pedometer, an Towa woman has found that she usually walks five miles a day in preparing meals gor her family, hind every street car unloading or taking on passengers Commissioner Oyster, at the same | time, came forward with the sug- gestion that the street car companies should be compelled to clean the snow away from the safety platforms, and sald the subject would be taken up. at the next meeting of the Public Utilities Commission. Just as the problem was assuming greater proportions today Prof. Let- me X. Plain, D. T. (doctor of traffic), came forward with the following more or less enlightening ideas: “The problem scarcely seems to be a problem at all, when one looks. into the matter carefully, as I have done. There are any number of solutions. Why not put umbrellas over the safety zones just before every snow- storm? Or if that were impracticable, etch the lines over again on the fce with an icepick. Or automobiles might be prohibited from using any reet on which a safety zone was known to exist. Or, again, the Com- missfoners might promulgate a regu- lation making it a criminal offense for street-car passengers to endanger their lives by using the safety zones. “{ could give any number of meth- ods that would be effective, but what's the use? Every sukgestion I have made about other things in the past have been completely ignored Such will occur with my safety-zone propositions, I am sure. But, never- theless, I give them for what they are worth, consequently charging you nothing. EX-SHERIFF IN PRISON SEEKS NEW HEARING Not Permitted to File Affidavits in Liquor Case, Says Chafin of Logan County, W. Va. RICHMOND, Va., January 14—A new trizl for Don Chafin, former sheriff of Logan Countw, W. Va., serv- ing a two-year sentence in the At- lanta Federal Penitentlary, wa sought in a plea his attorneys were ready to file in the United States Cir- cuit Court of Appeals here today. Chafin_charged he was not permit- ted to file dffidavits protesting the judge and sgeking another jurist. Ho was convicted in the District Court at Huntington of conspiracy to evade the prohibition act in that he had agreed with Tennis Hatfleld to oper- ate a saloon in Barnabus, W. Va. Chafin also was fined $10,000. MRS.TAYLOR IMPROVED. Rent Commission Member Returns to Home From Hospital. Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor, a member of the Rent Commission, who was severely burned several ‘days ago, while preparing breakfast in her apartment, was so much improved last night that she was removed to her apartment from Georgetown Univer- sity -Hospital. Her complete recovery ts expected. ( JANUARY . 14, 1925. The newest addition to the corps is the assistant secretary of the Italian Embassy, Luciano Marcia The photograph of Signor Marcia and wife was taken yesterday National Photo. BIG SEVRES in the $250,000 collection of Edward will be sold at auction. ASE UNDER THE HAMMER. One of the art objects W. Browning of New York which™ The vase, one of the largest ever turned out by the famous Sevres kilns, was presented by the French government to Mr. Browning. Copyright by Kadel & Herbert YOUNGSTERS TO ENTERTAIN PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCTATION TONIGHT. Pupils of the third grade of Brightwood School who will produce a special entertainment this evening. AUTO PERMIT LAW MEETS OBJECTION Commissioners Oppose Plan Requiring Evidence of Good Character. A bill pendipg in Congress that would require applicants for automo- bile, operating permits to submit evi- dence of good moral character was oppesed by the Commissioners in a report sent Chairman Reed of the House District committee today. ‘The measure provides that the ap- plication for a permit shall be ac- companied by a photograph of the applicant, together with sworn stat ments from three persons of good re- pute, certifying to the character of the applicant. One of the indorse- ments would have to be from the cap- tain of the police precinct in which the applicant resides. Object to Chamge. their ‘report to the House committee the Comm Tn trict said: “The Commissioners believe —that these regulations (meaning those now in existence) adequately cover the subject, and that the requirements proposed in this bill are unnecessary and burdensome. They, therefore, recommend unfavorable action on the b Discussing the trafic problem gen- erally today, Commissioner Oyster de- clared that he is convinced less speed would mean fewer accidents. The Commissioner said information given him Indicates that last week, when machines had to be driven slowly be- cause of the snow and ice on tfe streets, there was a marked reduction in the number of accidents. Would Keep Speed Limit. “I realize that there is opposition to reducing the speed limit, but I am still of the opinion it would elimi- nate half of the accidents,” Capt. Oyster declared. “The present speed 1tmit of 18 miles an hour would be sufficient if motorists' would observe it. Traveling at that rate, a_person can get to any® part of the District in reasonable time.” Although expressing these views;, the Commissioner gave no indication that he intends to recommend a lower speed limit to the board. Dis- ioners SHRINE CONTRACTS LET. Two Bids Accepted for Part of ‘Work at Catholic'T. Contracts were awarded yesterday for the building of the transept, sub- basement and the flooring above the basements at the National Shrine of the Immaculate ~Conception, now under construction at the Catholic University. This work will add 100 feet to the present length -of the crypt floor, making it 304 feet long. The transept will be 250 feet wide. J. P. Whitty & Co. received the contract for the transept and Willlam Lannigan the contract for two southern plers of the dome. Bishop Thomas J. Shahan, rector of the Catholic University, will make a report of the progress of work on the shrine when he reaches Rome. The bisho e Washington today | {Business Record Of Pre-Abraham Day Found in Ur| U.* of Penn. Expedition Says Find Resembles Cash Ledger of 1924. | By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 14 What are believed to be the most cient business records ever found by archeologists, one of the records a ledger similar to those used toda have been unearthed by the joint ex- pedition of the British Museum and the museum of the University of Pennsylvania at Ur of the Chaldees, the buried city of Abraham, accord- ing to an announcement made last night. The first report -from C. Leonard Woolley, head of the expedition received in this city yesterday and made public by Dr. George Byron Gordon, director of the university museum. The report contained the announcement of the finding of the anclent business records, the book- keeping of the Temple of the Moon God, in the former capital of the Babylonian - empire, before the tlme of Abraham. - The archeologists have also un- covered, the report said, a ‘hall of justice,” erected in all probability by Nebuchadnezzar. A striking archi- tectural find, according to Mr. Wooley, was that of an arch in the facade of one of the buildings uncovered, which, he believes, moves back the history of architecture, in this respect, to the remotest antiquity. The report teils of the finding of the ruins of buildings dating from the sixteenth century B. C. and still older walls of shrines put up, as the inscribed clay cones from their foun- dations showed, by the kings of Isin and Larsa, who ruled Ur 2,000 years before Christ. MRS. CATT MAKES PEACE PLEA TO JEWISH WOMEN Says It Is Duty of Sex to Curb War—Americanizing Work Discussed. An appeal to aid in ending war by locatfig the cause and applying a cure was made before. the Council of Jewish Women yesterday afternoon at a meeting in the Eighth Street Temple by Mrs, Carrie Chapman Catt, in Washington arranging for the con- ference on this subject to be held next week. Mrs. Catt spoke on “The Duties of the Hour,” and her address centered about the duty of women in fostering and preparing the way for world peace. Immigration cussed - by Mrs. touched also work. Mrs, Mark Lansburgh, who attend- ed the national board meeting of the council, tendered a digest of the pro- ceeding, outlining the national proj- ects of the organization proposed and in progess of execution. Mrs. Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler sang. Mrs. Alexander Wolf, president of the local organization, presided. -y At the age of 80 years, Dowager problems were di Levi David, who on Americanization Queen Alexandra of England still retains her health, her oniy defects being . a slight faillng in eyesight #nd & growing deafness, Washington Star Photo. THREE ARE HURT WHILE COASTING Two Sleds in Collision With Autos—Several Wrecks Reported. Three persons coasting accidents last Richard Jaco 17, road, near Wisconsin ing on Macomb ne street about § lock, injury to his right leg, sled was struck by a taxic M. Power, 4514 New Hamps nue, driver of the taxicab, injured boy to Emergency Hospital One hour later John P. Harrison, 60 Foxhall road, coasting near his_home, injured his foot when his sled struck an electric light pole. He received treatment at Georg town University Hospital and we! home. Mary Britton, were Injured night Plerce Mill avenue, coast- Thirty-third received an when his James re ave- took. the in 2 2937 Macomb street, victim of the third-accident, coasting near her home, was cut about the face when her sled struck a parked automobile. She was taken home by friends and treated A street car and lumber wagon were in_collision near the west end of the bridge over Rock Creek at P street about 6:30 o'clock last night, Harry Davis, 714 1 street was _operating _the car, Brooks, 2614 1 street, was in charge of the lumber team. The front of the car was damaged and one horse slightly hurt. U. S. Auto in Wreek. Edward Makall, 431 Second street southwest, was driver of a Govern- ment automobile that collided at North Capitol and E streets with the automobile of W. A. Hitt, 2006 Kearney street northeast. Slight damage to the former vehicle resulted. Slight damage resulted from a col- lision between a horse-drawn vehicle in charge of Theodore Green, 412 First street, and the automobile of Walter C. Williams, 941 C street southwest, near Delaware avenue and Canal street southwest yesterday afternoon A Capital Traction car and mail truck collided at Fourteenth and H streets last night about 11:30 o'clock. The truck, in charge of Earl Thomp- son, 1726 Euclid street, was forced against a semaphore, breaking it. This was the only damage. Orville Taylor, 711 Thirteenth street northeast, was driver of an automobile that collided at Thirteenth and H streets northeast yesterday afternoon, with the automobile of Robert D. Rothwell, 2915 Mills avenue, parked at the curb. Both cars were damaged, and Taylor was charged by the police with colliding. Samuel Johnson, colored, 27, 1630 Fifth street, was hurled through the windshield of his automobile this morning about 5 o'clock when his machine collided with a street car in front of 1122 Seventh street. He was treated at Emergency Hospital for a cut over his left eye, and the police charged him with driving while i toxicated, reckless driving and colli ing. while Senator to Speak. Senator Walsh of Montana will speak from radio station WRC to- morrow evening at $:30 o'clock on the child labor amendment to the Constitution which is now pending before the Leglslatures of 40 States.