Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1925, Page 2

'2 * CASE IS STARTED - AGAINST WHEELER Justice Department Begins { Presenting Evidence to [ Grand Jury. The Department of Justice today be- its presentation to the special grand of the District of Columbia of evi- dence gathered in an investigation of al- Jeged fraud in connection with the is- suance of prospecting permits for oil and gas on public lands in Montana to the Gordon Campbell Co. Connection of Burton K. Wheeler, Senator from Montana and late candi- date for Vice President on the Progres- sive ti with the issuance of these permits is expected to be laid before the grand jurors, and an opportunity has been extended by Attorney General Stone to Senator Wheeler to appear be- fore th and jury, waiving immunity, and make such explanation as he sees At of his relations with Gordon Camp- bell and with the obtaining of the al- leged illegal permits. Two witnesses were in attendance \en the grand jury met this morning, it Is expected they will testify to- One was R. M. Houston of the estigation of the Depart- of Justice, and the other was J. S son, a post office inspector from tland, Oreg. The purport of the testi- v given by the two witnesses wa not obtainable, as boththe t counsel and the witnesses clined to talk. esentation of the case to the in charge of W. J. Don- istant Attorney General, and being assisted by Maj. Peyton Gordon, United States attorney; John S. Pratt and Oliver E. Pagan, special assistants to the Attorney General Tliness of Wilbur H. Zepp, the fore- of the special grand jury, made the selection of an acting Justice Hoehling appointed er, secretary of the amber of Commerce, an until the recovery Jury a day of Mr. Zepp A matement fssued azo batore Attorney General Stone appeared before the judiciary com- tes Of tha Senate and disclaimed tntention of “persecuting” Sen- ator Wheeler, as charged by Senator Thomnas J. Walsh of Montana, coun- sel for Wheeler mated there will be quite a number of witnesses to be exar the grand jury. Sev- 1 d, will be de voted to the presentation of the evi dence before the grand jurors, on which the vernment relles to show n obtalning the permits or oil rights. STONE NOMINATION UP. several days The of the judiclary committee approving for a nd time the nom- Attorney General Stone to be Court justice was before the with ieaders prepared to predictions of early fa- on the nomination. appeared no obstacle to ation, the opposition had llapsed, and discussion report, probably to be exccutive session, was not only with the grand ngs here in the Wheeler but also with the James A. Own- bey case, in which Mr. Store served as counsel for estate of J. Pierpont Morgan CAVE-TRAPPED MAN, WEAKENING, BEGS HIS RESCUERS TO STAY (Continued from First Page.) today up vorabie acti While ther early confirr not com incident to called up in open expected to d jury proce & e others tened He h four d Apparently only ethods thing drill have tugged at a rope fas- about the body of the victim been moved five inches in the most primitive successful, if any- A compressed air here from Louls- cave men said there was grave danger that the vibrations d loosen other rock and ca narrow passage to col- | la 1s not used 1s be. was rushed ville, but experienced 0 it pse, w May Tunnel Early today it was d workmen the cave could be heard faintly from the side of the hill about 309 feet from the entrance A plan to bring 100 men to the spot and begin a tunnel immediately was evolved. The rescue work here- | tofore heroic but haphazard and un- organized 100k on a semblance of or- der. 1If tunnel put through the hill strikes Sand Cave more than 150 | feet from the entrance, workmen will, | for the first time, reach Collins from the side rock weighink him down can Meanwhile another plan was being pushed by t n working within the cave. A large screw jack, supplied by the Courler-Journal, was to be placed against the wall in front of Collins. With a pipe or piece of tim- ber extending from the jack across Collins' body to slab it was plan- ned to exert pressure against the stone. If the prisoner was moved five rescuers argued, it might be sible to move the rock backward permit extricating Col- to Vietim, overed that hose 1 trohes, e far enough tc lins. Tells of New Chamber. No way lows stone. sufficien k immed much e ws whether the passage- vond Collins al- in pushing the oo, may prove in- welght of the slab six or eight reverts to the the prisoner the ated in, hope reaching from behind and below Collins is an vaulted chamber, the largest most beautiful he has ever seen, Collins told Jewell Estes, when Estes discovered his plight Saturd Residents who know Collins and re- call that he discovered Crystal Cave with its mary ormations of deli- cate bea believe that his new dls: covery a wonder cavern A staff correspondent of the Louls- ville C -Journal, in a dispatch to his filed here, told of go- ing into cave to the imprisoned man. He said he into the entrance descended to the drop, where h ground “From here a enake,” he said most every inch after the fi through and t uri paper, the by heels cave and $0-foot level was lowered of the end of an reached fairly on 1 had to squirm like “Water covers ul- of the ground, and few reet wet agh. B ment it got colder. Dirty splashed in my face and numbed my body Finally I slid do cight-foot Arop and a modme ter saw Colling.” He said that €' brothers, Mar- shall and Homer, had taken olleloth into the cave to pre their kins- man from the incessantly dripping water. They dons everything humanly possible for sparing themselves no they col- lapsed trom still opti- mistic, bu & a compiete breakdown, Collins has entered into any scheme to extract him trom the trap nature created for one who would dare to explore her subter ranean caverns. Once before he had been a prisoner for two days, when another enormous boulde blocked his esress from Cry lin: bi hims ol after he had genetrated new-found passages. MRS. HARDING’S ESTATE APPRAISED AT $334,884 Bulk of Wealth in Securities Val- " ued at $210,330—Grandchil- dren Principal Heirs. By the Assoclated Press MARION, Ohio, February 3.—The es- tate of the late Mrs. Warren G _Hard- ing was appraised at $334,884.90, ac- cording to a statement filed for probate with Judge L. B. McNeal yesterday. The bulk of Mrs. Harding's wealth was in stocks and bonds. They have a value of $210,330. She had real estate holdings valued at $85,000. Moneys in banks and building and loans associa- tions amounted to $36,717.32; certifi- cates of deposit, $12,337.58, and one out- standing note of $500. The bulk of the estate was left to Jean and George de Wolfe, aged 15 and 12, respectively, grandchildren of Mrs Harding. They are the chiidren of a son of Mrs. Harding's first husband. BAKING CONCERN BUYS CORBY PLANT Local Company Absorbed by Continental Corporation of New York. The Corby Baking Co. has been ab- sorbed by the Continental Baking Cor- poration of New York City, according to announcement by George G. Barber, chairman of the board of the latter com- pany, last night. Negotiations have been pending for some months. The Corby plant, a family-grown and family-owned product, identified with the leading independent bakeries in the United States, will form the Southern link the Continental's chain, which operates 76 bakerles in 60 cities of the country. In addition to the local plant, branches will be malintained, as hereto- fore, at Alexandria and Richmond. Karl W. Corby a Vice President. Karl W. Corby, president of the Corby Baking Co., will be the only one of the family to retain an active intereat under the amalgamation, he having been elect- ed a vice president of the purchasing corporation. The transaction was de- scribed as an “out-and-out” purchase, there being no exchange of Corby stock for shares in the Continental corpora- tion. It was expressly stated that what- ever interest retiring members will hav in the procecdings will be acquired | through purchase of stock No consideration was named in the transaction, but it is understood in finan- cial circles here that approximately $3,000,000 was involved in the deal Karl W. Corby, formerly active head of the local concern and thoroughly conversant with its affairs, will con- tinue In active charge of the parent branch and its subsidiaries, it was sald. No changes in the functions of the bakery are contemplated, it was said, but all anmouncements along this line must necessarily now come from headquarters in New York, It was explained. Inventors of Baking Machinery. W. 8. and C. I. Corby concelved the local plant, and were the inventors of the dough-loaf molding machine the first machine in the world to mold dough successfully into loaves. They were also the inventors of the Corby new process mixer, which revolutionized dough mixing. The company was also one of the first bakeries to install its own labora- tories within {ts own bakery. Also, it was the first to recognize the value of artificial refrigeration for control of temperature throughout the bread- baking processes, thereby eliminating sour bread, and by experiments In its own laboratory, was the first suc- cesstully to apply a method of incor- porating milk in bread. Karl W. Corby was made president of the company only yesterday, im- mediately prior to consummation of the merger. At the same time W. S. Corby retired as head. Karl W. hag been secretary of the plant since 1915. ARLINGTON GETS PLAN FOR TRUNK LINE SEWER Meeting to Be Held Monday to Go Into Project Aided by Government. Special Dispateh to The Star. CLARENDON, Va.” February 3.—A movement having as its aim the es- tablishment of a trunk line sewer starting at Latterner avenue and Cathcart road and emptying Into the Potomac River at Four Mile Run, af- fording opportunity for the southern part of Clarendon, including Ashton Heights, Lyon Park, Arlington, Fort Myer reservation, Presnell and other smaller communities along the line to obtain modern sewer facilities was launched at a meeting at the Arlington County Courthouse last night The project was explained by Capt. John T. Talman, county superin- tendent of roads, who told of an offer of the War Department to stand one-fourth the cost of the trunk line, which is estimated at $40,000, for the privilege of connect- ing Fort Myer. Capt. Talman outlined the plan being formulated for a co-operative community sewer system down Spout Run and stated that the same prin- ciples would be applicable to the Long Branch project. The Spout Run project provides for the formation of a main trunk line cosporation and local lateral companies, the latter to finance the laterals and subscribe to the building of the trunk line, the companies to be non-profiting. Fi- nancial aid in the construction of the trunk line, Capt. Talman said, may be expected from the school authorities. The attendance was small and for this reason no definite action was taken. A motion by Arthur Orr, however, put those present, about 20 in ell, on record as being vitally in- terested in the proposal and urged the Federal authorities, who had in- sisted on a definite answer by Febru- ary 6, for an extension of time. It also authorized another meeting for consideration of the project Monday evening at the courthouse, with the hope of having every property owner within the area affected in attend- ance. —_— DR. PRENDERGAST BETTER Revives From Serious Operation at Emergency. Dr. I. T. Prendergast, newly elected Oriental guide of Almas Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. 8, Is recovering at Emer- gency Hospital from a serious opera- tion performed Thursday by Dr. Charles Stanley White, it was learned today. Dr. Prendergest, it was sald at the hospital today, is doing well, but wiil have to remain at the institution for a couple of, weeks in order fully to 1 his strength Dr. Ffiwler}nok at fie:k. Health Officet William C. Fowler, Who underwent an operation for ap- pendicitis several weeks ago. was back at his desk in the District Build- ing today, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DEADLOCK HOLDS AT OPIUM PARLEY Long Session of Joint Com- mission Fails to Reach Agreement Basis. By the Associnted Pross GENEVA, February 3.—A lengthy session today of the joint commission of the two oplum conferences failed to result in any agreement on the problem of suppression of opium smoking in the Far East—the prin- cipal sticking point in the long- drawn-out conferences over the oplum evil which have been in prog- ress here almost continuously since last November. On motion of Aguero Betancourt of Cuba, a subcorgmittee was appointed to make a last at- tempt to find ground for a compro- mise between the conflicting views of the United States and those of Great Britain and some of the other European powers. The committee consists of repre- sentatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, Japan and Finland, with Dr. Herluf Zable of Denmark, president of the International Opium Conterence, as observer. Porter Advances Objection. Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania, who wants the powers to begin the suppression of oplum smoking immediately and abol- ish it entirely within 15 vears, read a statement to the effect that the plan which would make the suppres- slon conditional on the reduction of the growth of opium in the producing countries is not a feasible one. He insisted that the obligations imposed upon the nations by The Hague con- vention could not be transformed into contingent obligations, The United States, sald Mr. Porter, was suffering seriously from leakage in the distribution of opium in the Far East, and he erted the only remedy possessed by the United States was to insist on the definite suppression of the importation of opium Into the Far Eastern countires for smoking purposes. Ceell Fights for His Sta Viscount Cecil, head of the British delegation stuck to the position the British have held all along. He sald definite suppression could only come when smuggling ceased to be a_serious obstacle to governmental efforts to put a stop to the practice. Mr. Sugimura of Japan revealed during the debate that Mr. Porter in private conversation Had agreed on a waiting period ot three years before beginning to apply the smoking re- strictions in order to give China time to control her production. This offer was not accepted by the European powers, who want an impartial com- mission to of the plant has been so reduced as to cause a cessation of the smuggling danger. PROMOTION-OF SHERRILL TO BRIGADIER REJECTED Conference on War Department Bill Act on Account of Senti- ment in House. The conference agreement between the Senate and House committees on the War Department appropriation bill, reported to the House today, shows that the proposal to grant Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, a promotion to the rank of brigadier general while he holds his present office 2s military aide to the President, was rejected. It is understood that the confer- ence recognized the desirability of granting temporarily the rank of brigadier general to Lieut. Col. Sher- rill in present capacity, but that the house sentiment at this time is such that it would be impossible to get this proposal approved. Therefore, in order not to delay action on the Army supply bili, those who faror the temporary promotion of Col. Sherrill were turned down. It is understood that the Secretary, of War presented strong arguments in support of the promotion. . AVIATORS MAKE HOP-OFF IN LONG NON-STOP FLIGHT Flyers Leave Etampes for Dakar, French West Africa, With Fuel for 24-Hour Trip. By the Associated Press. ETAMPES, France, February 3.— Two French army aviators, Capt. Le- maitre and Lieut. Arrachard, started in an airplane at 11:30 o'tlock thie morning in an attempt at a nonstop flight to Dakar, French West Africa. The airmen carried fuel sufficient to keep their machine in the air 25 hours. The route adopted for the flight runs through Biarritz and Lisbon, and thence down the Southwestern Eu- ropean and Western Coast of Africa, a distance of more than 2,600 miles The aviators hoped to cover this in 23 hours. The airplane they are using is the same type as that in which Capt. Pel- letier Dolty made his Paris-to-Tokio fiight. Pelletier Doisy was to have been pilot in this flight, but was chosen for the official fiight across the Sahara to Lake Tchad and his place was taken by Capt. Lemaitre. WIFE PREVENTS SUICIDE. Frustrates Husbands Scheme of Dying. Report of the discharge of a shot- gun in the home of Willlam H Clinkins, colored, 622 Tenth street northeast, shortly after 5 o'clock yes- terday afternoon attracted attention of neighbors and the police, and an investigation made by the latter dis- closed an effort on part of Clinkins to force his wife to assist in taking his life. Clinkins, 52 years old, had loaded his gun and fastened a rope to the trigger. Then he compelled his wife to permit him to fasten the other end of the rope to her leg, &0 arrang- ing it that when she started to walk the weapon would be discharged and the load sent into his body. Mre. Clinkins' moved a little too rapidly, stumbling and discharging the weapon before her husband could take a position in front of it. The charge shattered a window of the Clinkins home, but did not touch the man who thought he wanted to die. Clinkins was taken to Gallinger Hospital and detained for examina- tion as to his mental condition. - PLAN BANK HEARINGS. New hearings were ordered today by the Senate banking committee on the McFadden bill to amend the na- tional banking laws. The bill, which deals with the ques- tion of branch banking, has been passed by the House. The first wit- nesses to be heard by the Senate committee will be & dalegation from California who have voiced objection to some of its provisions. Hearings will begin Thursday, Unique decide when the growth | Experts Observe 7-Year-Old Girl Accused of Attempt to Poison Family By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 3.— Seven-year-old Alsa Thompson was under observation at the psychopathic ward of the general hospital today, after an alleged attempt to kill members of the family with whom she was board- ing. The child is accused of mixing ant paste and acid from a radio battery and attempting to induce several persons to eat It. When they refused, she attacked Max- ine Plats, aged 6 years, and slashed her wrists with n safoty razor PLANINSPECTION OF T4 METERS District Officials Seek Legal Ruling on Closer Check on Cab Charges. Two agencies of the District gov- ernment today are considering what steps might be taken to bring about systematic Inspection of all taxical meters. George M. Roberts, superintendent of weights and measures, has applicd to Corporation Counsel Stephens for a legal opinfon as to whether he has ample authority under existing law to make such tests. Earl V. Fisher, secretary to the Public Utilifles Commission, after conference with Enginecer Commis- sioner Bell, is having a report pre- pared as to what the commlission should do with regard to taxi regis- ters Supervision Divide The reason both agencies are in- quiring into the question, It was éx- plained, is that jurisdiction over taxi- cab operatfon is divded. The Utlities Board, under a court decision, con- fines its supervision to cabs operating from Union Station and hotels All other cabs come under the Po- lice Department, and there {s an old regulation dealing with the functions of the superintendent of weights and measures in testing such meters for the Police Department A test made by The Star several days ago showed that six of seven cabs from different companies, driven over a measured route of four miles had meters overrunning or overcharging in various degrees. One cab was un- dercharging. Capt. R. G. Klotz and Inspector H. V. Roystadt of the Engineering Bureau of the Utilitles Commission stated today that if the commisaion beging regular testing of cab meters some leeway from an exact reading would have to be allowed Allow for Variance. They pointed out that the commis- ston allows for a variance of 2 per cent fast or slow on meters for illuminating gas and 4 per cent lee- way on electric current meters. , Officials of the commission say there are two methods of checking up on taxl meters—by a road test and a bench test. A road test, they say, would require only a measured course of roadway and the time of the Inspectors. A bench test would necessitate purchase of certain ap- paratus at & cost of possibly $1,000. Secretary Fisher said that Capt. Klotz had suggested a road test of four miles out Sixteenth street, starting from Scott Cirele, with each mile marked in some manner on the curbstone. Would Need Ad&itional Inspectors. Supt. Roberts of the weights and measures office declared that if the corporation counsel advises him that he has authority now to test cab meters he would need an additional corps of Inspactors to carry on the work. At the present time, he sald, he has a total force of five inspectors, with 5,000 business establishments and ap- proximately 1,800 street hucksters and other salesmen to supervise. Mr. Roberts sald that while there s an old police regulation on the testing of cab meters, Congress has since enacted a weights and measures law In which taxi meters were not mentioned. It was that situation which prompted Mr. Roberts to ask the corporation counsel for a ruling as to his present powers. Secretary Fisher of the utilitfes commission expressed the helief to- day that it would be a better ar- rangement to have taxi-meter super- vision all in one place, whether it be the utilities commission or some other agency of the city government. WILL WAIT QUIETLY FOR END OF CREATION Adventist Group Plans No Special Ceremony on Expected Doomsday. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., February 3.— Followers of Mrs. Margaret W. Row an, whose prediction that next Friday would mark the end of the world has stirred up commotion in “Reformed” Adventist circles throughout the country, will await the fulfillment of the prophecy calmly in_their homes, it was announced at Mrs. Rowan's home today. “No preparations are being made, nor are any religious services plan- ned,” sald Mrs. B. E. Fullmer, spokes- man for the prophetess. “Mrs. Rowan has given her mes- sage and we have faith that her vision will be fulfilled.” . —s Diplomatic Relations Resumed. MEXICO CITY, February 3.—Diplo- matle relations between Mexico and Honduras were resumed with the inauguration on Sunday of President Barahona, it is stated at the foreign office. Relations were severed at the time of the revolutionary coup plac- Ing Gen. Tosta in power. 4-Year-Old Boy Burned seriously while playing with matches more than two months ago, 4-vear-old Thomas Sanford of 830 Madison street, lies in a serlous condition at Chil- dren's Hospital, where he Is re- celving special attention and the best care that medical science and generous contributions from his Sunday school can afford. The little fellow, whose mother and father are both employed, was playing with matches at their home while in the care of a nurse and, igniting his clothing, was so badly burned beéfore the flames could be extinguished that he has since been in an extremely precari- ous condition, Brought to Emergency Hospital November 17, he was treated there until January 21, when it was thought best to remove him to the | transported | stores | themselves or for o blade. Officers said that the child admitted the charge, and that she explained, “1 guess I did it because 1am so mean. Alsa is alleged to have told the police that she killed her twin sis- ters with ground glass two years ago whila living tn Dauphtn, Mani- toba, Canada, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Thompson. Investigators were inclined to vlew skeptically that angle of the child's purported confession, but admitted themselves puzzled by the fact that she is unusually pre- coolous, having reached the elghth grade In school while still of a kindergarten age. MITCHELL DEFIANT IN FACE OF THREAT TO TAKE HIS STARS (Continued from First Page.) the comparatively short overocean route selected, the services of 36 naval ships were required. In the aggre- gate theys had to steam more than 300,000 miles and to burn up 7,000,000 gallons of fuel oil. From these ships planes had to fly hundreds of miles exploring the fcebound coast of Green- land to find a harbor in_ which the worid fiyers could land. It has been published that the whole world flight cost the Army Air Service about $186,000. The Navy spent more than $400,000 in fuel alone, not counting any other item. This seems to illus- trate that for ocean work the two are inseparable Capt. Dudley Knox, U. 8. N,, attack- ing Gen. Mitchell's statements, lik- encd them to a statement of Abraham Lincoln, when he sald: “A cunning arrangement of words to prove that a horsechestnut is a chestnut horse.” Basls of Argmment. “One of (ien. Mitchell's fundamen- tal assumptions in his efforts to prove that navies are rapidly going out of date,” sald Capt. Knox, “is that mod- ern battleships can be easily sunk in a few minutes by aerial bombs. He bases this assumption largely upon the sinking of the ex-German battle- ship Ostfriesland by bombing. Gen Mitchell's implication that the Ost- friesland was of modern deslgn or construction is very far from accurate facts. “In defending outlylng territories aviation will hereafter play an im- portant part, in combination with many other forms of fighting power. But even the aviation part, considered alone, will require great quantities of heavy stores which cannot b except by cargo ships. To give some idea of weights in- volved, the Independent alr force shich the general is now asking Con- gress to provide would consume some | 5,000 tons of fuel bombs and other during every day of active opération. This is on the basis of an average of four hours' flying each day. Gen. Mitchell has made the ridiculous proposal that his supplies will be transported by air. Think of it, 5,000 tons per day! The largest airship, the Los Angeles, cannot carry more than 20 tons of cargo.” Shortcomingw of Alrships. Admiral Hilary P. Jones, chief of the Navy general board, discussed the proposal at great length today and pointed out that some of the argu- ments of Gen. Mitchell are absolutely against the law of physics, which, of course, no one can overcome. Sum- ming up some of his points, Admiral | Jones said: “The airplana (heavier-than-air) is inherently limited in performance by physical laws. “The alrship (lighter-than-air) has some valuable characteristics, but, due to great vulnerability, is of doubtful vaiue in war. “Afreraft cannot operate from ter- ritory that is not controlled by the military or naval forces of their own country. “Airplanes cannot occupy territory nor can they exercise control of the sea “Airplanes cannot reach distant oversea areas under their own power with any effective military force, and t\e‘rnforn cannot operate there of- feénsively or defensively until sup- plled with weapons and fuel. “Afrplanes cannot fulfill the func- tlons of the mervice of supply for er forces in dis- tant overseas areas. Stand of Sclentixts. Admiral Jones, speaking on proposed united air service, said: “It would seem illogical to elevate to the dignity of a separate depart- ment of the Government. with itsone cabinet officer ana all the enormous departmental overhead that would in- evitably follow, an activity so inher- ently limited fn commercial and mil- itary transportation capacity. “Practically the unanimous opinion of all the higher officers of the Army, the members of the national advisory committee for aeronautics, composed of many eminent scientists who have made a close and exhaustive study of aviation and all of its problems, and many members of the National Aeronautic Association is that a sep- arate department of aeronautics would be undesirable and unneces- sary, not only from the standpoint of national defense, but from the stand- polnt of further development of avia- tion “From the standpoint of economy, even a casual study of the subject must demonstrate bevond a shadow of a doubt that the creation of a sep- arate air force will enormously in- crease the burden of the taxpaver. The transfer, as proposed, to a de- partment of aeronautics of all types of aircraft, and of any other means of transportation, including ships, ves- sels, boats and automobiles or other motor vehicles now in use or on hand, all lands, docks, wharves and all other property heretofore used by the Navy Department and all other de- partments in connection with aircraft would merely build up another Navy in the department of aeronautics; the transfer to a department of aero- nautics of all anti-aircraft artillery now mounted in the national defense scheme merely bullds up within the department of aeronautics another artillery corps and does not diminish the need for anti-aircraft artillery by the Army or Navy. In other words, there would be a duplication on an enormous scale all along the line, and duplication necessarily spells addi- tional cost.” the Burned 2 Months Ago, Helped by Generous Sunday School Children's Hospital, where funds from the Calvary Baptist Sunday school are defraying all expenses. Thomas attended kindergarten at Calvary Baptist and when it was learned recently that his burns were so serious as to de- mand special care and attention, it was determined to take a spectai collection at the Sunday school. More than $400 was understood to have been contributed to the little fellow's relief. For some time, it was thought it might be necessary to Keep him suspended in a special sling, face downward, but at the hospital to- day it was said that it had been found possible to arrange him in bed so that his pain would be at least endurable. His father is Ferd F. Sanford and his mother Mrs. Grace San- ford. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1925. GREECE PLANNING APPEAL TO LEAGUE Geneva Officials Sounded Qut on Row With Turks Over Patriarch’s Expulsion. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, February 3. — Greece's representative here, M. Dendramis. visited League of Nations headquar- ters today and discussed with the offi- cials there the dispute between Greece and Turkey over the expuision of the Patriarch Constantine from Con- stantinople. The Greek diplomat gave the im- pression that he was making prelim- fnary inquirles preparatory to a pos- sible appeal by Greece to the league under the covenant on the ground that the controversy endangers good rela- tions between nations and menaces peace. Such an appeal would be founded on article XI of the covenant PARIS IS MEDIATING. Turk Envoy Asked to Adopt Con- ciliatory Attitude. Ry the Associated Press. PARIS, February 3.—The French forelgn office was again visited this morning by the Turkish ambassador, Djevad Bey, who conferred with M the political director, with regard to the Greco-Turkish dlspute. The ambassador reiterated the de- termination of Turkey to refuse ar- bitration by the Permanent Court of International Justice on the question of the expulsion of the Greek patri- arch from Constantinople. M. La- roche asked the ambassador to en- deavor to induce his government to suspend all expulsions of Greeks un- til the question regarding the patri- arch was settled %0 as not to aggra- vate the situation. WAR NOT EXPECTED. Greece Believed Unable to Act Against Turkey. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. PARIS, Fbruary 3.—The opinfon of the French government is that in spite of the warlike talk in Athens, there is no danger of a conflagration in the Near East over the question of the explusion of the patriarch, Constantine. The fighting abllity wf the Greak army which has been much impaired by home politics, still being reduced in the extreme Information reached Paris this morning from Athen which indicated that the Greeks lack War materials and that the condition of most of their units, except the two Macedonian divisions, 50 poor than an armed conflict between the Turks and Greece appears to be more than improbable. Djevad Bey, the new Turkish Am- bassador, who reached Paris on Sun- day, was received by Premier Herrfot on Monday, and explained to him that Turkey means to respect the stipula- tions of the Lausanne treaty regard- ing the patriarchate, and that the de- portation of the patriarch, Constan- tine, is in accordance with the treat since it was approved by the repatria tion commission appointed by the League of Nations and composed of a Spaniard, a Dane, a Swiss, a Turk and a Greek, by a majority of three votes against two. The Turks claim that the fact that the patriarca is a Greek does not chgnge his legal status, and since Constantine resided in Turkey only after 1918, he i ex- Laroche, The argument, of course, is typlcal- Iy Turkish, as it has been an open secret that the Turks, who exiied their own religious chief, intended to abolish the patriarchate, which they have always considered the center of political propaganda dangerous to Turkish unity. Choice Now DiMcult. The intention of the Angora gov- ernment in expelling all Greeks who Wwere not resident in Turkey before 1918 renders it practically impossible for any Greek ecclesiast to become a patriarch. The only man who fulfills the condition is Papa Eftimo, who joined Mustapha Kemal Pasha’'s Na- tionalist movement and was appoint- ed by the Turkish leader as patriarch in the days when the Nationalists were considered by the allies as rebels. Naturally the Greek community is unwilling to accept that man as head of the Orthodox Church. and the crisis will lead—the Turks hope—to the re- moval of the seat of the patriarchate from Constantinople. The Greek minister at Paris has informed Premier Herrlot that his government is in a difficult position on account of public opinion in Greece, which has been much excited and is clamoring for immediate action. Premier Herriot, aware of the fact that Greece I8 unable to fight, asked the Minister to advise his government to be patient—that “time heals the deepest wounds.” (Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Daily News Co.) COOLIDGE STUDYING CURB UPON TRANSFER OF LIQUOR ON SEAS (Continued from First Page.) withstanding, the recent treaties make it legal to seize vessels inside the 12-mile limit. Also there are na- tions which haven't signed such trea- ties, and therefore the rum runners can still fly a variety of foreign flags. Importation Is Problem. The President and the cabinet are agreed that one of the most impor- tant phases of the whole prohibition question is the importation of liquor. Although the Coast Guard Service has been enlarged, it still is inadequate to cope with the rum running on coast lines as extensive as those of the Atlantic and Paclfic. Also the Canadian. and Mexican borders are hard to police. No conclusions were reached by the cabinet as to a course of action. Sec- retary of State Hughes presented the legal aspects of the question with characteristic skill and showed where- in the British position was founded on law and precedent. Question of Good Will. Agaln, therefore, the solution turns not on a matter of legal right, but ®ood will. If Great Britain can be persuaded that it will adversely af- fect the good feeling between the peoples of the United States and the British Empire to permit her na- tionals to continue to engage in trade that is almed at the overthrow of America's prohibition experiment, an amendment of existing British laws might be made. But the problem is what is known as municipal law, and rests entirely within the volition of the British and other forelgn governments. Thus far forelgn citizens have made too much money out of the traffic to sit by without protest and allow thelr governments to restrict the right to dispose of cargo en route or on the high seas, which have always been regarded as f to all, virtually | witnout mguon . to changeable like any other individual. | Will Open Debt Issue GIACOMO DE MARTINO, New Italian Ambassador to Washing- ton, understood to be bringing a pro- posal to open discussion of settiement of the Italian debt to United States. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PLEA ENDS PARLEY Dr. Speer Tells Missionaries That Home Must Pre- serve Functions. A warning against allowing the state and the church to lift from the Christlan home its proper function and a plea to adhere to the doctrine for all peoples of Dr. Robert peer, retiring pre ident of the Federal Council o Churches, representing 27 commun ions and 22,000,000 communicants, at the conclusion of the sessions of the foreign missions convention ir Washington Auditorium, last night He sounded a caution against al- lowing the state to take over that discipline which should rest within the home. “We are lifting today off the Chris, tion home,” he said, “and transfer- ring to the Christian church and to the state, functions that belong in the home. And again and again, cross the line of proper functional division between church and state, one agency or the other strays across to the | other side | saia, | “There is no small our world today, that in tha interest of the great ends that we seek, we should relieve the state of religious obligations because We have not patience to wait until the state shall assume them, only to discover at the last that we have incapacitated the state from ever taking them over.” Demands Religious Freedom. “For my part,” he added, “I believe that the right of absolute religlous Iiberty is an inalienable human right that ought not child of God. There are great are of the world today, where that funda- mental right is denied. It is denied in Turkey to Mohammedan and Chris- tian alike. It is denied in Afghanis- tan to Christian and Mohammedan alike. A fellow Mohammedan of an- other sect was stoned to death by Mohammedans in the streets of a city of one of those countries because the latter counted him a Mohammedan heretic. “I believe it is the missionary task of government to assert that uni- versal right and I can cite three times in our own American history when danger in our Government conceived it to be its] right and duty to deal with other governments not ih the interest of re- ligious liberty for American citizen but for the subjects of those nations themselves.” He turned to projects needing.sup- port and tance and stressed con- ditions among the blind of India and lepers of the world “There are 100,000 blind in the United Provinces of India alone,” he “and not one blind institution for them except a few broken-down barracks in the city of Alahabad, where 20 or 30 of the 100,600 are mis- erably housed “I have seen it stated that there are 2,000,000 lepers in the world. One thanks God for all that Christian mis- sions have done for them, but one thinks of the hundreds of thousands of lepers whom, if Christ were in the world today, He would touch, to whom we have never gone as yet with any mention of His love and His power. This address was in a manner a summing up of the work of missions throughout the world and a forecast as to the needs which would be crop- ping up along educational, social and | religious lines of endeavor. He took occasion to castigate ver- bally authors of books tending to exalt one people and seeking subver- sion and subjugation of other peo- ples, characterizing them as “idiotic biologies” in one case and “devilish” creations in another. Wants Clear Speaking. In his peroration, he said: “There should be some far clearer thinking done here and some more hcnest speaking than we have indulged in the past. It is not a matter of giving these churches their independence. If I am dependent upon another man for my independ- ence, where is my independence? No man can give another his freedom. A man is free or he is not free. man can make him free “Let thera be no misunderstanding here. We have been asked again and again in this convention whether we are willing to glve these their liberty. Willing? Why, we wait for the day when they will take it, passing over to them the administra- tion of forty or fifty millions of dol- lars. That we want is to see them take the re- sponsibility for evangelizing one thousand millions of human souls. Rev. Dr. James L. Barton, who pre- sided at the last session, had Assistant Secretary Leslie B. Moss cite statis- tics to the members as to the scope of the convention. Mr. Moss said that 3.480 delegates appointed by mission boards and so- cleties had registered; that 1,000 tickets had been distributed to repre- sentatives of Washington churches; and by estimaté, between 9,000 and 10,000 Washingtonians attended ses- slons of the convention. Bishop Willlam F. McDowell opened last night's session with praver and Rev. Dr. James H. Franklin gave the concluding prayer. Six thousand stood with bowed heads. Ten minutes afterward, at 10:10, the auditorium was only a place of empty seats and silence and the foreign missions’ convention, broadest in scope of any meeting of its kind and a_ chapter, in itself, in the at an end. ood out in the speech | the | to be denied a single | far No other | churches is a trifiing thing. What history of Protestantism, was ME FIGHT RESTS ON FROZEN SERUM Antitoxin, Reaching City Aft- er Record Run, Put Imme- diately Into Use. By the Assoclated Press OME, Alask Whether an would turn the scales in their favor in thar battle against an epidemic of diphtheria, whether freezing had destroyed the value of the 300,000 units anti- toxin rushed here in a spectacular record-breaking dog r was the question confronting Nome's one doc- tor and one today as the awaited results from the first injec tion of the serum The entire lot was frozen solid upon but a portion was d quickly administered wutions have been taken zing of the 100,000 en To from February 3 nurse Extreme pre. to prevent units an attle, Exhausted by his part i | the miles into the a race that aided dously in cutting the time fr record of nine days from N Nome to five and a half days, nar Kasson slept today 28 Below Zero, His was a fea the seasoned dog dri Arcti mushing with n eldom equaled ers of the For two days he the trail Bluff witl transfer the serum fr sen’s dog team When Olsen’s team trotted into Bluff with the precious load, Kasson | carried on despite a temperature of | 28 degrees below zero and a blizzard fanned by a st! orm and darkness prevented him meeting Fred Rohn at Solomon for the last {short relay dash into Nome. He Kept up the pace, however, and reached here at daybreak. Four dogs in his team were badly frozen Rohn arrived before noon after he learned Kasson had missed him Leonard Seppalla, undefeated mush er of the North, met a relay team at Shaktolik, east of Norton Sound, and carried the antitoxin to Golofnin, on the north shore of Norton Sound, | Bering Sea, where Olsen took up the | race. waited dogs to sher Ol Plan to Use Plane. No word has been ived Seppalla. The former Finnish ath- lete is expected to return slowly, rest- ing at villages to feed his tired dogs, which bore the brunt of the race. Another precious package of serum was shipped Saturday cattle on the steamship A Seward From there it will to Nenar on the Alaska Railroad, and then airplane to Nome. The Alameda is 8ue in Seward Thursday or Friday. The serum will arrive in Nenana the day after it reaches Seward, and Roy §. Darling, former y flyer, who agent of the Department of Justice at Fairbanks, and h mechanic Ralph T. Mackie of Anchorage n a few hours do with an a what it required days of heartbr ing toil for the dogs and drive accomplish BELIEVES SERU MGOOD. rec from entire Antitoxins Frequently Frozen to Preserve Them, Says Expert. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA. Pa., February 3 eezing of antitoxin units, rushed to Nome, Alaska, by dog team to combat the diphtheria epidemic, will have no effect upon its properties, Milton “ampbell, president of the H. K. Mul- ford Co. manufacturing chemists, {declared today | Some of the friv i the first 200,000 units to ar- stricken Northern city |were furnished by the Mu fr. Campbell said, and 2,00 | aitional units are being rushed thers {on orders from the Government and the Public Health Department of Nome “Antitoxin keep it in frequently frozea to better condition,” Mr. Campbell stated. “I expected the first shipment would be frozen when it reached Nome. As £oon as it is thaw ed out it will be ready for use.” . USE OF PLANE 0. K.'D. Navy Department Orders Mine Sweeper to Be Ready to Act. The Navy Department has issued orders to the mine sweeper Swallow at Bremerton Navy Yard. Puget Sound, to stand b) readiness 1o proceed to Alaskan waters wit diphtheria antitoxin should the need arise It was said at the departme the instructions did not in ders for the possible use of lane to carry the antit ship to Nome from the fcepack. It was expla ders were precautionary a ship would be used only other transportation was available The Navy has not regarded the pro- posal for an airplane ship-to-shore fiight as feasible. EXPLORER TO REPEAT GRAND CANYON LECTURE Dr. Williamson Will Speak To- night and Tomorrow Night on ‘Wonders of the West. D. Williamso who will del nd Canyon of the Colorado, ns of the Painted n that de or- a Navy oxin from the edge of the ned that or- nd that the in cage no traveler and Dr. C. explore on the Grand Cany. Arizona, the In etert and the ancient CUff Dwellers in Central High auditorium tonight under the auspices of the community center department, will repeat th lecture tomorrow evening, by request in the auditorium at New Eastern High School, of which Mrs. Lucretia Walker Hardy, general secretary of the community center department, is supervisor. Both lectures are free to the public and both are given at 8§ p.m. The lecture is illustrated with a number of beautiful colored slides and with motion pictures of travel in Colorado and in Arizona Tomorrow at 2:30 o'clock son Community Center, 12th streets, the community center partment presents the Venetian Blowers, who will give an unus and educational exhibition of glass spinning and blowing. The admission for children is 15 cents and for adults 25 cents. This demonstration also il be repeated Saturday evening in the auditorium at New Eastern High School, and on that occasion the prin- cipals and teachers of the graded schools of the District are invited. Friday night at Wilson Normal Center Commander Edward Brock, well known naturalist, will speak on “My Wild Pets and What They Have Taught Me” at 8 o'clock. LAW EVADERS DROWNED. BUENOS AIRES, February 3.-—Ten Russians, including a woman and three children, who were seeking to enter Argentina clandestinely in vio- lation of the immigration law, were drowned Sunday night when a launch in which they were crossing the River Uruguay was upset in the swift =~ rent and sank. Thom- and L de at { v !