Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1925, Page 13

CROWD OF 10,000 AT CAVE WHERE COLLINS IS PRISONER. City last Sunday to view the rescue operations. PRESENTS HIS CREDENTIALS. Minister from Haiti. accompanied by J. Butler Wright. As: S tary of State, at the White House vesterday, where credentials were pre- sented to President Coolidge. SENATE RATFIES COMMERGALPACT State Department Under- stood Not Wholly Pleased | The crowd wa Hanoibal Price. the newlyarri ant re- National Fhe BAYSTATESOCETY HIST TOPRESIDENT Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge Attend Reception and Ball Given With Reservations. e 1 After adopting several reservations, the Senate late vesterday ratifiad the | commercial treaty with Germany ne- | zotiated by the administration. The reservations, it is underatood. are not wholly acceptable to the State De- | partment. | The principa] reservation would re- nerve to Congress the sole authority to put into force preferential tariff duties in favor of American shipping at any time within pne vear after ex- change of ratification. Another would reserve to both na- tlons the right to control immigration, and was made necessary because of the enactment of the immigration re- atriction law after the treaty was ne- gotiated, in December, 1923. Without Record Vote. Ratification was without a record vots and was preceded by only brief discussion, the reservations having removed objections. The reservation erentlal tariffs was the one suggested Hughes and approved relations committee provisions the President alone could | have abrogated those sections | of the treaty preventing discrimina- tion by either nation in favor of its shipping through tariff duties. | relating to pref- a substitute for | by Secretary by the foreign Under ita| Tarift Law Complicaten Pact. This reservation met with so much, opposition on both sides of the cham- | ber that the substitute was agreed | upon to expedite action on the treaty. Tnder its terms provisions in the treaty prohibiting discrimination would be #brogated automatlcally within 60 days after Congress passed a discriminatory law, provided such action was not taken within 10 months after exchange of ratifica- tions. The treaty, as negotiated, was in- tended by the State Department to become a model for similar conven- tions with the other principal mari- time powers. POLISH ACCORD REACHED. Hughes Exchanges Favored Na-| tion Notes With Minister. Secretary of State Hughes and Dr. | Tadislaw Wroblewski, Polish Minister | 1o the United States, in an exchange of notes yesterday agreed to accord unconditional most favored nation treatment in matters concerning cus- toms duties and charges affecting commerce between the two countries. ‘The language of the notes exchanged is virtually identical to those regeptly signed by the United Stafes with various other countries. 2 . The agreement is effective im- mediately and contains a provision by which the Polish government is intrusted with the conduct of ‘foreigh aftairs for the Free City of Danszig and makes that city a ecomtracting party to the agreement, President and Mrs, Coslidge min- gled with home folk last night. The occasion was the annual reception and ball of the Massachuseits State Soclety of the District, held at the City Cluh. . President and Mre members of this organization and they knew personally many of the more than 700 persone present. They hook hands with every one who walked down the receiving line, and afterward they exchanged personal greetings with some of their old friends, The/ President and Mrs. Coolidge were accompanied by Mr. and Mre. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, who are house guests at the White House. Thess guests of Honor were received by Representative Frothingham of Massachusetts and Eliot Wadsworth, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, president and vice president, respec {ively, of the society, and corted to the large ballroom, avhere Coolidga are the members of the society and their | friends were assembled. As the little party entered the room the section of the Marine Band. which futnished the music for the occasion, played “Hail to the Chief,” and there was enthu- siastic cheering Pleased By Reception. A receiving line was formed, headed by Representative Frothingham, who intrqduged, those who, presented them- selves. Both the President and the first lady, manifested pleasure at the greeting accorded them, and both seemed to enjoy the entertainment that was presented after the recep- tion. The White House party oc- cupled a special box during the enter- tainment program. Besides the music rendered by the section of the Marine Band, there were solos by Earl Car- bauh, accompanied on the piano by Mrs, Carbauh; Miss Mildred De Hart, accompanied by Mrs. Annie Norton Jefters; Burward Bowersox, accom- panied by George H. Wilson, and Mrs. Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler, accompanied by . Mr.. Wilson. . - The. -entertalament. program was in charge of Miss Jefters. Assisting her on the com- mittee were Mrs. John A. Chamber- lain, L. J. Connery and Albert D. Smith. The executive committee, which ar- ranged the affair, was composed of Frederick W. Carpenter, chairman; Representative Charles L. Gifford, Miss Ellen. C. Lombard, Albert Michaud and W. G. Gavin. The re- ception committee. was composed of Mrs. Lottfe D. Jackman, chairman; Miss Floremce C. Adams, Miss Alice M. Murphy, James J. Hart and Charles E. Bowman. At the conclusion of the music pro- gram the President and his party re- turned to the White House. L T A Tllegal Emigration to U. S. Foiled. NAPLES, February 11.—The police today arrested 22 persons on board the liner Adriats: who had tried to evade the regulations and Hllegally emigrate to America, were es- | Miss Blinor Giynn | THE EVENING controlled by Kentucky guardsmen. t-Palmer of the Yakima reservation, who is in Washington in the interest of his tribe. He called upon Indian Commiesiomer Burke yesterday and urged greater consid- eration of his people. Copyright by Miller Service. TRAFFIC COMMITTEE FOR CHARITY INAUGURAL BALL HOLDS A MEETING. STAR, WASHINGTON Persons from all over Kentucky and the neighboring States traveled to Cave Wide World Phe FLOYD COLLINS HAD THE “CAVE HABIT.” Floyd Collins, underground explorations in the vicinity of Cave City for ma D. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, Lee Collins, father of Floyd Colli who is @ prisoner in Sand Cave. The photograrh was snapped Sunday after the elder Collins had watched the beginning of the shaft toward his son. Wide World Photo. by a comrade during an exploration trip a few months ago. 1925. CAVE CITY FOLK PRAY FOR FL entrance to Sand Cave, where Colli were friends of the entombed man. imprisoned in Sand Cave, had been making ears. This photograph of Collins was taken Wide World Photo. PRESIDENT AND MRS. COOLIDGE MEET MASSACHUSETTS FOLK. Eight bundred members of the e and wife at a reception and dance Copyright by Miller Service Col. C. O. Sherrill, aide to President Coolidge, is chair- man of the committee, and Mrs. John Allan Dougherty was hostess at the meeting. Mrs. Harold Walker, chairman of the publicity committee, in foreground. |FORD TO OPERATE ‘ ATLANTIC FLEET First' Vessel to Carry Auto Parts to Foreign Plants Bought. By the Associated Prey | DETROIT. Mich, February 11.— | The Ford Motor Co.. will enter tran |atlantic shipping, operating its own fieet for carrying manufactured auto- | mobile parts to the company's foreign plants, it was announced today by Edsel B. Ford, president. The Ford company has purchdsed the steamer East Indian from the Emergency Fleet Corporation, as the first large unit in the proposed forelgn service fleet. The Ford company already is operating in the South American and coastal trade with two small ships, the steamers Onelda and Onondaga. | These steamers “were put Into this {service on a rather experimental basis,™ aald Mr. Ford's announcement, and have proven ghe feasibility of | extending our own ‘shipping service | | to Europe.” The Oneida and Onondaga have been engaged ,in carrying automobile and tractor parts to Ford assembly plants |along the southern coast of the United States and to South America. The company sent its first ship to a foreign -port November 5 last, when the Onondaga, laden with motor car parts, salled from the River Rouge plant at Detroit for Buenos Aires, Argentina. s <2 The East Indian now is béing re- conditioned at Chester, Pa. Its recipro- cating steam engine will be replaced, Mr. Ford said, by Diesel engines of a modern type. It will be ready for service in six months. Less pampering and more rugged living are the suggestions for lon- gevivty offered by Mrs. Sarah John-, son of Bronson, Mfch, who has just passed her hundredth birthday. AIR SERVICE UNITY IMPRACTICAL, NIGHT TESTS ARE HELD TO SHOW Each Branch Has Individual Problems, Some Ob- servers Point Out—Difficulties in Spotting Shots From Air, for Ships, Are Disclosed. Difficulties that must be overcome | before our airplanes can be used suo- cessfully in spotting shots for battle- ships during night practice are many, but not so serious that they cannot be surmounted, according to reports received at the Navy Departmpent from the first night spotting practice held with the fleet recently in Cuban waters. One of the most important developments, however, which was brought out during these maneuvers and which bears on discussions in Congress In connectlon with the uni- fied air service, is that airplanes must come on the scene just when the bat- tle starts, or when the target prac- tice begins. Otherwise :they will be of no use. This is brought about by the fuel difficulty. If an airplane leaves its station, whether at.a land station or aboard a ship, it cannot hover around for hgurs, like a ship, and walt, for all the time it is in the air It is con- suming fuel, and when the fuel sup-( ply gets low it must return to base. In the early experiments it was found necessary for the planes, in some cases, to leave even before the ma- neuvers were begun. But this was cor- rected later by summoning them by radio and having them appear on the scene when the practice was-to be- gin. Independent Comtrol Needed. These night maneuvers with the fleet, during. which airplanes were used for spotting the shots and for illuminating the targets, developed stronger than ever, it is maintained by some obsérvers, the absolute ne Tessity of each service having _ab- solute control of its air service. Bach service has its own peculiar prob- lems, and those attached to it must work in unison, with an independent control, to bring about the highest state of efficlency for battle, which, of course, is the ultimate goal of all_military preparation. One of the serious difficulties of the night practice was that of {llumin; tion. best illumination was found from the searchlights aboard the ships and from Army flares which were dropped from airplanes. These provided a steady light, but with the star shell; used so much during the war, the ligl was uneven, due to the waving of the lights. Ilumination Is Problem. Discussing the difficulties of spot- ting, ‘Lieut, J.-D. Small said: “Three darkened, and, therefore invisible, ships, in column, were firing, some- times simultaneously, sometimes at intervals, at three targets which were alternately illuminated and obscured. 1t was practically impossible to tell which ship had fired, when a gun- fire was seen, except as indicated by radioed salvo signals. The targets were dificult to locate even when illuminated, and the fact that some- times only one target was Illumi- nated, sometimes two, etc., with the towing ships’ lights, an artificial help anyhow, totally obscured, = increased the difficulties. Not only was it hard to estimate’ the actual error in the range, ‘but also it was. often diffi- cult -to tell which target was il- luminated and, in view. _ . “The total results of the rehearsal are. malnly negative, -a mass of wrinkles to beiironed out, you miight say, but s belleved that most of the Copyright by Harris & Ewing. WOMAN UNCONSCIOUS FOLLOWING ASSAULT Richmond Police Seek Assailant Who Struck Mrs. Clemens Cincei With Hammer. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., February 11.— While Mrs. Clemens Ciucci lay at a local hospital today in a serious condition as a result of two hammer blows on her head last night, police followed every available clue to apprehend her as- sailant. The victim, a young woman of neat dress and appearance, was found in an unconscious condition in the rear of a vacant lot here at 11 o'clock last night. Police, working upon the theory that the girl had been assailed by a negro, rounded up several negroes last night, and are holding them in jail pending outcome of investigations. The girl had not regained conscious- ness early today. Ciucci's brother told police the hlisband was absent from the city. He had not been located this morning. SRRk b3 Leginska to Play February 23. BOSTON, February 11.~Miss Ethel Leginska, English planist, who dis- appeared on the eve of a concert she was to have given in New York, stated vesterday that she would re- sume her concert tour on February 23, when she will play in Joplin, Mo. ships will derive some good fesults from our night flying efforts. Night observation work is a new experience for us, but we are determined to make it_effective.” ¢ During the practice the ships had to steer by the stars, as the com- passes were mot llluminated. The paint on the under side of the planes also will have to be changed, as the fiame from the exhause gases creates an effect which is blinding and wildering te the pilet. 0YD C! s is a prisoner, last Sunday. ENGINEERS CONDUCTING RADIO TESTS. State government attempting lo get oned in Sand Cave. | claim that Collins was «till alive. SHENCE PRI " SHARED BY THO Dr. Edwin Hubble and Dr. L. R. Cleveland Honored for - Science Achievements. Dr. Edwin Hubble of the Mount Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Dr. 1. R. Cleveland, a National Research Council fellow attached to the School of Hyglene and Public Health of Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, have been selgcted to share the sec- ond annual award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The prize, consisting of $1,000, is awarded annually for the paper or papers read before the annual meet- ing of the association which are se- lected as making the greatest con- tribution toward the advancement of science. The award is given to the assoclation by an anonymous donor. This year both papers were selected because of their outstanding im- portance and the prize will be di- vided. Dr. Hubble's paper “Cephelds in Spiral Nebulae,” and dealt with his work in measuring spiral nebulae, the most distant ob- jects thus far discovered in our uni- verse, with the aid of the 100-inch reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson. Dr. Hubble definitely determined for the first time that the spiral nebulae are actually “island universe Dr. Hubble found that the outer parts of the two most conspicuot was entitled | nebulae, in Andromeda and Triangu um, showed on photographic plates as “dense swarms of actual Stars” Although this had been suspected as a possibility for more than a cen- tury, it previously never had been unequiyocally proved. The distance of these nebulae was found to be of the order of a million light years from the earth, or four times as great as the distance ever previously established for a celestial object. The subject of Dr. Cleveland's re- search was the physiology of the protozoa inhabiting the digestive tracts of termites and other insects and" animals. By means of oxygen pressure, Dr. Cleveland's paper de- clared, it is possible now to destroy all protozoa in cockroaches without injuring the roach. The cilia of earth- worms, too, have been removed by the | same method. Although cultures removed from frogs, rats and men have, been de- stroved with oxygen, it is still im- possible to kill the organism in rats and man because they canpot endure oxygenation as long as It takes to kill their protozoa. These tests have demonstrated, Dr. Cleveland declared, that oxygen is highly toxic to pro- tozoa. — Plans Exhibit of A House bill authorizing the ap- pointment of a commission to select those models in the Patent Office of historical interest to be used as a permanent exhibit and to arrange for the sale of other models was passed by the Senate yesterday. The com- mission would consist of the Commis- sioner of Patents, the secretary of the Smithsonian’ Institution and a patent attorney. This photograph was taken a short distance from the All the men and women of the community Wide World Photo Engineers of the Kentucky in touch with Floyd Coflins. impris- ests made vesterday afternoon brought out the Wide A0 1 STOLEN INJORE HOLDAP | Police Hunt Two Men Who Victimize William Rosen- dorf, Local Furrier. Warld Photo their one Police | today towara most skillfully-engineered confidence games in local history, whereby Wil- {liam Rosendorf, at 1215 G | street, lost $8,300 to two “skin” :unn had-spent & week In building up a close acquaintanceship to accom- | plish their object. | The climax of their operations came |at closing time last night. Rosen- dorf was placing money in the safe The store stafft had departed. Out- side the store was the bustle of home- ward-bound workers. Only a chauf- feur waited for Rosendorf. Suddenly the two .“skin” men drew revolvers and pointed them at Rosendorf. They took $8,500 in cash from him, includ- ing six $1.000 bills. Producing an envelope they placed the money in it and then placed the envelope between the folds of a newspaper. Rosendorf looked on astounded. Just Joking, Men Say. Then, one of the men turned with a laugh, slapped Rosendorf on the back, and, before he was out of the grip of the surprise, informed him it was a practical joke. They handed him | back an envelope from the folds of | the newspaper. Rosendorf breathed more easily. But, apprehensive lest the money might prove a temptation for them to return if put back in the | ®afe, and contemplating, as well, a | trip for fur-buying to New York. he placed the envelope in his pocket, despite their Advice to put it in the safe. Al ended smoothly, and- the two “skin” men went on their way and Rosendorf went home. ‘When Rosendorf arrived home and examined the envelope, he found that it contained slips of paper, which were not even banknote paper. He reported the matter to the police. Real “Skin” Men. The two men who represented themselves -to Rosendorf as “skin” | men, as the furrier trade denominates specialists in pelts, ironically enough, are known to the police when en- gaged in such operations as Rosen- dorf reported, by the same title, which s, however, a synonym for certain types of confidence men. Detectives O'Brien and Livingstone went to . work on the case this morning. It is expected that the two “skin” men, who are described as being neither well dressed nor pre- possessing in appearance, will be found to have criminal records, if found at all. One was elderly; the other, a younger man. And already at police headquarters the pair have achleved “the distinction. of being recognized Inm & class with. “Gentle-~ man Joe” Lauzon, who led the police a merry chase for months before he was landed for some of the most ex< tensive and baffling apartment house robberies in local records. were turning unraveling efforts of the furrier men, Silk is increasing In favor in Ger- many, seven times as much being bought from French mills last year as in the 12 months before,