Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (. S. Weather Rureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow, colder tonight; lowest temperature about 20 degrees; rising temperature to- morrow. Highest, 58, at 2 p.m. yester- day ; lowest, 31, at 8 a.m. today. Full report on page 15. New York Stock Market 29,507. Qs POst_office, Closed Today — Entered as second class matter Washington, D..C. QUICK CAVE RESCLE DOUBTED: HITSOLID ROCK VR COLLNS Shaft Diggers’ Gloom Is Re- lieved Only by Chance of Meeting Tunnel. 45-FOOT DEPTH REACHED; MAY FINISH SATURDAY Engineers Admit Calculations for Striking Entombed Man Are Not Accurate. "ITY, Ky., February 12 loyd Collins, despite the of the State’s best engineers, and the | valor _of the volunteer digge rests | in the hands of a power higher than theirs, they acknowledged today, when the rescue shaft reached the lime- Stone-honeycomb section of the Sand Cave death trap, Failure of the sound amplification tests yesterday to record the “breath- ng” sounds previously heard over the electric light wires leading down to Collins has left his condition— whether alive or dead—open to :\ny-i body’s guess. The hope which still drives the res- cue workers at top speed is that a tunnel or cavern leading to Collins will be found at the bottom of the shaft within a few hours | Shatt About 45 Feet. i Che officlal bulletin issued by M. E.; Posey. engineering representative . Fields, said that the depth of | ‘ave rescue shaft was “abou s of « | night as the maximum time in which the shaft would reach the maximum depth to which it will be driven, “We appear to be close to the roof | of the cave and have speeded up the| excavation to the rate of ten feet in| 24 hours.” Mr. Posey's statement said. | “There is great possibility of finding/ an opening at al time. Tunnellnx" will start if Collins has not been un-; covered when the shaft reaches 68| or 70 feet.” The best engineering skill has fail- ed to determine just how close to Collins' prison the rescue shaft may strike, due to the tortuous windings of the original sand cave tunnel. Tunnel Mapping Difficult. The shaft starts 12 feet back from the mouth of Sand Cave, but in their calculations of the direction, distance and windings of the tunnel, the engi- neers were unable to map the tunnel down as far as Collin® because of the cave-ins which sealed his prison in that direction. Looking at Sand Cave from a short @istance. the mouth lies in the bend of the horseshoe-shaped ravine, the bottom of which slants slightly down to the cave. The mouth of the shaft then is slightly higher than the| mouth of the cave. A steel tape stretched down to the fmpassable rock fall in Sand Cave| measured $4 feet and the distance be. | yond that to Collins could only be| estimated from the descriptions of the | early rescue parties. i For perhaps 10 feet one can stand | erect in the mouth of the cave, but a few feet farther on is a perpendic- ular 10-foot droop. The tunnel then bends to the right, a8 one faces the mouth of the cave. sloping always downward and twisting in the man- ner of a corkscrgw. Then comes a hairpin turn to the left, still sloping down, and at the bottom of this a clockwise loop. At the bottom of the loop Is the first steep slant, and & few feet farther is a second slant where Collins reposes. Collins Apparently Slided. he was sliding down the boulder which pins him, dirt and debris falling on top of the boulder. He fits into this hole almost as tightly as a stopper in a bhottle. It is a hole rather than a crevice The rescue shaft was designed to atrike closely behind Collins as their calculations could bring it, but just whether the San Cave tunnel | winds back the 13 feet from its mouth to bring it exactly under the shaft fs the problem the engineers admit they cannot solve. They are fairly certain hat the shaft will not strike the tunnel ahead of Collins, placing them in the predicament of the early rescue parties who could not pull out the human stopped without risking his life. The chief hope of the engineers Is that in the honeycomb section which they have just reached some crevice or tunnel will be located which will permit them to work their way be- | hind Collins and extricate him. Whether his position is in front (to- ward the cave mouth) or to elther side of the tunnel none of them can say New 13 Days Underground. “There is a great possibility that any minute we may strike a cavern jing to Collins,” sald H. T. Car- hacl. “On the other hand, we find it necessary to go 68 feet. we go that far without penetrat- fng a chanel, we will begin tunneling in search of Collins, because that is the maximum estimate of the depth of his prison chamber. I have been hoping since Tuesday to strike lime- stone. 1 can make no definite esti- mate or statement when Collins will be extricated, other than that it is estimated to accomplish the work by Sunday.” 5 At 10 o'clock this morning Collins had been underground 13 days, had not been fed for eight days, and his voice was last heard a week ago this morning. Amplification tests across electric light wires leading down to him had | convinced physicians here that “breathing” sounds were being trans- | mitted by the jiggling of the carbon Jamp on Colling' chest. Yesterday these tests failed to record anything, but physicians and radio experts re- fused to admit that this would indi- cate he was dead. They believed only that the light had burned out or fallen from its socket. Shifts Halt Hour Each. feature of the rescue effort worries the officials most is three men at a time can work in the bottom of the shaft, while 1f conditions would permit scores would be willing to work un- ceasingly. The shifts have been cut to ope-half hour, so that fresh men ZContinued on Page 3, Column 7.3 The which that only !snow has Of Fire Damp Explosion Believed @b WASHINGTON, D. C, 1136 Workers Killed in Blast in German Mine Fatal to AUl Except Eight Miners in Shaft That Is Now Blocked. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 12.—An agency dispatch from Berlin this afternoon says 71 bodies have been recovered from the Stein mine at Dortmund, in which an explosion of fire damp oc- curred last night. It was officially stated, adds the message, that the death roll totals 136. By the Assoctated Prey DORTMUND, Germany, February 12, [GE-FILLED RIVERS ATFLOOD STAGE [Many Flee Homes—Enor- mous Damage Done in East- ern Part of Country. By t ~ Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, February 12.— Continuous rain and the thawing of the Winter's accumulation of ice and caused rivers and many other streams in Pennsylvania to reach the flood stage. Near Benton, in eastern Pennsylvania, merchants suffered $36,000 to $40,000 damage and 40 families were marooned when an ice gorge formed in Fishing Creek and backed water Into the town Dynamite was used to break up the obstruction. In a number of places small bridges jhave been weakened to such an ex- tent that they had to be closed to traffic. At Danville six inches of water flooded the station of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rallroad, but did not interrupt traffic. Water lalso Invaded some of the industrial plants in Danville, forcing suspension of work. The . Susquehanna River is high from New York State to the Mary land line, but no great damage has been reported. SCHENECTADY FLOODED. Mohawk River Backs Up in City's Lower Section. By the Associated Press. SCHENECTADY, N. Y./ Nebruary !12.—An ice jam in the Mohawk River, halfway between here and Cohoes, where it empties Into the Hudson, has caused the water to rise 14 feet, flooding part of the southeastern sec- tion of this city, where the General Electric plants are located. OHIO NEAR FLOOD LINE. River to Reach '22-Foot Level To- morrow Morning. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., February 12.— The heavy rainfall of yesterday, to- gether with back water released by the breaking of ice gorges, will cause the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers here to rise to the flood mark of 22 feet by tomorrow morning, weather bureau observers reported today. Property owners in the low- lands, warned of the impending flood, were removing materials stored In basements to high ground. TOWN STREETS FLOODED. Workmen Attempt to Blast Ice Jam in Mohawk River. DBy the Associated Press. COLEBROOK, N. H., February 12.— Water was running in the streets of Colebrook today as the Mohawk River backed up behind two huge ice jams. Workmen labored throughout the night, using dynamite in_an attempt to cut a tunnel for the water. Cellars were inundated as the flood spread, and the grinding ice floes snapped telephone poles and destroyed prop- erty along the river banks. FIRING SPOUSE’S BED, WIFE BURNED TO DEATH Lighted Gasoline in Pact to Kill Husband Alleged Faithlessness. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich, February 12.— Victim of a fate intended for her husband, Mrs. Delsedia Lowry, 27, died last night. She was severely in- jured a week ago when burning gaso- line which she had thrown on her husband’s bed flared back, setting fire to her own clothing. Mrs. Lowry and Clifford, her hus- band, 30, told police that at the time of their marriage they agreed that if one of them should be found unfaith- ful the other would be privileged to kill the unfaithful one. A week ago Mrs, Lowry charged Lowry with be- ing interested in other women and, in a fit of anger, hurled a glass of gasoline on his bed, tossing a lighted match after it. The flames were blown back, set- ting fire to the woman's flimsy night clothing, and she was seriously burned before her husband, who escaped with minor burns, could extinguish them. for —Thirty workmen were killed by an explosion of fire damp in the Stein mines last night and 100 others are missing. Only elght men were rescued alive. This morning there appeared to be little hope of resculng the entombed miners. The explosion was very violent and caused the shafts to the underground galleries to collapse, blocking all exits. It is feared the trapped men died almost immediately from the effect of the polsonous gas. DRUM STATENENT N PROBE SCORED War Flyers Say Claims for Anti-Aircraft Guns Are Absolute “Rot.” The statement of Brig. Gen. H. A. Drum, assistant chief of staff, be- fore the House alrcraft inquiry com- mittee several days ago that with a battery of 12 three-caliber anti-air- craft guns he could prevent bombing planes from doing serlous damage was characterized by two former col- onels in the Army Air Service as “ab- solute rot” and “ridiculous” before | the committee today The former officers, hoth residents of Washington, and who hold com- missions in the Air Service Reserve, are William J. Schauffer and Harold E. Hartney. Both men saw extensive aerlal fighting In France during the war and based their opinions on the | result of their experiences. The committee today centered fits activitles on the value of anti-air- craft guns as a means of defense against aircraft. This afternoon Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, assistant chiew of the Army Air Service, will testify regarding the charges of disobedi- ence of orders in the 1921 bombing exercises, and tonight in the caucus room of the House office building will give a lecture on the subject, illustrated with motion pictures of the battleship bombing. Witnesses Olscount Guns. The two witnesses at this morning’s session, both agreed that anti-air- craft fire played a very small part a8 a defense against airplane attacks, declaring that no war pilot, in their pinion, showed any regard for . the archies” after his first two weeks, of fiying over the lines. Another former war pilot, Capt. L. P. Kefgen of Bay City, Mich., related his experiences as a bomuer and de- clared anti-aircraft barrages shot up- ward from towns or strongholds against impending attacks from bombing planes were “very effective,” while anti-aircraft fire scattered about in open country caused aviators very little concern. Mr. Schauffier told the committee that anti-aircraft guns as a means of coast fortification were ‘mot worth anything,” explaining that should an aerial attack by the enemy be desired a few preliminary ships would be sent over to drop smoke or gas bombs and then the whole force of the bom- bardment could go forth unobstructed. “Aircraft is the only means of de- fense agalnst alrcraft,” he declared. Says Plane More Efcient. Representative Perkins of New Jersey, the committee examiner, asked the witness if he did not think some improvement had been made on anti-aircraft guns since the war. Mr. Schauffler replied he was willing to grant such improvements, but de- clared the airplane had made a cor- responding Increase in efficiency. Mr. Kefgen attacked the present system of reserve aviation, declaring he had not been able to fly for two years, and, furthermore, that he and the reserve unit which he commands had never received any intelligence, direct or indirect, from the Alr Serv- ice regarding attack aviation. “I don't know what attack aviation fs, although I understand it is a new branch of aerial fighting.” Mr. Hartney explained to the com- mittee that attack aviation consisted of combating the enemy on the ground behind the lines, hitting at the (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Sudden Cold Snap To Pass Quickly; Far South Suffers A sirong northwest wind put a sudden end last night to Wash- ington’s ‘balmy topcoat weather, but saved its fury for the sun- baked bathers on the beaches of Florida's Winter resorts. The cold spell will not linger long, however, for Forecaster Mitchell predicted today that the.thermom- eter will start another climb to- morrow, although he does not ex- pect It to go far beyond the 40- degree mark. H Fortunately, Washingten on the outer fringe of the cold wave which is giving the South a real taste of Winter. The temperature in Jacksonville, Fla., today, ac- cording to the forecaster, is hov- ering around 30 degrees, \Wash- ington’s low mark early this morning, while Atlanta, Ga., is shivering to the tune of 20 de- grees. - Wife Declares Famous Explorer Is Hypnotized By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 12.—A weird tale that Dr. Herschel C. Parker, explorer and former pro- fessor at Columbia, who proved that Dr. Frederick A, Cook was a faker in his claims of having climbed Mount McKinley, has been hypnotized by a Swami and used to further anti-British propaganda in India, has been told in court here. The story ¥as told at the hear- ing of the divorce action brought by Indian Swami by Mrs. Evelyn Naegele Parker. She said that her husband had been missing since 1919 and that every effort to locate him had failed. Her counsel said an unidentified woman had informed him over the telephone that Dr. Parker had been hypnotized by Swami rade- dandan and taken to India. Mrs. Parker filed suit for sepa- ration in 1919. At that time, ac- cording to his lawyer, Dr. Parker was a broken man, living on the charity of friends. ¢ Fhoen | mitted that he had been suspended imended the suspension, he said. At WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 230 GONVICTS HAD PASSES, DECLARES ATLANTA OFFICIAL Acting Deputy Says Spetial Privileges Given to Sa- vannah Rum Ring. ASKED TO “CLEAN UP” IN FALL BY WARDEN Capt. Madden Testifies Sartain Told Him Chaplain Took Money and Wanted Him to Act. By the Associated Press. | ATLANTA, Ga., February 12— Capt. John H. Madden, acting deputy | warden of the Atlanta Federal peni- tentiary, today testified in the trial of A. E. Sartain and L. J. Fletcher, deposed officials of the institution, and Laurence Riehl, Columbus, Ohlo, | charged with conspiracy and bribery, that special privileges were given members of the Savannah “rum ring"” at the prison. Among these prisoners, he sald, were Willie Haar, C. C. Tuten, Graham Baughn and Fred Haar, sr., Madden sald he had been an em- ploye of the prison 18 years. On cross-examination Madden ad- six months in 1924 bacause he had brought a prisoner to town and the latter had escaped. Fletcher recom- the time Willis Haar had ar [‘outside pass” 230 other prisoners had the same privilege, the witness testified. He admitted that prisoners assigned to the warden's home ate In the warden's kitchen during the administration of Sartain and his predecessor, J. E. Dyche. This was brought out by the de- fense in an effort to show that there was nothing unusual in the assign- ment of Fred Haa sr., to Sartain's home. 3 Tuten, as chauffeur to the prison physician, had no. more privileges than any other inmate holding the same place, Madden continued. He also stated Baughn, as chauffeur to the warden, enjoyed only the usual privileges carried by the assignment. When District Attorney Clint W. Hager took up the re-direct exami- nation Madden testified that in No- vember, 1924, the warden asked him to go on “day watch” in order to lean up the place.” During this conversation, the witness related, | Sartain told him Father Thomas P. Hayden, chaplain at the prison, was “taking mone The warden also remarked, Madden sald, that the guards were “poorly (Contlnued on Page 2, Column 4.) 'HOOVER ASKS FUND FOR OYSTER PROBE $25,000 for Thorough Inquiry Into “Most Important Fishing Industry” Sought. Budget request for an appropria- tion of $25,000 to enable the Depart- ment of Commerce to determine Wwhether oysters cause typhold epi- demics was forwarded today to Con- gress. The money would be utilized by the Bureau of Fisheries in an attempt to ascertain the effects of pollution of sea water on the oyster beds and methods of handling, distributing and marketing oysters so as to In- sure their purity. Accompanying the request was a letter from Secretary Hoover, in which he sald: ¢ “This is the most important fish- eries industry in this country, the annual yield exceeding 20,000,000 bushels, with a value of more than $4,000,000 to the fishermen, and is prosecuted from Cape Cod to the Rio Grande and from Puget Sound to San Francisco.” The Senate yesterday voted an ap- propriation of $20,000 for an investi- gation of oyster fields. GUNS SWITCHED, ACTOR SHOOTS FELLOW PLAYER Old Weapon Taken From Property Box Proves ‘to Be Loaded. ‘Wound Is Slight. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 12.—Clifton Self, an actor, was accidentally shot and’ wounded ‘on the stage at Wal- lack's Theater here last night by Edward Garvle, another actor, dur- ing the performance. Garvie uses .a pistol to threaten two characters In the first gct, but was unable to find his pistol. . He went tb the property box for another and picked up an old weapon. He was pointing it at Self, who had just batked from the stage into the wings, and it went off. Self was slightly wounded. The play, how- realizing what had happened., s WOMAN AND 3 CHILDREN ARE FOUND DEAD OF GAS Police Informed Probable ‘Suicide of Mother Followed Row ‘With Neighbor. By the Associated Press. PASSAIC, N. J., February 12.—Mrs. Louis Sandor and three children were found dead of gas poisoning in bed today by her husband when he re- turned from work. The eldest child was 8 years old. Gas wi flowing from jets in the kitchen and the living room. The police expressed the opinion that the deaths were not accidental. Mrs. Sandor worked In a worsted mill in the daytime and her husband worked at night! The police were informed that Mrs. Sandor bad quarreled with a neigh- L s THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, {1923, ever, continued without the audience |. lowing.” FORMER SECRETARY 1S PLAGED ON'TRIAL Mrs. Margaret Buchanan Ac- cused of Forging Name of House Member. Mrs. Margaret B. Buchanan, former secretary for Samuel A. Kendall, Representative from Pennsylvania, was placed on trial today before Justice Hoehling and a jury in Criminal Division 1 to answer an in- dictment for forgery in connection with the sale of surplus war materlal. Mrs. Buchanan, through Attornevs Lucien H. Vandoren and Richard Wellford, claims that she was in partnership with Mr. Kendall in the disposition of the war material among his constituents in Pennsylvania and that she had the right o indorse the check for $5,567.24 which figures in the indictment. The accused is.a.graduate of the Columbla University Law School and came to Washington from Richmond, Va. She was placed under arrest at the House Office Building March 5, Since her arrest shée has been employed by Representative Manlove of Missouri. Mrs. Buchanan paid closé attention to the testimony of the witnesses and frequently prompted her lawyers to ask questions of them. Check 1s ldentified. The first witness for the prosecu- tion was Willilam H. Smart, mayor of Unjontown, Pa. Under examination by Assistant United States Attorney Burnett the witness {dentified a check for $5.567.24, which he had signed and sent to the office of Representa- tive Kendall in payment for war ma- terial disposed of in Uniontown. Mayor Smart was unable to produce the records containing his business transactions relative to the disposi- tion of the war material. which he said must have been destroyed. He had a number of pavers, however, containing data of the transactions. The witness said he dealt with Representative Kendall in connection with the disposal of surplus war ma- terial from December, 1919, until May, 1920. He first received & ship- ment of shoes, clothing, blankets, raincoats and underwear from the Liberty Hut here and from the quartermaster’'s department at Phila- deiphia. Checks in payment were sent to the ofice of Mr. Kendall, he said, for the purpose of having them relayed to the -several Government places from which the goods had been shipped. On cross-examination the mayor sald Mrs. Buchanan made frequent visits to Uniontown, but could not say that she had received this check from him on one of these occasions or whether It had been maliled to Kendall's office. Kendall to Testily. Representative Kendall will follow Mayor Smart on the stand. Representative Kendall {dentified the check sent by Mayor Smart in payment of the water materials and admitted that his signature on the indorsement was genuine. He qe- clared that Mrs. Buchanan had in- terpolated a line in the Indorsement which made it possible for her to have the check cashed. The indorse- ment read, “Pay to order of Depot Quartermaster, Philadelphia, §. A. Kendall, M. C.” according to the wit- ness, and he sald Mrs. Buchanan had inserted between the words “of” and “Depot” a line reading “M. B. Buchan- an, secretary for,” and had.later in- dorsed the check as “M. B. Buchanan, secretary for Depot Quartermas- ter, ete.” Denles Partmership. On cross-examination by Attorney Vandoren, Representative Kendall de- nied any partnership existed between him and Mrs. Buchanan, as claimed by the defense, and when asked about the payment for the war material s0ld to Mayor Smart, witness said “Mrs. Buchanan stole it in transit.” Counsel objected to the use of the word ‘stole” and Justice Hoehling ordered the answer stricken from the record. On another occasion the rep- resentative said Mrs. Buchanan had “forged” his name to a guarantee of payment in connection with the pur- chase of shoes from an Indiana com- &Iny to sell to the constituents of r. Kendall. This statement was also stricken out. The witness sald he knew nothing of this transaction un- til months afterward, when a law- yer for the shoe firm threatened to sué on the supposed guarantee. The witness deénied that he ever told Mrs. Buchanan they would make a profit out of the sales of the war surplus material to his_ constituents in Pennsylvania or that he was try- ing to placate Smart, “an anti-or- ganization man, who has a large fol- ing Star. 1925—-FORTY-FOUR PAGES. ———————— RIDE THAT HoBeY AS LONG AS ouLIKE,CAL. FoR Immigrant Girls See “Witch” Make Tom.bstones Move By the Awsociated Press. EW YORK, February 12.—A “witch,” who lures immigrant girls into Trinity Church yard, in the financial district, at midnight and apparently makes the tombstones move as proof of her uncanny pow- ers to find them American million- aires for husbands, has been oper- ating in New York for some time. The work of the witch was dis- closed today by Mrs. Lillian R. Sire, director of the division of aliens of the State Department of Labor, in asking that the fleecing of im- migran(s be stopped by publicity. SHNE ASKS D FEE N PEPCDCASE Files Suit for One and Half Per Cent of Sum to Be, Paid Consumers. Conrad H. Syme, tormer corporation counsel, who fought for many years to uphold the valuation placed on the property of the Potomac Electric Power Company by the Public Utili- ties Commission until Congress with- drew appropriations for his speclal services, today asked the District Supreme Court to award him a fee of $44,163.34_out of the portion of the Tmpounded fun: ch Is about to be distributed among the users of electricity. Mr. Syme points out that the amount to be paid back to the consumers is §2,944,222.77, and he thinks that he is entitled to a fee equal to 13 per cent of the fund re- covered. for the consumers. After Congress prevented the Dis- trict Commissioners from continuing his employment, Mr. Syme eays, a con- tribution was taken up among the users of electric current and the sum of $2,400 paid to him as a retainer (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) PROBE OF GASOLINE INDUSTRY PROPOSED Senator Trammell Wants Investi- gation of Recent Erratic Price Increases. An investigation of the gasoline in- dustry was proposed in the Senate to- day by Senator Trammell, Democrat, Florida. The resolution would have the Federal Trade Commission examine into “recent arbitrary and unwar- ranted” increases in the price of gas- oline, with a view to prosecutions should a violation' of law be dis- covered. The Trade Commission would be directed to prosecute the inquiry “with reasonable dispatch.” It was recited that during the past two weeks “increases in some localities had amounted to 6 cents a gallon.” Jeritza-Gigli - Feud By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 12— ‘While rumors of an artistic feud between Maria Jeritza, Viennese prima donna, and Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor, are denfed at the Metropolitan Opera House, -opera- goers are discussing incidents of recent parformances of “La Tosc and “Fedora. Tears by the soprano and unusu- ally violent acting by both sing- ers are particular subjects of com- ment. : ‘When a performance of “Tos ended Tuesday night and the first curtain call came, Gigli appeared alone. After an embarrassed bow he disappeared. The audience continued to cheer. The curtain Tose twice, but Jeritza dld not appear. The applause grew more insistent. Ten minutes pass- ed and at last Jeritsa, weeping and “From Press to Home Within the Hour™ The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edh tion is delivered to Washington homes In Foot Ball Tactics During Operas as fast as th, e p2pers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 103,892 * SPEAKERSPRASE DEALSOFLIGOLN Memory of Great Emanci- pator Honored by Cere- monies in Capital. | In the same unostentatious man- ner that Abraham Lincoln lived his life, America revered his memory to- day on the one hundred and sixteenth anniversary of his birth. Leading the Nation in fitting ob- servance of the emancipator’s mem- ory, Washington recalled him as the charitable spirit seeking to raise his People to better lives rather than as the martyred President of a war-| torn country. Peace was the key- note of every service here. While the Sons of Veterans gath- ered before his ghrine‘in the Mall and the Loyal Leglon recalled his great sacrifice before his statue in front of the courthouse, high Gov ernment officials joined men of let- térs from all parts of the country in tulogizing him at & luncheon givén in the Willard Hotel by the trustees of Lincoln Memorial University. Dream of Lincoln, i Dr. John Wesley Hill, chancellor of the university, expressed the senti- ment of all of the speakers at the luncheon when he said the univer- sity “is the crystallized dream of Abraham Lincoln,” standing where| the mountains of Tennessee, Ken- tucky and Virginla meet, that it might benefit the rugged people.the Emancipator had hoped to rescue from blighting ignorance. “In the great prosperous and pro- gressive North,” Dr. Hill continued, “institutions and agencies are dupli- cated and reduplicated into a verita- ble prodigality of opportunity. But down in the isolation and solitude of the mountain fastnesses; where rail- splitting and mule driving, lighting, homespun and log cabins survive the march of civilization, only a crude cabin school here and there dots the broken landscape and the people sit in a gloom upon which the light of knowledge has but dimly dawned. | People Are Forgotten. “We have discovered the economic possibilities of the Appalachians, harnessed its mountain torrents, un- covered its mineral wealth, felled its forests and appraised every acre of its soil. But in our development of its natural resources we have not taken stock of its 6,000,000 undiluted Americans. We have expended mil- lions upon the Americanization of the foreign-born, the uplift of the Sicilian, the Turk, the Portuguese, Pole, Rus- sian, the refugees of the despotism of the Old World. And in our zeal we have forgotten the children of our own sky and soil and soul. “Back there, far back in the moun- tain fastnesses, there is a vast army of American youth endowed with un- measurable possibilities. It is an illimitable Klondike; boys and girls awaiting the refining processes of education for sublimation into citi- zenship—coming €lays and unrealized Lincolns. Such a mine is worth work- ing. Providence has held these moun- talneers in reserve. We need them now to reinforce our patriotism, up- hold our national ideals and preserve our free institutions.” Secretary of the Interfor Work de- clared, “It may be that a Providence prompted the founding of Lincoln Memorial U (Continue Held Reflected shoved. Through her tears she tried to explain to the audience. “He's mean to me” was all that was audible. The audience won- dered. Two weeks ago in a love scene in “Fedora” Jeritza flung herself into Gigli's arms with such vio- lence that the tenor almost col- lapsed. Soon it was Gigll's turn. He became so realistic that the soprano almost landed in the foot- lights. ! Baron von Popper, Jeritza's hus- band, said after the “Tosca” per- formance thgt his wife had been “deeply offended,” but he refused to name any one. Gigli departed for the country yesterday, accord- ing to his secretary, who sald: “Besldes, it was agreed upon Tuesday night by all that no one should - discuss the incident. M. Gigli_gave strict orders that we | other candle | TWO CENTS." 'VOTE ON WARREN T0 BE HELD OVER FORNEW SEMATE Special Session Planned March 4 to Act on Nomina- tion to Succeed Stone. REJECTION IS FEARED BEFORE PRESENT BODY Coolidge Stands Pat on Choice and Delay Is Decided Upon to Pre- vent Long Debate. The nomination of Charles B. War- ren of Michigan, formerly United States Ambassador to Mexico and to Japan, to be Attorney General proh- ably will be allowed to go over after March 4 without action by the Senate, when {t will be considered by the new Senate. The new Senate will be called Into | special session the afternoon of March 4. Senator Cummins, President pro tempore, said today. In the new Sen- ate the Republicans have a working majority irrespective of the insur- gents. Senator Cummins, who i= also chai man of the judiciary committee which has charge of the nomination of Mr. | Warren, called at the White House today and talked over with the Presi- dent the opposition which has arisen in the Senate to Mr. Warren's nomina- tion. The opposttion centers around Mr. Warren's connection with the Sugar Interests Senator Cummins lald before the President the situation [both In the committee and in the Sen- |ate regarding the 3 nomination. He de- clined to discuss what the President had said. President Stands Pat. The President made no suggestion, however, of withdrawing the nomina- tion of Mr. Warren, Senator Cummins said. It is understood at the Capitol that the President will stand pat on the nomination. With a vast amount of legislative work to be done before the close of the present Congress, now less than two weeks off, it would be unwise, in the opinion of Senator Cummins and Republican leaders, to throw the nomination of Mr. Warren into the Senate, where it might lead to long discussion and prevent action of other matter: There is very strong opposition to the confirmation of Mr. Warren's nomination, it is admitted. A largze number of the Democrats and some of the Republican progressives are { opposing him vigorously. May Force Vote. The opponents of Mr. Warren talk ot forcing the nomination befors the Senkte at the present session, in or- der to get a vote on it, believing that they could reject it. It iy said in some quarters that the opponents in the judiciary committee will even go 50 fAr as to vote to report the nom- ination (o the Senate, intending to oppose it in the Senate itself. On the other hand, supporters of Mr. Warren aid today that they did not believe any members of the committee would follow such a course. They said fur- ther that there was sufficient support of Mr. Warren to prevent it. The judiciary committee is fairly evenly divided on Mr. Warren. The com- mittee is to meet on Monday. Sena- tor Cummins, chairman, will be away from the city, he said today, and he did not helieve that the nomination would dicated some definite course with re- gard to the Warren nomination would be adopted by the middle of next week. Walsh Agrees to Delay. Senator Walsh of Montana, one of those who was opposed to confirma- tion of the nomination of Mr. Warren, sald that Senator Cummins had told him he would not be able to attend the meeting of the committee on Monday and that he (Senator Walsh) would acquiesce in the request of Senator Cummins that the nomination should not be considered in the com- mittes until Serator Cummins re- turned to Washington, later in the week. Further, Senator Walsh dis- claimed reports that he would adopt unusual tactics to force the nomina- tion of Mr. Warren before the Senate at this time. DELAY ON HUMPHREY. Senate Postpones Till Monday Ac- tion on Nomination. Final action on the nomination of William E. Humphrey to be a mem- ber of the Federal Trade Commission was postponed by the Senate inter- state commerce committee today un- til next Monday, after Mr. Humphrey again had appeared befors the com- mittee for questioning at a two-hour session. After the hearing, at which Assist- ant Attorney General Seymour also was questioned, Chairman Smith of the committee said the testimony had shown no facts which should stand in the way of confirmation, and he indi- cated a favorable report on Monday was in prospect. The questioning of Mr. Humphrey today was sald to be in regard to his dealings with the Department of Jus- tice as representative of a lumber company. The committee did not take up the nomination of Thomas F. Woodlock of New York to be a member of the {Interatate Commerce Commission, and Chairman Smith, who is opposing confirmation, said it would mot come up Monday. WILL RUSH DISTRICT BILL. ‘Senator Phipps Predicts Report ‘Will Go to Senate Next Week. The District appropriation bill will be reported to the Senate early next week from the committee on appro- priations, Senator Phipps of Colorade, chairman of the subcommittee in charge of the bill, predicted today. Senator Phipps sald that the hearings on the bill have been practically com- pleted. He and other members of the subcommittee tomorrow and Friday will go over the city with the Dis- trict Commissioners to view sites for schools and streets which are pro- posed to be improved and other proj- ects. Saturday the subcommittee is expectsd to work on the bill in ex- ecutlve sessfon. 0