Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1925, Page 13

BIG CROWD AT SAND CAVE TO WATCH RESCUE WORK LAST SUNDAY. his death in the narrow passageway of Sand Cave. Floyd Collins met Collins was held in the cave. OHIO GOVERNOR’S SON IN JAIL. Hal Donahey, sentenced to three days in the Columbus, Ohio, jail for reckless operation of an automobile, went behind the bars when his father, the governor, refused to intercede in his behalf. wiches; not ro: Young Donahey yesterday sent out a call for “ham sand- Copyright by Underwood & Cnderwood. DAUGHTER OF SECRETARY WILBUR SAILS. Miss Edna M. Wilbur, daughter of the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Wilbur, photographed when she sailed aboard the S. S. Caronia for a tour of France and England. HOUSE VOTES BILL T0 REWARD FLYERS Advancement and Distin- guished Service Medals Pro- vided for World Circlers. Designed to reward the Army air- men who flew around the world, the House last night passed a bill ad- vancing the officers on the promotion 1st, awarding them Distinguished Service Medals and permitting their acceptance of medals or decorations tendered by foreign governments. The bill omitted a provision, recommended by the War Department, that each of the officers should be retired at any time on his own application at 75 _per cent, pay The bill was passed after a wrangle of about an hour. As sent to the Senate it would authorize the Presi- dent to advance Capt. Lowell H. Smith, the flight leader, 1,000 files in the Army promotion list, and Lieuts. Eric Nelson, Leigh Wade and Leslie P. Arnold, 500 files each. Second Lieuts. Henry H. Ogden and John Harding, jr., of the Reserve Corps, would be made second lieutenants in the Regular Army. An amendment to the bill by Rep- resentative Bland, Democrat, Virginia, included Maj. Frederick L. Martin, original commander of the flight and his mechanic, Sergt. Alva L. Harvey, awho were forced out of the expedition after a crash in the Aleutian Islands, in those to receive -the distinguished service medal. Stirs Up Debate. Representative McSwain, Demo- crat, South Carolina, contending that President Coolidge had authority to promote the officers, and declaring the men who made the flight were “picked out and ordered to go when every man in the Aviation Service wanted to go,” stirred up a heated discussion by offering to substitute a provision striking out the promo- tion feature, but awarding each of- ficer a distinguished service medal and tendering them the “thanks of ‘Congress” for their feat. This substitute was ruled out of order on the ground that it would give the recipients of congressional thanks the right to the floor of the House, Modified to provide only for canferring of the distinguished serv- Wide Wovld Photo. Education Bureau Plans Branch for High School Work Plans were announced today by Commissioner Tigert for formation of a new branch of the Bureau of Education to assist! in solution of high school problems and in sys- temizing their courses of instruc- tion. The first step toward organiza- tion of the new service will be taken February 24 at Cincinnatl at a conference of representatives of nine national and regional sec- ondary education bodies, to be held in connection with the annual meeting ‘of the superintendent's department of the National Edu- cation Association. Commissioner Tigert asserted that increased high school attendance fn recent years has made secondary education one of the big problems of the public school system. MOONSHINERS STRADDLE STATE LINE FOR SAFETY Seek to Balk Local Officers by Operating on Virginia- Carolina Boundary. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., February 17. stills and seven men were taken in the last two-days of last Week by State prohibition officers, they re- port. The stills had a capacity of 900 gallons, and the officers destroyed thousands of gallons of mash. E. Frank Dotson 6f Grayson County says moonshiners are placing their stills on the line between Virginia and North Carolina, claiming to be in one State or the other when the officers appear. He has begun to arrest them, and let the courts determine in what State they were operating. Bar Body to Incorporate. Incorporation of the American Bar Assoclation is authorized in a bill assed yesterday the Senatep It Kl-l already been passed by the House. ice medal, it war rejected by a vote of 26 to 39. : Representative Colton, Republican, Utah, sought to have Lieut. Russell L. Maughan, who made the dawn- to-dusk transcontinental fight, in- cluded In the bil's provisions, but his amendment went out, 17 to 43. A proposal by Representative Blantom, Democrat, of Texas, that the bill be sent back to the militarygjpmmittes, was lost, 24 to 46. B ALy A5kt s TT This photograph shows a part of the tented village where The attempts at rescue drew thousands of specta rs during the time Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. READING MESSAGES FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. Lee Collins, father of the Kentuckian who lost his life in Sand Cave, reading some of the messages of hope sent him from all over the country. The father received hundreds of telegrams during the imprisonment of his son. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. D. O, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1925. ONE OF THE “COUNCILS OF WAR” AGAINST CLAY AND ROCK. Men in’'charge of the attempts to rescue Floyd Collins holding a con- ference at the mouth of the shaft which was sunk to the entombed man. The entrance of the shaft, which was started several days ago, is at the Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. left, under a tent. THE NEW GOVERNOR OF ALASKA. George A. Parks, recently ap- pointed Governor of Alaska to succeed Scott C. Bone, at a conference with Seeretary of the Interior Work yesterday. Mr. Parks has been con- nected with the General Land Office of the Interior Depan\mem Natio SONS OF VETERANS PLACE WREATH ON TOMB OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER. Commander-inchief Coffin of the national organization was accompanied to Arlington National Cemetery yesterday by local members. STANDARDS BUREAU TOGETMORELAND House Authorizes Purchase. Refuses to Consider Two Senate Bills. Purchase of additional land for the Bureau of Standards at a cost not to exceed $173,117 is authorized in a bill passed late last night by the House. This land is approximately 346,234 square feet in extent. It lies between Tilden and Van Ness streets, and ex- tends along Connecticut avenue. The acquisition of this land is desir- able so that the Bureau of Standards plant may have additional room and a fitting entrance over Government property instead of over private prop- erty. Elimination of the dangerous La- mond grade crossing by construction of a subway and extending Van Buren street through the subway is author- ized in a bill that passed the House last night. The bill carries $71,500 as a working capital for this improve- ment, but only one-fourth of the cost will ultimately be paid by the District. Erection on public grounds in the National Capital of a memorial to those who gave their lives to their country in the aviation service of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps in the World War is provided for in a Senate bill which failed in the House last night on objection by Representative Lozfer of Missourl. Objection was made by Representa- tives Blanton of Texas, McKeown of Oklahoma and Newton of Minnesota to considdration of the Senate bill providing for assistant assessors for the District of Columbia, The Winslow resolution expressing a desire that every educational insti- tution provide a course of study of the Constitution of the United States falled of passage ‘through objection registered by Representative Hud- dleston of Alabama. Radio Solves Servant Problem. SEVEN OAKS, Kent, England, Feb- ruary 17.—The radio was enlisted by a resident of Seven Oaks as an aid n solving the problem of servant ortage. An advertisement in a mewspaper sald: “Wireless in mald's oom.” The idea' was successful. PASSES NEW The next war ‘will have to be fought by the United States Navy without the help of the dashing yeo- manette, who, some 13,000 strong, aided it during the World War. The bill creating and providing for the organization, administration and maintenance of a naval reserve and a Marine Corps reserve was passed yesterday by the Senate, and mem- bership in the two reserve organiza- tions was limited strictly to those of the male sex. 3 Senator Tasker L. Oddle of Nevada, who had the measure in charge, did move to amend the pending. measure by striking out the word “male,” and thus rendering any citizen of the United States eligible, but when a fight against this was started by Sen- ator James W. Wadsworth, jr, of New York, he withdrew it, so that the measure was instantly agreed to. Fought by King and Smoot. Offered last December after careful preparation by the Navy Department and those Interested in the develop- ment of the Naval Reserve, the meas- ure has had a stormy career in the Senate. It had previously passed the House, but when it was reported by Senator Oddle and took its place on the calendar, it encountered objection every time it was reached. Its prin- cipal opponents appeared to be Sena- tor King of Utah and Senator Smoot of that same State. The women of the country, through various organizations, had also dis- covered that thé bill specifically lim- ited membership in the Naval and Ma- rine Corps Reserves to males. And inasmuch as more than 13,000 women had served as yeoman (f) during the World War in the Navy, and about 500-as marinettes in the Marine Corps, they insisted that the reserve be con- tinued as open, to enlistments from women. Senator Hale, chairman of the Senate naval affairs committee, and Senator Oddie agreed. But when the measure was reached on the calendar yesterday and Sena- tor Oddie offered an gmendment strik- ing oyt the word "“male,” Senator ‘Wadsworth objected. As chairman of the Senate military affairs committee he declared that to permit women in the Naval Reservé would .throw the Congress open to demands that they be permitted to enlist in the Hegular Army, the Natios Guard and the Organized Rese: o YEOMEN (F) BANNED AS SENATE RESERVIST BILL Wadsworth’s Fight on Navy and Marine Corps Meas- ure Leads to Elimination of Women—Will Seek Restoration of Rights. Senator Oddie made a vain effort to explain the fine services of the women in _the Navy during the World War, but when he saw that to withdrawn his amendment would ac- complish the passage of the bill, he withdrew it and the bill was passed. Thus, if the women desire to enlist in"the Naval Reserve, they will now be compelled to obtain an amendment to the law during the next Congress. Leaders in the fight conducted by Amerlcan Legion officials to restore to yeomanettes the enjoyment of the privileges of the adjusted compensa- tion act from which 4 few members of Congress sought to bar them, have announced that they will aid in this remedial legislation later. Existing laws have been found by the Navy Department to be unsuited for the task of creating a_proper Naval and Marine Corps Reserve. During the war, the Naval Reserve Force consisted of 20,705 officers and 277,945 men, and in the years that have followed, finding it impracticable to operate it, the- Navy Department has virtually disenrolied all those who had enrolled. Action Is Requested. Commenting on the passage of the bill, and particularly the blocking of its effort to open the reserve to wom- en. Capt. Paul J. McGahan, national executive committee, member for the District of Columbia Department of the American Legion, said: “It is to be really regretted that in order. to obtain any action on the bill at all it was necessary for Sena- tor Oddle to withdraw his proposed amendment, which would have per- mitted the enlistment of women: in the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve. “It was clearly démonstrated dur- ing the period of the World War, when ‘more than 13,000 ‘American women patriotically enlisted for serv- ice in the Navy, and that service in the Naval Reserve force, that women can perform. a proper and helpful service in’ the naval establishment in particular. “The successful fight that was made to maintain the true veteran status of those patriotic women of the Wi time, when short-sighted Congress. men sought to bar them from the benefits of adjusted compensation, surely should have demonstrated that it is a mere minority that has been National Photo. CONFIRM KELLOGG WITHOUT DEBATE Senators Act Quickly Without Reference of Appointment to Committee. Without reference to committee or a volce raised in opposition on the floor, the Senate has confirmed the nomination of Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota, to succeed Charles Evans Hughes s Secretary of State og March 4. Action on the nomination came un- expectedly yesterday after Chairman Borah of the foreign relations com- mittee, changing his original inten- tion to take up the appointment in committee today, obtained unanimous consent for its consideration without reference to committee. Confirma- tion was voted without a roll call, and eliminating: reference to commit- tee was in line with Senate precedent in acting on the nominations of for- mer Senators. s There was no revival of the opposi- tlon provoked among Senators from the Northwestern States affillated with the La Follette insurgents when Sen- ator. Kellogg was nominated to be Ambassador to England, because the nomination in_this instance involved a post in the President's official fam- ily. Speaking for the minority, Sen- ator Swanson, ranking Democrat on the foreign relations committee, stat- ed before confirmation that there wa: no opposition to be offered from that quarter. successful in barring them from fu- ture service. 4 “The objections voiced by Senator Wadsworth seemed mainly to be gn expression of fear that the Army and National Guard and the Organized Reserve would have to be thrown open: to American women. The Navy seemed to have survived the experi- ment of women in its war-time per- sonnel. “It was perha) ‘wise in the inter- ests of getting any legislation at all that Senator Oddle withdrew his améndment; his action in doing’ so certainly ° gained passage for the measure, ,which is much needed. But in the next Congress patriotic Amer- fean women are certain to find them- selves ably backed by patriotic or- ganizations ina demand that the law be am; 30 as to- make them eligible fllthe reserve.” PLANNING A BIG CELEBRATION. Members of the commission which will have charge of the two hundredth birthday anniversary cele- bration of George Washington, in 1932, calling on President Coolidge yesterday to discuss their plans. The Presi ent is chairman of the National Photo HE TESTIFIED THAT COLLINS WAS ALIVE. Edward Brenner (in the bed), who tesitfied before the military court at Sand Cave that he reached Floyd Collins at one time and that the latter was alive. Brenner is a Cincinnati miner and was made ill by exposure in his efforts to rescue Collins. Acre and a Quarter Of Land ' Sloughs Into German Lake By the Associated Press. NEUSTETTIN, Germany, Febru- ary 17.—A promontory projecting into Lake Pleleburg and covering one and.a quarter acres has sud- denly disappeared. The cause is unknown. The promontory was covered with trees from 15 to 20 feet high. Measurements show that it has dropped from 30 to 40 feet. ESCAPES EXECUTION BY HANGING HIMSELF Death-House Prisoner at Sing Sing Forestalls Fate With Sheet From His Bed. By the Assoclated Press, OSSINING, N, Y. February 17.— Willlam S. Ford, slated to be exe- cuted on March 19 for murder and arson, hanged himself in his cell in the death house at Sing Sing while his keeper was gone for two minutes to carry off the dinner dishes. Ford was still alive when cut down, but dled soon afterward. Ford was to have gone to the chair for' the deaths, in October, 1923, of six persons, when flames destroyed a large frame house in Bropklyn. Ford was accused of having set the fire because of hatred of his father- in-law, George F. Keem, who per- ished in the flames. Ford hanged himself from a bar of his door by means of a sheet from his bed. In a letter to Warden Lawes, Ford asserted his ‘innocence and accused District Attorney Dodd, who prose- cuted | him, of “training” Raymond Anderson.as State's witness, to “per- jure himself before the grand and again before the trial jur: Anderson, arrested in the arson case, turned State’s evidence and testified that Ford had plotted for weeks to kill Keem. He sald he had driven Ford and a companion to the house and that Ford had set the fire. No defense was offered at the trial and Ford was convicted by the jury. Later Anderson was. released. The thl,d‘,exa Was never arrested. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. BATISHCOMONS ROUTSNACDONALD First Attack on Government’s Policy Defeated—Vote, 335 to 146. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 17.—The gov- ernment was victorious in the House of Commons last night against the first opposition attack on its general policy, when, by a vote of 335 to 146, it defeated Ramsay MacDonald's resolution declaring that the method the government proposed for revive ing the safeguarding of industries duties must lead to a system of general tariffs. Debate Method of Procedure. The whole discussion was rather unreal, because it turned on the mere question of procedure, not of principle. The government had originally intended to introduce an entirely new bill for the purpose, but later decided, as the safeguarding of industries act had never been for- mally repealed, to resort to the in- sertion of necessary clauses in the budget bill and deal with each suf- fering industry as occasion arose. The Labor and Liberal opposition argued that this method would de- prive Parliament of effectual control over the imposition of duties, but the real purpose of the opposition attack was to represehit the government as being on the declivity leading to protection. Premier Baldwin's Defense. Premier Baldwin in his defense reiterated that he intended to abide loyally by the country’s decision in the general election & year ago against protection, and had no_idea of trying to introduce protection by the back door. The debate revealed a curious divergence of opinion as tween Ramsay MacDonald and oyd George, The former declared there were many signs in America, Germany and France that protection- ism was beginning to be found out. Mr. Lioyd George could not agres . with this view:; he declared that .. certainly the last election in America gave no sign of this. — The United States is the only large country whose exports are greater thaa before the war,