Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1925, Page 16

BRIG. GEN MITCHELL GIVES A DEMONSTRATION AT BOLLING FIELD. nnecticut, The general sought to demonstrate his contention that seare Army Air Service (right) and R mmittee of the House, in a pla lights and anti-aireraft guns were PERMA! are also painted. MRS BUDLONG ENDS APARTMENT SIEGE Believed to Have Gone to Husband’s New Home After Capitulation. This photograph By the Associated Press NEW YORK, Februa whereabouts of Mrs. Jessie Margaret Budlong was uncertain today, though indications were that she gone to Newport, R. L, home. * Her husband’s he had driven her take an § 1.—The had her husband's chauffeur to the declared station to ENT PINK CHEEKS FOR MILADY. which will last a lifetime is the york of the tattoo artist. epresentative 0'Sullivan of C vesterday. inefective against modern battleplanes. The flush of beauty Cupid's bow lips comes from New York. Copyright by P. \Wild Geese Flock Stages Spectacle Near Luray, Va. Special Dispatch to Thé Star. LURAY, V Fehruary 21.—A large flock of wild geese, traveling northward in triangular shape, staged a remarkable maneuver in this county today. The geese were apparently lost, and their honking attracted much attention. Apparently seeking food and rest after circling many times over the mountains, they alighted about seven miles cast of Luray, and only a short distance from kyland, the second highest point the Blue Ridge & A. Photos. o \CLASS IN JOURNALISM HEARS STAR'S STORY o'clock train last night | for Newport, where she had said she | would with All band’ %o to establish her husband of the furniture in her hus partment having been remov ed by his order, Mrs. Budlong capit- ulated at § o'clock last night, after defying the seige of all his lawyers, tives and seryants for more than her residence aete a week. 3 She came out of the apartment house unexpectedly, her head held high, and her face betraying no sign of the six days had spent without food. Wrapped in an old coat, she hurried into the waiting limousine, which sped away and soon lost itself in the traffic. Leaves in Silence. Mrs. Budlong left without any final word to add to the history of her miege which she had made public from time to time by dropping her husband’s shirts with notes attached Yo the eager crowds below the win- dow of her voluntary prison. - rlier in the day she had an- nounced her intention of joining her husband, Milton -J. Budlong, in New- port, where he had advised her he had established a residence Mrs pudlong, who was denied a sepa tion at Newport on February 10, had fortified herself in the Budlong apartment here to forestall any at- tempt of her husband to obtain a di- vorce on the ground of desertion. WMCA, NEW NEW YORK STATION, ON TONIGHT ZLeading Broadway Figures to Have Part in Opening of Hotel McAlpin Studio. WMCA, the latest addition to New York’s maze of broadcasting stations, will be dedicated at 6:30 o'clock this evening with an elaborate program. A host of Broadway's leading figures will take part in the inaugural cere- monies, which will be on the air until midnight or later. The new station is a 500-watter, owned and operated by the Hotel Me- Alpin. It will meter wave. Storage be used almost exclusively source of power. WMCA’'s antenna probably greater elevation from the than any other privately owned broadcasting station in the United States. It towers approximately 430 foet above the street level. The sta- tion has been testing for several weeks, using the experimental call 2XH, batteries will as the is at a ground transmit on a 428.6- | Col. C. Fred Cook Tells of News- paper’s Development to George ‘Washington University Students. The development of the printing press as a factor in modern mnews. paper efficiency was discussed yester- day before the evening class in jour- nalism at George Washington Uni- versity by Col. 'C." Fred Cook,- librarian of The Evening Star. Successive methods employed during a period of 75 years were mentioned, and a de- tailed description of the present plant of The Star was given, with the state- ment that it was the most complete and up-to-date possessed by any newspaper in the world. In answer to questions by members of the class, the speaker also gave | some attention to the matter of print- paper supply and to the efforts made by publishers to solve the problem. Col. Cook told of the days when newspaper printing required very much time and was crudely handled. “The evolution of printing mechan- isms,” he said, “Includes the develop- ment of the hand press, the first ap- ‘Plication of steam, the invention of the cylinder press, and from cylinder press to rotary.” 1 After showing the stages of de- | velopment in The Star office in the past 75 vears, he said: “The press- room battery of The Star consists of | three straight line lightning octuple presses, each with a speed capacity of 36,000 papers per hour, and one double-end low construction, super- speed octuple pre with a spced ca- pacity of 42,000 papers per hour.” Col. Coac told the members of the class that the mechanical require- ments of the modern newspaper were reflected in the news department of the paper, where the gaining of even small amounts of time through alert- ness and speed was important in the giving of prompt service to the pub- lic. * Fishing Season Starts Early. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., February 1.—Fishermen aloi the Potomac River and Creeks in Stafford County have begun_hauling seine, and while the catches, =o' far, have been very light, some fish have been put on the local market. Perch and jack have been on sale, but it is still too early for herring, except a scattering -few. The Jennings shore, near Fassapatan- zy, is hauling seine. Indications are that there will be a heavy run of fish, particularly herring, as the weather gets warmer, B The assistant chief of the a member of the special aircraft George Campbell Carson, 58 years old, a miner and “desert rat,” as he terms himself, who may receive $5,- the result of a court de- n Francisco. The decree smelting company used rson’s patents, Wide World Photo. RUSSIAN BARONESS IN WASHINGTON. Baroness Wrangel (right), wife of the Russian general, and Mme. Ivanenko, photographed on Six- teenth street yesterday afternoon. They are rais i refugees, and ‘are gue hospitals for Russis while in the Capital. SOCIALISTS OPEN REICHSTAG ATTACK Denounce Indemnification of Industrialists After Ruhr Resistance Ended. BY the Associated Press. - BERLIN, February 21.—The Social- ists in the Reichstag yesterday opened their threatened offensive on the gov- ernment concerning paying the Ruhr industrialists 700,000,000 marks with- out authority from Parliament Deputy Hertz stigmatized the pro- cedure of asking for indemnification after the breakdown of pa sistance against the allied. occupation as unlawful and contrary to the spirit of law. He charged that the govern- ment paid the industrialists too much in the case of ‘coal, for instance, giv ing them 18.43 marks per ton, where the eest was only 15.50. marks. While the industrialists thus were overpaid, the deputy said, ‘the workers in the Rhine and Ruhr valleys were com- pelled to work for less than pre-war wages, to speed up production and to toil longer hours, all on the ground of patriotic need. Says Deal Seandalous. Herr Hertz charged that the sums paid the industrialists . during the period of passive resistance Were even more scandalous than the 700,- 000,000 marks ded Chancellor Luther, on behalf of the rnment, insisted that the only to get the.industries started agaln after the end of passive re- sistance and prevent utter chaos and separation was to promise the in- dustrialists to indemnify them later. Dr. Luther contended that the reason why the money was first paid to the industrialists and the Reichstag's consent for ' payment sought after- ward was the fact that the Reichs- tag was on Summer, vacation, which was followed by dissolution. GREEN NAMED CHAIRMAN OF PAN-AMERICAN LABOR . F. of L. President Succeeds Sam- uel Gompers—Election Takes Place Here. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, was elected chairman of the Pan-Ameri- can Federation of Labor yesterday. He succeeds the late Samuel Gompers. The election took place at a meeting of representatives of the Pan-Ameri- can Federation in the American Fed- eration of Labor Building, 901 Mas- sachusetts avenue. Matthew Woll ‘presided at the meet- ing. Delegates presen® were: Mat- thew Woll and Frank Morrison, American Federation of Labor; Santi- ago Iglesias, Free Federation of Workingmen of Porto Rico; Luis Ma- rino Perez, organized labor of Ha- vana, Cuba; R. A. Delgado Carbonell and Manuel M. Morillo, Dominican Federation of Labor; B. Suarez and L. Munoz Marin, Venezuela Labor Union. Communications were re- celved from various pan-American countries, including one from Luis Morones, Mexican government secre- tary of industry, commerce and labor. ng funds for tuberculosis of Mrs. Robert Lansing Copyright by Miller Servi The National Conference on Inheri- tance and Estate Taxation yesterday authorized a continuing committes of nine to probe deeply into the death levies muddle’ in with “special attention to the feas- ibility of early or gradual retire- ment of the Federal Government from the field of death taxation. In its closmg session at the Willard Hotel, the conference authorized that this committee be appointed by the president of the National Tax As- sociation, under whose auspices the conference was called, and that the committee report back to a segond similar conference to be called by the National Tax Association. President’s Speech Praised. nother resolution praised President oolidge for his “clear, apt and con- vincing address,” in which the Chief Executive had approved gradual withdrawal of the Federal Govern- ment from the inheritance tax field. A third resolution called upon the States to study their laws with a view to removing multiple taxation, and to establishing the. principle “that real estate should be taxed where sit- uated and all other property in the State of domicile of the decedent.” The conference was characterized by much debate throughout, during which the principal differences arose over the question of whether the Federal or State governments should have exclusive right to levy death duties. Text of Resolution. The principal resolution of the con- ference embodying the expressed views of the body on this question reads as follows “Whereas inequality and injustice in death taxation necessarily arise from the present 1ll balanced and illogical State and Federal death tax structure: Be it “Resolved, That this conference censider it imperative that death tax laws be so changed as to result in a_rational tax system.which will prodice the revehues now so sorely needed by the States, and at, the same time do away with the abuses which are tending to bring this findamentally sound form of tax- ation into disrepute. “Be it further resolved, That the chairman of this conference be ask- cd to appoint a cominittes of nine or more members, due consideration being given to geographical distri- bution, said committee to undertake the following duties: “(a) To gather the information and data necessary to formulate definite plans . for the reform of State and Federal death taxation. “(b) To give speclal attention to the feasibility of early or gradual retirement of the Federal Govern- ment from the field of death taxa- tion. “(c) Then to formulate such plans model laws and recommendations as it sees fit, and present these for con- sideration to the Congress, the State Legislatures and committees thereof and to the proper officials and branches of governments having in charge the levying and administra- tion of death taxes. “(d) To co-operate with such or- manizations-as may be deemed ad- the United States, | CHIN National Museum prepa E ROBES OF SILVER AND GOLD. g for exhibi William H. Egberts of the n robes which were en from the Imperial Palace during the Boxer uprising. The material of the robes is the finest of gold and silver thread, and they were made in the famous mills of Mukden. National Photo. LAST MEMBER OF THE A. E. F. RETURNS. Sergt. John J. Loftus (in civilian clothes), the last American New York yesterda: soldier to leave France, arrived in Loftus, who went to France early th the war, re- cently completed his work with the graves registration service. INHERITANCE TAX PROBE VOTED BY EXPERTS’ CONFERENCE HERE| Deep Study by Committee of Nine Authorized With H View Toward Elimination of Death Levies by Federal Treasury visable and to create sub and regional committees wherever necessary, and “(e) To request the proper officers of the National Tax Association to call a second national conference on inheritance taxation and estate tax- ation, to which said committee shall report its findings and activities, or, in €he absence of such a second con- ference, to_issue and mail to dele- gates to this conference a written report. “Be it further resolved; That this committee be authorized to raise the funds necessary to the carrying out of the duties assigned to it and in its report a full accounting shall bé giv- en of how and from what sources such money was raised and how it was spent.” State Action Ask The resolution calling upon the States for a study of their taxes, in part, declared: “Be it further resolved, That the complete abolition of the non-resident death tax on property other than real estate is highly desirable, but in the event that because of legal or other valid objections this is not im- mediately possible the suggestion is advanced that the so-called Matthews flat rate plan offers an excellent basis to at once make some progress with- 1out loss of revenue, with the ultimate purpose of establishing the principle universally that real estate be taxed where situated and aM ‘other prop- erty in the State of domicile of the decedent. Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming in addressing the conference yesterday afternoon declared no government was justified in making a capital levy except in stress of war. He said he was not certain as to thé wisdom of repealing the Federal inheritance tax, although he inclined toward such re- peal. He declared there should be a “very great decrease in that tax.” The committee of nine authorized by the conference will be appointed as soon as possible by Dr. Thomas W. Page, president of the National Tax Association, Dr. Page announced fol- lowing the conference. A W. C. T. U. TO PAY HONOR. Services in Memory of Frances ‘Willard to Be Tomorrow. Special services in the memory of Frances E. Willard, founder of the ‘World Christian Temperance Union, will be held by the Woman's Chris- tian Temperance Union of the Dis- trict of Columbia in Statuary Hall, at the Capitol, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The local society has made a practice of holding memorfal services each year for Miss Willard The principal addresses will be de- livered by Senator Walter F. George of Georgia and Representative Charles 1. Stengel of New York. The program_will also include a solo by J. E. S. Kinsella; singing by a quar- tet composed of Miss Mary Powell, Mrs. H. B. White, Miss Grace White and Mrs. W. W. Wallace and devo- tions conducted by Rev. Dr. Edward Hayes. Mrs. Emma Sanford Shelton, president of the District W, C. T, U, will preside, By United News Pictures. SOUTHEST RAL MERGER LODHING Katy, Frisco, Cotton Belt and K. C. S. Reported in Con- solidation Negotiations. By the Associated Press. NEW .YORK, February 21 Crea- tion of a new railroad system in the Southwest with total assets of close to $1,000,000,000 and a total mileage of 15,000 appeared to be taking pre- liminary form yesterd. Interests which sponsored the Missourl Pacific merger last year were said to be lay- ing plans for the new consolidation, embracing the Missouri-Kansas-Tex- as, St. Louis-San Francisco, St. Louis Southwestern and Kansas City South- ern railways. Such an alignment would carry out the tentative group- ing proposals of the Interstate Com merce Commission, with slight modi fications, and would develop a com- peting line for the greater Missouri Pacific system. While no definite steps looking to- ward a merger have been taken, Wall Street heard that a leading railroad banking house had acquired a sub- stantial interest in the Kansas City Southern and:“Katy” railroads, and probably would use either or both of these roads as the nucleus for a new system. Formation of a holding com- pany, which would exchange its shares for those of the other roads, along the lines adopted by the Van Sweringens in their “Nickel Plate” merger, is expected to be one of the first stages in the consolidation plan. Frisco Stock Boonted. Heavy buying of Frisco shares, which carried the stock up more than 3 points to a record high level, lent color to reports that this road was being sought as a unit in:the sug- gested new system. Chairman E. N. Brown, however, has' denled that Frisco was involved in any definite negotiations, although his recent trip over the road was linked with re- ports that he was studying merger possibilities. At present, Willlam H. Willlams, chairman of the Missourl Pacific, is making an inspection tour of the Southwestern roads. He is expected to indicate his willingness to have Tthe Kansas City Southern included in another system, although it was orig- inally allotted to the Missouri Pacific. The four railroads which have been mentioned in connection with the con- solidation reports would have a .com- bined capitalization and funded debt of approximately $800,000,000, more than 15,000 miles of trackage, includ- ing side and yard tracks, and 11,000 miles of main line track. The possi- ble addition of. the Chicago and Alton lines would make an even more com- prehensive system, which would serve a large part of the Southwest from Chicago, Kansas City and St. Louis to the Gulf, and traverse the States of Illinols, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Alabama. 96 Indictments in Liquor Probe. Special Dispatch to The Star. PORTSMOUTH, Va., February 21.— Ninety-six indictments, resulting from liquor ralds, were returned by a spe- clal grand jury in the court of Hust- ings yesterday. Twenty-one charge bribery. Rev. H. K. Jones is active in the prosecutions.. . THE MODEL CAMP FIRE GIRL Stephens of New York was selected as organization. Her portrait, painted adorn thousands of new posters in a « MOVING A 33-ROOM HOUSE A HALF MILE. the contractors took the hig dwelling POSES. Not long ago Mis< Ruth the model member of the Camp by Howard Chandler Christy. will irive for Camp Fire membership. It was no easy task, but through Brooklyn, from Sheepshead Bay road to Nineteenth street. Of course, street traffic was interrupted and telephone and electric wires were removed from the path. Pebbles on Track | Foundation for | Trolley Accidents The playful youngster who | spreads a handful of pebbles over | a street car track may be laying the foundation for a serious acc dent, the Bureau of Standards. ha ascertained as the result of tests it has been conducting on the strength of street car rails. Pebbles placed on a street car rail more than doubled the stress set up in the-rail when ¢ars ran over it, the tests disclosed. The inv igations were conducted to determine the to which rail joints are subjected in actual service. In one case the measuring ga showed a tensile strength of 2,600 pounds a square inch wheén the rail was clear and 5,000 pounds a square inch when pebbles were put on the track. stresses WORLD FLYER ADMITS HE WAS WED IN 1917 Lieut. Arnold Announces Marriage | to Miss Mildred Avery, Culminat- ing Childhood Romance. By the Associated Pre: NEW LONDON, Conn., February 21. —Lieut. Leslie P. Arnold, one of the world fiyers, who is visiting here, an- nounced to a gathering of acquaint-| ances in.the home of Dr. J. H. Ganey | that on August 13, 1917, he was mar- | ried at the Little Church Around the Corner, New York City, to M | dred-Avery, a nurse, who now 1 duty at the home of Charles Prentice. a few doors from the home where the lieutenant is a guest. Miss Avery confirmed the lieuten- | ant’s announcement of the marriage, | which Lieut. Arnold says was the culmination of a childhood romance. Lieut. Arnold made the announce- ment in denying published rumors of his engagement to Priscilla Dean, well known movie actress. | ‘'We are friends, nothing more,” said the lieutenant in speaking of the connection of Miss Dean’s name with his own. The report of the engage- ment had its origin in Milwaukee, he said, where he had a speaking en- gagement at the time that Miss Dean was filling an engagement at the theater. Meeting at a hotel, he and Miss| Dean renewed an acquaintance of a Yyear's standing, when the world fly- ers werp at Hollywood. Their pic- tures were taken in the hotel with that of Mrs. Dean, mother of Miss Dean, and out of that came the rumors of the engagement, Arnold declared. Arnold was a man in the ranks when~he murried, he said. He had { A | | trine that Amer at by P. & A. Photos ANGLO-AMERIGAN COMITY IS URGED Howard Says Both Nations Must Set Example for World in Friendly Relations. By the Associated Press, : LOUISVILLE, K Febru; irm and sympathetic understand- ing between America and Gre: ain and her dominions, b tlement by force of any tween them would bhe would be the “great for the establishment has yet been made, ard, the British Ambassador, last night told the local branch of the English-Speaking Union He urged the union to strive for *“two objectives, both of which ar supremely necessary for the peace of the world, but appear at first to be somewhat incompatible.” “The first,” he said, “is to establi by means of some kind of guarantees a feeling of security on the continen of Europe, and especially in Fran which will pave the way f eral reduction in armaments, second is to avoid any that might conceivably br: conflict with the United America.” The English-speaking people, sald, have to be taught that every dispute has two sides, and that they ill have to give the world the ex ample of peaceful settleme - adjustment, by legal methods or b arbitration.” doption of the doc- a and Great Britain work together and “boss th however, would be “the great- est possible error,” he thought, and would have “an effect exactly c trary to that we have in view.” Deploring that “the stupidity and the absurdity of war have not y penetrated the human brain as they should he asserted that “the next war will leave a Europ vhich ready enough difficulty in payi her o without a red cent” will all who outlive it.” He s he could not predict th fate of the Geneva protocol for cor pulsory arbitration, security and di armament, but declared th was certain, “that the British pire will not stand fc any national agreement which bring it into serious contlict United States of America.” “Even peace in Europe,” he con- tinued, “would be purchased at too high a price if that was what we had to pay. But we shall, I am per suaded, do everything humanly pos- sible to promote the security of peace in Europe, and I can but hope that Americans ill endeavor to under- t Brit- which set- disputes be- unthinkable, step forward of peace that r Esme How- st sig The guarantees int he nts should world,’ ts, ruin said Er inter might with th just returned from the Philippines. He telegraphed Miss Avery to meet him in New York. She responded and they were wed. They separat®l on their wedding day and have met but once since, and then for only a few | momentss Rotary Meeting on Air. i WGAZ, South Bend, Ind., will be| turned over to the Indiana conven- tion of Rotarians Monday night from 7 to 9 o'clock. The Rotarians are expected to broadcast an elaborate program by their own talent. stand the difficulties of our position.’ The protocol itself, he thought, was designed to assure security to Euro- pean powers from future aggressio and “so bring to- them a state mind in which they would be pre pared to come to a’conference f reducing land forces with fair prospect of success. “1 feel re,” he said, that t criterion adopted by the protocol f defining the aggressor country in war as the one whicl. ,s*acks a having refused all proposals cw —rbi- trate or settle peacefully rs the right ene.” a @ er