Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1925, Page 4

g = WAHABI INVASION REPDRT SEOUTED -Advance Into Transjordania Is Doubted—British Troops © Ready to Act. By the Associated Press LONDON, F cd - igvasion 10000 Waha nfirmat The report- ordania by still lacks far there has a tenden regard it t exa or instance, thought im 4 t Sultan Saoud woul to 10,000 warri likely than half that number sjordania within the limits of the British mandate for Palestine, and British airmen with bombing nes are statoned there. It is re- illed that the British last August ve out a force of Wahabi invaders o reached Amman It is suggested that sion has occurred . the British may take a hand in behalf of their protege, the Emir Abdullah, who is a son of former King Hussein of the Hedjaz, Ibn Saoud’s old enemy, and a brother of King Felsul of Irak and the Emir Ali, the present nominal ruler of the HedJaz. PLANE TO REPLACE BATTLESHIP, SIMS TELLS AIR PROBERS inued from heen as it is Ibn assemble not “more w if a new inva- alr forve, nobody is going to .bother us,” ‘declared Admiral Sims. *The seagoing submarines today.” are three times as big as the full rigged ships I first' went to sea on,” Admiral Sims =ald: ‘They- can -cruise 25,000 miles and go across the ocean, plant mines and refider destruction and all the | navies Iri.the. world cannot chase them | away. A large submarine force is a | deterrent to any nation that was to| interfere with our policles. An tempt was made to outlaw the sub marine at the arms conference, but| there is nothing so persistent in the back of European statesmen’s minds as_this type of v ., The admiral icized editor “our greatest newspapers” on matters | of strategy in naval warfare. He | sald when the arms conference co. vened there were large front-page stories about the greatness of battle- ships. “If there was no expert around to write it as we got it just the same. And it is sad read he said Cites Strategy Weakness. The admiral declared there | college in this country that teaches | the bare elements of strategy, while every European college has a course in this subject. The mistaken im- pression that the fleet can cruise 3.000 miles to an enemy’s shores, bombard hitn' and steam back 3,000 miles to its base also comes under the heading of “sad reading,” said the admiral. The real facts are that a warship with a 6,000-mile cruising s can 80 to the enemy’s shores 3,000 miles away, “place the ball of his thumb on his nose, make a re- spectful gesture and then go away.’; iral cited a report of an expert of the Navy, who, after making a purely mathematical study of the defects of anti-alrcraft guns on airplanes, declared it to be “negligible.” The guns fire,” Admiral s said, “make a lot of hoise and eve the nerves of the people, but v don’t hurt the fellow in the air.” hen, he continued, these supbort- ers of the battleship say the pl cannot operate in bad weather. “All f vou who read the newspapers this to be untrue. Heavy weather is what an airplane carrier wants, a good stiff blow so he can Is by | | is no| at| would accept his reports made while 2n observer in Europ When he joined the fleet 1900, after a tour of duty at Paris, Admiral Sims said he was assighed to the bat- hip Kentucky. “I cannot see how men w ve reached this stage of civil uld have built a ship like that,” he sald. The Navy War College was praised to the highest by the admiral, who 'sald there is opposition in the Navy to its graduates. The officers wh surround Secretary Wilbur today, ¥ declare known as the “Daniel's Cabin who are opposed to the men educated in the college, “the best naval college in the world.” When Secretary Daniels assumed continued the Admiral, he meant well about the college, but he surrounded himself with men opposed it When Mr. Denby became Secretary, the admiral sald, he did not like trouble in the department, so ne kept these same officiers about him and these in turn now Serve. with Sécre- tary Wilbur. Referring to the problem of pilots the naval air service who are not Navy men, Admiral Slms said if, on ve of battle, a group of splendid airplane pilots was sent to him for duty, but were not educated to Navy language, procedure and Na ties,” I would send them away, be- cause they would ‘bawl’ up the whole works.”" He made a strong plea for naval aviators who are Navy meg. Action Held Justified. At the conclusion of a stormy two- hour session yesterday afternoon at which Clifford A. Tinker, a former naval officer, was raked over the coals for his magazine article charging Congress with responsibility for the dead of the Roma explosion, the com- mittee declared Its action in “nail- ing” the “serious charge” justified the reopening of the hearings. Mr. Tinker, writing in magazine of January 24, under the signature, “Lieut. Comdr. Clifford A Tinker, U. S. N, formerly Bureau of Aeronautics,” declared Congress by failing to appropriate $14,000 for the transportation of helium from Fort Worth, Tex., to Langley Field, Va. in the name of ecomomy” sold the lives of the 34 men killed in the Roma explosion for $412 each. Collier's send his bombing planes right down to the deck of a ship wallowing in the swell and unable to train his guns on the planes. Tells Briefly of Career. The admiral told a brief story of his life in the Navy and of his ex- periences with the _“opposition.” While - naval attache at Paris he sub- mitted thousands of pages of intelli- gent reports and declared today there 1s no record of his work in the Nav “This is to show the extent to which opposition will go,” he said. He said the Government sends offi- cers abroad for information, and if their reports do not compare with what they already knew ‘they have been captured by the enemy.” He de- elared he had to get British official statements on the condition of the waT before the American Government The Two And Divided In Group 1 32 Group 2 28 Group 19 Also nearly ZOb Suits For this statement a subpoena was requested for Mr. Tinker by Repre- sentative Frank R. Reid, Republican, Illinois. Armed with a lengthy state- ment attacking the united air force proposal, praising the “outstanding accomplishments” of the Navy and denouncing Brig. Gen. Willlam Mitch- ell, assistant chief of the Air Service, Mr. Tinker was pinned down to every statement by Representatives Prall, New York; O'Sullivan, Connecticut, and Reld. The committee was not satisfied with Mr. Tinker's declara- tions, characterizing them as “worth- less,” “second-hand hearsay" and “not worth 2 cents,” so after a discussion the original purpose for which Mr. Tinker was subpoened, was taken up. After Representative Reid had read a letter from Chairman Madden of the House appropriations committee which declared $6,000,000 was avail- Famous Fashion Shops For Saturday Only Generously Offer 116 Overcoats Reduced to Four Groups Including Coats for Six-Footers, in Sizes 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 Overcoats Overcoats “37° Overcoats *Overcoats Were $45 & $50 Goingat......... Were $55 Going at......... Were $65 L Were $75 Going at. .. .. 17 522 521 $34:50 at less than half price— many light colors suitable for Spring. Alterations at Cost—No Charge Accounts Sale at Both Stores The Tashion Ghop FRED PELZMAN, President Downtown 9th & E At Washington's .420d and Broadway Two Stores Uptown 15th &G Next to Keith's _ office, | tac- | | THE EVENING REAR ADMIRAL HILARY P. JO Chairman of the Navy general board the first witness at the re-opening of | * the hearings by the House aircraft invextigating com ittee. War Department for purposes of all kinds 1922, the time of the that the War med a policy or helium to tive Prall moved able to the transportation Auring the year Roma explosio nd Deplirtment had not on the use of hydrc that date, Represent that. the committee declare Mr. Tinker's Roma story to be “inaccu- rate, unfounded and untrue” and that all testimony prior to the Roma dis cus: n “be expunged from the rec- ord” The motion was adopted Mr. " Tinke expl ation of the story was e approached former Represgntat 1 n - of the subec House fc transpor hel told that ai aid that Maj. V Nostrand lieved was in charge alr in the Army id him the Army Jort the heliu i two “sat down and w t the approximate cost of br gas to Langley Field Mr r further said that even If the Ro: had been inflated with helium » accident would have hap- pened because bag was defective 3ut there w t have been a great loss of life declared, adding he believed mc aboard would have been saved. After the meeting, the committee decided in e o session to accept Secretary Wee invitation to visit Fort M for a demon- stration of tiveness of anti- aircraft fire on targets towed by air- planes, provided a date could be ar- ranged about the middle of March in- stead of March 6. of at th ad no mo: that d t to tra rked o the Navy Officers Sent to New Ports. Comdr, Abram Claude has been transferred from the destroyer squad- ron, battle fleet, to the Naval War College, Newport, R. 1L.; Comdr Earl R. Shipp, from the command of the U. 8. Sinclair to the U. 8. S. Kana- wha; Comdr. Walter B. Woodson, from the battleship Colorado to command a division of the destroyer squadron, battle fleet; Lieut. Comdr. John A. Byrne, Supply Corps, from the navy yard, Washington, D. C, to the battleship New York; Lieut. Comdr. Maj. C. Shirley, Supply Corps, from the New York to the air station, Lakehurst, N. J.; Lieut. George D. Thompson, Medical Corps, from the U. 8& S Langley to the air station, Pearl Harbor, Hawali Yen, Mah-Jong and Yen Fu Chien of Foochow is puz- zled about Amerlcans. He has never been to America, but he has decided that Americans must be_astonishingly changeable. Yen Fu Chien left a job ornament- ing fans to paint polished bone and bamboo chips for mah-jong sets. He couldn’t paint them fast enough for the Americans. Then, all of a sud- den, America did not want so- many mah-jong sets. Yen Flu Chlen lost his job. He could mot know that of cross-word puzzles had cut into th efad of mah-jong in America. And he did not worry much. The change- able Americans developed a taste for Chinese parasols. These also needed ornamentation and, since Yen Fu Chlen was a decorator, he ate again Hair Net Trade Mcnaced. Yen Fu's sister was not so fortu- nate. Just about the time her tresses were long enough to market the bottom dropped out of the hair net trade, because bobbed hair was “all the go” 5,000 miles from Foo- chow. She had to accept a low price. Her halr Is now being used to tie the lacquer paper covering to the bamboo ribs of the parasols her brother decorates. All the world's a stage for the ads ' or any year,” says a bulletin of the National Geographic 3, from its headquarters at | . “Their first acts are usually laid in strange out-of-the- way places; Arctic Islands, trepic jungles, deserts; the second on Broad- way or Michigan avenue. The denoue- ment in the third act may occur In a high-ceiling room where grave dip- lomats draft a treaty—or may be ‘same as act 1. The opening curtain of ‘Platinum,’ twentieth century comedy based on Charles Lamb's famous roast pig story, rises on a street scene in Quibdo, Colombia. As a prologue it i8 necessary to point out that the mothers of most of us were as proud as peacocks of their engagement dia- mond In its gold setting. The 1925 ‘flapper’ would probably stay single all her life before she would wear anything but platinum filigree Premium on Platinum. for platinum jewelry 1 shoot that metal to well r $100 an ou and, with the Russian fleld cut off, Colombia Is » principal producer. Washing for gold Is an ancient industry for Quibdo natives, but they long re- rded as a nuisance the heavy lumps ¥ had to separate from the gold. : lumps were platinum. When they realized that platinum was| worth four times as much as gold they began frantically to pan the creeks, which are the town's streets, for the discarded nuggets. The government laid claim to the streets, 80 they panned their gardens and dooryards. Finally one patriot burned his house down. Panning the ruins, he obtained enough platinum to build a new house and still have $4,000 in the bank, thus coming off much better than Lamb's Chinaman. “With all the enthusiasm of Kan- sas farmers in a good wheat year, natives of Cape Colony, South Africa, are halling an obscure American news item. It is an announcement from De- troit, Mich., that a great percentage of automobiles now sold are closed cars. What connection can there be be- tween the rocky, drought-ridden tip of Africa and sedans? To find the root of the rejoicing the first act must be seen again., Oxtrich Feathers and Autes. “In the last part of the nineteenth and the first part of our century royalty’ in Europe took to ostrich feathers. By 1910 the ‘willow plume’ was one of the dearest possessions of American womanhood. South Africa had @iscovered that ostriches were its special vocation and nearly a million birds stalked its pens. An attempt was made even to start ostrich farms in California. With the fad Parasol Decorator Hard Hit by These Changing Americans Fads Come and Go and Indusvries of Vast Propor- tions Are Built and Die Almost Overnight, Geographic Society Shows. tens of thousands of ostriches had to be slaughtered to save them from starving. South Africa says that the arrival of the open automobile spelled downfall for the ostrich feather as a hat ornament—but the closed car is their rainbow of hope for the revival vof the trade that brought them $15,000,000 in one year. “At the foot of the modern monu- ment to the Streamline Six are said to be the wrecks of two other minor gods of civilization, the ‘plug’ hat and high shoes Many Fads Horn in China. “China is the chief hunting ground for civilization's ‘enthusiasms.’ It has given by turns everything from willow ware to Pekinese pups. Sand- wiched between these extremes are the curly vellow karakul lambskins, rugs, bonbon baskets, fans, Spanish shawls, tulip bulbs, lanterns and goldfish. The tiny Pekinese, which Chinese legends say are descendants of a marriage of the marmoset and lion, once were owned Chinese monarchs alone. When Peking royal palace was captured in 1860 five Pekinese were found and taken to Europe, t introducing the glossy lap dog to the West “Fads probably rise more rapldly and die more quickly in America to- day than in any other country in any other age. To fads civilization owi much, for they, rather than neces- saries, often have been the first springs of international trade. Med- iterranean people blazed thelr first trade routes to north Europe for amber, the ancients’ most precious substance. Lapis lazuli, with which King Tutankhamen's tomb was rich- ly ornamented, was to old Egypt what diamonds are to the twentieth cen- tury ypt traded her emeralds for Persia’s lapis lazuli. “The United States serve: countries with fads just as t ply us. Richly ornamented w are ‘made in America’ for China. It is often immaterial to the Chinese purchasers whether the watches keep time or not, for the purchasers prize them chie s glittering pendants. Brazillans have a curious legendary character c who s _sup- posed to bring good luck. He is| brown, has only one leg and that end- | ing in a cloven hoof, smokes a pipe | and wears a bright red cap ¥ nay also bring good luck to s American ufac s who now prepa to make a fad, Brazil, of Sacy balloons, Sacy cellu- loid buttons, Sacy watch charms and even Sacy radiator caps.” other ; sup- tches b The Perfect Lady. From the London Passing Show. Mother—I hope vou behaved y self at the party, Molly? Molyly—Oh, yes! I put up my hand sur- " STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C,.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1925. THREE THEFTS NET YEAR SENTENCE TO QUARTET Involved, Respectively, $350 Ring, 819 and $57—Assault Brings Eight Months. Samuel C. Bush, colored, was sent to the penitentlary for one year and one day today by Justice Hoehling, in Criminal Division 1, charged with stealing a ring valued at $350 from Ella R. Smith January 10. Marie E. Smith, colored, convicted of robbing James Hyson of $19, also was glven a term of one year and one day. Similar sentences were imposed on Francis N. Dabnage and Maurice J Mickey, both color who, it was charged, broke into one of the stores of the Piggly Wiggly Co. January 4 and rified the cash register of §57. Amy E. Bell, colored, will spend eight months in jail, following conviction for an assault with a pistol October | 5 on Florence Edwards Medora W. Blake and Hilda McDon- ald, both colored, who admitted a charge of shoplifting, were placed on probation for one year by Justice Hoehling. Simliar clemency was ex- tended to Leonard Delvecolo, 19 years old, charged with joy-riding. Granite monuments of the Egyp- tians were cut with copper chisels. 2 Latin American Governments Send Inaugural Envoys Two Latin ,American govern- ments have sent special delega- tions to this ecity to attend the inauguration of President Coolidge. A mission from Guatemala has arrived already and is quartered at the legatiom 3621 New Hamp- shire avemwe. Tt 1s composed of Roberte Lowenthal, minister of foreign affairs; Carlos Palma, distingulshed jurist, and Federico Agullar, chief of the President of Guatemala. Dr. Luis Bogren of Honduras, who is slated for appointment as the next Honduran Minister to the United States, has arrived as the special representative of that country at the coming inaugura- tion. i Downright Clever. 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