Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1925, Page 17

ONLY A PART OF THE INAUGURATION CROWD WHICH CALLED AT THE WHITE HOUSE YESTERDAY. All day long a stream of visit- ors entered the executive offices and greeted President Coolidge. This photograph was taken during the rainstorm, while hundreds waited to shake the President’s hand. WILLFAM M. JARDINE, NEW SE several CRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. dent’s cabinet—was a cowboy in the Big Hole Basin in Montana. - IGE CAUSES FLOOD, RESIDENTS FLEEING Plea for Planes to Bomb Jaml in Missouri River Refused ‘ by Government. | | By the Associated Press YANKTON, S. Dak. March Nearly a score of families the Nebraska River above Niobfara were driven from their homes yesterday when the heavy fn the stream gorged and backed water over a wide stretch of- lowlands, according to word received | hare. The victims were forced to abandon stock and other property in their hurried flight, and some were able to reach higher ground only by using boats The Niobrara gorge is reported near the mouth of the Niobrara River, and the wide bottom on the Nebraska side comprising more than 2,000 acres, sald to be under water. Considerable xtock is believed to have perished Only a partial movement of the ice in the river is reported from points along the river below Niobrara Warnings have been sent to resi- | dents on the lowlands down stream to be prepared for higher water when the gorge breaks Efforts are being made by residents of Niobrara to secure the services of a Government airplane to assist in | scouting and in dynamiting the jam — living on side of the Missouri| Bombs Are Refused. SIOUX CITY, Towa, March 6.—Word was received from Washington last night, following a plea by citizens, that Army bombing planes be sent to break up an ice gorge in the Mis- souri River near Niobrara, Nebr., 100 miles north of here, that it would be impossihle to send the planes because | of the danger of bombs exploding en | route. | PHONE RATE HEARING WILL BE RESUMED| Public Utilities Commission Sets Date for March 19 to Debate | Valuation of Plant. | Hearings on the valuation and rates of the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- | phone Co. will be resumed before the | Publle - Utilities Commission at 10 o'clock, March 19, Earl V. Fisher, sec- | retary to the commission, announced. The company is contending its plant §s worth $25,000,000 at present price levels. The commission's value of the | property off December 31°was some- thing less than $19,000,000. This lat- ter figure represents the original val- ue of 1916, with net additions to plant | since that time added, The company's | claim is that its entire Droperty | should be revalued because of the | change in price levels. Whether telephone rates are to be | reduced at this time will depend on | how much is added to the company’s have an artificial lake with a capacity widows stand valuation. '\ | women followed | son, | Mrs. Melody by Dawes Is Held Valuable As Hysteria Cure Doctor Says Composition Has Quieting Effect on erves of Ill. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, March 6.—"Melody in A Major,” composed by Vice President Charles G. Dawes, was plaved ves- terday before members of the South- land Club at the Waldorf-Astoria, as an example of the curing powers of music in cases of hysteria Dr. Willett Dentinger, who selected the composition, said that its smooth, soft-lowing melody had a quieting influence on the nerves of neuras- thenics. Dr. Dentinger lectured on Healing Power of Music,” introducing & number of compositions, which, he asserted, would relieve certain ills The music-cure is not new, doctor said, recalling that Solomon, in his great wisdom, often sought solace in the soft strains of a harp. G. 0. P. COLORED WOMEN" IN CONFERENCE HERE National League Host at Meeting. Head of Organization Guest at Reception. A conference of Republican colored by a reception was held at African Methodist the Metropolitan Episcopal Church yester- day’ afternoon and last night. The National League of Republican Col- ored Women was host, and addresses were made by Miss Anna E. Hendley and Mrs. Nanette B. Paul of the Susan B. Anthony Foundation and Mrs. George S. Williams, colored na- tional comynitteewoman from Georgla. Other fpeakers wers William C. Matthews of Massachusett 1. Mitchell of West Virginia, George E. Cannon of New Jersey, R R. Horner and the Rev. W. H. Jer nagin, president of the race congress, now in session at Baptist Church. Miss Nannie H. Bur- roughs presided. A joint reception of the local branch of the league and the Political Study Club, headed by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell and Miss Jeanette Carter, re- spectively, was held last night at the Wheatley for colored women of political organizations of the countr The Community Center Department of public schools held a reception and musical at the Dunbar High School last_night in honor of Miss Hallie Q. Brown of Ohio, president of the National _Association . of Colored Women. The hostesses included Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham, Miss Eva A. Chase, Mrs. Carrie J. Knox, Miss Etta Joh Mrs. Rebecca J. Gray, Miss ) M. Quander, Mrs. Florence Neal, Mrs, Lucy S. Robinson, Miss Rachel Bell Mrs. R. R. Horger, Mrs. Madge Cune: Eva N. Wright, Mrs. Pearl Hughes, Mrs. M. Madre Marshall, Mrs. S. D. Milton, Mrs. Mildred Coleman. Miss Ella Boston, Mrs. Daisy E. Welch and Mrs. Susie Fountaine. Dr. A hydro-electric project in India will of 1,000,000,000 gallong of water, “The | the | Charles ) the Mount Carmel | Of course, the photograph was taken ears ago, when Mr. Jardine—never thinking that he would some day be a member of the Presi- Copsright by Underwood & Underwood. National Photo. Silver cup presented to Charles Evans Hughes, former Secretary of State, by employes of the State De- partment vesterday. Mr. Hughes is taking up his law practice in New York National Photo. The new Secretary of State, B. Kellogg. at the White House ye: terday, for a conference with Presi- dent Coolidge. Photo taken shortl after the new cabinet member teok the oath of office. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. HOW NEW President Coolidge took the oath of office and delivered his inaugural address. persons heard the address by radio. i 1 A CALL. Gov. Franklin'S. Billings and Gen. H. D. Johnson, adjutant general, both of Vermont, calling at the executive offices af the White House yesterday afternoon. National Photo. FIVE PERSONS HURT |GERMAN TRADE BOOM STANDING \ELOPING BROTHER ON FAR FROM HEALTHY BASIS Woman Government Worker' Sus- | Situation Better Now Than Year Ago, But Many Fac- | l IN MOTOR MISHAPS | tains Fractured Leg When Hit by | Auto—Other Minor Injuries. | Theodore Richardson,, 21, College Md., riding a motor cycle on Bladensburg road beyond the lll.‘»l!‘irl: line last night about 7 o'clock, Is re- ported to have been crowded off the |road by an automobile in wh h ‘two colored men wera riding. He sus- | tained painful injuries to his body and was brought to Casualty Hospital. | Arthur Middleton, Portmer apart- | | ments, Fifteenth and’ U streets, was| driver of an automobile that skidded | against and injured Emily Given, ‘51, 1441 W street, near the.Bureau of| | Engraving and Printing. where she is | | employed. yesterday afternoon. ThG‘ Governmert worker is reported- to have stepped from in front of a| | parked automobile directly in front of | | Middleton's car. Middleton made a quick move to| prevent an accident, but the car skid- | |ded and knocked down the pedestrian. | | The injured woman was taken to the emergency room in the Bureau of En- | graving and Printing and treated by | | Dr. John W. Crowe for a fracture of | the left leg and other injuries. She | | was transferred to Garfield Hospital. | | Anna Brown, colored, 10, 508 | | Twenty-fourth street, was knocked down at Twenty-sixth and I streets yesterday afternoon by an automobile | driven by Theodore G. Buehler, 1121 Park road, and slightly h . She was treated at Emergency Hospital and taken home. William Bragson, colored, 75, 1732 V street. was struck by an automo- | bile at Connecticut avenue and Cal- iforria street last night. He said he was not hurt. William Stokes, colored, 22 street, mont. ave 1203 V| was knocked down at Ver- nue and U street lasf night about 9:45 o'clock by an automobile | driven b ‘W. L. Mareden, jr., 4708 Ninth street, the automobile also striking a car parked in front of 1917 Vermont avenue and damaging it. Stokes was treated at Freedmen's Hospital for shock. HESSE GETS NEW TITLE. !Chiet Clerk Beeome::suistant Su- perintendent of Police. Under a clause in the District ap- propriation act, Edwin_B. Hesse, chief clerk of the Police Department, will be given the rank of an assistant superintendent July Hesse, who has been connected with the depart- ment for more than 25 years, will continue as chief clerk, directing the | clerical work of the department. TItalian Revenues Gain. ROME, March 6.—The semi-official Stefani Agency'gives thé Italian gov- | ernment’s revenue receipts for the | firgt eight months of the current | financial year as 10,072,000,000 lire, an increase of 886,000.000 lire, as com- | pared with the same period for 1923-24, Statistics show that in the matter of matrimonial chances the spinsters have the better of widows up to the | situ |trade of Germany is fair, | Bood, but the export balance remains | credits which have been made |lieve Germany is approaching a new sthem.: The German hope seems to be | which is pretty close to starvation; in age of forty-four, but after that, the the ‘better chance of being led to the altar, tors Point to Possible Change for Worse in Situation at Any Moment. BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. BERLIN. March 6.—What of the German economic situation? This is | a question of hardly less interest and | importdnce than that of the political | on, but it is even more difficult | to answer because of a variety of conflicting circumstances Germany is unmistakably better situation than a year halt ago. She is. in fact. through, if not a boom, baomlet. Unemployment pressively above normal. Part time| exists but that, too, partially | seasonal. All rhings considered, her people are at work again. The human machine is functioning at something under normal eficlency, but em- ployers who a vear ago protested that their men were not producing at pre- war standard are now blaming taxa- tion for their difficulties. Boomlet Not Healthy. But the depressing factor in the German situation lies in the fact that the explanation of the existing boom- let is to be discovered rather in credit inflation than in normal, healthy expansion. The domestic pgrhaps in a and a passing erhaps a not im- enormously against Germany. Ger- many is, in fsct, living bevond her domestic income. She is able to do it only because of the loans and in recent months. The high cost of living resulting from credit inflation makes it impos- sible for Germany to compete suc- cessfully with Belgium, Britain or France in many directions. The bogy of a sudden swoop of German com- petition has not materialized; there is no present prospect that it will. Instead' of further, even more rapld recovery, many sound observers be- crisis when foreign loans and credits begin to diminish and disappear, or even the time comes for liquidating that the flow of credits and loans will continue, that they will more and more take the form of long time notes, that so far from seeking to liquidate théir loans, foreigners will be satisfied to leave them as per- manent investments in_Germany and merely draw interest. But this is not likely or even possible. At least many observers here doubt it, ‘Wages Below Normal. The mass of German labor is' working at a wage, which Is on the whole sub- normal. If there are several members of a family who are wage earners the situation is tolerable, but in ordinary cases where there is a single wage earner the situation, if mot desperate, is on the whole bad. Living conditions are wretched. .The cost of living, if not quite as high as in America, is higher, I am _sure, than in Britain, France or Belgium, while the wage of the German workers is rarely above $7.50 a week, sontetimes below that. At the moment the working man is emerging from imuch the worst situa- tion, he is escaping from something many cases improvement- for him is so great that he is still on the whole bearing up wigh patience, but the great question is how long it will be possibble te bold him on-& wage.below ‘the cost of living. On the other hand to raise the price of labor at a time when Ger- many can with difficulty, if at all, com- pete with the outside world must have obvious consequences It follows then that the best ob- servers here look with complete skepti- cism upon the immediate prospect of any dangerous, enormous German com- petition such as was so widely forecast in the years following the close of the war right up to the inflation period Such Germans as see some promise of great progress base all their hopes upon some optimistic Interpretation of for- eign purpose, upon American loans upon British loans, and similar ble: ings, which, to say the least, are by means sure to arrive. Living Conditions Bud. Germany is poorer than before the war. to her neighbors, by comparison with their present situation, than all occupied before 1914. Much of her pop- ulation has been starved and semi- starved, much is now living under con- ditions of food and shelter which are almost unbelievably bad. One stag- geringly patent fact is that there is no present prospect of far reaching, rela- tively. rapid recovery. The German trade balance is in- deed so bad for the past year that some authorities assert the figures are unbelievable, but it is obvious that Germany can only continue buy- ing abroad seven hundred and ffty million - annually more than she sells, for the time that she can get foreign credits or until she has exhaustéd her own relatively limited resources. The process must, moreover, work in a viclous circle, to increase the cost of living, to raise the rate of in- terest here, which is already enorth- ously high, and is cited as one of the main factors in the situation. All in all, 1 am bound to say that his summary of German present economic situation—I have by no means relied largely upon a German source—is, to say the least, the op- posjte of brilliant. Needs Foreign Market. Germany is working, she is produc- ing, her domestic trade is good, but she s not selling abroad. While it is possible the tide may turn in the new year, that the conditions of last year were abnormal, there is little to suggest here to foreign experts that this will take place. - Indeed, I gather the impression that the foreign expert believes that the process. of giving .German credits has gone far!enough, ahd should be re- stricted shortly and sharply to avoid a new.disturbance, an. adjustment of national economy to bring Germany back within her own income, which she is now living beyond, seems a remedy which finds favor with many who 100k with anxiety upon the next year or two, particularly if credit inflation continues, (Copyright, 1925, by the McClure Newspaper o Syndicate.) Women unler 4 feet 11 inches in height are not admitted to Australia as immigrants. California is the only State of the Union which has elected two -women to Congrexs. 2 | posed as first cou | birth With the arrest of the couple it was | She is much poorer with relation | AND SISTER ARRESTED| | Pennsylvania Girl to Be Mother in Two Months, She Tells Authorities. | By the Associated Pres JOHNSTOW phen Balogh, 19, 17, principals in a marriage that took place Monday at Cumberland, Md.. were arrested to- night in a rooming house here and held by authorities pending a hear- ing tomorrow. The arrest of the couple followed a search by police of several cities since word of their marriage was re- ceived by the father, Stephen Balogh of Johnstown Questioned by police following their arrest the couple declared they had ins and had given their names as “Stephen and Helen Balough.” The girl told Police Chief C. E. Briney that she expected to give to a child within two months. Pa, March and Helen B brother and sister learned by police that Stephen had been born in Hungary and had first seen his sister in September, 1923, when he came to this country. The mother of the two chilren had Te- turned to Hungary on a visit at the time Stephen was born, it was de- clared by the father. There are four other children in the Balogh family. The bridegroom will be prosecuted “to the limit,” but his sister-wife probably will be given her freedom, the father of the couple said today in arranging for a postponement of their hearing! before an alderman until tonight or tomorrow morning. The girl was in the detention home and her brother in the county jail today. Police said Helen had fold them she was sorry the marriage had been broken up, and that she wanted to go on living with her brother. —_— HOOVER WANTS $125,000 FOR RESEARCH IN RADIO Hopes to Get Money Asked From Last Congress and Killed in Jam. Secretary Hoover hopes to obtain for the radio inspection service the $125,000 asked by the Department of Commerce at the last sessiorf of Con- gress and killed in the legislative jam of the dving days of Congress, he sald yesterday. Mr. Hoover said a mistaken impression has been con- veyed that this money was to be used to inspect radio receiving sets. This impression is not correct, he said, as the money is to be used in research work, such as extent of radio waves, their 'directional tendencies and other scientific —investigations. - The sum asked, he added, would not be suffi- cient to go very far in inspection of the more than 5,000,000 recelving sets in use In the United States. Mr. Hoover, referred to the great number of broadcasting stations using the air and the dissatisfaction of some station operators with the situation. Division of time was mentioned by Mr. Hoover as one of the possible solutions for the Ajr jam. Letters have been received from radio fans complaining about the division of time by stations giving good pro- grams with stations giving poor Programms. [ I YORK HEARD PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. Square, one of the receiving stations in the metropolis, Hundreds of these SENATE LEADERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. A crowd in Union stations drew New Yorkers while It is estimated that 25.000.000 Copyright by P & A. P Senator Curtis, Repub- lican floor leader; Senator Robinson, Demagratic floor leader. and Ser- geant-at-Arms Barry calling upon Pr |Clemenceau Misses | Eulogy by Failing i To Attend Wedding Absent From Church Be- cause of His Anti-Cleri- ‘ ical Views. i | By the Ascociated Press | PARIS, March 6.—M. Clemenceau active as ever and still anti-Clerical. | | missed hearing a long eulogy on him- | self vesterday by failing' to attend the religious wedding of Mlle. Edmee Mordacq, daughter of Gen. Mordaca and Andre Raiga, Clemenceau’s great- nephew | The cure of st thinking he saw France's grand old served as a witness at the civil cere- mony, turned his marriage oration into ‘praise of “the Tiger,” to the detriment of the present government Clemenceau, however, dislikes church | affairs on_ principle. When Gen.| Mordacq asked him togome he agreed | to be & witness at the City Hall, but | remarked: v “I never attend marriages or| funerals. I will go to no funeral but| my own, and there is not time enough ahead of me for marriage.” Clothilde’s Church, in the audience man, who had RECITAL BY MRS. BEACH AROUSES WIDE INTEREST | Mrs. Coolidge Among Notables in Capital Who Will Attend Musical Event Tomorrow. | Keen interest has been shown by many people prominent in musical and social circles of Washington in the concert to be given tomorrow aft- ernoon by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, 'dean of American women composers, for the benefit of the MacDowell Colony for American artists and musicians. | The concert will be given at Rausch- er's at 3 p.m. under the auspices of y the altmnae club of Mu Phi Epsilon musical sorority. Mrs. Coolidge has announced her in- tention of being present and stated to Mrs. Beach that the movement has her heartiest support. Secretary of War and Mrs. Weeks, Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work and many members of diplomatic and senatorial circles are patrons of this series of concerts. Mary Howe, known in private life In Washington as Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, herself a composer of ability | and a brilliant pianist, will play Mrs. | Beach's new two-plano suite with the composer. Gretchen Hood, soprano soloist with the United States Navy Band, will sing two groups of Mrs. Beach's songs. All three artists are | donating their services. Reservations for the concert may be made through Mrs. Edward Hood Watson, secretary of the club, 1112 Fairmont street. . City’s Scales to Be Tested. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., Marclt 6.—Every pair of scales and every measuring device used in Danville stores and | establishments will be tested, start- ing May 1, in conformity with the new State law. The task falls on Sealer of Weights George S. Dyer, who belleves the task will consume fally"three mpntha. esident Coolidge yesterday Copyrizht by T DUTCH RUM SHIP 1S TAKEN BY U. 3. Federal Judge Garvin Ren- ders Unique Decision Against Zeehond. A Photas By the Associated Press NEW YORK. March The schooner Zeehond and a=$ cargo of wines, seized 15 miles shore in 1923, were ordered forfeited vesterday under an- unprecedented ruling by Federal Judge Garvin of Brooklyn, authorizing sovern- ment to confiscate vessels landing or purposing to land liquor in the United States from any point on the high seas Judge Garvin held that the venture of the Zeehond constituted attempted fraud, as described in section 532 of the tariff act of 19 This says that if any person enters or at tempts to enter merchandise into the country by means of false invoice declaration or paper of any kind by means of any fraudulent practice, such merchandise shall be subject to forfeiture Decision Held Unique. The Zeehond decision is by Federal authorities to and far-reaching in that it upholds for the first time the Government's claim to the right to capture and con- fiscate alien rum smugglers the 12-milé as well outside the limit The Zeehond was captured as s lay off Fire Island on December 1923. She carried 2,180 cases of cham- pagne and wine, taken aboard at Zee- brugge, and destined, according to the ship's papers, for Cholera Banks. in which vicinity the craft was cap- tured by revenue cutters. Captain, supercargo and crew were acquitted last January of charzes that they had conspired to violate the Volstead a Judge Garvin said however “I do not think the defendant will seriously contend that there was no thought of violation of law on the part of at least some of those con- nected with the Zeehond. considered be unique outside Log Entries Are Cited. “There was some suggestion that she was bound for Halifax, but I can- not give it consideration. The log en- tries” show that Cholera Banks was her destination. The Irresistible con clusion is that she proposed to land her contraband within the United States. “She reached the banks on Decem- ber 1, but before that date her original supercargo, named Goyens, who left her at Zeebrugge, had reached New York and established connections with one Leveque, a dealer in intoxicating liquors, com- monly known as a bootlegger. ‘It is apparent that the captain of the Zeehond knew of the movements of Goyens. Leveque and Goyens visited the Zeehond, by launch from Freeport, Long Island. There is much more in the record which clearly es tablishes that it was the purpose to send the cargo ashore on Long island.” £ et ey Bl Lo T Mrs. Robert McBride of Corunna, Mich., whose husband has been justice of the peace for 25 years, hAs am- mounced her candldacy to succeed him, .