Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1925, Page 16

KING GEORGE steamship Biarritz at Cal. for Genoa. at whi to England for several months, GLORIA WELCOMED IN STUDIOLAND. nnel trip from England. The royal party then took a i point the royal yacht Victoria and Albert w waiting, The Famous Players studio on Long Iiland was the seene of a big reception yesterday for the star, Gloria Swanson, who recently returned from France. shows a presentation of flowers from CUTIN COAL RAL MATES FORECAST Canada Hears U. S. Lines| Will Act to Meet New Tariff- Levy There. By the Axsociated Pre MONTREAL, M 28.—The treal Gazette sa the States railroads are planning cent drop in coal freight rates to nullify the Canadian budget provision increasing by ents per ton the duty on American bituuminous slack coal, according to a report: current in Montreal coal circles The American roads, the Information that has credence here, will Washington an appl proval of a new tariff reduce the Pennsylvan rate from $4.49 per ton slack coal. This move i inspired by a fear that the inerease contained in the adian budget will have the effect of diverting to the maritime provinces -of €anada many of the orders now hauled by the American roads. from - Pennsyl- vania to Eastern Canada. Mon- Un according fo | ined some | shortly . file at for- ap- would tontreal 433 on sald 16 be | on that ELLINGSON GIRL GIVEN RESPITE FROM ‘TRIAL |- Welcomes Return to Cell While Jurors Go to Homes—Pleas for Quick Verdict- Made. By the Associated Pre SAN. FRANCISCO, othy Ellingson, 16-year-old matricide gratefully accepted respite today in the ordeal she has been under ng in the procecdings to ol Jury which will determine her The jury - of nine m and women was sworn in vesterday jurors- wer allowed to go to homes. The girl was returned to her cell in the county jail; not the same girl who ente there almost | two months ago, but a _chastened | girl, whose frequent o in ®ourt have g n_an entirely differegt | aspect’ to her legal status The jury trial is to begin Monday It was stated that the ng of te timony: will begin then and it was denied emphatically that. the youns| defendant wouls nter a4 plea at that time to a charge of her murder in‘ | | | | | { March 28.—Dor- n e| The the second degree or manslaughter. Many' saggestions have come from sources unidentified with the prose- cution and defense that the verdict in the gitl's case be expedited SCOTT CASE DELAYED. Judge Announces Divorce Hearing Cannot Go on’Priof.to May 1. ALP; Mich., March inite postponement of the vorce hearing was indicate day when Cirenit Jn erick, beforé whom the case wak be- ing tried. announced that he would be unable to preside before May 1 at the earliest. % There is a_possibility another judge will be assigned to the court. 28, —Indef- Scott di- vester- rank Em- Fand their | 3 | ton damp,” The photograph employes of the studio. Sright by Underwood & Underwood ‘et Shows 2,998 Women Appointed As_Postmasters Two thousand nine hundred and: ninety-eight women were’appoimt- ed postmasters at ~ presidential class post offices during the year just ended, itgwas announced today by Postmaster General New. Mr. New emphasized that recog- nition of merit in the ranks, re- tention— of - experienced employes and-consideration of womren and former service men had character- +ized the 16,824 appointments during the year ending March 4. Of the total, 13, were made from-the eligible registers certified by the Civil Service Commission. ‘Former ervice men -appointed numberdd ZESIN 5 Téxas' Téd 'in’ the “number of women “appointed, with 168;° Cali- fornia second, with 154; Pennsyi- vania third, with 183, and Neiv York _fourth, with 134 Virginja had 76 women appointments apd Marylahd 2¢. ! NEW COTTON SHIPPING' REGULATIONS ADOPTED Asked Change Practices in Acceptance European Importers to of American Product. ‘ By the Associated Pres NEW " ORLI March 28.—Reso- lutions regulating certain European practices In. handling -American cot- ton were adopted. yesterday at the first annual convention of American Cotton_Shippers’ Assoclation, attend- shippers and exporters: and ntdtives . of - European cotton nges Liverpool and Havre cotton deal- | ers were requested in a resolution to dispense with adopt tor system in s their present system instead the. pald arbitra- ttling trade disputes. Auother resolution’ advised Havre t the association desires that no cotton be weighed there until it is sembled. It was sald cotton was sighed in Havee bale by bale as it came from .the ship while some it it was “excéedingly bone ‘dry. The as- sociation adopted a resolution declar- ing that “It shall be unlawful for any member of the association to-sell cat- subject to; alaim’ for American shippers were said to' have :lost ) heavily because of European claims for: such dampness. AND TUESDAY. WO00D TO L !Former Officer to Reach Tampa | March 31 and Start Work. Fla., March 28.—Confirma- tion of the report that the West Chetao, bearing former Lieut. Osborne {Wood to the United States from Spain, { will land Wood at Tampa next Tues- | day’ has®been received by the Miami | Daily News in'a radio message from | the ship’s master. I The radio message said: | Tampa evening of March 31. | aboard.” Wood, who sailed from Spain, will emploved as a salesman by a | ‘ MIAMI, “Arrive Wood “be | Tam {the concern. which has announced that he has accepted the posttion by | wireless. internal ; al estate firm, according to | special train The King does not plan to retur: Copsright by T, & A. Pho Sind BALTO, DOG HERO, George Owen of the naval air sta- tion, who, flying above Washington, set the new altitude record of 10,400 feet for the S-C-1 scouting, bombing and torpedo planes | recently pur- chased by the Government. One hour and five minntes was required to reach the record altitude. Copyright by I. & A. Photos TO BE HONORED. Frederick G. R. Roth, sculp- tor, completing model of the leader of the dog team which covered the last lap in the sensational trip to Nome, Alaska. The monument, with the figure of the dog 3 feet in height, will be placed in Central Park, New York WARNIG ISUED ON LAND SCAENES Department of Agriculture Cautions Farmers Against Too Easy Terms. Lahd companies operating in : the Great. Lake States have employed sales methods “which approach very close to the border line of fraud,” de- clared a statement today by the De- par(ment of Agriculture based gn fts investigation of land settlement and colonization in the Lake States. In making public the conclusions reach- ed by the investigation, the depart- ment did not identify the sections in which it was conducted further than that they were in the Great Lake States. 1 /Establishment of definite- State and national policles. regarding lands and settlement activities of privdte agen- cles was urged in the report. Whilé number of companies are pursufng “honest and carefully planned s tems” of land development, the de- partmsat safd, much wild land- had been sold to. farmers by, the agencies whose “coricern was sale and not set- tlement."” “From the standpoint of ublic in- terest,” the statement said, *it would appear ‘that concerns of the type which sell all classes of land, irrespective of their economic value, are not oper- ating entirely in ‘the general welfare and methods should be employed to prevent the sale.of land not physically or economically suitable for settle- ment.” The department’s investigators re- ported that excessive competition “hids: forced -colonization - companies to ‘engage in heavy expense for ad- vertising-and selling, to provide easy terms of land credit, and to follow the policy of providing supplemental credit . for development. These methods of making settlement so easy tend to attract, among others, a class of settlers who are not of the highest type, either in experience or financial capacity.” The statement advised ‘against “terms that are too easy from the standpoint of. injtial contribution by the settler himself.” MAN DIES IN STREET. Aloysius P, Seidenspinner, 58, an employe of ‘the W. G. Cornwell Plumbing Co, since last. July, died suddenly at Fourteenth and G streets shortly before-8 o'clock this morning. He was found' lying on the street by passersby, who netified the - police, Dr. Batts of Emergency. Hospital responded to an ambulanze call and pronounced the man dead, apparent- ly from natural causes. The body was taken to the morgue, ‘where Coroner J.-Rams&y Nevitt: will'view it today. Seldenspinner is widow, two sons and a daughter. lived at Jewell Station, Va. Detailed to College Duty. Lieut. Col. Archibald United § Tex., has been detailed to duty. at.the Army War College, Washington Bar- racks, survived | by a He Commiskey, ex Cavalry, at_Fort Bliss, | Copyright by Kadel & Herbert. Warning by Radio | Urged for Safety | . As Tornadoes Near TUse of radio and-telephone com- munfcation by communities in the Mjssissippi valley and other re- glons particularly subject to tor- naddes, to spread warning of their movement, was advocated here vesterday by W. J. Humphrey, Weather Burcau méteorologist. Pointing out that since it is now impossible ‘to forecast torna- does, as they start.at’ cloud level and in limited localities, Mr. . Humphrey sald through a radlo system of warning persons in threatened sections could take to * their cyclone cellars or. get out of the 'path - of a -térnado, which usually travels in a more or less straight line within a circum- scribed area. WORLD WAR BLAMED 'ON OVER-PGPULATION Berlin Author. Says ‘This ‘Caused Germany 'to Launch - Great Conflict. By the Associatéd Press.. ¢ NEW YORK, March 28— populated Germany ‘was ‘the primary cause "of the” World War, Dr."Ferdi- nand Goldstein, of Berlip, author and student of history, declared last night before the _Sixth International Neo- Malthuslan ‘and: Birth: Control Confer- ence. . Over-population and need of expan- sion in Japan and Ttaly, he contended, might - lead - in - the..same - mahner to future wars, with the result ‘that only , proletarians ' would 'escape the general slaughter, and a world-wide socialism or bolshevism would be es- tablfshed. | “In 1914,” Dr. Goldstein said, “Ger- many: was over-populated; and as the population of France was much small- er, she-thought easily to trample her| down:and:to liberate her own people from their stagnation. So the over- population of Germany brought about the great war.” Dr. Goldstein said Italy and Japan were at present faced-with the same dlternative, ‘He quoted Premier Mus- solini “of Italy as saying: ‘We have the-choice: To adopt’ voluntary ster- ility—Italians are too intelligent for that—or 'to: make war ana seek out- lets for our over-population’ Harold :Cox, - editor of the ¥dinburgh Review, proposed restriction: of pop- ulation, or “man-power disarmaroent, as a means of securing the peace of the.world.. He termed the League of Nations a failure and urged the’ for- mation ot a ‘league of low-birth-rate nations.” Officers’ Ordered to Tokio. Maj. William T. Pigott, jr., 17th In- fantry,' ‘at Fort .Omaha, Nebr., and Capt. Richard .'W. Cooksey, Cavalry, at Fort' Leavenworth, ‘Kans., have been _ordered to Tokio' to study,the Japanése language, and Capt. Charles | G Hutch$fison, 6th Cavalry, at Fort Oglethorpe,-Ga.}” Capt. ‘Joln “W.' Car- toll, Brd Cavalry, at Fort- Bthan Al- fen, Vt, and: Second Lieut. Helmer W. Lystad, A5tk Infantry, have been or- dered. to Pekihg to study the Chinese language._ . A S TRIAL OF THE “TIGER GIRL” OPENS, In center, Dorothy Ellingson, 16 years old, alleged slayer of her mother, on trial in San Francisco. The case, which is attracting many spectators, is being heard before Superior Judge Harold Louder. Mlle. Georgette Freigneux, elected “queen of queens,” in the mid-Lent- en fete of mi-Careme, Paris, for the year 1925. She was selected from 20 girls representing that number of arrondissements in the French ‘capic 1 Wide World. Photo. Held in Slavery, Woman’s Defense For Slaying Aunt By the Associated Pres CLYDE, Tex., March 28.—Declar- ing that her aunt, Mrs. Salome Hirt, 68 years old, had forged her to be- come a virtual slave in her house- hold, Miss Lillle Belle Hirt, vears old, is held in jail at Baird on a charge of fatally shooting the aunt to death here yesterday. Attorneys for the girl waived examining trial, which had been set for today, because she con- fessed, and she will be held for action of the grand jury, they sald. The girl at first declared that her aunt had control of her “for- tune,” and, denying her any part of it, forced her to become a slave in her home. STORM FATALITIES LESS THAN EXPECTED Buenos Aires Reports on Damage and Tosses Incurred:in Tornado- : Swept Province. By the Associated Press. E el BUENOS AIRES, 'March 28, —Ad- vices from thezopes of the, province of Santa Fe which were swept by a tornado Thursday ' night -indicate that, althgugh ' the 'property losses will be large, :the.number. of. fatali- ties will not be %o great as had been indicated by earlier dispatches. A ‘relief train sent from Rosario arrived. .at Classon, 'one ' of the stricken ¢ities, this morning: 'The re- liet workers were informed that only two persons were’ seriously. wounded in" that town. The rallway station was destroved: and the tracks were buried under a mass of debris. Many houses were unroofed. The rellef train, after the tracks had been cleared, started for San Ji- naro, which, it is feared, suffered most. PROFESSOR IS NAMED. Greenlaw of North Carolina Goes to Johns Hopkins. BALTIMORE, Md,, March 28 —FEd- win Greenlaw, professor of English in the University of North Carolina, has been appointed professor.of Eng- lish at the-Johns Hopkins University. This is the ‘third appointment at Hopkins_announced in the last 24 hours. The other two were Dr. Dean Dewltt Lewis, as professor of surgery, and Dr. Edward Raymond Turner, as professor of English. history. Dr. Greenlaw Is recognized by scholars as’ an outstanding student of linguistics and lizerature. For the lust 10 years he has been .editor of studies in philology. Dr. Greenlaw was born in Flora, 1L, in 1874, and obtained his A. B, degree.at. Northwestern University in 1897. He recelved his A. M. and Ph. D. at Harvard. = After holding posts at Northwestern University and Adelphl Collegeé.-he -was appointed to thepro- fessorship of English ‘at -the Uni- versity of North Carolina in 1913. Twenty-one doliars a week -is.the average pay received by woman stenographers in London, By United News Pictuzes. Bkt it TWO FIREMEN INJURED WHEN E! accident. CHARGES COMBINE OF SHIPPING MEN Ex-Senator Chamberlain:De- clares Dollar Interests Want Mcnopoly in Pagific. Charges that “R. Stanley' 'Dollar and associates” and Herbert Fleisch- hacker, a banker of San-Francisco, were seeking a monopoly of ;Ameri- can shipping. in the Pacific Ocean, and that the Dollar bid for the five Government passenger steamers now operated by the Pacific Mail from ¥an Francisco to the Orient is a part thereof, were made by former Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, who appeared yesterday before the Ship- ping Board In the interest of the bid submitted by the Pacific Mail for these ships. Ex-Senator Chamberlain _also » re- plied to the opinfon of counsel «for the Shipping Board, which question- ed the legality of the Pacific Mail's bid. That bid provides for ‘the ac- ceptance by the Government of pre- ferred stock as well as cash in a new Government-controlled. cérpora- tion in exchange, for.its ships. "+ Chamberlain declared that he had been” “a mémber of the commerce committee ‘which drew the Jones act and l?at it was the purpose of Con- gress’to” give the, board. power ‘to bring about establishment of pernia- nent lines’ for the benefit of com- merce and national defense, He con- tended that the board not enly Had Dower .to, consider the. Pacific Mail bid which that company stood ready 1o negotlate into a form meeting.the Eoard’s requirements, but.'that the board could not meet public.criticism if on the plea of a close construction of the law it refected a -bfd which was $1,125,000 higher than the' Dol- lar bid, provided for operation’for. a much longer period and included a plan whereby all ‘earnings’would be devoted ‘to the purpose of bullding new ships and paying off ‘the stock or bond interest of the Government {in_the company. The ' Pacific’ Mail' submitted ‘an adaptation of its bid to meet certain objections which had been raised. Refers to Fermer Plan. Senator Chamberlain sald he spoke from personal knowledge when . he charged that there was on fqot a plan to bring about a - monopoly of all American shipping in the Pacific. 'He said that several years ago.a:dinner was given {n Washington by Herhert | Fleishhacker, which he and ' other members of ‘the board attended and at which was discussed the formation of a $30,000,000 corporation. to “take over all the Government's. tonnage in the Pacific. " y CHairman O’Connor and Complission er Thompson interrupted to state. that they had not attended that’ dinmer. Senator Chamberlain_ said that the plan did not look good. to fhe board then and that he belleved it:Would hot 100k good to the board now, and that it had when first proposed-been. de- nounced from Puget Sound to. south: ern California except by those par- ticularly interested in if.”.- < =% 3 Hold 26 Ships. “In this dollar bid now befére:the board,” saidSenator Chamberlain, is inyolved the rejuvenation of the same proposition.” I dan \prove ‘it. by the records of your own department. They have five-ships operating out of | | IRISH MISSES AMONG JAPANESE McCarthy went to see the Japanese Basin yesterday, snapping this particular picture. Glow-of Mountain Fire,Like Enormous Snake, Seen Miles Special Dispateh to The Star. CUMBERLAND, March 28 —Thera was a long trail of fire Thurs- day night on the edge of the hollow opposite the ecast base of . Martins Mountain, the reflection of which against the sky seen miles away. The snake-like trail was several miles long and was a spectacle for persons crossing the east side of the mountain. The rains of tinguished the fire. could be esterday ex- D. C. HOTEL REPORTED CHECK FRAUD VICTIM Prisoner in Boston Said to Have Netted $2,500 Operating in Seven States. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 28.—Charged with passing worthless checks aggregat- ing $2,500 in hotels in .seven states, S. A, Schwartz, alias William J. Moel- ler, allas Herman A. Schoelhamer, was'arrested in a hotel here vester- day. Police said they found on him 250 drafts of the Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh, drawn on the United States. Chain and Forging Company, and a gold badge showing the possessor to be a salesman of the | company.. The police stated that the company had complained that spuri- ous drafts on it were being circu- lated. Hote! which complained of Schwartz's alleged operations includ- ed one each in Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Nashville, Tenn., and Macon and At- lanta, Ga., and South Bend, Ind. Police here have no report of com- plaints against Schwartz in Wash- ington. Brazil Closes Military Sechool. BUENOS - AIRES, March 28.—La Naclon’s Rio Janeiro correspondent says the Brazillan government has ordered the closing of the military school at Barbacena, one . of three schools of this nature previously,al- lowed to function in addition to the official military college at Rio. Puget Sound at the Government's ex- pense. If they get the Pacific Mail ships they will have five similar passenger ‘ships from San Francisco to the Orlent.. They,are also operat- ing five cargo steamers for the Gov- ernment from Puget,Sound to the Orlent. They have seven passenger steamers purchased from the Shipping Board and operated in “a round-the- world service,” paralleling and com- peting with the Pacific Mail from San Francisco to the Orient. The Rolph Interests have contracted to buy from the Shipping Board the ves- sels Operated for the board's account from San Francisco to the east coast ot South ‘America and from San Francisco to Australla. This makes 26 ships in-this combination already. The combination would wipe off the seas practically everybody else in the business and réjuvenate the $30,000,- 060 scheme referred to. Is it. right to do .this from the standpoint of commierce, gr_national defense?” BLOSSOMS. cherry blossoms around the Tidal Dorothy and Margaret and the cameraman considers it a good day’s work in Copsright by Underwood & Unde GINE OVERTURNS. Pvts. Charles Rowe and William S. Stockton of No. 23 Engine Company were injured last night when their engine turned over at - and Virginia avenue while making a run to Georgetown in answer to a false alarm. street Wet streets caused the SEES NAVIES BIND POWERS OF PACIFIC | Australian Premier Holds This Is Best Guarantee of World Harmony. By the Asso ADELAIDE, Premier Bruce of Australia believes that “in the peace of the Pacific there lies the best guarantee of the future of the world” and that by friendship between Aust and the Unitad States much can be done for peace of the Pacific Mr. Bruce made this view known in the course of his speech at Koorin in the Burra mining section, in wh he referred to the forthcoming visit | of an American fleet to Australia “The United States on their side of the, Pacific and we on our side” the pre 3d, “are standing for the same ideals and the same traditions, and we are facing very similar prob- lems, although in vastly differ circumstances. Limit on Arms. “Both in America and here there the one desire for the m of the world’s peace, and t aim to limit the burden of ments, whether on land or sea or in the air, to the mosi restricted di- / mensions commensurate with nationa safety. Co-operation great navies of the United States and Great Britain is to be sought In that ocean, which more closely affects us, and there are indl- cations that the paramount impoi tance of the Pacific is becoming mor widely fecognized in other parts of the empire. That recognition th. visit of the American fleet will hasten to deepen “1 would like to express the hope Mr. Bruce continied, “that the visit of the American fleet will strengthen the ties of friendship with Austr: that already exist.” JANITOR KILLEEVIN_BLAST. Body Found in Ruins of Wrecked School- Near Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH, March 28—Jacob Jacobs, 66 years old, a janitor, wa killed by the explosion early yester day which wrecked a two-sto! brick school building and a one-sto! frame annex at Swissvale, a suburb. His body was recovered late yesterda after rescuers had spent 10 hours clearing away the debris. The dam ags was estimated at $150,000. The origin .of the blast. remained undetermined, various officers and ex perts_advancing conflicting, theorie Fire Marshal Thomas Pfarr/ held that the building ‘had been’ bombed, and offered - $1,000 reward for informa- tion leading to the arrest of those responsible. Two experts of the Tnited States Bureau of Mines, the Swissvale police and fire chiefs and C. Kelso, superintendent of the Swissvale schools, declared the ex- plosion was accidental. Their theory Wwas that gas leaking from pipes operating a hot-water heater in the basement caused the blast. | % ed Press March 28— Australia, is Woman bankers in the United . Btates. now. number nearly 4,500,