Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1925, Page 17

THE EVENING D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, -1925. ON THE DEBUTANTE POLO TEAM. - Miss Louise Ireland (left) and Miss Helen Marye, daughter of the former United States Ambassador to Russia, members of the Washington debutantes’ polo team, which will meet a team composed of the wives of officers stationed at Fort Myer. Nationai Photo. DARING PHOTOGRAPHER SNAPS A CYCLONE. This picture shows the cyclone which swept down upon the suburbs of Miami, Fla.. April 5, killing four persons and causing millions of dellars’ worth of damage. The “twister” was close at hand when the cameraman took the photograph. By United News Pictures EASTER VACATIONISTS DESIRE TO SHAKE THE PRESIDENT'S HAND. From now until a week following Easter, thousands of visitors in Washington will visit the White House. This photograph was taken yesterday at the Executive Offices. The visitors come from all over the United States, many of them being school children on their Easter vacation trips. National Photo. ix years old, and equipped with a real “Calvin Coolidge smile,” calling on the President yesterday afternoon. George has sandy hair and a few freckles, National Photo APPLAUSE FROM THE RADIO FANS i Startion. who Brgail: casts from the Omaha, Nebr.. station received 18.202 telegrams from Tisten- ersin on the second anniversary of the station, April 2. In addition, she received 209876 postal cards, long-distance telephone calls and letters. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood WANTS CONFEDERATE RECORDS PRESERVED. A. 0. Wright of Riehmond, Va.. who was an admiral in the Confederate navy. calling on Secretary of the Navy Wilbur yesterday to urge that records of the Con- federate sailors be preserved in the Navy Department file:. C bt be Harris & Ewing AW STUDENTS RIOT IN PARIS; MANY INJURED. Royalist law students rioted to show their feelings against the choice of M. Georges Scalle as lecturer on international law. The latter is a Freemason and a Re- publican. Freeforall fighting took place hetween the students and the police. Seventy-five police and about the same number of students were injured. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. - BALFOUR GUARDED % e FR[]MMAHABK And the Other 104 By the Assgciated Press. . J | .('OI.['MBI,\, Tenn., Ahrvll 9. — Special Precautions Taken| oia:"i"tead st ner nome st Bive 3 Springs. She Is said to have been After Stoning of Damascus | = siave of Gen. Polk until the close Hotel Yesterday. i i Uit (NE R EASEHIP 150 Feel‘Fl‘f)—m Cliff ‘ I-EFI' @EPHERU Ry the Associated Préss WEEHAWKEN, N. T, April $.— David Konikoff, a painter and dec- orator, stuck to the driving wheel of his’automobile yesterday when it plunged 150 feet from the top of the Palisades and landed on its wheels on the New York Central Decision of lllinois Supreme Court on Habeas Corpus !‘:illrl?::‘]:lrl;t:dks below Konikoft DUE in Few Days. Amos Saddler, negro driving in- L structor, of Manhattan, who ac- Ry tha Associated Prese Daxis, newns; 104 yeme: old. dled companied Konikoff, Jumped as | Br the Associated Pross at her home here vesterday. Dur- 4 r ) 3 the car crashed through the iror CHICAG il o liam P DAMASCT {nk <the) ddzs lof ‘elnvery whe war o : % , 0 3 . 4 P » e e it ke enERIthe iton HICAGO, * April William ¥ The night passed off quietly after the | owned by Wesley Carr of Chapel e tonid et T O ahe precipice. | Shepherd’s last. chance for relsase of the Civil War. According to authentic nformation obtained here, she was born about 1512 DURHABM. N. C., April 8 —Susan Palastine, April 9 from jail pending his trial on charges stoning of tha Victoria Hotel, where | Hill, father of the late Gen. Julian g g e i 4 %L “E fall. Police. using fire ladders tha Earl of Balfour is staving. Po-| Mce remained on guard after the mob had been dispersed. It is understood that a big demonstration has been arranged for today. All the bazaars closed Lord Balfour remained at the hotel this morning. He will he entertained tonight by Gen. Sarrail, the French | high commissioner, and will continne his tour of the Holy Land tomorrow, when he leaves for Baalbek, Syria. lord Balfour had been carefully | guarded throughout the seven-hour journey from Haifa to Damascus His guards were Syrian gendarmes, who replaced Palestinian gendarmes at the frontier. Sentries were on duty at all the stations along the route, MODIFIED MILITARY RULE IN SPAIN DECLARED NEAR Primo de Rivera's Absence in Mo- rocco Delays Completion of Plan. ated Press. D, April 9.—Modification of lias been postponed until after ter holiday, as Gen. Primo de ra, president of the military di- | dte, is busy in Morocco putting finishing touches to the plan ich he believes will bring an end Moorish revolt Nothing definite has been given as to just when the much dis; ormation of the military di- rectorate into a civilian government under the premiership of Gen. de Ri- v will take place. Wil informed quarters closi to the directorate af- firm that the directorate will remair in power only as long as is absolutely necessary PROFESSOR’S FOVEVHELD. Against Instructor. BATON ROUGE, La., April 9—B. F. O'Bannon, sophomore at the Louisiana State University, was arrested and charged ¢y with circulating libelous defamatory matter” against Prof. E. L. Scotf, registrar of the university. He was released on 51,500 bond. The arrest followed the appnaran"“l gon_the campus grounds and the streats of the city of the “Whang Doodle” an anonymous pink sheet printad in green ink. carrying a story derogatory tih the reputdtion of the professor. Available copies were scized by order of the mayor, §. Carr. She is said t the first shirt worn by FOR MONTH’S TOUR Head of Clubwomen's Federation to Swing Over Eastern Half of United States. Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, pres dent of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, started today on a swing around the Eastern half of the nited States that will take her from New York and Boston to Chicago and Mobile and back to Baltimore on May 1 Mrs. Sherman goes to New York, where tomorrow she calls together tha educational committee of the | National Outdoor Recreation Confer- | ence. This committee, which will make plans for the conference in Washington May 28-30, consists of Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Prof. W. R. Van | Clea Poledo: A » Newte % military rule now governing | Cleave, Toledo: Arthur Newton Pack, Nature Magazine, Washington; Dr H. C. Bumpus, Brown University; Dr. Clarke Wissler, American Museum of Natural History; Lawrence 1 Cole- man, New York Porf. W. T. Vinal, Providence, T. Gil- bert Pearson, V. E. Kilpatrick, New York; Dr. F. B. Coville, Washington, and Mrs. Sherman. The committee meets at the Belmont Hotel. From New York Mrs. Sherman goes to Boston, where on April 13 she will meet the State presidents of the federated clubs. The next stop will be Chicago, where Mrs. Sherman goes on the radio for the Women's World Fair. | State meetings of federated clubs! will take up the rest of the itinerary during which Mrs. Sherman will pay | particular attention to national Gar- den week and American Farest week, during which thousands of the club : | wo ill join the American Tree Student Accused of Printing Libel | Association b Assoclation by planting treesc The association has sent thousands of pieces of printed matter on tree planting and reforestation to club women, with Mrs. Sherman’s co-op- eration. The opening of the cam- paign will be. April 17, when the Ohio club women will: broadcast a program from Ohlo State University at Columbus. Chemical Officer Coming Here. Second Lieut. James M. McMillan, | Chemical. Warfare Service, at Fort Rliss, Tex., has bBeen transferred to | thix city far #uty in the offtee of the | INSPECTING THE NEW LIBRARY. s mmissioners Rudolph and Bell and Municipal Architect Harris inspecting the new Mount Pleasant Libra- ry, at teenth and Lamont streets northwest, vesterday afternoon. The new library will serve the entire Mount Pleasant distriet. EX-KLANSMEN TESTIFY IN TRIAL FOR FLOGGING Claim Plans for Whipping Hotel | Clerk Were Discussed at | Meeting. By the Associated Press JASP! Ala, April 9.—A sensa- tion was sprung in the trial here vesterday of George Du Pree, first of five defendants charged with flogging George Tallant, when the State intro- | duced as witnesses Van G. Tubbs and M. G. Fields, both of whom admitted former membership. in the Ku Klux elds swore that plans to whip the voung hotel clerk had been discussed at several meetings of the Klan. Tubbs said he was present at the meeting on the night of the Tallant | flogging, and that Du Pree and other members left the hall early. AL Tallant himself took the stand and | pointed out Du Pree as the leader of the masked band that flogged him. He testified that he snatched the mask off Du Pree's face. Tallant said he was told that the whipping was due to his criticism of the Klan and calling some of the members a ‘bunch of outlaws.” Dr. E. H. Tubbs, defense witness, said he called to visit-a sick member of the Du Pree. family and found Du: Preg there at about the time the flogging is said to have taken place. Msj. Clark Ordered Here. Maj. Thomas A. Clark, Ordnance Department, at Fort Leavenworth, | Kans, hax been ordered to this Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, | for duty in the affice of o War Department, Ordnance, War Depart Washington Star Photo. Camp Simms Swimming Pool Closed To . Children Because of Dangers| Some of the Summer joys will be | for taken out of the lives of the young- | sters of the Congress Heights section | the by denying them the use of the swim- | sociation detail some one to watch over the pool while the children were swimming. These efforts failing, the matter was taken trict Commissioners, having one of the playgrounds em- s stationed ming pool at Camp Simms, at Con- gress Heights, D. ., the rifie range of the National Guard of the District of Columbia. The large concrete swim- ming - pool built there for the use of the local troops is to be fenced in and opened only when the troops are there for rifie practice. The action of the guard officials in denying the youngsters the use of the pool is taken for the protection of the young swimmers themselves. There were several near fatalities last vear in the pool. The National Guard officers would welcome the children to this pool provided some protection was given them daring the swimming period. In an effort to keep the pool open CLASH WITH DACOITS. Indian Officials Battle Gang of Native Robbers. LONDON, April 9.—An Exchange Telegraph _dispatch from RBangoon, Burma, réports that Police Supt. A. 3 Jones and a small armed party clashed today with a number of dacoits .(murderous Indian robbers, who act in gangs). who had invaded a rubber plantation near the Siamese fromtier. One dacoit was killed, three were wounded and several were captured. A “quantity “of 0ot and.ammunition. aken in receni~ dacoit raids, was|The Star. coyered near '..k scene. four legs—oné on each corner. up with the Dis- with a view of the city and was used by Summer months. to go to the river. the position that Now they will have The guard took if the citizens of department terested enough to furnish some one. the lives of the children, | they were not a pool for them. U. S. MISSIONARY DIES. Rev. W. F. Thomas, 69, Expires in | India Baptist Station. LONDON, April 9.—An Exchange Telegraph _dispatch from Rangoon says that the Amerigan Baptist Mis- sion at Burma ann the Kalaw Hill station of Dr. Wil- liam Frye Thomas, at the age of 69. efforts for 30 years were devoted tothe Karéens, a class of Burmese living in small villages n ths mountainous districts, nces the death Dr. Thomas' It pays 4o read the want columns efd Hundreds of situations are vbtained through them, ‘WHEN MOTHER NATURE WAS GENEROUS. She gave this chicken, born at the On the Hill poultry farm of J: D. Ferguson, Rockville road, The chick, now several days old, is get- ting along splendidly, but it has considerable trouble keeping step with the other barnyard pets. Washington Star Photo. |KEEP UP WITH EVENTS, TEACHERS ARE URGED Dr. Lewis Says Power of Con- centration Not Lost Despite Many Distractions. The necessity of keeping abreast of the times through current reading was stressed by Dr. William Mather Lewis, president of George Washing- ton University, at ‘a meeting of the teachers of the public schools of the first nine divisions yvesterday after- poon in the auditorium of Central High Scheol. The jazz age, whatever its faults, Df. Lewis told the teachers, has not { handicapped the youth of America in their mental concentration. .In spite of all of the trying circumstances of the modern age, such as radio sets, graphophones, player-pianos and sim- ilar banes to public quietude and studying conditions, he said,- the aver- age student shows an increased power of concentration. Under the condi- tions of five years ago, he predicted | that the present-day student would show great superiority over past gen- erations. - . 3 OtdeerT San Francisco. Lieut. Col. Francis J. Behr, Coast Artillery Corps, at Fort Monroe, Va., has been detailed {n the Inspector General's Department and ordered to San Francisco for duty. V. S. Envoy to Finland Sails. #, England. April Kageyr the Ameridan-Min- Ister to Rminland, left for New York today gn¥ the steamer Frapce, were searching the cliff for his body SOUTH AFRICA ENDS BRITISH PREFERENCE Step Taken to Develop Other Mar- | kets, Premier Declares in | Budget Speech. By the Associated Press. CAPE TOWN, TUnion of South Af-| rica, April 9.—Minister of Finance | Havenga vesterday in introducing his budget in the House of Assembly an- | nounced an adjustment of the Brit-| Ish preferential tariff on a quid pro| auo basis. The revised rebate shown by the budget amounts to £300.000, as | compared with £860,000 | For the first time in history the budget was in the Dutch language. It was of special intere: hecause of | its bearing on the question of pref- erential trade relations with Eng-| land. Tt confirmed reports that tha gov- ernnient of Premier Hertzog was not | dizposed 1o reciprocate the prefer- ‘ential ideas of the British Conserva- tive_government Minister Havenga announced the government's intention to propose a revised - tariff; intended, first, ade- quately ‘to protect union industries; | second, to admit duty free, or at |Y\P‘ lowest possible rates, raw materials, and, third. to adjust preferentlal tar- | iff rates given unconditionally in fa- | vor of goods grow produced or manufactured in the United Kingdom and reciprocally to dominions, colo- nies and British possessions. The government, said the minister, | intended to place them, as far as pos- ible, on-a reciprocal basis and to withdraw rebates entirely from arti- cles.on which Great Britain predomi- | nately held, the market, or when a| proprietary name or trade-mark was | the determining factor in the sale of | an article. Minjster Havenga emphasized that whild the rebate was withdrawn in some cases, it was retained in others, and even was increased in certain cases from 3 to 10 per cent. His course, he declared, was very necessary if ‘the goyernment was to procure addityonal markets for the countries rapidly expanding produc- tion, < Ord-er;d to Ohio Post. Col. Lincoln F. Kilbourne, United States Infantry, at Fort Sam Ho ton, Tex.. has been- ordered 1o Co- lumbus, Ohio, for duty In the In-| pector General'’s Departmenty | the annual of killing with typhoid germs his fos- ter son, William Nelson MecClintock orphan millionaire, lies with the I1- linois Supreme Court Decision by the court-on a motion for a writ of habeas corpus, filed b his counsel for presentation: today, is expected within a few days Chicago authorities anwhile aited a report from the coroner's t, who has been making polson tests on the body of Dr. Osear Olson formerly McClintock's physician, who |died two years ago, shortly after Shepherd visited him DICKSON WILL ADDRESS SCOTTISH RITE MEETING Chesapeake Consistory Will Hold Memorial Service in Balti- more Tonight. Rev. Thomas J. Dickson, lieutc nant colonel of the Chaplains’ Corps United States. Army. retired, will address the memorial services at the Chesapeake Cangistory of Scottish Rite Masons at nvocation tonight at Baltimore. Md., in cclebration of the Maunday Thursday festival The services -will he held at § o'clock in the Lyric Theater. It will be attended by superior members of the Scottish Rite hody of Maryland Rev. Dickson will speak ¢ he River of Life" William Booth Price, thirty-third degree member of the Superior Coun | cil of the Southern Jurisdiction of: the Scottish Rite Masons and inspector general for Maryland, will be master | of ceremonies PHONE RECORD IS MADE. Cuba’s Ottawa Consul Talks With Havana Officials. OTTAWA. April 9.—“Hello! Heéllo! |Give me Havana, Cuba,™ Senor A Barranco, Mexican consul genaral here, called to his switchboard oper- | ator yesterday, and within 15 minutes he was talking to Havana, which es- tablished a new Canadlan long.di tance récord for commercial sergio both for distance and speed of con- nection. The call went from here to Mon- treal, through New York, Richmond, Va.; Jacksonville and Key West, F and under about 90 miles of seh {Havana. This line has been used only once before, when it was' of- ficially installed in 1921 and Cans {dian government officials exchangd greetings with President Menocal of Cuba, with special preparations made for the service,