Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1925, Page 17

PREFERRED A BONE TO THE Angeles a few days ago, he was tendered the key to the city. for a bone. Balto is entering the movies, and will be a co-star with Bert Lytell in his first picture. Mrs. Norman Sheppard, once a ste- nographer to President Harding at the White House, who called upon President Coolidge with her baby yesterday. Mrs..Sheppard was Miss C. Mattern. National Photo. DEMOGRATS' FEAST HEREISCANCELED Failure of Bryan, Roosevelt and Others to Come Cause of Decision. The Jefferson day dinner which was to have been given here next Monday by the National League of Progres- sive Democracy has been called off, Edward E. Britton, chairman of the executive committee of the league, eaid today. Mr. Britton explained that the plans for the dinner had been given up as it was impossible to get the speakers whom the league invited, because of other engagements. Among those who were invited, but who were un- able to accept the invitation, were Col. Willlam Jennings Bryan, Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, former Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and Mayor Hylan of New York Denies “Harmony” Move. It was denied by Mr. Britton that the dinner was planned as a get-to- gether, or harmony affair, seeking to -heal tne sores in the party caused at the last national convention. He said that. the dinner had been planned by Jocal Democrats merely to stir up fo- terest in the party. that the league is not organized in the interest of any particular candi- date for President. Col. Bryan, he explained, has en- gagements to speak in Florida which will keep him there for some time, and Mr. Roosevelt IS in Warm Springs, Ga., on account of his health. The National League of Progressive Economy, Mr. Britton said, now has organizations in 14 States Meeting Called Premature. In the failure of the dinner plans to materialize, however, political ob- servers here belleve there is evi- dence that the Demoocratic leaders think the time has not arrived for a public gathering of party chieftains in an effort to bring about harmony. Mr. Rooseveit had suggested a con- ference of Democratic leaders from all States as a proper step, and in this he was joined by Senator Walsh of Montana, chalrman of the last Democratic national convention. Other Democratic leaders voiced their approval of such a move, though they were vague as to the time for a conference. Since the pro- posal was advanced weeks ago, how- ever, no definite steps have been taken toward carrying it out, and in some quarters the bellef has grown strong that it is still too early to attempt a harmony meeting. First Chicago Wedding in 1804. The marriage of Sarah Whistler, daughter of Commandant and Mrs. John Whistler of Fort Dearborn, to James Abbott of Detroit was the first nuptial ceremony in Chicago’s record- ed history. It was performed at Fort Dearborn in 1804, on November 1 ‘This marriage preceded by 19 years that of Dr. Alexander Wolcott and Miss Ellen Marion Kinzie, July 20, 1823, commonly supposed to have been the first marriage ceremony ‘in Chicago or the community that eventually became the metropolis of the Middle West. He sald further | proper | KEY TO THE CITY. AT THE SALVATION-ARMY’S SUMMER CAMP, PATU! keeping this camp going throughout the coming Summer. When Balto, the hero dog of Nome, arrived in Los He turned it down and showed his preference Wide World Photo. tormer National League star who is now a candidate for sheriff of Alle- gheny County, Pa. Almost every ball fan in America knows Hans Wagner and the game he played for the Pittsburgh club years ago. Wide World Photo ENT, MP. The army’s drive for funds will aid in Hundreds of ;Washington children are cared for during the hot months—and yet this is only one feature of the Salvation Army's work in the District of Co- lumbia. Leopold and Loeb Meet Face to Face On Prison Holiday By the Associated Press CHICAGO, April 10—Richard “Dicki Loeb and Nathan “Babe"” Leopold, millionaires’ sons who a year ago were planning the world's perfect crime—the slaying of young Robert Franks, after they kidnaped him for ransom—yesterday met and conversed for the first time since they entered Joliet penitentiary months ago to explate their crime in life sentences. They were united by the Feast of the Passover, and with 56 other Jew- ish prisoners were released for the day from prison restraint, Loeb from his work in the chair factory and Leopold from weaving rattan furni- ture The two youths were rather un- nerved by the meeting, according to guards who observed them. “Hello, Babe,” sald Loeb, always the leader, and “Hello, Dick," responded Leo- pold. Then they stood for a time with- out speaking while other prisoners of their faith looked on curlously, and finally repaired to where they talked in low some time_ After religious services the Jew- ish prisoners were left to themselves. Today they went back to work, but on next Thursday, the last day of the Passover, they will again be allowed to mingle. That will probably be the last meeting of Loeb and Leopold until the Fourth of July, when all | the prisoners are allowed. to mingle |and converse throughout the day. | [ MAJ. SE)LBERT PLANS TRIP White House Aide to Visit Euro- pean Countries. Maj. Oscar N. Solbert, United States Army Engineer Corps, attached to the office of Public Bulldings and Public Parks of the National Capital and also White House aide, has been granted a leave of absence of 3 months and 16 days, during which he will take a trip to Europe. Maj. Solbert’s duties at the White House will deyolve on Col. Sherwood Cheney, the new White House alde. When Maj. Solbert returns he will be assigned again to the duty he was performing there and also in the office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, according to Lieut. Col. Clar- ence O. Sherrill, director of .the lat- ter office. HIGHER FARES HARDLY Special Dispatch to The Star. Railways, which controls the trolley systems of Baltimore, is making little more under the 7l-cent fare than Service Commission. United has made $673,000 net profit. For the nine months before with the 7-cent fare in effect, United made $624,000. LARGER GRAIN ACREAGE. TOPEKA, April 10 There will be a large corn and oats acreage in Kansas this year, according to railroad statisti- clans.. A wheat yield of at least 100,000,000 bushels is anticipated. a corner | tones for | ‘CHANGE ROAD’S NET| BALTIMORE, April 10.—The United | LABOR WILL SHUN POLTIGS N FUTURE | Venture in 1924 to Be Last | if Federation Adheres to | Green’s Policy. seven | BY -FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. American labor, under the leader- ship of William Green, the new presi- dent of the federation, seems destined to pursue an even more consistently conservative course than under Bamuel Gompers. In conversation with this writer, the Ohio miner who now directs the Federation of Labors destinies conveyed the distinct im- pression that organized labor's “fiver” in high politics in 1924 was its first and last adventure of that kind. Mr. Green was one of the federation executive minority that opposed the league with the La Follette party in the late presidential compalgn. As far as Gompers' successor can con- trol its policy, the federation hence- forward will adhere to its traditional role. 1t will shun politics and con- centrate on improving the economic and legal status- of the American working class. The American Federation of Labor ‘was not represented at the February obsequles of the Progressive party In Chicago, when the four railway brotherhoods, which marched to Elba. with La Follette, formally deserted him. But no formal separation from the La Follette organization, or what is left of it, was necessary, as the federation’s conection with the third party was never more than a tem- porarily entangling alliance. Sees Stand Vindicated. Mr. Green, a stocky, square-shoul- dered, two-fisted Middle Westerner, just turned 63, sees in.the economic and political difficulties of European labor “a complete vindication” of the attitude © American organized labor hitherto, except in 1924, has steadily maintained. In Europe, as President Green views conditions there, labor has signally failed to retain the standards achieved during the war. It has slumped back to old-time con- ditions. In America, broadly speak- ing, labor leaders feel that they have succeeded in maintaining the “im- proved standards” that came with the war. Wages for the most part re- | main high. Mr. Green feels strongly that conditions in the United States are relatively good, and in Europe relatively bad, because in this coun- | try labor has “stuck to it's knitting” |and in Europe labor has played politics. Samuel Gompers' successor does not think that the position that American under the 7-cent fare, it is shown by | the | figures in the records of the Public|1881 is now ideal. For the.first nine months since the|jectives sti|l ahead of it. 73%-cent fare order was granted the| asked to organized labor has conquered . since foundation of the federation in On the contrary, |it has important and unrealized ob- When he is indicate what labor most | wants and needs Mr. Green says, un- that, | hesitatingly, “a better legal status the | than it now enjoys.” He is not sure, | evidently, that it has any thoroughly | defined and unassailable status in the |law at all. It wants, above all, a | statutory sanction of the principle of { collective bargaining. It would like (Special).—|a little less equivocal definition of increase in |the right to strike. It thinks there ought to be a curb on “government by_injunction.” Powerful emplovers like the United States Steel Corporation and the jeration of Labor will continue Law Watches By the Associated Press. GLOVERSVILLE. —Richard N. Y., April 10. Rodrian, German chemist, today was working feverishly in a ramshackle labora- tory here determined to produce gold from the “decomposed rock™ of Pinnacle Mountain within three weeks. He has promised his finan- cial backers and representatives of the Attorney General's office that he would show them the gold he would take from the ore of Pinnacle Mountain at the end of that period. Testimony given at a hearing yesterday by those who had in- vested in the project was not made public, but it is known here that probably not more than $10,- 000 have as yet been invested in Pennsylvania Rallroad, Mr. Green points out, still insist upon the open shop. They refuse to recognize the right of trades unions to discuss and settle labor difficulties. In the case of the Steel Corporation, labor lead- ers say, there is some inconsistency. They declare the corporation op- erates coal fields for supplying fits plant at Gary, Ind, and that in those fields a rigidly “closed shop” is mot only tolerated but even en- couraged and co-operated with. It Judge Gary finds collective bargain- ing feasible in his mines, labor can’t understand why it isn’t acceptablein his shops and mills. To one species of politics ‘the American Federation of Labor will adhere under Green as it long did under Gompers. That is the congres- sional “white list.” This tabulation, published in election years, advocates the rewarding of political friends and the non-support of political ‘“eme- mies,” as these have revealed them- selves in votes in State Legislatures orin Congress. No Labor Party. But an .American Labor party on Ramsay’ -MacDonald lines is not within_the purview of the .leaders of the Willlam Green type. Nor does he believe that labor’s vote can ever be “dellvered” en bloc, or even in any appreciable sort of* block. It will continue, as in the past, to be an indepenident thinking and independ- ent acting group, voting in its com- ponent and not in its corporate parts. One other thing is certain under the leadership of this American-born niner (who personally is a Democrat, in politics). That is, that the F‘e‘d- ts uncompromising opposition to bol- shevism or to Communism in any form. That tradition, handed down from Gompers to Green, will be bel- ligerently’ perpetuated. (Copyright, 1925.) VIRGINIA JUDGE NAMED. Don P. Halsey of Lynchburg Suc- ceeds Late Judge Barksdale. | Special Dispateh to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., April 10.—Gov. Trinkle has appointed Don P. Halsey of Lynchburg to succeed the late Judge William R. Barksdale of Hall- fax as judge of the sixth circuit. The circuit is composed of Mecklenburg, Lunenburg, Halifax and Campbell counties and the City of Lynchburg. It is one of the heaviest in the State. Mr. Halsey was favored by a ma- Jority of the members of the bar of the circuit. E. W. Hudgins of Chase Clty was favored by many lawyers. D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 10, % SNAPPED IN ROCK CREEK PARK YESTERDAY. Mlle. 1925 Antoinette Daeschner, daughter of the French Ambassador and Mme. Daeschner, who, although a recent arrival in Washington, is already known as one of the accomplished horsewomen of the al. i Elizabeth Saxton of Richmond, president of the junior class at Lasell Seminary, who will lead a delegation to Washington to deco- rate Mrs. Coolidge with the class in- signia. The First Lady of the Land has accepted an invitation to become an honorary member of the cla: By United News Pictures. Race to Produce Gold From “Decomposed Rock”| the gold-reduction plan. It was said that the financlal supporters of Rodrian agreed not to sell any stock during the three-week period, and it was understood the Attorney General's office would not act during that time. Until two weeks ago the scien- tific work was being conducted under the name of the North American Mining and Milling Co. Then it was changed to the North Reduction Co. Among the back- ers of the plan are several prom- inent business and professional men of this city. W. D. Welch, an insurance man, is president of the company. Among the investors are M. C. Naylor, head of a large dry goods company, and Dr. A. La Johnson, city health officer. UNIVERSITY LIFTS BAN ON EVOLUTION LECTURER Prof. Wolfgang Koehler of Berlin Invited to Give Talk at North Carolina. By the Awsoclated Press WORCESTER, Ma April 10— Prof. Wolfgang Koehler, University of Berlin exchange professor at Clark, has been invited to give a series of lectures at the University of North -Carolina, ‘according to an announce- ment from Clark authorities yester- day. Prof. Koehler, who is. an au- thority on ape psychology, had previ- ously been scheduled for a lecture at the Southern institution,. when the talk was canceled -because” of -his teachings on evolution, according to information given out here. The invitation_yesterday came in & telegram from Dr. Harry W. Chase, president ‘of the University of North Carolina.” It is belleved here that Dr. Koehler will accept. FOREST. FIRE WARNINGS. Maryland . Official Says Danger Season Is at Height.. Special Dispatch to The St - BALTIMORE, April 10.—Warnings of farest fire danger because of the number of persons expected to visit the -country during. the . period . be- twéen today and Easter Monday have been -issued by -Assistant State For- ester Gordon D..Marckworth. He pointed out that the Spring for- est fire season.is new at its height, due to absence .of rain and the fact that grass, weeds and underbrush still are dry and dead from the Winter. The majority “of the recent forest fires, which have burned over nearly 1,000 acres of timberland within the past month, were caused by careless- ness of smokers among the many motorists who passed aiongside woods and flelds, Mr. Marckworth sald. Al- most all of the Spring fires could be |prevented by care in extinguishing every match or discarded cligarette and in thoroughly putting out any fires which are bullt by campers or tourists, it was said. et e Taking Precaution. From Judge. z “Before we start the poker game I must mail a-letter.” “Aw let it ‘wialt until we go out, Tom.” “This can't-wait. I'm malling my- self a $5 BIL Natiooal Photo. CHIMPANZEE ON WAY TO LONDON TO PROVE COUSIN-TO-MAN THEORY. PAY visiting the memorial to Adam, the G HIS RESPECTS TO AN( the cemeteries of the Monumental Cit (>4 ESTOR. A resident of Baltimore first man, which is located in one of The origin of the monument to Adam is unknown, but it attracts considerable attention. By United News Pictures. Joe Mendi, 18 months old, stopping off at the Pennsylvania station in New York for lunch. He is en route to London, where he will help demonstrate Dr. BEATEN T0 DEATH Filipinos Also Burn Home of | Aged Couple to Oust “Evil Spirits.” Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago Daily News. MANILA, P. I, February 17.—From the distant and isolated “barrio” of Viga, town of Marapipi, Leyte, the insular constabulary reports that the native inhabitants, frantic with the fears of tribal superstitions, have burned down the home of an aged couple and beat both the- old man and woman to death with pestles of heavy “molave” wood used for hull- ing rice in a mortar. The couple were alleged to have been bewitched, and the purpose of their lifelong neighbors in inflicting the cruel death wap not.only to put an end to their lives, but to drive away the evil | spirits with which they were belleved possessed Tn the pagan world of the Fil pinos, which has been much influ- enced, but not by any means entlre- Iy changed, by the Christianity of the last four centuries, man is con- trolled by good and evil spirits. A deformied person, one haggard and bent with age, or one who from any cause is set apart in physical ap- pearance from his fellows, is sup- posed to harbor in his body an agent | of Satan. If an epidemic, such as influenza, now attacking villages in the islands breaks out, and its vic- tims are for the most part children and women in delicate health, then the possessed person in the commun- ity Is sought as the source of the.evil that has befallen the community. Rely on Amulets. Spirits of varying degree -of malev- lence,” abounding in - jungle -and -for- est,__make _high revel . through.. the night. - Some are only deformed, clownish mischief -makers; some are | utterly horrible; all are feared and avoided by reliance upon amulets and talismans. The tradition is that when Lucifer rebelled in Heaven and the great con- flict of the immortals of skies took place, many of ‘the combatants on either side were precipitated to earth, where they since have been the ene- mies, for the most part, of mankind. The jungle and the primeval forest— the physical environment of.the r mote “barrios” and “sitios”—are their rendezvous. The superstitious na- | tive often sees the evil -eve glaring here and there over swamps. or marshes; this, of course, is the fa- miliar will-o'-the-wisp, and the -em- broiled phosphorescence of the sea.! may hang like ‘an evil curse at the rudder of a fishing boat. Spirits in Trees. The “balete,” a species of banyan tree, is inhabited by two spirits, one, the “tlanak,” nothing worse than a mischievous wood sprite that con- ceals himself In the trunk of the tree and can easily be appeased by saying, when you pass by: “Good. eve- ing, Tianak. Excuse me, please; I will pass if I may.” The tianak, it 15 seen, in one of the good angels fallen to earth, whose mischievous [2 Coolidge Visitor Faints in Crowd Of Receiving Line Charles Murphy of McKeesport Pa, found the strenuosity of a reception period at the White House too much today, and fainted in_the jam of the Executive offices. He was quickly revived, how- ever, and was able finally to take his place in line and shake Mr. Coolidge’s hand. More than 500 persons, vacation visitors, greeted the President and another half-hun- dred became confused and failed to get in line in time. FRENCH TEXTILE MILLS ARE MORE PROSPEROUS By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 10.—The French textile industries enjoyed prosperity in 1924, both production and exports having increased considerably over 1923, it is shown in statistics received by the Bankers' Trust Co. of New York. Exports of cotton and woolen yarns- and cotton, woolen and silk tissues all showed substantial gains Easter |Since the first of the year the cotton industry has held a 'good deal of its actlvity, but the woolen trade was somewhat quieter. Was Used to 'Em. From the Boston Transcript. An aged Scot on his death bed said to the -clergyman: “And what for should T be afrald to meet the King of Terrors? Hae I no lived wi the queen o' them-for the last 40 years?” —_— pranks._are. only. the harmless va- garles of a homesick spirit. Unless you are very polite, however, he will direct you the wrong way at the fork of .the road; you may have to spend the ‘night wandering in the forest. : Ten times worse is a ‘“capri,” a grotesque. demon that canceals itself in the sprawling, rooted branches of the balete. He ‘does not hesitate to leave men slain in the middle of the road; their bodies mutilated. He will also madden a woman or steal a new-born babe. With the capri, one must be wary indeed, not merely po- lite. capri is to ‘stop in the path before Yyou are too near the balete tree, and turn .your coat, sleeves and all, wrong side out. It is very simple, but seems to afford protective color- ing. Anyway, it keeps the capri off and by speaking to the tlanak as one passes his domicile in the dark vine- twined balete trunk, everything is made safe and the ordinary apprehen- sions of night and darkness can be whistled away or inveigled with a song. All the superstitions, so much a hidden factor in the lives of the peo- ple, sift down to a simple turanian origin in a remote perfod when the Cross, and even the Crescent, which preceded it by 200 years in the Phil- ippines, was unknown. In- the pub- lic schools the. younger~ generation is learning the absurdity of the old be- liefs, . but the apparently rapid abondonment of. them is not so rapid as it would seem to the casual ob- server. After lessons, night returns; then every nelghborhood tale re- vives “In’ its obscurity and tropical witchery. (Copyright, 1928, by Chicago Daily News.Co.) The very best way to avoid the | E. G. Crookshank’s contention that man is a first cousin to the “chim.” “BEWITCHED” PAIR Copyright by 1 ASYLUM NOW HOME - OF GIRL MATRICIDE Dorothy Ellingson, Declared Insane, to Be Observed Before Fixing Status. derwood & Underwood By the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, othy Eilington, 1 10.—Dor year-old tricide. today confronted the thing from which all her tears and pleas and emotional outbursts could not sav her—the beginning of a new life an inmate in a State hospital for the insane at Napa, northeast san Francisco, where she shot and killed her mother, Mrs. Anna A jury vesterday by to 1 decided she is ins: |rived at the asylum shortly | She will be kept under obser: { several days before assuming | definite status in the asvium. | The girl's departure from the court room after the jury had returned verdict was dr. She fain when the jury finding {and, upon her recovery, found the | courtroom comparatively deserted Only the matrons, a j tor and sev “Pral newspaper men remained | As soon as she was able to regain her composure the trip which vigorously had fought against—the journey to the State Asylum for the Insane—began. FIRST ARGEN’IEEANNED BEEF IS DUE TOMORROW Vessel Bringing 600 Cases to Bal- timore—Big Coffee Ship- ment Included. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, April 10.—The first shipment of Argentine canned beef will arrive tomorrow on the Interna- tlonal Freighting Co.'s steamer Storn King. The vessel has 600 cases con signed to Baltimore importers. The Storm King has 600 bushels of corn from -Argentina and 12,000 bags of coffee from Santos and Rio Janelro, April she FIGHT FOR T Railroads Want to Control Section of Texas. Special Dispatch to The Star FORT WORTH, April 10 for domination of ERRITORY. The fight the Texas plains territory between the Atchison, To- peka, Santa Fe and the Burlington raflroads is being actively pressed. The Santa Fe has followed the an- nouncement of the building of new shops by the Burlington with an ape§ plication to the Interstate Commerc Commission for permission to build a road from Lider to Silverton, across territory which was formerly tribu- tary to the Burlington road. BUS TRAFFIC ENORMOUS. ST. LOUIS, April 10 (Special).—The People's Motor Bus Co. announced to- day that its vehicles had transported 13,495,590 fare-paying passengers in the last year.