Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1925, Page 23

Current News Events Summary of Important National, ‘Foreign and Local Affairs Specially Arranged for the Convenience of Students. world watched auyiotsly * last smoldering fire ‘in the Bal- ady to burst into flame with serious consequences. “Following the explosion of a bomb in a cathedral at Sofia. in ringleaders in ihe plot have been ryrested and shot, but Bulgaria hintedg, apparently, that the blame for the Communist out- break might be found in Jugoslavia, while the latter apparently resents the aspersion awl looks with distavor ©on the ¢ piration of Bulgarian 1roops alon her border. At the same time cfher Balkan states ‘are taking preciutions against the spread of the Bulgorian “terror” by concen tration of troops along their borders. Censorigbip established in Bulgaria with the, declaration there of martial law hag prevented news of the real situatign — from becoming know; Theres are plenty of rumor: storis torassacres and bloodshed, which #re wiffset by rumors just ibstan: tial to the effect that the situation Wdrhin the borders of Bulgaria is calm. a1 on the “implied ague of Nations rs of the Soviet Basing their refu Snterference by the I in the internal aff republic, the Soviet notified the league that it "ept the invitation to participate in he forthcoming conference at Geneva on_control of the traffic in arms The refusal of Soviet Russia has fdded to the difficulties which the league officials already foresee. The draft of the proposed aty on the arms traffic provides that it shall not be operative unless ratified by 12 powers, among them the United ates. The foreign diplomats have Iready had experience Tnited States in treaty matters, and =ome doubt Whether the Senate would ratify the proposed agreement. If the Senate failed to do this, it is pointed out that as this countr exporter of arms. the have little force. treaty would The ministerial declaration mier Painleve's cabinet read in the Chamber of Deputies last week. It outlined a policy which considers the ultimate imposition of drastic financial measures, maintenance of the embassy at the Vatican in Rome, the pacification of internal disputes and above all-—real security for France. It is said that a cabinet's platform was never received . with such ap plause by its supporters, nor with such demonstrations of denunciation Ly its opponents. Former Premier Edouard Herriot was elected president of the Chambe of Deputies last week. votes, with only one against him, as the opposition de- clined to vote. Fist fizhts occurred on the rostrum when opposition charged some of the members voted twice. On the fifth anniversary of his ban- ishment from Pards for war time com- merce with the enemy, Joseph Cal- Jaux made his_entry into the Senat last week as mi 1 ye-entry was undramatic, as the Ser ate—which sat as the court which con- victed him—vwas busy vas apparantly unnoticed. aill@ux’s financial remedy for France is aid to contemplate the im position of an income tax Y‘lf'll\' ap- plied to rich and poor alik Million: aires wAll pay just like other people, he told Parliament. ‘‘The rich men have escaped taxation.’ £ Pre. quests for cancella- maneuvers in Aus- waters and Hawail this Suin- ::\i:ar;errel.lr\ of the Navy \\llh.ux' has explained that the Pacific naval maneuvers are only routine training such as is held annually by the Navy He made an explanation to the repre- sentative of a Japanese publishing house who Informed the Secretary \that he had been explicitly ordered to ‘obtain a concise explanation of the maneuvers from an fiu!hnrllflfl‘\r source, There has been some crith cism of the Navy’s training cruise an Tmaneuvers ever since they were an- nounced, especially from the Japanese “jingo” press. A spectacular celebration of the 150th enniversary of the battle of Lexington and Concord was held last week at Concord. Sham Battles and an Impersonation of Paul Revere and Willlam Dawes, jr., in their famous ri of a century and a half ago “,P“t features of the celebration. ‘x‘k\ President Dawe a desc lant of e William who rode with Paul Revere, and Gen. John l’n’!hn\;{. retired, took part in the ceremonies: Replying to T tion of the Richmond Meeting in convention in Ri nd Va.. the National League of Woman ‘\oters went on record as favoring creation of a Federal department of “making tional as- education, for “making a n 1 as- set of Muscle Sheals,” for the child labor amendment granting to Con- gress the right to limit the age of working children, for Federal aid in education and for larger F 1 ap- propriations for home economic educa- tion. The seretary of State has again had submitted to him the question of whether marridd woman may travel under her own name, or wh er she must be known I \:!wn she goes to Europe reat Brit- \in has decided the question in favor f the women, but the State Depart- ment, deciding a case placed before it ast week, declared a married woman hay place her own name on the pass- —but it must contain, in :irl(ll!mn, re name of her husband. This leaves he women with a rather questionable ory. While two steamships and two tu were rushing to the rescue the Japa e freighter Raifuku Maru sank off Nova Scotia last week with 48 men rd. None was saved ates dirigible Los Angeles made a second trip to Ber- muda last week, and this time suc- ceeded in making, fast to the mast of the tender ship Patoka. Last time <he tried to stop over in Bermuda a jish wind prevented her tying up. Revolutionary activities in Ceiba, Honduras, led to the ding of a force of 165 officers and men from the light cruiser Denver last week, but their presence had its moral effect, and they were withdrawn two days later. The *orce was landed to protect American nterests and as a result of a request from the American consul. The cruiser Denvet is staying in the vicinity, how- in case of future trouble. Alanson B. Houghton reached his new post as revresentative «t the Court of S mes last week. ¢e was extended a cordial welcome »v the British, the London Times re- rking that “‘there is good reason to cel hopeful with Mr. Houghton here end Mr. Kellogg there. The United Ambassador The country congratulated Chauncey | M. Depew last week on his 91st birth- Gay. He was threescore and ten when the present generation began, and he is hale and hearty toda Americans completed one job last week when the Soviet government in Russia declared that there was no longer need of relief from America for a poorer classes, and the govern- mgnt was able to minister to their wSnts. The American relief work in itussia, therefore, with the exception * that carried on in the Caucasus, came to an end. Ame ans still are ring for thousands in Armenia, while the Ruseian decision does mot government has | will not | with the | is being expressed as to | is considered a large | He received | recorded | that | in debate and | her husband’s name | affect the agricultural and industrial work now carried on by Quakers and | Mennonites. An_airplane reached Washington last week carrying two grand pianos from New York, and almost simul- taneously with that event in aviation the Pullman Co., which builds and operates Pullman cars all over the country, anneunced plans for building Pullman aircraft, which would be oper- ated by regularly organized commer- cial air as from New York to Chicago or from Chicago to Miami, Fla. Germany is electing a President to- day. While the campaign has been unusually lacking in the features which usually attend a close political race, correspondents from Germany report that the feeling is runming high and that disorders are predicted on election day. The prize lies be- tween former Chancellor Marx and Field Marshal von Hindenburg, with the odds favoring the former. The Daughters of the American Revolution, holding their thirty-fourth annual convention here, voted to erect withfn the near future a new conven- tion hall at a cost of nearly $2,000,000. The additional hall has become neces. sary because of the increased member- ship in the organization. The present Continental Memorial Hall will re- main, the new building to be erected immediately in its rear. The effort by a minority of the Ship. ping Board to stop the sale of Gov ernment ships to the Dollar Line of San Francisco by joining in a suit for injunction was blocked last week in the District Supreme Court when Justice Hitz dismissed the suit. The President had so far interested him. | self in the split in the Shipping Board as to address a letter to Chairman | 0'Connor. ing him about the dif- ferences among the members, Neither the letter to Mr. O'Connor nor his re- ply was made public. It all depends upon the point of view. While British investors who lost heavily when their schemes to unload bootleg liquor in America went awry are bemoaning their “appalling” losses the Amerfcan public generally is sitting back and having a good, hearty laugh over the accident. Sir Broderick Hartwell left England a month ago to superintend the unload- ing on American shores of his seventh and largest consignment of spirits, but the activities of the Coast Guard prevented unloading the liquor and much of it was lost. Many Britishers who invested in the venture have lost heavily, it is stated. but they are re- ceiving small sympathy from newspa- pers in England, which unanimously decry the efforts of a friendly nation to make money by breaking the laws of another. An attempted coup by revolutionists who hoped to overthrow the exicting government in Portugal was brought to quick end last week when govern- | ment troops defeated the revolu- tibnists with heavy losses and captur- ed their leader Science. Through an invention which reduces the bulk of insulation on telephone wires, the American Telephone and elesraph Co. has announced that a yblh))llt’ telephone cable, scarcely more | than two inches in diameter, will be made to carry twice its present maxi- mum: capacity of 1,200 simultaneous conversations. 3 The first of a series of experiments to determine what's in the clouds above Washington took place last week when a nava] plane rose to a height of 3,400 feet above the Capi- ] and took meteorological observa- tions to assist the Weather Bureau in making more accurate forecasts. The experiments are to be continued several times a week. Scientists are still studying, and will be for vears, some of the results of their observation of the eclipse January 24. The Bureau of Standards here has already reached some conclu- sions. The sun's corona, or the radiant mantle of material which sur- rounds the great orb, is made up partly of solid or liquid material, and is not wholly gas. The existence of an element in the sun, tentatively call- ed “‘coronium,” which has never been found on the earth, is fairly well es- tablished. A new method for timing eclipses, worked out on the phe- | nomena of light, has been worked jout for predicting the eclipse of January 28, 1927, when the next great | eclipse of the sun will be visible in | parts of Europe. In an interview in Omaha, Nebr., last week, Brig. Gen. Amos Fries, chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, expressed the belief that the next war will see comparatively few deaths, be. cause chemists are now working with the idea in mind of incapacitating armies and cities, not to kill human beings. Temporarily disabling men will put them out of commission and win battles, he said. The invention which enables a pic- ture to be sent over telephone wires and reproduced at the other end is to be put to practical use very soon, ac- cording to recently announced plans of the telephone company, which is to inaugurate a regular picture send. ing service between New York, Chi- cago and other large Eastern cities. The service will be used extensively for the quick transmission of pictures for newspapers, it is expected, while one bank may send a check or draft to another bank, though in cities far apart, within the space of a few min- utes. The possibilities of the service are virtually unlimited. The Navy plays a trump card in its announcement last week of successful tests with a 5-inch rapid fire anti-air- craft gun with largely increased range and firing speed over the type now in use. With this gun, it is stated, it would be difficult for an airplane with- in range to escape being hit. Recent tests with the old-style anti-aircraft gun indicated that it is.an easy mat. ter for a plane to escape destruction. Tests with the new gun will be watched with interest as another move in the battleship vs. the airplane controversy. Civics. Speaking at the annual luncheon |of the Associated Press in New York City, Vice President Charles G. Dawes delivered another stroke in his cam- palgn for revision of the Senate rules, which now permit of unlimited de- bate. He characterized the movement as non-partisan, non-sectional and pa- triotic. He thus states the whole point at issue: “Shall the Senate continue un- changed its existing rules, which ad- mittedly make possible at times the exercise by a minority, or even one Senator, of power to block the purpose of a majority of the Senate to legis- late?” “It is important,” he said, that the Senate’s rules “give every Senator a square deal, but is imperative that they give the American people a square deal.’ William $. Culbertson of Kansas, vice chairman of the United States Tariffl Commission, has been chosen by President Coolidge to be Minister to Rumania. The debt question and treatment accorded some American corporations doing businezs in Ru- mania have placed somefMng of a lines over long routes—such | |requested that the singers | universit | Sanborn treasurer. MUSIC FESTIVAL PLANNEDATU.OF M. Well Known Singers to Take Solo Parts in “Elijah.” Glee Club to Broadcast. COLLEGE PARK, Md, April 25.— Singers of national reputation will have parts in the festival of music to be given at the University of Mary- land on May 13 and 14. The uni- versity chorus will present as its principal contribution Mendelssohn’s oratorio, “Elijah,” and leading roles will be taken by Edyth Helena, ®o- prano, and Aimee Olsop, contralto, both of New York; Paul Bleyden, tenor of Washington, and Rollin Pease, baritone of Chicago. Miss Helena, formerly of the Cen- tury and Aborn Opera Companies, and well known through her contributions to phonograph records, also will sing the artist recital. Jesse Blaisdell of Riverdale will play the piano accompaniments. The Glee Club of the university will padcast from Station WRC in ashington next Tuesday night from § to 8:30 o'clock. A program giveh from the same station last year was 80 well received that the management ‘appear” again. The program, of course, is ;nllrely different from that given be- ore. Dean Frederic E. Lee of the college of arts and sciences is to discuss the purposes and possibilities of orienta- tion courses in the social sciences at the Philadelphia meeting of the As- sociation of History and Soclal Sci- ence Teachers of the Middle States and Maryland next Saturday. Papers on orientation courses in social sciences will be presented 1, Dr. 1. J. Carman of Columbfa Uni- versity and Dr. George Boas of Johny Hopkins. These papers will be dis- cussed by professors from Princeton, Rutgers, Maryland and Bryn Mawr. Prof. H. F. Cotterman, Prof. R. W, Carpenter and J. 8. Blackwell of the State Department of Education are to represent the university and State at the regional conference of the Northeastern division of the Agri- cultural Vocational Association in Boston on May 18. Thomas C. Kelley of ‘Washington, editor of the Reveille, the year book, has been pledged by the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity. He is a Junior and one of the most popular students in the institution. Members of the junlor class in the advanced course of the Reserve Offi. cers’ Training Corps now are taking lessons in rifle markmanship under the direction of Capt. W. B. Yancey, associate professor in military sci. ences and tactics. This is a special course to prepare the juniors for rec- ord firing for medals when they go to training camp this Summer. The camp will open June 12. | Katherine Baker has been elected | president of the Y. W. C. A. at the . with Elise Dorsey as vice ident, Mary Jane McCuddy as sec- ry, Olive Wallace as trealurer and Mary York as undergraduate repre- sentative. Chemistry is to be introduced to Maryland students by a course far easier and more entertaining than by the usual rough road via the class- room. There will be no professors, studying or exams, but just an inter- esting exhibition of some of the com- moner phenomena that enabl2 the ma- gicians to own choice automobiles and savage medicine men to be well fed without laboring. A perfectly sober individual may take this course and vet not be surprised to see snakes coming from the neck of a bottle and a clear draught of water changed into sweet red wine or bitter, black balm. The event in question is the “Kem- Sho" that is to be put on on May 7 by the students in the department of chemistry. The exhibition will be staged in the auditorium at the uni- versity. Not only will time be devoted to the exposure of the tricks of the practi- tioners of the black art, but there will be a general exhibition of the most interesting phases of the various de partments of chemistry Tom Browne has been elected pres ident of the Episcopal. Mary York was | named vice chairman, Gertrude Ryan recording secretary. Virginia Price corresponding secretary and Charles ‘Walter Bromley of Pocomoke, Md., of the senior ciass has been selected for graduate work in the dairy hus- bandry department. Benefit Program Given. Friendship Circle gave a tea and musicale for the benefit of Florence Crittenton Home Friday afternoon at the University Women’s Clubhouse. The informal program of vocal, violin and piano selections was ren- dered by Mrs. Rowland Dyer, Miss Beryl Loughlin, Miss Virginia Heft Miss Sara Lerch, H. G. 8nell, Mr: Arthur Fast, Mrs. Willlam F. Meyer, Mrs. Kathryn Peoples Murrell and Roy G. Beall. strain on relations with that country, it s stated, and Mr. Culbertson will go to Rumania prepared t6 iron out some of the existing differences. His work on the Tariff Commission has given him wide experience in handling financial aspects of international re- lations. Art. John Singer Sargent, _famous painter, who died recently in England, left a small estate, it is believed, be- cause during his lifetime he was exceedingly generous and often gave away large sums. The will has not vet been found, but is belleved to be in the United States. Mr. Sargent is supposed to have made it before leav- ing this country for England in the midst of the German submarine war- fare. It is not known whether the painter intended to bequeath some of his works to the Nation. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, definitely has decided against acceptance of the art treas- ures of the late Senator Willlam A. Clark of Montana, which was be- queathed to that institution upon the condition that they would be housed and exhibited as a unit. Now interest in the matter centers whether the Cor- coran Gallery of Art in Washington will take the collection, which, under the terms of the will, would go to the local institution under the same con- ditions—in case the Metropolitan de- clined the gift. Acceptance of the gift now lies with the board of trus- tees of the Cqrcoran, which has until June to decide. 2 Educational. 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