Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1925, Page 24

24 - Current News Events Summary of Important National, Foreign and Local Affzairs Specially Arranged for the Convenience of Students. Economic. Actual are at last being taken i France to fund her foreign debts. Discussed pro and con, heatedly and coolly for the last year. the question heis come to the front this past wee $n a manner which indicates an early attempt, at least, to settle which has been embarrassing to ¥rance and to her allles, especially the United States. The formal negotiations between the ¥French and Americans over their debt will take pl » in Washington, where the American Debt Funding : located, at a time vet I Bul informal negc- ation idy led the Frenc ctinet i gn Finance Minister Caillaux and Foreign Minister Briand uestion with the view to sptable solution tlement are time, If co «d correctl alr particularly bright ditions may be Dedicating his admi treasury portfolio to i the vexatious question finances, Minister Caillaux has already declared that the first step toward establishing French credit is to settle the question of foreign debts. In his appearance before the French Cham- ber of Deputies st week the F finance minister declared that rec from the Dawes reparation plan pay- ments from Germany must be used in this direction, although he has not intimated what percentage of this money will be so used. This must be done, he asserted, however hard it hits ance. Contrasting with some reports that American business has been hurt by President Coolidge’s repeated pleas for economy, Representative Charles J. Ssterly of Pennsylvania has returned to Washington from a tour of Amer- ican cities with the report that he never found more prosperous condi- tions, with business improving and on the up de Working on the theory that a stitch in time saves nine, and that while theére is peace between employer and emplove on the railroads is a good time to discuss the lahor am G Lee, president of the therhood of R: ¢ Trainmen, is anging a conference at Cleveland the near future. Railroad ives of both sides, and discuss the pro and sent situation of the raflroad world. No action taken by the conference is intended to be ¥ ad- ing on eith side. men, the T con the pr Representatives of the Soviet gov-| made | ernment in London last week known plans which would resilt in the construction of a railway, 6,000 miles long, and which would ~ traverse little-explored ure containing great undeveloped W in gold, platinum, timber, fur, mam- meth ivory and fisheries. The Soviet government ted that England furnish the ssary machinel The wide ion. in the Chi o wheat ma speculators and oth lost heavil: were due to the operation of a limited nymber of professional speculators, according to a report made public 1 week by Secretary of Agriculture Ja dine after an investigation. The find- ings thu far do not warrant any criminal prosecutions, the Secretary said, but he asked the Chicago Board of Trade to co-operate in taking meas- ures which would prevent, in future, sueh rapid rise and fall on the market. The Chicago Beard of Trade promised such help. recen et. in which Clothed with power to authority for agriculture, sion of twenty-five farm Z lected from twenty-four of the leadi farm organizations of the Middle W ned in Des week. Representatives of the farmers issued a statement outlining a “united program cajculated to co-ordinate the future efforts of the farmers.” The farmers ask Congress fof an export corporation, adequately financed, and speak with a commi + question | ituation, | trans-Siberian | n| 1th has | - | fic | world affairs. The opponents of Mr. Ford's idea declare they can see no good reason why the United States {should weaken its naval auxiliary | and undertake, alone, to scrap its sur- | plus ship tonnage. The offer of Mr. Ford is understood |to have been conveyed by him | Chairman O'Conner of the | Board, who visited him in Detroit last | week. ! Two items of Interest to the tax- payer were featured in the press dur- ing the last week. The first was report to the President from Ge Lord, director of the budget, that the ending of the present fiscal year will witness a surplus of $108,000,000 of avings over expenditures, and this xceeds the estimate which the gen- eral made last year for a $67,000,000 surplus. The second item was a plan outlined to the F.~sident by Repre- sentative Bacharach of New Jersey, whereby he would reduce taxes through legislation at the next Con- gress by more than $400,000,000. History. One of the picturesque figures in American history of the last 50 y. ed off the War at the age of 2 later and who led the American Army in its occupation of Porto Rico and ultimately ‘became its commanding general, was stricken suddenly while attending a circus here. He died of heart disease. Born $3 years ago, Gen. Miles was identified with the fighting forces of this country for three generations. He entered the Union Army from a clerical position in Boston at the age of 22, and took part in more than thirty of the severest battles of the Civil War. When he was elevated to a lieutenant gen- eralcy at the end of the Spanish-Amer- ican War and placed in command of the Army he secmed to forget the powers of Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, which rests with the President, and his fier brought {him_into quarrels Cleveland, | McKinley and Roosevelt. When he was retired at the age of 64, in 1903, | he turned over the reins with little of | the praise and favorable comment | which usually has marked this st the careers of Army officers | retirement from the | he has retained his identif service men’ | Under his direction a mausoleum | was erect some time ago on a wooded hill In Avlington, which lics | pear the Lee Mansion and not far from the Arena. Here his mortal re- mains will rest with comrades who | fought and died with him. | _President Coolidge awarded three | medals conferred by the Roosevelt Memorial Association at ceremonies in | the White House last week. The re- | cipients were Gov. Pinchot of Penn. ‘ sv\'l\‘&nia.. for his work in conservation; |George Bird Grinnell, publicist and | editor of New York, for his work in behalf of outdoor recreation, and Miss Martha Berry of Georgia, for her work in behalf of hoys and girls. |- The American delegation League of Nations’ Council | Control of Traffic,in Arms | something of a sehsation { when Rej | heading | | to the for the caused last wes presentative Theodore Burton, the American delegation, offered an amendment to the proposed trea‘y on arms traffic under considera- tion “which would divorce the treaty {from ‘the League of Nations. Thy | treaty, as proposed, would establtsh |a_central "international office, ap. | pointed by the League of Nations, which would collect and publish docu. ments of all kinds relating to traf. in arms. Under Mr. Burton's amendment this council would not be appointed by the league or c i any way by it. e | So far, the league's confe | hpendm\nslderin s | posed amendments and heari [ oints of view outlined by delagates to | Shipping | who became a renowned Indian fighter | g the treaty and pro- | THE SUNDAY - STAR, WASHINGTO. “‘She” and “King Solomon's Mines™ were among his best known works. Gen. Charles Mangin, thg' French hero of Verdun, died last week in Paris. He was born in 1866 and spent his life in the army. He was in com- mand of a French army which at- tacked Verdun agd recaptured from the Germans the French Fort Douau- mont. Later he commanded French forces which began the drive against the Germans' right flank, and which | was the beginning of the end of the war. The Internationa! Council of Women ended {ts 10-day session here last week with a decision to meet again five years hence in Vienna. To the |last day of its meeting the council made the butt of caustic and critical comment by some women's patriotic bodies. The -Daughters of the Amerlcan Revolution canceled fts agreement with the International Council for use of the Continental Memorfal Hall. With test s only a single shout from ~ the Communists, shal von Hindenburg last week sworn in and inaugurated as dent of Germany. The oath of was administered by the presi- dent of the Reichstag, Pauld Loeb, and the ceremonies went through without a hitch. In a brief statement to the German people. von Hindenburg dedi- cated himself to work for the nation and declared that his office of presi- dent “did not belong to one clan, one religious persuasion, or one party alone, but to the people in its en- tivety. of pro- Field In an address last week to the Uni- tarian Laymen's gue in Boston, ator Borah Hpposi- ion to the World Court, declaring it is “the department of justice of the | League of Nations.” If separated en- tirely from the league, however, Sen- ator Borah declared he would support American participation in the court. ght leaders in the Communist up- rising which resulted in the explosion of a bomb in the Sveti Kral Cathedral in Sofia were exccuted last week. Others who were connected with the plot were sentenced to various terms tof imprisonment. The 40-year team which a military court-martial sentenced Corp. Walter | Trumbull to s s cut last week to three y 3 J. Gen. William R. Smith, commanding general in Hawali. The sentence originally given Pvt. Paul , of 29 years, was Both men were alleged to pread communistic | propoganda S | | start for the pole his expedition might excavating the Sumarian palace, at Kish, which they call “the greatest and oldest residence of ancient times.” Among the interesting relics un- earthed is a fishhook, which the sci- ents declare is the oldest ever found and establishes the theory that fishing was done with balt and hook 3,000 years before Christ. Disorder, which was feared by the police of Paris, failed to make its ap- pearance and the French celebration of Joan of Arc day passed peacefully in Paris last week. Fifty thousand persons are estimated to have passed *he monument of France’s national satnt. Rum row, that ghostly picket line of the “wet” nations which lies off the shores of dry America, was effectively broken up, for the time being, at least, in a driving campaign by the Coast Guard last week, which estab- lished an effective blockade between the fleet and shore and kept the rum runners from landing their illegitimate wares. And in the meantime, the ampalgn has been the signal for a renewed drive by other agencies of | the Government to stop bootlegging. The Pacific coast, the Canadian border and the interior have been tightened in a war which it is estimated will cost the vendor of bootleg liquor millions of dollars through their inability to sell Geography. The dash for the pole this Summer to be made by Donald B. MacMillan under the auspices of the Natonal Geographic Socfety will be made with three planes, instead of two, as origi- | nally planned. The Navy Department has consented t send a third plane on the trip. { The ice is breaking in the Stikine | River, in Alasl and hundreds of “sourdoughs” are joining the pros- pectors in a new gold rush, heading for | newly discovered gold fields in north- western British Columbia. Caterpillar tractors, automobile trucks, horses and oxen by the ton are accompany- ing the men in their search for hidden wealth. Ronald Amundsen, make a dash for the pole in boats, has been held up with weather and now expects to make his | real start toward the pole about June His party is now resting at Kings -, Spitzbergen, awalting a let-up in the stormy, cold weather, which makes transportation virtually impossible. Amundsen is said to be thankful for the storm. Had it come after his real who also is to have ended disastrously Lord Milner, war of ¢ Britis| weelk, & former secretary of | eat Britain and prominent | airs, died tim of sleeping sick- | become epidemic in | His was the first death | rom the malady. i t The controvers: | connection with first “Defense day”—labeled by paci- | fists as an unnecessary war gesture— has broken out already, and far ahead of the date set for the affair. When | the War Department made it known last week that it planned to hold De- fense day on November 11, Armistice opinfon _was The Presi- dent was represented as opposing the idea, although he Intends to seek the War Department’s opinion and learn | its plans before committing himself one way or the other. William F. M. who survived all | the other war premiers after the post- war reconstruction period, died last week in New Zealand. He was made | premier of New Zealand in 1913 and | kept the office during and after the | war. He visited Washington in 1923 and was received by President Cool- idge. started last year in holding Americs Five thousand years ago the women of Kish, in Mesopotomania, were rouging ' their cheeks, manicuring their nalls and generally setting them- selves up as leaders in fashion, while the men were fishing with baited fish- {hooks. These are some of the con- | time. Science. The War Department has issued rush orde: to the Frankford arsenal to manufacture, before the first of next month, 18 sets of a new type of sound- locating device which is said to regis- ter the approach of an airplane at a distance of eight miles in the day The new instruments are to be used In the Army's planned | opposition to the teachings of evolu- D. C, MAY 17 plans this Summer for extensive flring‘ at aerial targets. Transmission of photographs by tele- phone took & new turn last week when a photograph of finger prints was sent to Chicago from New York by wire; and identified within one minute by the Bureau of Identification, in Chicago. Educational. A test case of the newly passed law in Tennessee forbldding the teaching of evolution in the public schools will probably develop one of the most in- teresting cases of its kind ever tried in a court in this country, and will see an array of legal talent, pro and con, of world-wide reputation. Willlam Jennings Bryan, well known for his tion, has consented to prosecute the case, or take part in the prosecution, if it Is agreeable to the State legal authoritles. He will represent the World’s Christian Fundamental Asso clation. On the other hand, the de- fense has hinted at asking H. G. Wells, famous English writer, to take part in the defense. On the side of the teacher, J. T. Scopes, are aligned such organizations as the American Civil Liberties Union, which, it {8 un- derstood, will give its financlal back ing to the case. It {s planned to have the case carried to the United States Supreme Court for ultimate decision. The teacher, Mr. Scopes, consented to his arrest with the understanding that his case would be used to test the v, which was passed by the last Tennessee Legislature and which went into effect March 21. Mr. Scopes is a science teacher in a high school. It is charged that in reviewing a text book on biology, used in the State's public schools, he devoted several paragraphs to a discussion of evolution. SEVEN AMERICANS TAKE CITIZENSHIP IN FRANCE Included in More Than 3,000 For- eigners Transferring Al- legiance in Year. By the Associated Press PARIS, May 16.—Of the more than 3,000 foreigners admitted to French citizenship last year, only seven were Americans, according to statistics is- sued by the ministry of justice. The largest contingent was furnished by the Italians with 1,430, which, how- ever, is small in proportion to the sev- eral hundred thousands of this na- tionality residing more or less perma- nently in France. Belglum provided 503, Germany, 350; Russia, 276; Po- land, 142; Switzerland, 144, and Great Britain, 36. About half these naturalized French- men were workers, either skilled or unskilled. Next came manufacturers and business men while the liberal professions furnished only about 5 per 10-inch Records 29c Each 4 for $1.00 | clusions reached by Field Museum (Chi Univer: ago) and ty expedition, who have been cientists of the | B Oxford | § fl Our Stock Sale of Columbia and Brunswick Records OPERATIC—STANDARD—ORCHESTRA—DANCE AND SONG Come early for a good selection Harry C. Grove, Inc. 1210 G St. 12-inch Records 59¢ Each 2 for $1.00 | | | | ASHTISEEN, D0, 0¥ W YSREL Y. CONFEDERATE RALLY |HEDWIG SEYL LEADER DELEGATES DEPART Score of Veterans Off for Thirty- Fifth Annual Convention at Dallas. sary Reocalls Social Services of Noted Feminist. | By the Assoctatet Pross. BERLIN, May 16—The fifth birthday anniversary Seyl recalls many of the social serv- ices of this distinguished German fem- inist leader To her Berlin woes its mode:n school and its Lyceum for women artists, writers, mu- seventy- A score of members of the United Confederate Veterans, accompanied by «flicially delegated women, left Wash. ington yesterday on a special train for | goptn " NP TOn U S e the Dallas, Tex., where they will partici- | nation she ve the National Feder- pate in the thirty-fifth annual reunion | ation of German Housewives, which of the Confederate veterans. she organized during the wa Another of her war-time activities Those who left to attend the con-| was the organization of 77 soup Kitch- vention include the following mem-|ens that daily dispensed food to 185, AMONG GERMAN WOMEN | Seventy-Fifth Birthday Anniver- | of Hedwig | 000 needy Berlin citizens. Her book is considered the ABC of culinary art In recognition of her services for the advancement of hyglene the med | ical faculty of Berlin University fis years ago awarded her the first hon | brary degree of doctor of medicine ever given to a woman by that in 1 stitution. cook jerman | ADMITS MENNONITES. WINNIP; | G. Menitoba, May | (P).— Tem ince of permits 1o 3,000 |Mennonites 1o enter Canada from | Russia_this year announced to. These imm s, members o |a "European religious sect, alread |settled in the prairie provinces of the Dominion iz agricultural colonies, are to find homes in western Canada 16 bers of Camp 171, U. C. V.: George| A. Alexander, J. B. 5 A Brown, John Boland, W. Carter, | John M. Follin, D. C. Gra; Grigsby, Charles B. y, N. Hawkins, J. A. Kephait, A. L. Mec- Allister, 'W. J." Parr, J. E. Radecliff, James M. Rixey, Alexander I. Rose, E. O. Scaggs, R. H. Sorrell, Robert Thompson, W. L. Wilkerson and H. §. 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