Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1925, Page 20

20 Current News Events Summary of Important Local Affairs Special Convenience of Students. History. Confronting v/hat appeared to be a solid and insurmountable wall of op- position from the United States, the international conference for the con trol of traffic in arme and munitions | last week awoided meeting the issue | and marched around it. The plan op Dosed by the United States delegates was to have the league council appoint a central body which would publish statistics and other information on the traffic in arms. It was decided to abandon this plan and as a substitute have statistics published by each na tion. One of the stumbling blocks to rati fication of the treaty concerning arms | traffic has been the fact that cou tries bordering Russia felt they could not ratify the pact until Russia rati fied it and Russia declined to attend the conference. The conference, how ever, last week eliminated Russia from The list of countries whose ratification of the treaty was necessary to make it effective, and an amendment was adopted providing that certain provi- lons of the treaty would not be operative in Persia, Poland and Ru- Tania until Russia did ratify the treaty. rdo Machado was inaugurated Cu fifth president when he took the oath of office in Havana Wadnes day. With him was sworn into office | los de la .Rosa, vice president ent at the inaugural ceremonies special missions from 20 coun-| A race between a boat and the erack trsin of the New York Central over a course between New York and \lbany was won last week by the| mer, when the Teaser beat the | Twentieth Century Limited by minutes. The speedbeat, owned by R. F. Hoyt of ew York 30 feet | National, Foreign and Ily Arranged for the - illicit liguor within and without the borders of the country seems to have been given headway | by the successful efforts of the Coast | Guard. | sources of The Legislature of Wisconsin made ltwo decidedly “wet” moves last | week when it adopted & motion for a State referendum on the question of modifyinz the Volstead act, and an other resolution memorializing Con- aress to call a constitutional conven- fion for repeal of the prohibition amendment. In the midst of her financiai difficul- tes, and at the advent of a new minis- try. France is suffering from new troubles which are already serious and promise to develop graver 'Jl:opnr- tions before they are settled. She is faced, through her attempts to quell the Invasion and uprising of the Rif- fians in French. Morocco, with the | necessity of spending large sums to retain her colonial possessions, and that brings criticism from the Social- f{sts at home, who are preparing to raise & storm tomorrow when Parlia- ment is asked for money to conduct | the campalgn. Since the apparent failure of the French forces to quell the Riffian uprising, the Sociallsts and Communists have been conducting a campaign of censure and criticism against the government. Geography. A strange tale Minn., of the di comes out of ppearance of Bass Lake, one of the State’s 10,000 bodies of water, which, the story goes, went out of existance almost overnight. The water left the old lake and es caped into Low Lake, another body of water about 50 feet below its level. What caused the shift was unex- plained. although the water evidently | long, and with a 600-horsepower en- gine is capable of maintaining a speed of 50 miles an hour | Townsend | Harris, first Minister to | Japan, in establishing a policy of | friendship between the two countries, | was recounted and praised last week | Ly the Japanese Ambas o | Matsuda Speaking of ises | at the College of the City of New York. the Ambassador described the| troubled conditions which Mr. Harris found in Japan in 1 ind declared it was largely due to his patience and foresight in the begzinning that the £ood relations between the two coun- tries have always existed. Ttaly’s army reform bill was passed | last week, and one of interesting features is that it makes the com- | mander of the army superior to the | commanding officer of the navy in | time of war. The step was taken over protest of the navy because, of-| ficers maintained, any future inva- sion of Italy would come from ‘h“\ Alps, as it has always come, and that | the wars of the future will be waged on land played by American he t Last week Nor rolina cele- | brated the 150th anniversary of the| igning of the Mecklenburg declara- which took | The document, | signed upon news from | Concord and Lexington that the “red coats” had fired upon the Minute Men, is sald to have blazed the way for the rest of the Colonies in de- claring themselves free from the rule of George III. tion of place Ma which wa: Another conference under the au: pices of the League of Nations| opened last week In Geneva with an American delegate present. Miss Grace Abbott, director of the Chil- dren’s Bureau of the Department of Labor, was offered, but declined, the post of vice president of the league's commission for the protection of women and promotion of child wel- fare. The council is meeting to pre- pare a welfare program. In declin- ing to accept the position Miss Abbott explained that her instruc- tions did not permit her to take the | office. While the international council | was meeting in Geneva delegates to an American gathering of the same | nature—the National Child Welfare | conference in New York—ended their| meeting with bitter comments to: rd the Governor of the State of Wash- on, who refused to send a dele- cate to the meeting on the ground | that he regarded it as “altruistic twaddle indulged in by women who leave their homes to ecats and canaries and neglect their children.” | | that on a previous expedition a mem- | D | ference was the appointment, by followed the course of an old sluice bed. A lumberman said he was awakened at night by a roar like that of thunder, and the next day found the waters of Bass Lake gone, while thousands of dead fish told the tale of the desertion. The Danish government has con- sented to allow Donald B. MacMillan to land in Greenland ports on his way to the North Pole, it was announced last week. Negotlations have been going forward for some time with the Dan- ish government, which withheld per- mission for a time on the allegation ber of MacMillan's party killed an Eskimo. MacMillan's expedition is taking place under the auspices of the National Geographic Society. Science. The controversy over the effects of ethyl gas, used in motor fuel, came to a head here in Washington last week when experts met in conference at the Public Health Service and heard argu- ments on both sides in the matter. The Ethyl Gas Corporation has - pended distribution of the product un- til a final and authoritative decision is | reached regarding its effect on men who handle it. The upshot of the con- | the | Surgeon General of a commission of | seven to determine whether use of ethyl gas is harmful. One of the in- teresting facts brought out at the con- ference was that the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey has been experiment- ing with ethyl gas because the dimin- i busts | to negotiate, independently, a refund. - THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 24, ! building program decided upon in the last Congress. Five great Americans received places in the Hall of Fame of New York University last week when their were unveiled by their de- scendants. The year's selections were: Charlotte Cushman, one of the world’s great Shakespearean actresses; Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’'s Cabin”; Asa Gray, botanist; John Marshail, Chief Jus. tice of the United States, and Wil- liam Tecumseh Sherman, Union gen- eral in the Clvil Wer, Dr. Glenn Frank, editor of the Cen- tury Magazine, has accepted the presi- dency of the University of Wisconsin and is expected to take office about the 1st of July to make plans for the opening of the new scholastic year in the Fall Economic. Last week the United States re- minded nations which have made no move to pay their debts that the Debt Funding Commission, created for the purpose of arranging terms of debt payments, is still in operation and awalts with interest any suggestions toward debt payment terms. Since then there has been no definite move vi che part of any of the debtor na- tions to act on this reminder, al though news dispatches from Paris carry forecasts by Parisian papers that France will make a definite pro. posal within a few days to the United States and Great Britain for paying her debts. At the same time Bel. glum, it is learned, is taking steps ing agreement with the United States and Belglum is one of the major debtors. Belgium's plans, however, whatever they may be, may be de- layed for a time by the resignation of the Belgium cabinet, which last week received a ‘non-confidence’ vote in the Chamber of Deputies. foland brightened the sit some last week by delivering the ‘I'reasury bonds, totaling $178,560,000, toward liquidating her debt to this country. ation Business needs, and therefore re spectfully demands, lower rates of taxation, Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corpora- tion, declared in an address at the annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute in New York last week. Although business men feel grateful for what has been done and what has been promised, taxes are stll too high, he declared. The new German government un- der President von Hindenburg will continue to carry out the Dawes for payment of reparatlons, as country welcomes more than many the effect of the Dawes plan to accomplish the economic pacification of Europe,” Foreign Minister Strese. mann announced to the Relchstag last week. The combined resources of the na tional banks of the country on April 6 last amounted to $23,832,473,000, which was a gain of $1,784,251,000 over last vear. | Henry Ford stands a good chance of | getting the ships he wants from the Shipping Board for scrapping. Last week a subcommittee of the board set to work on forming a definite pol icy on ship scrapping. While there | are some members of the hoard who | will oppose it, it is expected to have | enough support to make it effective. | | Mr. Ford has offered to buy ships and | Sserap them. Coolidge, usual, s | v his first decision, regard. | hat anybody thinks about President sticking b, ishing petroleum supply has made it necessary to increase the effectiveness of motor fuel. i Ats | | Educational. The Carnegie Corporation last week | voted $365,500 to colleges and organ- izations carrying on work in the fine arts, including music. It was the first time the corporation has entered this field to any large extent. Sums were distributed to Grinnell College, in Towa; to Hampton Institute, in Vir- ginia; the Tuskegee Institute, in Alabama, and Wellesley College, in | Massachusetts, and several art, musi- cal and dramatic organizations. The largest estimate for needed ap- propriations ever submitted to the District authorities by the District school officlals was made public last week, the amount being $13,553,863. | The estimate must undergo pruning | by many different agencies, however, before it becomes embodied in the | appropriation bill for the fiscal beginning July 1. 1 Commissioners, the Budget Bureau,| A. Kahn Inc., 935 F Strcet Direct from Amsterdam! 5%om Mine---to Cutter---to A. Kahn Inc. it. Last week it became known at the White House that the President intends to use an ordinary Pullman car, gnd not a speclal car, for his forthcoming trip to St. Paul, Minn., and later to Swampscott, Mass. Some time ago when President Coolidge broke a precedent by using a Puliman car for a trip to and from Chicago, there was criticism that he was tak- ing unnecessary risks to save a Ilit- tle money. But the President evi- dently does not feel that way ubout it and will travel In an ordinary car for the sake of economy. A rather heated flareup on the part of the Associated General Con tractors of America over the part played by theArmy Engineer Corps in public-work construction marked the convention in Washington last week of the contractors. It was charged v Engineer Corps is com peting with private industry and per- forming work #t costs which exceed original estimates. The Army Engi- neer Corps officfals denied both charges and declared they could not be substantiated. Dispatches from Berlin report that Germany is intending to place an in- creased tariff on certain dyes and other products affecting the chemical industry; on barley, rye, wheat and oats, meats and automobiles. The tariff on automobiles, Americans in Berlin believe, would bar American machines from the market. A letter from President Coolidge was a feature of the celebration last week of the second anniversary of the establishment in New York City of, the Federation Bank, which was started by 4 small group of union men and which has seen its resources grow from $500,000 to $11,078, President Coolidge congratulated the union bankers upon their success, declaring “your institution is another evidence of our economic democracy,” and its existence shows that the ‘‘people of this country own the property of the country America pays an annual toll of 11,000 lives to the murderer, which is double the rate for 1900, according to the Prudential Life Insurance Co. “Recent murder t .* said an article which cited the statistics, “leave no room for doubt that our judicial ad- ministration in capital cases is not what it should be, American automobile manufacturers have invested $15,000,000 in Mexican highways, getting bonds in return. It will probably be a of bread Properties We are specializing in Du drive from Jacksonville, on the thrown upon the waters for the Amer-| ican manufacturers and result in bet- ter roads in Mexico, which is also re- taining a gasoline tax to help pay for| highway construction. Business meh from every part of the United States gathered in Wash- ington last week for the thirtieth annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and heard speeches from experts on nearly every phase of American industrial life. They were welcomed by thelir president, Richard F. Grant, who ap- pealed to them for a continuation of the fundamental thinking and altru- istic aggressiveness with “which, in a century, they have built the world's greatest civilization. Aviation. One of the greatest and most far- reaching steps in commercial aviation in this country was indicated last week in the formation of the Na- tional Air Transport, Inc., which, be- ginning In_the Kall, will transport express und freight by night between New York and Chicago. Col. Paul Henderson, Second Assistant Post master Genegyl, in charge of the alr mall, will resign his post with the Government soon and become general manager of the new line, it is stated. The new company is capjtalized at $10,000,000. MUTILATOR IN JAIL. Held in Custody Despite $50,000 Appeal Bond. RALEIGH, N. C., May 23 (®. | Henry Dennis Griffin, under sentence of 30 years' imprisonmnet for lhe! mutilation of Joseph Needleman, | tobacco salesman, was still confined | in State prison today, although his} appeal bond of $30,000 has been signed by & number of citizens of the State. Grifin is not being allowed freedom pending word from Solicitor Don Gil- liam of Tarboro, whom Gov. McLean has asked to ascertain if the appeal has been perfected in accordance with | the judgment of the court. The sen- tence was passed on Grifin following his trial with more than a score of others for removing Needleman from the Martin County Jjail, where he wi held on a charge of attack upon a, young girl, and mutilating him. i —_——— i seals are so numerous off the t and that they have caused a fish shortage. We Have Listed Groves Truck Farms Acreage (unimproved) Improved Property Lots, fifteen minutes’ val City i Coastal Highway and Atlanti Seaboard Raitway, a splendid location for a Winter home or as an investment. Property vall Consult us regarding any do not have the information y. deavor to get it for you throu ues here are increasing rapidly. FLORIDA property. If we ou desire at hand, we will en- gh reliable sources COASTAL REALTY CO., Inc. 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