Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1925, Page 17

- gthe topics scheduled for consideration, 'affected by the fire, i iz MONDAY, J UNE - 8, 1925. UNITED ATES NAVY PRESE Plunkett, representing the Navy, presentin S ser used ¢ is from the U. S. fieet during the THE PRESIDENT'S SHOEMAKER sleemaker, making a pair of Summer has been making shoes for Mr. Coolid LAHAINA RUNORED AS HAWATAN BASE Gov. Farrington to Maui Strengthens Talk. By the Ascociated Press HONOLULU, Territory of Hawali June S.—Rumors that the fleet com mand hopes to establish at Lahaina roadstead a secondary base for ex tensive maneuvers gained strength today after a visit by Admiral Coontz a member of his staff and Gov. Far rington of the Hawaiian Islands aboard the cruiser Marblehead, (o the Island of Maul. Although naval men decline to dis cuss the subject, It is known that the high command looks on Lahaina ax the most favorable drill ground avail able to the United States fleet al pres ent. It is pointed out that with the fleet anchored in Lahaina roads the admiral of the fleet has practically | the entire Pacific Ocean avallable for maneuvering afier once passing the end of Lanai Island Lacks Recreations. The disadvantages of Lahaina as| an anchor: for more extensive ex-| ercizes, as pointed out. include the| fact that the fleet musi steam 2,100 | miles or more (o ch Maul. Als recreation and entertainment facili ties for the enlisted men are limited. police in investigating the murder of ,yoihe, (ASIRT N U However, it was pointed out that the Navy eould, with an expenditure of | $100,000 or less, construct base bal, | basket ball and tennis accommoda- | tions sufficient to take care of the| entire fleet personnel which comes ashore each day It was also pointed out that en route to Hawali the fleet could be put through maneuvers which would provide invaluable train. Ing to. subdivision commanders and men. These two considerations, in the opinion of naval men. outweigh' the disadvantages of Lahaina as a maneu- | ver base. H While Admiral Coontz remains | silent as to the results of the recent|waste can be eliminated and im-|joes estimated at $400,000. maneuvers, it is known unofficially | provement of their product effected by{ “mhe fire, of unknown origin, started that the exercises in Hawailan waters |national co-operatidn between "e\on the fifth floor of the Barlow Moor were extremely gratifyi and |cream manufacturers was the sub-|Tobacco Co. The entire plant burned. considered a, justification of Americ ]mmm- of an address delivered here|phe plant of the Rurley Tobacco policy of splitting the fleet during |tonight by J. H. MacLafferty, assist- | Growers’ Co-operative Association, was most of the vear and bringing it to-|ant to Secretary of Commerce Hoover. |g1so burned. The old Planing Mill Co.’s gether for neuvers during three [The address was glven at the open-|yyjlding was destroyed, entailing a months of each year, a policy which!ing of a special meeting of move than|joss of $75,000. The firemen were was ridiculed hy foreign direciors, executive committee- | helpless, as the water pressure was when it was originally proposed. men and standing committee chair-|nor sufficient to reach the top of men of the National Assoclation of | puildings. PLANNING F(SR FLAG DAY., Officials to Select Date for Observ- ance in Schools. b Whether “Flag day” shall be ob-! served in the public schools June 13 | or 14, will be decided at a oonference hetween Supt. Frank W. Ballou and the various administrative and super- | visory officers this afternoon at the Thomson School. Seme of the officers have proposed that the schools cele brate Friday as the schools will be ciosed on Saturday when the nation observes the day. A number of other routirie matters will be discussed at the conference which will be the final meeting of the current school term between Dr.| Rallou and the officers. Leaves of bsence and the subjects to be in- cluded In annual reports are among NTS HISTORIC the C NS TO AT WORK. James Lucey, a Boston shoes for President Coolidge. Lucey Ige for many vears. Wide World Photo. Dash by Dirigible FINDS NIGHT WORK | “Missing Boy” Scare for Detectives To Pole in 1927 Planned by Nansen By the Associated Press BERLIN, June 8- -Dr. Rridtjof Nunsen, Arctic explorer and diplo. mat, and Comdr. Walter Bruns erman aeronaut authority, have evolved a plan to explore the North Pole region with a diri- gible in 1927, The airship will have a capacity of 150,000 cubic meters. capable of carrying & party of 50 with provisions for 90 days. The plans call for a trip from Amsterdam to Yokohama by way of the pole in five and a half days. ASSASSINS OF SIRDAR Chauffeur Gets Two Years for Helping Slayers of Sir Lee Stack Escape. By the Associated Pr CAIRO, Egypt June S Kight of | the men convicted of participation in |ant * the assassination last November of Sir Lee Stack. Sivdar of the Egyptian army, have been sentenced to death. The chauffeur, Mahmud Saleh. who drove the car In which the assassins escaped, was sentenced to two vears; imprisonment After the sentences were read some of the prisoners were removed from the dock struggling and shrieking. An ex-convict, Neguib Helbawi, who was the chief agent employed by the the Sirdar and who was mainly re- sponsible for the success of the police inquiry, has received a reward of 10,000 Egyptian pounds (about $49,400) which the government offered for the apprehension of the murderers. SAVING OF BILLIONS SEEN. Hoover Aid Says Ice Cream Makers Are Wasteful. HARTFORD, Mich, June § (#).- That billions of dollars of competitiv fee Cresm Manufacturers. Simplification of varieties of prod and standarization of account- Ing practices were urged as a means to_better conditions. Dr. C. W. Larson. chairman of the United States Bureau of Dairying, was the second speakel g ALNE Killed by Explosion. Explosion of coal oil used in starting a fire in the Kitchen stove yesterday | morning inflicted fatal burns to Annie Ayers, colored, 49 vears old, of 721 Fifty-first street northeast. ‘Walter Smith, colored, a neighbor, was severely hurnéd about the body while trying to save the woman's life. Mrs. Ayers, burned about the body, face and hands, died at Emergency, Hospital several hours after. Smith was treated at Casualty Hos- pital. His burns were painful, but physicians sald he was gl. dangerousiy NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. at a special ceremony Saturday. ring the World War, and the other was used in Admiral Farragut’s Rear Ad he gun in the picture Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. shot to defeat Bobby Jones at Wo, i g f IS MOTHERS’ HEAVEN ‘New York Woman Pleads for ]n—‘ dustrial Equity for’ Both Sexes. By ihe Associated Pres | DETROIT, June 8.—Night work | |and heaven are svnonymous ! {mother, Mary A. Murray, New York. | ‘\\‘h(h an hour before had heen named chairman of the industrial council of | the National Women's Party, told a mass meeting on industrial equity | here yesterday. It was the final meeting of the Midwest conference. {in session here for four da: Other speakers added to Mrs. Murray's op [position to the American Federation of Labor, which she was condemning when she broke into her story of the |trials of raising five children and working days, with the statement:| | ht work 1o u mother is heaven on earth. ad worked nights | for 12 years, she continued ! | testriction Scored. | A moment later Doris Stevens (Mrs. | Dudley Field Malone) warned the | | American Federation of Labor that unless all lab legislation was made so it affected “‘persons’” and not wom. {en the labor legislation of the coun |try would go down and not up. Pres. rotective” laws for women were |{declared too restrictive. in that they | allowed the men to work overtime | while restricting women to an eight- hour day and penalizing the em | player who allowed a woman to work | a minute over the legal limit. ‘ ‘Women were ‘“‘protected” in labor on the same basis that nations as-| sumed protectora over countries, because of the desire of some one to exploit them. Miss Stevens argued. “The majority of night workers are declaved in her to a | protest ‘against the injustice of pre- venting women working at a time when their duties are easiest, and, in ! the ca: | when of many restaurant positions, | the tips are the largest.” | | | FIRE LOSS $400,000. | P [ Blaze Sweeps Glasgow, Ky., One | Man Fatally Hurt. GLASGOW, Ky., June 8 (#)—Fire wept two blocks in the southeast part of Glasgow last night, causing a Porter Benedict, fell from the roof jof a bullding, being overcome, and struck a cement walk injuring him-| self fatally. Many citizens reveiced burns, with many prostrations and injuries. More than 100 people were thrown out of employment by the fire. DEMOCRATS LOSE. Gain Three Members of Philippine Senate but Drop Five in House. MANILA, June 8 (#).—Virtually complete official returns from the re- cent .election shows that the Demo- crata party gained three seats in the Senate, but lost five in the House. The new Senate will be made up of 14 members of the Nationalista-Consol- idato and eight Democratas. The House will consist of 72 Nationalistas and 21 Democratas. | mobile accident PAINTING POSTER FOR POLI of the New York police. force posed for the painting. reester, Mass. Howard Chandler Christy, well known illustrator, at work on a special postet for the annual games Detective Frank Berry of the plain clothes Copyright by Underwood & Underwood THE SHOT THAT MADE A GOLF CHAMPION. Willie Macfarlane, the new open champion, making the last Jones was beaten by only one stroke in a double piay-off. Copyright by P. & A. Photos Proves Mere Hot-Weather Episode Early this morning the sleepy force of detectives at police head quarters were aroused Lo action by « frantic telephone call from $13 Vermont avenue, conveying the news that 12-year-old Michael Brown had mysteriously dis peared during the night in his nightclothes. Simultaneously lookout warning was flashed to the 15 po lice precincts and immediately a city-wide search was hegun for the missing boy. The parents informed the police that their son may have become crazed with the heat and sharp watch. accordingly, was in- stituted along the river banks and other bodies of water where the unfortunate lad might have plunged to his death in a fit of delirium. Second Call in Milder Tone. he police machinery was just beginning to hum in its efficient, monotonous way when a second call was plugged in at the police _switchboard: The operator recog nized the voice as that of the per- son who had turned in the “lost” alarm a few moments before. voice faltered We have faintly Yes. ves on.” the operator gasped eagerly, visions of a child’'s broken bodyv on the lav:n heneath found him,” it a bedroom window shooting through his mind. Mike “Got Too Hot. “Mike got too hot and went fo of the house the voice con- sleep in another par where it was cooler tinued. A plug on the police switchboard was jerkel from its socket savage- ly and the operator's hand wiped the beads of perspiration from a dripping forehead. “One more call like that and I'll be plugging them in across the river,” he soliloqhized NOTED BELLECLAIR BAR TO BE BROKER’S OFFICE Place Where Pearl Drank “God- speed’’ Before Polar Dash Will Be Business House, By the A NEW ociated Press. YORK the Hotel Belleclair. at Broadway and Seventy-seventh street, which was reputed to be the birthplace of the once widely known beverage Tom Collins, and which numbered among its clients in its heyday such men as Peary, Louis of Battenberg and Lip- ton, will pass from the scene (his week when it will be remodeled as a brokerage office. The once famous barroom has been closed ince the Volstead act went into effect, but the mahogany bar and the brass rail where men prominent in the social, dramatic and sporting life of the city once spent their hours of relaxation had been kept in place. At this bar Admiral Peary drank a final “Godspeed” glass before he started for the North Pole. Prince Louis of Battenberz presented the bar with a pair of steins when he was commanding the ~German _naval squadron sent to the Hudson-Fulton celebration. =Sir Thomas Lipton went: there with members of the cup race committee and drank toasts to the victorious American yacht. Gen. Japojnikoff of the Russian war mis- sion met_there with representatives of the Baldwin Locomotive Works and signed a munitions contract for $100,000,000. : LEAGUE HONORS DARLING Passes Resolution of Regret at Death of Baltimore Doctor. GENEVA, June 8 (#).—The opening session today of the Council of the | Leagua of Nations adopted a resolu- tion of vegret at the death in an auto- near Beirut, Syria, May 22, of Dr. Samuel T. Darling of Baltimore, Md., corresponding mem- ber of the league's malaria commis- sion and a member of the staff of the Rockefeller Foundation. The resolution said: “The Council of the League of Nations expresses to the Government of the United States and to the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foungdation its sor- row at the loss of this distingulshed American, and its appreciation of Dr. Darling’s valued assistance in the work of the league's’ malaria com- mission.” June 8.—The har of | | | ZANNI’'S DAMAGED PLANE WILL BE SHIPPED HOME Argentine Aviator, Who Abandon- ed World Flight. Plans Air Trip, TU. 8. to By the Aseociated TOKIO. June 8.—Maj. Pedro Zanni, Argentine fiver, stated today that the convoys which were to have assisted him in his hop across the Pacific were returning to Seattle this after- noon. His damaged airplane, injury to which caused abandonment of his Buenos Aires. Press. attempt to encircle the globe, is to be shipped to. Argentina. Maj. Zanni expects to arrive in New York some time in July, whence he hopes to receive a new airplane o which to fly to Buenos Aires. How- ever, permission for this flight has not yet been received. Maj. Zannl said that the abandon ment of his world fight was neces | sitated due to his inability to obtain | a new plane in sufficient time to take off during the flving season. He said been apprised of the circumstances and had consented to the ending of his world-circling attempt. BANKS IN 64 SCHOOLS. 25 Per Cent of Pupils in Baltimore Become Depositors. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, June 8 —Twenty-five per cent of all the school children in Baitimore now have thriving bank accounts. 5 ‘Well organized banks are now in | operation in 64 schools. will be launched next fall. The banks are sponsored by the Baltimore Association of Mutual Sav ings Banks. Out of ‘the 47 chil- dren_enrolied in the 64 schools where the banks are operated. 27,999 were depositors, 59.1 per cent of the total. These schools have had 1,331 bank ing days, 256,946 transactions, and the gross receipts to date are $75,811.66. The average account is around $1.50. Nine more The banks have been operated for 10 | schools months. . Dentist Is Sued. Marie Sedgwick, through Attorney T. Morris Wampler, has filed suit to recover $25,000 from Mark C. Bullls, a dentist, for alleged malpractice. The plaintiff declares she went to the dentist August 15 for treatment and charges that he was negligent in operating on her teeth. SCULPTRESS CLIMBS HIGH TO ground when the photographer snapped this picture. ian. Former King Ferdinand, living quietly in Berlin, photographed while taking an early morning stroll near his home. Copyricht by P. & A. Photos. POSTAL INCOME LESS BY $12,000,000 YEAR ! ) ? Once a king, now a plain ci ! Authorities Show Huge Decline in | | Receipts Despite Increase in Postage Rates. | Postal revenues, instead of being |boosted, as contemplated in the in |ereased postage rates, which became | effective April 15, are declining at the Irate of more than $12,000,000 & year. |it was indicated today in a summar) of receipts for May. Receipts at 50 selected post offices for May totaled 454,861, as com: |pared with $20.083.231 for April and 1$29.085.090 for March. These offices, which turn in more than half of the country's postal receipts, reported a decrease of more than $20,000 for each business day, as compared with March. { when the old rates were in effect. | Washington, however, showed an increase in recelpts over May last year lof 1.67 per ceantl, Assistant Ci Post 'nmsle-r Willlam H. Haycock an nounced Receipts for May, 1924, in | month there were 26 working which davs, were $378,964.63, and for May, 11925, with only 25 working days, the | | money received amounted to $384.- 92 20, or an increase of $5,958.57. Postal officials are awalting the June reports. which are expected to show | whether the business decrease is tem. {porary. A summary of the effects of {the heavier postage rates then will be prepared for presentation to the | Joint_congressional postal committee, | which, will open hearings here July 120 looking to a permanent revision | of rates to meet the $68,000,000 salary |increase voted employes by the .l Congress. | Newark, N. J., reported the largest |increase in receipts for May as com- pared with May a year ago, 19.65 per cent, while Akron and Dayten were second and third. Four offices—Pitts- burgh, Des Moines, Rochester and Svracuse —showed decreases in re- ceipts EATH BURNEFTO D | that the Buenos Aires committee had | IN AIRPLANE CRASH Two Women Killed and Man In- jured When Craft Bursts Into Flames. ’ ] By the Associated Press. | CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., June 8.— Pearl Bayfinger, 20, and Grace E. Lamer, 26, both of Cobden, Ill., were burned to death and John Hunter, St. Louis, Mo., was injured when an airplane in which they were riding fell to the ground and burst into flames here yesterday. The machine |fell from a haight of 40 or 50 feet. % ABYSSINIA WINS ARMS. From Prohibitive Zone. GENEVA, June 8 (#).—Abyssinia, the newest member of the League of Natlons has won her struggle against | being included in the prohibitive zone of Africa where the importation of arms will be subject to special re- strictions under the convention now being drafted by the international con- ference here. Abyssiania has been ex- cluded from the barred zone, provided she makes accords with the interested powers to prevent gun-running into the neighboring colonies. Egypt _also has been placed ont- side the barred zone, but the Sudan is incluged. The Persian Gulf is in- cludell in the forbidden maritime sone. | African Nation WHIF Be Excluded | THE LAST WORD IN BATHING vacht, a portable affair of less than Ued rigged with rubber pontoons, a head eushion. The idea comes from Bathers, Wearing “Very Little.,” Are Routed by Polire: Special Dispateh to The Star | Wik MSPORT. Md., June 8. —Bathers who wore “very little” were routed from Conomac Beach here vesterday by Constable A. D. Hawbaker following a complaint to the city authorities by a delegation of indignant citizens, The authorities were told that young shebas and shieks were go ing to the beach and coming back and standing around, with bathing suits that could hardly be called bathing suits at all. and that from the amount. of swimming done they might just as well he dressed for church. BOATING PARTY OF 14 HURT IN EXPLOSION 50-Gallon Gasoline Tank Crashes Aboard Launch in Ohio River Near Louisville. 1 By tha Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Juna & Four- teen members of a boating party were burned, four of them seriously, when a 50-gallon gascline tank exploded on a small launch in the Ohio River six miles above Loulsville yesterday after noon. The accident occurred within 100 vards of the Indiana shore near several other boating and picnicking parties. A small report was followed by a terriffic explosion, witnesses said. Three passengers on the launch were thrown into water while a 12. month-old infant, in its mother’s arms, éscaped with slight burns. Those; who were not thrown into the river by the explosion jumped and were pulled aboard a skiff tied to the stern of the launch. | The injured were taken to the Ken | tucky Baptist Hospital. Physicians an- nounced all would recover. The most | seriously burned were ward von | 8tilli, automobile salesman, Mrs. von | Stilll, his wife von Stillf: | |and "John C. automobile | | water's edge. |MANUEL’S VISIT PRIVATE. LISBON, Portugal, June § (#).— Concerning reports in circuiation that political significance attached to the presence of former King Manuel. in Rome, on the occasion of the recent pllgrimage of 2,000 Portuguese Cath- olics to the Holy City, the Portuguese government has issued an official note. This note, said to have been in- spired by the vatican, asserts that | the reception given Manuel in Rome { was of purely private and unofficial nature, and that the visits exchanged between Manuel and the vatican authorities were simply of courtesy Manuel Mrs. John Schwarz, was not permitted to assist in the ceremony of the cannoniza- tion of St. Theresa. He did not sit in the royal box, but in the hox re- served members of Saint Theresa's | family. He traveled and was receiv- ed under his title, Count de Ouret. Manager Reports Hold-Up. ‘Wilbur A. Doyle, 307 Fourth street northeast, reported to the police that he was held up by an unidentified colored man at the point of a pistol this morning and robbed of $107 be- longing to his employer. He is manager of a chain store at 1509 H street northeast, where he reported he ‘was held up shortly after the opening hour. Police are investigating - the report. F COMPLETE HER WORK. Miss Malvina Hoffmann. completing one of the figures of a heroic group at Bush House, Aldwych, England | State to e | making body American sculptress, She was 80 feet from the sht by P. & A. T LUXURY. The aquapl hing 200 pounds, which consists of a sea sail, sun canopy and a comfortable England, Copsrisht by P. & A. Phot UNGAMERAL PLAN URGED N . DAKOTA One-House Legislature Scheme Gathering New Supporters Every Year. By the Associated Press PIE S. D., June s kota, first State in the Union to adept IR South Da the initiative and referendum and first ablish a system of rural credits branch of government, is interesting itself seriously in another governmental innovation —a one house Legislature. The unicameral legislative reform is proposed and sponsored by Robert nmett Dowdell, a veteran Demo crat and State Senator, but it has gained support from so wide a range | of political thought in the State tha it already looms as a major issue in |the Legislature of 1927 The plan contemplates elimination of the State Senate and House of Rep- resentatives, now compesed of 46 and 103 members, respectively, and the zet ting up in their stead of a single house with from 16 to 21 members This body would meet at least once every three months 10 enact necessary legislation and it could be in session continuously or whenever there was need for it 1o sit. Its members would be elected from districts in propor tion to population and with little re gard for county lines Proposed 17 Senator Dowdell first proposed the plan 17 years ago, but not until re cent yvears has his innovation found general support or gained enough ad herents to bring it before the legis- lature for serious consideration The State Senate at the 1925 session pass Years Ago. ed by a handsome majority a resoli- tion by Dowdell submitti to the voters of the State a constitutional amendment to abolish the House and Senate and set up the unicameral law- The resolution died in the House, when adoption of an unfavorable committee report pre vented it from coming to the floor for debate on its merits, but Senator Dow- dell already is working for its sub- mission to the 1917 legislautre and he has much strong support in the State. Among the influential advo- cates’ of the unicameral system is former Gov. Charles N. Herreid, Re publican. Many of the newspapers of the State favor presenting the plan to the voters for adoption or rejection. Even if the Dowdell I met with no more setbacks, er, it could not' be put into effect until 1930, A constitutional amendment must he submitted to the voters hy legisiative joint resolution and approval at a regular election hefore it hecomes effective. The legislature meets again two years hence and the plan could not be presented to the voters until 1925, Sues Shipping Board. The United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation was sued for $25,000 damages today in the District Supreme Court by Edward Aargaard, a marine fireman, for all ed personal injuries. The plaintiff, through Attorney Fayette B. Dow, tells the court that he was engaged April 20, 1923, at Seattle, Wash., for a voyage to the orient and on June % following, while unjoading the hip's cargo. he was struck and knoclid 40 feet, sustaining serious lnjury,’ i {