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HOUSTON STATUE AROUSES TEXANS Factions Are Heated, Pro and Con, in Debate on Monument. By Consolidated Pres HOUSTON, Tex., Junc 13.—Another Texas revolution is being fought to prevent a statue in memory of the victorfous leader of the last one, Gen. Sam Houston, gracing a public place in this, his home town. Factions, clubs, societies, historians, real estate men, school teachers and persons of artistic temperament are fighting the issue pro and con. The latest to join the forces against the statue is A. J. Houston, son of the departed and revered general. Price Is Protested. It would, forsooth, be a battered statue if the imprecations, ridicule, slander and epithets hurled at it were of material form. As soon as the idea of a statue had germinated, the Sam Houston Monument Association was formed. Then it was announced that sculptors were to design a suit able model, to be accepted by judges * appointed by the organization. Enrico Corrachio, Houston sculptor, was se- lected. His model was that of the general in idealistic. but still historic costume, astride a vibrant horse that flamed with action. The statue would cost $75,000, Corrachio declared. Instantly the artistically inclined, their friends, relatives and others voiced loud resentment. Since then Corrachio and members of the asso- ciation have known no peace. After months of work the association raised $75.000. The State of Texas ap- propriated §25,000, the city of Hous- ton $10,000 and popular subscription the balance. Corrachio went to New York, and there the great statue, 15 feet high, took form. Attacked as Crude. ©_ But while Corrachio worked the battle waged at Houston. It has been decided that a4 sunken garden at the intersection of several streets in the most select section of the city should be the site for the statue. But such an idea filled opponents of the scheme with horror. It would obstruct traffic. It would be too crude to grace such a public place. There were million- aires’ mansions all around the place and the statue would not fit in with the artistic environment. But association members stood firm. Injunction suits followed. With many council meetings, and arguments filled columns in the newspapers. Finally it was decided to put the statue in & park near the former site. Yes, the statue would be under towering pines, and viewed mostly by playing chil- dren, but it could not be helped. Traffidc must not be obstructed. Things settled down for a little while, A few persons even forgot about the thing. ~Then another charge wasg made by the revolutionists Scored by Son. “The statue is a monstrosity, it embarasses me and relatives of the Houston family,” said A. J. Houston, son of the general. Then he insti- ‘tuted injunction proceedings to re- strain the statue being placed any- where with the name Houston on it or anywhere near it. Mr. Houston sald the statue did not even resemble his father, that it hardly resembled a member of the Anglo-Saxon race. He said it was crude and lacked everything to make it acceptable. Judges of the association who ac- cepted the monument declare it a fine likeness of the general. They point out that the general died when his son was a mere boy, and that the latter could not remember how his father looked. They exhibit a photo- graph of what is conceded to be the best picture of the general, which was used by the sculptor. The horse, they say, was modeled after a stallion owned by a horse fancier of the city. But the son of the general remains adamant. There is talk now of passing a law prohibiting the erec- tion of & memorial statue to any one within three generations after death, 50 that there wil be no interested | near relatives to interfere. “The main thing I dislike that statue is the hat, Houston today. “Dad never wore a hat shaped like that. That's the kind Napoleon wore.” - U. S. MONEY FLOWS INTO RUSSIA AGAIN Remittances to Families in 01d Country Run Into Millions, about said A. J. Correspondence of the Associated Press. MOSCOW, May 20.—Although no of- ficial relations exist between the| United States and Soviet Russia, inti- mate contact by letter is maintained by Russians living in America with their relatives in Russia. Tens of thousands of Russians in the home. Jand are supported entirely by remit- tances received from sons, daughters, fathers or brothers who emigrated to America. Previous to the World War an aver- age of $30,000,000 was sent annually 10 Russia from the United States by Russians settled in America. Al though this sum has never been reached since, the remittances grad-| nally are assuming their pre-war level. Last month, for example, a single in- stitution here which makes a specialty of banking business with Americans, handled nearly $1,000,000 in remit- tances from Russians in America to relatives in Russia. For a long time Russians here es.| pecially in the villages, had no con- fidence in the local Russian currency. | and insisted on recelving American greenbacks from their relatives, in| preference to Russian rubles. But with the stabilization of Russian money this situation has changed, and | during the last six months more than 20 per cent of the remittances trans- ferred through this one bank were in Russlan currency. BOOK COLLECTORS MEET. Come From All Parts of World to Florence Fair. Correspondence of the Associated Press ROME, May 27.—Book collectors from all parts of the world flocked to Florence this month to attend the Second International Book Fair, at which bibliophiles were able to ex- amine the finest productions of nearly all the book-producing nations of Furope. Asia, America, Africa and Australia. The largest exhibits were from Italy, France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Jugoslavia, Poland and Rumania, but small nations like Siam, Lithuania and Venezuela vied with larger ones like Mexico and Czecho- slovakia in rich contributions to the fair. There were particularly interesting collections of sacred books, of Jap- | it Carload of Snow Sent to Cleveland By Denver Rotary By the Associated Pres: DENVER, June 13 fashioned from nature’s ‘‘white blanket,” which covers many of Colorado’s high mountain peaks the year round will be tossed about in Cleveland, Ohio, next Tuesday by Denver Rotarians attending the international Rotary ~convention there. A group of Denver Rotarians left today for the convention, and at- tached to their train was a refrig- erator car containing a load of snow from the Rocky Mountains. COTTON BELT LAND VALUES INGREASE Hold Own Despite Boll Wee- vil and Exodus of Farm Labor From South. —Snowballs Despite the boll weevil and negro labor migration, farm land values in the cotton belt have averaged an in- crease since 1923, L. C. Gray, farm land values expert of the Department of Agriculture, declared yesterday. In fact, he asserted during the heavy post-war deflation land values in the cotton belt showed less loss than any other farming community and much less than the wheat belt. As an illustration, he added for the five-year period beginning with 1920 land values in the United States as a whole decreased 30 per cent, in lowa 38 per cent and in the cotton belt only 18.6 per cent. Since 1923, he said, these losses have been lessened, with the United States as a whole showing a decrease of 5.3 per cent, Towa 11.8, while the cotton belt shows an actual increase of 7.3 per cent. Texas Lands Lead. By States the statistice show that for the two-year period beginning with 1923 land values in Texas increased 13.6 per cent, Mississippi decreased 7.7 per cent, Alabama increased 7.7 per cent, Georgia decreased 3.8 per cent, South Carolina increased 8.6 per cent and North Carolina showed no change. Although a greater number of ne- groes now are moving from the South to the North than from the North to the South, Dr. Grey declared this movement of negro labor does not ap- pear to curtail cotton acreage. As a matter of fact, he said, in 1918, when the negro exodus from the South was at its peak, 36,000,000 acres of cotton was picked, which was 2,000,000 acres more than the average picked for the five previous vears. During the period from 1909 to 1913, when the movement of negro labor virtually was at a standstill, the aver- acreage picked was 34,000,000, while in 1923, when concern was ex pressed over negro migration, ‘37,000, 000 acres were picked, or 3,000,000 more than when negro labor was abundant. ouit . - ARGENTINE GREETING OF PRINCE TO DAZZLE Wales Will Be Received at Buenos Aires With Brilliant Illumina- tion of Whole City. Correspondence of the Associated Press. = BUENOS AIRES, May 14—When the Prince of Wales sees Buenos Aires by night for the first time, he may wonder whether he is a prince of the Arabian Nights, and what genil have transformed this southern metropolis into a dazzling fairyland of light and beauty to do him honor. Buenos Aires is famed for its ex- travagance in illumination and deco- ration to celebrate carnival and na- tional holidays, every vear outdoing what was done the year before. It staged, perhaps, the most wondeful display of illumination ever seen in any city on the occasion of the visit of the Itallan prince last vear, and now for the visit of the scion of Eng- lish royalty, it is preparing to break the record again. Ribbons of Light. Millions of muiticolored _ electric light globes will be used. They will outline the government house, the Capitol, all_public_edifices and hun- dreds of office buildings and institu- tions. The Avenida de Mayo, which is Buenos Aires’ Broadway, will be a gleaming bower of electric garlands and arches, placed every half block. The many parks and plazas of the city will be planted with artistic columns joined with lacelike ribbons of light, and the walks and flower beds will be outlined with lights set in the ground. Electric lights, too, will flash out the flags and coats of arms of Great Brit- ain and Argentina, placed at appro- priate points, and searchlights and in- direct glow lights will also be used with effect. Near Prince’s Quarters. Mingled with all will be a profuse display of streamers and flags of both countries which will make the city gay with color during the day as well at night Special pain will be taken in the artistic decoration of the streets leading to the mansion where the prince will live. MEXICAN ADVENTURERS' MAY LOSE CITIZENSHIP Will Be Denied Privilege If They Join Spanish Forces in Morroccan War. ! the Associated Press. TY, Ma Because they did not first secure permission from Congress to fight under the flag of ariother natfon, Gens. Calixto Ramirez Garrido and Juan Merigo will lose their Mexican citizenship they succeed in their purpose of joining the Spanish forces in Morocco. Their cases were brought before the Permanent Congressional Commis- sion when the foreign office forward- ed a petition from Sotero Sanchez Mejia, a Mexican, resident of El Paso, Tex., for permission to fight the Ramirez Garrido and Merigo Mexico some months ago for Spain, and the commission is await- ing proof that they have been en- listed under the Spanish flag to take action under Article 27, Fraction II, of the constitution, and declare them expatriates. Arlington Schools Close June 26. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., June 13.—Ar- lington County public schools will close for the Summer vacation June 2§. Speculation as to when the &chools will close has been rife for some time, many persons having gotten the im- pression that the date for closing had been set for June 19. Army Sergeant Is Retired. Correspondence MEXICO anese books and of Hebrew books, the last named including contribu- tions from the United States, Poland, Italy and Egypt. Sergt. John W. Johnson, Tank Bat- talion, at Camp Meade, Md., has been placed on the retired list of the Army on account of age. INDUSTRIAL SCARS ARE HIDDEN IN'SAAR Splendid Forests Hide Ugli- ness of Mines and Factories. (This is one of & series of articles by Mr. Mowrer on business, politi- cal and social conditions in the Saar basin.) BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. Correspondence of The Star and the Chicay Daily News. SAARBRUECKEN, Territory of the Saar, May 7.—This is a beautiful coun- try. Rows of wooded hills stretch across the horizon. Forests of pine and deciduous trees alternate. White roads climb the precipitous slopes and plunge down steep descents into val- leys. Yet 400 miles of railroad and switching link these hills and valleys, through which the River Saar flows calmly, into a huge industrial organ- ism. Tt is the only highly industrial- ized country I have ever seen that is not an eyesore. T expected to find a scar on the land- scape, something like the “black coun- try” in England or the horror of the Pennsylvania coal fields. The Saar is different—thanks to the forests, the agricultural ambitions of the inhabit- ants, the general prosperity. Rarely does one get beyond sight of dwellings. The principal roads from one end of the territory to the other are lined with buildings that string together 20 tairly large towns. Chere are exceptions. Mefflach, in the northwest corner, site of the great pottery works of Villeroy and Boch, is the center of a small agricultural region. But the country produces enough food to feed its population only 44 days in the year. Industry dominates—mines, factories, mills. But for the most part one does not see them. Many Agreeable Towns. Automobiles move swiftly along glassy wood roads. Green birch boughs meet overhead. Suddenly, at a_turn, three tall chimneys emerge above the tree tops, belching soot. It is @ coal mine. Across the ro feet above the ground, stretc great black pipe, mounted on iron stilts. But one sees neither mine nor mill until agtually beside them. Around the factory or the cokery stand the cottages of the miners and other workrien, decent and well built, and each with its little plot of ground. Children tend the cows back in the woods, goats eat the lowest branches of the birches, chickens scoot across the roads, and all the pleasures of country life are at hand. Yet there are the strange reservoirs and domes and chimneys of the steel mills. It is confusing and, so far as I know, unique. Even the towns are less ugly than similar centers elsewhere. There is a lack of squalor and @ decency them that redeems the grime. The shopwindows s overflowing, the inhabitants seem prosperous and contented, business is moving. The streets are filled with automobiles, many of them driven by workmen owners—a sight unusual in Europe. Saarbruecken, the “capital,” s a pleasant city of over 100,000, lying on both banks of the Saar River, here crossed by five bridges. Illingen Kirchen, St. Ingbert, Volklingen, louis, Dillingen, Merzig, have visited them all. There is no real poverty in the Saar, or, If there be, it is like the mines—hidden from view. People Thoroughly German. The towns abound in banks, some of them local, other branches of German and French institutions. Everything is solid—like the great building by the railroad station in Saarbruecken, the administration center of the ruling “mines.” The people are German—thorough- ly, completely German. In speech, in appearance, in customs, in sentiment and prevalling characteristics. The local dialect is hard to under- stand, but it is German. Occasionally in a hotel or an office or a shop one hears a few words of French. But the 12,000 French inhabitants brought in by ‘the government and the mines are lost among the 740,000 Germans, and the French tongue is even more rarely noticed than the horizon blue of the about the territory. That is extremely inconspicuous. The people are the dark-haired type of German, rather squat in sappear- ance even when tall in stature, and inclined to be fat. Shopkeepers com plain that Saar women find the im- vorted Paris models too small. The inhabitants are well educated. literate, _affable, fairly alert and docile. They work well and steadily, but need more supervision and direc- tion than French, English or Amer- ican workingmen. Two-thirds of them are Catholics. Big Families, All Prosperous. Perhaps it i8 on this account that their families are so numerous. No- where else have I seen so many chil- dren, not in southern Italy or Belgium or the Balkans or Poland. They swarm. Families with 10 to 16 sons and daughters are common. And they look decently clothed, well fed, and, for an industrial population, healthy. Politically, the people are passionate Germans, but not blindly so. Contact with France has opened their eyes to certain German defects and made them critical of the Berlin government. But all, from the Social Democrats to the Ixtreme Conservatives, are patriotic They intend to keep thefr German cus- toms and remain Deutsch. Partly from habit, partly from intention, they pre fer German to French goods. Articles made in Paris hardly compete wtih those made in Germany. Aside from a few luxuries and some motor cars, one sees few French goods offered for sale. So far as is compatible with league government and French interests, the old German laws have been preserved by the new rulers. This aids the in- habitgnts in the quiet, ceaseless strife they have waged for five years against the undoubted attempt by the French to coerce and win them over in view of the plebiscite 10 years from now. The Saar was and remains German. (Copyright. 1825. by Chicago Daily News Co.) EXPERTS CHOOSE BOOKS. Group Headed by Balfour Seeking to Restock Tokio Library. Correspondence of the Associated Press. LONDON, May 29.—Under the chairmanship. of Lord Balfour, learned men in every department of litera- ture and sclence are meeting in Lon- don to choose tens of thousands of British books to replace those de- stroyed in the University of Tokio during the great earthquake. The committee was formed by the British Academy at the request of the government, and Lord Balfour was chosen as chalrman because of his great knowledge of books. Already 12,000 volumes have been presented to the committee by learned institu- tions, publishers and private donors, and the government has now voted $125,000 for the purchase of additional ‘books. ¥ Lieutenant Quits Army. The resignation of Second Lieut. Armand J. Salmon, United States In- fantry, has been accepted by the President to take effect June 20. aar- Meflach—I 2,600 French soldiers scattered | D. C. CHILD DEATH RATE CUT BY EDUCATION FOR MOTHERS Local Welfare Work During 20 Years Has Made Great Reduction in Fatal Cases of “Summer” Ailments. Twenty-five years ago 216 children out of every thousand born in Wash- ington died before they were 1 year old. Last year only 75 died out of every thousand born Twenty years ago an exceptional hot wave, such as that which rolled over the city last week, would have left stacks of little white coffins in its wake. Last week, so far as the records show, there was no increase whatso- ever in child deaths. Formerly a few days of excessive heat was certain to fill every bed in Children’s Hospital and leave a wait- ing list. Today there are many empty beds than half as many as last year being occupied. ‘The reason for this exceptional con- dition, according to Dr. Hugh J. Davis, director of the Child Welfare Society, is that increasing education of mothers has practically eliminated the so-called “Summer” ailments of children, the digestive disorders due to sudden changes in conditions, which used to he death's trump cards in playing for child lives. Educational Worlk. This educational work has been going on for the past years in Washington, on a small scale at first, but with continued growth and effec: tiveness, until now it has answered the most perplexing problem of phy- siclans in dealing with children—not how to cure them when they get sick but how to prevent them from becom- ing sick. As the number of patients admitted to Children's Hospital has dropped, however, the attendance at the clinics of the Child Welfare Society has in- creased. During the past year these went up 00. Last month alone, 1,260 case were treated in the dis pensary. Many of these children would have become hospital patients and not & few of them would have died, had it not been for the fact that their moth- ers knew of the work of the clinic and brought the little ones there“in time. Despite the changeable weather this Summer, there have been no high peaks in the hospital records. There have been cases of disordered diges- tions, more or less serious, but they have shown no tendency to increase or decline in accordance with the antics of the thermometer, So remarkably has the educational work progressed, Dr. Davis sald, that the chief source of worry now is not Summer sickness, but Winter sick- ness. This problem itself gradually is yielding to education, but it s much more difficult and requires more at- tention to individual cases. Model for Country. The work of the Child Welfare So- ciety, formerly distributed in clinics about the city, now is concentrated at the Children’s Hospital clinie, which rapidly is becoming a model for the whole country. The neighborhood clinics have been taken over by the city health department. The Children’s Hospital clinic not BRITISH DRY LEAGUE SOLICITS TEACHERS Seeks to Align Colleges for Tem- perance Cause and Stop Student Drinking. Correspondence of the Associated Press. OXFORD, England, May 26.—The British National Temperance League is making strenuous efforts to con- vert English school teachers to its aims. Recently the leagle enter- tained the delegates of the National Union of Teachers at an Oxford breakfast, given, it 1s worth while noting, in the hall of Christ Church, whi in times past was noted as a heav drinking college. Many Ox- ford notables attended or announced their mpathy with the movement. The vice chancellor, whose office is somewhat equivalent to that of the American university president, point- ed out tha drinking has decreased | enormously in the university during |the past 20 vears. He sald that in his undergraduate days the usual en- tertainment was the wine party, whereas today such parties were held only on special occasions, as very few students regularly keep wine in their rooms. There was, he sald, no reason for relaxing the prohibition campaign on this account. In this he was probably correct, for strict temperance has not yet in Oxford ac- quired the full status of a virtue. The colleges all sell beer, ale and wines to | their students on long and easy cred- its, and provide these drinks iMf thelr hails, and several operate thelr own breweries. But at that there has been great improvement. A late seventeenth century chronicler, speaking of Bal- liol College which is now known as the intellectual leader of Oxford, said: “There is over against Balliol a hor- rid, dingy, scandalous alehouse, fit for none but draymen and tinkers. Here the Balllol men_ continually do lie, and by perpetual bibbing add art to their natural stupidity to make themselves perfect sots.” DERELICT, POLICE GUEST, DIES SHIELDING IDENTITY Man Drifted Into New Orleans Station House and Stayed Three Years. By the Aesociated Press. NEW ORLEANS, June 18.—“Old John,” the city's most unusual guest, is dead, and policemen attached to the second precinct station are mourning the passing of a friend. g The old man drifted in three vears ago and begged a night's lodging. That was granted, as is customary, but the old fellow made himself so friendly and useful that he simply stayed on, although, according to the law, he should have been sent to a charity home. He ran errands for policemen and prisoners and did odd jobs around the station house, picking up what change he could and wearing what friendly policemen gave him. ‘When he died an effort was made to learn something definite about him, but he had rarely talked about him- self and all-that could be learned was that he was John Francis, 74, native of Montreal, and had two_sisters in Illinois. He said once he had mnot seen them for 30 years. WATER BARS FROST. YAKIMA, Wash., June 13 (#).—By sprinkling his cherry trees Kelly Pr{ce of Selah, near here, 18 convinced he has found a new method of eom- bating Jack Frost. Last year Price noticed that the only cherry tree which a Spring freeze falled to damage was one that came into contact with a steady sprinkle of water. This year he has equipped 10 of his trees with. sprink- ling outfits. Price explains that water at an ordinary temperature gives off a great deal of heat before it freezes. only is a place for practical, every-day service to mothers and children, but & center for research work, where some of the most baffling problems re- lating to the health of children are vielding to intensive study. A staff of welfare workers and visi*ing nurses is maintained, to follow the children into thelr own homes and see that the instructions given the mothers are carried out. The conquest of the “Summer dis- eases,” Dr. Davis sald, is the greatest triumph to date, but is far from be- Ing the only one. The work of the clinic gradually is eliminating rickets among Washington children. This is a bone disease which can be complete- ly cured, if taken in time, by proper administering of cod liver ofl and proper exposure to sunlight. The problem {s to make every mother un- derstand the importance of these things. Study Pre-School Age. ‘The clinic workers are devoting a great deal of research now to the pre- school-age child—between babyhood and five years of age—when habits are formed and physique and charac- ter molded. Proper training on the part of parents While the children are forming the habits which will stick to them through life, Dr. Davis says, will save hundreds from sickness and unhappiness in later years. The hablit of breathing, for instance, is formed during those years. It would be a difficult matter to teach a grown person to change the manner of breathing because the manner, re- peated millions and millions of times, has become instinctive, whether it is correct or not. With the child, still plastic, it is different. Correct habits of eating, sleeping and playing are studied and the re- sults of the research communicated to the parents. Such matters as tan- trums in children, which develop at this time, are dealt with. A cross, hysterical child, taken in time, usu- aily can be entirely cured, but other- wise may grow up into a cross, hys- terical man or woman. For such cases the clinic now prescribes ex- traordinary amounts of rest and shielding from excitement. Eliminating Diptheria. The soclety has gone a long way toward eliminating diphtheria among the children of Washington by giving antitoxins. Much sickness and much conse- quent family expense have been saved by the proper attention to the teeth of the children. Often children are brought to the hospital, underweight and malnour- ished, with whom the staff can find nothing organically wrong. It has been found that slight changes in the daily habits, which the parents can regulate, will entirely do away with this condition. The record for the past | child deaths per 1,000 births in the st vear has been made by Dr. Davis as follows: 1901 to 1905, 218; 1906 to 1910, 161; 1911 to 1915, 119; 1916, 106; 1917, 97; 1918, 111: 1919, 85; 1920, 90; 1921, §3; 1922, 84; 1923, 91; 1924, HOLIDAYS IN ITALY MOMENTOUS EVENTS Grown-Ups Greet Occasions With Zest Displayed by Ameri- can Schoolboys. ars of Correspondence of the Associated Press. ROME, May 23 —Grown-up Italians enjoy holidays as much as American schoolboys. Consequently scarcely & week passes without a festive occa- sion, official, religious, political, semi- official, sectional or what not, in some city or section of the Cisalpine nation. Conventions, congresses and meet- ings are as dear to the hearts of Italy’s professors and politicians as they are to boosters of chambers of commerce in America. Red-letter days of one sort or another for somebody or other are as frequent as they are in midseason in Squire Ebbet's base ball park, in Brooklyn. For example, the month of April was veritably littered with holidays. Holy week, especially important because of the Holy Year, furnished a goodly number.” Then all of the branches and sections of all the numerous political parties stopped work for several days at a time to talk, giving their meetings flowery titles. Milan headed the list of municipal “international commer- clal fairs,” and also staged a congress of the dialects of Italy; Venice, an international book fair; Bologna, & Fascist intellectual congress, and Rome, an international art fair and a congress on scholastic philosophy. SHIP OF DEWEY’S FLEET CRUMBLING AT WHARF Gunboat Princeton of Spanish- American War Fame Is Disintegrating. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, June 13.—The gunboat Princeton, which was with Admiral George Dewey when he won the bottle of Manila Bay 27 years ago, is crumbling at a wharf on Lake Washington, opposite Seattle. The Princeton cast $250,000 in 189 when she was launched at Camden, N. J. A Seattle lawyer bought her in 1919 for $36,000, and has been try- ing ever since to sell her. After the Spanish-American War the Princeton remained in Pacific waters, and was sent to Samoa. There she hit an uncharted rock, and was about to sink when she limped into Tutuila. She was put out of commission, and four years later was brought to the University of Wash- ington for a training ship. The lawyer bought her when the university discontinued instruction in navigation. — EDITORS SEE CAVERNS. National Association Party Splits Up at Harrisonburg, Va. Special Dispatch to The Stas HARRISONBURG, Va., June 13.— The caverns hereabouts proved the attraction today for the 150 editors from 37 States in the National Edi- torfal Association party. The dele- gation made a brief stop here, arriv- ing from Staunton early this morning. ‘While here the editors visited the State Teachers’ College and then were shown through the largest poultry- fattening plant in the world. A re- ception was given at the Shenandoah Valley, Inc., headquarter: The party here split into three parts, one going to Luray Caw erns, one to Shenandoah Caverns and one to Endless Caverns. The party re- assembled at Woodstock for the journey on to Winchester, where to- night is to be spent. Plans are under way in Hungary for the merger of all important rub- ber firms of Hungary, thus creating a mighty rubber monopoly. AUTO TAX RETURNS SHOW HUGE GAINS Virginia Collects $777,000 in Five Months Above Total in Same Period, 1924. Special Dispatch to The Star RICHMOND, Va, June 13.—Rigid enforcement of the automobile laws of the State this vear has resulted in the collection thus far of more than $777,000 over the collections for the first five months of 1924. The figures have been compiled by the motor ve- hicle commissioner and placed in the hands of the governor. The increase in the receipts from the gasoline tax for the first four months of this year, as compared with 1924, is shown to be approximately $137,000. This lat- ter report, showing collections for four months, discloses that the revenues for May have not been included, was the case in the auto registration feature, the gasoline tax not being payable until June 20. There has been a vast amount of railing at the manner in which the motor vehicle commissioner has en- forced the laws, but the figures show collections have far exceeded thuse of previous years and that the automo- bile revenues, including gasoline tax, aggregated dn excess of $5,000,000 for a bit more than a third of the year. The auto licenses will, it is belleved &0 to close on to $5,000,000 for the year, and the gasoline tax is certain to reach $3,000,000. Senator Epes Resigns. Senator Louls S. Epes of Nottoway has tendered his resignation to Gov. Trinkle as a member of the upper branch ‘of the Legislature, and the resignation has been accepted. Sena- tor Epes has been declared the nomi- nee of the party for the State Cor- poration Commission. He is in the same class as four others who are seeking office at the hands of the peo- ple, they having had no opposition in the primary and are nominees of the people. Others who are certain of election are Col. B. O. James, Secre tary of the Commonwealth; Harris Hart, superintendent of public educa- tion; Col. James E. West, lieutenant governor, and George W. Kolner, commissioner of agriculture. Byrd, Mapp and Moore, candidates for governor: Saunders and Smithey, for attorney general, and Purcell and ‘Williams, for treasurer, are having their troubles. Byrd and Mapp are stumping. C. Lee Moore is remain- |ing at his office as auditor, having dropped out. Col. John R. Saunders and Maj. Smithey are speaking daily. Maj Smithey is attacking Col. Saunders' record for confessing error in cases before the Court of Appeals, and Col. Baunders is saying that when he sees that error has been committed by the | prosecution he intends to confess the same rather than to go into court and be reversed. State Treasurer Purcell is not mak- ny speeches as vet, but is look- ter his interests and keeping in lose touch with friends in every di rection, while Archer H. Willlams of ‘the, from the home town of Gov. Trinkle, is flitting about as much as possible. The primary is just seven days away from next Tuesday. LAW 39 YEARS OLD AIDS VOLSTEAD ACT Provides Seizure of Vehicles Used by Bootleggers in Rum Traffic. By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash., June 13.—The cabalistic words “thirty-four fifty” have struck terror into the hearts of { many bootleggers in this section and they have more significance to the rum-running fraternity than all the clauses in the Volstead law. ‘Thirty-four fifty” means section 3450 of the revised Federal statutes and covers an act passed by Congress in 1886. It refers to the transporta- tion of articles that have not paid an internal revenue tax and provides that the vehicle used for such transporta- tions shall be confiscated. The Volstead law has a somewhat similar provision, but Federal prose- cutors here found that forfeitures under it were not successful owing to _conditional sales of automobiles. So the Government attorneys de- cided to use the power provided by section 3450 and they have been em- ploying it with great effect. Every few weeks the United States marshal holds an auction sale of automobiles confiscated because they were haul- ing liquor on which no Federal tax was paid. In several cases a jury has found the operator of a rum carrier innocent, but his car has been libeled under section 3450 and ordered sold. Wallace Mount, assistant United States district attorney, says that th, Government has obtained the for feiture of every automobile or truck libeled under section 3450 in this district. MEXICO REORGANIZING ARMY ON LARGE SCALE Force Reduced to 50,000 and 1,000 High Officials Dropped From Staff. Correspondence of the Assoctated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 381.—Troop movements into the capital which, late in May, increased the garrison to the unprecedented figure of 15,000 and caused excited speculation, elicited the reassuring statement from the war department that the men were being brought to Mexico City from outside posts to be reuniformed and rearmed. Reorganization of the army in ac- cordance with plans announced by the Calles administration when it took office has been proceeding steadily for nearly six months and the regular forces, according to latest information available, have been reduced to ap- proximately 50,090. Among the en- listed men discharged were 5,000 minors. The number of generals and commisioned officers down to the rank of major who have been unable to prove their right to the rank they claim and have been dropped totals more than 1,000. Modernization of military regula- tions, unchanged for more than a cen- tury, and a plan for & modified system of universal, obligatory military train- ing are the tasks assigned to a special commission of officers. Roancke Faculty Gains 3. SALEM, VA., June 14.—Three addi- tions to the faculty of Roanoke Col- lege were announced yesterday by President Charles J. Smith. Robert L. Petry of Princeton, N. J., has been appointed associate professor of physics. Raymond B. Pinchbeck of Charlottesville has been elected asso- ciate professor of business admini- tration. Julius F. Prufer of Roanoke has been appointed e pro- fessor ef history and polltical science. Police to Protect Church Quiet From Night-Time ‘Petters’ ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 13 (Special.—In_an effort to rid the churches of Franconia, near here, of numerous disorderly parties who park on the church grounds at night, especially Olivet Church, Frank Ballinger, supervisor of Fairfax County, has arranged for an officer to be assigned to the Franconia section. It is hoped that by having an officer with orders to pick up any one parking on the church prop- erty ‘“petting” parties may be broken up. BEAVERS FLOOD MINE BY DAMMING CREEK Operators Blow Up Obstruction, But Animals Build It Again in 24 Hours. By the Associsted Press. GOLDEN, B. C., June 13.—So thick and industrious have beavers become in the Winderemere Valley that they are serfously interfering with mining operations, according to H. E. Perlain of Wilmer, who is developing claims on_Horse Thiet Creek. The beavers, by damming the creek, caused water to back up into the mine and it was some time before the rea- son was discovered. After a search the mine workers located a beaver dam and blew it up, but the mine immediately again filied with water. Another investigating party found that the destroyed dam had been re- constructed and reinforced in weak spots by the busy animals within 24 hours. ~ Furthermore, some 60 sap- lings, cut into usuable lengths, were found ready for further work on the dam. Flume Suggested. Officlals of the British Columbia game board, in an effort to overcome the difficulty, have suggested that the flume idea, evolved by the Biological Survey of the United States, be tried out on the creek. This is the cut- ting of a flume through the beaver dam so that the water will not rise above 4 certain point, on the theory that Mr. Beaver pays so much atten- tion to his work that he never gives a glance upward. Though persistent as well as industrious, there is & amit to a beaver's patience and. finding that his dam does not succeed in hold. ing the water back, he and his crew shift to_some other pla:¢ and begin home-making all over again. Three vears ago the game board closed the season for trapping beaver south of the Canadian Pacific Raflway and the animals have multiplied so rapidly that they are becoming a nuisance. o e Hungary plans to erect barracks to be used as sleeping quarters by 600 employes at various terminals of its railroads. 917 F New Summer WELLER MAY FIND HILL OPPONENT Representative Looking Over Maryland Situation With Eye on Spring Primary. Special Dispatch to The Star. RALTIMORE, June 13.—That Senas tor O. E. Weller may have opposition for the Republication nomination in the primaries next Spring became known this week when John Philip Hill, who now represents the third congressional district of Baltimord City, announced that he was making a “survey of the situation in Mary- land with reference to the wishes of the Republican voters.” Hill has just completed a tour of western Maryland, where he sounded sentiment, and next week will stact, through southern Maryland. He wil visit northern Maryland and the East- Senator Weller, however, is “sitting pretty,” to use a slang phrase, and with the party machine back of him as well as the national administra tion, it is a quegtion if any candidate can poll enough votes to beat him. ‘While Hill would undoubtedly carrv Baltimore City, it is not believed he could carry a sufficlent number of counties to get the votes to nominate him {n the State convention, as Balti- more has only 41 votes in the conven- tion and the counties have about 141, Weller Weakens Opposition. The opposition to Senator Weller in® Baltimore City, known as the Lownde- Marchant faction, received a hard blow this week when former Mayor Willlam F. Broening, who has hereto- fore been counted on, attended a din ner given by Senator Weller to a number of Republican leaders. Among the others present were John W. rett, who was e candidate for the Ree publican nomination at the last senav torial primary, being defeated by for mer Senator Joseph Irvin ¥ mer State Senator Oliver P of Princy Georges County; Mullikin an# Aliun Fisher In the meanwhile the Democrats are playing a waiting game, which is practically forced on them by the fact that Gov. Ritchie refuses to announce his plans for the future, whether he will seek re-election or be a candidats for the Senate. Although one local paper announced this week that Gov. Ritchie would be a candidate for the United States Sen- ate. and the governor steadfast maintains his non-committal attitude, the impression is growing among polt- ticians that he really prefers bein governor to being in the United States Senate. Some leaders of the party; id to b close to the governor, assert that the supposition that he will aspire to a third term as governod amounts almost to a certainty . 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