Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1925, Page 13

TOURISTS THOUGHT CAPITOL WAS ON FIRE. Hundreds of persons formed a crowd at the Building on the Hill yesterday when they saw a fire engine pull up and firemen start throwing streams of water out of the upper stories, the pipes of the structure. However, the “laddies” were simply t ve ng the fireplugs and vents and flushing out The water drawn from the pipes was used in giving the sunburned lawns a bath. Washington Star Photo. IENTISTS ON HAND FOR THE EVOLUTION CASE. Left to right: Dr. C. W. Curtis of the University of Misso Cooper-C No Decision Can Be Made| Until Weeks Returns, Act- ing Secretary Explains. of War Davis 1% fon that the world Acting Secretary bt the personal opin ruiser Chicago, fl ip of the Army WAir Service globe flight, should be Placed in the National Museum here, but no immediate action on the final glisposition of it can be taken until Fecretary Weeks returns to his des! Jn_the Fall, it was learned today & now is in a ar at ayton, Ohi ast Novemb when its crew, Capt ;.wunll H. Smith and Lieut. Leslie P. Wrnold %he Pacific coast. Since that t ¥orts have been made to pla Yistoric plane either in the Jere or the Field Museum Mr. Davis of the opinion ’!m the War nent could not rn the plane the city of l‘urALn without special legislation grom Congress. In view of the deter- Mnined fight being d by tial persons in that c it would Ye a surprise to the r Department §f such permission ught at the fext Congress. me ef- e also s Depar W (vntvunml Wants Plane. The matter of 7 1z either the &'hicago or the ster D, ew Or- $eans, on exhibition at the sesqui-cen- #€ennial in Philadelphia has not been pettled, and it is known that the man pzement of the celebration there is ¥making a determined fight for one of e planes Space is lackir t the building of .the Museum at present, but the director, W. De C. Ravenel, gnformed the War Department that he would be glad to re of the important cra e W world-fl D! The su that ( gnd Lieut. Arnold, the only ones who ,ever flew the plane from the time it was built to the present, be permitted to fly the ship into Washington where, amid fitting ceremonies, turned over to the M Jooked upon with too siasm by the de aircraft for th estion pt t seum, is mnot much enthu- mile flight to the Capital. Before the plane could make the trip, if such per- mission . wer granted, new gasoline tanks would have to be installed, 4t would have be ubject to a thorough inspection, requiring about a week's work Wrong Address Given. Owing to an error on part of the #olice, the address of Hortense Ayers ored, who figured in a stabbing ai |Eleventh and R streets Sunday morn was made to appear in a repc yrinted in yesterday’s Ninth street. No person of that name lives there. Merchant Held Bankrupt. Max Tatelman, 3054 M street, Yeen adjudged bankrupt by Justice Stafford of the District Supreme Court. f'he court has appointed Lunsford L. Jiamner and Joseph L. Tepper as re. seivers of the stock of the merchant Pie is sald to owe $10.000. and his as- [< © estimated at §3,000, in Chicago. | has | u{x‘ Prof. Maynard Metcalf of Oberlin Universi e of the Field Museum, Chicago, an ethnologist; Science of Chicago University, and Prof. John Goldsmith of Southwestern Univer: DAVIS FOR BRINGING WORLD PLANE HERE *r MacMiftan Aid | through where it has been since | flew it to McCook Field from | the | 1seum | influen- | not | | | | | it could be |chief s | will review troops in training at Fort | Humphreys, nent, owing to the | H. chance of an accident during the 400.| Humphries and Col. land hi: | hich s and | 9 | Washington, D. C., |day thanked amateur radio operato | cordance paragraph 19, ‘1eque.fled in me: | Citizens® Military Training Corps. Thanks Amateur Radio Operators ; The National Geographic Society go- for their co-operation thus far in re. laying news dispatches from the Mac Millan Arctic_expedition and calling | attention to the way these messages are to be handled, “One of the interesting phases of the MacMillan National Geographic expedition is the fact that the world | getting its news of the explorers the co-operatian of a thou-| sand or more American amateur radio | operators, adepts at short wave- length reception and sending,” the| statement says. The further co-operation of these | amateurs is requested In a | observance of the arrangements for | | forwarding these messages to the| National Geographic Society by rela: graph or mail, according to the structions given with each message by the WNP operator, John L. Rein aboard the Bowdoin. hrough misunderstandings on the part of some operators some messages | have been delivered to persons other | than to the National Geographic So- | clety or the Navy Department, to| whom they are addressed The American Radio Relay League, which has extended much helpful co- operation in the transmission of the messages, is sending out nightly a special broads calling attention to the fact that radio messages have the same confidential status as telegrams and letters so far as their delivery to the addres concerned. The Radio Relay broadcast sa ‘Amateur stations are warned to observe strict secrecy messages in ac United States Messages radio laws and regulations. from MacMillan expedition must be mailed, forwarded by radio, or tele- phed collect to National Geographic Society, or Navy Department when ges. JADWIN T0 REVIEW UNITS will of Fort Humphreys Troops. Brig. Gen. Edgar of Engineer: Oversgol Drelntng Jadwin, assistant of Washington Va., tomorrow. Col. S. and his staff of Fort J. Frank Barber taff of the 30ith Engineers, a combat unit of Philadel- phia officers who served in the World War, will also take part in the review. Units stationed at the fort now are the 13th and 29th Engineers, the 304th Engineer Reserve, the Engineer Re- serve Officers’ Training Corps and the Markham Ordered to Fort Humphreys. First Lieut. Herman H. Pohl, Corps of Engineers, has been relieved from duty as an instructor, National Guard, to_take effect on the conclusion of the National Guard camp, and will then proceed to Fort Humphreys, Va., for duty at the En- gineer School Relieved of Egyptian Duty. Col. Robert C. Foy, General Staff, now serving as United States attache to Turkey, Bulgaria and Ru- with station at Constantinople, Deen relieved from additional duty attache ftary Leypt ‘ known as “the millionaire scientist”™; Prof. H. H. Newman, dean of the College of | day, careful | | tomatically | his Dr. Fay Kansas. By United News Pictures. CUSTODY OF SON | Will File Petition for Guard- | ianship of Heir to $3,000,000. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 17.—As the re sult of a decislon of the Court of Ap- peals at Albany in her favor yester- Mrs. Mary Casey Thorne, who as divorced by the late Joel Wolfe Thorne, announced through her at- | torney ‘that she will ask to be ap- pointed guardian of her son, Joel Woife Thorne, jr., 10-year-old heir to £3,000,000. v, according to Mrs. Thorne’ rney, John K. Kirby, hac U(\n\m Colo. income from bequests from his father and grandfather is $150,000 a year. This has been tied up, however, pending | although hi | available, is living in | on an unpaved street in |new weapons.” JACK AND ESTELLE ARE BACK. The heavyweight champion, after Several months in Europe, returned with Mrs. Dempsey The wife ship Homeric yesterday. Estelle Taylor. MADE FIRST ELECTRIC LIGHT glass blower of the Bureau of Chemi made the first electric light globe, as Edison in his early experiments. |CANCER GERM FINDER’S MRS. THORNE SEEKS MAY REVOLUTI Technical Procedure May Wrest Secrets of Other! FUR FUUR I]AY V|S|T After S torn” Trlp Diseases, ‘‘Lancet,” L Journal, By the Associated Prees LONDON, July 17.—Other diseases than cancer may yield their secrets to scientific workers armed with the technical methods evolved by Dr. Wil liam E. Gye and his hatter colleague, Dr. J. E. Barnard This suggestion is put forward today Lancet, authoritative British al, in presenfing paper the two sclentists on their recentl nnounced discoveries regarding the ‘auses of cancer. “New technical methods now made it says, arch along a whole Diseases like measle: - pox. encephalitis, foot-and-mouth dis- eqs dog's distemper, may yield their ecrets to workers armed with these to res front. Thus far nothing has been revealed s to how the methods can be made pplicable to the diseases mentioned, but it is believed some information outcome of the litigation decided yes- |may be forthcoming in this respect | terday. _ The decision concluded a long legal fight by ruling that the boy's guard- ians should be-appointed in this city, where his mother lives, and not in Gpunty, his father’s former | ,_and that Surrogate Foley of v York has jurisdiction over the appointment of his guardians. Thorne Won Divorce. Although Mrs. Thorne was divorced by the boy's father and the latter was awarded custody of the young heir, Mr. Kirby said, an appeal made to Surrogate Foley to make her his guardian. Mr. Kirby said that the death of Thorne in an automobile accident in | May of last vear placed Mrs. Thorne | in an unfortunate position, as it au ended the divorce case, which she had appealed The grandfather of the boy, around whom the legal fight centers, was will be | very soon mphasizing the importance of the |40 BOYS TAKE PART IN'Y SCHOOL RACES Biggest Watermelon Available Is| Awarded to Winners in An- nual Boat Event. Forty boat r *hool by M. C ces held of the Y. A. on the | Tidal Basin vesterday afternoon. Kennedy Mclntyre, Alton D: Samuel Thorne, former partner of the | John Wignall, George Myers and C. M late James J. Under his $1,000,000 and the fund of $2,000,000. father brings $3,000,000. BOY IS SATISFIED. Hill, will the railroad boy is given income from a Bequests from his fortune to Has Everything He Wants; Lives in Exclusive Section. DENVER, Colo., July 17 (#).—Joel Wolfe Thorne, jr., 10-year-old heir to $8,000.000, “has everything a boy can | want,” he told newspaper reporters owner. | Bauman, coxswain, were the winne in the half-mile event over seven other competing crews. The crews consisted of boys from | the fourth to the eighth grade of the Summer school of the Institution, which is conducted by the Y. M. C. The boys were picked according to size ‘and not according to grade, Judges for the event were E. G Comegys, A. V. Wilson and M Frank E. Smith, while Gerald Parke: athletic coach at the school, and D.| Dollarhide, 4 headmaster of the | school, were in charge of the races. The biggest watermelon that could | who visited him at the home of Mrs. | be found by the combined forces of Alice Sirkle, who has taken care of him for seven years. The youngster is particularly proud of a $10,000 police dog, Arno. “He's a full cousin to Strongheart, the movie dog,” the lad told his in- terviewers. The dog is a present from the lad’s father. Young Thorne lives in a two-story bungalow at 456 Williams street, on the edge of the exclusive country club district. Mrs. Sirkle and Arno are the other ocupants of the house. To the boy, Mrs. Sirkle is “mum- ey.” The boy is a member of the Olinger Highlanders, a junior mili- tary organization here. “Mamma ha: not written to me in seven year: the lad told reporters. *T don't think I would know hei if 1 saw her. the Woodward School and the Y. M. C. A. was the prize award for the winpers. ROVER IS PROMOTED. The Department of Justice has con- firmed the promotion of Leo A. Rover to the position of chief assistant to United States Attorney Gordon. Maj. Gordon recommended the promotion of Rover when Vernon E. West re- signed and accepted a designation as a special assistant to clear up the Rent Commission cases. Mr. Rover has been handling criminal cases, but will now take over the civil work of the office, it is expected. “will be applicable |« enormous boys took part in the annual | the Woodward | aboard the steam- known to movie fans as Wide World Photo. BULB. Walter B. Symonds, expert ry, Department of Agriculture, who well as the bulbs used by Thomas A. And Mr. Symonds is still blowing glass. Zht by Underwood & Underwood. Copy ONIZE RESEARCH eading British Medical Declares. | Gyve-Barnard investigations, the Lancet | refers to the * nux erous guesses' the past as having been of as little to cance re: rch as racing tips to horse breeding, but it dwells with appreciation on the work of Dr. Peyton Rous of the Rockefeller Institute, g Dr. Rous dis- value re ‘hickens were caused by a minute nism. The Lancet further remarks that the suggestion made by Dr. Willlam Bradley Coley of New York, that the cancer pa ted by him re- quired k ofense rupture) attack the cell s to produce a i lesion, was probably the only | “correct guess” ever made in the | voluminous literature of cancer theory. The papers by Drs. Gye and Bar- nard published by the Lancet are so | technical as o be largely bevond the | understanding of the lay reader, but vh conclusion that cancer is caused a virus, or specific organisms, \\Um\ls out {COSMOPOLITAN CLUB | | DROPS HEADLEY CASE | ]Decldes Further Action Would Be l‘ Duplication of Other Efforts Being Made. Club yesterday any further ac- The Cosmopolitan decided not to take tion on the question of the demotion | of former Inspector Albert J. Head- ley. The club is composed of business men, most of whom belong to the Washington Board of Trade and the hington Chamber of Commerce, | therefore they felt further action would be a duplication of effort. . | Samuel Zirkin, a_member of the club, was “Cosmopolitan of the day,” and outlined the various phases of the fur industry after a study on a recent trip to Alaska and other sec- tions of the American continent where the fur-bearing animals are mainly caught. Annéuncement was mage that the newly formed Cosmopolitan Club of | Baltimbre would attend the initiation | exercises of the local club on the {night of July 28 at the Franklin | Square Hotel. | The club will hold its annual Sum- | mer garden party at the home of Michael Heister, one of the members, on the border of Rock Creek Park. An_elaborate entertainment program |is ‘betng arranged. | Oregon Ore Output Lower. Miné production of gold, silver, cop- per and lead in Oregon in ™24 was reported today by the Bureau of Mines to have a total valuation of $678,072. This figure represents a decrease of $98,518 from the 1923 production of these metals, which was valued at oduction’ in 1923 amount short tons as compared hort was in {ETHODS! in | the great result of their | PRESIDENT COOLIDGE WEARS THE TOGGERY OF A YACHTSMAN. Mayflower a few days ago, when 1 sharks? Quincy, Mass. THEY WILL HAVE CHARGE O! S. Kann Sons’ annual picnic at G organization. Friel. Sitting: F. Murphy, Miss L. SKRZYNSKI INCITY i | | | | Honor of Polish Statesman, Who Arrived Today. [ minis Count Alexander Skrzynski, rived in Washington Swampscott, Mass., for visit. During his stay, the foreign minister will be the guest at several | social functions which have been ar- today a the points of interest in the National Capital Secretary of State Kellogg will en | night and tomorrow night the charge d'affaires ad interim of Poland, Hipolit Gliwic, will entertain at a dinner at the polish legation. This will be fol- lowed by a reception. The count will | be a guest at luncheon Sunday at the | ¥rench embassy. | Tomorrow afternoon he will | Mount Vernon, Arlington and the | Washington ~ Cathedral _to place wreaths on the tombs of Washington, the Unknown Soldier and Woodrow Wilson. Count’s Primary Object. The primary purpose of Count . Skrzynski's visit to America is to [ participate in the conferences of the Institute of Politics at Willlamstown, Mass., where he will speak as the representative of Poland July 30 and 31. visit minister of Poland since July, 1924. This is his second service as foreign minister, having held this post in 1923 in the cabinet of Gen. Sikorski. In the interim between his terms of serv- of Nations in Geneva. It was under Count Skrzynski's di |rection gs foreign minister that the «lel)l-funglng agreement between the | United States and Poland was signed . in Washington on Novem- ber 14, 1924, which provided for obligations to the United States Gov- ernment, amounting to $178,560,000. This agreement has been duly ratified by the legislatures of both countries, and the payment of the first install- ment was made by Poland June 15, 1925. Notable Recent Achievement. Count Skrzynski's foreign policy has been distinguished by his efforts to smooth out the rough spots in Poland’s relations with neighboring states. A notable recent achievement was the conclusion of a series of agreements between Count Skrzynski and M. questions at issue between Poland and Czechoslovakia. Count Skrzynski has taken a prominent part in the delib- erations at Geneva in the past year, where he has been recognized as one | of the leaders in promoting the cause of the outlawry of aggressive war. The foreign minister is accompanied by Counselors Jan Clechanowski, Ana- tol Meuhlstein, Alfons Poklewski- Koziell, Count L. Czaykowski and Mr. Burt. He and his party will reside at the legation while here. o — A jazz orchestra was recently sub- stituted for the military band at a London pe diy concert. on a trip from the Summer White House at Left to right, standing: Social Functions Arranged in’ |ter of foreign affairs of Poland, ar-| from | four-day | ranged in his honor and also will visit | | tertain Count Skrzynski at dinner to- | Count Skrzynski has been foreign | ice as foreign minister Count Skrzyn- | ski represented Poland at the League | the full repayment by Poland of its| Benes, which completely liquidated all | he President and Mrs. Swampscott, F EMPLOYES® ANNUAL PICNIC. len Echo tomorrow. The outing is one A. M. Venable, W. A. Connell, J. Larsen, G. S. {Robinson Proves |His Gameness in A Theodore Douglas Robinson sistant Secretary of the won the admiration of the naval flying personnel by his refusal to allow an extremely unpleasant air- plane trip to throw cold water on his future desires to fly Several days ago Mr. occupying the back seat of a D.H. 4B land plane piloted by Lieut. Benjamin Holcombe of the Bureau of Aeronautis took off frem the | Naval Air Station t Anacostia for Herkimer, N. Y. After leav | ing Mitchel Field, Long Island, the plane encountered a storm, but | battled its way through. It no sooner had shaken that disturb- | ance when it ran into another one, | far more severe than the first Much damage was done on the ground, and a few miles this side of Albany, Lieut. Holcombe landed in a field. On the return journey when a stop was made at Mitchel Fleld for fuel, the A: nt Secretary was heard to rema he had had enough of flying and he was going home by train. However, a cup of coffee at the officers’ club put him in a better frame of mind, and he returned to Washington by air. And his first move on landing was to arrange with Lieut. Holcombe to be flown up to Herkimer within the next few days FOOD PRICE FALL HALTS IN WHOLESALE MARKETS Federal Statistics Show Upward t as- avy, has Robinson, Tendency in June—Fuel Also Higher. The downward trend of prices in evidence during the last few pnonths was stopped during June, when the index number for 404 com | modities maintained by the Labor Statistics rose from 15: May to 157.4 for June. The index is {based on a base of 1913 prices. | Strong advances in price of c: hogs, lamb, hay, onions, potatoes wool in the farm products more than offset decrease in corn, wheat, rye and milk. The increase in this group as a whole was 2% per cent. Food and fuel also moved up- ward, but in all other commodity {groups prices in June averaged lower than in May. Of the 404 commodities for which { comparable information for May and |June was collected, increases were hown in 118 instances and decreases in 120 instances. In 166 instances no change was reported. As compared with the level of prices for June, 1924, the general level of the past month increased more than 8% per cent. Prices in the miscel- laneous commodity group showed the greatest Increase, rising 24 per cent in the year period. ttle, and Knnn Picnic Plans Complete. Plans have been completed for the outing tomorrow for members and employes of S. Kann Sons Co. at Glen Echo. Employes will assemble at the northeast corner of the Capitol grounds, where they will board spe- cial cars for the park. Committees in charge promise a “bigger and better” time than ever hefore on the com pany = outings. Coolidge entertained newspaper men and . De Neale, Miss I. Randall and L. wholesale | Bureau of | for | group | Photograph taken aboard the “camera Mass., to the Fore River shipyard and By United News Pict Committee holding the reins for the of the big events of the employes’ B. Morris, H. K. Troutman, W. F. Pearl. Washington Star Photo .- NEW LIGHT TESTE AT FLYING FIELD {Beams llluminate Half | Square Mile as Pilots i Operate Above Range. | recently |ing fields t of a series of tests wi 500,000,000-c: light land- nigh The f ndlepower installed air conducted last at Brown Field, Quant Va |pilots of the 1st Aviation Gro | there before officers of the Navy ar Marine Corps. Located on the center | fivin 1d, the flood lighthouse lens illum rea | about one-half square mile and | from such a low elevation that the hazard of blinding the oilots on land- ing and tak A detailed program had \vfl!n ged, including comparison betweer ew flood 1 and the N searchlight, developed for field illumination and aplanes from the water. dark a thunderstorm 2 d delayed operations. When the rain stopped and the spectators jonce ore could emerge in the open | more planes were sent aloft, the last [one landing at 10:30 o'clock. on mail w ico, edge of the Moffett Pleased. William A. Moffett chief of the Bureau of Aeronauti was enthus c over the display and W B. Mayo, chief engineer for Henry | Ford, observed the tests with intense | interest, although he had seen this | type of light in practical use at the | air_mail fleld in Cleveland | Capt. L. J. Bourne, executive o’ | ficer of Brown Field, and Lieut. C | Schildt made fii n Voughts. The: ied their planes out of the 1light and their wheels left the ground | just as they reached the edge of illu mination. On the gradual climb they i were entirely out of the light's beam Following _the storm, Capt. Bourne and Maj. E. H. Brainard, chief of ma rine aviation Department here, made fl did Lieuts. Stanley E. W. G. Farrell. Rear Admiral Ridderhof a Tests Will Continue. Col. T. C. Turner, in command Brown Field, said the tests will con tinue for about a month under all pos. sible condition®before a report is sub mitted to the Na Department. Admiral Moffett went to Quantico late yesterday afternoon in his big H-16 seaplane. He was accompanied by Commander_H. C. Richardson, Commander Kenneth Whiting, Lieut Comdr. Marc A. Mitscher of the Bu reau of Aeronautic Lieut Comdr. Homer C. Wick, commanding officer of the naval air station. Lieut A. J. Willlams, jr., flew the big boat down and returned to Washington im mediately.” Lieut. Comdr. Wick re turned to Washington by plane with his executive officer, Lieut. George T Cuddihy, about 11 o'clock, while Ad miral Moffett and his party came back by automobile. Maj. Brainard also re turned by air. Three officers of the office of chief of Army Air Service made the trip to and from Quantico landing about 11 o'clock. They were Capt. Ira Baker, Licut. George Hodge and Lieut. Donald Duke. 7