Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1925, Page 14

CLUB GIVES WEEKLY taken at the home of Arthur Smith, 2949 Macomb street, yesterda , were entertained. pal Orphan Asylum, 1922 F « tainment and pi ic each we “LONG JIM’ RETURNS WITH A historic cup which is emblemati ionship, Jim Barne OUTINGS TO THE ORPHANS OF WASHINGTON. , when A different member TROPHY. Bringing with him the of victory in the British open golf cham- ccompanied by his wife, returned to America yes- The cup, by the way, has spent three of the last four years in this country. OFFICIAL ATTACKS GERMAN SPENDING Cabinet Officer Says Bor-! rowed Money Is Not Used to Best Advantage. Br the Associated P BERLI = July 25.—German private spends too much on adver- Wd fancy make-up and the mu- much erecting theaters indus tising nicipalities spend too hletic fields, pl ounds, and other al buildings, Albert Neuhaus, minister of economy 1d_commerce. He assert capital borrowed from abroad used to hest advantage. statement is made in publication of the ires for June, which valued at 1 000,000 at 6,877,000,000 is not connection with trade balance f show imports and exports p foreign credits ible in itself,” he says, sidering our dire economic cond: but this capital must be used to make German industry mor cient and increase production through technical and or ments."” Urges More Farming. Dr. Neuhaus urges Germany espe- cially to intensify agricultural produc- tion so as to lessen the purchases of foodstuffs abroad. On the whole, he finds German trade approaching pre-war conditions. The passivity of the trade balance he scribes to the “terrible dearth of cap- il at home and the influx of foreig pital, because the outside world regaining confidence in German e change an, . At yesterday's fon of the Reich- stag ‘tax committee the Pr nce minister, Dr. Hoepker-Aschoff, id the expe of communes and nicipalities for s since the w Prussia rom 82,000,000 to 800,000,000 marks and in Bavaria from 17,000,000 to 70,000,000 marks. According to the Federation of Ger- man Industrialists, the per capita tax for_social welfare had increased from 17 marks in 1914 to 12.34 in 1925. hool budgets have increased 55 per nt. LOS ANGELE uncement was “ning of a lease by Edward L. Do- ny, jr., vice president of the Pétro- leum Securities Company, under the terms of which the company will build for the Los Angeles Theaters, Ine, a $2,000,000 playhouse at Elev- enth and Hill streets. The operating company will be given exclusive use of the theater for a rental of $260,000 year, plus 10 per cent annuall the building wos| Among those ciated with G. Davis in the theater venture is I ward Belasco, brother of the Ni York producer, David Belasco. o. says Dr. | that the | anizational improve- | By United News Pictures. |Virginia Girl Goes From Italy to Paris To Send Vote Home By the Associated Press. PARIS, July —Miss Nora Houston of Richmond, Va., travel- ed all the way from Florence, Italy, to Paris, in order that she might exercise her right of suffrage in the electoral impaign now being d in her te between Harry Byrd and Waltér Mapp On arriving at Paris Miss Hous- ton found her ballot at the Ameri- 3 ' vhere it had rded by William Wood- Richmond. She immediately had the ballot legal- ized by the conrulate and it will be sent to the United States on board A next Saturday. Houston was hur- rying k to Florence, taking bal- lots to Mrs. Josephine Houston and Alice Dooley, her mother and | STANDING COMMITTEES OF TAKOMA PARK NAMED Balance of $4,942.35 in Treasury, &ecording to Offcial’s Report. | Announcement has been made of the following standing committees for the ensuing year by Mayor H. F. Taff of the town of Takoma Park, Md. « Finance—Cougeilmen H. E. Rogers, chairman; John'R. Adams and Wil- liam A. Kroll. Street and drainage—Councflmen F. D. B. Austin, chairman; H. E. Rogers and Willlam A. Kroll. Health—Councilmen _E. G. Salis- bury, chairman; H. E. Rogers-and Lloyd W. Biddle. Civic improvement — Councilmen William A. Kroll, chairman; John R. Adams and E. G. Salisbury. men Lloyd W. Biddle, chairman; E. G. Salisbury and F. D. B. Austin. Police, fire and lights—Councilmen John R. Adams, chairman; F. D. B. Austin and Lloyd W. Biddle. The report of Town Treasurer Ben G. Davis for the month of May showed receipts from permits, taxes, etc., amounting to $130.95, which with the balance on hand from last month of $6,143.63 made a total of $6,274.58. Disbursements during the past month for street work, street lights, salaries and miscellaneous expenses amounted to $1,332.23, leaving a net balance on hand of $4,942.35. Ben G. Davis has resumed his position as town clerk and treasurer after a year’s absence in Havana, Cuba. —_————— FIREMEN ARE BOOSTED. Promotions in the Fire Department were approved by the Commissioners yesterday upon recommendation of Chief Watson as follows: Lieut. C. F. Sullivan, promoted to eaptain: Sergt. I. W. Luskey, from sergeant to lieutenant; Private H. O. Bailer, advanced to sergeant; and G, T. O’Brien, appointed a private. Ordinance and_ judiciary—Counol- | THE EVENING This rhotograph wa 50 children from St. John's E of the club hus charge of the enter- shington Star Photo, DISTRICT COMMISSIONER AT SWAMPSCOTT. STAR, WASHINGTON Morgan Palmer, the Ameri was killed by Chinese bandits at b ranch on the Sungari River, near Harbin, Manchuria, July 20. News of the murder arri 1 in this coun- try two days P. & A. Photos. Copyright by Mr. and Mrs. Cuno H. Rudolph photographed in the grounds of White Court, the Summer White House. Commissioner Rudolph held a conference with President Coolidge regarding the affairs of the Capital, and especially the Ku Klux Klan parade of August. FOR PARK IN VIRGINIA | Pays $6 for Land in “Buy-an-Acre” | Drive to Purchase Tract in Blue Ridge Area. Work of the Interior De- | partment yvesterday bought the first acre in the “Buy-an-Acre” campaign just inaugurated for the establishment of the Shenandoah National Park com- | prising the Blue Ridge area in Vir- { ginia. The campaign conducted under the {auspices of the Shenandoah National Park Association, Incorporated, in- cludes a State-wide canvass of Vir- ginia to raise sufficient funds by pub- lic contribution to purchase the site of the proposed national park and do- | nate it the Government. Secretary the keynote of the campaign, each citizen of Virginia being asked to pur- chase one or more acres. The price fixed for an acre is $6. According to the plans, speakers will be sent into every city and town in the State, where meetings will be held and the appeals made to the public to respond to the “Buy-an-Acre an. The Shenandoah National Park As- sociation has expressed hopes that as a result of the campaign ample funds will be in hand by the first of De- cember to purchase the majority of | the Blue Ridge area so that Secretary gress on the establishment of the | National Park in Virginia. In its report the Southern Ap- palachian National Park committee recommended that the proposed Na- tional Park in Virginia contain not acres. The State of Virginia population of approximately 2, inhabitants and no difficulty is an- ticipated in inducing a sufficient num- ber of its citizens to purchase through y-an-Acre” campaign the en- HERO OF '01 GETS CROSS. Philippines. The distinguished service cross, for extraordinary heroism in action has been awarded by the War Depart- ment to Master Sergt. Tony Coston, 44th United States Volunteers, re- tired, now Hving at San Antonio, Tex. During the engagement with the in- surgents near Caridad, Leyte, P. L., April 9, 1901, according to the cita- tion, “Sergt. Coston, accompanied by five other men, with utter disregard for his personal safety, gallantly as- cended a steep, narrow, rocky trail under a direct fire of both cannon and rifies and a hail of huge bowlders hurled down upon him, and succeed- ed in driving the insurgents from their strongly intrenched position and cap- tured 12 cannon and a quanity of sup- plies.” Officer Resigns. The resignation of First Lieut. Guy E. Dillard, U. 8. Cavalry, has been ac- cepted by the President. Y The slogan, “Buy-an-Acre,” will be | Work may report favorably to Con-| less than 500 square miles gr 320,000 ! | Army Sergeant Dared Death in the | | tatned Copyright by Miller Service. - D. C, SATURDAY BRINGIN his wife, known to Broadway show New York yesterday aboard the of Europe and incidentally pure estate. IN AN EFFORT T9 SOLVE TRAFFIC PROBL synchronized signals lights which are being tested in Washington. > BACK THEIR NEW PETS, JULY 25, 192 Jack Pickford, movie star, and f. ey made a tour for their H One of the new Tt is planned, if the lights answer the purpose, to place them along Sixteenth Th street from H to Irving streets. the Fine Arts Commission. IN SUCCESS OF FLIGHT TO HAWAII bave been approved by e light Cox WORK AIDS CAMPAIGN| AEROLOGY WILL BE LARGE FACTOR ST. CHRISTINA’'S BODY | . GIVEN TO CLEVELAND Three Stations to Be Maintained on Route to (;ireinemaim of Martyr Being Taken Flyers of Three Planes Full Data on Way Across Pacific Ocean. By the Associated Press HONOLULU, July ~Aerology, the science that deals with the laws and phenomena of the atmosphere, will be depended on greatly to aid the success of the Navy's proposed flight of three seaplanes from the Pacific to Hawaii late in August or early | in September. stations will at the naval air station Pearl Harbor; Hawaii; aboard the U. S. S. Aroostook, airplane tender, which will be plane guard ship at a station 1,800 miles from the coast, and the Langley, aircraft carrier, to guard the course at a point 1,200 miles ouf. The base aerological station will'be in the office of Capt. Stanford E. Moses, commander of the flight proj- ect. He will be at the starting point, either San Diego or San Francisco, and will be in_direct communication with Comdr. John Rodgers, flight unit commander and pilot of one of the plane The base aerological station will ob- tain San Francisco weather bulletins from the naval station at San Fra HAWAII'S AREA INCREASE SLOW, GEOLOGIST SAYS Emergence Above Pacific Too Gradual to Be Noticeable in Generation, Yale Man Says. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, July 25.—The theory of Edwin Fairfax Naulty of New York that the Hawailan Islands will equal Japan in extent of territory through gradual earth movements within the next generation was discounted yes- Aerological | terday by Dr. H. E. Gregory, director of the Bishop Museum and professor of geology at-Yale. There is no indication of any rapid earth movement in Hawaii, Dr. Greg- ory said, and the last decisive rise of the islands probably occurred millions of years ago. “There has been no continuous or progressive rising or falling of the islands since tertiary times, when the islands several times were higher than at present, and also lower several times. There is evidence that con- tinuous land connected the islands at one time. There is, however, no rea- son to suppose that any progressive uplift of the islands is likely, but changes in the position of the islands with reference to the sea and their submergence and emergence are to be expected. However, they will be grad- ual and not noticed for many genera- tions.” . Capt. D. W. Craig Assigned. Capt. David W. Craig, Ordnance De- partment, returning from foreign service, has been assigned to duty in the office of chief of ordnance, War Department. be main- | | cisco at 9 a.m. and 7:30 p. | station will main |and issue all aerological inform on which the flight will be | procedure begins August 26. | Pearl Harbor, the Aroostook and the Langley will furnish daily at 9:15a.m and 4 p.m. to Capt. Moses the barom eter reading, the pressure change dur- ing the preceding two hours if it is ] 0.10 inch or more, wind direction and velocity at the surface and from sound- ings aloft, the condition of the sea, the clouds and their direction, fog and its direction. Each aerological station will report also whether local conditions are fa- vorable for the flight. From this data the wpather map at the base station will be corrected. After the flight has started all | aerological reports will be discontin- | ued unless local conditions become un: | suitable for flying. In this event a | brief dispatch’ will be sent to Capt. Moses by the station concerned and to the guard ships nearest the planes at that time. Such messages will be re- Ilayed to the planes. | LAWRENCE TO CONDUCT SONG LEADERS’ SCHOOL Class for Men and Women Will B Held in August to Meet Growing Demand. A school for training song leaders, to be conducted by Robert Lawrence, director of the Community Music As- ) sociation, will be held during August, beginning Monday, the 3d. An ever- increasing demand for trained song leaders for the District and nearby Maryland and’ Virginia communities has been largely instrumental in the promotion of the training course. The class will be open to men and women and is non-profitmaking. During the fiscal vear just closed the association has extended service to 25 States, several points in Canada and to one community in England. Di- rector Lawrence has conducted two training classes for song leaders at the Iowa State College, at Ames; one class at the Summer course for music supervisors at West Chester, Pa., and one in Little Rock, Ark. The class at West Chester numbered 142 music su- pervisors from 27 States and Canada. Three Music Week celebrations were conducted under the supervision of the association at Nyack, N. Y.; Har- rison, Me., and Bridgeton, Me. The association has obtained the Masonic Temple Auditorium, corner New York avenue and Thirteenth street, for the future home of its ac- tivities. Here free public concerts will be given weekly, beginning Monday, October 19. The same seating and financing arrangements that proved successful at Central and Eastern High Schools will be followed, From Rome by Bishop of Detroit. | BY HIRAM K. | By Cable to The s ROME, July 25.—The body of St. Christina, a catacomb saint, | shrined in a beautiful reliquary, left | Rome today In care of Bishop Gal- lagher of Detroit, en route for Cleve- |1and, where it will be kept perma- |nently as the most precious relic of | the diocese. | The body is the gift of the Pope to the diocese, granted at the request of Bishop Schrembs. The body will repose in a convent chapel in Paris until urday, when Bishop Schrembs, who iS returning from a visit to the Holy Land will assume charge of it, sailing the same day. Both Bishops ~ Gallagher and Schrembs have been provided twith papal diplomatic passports to facili- | tate the trip. On ariving at Cleve- |1and the body will be exposed in the | | MODERWELL. r and Chicage Daily cathedral and then placed in a con- vent until decide on sanctuary. This is the first complete body of a catacomb saint ever sent to North America. The Per's gift is regard- ed as an expression of the Pope's high rgeard for Bishop Schrembs and gratitude to the Cleveland diocese One of Bishop Schrembs’ parishioners ecently donated $35,000 for further tudy and excavation of the Rome catacombs. Cleveland's future patron saint and protectress was a martyred Roman matron. (Copyright, 19! authorities a the diocesan plans for special by Chicago Daily News Co.) ALIENS FACE CHECK. France Plans to Keep Watch on All Foreigners. PARIS, July 25 (#)—The Petit Parjsien says that Minister of Interior Schrameck is about to take measures to institute a system whereby records would be kept of all foreigners in France. A close watch would be kept on their doings and undesirables would be expelled. The minister said there were now 3,000,000 foreigners in France as com- pared with 1,700,000 before the war. Although he was satisfied the majority of them were ‘respectable” he was convinced there must be numerous criminals and political agitators who should be eliminated. Consequently, M. Schrameck said, he would ask Parliament to author- ize the creation of a special section of 100 police inspectors to deal ex- clustvely. with foreigners. Officers Transferred. Col. Warren W. Whitside, Quarter- master Corps, has been transferred from Fort Riley, Kans., to Honolulu, Hawail, and Col. Albert N. McClure, Quartermaster Corps, from Honolulu, fo the Letterman General Hospital, | en-| San Franciscd, for treatment. s COMPLETE NON-STOP TRANSC( Wade, one of the round-he-world fiye arrived in New York after drivin, out ni minuts THOUSAND-DOL hampion chow dog, arrived arl Hoover of Chicago, and the pho ant, Mrs. W. S. Baer. Nansen May Help Reds’ Plan for Air Service to Alaska | | By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July ter Bruns of the i force, has arrived here from F and submitted to experts a schy for a scientific the Arctic Fridtjof Nansen, wegian explor A dirigible of 15 meters with a ilograms of 50 men, would be used. The route would be Murmansk to Franz Josef Land | via the North Pole to Alaska or Anadyr and back. The expedition would pass over unexplored areas of the Arctic Ocean, the aim being to inv gate the possibilities of establ ing regular air communica across the Arctic between Europe and America via Siberia and Japan. 000 cubic a crew MRS. GEISEN-VOLK AGAIN | Gharge of Unlawfully Boarding Children Dropped in “Baby Farm” Case. 8y the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 25—Mrs. Helen Geisen-Volk, convicted proprietress of the Eighty-sixth street' baby farm, where 23 children died last year, was vesterday discharged in special ses. |sions court from the charge of un- lawfully boarding children. As on vesterday, when she became { hysterical as Judge McIntyre in Gen- eral Sessions Court imposed upon her the maximum sentence for baby sub- stitution—three and one-half years in Auburn prison—Mrs. Geisen-Volk col- lapsed and was carried from the court. Irs. Geisen-Volk, described yester- day as a “human vulture preying on children” was charged specjfically, in the second action, with bdarding 18 infant children when her license per- mitted a maximum of seven. Officer Dead in Colorado. Lieut. Col. William S. Mapes, United States Infantry, who saw active serv- ice in the Spanish War, the Philip- pine Insurrection and the World War, died at Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver, Colo., July 17, after severai months’ iliness, the War Department is advised. He was from New York and was ap- pointed first lieutenant, 25th Infantry, February 2, 1901, and reached _the grade of lieutenant colonel in July, 1920. He served as a major in the 2nd Nebraska Infantry in 1898, again as a volunteer officer in the Philippine cam- paigns, and as a colonel in the Na- tional Army in France in 1919. R Ordered to €apital. Maj. John M. Ritchie, Quartermas- ter Corps, at the Motor Transport School, Camp Holabird, Md., has been ordered to this city for duty in the Bureau of Militia Affairs, War De- partment. o an automobile S R DOG HAS SPEC de luxe on the steamship Aquitania, HAS HYSTERICS IN COURT INTINENTAL TRIP. and Linton Well from Ca 165 Lieut. Leigh when they fornia with hours and 50 AL ATTENDANT. Trav- Choonan Brilliantine, the York yesterda He belongs to shows h al attend Copyright & & ¥ in New AUTO MISHAPS LAID- TOFAULTY DRIVERS | Safety Expert Says 90 Per | Cent Are Due to Careless- ness and Recklessness. ‘F\' the As d Press. | ATLANTIC CITY, Ninety nt | dent to recklessness, ¢ | lessness incompetency of drives |and the remainder can be blamed or | mechanical defects, wa {of Dr. Walter V. Binghan {of the committee on the accidents of the National Conference eet and Highway y, in jan address before his committee here | vesterday \” Dr. Bingham's committee is framing ! recommendations to be submitted to |the National Conference in Washing ton late in the 1. ‘Dishonesty in highway signs Dr. Bingham, one cause Posting of danger signs curves and similar points 's where there is really {no s cial danger h bred in ny {drivers the habit of ignoring or par {ing little heed to danger s { general. | Four Per Cent Color Blind. | “About 4 per cent of automobi |arivers are color blind. Few of the: |are completely color blind. To mos |of them a large portion of the | spectrum appears such as it does t« |the normal eye. But red and green— colors mo: sed for ° signals—are easily confused by color-blind drivers | This should make highway engineers {more skeptical of the usefulness of {signs and on_ color {alone to t 1ge.” | _Dr. Binghs t, while con | gestea highways plaved a large part {in the number of accidents, {not the only one. [ following: The sp for the law and regulations |lack of prompt, uniform and certain { enforcement; joy riding, speeding and | similar forms of lessness, inex | perience and incompetence of drivers; |jay walking on b.sy streets. Intoxication, he said, added its quota of disaster, although no ane knows precisely how large or how small a share of the total loss actually is chargeable to drinking motor Jul per of car ac e due re or chairmar 1ses of | re lat Jon Resignations Accepted. Resignations of First Lieut. Charles R. Jackson, Coast Artillery Corps; ot Second Lieut. Albert R. Dowling Corps of Engineers, and of Second Lieut. Walter A. Linn, Field Artil lery, have been accepted by the Presi dent. Mrs. Larkin Divorced. PARIS, July 25 (®).—A divorce has been granted to Mrs. Vera Huntington Cravath Larl of Paul D. | Cravath, New K ver, again | James rthwaite kin by t Civil Tribunal of the Seine, upon thef wife's application. '