Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1925, Page 4

COLONIZATION PLA IN RUSSIA SUGCESS Huge Drive for New Jewish . Project Planned in U. S. r This Fall. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. ®y Cabls to The Star and Chicago Daily Newa MOSCOW, August ho Jewish agricultural colonization project In south Russia, which in magnitude promises to equal the Zionist under aking in Palestine, hus ju ompleted its first year's work. The work of lo ating colonists and ¥ he project is oint distribution Amer! 4nd the departm he So During seen_sett m Ukra and Gomel eriet the Schools Built Free Under the di arnment furn ing_material 700,000 ruble The American tributed” $300,0 installment of v ceived. The governme eommission named Kuzmet agricultural committee to fewish workers. The tion committee, for its ~ork, has a spectally zation which unde! breviation reform rojoint, meaning foint Agricultural Corpor headquarters in the former palace of Count Bazilev Dr. Joseph Rosen, president of Ag rojoint, now is in the United States in ticipation of a nation-wide drive for $15,000,000 to continue the coloniza- tion wo Tho drive starts Septem ber 12 with a meeting at the Benja- min Franklin Hotel delphia, the call having been sizgned by Felix M. » Warburg, chairman of the joint dis tributioncommittee; Lou sk Adolph §. Oc : Hus Rosenwald Adolf Krauss Jacob others. organi the I dtstribu- share of the ated organi- < ab as Ag Jewish with Moscow Many Applicants When announcement year azo that between thr: thousand unemploy B and merchants wi could locate in the colonie: plications were received from parts of Russia. The selected, malking more than anticipated. On account of the It ants, the government's plans for ating Jews on the land are most timistic, The Jewish colo 283,000 desstatines mostly comprising the old Je unded by Peter the Gre r next year, the government promises 600,000 additional dessiatines 1,620,000 acres), including 150,000 des. siatines (405,000 acres) i Iy fertile Volga River Valley Zaritzen, the ready event ¥ dessiatines (5,400,000 750,000 persons, tourth of all the Jews in Russia. committee plans making agric of only 10 per cent of Russia's Jewish population Except for its colonization activity through Agrojoint, the American joint distribution committee, which expend- ad close to $3,000,000 for Russlan famine celief, liquidates its work in Russfa at the end of this year. Thé colonization work promises to continue indefinitely, though thq system of requiring colo- wrtisans families arfous eTe nd brac res) col is 000 or suffick ich is une. The nists to repay thelr loans as they be-| come self-supporting, will begin to repay the funds expended within two vears. Live in Settlements. After securing tracts, the goveir ment permits Agrojoint full authority in locating the colonists and full con- trol of its funds and supplies. The great majority of the colonists live in sommunal settlements, though Agro- joint does not discriminate agalnst those preferring to own their property individually. A table of the year torthcoming report of Comrade Gold- an, director of Kuzmet, shows that Ukrania has 75 settiements of 56,422 dessiatines on which are settled 4,110 families; Crimea has 28 settlements, otaling 28,500 dessiatines, with 931 ¢amilies. White Russla hus §5 settle- nents, totaling 10,000 dessiatines, with 400 families. Gomel has 15 settlements, totaling 2,411 dessiatines, with 24§ (amilies—a total of 203 settlements, totaling 97,833 desslatines, with 6,187 ramilies. Of these, families, comprising »7,988 persons, preferred * communal villages and agricultural work. The cost of locating families aver- ages $350 frdm the American organiza- fon, 400 rubles from the Soviet gov- srnment, and 400 rubles from the ramily itself. Usually transportation is provided at reduced rates, so that ’heoovcrwl.u cost per family is about 760. , +CopyTight. 19 work from the by Chicago Daily Kews Co.) e DE PINEDO BRAVES STORM Italian Aviator Defies Weather end Flies to Manila. MANTLA, August 27 (P)—Comdr. Francesco de Pinedo, Itallan air- nan fiying from Italy to Japan, drop- ped down on Manila during a rain- storm today after flylng from An- timonan, where he had been held by storms since Sunday. The daring adventure of the airman was prompted by the irritation caused by -ontinued delay at Antimonan and his desirs to reach Tokio soon. He made his way from his landing in a storm that continued until he reached Manila. Comdr, de Plnedo’s stay at Manila depends upon the weather and the time required to make slight repairs on_his plane. The aviator must await favorable weather on his northward course, where typhoons are frequent at this season. An extensive entertainment has been prepared for Comdr. de Pi- nedo, including a dinner with Gov. Gen, ood. YACHT WITH RUM TAKEN. Plagehip of San Francisco Club Ts Beived. HONOLULU, August 27 (#).—The vacht Eloise, flagship of the San Fran- ~feco Yachting Club, homeward bound from Tahiti after racing from San Francisco, was selzed here last night after 80 bottles of liquor were found aboard. ‘When the yacht put in at Honolulu yesterday Comdr. John Piver declared he had 12 bottles aboard. These were weized after customs inspectors found he had no permit to possess liquor. When 68 additional bottles were found the official summariiy seized the yacht. Sixtydwo of the undeclared bottles were found tn the quarters of the cEawe » | Office Dep, 000 up- | e | the extreme | Iturists | CONGRESS IGNORED ADVICE ON POSTAL RATES, NEW AVERS wonun from Firsi Page. largely attended and the transactions before it.have recelved widespread editorfal comment sald Mr., New. “Naturally the witnesses have come from the ranks of those whose rates have been raised and those who fear {that theirs may be. Show me a man who favors any process which takes {money from his pocket. Many of | these witnesses, and many of our edl- (tortal commentators, have suggested | varfous expedients for getting by | without increasing rates. “I firmly belleve no committee or commiasion, even though cotay business men of ability, ave so qualified to suggest the best mcthods s tuge rates as the | post nd experts if_given on | untrammele! opportunity. The Post ment is practically in the e Congress in the matter w | hands o Answering critice who ad ition of “business methods™ Al service, Mr. New cit estinates he has Just com- 3 expenditurss \l vear 1927. 'Fi penditures at $750,084,000 and Of 'the ex- $8.1 per cant, represent such aw! | salarie. ion er no: d n ates if “they 1ot below cost.” incre burden on the General sald {he had cost of ¢ e against each [ Government departmant, but that this | would be ouly u small ifem in solving | the rate problem. | “To those who complain of the rates | of postage, let it be ithe chea; mall world,” eaid Mr. Ner. The charge that the dep: used as = “political r never so untrue as it is today, he said, adding that it was the policy of the administration to reappeint post- masters wherever their services have been satistactory. Definite Program Shaping A definite program was shaping it- self today from the many sectional meetings being held as part of the juint convention at 11 post office or- | ganizations assembled for Postal | week. It included the following ob- sect! Put all postal employes, regardless of position, under civil service. Institute a civil service court of ap- | peals. More pay for postmasters. | Improve the retirement provisions | by lowering the age lmit and in- | creasing the pension. 5 Merge all organizations into one | national body. In a resolution in the hands of a | committee of the National Rural Let- ter Carrlers’ Assoctation, the move- |ment for the civil service court of |uppeais was launched at the same the one proposing that all |s|(luh held, be placed under civil serv- | fee rules. Philadelphia is among fowr | ceeking the next conventlon | FLYERS SOUGHT INVVNORT H MISSING SINCE JUNE 15 { Searching Expedition Sent to Look Members of Hydrographical Party. | for Russian By the Associated Press ARCHANGEL, Russis, August | ——There is great anxiety here us to the fate of the oc hydroairplanes att hy- drographical expedition sent to No- vaya Zemlya under Prof. Matuse vitch to study the icebergs in the Kara sea. The two planes, of the Junker type | and piloted by MM. Tchukhnovsky | and Kalvitz, left Archangel on June 15, heading for Kolgueyv Island. Their | arrival there has not yet been re- ported, although they should have reached the island in one day. It is supposed they lost their way in @ fog and that they have probably per- ished. The authorities have dispatched a searching expedition. HINDENBURG TO VISIT. 1 of Republic. RLIN. August 27 UP).—President von Hindenburg, who i& spending a holiday in Bavaria, intends this week to visit Gen. Ludendorff, whom he has not seen for a long time. The meet- ing is expected to take place at Luden- dorf’s villa in Munich. Other old war colleagues may be present at the interview between the president and the republic’s Dbitter enemy. It is reported that the presi- dent will offer his services to heal the brezch between Ludendorf? and Prince Rupprecht, thus raising the soctal boycott of Ludendorfe by the Bavarlan -fficers. 0 HOW postal employes, regardless of the po- | cities | Will See Ludendorft, Bitter Enemy | TO AVOID AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS FAMOUS FALSE S0 GAINS HIS FREEDON St. Clair, Who Claimed He Was War Hero, Released With Tuberculosis. By the Associated Press. | ATLANTA, August 27.—Robert k. St. Clair, who, es a prisoner in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary last year, was the principal in a case of mis: cen identity when he posed as Ur- | n Johnson Bergeron, Menaha, Wisc., | war hero slain in France, and was hafled as thelr son by Bergeron's par- ents, has gained his freedom. hade known here to- s learned that St. s {reedom by i | order of Attorney General J. G. S: gend, after recommendation of a parole | borrd which met here several weeks He is said to be suffering from thie last stages of tuberculosis and is | not expected to live more than a few | | months. ! Stubbernly Maintained Claims. { The p vho perpetrated the | fraud in an effort to spend his last jdays in luxury, is said to have been | aufforing from the disease at the time | nded he was the son of Mr. | 3 V. Bergeron, who was He maintained his position in the c! ' repeated clalms that he was rot the son, and did not recede from | his contention until he was confront- {ed by Mrs. Stella Emmerich, Berge-| ron’s sister, with documentary evi-| | dence showing he was In state Instit tions during the war He then admftted Le had posed as the son of the aged couple in order that he would not bave to spend his last days in another prison in Call- here he wag wanted for rob- Disease Wins His Freedom Prison gates yielded to the dreaded disease, and - California authorifies agreed to nolle pros charges they had launched against St. Clair if the Gov- ernment would recommend him for parole, it is sald. This was wrranged, and the man was paroled in custody of his real mother, who walted at the gates of the prison for her son. Bt. Clair defled authorities, and claimed repeatedly that he was Ber- geron. He sald he was in the service and was not killed, as was reported, but got into treuble and did not want his parents to become aware of his condition. He therefore ‘did not com- municate with them, but they learned of him through a New Orleans woman interested In reltef work among sol- diers. About two years ago St. Clair was c?nvic(ad of stealing automobiles in New Orleans, and was given a sep- | tence of three years' imprisonment, officials said. His mother, whose name | was not revealed by Warden Snook, ! resides in Houston, Tex. | i | U. S. PLANS NO ACTION IN MACKINAC DISASTER! ism. of Rhode Island Has Juris- | | diction. Says District Attorney. Toll Now 52 | By the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R. L, August United States District Attorney Nor- man 8. Case today said that an g |nal action resulting from the boller explosion on the excursion steamer Mackinac in Newport harbor on the | evening of August 18 would have to be taken by the State. “The State has complete jurisdic tion in this case.” the district attorney sald, “as the explosion happened with- in the territorial waters of the State. The Federal grand jury will not be called in special session to consider any criminal action.” Assistant Attorney General Oscar L. Heltzen, in charge of the State's in- vestigation in the disaster, was out of the city today. The death list in the explokion has reached 52. . W. R. E. HOLDS OUTING. Elaborate Program Staged at Glen Echo Celebration. The Washington Railway Relief As- socaition in its fourth annual outing jat Glen Echo Park today drew a crowd lof 1,900 persons, employes of the Washington Rallway and Electric Co. and the Potomac Electric Power Co., their families and friends. An elaborate program was entered into with zest, and there were many conteste, including athletic stunts, and an ice cream-eating race for boys of 12 years and under. Other contests included string chewing, skooter race and a wheelbarrow race. Chairman W. H. llows and his several committees were kept busy. There is a morgue, a chapel and 2 jall in the mew union station at Chicago. Thanks to the powers that be—there is no longer a shortage of traffic police. These officers are stationed primarily to regu- late traffic, and incidentally to awaken public consciousness to the necessity always to drive carefully. Don’t take a chance— take your time—or the “traffic cops” will get you if -you don’t watch out. Publisked by The Star m co-operation with the Dwecior of Trofic of the District of Columbis and The Advertising Club of Washington { office, ha By ™ Sea To SPEND Youm TIME LOOKING AT FLAPPERS ! AD- RIRTHERMORE 1T |3 Mot RESPECTFUL To ME! NOM You LET e CATCH You GAZInNG A ANy 6E THOSE DoLLd AGAHN AND YOU'LL WAKE UP N A PLASTER CAsT!! HM- WONDER WHEQE ALL TH' GAZELLES AW SAy CLARICE, WHATS TH' HaRn BY POP MOMAND MY! WHAT A HANDSOME CHap! suen EYES! BUCH A FiguRe! T MUST DE WONDERFUL TO HANE & AN LICE THAT TEACH You To swimel' 1 MisH WE KNEW Him!" o ROUAN FRONTIER SECURITY OFFERED GERMANY IN NOTE BY FRANCE __(Continued from First Page.) with British and French statesmen the formulation of an agreement that will make warfare again impossible. Germany. according to unofficial ad vices 1 ing here from Berlin, has agreed with the French representa- tions in the note that the time for an interchange of ideas regarding the situation by written communication has come to an end and that a round- table conference is the better method | for disentangling snarled skein of controversy. Three Essential Points. In their note to Germany, which was made public in the various capi- tals of Europe last night, the allies, through France, insisted on three es. sential points—that the treaty of Ver- sallles should not be modified, that Germany should enter the League of the | Nations equal In status to the other members, and that provision be made for compulsory arbitration of future disputes. Just how far Germany will go to- ward full acceptance of the allied sug- gestions cannot be foretold, but it is sald she considers the note more con- ciliatory than the previous communi- cation sent her by France on the sub- Ject. It is declared ut Germany does not adhere to the argument set forth in the note that her non-membership in the League of Nations presents any reason for non-fulfillment of general disarmament, becaus she once had offered to join the league. Also the Germans are sald to admit that the question of a guarantee system and arbitration remains far from solved. WELCOMED BY G BERLIN, August 27 (®). man government's reply to the F security note, dispatched to evening, consists of & brief acknowledg ment of the note's receipt and the statement that it was “perused with Interest.” The reply also welcomes the suggestion for oral discussion of tha security problem ncel- lor Luther and Fo Stresemann have begun their long-de ferred holidays. and in official quarters it 15 assumed that there will be no im portant developments in the security pact debate for the time being Dr. Friedrich Gauss, chief the staff of jurists attached to the foreig been selected as Germany delagate to the conference of juridical Bxperts which will consider the security question at London Dr. Gauss Veteran Dr. Gauss has devoted espec at tention to the legal phases of the pro posed security pact He is a veteran in the service and is credited with having had decisive influence in draft ing the government's importa plo. matic documents The government in a munique issued after receipt French note points to its repeated as sertions that realization of a security pact is impossible S0 long as the ques tion of Germany sharir in the colonial mandates is unsettled. It also remarks that the security negotiations have thus far taken pl under the banner of conciliation, that further occupation by the of the Cologne zone, “which is un fully occupied,” is not in harmc with that spirit. Germany has done everything to ful- fill the allfes’ disarmament conditions, the communique eays, and never in history has the disarmament of a na tion been carried out %o thoroughly. The press comment on the French note is extremely varied. The moderate and social describe the communic -oncilfatory and conside vides @ suitable opening for gotiations between the pows The newspapers representing the Right parties, however, profess to see no advance whatever toward the con- clusion of a security pact. lie t journals Here is an exceptional owners of small homes being | rn | 'FLORIS MAKES FIRST FAIR BIG SUCCESS | Many Prizes Awarded on Domestic Arts and Science Exhibits and Stock. to The Sta: ! FLORIS, Va., August {held her first community fair this {week, a success financially and other. | wise. Those cbtaining prizes in the domestic arts class were: Mrs. James Rogers, Mrs. E, M. Armfleld, Miss Katherine Harrison, Miss Elma Mid- {dleton, Miss Mae Blevins, Mrs. Har- vey Ilanes. Mrs. M.’ Torreyson, Mrs. Louis Ferguson, Mrs. Allan Brad- ley, Miss Hattle Thompson. Miss Ellmore, Mrs. F. N. Mohler, patrick, Mrs. H. B. Mitchell glanna Brogdon, Mrs. Ben eton, Mrs. Robert Harrison, : Curtis McFarland, Mrs. Printz, Mr: Elma Yount, Mrs.'C. W. Greear, Mr Lomax Wamsley, Mrs. Willlam Eil more, Mrs. H. . Sutphin, Miss Re- becea Middleton, Mrs. R. B. Nickell, Miss Virginia McFarland, Mrs. Madi- son Kenfield. In the domestic Dispate —Floris Miss Mid- science department these took prizes: Miss Julia Bradley, M Wilson McNair, Mrs. W. F. vitt, Mrs, William Brogden, Mrs. William Elmore, Miss Edna Middle- | ton, Mrs. Albert Smith, Mrs. Nelson | Torreyson, Mrs. F. M. Mohler C. C. Rogers, Mrs. R. L. Har Mrs. R. B. Nickell, Miss Lucy sley, Mrs. E. W. Hessick, ginia McFarland, Mrs. C. H. ) land, Mrs. James Rogers, Howard Peck, Miss Hattie Thom Mrs, H. D. Presgrave Blevin, Mrs. Hornbake Middleton, Mrs. C. H. Stephens. Prize winners in the stock exhibit were: Edgar Beard, C. C. Rogers Horse Pen' Farm, Mathew Middleton, Ben, Middlgton, Joseph Murph J. . Woods. George R Townsend _Harris G Learen, W Imore, | Armfield, Roy son, D. B. § McNair and son, R. Curtice, C. A. Crosen. In the garden dispia won first prize; Mr second, and W. H. Ellmore In the farm crops exhibi were the prize winners: Allan Brad i ley, \. Mohler, Rogers & Roger: Mrs, J. D. Lourtm, R. L. Harrieon, { Sam Cockerille, F." E. Peck, W. H. Jimore, J € 'Star, R. H. Higdon, Mathew H. Middleton, Ben Middleton, R. “B. Nickell, Horse Pen Farm, ! Tn basket bLall games Flori: | were defeated by Aldie girl | the Floris boys won over | pove. i—4. D Howard the Aldie |MINE STRIKE CALL IS DUE TONIGHT AS inued from First I this direction of anthracite on erted, to prevent ing due to attempt in an abundance surface. he material suf | coal pending ferences between and the miners. Fear Bituminous Strike. While Government give no hini age, it rn now is to adequate supply of bituminous o the chief substitute for anthracite. in the ility of ation, view of officials, poss supply of soft coal comes. = dispute with the operators in mine union officials alleged number of operator: that Mrs. | | ing provisions of the J girls | and | West Virginia coal district were violat sonville’ soft 0al agreement. the union heads held up the possibility of a soft coal strike in retaliation. Secretary Davis, returning after a six weeks’ absence in Kurope, has re ceived detalled reports on the anthru cite situation from the department's observers. Whether he will make an other trip to Swampscott to advise President Coolldge again In the situ ation has not been made known. LEHIGH MINE CLOSES. Accumulation of Unprepared Coal Causes Shutdown. HAZLETON, Pa., August 27 (#)— The first mine in the Lehigh field to shut down until 4 new wage agree- ment is reached between the anthra- ite workers and operators was that at Onelda, near here, operated by the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. Officials said today the suspenslon was due to accumulation of unprepared which is taken from Oneida to the Jeanesville breaker to be broken into marketable sizes, the amount on hand being such that three daye will be required to get rid of it Operators of other mines said their collleries will be kept going at full speed until quitting time Monday aft- ernoon, the final day of the old wage scale. An average of 37,358 tons of an- thracite is being sent to market daily from the 37 collleries on the Hazle high Valley Rallroad, which is a high figure. In anticipation of a suspension re- 1 dealers in this vicinity have stored fuel, and it was predicted to day that no immediate need would follow a shutdown. It was felt here that if a suspension comes it will not be of long duration 800 Workers (o Out LLANSFORD, Pa 7R Differenc over the of vard ge ir certaln clase of work led tc strike of %00 mine workers toda the No. 14 'y of the Lehigh Cos and Navigation Co. There was litt] hope entertained that the strike w be settled before the anticipated sus pension takes place next Monday This was measuring day in the mines in the Panther Creek Valley, and but lttle coal was produced as a conse- quence. August ing | Baby Falls Two Stories; Lives. Two-year-old Walter Anderson. col- ored, fell from a second-story window to the sidewalk in front of his home, 140 Thomas street, vesterday after- noon. He was. severely shocked and his face cut. First aid was given at Emergency Hospital, where physi. cians said he had received no internal MEDIATION FAILS| There s | the | lack of a settlement of the dif- the mine owners officials would | of the nature of the plans they are understood to be working out | to meet the possibility of an actual | is known that their insure an al as The most serious aspect of the situ- | is the anized bituminous field. from which half the | They re- | that in statements made in their | which | umorhmity for the wve Ruud Perfect Hot Water Service—immediately without a heavy cash investment. During August a small down payment of $5 installs a Ruud No. 95 Automatic Gas Water Heater. Pay the balance in easy mouithly payments. Buy the bdlcv‘ water heater, “Buy a Ru_ud” RUUD MANUFACTURING CO. 713 G St. N.W. . Phone Main Alse Sold By All Plumbers and Gas Co. or other severe injury. 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